INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS $206,000,000 SPENT ON jof wires or cables. Insulators are POWER FOR PANAMA. PUBLIC ROADS (unnecessary and it' is proper to Border Wholesale Meat & Grocery Co. have extended metal work in How Electricity is Produced from Year's Record for United Stales buildings, like heating and water the Waste Waters of Gatun Not Is Compiled by Department of pipes,all electrically connected together E. A. Yernberg, Manager Lake for All Power Purposes, Agriculture. and all well grounded. This Electricity for the Panama Ca- -latter result is gained incidentally Approximately was Wholesale and Retail Meats, $206,000,000 na^ is secured from the waters of through connections made to Groceriesy Fruits and Feed IuL?: 1r 7tc ordi f" -P'- wat- water pipes, since The tetter us- a the al itself The ta ..... to er-of Gatun Lake is used to pro- ually pass through the earth out-'I? Spend Your Vacation In pr*par'I *7 the- U,mted|duce the power necessary for side the building Home-Made Sausage and fn otherwise.1f totaf ShipS' °Per"i Are gifdetf Hamburger fOT Yellowstone In nine vears therefor*. locks, for light and expensive points of platinum or 000000 in mne years therefore, power purposes. I special metal or financial con- I 000,000. 0/ the increase has Give us a Trial and You Will 5° The tremendous water storage«struction necessary 3 Answer: per Park THIS x.cent. .. in the artificial Gatun Lake, fed No not in the least. Sharo I $ Stay With Us YEAR the country of'thr"imnnrtf"' °fiby 4.he River, not onlyjneedlelike points are effective in!8 Chagres 1 rn-n-le in Importance ofcarrieS t|,e greater part of the dissipating small sustained elec- 8 Always Right and Our Stock Always Fresh are SEASON 1914 Srt0t'heprmenjway lab0Ut 85 I Aie a exp s®y' be. across the Isthmus on a level trical charges, but such eectrical June 15 to September 15 Second Ave. and Fifth Street International Falls, Minn. mM above the oceans, manifestatilns are ferfectly ham-' other Ini:e ^"t^s ai"d and provides water for raising and less. The imagined superiority ald to No where in all this world is there a lersev telnXTT New lowering them gently through the of such fanciful points is utterly place so rich in natural phenomena. Jersey began the movement ." Gatun, Pedro Miguel and Mir- valueless the rod is struck Pullman Standard Sleeping cars daily when direct to 189! when it passed its state high-'aflo^ ocks_ it|lsohas afford- flash, but by real lghtning Gardiner Gateway way law. Massachusetts and e(j excellent Northern Minnesota Hospital an opportunity to What material is best for (5.) Vermont followed a year later,1 conductors or rods? generate electric current for This is the natural and logical route )ut for the most part of the other lighting the canal, for operating! This question cannot be answerstates to and through Yellowstone Park. You see it all—the painted terraces were slow to move. In the gigantic gates and other lock- ed fairly in a single statement. and bison at "Mammoth the paint only fifteen had state high- machinery, and for the loco-! Because of its availability and pots and geysers, in regular order 1904 ing Yellowstone Lake, a mile and a half way departments today there are motives which tow the ships'cheapness, well its electrical as as above the sea the Grand Canyon, the climax of the tour. Through regular only six that have not. In properties, iron is one of the best 1913 Train Service daily, with Pullmans through the locks direct to the Park boundary and to the .nd.v.dual states appropn.,ted Electric current will likewise materials for rods. Iron, how-, North Pacific Coast Points. a ota of $38,755,088 to supple- he used for coal handling plants'ever, rusts and deteriorates under me" exP^nc'ltures- at both ends of the canal, for prolonged exposure to the weath-' i0ta Send for illustrated literature A. M. CLELAND, 1 G. P. A. St. Paul, Minn, or The value of this state aid is, machine shops, waterworks, dry-: er. This is only partly overcome call and see however, not to be measured by by galvanized-! galvanizing hence dockS) and possibly in the future W.H. GEM HI ELL, G. M., Brainerd, Mlnneota 6f the figures alone, for the bulk of for hauling trains on the Panama iron lighning rods should be the money comes, and always railroad. To continuity of,ample size (not less than one- ftisure must come, from the counties and service in case of accident, a quarter ingh in diameter) caretownships. Thus, in 1912, the steam electric^ station at Mira- fully installed and subjected to cash outlay by counties, districts floreSj erected few years ago to systematic inspection and repair, a and townships, was $I37493985- supply power for construction! Two-strand cabfe galvanizedComplete figures of 1913 are not workf wiu be ready pick the iron fence wire of "substantial size to up yet available, to it is safe to es 1 4* iro «1 1-v 1 yv 4* R~T on ^-v a load when necessary. of the same style as barbed wire timae the sum at approximately The extreme length of the canal but without the barbs furnishes $151,000,000. To this must be added R. H. Monohan, M. D. Elizabeth Monohan, M. D. is about fifty miles, it has mini- very &ood material for cheap 'f some $15,000,000 to represent mum depth of feet and the lightning rods. The pre- Mary C. Ghostley, M. D. iron 41 the value of the labor contributed oor contriDutea varies from sence of the^barbs constitutes a channel 300 to I 000 Office over International State Bank. International Falls, Min Panama-Pacific Internat'onal Exposition instead of cash in districts where Culebra rather serious inconvenience in San Fransisco, 1915 feet wide The famous Panama-Califcrnia Exposition handling and this praceict prevails. 1 9 miles" installing such a con San Diego, 1915 cut hag & Last year, therefore, local com- n. The crest of Gatun Dam has a and no material benefit is ductor munities contributed, in round EDITING NEWS IS length of 8,000 feet and an ex- ^om their presence. derived numbers, $166,000,000 as against LIKE PREACHING treme wdith of 2.100 feet, the1 Copper is better than iron not appropriations from state treasur ankpriAaenriatinn height aboe the normal lake'level on1^ of its indestruct- on account ies of $38,755,088. Editing a newspaper in some respects being 30 feet. There are three ibility but also because of its soft- is a good deal like preaching. •?i! TT T°m double sets of locks at Gatun, one "ess and-phability which makes it 520?? tartomoiitai the United States. 223,774 miles peclro Miguel ajid eas^ Scientists are not The gospel truth must be to insta11 @8 doube set at & $(XTCOITH STATE BANK or approximately 10 per cent are Miraflores." The regard to the relative presented in the form of generalities in accord in twQ double sets at classed as improved. To improve average lift of each set is 281/ merits of the electrical properties or some fellow will get hit le remaining 90 per cent may-f^ lei-gth chambe^. qf copper and iron, but in any case and howl. Few people like the the of each .we seem a big job. It is, in fact, questions of cost, durabiity, and truth, even in homeopathic dwses, being I 000 feet and the wi(1{h I IQ if it hits them. .. ony Pi^s^le .because^ ^e fpr vthe4!e.'!iH ouWeigh minpr dif- requifed far feet The time work really^pays ipr itself Pr^m thrbUo-h the fences in electrical 'properties. But while preachers and editors A passage of vessel Wherevei are critized. for what they s,ay, ^er 1" locks is about hours, and thru Aliminum is a competitor for 3 j- no one thinks of giving them credit ates department of agriculture, canal from ocean to ocean for lightning rod. 8 ^ron "and c°PPer it ns now possible to prQve not °C6an jIts durability under exposiS-e to for what they do riot. say. Yet 10 occan8 in Asia, Africa, Europe or America, you what they keep* to theftiselyes ro*ds are, \Provt_ The'width of the Can-il Zone is weather is in its favor but' its fusi- will find "A. 6. A.." Cheques, issued us \y abe investment, but:to determine IQ- "bility makes it inferior to Mroii constitutes the major portion of under authority of tke American Bankers exactly, what divid„e&ds they pay.' -7- 43° ..f. a ea ot what they know .'about people. fnr square miles. More than Pomts- tor jAnociation, tiic safest and nandlest kind of 40,000' Very many people ii^rbof^the $10,7$$ TOLLS TO GO I m,en W.ere^ employed, in. building If low first cost is the control•TH^idrH "travel money/* You can use them exactly belief that news^per^-ar^ eager rANAf nisiF WAV the canal a.iid over cu- hng fetor, galvamzed-iron rpds 200,000,000 like currency in every. country of the to publish deroglHo^^iftgg^^K ^_fyar^Gf earth have been ex- be chosen, but subsequent CANAL ONEWAY must civilized world, and they are sate to carry% It's a mistake^ cavated:- It is^ estihiated that must be made and re- a in at a -—r—-—- tnat insPections —r: or write for booklet. newspaper that $375,000,txx) will- represent th? Pairs may become ..necessary. of "the Panama canal, fifty Vessels represent wm (6.) Must lightning rods be sensation in the community at any pro- FIRST NATIONAL BANK have thus far applied to the siir-' ^OS -^1S m^mmoth time by telling what it knows. connected to the earth? 'Answer veyor of the port of New York, INTERNATIONAL FALLS. MINNESOTA Yes bv all means, and the most There is not a newspaper that for measurement undfcf the canal ... ..... does not keep under the lock of effectively. Just a" few operators rules.- Thirty vessels/'it is an- L^HTNIf(G kbDS" secrecy scores of derogatory in the lightning rod profession nounced, have already been grant-j SURE SAYS U. things which never meet the public have sought to' impose upon the ed certificates which they will eye or reach the public ear. iiriinfoirmed a system of ungrounded produce whenever they pass A Device of Safety, Says a Bulthrough lightning rods. Such Deciding what not to print is the canal. There is no from Department of Agrifee the most troublesome part of a rods are a menace instead of a for measurement and foreign culture, Washington, D. C.nations newspaper. protection. can also measure for the (8.) Are government buildings How many' good stories canal traffic. Under the rules it are surmressed ^hat the lightning rod, proper- provided with lightning rods? fnr innnrent rplativpQ -n "~~T" and for the oublic 2-ood nobodv' v-1 C°iSt tjie I"e"^an steamships ly made and applied, is a real safe- Answer: Yes manv of them, but outside a newsMDM office has I ,° and Finland ty device is shown by the naturally not every one. and fol- $10,725 anV idea of ha^ apiece to pass through:the canal, owing query and answer, bulletin !or mor^ than'$21,000 for the from the department of agricult- GERMANY IS READY n. In some instances he who flies round trip from New York to the ure at Washington WITH WAR CRASH into a passion because a news- Pacific coast ports. For a fair (i) Do lightning, rods really1 paper^prints something about him sized freighter the tolls will protect buildings? Answer: Yes Financially, Germany is well which he. con|,dered .uncomph- amount to. about, $(Sopo and for but the rods must "be of proper-prepared for wan Within a week mentary has eyery reason to feel an auxiliary motor yacht about character, properly, installed, and the kaiser will have at hand.at profoundly grateful to the news-.-$78. properly-grounded in relativel least .^370.000,000 gold and sil- paper for publishing so little of 'moist earth Periodical insp-ec- ver for vast expenditures im- what it knows of him A BIG RAILROAD SHOW tion and maintenance in good mediately necessary. And oft times the loudest bluffer IS COMING HERE concjition are indispensable to ef-I The bltik and foundation of this PIGS IS is the most vulnerable to,attack. ficient protection. v:- available war fund lies in the sub- Interna-1 A big noise is often a. de- ~"T)on't fail to come to (2 Do lightning rods on a teranenn vaults in the Julius tow-' vice employed to cover trepida- tional Falls Tuesday, Au^ buildiiig increase the danger of Spandau. At the close of 7. tion. Newspapers put up with Everybody will be here, s? will its being struck? Answer: Yes the war with France in Gef- 1874, more bluffing than any other Stone and Muriay Railroad but a properly, rodded house may many levied tribute from the reagency would endure. It is not show. be. struck several times without public, not only in he acquisition because they lack courage it is They will give two perform- injury, whereas a single stroke of Alsace-Lorraine, but in the because they are unwilling to use ces, one in the afternoon and one without the protection afforded form of $30,000,000 in gold. This for. Copyright applied their power to destroy or ruin the at night, rain or shine, under by the rods may cause disaster treasure, by the kaiser's insistinterest If all the swine in Minnesota were reduced to double-casing pork sausage, of society imperatively facres of waterproof fehts. This Should, lightning rods be'ence, was voted^ to be held in (3.) and used in fencing the state, a barrier would be erected containing thirtylive der.ands it. jis a high class, moral, refined and put up with or without insulat- Julius tower as a national war strands of sausage. If the strands were to be placed three inches apart the fence would be nine feet high. To be sure this fence will never be erected, It might be well for some peo-grousing as well as an education-, tors? Answer: Without. Build- fund. Since that time, not only as civil war would certainly result in keeping Minnesota Germans from tearing pie to reflect upon these truths al exhibition. They have all kinds ings with metal roofs or wherein has this vast amount of gold been it down. and in silent gratitude accept mild of wild animals, the best perform- any metal construction employed hoarded at Spandau, but more has And yet it is unquestionably true that there are not enough hogs in Minnesota. If the Minnesota State Fair has anything to say about it, however, there admonition lest worse befallt ers, the greatest trained dogs, is properly connected to earth,1been added at various times when will soon be enough hogs in the state to build a double pork sausage barrier em" x* Ponies, monkeys, goats, elephants, are already partly provided with' war clouds towered, until today on all four sides. There is to be the largest Poland-China Show at Hamline a this fall ever held in the Northwest, as the result of big Poland-China Futurity ix/urki army of the funniest lightning protection. Jf rods it is variously said to amount to cur iiiai f* IN nrnn lons». are Show, at which $600 in prizes is to be given away. If an increase of premiums SHE ^VOULD RETURN* clowns, fine bands of music. See added to such buildings the from to A rods, $60,00,000 $90,000,000. a is any criterion there will be much larger showing among other I saw your mother going to Madam Roberta, the human but- should be put in direct metallic [vertiable garison guards the towOne breeds. "Minnesota—the Sausage State," Is the motto which the Minnesota State of the neighbors as I crossed tcrfly. The Leonharts, famous connection with the roof and'er. Fair is seeking to impose on the Great Seal of the State. s' the lady caller to tango dancers. Bunty the baby other metal work about the build- The law provides, in event of her friends little son. 'Do you elephant and Capt. Herbeck fight ing wherever practicable. All war, that in paper may be is- $3 SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS know when she will be back? the big lion. Don't miss the big down spouts should be led into sued for every dollar of gold in Yes, answered the truth- free outside exhibition on show metal pipes going into the earth Julius tower. The Imperial bank ful Jimmy —A ... A back just as to