-'.- /-~t~ W *, ^sJ3^s^t *fc'*sr -. i-^ :^i-:^% 5, ii NTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS ^rTi':' TOO HAPPY TO BE SORRY women folks and decent men must step off the sidewalk to give them THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS leeway. Last year we fought on the prohibition side because, as has Wherein Rapturous Lover Gives a New AND BORDER BUDGET Meaning to "From Hand to been said, we believed that in this way other evils, more serious than Mouth." the liquor evil could be eradicated only by asking the people to Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post DR. H. S. ROSENHOLTZ "vote dry," but this year, we espouse the cause of the prohibitionists Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress To the sweetest girl I know: because the young man hereof believes thoroughly in it. He belie- DENTIST "I kissed you. Just once, mind, and of March 3, 1879. es that local option, county option, and state prohibition are the point to be settled is, can a be Office over litis Drug Store. stepping stones to that ideal condition of national prohibition, under INTERNATIONAL FALLS~PRESS PUBLISHING CO. forgiven who doesn't repent? Tou see, Which Russia is advancng by leaps and bounds after years of servituae 1 Office Phone: 245. f. dcn't pretend to repent. I'm coo George P. Watson, Editor and Manager to liquor He believes local option better than no prohibition, happy to be sorry. Res. Phone: 274. county prohibition still better, state prohibition still more to be Official Paper of International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota "Remember, Roseleaf, I ha ft International Falls, Minn. desired, and national prohibition the final goal. light of the conservatory to in«, Taken point for point, the prohibition side of a wet and dfy and the sclent of the Killarneys. hert G. F. SWINNERTON argument will be an easy winner, and it will still have material for was a little fountain somewhere, The recent passage of the county option.bill tolled the death knell splashing sprinkles into a quiet pool more, points when the liquor side has quit talkng. of the liquor traffic in this county and state. M. D., C. M. The violins back in the ballroom If you are a father think of what arguments you: would put up throbbed the Tipperary one-step and PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON to your son as to why he should drink. Even, though ybu might the dancers hummed the words. All 1 admonish him to never get beyond the "friendly glass," wouldn't did was to kiss your^fingenTas they Eyes Examined and glasses fitted It is believed that Littlefork, Ericsburg, and South International you be just a little happier at heart, and a little prouder, if the boy lay on my coat sleeve. Falls will vote "dry" at their coming election. Office over Empress Theatre —I never touched it? Well, what isn't good for your boy, isn't good for "It long, long way to go, sweet is a International Falls, Minn. any other, be he young or old. Too* your boy may be able to follow before, fellow young ne88 a as as I am life's course and never take more than that friendly glass, but the bope to provide suitable home foi I can a A state wide statutory prohibition bill will come to vote in the FHINNEY ft CAMPBELL next boy may not be able to keep within reasonable bounds. ^i'e* youJ *ather fays- ye8- 0h I senate next Wednesday with a fair chance of passing. Court records tell whether liquor does good or evil in a com- come 8eeing him quit€ LAWYERS by accident I stumbled on to a secret munity, and the records of insane asylums, of homes for imbeciles. Over International State Bank Ages and ages ago your father loved 1 of penitentiaries, of reformatories and of common jails tell more.— It conservatively estimated that at least fifty Minnesota coun- International Falls, Minn. my mother, but wise old grannies interfered Crosby Crucible. ...4 ties will vote dry, this summer, under the county option law. Will until—I'll tell you the rest when I come down tonight, if 1 may Koochiching county be one of them? W. E. LAWRENCE come, and if you—if I—if we! Patrolman's Examinations. paper? Every man who uses a .little IVwp IIVWPI Oh, blossom child, you flowei THE REXALL STORE On Saturday, March 13th, ex- bill board is adding to nature maiden, listen! About that kiss, you if International Falls, Minn. No more "dope" can be either sold or given away without a animations will be held at Big faking and dozens of schemes don't forgive me this minute I'll do physicians prescription, and even then in very limited quantities, says Falls, for all who wish to enter that drift into Sauk Rapids are 'from mouth.' worse yet rn g0 hand to the new federal law which went into effect last Monday. rptio 'a «.iL. Dr. JENNER PERRY CHANCE phrase your fathei the Forestry Service as patrol- worse than nothing. If you are another men. Full particulars may be 4 taugnt me. may be going to advertise—do it right, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON "Till tonight,, then, and these roses obtained by writing to Mr. Gus The newspapers build up your to love you every moment. Oh, the Joy The "drys" of Moorhead are seeking to have their "first" or Office over litis Drug Store Peterson, Forest Ranger, at Big town.—Sauk Rapids Sentinel. of loving you! Yours forever, river ward ballots thrown out because of the dozens of "floaters Phone 11 Falls, Minn. "JACK." who were permitted to vote. If this is done Moorhead would be —Chicago Tribune. Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching An Iowa farmer has devised a "dry" by a good majority. rat trap upon which he claims The first armor clad aeroplane WERE MEN OF FEW WORDS DR. J. F. PETERSON no patent but which any one to be submitted to the U. S. government If a man spends his money in the butcher shop he has a beefsteak troubled with rats can use. He was tested out last Great Fighters Wasted Little Time in DENTIST on the table. If he spends it in the millinery shop his wife Has a hat purchased a big galvanized iron week, and stood the tests satisfactorily. Composition of Dispatches That Office over International you can't see over. But one can spend his money for thirty years bucket or garbage pail and placed The motor and compartments Told of Victory. in a saloon and he will have nothing but the color of his nose to State Bank it in the barn. He filled it twothirds occupied by the aviators show for his pains.—Ex. It is fitting that the great soldier, International Falls, Minn. full of water and on top are protected by armor plate, who should be a man of deeds rathei of water a layer of chaffy oats while provision is made for than words, should set an example ol DR. H. H. IHFIG an inch deep. The next morning mounting a rapid-fire machine terseness in his dispatches. Thus, after The only topic of Conversation during the past week has been as he emptied out mixture of water, the capitulation of Prague, Suva gun. to whether this county will go "dry." Everybody in town is asking DENTIST roff thus communicated the joyful oats and drowned rats. He de- it, while most visitors from the villages and county dstricts want to (. er Holler's Confectionery news to his empress, "Hurrah! know why somebody doesn't start a petition they are so anxious ruational Falls, Minn. That one of our aldermen has wi" clares 14 rid a barn in a short Prague!" to which Catherine, not to .0 register their votes for lower court expenses and a more prosperous be outdone in brevity, answered, "Bravo! it figured out this way: "Two time.—Ex. county. Field Marshal!" markets are able to furnish all F. J. McPARTLIN A distinguished and level-headed That grim sea dog, Robert Blake, demands of our 4,000 people for man who knew what he wtas after gaining one of his famous victories LAWYER meat two clothing stores, their Those who are not dependent on the liquor traffic either for their over the French, sent the news saying, once said, "Advertising is Office over International clothing two hardware stores, in this concise and businesslike formi living, their prestage, their office holding or their high rents, believe to business what steam is to State Bank their hard gods but it takes six "Met with the French fleet beat, that this county would go "dry" if submitted to a vote, but expressions machinery." That he wks right killed, and burned as per salons running from early morn margin," International Falls, Minn, are heard every day'which would lead one to think that the every shrewd and successful, business 'X. The Vicomte de Turenne, marshal till 11 o'clock at night to supply minions pf the liquor traffic still believe they have power to pack man knows, for it is through of France, was a man of equally few GEO. S. LANGLAND the caucus, select the "right kind" of judges, colonize the "floater" the people with booze. Wouldn't words, as he proved when, after his advertising he wins success. But and carry the day for booze in spite of the wishes of the la\y abiding, that cork you!"—Fairmdrit Sentinel. brilliant defeat of Conde at the Dunei LAWYER in almost every town there are tax paying, liberty loving majority of legitimate voters. in 1685, he announced his triumph in Office over Internationai merchants who seem to prefer no ten words: "The enemy came, was State Bank steam at all. And the funny thing beaten I am tired good-night!" Senator Clapp's vote to make about it is that they don't seem International Falls, Minn. But the world's greatest generals BENEFITS OF IMMEDIATE PROHIBITION. the city of Washington dry will have always been models of brevity, to see why their comlpetitors who add to his strength tremendously as to modesty since the days ol In a recent editorial I notice your concern for the men who advertise freely and attractively JOHN H. BROWN in this state and may be the turning Caesar, whose "I came, I saw, I conquered," would be "temporarily" thrown out of employment should the bill get the customers and make sent to his friend Amintius, point to his re-election. The of Senator E. E. Lobeck be enacted into law, especially on account Attorney at Law money wjhile they drag on fat inthe after the glorious victory over Phap temperance forces everywhere of the time set foi- its operation to take effect being, in your opinion, Office in the litis Block rear.—Twio Harbors Journal. naces at Zela, is the most famous "dit are terribly in earnest and show too short. But on the other hand some of us (also working men) in the annals of war. patch" International Falls, Minn. who have for years studied these industrial and sociological questions a disposition to lay aside every The Minnesota State Fair is in relation to the liquor traffic and labor are much more concerned other issue until the liquor influence The American Girl. H. STUBEE looking for a farm boy in Koocvhiching for that larger class of workers who are permanently idle, iii politics is dead tbeyond We are proud of the American girl, county, between 16 and because of the money that ought to be spent in all the useful and all hope of resurrection. Clapp and justly so. She has not her equal ARCHITECT necessary lines of business, g*oing instead into... the ^saloonkeeper's 19 years of age, who wants to attend in all the wide, wide world- She hat is surely looking up.—Fairmont and till and so employing a minimum of labor while the -patrons of the the great exposition, Sept. grace of mind as well as of face Sentinel. business get no equivalent, but rather injury for their money. On She is vivacious and piquant, yet with Superintendent of Construction 6 to 11, with all expenses paid. a reserve of dignity that is a shield the other hand, should the* time be extended and the law become The boy who writes the best Office over litis Drug Store and buckler. Congressman Moss, of Indiana, operative two years hence, it would not make one particle of difference. essay on clover, alfalfa, live stock International -Falls, Minn... She is abreast of the times, and 'rejoices The men high and low would stick to the business to the last, himself a successful farmer, says or corn, from 400 to 700 words in a period that is here. She and readjustment would take a little time, whenever it may take that the American farmer is facing long, will be given the honor, is a genuine optimist, 'not one for DR. GEORGE HOEY place. And it is a well known fact, worked out by competent statisticians, the greatest opportunity ever mere advertising purposes. She reads essay contest closes June 1. that could the two and a half billions of dollars that is given to man. He sees in the much and sensibly. She Is fond of romance VETERINARY SURGEON County Agricultural Agent D. B. Worse than thrown away in the saloon be diverted into legitimate but detests silly sensational European conflict, and the consequent and Jewell is in charge of the local and useful avenues: of industry it would not only eventually give ism. She does not wish to be a queen destruction 'of European employment to every man now engaged in the business, but about contest. All inquiries regarding DENTIST and to be worshiped as such. She agriculture, untold riches for this two r^illions more who are now with their families sufferng for lack the rules should be sent to the wishes respect and companionship Phone 41 country, in which riches the and opportunity for rational freedom of work. Which is better, a little temporary inconvenience and County Agent, as well as the essays International Falls, Minn. farmer's share will be by far the and self-development. perhaps suffering or a continuation of a vast amount of permanent written. major portion. This is cheering, She has independence without obstinacy, st:fiering. —G. Hood Thompson, The winner of the County Contest ambition without fanaticism. for with our agricultural districts Secretary of the Minneapolis Branch will be ahle to attend the Get The She thinks for herself, and her opinions and Secretary-Treasurer of the State prosperous the country it-, are her own, not manufactured T'arm Boys' Camp at the Fair an FALLS DECORATING CO. Conference of the Stonecutters' Union self cannot be otherwise than for her by interested persons. With in tire week. In addition to one To 60 your Painting, Paper* and a Union Man for Forty-four years. prosperous. equal facility she can wield the fan, mB boy from each county in the state kif and Decorating. Wo St. Paul, Feb. 10.—Minneapolis Journal. the golf stick, the cooking utensil all chostn in essay contests, there WALL-PAPER and PAINTS and even the ballot.—Philadelphia Dr. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., will be about two dozen other Press. Marvin Bnfldhif president of the National Association 4th Street and Sth to rm boys who have been selected AT*. IT IS AN UNNECESSARY EVIL. Surgeons, in addressing a Phone 182— Fixing the Crime. on a congressional district unit convention of surgeons at the When the writer, the young man hereof, came to Crosby, somewhat It was only a nice friendly kind of basis. As a result over ico boys over a year ago, his ideas 011 the liquor question were rather "sing-song" at the hydro, but just because Hotel Aster, New York City, will belong to the 1915 camp. Had to Advertise. it was free- expectations ran different than they are today, at least, in some respects. Coming stated that operations for appendicitis During Fair week the boys will high, and the critics were in full force. Sam Nelson of Luverne, the from Hibbing, on the Mesaba range, wihere there probably are. more had increased over 300 per spend part of their time ushering The young man who rose to sing "The saloons per capita than anywhere else in the world, he carried the biggest country merchant in the cent the past five years due in Maiden Fair With Golden Hair" had in the Grand Stand and Livestock idea that saloons, and many of them, were a "necessary evil in every state, says that for fifteen years a measure to the fact that men the best intentions in the world, but Pavilion. The rest of the mining town." Like others, he was against saloons generally, but la the Herald of that place had contained Bomehow he was not up to what are wearing belts instead of suspenders, time will be spent under the care he believed that with a floating population of the nature of that called "concert pitch." Indeed, he was a page ad for his store, and that while many found in Minnesota mining camps, they helped ito hold in this country of special instructors who will explain very much below it, and after makinf every Week. Fifteen years ago" men do not realize that by wearing money that would otherwise be hoarded and lated shipped" off to all the educational exhibits two or three attempts he had to capitulate he left off advertising for three belts they are doing themselves Europe. and resume his seat at the back. to the boys. Some time will be months and it nearly ruined his art injury, there are many Then the benevolent-looking chairman He was wrong, dead wrong, because if the saloon is not a good spent in judging of fine live stock. business. Mr. Nelson says the rose. bad resullts therefrom, not the thing generally, it isn't under any circumstances. But, like many Excellent quarters will be given first damaging results of not ad-^ "Ladies and gentlemen, there is not least of which is a decided tendency Others, he was brought to see the error of his judgment. The seeing the boys on the Fair Grounds a word to be sfiid against the young vertising was brought to him by""*^ being accomplished by two means. toward appendicitis,—Commercial. during the entire week. The gentleman. He did his best, and what customers who came to him and '•$( The first was the local option fight in the'last election campaign, can man do more? He deserves out Farm Boys' Camp building is a complained that they did not .thanks for his willingness to come for lyhen the cause of the "drys" was taken up for the more direct object large roomy building equipped know what he had, and the only ward. But I do think that the person of beating out a condition that did not meet with.approval.- Every Use the Newspapers. with toilet and shower bath facilities. who asked him to sing should be shot." way they could find out was to grpod argument against the saloon that could be found was used If a member of your There is a large special make a personal trip to the store despite the fact that some of them differed with previous views §&• di.ed, would you print the obituary kitchen and dining room attached. A teacher in a children's institution and rubber around awhile, and as ky the young man hereof, and, in the progress of the fight was giving the geography class a lesion on a billboard If your *vtnere was found to be such a wealth of good arguments against the they did not have time, or inclination on the cattle ranches. She spoke wife entertained would ybu send E. Higbie, head of the State saloon, that a conversion was slowly effected. Looking back, we to do so, they asked him of their beef all coming from the an account of it to the theatre Agricultural School at Morris, wonder how v/e ever argued that the saloon was a necessary evil in West, and, wishing to test the children's to put the ad back, which he did. program man? If you were to a mining town. /. Minnesota, is to be in charge of observation, she asked: —Heron Lake News. enlarge your business, would you all the boys. "And what else comes to as from The second means of turning us over completely to the cause these ranches?" advertise in a hotel register? If of prohibition w^as living in a mining town without- a saloon for ten gk, A Personal Application. Tills was a poser. She looked at you were going to have a wedding months, or thereabouts. True, there were a. few "blind-pigs" for a Vety Fast Teacher—"What! Have yon $ her shoes, but no one took the hint. time, but there was also a village council in accord with the idea of in your family would get a "How fast is your car, & Jim- 3he tried again: no idea at all why George Washington a saloonless town, and these evils Were soon eradicated. In fact, hand bill You would send such son?" asked Harkaway. "What do we get from the cattle crossed !the Deleware?" h.- si there were fewer unlicensed drinking places than there had been besides beef?" items to a newspaper, wouldn't "Well," said Jimson, "it keeps Boy—"No, ma'am. Unless it when Crosby had a saloon. Another thing, drunken men were One boy eagerly raised his hand. you Then why don't you put about six months ahead of my it's be was ter hev tne kep* in after "1 know what It Is, tripe," seldom, seen staggering down the street in such a manner that your advertisement in the news- income generally. umonnced triumphant]/. school for not knowing 1" "vs^v' fr'if