vV* THE 65 MIIJ, TAX AND A WET TOWN NEW IN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION Visit Three-Gun Turret, Recently Placed en THE -EARLIEST ORANGES OF THE SEASON Dear Mr. Tax Payer -'--v California's American Ships, Is an Innovation Where are they grown? Why do.they ripen earlier than a The present high taxes are just the of Unknown Quality. in other sections? Why are they, so luscious? reason I am going vote dry. There must be something wrong to These and other questions are answered in a booklet Expositions the paid communication iii the Daily Journal of last Wed- which we have issued describing Glenn County, Calif. with Glenn County is in the heart of the great, rich Sacramento forerunners of nesday. Several hundred towns in Minnesota have voted out sal may be the radical Low Round Trip Fares Valley. A few years ago oranges were grown commercially of dis* have yet to learn a single one where the taxes change in the methods big-gun oons, of Daily to November 30th iif an in the southern part of the State. Later -tribntion on ottp raper-dreadnauglitfl— crease(jiaftel. -short peripd of readjustment. Generally the tax Only a it was discovered that citrus fruits ripened perfectly in Three Months Limit unless, indeed, the super-dreadnaught rate has gone down, in spite of the lo5s of license money. even the northern part of the interior valley. Since then itself is to be driven to the scrap heap With Liberal Stopover by the submarine. The new vessels When the saloons are voted out on April we shall lost- Glenn County has come forward with some magnificent Privileges 6th, I«S cent for roads, or^a loss in city revenue early fruit. There are countless opportunities for not only citrus fruit culture but for all sorts deciduous of $11,700.00. How will this be offset? in two midship turrets raised suffl-j fruits, live stock, grain, truck farming, etc., in Glenn ciently so their guns may be trained First. Economy in the general management of the city. Saloon County. -a over the three-gun turrets. They can control of city government is always extravagant- Take We will send this beautiful book describing Glenn thus discharge an "end-side" fire of Moorhead,. for example, or the range towns- It is absurd County free to you if you will send us your name and a five 14-inch guns either ahead or two-cent stamp to help pay the postage. Better still, astern. spend $33,303.64 to run a city of this size, with so little to show send ten cents in stamps and we will send the Glenn Italy and Austria each has at least for the money. And this is simply the General Fund the totai one three-gun turret ship, and Franca County book, a map of California and a sample copy of amount of orders issued on the. city treasurer last year was $60, is to try a turret carrying four guns. Sunset Magazne, a great Pacific Coast national magazine. to date, however, there seems to Up 222.95. The taxpayers believe that by cutting out the graft, SUNSET MAGAZINE SERVICE BUREAU S^AUN'S have been no really thorough test of See the two greatest for which the saloons are directly responsible, and running the ,San Francisco, California. either of these arrangements. The 01 Ztt writing b« sure to mention this nun and world's fairs ever held— mention this pape* and Gl«nn County book. town on a business basis, we can save several* thousand dollar chief advantage claimed for this concentration both expositions are in of big guns appears to be dollars and have money for public improvements. Cloquet. Mch. 18-25 Apr. 1. celebration of the opening the concentration of fire resulting from after being in the hole for years, closed its first dry year on it. Some naval constructors question of the Panama Canal, the practically the saqie basis of expenditure as before, with a balance the practicability of keeping these new greatest engineering feat *3 v:v "deck-forts" In good working condition, of $ii'000.00 in the city treasury. ever accomplished. Both under shocks and the enormous Second. The cost of criminal cases due to the saloon busi]hes% Border Wholesale Meat & Grocery Co.1 universal in their scope. produced mammoth strains by their The total cost of maintaining the'city police force, court criticism broadsides. There is also some Travel via and jail is about $7,000.00, which could be cut in half if there of the policy of putting so many Northern Pacific E. A YernbergV Manager eggs in one basket. Two disabled turrets were no saloons. The jail at Bemidji has been empty much of the on the Nevada will put six instead time since the town went dry. Add to this $22,000.00 for care of of four guns out of commission. and see prisoners at the county jail, salaries of criminal officers' main Wholesale and Retail Meats, Yellowstone TROUBLED BY VIVID DREAMS Groceries, Fruits and Feed tainance of jail and expenses of court. Though paid through the National Park county, this must be paid to a certain extenf by the same taxpayers. 8oldier« on Service in the Trenches The court records show that more than four out of Home-Made Sausage and Are Greatly Affected by Their Through trains to the every five criminal prosecutions in Koochiching County are duo Terrible Experiences. Hamburger North Pacific Coast—rail to booze. The abolition of saloons would save between $5,000.00 or water from Puget Naturally enough the normal dream and $8,000.00- We can also reduce our share of the $10,604.23 Sound cities or Portland life of the soldier is profoundly affected Give us a Trial and You Will to San Francisco via Astoria now spent in the county for coroner- and maintainance of poor by his novel and. oftentimes Stay With Us and the Great Northern A terrible experiences at the front. and insane. It evidently costs the taxpayers all of $11,700.00 to British army surgeon in charge of one Steamship line. collect that Amount of license money. A murder or other crime Our Prices are Always Right of the field hospitals has taken the Our Stock Always Fresh Fre^ descriptive literature due to the salooris may cost the county thousands of dollars' of trouble to make inquiries of his including Exposition folder patients regarding their dreams. Some which the city must bear its share. Second Ave. and Fifth Street International Falls, Minn. of them had developed somnambulism, and full details of the trip Third. Increased business. To get $11,700.00 license money and were often found wandering about furnished. our people must pay the saloons arid allied business at least $500, in their sleep with great terror and C. G. WHITNEY, anxiety depicted on their faces. The 000.00. Of this they claim $75,000.00 stays here in the shape of Agent. explanation usually lay in a dream wages. Most of the remainder, and some of this $75,000.00, goes that they had lost their regiments. In "SEE AMERICA" directly out of town. To spend that additional $425,000.00 in our fact, this dread of losing contact with You 11 Never their fellows seemed to be the commonest stores means the employment of more men than are now employed cause of nightmare. by the saloons, that is, more union labor. It means the use They dreamed they were wandering of more store buildings and houses, more building work' the increase through endless trenches as complicated as an artificial maze, or were of real and personal property oti which taxes may be levied lost atone in dismal forests. The and the lowering of the tax rate. To put out the saloons and release rraimaen slightest noise during sleep called up a half million dollars for productive industry is equivalent visions of exploding shells or the tramp of armed men, often causing to building another unit .in the paper fttiiE with a payroll of them to cry out in fright. In the face Chicago $500,000.00. That has been the result in Cass Lake and Bemidji' of real danger these dreamers of terror Fourth. Lower store -rents and prices. The saloons hold were quite as brave as their fellows. Another common night-terror the people (this is/particularly true in 1111emstti©nai Falls) and was the dream of a sudden call to is in turn held "up by the landlord. One sakxDior is paying $i-8oo arms to which they were unable to respond a year rent on a $5,000 property investment. Oije result is that because of inability to find some indispensable article of attire or ecrufpment. TICKET store rents are held up in something the same proportion. The clothing or grocery store must get this out of. the customers by charging increased prices. That is the chief, reason for the extra Hatch Pullets Early. If by the farmer wishes to benefit high cost of living here. Vote out the saloons and the same prices eggs the high that are certain* building will be taken by stores at a more reasonable rent. to bring next fall and winter, wiinuao Prices will gp down- the people will have more to spend. should begin to get ready for them at rmmey TEE LITTLE MEAT MARKET im once, say the poultry specialists Bank accounts wit! increase rapidly in number arndi amount, as in The marvelous durability of PHONE 120. the United States department of agriculture. Bemidji. 1 & "Nobby Tread" Tii-rsi the The way to have eggs late* fact that they are really two fires OIJB Tfcirdl Street, Opposite Rex Hotel: Fifth, increased Efficiency. In Russia the abolition of the in the year is to hatch early. It is in one make them the tirrs that I saloon has increased the earning capacity the people from 30 you should uuhesliali»ilv buy. 5 the early hatches l'rom which the Good Suppy of Meats, Fish, Groceries, Butter and' Eggs. early pullets are derived that are the & ,i© 50 per cent, and it will do the same here. Greater earning largest money-maker3 for the poultry »apacity means greater earnings, more morfey, more business FISH AND POULTRY CLEANED BEFORE DELIVERY producer.' The ^arly hatched cockerels 'Nobby Tread" Tires can1 be marketed in almost any Today, with our keen competition, the nation,. the: corporation, market in America when they attain, GIVE THEM A CALL. the city or the individual which is handicapped fey drink is at a *re now sold under their regular a weight of three-fourths of a poundt erious disadvantage. Warranty—perfe. I workmanship M. LARSEN, Prop. to a pound and a half each, whichi and material BUT any adjustment they should reach" in about six to Sixth. As to Ranier, we'll take "care of that a little later, is on a basis of 1 ten weeks of a?e, respectively, at a Raim 5,000 Miles saloons in Koochiching County- The greater profit than at any other time, vhen we vote out Kiver District in Canada is taking steps to vote no license next RS of their lives. The early hatched pullets, "If properly grown, should be- January, and close the following. May. There are bars now onh ,dtN:~3 3TA RU33ER 0 gin to lay in the fall at the t£ma fvl. -.naaajl s, Minn. Ft. Frances* Emo and Rainy River, and only reason \i: the they Nit ..vest 0,s-. tu .rs when eggs are scarce and high in I have kept these open was because of the saloons on the American priee. side. The world is moving quite rapidly. "1 Not Too Well Rewarded. Farm and Draft Horses Sale Very truly yours, I The fact that the annual receipts A Taxpayer and Fellow Sufferer. I from cinematograph shows in the Firom 500 to 1000 head of horses constancy on hand, United States amount to $150,000,000 ffldoding large Draft Horses, Driving H&nes* Delivery prompts the recollection that Muybridge, Horses,. Farm Chunks, Farm Mares, Saddlers Every andi Mules. borsc whose experiments in the instantaneous 1 The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel hitched: a&d tried before sale. If you want one hisrse, team or caidoade a a prospects. photography of animal WITH THE WARRING NAIIONO com,t° BARRETT & ZIMMERMAN pry 200 MODE FN ROOMS locomotion helped to pave the way for One hundred years of continuous Located in Heart of Biuineu DUtrict $1.££ moving pictures, received support in rainfall records have recently been S N E A E $ Dutath Staftfes Cor. 23d Av. V. & Superior St. Great Midway. Korse Karket, St. Psul, Private Sates Daily Auction Easy Weteesday. privata Sales EUROPLAN RATE FCR TWO PERSONS SI.SO the shape of university grants to the" completed in New Bedford, Mass., and The German submarine U-29, during PRIVATE BATH AND TOILET EXTRA tune of $40,000, or not much more serve to disprove thoroughly th£ comthan three days' operations in the region COMPLETE SAFETY one-fo.ur-thousandth part of what mon belief that the climate is not so AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS of the Scilly Islands, sank lour AND the moving picture business in the good as it used to be. Only half as FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION British and one French steamer and states is bringing in every year. The many dry periods occurred in the last NO (iNSURANCE RECOROS SHOW LIVES damaged three others. EVER LOST IN A SPRINKLED BUILDING.) London, England, photographer who iifty years as in the,first fifty years EVERY ROOM HAS HOT AND COLD RUNNING actually invented the moving picture g0 that the records really area warn* WATER, STEAM HEAT. GAS AND ELECTRIC The British feel that their victoryin LIGHT8, AND TELEPHONE SERVICE. lantern, received nothing for his dis* for that section at least, to expect Flanders around Neuve Chapells SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS SEVEN S'.ORV ANNEX IN CONNECTION. covery, more dry periods in the next generation. where 1,720 Germans were taken prisoners The recent decades have been and 10,000 casualties reported, The Hundred-Dollar Look. fortunate above the average, anil consequently viotories evens up matters against German $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE One check for $100 given for war the next few decades are in the sea zone. relief has a story behind it. The collector a The records were started in 1814 by Desperate fighting continues in both in the case was the extremely attractive and favorite niece who had Samuel Rodman, and continued by him Eastern and Western theaters withuntil his death, in 1876. His son then out any decisive gains. The Belgian no illusions respecting her uncle's a thriftiness. She asked him for large kept them until his death, in 1905. For army continues Rs advance, German was gift. He chipped in $5. She dis* more than ninety-one years the rain- counter attacks in Flanders are refall 1 LOCATED IN HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT on was carefully recorded for exactly pulsed and fierce onslaughts are r» appointed, but put down the item A E S Rooms with detached bath and Uncle later the same spot in the same yard. The ported from the East. LICENSED PLUMBERS her list with footnotes. shower bath— at the pa* chief engineer of the state health department got a surreptitious glance One person 75c, S1.00 and $1.50 per day Two person* in same room, S0c extra. It is thought the Prinz Bitel Fried has now completed the hun* per and read: ROOMS with private baths and toilets— and Heating Engineers rich will atttempt to elude the Brltisli "T. Tupper Jones, Five Dollars. Every died years of figures by obtaining the One person $1.50 and S2.00 per day warships outside Newport News som late records from another observer in Tw« persons in same room. SI.00 extra. Little Bit Helps." dark night Stud postal cord tor colored blotters. The check was listed next day. New Bedford, taken a few miles from $100 WATER AND SEWER WORK. PROMPTLY DONE WE AIM TO PLEASE the Rod/nan place. Bombard German Barracks. was The average, annual rainfall lowa Senate Passes "Dry" Bill. ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE via 23.—An Berlin, London, March 46.45 inches but in the first fifty years D«s Moines, Iowa, March 23.—The Memel.- Russians Loss enemy aviator appeared above Mulhelm, there were four very marked dry periods Senate has passed the fifth of the long EAST & CORRIN iSi Berlin, via wireless to Sayville, L. I. Baden, and dropped three bombs of two or three years each. Ia line of bills intended to force prohibition. been l(i|rch 23.—The Russians have on the city and artillery barracks. the last fifty years there were only This is the bill to confiscate Ovcson Block International Falls, Minn. Phone an •riven out of the German seaport of Three soldiers were two such dry periods.—Saturday eve­ "autos found with beer or other in Memei, the war office announced Honor" ""v.* •fflclal statement. "I* J? 1*+ i. *V ""5" Jb j. A t* ?sr* ft tr-?'