ry's welfare than that which has been given us by Commodore SUGGESTED PROGRAM BIRDS ARE BENEFICENT Blackton in his remarkable photo-spectacle. FOR tLEAN-UP WEEK. TBI INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS DONT KILL THEM. "The Battle Cry of Peace'' teaches us patriotism, urges us on AND BORDER BUDGET to patriotic doings, calls on us to heed the warning that our Government Bulletin says People The following program has country needs us, needs us badly, needs every able-bodied man and been suggested by the Civic League Misjudge the Wild Bird* Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. of the Woods and Fields. at Fairmont. Why would it every red-blooded patriot, to be prepared to meet the threatening not be a good program for International foe. Commodore Blackton has written a lesson that no true American Bin tared as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Falls to carry out before Even the crow, traditionally can fail to heed. He has written himself into the list of the ladies of the federated clubs regarded as the farm-foe, does INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. America's truly patriotic citizens. I would urge every man, woman, visit our city on May 2 and 3. more good than harm, says a department GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager. and child who can do so to see "The Battle Cry of Peace."—William of agriculture bulletin Hale Thompson, Mayor of Chicago. Sunday—Civic Uplift sermons in because he eats mice, cut worms, The above described photo-play will be shown at the Grand the churches. Superior voted ''dry" Tuesday by a majority of thirty-three. white grubs and great quantities Theatre in this city on Tuesday, April 25th. of other destructive insects. Monday—Fire Preventation Day Hawks may carry away an occasional Don't worry because some "sorehead" who has lost his "graft'' Clean your basements and attics chicken, but if you make PROFIT OF OWNING A HOME says things are "rotten." If they are "rotten" to him it is very Evident of rubbish, greasy rags and a post mortem examination of better to many others who deserve to haver conditions they are waste paper, wherever possible. a hawk you may find as many as better. If some friendly force could be brought to bear upon the 100 grasshoppers in his crop, average American earner to compel him to save a fair proportion Tuesday—Front Yard Day. representing one course of a single Speaking of some of the stuff that is being sold in these blind of his earnings, property would soon become more equitably meal. Cut lawns, plant flower beds, pigs, a patron recently said, "It looks like faded cylinder oil, distributed, and poverty would decrease materially. No force As for owls any farmer tempted clean walks and gutters, salt the smells like an invalid apple and tastes like a spavin cure." Set could be more compelling or friendly than that which lies in a to shoot one and nail its hide cracks in sidewalks exterminate the barn door should consider 'em up again, gentlemen. contract for a home. ants. this fact: In the home of a single The man who leaves as a legacy to his family an unencumbered pair of barn owls there have Wednesday—Dandelion Day. Roosevelt once said, "Show me a man who makes no mistakes home, has done far better thajn the average American. Comparitively been found 3,000 skulls, nearly and I will show you a man who doesn't do things." Many few men who do not leave a home, leave property of This day can be very profitably all of them relics of field mice, of our citizens have believed that the greatest mistake some people any kind to their heirs. It is said that in America 50 per cent of used in ridding your lawns house mice and rats. have made is that of not trying to do things, but they are the population own but 5 per cent of the wealth. This would not of dandelions, trimming bushes For most of the wild birds a and gardens. There is no more beginning to feel different toward them now. be so if the desire to own a home tomorrow were as universal still clearer case can be made important work which the campaign and gripping as the desire to have a good time tonight. out. Investigators have found in •, could accomplish than to Some men excuse themselves from investing in a home on It is quite amusing to see the fellows who have been dolefully a tree swallow's stomach 40 rid this city of the dandelion and the ground that soon they may move to another locality, and they whole chinch bugs and specimens shaking their heads because of the abolition-of-the-saloon movement, weed pest. A of ten other kinds of insects. fear for a loss in selling. This is not a legitimate fear. Wisdam in prick up their ears and begin to speak well of the move Texas bank swallow was found choosing a home and care in preserving it make a safe sale certain. mentsince distinguished men like Senator Knute Nelson said he Thursday—Paint Day weevils, to have eaten 68 cotton boll In thus transferring a home, the fund should be kept intact for ^was in favor of national prohibition and would do all he could to Paint up inside and out, porches and 35 cliff swallows had the purpose of purchasing a home at the new location. For the make it possible. Climb on, gentlemen, there's room for a few fences, woodwork, and the collected an average of 18 boll more on the wagon yet. average thrifty American, an inherited home stands for half a porch chairs. Business houses weevils each. In the stomach of life's savings. This is worth the serious thought of the man who clean windows and replace- old a Texas killdeer were found 300 wishes to equip a son or a daughter for the financial struggle awnings. The man who edits the average country paper cannot avoid mosquito larvae. A Kentucky of life.—Minneapolis Journal. treading on somebody's toes continually. He must expect to be nighthawk or bullbat had devoured Friday—Back Yard Day. 34 May beetles. A New censured often for failures must expect hard work and little York nighthawk had dined on Clean alleys, repair fences and HEALTH AND HUMIDITY thanks must expect to be called a coward because he does not sheds, screen garbage cans. Put 24 cloverleaf weevils and 375 *'pitc everything that somebody thinks is wrong, anjl a ants, and another was found fly traps ,on garbage cans. Put fool ii he speaks out too plainly to suit the other fellow. He must There is more in the air than people think. Because it is invisible on screen doors. busy digesting 340 grasshoppers, expect to grind the other fellows' axes—and turn the grindstone its composition is a mystery to them. 52 bugs, 3 beetles, 2 wasps and himself, but at that, it isn't a bad job. We're not kicking. Saturday—Vacant Lot Day. As a fact, the air is a vast ocean, unseen, on a spider. Such data might be .—: the surface of the earth, in which we live just as multiplied ad infinitum. Boy Scouts and school children The past winter has been a hard one on most of the fish live in the great oceans of water on the It is a fact which cannot be clean vacant lots, removing saloonists but it is expected things will improve when the too often repeated, that we have earth's surface. brush, tin cans and paper. Plow spring season opens up.—Our Side. misjudged the wild birds of the This ocean of air contains a number of and plant garden plots whereever woods and fields. They are not Yes, indeed things are improving. There were about 50 Minnesota things necessary to human life. Two of the most possible. injurious but beneficent. They saloons knocked out at the recent spring elections and important are Oxygen and Moisture. They are are the friends of the farmer, and the remaining ones are tottering to a fall. Further, half the mfen both always present, though in different proportions Greet the Newcomer therefore of mankind. They keep Avho formerly patronized saloons have quit them forever, and of moisture at different times. "In Giving You Get.' down the insect pests which already those who do patronize them are ashamed of themselves—Fairmont Moisture is taken into the air from the cause $700,000,000 loss a Sentinel. T. Swlnnerton, Less than" a third of the people oceans, rivers and lakes of the earth, largely, multiply without such a natural X. D. in an average American neighborhood and,by evaporation. check would destroy our entire are natives. In thousands No man can afford to be without a paper. The home weekly Any observant person can notice that the amount of moisture food supply. Entirely ^.sMe from of cases practically all the sentimental considerations, we'd paper is as necessary to the family's intellectual health as good in the air, which is called humidity, varies. On a clear bright population wafs born somewhere better stop killing the birds and victuals are to bodily health. The man who is mean enough to summer day the air feels drier than on a dull rainy day in spring. else So why stand off when give them more protection. deprive his family of the benefit of a newspaper is too mean to There is a marked difference in fact. On the summer day the humidity someone moves in from another receive a christian burial. The press is a good educator, and the may be less than 20 per cent while on a rainy day it may section Why be niggard with LIBRARY REPORT family who reads most is the most entertaining and as a rule the be nearer 100 per cent. neighborliness most liberal. The man who is too mean to take even a local paper The importance of this humidity, or moisture, is in its value Of course one may make an No. of volumes issued of and borrows his neighbors, is worth watching, we have our suspicions to man's body, inside and out. The human body itself is about occasional mistake, but for every adult fiction 623 about his honesty.—Ex. undesirable acquaintance 'we find 75 per cent water. In a dry hot air the moisture of the body is No. of volumes issued of several good people worth knowing. rapidly taken from it by the surrounding air. This affects the youth's fiction 348 You your neighbor and the No. of volumes issued of skin making it parched and dry and disagreeable feeling. It affects Of course women should be given the ballot! Women must newcomer are problems of your adult non-fiction 37 obey the law just as men do, thus supporting the government. also the membranes of the nose, throat and lungs, which are community, and as each of you No. of volumes issued of naturally very moist, making them dry and uncomfortable, and Women suffer from bad government just as men do, and even may be the other two, the problem youth's non-fiction ..... 13 more. Mothers want to make their children's surrounding better. under certain conditions causing various diseases of these tissues. ought to be simple. Total number issued during About 8,ooo,Ooo women in the United States are wage workers The fine delicate cells which line these parts become affected, and If you are an older resident month of March 1169 catarrh, bronchitis, and even pneumonia, may result. and their health and that of our future citizens are often greet the newcomer. There is a No. of visitors to reading endangered by evil working conditions that can only be remedied This dry air gets in its worst work in the homes, business double blessing rn the welcome. room 148 houses, public buildings and school houses, where man spends the by legislation. How long would men stand this without representation? In giving you get. No. of borrower's cards most of his time in the long winter months. The severe frosts of If you are a newcomer—well, Jus^t about as long as they did in the. Revolutionary issued to March 1st .... 1254 your duty was never better stated war, and no longer.—Albert Lea Tribune. 'winter dry the air almost completely by freezing out the moisture. No. of borrowier's cards tlran in these words of Ruskin: issued in March 26 The dry cold air is then taken into the dwellings of men, No. of borrower's cards then heated artificially with stoves, furnaces, etc., making the It is very much to be regretted that the county board could "It is a good and safe cancelled to date 251 air of lower humidity still less than 15 per cent moisture. not see its way clear to vote the hundred dollars which the law rule to sojourn in any place No. of borrower's cards This dry air, heated often to 70 and 75 degrees is then breathed allows to be voted for county development association purposes. as if )oji meant to spend in use April 1st 1029 into the nose, throat and lungs, and is the most frequent cause W hen the matter was brought before the board a month ago by your life there, never omitting No. of books added by of many diseases. Senator L. H. Nord, who urged the appropriation for the purpose an opportunity of doing purchase 160 Public health advocates have begun to show the need of of helping on the general fund toward advertising the passage a kindness or speaking a No. of books added by moistening this air for buildings until now many public buildings true word or making a gift of Amendment No. 1 which provides the setting aside of $250,000 2 friend.*' and the newer schools in larger centres are being provided and development by the state as a revolving fund for the improvement Marie Wallace, The way to fill the lonesome with a humidifying device. These authorities have determined that Librarian. of state lands, at that time Commissioners Royem and Harrigan hours is to be iriendly.—Country such a building- heated to 60 degrees with a humidity of 60 per were favorable to it, Commissioner Bursack said he would Gentleman. and at the meeting cent is warm enough and vastly healthier every way, than the old Suburban Home for Sale—Solid like to take the matter up with his constituents Block of ground, 6-room house method of heating a dry air to 70 and 75 degrees. last Tuesday he joined the other two in voting for the appropriation THE 94TH CONTINGENT with concrete basement, good This humidity in the air at 60 per cent forms a blanket around but Commissioner Ulvedahl voted against it, and as a LEAVES FOR THE EAST 12x40, poultry house, 24x76, barn the body so that the body moisture and heat are kept in the body. unanimous vote is necessary it failed to pass. When it is remembered 6 lots clear, close to city good The nose, throat, and lungs have an air better adapted to their that about one-third of the state land is in this county and place for the right party. Inquire The 125 members of the 94th needs passing over them. In this way disease is decreased, and that therefore this county will receive the greatest benefit from at Press office. overseas battalion who have greater comfort for working result. the passage of this amendment, it does seem as though this county, been recruited and drilled at Ft. It has moreover been proved that when a building is humidified such of all counties, should appropriate the small sum of $100 for Frances during the fall and winter, FOUND—A valuable stick pin ^a necessary purpose. reduction of 12 per cent in the cost of heating can be effected. left Tuesday morning for in the melting snow. It was evidently This is an important item through a whole long winter. Port Arthur with about 200 lost in the early part of A great opportunity remains for some ingenious person to other soldiers from Rainy River the winter. Owner can have same MAYOR OF CHICAGO SPEAKS. devise some means of humidifying the air of homes in an effective and other towns along the border. by identifying it and paying cost Practically the entire town of this notice. Apply at the Press and comparitively inexpensive manner. There is a fortune William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago, visited the presentation and many from this city went office. in it, as well as greater good health for all. I of The Battle Cry of Peace" in Chicago and afterwards to the depot to bid them goodbye. wrote the following letter: They were escorted from EGGS FOR HATCHING. I visited the Olympic Theatre to view "The Battle Cry of NELSON DECLARES FOR passage of the national prohibition the barracks by the military Having purchased McKinnon's NATIONAL PROHIBITION amendment. I will present Peace thinking that I was to see the ordinary photoplay which band and 200 members of the prize winning Golden Wyandottes, your petition-to the senate and has engaged the attention of the theatre-going public these years 141st overseas battalion. JJrown Leghorns, and Rhode have it referred to the proper Albert Lea, Minn., March 30— past. I was astounded when I saw the magnitude of the photospectacle They expect to remain at Port Island Reds, all of which have committee. In response to a petition sent to Arthur but a short time before by Commodore Blackton and amazed when I realized carefully kept been in separate Senator Knute Nelson from Albert "I am heartily in favor of this leaving for Val Catier, the great put for the education the extent to which the movie camera can be sale eggs pens, I have for of these Lea favoring the passage of amendment and shall vote foJ* it 1 military rendezvous of eastern of our people. I do not think there is now in existence'1 a varieties for setting at $1.25 per a national prohibition amendment, when it comes up, and I stand •Canada/ women stronger plea to the patriotic feelings of our men and will guarantee the setting, and Rev.^H. J. Strand received ready to assist in reporting* it I do not believe a decade of development eggs to pure bred. than "The Battle Cry of Peace." be the following reply: from the committee." Alderman R. F. C. litis returned men on the part of engaged in this wonderful industry P. L. Darst,- -rl. "I am in receipt of your letter today from Hot Springs count­ Jameson's Addition,*-International can develop a stronger or sterner argument in behalf of our with enclosed petition favoring Knute Nelson. after several weeks absence. Falls, Minn. u\