LIQUOR IN CALIFORNIA Pohibition was defeated in California, bjjt it opponents are not happy. The liquor question, accordingly, is still uppermost there. The situation is interesting, and might be made profitable. tv.\ The proposed amendment for absolute prohibition was defeated in California. The grape and wine industry O. A. JAHNKE is. strong there. But an amendment to prohibit drinking in .fi AUTOMOBILES saloons, clubs, cafes and hotels, leaving room for wine trade for individuals, International Falls, Minn. came within 40,000 votes of carrying. That would be as if it had come within 12,000 votes of carrying in Nebraska. For while the brewers and saloonkeepers thought i'c had caried. The pohibitionists are so well pleased with the result that they are going ahead with plans for another vote two yeax*s hence. Meanwhile the liquor men are talking of a house-cleaning in the hope of gaining popularity for coming struggles. Wishes you a most enjoyable Christmas It is proposed to reduce San Francisco and all Good Wishes for Your saloons from 2,500 to 500, adopt high license and abandon brewery Health and Happiness in the Coming ownership of saloons. If it were possible for the liquor Year. men to take a longrun view of their case they might avail themselves of this situation to save a portion of Gome in and get acquainted, so that WRIST WATCHES their business for many years to come. It is evident that California we can also do this personally. is not yet nearly ready for prohibition. It cannot show a majority for prohibition notwithstanding its women AT $10.00 vote. There is a middle gi'ou.ad WRIST WATCHES between "wet" and which "dry" would probably serve the state best as things now stand. Nebraska attempted to work out the problem by AT $16.00 an evolution in this manner, but always it found the liquor men across the path. The liquor people insisted If you are really interested in on having things their own way. Finding that "it was more trouble to regulate gettingthe greatest value-return than to destroy, Nebraska has turned in and put the liquor men out for every one of your dollars, of business entirely. mm If the California liquor men are come and examine, as capable of learning from the fate of their Nebraska fiends, they will turn critically as you wish, these monk in this day of their sickness and stay monk. California, thus made WRIST WATCHES free to act against the more pressing evils of the liquor business without resouring to drastic measures, might we're offering at then work out a system of liquor control $10.00 which, fo some years at least, would give better results than prohibition. Think, before spending several dollars Special interests are seldom able elsewhere, what you can save by coming to act thus wisely. California will here. We guarantee wrist watches probably go on in the old way until within a biennium or two the prohibition to keep time. Christmas Greetings wave which they have helped SHER BROS.. Jewelers to rase will engulf the liquor men. FISH HATCHERIES URGED BY MILLER Minnesota to Get Plant if Bill Passes Today as Expected—Aim is to Re.duce the High Cost of Living. Border Wholeeale Meat & Grocery Washington, Dec. 7.—Representative Company Miller of Minnesota declared yesterday ihat the ev fH# is a E. A. YERNBERG, Manager bill would be a long step in the refetion of solving the high cost of Wholesale and detail Meats, Groceries, Fruits and Feed living, now confronting the country. The bill includes an item of' $50,000 for establishing a fish hatchery in Home-Made Sausage and Hamburger $ Minnesota, the location of which will 8 if 9 be left to the discretion of "the secretary i$ $ WE LOAN MONEY Give us a Trial and You Will Stay With Us $ of commerce. The bill is expected if 0 It to pass today. Our Prices are Always Right and Our Stock Always Fresh if Among other things, Mr. Miller $ is said: "This is a matter of great importance. is $ We are confronted in this litis Block, Third Street i^ International Falls, Minn if This bank loans money. That's the way we make our country by the high cost of living. if iS if It is not a matter of how it came living. But we don't loan money foolishly nor for improvident is i^ about. It is here. Fish is one item is *.* purposes. is in the great food supply of this nation. iS is It is our ambition to see this community prosper and ts If we had half as much sense is *S SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS it is decidedly to our advantage to see that it does prosper, ts is as we think we have, we would increase if if because, if the community prospers our deposits will increase if the food supply instead of decreasing is if it. if and we will have more money to loan. It can readily be $ "If we pass this bill we will do is seen, therefore, that we cannot consistently loan money for I is more, athousand fold to solve the if any purpose not conductive to the best interests of the community is high cost of living than you will ever is in general and the borrower in pai*ticular. On this do by introducing resolutions calling" |t'Aun\in no is heipcr if basis this bank loans money gladly. for an embargo, investigation of this, if CLASS-ALU I WANT.IS HAVCTOjTAKB if TER BE SATISFIED that and the other this is practical XHAW4TH8 if 8 9 and to the point let us act." CHEW is is NEED We Loan Money on Farm Lands. Call and See Us it FORESTRY RECEIPTS 75 if if PER CENT. OF EXPENSES 4s if if The First National Bank if 2 Washington, Dec. 9.—National forest is administration last year was if if characterized, acording to Henry S. Graves, chief forester, in his annual epot today, by receipts of $2,800,000, an increase of $340,000 rapid progress in land classification material advance in development work, particularly road building, and relatively '®V CvT c,he7ers know all about^tobacco small fire losses. satisfaction. You feel sort of sorry for users of the1 Timber receipts were over $1,400, SSJZ?trSA^Cre f° tobaccomatter satisfaction 18 httfc in' 000, a 20 pe cent increase grazing tobacco with excess of sweetening, no how big receipts $1,200,000, and water power Snderstrnf/ sort of difficult to make beginners rentals $100,000. "At present," said in tobacco &ere Mr. Graves, "receipts from the national knowwhen ,hey to forests are about thee-fouths •A IT COVAKT. h» T«*Ct, an of what it costs to protect them and WEnUH-BCTWI c4rry on current business'."