CHANGE ROAD WORK pi Senator, McGarry Would! Put" State .. Highway Commission in Control. £V::- [A .. More Than $10,000,000 Expended :In Past Year was Wasted, Says MciGarry. St. Paul, Dec. 19.rnState Senator P. H. McGarry of Walker is preparing O. A. JAHNKE toIntroduce a. bill in the'legis&rare that will give tlie state highway commission control of all road building AUTOMOBILES and repair work in the staid: International ,-FalIs, Minn. He contends, and Senator Baldwin of Frazee, wh6 also'has investigated the subject^ bears' him out/that more than $10,000,000 of tlie nibney expended under the direction oflocal authorities on &inn6s0ta rdkds in the past year has been wasted, and that similar amounts Have been wasted every year for & long time past. 3 "For half of that amount we cotiTd have had- fine roads in every' county of the state", Senator McGarry said Wishes youa mostenjoyable Christ yesterday. "It is just a lack of system mas and all Good, Wishes for Jfdur that has prevented it. "The township boards levy' a regular Health and Happiness in the Coining tax of 15 mills arid they are authorized to levy 5 mills additional for Year. emergencies, 'The coutity levies :'i mills. In the aggregate an enormous sum is produced by these taxes. And •J2 *, A Gome in and get acquainted, so that the local authorities just spend it, they don/t build roads with it. we can also do this personally. "When it comes to the distribution of the fund this farmer and that one are given small contracts to fix the AT $10 .00 roads in front of their places. They hitch a team to a scraper arid turn a little dirt into the road, any old place Then collect the money, say $100. Moreover, the farmer insists.on doing AT $16.( his road work when he can't work his land, which is just the wrong time -:v i-: ii -i to do it. Besides, it doesn't follow If you are really interested in that because a man is a good farmer he is a good road builder. getting the greatest value-return "I realize that some men like these little local offices, and that the man for every one of your dollars, whb advocates placing all of the road work in the hands of the state highway come and examine, as commission jwill come in for a 1 1 of .criticism, but it should be done, °wmm critically as you wish, these and if the Dunn law is amended to this effect the taxpayers soon will see the benefit, not only in decreased -Mmm WRIST" WATCHES taxes, but in better roads. It simply means that roads will be built sysr we're offering at tematically by expects instead of being $10.00 built haphazard by novices." .. Larger Tax on Autos. State Senator Fred Vibert of Cloquet Think, before spending several dollars has been in conference with the elsewhere, what you can save by coming state highway commission regarding here. We guarantee wrist watches the imposition of a larger tax on automobiles, the proceeds to be used for to keep time. Christmas Greetings the upkeep of the state's roads. Senator SHER BROS., Jewelers Vibert blieves that the small license fee of $1.50 for three years is a joke, and that the figure should be atyout $10 a year, giving the state a revenue of about .$1,300,000 from this spurce. Senator Vibert says that the automobile owners are using the roads iriore freely than anyone else and Border Wholesale Meat & Grocery should pay more toward their upkeep. He will introduce a measure for a A Company larger license fee in the January meeting of the legislature. .."lE,rA, YERNBERG, Manager '. ". !(^-t NATIONAL PROHIBITION $ Wholesale and RetailM*ats, Groceries, Fruits and Feed BILL UP NEXT WEEK ^Washington, D. C., Dee.16.—By a Home-Made Saitsajfe and Hamburger margin of one vote, the Sheppard bill to prohibit'manufacture* and sale WE LOAN MONEY Give us a Trial and You Will Stay With Us intoxicating liquorg in the District of Columbia was put into first Qur Prices are Always Right and Our Stock Alwayk Fresh place on the senate calendar today to be taken up next week1 and debated until it is dispbsed of or replaced by litis Block, Third Street International Falls, Minn A This bank loans money. That's the way we make our* affirmative actiori. Senator Townsend living. But we don't loan money foolishly nor for improvident of Michigan, sought to keep the purposes. Volunteer officers retirement bill before the senate as unfinished business, It is our ambition to see this -community prosper arid but a motion to substitute the Sheppard it is decidedly to our advantage to see that it does prosper, SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS bill prevailed 34 to 33. because, if the community prospers our deposits will increase and we will have, more money to loan. It can readily be $10,000 BAR FIXTURES seen, therefore, that we cannot consistently loan money for CHOPPED TO PIECES any purpose not conductive to the best interests of the community tSAYS BWAt&Sn ^^0 T5-/' in gerieral and the borrower in particular. On this Seattle, Dec. 15?—Ten thousand basis this bank loans money gladlyr A1HT IN NO HEIFER JJOW REMEMBER, Si dollars worth of fixtures were destroyed ClASS- ALU I WANT you pom HAVE TOTAKe A, [TER BE SATI8F1CP1 last night by policemen in '^TeT,lE o^that COM^ cub. SU?e ^'s'3W'GH-CUA69 400P84 the Ainerican cafe barroom on Pike 'oney on Farm Lands. Call and See Us iti street and E. D. Morriss, lessee of the premises and proprietor of the resort,: was arrested the charge On Ci of violating the state prohibition law. •al Bank All wooden furniture was chopped to pieces and the plate glass mirrofs, glassware and cash register reducsd to rubbish.i, Yfv .m-m ,• Association YOU W.B CUT chewers know all about tobaccb satisfactaon. You feel soit of sorry for users of the Dr. R. H. Monahan.... ./.Phone 223 wiu kind. There is so little tobacco satisfaction in Dr. Elizabeth Monahan... .Phone 223 tobacco with excess of sweeteniiiit. no inatter how bitf Dr. Mary Ghostley......, .Phone 301 °f,di?cuIttom«kebeginners Eudestine Hospital....,. .Phone 79 ffl kow much satisfaction there Is in tobacco k»°-^«heyget,a Phone 155 IT fcfc kt WCTMAII-WDTWI COMfAKT, International Falls, 'Ji't 6 OifftlQ#./ »2r j: ,} *5TXl% '-•y »f«i7 ti }L m& ri KUS hk $