'.. W -1, '_'*} A THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS the treasury and to appoint Fraser as auditor in place of our R. C. FEED MAKES EGGS still working to find their way to lamented Wilson. Professing all the time to entertain friendship the roosts when the lights are By Mark M. Abbott, AgHealtirlst ./ turned off. AND BORDER BUDGET for Ulvedahl and Bursack he took a cowardly slap at them and their The whole grain ration of Those who, fearing the high districts and showed his truer feelings. Instead of giving them fair wheat, oats and corn is Scattered price of feed, killed their hens in Publishers of the Official County Proceedings treatment he took advantage of the situation to get the county in the litter after the chickens the fall and now pay their neighbor INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY deeper in the mire and take more money out. That act alone will are on the roost so that there five cents for every egg they GEO, P. WATSON, Editor and Manager undoubtedly cost this eounty several thousand dollars to straighten will be something for them to eat use realize that when feed is high as soon as they get off the roost price of eggs is proportionately out. the Entered at the Post Office at International Fallii Minn., as Second-class Matter in the morning. Some more of higher. Greatest profits Another event of importance was the return of R. S. McDonald, this grain mixture is .fed in the SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR may be made when price of feed former county commissioner. The man that Arnold and some of evening so that the hens go to is highest. his backers threatened to extradite from Canada and send to the roost with full crops. When Virginia went dry the inmates of the brothel district of Feed is expensive only when penitentiary, returned of his own free will to face his accusers and At noon a wet mash of bran no returns are being gotten from Norfolk, Virginia, closed up without action on the part of the police. beef scraps and table scraps is prove that their assertions were as false as they are dastardly. It the hens. Other things being They could not run without booze. fed a dry mash of equal parts of equal good returns are assured is needless to say that they have shown their true nature. The ones bran, shorts, oil meal and alfalfa when a well balanced laying ration that were loudest in howling for his scalp were the first ones to meal is kept before the hens For some years the officials of Memphis, Tenn., set the prohibition is fed. rush up and give him the glad hand. On hearing of his return Arnold in a hopper all the time. These law at naught, and by a system of finest made the city practically Those who are feeding gtheir had two subpoenas served on him. They met on the street feeds give bulk and at the same flocks the food that tends to produce a license city. The voters kicked out the anarchists and elected time supply considerable protein. and after making all his false charges Arnold had the brass to grasp eggs are getting a handsome a set of officers that were reasonably diligent in the enforcement Grit, oyster shell and charcoal him by the hand, greet him like a lost brother, and inquire when he return for the money and are also kept before the hens of law. In the last four non-enforcement months there were 363 arrests. labor expended, returned. When" McDonald demanded that he explain what he was constantly in a hopper. The grit Under the corresponding months under enforcement there trying to stir up Arnold sneaked away like a whipped pup. Mac Mr. F. E. Patterson is getting assists the hen to grind her were but four. The arrsts for disorderly conduct dropped from 262 15 to 20 eggs per day since he has a world of friends in the county, and all who know him feel that food in the gizzard, the oyster to 9. discovered that nitroenous foods shells furnish the lime needed to thee will be an after clap before he is through with the game. In must be given to laying hens in form the egg shells. Soft shellsd the meanwhile Arnold is still bleeding us for $50 per day. the winter time to take the place Thief River Falls has been dry 'under county option for one eggs indicate an insufficient supply of worms and bugs picked up in of lime. Charcoal helps to year. When the eounty option fight was on W. G. Calderwood, STOP "TOOTHPICKING" YOUR EARS the summer time. Fifty per cent avoid digestion troubles. Warm resentative of the wets, who argued that if the town went dry of the solid material in an egg water is supplied at frequent intervals By DH. G. P. SWI.\\ERTO\, County Health Officer. they would have more crime and drunkenness than with the saloon, is protein or nitrogenous material. because it soon freezes, To supply this protein, beef and that the tough element would be attracted by the blind pigs, even in the day time. I was talking business the other day with a traveling man. He scraps, fish waste, milk, oil meal and because the town would be insufficiently policed (because of Twenty eggs a day from was interested in the subject of our conversation. Soon I noticed or alfalfa must be fed. twenty-five hens, the record already the loss of the saloon revenue) general demoralization would follow. him quite unconsciously fishing around in his vest pocket. At last Mr. Patterson has a dry hen set by Mr. Patterson and Chief of Police O. E. Berge has now made his report for the he fetched out between his fingers a toothpick. coop and although the temperature which he expects to beat, means first dry year. During the last wet year there were 220 arrests is always below freezing an income of practically eightyfive Though our talk was engaging his whole attention, he quite for intoxication. During the first dry year there were 57. This is the hens keep warm by working cents a day at present prices. automatically began pushing the toothpick around in one of his a falling off of three-quarters. During the last wet year there in the deep litter provided. If His entire feed cost for the entire ears. While listening to his remarks in answer to mine, I could not the chickens scratch the litter were thirty-two arrests for disorderly conduct, and during the first winter will not exceed fourteen help noticing his operation about his ear. There was somethingthere, toward one side of the building dollars. twelve months that were dry there were but five. This is a falling it is pitched bac^ toward the Matt Donahue, E. L. Heermance, or he had a subconscious impression that there was something off of more than five-sixths. The chief testifies also to the fact other side each day. To encourage Rob't Russell are among to dig out of that ear. Quite determinedly he kept at this action that the number of hoodlums and undesirables that were ordered the chickens to work, which those who have found poultry for a few moments, still talking to me, and then, withdrawing to leave town during the last wet year would probably exceed 300, Mr. Patterson finds is necessary raising a very profitable sideline. the toothpick he looked at it, cleaned off a few "particles of wax for best egg production, electric whereas during the first dry year the total number would not be in It would be well for prospective lights are turned on in the coop from the end of it with his-fingers, then went at that ear again. or discouraged poultrymen excess of a dozen, which shows a falling off of over 90 per cent. at 6:30 a. m. and in the evening to visit the poultry houses As a physician, I was nervous. I could see in my mind's eye they are left on until eight o'clock. of some of these men and study what he was doing in that ear. I could see the irregular, rather THE TAXPAYER'S BUSINESS A faint light from an adjoining the^ methods that have proved curving canal in which he was prodding round, without any knowledge room enables the hens successful. of the damage he was likely to do. The president hasTepeatedly said that it is none of our business It at once occurred to me what a lot of people do the same NUMBER OF DEPOSITORS able loss of savings deposits. To who the Mexicans choose for a ruler nor how they choose him. SHOWS BIG INCREASE thing this man was doing. Doing it without any idea of the dangers large depositors the reduction of 1 He has almost as repeatedly made it his business by telling the per cent would mean a considerable of such a blind poking around in such a danger zone. Mexicans who they shall not have and by recognizing a favorite shrinkage in their earnings. With Passing of Saloon in Spokane Followed The common1 idea seems to be among a lot of people that wax from among the rival bandits who has aspired to rule in that country. vast activity in mining and the by Business Quickening— is a foreign substance in the ear canal,and must at all risks be removed. It is a corollary of the president's declarations, if not of his strengthening of the stock and bond Bank Figures Furnish Testimony. This is the commonest ^reason given by these toothpicks markets the opportunity to make policy, that it is none of our business how any recognized ruler in operators for their performing in this way on their ears. better revenue off their money would Mexico conducts himself. Yet a situation is arising wherein Spokane, Wash., Jan. 6.—The passing be apparent. Many of these did, in Now wax is formed quite naturally in the ears of almost everyone. of the saloon, just one year and every American who pays taxes is entitled to feel that it is very fact, withdraw their big deposits to six days ago, did not paralize business In many there is no need for any attempt to remove it. As much his business—this condition of affairs in Mexico. The cost invest them in bonds or stocks. in Washington. It did not even it becomes excessive in the ear canal, it often forms into little of maintaining the troops on the Mexican border is mounting at an Building Permits Increase make it limp. The prophesied business masses which separate, and fall out of the ear. If however, it becomes alarming rate, and a bond issue is proposed to pay for it. This But, odly enough, the amount of depression has failed to materialize. formed in such masses in the ear as to be of any harm, a savings deposits increased in these would bind posterity to an annual expense for wrhat is admittedly Bankers, merchants, reality toothpick is not a proper instrument to remove it. banks from $9,437,257.67 to $10,638,388.58 men, hotel men, theatre men and even a mere temporary expedient. It would be far better to spend a or 12.65 per cent. former saloon men have been called Think where a toothpick may often have been. Used in the little more money, clean up Mexico and free the future of any menace Another interesting compilation is to testify, to the best of their knowledge, mouth perhaps, for its proper purpose. Here it has become infected from that quarter, than to drag on with a policy so unproductive in building permits. Here again is observed as to the effect of one year with a large variety of germs, since the mouth often contains of results and so fertile in expense. a big jump in percentage of of prohibition.- twenty-five or thirty different varieties. the first "dry" year over the last Their testimony for Spokane agrees "wet" year over the year before. In this condition this toothpick is prodded around in the ear and is fairly conclusive. Evidences KOOCHICHING COUNTY ARNOLD'S GRUB STAKE. From the city hall were secured are overwhelming that instead of canal where there is no chance of seeing what one is doing. It is an these figures on building permits: business paralysis has come business easy matter, with the rough edges of a toothpick to scrape off a Our notorious investigator still insists that Koochiching county 1914 $ 982,227 quickening, observes J. Newton little of the skin, send down some of the germs from the toothpick, has to support him. Down and out in St. Louis county, where by his 1915 1200,667 Colver,v who investigated conditions and start an infection. 1916 1575,000 in Spokane for the SpokaneReview. perfidy he has lost his last friend and all his low practice, there is no Prohibition Helps Grocers Such an infection anywhere along the ear canal is in a very chance for him to carry on his nefarious practice to make a living. Percy Powell, vice president and There has been a positive impetus dangerous region. Even the drum of the ear may be scratched and So he looks to Koochiching county for his bread and butter. The general manager of the Powell-Sanders in trade. Bank reports, building similarly infected, which is a still more dangerous area to be thus prospects of pulling our leg for $50 per day looms up like a spring company, said: permits, new business establishments, affected. in a desert. Repudiated by his brother lawyers wherever he is "We find the small grocers with school and directory census, Infections along* this ear canal or the drum of the ear give rise whom we deal unanimous in their increase in both wholesale and retail known, without business or friends at home, he is forced to make his opinion that prohibition has helped to pus formation which often spreads into the inner chamber of the trade—all tell the same story. last grab off fron\ innocent strangers., their business. They say it means The wheels of industry has humed ear and thence to the mastoid bone behind the ear. These things all But he will go like his confederate, Lew Wilson, without a friend better distribution, better quality the merrier and the dollars have result in conditions dangerous even to life, and call for the most to bid him good bye. The longer he lasts the more our expense and and better collections. rolled more freely from pocket to skilled surgery just to save 'the life, while often the hearing aparatus "Cigar and tobacco dealers are pocket, from employer to laborer, his personal gain, and that is all Arnold is working for. By his unfair not so unanimous, but the majority is permanently destroyed, even if the life is saved. from laborer to merchant, from and questionable tactics he gradually began to slip and his decline report to us their business is better merchant to bank. If you are troubled with such gatherings of wax in the ear that is gradually gaining rapidity every day. He has proven that now than when the saloon vied with The effects of the first year prohibition nee^to be removed, leave it alone and see your physician. There he is a bum lawyer, and all his boasted promises l^ave so far proven them for the customer's money. find a paralled in other reforms is just as much danger of injuring the ear when you unskillfully Charles V. Huck, O'Neill & Irvine He is either absolutely incompetent or dishonest, probably aflecting the moral life of poke around in it with a toothpick as if you went at your eye with logging syndicate, says: Spokane as a city. Oldtimers remember and Im county is paying the cost at $50 per day. The the same toothpick and tried to dig a cinder out. You don't often the opposition of certain "While I am not an advocate of I -C'. L../ Ihv h:.i £din and the poorer the county will business men to the demand of the see people do the latter, nor should they do the former. Both are prohibition as a general policy I moral element for the abolition of think it the only thing for the laboring equally dangerous. es. Lew Wilson has gone. A willing tool, he certainly paid the open gambling. man. There is no use in trying Very many cases of injury to the sense of hearing as well as "It will kill business," they said. "price of his double-dealing. At one time respected andi honored by to deny facts. The men now come up very many serious cases of infection in the ear region would be Yet, the passing of opening gambling to the board sober, look over what it our citizens,, entrusted with public office, he made his departure as prevented if people would stop picking into the ear. by the state law, which went has to offer and if nothing suits quietly as possible. The depot platform was not crowded by his into effect June 10, 1903, was followed This is a habit with many. Begun consciously it becomes so them they are not in any hurry to former sincere friends to make his departure an occasion of ecstacy. by 10 years of the greatest prosperity get out. In the old days when a habitual that it often is done unconsciously. Then when serious ear He soft-pedaled from our midst without a semblance of regret. No the city ever saw. man went broke and had no money trouble arises they wonder what is the cause of it. Analyzing the figures that were tears were shed and no words of condolence offered to soothe his he had few friends and the first The toothpick has its place of use, and a very important one submitted by the four leading banks job that came along where the pathway. Poor Lew. He paid the price of a double-crosser. As at that. But it was never made to use in the human ear, any more of the city, the Old National, the agent would stand him off for the manager of the wet campaign he proved the handicap that beat them. than in the human eye. Spokane and Eastern, the Exchange fee of the fare he had to accept." Shielding himself behind his cackling laugh, his only defense, and and the Fidelity, some striking facts was continually rubbing noses with the drys, trying to play the winning may be observed. CIVIL SERVICE EXAM. in the preliminary contest which was SCHOOL NOTES On the 1st day of January, 1915, side. When the final day of reckoning came, Lew was under held Tuesday evening. He will represent these four banks had a total of 31,884 suspicion, and the suspicion proved to be well founded. He left town our school at Chisholm next The United States Civil Service few of the periods have been A accounts in their savings departments. Friday. and made his next debut as acting county auditor. Gradually his commission announces that on Saturday, changed with the beginning of the One year later, the last of February 10, an examination second semester. hand was forced, with the result that all his former friends shunned Mabel Swanson and Ida Anderson the liquor regime, they had 33,375, will be held at Margie, Minn., as a Civics, physiology and bookkeeping have entere'd the commercial department. -him and passed him by, and he left town without a soul saying "I an increase of 1,491, or 4.68 per cent result of which it is expected to are the subjects given for the hardly commensurate with the normal am sorry to see you go, Lew," the_sure penalty a double dealer must make certification to fill a contemplated sec0nd semester. There have been several cases of growth of the city and normal pay. vacancy in the position of The high school basket ball team tardiness this week. increase in banking business. Arnold will go the same route, and then. International Falls and fourth class postmaster at that place played with Baudette last Friday On the 27th day of December, 1916 Hot chocolate and candy was served and other vacancies as. they may occur night. The score was 29 to 3 in favor Koochiching will again settle down to business and the spirit of by the juniors Tuesday evening these four banks had 38,886 depositors, at that office, unless it shall be of Baudette. good will will prevail. an increase of 5,511, or 16.5 per after the preliminary contest. The decided in the interests of the service teachers' meeting was held here A cent. amount taken in was eight dollars The most important event of the past week was the reinstatement to fill the vacancy by reinstatement. Monday night to discuss the subject Here was a jt^mp from an increase and a half. of Commissioners Ulvedahl, Bursack and Harrigan. They of spelling. The leaders in the., discussion The compensatibn of the postmaster of 4.68 per cent in a normal "wet" never should have been suspended. Their suspension has cost this were Miss Blanchard, Miss at this office was $270 for the year to 16.5 per cent in the first "dry" LAND FOR SALE last fiscal year. Graham, Miss Lansing and Miss Jefferson, year. county thousands of dollars and will cost it thousands more before of 'International Falls, and Application forms and full information Now, studying the increase in the the mistake is rectified, which brings to light another chapter of Miss Green, and Miss Hamilton of concerning the requirements amount of deposits, one must consider The following described land owned Arnold's duplicity. The governor promised at the hearing on the Fort Frances. Refreshments were of the examination can be secured a most important factor that by the estate of Herbert S. Lea and fifteenth to issue an order the next day to reinstate Ulvedahl and served by the domestic science girls from the postmaster at Margie or would favor 1915 over 1916 for a bigger located right near the city of International Bursack, which he did on the eighteenth and they received their under Miss Siehl's direction. from the U. S. Civil Service commission, gain in money laid by for rainy Falls is for sale: Lots 3 and Washington, D. C. Miss Siehl and Mr. Zimmerman notice on the 20th. Arnold was present at the time, but instead of days. In April, 1916, the banks reduced 4, Sec. 17 Lot 1, Sec. 18 Lots I and spent the last of the week surprising their rate of interest on sayings Applications should be properly notifying ^the acting commissioners he allowed them to hold a 2, Sec. 19 andi the SE%, NE%, Sec. their respective departments in deposits from 4 to 3 per cent. executed and filed with the Commission meeting and transact official business on the 20th: They passed the Ray and Ericsburg schools. 19, all in 70, Range 24. In­ It might have been supposed that Twp. at Washington at least 7 days some of his hand made resolutions to give him another dip out of Ray Palmer was given first place quire of Jevne ft norton. Jan. 11-25 this would bring about a consider­ before the date of the examination.,: