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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

December 6, 1917 · Page 2 of 8

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frl). SPSHLK 7s r+ W 1 •.•..» .- ^«:. if "if -ft 2 r» "l4»4^f| PAGETHREE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS LAND-CLEARiNS BY CONTRACT ".'1$ %-Jj PROFESSIONAL CARDS' SETTLE family argument fO LOYALTY CAMPAIGN WILL A NEED IN THE NORTHWEST Friendly Wagers Between Hu JOHN H. BROWN and V/ife Serve to Quench OPEN^DECEMBER TENTH fW... Attorn#/ »t La* quent Dangerous Quarrels. Office over O. M. Carr & Co. ,4 fii Here is a plan by which a great many, International Falls, Minnesota of Food family quarrels have been averted for (Issued by the Btate Committee Having been pulled in this fashion Production and Conservation for the a certain couple. They used to quap the stumps are more easily piled. membership fees as have already DR. H. H. IHRIG "America First" Last and Always to Commission of Public Safety.) rel all the time. Mr. Rabey has also built a gasoline Land-clearing by contract is much Be Slogan of Statewide been paid in such other societies. Dentist Before, the wife would say: power stump-piler for stumps that needed in the "cut-over" parts of the The proceeds from membership fees Movement. "My dear, you'll make a mistake 12 are too large to be piled by hand. Office over Holler's Confectionery Northwest. Many new settlers from will go into the treasury of the individual you do so and so." Having tested the method named, the prairie country prefer to have International Falls, Minnesota "America First" will be more than County War Boards to defray Mr. Lathrop took contracts for clearing And the husband would reply: their land cleared, but it has been almost an empty slogan in Minnesota ere necessary expenses of patriotic land. The land cleared was a cutover "My dariing, y5u are altogether too impossible to do so except by GEO. S. LANGLAND many weeks. speakers, rental of halls, advertising, white pine area, with about 100 day labor, and such labor has generally fussy. I know my business. Kindly It will be a living, breathing, inspiring stumps to the acre, averaging 20 r""'" Lawyer buttons, distribution of loyalty literature, been inexperienced and unsatisfactory. let me alone, will you?" inches in diameter. There was also entity—symbol of the mutual etc. Then would ensue a row of fearful "T^In the litis Block on Fourth Avenue some second-growth poplar. Three and militant movement represented In the early years nearly every It was clearly defined at last Sunday's dimensions that sometimes would ^International Falls, Minnesota men and a team operated the stumppuller. man with a team was looking for a by the America First association. shake the house, startle the servants meeting that the America First Wages were figured at $3 a conli'&Ct to log-oft a piece of land. and scandalize the neighborhood. That this may be positively predicted association shall not duplicate or day for man-labor, and $6 for man Land-clearing may be engaged in with j- McPARTLIN .• But now they do differently. was emphasized most substantially conflict with the work or campaign and team. The average labor cost Jess capital and much less risk than When they disagree they do it thus: "Lawyer at the enthusiastic meeting of any other patriotic of war organization, for men and teams for pulling, piling, logging. The north country is calling "Well, dear, if you think you're right, of the officers and county vicepresidents and burning was $20.39 an acre. Dynamite 'fi Office over International State Bank but shall ge a great and for land-clearing contractors. suppose you back your opinion? If I'm was used to the extent of of the newly organized thoroughly organized mobile body W. W. Rabey and L. M. Lathrop •*i International Falls, Minnesota wrong I'll give you half a dozen pairs $3.78 an acre. The price of the association at the Saint Paul hotel, of Hill City, Minn., have done much of real Americans ready t? throw itself of gloves." stump-puller was $'80. The piler in the last season to encourage land St. Paul. Nearly every county in in to the.fray at any place and at G. F. SW1NNERTON, M. D., C. M. If she feels pretty confident she could probably be built for $300 or clearing by contract. They have the state was represented, and messages any time to back up any worthy backs her opinion with a box of cigars, jf Physician and Surgeon less. The cost of the stump-puller demonstrated that this work may be from several others brought loyalty and patriotic movement such and the agreement is carefully signed *-Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted earnest promise of hearty co-operation by both and locked u®. Then one or as the Liberty Loan, the Red Cross, Office over City Drug Store in the movement to bring the the other pays when the decision is •Y. M. C. A., or the care of returned reached. The young woman has an inco«ie Government's case squarely before International Falls, Minnesota wounded or convalescent soldiers of her own, to the arrangement every inhabitant of the state. and sailors. is a fair one, which it might hardly ba Already the "America First" movement DR. JENNER PERRY CHANCE We must be friends. The paramount were she compelled to take her husband's promises better aqd more thorough importance of the part that Physician and Surgeon own money to pay for his cigars. results than at first dreamed of America is to take in the world's Office over litis Drug Store psQS^flMA by the loyal and patriotic men with night of tragedy dictates that this Gambling is, of course, a wicked Phone 11 whom the idea originated and whose thing to do, but it checks wild assertions is no time to engender hatred or suggestions for an organized movement and smothers, in this case, many Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching prejudice, or for partisanship or a fire that would burn up comfort.— met with such instant and universal International Falls, Minnesota self-seeking. The sooner the tremendous New York Evening Post. support by the citizenry of the forces of America are unified great North Star State. The campaign PHINNEY & CAMPBELL and co-ordinated, the carrier will MAY USE KENTUCKY STONE of education, one of the main come the victory which shall make Lawyers objects of which is to place on record it impossible for a military autocracy International Falls, Minnesota every man, woman and child Product of Blue Grass State Believed to flaunt the decencies of the £s Good and Cheap as Bavarian over fifteen years of age in the state world. W. E. LAWRENCE Article. as either for or against the government—American or anti-American— The Rexall Store WHAT ARE YOU DOING. Tearing out the first piece of a big White Pine stump with a root plow. It is believed that after the war i^ will start throughout the state on over lithographic stone quarried in The plow is attached to the stump puller. International Falls, Minnesota December 10th continuing for two What are you doing to save sugar? Kentucky may be put on the market undertaken with profit at a price that and the stump-piler per acre for weeks. During this time it will be as cheaply as the Bavarian stone The American people have been using DR. E. A. THOMPSON the average farmer can well afford clearing a large acreage of land would the business of the unit County which has been the principal source over seven pounds a month per probably be less than $4 an acre. At to pay. Dentist War Board to carry the message of of supplf for a long time. Small person. Mr. Rabey has studied the problem this rate the total cost was about quantities of the Kentucky stone have Americanism through precinct or Phone 245 We are trying to send enough sugar of land-clearing from the standpoint $2S.17. boon sold already, but the high cost of or school district meetings direct Office over litis Drug Store to France to., maintain there the of au engine .»r, seeking to find the Mr. Rabey and Mr. Lathrop believe labor in this country and the difficulty to every man, woman and child in cheapest an! most practical method. that land-clearing handled as a business ration of one pound per month p,er International Falls, Minnesota of working the stone have kept it out the state. Much of the burden will This year he has used the stumppuller experienced men will greatly person. ny of serious competition with the foreign rest upon local speakers, but the officers with marked success. reduce the cost. With land-clearing The result is a sugar shortage. product. W. E. MARTIN The biggest problem has been the the biggest problem in the development of the America First association The European stone occurs in thin Sugar economy is a war time handling of stumps after they have of Northern Minnesota, a land Contractor and Builder already have arranged for a layers, which require little but planing necessity. been pulled. A common practice has clearing school would be a profitable Repairs Promptly Done speakers' bureau 'to assist County and polishing after being removed Many housewives have been trying been to crack large stumps with investment for the state. A school from the quarry. The American stone War Boards in every way possible. Phone 159 705 8th St. out interesting sugarless receipes. dynamite either before or after pulling. of practice to train men to engage in is in beds from three to ten feet thick Many of Minnesota's most eloquent This may still be necessary with the business of land clearing is a Your grandmother's cook books and must be sawed into thin layers before and patriotic speakers both in the certain kinds of stumps, but the men move that should be made in the near may furnish some good tips, for a DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN it is ready for use. country and city already have volunteered mentioned liave found that big white future.—A. J. McGuire, Agricultural century ago they knew nothing or The Bavarian quarries have been pine stumps can be torn apart with Extension Division, University of their services for all or Anaesthetist ordinary white sugar. worked so long that vast piles of waste a root plow and pulled out in pieces. Minnesota. part, of the time for the great two Here are some suggested sugarless have accumulated that must be moved Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted weeks' campaign. from time to time, thus adding to the receipes for desserts. Pro-German propaganda will be cost of production. The Ame/ican Date Pudding—Arrange in a greased Phone 223 Office 800 2nd St. fought wherever it shows its head quarries have found a market for the pudding dish alternate layers of crushed refuse from their quarries, and in whatever guise. It was a flaked rice and chopped dates until The Shoe Hospital and this by-product helps reduce the condition brought about by enemy the dish is three-quarters full. Fill cost. propagandists' efforts and not a theory dish with cold milk and bake in acmoderate The better grades of lithographic that brought the America First REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT oven for three hours. stone bring five to six cents a pound association into existence. The very Baked Apples—Prepare apples as for slabs ten by twelve inches and NATHAN NURICK, Proprietor essence of the movement might be the poorer grades a cent and a half a usual for baking. Fill centers with 213 Third Street translated into the words of Otto H. honey instead of sugar, add a few oound. Next to Boston Lunch Kahn, of New York, that splendid chopped nuts if desired. Place in specimen of an American citizen An Old Love Secret. pan and add three-fourth cup of water NORTHERN MINNESOTA born in Germany, of German parentage, A yofith or maiden pulls a primrose and one-fourth cup of honey. HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION as he expressed it in his magnificent from its stalk, and, after cutting off Bake as usual. address at the recent Northwest the tops of the stamens with a pair of Dr. C. C. Craig ,Phone 223 scissors, puts it in some secret place Loyalty meetings: Dr. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 CORN MEAL PANCAKES. where no human eye can see it. All "The spirit of Prussianism and Dr. ,Mary Ghostly Phone 301 through that day the loved one must the spirit of Americism cannot Hospital ..Phone 79 Order a "stack of corn" or a "stack be thought of, and dreamed of through live in the same world. One of Office over International State Bank the night. Next day the flower is to be of kafir" instead of a "stack of Two of the pieces going out with the stump plow. Note the attachment of the other must conquer." Phone 155 taken from its hiding-place. If the wheat" when you get your breakfast the plow to the cable. It is to the end that the spirit of International Falls, Minnesota stamens are found to have shot out at the hotel or restaurant. Americanism shall conquer that the to their former height, success in love In order to save wheat for our allies America First association is consecrated, will attend the experimenter if not, If the public will get the habit the Food Administration is urging MIDDLE AGE 13 BEST PERIOD and to which it appeals to The Rattan Cane. di8annointment will be his or her lot. of using their street address1 on all restaurant and hotel proprietors One of the most important exports every citizen of Minnesota to consecrate mails it will give them better service Man Need Not Be Too Oid at Forty to have ready for use batter for corn of Singapore is rattan, although it himself or herself regardless HIDES AND FURS when the carriers are put in if He Will Make Himself More cakes and push these instead of does not make a large showing as to of politics, creed, color, occupation, Useful as He Grows Older. service and also be appreciated by wheat cakes. value, being a comparatively cheap article length of residence or place of birth. the postal department. We Corn cakes have always been popular compared with its bulk. Singapore •re bringing awfal Ugk prleea. That this is the spirit and acknowledged Too old at forty! That is a wall give more valuable illustrated information Postmaster. is probably the leading export on the family table but in hotels relative to Hides and Purs than object of the association was that always goes up throughout the market for rattans in the world, although and restaurants the "stack of any other house In the world. We pay country. But a writer in the American forcibly and frequently brought out practically none of the raw Highest Cash Prices for HIDES, FIJBSi wheat" has had the call. Magazine says it could be disregarded S. E. THOMPSON & SON PELTS, etc. make prompt returns for by the representatives of the counties product is produced in the Straits Settlements By featuring the "stack of corn each shipment. We sell Trappers's Supplies if people made themselves at Sunday's meeting in St. Paul. and very little in the Federated cheap. Write for Price List, Shipping cakes on their menus it is believed more useful as they grew older. He While arrangements for the America Tags, Illustrated Trap-Book, Catlogue, Malay states, most of it being writes: patrons will be glad to form the "eat etc.,—its Free. collected from the islands of Sumatra, First campaign in each county "For man to bte too old at forty is NORTHWESTERN HIDE & FUB GO. more corn" habit at breakfast time Agents for the Borneo, the Celebes and smaller islands. are left in the hands of the County not natural. Scientists tell us that Established 16Mb Minneapolis. Mlam Corn cakes with syrup are appetizing Ordinarily cut from the jungle War Boards to be worked out as the life periods of man compare with and satisfying. The following is by natives under the direction of best may accord with local conditions, the life history of the race. Chinese merchants doing business in iH8IKlHH«MW«iggKg»SEg^jSl{i a recipe for making corn-meal pancakes. it was decided that a membership "In most businesses and professions the interior, it is bought up hy large fee", of 50 cents be uniformly the period of mature manhood £foV6u/ShuiMed .V dealers in the principal towns and One cup corn meal, 1 cup flour is commonly the period of great skill. made throughout the state, and that eventually sold to Singapore buyers (wheat) 2 teaspoons baking powder l&lVia SLueceJl? The body still retains its elasticity all men and women, as well as children in bundles as it comes originally from 1 teaspoon salt y3 tablespoon sugar previous training and acquired good above fifteen years of age, be the jungle. The buyers in Singapore Here is your opportunity to insure habits count in daily work experience 1 tablespoon melted butter 1 egg against embarrassing errors in spelling, take the rattan in this form and put asked to sign a pledge that will as pronunciation end poor choice of now begins to return dividends. and 1 cup of milk. it through a process of selection and one county vice-president expressed words. Know the meaning of puzzling The individual develops common cleaning, after which it is bundled war terms. Increase your efficiency, it, "separate the goats from the sense, conservation and deliberation. which results in power and success. together according to grade and PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FIRE. sheep," thereby enabling every County He is less likely to be swayed by the shipped direct to vsfrious parts of the WEBSTER'S War Board to have its own honor primitive emotions of younger life. world. s. Many Minnesota women and child roll of loyal Americans. Well-laid plans mature returns from HFW INTERNATIONAL ren are being burned to death as a previous investments in time, labor The pledge is brief and simple, as Detroit Vapor Cod-Skin for Book Covers. result of the open grate or fire. and money begin to come in. follows: DICTIONARY is an all-knowing Oil Stove According to the Weser Zeitung "But it is during this period that Human life is too valuable ari^sset "I hereby join the America teacher, a universal question (Bremen), a Berlin bookbinder has the competition of newer workers in to be carelessly expended. Every answerer, made to meet your First association, pledge my assistance discovered a new material for bookbinding—codfish the same field begins to be felt. The needs. It is in daily use by pair of hands is needed in some de The only absolutely to the government in skin—a doubly-welcome hundreds of thousands of successful apprentices in th% trades, and students partmene of our National econimics. putting down sedition and dislayalty ?, Wickless Oil Stove discovery in these days of leather men and women the world over. in the schools begin to get a Screen the open fire. 4Q0.000 Words. 2700 Pages. 600011lustrations. and ctonsecrate my service shortage. In itself the use of fish foothold in competition with the established on the market.^* 12,000 Biographical Entries. The fire department must not be to the great cause of Democracy." skin for book-binding is no novelty 30,000 Geographical Subjects. worker. And—what is of Burns just like gas. called out on account of your care among others, shark leather had previously QU1ID PRIZE. (Highest Award) vital importance—the beginner is willing Panama-Pacific Exposition. $ Call and let us been used for binding de luxe lessness. On signitig this pledge, a member to work much cheaper than the UHtaaa. SECULAR and DUMA-PAPER for the sake of its durability and beautiful experienced man. Thus, experience show you. will receive a certificate of membersrhip WRITE for Specimen Pages. FREE Pocket Mape if you name this paper. markings. must guard against the under-cut. in the America First association 'Throws Chairs at Pro-German. CLAC. MERRIAM CO., Cod-skin has several advantages "Jt is in this period that the greatest numbered and signed by the president Springfield, Mass., U. S. A. over shark-skin it is more abundant, displacement occurs. The unprogressive, and secretary, also an emblem San Francisco, Nov. 30.—When more easily procurable, and, therefore, the dissipated, the timorous, of membership in the shape of a buttonspecially Harry Renton, dining in an Italian cheaper. The appearance of the skin, are pushed aside to make room designed that will be a restaurant, sprang' to his feet and Unsealed and properly prepared, resembles for those having more enterprise." Wp-si badge of honor during the war, and sang "Die Wacht Am Rhine." he snake's skin. Its strength and durability have been tested and will surely prove of great meaning brought down the house—one hair at found equal to parchment by the royal Proof "of the Fact and value as an heirlobm to coining a time. When they dug Harry out material-testing office in Berlin. It is •*1 can prove to the satisfaction of generations. AH persons who have of the wreckage of chairs arid tables easy to work and literally untearable* the court that my client in stffcling previousiy*j6ined or may later "join and the shell hofes caiiiedUfy a barrage and Should therefore prove a very the watch of the complainant was any other recognized loyalty organization fire of spaghetti, fruit and salt valuable substitute for leather, not only actuated by the most laudable motive will automatically become shakers he was seriously injured To ,for bokbindery, but for the manufacture. of economy." -member! of the America First asso "What was that, sir?" celebrate the victory, the Italian fjin? leather gyoda. |yen cr«4it JP!r iuch ers ?ang "Garibaldi's