r^7^ JU& TX yi-1*1'•'-' Jj-^% tfP ,~A *«gt» INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS A PROFESSIONAL CARDS JOHN H. BROWN Attorney at Law Office over O. M. Carr & Co. By ROBERT MeBLAIR. International Falls, Minnesota Mr. Simpkins gazed at the portrait on the wall till his eyes filled with DR. H. H. IHRIG tears. It was a portrait of his father, Dentist Colonel Simpkins, who had four times been promoted for valor during the Office over Holler's .Confectionery Civil War and had died bravely on the International Falls, Minnesota field of action. Mr. Simpkins' throat ached now for two reasons: First, he GEO. S. LANGLAND reverenced and adored the memory of his father secondly, his age'and his Lawyer This talk about saving is a eyes and his game leg wouldn't let him We are interested in selling In the litis Block on Fourth Avenue go to w&r himself. And as he observed International Falls, Minnesota the martial bearing and uncompromising good thing, but you want gaze of Colonel Simpkins be saw, clothes, but we are just as in imagination, the khak! "lad UuH of F. J. McPARTLIN the new generation marching forth and Lawyer someone to get down to facts crossing three thousand mileis of sea to interested in helping you to fight, maybe qie, for liberty. Office over International State Bank Mr. Simpkins peered around to make International Falls, Minnesota and show you where you sure that neither Bess nor John (who value and satisfaction. The were at the teasing ages of sixteen DR. JENNER PERRY CHANCE and seventeen) were where they could Physician and Surgeon see him, then he straightened and con save. We can show HART SCHAFFNER & MARX threw his right arm up for a salnte. Office over litis Drug Store But his gouty shoulder twinged, and he Phone 11 groaned. He couldn't even salute. you in clothes. There is just clothes are guaranteed to Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching "Damn!" said Mr Simpkins, and -•I international Falls, Minnesota with his other hand fiercely twirled his white raustachios. one way to do it buy good satisfy you-if they don't, a He turned and limped Into the library PHINNEY & CAMPBELL and sat down creakily before the Lawyers mahogany desk On which were lying one's. A fine all wool suit new suit will be replaced to the blanks for his income tax statement. International Falls, Minnesota blanks which he had rather grumpily got from the Internal Revenue W.E.LAWRENCE at $25.00 or $30.00 that will you without question, argu­ officer only that day after luncheon The Rexall Store on his way home from the club. Mr. Simpkins' income for 1917 had give you absolute satisfaction International Falls, Minnesota ment or cost. That is how amounted to just about $15,000, and he had been rather snappy on the subject DR. E. A. THOMPSON of taxes ever since he had discovered is far cheaper than a suit much we are interested in that the more income a man has Dentist the greater the percentage of It he Phone 245 pays in taxes. He could think of several that costs $15.00 to $20.00 seeing that you get your Office over litis Drug Store men who, like himself, were married and had two children, and yet, International Falls, Minnesota although their Incomes vvere nearly and soon loses its shape and money's worth. If you half of his, they would pay only a W. E. MARTIN small fraction of the amount he paid. He gloomily drew the blank nearer Contractor and Builder color, isn't it, and we write really want to save on it, and began filling in the information Repairs Promptly Done that it asked for. Phone 159 705 8th St. As Mr. Simpkins' income was $15,000 he had to figure out the amounts payable this ad because we want you'll come to us for your on each of the successive smaller DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN classes of Incomes In order to arrive at the total due from himself. He you to know it. Spring Suit, Anaesthetist passed over the first class who must pay taxes, that is, single men making Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted over 1,000. His calculation for ma£ Phone 223 Office 800 2nd St. ried men then showed up as follows: Coovriffht Hart Schaffner & Marx First, they pay 2 per cent, (under the 1916 law) on all Income over HELEN A. DE WITTE $4,000, deducting $200 for each of their children under eighteen years. In Mr. Public Stenographer Shoes for Men Clothes for Boys Simpkins' case this was $212, which he Rex Hotel' put down in the "payable" column. He saw next that, under the 1917 International Falls, Minnesota of Known Quality law, married men pay an additional 2 There is economy NORTHERN MINNESOTA per cent, on all over $2,000—with the same allowance for children. This in buying yourself HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION added $252 to his "payable" column. The present high cost of footwear has Dr. C. C. Craig Phone 223 He then observed that for every clothes of a qual­ Dr. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 $2,500 jump In his income over $5,000 he had to pay Surtax, the percentage Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 impressed everyone with the importance growing larger with each Jump. This ity that will give Hospital Phone 79 was $250 more added to Ills burden. Office over International State Bank And on top of all this came an "Excess of selecting shoes wisely. We have all absolute satisfac­ Phone 155- Profits" tax of 8 per cent, on all International, Falls, Minnesota "occupation" income over $6,000. making tion and where $720 more. learned that one pair of good shoes, of a N E The total, then, he must pay was fourteen hundred and thirty-four dollars. you get quality at "Whew!" exclaimed Mr Simpkins well known make, even though the first *4' angrily. "There's* young Henry Wiikins, W. M. LIRETTE'S you are sure to who married Jake Johnson's girl, he makes $2,000 and he doesn't pay a BARBER SHOP cost is more, cost less in the end than cent, of taxes. I guess this is his war get style. The Frederick Hotel as 'well as mine'" Thinking of young Henry Wiikins, cheaper shoes. We have proved that value "Wooley Boy" FURS BOUGHT AND SOLD he remembered that Mrs, Wiikins went every afternoon to make bandages for the Red Cross and thai Henry, who is measured by the number of days clothes are known WAR was a lawyer, was Siding the Local Draft Board with its questionnaires. to most of you. CLUB "Weill," he admitted to himself, wear and satisfaction received and not by "that makes a difference." They are correct He thought next of Judge Willoughby, whose income was about $3,000. WEEK the price-that selecting a shoe of quality "He only pays $20," commented Mr. in style and made- Simpkins, not quite so angrily this MARCH 10—to 17— time and then a thought struck him assures correct style, fit and long service. of reliable fabrics. and he sat up rigidly in his chair. JOIN A Judge Willougliby's son had been WAR SAVINGS SOCIETY drowned on the Tuscanla when it was submarined with the loss of two hundred BUY WAR SAVING STAMPS soldiers. DECLARE POR THRIFT In Hats, Shirts, Neckwear, Underwear, just naturally we are head "Judge Willoughby gave dls son to America," muttered Mr. Simpkins. He leaned forward suddenly and put quarters for national leaders in quality and style. his face in his hands. WHAT ARE YOU GOING For a long time Mr. Simpkins sat TO BUY THIS very still In that position. There was no sound In the library except the SPRING ticking of the tall clock and an occasional trill of laughter from the children skylarking upstairs. The square ot light on the carpet gradually withdrew itself through the window, and I Wewill get you anything from first twilight and then darkness settled •in about the quiet, white haired, sometimes a baby cab to a htreshing machine Irascible old man and meet any mail order Mr. Simpkins was chinking things ferior feeds to attention price. We can do this and the state dairy and food commission the of his HOME GUARDS TO BE Virginia. which he would never afterward Speak local dealer and it duty Dr. J. P. Chance of International to enforce the 1917 feed law, which is the of the make a small pro'fit the same GIVEN PERMANENCY of, he was thinking things that were local dealer to demand the facts as Sears and Roebuck, as with Falls visited his mother, Mrs. M. A. fias not heretofore been enforced too sacred ever to be put into words. necessary from the shipper or manufacturer, the buying connections we have Chance, a few days this week. We because the law makes no provision The Minnesota Home guard ifc to But some inkling of his thoughts may otherwise the locaP dealer we cao buy from any factory be found in his rejoinder to Mrs. be placed on a permanent basis as :a ,are pleased to state that Mrs. Cliance for funds "with which to secure enforcement. will himself become liable to prosecution, Simpkins* when that placid lady came they can and at the same has almost entirely recovered from part of the state's military forces, v' '^}M 'r (•and turned or the lights, and asked Interstate shipments of feed price. We are entitled to this her illness. The doctor is commissioned The dairy and food commission anaounces, the organization being completed by him whether he was ready "for dinner. are subject to the federal, laws jind howeve.r, that after March business because we will give a board of Home guard officers from captain in the medical reserve "Judge Willoughby's only son ^as the federal authorities will cooperate you better terms. Youl will and expects to be called almost'any 31 any agent,, employe, retailer, or the various units, it was announced worth as much a& fourteen hundred with the state dairy and food have to sepd maney with the moment. He was compelled manufacturer who has in his possession, by Major W. A. Curtis, chief 'of and thirty-fpui dollars, wasn't order when you order from commission. to take off considerable curpltis offers for sate or sells any staff to Adjutant General, Rhynow. Mr. Simpkins demanded of her. them while we only ask you a Copies of the 1907 law may be obtained /weight in oj*der to get in.-- Delano feeding material which is not labeled The plan contemplates commissioning As his wife, who was not unused to SMALL PAYMENT DOWN from the Dairy andN Food his superficial irritations, watched him Eagle according to the state, law, and which the elected Home guard officers Commission,'St. Paul, Minn. Balance when goods are ready in tnild astonishment. Mr. Simpkins is not accompanied by a guarantee and establishing a Home guard medical to deliver and found satisfactory. limped out to the hal. and took his Manufacturers, agents and consumers FEEDS TO BE LABELED Of the-percentage of chemical nttrients cprps under Major George That is worth something, old felt hat, and silver-headed cane are requested not to forward present in the feed, will be prosecuted. Earle, St. Paul. and besides, we take all of the from the hat rack Letting himself out samples of fee4s, fertilizers or other On account of hte enormous quantity Prosecution will also follow The committee in charge of reorganization trouble of putting in claims, into the foggy evening, he tapped hi* materials to the food and dairy commission etc., if goods vare lost or dam­ of inferior farm feeds which are is One composed of six if the percentage of chamical nutrients way down to the corner ami mailed his aged while on the road. as this is a useless expense. is found to be lower than that I'lconu tax statement hnd' rherk with now being dumped on the Minnesota majors: Wm. D. Mitchell, St. Paul Are we not entitled to this ni ow(i hanua The only samples which will be.analvzed stated on the label. business?, $ market. A^ D. Wilson, chairman 1 :A Leroy D.? Gotlfrey, Minneapolis "Now Co.I "ihiinKiMl." .»i! are those secured by the offi- The dairy and food commission also of the State Committee of Food Production Charles Loring, Crookston John B. Simpkins as the lid nket shui ov* says it is- the" duty jpf every feed-jcial inspectors'from feeding stuffs his missive 1 do thl* u»u«*h and^ Conservation, calls attention Patterson, St. Cloud Alba' Le\*«s, to bruwr facts with regard to in-lor fertilizers fofind in the open mar- to the a'nnouiiced purpose of er Mjankatp, and, ^a.w.rence M. -Barrett .•.. is**..*. 01 Kl & Ws