mmSSBSHBBHHHP W* SB®8£J &SS *,' *j"' *", "V INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS FAGE TWO OUR TRADE FLEET EASILY MATCH FOR SPIDER PROFESSIONAL CARDS I Food Latter Insect Has Mo Chance When It ftit youi-Mone JOHN H. BROWN Enters Into Combat With Ferocious NOW27,371 SHIPS Attorney at Law Mud Hornet. in Office over O. M. Carr & Co. QUESTIONS ANSWERED I once saw on the porch of my residence International Falls, Minnesota OUR on Lake Hopatcong a mud hornet deliberately fall into and entangle Department of Commerce Gives DR. H. H. IHRIG herself in a spider web, Hudson Max? BANK First War Statistics. im writes in the North American Review. Dentist CONSERVATION The spider, perching upon an Office over Holler's Confectionery What does conservation mean? outer corner of the web, instantly SECOND ONLY TO BRITISH "The preservation of our natural International Falls, Minnesota sprang at the hornet, then stopped and resources for economical use, so as decided that it did not want to tackle to secure the greatest good to the that hornet and returned to its perch. F. J. McPARTLIN greatest number." After waiting a while for the spider Lawyer How can we conserve food? Merchant Marine of America Now to come to the attack the hornet freed By reducing consumption by cutting Banlc Office oyer International State 10,000,000 Tons—692 Vessels Built in herself very, easily from the web,'and out waste by using some other I watche£ her Sy several times in circles Last Five Months—Single Month's Minne$p,ta International Falls, foods in place of the foods we are and tiien deliberately alight in another Growth in 1918 Equals Whole Number asked to save by using local products neavby web and entangle herself Launched in 1914—Now Reckon PHINNEY & CAMPBELL and thus saving transportation. in it. Instantly the alert spider, evidently by Deadweight Tonnage. It is true that many people eat too Lawyers either more hungry or less cautious much? than the other, sprhng upon the Minnesota International Falls, The steady growth of the American Probably 30 per cent of American hornet, when, with an alacrity that merchant marine in all classes of vessels people either eat or take into their DONT LET would shame the lightning, and with a has been revealed for the first kitchens much more food than is LAWRENCE'S PHARMACY precision developed beyond the contingency necessary. ANCE CRUSH time since the war began in statistics of error, that hornet seized the The Rezall Store from the department of commerce. Does the Food Administration object spider, jabbed her sting into it, and They show that in the first five months to teas and refreshments at AND KEEP POOR Prop. S. N. Rubin, paralyzed it. Then she took it up nicely YOU parties? of this year there have been built in and carried it away. Minnesota Not if conservation rules are observed International Falls, this country and officially numbered I learned afterward, in the study of but as a general principle by the bureau of navigation a total insects, that-this is the regular habit of 629 vessels of 687,055 gross tons. of thrift it does not encourage the DR. E. A. THOMPSON EXTRAVAGANCESIS A HABIT-SAVING IS A HABIT. of the mud hornet—that she catches habit of eating between meals. The merchant fleet of the United Dentist spiders in this manner, 'paralyzing How can those people who neither States now amounts to approximately IT IS EASY TO PUT A LITTLE MONEY INTO THE them with her sting. She places them Phone 245 waste nor eat too much help the 10,000,000 gross tons, not including ASr.IT one after another in a mud pocket that BANK EACH £DAY, IS 1T0 FIGURE ON WHAT Food Administration? merchant craft under control of the Office over International State Banl she has constructed for the purpose By substituting foods that are army and na\# as transports and supply PET EXTRAVAGANCETYOU CAN INDULGE! IN--BUT YOUR International Falls, Minnesota until she has enough canned spiders plentiful for the wheat, meat, fats, ships. At the beginning of January to feed her yoUng when they hatch EXTRAVAGANCE WILULATER BECOME A GREAT BURDEN and sugar that are needed for shipping 26,242 merchant vessels of 9,353,224 out in the spring. The spiders do not overseas. gross tons were flying the Stan -YOU'LL GET THE "DEBTIHABIT". DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN die, but remain alive in their prison How can I find out about these problems? and Stripes on trips across the Atlantic until attacked by the larvae of the with food and munitions, into the Anaesthetist YOUR SAVINGS"WILLS SOON SHOW A£BIG BALANCE hornet and eaten at the proper time. By writing to the Federal Food Caribbean and Pacific with American Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Rather hard on the spiders—but the Administrator in your state for the AND YOU CAN LOOK FORWARDiTO SOMETHING&WORTH products for foreign customers and on habits of the spiders themselves are free publications of the United the lakes and rivers of this country as Phone 223 Office 800 2nd St WHILE. not such as to elicit much sympathy. States Food Administration. part of the nation's domestic transportation What are these publications? WE PAY PFR CENT INTEREST- system. A list of them is given at the end KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN Includes New Vessels. NORTHERN MINNESOTA COME TO OUR BANK of this primer. This tremendous fleet is second only Is food conservation really necessary? HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION to the merchant tonnage of Great Britain. Penurious Old Fellow Had 8omewhat FIRST NATIONAL BANK So necessary that we may lose Dr. C. Craig Phone 22. It includes all new vessels built Odd Reason for Not Purchasing the. war unless we conserve. Dr. Elizabeth Monahan... .Phone 223 under the direction of the shipping Those Fine Apples. Why is food conservation necessary? board and thousands of other ships, International Falls, Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 Minnesota Because men have been withdrawn smaller in tonnage but greater in carrying In a certain midwestern town lived Hospital ...Phone 7i from farm and field in Europe capacity, which play so large a an aged and wealthy old citizen, who Office over International State Bank to fight because bad weather part in commerce and the maintenance amassed his fortune by skimping and had made bad crops because great Phone 155 of a favorable balance of trade. saving. It is said that his children •iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim food supplies have been sunk by International Falls, Minnesota All merchant vessels are required by never knew what it was to eat a good submarines hecause there is vastly law to register with the bureau of square meal in their father's house, because increased demand for food for sol­| WHEN IN MINNEAPOLIS STOP AT HOTEL LINCOLN navigation of the department of commerce he was such a poor provider. diers, and people working in war and to receive an official identification Seven days a week, every week in supplies. WHAT ARE YOU GOING number, before being permitted the year, that old man worked in his How has the wheat crop in France to fly the flag of the United shop until ten o'clock at night. About been affected? TO THIS BUY States. The number is awarded when It has fallen off more than half. all he spent was a dime a week for SPRING the finished ship is measured for gross tobacco, with which to stoke his vile What is the bread ration in France? tonnage capacity, which is the content old corncob pipe. 10% ounces daily per person, with of the ship in terms of 100 cubic feet One night, to purchase some tobacco, constant possibility of being lowered. I NICOLET AVENUE AND NINTH STREET I and the internationally accepted method he stopped at a fruit stand quite late. of expressing size. While the merchant was reaching for What is ^the situation in France in regard The shipping board, building exclusively to other supplies? the tobacco, the old fellow gazed, with Wewill get you anything from OPENS SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1918 cargo ships, has adopted deadweight France is producing 1 gallon of hungry eyes, upon a barrel of Northern a baby cab to a htreshing machine tonnage as the medium of computing milk where she formerly produced Spies that stood nearby.. new tonnage, deadweight capacity and meet any mail order 2Vi. Oils, fats, eggs, and meat arc Scenting the prospect of a sale the being the actual weight of cargo scarce. In the center of the business and theatrical districts adjoining price. We can do this and fruit vendor drew near,, and picking and bunker coal which can be carried. What is the present situation in Italy? up a few of the rosiest apples, he held make a small profit the same the largest retail store. One square from street cars to and There is extreme need of cereals, Indicates Fleet's Size. them out to the penurious old man and as Sears and Roebuck, as with from all depots yet free from noise of that traffic. Entrance meat, and fats. The deadweight tonnage of a cargo "You'd better take a dime's said: the buying connections we have How dependent is England on foreign ship is about 50 per cent greater than and lobby on Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis' leading thoroughfare. worth of these apples home with you. we cao buy from any factory countries for cereals? its gross tonnage, but in a passenger They are the best apples we have had they can and at the same She has to import three-fifths of vessel is less, because the space is occupied this winter. Shall I, {rat you up a 125 Rooms 100 with bath and toilet price. We are entitled to this the cereals needed. by passenger accommodation. small sack of them?" $1.00 to $2.00 per day What are the present needs in England? business because we will give The former German liner Vaterland, The old man was tempted, but his you better terms. Youl will now the Leviathan, has a gross tonnage stinginess came to his rescue just in Furniture and equipment entirely new. All rooms have outside Meats, fats, and cereals are urgently have to send maney with the of 54,000, but a deadweight capacity time and he said, as he turned away: needed. order when you order from exposure, electric elevator and local and long distance phones. of only about 5,000 tons, which illustrates "No, I guess I won't buy any of them while we only ask you a Why is American help vitally necessary? why, in dealing with all types them tonight. It wouldn't be any use Guests will receive the) personal attention of SMALL PAYMENT DOWN of ships, gross tonnage, or the actual to take them home anyhow the Because America is nearest and size regardless of the space allotted to blamed kids would just eat them up." the owners who will be there to wait on them Balance when goods are ready best able to supply food with the cargo, has been chosen internationally to deliver and found satisfactory. least exposure to submarines. as more truly indicative of the size of WM. B. CAMFIELD That is worth something, F. S. GREGORY Spring Sports. Is not the seriousness of the food sit a fleet. and besides, we take ail of the The coming of spring is celebrated uation exaggerated? trouble of putting in claims, There has been a steady increase in first by marbles. Groups of boys, It is not food is essential to win etc., if goods are lost or damaged new ships this year, the May tonnage and sometimes groups of girls also, ning the war. A 1-ounce slice of while on the road. being three times as great as the January will be found in sunny spots out of bread wasted is a bullet thrown Are we not entitled to this output, and greater than the doors playipg this fascinating game. business? away to waste food is treason to 4 whole output for the year 1914. In But it will last only a few weeks it cause and country. the first month of 1918 there were 57 S E.TH0MPS0N&S0N is distinctly a seasonal game. Have the other warring nations been ships of 64,759 tons given official Some persons are disturbed when Even a small chew of Real forced to practice food conservation? numbers. In February 84 ships of they see children playing for "keeps" 117,601 gross tons were numbered. because they think this will develop Gravely Chewing Plug satisfies. Yes if Germany had not done so March saw a notable jump in the production •U a gambling propensity. But playing she would be defeated today. of small ships, numbers being for "keeps" is not the same as playing It gives more real tobacco Why' is the housekeeper asked to awarded to 138, the tonnage being 147,145. with cards or dice or the like. shoulder the burden of conservation? FOOD MW The record in April was 165 comfort than abig chew This game does not depend upon ships of 163,050 tons, and in May 185 chance it depends upon skill almost Because so large an amount of ships of 194,465 tons. entirely, and: we_regard it as proper of ordinary tobacco. the food raised in this country for anyone, yoiing or old, to retain passes through her hands. WA.R GETS BROTHER TO RECRUIT what he gains by the exercise of his How can the little that one person skill, provided that he plays according can do help? to the rules of whatever game he The little that one person can do, Agent From Canada Had Not Seen plays. So the boy who can shoot marbles Peyton Brand multiplied by the millions of helpers, Him in Twenty Years. more skillfully than his rivals mounts up to vast sums. "Why don't you join the army and Real Gravely thinks he is entitled to profit by his What are some figures showing the results do your bit, friend?" said Sergt. Harry from small daily savings? superior judgment and accuracy and Black, on recruiting service for the in this respect he will not be doing One 1-ounce slice of bread saved Chewing Plug British recruiting mission to a man anything which will not be proper for each day in the 22,000,000 homes of standing idly on a corner in Minneapolis. the country would total 9,625,000 him to do in principle later on. On the pound loaves saved a week—approximately other hand, if he wWe tossing pennies Saint Thomas pouch—and worth it "Beg pardon, but is your name 10c a 35,648 barrels of flour saved. or dice for gaih, or winning in any Black?" was the stranger's answer. One ounce of sugar saved a day other way that depended solely upon "Yes, it is, but you are a stranger Cravly Lutaaomach longer it casta would total about 26,736 barrels chance, he would be developing tendency to me," retorted the sergeant. chaw tham ordinary plug saved a week. SAINT PA01, MINNESOTA to trust to luck, and this would no more to "I may be a stranger, but I am also Under the Control and Direction of Archbishop fretad Will the small individual savings actually be a serious injury to his intellectual your brother," was the reply. get to the Allies and help win Collegiate, Academic, lilfe and his disposition.—The Mother's P. After the first interchange of experiences B. Gravely Tobacco Company the war? Magazine. gone through in the last twenty Danville* Virginia Unquestionably, yes. Every time years of separation the brothers stalked you eat a wheat substitute it is exactly 9 A COLLEGE COMBINING FINEST CATHOLIC into tfie recruiting headquarters Building Time Table. as if yob stretched out your TRAINING WITH MILITARY DISCIPLINE and the civilian brother made application Before a real steel building is commenced hand and gave the wheat you have nowadays a regular time table for enlistment and was accepted. Designated by saved tof* some fighter or worker in FOR SALE is arranged, for the work, like that of a War Department trench or field or factory "over as "Honor School" railroad train. Unlike the train, however, BRITISH OFFER GRATUITIES there." Registered Redpole bull, four years —A distinction the work is not allowed to get Vote For Why does the Food Administration reserved to ten best old, splendid type. Gentle and sure ahead or behind time even for a few ask a person with plenty of money Military Schools Men Promoted From Ranks to Receive breeder, $250 F. O. B., Backus, Minn. hours, although the building may take to refrain from buying more food JOHN D. KIBBEY in the United Grant of $250. many months. Also highgrade bull calves up to six States than is absolutely necessary for Important concessions to noncommissioned Evory minute of time is utilized, and months old $50.00 each. Some dairy health? Splendid Buildings, officers and men who receive for if the building does not arrive at a certain Because it is a patriotic duty to cows, also team 1100 pound horses Grounds, Library and temporary commissions are announced point of completion, on schedule Equipment eat only what is* needed for health for sale. Address A. S. Undine, 123 in a new British army order. "Y JUDGE OF PROBATE there will be serious loss of time and so that food may be saved to help Junior and Olivar Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn. 'Men promoted from the ranks will money. The time table must be followed Senior Divisions win the war. & receive a grant of $25p forthe provision of the with the greatest care from the What are the foods which we must General Election ,Nov. 5 of kit and uniform, and those who A full line of broad and narrow^, Reserve Officers' hour the ground is broken until the especially save? '. sign an undertaking^ to serve at least Training typewriter ribbons for all machines last workman walks out of the completed Wheat—Meat—Sugar—Fats. Corps. two years after the termination of hostilities at the Press office. building. Why must we send these particular Eight hundred will receive a further outfit allov foods? -v'' and forty-two ance of $537. students registered Because they contain the most last year. If an officer ceases to serve within Didn't Have Both. concentrated nourishment in the For catalog She—Everyone says you had a good that period the allowance of $537 shall most easily shippable form. address taste when you married -me. be deducted from the gratuity or retired .Very Rev. The cost of the United States Food tie—i&ybe if it is possible to possess H.Moynihan,D.D.Pres. pay due to him,' but if he should Administration for its first year's work at the Kame tiijie, good taste and die before the end .of the war, the has been less than two cents for every poo?rsaise.—New Haven Register. amount will be credited to his estate. person in the United States.