GERMANY UNDONE tyeedleJn His Body DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON t.. For Half a Century BY OWN WEAPON -AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND— Elyrla, O.—From mumps to WHEN YOU WANT TO— E. SOL VANG measles and chronic indigestion FIX THAT FENCE Sacccnor G. H«la«idat to neuritis, Robert Myers, fiftytwo, LAY YHAT FLOOR I Cabinet Maker, Furniture Had Sold to America Secret had run the .gamut of human if SEE HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, Illness. Recently a lump Making Explosive appeared between his shoulder BUILD -THAT SMALL of /General Carpenter, Contracttor blades. It did not heal, and. when BUILDING OR COTTAGE1 and Builder. From Air. the family physician was called rK— ***y Big Carpenter job—J (502 THIRD STREET or he hurried the patient to a hospital. There a tarnished needle BIG NITRATE PLANT RESULTS. with 24 inches of thread attached was removed. Physicians believe Myers swallowed Automobile our is ts Built in Eight Months It Convinces the needle when a child and that successes Kaiser of His Defeat. Out of accumulated capital have arisen all the perhaps half a century it has of industry and applied science, all the comforts and amellorations been wandering through his of the common lot. Upon it the world must depend in for the process of reconstruction which all have to share. body seeking an outlet. His various When In Minneapolis Stop at -JAMES J. HILL By GARRET SMITH. ailments are charged to the One of the most romantic passages needle's peregrinations. The Successful Farmer In the secret history of the World War Hotel Lincoln Is the story of how the Ordnance Department of the United States Army Raises Bigger Crops made It possible for America, until OLD VESSELS TO BE TARGETS then utterly lacking in ammunition NICOLLET AVE. AT NINTH ST and In facilities for making it, to manufacture Bluejackets to Test Marksmanship and cuts down costs by investment in unlimited quantities of powerful on Electrically-Controlled OPENED SEPT. 1st. 1918 explosives out of air and rock. Craft. labor-saving machinery. It was largely the knowledge of this fact that forced Germany to surrender Washington.—American bluejackets Especially convenient for auto parties as Nicollet Avenue Good prices for the farmers' crops encourage when she did. will have an opportunity to test their is the leading road from all point, and has no car tracks. The secret was secured from Germany marksmanship on real battleships new investment, more production Within two squares of 5 large garages. Adjoining the cities' herself. It was an open business steaming at full speed under actual largest stores. and greater prosperity. business^ battle conditions, If plans now being transaction between worked out at the navy department men, whereby we apparently acquired materialize. The bureau of ordnance, Rooms at $1.00 per day. With private toilet 25 cents nothing more military than a process But the success of agriculture depends It was learned, contemplates taking for making a high grade fertilizer extra with private bath 50 cents extra. In addition there on the growth of railroads—the modern several obsolete ships to the target known as cyanamid. are suites of rooms with separate toilet, each room having range and using them for targets moving Frank Sherman Washburn, head of beasts of burden that haul the crops to at full speed. There would, of connecting bath—an ideal arrangement and only found here. the group of business men who bought course, *be no crews aboard the target the world's markets. this process, conceived the germ of ships, which would be steered by an Cafe in connection—Hotel Lincoln guarantees an atmosphere the Idea In the early nineties while In electrical "distant control" system, The railroads—like the farms—increase South America as consulting engineer probably from an airplane or another of home refinement.??!*? In connection with the production and vessel. their output and cut down. unit costs by shipping of Chilean nitrate of soda. In this manner, it was pointed out at WM. B. CAMFIELD Proprietor* -F. S. GREGORY the department, the battleships could Nitrogen compounds are an essential the constant investment of new capital. be maneuvered under conditions approximating part of all commercial fertilizers. The For past ten years with Minneapolis leading hotels. those of battle. only available natural nitrate deposits With fair prices for the work they do, in large quantities are in Chile. This supply was diminishing. Germany, CREDITS 100 YEARS TO BIBLE the railroads are able to attract new capital which had been taking about onethird for expanding their facilities. of the Chilean nitrates, was already Mrs. Katherine Tibball of New York experimenting with processes Has Read the Scriptures for their artificial production. In 1907 Rates high enough to yield a fair return Faithfully. Mr. Washburn secured in Germany our will insure railroad growth, and prevent the American rights of the cyanamid New York.—To faithful reading of process which had been invented in the Bible does Mrs. Katherine Tibball, costly traffic congestion, which invariably that country. one hundred years old, attribute her Turning Air Into a Weapon. results in poorer service at higher cost. long life. By this process air, which is a mixture Fate has borne rather heavily on the of about four-fifths nitrogen gas Tibballs. The centenarian's only pankin3 National wealth can increase only as our and one-fifth oxygen, is placed in containers daughter, who keeps house for her, is and subjected to pressure and deaf and dumb, and her son, who has railroads grow. CL.U' cold until it turns to a liquid. Then Just celebrated his golden wedding, is the nitrogen is distilled in much the stone blind. Still they are a cheerful Poor railroad service is dear at any same manner as alcohol is separated family and proud of their old mother, from water. But before this nitrogen whose faculties remain almost unimpaired. price. No growing country can long pay can be used as a fertilizer it must be combined with a chemical combination the price of inadequate transportation Mrs. Katherine Tibball was born in of lime and carbon known as calcium Westchester county. New York, and /Mexfr carbide, produced by burning ordinary facilities. went to school in this city. She has limeSc^ne in big rotary kilns and combining Xmas always been a quiet home woman ano it in the electric furnace with "never bothered about woman suffrage carbon supplied in the form of ordi she will and such things," her son says. nary coke. 3huy adverti&wient i&publiAhedbythe Cyanamid thus produced contains Farm for Each Child. the elements of ammonium nitrate, one HAVE SlAbotiaticmtySZaUuxw Marysville, Pa.—Jacob Earner of of the most powerful of modern explosives. Pfouts" valley, desiring to distribute By one process ammonia is extracted some of his estate while yet alive, at from the cyanamid. By another recent family gathering presented process nitric acid is extracted Those desiring information concerning the railroad situation each of nis children with a fully from another batch of this same syanamid. may obtain literature by writing to The Associa' equipped farm. Seven children were Then the ammonia and nitric lion of Railway Executive*. 61 Broadway, New York Included, as follows: Charles Burner. acid are combined and there you have Lee --Burner, Roy Burner, Lutheran ammonium nitrate ready for packing Burner, Mrs. Mary Splcer, Mrs. Margaret Into shells with TNT, If you haven't joined our Christmas banking club, come Lyter and Mrs. Milton Gelnett. All There are three kinds of explosives In and do so today. used for bursting shells in modern live within a few miles of Liverpool. warfare—TNT, picric acid and ammo nlum nitrate. The United States was Men, Women, Boys and Girls all should join and we ur*»e Soldier Digs Own Grave. equally deficient in raw materials and Tacoma, -Wash.—Thomas Prescott, a you to join for you own good. plants for manufacturing all three of Civil war veteran, was buried recently these explosives. Under the best of in the grave he dug the morning before There are dobs to ft every purse—I cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, conditions the cost of either TNT or at the Old Soldiers' home at Orting. 10 cents, where you insreaae your deposits each week with nitric acid is about two and one-half It is the custom at the home to If You Have Anthing Sell the cost of ammonium nitrate. But" the amount you started with. keep one grave dug in advance because the United States was wholly dependent the work is hard for the elderly men. upon Chilean nitrate of soda as a Prescott spent the day In digging the We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $500 clubs where you pay raw material for ammonium nitrate, =ADVERTISE IT= grave. After returning indoors he became in the same amount each week. with the exception of a small produe* suddenly ill and died. tion of nitrogen from the coking of But joi today. coal. The Chilean supply was 4,500 miles away from New York City by FIRST NATIONAL BANK way of the Panama Canal, and the route by way of the Straits of Magellan is nearly twice as long. A International Falls, Minnesota- Record Building Operation. Shortly after the war began in Europe the German government entered into the fixation of air nitrogen for military explosives on a vast scale.. It BACHFURCO Your Raw Furs was not, however, until die fall of 1917 It Pays to Advertise that the United States government APPLES took it up. The Ordnance Department asked Mr. --it means Washburn's company to organize a subsidiary corporation, known as the Air Nitrates Corporation, with Mr. Highest ruling Market Prices. ., Washburn as president, to act as agent of the government for the construction Honest Grading of the Sizes. and operation of the air nitrates THE ST BEE The Most liberal Assortment Made. plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. This corporation provided the Courteaus treatment—square and designs, erected the equipment in the straight. chemical plants and supervised all the and or Factory Prompt Returns and sound advice. Buy your winter apples other work. It also operated the camp the town and the plant. 6ther As to the Market's fall or rise. now. Fine Johnathns work Is sublet to several of the best Ask for our prioelist—it will open known organizations in the United NOW OVBN FOR lUIWIW $3.25 per box, for one States. Westinghouse Church Kerr your eyes as to what Raw Furs are Company built the plant buildings, the week only. Cooking ap•r worth these days. Do not disjpose of camp, the permanent city and utilities. We Are Wei Bqaippcd to do All Kinds of a single skin before you have had our The J. G. White Engineering Corporation pies $2.25 per box. designed and built the nitrate MLLWQKK valuation. acid plant. The M. W. Kellogg Company BACH FUR COMPANY furnished the piping and built and you will make no mtetake by getting the chimneys. On February 16, 1918, their prices before ordering elsewhere ground was broken, and eight months Buyers—Merchants—Exporters and eight days later _the $00,000,000 Muscle Shoals plant began producing •V, of ammonium nitrate.- In that brief period' "'v.- Building and Contracting a: Specialty A 23,000 men had completed the American Raw Furs S. E Thompson &Son AH Work Guaranteed plant and around it, where not 0 house stood before, had arisen a city, 108-110 West Austin Avenue of 25,000 inhabitants. ...... Chicago, 111. -, LARS STUBEE, Prop. •£~SiV! This plant when" in full operation Phoie 128 *JL was ready to provide 13 per cent of all irect representation: New York, Lon-]?'l fee exp'iosives to be used by all the allies Inter natioirij Falls," Minn.-i 2nd and 6h St. Phone 60 AYS. don, Paris, Leipzig oil r' lie allied fronts during the ex)iiug JS ^Z." w* ~y \y drive of 1919. -Vm 4 site® I