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

December 30, 1920 · Page 6 of 8

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'Si1* VC'#" v—^/^ ," vw INTERNATIONAL. FALLS PRESS Fertilizer Is to Be Cheap Again THiS "ANGEL". WAS A KITE But Superstitious Railroad Man Who Shot It Down Was Certainly Scared for a Time. Down Goes the Prices on HAY AND FEED "The shooting." says a Texas man. "occurred some years ago on the Panhandle branch of the Santa Fe. and the hero of the rale was a superstitious engineer who believed in 'warnings.' "One night he was roiling along at a good speed, when he saw a clear, white li'iht. *liko a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing over the track a few hundred feet in front. He shut off steam and carne to a stop as quickly as he could. TTie conductor and train crew came running up to the engine to see what was the matter. —UNTIL FURTHER N0TICE= 'There is some one swinging a lantern across the track, said the engineer. and the crew went ahead to Investigate. 'We can't find anyone,' reported the rear hrakeman. and the engineer pulled out again, but he went slowly, and in a few minutes stopped again. The crew went ahead once more to see what was the cause of the light. The conductor, who was a good shot, drew his revolver, and at his second shot there was a crash, a scream, and the light went out, and something white came fluttering down from the Oats, 80 pounds $1.4S clouds. lllartllii 'You've "The engineer was scared. Shorts, 100 pounds, 1.80 to the shot nn angel, sure,' he said pale as conductor, with a face as death. Bran, 100 pounds 1.80 Farmers who have forced to pay exorbitant prices for fertilizer "Investigation brought out the fact been face relief. The Department of Agriculture has found a new that a small boy. with a lantern tied Cracked Corn, 100 pounds 2.20 method of removing phosphoric acid from phosphate rock, which It to the tall of a kite, was the cause of thought will revolutionize the world's fertiliser Industry. The new the trouble: but for a long time'It process is shown In the picture—dumping the phosphate rock In at Whole Corn, 100 pounds 2.23 teased the engineer to be asked about the top—It is heated with coke and sand in the fuel-fed furnace— 'shooting angels.'" the acid coming out at the bottom front pipes, held by the man at Scratch Feed, 100 pounds 2.60 the left. There is no loss of by this process, whereas rock the old HIGH PLACE FOR LEWIS CASS screening method resulted cent In an 80 per loss. Hay, per ton 20.00 Was Instrumental in Setting Up American Form of Government In GET OUR PRICES FOR TON LOTS Western Territories. "Those who pushed the frontier westward were themselves the products of frontier conditions." says William B. YOUR BOY Shaw In the American Review of Reviews. "Such a leader was Lewis Cass, a native of New Hampshire, Is growing inch by who went out as a youth to the settlements that were soon to be organized inch. Get him started into the state of Ohio, took part in lawmaking there, served as a volunteer in the right direction officer in the war of 1812. was appointed V! by opening a bank account governor of Michigan territory. The Falls Lumber & Coal Co. and for many years was engaged for him. Hi in the difficult task of setting up an American form of government In regions first banking connec that had barely emerged from the wilderness stage. ticns may have a "That Lewis Cass was In after years Phone 81 International Falls, Minn. conthis positive' influence upon his success in life. The a United States senator from Michigan. a member of cabinets, a diplomat servative business experience of the officers of and an unsuccessful aspirant for the presidency may have partially blinded bank should make it your choice. us to the really Important services that he rendered In the pioneer period of Michigan's history. Neither he nor any of the men of his day could have WON BY APPEAL TO VANITY Emily with you." Learn From Lazy Man. foreseen the strain that was to be put "And, my dear," said the lady to At last some use has been found FIRST NATIONAL BANK 1 on the states created out of the old the woman, when she told her story for a lazy man. The secret was revealed How Wily Diplomat Saved Lord Beaconsfleld Northwest territory caused by the attempt over a cold lunch, "what do you suppose by F. B. Gilbreth, an efficiency From Bad "Break" to absorb vast populations of INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. 1 Miss Susan said? Seriously, In expert. In a recent lecture before the He Had Contemplated. northern European blood into the citizenship. is her slow drawl, she replied: 'Oh, I polytechnic section of the American couldn't leave Emily behind. You see Institute. Curiosity, says a London correspondent "Lewis Cass lived to see great armies she has so little fun In her life.'" "When we go to investigate a factory," of the Christian Science Monitor, recruited among those newly he said, "and wish to find the Is frequently expressed as to how the made Americans to fight for the Union swiftest worker, we naturally ask to prime minister gets along In his conferences 8craping the Ballot. and the principles of nationality which see the men or girls who have the with foreign ministers. It Is The woman who had charge of the he had himself defended throughout fattest pay envolopes. understood that, though he can make A I N voting machine placed in one of the his career." "But when we want to see the man out the purport of a printed passage downtown stores for use In the Instruction who accomplishes a task with the least in the French language, he never had of women first voters, met First Payment of Rent. amount of lost motion, we hunt out the opportunity of acquiring facility in a number of unusual and amusing It would he hard to find exact records the laziest man in the factory. By the spoken tongue. In this reispect he situations. A few days ago, a welldressed of the first rent paid. It is said Instinct, he learns to do things finds a precedent in the case of Lord woman who had all the appearances that when the Germans conquered without loss of motion, otherwise he FOR EVERY PURPOSE— Beaconsfield. When he went to the of being well Informed on parts of Gaul, the land was parceled could not hold his job. Berlin congress in 1878 he made matters political, entered the section out to chiefs, lieutenants and private "We study that man's movements known to his faithful secretary his Intention where Instructions were being given, Igside and Outside House Paint soldiers. In return the holders of the and take motion pictures of him in of addressing the conference and after making the usual preliminary lands promised military service when action. Then we show these pictures Automobile Paint in French. Monty Cory, having suffered ny»logies, asked the young woman needed. Some of the land was given to the rapid, energetic worker, and by scraps of his chiefs colloquial in charge to demonstrate the operation to favorites, who were allowed to pay Boat Paint studying them he learns shorter methods French, was aghast. In despair he applied of the machine. She was shown in money Instead of service, and the and becomes much more efficient to the British minister at Berlin what she should do in case she wished Kalsomine system was established. Rent was at his own work.—Cleveland Plain for assistance. Odo Russell lived up to vote a straight ticket, but this certainly known in the days that Rome to the occasion. In casual conversation Dealer. failed to satisfy her craving for instructions. flourished, there being Latin names with Lord Beaconsfield he mentioned and the climax was for rent under long leasehold tenure that he had heard a rumor that readied when she innocently requested We carry the Old Reliable Brands—Minnesota Linseed Power of Poise. rent of a farm, ground rent, rent of he intended to address the plenipotentiaries "And now would you mind showing Poise is power. The man who is state lands and the annual rent payable Oil Paint Co. and Certain-teed. on the following day in me how I should work the machine not master of himself under all conditions for the right to the perpetual enjoyment French. "That would," the wily minister If I wish to 'scrape' my ballot?" cannot feel the assurance, the of anything built on the surface said, "be' a grave disappointment. power, which Is the right of every human of the lpn*. They know that they have here Furs All Her Fortune. being to experience. He is never In you the greatest living master of Lumber & Coal Falls Co. "Alaska produces a large variety of sure of himself, and the man who Is English oratory, and are looking forward Ancient Bible. beautiful and valuable furs upon never sure of himself is never wholly to your speech as the intellectual A Bible belonging to Elizabeth Haddon. land," says Andrew J. Stone In the at ease. He is not even well-bred, for treat of their lives." "Dizzy" Immediately a Quakeress, printed in 1566. has Century. "It has 13 varieties of bears, I good breeding implies self-control under saw the reasonableness of this objection PHONE 81 been discovered in the East. The Haddon six species of fox—black, blue, cross, all circumstances. and all his speeches during the Bible is sixteen years older than red, silver and white—and all common There Is, perhaps, no other thing sittings of the congress were in English. the Reims Testament sometimes land furs. The skins of its foxes which is so conducive to one's physical spoken of as "the oldest Bible." The are of the highest quality and are and mental comfort, efficiency, happiness Haddon Bible is an authentic "Great" larger than those produced in any and success as a calm mind. When Bible. It Is also a "Treacle" Bible. COULDN'T LEAVE EMILY OUT other country. The Alaska moose is the mind is unbalanced, by anger, excitement, Coverdale. the translator, rendering the largest land animal found on the worry, fear or nervousness, "The Prophecye of Jeremye," gave Peculiar Reason Why Elderly Spinster western hemisphere. The meat Is as the entire body Is thrown out of harmony. the reading "I am hevy and abafhed Just Had to Attend the choice as the best of beef and the All the functions are deranged is there no trlacle at Gylyad." This Funeral. skin makes excellent footwear and is the man or woman is not normal, and in the King James modern version much worn during the winter months. Is, therefore, whatever the situation, reads "balm In GUead." Word has come to the mid-Victorian The caribou, like the reindeer, lives at a complete disadvantage, wholly unable The. Haddon Bible is Indeed "Great." lady that an old friend of her mother's almost exclusively upon mosses, and to contend with it.—Orison Swett it weighs 18 pounds, and its dimensions had died suddenly In her home In inhabits nearly all parts of the country Marden in the New Success Magazine. IS MOVING MORE FREELY are: Thickness, 4% Inches Maine. It was her duty to break the except the southern coast country. width. 10% inches, length, 16ft Inches. sad news to two elderly spinsters, are found in large herds and They Elevator Rope In Coal Mines. —Detroit News. cousins of the dear departed "auntie." supply man with millions of pounds One of the most Impressive things She found Miss Susan at home, tending of meat. about a colliery, to an outsider. Is the Few Do Much Walking. to her pet canary. Miss Susan is mammoth drum which winds the rope 7S, but spry and alert, ready for any Statistics of mankind's ambulations, Strange Leases. which brings coal up from the pit. This emergency.: Miss Emily, 'five years including young children and old persons. For weird leases London would be monster drum may measure 150 feet We expect okjer, was out motoring with a kindly 10 cars of Hard Coal—stove nut and pea— and taking into consideration hard to beat in some instances, says a in circumference, and weigh aboUt 200 benefactress. The slow tears of old the fact that nowadays there are the correspondent. He dealt with houses tons, and it will wind in the* rope with age trickled, down Miss Susan's cheeks inclination and the facilities to: ride lately which were for sale and found and wi'l be able to make delivery in about one week. Its. load at a speed of nearly 60 miles at the word that, another, of her generation more and walk less than our forei'athers that the ground land'ord was the-dnehy an hour. There are miles of the rope, had. passed ,away. And then, did, show__lhat. a fair estimate of Cornwfttl, the leaseholder paying ah when the pit Is a-jdeep one, like the with a quick transition, she began excited' of the average distance walked dur•ng annual ground, rent off fourpence! And Yorkshire Jtfatn r,coljiery/s. ,whose ver­ plans for attending the funeral, the 24 hours by the men, women this fourpence was sent every* year in tical shaft holds the r^ onjjfor depth which Involved a trip by boat to Portland Falls Lumber & Coal Company and children of continental United an envelope which cost twopence, and it by goirij dovfti' nearly ).000 yards, and and a long mid arduous ride in St&tes seems to be four miles. The cost the ,duchy twopence to acknowledge for lo'hg "di'stutie?s 'fiofi^tintally. The a day coach. But the tliought of all posfmaa and the policeman and tire receipt! "But there is a granger rope costs $10 a yard arid1It'STUakimum this, coupled with midsummer heatv PHONE 81 messenger boy walk far iniore miies lease in the north of London," he, said life is three and one-half years. Every did, not daunt the little lady. She. than, fopr, .so does the farmer*-though "sortie houses there. &re leased until inch of it passes each day- through a I would go. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN the death of the duke of Connaught. the „use of the tractor has taken some man's hands for examination. Shaft 45 e-f "But, at least. Miss Susan," urged p.1? the burden of aajicultural work, off There is no other date attached to the accidents are very rare. the jnessengert "you'll not take Miss shank's. mine. document^'.- -i- J!h& —r-