tw '?'--i: "-K^^r i" "'.•« vr*' ="JSE 1 i' *, "V ~~f ri .,- -^'V ,* -. INTERNATIONAL'FALLS PRESS PAGE FOUR IS 72 BUT NEVER THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS missioner Babcock with reference "to BOY SCOUT NOTES. loads of crushed rock, 40 cars of road work in this county. He reports sand, 20 cars of cement, and, 30,000 that a fleet of Holt tractors and SAW ITS EQUAL pounds of steel. This makes an 18 Medals for Scout efficency may be AND BORDER BUDGET other machinery has already been foot roadway, with a surface lYz seen at the office or in" J. M. Gish's shipped to be us^d in grading and inches thick, reinforced by steel bars jewelry store window. rounding up our roads and that the H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager along ettch side and every eight feet work will soon commence. It is the Duluth Man Says Since Taking Tanlac Eighty-seven of the Junior Scouts! transverse& TiEng is Eluded intention of the highway department He Feels as Healthy as He Did hiked out to Mr. Evans' farm last'where draina&e needed. Such a Entered at the Post OfBce at International Falls, Minn., aa .Second-Clans Matt»r Years Ago. to gravel the three trunk highways Saturday. All report lots to eat and s^face C°sts $28'000 $30'000 tody to in the county this season. This is m^e* a a good time. certainly gratifying news, to our citizens I ve tried Tanlac and never saw SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR Half Estimated for Paving. and means that another year^~ anything to equal it during the Division No. l' of the Boy Scouts beinS will see^pur main highways in condition A a seventy-two years of my life," said held a party at the close of th^ir Put mto trunk highways is going to stand a heavy volume of Foreipn Advertising Representative row. Much of the studying and John, Ryan, 128 Sixth avenue, West JTHE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION meeting Thursday evening. Fifty of Pav*nS Mr. Babcock estimates traffic. keeping of statistics has been doije Duluth, Minn. Air. Ryan is now re an(j But the state law recently passed "SAVING AT THE SPIGOT" the boys devoured ice cream in an effort to learn, some day, the limits the use of state funds for hard ^rom business, having been a plenty of cake to celebrate the occasion. secret of the weather, so that definite surfacing to one-third the total out-i eJ ^a^uato^" practically all his Severaf of the local firms have predictions can be made. lay for construction. With the cur-' 1 e' which time he traveled been conducting judicious advertising And j'et, after fifty long years of rent state and federal funds expected ^t^n"slveb in Canada and the United campaigns during the past several deepest study and most exhaustive Flower for this week—May flower. States. in the next two years, this allows weeks, with the result that research, not one of these thousands 1st Junior and 1st Boy Scout to find 'When a man gets to be as old of only $2,000,000 a year for paving, Coleraine seems fast growing into of scientists will claim that he and the flower to receive award. his which will surface Only about 70 aS am be 'ias be care^' °f the trading center of the county. It his colleagues, or the United States health, and* when my stomach began miles of road. has grown to be a common occur- bureau, can predict the ex- weather One of the patrols is to have an to go back on me I knew I had to Paved roads promote motor truck rence that more than a score of au- rence mat more irnan a score or au- for next week or even I overnipu Fridav for the1 \T have something to help me out. act weather hike this tomob:les from Grand Rapids, Deer tomorroxv. I tests. traffic, and these motor truck lines the exact weather for Dur of takinK Well, I found my relief in Tanlac, River and other towns are in Co- te„ ca„ P»nose of takings. tend to go beyond the paved roadways They wj]] yQu that they on]y and there's nothing like it when it leraine daily to be loaded with bar- tomor. to the graveled roads. There gJye yQu the probabilities for comes to doing away with a heavy, The school exhibit has been post- has been trouble this year and. last gains, that have been advert,sed by. probabiliy row. Of course, their rQW Qf course) their bloated feeling and putting a man in local firms. predicion is usually correct, but often P°ned f' Untd May a good, healthy condition. I had so on a The foregoing from the current is- more time to make points for their 4hey were soft in the spring, and lost my appetite that nothing seemed medals. sue of the Coleraine Iron News tells tearing them up so as t'o make them Nevertheless, your Hicks person. to appeal to me any more, and the its own story. impassable, or nearly so. all by his loneso.meness, claims to be In the meantime the wise Walter Reiners, of the Scouts, A provision in- the new road law he in my llttle 1 d,d eat seemed to mei able to tell us what the weather will stomach undigested and caused me chants of Grand Rapids who persisti,. found the first cowslip and George feives the highway commissioner a A Cap for Spring. be any old day next summer or fall, .. awful pain. I always felt bloated up that "it doesn't pay to advertise," Millard of the Juniors was the lucky check on this practise. It enables and in a lump for any part of the and in an unhealthy condition. Just the ticket. can laugh, up their sleeves at the °ne. him to close a road to certain types country. "l! saw that Tanlac was so highly money they are "saving" while the of vehicles when conditions require Good night! You'll find the style you spoken of that I began taking it, merchants of neighboring towns are Watch this space each week for it. "That provision alone will save have in mind, here. and now I am one of the 'Tanlac "throwing their money away"_,on advertising.—Grand announcements. THE SCRIBE, jthe state a million dollars in a wet Rgulars.' I have just finished my Rapids Independent. It's a Gordon—jaunty lines seaspn," Mr. Babcock said. IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION __ eighth bottle and it keeps me in the STATE TO PATROL and the smartest patterns you Money Urn UW Km*. condition. I have a Yes, brother*.and some of our International very best 7,000 MILES ROADS ever saw. The House has passed and sent to ne eature of the trunk highway Spien^i(j appetite, and feel as healthv Falls merchants can the Senate the immigration bill, law that means much to the state ago. PRICES: as did years laugh also! (Continued from first page) similar to the one vetoed^ by the is the release of state and county the $4.00, $5.00, $6.00 t00 highly of Tanlac alld it former President at the last session. road money for "lateral" roads, outside PART OF WILSON AFTERMATH only medicine for me from now on." Mr. Babcock. "These routes will be O. M. CARR*& CO. I It restricts for a priod of fourteen the trunk highway systeni. •narked with plain but not elaborate T. Tir*, months the entry of aliens into the The trunk highways are laid out "'The Store of Quality" The Wilson administration was al-jTT signs. When the permanent routes Mott, D. W. Webster, A.\L. Flygare. United States to three per cent of to intersect every 'counity and to ways afraid that someone would have been established first class road International Falls, Each of the eight divisions is split Minn the number of the nationals of each reach all county seats. Many of make some. money—someone besides markers will £e put up for the guidance country registered in the census of these are main roads and have been *wo districts, and a superinabsorbing a deserving Democrat—so the development of motorists." 1910. An effort was made before a good share of state and ten*ent for each district has been of oil resources on publ Total Estimated at $25,000,000. passage to amend the bill so as to county money. Now these 7,000 miles hiamed by Mr- Babcock. The appoint- $ttds was permitted to lag. Now it The Babcock amendment author-! admit political refugees, and par- are to be cared for entirely out of jees' w'ith their locations and the appears that while xgovernment oil izes the state, to issue $10,000,000 a federal aid and the automobile li-1 m'^eaSe each district, are as fol­ lands were not being drilled for wells, ar 0r^ ^ay°r TOOTH TALK NO. S year in bonds for road building. The lows O'Callaghan of Cork to remain here, private owners of adjoining lands recent legislature did not take ad-1cense mon®y- The state still levies but all such changes were defeated. the one mill road tax, and it is dis- Miles. Headquarters. Supt. were industriously sinking wells near vantage of that feature. It did, however, The Ninth of a series of short Mr. O'Callaghan has been ordered 302 Virginia, Geo. B. Hughes. the boundary lines with the result keep faith with the implied tT,b«ted the counties- Every dol-1 talks on teeth and mouth conditions, to leave the United States before 430 Hinckley, H. L. Colwell. that they drained oil from considerable promise to counties issuing bonds for I ar..0 1S' $2,000,000 a year,, .X nearly written and published .for June 5th. There is little doubt that 546 Bemidji, David Rose. areas of government lands, as work on the trunk highways. The jW,H be USed OUtside of trunk high"! the good of the community. the Senate will give its approval to 466 Brainerd, A. L. Moulster. they had a perfect right to do. The state S° Wl"" $n'000'000 by law assumed responsibility the immigration bill in the near future, 498 Crookston, Carl Harholdt. Harding administration is getting •for all these bonds, and in most cases r°ad funds" I COUnty This money DON'T WAIT and that it will receive the signature 492 Detroit, G. L. Johnson. will be used for maintenance and busy on a plan to lease the government for the interest on them. The total There is nothing spectacular of President Harding and become 436 St. Cloud, R. Jorgens. outstand-1!construction on "state aid roads." lands on a royalty basis so that of the county bond issues about the (process by which a law. 459 Morris, L. D. Zimmeritian. These will be important roads con- not only the lessees but the government ing or to be issued is estimated atj tooth decays. The microscopic 234 Mpls., C. D. Moulton. will get profit from the transactions. $25,000,000. Commissioner Babcobk'^flecyng wlth the trunk hi«hways, or germ while eating its way, so to 480 Willmar, C. M. Matthie's. SOB-SISTER STUFF outlined, the stages by which and the money will speak, through the walls of thjfe 274 St. Paul, AlfredJ Jackson. county money- is to come into th^ jbe Spent. supervision house that shelters the nerves,, Under of the 505 Rochester, G. H. Smith. THE QREATEST The New York "World" publishes trunk highway system, later to be! tate hl*hway department. The goes slowly it works, its way 446 Owatonna, E. V. H. Brovvn returned to the counties by I p®*er .part of it will go for grad-j WEATHER PREDICTOR a cartoon picturing Europe in the? through the hard, outer layers and the sta^e 464 Mankato, R. J. Shart. ing and graveling. Local road funds, 14 into the small inner chambers before character of a poverty-stricken woman 455 Marshall, F. O. Nelson.. in turn, will be released from these The "American Press" took a the victim knows it is present. sitting on the doorstep of Un'cte Completed Work Totals $9,000,000. roads for: use on other laterals. 478 Worthington, P. F. Stary. Sam It is in no hurry, but if left hearty crack the other day at one Sam, while Uncle hesitates as Work already completed by the'f Minnesota compares favorably to- Hicks, who pretends to be a weather Bridges are an important problem, alone, it reaches its goal. Many to his duty. The picture is scarcely counties under authority of th.e-HM&i day in its system of road adminis- Mr. Babcock says, but not as serl physical ailments require quick prophet. Brudder Hicks, it seems, true in its attempted portrayal of legislature totals roughly $9,000,000. action: Not so with the tooth. It predicts the weather a whole year in world conditions. Europe is no poverty-stricken Work under* contracted or to be' tr4t,°^ ^lth any state in the union, 1 ous as one would think. The* state may be months before a quick advance. contracted and paid for in the com-!CpmmiSS10ner says- "In a in taking over the trunk highways woman. To be a fairly Babcock stab of pain^ warns the patient It is just about fifty years since accurate ing .year, ending July 1, 1922, total !vcry t.years be at the has assumed responsibility for all representation of affairs few we should that the germ has reached the $5,000,000. very top," he says: "We have a good their bridges. Few bridges need to the United States weather bureau across the Atlantic, European nawas nerve. A rush to the dentist th?^ established, although scientists tions should be pictured as men who Work to be put through in 1923, and two years from now can fix be built in the near future, however, up any rough spots in it.' convinces the victim that he has had been carefully studying the $6,000,000. and most of them are in good condition. had been striving so eagerly for sacrificed a perfectly good tooth weather and its vagaries and mani- Maximum Service Sought. commercial supremacy that they Work planned to be put through on the altar of neglect. Care in testations for many decades before eventually got into a fight which "Maximum service at all times to, "This being an agricultural state," in 1924, $5,000,000. time would have saved it. Mr. Babcock explained, "it was that. But for fifty years trained ob- lasted until both were exhausted and the needs and! comforts of all Minr This county wo^k has been held' necessary to build bridges so they servers and scientists, thousands of came to the doorstep of Uncle Sam back, Mr. Babcock said, because last nes°ta road users," Mr. Babcock DR. E. W. BUNCE, D. D. S. would sustain the load of farm traction them, have made observations of all for assistance. That one of the comweather fall when costs were at their peak continued, "will be the main policy, engines, far-^heavier than any H. F. Billings, an experienced prosthetist conditions in every city batants is more at fault than the he declined to approve contracts and s*ate highway administration, motor truck load. So we have strong, in charge and section of this country minute others, no one will question. That required the counties to wait. By Minnesota has one trunk highwaiting well built bridges almost everywhere." by minute during the full twenty- they want assistance to recuperate is OFFICE AND LABORATORY he saved hundreds of thou- I way plan. It is for a single state four hours of every single day. They also beyond doubt. But that the system, regardless of county or 311 THIRD STREET sands of dollars. County Engineer Rose returned have reached into the Pacific, into United States is under moral obl:the other lines. Divisions will be made International Falls. Road buflding costs have fallen, last Sunday from St. Paul, where' he Atlantic, south in Latin America, gations to lift their burdens is an only to fix responsibility and to promote from the peak prices of 1920, as estimated Phone 474 Open Evg's & Sundays efficiency. conferred with State Highway Com- and even miles into the atmosphere altogether different matter. Certainly by John H. Mullen, Commis"sioner !3! above, day by day, year by year, the United States ought not look "Maintenance comes first to provide BaBcock's engineering standby They have traced every storm, everyj/upon them or treat them as a proscyclone, good travel conditions on all and first assistant, about 30 per every tornado. Pick any perous householder would be expectday trunk roads. Special attention is cent for' grading and graveling, and Lumber since the early 70s and-they can ed to treat a poverty-stricken wo- given this year to establishment of a some 20 per cent for paving. tell you the, temperature, the baro- man who fell exhausted upon his The reason paving shows a less highclass system of highway patrol, meter, the rainfall or snowfall in any doorstep after making a commendsection marked decline is that freight costs patrolmen—one for each 5 to 10on of this country. able effort to earn a living. The the paving material are such a mile stretch with full equipment— All of this has not been entirely "World" is far from fair in its prefor big item, and they~ are higher than Put every road in passable con- the purpose of telling us the sentation of facts through the meprobabilities dition with assistan^e, wherever re ever. For every mile of hard surfaced of the weather tomor- diumship of a cartoon. quired, from district and floating road there is required 80 car See lis before placing- your contract for building. gangs. The plan will carry state work to every section at the very W furnish you anything in Building Material", Hard beginning and every motor vehicle ON MOTHER'S DAY Wood Flooirs, Doors, Windows, Screens, Etc., also taxpayer in the statq will begin to benefit, from the start. Permanent Plaster Board, Paint and Oil.. Lots of Rough Sheet­ improvements and special betterments ing, Lumber a,nd' Dimension's on hanS,'cheap. Nbw will follow, according to traffic and other demands in each individual is the time to build. Lumber will never be as. cheap case. "The department will aim for highest again. We will meet any Mail Order House on efficiency in every branch and Building- Material, and give* quick service. strive to merit public commendation. It always will welcome co-operation and constructive criticisms in connection with the big highway project." SEED POTATOES Staff Being Completed Rapidly.. The staff of the new highway department Early Ohio, and Green Mountain. All kinds of is being completed rapidly. The only important vacancy to' be Bulk Grain and Garden Seeds—Northrup Kings pack­ filled is that of second assistant highway ages 5 cents each.r'Place your order for Hand Nut commissioner. Thei staff as it ni*. stands is as follows: Coal now. Try our PRIDE Coal for Kitchen Stoves. to Cfr OS Commissioner, Chas. M. Babcock first assistant, John H. Mullen S. E. THOMPSON & SON bridge superintendent^J. Tr Ellison construction engineer, O. L. Kipp superintendent of- maintenance, W. Phone 128 International Fails, Minn. F. Rosenwald assistant, M. J. Hoffman. division engineers, Roy K. Bliler, W. B. Chapman, C. A., Forbes, Mi W. E. Matters, C. L. Methven,vC.' L.: