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

September 29, 1921 · Page 3 of 8

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'•J 1. —s- -,( s%^ 5 --v I? 1 V&r* 4-~ W --".-T,-V,'s »-.--jr'^»i-- ,, •*-t,-i "\U *%3^-•*/•£'"**' ,VV S ••', 5 vV*, •••', .'•' 11" INTERNATIONAL FALI-S PRESS PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS be started as spon as the weather permits. woman that his or her heart retains a place for the old home town and that he sometimes dreams of it. Sentimental? The Manufacturers AND BORDER BUDGET Word has been received here that Certainly, but such a sentiment W Mrs. Mary Furley, mother of Mrs. is good and wholesome and is Andrew Urness of BergviUe,* passed the mark of a human heart that can H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager away receptly from a paralytic be trusted—and loved. stroke. Mrs. Furley was 69 years of To these our fellow citizens we address Sintered at the Post Oflcc at International Falls, Minn., as Second-Claw Matte* age, and was one of the old^'settlers this suggestion: That they" take of Grand Rapids. advantage of the idea behind the coming SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR "Subscribe To The Home Town Rev. Biddeson of Littlefork, bids Paper" week, in order that, during Northwestern Advertising Representatives faij- to be the champion potato raiser Minnesota Select List the coming year, they shall receive 17 1. ... R»«lr 215 South 6th Street in the village this year. The other •MIA regularly each week their old town StTpSl Minneapolis day he dug a part of his potatoes, a newspaper and see the names and plot 43 by 30 feet, from which he hear of the pepole they used to know Foreign Advertising Representative got 32 bushels. If the remainder of weeks, the home town paper will receive in the happy old days when they lived THE AMERICAN ERESS ASSOCIATION Is Still Going On! the publicity it is entitled to. in'the his patch runs as well, which it undoubtedly good old home. The home town paper is ever ready will, it will average over You know the paper's name, fellow HUMANITY'S REAL NEWS to "boost" or the other fellow, to print citizen! Send in your subscription 1 400 bushels per acre. He is marketing IN HOME TOWN PAPERS item after item about this and that his potatoes in the village at $1.50 kind of a day or week—the time has pier bushel. That's Why We Want To Tell Our come for it to boost and blow its own NEIGHBORING TOWN NEWS I? Readers Why There's Going To* Be bugle for itself, to print several coK H. W. Forrer is slowly recovering •v A "Subscribe for Your Home Town umns about itself and all home town at his home altho his condition is ss 3$»ss ss 3 ss« »s se ss 38 8 Wonderful Bargains in Paper" Week. papers, to put on a campaign of publicity, still serious. A brothety^rom Minneapolis A daughter was born to Mr. and and take advantage of what is here, having been called last Mrs. Herbert Colmer of Littlefork, (Written for this paper by R. T. other papers will do. Sunday when it was hardly expected Porte.) Thursday, Sept. 15th. In other words, throw its hat into that Mr. Forrer would live,' and a sister Clothing, Men's the ring, and put up a fight that will from Milwaukee who is a nurse It is a notable fact that with all Mrs. Fred Steinbrinck of Hibbing, el it somewhere instead of sitting and who is helping to take care of the wonderful things that have been is visiting with her mother, Mrs. Fred the side lines and hollering for the him.—Littlefork Times. written about the socalled ''country Larson of Littlefork. Furnishings and ither fellow. newspaper", very few of thern.vj e$iize #J #.« #J» «f C# all their possibilities, or what, anv-influence Eric Dahlgren of Wildwood won 3rd EFFICIENCY IN BURNING they are in the worldi j- prize at the state fair in his school OBSERVATIONS UP MONEY Blankets It is also a very notable facts tfaat 35 (By Billy Noonan) •'8 work on map of Asia. 33 very few of the readers of thoser,papers We call your attention, kind reader, 3t3eS8333$9$ 38 38 3$ 38 3S 33 3$ 33 35 35 38 realize what a loss it /vould be Webster Kolhause of Bertha will to the world's most efficient "burner Even if Fatty Arbuckle's salary to them and to the world if the resume his studies at the Hamline of money". Referring, of course, to was $250,000 a year he's a bad actor. "country newspaper" should cease to University. He has been spending are being offered to the the modern battleship. exist. some time at Mizpah. Uncle Sam is on the e\^ of putting It used to require years for a lad The large papers ^jth immense into commission the tremendous buying public of this to drink himself to death, but now circulations, tell of "world happenings" Wm. Charters of Littlefork. has been dreadnaught "Maryland". She will he can do it jyvith a couple of drinks. as they understand them, and awarded the contract of building the have cost FORTY-TWO MILLION display heads telling of the latest city and vicinity. new Cingmars school about seven DOLLARS from start to finish, "The wild duck is a queer bird," scandals, prize fights, and the misfortunes miles east of the village. enough money to build and equip 200 says a hunting expert. In which it .is of humanity. handsome school houses in the state But, it remains fey the "local paper" not different from some of the lads Miss Beatrice Milton of Orjth, has of Maryland—each handsome and big the "country weekly", the "home town who hunt it. It'll Pay You to Investigate gone to Halstad, where she will make^ enough to house 1,000 pupils. paper" to really give the news of the her home with her sister, Mrs. O. The Maryland has eight 16-inch world, or that of Mr. Common People "Lies Shorten Life" says a doctor. Reitan at Northome, while attending guns, each of which cost $256,000. A and his wife. We're just warning the duck hunters, school. few shots—a dozen or so—puts such A It is time that the country newspaper that's all. a gun in the scrap pile burns up a should do something to place Mr. and Mrs. Otto florns and family, quarter of a million dollars in a sort itself on a higher plane, and also We Will Prove to Your Satisfaction who have spent the past summer There is a lot of criticism aimed at of off-hand manner. make some noise. Just one paper to at the home of Mrs. Horn's sister, the modern girl's attire, but you'll But in addition, each shot costs start something would not amount to Mrs. I. F. Griffith at Northome, have to admit that she takes it coolly. $18,000 for powder, metal, shell mechr Latz's Outlet Store much, but if the 15,000 country papers have returned to Bemidji, where they anism, etc. You couldn't shovel $10 would join in the chorus, a noise that Chap named Church committed a will make their home. bills into your furnace fast enough would go around .the world would be double murder this week. As we've ^o equal the Maryland's little trick the result. remarked before there is nothing in a Claude Hanchett of Malta, Monti, of burning up money. Some time ago I was going through name. is at Northome, where he will remain Then for upkeep each year the Maryland some trade paper or bulletin of the throughout the winben Mrs. will cost $750,000—three-quarters Is The Bargain Spot of the Town state press association, or something Hanchett has been visiting her parents,* Fatty Arbuckle says he is through of ay"million—,110$ punting saV of the kind, and noted that somebody with' booze forever, but he' not likely. Mr.-and Mrs. C. P. EllingSoti aries. The wage bill is another $100,000 wrote that it might be a good idea to to get away from bars for sjome the past three weeks. a month—which amounts to one have a "Subscribe for Your Home little time. million, two hundred thousand a year: Town Paper Week". I smiled at the L. D. Beach of Northome, has torn Thus it will cost two million dollars idea at first, but some way the idea down his log cottage at Rocky Beach, S "Pluck is a great asset in business" a year to keep the Maryland in commission. stuck, and then I started to find out says an expert. The trouble is that Island Lake, and is planning on building You could hire one thousand ADVERTISING IN THE PRESS PAYS who originated the idea, but the paper some of the big boys use it as a verb a more commodious summer professors a year for that si\m. was lost. home. Work on the new building will instead of^ a noun. Whither are we going? How long The publisher who thought of the can this country stand such expenditures? idea just let it go at that, but I decided that it was so good that it Bloodshed, barbarism and the utter should not die, so at once asked all bankruptcy of mankind is not far the trade papers, printers' magazines, ahead unless the nations "come to" and the great printers' supply houses pretty soon. i- what they thought of the idea. The officers of the National Editorial DO IT FOR YOUR Association were written to, OWN SAKE, FOLKS! and in fact some two hundred letters were sent out. We have with us in this community The result was that everyone wrote many valued citizens whose home that the idea was just the thing, and towns are in other parts of the by common consent it was decided country. International Fa lis housewives know that the week of Sept. 29 to Oct. 6 Circumstances that are our good inclusive be adopted as the week to fortune as much as theirs, have made, that they can fill their market baskets be known as "Subscribe For Your it to their interest to settle here. with better food at cheaper prices at They have established homes and Home Town Paper Week." S. E. Thompson & Son's store than It is now up to the newspapers of built for themselves many' warm any place else in International Falls. friendships. the country, the home town papers, But the "old home", the home of to see the wonderful possibilities"?}! The prices below confirm their good MJCSW&Z such a week, where in every locality childhood, is somewhere else. .Oft judgment. Look them over and be must come to them fond recollections readers will be asked to subscribe for convinced. that go back to the home of their the local weekly, and in addition to the home town paper where they W^re^ ^girlhood and their boyhood days Check your needs on this list today born—if they were not born wfieris* |)ack to the people there whom they and vou will receive them at the. sale they now live. and loved back to the scenes Knew In this way, every home town paper that were so familiar and will always will help every other home town remain intimate until the last call ial Cash Prices paper, and by concentrating the efforts arrives to still another home. to one week, or three or four It is no reflection on a man or AMERICA'S AIRSHIP DEAD •ARRIVE Nlavy Beans Eggs $ *35 Split Peas Corn Starch, 3 for..„.„..............:_r—..— ........ ..— .35 Can Mushrooms.. Com Starch, 2 for....::. -25 Cl^ili Con'Carne, 2, for .25 Sun-Brite and Kitchen Cleanser— .08 Soda Crackers* 6Vz lb. 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