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

December 28, 1922 · Page 3 of 8

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fe »*8 *XXXxx«xxxxxx BMftRD (ELECTING xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx THE INTERNATIONftL FAIAS PRESS BERLIN IMPOSES TAX GLUTTONY ON T- •_ MARGIE NEWS If-' TO RAISE FUNDS Si LITTLEFORK ITEMS WORLD WAR REOS AND BORDER BUDGET 1 1 xxxxxx ::ss»:•:*: Associated Press) & 'k'V ______ We wish one and all a Happy N.ew fL J. MINER. Editor sad Manager Berlin, Dec. 28—A tax on gluttony Kenneth Longballa -is spending a WORK OF FUTURE HISTORIANS Year., N' is tW latest method of raising funds —4- few days' vacation at the parental •rj:.'."*. WILL BE FACILITATED BY to be devised by, the municipality of mm Metered at the Peat Oflee at ^atenatloaal Fall*, Mlaa^ Seeoad-Claaa Matter home. COLLEGE COLLECTION' Gus Lindberg left Saturday to Berlin. t* spend Chjistmasat Laporte with his Gluttony is defined in the regulations VirgiL Gregg, who? is attending'the SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.QD FOREIGN, $2^0 PER YEAR (By Associated Press) friends there. as excessive consumption of food teachers' college at Bemidji, is home 28. The Cambridge, Mags.,.Dec. on drink, and the fact of excess is determined for the holidays. N orthwestern AdTertuing Representatives Mrs. T. Smith and children^came Harvard university library has made by the cost of the meal. The .i home last Thursday from Irontqn. She effective progress in accumulating Minnesota Select List figure in marks at which the gluttony The Misses Iris and Beth Parmeter is much improved in health. data of the World war which will enable begins is to t)e fixed and announced 709 Exchange Bank ^g|^, 21S South Cth Street and their brother, Dean, were callers- the historian of the future to determine monthly. The cost of eating in excess St. Paul Minneapolis in town Saturday, enroute to the the exact disposition of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Burns left last of this amount will be taxed at Waukanha for the Christmas vacation. opposing military forces at all tim^s •Friday to spend Christmas with Mrs. the rate of 25 per cent. throughout the period of active fighting. Burns' parents at Palisades. They will ADVERTISING AS A TOURIST SPUR Detailed maps and airplane pfiotographs also visit in Duluth. EXPLORERS PREPARE The Christmas program at the Baptist form' an important part of TO FIGHT FOR BENEFITS church on Monday evening was Mrs. l^cHugo was quite sick all last the collection. FROM DISCOVERIES well rendered. The growth of the- Minnesota tourist business is just one more week. She is improving slowly. An official of the library, explaining concrete proof that it pays to advertise and to be painstaking in the the collection recently, pointed out (Special to The Press) Missionary Gregg and wife have showing of good's. that the fighting in France was in a Mr. Erickson's two sisters, Lena and London, Dec. 28.—Dispatches from been very busy the past week wrapping the region of which the French government Anna Erickson, came to spend Up to very recent years the charms of this state for the tourist Egypt say tjiat the American and and shipping many parcels of had prepared detailed ,maps, Christmas holiday^ here, and we understand' English explorers engaged in unearthing and the vacationist were left largely to take care of themselves, to Christmas articles to needy ones in his showing houses, woods, fields, brooks, they have decided to make ancient cities and other relics of large parish of Koochiching county. speak their own message to the world. If outsiders found them, contours and every other feature. their home here, and will live in the bygone civilization, are preparing to. liked them and were lured thither by them year after year,^well and house near the mill. "For the most part," he continued, appose the.law understood„to be in Rev. K. O. Waage spent Sunday at good, but that Was about all the business had to depend on to stimulate "the trench warfare was sufficiently process of drafting cutting them oft International Falls. static to make it possible for the intelligence Quite a number of people were lri from anj benefit in the discovery o! its growth. department of each army town Saturday from Caldwell Brook. relics. It is very different now. These summer playground delights, Our local teachers have all gone to to prepare exact maps revealing the Native officials are understood to and these lovely drives, are still excellent publicity agents for themselves, ^their respective homes for Christmas precise layout of enemy trenches, and Mrs. King of Wisconsin is visiting hold the view that all relics and other vacations. but th«y are being supplemented by the kind of advertising a to a great extent disposition of machine her sister, Mrs. Wilson, during the evidences of former life in E&ypt is manufacturer or~li merchant does to expand his business. Results holidays. guns, artillery, etc. The mechanical government property and as such foreigners H. Rose was a caller at the Falls processes of making such maps iiave been quick and flattering. The tourist business in 1922 showed should be barred from any Tuesday. from week to week or from day to day participation in profits arising irom Mrs. Jarvis was, a business visitor a large increase over that of 1921. reached, during the war, a perfection their discovery. in Bemidji last week. Tourist traffic and resort business in Minnesota are just now Chas. Choate and Abe Olson were hitherto unknown.' county seat visitors Tuesday. acquiring the status and the momentum to which they would have "The historian of the future will be Mr. Shelton has returned from Minneapolis RADIO HELPS THE attained years ago if systematic attention had been given to nurtui able to take the French maps of their and is now clerking in FISHERMEN FIND THE TEST FOUNDATIONS ing them. With a continuance of the present stimuli—which include own and of the enemy's lines in a certain Childs' store. -j HERRING SCHOOLS AT SEA sector and the German maps of OF POSTOFFICE FOR publicity, "satisfied customers" and increasingly attractive their own and of the French lines, ail The school program and Christmas (By-Associated Press) ADDITIONAL STORIES roads—the years to come are bound to show the expansion over the of which were prepared at frequent tree jvas a huge success. Some say Gothenburg, Dec. 27.—Th,e radiophone present year that the present year has shown over its predecessors. intervals, and by comparing them will is becoming a serious menace to the exercises-were the best ever held (Special to Evening Tribune) There must, however, be no let-down in the advertising of Minnesota's be able to see exactly how the warfare here. They were greatly enjoyed by the safety of the herring off the Swedish Chicago, Dec. 28.—Federal engineers in that sector progressed. He will not charms to the world!. If there should be such a lapse, the business everybody. coast. The fishrmen out at sea are testing the foundations of the Chicago have to depend, as the historian of soon will be told from the Gothenburg inevitably will languish. postoffice. It is planned to remodel former wars depended, partly on peisonal Miss Armstrong left Friday evening ra^io central the exact location of the the present inadequate building An interesting analysis of Minnesota's tourist trade was printed recollections and impressions or for Humboldt to ^pend her vacation. herring schools. This unique service, to twenty-seven stories, giving Chicago in last Sunday's Tribune. Ivan Coppe, secretary of the Ten Thousc where such and such a charge took which will tend to eliminate wasteful its tallest skyscraper and the and Lakes of Minnesota Association, after exhaustively sifting all plafcfe, and where the lines ran during The Misses Pettis and Foley left waiting on the part of the fishermen, government its largest building. such a week., the evidence at his disposal (the subject is one, naturally, which rather Saturday for their homes at Littlefork and will doubtless mean a considerable For many years the Chicago postoffice "We already have a large collection and Happyland, respectively. eludes statictics), has arrived at the conclusion that 500,000 persons increase in the catches of herring, is has been considered inadequate of such maps, in addition to hundreds the newest commercial use to which for the needs of the department ana spent their vacations in Northern Minnesota during the summer of books and documents relating to Miss Beryl Jarvis spent last Friday the wireless telephone will be put in all efforts to remodel of -increase the of 1922, and that,i in the~ aggregate, they expended not less than military, economic and political conditions at home, leaving in the evening for Sweden, according to plans just completed. facilities have been frustrated. The $25,000,000. in the warring countries, ranging California. department has had to rent buildings The figures are arresting enoligh as they.Stand, and yet it must from complete files of'parole,' the While merchant vessels have for in all parts of the city in order to care Germany publication, official casualty Mrs. Tuttle was the winner of the Nfor its mail business, and various federal be understood that they are less significant as an achievement than some time been required by law to lists and files of airplane photographs/ big doll that was given away before carr^ wireless* equipment, the smaller departments are now using rented as a promise. Minnesota's tourist travel is stil^in its infancy. The to collections of war posters and official Christmas by Leo Ccrteau. quarters fishing vessels have hitherto operated in the loop. rate at which it is growing may be inferred from the fact that the memoranda. We have a complete without systems of communication The remodeling of the present structure written inquiries jumped from 4,717 in 1921 to 6,430 in 1922. The set of the official proclamations with-the land. They will now receive Mr. Foote has tt^Oved out of town and'increase of floor space would popular interest in Northern Minnesota is increasing at so rapid a issued by Germany's government from weather reports, forecasts, and news, enable the government to house all its and is now chief cook at McHugo's June, 1914, to the armistice, and are pace that one can only wonder what it will-be in another decade. as well as the radio tips regarding the camp.- activities in the one building. now acquiring the German confidential, appearance of the herring. Worth thinking about, too, is the fact that 75\per cent of the review of the foreign press. Plans are on foot to distribute news to the lakes came by motor, while 25 pqr cent travel Minnesota only A Thrill in This Spill "In getting material from Germany in Sweden by radio telephone. Experiments of it came by rail. Here, certainly, is ample vindication of Minnesota's we have been greatly aided by Ellis L. are being made from Stockholm wisdom in laying out her comprehensive road program. The Dresel, former American commissioner as a center. at Berlin, who is a Harvard graduate, real summer traveler is clearly the automobilist, and nothing makes MINNESOTA TO HAVE so strong a bid for* the affections of the automobilist as a good road. DELEGATES AT LIBRARY "We are trying, with the assistance We may be confident that tourists will continue flocking to Minnesota CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO of friends of the university and otheis in greater and greater numbers as the roads improve. The British \yho- have valuable material at (By Associated Press) axiom, "Trade Follows the Flag," may be paraphrased into a their disposal to build up not Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 28—Adoption "The Follows the Road." Minnesota axiom, Tourist merely an entertaining assortment of minimum standards of education of war documents, but a working collection The figures set forth by Mr. Coippe afford plenty of reason for and experience for librarians in S of Source material which will satisfaction with the development of our tmirist travel., But they communities desiring their certification a -/wis-,. be of positive value to those in the future should only serve to spur Minnesotans on to renewedxefforts. The will be urged at the meeting in BB586* who may wish to study the pre-v Chicago, of the council of the American main work has already been Gone by nature all Minnesotans have to cise progress of events and their underlying Library Association, by Frank K. do is resolutely to put on the finishing touches. causes throughout the war.* Walter, librarian at the University of Minnesota and chairman of the committee No Wonder the World Has a Headache appointed %on the subject. He will preside at two round table sessions of tht council. The recommendation was made as Several horses went down for nasty tumbles in the steeplechase the result of several years discussion race at Gatwick, England. Here Is Ballinahown falling heavily but among members of the association of without injuring himself or his rider. the advisability of adopting a system of certification of librarians, Mr. Walter said. The advocates of the movement were of the opinion that if the certificates were required for librarians in the same manner as are teachers, the professional librarians in time would be limited £o those with real qualifications for' the work. Instead of applying the recommendation on a statewide basis, which would require state legislation, the committee urged the setting of minimum standards of education and experience in individual localaties desiring certificates of librarians. I- 7^ TOM SIMS SAYS Nice thing about winter is you can lay off coihgress and cuss the poor This Hoard Would Have roads. I? Doubled in Value Zaharoff, the world's richest man, is 1 a woman hater, so some will say that is why he is the richest man. Deposited this bank at 4 per cent interest hoarded "money which has lain idle for years would have doubled in There is a lot of money in working, value instead of merely accumulating dust and cobwebs. but it is hard to get. Money need not be buried in old walls or cellars to be hoardedL It. is hoarded money if* it is^idle money, useless Johnny Weismuller has broken several money. -T records in swimming, which The safest way to make your money work f'pr you and makes Joljnny a pool shark. the community is to'deposit it in the bank, where it is safe, interest, and helps build up the local community, thus draws Haste doesn't make as much waste enhancing^he value ot your property. as waste makes haste. The First National Bank What's in a name?^ In Vermont, a big dairy is owned by a Mr. Bovine. International Falls, Minn. *J A horse race is always attended by a monkeyace.