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..NOTICE. REPAIRIN G When you are in need of tea or THIS IS THE CHEAREST PLACE IN THECITY | coffee do not forget the Bemidji Tea Store, Phone 423, Men’s Sewed Soles, $1 o Nels Otterstad, the postmaster at Men’s Nailed Soles, 786¢c 2 ) S8 P Turtle River, spent Saturday look- Rubber Heels that ing after some business matters won’t slip.. ..40c and returned home on the evening Repairing Done train, While You Wait N. A. Rippy, a prosperous farmer M. NURICK living in the northern part of our county, left Saturday evening for 207 Beltrami Avenue, Opposite Hotel Markham | his home near Spooner after serving’ on the grand jury. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Black of this city drove out to Fowlds Saturday morning where Mr. Black trans- acted business. They returned to the city in the afternoon. ot William Gerlinger of Farley, who MISS DICKINSON (spent last week in Bemidji as a ART OF PIANO PLAYING member of the grand jury, returned 407 BELTRARI AVE, home Saturday evening to remain until the 11th of this month. MRS. JOHN R. STEWART | ¢ R, Middieton, the Baudette Instruction on Piano, Pipe|attorney, returned home Saturday Organ and Harmony evening on the M. & I train after 600 Bomldji Ave. Phoue No.9 | spending a week attending to busi- ness matters in the district court. Wanted—500 cords lath bolts. FRAN K- A. JACKSON Will pay $3.00 for balsam, spruce, PROFESSIONAL CARDS LAWYER . LAWYER Norway, white pine and jack pine BEMIDJL 7 "N llath bolts delivered at our mill D.H FISK Douglass Lumber Company, Bemidji . o Atto ney and Counsellor at Law | Minn, Orses svir ot e Miss Inez Geil of this cil;v, who E. E McDonald is teaching in a school near Black- ATTORNEY AT LAW duck, left Saturday evening for Bemid, Minn. Office: Swedbeck Block | pj, oy qick after enjoying a week’s visit at the home of her parents in this city. E. N. French, who owns a phar- macy at Blackduck, returned to the “Duck” Saturday evening after Physician and Surgeon spending two days in this city and s sae e lanias Bloek bhone 397 | attending the Masonic festivities here Friday. L. A. WARDq M. D. E. N. Farnham, who owns the Phone Nu. 1 | brickyard in this city, returned Sat- urday evening on the rorth-bound Phone No. 351 A $ 5 passenger train from Minneapolis E. Henderson |where he spent two days on business for his company. \John R. Caldwell of Cass Lake, assistant superintendent of govern- EXperienced Nurse. ment logging on the Cass Lake Anyone in need of an ex- reservation, came over from Cass perienced nurse inquire at Lake Saturday afternoon and spent MRS. A. BUELL, 613 2nd St. | several hours in Bemidji. W. R. Spears, the veteran Red Lake trader, was in the city Sat- DR. D. L, STANTON |urday from the Red Lake agency. DENTIST He came down from the agency Office in Winter Block Saturday forenoon and returned to —_ | his home on the afternoon train. DR. J . T. TUOMY W. M. Hughes of Crookston, the Dentist postoffice inspector for this district, st National Bank Bu 14'g. Telephone No. 330 | retyrned to his home at Crookston Saturday afternoon after having spent several days in this vicinity looking after some official matters for “Uncle Sam.” P. O’Neil, who lives on a home- stead near Littlefork, returned home Saturday evening after spending the day in Bemidji buying ‘supplies from the local stores to replace those he lost in the hotel fire at Big Falls several weeks ago. James L. Goodman, the El Paterno representative, came to the city Sat- urday and Sundayed at the -Mark- ham hotel. Mr. Goodman spent today hustling orders among the BISIAR & MURPHY |merchants of the city who handle FUNERAL DIRECTORS his line of goods and with whom he Dayphone 319. Nignt phones 118, 434 | is very popular. Calls Answered at All Hours J. F. Mogan of Northome returned home Saturday evening on the M. & I, train after a short business visit in the city. When asked as to what he had been doing here, “‘J. F.” replied that he had been attending to his duties as second 'baseman for the Moonlight League. J. A. Wessel, the candy man, spent Sunday ‘in Bemidji and left this morning for Cass Lake, with the intention of spending a few lonesome hours in that berg. He intended to pass through the city this afternoon enroute to Crookston, on his regular PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Dr. Rowland Gilmore d Surgeon Phyllolnn n.n” ‘m‘ DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. Otfice over First National Bank. House No. 601 Lake Bivd. Dr. A. Physician and Surgeon Otfica over First National Bank, Bemidji, Mjnn Office Phone 36. Residence Phone 72 DENTISTS. DRAY AND TRANSFER. Wes anht Tran ey o 404 Bsmml Avl Phone 40. Tom Smart Dray andesuse: | S8 America Ave: 084257 203w o, & Solld glass, detachable spring. JAMES ADAIR PITTSBURG, PA, For 8ale at THE PIONEER OFFICE YOU OWE it to your family; a means of instant, certain and inexpensive communication wita the outside world. Order the Northwestern DR.KING'S NEW DISCOVERY- Will Surely Stop That Cough. Kodol Ilyspepsla Gure Digests what you cat. trip to the towns between here and Crookston. E. 0. Moore, of the logging firm of E. O. Moore & Co. of this city, left Saturday evening on the M. & I. train for his camps near Northome where he spent Sunday and returned this morning. Mr. Moore has ap- pointed Osborn Pond, a well known logger, to have charge of his camps near Northome, Professor A. P. Ritchie returned to the city Saturday night on the M. & I train from St. Paul where he spent the week putting forth every effort to get the passage of a general bill in the legislature establishing a sixth normal 'school in northern Minnesota. Mr. thchxe has done most excellent work “down Blrch wood jack pme and tnmnrlc, four foot and sixteen inch. Hayth wood yard, rear of P. O. block. J. F. Essler went to Walker this morning in the interest of the Min- neapolis Brewing company. Eric Ives, the genial proprietor of the Bazaar store, went to Bagley yes- terday for an over-night’s visit with friends. Mrs. W. R. Mackenzie arrived in the city Saturday evening from Min- neapolis, where she has spent the past few weeks. The lady who left her muff at my home last Monday may have same by calling on the undersigned. Mrs. W. A. McDonald. Louis St. John was a Tenstrike visitor among the business men of the city Saturday, returning on the evening train to his farm near the “Strike.” % Miss Beaulah Brannon of this city went to Northome Saturday night on the M. & I. train and spent Sun- day with friends, returning to the city this morning. Matt Jones, the liquid dealer of Northome, came down from his home this morning and will remain until tomorrow, looking after some business matters. Thomas Kerrick, of this city, who travels for the Brady-Fryan com- pany of Chicago, left Saturday even- ing for a business trip to Tenstrike and other towns up the line. Miss Maud Allard of Crookston arrived in the city Friday noon for-a short visit ‘with her sister, Miss Ida who is a memder of the Pioneer’s excellent staff of compositors. Reverend Koltse, of the Norwegian Lutheran church of this city, went to Turtle River Saturday evening and held services there yesterday morning, returning to Bemidji yes- terday afternoon. H. Stechman, a well knownresident of Tenstrike, returned home Satur- day night after serving as a member of the grand jury in the session of the district court which was held last week. p Ed. Peterson, formerly drink-mixer at the Hotel Markham buffet, but who has been at Bagley for some time past, was a visitor in the city yesterday. He returned to Bagley on the afternoon train. J. M. Richards ‘of the Bemidji Lumber. company, left this morning for Minneapolis, where he will look after some business matters and incidentally visit with old friends for the balance of the week. John McDougall, one of the promi- nent real estate dealers of Blackduck spent Saturday in the city paying his taxes at the court house and looking after other business matters, returning home on ‘the evening train, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Amundson, who have made their home at Interna- tional Falls for some time past, were passengers on the south-bound M. & L train this morning, being on their way to Milton, Oregon, where they will hereafter reside. James Wilson, representative for the Walker & Akeley Logging com- pany, left this morning for Laporte and from that place will go out to look over some timber for his com- pany. Mr. Wilson will return some- time towards the end of the present week. Mrs. Charles Swedback and family returned to Big Falls Saturday even- 'fng after enjoying a day’s visit with Mr.. Swedback in- this city. Mr. Swedback will move his family "to] this: city within a few weeks and will live over the Model Bakery- “Matt” Jones of Northome came in Saturday morning and met his sister and Mrs. John Phalin, who came in on the afternoon train from a few days’ visit with friends in Deer River. They returned to Northome on the M. & L train Saturday even- ing. Misses Mildred Woodruff and Anna Mills returned to their teach- ing in the schools near Turtle River Saturday evening after enjoying the .appear. “welcomed the I and very lan- guld mald who came in oue morning to wipe up the floor. ‘Some one new to talk to, 80 no time was lost. “] have not seen you working around here ‘before. Aren’t you a new girl?”’ Edmonia willingly let the ‘cloth slip back into the bucket and sat flat upon the floor before answering, “Yas'm, I's new. I's jest washin’ up de floor... But I don’t work. I's edji- kated.” “And .where were you educated?” was the next question. “In a seminary.” Then, with a burst of confidence: “There was me an’ an- other girl workin’ in a house. She was cook, an’ I was chambermaid, an’ we had great times about who would git de prize, but'I beat” Then, after a pause, “She was easy to beat, ’cause she got smothered to death with gas de night before de ’zaminations come off.”—Cleveland Leader. of Poets. inum street before his house one morning, Robert Brown- ing, the poet, went to his window and saw a great crowd gazing at some Chinamen in gorgeous costumes who were just leaving their carriages to mount his steps. Presently they were announced as the Chinese minister at the court of St. James and his suit. A solemn presentation having taken place, Browning said to the interpreter, “May I ask to what I am indebted for the honor of his excellency’s visit?’ The dnterpreter replied, “His excellen- cy 1s a poet in his own country.” Thereupon the two poets shook hands heartily. Browning then said, “May I ask to what branch of poetry his ex- ' cellency devotes himself?” To which the interpreter answered, “His excel- lency devotes himself to poetical enig- mas.” At this Browning, recognizing fully the comic element in the situa- tlon, extended his hand most cordially, saying: “HIs excellency is thrice wel- come. He i8 a brother indeed!” When the Sun Grows Cold. Dr. Fridjof Nansen predicts the fate of the earth in the far distant future, when the sun grows cold. The sim- ple, low organisms, he says, will prob- ably live longest, until even they dis- Finally, he says, all water on the earth’s surface will freeze and the oceans will be transformed into ice to the bottom. Some. time later the car- bonic acid of the -atmosphere will be- gin to fall on the surface of the earth in the form of snow. Some time after that. the temperature on: the surface will have reached about 380 degrees below zero F. New oceans will then be formed by the atmosphere being turned into liquid, and the atmosphere of that future earth will be only hy- drogen and helfum. The sun will go through the same process. It will con- tinue in its way as a dark star through space, accompanied by the planets, - Priority. The wagons of “the greatest show on earth” passed up the avenue at daybreak. - Their incessant rumble soon awakened ten-year-old Billle and his five-year-old brother Robert. Their mother feigned sleep as the two white Tobed figures crept past her bed into the hall on the way to investigate. Robert struggled manfully with the unaccus- tomed task of putting on his clothes. “Wait for me, Billie,” his mother heard him beg. “You'll get ahead of-me.” “Clet mother to help you,” counseled Billle, who' was having troubles of his own. Mother started to the rescue and then paused as she heard the voice of her younger, gunrded, but anxious and Insistent: “You ask her, Billie. her longer than I have. You've known Everybody's Her Luck. By a strange coincidence a muck married woman lost three husbands in succession through fatal accidents in the mine. Naturally her case excited wuch Interest, and she had many sym- pathetic callers, to all of whom she made the same reply. “Ah, yes, It's very-hard,” she gald, *but In the midst of my sorrow I've always had eomethin’ to be thankfu! for. None o’ my husbands lived long after I'd .Insured ’em, as some poot souls’ hnsbands do!”—London Graphic Exclusive to the Last. An {nstance of -exclusiveness maln- talned under difficultles is reported from the ladles’ cabin of an. Atlantic lner. ~ All were sick except one lady and a cat, which wandered uneasily about. The lady ventured to stroke the cat, remarking, “Poor pussy.” The cat was inclined to respond and eleyat ed its tail In token of good will, when from a neighboring berth came ‘in choking fones the words, “Bxcuse me, that is a private cat”—Argonaut. That Family 8keleton. ¥ .Mrs. Whistler—Tell_ me, Mary, why #t “Is that you always cry so when papa sends you to bed in the dark when you are naughty? There's no such things as ghosts, and the dark doesn’t hurt you, does it? Little Mary—No, mamma, but I’m afrald of that skeleton Mrs. Jones says we got In our cloget.—Bal- timore American. Deceitful. “I admire patience an’ self control,” sald Uncle Eben, “but when I see & man dat kin keep on smilin’ after he done bruise his thumb with a hammer I can’t help bein’ g'picious of his ca- pacity foh deceit.”—Washington Star. Few things age impossible in them- selves, It Is not o much means as ‘perseverance that is wanting to bring day at their homes in this city. Miss Inez Woodruff accompanied the girls to Turtle for a short vlslt with | them, Gus Kulander, of the firm of Brummond & Kulander of Walker, left for his home this morning after haying visited in Bemidji over Snn- day. Mr. Kulander transacted busi- ness here with W. R. Spears of the Red Lake agency, to whom Brum- mond & Kulander sold the)r Red below.” Lake store. them to a successful h«ne.—-Ror.heM« uuli!. A R _ “Smart” Manners. Aweudxmedmwdlsuwmm ‘worst behaved' If any one doflbhth!uh'nlflmlethlmllklny London policeman who -has had to grapple with. a crowd of fashionable rladies.—Nottingham Guardian, ‘Ask you dodzo your e Ask your doctor. troy da Ask your doctor. b e R bl o Does not Color the Hair geveral rods up stream, . He thought it was a mink, but when it got within a couple of yards he saw it was a wild- cat. - Without stopping to think he cast his line toward the animal and the unext instant regretted his“hasty actlon. The hook caught in the cat’s ears, and it“promptly turned and swa ard the boat. -He paddled away, but: the cat overtook the boat and proceeded to climb {n. The fisherman knocked the animal on: the head with the paddle, pnd the movement capsized the boat. Then there was a fight In the water, and the fisherman defended himself go well with the paddle that he was able to reach the shore. The wildcat fol- lowed, but a few well directed blows finished it. ‘There was a two dollar bounty on the animal, but as the fish- erman lost all his fishing tackle and had his clothing badly torn he thinks he had the worst of the bargain. At any rate, he will never again fish for & wildeat. ; PEPPER & PATTERSON | Wholesale Liquor Dealers We m'e ina posmon to supply the saloon men in Bemidji and vicinity. We carry a full line of staples and can compete with Twin City and Duluth houses on quality and prices of goods, % We are also distributors of the famous “Cedar Brook” Whiskey. PEPPER & PATTERSON, Bemidji, Minn. Too much is worse than want.—Ger man Proverb. Al we BUY A GOOD LOT Florence—I “can’t understand why E 7 Bthel married Mr. Gunson. He is old enough to be her father. Lawrence— Yes, but he is rich enough to be her husband.—Excharge. MAKES RAPID HEADWAY Add This With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and pcarcer. We still have a number of good lots in the residence part of town which will be sold on easy terms. : faei to Your Store of Knowledge. For further particular‘s write or call Kidney disease advances so rapid- ly that many a person is firmly in its grasp before aware of its progress. Prompt attention ‘should be given the slighest symptom of kidney dis- order. If there is a dull pain in the back, headaches, dizzy spellsora tired, w‘orn;out feeling, or if the ur- ine is dark, foul-smelling, irregular and attended with pain, procure a good kidney remedy at once. Your - townspeople recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills. Read the statement of this Bemidji citizen. Mrs. N. E. Crowell, living at 423 Mississippi Ave., Bemidji, Minn., says: “I have used Doan’s Kid- ney Pillsand know them to bea reliable remedy for disordered kid- neys. I was not confined to my bed, but felt very miserable. ‘I was dull and languid, and there was a constant ache in the small of my back. At times T was dizzy and these spells gave me the greatest dis- comfort. I procured Doan’s Kidney Pills at the Owl Drug Store, and they gave ‘me such great relief that I continued taking them. In return for the satisfactory result I derived from their use, I can recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills highly.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s and take no other. Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. H. A. SIMONS, Agent. Swedback Block, Bemidji. Lumber and Building Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and bwlding material of all descriptions. Call in and look over our special line of fancy glass doors. We have a large and well assorted stock from which you can make your selection. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB WOOD St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. 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