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“* Duvicas for Hanging Up ‘the Little Thinge™* Moore Push-Pins Moore Push-Points Mooz Push-Tacks Moore Push-Buttons v-mm.um umc-.........n:: ?‘f’ o iber 1 th s mnrllv !YEEL m-m Tnlluulmn o poands g When you are ‘in need of tea or coffee do not forget the Bemidji Tea Store, Phone 423. & F. J. Dunwoody, who resides near Bass Lake, returned home Saturday night after spending the day on business in this city. Nels Otterstad, the postmnster at Turtle River, spent Saturday on busi- ness in this city and returned home on the evening ‘train. Oscar Johnson of Turtle River en- joyed a short pleasure visit in the city Saturday and returned home on ARTS . |the M. & I. train Saturday evening. MISS DICKINSON P. N. Brondby, a prosperous farmer living near Bass Lake, re- TANO PLAYING 3 ART 0‘5 immg AVE. turned home Saturday night after T spending the -day among the mer- MRS. JOHN R. STEWART chants in this city. Instruction on Piano, Pipe| Regular meeting of the city Organ and Harmony council this evening. Probably 600 Bemidjl Ave. Phoue No.9 | will be an interesttng meeting, with the mayor's message and other ————————————————business of importance. FRANK. A.J ACKSON Oliver Erickson of Littlefork en- LAWYER joyed a short combined business and BEMIDJI - MINN | pleasure visit in the city Saturday, D H. returning home on the M. & I. pas- Atto ney and Counsellor at Law | seoger train in the evening. Office over Post Office Mrs. J. G. Morrison, Jr., of Red Lake came in Saturday morning and spent a few hours shopping among the local stores. She returned home Saturday afternoon on the Red Lake train. e You 4T HERE'S A PIN~PUSH ITIN For Sale at The Pioneer Office PROFESSIONAL CARDS LAWYER . E.E McDonaAlg LATTORNEL AT LAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Dr. Rowland Gilmore d Surgeon Phyllulnn ll Mrl Miss May Keefe came over Satur- day afternoon from her home at Casg —__—'M Lake and yisited with Mrs. A: G. e Pl;‘lyue'in§naAn§Nson§gcon Rutledge until Sunday noon, return- ,”omn In Nayo Block | one 397 |ing home on the G. N. passenger Phone yesterday. | LocAL HAPPENINGS J. Bisiar, the piano man, left on this morning’s train for a short busi- ness visit-at Laporte, Birch wood, jack pine and tamarac, four foot and sixteen inch. Hayth wood yard, rear of P. O. block. Thomas Kerrick of this city, who travels for a tailoring company, went to St. Cloud this morning for a short business trip. Don’t forget the special meeting of the Bemidji Lodge of Elks to be held this evening, at the Masonic hall. All Elks who can should at- tend. F. J. Egan of Brainerd, chief engi- neer on the M. & I,, came in this morning from Big Falls and ‘spent today on business for the company in Bemidji. A temperance rally will be held Tuesday evening in the Methodist church to which the public is cordi- ally invited. Admission, ten and For Sale—My shares ‘of stock in the Record Pub. ‘Co. Address E. J. Taylor, Blackduck. H. O. Budd, the horse dealer of Beltrami, was a guest “atthe Mark- hain hotel yesterday. ’ Oren Noble came in from Kelli- her this morning for a short visit with relatives in Bemidji. Miss Julia Bowe came in this morning from her home near Kelli= her for a short visit with friends and relatives in this city. 75 John Wilson of this city left this morning on a cruising trip in the vicinity of Kabekona Gulch, near Laporte, for the Red River Lumber company. A temperance rally’ will be “held Tuesday evening in the Methodist church to which the public'is ‘cordi- ally invited. Admusmn, ten and twenty cents. Frank Van Tassle, proprietor of one of the hotels at Turtle River was an arrival on this morning’s train who spent the day. tmnsactmg busi ness in the city. twenty cents. Matt Jones of Northome, one of the north country’s good fellows, came in Saturday evening on the M. & I. freight train for a short busi- ness visit here. Dr. R. Gumbol and M. Carl Miller two residents of Fosston, came in yesterday noon for a few hour’s visit in the city and returned home on the afternoon train. Attorney ‘George H. Spear of Grand Rapids came over from his home Saturday afternoon and spent several hours in the ity looking after some legal matters. He return- ed to the “Rapids” on the night train. A. Garling, a well known cruiser residing at Grand Rapids, came L. A. W ARD’ M. D. Ole Anderson, proprietor of the Lakeshore hotel in ' this city, re- otice National Bank. Phone No. 51 g "“nm__——— turned on the M. & I. passenger House No. 601 Lake Blvd. Phone No. as1 Dr. A. E. Henderson Physician and Surgeon Office over First Natlonal;Bank, Bemidji, Minn Office Phone 36. Residence Phone 72 Experienced Nurse. train Saturday night from Laporte, wheré he spent a few days on business, Reverend Astwood, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Big Falls, returned home Saturday evening Anyone in need of an ex- on the M: & I. train after enjoying perienced nurse inquire at a day’s visit with Reverend White MRS. A. BUELL, 613 2nd St. |of this city. *Mrs. James Halliday -and Miss Irene Crowell of this city went to DR. D. L. STANTON |Turtle River Saturday evening on DENTIST th‘e M & I train 'I!!d- spent-“Sunday Office 1n Winter Block with relatives, returning to Bemidji this morning. DR.J.T.T DENTISTS. UOMY Charles Jacobson of Tenstrike Dentist came in Saturday morning and st National Bank Bu I4'g. Telephene No. 230 | secured a fine deer’s head which he had mounted by one of the local taxidermists, returning home on tl;e DRAY AND TRANSFER. Wes Wright, evening train. Dray and Transfer. R.C. Hayner of Tenstrike re- s B'l__ A“ turned home Saturday night on the down this morning from a short cruising trip in the vicinity: of Northome and returned to the “Rap- ids” on the east-bound train this noon. A. Jones, who owns a “refresh- ment parlor” at Laporte, came up Saturday evening for a short busi- ness trip to the city and spent Sun- day in Bemidji, returning to Laporte on this morning’s train. Mr. Jones likes Bemidji and may move here next summer. Mrs. Howard Dea and little son, |2 John, of this city departed on the south-bound M. & I. passenger train this morning for Minneapolis where they will visit at Mr. Dea’s old home. They were accompanied as far as Brainerd by Mr. Dea who will return on this evening’s train. J.-H. Beagle of Duluth, a public | « land examiner, came in Saturday afternoon from Bena and spent Sun- north-bound 'passenger train, after visiting a day with friends in this " |city and attending to a few local business ‘matters, W. K. Knight of this city, a scale inspecter for theBemidji Lumber Co., departed Saturday evening on the north-bound - passenger - train for Northome " to look after some work for his company. Mr. and Mrs. John Goodman- and Mrs. Wasbburn of this city ‘returned Saturday evening on ‘the M. & I. passenger train from Minneapolis, where they have been enjoying a short visit with friends and relatives. Dray and '-1“ Phone No. BISIAR & MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTORS Dayphone 319. Nignt phones 115, 434 Calls Answered at All Hours Charles Swedback; who is engaged in the “‘wet goods” business ‘in" this city, went to Big Falls Saturday evening to make preparations -for moving his family to' Bemidji. *Mr. Swedback returned on this morning’s train. Harry C. Hilliard of Reynolds, N. D, arrived in the city Saturday noon and’ left on the evening train for International Falls to assume’ the duties of assistant cashier in the w t A d s International State Bank at the an | border town. Paul Lawrence, one of the hotel keepers at Big Falls who was' badly burned: there about two months ago and later brought to the St. An- FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR CBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. safficiently recovered Saturdayzfrom theeffects of his burns to go' to the “Falls” and spend Sunday, -returned to the city this morning. Miss Mae - Shook of Northonte, who is teaching in the village schools = at Tenstrike, came in Saturday Ploneer morning and spent the day visiting with her brother, William, as a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Tuller of this city. ‘Miss Shook went to Northome Saturday evening for an over-Sunday visit at her home ing. ' PILESCUREDINGTO 14 DAYS 4 PAZO OINTHENT 18 lnl!lnmd 10 cure any thony’s hospital in this city, was| and returned ‘to Tenstrike this morn-| day in this city. His son, W. J., arrived in Bemidji yesterday after- noon from Duluth and they left this morning on the M. & I train for Pine River where they will look over some state land. Thomas S. Ervin, ‘who “sells the productions of the H. C. Ervin com- pany, came to-town” Saturday and visited here over Sunday. Mr. Ervin is one of the best hustling drummers ‘who ‘‘make” this north territory, and he is justly popular with the retail trade as well as private citizens hereabouts. M. L. Griffiths of Crookston, the general agent for the German-Ameri- can Life Insurance company, was a visitor in the city Saturday. “Griff” is one of the best insurance hustlers in the northwest and all the life insurance companies give him credit for being in the front row of the “live ones” who get the business. Mrs. Belle Markham and her son, Dan Rose of Northome, the north- country pulpman for the Watab Paper company, came in this morn- ing from Northome for a short busi- ness visit in Bemidji. John Carlson, who clerks in the M. & I. office of Roadmaster Mills i this city, left on/the south-bound passenger train for St. Paul where they will “ spend - a few days on busi- ness. £ George Kirk, of the logging firm of Crombie & Kirk who. operate near Northome, came in “this morn- ing from the company’s camps where he was looking after the work for the company. ~The children of the Methodist church will hold a temperance rally in the church Tuesday evening when a fine program of mucic and declara- tions will be rendered. ‘Admission, ten and twenty cents. Mrs. George McDonald; wife of conductor McDonald who' runs on the Funkley-Kelliher branch of the M. & I., came in this morning and FOUND cuLry weighing. Imports. - — VERDICT FOR GOVERNMENT United States Awarded $134,118 Dam: ages in Unpaid Customs Dutles, the Full Amount Sued For—Testimony Introduced to Show. That Fraud- ulent Devices Were Attached o] Scales. New York, March 6.—A ' verdict awarding the United 'States govern- ment $134,116 damages in unpaid cus- toms duties from the American Sugar Refining company was rendered by a Jury which heard charges af mis- welghing sugar imports. The verdict rendered was for'the full amount sued for by the govern- ment on the contention that this sum was due through underweighing by the company’s.employes of sugar im- ports on the "company’s Brooklyn docks. Testimony was adduced to show that fraudulent devices had been attached to the scales there, causing them to register less than the true weight. A motion for a'mew trial was de- || nied and counsel for the defendant prepare their case on appeal, which, it was announced, would be taken. Disappearing Home Life. The flat dweller ought not to keep a- dog, prefers not to keep a cat, cannot have a garden, has no chance of keep ing house, has no possible place for memories and, most emphatic ot all, bas no use or flccommodatlon for babies. Although it may be possible: to make homes without kittens o1, bables or flowers or ‘memories or cupboards, -the spirit of homeé'ls hard to woo and win without any of them.— Fortnightly Review. ' AI.L WRUNG. The Mistake is Mnde by Many Bemldn " Citizens. is visiting friends in this city as a|’ guest at the home of Mrs. J. J. Mc- Lauchlin, Deputy Sheriff Andrew Johnson went to Kelliher Saturday evening to serve papers in- some civil cases and for a brief visit at his Homestead in the Battle River country. Mr. Johnson returned - to' the city | this morning. “Mike” Hensler, who clerks in the City Drug store, came in this morning. from :Blackduck where he had been helping E. N.. French to inyoice during the last” ten days. Mike” will go to Akeley tomorrow morning on business, William O’Neil, ' superintendent of logging on “the 'Chippéwa reser- vations, under the provisions of the Morris Chippewa law, and Les- ter Bartlett, register of the U.S. land office at -Cass Lake, were in the city - Saturday evening,'from Cass Lake. . We 'were not given any information as to the: ‘import of the visit of the gentlemen, who returned to Cass Lake the same night. : ‘ PREPARING THEIR DEMANDS Anthracite District Officers Meet at Wilkesbarrs, Pa. Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 6.—The anthracite district officers of the Unit- ed Mine Workers of America are in session here with Thomas L. Lewis, the national president, and about Halt of the forty natlonal organizers row In the hard coal flelds golng over their demands and arranging to sub: mit them to the operators. Despite the denials made Mr. Lewis admitted that he had seen President Baer of the Reading company in Philadelphis, Walter, departed this morning; ‘and will be absent from Bemidji for three or four weeks to come. Mrs. Markbam: goes to Barron, Wis., where she will visit with relatives. Walter will go to Greensboro, N. C., where he is interested in a gold- mining proposition, jointly with J. W. Irvin, formerly of this city. Walter will spend about a month at Greensboro, looking over the mine enterprise, from which he ex- pects big results in the near future. Miss Lizzie Murphy, ‘daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Murphy of Marquette Lake, came over from Crqokston Friday night and visited at the old home over Sunday. - Miss Murphy has been taking a course in stenography and and typewriting at the Crookston College, and expects to ' graduate from that “institution but he declined to say what was dis- cusged at the conference. - It {s under- stood, however, that his sole purpose -of calling on Mr. Baer was to arrange for a conference with all the oper- ators In New York ” probably’ mext week, INCREASE OF 138 PER CENT Building Permits of .February, 1909, Over Same Month Last Year. Chicago, March 6—Building opera- tions are now upon such an extensive scale that they tommand attention be- cause of the large and increasing vol- ume of money- which fs finding its way Into inyestments in this class of securities, according to advance sheets of the-Construction: News. This au thority. states that during the month of February permits were taken out in forty-four of the leading cities of this country for the construction ot 10,008 buildings, involving $48,396,246, agalnst 7,130 bulldings for thei'same Don’t mistake the cause of back'- ache. To_be cured you . must know the’ cause: Itis wrong-to imagine relief is cure. : : Backache is kidney ache. Yon must cure the kidneys. A Bemidji resident télls you how this can be done. Clyde Johnson, living at 1014 Bemidji,Ave., Bemidji, Minn., says: “For some time I endured a great deal of suffering from kidney com- plaint. . There was a painin- my back and during - the early. part of the day T felt languid and " tired. 1 remedy, went to The Owl Dmg Store, and procured' a box-of Doan’: s VKld- ney Pills. I used them according to ed and the med languid feeling vanished. I know Doan’s Kidney Pills to be a reliable remedy and recomend them ' to anyone suffering from kidney. complaint. 50 cents.. Foster-Milburn 'Co. | Buffalo, New. York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—-Doans and take no other. Convicted by Jury of Under-| were given sixty days in which tof] decided to try a reliable kidney|" directions, when the pains dlsappear- : For sale by all dealers. Price| E. N. French - R. F. Pepple. City DRUC. STORE. 116 Third Street. PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY AND ACCURATELY COMPOUNDED Night Calls Cheerfully Answered Store Phone 52° Residence Phone 205 » Ghe Tailor Suits made to order. Cleaning and pressing given special attention, . New spring samples. 320 Beltrami Ave, Bemidji, Minn. The Chicago Restaurant 'Ameri'ca‘nv and Chinese Style. Evt-ry orler given our careful attantlou and cooked to suit you Give us a trial. LEE & GOM Merchants Hotel Block . . . .... PEPPER & PATTERSON Wholesale Liquor Dealers “We are in a p~s1t.10n 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 ~qua'ity and prices of goods. < We are also distributors ‘of the famous “Cedar Brook” Whiskey. PEPPER & PATTERSON, Bemldji, an. Lumber and Building Material - We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and bu.fldmg material of all descnptlone. ~ fancy gla.ss doors. We have, a largeand “well assorted stock from which you can “make your selectxon. WE SELL lG-lNCB SLAB-WOOD . ! St Illlalre Retail Lbr. Co. - BEMIDJI, MINN. month a year ago, aggregating in cost. $20,287,931, an increase this year of 2,878 buildings and IIS 108,815, or 188 per cent. sometime during the month of April. assisting'the teaching.corps at the college, and has gained much insight]| B Pilbs a6t (L dave o monesreint ST into commercial *'doings” therebf Miss Murphy returned. to Croohton Of late, Miss Murphy .has been| Well ‘Known Architect Dead. Detrolt, March ‘6.—Colonel B. 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