Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 4, 1912, Page 2

. delivered by carrier. THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Company. G. B. CARSON. —_— HEAROLD J. DANE, Bditor. - Tn the City of Bemidji the papers aro} Where the deliv-| vy Is freegilar please make immediate complaint to this office. Telephone 31.| Out of town subseribers will confer Tavor if they will report when they, (o mot gel their papers promptly. All papers are continued until an ex- plicit order to discontlnue is recelved, | find until arreages are paid. Subscription Rater One month, by carrier . Ome year, by ¢ ‘Three months, postage <ix Months, postage paid . Cne year, postage paid . The Weekly Pioneer. Bight pages, containing the news of the ws ery Thursday any addr RED AS SECOND CLA 4 AT THE POSTOFFICE MIDJI, MINN., UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, summary Published and sent postage pakl 50 in advance. TE: Will they have some chicken music ar he High School tomorrow evening? | When they mark the women get the vote will baliot that best matches their dress? l This is the Fourth of March. Who will be taking the oath of office of president of the United States one vear from today? | 1t is worse than useless for a farm- er to plow and cultivate his corn and then find that only hall his erop has come up. You can know in advance if the grain will grow. fi [n a great many small villages and in certain localities in every town ~back-fence gossip” is the principal Each day | next-door teature of every-day life. the reputation of the neighbor is gone over carefully with a | fine- tooth comb and changed to sui[} the mental disposition of the gossip-| or Many people in these communities | apparently thrive on gossip, hearsay and petty lawsunits. Pitching horse- <hoes and looking up the past life of | ihe occasional visitor are the prinei-| pal diversions. No one owns any-| thing or has anything except time—, and to these people time has absol- utely no value. i The one principal idea seems to stand out above everything | which | vlse is for each person to consume asi much time as possible in doing noth- then explaining it to his Out of these conditions evolve the petty or siyster lawyer. the hoodlum and the “tuff.” ing and neighbors. air is| always favorable to any new Story| The news must be spread and to meet this de- mand certain messengers make it| In these communities the Jealing with veputations. their business to carry all the “she «aids,” ~he saids” and “they saids’”| to the particular place where they| will start the most trouble, do the| most trouble, do the most harm and| create the greatest number of | enemies. These people are the victims of too| much time—they simply have noth- Idleness constitutés the ing to do. principal part of their every-day lite, Everyone is just about on a| par and the fact that no one aims or intends to be anybody in particular sets the community adrift in a sea of gossip. | The greatest harm that can come; to anyone here is to have nothing to| do. 1t produces more dissatisfaction, | more unhappiness, more displeasnre_: and more disease than any other one| perhaps, over-\ cating and bad air. The professional gossip, like the professional gambler, rhing-—excepting, | which | characteristics distinguish him, He reads nothing worth while,! thinks no beautiful thoughts, absorbs | none of the finer quaiities of other people, shows no initiaive or origin y in anything he may do or say. has certain account for 1911% during 1912. Let US_tell YOU about per cent. office or by our Bemidji re 620 Capital B, ST. PAUL The ‘gossiper is at heart an fdler— ubiiehed every alternoon oxcept Stn- ldle hands, if bossible, and tdle brains day By the Bemidil Pioneer Publishing ! plways—ftor ihen hands and brains £, - pENy. | Gre usefully i work, too much {home here for the price iand a great deal of what you buy is BEGIN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Have YOU figured ip YOUR PROFIT and LOSS Why not deeide to “CUT OUT” the LOSS items ONE of the most common “LO! to OWN YOUR OWN HOME. MIDJI— on a LARGE or SMALL scale and quote pric2s on husiness and residence lots in this, up-to-date city— either kind can be bought on our EASY PAYMENT PLAN. SMALLCASH payment—balance monthly at 8 COMPLETE information regarding the city and county will be cheerfully furnished npon request to this BAILEY, located in Postoffice Block. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. employed the microbe™ cannot live. *gossip The protessional business gossip usually has a chum— and chums will - always bear watching. A big business man has sald “chums pool | their weaknesses, and he is strongest who stands alone.” When two em- ployees become particularly “chum-| vou will find that each has cer- tain weakness which are emphasized by association. | Whatever else may be said a[!‘ gossip in a modern business office, the gossiper and the gossipee usually my succeed in getting themselves into very serious trouble because they do so many things not specified in their| contract. The professional gossip i a friend to everyone who will lend an ear to what he has to say. The pro-} fessional office gossip always has “in- side information;” always knows| what (e plans of the management | are, but fails to discover definite plans for his position to be filled ns‘ quickly as someone worth while can | be found fto take his place. in the modern business office the atmospheric conditions are against | mueh useful | gossip. There is too happiness 4nd too R B A much system. So in the last analysis, gossip is; merely a form of disease, both bodily | and mental, both moral and physical. | It is a dangerous misapplication of. energy and a form of dishonesty.— Efilciency. | COMMUNICATION The Pionser allows its reads 124 xpression over their signatur It assumes no responsibility for such articles and the publication does not indicate agreement in their o Contributions for this pressed 1d column invi R A A A A A A A A AN AP Nebish, Minn., Jan. 1st. 191 Dear Sir: [ am back from Can- ada and 1 am glad of it, Canada is a country I do not like a little bit and am sorry | ever got into it. It takes a small fortune to get a little start| there, and any body that would dis-| pose of a farm and home not good sense. he would! have to pay for his drinking water | in Canada. Everything you buy cost: a great deal more than it does here| double in price, and what you have| to sell does mot bring the prices it| does here. 1t takes about thre times as much power to plow \\\); there as it does here. Well, take it; all in all in all water scarce, lum-| ber. fuel, machinery and groceries at | a high price, and land that is hard! to cultivate is a poor place for a poor | man, and I am going te get out of it} as soon as I can, | Mr. and Mrs. Richard Oberg. | i 1 Got Even With Critic. i The Abble d’Aubignac, who wrote | admirably on dramatic composition, and had instanced many living exam- ples of faflure in: that directien, wae 80 imprudent, atter thirty yetrs’ si- lence, s to write a tragedy himself. In the preface he hoasted that ne, of all dramatists, had “most scrupulous- ly observed the rules of Arlstotle, whose inspiration e had followed!™ To this it was replied by one who had suffered from his criticism: "I do not quarrel with the Abbe d’Aubignac for having followed the precepts of Arls totle, but I cafinot pardon the precepts of Aristotle that caused the abbe tq write such a tragedy.” | e S B S S | Only a Few Hours’ Ride. Church—Here's an advertisement of » railroad’s night tralns. It says “You go to sleep in Philadelphia and wake up in New York.” < Gotham—Well, - T don't generally | take stock in railroad advertisements, but I guess that one's true, all right. ~-Yonkers Statesman. Telephone Dr. J.A. McClure your horse troubles. | No charge to answer Phones, No trouble to | show goods, Veterinary Remedies for sale A. McCiure, Phon: > items is NOT the opportunities at BE- presentative, THAYER C. ank Bullding . MINNESOTA in this|i] [ country to go and live in Canada has! A man can get a; i | | HERE'S NOTHING “THAT WILL TOUCH™ -z The Bemidji Pioneer Line of Calendars for 1913. We do not mean for the money but at any price. - That’s pretty strong isn’t it? Well, we'll back every word we say with the goods. They’ll speak for themselves. You’ll Confess to anyone that you'd rather buy in Bemidji thanto send out for it. 'That’s what you ask your customers to do--isn’t it? Now, we'll not even ask this much of you. All we ask is, the chance to show you our line before you buy. Will you agree to look at the Pioneer line of 1913 Calendars before you place your order else- where? Yes, we know that outside calendar men have called on you and will continue to call on you, and that you've been pest- ered to death, and sometimes almost forced to buy, etc:, but say to them—*I agreed to look at the Pioneer line before I placed my order.” Then What! o | Step right to the telephone and call up 31 and say—"“Send your calendar man to my place at once with that 1913 lineof calendars you've been bragging about”--or anything else for that matter. You'll find us “Johnie on the Spot.” Then If - ~ You are not suited, or you like the other fellows goods the best, oreven as well, by all means give him your order. Now this No, No, we're going to keep right on until you'll say for yourself that doesn’t mean that he should always get your order. we can deliver the goods. It is our aim to each succeeding year Improve. Thank You - The Bemidji Pioneer Calendar Compény, Berhldil; Minn. Phone, Write or Call, If you want us. ; PHOHR8OLDDESE % LODGEDOM IN BEMIDII # 2000000000000 0 0 4.0, 0. W. Bemidjl _Lodge No. 27 e cuiar meetin nights—first and i Monday, at 6 oelock, —at_0dd Fellows hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. B. P. 0. 8. Bemidj! Lodge No. 1053, Regular meeting _ni~hts— first and third 8 o'clock—at Masonic hall, Beltram! Ave, and Fifth C. 0. P every second and lmll'!l"l .\ DEGREE OF HONOR. Meeting = nights __every N Y second and fourth Mo %‘(.‘Qsml— 7% evenings, at Oad Yohows i Hall. | = F. 0. B s Regular meetin, every 1t and ond Wedses day evening at 8 o’cle Eagles hall. ook G A R Regular and“fhira SNSRIt noons, at 2:30—at Fel- low: Ave,s Hall, 402 Beltramj L OO0 F ~ Bemiajl Lo, 3 nESRLL Loty e s .—evar dFrEL‘dT 8 o‘e‘uok 02 Beltrami. — L O. O. F. Camp No. 24. Regular meeting every second and fourth Wedneadays at 8§ o'clock, at 0dd Fellows Hall. Rebecca Lodge. Regular meeting nights — first and third Weflnesdfiyflu at 8 o'clock —1 0. O. F. Hall. XNIGHTS OF PEYTHIAS. Bemidjl Lodge No. 168. Regular meeting nights—ev- ery Tuesday evening at § o'clock—at the Kagles' Hall, Third street. LADIES OF THE MAC- CABEES. Regular meeting night last_Wednesday evening in each month. & A. M., Bemidsl, 3 Regular . _meetin nights — first and thir Wednesdays, 8 o'clock—at Masonic Hall, Beltrami Ave, and Fifth st Bemidjl _Chapter No. 70, A, M. Stated convocations “% “tirst_and_third_Mondays, 3 o'clock p. m.—at Masonic Hall i3 Beltrami Ave, and Fifth St. lkanah Commandery No. 80, T. Stated_vonclave—second 4 Tourth Fridays, 8 o'clock - . m—at Masonic Temple, Bel- - trami Ave, and Fifth St 0. E. S. Chapter No. 171. Regular_ meeting i first and third i‘flda;fl-. i olclock — at Masonic Hall, Beltrami Ave. and Fifth | M. B. A Roosevelt, ~ No. 1528... Regular —meeting nights: every second and fourth. Thursday evenings at 8; olclock i dd o n O Fellows, M. W. A. Bemidji Camp No. 601: Regular meeting nights urst and third Tuesdays i a'clock _at O ] Hall, 02 Beltrami Ave. MODERN SsaMARITANS. Regular meeting nights om the first and third Thursdays i’n the 1. O. O. F, Hall at' 8 SONS OF HERMAN. Meetings held thira Sunday afternoon of eacl month at Troppman's YEOMANS. Meetings the first Friday evening of the month at the home of Mrs. H. F. Schmidt, 306 Third street. A e ~R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Oftfice’313 Beitrami Ave. Pho: 9-2. William G, Klein INSURANCE Rentals, Bonds, Real Estate * First Mortgage Loans on City and Farm ~ Property 5 and 6, O’Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phone 19. Bomidii Minn, S