Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 19, 1913, Page 2

BOOPOCOGIQCOIOIOGOOOPOSPOS ® . LODGEDOM IN BEMIDJL = ¢ 0000600600000 4} 877.- Regular meeting nights—first and thirc Monday, at 8 o'cloc} 403 Beltrami Ave. B P O B Bemidji Lodge No. 1053 Regular meeting nights— first and third Thursdaye 8 o'clock—at Hiks hall. 5 0 0. . 4 every second and fourt: Sunday evening, at | o'clock in basement of 7 Catholic church. Meeting nights every second and fourth Monda) evenings, at Odd Fellows Hall. . ». 0. B. Regular meeting nights every 2nd and 4th Wednes. day evening at 8 e'cleck Eagles hall. . @ AR Regular meetings—Firs and third Saturday after noons, at 2:30—at 0dd Fel lows Halls, €03 Beltram' Ave. L 0.0 ¥ Bemid)i Lodge No. 11( Regular meeting night: —every Friday, 8 o'cloc) at Odd Fellows Hal 403 Beltrami. Rebecca Lodge. Regula: meeting nights -- first ams third Wednesday at $o'cloek —I. 0. O. ¥. Hall. ENIGETS O FITHEIAS Bemidji Lodge No. 161 Regular meeting nights—ex ory Tuesday evening at ! o'clock—at the Eagles’ Hll! Third street. LADINS OF THR MAOC OABEES. Regular meeting night last Wednesday evening in each month. MASONIO. A. F. & A. M, Bemidji, 333. Regular meeting nights — first and third Wednesdays, 8 o'clock—at Masonic Hall, Beltram} Ave., and Fifth St. Bemidji Chapter No. 178, R. A. M. Stated convocations —first and third Mondays, § o'clock p. m—at Masoni¢ Hall Zeltremi Ave,, and Fiftr street. Elkanah Commandery No. 8¢ . K. T. Stated conclave—secon¢ and fourth Fridays, 8 o'cloch p. m.—at Masonic Temple, Bel- trami Ave., and Fifth St SONS OF NERMAN. Meetings held third Sunday afternoon of eaeb month at Troppman's - = - WUODERN SAMARITANS. & Regular meeting nights om } the first and third Thursdays in the I O. O. F. Hall at ¢ D. m. M. B. A Roosevelt, No. 1523. Regu- lar_meeting nights, second udn mm-m ;.l'h}n hézysl o' each month at el o’cloc] in Odd Fellows l‘fhll. M W. A Bemidjl Camp No. 6018 Regular meeting nights — first and third Tuesdays 8 o'clock at 0Odd Fellows . Hall, 403 Beltrami Ave. 0. f. 8. Chapter No. 171, Regular meeting nighte— first and third Fridays, $ o'clock — at Masonic Hall Beltrami Ave., and Fift: St. TEOMAWS. Meetings the first Friday eveniug of the month at the home of Mrs. H. F Schmidt, 306 Third stree R. F. MURPHY ¥UNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMEY MOoe IR Bnitremt Ave STOVE WOOD FOR SALE BUNDLE;WOOD, 12—20 in. long Delivered to Bemidji, $2.25 to 7th St.; beyond, $2.50 Delivered to Nymore, $2.00 and ; BLOCK WOooD ered to Belld'j .00 t 7Il| St. beyond, $2.25 e . Delivered to Nymore, $1.75 and $2.00. Telophone Orders Ne. 82 mls—cuu ol DEI.NEIIY —at 0dd - Fellows hal |, LINCOLN NO. 2 The Case of Prue and the Gawk of a Bean Pole Lawyer. By GRANT LESTER. B R R R e S S For a good many- years people had | engagement taking up her attention she would have had much to say to Prue. Four days later she came into the house to say: *Well, when I dreamed of black hogs one night last week: I knew that trou- ble would come. I've got a lawsuit on hand. It seems that those three cows I bought over in .Delevan last week bad a chattel mortgage on them. The holder of it wants $90 from me. I must either pay or be sued. I told him to sue as soon as he pleased, and he’ll probably summon me tomorrow.” “And you'll have to have a lawyer?" *Of course. I'm going to drive into town to see Lawyer Parsons.” “But why not give Mr. Livingstone said that Farmer Johnson’s wife' was | the case?” head of his house and that he was a “Prue Johnson, do you take me for great encumbrance to her. They had a | an idiot?” exclaimed the mother in farm just outside a thriving town, and | astonishment. *Do you think I want had it been left to the wife there were | to lose $90 and costs, besides $10 more many promising speculations she would | for a lawyer! Folks around here think have cntered into. She was allowed to | I'm a pretty smart woman, and I don’t boss things around the farm, but when | want to be made a laughingstock of. it came to outside matters the hus- | That bean pole of a young man would band would take no risks. When his | not know enough to cross examine an death finally took place people looked | old cow.” - to see Aunt Betty, as she was called, Lawyer Parsons, who was the lead- though only forty years old, carry out | ing member of the bar in the town, some of her ideas and make things | was retained. and the expected sum- bum. They were not disappointed. | mons was served next day. A week She went into strawberries and made | later the suit came on. I’uring the in- money; she went into the dairy busi- | terval young Livingstone drove out to ness and made money; she went into | the Johnson farm. Miss Prue had poultry and made money. It was said | gone to town to do some shopping, and that there were not half a dozen men { the mother was blunt znd brusque. in the county who had her business | The budding attorney almost offered sense. his services in the coming suit. and the Aunt Betty had a daughter nineteen | look he received in reply lingered with years old, by name Prue. Prue did not { him for many hours. When Prue got run to business. She was simply a| home she was told that there had got sweet tempered and lovable girl, who | to be a stop to this sort of thing. but attended school in town in the winter | when she burst into tears and said and helped about the housework in | she could not help it her mother was summer. TUp to the time of the fa- | reasonable enough to reply that maybe ther’s death the ‘mother had not “suf- | she could not. fered aspirations” regarding Prue’s fu- The girl went to town with the moth- ture. It was tacitly understood that | er on the day of the suit. In the court- she would marry some young farmer | room a shock of surprise awaited her. and settle down to the humdrum life. | Darius Livingstone appeared as counsel But after the mother had become a | for the complainant. Yes, he was there business woman there were other plans | in all his dignity, and he didn’t seem for the girl. She was to be educated | & bit frightened that it was his first in music and other arts and made a | case and that he was matched against lady of. one of the oldest and smartest lawyers against me! ‘That’s another specimen:|4 ‘of his cheek., You wait, however, When Parsons gets through with him there’ll be only a grease spot left.” Surprise after surprise was the order of the day. The plaintiff really had a chattel mortgage on the cows. They had been driven away and sold. In buying them Mrs. Johnson had taken the seller’'s word. Her lawyer argued that this was customary, but “bean pole” brought in six witnesses, to prove to the contrary. Mrs, Johnson was made to admit that she was a business woman and that she had never bought even a chicken without being guaran- teed. A dozen errors were made in her case, and before it was concluded : Mr. Parsons was made to look extreme- 4 Iy foolish. The jury gave a verdict for | s the plaintiff. and Prue shed tears be- neath her veil and realized that she would see no more of Lincoln No. 2 She was in despair when her mother walked up to the young attorney and held out her hand, saying: “Sir, I am a blunt and plain spoken woman. You are lop shouldered and |§ slabsided. you are as homely as a hedgehog in March, but you are a talk- er and are certain to make a good law- | i yer. If I ever have a son-in-law I hope he’ll be one of the profession. No, don’t make any excuses. You had a right to take the other side, and I hold no grudge against you. If you want |§ to know how good cheese is made come out to the farm.” Mr. Livingstone did want to know. He had always been curious about it. He took early advantage of her offer, and at last reports he and Miss Prue |f had decided to go south on their wed- ding tour. One of Miss Keller's Gifts, Many persons in an assemblage re- |§ cently addressed by Miss Helen Keller marveled that this distinguished deaf and blind woman halted in her re- marks and acknowledged applause at the proper moment. just as if she had been in full possession of her hearing. Miss Macy. the devoted instructor of Miss Keller. was approached by sever- al after the meeting had adjourned, Thli"spiée reserved bythe = Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co, For Price of Lots, Terms, Etc., INQUIRE OF T. C. BAILEY, Bemidji, or write BET1IDJI TOWNSITE & IMPROV_EHENT CO. 620 Capital Bank Bullding 87. PAUL WMINNESOTA 'Carbon Paper We have an assortment of high grade paper b fully guaranteed, in all colors 8 1-2 x 11 and f? 812 x13 . {At $1 and $125 a box (Can you beat it?) Yes, there are 100 sheets in each box. and if the 8 paper does not satisfy you know where you' bought ; it—your money returned if you want it always. Beware! Special agents call on the trade about the city from time to time: They may offer. you enticing looking bargains—but—what if you're not satisfied? It may be a case of throwing it into the waste basket. We Buy on a Guarantee and Sell the Same Way. ¢ | turned away. Prue went down and re- Just how Prue Johnson and Darius | in the county. He nodded to Prue and Livingstone first met is of no great | would have done the same to her moth- consequence. He was twenty-two and | er had she not just then heen engaged had gradusted as a lawyer and settled | in whispering to her daughter. in the town, He was a slab sided “Prue Johnson, look over there! As young man, tall and angular and un- | true as you live your bean pole of a guinly There were a few people who young man is going to take the case said that he might know more than he and she was requested to explain the “mystery.” ‘‘Very simple,” she laugh- ed. “Notice of the applause was car- ried to Miss Keller by the vibrations that she felt through her soft. soled shoes while standing on the platform.” —Boston Post. Bemidji Pioneer Supply Store Phone 3I showed, but the majority were of the opinion that he didn’t know whether potatoes grew in the ground or .on trees. If Prue held with the majority it was rather singular that the young lawyer should have come driving out to the farm one June day to inquire for her. She was upstairs at the time, and it was her mother who re- ceived him. At the first glance she thought him the homeliest young man she had ever seen. After the second she took him for some peddler of mu- sic and went upstairs and said to Prue: “There’s a bean pole downstairs ask- ing for you. I never saw such a gawk. He says his name is Livingstone. He’s enough to scare a setting hen off the — nest. Did you ever hear of any such feller?” “Why, ma, he’s a lawyer in towmn, and we have met three or four times,” replied Prue as her face flushed scar- let. “A lawyer—humph! If you was to put a ‘club in his hand he wouldn’t know enough to pound sand. What's he here for?” *“Why—why, he said he might call some day. I don’t see why you call him homely. I’ve heard lots of folks say that he reminded them of Abra- ham Lincoln.” The mother sniffed her contempt and ceived her caller, and. though Mrs. Johnson was rather busy around the house and yard, she saw and heard enough to satisfy her that the young man was “interested.” He remained for an hour or so and then left, and while his back was yet in sight Prue was properly warned. “I shall have to have a son-in-law some day,” added the mother, “but I want one whose looks won't sour all the milk and who knows a cabbage head from an old gander. Lawyer! Lawyer! Why, the poorest lawyer we've got in town would make your young man look. like a bobtailed wood- chuck if they had a case in court.” Prue ran away without talking back, and things quieted down for a week. Then the mother came home from town one afternoon to blurt out: “Do you know what I heard this aft- ernoon? At least half a dozen people | told me that you and that scarecrow || young lawyer were in love.” “Oh, mamma! ‘ “Yoy needn't ‘Oh, mamma! me. If you've fallen in love with any such man [I'm ashamed of you. Why, that red headed. cross eyed Sue Williams wouldn't look at him." “We ure not in love stoutly pro- tested Prue. “Then what are you looking so red for?” “Because—because we are simply triends. That is, he’s awfully smart when you come to talk with him. I've’ been reading the life of Lincoln, and it's wonderful how much alike they are” “Wonderful bosh! Abe Lincoln was smarter’n a whip as a lawyer.” “But Darius is going to be it he ever gets a case.” “Ever gets a cage! I'd like r.o know’ flaring tunics, who'd trust him with a cage!” * The young man cnlledigain »% ;"s Es i) seEiee § unod h reegn’ .m fit ‘ bon gy m"f.:;‘ fl*%m_ ; SCHNEIDER BROS. CO. Wome Ready-to-wear Clothes charmeuse, canton crepes, brocades, crepe de chine, chiffons. 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