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FURNITURE ANNOUNCEMENT We have purchased the J. P. Lahr furniture store on Minnesota Avenue and extend herewith a cordial invitation to the people in- this vicinity to make this store their headquarters. Model T - Touring Car It is ‘our aim to satisfy the trade from any angle of the business. For beautifying your home, an inspection of our stock will fully demonstrate the fact that rare discrimination has been exer- cised in selection. We have assembled a collection of fine fur- niture of every description, unequaled in beauty, elegance and distinctiveness. A collection from which the most elaborate schemes of home decorations may be evolved. As the new ideas are placed on the market so will we 4dd them to our present stock. This gives assurance of the most up-to- the-minute seleetion in the furniture lines for shoppers in Be- midji. MITCHEL HOPES T0 MEET TERMS Wants Goethals for Head of New York Police. TWO CONDITIONS IMPOSED Undertaking Specialists This department will be in charge of H. N. McKee, who has been with the Lahr store for the past seven years. Heis a licensed embalmer and has had years of experience in every branch of this work. McIVER & O'LEARY Successors to J. P. Lahr Acoeptance Depends on Securing Re- tirement From Army and Legisla tion Giving Him Power to Remove Subordinates Without Court Review, New York, Jan. 26—If Colonel George W. Goethals should be offered the position of governor of the canal zone by President Wilson he will not accept, This is the interpretation Mayor John Purroy Mitchel placed on Colonel Goethals’ present attitude toward the police commissionership of this city, which has been tendered him. “If language means anything,” said the mayor, “Colonel Goethals will be- come police commissioner of New York, provided two conditions which he imposed are fulfilled. I expect these conditions to be realized.” The mayor added that if occasion demanded he would go to-Washington to see Presient Wilson in the matter and that he-expected at any rate to get in touch with the president short- ly. He had no official knowledge, he sald, of any. intention on the part ot the president to offer Colonel Goethals the governorship of the canal zone, but he did expect that the president ‘would grant the colonel’s proposed re- ‘quest for retirement from the army. The two conditions imposed by Colo- WE WANT JAGKPINE TIES Farmers and lumbermen who have ties to sell will do well to get in touch with W. G. Schroeder. I want to buy the following sizes: nel Goethals are his retirement from the army and the enactment of legis- lation which will give the police com- missioner power to remove subordi- nates without court review. “I am willing to wait several months for the colonel,” said the mayor. *“I certainly never expected him to take the position until he has finished his duties in the canal zone.” BLOODHOUNDS ON THE TRAIL Robbers Hold Up Train on the South- ‘ern Railway, Facklers, Ala., Jan. 26.—Railroad detectives and deputy sheriffs with bloodhounds have begun a search for three men who looted the mail and ex- press cars of a Southern Railway pas- senger train near here and after start- ing the locomotive and the two cars on a wild run disappeared on horses. The train ran without a guiding hand at the throttle to Larkinsville, Ala., nineteen miles away, where it stopped when the locomotive went “dead.” The bandits, it is said, did not se- cure over. $100 in loot. 7x7 in. 6x6 in. 6x5 in. 6x4 in. All must be 8 ft. long and sawed at both ends WILL PAY CASH FOR THESE W. G. Schroeder Bemidji, Minn. Try a Ploneer want ad. The Universal Car Buy It Because Its a o Better Car e, $550 Get particulars from Northérn Automobile Co. Bemidji, Minn. DEPRESSION NOT SEVERE, HE SAYS Secretary Redfield Talks on | Business Situation. RISING TIDE UNDER WAY Pralses American Manufacturers for Their Ready Adjustment to New Conditions Resulting From Passage of Democratic Tariff Bill, New Haven, Conn,, Jan, 26.—An af- firmative view of business was the keynote of a speech Secretary Red- fleld made Dbefore the chamber of gommerce here. He praised American manufactur- ers for their ready readjustment to new conditions and declared that the flood of foreign manufactures which it was predicted would flood American markets with the passage of the new tariff had not materialized. “Aye, but you say, look at the de. pression. Well, look at it,” said Mr, Redfield. passion and without prejudice. “Where is trade depression found? < |Carbon Paper “Where {s the rising tide from such |3 depression as exists felt first and |§ most? Here, in. America. Leave | H fully guaranteed, m all In India, in Argentina, in Brazil, in Germany, in England. Where is it least? In America. aside the pitiful parables of the pro- phets of evil who for political pur- poses preach national pain. Look |H t At $1 and $1.25 a box calmly at the truth. “America suffers from no disaster. She is better off when the worst is said than her sister nations. “Too much has been the spirit on one side that ‘what is, is wrong,’ and |B the assertion on the other hand that |f§ Big Business has |# often failed to see that its methods |} have aroused a just popular resent- |§ ment and that many of its past ideals |§ and purposes were impossible and in- | i ‘what 1s, is right. tolerable in a democracy. “The men of financial and corporate | power have had to learn that the weal |8 of the whole people is a supreme law to which their private interests |§ must obediently bow. “The men of might in finance are |j§ becoming men of light and leading in the necessary readjusiments that are pending. The business conscientious- ness is becoming less individual and more social.” Chemberlain’s Cough Remedy. This remedy has no superior for coughs and colds. It is pleasant to take. It contains mo opium or other narotic. It always cures. For sale by all dealera—Adv. IN OUR Is Just As Please You No trouble to show goods. here for that purpose Look Over Our CLERK We are DEPARTMENTS You will find many things to please you Prices Right; Qualities of the Best PIANO C IS DRAWING Who will he ONTEST T0 A GLOSE the Winner? REMEMBER AND CALL FOR YOUR VOTES Feb. Will Be 14, 1914 the Day W. G. SCHROEDER “Look at it sanely, without |2 We have an assortment of high grade paper 812 x13 colors 812 x 11 and (Can you beat it?) Yes, there are 100 sheets in each box. and if the paper does not satisfy you it—your money returned i know where you bought if you want it always. Beware! Special agents call on from time to time- the trade about the: city 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. 5 WeBuy on a Guarantee and Sell the Same Way. Bemidji Pioneer Supply Smra Phone 3t Saturdaz Night, Jan. 31 at 10 p. m., we Begin Packlng up TO SAVE PACKING AND FREIGHT WE WILL THE NEXT FIVE DAYS ACCEPT ANY REASONABLE OFFER FOR Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Coats, Dresses, Sweaters, Mackinaws, Shoes and Rub- - bers; also Men’s and Boys’ Overcoats Smts Sweaters Underwear, Shoes and Rubbers, also Hosiery, Gloves, and Mittens for the whole famlly. they must go in five days POSITIVELY GOING OUT OFSNES SATURY JANUARY 31, at 10 P. M New Solution of Problem Offered by, Educator. New York, Jan. 46.—A new solution: of the Japanese problem was - gro-. posed by Dr. F. L. Gulick, profassor: in the University of Doshisha, im Kiota, in a speech at the Bible Teach:- ers’ Training school. “Let us treat the Japanese on the: same basis as other nations,” said Dr.. Gulick, “and they will be satisfied; But let us treat the others with com- mon sense, which decrees we cam every year assimilate of a given race uew. members up to about 5 per cent of the total number of that race sk ready in the country.” Tango, Fatal. to. Dancer, Boston, Jan. 26;—The tango cost the life of William H. Brown. According to the coroner Brown struck a door while dancing, knocking out & panel and fracturing his skull. German Prince Weds Actress. Berlin, Jan. 26.—Prince Hohenlohe.. Schwenfurest, relative of the kaiser, secretly married an actress less than. half his age and wants the anm court to ennoble her, - Notice i | All parties who know themselves indebted to me Will ‘please call at once and make some arrangements lor the payment of their lmnnu. At H. Douas plumbhw, “opposite elty hlll