Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1914, Page 7

i = WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23; 191/ GIGANTIC LINERS TIED UP War Forces Many Ocean Vessels Out of Business. New York, Dec. 23.—At least fifty gigantic ocean liners, representing a total value of $1,000,000,000, are ly- ing idle in American ports as a result of the European war. The loss sustained each day by the various steamship companies through the idleness of their costly vessels is almost incalculable. The Atlantic coast ports of the Unit- | ed States in nearly every instance contain one or more ships either in- terned or laid up through lack of transatlantic travel. Boston and New York are harboring the greatest num- ber. | The two great German lines—the North German Lloyd and the Ham- burg American—own forty-three ves- sels now enforcedly idle in American ports. The White Star line was forced, through lack of business, to discontinue the sailings of the Cedric, the Celtic and the Cymric. The White Star Dominion line discontinued the salling of the Laurentic, Canada and | Teuton!c MINIMUM WAGE IS FIXED' Ten Dollars P:r Week Lowest for Washington Woman. Olympia, Wash, Dec. 23.—A mini- mum wage of $10 a week for girls and women in offices, $8 for office boys and girls from sixteen to eighteen years and $6 for both sexes under six- teen years was estdblished by the state minimum wage commission. The order is effective Feb. 20. Oregon has established a minimum wage standard, but its order has been appealed to the United States su- preme court by employers. BADGER QUARANTINE LIFTED Embargo Removed With Exception of Twelve Counties. Washington, Dec. 23.—An order signed by Secretary Houston of the department of agriculture lifted abso- lutely the foot and mouth disease Mve stock quarantine in Wisconsin, with the exception of the following counties: Brown, Dane, Green, Jeffer- son, Kenosha, Langdale, Lincoln, Mil- waukee, Racine, Rock, Walworth and Waukesha, ACCUSED BY GIRL; ENDS LIFE Janesville (Wis.) Manufacturer Kills Self on Eve of Arraignment. Janesville, Wis., Dec. 23.—Rather than face charges made by a sixteen- year-old girl, Frank Blanchard, a prominent manufacturer sixty-three years old, who was under arrest, end- | ed his life by asphyxiation. He was to have been arraigned in court a few hours later. Slighted by Girl; Ends Life. i . Fergus Falls, Minn., Dec —John Rhode, a young bachelor living alone near Rothsay, was found hanging in bis heme. ile had come from a Christmas entertainment, bored a hole through the ceiling, knotted a rope and made a noose in the lower end. It is said a younz woman had rejected his attentions at the entertainment. Accidentally Kills Mother. | lLa Crosse, Wis, Dec. 23.-—NMrs.| John Kucineki, forty y 5 old, of Ar-| cadia, mother of nine children, died here as the result of a wound from a shotgun in the hands of Joseph, her seventeen-year-old boy. He didn’t know the gun was loaded. — | | Whole Train Is Derailed. Kansas City, Dec. Missouri Pa- cifie ;m\\(-ngm train No. 2, Pueblo m! s derailed five miles | west of I,.l Crosse, Kan. The entire train left the track, but without se- rious injury to ar or crew, it was said. of the D.'«en"exsi GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES | | Duluth Wheat and Flax. i Duluth, Dec. 22.—Wheat—On track | and to arrive, No. 1 hard, $1.23%; No. | 1 Northern, $1.223%; No. 2 Northern, Flax—On track and to ar- South St. Paul Live Stock. South St. Paul, Dec. 22.—Cattle— Steers, $4.00@8.25; cows and heifers, $4.35@6.50; calves, $3.560@7.25; stock- ers and feeders, $4.00@6.50. Hogs— $6.50@6.70. Sheep—Lambs, $4.50@ | 7.76; wethers, $4.75@5.75; ewes, $2.50 @5.00. Chicago Live Stock. . Chicago, Dec. 22.—Cattle—Steers, $5.15@10.00; cows and heifers, $2.90@ 85: calves. $6.00@8.25. Hogs—Light, $6.70@ ; mixed, $6.80@7.15; heavy, $6.80@7.15; rough, $6.80@6.90; pigs, $6.50@7.20. Sheep—Native, $5.10@ 6.00; )ear]ings, $6.25@7.20. Chicago Gram and Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 22.—Wheat—Dec., $1.- 241%; May, $1.27%; July, $1.187%. Corn —Dec., 6485¢; May, 703c; July, Tlec. Oats—Dec., 483c; May, 523%c. Pork —Jan., $18.47%; May, $18.97. Butter —Creameries. 33c. Eggs—23@32c. Poultry—Springs, 11c; fowls, 10c; turkeys, 15c. Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis, Dec. 22.—Wheat—Dec., $1.19%; May, $1.22%; July, $1.2315. Cash close on track: No. 1 hard, $1.- 20%; No. 1 Northern, $1.20%@1.23%; | OR 5 cents you can buy a six- ounce cake of the in purity, in most copi- Scap that rinses duces the scrupu- annecs that feels as op whoese natural the user as any fume. unsurg ‘ caliiney ias \/JJA.‘-A“‘- < I'er 5 cents you can buy [vory Soap. Why pay more? IVORY SOAP 99i4% PURE Since receiving municipal suffrage Miss Kate York, the first woman over 28,000 African women have reg- |mayor elected in Illinois, has been istered in Johannesburg. successfully engaged in the mercan- ) —_— tile business at Kingston Mines for The universities of both Sedan and [the past twenty-three years. Russia are open to women on an equal with men. i —_— ning to spend $10,000,000 for a num- Miss Ellen Hume has served in one |ber of high power wireless stations. Philadelphia family for sixty-four —_— years. The Chinese government is plan- Read the Want Ads. CHRISTMAS The greatest holiday in the year is at hand when all are trying to make someone else happy, even if circumstances denies themselves happiness. We are ready to satisfy and make your appetite happy by delivering to you in any part of the city the best in groceries for your table. - HOME BRAND CROCERIES Candies and Nuts Fruits, Apple Cidar Ludefisk GEO. C. BERGLUND Phone 141 North of City Hall Electric Christmas Presents Just Received by Warfisld Electric Go. Electric Washing Machines, Electric lrons, Electric Curling lrons, Electric Toasters, Eiectric' Combs, Christmas Tree Ouffits, Electric Stoves, Electric Vacuum GCleaners, Electric Stand Lamps, Sewing Machine Motors, Coffee Percolators, Electric Shades. Be sure and call and see them at Electric Light Station Warfield Electric Co. Koors Bros. Co. Successors to Model Manufacturing Co. Incorporated “Manufacturers and Jobbers Ice Cream, Bakery Goods Confectionery and Fountain Supplies 315 Minnesota Ave. N. W. Telephone 125 Bemidji, Minnesota Y oo \KOORS o Advertisers who want the best results always patronize The Pioneer. They know, by experi- No. 2 Northern, $1.17%@1.21%; No. 3 Northern, $1.14% @1.20%; No. 3 yel- low corn, 61@613c; No. 3 white oats, 46% @47c; flax, $1.59. ence, that it has no equal in this section of the country as an advertising medium. _—— "»Defective KKK E KKK KKK KKK One-half cent per word per ¥ issue, casit with copy. * Regular charge rate, one cent & per word per insertion. No % ad taken for less than 10 cents. ¥ Phone 31. * IR R R R RS R RS R R B¢ *k ok ok ok ok Kk ok POSITIONS WANTED. A A A A A A A A~ WANTED—A position as saleslady in dry goods store; five years’ ex- perience, with good references. Call or address T, Pioneer. WANTED—Position as housekeeper, nurse or companion, preferably for grown people. Address House- keeper, Pioneer Office. WANTED—Office work, or position as cashier. Address Work, Pio- neer Office. WANTED—Odd jobs of any Kkind. Phone 842. FOR RENT. A A A A A A A A A AN FOR RENT—J. M. Richards house, 909 Lake Boulevard. Inquire R. H. Schumaker. F‘Oil RENT—Furnished rooms, 600 Bemidji-Ave. Mrs. A. E. Henderson. FOR RENT—Two rooms for light housekeeping over Model Bakery. FOR RENT—House. P. A. Nelson. Phone 117, 522 First St. FOR RENT—Six-room house. A. Klein. [ FOR RENT——-Vew house. WANTED WANTED—To hear from owner of good farm for sale. Send cash price and description. D. F. Bush, Minneapolis, Minn. WANTED—Light team to board for their use. Will guarantee good care. Clyde Petrie. Inquire at Given Hardware. WANTED—Phone 228-W for all kinds of wood and hay, delivered. WANTED—Second hand household goods. M. E. Ibertson. LOST AND FOUND. —Small package of Christmas Sathre. FOU) toys left at the Pioneer office Sat- urday. Owner may have same by proving property. o 4+ GERMANY BUILDING FORTY £l > SUBMARINES. The Hague. Dec. 23.—Ger- many is building forty 900-ton submarines They will bring her known fleet of “untersee- boote™ up to ninety-five. The rew vescels are flat de- ed. embodying scme novel s from the former ierman submarines Tk de e oo e ok e ol s 1 ES f g E3 & o To Bury McClung Here. London. Dec. 23.—The body of Lee McClung. former treasurer of the United States, who died in a private hospital in London last Saturday as a result of enteric fever contracted at Frankfort-on-the-Main, will be return- ed to the United States on board the steamer St. Paul, leaving Liverpoo! Dec. 26. Notice. To parties who are indebted to W. G. Schroeder for merchandise, dating back 60 days from Nov. 1 and over, are requested to settle as soon as con- | venient and before Dec. 20, 1914. W. G. SCHROEDER. Tead the Ploneer want ads, 'FARM FIRE INSURANGE Let me write it in the old Con- inecticut Fire Insurance Co. €. C. CROSS MILES BLOCK Huffman & OLeary FURNITURE AND y UNDERTAKING H N. McKEE, Funeral Director sPhone 178-2, 3 or 4 Page RS LRSS E LSRR R R R x One-half cent per word per ¥ ¥ issue, cash with copy. x % Regular charge rate, one cent % % per word per insertion. No ¥ % ad taken for less than 10 cents. ¥ ¥ Phone 31. x LR R E RS E R R R R R R FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Cheap if taken at once, saloon in St. Paul, Minn. Must sell .on account of other business. Rent $30.00 per month; steam heated, 8 rooms and bath upstairs, full basement, cemented. Ice box in basement. One block from.Great Northern machine shops, which employs 1,200 men. One block from' street car line. $1,500 cash if taken at once. Address G. W, Pioneer Office, Bemidji Minn. FOR SALE—I have the following farm machinery to exchange for live stock, one two horse corn cul- tivator, one, one horse corn culti- vator, one potatoe sprayer, Two farm wagons, Two one horse bug- gies, one garden drill, one, two horse Kentucky single disk harrow and other farm machinery. W. G Schroeder. FOR SALE—One-half dozen dining chairs, brand new, made of quar- tered oak and upholstered in best quality genuine leather. Retail at $8.00 each. Will sell at hal? price if taken at once. Also li- brary table and large leather rock- er of same grade—all new. Ad- dress “R,” clo Pioneer. FOR SALE—At new wood yatd-, wood all leugthg delivered at your door. Leave all orders at Ander- son’s Employment Office, 206 Min- nesota Ave. Phone 147. Lizzie Miller, Prop. FOR SALE—Saloon in Joplin, Mont. Good business; in a live town. Opera house in connection. Ole Grimsted, Joplin, Mont. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of rubber stamp for you on short no- tice. ' VETERINARY SURGEON W. K. DENISON, D. V. M. VETERINARIAN Phone 164-2 Pogue’s Livery DRAY LINE TOM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER Safe and Piano Moving Res. Phone 58 818 America Ave. Office Phone 12. DENTISTS. DR. D. L. STANTON, DENTIST Office in Winter Block DR. J. T. TUOMY, DENTIST Gibbons" Block Tel. 330 North of Markham Hotel LAWYERS GB.AHAM M. TORRANCE, LAWYER Miles Block Phone 560 R iR O (UM O i - UR A D. H. FISK, Court Commissioner ATTORNEY AT LAW Office second floor O’'Leary-Bowser Building. PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS DR. ROWLAND GILMORE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block DR. E. A SHANNON, . D, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 DR. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block DR. L. A, WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National Bank Bemidji, Minn. DR. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National Bank Bemidji, Minn. Office Phone 36 Res. Phone 78 DR. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Security Bank Block DR. EINER JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Bemidji, Minn. A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. Practice Limited EAR NOSE Glasses Fitted Office Gibbons Bldg., North Markham Hotel. Telephone 106. EYE THROAT DR. F. J. DARRAGH OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Specialist of Chronic Diseases Free Consultation 208% 3rd St., over Blooston Store Day and Night Calls Answered. FARMS FOR SALE. FOR SALE—120 acres farm land, about 500 cords wood, half hay land on good stream, one mile from a town, terms liberal, price $20.00 per acre. W. G. Schroeder. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISERS—The great siate of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to classi- fied advertisers. The recognized advertising medium in the Fargo Daily and Sunday Courier-News the only seven-day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified advertising. The Courier-News covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of the state the das of publication; it fs the paper to use in order to get re- sults; rates one cent per word first insertion, ome-half cent per word succeeding insertions; fifty cents ver line per month. Address the Courfer-News, Fargo, N. D. FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the market at 50 cents and 75 cents each. Every ribbon sold for 75 cents guaranteed. Phone orders promptly filled. Mail orders given the same careful attention as when you appear in person. Phone 31. The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply Store. Notice. All those knowing themselves in- debted to me are kindly requested to settle their book account or note be- fore Dec. 20, 1914. I am obliged to ask customers to favor me promptly to enable me to meet my own obli- gations. W. G. SCHROEDER. Female school teachers in Califor- nia are pair an average salary of $77. 91 a year. ‘Women now want to be represent- ed at The Hague Conference. HARNESS We want to sell a few Work Har- nesses. Cheap to advertise them. Call in and see them. Ziegler’s Sécond Hand Store DR. L. J. PERRAULT, CHIROPODIST CORNS and INGROWING NAILS re- moved without pain. BUNIONS scien- tifically treated. Phone 499-J. Office over the Rex Theater. E. M. SATHRE Abstracter O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Bemidji, Minn. LR R R R R R R R R R R ] * RAILROAD TIME CARDS * XXX KHK KK KT XK MPLS., RED LAKE & H’.AK. 2 North Bound Arrives...... 1 North Bound Leaves...... 800 RAILROAD 2 lSast Bound Leaves, . ee 63 West Bound Leave: East Bound Leaves. ‘West Bound Leaves. GREAT 'onrnn! West Bound Leaves East Bound Leaves. West Bound Leaves. East Bound Leaves. North Bound Arrives South Bound Leaves.. Freight West Leaves Freight East Leaves at. MINNESOTA & INTERNATIONAL 32 South—Mpls. Ete. Lv. . 8:16 am *34 South—Mpls. Ete. L 11:20 pm 31 North—Kelliher Lv. . 6:15 pm #33 North—Int. Falls. L . 4:16 am 44 South Freixht, leaves North Bemidji.......... 7:30 am 47 North Freight. North Bemidji. . 46 Freight from Int. e Nort idjl. . 7:00 pm *Daily. All others daily except Sunday. NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open d.nuy except 8 1 to 8 » m, 9 s‘\’mdl‘;l.m:a’g'mnl reems on| 7. to Results are most aiways certain when you use a Pioneer want ad. One-half cent a word. Phone 31. FUNERZY. DIRECTOR M. E. IBERTSON UNDERTAKER and COUNTY CORONER