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. MONDAY, . FEBRUARY -8, ..1015. IR R R RS R R SRR RS 8 v LEST WE FORGET * R R R R e R Y In case of fire call 349, P Elks Annual Charity Ball, Wednes- day evening, February 10. v . Beltrami county’s next term of court will convene on Tuesday, Feb- ruary 9. s . Governor Hammond will speak at the Armory on the evening of Feb- ruary 12. s s The next meeting of the board of county commissioners will be held on Tuesday, February 9. PR The city election- will be held Tuesday, February 16, with registra- tion day a week before. s . The 1915 convention of the North- Central Minnesota Educational asso- ciation will be held in this city, Feb- ruary 11 and 12. * s . The 1915 summer meeting of the N. M. D. A. will be held at Coleraine, June 10 and 11. The winter con- vention will be held in Bemidji next December. ... Every news item phoned to the Pioneer, 31, aids in making the local columns of the paper more interest- ing, and is appreciated by the pub- lishers and readers alike. We solicit your assistance. ... On Monday evening, March 15, “The Princeton Players” and Dollie McDonnell will appear in Bemidji as the closing number of the Woman's Study club Redpath series. This is one of the most popular companies on the lyceum stage. JOCA} BREVITIES Mrs. H. A. Scharf entertained the Entre Nous club this afternoon. For Wood Phone 129.—Adv. J. P. Pogue & Son shipped a car- load of cattle to St. Paul Saturday. Omnibus afternoon and night trains. Phone 355.—Adv. Mrs. R. Hines of Eckls spent Sat- urday in the city callmg on the local merchants. Imported sardines, 3 cans for 19¢ tomorrow at Troppman's.—Adv. Mrs. William Blakley of Farley was a between trains visitor in the city Saturday. 20 1bs. cane granulated sugar for $1, with an order at Troppman’s.— Adv. Miss Carrie Smith, teacher of the Nebish sehool, was a Bemidji visitor between trains Saturday. Olive Brand sardines, DECIDE YOURSELF The Opportunity Is Here, Backed By Bemidji Testimony 3 cans for Don't take our word for it. Don’t depend on a stranger’s state- ment. . Read Bemidji endorsement. Read the statements of Bemidji citizens. And decide for yourself, Here is one case of it. Oliver Gordhamer, carpenter, 1200 Dewey Ave., Bemidji, Minn., says: “I was stiff and lame in the morn- ing and it hurt me to bring any strain on my back. I believe it was heavy lifting and hard work that brought on fthe trouble. I was han- dicapped in doing my work, espec- ially stooping or lifting. Reading about Doan’s Kidney Pills led me to try them.;, Three or four boxes strengthened my back and made me well. At that time I gave a state- ment praising Doan’s Kidney Pills, and as I have had no trouble since, I am-still a strong friend to-them.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Gordhamer had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffila, N, Y.—Adv. 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 Feb. 10, 1915. 10 cents tomorrow at 'l‘roppmhn‘ Ady. K Miss -Nellie--Wilson -of - ~Bemidji spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson of wn ton. Men’s 25¢ Pad Garters special this week at The Leader, only 15¢ a pair. —Adv. Miss Ina Robertson of this; city, who teaches at Farley, Minnesota, was the guest of her parents over Sunday. Men’s 25¢ Pad Garters.special this week at The Leader, only 15¢ a pair. —Adv. Mrs. James- Gray. and daughter Pearl, who teaches the Wilton school, were the guests of Bemidji friends Saturday. Men’s 25¢ Pad Garters special. this week at The Leader, only 15¢ a pair, —Adv. The R. N. A. meeting will com- mence at 8 o’clock sharp tomorrow night. A dance will be given after the meeting. Men’s 25¢ Pad Garters.special this week at The Leader, only 15¢ a pair. —Aadv. Mrs. James Steppe of Tenstrike ‘was a business visitor in Bemidji Sat- urday, returning to her home on the evening train. One of these days you ought to go to Hakkerup’s and have your pic- ture taken.—Adv. | Scott Stewart, proprietor of Stew- art’s grocery, went to Minneapolis last evening where he expects to re- main a week on business. 1ave your furniture repalred at the bargain store, first class work ut reasonable prices.—Adv. Mrs. Carl J. Anderson was given a bundle shower Friday afternoon and wishes to thank her many friends who were present at the occasion. Pay off your city or farm mortgage with a new loan at three per cent Security National Loan Company, Brainerd, Minn.—Adv. Mrs. A. D. Pepper of Duluth, who has been visiting relatives at Turtle River, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. John Goodman of Bemidji avenue. Mrs. Torger Nelson of Erskine, Min- nesota, was the guest of her son, Oscar Nelson, teller of the Northern National bank in this city, Saturday. William Williamson of Oakdale, Illinois, arrived in the city this morn- ing and will be the guest of his sis- ter, Mrs. S. E. P. White, for some time. Mrs. G. M. Torrance of Bemidji avenue returned Saturday from Min- neapolis, where she has spent the past three weeks, the guest of rela- tives. The Pioneer is the place to buy your rolls of adding machine paper for Burroughs adding machines, O roll, a dozen rolls or a hundred rolls. —Adv. P. J. Doveau and William Toohey of Brainerd were in Bemidji Saturday to attend the Oswego-Bemidji basket- ball game, returning home on the night train. ) J. Evan Carson, formerly of Be- midji, now of Virginia, Minnesota, was a Sunday visitor in Bemidji. Mr. Carson is linotype machinist operator on the Virginia Enterprise. We are going to move to our new location, 209 Third street, within the next ten days. This will mean bar- gains for you. Akerberg, Kittleson ‘& Co., 216 Minnesota avenue.—Adv. ‘William Ward, son of Dr: and: Mrs. L. A. Ward, has returned from St. Thomas. college, where he has at- tended school. Mr. Ward does not expect to return to school this win- ter. G. Bowers, of the firm of Tropp- man & Co., and Adolph Guisness, salesman at the Troppman store, went | to Minneapolis Sunday night, where they will attend the merchants’ as- sociation during the week. An R. N. A. dance will be given tomorrow night in the 0dd-Fellow’s hall after lodge. All Woodmen and Royal Neighbors are invited to at- tend. Tickets 50c. Lunch will be served.—Adv. F. Jevne, of International. .Falls, county _ attorney of Koochiching county, -spent Saturday evening in Bemidji, being enroute to his home from Park Rapids where he appeared before Judge B..F. Wright. Earl Cochran and Kenneth Ken- » | field returned this morning from Min- neapolis, where:they attended = the auto show and visited friends. = Mr. Cochran, who accompanied the boys to Minneapolis, returned Sunday morning. Come in and-see our removal sale prices on young men’s suits, men’s Zenith mackinaw coats, pants, men’s heavy all-wool shirts, red, green and grey plaids, men’s pants, underwear, union suits, mittens, rubbers, shoes of all kinds, sweaters, etc.’ Akerberg, Kittleson & Co.—Adv, ‘W. G. SCHROEDER. Lee LaBaw left this. morning_ for ’|were in Bemidji-Saturday evening “|®rade $5.00 shoes, button or Tonight Only World Film Corporation ‘pre- sents Robert Warwick in‘ “The Man Of ThesHour” A Wilkiam A. Brady picture play feature in five acts. George Broadhurst wrote one of the greatest successes the American stage has ever known when he com]fleted “The Man Of The Hour,’’ which is now to be seen as a World ilm Corporation Feature Film, with Robert Warwick in the title role of the incorruptible mayor. First show 7:20 Admission, Children-5e;-Adults.15c} - |Internationai Falis where he will re-| port the adjoln-ned term of court which -is-onow -in ‘progress. - Judge Stanton - reached-the border city this morning from 8t. Paul, speiiding yes- terday in Duluth. It is expected that the term will not be completed for several weeks, Mrs. George Daniels of Bagley, who has been a-guest-at the Charles-Blak- ley-home: in Turtle-River-during the past week, returned to her home Sat- urday. Mesdames Daniels and Blak- ley also visited the Blakley camp near. Northome, where they enjoyed. camp. life for'a few days.before Mrs. Daniels’ departure. A-large number.of basketball fans from surrounding towns and villages for the purpose of witnessing the “Big Bemidg’-Oswego contest. Among those present were . persons from Blackduck, .Bagley, Walker, Cass Lake and Tenstrike. Andy McNabb arrived in Bemidji Saturday-from Virginia where he is now in-husiness. -Mrs. McNabb will return to Virginia with her husband tomorrow -noon. and they plan to make their home in that city during the future. Mr. McNabb says that business is picking up at a fast rate on the range and that merchants and mining men ‘look for a banner year. Following are a few of the bar- gains you can get at our store with- in the next ten days: Best Quality Lanpher Winter Hats and Caps sac- rificed at this sale. All $3.00 Hats at $2.00; all $2.00 Hats at $1.25; all $2.00 Caps at $1.25; all $1.50 Caps at 80c; all 75c Caps at 40c. Aker- berg, Kittleson & Co.—Ady. Wilbur Lycan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lycan, spent yesterday in Bemidji as the guest of his par- ents, leaving last evening for Min- neapolis where he will enroll at the University of Minnesota, beginning the second semester. Wilbur has been a-student at the University of North Dakota during ‘the past two years, where he was prominent in athletics, being certain of a regular position on the eleven of next fall had he remained at the institution. Mrs. A. E. Henderson of Bemidji avenue entertained a number of little folks Saturday afternoon in honor of her grand-daughter, Helen Erwig, the occasion being Helen’s fifth birth- day. A sleigh ride was first enjoyed, after which the guests gathered at the Henderson home, where games were played and a dainty lunch was served. Miss Verna Barker assisted Mrs. Henderson in serving. The guests were Helen Erwig, Margaret ‘Wedge, Lorraine Kreatz, Lillian Flat- ner, Jane Lucas, Louise Ward, Mer- riam Wedge, Eleanor Bowser, Eliza- beth Tuomy and Martha Erwig. Are you in need of shoes? Buy them at Akerberg, Kittleson & Co., within the-next-ten-days. These are bargains: 'O'Donneéll Shoes. “High lace, black or tan, now only $4.00. All other shoes, $4.00 and $3.50 values, tan of black, button or lace. All $4.00 shoes at this sale, $2.50. All $3.50 shoes at this sale, $2.25.—Adv. Miss Herignaz Hovigimian, a young Armenjan girl, who is attending school in St. Cloud, Minnesota, will come to Bemidji under the auspices of the Young People’s society of the Baptist church, to give a lecture Sun- day evening., February 21. Her talk will be on her work among her peo- ple and she will also explain how the war in different ways affects the people of Armenia. A cordial invi- tation is extended to come and hear this young girl speak. Miss Hovigi- mian will have with her sor:z hand made laces and other articles for sale, which are made by her friends in Armenia. An opportunity will be given to display these articles at a social to be held in the church par- lors for Miss Hovigimian, on Satur- day evening, February 20. _ World’'s Debt to the Unfit. The world- owes much to the physi- | cally unfit. It would be less worth lv- ing in today but for the brilliant con- sumptives and cripples and blind and deaf men who have enriched it. In our craze for efficiency and for stand ardizing everything we:are in danger ot forgetting that there are other things in the world too. We-cannot do without the consumptive Stevensobs, the blind Miltons, the deaf Beethovens. the bunchback Alexander Popes, the clubfoot Hyrons, the helpless Prescotts, A rnle:that swould:hbave deprived Helne ot an education would have been cost- Iy to the world. Enforced against Alexander' . Stepbens it would have. deprived Awerican bistory of one of its noblest figures.—New York Times A Real Oyster. Supper. The First_Scandinavian Lutheran church will give an- Oyster Supper on election day, Feb. 16, from 5 to 8 p. m., at the'I O. O. F. hall. The oysters. will. be cooked by V. Voller, the noted chef, and you will be as- sured of all the oysters you can eat, cake, coffee, sauce, etc., that: goes. with it. Served by the men of the church. “We would: like.to have all people of the city come and enjoy the supper with us. For the benefit of the First Scandinavian Lutheran church of Bemidji.—Adv. To Surprise Smokers. A delightful, cool, fragrant - Ha- .vana gmoke in:the Don Almo cigar, which is.sqon to.appear.on the mar- ket, is bound to:please :every partic- ular. lover of a good smoke, say those who have been privileged with a sample. Del Burgess is going to make jthem, .and .we're all going to smoke them.—Adv. A Pretty. Experiment. How quickly the body ‘waste matter may be 1 lowing simple and' prefo-e!peflment' Eat:a tablet ‘of ' lithium > citrate. Then take a clean platinum: wire,’hold .it in a colorless flawge of a Bunsen burner and note that Itg! i 5 tion to' the ‘Aame. ‘cool the- wire ‘and pass it aleng the'skin of the fore- bead, or after rinsing %he handiin dis- tilled water draw the wire across’the palm and again hold it to the coloriess Bunsen flame. Note beautiful yel- low “color, due to the" sodium. “Next take blfie .serve. the..yellow.. na;fln.thmuzh this, ‘The cobalt: glass al - sodium rays, and thé Mlac flame of potassium now shows.: Abont a half bour affer:taking-the: & tablet make the samextest as al platinum - wire. . 'The ¥ivid-red fiame of lithium is now obtained. short half hour the lithinm enteringat the mouth:has been absorbed into the blood and-carried to.ali- parts of the body and-is beingexcreted through the skin.—New York Werld. Bell Tents. - The interior of a bell tent is full..of. surprises for the new;hand - He: be- of lodgings; it 13 really the stufest Unless the flaps-at the entrance are left:apen. or the:apron:around:the:foot lifted it soon becomes insufferable if there are many men sleeping in it, and it is possible to sleep_ten-or a.dozen men or more in a bell tent, with feet to the pole, of course, aid heads to the canvas. Another surprise is that there is nowhere to hang anything uop. . It is contrary to regulations to drive nails Into the tent pole. The official way is a ring with hooks on it to be clamped around the pole, but old campaigners say that the supply of these is never anything - like: equal to.the number of tents and that only the licky ones get them. With all this a bell tent is the cheapest and most comfortable of tem- porary homes for a party of three or four once they get used to its little ways and cease to mislay things in its featureless circularity.—Liverpool Mer- cury. - A Story of Dickens. M. Anatole France has an amusing reminiscence ‘of Dickens—of whom he is a great admirer—in his “Vie Litte raire.”” One wonders Whether it is an tobiographical. *A. Frénchman. who made ‘the journey ' to Loudon.,” he writes, “went-one day‘to see the great Charles Dickens, He wa§admitted and expressed bhis admiration as an-excuse for thus trespassing on the.precious time of such a being. ‘Your fame," be added, ‘and the universal -sympathy you inspire deubtless éxpose you to in numerable intrusions: ways is besieged. Yo ed every day by princes,- statesmen. scholars, writers, artists and even-mad men.' ‘Yes, madmen, madmen! cried Dickens, carried away bylthe agitation which toward the endiof his life-often’ moved him. ‘Madmen§ They -alone amuse me.’ And he pushed his aston ished. visitor out by the:shoulders " Radium laden breezes, produced by an apparatus invented by a German physician; are ofle‘rM THew ciire, for gout. SALTS FINE FOR - ACHING: KIDNEYS: We eat to0 much meat, whish clogs Kidneys, then Back hurts and Most folks forget that the kidneys,:fi like the bowels, get.aluggish and. elogged and need a flullng:g occasionally, else we have backache kidney region, severe headaches,. rheu- matic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach,” sleeplessness’ and all sorts of bladder dis- orders, 3 You nimplf must keep ;your: kidneys_ active and .clean,’ and: the moment you. feel an -ache .or pain in the ‘kidney on, get about four ounces of Jad Sfih from ‘any good drug store here, take & tablespoonful in a glass of water before. breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of apes and lemon juice, combined with hia, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal ufivity It also neutralizes the acida in the urine eo it no longer irritates, thus_ending bladder disorders, Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent lithia- water drink which everybody should take now and then to keep their kidneys clean, thus avoiding - ufnw- mmpliucnm A -wéll-kmown - I ieays he lellulofilo!JldSfllhhfolklwbnbzhev in overcoming kidney trouble while it is only. trouble. Notice. ] All those knowing themselves .in- debted’to me are kindly requested to settle. their book account or note be-. fore Feb. 10, 1915. to enable ‘me- to ‘meet my own' obli- gations. = - W. @ SCHROEDER. lGHESTER S PILl.S cA T DIAMOND Bxa) IELS, Best, Safest; Always) le!hhln SOLDIYIIWSIS Hffman & 0”[¢ary' i FURNFTURE AND With a clean. In ‘one| dull misery in the || I am obliged to| ask customers to fayor me promptly| It’s Here' “His Dearest Foes.” That«Supremclwlmplrlng. Fascinating Photo The Climax of Movie Productions A powerful two-act Essanay drama. ‘ADMISSION 5c and 10c 'TOMORROW: “BLOOD WILL TELL.” MATINEE .3:00 P. M. Bemidji, Minn. Jan. 30th, 1915. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Commissioners appointed by the City Council to appraise the damages, if any, accruing to the abutting property owners by reason of the vacation of fhe following streets, avenues and alleys included in the Normal School site, to-wit: “Mpyrtle Street, Dewey Ave, north of 14th street, Lake Boulevard, north of 14th street, fifteenth- street, east of Doud avenue, the alley running north and south through blocks 1 and 2 of the 3rd addition to Bemidji, and the alley running north and south through block 3 of said 3rd addition, all of said streets, and alleys having been deeded, together with the lands abutting thereon to the State of Min- nesota for a Normal School site.” -Will meet at the City Hall in said city of Bemidji, Minn., on Saturday, the 13th day of February, 1915, to hear testimony with a view to-ascer- taining such damage, if any. M.-J. BROWN, E. H. MARCUM, F. 8. LYCAN, T. C. BAILEY, EDW. JACKSON, Commissioners. 2td 21-28 Ploneer want ads bring results. HR3T § Carbon Paper ANY COLOR 108 Sheets to the box Price $3.00 Bemid]fl ploneer pub Company : Bemidji. Minn Advertisers who want the best results always patronize The Pioneer. They know, by experi- ence, that it-has no equal in this section of the eountry. as an advertising medium. SPRING G Advance shipments of Lanpher Hats and ng Quality Shoes are now on dis- play in our windows. line of Ed. V. Price Woolens in made to your measure clothes are also here for your inspection, better come in-and place your order for your spring suit and have them delivered in time for Easter. Our new spring m N Y . We are meetlng all competition with our winter line of merchandise, such as Mackinaws, Heavy Wool pants, Underwear, Sweaters, Rubbers, Felt Shoes, Flan- el Shirts, etc. Patrick Mackinaws, $9.50 coat $7.35 Flannel Shirts $1.75 to $3 this week $1.50 Flannel Shirts $1 to $1.25 this week 75¢ -Felt shoes 33 1-3 per cent off Silk and wool underwear, reg. $2.50 and $3 for $1.50 . ‘One big lot of boys’ sweaters, $1 to $1.50 for 79¢ 50c sugpenders 35c, 25¢c suspenders 17¢ Bargains in all departments E LEADE B.R. ERIGKSON, mgr"