Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 25, 1915, Page 4

| N | I - 4 = The Bemid$i Daily Pioneer 'THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUB. €0. Publishers and Propristors. Telephone. 31. Entered at the post office at Bemidjl, Minn, as second-class matter under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published every afternoon except Sunday No attention paid to anonymous con- tributions. Writer's name must _be known fo the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Pio- neer should reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the ocurrent issue. Subscription Rates. One month by carrier... One year by carrier..... .$ .40 . 4.00 Three months, postage paid. . 1.60 8ix months, postage paid. . 2.00 One year, postage paid.. ..o 4.00 The Weekly Pioneer. Bight pages, oontaining a summary of the news of the week. Published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.50 in advance. —_— e FHIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE ASSOCIATION. SSOCIATIO still more credit than this for this idea. Excellent as were 'those Jour- nal editorials, newspaper week did not originate there, but in Mr. Hotal- ing’s address as president of the State Editorial association. It was adopted by the association and as president he named the committee to carry it out. Every newspaper in the state will join in it to make it in fact a Minnesota week, a. week of boosting the state from every con- ceivable angle and this was Mr. Hotaling’s purpose.—Virginia Enter- prise. KKK KKK KKK KK KKK KX * THE NEW FASHIONS * KK KK KKK KKK KKK KKK By MARGARET MASON. New York, June 25.—Fashion is going to give us the slip this sum- mer. At least she will have us look as much as possible like the creton- ne slip on the wing chair and the family davenport. Gay flowered chintz and cretonne is being used in prodigal profusion not only to trim summer frocks but to create them entirely. Perky little short jackets of bright cretonnes are putting the GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES Our Slogan: “Bemidji 25,000 Population” in 1925” little silken jackets out of business 'as popular accessories of the summer toilette to be worn with a filmy ling- erie frock. Floppy garden hats, trim sport hats and artistic picture hats are all successfully fashioned from the stuff that window curtains and bedspreads are made from. Parasols of cretonne bloom with gay plumaged birds and cabbage sized flowers and gate topped bags of chintz add yet another item to its many sartorial uses. Even our young and our automobiles are not safe from this cretonne epidemic and bon- nets, aprons and tiny cretonne bas- kets to match are offered as a com- plete beach outfit for the small kid- Drag the Roads! The slogan of every town in Min- nesota these days ought to be, “Drag the roads.” Nothing so quickly puts|Vulgar punster might even go so far | @ dirt road in travelable condition as the use of the drag after a rain. And nothing will so quickly make it a way of ruts and holes and bumps as failure to use the drag, says the Min- neapolis Journal. The care of the roads we have is of almost greater importance than the building of new ones. Scientific road maintenance is a lesson that is learned all too slowly in this country. Europe learned it long ago and prac- tises it with industry and success. There are two great forces for good roads in Minnesota that must be brought into' active co-operation before great things are accomplished —the farmers and the automobiles. Agricultural prosperity has already made automobilists of some of the| farmers and will make more. But the farmer, whether he drives a car or a horse, stands in need ofi good roads on which to take hisi produce to market and however short- | sighted he may be as yet about the| expenditure of state money on great paved roads radiating throughout the! state from the various centers, he: recognizes the need of having the! Toads he himself uses kept in good ' condition. The drag is the simplest | and best .way to do that. Live villages and cities find it pays to keep the to-town roads dragged,t for it brings the farmers and their business. Automobile clubs in the various cities of the state are helping | to spread this gospel of the drag. The State Automobile association is wisely encouraging the wide organi- zation of these clubs to engage in the work of looking after neighbor- hood roads. If the automobile owners in each city of the state would get together and through a club see that the roads leading into their city are well maintained, the conversion of the farmers to the gospel of good; roads would be rapid and widespread. A little practical demonstration beats reams of argument. AR R R R SR LSS SRR R * EDITORIAL EXPLOSIONS <« LR R R T E TR RS Give the farmer a good road and he’ll soon be buying Fords and auto- mobiles—and then he will insist on taxing himself to build and maintain more roads.—Hibbing Tribune. —_—— ‘While the subject of good roads has been widely and ably exploited, the courageous exponent of bad roads still remains in the background. Why does not some bold adherent stand forth? Can it be that anything of which there is so much has no real friends and staunch defenders?— Little Falls Transcript. P> N “Newspaper week is the outcome lecrown and drops its tasseled die while the most up-to-date motors are being upholsteréd for the sum- mer season in smart black and white block and striped cretonnes and even in floral and bird designs on black or grey backgrounds. Some low and as to accuse Madame La Mode of having the chintz bug but far be it from me. ‘While in the upholstery and drap- ‘ery department snooping .around for ideas Fashion has also seized upon 'silk and metal fringes as a trimming novelty. On both hats and frocks she is using it with a lavish hand. Silk fringe in all colors is used for the entire crown of a hat whose brim is made of velvet. White silk fringe particularly is effective to make these soft and fluffy fringey crowns while the metallic fringe in gold or silver is used more extensively to edge the velvet brims of the newest midsum- mer chapeaux. Usually the trimming on these hats with metal fringe edged brims ‘is a single tassel of the same metal. The hats with silk fringe crowns also have a penchant for tas- sel trimming and often the tassel finishes a scarf that knots around the end gracefully to the wearer’s shoulder. As a dress trimming the short silk and metallic fringe are most effec- tive trimmings, especially edging the short jackets and highwater full kirts of the crisp taffeta dresses. Parasols and bags edged and trim- med with silk fringe to match fol- low closely on the fringe of fashion. Even veils have fringe borders and though you may sniff and turn up your nose at them you are bound to be carrying a fringed handkerchief soon for they certainly are up to snuff. Fringe has invaded the jewelry realm and pendant earrings of scin- tallating golden fringe, necklaces of 14-caret fringe and gold bar -corsage pins, fringe edged, are lovely nest- ling in the film and froth of summer fabrics. When the tired business man comes homes these nights he’s going to have an awful time to tell his wife from the cook, that is, of course, if he’s lucky enough to have both. The way all the smartest frocks are af- fecting little aprons of organdie and Paris muslin to match up their neck frills and cuffs Milady and Milady’s maid will soon be able to do a sister act. i _ The apron effects are very bewitch- ing though and add just the last quaint touch to a demure little dress of grey or old blue crepe de chine with Quaker collar and cuffs of white organdie. A mustard yellow frock of pussy willow taffeta or an old rose of Georgette crepe make lovely backgrounds for the frilly froth of a lace trimmed apron panel of white net and a fichu to match and the re- sult is so youthful that the wearer looks not like a maid but a maiden. An English inventor’s aeroplane can be converted into a tent, wher- ever its pilot may happen to stop, by of a symposium of signed editorials the addition of curtains between its recently published by the Minneapolis | planes. 3 Journal devoted to state development topics. ‘Tt was suggested by H. C. Hotaling, a southern Minnesota ed-|of males to females is only 93.7; in itor, in the Journal’s symposium and|France, 96.7; in the German Empire, it .was received everywhere with in-|9' stant favor.” -Mr. Hotaling deserves In.England and Wales the number in Italy, 96.5,“and in" 'Russia, the United States. MUNICIPAL HOUSEKEEP- - ING. The modern city is becoming better recognized each year as a great home, belonging to and: providing shelter for thousands of individuals. Each one of these has a certain part in the respon- sibility of attaining and keeping the highest possible standard of order, sanitation and beauty for their common home. The may- or and other public officials are the recognized head housekeep- ers, whose duty it is to. obtain the highest results for the money expended, but each member. of it is duty bound to co-operate with them.—Frederic J. Haskin. Sosfoefeesfoedrfecoofesdnd FIGHT MAIL ORDER HOUSE. Small Town Merchant Can Get Busi- ness if He Tries. Coming, as it does, from the mer- chandise man for a store in a Montana center. of little more than 1,000 popu- lation, the following article in regard to bucking the mail order house com- petition should appeal very strongly to a great many readers. It will be seen that the merchandise man who has contributed this interesting and sug- gestive statement takes an optimistic view of the retailer’s opportunities for heading off maii order house competi- tion, and, in part at least, he suggests how this is to be Gone. He says: There has been for some time and is yet grief among small town merchants owing to the large business done in their locality through the retail mail order houses. More so since the par- cel post system has come and also the reduction in express rates throughout ' The question is, What is the main cause of this condition? I have been located with small town merchants for some time and have made a careful investigation of this condition, which I know exists, and I believe and will say that I know that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the merchant himself is to blame. He has, if 1 may say it, fallen into a rut. He'has many dollars tied up with old merchandise which he cannot move and will not buy any new goods be- cause he has not sold his old stock, and, besides, he argues, the mail order houses are doing the largest amount of business in his town and district, which he ought to have. In other words, his store is full to the doors with unsalable merchandise, and the people are tired of seeing it. With all the national advertising that is done through the magazines and newspapers the people are informed of the newest, up to date, stylish wear- ing apparel, shoes, hats, etc. That j|| what they want, and they will have 1 because it is the newest thing out, And if their home town store has no such merchandise where are they go- ing to get it? | They look through the catalogues which the mail order house has so kindly sent them, pick what they want out, send a money order, and in a few days the newest styles are delivered to them. Even if it costs a little more by parcel post they will have it. : Now, then, if Mr. Small Town Mer- chant will open his eyes and take a good look at his store and stock, put his old merchandise out at a price that will move it, and move it; if he will change the stock around, should it be necessary—and I know that changes sell merchandise—if he will make at- tractive window and ledge displays and buy new, up to date, stylish mer- chandise he will find the largest amount of his mail order competition disappearing. It is omiy right that the merchant should have the basiness of his town and- surrounding locality, and it is up to him to go after it right—and get it. Recently I have been watching the customers very closely while making purchases, and in many cases they say: “I can never get what I want in this store. They never have anything new. I might have known Dbetter than to come here. 1 shall have to send to the mail order house for what I want.” The result is that the merchant has probably lost a good customer for good and that every day he is driving others away through these conditions, which | I know to exist. I know of one merchant who has a tizable general merchandise store and also has the postoffice in his store, and it keeps him so busy writing out money orders for the mail order houses and recelving mail order packages for the people in his town that he has no time to wait on the little trade he has left, but which is fast getting away from him, Now, then, Mr. Merchant, it is up to you to get busy and get what the peo- ple want. They are tired of seeing old stock. It must be new, up to date and stylish—for this day and generation.— Dry Goods Economist. A Live Town. The chamber of commerce of the comparatively small town of Clearfleld, Pa., is making rapid forward strides and is already planning the installation of an ornamental lighting system, the establishment of a garbage incinerat- ing plant and the beautification of the city parks. Further than this, the Clearfleld chamber is fostering a move- ment for the building of homes for ‘workingmen, the establishment of a curb produce market and for the secur- ing of a branch of the state farm bu- reau in connection-with the county ag- A device for removing tires from wagon wheels has been invented that exerts a pull exceeding a tom, yet‘exceeds 320,000,000 pounds a year. weighs less than 25 pounds. —_— i As a less expensive substitute for an electric hair dyjer a German elec- trician has brought out a device for | when you use a Pioneer want ad. warming ordinary combs. " ploding mines, exhibition candles and all the new The things we do for our customers are more important to us than [the things they do for us. THAT'S the way we like to feel in serving you with good things to wear; we cultivate always this spirit of service—if the spirit is there, the just naturally follows. l Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes at $20, $25, $30 is the biggest thing any firm can do for you in the way of a clothes service; you can’t buy lower priced clqthes if you'll consider the value you get for the price. ’ &red. Co. The production of cheese in the United States has grown until it now ‘Wisconsin makes nearly one-half of Results are :must aiways certain One-half cent a word. Phone 31. Never Before have we had such a supply of 4th of July goods and everything in Fireworks. We placed orders for these goods months and months ago and bought same at prices that enable us to sell very cheaply. It you wish to purchase at right prices--be sure and let us supply you. Lawn Assortments pcaked up, ready to be de- livered Saturday before 4th or Monday, July 5th at $2, $3 and $5 These will contain an assortment of all items that are good, such as Roman candles, sky rockets, revolving wheels, triangle wheels, ex- novelties. You save money by buying any of these assortments. Cap pistols, repeating pistols, cork pop guns paper pop guns, exploding canes, paper caps repeating caps at 8¢ and 10c Balloons and decorations, all kinds............8¢, 10¢c Sky Rockets...........c.ccuue.nt ceere...2Cc t0 $1.00 Roman candles, one cent to ......B0C Sparklers, 2 for 1c up to.... Bceach Be Sure And Buy Your 4th of July Needs From Us Aluminum Ware The great Saluca line much underpriced, warranted for 25 years, special Saturday 12-quart $I 68 water pails, reg. $2.25, special.................. ] 2-gt. Berlin kettle with cover, reg 85c special.....69¢ Ice Cream Freezers Triple motion Peerless will freeze in 5 minutes. Peerless _ White Mountain Make 3-qt.............$2.75 3-qt............52.98 ......$398 Hammocks The big line with the big values 98c, $1.98, $2.98, $3.50, $4.98, $5.50. Croquet Sets 4 and 6 ball sets all oiled and varnished balls, good hardwood stakes and mallets, all much underpriced 86c, $1.48 $1.98, $2.48 to $3.75 Children’s hose in white, tan, black, all sizes......18¢ Equal to many 25¢ grades Ladies’ hose ......................... 10¢c, 18c 28c¢c, 48¢c Special Saturday Large 48c water jug holds 1 1-2 gal. spec. each...29¢ Coaster wagons real $3.50 values.................$2.98 Ball bearing...........cccvceueeiiiivininnsnnninnee..... $4.20 Hand cars.... Automobiles. : Velocipedes and bicycles $1.95 and .$2.95 up Bowls, fancy band bowls in 1-qt. size in blue and other decorations, each.............,.........10c, 12¢, 15¢ The Store With The Large Stock. Come, See CARLSON, OF COURSE .7 The Varlety Store Man b e So get in as early Bomidj's Exclugive Shoe Store Remember this Sale Lasts Ten Days as you can and get a good selection LADIES’ HOUSE SLIPPERS— 50 pairs, very easy, one strap house slippersat....... CHILDREN’S SLIPPERS—Two strap, patent, Mary Jane pat- ent, sizes 2 to 8, at......695¢ LADIES’ MARY JANE SLIP- PERS—Patent or gunmetal, also a few two-strap slippers on this counter, white kid two-strap. These should be selling at $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00; your choice at $1.85 COLORED TOP—SIDE LACE— Ladies’ boot, patent leather, gray or putty top, regular $3.50 value, will close out 1ot At «iosdtonsiais mwas $2.35 LADIES’ PATENT BUTTON— Plain toe, cloth top, Cuban heel;at o om sn s s $2.25 LADIES’ WHITE BUCK—But- ton shoe, neat round toe, me- dium heel, regular $4.00, MEN’'S DRESS SHOES—The very latest English last, cloth top, lace, black or tan; reg- ular $4.50 and $5.00 shoes. Very nobby. Now selling ........... .....83135 A very neat light calf or kid blucher, wide last, box toe, worth $4.00, at.....$2185 RUBBER SOLE OXFORDS— A line of men’s rubber sole and heel oxfords, English last, best make, very stylish, $4.00 and $4.50 values dur- ing this sale ....... $3.15 LADIES’ HOSE—Carry a full line, not only ladies’, but men’s and children’s as well. But during this sale are put- ting out a lot, all colors and sizes in ladies’ hose up to 35¢ and 50c values at 19¢ or two for . ooeens “e....35¢c BEMIDJI'S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STOTE C. A KNAPP, Prop. Bomidjl, Minn. SOUTH OF GRAND TEATRE |