Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 1, 1915, Page 4

] | ARk A AR IAAAAAAN A AR A A KAk kK ThesBemidh Daily Pioneer TRE BEMIDJI PIONEER PPUB. CO. Publishers and Proprietors. ‘Telephone. 31. Entered at the post office at Bemidji, Minn, as second-class matter under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published every afternoon except Sunday No attention paid to anopymous con- tributions. Writer's name must be “wpown to the editor, but net necessarily for publication Communications for the Weekly Pio- user should reach this effice not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the ourrent issue. —_———— Subscription Rates. One month by carrier.... One year by carrier....... Three months, postage paid. RJX months, postege paid. One year, postage paid...... ‘The Weekly Ploneer. Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. Publighed every and sent pastage paid to any 8 for $1.50 in advance. R EKEKEEKKHXKKKK KKK * * * The Daily Pioneer receives +* %« wire service of the United * %« Press Association. x x * kK KKK KKK KKK KK KK €H!S PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING. BY THE NRESEATSOCIRTION | GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES TEKK KKK KKK KK KK We begin to understand that it is not nationalities, nor Principalities, nor Gov- ernments that are entitled to possess this earth, but just men and women and children ‘wherever found. Humanity is One because God is One. Men of different nations are not of different natures; and it is fantastic egotism—mad- ness, phobia, sheer diablerie, to think otherwise. America composite of all nations, “half brother to the world,” owned in common by all who come to her, is witness to this eternal truth; a truth which from out the blackness of this brooding horror shines like the Skekinah.—(Selected) thkhkhkhkrkhkhkhkhkhrhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkhkkhkhkd XK K E KKK KKK KKK ‘When Mayor McCuaig revoked the ! license of Frank Dewey’s pool hall he carried out the desires of the cit-' izens of Bemidji. As the mayor said at the hearing yesterday morning, “selling liquor in a pool room is a greater offense than if scld in a building formerly used as a salocn.” If all the city, state and federal authorities will take the firm stand that Mayor McCuaig took in the Dewey case, it will not be long be- fore the liquor laws and Indian treaties will be enforced to the let- ter. A GREAT COUNTRY STORE. Forest Crissey in the Saturday Evening Post tells the story of a country store, a ‘‘cornfield empor- ium,” he calls it, which might have been exactly like any other of a hundred thousand country stores— struggling along and echoing with the wails of its proprietor because the mail order houses were putting him out of business—but which does an annual business of four hundred thousand dollars, and draws trade from many miles around, even from cities of considerable size. The story carries a lesson to rural merchants, a lesson worth a lot of money, says the Duluth Herald. There were two reasons why this “tore succeeded while thousands up- ~n thousands of other stores similar- 'y situated fail, or hang on by the kin of their teeth. These reasons are that the pro- orietors studied merchandising, and that they did not hide their light .nder a bushel. In other words, they sought bar- ~ains, and they advertised. The trouble with the average “ountry merchant who does not suc- ‘zed is that he hides his light under o bushel. He may have bargains to offer— ‘tough it takes a study and under- tanding of merchandising and an arnest pursuit of wholesale bar- ~ains to have them—but he leaves is customers to find it out for them- :lves. While his competitors are “ending thousands of dollars in ad- »rtising, he is spending little or osthing. He may, indeed, have a ~rd in the local paper announcing ‘*re fact that he is in business; which ‘erybody knew already. But that *; the next thing to zero in advertis- g, fon a merchant. This “cornfield'empurinm" is con- Cucted exactly as a successful city department store is conducted. buyers search the market for bar- gains, and when bargains are found the fact is published broadcast to the world. Its advertisements are found in cities thirty or forty miles away, and draw trade from right under the noses of the city mer- chants. Besides newspaper adver- tisements in every community within reach, this store sends out newsy and intimate circular letters to rural {customers beyond the reach of news- paper advertisements. By one means or another the scent of bargains is scattered far and wide, and a train of customers, -following this irresis- tible scent, finds its way steadily to the doors of the cornfield emporium. Not , every rural merchant, of course, can build up such a business. But every rural merchant can build up a solid, far-reaching trade by intelligent use of the same methods. The bargain-hunt is a fascinating game. It is because they think they are getting bargains that people patronize the great mail order houses. Usually they are not, all things con- sidered, getting anything like the bargains they think they are getting. But the point is that the mail order houses, through: its advertisements and its catalogues, appeals to this natural thirst for bargains, and so profits enormously at the expense of the non-advertising merchant. There are some rural stores in Minnesota whose proprietors are get- ting rich because they have taken a lesson from the catalogue houses and the city department stores, and have learned to offer and advertise bar- gains. There might be a thousand such stores if the proprietors would buck up a little and use the local newspaper in an intelligent and en- terprising way. BLOT ON OUR ’SCUTCHEON. Very much impressed with the road system of California, which he has inspected recently, Engineer Cooley of the State Highway Com- mission, has returned to remark that the roads of Minnesota are very far below par, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He might have proceeded much further. With some notable exceptions Minnesota has no road system. The beauties of the state are inaccessible and a large charge is levied upon the agricultural in- terest by the failure of the people to realize the value of good roads. For at least ten years the gospel How Abecut During Bemidji iproperly. We have Let us help you. THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME. ITTLE things often add much to the enjoyment of life L and living. For instance, a hat tree in a bedroom | will be found to be a distinct convenience. We have a large stock of general house furnishings and take pride || in our department of bedroom requisites. Beds and mat- tresses, washstands, bureaus, chiffoniers, chairs, dressing Bemidji, Minn, tables—all here at fair prices. Join Our Happy Customers! Huffman & O’Leary - The Home of Good Furniture Minnesota Ave. No other store has more to offer than lours when it comes to DRESSING the home but home DRESSUP articles. entirely for the home. If you tog up yourselves you should be fair to your living apartments. They isheuld bein keeping with your best “T068", Minnesota. This means not merely roads, but GOOD roads. It has not fallen upon entirely deaf ears, for there are some admirable highways in the state, but unfortunately these highways are the exception, not the rule, and serve to make the ineffici- ent roads stand out in hideaus com- parison. g With perpetual dry weather the road. system of Minnesota would be fair. Most of its roads are dirt and with enough traffic and the absence of rain they are found in passable condition. But the normal precipi- tation in the state is sufficient to convert the majority of the county highways into bogs and slides and for long periods at a time to make them absolutely impassable. The situation is a blot upon the escrutcheon of the state. Next month a week is to be set aside by the state. press to be devoted to the exploitation of the attractions and advantages of Minnesota. How are the newspapers to handle the subject of roads without stammering. in Across the ocean in Europe are thousands of men who are lonely and who would like to receive a letter from some person in this country. A society recently organized in New York is having people adopt sol- diers by letters. When a soldier is adopted he receives letters, cigar- ettes, clothing, etc., from the person who adopts him, so as to make him comfortable while at the front. The idea is very fine and the re- sults can be seen from a letter re- ceived by a London paper from a lonely soldier. The letter is as fol- lows: “The other day one of my pals put me wise to the fact that there is a society or something connected with your paper having for its ob- ject the befriending of soldiers who have no people or friends who will write to them while at the front. “If that is right, put me on the list, for the Love of Mike, as I am the real, genuine, unadulterated article. I have lived the best part of my life in the U. S. A. and had come to con- sider myself a true-blue-son-of-a-gun of a Yankee, until this scrap started. Well, as you know blood is thicker than water. The only friends I've got are the guys who will be waiting for | me with the glad hand if I should happen to get back to Chicago with a few dollars in my pocket. “So if any of the ‘Lonely Soldier’ ities. | !people want to be a pal to me, I say to them, come now, make no delay; as the poet says, ‘come early and avoid the rush.’” : The lonely Halsted streeter’s name was not disclosed. Your Home Dressup Week At Ottawa the street equipped with clocks. Thank for- tune, no self-respecting American street car company would so sinfully ‘waste space on a clock when it might nothing else to offer. |3 = we tave the room o ram Our lines are cars are FOOTBALL GAME WITH ENEMY WAS BARRED Winnipeg, Man., Oct. 1.—“We found the Saxons in the German army mighty decent fellows, and would have had a football game if the su- perior officers would have stood for it,” says I. R. Buck, homesteader of Swift Current, Sask., in Winnipeg and skirts. set. _——————— Dress Up Week finds us in po- sition to look after your wants in all departments of our store. Beautiful coats and suits in Plush, Corduroy, Broadcloths, Poplins, fur trimmed and right price. Dresses in Silks, Poplin, Broaadcloth new and up to the minute. in SHIRT WAISTS, SKIRTS and silk 922z PETTICOATS, GLOVES in KID and SILK, popular shades and splendid qual- DRESS GOODS, SILKS, RIBBONS, SILK HOSE, STAMPED LINENS of all kinds, WAR- NER’S CORSETS and BRASSIERS, none better, few as good. The only store in Bemidji carrying a com- plete line of “Everything for the baby”. ronage is appreciated. < today bound for home from the front in France. “Hello, Canadians,” was their greeting to us as we relieved the British in the trenches, he said. “Our trenches were so close together we could readliy speak to each oth- er.” MARTHA WASHINGTON’S WILL GIVEN TO STATE Richmond, Va., Oct. 1.—J. P. Mor- | gan has sent to Justice James Keith, president of the Virginia court of ap- peals, to be disposed of by him at his own discretion, the will of Mrs. Martha Washington, taken from Fairfax court house by a federal sol- dier during the war and bought by the late J. Pierpont Morgan for his library. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railway, was the mediator between Mr. Morgan and Governor The newest Your pat- _—_—_— Stuart and Justice Keith. The will probably will be placed by consent i'n a fireproof vault at Mount Ver- non. The state of Virginia had a suit pending in the supreme court of the United States to compel Morgan to return the will. GOLFERS EXCITED BY TRAGEDY AT CLUB Cedar Rapids, Ia., Oct. 1.—Angry because his wife had divorced him, Joseph P. Lesinger, a teamster, went to the country club where Mrs. Les- inger was employed as stewardess and shot her as she stood at a tele- phone and then turned his revolver on himself. Lesinger died shortly afterward and Mrs. Lesinger is in a critical condition. The tragedy caused great excitement at the club, where many business men were play- ing golf. 0’Leary-Bowser Co. Bemidji, Minnesota 0ct. 2 to 9th I NOW IS THE TIME TO SELECT YOUR Oct. 2 to 9th garments for dress up week. Weare offering many new models in coats, dresses One special offering will be black martin sets at from $40 to $50 a Other important articles for dress up that are to be found at this store, shoes, silk hose, silk gloves, kid gloves, silk and Munsing underwear, silk sweaters, wool sweaters, silk Scarfs, neckwear, hair goods, bags, belts, silks, dress goods. Are we returning to the days of our Grand Moth- ers? Look in our west window and let us know what you think about it. ; ; cuiia B