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someness. Every Woman Should Know There are three different kinds of baking powder on the market, as follows: (1) Cream of Tartar Baking Powders, which add to food the same healthful qualities that exist in ripe grapes, from which Cream of Tartar is derived. (2) Phosphate Baking Powders, which are made from a mineral known as Phosphate Rock, or from animal bones which are burned and | changed by chemical action into white, powdered phosphate. (3) Alum Baking Powders, which add to food some compound of Aluminum, a heavy metal, wholly foreign to any natural article-of food. Royal Baking Powder is made from Cream of Tartar; derived from grapes, a natural, healthful food. exists for making biscuits, cake, muffins, and pastry of équal quality and whole- No The names of the ingredients printed on the label | show whether the baking powder you are now using, or any brand, new or old, that may be offered, is a genuine Cream of Tartar powder, or merely a phos- &hate or alum compound. : ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK substitute o WHEELER BROS. SHOWS 4 i FIRST CIRCUS COMING Yesterday it was finally decided and agreed that Bemidji is to have LOU TELLEGAN Sn— “THE EXPLORER” Grand Tomorrow Matinee 2:30 its first circus of the season on Wednesday, July 12. The agents and advance advertisers ' are an- nouncing its coming on every avail- able space and location, for there are eighty-five men ahead of Wheeler Brothers Enormous Shows, traveling in two special advertising cars, fol- lowed by an extra brigade of ex- perts whose automobiles are used “to bill the country for miles around.” The Wheeler Bros. show is famous in the East afid South where for many years its visits have been so popular as to place this organization up in the millionaire class of show- men, and now seeking new territory for this tour, hopes to become an established favorite here. ******f*ii***i‘li* x NYMORE NEWS . * * (By Special Correspondent) * KREKH KKK KKK KK KK KK Nels Sneen of Duluth was in Ny- more Tuesday afternoon attending to business affairs. . Mrs. George Larson entertained a few of her friends Tuesday afternoon. A dainty lunch was sServed during the afternoon. Among the guests were the Mesdames J. Labree, M. Johnson, A. Johnson and H. P. Erick- son of Bemidji. Miss Leola Lish of Rosby was a guest of Miss Leona Schmidt Tuesday afternoon, Heavy Troop Movements. El Paso, June 24.-—~Four American refugees arrived here today, report- ing that they narrowly escaped be- ing mobbed in Mexico. They report- ed that there are heavy troop move- ments northward, bringing the Car- ranza strength in Chihuahua to 55,- 000. Agrees With Carranza. El Paso, Tex., June 28.—Informa- tion reached here from apparently re- liable sources that Francisco Villa, until recently at Santa Rosalia, had reached an agreement with the de facto government and that this was being used to induce his followers to join the Carranza forces. Mrs. Flatbrush—How do you man- age to keep a cook so long? Mrs. Bensonhurst—Oh, I get her to stay until my husband can raise some money to pay her.—Yonkers Statesman. Miss Lena Gould of Wilton was the guest of Bemidji friends Tuesday. ADDITIONAL WANT ADS Too Late To Classify FOR SALE — Five-passenger Reo touring car, $350 cash, tires prac- fically new; car in first-class con- dition. - 0. W. Lacy, Box 598 or 520 Belt. Ave. ae2stt Flags, Bunting, Festoons, Tri Color Ribbons. 0% GIRLS’ COATS LADIES’ SUITS A few late style suits going at from $12.50 to $26.50. black silk, size 38. All girls’ coats sizes 2 to 14 yi at 25 percent discount. Novelties for The Fourth. Ladies” Smocks $3.00. Ladies’ awning stripe suits $6.00. Middies $1.00 to $2.00. Silk Waists $1.25 to $7.50. : LADIES’ LOW SHOES - Ladies’ black pumps, widths A to E $3.50 to to $5.00 a pair. WASH GOODS 85c a yard. Beach Cloth stripes 1% inch, colors black, Genuine Palm Beach cloth 36 inches wide 65¢ a yard. LaE ears, including silk garments will be sold $5.00.. Outing shoes $1.00 Store Will Close at noon July 4th BEMIDJI, MINN. Independance Day will be Celebrated Next Week! Are you ready for the occasion? If not we are ready to fit you ouf. FOUR COAT BARGAINS Ladies’ blue gabardine coat, 37 inches long, silk lined, trimmed with Special price................ Ladies’ 45 inch blue gabardine coat full silk lined, trimmed with black tailor’s braid, size 36. Special price Ladies’ 45 inch full lined coat size 20, this coat is made from an all wool fancy mixed cloth. Special price. &34 40 inch black taffetta coat lined to waist with silk, shirred belt and collar size 18. Special price... $15.00 SEES B ET $21.50 ~ $17.50 $18.50 HOT SENATORIAL RACE IN' NORTH DAROTA Left to right, top: R. A. Nestos and B. Hanna. Bottom, Porter J. McCumber. United States Senator Porter J. McCumber, whose third term in the senate i8 nearing a close, is making the fight of his life for re-nomination at the hands of North, Dakota Re- publicans at the primary election to be held June 28. Opposed to Mc- Cumber are Louis B. Hanna, gover- nor of the state, and' formerly a member of congress, both stalwart Republicans, and R. A. Nestos, who has strong progressive tendencies. THE UNIVERSAL CAR There's nothing about a Ford car to puzzle anyone. Any man or woman can quickly learn to drive and anyone can care for his Ford'car, and that’s half the fun of motor- ing. No bills for skilled mechanics; no complications. Just the reliable, simple, useful car that meets everybody’s require- ments. Touring Car $440; Runabout $390; Coupelet $590; Town Car $640; Sedan $740. Al prices f. o. b. Detroit. On sale at C. W. Jewett Auto Co., Inc. Bemidji, Minn. Phone 474 Subserihe far The Pioneer WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1916, navy, coral and light blue . | Federal Inquiry or Railrocad Strike? F?ccd by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen that would impose on the country an additional burden in transportation costs of $100,000,000 impartial Federal tribunal. a year, the railroads propose that this wage problem be settled by reference to an : With these employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the railroads have no d}ffcrences that could not be considered fairly and decided justly by such a public body. Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration The formal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of the controversy is as follows: “Our conferences have demonstrated that we cannot harmonize our differences of opinion, and that eventually the matters in controversy must be passed upon by other and disinter- ested agencies. Therefore, we ropose that your proposals and the proposition of the rail- ways be disposed of by one or the other of the following methods: 1. Preferably by submission to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only tribnnal which, bz reason of its accumulated information bearing on railway conditions and its con- € trol of tl revenue of the railways, is in a position to consider and protect the rights and equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue necessary to meet the added cost of operation in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be just and reasonab[e; or, in the event the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the premises, that we jointly request Congress to take such action as may be necessary to enable the Commission to consider an involved: or - 2. By arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law”’ (The Newlands Act). promptly dispose of the questions Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote , Leaders-of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in New York, June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration or Federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question whether authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike. . The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the public body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: No other body with such an intimate knowledge of railroad conditions has such an unquestioned position in the public con- fidence. The rates the railroads may charge the E:b]ic for transportation are now. largely ed by this Government board. Out of every dollar rcccivc&,by the rail- roads from the public nearly one-half is paid A Question For the Public to Decide | directly to the employes as wages; and the money to payincreased wages can come from no other source than the rates paid by the public. The Interstate Commerce Commission, with its control over rates, is in a position to make a complete investigation and render such decision as would protect the interests of the railroad employes, the owners of the railroads, and the public. - The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of $100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid ana constituting only one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear. mandate from a public tribunal that shall determine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts. ELISHA LEE, Chairman. P.R. ALBRIGHT, Ges' gor Atlantic Cosat Line £ L. W. BALDWIN, G : Central of Georgia Railway ; elo) C. L. BARDO, Gen'l Manater, New York, New Haven & Hartlord Railroad H. COAPMAN, Vice- Presidin - Sopthera R : G. H. RMERSON, Gos'/ Masaser. % Grest Northera Railway. H. EWING, Gon'l Ma; & Reading Railway. Gon’l Sups. Tra & Ohi?‘l'lilwlp - The single issue before the country is whether this controversy s to be settled by an impartial ernment inquiry or by industrial warfare. National Conference Committee of the Railways 4 i N. D. MAHER, Vice- Norfolk & Westera JAMES RUSSELL, Gen Deaver & Rio Grande . > A.M.SCHO! Pennsylva W. L. SEDD( Seaboard Air ilway. A.J. STONE, Vice- Prasidess, Erie Railroad. g /G. 8. WAID, Vice-Pres. & Gou'l Mon Suaset