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BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER - [N00KAN'S OPINION OF || o2 25% |(~ FARMERS’ & TRAPPERS; (ATTENTION | _PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY——— ||| , WA AND SURGEON ; i » e i THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. g L CQUNTY DRAFT BOARD Suite 10, O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. We are buyitig Hitles; Furs Wool, oy i Office Phone 163 CARSON (Baulette Reglo.n) Ly e, Gentlemen: 'Tis soiry we are to have to ask such a good bunch of scouts as you fellows to get on the recelving-end of a roasting, but your judgment of last week looks so raw that we believe a roasting will not be out of place. In the first place, fel- lows, take & good squaye look at the map and you will find that the world does not end just north of Bemidii, :and when you have given it the once over, allow us to put you.adjacent to the fact that the drafted boys from this neck of the woods are kicking holes in the sky because of your TELEPHONE 922 DR.-L. A. WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Troppman Block Bemidji, Minn. llurod at the postoftice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter uader act of Congress of March 3, 1879. NORTHERN MWDE & FUR COMPANY Ono Malf Block Nerth of Union Statien, BEMIDJI No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer’s name must b6 kmowa to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. . Gommunications for the Weekly Ploneer must-reach this ioffiee. not Jater than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. W : SUBSCRIPTION RATES LEANING _ Clothes (]},lg'aglegs for Men, Women and Children ICTURES of home felks carry warmtk and com- BY MAIL judgment in the matter of selecting ’ Ome year ... ..$5.00 Oneyear ..............$4/00 |the twelve men to represent . this fort to the heart of a soldler. fix months 2.50 Six months . 8.00 :ounlty in the coast guards in Cali- ornia. Thres men! 125 Three months ..........-1.00 Let’s that a good square slant at One month 45 ahg télct:.,ant week you v:'ere’ noti- STUDIO ssesesorssgm. of ed that there were vacancies in the ~" woek . 2 coast ‘guard in California, and that a TOM SMART of dozen of the drafted Beltrami county DRAY AND TRANSFER Tex: pages, containing & summary of the news. of the week. . Pub-| ' " i the boys in this section of || Res- Phone 58 818 America ‘ fi _Hehed every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for, in|the fact and give them achance to Office Phone 12 ot BAVABOP ...eeocoennnervearenanmmesieascassassesnaasesssss..$1.50| g0t in on the ground floor? Not on 3 a ot“ 4 your tintype. You allowed the quota 1 =i ] ) to be filled at Bemidji and vicinity, and when the boys up here heard of it, the vacancies in the quota re- sembled a photogpaph of a dough- nut. Is it any wonder that they are sore all over like a giraffe with a sore neck, and while they are not say- OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS _ Make an appointment today. FUNERAL DIREdTOR . : M. E, IBERTSON The Paily Ploneer is 8 member of the United Press Association, and fs represented for foreign advertising by the j AerowlaessAsnco. e A Tyt | Ee————— The Hakkerup Studio house for what they think of it. It pains us beyond measure to think that we are to choloform our ‘hopes of getting the proper kind of consideration from you fellows, and you may shout until you are purple in the face that no wyrong was in- tended, but the fact remains that you didn’t see the bunch up here at all. Allow us to inform you that there are no fpigid feet among the drafted boys of this place, and there were no v miom in New York aud Chicago, branches in all principal ecities. W : Bemidji, - - - Minn. 405 Beltrami Ave., : ) ; , Bemidji, Minn, : fa b ) IS FOOD CONSERVATION FAILING? Reports come fpom many sections of the country that the answer to the appeal for conservation is not by any feans what it should be, and what the authorities had every reason to expect it would be. It has been some time since the people were urged to conomize on wheat, yet we are in- formed that the consumption of wheat in this country for the month of| ;5,4 gobs coming. from them when October, 1917, was 18 pepcent greater than for the same month last year.|the draft ' was announced. They are Now, hysteria in the matter of economy will get us nowhere. It is|just as.anxious to cuff the kaiser as . All anybody else, but at the same time Hldes & Fu'-s z to ror sasaiore orces, || Bemidji-Nymore Car Line i i . 13th Street (8econd Street, i AND To Beltrami Avenue') " Nymore Car leaves Hymofe on the hour and half-hour. Car leaves '13th Street on the "quarter to an useless to seek to scare the people with the cry of possible famine. o too 'well they know this to be impossible so long as the seasons come and {},‘:{m’;“fi'};‘o{’{gfi“fiy "‘;h‘;‘,‘}’",fi; reasonable work is done. People eve rywhere are earning more these days | plums are being handed out., and then evey before, perhaps, in their lives. This no doubt accounts for much tl(l)zy dfi; _:V-:::l:;h:fi tvirlt;:] 1:s tllvzfid:; of the increase in consumption. {he boys who happen to hang up their But while the people cannot be scared into economy, if the matter i8] hats in Bemidji and vicinity. placed ‘before: them in its proper light, common sense should induce them Pephaps you think we are enter- to economize. i ing into the spirit of this letter with The present era of high prices is in the nature of a windfall—a streak ':O;Ligfym::z;::}.';,sh::d th;;’“ isv?ilii of luck that can not, in the nature or things, continue indefinitely.|prohobly favor us with a few sixty Eventually the cause—wap—must be removed, when prices will naturally|h. p. glares in return, -along with seek something near their old level. The man who, while taking every|the reply “‘:' it !W‘“ more “’w"x‘fnl; legitimate advantage of inflated values, at the same time practices econ- ::natlltovg;(ew:l};sl: fi?stgv:;’,uimt yg“ omy in his expenditures, is the man who will be living on Easy street when | can hardly expect them to laugh the slump comes. The fellow who increases his style of living to match his t:u;mselves to death over youp de- salary will find himself at that-time in worse condition than ever. He will|¢slon. < have contracted habits of life that he will find impossible to maintain Chg(zww;h::e“;ilr\lagvteogg;;h:)str,ofsvit;l];x: when' conditions charige. ing you a Merry Christmas, and if There is, however, anothe) aspect of the case that should be im-|Yyou have any explanation to offer, y pressed upon all. Our goveriment Liss decided to maintain the Allies to] h1% ’ire‘t‘&::]”?fiz“:lgézexzfiftt’; Tl bt the best of its ability. It will also keep plenty of supplies going to our| 5 *° 4 PSS .own armies in Europe. These causes, together with extravagance at home, may easily. cause such conditions that it will be imperative that the gov- ernment take active steps in food contjol. This has not been done as yet. the government preferring to place the people on their honor in the matter Sincerely, of conservation. If that honor is continually and systematically violated, BUSINESS quarter after each hour. . Fare, 8 Cents OO T T T T nimnmmnn Coldberg’s Hide & Fur Co. 112 3rd St. Bemidji, Minn. We also pay ‘the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE for RUB- BERS, METALS and 'RAGS R W. [N Proprietor Phone 638-W Do you neéd .hly‘! ‘We can sell you in bales or in carload lots. We also handle Flour and Feed.* 11 us'up. and get:. prices.’; Phone 266. iy ke i Akre’s Variety Store Nymore, Minn. UG LU D LT UL JACOB GOLDBERG, Prop. A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. SPECIALIST EYE EAR NOSE THROAT Glasses Fitted THE REGION. MINNNNRNnnny, S d i the government will have no alternative other than to take chapge. # = ILM lN’NF The man who persistently refuses to comply with the requests in the AN“ PHoFESS“]“AL P?XRYSS.I(gANSOIAEED&SgfigEONS matter of food conservation is helping to bring that day nearer. Office—Miles Block CAN'T BLAME PEOPLE FOR COMPLAINING. THORWALD LUNDE DR. EINER JOHNSON ; CHIROEBACTON PHYSICIAN AND SURGE Bell Emple oN yoos (Minneapolis Tribune). Acute and Chronic Diseases han- Bemidji, Minn. . In the light of what has been disclosed by official testimony in Wash- lded with great suecess o °".. . l.hl'l“ ington. who is there to say any more that the British, the French and the First National Bank Building = 1 ’ " Italians are not fighting our battles for us and saving us from a desperate Bemidji, Minn. Phone 406-W . il ‘h e..".' plight? We may well shiver to think in what a ppedicament we would be[| +oure 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 7-8 p. m. DR. J. T. TUOMY now if.it were not for that cordon of Allied men and iron aroung Germany DENTIST and Austria and those ships of Great Britain keeping the German navy at North of Markham Hotel o TUSETH SCHOOL OF MUSIC Gibbons Block Tel. 230 More than half of the men employed by this company, are stockholders. | For months at least we must put our trust elsewheype than in, ourselves Teachers of : g s Sl that the hard-pressed armies on the Belgian, French and Italian fronts will VIOLIN, PIANO AND BAND We assist worthy employees to become stockholders by, ° hold. out; valiantly against a greatly augmented foe until we are able to INSTRUMENTS® ; permitting them to buy stock gradually out of their sav- throw our tremendous stpength in men and.arms into the balance on their P.hone 683-W 116 3rd St. N. L. HAKKERUP ings. side of the scales. . We have the men but they can't fight in this war with broomsticks. When they are armed and accoutred they will be useless- until they get “over there.” Will the ships be ready to get them there? Heaven grant F M N ) & u!LEAHY Photos Day and Night it, but meantime the ped-blooded American is not to be blamed if he com- Hu F A plains that what is coming to him from Washington ‘gets on his nerves.” We believe that this 'po’llcy makes the mefi more tnlihfil employees and better servants of the public, - e PHOTOGRAPHER S AR EPUTLE EPALTS QRBTHAR. FURNITURE & Remember, Wed., “Wheutless Day” UNDERTAKING ‘We can emagine the gloom in Mozpah, which is north of Gemmell, Christmas day, when the two booze laden envoys from that place, were J. \VARNINGER interrupted in the Union station, Bemidji, by J. B. Brandt, chief of the In-|| H-N: McKEE, Funeral Director VETERINARY SURGEON PHONE 178-W or R Office and Houpital 3 doors west dian agents, and a large quantity of booze they had with them was con- fiscated. . There were also two trunks of booze that fell to Brandt enroute to the same place,.from St. Cloud, as the pair of booze purveyors. The liquor was to plan an important role in the Christmas festivities in the vicinity of Mizpah, no doubt. But Brandt evidently had no feeling in the matter, Chpistmas or no Christmas. And the two law violaters spent Christmas in the county jail instead of Mizpah. of Tropyman Store Phone No. 209 MINA MYERS . Hair dressing, face massage, Mr. McAdoo has been starred in all government literature on the lib-[——————————— |l scalp treatment. Switches made from combings $1.50. DEAR LAND 'co. Land, Loans, blns.uunce and DR. 7. w. SEDRICH"" DENTIST Office O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Oftice Phone, 37¢-W. Res. Phone 376-R l DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block City Property i Troppman Block Bemidji Instructor in - erty loans and other public issues. Now he has been mentioned for gov- 4 ) ) ernor. of New Yopk and for railroad dictator. It must be entirely due to W. K. DENISOR, D. V. M. l 311 6th St. Phone 112-W PIANO VOICE DRAMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ', the rigidity of Mr. Creel’s censorship that the public has not been put hep VETERINARIAN i ART Wholesale gnd Retail P o to the fact that Mr. McAdoo is nursing presidential ambitions.—Minnea- || Oftice Phone 3-R Rea: 994 i Phone 633 - Planos, Organs and Sewing 1 ' polis Tribune. 3rd St. and Irvine Ave. GENERAL MERCHANDISE 1017 Minn. Ave. Bemidji e sl(.chlnes LB ,'uo‘;';. though it was generally understood. He’s Wilson’s son-in-law, Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Flour, 117 { . htone S Bemidji j 3 % e e 2 Feed, etc. The careful J. BISIAR, Manager 4 A “war comet” is coming this way at the rate of 1,134,246 miles a DR. C. R. ORN buyers!clgohne;;fix Bat at day. <At that it can’t equal the speed with which autocracy is rushing to its PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON i djy. G. Phone 65 doom. Oftice—Miles Block THE HOME CAFE DR. G. M. PALMER DENTIST Married men :hn:ixld t‘n.l‘;edwa(;'nin.g;l lr:m the fate of the grocer in an Office Phone 124 Residence 346 Oklshoma town who dropped dead as he handed some money to his wife. DR, E. A, SHANNON, M. D. THE DAILY PIONEER Corner 3rd St. and Beltrami Ave. Miles Block, Bemidji PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON . receives wire service of the UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION Gordon Burns, Prop. ‘We are assured by Washington o fficials that profiteering in food will be ended. May the end be soon, and may it also be the end of the profiteers. Oftice in Mayo Block : Phone 396 Res.- Phone 397 DR. E. H. SMITH - . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Security Bank Bleck GRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Miles Block Phone 560 A ‘Russian writer claims his people ape the most civilized on earth. The manufacturers of safety razors ¢an disptove his claim. —————— |Remember, Wed., “Wheatless Day” Remember, Wed,, “Wheatless Day” | Remember, Wed.,, “Wheatless Day” An ice famine would have no tefrors thése days: —t— T 1 1 | ] -