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- pound at Troppman’s. “39¢ a paif at Troppman’s. % Betnmji yuterday ¢ Auto: Co: Fi(lDAY, MAY 17, 1918 PERSONALS AND ’ ' NEWSY NOTES . Ladies’ 3 \;ests 7c¢ at Troppman’s. ° . 1-517 $50,000 to Joun on farms. Dean Land Co. da71tf Sl 00 men's work shirts 69c at Troppman S 1-517 Table oil’-cloth 23c per yard at Troppman’s, 1-517 85¢ boys’ knee pants 67c¢ per pair at Troppman’s. = . 1-517 g K5 o Bntchelder made a business trip to Peqnet yesterday Amoskag apron gingham 17c per yard at Troppman’s. 1-517 Mrs. Henry Bjoring of: Eckles was in Bemidji on business yesterday. Compound lard,-5-1b. lots, 26¢ Gple; Men's. heavy blue Dennin overalls $1.29 at Troppman’s. 1-517 .. Mrs. Lewis of Georgetown is in Bemidji visiting relafives. special black silk hose, 1-517 Ladies’ and Wash silk petticoats, white 1-517 colors, $3.98 at »Trovppman’s. Mrs. P. Hngerty of Scribner was -a shopper in Bemidji yesterday. If you want a. car, call Enterprise Auto Co. Office phone 1, residence phone 10. 56tf e days you ought One of these " to go to Hakkerup’s ard have. your picture taken. 14tr M-iss M. Kamsey of Pine River - will ‘be the guest of Bemidji friends for a few days. . Fancy white goods for suits and skirts, 65¢ values for 39c¢ per yard at Troppman’s. . who has been Te- . _Thomas S. Ervin, vigiting at French Lick, Ind., turned yesterday. g Mrs. .‘George Scott of Clearbrook was in Bemidji . yesterday between traing on. business. " Mrs. M. W. Hunt of Northern was among the ‘out-of- town shoppers in If you wnnt a‘caf, call Enterprise Office phone 1, residence phone 10. 56tf J. W. Wilcox was north of Red Lake, in the vicinity of Waskish, on business yesterday: “‘Proppman’s store will - be closed from 1:30 to 4 p. m. Saturday. Get your orders in early. = - 2-_517 36 and 40-inch figured and stripe voiles '35¢ and- 40c. values, 29¢c per yard at Troppman’s. ~ 1-617 Mrs. F‘red Swenson of Frohn drove to Bemidji yesterday and spent the day vismng friends. It von want a car, call Enterprise Auto Co. Office phone 1, residcnce phone 10. Ladivé ¥ sérge coats, ~blue, silk trimmed collars and cuffs—specials, $8.98 at Troppman’s. 1-517 Thomas Hughes has been called to his home at Lake Crystal, Minn., by the serious illness of his mother. bc and 7c embroidery insertions, special 2c¢ per yard, Saturday, 9 to 11 a. m., at Troppman’s. 1-517 . Mrs. Ernest Lindstrom, formerly of this city, is here from Red Wing visiting her mother, Mrs. H. Mosen. _Ladies who did not volunteer in any way with the dinner on the 11th, please call Mrs. Tom Smart. Phone 58. 515tf GRAND TOPAY—Friday, May 17th ‘“Keith of the Border’’ One of the really great western plays, like “The Virginian, featuring Roy Stewart . “THE BULL’S EYE” and a reel of News in Pictures Saturaay, May 18th ““Nancy Comes Home’’ Highly amusing story, illus- trating the fallacy of keeping children too closely confined, featuring MYRTLE LIND also a reel of News in Pictures 1-517| 661.° Miss Madeline Harrington was op- erated on for abstoid abscess yester- d;z‘y]mormng at St. Anthonys. hos- pita Mrs. Arthur Eastman, formerly Miss Eunice Collard, has gone to Du- Luthd where she will join her hus- and. —t Tomato, pansy an cabbage plants at the usual pricesi/ at Webster's Greenhouse, 1242; oud Ave. Phone 166. 6-522 Send pictures to your soldier. Quality portraits; “kodak finishing: Rich Studio. Bho e 570-W. 29 10th St. 1 mo 67 Miss Doris Helnter;” who just ar- rived from Minneapolis a few days ago,.has accepted ;a‘ position with Abercrombie. & McCready. Private N. F. The?s, who has been stationed here with the Fourth Min- nesota infantry::here; for the past month, has been irnnsferred to Du- luth and left on-this‘noon’s train. Mrs. Emil Tuseth’ eipects to leave the first of next-week for Fort Sher- man, Panama, where she will join her husband who 1s playing in a military band. ,‘, Miss CharlottéfOakés returned yes- terday from a two'weeks’ vacation trip taken in Minneapolis and Aber- deen, S. D., where she visited rela- tives and friends.« = Mrs, P. H: ‘Skeptzm of Puposky was in Bemidji yesterday, enroute to Fairmont, Minn., where. she was called by the serious illness of her father, G. H. 0'Dell. Mrs. M. J. Rodeskour, who has been a. guest at: . home of her daughter, Mrs.-Joeseph Ganters, for some-time, has-rgmr ¢d to her home at.Browns -Valley, I\Er T Judge H. A.%Sim a position as ¢} ‘the Beltrami county draft board, and succeeds Thomas W. Switigon,” who has filled that position tor" s‘eveml months. S has accepted Lleutenant DuP y left this morn- ing for Dulutii®(%ére he will .take charge of four. defachments of the Fourth. Minnesota infantry. He ex- pects to be statiomed there perman- ently. Milton Robertson, who has been in Minneapolis and St. Paul attending to business matters for the past week, visited friends in Bemidji yes- terday while enroute to his home in Spooner. Eli Arnold has enlisted in Com- pany C.of the Eourth Minnesota in- fantry. Mr. Arnold had endeavored to enter the service'several times but: THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER SAYS LINDBERGH IS SAFE IF GATHERING IS LOYAL Faribault, Minn., May 17.—Sher- iff Charles Livingston of Rice county, in reply to a message asking if coun- ty officials would protect Charles Lindbergh, Nonpartisan candidate for governor, from violence if a Non- partisan league campaign meeting was held in this county, declared that “no loyal meeting was ever sub- jected to violence in Rice county,” and added that disloyal meetings were permanently barred ttom Rice county. $100.000.000 ASKED OF JEWS ‘FOR: RED CROSS New York, May 17.—An appeal to the Jews of America to subscribe generously to $100,000,000 Red Cross fund next week was .issued here by the Rabbinical association, as the result of a conference of rabbis and Jewish editors. The Red Cross is printing. 500 000 pamphlets in Yiddish, as devised by a special committee representing the conference, setting forth the Red| Cross plans, and these papers will be widely distributed among the Jews. GUARD SANITARY CORPS T0 INSPECT BATTALION Whenever the Home Guard turns out, there has been considerable speculation as to just what the status is of that small-band of leading citi- zens that accompanies the company. Some have become impressed that it is a squad of “rookies,” ‘but in fact| it is the sanitary corps of the Four- teenth battalion, one of;the two such. corps in the state Home Guard. It is composed largely of phys- icians and its personnel i$ that:of men interested in the work of the guard, yet possessing the ability to qualify for the corps. Dr. E. W Johnson is the captain and Sergeant George T. Baker of the guard is the drillmaster. Four or five more men of the right sort could be used in the corps, made now. The duties of the corps is inspect- ing the battalion companies as to the fitness of the men. for camp training, and the policing of the bat- talion camps when the companies are together. The encampment of the Fourteenth battalion will be July 3 to 7 at Park Rapids and the sanitary and enlistments can be{ PROGRAM FOR THE MAY HIGH SCHOOL TESTS The following schedule is pub- lished that all interested may be in- formed in ample time to make any arrangements necessary to take the examinations given. Rural school teachers are welcome to send stu- dents in to take the examinations whom they judge properly prepared. Examination paper will be furnished by the school. Examinees should bring pen points and holders enough to supply their own needs. Anyone planning to take the examinations|heglected.her, deserted her, and then should eee that address is left with FIVE AT THF_ THEATFRS LAST TIME TONIGHT Should the law uphold the rights of a father to a child against those of a mother, is the great question placed squarely before the public by the William Fox photoplay, *“Wo- man and the Law,” which is now being shown at the Rex theater, last time tonight. The man has abused the wife— as the crowning ignominy he at- the principal that proper reports can|tempts to keep her child from her. be made in due time, Friday. May 24. Commercial geography—8 a. m. Higher algebra—8 a. m. | Physiography—8 a. m. +English I—10:15 ‘a. m. .. Caesar—10:15 a. m. Modern history—10:15 a. m, Physiology—2 .p. m. Commercial arithmetic—2 p. m. English III—2 p. m. Monday. May 27. Flementary algebra— 8a. m. ' Cicero—8 a. m. English IV—8 a. m. ¢German I—10:15 a. m. German II—10:16 a. m. Bookkeeping—10:15 a. m. Latin grammar—2 p. m. - Chemistry—2 p. m. Physics—2 p. m. Tuesday. May 28. . American history—8 a. m. Plane geometry—8 a. m. Solid geometry—8 a. m. Civil government—10:15 a. m. “,Political economy—10:15 a. m. Zoology—10:15 a. m. "Spelling—10:15 a. m. Then it is that the hour of tragedy strikes like a bolt from heaven. The wife takes the only means at her disposal and regains her little one, Pegey Hyland Tomorrow. Tomorrow at the Rex, Peggy Hy- land will be seen in the five part story of .adventure, ‘‘Peg of the Pi- rates.” It tells the story of the ad- venturous beauty and some bold bad men. It is another Fox film spe- cial. There will also be shown a Fox comedy, “The Final Blowout.” What Thev Say. From Minneapolis Journal, April 30.—Two years ago a photoplay like “My Four Years in Germany’’ would ‘have been impossible. Producers and directors would have thought it necessary to have a melodramatic story with the war atmosphere as a background. No more striking proof of photoplay progress could be shown than this film, which carries no tale of romance, which is made up of a series of incidents from Am- bassador Gerard’s story, which shows “Grammar and composition (8th) |the underlying causes of the present —2 p. m, Ancient history—2 p. m. Field crops—2 p. m. Wednesday, May 29. Arithmetic— 8a. m. Commercial law—S8 a. m. Animal husbandry—8 a. m. Bnglish II—10:156 a. m, Botany—10:15 a. m. 10:15 a. m. Geography—2 p. m. *Virgil—2 p. m. PATRIOTIC MEETINGS | photoplay—and this is war and which is as highly dramatic in its progress of events as anything yet shown on the screen. This film will be seen at the Rex next Monday and Tuesday, matinee and night. EI.KO TONIGHT George Beban is performing at the High school American history—|Elko theater tonight and tomorrow in his newest Paramount picture, “One More American.” All the hu- man interest and charm of *“Jules of the Strong Heart,” his preceding saying a great deal—are to be found in it, It is estimated. that 116 people|with a cast of especial excellence, attended the patriotic meeting Spur last evening. at| including Helen Every person| Hatton, Jack Holt and others. Eddy, Raymond The corps will make inspections of theffrom Turtle River was in attendance.|story was originally written by the companies that will take part. There are between 400 ‘and 500 men who will go to:the camp. CARD OF THANKS ‘We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to the citizens of Be- midji who have patronized and sup- |3 was' not accepted, until last week. He is now statiored* at Bemidji.= Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mitchell of St. Cloud - will arrive, tomorrow for a few days’ visit ‘with their son, H. Z: Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell is a dele- gate from the Reading Room society |of St. Cloud to the District Federa- tion of Women’s Clibs which starts Monday. Mr. and Mrs. James Curran and children of GrandForks, N.-D., ar- rived in Bemidji Friday. Mrs. ‘Cur- ran and children will make their home at Lavinia during the summer. Mr. Curran returned to Grand Forks, where. he is employed as a linotype operator for the’ Page Printery. TO NEW POSITION S. T. Espeland, bookkeeper for the St. Hilaire’ Retail Lumber company for the past two years, will leave to- morrow evening for - St. Hilaire, Minn., to assume the management of the yard of the, St. Hilaire Co. This is the second 10ss the local yard has suffered in:the last two :weeks, H. M. Cords having left two weeks ago to assume the management of the company’s yard at Stephen, Minn. Miss Francis McManus, who has been stenographer in the Be- midji office,- will take Mr. Espeland’s place as buokkeeper. DISTRICT MEETING The Rebékahs Had their district meeting at Tenstrike yesterday af- ternoon. There were twenty-two of the Bemidji .staff present. They spent the day putting on the work for Tenstrike district, and attended to other business matters. Those of the Bemidji staff: Mes- dames Annette, Brownlee, Grossman, Courtney, Grandy, McPherson, Mac- Taggart, Frost, John Essler, T. J. Andrews, Rice, Charles Carter, Lish- erness, Aldrieh, C. J. Winter, Moo- ney, Olson, Charles Hammond, Pet- tit, and Mrs. Ames, vice president, of Akeley, ‘and Misses Ellen Neu- mann and Christie Wallace. An enjoyable time was reported. JUDGE WEDS COUPLE Martin N. Gilstad and Miss Selma Engstrand, both of Summit town- ship, were united in marriage by Judge J. E. Harris yesterday. They will make their home on the home- stead of the groom. WILL "MOVE SOON E. C. McGregor, who has spent the past ten months at Boise, Idaho, is expected home the first of next week to assist his family to move to Boise where they will make their future home. . Mr. McGregor is em- ployed by the Boise-Payette Lumber company there. PATRIOTIC LECTURE There will be a patriotic lecture by Edwin F. Burns of St. Paul at the city hall next Monday evening at 8 o’clock. He is a state deputy and state lecturer for the Modern Woodmen of America. There will be no admisgjon. ported. our School.of Music the past two years and hope that we may have an opportumtv to reopen our School of Music in this city upon Mr. Tu- seth’s return. 4 5].“;'USETH SCHOOL OF MUSIC. v HUNGER For three years America has fought sta.wahon in Belgium ‘Will you Eat Jess— wheat meat — fats and sugar that we may still send. food in ship loads? UMITED STATES 700D ADMINISTRATION — TONIGHT--TOMORROW GEO. BEBAN In Paramount Picture ‘ONE MORE AMERICAN’ With Special Feature “THE SPIRIT OF - THE RED CROSS” The Official Film Produced under auspices of Motion Picture Com- mittee of the Red Cross. SUNDAY, MAY 19 House Peters In one of his best pictures “THE RAIL RIDER” A story of an engine- man, whose thrilling ex- periences and manliness won promotion, and the desire of his heart. Also a reel of News in Pictures Attorney Henry Funkley was speaker. was among those in attendance. the| director, William C. DeMille. J. J. Opsahl of this city|a tale of an Itallan immigrant and It is his struggle against the machina- G. W. Harnwell will speak at &|tions of a wily “political boss.” patriotic meeting at the Gleason school tomorrow night. m CROSS AUCTION *.. AFTER THE BIG PARADE e Red Cross sale will ‘start to- morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock afterf the parade. Everything possible will! be done to try to dispose of all ar- ticles which have been donated. RED 'CROSS DINNER IN CITY HALL TOMORROW The official film, “The Spirit of the Red Cross,” produced under aus- pices of the: National Red Cross Mo- tion Picture committee, will also be shown at the Elko tonight and Sat- urday. It is instructive and enter- taining—in fact one of the best short features ever produced. GRAND TONIGHT “Keith of the Border,” the latest Triangle Western release, featuring Roy Stewart, is a screen adaptation of the well-known novel by the same name. This novel was widely suc- cessful. Its thrilling pugilistic bat- Dinner will be served by a number| tles, chases and gun fights are mag- of Red Cross ladies in the city hall tomorrow noon. An excellent menu has been prepared which will be served in military style. .The public is invited. REPORT KERENSKY COMING (By United Press) New York, May 17.—It is reponted that Alexander Kerensky is coming to the United States to seek to pre- vent the United States aiding the Bolsheviki. COAL SUPPLY BLOCKED (By United Press) New York, May 17.—Lack of cars is blocking the nation's attempts to H 8 E SATURDAY A William Fox Presents T Peggy Hyland E et el In 5 Parts R ““PEGOF THE PIRATES”’ The absorbing story of am adventurous beauty and some bold bad-men. - Written and dlrected by 0. A. C. Lund. Fox Film Corporation also Fox Film Comedy “THE FINAL BLOWOUT” In Two Parts 10c and 20c 7:20 and 9:00 nificently done and unusually inter- esting. ‘“Keith of the Border” will be shown at the Grand theater to- night, with a reel of “News in Pic- tures” and a chapter in “The Bull’s Eye.” 'WILL MARCH IN PARADE The ladies of the Swedish Luth- eran church will meet at the church building tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock to form for the Red Cross parade. JUNE 5 DEFINITE DATE FOR REGISTRY OF YOUTHS Washington, May 17.—The last obstacle in the way of registration of men 21 years old on June 5, was re- moved when the House adopted the conference report on the 21-year-uld bill. General Crowder has already sent out rules for the registration and definitely fixed the date as June 5. The bill as it stands exempts stu- dents now in medical and theolog- ical schools. A AAAAAAAAAAS, IF YOU WANT TO GET THE WANT YOU WANT TO GET YOU WANT TO GET IT IN THE GREAT WANT GETTER, THE BEMIDJI PIONEER build a coal reserve against a short- age next winter. FARM LOAN BONDS TO GO ON MARKET NEXT WEEK Washington, May 17.—The first Federal farm loan bonds bearing the new higher interest rate, 5 per cent. will ve placed on the market next week and an active selling campaign will be started to continue until the Liberty Loan campaign next fail. SHOE POLISHES " PRESERVE THE LEATHER LIQUIDS AND PASTES FOR BLACK, WHITE, TAN, DARK BROWN OR OXBLOOD SHOES. THE F.F.DALLEY CORPORATIONS, LTD. BUFFALO, N.¥+ -“'IllIlllllIllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIllIIIIllllllIIIllIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllIIIl LAST TIME REX TONIGHT fidt BB Because the Law Deprived Her of Her Child 10-20 cents e S “WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS R. A. Walsh’s Cinemelodrama WOMAN IN 7 PARTS STARRING MIRIAM COOPER Based on the Internationally Sensational AND THE De Saulles Domestic Tragedy THE GREATEST WOMAN'’S PICTURE EVER STAGED FOX FILM CORPORATION ALSO MR. AND MRS. SIDNEY DREW IN A DREW COMEDY Wrecked a Home Which Resulted in a Great American Tragedy R0 LAW 7:20-9 o’clock T i | ERI S ] — |