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TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1918 SO- WHY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HEAT? (By United Press.) London, Aug., 27.—A ton of coal for each room is what householders MAYOR’S MOTHER COMING, Mrs. C. G. Vandersluis of St. Cloud will arrive in the city this evening and will be the guest of her son, Mayor Charles W. Vandersluis and family. She will be accompanied by have to get along with this winter. her grandchildren Charles, Jr.,, and| °If you use gas for heating you Angus Vandersluis, sons of Mayor and | can’t use coal. And if you use elect-" ¢ ] Mrs. Vandersluis, who have been her| ricity you can’t use either gas or By Miss Gladys Melntyre would clean the kiddies and do what|&uests at St Cloud for several days. | coal. ; Salvation Army Doughgirl in France|we could to cloth them. - (Written for the United Press.) ste’{:heyi) 't“{nze(‘)i P:talf"el'vyv last y_oung‘i " : abou! i i e measure; With the American boys at the|ypor, Then with what little French: front, July 30. (By Mail)—This is|we knew we told them -how to kill hardly a ‘“‘doughboy” or “doughgirl” the lice on their bodies, how they story, though we all do figure in it|ought to bath, and promised them a little bit. It's a story..about some clean clothes and flossibly shoes, | the little tots belonging to French if they would clean themselves up. |] families who live in the ruined vill- BATTLE ZONE BATTLE LIS —— s PUBLISHED BVERY mfifl' BXOBPT SUNDAY—— - THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. G. B. CARSON i ’.".v”“‘ . Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as _mecond-class matter under act of ‘Congress of March 8, 1879. No attention paid to annonymous contributions. Writer's name must b-vknown“to thop. editor, but. not necessarily for . publication. 2 Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office not Iater than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue, IPTI RATES BUBSCR! {3 Y : 8800 OBO JOAT .onsinscarsessnss BAO0: They were all delighted, and promised to wash. =~ They did- that;| See for yourself what others already have noticed and that is _ f5 Six months ... Agos, near. ttge fill'gng l;:nss. g Eost ;)lf (tigem‘ dT¥ey repor;e% with the condition of your teeth. 48 : “A lot of these French families have | their hands and faces washed, but : { a8 Thres months ... lived under bombardment since the|the rest of .their bodies were still PERFECT TEETH ARE A HEALTH, BUSINESS AND SBCIAL ASSET If you are a nervous, sensitive person, you will appreciate OUR excellent, modern equipment and: NEW METHODS and the . strong personal and sympathetic interest we take in each and every individual. 3 beginning of the war, just behind|fiithy. Dirt caked behind . t.eir the trenches. The French have not|ears and in their hair. We hardly of the news of the week, Published: evacuated these folks, because they|knew what to do, for they would not to any: address, for, in advance $1.50 begged to be allowed their homes.|bathe and = apparently . never had { :{hey.have not};';ing ;l::. Sfof the |done so in their lives. mericans cannot send them off very Bathed Two Girls. iv;;l;, though it is mo place for civil- Ire]ne afniitll unde]rtool}: t'i, Fathica e A RE ittle girls who had- been The most pathetic part of it is the Coupiesox i flock of little children belonging to|Working for us, and whom we knew these poor families. They play a- better than the others. It was about round in the dirt, and ‘are always %‘: xfimeffizusri 2:: lutn;iertt;::k. unclean and have lice on them. They < o Raely. when cannot remember when there wasn’t|} oy or® thronglt.. .«We mever; could war, and most of them never have bathing of the rest of “them, and be er’l in school. - It is awful for them probably could not have done it, if So 'Hel fal Work ¥ v;le had t:tt;m;;lted, for wef in}furred me D! 9 the wrath of the parents of the two Some of the boys in the village we|we did bathe. were in were pitying them, and said However, we did send back. to z | Fr 5 A they wanted to do something to-help |the nearest city and buy some little which provides these conveniences. It mines the. coal which|the dirty. little youngsters' out. So [clothes, just ordinary ones, but so heats our houses. It is essential to the lighting of our streets|I began some social service work with | much the better than the rags these and the running of our railway trains and street cars, Every them, and Mr.. Charles Sinker, ‘the|children had been wearing, that.they l'fi;"“m»‘::fi sent P @ 8 ostage LABOR DAY. 1t is well that the government has set aside a day out of the year, dedicating it to the cause of labor,—a day when we are called upon to turn our thoughts to this great element of § 5’ 3 the world. At ordinary times we are likely to. take the con- () veniences of-life for granted and overlook the fact that from the beginning to the close of our day labor is the basic element BOLD CROWNS 2% 24 Yo o 65,0 BRIDGE WORK i, ek w22t 65,00 SILVER FILLINGS 525,82 1,00 { . & eites Red Cross ‘man in our -village." “We |all -looked ‘dressed up for -a: hgliday 25 B [ 15.00 and $25.00 val - article ?Vhwh we use, V‘Vhether it is made of wood from the|yo,: ™t an the families, and in-|exercise. The youngsters were de- "EHM}LE PLATES 595, at ¥ A $|0.00 forest, iron from the mines, or any other product of nature,|spected their homes. They were un-|lighted with- the clothes, and the " We Specialize In Gold Inlays, Gold and Aluminum Piates: speakable. Then .we- invited :all. the|ribbons we gave them for their hair. youngsters to our hut ‘one day, and{But they had no-idea of-how to keep promised to measure them for clothes |clean, and though we improved their and shoes. - The boys promised to|looks some, we still have doubts as ‘raise 'some money, and ‘Mr. Sinker|to. the value of social service work would do the rest, and Irene and Ilat the front. | | ¥ 1 | 1 requires labor at every step from the procuring of the raw i material to the final touch of manufacture. The army of labor must keep step with thq world day by day to render civilized life possible. If these are the obligations of the nation to labor in times of peace, how much greater do they in times of war? The OPP, CITY HALL BEMIDJI SCHROEDER BLDG. army of working men is lessened by the drafting”of men for : y y 3 ; : B the nonproductive industry of war. New duties are incumbent GWES BOYS MHES Subject -for. Cangratulation. Open Evenin ntil’ E - Qhi s : Maybe a man is lucky if his wife |, P enings Untll 9 - Sundays 10 to | ¥ upon the men who areleft. - Ships must be built, equipment and & pr. Norcross. 10 Year Guarantee DR. CLARKE TOTHREE GIRLS | 350"t e sna resim | i hurt because he, can't act like one.of ammunition for the army made, there must be an increase .in I:(he coal mifiled and shixéped, and additional supplies of all g inds must be transported. : Stub ’ i the heroes. . Without the army of labor at home there could not be the t Dl.mm Fath:r sD Queer Action el BP0 o R Dl , army of combatants in the field. The obligation of the United| '’ iscovered: by:Draft-Board Only Way to Make Character. States to its body workers is great. The workers have shown in_California. You .cannot dream yourself into a in.the main loyal acceptance of the aims of the government and —_— character; vou must hammer and loyal endeavor to assist in carrying owt these aims. San'Dlego, Cal.—Always on the alert | forge yourself into one.—Froude. Labor Day this year of all others should bring different | fordraft evaders, the sheriff some time % classes of Americans closer to each other in sympathy and|?8° f°“:dh°“ the, great register the understanding. Soldier and civilian, capitalist and worker, we :‘;’:e:n‘l’leé zzer:"te“ of draft sge who q P . g gister for the ‘service. are a people inspired by one great purpose. Let us give honor| gyrther investigation showed: that in to the force of working men who help to make the attainment| the Pin Hills ‘district lived a smaut || e o of that purpose certain. family by the name of Smalley. Three | r lnt In —_— names -appeared—John, William and |@- 3 Harrie. 2 = - TO WIN THE WAR. ‘ Armed with the proper papers the ARE YOU IN NEED OF Tags = X sheriff immedlately hied himself into A vote for the federal suffrage amendment is a vote| the mountains to arrest the suspected against Germany abroad and against German propaganda here.| three slackers. After considerable The war is taking a toll of good American votes by the thous- Cards ands. American soldiers want their women folk to vote. Blanks ‘ ; American citizens here need the votes of loyal American women Folders to combat the votes of those whom the government refuses to Dodgers accept for war service because it .doubts their loyalty. Recei What I he Packers From the trenches come unmistakable evidence of how eceipts 3 : \ S the soldiers stand on this national, this international question.|- Envelopes Statements By a vote of two to one, New York soldiers in French trenches voted in favor of woman suffrage. Nobody asks for the passage of the federal suffrage amendment as a pretty compliment to womanhood. It is urged as a vital, seund tremendous step in putting every ounce of pfowerdthat can be marshalled behind our country in its time of need. Bill Heads Invitations Packet Heads Letter Heads Call at Pioneer Office Phones 922 and 923 Do For You Not very many years ago in the history of the world, the man that lived in America had to hunt for his food, or go without. R T i ; A WAIL FROM THE NORTH END. & [ 4 # (Williams Northern Light.) : Bemidji is getting tired of the top-heavy job of clearing- H house for the Red Cross work of the entire county and wants the north end to organize an exclusive chapter of its own. i A while back, when the original organizers of the first Red i Cross branch in the county, at Williams, wanted to be responsi- i ble direct to state headquarters, the Bemidji-ites were very i indignant at our presumption. Evidently, however, it has! Now he .sits down at a table and decides what he wants to eat; or his wife calls up the market and has it seat home for him. And what he gets is incomparably better. - TR GOOD WORK IS - OUR SPECIALTY }| ¢ oL ‘ ! ; : L H dawned upon them that it isn’t a fat thing, lik ty office. “W. VIR E 731 i ‘Ei 2 i s o e HQ WEL,% ?,i.‘;{E,,,; Everyone of us has some part in 14 The crown princess of Germany recently took a little Asked for an Explanation. 1S BA ? the vast human machine, called society, that makes all this conven- ience possible. pleasure trip to Helgoland in a submarine. She did not have ,’_ an opportunity to secure her husband’s consent, as he was . absent on urgent affairs. trouble the sleuth found the Smalley | Your kidneys are the fil_tcrs of th.e ranch, He at once asked for John, |body. If they become inactive and fail ) William and Harrle, And lo and be-|to eliminate the waste matter, they are b —_—0. t! ) th i : . : hold ! up stepped three beautlful dark- ; ; £ 1 The 1. W. W.’s have long had the reputation of being the| naired goung“mms, ek with i mile f}l:t b'odfhf":VOflh:rd‘:r?&fu?s;i";rgozg Industrial Shirkers of the World. Now their representatives | lion-doliar smile which caused the of- | ° ke i e it beuy i (just convicted in Chicago) will work—at Leavenworth or| ficer to gasp, blink and then wipe off 32: dil‘; :;"S“;kc ks i elsewhere. 2 his brow. y O 4 ; | s As soon as the sherlff could recover | Besides causing the minor ailments he asked for an explanation and of rheumatism, sciatica, l}lmbngq and learned that “Daddy” Smalley was|backache, neglect of the kidneys is apt some stubborn individual and years|to develop into more serious discases, ago had his heart set on having &|such as diabetes or stone in-the bladder. family of boys. He was so sure that| Rid the body of toxic poisons—clean ::f::z l":s,g; .?lt-bog;s h:gfl:;z‘;ig:;: the bladder and kidneys and cure the John. E S £ 7 HE At did was great when he was blessed with a ;";:xn%veisu ‘)t{mrlg\l:{'l?lésfnii;‘e‘“h noLRe daughter, but he stood pat and vowed|” "Anuric was first discovered by Dr. the name John would stand. 'His sec-| Pierce, and has benefited thousands of | ond child proved to be another girl, | sufferers as well as appeased and elimi- | but the father had already named it nated the ravages of the more scrious, William, and of course that name had fkidney diseases. gloav prosctlé;?’blz rfo:e 1?3 to stand for all time. When the third [cents at any gooc | rug 3 se babe was born “Daddy” was not quite Dr. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel and S\.:l’glfc:: e, but he had the nerve left to Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., 10 cents 5O S - trial package. compromise and declared in advance » the name would be “Harrle"—and it STILLWATER, Minn.—“If 1 calu dphm:y T oatitho good in the ot ot 1o sy duty 1o ar o 1t, an cc at 1 y Hos, ot t(llll%d::fflx;g i‘:flffi-&:fii write about the wonderful results 1 re- came abou‘E e o o | ceived from the use of ‘Anuric” I was and allow “John, William and Harrie” | o gering from kidney and bladder trou to become regular girls by a change|ples, scalding, backache and rheuma tism, and feet and ankles swelled so The packer’s part is to prepare meat and get it to every part of the country sweet and fresh—to obtain it from the stock raiser, to dress it, cool it, ship it many miles in special refrig- gerator cars, keep it cool at distrib- uting points, and- get it into the consumer’s hands — your hands — through retailers, all within about . two weeks. For this service—so perfect and effective that you are scarcely aware that anything is being done for you— you pay the packers an average profit of only a fraction of a cent a pound above actual cost on every pound of meat you eat. e e 3 2 of garb. : — that at times I could mot walk without % | U8, Food Mmisiatration. assistance. Had taken_ several different Swlft & Company’ U. S. A. Are you shocked to see the lady drinking ships? “Penny Situps.” kinds of kidney remedies but all failed. I)eve;?qz‘; drink ships every time you wuse sugar unnecessarily, in a Some of the cheap lodging houses | I sent to Dr. Pierce for his dml;, age. H [ ic, which I receive: - Seventy-five per cent. of the sugar used in this_country has to be In London are called “penny situps.” d:s(':lo\_'er};, b{\e'tm;;i’m“hlmlslnon got bcl(e¥' B ” brought here in ships. Every possible ship is needed for the trans- | They providle mere benches, with [Mall 10 fabiet o0 5wt oo new port%g?n‘ oft troops and s;xpplies to the other side. wooden backs. Each lodger places a“'hf‘?’ cf’“""“c%‘ l[""(ll:‘?np;p(}i;;nmcn' minate sugar as a lux i g e 1s good. Wisil. 13 purposes, uryi and;you zelesse: many shlys fov: war his arms on the back of the bench ;x:etgc;:y nciizghlxrrc and cverybody suf el Teach your appetite to remember this— before him, and then, resting his head | fering from cuch troubles”” —Mgs. M. ] . DON'T DRINK SHIPS. g & on his arms, tries to sleep. SagcenT, No. 1321 North Broadway. i v Defective