Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 29, 1919, Page 6

;;*WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1919 .co-operation in its maintenance. #rfl. Seth Smith of Becida was calling on friends in Beridji Tues- day. Dean 0,000 to loan or farms. b i3 da71tt Land Co. the La-: eduction on all hats at ey * 141029 Fontisee Millinery. Mrs. T. Renick of Tenstrike was a between train shopper in Bemidji Tuesday. SPOT CASH paid for Liberty Bonds and Liberty Bond receipts. G. B. Hooley, Markham. 94tf Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Crawford left last evening for Caledonia, Minn., to visit Mrs. Crawford’s parents. Don’t forget the Boston Baked Bean supper at_the Method‘st church Thursday evening. 141029 Loans and insurance. Northern Land Co. Phone 29. 813tt Matt Kelly of Niagara, N. D, is . luck hus #:and.visiting friends in RPN RSN O N e T o b w2 iz p. M. Willlam Gattigher of Turtle River transacted business in Bemidji be- tween trains Tuesday. Mrs. Willlam Gerlinger of Hines transacted business in Bemidji be- tween trains Tuesday. It you want to sell o1 excnange your property, write me, John J. Blacg Minn 8t. Chippewa Falls, Wis. Be sure to come to the Boston Baked Bean supper tomorrow even- ing at the Methodist church. 1d1029 Thursday, Friday ard Saturday specials. Ome dozen Turbans and small hats, $2.50 each. The LaFonti- eee Millinery. . 141029 Mrs. Hebry Otte, who has been vis- iting relatives in Puposky, was in Bemidji Tuesday en route to her home at Minneapolis. ~ Notice to M. B. A. members to pay their lodge dues to Agnes Billings, at Dr. Shannons office. J. W. Bil- lings, secretary. 3d1030 Buy a new horce. Get full wear - out of it at Baldwins horse auction tomorrow. Fair grounds at 1:30 141029 Don’t fear the coal strike, but buy horses at Brldwins fair ground auc- tion, Oct. 30, with which to market your surplus tamarack or other fuel wood. 1d1029 Mrs. Andrew Jacobson, of Duluth was in Bemidji Tuesday en route to Becida, where she will visit her father, C. A. Sprague for a month. Te each Jay give an interesting/and complete review of the city’s social activities is our desire. This page is devote(! .to per- sonal mention, social items and news briefs and we solicit your office are appreciated by readers of the paper and by the publishers. Telephone 922 ————r———=—=—=x= ‘at 'Baldwins "Doughnuts Items phoned or mailed to this - Mrs. ‘A. J. Dechaineau returned home Saturday after a month’s ill- ness at the St. Anthony’s hospital, where she underwent a serious opera- tion. Coal or fuel strike broncos, for sale horse auction, fair grounds Thursday, 1:30 p. m. 141029 Notice: October 31 is the last day for paying water bills. If not paid. water will be turned off and unpaid bills assessed to property. 4d1030 . Mrs. A. Burdahl of Gemmell was in Bemidji Wednesday, en route to spur 14, where she will visit for a few days. Shg is also consulting an eye specialist. 0. H. Vankirk of Maryland, Wis., is visiting at the home of his broth- er, J. 8. Vankirk at 824 Thirteenth street. He expects to remain until the end of the week. The women of the Mooseheart Le- gion will give a Hallowe’en dance Thursday eve., Oct. 30, at the Moose hall. Lunch will be served cafeteria style, everybody welcome. 2d1030 ‘%Auction sale at Jesters farm resort, Nov."1, all.day. Everything must be sold. Kree lunch at noon.. Household goods, canned goods, * ichinery, tools, etc. Watch for big bills. 541031 HOSTESS TO FRIENDS. Miss Evang'elige Smith enter- tained the following friends at Her home last evening: .Helen Gordon, Vera Campbell, Myrtle Rockensock, Lillian French and Ellen Newman. The evening was spent in music and conversation. BOSTON BAKED BEAN SUPPER. The Ladies of the Methodist Aid will serve the following menu Thurs- day evening at six o’clock: Boston Baked Beans Brown Bread Creamed Potatoes Beet Relish Cucumber Pickles Hot Rolls . Coffee Price 35 cents 141029 HALLOWE’EN DANCE. The Hallowe’en dance, which will be given at the armory, promises to be one of the biggest affairs of the season. The hall will be decorated in black and orange, and corn stalks and pumpkins, One of the main features of the dance will be the serving of the ap- propriate luncheon, whieh will be served on the stage by the ladies of the Civic club. Mrs. H. C. Baer and her committee will judge the costumes and award the four cash prizes. An eight-piece orchestra will fur- nish the music. e 'HAD LOOT ALWAYS IN MIND Hun Officers Seemingly Unable, Under Any Circumstances, to Refrain From Robbery. An illuminating picture of Ger- man gratitude appears in a group of anecdotes collected by Mr. Robinson Smith and published in the London World’s Work. During the battle of Ermeton sur Biert, wrote the nar- rator, a Belgian, Colonel Count von i Eulenburg, was seriously wounded + at the door of our chateau. His men carried him to the ambulance that my sisters had established in the courtyard, and he remained- there four days, after which he was evacu- ated to the lazaret of St. Gerard. The day after his departure a great personage, covered with deco- rations down to his waist and sur- rounded by a brilliant staff, came in 8 carriage and four to thank my sis- ters for the care they had given the ! fllustrious count. On taking leave, i with many bows, he perceived, near the door, a stand in which we kept . our walking sticks, two of which had gold knobs and were worth more than five louis apiece. He chose the two from among the lot and said a word to his ordnance officer, who handed us a paper on which he had, written, “Good for two sticks.” They rode away in great pomp and EXTRAORDINARY ATTENTIONS. “Little Mamie Frizzlepate brings the teacher a large red apple every d‘y.” “My, but her family must be rich!” THE SUBSTITUTE. “T am afraid raw sugar is going to be scarce.” ;7% “That will make no difference to ws. We always use the cooked kind.” [ » PPN DEFENDED USE OF POISON Wholesale Murderers, in 1717, Claimed They Were™ Making the World “Better fer Humanity.” On July 29, 1717, Addison, as sec- retary of state, addressed a letter to the commissioners of customs in England, requiring them to take measures for checking the introduc- tion of a poisoned liquor of which the British envoys at Naples and Genoa had sent home accounts. It appears from the communications of these men- that this liquor, called squa tofani, from the Greek woman who invented it, was introduced in large qpantities into Italy, and also in part distilled there, and was ex- tensively used as a poison. It was stated that 600 persons had been de- stroyed by it at Naples, and there had been many punished by death for selling and administering it. The culprits engaged in the making and sale of the liquor pretended a re- ligious and conscientious object— they desired to keep the world in ease and quiet, by furnishing hus- bands with the means of getting rid of troublesome wives, fathers of un- ruly‘sons, a man of his enemy, and so forth. .Utinzing Sun’s l_iel_ung Power. Many attempts have been made to atilize the heating power of the sun for engines, writes Charles G. Abbot, in the Youth’s ‘ Companion. Sun- power pumpirg plants have been run experimentally on a large scale in Cal- tfornia, New -Mexico and Fgypt. In eome solar-power plants the rays are concentrated on steam boilers by mir- rors. In others the sun heats shal- low pools of water with blaekened bottoms, and the hot water is used to run sulphur-dioxide or other low-pres- sure engines. The great trouble is that the first cost of the large con- trivances for collecting solar heat and the small efficiency of the engines op- erating with such narrow ranges of temperature make solar plauts a little too costly to compete with other sources of power. g — San Bias Indians Claim That No Alien Strain Has Ever Been Mingied With Theirs. The San Blas Indians occupy the Atlantic coast and the adjacent islands near the Colombian border, | ors:in the world, many-of thean go- ing'to sea on ships from the Papama canal.’ Their. coast and islands are said to produce the best coconuts in the world. These natural seamen bring large loads of coconuts to Cristobal, piled high in their dugout sailboats, up the roughest bit of coast on the Caribbean, with the waves laving over the.edge, and never lose a nut. Their blood is probably the purest of any of the American Indians, as no men in the world have guarded their women with ‘more jealousy and efficiency than the 'San Blas, is a statement made by C. R. Calhoun, in Everybody’s. In'a country every- where touched with the blood of the West Indian negroes, the San Blas never show the slightest trace of any kind of mixture. Until a few years ngo, and it is still often true, no men ather than those Of their own tribe’ were permitted to be ashore on their soasts or on their islands after sun- set. Courtship in the San Blas is a strenuous matter, especially for the bride-to-be. To win her the suitor, must chase her and catch her in the Water. # MAKE WAR_ON FARM PESTS Government Co-dperate- With Farm- ers and Stockmen in Ridding Their - Lands of Nuisances. i Under the direetion of the' bu?elm. of biological survey one man soned approximately 2,000 q;‘airig dogs in @ single day on a 320-acre field in.northern Arizona, 1,641 of the animals being counted in the open, while it was estimated the bal- ance died in their holes. Illustrative of the scope of the work, more than 3,500,000 acres of government land have been freed re- céntly of prairie dogs by similar practices, the destruction’ being con- ducted by field parties and through the assistance of farmers and stock- men in New Mexico, Arizona, Colo- rado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana. an North Dakota. e In addition to prairie-dog exter- mination, efficient government con- trol has also been instituted against the ravages of ground squirrels, jack rabbits, pocket gophers and oth- er rodents in the agricultural and grazing lands west of the Mississippi river. 8 BUSILY OCCUPIED. “Are: your farmhands keeping busy ?” “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel.’ “I don’t see how they stand it.. Be- sides doing some work on the farm they hold meetings lasting eight and ten hours a day deciding on whether they are doing too much work.” SOOTHING DISCOURSE. “Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Torkins, “won’t you please go on ex- plaining the League of Nations to me ?” ; “Why, I’ve talked by the hour on that every night for the last week.” “Yes. And just ds soon as you begin baby stops fretting and drops off to sleep.” ; HAPPY GOLFING DAYS, Crawford—The golfiac looks happy as he walks along with his bag of clubs slung over his shoulder. Crabshaw—I’ve noticed that my- self. He’s lost that guilty look he had last season, as if every one re- garded him as a slacker.—Life. . HERE'S A NEW IDEA. England is studying American habits more closely than ever, and among other things has come to the conclusion that the large consump- tion of ice water in this country pro- duces American pep.” QUITE A RAISE. A company in Norway has pat- ented a secret process for producing 98 per cent nitric acid from the 30 per cent acid it has been making from atmospheric nitrogen. ITS NATURE. “Let’s form a housewives’ league to control food products.” “Ah! a league of rations, as it ” - — THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER XEPT-THEIR BLOOD UNMIXED | and are.among the best natural sail- |' ] v 4 “How Dr. Frank Billings BNSE. IDAHO.—Quests at the home of Dr. Frank Billings in Chicago this winter will be escorted in state to for a fine specimen?” the host will ask. The company, properly impressed, | - will gaze on a shaggy cinnamon bear- skin, the fangs gleaming savagely in - the firelight. “Some bear!” they’ll say. Then politeness will prompt them to ask the doctor how he bagged it. old fellow out in Idaho—from the front seat of an auto,” Doctor Billings will chuckle. “Want to hear the story 2" The story will be something like this: A. S. Trude, a noted Chicago lawyer, has a ranch at Rea. He was entertaining a party of very prominent Chicagoans, including Doctor Billings, They were out motoring and were not ried a shotgun in case any small game, such as grouse, appeared. Suddenly a big cinnamon bear jumped from the sagebrush into the rond: Just ahead of the car. Doctor Blilings at bruin. This is the way Mr, Trude tells the rest of it: i “At first the bear gained on us, though we tore along as fast as the chauffeur could make the car go, but after a while we guined on the bear, and the doctor fired -a 'fill charge into his neck, just back of the head. This caused it to fall and roll partly over, but it recovered and resumed its journey, bear fashion, down the trail, with the over badger holes and ruts and with the doctor getting in a shot as often as he could. “I sat in the rear seat, hanging on and yelling to the doctor to soak hin: again, which he did by landing a full charge of shot just back of bruin's shoulder.” L Some states have laws forbidding automobiles. HEY COULDN'T FOOL HELEN Wideawake Youngster Saw at Once That Recently Arrived Baby Couldn't Be “New."” Father had the influenza last win-‘ ter, so did grandfather and even mother. Now their hair, as is every other person’s who was afflicted with that disease, is falling out in great quantities. Mother has had to buy .a _switch, father is considering a toupe, but dear old grandpa is just lé;ting his bald head reflect the wis- dbin. frof .within. And nine-year- old Helen has watched all this loss with consternation and wonder as to where it would end. The other day when father told her that the doctor had brought her ! a baby brother she was overjoyed un- til she tip-toed into the bedroom and was looking at him. Then a look of great disappointment came to her face. “Why didn’t you buy a new one?” she demanded of her father. “Whyv, this is a new one,” he re- turne “Sue looked her disdain. “Can’t you see it’s been used ?” she queried. “Why, it’s even had the flu.” CHILD VICTIM OF EAGLES. A baby was lost three months ago from the village of Maranges near the Spanish frontier. Search failed to reveal any trace of the child. At last a group of villagers who ascend- ed the mountain of Cancardus look- ing for some horses which had es- caped found the bones of an infant, some scraps of linen and a pair of tiny sabots. The unhappy parents were called and recognized the sabots as those of their child. Near the bones was discovered a nest of eagles. It is believed that while the child was playing in a field an .eagle swooped down and carried the little fellow off. IMPRESSION OF DISCRIMINATION. “You seem to resent moonshining and bootlegging, and that sort of thing.” “I gurely do,” replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. “A law-abidin’ man can’t | help noticin’ that the only people that seem able to get all the licker they want is the kind that has no business with apy at all.” Rent Profiteers in Manila. Landlords, owners of residences and business buildings in Manila, are tgking advantage of the .paucity of homes and commercial structures to raise rents abnormally. Workers for salaries or wages, and firms and companfes in mereantile pursuits, com- plain bitterly of the demands of the owners or lessors of houses and stores, factories and bodegas. Most of the victims have to yield to the increased rents because they have no recourse. One man who paid $40 a month for his small, uncomfortable home, has been informed that he must pay $350.— Manila Times. “Shot the - Bvideutly Idaho is not one of these states. — PAGE FIVE Balance Wheel Activities. The balance wheel of an average watch nukeés 300 - vibrations. every minute, 18,000 each hour, 482,000 in & day, or 157,788,000 a year. ! Subscribe for The Pioneer RAGS Bring us your clean oot~ ton rags--no buttons, bands or woolen cloth acoepted. e Got His Bearskin Rug ;i Pioneer Office TONIGHT BRYANT - WASHBURN As a practical joker, in “Putting it Over” Assisted by SHIRLEY MASON the library. “What d'ye think of that 0. K. G. Billings and Roger Sullivan. loaded for bear. Doctor Billings car-; was In the front seat. He blazed nwny. auto at full speed in pursuit, jumping — ; Also “BIG V” Comedy “YAPS & YOKELS” shooting game on highways and from at the Madrid to Have Subway. A few weeks hence there will be a subway in Spain. and subway trains | = running under the streets of Mndrid. G R n N D Then the people of Madrid will have TONIGHT their first opportunity, to travel un- & THURSDAY derground the Rio del Solo to Cua- tro Caminos, the first half of the line TOM MOORE in heing constructed more than sixty feet bclow the street level. Madrid itself is rapidly modernizing, reports say New thoroughfares are bheing con- strueted; new office bulldings going up: and the new subway s hut the negzinning of a metropolitan systew lo a city of crowded streets, UNDER CONTROL. |B o . Drowin Electrical apparatus by which all | % of the movements of a ship can be con- | 4 " trolled from the bridge without sig- Hal‘vard naling to the engineroom has been WED. and invented by a Japanese. THl;RS GETTING WORSE. “There are many things money can’t buy.” “They’re adding to the list all the time too,” declared the thirsty gent. RE X Theatre Tonight A drama of boyhood among the hill folks of Kentucky The Jack Pickford Film Co. presents JACK PICKFORD in a photoplay at once thrilling, human and elevating “Bill Apperson’s Boy” From the Story “That Woman” by Hapsburg Liebe Directed by Jas. W. Kirkwood A FIRST NATIONAL EXHIBITORS Neal Hart in—T;lmel;Weslem Five-Piece Orchestra 10c and 20c Matinees, 2:30 Nights 7:20 and 9 TOM_MOORE Goldwys Pictures at the SYaxy GRAND Matinees Daily, 2:30 Tomorrow & Friday " William Fox presents William Farnum “Riders uf—file Purple Sage” Zane Gray’s Thrilling Novel 10c and 20c, plus war tax Matinee and Night ) PSP SRR DN UR G CPUn SRS |