Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 29, 1920, Page 4

ing next.” We admit that the lad in there are others. BEMIDJEDAILY PIONEER TEASFRONE 928 of his country. lnufld’u the pu:gfli“ at l.!nnldjl. Minn., as second-class matter law of gravitation? ’ ’ under a3t of March 3, 1879 T R AR A S a to annonymous contributions. Writers name roust be g:w‘n“::u&n. '«'l’lm.o but na{n:we.-srfly for publication. Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office nog ter than of each week ‘to insure publication in the current issue 13 NEWS OF THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES B TP W L A THEATERS NAZIMOVA—LAST TIME. Nazimova, the great Russian ac- tress, has capped the climax of her brilliant., career by her wonderful work in‘her latest screen play, “Toys of Fate,” a Screen Classics, Inc., pro- duction, which opened yesterday .for a two days showing at the Rex, will be seen. again tonight for the last time. Nazimova’ plays the role of the gypsy bprincess with the fiery, un- trammeled nature of that’ pictur- esque race.-Love and hate are almost equally developed in the gypsy girl, Azah, who is ‘made the instrument of fate to bring to justice Bruce Gris- wold, a millonaire. Her life in the gypsy. encampment, and in the cara- van-of her tribe, is depicted in a fas- cinating maner, and gypsy rites and customs are reproduced, ' A Hank Mann comedy will also be shown, making an evening of unu- sual interest. TEE WERXIY no:m“ Py pages, containing of the news of the week. Published nc?-nuun and seat n'nn‘o 10 any addxess, fer, in sdvance, $1.50 OFFIOCIAL COUNIY AND OITY FROCEEDINGS THE TYPE OF SETTLER WHO DOES THINGS. The correspondent for The Pioneer, who writes from Liberty township, in the news letter of today’s Weekly Pioneer, tells of the transaction whereby John Germain sold his farrp for $35 per acre, and will again engage in cultivating the soil on new holdings. Germain is an Austrian, a red-blooded inhabitant of the great northwest of the right calibre. Four short years ago, he settled on a raw land tract in Liberty township and set to work developing his new holdings. With his brawn and brain he worked, and has twenty acres under cultivation in that four- year span. He had the rest cleared when he sold and had it ' seeded down to tame meadow and pasture. He also built a i good home and set of buildings on the place. He also erected : splendid horse barns, and also silos for feeding his stock. All in the four years. And when he sold it was with the intention of again locat- ing on raw land, and can be depended upon -to repeat his latest *suetess. That’s the type of man that’s making Beltrami county what it is, and is entitled to hearty commendation. ——— s FIRST BONUS BLOCK PAID MONDAY. The first abstract of state soldiers’ bonus payments, total- ing $120,981 on 400 claims, has gone to State Auditor J. A. O. Preus, following the announcement that the first bonus checks will be mailed next Monday or Tuesday. M. C. Meland, 2906 Fourth street north, Minneapolis, will receive Check No. 1 for his claim of $485, and is first on the list of more than 10,000 Minnesota service men that are to share in the $20,000,000 fund. All claims on this abstract were . filed October 9, the first filing day in the bonus department, according to Major W. A. Curtis, executive officer. . COMEDY HIT IN PICTURES. *‘Oh, Boy!” which Manager Brink- man has booked for exhibition at the Rex theatre on tomorows and Satur- day is sajd to represent the only really . successful attempt ever made to translate to the scréen the com- plete story of a modern,. up-to-date “‘girlie-girlie”” musjcal comedy hit. For from start to finish, “Oh Bay!” is just one succession of laughter- provoking, ludicrous, farcical ‘situa- story of the original musical comedy production. All -of the wit, humor and farce- been retained in the film presenta- tion, augmented by the fact that wheras the stage play was confined to two scenes only, the broader scope of the cinematograph has. permitted a wealth of magnificent sttings. The many admirers of William Farnum will be interested-in thean- -uouncement ---that thejns. favorite screen star is to appear- here in another thrilling picturization of a Zane Grey novel—this time, “The Lone Star Ranger,” whigh will be shown at the Rex theatre{for a run of two days, Sunday and l&unday. Mr. Farnum has been seen in many picturesque and heroic ‘characters during his stage career but as a fear- less Texas Ranger in this William Fox production he is said to give a most brilliant portrayal of the figure The Exchange Editor By Cy Perkins, Jr. Interesting Stories—Real and Unreal—as Told by the Editors of ! the Press of Northern Minnesota—Retold, Rehashed i and Commented On by This Editor . WORKING OVERTIME. s The business building bulletin “Pep” says: “Every dog has its day and the nights are reserved for the cats,” and adds that this old saying goes as far as the dogs are concerned, “but darned if we can agree with the cat part of it.” That'’s right, there should be no such thing &s “nights.” the man who, through sheér nerve rids the border of .marayders, and in doing so wins a wife. "~ B i s S 3% WILL MAKE 300%. A live advertising bulletin has this to say about advertising results properly applied. “Three per cent of your sales put into clever price quotating, Newspaper Advertising will return you 300% in PROFITS, and will write the obituary for the large city stores and mail order houses that are taking the money of your community from you every day of your life.”” Yes, we'll agree that advertising is the right medicine. DELIGHTFUL SCREEN. STORY. That prolific and delightful writer of short stories and novels. Mary Roberts Rinehart is the - connecting link by which Doris May and Doug- las McLean made their debut before local screen lovers as a co-starring team at the Elko theatre this week, and where they appear tonight for the last time, in their charming ini- tial starring vehicle. The picture was made by Thomas H. Ince from Mrs. Rinehart’s humorous story of army ¢amp.life, “Twenty-three and a Half Hours’ Leave,” which appear- ed first in a popular magazine. Mrs. Rinehart.is the wife of a prominent Pittsburgh physician and has a son who made a distinguished record for himself as: an army officer in the whr. . 3 THE HAPPY MEDIUM. Most of us resent instinctively the motion picture that aims to maké us St = i THE GOOD BOOK SAYS. We may extract humor even out of the most serious situation some time, as for instance, in the case of the two Minneapolis detectives and the millionaire, who turned burglars after discovering a warehouse in St. Paul containing a supply of liquor. But Oh, ye thirsty ones, be not too critical lest ye condemn yourselves, for he that hath had in his heart the purloining a bottle hidden away in some secret place, for the purpose of assuaging his thirst, has already committed the same crime. Minnions of the law and millionaires have feet of clay and suffereth as much for a drop v of the forbidden juice as the most depraved. e REAL HUMANITARIANS. From an exchange it is learned that game wardens in some localities are feeding quail to keep them from starving to death. This indeed marks a wonderful change over the old system in the past, when game wardens would arrest an unfortunate settler miles away from any known habitation for having in his possession the carcass of a deer, that he had killed upon his claim, hale him before a magistrate, fine him, and in lieu of the necessary fine, throw him in jail for sixty to ninety days, regardless of a big family that depended upon him for their living. Hail to the new kind of wardens. WHO SAYS SO. It looks as though Mr. Bryan with his ‘“crown of silver crucified upon a cross of gold” and his “grape juice” policies, together with President Wilson’s third term ambition, will successfully disrupt what little there is left of the democratic party. K g And there i3 the same resentment when we watch pictures, all too fre- quently, that are devoid of ideas and characterless. The happy medium and the screen product that is pop- ular with every class of audience is the well-acted picture telling an en- tertaining and dramatic story and backed by a worth-while idea that you can carry away with you. “The Invisible Bond,” showing at the Elko theatré Friday and Saturday is that kind of a picture. MARY MILES WINTER. Anne Shirley was no longer an orphan! Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, a spinster lady of uncertain years and her farmer brother, had taken her to live with them. But many :a' time they wondered if they had not acted unwisely. Anne was a very imp of satan, and more- than one of their neighbors hdd cause to complain of her pranks. / Then one day the minister called. Marilla, who really loved the poor little mischief maker, generously praised Anne to the parson, telling how sweetly and loving and gentle little Anne was. And then Anne spilled the beans! See it Saturday and Sunday at the Grand. —_ IS THERE A REMEDY? It is impossible these days to pick up an exchange that has not some- thmg to say about the unstable conditions and wondering where we are heading for. Sorpe have remedies to offer, but .the majority stand non- plussed. One writer in the Saturday Evening Post suggests that we “are !1ke a jackass cha;ing a bag of oats hung on the end of his nose,” but that is hardly a good simile, for a jackass is after all an ignorant “bird.” It is more like the devil chasing his own tail. We talk and legislate, but we get nowhere. BT NOTHING TO KICK ABOUT. . Listen to this woeful wail from a merchant. He was dunned by a whol_?‘sale house, and here are the reasons he gives for not paying his bills: T have been held up, held down, sand-bagged, walked on, sat on, flattened out'anq squeezed. First by the government for federal war tax excess prpfits, Victory I..oan bonds, Thrift stamps and auto tax. And by, évery society and organization that the inventive mind of man can invent "to extract what I may or may not possess. I have been solicited by the Society of John the Baptist, the Red Cross, the Black Cross, the Double glros;, tvlae ((:JhxXiren'; tHhmnBe Sosciety, th('er Dorcas Society, the Y. M. C. A., e Y. W. C. A. an e Boy Scouts. hen on to) i 3 i Relie‘f‘ Tal:nd the Salvation Army. P acamsc e evil e government has so governed my business that I 't who owns it. I am inspected, suspected, examined, re-e:mmined(foilrlxlorl::::;v required and commédnded so that I don’t know who I am, where I am, or’ why I am here. All I know is that I am supposed to be an inexhaustible supply of mo: ey for every known need. desire or hope of the human race.| Doris Kenyon and Louis Joseph And because R will not sell all I hnvg and go out and beg, borrow or steal|Vance, a star and author combina- money to give\away I have been discussed, cussed, boycotted, talked to, | tion hitherto unapproached in screen talked about, Ikd about, held up, hung up, robbed and nearly ruined.lannals, have achieved what &nalysts Sy e THRILLING MELODRAMA. G " THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER And the only reason I am clinging to life is, to see what in h—— is com-|2:50 o'clock. question has had a rough tifixe of it, but Or was he ever staked to a bawling out by a second lieutenant? Did he ever have blisters on his ears from dodging bullets and blisters with mean dispositions toss war confetti at him? "' Mr. Merchant makes an awful fuss because he has to obey the laws i e PUBLISEED SVERY AFTEANCON BXOEPT suwDar. Was he ever kicked by a coetie, I3 G. E. CARSON, E H. DENT, on his toes from wearing amateur socks? { Pres. and Treas. _ Sec. and Mgr. " Did he ever set up housekeeping i But ‘did he ever fall out of a navy hammock and have to obey the What has he to kick about, anyway?—Baudette Region. tions, yet maintaining the romantic|. comedy of the regular production has £ so familiar to thousands of. think we are being ‘“‘preached at.” THURSDAY: EVENING, JANUARY' 29, 1920 All friends of the school and parents are invited to attend. . - The fifth and sixth grades are hav- ing contest drills in geography. All the Gannon, Hartman and Barnes children are absent on ac- count of illness. Another typewriter any day. ton. : Last week, Miss Reichmuth of the seventh and eighth grad- was out of school because of a severe cold and this week Miss Lindstrom of the high school is affected in a-similar! way. St." Paul Thursday night to see her father, who is very ill. i Robert C. Shaw was in Kellifer Tuesday evening. - i Miss Martha Stene went to Black- luck ‘on Tuesday to work im_ the | Palace hotel. e The Ladies Aid Society“met on Wednesday at the home of. C. Peter- son. LT v for instance? is expected in a trench and have a gang of Huns It will be 2 new Reming- iy Subscribe for The Pienser rate the master suspense melodrama of the yeir in “The Bandbox.” Magnetic”ba&utitul and charming as ever, Doris Kenyon wins a per- sonal triumph, greater than any she has attained on the stage or screen, by her unmatchabie performance in thé greatest of Louis Joseph Vance stories. Noteworthy direction was supplied by R. William Neill, and the support- ing cast is nothing short of brilliant, with such players as Alexander Ga- den, Walter McEwen and Gretchen Hartman winning new laurels in forceful characterizations. Mr. Vance’s ‘‘The Bandbox,” more mystifying and “dynamic than his “False Faces,” or “The Lone Wolt,” wil be shown for the last time at the Grand theatre tonight. R e R R R R TR * SPUR * 2k 2 2 % bk % % Mrs. Gertrude Carnegie, our new = DOS!IfIiSh‘eSS, is certainly “filling the bill.’ The deep snow about here is stop- ping much work in the woods, and traveling ig very difficult. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph and Mr., and Mrs. H. R. Hromek will move up here in the spring from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They purchased the old school house and will remodel it for a dwelling. David Carnegie, the new janitor of our school, is proving very satis- factory indeed: TONIGHT . LAST TIMES . DOUGLAS MxLEAN : «andDORIS MAY~n. | §- 235 ours’ Leav: KKK KKK KKK K KKK KK * HORNET 4 kb k% %k (Too late for last week) Valentine Angell has had the tele-] phone put into his house recently. Mr. Watson has been away at his former home, Cokato. A number around here have been on the sick list but are now improv- KRR KKK IR KKK KK KK * BIG LAKE KiPPLES * AR RS SRR SRR SR B B S S (Too late for last week) Mr. and Mrs. Clark and family were calling at Thomas M. Wilsons’ on January 11. Harry Baldwin had misfortune when a tree fell upon him when he was cutting wood and he was laid up for repairs for a few days. Now he is able to be around again. H. Baldwin’s family were calling on the Thomas M. Wilson family Sunday. * ing. Mrs. Thomas Woodward went to .“l AU Lo ZSRER S Big Lake Club Elects. The Big Lake club met at George Geroi’s January 14 and there was a large attendance, despite the incle- ment weather. New officers were elected as follows: President—George Voltz. Vice president—Charles Stout. Secretary—ElImer Alton. Treasurer—J. S. Beatty. Mrs. Felix Scott was named on the lunch committe, and Mrs. Clyde Mar- tin was chgsen her assistant. SUNDAY, Two Days WM. FARNUM [n Zane Gray’s Dramatic Story “THE LONE STAR RANGER” A romance of the great south- west, from the Standard Pic- tures of the Fox Film Corpora- tion. Leonora Wilson has been on the sick list for the past few days. E. C. Bergh and family were visit- ors at Clyde Martin’s home Sunday. Mr. Martin was cutting up ensilage for E. C. Bergh Thursday. Mrs. Harry Baldwin is taking ex- ercise by making three trips per week to the mail box which is a most trying jaunt through the snow for gren busy getting their lessons and er. TONIGHT LAST TIMES LAST SHOWING "THE GREAT RUSSIAN ACTRESS NAZIMOVA = 'Toys of Fate A drama that thrills your very soul A Screen Classics, Inc., production . We certainly have a good school in the E. C. Bergh school ‘district, No. 12. Miss Edna Gerve keeps the chil- have no time to read club books this winter. . Clyde Martin has purchased a large team of splendid draft horses. KKK KKK KKK KK K * HEULIN * 2363 % o o %0 3 (Too late for last week) Thé young people around here teok in the dance and basket social at Waskish last Saturday night and they all reported a good time, Harry Dayidson and Charles Tofta are busy pufting up ice for Frank 0. Heulin. The school at Heulin has not start- ed yet on account of the school teacher is on the sick list. Dan Smith left for Kelliher; last week where he is planning to work. Raymond Cross of Kelliher is very busy taking census around here. Miss Ida Eckdahl, a niece of Mrs. Heulin, who some time ago was run over by an automobile in Chicago and is yet affected from the shock, was met by Mrs. Heulin at Bemidji, and is now staying here to recuper- ate from the terrible accident. HANK MANN COMEDY KK KK KR KKK KKK +* KELLIHER SCHOOL NOTES * IR R R R R RS L L Miss May A. MacGregor, counly nurse, is at school for two days ex- amining every pupli for physical de- fects. « Olive Carlson, Ines Gundersonm, Cleo Williams, and Lorine Chilcote are back in school after a week’s ab- sence due to sickness. The literary society in school will give an interesting program of pub- lic speaking, music and debate, on Friday afternoon, January 30, at UNION SIX PIECE ORCHESTRA 10c and 25c¢ Matinees 2:30 Night 7:20 and 9:00 Tonight=- = LAST TIME Admission 10¢ and 25c HAVE YOU SEEN THE BEAUTIFUL STAGE AND SCREEN FAVORITE ‘Doris Kenyon e TN ) ““The Bandbox” ‘A Picturization of the Famous Novel by LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE A thrilling melodramatic mystery play, in which a famous string of pearls are sought by a band of international crooks. The adventures of the girl to whom tragedy brought happiness. E remain steadfast in our purpose to con- duct our business inanefficient, commendable man- ner. Our reliabil- ity is unquestion- ed. Our business conduct has been such that it has won for us the public’s approval. Also showing “KIDS,” a Christie Comedy GRAND ruearre Dafariiua