Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 23, 1920, Page 5

MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1920 THE BEMIDJi DAILY PIONEER PAGE FIVE coroperation in its maintenance. office are appreciated by readers of —_——————————— Telephon Louis Erickson of Littlefork spent Sunday in Bemidji. Dean 0,000 to loan on farms. ! a71tt Land Co. Fred W..Smith of Cass Lake spent Saturday in our ecity. J. C. Saepherd of Walker was a culler in the city today. Grant Ulseth of International Falls spent Sunday in this city. E. W. Conklin of Northome was a Sunday caller in the city. Vac Haskins of Wilton was a Sat- urday visitor in Bemidji. George Stillwell of Yola was a caller in Bemidji on Sunday. Mrs. C. Hendrickson is very ill at her home at 922 Park avenue. J. B. Tournon of Blackduck was a visitor in Bemidji Saturday. Miss Marvis Phillippi was the week-end guest of Bemidji friends. J. H. Brown of International Falls was a Saturday visitor in this city. Mr. and Mrs. G. Kulander of Walk- er spent Sunday at the E. D. Boyce home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cchroeder were the week-end guests of Wilton friends. EEsYa Mrs. Peter Larkin of Turtle River, visited friends in Bémidji over the week end. ' Whole corn $3 a hundred or $58 a ton. Hamel and Webster, 120 3rd st. Phone 20. 3d2-23 Mrs. Belle Rice of Northern was shopping and calling on friends in Bemidji Saturady. Miss Bertha Fersyche and Miss Lillian Suicklan of Cass Lake spent Sunduy in Bemidji. Mrs. G. Kulander and daughter, Margaret, of Walker, called in this city on Saturday.v. Mrs. P. Moran and son of Deer River were among the callers in Be- midji on Saturday. W. H. Barker of the Red Lake Agency was among the visitors in Bemidji yesterday. S. C. Brown arirved from Big Falls Saturday to spend a few days with his family here. . Mrs. Martin Hogan and Mrs. Hal ‘Williams of Grant Valley were guests of Bemidji friends Saturday. ; Seth Smith of Becida brou'ght a load of clover'seed to Bemidji Sat- urday which he sold for $1,200- Mrs. William Hanson of Becida, was a business caller in our city Saturday. She also visited with friends. Misses Madeline and Margie Main of Turtle River spent a suort time between trains Saturday with Be- midji friends. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Golz entertained Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Eichstadt and Herman and Evald Eichstadt at Sun- day dinner. Miss Annie E. Shelland of St. Paul. state inspector of rural schools., was a visitor in this city for a few hours on Saturday. Mrs. Sexton is still confined to her home on Tenth street and Doud, with her son, Frank Sexton. She is in a very serious condition. Schuck’s International Jazz Or- chestra left this afternoon for Foss- ton, where they have an engagemgnt to play thie evening. Mrs. Clara Hallet returned to her home at Turner, Mont., Saturday, af- ter.making a short visit at the B. S. Shook home on Minnesota ave. - Miss Louise Golz has resumed her studies at the High school today, af- ter being confined to her home for some time with a severe attack of flu. Spoi cash paid for Liverty Bonds, and Liberty Bond receipts. See G. B. Hooley at Northern Grocery Co., during the day, or at Markbham hotel, evenings. 1117tf I3 C. G. Hankey, assistant county su- perintendent of schools, returned Saturday evening from Baudette aft- er an inspection trip thruout the nor- ther npart of the county. He visited all of the schools in the unorganized territory in that sectfon of the state. CARD OF THANKS. 1 wish to thank the many friends and neighbors, aleo my parents, who so kindly assisted me during the ill- ness and death of my beloved wife and mother. I also wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to the Box fac- tory boys for the donations given me and for the peautiful floral offerings. 1t2-23 Pugene Sparks. BEMIDJI NEWSY NOTES Te each day give an interesting and complete review of the city’s social activities is our desire. sonal mention, social items and news briefs and we solicit your Items phoned or mailed to this the paper and by ths publishers. This page is devoted to per- Q( 922 ———————————— LICENSED TO WED. License to marry was granted in Saturday to Louis L. Renn of Wil- liams county, N. D., and Eve Parker, by the office of the clerk of district court. REMAINS SENT AWAY. The remains of Mrs. Lucina ./al- lace were shipped to Princeton this morning for burial. Mrs. Wallace succombed last Monday, deatn being caused by .bronchal pneumonia. ECEIVES SAD MESSAGE A. Gregersen, who is employed at Troppman Department store, receiv- ed word on Thursday announcing the death of his father at Inwood, lowa. Mr. Gregersen left for Inwood Fri- day. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the friends who showed so much sympathy and kindness dur- ing the sickness and death of our wife and mother. John J. Bakken and family. 1t2-23 MARKHAM REGISTER Among those registered at the Markham from out of town today are H. A. Burns, E. Teslie and J. J. Butt- | NOTES OF INTEREST nacher of Minneapolis and W. R. Wilkinson and J. M. Sexton of St. Paul. DEATH OF CHILD Earl L.- Allen, age two. and one- half years, died Saturday evening at the home in Nymore. Death was due to.pneumonia. The body was taken to Cass Lake for burial. M. E. Ibert- son, funeral director, had charge of the arrangements here. PASTOR TAKEN ILL. Rev. S. W. Scott was taken ill Sat- urday evening, which prevented him from preaching at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning. The ser- vices were in charge of E. D. Boyce, and the choir lead in a splendid song service. There were no services in the evening. - ..PNEUMONIA TAKES TWO0 Mrs. John Bakke pasesd away Sat- urday forenoon at 11 o’clock at the age of 29 years. Death was caused from pneumonia. Beside her hus- band She leaves two‘children. The re- mains were shipped today to Halstad for burial under the dirc..ion of M. E. Ibertson, funeral director. MISSIONARY MEETING. The Woman’s Missionary society of the Presbyterian church will hold its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. L. P. Warford tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The home topic will be “The American Indian,” and the foreign topic’ will be “China.” All tne ladies are cordially invited to be present. BAGLEY “HERALD” Mrs. J. E. Johnson went to Be- midji Thursday. Mrs. Peter Wiberg was a guest of Bemidji friends Thursday. Mr. McMahon, of the Jewett Gar- age, Bemidji, called on the local Ford agent, Mr. J. W. Rahdall. g Henry Funkley, attorney, of Be- midji, was here last week on legal business in connection with the An- gerson case which is to be tried Tues- ay. SHEVLIN ITEMS. i Bagley Herald. Announcements were received here early this week of a baby girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Mayer of Bemidji. Mrs. Mayer was former- ly Miss Jennie Hanson and is well known in this community. Dr. McCann of Bemidji made a professional call at the Hendrick’s ome last week. Alf Rain spent Sunday with rela- tives and friends at Bemidji. Mrs. A. L. Gordon was a Bemidji visitor on Saturday. Bluffing-Among the Reptiles. The anclent practice of bluffing is not limited to the human specles. Va- rious animals pretend to be worse than they are.. The hog-nosed spake is a perfectly harmless little fellow, with no capacities in the way of poison, and yet this reptile, which is rather pretty, is given such sinister names as flat-headed adder and sand viper, and is usually killed on sight. This is because it has the habit of flatten- ing 1ts head and puffing out its neck and hissing violently, which is for no other purpose than to frighten off in- truders. It 1s & pialu bluff, to give the impression that the reptile has poison fangs. This counterfeit is usu- ally taken at its true value, and af- fords the hog-nosed snake consider- able protection except in the case of human beings, who destroy the inno- cent reptitle on sight, when it is not only harmless but useful also In keep- ing down vermin. WANTED Experienced stenographer and office girl; good steady position. Apply Koors Bros. Company. FROM RURAL SCHOOLS With the proceeds of a basket soc- ial which was held at the Troy Creek school the latter part of January, Miss Amelia Weisenhaus, the teacher of the school, is buying a set of maps and sectional bookcases which will add greatly to the teaching facilities at that school. C. W. Rand, principal of the Wil. “liams school; is still confined to the hospital at Roseau where he has been ill with the influenza fo rseveral weeks. All of the schools in the vicinity of Faunce except one are closed on ac- count of tne influenza and several other schools in the northern part of the county are reported to be closed. The schools at Faunce which are closed are taught by Miss Joyce Cor- coran, Mary E¢ Pratt and Julian Ma- han. Several schools i nthe north section of Beltrami have a very small attendance because of illness. In the vicinity of Zippel there are several cases of small pox which hgs caused a low attendance at the schools there. Mrs. Dutchie school held a Washington’s birthday program at her school on Sunday evening. The program was well carried out and enjoyed by all who attended, it is reported. WORLD’S LARGEST UNCUT GEM “Black Opal,” Found in Nevada in 1917, Was a Quarter the Size of a Brick. What is believed to be the largest uncut gem in the world has come to light in a recently opened mining dis- trict in Nevada, where it was discov- ered in the spring of 1917. The stone is a “black opal,” so-called because dark tones predominate in it. It shows mostly dark peacock blues and emerald greens, with a considerable amount of red, and several less promi- nent shades. In size this great gem approaches a quarter of an ordinary brick, being three and fifteen-sixteenths inches in length, three and one-eighth in width, and two and one-eighth thick at the bulkiest point. Its weight is eighteen and six-tenths avoirdupois ounces, which expressed in gem diction is 8,186 grains, or 2,566.56 carats. More than a pound of opal is surely some stone! And it is all solid, uncracked, flawless gem material, free from matrix or adhering rock except for a paper thin skin encrusting the two major surfaces. Little specks broken from this skin here and there regeal the brilliant play of colors within, while the exposed ends and edge ex- hibit the full refracting radiance of the mass. . This stone is about half again ai large as the largest of the noted gems of the world. The Cullinan diamond was roughly the size and shape of a small fist, and, if it had been an opal, would have weighed but 1,720 carats. It is compared with the new opal on this basis since the specific gravity of the diamond is 75 per cent greater than that of the opal.—Archie Rice in the Scientific American. Crown Dating From 1000 A. D. The rumor, current in the European press some months ago, when the Bela Kun administration ruled in Hungary, that the Hungarian crown was to be sold, seems to have disappeared, and the later government apparently means to keep it. It was an odd circumstance, says a writer, commenting on that rumor and its disappearance, that, with so much talk of discarded insig- nia of royalty, the one crown actually mentioned as being for sale should have been the most ancient one, with a single exception, in Europe. For whereas the German crown, for exam- ple, is comparatively modern, and was made no longer ago than 1871 for the former kaiser’s grandfather, this crown of Hungary traces back, at least In legend, to the year 1000, and the sum of 100,000 Swiss marks, about $19,000, which, last summer, was circumstan- tially reported as the price for which it was to be sold, does not seem par- ticularly exorbitant. Elizabeth Hamilton of the|” Subscribe for The Ploneer. — HARVARD’S MAN OF MYSTERY w000 & Underwoo Wesley Holland, Harvard's “man of mystery,” has all Cambridge puzzled. Neither vau't doors, steel boxes nor fce walls nace vet been able to hold Holland as a prisoner. e is an elec- trician at the university and astounded the students when he made his way out of a steel box which they had specially constructed for the demone stration. Church Crypt for Skulls. Under the chancel of the church at Hythe, Kent, England, is a very curle ous crypt. This crypt is used as a depository for a large quantity or hu- man skulls and bones, which are be- || lNeved to be those of Danes killed close by in battle hefore the Norman conquest. Most of the skulls are ar- ranged on shelves, whjle the bones are plled up in a symmetrical heap. Such ghastly relles are rare in English churcheg;. glthough they are to be found at several places on the conti- nent.—From the Wide World Maga- tine, REACHING FOR WORLD TRADE Every Nation Wide Awake to the Pos- sibilities That Have Opened, Fol- lowing the Great War. A more could hardly cosmopolitan be nowaday's gathered from all sources by the United States department of commerce, and published for the In- formation of American business in- terests. An agency in Spain wishes to sell agricultural machinery and me- chanical tops; a company in Egypt wishes to handle American cardboards and all kinds of paper; a firm in India 18 eager to come in contact with ex- porters of general merchandise; agri- culturists in South Africa are in- terested in caterpillar tractors; a man in Switzerland would fain become an agent for yarns and fabrics; another in Belgium wishes to deal in food products; an engineer In Lettland would like to represent exporters of agricultural tools and automobiles, but perceives the wisdom of having more than one string to his bow, for he wants also an agency for the sale of lard. An interesting medley of com- merclal ambitions, with items that have already counted up to more than 1,500, the lists reveal how, all over the world, individuals and companies are hoping for opportunity to share in in- ternational trade. : BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR THE BIG WRESTLING MATCH ; Now on Sale at the Grand Theatre, and They’re Going Fast CURTIS vs LARKIN Thursday, February 26 GRAN THEATRE document imagined than the weekly list of trade chances which is He Got the Job, . The colonel of a negro regiment 1 France charged the adjutant with se- lecting a sultable soldier to serve as, orderly at his billet. The adjutant combed the command for the proper man and finally found one who had been an elevator boy in a hotel—a smiling, gracious darkey, neat and re- spectful. When the man reported the colonel impressed upon him the necessity for tact. “Do you know just what I mean by tact?” he asked. “Yas, suh. W'en it comes to tac’ I'se right on de spot. Why, cunnel, jus’ las’ week I went into the bathhouse near mah billet, an’ foun’ one of de madam- selles there. I jest stepped back an’ says, ‘Pardon, monsieur!” Now ef dat warn't tac' den I don’t know what 1s.” —The Home Seetor. Not at Home. 1 was busy cleaning my gas stove when the door bell rang. I was just about to open the door when I saw it was our pastor. So I stood back be- hind the door and told my little son, Louis, to open the door ard tell him I was at the store. b But he pushed the door so far back that my toes stuck out from under the door, and when Louis told him I was out, he laughed and said: “All right, sonny, but the next time your mamma goes out, tell her to take her feet with her.” I have a chain on the door now.— Exchange. Coral's Varying Colors. Genuine coral may be red, pink, white, blue, yellow, green or black, the last being the rarest and most highly prized. The next valuable is the red coral, which is susceptible to a high polish and is most in use for jewe)ry, being the coral of commerce. Corals are roughly classed under two heads, the horny corals and the lime or stone corals. To the former belong the red and black forms and the white to the ldtter. Red coral is chiefly found in the Mediterranean. The corals found on the Atlantic coast of Florida are the lime, or stone corals, which are the reef-bullding forms. Good Reason. “You needn’t be alarmed about wom- en running for office, now so many of them can vote.” “I'm not. They couldn’t do it In the present style of skirts.” fiood Humor, The other day, n ragged, barefoot boy ran down the street after a mare ble, with so Jolly an alr that he set every one that ie ( into a good humor: one of the sons who had been delivered from more than usually black thoughts. stopped the little fel< low and gave hihm sone money, with this remark: “You see what some:’ times comes of looking pleased.” If he had looiked pleased before, he had now to look both plensed and mys« tified, For my part 1 justify this en< roment of smiling rather thao ul childven: I do vot wish {o ¥ for tears anywhere hut upon the stage. but 1 am prepared to deal large- Iy in the opposite commodity.—R. L. Stevenson —_—— TONIGHT A GaramountAricroft Giclure. He broke the bank at Monte Carlo, then donated ‘“gas” for ,a revolution. But when he got the dern thing started, he lost his heart to a princess, exploded the plot, and it blew him sky high! 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