Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 26, 1920, Page 3

WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1920 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ,;\a THIES e —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— E pupils of public school from the sale of baskets after the| Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDonald |bought land near here from the Dux- CMM()N Mw WIEE Four Little Maids at Tea, pupils|program. motored to Bemidji Monday evening. | bury Land Co. nosa{}asczz‘;flfiedoih‘;igga:l tlfia‘;'t:o-.’ “i of intermediate department of public| Miss Madeline Hanson of Bemidji| Mrs. Haugen, Mr. Dahl and Oscar| Alfred Carlson arrived here Satur- school. . and Miss Edith Brumpton were|Dahl left Monday for Minneapolis|day with a carload of stock and tarm The Rehearsal—Dora Wilcox, Mar- | guests at the Jergenson home on Mon-|after visiting the past few days at|machinery and moved on the farm he guerite Thorpe, Theodore Renne,|day. the B. W. Schreck home. recently bought near here. |Albert Gofdon, Oberlin Thorpe,| Mrs. Ludvig Holum went to Foss-[ Announcements have been received | Miss Emms Gilbertson and Osla Hattie Gordon. ton Friday to receive medical at-|here from Miss Myrtle Rain, who will | Helgeson were Bemidji visitors Mon- Duet, “One Fleeting Hour,” Edna| tention. graduate from the Bemidji high|ray. Hanson and Ruby Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. August Marsh and|school. Myrtle Rain was formerly of | Al Thompson, the Soo agent here, Piano Solo, Fifth Nocturne, | children met with an accident Friday | this place. spent Sunday in Bemidji visiting and Dorothy Noyes. evening when a Chevrolet car owned taking in the city. Recitation, “Who .Loved Best,”|and run by Sever Lee collided with ‘Carl and Clarence Milland left for Julia Hanson. their buggy. No one was seriously Oklee, Minn., Monday, where they Miss Cherry Blossom’s Party—/|purt. will work on the Jefferson highway. Miss Cherry Blosson, Pearl Fritchie; Miss Birdie H American Girls, Olga Hanson, Bertha 1“ B o who has been Opheim, Hilda Opheim, Marie|®™P oyed at Bena for the past sev- Schreck, Ragna . Hannem, Lilly eral weeks, returned to her home Krnabel: b here on Wednesday. Not Quite a _ Bargain—Pearl| On Friday the Shevlin school held Fritchie and Marie Schreck. their annual picnic at Moose Lake. Vocal Duet—Edith Larson and|A number of towns people also at- Violet Annunson. tended. N Approximately $60 was cleared| The Bagley seniors were the guests - at the F. A. Noyes home on Thurs- day evening. Nick Hanson was a Bagley visitor on Friday. Mr. Norby and daughter Mina went to Bagley Friday to spend the week- end with friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. Wiench spent Sunday in Bagley with their daugh- ter, Mrs. Ed. Wright, and also their son, Bill Wiench. Miss Cora Johnson of Clearbrook and Clifford Degerness of Bagley spent the week end at the F. A. ples’ State Bank of Pinewood and will be the permanent cashier. Mr. Clau- e son reports that the bank is doing & good business here. | . Sever Milland, who has been vis- J iting his parents here for some time i returned to Minneapolis Monday, where he is attending the govern- ment school of mechanics. Mr. and Mrs. Nels Rude were Nary i visitors Saturday, they drove over in their auto. WINS DIVORCE AND HALF RICH ESTATE Court of Civil Appeals in Texas Rewards Woman for Thirty Years of Drudgery KX KKK KR KKK KE . ,PIIEWQOD * * *» » E.t\."Bye is'bfi!lfiing‘a: ad(fit’i‘;): to his store here. Henry Gilbertson is doing the work. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Case of Elko, Minn., arrived here Saturday for a visit with relatives. Emil and Louise Stuhr and their brother-in-law, Mr. Gerard and wife, were Pinewooa dbusiness visitors Mon- day. The nine months old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Miller died very suddenly Saturday morning of pneu- monia. Heartfelt sympathy is ex- tended to them by all. Dr. Stevens of Gonvick was here Tuesday and performed three opera- tions all of which have proven very successful. P Anton Gilbertson will do the saw- ing here in the Stuhr Lumber com- Band? pany mill: they will have about a Do you want Bemidji to entertain one month’s cut here this spring. Oscar Erickson, L. A. Oleson, Otto of the largest Conventions in the state of Noyes home Yare. Anderson, Ole Hanson, G .McConnell, MinneSOta? Miss Edith Larson and Violet An- i S. B. Covl, I. M. Bowers, R. J. Stell, nunson of Bagley sang at the Ladies’ | f; Aid program here last Saturday Minn., were here the past week and HEN and W. D. Henion, all of Alexandria, evening. John Skarohlid spent Sunday with Put your shoulder to the wheel and push! his parents at this place. Mrs. Ludvig Holum was a Bemidji visitor on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Dell Amadon and son Mt YD oA w3t e We are going to try to secure the 1923 Convention of Fire Departments for Be- midji. We want to take the Juvenile Band with us to the Moorhead Convention this year to help us on June 15 and 16. G. F. Scott home. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Renne, Miss WE NEED YOUR HELP, and for that reason you will be called upon this week. . Ramstad and Mrs. Noyes motored to Bagley Sunday evening to attend the For the 1923 Convention, Bemidji Fire Department Fort Worth, Texas, May 26.—Back of the decision of the Court of Civil Appeal at Amarilli in affirming the judgment of the District Court ana approving the findings of a jury which gave Mary Green Bobbitt a divorce and half interest in the estate of Israel R. Bobbitt, estimated to be worth half a million dollars, lies the story of a- woman'’s unselfish- devotion and self sacrifice and a ‘man’s base ingratitude unparalleled in the annals of Texas jurisprudence. The question of divorce in a com- ‘mon-law marriage and a division of «<ommon property were the chief legal points at issue in the case, but throughout the long legal fight, now believed at an end, the question of moral obligation was paramount to all others. After thirty years. of drudgery, during which she bore a son, now :grown to manhood, Mary Green Bob- ‘bitt zealously guarded the interests <of her “husband,” Israel, and he ac- cumulated a fortune of over half a million dollars. As her rewara she found herself suddenly cast aside at the age of fifty-two, a gray-haired wreck. Another—a younger and handsomer woman—took her place after a brief courtship which termin- -ated in the marriage of Bobbitt. Cast adrift with a brief note saying “‘I've quit,” from Bobbitt, Mary Green sought to establish the legallty of her «<ommon-law marriage, the legitimacy -of her child and to secure a division -of the estate she had by hard work Thelped accumulate. A jury, composed mainly of young men, heard the evidence at Sherman last July before Judge Silas Hare, of the District Court. On the.findings “of that jury Judge Hare held that ‘Mary Green Bobbitt was tire'common- ~law wife of Israel R. Bobbitt, now :a prominent citizen of Sherman, and -that as such she was entitled to share -alike in his estate and entitled to get :a divorce from him. The trial before Judge Hare re- quired three weeks, during which a great mass of testimony was taken, all tending to show the devotion of a ‘woman who was content simply to climb up behind her young Lochin- var with no other vow than a simple “T will,” and with none other present beside the contracting parties, Mary Elizabeth Green, eighteen, and Israel R. Bobbitt, twenty-four. . He had met her at the home of her parents near Farmington, Texas, ‘Christmas Eve, 1885. After a brief «courtship he induced her to take the . step that led to a life of drudgery "and finally ended in her being cast off—*‘a cook, a very good camp cook, but not his wife,” as the second Mrs. ‘Bobbitt put it when questioned in ‘reference to the strange triangle af- ter the trial. Admittedly poor and illiterate, Mrs. Bobbitt’s simple, unshaken story made a deep impression on the jury which heard the evidence. “I never got mnear the city much until 1915, when I went to Natchez to get our boy educated,” she testi- fied. ‘““Then in June, 1917, I think it was, Bobbitt simply wrote to me “I've quit’.” That was the last she saw of Bob- .bitt until she faced him in the court room at Sherman. % He had written a number. of times but when Mrs. Bobbitt learned that he had married Mrs. Rowena Smith Coover, daughter of R. E. (Alfalfa King) Smith she began the legal pro- ceedings which ended in her secur- ‘ing a divorce from her common-law Thusband and recognition of her right to a half interest in the estate she \ "had by years of privation and hard- ship helped to accumulate. Citizens of Bemidj: Do you want to advertise our city? Do you want to advertise our Juvenile [ ———————————ES— R. A. DENNISON, of Los An- geles, owner and trainer of fine trotting horses, who says Tanlac put him right back on his feet again, after he had been in bad health for over a year. Declares he is feeling like his old self now. baccalaureate sermon preached by Rev. Sorenson. - Miss Nancy Swanlund left Wed- nesday for her home at Shafer, Minn., after completing a term as primary instructor in our schools. eo————————————————— Union Dentists Bernice Burfield returned here ) : Saturday after completing a very suc- cessful school term at Solway. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cartwright motored here Sautrday from Bagley. i . While here they placed a tomb stone Opposite City Hall at the grave of Clarence Julin, son Schroeder Bldg. of Mrs. L. G. Evans of California, formerly Ina Cartwright of this place. | I “For the past year or more I have not been right physically; I just didn’t feet good at all, but last April 22nd I had an awful attack with my stom- ach which nearly drew me up and I have been worse ever since. “About the best way I can describe the way I felt is to say I was just leg-weary and all in. I really did not have strength to keep going and I gave up all idea of trying to work. For a long while I had no appetite but would eat anyhow though my food never seemed to do me any good. “I would go to bed at night and would sleep but apparently did not rest for I would get up just as tired as when I went to bed. I got so I ‘BN could scarcely_go a block but what I AN . would have to -stop and rest. 3 m “Well, I read about Tanlac one +E e a e day and that reminded me that a . friend had spoken about the same medicine, so I got some and began to take it. I had been taking it about a week when one evening, after supper, I started to walk and before I realized it I had walked up to First Street and back, about 14 blocks, and never felt it at all and then I realized that the tonic was helping me. “I have taken four bottles now and am just feeling real good again. I ; am able to be back at the Exposition . Stock Yards every day and have just as much energy as I ever had. I get up refreshed in the mornings now and I.have a real appetite which makes me enjoy three good square meals every day. Anyone who needs a good tonic will certainly be satisfied with Tanlac and I am glad to recommend \ it to my friends.” N The above statement was made re- cently by R. A. Dennisgn, a well- known owner and trainer of fine trot- ting horses, residing at No. 214 East S ———————— o for the smaller cars is the same purpose to supplyhigh valuein the product thatis behind the manufacture of the Goodyear Tires that equip the most expensive automobiles built. | | This purpose is expressed by the enormous resources, extraordinary skill and scrupulous care applied to the manufacture of Goodyear Tires in the largest tire factory in the world devoted solely to the 30x3-, 30x3 "2, and q 31x4-inch sizes. The effect of this endeavor is noted in the Back of the manufacture of Goodyear Tires : | HRH R KKK K HHKEKKR KKK -« SHEVLIN % | 8th St., Los Angeles, Cal. 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