Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 9, 1920, Page 3

.. China_today as a.result of an un- ', rice, chief article of 'diet among the ‘Mo attention “pua to. ‘snonymous contributions. Writer's: name must be known 'tothe editor, but: not ‘15, Tuesday . of each y i i ,»,' ue .~'“'k' to insure’ publication in _-th s Six Months e, Sesasensss A8 Three ‘Months . . '"THE WEBKLY PIONRER—Twelve pages, published 4 to any address THOSE WEEDS AGAIN. “Did we have a dream about’ those weeds going to. be cut or isit ‘that there are no scythes 'in ./ Bemidji? We were all puffed up to think we were going to have some clean looking streets after the weeds were cut. - But it is not too late yet. In a short time they will have gone to seed and instead " | . of .one stalk growing, there will be dozen mext . " year. Let's get the'm_‘ cut.” - ' 'NOTHIN& WORSE THAN THISTLES. tention hu, been ‘called ‘to something' equally: as portant. - In fact we think it is more so. We xefer.to’the increasing number ‘of thistles' that are being -allowed to grow unmiolested. on our country /voads and in;the fields, and in OUR CITY. This new . ‘country -is ‘comparatively free -from _this pest ‘but nothing. spreads faster than thisties- and “mothing is harder to eradicate once they have fas- tened their. clutches upon a‘community. . “Thistles should be ciat the moment they get their heads above the ground and under no' circumstances should they be allowed to go-to seed. © > i S There ‘are’ thistles ‘growing profusely'less than two blocks ‘from the Markham hotel, which means that ‘we city. folks cannot fold our arms and say let the ‘farmers and country : people take care of We would not like an outsider to say we have 1o, civic pride in Bemidji, we - would resentit. Better not give them grounds for the indictment: As it stands now we are guilty. And we know it, but we don’t seem to care. What, are we going to do about it. Ei J \ A farmer had a-horsé to'sell. tlz,@hgg__a/u_erious defect, hut one which was not readily discernible: - Another. fellow who was in need of a'good horse stopped to look at ito. . s ey 5 3 #Sound as s dollay; so. far as T.know,” said-the ' farmer, conveniently forgetting the defect which he :knew to exist.” The ‘animal changed hands, and " :the purchaser was stung. .~ 0T A few months later the same farmer went to a . 'nighboring county and paid a fancy price for'a: |. ; : bull./ Tatee e’ foutid s e, Jn0 been_;stpngm m 1A bolt of lighitning. stripped the. shoes from a . Misgissippi ‘woman’s’feet without as much as even {“scorchingher silk stockings. If they were of'the “'the transaction. “I'Il have the.law on that windler,” b raged, 4] and _promptly’ - brought. suit - against the, ‘former owner ‘of the bull.- e L R It ‘'makes & differénce, whether you ‘sting, or get ; of ‘ebutse,'.i!_ you'don’t ;want to pay the ;aiirondu “ that 20 per cent increase in: passenger rates you can _buy, an_automobile instead. Even a ‘huzz price of shoe leather. The full dinner pail is no longer a slogan in our national elections. - Nothing short of ‘a' complete dining ‘car service would satisfy the average voter of today.. PO H 8 . s a5 parents; and'it is time for them Yo be taught their ., proper place,” . . /i, D b R [ ¢I¢'s fine of you to look at:it'that way, John—it /. was your own boy ‘he lickpd,"‘ commended flw : Butarad at (e postoffice at Béimiaji, Minn., as ssoond- ' bl gy at.cnpmto! March 5. amm.. | ly /for publication. Communications for 7 Waekly P{onm must _reach this:office not later Q%‘_ 3 .'in'a juvenile scrape; and' he hunted' the editor in “And while ‘we are on the weed question our at- - .at all.”: _paper querist. wagon would be cheaper than w_alidng at the present _ " Hello, John, “iGiood enough—I hope he lald it on good and heavy, Boys are getting to be smarter than ' their first speaker. TuWhat's that? Whipped my boy, did he? Tl “ smash his infernal face for him, I will.. No upstart’ " of a teacher can lay hands on my boy and got’ away with it.” e i ki It makes a difference who gets the licking. A’ citizen met the editor of & paper onthe street one AAY-; t i ek R A o "“Why . don’t you ‘publish the ‘news?” he asked, ' with a_disapproving frown. ;“Young J. got into & brawl and beat another boy up and you:didn’t say ‘s, word about it in the paper. 'Such things should be given full publicity in order to ' suppress ' yowdyism,” he.resumed. : " A’ fpw weeks later his own son was rounded up a hurry. Wl ol 1% j Ry “Don’t.say anything in: the paper about that little escapade’ of the boy's,” he pleaded; “it, was \only 3 a ‘lark, and yoys will be boys, you know."” It makes & difference whose boy is involved. A young lady had numerous admirers, and caused each one to believe that he was'the favored of . f. themall. Each in time proposed, and was strung along ‘with 'half promises, ) 7 'The young men dropped onto her game, quietly. faded. away, and left her without a single ldnyir_er. other yoing men having been'told of her duplicity. “Men are fickle and the worst deceivgxs ever, - and I hate them all,” she wailed in’ her loneliness., “The idea ‘of all of: those men proposing to me.’ and then leaving like that! Men have mo honor ‘And'it makes a difference who does’ the deceiving. «How are fried potatoes handled,” asks a npws. : “How. is bacon handled?: Howis leaf lettuce handled?” ~And the cruel answerer-of- “heartfelt-questions replies sternly that ‘“handled”. is - not the word to use in that connectio{x—they ihduld 3 all be eaten with the fork. A good many of us: who have struggled with leaf lettuce and a fork wish the Vall-but-omniscient lady had been more specific. : . 4 Yes, the things we ‘want most are thdse thgtjre; hardest to get. ‘When we hear people talk of the price of clothing, - we jinmediately *want a new suit. If it’s the soaring of sugar they mention, * we have a yearning for sweets, and if it’s the high' “cost of living in- general we get as hungry as“a bear, and look around to see what else we want, “You, too. “ T e TR S a0 Y ¥ A’ New Orleans structural iron worker took his five months; old baby out on.a girder on the four- . teenth story of a new skyscraper and held it in A his. arms while -a frightened preacher performed “the’ christéning ceremony. They - 'got ' their -names “in’ pririt; but not in- this sheet. i S ‘new fangled chicken wire mesh ' variety we can " ‘readily understand why even-a ‘bolt ‘of lightning :would pass _theni by. o— < ‘A Freniont, Neb., man punched’ another fellow . qn the. jaw, knocked him end. for. end,” fractured ./ .the jaw, and was warmly thanked‘by his victim. . Tt was a prompt and effective method of ‘separating him from a live wire which he had grasped ‘and could not let go. ) England loves Frante, and France loves England, ) and they both love us, and we just dote on them, and that’s the biggest all round whopper we ever told. © Look out for ‘g'qualls. 7 " TWENTY YEARS AGO S No'ybfip“_flohp By A Wanted—A dray ‘to’ haul my . empty Peruna bottles away from my back door. A. W. Steadman. Wm. Garrlgan ‘is not color blind, but Bill, you might as well have no glasses ‘at all as to have " ‘the optical illusions you have had of late. “‘An ‘excursion - train' will run'to Skidunk. the fourth of Birthington’s Wash Day, when we will have a charce to go ,“Up the Tressle.” ‘The Neebish Male quartette gave a few songs Sunday evening, and now the audience ‘has ‘brought suit for assault and battery. Harvey Boston of claimstead fame carries the base in a wheelbarrow, COST OF RICE ANGERS | y (By United Press.) ' Shanghai -(by Mail).—Labor trou- bles’ that threaten to reach the pro- portion of the I. W. W. agitation in the United States are sweeping over in this country. precedented increase in the. price of native population of the Orient.- The price_has mounted to $12.20 a picul -~183 1-3 pounds—more ' than twice the normal.costs of the commodity. carpenters and masons in ‘Shanghai sections of the republic. There havé ' been some minor outbreaks and -po- lice guards on night duty have been | had b (ernC i e hTod i e i ol GF Ch4- DD | (e L e oy and ment of interior at Washington for cipal cities and fiqu;xe_nts.,t‘ - Excessive exports of rice to-Japan is the reason given for the rise in}'”mul' year is normal but a shortage exists The government has| fror . forbidden the exportation of rice not belief that he had died. only from this country to. others but from province to province but smug- gling is known to be carried on ex- tensively and the situation is daily growing more serious. {DEAD’ INDIAN STROLLS HOME TO CLAIM PROPERTY ‘Muskogee, - Okla.; Aug. 9.-— Ball deon, b:l;fnlf‘l l:lloogeg (il::roklee In- i vt _ ian, ieved dea is iv Citing' the high cost of -rice, th";larriveg just in time rzcentl;etztp:es: ind 1 n vent his oil * property from being Ty have gone on strike and similar 1aborijeaged. - The: “Night Hawk” strolle ING BOOKLE' disturbances are ' reported from 5“|into the -office of .Gabe ‘E. :;t"k:rd’ PREPARIN T LOR superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes,” to claim his' land ‘after it|dore Roosevelt Highway is being pre- pared by Secretary M. N. Koll for the purpose of advertising the -highway. Mr. Koll has been busy - gathering photographs of farm, town and road scenes the past few weeks and the Coon’s parents died ten years ago while Smoky Gracie ‘carried the airin's hllbon, = the remainder of the air will'come with the next cyclone on the 33rd of next month. i . sl o . Town' Notes. 3 + This wéek W. E. Rose sold his' saloon’ business and property on Third street to W. W. Browne and C. M. Bacon. .The new manegement intends to make some sweeping improvements throughout the building nad run a strictly first’class sample room. C.- L. ‘Gilbert secured the contract for building the new school house annex. - He gets $8,4456.49 to put a six room two story brick structure, with base- ment and stone foundation. It is to. be steam “heated, but . the bid does'not cover the heatink" plant.. One wing, 22x52, is to _be bdilt west of the miain’ -building - and - the other, 50x63, to be built south of the main building. The ground is being brokeh and the contract is to .be finished November 15. ; 4 1 from Coon led his relatives to th and relatives that he was dead. sent it to Washington. | for the naming of an administrator. hold up action on'the:lease. warbles good English: | his native tongue. . the price of foodstufts. The crop this and he immediately departed to join!booklet will be out soon. * R - eard the news? The school teacher _has just'licked the tar out of an unruly pupil, and " _.everybbdy is talking about it—says he should have " whipped “him long. ago.” 1| democratic nominee and to ¥ 3 a wild west sh&w: ‘Faiiure to hear Several weeks ago ‘an oil company asked for possession of Coon’s land obtained anaffidavit His heirs affixed their signature to the lease and then In the district court. of Washington county, proceedings ‘were instituted ‘When' Joe Lynch, probate attorney of Stillwell,” identified. Coon, Parker immediately ~ 'wired Washington _to Coon spoke nothing but the Chero- kee language when he left and today He has forgot ROOSEVELT HIGHWAY |’ A picturesque booklet of the Theo- OHIO GOVERNOR PROUD ~ OF HIS COUNTRY HOME ¥ (By. United Press.) . ‘Dayton, ‘Ohio, Aug. 9. — Trail’s | End, the home of Goveraor and Mrs. James M. Cox and the showplace of the Dayton community, is just now W. H. BRANDES, ‘of Das M Jdowa, who declares o twenty pounds in thirty| taking Tanlac and now feels a different’ ; i i ’ 5 e —m—— ‘Amgust 23-27—Auto T y- 8“86‘1‘::;‘11‘;‘- -fl o Tour to Gry *Sep! er ‘1.—Opening dat - mlg:l t!’n{:lle schools. g} e‘ot g the| . Septeraber 7.—Opening of fall t R Heck iof ;th" of Bemldlji Normal schoo]. o During ‘the days when Governor| September 6-11—Minnesota S fox v;as ;vorking 8o hard to whip his|fair : ech of acceptance into sha Sept, 16, 16, 17— i il's End was the mecca for lco::l’ Fair. Belf' ety vt et s Sh | rrom ‘ -who came to advise 1l i < 5 {COTTON $3.20 A POUND, respects to the new stand: .| Thel first cotton bale of the season’s e house and estate are located |crop 'v7as’ sold at Houston, Tex., for about four miles from. the center of | $1,600. /That making the price about Dayton and can be reached either by|$3.20' a' ‘pound, or eight times the, automobile or an interurban iine half jpresent average. s 'a mile away. g .. The Cox home sets on one of the i{highest hills" ' roundabout and over- ] Jooks the now calm aud beautiful the busiest spot i pot in tate | Chester S. PAINTING CONTRACTOR ' Paper Han'ging and s ¢ 3 i the main Yoad of the.valley and is reached by limbing up rustic ' winding roads: The grounds have been improved with wilks and drives, but the whole scene is much as nature made it. The drive- way is the path of an old Indian trail, ) “Thirty days ago or a little mog, which ended at the site of the house, Kalsomining 4 thus causing Cox to name the estate . N g i ol I only weighed 125 pounds, but n | Trairs Ena. : 423 Fourth St. Phone 589|1 balance the scales at 145 pow g and Tanlac did it,” declared W. /| Brandes, a well-known and highly spected citizen of Des Moines, Iowh. . Mr. Brandes has been looking aft .| the glumbmg work of the Des Moing: public schools for the past minete! years, i “And many of the teachers af scholars can tell you how different look since I began taking Tanlac,” §e said. “I suffered from indigesti of the worst kind for the past yefr or more and was often so weak agd dizzy I couldn’t stand up, let alo Walk. Nothing helped me. 1 finall had to take my bed and stay the; for several weeks. ' Finally a frien§ persuaded me to try Tanlac and have never seen or heard of anythi to equal it. It relieved me entire ‘of indigestion and put me right bag on my feet. I'have not only gaine twenty pounds in weight, but I fe Blk.e l: _I'new’ mnnir}nl every way. ink Tanlac is the finest thing evd sold in a drug store.” e Tanlac is sold, in Bemidji by Cit§ Drug Store and by the leading drug§ - gists in every town. Governor Cox’s home is the pride of his heart. It is'composed of spaci- 'ous rooms, beautiful sun’parlors, af ‘Iveranda that extends out into thef: trees on the edge of the bluff, a.cozy {den, a state dining room, a breakfast| room in which the Cox family havel most of their meals, and last—but not least in the mind of the nominee—a)} large swimming pool, Which. during}. the time of writing his speech of| 'acceptance was ~placed at the dis-j, posal of visiting newspaper men. . Old-fashioned and wild flowers sur-3; round thé house, their arrangement being the personal work of Mrs. Cox. On the edge of the Valley below is the Cox garden—a miniature farm. Besides all kinds. of ‘vegetables the governor has an unusually good stand of corn. € ¥ Govermor and M Cox . have tramped over . every' inch of their estate and often walk into the nearby hills to cook a lunch over a camp fire. The governor has a reputation for being an excellent “outdoor cook” at least, as many newspaper| men who found him broiling lamb chops one day on' his farm, can testify. : HE notable quality of our . professional efforts is their dignified character. Our un- failing . politeness is all times favor- ably commented upon. Our services are faithfully per- SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY PIONE| e e Subscribe for Tue' Danv Plonasr 4 Your Chance . To Ridp in a Hydroplane! Haven't you often wishied you could go up in a flying ;:chine? You are going to have a chance in a few ys. We are making a business call upon the Saliabfiry & Satterlee dealer in your town via a Curtiss Hydro- | plane. 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