Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 31, 1921, Page 6

The Old Prourh Many a woman who knows why grass never grows on a race track, er coated. der at all. —1It Can’t Be Bothered— And really it’s no won- - Ear! Earl ! ear was| . Full many a maiden’s born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness 'neath a puff of hair. —Wittier— Flowers for the Living | We met a fellow the other day bad- } ly scarred about the face and upon | asking him what was the trouble, he said his wife had been throwing flow- ers at him. It seems that she forgot to take the flowers out of the flower pots, however. Just like hitting a fel- low with a shoe. —With Your Foot in It— Upholding the Law ~ Just recently a motorist met a road hog who kept his powerlul lights on full blast while passing. Knowing that there was a law that the road hog should®have his lamps dimmed, the other motorist wanted to get ouf and dim his lamps. —Not the Way You Think— The Quick and the Dead Since it has become, exceptionally common for a person to own an auto- mobile, we have rcad of lots more cases of people becoming run down. But how about a poor blind, deaf and dumb policeman like the one that was stationed on Beltrami avenue at| Sixth street? He looks as if he had been .run down. 5 —And Out— Picturesk often wonders why her tongue is nev-1 REFUSED WS PAPER \ ASK HIN WHY AW SHUX! HERE'S A CARD FROM ‘W' POST OFFICE SAVIN' PEYE WAMPUS HAS N GOW!' 0 MONDAY’S RESULTS National League w. L. Pet. Pittsburgh 8 10 737 New York 7 13 675 Boston .. 9 18 514 Brooklyn 0 22 476 St. Louis . 16 19, 457 Chicago 5 20 .429 Philadelphia . 3 23 .361 Cincinnati 4 27 -341 Games Yesterday Brooklyn, 3-5; Boston, 9-6, Chicago, '0-3; Pittsburgh, 15-6. St. Louis, 9- 7 Cincinnati, 4-4. Philadelphia, 1-7; New York, 5-13. American League w. L. Pct. Cleveland .. 14 -667 New York 15 615 Detroit ... 21 5338 | Washington 21 .488 St. Louis . 23 -439 Chicago . 22 .436 Boston 19 424 Philadelphia 24 .368 Games Yesterday Cleveland, 6-5; Detroit, 5-9. St. Louis, 14-5; Chicago, 5-8. New York, 2-0; Washington, 1-1. Boston, 1-1; Philadelphia, 8-2. American Association “ T ” Indianapolis 15 R 7 ‘Asleep in the Deep’ | Kansas City 17 541 An object which has lots of “nice” | T oyisville .. 18 526 things said about it, at at, into it Minneapolis - 16 515 of the nice things is, ' ( a, St. Paul .. 18 and against it. One of the nice| pgledo 20 things is, “Coma on, make your- | Milwaukee 20 self useful as well as ornamental.” | Columbus .. 21 Scme of the things that are said about it might be considered out of order at a ladies’ aid meeting. —But That’s Common— A Hcle Lot. Some of the immigrants who have come to this country with the intenticn of taking up land are still doing co—a shovel full at a time. Reminds us of the fellow. who said he had just bought 160 acres of the finest kind of land at a reas- onable price but that the only trouble with it was that another fellow had 160 acres of land on top of it and it migh4 cost him quite a lot to get it moved. —Quite A Lot— No Middleman There A certain local woman doing her own shopping asked a butcher how much he wanted for a chicken he' had on display in his shop and upon being informed that the price was on cdellar, she wanted to know if he raised it himself. He stated that he did, since he had asked only seventy-five cents for the chicken the week before. —One Way to Raise Them— Very Suspicious. We overheard a man in a local | restaurant recently telling a friend | that he had .a corking appetite. | Soon after we went out the restau- | rant appeared deserted. —What's, Wrong, Watsen?— [ MuNICIPAL CouRT ‘J One speeder jcined Judge Gibbons’ automobile club this morning in thu- nivipal court and pzid duaes to the amount of $5. Four men-answered to the charge | of drunkenness and. were sentenced | to a fine of $5 each or five days in | jail. Three paid their fine and ihe fourth is to serve his time. The case against Henry Tong, | Chinese cook at the Kelliher Cafe, ‘was continued until Thursday morn- | ning at 10 o’clock. Tong is chargcd with assaulting a waitress with a! knife after an altercation. | ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY FACES MURDER CHARGE| Knox, Indiana, May 31. —Judge W. C. Pentecost today began the long delayed ‘trial’ of 11-year-old Cecil | ‘Burkett, who is charged with the mur- ‘der of 7-year-old Bennie Slaven. Dif- ficulnes were anticipated in getting: a Jury because of the pronounciation bias in Stark county. Prosecutor Dilts charged the crlme‘ was committed in cold blood and de- manded the death penalty. Cecil and his brother, Alfred, 9, and Frederick Sherman, 7, were playing in the Bur- kett back yard last Thanksgiving. Bennie Slaven and ‘his T Clara, 6, were in‘ an adjoini rd. Cecil “called to Bennie to come into his yard. The latter refused, but Cecil “coaxed " him, then, prosecutor Dilts . said, Cecil reopened an old squabble ~-and shot him. The gun he used was a 22 calibre rifle. Bennie died 30 _hours later. Cecil denies the prosecu- " tor's version of the shooting, saying “the shooting: was accidental, Games Yesterday Minneapolis, 8-4; St. Paul, 4-9. Kansas City, 5-6, Milwaukee, 17-9. Columbus, 5-9; Toledo, 6-3. Louisville, 3-9; Indianapolis, 0-10. (second game 10’ innings). PAGEANT TO BE STAGED ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY Wednesday evering a pageant en- titled “Early Days in_Mipppesota”™ will be given on itthe campus qf the Bemidji Teachers college. This will be given) by the physical educaticn class and will commence, at. 7:15 o'clock. Al friends of tHe school dre cerdially invited to attend. Subscribe for The:;Pally Ploneer, Regus, HOLT PEORIA. ILL STOCKTON, CALIE Phone 118-W 4 Ihun Modernize Your Road Equipment In every department of read ' work, both in the actual construc- . tionand in'the ‘maintenance, Holt “Caterpillaf”’* Tractors hav. nitely established their supréin— acy over all prevmus methods. Contractors, road officials and hxpayets, in brief everyone who ismférested in- good roads;should know the savings that can be ef~ tectéd by the “Caterpillar.”* We furnish actual ' cost_figures taken from actual jahs or we will < arrange to show moving pictures of the “‘Caterpillas’"* engaged in actual road work. Wiité, wire or telephoneé forfurther info i MARKETS HIDBS Cow hides, No. 1.. Bull hides, No. 1.. Kipp hides, No. 1, 1b Calf skins, No. 1, 1b. Deacons. each Horse hides, la; POTATOES Chicago, May 31.—Potato receipts, 107 cars; old market, steady; North- ern w}utes, sacked and bulk, 50c to 65¢c; new Texas triumphs No. 1, $2.25 to $2.40; Louisiana _whites, gll QQ to_$2.00;. South Garol.ma cob- blers; “per bbl.; $Fr25 DENPSEY UNDER REST Carpentier Is Back to Work Today After a Complete Rest Yes!e;dly (By Uiiltea Press) At!nnfic City, N. J. . May 31.—Jack Dempsey. is under rest orders for the rest of the week. fu]lowmg a hard workout as the result ‘of the big crowd that flocked = to his training camp. The world champion put away the gloves until Saturday., He will work enly enongh ‘to keep in condn— His eye, which was hurt Saturday in a sparring -bout with Jack Renolt, is almost Healed: It is not expecteg| to give him trouble. Manhasset, Long Island, May 31.— Georges Carpentier is back to work today after a complete rest. yesterday which was spent ?n observing Mem- orial Day and looking over the two Gibbons brothers, the St. Paul heavy- weights. Carpenti®r was greatly im- pressed with Mike Gibbotis and calléd him a wonderfully smart and clever fellow. He did not comment on the young- er, Tom, but watched every move he made in the ring against Jack Clif- ford, sparring partnér’of Dempsey. Subacriba fur The Daliy Pjoneer. e défi- rmauon. #There is only one *“Caterpillar’”— Holt bullds it. Thename was otiginated and is owned exclusively by this company: Infringements will be prosecuted. THE HOLT MFG. CO. Inc., PEORIA, ILL. Branches and service stations all 6ver the world BEMIDJI AUTO CO. 0. ONGSTAD, Prop. n B‘enfifln, an i e m ey WAR NURSES TO FARM IN FAR NORTH COUNTRY (By United Press) Edmondton, Alta., May 31.---Four young women .from ' Montreal, aill overseas nurses duning the war, have gone to Spirit River in the Grande Prairie region of ngrthern Alberta to farm cooperatively.. They were spur- red to the 'adventurous enterprise by the success which thousands of form- er soldiers have made upon the land. Efforts were., made .to discourage them from ploneering into the new north. country.. . But their lanswer was that after their three-years war experdence, ploneering has no terrors Two-Misses McLean, Miss Miss MacNish comprise the quartette. . . What they plan tc do is to file a homestead of 160 acres each, mak- ing a totad section, to which will be added another seotion of free grant land by feacsn of.their overseas ser- vice. They will live together and ‘|farm_ their -land co-pperateively. They' prepose to do their farm .work with thelf own hands ~and before leaving Edmondton equipped them- gelves with overalls, riding breeches, boots and other mnsculme parapher- nalia. W-B CUT.is a Jon, THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER “Try It Out Yourself” ? says the Good Judge And you § much mi d littd of this Kea Tobatéd gives you got from a big chew of the ordihary kind,: The good, rich, real to: bacco taste lasts so long' you don’t need a fresh chew nearly a8 oftén. So it costs you less. Any man who _uses the Real Fobacco: Chew will* tell you that. i Ri&fif CUT isa short-cut tobacco —— ADDITIONAL WANT ADS WOMAN NEEDS Washings or day work of any kind in East Bemidyi, or Nymore. Please dron card to Mrs. Paul Simpson, Nymore, Mlnn 2t6-1' WANTED---Four men for Birchmont, Apply Markham Hogel, 7:30 to 8:00 tonight, ask mr Mr; Fiedler. ; . 1td5-31 UNION DAY cnmnlmok . (By United’ Pré Qapetown; May 3 'he lllh an- niversary of ithe grantifg of sel ernment to South Africa; inctudibg the former Boer republica of the traisvaal and Or: Free State, s being celebrated throughout South Africa today. Prince Arthur of Con- nought, Goveriior Genéral and the Premier General Jan C. Smiuts held official receptions, and at the big centers military parades were held. “The day is observed as a national holiday: Bubscribe , for, - The Datly; Gt you ever Pat up in two styles \ for. $600.00 year for ten years. Sept. 1st, 1921. 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