Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 12, 1921, Page 6

‘TWENTIETH CENTURY' y ¢ LIMITED 3 Why Not? " We notice an ad stating that a cer- tain individual is offering a reward to the person who will find him a house to live in. . Why mnot run an ad Homething like this: “Five Dollars Reward Offered to the person or per-| sons giving information which may lead to the arrest and conviction of a suitable house for-rent?” —It's About that Serious— " Toking Chances In our wanderings about town, we/ heard of a man who stepped on a nail| in a board (business end up) to sce if it would go through his shoe. —It Did— For the Women One local dealer has evidently act- ed upon the advice given in this col- umn recently on how the park board|| might make it more convenient for the Jadies at Diamond Point. But he is advertising in a different way. He| has engaged an expert to give thc; 3 HIDES ladi 3 i “keep- ladies some new pointers on “keep: | Cow hides, No. 1 Bull hides, No. 1. Kipp hides, No. 1, Calf skins, No. 1, 1b. Deacons, each .... Horse hides, large..... P e e WESTERN FOREST FIRE SEASON OPENS FAVORABLY Frequent rains have been a boon ! to the western forests this spring, and the officers of the Forest service, United States department of agri- culture, express themselves as great- 1y relieved at escaping a danger which has been keeping them on the anxious seat. 1" The danger was that if the summer | fire season came on as usual their | control on the national forests would ‘be impossible with the funds avail- | able before July 1, when a new fiscal ;y}fur begins. fiThf appropriation for ey o the current fiscal year was heavily 1 schl(?ola:i‘;,:nccll:%\fig:r t;[:nni?ll ct'(f’ ‘(’l}::‘ drawn upon to fight fires last summer cide the location of the mnew hip:h‘m‘fl f~a”’ and, thou'[:h &'defictency ap- school here, we might say that we‘&fifi;u?’,‘:fi; ‘;zfixfihfsomufonf“js lieve the ve pi e s| | & ple ed e fund, :iete \vhizgttxgo:rfiogll:ux‘itll hshe‘;gcst t"}(‘:the amount nvmlub}c this spring for night. “Vote Until It Hurts,” seems protecting the national forests has t5.he what,we will, baveto do been less than the average expendi- ; % e | tures necessary during the same pe- —But Vote Anyway— i riod in recent years. Hence the re-| The Owner Kicked, Too lief that frequent rains have kept the Some western enforcement agents| 10T¢sts too damp to permit dangerous | put contraband whiskey in the radi-| cOnditions to become general. ator of their cars and the Ford went| But the government™foresters do | crazy and jumped through a millin-| not consider that this is ennrely due | ery store window. . | to_favorable _weather _and timely We have heard of such things hap-| F2ins. The public is becoming inter- pening, but not because the driv:r:’*’s"“d in forest preservation, and l.he put whiskey in the radiator of thcloft-rcpcnted story of the destruction | car. | caused bty }mn{(uu carelessness is be- " . ginning to make its impression. The —In His Own' Tank— }United States leads all nations in for- That Is, Not Too Smooth ‘est fires. With over 30,000 fires per If you think that it pays to be|vear, destroying mnearly $20,000,000] smooth, you are fooling yourseif. Worth of timber and property, this Look at a tennis ball. That’s smooth, | country has the world outclassed. and look how it gets helted around.| ‘There have only been four large| —Don’t Be Smooth— { fires so far this year in the 147 na- | tional forests scattered through the Taste Will Tell | country-—one in Minnesota, one in It isn’t any sin to smoke a second-| Florida and the other two in Ari- hand cigar, it is said. Not that it|Zona, one of which started in Mexico | makes any great difference, but it|and swept across ‘the international certainly ought to be. But, at that, boundary. ~This is an exceptional it is breaking the law. | record and means much to the for-| —Of Gobd ‘Manners— est service, since the limited funds al- lotted by congress for fire fighting Patient Waiter jare at low ebb near the close of the Therc was a fellow walking down| ficcal year, and entirely insufficient the street, and upon being asked|to meet emergencies. B by a friend where he was going, he| There will be plenty of fires later casually said he was going down the|in the year, state the forestry men, street to met a cigar. He returned | Lightning will sct some, and campers, about a half an hour later with a| motorists, railroads, picnickers and “peach of a torch stuck in his pan,”| brush burners a good many more. He was asked if he had to go to In-| The forest service is not taking any ternational Falls to get it whereupon | ¢hances, however, for its 3,000 smoke | he replied that he had looked over|chasers, fire lookouts, rangers und the cigars down the street and finnllyl supervisors ate all “on their toes” to saw one to his liking, but had to wait| put into motion, at a _moment’s no- about 20 minutes before the fellow tice, the big fire-fichting machinery moved his foot off of it. lthefy, ’mve develoliedk tho Tt — Revivi e | Eighty per cent of the forest fires Reviving the Dead— that occurred in the United States A Safe Bet during the past five years were due Not that it helps us a darn 'bit,|t® human_carelessness. A camp fire but it's a safe bet that there were no | left burning, a lighted match or mosquitoes in the Garden of Eden. | cigarette butt thoughtlessly thrown —Let’s ' Hope Not— ing beautiful.” —Hard to Keep— The Top, Anyway It must be the height of something but we’ll be darned if we know what it is—when about seven persons will ride around in a Ford with the top down and then hold an umbrella over their heads to keep the sun off. Cer- tainly it’s not the height of fashion. —That Has No Covering— Picturesk | aside, the foresters say, often cause | conflagrations that take days and | weeks of hard work to surpress. It is | for this reason that they ask every COUNTY TO GET BIG ‘good citizen to adopt as a part of his g SHIPMENT OF PICRIC ACIDi daily creed the motto of the forest | service—PUT OUT, KEEP OUT— (Continued From Page 1) FOREST FIRES. ~ “!:9 othcr.n:rombcrsl ag he may get .'1!1 ST s T S * l’f‘hnemrcll«‘lr:;-:'uni County Land ('!(‘ur-‘f MUN]CIPAL COURT (ing association considers the obtain- | ing of these three carloads of cheap| explosives a most fortunate aequisi- Judge J. F. Gibbons had a fine as- sortment of cases before him this One drunk, who had evi- don and recommends that farmer.,|morning. put forth every effort tc make use of the quantity which is allétted to them. Cheaper explosives have bhoen | the greatest d to speed up our! land; clearing and all of this pi acid will soon be gone. The Land Clearing ascociation will | do all it possibly can to co-operate with County Agent D. C. Dvoracek in the distribution and demonstration of this explosive while it lasts. Got the Real Thing “For five long years I suflemd‘ with stomach trouble and what tle| doctors called gallstone colic, and all| said nothing but an operation would, do me any good. A friend who had| taken your medicine advised me to| try it, and I found it to be the real thing. I feel better than I have in eight years and I God for Mayr’s Wonderful Remed It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes °the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes prac- tically all stomach, liver and intesti- nal aliments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money re- [ dently parted with his last funds to | secure some good cheer, was fined $5. The fine was remitted and the man told to get to work or get out of town. Six speeders lined up before His | Honor, two of whom looked a little guiltier than the rest and drew &5 fines. The others drew a lecture from the court for which nothing was charged. It was their first offense— this year. The traffic cop gathered into his |net five offenders minus their tail i lights. His Honor, Juilga Gibbons, warned them to keep their lights shin- ing and not “under a buthel.” “This is the last chance 'to get off on this ! charge,” warned: the judge. “] want to show you something,” said Officer Brennan to a Pioncer representative, “but don’t get too close,” he warned. Then the Pioneer man naturally went slow. What he saw can’t be described. Cooties | couldn’t live in such a thickly popu- Jated district. A bee-hive would be nearer the description, but they weren’t bees. Anyway, “it” ‘was es- corted to the railroad tracks and headed out of town and the popula- tion of Bemidji was greatly de- funded. At all druggists.—Adv. creased, | SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. James Parmalee and little daughter, Lois, left Monday night for an_extended visit with her parents at Lake Minnetonka, near Minneapo- lis. Mus. Harvey Sherill and son George Lee, returned to thdir home at Dav- | ewport, Towa, after spending her va- cation with her panents, Mr. and Mrs, George U, Severens, Mrs. Sher- ill is employed as bookkeeper for the Davenport :Locomotive works. Mr. Sherill was to meet her at St. Paul. FREE LUTHERAN CHOIR GIVES CONCERT FRIDAY The choir of the Free Lutheran church at Nymore will have a concert on Friday evening under the direc- tion of Mrs. A. Greguson. Lunch will be served after . the - program, which will be published-later. = CARD OF THANKS "We wish to express our apprecia- tion to our néighbors and friends who 80 kindly assisted us during the ill- ness, death and burial of our daugh- ter, Katherine Elizabeth, seven menths of age. Mr. and Mrs. William Barnes. 1t7-12 BIRTHDAY PARTY Mrs. A. B. Tibbetts, 518 Third sireet, is ententair(ing a few little folks this afternoon in honor of her daughter, Verna's, third birth anni- versary. Games were enjoyed and lunch was served. Places were set for twelve. The color scheme was pink and white. (Mrs. Tibbetts and Mrs. S. Smogor were the hostesses. ANNOUNCEMENT W. W. Lg ghton, the expert sewing machine adjuster and repairer, that does government Indian school and statt work, all over the country is in the city for a few days omly. Call phone 266-W. 1t7-12 McKENZIE COUNTY BANK CLOSED INDEFINITELY TODAY Watford City, N. D, July 12.— The McKenzie County bank, the old- est banking institution in the county, was closed today with a bank exam- iner in charge. Directors look for HEY, YOU BUM CARTOONER , WHATCHA OUT OF US TH\S WAY, BEFORE ALL —0' |~ “READERS 2 - ARE Yo DO T'OAN? WE BETYER GO AND SEE HIM! MERCHANTS AND FORCE HEAR BUSINESS TALK (Continued Lrom Page 1) their high cost goods on their shelves, marked away up because they cost a high price and have not followed the market as they should have done, the whele class of merchants is looked upon as thieves and profiteers.” “Get into the spirit of your town. What makes Bemidji or Grand Rap- ids, or any other town? It is not the buildings, nor the streets, nor parks.. Take away ‘the business of the town and you have but a hollow clam shell a left without the clam. It is the trad- 3 ing, the business of the town that makes the town. Then this spirit of SINN FEIN DELEGATES (By United Press) Dublin, ard Barton. bers of the Dail Eireann. CANADA IS AFTER THE (By United Press) Saskatoon, sm;" {July 12‘-;;}101- X o ' 9 a, rival cheese- business and trading should be a part :;:l?h:‘ga in?lfil;:;‘;'. (}anné; )?;; stepped of every citizen’s activities. His into fourth position among the pro- business should be transacted in Be-|qucing nations midji and not in the big mail order|s,ctories are. rapldly increasing the house which pay mothyng for the,yipyt. Thirty-six million doliars is maintenance of your city, nothinglthe sum' returned to Canadian farm- teward your city’s taxes, nothing to-|ers for cheese exported during the ward the education of your family,|jast year. Most . 'of these exports and, if you canhot make your city|went to ‘England, long one of Hol- the biggest in the state, you can make |land’s best customers. it the best.”, JUGGLING OF FUNDS BEING INVESTIGATED (By United_ Press) Springfield, Ill., July 12.—Two of- ficials of Chicago packing companies were summoned today to appear be- fore the Sangamon . county grand jury, investigating the alleged jug- gling of $10,000,000 in state funds. Sheriff Mdsters went to Chicago this morning to subpoena the treas- urer of Armour & Co., and the presi- dent of Swift & Co. s Charges that these two companies were permitted to borrow $10,000,- 000 from the state on two per cent FUNERAL SERVICES HELD ' TODAY FOR GLICK BOY The funeral of David L. Glick, son of H. A. Glick, of Eckles township, was held this afternoon from the M. E. Ibertson undertaking parlors at 2 o’clock. The boy was 9 years and 10" months® old at the time of his death, which occurred last Sunday and which was caused by a disease known as ludwig enjina, or an infec- tion of the neck. Interment was made in' Greenwood cemetery. ¢ THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS LEAVE FOR CONFERENCE Ireland, July ' 12.—Sinn Fein peace delegates left here today for London where negotiations will begin with Lloyd George Thursday. Among those in the delegation were Eamonn DeValera, president of the Irish republic; Arthur Griffith, Sinn ein leader; Austen Stack and Rich- The latter are mem- ' CHEESE CHAMPIONSHIP and its 3,300 dairy| DISTRICT ATTORN FACES SEVERE CHAR (By United Press) Bonston, Mass., July' 12. (By J. J. Rawlins.)---Jesse L. Laskey, Adolph Zukor, Harry L. Ashen and Walter Green, prominent moving picture magnates, attended the ‘“Brownie’ Kennedy famous girl and wine dinner in 1919, it was alleged today in Su- preme count. The testimony was giv- en by Joseph Ltvenson attorney for the men mentioned. He was called to the stand on charges brought by Attorney General Allen against Dist- rict Attorney Teft of Middelsex cotn- ty. : Allen charged that Teft conspired with others to extore money by threato of indjictment of; those who ‘|attended the famous party. Levenson declaved he was at the dinner at Mis- uhan Manor, which was attended by 20 or 25 persons among whom were fore. 12 girls whom he had never seew be- (- HARDING’S MESSAGE TO BE DELIVERED TODAY Washiington, July 12.---(By L. C. Martin) —President - Harding’s mes- sage asking the senate to defer ac- tion of the soldiers’ bonus bill may be delivered at 2 o’clock this after- thorities. ~Harding will go to the was announced. - : KLEIN RETURNS FROM WESTERN CONVENTION W. C. Klein, district manager of the Mutual I{fe Insurance company of New York, returned this morning from Denver, Col,, where he attended $the convention of the Western Fiéld | FOR RENT. Large club of that company. Mr. Klein #ikes the counjiry and the pecple there very much, but states that it is nice tei get back to Minnesota again. noon, according to White House au- | capitol after the cabinet meeting, it| FoR SALE—Or CONSTANTINE AND STAFF TO DIRECT OFFENSIVE Athens, Greece, July 12.—King Constantine ‘and his staff. left today for the fighting front in' Smyrna to direct the new offensive launched by the Greeks against the Turkish Na- tionalists. Adyvices . reaching here stated that the Turks have started a counter-offensive. x FOR RENT--+Four room - bungalow. ‘Good location. Furnished or will . sell furniture, Phone 375-W. 1t7-12 FOR SALE--One bench wringer, $4.00. Call 873-J. 1t7-12 WANTED TO RENT---Furnished or unfurnished house about .August 1i- Phone 43, C. L. Mikkelson. 3ta7-14 FOR SALE---Modern house. Inquire of R. 0. Bagby. 3t7-14 WANTED---Girl at Markham hotel. 3td7-14 FOR SALE---Complete set of house- hold furniture. Wil sell separaté articles if desired. Call at 1110 Bemidji avenue.” Tel. 752-W. 3t7-14 Trade---a rattling good Ford. -A bargain if taken at ‘once. Call 671-W. 3t714 FOR SALE---Singer sewing macline. Including complete attachments. Practically new. Telephone 839 or call apartment 22, New Kaplan bldg. 3t7-14 front, room at 621 Bemidji avenue. Phone 983-W. 2t7-13 FOR RENT---Furnished room at 815 M_iss{s_s}zpi sivem'xe. 3t7-14 inteérest are being ' probed by the| grand jury. The investigation which e got under way yesterday may be used as a basis for several suits against Governor Len Small, Lieutenant-gov- ernor Fred Sterling and Auditor An-| drew Russell, all of whom have served terms as state treasurer, to recover $2,000,000. < This is the amount At- torney-general Brundridge declared is due the state and withheld from the state funds by the treasurer. These men may face criminal the bank to be re-opened in the fall. charges. With an time the picture is made. and every Kodak has it. Photography window—cr bet You never got such la: Fme Navy Blue. Setx'ug‘e‘ 4 '_ - Ancorporated &P /A, 312 DEPARTMENT, STORES You Pay Yourself a Profit Buying Your Serge Suit Now small cast. & Autographic Kodak the date and title may be written on cach film at the This autographic feature is cxclusively Eastman— For pictures on the motor trip, snap-shots of .thc children, in fact foralmost any type of picturc, the title, in the years to come, adds much—the date even more. ? Look at the price tags in our Kadak look over the line. E: sting pleasure a ve? é&, Kodaks $8.00 up—Browniés $2.00 up BARKER’S ‘Phone 34 for Correct Time THAT Biue Serge Suit, you've promised yourself— p why not buy it now—while the selection is the best, the sizes complete, the values unquéstionable? This is one of the biggest Blue Serge seasons in Men’s wear and the J. C. PENNEY COMPANY has concen~ trated -its great buying power on the best in the ‘markets. That's why we can assure you of Better Fabrics, Better Tailoring, Better Fitting Suits than .you can find anywhere else for the money. 413-415 Beltrami Avenue BEMIDJI, MINN.