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Twentieth Century Laugh With Us— ‘ Not At Us— - i How About the Payment? A course of study is being adver- tised in some of the newspapers,| which bears the heading ‘“Dressmak- | ing Made Easy.” Another way to| make dressmaking easy is to have a dressrnaker do it. —Easy in the Making— Par Figures Dear 8wentieth Century: Don't you| think that something ought to be done | toward making golf links safer for busbands? I read that those hussies / T, VENING, OCTOBER 25, 1921 MARKETS taking part in the U. S. A. golf touri‘ naments “displayed phenomenal form.”—M. I. Right. —Can You Beat It?— Cruelty to Infants Two Minnesota boys, twins, hav been named Woodrow Taft and P shing-Roosevelt. This is an occasior where the children's aid step in and stop deliberate cruelty to helpless infants. —Aint It a Fact?— Disarmament First you hear that the greates! dreadnought in .the world has been launched, and before you have time allment on the player piano, they are dropping bombs ' the cash to cover the same in a sealed | on the shin to see if they can blow it/ envelope and mark plainly, FOR| 4 up. The only thing that goes out of SEALED BALLOT BOX, NOT TO| battleship is| BE OPENED. All subscriptions placed in the bal-| to pay another style quicker than milday’s hat. —And Gown— How About the Morn? a That, celebrated old “cool of the|the form of c: evening” is back on the job again. —A Short Vacation— For the Onlookérs “A delight of the coming season’ starts the reading matter under ajpe g daily fashion hint picture recently RARR POTATO MARKET Chicago, Ocf ot weak. S. Total U. 8. W acked and bulk, $1.7 sota and South Dakota Red River Ohios, sacked and bulk, $1.70 to $1.85. 'PIONEER'S CAMPAIGN 0 to $1.85; Min- ol ety should | 0 (Continued From Page 1) Jot box the last week must be ac- companied by the correct ameunt to cover. The remittances must be in hier’s checks, money Personal checks will be accepted, gned by made in s and will lorders or c amounting to provided no two checks ars , the same party. This rule fairness to all club memb strictly adhered to. The ill close with a blind vote. No one published in The Pioneer. The picture | will know what any othier club mem- happened to show a young lady in a|per is doing, as the club members will | bathing suit. —Coming But Mostly Going— CONSTRUCTION WORK CONTINUES TO ADVANCE (Continued from Page !) He is continuing the present building to the alley. The addition will be one story and basement. The Bemidji Woolen Mills, of which 1. P. Batchelder is proprietor, is Putting a second story on the fac-| ichl is located on the | story building whic Soo tracks west of Beltrami avenue. | Several modern residences are also the year comes and the total build- it will show the biggest building in the his- ing business is figured up tory of the city. / NGRTH DAKOTA CASTS RECALL VOTE FRIDAY| (Continued Trom Page 1) Dakota stands out as the big is; It is the alleged failure of this insti- tution thit was primarily responsible for the independent movement l‘m'l the recall. Now' Nonpartisans are making a) strenuous last-minute elfort to show the bank is a huge success. The administr: show that the bank is solvent, and that it is in a position to issue farm loans. Independents on the other hand claim recent developments favorable to the state bank are camouflage. NEW YCRK lNV-ESTIGATOR FLAY STEEL CORPORATION (By Unlled Press) Washington, Oct. 25.—The United States "Stecl Corporation was charag terized ‘“as the the greatest enemy of labor in this country,” by Samuel | Untcr!nycr, New York attorney and investigator today before the sen- ate’s labor committee the Mingo mine war. .“[f the steel corporation could be eliminated from the sithation tomor- row there would be industrial peace in_six months,” declared Untermyer. “BURN "EM UP } e BARNES” — - e e . ation is attempting to ! investigating 1 | ./ people of Bemid be the only ones to khow what they | place in the ballot box. The sealed I ballot box insures absolute secrecy |and there is no possible way for any- lone to gain inside information. The campaign will close at 8 o’clock Saturday night, October 29, {and all subscrintions and credits must | counted. At exactly 8 the judges | will take charge of the ‘ballot box fand open it in viewf all who wish to attend the final count. They gwill | then canvass the findings and make out th dits and award the prizes. By closing the campaign in this man- Iner no club member can truthfully claim partiality or favoritism. \ lUTHER LEAGUE CLOSES - - DISTRICT CONVENTION under construction. When the end of The District Luther League con- !vention of the Red River Valley con- ference, held in the Bethel Luther: i idji, Saturday after- 'neon, Sunday @ day, and Monday | morning, was very inspiring and suc- ssful. There were 50 out-of-town guests at the entire convention, and 50 more who came just for the pro- gram Sunday. ! At the business meeting held Satur- ay, the following officers were clect- d idy Rev. Gottfried Lin- day, Hine president, Prof. John Elson, Bemidji; secretary; Miss Min- nie Stardig, McIntosh; treasurer, Os- car Peterson, Clearbrook.: ,Saturday evening a reception was given to the visitors and a very interesting pro- gram rende! The servie d o | all day Sunday were ‘i\ ry largely attended and greatly en- d, there being over 300 at the evening service. The local church served dinner and supper to the visi- tors Sunday, in the church basement, and also dinner at noon Monday, and they were given lodging and break- fast at various homes. The convention concluded with the morning session Monday, and the visi- tors were given an auto trip around | Lake Bemidji, after which most of | them left on the afternoon trains for | their homes. ¢ | 5 APPRECIATE CO-OPERATION AT TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE County Superintendent of Schools |J. C. McGhee and his assistant, Miss || Mary Lilleskov, wish to thank the people of Bemidji who assisted in making the recent teachers’ institute a success. The letter from them fol- lows: “Dear Editor ADDmoNAL W_ANT ADS | “Through your columns, we wish ppreciation to the for their. interest land help in making the Teachers’ |to express our /FOR SALE — .Seaioned jack-pine, | Institute ‘a success. This especially body wood, 1 per cord. Phone 22-F-310. . Ny WANTED—Girl for gen work. Mrs. E. H. Smi 5t1 _ 8x8x3. Heavy castings, spring 8x8x). Heavy castings, spring poies, 4-horse drawbars and bunks, White oak, standard width, used 40 days last winter. Also water tank. $110 per pair with tank, if b pair taken. A. T. Armstrong, Littlefork, Minn. 2t10-26 inch, $3.00 per cord; applies to those who opened their 4-foot, $6.50; country mill sawed,| homes to the teachers and gave them load, $8.00; 4-foot slab wood, $5.50 | a pleasant time, to the Ladies’ Aid 2t10-26|.0f their kitchen and all belonging | of the Methodist church for the use to it- {it, that the teachers might have s house- | able quarters for their picnie lunch, h. Phone 60. | and to the faculty of the State Teach- | jers college, who were ready at all times to assist in the work of the institute. *J. C. McGhee, County Superin- tendent, “Mary Lilleskov, Assistant.” THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS i ato market CLOSES NEXT SATURDAY campaign ' {be in the box at that time, to be; Aaids sot), i 'INTERNATIONAL LABOR | | | (By United Press) | Geneva, Oct. 25.—Consideration of | problems affecting agricultural labor- |ers and affecting their health was - | begun here today at the third annual International Labor Conference: Rep- » | resentatives of the fovernments, em- | ployers and employees of forty na- | tions were present. b The agenda for discussion included |some of the decisions taken at the | Washington weeting jof the.confer- especially those relating to the to be worked by agricultural | laborers, prevention of their unem- ployment, and the protection of wom- en and childven .empioyed as such. | Added to these were fresh matters regarding the technical education of agricultural workers, their living con- s, guarantees of their rights of ciation and combination and their protection against accidents, sickness, invalidity and old age. Other questions have to do with |the disinfection of wool to guard | agal anthrax, prohibition of the iuse of white le: | ance of a weekly day of rest to com- rmercial and industrial workers, the Isetting of 18 as the age limit for persons employed as trimmers or stokers, and compulsory medical ex- aminations of all children employed on ships. Three weeks will be required, it is ‘expc(‘tud, to complete the agenda. |HUSRANDLESS MAIDENS KILL SELVES IN TRIOS (By United Press) Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 25.—“Shinju,” or suicide by pairs of lovers who find obstacles, are a recpgnized common- place in Japan, but recently several | cases of. trios seéking death together ‘have come to.the public notice. | In_one case a geisha and her lover | decided to seek happiness in another 1 world, and another geisha, who heard lof their intention, was so charmed | with the idea that she insisted on be- ing one of the party. So the threc hired a boat, tied themselves together and found death in the ocean near saka, In another insfance a school girl decided to take her life and told two | | i | (other girls of her intention. The two | [ friends wished to show their loyalty even until death, and one morning the three small corpses were found on the, beach, fipmly tied together by | their sash strings. | On the whole, | which have alwa; uicides by women, been fairly com- d greatly. } many to carn moncy sufficient to al- i low them to take wives. As a Japan- i ese girl considers it a disgrace | to ma many of the left-overs arc | seeking relief in death. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. BLCK MONDAY Funcral services were held Mon- day afternoon at 2 o’clock at the town, hall near Becida for Mrs. Cat- ore Kankle Black, who p: st Friday at the home of Sidney Stecke ased was born O tober 2, 1833 in the state of Ohio. On April 7, 1853, she was married to Sidney Black. To this union were born seven children. The funeral services ducted by J. D ‘were con- onzet of Nevis, and interment was e in the Rockwood township cemetery under the diree- tion of H. N. McKee, funeral di- | rector. She leaves two'sons and one daugg- ter, Mrs. Frank Stecker and W. B. Black and other relatives near Becida were present at the funeral. IRISH AND BRITISH STILL DISAGREE ON OUTLOOK (By United Press) London, Oct. 25.—The Irish peace delegates today declared the erisis in the negotiations was passed. The British dele: said that the situation was still ous., Both agreed, however, if they resumed their meeting this afternoon that the out-look for peace was more hopeful. FRANCE BIDS GOOD-BYE TO UNKNOWN U. S. SOLDIER (By United Press) / Havre, France, Oct. 25.—France today said farewell to the unknown American soldier going home for state burial at Arlington among the nation’s heroes. tolled a requiem as his train rolled slowly into the yards. Flags dropped to half mast. Thousands of pzople thronged the long mole and the ng)ints of vantage to say good-bye to him. YRt A S 02 Aona, Wfiw 6 wiled A o oan thaw ZWMWWQ?M of Quby. - Grtissins’ P i A%t omds G, ARty oonds | SESSION OPENS TODAY ad in painting, assur- | sed away The church bells | By Charles Sughroe! © Westerm Newspsper Union fucpil ANTA. W fuil of Lotte of, amd the SHudaow uwen by 4 | | SENATE ADOPTS NORMAL . | * INCOME TAX SECTION (By tnitea Press) Washington, Ogt. 25.—Without a | record vote the senate adopted the |normal income tax section of the pending compromised tax bill. The present rates of four ‘per cent in incomes of $4,000 and eight per| cent on incomes over $4,000 will con- | | tinue under the section. |GRAIN GROWERS, INC., SIGN UP 5,000 IN NORTH DAKOTA Fargo, N. D., Oct. 25.—The U. S.! | Grain Growers, Inc., has signed 5,000 | |tarmers in the state, according to | U. L. Burdick, director. The work is to continue until at least a majority |are signed, Mr. Burdick said, pre- i dicting the Grain Growers would be a “going concern” in 1922, | | CARR LAKE CIRCUS CALLED 1 OFF BECAUSE OF EPIDEMIC | The circus, which was to be held | at the Carr Lake school on Friday of | | this week, has been postponed on ac- | | count of the prevalency of diphther-| lia in the community. A number of | cases- have been reported and quar-, |antine regulations imposed, and fm"‘ | this reason it .was not considered | | wise to hold the enterfainment. * METHODIST MEN’S CLASS | ENTERTAIN AT BANQUET Thirty members of the Men’s class | of the Methodist church were enter- | tatined Saturday night by a banquet !at the Markham hotel. Dr. E. Rob Zaring, editor of the Nortwestern| | Christian Advocate of Chicago, was | guest of the class and gave a short | | address at the close of the banquet. | | . | CLEANLINESS IN OLD RUSSIA Passage in Novel Would Lead One to Infer It Was Nbt ‘Considercd Important. | L | The quotation in the Companion from a publication of 1640 urging that “every day one should take pains to wash one’s Tands, and.one wash one’s face almiost as often,” r minds a contributor of a pas Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.”” T which follows the fortunes of Rostov, pictures the way in wi ladies of his family- prepared in 1809 for a ball given “by a grandee-of Cath- erine’s time.” “It was” writes Tolstoy, “the first at ball that Nutasha had ever at- tended. o'clock that morning and had been all long in a state of the wildest ¢ 1l bustle. - All her energ est morning had been pended in the effort to have herself, Sonya and her mamma ¢ressed to per- countess her Soi themselves . The countess was to wear a k red velvet gown; the two girls te crepe gowns with pink silk over- skirts and roses in their corsages; their hair was to be arranged a la greeque, : "I'he most important part bad al- been done; their feet, their their arms, their necks and | hed, perfumed ordinary care. and Jthe entirely to fection, uiy ru i ekings and white Their tollets were almo: so was the countess.” The reader infers that their feet were included in the comprehensive w on _account of the open- work stockings. And he is inclined | to ask, if the tremendous preparation | for such a ball caused only that much washing, how much did they wash day by day?—Youil’s Companion. Pluturch Is “Safe” It must be a relief to Plutarch, wherever he may “be, to know that, quite apart from hearsay and anecdote, many of the documents he used have been lost beyond recovery, so that he can no longer be:checked up at all points by the, scientific historians of the present age—~Wilbur Cross in the Yale Review, Remarkable Cacti. The 'newest alhievement of Bur- Lank, the plant wizard, is the produc- tion of cacti that bear fruits beautiful 10 the eye and with flavors resembling those of peaches, muskmelons, pine- apples, ete., yet sufliciently unlike, to render them appetizing noyelties, Tfloy are very sweet, containing from 12 to 16 per cent of sugar. These fruits may be eaten fresh or put up as sweet- ' meats. They are of various colors and their juices, particularly of the ved ones (which are of brilliant hues) are | utllizable for coloring ices, jellies and candies,—Philadelphia Ledger., | POSCiAY She had got up at eight [I= SOVIET RUSSIA REALLY ENFORCES PROHIBITION By John Graudenz Moscow. (By Mail).—Soviet Rus- sia has at least solved the question | of prohibition. Only those who know what, the vodka meant to the Rus- sian population can imagine what the apparent complete prohibition means. While formerly, especially on Sun- days and holiday afternoons, all Mos- |cow’ was virtually tottering on its | feet ds a redult of unlimited consump- tion of vodka or similar beverages, there was not a single individual seen by me during my whole stay in Moscow and other cities who looked as if he had taken a drink for years. They say that some wealthy—there are.still such individuals in Russia— sip in the depth of their cellars. Some people declare that the peasants are making some sort of vodka of their{ own for special occasions. This may be true, but,it is the exception. Recently the Soviet government BETTER DEAD | Life is a burden when the body is racked with pain, Everything s worries and the victim becomes despondent and downhearted. Te bring back the sunshine take GOLD MEDAL “The national remedy of Holland for over 200 years; it is an enemy of all pains re- sulting from kidney, liver and uric acid troubles. All druggists, three sizes. | Lock for the name Gold Medal on svery hox and accent no imitation unable to go without. | i ==3 has permitted the sale of beverages |heard him swear in Polish and found containing 14 per cent alchohol, es-|out he had a good friend at the pecially wine. This is a concession to | Polish delegation. foreigners, who, Russia assumes, are Edmonton, Alberta.—The depart-- The day of my departure from |ment of agriculture has gdecided to Moscow to civilized Europe I got a|aid breeders in Alberta in sending a shock when I saw a man tottering | livestock exhibit to the Chicago In- across the Smolensky market, plainly | ternational Live Stock Exposition in drunk. I was relieved greatly when 1 |December. AUTOMOBILE OWNERS We have a complete line of accessories for cold weather driving. Radiator Shutters Radiator Covers Hood Covars Winter Fluid Denatured ‘Alcohol, per gal 70c FREEZE-UPS ARE COSTLY Bring Your Car in and Have it Properly Protected. C.W. Jewett Co.,Inc. or? I : stsansnnesnsasis T Teves D VTN You oftzn refer to someone or some- thing “back home.” the time you speaki of it in the past Do Y‘ou‘Know-- That there have probably been many interesting changes since you left? That history—American history—is being made every day in your home town? ) i That the little girl-you used:to know was married last week. That the readhead Wwhohad-the desk in front of you has bee Do you know these things? honestly now, wouldn't you like to keep posted—just for ‘“‘auld lang syne?”’ There’s just one SURE way—- Subscribe Today for Your Home Town Paper i jisuaien But almost all tense. The question is: What do | | you know about your home town | ; today? | T [T k| Rt | | (T n elected may- And, AiNansiEsRRaRLRERRLRLSS mmmm Ll