Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 15, 1921, Page 6

Umited . {Laugh With Us— Not At Us— Oh, Say Can You Believe? Have you heard the 'story abput the deer hunter who-drove many miles in his Ford to hunt big game, and after arriving at his favorite stomp- ing grounds and waiting for hours to. get & good shot at a deer; had .hx,s , shot spoiled by another deer getting ‘ in between the target and the rifle? —Neither Have We— + Webster Is Safe It is. rumored that there is a move- ment on foot to have the word STILL and the illustration accompanying it stricken from' the modern diction- aries. There are several other words in the good old book which if elim- ated might make it even drier read- ing. —If That’s Possible— The Old Ballad Judging from the proposals al- ready made at the Washington con- ference on limitation of armaments, it may be true that the old ballad, “I Didn’t Raise-My Boy to Be a Sol- dier,” may become popular again.” —If Set to Jazz— In the Rough “Woman Golfer Drops Dead Play- ing Game With Husband,” says a headline in. The Pioneer. The article tells how she dropped dead while golfiing Sunday. Evidently the ninth fh0le was in the graveyard, and she made it in one. z —But Didn’t Know It— Too Much at First Winnipeg university women are to present a pageant “A - Centurry of Dress.” We imagine that along to- ward the close of the century the ac- tresses will look as if they were run- ning short of goods. —Or Short Goods— The 9\|iet Sector The father ‘f“fourteen children, speaking proudly of his offspring, tells us that it is so quiet at his house that you can hear a pin drop. Maybe he means a rolling pin, if dropped from some distance above. —Aint We Got Fun?— The Man Hunt “Husbands are harder to find than rever,” writes an English clergyman. That’s nothing. They are pretty hard to find over here sometimes, especially right after they .get their pay check. —And a Few Statements— The Silent Alarm Not that it makes any great differ- ence, but the genius who invents an alarm clock that won’t ring is going to make a whale of a lot of friends in thgs country. At the same time, he might also put a lot of men out of work, —Aint Tt a Fact?— Oh, Corsets Dearborn Independent: Steel cox- sets, claimed to be bullet-proof, are being tested in New York city’s police «department. The corsets will be worn regularly by men agsigned to danger- ous du_ty‘. —To Keep Them in Shape— PLAN PROPASEDBY U, §, ACCEPTED BY POWERS (Continued From Page 1) of land armaments must come before the conference soon. “When the time comes, France will accept your ap- peal,” he said. (By Unitpd. Press) ‘Washington, Nov. 15.—Japan ac- cepts in principle the American plan for limitation of armament, Amhas- sador Baron Kato, head of the em- pire of Japan's navy declared before the arms conference today. His state. ment, following the officjal declara- tion ‘of Great Britain, was that the proposals of the United States would be accepted. Kato brought the great crowd to its feet when he declared thal Japan }s ready for sweeping reductions in its navy. “L am syeaking simply and frank- 1y snid-Kato. “A few modifications relating "to replacement, .of certain of ‘the grester ships will he suggested for' the: consideration of naval .ex- perts,” he said. Japan never has.and does not now rdesire # NAVY: equal to the United States or England, but wants only .the armaments essential to defense.”’ he said, The speech was _ . applauded to an echo. f i LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER RFEI-‘Ungl gMSkO‘ENCY Cl 'argo; Nu D., Nov, 16.—Patroiis of the Union ngh%%fikgi‘ and Power compapy are receiving refunds today on emgrgency charges added for ten - months after September, 1920. These charges were held illegal in distriet | court. R FOR SALE-—Have rented. my store and must sell my second-hand stock by. Friday, Nov. 18. Now is your chance. . Second-hand Store, Ny- more. 8t11-17 ‘WANTED—Young' man with book- " keeping experience, also to wait on {rade, at Gill Bros. . 2t11-16 MARKETS POTATO MARKET Chicago, Nov. 15.—Potato market steaz);g{secciyts 97, cars. Total U. S. shipments 624 cars. Wisconsin whites, bulk, $1.85 £o' $2.05; sacked $1.75 to . $2;. Minnesota whites, sacked, $1.75 to $1.95; bulky $1.85 to $2; Michigan whites, bulk, $1.90 to $2.10; Minnesota and North Dakota Red River Ohios, $1.50 to $1.70; South Dakota Early Ohios, &1 to $1.35. FRENCH MOURNING ‘HIGH ¥ PRICES; SEE NO. RELIEF (Continued From Page 1) consequent restoration of her pre:- war producing capacity. ° Until both. these conditions are at- tained, living in Fruscg wx':l continue high, agcoraing to, Paisant. . g}’hnisam. expfifned that owing to the facy that Erance is now obuiged to buy eréremely heavy in foreign mar- her merchants are obliged to regu- late their tail figures to cover the Josses due to the depreciated value of the franc. 3 “france buys large quantities of wheat in South America and the Unit- ed States. She buys cotton and linen from America and England, and hides. for leather goods from Argentine, large proportion of her manufacture. articles now. come from foreign' fac- tories and. will continue until' she has had time to get all her own fac- tories workipg once moype,”. -7, Paisant also complained that Amer- ican exporters overcharged Frencin buyers in many instances. ALTOONA FARMER RAISES SUNFLOWERS FOR SILAGE (By. United Press) Calgary, Alberta, Nov. 15.—C. E. Phomas, a farmer of Lloydminster, Alberta, has loaded into his silo 234 wagonloads of sunflowers harvested on 14 acres. He kept a careful record of cost and estimated that hjs winter. feed has been put up at an average expenditure of $2 a ‘ton. Up to two) years ago, sunflowers were regarded REMEMBER WHEN \ SHowes LICE " AND SOAKED MOV GOOD 2 REMEMBER WHEN | DUG UP YTHAX: BABN PHIYO OF YO0 DON'T DESPAIR OF DULL BOY 'Not Infrequently, ' Backwardness ‘Youth is Followed by Brilliancy In_Manhood. in An ex-headmaster of 25 years' ex- | perience has confessed that he was anything but a model boy at school He i3 not exceptional. Some boys who haye no. lqc)g of ‘brains have not the “examination mind,” and in gome the intelligence is too vivaclous'and origingl to be interested in routine work. There are boys'who are réally dull and ‘Wi ‘never he anything el but there are also boys who are mere- Iy unconventional’ and boys ‘who are apparently dull only because they are slow. Human belngs are like plants. It [’ N ~ Benny Leonard, the is ‘not always the tree which grows and fruits the quickest that gives the kets, particularly the United States,| as worthless weeds in Western Gana- da. The experimental .farms of the dominjon government. established their value -as a fodder,crop.- They are now popular among farmers all over the prairie provinces. o] CATHOLIC WOMEN'S COUNCIL MEETING AT| MINNEAPOLIS i (By . United Press) Minneapolis, Nov. 15.—A mass at the Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary mark- ed/the opening today: of the third an- 1uial conference ‘of the Minnesota division of the National ' Catholic Women’s Council. They will be in A reception is scheduled in the ball Toom: for tonight when Archbishop Dowling will be presented. Mrs. W, J. 0'Toole is president of the council. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD " FOR ROSS INFANT MONDAY The ’‘nine-month-old daughter cof William. Ross. of Nymore died of diphtherig. Monday morning. Inter- ment was; made in’ Greenwood cemc- tery Monday afternoon under the diregtion of H. N. McKee. Rev. Frenk ‘of the Trinity Lutheran church offi- ciated. A Cinch. “If a banana costs three cents,” said the teacher, “what will a dozen cost.” Willie hesitated, then gave'it up. “Well, do you suppose you could do the sum if we were to play at keeping store?'! W Willie thought that he could and consepted to enter the make-believe market and address the storekeeper:. today?” v o “Some fine one&ng 1] pléce,” was the repl S4Bl take a dozeé) sald ' Willle, digging 1 fmagloary cash. “Al that be2” - please,” ~ much'll The White Plague, Statisties show that-tuberculosis in the United States is the cayse of 10 per cent’of all deaths, and between the-ages of fitteen to fifty Is the cause 150,000 people die annually in the Unlted States from: this. disease, and the, majority ave.in the prime of life, and 1t i$ also stated that at least 90, i per: eent of these lives, conld be saved if the ‘dlsease were diagnosed early, and the proper treatment carried out. | =The Thrift Magazine. . . session two days at the Curtis hotel. | “Have you got any good bananas | cket for || of 80 peér cemt of all deaths. That best crop in the end. The brilliant boy does not always:fulfill the expec- tations of his friends, while the boy who ' was supposed to be dull occa- slopally surprises’ everybody -in after life because his mind was of the sort which takes a long time to mature, No hard-and-fast rulé’ can be laid down. But, as Dr." Chalnjers Mitchell has pointed ‘out, it 1s a general rule in nature that the lenger the perlod of youth the greater is the intelligence of the adult.—London Daily Mall EABLY. NEW. YOQRK HISTORY Part of Manhattan Known as the Bat- tery Was Once Just What the Name Implied. That part of Manhattan known as the Battery was originally what Its name fimplied. ‘It extended from Whitehall and Water streets to Green- wich street and: bristled with guns. Where the eleyated structure now Is was water, Three hundred feet off shore stood the building now nsed for the Aquarium.. - It was a fort, and be- cume ‘known' as Castle Clinton. With Fort Lafayette and Castle Willlams it constituted a_part of the defense of New York. '~ . ceded. to. the Federal y 8 n 1822 a8 General vette visited the country more than 40, years after the close of the Revolution. 'The fort had then been, roofed. over, and it had been rechristened Castle garden and was n place of amusement. Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale,” made her New York ‘debut in it. The ‘work in filling In the ground from the old Battery to what is now the sea wall, d the making of the park, - continyed - and- in 1853 it be- || came the immigrant station for ‘the reception of ‘future ‘Americans, 2 ‘‘Walk on Live toals. ‘"YWhen a’ Tamil Hindu recovers from a serlous {Jiess he sometimes makes a vow to.do something entalling dis- comfort and pain to Rimself as a Sort of manifestation of gratitude combined with 'self-sacrifice’ and self-abasement, These vows take different forms, such as ‘rolling over and over on a hard metafled road, lashing himself or helng lashed on the back or wearing a hair shirt, but walking over live coals is the means most commonly. chosen by the devotee, this belng very often ac- companied by other “forms of self: torture. A Marked Difference. Tt's 50 ‘hard ‘to ‘spread & good idea through a community, and so easy to ppread measles, mumps, smallpox, ehicken-p -Atchlson Globe, e Good. Adylus .‘ Germs, says, the. Dniteq “States public health service, nrenmnyfi:‘ band to mouth affalr. Bt ! ' ACCOUNTS FOR SALE We have a large list of accounts in and near Bemidji, that we will’ offer for sale at this office at a big discount. These accounts are good and can be collected, but we have orders’ to' close them out so that the books may be eclosed. Call in and see us—it may'be that you can’ use “some of 'them 'as ‘an offset. Northern - Minnesota - Collection Agency, Room No, 10, Northern National Bank building, Bebidji. —WATCH THIS SPACE— DEVILY REMEMBER WHEN T\ giranG 1N A WASHBOWL. I MOUR BIRTHOAN ASENY MOU: A1 OVERTOWN | ; ST, AND RAM 1Y 1N . SCHEDULED FOR N. Y. * By Henry L. Farrell (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York,” Nov. 15.—When the ‘Walker boxing bill was passed, New Yorkers set back and dreamed of a championship bout every week. . Tex Rickard did his best to make the dreams: come true: last winter, ‘but the prospects are not so good-as, the new season approaches. ‘Rickard and. other promoters have a.double difficulty in arranging cham- pionship. bouts. In some divisions there are 'nd suitable opponents for the cnampions and in ‘other classes where lent is more plentiful; the titleholders refuse to' fight to a de- ision. lightweight king, has stated emphatically that he will not-box in New York because of the . general incompetence of the judges appointed by the boxing com- mission to weigh' the merits of the boxers. y . Leonard is not the only one to criti cize the .poor work of the offici: Boxers of all divisions and. the fans have ‘observed- that some glaring in- Jjustices have'been done by the judg- ing. There has been no charge of ‘‘crooked work,” The boxers complaifi merely that the judges are doing bad work. because they. don’t know better. . Jack Dempsey'is willing 'to put his title atstake, but ther 1o one. in the. field ‘to give thE ‘heavyweight champion 4 battle, J¢ i e T That is no dig at the judges, how- ever, because the’ middleweight cham- pion . will \not get into any ring for a decision fight. Jack Britton is willing to fight in New York, but there are no welterweights threatening him unless it might be Benny Leonard, who .is rapidly reaching his poundage. Inci Youll get ReE. anteed, by 30 y o tiltions of Kondon's VOICES TRAINED I am now ready to take a few pupils in vaice development. I studied voice culture under<one of the ablest teachers in the United States, Mrs. Stacey Williams of Chicago, who was a pupil of Wil- liam Shakespeare of London, Eng- land. - Call, phones 142 or 458 for BODY COMPANY < :Manufacturers of Commercial Truck Bodies Factory: ‘East Bemidji Phone 13-F-2 | General Office: 418-22 Belt, i " Phone 970 1 Minn. —_——————————————— | : T AT CHRISTMAS . TIME Z Your “friends’ can buy-f anything you can. | give them — ex= | cept: your photo- graph. HAKKERUP “STUDIO with a dentally, the Britton-Leonard bout seems a sure thing before the winter is over. X Johnny Kilbane is willing to risk his title in the Garden, but he wants so much money for the risk that even Rickard can’t meet his terms. The bantamweights are about\the f somewhere B pipe and only ones willing to get in and listen to the decisions but they are having & lot of fun passing the title around among each other. ’lflley'figptg, per- haps that if they go.in the ring often enough their opponent will get a bad ! decision and’ they. will get -a good Start fresh‘all over .again at the beginning! 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What P. A, hands'you in a pipe it will duplicate in a RINEE r Gee—but you’ll have a lot of fun rolling ’em with Prince Albert; and, it’s a cinch because P. A, is crimp cut and stays put! the national joy smoke g REPAIRING - ] Haye you neglécted to . bring, your car in and 1: have that leaky radia- | tor' fixed? i If it is in good condi: tion, don’t let it freeze. ‘We have radiator shut- L ters, hood and radiator covers; winter fluid an‘dv denatured . alcohol. 2 Denatured Alcohol 70c pér Gallon ' AUTOMOBILE STORAGE Have you made reserva- tion for your car this winter in a clean, steam- heated garage. If you have not, you had‘ bétter phone us or call i as space is going fast. $5.00—$10.00—$15.00 PER MONTH g —