Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 21, 1921, Page 2

TR £ Ahove—Frank 1L Forrest, silver medal winner; right—Mrs. Mildred Lothrop at her switchboard in liomer, At the top and below ure pictures of both sides of the gold medal awarded to her, out of 231,316 BHL Helephone em- ployees in the United States, one of them has been selected to rel e a ward constituting one given for medal and eash of the highest honors eve noteworthy public service in this country, "This telephone employee is Mrs. Mildred Lothrop, the “Central gixl” at ITomer, Nebr. On the night of 3 1920, he- tween 2:00 and 2 s, Mrs. Lothrop is cluimed to have saved the lives of at least 100 persons, A cloud- flobded the of Omuha flows Homer, | rushing villey through witer 1 the town, burst Creck, gending n which wall of subseriber phone up the valley, Mrs, at - her hoard, in a thin night dress, warning people. to flee forr their uniit the water put her She wa 1 Lothrop sat switeh- clad only lives, P. W. Oldfield. switchboard out of servi through water shoulder hizh to escape. | day she was one of those and sandwiehes The next who served hot ¢ to the flood refugees, The medal, whicl it Mrs. Lothrop will receive, is the high- est awarded by the Awerican Tele- phone & Telegraph Company to Bell is announced employees for exceeptional service in vhehalf of the publie, » perpetuate the ideals of telephone fce held by the Jate Theodore N. hix widow established the V i uml from which the medals s Vail, Memo for e annually it The awuards are made by ployees from in- formition ished by tele- phone employees., There are three stueh national medals. The first iy silver, with 0: the second is gold with and the third s Ahe..special - zold _medal, only one off rded cach y nade ng with it §1,000 the first fime that the They are Frank C. Wells. which ean be aw of gold and ¢ cash, This is meduals arve being awavded. I serviee are provided | furn- | 0} | MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1921 given thi vices performed dnring | them by a tele- | mai feen commirtee of em-| Thus is Mrs. Lothrop 1o ccive the highest speeinl medal, first one of them to he awarded. Nine of the sil- medals werd arded, one of coming (o another employee of the Northwest- orn Bell Tl phone Company Irrank L Forres wor ,u lnt\m-\ City, Nebr, ying Mr. Forrest’s performance veads as follows: “pror conrage and devotiontoduty rvice of an isolated apd threat- ! T fned cominun- ity. On June 1, 1920, at the risk of his life, he fought his way Tor miles through a flood- ol valley to reach ihe stricken fown of Tomer, where he re-establish- - Mrs. Kate Day. The ¢ 7 ed, hy tele- Harold LaBelle. ) ;0 commun- feation with the ou world, smmmoned aid and @ the work of restoration. Mrs. Lothvap, Homer rin recognition of ser-|ly hur 1920, 1 1 P ol Forvest, Dake City, are bath employees of the Northwestern Bell Pelephione Company, which with soven- other ved companies and (he Amerienn Telephone and Telegraph Company com- Dris what % known as the Bell System, Bight other’ sil- ver medals were awarded by the Ameriean Tele- wne and Tele- M Compe Theodore N, Medal Committee, as follows: SO Charles N. Cox. ha, Provide R L. who en- tered o brning honse, veseaed @ small child, gave aid and comfort to a fatal- preventin wreck of nan MEDAL FOR NOTEWORTHY PUBLIC SERVICE e tir «l Tarlin rl on, i who found o brok- en rail, climbed a wle and train wded pass ooming how Tarold LeBelle, heing out zzad locating line and reseued from freezing an injured and helpless companion, o I the darkness for over a Katherine intaining he rapid spreading of fiv John 1%, Mor: Wil serio treatment il life of one of the vietims, P.W. Oldfie Pouzlikeepsic, Y. who saved an eleciric light em ployee who had come incontact with o dangerous current. kL Pittshurgh, who saved t of another irrent, wd worman, L 6%, teher, a hes who hy o cirenit car Theodore N. Vail Award to Telephone Employee for Exceptional Devo-4 tion to Duty Goes to Mrs. Mildred Lothrop of Homer, Nebr. i Tes., stified the wvily enger Fred J. L. Bayha. for operators. Tooele, Utah, who, neariy all night in a trouble, sought ing him e over it rough swamp, and driving with him mtes. for med- I attention, AMiss Katherine | Lind, Mahafiey, | I, who, when the town of Ma- hafley by fire, hastened | to the threatened {elephone huild- | ing where she re- mained alone at theé switchboard, emergeney service despite around her, Lind. Y., who ntomobile accident, used S equipiment (o reseue (o persons, wnmoned aid and then by first aid | saved Wells, T, hie life line- 1l come in contact with rying a dangerous electric John E. Moran. FH K RK K KEKK K & KR KX tmned Sunday from a brief visit with * BAGLEY # the forme ister, FERE R FERTERE R NS ukxon(.n(u Il'nllco e irs. Ear Clg Mo = i artholomew ed in drs. Earl Martin was a Bemidji cjoarbrook for a few hours Friday. | Hbi\tl(:-,\ nn\ \“p:\‘«i::‘ T Clinton Holty of Hettinger, N. D., : Eadd e Ay ore Friday for a visit with returned Sunday from a short visit :\Ilatwl ";]:‘W riday for a visit wi with relatives at Bemidji. Dr. Clifford Aamodt and R. Pepple of Twin Valley spefit Saturday eve-: ning in Bagley. Mrs. Daraxa Olin of Marshfield, Wis., and My Minn., ave C. A. Covey Toster are si Mr. and Mrs. V. Foster of Mizpah, w with Mr. and Mrs. Mesdames Olin - and ers of Mr. Covey. Neil Ford and daugh- sser, \Beprneece of ylannah, Sask., Canada, left for their home Sunday after ‘spending a few days at the John Sommervold home. Mrs. O. G. Lee and son, Ralph, left for Crookston Wednesday wnere Ralph will again be confined to the | hospital. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Vance are the sparents of a baby girl born Wed- nesday. W. L. O'Neill an¢d Nels Nelson .Jr.,\spvnt Armistice day in Bemid J. J. Sundet of Crookston arrived here last week from his annual deer hunt. Mr. and Mrs. J. B, Tremblay re- turned last Saturday from Park Rap- ids where they hetped some Grand Rapids musicians play’ for a dance. Mr, and Mrs. C. A. Covey will leave Sunday for their winter home at California Mrs. W. A, Wiltse and sons re-! | Freder- ) Mrs. L. Mr . King of Duluth returned onday after a visit with her G. P. Jones. ¢ was a Bag- or Tuesday of this week. arrived here Robbins in E. Amadon of Bemidj join Monday to Fugene a hunting Dr. and Thompson are here Stretlein home. orney John ng at the J, Love-Sighing Crying Dying, Lying. “Love is the torch we carry into the Mammoth Cave of Life,” according to the “Maxims of a Modern Maid,” it takes the modern couple about 14 minutes to reach the Star Chamber, where torches are extinguished.— Nashville Tennes n A Bouquet of Thorns. Hub—The biscuits we had for sup- per last evening were just like those my dear old mother used to make. Wife—IHow kind of you to say so, dear. Hub—1 didn't notice their similavity at the time, but I recognized the old familiar nightmare that disturbed my slumber, i & And | | Take diss soft paste. and acts china, For celain have together with ta {0 put into excellently as China vement, olved gum arabie and stir | in enough plaster of pavis to make a This Is almost colorless | cement for very delicate china or por- the pi tied eavefully a saucepan of milk and the milk very gradually brought to the sducepan Loiling from fire an SIX minutes; to dry. point : reriove the i ]uL ('llil\.l ACCOUNTS SALE PROVES S UCCESSFUL The sale of accounts which we hold for successful collection proved more than we had anticipated. And, while we have disposed of a number of them, we still have a large list. This sale will continue. as long as there is a demand for the exchange. As soon, however, as we can prepare the list we shall pub! a few each day of the most difficult or readers to Northern Agency, National Bank building, nes in this space for the select from. Minnesota Collection toom No. 10, Northern Bemidji. —WATCH THIS SPACE— wais swept | Tt is then ready | SEEMINGLY UNHURT BY GERM | Old School Readers Must Have Har-| bored Myriads of Them, but “Kids” Did Not Suffer, i In those simple days when men now | elderly turned with boyish thumbs pages of ‘their: copies of McGuffey's First Reader microbes were known | only by lboratory workers; at least they had not begun to \\ml‘y boards | of education. Public school children | { @I not recetve textbooks free of | harge, to p: along, after fumlga-| ian, to new classes of pupils. just be- | ginning to spell out the mysteries and delights of McGuffey's First. Then | one copy of a textbook to a family served ead generation, unless the en- croachment of dog cars, missing pa hroken backs, compelled purchase of a i new copy for a Iate arrival in the family circle. Even then the oldest child in a family was likely to hide | away his battered copy unless )m;K mother had alveady hidden it muuugl the tre res only mothers keep, Text- | book re not then taken from school | daily for home s ‘ool hours | were longer, study hours, were all in the sehiool, other hours were all play. Lor for the performance of domestic ! duties modern youngsters know little of. Trom beginning to end of terms books slumbered in desks when not on parade, icrobes, germs of all evil eonditions, how they must have | peopled thousands of Metuffey’s Firsts, with niever fumizating storm | of to trouble them! Were children strot turdier then that they ve- | pulged atlacks of unseen inhabitants of texihook: nor knowing that the enemy was there, did they and thelr | achers thus earn the bliss of ig- norance—New York Herald, | | i sorts and Chinese Widows Seldom Marry. ln China the rem of widows rded s an | v, and in thy families is seldom practiced, the poorer classes nec Is o widow to seek ane we bui anong sity often cor other bread Daily Thought. | A theught is often original. though | | you have uttered it a’hundred times. | “1tomes. Walls 15 Feet Thick. | | The walls of the keep of the Tower | | ol London are 15 feet thick. SCARCELY KNOWS | SHE HAS NERVES ‘Almost a Wreck a Short Time - Ago, Minneapolis Woman | Is Now Picture of Health | | “I began taking Tanlac after it u--‘ istored my father’s health, and now I‘ 1 believe |L has given me ‘l new lease | fon life,” said Mrs. F. Igler, 1020 183 A\«enuu, N. , Minneapolis, | [ Minn. “I was :ufl'cring from a nervous | breakdown,” she said, “and was n]--‘ rmost a wreck. My nerves were sim-! ply shattered and my whole system |seemed to be disordered. I was sub-| {ject to such bursting, throbbing head» aches 1 could hardly stand it. 1 fell! off in weight and became awfully | ‘i\\'m\k and run down. During the d:\y,! while trying to do my housework, I would simply give out and have to lie| idown. I frequently had weak, dizzy spells and felt just like I was gomz:m to faint. | “Well, Tanlac just seemed to suit | my case exactly, for I began to im- | prove right away, and it certainly did | ‘mdke me feel happy. My appetite |returned and I hardly know I have ‘:uch things as nerves now. In fact, I am in perfect health. I have even| ined in weight, and feel so well and | s that . the housework doesn’t tire me one bit. My advice to any- one troubled like T was is to give Tan- lac,a trial.” Tanlac is sold in Bemidji by the City Drug Store, and leading drug- |gists everywhere.—Advertisement. m Pleasant Greeting | N, Thoughtful . Remembrance Good Wishes All are exxpressed in a | | Breeting m ] | m | @acd The most elaborate gift could :mean no more. inal and beautifully printed designs, (thirty-five in all), awaits your selection now. Why not avoid the confusion and crowding of later days? PIONEER STATIONERY HOUSE Next Door to Boardman’s % An unusual variety of orig- Taste is a matter of tobacco quality We state it as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chester- field are of finer quality (and hence of better taste) than in any other cigarette at the price. Liége«t & Myers Tobacco Co. Chesterfield CIGARETTES of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos—blended THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND APPETIZING Bemidji Creamery ORDER FROM YOUR DEALER PURE BUTTER MADE BY- .PHONE 143 from Twin Cities via the FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER CHIEFBRAND BUTTER in less than 3 days! Daily service the year ‘round Fastest and most luxurious ‘train to Southern California. All-Puliman. Exclusively first class. Through sleeper leaves Minneapolis via North ‘Western Line every day the year 'round at 6:15 P. M., St. Paul 6:55 P. M., and goes on the LOS ANGELES LIMITED next. morning at Omaha. The CONTINENTAL LIMITED a fine train with standard and tourist sleepers leaves Omaha 1:20 A. M. (sleeper ready 10 p. m.) Convenient ‘Twin Cities. 7 how. the Rockies and Salt Lake City. us help plan your trip. E. H. Hawley, Gen'l Agent, U. P. S hone Main 945! For _information, ask your Local Ticket Amt, or 618 Metropolitan Llfe Eldxmlli S.Ths!rd t.mnnnv,.b : connections at Omaha with morning trains from Go and take the family or send the family, any- On the way see beautiful Weber Canyon, | Umonl’aclflc System Write for illustrated booklet “*California Calls You™ and let §= ] ] [ 1 S r———— i 5 R ——— o —