Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 9, 1921, Page 15

! =S TE——— —— FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1921 o THE BEMIDJT DAILY PIONEER " PAGE SEVEN Gerserserrsrrrsres ) IMPROVED | ROADS | TRAFFIC CENSUS FOR ROADS Motorists on Connecticut-Massachu- setts State Line Contribute Much Information, (Prepared by the Unlted States Departs ment of Agriculture.) Thirty thousand motorists whe were stopped on the Springtield-Hartford rond at the Connecticut-Massachu- setts state line have contributed uable information to the bureau of ! public roads, United States Depar ment of Agriculture, which, when ana- | ‘Iyzed, will assist the department to | determine more rational methods of | yond design to meet varying traffie needs. The motorists were counted in t first traffic census to give coniplete in- formation ever undertaken’'by the bu- reau. The work was dane in co-oper- ation with state highway departments of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and will be duplicated in the near future elsewhere. It was taken between Au- gust 16 and 29, covered 146 day hours and 26 night hours, and resulted in aceurate records concerning 30,851 ve- | hicles. For passenger cars this infor- matlon covers type, make, number of | passengers, time, direction,” starting ' point and destination, The state au- thoritles recorded, in addition, license mumbers and engine information. The Building Federal-Aid Roads—Steam Roller Does Rapid Work. work was -handled so expeditiously that the average stop lasted omly 15 scconds. Trucks were stopped somewhat long- er—100 seconds for. south-bound and 47 seconds for north-bound vehicles being the average, Truck drivers were asked to give, in addition to the information obtained in the case of senger cars, capacity, driver’s estimate of length and frequency of 1rip, kinds of loads carried, location of ' consignor and consignee. Roadside scales specially placed, took required weight duta, and observers ascer- tained the speed of trucks. ¢ Motorcyeles and horse-drawn vehl- cles also were included in the cen- sus. The data thus obtained are be- ing analyzed. and will be used, in con- nection with information obialned from experiments on impact of trucks and effect of impact on pavement, to design better roads. 'GOOD ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE ‘Projects Costing an Aggregate of $7,- 693,778 Were .Approved During Month of July. Road projects in 18 states, totaling more than 265 miles and costing an aggregate of $7,098,778, or an average of over $20,000 per mile, were ap- proved during July by the bureau of public roads, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, for federal aid, according to the bureau's publication, “Public RRoads,” just off the press. The | ‘fotal federal aid approved for these ‘projects is placed at §3,023.152, the re- mainder of the cost being borne by the states. U Al told, there were 38 such proj- cels approved during the month. New York led with 20, Pennsylvania came second with seven, and Kentucky and ‘South Carolina tied for third with five projects each. Four Texas projects were approved ; New Mexico, Washing- ton and Wisconsin had two each, and Arizons, Arkansas, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia each had one project approved during the month. Wide variation was shown in the character of materials to be used in building the approved roads, but con- crete, Dituminous macadam and gravel were the chief materials. i | Wild Lands Open to Travel. ' WWith the recent opening of the Wind Tiver extension of the Rocky Moun- tain highway, it Is said the last of the really wild lands of the United States are available to automobile travel. 'The total distance from Den- ver to the Yellowstone National park over the route is 589 miles. Date of Oiling Announced. { In Pennsylvania roads on which oil- | ing work is to be done are announced | each week by the state highway de- vartment. RO Bupscrive fur Its saiy Ploneer FISH LIKE BOA CONSTRIGTOHI Ocean Denizen Has Remarkable| Method of Securing and Consum- ing Unfortunate Victims. “Chere I8 a slngular cordlike creature; of xhe sea called the nemertes borlassl, sometixes twenty or thirty feet long,| which entwines and swallows its prey| after the munner of a boa constrictor, | Down among the seawbed stems and| pointed rocks it may be seen, a long, black, tangled string. It presents a tough, slippery Indin rubberlike ap- pearance. A sew-string it is, but not| a weed. It 'is a living lasso, cupnuwi of consuting the prey inclosed wmllnl its treacherous folds. Taken from the water, this sea- worm hangs helpless and motionless, 4 mere string acrvoss the hand. cannot tell wheve it begins or ends. It looks like a strip of dead seaweed, or even a tarred string. Such, apparent. Iy, is the lmnpression it makes on the| little fish that plays over it, until at! last it touches what is too surely a hedd. Tm an Instant a bell-shaped sucker mouth has fastened to the fish’s side. In another Instant. from one lip, & concave double proboscis, just like a tapir's has clasped the fish Jjust as a firm finger would. And now begins the struggle, but In vain. At last the victim is tired, and slowly, yet desterously, its blind assailant s feeling and shifting along the fish's side until one end is reached. Then the black lips expand, and slowly and surely the curved finger begins pack- ing the fish end foremost down the gullet, FAITHFUL TO ABSENT SPOUSE Penelope’s Beautiful Fidelity to Her Warrior Husband !mmortalized In Deathless Verse. The classic example of wifely fidel- ity is Penelope, beautiful Greek wife ot Ulysses, conqueror of Troy. For ! 20 years, while her husband was away &t the Trojan war, Penelope remained faith{ul to him, in spite of frequent reports of his death and the importuni- ties of her many suitors. The, story of how Penelope outwitted these ! scheming lovers has been handed down to us by no less a chronicler than the great Homer, who ijmmortalized her deeds in “The Odyssey.” Penelope, who was the daughter of Tearius, also a famous Greek, was sought in marriage by scores of the eligible youths of her day. Unable to choose among them herself, she asked her father to decide upon a son-in- law, Icarius determined that the fleetest of foot among the suitors should win his daughter’s hand, and instituted & foot race ~ in which Ulysses, the Ithacan, was victorious. ‘When Ulysses was called to the slege of Troy, it was 20 years before he returned. Before he settled down to enjoy his long-deferred domestic happiness, however, Homer tells us, he Eilled all the men who had basely taken advantage of his absence. Dancing Bird Trio. A species of the “lap-wing” found in Argentine have a dance in which the birds always take part. It Is in- dulged in every day at intervals ell the year round. So fond of it are they that before and during the breeding season, when the birds are distributed in pairs all over the plains, one bird may frequently leave his mate at home and fly away to visit another pair in the neighborhood. Those two, receive him with manifest pleasure and, run- ning to him, place themselves behind htm, where they stand abreast with their plumage puffed out. Then with the pair uttering loud, rythmlcal drom- ming notes the leader uttering loud single measuréd notos they begin a rapld march, stepping in time to the music. When the march is ended the leader usually lifts his wings and holds them erect, stiil emitting loud i notes, and the two birds behind, still standing abreast with slightly opened wings and puffed-out feathers, lower their heads until the tips of their beaks tauch the ground and at the same time sink their voices until the drumming sound dies to whisper. The performance is then over. Stumped the Manager. It 18 a familiar fact that every now and then some admirer of “Lohen- grin” writes a letter of appreciation to Richard Wagner, or that somebody insists that King Edward VII is still among the living. Bellevers of this type, however, rarely go back to the pre-Christian ‘era, as some did re- cently in Dublin at a performance of one of Sophocles’ tragedles. So Im- pressed were the Irish spectators by the play that at the last curtain they called for the author. Iuformed by the manager that he had been dead for over 2,000 years, a wag from the gallery exclaimed: “Well, then, show us his mummy, for he’s a good one.” —~—XNew York Evening Post. Flies Had Choked Light. In England, one winter, an untended light situated twenty-nine miles from the mainland went out and a party of engineers were sent to investigate. They entered the “cage” wherein the light was housed and found the floor anktle-deep In dead flies. Myriads of ‘them had risen ahove the level of the purner and dropped into the air and iga:t passages, ultimately choking off the light. The investigators must have ithought they had stumbled upon the 'secret of where flies go in the winter lflnel This incident seems to point to ithe fact that flies obey some sort of imigratory instinet, or are attracted by ughr..-:‘.‘dumbul Dlsggs_c_h. o subscribe for Tne Daily Plonser. = ()lm\ NBMMANNMUNIMANNA UNIUNY Fairy Powder Puff [PPSR Little celluloid kewpies which may | be bought everywhere have been used in many ingenious ways for Christ- mas gifts, Here is one dressed up like a fairy bride with ruffles of chiffon bound with narrow satin ribbon for a skirt and her head adorned with a braid wreath-gnd veil. She stands in a small bag stuffed with cotton and gathered about her feet and it has 'a cloth powder puff sewed to it that rests in a glass bowk ETEE SRS R LR RS RE A * GOODLAND * [FEE TSR R R R LR RN Kitichi-Goodland Chistian Endeav- or meetings which. have been held Sunday evenings will be held at Kiti- chi only every Sunday at 11:30 a. m. This will continue through the winter months, as it will make it pos- sible for more to attend. Mr. and Mrs. John Bliss were Cass Lake visitors last week, Fred Theriault was a Cass Lake business caller Saturday. The Up and Go Sunday school class and Mr. Mahoney, teacher, held their Bible study at the Clark home Friday evening. All enjoyed a pleas- ant evening. Their next meeting will be held in the Kitichi school house so as to spend the latter part of the evening for practicing for the Christ- mas program. Missionary W. S. Cummings and Mr. Opsata were in the community Friday and Saturday. Henry Gregerson and daughters were Kitichi callers Sunday. The usual crowd from tended Sunday school and Christian Endeavor meetings at Kitichi Sunday. Dewey Bliss is busy clearing land on his new homestead. Mrs. Henrly Gregerson was brought home from St. Anthony’s hospital in Bemidji Tuesday. Woxd has been reccived here from Mrs. P. E. Miller, written December 1. It seems that Mrs. Mills is in a serious condition. As Mr. Mills said it would be impossible to tell just how she was at present and that he did not expect to be home before Tuesday. Every one hopes they will all be back among us soon. - J. C. Thorpe has returned here from Shevlin to do more work on the new school house. Mrs. W. A. Clark and daughter, Hattie, attended the Union Ladies’ here at-| | will meet with Mrs. C. E. December 15. 'Gile- and W. Z. Robinson. Each ga\.clxmawumw interesting talks. The Sunshine wom-| Aid at Mrs. Amy Mahoney Thurs-’ day. The ladies will meet before din- ner during the winter. Dinner will be served by the lady met with. They Wymore Bemidji Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Olson and chil- dren called at the J. H. Locke home Wednesday. Ed Woid, W. D. Lawrence, C. Lawrence and E. Wold transacted business in_Bemidji Tuesday. Fred Hensel and family. From here ke will go to his home at Goos Lhun- der, Minn. Mr. and He Won the Bet “I was skeptical of all medicine and doctors. A friend advised me to take Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy and as- sured me it had cured b ox bis stom- ach trouble. 1 didn’t take any stock in it and he bet me $50 that it would be equally successful in my case. He ,won the bet.” {1t is a sunple, harmless preparation hat removes the catarrhal mucus ;from the intestinal tract and allay. !the inflammation which causes prac- ieally all stomach, liver and intesti- nal ailments, including appendicitis. n transacted business in{One dose will convince or money re- arduy. |funded. At All Druggists.—Adv. Mrs. Tim Torger: | parents, Mr. und Mrs, L. beike irom Grand For [Ley intend to pass the winter he { Mr. and Mrs. H. A, Brown autoed The Waithe Leéague will meet | out from Turtle River Monday, spend- ¢ Emil Eickstadt home next Fri- | ing the day calling on friends in this December 9. ; township. It is understood that the Penning-| { P. P. Maltrude of Buena Vista ton and Oberst schools will give a | K ¥ ¥ KX« s R x & = * K K K K & :irémuacwd business in Bemidji Tuc: Christmas program at Pennington. [3 ay. The sehools all scem to be prac- TURTLE LAKE * ""Mrs. Samuel Deel called on Miss ing for Christmas. (4P e e x4 s aeedekk e Jennic Lawrence Monday. Jay Welis and William Clark were| en: {0 W. 0l busy cutting and sawing wood (hifl\'lslt(’d with relative Turt'e Ri week. | R. Richards of Cass Lake motored ' out from Cass Lake Saturday. ;:-;.mmm AR, i Jay Wells autoed to Bemidji last Tuesday. Don’t forget the Farmers club meets at Theodore Gregerson home at th day evening, Mrs. Jens Nelson of Buena Vis und triends in Mrs. Georga Lausche was a Ca Lake caller Saturday. Winter is coming slowly this year. Sleighing is not good here yet. Charles Lausche was a Cass Lake caller Saturday. | Mrs. Hughart spent the week end at her home in Bemidji. i The Up and Go class plan on cut-; ting logs Friday and Saturday, Dec- | ember 16 an 17 to be used for lum-| her for the chureh to be built by, the Union Ladies’ Aid, Mr. Hill was a Bemudji caller last| | Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Issensce are | the parents of a baby girl born on| Thanksgiving day. | John Houg is hauling hay to Kiti- | chi again this week, | r. Lydick and Mr. Moriff were! Cass Lake callers Friday. | R s Y * FROHN » LA AR R R RS R R R R RAE L] Eighty-two persons attended the! Equitable Farmers club and Women's | Sunshine club at the Nels Willett | home last Saturday. The Sunshine! club decided to fill baskets with food ! Christmas Thoughts For Men If you are looking for suggestions that will help you to decide what to get for him, you’ll find this store an ideal place to select something Practical. THIS 1S THE LOGICAL Slipper Store FOR MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN The last thing at nigilt gn_d the first thing in the morning they’ll wear these cozy Slip- getrs and filess tyt)u for giving them a gift which brings so much pleasure and comfort. a small cost. which they will send to some poort . g0 families in East Bemidji or Nymore| (44 99 Bemidji’s for Christmas. The club intends to| e Exclusive send these baskets to the families Shop through the, Salvation Army. Those | BELTRAMI AVE. that attended the club meetings from! N Bemidji were W. L. Bro B. M.} PHONE 45-W en served chicken pie, escalloped po-| = tatoes, pickles, sandwiches, ice cream, ! cake and coffee. | Mrs. I. E. Raymond intends to go to Bemidji Friday and visit with friends until Monday. % Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Hensel left for Alexandria last Tuesday morning where they will attend the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. William Schmidt next Wednesday. Mrs. Hen- sel and Mrs. Schmidt are sisters. H E. J. Swenson and famly were guests at the Gust Berg home last Sunday. i A large crowd enjoyed the musical program which was given by the W thers League at the Lutheran Trin- ity church last Sunday evening. 1 The Lutheran Ladies’ Aid will meet | at the home of Mrs. S. C. Smith next | Wednesday, December 14. ! Miss Myrtle Quanimen visited at | tdhe Charles Orhberg home last Sun- ay. Mr. and Mrs. Nels Willett were | Sunday afternoon gucsts at the Swan | Tell home. Fred Tischer arri son, N. D., to v ed from Hankin- t his sister, Mrs, SO LI LT TR T L LD YOUR FAVORITE DRINK GIFT SHOP - Most folks, especially women, find buy- ing for a man their most puzzling Christ- mas problem. But if they will come to this store with its splendid stock of bright, new merchandise—scores and seores of ar- ticles for Men’s Gifts—their problem will be easily and quickly solved. in cold weather should be hot soda or chocolate from our famous fountain. It will prove warming and pleasant- ly invigorating. It will prove equally agrceable after a brisk walk or a turn at skat- ing. In fact, it will be found good all the time. Try some today. EE | = i 302 2nd. St. HAVE YOU TRIED THE NEW ANDARIN CAFE CATERING TG THOSE WHO ENJOY FIRST-CLASS FOOD COCKED IN FIRST CLASS STYLE —Meals At All Hours— Bring your friends for a treat of Oriental Food, put up in the same style as you find in the larger city cafes. The Mandarin Cafe NECKWEAR Nifty and new; latest patterns and shades— SHIRTS HOSIERY That will win the Silk or Wool; instant approval at unusually low of any man— prices— $1.00 to $9.50 (Including Tax) 35¢ to $2.00 50c to 75¢ AND SO IT IS ALL OVER THE STORE Gift suggestions that make it easy and _desirable to come here and do your CHRISTMAS SHOPPING —WATCH OUR WINDOWS!— TGl T L YT VTPV TYTITUATTY T Frederick Hotel “IF IT COMES FROM GILL'S, IT MUST BE GOOD”