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-~ i i Twentleth Century LUmited Laugh With Us— Not At Us— s Well Marked An uplifter declares that men as well as women should wear a wedding ring. But what's the use of that? You can always tell a murn.cd man without looking to see if he is wear- ing a wedding ring. —Aint It a Fact?— Did Him a'Good Turn The highest form 'of gratitude has been shown by a New York man. He Jeft $100,000 in his will to the wo- man who several years before had re- fused to marry him. . 2 Probably he . was disappointed when the turndown was given him but a few years gave him a change of mind and at last he recognized the debt he owed her. i » i MARKETS POTATO MARKET i | Chicage, Dee. 19.~Potato market, steady; reccipts, 53 cars; total U. S. 1 7 s i& | —Women, Take Notice! | shipmeuts, 419 cars. Northern whites, | Prohibition Pays Something around $98,000 was taken in by the prohibition depart- ment of the state of North Dakota during. the month of November, that amount being for taxes and fines. And stifl there are people who say that prohibition doesn’t pay. About’ the only party whom it doesn’t pay is’the fellow who gets caught. —Then He Pays— A Hard Job Anyway Frequently now-a-ddys you hear a man say that he is trying to keep his head above water. What is he driving at? We saw a chap the other night that sure looked as if he had succeeded i’n keeping his head above water. . / Sure, and it’s a hard job, cithex way he means it, 2 —At the Present Price— Farm Finances In the olden days when a farmer brought a cow to the butcher he got the halter back. Now he doesn't even | get the halter. 5 And then he used to be able to bring a cow-hide to town, get a pair of shoes made out of it and regeive a nice, little nest egg besides, Now-| a-days they aren’t using much cow- hide for shoes. —It’s All Bull— A Limited Tongue If it is true that therc are no cuss words in the Japancse language, we would like to see how a Jap starts a Lizzie on a cold morning. It doesn’t | | | seem possible. ju 1} —Nor Even Probable— i Doing Isn’t Knowing How = | A writer states that nine-tenths! of the people in this country know how to drive an automobile. Evident- ly he haen’t studied the police court records very thoroughly during the recent years. - ~—FEducation Pays— i ar | . ! London.—A fox closely pursued in a Rhondda Valley hunt took refuge under’'a sofa in the drawing-room of a coal mine manager. Enthusiastic hounds followed through an open| door, wrecked the roem and killed | the fox. The occupant of the house | was presented with the brush, | LOCAL COLLEGE DEFEATS = | CASS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL (Continued; Fnom :Rage 1) passes under the basket, Romans at right forward played the floor fine and did some .nice passing, but was too closely guarded to scorc. Elliott and - Bergland played a strong de- fensive game, breaking up many Cass Lalce plays and making several nice long passes to a teani-mate under the | basket. 4 The Summary | Teachers College Cass Lake I{izhi 5 . Waldon | Koeneman .. Larson Bergland . Marshall Simons g. . Caswell Field Baskets—Riggs 5, Simons 4, Hfox&m 1. Free Throws—Riggs 8 out of 0. s . i Substitutions—Bergland for Horns, Elliot for Bergland, Horns for Berg- land, Bergland for Elliot. Referee—Greiner, Cass Lake high school. ADDITIONAL WANT-ADS P GRRAREL Jo a5 S50 X Y s § \FOR SALE—A new serge suit; never worn; size 38. Price $15. W. Ar- mitage, 508 Wood ave., Nymore. . R SR FOR RENT—Two modern furnished | rooms for light housekeeping. In- quire ad 621 Bemidji ave. Phone | 1t12-19 | argye, furnished, front | 983 W, FOR REN roorn, fullyz, modern. Also garage for rent. 418 America ave. T. Vatendahl. 2t12- FOR RENT-—Large, furnished, mod- ern frooim. 1023 Minnesota “ave. Phone 317R. 12-19tf FOR SALE—Two high-grade Hol-|S stein - cows, Will be fresh last of Dece_mhqr. J: M. Groshong. Be- midji, Minn., R. F. D. 4. 8t12-21 FOR SALE—Good piano. See me for price; J. Bisiar. Phone 834 y e 61224 I b {modern kilns for burning their pot- |'and_commended " tie mter | diets even better results in | tary-treasurer, also made his annual tin the forenoon, consisting of Harry { present. | on " potatoes, while Chapl | A resolution was sub: sacked, $1.60 to $1.80; Idaho russets, $2 to $2.10; Northern whites, bulk, $1.70 to $1.80. BUREAU OF STANDARDS Or _ten. years, or even for @ Ny these employments, how can-they be * eollected again: quickly. in ease some; nation, despite the conference—and’ everything else, starts ‘on. the war- . pifh? o |, Affects British Especially. “Preparedness for war must take into’ consideration not only men for. the fighting:Iine but men in the labor fleld. Great Britain’s unemployment . prob- Jem is a more difficult one to solve to- FGREENENT SO0 ON NAVAL PLANS THREE MAJOR PROPOSITIONS TO BE SETTLED BY CONFER- ENCE BEFORE VERY LONG. perhaps than that of any other nation except possibly: Russia. It is ‘perhaps A bl gk £ i natural, therefore, that Great Britain Statements by 'the British. Forecast ') . .yrought to. the attention.of the CHRISTMAS RECESS LIKELY | " AIDS POTTERY INDUSTRY One of the most ancient arts and industriés of America, the m:mufuc— iture of clay utensils by American Indians, has received the aid of cer- amic experts of the bureau of stand- ards of the department of ~omimerce. Down in Arizona and New Mexico, the ‘Indian s‘ill miakes his clay pots and other wares as he did years ago, but they find a’diFerent use. Lravel- ers and sightscers purchase them as spuvenirs. They hay stand rquh- et usage in being v orted to civil- ization’s front parlors than they did; when they hung over camp fires. | When burned in the primitive way, | by burying in a smouldering heap | of refuse, Indian. ceramic ‘ware is fragile. Through the Indian office | of the department of the interior,f the Indizns appealed to the burcau ! of standards to help them produce etter ‘ware. Ceramic engineers of the bureau.of stundards made burn- | ing tests of the clay used in the in- dian ware and récommniendéd that it be burned at a slightly higher tem- perature. ‘“The pottery is decorated by using a manganese ore and meth- ods were worked out by the bureau so that the higher burning tempera- | ture will not destroy the decoration: The Indians were also told how to o cobalt stains: for their work, and they were given plans for simple but t BELTRAMI FARM BUREAU HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING (Continued Frohi Page 1) Bemidyi, Langor, Shotley, Summit, Turtle Lake, Turtle River, Waskish, Lammers, Hines and Ten Lakes townships, / Y President Witting continued the work of the past year and spoke briefly of the feature h- ments, onc being the 4 nicmbership from 274 a year ago (o 21z at the present ume. He ¢acouw aged the formation of lo shown in better livos paign for hetter live ounty Agent D. € week then e farm bureau Vi and :xplaineq importance of getting the various ¢ to adopt a definite program cf | work for-the new year ‘and then practicing it._J." J. McCurdy, sécre- zeport, g g .. A program committee for the com-. ing year’s program was’ appointed Arnold “of Bemidji, Sam Burchard | of Blackduck and Peter Miibach of | Solway, to -draft: a program for the county. This program was presented in the affernoon and it was suggested that the comimttee be retained and work witlt the county agent in com- | pletiny; the program, after which it | will be subiitted to the various units | for considerution and adoption. S. B, Cleland, ‘assistant county agent header, University Farm, then addressed the meeting. Mr. Cleland gave a very interesting talk which proved very _instructive to. those Thomas Porte ' gave: ah short:talk spoke briefly on marketin, under the present freigh H fis tion 3d by the | Hines . wnit, in favor, 6f reduced D"elght rates on wood . | will be presented by the |egate to the state . migeting .next {monthand action on the subjedt will | !?e urged. : Sl BRIAND AND LLOYD GEORGE CONSIDER GENERAL PROBLEMS eab A | ./« By {United Dress) 1 London, - Dee, 19, (By Lloyd Al ilyn,-—v_mm v Briand and - Lloyd ! George in their first meeting on the | veparations situation'today discussed only general problems, it was learned. | everal questions which arose were Lhand_ed‘ovcr to Sir Robert Horn Zor la .detml_erl analysis. ‘The ‘conference | will be' resumed at 11 ‘o'clock to- i on this subject apd haye not been . |-between it and .the correspondents, | completed. The pedestal stood in the | effect? Ltion to answer’ today, and yet the lllue Which?: joing them particularly, | posed, ‘- ten-year navy building holi- | county del- | duy it mes Abrogation of Alliance With Japan (onferees the subject of the discharge —Chance of Renewed: Warfare :in { of thousands of battleship-yard work- Ireland Causes: Anxiety, ots, .and has suggested that some kind of a provision be made for the future of these men. i Under the proposed naval:reduction plan there can be replacements of bat- tleships as the older ships become ob- By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington.—It will not be long be- fore the three prinelpal naval prop: ositions before the great international conference are settled for good or il ‘Ilic. world soon will know in detall, which later is to follow the reports on the naval disarmament decisions, Just what disposition is to be made of submarines and’ of ~some of ‘the smaller but also deadly craft which now ply the séas. It seéms assured, from the general trend of things, that this submarine matter, now of some dispute hetween Great Britain, the United States apd France, will be ended, satisfactorlly in some kind of | A compromise. . ¥ By 1t is known that the naval officers of the United Sfates from the first haye been rather set In thelr opinions solete, but the replacements will rot :be many, nor ean they be made for some time to come, ' The United States has a latge number of ships now under construction, and it is proposed to serap. them, - This will-bring about an dition in certain lines of trade. This matter is glving someé concern to the officials of . all the governments here ‘represented. The serapping of the ships now un- der ‘construction is going to cost the United States government some money, a considerable sum probably. It is understood that, where contracts have -been -entered into and material has . been supplied, the - government must lve up: to, its contracts and. pay for some work which has not. been done, and:-alge: for some material which cannot ‘be: used for ‘any other purpose. than' that for. which it was in- willing -that this _country should yield to the British view that long-ranging sabmarjnes should ‘he. abolished. It scems likely that a compromise which shall .be . satisfactory ' to the naval officers of .nll services finally will be reached. y tended, & Following the adjustment of sub-| It Is not believed that the scrapping marive matters, there will be a-report of the American ships will affect ma- on . the. naval loliday of ten years' terially: the personnel of the navy duratlon, although it Is possible. this forces. Tt report may be delayed for some time. | Grant Memorial Nearly Completed.. The conferees, it ‘1s understood, \v@sll] On April 2‘. o mdxt ye;“ oceuts the one hundredth’ anniversary of the to have a real Christmas recess. The British ave not accustomed to working birth of Gen, Ulysses Simpson Grant. that day..it is probable the at’ Yule-tide, and they do not like the On 1ded any more when in America than - memorial ‘to the ' general in the g:"; g" i’ lflngllnml, tb“t,"'it co;n-ie n:];_ Botanical Garden grouuds in Washing- h’)‘;;“l m;‘: :"’t't ’t“er" ::'Ith n:bso;zl o1y lon will be unveilea with ireat attend- HERICLS ¥ ing ceremony. , It may seem as if April 27 next'is a necessary work, No ,More Formal Alliances. long way off, bat when one considers Everything which thus far has been that this Grant emorial ‘was in sald, or rather hinted at, by the British process of erection for a greatmany: who are here seems to make It further years since. the urgings brought re- assured that formal alliances for of- gults, next April seems as if it were tensive and. defensive purposes be- only a day away. tween nations have had thelr day.' For yesrs the thousands of visitors An unofficlal declaration from Lord who have come sto Washington have Riddell, who is attached to the British wondéred why tlie Grant statue and delegation as o sovt- of: liaison oflicer | jts “accompaniments ~have not been- has- sald_definltely that the days of | Botanical Gardens until it became formal alllances- are done. He has' time.stained and then there appeared to fanction.and is going to make big | a0 became time-stained before any- ‘decisions.” | thing - further was ‘done.’ Now draw the attention to one alllaice | g hundred years after the bir(h-of the which Is-a source of anxlety to the man who was the North's stoutest sol: American State “department, the pact qjer and who wag’twice elected Pres- between Great Britain and Japan. It jqent of the United States it will be has been said before in dispatches that uiven to the people. this alliance probably is ‘to walk the | diplomatic; plank; to. plunge intv ‘the.! ploted, and everything pertaining to sea of obilvion. . More and mote the the Yincoln memorial is in rendiness, opinfon 14 * strengthenéd here that it ig expected:everything which 1s un- Grent Britain and Japan will. find. o gightly ‘on the great Mall, which ex- way to cut the existing bonds without | jonds from-the eapitol to beyond the apparent worry on: elther side as {0 pineoln memorial, the tonsequences. It is true that the pwyy and that Washington will have Japanese may witness the cutting with ' gne “of the ‘lnest parks known to the regret, but that they will show SorrowW | y.opd, b in fagial expression is to be fluuhled.] Economic Effort Considered. What wilt. he the eftect on the economic. condition of . the' countries | generally - If the proposed l‘l,‘t[ll‘.“! tlon in naval armament3’ goes into This Is a rather shard ,qu(:s‘ Two Miles of Beauty. ! Two points determine the direction L of any straight lihe. Make the: base of the dome of the capitol as one point and. the base of ' the Lincoln memorial as another, and the straight will pass cconomists already. are trylng to give | through the Grant memorial and the It an answer. { ‘Washington mopument. - The vista, it 1t there Is to b, as is generally sup- | s said, will be’ unsurpassed. y The distance from the capitol to the Lincoln memorial is about two. miles | and’ they are two miles of beauty for the most paxt. - The permanent build- | ings ‘which stand within this open | place are the structures of the Agri- { cultural department; the Smithsonian ! institution and the Natlonal museum. | These are-nll, save one, bulldings of | architectural beauty and all save one ! probably will“be allowed to remain. fThPse various structures have been | spoken of as permanent. The one bullding which, it is to be s of course, that for ten years w Lip = econsteuction. except for u few replacements, wiil be at a standstill. This fact carriés with it the "~ other - fact sthat a good many skille@” workmen: will. be throyn out of employment by the naval holiday. These sKilled workers, however, It is sald, before they have been out of Jobs ‘any great length of time, readily ¢riough can find employment in other constructive flelds where thelr skill will stand them in good stead and in-| good wages. o There is another. side: to this ques- tion which reflects that phase of hu- man nature which must be considered'|is a brick structure: just east of the when . arms reductions’ are -giten: original Smithsonian building. It has, used today to house a part of the { morrow. The officlals will mect this | afternoon to consider plans sub- | mitted. * Mot thought. 1¢ most of the skilled war-|no particalap characteristics to Toc ship_makers go. Into gther employ- |ommend ¢ £55 Fetmanency, of habitat! shorter period, and get well settled luji day than that of the United States, or;; . Roosevelt African cellection ;1s° en)- at least temporarily unfortunate con-| added that “‘the conference 1S goIng' some bronze artillery figures -which | the |} Of course the hints about alllanets‘memorial virtually is completed, and &= When the Grant memorial Is com- |8 will be cleared |\ hoped, eventually will be destroyed is | treasutes of the National museum. It} 'fif e Mall. =~ - v The original Smithsonian institu-; tion is a warm, red-toned structurei with a beautiful tower, ivy mantled,, and_in which, in keeping with tradi:: tion, owls have their home. This (building was erected many years ago: . and it is something of a relief to look: upon it after baving gazed upon. the: brillinnt white marble of some of the' vther government structures. H Treasures In the Museum. ° ® The Natlonal museum -today con-: relics which occupy cases in several! " of the great halls of the institution.; “One reads in case after case the de-! velopment and sthe procedure of the! war as the United States toqk part, in it. There are many trophies, of! course, ‘but in addition ‘there ave re- { productions of al{ e uniforms and | nll the flags of the nations which took | part in the record-breaking conflict. if "Poday virtually 'all of the. great placed. in the’ halls -of the National waseum. Naturally, hundreds of specimens of smaller- animal ‘and eof botanical life which “were- collected must be kept in: cabinets which are | not open to the view, for these smaller $pecimens are of particular interest only to the students and the scientists, ' who can study them by permission. | In conbection with the war exhibit specidl attention, perhaps, should be'| called to a topographical map of Bel-! feau Wood in which' the American | troops, marines ang army- men took | Ipart with “so’ much glory to then-| selves. It is a' huge map 'with tke surfaces raised or depressed accerding 'to the nature of the ground. Xvery forest, every stream, every hill, eve: valley,and every troop position of the; American forces and of the enemy are’ ! shown, and 8o close has been the at- tention to_detalt that virtually eve: ghell hole is marked. This great topo- graphical map is inclosed in glass.” | The case alone, its said, cost $10,000," i Asking Too Much. B I don't want to ‘eat this egg, It's not a nice egg,” protested the six-year-} old daughter of the house at the: breakfast table. T “Mary,”/ said her mother sternly, “you are-always complaining of your food.. Eat what Is placed before you —every bite of it—without anothier word, or else I’ll have to give you a ~good spanking.” -All was quiet for some. minutes, Then from the other end of the tahle sounded a monrnful volee. “Mother, dear, do I have to eat the beak too?’—American Legion Weekly, i "the above named William Stillmaker, tains an immense collection of war | o IE a \ SAWY OF SOX IN THE HOLSE MONDAY EVEN"‘GG; DECEMBER 19, 1921 1 P —————————E GEY WO BROM RITHER END' IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT = OF MINNESOTA SIXTH DIVISION. - In Bankruptey In the- matter of William Still- maker, Bankrupt. To the creditors of William Still- maker, of ‘Bemidji, in the Coxnty of Beltrami, in said District, Bankrupt: Notice is herepy given that on tac 15th day of December,’ A. D., 1921, was duly adjudicated a hankrupt and that the first ' meeting of his' creditors will be held' at the office of the un- dersigned referee in bankruptey, in the. City of Crookston, in the county of Po.k, i said district, on the 30tn day of December, A, D. 1921, at 10 o’clock in the forencon, at which time said creditors may attend, prove claims, examine ' the bankrupt, ap-| point a trustee and “transace sucu other business as may properly-come before said meeting. Dated December 16¥h, 1921, OLE J. VAULE, Referee in Bankruptey. P. J. RUSSELL, i ‘Attorney for Bankrupt, Bemidji, Minn. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PION R 1t12-19 R ) o o e CATARR_HE o E RGO, EANT EN(GY LifE with'a sore, soir, Bloated stoy k. 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