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1 @*}*L;wmm. e R e e B ‘Stinighténed ‘out; ‘an ounce of o at' that, who!'wants/to be a spider? Heé ;u;g"h’a ~Mensure. It OvEr But That's in. Portland Portland, Oregom, has a theatre to| | which ne: admission is® charged, but upon leaving, the patrons pay.as much as they. think the show is worth. 1f the show is long enough, chances|/ are that this theatre is a popular rooming house. X —All"Together Now!— _ Here's One to Figure On. Luke McLuke, shortly before his death, declared- that ‘any girl can be proud of her fignre even when she has to wrap-a bolt ?Irmuslin around her chest s0.she'll Jook like the picture in the corset ads. . —She Can’ Be; But Should She?— The Ti:uth Pays A ‘Connecticut saloonkeeper who told the court the truth about selling a bottle of liquor was fined $1. It is yumored that there will be quite a lot of truth-telling froth now on. _ —Can You Blanie 'Em?—— Samething to Think About Dear Twentieth Century: Iam de- ci«lzfily»?gnnhc: to &hs girls usmg. :; uch paint whare there-are 8o m: }'xnonnespin‘ Beémidji which would be greatly: benefited by just one coat.— A Boliever in Proportional Represen- tation. " Well, you.must.remember that the Jadies are sacrificing a lot of cloth thege days. for some r:@son or other. Evillently they feel that they are do- ing’ their share toward returning to normaley. 3 —~Whatever That Is— Only Partially Decided. After careful investigation, it has been figured ‘out-that only one man in three is: perfectly.heaithy. = Now the question. is to decide which-onc of the three it is. ik —Ain't It a Fact?— Wasted Energy A London news dispatch tells about' a woman = over there having swallowed a mouse and that an op- cration was necessary. tle excuse for women doing such a foolish thing as ‘that inthis age of cheap and efficient mouse traps. —Can'You Beat It?— . Ucually Make It Thair Business ;A man about town freely admits that it is people’s own business' when they eat onions, but holds that it-is everybady’s business when the onion- | eater breathes. 3 ~—Oh, Breathes Therea.Soul, Ete?— CHILD BUILDING OPENED FOR CHILD WELFARE WORK (Capitol News Service) "’ Washington, Feb, 16.—New York city's first child welfere building, de- voted to the ~administration of the; child welfare law, was opened recent- | Iy with special ceremonies attended by wmunicipal officials, welfare which now cares for 25,000 chi'dren and 7,600 mothers at an an- nual cost to the city of $4,000,000. Messages commending the board’s work were received from Mrs. War- ren .G. Harding, Secretaries Hoover and Davis, and Judge Ben B.'Lind- sey, of Denver.’ Miss Sapito Trenc Loeb, presidont; of' the “board, said that in many instaiéds it hed been arranged so. that. chilirén could re- main in their own homes for half what it would cost the city to keep them in institutions. . THREATEN TO REMOVE CAVITE NAVAL STATION Manila, P. I; Feb. 16.—The Unit- éd States navy is reported, to have again notified the muhicipal authori- ties of Cn\;litke fjhntd“’l?c” that town is better iced and- kept more sahi- tary, the ?mvll station will be remov- ed to Olongape; on/Subic bay. a place kept ship.shape through navy. super- Mon of -affairs. Th Cavite 17 saloons have been'licensed on one street, and ope or two .more are in prospect. Brawls_between aailors and. marines and civiliang ate frequent. N. D. RETAIL, LUMBERMEN MEET IN ANNUAL SESSION :7 (By) United Preas). Fargo, Ni D., Feb. 16.—Finances, the Great “Lakes deep“waterway and dirying are:among’ the subjects with which the Retail ‘Lumbermen will di- véisify’ their 15th’ annual: convention here today and tomorrow. Speakers jnclde: - Harrisr ‘Hatton, Minneavo- }is, seeretiry of the, Mississippi Val- ley association, -R. . Flint, state #dairy commissioner; H. L. Adams, Des Moines, chamber o cé‘nmorce.s_ec.re- tary. and W- C. McDowell, Marion, N. D. " Federal Resérve bank ‘director. ADDITIONAL WANT ADS WANTED—A man to. do chores on “farm, a man that can milk cows. Price $15 per month. . Call at Mc- Nohb’s this evening or call J. J. Jinkinson. . - - 2t2-16 DTSR 5 wob. would extenid 1350 miles. |- Vo figured wrong.| in. that community|. There ‘is lit-| Tt will. blis no ted it will res - headquarters of the board of child:m ot SAppctod & il poanl 1o o | 1 i MARKETS & b POTATO MARKET Chicago, Ik, Feb. 16.—Potatoes shipment, 487; on track, 145; Wis: copsin round whites, sacked, $1.75 | 40.83:90; bulk, $2 to $2.10; Minne- sobai-and.North “Dakotas, sacked, $1,86°t0.$1.75. CASH REGISTERS SHOW (By Unitea Press) Dayton ,Ohio, Feb 16.—The ting.| Bihop . 6. Bennoteqf Daluth Jing bells of the nation’s-cash boxes are playing a jazz accompaniment to increasing” business, cchoes--reaching the National Cash Register company here. g he echoes are in the form of sales | reports for the last month showing a | treniendous ‘increasc in' business over | January, 1921, a 10 per cent gain in foreign business.and similar :encour- aging conditions for the first half of February. The cash register indus- try,. containing the barometer is be- ginning to' reap . returns from the soed of work sown last year, acord- ing:-to J. A. Powell, executive sec- | retary. 3 “The next. few. months will medn the same hard fight business men had in 1921. Only the trend wil{ be 1n- creasing upward instead of down- ward,” he said, in an interview today. “Saptember will find business square- ly back on its feet, but there will be no booms. The prosperity of pre-war days will come = with the new year. Goad crops will stabiltze the farmers’ position.” ' MAY TRACE FOUR-POWER TREATY T0 118 SOURCE (By vm};o’l 1 Press) e ;Washingtony [I'ab...1¢.—In. an ef- fort to trace to ity .‘3,“ Yo tour power Pacific trent{, lemocratic sen- ators will support the Hitchock :teso- lution, asking President Harding to complete” information regarding: the negotiations. ~ ‘Some observers saw in the Hitch- o6k resolution a demoacratic break- ing away from Senator Underwood's leadership. Underwaod has not yet met his colleagues to ¢ in the conference, but ° may be adopte e senate, but i veal of the history of how /That story has never beentold out gide tho secrecy of: the arms . ence. The-Demacrats intend 4 bé told although,: th X difficulty in _brm(Lng it out. ¢ock’s mensure ASks for the minutes of- debate, discussions and ‘cofversa- tions among the.delegates of ‘the four powers coficerning the treaty. % It will surprise the, Deinocrats if any such minutes a¥e vroduced. They unilerstand that; the treaty worked out rof unrecorded conversations in which. Harding, Balfour. and. . Kato took part... PATROLMEN SAVE LIVES .. OF FIFTEEN FROM FIRE (By - United Press) Minneapolis, Feb. 16.—Three pa- trolmen saved the lives of 15 per- sons in ap apartment housefire carly today: § kit Vg5 - They carried..the 15 persons, .- in- cluding one cripple, from-the burning building at. Lake street and Nicollet avenug, after they : had been over- come, - Fhey, -aroused 85 other per- sone,. who fled ‘to safety. ./The dam- age is estimated at- $10,000. UNION PACIFIC ANNOUNCES REDUCED:HOMESEEKERS’ FARE As n step in the direction of lower l[m‘ns, an aNpOUNCHRRPERES-TUSt been madg by the' Uniof=Recific syste ill place in -homeseckors” their lines in fares to Idaho, U a, Kastern Ore- gon ‘and Vashington. Tick- ats will b the first and third e Tuesdays ofb;&a:\onth, from” March to. %vembcr, ielusive, 1922, ‘on;the basis of one fare, plus $2 for the round trip.. Tickets will have a‘final réturn limit ‘of 21 days. NEW STORM THREATENS ; NORTH. ATLANTIC COAST “(By. United Press) New: York, Feb. 16.—A new storm threatens the north Atlantic coast, the weather = bureau warned today. i The storm is' moving rapidly. north- enstward, accompanied by gales. It will hit the coast this afternoon or tonight. i steady; receipts 36 cars; total U. 8.} HELLO DOC! HOW 00 YA LIKE-OUR ToWN? ARE YA GIYTIN' {Continues from Page One,) repregenting an -American who had lived in-America since birth.and Don- ald a foreigner who had become an American: - e 4 ‘These numbers were followed by a Nery . prett: fla’g drill by the rade pupils. +They were dressed in atrigtic colors, carried flags, and as they : went *through -the -drill, Miss Rulien’s sixth grade pupils sang. “The Star vsr?. led ‘Banner.’ Brnest Du- puis with fourth and fitth grade pu- pils gavea ‘play, *'Little Athens’ Mes- sage,”.in" which represcnted a boy mmc wm from. Athens, telling of his pastlifc, e 5 and ending it by reciting the Ameri-| according to |4 | appropriate presentation. telk. icen creed, in, which all the children apd Judge B. F. Wright of Parlk short, ad Tress to ter vhich : Don W of “the “Ralph Gracie - pi f the Amertean” Legiva, irepresented the new citizens small silk American - flags, and--made an K. Doe, naturalization examiner | «of Duluth _imiwx-:\fA CHURCH PLEADS fifth | and all ‘who attended sool:c | very .hlg!tii of ‘the ;pragram .ang de- | clared it:the best cver attempted ncre. ‘America the :Beautiful,” sung by | the high school glec: club; closed: the program -of -the aftcrnoon, H JAZZ TAKES THE PLACE OF ANAESTHETIC IN OPERATION < (By ,U_nfl;—l—x'ru-) Chicago, Feb: '16.—A prominent physician, wielded his knife during a Serious operation: on a 15-year-old boy at:8t..Lukes hospital to “Livery Stable ‘Blues:” Onlya local anaes- thetic was administered. “The boy had other . operations “and disliked anaeathetic,” ‘said ‘the doctor-~‘he sang while I cut.” - SILVER PRODUCTION FELL OFF Year 1921 8aw’ Liosis 'of 1t Mined ‘and | Consumed Than .in the Preceding, : Twelve Months. An ‘estimate of the 'world’s produc- tion and consuuiption of silver in 1921 gives 'the ‘world’s 'total product -1ast year ::ah ~1581,000,000 ounces, against 174,000,000 in 1920. Of ‘this- total"the United States s cstimated . to. have produced 50,000,000 ‘ounces ' in 1921, aguinst 55,400,000-1in 1920 ; Mexico, 62,- explain-his part i .has: been ill for some ,dae:;. thThq_relolu ion the four-power Pacific pact was. made. | Angly 000,000, against '66,700,000; Canada, 10,000,000, Gther countries 39,000,000, agaipst 39,- t| 800,000 % z It is éstimated that: consumption for governmental purchases and exports to the East absorbed 36,500,000 “ounces more of silver than the year's produc- tlon. The total distribution on these accounts {s ‘estimated -at 197,500,000 | ounces, of which 18,000,000 - ounces were._assigned “to"Hfils ‘coutitty's ¢on- sumption'in the,atts:; 2500400 to siu- ilar English congumption,; 50,000,000 tp purchases under the Fitisaman get By the United Stutes mint, -6,000,000 to Mexican: goveriment. purehases, 36,- 000,600 :to.shipinents” from’ Enghind: to 1ndia,: 5,300,000 to shipments from: the United States to. India,. 58,500,000 to | shipments by-England ang fbe Unired States to China and the Far Egst and 22,200,000 to purchases in’the: United States for subsidiary colnage and oth- er purposes. v A Meat Flo The qualities of m¢ food that Is being lang; were describ farmers and others land town. The s 3 cently at a dinper 181 1t down to o meal composed entirely of went- flour, a new | Zea- ot aghinst 12,800,000, ,.and |- fluur dishes, and only a little over half a-pound-of meat flour was used in’ite preparation. It was -excellent for in- valids and bore a high food value. Tt could be exported easilysand compact- ty, and would keep, so far A8 present tests went, for two-years without the Allghtest sigh of-aptérioration. Tt:todk Wrpespatinds of meat_to/ produce: ohe pound of Bhe flour, which-fas at pres- | ‘ent being readily sohl at'five shitlings €$1.25) a ppund and was foundextéed- econdmical In the shouseéhold at thig: price, "} Y Studlles AntJCon “Bhips. /An-odd assignnient given to a sclen- tific research worker is' that of making a study of the control-of ants on ship- board, As guest of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, Warren . T. Clarke, professor of agriculture ex- tenslon in the University of California, has salled on the steamship Columbla on a two. months' trip through the Panama canal, coming on by way of Havana to Baitimore, to study the problem at first hand.—New York BEve- uing Post. o3 NOBODM SOMES 1N TTHE MORNING:, BUT N ‘e (-8 the scaffold on whic: 1 S SCAFFOLD 1S MADE | morrow. Chicago, IIl., Feb. 16.—“Let me| - He killed Bernard Daugherty and|with a starve,” pleaded Harvey Church to-|Carl Ausmus, motor car salesmen.|one body. 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A Nel- son Roof is_surfaced with-red or green slate which never fades. - Once correctly laid, it will hold fast to your house even when. : subjected to the fiercest batter-. ing of the elements. "~ Your lumber dealer will: be glad to: show you the different” styles. There is a Nelson Roof for every type of building. Write for free samples and the ‘booklet, “The Proof of a-Roof” “an interesting story of ‘roofing .’ progress. Co., Minneapolis™- ~ [THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS