Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 6, 1922, Page 6

THE Twentieth Century | | | i LIMITED What’s In A Name? | One of the Bemidji boosters who | attended the community meeting at Becida 'Thursday night states that| Becida is beginning to realize how it got its name. He says it is because that community, Becida, is beside a good city. —He Must Mean Bemidji— Evidently Has Some Show An announcement pertaining to Archie Vernon of Little Falls being strongly favored in Brainerd as a candidate for associate justice of the supreme court appeared under the theater column in a recent issue of the Pioneer, We suppose by that, thav.‘ the make-up man thought Vernon had a show. —We’ll Say He Has— Good Night Ladies! Dean Goodnight of the University | of Wisconsin, says an exchange paper, is opposed to marriage between un- dergraduates, There is said to be a| certain ambiguity about the way in which the students are murmuring ! “Goodnight is right.” | —Two Bits He’s Right— i Cleaning Up The Movies | Buster Keaton, the sober-faced comedian, has a notion that a bathing tcene in every picture would have a cendency to cleanup the movies, ! —Boy, Page Mr. Hays— i It May Be A Reason K { is said that it is easy to stab in the back the man who keeps ahead ! of you. Perhaps that’s the main rea- | son why some fellows never try to get ahead. They don’t want to be stabbed in the back. | —No Danger!— | Double Order Most any boy knows how he likes his eggs cooked. The chances are that he will tell you: “Two at a time.”| However, an expert egg buyer claims that there is one way of buying eggs | with the assurance that there are no | chickens in them, and that is to buy some other kind of eggs. | —Duck Eggs, For Instance— | Not So “Looney” After All. | A shrewd lunatic, an inmate of an asylum, had a shilling which he hid one day in a hole. The attendant was watching him, so he went after him to the place, took the shllling and put a sixpence In its stead. Next day the patient came to see his shilling, and when he examined it he suid: “You must be in consumption. You're get- ting so small and pale.” He put it back into the hole, The attendant,.who had been watch- ing, went again, took the sixpence and put a soverelgn In its place. On the following day, when the lunatic came to see his coln, he looked at it and said: “[ fear you have yellow jaundice this time. I must take you home and mind you” So saylng, he put the soverelgn in his pocket and kept It. The warder Is still studying the profit and loss account.~London Ideas. Coral ot various Gorors. ~ The coral of which ladies’ orna. ments are made Is found in different parts of the Mediterranean, but prin- cipully on the coasts of Barbary and the island of Saxdinia. The pieces derive their value from their welght and color. Jet-Dlack and rose-colored corals are the most esteemed, although a decper red, white and dark, dirty gray abound. The last s nearly val- ueless. Coral is found at a depth yarying from nbout eight to 34 fathowms, the best Dbeing near the surface. The growth Is very remarkable—what ls taken in one summer belug oftén re- placed the following winter. and Michigan round whites, sacked, $1.50 to $1.65; Canadian white, | sacked, $1.70, New market weak; 1$4.50 to $4.75; Florida Spaulding | Rose, double-head barrels, No. 1, | score of 14 to 2. Following was the i returned from Bemidji last Saturday T Potato Market Chicago, May 6—Potato market weak; eits 34 cars; on track 148; total U. S. shipment 816; Wisconsin Louisiana triumphs, 100-lb. sacks, $6.23 to $6. TENSTRIKE Next Fri ning the baseball team will give a dance in the Haga- bene building. W Larin Taylor made a business trip to Bemidji last Saturday. Miss. Esther Quale was a business tor in Bemidji last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Haluptzok, Mr. znd Mrs. Rice and Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Betz motored to Bemidji Sun- day and Monday evening. The Great Land Clearing Demon- ration will be held at Tensrike on May 22. Next Sunday the Tenstrike base- ball team will meet the fast North- ome team. Last Sunday the Ten- strike team defeated the Kenfield- Lamoreaux Co. team of Bemidji by a 5 No. 2, $4.35 to $4.50. Tenstrike line-up: catcher, Jackson; pitcher, C. Theriault; 1st b. J, Cronk; 2nd b. C. Travis; 3rd b., R. Travis; . E. Cronk; rf, F. Gregg, R. Greg cf, Fox; rf, Betz. N. A. Pemble made a business trip to Bemidji last Saturday. Misses Mable and Margaret Hampl to spend the week-end with their parents, R. W. Fellows motored to Northome last Sunday. Brush fires destroyed part of the side-walk going toward old town last Sunday. R W Fellows is putting up a new garage in which to house his new Nash. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Haliptzok and Mrs. William Travis motored to Bem- idji last Monday. Roy Tiavis and Tilman Gregg motored to Bemidji last Saturday. Delbert Tifford was a visitor in Be- midji last Sunday. . Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Mattison and Julius Benson of Nebish visited here last Sunday. Rev. C. Tradeau of Blackduck held services here last Sunday morning. T'other Mountain. A subtle amethystine mist had grad- ually overlaid the slopes of T'other mountain, mellowing the brilliant tinty of the variegated follage to a dellcious sheen of mosaics; but about the the ale seemed dun-colored, transparent; seen through it, even the red of the crowded trees was but a somber sort of mugnificence, and the great masses of gray rvocks, Jutting ‘out among them here and there, wore a darkly frown- ing aspeet. Along the summit there was a blaze of searlet and gold In the full glory of the sunshine; the top most cliffs caught its rays, and gave them back in unexpected Zleams of green and grayish-yellow, as of mosses, or vines, or huckleberry bushes, nourished in the heart of the decp fis- sures,—Mary N. Murfree, though If he who stole the Storage Battery out of my Ford, standing in my backyard, last night, will return it by Monday morning, I will not press charges. It was apparently easy to steal it—it w ill be just as easy to bring it back. And if it isn’t brought back o=d rlaced on the premises from where it was taken, by Monday morning, I'll have you in the county jai il by Monday night! If you pass up this chance to escape pun- ishment, ycu'll have the next couple of racnths to think it over while at the county Jail, Onc whom you think to ke your friend has informed me as to who you are. Fair warning—heed it! G. Olson. QASEW~ ALL WONDER WRAX THE METROPOLIYAN POETS AND THE OPEN ROAD Observant Veteran Seems Somewhat Contemptuous of the Annual “Call of the Wild.” “This is the time of the great poet exodus,” remarked the observant vet- eran, according to tie New York Sun. “From now on you can look forward with confidence to hearin’ announce- ments from two or three thousand minor poets that they're leavin’ the deadly city behind and are takin’ to the open road. Several hundred of ‘em admit for the first time it's their wild gypsy blood that makes 'em take this desperate step. Others cry out that they can't resist the appeal of the open road another minute, except it was to take ten or fifteen minutes to dash off another poem startin’ ‘Ob, ho,’ or words to that effect. “Weakness, I call it. Spring is the season of sap and sapheads. Com- mon sense is good enough for those vagabonds three-fourths of the year, and then their character goes to pieces like 2 snowbank under a March sun. “It's lucky they never quite ge' started. They might get away if it wasn’t for the fact that one poem leads to amnother. Se they have to stay in the heartless city and get on with their work. Otherwise the brake- beams of the country would be as congested as the East side, and the trunk roads woyld be cluttered up with hundreds of peets, leapin’ into the air every three or four yards, from the sheer joy of livin', as they call it. “No, you expect love poems at this time of year, and poems on the re- markable color the grass is takin’ on, and poems on the unprecedented tendency in trees to leat out. But the next poet that asks me up In his Eighty-ninth street piano-box apart- ment to listen to his ‘Sing ho! for the open road’ {s goin’ to be given assist- ance on his way.” GOT NAME FROM INDIAN CHIEF How the City of Medicine Hat, In Can- ada, Acquired Its Decidedly 0dd Cognomen, Medicine Hat, the Canadian city which figures so prominently in weath- er reports, and which possesses un- doubtedly one of the most extraordi- nary names of all the citles of the world, acquired its title from an old Blackfoot chief whose tepee stood on the site which is teday the center of the city. He was chlefly celebrated for an amazing head-gear to which he attributed mag- t™al powers, and which he called his “medicine hat.” Good fortune was suppesed to atteng him whenever he wore it, whether at war or on the hunt. 2ace a great battle was fought be- tween the Blackfeet and the Crees on the site of the present clty. The fight weit against the Crees and, just as they prepared to leave the field, a strong gust of wind caught the “medi- cine hat,” lifted It off the head of the chieftain and deposited it in the river. This was considered an evil omen and the Blackfeet immediately fled to the mountaing in great disorder. Safe and Short. Copperish as to complexion, mono- syllabic as to conversation, emphatic as to clothes, he stood before the sav- ings wicket of a Kansas City bank a few minutes after 9 o'clock in the morning. i “Keep money here?” . “Yes,” snid the clerk. The Indlan fished out a roll big enough to choke the proverbial cow. “T'welve hundred dollars,” he counted. “You keep.” “One of those rich Osages,” thought the clerk, filling out the little book and handing it to the new savings de- Dositor, In the afternoon a few minutes be- fore 3 the Oklahoma Redskin returned. “Want money now,” he announced. “What's the matter?” “Want money.” “But this is the savings department. You put it in only this morning.” “Sure,” said the Indian. “Safe here. Cume town ’'smorning. Leave' town *safternoon. Need money now.” And, of course, the flabbergasted clerk had to give it back. New Colonization Planned. That the Mexican federal authori- ties nave in view a vast colonization project in Lower California, by which it is hoped to solve the problem cre- ated by the great number of unem- ployed Mexicans at present, was the interesting statement recently made by the secretary of the interior, Gen- eral Plutarco Elias Calles. The plan Is to allot arable land to each colonist, which will involve irrigation work on a large scale, WOORAN! MURDER, SCANDAL AND MUSH! “HE LATEST HOLLYWOOD DIVOREE CASE w FIVE COLUMRS ABOLY MATILOA BINGER THE SIWLIMAN ABOUT NOTHING EXTRA! Ex\’R")') | Lurope Mrs. Madge King Johnston, By Charles Sughese © Westerm Newspaper Union Ghie AMERICAN @/ [Glol@ (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) WILL PLAY BALL IN JAPAN Ward Gilbert, Balloonist, and Em- mons Clay, Who Served as Gob, Off for Tokyo. Johnny Jap is going to have anoth- er look at the great American game as it played by the baseball nine of Indiana uni- versity. The rick- shaw men of Tokyo and the merchants of Nagoya are going to carry and % trade with two members of the team who left /: Seattle, Wash, b { ... - to the tune of a Sl fam BN pana ana the cheers of the American Legion. Ward 0. Gilbert of Kokomo, Ind., one of the Hoosiers' pitchers, went back to col- lege after 11 months as a balloonist in France. Emmons Clay of the catch- ing staff served 19 months as a gob. When the Legion men in Seattle dis- covered this they turned out and wished the pair good luck. From Seattle the Indiana party went straight to where the sun rises. There | Japan college teams will be taken on, but they will be the guests of Waseda university of Tokyo. So great has been the interest shown in the visit that the Japan university has guaran- teed ‘the American players $15,000 for expenses. Baseball has been intro- duced in Japan before. Two other American college teams have traveled the Pacific and shown their wares. Tokyo has an American Legion post | and its members are planning to show the vice men ruch of the Orient and its attractions during the Indiana team’s stay. TO AID THE EX-SERVICE MEN Mrs. Madge King Johnston, South Da- kota, Gives Up Music for Amer- icanism Work. After years of study in America and Aberdeen, S, D, national vice- president of the American Legion auxiliary has sacr d a ca- reer In music for Americanism work and to ald in relieving the condition of sick and wounded ex- service men. Mrs. Johnston is in charge of stores in eight states where articles made by disabled fighters are sold. She is national chairman of the auxil- fary’s American committee and has specialized in -the formation of citi- zenship clubs and organizations of children of ex-service men. Before engaging in auxiliary work, Mrs. Johnston appeared as a concert artist in many western cities. This she relinquished for activity in be- half of ex-service men. Her husband, Dr. M. C. Johnston, Is a big game hunter and has brought down mountain sheep, elk, deer and bear in the (Rocky mountains and moose in the Canadian woods. Mrs. Johnston has accompanied him on many hunts, = Y M. C. A. HELPS PRISONERS Men Confined in “Disciptinary Bar- racks” at Governor’s lsland, Appreciate Training. s to the Y. M. Thanks the *d hy the C. A, many of " in. ed dark walls and dark living. Such a one is historic Fort Jay at Governor island, New York harbor, where be- tween 200 and 300 soldiers are usually confined, most of whom are “in” for minor offenses. A few, however, are being “cared for” only a few day AOINGS OF MRS. ). FOLER PRUINS MONKEN PARTM-HALF A PAGE OF BEAUTY CONTEST~ AT AUy s ¢ 1 IR piior to their taking up a lenger resi- dence at Fort Leavenworth, the army prison. Col. John E. Hunt was commanding officer of Fort Jay during the World war, and he introduced “Y” activities for its inmates. Since that time the secretaries have kept up their work. The “Y"” is house? in the first build- ing of its kind the organization ever built in this country. Every Wednes- day the confined men are allowed to attend the “sing-song,” and about 175 of the men make the walls resound. The Sunday evening religious service is even better attended, more than 200 taking part. Another feature of the work is the teaching of volunteer instructors of educational subjects. Spanish and French courses, together with reading, writing and arithmetic, are proving the most popular subjects. The men show a desire to absorb as much knowledge as possible during their period of con- finement. RARE GEMS LOST TO SIGHT Russian Crown Jewels Supposed to Have Been Disposed of in Small Assortments. The great collection of Russian crown jewels seems likely to share the mysterious fate of the peacoek throne in Delhi, writes Frederic J. Haskin in the Chicago Daily News. The peacock throne, which cost the Shah Jehan $30,000,000, was a won- derful canopied chair of pure gold in- crusted with rubies, sapphires and fes- toons of pearls, and ornamented with two great jeweled peacocks and a life- sized parrot cut from a single emer- ald. It was a fabulous work of art, and when it slipped out of sight afrer the death of the shah there was much speculation. Presumably a strand of pearls was lopped off here, a ruby pried off there, and the emerald par- rot cut into a number of less distinc- tive jewels. Today a mere throne framework in Teheran is pointed out uncertainly as the peacock throne. The crown jewels of Russig are sup- posed to be slipping away {n similar fashion. There was no word of any looting when the Kremlin {n Moscow, where the glittering jewels of royalty reposed, fell into the hands of the rev- clutionists. The Kremlin has been guarded by the soviet government. The condition of the treasury gallerles is velled in mystery. South African papers in close touch with the diamond trade state that $10,- 000,000 worth of stolen Russian dia- nionds were thrown on the jewel mar- ket in ten months in 1921—and the crown jewel collection of Russia was particularly rich {n diamonds. MWOOK! PORTRAIT OF MRS. ASKWIYCH WITH A COLUMN OF BUNK. ABOUY AMERICA w ALL THE Extremely Masculine Office Force Shied Off Busy Stenographer’s Shade of Delicate Lavender. lecting 2 NEWSPAPERS © |, Part of every morning in the Busy Stenographer’s life went toward col- her precious pencils from everybody else’s desk. AND THEN YHE POOR DUMBELLS Poke FUN AT TTHE QOUNTRY | SAVED HER PENCIL SUPPLY hamm previously done recently rick alone. Of course she Inverted Steam Hammer. A decidedly novel use of a steam er is to make it pull out of the ground steel sheet piling that it had driven intc it with some piling that hail become SO tightly frozen in that it could not be pulled out by the der- The steam hammer was i huag upside down from the derrick, and around the hammer four strands This was ¥ The day sped by. never could prove these really were her own. The big fact was that at the end of the day her supply was always nil. Feminine wit met the problem. Of co the men in her office classed themselves as very masculine; went in for striped necktles and checked g suits, scorned-tea rooms for lunch, but Lknew every chop house within a score of blocks—real men stuff, you know. One morning the Busy Stenographer came in with a new package of pen: cils. She sharpened them carefully and laid them in readiness on her desk. Her pencils were borrowed—but returned. From the far end of the office the office boy came during the afternoon. “Hey, Miss Plank, isn’t this one of your péncils? I thought you might be lookin’ fer it?" At the close of the day the supply was still intact. The color of the wood was - delicately lgvender.—Pitts- ORIENTAL Superstition?— Perhaps so—but at least an interesting rclic of Asictic Antig- uity. Alleged by the Crinese to be almost uncanny in its power 0 bring to the wearer, GOOD LUCK —Health, Happiness, Prosperity, and Long Life. Tids 0dd looking ring excites greatin- terest when observed on your firy An unusualgift, Drop fnto our cic;d today and ask to see this o CHINESE GOOD LUCK RING. cidentally killed. premiums were paid up. o An Example of a Man’s Wisdom Two weeks ago we cited the case of a Bemidji man who allowed his New York Life policy to lapse and showed that had hq kept it up for a few months longer, his widow would have received $10,000 on a $5,000 policy, when her husband was ac- Records in our office show a case of a merchant in a nearby town who had a New York Life policy for$5,000, upon which the ‘While moving stock, a gun, was acci- dentally discharged and he was killed. The New York Life In- surance Co. paid the widow $10,000. Is Your Insurance Paid Up? Have you enough insurance to provide for your family? In your i;\syrunc; in proper shape? We will be glad to discuss any:of your insurance problems with you without obligation on your part. D. S. MITCHELL THE NEW YORK LIFE MAN Phone 575-W—— Northern Nat'l Bank Bldg. AR — Bemidji, Minn. Ry Seven - Dodges and Dodge Tour- ing cars—a motor for ev- ery occasion. | BROTHERS PHONE 7 7 PHONE COUNTRY TRIPS A SPECIALTY Seven-passenger Buicks of three-quarter inch cable were slung : so that they cavried below the ham- : mer a clevis that was bolted through the eye of the piling.—Popular Me- hanies Mazazine. AUTO g a SERVICE IS OUR BUSINESS AND WE WORK BOTH B Enclosed THE QUESTION ; Who's Your Tailor? —will be answered very easily after you have seen the lines shown this sea- son. Barney's Toggery 213 THIRD STREET WARD 2 CLARIFIED MILK HAS NOTHING ADDED OR TAKEN AWAY Have it delivered to your door every morning! MILK and CREAM from healthy cows— handled in a sanitary way. PHONE 16-F-4 - ALFALFA DAIRY W. G. SCHROEDER d_!Vebster, Magr. £ e ron e Fre,