Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 11, 1922, Page 21

some, xmportmtf ‘part in the historic pageant to b btaged; -during!. the Nortwvn Minnesota - Fair,’ providing urse, he is allowet tion .several tm\es, is engaged in the_.drug -and.'jewelry business here and has- been*for many years. Out side of being'an officer in the Naval Reserve Force, nobody seems to-have | anything against him, if that can.be esldent of the Be—]held agnmst *himg { (PHIL 'AND DAVE) " | 3. To look at the pictures of these two- “0} Timérs? one would- hardly expect them to" qualify forthe- title, but they do- by.a ‘good.margin.. In fact they sold:the.first rubber :col- lar that the first mayor. of Bemidji wore which eXp]oded at'the first Fourth, of -~ July:* celebrat)on ‘when someone tried to scrabch a match on it w. z. ROBINSON obinson ‘has. “growed up” a-whole ;lot. since this. picture was taken, but:he still has the - young ideas and the pep that goes with them. Altho he may mnot be seen in the Fair and Pageant he never-the- o “yery prominent part in’it being in: charge. fo the publciity for this' gigantic” entertainment and ex- position. R. H. SCHUMAKER Heres a serious reproduchon of a serious looking young. . banker. Since rubber collafs have gone outjefigiylejaGill Brothers have done ' thriving ‘business in’ clothes “and habelda.shery of ;a’ more substantial sort and are’ rated:as a big asset to .Bemidji business, They may be induced to take a part in the Third Street scene in the Pageant to be staged during.the.big fair here, he still. has young ideas. Mr, Schumaker is cashier of the i ank, Bemidji’s Mil- ncial - institution ‘Whenj - he attended jthe University of ‘Wisconsin he was one of’ the fastest sprinters of ‘his day, and he’s not so slow ever now, if you doubt this, just take a poke at him:and run, and see how far you'll ge‘ If -he didn’t look quite so serious he’d make a good ‘hero for the'big pageant at the Northern Minnesota Fnlr They are seriously considering || him for an important part; W. N. BOWSER' Any of’ “Bill” Bowser’s later pic- tures show him-as a much younger looking man than this one which was i before Hakkerup arned to flatter the vanity of his customers,’ Up to the time that the -0’Leary-Bowser Co. sold out to the Snyder Co. you could find him ‘“ripping calico”™. or trying to per suade some lady 'that life would be miserable without one of the gar- he:sold. as*4vatched and helped Be- midji ‘to grow from a ‘clearing in ess” to one of the leading ¢ 'cities of Minnesota.” If he make up”:like this picture again,ihe might find a part as “The Judge” in the big pflgeant. At this time Bill is anxious to have_ail the houses numbered prop- erly—w}nch was not so necessary in the early days because then he He’s not so young today-as he was | could stick his head out the window when thls picture. was taken, butand count -the houses-on one hand. arcum is not always as caued 'and sufficient reason 'to get rid of the mustache which is shown in this picture. Otherwise his“friends say that he is thc same old;George. If he can get the mustache ‘back on again soon enough he might prove good material for the: “Old * Third scene ‘in the Q{um‘hnt at the ‘as he dlooks here. This was | [§ time tb ‘go out ond let some of the boys trim “himin” golf except when he takes the game seriously and then the other fellow gets it. If nobody gets sick during . fair week -the: spectators ‘may :be-treated A ‘| with the sight.of “Doc’ administer- E. A Barker is: expe;te(f ta take (midji Civie aud .Commerce assncla-, ing ‘to’ the wounded when the boys g0 “over the top” in the final scene in the big: pagennt GEORGE KIRK ame : to:. Bemidji “ctose.. o 20 ago and this gentleman smay | sfore: be considered -among -the F pignieer residents of this community. Especxally since. the ;most reCent ‘ad- ‘difon. to his ) family. he (has had *(Note: fo appease the ‘curi- omylnf those ;-who may ‘wonder.’ why E. H. Jerrard was picked to jicture gallery of old- run by The Pioneer on with the historical pageant to be staged during the Northern = Minnesota faur, we beg tostate that here is & man who has invariably attracted the interest.of both the male and fe- male readers. It is the desire of: The Pionéer that this project make a hit wlth the ladies, and Jerrard ‘a8 hexlooked when the ladies: called him “Ned.”. - That was before the days when some of them. began‘}to use the prefix “Uncle: Y errar;i is.gure to come in f’?: % bit of publicity during the stagmg of the pag- eant and it is expected that he will occupy Some ‘promimént part in it, either as actor’ o critic. He ‘will"” be' rémembered as having recently won the pink - powder pufl' at the Ladi¢s’ Night ~program- given . by the Kiwanis club at Birchmont, at which time three. lady Judges picked*him as the winner, He is a pxcl(ed man, not ““‘pecked,” for Néd, is ‘still single, andgmany of his;married friends advise him to stay that way. ! At the present time he is manager of the local station of the Northwestern Oil Co. He has been engaged in various businesses here during the past <several years and can be listed among the oldest residents of the ‘city. You iwouldn't think it to look at this pmture, but he's been in Bemidji at various times close on to 25 'years. If it's more, it is’ not to.be expected that he will admit it. C. W. VANDERSLUIS “Charlie” Vandersluis can be ra- ted as an “Old Timer” he being probably the first hardware man to “make” the town when he “peddled” hardware for a Duluth firm and al- tho he covered a big tem!ory, he always managed to get in a .couple of extra days in Bemidji until he got to feel like he was one:of the citizens and gave up his road work to enter into the retail hardware game here permanently, which store is known as the Bemidji Hardware Co., with W. Z. 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