Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 2

1. e | ST | A ‘IKE’ BLACK RE-ELECTED ! HEAD OF HARDWARE MEN . YHE BEMIDJ] DAILY PIOWVEER Loun TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1922 Dog Loved Him: AND THEY SAY THAT stk 1 punpy - Real Optimist “THE AMETHYST BOX” ANNA KATHARINE GREEN +%.Only a few minutes - Auitbor of the Millionaize Baby, The Filigree Ball, The House In (Copyrighted by the B: " “hat Sinclair Had To Show Me__ CHAPTER V seredin seciice v come from the FUONL waETC We nad lleary \owces. With common impulse Sinclair and I 10001 Seas iy Guni ule Lda OIIY O find ouselves met by.a dozen wild in- TerrogRLOls iU vediid S many quickiy openeu dols. woGipertne s ¢ovr was reached first. In. ¥ -stood a short, slight tigure, ‘wrappeu 1 a huistuy-donned snawl ke white face looked into oul we stopped and we recognized little Miss Lane, ’-“What ‘has happened?” she gasped. “It must have veen an awiul cry o waken-everybody so!” “Where 1s Gubertine?” -demanded Siiic _.Sae “drew herself wp with sudden dignity: “hribed,” she replied. “It wag she Who told . me¢ that somebody had shrieked, 1 didn’t. wake.” Sinclair uttered. a sigh of the greatest’ relief that ever burst from a man's overcharged breast. - .“Tell ‘her we will find out what it means,” he replied. k By this' time Mr. and Mrs. Arm- strong were aroused. .“Let us ‘hasten,” whispered Sin- clair. “Our eves must be the. first to see what lies behind that partly-open- ¢d door.” “-I-shivered. The door he had desig- nated was Dorothy’s. ‘Sinclair reached it first and pusher it open: Dorothy was not in the little chamber. With an impulsive gesture Sinclair pointed to the bed—it had not been lain in. The communicat- ing room,. in which Mrs. Lansing stept. was also lighted, but silent as the ohe in which we stood. Mrs. Lan- sing whg not the woman to sleep thiopgh a disturbance. Where was she then: Had sie followed her niece from the room? I was for retreating and hunting the house over for Dor- 4thy. But Sinclair drew me across the threshold of the silent room. Well it was for us that we entered there.together. On the bed lay a form ~~awfuyl, ghastly and unspeakably re- puwisive. ine head was surrounded with the gray hairs’ of age and the €yes,.which seemed to stare into ours, were giassy: This glassiness told the tele of the' room's grim silence. It wes death we looked on; not the death we had anticipated. : As-a‘realization of the awful truth came. upon me, I stumbled against the ‘bedpost| loking on with almost blind eyes as Sinclair bent over the rapidly whitening face. And 1 was stilk ing there when Mr. Arm- strong and all the others came pour- ing in. . did not really waken to my suitoundings till some one near me s Apoplexy!” . Then I began to look about me and peer into faces crowding up on ev- éry side, for the cnly one which could give me back my self-possession. * ‘But I beheld no Dorothy, and was therefore but little astonished when I heard. the cry go up: “Where is Dorothy?” Where was she when her aunt died?” *_'Alas! there was no one there to answer and the looks of those about which hitherto had expressed little save awe and fright, turned to won- Jet, and more than one person left the room as if to look for her. I did not jain them, Not did Sinclair stir a foot. For whom was he waiting? Gil- bertine or Deorothy? Gilbertine, no doubt, for he visibly brightened as her figure presently appeared clad in neg- ligee. . She had evidently been told w had occurred for she asked no que tions, only leaned in still horror against the door-post with her eyes fixed on the room within. Sinclair, advancing, held out his arm. She gave no;sign of seelng it. Then he spoke. This seemed to arouse her, for she gave him a grateful look, though she did not take the arm i “There will be no wedding tomor- ‘row,” fell from her lips in self-com- muning niurmur. had passed since they had started to find Dorothy but it seeméd. an.age to me. Where was she hidden? Would she be found kuddled but alive in some far-off thamber? Or, was another and more dreadful tragedy awaiting us? I wondered that I could not join the geafch. She is coming! I can hear them ‘speaking to her. Gilbertine mové, from the . door, and a young twan and woman enter with Dorothy bétween ‘them. ‘“Bnt ‘what a Dorothy! She looked and she 'moved like one who is done The Mist, Etc. lof it! As her form struck the floor obbs-Merrill Company) |: not imprinted itself on my mind as| the one revolting vision of my life? How, then, if this young and ten- derhearted girl had been ostensible Mr. Armstrong rusied forward. Sin- i Hardware Manufacturers lhere even at the present. time, has { Again Honored by American N RS 40 53 AT i 1 JIsaac (Ike) Black’ formerly a res- ident of Bemidji and well-known : .81 been clected for the second time as president. of the Amrican Hardware Manufacturers’ association, 1t has been the custoin of late to honor eaca president with one year of office. and Mr. Black was inclined to take advantage of the rule.” It Former Resident of Bemidji: -inoticed by her (Continued irom page 1) ported -to the police together with the 'detz. This fact was re-; | - | | | of the loss and it was| supposed_ that Smith, who tried to sell ‘the whtch, was the fellew Who bumped into her, suppesedly re ing her of the wrist watchH @tithat time R 3 The ,young lady, however, saved the day for Smit) and ‘his partner| when she ‘declared that shelutew that | néithei: of the me: «he 6ne. who | bumped into her. v : “Had 'shé’ thought | that. one of them. was, and as much | as tpld the court that ishe thought| i clair was before him and it was with { was, however, made clear to him a singularly determined look I could |that he. better than any other man, not understand that he raised her|could carry out the policies in the and carried her in to her own bed, where he laid her gently down. Then, «s if not content with this simple ‘attention, he hovered over her a mo- ment arranging the pillows = and at last he left her, the women rushed | forward. “Not too many of you”, was his final adjuration, as, giving me a look he slpped out into the hall. "I follwed him immediately. He had | gained the corridor "near his own door where he stool awaiting me with something in his hand. A« I.op- proached, he drew me to rie v:indow ‘and showed me what it was. It was the amethyst box, open and cmpty, and beside it, shining with a yellow instead of a purple light, the little instead of a puipre light, the liitle vial void of the one dro» which used 'to sparkle within it. “I found the vial in the bed with the old woman,” sail he. “The box I saw glittering among Dorothy’s locks before she fell. That was why I lift- ed her.” “OMAR THE TENTMAKER” AT GRAND THEATRE TONIGHT “Omar the Tentmaker” which is scheduled to start a.two-day engage-: fment at the Grand theatre today 'has now been hailed as the screen’s; most colorful- offering. Guy Bates Post is the star of the picture, whichi was produced by Richard Walton Tully, and is being released as al First National attraction. Here are some of the artictic set-| tings it contain: ] ‘A rose gatrden' with - fountains splashing in the moolinght—a poet youth and a beautiful maid! The streets of golden Naishupar, bustling with pilgrims, natives, vendors. and everything imaginable. .caravans of camels, bands of Bedouins on Arab- jan steeds—and beggars! A tavern, with bibulous youths boistering in the immemorial man- ner!- The mystic temple of Zor- oaster. its altar looming up in the semi-darkness of the interior, its ‘minarets where the meuzzins chant their call to prayer! The gardens of the Governor, with slaves who carry out his slightest wish, for his wish is law! “MAN WHO SAW TOMORROW" AT ELKO THEATRE TONIGHT Thomag Meighan, popular Para- mount star, will be seen in his inew picture, “The Man Who Saw Tomorrow” at the Elko showing for the last time this evening. The i photoplay ‘is said to be exceptionally | picturesque and thrilling. Leatrice {Joy plays opposite the . star and | Theodore Roberts is included in the ! cast. 3 Approximately half of the story {occurs in the tropics. The remaining seenes of the picture show New York and England and India. Peerley Moore Shechan and Frank Condon are the authors and Will M. Ritchie prepured the scenario. . ron again. direction of safety and improvement, that had been inaugurated during his term. He. therefore, consented to hold the office for another year. Mr. Black is still on the sunny side smoothing her dishevaled hair. When jof fifty by a number of years, al- though he has been_ connected with the hardware business for nearly a third of a century. He began his hardware career with the Marshall- Wells pany of Duluth, Minn., in 1897, representing-them on the road. At the formation of the Kelley-How- Thompson Company, Duluth, Minn,, jobbers of hardware, he became iden- tified "with them as a road salesman. which labor he pursued until 1906 ‘when he ‘was called into the house as the buyer. This position he held until til ¢ came east in May. 1907, to be- come identified with the Russell & Erwin Mfg. Company, of New Bri- ‘tain. Conn. Mr. Black has the afculty of mak- ing friends wherever he goes and f10lding them: also that other some- times unusual quality of increasing success in his chosen line of work with each passing year. Since com- ing east he hag made friends every- where and it is with a feeling of gen- el satisfaction that the members of the American Hardware Manufac- turers’ Association learned that he was to be chief execcutive of that ing year. SING SING HEAD WOULD ABOLISH PRISON TERMS X (Continued from page 1) ierime,” he said. “We know that they do when they lcave. Outside of a few that we lose track of, not more than eight out of a hundred sce pris- That means that some- hing like 80 out of every 100 per- ons. who go. to prison are not real criminals; they are the kind.who err once under emotion.” Advocates Reform of Laws This majority should benefit un- der the indeterminate sentence plan, Warden Lawes advocates. “Science should aid us in decid- ing when to release such prisoners,” ke said. “The big thing would be investigation by field agents to learn what their home life hag been like. whether they had a good or. bhad record of employment, whether they were assets or liabilities. Most of them really are assets and many suf- fer by the vagaries of courts—by the hysteria that influences some judges particularly during a crime wave. “Reforming criminals may be a worthy aim. But more necessary is the reform of laws to help the vast majority of first offenders. The others cannot he reformed, and it is waste of time to try.” NEXT YEAR T0 BE ONE —OF MANY CENTENARIES ~ (Continued from page 1) who became a world famous preach- er. Henry Bergh, the New York phil- anthoropist, founder of the Society for the Freventidn of Qruelty to Director Alfred Greene had a company of more than thirty en lo- | cation filming the South Sea Island episodes of the story. Included in the company are June Elvidge, Al- bert Rosco, Eva Novak, Alec Fran- ces, Laurane Wheat, John Miltern, Robert Brower and Edward Patrick. }“WHITE SHOULDERS” AT ELKO WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY i Katherine McDonald’s regal beau- ty is magnificiently set off by a ser- lies of gowns that are said to be the last word in dressmakers’ art, in “White Shoulders” the First National ‘attraction in which she is starred. Miss McDonald, however, does not rely upon her beautiful dressing for her success in “White Shoulders”, ‘but contributes some notably fine acting in the role of a.young girl ! whose mother has determinéd that with life, yet fears that few remain- 'she shall marry only a rich man, a ing moments left her. Instinctively we, fell back before her; instinctive- | 1y we_followed her with our eyes as, | reeling a little at the door, she cast | a look'of inconceiveable shrinking | first at her own bed, then at the group | £ older people watching her with se- | rious leoks from the room beyond. I Roted that she was still clad in her| evening dress of gray. After one slow turn of her head toward the bed, this trembling young , -girl gave a choking shriek and fell, { face down, on the floor- Evidently! she ‘had not been prepared for the) ! fact wich will-be disclosed when this new First National attractions is seen for the first.time in this city at the Elko theatre, commencing Wednes- day. Kill Cold Germs Cold germs multiply by the mil- lions. There is always danger of In- fluenza or Pneumonia. Assist nature to flush the poisons from the system. Use Bugarian Herb Tea steaming hot at bedtime. Sold by druggists everywhere. Animal.s Spencer Fullerton Baird, first U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fish- eries. Henry J. Newton, “the father of the dry plate process in Amecrica.” Orris S. Ferry, civil war command- er and United States from Connect- icut. Benjamin H' Hill, Confederate States senator from Georgia and lat- er a senator of the United States. Henry O. Houghton, the Vermont farm boy who became famous as a publisher. Lafayette C. Baker, chief of the United States Secret, Service dur- ing the civil war. Eppa Hunton, ~Confederate sol- dier and United States senator from Virginia. Joseph Le Conte, celebrated ge- ologist and educator. Sara J. Lippincott, noted author and journalist. | William M. Tweed. the Tammany "%boss'’, . .who attained noteriety through hiq conviction as leader of the New York “boodle” ring. James ‘W. Patterson. United States senator from New Hompshire. William H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the United States sen- ate. Thomas F. Meagher, a banishrl atriot who commanded the Irish brieade in the American c*-il war. Henry G. Davis. -T-ited - States Senator from We-t Virginia and Pemocratic ron'nee for vice presi- QRIBE FOR THE PIONEER‘ dent. Catholir bishon of :Kentucky, and at Rt. Rev. William G. McClosky, oreat organization during the com-; With his dog as sole companion, little eight-year-old Johnny Miller for three weeks slept in abandoned water tanks: on the roofs of New York tenements and lived on bits of food offercd by his school chums. His father was killed and his step- mother deserted him atter giving; him $5. ' Now, cared for by the Children’s - Soclety, Johnny is re covering {rom: exposure. N SN the time of his death oldest ‘both in years and service. Galusha A: Grow of Pennsylvania Speaker of the U..S. House of rep- resentatives and “““Tather of the Homestead Law.” Rear Admiral” * John H. Upshur, who had a long and notable career in the U. S. navy. The most notable of the year’s anniversary observances in Canada will be the celebration in Mpntreal late in April of the 300th anniver- sary of the birth of Laval, the first bishop of Cpnada. In August will come the centenary of the birth of Dr. Goldwin Smith, a native of England but a resident of Canada during the -greater part of his life and who at his death in 1910 was recognized as one of the foremost men of letters of his time. The year will also bring ‘the centenary of the birth of Siy Mackenzie Bowell, who, had a long and.distinguished career period_filled the premiership of the Dominion. POISON CAKE MYSTERY IS STILL ,CALLED UNSOLVED . (Continued from page 1) ing the accountant's 1.fe, because he thad found discrepancies in accounts but without avail. Clues first pointed .to an insane man who was once employed by Sterrett and later to women, one in 1 Youngstown, Ohio, and . another in Pittsburgh, Pa. Typewriters, hundreds of them, were examined to find the machine that addressed the ‘“parcel of death” but without success: The investigation had included bundreds of drug stores where the arsenic that was blended with the sweet white icing on the cake was purchased, but without result. Even a coroner’s inquest into Sterrett’s death has not .been held, because of the lack of one single tangible thing upon which a jury might hang a verdict. Mrs. Sterrett has closed up her house at Devon, sold her furniture and returned .to the home of her mother at Claredon, Pa. PRINCE REGENT OPENS JAPANESE |PARLIAMENT (Continued from-page 1) decorated streets from. his palace to parliament. Several hundred . thous- and of his subjects watched the im- perial cavaleade. American” Ambassador Warren sat in a specially;ireserved section of the balcony of the House of Peers, where the upper and lower houses. assem- bled jointly to hear teh regent. Hirohito wore a uniform of a ma- jor of infantry, although he was in fact, commander in chief of the Jap- anese army. For some reason a sim- ple field unform of infantry pleases hira more than any. of the many gaudy costumes he. could. wear. : The Diet, although convened Mon- day, will not undertake business sef- sions for a couple of weeks. It will then grapple .with these outstanding problems: Budget ‘and tax reduction. Universal manhood suffrage, Control of “dangerous thoughts”, socialism and communism and army reductiong and anti-militarism. g 2 Advance indications are that -all these fights will result in “dog falls” —-nothing finally accomplished. TRANSIENT RUN OVER BY TRAIN WEST OF BEMIDJI (Continued from page 1) longings and a numebr of books and the like. 'Credentials showed that he was an organizer for the I. W. W., the credentials . expiring March 1, 1921, issued from the Chicago office and stamped with the Seattle seal. ‘Another “card bears hic name, being Sssued” mk Grad Trevling, Del. b3, B WIE-USNo. 120. so, a’ conviction would undoubtedly have been secured by almost any jury and the supposed offender would, have undoubtely rawn g long ! | Catholic bishop in the United States in.Canadian-politics.and for a short | term in the penitentiary & CALL ISSUED TO TREE PLANTERS COMING YEAR (Continued from page 1) take up their work for memorial for- ests in the coming vear. The Fed- western Ohio has started a road of of places along the Lincoln Highway the tree planting work will be re- sumed this’ year. “Minnesota’ and Michigan are mak- ing great progress in roadside iree rlanting.” ‘MRS, IRA COOK, PUPOSKY, DIES ON CHRISTMAS DAY Mrys. Pearl Ellen Cook of Puposky passed away on Sunday, December 24th. at her home. She leaves besides her husband, Ira Cook, ten children, Earl, Bessie, Nini, Arleigh, Norma, .Bonnie. Esther, Elfred. Vir- ginia and Tris. The Cook family has lived at Puposky for about ten years coming there from Oklahoma. The age, having been born December 28, 1882. Funeral services will be held at Puposky, with Missionary W. S. Cum- mings in charge of the services. Bur- iial arrangements were made under the directior, of H. N. McKee, funer- al director. - eration of Women’s Clubs of North- ! !Remembrance at Lima, Ohio. The ' War Mothers ‘of Vincennes: -haye planted memonial trees . 2lonz the river front there and in hundreds | «i_Little Eddie Fullerton of Newark, . J., should be down-hearted but he isn't. formed since infancy; then, a frac. tured skull.% Now the remdval of a tooth a day, until he is rid.of his baby teeth. - But®still he smiles cheerfully, perhaps because kind friends e chipped in to make {his Christmas happy. BIG LAKE SUNDAY SCHbOL PLANNING ALL.DAY SESSION { The members of the Big Lake I'Sunday school are arranging a bask- let dinner and all-day meeting at itheir new school heuse next Sunday. Bible studies "are belng conducte .there thig week by Stanley Ander- {son and V. M. Johnson of Minneap- ‘olis, qnd the all-day service will con- iclude the series. It is expected that Missionary W. 'S. Cummings will be in attendance !also and speak during the day. Tae general public is invited . 1BOYS .BAND WILL PLAY hi + FOR THURSDAY’S GAME Bandmaster G. O. Riggs announc- deceased was 40 years and 26 days of "o that the Bemidji Boys band is to | meet Thursday night at the new ar- 'mory ‘to, play a concert before the St. Thomas-Bemidji ‘Firemen basket- ball game and will also play between the halves. i SUBSCRIBE FPR THE PIONEER Can Happen To You! Here's - his* woes.v De- 4 | INDGOR CIRCUS SHOWS IN ST. PAUL THIS WEEK (Ry Uajted' Presm. - St. Paul, Dee, 2¢—The-first indoor y circus to show in the northwest is in full sway here this week, (with St. Paul Shriners backing it up- A full three ring circus; transport- ied here .by Hagenbeck-Walldge is ‘showing at the. auditorium and;will ‘continue the show until New Year’s. | Osman Shrine Temple engaged the j circus—the same one that travelg un- der canvass in the summér time. State and city officials engaged boxes for the opening performance Christmas day. - Disabled veterans ‘and crippled children from the Phal- en Park hospital were guests. ad HE MADE ONE SPEECH (By Uniled Press) London, Dec. 26—During his | campaign in connection with the gen- |'eral eclection, Harold Stranger, In- dependent Liberai candidate for Newbury, offered to give $25 to a local charity if any member of his audience could prove that General Brown, the Conservative M. P.. in | the last parliament, had ever spoken in the house of commons. A man in the audience rose and declared that General Brown once said: “It’s | stuffy, in here; please open the win- * dows.” Mr. Strahger paid up. Inci- dentally, Gen. Brown was re-elected. | The scientist was ofien puzzled to accoutit for the efficacy of cod-liver oil. The discovery of vitamines has helped solve the riddle. Scoit's Emulsion isrichinhealth-builéngviia- mines and is a helpful factor in preventing & the so-called “winter ills.” It helps keep the vital forces of the body strong to resist disease. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N.J. 2228 PESEELHS s r Life .. Both Hands Both. Feet ....... 8 Sight of Both Eyes..... One Hand and One Foot. i One Hand and Sight.of One Eve. .. 75c WILL PAY FOR A If You are a Reader of Bemidji Daily or Weekly Pionger | FOR LOSS OF— One Foot and Sight of One Eye... s Either Hand .......J0... o Eithier;Foot . Sight of Either Eye . A Yo, Cut it out, sign it and sehd it to the Pioncer Office. ‘This policy filrthel’*‘provi(lée"s ‘$2§0 in 'case of death due to being struck, knocked down or. run over by a moving vehicle while standing or walking on any public highway. — e LOOK FOR THE COUPON IN THIS ISSUE '15,000 people in the United States were killed in Auto- mobile Accidents during the year 1921. $1000 TRAVEL ACCIDENT POLICY We will do the rest. __._mru;tm-m, & F 4