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LAST TIME TONIGHT - No Advance in Prices FEATURING And They Thought Her a Chorus Girl— They were just vores woman’ haters, and she paradise to escape from her carousing friends farm ‘hat Do Yeu & W ELTINGE “Two Weeks” Constance Talmadge ppose Happened During Those “Two Weeks”? COURTESY LAST . TIME TONIGHT had run into “their Eveless at a voad house near their « LORE Ask To N ew York Goes Mad With Gaming Fever; Wall Street, The Ponies 3 and - Marked Cards Do Thriving Business | pjanned to Cart _ would he glad to invite you in to spend your money. J CORN BY LORRY A. Na T, Star Cor My ? York, Feb. BASY TO PLAY PONIES doesn't exist in New York et for the ponies, no one would | tainly not! Ask any policeman and [he foolish enough to think that you hel tell you so. could go toa bookmaker in New York But-nevertheless New ling mad. From mornin New York gambles withea fever would amaze even those who baye wit- nessed the far more picturesque anid ontuu-out gambling inn xy becom towns of the west, . York is ne [almost anyone will he kind enough to give you the telephone number’ of at bookmaker in Jersey who will accept your bet over the phone. mail you 1 cheek if yon. win, or find your check | in his mail if you lose, And if the horses are in town, of course you don’t go out to the track and Jay down a $5 bill on a hor You simply go ont to the track and tell your hookmaker-friend that you want to bet so much on a ce nd Do you want ta. do some reaily big gambling—-the kind that can make or break you. no matter how much of 4 this world’s goody you own? Go to ro Wall street. There on the curb, you'll % tind almost any poof gambling you cure to inal Ae a a he tells yon: the ode him xy MANY “PIP BROKERS” the next day or else he pa And & Of course. you don't have to go te /ene morning newspaper prints an en ‘ Wall street tg got il. AML you have. to tire page of “ads” for tip sheets. i * do is to pay anyone of the thousand | | Amd so, the: system works, New “tip brokers”, who make (heir living gambles on theatre tickets, here, for a tip. eal mp your bra {meuts, newspapers, everything in « buy a little ste mit i then | fact. ~ a2 aA lintsnenspuars- Haeaiaeriurcllone| LIFE IS A GAMBLE read (he newspapers to discover how i you lost your money. One might life is wt gamble here. * The wise ones dowt gambie that | You even. paysa nickel to gamble on f en some of the shoy whether: yow're galifg tos ves the 2 chorus girls know: the subway crush at. Forty-seeond-st, every * so well that they-often. make minia: | night instead of paying a dime fo ride » ture fertunes playing the ,sic nt | on a safe and sane bus. * just as often Jose what amounts to a| A recent seandal which grew out of by une to them by the same method, | the “little games” staged: by a number - Would you pi, DEN On GUT of men. prominent. inv and around It's k your J Times Square, is only one of a numbe be tor, Heil steer y FT made prominent. by the large stake kind of a game you nt nd the prominence of the men involy- » from three-card monte to Led. e * game thats y from poky. But it did: serve to bring out the Your neighher. Tes probably fact that ao stupendous business in so regnlar pinochle or poker gume and | marked cards: has heen built up by a ee : What Is barre oar’ B ; hy Suffer from It? 1 s Wh x §. S. has been successfully~ Sufferers Should ars Jused for Rheumatism for more ” It Is a Blood. Infection. than fifty years, and many volun- ; Doubtless lke oth ar tne tary testimonials are on file from bs Jaestion, Shieh continues to re- | those whom it has benefitted. Try it to-day, and you will find your- scif at last on’ the right. track_to get rid of your Rheumatism. For treatment of your individual case, address Chief ee Adviser, main unaswered. . Science has proven that Rheu- matism is. caused by a germ in a your blood, and the only way to reach it is by a remedy which . eliminates and removes these lit- * tle pain demons. Swift Specific Co, Dept. 43, At- lanta, Ga, re 10 Theatre: Lovers ” The managemént of the Bismarck Auditorium takes. x much pleasure in announcing that Henry. W. Savage, the producer of 80 cosets ores musical comedies, will With the complete cast of Metropolitan singers, dancers and comedians to the Auditorium Wednesday night, March 3rd. The muchXalked-about organization will even include the Henry W. Savage Opera Orchestra, Ensemble of Fasci- nating Femininity and Troupe of Sensational Acrobats. Prices, as in all cities, 85¢, $1.10, $1.65, $2.20, $2.75 _ NOTE:—Mail orders, with check including war tax and self-addressed and stamped envelope for return, received now and returned in order of receipt. z b , % * a nr uEaP-ver Regular Box Office Sale Monday, March }, at Harris & Co.’s _———_< $n see This is the Largest and: Most Notable Musi- cal Comedy Company to Visit Bismarck in Several Years. DE LUXE PHOTOPLAYS | manufacture of the mb. (Nd put down a bet on the ponies, But | isjer of lands. night ustehoards’ and that, 30,000 pi ve heen sold: in dz months ets Ti 1a sol Away Whole Store | What “prom, vo tum into ¢ | Wholesale robbery of the Brown gro- store peu Mw othe tracks wis | frustrated at 2 thf morning when Joe | | Brown, who was sleeping in {he piace, cantured John Warleld as he was at- jfempting to gain entry through a win- ‘down and identified W. Adam j fwatin, who came-here from 1) | a short time ago, now are in the coun- lty jail awaiting 1 Th ‘said to be brothes ed Ae 118, and the younger is alleged to have ih nn released from the reform school jonly two weeks ago. Joe Brown delivered his captive in person, while Chief Martineson arrest- 1 thegyounger member of the pair this | morning, and is said to have extracted ja confession from him, ‘rhe, Brown store was burglarized about three weeks ago, and the pro- prietaor was adyised to sleep in the store on nights in the hope that the burglars would return, which they did thig morning, bringing a sizable wheel- | ceo and that‘of goods received he- STATE CHECKER TOURNEY BEGINS. .AT _JAMESTOWN -famestown, N. D., Feb. 24.—Check- ler players from all parts of North Dakota gathered in Jamestown. this | morning for the annual checker tourn- ‘ament, today, and Wednesday. The | games will be played ‘at the Elks hall, Plans are under way to make James- town. the permanent headquarters jof ‘the North Dakota State Checker as | sociation, hecause of the easy as: | sibility of Jamestown to all parts of the state. All checker players and people interested in the game are cor- dially invited to attend the tourna-/ | ment. Games will ibe on from 9 a. m. until midnight each day. Several loc- jal players will.contest for honors. L., H. Nichols of Dickinson is. pri \dent of the state assoc RR. { Rutledge, Williston, vice-president, ja A. P. Jones, Hankinson, secre- TO PROSPECT _ PEACE RIVER Vancouver, B. (., Feb, 24,—An. ef- | fort is to he made. by the Vancouver board of trade to induce the Provin- al government to grant the appli- cation of the D’Arey Exploration Co. for a concession, to prospect for oil in the Peace river district, south of Pouce Cotpe, The D'Arcy Exploration Co. is a British concern, in which the imper- vial government holds 66 percent of the common stock.» It was through this company that the government developed the Anglo-Persian oil. fields’ it vi stated. ght months ago application was mide to the provincial government for, the exclusive right to prospect’ | for oil in an area sixty miles square lin the Peace river district, The offer was rejected by the min- The division of the day into hours dates from the original sun dial, and the notion of 60 minutes and 60 see: onds can be traced back to the Baby- lonians. EX-BOOKKEEPERS | WIN PROMOTION| Splendid promotions were re- cently earned: by two former pu- pils of Dakota Business College, Fargo, N. D. This school’s prac- \tical training has laid the foun- jdation. for many successful jcareers. | A. G. Buchholz began as book- keeper for the Union Light, Heat & Power Co., obtained several promotions and is now auditor for the Northern States Power Co. George Jensen, newly-ap- pointed cashier of the First Na- tional Bank, Fargo, began as their bookkeeper. “Follow the $ucce$$ful.” Write ‘nol + heing | WHEN HERBERT HOOVER WAS A BOY ||’ | HE WORKED DAYS AND STUDIED NIGHTS They Called Him Bert” ‘Keep The When He Was College i Laundryman . | | By MABEL) ABBOTT | & —- = Palo Alto, Cal | ‘ HOOVER ; NYONE: who’ has: watched i place || himself knows there is noth- “Hoover some| | Food Administrator ing’so important. to health the former Stanfor Se mfort 9s regular, daily: elim- a trustee’ of the tniver a constantly ‘bigger pi i d's interest, old graduates mporary officials have rum-} maged in their memories for she tales | that every student leaves behind him. Back of! the Stanford period is a boyhood of which onty the general outlines are denown. While Hoover} his not dodged publicity regarding the public affairs he has engaged in, he ently refused to talk} about hin t ov his personal affairs, He was born of Quak a little Quaker community in Io now filled thé wo and conte His parents died while he was child. His guardians wanted him to ¥vo'to a small Quaker college, study mead e- and become a country doe: tor. his did not suit the bey, who knew what he_ wanted, even at 14 ye of age, = fie went to Oregon, where he made} his home with nds, also Quakers, earning his iving in the daytime, and the nightime he spent in. fitting himsef for college, ‘There were no night schools at that time" and mosit! studying was done without of his teach He x a graduate of the mloneey of Stanford , the fi to take the full four years" work, | took the course in geoiogy. wife the college halis, Bat although Lou Henry Hoover, took the same! in all college communities, degrees course, and ig the only woman who|#nd titles are of considerable import- ever graduated in it. She is the daugther of C. D. Henry, a banker, of Montara, Cal. She graduated th the class of ’98. They were married Feb. 10, 1899. Moover's methods of working his) way. through college afd not include! HERBERT || | University Student | e ponsibility for the so-called. profitcer- | Reg Keenan on Mon-| ing. i ar from Mrs, Keen-| “There are many reasons for the qr fan, in announcing the pnt prices. of clothing.” says the death of their law, Peter Johny Bismarck clothier, “Conditions have | Rempel, which o¢curred Monday }¢ehanged ¢o_ rapidly that no. one has [morning following a brief illness; heen able tyykéep up. We are all liy- + {from pnewmonia. ing. no matter what the e The | Phe deceased was a graduate| Prices of things that enter into our | 4 Pharmacist who spent three years in life are in round figures. twice % i the traditional one ‘Ot waiting ont tables. i “When Hoover and T were both! cing the problem of financing. our! y in college,” ys Dr. Ray Lyman} Wilbud, now’ president of Stanford arsity, “UZ remember we agreed cht to have brajns enough, .il we were going to succeed later on, to puy our way in“some way that was! 7 merely manual labor, but would some intellectual training as-; cd with it.” Ifoover’s ‘bent for organizing show. ed itvelf in the ventures he tinder took. He established a agency, witha paid staff of fellow students to collect and distribute tre bundles, while he made -his profit by business manager. He also conducted a little theater, hav for which he engaged lecturers and] singers Undergraduate finance! 6 were in a| muddle at that tim No one was sponsible for cla expenst went unpaid. Hoover voiuniar took hold.of the sitnation, straighten-| ed out al) accounts and established a financial system which the studey have Tollowed ever since. He refus. ed to take any money for this - vi but he recommended that the position should be made a paid: one for a graduate student. | He was’ conspicuously not a ladies’! man. Once, in his senior year, he took a girl to a college show; and it! was such an event that the audience | applinded. > While a student course, he acted as John ‘Branner, head of department. “Floover: & good as in the geology ant to Dr.) the geology was ‘a good student a at} tant,” Dr. Branner recalis. | “When a task was set before him, he} took off hig coat, fixed his whole at- | tention on the job and did it. He} always ready, wiiling, cheerful nt. If he made a mis. ‘@ along the line, he nowledged it and! said happen again; and it) it would neye) never did.” Not all who knew Hoover in. col. lege, however, saw him in this ligh “L never could. see anything sre-| markable in Rert Hoover,” avows one| of his classmates, “All I remember ot him is that I voted against him for class treasurer.” f i Hoover was the first alumnus (& he el eter a trustee of Stanford uni ber af the boar, “a vacan- We other 14 members years of age derable discus- ey occu were or nore. After cons sion. we agreed tha@ Hoover, then but 36 years-old, was.a rising young man. We thought we could ‘teach him our way of doing things, and in time he might become a valuable member of the group? So we con- descended to take him into our midst. “In two months we All knew that F. L. Watkins, Pres., 806 Front ‘St., Fargo, N. D., for informa- tion. Hoover was running the board. We did not fool ourselves that we were jals given him during the war are in |and | Minneapolis by a message from her" ‘ebrated Wilton Lignite icontains. less iamary;and ash than any other |kota. Washburn Lignite Half of the minor iliness- »s of life are duc to negléct of this, ‘The five million men who were in our ‘army know. the importance the doctor’ attached to this function. By ofl means try. to regulate yourself by® intelligent diet. and exercise, but when these fail you will need a laxative, oe near to nature in its il can make it. In the opinion of many sands-of good Americans'such dwell’s Syrup combination of herbs with pepsin. Itactspromptly, gently and.with- cut griping and will with certainty regulate any tendency to con- simple laxative solutely that he was the leader, and we were glad enough to follow.” Hoover has giver to the univer: sity his great collection. of books on China. Also, at “the request of the pyesident, some of the gifts and med- ance. in Palo Alto er pos: the great no one ever “Dr. Hoover.” and though Hoov- from most of, universiti Ss of thinks Raymond M, Bergeson of S. on & Son. who has returned from a yisit to manufacturers and jobbers | in Ch center of the world, that no one factor in the making of high prices for men’s -apparel\ can he legitimately. charged with sole res- returns convineet Peter John Rempel Dies in. Mill City Bismarck, Finne: he was uni! has they were before the war y are three times France and “G being employed at Cowan's A yea go last June 1 in marraige here with, high. ‘Miss Bessie Keenan, younger daugh-| many they are even high ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Keenan, and} “Everyone is getting m money | three weeks Jater ‘he entered ithe | for his Sheep. herders, wool- service, going overseas with the 88th | makers weavers, woolen manufs woolen jobbers and needle industries all are higher paid. There is- a new standard of prices since 1914. In 1914. the textile and needle industries were among. the poorest paid tr and the employes. were pricipally. Ants. About 90 percent. of the workers. in the needle division, with which he remained un- ust, When he returned to , where he became one of ption clerks in Liggett’s two pre SC big drug’ store. He was taken ill. suddenly last week and/Mrs. Keenag was. calle& to daughter.. The shcck has prostrated ‘iidustries in New Ye were obpec! Mrs. Rempel, who probably will be| of charity, and their living conditions 'umable to attend the funeral at her| were-the very. peore: Toilay they have an American’ standard of. liv- ing, with ydequate pay and. reasonable hours, They are Americans. Thése late husband's former home in But- terfield, (Mfgn., whither. the remains were taken today. Phone 453 for the cel- of clothing. ST INCREASE PRONUCTION very necessary to increase pro- duction in all lines and to bring more eflicient distribiition hefore cost reduction can he aitticipated, Coal, the best coal mined in North Dakota. .This any attorney. general's — department ‘coal does not clinker and Washington : gathering information roducel from the 1 of raw wool anid cotton and is tracing every operation through which clothing passes until it hecomes the. finished product, in’ the hands of the consumer, This i formation should determine where r¢ ponsibility for present prices of cloth ing lies. Information has already sulphur coal mined in North Da- Coal Co. ~ =CASTORIA | For Infants and Children, Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria | “ALGOHOL ~: 3:PER: oe 4 ‘Vesetabie Preparation’ if | Aetetabichtepr ia | tne tomas endows Thereby Promoti H Gheerfutnessand Rest Costas; | Hinerat No S NARCOTIC a eo ; Foren Avalon el piu! Constipation rts piri Feyerishness sq an FS OF SLEEP oes bagel Years 4 RK. a anths old ALO months 7 35 Dow > 40ce™! THE CEUTAUN Company, NEW.veRRCITY. Exact Copy of Wrapper. still directing affairs. We knew ab- re ¢ | been gathered from the ‘retailers, gnd | System Clean if And You'll Be Healthy Elimination helps to “avoid colds,. headaches and epidemics DR. CALDWELL’S SYRUP PEPSIN ‘THE PERFECT LAXATIVE 5, Ber it was wo, the ready-made clothing | teer: | bout | airplines forthe Canadian Mounted i The | tr: atlas | ! i | | i | I 4 | expected, | profits year, TUESDAY, FEB. 24, 1920 stipation. that you may have. Take it when you feel drowsy, dizzy or hilious, when you feel'a cold-or a fever: coming on, when there’ is uw epidemic, when you have eaten anything about which 1 aré. in doubt. It is at such s that you need to be free of. sons and of fermenting; foods. you can buy Dr, Caldwelt’s Syrup Pepsin at any drug store. Thou- sands. of fami have: it: con- stantly in the house against emergencies. In spite of the fact that Dr. Cald- well 's Syrup Pepsin i is the largest selling laxative in the world, ‘there being over 6 millien bottles sold each year, many who need its benefits have not yet used it. If you.have not, send your name and address for a free trial bottle to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 511 Washington St., Monticello, Illinois. BERGESON DECLARES PROFITEERING NOT CRIME OF RETAIL CLOTHIERS found necessary to go further back before. a reductions could he This will take time, Ret tilers have beet branded profi- is a Known fact that the have no control. over the péiees which they. must pay ’for mer chandise. They have no alternative but to pay the pi ked, and to add to that a, legitimate profit, The con sumer cannot be relieved of high prices hy the retailers eliminating their for the retailer is an essential faetor in the distribution, and when the profits go the retailer must -¢0 i with them. The trouble must be trae- jed to ils source before we can expect sults, cannot he redueed hy calling. any, sronp Of people names. There must he cooperation, construc: tive politics. and a new basis of tion that will inspire mutual conti- ; dence.” P AIRPLANE. PATROLS WILL SAVE TIMBER Calgary... Alta... Feb, 24,— Airpiane patrols. for the timber regioris of Al- berta probably will. be instituted this along lines tentatively adopted ; the American government for Mon- tana and. Idaho. While Alberta's loss from forest fires in/1919 was minute compared withsthe American. losses, it ix understood that the government hag decided to organize as air forest patrol service partly to 1 the -foun- conditions are reflected in the prices jdation for broader use of federal avin- tion, Seyeral months ago.a plan was. sub- mitted to the government to provide territory covers. the ions as far north as the tie No official, announcement heen made regarding a possible police whos ha deci Yor Colds, Grip ar Influenza ‘ a Preventative, take LAXA- BROMO QUININE: Tablets. ‘and UNIVE | Look for E,W, GROVE'S signature on the hox. 30¢. ISMARC Theatre Last Time Tonight |MARGUERITE Va Proxy SEE IT! You'll Laugh’ Till. the Tears Come. -