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ffifffi mji^ *T*- &4d Co. t-s MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1918 ife* WHAT SOCIETY MISDOING u,A "MBfs" Carrie Brown entertained^ a group of girls at her home, 1418 Beltrami avenue, Saturday evening, the guests being, Misses Corrlne Carl son,, Dorothy Nanle, Avis Cameron, Josephine Parker*. leucine McCuaig, M11T AohenhacS, feora Scott, Mar garet Rood, Murtel McQee, and Edith Mills. The evening *as passed in a general good time an,d refreshments 'were'served.'."- PERSONALS AND NEWSY NOTES -45HOM~tcr*oa on farms. Dean Anton Hall of MizpaU **4tor in Bemidjl Sunday. prints. Rich studio-, t9 istreet. _.-..- tv P- ami Vendell A. Nilson of NUpah spent ysterday in Bemidjl. was a vis- E. O. Johnson of Superior, W|s, passed Sunday.in Bemidjl. Miss Rose Webber of Nary was the week-end guest of friends in Bemidji. Carl Feldhusen oC Boise, Idaho, was among the Sunday visitors yes terday. V- If you want a car car. Enterprise Auio Co. Office phone.JL. residence phone 10,"""" ,^~5*tf WllMam Storkie of Minneapolis was among the out-of-towh visitors yesterday.. J-^:]'-j''"''-' -r intra. Alice Robideau of Tenstrike was a betweenvtrain visitor in the cltj Saturday. ^Mrs. McCready left this morning for Minneapolis and St. Paul on a couple -elf weeks visit* Want yoke'ef oxen and teamster have all winter work for the right maa. W. Q. Schroeter. 3d12 Maj. O. M. Dickenson of Camp Devens, Mass., was a guest at the Hotel Markham yesterday. Miss Josie- Mermanson Of Black duck was among the out-of-town shoppers in the city Saturday. "Pictures "kee 'em smiling.* Thim portraits,p post cards Send kodak Tenth lml-16 Miss Clara Skogsberg returned yesterday from Virginia where she had been the guest.of relatives for Uhe past week, _-^. Miss Edith Martin, teacher at Grant -Valley, returned to her school "Saturday after a week's visit with relatives at Blackduck. There will be a watch meeting New Years eve and a supper at the Spiritual" .temple beginning- at 8 -o'clock. .,-.:4 2dl231 Mr. and Mrs. Bans Mittet and daughter, Margaret, and son, Robert, have returned from a visit With .rel- atives-ta'GratfdiForksV'N. D. i Mr. and Mrs. P. Robideau of Ten strike were in the city Saturday, en route to Grand Rapids, where they will visit relatives for a week. Miss Mahel Vaatveit of Mcintosh was in Bemidji yesterday en route to her home from Uttaekduck where she had been fie guest of relatives for a week....\. Mrs. Henry Beherens of Nary came to Bemiaji Saturday to see her hus feamd, who, is.. conflned in St. An thony's "hospital, suffering, from an atttack -of the Spanish "flu." IHaStws Ralph andv Freddie Shaw, BOns of Mr. and Mrs? H. I. Shav* of tfinteielty, left Saturday morning for a -visit with their grandfather, Dr. William A. Shaw of Parshall, N. D. Eloise Dickens returned Saturday ffrom Red Lake Agency, where she 'has spent Christinas with her parents, a* Superintendent and Mrs. Walter F. ^pWDickens, and-will resume Tier studies in the Bemidji night school. The Loyal Order of Moose will hold -a special meeting at L. O. O. M. hall 'Tuesday evening, December 31st, for initiation and smoker and luncheon. "Will watch old year out and new year in. All members requested to .attend. ldl230 Mrs. J. E. Fitzgerald and daughter, Margaret, returned to their home in Billings, Mont., this morning, after spending Christmas with Mrs. Fitz gerald's mother, Mrs. P. "X Russel and family and her sister, Mrs. J. E. Tounggren and husband. Mr. end Mrs. G. A. McDonald and daughters, Marion and Helen, re turned to their home in Grand Forks, N. D., yesterday after spending 'Christmas with Mrs. McDonald's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McManus of Dewey avenue. They were accom panied by Mr. McDonald's brother, "William McDonald of Winnipeg/who also spent Christinas here- Charles Bloomqnist' of Sugar Bush township was among the Bemidji ^visitors Saturday. He accompanied & son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Wesley J. flhortridge, to the Tf r, who were en route to their home 0IA Hannah, N. D. Mf. and Mrs. Shortridge were married Friday aft ernoon at the bride's home, Rev. L. Warferd" officiating. Mrs. Short ge was formerly Miss Nancjf |lst MHwiJa Miss PeaTletta Wheeler, teacher at Bass Lake, was among the buslnttB visitors in the city Saturday. Miss Mabel Dugas has resigned her position as teacher in the Bow. ers school and returned 40 her home In Cass Lake Saturday. MI YEARS IS FOUND Husband Clears Case of Lillian Ricketts, Who Red From 3 Stern Father. T* K. DIED OF PNEUMONIA -*.:-:W v.i- :f^ Youno Woman Decided She Could Live No Longer With Father and Fled to Detreli-Worked for Auto Concern. \l Chicago.Lillian Ricketts has been found. Death solved the mystery Of a vanished girl iafter the police of tha nation, hunting six years, had failed. LiUlan Ricketts' father. Dr. Richard Ricketts, formerly of Hammond, Ind, is said to.Jve apent hjia jentlre for tune, nearly JSO^OW,:" trying to find her. At one time it was thought Chi cago bad swallowed her up. Francis McAlvey, 347 Larchmont avenue, for three years the young woman's husband, broke the new*? 16 the famUy. She sleeps* In a grave yard in Detroit She died of pnjn. monta on October 26, leaving a littte son, eight months old. Takes New Name. When Lillian Ricketts dropped out :of the world In 1912 she was"twenty: two years old. For sme'r^easbn Used to Urge Her toWrite ^o Heir People.''., McAlvey was. told that his .wife's pledge had been all in vain thjat the father, long since separated fnim the rest of the family, had moved away and has been living in Kujozvllle Tenn., where he is practicing medi cine. He made the fortune he spent looking for the girl in the manufacture of medicines. ^..0 1! GUM AND BEESWAX GIVE CLUE Novel Scheme Employed to Trap Thieves Who Had Ransacked'Cot tages at Lake Charlotte. Albany, N. T.A piece of*chewfag gum that had been worked^ owrtto^e, a block of- beeswax, some, plwstet tti parts and a little detective worfc ttetreA a bag of prisoners to stats troupers here recently. Cottages at Xake Cfcar lotte were- helng ransatked. The troopers made an investigation, A big wad of chewing gum was found an one of the deserted cottages. A platter of parts cast ws made of tbje gum. An Impression of some one's front teeth was revealed. Spencer "Ham, a youth of nineteen, was under suspicion. One ot the state trooper* asked Hnm to Wte into beeswax. Ham" dW. The Im pression was the sari!* a* ths hown on the gum and the tiat psvta rasti Ham confessed*..' **W-" 6 *he decided she could, no longer live at home with her father. She went to jDetrolt, and relative* there, ?feartni:to jarouse Doctor Ricketts, a jstern^iDan, idecjlned to help her If she eVer com-" munlcated with any one at home, the husband in Detrelt explained,. I She made the promise and kept It Taking the name ot Clara Butler, she went.to work for an auto4nobfle-eh cern. In time she met ?and~ married McAlvey under her. own name. He knew her secret Leheeeme for Mother. "She was pitifully lonesomIA,-A*her for mother," he said homesick for her that she would oft*'f ^'tib? a first rate opportunity tx play Ms versat'ility There Is a strong mystery "She would^getso THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER S3 AT THE THEATERS l' EEJ lOHIOHT, At the Rex theater tonight will be seen Louise Lovely In her latest fea ture "The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit," a five act play. Eddie Polo, the famous clown, will be seen in the third episode of "The Lure of the Clrctts," the title of the episode being "Beaten Back." There wilt also be an k-Ko comedy, making a bill of unusual,variety and inter esting throujgtiout. REXSOM0BBOW. "Up the Road-With Sallie," adapt ed by Julia Crawford Ivors from the novel of the same name by Fr*nc Storrett and presented by Lewis Selznick, is Constance Talmadge's latest production for the 8elecfc Star Series, and will be the attraction here at "the Rex theater tpmorrow. This photoplay offers the captivat ing comedienne a mie in which she can be as~capriclous, as vivacious.and as loveable ai may be expected from the delightful characterizations she has shown on the screen in the past. NE W TEAK'S SPECIAJfcEEX. At the Rex on New Year's day an other special will be shown, starting, the new year with a picture of rare excellence, "Nine Tenths of the Law," the lead role being,played .by "Big Mitch" Lewis, star of the Bar Sinister," "The Barrier* and "The Sign Invisible." Its scenes are laid in the north woods and the possese sion of a two-year-old babe fojn*n powerful plot of this wttljng :dram*v,.^-'- GEAND TOOTOHT Hedda Nbva and 3. Frank Qlen Vbar stars in yitagraph's great ae rial success. "The Woman in the Web," have the featured "The Chahg4ng Wc-nta*.* the Blue Ribbpn. Feature,',wbioh. will M$m In thVoraud theater tohlght. "The iChangfrngf W0^a4^' la) a .productioa 'tnatshould please the averagaaud ence. Discriminating theatat-rgaei* Wtlillke It especially, because It con tains i theme "that is -different, one in fat whWh may never have been screened/before, *w the scenario Is adapted from the widely read O. Henry story, *A Matter Man Bveation." ELK O TONIGHT. "The Masked Heart," at the BFko -/thater tonight and Tuesday, to.*- nj8hef th lie awake at night crying when she thought I was asleep. I often used to nrge her to write to her' people. In the play, conterinVln ft'j identity She would never do it, she .said, be cause her father would find but and make trouble for, the relatives vh had befriended, her." When McAlvey telephoned to hit dead wife's sister in Indianapolis she said "Oh why didn't you tell us before^ Mother has grown gray with' worry." brilliant william_ Bur dis-t| element and p'ersonall'ty of H1ev.0 Vllliers, "Tlie Woman, in 'arfiy,'* ^f-ho fascin ates a, lase sacjely yoMt^, after the tatter lias Wr*el&>'ed himself a tvomen Tiater., Bffl Bestflwad. la a hard worker, has a. wtariiWIMJmWe, is handsome, talent ed anfi 'ajways welcome to picture lovers. ^Weatern roles seem to fit Bffl llteft a glove'as be proved re cently "Wild Life, at the Grand SBagsHry. EtKG WBDME5BAT. 'Charming Lillian Walker, dimples Inland all, may be seen at the Elko ft theater Wednesday and Thursday in 4 a "happy" play, entitled "The fem I barrassment of Riches." It haa been some time since -Miss Walker ap peared here and in this new play the first to be produced by her own companyshe Is said to look sweeter than ever. Dfdnt Count, Lord Beading, the British ambasss dor. said at a New York jreceptlon "The war is doing aw^ay with snob bishness. SnobblshnJess of,^ an Incred ible sort used'' to flourish, in England, 1-ut I'm glad/to say that/it is melting runway in the fires off our democratic \var. ."They tell|a atory*of English "snfob ilshness. A^'certain, noble Sady aj tery wa*t ^llnn^r/party warrlefl:'be^ u'/iuse fherewerel8 at the table. But lier'hofit, aJdube, bent^oward her an4 said in a tood, lvfeartys renssurteg rolce: Calm^sfrorselfj daar/Lftdy Bmfly, dr. PlunK/flte n not reaMy one the lower taaWOk onyoot rtglit, EWlHtoagito 1 i 11 1:: FinK a Cold. I Then, Inflovnica, TIWB Pneumonia Doo't Ri.k Itl Who knows,' "when a cold starts, "but it will speedily turn into this dreadful rnflaenza, then pneumonia And ehd fStttfly? WT.Tldl Be Safe? FVRo thleyou advicet T^e J*J today! Be tesaoTrow' fnornlnff. w" *k' W WHO IT MAT COHCEBH. I shall force collections on all past due accounts after January 15, 1019. No sxceptioBS. W. Q. Bchroeder. 1211tf First Senate Chaplain. The first chaplain of the United States senate was Rev. Samuel Provost of the Episcopal church and bishop of New York. The first chaplain of the house of representatives was Rev. Wil liam Lynn of the Presbyterian church. Both officiated In the first congress organized after the adoption of the Constitution. illllMlliilillllilllllllllilllllllllllii REX New Year's By special effort the manage inent of the Rex haa aeeured a big feature for its patrons on Nw Years day, Wednesday, when it. will show that thrill ing drama of the north woods, OF THE LAW Starring that star of the ^Bar Sinister," "The Sign In visible" and "Thte Barrier." mmm. LEWIS Known as "Big Mitch," the portrayer of red-blooded, rag ged scenes in gripping dramas ic^rirodifctions.? Pdsseowon of a two-yfia babe forms the thrilUar oldt of this absorbing fcati^ Plo y) Ba rre. REX New CHANCING WOMAN" HEDDA NOVA Wftcl J, !=1RANK GLENDON What would you do with $50,000 in gold dust and no body to split with? See what Johnny does. TUESDAY ONLY WM. DESMOND IN "DEUCE DUNGAN" A clean westerf. iftdr with a beautiful love interest and big situations Hi'' "The1 of any doctor. will %el tha the first thing to do ^a to take a thoro laxative and Iteep the bowels open,. But pillsr tables and vegetables compounds ire partly effective, en the bowels are inactive food waste lies in the system, ferments and creates dangerous poisons which the blood, kidneys, lungs and skin pores are overworked to throw off. That gives a cold an easy chance to fasten upon you. Influenza follows then ^letiBioniaf Keep your system clean, free from accumulated iood-waste. Then .your blood wiH'-bef rtch", red and full of vigor. It will not be busy throwing off poisons, Ifot will speedily free you from tiie cold and protect you Jrfeth the dreadful after etfect*. W Yow" druggist Baa a product called SAUNOS that is a thoro laxative. You can wet a Bottle for a Quarter (larger sizes, Fifty cents and a Dol- lar).. Mf*r rjrf rf KO TONIGHT and TUESDAY 4 Masked Heart" A Drama of Love 5 Intrigue Starring! :A H- nay GRAND TONIGHT ONLY Johnny swore heM never fee sport until he made his pile. Hut when he met Ninasea Carbon :uTHE and RUSSELL In the Hero Role Franeelia $illmgton, charming little actress, in the role of a lovable girl. Kathleen Kirkhaxn as a most alluring vampire. WEDNESDAY and fhuraday Lililan Walker 2 in a "Happy" Piay ^Embarrassment of RIchesM aammaaWaaWmaam 10c and 20c before placing your line of goods lefore the public, is an hour of the public^ time wasted and a month's profits for your own register gone, not to come fea^ 'The advantage of advertising lies% the ^ability of the advertiser to place his pro- duct before the people when they are most apt to want his merchandise. If sales are low advertise to stimufeti anessif sales are high advertise V^i^Tw the proper amount of trade wrvW only temporarily, but perma^ Advertising Is the Arch T, theDollarft Pioneer Stationery St&re Special Feature Bill Louise Lovely IN "The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit" IN FIVE ACTS The Greatest Show on EarthThird Episode of stunt ftfa********* LURE OF THE CIRCUS Entitled "Beaten Back" and starring the famous Sells-Ploto Circus Clown Eddie Polo L*Ko Comedy"Bruin's a mm m& mmm* REX---Tomorrow More Charming Than Ever CONSTANCE TALMAOGE IN "Up the Road With Sallie" VtfWVWWVVWVWVtfVVVVVVSWWV^^^ PAGE THREE che Merchant** l.'.i To obtain perfect c&rbarl c'o^ies ttee MULTIKOPY5 it ^wili give cle&r, clean-^ut, and legible copies that will reflect 't$e Iper lection of your original letters. Let us know your requirements and our salesman will gladly call with samples. "ST 4mg jntlyi kx *S^^!Ti Troubles" 7:20 and 9 o'CIoek I |Caps her previous successes in this comedy. 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