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7 is 'if BRITAIN'S WAGE BILL HAS INCREASED TWO BILUON ANNUAUY M$_i This Increase H Been On of if'* Biggest Factors in Higher ''if' fLiving Costs '.By Floyd MacGriff ^International News Service Staff *t Correspondent. *v. London, June 1.In* wanes of British vorknien.have ocen increased by 12,000,000,000 annually during nant factors in the ever-increasiug cost of living, 'he says, rising costs ot raw materials, being the other. The general cost of all commodities, he states, has risen 50 per cent in the past two years. High prices soon will begin to fall, he believes,' but high w%ges will remain. As regards food, there has been less profiteering in that necessity in Great Britain than in any other com modity, owing to strict government control of essentials. This control, he says, costs the average household abput, three cents a week, but wasMonday, well worth it, for the Pood Ministry has maintained lower food prices in England than those prevailing in any other part of Europe. The anday. nual cost of the Ministry is about 120,000,000. and the government pror poses to continue ituntil control can sately be removed and ordinary coni petition relied ,upon to keep prices High prices of most commodities & a i have been driven up by the profiteer, 35 -^McCur&y asserts,- while the Labor p*- _ar ty has! been .responsible for trying to ^T^ keep ahead of the profiteer wlt ^age .,v increases. MisJeeUaneous.-things like rubber, timber, oil and leather, he says, have Increased in price to this extent: What could be purchased for tyro years ago now costs 16.60. Miner als, such as coal, iron and steel, have, advanced 50 per cent in that period. Yet wholesale food prices have ad vanced but 5 per cent in that time, and retail dealers charges have risen but 15 per cent, making foods gener ally 20 per cent dearer today than in 1918. The Pood Ministry, working along lines laid down by the late Lord Rhonnda, has denied the food trade the opportunity, to profiteer, says Mc Curdy &< fl*. TUMXE.LAKE Peter Becker transacted business 5 in Bemidji Saturday. Miss Mildred Dickinson and Har- opDickinson, who have been attend ing high school in Worthingtorij^ar Tived home Friday. 'hr.^ Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Crandall are entertaining relatives. Misses Alice and Inez Butler visit ed friends in Bemidji Saturday. The schoolmates and friends of ."Miss Mildred Dickinson and Harold ^Dickinson pleasantly surprised them Saturday evening. All report a pleas ant time. A. P. Reeve transacted business in Bemidji Monday. Miss Jennie Lawrence visited the Miss Thursday. JohButlers Peterso visited 0. W. Olsen Sunday. .l- G, W Randall has pudchased a new team. Any one wishing team work would do well to see Mr. Cran dall. Mrs. George McTaggart is spend ing a few days at their summer cot tage on the shores of Black lake. WARNING I, sw. kwrttan. torpid Um. ll 1 TheFbcxi\buEat MakesTfo WhatYouAre Letyour choice of foods be pleasing to the taste butmore than that have them building foods. will delightyourpalate and giveyouhealthfiil strength through nourishment. & Try Crape*Nuts at breakfast Its worth, while, 1^3 "There's a Reason" ftbdehy PoatumCereal Co. battle Creek.T^dx "7 Mrs. Chas McDonald has been en joying a visit from her mother, Mrs. Braton of Erskine. Clarence Hendrick^ who has recent ly re-enlisted with the U. S. navy lett the village on Wednesday. He will enter a nayal training station. Mrs. John Thofpe and daughter, Marguerite, left on Saturday for( a visit'with friends in Posston. Alf Rain visited with his moth er and sister in Bemidji on Sunday. Wm. Weinch of Bagley spent Sun day with his parents. here on Tuesday, having finished her year's workM at. BagleIhigh school.]r Burneece BurAeld was a Bemidji visitor on. Saturday."' 1 ij nu w, day, whidh was held at the Walter Clara Renne returned to her home jjay farm north of Bagley. Stores T,. I,DW flnlhrt ha lt Sam Desjardlnes arrived here Sun day for a visit with relatives and friends. Sam is employed in a store at Coleraine. Henry Hanson was a Bemidji visit or on Sunday. Madeline Hanson returned to her home on Sunday, after having made an -extended visit at the Brumpton home. Martin Nelson was a Bagley visit or on Friday. Sadie Fultz of Bagley spent Wed nesday in the village. Ben Bredeson, wife and little son, Charles, motored to Barnesville on where they expect to visit for some time. Mina Norley went to Bagley Fri- "Y The Picket show played on Fri day evening to. a large audience. Leo Pawek returned to his home here oh inursday after completing his Junior year at the Bagley High school. i '.^/v,, ItfrSiErvin.Gordon went to Under wood, the latter part of the week, where she will visit with her par ents who live at that place. j|rs. W, ^:j,Gordon accompanied by*her children! Margaret, and Wil liam, left on Sunday. for her former home at Alexandria where they ex pect to visit for some time. They will 4e joined later by Mr. Gordon and will reiurn'home by way of Min neapolis and Pelican Rapids. /Dorothy and Gordon.Noyes left on Monday for Duluth. They will visit at the L. G. Fairchild'home for tenreliable Alf Rain and Henry Hanson mot ored to Bemidji Friday evening to attend the graduation exercises at that place. Miss Myrtle Rain, form erly of Shevlin, was a member of the graduating class. Mildred Burfield arived home on Wednesday from Boxville, where she has been teaching the past year. jcifin if karohlid spent Friday in Crookston. Mrs? Henry5 H. Brpmighan was a Bemidji visitor on Friday. Clemens Austin, who has ben vis iting here and in Bagley returned to Duluth on Saturday. Mrs: Taylor and children left on Thursday for an extended* visit at Minot, N. D. Tie-Shevlin school closed this week, the primary and Intermediate rooms on Tuesday. The remainder of the week the pupils, of tht gram mar room were busy,with final exam- WATC TH E BI 4 StoTTiacfcKidneyS'Heari-Livet Keep the vital organs healthy by regularly taking the world's stand ard remedy for kidney, liver, bladder and uric acid troubles COLDMEDAL Tb National Ramedy of Holland tot ctntariasandandorsad by Qnaan Wllbal mina. At all druggtota, thraa sixes. Leak far tk* Mai GaM M4al.M mwmtw Vm r cU)Se fro riMr fcv^* \^j^^J^&B^dk^^ *fc 1 fe THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 120 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER a^r- fAOI PAC E TORE* lnations. The following class pf eleven pupils completed the eight grade. Albert Gordon, Oberlih Thorpe, Hazel Pitt, Vera Phelp, Wal ter Halverson, Agnes Eldevik, Hat tie Gordon, Zelda Nelson Manning Rider Olga Hahnem, Lillian okaro hlid. Mrs. Geo. Noyes and son Glenn, spent a few days during the week at the F. A. Noyes home. A fine baby girl arived at the Nick Hanson home on Monday, May 31. Mother and.child doing nicely.' Quite a number ot the people of Shevlin and' surrounding country at tended the Towhley picnic on Satur- m.w Gordon Noyes returned t,o. hism home here on Saturday from Bagley, having finished his high school course at that place. ft m_ 3 TEN LAKE RIPPLES if*************** The Silver Lake Farmers' club will meet Saturday, June 6th, at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sfrecker at eight p. m. Everybody is cordially invited to atend and meet our County Agent Mr. Dvoracek. Af ter the meeting there will toe danc ing, so let's go. Stump pullers are getting quite popular in the Ten Lakes district. Mr. Rafferty, Ed Larson and Albin Carl son have received their new Tiped stump puller and are now ready to meet all comers. Carl Strecker and Harry Gates are the. owners of a Her cules stump puller as are* also Joe Hamack and "Big Chris" Melsness. Christ says it is only a litle one, it only weighs about 800 pounds, one he cat) pull around by hand. If you don't believe it, you better take a look at Christ before you tell him so. The Immanuel Ladies' Aid will have a fish pond and basket social at the Buck Lake school house Sat urday, June 12. The, proceeds are to go toward the purchase of an organ for the English Lutheran church. As usual, the ladies are working in a good cause, so let's all dig down in the old sock and help them put it over. We have ben informed by pretty authority, that the Ten Lak- ers are short one perfectly good bachelor/ Ed. Rogholt and Miss Ether Berg ,of Harris being united "for bet ter/and for worse/' The'ceremony wali performed by Judge Harris at Bemidji.] there is anything this country can afford to lose, it is a few more bachelors that way. The happy young couple are making their home on the farm of the groom, who has been busy Improving the same for the last couple of years. The entire com munity joins in the best wishes for the happy young couple.. -y-J, IF KIDNEYS ACT BAD TAKHJALTS VQJIIQICSS* Say Eackache Ia Sign Yo Have Been Eating Too Much Moat When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means yon have been eating too much meat, says a well known authority. Meat forms, uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them like you relieve your bowels removing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night Either consult a good, reliable physician at once or get from your: pharmacist about four ounces of Jad {77 Salts take a tablespoonful in a glass X/f of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations-to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no== ldnger irritates, thus ending bladder Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It Is inexpensive, can not injure and makes a delightful, effervescent lithia-water drink. '.it'' BEMIDJI cap. THE PROFESSOR dropped ia, LAST NIGHT and said. HE HAOapuixle. YOU KNOW he speak*. FIFTY 8EVEN kinds. OF HIGHBROW talk. BUT HE'D just beard. TWO FELLOWS talking, SOMETHING LIKE thlt. "HERE'8 THE real cheeses ON THE kind of butt. FOR STEADY stuff." "SPILL IT," ssld the other. SO THE first one said. "irs GOT tbe goods, ANO PEP and all. JUST TOUCH one off. AND YOU'LL be living, THE LIFE of RelUy. I FELL for it, and gee, I'M JAKE for keeps. AND 81TTIN' on tbe world." AND THE second one said. "JUST 8LIP us one. FOR THE double.0."' AND THAT was all. I LAUGHED and pointed. OUT THE window. AND THE prof read. THE ELECTRIC sign. AND HE was on. THE SIGN Just saldv "THEY SATISFY." 0 PlllllinUIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIHIIIUIIIIIIUIIIIIIIItllllllllUltlllUIUM inan fc $* to uainted**Jtf A good portion of a man's success in business depends upon his acquain tance. He must be known and favor- W ably known. 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