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G. E. CARSON, President G. W. BARNWELL, Editor J, *-*M* ^W1 TTT, The Albanian1 5/* Of the twenty-seven teen came from the farm jurists, the greatest preachers young men of the farms bear of a better chance in the city BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE bEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. SUBSCRIPTION i BjtCarrior One fear ...._.-...........~...$6.00 Six Months 3.00 Three Months 1.50 One Month .55 One Week .15 THE WEEKLY PIONEER-Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address ftr, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS SMALL TOWNBIG STORE. but he makes no claim to genius. He says he merely tries to keep his mind open Jo new ideas, and move with the times, and possibly get a little bit ahead of them once in a while. But it is of little use to have up-to-date ideas if one doesn't spread them* He attributes his remarkable success entirely to advertising advertising in every possible form. Three years ago he set out to learn why one-third of the business in his state was going to mail order houses in large cities. His survejy proved to his satisfaction that it was because only 10 per cent of the local merchants were '/live advertisers." Since then he himself has made greater inroads into the business of the Chicago mail order houses. "You can do a big business anywhere," he* says, "if yoit-go about it right.Red Wing Republican "THE MACEDONIAN CRY" E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. -J. D. WINTER, City Editor Telephone 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer's name must be known the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica- tions for toe Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of 4acb We#k to insure publication in the current issue. RATES By Mall One Year *.$5.00 Six Months 2.50 Three Months' tmnnnn When a merchant builds a $100,000 storoe a town oil 3,000 people, he is very likely to be set down as crazy. That is, he people said of Fred of Devil's Lake, N.,D., when di that very thing bap.kMann in 1907.' "The town will never support a store half that size, they' declared. The old-timers laughed when he put in such new-fangled notions as a rest room for women, a booth that served coffee free on Saturday afternoon and musical programs for^special occa- sions. They told Mr. Mann that the elegance and pretentious- ness of his store would drive away the country folk, unused to such splendor. The store is now doing a business ofabout $750,000 a year. How does Mr. Mann do it? He is a natural born merchant, government has offered itself to the Methodist Episcopal church. It is rare, indeed, for a nation of over a mil- lion people to ask a church to take over its educational develop- ments, but this is just what the offer from the prime minister amounts to. The government is. prepared to co-operate in every possible way by providing sites, farm lands, buildings, and adds that: "The people will be your servants." Bishop Blake has inaugurated his work in Europe with definite, tangible projects and declares "that to turn aside from this offer, to stop our earfr to this cry would be tragic." Indications are that he will' carry out the wishes of this nation. Success to him. The "teleostereograph" sounds formidable and will add much to the interest of spelling contests in the years to come. The thing itself has just been tested and found workable,in Ihe United States. It is an invention by Edourd Belin of Paris./by which photographs can be wired with the same success as mere words. The invention has been demonstrated, but has not yet reached the practical stage. What opportunity for the joke- smith in years ahead about the strain on the wires when certain countenances are in trasit!Exchange. "The world do move"so do the underwold.' Jessie James would have to start with a course in our "kindergarten" and! work himself up to the top if he wanted to come back to earth and "cut any ice"\in the present-day crime wave. He sure] would have a job getting top of column, next to reading matter' space forthe antics he used to perform. I Make the immigrants knock at our gates if they want in*j This idea of having the latch string always out makes it'-% too easy for someone to not only "slip" in, but "slip" one over.las! You know the old saying: "At Heaven's gate you knock andj== it shall be opened. The devil's latch string is always out." as Which is it to beheaven or hell in America S This is the%time of year they make a ^pack-horse" out ofils! the mail man. "I'm a jackass for carrying a hundred-pound ias mail sack loaded with packages and parcels," said a Chicago! carrier/"but the law says that the carrier has to "carry" his I pack and cannot use a post-cart." It's a good thing that the'jS government employes obey the law, regardless Labor needs a few headaches to understand Capital and 155 Capital needs a few backaches to understand Labor, while Re- form needs a haircut to understand either.Irving T. Bush. '35* What we save on fuel this winter, we'll probably have to 3 spend for ice next summerso, what's the use? Please forgjve this unkind thought, our pencil "skidded." 5= A RAY OF HOPE. With cheaper shoes there should not be so much worry over the price i as ggj^ of gasoline.Nashvjllc Banner The fact that President-elect W. G. Hardmrr is obtaining the views of the people on public questions demonstrates that he posaeswea more than a single-track mind.Mankato Daily Free Press. A REPUBLICAN DUTY. Senator Lodge his Union league speech on Saturday talked of Liber- ty bonds and the fact that they are selling below par. He gave the impres- sion that the government could, if it would, make Liberty bonds sell at par. Since this is said to be possible, and since the Republican partv has mm .tfc ****&- MM* 1.25 nr im a A tnwn ofl Hesavs Can yo todexpect places ca 10 tb Brown Sugar for 4 tb Cut Loaf Sugar for Roasted Peanuts, lb.. illlllllNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHH a fne iz&fian fc If there is any good reason why the United.States senate should quibble over the house immigration bill the people would like to be informed as to just what it is. And the people have a right to call on their servants for information in this as, well as other public -matters.Mankato Daily Free Press. The big telephone corporations are certainly not lacking in nerve when they ask an increase of 30 per cent telephone rentals. Why are the large corporations allowed to 'step on the public every time they meet with "finan- cial loss, while the private individual has to grin and/bear it? With eveVy farmer selling his product at a loss, with $he possible exception of butter and eggs, it does seem" cruel that fat guys of the corporations should lose a dividend for a year or two.Park Rapids Journal. Governor-elect J. A. "O. Preus has reason to God bless the women. They are not hounding him for office.Mankato Daily Free Press. I Some of the dollar-a-year men who served their country at Washing-1 ton during the war were dear at the price, if those stories of wasted bil- lions are true.-Crookston Daily Times. The sheriff of Le Sueur county having recovered five automobiles stolen during the last month and in each instance has located the thief. The Blue Earth Post says he should be given the job off cleaning up the Twin Cities.Mankato Daily Free Press. I Stockings are some cheaper, they will go up again Christmas. Cloud Daily Times. There would be infinitely more sympathy with "Downtrodden Ireland" in this country if the disturbers over there were not confined1 lar class of religious adherents, while all others seem satisfied with existing' conditions.Williams Northern Light. I Thirty-two cases of whisky, planted in a grave in a Moorhead ceme-1 tery, may have been intended to gratify one of those numerous persons' who want to have their bones pickled in alcohol St. Paul Dispatch. i It has remained for the small boy to give a correct definition for friend.' beat it Akel friend is a feller who knows all about you and still sticks by Held Tnbu One?hundree yearrsa ag.o today When wilderness was here,n With powder in his gun, the man Went out and got a deer. But now the thing has changed, And on another plan, With powder on her cheeks, The "dear" goes out and gets the man. "Stolen'Northern News. majority in the senaten and the house, anpublic week, we ought DAILY WONEK? to one particu-1 since congress will meet next Senator.Lodge utterances. the necessary legislation almost immediately to force Liberty bond to sell at par. If this is not forthcoming, what depen- Philadelphia WATCH GERMANY! The import of toys alone from Germany this year is fully 50^ normal. Buy German City and Govt. Bonds now! LARGE PROFITS ARE UNAVOIDABLE Mark 10,000 German Govt, or City Bonds. Normal worth, $2,380.00 Can now be purchased for $225.00 Cash or Partial Payment T. BEAUDETTE Bemidji, Minn. Telephone 68 CHRISTMAS SPECIALS THIS WEEK 90c 60c 18c We know you- can do better here than ejsewhere. When you read these prices you will be con vincedf 98-lb Cremo Flour..$5.00 Fancy Box Apples.... 2.85 Cranberries,Nper lb.... 15c Creamery Butter, tt.. 50c 10 lb Gran. Sugar for 1.00 Eng. Walnuts, lb 25c 25 Bars Lenox Soap.. 1.00 Karo Syrup, p*er gal.. 80c 2 pkgs. Je^llo Powder 25c We Sell the Emerson Phonograph and Records* 20 per cent off this week on phonographs Do Not Overlook These Prices Come in and See Us EDWIN AKRE PHONE 265-W NYMORE For Your Christmas Table CHRISTMAS SPECIALS Head Lettuce Wax Beans Celery Cabbage 55 Schallott's Green Mint Parsley Radishes Tomatoes Celery. Cranberries Mixed Nuts and Candy ChickensTurkeysGeese Fancy Xmas Beef Ilemy Millet 814 Beltrami Phone 295 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiH DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS ~7r i -St. i T.ATTTi HATTIE Several persons rrom L.ake Hatile attended) the surprise party at the Beeida, hall Saturday night The party wa^ given in honor of 'the twenty-second wedding anniversaiy of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trog of Be cida. A very enjoyable time was had by all. 36 speed! -co/n/bff/ AM K. W., w}io spoke to You Last Month, I am not Hand some to look upon, but I am Prompt, Alert, Active, Strong and there is a say ing "Handsome is as Hand some does." To -prove my Faithfulness and Dependability, I shall give myself a "Character," as your Mother's Old and Faithful Servants did once upon a time when Servants were a Pleasure and not a Problem. My Family is Old as Time Itself. My last Name is Watt I was named after the Promi nent Scottish Family of that Name, and am Proud of it and I will tell you a little of te history of that side of My' Family. Of course, you know by this time that I am Electric Power, or^Force, which has existed thrdughout the Ages. but which first was studied and written about by \Dr. William Gilbert of Queen Elizabeth of England's time. Galvani, .an Italian, is credited with first detecting a current, of flow, of Elec tric Force, and his name is usedv a* the .basis for the name of the Process of Gal vanizing Iron. N Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stillwell And children and Mr. and. Mrs). Thea Ritchie and children spent Sunday at the Haipel home. G. Hoghn went to Park .Rapids ^Sunday afternoon ito ser# on the petit juiy Thofa Davis went with Mr Hrglin to Park Rapids, from there \L Davis expects to leave tor the western coast Mr and Mrs. John Lushen-" ancUhe^countrj districts attractions the ox -protection! "THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1920 *v Again on the fast pre-war basis. To sunny Southern California in less than three days. All Pullman exclusivelyfirst-classtrain. Ev- ery comforteven a special barber and valet. Automatic electric safety signals heavily ballasted road-bed and heavy rails. So you go speedily, comfortably and safely. Here's the schedule: Your through sleeper leaves Minneapolis via North Western Line 6:15 P. M., St. Paul 6:55 P. M. Gdes on the Los Angeles Limited next morning at Omaha and arrives Los Angeles 1:30 P. M., Pasadena 2:20 P. M. (third day.) Here's anothergood trainthe Continental Limited. Leaves Omaha 1:25 A. M. (sleeper ready 10 00 P. M.) Arrives Los ^Angeles 9:30 A^-M. (2nd morning). Observation, standard ""and tourist sleepers, coaches and diner. Mrs. Greigg and Miss Pearl and Bemidji shoppers Tuesday. Glen Allen drove to Bemidji Tues clay returning Wednesday iMiss Matilda Craig of Itasca ia staying with Mrs. Haglin duiing Mi Iloglin's fatay in Park Rapids Because of the snow which fell Sunday night and the ibad drifting since, sleighs are replacing cars in 4 a Connection for Continental Limited leaves Minneapolis via North Western Line 9:10 A. M, St. Paul 9'55 A. M., arrives Omaha 11-15- P. M. Via Great Western leaves Minneapolis 3 25 A M., St. Paul 9 00 A. M_ Arrives Omaha 10 36 P. Fdr information ask Your local ticket agent E. Hawley, Gen'l Agt, U. P- System 618 Metropolitan Life Bide, 125 S. Third St., 'Phone Main 9456, Minneapolis UNION PACIFIC SALT LAKE ROUTE CKaptrer 2~ "Enter Kilo Watt" A Serial Story of Mr. Kilo Watt. The Thrilling Tale of the Wonders of a Winder Worker, Told in Monthly Install- ments by Kilo Watt, himself. P. S.Don't miss a single chapter In the same way the name of Volta, another Iatlian, who developed the first suc cessful electric battery, is used to designate "Voltage," which is: The electrical pressure which sends electric current through a wire just as "pressure" designates the force which sends watei through a pipe.. Thus a "60- volt" current of electricity differs from a "120-volt" cur rent of electricity as a 15- p^ound water pressure differs from a 30-pound water pres sure. Water is tra nm it ted through hollow pipes elec tric energy through solid wires. Water runs through the hole in the pipe, the out side of which cpnfines and presents the loss of the wa ter. In the transmission -of electrical energ*y the copper core of the wire corresponds to the "hole" in the pipe, and the insulation corresponds to the pipe itself, confining and preventing the escape of electric energy, or current. I shall continue My Story next month. Meantime, don't forget to call upon Me for Service. KILO WATT. Published by MINNESOTA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER CO. Elks Bid*-Phone 26 A.iA- Aj-.^r-^sf^ar^ ^1&,**^^1^^gii^ J&&&* &&MK1 'U. 15 i i[