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lowest. 4 exact, and can be bought at THE CITY We mix paints toorder. Jones J. O. Johnson has accepted position on the Pioneer. Daly's Nen Nights in a Bar Room at the City Opera House tonight. Words are weak as water when it comes to telling of the wonder ful cures of Mark's Lung Balsam. M. G. Siocum was hobnobbing with friends at Blackduck last night and incidentally talking business. Twenty-five dollars discount on all Singer sewing machines sold during balance of the week. Bisiar & Cardiff. B. Bishop went to Cass Lake this morning to be present at the big pine sale which takes place there today. For coughs, colds or any lung trouble do you know Mark's Luna: Balsam is the best? Try a bottle. Ask your druggist. B. A. Grim, of the Fitger Brewing Co., was in the city last night looking up the trade. Mr. Grim is an old friend of County Commissioner Wes Wright. The latter gentleman knew him in Duluth when he drove a delivery wagon for the company. He is now one of its most popular salesmen. DR. FOSTER DENTIST MILES BLOCK. Bemidji JJereantile Gompaoy FREE! with every purchase of a pound of Sultan Coffee a you are entitled to a hand some Dish, a Sugar Bowl, a Cake Plate, a Vegetable Dish, a Cup and Saucer, or Milk Pitcher. The dish alone is worth the price asked for the coffee. FREE! Bemidji flttereafltile Gompany SBBBB 1 When Looking For Christmas Presents YOU CAN FIND THE MOST USEFUL AND ELEGANT AT THE BERMAN EMPORIUM We have anew line of Cloaks just received, a beautiful selection of Waists, Skirts, Tea Jackets, Muslins, Linnens, some elegant novelties in Silk Evening Shawls also a., mm line of Kid Gloves in the newest shades. 0\ir Millinery Line is most complete for the holiday trade and prices the Any of these goods will make a most desirable present which will please the most THE BERMAN EMPORIUM Hark ye to the peasant strain. People are often saved by taking Mark's Lung Balsam. H. H. Wheelock is taking a lay off and will spend tomorrow at his home at Maple Ridge. German Lutheran services will be held at the Norwegian church on December 6, at 2:30 p. m. Call on A. E. Winter the lead ing jeweler for up-to-date goods. Next door to First National bank. See Sample. Swichel with Daly's "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" at the City Opera House tonight. Wm. Kelly and Hugh McDon aid were down from Kelliher yes terday shaking hands with their many Bemidji friends. E. H. Jerrard sent up his crew of plumbers to Blackduck last night to put in the heating plant in P. H. McGarry's Teepetonka hotel. Not a game of blind man's buff. We don't ask you to sro blindly in to the purchase of a single bottle of Mark's Lung Balsam. It's a sure cure for cough, throat and lung troubles. The quarantine on the Blake resort has been raised. The house was thoroughly fumigated and the only case of small-pox developed was taken to the quar antine hospital. Without going into details at this time, will mention that we are placing in our large basement store and garret the largest and best stock of toys ever brought to town. Please call and look it over. J. Peterson, Jr. The opening of the skating rink which was announced to occur the latter part of of this week has been delayed by weather un favorable to its construction. I will be some time yet before the rink will be ready for business. George Cook, of the Brainerd Lumber Company, was in the city on business today. Mr. Cook was returning to Brainerd after attending the pine sale at Cass Lake. He reports there was quite a large attendance of lumbermen. Assisant Manager Sherman, of the City Opera House, believes it pays to hustle, and accordingly heralds for the performance of "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" at the city opera house tonight, were distributed on the M. & I. passeneger train last night. The hardware stores all report a large sale of traps. One store yesterday outfitted two young men who intend to put in the winter trapping on one of th smallstreams north of Northome,, where there is said to be the best trapping ground for otter and muskrats in the Northwest. Mrs. E. M. Britton, one of the settlers of the town of Northern, was in the city yesterday and paid the Pioneer office a pleasant visit. She reports that a nu mber of improvements are being made on the Britton property. The erection of a new barn is one of several improvements which, when completed, will make the Britton home one of the cosiest in the country. I EapaaBBgpgHB A. 0. Johnson, of Turtle River, is at the Markham. W. E. Verity, the Wadena editor, is in town. Mrs. F. P. Hannatin is at Long Prairie today, the guest of rel atives. R. J. Albrant, of the Blackduck Furniture Company, is in the city today. L. R. Barto, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Sauk Centre, is at the Markham. Solon Finley is down from the camps in the vicinity of Bullhead Lake greeting his Bemidji friends today. Thomas Moore, of Wadena, re. turned to his home this morning after having looked over several towns in this vicinity. Landlord Geil, of the Remore hotel has been ill for the past sev eral days and is at present in pacitated from his duties at the house. A. R. Holston, of Crookston, one of the prominent lawyers of that city and county attorney of Clearwater county is in the city on business today. Chas.JWoodward left today for Duluth where he will title at the United States land office on a valuable timber.and stone claim in the range country. December is usually the ban ner month for marriage licenses at the clerk of courts office but up to the present time not a sin gle one has been issued. Rev. Higgins announces that during the present winter he in tends to distribute nearly half a ton of literature to the lumber jack in northern Minnesota. The Fitger Brewing Company contemplates the erection of a cold storage warehouse at Kelli her, to supply its large and con stantly increasing tradde in this vicinity. Robert McCall, who is in the employ of Backus & Brooks as a cruiser, came in from the woods last night. Mr. McCall has been working in the vicinity of Bena for some time past. M. E. Thurston has bought the building formerly occupied ..by Reed's photograph gallery and will move it from it's present loca tion to a lot between Eleventh and Twelfth streets where it will be utilized as a barn. The "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" band gave a concert in front of Barker's drug store today. The band is one of the best that has ever been heard in the city. Its rendition of Suppes, "Light Cavalry," a standard overture was highly appreciated. George Anderson underwent a delicate operation at St. An thony's hospital the first of the week and is at present doing very nicely. Mr. Anderson has deen suffering from stomach trouble for some time. He has consulted the most eminent spe cialists and even took a trip to the old country. As a result of the operation at St. Anthony he hopes todisappointed. regain hisehealth and man hi wil 1 no friends hop that he Wm. lx)ughead, who has been at St. Anthony's hospital this week suffering from an attack of typhoid-pnuemonia, which for a time was considered very serious is doing very nicely at present. Against Hard Proposition. A lumberman who attempted to beat the Pioneer Employment office out of a dollar last night soon learned that he was up against a hard proposition. He secured his transportation to one of the camps and bolted through the door. An overtaker was dis patched after him at once and the woodsman was overhauled at the M. &. I. depot where he paid the monev. Not Guilty. James Price announces to the Pioneer today that the paper was in error last night when it stated that lie had caught an eighteen pound pickerel, Mr. Price is something of a sportsman and would like to claim the credit, but as the fish was captured by a friend of his he does not feel that he can do so. O A CASS LAK E Tourist Rogers and J. F. Miner to Go for Ten Rounds at City Opera Honse. Quite a party of loval sports w7ent to Cass Lake at noon today to attend the Rogers-Miller glove contest which is to be held at the opera house tonight and in which there is considerable local inter est. The exhibition promises to be fast. Both men have reputa tions and both are in tine fettle. The beating favors Rogers at present but the colored man is not without friends who will take the money even and all that is going at odds. Preliminary to the event of the evening there will be a five round sparring match between John Bonner, of this city, and Don Stevenson. The latter is an old timer and was once celebrated in the coast country. Sam Sutor will referee both contests. AMUSEMENTS Daly's "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" will be the attraction at the City Opera House tonight. The company arrived in the c"ity this morning from Blackduck, where it opened the new opera house last night. Its carries its own band and orchestra. During the course of the bill tonight a number of pleasing specialties will be introduced. The seat sale at Barker's has been larger in advance than for any attrac tion appearing at the local house this season. BEMIDJI SOUVENIRS Paper Weights Salt and Pepper Shakes Vases, Etc. which make nice Christ mas Presents Remember, we have a Large Variety of Christ mas Goods, and prices are always right. If you haven't received one of our Free Photograph Tickets call for one and be sure to bring it with you and have the amount of your pur chase punched. THE FAIR VARIETY STORE 304 Third Street West. i i*#WWA* CHRISTMAS! The Happiest Time of the Year EVERYBODY JMM TO RECEIVE PRESENTS, AND When Buying know they have the best value for their money. W have a line we feel safe in recommending to give entire satisfaction Watches. Diamonds Clocks and Silverware The Biggest Variety in Bemidji Chains, Lockets, Brooches Scarf Pins, Rings, Cut Glass Hand Decorated Chine*. evnd So\ivenir Chines A Orders for ENGRAVING should be placed now to avoid disappointment r*r i anything you may select until Xmas We will be pleased to lay aside E. A BARKER. 513 Third Street, Bemidji. Minn. THE NEW LIGHT CURE IS THE CVRE THAT CURES Tho Now Light iH'in'tnitrs all llvlilK tissues. tl'jorofore killing all disease irittms. It stimulates Sceretlorii it stimulates circulation. deep down In the bbdj as well tison'tlie sur face. Every case of Consumption 111 tin curly Htajrofc is I'II red liy the Lttflil. Wo cure nil forms of Dyspepsia. Liver-Diseases, Eczema, Nournltfla, Rheumatism, Nervous Prostration, all painful. Inflammatory ca tarrhal Diseasesof Women. W E SPECIALIZE IN FEMALE TROUBLES For all Diseases of Women It Is peerless. Ills soothing to the nerves, the worst pain cured in a few minutes. HOVRS: 9 to 12 A. in. 2 to 6 p. m. Consultation Free The New Light Cure StVEDBACKlBLOCK BEMIDJI. MINN. HENRY BUENTHER Naturalist and Taxidermist aoH Second St. Potottlce Box No. 686 BEMIDJI, MINN. BIRDS, WHOLE ANIMALS, FISH, FUR RUGS AND ROBE* and GAME HEADS mounted to order and for dale. I carry at all times a good nssortim-.it of INDIAN RELICS and CURIOS. FUR GARMENTS made to order, repaired and remodeled I URSIn season bought. I guarantee my work mothproof and the most lifelike of any in the state MY WORK IS EQUALLED BY FEW, EXCELLED BY NOJfE A Deposit Required on All Work YOUR TRADE SOLICITED SUBSCRIBE FOR Th Daily Pioneer