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DIR. MoCANNa HOME.

Capt. D.. F.. Mccain has returned
from services in the army and will
again be associated with DR.. & Gilmore.
Captain Mccain entered the service
July 3 of :, last year and went to:
France the first of October. He was
recently discharged. -
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NEW DRUG !. CLERK,

Oscar Wiherg from Superior, Wis,
has accepted a. position with the City
Drug Store and expects to be here
permanently. Mr.. Wiberg comes here
highly recommended and has had
considerable experience as drug
gist. & @'8s. p 8 t., z
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-04
NEW DELIVERY TRUCK:

The 55Pfeifer ] Bakery has pur-
chased car from George Sterling
which they expect to use as a deliv-
cry truck 5: r. r., -: - ~. n ..
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BEMIDJI ssNEWSY~ NOTES

To each day interesting complete review Of the
cy social activities desire This
mention social items and briefs your
its maintenance Items phoned mailed toth Office
cated BY readers OF the and by the publishers
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Telephone 022.

guests sof Mr.. and Mrs. Italian L..
Huffman during the week. Captain
sO'Connor will soon return to Auburn
university, Alabama. where he is as
signed to duty. .z...
ss Rev.sM, D. Fuller, IN ethodist pastor
who preached in .Bemidji several
years ago, is in Bemidji to- spend
about a month from Mt. Dora, Fla.
Z He is a property owner in Bemidji.
The experience when he preached
here was unusual. For nineteen
Sundays he occupied the pulpit of
the Baptist church. -.
~ Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Nichols Of
Melrose are visiting at the home of
Mrs. Nichols parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
l. E. Raymond Of FROM, for short
time. - ~ + - .-. ~ : - -
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r: Miss Anna Northrup has gone stc
her home to visit for a short time.
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George gKeenan;Gso of the iBemidji
Motor. Service went to Duluth Satur
day on business and will return in
= few days -, rs. = - r. E::@[
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- Mrs. L. Morgan and Mrs. George
Till Of Yola smotored to Bemidji Sat-
urday' and called on friends.
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Miss Ava. Sonstrud IS confined at
her home due to illness. s. s.

Mrs. Barney Gibney motored to the
city Saturday and called on friends.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-04

E. y { Willis, real estate dealer, Is
rapidly improving in the hospital. He
had "A severe attack Of the "fiu" and
was taken with a cough, lasting two
weeks! He expects to be able to leave
the hospital some day this week. r.
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Mrs. E. j. Swanson of Minneapolis
was "a guest rat the F..s.H. Lubbock
home Friday and Saturday &. !
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Mrs. y. Elliott Of Pinewood was "a
between-train visitor in the city Sat-
:urday. sz.3. ~ . %
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4 John Stechman has gone to Flood
wood, N. D., where he has a posi-
ton as engineer on a threshing ma:
chine =, d !. ~ : ~. Z =
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I DR.. H. A. Lebel will remain in Be-
midi a few days longer. Office at
Vickers- Hotel, =. ~. : .. "a. = !
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Mrs g. Arnold of Turtle River
transacted business in the city be-
tween trains Saturday. s II: ..,.,1 + ii

Miss Blanche Smith Of Becida
motored to the city Saturday and
called son friends. -e'+g Is
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I Mrs. G. Wolfe and Miss Hedman
of Guthrie motoredt to Bemidji Sat-
urday to do shopping. =.

Miss Ella LaFontisee left last night
for the Twin Gitieswhere she will
purchase her fall stock for the La
Fontisee millinery. ,}s p DIR. ?, .>es'
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Sixteen-inch mixed, hard and soft
slab wood for sale. g per load. Be
midi Mfg. CO. Phone ISL. s4 T&F
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II Miss Hannah Spohnheim and Miss
Julia Nelson were weekend guests
Of Mrs. Belle Brown at Wayille. ..5 /
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James II cManus of Little Falls
visited over the weekend with rela-
tiyes lin the city, 4 no 4. sf.>-> :. n
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" Misses Margie and Cora Sawyer
who have been the guests Of relatives
in, Grant Valley for some time, re-
turned ,to3sttheir.. home at Cass Lake
Saturday s.ag-s.I .,s. - =. .
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III Miss Lenore Caldwell of Nashwauk
was the guest of Miss Dorothy Carson
Saturday and Sunday. She returned
,5tQ@her5;heme this morning, - a
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II .,.:Better ;. quality at less price"
seems too good to be true. but our
customers say they get just that at
Rich Studio, 20 10th st. Phone SOW.
:. 81 -57@o.*' =. ~ Z. 8141Mo
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SMUGGLINGBYAIR

river guard stationed at San Ignacio,
about sixty miles below Laredo, made
a report to his superior officer about
three weeks ago that while on duty
late at night he saw moving lights
pass high above him and heard the
whirr of a motor The object was
headed north and came from some
point to the south in Mexico. Similar
reports were made by other MeXicans
who asserted that they saw the
strange aerial machine 20 back and
forward across the Rio Grande on sew
eral different nights. Up to this time
no Confederation of the stories told by
the Mexicans have come from Ameri-
can river guards.
1t is recommended by the custom
authorities of both Mexico and the
United States who are on duty along
the Rio Grande that airplane control
service be established on both sides
of the river at the earliest possible
time.
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YANKS PERFORM
AMAZING FEAT

at Ostend and Zeebrugge and into the
North sea, there to work their havoc.
Invite Yankee Aid
The British naval authorities, realiz-
ing late in 1917 that the North sea
would have to be blocked, invited the
American naval authorities to attempt
to lay the barrier. The American
navy, having just at that time com
pleted with success experiments on
mining apparatus far more dangerous,
delicate, and powerful than any here
tofore used, took up the task.
For that purpose the mining cruiser
squadron was organized in December,
1917. This squadron is made up of ten
vessels and is under the command of
Capt. r. r. Belknap, U. S. N. One of
the officers told graphic but brief
story Of the desperately dangerous job
to which he and his squadron mates
were assigned.
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in 1894 captured it again and abolished

in 1894 captured it again and abolished
the archbishopric. The congress of
Vienna in 1S14-1S15 gave it back to
Prussia. 1t figured several times in
the war just closed, being bombarded
by allied aerial forces.
The modern city of Treves occupies
almost the exact site of the ancient
town. 1t nestles picturesquely in the
valley of the Moselle river and is sur
rounded by hills covered with the vine
yards from which comes the famous
Moselle wine. The newer section con-
tainS broad streets and modern build
ingS. The streets in the old part are
narrow and crooked. The Porta Mi
gra, an enormous fortified gateway,
was built by the Romans. In the
southeastern part of the city is the
palace of the Roman kings, now pic.
turesque mass of ruins. In the south
western section are the Roman baths
vast and impressive ruin, and short
distance away is Roman amphithea.
ter built in Emperor Trajan's time.
Famous Church and Relics.
One of the most interesting buildings
is the cathedral, one of the oldest
churches in Europe. 1t stands on the
site of a church used in the time of
Constantine. 1t bears the marks of
repeated reservations as the result Of
wars and the ravages of time. Among
the holy relics it contains are an al
legged nail from the cross and the ia
nous seamless Holy Coat" said to
have been worn by the Savior. Both
are held in great veneration and are
declared to have figured in many mi
raculous healings. A provincial mu-
scum contains many antiquities and a
number of rare books are in the mu-
nicipal library, including the illuminat-
ed CodeX Egberti, dating from the close
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er to Metz, however, and Treves be-
came the seat of powerful religious
empire.
Treves had bishop at a very early
Gate. -Four great saints of the fourth
century are connected with the city.
1t was the scene Of the first Danish
ment of st. Athanasius; st. Ambrose
was born there; st. Jerome first be-
came seriously interested in religion
while studying there, and st. Martin of
Tours went there in 3S5 to plead with
the tyrant MaXimus for the lives of the
hereto Friscillian and his followers.
The great bishop, st. Nicetius, built
splendid castle for himself at Treves
in the sixth century. The see became
an archbishOpric soon after the begin
ming of the ninth century and its tenn
pOral power was founded in S9S, when
Radbod acquired the rights of the
counts of Treves. Throughout the
middle ages the city abounded in re-
ligious foundations and was a great
seat of monastic learning.
Changed Hands Many Times.
With the transfer of the Frankish
capital to Metz began a long era of
changes for Treves. The city passed
to Lorraine III S43 and to the east
Frankish kingdom in so. 1t was sack
ed by the Mortimer IN SS1 after it had
become a permanent part Of what is
now Prussia. 1t became a free city
toward the close of the sixteenth CEN
fury. The French held it briefly three
;iIaFs in the seventeenth century and
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Laredo, Text is the firm convic-
ton of Mexican customs officials on
the lower Rio Grande border that
systematic smuggling by means of
powerful airplanes is being conducted
between that country and the United
States. The American authorities on
this side of the international boun-
Diary are not yet convinced that con-
traband goods are being carried in
this manner from one country to the
other, although they freely admit that
1t is possible if not very probable that
this is being done.
If evasion of the export and import
duties by this means is not already
being carried on 1t is only a question
of time when the airplane will be
brought into service for that purpose,
1t is predicted by custom officials here
and at other places on the Mexican
border
1t is with considerable circumstan-
tial detail that the story is told of
the aerial traffic by professional
emugglers. Jose Longorla, a Mexican
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Fort Monroe, Va.-Lying at anchor
In Hampton roads off Old Point Com
fort is the United States mining cruis-
er squadron whose commanders and
crews performed what is now termed
by naval authorities the world over
as the greatest naval offensive of the
war"
The feat which these men achieved
was the mining of the entrance to the
North sea from Scotland to the coast
of Norway, a distance of 240 miles. 1t
was an undertaking unprecedented in
naval history.
1t was Americas solution of the
German submarine problem, a solu-
ton so thorough and effective that it
rendered the German submarines al
most impotent.
The British previously had mined
the English channel, but the enemy
submarines came out from the bases
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-02-13

This little story without claimant
has come up from Florida:
An elderly Hoosier who has been
spending some time in Florida has
been giving his leisure to fishing. There
is a fine lake near where he has been
sojourning, and every day he was seen
in silent meditation, for he is a think
er, casting his line into the clear wa
ter, apparently with success. This
Hoosier is known for his kindness
and consideration of the feelings of
others.
One day while absorbed in his fish
ing an alligator slipped up to him,
snapped off one of his legs, and was
making off with it. "Here" cried the
fisherman, "come back. You've made
Il mistake. You've taken the wrong
leg!"
And so he had. The fisherman wore
an artificial leg, and this it was that
the alligator had taken.-Indianap
News.
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BIG GUNS BROKE
GERMANS HEART

grees in long-range commandments.
Gee, If the war hadn't quit we
would have shown those Germans
something about handling big guns"
sighed John Mason Of 1924 Mason ave-
nue., Chicago. "but we showed them
plenty as it was"
Three of the five guns, the naval
gunners said, We're in the American
sector in the Argonne and the other
two were with the French. One was
at scissors. They had a range slightly
in excess Of 30 miles. Each shell fired
weighed HOO pounds and it took 40
pounds of T. n. Z. to send it on its
path of destruction back of the Ger
man lines. When the shell hit and ex-
plOded it opened a crater in the earth
in which large sized American rail-
way box car could be buried.
Amazed the Poiu.
On the American sector the three
big guns were mounted within 200
yards Of one another and were always
fired in rapid succession. The concus-
sion was terrific.
The gunners told n story of French
soldier who happened to be standing
too near the giant cannon when they
were fired. When the first one was
fired the conclusion hurled him vio-
lently to the earth. He staggered to
his feet just as the second one let 90.
and down he went again. Up he
climbed again, only to be dashed to the
ground for the third time as the third
gun roared.
He got up, pale but excited, crying
in French what in American would
mean:
"This will end the war. This will
finish the Germans"
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lfEA]RNk
SHOCK.
MORE CHOLERA SERUM USED
Greater Value of Hogs Is Responsible
for More General Use Of This
Effective Remedy.

prepared by the United States Depart.
meut of Agriculture)
More hOg-cholera serum was manu-
featured last year than in any previous
year, despite a decrease in the amount
of hog cholera. The increased demand
for hog-cholera serum is ascribed to
the greater value Of hogs, with the
consequent greater loss when one dies,
and to the fact that hog raisers are be-
coming more appreciative of the value
of using serum manufactured under
federal supervision.
Department of agriculture officials
warn hog raisers against the indis-
criminate use of medicines or proprie-
tary preparations other than serums,
as experience has shown that nothing
except serum, properly prepared and
administered, is effective. Medicines
other than serums, according to de-
partment officials, are worse than use
less, because they not only fail to cure
or prevent disease, but allow the loss
of the animals they are advertised to
save, thus taking money from the
farmer and meat from the nations
supply.
AntitoXins, Serums, and other biolog-
ical products for the treatment of do
nestle animals must be prepared in es-
Establishments operated under licenses
issued by the secretary of agriculture
before they may be marketed legally
in interstate trade. Products of Ii
censed establishments are prepared
under the supervision of trained veter-
inarians and their assistants of the
bureau of animal industry of the de-
partment. Slxty-eight veterinarians,
in addition to forty-one inspectors and
clerks, are now engaged in this work
and are located in eleven states.
Federal regulations require that all
animals used in the preparation or
testing of hog-chOlera serum and
hOg-cholera virus, both of which are
used in the treatment of hogs in the
prevention of hog cholera be procured
direct from farms and not transported
through stockyards or similar places
where they might be exposed to con-
tagious diseases. AS an additional
safeguard all animals must not only
be inspected Ey bureau veterinarians
at the time they are presented for adj
mission to licensed establishments. but
each animal is carefully inspected at
the time of incubation as we'll as i'm
mediately before bleeding for the pro-
ductiOn of either virus or serum.
Veterinary biological products, after
being properly prepared, are tested by
laboratory methods and upon animals
TO determine whether they are free
from COMMUNICATING organisms and
will accomplish the object for which
they are intended.
Federal inspectors, as well as en-
plOyees of establishments, are required
TO keep satisfactory records relative
to the inspection and manufacture of
all products. In the year 1917. go,
041, 300 cubic centimeters of anti-hOg-
cholera serum we're collected in Ii
censed establishments. OF this amount
1867. 106 cubic centimeters were de-
stroyed as unfit for use.
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"Navy men now call it the greatest
offensive of the war" he said. "It
solved the submarine problem and 1t
might have been the agency for the
destruction of the German navy SOON
er or later had not the war ended
when it did. We mined almost direct
ly across from Bergen on the coast of
Norway to the coast of Scotland. The
length of the mine field was 240 miles,
and We made it % miles wide. 1t
was so complete that no ship could
pass either over or under it without
absolute destruction.
eve have record of about twenty
submarines that we know were de-
stroyed, and often in running parallel
with the field we came upon the bodies
of dead German sailors, so probably
many more than we actually figured
on were destroyed.
''Our men, in fact the entire fleet,
faced a constant danger of being
blown off the face OF the seas, for we
carried on the ships 100000 pounds
of II. n. T., which is the most power
full explosive known.
despite all this, we kept at the
task, and at the end of about five
months had completed it. We stayed
constantly on the inside of the field,
that is, on the side nearest Germany.
We left only narrow passageway
near Pentland Firth between the Ork-
ney islands and Scotland for our own
passage out.
Our most dangerous task strange
ly was not the laying of the mines, as
dangerous as that was. The most
dangerous one came after the mine
field had been completed. 1t was an
attempt to draw the German fleet out
into the North sea where we were to
engage it, so that the British fleet
could get in behind the enemy to de-
stroy it by gunfire or drive it into the
mine field.
"On October IS last the British gov
eminent made it known to the German
naval authorities through its agents
mining operations. We were ordered
to lay about as though busy at the
task, to act as decoy for the Ger
man fleet. We did it, but in doing 1t
we faced positive destruction our
selves.
81 want TO hand it to those new
navy lads. There were about $500 of
them and go officers on the ships, and
while we waited through that fearful
day which we never expected for a
moment to see the end of alive, they
went about their duties, laughed, sang,
and stood to their guns as only Amer
lean lads can do such things.
well, all that day we worked
along calmly, watching and waiting
for the sight of the Germans that
meant certain death.
THE Germans never came out after
us, and so here l am"
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New York.-That the capture of
the great fortress of Laon was
due to American naval guns mount
ed on fiat cars and manned by
naval gunners and that the navy
men would have blasted the Ger
man frontier to pieces if the war had
continued, was the assertion of naval
railway battery men who arrived here
recently on the transport Henderson.
The appearance of the big naval
guns of the 14-inch type on the west
front was one of the most unpleasant
surprises the Germans got throughout
the whole war, they declared There
were only five of them in action, but
they We're handled with such rapidity
that the bcwildered Teutons believed
there were 30 of them in France.
Mangin Gives U. S. Credit.
General Mangin the famous French
commander in that sector, himself
credits Rear Admiral Plunkett and his
naval gunners with the taking of Laon.
The big 14-inch guns pounded the for
tress to pieces and hurled giant shells
on railroad lines communicating with
the city. When the guns got into ac-
ton they were fired every three min
utes, a speed which the Germans con-
sidered impossible in handling such
monsters. 1t was this which gave rise
to the belief of the Germans that there
were 80 instead of five of the guns in
action.
There were six more of the giant
cannon on the way to France when
the fighting ended. They were of the
same bore, but were far more mobile,
as the five in action could only be
used from pie when they had to be
fired at an angle of more than IS de-
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Tt 7 is an odd coincidence that the
most modern occurrence in Prus-
sia-its occupation by American
troops-shOuld begin with its old
est city, observes a writer in the Kan
sas City Times. Treves, or Trier as
the Germans call it, into which the
YGnks marched recently, is older than
history, which begins for it half a CEN
fury before the birth of Christ. Then,
as the capital Of the Celtic Treviri,
one of the most powerful Belgian
tribes, it was captured by the Romans
under Julius Caesar. 1t was made
Roman colony under the name of Au-
gusta Treyirorum and was strongly
fortified. BY IA =. C. it had become
the most important northern outpost
of the Roman empire. 1t was an i'm
perial residence early in the Christian
era and the administrative center from
which Gaul, Britain and Spain were
ruled. The poet Ausonius described it
as Rome beyond the Alps" Constan-
tine The Great lived there about TWEEN
beauti, I'd it with public works and
magnificent private villas dotted the
hillsida all around. Some of the finest
Roman relics north of the Alps re-
main 10 this day in Treves.
Fr1:l the earliest times Treves, be-
cause If its strategic position and the
rich country surrounding it, was an
object of warfare. The Franks par
ticuIa.!y desired it and they made
many expeditions against it, They
continued their attacks after the Ro-
man occupation. Three times they
sacked it and held it for short periods
About the middle of the fifth century
they gained permanent possession and
made 1t their capital. The Frankish
kings gradually transferred their pow
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Captures Forty Huns,
Kills TWo-Given V. C.

Seattle.-Private Walter l..
Rayfield Of this city, who enlist
ed with Canadian regiment
soon after war broke out, today
is wearing Victoria Cross. He
obtained this coveted award by
rushing ahead of his company
into a trench occupied by Ger
mans. He bayonetted two and
captured ten. Soon after he
plunged into a group of 80 Ger
mans and captured them all.
Then he dashed through heavy
machine-gun fire and rescued a
wounded comrade.
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of the tenth century, and the Faust
and Gutenberg Bible of 1850.
The manufacturing interests of the
city include tanneries, iron f0undries,
dye works, furniture and piano fac
tories and glass painting works. An
extensive trade in wine, fruit and wood
was carried on before the war. There
are many lead, copper and tin mines in
the vicinity. The population before
1914 was about $4,000.
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Cow Has Quadruplets.

Adele, Ga.-A COW belonging to AL
bert Wood, near here, has just land
ed a sledge-hammer blow at the high
cost of beef by giving birth to four
well-developed calves, which give
every sign of arriving at the beef.
steak period in year or so.