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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-07-07

Here was an assay slip, bearing figures
and rotations which Robert Fairchlld
could not understand. then a legal doe.
ument, sealed and stamped, and bear.
ing the words: M y 6@32.7 aE5
County Of Clear Greek, :. s,,.
State of Colorado. C." .>r {. n
n DEED PATENT. E &Ffr,s.$;
n. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE
PRESENTS: That on this day of our
Lord, February %, 1892, Thornton W..
Fairchild, having presented the neces.
sary affidavits and statements Of as
sessments accomplished in accordance
with r. G.'..
: Z Omit, trailed in endless legal phrase.
ology, telling in muqdled, attorney-like
language, the fact that the law'sha
been fulfilled in its requirements, and
that the claim for which Thornton
Fairchild had worked was rightfully
his, forever. Fairchild reached for
the age-yellowed envelope to return
the papers to their resting place. But
he checked his motion involuntarily
and for a moment held the envelope
before him, staring at it with wide
eyes. Then, as though to free by the
stronger light of the window the
haunting thing which faced him. he
rose and hurried across the room, to
better light, only to find it had not
been imagination; the words still
were before him, a sentence written
in faint, faded ink proclaiming the
contents to be Papers Relating to the
Blue Poppy Nine" and written across
this word in the holder, harshe1
strokes of man under stress of emo
ton. word which held the eyes OF
Robert Fairchild fixed and staring, q
word which spelled books of the past
and evil threats Of the future, the
single, ominous word:
"ACCURSED!"
Continued in next issue
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-07-07
TENSTRIKE

The large crowd who attended the
base ball game at Blackjack on July
4th, were somewhat disappointed at
the attitude taken by some of the
upstate fans after the umpire's de-
cision was made in the first inning.
1t almost looked as though Tenstrike
was going to make few scores,
which was absolutely more than what
some of the fans could endure. The
matter was finally settled in the
usual manner that or Tenstrike 'hav-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-07-07

Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Sorenson made
2 business trip to Walker last Fri
day. G. .I5:5. H. t Il. 5@4t5
Clarence Travis made a business
trip to Bemidji last week Wednes-
day. i. ..,t.*.. ::
Mrs. w. E. Knappen and Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Ames left last week for Mimi
eapolis where Mrs. Knappen will en-
terrain the Veterans Hospital.
+ Theo. Gerlinger, "Joffre" mana
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-07-07

cxtenuation. I made one mistake
that of fear-and In committing one
error, shouldered every blame. 1t
makes little difference now. I am
dead--and free. :
my love to you, my son. I hope
that wealth and happiness await you.
Blood of my blood flows in your veins
and strange though 1t may sound to
you--it is the blood Of an adventurer.
They say, once in the blood, it never
dies. My wish Is that you succeed
where l failed---and God be with you!
YOUR FATHER"
For long moment Robert FairChild
stood staring at the letter, his heart
pounding with excitement, his hands
grasping the foolscap paper as though
with desire to tear through the
shield which the written words had
formed about n mysterious past and
disclose that which was so effectively
hidden. So much had the letter told
and yet so little! Dark had been the
hints Of some mysterious, intangible
thing. great enough in its horror and
its far.reaching consequences to cause
death for one who had known of It
and living panic for him who had
perpetrated It. In that super.calm-
ness which accompanies great agita-
ton, Fairchild folded the paper,
placed it in it's envelope, then slipped
it into an inside pocket. A few steps
and he was before the safe once more
and reaching for the second envelope.
Heavy and bulky was this, filed
with tax receipts, with plats and blue
prints and the reports of surveyors.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-07-07

while Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Fellows
witnessed this show on Thursday even
iI:e. J.: @ X, yyS.f \ a.i
w, Rice of Bemidji visited here
one day last week. &sJ I.
Homer Walter left Monday morn
ing for two months visit with his
parents at Osseo. 20. ''...'t ! .'..V
1 Mr.. and Mrs. J. F Hermann left
Saturday for Crookston, where they
visited friends and relatives over the
Fourth. &r n u W
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-07-07

gerswas a. business caller here, on
day last week. - ~, ..,e..s ..sjt n
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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13
]. HIRAM bRUCE'S
GOOD FORTUNE
AVOIDED CONSUMPTION BY THE
TIMELY USE OF BEARS
EMULSION

About twelve months ago / con
tracted a very severe cold which left
me with a dry hacking cough I could
not get rid of. Cod Liver emulsion
was recommended and l took two bot
ties, without any relief whatever, then
! took bottle of guaranteed remedy
and after taking it / returned the
empty bottle and got my money back
as 1t did not benefit me at all.
! felt right much discouraged, but
decided to try Bears Emulsion which
had been recommended to me by a
friend, and after taking two bottles
am entirely cured and there is no indi-
cation Of the cough returning.
heartily recommend it to any one
suffering from cough or cold they
have never been able to rid them
selves of.
Very truly yours.
j. Hiram Bruce
Bears Emulsion is the most depend
able remedy for coughs, colds, bronchi-
tbs and other lung troubles. Recon-
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gists.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13

the way, just the same, I notice."
spoke up somebody with chuckle.
divorce is a towards retreat from
the battle of life" Captain Harris said
this. He spoke slow and decided Cap
tain Harris is old and rich, and not
married. He's the hotels star boarder,
and what he says, goes, most always.
But it didn't this time. 1 can remem-
Der just how old Mr.. Carlton snapped
out the next.
'Speak from your own experience,
Tom Harris, an I'm thinkin' you amt
fit ter judge. I tell you divorce is
what three fourths of the husbands an
wives in the world wish was waitin'
for 'em at home this very night. But
it amt there" l knew, of course, he
was thinking of his wife. She's some
cross, guess, and has two warts on
her nose.
There was more, quite a lot more,
said. But I've forgotten the rest. Be
sides, they weren't talking to me then,
anyway. So I picked up my thread
and slipped out of the store, glad to
escape. But, as l said before, didn't
find many like them.
OF course know now-what divorce
is, mean. And it's all settled They
granted us some kind of a decree or
degree, and we're going to Boston next
Monday.
It's been awful, though-this last
year. First we had to go to that hor-
rid place out west, and stay ages and
ages. And hated it. Mother did. too.
l know she did. I went to school, and
there were quite lot of girls my age.
and some boys; but didn't care much
for them. couldn't even have the fun
of surprising them with the divorce we
were going to have. found they were
going to have one, too-every last one
OF them. And when everybody has
thing, you know there's no particular
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COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H. PORTER

sale; and you ought to have heard
those men laugh. There were six of
them sitting around the stove behind
me.
"Oh, yes, my little maid" (above all
things / abhor to be called little
maid y one of them cried. you can
buy them if you've got money enough;
but l don't reckon our friend Jones
here has got them for SALE"
Then they all laughed again, and
winked at each other. CHATS another
disgusting thing-winks when you ask
a perfectly civil question: But what
can you do? Stand it, that's all.
There's such lot Of things we poor
women have to STANDBY Then they
quoted down and looked very sober
the kind of sober you know is faced
with laughs in the back-and began
to tell me what divorce really. was.
/ can't remember them all, but | can
some of them. OF course / understand
now that these men were trying to
be smart, and were talking for each
other, not for me. And | knew it
then-a little. We know lot more
things sometimes than folks think we
do. Well, as near as / can remember
it was like this:
"a divorce is a knife that cuts
knot that hadn't ought to ever been
tied" said one.
"a divorce is jump in the dark"
said another.
T4e- y.
frying pan into the fire." piped up Mr..
Jones.
"a divorce is the comedy of the rich
and the tragedy of the poor" said
little man who wore glasses.
divorce is a nice smushy poultice
that may help but won't heal" cut in
new voice.
divorce is guidepost marked
HI to Heaven but lots Of folks miss
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13

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and at fifteen Mrs. Spar began teach
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can be as vigorous and healthy at
20 as at IS if he aids his organs in
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cuticura Comforts Baby's Skin

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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13
GETTING DIVORCED

SYNOPSIS.-In a preface Mary
Marie explains her apparent double
personality" and just why she is a
cross-current and contradiction"
she also tells her reasons for writ
ing the diary-later to be a novel.
The diary is commenced at Ander-
sonville. Mary begins with Nurse
Sarah's account of her (Mary's)
birth, which seemingly interested
her father, who is famous astron-
omer. less than new star which
was discovered the same night
Her name is compromise, her
father insisting on Abigail Jane.
The child quickly learned that her
home was in some way different
from those of her small friends,
and was puzzled thereat. Nurse
Sarah tells her of her mothers ar
rival at Andersonville as a bride
and how astonished they all were
at the sight of the dainty eighteen
year-old girl whom the sedate pro-
fessor had chosen for a wife Nurse
Sarah makes it plain why the
household seemed strange one to
the child and how her father and
mother drifted apart through mis-
understanding, each too proud to
In any way attempt to smooth over
the situation.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13
No Doubt.

"Put and take isn't always a gam
BILE. It's sometimes a sure thing.
When you put more effort into your
business you'll take more profit out Of
it."-The Kodak Salesman.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13
"Do old folks honestly think
they are fooling US all the time,
j Wonder?"
(TO BE CONTINUED,

The man who is given to self-praise
owes an apology to his acquaintance
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13

Marriage may be a failure in some
cases, but with the advent of twins
1t becomes a bowling success.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13

Lots of men go short on fiction be
cause it Is stranger than truth.
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Drawn from actual photograph of +. NV
Charles Pillar Sparr of Nh. g. /Ng
Mrs Charles Spar of Prescott, Iowa IEdWVl
He was learning his ABC's k@
at fifteen months! zX84kO

THAT the wenourished healthy child mentally alert and
forward has been the contention of child experts for
Mrs. Spar has had this experience with her young son. Va
and half years old.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13

Thoughts Of what might have been
are an injustice to today.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-04-13
Explained at Last

Explained at Last.
Elsie-Why does a clock start all
over again when it gets to twelve?
Bobby-Cause thirteens an unlucky
number, I s'pose."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-11
OPEN PART or NEW HIGHWAY
Portion of Hard Surfaced Road on
South Topeka Ave. Opened.

More than one-half mile of the
newly hard-surfaced highway leading
south on the Topeka avenue road was
opened to travel today. The strip just
open begins at Tive Ilty-fourth street
and extends to the Avonda1e school at
Twenty-ninth street, the southeast
corner of the Country club grounds.
The road is part uf the project
which includes the paving of the To-
peka avenue road south to the Usage
county line and for which the con-
tract was let last May to List & Hal
lock of Kansas City. The total cost
will be S314959.64, or approximately
s3O.s65 a mile. The paving is of one
course concrete. eighteen feet wide.
similar to that on the East Sixth ave-
nue. road.
The road opened to travel today is
not all that is paved. The paving ex-
tends to the proposed subway where
the road crosses the Santa Fe railroad
tracks. Here a space was skipped on
account of the government require
ment of a subway under the tracks,
for VIII ch a contract has not yet been
let Work is now in progress south
of the crc ssings There is also short
strip of the road from Twenty-fourth
street. the city limits, north to Shun-
ganunga creek that is not paved. This
is the c:ty's part of the project
OF the total cost of the roa1 the
government will pay $4,000 mile
The balance viii be apportioned so
per cent to the county. 25 per cent 10
the townships and IS per cent to the
benefit districts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-11
SANTA FE BUYS EQUIPMENT
Total of $3.50 Pieces of Rolling Stock
Is Purchased.

A telegram received at the general
offices of the Santa Fe this morning
from Edward Chambers, vice presi-
dent of the road in charge of traffic.
announced the purchase of $3.50 new
pieces of rolling stock for the Santa
Fe lines.
The purchase has been made in ac-
cordance with the firmly established be-
lief of the general officers of the road
that the trs nsportation systems of the
country are faced with the greatest
task in their history, with the open
ing of the biggest industrial and bust
ness boom in the course of the de-
;velopment OF the country.
Included in the order which has
been placed, there are 1000 refrigera-
tor cars, 1000 box cars. loco automo-
bile cars. 500 stock cars, 500 coal cars
and $50 cahooses.
Delivery of the rolling stock will
commence about January /, and the
cars will be put on the lines of the
Santa Fe at such a rate that by early
spring delivery will have been COM
pleted,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-11
A NEW BEAUTY SHOP ROW
Present Trouble Promises to In
yoive Not Only State Board of
Health. But Possibly the Medical
Organization.

q The beauty shop row with the state
barber board took over new territory
today when it promised to involve not
only the state board of health but
possibly the medical organization. 1t
is all because some of the dimpled
bobbed hair artists in Wichita refuse
to permit public health officials to
make certifications as to social dis
eases and physical tests
Because a new war cloud of femi-
nine origin hung over his board n. A.
East secretary of the. state barber
organizat ton, today called on Governor
Allen AMI officers of the state board
of health regarding his trouble. Just
now some of the Wichita beauty shop
specialists are seeking to enjoin the
state boards enforcement of regula-
tiors regarding physical examinations.
Things might be all right if the
state board would compromise. But
East insists that the lady razor and
scissor specialists come under the sa me
restrictions, regulations and super
vision as is provided for gentlemen
knights of the facial hardware. And
trouble starts just as soon the physical
exs rnination demand Is made.
Several Wichita lady beauty experts
sent certificates from their family ply
sieians showing they were physically
capable of handling a fun grown sci
of scissors and were above suspicion
regarding Social evils Another test
by public health officials seemingly
made extreme exception in one or two
/ cases Because of this division in
medical opinion East may ask ths
state medical board for a probe re
gardIng reports by several physicians
/ In the meantime he is preparing t.
| resist the Injunction suits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-11
MORE ROADS SIGN
End Strike on the C. 6 A. and
Lines in South.
Again Complain That Equip
ment Is in Bad Shape.

Chicago, Oct. 1.-THE last of the
1900 Chicago & Alton. shop employees
returned to work today, The men
who returned to the BLOOMINGTON
shops. where much violence occurred
during the earlier part of the strike.
receive "A cents an hour for first class
mechanics, an increase of cents over
the labor board minimum.
Agreements with the manageme ent
of the Gulf coast lines, the Texas &
Midland, the Houston, Belt Terminal
and the Utah Railway company have
been signed by representatives of the
striking shop crafts, bringing the total
number of roads in the strike settle
ment to approximately ninety. John
Scott, secretary of the shop crafts or
ganization. announced today.
The four new roads represent a
total trackage of approximately 1,40O
miles.
Jewell in St. Louis.
While agreements We're being
reached with these roads. Mr.. Scott
said, E. M. JEWELL president of the
shop crafts. was in st. Louis negotiat-
ing with homogeneous of roads head
quartering there. Hope is held out
he said, that the conferences will re-
suit in agreements with the Frisco
Wabash and Missouri Pacific.
''Thesa roads are hard hit" said
Mr.. Scott. "And our men are still
holding out"
Prospects for signing up the Rock
Island despite the fact tnat it has or
ganized ita new emproyes, were
bright, Mr.. Scott added.
Protest to Harding.
Washington, Oct. 11-Charges that
mechanical conditions on the railroad:
of the country are now such as to con-
stitute "a menace to the travelling
public" were lad before President
Harding today by general counsel foi
the brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neera and the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginenaen.
President Harding was informed by
Oscar J. Horn and Thomas Stevenson
counsel for the brothernoods, tha;
many railroads are disregardine
safety laws and are .rsing defective
equipment to a far greater extent thar
! the public knows. They asked the
| president to take steps 70 compel the
railroads to observe the law and pro-
| tect the public.
! Pres dent Harding Indicated. ac-
cording to Horn. that he would ASK
| congress for additional locomotive in
| spectors when it reconvened.
| Complaints to Brotherhood.
| stream of complaints. deanng with tht
! bad conditions of motive power OF
! practically all the railroads of ths
i United States. are reaching the office.
/ of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
! Firemen and Enginemen here, it wa.
| learned today Never in the histor,
! of the United States have these com
j plants reached such volume, it wa
I said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-11
REV. FISHER new MODERATOR
Presbyterian Minister at Manhattan
Succeeds Rev. W. C. Templeton.

Junction City. Oct. 11.-Rev. Drury
H. Fisher, of Manhattan, was elected
moderator of the Kansas Presbyterian
synod by unt nimous vote ar the open
ing session. held here last night. He
succeeds Rev w. c. Templeton of
Winfield, moderator for the past year.
The keynote address was delivered
- Rev. DR.. CALVIN c. Hays of john
ston, Pa, moderator of the general
assembly of the United States. who is
the son of a former pastor of the To-
cal Presbyterian church and spent his
boyhood days here.
At the morning service Rev. MIR.
Templeton had charge of the Bible
hour. Rev. w. c. Weir. of ChfcaSo;
Rev. w. II. Davis, of Cherryvaie; Rev.
w. S. Crozier of Great Bend; Rev
VIM. Cleaveland, of st. Louis; and
Rev w. N Irwin, of Denver, also
were on the morning program.
The trustees of the College of En-
poria are to be h SITS to the visiting
ministers and elders at a ban here
tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-11

Kansas and Kansansewere in the
down east spotlight last Saturday
when 500 state university Students,
alumni and former Kansans invaded
Broadway and rushed West Point with
their Rock Chalk Jayhawk cheers for
K. U. Governor Allen led the Kansas
delegation which held the army to a
1910 score in the first big down east
game ever played by a Kansas Uni
versity football team.
Governor Allen, William Allen
White and other prominent Kansans
We're in the crowd which defied a
steady downpour as they cheered the
fighting K. L. team. Always there