Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 22, 1907, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAITLY VOLUME 5. NUMBER 156. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1907. BELTRAMI COUNTY SCHOOLS SHOW MUCH PROGRESS County Superintendent W. B. Stewart's Annual Report Shows County Schools in Good Condition.---School Apportionment Ten Per Cent of Tax Nearly all our readers are inter- ested in the statistics of the public schools and with today’s issue, tabulated present you a statemen made by County Superintendent Stewart of the fiscal year, ending July 31st, 1007, By careful stndy of the table given, one may see what progress has been public schools during We noticed in the independent districts, 1093 are en- titled to apportionment, while there are 128 who are not; in the common school districts 1320 draw appor- tionment, while 433 have failed to attend made in the the past year, school the required forty days. This vear 2413 apportion- ment, while last year there were but > draw making an additional 178 over last year. I'he results from the whole state showing a crease in the number that are en- to apportionment, while Bel- trami county, and no doubt all the rest of the northern Minnesota counties show increase, which means that the falling off of school population has been in some of the southern counties. titled an The matter of apportionment is quite an item, and one which the No. pupils entitled to apportionment No. pupils not entitled to apportionment. Total enrolment,.....oennnnn, Average No. days each pupil b No. of pupils 5 to 3 years of age No.of pupils s to 15 years of ae No.puptls 15 to 21 Total No. pupils 5 to 1o 18 years of achers during year.... attended n teachers during year men monthly wages, uate of a high school. ers graduate of a Normal school eachers teaching continuously in one dist - istricts loaning text books free.. districts selling cost in districts loaning text me school houses built . w school houses built during yea: oL houses, frame... Value of Value of seats and desks Value of all apparatus. . No. volumes bought for libraries during. Total No. libraries Tolal No. volumes in all libraries Value of all Hbraries................ No. school houses having no trees about them 0ol rouses standing in natural groves age length of school in months. .. No. school distriets.. Annual s ¢ of County Sup! No. visits during yea No. third grade certificate: No. districts where pupils are trapsported No. districts where less than ten pupils were enroiled....... more than ten and less than twenty were No. districts wher enrolled .. meetings during year Attendance officers meetings during year. Cash on hand beginning of year. Rec'd from apportionment. .. 1 from special tax.... 1 from local 1 mill tax. Rec'd from sp Bonds and other sourc Total S . Paid for teachers’ wages and bo Paid for fuel and supplies... ....... Paid for repairs and improving grounds. Paid for new school houses and sites .. Paid for bonds and interest. Paid for library hooks Paid for text bhooks Paid for apparatus........ Paid for sporting pupils Paid for all other purpo: Cash on hand end ot s we | slight de- | aduate of a College (not a busines+)....... . ates who have attended a high school ho have attended Normal hohave attened Colleg continuously in one district ntinuously in onedistrict 2 years coters present at annual meeting school cfficials,and parents, in every | district should jealously guard. The | apportionment received by Beltrami the state of Minne cent of I‘county from sota being about ten per the school taxes raised. f The average length of term for 1the county has been slightly in- | creased the past year, which shows an increase in the length of school | term in the rural districts. The average wages of teachers in the rural districts have been creased; men $43 to $54 and women Ifrom $39 to $44. two causes, first, the districts are | gradually becoming older and re- _lquire better teachers and school | boards are willing to pay the addi- tional money to get them. Second, | at times of the yerr, the scarcity of teachers has some effect on the |amount of wages paid. The average school officer of Beltrami county, is an intelligent person and readily sees the need of having the more competent teachers. in- | school houses have been built in the rural districts, at a cost of $13,244, while last year there were nine new school houses built at a cost of $4,- 344. The separate items of the re- | port are as follows: Ind. Common Total 1003 1320 2013 483 611 1803 3024 83 742 2020 9 268 e 1220 1880 3020 more 630 691 1360 & 2 12 14 o7 59 118 130 £ 54 47 41 44 23 2 43 15 7 23 5 0 5 4 E 33 2 1 13 0 3 3 19 1 1 rict 1 yea 8 76 3 [ 0 1 T7e 20¢ 8 $13.244 2 3 2 2 0 18 4 93 300 2102504 0 7628 945 4040 254 3 ] 28 1354 4018 2500 82217 4 1 24 3 51 9 % 16 72 $1200 57 12 1 7 18 1 100 . $10186 17 § 25476 35 § 44662 52 47604 641705 11194 99 18564 B0 11326 47 20891 27 115116 2508 06 3659 22 10000 §2840 1038 40 4950 34 OTIZ B4 14363 18 56210 07 103899 48 20003 34 32344 23 5083 67 8272 94 116 74 2504 49 6420 07 13562 84 205 T3 2008 07 MT06 21541 36244 68378 61379 1247 37 42000 4818 90427 19 50 6712 70 18531 62 42041 60 56270 07 105809 48 A. A GARTER RETURNS FROM TRIP TO ILLINOIS Succeeded in Interesting a Number of Persons Who Will Visit Beltrami County in the Near Future. A. A. Carter returned yesterday from a trip to Southern Wisconsin and points in Illinois, where he went three weeks ago on business in the interest of the local real estate firm of Carter & Tait. Messrs. Carter & Tait have thou- sands of acres of improved timber and cut over farming lands in Bel- trami and Clearwater counties, and Mr. Carter’s trip was a missionary mission to centers of agricultural communities where the farmers are figuring on branching out and apply their efforts to the equally produc- tive, but cheaper lands of Northern Minnesota. Mr. Carter was well satisfied with the results from hig trip, and has in- terested a number of people in mak- ing a visit to this section, as soon as they get through with their fall crops. The season in that part of the country being also late the same as here. The farmers there are busy with their corn and other products. The Presbyterian Rummage sale will be held in the old P. O. build- ing, First street and Beltrami Ave., This is due to] | During the past year eight new REGULAR MEETING OF GOUNGIL LAST EVENING First Meeting in Two Weeks.—Con- siderable Routine Business Disposed of. The city council met last night for the first time in two weeks, with Aldermen Gould, Erickson, McCuaig, Washburn and Brinkman present. Many unfinished matters were taken up, and a large accumulation of claims against the city were audited and allowed. The Jerrard Plumbing Company wasallowed $1169.65 which is the balance due them on their sewer contract less five per cent withheld for three months. S. N. Reeves was allowed $1170.- 00, total contract price for lowering the floor in the fire hall, and exca- vating a basement under the city hall. The claim of J. H. Crouch, the cement sidewalk man, was laid over pending a settlement for water used for slacking cement. It was also brought out that Mr. Crouch had been taking sand out of the street on America avenue, and had not _filled excavation as required. The liquor license applications of J. H. Sullivan and L. Burke were on motion accepted, and license will be issued on filing necessary bond. The plat of East Bemidji, an addition platted by Lief K. Roberg east of the new mill, was filed for record and approved. The petition of residents in the vicinity of corner of Twelfth street and Minnesota avenue for a 32cp., street light, was on motion granted. The petition of Frank Lane and others calling the attention to the condition of the city water works tank, was referred to the water and light committee. Indian Payment. Cass Lake, Oct. 22.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Indian agent Frater has sent notice to the Indians at this place that he would be here on Monday, Oct. 29th, and remain all day. At this time he and his assistants will pay to the Indians the money due them. It is not known just how much this will amount to, but he announces there are several thousand dollars to be distributed among the Indians at this place. Will Go To Texas. Hon. A. L. Cole,former republican candidate for governor, was in the city for a few minutes Saturday, coming down from Walker on the M. & I. and going west on No. 11. Mr. Cole states that he isin very poor health and expects to leave in a few days for Texas, where he will spend the winter near Brownsville. —Brainerd Dispatch. Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses have been issued from the office of the clerk of court: Fred Anderson to Miss Anna Larson. Elmore J. Wolzmuth to Miss Mable Allen. Leonard victor Johnson to Miss Ingbor Christina Benson. NOT AMERICAN TERRITORY Decision Affecting Status of Cuba Fol- lowing Treaty of Paris. ‘Washington, Oct. 22—In the case was decided by the supreme court of the United States during the day favorably to the government, the ques- ton at issue was whether duty could be properly collected in Cuban ports on articles shipped from the United States by a citizen of the United States while the island was under American control as it was immedi- 1809. Galban was at that time en- gaged in business in Cuba and claimed a refund of duty paid on $51,- 000 worth of merchandise on the ground that the treaty practically con- verted the island into Amerjcan terri- tory for the time being. The opinion was delivered by Chiet Justice Fuller. Would Dissolve Brick Trust, Reading, Pa., Oct. 22.—In court here Lambert W. Rehr of this city was ap- pointed receiver of the Montello brick works, one of the subsidiary com- panies of the United States Brick company. Application for a receiver for the United States Brick company is still pending in court. The United States Brick company has defaulted on the Interest on its bonds and the on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday,Oct.23, 24 and 25. have it wiped out. of Galban vs. the United States, which |* ately following the Paris treaty of | minority bondholders are seeking to | NO CHANGE TO GET BOND ISSUE SOLD Not Probable to Float Big Bond Issue, Other Than By Vote of the People. COUNTY BONDS CONSIDERED TO BE A GOOD INVESTMENT Mr. Rountree, of the Bonding Com- pany, Says Beltrami County Bonds Are a Good Investment. County Auditor Wilmann has received word from the bonding company with which the county has been trying to “‘do business” along the line of selling county bonds, to the effect that the latest move made by the board to dispose of bonds to take up outstanding warrants had, of necessity, turned down. July 8th last, the county sold to the Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago $160,000 worth of bonds with which to take up outstanding warrants of the county, in accord- ance with a special act passed at | the last session of the legislature, and known as Chapter 461. After the attorneys of the Harris company had consulted the law under which the bonds were being sold, the company was advised not to pur- chase the bonds, and acted affirma- tively on the advice. Another attempt was recently made to float bonds under the pro- visions of Chapter 65, Laws of 1903, with which to take outstanding warrants issued prior to March 25, 1905. The latter plan has also miscarried, as the following letter, received by County Auditor Wilmann will show: “John Wilmann, County Auditor, Bemidji, Minnesota. “Dear Sir—The writer recently returned to the city and learns that the county commissioners are not able to issue the Beltrami County Bonds that he recently purchased for the Harris Trust and Savings Bank. Naturally we are disappointed over this outcome in our attempt to pur- chase Beltrami County Bonds. Bel- trami County is one of the most at- tractive new counties that the writer has visited and we felt confident that the security was ample for the amount of bonds your commissioners contemplated issuing. We hope that we may secure future issues of bonds that your county may issue. “We beg to take this opportunity of congratulating you upon the con- dition your records are in. The Annual Financial Statement that you have prepared for Beltrami County is the best statement of its kind that the writer has ever seen in a rather broad experience in examin- ing similar statements. It is possi- ble for a tax payer to easily deter- mine the exact amount of warrants issued on any particular fund. “Hoping that we may renew our pleasant personal relations, both with yourself and the other officers of the company, we beg to remain, “Yours very truly, “Jno. S. Rountree.” been Shot Large Lynx. A. Clavin, who owns a farm on the northwest shore of Lake Be- midji, yesterday shot alynx. Itis the largest animal of its kind ever seea in this part of the country. Mr. Clavin was walking around his farm, looking after the work of cutting the jack-pine, when he espied the lynx coming out of the woods into the clearing. “Andy” Tushed to the house and secured the trusty rifle, and hastened back and as the lynx was crawling into the brush, dispatched the animal with a well directed shot. Mr. Clavin intends having the -animal mounted and displayed in his place of business, demonstrating the fact that we have other than game animals in this country. Fountain pen ink at the Pioneer FORTY CENTS PER MONTH ANOTHER FOOTBALL TEAM HAS BEEN ORGANIZED A Strong Line-up.—Have Challenged fhe High School Team for a Game Saturday. Football is becoming quite inter- esting here and a new team has been organized with H. F. Fisk as coach of the team and S. T. Stewart, man- ager. The new team is composed of well known young men of this town and the line-up gives the second team a very good showing and no doubt it will win its honors at the national game, They have issued a challenge to the high school eleven, which no doubt will be accepted by the school. If the school accepts this chal- lenge the people of Bemidii will be given a chance to see one of the best games ever pulled off on the local grounds. Football Challenge. The Bemidji Chiefs hereby chal- lenge the Bemidji high schLool foot- ball team to a game of football to be played on the local grounds, Satur- day of this week. S. T. STEWART, Manager. Teachers’ Association Meeting. The North Central Minnesota Teachers’ association will meet at Cass Lake, October 31st, November 1st and 2nd. This meeting will be of great benefit to all the teachers in country, graded and high schools throughout this section of the country, and each teacher should try to be present at this meeting. An interesting and instructive program has been prepared for the meeting. Prominent educators from all sections of the state will be present to lecture and discuss- sub- jects of interest. The following is the outline of the program: Thursday evening—Lecture,‘Some Teachers of Old,” Prof. F. H. Swift, of the University of Minnesota. | Friday morning—A general ses- sion. Subject for discussion, The Efficiency of Our Public Schools. Industrial Traiving, Sup. C. S. Yeager; discussions,Supt. J. H. Hay Character Training, Supt. Hawkins; discussion, Supt. Ross. Physical Training, Supt. C. M. King. Friday p. m.—A general discus- sion from 1:30 to 3:00, at which State Librarian King will read a paper on “The School Library.” Following this there will be seetions. as follows: High school section, Prof. Partridge, pres. Topic, The High School Examinations,discussed by Prof. Aiton. Rural school sec- tion, Supt; D. R. Bradford, Pres. Topic to be supplied; discussion, Supt. Stewart, Supt. Hattie Booth. Graded schools section, Prof. H. H, Hall, Pres. Topic, The Group Method discussed and exemplified by Miss Kate Kranz, director of Normal department, Crookston. Friday evening.—Lecture, “The Making of Literature,” Pres. Weld, of Moorhead Normal. . Saturday morning.—Election of officers and routine business. Round tables—Primary, Miss Eliza E. Reddict, leader, Miss Stella Woods, of Minneapolis kindergarten, will tell stories, Grammar Department, Mrs. Floy Donaldson, leader, Miss Kate Kranz of Crookston will lec- ture. Latin Round Table, Mrs. Woolly, leader; discussion by Miss Follanbee. English Round Table, to be supplied. Teachers intending to attend this meeting aud desire accommodations should write to P. M. Larson, Cass Lake, Minn. Prof. Elliot A. Boyl to Lecture. The first lecture of the five en- tertainments to be given by the ladies of the Presbyterian church, will be a lecture by Prof. Elliot A. Boyle, Saturday evening, Oct. 26th. Prof. Boyl is considered one of the ablest orators on the American platform. He is scholarly and elo- One Day Session of Practical The Pioneer is in receipt of a let- ter from A. J. McGuire, superinten- dent of the State Experimental Sta- tion at Grand Rapids, in which he states that he and Prof. A.D.Wilson, superintendent of the Minnesota Farmers’ Institute will hold an in- stitute at Bemidji on Saturday, November 2nd. It is announced that the institute intendent McGuire and Mr. F. B. McLeran of Wrenshall will be the speakers, Both these gentlemen are thor- will be for one day and that Super-|- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. FARMERS’ INSTITUTE T0 BE HELD IN BEMIDJI NOV. 2 Demonstration of Farming for This Section of the Country.---Good Speakers for the Occasion oughly familiar with the agricul- tural conditions of northern Minne- sota and their lectures and ad- dresses will be practical as regards agricultural interests of this section of the country. Farmers’ institute work in Minne- sota has become a permanent insti- tution in the improvement of farm work, breeding and caring of stock, dairying, horticulture, etc. This work is allfree and the ladies and young people, as well as the middle aged and elderly are espec- ially requested to attend these meetings. Quiring- Mrs. C. J. Carlson visited with Mrs. Chas. LeRogue last Friday. C. J. Carlson is plastering his res- idence and making a number of other improvements before winter. Miss Procter, who has been on the sick list for the past two days, is again able to resume her school work. Rev. 0. Bondahl of Blackduck, held servicesin the schoolhouse of district 81, Town of Cormant, last Thursday. The Ladies’ Aid society will meet with Mrs. Ed. Deitrich, Saturday afternoon, October 26th. Every- body invited. T. P. Dooher is quite busy these days, erecting a large barn, which he expects to have ready before the cold weather sets in. A number of the children, in this vicinity, are having the whooping- —_— N cough, which makes the attendance at our public schools very light. Hjalmer Carlson, who has been in the employ of a homesteader most of the summer cutting cedar, is visit- ing with his brother, C. J. Carlson. Lyceum Course. The Lyceum Course consisting of five entertainments to be given by the ladies of the Presbyterian church, is one of the best and most expen- sive courses of lectures ever given in the city. The first lecture of this course will be given Saturday night at the Pres- byterian church and will be a lecture by Prof. Elliot Boyl. ~ Mr. Boyl is considered among the very best lecturers in the country and for an entertaining and instructive lecture, you should not fail to hear this the first number of the course. Local news on last page put up by Gr ffin & Skelly. 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But rather, it is the inevitable result of our demands upon the manufacturers, our superb taste, originality, genius and con- centration of thought and energy upon one Men who make garments for us must plan—study— They must trace life les, consider correct di- mensions, relative proportions, portray poise, and in fact draw drafts of human beings with positive exactness. i 3 | i