Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 3, 1908, Page 1

VOLUME 6. NUMBER 117. BEMIDJI PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN NEXT TUESDAY Meyer’s Dwelling Corner on Third Street and Mississippi Avenue to Be Used.—Three to Corps.—Manual Tra The time has again come when it is necessary to announce to the patrons of the Bemidji public schools that school is about to open and to ask that parents see to it that the children come on the first day and attend regularly throughout the year: We were in hopes, last spring, that we would be in better and more convenient quarters in some respects by this time; but this is not so, and we will have to make the best of what we have. During the coming year school will be held in the three buildings belong- ing to the district as last year; also in the Meyer’s dwelling at the corner of Third St. and Mississippi avenue. just across the street from the old Catholic church building. This is not an ideal school building, but was the best the district could find at this time. The Central building is being improved; another entrance tothe basement has been provided and the heating and ventilating system has been entirely remodeled. The basement room under the new part will be used for manual train- ing and commercial work. As it will be impossible to seat all the high school pupils in the assembly room, two rooms will be used for that purpose. The course of study has been extended and manual training will be included. The work in science and commerce has been enlarged. Excepting for our crowded con- dition in outside buildings, the prospects are good for a splendid | year’s work. Three additional teachers have been added to the corps this year. Several of those who taught here last year have resigned and their places will be taken by new teach- €ers. ‘The work in manual training may not begin the first week as the man who was elected to the position resigned last week, having | been appointed assistant engineer on one of the Pa. railroads, and his successor has not yet been selected. Additional Teachers Added ining Added to Course. The corps of teachers for the ensuing year are as folluws: A. P. Ritchie, superintendent, mathematics; Grace Greaves, prin- cipal of-high school, history and English; H. E. Biddinger, mathe- matics and commerce, Emily Schons, St. Paul, Latin and German; Mr. Teeter of Prudue University has been elected to teach manual train- ing and science but has not yet accepted; - Miss Johnson, eighth grade; Mrs. Dwyer, seventh grade; Carrie Hayden, seventh; Miss Thelma Leon and Miss Tschumper- lin, sixth; Ruby Pilot, Dora Hanson and Floy Donaldson, fifth; Miss Hanson music and Miss Donaldson drawing; Gertrude Alley and Mary Cosgrove, fourth; Golda Hill, third and fourth; Gene Elliot and Lillian Nelson, third; Millie Wessberg and Mabel Brawn, second; Christine Munger, first and second; Verna Bell, Isabel Currie and Iva M, Diment, first. A teachers’ meeting will be held Monday afternoon at which every teacher should be present. It is planned for the coming vear that several meetings with teachers and parents are to be held. Parents will please take notice of | * the following district lines; all pupils living south of Fourth street and belonging to the first or second grades, will report at the old Catholic church; all living south of Seventh street belonging to grades third, fourth, fifth or sixth will report at the Meyer’s building. Those belong- ing to the first four grades' and liv- ing west of Irving and north of Tenth street will report at the Fif- teenth street building; all others will report at the Central building. It will be of great service to the teachers if the parents would send to each teacher their place of resi- dence, that each child’s home may be definitely located. The co-operation of all interested in the welfare of the schools is earnestly solicited. Respectfully yours, A. P. Ritchie. Do Not ForJudge To Cast Your Ballot for . J.DUNWOODY Forget of Probate lumber as desired., Get Our Pnces Lath........... Cedar Shingles.. prompt delivery and TELEPHONE 371 The DOUGLASS LUMBER CO0. Have opened a Retail Lumber Yard at their mill on LAKE IRVING, BEMIDJI, where they carry a full stock of everything in the building line, including lumber, Have PLANING MILL and can work Guarantee good grades, ressonable prices, moulding, lath, shingles, ete. Before Bulldmg ' ...$125 per M. .$2 50 per M. fair treatment . . 5 The Pioneer---40c¢ per Month BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY \EVENTNG, SEPTEMBER 3, 1908. Challenge for-’er.v Opsahl. Editor Bemidji Pioneer: Bemidji, August 29th, 1908. My opponent, in the last issue of his “Sentinel,” makes the following state- ment: “I note Mr. Funkley’s remark in the Pioneer in which he plainly states that he does not wish to take a stand on any platform.” I have never made any such remark, ahd I am astonished that my opponent, who says he stands for clean politics, should in an issue of his paper (said to include a thousand extra copies to be spread broadcast over the district) tactics. resort to such I did say that I did not want to run a race with him in making election promises, and which I still stick to. In additition to what I have already said with reference to my stand on pu ic questions, I will say that I will meet my opponent at any reasonable time and pl: and publicly debate any question that has any relation to any issue now before people or likely to come before the legislature at its next session. e Or, if this is not satisfactory, I will, at; such reasonable time and place, publicly discuss with him his own political record as representative. ‘Respectfully, —Henry, Funkley. OPSAHL’S () ROAD APPROPRIATION It is amusing to note that state- ment made by Mr. Opsahl, in the last issue of the Clearwater Crystal, in which he says: “Our district has shared liberally in the state road funds, and the last session made a direct appropriation of $400,600 for roads and bridges, of which Beltrami gets $4,850, Clearwater $4,000, Red Lake $4,850 * Ok ¥ % or $13,700 for my part of the district, while my pro- rata share if divided among 119 members would have beeu $3,350.” The Pioneer humbly rises to ask what became of the other $381;300 the balance of the “direct” road and bridge appopriation of $400,000 after deducting what Opsal!'l got for his district? ! Does he mean to make the voters believe that this road and bridge appropriation of 5400,900 was to be shared equally between the 119 members—in other words does he mean that the cities of‘ St. Paul and Minneapoiis as well as the old settle- | ments of-the state were to share equally in this road and bridge | appropriation with the northern part of the state, and wou}d have done so if we had not been so ably represented by him? - Such was not the purpose of the appropriation. It was for to be used where it was most needed as far as it would go. And just think of Beltrami County, nearly a hun- dred miles long by 40 miles wide, with hardly a mile of road in it fit for an automobile, which the other parts of the state abundantly sport, getting only $4,850 out of a “direct” |road and bridge appropriation of $400,000. The same is true with reference to Clearwater and Red Lake counties. It is well that elections come VURPILLAT -ENTERTAINERS DRAW LARGE GROWDS Office at411 Bemidji Avenue.—A Haven for the Sick, Lame, Blind or Deat. The renowned voung man who has been promising such wonderful things from the use of his New Dis- covery, is undoubtedly showing his audiences nightly that he is not making any idle boasts. Persons reading of his phenoinenal work, Wwere no doubt skeptical in regards to the veracity of the reports of the extraordinary work of this young man, but as the proof of the pudding is in the eating of the same, so, what the eyes see, the heart must believe, Anyone attending his lectures and hearing the many testimonials from prominent people can readily see why he has become so- popular with the citizens of Bemidji. Thousands of people are taking advantage of the ideal weather to visit his eccentric and - original lectures on the ailments of mankind. Among the many prominent people who have been cured through the agency. of Vupillat’s New Discovery are the following: Mts. J. L. Coleman of 112 10th, | St. Fargo, N. D. whose husband is desk sergeant at police headquarters in that city, stated that she had been suffering from rhuematism for the past five years; -it being almost impossible for her to walk without the aid of crutches. After using two pack- ages of the New Discovery she was entirely cured. Mrs. Ekblad of 16 Third street north, Moorhead, Minn., said she had suffered ‘with catarrh nearly all” her life; her nose being com- pletely” stopped up,“ and having continual headaches and sore throat) for years, but that at the present time she is entirely cured after using Vurpillat's New Discovery. Want of space prohibits the publica- tion of the thousands of testimonials that Vurpillat has in his possession. The office at 411 Bemidji Ave., is oper daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p. m. Consultation, examination and ad- vice free to all who call. Miss Oliver-Returns. Miss Eugenia Oliver has re- turned from her summer vacation and will locate for ‘the coming year in Bemidji. Last year Miss Oliver had charge of the vocal music in the public schools and also had a large class besides. Owing to lack of time Miss Oliver has given up the work of the schools and will this coming vear devote her time whol]y to pri- vate pupils, During the past year she has made many friends who welcome her back. She expects to take up work with her pupils at once. Jacobsod Case Continued. Jacob Jacobson, a shoemaker at Kelliher, was - arraigned before a justice of peace there Tuesday on a serious charge and the case was continued until the 21st inst. E. E. McDonald of this city appeared for the defendant and County Attorney Funkley for the state. GOLORED WOMAN ROBS A. B. STEINWAY OF $950 Aged Beltrami County Farmer Victim of Sharp Game.—No Trace of Woman. There were several robberies in Minneapolis Monday evening, and among others who were relieved of their valuables, according to the Minneapolis Journal, was A. B Steinway of Beltrami county, who is spoken of as an “aged farmer,” as follows: “A. B. Steinway, an aged farmer from Beltrami county, who is visit- ing the state fair, was robbed of $950 last night by a colored woman he met—at Eighth avenue So., and Sixth street. “He was looking for a room when the woman stopped and asked him to direct her . to the Milwaukee station. He talked with her fora few moments, and after she went away he missed the money. Most of the amount was in cash. Stein- .| way had recently sold his farm and intended . to purchase more land while in the city. DEFE CTIVE PAQGFE “He reported the matter to the $5000 AT STATE FAIR Speedy Little Mare is Owned by J. A. Irwin,—Race Best Ever Held at State Fair. In the great 2:15 pace at the state fair grounds Tuesday, for a purse of $5,000, “Isineta,” the speedy pacing mare owned by J. W. Irwin, the local lumberman, took second morey, after the fastest race in the history of that yearly event at the fair. The first heat of the race was paced in 2:0634, Jerry B winning the heat, with “Isineta” at his throat latch. The second heat was paced in 2:09, and the two leadgrs were again neck-and-neck, Jerry B winning by a nose. The gjpd was blowing a gale down the stretch, which tired all of the horses very perceptibly, and “Isineta” in particular, and the third heat found Jerry B first, ‘‘Isineta” being fifth. ‘The race created great excitement, and is pronounced the best race yet held at the fair, excelling"the famous grand challenge ‘$6,000 trot which about often as they bring out facts. |’ | “ISNETA" WINS PURSE OF -MINNESOTA HISTOBICAL FORTY CENTS PER MONTH - CHIEF GEIL RETURNS FROM FIRE CHIEFS’ CONVENTION Columbus Convention of Fire Chiefs Was Well Attended.— Splendid l}xhibit of Fire Apparatus.—Next Convention to Be Held at Detroit, Michigan. Earl Geil, "cheif of the Bemidji Fire department, returned vyesterday morning from Columbus, Ohio, where he attended the International Fire Chiefs’ thirty-sixth annual con- vention, Mr. Geil declares that he hada fine trip and learned a great deal more about the best way to fight fires. The first two days were spent transacting the association’s ~busi- ness and discussing the best method of fighting fires. The following day was used in exhibiting fire apparatus, the Ameri- can-LaFrance Fire Engine company having an especially large display. On this day ‘an engine was exhibited which is a combination of an auto- mobile, a fire-engine and hose-wagon and it was commonly predicated by those attending the convention that the machine will do away in a short time with the use of horses in the fire-departments of all the larger cities. E The fourth and last day was spent on a pleasure trip and picnic. The entertainment committee provided three boxing matches and exhibi- tions in many other athletic sports, after which the Visitors inspected the state penitentiary, which is located in Columbus, and the factory of the Seagrave Apparatus company. The convention will be held at Grand Rapids, Mich., next year, Chief Tyson of Louisville, Ky., suc- ceeding Chief Higgins of Albany, N. R, as president of the associa- tion. On his return Mr. Geil stayed over a day in Minneapolis and was in Engine House No. 14 in north Minneapolis when an alarm of fire was sent in. Mr. Geil accompanied the fire boys and helped them to put out the conflagation which lasted for two hours. _— was won by Sonoma Girl Monday. Much has been expected of “Isineta” this season, and the little mare has paced some great races. . Statement by Mr. Fisk. In reply to an attack made in a circular letter -sent out by Mr. McKusick, Mr. Fisk makes the fol- lowing statements: “Mr. Chester McKusick, one of my opponents, has, I regret, in his circular communication of August 3t-addressed to the members of the Beltrami County Tax League, stated that E. E. McDonald is my general or manager in this contest for county attorney. “HIS STATEMENT IS ABSOLUTELY FALSE. I am managing my own campaign. “Mr. McDonald has known me since boyhood and I hope that my conduct and experience has been such as to secure for me the support of all who have known me as he has.| © S i give a fine ascension, “If élected I shall do everything in the power of the county attorney to.prevent the illegal or extravagent expenditure of public funds and secure a fair, full and equal assess- ment of ALL PROPERTY for the pur- pose of taxation without regard to who is the owner. “Yours very truly, “D. H. Fisk.” Two Wolf Bounties Issued. G. M. Nelson came in from Ten- strike this morning with the hide of a wolf which he had killed and secured the state bounty of $7.50 from County Auditor Wilmann. James T. Seitz of the Town of Hornet was granted a wolf bounty yesterday afternoon by County Auditor Wilmann. Local news on last page. BALOON ASGENSION AT FAIR SEPT. 24, 25 AND 26 Cotract Closed with Paul Bros. of Wabasha. Several Local Men to Make Aeronautical Trip. W. R. Mackenzie, secretary of the Beltrami County Agricultural Asso- ciation, announces that he has closed a contract with - the famb’\fi__Paul Bros. of Wabasha, where Prof. John Paul "will give a balloon ascension and parachute leap each day of the forthcoming county fair, September 24-25-26. *“Professor Paul is one of the most famous gaerialists in the country,” “and as he has a very large ballon, he will says Secretary Mackenzie, “A feature of the daily ascensions will be a trip into the clouds, with a leap for earth, by several local enthusiasts,” continued the secre- tary. ““On the first day, J. T. Dolan, better known as “Jack” and who travels for the Twohy-Eiman Mer- cantile company, will go up with the aeronaut. Mr. Dolan made several ascensions while a resident of Rhinelander, Wis., some years ago. “The second day, A. P. White, the popular banker will ascend. Mr. White is greatly interested in balloon- ing, and it is reported that he has recently become a member of the Twin city Aero Club. “The third day it is expected that one of the successful candidates at | the primaries will ‘go up.’ ” Additional local matter will’be found police_but the woman hns not beén lon fourth page. found.” Beltrami Gounty Fair BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA September 24, 25 and 26, 1908 LARGE PREMIUM Band, Farmers’ Races, Free Vaudeville, Ag- riculturist Speakers of National Prominence Making This Fair thp Best in Our History. A FARMER’S FAIR Fred M. Malzahn, Pres. WRITE the SECRETARY W. R. MacKenzie, Sec’y FOR. LIST