Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 21, 1908, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER. VOLUME 6. NUMBER 158. BEMIDJI BAPTISTS WON SUNDAY SCHOOL BANNER For the Fourth Successive Year, the Local Baptist Sab- bath School Is Recognized as the Premier Organi- zation of the State. The Bemidji Baptist Sunday school is the banner Baptist school of the state of Minnesota, the local organization having been awarded the state banner at the Baptist conference held in Minne- apolis last week. This is the fourth successive year in which the Bemidji Baptist Sun- day school has been awarded first honors among all other Baptist Sunday school organizations in the state. Thers were many contestants for the premier honors of the state, but Bemidji was ten points ahead of her nearest competitor, the Taber- nacle Sunday school of Minneapo- lis, Bemidji scoring 109 points as against 987 for the Tabernacle, Parkers Prairie coming third with 97 points. The following are the points, as revised by the Sunday School Com- mission, upon which as a basis the banner is awarded. Average attendance equal to 75 per cent. of the resident membership of the church, ten points. 10 points. Every additional 10 per cent, 2 points, not to exceed ten points. 9 points. Benevolences equal to 25 per cent of the home expenses of the school, ten points, 10 points. Children’s Day (offering to the A. B. P. S.), offering equal to 10c for each scholar, equaling the average attendance, five points. 5 points. Offerings to the following addi- tional societies: The Minnesota Baptist State Convention, The American Baptist Home Mission Society and the American Baptist Missionery Union, three points. 9 points. Teachers’ meeting and normai class, averaging in attendance a number equal to 75 per cent. of the teachers, ten points each. 14 points. Adult classes, 18 years and older, with an average attendance equal to 75 per cent. of the average attend- ance of the school, ten points. 10 points. Supplemental lessons from the superintendent’s desk, or by the | teachers in classes, every week for six months of the year, equal to the i course offered by the state Sunday School Association or the ‘“‘Supple- mertal Question Course,” by J. B. Smith, five points. 5 points. Cradle Roll five points. 5 points. Separate graded primary depart- ment with yearly promotions, ten points. The promotions must be based upon supplemental memory work approved by the State Mission- ery, ten points. 10 points. Beginners department the primary, using Beginners Course, as found in the Baptist Teacher, or an equiva- lent course, ten points. 10 points. Home department fully organized and reporting to the school 5 points. 5 points. Baptist Publications in the school (Blakeslee and other lesson mater- ial, not published by our society, excepted) five points. 5 points. Rally day, three points. 3 points. Making a total of 109 points made by Bemidji school. splendid condition, financially, hasa has a building fand. Mrs. J. H. Crouch is superintend- ent of the school and Mr. George D. White is secretary. There are twelve classses in this school, including the primary classes, with a very efficient corps of teachers. In addition to the regular Sunday school there is a Home Department for those who are unable to attend Sunday school. Miss Slough is superintendent of the Home depart- ment. There is also a cradle roll for infants in which department there are some forty or fifty enrolled. In presenting the banner to Mrs. J. H. Crouch, E. F. Fegenstrom, state superintendent of Baptist Sun- day schools, said: “Eight years ago, Bemidji had the worst looking Baptist Sunday school I ever saw. Now, for the past four years Bemidji has had the leading Baptist Sunday school in the state. The moral atmosphere of Bemidji has improved wonderfully in the last few years and the town which bore a bad reputation morally is fast com- to the front ranks as one of the best Sunday school communities in the state.”” CHARAGTER ASSASSINS ASSISTING B. F. WRIGHT| Some Friends (?) of Mr. Wright Said to Be Circulating Stories Concern- ing His Opponent. It has come to the Pioneer, from sources of undoubted reliability, that some of the ardent supporters of B. F. Wright, republican candi- date for judge of the Fifteenth Judi- cial district, vigorous campaign of mud-slinging against Mr. Wright’s opponent, C. W. Stanton of this city—in fact, the tactics resemble those used in the recent Thwing campaign by friends of the latter. It is likely that some of the men who were back of Mr. Thwing in his campaign for the republican nomination before the primaries have allied themselves to Mr. Wright and are determined to start another disreputable line of attack on the opponent of Mr. Wright, hoping, by electing Mr. Wright, to further their own individual interests. Such contemptible methods of campaigning are beneath the notice of any self-respecting voter, and it is a certainty that such action will but react on the candidate whom this class of vultures support. The Pioneer has always had the greatest respect for Mr. Wright, there is nothing in his public or private life that is anything but have commenced a he permits some of his friends to indulge in the kind of a campaign that a few of them are now waging, he will lose much of the esteem in which he has been held. The office of judge of the district court is one of the highest in the gift of the people; and there should be no taint attached to the personal character of a candidate for judge. And those few who are attempting to besmirch the personality of Judge Stanton are character assassins, pure and simple, and are prevaricat- ing and deliberately lying against that gentleman. The voters of the Fifteenth Judi- cial district have had occasion to judge of Mr. Stanton’s character, as he has presided at terms of court in every county of the district; and those who have an. acquaintance with the judge can vouch for his intregrity, honesty and morality. Congressman Steenerson Pleased. Hon. Halvor Steenerson came to the city last evening from Tenstrike, where he delivered an address yes- terday afternoon before a large crowd of residents of Tenstrike and vicinity. In speaking of his reception at Teunstrike and Blackduck, Congress- man Steenerson stated that he was greatly pleased at the evidences of hearty support for his re-election which were manifested on every hand during his trip northward. “Matt” Jones, who operates a “refreshment parlor” at Northome, came in this morning and spent the day on a combined business and highly moral and respectable; but if pleasure visit in the city. The Bemidji Sunday school is in}, neat surplus in the treasury and also | ™ MINNESOTA SBCIETY, BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1908. PARENTS AND TEAGHERS T0 HOLD JOINT MEETING Superintendent Ritchie Arranges Meet- ing for This Friday That Should Prove Mutually Profitable. Superintendent A. P. Ritchie, of the Bemidji schools, announces that a parents’ and teachers’ meeting will be held Friday afternoon in the Central school. The purpose of the meeting will be to promote the welfare of the pupils through the co-operation of the paients and the teachers. With- out such co-operation the students are unable to succeed as well in their studies as with it, and it is with this idea that the conference is being called. The parents are invited to come to the school at 1:30 o’clock and observe the work of the pupils-until recess when an excellent program of music and reading of papers will be rendered. Miss Hanson, the instruc- tor of music, having charge of. the. “doings.” The program which will be ren- dered will be as follows: “Blow, Soft Winds"... Glee Club. “The Ohild and its Environment”..... Mrs. W. E. Neal. ature in the High ++++-.Chadwick. Misses Hanson, Pilot. Warfles and Alley. Leased Nymore Meat Market. H. F. Schmidt has leased his Nymore Meat Market to Eben G. Alton and Elmer Alton, who will hereafter conduct the market. Elmer Alton has, for some time, been connected with the People’s Meat Market of Bemidji and for the past four years has been connected with local markets. The Alton Brothers intend to conduct their market on the most improved modern: plan and will have a clean, up-to-date place. They will take immediate possession of the Nymore Meat Market and the name of the new firm will be Alton Bros. It will be “remembered that Eben Alton was injured in a railroad wreck in Wisconsin about a year ago. He has recovered from this injury and is again as well as ever. The two young men have deter- mined to make a success of their business and to attain that end will give the people the best there is in a clean market filled with the best meats the market affords. GENERAL LAND OFFIGE POSTPONES OPENINGS Lands in the Cass Lake Land -District Withheld from Entry for the Present, Cass Lake, Oct. 21.—(Special to Pioneer.)—There will be no opening of government lands in township sixty-eight, range twenty-six, and township sixty-six, range twenty- five, in the Cass Lake land district, as had been advertised, the officials of the local U. S. land office having issued the following statement rela- .| tive thereto: “Notlce is hereby given that we have been this day advised by a | telegram from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to postsone the filing of the Plats for Township Sixty-eight, Range Twenty-six, and Township Sixty-six, Range Twenty- five, until furthur advised. Therefore there will not now be Township opennigs on November 10th and 13th, 1908, as previously advertised, and not until new notices have issued. . “Register. “M. N. Koll, “Receiver.” ALGERMAN GEORGE RHEA ON WONDERS IN MISSOURI “‘Some” Apples, Mules and Fleas in “‘Show-Me” State Would Have Startled Ananias. George Rhea, teller of the Lum- bermens National Bank of this city, is telling some wonderful tales in connection with his recent trip to Missouri, where he spent a two weeks’ vacation. Mr. Rhea brought back an apple with him, and displayed it too, which measures fifteen inches in diameter. Mr. Rhea tells us that he saw the largest mules in Missouri that he ever had the pleasure of viewing and declares that the long- eared, tough-skinned “brutes” are equiled only by the monstrous and tenacious animals which roam that section of the country under the name of the “Mississippi flea.” Mr. Rhea gravely told us that fleas are used for hunting game there instead of dogs, as the average canine is unable to endure the excru- ciating torture heaped upon it by this animal with its proboscis-like beak. However, Mr. Rhea was unable to produce any specimens of the flea so we leave the reader to judge of the veracity of his state- ment, From another source, however, we learn that the principal habitat of the aforesaid fleas is the razor- back swine, which is another native of the “‘show-me” state. Girl Arrived Last Night. A pretty 9-pound baby girl arrived last nightat the home of Mr. and Mrs James Halladey of this city. Mother and baby are doing nicely. O. E. Jackson went to Big Falls {last evening on business for the i firm of E. H. Winter & Co. of this city. [ Printing The Pioneer Printery Is Equipped with Modern Machinery, Up-to-date Type Faces, and the Largest Stock of Flat Papers, Ruled Goods and Stationery of All Kieds in Northern Minnesota. We have the highest-salaried Printers in Beltram county, and we are leaders in Commercial Printing. Try us; well Suit you. Pioneer Printery GRS iy FORTY CENTS PER MONTH K. P.’S OF BLACKDUCK ARE READY FOR CONVENTION Delegates from Bemidji and Other K. P. Lodges Will Par- ticipate in the District Meeting Which Will Be Held at Blackduck Tomorrow. Attention, Knights. To Brother Knights—AIl members of Bemidji Lodge, K. of P., are invited to go to Blackduck tomorrow and participate in the district conventign. The brethren at the “Duck” have prepared a fine program and are only waiting the arrival of visiting brothers when they will ex- emplify that friendship for which the order is famous; and hospitality at Blackduck is udbounded. All who can(visiting K. P.s as well as members of the local lodge) should go to to Blackduek on the freight train tomorrow morning, which leaves Bemidji at 5 o’clock a. m. G. A. WALKER, C. C, Bemidji Lodge, No. 168, K. of P. The fall convention of district No. 16, Knights of Pythias, of Minne- sota, will be held at Blackduck on Thursday, October 22, and it is ex- pected that the forthcoming meeting “get- ting together” ever held in northern Minnesota. The district includes Park Rapids lodge No. 109, McIntosh Lodge No. 156, Blackduck Lodge No. 182 and Bemidji Lodge No. 168, which lodges include in their membership several hundred loyal K. P.’s, all of whom take much interest in the work of the order in this part of the state. The people of Blackduck are mak- ing extensive preparations to royally entertain the visiting knights on the occasion of the district convention A general discussion for the good of the order will be held in the K. P, hall at Blackduck at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of the 22nd. After this general discussion speeches will be made by volunteers among the delegates, and there wili be a brief will be the very best Pythian program of vocal and instrumental music. The Blackduck folks have arranged excellent entertainment all dav forthe visitors, and in the evening there will be work in the third rank at the Blackduck lodge rooms, beginning at 7 o'clock. After the business session there will be a short program of vocal and instrumental music, recitations, speeches etc. A large pumber of the members of Bemidji lodge will attend the con- | vention and no doubt there will also be a goodly attendance from Park Rapids and McIntosh. G. A. Walker made an effort to |get a passenger coach attached to the regular north-bound freight train tomorrow morning, for the accommo- |dation of those who would go to Blackduck in the morning, but was unable to secure the car. However, many of the knights will go in the caboose, and in the evening a large delegation of the lady K. P.’s will go up on the passenger train, so that Bemidji will be well represented. Resolutions of Condolence. Whereas, Our beloved Neighbor, John Washburn, was on the 9th day of October, 1908, by a decree of our ruling providence, called from his earthly sufferings to a home where pain and sorrow are unknown and where the weary find rest; be it therefore Resolved, that in the death | of Neighbor Washburn that the members of the lodge fully realize that they have lost one of their! number who was at all times imbued with the pure principlos of the order, and whose life and conduct suffers no reproach to be on his character either as a Samaritian, fellow citizen, husband and father; Resolved that the sincere and heartfelt sympathies of the members of the lodge are hereby extended to the bereaved widow and family of our deceased Neighbor whose loss we deeply mourn; Resolved that as a token of our love and esteem for our deceased member that the charter be draped in mourning for the period of thirty days. Resolved that a copy ef the reso- lutions be spread on the minutes of the lodge and a copy be sent to the family of the deceased and also be published in the Bemidii Pioneer. J. Bisiar, Bertha Schmidth, P. M. Decaire, Committee. Sell Direct to Consdmers. The management of the Bemidji Handle Factory announces that from now on the factory will not sell the products of their plant to jobbers but will sell direct to consumers, thereby doing away with the ‘middle- man’s” profit. It will be well for those desiring handles to place their orders immediately so that early delivery may be made. A. L. Thwing of Grand Rapids, the unsuccessful candidate for the nomination of judge of the Fifteenth Judicial district, came over from his home yesterday and spent the night in Bemidji. Mr. Thwing left for Brainerd this morning on a business trip. He looks none the worse for wear since ‘the “late unpleasant- ness.” {WOMAN WILL BE SENT BACK ACROSS BORDER Martha Wright, an “‘Undesirable Citi- zen,” Was an Inmate of a Ques- tionable Resort at Baudette, Immigration Inspector Swanson of International Falls came in yes- terday and took charge of Martha Wright, who has been held in the Beltrami county jail during the last week awaiting a decision of the Department of Commerce and Labor of the government as to whether she should be deported to Canada as an undesirable citizen. Martha Wright was taken from a house of ill repute at Baudette about ten daysago, and the evidence submitted at the hearing which followed was sent to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor at Wash- ington, as the girl had been brought to Baudette from Winnipeg. The girl was lodged in the county jail in this city pendidg the decision of the department. The authorities at Washington examined the evidence and decided that Martha Wright should be deported to Winnipeg. Inspector Swanson took the girl last evening to Baudette where she will be used as a against witness the members of the house in which she was confined. The inmates of the house were raided a few days ago and a hearing will be held at Baudette, in charge of the federal authorities. Those in chargze of such houses in the vicinity of Baudette will pro- bably be severely punished as the sentiment in that neighborhood has been growing strong against the “white slave traffic” which the undesirable element has been carry- ing on between Canada and “Uncle Sam’s” domains. Militia Meeting Tonight. There will be a regular drill meet- ing of the members of Company K this evening in the City Hall as usual. All members are’ requested to be present. (Signed) Capt. Adam E. Otto. HISTORICAL