Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 26, 1909, Page 1

T R THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER. VOLUME 7. NUMBER 7. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1909. THIRTEEN WILL GRADUATE FROM LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL Olaf Hondrum, Star Football Player, Is Valedictorian; Ethel Knox, Salutatorian.—Commencement, June 4. —Rev. White to Preach “The most efficient classes in the history of this city will graduate next June from the Bemidji High School, when the thirteen members of the class of 709 will ‘embark upon the sea of life,’” said Superintendent A. P. Ritchie of the local schools, this morning. The commencement exercises will be held in the city hall on Friday! evening, June 4th, at which time an outside speaker will deliver an address and the valedictorian and the salutatorian of the class will render their respective essays. Olaf Hondrum has the honor of being the valedictorian of the class with a grand average of 91.6 for his entire work in high school, and Ethel L. largest and one of the - Knox follows closely with a grand average of 91.4. Olof completed his high school course in three years and only lacked one credit of the necessary sixteen to graduate a year ago. | The senior class this year has ! departed trom the usual custom of choosing a Latin motto and has selected an English one, with which to leave school, “No Success With- out Labor.” The class colors are red and white and ’09’s flower is the red rose. The officers of the de- parting class are: Helmer Kruse, president; Amanda Klein, vice president; Clara Fisk, secretary; and Arabelle Neal, treasurer. The members of the class of ‘09 who will receive diplomas next June are: Clara Flizabeth Fisk, Helmer Victor Kruse, Selma Margaret Witting, Olaf Hondrum, Katherine Arabelle Neal, Ethel L. Knox, Florence R. Weekly, Hazel Helen Wells, Ida Hendrickson, Amanda Klein, Rachel Eleanor Rakerd, Signe Virginia Wallin and Elisa Brondby. The Class Night program will be rendered in the City Hall on Friday evening, May 28th, one week before commencement, a small admission fee being charged in order to raise money for a class memorial, which will be donated to the school accord- ing to custom. The Girls’ and the Boys’ High School Glee clubs, under the direction of Miss Hanson, are practicing steadily on special music both for commencement and Class Night. The exercises for the evening will be divided into two parts, during the first of which the principal class papers will be read, and in the sec- ond, the class play will be presented to the public. The class composi- tions have been distributed as Baccalaureate Sermon. tollows: Class History, Signe Wallin; Class Prophecy, Eliza Brondby; Class Poem, Clara Fisk: Class Will, Ida Hendrickson; and Class Gifts, Arabelle -Neal. The class play is “Mitsu-Yu-Nissi, or A Japanese Wedding.” “Mitsu-Yu-Nissi” is a delightful Japanese drama of which a short sketch is given here: Mitsu-Yu-Nissi, a Japanese maiden, has just com- pleted her education in America and returns to her home in Japan. She had been betrothed, when a child, to Kimura Jamamota, a noble- man of the City of Tokio who is forty years her senior, and, through the influence of her modern educa- tion, she is greatly disturbed by this ancient custom. According to the Japanese habits, Kimura cannot see Mitsu until the day of the wedding, so he sends his son, Tasaku, to welcome her. Tasaku had been educated in England and also rebelled against _the customs of his people. They meet and fallin love, Tasakufinnally winning Mitsu’s consent to a marriage. On the night on which they had planned to elope, Mitsu decides. that she cannot disobey her parents and de- clares that she will marry Kirmura Through the agency of a priest, Kimura learns of his son’s love and on the day of the wedding arranges to have Tasaku take his place, with the customary ending of “All is well that ends well.” . The characters “of the play are assumed by the members of the high school as follows: Assano-Yu- Nissi, 2 nobleman of the City of Tokio, Olaf Hondrum; Nao-Na, his wife, Ethel Knox; Mitsu, their daughter, Clara Fisk; Masasura, her brother, Rachel Rakerd; Kimura Jamamota, another nobleman, Hel- mer Kruse; Tasaku, his son, Mayne Stanton; Two Japanese Girls, Hazel Wells and Amanda Klein; Two American Girls, Arabelle Neal and Selma Witting. The members of the graduating class this year have requested Rev. S. E. P. White, of the Presbyterian church of this city, to preach the baccalaureate sermon, which will be delivered at the Presbyterian church on Sunday, May 30th, Before graduating from the local schools the members of the Senior Class are each required to write an essay. Most of the essays were sub- mitted to Miss Greaves, the high school principal, Friday afternoon, the subjects being: “Modern Adver- tising,” Elisa Brondby; “Famous Women of History,” Ida Hendrick- BANKING BUSINESS ? with us. have more You know something of our service. or less of it. Possibly it is Such being the case you But if not a patron wouldn’t it be well for you to become one? R — Our Saving’s Department is calculated to serve all classes; the old and the young, the poor and the rich. It receives deposits from $1 up to $5,000 and allows three per cent interest, compounded s2mi-annually. The First National ; Bank of son; “The Almighty Dollar,” Rachel Rakerd; “Abraham Lincoln,” Clara Fisk; “The Negro and ‘the South,” Selma Witting; “The Old and New Ways of Punishing for Crime,” Hazel Wells; “Is Our Treatment of the Indian Right or Wrong,” Ethel Knox; “Robert Burns,” Olaf Hon- drum; “The Progress and Tenden- cies of Civilization,” Florence Week- ly; “Why Is a Larger Standing Army Unnecessary in the United States?” Signe Wallin; “The Opium Traffic in China,” Arabelle Neal. The Juniors are making great preparation for the annual Juniors’ ball to the Seniors, which will be held in the Odd Fellows hall on Fri- day evening, May 14th. The hall will be decorated inthe red and white of the graduating class and with the brown and white of the “coming Seniors.” The following committees have been appointed by President Stan= ton of the Junior Class to take charge of the preparation for the ball: refreshment committee, Grace Ritchie, Estella Gracie, Orpha Minor, Ethel Getchell and Ernest Neumann, decoration committee, Emil Engels, Clara Benson and Vivian Guptill; invitation committee, Gladys Kreatz, Nell Shannon and Fay Brenneman; and program committee, Bertha Becker, Mary Simons and Ralph Gracie. Mrs. Kincannon Smith Sells Orchard. The Spokane (Wash.) Daily Chronicle says of Mrs. Cora C. Kincannon Smith, who formerly lived in Bemidji and who moved to the western country, about three years ago: “Cora C. Kincannon Smith has sold her 20-acre orchard on Moran prairie for a consideration of $8500 to J. E. Ferris, of Kansas Ciiy, who will make it his home for the future. Mrs. Smith has lived on the tract for three years. The orchard, which was set to apples and prunes, is one of the oldest- in this vicinity, -and was known as Maldena Garden. Mrs. Smith states that she expects to make a trip in the near future to California, but will return toSpokane and reinvest in Spokane property. The sale was made through A.D. Jones & Co.” SROUND IS BROKEN FOR THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL A. C. Thomas of Blooming Prairie, the Contractor, States That School Will Be Beautiful. A. C. Thomas of Blooming Prairie, who has the contract for the erec- tion of "Bemidji’s new $36,000 high school bui]ding, is in the city super- intending the on the new structure. Ground has been broken on the preparatory work block between America and Irvin avenues and Sixth and Seventh streets and Mr. Thomas will push the construction as rapidly as pos- sible. In an interview this morning Mr. Thomas said, ‘“You will have a very beautiful school building when com- pleted that will go well with your pretty little city. In the Bemidji Pioneer, you have a very good, live paper. It’s all right.” Mr. Thomas stated that Mr. Guthrie of Blooming Prairie will have the immediate charge of the erection of the new school but that he, himself, will be up here several times during the summer to superin- tend the progress of the work. He expects to return tonlght. Ole Greenland Dead. young men of Bemidji, ailing the last three months. three years ago. leaves a wife and two children to mourn his departure. : The funeral arrangements have not been completed but it is proba- ble that the remains will be taken from St. Paul to his old home at Eau Clair, Wis,, for interment. Ole Greenland. one of the popular died last Thursday in St. Paul while on his way to Hot Springs, Arkansas, after Ole had lived in Bemidji during the last seven years and was married The deceased -|sold. A meeting will be held on SHERIFF HAZEN GOT SHINN BY STRATEGY 0. J. Shinn, Former Treasurer of Beltrami County, Is Speeding Back fo Justice. KIDNAPPED FROM PORTLAND IN AUTO AND HUSTLED FROM STATE. Ex-Treasurer, Released on Habeas Corpus, Laughs at Detectives But Laughs too Soon. Sheriff A. B.'Hazen of this city {has been mixed up recently in a Shinn, former county trea surer of Beltrami county, who was resisting | SHERIFF A. B. HAZEN. requisition at Portland, Ore. The Minneapolis Journal of this morning contains the following special: ““Portland, Ore,, April 24.—Boldly kidnapped by two Portland detec- tives and delivered in Vancover, Wash., when twelve miles from Port- land, to Sheriff A. B. Hazen, O. J. Shinn, former treasurer of Beltrami county, Minn,, is speeding back to Minnesota in Hazen’s charge. He is accused of absconding with $335 on July 15, 1903. “While Sheriff Hazen was coming from Minnesota, and when no papers were on file, Shinn’s attor- neys instituted habeas corpus pro- ceeding, and succeeded in getting 0. J. SHINN him off. As he reached the side- walk in front of the court house, Shinn laughed at Detective Coleman over his failure to hold him. “Nearby stood another detective in an automobile, and Shinn was forcibly hustled in and whizzed to a neighboring state outside the juris- diction of the Oregon habeas cor- pus.” Sheriff Hazen and his prisoner are expected to arrive in Bemidji some time tonight. BLACKDUGK PEOPLE MAY BUILD CREAMERY SOON ~ Citizens Attempting to Sell Stock and Build $2,000 Creamery on Co-operative Plan. Blackduck American: Andther creamery meeting was held in this village last Saturday. The question of erecting a creamery was gone over pretty thoroughly. Some of those present were - enthusiastically in favor of a creamery and thought it could be made self-supporting, while others appeared less optimistic. It was finally decided to start sub- scription lists to ascertain if stock to the amount of $2,000 can be Local News on Last Page. Saturday, May 1st, to listen to re- E.F. Bruce. very sensational kidnapping “stunt” | E- E. Gearld % Peing 710 . milmor. whereby he secured custod y of O. J. | E. A. Barker. reports from those in charge of sub- scription lists, It has been proposed to organize along co-operative lines and to limit the amount of stock for each stock- holder to ten shares (non-assessable) at $10 each. Tt is hoped that there will be a large attendance at the next meeting. If the necessary amount of stock can be sold immedi- ate steps to organize will be taken. Those wishing to subscribe for stock may do so by calling at the American office or atany of the stores. G.W. Thompson is circulating a list among the farmers. Baseball Snbscription List. The boseball subscricption list up to noon today was as follow: Theo. Gullickson. George Kirk... K. Mclver... A. G. Wedge R. H. Schumaker . D. R. Burgess.. E. H. Jerrard D. D. Miller. John Fleming J F. A M J. John Graham Isaac Peart. A. R. Erickson Charles Vandersluis. A. P, White.. W. L. Brooks George Rhea 'FOR'I{Y CENTS PER MONTH A STUMP DEMONSTRATION AND INSTITUTE TOMORROW Superintendent A. J. McGui: re of Northeastern State Ex- perimental Farm, to Hold Farmers’ Institute and Stump Demonstration. At the city hall, tomorrow, there will be held a farmer’s institute and in connection therewith a demon- stration of stump-removing by dynamite will be given by an expert demonstrator, who will be sent from the DuPont Powder company. Circulars which have been gotten out in connection with the institute and -demonstration give particulars as follows: “Supt. A. J. McGuire of Grand Rapids will hold a farmer’s institute and stumping demonstration. at Be- midji, Tuesday, April 27. The morn- ing session, commencing at 10 o’clock, will be devoted to general agriculture—dairying, swine-raising, clover, and other lines of interest to this section. In the afternoon, com- mencing at 1:30 H- A. Wilson of the DuPont Powder company, will give demonstrations in the removing of stumps with dynamite. “One hundred pounds of dynamite will be used in these demonstrations. Mr. Wilson will show how easy it is to get stumps when the work is done Pioneer Publishing Co. right. He will also show the wrong way of doing the work. Any far- mer can learn how to do his own dynamiting, and clear his lands at low cost. Arrangements will be made for furnishing dynamite to the farmers at trade prices.” Arrangements have been made to hold the institute in the city hall in the forenoon, and the demonstrations of stump removing will be given at the west end of Fourteenth street: Teams have been donated to haul farmers and others attending the in- stitute to the grounds where the demonstrations will take place, Mayor Pogue and K. Mclver giving rigs and John Moberg donat- ing the use of his automobile; and others will also volunteer. W. R. Mackenzie, secretary of the Beltrami County Agricultural asso- ciation, is active inassisting in the arrangements for the institute and stump demonstration. Everybody, irrespective of what- whether a farmer or not, is earnestly invited to attend the demonstration of stump-removing. ever calling or trade, institute and see the Assets Real Estate Increase in surplus ......... $ 456,299.98 Northwestern National Life Ins. Co. MINNEAPOLIS -LEONARD. K.- THOMPSON, -President Twenty-Third Annual Statement Reserve.............. $4,914,491.00 Death losses due and unpaid,....... None Farm Loans........ 3.796,184.16|Claims in process Vice Pr}; WN ]:’\ENCKI\]I‘:a\lt2 Bank i 5 of adjustment,,.., 33,557.75 e odis g oanson policies,. 748,389 18| Present value C. T, JAFFRAY installments not Vice Pres. First Nat. Bank Bonds owned 286,209.25) due................... 6,888.58 A. A. CRANE Det Premiums and in- Vice Pres. National Bank of el erred and uncol- terest in advance 57,581.02 Commerce ected premiums 210,916.10 | Reserve to protect L. K. THOMPSON Inéel‘r:?nzn;ic rent; s f: l:;?sstaf:ms:: 90,387.10 Presldex];at a}z:dl\(lgaesrglNManager crue . i dhred 91,581.92 g;‘i&;;‘zsd';‘;fi‘}: 306,288.22| Nejson-Tuthill Lumber Co. Cash in office-and during 1909, 41,008 99 GEO. E. TOWLE on deposit., ., ... 90,372.64 ] Taxes and oth Treasurer abilities | 27,945 00 W."]. GRAHAM ——| Surplus, ., 203,805.57 | Vice President and Actuary . JOHN T. BAXTER Total,, 81,953.23 713,502.33 52,984.88 Surplus,, Northwestern National invests practically all its money in farm mortgages, and thereby keeps the money at home. . Why should we send our money to the Atlantic or Pacific coast to help build up those sections? Let us keep it at home and build up the great Northwest. January 1, 1909 Admitted assets. ............ o $5,681,953.23 Total peid policyholders, Insurance in force Directors F. A. CHAMBERLAIN Pres. 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The Iowa capitol has a number of prosperous insurance companies and the city owes much of its financial solidity and importance to the fact that the people of the state generally look to home companies and not to Eastern concerns for their insurance protection. In Milwaukee is the Northwestern Mutual, one of the big insurance companies of this section Its funds are in part at least locally invested, its money distributed in local banks and to.a great extent it is a tactor in the financial development of the Wisconsin metropolis. There is no reason why the Twin Cities should not assist in building themselves up in the : In Minneapolis are the Northwestern National Life and the Northwestern Fire & Marine; in St. Paul the Minnesota Mutual Life and The St. Paul Fire and Marine. companies which would profit by home buying of insurance, and which in turn would by their added strength be of immense advantage to the whole state of Minnesota.. This is not an advertisement for the companies mentioned. I tation or even knowledge-on their part, the two big cities-of Minnesota may exploit themselves to their own advantage, The Daily News desires Lawrence J. Anderson, General Agent, lBemidii, Minnesota Agents wanted in Walker, Bagley, Cass Lake and Grand Rapids. These are types of t is written without any solici- only to show a way in which