Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 10, 1909, Page 4

ENTERTAINING ADDRESSES GIVEN THE CONVENTION Epworth League Delegates Papers and Discussions.—M. S, Rice, D, D., of Duluth Lectured to Interested Audience. Program for This Evening. 7:30—Devotionals REV. WiLLIAM G. FoLLENSBEE, Motley 7:45—Platform Meeting—Four 20 Minute Addresses “Literary and Social Work of the League™ Rev. SAMUEL PARRIsH, International Falls “The League in Meércy and Help” “The League in World Evangelism" REv. EzrA R. STEVENSON, Park Rapids “The League and Spiritual Life" Consecration Adjournment A A A A A A A A About seventy out-of-town dele- gates have already registered at the Brainerd District Epworth League convention which is being held at the First M. E. church this week. This is considered an unusually large attendance for a district con- vention. Much enthusiasm was manifested yesterday in all the proceedings. The afternoon session was devoted to the consideration of the subject of - “Missions,” and the papers read were exceptionally good. “The Inspirational Value of Mission Study,” by Mrs. Frances E. | Farrell of Wadena, emphasized the broadening influence of mission study, which places the student in touch with the latest world move- Listen to Some Very Able Rev. RoBERT G. GREENE, Akeley Rev. WiLLiam H. FARRELL, Wadena ments better than any other study. Miss Rose L. Cowdery of Long Prairie, in 2 paper on ‘“How to Make the Monthly Missionery Meet- ings a Success,” gave suggestions of a helpful and practical nature by the dozen, revealing long experience in this department. A paper by Mrs. Anna Bradner- Smith of Sauk Center had as its sub- ject “The Relation of Prayer to World Evangelism.” “Prayer is needed even more than money,” she said, “for prayer itself puts the sup- plicant in the spirit of giving.”’ The lecture by M. S. Rice, D. D., of Duluth, at the evening session proved to be all that it had been advertised for and much more. His subject, “Live Dog Versus a Dead Lion,” at once predicted wit-and originality. Both were present in a marked degree. He held the- attention of all his listeners in the crowded church from beginning to ending, and no one could leave in ill-humor. The general line of thought was shat thelife should be spent in the present and future, discarding all past failures. Dead lions are to be buried that we may goahead with the live .dog of future possibilities. The man who getsup in the world is the man who hustles to meet his fortune. Yet, in spite of this fact, the world is too much occupied with getting a living. Men do not take enough time for quiet thought and for this reason there is being produced now-a-days no great literature, no great poets and no eternal bliss. The forenoon session today was taken up with several interesting papers, which will be reported tomorrow, . This afternoon the delegates are to be the guests of the Bemidji Boat Club for a lake excursion. The last and closing session will be held this evening, when four splendid platform talks will be given, which everyone is urged by the local chapter to attend. W. T. Blakely, the Farley logger, hotel and store keeper, came down from Farley this morning and spent the day in the city. Mr. Blakely was accompanied by his brother, Samuel Blakely, who arrived at Farley last night from Minneapolis and will spend the next two or three weeks “rusticating” in and about Farley. “Sam” looks somewhat “tuckered,” but no doubt a few weeks among this pine-laden air, which produces leather lungs, will be of great benefit to him. DOINGS AMONG BEMIDJI'S GOUNTRY NEIGHBORS Live Correspondents of the Pioneer Write the News from Their Localities. Solway- June 7. Gilbert Baglee visited in Thief River Falls last week. Miss Edith Rain of Shevlin visited with friends here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Wold visited with friends in Bemidji Sunday. Ray Dickinson, our general mer- chant, was at Bemidji on business Tuesday. Miss Bertha Klinger of Bemidji is visiting with her parents here this week. John Fink and N. Baglee are put- ting a new fence around the cem- etery this week. The wedding dance of Nels Arbougan will be held at O. A. Sime’s hall Saturday evening. Ole Refsdal of Aure was in town Tuesday on his way to Bemidji, where he has some business to look after. Peter Peterson and Jacob Soren- son of the town of Jones were in town Sunday. They report crops looking fine in that part of their country. Spooner and Baudette. June 7 Mrs. G, Oppliger visited for a couple of days at Warroad last week, Miss Stella Clementson is visit- ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Erickson. Mr. Whitewood, assistant cashier at the Security State Bank of Spooner has resigned his position and has accepted a position at Duluth. Evelyn Adams a young daughter FOR SALE Shelving, Gounters and Tables 10 pieces 40 cent Wool Ch yard 20 pieces 12 cent Percales, JOP..cosvinniosevassayavmemiing 50 pieces Wash Goods, 35 yard.....oooooiiiiiiiiiiii, yard One lot Men’s Suits, $6.00 ities, sizes 34 to 38, a suit. $4.00 to $8.00, for, a suit. One lot TLadies’ Shoes now only............ One lot Tadies' Shoes now only now only Admantine Pins, a paper.. De Long Hooks, a card 200 yards of short lengths in Fancy Silks, 65 cent Cut Glass Tumblers 470 allies, a .35¢ light colors, a 1 " C Show Cases, Window GOING OUT OF BUSINESS EVERYTHING MUST BE SOLD Dry Goods Department 1000 yards Apron Gingham, remnants, a yard.., (We do not cut pieces) Children’s 50 ceut Nazareth Drawers and Waist in one garment, each......... T s b Silk Remnants to $15.00 qual- $4.95 (Limit one suit to a customer) 61 Boys' Short Pant Suits, worth from $2 95 o (Limit one suit to a customer) One lot Misses Shoes now only... One lot Misses' $2 Bottles now only... Sc eard.iiviiiviaisniias fords now only...... Duplex Safety Pins, a Men’s Department 65 young men’s $3.00 Hats, brown, for, each.. One lot children’s 25 cent Straw Ilats for, 136 each each .50 Ox- Great bargains in Men’s and Boys’ $1-79 Shoes. 8 Y Bargains in Cut Glass $4.50. Cnt Glass Wate”$2.59 O'LEARY & BOWSER BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA FOR SALE Oxtords now omy.o e S1.29 $5.00 Cut Glass Water $00 O G Waer §9 7 Notions and Small Wear Talcum Powder and Office Fixtures Combination Suits, Shirt, 39¢ colors black and 980 of Mrs, Adams of Baudette, died Sunday afternoon. Evelyn had been ill for a number of years with many complicated diseases, and was a patient sufferer. The funeral will be held tomorrow and interment made in the Baudette cemetery. Miss Lucy Plunkett gave a china shower in honor Miss - Inez Lynch, a June bride to be. Covers were laid for fourteen. The center piece was a diminuative bride carrying a shower boquet. Place cards which represented brides and with appropriative quotations, were hy each plate, 8 The eighth grade commence- ment exercises of the Spooner schools was well attended. The program was excellent and much appreciated. Abraham Segar’s phrophesy was well rendered and the presentation speech by Helen Minnick was good. All those who took part in the opperatta did their part well. The Baudette baseball nine crossed bats with the local nine of Rainy River. Rainy River’s batteries were to arrive on the same morning train, but did not arrive. A local nine was picked up for the occasion. Baudette won out by 17 to 0. The games was played at the Spooner ball park, which ranks with the best ball parks in the state of Minnesota. Notice of Bids. Notice is hereby given that the Supervisors of Birch and Moose Lake Townships will meet at the resi- dence of H. W. Alsop in Section 31, Township 148, Range 30, (Town of Birch) at 3 p. m., June 15, 1909, for the purpose of receiving bids for the cutting out, grubbing, corduroying where necessary, and grading a town- ship road, 4 rods wide, beginning at the X stake on the south line of Section 31, Twp. 148, Range 30, running thence east along the town line to the S. F. corner of Section 32, in said town 148, Range 30. SHECIFICATIONS, Road to be cut and grubbing 2 rods wide, all corduroy to be 16 feet long, 4 inches at small, and ditched 18 inches deep on both sides, and covered with earth 8 feet wide and 12 inches deep, road to be rounded to 18 inches above bottom of side ditches. The Boards reserve the right to reject any and all bids or to award only such parts as they may deem necessary. By order of the Boards of Super- visors of Birch and Moose Lake ‘Townships. —Henry W. Alsop, Clerk of Birch Twp, Dated this 25th day of May, 1909. CONTAINS MANY SECURITIES 8afe Deposit Box of Alleged Defaulter Opened. New Haven, Conn., June 10.—A safe deposit box rented in the name of Frederick H. Brigham, the bookkeep- er of the Merchants’ National bank, who is alleged to have abstracted sev- eral thousand dollars from the bank’s funds, has been opened and found to contain stock certificates roughly es- timated to represent about 115,000 shares in gold, silver and copper mines, very few of which are listed on the stock exchange. There are also many deeds of real estate situ- ated in distant states and shares in development companies. Brigham is sl in jail. Rough estimates by the bank offi- eers and experts iIndicate that the gross sum taken by Brigham amounts to hetween $60,000 and $60,000. IOWAN SLAYS HIS DAUGHTER Angered by Attentions Paid Her by Certain Suitor. Towa City, Ia., June 10.—With a sin- gle blow of an axe Michael Stigler, a brewery employe, crushed the skull of his seventeen-year-old daughter Lena as she lay sleeping. The girl cannot live. Attentions pald the daughter by ‘William Warnek led to constant quar- reling in the family. Brooding over this, coupled with excessive drinking, caused the crime. Police are search- ing the surrounding country for the father. Stigler’s body was found later hang- inz by a rope under a wagon bridge near the Rock Island tracks. He had committed suicide. FAVORS FREE W00D PULP John Norris Appears Before Senate Committee. ‘Washington, June 10.—John Norris, ehairman of the committee on paper of the American Newspaper Publish- ers’ association, was heard by the senate committee on finance in sup- port of free wood pulp and lower duty on print paper. He spoke for nearly an hour. The burden of his argu- ment was that paper can be produced as cheaply by American mills as by Canadian mills. No action was taken by the committee beyond listening to Mr. Norris’ argument. TWO HUNDRED ARE KILLED Sumatran Town Destroyed by Earth- . quake and Tidal Wave. Padang, Sumatra, June 10.—The town of Korinchi, 185 miles to the southeast of Padang, was destroyed by an earthquake on the night of June 8. Two hundred people were killed and many others injured. The shock was accompanied by a tidal wave, which swept the native huts like oockleshells. ACCIDENT TO BIC CANADIAN CANAL Locks at the Soo Wrecked by Steamer. DISASTER MOST SERIOUS As a Result One Steamer Is Sunk, Another Is Slowly Sinking and a Third Has a Big Hole in Her Bow. Accident Caused by Vessel Hitting the Gate as She Entered Lock to Pass Through Canal. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., June 10.— The locks of the big Canadian ship canal were wrecked while the steam- er Assinaboia and a Gilchrist line freighter were passing through. As a result of the accident the Assinabola is sinking, the steamer Perry F. ‘Walker is sunk and the Empire City has a big hole in her bow. It is the worst wreck in the history of the ship canal here. The accident happened while the steamers Assinabola of the Canadian Pacific Railroad line and the Empire City of the steel trust fleet were be- Ing locked through. One of the leaves of the upper lock gave way. With terrific force the water from the high- er level rushed into the lock cham- ber, sweeping both boats and the lower gates before it. The Empire City was hit by the Assinaboia as they were carried out of the lock and a large hole was torn in the bow of the steel trust boat. The Assinaboia reached the American side, where she fs tied up at the government pier. She 1s reported to be slowly sinking. The Gilchrist Hner Perry G. Walker ‘was tied up above the lock and when the accident happened the rush of the water broke her line and she was swept through the canal, sinking at the lower entrance. It is said the accident was caused by the steamer Assinaboia hitting the gate as she en- tered the lock. The flood from the upper level is pouring through the canal at a terrific pace. The accident to the Canadian lock will not tie up trafic between the upper and lower lakes, but it will, however, necessitate the use of the American lock by all steamers and therefore result in conslderable delay. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at_least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catrrah. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease. requires a constitu~ tional treatment. Hall's Oatarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direc Iy upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby - destroying the foundation of the discase, and glving the patlent strength by building up the constitution and asissting Dnature in doing itfs work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list[of testimonials, ddress: F.J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Drugglsts, 75c. Take Hall's Family Piils or constipation. WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. WANTED—Agents to sell Hardy Minnesota Grown Fruit and Orna- mental Nursery Stock. Liberal Commissions or Salary. Pay weekly. Complete outfit FREE. Apply L. L. May & Co., St. Paul, Minn. WANTED—Good girl for kitchen work and general work in hot el Inquire at Blocker Hotel. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Inquire at Hotel Blocker. WATNED—Good lady cook for hotel work. Inquire at this office. WANTED — Dishwasher at Chal- lenge hotel. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Seven-room house at 1111 Lake Boulevard. Inquire of Henry Stechman, 719 Bemidji avenue. FOR SALE—Two lots, new cottage, nice location offer wanted. H. A. Bliler. 12I7 Bixby Ave. FOR SALE—One 6-horse Grey gasoline engine, for sale cheap. Floyd Brown. FOR SALE—Cheap, saddle pony, by Bisiar & Murphy, 117 3rd street. Two Thousand Delegates Present. Des Moines, June 10.—Two thou- sand delegates were in attendance at the opening of the twentieth annual convention of the United Norwegian Lutheran church of America. Repre- gentatives from most of the foreign mission countries were present. The session will last nine days and was called to order by President T. H. Dahl of Minneapolis. Always Waning. A Frenchman who apparently has a good deal of time on his hands has been amusing himself by reckoning up the number of kisses he has given his wife during the first twenty years of his married life. He finds that in the first year he dis- pensed about 100 kisses a day, or, say, allowing for birthdays and legal and church holidays, about 36,700 in the year. In the second year this number was reduced by half and In the third year to ten a day, while in the fifth year his better half had to be content with two a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. ‘What happened in the fifth year is “wrapped in mystery,” but at the same rate of “progression” he probably ar- rived eventually at one kiss on the first ¢ January every leap year. Philadelphia Flier of 1737. In these days of fast tralns we can hardly conceive how the newspaper nunouncement made March 10, 1737, that a “fiier would begin flying on 3d April to perform the journey between New York and Philadelphia in one day” could have created a great sen- sation—even in Philadelphia. Eighty miles in fourteen hours does not seem to us such breathless speed, but when we read in the same paper that in or- der to accomplish this feat “John But- ler, with his waggon, must needs set out from the sign of the Death of the Fox at daybreak and drive at top speed (the horses being changed at each stage ere the coach stops rock- ing) to meet the ferry of Rubin Fitz- randolph, which delivers passengers in New York by night.” We can understand that for those lefsurely times this was indeed “go- Ing some.” This, at least, was the opinion of a traveler who performed this journey in 1737, for he writes home, “And if any one wishes to travel more quickly let him go to Kentucky and charter a streak of lightning.” The Dazzling Searchlight. On a dark night no warship would be safe from torpedo attack but for the searchlight. The full moon lights up a torpedo boat so that it can be fired at when nearly a mile away. To produce the same {illumination with the most powerful artificial light an electric arc of 160,000 candle power placed three-quarters of a mile high would be needed if the aid of mirrors were not available. But with this light and an ingenious arrangement of mirrors it is possible to surpass the moon. Searchlights are now made which throw light a distance of sixty- three miles, but objects can be seen only a few miles from the source of the light. The effect on the enemy is most demoralizing. When the bright beam is suddenly thrown on.the eye the pupil contracts violently; when the beam is removed the eye can see noth- ing. If this be repeated a few times it takes all the nerve out of a man, 8o that only the best trained and most tourageous can continue the attack.— i London Answers. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—The barn known as the S. P. Hayth barn at the rear of the postoffice. Inquire at 406 Minnesota Avenue. MISCELLANEOUS. 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