Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 27, 1909, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 7. NUMBER 213. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1909. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. THE NORWFGIAN LUTHERAN CHURCH NOW PROSPEROUS Congregation Has Trebled in Numbers Since Rev. T. S. Kolste Came Here.—New District Added to Gen- eral Church, Called Bemidji Distriet. The Norwegian Evangelical Luth- | eran church of Bewidji has de-| termined to henceforth be independ- | ent of the mission board of the| United Lutheran Church of America, | this determination baving been | reached at a meeting of the church | board held recently. | At the meeting of the churchi officials, it was shown that the| church was ina spendid financial | condition, warranting the taking of | independent action. Heretofore, the | church has been supported by the | mission board of the general church, | but the interest shown in the wurk‘ of the church, increase in member-; ship, better financial condition, etc., | warrants the action. In conpection with the severing of | the aid from the mission board, Rev. | REV. T. S. KOLSTE, | Pastor Bemidji Norwegian Evangelical Luth- eran Church. Kolste, pastor of the church, was authorized to call a student from| the theological seminary at St.| Anthony Park to assist in preaching and general work of the church, and more especially in teaching the| parochial schools in Bemidji and of the pastor, Rev. Kolste, and the co-operation of members of the con- gregation who heeded his requests for aid. Rev. Kolste came to Bemidji Janu- ary 24, 1008; and he at once in- spired the confidence of his parish other points joined to the Bemidji | people by bis earnest Christian char- charge. There has been added to the, Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran church of America a new district to! be called the Bemidji district, which will be a daughter of the Twin | Valley district. The new Bemid district extends from Erskine east- ward along the line of the G. N.| railway to Cass Lake, and extending | northward on the Minnesota & Inter- | national railway tothe Canadian| boundary and also including a Dart; of Ganada adjacent to International | Falls. This new district will con-| tain about fifty congregations and ten pastors; and Rev. Kolste, pastor | of the Bemidji church, will act as]| the official visitator or overseer of| the new Bemidji district. This| position is the official representative | cf the United Norwegian Evangeli-| cal Lutheran church of America, | which has 300,000 membership, and} 1300 congregations. The splendid success achieved by; the Bemidji United E\'angelical‘ Lutheran church has been due in 2| large measure to the untiring efiortsg |acter and efforts to better church conditions among his people; and his success was marked, from the very beginning. The congregation today numbers three times as many church oing people as were members when Rev. Kolste first came here, and the church is in a flourishing financial condition. The latest movement of the local Norwegian Lutheran chureh -is theq organization of a Young People’s society, which will have a large | membership. This society will hold two meetings monthly, one on the first Thursday of each month and the other on the third Thursday of each month. The monthly meetings will be different in character, the first monthly meeting being of a social character, and the other meet- ng will be in the nature of a christ- ian literary meeting. Much interest is being taken in the work of the church and its differ- ent associate organizations, and Be- midji has a Norwegian Lutheran organization of which any city might well be proud. MANY NARROWLY ks ESCAPE DEATH | the whistle and shrieked out the depot is estimated at $50,000. Le Clai hero. R ers and allow the tr course he stuck in the cab with one hand on the throttle and another on gnals | ahead to the switchmen to give him Freight Train Plows Into St. Paul Union Depot. | ease was ho ! cab at the end of the string of sheds BAGGAGE ROOM WRECKED | Engine and Several Cars of Runaway | Train Pass Through Rear Wall and | Nearly the Entire Length of Build- ing—Several Hundred Men Sleeping Above the Section Destroyed Scat- \ tered in All Directions. St. Paul, Dec. 27.—A Great .\'onh-i ern engine and freight train of twen- | ty-two cars plowed into the back of | the Union depot and badly wrecked | the building. Several hundred people | narrowly escaped death. '\ clear tracks. When he saw, however, that the he leaped from his and allowed thie monster engine to plow through the baggage room, the only place where it was possible to wreck the train with a possible escape from fatalities. The t t is estimated, was go- ing si e miles an hour when it struck the depot. The failure of an | angle cock, controlling the airbrakes, to work is said to have caused the runaway. WILL WED AN ENGLISHMAN Sa)d Mrs. thn Jacob Astor Is En- oaged to Marry. London, Dec. 27-.—The report that Mrs. Alva Willing Astor, divorced wife of John Jacob Ast: will be married to Captain Pons y, the Earl of Bessborough's second son, is taken seriously now by friends of both. The huge engine, going at a high| Mrs. Astor and Captain Ponsonby are rate of speed. plowed into the baggage | engaged, their friends say, but will room side of the building, wrecking [not be married for several months at the walls and going into the structure | least. Mrs. Astor, an expert and grace- almost to the front entrance. Luckily ' ful skater, goes often to the fashion- there was no one in that section of | 2ble ice rink and then young Ponson- the building at the time. i Two hundred men asleep on the second floor of the building directly | over the wrecked portion were scat-| tered in all directions, but all escaped serious injury. The train got away from Engineer | Le Claire at the Mississippi street | bridge. All the switchmen jumped off | and left Le Claire alone with the run- | away train. Engineer Seriously Injured. Le Claire jumped as the sheds were | reached and struck an iron girder. He | is badly hurt and was taken to SLl Joseph’s hospital. i | by is her constant companion. Captain, the Hon. Cyril Myles Bra- bazon Ponsonby, is twenty-eight years old. He is a captain in the Grenadier guards and aide-de-camp to the Duke of Connaught, the king’s brother. For his services in the South African war Captain Ponsonby was decorated with the Victorian order. Inquisitive. “One half of the world doesn't know ngw the other half lives,” observed the | moralizer. “How prochmg"’ exclaimed Mrs. Gossyp.—Lippincott’s. Mind no business but your own.—Dr. The damage done by the train to lJohnsan. s BODY OF WILBY BRANNON BURIED AT GREENWOOD Funeral Was Held Saturdayand Was Largely Attended.—Death Was Sad One. All that was mortal of the late Wilby Brannon, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Brannon, was laid to rest at Greenwood, Bemidji’s city of the dead, Christmas forenoon, a large number of personal friends of the family following the remains to their last resting place. The funeral services were held at the home of| Mr. and Mrs. Brannon, at 10 o’clock, Rev. C. E. White, pastor of the M.{ E. church, officiating. The home was crowded with those who had come to pay their last tribute to the deceased, and the services were impressive and beauti- ful. e Rev. White paid a beutiful trie bute to the memory of Wilbur, and spoke of his devotion to his home and the loved ones who so bitterly mourned his untimely taking off. The officiating clergyman spoke words of comfort and cheer to the weeping relatives and reitereated | the promise of Him that doeth all things w:ll, who looks after the little things of life, as well as the big sorrows, and who promised life everlasting to those who had faith in Him. The casket was covered with the most beautiful flowers that loving hands ever wrought, all of which spoke of peace, purity and immortal- ity. The music rendered was such as to soften all hearts and moisten alleyes. * At the conclusion of the beautiful services, a crowd followed the body to the “silent city.” Clustering about the flaweu that will be blooming there, mingling with the oppressive silence that shrouds the revered s-ot, and quiver- ing amidst the gloom of the grave, the holiest memories speak in tones that fill the ear and thrill the sorrowing heart. All that was of the life that was has faded into the night of end- less sleep; its lights and its shadows; its sweetness and its nobility; its power and its purity, pass before us like a rapidly-moving panaroma. Under such influences, with such a thrilling picture of days gone by and of worthy deeds done, we pause for a time to speak of the beloved dead. Wilby Brannon’s retiring nature| led him to hide his best qualities from the public gaze, but they were revealed to those who knew him, yet it was in the home of his - |parents that his true worth was most conspicuous. He was a kind, loving son, and his devotion to the family circle had no limit, as a pa- thetic incident will show: It is said that the day the tele- gram was received announcing the sudden accidental death of Wilby, Mrs. W. S. Brannon, his mother, received a long letter from the boy, written from Lolo Springs, Mont., enclosing $10 for his mother and wishing her 2 merry Christmasa d a happy New Year, and telling of his advancement as an engineer with the N. P. Railway. Sad indeed was Christmas to this loving mother, when the future promised so much for her boy. Wilby Brannon was born in the village of Forest River, N. D., on July 11, 1887, and came to Bemidji with his parents two years ‘later, remaining here a year and then returning to Forest River, coming back to this city finally .in 1902. He was at Northome during 1905- 06, an then bezan work with Engi- neer Huss in the construction of the Big Falls-International Falls exten- sion of the M. & L. Railway. Wilby worked as chainman at different times for M. D. Stoner, city engineer; and last May he went to Montana, securing a sifuation with the N. P. Railway company. It was while working as chain. man with a gang of engineers, near Lolo Springs, that Wilby was killed. He was standing some 60 feet 1o one | side of atree that wastbeing felled. The tree lodged in the top of an-i D ONLY ONE POINT “NOW IN DISPUTE Believed Switchimen’s Strike Is Nearing the End. GOVERNOR EBERHART BUSY In_ Communication With Railraods In- terested Regarding the Employment of All the Old Men Within a Reason- able Time—Other Matters in Dis- Pute to Be Settled by the Outcome of the Chicago Gonference. St." Paul, Dec. 27.—Governor Eber- Rart is in communication with the offi- cers of the thirteen roads entering St. Paul with a view to the early return of the striking switchmen to work. Upon the answers received from them hangs the immediate adjustment of the strike which has been on since Nov. 30. If the roads will consent to take the men ‘back ‘within a reasonable time Frank T. Hawley, president of the Bwitchmen’s union, has assured the governor that he will direct his com- “mittee to abide by the Chicago arbi- tration, as agreed in the governor's| eonference. might be reagonable with some of the roads which have large numbers of extra men hired. A shorter time might not be unreasonable with other Toads affected. The telegrams received by the gov- ernor may prevent a reconvening gof the conference which spent several The governor thinks thirty dflys‘ STILL SOME HOPE OF SETTLING STRIKE St. Paul, Dee. 27,—4:15 p. m- —(Special telephone io Pioneer.) —At this hour striking switch- men and railroad officials are in conference with Governor Eberhart in an attempt to get together for purpose of dissolv- ing switchmen's strike. At one time looked like all hopes of ending strike would have to be abandoned. However, Ralph Wheelock the governor’s private secretary, states there is still hope of reaching an amicable agreement. MUCH INTEREST SHOWN IN HIGHER ODD FELLOWSHIP Member of the Staff of the Sovereign Grand Lodge Is in the City.— Reception Wednesday. Much interest is being taken, at present, in Bemidji in the higher branches of Odd Fellowship. | The I O. O. F. comprises four | branches: Subordinate, Ercampment, THE TEST FOR THE CENSUS ENUMERATORS TO BE EASY Census Director Durand Sets Feb. 5 as the Date for Test. —D. W. Meeker of Moorhead Is Superintendent for This District. Washington, Dec. 27.—Any per- son of good judgment, who has re- ceived an ordinary common school education, can readily and easily pass the test to be given applicants for census enumerators’ places on Saturday, Feb. Sth, the date finally set by U. S. Census Director Durand, according to an announcement from the Census Bureau today. This will be a comforting assurance to the several hundred thousand who are believed to be contemplating appli- cation for the places. It was emphatically stated at the bureau that the test will be an eminently reasonable and practical one, similar to that applied to ap- plicants at the twelfth census. It will consist of filling out a sample schedule of population from a de- | scription, in narrative form, of typi- cal famllies; and, in case of enumer- ators whose work will be in the rural districts, they will be called upon to fill out an additional sample schedule of agriculture, from infor- mation furnished by the Census of the supervisor’s district for which they wish to be appointed; must be not less than 18 nor more than 70 years of age; must be physically able to do the work; must be trust- worthy, honest and of good habits; must have at least an ordinary education and must be able to write plainly and with reasonable rapidity. Those who can comply with these requirments are invited to put in their applications, as there will be at least 68,000 enumerators’ places to be filled by the middle of March in preparation for the enumeration beginning April 15th. Application forms, with full in- structions for filling-in, and complete information concerning the test and the method of appointment, can be secured by writing to the supervisor of census for the supervisor’s district in which the applicant lives. All applications, properly filled in must be filed with the supervisors not later than January 25th as any re ceived after that date cannot be con- sidered. days in session at the capitol, for 11‘, the roads all agree the governor will | at once notify President Hawley, who has promised that the switchmen will | then go back to work under the old | conditions pending the Chicago arbi- tration. Increase in Wages Probable. Concerning the outcome of the Chi- cego arbitration it was conceded in the discussion before the governor that some raise, probably not the en- “tire 6 cents asked by the switchmen, would be granted in the Chicago dis- tjict and this the - Northwestern switchmen, under the agreement-in the govertior's -corference, are to share. N Besides this the workmg conditions of the switchmen in the Chicago dis- trict are more desirable than they are | 3 “’:fi Ij}gfihc‘;?stem flis;f,i?:; zfld aren COL. WM. CROWHURST, | 01 e Chicago conditions not be B | bettered they will be better than the | Colonel of Staff of Sovereign Grand Lodge, present conditions here and as they | L0.0.E also are to apply here the Northwest- - :r:e:;:tcn!;mt;: :;:}ilkzmoy this £ain 25| pebekah and Patriarchs Militant. On the other hand, if there should i All 0dd Fellows must hold member- be ;“dt: "ef“s:flt ‘mu‘lhe Ptfl‘_'}t of the ! shipin the Subordinate, but member- roads reinstate e strikers as FRTS . . would inficate a disposition not to,smp in the other three is optional. meet the proposed arbitration on a|The full intent and beauty of the fair basis, then, of course, President | er are not un h Hawley will nof. direct the switchmen | O1C. DR e Bureau. All persons, whether women or men, who may desire to become census enumerators, must be citi- zens of the United States; residents D. W. Meeker of Moorhead is the supervisor of census for this, the Ninth, congressional district, and will conmsider all applications for appointment as census enumerator. the Patriachs Militant is the climax and corresponds with that branch of the Masonic Order known as the Knights Templar. Membership in the Patriarchs Militant permits the brother to be- come a recipient of the Decoration of Chivalry and the Grand Decora- tion of Chivalry and thus be enrolled as a Knight of the Decoration of Chivalry and a Knight of the Grand Decoration. Patriarchs militant constitute a body known as a Canton, a term corresponding with that of lodee or encampment in the other branches. In the Sovereign Grand Lodge— the governing body of the order— the Congress of Odd Fellowship—a to return to work and Governor Eber- | Member has attained all the above hart will have to call the conference | nine degrees, of whlch the Dergee of[ together again to see if some further | compromise measures can not be| found acceptable. ‘ That this will be necessary, huw- ever, neither he nor the officials either employers or employes deem\ Hkely. HIGHWAYMEN CAUSE PANIC' Hold Up chmago Store Filled w.:h' Customers. Chlcago, Dec. 27.—Highwaymen ranr riot on the North Side, robbing their | victims of various sums of money and | in one instance causing a panic among | scorces of shoppers. Two men, both masked, entered the | store abouat 9 o'clock and, crowding | their way to the rear, ordered G. A.| Grimm, the cashier, to throw up his | hands. Five patrons of the place also | ‘were pushed into the cashier's office‘ and ordered to stand with their hands up while one of the thieves held a re- volver pointed at them. Women fled screaming while lhe seoond thief rified the cash drawer, | taking $280 and certified, checks fnr) more than $300. Bix street holdups were also reporb-, ed to the police. | SEEKS INTERNATIONAL PEACE ! .Andrew c=rnag1e 's Christmas Greetmg to the World. New York, Dec. 27.—“We have abol- ished slavery; but' there remains the | greater sin of the killing of man by | man. It devolves upon our race to teach the civilized world that inter- national disputes must be settled by | law. and the reign of international peace established. This is the most propitious - time for spreading such! thoughts over the world.” | This, in brief, is the Christmas greeting that Andrew Carnegie sent to | the world. “As-a leader’in the cause of peace he expressed his views freely, with the hor : that President Taft will | appoint a committee to confer with | other ‘pations with a view to stopping the constant jncrease in armaments. | stock of Jewelry FOURTH OFF STERLINGC Nail Files. Letter Openers Tooth Brushes. Pickle Fork or Olive Spoon 1.25 Cream Ladle.. Sugar Shell. . Baby Spoon: Bonnet Brush ‘Whisk Broom. . - Baby Set, Brush and Comb 3.00 Souvenir Spoons, small..... 1.00 Souvenir Spoons, large Souvenir Bell Auto Accident Fatal to Two. i Bloomingdale, Ind., Dec. 27.—Mrs. | Proctor of Portland Mills, Ind., is dead and Dr. Cutburgh of Tangier, Ind., fatally injured as a result of an auto mobile accident north of here. The | auto i/ which they were riding skid- | [Continued on Page 4.] ded In the snow and turned over, ! erushing Mrs. Proctor to death. | general staff is appointed, whose term of office extends over a period { MY FIRST SPEGIAL SALE On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday December 27th, 28th and 29th I will place on sale at greatly reduced prices my entire This is my first special sale and I intend by this sale to impress upon the minds of Bemid;i people that when I advertise a sale it is a Real Sale. Look over these lists; see the discounts I am offering and see if and" Silverware. this is not a real sale. HALF OFF SILVER PLATED JEWELRY Sugar Shell Gents Fobs. .$1.50 to 9.00 Sugar Shell Ladies * . 2.00 to 5.50 Butter Knife Sashand Collar Pins 1.00 to 3.00 of four years. Every member of that staff must be a Patriarch mili- tant. One such member—Colonel Wm. Crowhurst of Californiais now in Be- midji at the request of Col. Aug. Hobeustein, department comm ander of the State of Minnesota. Col Crowhurst has just completed charter membership for cantons in Cloquet and Virginia, and has nearly completed arrangements for organizing a canton in Bemidji, which will include members from Tenstrike. He is in this state, at the request of the Department of Minneapolis for about five weeks, when he leaves for Baltimore, general headquarters atthe I. O. O. F. A reception will be held in his honor, under the auspices of the local Rebekah Lodge, on Wednes- day, Dec. 29th at 8 p. m. THIRD OFF Pickle Fork. . 2.501015.00 Meat Fotl. . . ovuimnmmsmantnd 1 00" 1.00 to 3.00 Butter Knife and Sug. Shell1.50 Ladies Waist Sets.. 2.00 to 5.00 Berry Spoon ...150 Barretts............ 2.50 to 6.50 Pie Knife.. ..2.00 . 2,50 to 6.50 Tea Spoons, One Half Dozen 2.25 Dessert. .3.25 Table... .3.75 Knivesand Forks(breakfast)4.00 Knives and Forks (medium) 4.25 I have listed only a few articles in each line at the regular prices with the discounts marked above, simply to show what I am offering. Come in and see the goods and see the prices I can offer you. which I will close out at unheard-of prices. CHAS. L. GUMMER I have Post Office Rlock 150 to 5.00 .75 to 2.50 .3.00 to 6.00 75 t0 225 Solid Gold Set Rings 2.00 to 18.00 a stock of back combs JEWELER N S——