Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 23, 1910, Page 2

e R THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EYERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU, Q. E. CARSON. Eatered o the Postottice at Bemld])l, Minnesota, s second class matter, SUBSGH]PTIUI---SS.}JT] PER YEAR IN ADVANCE A. G. Rutledge, formerly editor and stockholder of the Bemidji Daily Pioneer, has severed his con- nection with the paper, after four years’ service in the editorial depart- ment. Mr. Rutledge is well known throughout north central Minnesota, having done considerable boosting for this ssction of the state by his newspaper articles on the natural advantages of northern Minnesota, and more particularly Beltrami county and Bemidji. Mr. Rutledge has several proposi- tions open to him but has not decided just what he will do. At present he is issuing an excellent program and “booster” for the fire- men’s tournament which will be held in Bemidiji July 4, 5, 6 and 7. Mark Twain is dead. He was old in years; but evidently older than his years. His temperment was of the nervous, impatient kind. He has had sore trials, and the fact that they were exposed to the obser- vation and criticism of the world, while it may have helped in some ways to bear them, in other ways made them most unendurable. He has had great griefs—no greater than many men bear in silence and patience and of which the world knows nothing, but especially wear- ing on a man who must keep up be- fore the world the mask which he had worn easily, if not with perfect naturalness, in earlier, fresher and stronger years—the mask of the bumorist. Now he is dead. His fame has made it impossible for him to go down into the grave unnoticed. It was sad to grow old and bitter to grow weak, where one has been strong and self-sufficient. A friend might well wished him an early end for a man who has been so bright and cheerful, at least superficially, in the eyes of the world, and resented the incapacity that changed admiration and mirth into pity and sorrow. ROADS—THE KEY TO AN EMPIRE. At the Biwabik meeting of the St. Louis County club, as it was at the Bemidji meeting of the Northern Minnesota Development association and as it will be at the Crookston meeting in June, one of the topics most anxiously discussed was the problem of roads. Nor is that prob- lem, in this instance, so much one of “good” roads as it is one of any kind of roads over which wagons can haul the farmer’s produce to market. In St. Louis county, as the case is elsewhere in Northern Minnesota, the problem is complicated by the presence of large bodies of land which pay no taxes—lands owned by the nation, the state and the railroad companies, all exempt from local taxation and therefore contribu- ting nothing to the support of road making or school-building, except in the case of the Duluth & Iron Range, which voluntarily pays much more toward road-building than the taxes on its land would amount to. The taxable land is being taxed almost to the absolute limit, though in St. Louis county, at least, it is going to be taxed still more, Vet the utmost that can be raised by ordinary methods of taxation will not solve the problem so long as there are millions of idle acres which Pay no taxes because they are held by the state. To grow, Northern Minnesota and St. Louis county must have farmers to feed their cities. To have farmers, there must be roads over which they can haul their pro- duce to the rich and hungry markets that already exist, and that will grow amazingly in the next few years, To have these roads the money must be raised to build them. All that can be done through ordinary methods of taxation is being done or will be done; yet the utmost that can be done in this way will not achieve the desired re- sult; still there remains the problem of how to make those idle acres owned by the state stand their share of the cost of improvements that will make them available and salable at increased prices. There are communities in St. Louis county whose children have no schools because to raise taxes enough to provide them would mean | bankruptcy; so there is also-a great and important problem of education. Yet this is a problem that ultimately will settle itself if roads are pro- vided. Given the roads settlers will come. Given the settlers, equipped with practicable roads, the soil will yield wealth ample enough to sup- port good schools. In the mean- time, the state should give further aid to these struggling communities which are redeeming the wilderness, and thus prevent their doing this at the cost of ignorance; a cost so dear that society cannot afford to pay it. But first comes the road problem, bulking large in the way of progress. Progress and development must have roads to travel over. If roads cannot precede and lead the settlers to fertile acres, they should follow them closely. This is for the bene- fit not alone of the settlers, but of St. Louis county, of Duluth, of Northern Minnesota and of the en- tire state. In some way the state must be made to pay its share of providing roads through its idle acres. If its lands could be taxed for that purpose, the way would be easy; but probably that cannot be done. It was suggested at Bemidji that roads might be built in the same way drainage ditches are dug—by assessing the cost of building the roads on the property benefitted, including state lands. Railroad and government lands probably would be exempt from this assess- ment; but the state can and should make its own lands subject to it, not only in the interest of state development but because road- building would add many times its cost to the value of the state lands benefitted and assessed. This is a problem for the next legislature, and those who ate elected to that legislature from Northern Minnesota should study it carefully, and devise some plan that will be reasonable, practical and acceptable. —Duluth Herald. Some men would be better off if they had instinct instead of brains, It’ll keep any other animal than man from getting ..o the habit of taking some kind of poison. Building up a business is like the toy block-house the kid builds. Easy enough at first, but darned ticklish when you get up a little ways. If youare looking for something for nothing, you need never waste any time reading about success. You wont ever have any. Did you ever know a chap that was half ashamed of his job getting 8o that he was good for anything at it? Tain't on the cards. How's This? Weoffer One Hundred Dollars Reward_ for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F.J.CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O., We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- tlons, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm, WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Oatarrah Oure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials free. Price, 75¢ per bottle. Sold by all Draggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation, BEMIDJI ANDERSON & BLLOCKER, Props. Ice Season Is Here We are ready to furnish private familiesfortwo (2)dollars amonth | Phone Blocker=406 ICE CO. DID YOU EVER TRY IT ON YOUR STOCK ? Nothing like it to put them in good condition, free them from insect parasites and pro- tect them from contagious dis- eases. KRESO DIP KILLS LICE, TICKS, MITES AND FLEAS. Cures Mange, Scah, Ringworm and Other Skin Diseases. Disinfects, Cleanses and Purifles. Use it on Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Dogs, Goats and Pouitry. FOR SALE BY City Drug Store CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE BOOKLETS ON KRESO DIR date. Apples, 25¢ per peck. All kinds of Lawn Grass. Good whole Jap Rice, 6¢ per Ib. 3 cans Tomatoes for 25c. 3 cans Pumpkin for 25c. 3 cans fancy String Beans for 25c. 20 lbs Prunes for $1.00. Fancy Salt Salmon, 10c per Ib. All Kinds of Green Vegetables. 2 one-lb cans Baking Powder for 25c, W. G. SCHROEDER Corner Fourth and Minnesota Phone 68 and 390 A Wonderful Discovery The people are discovering every day cheaper prices at our store. among the lucky ones? discovery today. We are always up to Are you If not, make the Now-Oash-Want-Rats ',-Cent-a-Word EVERY HOME HAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Ip W, HELP WANTED. AN AN AGENTS—Make 450 per cent profit on your money. $37.50 worth of medicated toilet soap; costs you $8.00. Duluth Chemical Co., 2004 W. Superior St., Duluth, Minn, WANTED—Competent girl for general housework. Mrs. R. H. Schumaker, 608 Bemidji. WANTED—Girl for general house- work. - Mrs. A, L. Molander, 1118 Bemidji avenue. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. 903 Beltrami Avenue. e e VIR FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Or trade for city property 160 acres land one mile from Big Falls; 60 acres under cultivation, Address Roger Mar- tin, Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—Hotel furnished complete, with 42 rooms, office and bar, and three lots, in Kelliher, Apply Craig Hotel, Kelliher, Minn. Several farms and city residences for sale or rent. Money to loan on farm land.—Write or call on John Wilmann, Sentinel building. FOR SALE—Own a $600 home. $200 cash and $10 per month, 6- room house, acre land. 6 minute walk to P. O. Phone 553. FOR SALE—Snaps in nice .south- east corner lots; nice Lakeshore residence; nice lakeshore acre lots. Inquire T. Beaudette, 314 Minne- sota., FOR SALE OR TRADE—Choice Nymore Lots; for price and pai- ticulars write to —J. L. Wold, Twin Valley, Minn, FOR SALE—Household furniture, stoves and canned goods. H. A. George, 1001 Irvin Ave. FOR SALE—My residence, corner Seventh St. and America Ave. J. S. Hanson. FOR SALE—7 room cottage also boat house. 912 Minnesota. LOST and FOUND AN A AN LOST—A bunch of keys on key ring—Return to this office. MISCELLANEOUS i WIRELESS C. O. D.—Write for our market letter. It will interest you. It is free. Write today. Mutual Wireless Exchange, 2nd floor. Exchange bldg., Topeka, Kansas, WANTED—Laundry =~ work. I guarantee first-class’ hand work. Home Laundry. Phone 497. WANTED—Boarders and roomers, 208 Irvin ave., S. Mrs. Harry Tanner. WANTFD—Day work to house clean or go out by the day. Phone to 497. ll Manufacturers of e QGAS, GASOLINE and STEAM ENGINES, PULLEYS, HANGERS, SHAFTING, CLUTCHES and all POWER TRANSMISSION SUPPLIES, dirsct fo the consumer, Largest Mackine Shop in the West MINNEAPOLIS STEEL AND MACHINERY CO. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 6, 1810 FREE MUSIC Double Votes End At 10:30 Tonight . Bear This in Mind At 10:30 this evening the doors of the Pioneer will be locked and no more subscriptions accepted until 8 a. m. Monday, from which time votes will be issued on all subscriptions according to regular vote schedule as published at the start of the contest. Pioneer from out of town points, bearing a postmark indicating that they were mailed before 10:30 p. m., j ‘Double Votes Will Be Issued On. Less Votes on All Subscriptions After 10:30 Tonight Wednesday YMENT MOTORMEN CONDUCTORS Able-bodied young men of steady habits can secure good, permanent positions as Motormen and Conductors on the Electric Car Lines in Minneapolis and St. Paul Pay $60 to $80 per month and increasing each y rear CONCRETE AND CEMENT WORKS Sidewalks and Curb Stones a Specialty NELS LOITVED 813 Mississipi, Ave., Bemidji EMPL Healthy, interesting work that a man enjoys. FOR APPLICATION BLANK AND COMPLETE INFORMATION, ADDRESS A. E. HAASE, Superintendent Empl Bureau, “Twin City Lines” i mandent Exploymiest Borsssy CTwia Gy WOOD'! Leave your orders for seasoned Birch, Tam- arack or Jack Pine Wood with S. P. HAYTH Telephone 11 Join the Army of Investors and Home Builders This is the best advice you have ever received—that is, if you do not already OWN a home of your own. Why not begin asserting your independence NOW. LET US SHOW YOU—a good business or residence lot and ou prices and easy terms if desired. REAL ESTATE IN THE GROWING CITY OF BEMIDJI— §. NOW—while you CAN at “OUTSIDE” prices. When paid for you can sell at “INSIDE” prices realizing a profit on your investment. With FIVE lines of railroads into the city—many industries are ?fl!{hfl to locate there because of the superior railroad and other ilities. PRICES will advance in accordance with the growth .of the city—why not ask us for descriptive matter regarding BEMIDJI— give We want every out of town musician to send their name and address to receive our lists of new popular music and stand- ard publications. We are the largest sheet music dealers in the Northwest, and our mall order department is prepared to fill all orders day received. LOOK AT THESE DISCOUNTS 50 per cent on all Sheet Music except lm- 40per cont on all Schirmer and Wood Ea1- the city with so many advantages to be offered to the home seeker tl X . %D:gscent on Litolff and Peters Editions. as well as investor. — We will include a copy of the FREE latest Popular Music, vocal or instrumental, with your first order. MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT WM. H. McAFEE 26 E. 6th 8t., 8t. Paul, Minn. WRITE OR CALL ON US for detailed information or see our local agent, H. A. SIMONS. Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. 404 New York Life Building ST. PAUL, MINN. Bemidji Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Jobhers The Following Firms Are Thoroughly Reliable and Orders Sent to Them Will Be Promptly Filled at Lowest Prices The Crooksion [BEMIDII CIGAR CO. Lumber Co. . Wholesale Lumber, Lath and Building Mat>rial Model Ice Cream, Snowflake Bread and Deelishus Candies Made at The Model Wholesale Bakery, Man- facturing Confectionery and Ice Cream Factory 315 Minnesota Ave. BEMIDJI, MINN. Manufacturers of High Grade Cigars Tom Godfrey, La Zada, Queenie, Imported Leaf, Bemidji Leader Pepper & Son Wholesale Liquor Dealers Telephone 489 NORTHERN GROCERY COMPANY WHOLESALE GROGERS Major Block Bemid]l, Minn. Send yourMail Orders to GED. T. BAKER & CO. Manufacturing Jewelers and Jobbers They are especially prepared to promptly fill all orders in their various lines of merchandise. Largest stock of Diamonds and ‘Watches and the finest equipped work- shop in Northern Minnesota, Special order work given prompt attention. Estimates furnished. GhHe Given Hardware Co. Successors to John Fleming & Co. Melges Bros. Co. Wholesale Commission Fruit and Produce Wholesale and Retail Hardware Phone 57 Manufacturers of Creamery Butter 316 Minnesota Ave. All subscriptions mailed to the Address all Subscriptions and Communications to s GONTEST DEPARTMENT. S THE BEMIDJI PIONEER, BEMIDJ, MINN. Contest Closes Wednesday April 27, 1810 “a