Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 14, 1911, Page 4

o, THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ublished every afternoon except Sun- by the Bemidji Pioneer Publishing ompan; @ E. C. B. X, DENU. F. A. WILSON, Editor. In the City of Bemidji the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate complaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they do not get their papers promptly. All papers are continued until an ex- plicit order to discontinue is received, and until arrearages are paid. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier.. .$ .45 One year, by carrier. 5.00 Three months, postage 1.25 Six Months, postage pai 2.50 One year, postage paid.. 5.00 The Weekly Pionee: ight pages, conlalmng .a summary of the news of tha week. Published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.00 in advance. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJCIHE%INIIEIH, UNDER THE ACT OF PCOPOPPOOOOOO®O® THIS DATE IN HISTORY July 14, 1602—Cardinal Mazarin, fam- ous French statesman, born. Died, March 9, 1661, 1789—The French Revolution commenced with the de- struction of the Bastile. 1790—Louis XVI. took oath to maintain the French constitution. 1853—Crystal Palace in New York city opened by President Pierce. 1862—Congress voted to admit West Virginia to the Union. 1877—~Great railroad strike ex- tended over the most of the Northern States. 1882—Roman Catholic diocese of Petersborough, Ont., established. 1896—An attempt to assassi- nate President Faure, of France, was made in Paris. -901—A monument to Com- modore Perry, of the United States Navy, was unveiled at Kurihama, Japan. 1902—The famous Campanile of St. Mark at Venice fell. 1907—sSir William H. Perkin, who discovered the first aniline color, died in London. Born in Lon- don March 12, 1838. POOOOOOOOOOS®E® GOPPPPRPVOOPOVPOPOPPROOPPVOPVOOOOOONOGOOGOLOGOGO®OS POPOVOVOOOOPOPVOVOVPOVOPVOVVOOO VPPV OOOOOOO® A Hundred Years to Come. Where, where will be the birds that sing. A hundred years to come? The flowers that now spring, A hundred years to come? The rosy cheek, The lofty brow, The heart that beats So quickly now. Where, where will be our hopes and fears, Joy’s pleasant smiles and sor- row’s tears, A hundred years to come? ' Who'll press for gold this crowded street, A hundred years to come? ‘Who'll tread yon isle with willing feet, A hundred years to come? Pale trembling age And fiery youth, And childhood with Its brown of truth; The rich, the poor, on land and sea— Where will the mighty millions be, A hundred years to come? We all within our graves will sleep, A hundred years to come; No living soul for us will weep, A hundred years to come; And others then Our lands will till, And other men Our homes will fill, And other birds will sing as gay, And bright the sun shine as today, A hundred years to come. —Hiram Ladd Spencer. Some of the outside papers are en- deavoring to make light of Bemidji’s black pearl. Mrs. Clarence B. Miller wants a divorce. It is getting so that nobody loves a congressman. At first glance it would seem that it would be easier to tell the boy scouts what not to do. | Thé farmers have dome what “Pussyfoot” Johnson could not do. They have established a buttermilk factory in Bemidji. ——— Buffalo Bill is making a farewell tour in Chicago. This is the first farewell tour Buffalo Bill has made in Chicago this year. Amanda’ Clement of Hudson, S. D., is umpiring ball games. About the in Dbeauty |. time Amanda is called a bow legged, cock-eyed ‘bone head, and has a few pop bottles careening off her dome, she may decide that home, or at least the granq stand, is the place for women. THE SCHOOL ELECTION. On Saturday evening, at o’clock, the annual school meeting of Bemidji will be held at the Central School House, fl\)r the purpose of se- lecting three directors, one for the term of two years and two for the term of three years. The directors whose terms of office expire are A. A. Warfield, J. P. Lahr and S. J. Harvey. Mr. Warfield has served for six years, and absolutely declines to be a candidate for re-election. Mr. Harvey likewise declines to be a can- didate. J. P. Lahr is willing to serve for an additional term. His services have been of such a character that he will undoubtedly receive the heartiest support of all those who appreciate able service for the bettgrment of our schools. .A. G. Wedge and K. K. Roe have signified their willingness to serve as members of the board, and a united effort is now being made by many of our leading citizens to see the ticket composed of J. P. Lahr, K. K. Roe and A. G. Wedge is properly endorsed tomorrow evening. We feel that the people of Be- midji would indeed be fortunate to secure the services of these three men in carrying on the good work done in the past by the present board. Nothing is of higher import- ance to the welfare of our_ city than a proper and intelligent management of our schools. Notwithstanding the present high standard of efficiency in our schools, the people of Bemidji have always felt that they should persistantly strive to that standard and that should be selected for the management of our schools who will permit politics, friendship .or hope of personal gain to influence their official action. The Daily Pioneer believes that the three men who are now proposed as candidates for these important offices meet all these requirements, and we urge their selection. Every man and woman in Bemidji owes an absolute duty to take an active interest in the selection of our school officers, and the man or woman whp stays at \ome and fails to vote on this question has no right to complain if designing persons fill these offices with men who do not understand that such an office is a sacred trust. - seven raise men not SHAME ON YOU, STEPHENS! How dare former Senator Steph- ens furnish the Red Wing hearing such testimony? And for political reasons, too. Girls stripped of their clothing and beaten until blood oozed from wounds which were part of the Frank A. Whittier system for train- ing state charges! l\t isn’t fair Mr. Stephens for you for political, or any other reason to offer these mangled as witnessess: ‘Wasn’t it bad enough. that they should be hammered with a rubber hose, thrown into a bedless, chair- less den, ‘to grovel in the dirt for a days at'a time? Wasn’t this bad enough without making it public? Verily, the Crookston man is ag- gravating. If he keeps on he will spoil the party after all. maidens In the: meantime, friends of Mr. Whittier had better renew their prayers for his precious scalp. POLITICS IN AN OFF YEAR. Northern Minnesota has been without representation in the state legislature so long that taxation without representation is getting to be such an old story with her that some folks say she has even per- mitted the idea to extend beyond the state capitol. Not that Halvor Steenerson hasn’t his good points, and not that he has not been able to break away from the sun baked city of Washington to spend a few cool days at home look- ing up reservation—yea, even pos- sibly preservation—a ffairs but just the same: the gossips. do say that in. some way the Ninth con- gressional district has no real cause for breaking any buttons off a chest expanding with pride over. its honorable servant of long speech fame. ; These unkind critics forget ‘that there is a reciprocity bill before congress and that, according to Editor Collins, the moment this, bill passes, the world will come to end —or might as well, and that Halvor has used his influence against this measure. Curious people are even making bold enough to wonder if some self sacrificing individual will not volun- teer to permanently change Mr. Steenerson’s address from Washing- ton, D. C. to Crookston, Minn. Of course there is no necessity for such a change. Mr. Steenerson will tell you so himself. THAT GOOD ROADS MEETING. The good roads -meeting held here July 25 will be meeting, even for Bemidji. ‘Witth farmers growing more grain that must hauled to market than ever before; with school districts planning on consolidation and with the very future life of this North and wooded country depending upon improved highways, it needs. no Willing J. Bryan to discover that good roads is the paramount issue. The four great trunk lines pro- posed probably will be connected up as a result of the coming meeting here, and that would mean that the .much needed network of driveways throughout all this end of the state would be the ultimate result. Improved and modern schools, thriving new villages, prosperous farmers and a general improvement in all lines of business are possible results of the Bemidji gathering. Here is a chance to do some prac- tical boosting. to be a big 2000000000060 6 ¢ & CO-OPERATION. ® © Support Local Enterprise should © © be the War Cry of the Entire © @ Local Merchant Community., , ~© POV PVPPRRPOOOO®GPES® By DUNDAS HENDERSON. When a merchant hears of Mrs. Jones buying a few things from the mail order house in the far away big city he permits a howl to es- cape him. He characterizes Mrs. Jones as a bad neighbor and asks the surrounding space what he is paying taxes for—if it is to help his neighbors bolster up those con- demned mail order concerns. He remarks to the storekeeper next door that there should be a law passed compelling people to spend their money in_the community in which they make it. ) Five minutes after he has ex- hausted himself in his tirade against the inquity of Mrs. Jones buying her goods away from home he is pay- ing close attention to a glib sales- man who is selling him a bunch of rretty calendars got out by a New ‘fork concern. Or maybe the goods that he is purchasing are advertising novelties, the kind that is guar- anteed to bring so much solid ever- lasting success that .it is a wonder there are so many bill collectors traveling around all the while. Count the salesman who have called in you during the past year and 'of- fered you advertising schemes cal- culated to enrich the bank account of some person in a far away town and you will understand what I mean Sauce for the Gander. What )§‘ sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If it is a heinous crime for Mrs. Jones to spend her money outside the town in which she or her husband have made it, it is just as serious for a merchant to buy advertising from an outside schemer, when hé has right in his own community the means of getting the best advertising value if he only uses that means in the right way. In every town worthy of the name in this country there exists one or more local newspapers. In some cases the circulation'of those jour- nals'is small. They have a struggle tor existence and in about seventy- five cases out of one hundred these napers do not pay at all. The pub- lishers rely.on other business, such as job printing, to reimburse them for their labor. More often than not it is a labor of love. No more con- scientious set of men exist than the country newspaper editors. Does it not therefore seem to you that those men and their papers are deserving of all the support you can give them? If their circulations are too small it is your blame and the blame of oth- ers like you. You can not get cir- culation without money and if most ‘of " those newspapers were given greater * advertising- support: - they'| would be able to give ‘better value and take other means to boost their circulation. Give to them, there- fore, the money- you are accustomed to spend on those outside advertis- ing schemes. Give your neighbors a fair show. Don’s Be Foolish. Do not, for a moment, suppose that your advertising will not pay you in your local . paper and still less pay attention to any lack of success you have had in the past in this respect. You- have not gone about the matter in the right way. Let me tell you how you can make your advertising a success and convert your local newspaper, into the finest possible salesman you could get on this fair earth. There are four points to this local newspaper- advertising question. First, you must be able to buy your space at the right price, and I will say -that I have found very few pa- pers in the United States, after a long ' experience of them, which charge too much for their space to] local merchants. You Must Have Space. Second, you have to take enough space. Here again most merchants fall down. Buying a piece of land about three feet by two to make an income by farming would be folly, would it not? Purchasing space in a newspaper that is inadequate to contain “a pulling advertisement of your business “is just as bad if not worse folly. The merchant who spends less than five per cent of his income on advertising is losing mon- ey and is a living example of the old English adage “penny wise pound foolish.” Third, you must take space for a long enough time to give the adver- tisement a chance. If you planted a piece of land with seed potatoes you _} would not dig them up at the end of two months, would you? No, you would give them time to produce a crop. It is the same with advertis- ing, you must give it time to produce paying results. -If you cannot take space in your local newspaper for one year leave it alone till you have more knowledge and better sense. Must Use it Right.. Last, but not least, you must put into the space you have bought, salesmanship that will make most use of it—give it, in fact, one hundred per cent value. ~You do this for two reasons, one because you are a busi- ness man and want to get full value for the money you pay out and, sec- ond, because you desire.all the re- sults you can get by safest and quick- est method. The first three points,I have enu- merated can very easily be attended to by the average local retailer with the aid of his friend the newspaper man, but the salesmanship in the space bought is best left to an expert I offer you the aid of such an expert. If some one were to come into your store and offer you the services of a high grade city salesman for a sum that you usually spend on cigars weekly what would you do when you were convinced that he was not josh- ing? You would take him at his word. You are no fool and you want to make money just as fast and eas- ily as you can drag it in. Quite as Startling. What I offer you is something as startling. I can sell you the services of men who have made a National reputation as constructors of ads for concerns like yours—men who have made, and are making, success for thousands of similar stores and who can make as sure a success for yours —for the extraordinary sum of one | dollar per week.- This is only made possible by the syndicating method Office over City Drug Stove Bemidji, Minn, of supply with which you are no doubt familiar, but with which, if Yyou- are -not, ‘your local newspaper- man will be only too glad to enlight- en you. It places within your reach the same class of advertising, includ- ing illustrations, as is used by the most successful stores in this coun- try. That is the kind of salesmanship you must put in your newspaper space if it is to bring you the high- est and quickest returns, and it is the lack of that sort of salesmanship that has made more failures in local newspaper advertising than any oth- er cause, Beware the Smooth Tongue. When next therefore a smooth tongued salesman wanders into your store and tries to unload a new fan- gled advertising “scheme remember the paper near at hand and the struggle the editor is making to pro- duce a sheet that, after all, is yours —the product of your town and the representative of it in the world’s press. It may not be a great and mighty production, but you can ma- terially aid it to be better by turn- ing down the smooth salesman and using a little of the medicine I have prescribed in these lines. 4 Yes, co-operation is just as good for you as it is for Mrs. Jones, and, when you come to think of it, the newspaper is more entitled to your business than you are to Mrs. Jones’, for it has bigger interests at stake and is probably doing more for the town than you are. Buy enough space for a long enough time in your local newspaper therefore and use in it salesmanship —the kind I have outlined, which your local editor will readily endorse as the one hundred per cent method of getting sure returns. FEATHER RENOVATING. New feathers steam cured and cleaned. Old feathers made to ap- pear like new. Pillows made from beds if desired. Telephone No. 553, 511 First street, Bemidji, Minn. She’s a wise girl that can analysis her own complexion. A union of garbage workers was recently formed in Sacramento, Cal. The city of Milwaukee, Wis., has adopted the thumb-print system in paying off its employes. The international convention of the theatrical stage employes was held at Niagara Falls this week. The Boston Domestics’ Protective Union has decided to establish free beds for sick members at two Boston hospitals. In one month the free employment bureau conducted by the city of Portland, Ore., obtained positions for 2,184 men and women. A Business Agents’ Union is being organized by certain business agents of unions affiliated with the San Francisco Labor Council. No less than seven boards. of con- ciliation and investigation were in session recently in Canada under the industrial disputes investigation act. Ten old-time Chicago telegraphers were recently retired by the Western Union Telegraph Company on pen- sions aggregating 50 per cent of their salaries. Elmer Steve, one of those retired, had been in the service in Chicago since 1868. LAWYERS RAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Telephone 560 Miles Block H. FISK . ATTORNEY AT LAW No Time Like The Present NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THIS SIGNATURE, s OM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Resldonce Phons 58 818 Amorica Aw, BIDS FOR CONCRETE STREET PAV- ING. Sealed bids will be received by the undersigned, to be opened before the- City Council of *the City of Bemidjf, Minn,, at a regular meeting to be held in the council room, City Hall, on Mon- day, July 24th, 1911 at 8 o'clock P. M. for paving streets with concrete, a dis- tance of about ten blocks, approximat- ing 21175 square yards. Plans and specifications are on file in the office of the City Clerk and City Engineer, Bemidji, Minn., where full in- formation can be obtained. Certified check in the sum of 10 per cent of the amount bid, should accom- pany the same. The City Council reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Dated Bemidji, Minn,, July 5th, 1911. GEO. STEIN, City Clerk. % BIDS FOR LAYING SEWER AND WA- TER MAINS. Sealed bids will be received by the undersigned, to be opened before the City Council of the City of Bemidji, Minn,, at a regular meeting to be held in the council room, City Hall, on Mon- day, July 24th, 1911, at 8 o’clock P. M., for laying storm sewer consisting ap- ' proximately of 270 feet 2100 feet 400 feet of 20 of 15 inch pipe inch pipe of 12 inch pipe 1000 feet of 10 inch pipe 7 man-holes, 27 inlets and acessories to make said storm sewer complete. For laying an eight-inch sanitary sewer, a distance of about 275 feet in- cluding one man-hole. For laying an eight-inch water main a distance of ‘about 700 feet and a four inch water main a distance of about 300 feet, including three - hydrants, valves, etc. : Plans and specifications are on file in the office of the City Clerk and City En- gineer, Bemidji, Minn.,, where full in- formation can be obtained. Certified check in the sum of 10 per cent of the amount bid, should accom- pany the same. The City Council reserves the right to reject any or all bids. 5th, 1911, STEIN, City Clerk. Dated Bemidji, Minn., J“g Farm and | Gity Loans Insurance Real Estate William C. Kiein O’Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phone 19. 'EXTRASPECIALSUBSCRIPTION OFFER New Or Old Subscribers I agree to take your paper tor one year, same to be paid for by me with the I. 0. U. NOTES and TRADE MARKS that I save from the packages of household products thatjare listed and illustrated from time to time in the I. O. U. Company’s Announcements which appear in your paper. If at the end of the year I should still owe you anything, I agree to pay same in cash. When my subesription is paid in full you agree to give me, as a premium, an order for 30 per cent of the price of my subscription, which I may spend for what- ever I desire the same as cash; at any store that is advertisingin your paper. 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