Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 11, 1911, Page 5

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1911. mxmnmtmm E BEMIDJI BRIEFS Editorial Telephone, “THREE-ONE” MAYNE STANTON, City News Reporter D ORA BARRETTE, Society Reporter | Clerk of Court Fred Rhoda issued a marriage license yesterday to Fred- erick Harman and Marie Asmus both of Beltrami county. Fifteen more lots at Riverside, on north side of river, will be placed on sale Saturday. see F. 0. Perrin or A. G. Rutledge. The boys of the city in the neigh- borhood of the lake are having great sport building rafts out of the float- ing logs near the shore. Nails how- ever, driven into the logs make them dangerous for the saw mills. If you have money lying idle or invested in a way that is not satis- factory or does not yield more than 4 per cent, you should investigate the Certificates of Deposit issued by the Northern National Bank. At Kelliher the Crookston Lumber company is making preparations to start out its regular camp outfits. Kelliher being located in the heart of the logging district relies upon the trade of these logging outfitters. Business places in that city report, conditions favorable. Wanted at once—Two dish wash- ers at Hotel Markham, The Independent Order of Odd Fellows will hold their regular meet- ing at their hall on Beltrami avenue tonight. Work in the first degree will be conferred upon a candidate. The lodge is desirous that the mem- bers be present, especially those who | take part in the work. Money to Loan, V. L. Ellis. A number of boys go on a fishing expedition daily on a large raft in the north end of the city. They push the raft out tothe edge of the channel and cast their lines and they never come back without fish. A fine big haul, enough to supply the entire neighborhood was their| luck on Wednesday. . Let us show you what nice piec- tures you can get from your nega- tives on Velox. Barker's Kodak Shop. The first regular meeting of the United Commercial Travelers will be held at their regular meeting place, the Odd Fellows hall on Beltrami avenue avenue and Fourth street, Saturday evening. August 12. There will be a number of new candidates initiated and the officers of the local Council are urging every member to be present. As the council is a new one there will be much important work to do. EARN A FREE SCHOLARSHIP by sending the names of all young people who might be interested in taking a fine business or shorthand course in Brown’'s Business College which | opens in Bemidji about Sept. 15th.— Address A. E. Brown, Prin.,, Amer. | Nat. Bank, St. Paul. Conrade La Jambe, who has the contract for excavating the basement under the Troppman building 1s hauling the dirt to the rear of the Bemidji Steam Laundry for the pur- pose of raising the marsh there to the street level. As soon as the place is filled the laying of new cement sidewalks will begin. Mr. LaJambe had the contract for filling the block on Beltrami avenue from | the new Union depot to Second street which he has completed in first class| manner. The Whatsoever Bible Class will be at the Baptist Church this even- ing to chaperone a party around the world. Lunch served on the Euro- pean plan, 12¢ will cover all ex- penses of trip, including all meals. This is to be a most unique trip and should be largely attended. No frost has yet been reported in this section of the country, while on the range the reports have it that they have encountered several cold spells. Along the shores of Lake B-midji the leaves on some of the oak trees are beginning to change. The shores of Lake Bemidji are being kept clean by crews of men under the direction of Street Com- missioner Carter. The grass and weeds along the banks of the lake have been cut and the old rubbish has been burned. Mrs. Geo. Rhea entertained yes- terday afternoon in homnor of her guests, Miss Clara Brinkman of St. Louis, Mo., and Miss Madeline Rhea of Chester, Il noon “500” was played and refresh- ments were served. The guests in- cluded the Misses Gladys Kreatz, Ivis Roberts, Olive Cunningham, Ethel and Eva Getchell, Gertrude McLachlan, Beatrice Mills, Gladys Stanton, Arabelle Neal, Orpha Miner, Harriet, Lillian and Bess Cochrane, Miss Moran of Superior who is the guest of the Misses Cochrane and Ethel Harris of Crookston. The new Nangle building, a mod- ern brick business block at Third and Minnesota, is ready for occup- ancy and Mr. Nangle is making pre- Read big bills, and | During the after- parations to move into these new quarters the first of next week. The store will be equipped with new fixtures, new shelving and new stock. The water level in Lake Bemidji keeps about normal while lakes and |rivers in other sections of the {‘country are unusually low. Many |report that the loggers are having a hard time getting their logs to the mills, some of the rivers being al- most blocked. Red Lake is reported to be about three feet lower than normal. Fifteen more lots at Riverside, on | north side of river, will be placed on sale Saturday. Read big bills, and see F. 0. Perrin or A. G. Rutledge. The First Scandinavian Lutheran | church will give a basket sociable to- night at the home of Dr. C. J. Larson at 515 Bemidji avenue. A musical | program will be given including | solos by Messrs. Andrew Rood and {Dr. C. J. Larson and Miss Esther| { Kolste. The baskets, which will be | ! furnished by the women and which { will contain lunch for two, will be lauclioned Off. *¥kk The Troppman & Co., store are in- trorucing a novel and unique adver- tising feature, having announced a { Dutch auction for Monday afternoon. A Dutch auction is different from the {regular auction sales in as much as it will not permit the bidding on | merchandise. Whereever these |auctions have been introduced they were a d cided success. The Trop-| pman building is undergoing exten- sive improvements, the floor is to be lowered to the street level. Mr. Troppman is anxious to have these goods off from the floor before the jcntractrs are ready to commence this portion of the work. This is the reason for this Duteh auction sale. ¥k | Dr. C. A. Schunck of the School of | Forestry located at Biltmore, North lCarolina, accompanied by nearly 50 | students of that institution spent a day at Cass Lake visiting different points of interests. The party trav- eled in a special coach and baggage car and were met here by Geo. Mar- shall of the Cass Lake Forestry sta- tion who with his assistants piloted the party to Star Island where they inspected the National Forestry sta- tion which is located there. The party next visited in the vicinity of Norway Beach east of town until train time when they boarded their cars and left, their next stop being |at Belton, Montana. The party will lalso make a trip to Spokane and | Portland. The Berman Emporium has made |2 number of changes in its store, having moved the office fro mthe side {of the store room to the center and toward the rear. The store's busi- | ness has grown in every deportment and the change is being made to al- low for more room. New shelving| Eis being erected in the shoe depart- | ment and other changes which will facilitate the work of giving their customers the best of attention. The management is making prepar- ations for handling a big business. |in the ready-to-wear department‘} ‘ithis fall. It is the aim of the store! |to carry complete lines in every de- { partment and to be the leader in all {dflparlmmts in dry goods and wo- i men’s furnishing goods in north cen- tral Minnesota. ¥¥¥ | The Cass Lake Commercial club held its annual election of officers Thursday evening. The following| were elected for the ensuing year: president, H. O'Neil; first vice-presi- dent; A. W. Johnson; second vice- lpresideut, J. L. Grady; secretary, Dana V. Wardner; treasurer, Al J. Hole; directors, N. K. Jondahl, 1. C.!| Curtis. Julius Neils, and the president and secretaty. The elec- tion was spirited and last ed so long that no other business was transacted and the meeting ad- journed till next Wednesday evening when various matters of importance | are to come up. The expressed con- sensus of opinion at the meeting was that Cass Lake is having the most prosperous year in its history and all imerchants and business men are highly pleased- More new settlers and more tourists by far than any previous year have come this year. A letter from Miss Lillian Barrette received in Bemidji from Ranier, a town just two miles north of Inter- national Falls, has this to say of a wind storm which passed over that territory Tuesday: “The wind was terrific. A fish house was blown down, a saloon was badly shaken and doors were loosened on all the build- ings, besides the windows being broken. A party of three men and a woman were just coming in from a trip up the lake and when nearly here the boat capsized. The people {were in the cabin and they had to break the windows to get out. We |saw the boat and one man hanging on. That was just a minute or two | for Brainerd. after the fish house went over. An- other girl and I were just getting into a row boat to go out after him when we saw a launch get out. All escaped injury and none of them could swim a stroke. One of the men was slightly cut by glass. We require local representative to handle our Minnesota Steel Plant Townsite proposition. Must be re- liable party of good personality with ability as salesman who can furnish references. This is the best real es- tate investment that is being offered to the investors of Minnesota today | and is a ready seller. for the right man. particulars. Great Northern Land Co., 823 Plymouth Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. A good chance ‘Write for full POOOROOOOQOCOOECER @ PERSONALS. ® R R R R R R R RCR RS F. L. Foote of Boy River was in the | city Thursday. ev. H. F. Parshall of Cass Lake, was in the city today. ev. C. H. McCrea of Minneapolis was in Bemidji yesterday. W. M. O'Neil of Cass Lake was a| visitor in Bemidji yesterday. Charles Dickinson and family of | iIsland Lake, were in Bemidji today. Miss Karna Anderson of Guthrie, | is the guest of Miss Ida DeRushia for the day. Rev. and Mrs. left yesterday for a few days visit at Thief River Falls. Stewart Lowry of Fergus Falls, is the guest of Mrs. Emma Stewart and | family for a few days. Scott Stewart left this morning | for Walker, where he attended to; business matters today. or for the Crookston Lumber com-| pany, was in Bemidji today- Tony Schusser returned yesterday from Kelliher where he.has been the | guest of his sister, Mrs. Wm. Lennon, | for the past week. Attorney C. R. Middleton of Bau-! dette, who has spent the past few days in Bemidji on legal business re- turned to his home this morning. Sigurd Aase is the guest of his| uncle C. C. Markusen for a few days | Mr. Aase has been attendime- schuj{ at Fargo and is enroute to his home | at Auburn, Wis. E. J. Olson of Minneapolis spent the day in the eity. Mr. Olson 1 enroute to his home from Little Fork where he has been the guest of his sister for a short time. Mrs. H. L. Bowers left this morn-: ing for the Twin Cities, where she! | will remain several weeks. in the cities Mrs. Bowers will pur- !chase her fall millinery. Miss Maude Slater and brother. Leslie, left yesterday for a months’ visit with relatives in the Twin Cities. Mrs. Mary Gamble has returned from Solway where she has been the guest of Mrs. M. Penny for the jast week. Mrs. Gamble reports that the plums are plentiful there and offers a bushel basket full as proof. Miss Ama F. Goldsmith, who has been connected with the Conger Mil- linery establishment in this ecity during the past year, will return to| Bemidji this evening from River]| Falls, Wis., where she has been the| guest of relatives. Mrs. Douglas Mosely and daughter, Frances, of Princeton, Ill.,, arrived in the city yesterday and are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Warfield. Before returning home they will visit for a short time at the Norris cottage at Riverside. Mrs. A. L. Crawford and daughter, | Anne, of Washington, D. C., arrived in the city yesterday and will be the guests of Mrs. Crawford’s mother Mrs. Mathew Meyer at Grant Valley | for a month. From here they will go on to Montana where Mr. Craw- ford has gone to start a bank. General Manager W. H. Gemmell of the Minnesota & International railroad was in Bemidji this morn- ing, leaving on a gasoline motor car He was accompanied by W. H .Strachan of Duluth, who was formerly connected with the Minnesota & International, but who: is now assistant superintendent of the Northern Pacific out of Duluth. Notice to Policy Holders. Notice is hereby given that on the | 8th day of August, 1911, the North- western National Fire Insurance Co. has transferred its Bemidji agency from V. L. Ellis to Huffman, Harris and Reynolds, successors to The T. J. Miller Co. All endorsements, and renewals will be promptly executed by our duly authorized agents; who solicit your patronage. Signed, Northwestern National Fire Ins. Co. Chas. H. Flesher While | On their way they will stop | {off at Forreston for a short time. NEW PUMPKIN RECORD On Bemidji Market at Earliest Date in History—Home Grown Cab- bage Also. MORE WILD FRUITS ARRIVE | Beltrami county has established a! new soil record. { The first pumpkins were put on {the market Wednesday afternoon of this week. . They will not be plenti- i ful for a week or more, but those on | the market now are of good qualityi and size and are selling for 15 and 20 cents each. The first of the home grown cab- bage also awaits the Saturday shop- per. It is the finest kind of cabbage. { Much of it was raised within the city ! limits. It sells now at five cents a | ! pound. | Other arrivals on the market dur-: {ing the past week are high bush cran- {berries and san cherries which sell |at three quarts for 25 cents and wild plums which may be had at 10 cents| {a quart. These fruits of the forest are to found in unusual abundance. | A few blueberries and red raspberries | |are still to be had, but this fruit is | Eall but gone. Jrab apples are numbered among | {the new things now on the Bemld]l1 | market but they are not as good as) | they will be later. They sell at 50! | cents a peck. Oranges are slightly higher than ! | iast week, now selling for 50 cents a | jdozen, and bananas are still bemg[ |soid at 7 1-2 cents a pound. | Bemxd]l grown radishes, onions, jlcttuce, beets, carrots and parsely; W. J. Law of Minneapolis, audit-jare plentiful and of good quality. All sell at 5 cents a bunch. i String beans sell for 5 "quartA | Watermelons are down to 50 cents, | while canteloupe are two for 25 | cents. i | Home grown sweet corn, of extra‘t {good quality is selling for 10 cents| a dozen. Potatoes are now selling | {for from 75 cents to $1 a bushel {in all probability will not reach al !{lower price this summer. 1 BIRDMEN SEEK PRIZES (Continued from first page). cents a i ] boungest aviator in the TUnited [ ;States who is only seventeen years ! of age. | ! The United States government has: taken official cognizance of the meet | and the war department has detail- | ed Major Samuel Reber of the signal | corps and a numebr of officers of the: larmy to attend the meet and make ! fobser\'ations. The commanders of | ithe two gunboats in Chicago harbor, | | the Nashville and the Dubuque, have | i received orders to hold themselves in | readinass for any emergency during| the meet, eventually act as escorts | for daring aviators, attempting flight across Lake Michigan. The aviation field in Grant Park is| one of the best equipped ever seen at | any meet of this kind. The grand§ stand seats 70,000 persons and judg—_E ing from the advance sale of seats! | there will be few vacant seats durmg the week. Elaborate preparanons lha\e been made to provide medical | assistance in case of accident or sick- | |ness and a corps of physicians and | surgeons, with a large number of as- \SJStaan and nurses will be on duty in ! |and around the aviation field durmgy \the entire duration of the meet. H [ The events will begin each day atz 13:30 in the afternoon and will con-| tinue until seven o’clock. { | The program for the week includes | i 48 separate events, including fuur cross country and cross-water fllghts, !in which $12,000 is offered in prizes. | | There will be twelve speed events with a total of $§14,000 in prizes, with |separate prizes for monoplane and‘ biplanes in all but two of the events. | |In the passenger carrying contests i prizes amounting to $15.,000 will be competed for, not counting a number |of special prizes for various special {feats. There will be five altitude prizes aggregating $10,000 and big| "special prizes in the “quick-climbing” 1 ‘contest accuracy, starting and land- |ing contests, etc. i | A minimum of §2 a minute will be; }alluwed each aviator for the time he; is in the air during flying hours,' | whether he wins a prize or not and ‘510 000 will be distributed among the “a\lators who remained in the air the | {longest time during the official hours| {of the meet. In addition to the prizes provided {by the organizers of the meet many icups and prizes for special features {have been offered by leading hotels {and business houses. The profits of | the meet are to go to charity. A child labor bill recently passed the Tennessee legislature, fixing the age limit of factory employment at fourteen years, and only excepting agriculture’ and domestic service. A Savings Deposit IN THE 3 Security State Bank OF BEMIDJI Takqs No Vacation It earns interest at the rate of 4 per cent 365 days each year. If you have no savings account start one and see how fast it grows. To the Investor and Home-Builder We have selected a number of lots—some of the most desirable in the residence district of Bemidji—which we are selling on the EASY PAYMENT PLAN—small cash payment—balance, weskly or monthly at 8 per cent. For description of lots and full information regarding these and other lots in Bemidji, write us or call on H. A. Simons our local representative. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co, 520 Capital Bank Building 8T. PAUL MINNESOTA You smoke for Dleasure A cigar lasts you about an hour so the price for a good time for an hour is only the price of a cigar. Isn’t it worth while then to get one that is good---for it means an hour’s pleasure or an hours disappoint- ment. ' You simply cannot get a poor cigar here because we do not keep them in stock and no matter what your taste we can gratifyit. Ask For the Kind That Barker Recommends We believe that we do the volume of the cigar business-in the city of Be- midji. We believe also that our cus- tomers consist of a larger number of satisfied smokers. Join the ranks. Come in -and ask for the Clgar that Barker recommends. Barker’s Drug & Jewelry btore THIRD STREET, BEMIDJI, MINN.