Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 16, 1912, Page 2

1 H { H i THE l%m.fl DAILY PIONEER £; Published every afternoon except Sun- [ 1ay by the Bemidji Pioneer Publishing ompany. & X. CARSON. R X. DENU. F. A. WILSON, Editor. In the City af Bemidyl the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please muke immediate complaint to this oflice. ‘Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they 30 not get their papers brompily. All papers are continued until an ex- plicit order to discontinue is received, and until arrearages are paid. Subscription Rates One month, by carrier. One year, by carrier. . ree months, postage paid. Months, postage paid One year, postage pald.. The Weekly Ploneer. Eight pages, containing a summary he news of the week. Published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.50 in advance. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN., UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879, R R R R CRCRCR R ¢ THIS DATE IN HISTORY © ® it ¢ JANUARY 16 & 1 -—France recognized the . independence of the L United States. + 1794—Edward Gibbon, the En- . glish historian, died. & - Born April 27, 1737, & + 1809—Sir John Moore, com- & e manding the British & . my, killed in battle * with the French at 0 Corunna, Spain. ® + 1856-—-Board of Trade organ- & in Milwaukee. ¢ 1862—More than 200 lives lost . in the Hartley colliery . disaster in England. ® ¢ I8STI—Supreme Court of the & . United States decided & . the legal tender act of . 1862 constitutional. & + 1888 v~\\'lllinl_1| F. Vilas of Wis- & . consin appointed seere- & . tary of the.interior. & + 1893—Queen Liliuckalani of ® . dethroned by revolution- © . ists. > < IS8 41—John H. Gear was elect- & . ed United States senator & ¢ from lowa. @ + 1907—The Rt. Rev. Arthur @ . Sweatman. bishop of To- ® - ronto, elected primate of & # all Canada. <3 DOPPVOOP®RPOO®S®D®O® Old Man Winte through his hat—Medi continues to tal ne Hat. President Taft is strongly in favor of government control of postmasters zeneral, “Be progressive in your ideas and stand pat on your convictions,” is the political platform of the Walker Pi-|allotted by council for report nearly‘ Wi lot. | Zone by and: no action taken. Miss Lucy Gaston much dis- tressed because “campaign cigars are| but ropes of poison.” Great Scott! Has some man actually smoked one? State Fire Marshall in thorough in- vestigation as to the origin of sus- picious fires. Patronage should be systematically withheld from the agent who writes over insurance or issues policies to irresponsible traders. itinerant and | The Property Owner Federation for a year or more has been endeav- loring to sentiment {and activity on these lines and it is| arouse public high time that business men gener-| ally get busy. PPPOPOPOOVDDPOLOCS COMMUNICATIONS. ® PPeEPOCPODOCEGGOES ® 0@ | ‘ About Those Water Meters. | Facts and comments on happenings | during the last week in the city wa- ter department of Bemidji. | Facts: January 8 and 12.—In- formal charges of incompetency were brought before the city council against L. P. Eckstrum as superin- tendent of the water department. | Evidence heard and council by mo- tion referred the matter to the wa- ter and light committee for investi-| | gation, with instructions to report | the members of the water and light |such a thing could have been done but by special request of the chair- man on the plea that the time was too short to do the work properly the time was extended to two weeks in order that there would be sufficient time, so there would be no excuse to hurry proceedings or slight the work. Excuse of chairman of said com- mittee for not calling meeting: that one of the members was out of town. Will this, excuse stand analysis? When charges of incompetency were brought before the council, all committee were present and heard all the facts, the case was urgent, and the council acted at once. Now,-if the committee had wanted to bé prompt and business like in taking care of public affairs, would it not have been proper, yes, was it not the duty of the chairman, to is- sue a call for a meeting of the com- mittee immediately after the adjourn- ment of the council, and the commit- tee then set a date for a hearing in the matter before any- member got out of town? All business men will agree that and most of them will agree that it should have been done under the cir- within one week, but upon the plea cumstances, and the business in hand of the chairman of said committee|disposed of in as short a time as pos- | that one week was too short a time |sible, and any further complications {to do the work properly, the motion, in the water department avoided. . was changed giving the committee’ two weeks in which to investigate; and report. Motion also made and carried that all meters be sealed. Jannary 10. — Formal written charges of incompetency of superin- tendent presented to the chairman of i | | > [ water and light committee, and im- mediate action asked. Was informed that no committee meeting had been called because one of the members But the committee has given the| citizens of Bemidji an example of/ how public business is transacted in a great many cases. l‘ When matters of importance to the tax payers of the community come | up for consideration there is very little interest taken and it is next to | impossible to get prompt action, the| public servants’ own business affairs and private matters are all attended ®| readings. of meters was out of town on business. | to first, and then if there is any time January 12.—Attention of chair-:left the business and affairs of the | man of the water and light commit-| public and tax payers is attended to, | tee called to the fact that the super- usually in a hurry or perhaps entire- | Iimendeut under charges of incompe-'ly neglected. i |tency was continuing to change the, These are the very reasons why | and rendering!such incompetency was able to exist | bills to consumers in which the read-|and is still existing in the water de- | jings of meters in former bills ren-. partment of this city. dered, for the same period were! changed as to the amount of water ment before the council the time for | consumed and the amounts due the a proper investigation by the com-| city, and that he was collecting mon- | mittee is now too short before they ! |ies from patrons according to said|are called upon to report. | | changed readings; and was that this| Are such methods of conducting| practice be stopped until the charges! public business accidental? Or does | | could be investigated and action tak- | their frequency prove a rule? |en by the committee. Was informed| Every taxpayer will answer these | by the chairman that he would do|uestions for himself. | what he could in the matter. | C. G. JOHNSON. . January 13.-—No meeting of water | and light committee yet called, rea-| i |'son given that one of the members | | was siill out of town. | | | | | i | | Conscience is harder than our ene | S mies. knows more. accuses with more | | January 15, 3 o'clock p. m.—No| gicery.—George Eliot, | meeting of the water and light com- | | mittee called. One week of the time | . Medicines that aid nature are al-| ays most effectual. _Champerlain’s Cough Remedy-acts on:this plan. * | Comments: The facts laid before|allays the cough, relieves the lungs, | the council were so strong that the!opens the secretionis and aids nature council took immediate action and|in restoring the system to a healthy | referred the matter to the water and | condition. Thousands have testified light committee for investigation, |t its superior excellence. Sold by Senator Lorimer says, that the; uewspapers of Chicago have been' trying to force him into private life! for 20 years which goes to show that| the Chicago newspapers have some! redeeming features. i From Sneezakaritchnekoff, Russia, twelve families are coming to settle| in South Dakota. take. They They made a mis- should have planted themselves at Okalahousingay on the Keeattalakawkaw river in Florida. THE BURNING QUESTION. Minnesota's Ash-heap (covered | by insurance) for the last fifteen months is about $2,000,000 greater than the net fire premiums received by the insurance companies, and the uninsured loss will reach above the million dollor mark. * A recent re- port o four Insurance Commissioner gives the fire losses of the state for January, 1911, $968,000 as against $190.000 for January, 1910, and succeeding months offer no relief. Slow burning structures are tak- ing the place of frame an dour fire fighting fac s are continually improving, while the fire fiend has right of way and the general public is asleep at the switch. As a nation Wwe burn up more property than a half-dozen first-class nations put to- gether. Fire costs us about $3.00 per capita a year, while the average ol alll Europe is less than 40 cents per capita, The crime of arson or incendiar- ism is common and the least punished of all the “Penitenti- ary” crimes. ; the most “Selling out to insur- ance compani is a common expres- sion, but it is a misnomer. The fire bug does not sell out to the com- panies but he robs the fire taxpayers; them, not only the his inflated inventories and exaggerated claims but double that amount to cover the expenses and profits steals from amount of o fthe insurance com- panies that through their lax im- potent agency system affords him the facilities for perpetrating the crime and making this theft of pub- lic unds_possible. There should be -organized effort among fire tax payers to assist the and asked a report within one week, | Barker’s Drug Store. many illustrations and will pay each in addition to the $5.00 prize. . T Poter (sent When given as soon as the croupy 5 cough appearg. Chainbeilain’s Cough | Telephone Dr. J.A. McClure! Remedy will ward off an attack of croup and prevent cause of anxiety. mothers use ft successfully. Sold by Barker’s Drug Store. Ang by the chairman’s own state- | & Plan to secure collection of best photographs taken in northern Minnesota of farm scenes, farm buildings, crops, wild lands etc. The company plans on publishing a pamphlet with pr get busy, you men and women, boys and girls who have collections of photographs that you think will be desirable for advertising purpose. ' Photographs not used will be returned and those used will be paid fdr at the rate of $1.00 T LETTERS TO _ These letters might cover crop reports and yields of various kinds. Anything that will be of interest to the stranger reading of the Northern Minnesota Lands. Only Way Out. for the milk)—Oh, merry I've dmutik {00 much of it! What shal we do? Bmall Brother—Easy. We'i drop the jug.—Meggendorfer Blatter. 1 | 0 OURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tabe lets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 26c. your-horse troubles. No charge to answer Phones, No trouble to show goods, Veterinary Remedies for sale. | Dr. J. A. McClure, Phon 05. all danger and Thousands of For what ails you. Take just one dose and you'll get results. ] It is not taken inwardly, nor is it rubbed into the skin. Just sit down, take a pen or pen- cil, and write down "what you want. Count the words you've written and devide them by 2. Take this many pennies with what writ- ten mattet you have, and bring it to the Pioneer Office. Want Ad will des ¥ st MUSIC LESSONS _MISS SOPHIA MONSEN Teacher of Plano and Harmony At Residence of Mrs. G. Crone 519° Minnesota Avenue . . Engagements made Monday, Tuesday 5 and Wednesday PO POOOIDOPIOCCOOPS » LODGEDOM IN EEMIDI o 2P00090P00000009 Ao v W midji Lodre No. 277, flamllr ‘;noeflln to—firat and . o Mindsy, at 3" ocioe ot k, MoR%54a “Fetlows hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. i-!.m., c.o0. ¥ every second and fourta Sunday evening, af o'clock in basement of Catholic church. DEGREE OF HONOR. Meeting nights __every second and fourth Monday eyenings, at 0dd Fellows P. 0. B, Regular meetin, nights every 1st and 2nd Wedhes: day "evening at 8 o'clock. Eagles hall. G A = Regular meetings—First and third Saturday after- noons, at 2:30—at Odd Fel- l[frws Hall, 402 Beltram! ve. L 0. 0. P Bemidjl Lodge No. 118 Regular _meetins hte Ve, Friday, § o'clock at Odd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami. Bo 1. 0. O. F. Camp No. 24, o ourts Welnoadavs &0 8 and four o'clock, at Odd Fellows Hall. Rebecca Lodge. meeting nights — first and third Wednesdays at 8 o'clock —I 0. O. F. Hall. ENIGHTS OF PHYTHIAS. Bemidji Lodge No. 168. Regular meeting nights—ev- ery Tuesday ' evening at & o'clock—at the Eagles' Hall, ‘Third street. ,’ ,{l‘:‘-\ LADIES OF THE MAC- r) CABEES. Regular meeting night last Wednesday evening in each month. . MASONIC. A. F. & A. M., Bemidji, \ 228, Regular” meeting @ nights — first and this Masonic “Hall, Beltramé Ave, and Fifth St Bemidjl: Chapter No. 3 A. M.. Stated convocations first and third_Monday; clock p. m.—at Masonic Beltrami Ave., and Fifth St slkanah Commandery No. 30 K. T. Stated_conclave—second ald fourth Fridays, 8 o'clock p. m.—at Masonic Temple, Bel- trami Ave., and Fifth St. 0. E. S. Chapter No. 171. Regular_meeting nights— first and third Fridays, 8 olclock — at Masonic Hall, Beltrami{ Ave., and Fifth M. B. A. Roosevelt, No, 1528. Regular meeting nights every second and fourth Thursday evenings at 8 g;glllick in Odd "Fellows M. W. A. Bemidji Camp No. 5012, [ Regular meeting nights urst and third sl‘llelsnyl at o'clock at Odd Fells Hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. " " IRODB‘II' SAMARITANS. egular meeting nights the first and third Thfirmg'n' in the L O. O. F. Hall at' 8 p. m. SONS OF HERMAN. Meetings held third Sunday afternoon of each month at Troppman's Hall. YEOMANS. Meetings the first Friday evening of the month at the home of Mrs. H. F, Schmidt, 306 Third street. R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER eltram! Ave. Phone 318-2. William C. Kiein INSURANGE Rentals, Bonds, Real Estate First Mortgage Loans on City and Farm Property ORIl ke O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phone 19. Minn. f f { | - ¢ J ]