Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 17, 1912, Page 1

| | i THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEE " VOLUME 9. NUMBER 221, 6 FARMER MEETINGS TO BEGIN ON JAN. 29 Three Speakers for Outside Towns to First Talk in Woodman Hall, Near Becida, END SERIES IN THIS CITY Two Added to Bemidji Program And High School Girls Are to Serve Free Dinner, NEW SHORT COURSE NOW ON Delayed Class Starts With Prospects That in The Future it Will Be- come Larger. Ilmportance of agriculture in Bel- trami County is shown by the fact that already this winter a successful [armers’ institute has been held in Pemidji and surrounding towns and s0 Keen was the interest that Pro- fessor Otto Berg, in charge of the agricultural department of the Be- midji high school, announces an- other series of farm meetings to be held as follows: Where They are to Be Held. Monday, Jan. 29, Woodman hall, four miles east of Becida. Tuesday, Jan. 30, Guthrie. Wednesday. Jan. 31, Tenstrike. Thursday, Feb. 1. Blackduck. Friday, Feb. 2, Solway. Saturday, Feb. 3, Bemidji. To Began at 10 A. M. Sharp. All these meetings will begin at 10 a. m. and continue throughout the day. The speakers will inelude E. W. Smith, Parkers Prairie, on “Feed, stock, hog ralsing in con- uection with dairy cattle;” E. Chapman, Owatonna, “Poultry and horticulture” and Professor Berg on “Corn and the Soil.” Girls to Serve Visitors Here. In Bemidji the girls of the High School cooking class will serve a free dinner to the farmers and their wives from the country. The meet- ings here will be held in the High school building, and Miss Bess Rowe of the Crookston farm school will tell how the home may be more economically conducted and she also will discuss “expert cooking.” Miss Rowe taiked at the recent farmers in- stitute and make so favorable an impression that it is likely that her address to the women will be listened to by ag many as can crowd into the room. Short Course Now On. The delayed short course at the Iigh School was started this week with ten pupils in attendance, practically ali boys who have come in from the country. It is expected that he farmers in- stitutes will awaken interest in the short cou program anq that by next winter a much larger class than las shown up this year will be on hand to take advantage of the op- portunity to gain knowledge of the skill of farming. Two Extra Speakers Here. ‘Two extra speakers will be added to the staff of talkers at the insti- tute here, but their names are not vet available. An effort will be made to have a record breaking attendance at all meetings. PEACE? Ralph Korngold Takes Fling at Czar | contests by two teams, one at home of Russia and Carnegie. An audience which last night filled | that the recall should be adopted for the City Hall, 98 being women, heard |all elective officers, national; state Ralph Korngold, last speaker in the|and municipal, excepting members of Socialistic series here; charge present|the judiciary and the president and conditions to | vice-president of the United States.” capitalist control and further heard ‘ him hurl a word waded bomb at the Czar of Russia and our own Andrew | tional actress, is 42 years old today. “We cannot expect a genuine movement |gates representing the principal grain the powers which |exchanges of the United States was Those who are feel-|opened at the Hotel -La Salle in Chi- ing so enthusiastic about the Hague|cago today. Tribunal, had better remember that|discuss plans to extend the useful-) it was called into being by the bloody | ness of exchanges trading in agricul- czar of Russia, who since then, at|tural products, to promote uniform- home as well as abroad, has given|ity in custom and usage, and to elim- ample proof of his insincerity. A|inate certain practices that are be- manufacturer of steel armor plate is|liebed to be contrary to the public undesirable economic Carnegie> Mr. Korngold said: for peace from profit by war. also hardly the ideal peace advocate. War is useful to the men who control our industries today for various rea-|of Kansas City, Omaha, New York, sons, the principal of which is that|Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Bal- it makes trade brisk, opens up new |timore, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San markets for the surplus products of labor."” NIX, SAYS SOCIALIST|and Northwestern University. CRCERCRCRCRCRCRURCR R RORORCRO) ® Outside News Condensed. ¢ 2000000000000 A resolution protesting against the alleged proposed appointment of Congressman Willlam E. Humphrey of Seattle to a federal judgeship was adopted at a mass meeting of citizens in Seattle. . Fire caused an estimated loss of $250,000 to the Cable Piano com- pany and Southern Bell Telephone building at Birmingham, Ala. The telephone service in this city is de- moralized. . Reports are current in Havana that the United State is about to again take control of the Cuban govern- ment. General Emilio Nunez says if this is done Cuban patriots will fight the United States. . Newspaper editors and publishers of South Dakota gathered at Yank- ton, 8. D., today for the mid-winter meeting of the State Press associa- tion. The business sessions will con- tinue three days. Len V. Doty, of Doland, is the presiding officer. | . The annual meeting of the South- ern Union conference of Seventh Day | Adventists assembled in Nashville, Tenn., today, with delegates in at- tendance representing the denomi-| Jnation throughout Kentucky, Ten- nessee, Alabama, Louisiana and Mis- | sissippi. The conference will last ten | | days. i ® ‘\ Fire today in New York city de- |stroyed the seven story warehouse | covering a block, owned by the Ter- imina Storage company. Merchan- idise valued at $1,500,000 was de- | stroyed, mostly owned by John Wan- amaker. Another fire today at the | Knickerbocker Trust company build- ling did $100,000 damage. * { “Human nature is the everlasting obstacle to socialism,” declared Presi- dent J. G. Schurman of Cornell Uni- versity in an address to the Cornell Socialist Club at Ithaca, N. Y. He said socialism “would not relieve the poor of their poverty,” and “would destroy the well being angd prosperity of all other classes of the commun- Ity.” ® A meeting was held at Peru, Ind., today to complete the organization of the Mississinewa Battle Ground-as- sociation. The association proposes to erect a suitable monument near Peru to mark the site of the famous battle fought December 18, 1812, be- tween an American force, under Col- onel Campbell, and the Miami and Delaware Indians. * The first notable wedding of the new year in New York society was celebrated- in the fashionable St. Thomas’s church this afternoon, when Miss Beatrice Flagg, daughter of Mrs. John Turner Atterbury, be- came the bride of Oliver K. Iselin, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ise- lin. The Rev. Dr. Stires,, rector of St. Thomas’s, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Dr. William G. Thayer of Massachusetts. . President Taft has arranged to leave the capital tomorrow for a week-end trip to New York and New Haven. At New Haven he is to at- tend the meeting of the Yale corpo- ration, of which he is a member, and will be a guest at the annual ban-| quet of the Chamber of Commerce. In New York the president is sched- uled to attend several functions Sat- urday evening, among them a meet- ing of the New York City' Bar asso- ciation and a dinner of the Society of the Genesee. * A lively interest is manifested in student circles in the annual contests to be held in Chicago tomorrow even- ing by the Central Debating League. The league comprises the University of Michigan, University of Chicago EBach institution will be represented in the and one abroad. The question select- ed for debate this year is: “Resolved, Olga Nethersole, the famous emo- A two days’ conference of dele- The conference is to .| welfare. Among the exchanges rep- 1| resented at the conference are those f|Franclsco, Toledo, Duluth and Buf- SCHOOL BOYS MUST STOP POOL PLAYING Board of Education Orders Proprie- tors to Keep All Minors Out of Such Places. STATE LAW IS STRINGENT Makes it Illegal for Youths to Enter and Provides Punishment for Own- ers Who Permit It. EVIL RESULTS CAUSE ACTION Young Men Said to Have Been Pay- ing More Attention to Games Than Their Studies. Acting under instructions from the board of educatiom, Secretary J. P. Lahr, has notitied the proprietors of all establishments where pool is played that they must obey -the law which forbids the presence of min- ors. Complaint has been made that pu- pils of the public schools have been spending their time in these places to the detriment of their studies. State Law Specific. The state law bearing on this says: Chapter 133 of the General Laws of 1911 provides that “all persons under the age of eight- een years or who are minor pu- pils in any school, are prohibit- ed from playing pool or billiards in any public pool or billiard room or in any public place of business, and any person under the age of eighteen years, or any minor pupil in any school who shall engage in any game of pool or billiards, or-frequent, or_ - loiter within any pool or billiard room or public place where pool or billiards are played, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars.” Serious for Proprietors. Section 2 of the same chapter provides that “Every keeper or person in charge of any public pool or billiard room or public place of business where pool or billiards are played, who shall permit or allow any person un- der the age of eighteen years, or any minor pupil of any school, to play any of said games there- in, or to gather in, loiter in or frequent any such place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.” Can Get Parents’ Consent. In addition to the above quoted provisions, the law provides that mi- nors may visit pool and billiard halls and play pool and billiards therein if consent in writing is given by a parent or guardian. BENEFIT SOCIAL AT PINEW0OD To Be Given at Fram Hall Saturday; Other News Items. Pinewood, Minn., Jan. 16.—A bas- ket social will be given at Fram hall next Saturday night for the benefit of Miss Mary Messel.—P. Baake, J. Fink, Halvor Tronnes and George Sthol were Bemidji visitors Wednes- day.—W. White was called to Feder- al Dam Wednesday.—Mr. Moller, the mail carrier, went to Shevlin Tues- day.—Sam Jamtvold left here Tues- day for Fosston.—P. Holm was agree- his birth anniversary. He was pre- of young people were entertained by Miss Thora Thompson last Sunday. —Oscar and Olga Thompson returned ing. Band Rehearsal Tonight. night. Gusta Nelson came evening where he home for the next few weeks. most identical in chemical compos! falo. tion, Director Harry Masten announces that. there will be a regular rehearsal | basketball games of the band at the uszal hour to-!season, resulted in a Sophomore vic- from his | Elletson a junior took Captain Rip- mission field at Red Lake this morn-|ple’s place ing and will go on to Neving this|Bergh acted as referce. will remain at The banana and the potato are al- :! mores, Hayne ) (Copyright, 1912.) ‘ ANTICIPATION ANVARY THAWS "Agg NOT ALWAYS WELCOME REALIZATION \BONYNGE WELL KNOWN Expert Who is to Give Free Talk Here Thursday Evening, Former | " Member of Congress. | BEMIDPI ONE OF 8 TO HEAR HIM The difficulties:of the present banking system of the United States, its weaknesses, an, ability to rise “|'to ‘meet emiergencles; and how it is proposed to revies it will be explain~ ed by former Representative Robert W. Bonynge of Denver, his free talk at the City Hall here Thursday ev- ening. Mr. Bonynge recently resigned from the National Monetary commis- sion after it had completed its work. His address will be made under the auspices of the Citizens’ League of Minnesota, affiliated with the Na- tional Citizen’s league, an organiza- tion of the business men of the coun- try seeking to obtain monetary re- form, and he comes to Bemidji un- der the supervision of the Commer- cial club. Mr. Bonynge spoke Monday at St. Cloud, under the auspices of its com- mercial club, last night at Little Falls, again under the direction of the commercial club; Wednesday night at Crookston, at a meeting ar- ranged by the Twenty-five Thousand club; Thursday night at Bemidji, and Friday night at Brainerd. Special attention will be given by Mr. Bonynge in his Bemidji talk to the changes that were made in the plan of the National Reserve associa- tion as the result of the hearings held here and in other cities last fall, dwelling particularly on a change made at the suggestion of United States Senator Knute Nelson, permit- ting the small national banks of the country to loan money on real estate up to 30 per cent of the amount of their time deposits. The campaign that will be conduct- ed by Mr. Bonynge this week on be- half of the Citizens’ league of Min- nesota follows out the opening meet- ing held at Red Wing, December 12, when John V. Farwell of Chicago, president of the National league, and Prof. William A. Scott of the Uni- ably surprised by a number of his versity of Wisconsin launched the friends last Saturday night, it being|Platform work. During the last few months the sented with half a dozen chairs.— |leAgle has been working quietly, ef- John Dodge and Gordan Bryan were fecting an organization and enlisting Bemidji visitors Tuesday.—A crowd |its membership until it now mumbers more than 500 business men in the state. from Fairdale, N. D., Tuesday morn-|SOPHS DEFEAT SENIORS, 26 TO 15 Closest Basketball Game of Season ‘Played Here Yesterday. One of the most closely-contested played here this tory yesterday by a score of 26 to 15 over the Senior .team. Delbert as forward. Professor The line-up 1s as follows: - Seniors, Jones, center; Ripple and Simons, forwards; Gal- chutt and Stanton, guards; Sopho: 1 center n Graham, forwar |Graham, 187 WARM WAVE TO CONTINUE Lake Region Enjoys Rising Tempera- tures Following 20 Days Cold, Following 20 days .of cold, rising temperatures are reported from all parts of the Northwest. In Bemidji last night thermometers hovered around the zero mark as its lowest point and today it is well above that mark. The lowest recorded anywhere last night was five below at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The lowest tempera- ture recorded in the northwest last night was in Duluth, where the mer- cury stopped at 8 degrees above. S$t. Paul reported 12 above, Des Moines 20 above, Milwaukee 14, Madison 10, and other points in the northwest reported corresponding temperatures. Canadian stations reported a mini- mum of 4 above at Minnedosa and a maximum of 40 above at Medicine Hat. Other Canadian points reported temperatures varying from 8 above at Winnipeg to 30 above at Calgary. All these places had shivered in from 30 to 40 below weather the last few weeks.. The east central states still were in the grip of the cold wave which held the northwest in its grasp recently, although the Great Lakes served to temper it somewhat. In Chicago last night the temperature was 15 above. Cleveland reported 10 above. Detroit 10, and St. Louis 20. In Memphis the mercury stood just at the freezing point. ALL TELEPHONES AGAIN USED By Working Day and Night Company Repairs Damage Done by Fire. This afternoon all the telephones in the business district put out of commission - by the fire Saturday night were-again working and crews of men were connecting up the lines in the residential district with all possible speed. “We expect,” said Manager Harris this afternoon, “to have all the telephones working late today or by tomorrow morning at the latest.” Since the fire the telephone crew has been working day and night and will work tonight if necessary to re-establish the service. ELKS PLAN 1912 CHARITY BALL To Be Given, Probably on Lincoln’s Birthday; Leap Year Features. Elks of Bemidji are laying plans for their annual charity ball which will be given sometime the first part of February, possibly on the evening of February 12, the anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday. A committee. composed of A. L. Barker, chairman; Scott Stewart, Emil Schneider and A. G. Rutledge have the arrange- ments i hand. The ball will be the biggest and-best in the history of the Elks lodge and will be featured by leap year stunts. Grand Jury Meets Feb. 27, The Beltrami county grand jury will meet in Bemidji on Tuesday, February 27. The &clence of afr pressure was first developed in tunnel building for subways. It 1s now proposed to ap- ply the same principles of com- pressed air to prevent the Inrush of water when a ship has been in col: lision or plerced. by shot. i It 18 18t the) cides among miners: 1d that there are fewer sul-| COST OF POOR CUT DOWN City Clerk Presents Report Showing Decrease of $1,558 in Warrants Is- sued in 1911 Over 1910. EXPENSE EACH PAUPER 58CTS. City Clerk George Stein has pre- | pared for the city council an annual Teporta¥ to the poor fund expendi- tures for the past year as they com- pare with those of 1910, and it is shown that the cost per pauper has been reduced from 75 cents to 59 and one-half cents and that there was a decrease of $1,558 in the issuance of poor fund warrants during the pres- ent year over the previous twelve months. The clerk’s report in full follows: Total amount of poor fund war- rantg issued in 1911, $3,372.29 (less received for produce sold) $168.35; $3,208.94; for 1910, $4,762.75; de- crease for 1911, $1,558.81. Warrants distributed as follows for 1911: for medicines, hospital and sick, $451.08; for poor other than paupers, $361.13; for burial of pau- pers, $90.00;. for care and keep of regular paupers, $2,301.73 (less in- ventory poor farm = Jan. 1, 1912), $413.80, $1,887. 93; for 1910: $1,- 001.24, $848.91, $60.00, $2,852.60. Decrease for 1911 was $550.16, $487.78 and $964.67 for warrants, medicines and care, while the year showed an increase of $30 for bur- ial of paupers. The average paupers handled per day in 1911 was 8.7 and in 1910, 10.4, a decrease the past year of 1.7. The cost per pauper per day for care and keep in 1911 was $ .59 1-2, and in 1910 was $ .75, a decrease of § .15 1-2. LEET SEES EXHIBITS OF NORTH Crowds Flock to See Display in Min- neapolis; Mackenzie Busy. Richard Leet today returned from Minneapolis where he visited the dis- play rooms of the immigration com- mission of the Northern Minnesota Development association at 39 South Third street, the formal opening of which took place on Monday. Dur- ing the day the rooms were crowded and many expressions of surprise and admiration over the products of the North were heard. Although Beltra- mi county has not her full exhibit on hand, W. R.. Mackenzie, “the busiest man In sixteen states,” has arranged some specially fine grasses and grains in the Beltrami booth. “Several hun- dreds of persons visited the room,” said Mr. Leet, “and the displays are certainly fine as far as they go and more exhibits are arriving almost daily.” Harry Grindall was surprised last night by & number of his friends who went to the home of Mrs. George Kirk, where he rooms, to do honor to the twentieth ~anniversary of his birth. Flinch, Pit, Show and other games were played, and songs were sung. Mrs. Kirk, . assisted :by her 'daughters, served light refreshments. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. NYMORE'S SALOONS MUSTNOWPAY §750 Council of Mill Suburb Boosts Cost of Liquor Licenses There $250; Three Affected. ALSO PETITION FOR DEPOT i Expect_State Commission to Order Erection of Station for All Trains Not Later Than Spring. ORGANIZE FIRE DEPARTMENT Apparatug Purchased and Men to Be Drilled Under Direction of Earl Geil, Bemidji Chief, | Al a meeting of the village coun- jeil in Nymore last evening it was decided that the liquor license of the |mill suburb be raised from $500 to |$750. It was also decided that a volunteer fire department be organized. Buy Chemical Extinguishers. Fire apparatus has been ordered and some is at present on-hand. Today half a dozen chemical ex- tinguishers from Bemidji were added to the Nymore equipment. To Have Depot. Still another step taken by Ny- more is an attempt to have the state railroad and warehouse commission compel the erection of a depot. This. would mean that all trains would stop at Nymore, instead of making the Bemidjl station the ter- minal, as is at present the case. Feel Petition Will Be Granted. = The Detition_for a depot was pre- sented to the-commissfon some time ago where, it is said, it has received favorable consideration and that in the spring Nymore will have a depot. The action of the Nymore council in boosting the liquor license comes as the climax of long discussion on the point. High License; Less Saloons. It appeared to be the consensus of opinion of the residents that a more orderly and generally more desirable town would result from the increased license. It was also argued that to increase the license would mean that the pres- ent number of three saloons probably would not be increased. - To Profit by Past Fires, “In the organization of the new fite department it was pointed out that during the past year the village has suffered serious losses that might have been protected with.a properly organized and drilled fire department. Geil to Drill Them. A request has been made by Ny- more to have Earl Geil, chief of the Bemidji fire department assume the task of drilling the new department ang this Mr. Geil has promised to do. The Bemidji and Nymore depart- mentg will work in as close harmony as possible so that in case of emer- gency their stdength' may be com- bined. Women to Meet in Nymore. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Swedish Lutheran church-will meet tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at the home of Mrs. August Elquist at Ny- more. - All members are requested to bring the outstanding calendar mon- ey. YOUNG MEN JOIN GYM CRUSADE Twenty-one Pledged to Join Commer- cial Club; Mass Meeting Friday. Twenty-one young men have sign- ed the petitions being circulated for names of those who are willing to Join the Commercial club with the understanding that that organization will establish at once & well equipped gymnasium. The club has agreed to do this if at least 30 young men join. The com. 1ittee made up of Ralph Ly- can, Joe Herman, J. G. McCullough and A. L. Barker, are confident that more than the required 30 will be obtained. The committee expresses the hope ‘that all young men will have thought the matter over so that when ‘called upon they can say at once whether they wish to join the club. . On Friday-night of this week there will be a mass meeting of the young men: at the Commercial | | BT SRR