Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 9, 1912, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE 3 VOLUME 10. NUMBER 191. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1912. TEN CENTS PER WEEK. FIRST MEETING HELD AT FARRIS Miss Eddy Makes Trip to Take the ‘Place of Miss Bull On Institute Program. WILL GO TO KELLIHER TONIGHT Session There Tuesday Afternoon With Three In Blackduck On Wednesday. EIGHT HUNDRED INVITED HERE Every Farmer In This Vicinity Asked to Bring Family and Friends On Saturday. Although neither F. B. McLaren of ‘Wrenshall, nor Miss Margaret Bull of the University of Minnesota, had ar- rived in Bemidji at noon today, A. E. Nelson left for Farris to hold the first of a series of which will be given in Bemidji and vicinity during the coming two weeks. With him went Miss Beatrice Eddy, High school instructor in do- mestic science, who will take the place of Miss Bull on the Farris pro- gram. They will return at 3:30 p. m. As. Mr. McLaren is coming from his home, he is expected in Bemidji this -afternoon and Miss Bull will either come on the same train or ar- rive at 6 p. m. over the M: & I. The party will leave this evening for Kel- liher and will lecture at a farmers’ meeting to be held there tomorrow. Mr. McLaren, who is a member of the University faculty in the extension department, is to talk on “Potato Growing,” Miss Bull will talk on “Housework Simplified,” and Mr. Nel- son will make an address on “Dairy- ing.” The meeting at Kelliher will be held in the city hall at 1 p. m. and those in charge of the arrangements have made big preparations for a big crowd. The Commercial club has sent personal invitations to the farm- ers near Kelliher and have asked them to bring their wives to hear Miss Bull. A special dinner will be served at noon in the Kelliher and Craig hotels and the Kelliher Jour- nal is handling the tickets. Wednesday morning the party will g0 to Blackduck where farmers’ meetings will be held in the morning and afternoon. In the evening a third meeting will be held with the Commercial club. The farmers in the vicinity of Blackduck are plan- ning to attend the meeting. in force as many of them have heard Mr. Nel- son and have been assured that Mr. McLaren and Miss Bull are also first class speakers. The Summit Farmers’ club will bring out nearly its entire membership. Thursday the party will go to Northome and Mizpah for meetings and on Friday they will hold a meet- ing in the consolidated school at Ten- strike in the early afternoon, will drive to Turtle River for a late after- noon meeting and return to Tenstrike for an evening meeting. The party will come to Bemidji Friday night. As a personal invitation to 800 farmers in the vicinity of Bemidji, the following postal card was mailed out last week by Mr. Nelson: “There will be a Farmers’ Institute at the Bemidji High school on Satur- day, December 14, 1912. The fore- noon session will be called at 10:30 and the afternoon session at 1 p. m. There will be a special meeting for women in the domestic economy room of the High school at 2:00 p. m. Yourself, family and friends are in- vited.” Mr. Nelson and Mr. McLaren will each address the morning meeting which will close in time for a lunch which will be served in the High -school rooms. This lunch will be similar to the one served at the meet- ing in October and will give the vis- itors and opportunity of talking mat- ters over informally. After dinner Mr. McLaren and Mr. Nelson will make addresses in the auditorium to which both men and women are invited but at 2 p. m. Miss Bull will hold a special meeting for women in the domestic science Toom on the second floor. Mr. Nelson will probably speak first in the after- noon as he will have to leave early in order to catch the Red Lake train for Nebish. The Nebish meeting will be held Sunday and Mr. Nelson will take Miss Eddy and Harold J. Dane with him as additional speakers. The meeting e (Continued on last pa; institute meetings| * SIXTEEN DAYS TO . CHRISTMAS Sixteen to One! It [s Sixteen Times as Good to Shop loday as on Dec. 24. DO IT NOW MAY APPOINT THREE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES BY United Press. Washington, Dec. 9.—The appoint- ment of six members of the supreme court which fell to President Taft in his administration—an unprecedent- ed privilege—will not be repeated by president-elect Wilson, but it was fig- ured out today, that he may be en- abled to appoint a ‘third of the tri- bunal of nine members. Aside from making Edward Douglas White chief Jjustice, President Taft has appointed within the past two years, Associate Justices Lurton, Hughes, Van Devan- ter, Lamar and Pitney. A justice of the supreme court is eligible to retirement after reaching the age of seventy years and after having served ten years on the bench. The three eligible for retirement be- fore the end of the Wilson adminis- tration are Chief Justice White, and Associate Justices McKenna and Holmes. PLAY OBERAMMERGAU FOR THE MOVIES IN PALESTINE By United Press. Munich, Dec. 9.—Disgusted with the so-called religious productions given at continental moving picture theatres, representatives of numerous religious bodies have formed a com- mittee to send the famous Oberam- mergau passion players to perform before biograph cameras in Pales- tine. The organizers are not con- nected with any moving picture syn- dicate, and the films will be shown only in church halls and meeting- houses, in which the committee are satisfied there will be a reverent and appropriate atmosphere. The pope has expressed his approv- al of the work and has granted a spe- cial dispensation. It is intended to represent all the Old Testament stories possible, including it is hoped, the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea. Besides the Oberam- ergau players the organizers will take a large number of actors, main- ly French, and they will recruit their “erowds’ in Palestine. GRAND THEATRE IS SOLD. Ole Anderson has disposed of his interest in the Grand theatre to Mar- ion Hazen and John C. Ford. The Grand was opened in the spring by Rood and Anderson but Mr. Ander- son took over Andrew Rood’s interest a few weeks ago. Mr. Ford has been in active charge of the Grand for some time and the policy of the house will not be greatly changed. NEW PHONE LINE COMPLETED. Tne Scandia Telephone company has completed nine miles of line from the corner of Section 14, town of Be- midji, into this city. The instru- ments came today and the line will be in operation before the end of the week. Officers were elected as fol- lows: T. N. Rode, president; John Croon, secretary; Ole Gennes, treas- urer. The honeymoon is on the wane when hubby quits taking wifie every- where he goes. SCOOP rerorrer AS EDITOR OF THE. DX(XSE DEPARTMENT I'VE WRITTEN & POEM WHIcH T WiLL Now WILL GREAT NORTHERN MOVE DIVISION POINT? Rumor at Crookston Last Week Said Cass Lake Was to Lose Termin- als to Bemidji. According to a rumor which was circulated last week at the develop- ment meeting in Crookston, Bemidji is to be made the division point on the Duluth-Grand Forks line of the Great Northern railroad. The divi- sion point at the present time is at Cass Lake although the Sauk Center- Minneapolis train starts and ends here. It is said that this change is to be made because under the present ar- rangements trains cannot be hauled from Duluth to Grand Forks in two runs of eight hours each. The growth of the country and increase in traffic makes a longer time necessary for the trip. It has been decided then, according to the rumor, to make a new division point at Swan River and to move the Cass Lake yards to Bemidji so that the Duluth-Grand Forks trip can be made in three runs. A state law provides that railway men cannot work more than eight hours on one run. Asked if he knew of the proposed change, E. E. Chamberlain, Bemidj agent of the company, said that it was news to him. - MAIL 1S CLOSED Mail received in the Bemidji post- office up to the time the Minneapolis mail closes tonight may catch the Christmas delivery in foreign coun- tries. Mail left in the postoffice to- morrow will miss the last sailings and will not be delivered before Christmas. The Christmas mail for England, Ireland, France, Germany, Russian and Scandinavian countries will close in Minneapolis tomorrow GEMMELL SAYS BEMIDJI BUSINESS DOES NOT WAR- RANT EXTRA SLEEPER Asked Friday if Bemidji was to get a sleeper, W. H. Gemmell, general manager of the M. & L, said that the present business did not warrant it and that it would not be good busi- ness for the railroad to go to the ad- ditional expense until the business did. It was suggested to Mr. Gemmell that a sleeper spotted in the Bemidji yards would work up business that the railroad is now losing but he re- fused to admit the proposition. He said that the railroad did not see fit to give the service until the business warranted such a change. Mr. Gemmell attended the meeting of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment assocition in Crookston mak- ing the trip in his special car. He returned to Brainerd directly and al- lowed the delegation from Interna- tional Falls to use his car to make the trip home. POPULAR PRIMARIES FOR POSTMASTERS IS PROPOSED By United Press. Washington, Dec. 9.—Popular pri- maries to determine the choice of col- lectors of internal revenue, postmas- ters, marshalls and surveyors, is the latest plan of the Democrats when the December session of congress con- venes. Democratic congressmen who are besieged with requests for such appointments believe this plan will save them from political obliteration at the hands of disappointed office seekers in subsequent elections. The new scheme is advocated by Representatives Humphrey of Missis- sippi and Beal of Texas. There is strenuous opposition and a lively de- bate is already under way. Repre- sentative Robert L. Henry of Texas |is an opponent of the plan. Atlantic ocean mail boats in time for| .|located somewhere in NérthErn Min- (Copyright) - FASHION’S LATEST EDICT “Mald of 1913 Should Be Curveless.” WANT NORMAL scnooLg Effort Will Be Made to Have State Legislature Appropriate For One In This Section. NO SITE NAMED IN:THE BILL An active effort will be made in the state legislature during the com- ing year to have an appropriation made for a state mormal school to be nesota. Such an effort was made four years ago, but both Cass Lake and Be- midji were after the school and the bitter feeling wrought up at that time has left a bad taste in many mouths since. The bill, as it has been planned so far, will call for the establishment of a normal school in Northern Minne- sota but no location will be named. This will be left to the state normal school board for decision so that all of Northern Minnesota may be united HEADQUARTERS IN BEMIDJI in securing the school with the bit- terness left out. A conference of Bemidji men and others interested in the school was held with D. P. O'Neill of Thief Riv- er Falls, at Crookston last week. Mr. O’Neill stated emphatically that he considered such a school necessary in this part of the state but that he would favor no bill which called for any particular site. “I will favor a general normal school bill,” he said, “but do not care to have the old trouble stirred up again.” State normal schools to which young people from this section of the state may go are located at Moor- head, St. Cloud and Duluth. The Du- luth school does not consider Bemidji in its district so that local students can go either to St. Cloud or Moor- head. The majority have been going to Moorhead. These normal schools are all crowded to capacity and in some cases overcrowded. Because of the distance, many yvoung people from this part of the state are forced to forego a normal school training and take what they jcan get in the high schools. High |{school normal departments are limit- ed to twenty students but high |schools in this part of the state have had to violate the provision repeated- ly in order that their teachers can thave any training at all. “A normal {school is needed,” said Mr. O'Neill, “and we will do all we can to have| 'an appropriation made.” ~ | Mr. 0’Neill appeared to believe that it was quite possible to have the leg-:dergast; S. V. C., J. M. Phillipi; J. (Continued on last page). V. C., G. P. sociation and will be appointed Commission which carries on the immigration work of the as- It was Mr. Mackenzie that first had the idea of such an association and it is fitting and right that he should be kept Incidentally, he is a Bemidji man and that fact also brings this city into the limelight. The promotion of A. G. Wedge, Jr., from treasurer of the Im- migration Commission to treasurer of the entire association and commission brings a second Bemidji man into official promi- nence. Walter J. Smith, state treasurer, was formerly treasurer Mr. Wedge's interest and activ of the association and the commission won attention and ad- miration from the association so that he was the unanimous sociation. at the helm. of the ociation. choice of the convention. With Messrs. Mackenzie and offices in the association and this city as the host for the next Bemidji should occupy a big place in Northern ivity during the coming twelve months. big meeting, Minnesota ac ARTHUR G. WEDGE, JR., Treasurer-elect of the N. M. D. A. The action of the Northern Minnesota Development tion in making: Bemidji the official headquarters is gratifying to the men here who have labored long in the interests of the as- sociation. The association was formed in Bemidji in February, 1910, and will be nearly four years old when: it -holds the annual meeting here in December, 1913. The making of Bemidji the headquarters also recognizes the fact that Bemidji is the most central city of the country of the association. W. R. Mackenzie has again been elected secretary of the as RED CROSS SEALS ARE NOW-ON SALE Been Placed in Several Bemidji Stores. MONEY FINANCES BIG FIGHT Is Used in Waging War on Tubereulo- sis to Wipe It Out and to Aid Hospitals. FIRST STARTED BY JACOB RIS Received Letter From Norway With Charity Stamp On Back and Advocated Plan Here. Red Cross Christmas seals have been placed on sale in Bemidji stores for the last time. These little stickers, which have been a familiar sight on the back of Christmas let- ters for several years, are not to be used after 1912. The seals sell for one cent each and the money derived from the sale goes to a fund used for the stamping out of consumption in the state. Seals may be obtained at Barker’s, Netzer's and the City drug stores, Peterson’s and Aber- crombie’s, Henry Miller’s grocery store and the Pioneer shop. Red Cross seals visualize the spirit of Christmas but why they should be bought may be answered most effect- ively in the words of a twelve-year- old boy in the Duluth schools, who gave the following as his reasom in a composition on this subjeet: “The reason I put Red Croes seals on my Christmas gifts is because every seal I use counts one cent to- ward stamping out tuberculoeis in the city and for the maintenance of hospitals for that purpose. The seals are also used to raise fumds to-teach people the value of fresh air. Amn- other reason I buy them is because my father died of tuberculosis and I buy them so that other little boys and girls won't lose their father as I did. Another reason is that if I am ever threatened with tuberculo- sis the doctors will have a fund to try to prevent it.” “How did the Red Cross Christmas seal originate?” is a question that is being asked by many during this holiday season. Millions of these stickers are being sold all over the United States. To Jacob Riis, the well-known social worker of New York, and to Miss Emily P. Biasell, SSOCi: secretary of the Immigration ware Red Cross, jointly belong the honor of originating our American Red Cross Christmas seal. In 1906 Mr. Riis’ interest was aroused by the receipt of a Christmas tuberculosis stamp on a letter from Norway. He published an article about this queer-looking stamp and suggested some possible uses for it in this country. Miss Bissell at once saw an opportunity here and pre- pared a stamp, from the sale of which her society realized $3,000 for tuberculosis work. So impressed was she with this success that she indu- ced the American Red Crdss to take up the sale in 1908 on a national basis. With very little organization and with hardly any attempt at careful in behalf Wedge holding the most active TANNER WINS TWO RACES. Lloyd Tanner won a roller skating race Saturday evening at the Armory by defeating a large field in twenty laps. Tanner repeated the perform- ance Sunday afternoon. Arthur Rem- frey wou a feature race in which he skated the entire distance backwards. G. A. R. ELECTS OFFICERS. R. H. Carr Post No. 174, G. A. R.,} elected the following officers Satur- day evening: Commander, L. G. Pen- Irish; Quartermaster, You Could Hardly Blame The City Editor T WROTE AN XMAS POEM, BoSS— T LISTENS Like THIS— FATHER WiLL MORTGAGE THE. ICE BOX POOR MOTHER MUST SOAK HER CLOTHES NVHAT BROTHER WILL DO, LORD KNO! 30 Moum. XMAS SHOPPING EARLY- LIET THE JUY0US SPENONG LD - G VE T8 COUSIN, FRIEND AND GARLIE, {WELOME TO THE PooR HOLSE, KiD! " THERE HE S SIR - RIGHT (N MY oFFice ) AND WHILE HE 'S EXACTIY DANGEROUSLY INSANE - STILL We -icording to an announcement made KSa:t.m'd,ay. advertising, the sale that year brought in, nevertheless, over $135,- i 000 for anti-tuberculosis work in va- rious parts of the United States. . In 1909, with more thorough organiza- tion, the sale was increased to $230, 000 and in 1910 to nearly $310,000. Last year the sale was increased to over $330,000 or 33,000,000 seals. ‘While the American Red Cross seal dates back only four years, The firm of Schwandt and Marin |«charity stamps,” from Wwhich this has dissolved partnership and in the |jgeq originally sprung, go back to future the business will be conducted 1862, when “sanitary fair stamps” by Mr. Schwandt individually, ac- were first- used in Boston to secure money for the care of soldiers wounded during the civil war. Near- 1y $1,000,000 was raised in this way during the years 1862 to 1865. After the war this method of raising mon- ey was discontinued in this country for a gemeration, although it found vogue in Portugal, Switzerland, Aus- tria, France, Spain, Denmark, Nar- way, Russia, Sweden and other Euro- pean countries. There are now hundreds of different types of charity stamps used in all parts of the world, as many as forty being used in Aus- tria for children’s hospitals alone. Stamps or seals were first used to get money for the anti-tuberculosis crusade in Norway and Sweden in 1904. It was from one of these stamps that Jacob Riis and Miss Bis- sell received their first ideas for the American Red Cross Cristmas seal. The stamps can be placed on the William Schroeder; Chaplain, George Smith; Surgeon. C. A. Farris; Officer of the Day, H. P. Minton; Officer of the Guard. C. A. Cross; Adjutant, J M. Fuller. George Smith was elected delegate and L: G. Pendergast altern- ate to the next state convention. DISSOLVE PARTNERSHIP. By "HOP” the energetic secretary of the Dela- - backs of packages and letters onmly.