Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 21, 1913, Page 4

FOREIGN GINCRAL OFFICES © NIW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCZHES L1 ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER l ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN., UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3 1879. In the City of Bemidji the papers are Selivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate eomplaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they do aot get their papers promptly. Every subscriber to the Daily Pioneer « will ‘receive notice about ten ‘days be- fere his time expires, giving him an opportunity to make an advance pay- ment before the paper is finally stopped. Subscription Rates. Dne month by carrier Ome year, by carrier.. 0 ‘Three months, postage paid . 1.00 Bix months, postage paid . One year, postage paid.. The Weekly Pionee: Bight pages, containing a summary ef the news of the week. Published wvery Thursday and sent postage paid te any address for $1.50 in advance. Published every afternoon except Sun- Say by the Bemidji Pioneer Publishing|which the cities would derive per- Company. ®. X. CARSON. MAROLD J. DANE, Editor. The Dunn Road Bill. Since the twin city papers have been charging that under the Dunn good roads bill, which. recently pass- ed the house and is now before the senate, roads will be constructed which do not start from any place and lead nowhere, it may be well for ‘the people of Northern Minnesota to look into the bill as it now stands. The city papers advocate changing the bill so that one man will be at the head of the expenditure of the state road and bridge funds. A careful persual of the Dunn bill will reveal the following points: 1. Three commissioners to serve for three years each without pay, form the state highway commission. 2. A state road and bridge tax of one mill shall be levied each year on all taxable property. 3. Not less than one nor more than three per cent of the state road and bridge funds available any year shall be apportioned to any one county. 1. Twenty per cent of the allot- ment so made shall be used for the maintenance of roads and bridges in the county under the supervision of the board ot county commissioners. 5. Not to exceed twenty-five per cent of the allotment so made, re- maining after the twenty per cent for maintenance has been deducted, may be expclxdod on county roads under the supervision of the state highway <omii ion, 6. The amount which shall be paid by the state out of the allotment of the road and bridge fund to any county as state aid in the construe- tion or improvem_eqt of any road or bridge in any county in any year shall be as follows: Eighty per cent of valuations of §$5,000,000 or under. : Seventy per cent for valuations of $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. Sixty per cent for valuations of $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. Fifty per cent in all other counties. 7. ‘The county board may levy three mills for the county road and vridge fund. ' 3. If any money appropriated from the state road and bridge fund for the use in any county is not used in the year in which it was approp- riated, it reverts to the state road and bridge tund and so is lost to the county. It has been estimated that the one mill tax will bring in at least $1,200,- 000 per year. With the Dunn bill a( law, Beltrami county will receive not less than one perv cent ner more than three sc¢ that its shave will be l’mmk $12,000 to $36,000, valuation of this county is about $6,- As the assessed | 000,000 the one miil tax in this coun-| ty will bring in $6,000 a year. | | the Dunn i In other words, under ill raise $6,000 year for good roads, will get back at least $12,000 and may get back $: 000. ! class of assessed valuations, sevemyf bill this county As this county is in the second: per cent of the cost of any road or: bridge may be paid by the state, px‘o-l viding the total amount does not ex- ceed $36,000 in any one year. On the face of the bill, therefore, it gives Beltrami what is needed—| that is, outside aid for the develop- ment of our highways. | The twin city papers have argued that the roa&s.wm start and end no-. | SHE HAD BEEN IN EVIDENCE where. This will not be the case !orl the state’s money must be expended WIitness Made Only Statement of Fact 3 i only for roads which are being con—] That to H;}.:;:'Bey otld AI_’: ]stmcted under the supervision of the highway commission. By this pro-' vision, the Dunn plan has a double In a Texas town there lives an old negress, Aunt Cynthia Johnson, who E. X. DENU. |haps their share on a basis of taxa-! FRECKLES jugly fri | Money back if it fails.—Adv. «check: it prevents the county from wasting money for the roads must bel built under state supervision and it prevents the state engineers from making contracts detrimental to any‘ one county. Under the plan proposed by the twin city papers, one man would be placed in charge of a fund of uverj $1,000,000 per annum. Would it not, be possible, then, that he would be- come so biased that all roads would | * lead to and from the twin cities? What would be left for the farmer in the backwoods of Beltrami county| who is seeking a road out with his produce? Would not this gigantic fund become a “pork barrel” from tion but not on a basis of utility? It looks as if the Dunn bill covers the situation exactly. A non-paid commission of three will insure. that it will be less open to pressure than one man. The fact that each county must have.at least one per cent in- sures some road building in each county each year. The supervision of the state highway commission and the state engineers insures the money being expended carefully. Unless the cities can present more valid arguments than have yet been advanced, Northern Minnesota should stand by the Dunn bill. KREK KKK KK KKK KKK KKK * PINEWOOD. * KKK KKK KKK KK KKK Mrs. Stohl was seriously ill last week. Mrs. Roy Ousley . returned home Saturday from Spring Valley where she has spent the past few weeks. The auction of the stock of general merchandise of F. Fink and sons last week drew large crowds of people to Pinewood. ) Among those who spent Monday in Bemidji were Miss Maudie Stohl, Mrs. Dickensen, and J. Fink. Oscar Severson returned Tuesday to his farm in Canada, his sister Lettie accompanying him. A number of people were delayed | in Pinewood Saturday waiting for the* east bound passenger train whi(_:ht came at 4 p.'m. Suicide of Billy, Aged Ten. “‘She passed me by without saying & word. She did not even look at me. “‘It is this that has decided me. [ cannot live without Florrie, so, as soon as I have read the last chapter of “The King of the Scalp Hunters” (T cannot die without knowing wheth- er Esmerelda escapes from One-eye or not), I am going to poison myself. “‘I have made a mixture out of two packets of beetle powder, some black- ing, a bottle of copying ink and four red berries. Perhaps at the end I shall add some sugar to make it taste nice. “‘I" forgive father for whacked me s0 often. “‘These are the last words I shall ever write. . . ) “Little fool! His mixture made him very sick, and he received the biggest thrashing he had yet received from his governor. Since then he has never committed suicide again.”—Tomumy Lobb, by Walter Emanuel. having Evidently Believes in Matrimony, Twice married after seventy is the record held by Richard Northcott of Brixham, Devon. England. Tle had just bezn-married for the second time. On each occasion his bride *was septua- genarian. At the first marriage there as a crowded conzregation, and the cld couple were toured through the town in a wogorette, Last year North< s left a widower, and his new deceased wife's sister. ircott and his wife are in age pensions. Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots. The woman with tender skin dreads February and March because they are likely to cover her face with | ckles. No matter how “thick | her veil, the sun and winds have a | strong tendency to make her freckle. | Fortunately for her peace of mind, the recent discovery of a new pre-; seription, othine—double strength, ! makes it possibel for even those most! susceptible to freckles to keep the! skin clear and-white. No matter how stubborn a case of freckles.you have, ! | the double strength othine should re- druggist and banish ~the freckles: ! for peace. + her church brothers and sisters on the ! is sharp of tongue, and seldom at peace with her female neighbors. Re- cently, as a result of a war of words with one of her neighbors, she was being tried in the recorder's court for disturbance. ‘She had rcfused® the court’s offer of an attorney, and was conducting her ovn case. Her main line of defense was an attempt to prove good character and a reputation She had put several of stand, and had made a fairly good case, when old Uncle Levi Criggle was called to the witness stand and the following ensued: “Brother Criggle, how long have you ‘lived in my part of town and knowed me?” “’Bout ten years, Sister Johnson.” “Brother Criggle, has you ever [ knowed of me startin’ any exturbance among my neighbors or in my neigh- borhood where I live?” “Now, Sistah Johnson, the judge over thar done made me hold up my han’ an swar to tell the truth and all the truth, and I's boun’ to tell it jess | like it is. AIl I got to say 'bout that is, T ain’t never hearn that you ex- ackly started any insturbance, but all the insturbances that's ever been down in that end of town has had you in ’em somewhar afore they wus thru’.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. NOT THE MAN SHE WANTED Bashful Youth Seemingly Had Little | Chance to Win the Lady of His Heart. A’ sharp-featured, deterrrined little woman - popped her head out of the door and indignantly demanded tke business of a bashful young man who had been hanging around the house for hours in a pitiless downpour of rain, hoping against hope that his adored one would invite him in, “Now, then, young feller, what do yer want here? Tryin’ to wear the pavement out, or what?” she de- manded, sarcastically. “I reckon TIve come your daughter,” the youth admitted. . “Oh,“y're after Lizzie, are yer? Theh take my advice, young man, an’ run away an’ lose yerself. My gal a;p't goin’ to marry a chap that hasn't courage to knock at the door an’ ax for her—not likely! Why, when her father came a-courtin’ me an’ found the door locked, he climbed the back-yard wall, strangled the bull dog, and knocked the old man silly wi’ a clump on the jaw. Then he grabbed hold of my hand an’ shoved a ring as big as a cart-wheel on my finger, and told me that the banns were already up. That’s the sort of husband I want for our Liz- zie; not a shiverin’ milksep that ain't got sense to come in out of the rain!” a-courtin’ shame-faced Walked Out With It, There came into the office of a western lawyer a man who was ex- cited because his wife had left him, and he feared she would run him into debt all over the country. “In that case,” said the “you had better post her.” His client, not knowing what post- ing meant, said he did not know where she had gone, and besides, she was fully as strong as he, and he did not believe he was able to post her. The attorney explained that he meant put- ting a notice in the newspapers say- ing: “Whereas, my wife Helen has left my bed and board without any i lawyer, ust—"- “But that ain’t true,” interrupted the client. “She didn't leave my bed. She took it with her.”—Sunday Mag- i 1zine Men Have Higher Regard for Poetry. A public librarian recently gave me evidence that man's regard for poetry is greater than woman's. Many pu- pil-teachers and other students fre- quest his Hbrary, and come in quest | of books to help them in the study of | literature. He finds that when seteto study a poet, the man student usually borrows that poet's works to read for | himself, but the woman says: “Oh, I don’t want to wade through all that; give me a book that will summarize his ideas and tell me what I ought to think about him.” And the usual way is to give the girl a book that tells her what a man thinks she ought to think about poe- try.”—London Chronicle. One On the Judge. A well-known judge recently dined | at a hotel in Dublin, where the man who takes e€harge of the hats is cele- brated for his memory about the own- ership of headgear. “How do you know that this is my hat?” the judge asked, as his hat was handed to him. “I don’t know it, sir,” said Pat. “Then why did you give it to me?” replied the judge. “Because you gave it to me, sir,” aid the man, without moving a mus cle of his face. Starting It. “Why do you always ‘Sweet? . Can you not find a better term of endearment than that?” “It is not exactly a term of en- dearment, Sweet. 1 was thinking of jmove them. Get an ounce from any| ¢pe g1q saying: ‘Oweet are the uses | of adversity.’” call me - : . Had No Use for Names, Self-8acrificing Love. “Yes, that is he. I could have mar 1n if she could give him a news item. ried him if'I had cared to do 80.” She thought and thought, and finally “So that is the man! A fine look | admitted regretfully that she didn’t ing fellow. I don't wonder that you| know a single, solitary thing.” “I am loved him 80 much more than you did | too excited to think, anyway,” 'the me.” 5 woman added, “because my brother “I don’t see how you can say that! | broke his arm this morning, and I am Piles in 6 to 14 days.. §0c. i CURED IN 6 TO 14 DaYs 4 four druggist will = refund. An Atchison reporter.asked a wom- FAZO OINTMENT fails mnw“n:‘:x;ey ir of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Subscribe forfi The Pioneer could have married him and did not!" “That's what I was thinking of ™ on my way to his home to see him.”— Kansas City Star. Cheap _or “Big Can” Baking Powder OTE the unevenness of the contents; also the small amount of leavening gas - from the height the powder residues from these powders wvary considerably. CALU bas risenin the glass. The Tartar Powder OU will also note the small amount of leaven- ing gas here; also the sedi- ment in the bottom of glass, whichis asolution of Rochelle Salts. About 80 per cent. of this powder used is left in the food as Rochelle Salts. Ask your doctor ‘about constant dosing with Rockelle Salts, This Proves the Wonderful Leavening Qualities—the Purity—the Economv—the Superiority of Ask Your Grocer—Insist on Calumet. RECEIVED HIGHEST AWARDS, World’s Pure Food Exposition, Chicago, Ill,, 1907; Paris Exposition, France, March, 1912. BAKING POWDER TESTS 'MADE FROM ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN TWO MINUTES AFTER MOISTURE WAS APPLIED . Calumet Baking Powder OTE here the amount of leavening gas by the way the powder has risen over the top of the glass. Note how light and fluffy it is; also how even the grain is. This test proves CALUMET has a great amount of leavening gas that it is gradually and uni- formly given off. It leaves no unwholesome residue. » BAKING POWDER BUICK “31" Sells For $1285 F. 0. B. Flint The Buick “31” is a motor car of the highest type. It has the appearance that makes the people you pass take a second look. It has the power that will take you anywhere and bring you back. It has the durability that makes it a good investment. It costs less to run it and to keep it up than it does any other car ever built. It is easy riding, easy to handle, commodious, graceful in body contour, and it is beautiful of finish. Every part that goes into Buick manufacture is made-in the Buick shops. There are 110,000 Buicks on the road. Some of them have gone 150,000 miles and are still going. The company challenges anybody to produce a worn out Buick or one which has been junked because the owner couldn’t secure parts. The Buick shops are the largest in the world, and you can find a Buick dealer anywhere you go. And the Buick sign is always a sign of good treatment. The Famous Buick Overhead Valve motor is guaranteed to-have more power and more speed than any other type of motor on the market. It will pull stronger on low grade. gasoline than any other type of motor ever built and the fuel con- sumption is less. Roadsters and Touring Cars, $950 to $1650, F. 0. B. Flint Phone 475 Catalogue on Request Olaf Ongstad, Agent Bemidji, Minn. - Shop in rear of Pioneer