Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 5, 1913, Page 1

W i THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER VOLUME 11. NUMBER 112, DOCTOR M. P. BURNS T0 DEDICATE NEW METHODIST CHURCH To Preach Sunday Morning Dedica- tory Sermon—Rev. A. H, McKee, Detroit to Preach in Evening SPECIAL MUSIC BOTH SESSIONS Many Out of Town People Planning to Attend Dedication Services— Arrange for Crowd. Under the leadership of their pas- %or. Rev. Charles Flesher the mem- bers of the First Methodist Episcopal church of this city have completed the construction of their new church * and Sunday will conduct dedication services, to which the public is cor- dially welcomed. Dr. M. P. Burns, superintendent of the Minneapolis district, has been engaged to preach the morning ser- mon and dedicate the church. Rev., A. H. McKee of Detroit will preach in the evening. A special program has been pre- pared for both morning and evening gervices. Mrs. Strickland will sing a selection and Pastors White and Chandler will also take part in the program. The services will begin at 10:30 in the morning and 8 o’clock in the evening. Historic Sketch. . Methodism in Bemidji, Minn., be- gan May 24th, 1898, when Rev. Rob- ert Forbes, D. D., presiding elder of the Duluth District of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Rev. O. J. Gary Methodist pastor at Milaca, Minn., held a service in the Presbyterian church, At that time a board of trustees was organized consisting of Maurice J. Leak, James Driver, Jay L. Rey- nolds. Matthew Phibbs, Rev. Robert Forbes, D. D., and Rev. 0. J. Gary. Early in June of that year Rev. A. E. Rowson was appointed preacher in charge and conducted services, first in the court-house then located on the corner where NetZer’s drug store now stands, and in the Woodman hall in she Troppman block. At the annual conference held at Hutchinson, Minn., in the following October, Rev. Geo. Watson was ap- pointed pastor. One Sunday, Decem- ber 4th, 1898, the First Methodist Episcopal church of Bemidji, M'lmL.l was organized with the following persons as charter members: Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. Leak, Mr. and Mrs. James Driver, Mrs. S. C. Bren- non, Mrs. Avery Smith, Mrs. Lottie Pike and Mrs. Matthew Phibbs, Rev. Watson was pastor for three years and during'his administration a Jurch building was begun. In 1901 g tev. George Swinnerton was appoint- ed to the charge and finished a splen- did building which was an honor to the faith and courage of the people at that time. The other pastors who have served the church are Grant Teeters, U. S. Foster, J. B. Smith, Isaac Peart, J. H. Denniston, C. E. White and Chas. H. Flesher. July 19th, 1909, the church was struck by lightning and completely destroyed. In the spring of 1910 work was be- gun on excavating the basement and in tae fall the basement wa ¢ for a new church were built and the rough floor laid. In June 1911. work was resumed and the superstructure was enclosed and the basement finished and occupiad, In May, 1913, work was resumed and the building completed at a to- tal cost of $13,000. Tt is rectangular in shape and library style of archi- tecture facing 53 feet on Beltrami avenue and 64 feet on Ninth street. It is modern in all its appointments, having Sunday School rooms, cloak | room, pastor’s study, choir waiting room and two galleries and will seat over 400. Memorial windows beauti- fy the auditorium. The basement contains furnaces, fuel room, toilets, kitchen and dining room. The completion of this building is a credit to the members of the church and the citizens of the city who have made it possible and due credit must be given to friends from other cities who have generously contributed to it. The Building Committee, The members of the building com- work soliciting subscriptions and su- pervising the construction of the church are as follows: Charles H. Flesher, pastor, Dr. E. H, Smith, pres- ident, G. D. Backus, secretary and treasurer and Dr. E. A. Shannon. The plans and specifications were drawn and furnished by Bert D. Keck, archi- tect at Crookston, Minnesota. Program, Sunday, September 7, 1913. 10:30 A. M. Prelude «us v v 56 so ne . .Selected Doxology. Hymn No. 661, Apostle’s Creed. Prayer.........Rev. C. G. Chandler “The King of Love My Shepherd ;O ava Choir. II Chronicles 6: 1-2, 18-21,.... ........... Rev. 8. E. P. White Selected ......... . .Mrs, Strickland Offertory. Sermon ........ st $e #in e Rev. M. P. Burns, D. D. Minneapolis Postlude .ov.vvvenvnnssn. . Selected 8:00 P. M. Prelude ................. Selected . Shelley i Hymn No. 666. Prayer.....Rev. M. D. Fuller, D, D. “Except the Lord Build the House” p Cowen Sep e e o et Choir. Psalm 122. .......-Rev. S. W. Scott Offertory. Prelude .. «om oo Selected BELTRAMI TAKES SECOND Carries Off Second Money for Booths at Minnesota State Fair—Ros- eau Takes First, NORTHERN. MINNESOTA LEADS Roseau leads the northern section and all Minnesota as an agricultural county, with Beltrami second, Wash- ington and Todd leading the central section, are respectively third and fourth in the state, and Houston ranks fifth, though at the head of the southern section. In beauty of exhibits prizes were counties by the The awarded to eight judges at the fair Yyeaterday. list follows: = 1. Houston ....... 2. Wright ... 3. Washington . 4. Red Lake . 5. Olmsted . 6. 2. 8. Sibley .. Clay .. Nicollet The Beltrami County booth will be brought to Bemidji and displayed at the Beltrami County Fair, September 10, 11 and 12. The following table shows each county’s total score and prize money: Northern Section, Prize Score. Money. Roseau county .... 1,101 $ 239.05 Beltrami county ... 1,053 216.90 Clearwater county. 1,022 202.30 Red Lake county... 1,010 225.50 Cass county ... 994 189.10 Becker county .... 987 182.05 Hubbard county .. 980 176.00 A’tkin county ..... 974 170.10 Norman county . 955 162.30 Marshall county ... 951 156.70 Cook county ...... 928 138.26 Clay county ...... 846 141.05 Koochiching county 824 122.75 Itasca county ..... 816 121.60 Totals .........13,341 $2,443.65 Only Waseca county failed to se- cure a money prize. Olmsted, with a lower total score, won $25 for the beauty of its exhibit. TWENTY-FIVE OUT FOR TEAM First Practice of Season Held Last Night. Twenty-five candidates for the High school football team appeared for practice last evening. Coach Bestul put the men through a series of signals and coached them on fall- ing on the bal.” Many of the candi- dates showed much skill along this line and from the showing made by the boys in their first practice it ap- pears that a first class team will be a reality in the course of @ few weeks. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1913, OLD CHURCH. 0ld Methodist church which was destroyed July 19th, 1909, TEN CENTS PER WEER 5 S sive 1o Howm x| TAVENNER CAUTIONS *x _— x ¥ The following little want ad & AG AINST WI DC A’l‘ * was ordered to run in the Pion- * L S * eer UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. % : % After running one night Mr. % AT * Charles Vandersluis came in to & |Says Forest Reserve Often Stands Be- * the office, “Take out that ad, I % tween i 3 X sold the stove within two hours « Public and Guileful Pro: * after the paper was out.” * moters of Fake Schemes. ¥ The Ad read: “For Sale— % * One base, burner coal. stove, % % $30.06; Phaie 404 e ARE SENDING OUT INSPECTORS ¥ These little want ads do busi- % g * ness like this every day and & |Refuses Patents When They Find ¥ they cost only a half cent a That No Minerals Exist in the % word. Try one when you want : ! * to sell, buy or rent. Phone 31. % Claims Made. HHRK R KKK KKK KK KK MAN KILLED BY TRAIN West Bound Soo Passenger Hits Paul Palhander, Cutting off His Arm and Legs. By Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner, Washington, Sept. 5.—Few Deople realize that the Forest Service often stands between the public and the guileful promoters of fake mining schemes and other get-rich-quick ventures, The young Wallingfords ‘| who still roam the land in consider- able numbers can sell blue sky if they can find any plausible excuse for capitalizing it and issuing beautitully ACCIDENT NEAR FEDERAL DAM struck by lightning and completely NEW CHURCH. The new Methodist church which Tth. It is modern in all appointments rooms, pastor’s study, choir waiting over 400 people. Memorial windows ment contains furnaces, fuel rooms, was completed at a cost of $13,000. is to be dedicated Sunday, September having Sunday school rooms, cloak room and two galleries and will seat beautify the auditorium. The base- kitchen, toilets and dining room. It WHAT’S THE NUMBER OF THE GIRL FOR WHOM YOU VOTE Can You Find Her in the List of Contestants Below? Hustling? Is She SHOW YOU WANT THAT PIANO Pioneer Subscribers and Schroeder Customers Anxious to Help Those Who Want to Win. Who’s the girl you're voting for? Where does she stand in the list be- low? What's her number? What! don’t know her number? All these and more are the ques- tions that are being continually ask- ed by the customers of the Schroeder store and subscribers of the Pioxeer, Just because they are anxious to help the girl who will but ask for it. Lis-| ten to this conversation: 3 Clerk to customer: ; “This payment entitles you to 25,- 000 votes. For who do you wish to cast them?” , who is gathering votes for the piano. “Why, I haven’t the slightést idea What will I do with them?” “It is your privilege to vote them for any number you like.” “Well, if I only knew who was running, I would be awfully willing to help. Give them to me and I will find out who stands a chance to win.” During the past week this nature of conversation was a common every day occurance in the Schroeder store. Now, you contestants this should not happen. Get onto the line of cus- tomers trading at the Schroeder store or subscribers who take the Pioneer, you’ll find them everywhere in the city and surrounding country. Let (Continued on Page 8) | Every member ATHLETIC CLUB MEETING To Transact Important Business Which Demands That Every Mem- ber of 'Club Be Present. 'AFTER TRACK TEAM CANDIDATE Business of importance will be transacted by the Bemidji Athletic club when it meets tonight in = the Council Chambers of the City Hall. is requested to be Dpresent as important steps will be taken for the development of the club printed stock certificates thereom, Experience has taught the pro- moters that one of the best things on which to issue worthe less stock is a government pats ent to a mineral claim. The ordinary citizen seems to look oR a government patent as a certificate of validity. Consequently the wiley promoters have been full of plans ta secure patents to mineral claims in the national forests, forcing the For- est service to adopt some rather and his head crushed. stringent regulations for the protec- There is a question whether he was |tion of the public against fakes. killed by the blow from the engine| - It ds tnot tennugb tan{hmtore f.ur thle - prospector to asser at minerals gr whether he dled suddenly from |, oo’y o o P order to secure a heart failure before he was run down patent to it. The service now sends as he was lying in the middle of the out inspectors under a regulatiom track when first seen by the engin- adopted “to preserve the integrity of eer. A pint bottle of liquor was the national forests and the good found .on his person, but those Who'standing of the mining industry.” I¢ saw him previous to leaving town |y inspector finds that no minerals say he was not intoxicated. exist in the claim a patent is refused, The accident occurred 1 1-2 miles “Cases are frequent,” sald Chief east of Federal Dam on a sharp turn Forester Graves In a recent state= in the road, where it was impossible ment, “of ‘Wildeat’ companies seeke to stop the train before striking ing to patent extensive areas of land him. Passengers report that the barren of mineral or other value for train was going at a fast clip when no other purpose than that of deceive it hit him. K ing the innocent investor. In such The remains were taken to Fed-|.,co "v1o promoters intend to exhibit eral Dam and placed in charge of the the patent issued by the government coroner pending an investigation. He as proof of the value of the land.” has no relatives in that vicinity and efforts to secure the desired informa- Gllln lS STILL MISSING tion have thus far proven futile. He| Little Beulah Ganzhorn of Erskina was engaged for the past month as a harvest hand on the Edward Lund- May Be Victim of Panther— Search 48 Hours, rengen farm near Federal Dam. 4 PLANS BEING PREPARED 500 ARE SCOURING THE WO00DS New Summer Hotel Proposition at a Standstill Awaiting Devel- opments, John Palhander, a batchelor living on a homestead four miles east of Federal Dam was struck by the west bound Soo passenger train and bad- 1y mangled at 8 o’clock Thursday aft- ernoon. He had walked to town to make some purchases and was on his way Jback when the accident occurred. One leg and both arms were cut off Erskine, Minn., Sept. 5.—Little Beulah Ganzhorn the two and half year old daughter of William Gangs. horn, who disappeared Wednesday from her home about six miles from LYCAN NOT ON COMMITTEE and the new athletic home. Many applicants will also apply for menr- bership to the club and will be voted upon. Very little time will be taken to transact the business on hand, but the work to be done is of such a na- ture that the entire attendance is re- quired. Cards have been sent to all mem- Defective Page bers of: the club making a final ap- peal In benaif of the track meet. Dur- ing the past few days very few men have been reporting for practice and unless .more ‘interest is taken in the very near future the meet may be dropped. If the meet is carried through as planned it will mean a big increase in the financial standing of the club which will aid in equipping the ‘Armory and cover the present debts which are now being made. An order was placed yesterday for jerseys and socks and other football paraphernalia in the club colors, Practice for the team will commence in a few days. Oysters Arrive Sept. First. Local meat shops have received large shipments of oysters from the east the first of September. A pecul- iarity of the oyster season is that they are only considered good during the months which are spelled with the letter “R”. From now until the lat- ter part of April the oysters:can be gbtained at any local market. here is still missing and rumors state that she may have fallen victim of a panther which escaped from a mena= gerie at Crookston six months ago., Five hundred men have joined in the search and thus far have found no trace of blood or clothing, which would give evidence of the currant rumor. : Business men and farmers from Hge skine, Mentor, McIntosh and Fertile have abandoned work and joined in the search. The district for twenty miles around from the farm home have been searched and no trace ag Yet has been found of the little tot, “No, I cannot act on the committee who have in charge the new tourist hotel proposition,” said F. S. Lycan today, “But I will do all I can toward pushing the proposition. I do not want to take the active management of the hotel, but will see to it that the righ kind of a man will take it.” With this encouragement the com- mittee soliciting funds for the sum- mer hotel across lake Bemidji are now awaiting plans for the construc- tion of the building, choosing and laying out of the site. H. E. Reynolds has been added to the committee and will also submit plans and drawings for the propdsed hotel. Tams Bixby who left for his home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, asked that he be given an opportunity to submit plans according to his idea and these are expected to reach Be- midji soon. The site offered by Mr. Bixby which is at the north end of Lake Be- midji appears the most favorable, but nothing definite has been done to- ward accepting a site. A. G. Wedge, chairman of the committee, has the subscription list in hand, headed with $1,000 worth of stock taken by Tams Bixby. Mr. Bixby’s idea of a summer hotel [k ¥ K R K KM KKK KX XK XN is that it should be built of logs, with |4« Montreal, Sept. 6—3:30 P. M. % KRKK KKK KKK KK R R % (American Press Association,) & Coaticook, Que., Sept. 5—3:30 P. M.—Willlaih Traverse Jerome % was forced to release his vigil in % the case of Harry K. Thaw this & morning when he was arrested & on a charge of gambling. Jerome 4 was in a small cell in Coaticook # for over an hour this morning % but about noon was released on ‘& a $600 bail. hearing before the .Magistrate % X tomorrow. x KKK RRK K KKK KKK KN % ok ok ok ko ok ok ok ok ok He will have a % - a large fire place, good dining room, large veranda and a number of sleeping rooms for guests, and so con- | structed that an addition could be built to it when business demanded, % —Judge Gervole issued a writ of % % habeas corpus today calling for & % a peroduction for Harry ‘K. ¥ * Thaw this morning. /o= AR ER R SRR EAREE XL B /