Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 21, 1914, Page 1

Wk‘ 3 VOLUME 12, NO, 99. PEATLANDS WORTH MORE THAN MINES Manufacturer Tells of Possibilties of | Great Industry Here—Will Produce Fuel, or Onions and' Celery Crop. , C. G. KLEINSTUCK AN AUTHORITY Has Made Study of Peat for Twelve Years—In Attendance at Conven- tion Now in Progress at Duluth, That Northern Minnesota has a tuture source of revenue of far great- | er value than all its mines and oné that will continue to supply untold riehes as perpetually as the Valley of the Nile, is the import of an inter- view with Carl G. Kleinstuck,. of Kalamazoo, Michigan vice-president of the American Peat Society, at the Duluth Peat convention now in ges- sion and which is being attended by O. L. Dent, ditch referee of this district. Mr. Kleinstuck is one of the pioneer manufacturers of peat pro- ducts and perhaps the largest owner of peat lands in the country. Pro- bably no man in the world knows more about peat than Mr. Klein- stuck, as he has inspected peat beds from Vera Cruz to Quebec and from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky mountains, and has facts and figures at ‘his tongue’s end. B For the past twelve years, Mr. Kleinstuck has been studying peat soil, and is an authority on the value of peat, cost of its production, the best uses for peat aoil, and the kinds of crops best adapted to the . cleared land. He says what is true of Michigan peat lands is also true of Minnesota swamp lands. Minnesota Peat Lands. “One of your geologists told me,” said Mr. Kieinstuck today, “that fully two fifths of Minnesota was fine peat land. 1Tt is impossible to estimate the exact value of this-land either for crop or fuel purposes, but a fair idea can be obtained by illus- trating by the citing of concrete re- sults obtained in Michigan. “We have burned peat for a long| time and its cost is less than half 'that of coal and by many considered better fuel for many purposes. Great interest was aroused in peat after the great coal strike when the country wasl threatened with a fuel famine. Activities were begun to; manufacture fuel from peat but pro- moters that would cast J. Rufus Wallingford into the shade got hold ! of the business, and the work was not pushed scientifically, and failure was the result. The value of peat lands for fuel | " purposes was well illustrated by Mr. Kleinstuck. Swamps with peat beds -five feet deep will produce 300 tons! per foot depth, per acre, making 1,500 tons to the acre. Machine peat sells at $5.00 a ton. There is surely $1.00 clear profit on a ton of peal which shows that one acre of | peat land will produce $1,500, clear profit for fuel alone. The fuel value of the land is a mere fraction of what the land is| worth for the production of crops. Cel- ery, onions and peppermint, he says, are the best crops for the soil, and | are more productive than an ‘iron . mine. Celery Lands. “Land purchased at Kalamazoo a tew years ago for a few dollars an acre,'* says Mr. Kleinstuck, “is now worth $1,200 an acre for the produc- tion of celery. The climate of Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota is ideal for cel- ery and produces the ‘best products in the world. The soil also produces . fabulous onion yields and is perfect- (Continued on Pare 8) SCOOP zerorter REPORTER | SQ00P- TMTIRED 0F STARVING— TO DEATH-TM GOING-TO JON @ . E ARMYAND 5 | GET SOMETHING, YO EAT- Rz iW. Service; The Garden, Rabindrah- |C, Lewis Hind; Gainsborough, i Rothehild; Boucher, C. Haldane Mac- » Lycnn’si selection was made by th NEW BOGKS RECEIVED Latest Stories of Prominent Authors Added to Shelves of Public Li- brary, Reports Librarian. BOY SCOUTS SERIES IN LIST Many new books of interest have just been received at the Public Li- brary, among them being a complete set of boy scout -series and the latest works of the principal authors. Among the books, ascording to Miss Beatrice Mills, the librarian, are the following: The, womu, Thomas Dixon; Old Yt]ewtz[pes, Munson Havens; Cease Firing, Mary Johnston; The Fortu- nate Youth, William Locks; Our. ‘Mr. Wrenn, Sinclair Lewis} .Pidgin Isl- and, Harold MacGrath; _Pollyanna, Eleanor Porter; Miss Billy Married, Eleanor Porter;.Penrod, Booth Tark- 1s76f much: importance- ta rthe w ington; The Heart’s Country, Mary Heaton Vorse; Sweetapple Cove, George Van iSchaick; Eyes of the World, Harold Bell Wright; Making Life Worth While (a book on health) Herbert Wescott Fisher; The Call of the Canpenter, Bouck White; A Bish- op Among His Flock, Ethelbert Tal- ‘bot; The Spell of the Yukon. Robert ath Tagove. A set of nine books called “Master- pieces in Color,” written by several | authors, has also been received. They | include Bolticelli, Henry B. Binns; Walts, W. Loftus Hare; Corov, Sit-: ney Allmett; Titian, S. L. Bensusan; Sargent, T. Martin Wood;- Hogarth, Max | Fall. For the Children, ! Following is a list of books fur' the children: Boy Scouts of the Dis-| mal Swamps, Wallie Eaton; Bc»yl Scouts of the Berkshire, Wallie Ea- ton; The Toreh Bearer, I, ‘T. Thurs- ton; Jack of All Trades, Katherine Birdsall; Dick Among the Miners, A. W. Dimock; Lem, a New Englanm Village Boy, Noah Brooks; Wales, Junior, Margaret Warde; Boy in Sirinn, Padraic Colum. Hanging Up Auto Signs. The Bemidji Auto club is doing some very effective work through its members in the way of placing guide signs throughout this section- of - the country. B. W. Lakin ,placed a large number of- signs-directing auto parties fmm this city to Itasca Park. Other signs.are being. erected on roads leadinig into the city from wvarious di- rections. -GOOD SCHEME - GUESS TLLHAVE 0 ScouT AROUND AND FIND ME _‘QBA ARMY- Was re-eleeted at a meeting “held lanv, evening.’ “The first year of the: club’ existence ‘has been .successful an unanimous vote of the meetlng For several years before the club was formed, Lycan started the move- - ment which ‘later resulted in its or- g’antzation and it |Was ‘due more to his efforts ‘L‘han to those ot any other man that ‘the plan ~was carried out with such success. The first’ year of | ¥ the ‘club’s life, as is the case with any ‘proposition of the kind, has been’ difficult, but Lycan, with' the other officers and the board of control, has |, worked constantly in its behalf and as.a eonsiequence-it’is‘on- a much bet< ter financial footing than even its most enthusiastic. supporters . had reason to expeci. % Along athletic lines the organiza- tion has worked its way to ‘the top. In football it won the_ championship of northern Minnesota, and fought for the world’s basketball title, giv- ing the wonderful Fond du Lac ag- gregation the hardest series of their half a hundred games.. In (baseball |the team was well represented, while |; strong teams were formed in hand- ball, indoor baseball, volley ball and indoor baseball. Carl Jacobson, one of the club’s star athietes, and football .coach, was re-elected vice-president and C. S. Randall was elected secretary, suc- ceeding Carl Johnson, Nat Given; one of the club’s most energetic sup- porters, and Who-'has served on the board of: control during the ' past year, was named treasurer. The election of. the board of con- trol will:take ‘place“at an adjénrned meeting ‘which is- to_ be held next ’l‘hursday evening, and at which ey- < ery member ;of ithe club is req .to: be present. The board of. fare of the organization and every man of the club should have interes enough to place a vote in the naming of its members. The advisability of renting the club rooms-for another year was dis- cussed and‘ referred to the board of control. The secretary was voted a dalary of $60 a year. TO STAND BY ENGLAND. {E. C. McGregor Says Canada is Pre- ~ pared for War. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. McGregor have just returned from Regina, Canada, jwhere they have been visiting Mr. McGregor’si relatives for over two weeks. In speaking of his trip, Mr. McGregor said: little city of 35,000 and hsz good p“vemunts and walks. <Crops east of Regma are good this year, but west ' of the’ city there will be absolutelv no crops this season on account of | drought, ard.the farmers in that ln— 1cality are forced to take their stock | out of the country to get feed for: them. Dhe government has asked Betty | the farmers who have crops this.yenr; to keep the straw for feed.”” On the way back to Bemidji Mr. and Mrs. McGregor stopped three days in Win- nipeg. He stated, in speaking . of that city:” ‘“We. certainly realized that England was at war when we reached Winnipeg Troops were be- ing drilled and soldiers were seen on the streets “everywhere. . Canada is certainly loya'l to hér mother ocou y ‘and 1 0 000 troops wil] be “Regina is a fine| earfiWalten A Gonlni. on had béen serious.” The which -caused Mr.* Gould’s tacks: each August for seyeral yea.ra Two years ago hlsl condition was con: never ‘fully recovered from tha,t at- tack. lllneos, but they were powerless to remedy--the trouble. I.lvefl Here Eleveil Zean £101 apolis, where' he coninett in; the spring of 1903, and for, eld _th position. of* logging was ‘with the Shevlin interests, Gould _organized t.he Bemidfi" Tafm® ‘ber .company,in: which ‘he stiil held "“”)an interest at the time of his death. He ‘was plso interésted in the Great Northerq Tiqber company, which has an office’ heraflunder the management| of Earl Grmu_lds a ‘nephew, ‘who ‘on learning. of Mr. Gould’s death, ‘left immediately -for Minneapolis. Was Club President. Mr, Gould wasi at one time pres- {ident of the Bemidji Commercial club and in that capacity was enabled to jassist in'the.city’s growth and prog- jress, an cpportunity which he readi- ly grasped.. 'He was a prominent Mason, and:belonged to R. A.M., Be- midji chepter No. 70, and was a member ¢t Elkanah Commandery, No. 30, also of this city. . He was a : thirty-second degree Mason, and be- vlonged te the Minneapolist Blue lodge jand Shrine. Until recently he was ;one of the First National bank di- jrecters. . Surv'vcl by Two Daughters. Last soring’ Mr. Gould rented a house in Vinneapolis, where with his 'two dau-hters, Jessamine and’ Etta, ihe has rosided during the summer. He had »lenned on moving back to |Bemidji, still owning a - beautiful home on - Bemidji avenue, and the family trunks-were packed, ready for the return trip, when: the sickness which this- morning caused his death, came ‘upon him. With him at the {time of :his death’ were his two daughters. His mother ‘and sister are at Seattle, and ‘have been notified of his death: Mrs Gould died ‘here in- 1906, Ve evening, that lntg;me for. morp fllflfl Haven, his chifdhood ‘home, '! {International Falls, Spooner, Bay Gould moved to Bemidji month, and they will be presented ‘the: orm ‘Wilson;: of the Sentinsl _who was IB BEING 'PLACED IN 'STATE OF SIEGE. 'ALL FOREIGNERS WILL ' |BE ASKED TO LEAVE AS SOOK. A8 will be mude 2 POSSIBLE. KING ALBERT 'AND FORTS ABE ALL MANNED - AND CIVIL GUARD' DIRECTED "0’ ACT UNDER ORDERS FROM mn*mz’r IN LORRAINE, I8 EHOOUNTERIRG ® | STRONE*RESISTANCE PARIS, AUG. . 21. _omcmn.! o |ANNOUNCED THAT ° GERMAN .Aslocumon\ Scnbgs Wlll Be Pre- ' ‘sented ‘at Grand Tonight. | BEMIDJI PERSON_S IN. FILK’S ¢ ‘was “made that the’ pictures of the Northern Minnesota Editorial 2880~ ciating outing would be shown ’here, During the past week Drominent C. J. Woodmausee, manager of-the doctors of the twin cities have held |Grand, has arranged: for three shows repented consultations in an:effort to|this evening and the same number to- locate the real seat of Mr. Gould’s morrow. night.’ These are the pictures taken at dette and the Lake of the Woods 1 Becauek. of f,he 1nterest which ‘has | * | been shown since. the announcement’ CAVALRY HAS OCCUPIED BRUS: SELLS. STRONG COLUMNS . FOL- LOWING UP THIS -MOVEMENT, /|AND BELGIAN ARMY RETIRING »|ON TO ANTWERP WITHOUT HAV- ING BEEN:ENGAGED BY GER- MANS. LON’DON,. AvG., 21.—DISPATGE FROM CETTINJI SAYS ENGHSH FLEETS, SUPPORTED BY FRENCH WAESHIPS IN CONJUNCTION WITH - MONTENEGRIN: BATTER- IES ON .MOUNT LEVCHEN, BOM- BARDED ‘AUSTRIAN FORTIFICA- TIONS AT . CATTARO, GBEATLY DAMAGING THEM. ‘here under the supervigion of Cha; (-] Scheers .of Akeley, president of the ur | @ditorial association, - agd who - di- rected - their:. construction.. F. A, tory “tectuge, . Many, well known Bemidji men will be seen in the lctures, lnciudlng Jndge ,C. ‘W. Stanton, Secretary’ W. R. Mackenzie, J. J. Opsahl, F. “A. ‘Wilson, O. L. Dent, Sheriff Andrew Johnson and Clerk of Court Rhoda. Many scenic ‘pictures ‘will ‘also” be shown, featuring the spots which have won wide prominence.among the world’s beauty spots. ~ The shows start at 7:30, 8:45 and 9:50. BAND CONCERT TONIGHT. Entertaining Program Arranged for Regular Weekly Musical. Alden Remfrey, director of the Be- midji band, this afternoon announced the following program for the reg- ular weekly concert which will be played at the city dock this evening: 1. . March--“The Crack of the Whip” . Henry Waltz—“Dream Waltz”—Powell o 3. (Characteristic—“Off the Trail” B RS O R N Carlton 4. F‘rohque—Sans-Souci ‘‘Bohemia- A o A e 2 i ‘Smith 5. .'Medley—“I Love Her. Oh! Oh. (o) 8 o e i 6. “Town Talk”,..: 7. Waltz—"“The Curse. of An/ Ach- ing . Hea . .Piantadosi 8. Overture—“Lustpiel-Keler” .... 9. March—“The Mandawr" ....... Vandercook Several young men of the city have | issued- inv(taunns for.a.dance which) i8 to be given in’ the city. hall this ‘Good. music. has- been: se-, CALL FOE ALL ABLE- BODIED MEN FROM - AGES OF, TWENTY TQ FORTY-TWO. . Paris,” Aug. 31.—That tn are making. a- determined: resistance to--the.-French operations in Alsace- Lorraine i3 indicated by the war o fice’s. announcement that the Germans have, retaken the town of Ville. It is stated that the fighting lasted five hours, the G'exjmans charging the French position in, the face of a se- vere fire from the French batteries posted on the hills just outside the town. The German Uhlans charged time and again, using their lances to good advantage. Although badly decimated -and forced back they returned to the attack .in increasing numbers and found the French retiring, leaving the Germans in possession of the field. The war office in an official state- ment announces the French. re-entry in’ Mulhausen. The recapture was preceded by a severe battle, during which the French troops took one-of ‘the suburbs at the point of the bayonet. They also took as the result of their victory six Ger- man cannon and six ammunition wagons. The official note says the sltuatlun in the Vosges mountains.is unchanged. In Upper Alsace the French have occupied, - Guebwiller; fourteen miles southwest of Colmar. ~ In Lorraine it is stated the French lines extend from the.north.of Saar- burg, passing’ by Morhange to Delme. The sitiation’ in “the dichy of Lux- emburg and in Belgium is unchsn;ed. THOMAS NISBET BU]IED Impressive; Masonic - Funeral Bltu Held at Gr,md Forks Yesterday his sumliel: home 'here ‘last Tuesdty -|morning. ‘The. different' Masonic bo-~ dies of Grand Forks. attended the fu- from ‘the Masonic order, while a ".{large number of Masons made: the '!ourney to Mallory by.-auto: to pay . soclety. @.man nelghfbor and frlé’ndr left a wide eircle his passing: tive and honorary-pall beaters were In a new lncubnto the ggs are so" | supported that