Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 17, 1914, Page 1

VOLUME 12, NO. 122. 6," BELTRAM; T <+ NINTH ANNUAL BELTRAMI COUNTY FAIR PROVING MOST SUCCESSFUL EVER HELD|: L2 Judging Began This Morning and Ex- pert Pays Tribute to Poultry Ac- complishments of Children. CORN AND POTATOES FEATURES Agricultural Displays Equal Quality of State Exposition Exhibits and Women’s Department Scores. PERFECT DAY AIDS ATTENDANCE Records of Past Year Expected to Be Broken Today and Tomorrow— Farmers’ Clubs Exhibit. Proud is the Beltrami county resident who visits the ninth annual fair which is now in progress. Never have such excellent exhibits been as- sembled for previous fairs of the county, which shows that no county in the state surpasses Beltrami in the growing of vegetables, grain or grasses. Poultry Judging Begins. Early this morning C. E. Brown, of the Crookston agricultural school, an authority on poultry, began the judging in this department and at noon he had practically completed the work. “The display of poultry by the school children,” said Mr. Brown, “is as large as I have seen-in the| state, and the quality shown equals those exhibited at the state fair of last week. I am indeed surprised to see such an exhibit here. The individ- ual exhibits are good.” Much Livestock Exhibited. Never have so many farmers and owners of cattle shown such an in- terest in the livestock department and as a consequence the display is much larger and of more importance; than ever before. A. P. Ritchie,| president of the Better Farming, club, is superintendent of the live-| stock and poultry departments of the fair. - Clubs Have Exhibits. ! Complete in showing the agricul- tural accomplishments of their dis- tricts, the farmers’ club booths are attracting no little attention. The booth of the Summitt Farmers’ club, of which Charles Olson is in charge, shows fine exhibits of vegetables, grains and fruits, and also features leaves of tobacco, grown by Charles Parker, which attracted so much at- tention at the state fair. Excellent| displays have also been arranged by the Eckles farmers’ club, of which George Brennan and Harry Bowers are in charge; the Spur Progressive Farmers’ club with R. A. Crown and | T. R. Gerlinger in charge, and the | Better Farming club with Donald Shannon, the club’s hustling secre- tary, in charge. Corn, Onions and Cabbage. Displays of corn, cabbage, pota- Ritchie and H. M. Merryman have splendid displays in the special table vegetable contest. Women’s Exhibit Success. A particularly bright spot among the fair exhibit is the women’s de- partment. There is an abundance of inviting foodstuffs and the em- broidery work, pillows, quilts, cur- tains and other hand-made articles are superb. Mrs. W. N. Weber is in charge of this department and she is assisted by Miss Lee Given. Made From Seeds. One of the features of this depart- ment is a flower design made by Mrs. L. L. Edmonds of Grant Valley. This design is made entirely from seeds of various grains, vegetables and fruits, and is very attractive and interesting and is receiving much attention. : Another feature is a piece quilt made by Mrs. W. E. Harris, a woman 72 years old. There are 5,175 pieces in the quilt. The display of Mrs. A. Neslund of Nymore, showing a sfi; of hand woven curtains and a ‘bed spread, stands out prominently among the other exhibits. School Exhibits Feature. Under direction of W. B. Stew- art, county superintendent of schools, the exhibits of 25 schools have been neatly arranged, and this depart- ment is larger and of much better quality than ever before. There is strong competition between the va- rious schools. The industrial work is splendid ' and gives an estimate of the won- derful accomplishments of children of the, Beltrami rural schools. There is an abundance of well made aprons, waists and other wearing apparel. John Gilstad, of Blackduck, is su- perintendent of the agricultural de- partment and under his management the work of the large display build- ing is being carried on'in an effiic- ient manner. The fair demonstrates the splendid | work which is being done by the farmers’ clubs and that the farmers and business men are working to- gether for the betterment of the; county. The community spirit is| being developed to a degree which insures magnificent results for the future, not only for the fair, but on| the farm, the fountain-head of per- manent success of all county agricul- | tural fairs. Several to Give Talks. This afternoon - and tomorrow speeches will be given by men of prominence and the programs which’ have been arranged will be of much | interest to all. The schools of Be- midji were closed this afternoon andj such will be the case tomorrow after- | noon. Sessions will be held tomor-! row morning. Tomorrow is “Everybody’s Day’” ! at the fair and it should break all} former records for attendance. 1 | “The Ring and the Man.” | NUNTY’S LARGEST KRKKKK KKK KKK KK x : COUNTY FAIR PROGRAM ¥ - (Friday, Everybody’s Day.) * Pt 0 ] * All school children ‘ad-: mitted free. " (Morning.) 9:00—Judging of and exhibits. 10:00—Acrobatic acts by the Savages. stock *ik Kk K Revolving Globe act. (Afternoon.) 1:30 to 2:30—Race prog- ram. 2:30 — Savage ° acts. 3:00—Australian pursuit race, stock cars, first prize, $15.00; second, $10.00; third $5.00. 4: 0--Match football game, Bemidji High school vs. Be- midji Athletics. There will be several speeches during the after- “noon. acrobatic A % ok ok ok ok ok k ok dk k ok ok ok ok ok ok kK ok ok ok ok ok K A ok %k ok ok kok ok sk ok k. ok ok ok ok KKK KKKKKKKK K= FIRST GAME OF SEASON Initial Gridiron Contest of Year to Be Played Tomorrow When Athletics Meet High School. \ BOTH TEAMS IN WINNING FORM With two of the strongest football elevens ever organized in Bemidji clashing, the football season will be opened here tomorrow when the Athletics will play the clever and fast high school team, as a county fair attraction. Both teams have put in some hard ' practice, and while the Athletics will slightly’ outweigh the students the handicap will more than be made up | in brilliant plays and speed, in ’which' Coach Bestul :bas: been -drilling his boys. The back field of the high] school is exceptionally fast and with captain Graham, Bailey, ‘“Fuzz” Johnson and Tanner carrying the pigskin, the Athletics will encounter | much trouble. The line is strong and in Fred Graham:Bestul has un—} earthed one of the best high school ends in this part of the state. kA ik 11:00—Lumen & Matthews = &{ LANi)-~1’URCH.ASE UNNECESSARY .the cpmmission sees fit. Hay Plan Which Will Prevent An- Slaughter of Past Years. Would Spread Proclamation Over One or-More Townships in This Section Kaiser’s Youngn& Son Rapidly Recovering From His Wound. —Penalties for Trespassing. Returns made to the Minnesota state) game and fish commission at the ¢lose of the hunting season in this ‘state last fall indicated such a great slaughter of game that George Bradley, president of the commission, proposes that there be established throtighout the 'state something like 1,008 havens of refuge for Minnesota gamé. £ 5 Mft. Bradley and H. A. Rider, ex- ecutive agent of the commiission, have;obtained, they say, from the attorpey general an opinion express- ing the right of the commission to proclaim a haven of refuge wherever Land Purchase Unnecessary. This, says Mr. Rider, can be done without purchase of land and with- out consent of the owner. However, it is not planned that havens shall be declared where the land owner does not wish it. Mr. Bradley is rconvinced that there are in Minne- scta plenty of land owners who have the interest of the bird and animal life sufficiently at heart to welcome 'a proclamation declaring their land to be a refuge of safety to all wild life. The refuges to be suggested by Mr. Bradley would vary greatly in area. In the northern portion of the state, where there are miles of ~ untilled land without so much as a home- éteader’s shack in sight, Mr. Brad- (Continued on Pare 8) -LARGE ATTENDANCE URGED Important Meeting of Athletic Club to Be Held This Evening. Carl Jacobson, the Athletics coach, | will also place a formidable aggrega-; tion on the field and with Captaini Huffman at quarter, Bell or MeDon- | |ald at left end, Peck at left tackle, |the Purpose of voting on the incor- | Madson or Alex Ripple at left guard, |POTating of the association. It is|more than half an hour a verdict for | L e ] o D eft guard, Is Awarded Grand Champion Prize in Stanton at center, Brinkman at right | guard, Ted Getchel at right tackle’gincorpurated, for in -doing so many ;R\!be Ripple at right end, Lycan at |Tesponsibilities are lifted from the full, Moose Hendrickson or Naugle_shoulders of the board of control. In Officers of the Bemidji Athletic| club are working overtime in an ef-| fort to arouse interest in a meeting which is to be held this evening for importan: that the club should be VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT Jury Fails to Find Campbell Woman Entitled to $6,000 Damages— Was Out Twenty-two Hours. FLATLEY CASE NOW ON TRIAL That Mrs. Emma J. P. Campbell is not entitled to recover damages from Martin Aarstad and Lauritz ‘Ask be- cause of alleged assault, was the ver- dict rendered by the jury shortly af- ter four o’clock yesterday afternoon. At 3:45 yesterday afternoon the | jury, which had been in deliberation |since 6 o’clock Tuesday evening, in- formed Judge Stanton that it'could! not agree and asked to be dis- charged. This the judge refused to do and the jury resumed its delibera- | tion, with the result that in little the defendants was returned. The case was tried two years ago with the same result. Mrs. Camp-| bell alleged that she was assaulted at 16ft half and Trafton or Wiley aLljorder that the matter may receive by one of the defendants following | right half, should at least hold the‘defi"‘.lle actlon:atiloastihalifofo the high school athletes even. . fin?embership aush 5 The high schcol will line up as'e“m’r by proxy or in person. follows: ends, Fred Graham Elletson; tackles, Simens and Cam eron; guards’ Slater and Swisher;“ center, Olson; quarter, full- Johnson. Carl Jacobson will toes and onions are shown at the!the “movies,” scores heavily in “The head linesman. fair which equal any, and the farm- | ers of Beltrami county take off their hats to no ‘one in the world in the growing of these products. The corn exhibited was a greatistory deals in a mining camp sean- | pon surprise and there is more of it than | ever before. There are perfect specimens of Minnesota 13, ‘North- western Dent, Yellow Dent and! other varieties, and many exhibits of sweet and pop corn. Table Vegetable Display. John Patterson, Lee Hiltz, A. P. Ring and the Man,” a four-part feat- ure of the Famous Players Film com-| pany, which will presented at Jthe | Grand theatre this evening. ‘The! since its release last June. On Saturday of this week the wo-i men_of St. Philip’s Catholic chureh | will hold a food sale at Netzer’s drug |Bagley were Bemidji' fair visitors t0~1 Lady Wantage is said to’be the Red Lakers Here. Several automobiles from Red Lake, containing visitors to ' the tomorrow. Albert Kaiser and E. H. Reff of store. tday. and | Tanner; | who died Tuesday evening was held halves, Bailey and Captain Graham; |this morning from the St. Philip’s referee the ' officiating. Bruce McRae, one of the stars of game and Morris Ryan will be the!Hoiy Cross cemetery. be represented, . Funeral Ifeld Today The funeral of Michael McManus, {Catholic Church, Father Philippe Mr. McManus !leaves no relatives in this community {and has been ill fér the past several !months. 5 ' ! The Ladies’ Aid so(;iety of ' the a ! fair, reached Bemidji today, |Presbyterian church will n6t hold jin-which city they were dal and has created much interest|others coming by train. It is ex-lits regular meeting this week, but {in places where it has been shown ypacted that a large number of reser- |a special meeting has been called for | home of Mrs. E. C. Essler. All mem- bers are urged to be present. | Interment was made in | an effort by her to keep him from cutting hay on a meadow which she claims to have leased. neys in the case were Montreville J. ithe plaintiff and E. E. McDonald and [ Thomas Keefe for the defendants. Shortly before noon today the case of Swift Packing company against Mrs. C. E. Flatley was begun. Wilbur Williams Marries Wilbur Williams and his bride, {Hallock, Minnesota, arrived in Be-’ married Tuesday. They left today for Cass .2ke, making the trip by vation residents will attend the fair Friday evening at 8 o’clock, at the;Williams, is well known in Bemidji vinia. He is connected -with the Grand Forks Concrete company. irichest woman in England. Mrs. Williams also spent a portion of the summer here. ~ SCOO THE CUB REPORTER { | i { | & rcoop's Early Training Comes In Handy By “HOP” ~TUSTAH BACK: FOR WALTER, The attor-| | ond, Walter Harris; 3,000,000 MEN IN BATTLE NOW RAGING AT AISNE (American Press.) London, Sept. 17.—The third day Germans and allies’facing-each ‘other along a line of some two hundred miles, stretching from Noyon, fifty miles northeast of Paris, to south- east of Swiss frontier. It is "here that between two and three million men are engaged in a struggle that in ferocity and stragetic importance bids fair to rival the battle of Marne. London, Sept. 17. — Fighting against the rear guard of Austrians continues all along the line in Ga- licia, according to official reports from Petrograd. On the left bank |of the river San, Russians are re- ‘| ported to have successfully attacked retiring Austrians. * Antwerp, Sept. 17.—The Germans are withdrawing their main forces and are sending them into France in enormous numbers. Liege has been abandoned, but there are no signs that the Germans contemplate a gen- eral evacuation of Belgium, as the troops withdrawn are immediately replaced by soldiers of the second line and naval reserves. ASSAULT CASE GOES TO JURY. Trial of State Against John Hoffman Completed This Noon. After a trial of less than one day, the case of the State of Minnesota against John Hoffman, charged with assanlt with attempt to kill, went o the jury at eleven o’clock this morn- ing. The jury in the case was ob- tained soon after the'dinner hour yesterday and the ‘taking of evidence ‘was ‘completed last evening, only the arguments and the. judgels charge remaining for this morning. Hoff- man is the man accused of attempt- ing to shoot Paul Peterson several weeks ago at the Nicolett hotel in this city. County Attorney Tor- rance appeared for the state in the case, and Carl Heffron represented the defendant. ERNEST DUNWIDDIE WINS School Children’s Poultry Con- test at County Fair. ‘EXHIBITS EXCELLENT’—BROWN Scon after he had completed the Brown and Graham M. Torrance for |work of judging the poultry of the school children’s department this af- teroon, C. E. Brown, of the Crooks- ton Agricultural school, announced Ernest Dunwiddie as the winner of the grand champion prize, a watch, offered by E. A. Barker. V Mr. Brown was enthusiastic over the showing made and says that the who was Miss Katherine Hurd cfzexhibits equal any that he has in- .spected in the state. The winners midji yesterday from Grand Forks, |2T€: - White Leghorn. First prize, Ernest Dunwiddie; canoe. ;second, Rupert Stechman; third, Florence Dunwiddie; fourth, Nellie |having spent several summers at La- Davis; fifth, Ruth Rice; sixth, Harry Marin; seventh, Ruth Anderson; ‘e‘ighth,» Elizabeth Johnson; ninth, .Melvin Longrak; tenth, Goldie Wal- ilace; eleventh, Ben Grove. i Plymouth Rock. First prize, Mary Peterson; sec- third, Rubie Gerlinger; fourth, Frank Harris; ;fifth’, Claire Vincent; sixth, John {Henry; seventh, Lillie Wilson, jeighth, Belle Groves; ninth, Arthur sHovey; tenth, Theodore Braaten; eleventh, Bertha Webster. ' Rhode Island Red. First: prize, Alice Dyer; second, icatheflne Merryman; third, ”Edgar fourth, Goldie Wallace; fifth, Theo. Fenske; isixth, Russell Clark; seventh, Ada Higby; eighth, Marie Rice; ninth, Irl . Malone; tenth, Roy . Webster; eleventh, Willard Davis. ‘Hanks, (District No. 71); | Mrs. Joseph T. Landry of Donald~ son, La., has a racing ostrich. of the battle of Aisne finds hosts of {