Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1914, Page 7

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1014 GIRLS AROUSE SLEEPERS Young Women Prove Themselves Heroines in Mill City Fire. Minneapolis, Dec. 19.—Two young women proved themselves heroines in a fire which practically destroyed the boarding house of H. A. Crow. They fought their way through the | flames in the hallways to the rooms | of the other boarders and did not stop until all had escaped from the build- ing. The young women, senholm and Miss Amelia Berg, were | asleep in a room en the first floor. They were awalkened by smoke. They Miss Anna Ro-| went into the hallway and found | flames blocking their way. Without waiting to dress they fought their way to the second flcor. screaming and pounding on doors. When all had been aroused managed to reach the front door z-1 went into the street. There were many narrow escapes. The heroism of Walter Smith prob- ably saved two women and a man. They were sleeping on the second floor. He stood on a window ledg= and calmly swung them, one by one, to a window of the house next door. thev SALAZAR ISSUES FIAT MONEY | Three Brands Ncw in Circulation in Mexico. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 19.—Mexico now has three varieties of fiat paper cur- rency as well as three opposing gov- ernments. The new revollitionary movement headed by General Jose Ynez Salazar. which recently was Jaunched in Central Chihuahua, has placed in circulation its currency. The money, which was printed in the United States, bears the signature of the former Huerta commander, and the motto, “Peace and Justice.” Salazar’'s troops at Sabinal. on the Mexican Northwestern railroad, this | veek held up a train bearing a Villa | paymaster and confiscated 200,000 pesos in Villa paper money. The | money was being sent to pay the Vil- la garrison at Casas Grandes. PLAN LUMBER TRADE BOL Big Dealers to Launch Co-operativ Publicity Scheme. Chicago, Dec. 19.—Organizaticn ot} all lumber associations in the ¢ :ntryg into a national bedy will be effected at| a conference to be held here Feb. 24| and 25. This movement was decided upon at a conference attended by approxi- mately 100 lumber men representing| various associations in the lumber in-| dustry. The meeting was held under the auspices of the National Lumber Manufacturers’ association. The purpose of the February (‘on~ terence, it was said, will be to launch | a co-operative advertising and pub- licity campaign in behalf of the in-| dustry. Two Die in Rooming House Fire. | Terre Haute, Ind.. Dec. 19.—Two| persons were killed and a number in- jured. three of them seriously, in a fire which destroyed a large rooming house known as the “Hayloft” in the Tenderloin district. A lighted lantern which hung in the hallway to light the way of late comers and which either fell or was knocked to the floor is believed to have started the fire. Boer Revolt Near an End. Capetown. Dec. 19.-—General Louis| Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, considers the rebeliion, apart from the rounding up of a few stray bands, at an end. Accordingly he has gone for a short vacation on bis farm before undertaking a campaign against| German Southwest Africa. Catholic Worker Is Dead. Hornell. N. Y.. Dec. 19.—Joseph Cameron, supreme recorder of the Catholic Mutual Benefit association of the United States and Canada, dmd‘ at his home here. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth. Dec. 18.—Wheat—On track | and to arrive. No. 1 hard, $1.203%; No.| . $1.19%: No. 2 Northern, —On track and to arrive, | | Paul Live Stock. South St. Paul. Dec. 18.—Cattle— Steers. $4.30@8.75; cows and heifers, $4.50@7.00; calves, $3.50@7.75; stock-| ers and feeders. $4.00@6.25. Hogs— $6.90@ 7.00. Sheep—Lambs, $450@ 0: wethers, $4.75@3.75: ewes, $2.50 @5.00. Sarith St. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago. Dec. 18.—Cattle—Steers, $5.00@ 10.00: cows and heifers, $2.90@ 7.75; calves, $6.00@8. 30 Hogs—Ligbt @7. lfi hea\rv 8T5@T. mixed, Sh 8 Chicago Grain and Provisions. | Chicago, Dec. 18.—Wheat—Dec., SL-| July, 1.161%. Corn —Dec.. 64c: T014¢; July. 703%c Oats—Dec.. 48lac; Ma a2c. Pork an., $18.40: May, $18.90. Butter— 32¢ 2@34c. Poul- | try—Springs. 10%c; 10@11c; “ turkeys, 16c. Minneapolis Grain. i Minneapolis, Dec. 18.—Wheat—Dec., $1.155%: May, July, $1.20%.| Cash close on track: No. 1 hard, $1.- 211%; No. 1 Northern, $1.17%@1.20%; No. 2 Northern, $1.135%@1.18%; No. 3 Northern, $1.105% @1.16%%; No. 3 yel- 1ow corn, 38@60%; No. 3 white oats, 436 45c; fax. $1.57%. ¢ gl S Ploneer 'want ads bring results. . not more than twelve, his figure al- | ning, were worn clear through. 1 and old, when they get beyund tears. | arms a bundle wrapped in rags. and Tear-Stained Cities. Death for Want ¢f a Little “Can God Have Forgotten? Two or three little pictures before I really begin: It was the Pas de Calais at the eand of October—an October blessed, n this year of dread, with clear, cool, bracing weather, much like our ownm= Indian summer. Around a turn in the road came a strange, shuffling multi- tude, doubly strange in that well-or- dered landscape. At the head marched an old woman, a stalwart, straight-backed Flemish woman, vigorous in spite of her sixty years. Beside her walked a buy ot ready settling into a peasant sohidity. ile, like the old woman, carried on nis back a bundle wrapped in a sbeet. And between them they dragged by the hand a little girl, not more than six years old—half carried nher, siuce now and then she raised her feet from the ground and let them support ber. {t was plain to see why she lirted her teet. Her poor little shoes, heavy though they had been im the begin- Her clothes and hair were matted with dirt, and her face was gray with 1t, save for the streaks made by her tears. She had stopped erying now; she wus beyond that. There comes the time with all these refugees, young Behind followed the rest ot the refu- gee caravan, like these leaders except for minor details. Of course, there was not among them a man of vigor- ous years—only a few grandtathers, trudging along beside their women folks. Mainly, 1t was a collection of young children—all, like the little girl in the leading party, beyond tears with misery A dozen of the women, at least, car- ried babes in arms who had sowmehow survived the miseries of days and days of wzlking. These were the last of the Belgian refugees to pour into France. They came, mainly from that thickly settled, tertile. once prosper- ous southwestern strip, along which Germans and allies were now tighting for the bridge-head of the Yser. But not all. Some or them—as | learned from the few who had the en- ergy to talk—lived rurther north. A | month before they had ted from the German advance after the capture of { Antwerp; and they had been feeing ever since—sleeping 1u the nelds through rain and shine, eating what bread of charity Heaven only knows The tail of the procession, | found, had halted at a crossroads beside which someone had erected a tent from Dlankets strung on stlcks As | approached, wondering what this might be, an automobile came Wiz zing down the road at seventy iutles an hour—there are no speed laws for military automobtles in time ol war. It stopped beside the tent; there was a parley aud a man o Belglan unl- form wearing a Red Cross brassard on his arm alighted “What 18 1t—what Is hapvening?” | asked the first or the refugees beside the teni—au old man who crouchszd in the gutter. "Un entant—a baby is being born,’ he said briefly. The mau in unifori was a Belgian surgeon taking tme frow his work of repatving duath o assist i giving life Again: 1t was the next day in Calais —Calals, once so busy and so vener- able, and in spots >0 pretiy, bul uow taded and dirty with the passage ot armles Teu thousand of these refu- gees came into Calais that day. ‘Lhat day, also, the Red Cross was bringing ign wounded by the thousand— ¥ uad been serious hghting along the Yser. (e refugees, herded or escorted by the police, streamed down the streets to the concentration ya=ds prepared tor them on the docks of ihe French government, which was going to trans- port them to the Midi as soon as it could get the steamers. You would bear now and then the toot of an au- temobile horn, and the refugees would make way for the passaze o motor car loaded to capacity with the white- faced wounded. The car would go on. and the refugees would close their gaps and resume their weary, nerve- less pace. At the concentration yards they sat in family greups, the children huddled about their mothers-and grandmothers Hke chickens around hens. No child among them laughed or played: they were too weary for that: but no child cried. 1 was trying to have speech with these refugees, and finding them too nerveless to give any account of their adventures, when an ambulance arrived. A purse and a physician descended. A woman rose from a distant group and joined them. She carried in her The slant, of her back showed that the bun- dle contained a child—there is an atti- tude of motherhood which none can mistake. The women in the nearest group fcl- lowed the pantomime with their tear- less, hopeless eyes. What is it?” I asked. For a time none of the women an- swered. Then one spoke in a dead tone. “‘Her baby is dead.” she said. “She had no milk in Ber. All that happened on the fringe of Belgium, to the refugees who had made their way out and were nearing safety, and enough comfort to keep soul and bedy together. . I could multiply instances from the psérvation of others. There was, for ample, the group of two- hundred ugees who arrived in Holland early The Ba_bes of fielgium By WILL IRWIN Ami:-‘s Famous Word Painter nel:fl | to 20: even in August | saw the (‘er<| bes Conditions He Being Born to Milk and Bread and Sait. Vill America Remember?” in November. They carried with them four dead. newborn babies. It was the same story which one hears everywhere. The mothers were So reduced by privation that they had no milk of their own. As for cows’ milk, it was not to be had for any meney. Add another picture, brought out by an American frem Belgium. He stood cne morning by the back door of a German cook camp, watching a group of Belgian women grubbing through the trash-heap piled up behind the camp. All these women carried babies. Vwhat are they doing?” he asked a an sergeant with whom he bad up acquaintance. Scraping our coadensed milk cans,” said the sergeant. “ItU's the only way to get milk tor their bables. I've seen them run their fingers round a can which lcoked as bright as a new con and hold them into the babies’ mouths Lo suck My company,” he added, “has been getting along without milk 1 1ts coffee and giving 1t to these women We've received no orders to the con trary—and we're mostly family men But we're an exception; and it doesn’t g0 very far.” Here s another recent picture from stricken Brussels, that gay, dainty, lively ety 1o old times—the city whose smiling people called it petit Paris. The sceve 1s the once busy, pleasant boulevara Bischofsheim. A woman collapses on a bench set along the sldewalk aftter the rashion of the Greater Paris In her arms is a baby. A chla staggers along, clinging to her apron The wowan's face is blue and yellow; she 1s on the verge of collapse. The baby, surely not over five months old, has a pale, lezd-colored skin. Its mouth 15 open as though set that way. Its eyes are closed Two women of Brusseis pass this unhappy group. They hurriedly ex- chauge some words, turn back to the woman on the bench Then one stands guard while the orher hastens for some milk and bread—such as is to be tound in the Brussels of today. They torce = lirrle milk between the teeth of the mother They let the baby drink Unweaned rhough 1t is. 1t drinks as though 1t had never drunk otherwise. To the tace of the mother comes a tew patches of coler She slowly re- covers until she is able to eat a bit of bread The baby opens its mouth, drinks more greedily "It has not fed since two davs.” the mother whispers. The mother tries to rise from (ne' bench but she cannot. The elder child drinks the milk that i1s left. It looks curicusly at the piece of bread as if 1t did not know what 1t was The moth er forces 1t to eat. A crowd has gath- ered. murmuring. This sight is not new. vet each time it draws a little crowd Every one would like to give —but no one can \Who is not poor at this moment? Many of them have chil | dren at home who today weigh less | than the day thev were born. | !et us view the situation in cold | hicod Belgium is shut off from the | world—ringed with steel. Her own food supply was nsed up long agoi either by the peonle or by their con- quercrs The cattle were first of all mans killinz mileh cows for rations | A cow or a small dairy herd is left hers or there: but they are the excep tions Azain, the suckling baby must have moth milk or a svhstitute There i3 of course. no substiture o be had | in Feleinm »nd equully there is little | mother’s milk Fvery woman knows that a civilized ! nureinz mother must *‘keen up her! strength * She must have nourishing food - in manv cases special food. Ev- | erv womnn knows that a certain nro- | portien af civilized mothers cannot feed their own babies even at that hing foed - special food! The news which filters out of that locked. stricken countrv to the American Com- missinn far Relief in a careasm and a mockery of phrases. n menv. if in not most Relzian citirs the ponnlace is down to one laren baker's bun a day. issued by the | municinal authorities In some places | the'znthorities have been zble to sup- | nleme that ratien bv one bowl of! eabbaee sonn a day. One bun and one bow!l of e-hhace soup a day—for nf norsing mother!? Tven allowing for the reduction eof the birth rete dve to the war. there must have been fortv thousznd births in Belgium since the Germans came. There will be fortv thousand more in this winter of hard<hip and privation ‘ i those How manv of the rewly-arrived forty theusand bave already died wnneces- sarily—undccorated nnsure vietims of thi= war—no one will ever know Hew manv of the coming forty thou- sand will die this winter derends nn- en us o America—nuren how much fond we cend to the nnrsing mothers, how much milk to the babies fime has istmas is. Bel 'n starving ving to feed the Pelgians. The hest we can do is to give them quarter rations this winter to keep s and bodv er cannot do even that u ery Americen hel A barrel tmas n our will pull two Belg s through this winter. A case of eondensed milk will save the lives of three Bel- gian children. A few tins of meat will give a nursinz motker the strenzth to keep her child alive. Think of that when you sit down to your Christmas dinner. Many organizations are solieiting food and funds. If there. is one in your community help it. If there.is none—start one. The Commission for Relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway. New York, will tell you how to g0 to work (Copiyright by American’ Coniinidkioni for Relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, N. ¥J Relgium makes |3 tunto entitled XX XKEXEKEKKE KKK % One-half cent per word per * issue, caskt With copy. x Regular charge rate, one cent % per word per insertion. No ¥ ad taken for less than 10 cents. % Phone 31. KX XXX XXX XXX X ok ok ok ok ok ok ERE XXX XXX XXX KR K= % One-half cent per word per ¥ % issue, cash with copy. *x * Regular charge rate, one cent ¥ * per word per insertion. No ¥ % ad taken for less than 10 cents. ¥ * Phone 31. * X E KK KKK KK KR KKK HELP WANTED. e s WANTED—GIirl for general house- work. Mrs. P. J. O’Leary. POSITIONS WANTED, A A A A A A A A i WANTED—A posgition as saleslady in dry goods store; five years’ ex- perience, with good references. Call or address T, Pioneer. WANTED—Odd jobs of any kind. Phone 842. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—J. M. Richards house, 909 Lake Boulevard. Inquire R. +H. Schumaker. FOR RENT—Good houses, $12.50 toe $25.00 per month. Reynolds & ~¥Winter. F‘OR RENT—Modern six-room house, :furnished. 1019 Bemidji Ave. FOR RENT—House. P. A. Nelson. Phone 117, 522 First St. EI)E{RENT—TWO small houses. In- . quire Phone 342. FOR RENT—Sixroom house. A. Klein. Sathre. FOR RENT—New house. WANTED. WANTED—To hear from owner of good farm for sale. Send cash price and description. D. F. Bush, Minneapolis, Minn. WANTED—Light team to board for their use. Will guarantee good care. Clyde Petrie. Inquire at Given Hardware. WANTED—Phone 228-W for all Kinds of wood and hay, delivered. WANTED—Second hand household goods. M. E. Ibertson. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Beautiful farm, 1 mile from Pinewood, Minn., for about one-half of whdt it is worth, for quick sale. Iil health reason for selling. Several beautiful Bemidji residences. Bargains in Bemidji and Nymore lots. Also have client holding a $700.00 first mortgage on good farm, drawing 6 per cent interest. Big discount. Farms for rent. Morris & Longballa, Be- midji, Minn. FOR SALE—I have the following farm machinery to exchange for live stock, one two horse corn cul- tivator, one, one horse corn culti- vator, one potatoe sprayer. Two farm wagons, Two one horse bug- gies, one ‘garden drill, one, two horse Kentucky single disk harrow and other farm machinery. W. G Schroeder. FOR SALE—A Gluek’s Saloon, by Peter Belline, at 1629 Washington Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn. Reas- onable price in cash. Why I am going to sell is because I want to retire from saloon business. I have been proprietor here since 1904. FOR SALE—At new wood yard, wood all lengths delivered at your door. Leave all orders at Ander- son’s Employment Office, 205 Min- nesota Ave. Phone 147. Lizzie Miller, Prop. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of rubber stamp for you on short no- tice. FOR SALE—Fresh milk cows, fat steers, heifers and spring calves, and plenty of horses. Pogue &.Son. The mountains of Porto Rico are so magnetic that they attract survey- ors’ plumb lines and it has been found that some old surveys are in- correct by half a mile or more. Notice. All those knowing themselves in- debted to me are kindly requested to :settlp their book account or note be- fore Dec. 20, 1914. I am obliged to ask customers to favor me promptly to enable me to meet my own obli- gations. W. G. SCHROEDER. CITATION FPOR HEARING ON PFINAL ACCOUNT AND FOR DISTRIBU- TION— STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF ..BELTRAMI—I PROBATE COURT. Matter of the Estate of Huldah klund, Deceden STATE OF MINNESOTA TO all interested in the final account stribution of the estate of said The representative of the above named decedent, having filed in nal account of the ad- the estate of said decedent D ion praying for the ment and allowance of said final runt and for distribution of the resi- due of said estate to the persons there- THEREFORE., YOU, EACH OF YOU. are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this court at the Probate Court Rooms in the Court House, in the city of Bemidji. in the County of Beltrami. State of Minnesota, on the 11th day of said petition should not be granted. WITNESS, the Judge of said court, and the Seal of said Court, this 18th day of December, 1914. M. A. CLARK, (E?our( Seal) Probate Judge. MeDONALD, Atiorney for Petitioner, Bemidji, Minn. 4td 1219-19 FARM FIRE INSURANGE Let me write it in the old Con- necticut Fire Insurance Co. C. C. CROSS MILES BLOCK Hufiman & O'Leary FURNITURE AND- UNDERTAKING H N. McKEE, Funeral Director i AND| FARMS FOR SALE. FOR SALE—120 acres farm land, about 500 cords wood, half hay land on good stream, one mile from a town, terms liberal, price $20.00 per acre. W. G. Schroeder. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISERS—The great siate of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to classi- fled advertisers. The recognized advertising medium in the Fargo { Daily and Sunday Courier-News | the omly seven-day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of ciassified advertising. Tbe Courier-News covers North-Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of tha state the day of publication; it is the paper to use in order to get re- sults; rates one cent per word first insertion, ome-half cent per word succeeding insertions; fifty cents per line per month. Address the Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the market at 50 cents and 75 cents each. Every ribbon sold for 735 cents guaranteed. Phone orders promptly filled. Mail orders given the same careful attention as when you appear in person. Phone 31. Store. with gas each radiator is a separate unit but the products of combustion are discharged through a common pipe into the outer air. Unemployment caused by the war increases among women in London at the rate of 1,000 a week. Notiee. To parties who are indebted to W. G. Schroeder for merchandise, dating back 60 days from Nov. 1 and over, are requested to settle as soon as con- venient and before Dec. 20, 1914. W. G. SCHROEDER. = Weintt»sdllfionrkEu- Resses Cheap to advertise them. hmdmflla-. % F The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply |*33 In a new system for heating houses|. DRAY AND TRANSFER Safe and Piano Moving Res. Phone 58 818 America Ave. Office Phone 12. i Office in Winter Block DR. J. T. TUOMY, DENTIST Gibbons Block Tel. 23¢ North of Markham Hotel LAWYERS GRAHAM M. TORRANCE, LAWYER Miles B;ock Phone 566 e iy AR i i D. H. FISK, Court Commissioner ATTORNEY AT LAW Office second floor O’Leary-Bowser BmdMg. PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS DR. ROWLARD GILMORE PHYSICIAN ‘AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block DRBR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Bleck Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 DR. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON : Office—Miles Block DR. L. A. WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National Bank Bemidji, Minn. DR. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National Bank | Bemidji, Minn. : Office Phone 36 Res. Phone 78 DR. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Security Bank Block DR. EINER JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Bemidji, Minn. A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. Practice Limited EAR NOSE THROAT EYE @lasses Fi Office Gibbons Bldg., North Markham Hotel. Telephone 106. DR. F. J. DARRAGH OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Specialist of Chronic Diseases Free Consultation 208% 3rd St., over Blooston Store Day and Night Calls Answered. DR. L. J. PERRAULT, CHIROPODIST CORNS 2nd INGROWING NAILS re- moved without pain. BUNIONS scien- tifically treated. Phone 499-J. Office over the Rex Theater. E. M. SATHRE Abstracter O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Bemidji, Minn. LA R R R R SRR R R R * RAILROAD TIME CARDS * EEE XK XK KRR KK KK P MPLS., RED LAKE & m North Bound Arrives. North Bound Leaves. 800 RAILROAD 162 East Bound Leaves. 163 West Bound Leave: 186 East Bound Leave: 187 West Bound Leave: GREAT NORTHERN 33 West Bound Leaves. 34 East Bound Leaves. 35 West Bound Leaves. 36 East Bound Leaves. 105 North Bound Arrives 106 South Bound Leaves. Freight West Leaves af Freight East Leaves at‘ 120 5:00 pm MINNESOTA & INTERNATIONAL 32 South—Mpls. Etc. Lv. . 8:15 am *34 South—Mpls. Etc. Lk 11:20 pm 31 North—Kelliher L . 6:15 pm North—Int. 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