Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 16, 1915, Page 4

INSTANTLY The Farmer knows good gasoline., He knows too when gasoline isn’t so good. ‘No, he doesn’t drink it, but uses it in his automobile and gasoline en- gines. He Has Learned That Purity Gasoline lasts longer and does the work better than or- dinary gasoline. Among his farmer friends and neighbors he advocates PURITY GASOLINE. Purity Gasoline costs no more than the ordinary gasoline is another reason why he prefers to use it. Some of them buy it by the barrel and divide it among their neighbors. ¢ That Does When a farmer starts his car or engine he has confidence in that machine because he knows she never. “BUCKS” when driven by PURITY GASOLINE. One farmer said this “] own a Ford. miles on one gallon of gasoline: Since 1 used PURITY GASOLINE the car runs from 18 to 23 miles on a gallon.” While at the Fair Stop in our office near the Great Northern Depot and learn more about PURITY GASOLINE. Free air, Free water and Oil and PURITY for less. The $St. Gloud Qil Co. Phone 91 Bemidji B { 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 OUSEWIVES find this store the right place to buy tin- ware of all kinds. Madam, if you want a milk pan or a wash- ing pan or a baking pan.orwny on: of a score of. other things in tinware this is surely the place to come for the right price. We keep a large variety of housshold utensils for the kitchen. We heart- ily welcome every dne to segk sat- isfied service here, Vv V¥ “This Store is Fair Vititor's Head- quarters and a cordial welcome awaits you. . Leave your grips, packages etc. here free of charge. A B. PALMER “Your Hardware Man" ©00000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ©0000000000000000000000000 the work better I used to ‘run’it 14; In this case we shall recoup part of the original expenditure by the good that the same dams may serve in gecuring a regular flow of water hereafter. . 4 The six dams can practically con- trol the waters when the navigation idea is co-related with agriculture and water powers. The way to keep the safest flow is to let the waters ll‘othj‘the reservoirs fill the river to a safé stage just before,freezing and then the water can be kept as that stage all winter or until the res- ervoirs are empty. When the flood waters come, fill them again. The opposite course has been fol- lowed teretofore. Never Suffer From High Water. The farmers will probably never again'suffer from as high waters as they have in the past. It wasa com- mon “thing formerly for dozens of lnggerg on. different streams “‘to - let out ‘the waters to' drive logs at the same time and when all these waters centralized in the Mississippi river they caused the floods. - T!\e;e should be no trouble or dif- ficulty in adjusting the water flow-in: the future so as to get the best re- sults ‘obtainable from good manage- ment. - The damage done in the past should; he settled for by the govern- ment, and then it will hring things into general harmony. LINDBERGH COMPLETES RIVER TRIP {Continued from first page). work. to aid in building up the sur- rounding communities as well as to preserve the forests. B ‘Mississippi is Vn.hmble. In our average daily thoughts we Minnesotans do not credit with much value the upper Mississippi and its tributaries. In fact, in several of our northern counties an import- ant rural population looks upon these as calamity bringers. Many farmers fix up their meadows and plant their crops in valleys and the flood waters, with almost equal regularity, dam- age or destroy them. Then thers are the water power companies alonz the streams. Waters Are Damaged. ‘They desire regularity in the wa- | ter flow, but are frequently damaged by flood waters. The ofily interest that looks complacently upon - the high stage of water are the naviga- tors, yet they are of least importanco 80 far as’ the headwaters affect things. For several years I have inquired into the circumstances. surrounding the farming, power and other inter- ests, so this year, in order to become more familiar with the physical con- ditions than I had been able to do on my previous trips, I determined to visit as: many sectional places affect- ed as I could. Coming down ‘the Mississippi from its source constitu- ted one of the trips, and this one I have just finished. Navigation Important. The boat navigation on the upper Mississippi is of neglible importance compared with either the farming or the water power interests. The farm- ers and the power companies require a regular flow. The same would bhe true of boat navigation on the upper Mississippi, but the trouble is that the attempt is being made to use the upper Mississippi to regulate the wa- ters farther down. Private Dams. In the days of Minnesota timber kings, which are now becoming past history, they required spring and summer waters of unusual quantity to bring down their logs. Their sep- arate holdings were pretty well con- fined to sections reached mostly by small tributary streams. These they individually dammed for their pri- vate use and under a law were li- censed to charge a toll to others KRR RE KRR KRR KRR * JELLE * K KKK EKKKKKK KKK T. B. Dalen made a trip to Winger, Minn., last Friday. Hannah Jelle has gone to Bemidji where she will attend high school. The-Jelle Brothers made a trip to Goodridge Friday.- Threshing is in full blast now and the farmers say the crops are better than they have been for many years. Oats yield from 60 to 70 bushels to the acre.~” Mrs, lver Anderson gnllefl on Mrs. John Jelle last Sunday. The Jelle school commenced last Monday. « KEEREEKKKEEERKK KK * PINEWO0OD * (SRS SRS LRSS R RN RS el Berg of Zumbrota, Minn., left Thursday for her home after spending;a few days with her cousin, A. Hansgn; and sister. Mrs. 'W. Helmer and daughter, Mrs. Adams, left Saturday for In- ternational Falls where they will Vol. 1, No. 2 AMONG CUSTOMERS . s 8 WE CAN SAVE YOU 50c A ROLL ON ROOFING PAPER We visited Mr. Holmberg at La- porte this week, who came there from he likes his new home very much. He is doing considerable building \|just now, but when making his pur- chase .of roofing paper, Mr. Holm- berg was not’familiar with the ad- vantages of the Bemidji markets so placed his order with a large mail order house for slate surfaced roof- ing. . They charged him $2.50 a roll and together with freight charges of 36c a roll the cost delivered at La- porte was $2.86. Our price on the same kind ot roofing paper, made by the General Roofing company and guaranteed by them is $2.25 a roll. Freight from Bemidji to Laporte is about 10 cents a roll, making the price delivered by us $2.35. This means a.saving. of 50c a roll or $5.00 on the ten rolls he bought. We merely recite this instance to let our customers and others know that there are many big manufac- turing concerns like the General Roofing company who are placing their products with the local mer- chants at prices that pay a . fair profit and not only permit us to com- pete with the catalogue houses, but stance. . Ole Vassen was in to see-us on Friday of last week. Ole Was brag- ging of his yield of barley. As usual Ole has crops about which he has a right to boast. visit the former’s daughter before Mrs. Adams leaves for her new home in Carlyle,” Mont. School opened Monday with Miss Myrle Methven of Bemidii as teacher. The enrollment the first day was 22. K. K. Meland, who took two- car- loads of cattle to St. Paul, Saturday, Sept. 4, for the Farmers’ Shipping association, returned home Monday. Mrs. J. C. Parker and daughter, Josephine, Miss Marie Burke and W. Wadena a year ago and states that| undersell them, as in the above in-; The Given Hardware News Bemidji. Minn., Septamber 16 THE WEEK'S DOINGS . We will be at the Beltrami county fair with an’ exhibit 6f DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS. No fair is complete without a disphy of DE LAVALS. Joseph Lucia of Nebish was among our visitors this week. Joe is a good booster of this country, especially of the l:!lghish district, ‘This rain is nrepnring the ground for fall plowing. John Deere walk- ing plows n‘lways glve satisfaction and we ‘are giving an extra - DIS- COUNT for cash on these plows. Ask us about them. Fred Petra resides on Irvine avenue and is ‘credited with being a good judge of stoves and ranges. He proved this conclusively by buying a Superb- Universal this week. It might be added that Mrs. Petra was also donsulted and upon whose decision Fred relied. | BUY HUNTING SUPPLIES HERE Leader Shells, 75¢ a box, $14.00 a case. TRepeater shells, 70c a box, $13.00 a case. OUR RED PIGS HAVE BEEN DE- LAYED. LOOK FOR THEM NEXT WEEK. Those big white enameled baby bath tubs- at our store make a hit with the babies. No sharp corners to hurt their tender skin. - Come in and inspect them. Our baby supply counter also displays thermometers, thermos bottles, alcohol and electric stoves, children’s plates, ete. Combs motored to Pinewood from Be- midji Sunday: and spent the day at the Sthol home. Misses Holland and Sterling arrived Saturday from Wilton where they have held services during the past week. They held services at the ‘Herb. Dodge home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. T. B. Millar spent the week end with Mrs. Curtis at Aure. T. B. Millar transacted business in Solway Monday. Published Weekly HARDWARE BUYERS ee . Alex Hensley of Nary was one of our banner’ customers this week. You should not be without one of our Ever Ready flashlights. .They save many times their price in in- surance and are always ready with a good light. W. G. Schroeder bought a big 2-power washer with an adjustable wringer for his Alfalfa Dairy farm this week. Mr. Schroeder is always looking for modern labor and time- saving machinery and he usually finds them here. Farmers and visitors will be wel- come to make this store their head- quarters when taking in the big fair this week. You may leave packages here and make use of our telephone and desk. Paper, pen and ink pro- vided. Lawrence Steinbrook’s 560 bushels of wheat from a ten-acre tract sets the .pace for a big yield and shows what can be done by good farming methods. Mr. Steinbrook generally does his work right. SEE THAT NEW FAIR GROUND FENCE? That new Ellwood wire fence and | American Steel posts add much to the appearance of the fair grounds. The American and Ellwood fences are favorites among the farmers and for permanent jobs such as fencing cemeteries, etc., the American steel fence will easily last enough lnnger to more than pay the extra ‘Cost. School students will be able to se- cure Welsh’s glove clasp loose- leaf note books this year complete with filler at the Pioneer for 30 cents. This is the same book which sold last year for 35c. Hello, boys and girls. Hear that school bell?> Don’t start for school without -a NEW BEMIDJI lead pen- cil. It's the best nickle pencil made. Any store in town sells ’em. wishing to sluice. Then it came to the Mississippi, the stream was too large for even lumber kings to deal with alone, so they got parties down the river from St. Paul on into the state _south, bordering on the river td make a:de- mand of the government for the con- struction of dams to form reservoirs on the headwaters to aid navigation. Appropriation Large: i They secured appropriations of f| many millions of - dollars to build dams. A policy was fixed by con- gress, and the war department en- gineers were instructed to follow the policy laid down to fit the logging interests. In other words, it~ was navigation for logs. I have exam- ined as closely as I could into the engineering work and so far as I am able to get at it, all the engineers are honest and doing as effectively as they can, the work that was laid out for. them. They have no other instructions than what are advanced from the loggers’ interests, and being army officers, and getting their in- structions from proper government sources, they have absolutely disre- garded everything else. If there is to be a changed policy, it must come from a public demand and be impressed upon the engineers from the proper source, but now- for. a public purpose and the general wel- fare. Six Government Dams. There are six well constructed government dams. - I have examined all but the Sandy Lake dam, and will examine that later. They can be used to serve the public with great value, but, in fact, as how used, are a damage. The waters of the state can be controlled by dams and reservoirs to help agriculture, water power and navigation and to some extent: for- estry, but to do. so requires that the results to these inmterests be co-re- lated, so that the greatest benefit-may be secured.. Of them the agricultural is the most. important, ‘but thus far has been ‘subordinate and large sections of agricultural lands have been dam- aged, while the waters have been wasted. As stated, these dams and reservoirs were built at public ex- pense for the benefit of private tim- ber owners. But now the most of their timber has been floated and what they have left is not sufficient to make them active in controlling the present flow. Therefore, _there ‘will not be so much opposition to con- tend with in converting the dams to & purpose more useful-to the public. _Farming on Increase. It must not be forgotten that or- iginally lumbering was about the only interest in Northern Minnesota; that farming and other business is of later' development and ‘will con- stantly -increase. Therefore, we. should mot feel so much opposed to the lumberman’s: former activity as we_should look with clnr under- : Barker s store. bia phonographs Third Street “WHITNEY BROWN - Check your parcels gnps, packages and babies here. desk pen and paper while you llsten to sweet music from Vlctor or Colum- GEORGE SHEPHARD OSCAR ERWIG EARL THURBER These faces will greet you at the store that is AL- WAYS HEADQUARTERS for Bemidji visitors. not an advertisement of Drugs and Jewelry, but an invitation to visit This is Use our telephone, " Barker’s ]Drug amdl J@W@l]ry S;t@r@ Bemld]n, Mlnn. A