Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 1

VOLUME XIII, NO. 308. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1915. chiidren, the South Breeze, the E:;at FORTY CENTS PER MONVTH. day school at 2 p. m.; vespers-at 7:30 “ ” A 1 BEMIDI CHURCHES [ic"sia sy umesr ™ [WFUZZ” JONSON [SANTA CLAUS TO [mvmssnrsee e 2Thail (ONS OF Congregational (Nymore.) I haven’t seen them ,tor hundreds of ; Iu G|VE SPEGIAL Services Saturday evening at 8 p. LflsT Tn uulNT M'ss Nu PEBS“N yearsyand e wan't for o4 oants XMAS TREES i L m.; Christmas tree program at 7:30 . L don’t know what I'd do. ant I o’clock Monday evening. There will ¢ do for him is little enough. And i XMAS PROGRAMS}: o FOROVERMONTH| N WHOLE WORLD|Sme i v’ FORTRENGHES e . . man went roaring and howling back . } Christian Science. into the sky, looking fiercer than { 317 Fourth St. . ! ever. | Day to Be Generally Observed in Be-| Sunday service at 11 a. m. Wednes- | Fracture of Collar Bone Causes Fast|In Interview With United Press Cor- Municispl Christmases Help Each Present Has Tiny Tree With { midji; Banks, Public Offices and |2y evening service at 7:45 o'clock.| Player to Give Up Game for respondent Says He Will Visit “I certainly am glad,” said Santa,| One Candle Attached; All Soldiers ' Business Houses Closed. First Scandinavian Lutheran. Several Weeks. Everyone. “to see 50 many places in the United Are Remembered, | Christmas day services at 10:30. . States having municipal Christmas | Duet by Kern and Alvin Olson; ser- trees for the rich and poor little SEVERAL CANTATAS TO mon; solo by Miss Elizabeth Erick-|IS GREAT LOSS TO : PLANS T0 GO DOWN SHEET boys and girls together. I liave al-| ENGLAND DENIES BE GIVEN TONIGHT [son. A Christmas offering will be HIGH SCHOOL TEAM IRON CHIMNIES TO TRENCHES | ways done my best to get around to RED CROSS CHARGES received. Christmas tree program I every single one of the little tads, ¢ e Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock, as ‘ . ¥ . A < . |but sometimes I haven’t altogether B i City Especially Prosperous; Stores|gollows: Seripture reading and pray-|Must Keep Arm in Sling; Injured in|0ld Saint Very Busy Before Starting| ...c.qed and I want to tell you that |Battle is Raging Between Serbs and Report Increase in Sales; Banks |er; song by choir; address of wel-| Ggme With Red Wing Wednes- Out on Biggest Night’s Work |these municipal Christmases help me Bulgars in Albania ‘ £ come, Borgol Johnson; recitation, . ighty lot. I wish you’d mention . . 3 H e 0 A TUENLY. Increase Deposits. Nels Rode; song by the Sunday day Evening S this in your story and let those who Mountains. school; recitation, Edla Rude; reci- haven’t done it know how much I P Christmas will be generally ob-|tation, Lars Hakkerup, Edward Gin-| <«pFuzz” Johnson, star forward of| (United Press Staff Correspondent) |would like to have them do it.” Berlin, Dec. 24.—Millions of tiny pamer served in Bemidji tomorrow. Banks, public offices, stores, mills, ete.,, will be The shops will remain open until noon when they will close to give their employes a half holiday. No paper will be issued by the Pioneer tomor- closed. barber Tow. Special programs have been pre- pared by all churches. There is every evidence of pros- perity in Bemidji at this Christmas time. Christmas sales are estimated at about 25 per cent heavier than in former years. Practically all stores show increases. That the people spent only part of their surplus, how- ever, and have not forgotten the “rainy day,” is shown by the banks who say that many new accounts have been opened and more than the -usual proportion of the money with- drawn for gifts is coming back in the shape of savings deposits. Dealers in the various lines say Christmas purchases this year has followed the general lines as at the banks. There is evidence ofwide-spread tendency to give useful gifts. The stores in Bemidji will remain open until eleven o’clock tonight. The church announcements for Christmas day and Sunday are as fol- lows: The Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist churches will hold union ser- vices tomorrow morning at 10:45 o’clock at the Methodist church. Rev. I. D. Alvord will deliver a ser- mon on ‘“The Birth of a King.” A special music program will be given. nes, solo, “King of Kings”; reading, Miss Ella LaQua; recitation, Alvilda Casperson; primary class song and exercise; recitation, Mable Croon; Star Drill, seven girls; duet, two boys and two girls; reading, Mable John- son; recitation, Violet Paguan and Irving Bye; Norwegian song, class of girls; dialogue, Ernest Olson, Paul Johnson and Victor Jahr; song, Gladys Olson; recitation, four girls; song by Sunday school; recitation, three boys; song by choir; address by Rev. Osmund Johnson. Salvation Army. Service Christmas night at 8 o'clock. Special songs and music; sermon by Rev. L. A. Sandgren. Sun- day Services—Sunday school at 2 p. m.; salvation meeting at 8 p. m. Ny- more—Sunday school at 2 p. m.; praise meeting at 3 p. m. Capt. and Mrs. Sandgren in charge. Episcopal. Christmas at St. Batholomew’s church—Dec. 25, children’s service and tree at 5 p. m.; Dec. 26—Holy Communion at 8 a. m.; Dec. 26—Holy Communion and sermon at 11 a. m. Archdeacon H. F. Parshall, rector. WINNERS PICKED AT ST. PAUL GORN SHOW St. Paul, Minn.,, Dec. 24.—The final judging of the corn exhibits of the First National Bank of St. Paul corn show was held yesterday and the following prizes were awarded in the Bemidji high school basket ball quint, will be unable to play basket ball for over a month as a result of the fracture of his collar bone re- ceived in the game with Red Wing Wednesday evening. An X-ray disclosed the fracture, which is not serious, but will necessi- tate that his arm be kept in a sling. The loss of Johnson to the high school quint will greatly impair the strength of the team. Johnson is one of the fastest pieces of human machinery in the high school playing the game, In the games with Red ‘Wing he starred in each. The high school schedule will be- gin shortly after the first of the year and it is believed that over half the games will have been played before Johnson will be able to get back in- to the game. SEVEN ARE KILLED IN MISSOURI TRAIN WRECK Joplin, Mo., Dee. 24.—Seven were killed and many injured today as the result of a rear-end collision of the Missouri, Oklshoma & Gulf and. Fr!sco passetiger trains. . HENRY FORD TO RETURN HOME At the North Pole, (Via Wireless) —Dec. 24.—Santa Claus was just coming out of the big silver barn where some of the Santa Claus chil- dren were putting a final gloss on the sleek brown coats of the hundred handsome reindeer in their roomy ivory stalls when the United Press man met him, Is Very Busy. ‘“Hello, there,” said Santa as he sat down in a big snow chair and went on polishing an armful of spun- gold harness he carried, “I'm glad to see you, although I am sort of busy. You see, I'll have to work pretty fast tonight if I'm going to get around to all the little boys and girls in the world. What can I do for you?” Much Cheer at Pole. The reporter was surprised to find such a cheerful, busy,. wonderful scene here at the Nofth Pole, where everything is just a bleak, dreary field of snow and ice and leaden sky 364 of the 365 days in the year, and he couldn’t answer at once, he was so busy looking around at the mount- ing of presents everywhere. He was most of all interested in the little Santa Claus children, hundreds and hundreds df them, all looking like little pictures of their daddy, hop- ping and -skipping - busily --ahout among;the millions of dolis and J by horses and toys and games and candy and everything imaginable, putting the proper tags on every one —and he really didn’t see how they| could do it. Wasn’t Very Cold. % “What abput the little war orphans in Europe?” Santa was asked. Remembers Orphans. “I am going to do my level best to remember every one of them,” said Santa very seriously; and the report- er thought he saw something that wasn’t a frost crystal glisten on the old man’s snowy beard. ‘“And that reminds me,” he went on, “that I mustn’t sit here taking any longer. I've got the biggest night’s work ahead of me that I have ever known and I'm sure you will excuse me. Tell the world hello for me and say that I will miss no chimney top in all the world if I can help it, even down to the little sheet iron chim- neys in the trenches and those out on the gipsy trail.” KK KX KKKKKK KKK KKK * DAILY WAR ANALYSIS. * x (By J. W. T. Mason.) * * United Press Staff * * Correspondent. * KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK | follo: The first important new taxation within Germany since the beginning of the war has been levied by the grand duchy of Baden, which has in- creased its income tax by 20 per cent 'on all incomes’ above $550. Other states within the German federation |have_ announced their intention of ng .Baden’s example and the; imperial government, as well, is pre- paring to meet the financial burdens of the war. Income taxes-in Germany are as- sessed by the German states indi- vidually and not by the imperial authorities. The taxes now begin- Christmas trees, each with a candle attached, have been sent to the sol- diers to burn on top of the German trenches Christmas night. Bach present to the soldiers has a tiny tree attached. " The government has given to the children of the soldier fathers, toys representing soldiers and war mater- ials. Girls got Red Cross nurse dolls. No peace toys were sent. Washington, Dec. 24.—The British embassy this afternoon officially de- nied the report that England had de- clined to permit its shipments of Red Cross supplies to Germany. The embassy has been conducting negotiations with American Red Cross headquarters in Washington during the past week regarding the ship- ments. Rome, Dec. 24.—A hame has been raging for the past three days be- tween the Serbs and Bulgars in the Albanian mountains, Prince Alex Karageorgevech reported today on his arrival. : He said that the men were fighting fiercely and had splendidly stopped every enemy charge. Although the men, he stated, are suffering from the want of food their spirits are unbroken. “They will._die to.the last.man,” said . the. prince, “betm"o ,acceptlng ' the Teutonic yoke.” b FURLOUGHS GRANTED TO GREEK SOLDIERS Athens, Dec. 24.—The Greek gov- ernment today granted furloughs of At the Baptist church at 6:30 Then the gigantic silver barn, big- one month to all classes of reserves. o'clock the Epworth League will|the district around Bemidji: London, Dec. 24.—A dispatch ffom |ger than all the ordinary barns in ning, therefore, are .subsidiary to the meet. Evening services will be held| John Croy, Jr., East Grand Forks, | peyter's today said that it was learn-|the world put together, glittering|more stringent action which the | ppyTigy CASUALTIES | at 7:30 o’clock. The Sunday school’s |first; Lincoln. Jones, East Grand ed authoritatively that Henry Ford |there in the snowfields. It has to be reichstag must take sooner or later, imopAY, 528,327 MEN Christmas play will be given Christ-|Forks, second; Rudolph Wick, East . v. that big you know, to hold Santa’s|in order to pay for the war. London, Dec. 24.—The official mas night. Grand Forks, third; Hjelmar Brun-|had reselived twu' cabins on the liner big steel sleigh. The reporter could Baden’s increased income tax,|pritish casualties from the beginning At the Methodist church evening|den, East Grand Forks, fourth. Bergensfjord which leaves Bergen | .. par¢ of the sleigh through ome of | While produced by conditions result-|of the war to December 9 was 528,- services will be held at 7:30 . this morning for America. Ford isf, o purple barn doors and it was so |ing from the war, is not in reality | 337 men. Of this number 119,923 o’clock. the subject being ‘“The Mean- ing of True Peace.” A cantata will be given Christmas night, the title of which is a “A Visit to Santa Claus.” There will be no services at the Presbyterian church in the evening. The Christmas cantata, the program of which was announced in yester- TRANSIENT FORFEITS BAIL ON DRUNK CHARGE Charles Lundquist, a transient this morning forfeited five dollars bail in the municipal court for failure to reported to have taken a train for Bergen. THREE GOUPLES ARE LIGENSED TO WED big that—why, just one of the hun- dreds of rivets that held it together was three times as large as four ten- year-old boys standing on top of each other’s shoulders. And although it was the middle of winter at the North Pole, it wasn‘t so very cold. The re- porter asked Santa Claus about this. Santa laughed and called out in his a war tax itself. It is no more than an intimation to the German people of the frightful financial load which eventually the reichstag must saddle on Germany as a whole. Hitherto the British have been the only belligerents who have not tried to dodge the financial responsibili- ties of the war. Parliament long were killed, 338,758 were wounded and 69,546 are missing. TWOKILLED; FIVEINJURED WHEN TRAINS MEET day’s Pioneer, will be given tonight Three wedding licenses were issued great, gruff, hearty voice: ago imposed heavy war .taxes on t.he Scranton, Penn., Dec. 24.—Two b at the Presbyterian church. answer to Aa charge of drunkenness. |today at the office of the clerk of ) . I British people, whose chief complaint killed, i tiifured a i Lundquist, who has only one arm, {court. They were to John G. Jack- North Wind is Friend. was that the government had not|Were Killed, five were injured ani — Swedish Lutheran. Farly Christmas services at 6 «0’clock. All attending are asked to remember the usual Christmas offer- ing. The Christmas program will be was arrested yesterday afternoon only after a hard struggle. PAY-DIREGT MAGHINE ley of Kansas to Beryle B. Brown, Arthur F. Knieff to Etta Wilson, both of Tenstrike; Norman Ossia Powell of Aitkin to Gladys Very Lor- ene Morrow of Backus. “Boreas! Oh, Boreas! Come here and tell this boy why it isn’t cold at the North Pole today.” And from somewhere 'way off there was the most terrific whistling and shrieking ‘When the example the will done so sooner. of Baden spreads .throughout kaiser’s empire the Germans then begin to realize how seriously the war must affect their pocket- THE - CUB REPORTER SCOOP Merry Christmas From Scoop - By "HOP” hundreds narrowly escaped injury when the third section of a west- bound Lackawanna passenger train plunged into the second section early this morning. The holiday travel given Wednesday evening. Sunday . _— you ever heard and suddenly down !y ou. sor many years to come. was heavy and the train was divided —Sunday scl.wol at 12 o'clock. Mon- INSTALI_ED AT BANK HRHHHEE KK KKK KKK KKK from the leaden sky dropped the big- In what manner Germany will take |into three sections. The second sec- »d.ay—t? Christmas program will be x® x| gest, fiercest-looking old man in flow- this discovery may have an impor-[tion crew claimed that they had given in the Nymore Fongregational ¥ LUMBERJACKS STRIKE x ing white robes that the reporter had tant bearing on peace. Dr. Helf- |placed torpedoes. &cpurcl\ Monday evening at 7:30| 5 pay qirect machine has been in- | RATHER THAN BATHE x|€Ver seen. ferich, the minister of finance, de- _ o"clock. stalled in the teller’s window at the | R — * Helps Santa Claus. clared in the reichstag last August [k X X X Xk kK kK kK K % X kK ¥ ¥ ¥ & Catholic. Northern National bank. The ma-|% Bessemer, Mich., Dec. 24.— %| “This is my friend Boreas, the|that war taxes would be unnecessary | ¥ . NYMORE NEWS. x Christmas Day—Low mass at 8 and |chine, when a key is pressed, shoots |* Lumberjacks at the camp of +|North Wind,” said Santa Claus.|for Germany because the cost of the| ¥ (By Special Correspondent.) * 8:30 o’clock; high mass at 10 o’clock. |the required sum out into a tray in|¥ the Gogebie Lumber company *|‘“How do you do?” shrieked Boreas; |conflict would be collected from Ger- X % X ¥ ¥ X ¥ % & ¥ X X X ¥ X X ¥ There will be a meeting of the chil- |easy reach of the customer and so that [ are on strike because the <*|and say, maybe his breath wasn’t|many’s enemies through an indem- Ole Loe returned to his home here dren at 3 p. m.; vespers and bene-|the money can be picked up in case|X company compelled.them to +|cold. “Didn’t you know that I al-|nity. This week, however, Dr. Helf- | Wednesday after spending some time diction at 8 o’clock. There will be|the customer is wearing gloves. The|% take a bath. “City regula- *%|ways have it warm enough for Santa |ferich reversed himself and told the | working in a camp near Kelliher. no program as the interior finishing |money is no longer touched and|* tions don’t go in the woods,” +|Claus to do his day’s work up here|reichstag that despite any indemnity =Y of the church has not been completed. | counted by the teller as the new ma-|* they declare. *|once a year? Didn’t you know that|Germany might obtain increased tax- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lindahl and Sunday Services—Low mass at eight |chine accurately counts out the sum | : . %|I do that for him because he takes|ation after the war would be “col-|daughter left Thursday afternoon for o’clock; high mass at 10 a. m.; Sun-|wanted. * KK KKKKKKKKKKKKK X presents and messages for me to my |ossal.” St. Hilaire where they will spend Christmas visiting with Mr. Lindahl’s parents. The Torch Bearers, a class of boys JIVE WRITTEN A LITTLE. POEMTO GO WITH TH WIFES PRESENT— (T READS THUSLY MY LOVE Y0U ASKED FOR A C00-PAY - As Soums GIFTTHIS XMAS DAY : HAVE.GOT O s&Y | of the Congregational Sunday school, met at the Rev. Cadwell home Mon- - day evening. They spent the evening in: popping corn for the.Christmas tree. Bmoms C00-PAYS AND LIMO-SEENS ARE QUITE BEYOND YOUR SANTAS MEANS “THEY COST Y0 KNOW-TW0 THOUSAND BEANS FOR AN ELECTRIC COUPE-T JUST GOTTA PEEK! \F NOU MUST RIDE - THEN RIDE WSTED WELL ALL THAT I \S SMAs PURSE AINT BUILT THAT Wi \PONW FTY \-\'flI-E SLED! , Miss Emma Johnson of Brainerd is in Nymore spending Christmas at the home of her sister, Mrs. Gust John- son. Julius- Ulrickson, who has been working for some time at Kelliher, returned to his home here Wednesday where he will spend Christmas. ’.[_‘he public school gave its program * in the Krog hall Wednesday evening.