Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 14, 1916, Page 7

| | S e RUSSIANS BUILDING = 0N ROCK NOW SAYS HEAD OF COMMITTER (Continued from Page 1) ciety organizer, “building on rock,” because the foundation of the nation, the peasants—who constitute 80 per cent of the population, are progress- ing. I found Tchaykovsky at his desk in the headquarters building of the Cen- tral Co-operative committee, 38 Zhu- kovskago. * His snow-white head was bent over a pile of papers and his long silvery beard fell below the edge of the desk by some inches. As I entered he looked up, his rather deli- cate face beaming with pleasure. ‘“Please sit down,” he said. Light- ing a Russian cubeb with a patented lighter, he told the story of the greatest co-operative imstitution in the world, an institution which i% working wonders for the peasants, consequently for the empire as a whole. It seems that the first attempts at co-operation began, as did the Zems- two institutions, about 1865, shortly after serfdom was abolished and half the land turned over to the now free peasants. These attempts took the form of co-operative credit for a long time quite feeble. In 1870 Prince Vassilchikog be- came interested and with M. Yakou- lef of Moscow founded in that city a committee for village co-operative society work, the object of which was to promote co-operative socie- ties all over the empire, get them started, advise them and help them keep going. Grow Like Mushrooms. The Petrograd department, as it is called, was opened two years later and soon outstripped the parent con- cern which for many years stood practically still. The Russian gov- ernment encouraged the movement at first, helping it get under way though until recent years progress was still below. In the last ten years the societies have grown like mushrooms. There are now over 14,000 of them and, in addition to the credit co-operatives, there are agricultural (producers’) and consumers’ societies from one end of the country to the other. In Siberia alone there are more than 1,600 societies, all three kinds —credit, producers and consumers— being strongly represented. They own their own lines of steamers, do these Siberian societies; have their own bank in London and despite the war did an eighteen million dollar business in 1915. You have heard a lot about Si- beria. What about this one? The growth of the Siberian co-op- erative societies is typical of the rest. FHRH K KKK KKK KKK KKK BELIEVED TO BE TEACHER WITH LONGEST CONTINUOUS SERVICE Cleveland, July 14.—Miss Bettie A. Dutton, 76, just re- tired as principal of the Ken- ‘tucky grade school here, is believed to hold the record for the longest continuous ser-~ vice in the public schools of this country. Beginning at 18, she has taught in this one school for 58 years. She has educated three generations of children. ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ko k ok ok ok k k ok k *ok ok kok ok kk ok okokk ok ok ok ok ok ok k HH KKK K KKK KKK KK ENVOY FROM MEXICO SEEKS FUNDS IN U. S. New snapshot of Ambassador Desig- nate Eliseo Arredondo. Eliseo Arredondo, ambassador designate from Mexico to the United States, received the impression in a recent conference Wi Secretary Lansing that if adequate guarantees as to the security of American and other foreign interests in Mexico could be secured the Washington government believed it possible that the financial aid so greatly needed by the de facto authorities could found, - - e Butter is the principal product dealt in by the peasants there and after they had been helped in their busi- ness by the society first to be formed, they felt the need of a market. Pri- vate butter concerns existed in suffi- ciently large numbers there and their methods of doing business were no cleaner as a rule than their butter— which was putrid. An Aggie Society. They faked up all sorts of filthy substances and sold it as butter and after a time the peasants, who had found markets difficult enough al- ready, saw what little there was go glimmering because Siberian butter had become synonlmous with all that was worthless and dangerous and bad. So dire necessity forced the forma- tion of the agricultural co-operative society to market the honest butter made by the peasants. The Russian government lent a hand, but for a number of years the fight was bitter, the bad-butter crowd doing all it could to stifle competition. Nor was this all. Distances are great in Siberia and means of trans- portation few, so the co-operative so- cietics were practically dependent upon Siberian dealers as a market. These dealers did not pay cash. They exchanged merchandise for butter, paying whatever price they pleased and charging anything they wanted for their merchandise. Whereupon the third branch of the co-operative society was organ- ized: the Consumers’ society. Things in Siberia then began to hum. The private butter dealers one The New Bemid old and young. Yes, you can buy them at almost every store in town and some stores out of town. They are five cents apiece, and when you buy a NEW BEMIDJI for a moneys worth. Just to your merchant. He'll know. Where they sell ’em. Eduard Netzer Pharmacy Barker’s Drug and Jewelry Store S. T. Stewart’s Grocery Store Henry Miller W. G. Schroeder Abercrombie & McCready, Third St. eer Publishing Co. William H. Schmitt’s Groc: The Bemidji Pi Wm. Schmitt’s Store i The Pencil that satisfies both FREE PENCIL SHARPENING STATIONS Pioneer Office nickle, you get your say “NEW BEMIDJI” The Fair Stere ¢ o4 Carlson’s Variety Store Otto G. Schr e e = s £ by one ¢losed up shop. Co-operative agents bought merchandise wholesale in the great world markets and ship- ped it back to Siberia; they sold Si- berian butter at top prices, and the peasants themselves got the difference in good, hard cash, the first they had seen in a long time. Story Duplicated. { ‘This story can be duplicated in al- most any part of Russia. For in- stance, flax growers used to get 2% rubles per pood of 36 pounds. They now get 83 rubles. Tar distillers in the north formerly received 3 ru» bles per cask; after a repetition of the Siberian experience, they are paid 6 and 7 rubles for the same quantity. Premier Stopin in 1907 gave a tre- mendous boost for co-operation when he said the Mir, or community farms, ought to be abolished and that the peasants were not obliged to stay in the Mir. The co-operative societies went sky-rocketing after that and have not stopped yet. “Nor will they,” Tchaykovsky said happily. “They respond to an urgent need| of the peasants. You Americans are more individualistic, your means of communication are better, you have move cities and your communities as a rule are more thickly populated than ours. In Russia roads are bad, winters are long and hard, and in most districts along the six thousand miles from Baltic to Pacific, with our width of three thousand miles, the population is greatly spread out. We must have co-operation otherwise the Siberian story must of necessity be repeated over and over again.” RESIDENTS WARNED ABOUT GRASS DUMPING T Several complaints have been made that residents along Bemidji avenue have been dumping grass in the city park. The city is'employing men to clean up the park and Chief of Po- lice Ripple today ordered that all dumping of grass in the park be stopped. - Take advantage of 8 want ad. ADDITIONAL WANT ADS Too Late To Classify WANTED—Dishwasher at Markham Hotel. dar14 PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, JUNE 26th, 1916. Council met at City hall at 8 o’clock pm. A quorum being present meeting was called to order by President Lycan. S SO many men want a good blue serge suit; it’s important for ‘you to know what a stock of them we have. We saw what was going to hap- - pen to blues long before it hap- pened; when prices went up ‘we had plenty of blues atold prices. They’re being sold at old prices; a third less than present prices. . Imported and domestic weaves, the pick of the best in s serges ot o 929-$22.50 The greatest value to be had is a STYLEPLUS blue serge suit at $17.00. All models and sizes. EXT_I{EME values in Kuppenheimer and Sophomore fine worsted suits; - light and medium weights. The pick of the wholesale season’s sur- plus. Real bargains, at $22 50, $25.00, $27.50 [ iiiiyEs Here Are $15 Suits That Will Satisfy You For men and young men who don’t want to pay any more than $15 for their suit we have a good strong line of all weaves and colors that are fine values. ~ GILL BROTHERS Bemidji's Largest Clothing Store. IIIIIIIIIIIIHI“IIIII“IIVIIIII-I'IIVI'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIlIlIIIIilllIIIIIllIIIIIIIIHIIIIIZ&’ | Upon roll call the following aldermen were declared present: Moberg, Lahr, Bailey, Smart, Ervin, Miller, Lycan. Ab- sent—Foucauit, Phillippi. utes. Minutes of the last regular meeting were read and approved. ‘The following bills, after being audited, ‘were on motion and second, allowed: Jos. Hahn, scavenger work, lake shore . $10.00 Jos. Hahn, perty owners 19.00 Fred ePtrie, boarding paupers to 7171 2.40 10.00 30.00 G: M. terms will b other their brary . Frank Croal, disposing of dogs as dog _catcher .. B. J. Randolph, serv to city engineer . Leon Battles, services assistant SCHOOL' ELECTION TO B The Bemidji school district hold an election tomorrow evening at the Central _scl{ool for the purpose of electing two directors to succeed Dr. KK KKK KKKKKKKKKKKK|the customer, dryly. “It is dated E HELD TOMORROW | * *|1912. o * DINNER STORIES * But the antiue dealer was not to be will | % e *| catight napping. KKK KKK KKK KK “Let me see,” he said. “Why, so it Things are not always what they|is! That’s the fault of my assistant. seem—nor so old, either. He put the figures on wrongly. It “Is this a genuine antique?” asked | ought to be 1219.” the customer suspiciously. “Certainly,” replied the dealer, in an offended voice. “It is more than 600 years old.” “That’s remarkable,” my husband.” “Is that there stoop-shouldered man plowin’ corn in the next field your husband?” “Yes, it is.” “I take back what I said. I've got ) a heart in me, I have. If you've got a ] meal o’ vietuals for a poor starvin’ man, give it to your husband.” Palmer; and K. K. Roe, whose éxpire. These two directors e candidates for re-election. No candidates have announced candidacy. “Lady,” said Plo:iliing Pete, “could _— you spare a hungry man a meal 0 G. W. Ostrander of Turtle River victuals?” paid a business visit to Bemidji on commented “You go away from here, or I'll call ! Thursday. to city engineer 5 €0 John Maloy, servi to city engineer Judges and clerks, vices election June 19 Judges and clerks 2nd vices election June 1 Judges and clerks 3rd wa vices election June 1 ‘ward, ser- Judges and clerks, 4th ward, ser- vices election June 19 - Street gang, labor to date P. M. Dicaire, rent 3rd wai ing place . Henry Miller, rent polling place 1st ward John Daltor ing place M. F. Cunningham, bldg. and band stand Jas. Miller, final estima tract 4th 'street work labor city k. Bemidji Sentinel, letter heads. Clyde Petrie, mdse. library Clyde Petrie, mdse. street a1 lice_dept. . John M, Johnson, livery work po- lice dept. ... Huffman & O'Leary, of and window shades . H. Doran, labor and mat ter dept. .. H. Doran, mdse. city bldg. Pioneer Pub. Co., publ 0., _of to June 16 Pioneer Pub. -Ci cations W. G. Schroeder, m street and fire dept. Dec. 1 to June 1 .... Standard Oil health dept. . Mayer & Co., dog 'tas Goodman &' Loitved, sanitary sewer construction estimate. Goodman & Loitved, remo: dirt on paving contract .. Goodman & Loitved, curb struction contract Bemidji Fire Dept., atte: March 21 to June 26 . con- . Ordinance. Ordinance No. 82 fixing and establish- Ing fire limits, was read the third time, and declared passed and carried on an aye and nay vote. All aldermen present voting “aye.” Resolution designated as No. 99, pro- viding for the construction of necessary curbs, sidewalks, etc., during the season was read and declared passed and car- ried on an aye and nay vote. All alder- men present voting “aye.” Canvassing Board. Aldermen Moberg, Ervin and Lahr were appointed a committee to canvass Lhe returns of the vote on amendment 0. 1 to city charter held June 19. Their report is_as follows: First ward—Yes, 107; No, 32. Second ward—Yes, 107; No. 31. Third ward—Yes, 56; No, 35. Fourth ward—Yes, 82; No, Total yes, 361; total no,"113. Said re- port was accepted on motion and second and the amendment declared carried. scellaneous. A proposition was read from Morell & Nichols as to planning city park prop- erty at the time said work is done for the Normal School property, which was on_motion and second accepted. Jitney bus licenses were granted to Wm. Bixby and Axel J, Clausen. Alderman Ervin made reference _to complaint of overcharges made by jit- ney owners. On motion the city clerk was directed to motify jitney owners that proof of excessive charges would be taken up by the council, and said jitney owner would be liable to have his li- cense revoked. Street commissioner was instructed to turnpike Beltrami Avenue to Dewey Av- enue on 10th street. Application of Wheeler Bros. Shows for a circus license (without 'menag- erie (to appear July 12th at a fee of $26.00 per ordinance was granted. Application of Worthman Bros. for carnival license was rejected. . Theé city attorney was instructed to draw ordinance covering the establish- ment of a Park Board under the pro- visions of chapter 486, laws 1909. No further moved we adjourn. A Attest: 14714 7 usiness appearing it was ()ur'l.md‘.d \PProve F. 8. LYCAN, Pres. HOT WEATHER SPECIALS HOT WEATHER PRICES! The attraction must be extraordinary to draw customers out of the cool shade—A visit to the store now will repay you well for any discomfort incident to warm weather. Wash Goods Going at The Smallest Possible Prices Lot 1 Lot 2 Lot 3 Lot 4 . 7c 124c 174c 39¢c worth 15¢ worth 25¢ worth 35¢ values to $1.00 ‘Men’s Silk Caps 78¢c Light, cool caps for auto or other wear worth $1.00. . New Wash Skirts Just Arrived Made up in genuine “Palm Beach” cloth plain or “Beach Cloth” and shrunk cottons in white or colored, i in the very new stripes. A late shipment marked low to sell quick $1.50 to $5.50 | and black taffetta skirts just came in ’ $6.50 to $10.50 Men’s $1.00 and $1.25 Shirts 656c Soft collar in colored and white, made of 65 soiesette-not, all sizes, wonderful values...... c .15¢ A" good assortment of new colored ) $5.00 and $5.50 Skirts $2.98 o h Special lot of up-to-date skirts, corduroy and fancy mixed, just 15 skirts, to be exact, worth up to $5.50. - Special this week.............ccoovvieiiiniiiiiniiiininie “|de” Sport Shirts for Ladies $1.50 A wide agsortment of the much wanted sport shirt, tub silks and “Soie Sette,” colored, striped and white $-| 50 all sizes-.. NN Children’s Gingham Dresses 2 48c Sizes 2 to 10. Plain andvplaid or plaid trimmed in good 48 gingham. Special.............. C ECONOMY BEMIDJI, i % CENTER" MINMESOTA. i