Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 25, 1916, Page 6

New [ ] [ X ) Bemidji The Pencil that satisfies both old and young. IPRICES. INCREASE 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 BEMIDIJI for a nickle, you get your 12 moneys worth. Just say “NEW BEMIDJI” 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 4 » Henry Miller i W. G. Schroeder The Fair Store Carlson’s Variety Store Abercrombie & McCready, Third St. The Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Co. William H. Schmitt’s Grocery Otto G. Schwandt Mrs. E. L. Woods FREE PENCIL SHARPENING STATIONS Wm. Schmitt’s Store Pioneer Office Barker’s We invite you to the Free Demonstration at 315 Beltrami Ave. (Hayner's Old Stand) any hour of the day or evening. For the first time in Bemidji, we are showing our gas maker, which converts kerosene or fuel oil into hydro carbon gas, simply by connecting with your cook stove or range, heater or furnace. Stoves used in this demonstration loaned by Hannah and Robertson, 206 Minnesota Avenue. A Patronize Our Advertisers They are all boosters and deserve your business. GOING UP SOON Still $1.00, but for how long we cannot say. Better order yours now. PIONEER OFFICE-- "oz + |I am willing to acknowledge that, 25 FER GEN'I' nvEH from his point of view, he is doubtless I right. Everything is a matter of Mr. Average Man Must Pay One FAVORABLY IMPRESSED Quarter More for Every Dollar Spent. itin’ Round” stories. nearer the head of the lake. COAL TO INCREASE which permits a city the size of . IN PRICE SEPT. 1| Bcmidji to incorporate into what is kown as a park district A board is then formed which is empowered to acquire, either by purchase of con- demnation, park property within the city limits or within two miles of the limits. The only connection be- tween this park board and the city government is that its treasurer shall be the same. “The city of Bemidji has just formed such a park district. The boundaries of the city are such that practically all of the big pine just across the lake is within the city (By United Press) Chicago, Aug. 25.—The high cost cf living has soared again and com- parison of prices of foodstuffs with those of a year ago shows an increase of 25 per cent. With hogs selling at $11.30 a hundred pounds, and pre- dictions of provision men say that tney will go to $12 next month, there was a general increase in other liv- ing necessities which will cost Mr. Average Man a quarter more on each dollar;hesanends, limits, and that will become park Pork Chops Increase. property almost at once. This will Pork prices were up today consid- | save the city one of its greatest at- erably. Pork used in baked beans |tractions, as those trees form one of was quoted at 22 cents a pound, an |the few stands of virgin pine still increase of 5 cents. Pork chops |left within the limits of the state, were up to 24 cents a pound, 25 per | which once contained so many mil- cent over a year ago's prices. Boiled | lions of acres of it. We were just ham sold for 30 cents, an advance|in time for the man who has been pound a year ago, cost 11 cents to- | fered it for sale, and if it got into day. Canned baked beans have in-|other hands it would, of course, be creased from 10 to 15 cents a pound. | cut down ad sawed into lumber. Loop prices which are 25 per cent “The other big grove at the north under ~neighborhood prices, have|end of the lake is outside the two- jumped on peas, lettuce, potajoes and | mile limit and our park board has string beans. A year ago peas sold | no control over it. We are trying to for 5 cents a pound, now they are|save it by legislative action, and are 25. Lettuce, 10 cents a head, is now | very hopeful of success. A year ago sold for 30 cents. Forty-cent cans|]ast May, you remember, the state of mushrooms have doubled. Beef is|senators took a junket through now selling from 11 to 20 cents per | Northern Minnesota We took them pound wholesale, an increase of 25| around the lake and gave them a per cent. Canned goods have gone| Junch in the pine grove. At that up 100 per cent. Butter and eggs |time everyone of them expressed him- have remained at-about the same. | self favorably inclined to vote that Milk now sells for 8 cents a quart|ihe state should buy 200 acres of the against 9 cents a year ago. grove for a state park. I think they Flour on Gain. were sincere though we did give them Flour continues to gain. It is now |2 corking good I“Pch' " selling at 8% cents a pound, as com- | ‘“These upper pines are “lm':; l_a: pared with 7 cents a year ago. The important to Bemidji as the others, wholesale price of flour today was §8.90 and last year it was $5.50. As yet there has been no increase in bread prices here, though at Free- port, I, bakers yesterday declared for a slight reduction in the size of the nickel loaf and a 2 cent increase GUNS AND TENTS AT REASONABLE PRICES ‘We still have a few of those good low price ROBIN HOOD SHELLS LEFT. Better pick on pies and rolls. A further increase in coal prices is out yours while the picking is good as we are unable to get rcported. In St. Paul where soft coal supplies are 2,000,000 tons un- any more of these shells and they are going fast. ALDERMAN ATTACKS CROOKSTON CHIEF ag personal entertainment and none" der last year’s supplies, a rise of 50 cents a ton for all grades is slated If you are going to do any more building or repairing, to go into effect Sept. 1. now is a good time to get the necessary tools, hardware and paint. Our stock is large and Crookston, Minn., Aug. 25.—Alder- man Hussey made an attack on the- efficiency of the Crookston police de- of 6. cents. Beans sold at 5 cents a | holding it for years has recently of- |Z at all for publication. I make no[for they are in that part of the lake apology for putting it first, though |to which our hundreds of summer re- sorters come. Our plan, if we can also save upper pines, is to encourage campers and protect our woods by points of view, which should make|yyilding saft concrete furnaces S0 everybody charitable—even to ‘Vis-|they will not set the forest on fire | library has it in Count Beltrami’s|nipeg, then came across Rat Portage and to supply them with free fire-|book, published after the trip. to Lake of the Woods, reached Lake STATE SENATORS ARE wood to protect our own trees. “That must have been some jour- | Julia and portaged over into Turtle, I “Bemidji, you know, {8 a central |ney in those days, nearly 100 years|Lake, supposed for centuries to'be th “We have saved the stand of pine |point for many side trips to places of | ago. If you have ever done . any |source of the Mississippi river, :&@ch nearest town,” sald Mr. McDonald, |interest. It is mot very far, by the|north country canoeing, you know |ed the Mississippi and paddled bac] “and we hope to save the other grove | way, from Lake Julia, where the Ital- [ how difficult it is, even now. Count|to Fort Snelling. “You see, there is a state law | WA lan refugee, Count Beltrami, rested | Beltrami and his-party loft Fort 4n his famous canoe trip in 1824 and | Snelling, paddled up the:Mi; : wrote the beautiful descriptive letter |tc Big Stone lake, crossed the’divids to his sweetheart, for whom he named | at Brown's Valley into Lake .Tf: the lake. Have you ever read that|verse, paddled up the lake and: letter? Well, you should.. The state Red River of the North to, Lake Remnants!! Remnants!! Commencing Saturday Aug. 26 Calicos, ginghams, percales, dress goods, outing flanels, lawns, muslins, '$ in fact every sort of material. Rem- o nants are ends of bolts, from 1 yard to 8 or 10 yards, sometimes more in one piece. All can be put to some good use. Marked to Sell On Sight— Way Below Regular . Be here Saturday morning to . - e share in these bargains. : -B/G-DELARTMENT STORE “The Economy Center”’ Bemidji, Minnesota partment at the meeting of the city council and called attention to what he claims is the filthy condition of the city jail, or more particularly one of the cells in which women prison- ers are kept. The alderman stated that when a young girl was placed in the cell one night last week it was in such condition that no human be- ing should have been confined there, much less a young girl. Chief of Po- lice Eck denies this. complete. Below we give a bargain list containing many useful articles at very low prices. Look these over and you will be convinced of their worth. Weekly Bargain List One 18-inch saw arbor, suitable —_— for sawing short wood .$2.75 BEMIDJI INTO EXISTENCE One 14-inch circle saw for this THROUGH DIAMONL |@ arbor . . . ... ....... One 7% barrel, oval, galvanized people and growing every day. stoek watering tank , -$10-00 The townsite company, originally |f§ One 17-inch No. 3 farm the diamond hopers, are said to have |l "°% ........ .00 made upwards of $250,000 on their 1 good malleable range with property and still hold plats of land high closet and reservoir, worth at least half that amount. So slightly used but a rare the worthless bit of sparkling quart- bargain .. ...... $30.00 zite, or whatever it was, turned out portable blacksmith forge, indirectly to be a genuine diamond just the thing for a far- atter all IEE ooz ....$5.50 (Continued from Page 1.) - "'-éllllllllllllllllllIII||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|||IIII|||IlII|||IlII||IIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllfilll|IlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE This story of the founding of Be- 500 feet 3%-used wire cable, midji was told me by E. E. McDonald, good for stump pulling -, , 5o cne of the leading attorneys of Bel- One 1% pipe puller, a t;x;l;dy trami county, who has been instru- tool for the well di' e mental in the long, and finally suc- sger $1.00 cessful “efforts, to save the magnifi- |[§ On¢ $18.00 double suction cent grove of virgin Norway pine on washing machine, used but in the east shore of the lake from the Eootorder.,, ,;, ...$10.00 axe of the lumberjack. 1 water power washing ma- Having been taken on the 17-mile chine, slightly used but a drive around the lake by Ralph Ly- bargain ..$8.00 can, who stopped his car that we 1 combination vise and anvil might watch the sunlight on the cop- per trunks of the Norway giants and listen to the organ note of the wind through the tops, I asked him who owned the timber. ‘CITY’S DEAREST HOPE TC BUY PINE TRACTS “A rich lumberman,” he answered, “and it is going to be put at auction to the highest bidder, September 1, unless Bemidji can do something to save it.” s i “They can, I hepe,” I replied. “I guess they're going to make it all right,” replied young Mr. Lycan, “though it’s been a hard fight for |a long time. If you want to find out about it, you’d better see Mr. Mc- Donald, the lawyer. He can tell you all about it, as he's been handling the thing.” Mr. McDonald was glad to talk up- on a subject so near his heart as that of saving the pine trees. He plunged right into the matter, and his story cf the origin of Bemidji, which has first place in this article, was re- lated merely as an, afterthought hav- ing, in his mind, only a passing value 1 pipe vise , ., . ....... 25 barn door latches 200 ft. 2nd band chain_ 50 One 4-horse evener C. E. Batiles “Home of Good Hardware” Bemidji, Minn. Huffman & O'Loary FURNITURE AND ~ UNDERTAKING HN lom._!_\munl Director Phone 178-W or R = e T T T % w Bemidji, Minn, > ¥e ® 3 Phone 47 Phone 850 Final Clearance of the present season’s Women’s Outer Apparel This affords you women an oppoftu_nity, who want a high class garment for a very small price. Every gar- ment should go in this final clearance. ; Women's and. Misses Suifs Women's and Misses’ Silk Sults Suits of Wool, Poplin, Velour and Suits of taffeta, Gross de Londreand Checks. Suits that sold formerly to satin in black and navy colors. Suits $35.00 that sold formerly to $65 Final Clearance Final Clearance $7.05 $11.05 Misses’ Coats Women’s & Misses’ Coats Coats of Corduroy and novelties in Coats of Velours, Gabardine, Poplin sizes 14-16. ~Coats that sold to $7.50. and silk. Coats that sold formerly at Final Clearance $35.00, Final Clearance $3.9 $9.75 Take advantage of this Low Price On Wash Drgsses Dresses worth up to $10 at $3.98 ; These are the dresses you should buy, the values are extraordinary This assortment comprises imported voils, pure linens and etc., in sport and tailored styles. Final clearance . $3.95 * - Our new Fall apparel is arriving daily, Suits, Coats, Gowns and Dress-- esin tl_lg most desirable models for the coming season. 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