Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 16, 1916, Page 1

VTHE BEMIDJI D VOLUME XIV. NO. 224. ~FROHN FARMERS CLUB WINS FIRST PRIZEFOR EXHIBIT AT COUNTY FAIR Summit is Second; Better Farming 4 Club of Grant Valley is Third; ) » High Points Made. N\ ELEVENTH ANNUAL FAIR IS CLOSED Prizes are Awarded; List of Prize Winners Published; Fair Not a Big Success. The eleventh annual Beltrami county fair was closed last evening, not a big success, due to the weather during the three days of the fair. Cold, rainy weather kept large crowds from attending the fair and although gate receipts have not been checked out financially the fair will not be in the best of shape. As far as vege- . table and other exhibits are concern- d the fair was a success as - these “?qubus were above the average. The Mgock exhibits were not as large as they would have been had the weath- ar beén better. Frohn Club First. The Equitable Farmers’ club of Frohn was awarded first prize for its exhibit at the fair. It secured 851 points out of a possible 1,000. The Summit Farm club was second with 843 points; the Better Farming club of Grant Valley, third with 802 points; the Town of Northern Farm club, fourth with 698 points; the Pleasant Valley club fifth with 670 points. Judges completed the awarding of prizes late Friday afternoon. Vot Poultry Awards. 7 School children were awarded the following prizés for poultry. exhibits: Rhode Island Reds—1st, Catherine Merryman; 2nd, Edwin Merryman; 3rd, Luce Ness. ‘White Plymouth Rock—1st, Dick Simons; 2nd, Henry Simons; 3rd, Claire Vincent; 4th, Jack Melroy. White Leghorn — 1st, Gordon Smith; 2nd, John Smith; 3rd, Jane Lucas; 4th, J. Whiting; 5th, Thomas Johnson; 6th, Wilbur Johnson. o Stock Awarded. ' In the stock awards, W. G. Schroe- . (der was awarded first prize for the 7’ pest dairy herd. His cattle were awarded several prizes. The awards were as follows: Duroc Jersey Sow—1st, Blakeley. Any Other Breed—1st, Edwin Mer- ryman; 2nd, Roy Wright. Registered Duroc Jersey Boar— 1st, Charles Blakely. Registered Duroc Jersey 1st, Charles Blakely. Grade Berkshire Sow—1st, L. L. Lucas. Grade Poland China Sow—1st, Ed- win Merryman. Registered Stallion, 2 years—Ist, H. T, Blakely. Registered Charles Sow— Mare—1st, W. T. '\ Blakely. ¥ \ '\ 1 { l I¥: N 7 i \ Grade Draft Farm Horses—1st, E. Longrock; 2nd, Ole T. Hegland; 3rd, W. T. Blakely. Grade Draft Farm Mares— 1st, W. T. Blakely; 2nd, Roy Wright. Grade Draft Farm Horses—1st, W. T. Blakely; 2nd, Roy Wright. Broqd Mare with Colt—I1st, W. T. Blakely; 2nd, John Croon. \ Grade. Milk Breeds—Cow: st, gust Jarchow; heifer calf—1st, John Ingersoll; heifer, 2-year-old, Is'. August Jarchow; heifer, 1l-year-old, 1st, W. G. Schroeder. Beef Breed—Cow: 1st, Edwin Merryman, Holsteins—Cow, 18, W, G. Schroe der; 2nd, Blackduck. Stock. Hi Holstein heiter 2" years—1 G, Schroeder; 2nd Mm.t Ma‘ye r; 3rd, Lu Edwards. ' Registered Guernsey—Bull, 2 years Jarchy w&flugi;f'—flffte? wl year, 1st, | Augnst. Jarchow. Beet' Breeds—Calf, 1st, John In-| ge rsoxly H,erd,—»—ut‘ W. G. Sghroeder; rrznd. August.Jarchow; 3rd;L. H. Ed- Wards; 4th, Blackduck Stock Farm. Farm Teams—1st, W. T. Blakely; 2nd, E. Longrack; 3rd, George An- P. Blo Jersay Cow—1st, David Vincent ) ‘2nd, Claude Malzahn; 3tad, Augugt Jarchow. Heifer, 1 year—I1st, David Vin- cent. Heifer C —-l.st. John Harris; 2nd August Jarchow,’. - year—1st,'Roy_Wrjght. ‘Reglstered jernx Bull, 2 years— Iu W. G. Schroeder, 'Registered Hplatein Bull, 3 years— #v. G. Schroeder, / Registered Holstein Bufl. 2 years— /. 1st, Frohn Bull clhib; 2nd; L: W. Ede wards; 3rd, Blackduck Stock Farm: Holstein Heifer, 1 year old—1st, ‘Blackduck Stock Farm; 2nd, W. G. :Schroeder; 3rd, L. W. Edwards. - Holstein Calf—1st, W. G. Schroe- derson; 4th, W. H’ Cliftord; 5th, A. Regiitereq, Beef 3reed Bull, 1 BEMIDJ1. MINNESOTA. SATURDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 15, 1916, ; an ALLIESCAPTURE FLORI AFROMBULGAR MINNESOTA - HISTORICAL, \Kinoricnl Soclety X «’ v CENTS PER MONTH BOWLING ALLEYS TO BE OPENED TONIGHT The Gould bowling alleys, which have been repaired and remodeled, will be opened for the fall and win- ter season tonight. Plans will be made in the near future to form a city bowling league. DEAD MAN IS S. M. BRANDON OF DEER RIVER S. M. Brandon of Deer River was the man who fell dead on the Ny- more pavment early Friday afternoon. His wife arrived in Bemidji last night. Brandon had been in the city for several days. He was a brother of Mrs. Matt Nolan, living north of Lake Be- midji. The body will be shipped to Deer River for burial. BRAZIL'S CENSUS IS PADDED OVER 14,000,000 (By United Press) Rio re Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 16.— The Brazilian government has just issued an official estimate placing the country’s population at 26,542, 000 souls. Experts here agree that this is all right up to about 12,000,- 000. Beyond that point they say the estimate includes the Indian inhab- ntants of a vast interior region which no white man has ever seen. Consequently they declare that 14, 542,000 of the estimate is a mere wildcat guess. ? ELKS' CARNIVAL IS WIDELY ADVERTISED — The Elks’ carnival which will be held in Bemidji October 5 and 6 at the armory is being advertised wide- ly. Bills proclaiming the carnival are being posted in neighboring vil- lages and towns and along the high- ways and the byways. It is believed that a large number of out-of-town people will attend the carnival. The Elks’ committees are energet- ically working completing plans for the carnival, which promises to be theé biggest funfest Bemidji' has ever nad. WILLIAMS MAN WRITES POETRY OF COUNTY The Williams Northern Light, pub- lished by Editor Sherman, has found a county poet. He is Horatio Brown of Potamo township, an excellent writer of verse. Mr. Brown has writ- ten several poems in regard to Bel- trami county. One poem, entitled “Northern Beltrami County,” is as follows: Here is the clime of nature’s calm, A peaceful land of growing wealth The air is pure—a living balm Giving to all both life and health. Thru all the earth has nature roved, Crowning her path with blissful gems; Passing this way she sweetly posed, And clothed our land with diadems, | She gave the restful gleaming green, Clothed th pine-wood and the vale, The waving grass—a welcome scene, Doth tp{em the heart like fairy ale, She gnve the’ ydge bu!.gn the She gav: e dee; til 1, QShe ;mr(lll !?; llkeg.atda rocks, $la To bless mankind in all his toil, And all the ‘‘Blue’. of many miles, And in her sweet and lofty looks She kissed our; shorm with all her smilefi. 1, She gave us fruits md roses red, Myriad flowers with rain and dew; And ’'neath her. wings the landscape sprea With’ wol ~wood fruits. both red and “blue.” STEALS nm o TRAIN; ms m"ék T YEARS nesofa &: Integiati “13 g eptation way, got a surprige whep a stranger bnlyht a roufid trip ticket to Bemidii, paying $3.90 for it, and presented it to the ‘general, offices here, stating that seven years ago he. had ‘beaten the| company out of such a fare, and it had bothered him ever since and to ease his conscience he came to Brain- erd and squared up. COUNTY ATTORNEY [BEMIDJI'S TAX TORRANCE HEADS BELTRAMI COUNTY G. 0. P. LEAGUE Organization Meeting is Held at the City Hall; About Fifty in Attendance. E. H. DENU IS NAMED SECRETARY-TREASURER County Committee of 28 to Be Named to Aid in Big Campaign in County. County Attorney Graham M. Tor- rance was chosen as chairman of the She mpbno&g ('.lenp. the bays, thel! Beltrami County Republican commit- tee at a meeting held at the city hall last evening. E. H. Denu was named secretary- treasurer. About 50 Republicans attended the meeting. The chairman, secretary-treasurer and Committeeman T. S. Ervin will meet soon and will select a county committee of 28 to carry on an ac- tive campaign. The 28 members of the committee will be named from different parts of the county. Plans are being made to wage an extensive campaign in this county within the next three or four weeks. ST. PAUL CHURCHES TO ADVERTISE SERVICES (By United Press) St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 16.—A full page of newspaper display advertis- ing of church activities, to be printed in each Saturday afternoon news- paper in the city, is being planned by the St. Paul Ministerial associa- tion. VETERAN RAILWAY MEN HOLD MEET (By United Press) St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 16.—Track- walkers, section men, skilled locomo- tive engineers and high railroad offi- cials met on democratic basis of be- ing veterans in the same service, to- day. It was the annual meeting of the Veteran' association of the Great Northern railroad, held at the rail- road and bank building, which was one of J. J. Hill’s last additions to St. Paul’'s architectural achieve- ments. Five hundred veterans were present. DRESS-UP AND GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY, 0OCT. 1 Bemidji will have a Dress-Up and Go-to-Church Sunday, October 1. Ef- forts are being .made:to make. Be- midji’s Dress-Up week, Sept. 30 to Oct. 7, one of the biggest events of the year. TAFT AND BURTON T0 STUMP FOR HUGHES Chicago, Sept. 16.—Former Presi- dent William H. Taft, former Sena- tor Th 2. Byl rton -Henry Topk of N speak | ghanwnd nn i West- '.Qs 1 was, ifced. today. jedules, will be; qnnpunead na l'ew days. 0 B5 COMDLCTRD T. A. Erickson, state leader of boys’ and girls’ club work in _the state of Minnesota has announced.: s nesy, test in cow testing, whigh . will launched in the near. tutui'e. and; in which it is expected a. Igr; m! from this ¢ity; apa q @ vicinity wfl? m 3 ticipate. The se ol the, ¢ i$ to bring:abont more fsm! djtiong with the' yoq_ng me] re- cprdlng the. production~of-m a.nd butter.fat; thereby dlnungulsl; mmls animal; from 'the, ' Iy ine that is not paying for.the expe ense in- |4 curred in its. care, OI.D POHTIM DIES IN MILWAUKEE | (By United Press) Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 12.—Alder- man Henry Smith, prominent in' Wis- consin politics since the Civil war, died this morning. RATE HIGH IN COMPARISON T0 - OTHER CITIES Brainerd Dispatch Compiles State- ment Showing Rate in 24 Cities. TOTAL MILLS IN THIS CITY IS 97 Staples Rate 101.60; Grand Rapids 99.95; Rate in Brainerd is 46.50. Brainerd has during the past few weeks had a tax discussion during which the Brainerd Dispatch com- piled a statement showing the tax rate in twenty-four cities, including Bemidji. Bemidji .is third from the highest in the<list,- being surpassed only by Staples and Grand Rapids. The table shows rates as follows: City County Tax and Rate School State Total ‘ Mills Mills Mills: Mills Bemidji ...... 32.40 26.90 19.70 79.00 Grand Rapids..39.00 35.30 25.65 99.95 Staples .......50.00 42.00 9.60 101.60 Stillwater ....18.45 12.00 11.55 42.00 St. Cloud .....20.40 15.60 11.00 47.00 Wadena 17.50 26.30 13.70 57.50 Anoka .. 17.76 22.40 10.84 651.00 Red Wing ....16.95 12.40 10.65 40.00 Grand Forks..18.90 26.20 17.30 62.40 Alexandria ...23.10 26.00 8.20 57.30 Rochester 19.30 17.37 9.33 46.00 Detroit ... 14.90 23.00 1210 50.00 Crookston . ... (Details not given) 56.00 Cloquet ...... 24.80 15.80 12.70 53.30 Minneapolis . ..21.10 10.68 7.58 2.936 Aitkin ........ 23.20 24.70 10.10 65.00 Owatonna 5 15.23 9.50 46.00 Austin o 26. 22.90 10.85 60.50 | Ferrus Falls.12.70° 26:80 . 1330 ~55.50 Little Falls...15.30 21.20 _15.50 52.00 E. G'nd Forks..29.00 36.80 11.20 77.00 St. Paul ...... 2490 8.40 13.30 46.60 Inter. Falls...28.80 17.15 21.15 67.10 Brainerd ..... 10.50 21.25 1475 46.50 (87 1. W. W. MEN ARE ARRESTED IN SCRANTON Scranton, Pa., Sept. 16.—Bail in the aggregate sum of $935,000 was demanded of 187 Industrial Workers of the World who were given hear- ings yesterday for participation in the forbidden meeting raided in Old Forge Thursday, and which resulted in 267 arrests by Sheriff Phillips, a dozen deputies and 20 state troopers. Each defendant was fined $10 for disorderly conduct. None gave bonds or paid the fine and all went back to the county jail. The charges prefer- red against them were unlawful as- sembly, forcible entry, conspiracy, me:tting to riot and disorderly con- dud BIRCHMONT HOTEL T0 CLOSE THURSDAY The Birchmont Beach summer ho- tel will ‘cloge- for the, season. next "Phursday, Sept. 21, after one-of the best symmer seasons that Bemidjl has ever had.: A special Sunday dhmer wfll be served at the hotel tomorrow eve- ning at six o’clock. A number of parties from Bemidji have planned to uttend the dinner. ks, 5. HOHLER DIES AT HOME IN NORTHERN Mn Demp M T dled st ulx mnlng at her home in Qficp i tow, Northern after an ill- neu of t ree months. She is survived by her husband and seven children, her mother; Mrs. Wright, and ber-.sisters, Mrs.:>J, ,Stol;l it Mfi N’z‘v;*m est, Mln\: »-and Mrs, Klag ibing, and two hvothers. A ‘Wright, i M!L ‘The, funeral be.]uld from thc ‘\'r B chttrch in nmxy( Sunday af- \ternoon two o qloq IN CflEMlCA[ EXflOSlflN | niwd i Plttlbnrgh Pa., s.,‘i.'t"u —Four men were killed and many others were injured this morning in an ex- plosion that wrecked the Aetna Chemical company. “.’.’%“‘%y ot- NO' VIOLENCE REPORTED IN MEXICAN CELEBRATION (By Dnited Press) Juarez, Mexico, Sept. 16.—Historic ceremonies are marking the observ- ance of Mexican Independence Day to- day. Violence is expected but none RUSSIAN, FRENCH AND SERBIANS CO-OPERATE AND TAKEGREEK TOWN British Cross Struma, Attacking Bul- garians at Dzammn.h Komaja Villages. GERMAN ATTACKS ON SOMME ARE REPULSED has been reported. Bemidji national banks were to- day notified that the comptroller of call for a statement of the condition | BUsSO-Rumanian Troops are Retreat- of national banks at the close of busi- ing North of Dobrudja, Wires ments will show a gain of about 16 per cent in deposits over a year (By United Press) London, Sept. 16.—It is reported y ians, co-operating, have captured the PRESIDENT WILSONS important Greek town of Florina SISTER IS DEAD Aoy el London, Sept. 16.—The official British have.crossed the Struma and New London, Conn., Sept. 16.— |mimah Komaja villages aldng ' the Mrs. Annie Howe, only sister, of |UPPer and lower Gudeli. ~Artillery this morni Her broth Ji h, froat. nin er : 8. rother, Josep! Attmkl Repnlml, Wilson were at the bedside when |north and south of th death came. - President Wilson was|peen repulsed. 2 " Fomme dent won’t come here. The ‘body will be shipped to South Carolina for| Rome, Sept. 16.—The Italians aw will accompany the funeral party.|front from Goritz to the sea. The President Wilson has cancelled his |Alstrian line has been broken in sev- Russians Defeated. JURY lNCREASES Berlin, Sept. 16.—The kaiser has have severely defeated the Russo-Ru- manians. (Editor’s note—Bucharest DAMAGE AWARD has officially admitted that the Russo- ' Bulgars Retreat. A jury in the district court in the Salonlka, Sept. 16.—The Serbians Northern Pacific Railway company |disorderly retreat -back toward the . and the Minnesota & International|Serbo-Greek frontier. The Bulgarian fendant $875 damages. This was the second trial, a jury at the last term Suit was brought for - |Joined the Serbs and the French on ] &l $3,000 dam- |46 allied right wing in the Batkans b four Greek villages. The Bul din against Anton Rones returned a Burn; verdict in favor of the defendant. have evacuated Kastoria, Summit Mercantile company against Lnndun, Sept. 16.—It is officially Oliver S. Rustad ordered a verdict;reported that the British troops have ant not appearing. the Foureaux woods. A violent bat- ) tle is raging north of the Somme, Gen- whole village of Courcellette, Martin, 75,000 WORKERS lN Puich and Flers is firmly in British Washington, Sept. 16.—The Brit- ish blockade has again become a mat- New York, Sept. 16.—Driving|New British orders on allied en- against what they declare to be Mor- | croachments upon neutral rights all unionism, the Central Federated|satisfaction into a live issue. Union today submitted to individual ——m——— pathetic strike. Twenty thousand longshoremen F LAYS MET“()DS OF a sympathetic strike and walked out this morning. Twenty-five thousand: PRESIDENT WILS()N fore dight.. Union leaders say that nished the traction companies, will|man H. T. Helgesen, who has just re- strike. turned to the state, declared last dent Wilson’s failure to handle tha FmE railroad strike situation when it first and the failure also of Chairman C AU‘S S BIG DA Afi Adamson_ of the house h;tepqute com- A Tr,x“ ium;) I:ha& ges betcl;u the erican public as the result By, United Press) s o kgoet in the W. S. Nott, leather bomn arbitratfon of compulsory legislation. rubber goods, I,JIG Janney, . Semplé| “I believe they favor compulsory morning: ‘It threatened a milllon cayse it-afforded a wi ’ay out of the | doHar stook,. strike and the strike would be of serious than we of the west can ap- unopposed for. re-election, urged--by|and probably when a few tems of frlends in; his district as, epeaker of | thousands had died we would have BEMIDII BANKS currency at Washington had issued a ness Sept. 12. The Bemidji state- Kaiser. ago, it is reported, that the Russmns, French and Serb- from the Bulgars. statement. today states that. the (By United Press) are attacking the Bulgarians at Dza- President Wilson, died at 6:30 o'clogk | Sucis 8%¢ in operation on, the Doiron sons and daughter and Miss Margaret Paris, Sept. 16.—German nuackn notified at Ashbury Park. The presi- On. Offensive. burial. President and Mfs. Wilson |OR the offensive on the whole Izonzo engagements for next week. eral places. telegraphed that the Central Powers Rumanians are retreating north dl_ case. of Frank Bertram against the!are driving the -defeated. Bulgars in: Railway company awarded the de-|losses are 1,500. of court returning a verdict for $750,| Faris, Sept. 16.—Russians have A jury in the case of Charles Wel- and have driven the Bulgars from Judge Stanton in the case of the - British Advance, in favor of the plaintiff, the defend-|thrust forward 500 yards north of eral Haig officially reported. The hands. NEW YORK TO STRIKE Blockade Up Again, (By United Press) ter of first diplomatic importance. gan interests in attempting to burst |threaten to kindle the smoldering dis~ unions recommendations for a sym- and boatmen answered the call for machinists are expected to strike be- 75,000 workers whose product fur-| F@rso, N. D., Sept. 16.—Congresg- night in an interview here that Presi- MILL CIT came to his attention a full year ago, ‘| mittee ‘was_ without Minnospoiie, Mind., Sont 6 || passage of: the Adamson bill is that gl‘gxtt mgos'azo o3m rd.me a.rl:};.r:;{:: for the Adamson .bill be- NEWS OIT tremendous seriousness. in the con- i } - eciate. Within a week people tl;n ouse in the next.legislafure. - |had a civil war. And I.do not speak SHOW GOOD GAIN of whether we shall have compulsory gested districts of the east, far more ROD G. W. Burrows, Breckenridze. would. have been dying of 'starvation ~Rey. P. H. Rognlie, in the figurative sense either.” Hip: Minn, who eld siate property fof| " Mr. Helegesen i3 conident of Ft. Ridgely. state park, offers-to gell | Hughes' election, declaring that the ttate additiona builfllngs and finds did cans {:heyt were included in eeda to park ::“ ::: ;:']?.?n}:fpnb“ made’s rac i E. L. :Thoraton, thlnnln, Repub- Sttt el o DALY HEADS MINNESOTA for 2 3’3:‘:.‘.,‘5:’;‘;“.0:%*;"“ o DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE mitteeman, go'to; City council of Bt. Minp., votes; to advertise for\ e% peti plans for new munuipa bailding 'to 'Houge clp‘.y hall, jail nn4—llre enggpe station, . (By United Pren) | Minneapolis, Minn., 'Sept: 16.— xnls Daly ;of, Mnnu.om WS Vernon Bufley. 14, Parlsr. ted ch‘lrml.n. and w.lllhn Qunn, was half starved when found in l‘t St. Paul, secret; _the’ executiver Dodge, Ia. Said he had run away|comimittes ot’ mflr’ &momue State from home to escape hazing by high | Central committee todty. Both ac- school comrades. cepted. : Kastoria Evacuated,