Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 29, 1916, Page 1

- JO BURN CHURCH VOLUME XIV. NO. 287. & - THE BEMIDJ1 DATLY P10 BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1916, o e FORTY CENTS PER MONTH SPECIAL SERVICES IN CHURCHES WILL MARK OBSERVANCE OF THANKSGIVING Union Services to Be Held at the Baptist Church at Ten-Thirty 0'Clock. STORES AND BUSINESS HOUSES TO BE CLOSED Poor Will Be Remembered by Chari- table Institutions; Prisoners Remembered. Bemidji will observe Thanksgiving LOMOrrow and business closed. stores Schools, houses will be The Pioneer will not be published 50 as to give the Pioneer employes a holiday ) local charitable organizations are see- poor will be remembered and ing that their needs are taken care of. the county jail will added to lheirl Prisoners at have a few dainties annaal unlon Thanksiving ico Of the Presbyterian, Metho-! and Baptist urches will be held ! » Baptist chur at 10:30 | Rev Les P Wartord of mass tn ll 1e o'clock to- Rev. Fr. John J.| Litlippe Il deliver the sermot At the First Scandinavian Lut wirch services will be held evenl at e t o'clock will be 1n nyg lan- | Rey the | | ving sermon in the| an church will be ® o'clock in the x~\:*~l H Randahl. pastor sermot pr pastor ot | | Science Thanks will be held in the tomorrow morning at eleven | will be held in the Sal-| my hall tomorrow evening t o'clock. | Hotel Markham will serve a 1l Thanksgiving dinner in the! ing. Tables should be reserved. | t Dairy Lunch announces ‘ent dinner tomorrow | FOURTEEN CANDLES T0 BE SNUFFED OUT AT LODGE OF SORROW When departed the names of the fourteen members of the Bemidji| lodge of Elks are called Sunday af- ternoon at the Elks' lodge of sorrow at the Grand theater, there will be no response but the flickering of the can- dles which will be placed across the stage of the theater in their memory. A3 there is no response the candles will be snuffed out. Two members of the Elks of Be- midji have died during the past year. They are Tom Symons and Willis Wyman. The other twelve departed members are George A, Markham, Patrich A. Walsh, Edson C. Eggleston, Harry McCabe, George A. Hanson, Fred D. Stillings, Fred F. Eberlein, Vincent L. Ellis, Ches- ter Gracie, A. L.. Wyler, James Lap- pen and Ernest J. Holler. The program at the lodge of sor- row Sunday will be very beautiful and Bemidji citizens are urged to attend. The program will be as follows: Selection by the Burchard orchestra: invocation by Rev. B. D. Hanscom; opening ceremonies by the lodge: solo by Miss Elizabeth Erickson; reading by Miss Vera Backus; selec- tion by Burchard's orchestra; ad- dress by Adolph O. Eberhart, former governor of Minnesota; solo by Miss Ida Virginia Brown:; closing cere- monies by lodge; benediction. MORTGAGE TOMORROW The feature of the jubilee to be held in the Swedish Lutheran church Thanksgiving evening will be the burning of the $500 mortgage against the church. The program will consist of ad- dresses in both the English and Swedish languages and vocal and in- strumental numbers. A lunch will be served after the sTORram. The publie is invited to attend. “ HERMIT” IS THE ADJUDGED INSANE Gottleiv Hoffman, who lives In the town of Wabanica and who Is known as “The Hermit,” was adjudged in- sane in the probate court today. i low * ® R NN KRR KK * * * : CROP SHOW NOTES : * By B. M. GILE he * School Agriculturist * I A R R R R R R R R R RN The crop show will be held in Be- midji Thursday, Friday and Satur- day, Dec. 7, § and 9, Entries will close Wednesday ove- ning, Dec. 6, at 6 p. m. Exhibits required will be one peck of potatoes, twelve ears of corn, one cockrel and two pullets. The corn, potatoesr and poultry must be from this year's production, with the ex- ception of the special prizes offered on the highest scoring cock and hen. Premiums are offered on the fol- lowing eight standard varieties ot potatoes: Green Mountain (Carmen No. 1), Rural New Yorkers (Carmen No. 8), Burbanks, Russets, Red Bliss Triumph, Early Ohio, Cobbler, King (Maggy Murphy). For the sweep- stakes a peck a Round End Metal Stock Tank valued at $15.40 will be given. The potato honors will be strongly contested for from all over Northern Minnesota. Anyone win- ning a prize in this show may well teel proud of his ability to select seed true to type. There will be forty entries in the local potato contest among the boys and girls and there are nineteen prizes to be awarded. The boy or girl who shows the best peck of pota- toes of any variety will be given a $15 writing desk by the St. Hilaire Lumber company. There are thirteen young pioneers in growing corn in Beltrami county who witl have twenty ears each on exhibit. It takes nerve to enter a corn contest following such a year as 1915, when practically all local seed w lost threugh early | frosts. | cast at the election. “WETS” GAIN FIVE |PLANS FOR GRADE VOTES IN OPTION | SCHOOL INNYMORE CONTEST; BRIEFS | WARD SUBMITTED 10 BE SUBMITTED| TO SCHOOL BOARD Five Blank Ballots are Given to Wet | Eight Architects Meet With School Side by Judge Stanton of Dis- triot Court, LEAD OVER DRYS IS . NOW NINETEEN VOTES Legality of 59 Red Lake Indian Votes Questioned; Arguments to Be Made December 21. The *“‘wets’ gained ..ve votes Tues- day in the county option election contest when five blank ballots were counted as ‘‘wet” by Judge C. W. Stanton of the district court. A re- cent supreme court decision held that blank ballots in the county option election should be counted for the Cwets."” The majority of the “‘wets"” is now 19 votes. There were 3,129 votes The canvassing Be sure and see the corn grown by | board reported 1.555 yes, 1,669 no these young people. Liberal premiums are also offered adults on corn. Premiums will be awarded on Minnesota 13, or an other yellow dent, Minnesota Northwestern dent, white dent, ye¢ fint, sweet corn and pop corn. For the best twelve ears of any va- riety a corrugated steel pump valued at §15 will be given. » poultry show promis best collection of high cl; to be ss birds r shown in Bemidji. Premiums offered on all the standard birds. Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds and trred Plymouth Roek are the classes where competition promises to be the keenest There will be no entry fee. Neither will there be any admission fee. The show will be housed on the spacious second tloor of Battles’ Hardware store. Bemidji business men who have donated prizes are requested to exhibit them in the windows of their stores or send them to the show, properly tagged with the name of the firm and saowing on which the ar- ticle is offered as a premium. All premiums so received will be exhib- ited in the front windows of the Battles Hardware store. hibitors are requested to bring exhibits by Wednesday noon of next if possible, and to leave them at the show headquarters. STANTON QUINTET DEFEATS POPP TEAM| In the Bemidji league Tuesday night the Stanton team de- Bowling teated the Popp team by 45 pins. The | scores were, Stanton team 2,284; ! Popp team, 2,239. POPP Marcum 135 178 159 Cords 143 176 166 Feir .. 13 100 24 Blind . .. 162 118 176 Popp 157 204 185 Totals 776 810 Total pins- i STANTON Herbert 190 135 Klein ... 157 139 Parmalee 190 154 Blind 207 170 Stanton ........ 170 170 Totals 914 713 Total pins The game between the Gould and King teams scheduled for tonight has been postponed to next Sunday af- ternoon. ENTERTAINMENT FOR CHARITIES EXCELLENT Of unusual interest was the enter- tainment given in the Methodist church last evening by Miss Beth Evans of Bemidji and Miss Florence Levins of Crookston. The entertain- ment was given under the auspices of the Assoclated Charities. The program consisted of solos, readings, both classical and humor- ous, pianologues and old songs in old tashioned costumes. Miss Evans {8 a graduate of the Minnesota School of Music. Miss Leviny {w a graduate of the North- western School of Oratory of Chi- cago. The melodies of Miss Evans were clear and showed to advantage the charming quality of her volce. She has a soprand voice of clear note and great power, Migs Levins possesses dramatic ability and her were clever and versatile, The pleasing personality, musical and literary ability of the two young' ladles, with the varied program they offered ,impressed the large and ap- preciative audience, unusual readings Born, to Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Gould, Tuesday, Nov. 28 ,1916. a daughter. { meeting Tuesday, Dec. 5, and flve blank ballots. All the evidence was submitted for Judge Stanton Tuesday and Dec. 5 was set for the filing of briefs. Ar- guments will be made Dec. 21. The “drys’ question the Red Lake Indian vote. There are 65 Indians at the agency, of whieh six have allot- ments and have votes. The balance, 59 votes ,are questioned. W. F. Dickens on the witness stand stated that he was of the opinion that several minors had voted at the election. The question of the Indian vote is very important. It does not alone affect the county option election, but it affects the vote of the Indians in this state. Attorneys H. J. Loud, M. J. Brown and John L. Brown are presenting the case for the “‘dry’ advocates. COUNTY FAIR MEN ~TO HOLD ANNUAL- MEETING TUESDAY The Beltrami County Agricultural association will hold its annual at the Be- midji Commercial club rooms. Officers will be elected and a dele- gate will be appointed to attend the state meeting in St. Paul in January. The present officers of the fair are A. P. White, president; A. P. Ritchile, vice president: (. F. Schroeder, sec- retary, and R. H. Schumaker, treas- urer. SHAVITCH BROTHERS GIVE PANTS AWAY The Shavitch Bros. clothing store is giving away one-year-old baby pants. The pants are reproductions of “his big brother's pants,” made of fit a baby one year old. Each pair is packed separately in a very attractive carton, decorated with a drawing of a stork and con- taining a card of congratulations. The card of congratulations placed in each box bears the picture of a stork, on one side holding a baby, and on the other side the following lines: “We congratulate you upon the arrival of the new baby and hope that he will grow up to be o strong, healthy boy. Please eccept for him this garment which is presented with the compliments of 2ui house in the fond hope that ne may in the years to come always remember that he got his first pair of pants from the Shavitch Bros. clothing store, “These pants are Marx Made, *he kind that mother never has to wend. They will fit your son when he is one year old.” STATE OFFICIAL EXAMINES RECORDS A. J. Linden, Pine River, special public examiner, is in Bemidji ex- amining the records of school dis- tricts. MERCHANTS VOTE AID FOR BIG CROP SHOW At a meeting of the Bemidji Mer- chants association Tuesday it was voted to spend $150 of the Fourth of July fund to aid the big crop show which will be held in Bemidjl dur- ing the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association meeting. A marriage license was issued to- day to Clyde Stokes of Clearbrook and L. Mary Smith of Aure. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Sathre and son, Forrest, will go to Crookston to- morrow where they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs, J. (. Sathre during Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rhoda have gone to Long Prairie to spend their Thanksgiving with Mr. Rhoda's par- ents, Officers and Discuss the New Building. PLANNED TO BEGIN STRUCTURE IN SPRING Plans Provide for Building to Be Constructed at Cost of $25,000 to $40,000. Eight architects appeared before the Bemidji public school board at a meeting at the high school last eve- ning and submitted plans for a new grade school building to be con- structed in Nymore. The plans provided for the con- struction of a grade school at a cost of from $25,000 to $40,000. A grade school in Nymore must be constructed and it is the plan of the board to secure an architect, ac- cept a plan and then submit the mat- ter to the vote of the people for a bond issue. No action was taken on the plans last night but a special meeting will be held next Monday evening when an architect will probably be selected. Tom Johnson, Bemidji architect, submitted plans for a two-story building to cost $34,000. He also submitted plans for the remodeling of the Central grade school at a cost of about $4,000. By remodeling the building three more rooms would be secured. William P. Allred, Duluth archi- tect, submitted plans for a $39,654 and a $28,574 building. E. F. Broomhall of Duluth sub- mitted plans for a two-story building to cost $33,000. He is the architect of the new Bagley school which is in the course of construction. He also designed the Mahnomen, Red Lake Falls and Carlton schools. I. E. Ellerbe, St. Paul architect, submitted a plan for a beautiful one- gtory, eight-roomn ~ building. The building could be constructed at a cost of about $40,000. Mr. Ellerbe also submitted plans for a two-story $40,000 building. Mr. Ellerbe was formerly building inspector at St. Paul and has since been the archi- tect of buildings constructed by the Dr. Mayos at Rochester. Mr. Kelly, representing Kelly & Williams, architects of Duluth, sub- mitted a two-story plan for a $28,- 000 and a $37,600 building. This firm recently designed the Morgan Park school at Duluth. 0. A. Braseth, representing Haxby & Braseth, architects of Fargo, sub- mitted plans for a $30,000 and a 27,000 building. This firm drew the plans for the library and the Mark- ham hotel annex in Bemidji. Mr. Sullivan, representing the Du- luth firm of Ellerbe,Rood-Sullivan, submitted drawings of a $32,00u building. Plans made by the Croft-Bolver Co., architects of Duluth, for a $35,- 000 building were submitted. All the members of the school board were present at the meeting last night. A letter was read from H. E. Flynn, inspector for the high school board, in which he pointed out that some arrangement must be made im- mediately to relieve the present con- gested condition. The letter in part said: ‘‘The ser- vice you are rendering Nymore f{s very satisfactory. * * * I desire to call attention to the crowded condi- tion of the grade and high schools. This must have serious consideration. Ten classes in the high school exceed the maximum enrollment of 30. Twelve of the 26 grade rooms exceed the maximum enrollment of 40." The school board decided to re- quest the city council to aid in se- curing the services of Miss Bessie Burns, school nurse, for the entire school year. It was pointed out that she was really a ‘‘community nurse” and that the city should pay its share. It was thought that the city council would appropriate $26 per month. A committee of the school board will meet with the city coun- cil at the next session of the council. Hans Sand and A. Wold appeared before the board and requested that some arrangements be made for the transporting of children from the north end of the city to and from school. K .K. Roe was named to in- vestigate this matter, Dr. G. M. Palmer was appointed to investigate the fuel situation. FOURTEEN YEAR OLD WILTON GIRL TO WED A wedding license was issued at the office of the clerk of court today to Harry Burke of Bemidjl and Miss Agnes Saxton of Wilton. Miss Saxon is 14 years of age. WOUNDED HUNTER'S CONDITION IS SAME Thé condition of Angus Chisholm, who was shot Monday by eight deer hunters, is reported to be the same .today at St. Anthony's hospital. LR R R R R R R R RS E R x : TELEGRAPH NEWS * * (By United Press) * R R T I MEXICAN SITUATION, El Paso, Nov. 29.—Carranzista of- ficlals today admitted that Chihua- hua City had fallen to Villa. It is reported that Vvilla dominates all of the state of Chihuahua. Carranza defenders in the besieged city have been split into two regiments, one routed north and the other south. HIGH COST OF LIVING. Pittsburgh, Nov. 29.—As a result of a boycott, turkey went down to five cents & pound this morning. House- wives refused to buy at the extreme- ly high prices that speculators de- manded. A panic seized the specu- lators and the prices descended from 35 to 18 cents. Still the housewives refused to buy. The majority of the speculators are now selling for five cents. Albert Wittmer, philantrophist, who secured a large supply of tur- keys at 17 cents and sold for four cents, sold out early today and was unable to secure any more. Washington, Nov. 29.—The de- partments of agriculture, commerce and postoffice have been leagued in an attempt to check the high cost of living. Boycotts, dictatorship, food embargo, government price control and parcel post co-operation have all been suggested. EUROPEAN WAR. Washington, Nov. 29.—Sinister indications of German guilt in the Marino torpedoing coupled with ap- parently the innocent sinking of the American steamer Chemung, served again today to accentuate official un- casiness over German-American re- lations. London, Nov. 29.—Mackenson's forces have progressed from the new- ly captured town of Giurgiu to the Danube. Paris, Nov. 29.—Allied forces con- tinue to progress north and west of Monastir. The war office today stated that there was nothing to report except Somme arsillerying. Washington, Nov. 29.—Ambassa- dor Gerard and President Wilson will meet late this afternoon to dis- cuss Belgian deportations. Petrograd, Nov. 29.—The Rus- sians have captured the ridges and heights eastward and southward of Kidlibaba in southeastern Bukowina on the Carpathians. Berlin, Nov. 29.—The British command in a dense fog near Given- chy attacked the Germans and was repulsed. Falkenhayn has vigorously ad- vanced on the whole Wallachian front. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS Washington, Nov. 29.—The navy department today awarded contracts for the comstruction of 18 submar- ines to the Electric Boat company at $614,000, three submarines to the California Shipbuilding company at $698,000 each, one 1,1800 ton sub- marine to the Electric Boat company at $1,089,000 and another 1,800 ton boat to the Lake Torpedo 3oat com- pany at $1,195,000. MANY FARMERS ARE EXPECTED AT INSTITUTE Saturday, December 9, will be a big day in Bemidji . Practically ev- ery farmer and his family living in this community will be in Bemidji on that date and will attend the farmers’ institute, see the big crop show and meet neighbors and friends. At noon on that day the Bemidji business men will be hosts at a ban- quet to be served in the high school building by the domestic science classes. The program will be as follows: 9 to 10:30 a. m.—Attend the crop show. - 10:45 a. m.—Music by the Junior high school chorus, directed by Miss Rosa Kierland. 11 a. m.—*"Seed Potato Types and Southern Markets,” by C. E. Brown. 11:456 a. m.—Address of welcome by Earle A. Barker, president of the Bemidji Merchants' association. Noon—Dinner. 1 p. m.—Music by the high school quarette. 1:16 p. m.—"Co-operative Cream- eries,” by Mr. McKerron. 1:46 p. m.—*"Poultry Feeding and Management,” by N. E. Chapman. 2:16 p. m.—*Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work,” by Prof. T. A. Erickson. 2:46 p. m.—Ten-minute talks by farmers from different localities. BASKET BALL TEAM T0 PRACTICE FRIDAY The Bemidji city basket ball team will hold its first practice Friday af- ternoon at 5:30 o'clock. Basket ball players are urged to be at the armory promptly so that the team can be or- ganized. MOULSTER ACQUITTED ON GRAFT CHARGE Walker, Minn,, Nov. 29.-—Fred Moulster, commissioner of Cass coun- ty, charged with misappropriating county, funds in connection with the recent investigation, was found not guilty by the verdict of a jury ren- dered Monday. *\PRIZES AWARDED FORONE ACRECORN AND ONE-EIGHTH ACRE SPUDCONTEST Easl Cook of Puposky Wins First Prize in Potato Contest With a Soore of 73. COUNTY HAS 21 ORGANIZED CLUBS Robbie Swenson Wins First Prize in One Acre Corn Contest With Score of 88.8. Prizes have been awarded for the Beltrami county one-eighth acre po- tato contest and one acre corn con- test which were conducted during the past season for school children by the Beltrami County Fair association. Barl Cook of Puposky won first prize in the one-eighth acre potato contest with a score of 73 and a yield of 61.1. The first prize is $15. Other prizes are: Walter Frost, Be- midji, second $10, score 71.4; Ella Luadtke, Bemidji, third, $7.50, score 67.5; Wilhelm Gripp, Nebish, fourth, $5, score 66.3; Leonal Alton, Ny- more, fifth, $3, score 65.1; John Stillwell, Bemidji, sixth, $3, score 64.8; Bessie Cook, Puposky, seventh, $3, score 64.6; Done Willett, Bemidji, eighth, $3, score 64.3; Lynd Karls, Blackduck, ninth, $3, score 63.5; Ar- thur Arntson, Quiring, tenth, $3, score 63; William Stillwell, Bemidji, eleventh, $3, score 62; Arthur Mil- ler, twelfth, $3, score 60.9. The basis of awards in the potato contest were as follows: ‘1. greatest yield, 40 points, 2. financial report showing cost of production and get gain, valuing crop at 50 cents per bushel, 25 points; 3. exhibit of 12 potatoes at county fair, 20 points; 4. essay, “How 1 Raised My Crop of Potatoes,” 15 poinus. One hundred and fifty-one students began the potato contest and 30 fin- ished. Robbie Swenson won the first prize in the one acre contest. He had a score of 88.§. The prize is §15. Other prizes are Walter Miller, sec- ond, $10. score 88.3; Malcolm Berg, third, § score 76.6; Archie Bowers, fourth, $5, score 64.1; Bert Brennan, fifth, $3, score 61.6; Enger Willett, sixth, $3, score 59.2; Ken- neth Mayer, seventh, $3, score 58.7; John Harris, eighth, $3, score 58.3. The basis of awarding prizes in this contest was as follows: For the greatest yield, 50 points: for the best financial statement showing economy of production, 23 points: for the best exhibit of six ears of corn at county fair, 15 points: for the best story on “How I Grew My Crop of Corn,” 10 points. The judges were W. B. Stewart, county superintendent of schools, A. -| P. Ritchie, Bemidji postmaster, and Charles F. Schroeder, the Beltrami County tion. . Twelve students entered the corn contest and eight completed the con- test. A report by W. B. Stewart, county superintendent of schools, made to- day, shows that Beltrami county has 21 boys' and girls' clubs. secretary of Fair associa- Rev. Father Thomas of Red Lake agency returned home today after spending the past couple of days in the city. John Richards of Minneapolis will arrive in the city this evening and will be the guest of Earl Black dur- ing Thanksgiving vacation. LOCAL MEN LEASE REXTHEATREAFTER DECEMBER FIRST Fletcher Grimoldby and Carroll C. Hill have leased the Rex theater, be- ginning Dec. 1. The theater will be closed until Dec, 10, when it will be reopened. New seats, a new machine and new lights will be installed by the new ‘proprietors. Feature pictures will be shown. The Fox pictures have been con- tracted for. Oliver Whaley, who has managed the Rex theater for some time, has cancelled his lease to expire Dec. 1. He will conduct the theater for the Harding-Whaley company in the new Elks’ building as soon as it is com- pleted. The name of the Rex theater will be changed to the Rialto by the new proprietors. An orchestra will be semured to furnish the music. Chicago, Nov. 29.—Senator James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic whip of the senate, said late yesterday that he was certain that President Wil- son would not recommend, nor would congress pass a law placing an em- bargo on foodstuffs. The results, he sald, of such a law would be disas- trous. He said that personally he favored the seizure by the govern- ment of necessities and the retailing of them to the public at reasonable prices. =