Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 22, 1917, Page 1

\ | //SPECIAL AID OF ONE MAN | "<, places organized. / HUMANE SOCIETY 70 BE ORGANIZED IN BEMIDJI UNDER NEW STATE LAWS $9,000 Appropriated for Extending Work to Prevent Cruelty To Animals and Children. AND ONE WOMAN NEEDED All Friends of Charitable Under- takings Should Co-operate; Names Are Desired. A humane society will soon be or- ganized in Bemidji under a 1917 law appropriating $9,000 to the State Hu- mane society for extension of its ef- forts toward preventing cruelty to children and animals. Welcome W. Bradley, secretary and executive officer of the Minne- sota Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, this week announced com- pletion of & model plan to enlarge ‘the state service to include this and other important cities. It is along lines most successful in the larger cities, and, the executive officer pre- dicts, will fit needs here and mini- mize suffering among children and also among animals. Public to Co-operate. The local organization will require he special adi of one man and one woman besides the co-operation of all friends of charitable undertak- ings, and upon the interest shown in the proposal will depend the scope of the work here, Mr. Bradley ex- plained. The Pioneer is requested to an- nounce that interested persons! should send their names and those of others eligible, together with rec- ommendations of those qualified to give special assistance. Names are desired at once, the secretary added, to avoid any unnecessary delay in bringing this city into the list of State headquar- ters are at 202 Wilder buflding, St. Paul. JAPS IN CONFERENCE (By United Press) Washington, Aug. 22.—Japan re- ceived its first close-up view of Am- erica at war for the first time since the opening of hostilities, when rep- resentatives other than official were at the capitol today for a conference with one power making common cause against their German enemy. BRITISH RENEW DRIVE (By United Press) British armies afield, Aug. 22.— The British troops early this morn- ing resumed their drive. At one time last night the Canadians were fighting in the city of Lens but were driven out. DANNENBERG T0 WAR Dr. Thorwald Lunde of Walker has taken over the offices of Dr. A. Dannenberg, who is going to the war. He will visit ni1s parents at Willow Springs, Mo., before leaving for the front. Dr. Dannenberg stated this morning he regretted leaving Bemidji and his many friends here. He rec- ommends Dr. Lunde as a reliable chi- ropractor. PATIENT IN HOSPITAL C. A. Parker is confined at a St. Paul hospital following an opera- /'~ tion. Mr. Parker is getting along nicely and expects to leave the hos- pital in about two weeks. . Photo by American Press Assoclation. | BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 22. 1917. | SUNDOWN! OLD GLORY BIDDING OLD SOL ADIEU NOT YESTERDAY'S NEWS, BUT TODAY'S NEWS TODAY--BY THE GREAT UNITED PRES NP HISTRRIC E BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER £~CENTS PER MONTH RENCH BEAT BACK ENEMY ANDPRESS ONWARD Soldiers saluting the flag at sunset on Governors island, headquiirters of the department of the east. FUEL DICTATOR IS NAMED; COAL PRICES ARE COMING DOWN (By United Press) ‘Washington, Aug. 22.—H. A. Gar- field, president of Williams college, now chairman of the wheat price fix- ing board, has accepted the post of (fluel dictator, it was announced to- ay. Coal Takes Tumble. Chicago, Aug. 22.—The price of retail coal dropped $1 to $1.50 here today on the announcement of the president that the price of coal at the pit shall be reduced. Coal Robbers Uneasy. New York, Aug. 22.—’1‘]:1(5v launch- ing of the administration price fixing program with drastic cuts in coal prices, caused uneasiness and a weak opening on the tsock market this morning. CALL. ISSUED .FOR COUNTY EXHIBITS AT THE STATE FAIR An “S. 0. 8.” call to the men and women of this county, especially the women, for exhibits of more fruits and vegetables, has been issued by Bueford M. Gile for the Beltrami county booth at the state fair. “I want to secure the following fruits and vegetables,” said Mr. Gile, ‘‘to make all classes complete: Four applies, eight crab apples, some wild grapes, tame grapes, one pint each of tame and wild plums and some tame blackberries. Also some leek, endive and egg plant and some win- ter wheat in the straw.” If the best of each of these in the county are placed in the hands of Mr. Gile in time for the state fair exhibit, he expects to ‘bring home the bacon.” The above items are in addition to those mentioned in Tues- day’s Pioneer. R. A. M. ELECT OFFICERS Bemidji chapter, No. 70, Royal Arch Masons, have elected their new officers for the ensuing year as fol- lows: H. P.—A. P. Ritchie. K.—E. L. Benner. S.—A. B. Palmer. C. H—O. L. Dent. R. A. C.—D. H. Fisk P S.—W. B. Stewart. Secretary—George Kirk. Treasurer—A. G. Wedge. George N. Woods Elected Head of Game Protective Association; More Security The Bemidii Gamr as-, sociation held its 1in.z| Saturday evening a grocery store and elected George N.led for them to protect their food | ery, T4y 00ds, president: Joseph H. Osgood, | vien nresident: William R Howe, | secrelal aud B, L. LicDouaid, lrua-[ urer. Reports of the presence of deer and partridge were received and ac-| tion was taken looking lo\\'ards‘ greater security for the game wilhin‘ the preserve. ‘ The deputy game wardens will be requested to put their best -efforts m\ preserve the game that is now mak ing the preserve its home. During| the summer, over 200.000 hrook trout | a sheaf of wheat and some ear corn at least once a week during the win- ter and two covers will be construct- from the snow and at the same time afford them some protection frem tie weather. Would Heln Fishing. The association took action lonk- ing towards the state taking white- fish, tulipil, pickerel and suckers and red horse from Lake BRemidji and selling them to consumers at the cost of taking, with a view to securing cheaper food for the people of the mmediate neighborhood of Lake Be- midji. The association feels that to were placed in Bass Lake ereek and{remnvn the coarser fish. and especial- application will be made for 12 cans|ly the large pickerel, suckers and red more to be planted next spring. horse, will increase the pike, perch Palns were made to stock Bass Lake' and croppies and brook trout now in with bass fry. The 32 Mongolian|the lake. The citizens interested in pheasants introduced into the reserve preserving the game in the Bemidji by E. E. McDonald were reported asreserve will be requested to contrib- doing fine. They are now at large, ute some small amount towards the returning regularly for their morn-|protection and preservation of the ing and evening feed. are being made to supply them with | association in its work. Arrangements | game and birds and otherwise aid the| ¥ Berlin Sees Pope’s Peace Plans Fai (By United Press) Amsterdam, Aug. 22.—Berlin sees no present hope for peace despite the pope’s plea. Dispatches from Ber- lin indicate this pessmistic view by the public. “The enemy war aims prove their desire to annihilate Ger- many,” Chancellor Michaelis is quot- ed as saying, therefore there is no present desire for peace. ITALIANS CONTINUE RELENTLESS ADV_A_NCE (By United Press) With the Italian armies ties continued in the ftalian ad- vance. They have reached 35,000 dead and wounded. The Italians have swept the enemy from five vil- lages. All towns were found in smoking ruins, fired by the Austri- ans and shattered by artillery fire. A heavy fog aided the Italians. Aus- trian counter attacks were fierce but not successful. MRS. VAIL IS SEEKING SONS GEORGE AND CHARLES IN MINNESOTA Does any one know George W. Vail and Charles Vail, or anything concerning their whereabouts? George and Charles, your mother, Mrs. Ellen Waters of Fossil, Ore., is seeking you. Your mother writes that the last time she heard from George was about two years ago and when he was in Bemidji. She be- lieves you are somewhere in Minne- sota and the Pioneer has been asked to thus notify you of her desire to hear from you. ANSWERS CALL TO COLORS Fred Bolden, son of Mrs. M. J. Bolden of Dewey avenue, who has been the guest of his mother for a short time. has returned to Brainerd and from there will go to San Fran- cisco. Mr. Bolden has enlisted and will spend six months at San Fran- cisco training for an assistant sur- geon in the navy. HUNTING ON SUNDAY VIOLATION OF LAW Hunting on Sunday i< in violation of Minnesota laws, according 10 an opinion given hy Attor:ey General |Lyndon A. Smith. The cuestion was raised hecause the seasc for shoot- ing small game opens '1is year on Sunday, September 16. Carlos Av- tate fish and game commission- ) id that his departnent had not received inquiries on the subject. “The law quoted is «ne prohibi ing gaming on Sunday snd has been on the statute for yea ' said Mr. Avery, “but sportsmen have never |felt that it was a part of the game iregulations and little attention has ibeen paid to it in other years.” Ingerious Bridge Building. In constructing a seties of { bridges over the stream small which inter rafher unusual course vas followed The builders used timer and made abutments of bags filled with and sand | Shortly after the bazs hud been put in ;Marn heavy. soaking riins converted the whole into a mass of solid concrete cemert _ afleld, Aug. 22.—Austrian toll of " casual- sect many of the roads of Sumatra a strinzers | iles of burlap | BAGLEY SHOWS STATE SHE'S LOYAL; FARWELL FIRED WITH ZFAL PACKERS ARE KIDDING SOME ONE; HOGS DROP FIFTEEN CENTS (By United Press) Chicago, Aug. 22.—The advance in the price of hogs appeared check- ed today, the $20 price of yesterday dropping 15 cents. RECEPTIOM&IG AFFAIR z2xovs FrENcE BoxER 18 (Special to Pioneer) Bagley, Aug. 22.—That Bagley and Clearwater county are loyal was plainly demonstrated at the public reception and banquet tendered Dr. P. C. Bjorneby, who expects to go to the front soon, the affair being held in the gymnasium last night. Over 300 attended the banquet. Patriotic addresses were made. The principal speaker of the evening, who sounded the death knell to the slackers and traitors was Charles R. Boostrom, deputy public examiner of St. Paul. Mr. Boostrom claimed that Clearwa- ter had the fewest slackers of any county in the state. It required only eight extra men to fill up the full quota called for under the first draft —158 out of 166 claiming no ex-|or injured, nine; Dover, 11 dead and|¢o emptions. 5 ~ .. U, OF M. OPENS OCT. 10 AND YOUNG MEN ARE URGED TO ATTEN M. J. Brown has received notice from the University of Minnesota that the fall semester of the univer- sity will open Wednesday, October 10, later this year than usual. Mr. Brown is a prominent member c¢f the Bemidji alumni of the uni- versity and has been asked to make public the date of the opening of the state’s seat of learning. The government is urging a heavy attendance at schools, colleges and universities of the country the com- ing year, as young men will be nee:l- ed to step into the business world as soon as possible and must be fully equipped for the huge tasks ahead in the period of reconstruction after the war. The United States will play an important part after the war and every young man of business ability will be in demand. WORKS DENOUNCED AS TRAITOR AT HOM Los Angeles, Aug. 22.—In a public meeeting at Orange, J. D. Works of Los Angeles, former United States senator from California, was openly denounced as a traitor. The meeting was held for the purpose of forming a hranch of the people's council. Mr. Works declared the TUnited States was in error entering the war: that this eountry shonld never have permitted the sale of munitions to any of the European powers and that the eountrv should never have [taken the stand it has “Your remarks are freasonable’ wonted a stranger in the andience, teand no man with true American hland in his veine will «it here and listen to such treasonable wutteran- cez.” | Tn an instant coveral men were on I their feet. T. A. Blake, prominent in loeal Red Cross work, made him- | self heard. | “Your actions in and ont of eon- |aress,”” said he to Mr. Works, “have |been antazonistie to the government | We dn not have to go back to the irecords of eongress to find where vou stand. Your remarks are in direct eonflict with the word passed ont hy Attornev General Gregory, who said: "“If vonr sentiment is not with the | government. obey the law and keep vonr mouth shut.” T. therefore, hrand | vour remarks to he fraitorous and |lending aid to the enemy.” i i HUFFMAN RECOMMENDED Among the men who failed for { commissions in the first officers’ re- | serve training camp at Fort Snelling, i recommended for the second eamp. |is Hallan L. Huffman of Bemidji. He | will again enter the camp for further instruction. TO ENLIST AVIATORS (By United Press) An Atlantic port, Aug. 22.— Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight boxer and champion of France, reached port here today board a French liner. It is thought he came here to stimulate aviation corps enlistments by appearing in all parts of the country. He has been on the French battle front. TEUTON AEROPLANES RAID ENGLISH CITY (By United Press) London, Aug. 22.—Margate, dead 13 wounded, .o L III‘-'AE;' g, - (By United Press) London, . Aug.: 22.—(Officlal)— o (By United Press) London, Aug. 22.—(Official)— iolent German counter attacks last night failed to dent the newly ad- vanced British lines around Lens nor bitter resistance has failed to. stop advance north of the city. . French Would s With the French alqn‘m’ignat Ver- dun, Aug. 22.—Fired with zeal, the French ‘soldiers made the last charge irrisistible, France's greatest blow out of Verdun. The soldiers have pe- titioned their commanders for per- mission not to be limited in the specified object of their advance. Germ erate. Paris, Aug. 22.—The German re- action to the succéssiul ' French stroke at Verdun ocame last night and the new French lines stood firm in the face of counter attacks of ex- treme violence. On the front north of Verdun, especially at Avocourt wood, and north of Caurieres, the fighting was particularly bitter, the French war office reports. The Ger- mans, beaten back, met with heavy losses. The number of prisoners tak- en by the French now exceeds 5,- 000. The Germans also returned to the attack on the Aisne front, striking at Cerny and Hurtebise. Paris re- ports the repulse of these assaults. On the British front the Germans last night made their third attempt. ) FocADturs positions recéntly wrested from them near Epehy, northwest of St. Quentin. A deter- mined attack was made, in which the Germans employed flame throwers, Ten enemy aeroplanes, ralding over|pyt they were repulsed completely by Dover and Margate at 10:15 o’clock |the British who hold all this morning lost two machines. One|tjons. of the men in a destroyed plane was killed. Margate and Dover are in Kent mouth of the Thames. considered probable that the raid- ers intended to follow the Thames to London. Airplanes were reported over the Humber river, Yorkshire, 165 miles north of the Thames. Hull, the great shipbuilding cen- ter of England, is located a short distance up the'Humber. Three were killed and two injured. The damage was slight. Germans are unable to penetrate far inland. STEPS BEING TAKEN T0 REMOVE OFFICIALS OF DISLOYAL TOWN St. Paul, Aug. 22.—Steps to re- move from office Mayor A. L. Frits- che and City Attorney Albert Pfaen- der of New Ulm and County Auditor Louis Vogel of Brown county were taken late yesterday by the State Public Safety commission. The proposal as reported, is to or- der the three officials suspended pending a hearing and to recommend removals to Governor Burnquist. Officers of the commission declined to make any statement, but did not deny that such action was about to be taken after an exhaustive discus- sion. The proposed action followed par- ticipation of the New Ulm officials in the recent anti-draft meeting there. PRESIDENT FRAMING REPLY TO THE POPE'S PEACE PROPOSAL (By United Press) Washington, Aug. 22, -The presi- dent has turned his attention to framing a reply to the pope's peace proposal The note of the pope does fnm toueh the tnndamental prine |pals America is fizhting for. RED LAKE PRIMED the It is Manager John Morrison of Red Lake announces that the Red Lake baseball team will be fit and ready to defend its claim to being the best basehall team in Northern Minnesota |when they meet Fosston at Fosston on Sunday, August 26, at 3 p. m. A neutral umpire has been chosen be- cause of the intense rivalry sentered upon this game Dewey Lyle and Joe Graves will he the opposing slabmen Mrs. J. € McKe accompanied by Miss Mabel Bower and T. Martin, motored to Bemidji from Winnipeg for a short visit with Mrs. T. L. Tidd. FOR FOSSTON SUNDAY their posi- AGED VISITORS HERE: ALL ARE MINNESOTA PIONEERS Mrs. Delma Latterell of Foley, Minn., is the guest of her daughters, Mrs. J. J. Pfeifer and Mrs. C. H. Car- penter. Mrs. Julia Porter and Mrs. Vina Parent, both of Eugene, Ore., are also guests of their nieces, Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Pfeifer. The three visitors are 76 years old and are pioneers of Minnesota, having come here during the ('ivil war. Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Parent lived here until three years ago, when they moved to Oregon. The visitors en- joyed a ride around the lake yester- day. PFAENDER CASE TO BE DISCUSSED SEPTEMBER 13 St. Paul, Aug. 22.—Charges of dis- loyalty against Albert Pfeander, New Ulm attorney, resulting from his par- ticipation in recent war protest meet- ings, will be taken up by the ethics committee of the Minnesota Bar as- sociation at a hearing in the office of Stiless W. Burr, 1508 Merchants Bank building, September 13. The date was announced by Mr. Burr, who is chairman of the com- mittee. Recommendation for Mr. Pfaender’'s disharment probably will follow if the charges are proved. PLAY AT STATE PARK The Band Day committee this morning reported that arrangements next Sunday’s onting ot Itasca park are progressir moothly the affair i crcating much in- terest in the eity Sunday will he ¥ proper and the band is furnist the cntertainment crowd It is the first at- tempt of the newly organized band [ to show its ability 1o give the public 1 real “blow-out™ and all they ask of the publie in return is that they |avail themselves of the opportunity |to have a good time and turn out |for the day. The band ani all those who in- tend to accompany it will meet at the city hall at 9 o'clock Sunday morn- ing. All are expected to bring their lunches and furnish their own means |of transportation. On arriving at the park the band will give a short concert before din- ner and two in the afternoon. Other kinds of entertainment will also be provided. AUSTRIA'S REPORT (By United Press) Vienna, Aug. 22.-—(Official) —In two days the Austrian troops have taken 5,600 prisoners and 50 ma- chine guns. { i i ]