Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 6, 1918, Page 1

3 % N Today’s - £ OLUME XVI, NO. 178 " Twenty-five = Rooms, Each Equipped With Hot and Cold’ “Water; Windows in Each. " HANDSOME CAFE ALSO FEATURE NEW HOSTELRY ‘Baker's Jewelry ‘Store to Oc- ._ciipy Third St. Front; Orna- - o memsdests Business Center. In about another week, the new ho- tel and cafe to be opened. by John Dalton in his brick business block, now nearing completion, will be open to the general public and finishing touches and detail of “equipment is now in vogue. ¢ 7 = The hotel, which will ibe condu:ted on :the. Européan plan, is. as modern @ smplete in fixtures and facilities ean- possibly-ibe made. . Twenty- five rooms are on-the second floor, each room having a window, while the hall is well lighted with windows : at either end, the entire floor being * admirable in this respect. Hardwood floors are laid throughoutt and the side walls are prettily tinted. In the hall are built in cupboards for care of linens and towles, hose attach- ments and the fire escapes. Lavator- jes and bath rooms are also installed. Full Steam Heated. Each room is heated by steam, electrically lighted and furnished with a white gnameled bed, oak dress- er, rocker, straight. chair, and rug, |- electrically lighted, and each room also has running hot and cold water. e ris-Teached “by a stairway at the ‘head of which is a space provided for-use of patroms in writing, desks and chairs being pro- vided. ] Cafe. . The cafe ,2‘51,:{{},“8 and its fixtures modern and sanitary in every respect. The lighting has been specially at- tended to with large windows, while the indirect electric system is also installed. The floor is of tile, pretty in design and the ceiling of steel. #The long counter is topped with por- celain and the fixures and equipment are all of oak. The tables to be in- stalled are also in full keeping with the rest of the equipment with chairs to match, B e Kitchen Sanitarv. The kitchen occupies a spacious room at the rear.ofthe structure, with entrance on Beltrami and at the extreme end of the building. It has been equipped with large range. Here - again has the lighting and ventilat- ing been well looked after. Full Concrete Basement. . The basement is concrete through- out and contains laundry, store rooms “for ~potatoes; Vegetables and canned goods and heating plant. At one point a stairway leads to the second floor from the’ lavatories. Baker’s*Jewelry Store. The front portion of the first floor is being arranged specially for occupancy by George T. Baker's jew- elry and music store and he will have the advantage of large plate display windows. The ceiling is of steel and the interior is being prettily decor- ated. € . March of Progress. The entire structure occupies- the full length of the lot, is two stories in height, full basement, built of handsome dark red brick, panelled on its Beltrima avenue side to break the monotony of a solid wall and bears on a stone slab high in front the name “Dalton.” It replaces the old frame structure burned over a year ago and owned by ‘Mr. Dalton, and is a splendid orna- ment to the business center of Be- midji, occupying as it does the cen- tral intersection of the business dis- trict, A — l dren at home. News Today From the American Ba DALTONHOTEL[EXPERIMENTAL | WORK ONPEAT NAR¥FARMERS keltrnini‘ County Well Repre- ; sented on Annual Visiting Day in Marshall County. PLOTS ARE LAID OUT IN THREE SOIL TYPES Results of Peat Land Treat- .ment Exceeds Expectations; Work to Be Continued. / Support of investigational work with peat land received great impetus at the first annual visiting day of the Northwest Peat Experimental farm located at Golden Valley in eastern Marshall county, ‘when 700 farmers from: Marshall, -Pennington, Roseau, Kittson, Red 'Lake, Clearwater and Beltrami counties _joined the visitors from:Duluth and Minneapolis, as well asthe experiment: station- staff at Crookston, in inspecting the first peat experimental farm in Minnesota. The plots are laid out on three soil types, first on mineral land. second, on un- burned peat land, and third on burn- ed peat land. The unburned peat land was treated with manure and dif- ferent kinds of fertilizer. The acid phosphate treatment gave profitable results from applying $5.60 worth of fertilizer per acre which would con- tifiue its effect for three years, mak- ing a cost of $1.53 a year which will be reduced to $1 a year when peace time prices return. Selvig Presides. Superintendent C. G. Selvig of the Northwest Experimention station pre- .sided -at .the-meeting which followed the inspection of the plots. Addresses ‘were made by Senator D. P. O'Neil of Thief River Falls; L. B. Arnold of Duluth, president of the American Peat Society; #tate Forester W. T. Cox;- Joltn Huseby, county agent of Marshall county; Agronomist R. O. Westley, of the Northwest Experi- ment station, and Dr. F. J. Alway, chief of the division of soils, Uniover- sity Farm, St. Paul Ovtimism Prévails. The feeling of optimism prevailed at the meeting as the results of the various treatments on the peat land exceeded expectations. The experi- ment includes the following crops on peat soil different prepared: - Wheat, spring rye, barley, oats, field peas, flax, potatoes, rutabagas, rape, alfal-|. fa, sweet clover, broom’grass, west- ern rye grass, a mixture of red clov- er, red top and timothy, and a mix- ture of alsike clover, red top and timothy. ¢ = This work will be continued for a series of years. Co-operative demon- strations will be arranged with far- | mers. in northwestern Minnesota counties who have peat land which will bring the facts determined at the Golden Valley station home to the various communities. |498 NAMES REPORTED IN TODAY’S CASUALTIES = (By United Press.) ‘Washington, Aug. 6.—Today’s cas- ualty list, reported by General Per- shing, contains the names of 498. These include 140 marines. —_—a 3 s THREE MORE ENLIST AND LEAVE TODAY FOR TRAINING CAMPS Three more were sent to the mili- tary this noon by Sergeant Foucault, in charge of the local recruiting sta- tion. The men are Frank Andress of Akeley, who enlisted in the infantry; Eric Laeko, Manago, infantry; Don- ald Rickerson, Bemidji, medical corps. Andress is married and has tliree chil- POTATOFLOUR MILL ASSURED; MUCH INTER Bemidji business interests and lead- ing farmers of this part of Beltrami county got together yesterday after- noon in the Commercial club rooms and when they had concluded their ' ‘meeting the proposed potato flour mill had practically been assured for this city. . It-was a splendid meeting and the earnestness with which the proposi- tion was discussed indicated clearly that the-success of would be assured. And it was. On Friday, another meeting will be held in the Commercial club quarters, stockholders to gather and discuss de- tails of organization, and by-laws and also take up the elec- BEMIDJI, MINN., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1918 What to ~(Published by 1;0!5 Federal Fo?d,Admlnlctratlon'for er\me'-otn.) . s SOON, MODERN V LAND ATT RACT T Tl;rge_ times each day every Amétican has opportunity to be of dir practical help to ’tf'le men on the battle-front. receive their greatly res SAVE BEEF. Food-for fighting. m large carcasses for them by restricting yourself to small _cuts, by-praducts and trimmings—hearts, tongues, livers. ~ We have enogg;m»fi ncrease sup- ply of pork this summer to permit:: pansion in its use, to relieve the pr'l sure on beef. BAVE WHEAT. Keep on saving, thaugh the har- _....—vest'ls large. Build up war reserves{by persistent Without -American_ 3 from the last harvest the-Allied c been lost. The margin- next year must not be so conservation, DArrow: RESULTS: OUR EFFORTS DURING MORE MEAT AND FATS AND 80,900,000 BUSHELS MORE CEREALS THAN: DURING 1916-1917. 400,000 POUNDS MORE SUGAR WAS SHIPPED THAN THE PRE- vPAounds_b Will You Save em In 1918-1919? ICAN SOURCES OF SUPPLY ALSO 1,956 W?R ANNUAL AVERAGE. “ROAD HOG” COLLIDES WITH LOCAL AUTOIST The Spur con;esu)ndent of the Pio- neer-sends-in-a report of an auto ac- cident which was caused by an auto- ist refusing to turn out for a Bemidji driver Sunday near a point on the state road near Spur. The correspnodent states one of the drivers was from Minneapolis and the other from Bemidji. The-Pioneer heard of the accident from the locat end and it was to the effect that he drew over to allow half the road for the car coming toward but that the other driver, who sim- ply admitted he was from Minne- apolis; refused to pull over and the collision occured which damaged the car of the local owner. ger refused to discuss it at all and continued on his journey. Again the road hog. POSTMASTERS LOSE $5 FEE FOR ENLISTMENTS . (Special to Pioneer.) Minneapolis, Aug. 6.—Word was recently received from the office of the adjutant general at Washington by Major John D. Yost, recruiting officer for the Minnesota district, to the effect-that the order authorizing the payment of five dollars to post- masters for all accepted army re- cruits secured by them, has bheen re- scinded. This affects secord, third and fourth class postmasters which includes practically 90 per cent of the offices in the state. The five-dollar fee for postmasters has not been an especially big in- centive to the men in this state to increase their recruiting activity. In many cases the fee has been return- ed the government, and any number of postmasters have turmed the amount over to the recruits they secured to spend on their way to camp. Major Yost states, that he does not think a postmaster in the state will relax his efforts to secure army recruits because of the change, and is counting on the same hearty co-operation of postmasters in the future that he has had in the past. WAR SURVEY. Hibbing, Minn., Aug. 6.—A sur- vey for war purposes is to be made in Hibbing soon of all girls and women employed in various industries. SAVE SUGAR. Two pounds per per: is the American honorration. T} and add to the National surplus-f this. that the fighting forces ,ma; -supplied, and that England, .France - For] The stran-| | R 1 3 . S 3 Ay /NATIONAL_PROGRAM. 3 per month USE FRUITS. to eat less’ in fruits. r: canning. Do kept fully Italy may the fresh are onomical ex: export. heat saved USE FISH. Would have § ! THE FISCAL YEAR 1917-18 SENT THE ALLIES 18,844,600,000 POUNDS @ ® PROCLAMATION. \s the authorized strength of thg Marine Corps has recently been increased and the people of Mftinesota desire to furnish. their full quota of men on both sea and ‘land, it is deemed advisable fn institute in our state’an active recruiting campaign for said pur- pose. The Rotary Clubs of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth have al- ready offered to co-operate with the United States Marine Corps in said campaign and request the active assistance of all. Now, therefore, I, J. A. A. Burnquist, Governor of the State of Minnesota, realizing that our citizens appreciate the heroic and splendid services of this depart- ment of our fighting forces and the need for additional men there- in, do hereby designate the week of August 11, 1918, as Marine Corps Week, and request that all .citizens of our commonwealth as- sist-in eyery possible way tbe re:'|, cruiting officers and agents in the work that they will at that time undertake. . In - 'Witness Whereof, I have hereunto sét my hand and caused the Great Seal of the state to be hereto affixed this 25th day of July, A. D. 1918. (Signed) J. A. A. BURNQUIST, @L , Governor of Minnesota. —® DRAFT CALL IS ISSUED -FOR 25.000 MINNESOTANS St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 6.—A new draft call for 2,000 Minnesota regis- trants—the largest August call yet received—has come from Washing- ton. The men will entrain during the five-day period beginning Aug. 26, for Camp Grant, I1l. Only white men, physically fit for military serv- ice, will be inducted. Registration Sept. 5. Washington, Aug. 6.—Sept 5 is urged as registration day for more than 13,000,000 Americans between 18 and 21, 32 and 45, by Provost Marshal General E. H. Crowder. Af- ter carrying out the program for July and August, General Crowder told congrgssmen onfty 100,000 of the 1918 registrants would be left on Sept. 1 for subsequent calls. -tive Paae w You Can Help: - Save and What to Use \ fl‘“‘\ i Take advantage of the natural sugar Can withoxt sugar, or with little sugar. @Add sugar later, when“it will be more plentifuld Dried fruits, such as raisins, dates and figs, have much sugar in them. Use honey, maple products and sirups when available. USE VEGETABLES. large a place as possible in your diet, thus con- serving not only meat and wheat, but transporta- tion and 1abor. Don't use canned goods now, while Make local vegetables fill as available. USE DAIRY PRODUCTS. Always give the children plenty of milk, milk products and eggs. yourselves freely now, and thus conserve meat for Use them New.8pecies are being popularized and supplies increpsed. Eat this nutritious but perish- able food several times a week and let the non- perishables go abroad. FROM AMER- STUDY OF GERMAN SHOWS BIG DECREASE St. “Paul, Minn., Aug. 6.—A year ago, approximately 15,000 students were studying German in the public schools of Minnesota. Official sta- tistics, indicate that less than 1,600 will be taught this language when the schools open in the fall, In many schools, Spanish and French have supplanted German, but it is pointed out today by P. C. Ton- ning, assistant superintendent of edu- cation, that scarcity of efficient teachers will probably make it im- possible to introduce these languages in all of the high schools of the state this fall. Reports received by the state de- partment of education, show that a majority of the schools have discon- tinued the study of German. In some cases, however, students who have studied Germaq for, one or {wo years obtained permission’ to complete this course in order to obtain their full ALLIES ARE MAINTAINING NORTH BANK OF VESLE (By United Press.) Paris, Aug. 6.—(Official).—Allies are maintaining their positions on the north bank of the Vesle. MYSTERY IS UNVEILED. (By United Press.) Amsterdam, Aug. 6.—Rumors of German submarine crews at Will- hemshaven reveal that a number of soldiers were executed. Hun Atrocities Surpassed By Austrian Ally (By United Press.) Rome, Aug. 6.—Austrian aviators bombard a camp containing Italian prisoners and kill fully a thousand. N A A A A A~ A creditg. o | FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH GERMAN ARMY [SBROUGHT TO oo unt; ONEMORE ATTENPTSEEN May Shorten Line, Coilect Rem- nants From Other Localities for Final Decision. GERMANS ARE SNIPING IN FISMES; MOPPED UP Tactics Being Used Similar to Those Used When Ameri- cans Took Vera Cruz. (By United Press.) + The Hague. Aue. 6.—Berlin newspaners prediot the Germans will retreat to the Meuse, releas- ing all they hold in France and two-thirds of Belgium. \ FRENCH ARTILLTRY OPENS. Paris. Aug. 6.—French heavy artillerv has begun a terrific fire between Vesle and the Asne. Ger- mans are resistently fiercely. (By United Press.) With the British Afield, Aug. 6.— The German army is at bay and it is believed may shorten the line, collect the remants of their armies from vari- ous localities and make one more final try for decision. Resistence Continues. ‘With the Americans Afield, Aug. 6. —German resistence along the Vesle continues in Fismes. The Americans holding the town, but some Germans are sniping from cellars. These are being mopped u by the Yankees. The tactics resemble those at the Ameri- can occupation of Vera Cruz. Yanks to Ai" Japs, Washington, Aug. 6.—Plans for the organization and dispatch of the American military continget to Rus- sia to co-operate with the forces of the Allied nations in support of the Czecho-Slavaks at Vladivostok are be- ing worked out by the army general staff. Beyond the statement issued Saturday by Acting Secretary of State Polk that the American force would be “a few thousand” in num- ber, no intimation as to the size of the contingent has been given. .. Sunken Shin Known. ] London, Aug. 6. —The vessel whiel was torpedoed on Saturday morning near a British-port while transport- ing wounded to England from France, was the Warilda. The total number missing is 123. These are as follows: Two military officers, a command- ant in Queen Mary'’s auxiliary corps, one American soldier, seven of the crew, and*112 others. . The admiralty this evening issued the following communicating con- cerning the torpedoing and sinking of the steamer Warlinda. “The homeward-bound ambulance transport Warilda was torpedoed and sunk on the third of August.” Planes Attack Coast. London, Aug, 6.—Three German airplanes attacked the English coast last night| One was downed and the others repulsed without having done any damage. HUGE MASSES THROWN AGAINST DEADLY FIRE (By United Press.) Paris, Aug. 6.—The Germans have thron 750,000 men against the allies. Of these, 75,000 never will fight again. EVERYBODY HELPS HARVEST INN. D,; PROBLEM IS SOLVED SCENES OF DESPAIR IN BERLIN tion of officers and general direction » 3 (By United Press.) work. (By United Press.) Fargo, N. D., Aug. 6.—The labor It is predicted that by the end of s question threatened to step in and the week the subscription will have Berne, Aug. 6. The Ma.rne det.‘ea,t has prodll)lce(tl’ interfere with the gathering of North reached its full quota. However, if unspeakable scenes of despair in Ber}m, the Tageblat Dakota’s war crop, which, in some there are any who arE_interestiditliley declared. “‘Such outbursts of utter dlscourag(eirp,ent and ;ecot;orgz ot ftthe state,lis exkceedrmgly should lose no time in ascertaining| | qownheartedness never before were witnessed. ood. But after several weeks of con- i i . - sideration, tI s solv- deta ‘i;“,:;‘eif',‘,,’;fi?f:*;"gi;fi{"',“;;‘;gg; The Frankische Tagepost deplores the wild rumors gl iR A e el pR which includes the splendid holdings that the kaiser and Von Hinderburg have been assassin- ing well, thanks to the farmer who rly | of the Bemidji Brewing Co. P““I“v in- ated, and that Von Hindenburg was killed in a duel with T‘L?fmél:edw%st;::]efl:l(t)l [veniims; utx];d T :]x:lddii‘;gcg;faihnugtz sl'!eacreai%'(e3 z?:ehlg:rsg; the crown prince as betraymg the most dangerous the me}l from the towns and‘ v;flages co-operation of the farmers and re- nervouseness. who locked their desks for the period sult in greatly increased clearing of The government threatens severe penalties for the of ;t:e I:\{zr‘fisti) o oL e R acreage and the planting of immense $ in ese rumors. he North Dakota agricultural col- constitution, | crops of potatoes, a marked step in de- ones responsnble for Spread g these r lege, the United States Department of velopment. ® -—— @ |agriculture, and the federal bureaul - — < AR of labor united to settle the farmerss’ difficulties. They acted as county agents, who appointed secretaries in every town. The women fcund time from their many duties to get into the fields and for several weeks, it has been no un- common sight to see the wives and daughters of wealthy Cass county farmers out helping to save the grain, anotlter mdst striking example of the patriotism of women which does not falter even beneath the hot July and August sun. At the state capitol the officers, their deputies and clerks all found (Continued on Page Four) SN