Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 2, 1918, Page 1

VOLUME, SCHOOLS OPEN TOHORROW FOR :XVI, NO. 201 Supt. Bolcom SEVERAL NEW FACES SEEN IN PERSONNEL Miss Credit of Springfield, IlL; ‘Secretary of the Busi- ness Department [ m itfen todny, for tomorrow is the opening of the schoo! year and today’ teachers arrived in large num- bers. Several came in yesterday and others on Suturday, while some have Deen here the past few days, coming early to obtain accomraodations. Today, a mceting of teccliers was scheduled ‘when- Superirtendent. Bol- com addressed them and held a get- acquainted sozial session at the c'ose. The reason ccheol did not open today was owing to it being Labor Day. The Teaching Force. J. W. Smith of Wadena will be the principal at tlhe Kigh"school and the oths);,departinauts will be under the charge of the following persons: Miss Mabel Myers of -Clear Lake, Iowa Latin and Engligh; Miss Scrah Mitch- ell, Carbordale, Ill., Englizh; Miss Anna Smart, Minneapolis, French and English; Miss Cora Hellig, Milica, Minn., science; Miss Vera Holmes, Spring Valley, Minn,, Mathematics; Miss Mabel Wagner, commercial de- partmlent; . Walter -Durbahn; « New Ulm, manypal. training; Miss Alma Sandahl, Rice Lake Wis., home eco- nomics; Miss Blanche Chisholm, Far- g0, N. D., normal training; Harry Olin, Forestrhake,@gric‘ulture; Miss Jennie Mostu, Minneapolis, health de- partment; MissIvy Conant, Fargo, music superyvisor. s Junior Department. In the junior department of the Bemidji high school Miss Ethelyn ‘Hall of Delavan, Minn., who has been principal for several years will retain that position; Miss Anna Hoag of Minneapolis, arithmetic, sewing a‘nd reading; Miss Lurline Gutzler, Water- town, Minn., grammar and history; Miss Mabel Norman, Blue Earth, Minn., history and grammar; Miss Lena Munson, Akeley, Minn., writing, spelling and composition; Miss Ger- trudé McLean, Minneapolis, geogra- phy, reading and composition; Miss Eunice Milavetz ~of Ashland, Wis., arithmetic and grammar. Miss Minnie Erickson of Red Wing, Minn., will be the principal at the Central school this year and will also assist in teaching the first grade; Miss Gladys Chapin of Minuneapolis, and Miss Hattie Soger of Chatfield, Minn.; will teach the first grade; Miss (Continued on Page Fn(xr)‘ hnols of Bamidji took ~n an| & b i oA GENERAL PERSHING'S nternatiane Fifi Servids This is.the field-headquarters of General Pershing, established since, he l the Hendquarters at Paris. SUPR%EHJI?A];(GI)[‘:&%EMIDJI. Blg Red Lake ?Aflnsfigfifigsfimm PERRONE CAPTURED BYBRITISHSUNDAY; - THOUSANDS OFFOE | TAKENBY VICTORS (By United Press.) . London, Sept. 2.—Perrone was captured by the British Sunday. . It is believed 3,000 to 4,000 prisoners of the German forces were captured. : The British have captured Noreuli, north of Bapaume, and Villers au Flos between Bapaume and Perrone. Letransloyi has been outflanked from both sides and its capture is only a matter of hours. FRENCH KNOCK AT COUCY LE CHATEAU. Paris, Sept. 2.—French outposts are now at the gates of Coucy le Chateau and the Franco-Americans are advancing along the roads toward Laon. NINTH FEDERAL MAN ~_ WILL EXPLAIN LOAN Supreme Court Judge Oscar Hallam of St. Paul .will be in Bemidji and speak on the Fourth Liberty Loan pn- der the auspices of the America First association of Bemidji. The time and place is to be determined. Judge Hallam is a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court and is one of the most able jurists in the state. He has served for the past six years and is again a candidate for the su- preme bench, and he should be heard by a large audience of .patriotic citi- zeéns. - Charles E: Van Nest will speak at the 'Commercial club rooms at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning and all cit-: ‘izens are cordially invited to hear him,. for he is representing the Ninth Federal reserve district of the Fourth Liberty Loan and will explain the al- lotment plan. Every person_who will be affected by the coming loan should hear Mr. Van Nest and his explanation of the government plan for the coming cam- paign. KENNEDY WILL AGAIN BE IN, CHARGE NORTH BELTRAMI C0. J A. Kennedy, who has had charge of former Liberty Loan drives in the northern part of Beltrami county, will again be in charge of that dis- trict for the fourth loan. ‘W. L. Brooks, chairman of the county Liberty Loan, will be in Spooner nevt Thursday and meet with committee members and workers for discussing plans for an active cam- paign FORMER BEVIDJI The combined sentences imposed by Federal Judge Landis on the 95 I. W. W. defendants in Chicago, in- cluded a well known character who made himself- very couspicuous | in Bemidji, Archie Sinclair, re- ceiving a total of 28 vyears in the federal penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth and a total time of $30,- 000. He received four seniences to run concurrently, the smallest being two years and the largest tcn years. Sinclajr broke into the I. W. W. game abfSut five years ago and in the lumber strikes nearly two years ago took an active part in the trcubles at Gemmell and vicinity. That was at the time the I. W. W.s zitempted to put the Backus-Brooks company out of business or else they come to the terms demanded by the Wobblies. Named Secretary. Nels Madison was then setretary of the branch office at Bemidji and resigned to go west to the trouble- some fields. Sinclair was then named secretary of .the local branch office and was in turn succeeded by Jess Dunning. anclair is a short stocky snecirien of humanity, with thin fea- tures and a wild sort of expression when excited, and is loud of mouth and not one bit. choice in his lan- guage. He seemed to imagine that he possessed the right to curse every- body and everything on the slightest provocation and was a most unfit in- ~: - dividual for any community. Sinclair “Gets His.” When the citizens of Bemidji rounded up the I. W. W. in Bemidji and sent the gang out on the train with warning never to return, and then closed the branch headguarters WOBBLIE - ISSENTENCED TO TEN YEARS office, Sinclair was out of the city. The day following, or the next day after that, Sinclair arrived in Be- midji and as he alighted from the| <z train Officer Frank Frost, then a member of the police force, grabbed him and started to the city jail. Sin- clar grew wugly- and applied vile epi- thets to the policeman,” whereupon the latter went ‘‘over the top” and when Sinclair appeared before the municipal judge his face looked some- thing like an European war map, and he was very tame and subdued. He was ordered out of the city and went* to Minneapolis where he was taken in the federal dragnet. Dunning to “Pen.” Following up the raid, the dis- loyal books and foul poems and other literature were seized at headquarters in Bemidji and Secretary Dunning fell into the law’s clutches, being sen- tenced to two years in Leavenworth under the new I. W. W. sabotage law. BAKER MOVES STORE. George T. Baker is moving his jew- elry and musie store from his long time location on Third street, east of Beltrami avenue, to the store in, his new Dalton building. He expects to be fully settled in a couple of days. HAS APPENDICITIS. Rudolph Springer of Minneapolis, who is making his home with his un- cle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Ho- ganson, was operated upon for appen- dicitis Friday evening, at St. An- thony’s hospital. % b : % % @ Z Washington, Sept. 2.—Pacifists in 4 : and out of congress are trudging a the State Fai * 1h8 I8 rall difficult path,: -Political pacifists and (Svecial to Pioneer.) anti-whr personages- are oxpiating their offenses at the polls so rapidly their their species in:cgongress soon will :be practically extinct. < A review of the primary elections in the various states reveals that, wuhhtwo or three exceptions, the vot- St. Paul. L 2! ers have refused to send to congress Take smml?egzs ?lelivTel;;dB:(& candidates whose records on the war day at the state fair gro alive and 0. K. Quite a number of other varieties were lost. S. A, SELV0G. The above dispatch was received by the Pioneer this afternoon, telling of the arrival of the Red Lake inhab- captured during the night. Or war measures. were in any way MOUNT KEMMEL FALLS. tainted. This has been particularly| London, Sept. 1.—Mount Kemmel, seeking re-election. the northern side of the Lys salient There was much gratification at|in Flyaders, is again in the hands of the capitol over the decisive drubbing{the British. , Dispatches to London adminstered last week to Cole]state that this famous hill, for:which itant for display at the state fair. Blease, the pacifist candidate for the{the Germans paid a terrible price in His Fishship was. interestedly in- senate in South Carolina., April, and which was defended to the lander and Mr. and Mrs: E. H, Denu, | Who voted against the déclaration of] —~There have been no reports, how- who acted as a sort of reception com-| war, two, Senator W. J. Stone of Mis-] ever; of an attack being made on this mittee for the big fellow Saturday |sour} and Senator Harry Lane of Ore- hill and it seems probable the Ger- night. - Tom Smart replenished the|gon, have died. Senator James K.|mans retired from it, and that the tank with fresh lake water, leaving| Vardaman of Mississippi was defeated British quickly moved in. There are another tank available for use during|for renomination. Senator R. M. La evidences that the enemy's retreat feet long and weighed 100 pounds, not|ed in the senate for eight months: erated, the British huving taken the a large one, but as-large as could be| The only ones still actively partic- station of Bailleul as well as Mount shipped alive. The car also carried| pating in the affairs of congress are |Lille, to the east, and being in pos- about 25,000 pounds of fish packed in| Senator G. W. Norris of Nebraska session of the bank of the Lawe river ice for supplying state institutions and Senator A. J. Gronna of North |from Vielle Chapelle to Lestrem on and consumers, Dakota, the southern side of the salient. true with regard to pacifist members|the height dominating virtually all ‘speocted by Mr: and Mrs.-A. L. Mo- ~%Df-the six members of the senated]death by the ‘Allies, has-béen captured the trip of the sturgeon. It was six|Follette of Wisconsin has not appear. | from the Lys salient is being accel- The arrival of the sturgeon at the House Obstructionists Suffer. - |state fair is notable, owing to it being Several m : embers: . of ::the house he first time a sturgepn was ever on| wyqse records do fiot ‘measure up to KNAPP TO OCCUPY o BRITISH MAKING PROGRESS IN LYS SECTOR. .London, Sept. 2.—The British have captured Neuve Eglise gpd Sailly Salisl, reported General Haig this morning. British troops early today were reported making progress in the Lys sector, !xaving reached the river east of Estaires. German positions south of Riencourt les Cagnicourt were 3.000 REVOLUTIONISTS Amsterdam, SENTENCED TO DEATH (By United Press.) ept. 2.—Five thou- sand Social Revolutionists have been arrested and sentenced to death, ac- cording to Moscow dispatches today. NO COUNCIL THIS EVENING: SPECIAL MEETING WEDNESDAY There will be no meeting of the council this evening, night, owing to it being Labor Day and a legal holiday. The council will meet next Wednesday night in de- ferred session. regular BEMIDJI PEOPLE R):CALLED exhibition there Mr, Selvog had|the acid test have-suttered mistor-|i- . FORMER GOULD CAFE DATE WHEN'ARISING TODAY one alive to the state fair and finally &:E!ef'ot fif:;zzz‘t‘;a&‘;: d%’;’“‘;’:stl‘v'v‘:; iy g When Bemidjites arose this morn- made good. and the draft and then went down to| A N. Gould is today removing the m’;’lI,r‘;']’l’l'msl"'g:e;fi‘:rg”he" they doffed defeat. Representative C. W. Dillon fixtures from the Dairy Lunch on Bel- of South Dakota supported the McLe- trami avenue, he having closed his } more resolution, the embargo on mu- | business Sunday. BROUGHT HERE FORTRIAL nitions . to. the Allies, and voted ‘The room occupied by Mr. Gould against the war, and his constituents | Will be occupied by Knapp's shoe refused to return him to congress. store and will be redecorated on the The fall term of the District court| Representative F. R. Woods of [interior previous to occupancy. Mr. in Bemidji will begin September. 10 |Iowa voted against the declaration of | Knapp expects to be in his new loca- and perhaps the most interesting case | war. He failed to secure renomina- | tion in about a week. docketed is that of Miss .Margaret | tion'to congress in the primaries this Hansman against the Western Union | year. Telegraph company, in which the ‘McLemore Left Outside. In Texas, Representative Jeff Mc- plaintiff seeks to recover $25,000 damages alleged to have been sustain-| 1.emore failed to get himself renomi- nated tq congress. Representative J. INTERESTING CASEIS ed on account of contracting tuber culosis as the result of a poorly heat-| 1, Slayden of Texas quit the race for ed office operated by the company at|renomination when President Wilson Luverne. tagged him an obstructionist. Rapids in 1916, when the plaintiff PLUCKYMAKES UNUSUALLY HARD DRIVE was awarded a verdict of $10,000. The -company made a motion for a new trial, which .was denied by Judge B. F. Wright of Park Rapids, and the ase then went to the supreme court, (Northern-News, Spooner.) Miss Eunice Landy coming from a small place near Alexandria arrived last evening on a Ford from her home and will take up her residence on some land near Fronties, which she recently purcnased. Charging him with conducting a disorderly place, Louis Strawbridge, residing about four miles west on the Jefferson highway, was brought be- fore Judge Fisk this afternoon and arraigned to await further action on the parc of the authorities. The arrest of Strawbridge is a re- sult of the ““barn dances’ he has been conducting on the second story of a FORMER BEMIDJI MAN large barn on his place, while the REPORTED HURT IN ACTION| She had the car loaded down with | lower portion is said to be a haven trunks and household goods and made | for farm stock. The arrest came at Word has been received by relatives | the drive from her home through Be- | a0 early hour Sunday morning when that a man by the name of Fisher|mjdji and north via Ditches 20 and|2bout 15 members of the Home formerly in the employ of the Croolks- | 13, She was alone save her little sis. | Guards made a visit to the place ton Lumber company, had been|ter in the car. As thisis a very hard | While the dance was on in full wounded while in the service in|road to make, no woman as far ag|blast. The company detachment was France. known has every attempted to make |1 command of First Lieut. Scott Ste- Inquiry at the company’s offices|the trip that way alonme. At that she|Wart, and leaders in the visit were failed to bring any information. as|made it without calling for help, | Major Mitchell of the Twenty-first none seemed to remember any one|While living on the land she will|battalion and Lieut. Brandt, who is named Fisher who was an employe| teach school near Frontier. also a federal officer. and enlisted. In the barn at the time were a number of young girls and boys, one 0. E. 8. MEETING. of the girls being 14 years of age. There will be a regular of the East- The hour was about 1:45 Sunday morning when the detachment ar- ern Star tomorrow night.at 8 o’clock in the Masonic hall. rived and every onein the place was THIS DAY IN THE WAR | searched, as Strawbridge is under Sept. 2, 1917—Russian provisional which reversed the decision and or- dered a new trial. A change of venue by stipulation of the attorneys in the case was granted and the case will be retried here. WED AT PARSONAGE. Rev. A. M. Whitby of the Baptist church officiated at the wedding of Miss Josephine Bjerkey to Dorsey Spencer, both of this city, Saturday evening at 9:30 o’clock, at the par- sonage. They were attended by Miss que]lne McCartney and Roy Wright. bonds to appear before the federal grand jury at Fergus Falls next No- vember, he having been arrested by Federal Officers Brandt and Johnson and held for introducing liquor. At the time of his arrest on the liquor FANCY WORK SALE. Immediately GUILD MEETING. The Altar Guild of the Episcopal church will meet at the home of Rev. and Mrs. George Backhurst this even- ing at 8 o’clock. STRAWBRIDGE ARRESTED ON 'DISORDERLY PLACE' CHARGE after Many of them recalled it was ‘“September morn.” affair, Strawbridge inaugurated his famous ““barn dances” and reliable reports of what has been transpiring incident thereto ment. have become current com- A point is that one instance was when a small girl of exceedingly tender years was escorted to a ‘““‘movie show’ only to be induced to attend one of the dances. about 4 and complaint mother. next made She arrived home morning by her The complaint also includes viola- tion of the Minnesota Public Safety commission order that public dances shall not last longer than 11 o’clock at night. CROOKSTON COMPANY MAN LOOKING OVER COMPANY LANDS G. G. Winter of Minneapolis, head of the land department of the Crooks- ston Lumber company, was in Bemid- ji today looking after business inter- ests. He is much interested in the government proposition to allot re- turned soldiers land for cultivation and upon which to make their homes, for the reason such would be of great advantage to Minnesota. However, it seems the government is looking to- ward the southwest to lands arid and not near as fertile as those idle in Minnesota. overnment discovers far-reaching charge Strawbridge had long been cgo::ter.revolutiunary plot. The Young People’s Sewing Bee of | suspected of dealing in hooze and T Sept. 2, 1916—Revolution spreads the Swedish Lutheran church wiil|bore the reputation of “the man who SAFE “OVER THERE.” ept. 2, hold an apron and faney work sale in | could get away with it.” He refused in Greece. Sept. 2, 1915—Russians complete fourth month of big retreat. Sejt. 2, 1914—France announces to stop his high-powered car at the time, and two shots from a revolver checked him. Four gallons of booze and four of alcohol were confiscated the basement of the church Wednes- day afternoon and evening, beginning at 3 o’clock. Lunch will be served from 4 o’ciock and on through the af- Clarence Rood, son of Mr. and Mrs. 0. C. Rood has arrived safely ‘over there” according to a message re- ceived y the parents Saturday. capital is to be removed to Bordeaux.|ternoon. by the officers at the time. in the engineer’'s department. He is -4 4