Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 11, 1918, Page 1

'VOLUME XVL ‘NO. 235 VANSANTS . CHANGE HERE, NO SCHOOL REPORTS * OF INFLUENZA PLAGUE: NURSE IS DILIGENT Report has it that Crookston is 10 ‘close all public institutions, including schools and motion picture theaters, while Fargo reports about 2,600 cases - | of. Spanish: influenza with. a total of | u deaths. ' Pneumonia has developed] in:a- number of cases.. In fact from |’ throughout Minnesota emanate re- ports of cases of the plague with fatal results. % Bemidji fs iucky, judging from con- ditions here, Special attention is belng given to the public schools and here the new school nurse, Miss Jen- nie Mostu, is showing her worth. She has been diligently investigating the homes of pupils throughout the eity and has placed a list of symptoms of the disease with every gchool princi- pal and also a list of things to do as preventatives. Superintendent Bolcom this after- noon replied in repsonse to a query what had been encountered in the schools of Bemidji, and he stated that |- no actual cases had been reported, also that extra precautions were be- ing taken in detail. GASLESS SUNDAY WILL BE CHANGED: NEW PLAN ‘Washington, Oct. 11,—The auto- less Sunday - program is about to be abandoned in favor of a new plan for { “Cm—nea to Speak On National < *“ Prohibition Amendment Election in November MAJORITY OF ALL VOTES CAST WILL BE NEEDED ~ Liquor Question Not Laughing Stock Any More, Declares ~ . Pittsburg Pastor <~The last time I was in Bemidii, 7. your streets were lined with saloons. Now I 'see you have no saloons, but “instead you have fine payed street, fine hotels; depot ; schools, stores, ‘banks and manuncturing And I am glad to be here again.”” S0 said tormer Governor Vin Sant “in’ the city hall last night when he “ spoke in support. of the dry tcoémti- ed on t;::iotn ‘}} atiendment to he 3o restricting use of gasoline by automo- i 'a ‘times as biles. W. Champlin Robinson, chief Hvesneard s iEroat matny e oust-| °F the fuel ‘administration’s oil con- 0 whg {lam l?“t;.vt?:;,“:é;rm beliove| servation division, said an announce- g .IIBEI: ntge‘ll'osomethmg of a political m’;;°“Ht3°disc‘l‘b’§§€tlx‘;‘i‘é}l‘zeb:h:e;?f _ature. The people of the statet of i ie 6: HFe honiproarant, Dk thain: Minnesotd have honored mebwith h:: derstanding is that some s¢cheme has terig a;gogeel;n%rt. ti:a&re Aee;cand been worked out to distribute, gaéf. S fpinen line saving over every day in the ']I“‘vy:]fie:g ::tsi‘; h°m:ffg§t“s‘32§?;:3§3 week without actually using a card I don’t envy a man nor what he has. rationing system. : “Theonly parson 100 entvz'h lsU t}‘: 3 pointed to co-operate with the state ~young man in a uniform of the Ut} should fnterest themselves in making| committee: R. C. Jathwig, War- el the entire state constitutionally dry.|ren, Marshall county; A. D. Stephen, J - Still amhter - Shelton Urges- Action. Crookston, Polk county; V. M. Higin- .- "“I am here on borrowed time. T Dr. (}e'ocl!gznw. Shelton, of Pitts-| botham, Red Lake Falls; Red Lake ‘frave weached man's = alloted three v e Pa,, pastor of the large Pres- county; H. E. Dahl, Twin" Valley, score and ten and am beyond 'that byterian church in that ecity, also Normal ‘county; T. M. George, Hal- “mark, -1 servedithrough the.Civil Wart poke-priefly. . He is-taking a vaca- I want to lr:n and choyse to spend 1t lngthe serv- | seau county; John Bratrud, Thief and ‘am pretty .good yet, 1ive on for at least two years lomger|ise of the forces afrayed against 1i< River Falls, Pennington county; A.! X L. Thompson, Mahnonien, Mahnomen ‘and see the Kaiser and hooze lafd intgyop the same grave. The Kaiser went| —n Shelton recalled t,hat it was|county; J. M. Witherow, Moorhead, Jorward, “mit Gott” ‘and he's goingiyot Jong ago that the few ardent foes| Clay county; O. Baker, Detroit, back with the devil.’ of saloons and the liquor traffic were| Becker county; C. G. Selvig of the “In the election this fall it will re-1aughing stock. He even stated that|State committes and. the.: fonrs first Quire & majority of all votes cast at many. preachers didn’t take the ques- above nanfed will be the executive the election to carry the amendment {'tion seirously,.and that others were committee, of which R. C. Mathiwig ind evety voter should go to the|disappointed politiolans, “Today,’” he|Is chalrman. polls and ask for the pink ballot first. | asserted, “everybody is for it. It Information at hand indicates that vote it and then mark their other|Minnesota does not vote dry Novem- the federal government will devise ballot, = Minnesota has a splendid|ber 5, it will‘be because the people| 8 Dlan to purchase lands from itself; force of home guards, but the best]did not vote at all." He referred to| the state or .ndividuals. These lands home guards are the men who Willlthe Twin Cities, steeped in liguor|are to be principally from the arid vote dry on November 5." and of Sauk Center which he declar-|southwest or the cut-over of the The governor then proceeded :toied, was the wettest spot of its size hie | DOTthwestern Pacific states, that will _ (ear the crust Off the booze question | ever knew, and said that such places|require reclaiming and thus will pro- * and he did a good job. were not to be feared so much in the| Vide work for the returning soldier Very Simple Problem. { election as the dry sections, whose in-| for a renumeration while developing habitants seem to be satisfied with|the country for actual use of agri- A mand w0 :;:el;&svehi:n;wa‘geei: their 1lot, forgetting the other sec- culture. There are those who belicve ods WO igr b‘,:i.t g,?y ‘goods,” he exclaimed, fions that are wet and seeking relief. | that the prairie lands of the Middle West are better adapted for the re- ‘Booze has been tried, convicted and State’s Maijoritv Needed. turning soldier, as'“‘;,on these imm- sentenced to the gallows to be hung. Thirty-six states have already adopt| giate results to overcome the food The distinguighed visitor attempted | ed the amendment.. It will take a|ghortage that prevails and will pre- no oratorical fights. ~He just faced | majority. Only one majority is nec-} yajl for a long time, will be over- his hearers from the floor ‘and, as he| essary to carry the national amend- come. is of Holland stock, informed his au’mnt and this point was stressed by NORTHWEST MINNESOTA TO HELP GOVERNMENT - Crookston, Oct. 11.—The Minneso- ta-Red River Valley Development as- ing the federal government in pro- viding lands to returning soldiers. The following committee, one mem- ber from each county, has been ap- 1k th th Xe The Red River Valley dcommlltce t he would talk to them e speaker. will get busy at once and organize ti‘:?\l(lc;:en“l‘)autch uncle,” recalling the| Dr. Skelton said that the hoped a committee in each county. proverbial expression. And he talked | when the-boys came home after the Euraesy st sperls, i par ey el b e o, prets NEW METHODIST PASTOR WILL PREACH SUNDA fall election. He spoke of the “Saloon’’ on any sign. ?;c:h:hat this part of the state was Dr. W. C. Westenburg of St. Paul Services will be held Sunday in the Methodist ¢hurch, conducted by the Indian treaty but that| also spoke. ?vrl{n‘;n?:lrs section was not afflicted Rev. L. P. Warford a_cted as chair- the new pastor, Rev. Blaine Lambert, who has been transferred to Bemidjl ~with the open saloon the people| man of the meeting. by the northern con(erence of the CREELFEADOFPUBLICITY, P ~ PEEVED OVER PUBLICATION evening topic will be “What Is Most Worth While.”” Mr. Lambert is not a stranger to Bemidji, having been here at the time of the district Epworth League con- vention in Jne, 1917. He is a native of Fergus Falls and a graduate of the Fergus Falls high school, later graduating from Hamline university and from Drew Theological seminary at Madison, N. J, ' For the past two years he has been pastor of the church in Osakis and the two years previous was pastor at Long Prairie. In his student days, Rev. Mr. Lam- bert was in charge of various church- es is Minnesota and New Jersey, working his way through an educa- tion in various ways. The family consists of Mrg. Lambert, a san three months old and a daughter, four years old. i Mrs. Lambert was a Hamline class- mate of Mr. Lambert and taught at ss Lake and later in the Mankato high school, which city is her home. THIS DAY IN THE WAR Oct. 11, 1917—Russians withdraw before German attack near Riga. the topic, ‘‘Paul’s Program’ and the e ernmet approval of the Nonpartisan league. Washington, D. C., Oct 11.—The use of a letter B-?ulx;lp?.;‘e’sézn::;%xeson Public Infor- It is a letter that should not have urposes was con- | been written. From the first it has Ta“o:d'%r pé’él'f;:‘c‘;eefimmm of | been the policy of this committee not l(en'momm);v.tee He has taken steps|to indorse or condemn connection i vent a recurrence of this of-{ with any political campaign in any ;eon;:ehe said. state and the picture of Mr. Bates, r to Poole. tes Lette: an candidate for office, should not Wt wrote the tollowing hairman have been asked. let'g‘re go‘algrnes'. Poole, director of Please see ‘that these orders are ead- h repeated to every one in your bureau ;\:‘irftt;!;esiga!: l]);::? ;’,‘;;?“mw;::mh e ami1 btet at fiartlcu]m; gslr{; tofsete '.h!;t no letter or request in the future is declared the Seymour letter ought| ,» 4 nature that can be attested a ne;{gr tnl.b h:‘firbe;[:;o;;nnelnhave it political advantage or disadvantge. y Dea This is not the first time the Non- }\;:r&;howll:bla‘schoelg (i’xt; Uéi ‘g:l‘:les":: partisan leiague has taken advantage . o .spgce GTehe froal page 1@ de of letters from Mr. Creel or his bu- 1, | reau. voted to a letter signed by E . D. One he_wrote last spring saying Seymour of yvour bureau. In this letter addressed to the edi- 80 far as-%o knew the 10yally ot the league had not been questioned by tor of the Nonpartisan Leader, Mr. the Federal government has been re- Seymour asks for a picture of Mr. printed by the thousands and, ac- M. P. Bates, candidate for goVernori ..,.qing to reports, is being used in of South Dakota. The letter makes it the Nebraska campaign now, despite ‘quite plain that the pigture is to bel o sact Mr. Creel has forbidden its nsed in foreign countries as part of | .. our endeavor to prove that humble It is understood Townley has in his| vasion of Rumania pegins. citizens can rise to high places in a} gieg 5 copy of a letter from the chair-| Oet. 11, 1915—French democracy, but the fact remains that! man telling him not to use the|slightly in Champagne. the Nonpartisan league is making use| «ywhitewash letter” in the League’s Get. 11, 1918—Belgian army re- of the communicating to argue gov-|political campaigns. tires to Ostend. advance - sociation is actively engaged in aid- lock, Kittson county; R. J.«BeH, Ro= Oct. 11, 1916—Austro-German in-| These Americin avintors are cunsxihing umpé Just prior: to starting upon a bombing expedition on Metz, ‘the Alsatian capital. « . FLAYS STAMP GIVING. W.u.shingon Oct. 10.—The practice y some merchants of giving War PROVIDE SOLD]ERS LAND Savinga stamps as premiums with purchases is strongly condemned by the Treasury. “The war savings movement was created to help the people of the United States win the war,” said a Treasury official in a statement to- day. “When a retail dealer gives away a War Savings stamp he does so that he can sell a man something the man does not need.. ‘““The government gets 25 cents from the dealer and the dealer gets $6 or $10 from the customer for the ar- ticles?the customer ought not to have bought, and which the War Industries b the War' department can- re the neuum and h!bor o mafutacture.. “Thus the transaction goes round the eircle: and ‘precisely defeats the war saving novement,” TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE CLOSES: GREAT SUCCESS, ONE OF STATE MEETINGS One of the most successful insti- tutes.held for county teachers came to a close at noon today. The insti- tute had been in session throughout the week, and was held in the court room of the county court house. An especially interesting session was held this morning, when Judge C. W. Stanton gave an excellent pa- triotic spéech; Rev. M. A. Soper spcke on Sunday school unions; Miss Mur- phy, Miss Hall, Mrs, Tuomy and Mr, Colgrove spoke on Red Cross work and baby welfare, the latter subject being handled by Mrs. Tuomy. Mr. Colgrove spoke of the work which had been done ijg his home town in gathering tin cans and sending them to the Empress company, where from two cents to three cents were paid per can. Good results had also been obml from gathering hottles, tin foil, ‘ete: “Beventy-nine teachers were in attefidance at the institute, this being one .of the seven institutes held in the state of Minnesota the past week, and County Superinten- dent Stewart is highly gratified over the showing ot Beltrami. FOES CAPTURED. SLAIN IN STAGGERING NUMBERS With th ish Armies in France, Oct. 171, d by their govern- ment’s request for an armstice, of which they knew only as much as was contained in-the Kaiser’'s order of the day, some German divisions between lCnmbral and St. Quentin made one of the feeblest [fights seen since the Somme became a battlefield. “They didn’t fight like they did a week ago,” said a South Carolina boy, who participated in both battles. “If the Kaijser doesn’t want to fight, why should we?” asked a Ger- man private, who became a willing prisoner. “LIBERTY DAY” TOMORROW; IS AMERICA’S ANNIVERSARY. St. Paul, Oct. 11—*“Liberty Day” —commemorating the discovery of America will be observed through the northwest tomorrow. In his proclamation of Sept. 20, President Wilson urged all citizens to observe the day “in order to stimu- late a generous response to the { Fourth Liberty loan.” While many districts have closed their active campaigns for the lean there is yet time to “get in” on the loan. Italian Societies of the state will observe the day by opening their campaign for the Italian War fund. FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH £hi IS .TOWILSON;MERELY TRYING T0 BEFOG AMERICAN EDICT (By United Press.) London, Oct. 11.—Germany’s reply to President Wllson will be that she will evacuate negotiations start in a neutra Belgium and France, providing 1 country before evacuation is completed, and providing the allies give assurances that Ger- man territory, including Alsace not demanded. Lorraine and Polish Prussia, be i Ruring the peace negotiationa, German troops are to re- main in Russia and Roymania. This information is contai to the press. ined in an Amlterdnm dispatch GERMANS ARE FLEEING NORTHESAT OF CAMBRAL By De Gandt. i (United Press Correspondent.) Paris, Oct. 11.—The Germans are retreating precipitately northeastward from Cambrai, in the general direction of Dinain and Vallnciennes. East of C Solesmes and Le Chateau. ambrai the allies are beyond LAPORTE PRIVATE DIES, A message received by the parents of Amond Anderson of LaPorte, yesterday, stated that their son had died'at Camp Grant, of Span- ish influenza. A sister, Olga Ander- son, of. the deceased, is staying at the home of Chief oy Police: Essler and wife. - The private went with the August_dratt. e HUNS TAKE PARTING SHOT AT CATHEDRAL With the French Army at Rheims, Oct. 11.—The last shells fell upon Rheims on Friday, after which the Germans retired over the hills to save the guns that fired the parting shots, one of which hit the cathedral. “The erash of it,”” sald a witness “‘of this last blow of brutal force at the inanimate product of supreme art, sounded like an explosion of im- potent rage.” A few more stones fell from the ragged edge of an old breach in one of the arches of the ceiling; another cloud of dust and smoke rose out of the skeleton structure and the Ger- nan effort at the destruction of the ancient capital of the Remi was end- ed. There is little more the Germans could haye done, for Rheims today is in utter ruin, as complete a symbol as even the Germans would wish to leave behind them the ruthlessness of war as they have waged it. Only the buildings in the outskirts remain erect and not one of them was left untouched. Toward the center of the town nothing but the ragged remnants of walls remain standing, while around the cathedral and other ' churches even the walls have been reduced to heaps of debris. The cathedral, which required more than 200 years in the building, has been reduced to ruins in four years of more or less constant bombard- ment. The walls are standing but daylight shows through them in many places. Great holes in the ceil- ing are growing larger as the unsup- ported masonry crumbles and falls. WAR NOT AFFECTING SALE OF DODGE CARS AT ONGSTAD'S The war doesn’t seem to be affect- ing the sales of Dodge cars in this vicinity, according to the business Olof Ongstad is doing. Yesterday he unloaded a car of Dodge autos and delivered them, all having been sold. Today, another order was placed for another car of Dodges, practically all having been ordered for immed- iate shipment. i REPUBLICANS GETTING READY FOR CAMPAIGN Chairman T. 8. Ervin of the Bel- trami county Republican committee has named some of the commissioners precinet committeemen , the Third district yet to be filled. The committee named are as fol- lows: Bemidji-—W. Z. Robinson. Blackduck-——Charles Hayden. Kelliher—William Lennon. Baudette—William Noonan. Mr. Ervin will leave for St. Paul tonight to discuss what action to take ONE AMERICAN * TOWN BUYS NO LIBERTY BONDS (By United Press.) Lancaster, Pa, Oct. 11.—This county of plain sects and conscien- tious objectors includes probably the only hamlet in the country where a Liberty bond has not been sold nor a war saving stamp disposed of. Five miles east of New Holland there rises a bushy, scrubby hill, known as tlre Welsh Mountain be- cause of ‘its settlers, and now inhabi- ted by about 60 families of negroes. It was there that Abe Buzzard and his-cohorts took refuge when state of- ficers years ago attempted to round up the notorious horse thieves that were roving eastern Pennsylvania. Crude stone monuments still stand ns markers of spots where battles with the constables. were fought. The negroes are now under spirit- ual care of a Mennonite minister, and a small mission has been established atop the mountain, But booze and congenial tendencies still combine to create lawlessness, and state consta- bles periodically are called to main- tain order. Dugouts in the side of the moun- tain made by the horse thieves when first they sought refuge among the underbrush of the hillsides are still used as dwellings by the negroes of the present day. The only regular in- come the villagers have is the money paid them at the mission for broom making and carpet weaving. These trades were learned by many of the inhabitants while they were “doing time.” They haven't given anything to help finance the war. Nobody ever thought it worth while to call upon them for a sub- seription. NEW REGISTRANTS ARE UNDERGOING THEIR TESTS Examinations of registrants in the recent call {s in vogue at the court house, where the board of physicians is going over candidates for military gervice to determine their physical fitness. About 200 will be Tooked over for the first entrainment quota from Bel- trami county. MOTHER IS NOTIFIED SON LOST LIFE WHEN HIS VESSEL COLLIDED (Special to Pioneer) Bagley, Oct. 11—Fullowing is & copy of a telegram received by Mrs. James Blix of the town of Nora, Clearwater county, the message being dated at Washington and signed by Z. C. Palmer: “The bureau of navigation, navy department, regrets to advise you that your son, Ervin Theodore Blix, | electrician, third class, U. S. N., appears on the list of missing from the U. S. S. Herman Frasch, which was sunk in a collision on October 4. The bureau is reluctantly compelled to believe he lost his life. You have the sincere sympathy of the bureau in your loss, “Any inquries should be addressed in the campaign soon to become ac-|to the Bureau of Navigation, Navy tive. __,H | | e department, Washington.” ) |