Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 19, 1918, Page 3

SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1918 T R e T T e e L A e B P G 20t R SR £ 350 — N —— Dean $50,000 to loan on rarms. a7itf Land Co. J. B. Wright of Chicago transact- ed business in Bemidji Friday. Harry Pitchei of Minneapolis sed Friday in the city on busi- ness. ‘George Forte of town of Eckles transacted business in the city yes- terday. # If you want a car call Enterprise Auto Co. Office phone 1, residence phons 10. 56tf W. R. Johnson® of- Duluth spent yesterday in the city on business matters. John Smith of Bena, the 136.)’gax- old Indian, was a visitor in Bemidji vesterday. Mrs. C. H. Zealand .and son of Crookston were visitors in the city yesterday. Ella Hanson of Big Sandy, Mont., was a guest at the Hotel Markham yesterday. - F. E. Sprout of Hill City was among. the busidess visitors in the city Friday. One of these nice days you cught to go to Hakkerup's and have your picture taken, 14tf S. A. Hubbell of St. Paul passed yesterday in the city, being a guest at the Markham. or Werner Miss Gertrude Coy vesterday and autoed to Bemidji called on friends. Mrs. A. K. Temple of Northfield is visiting relatives in town of Northern for a week. W. Kaiser of Hibbing, who had Dbeen visiting relatives in Bemidji for a few days, has returned to his home. F. E. Rensswig of Grand Rapids transacted business in Bemidji Iri- day and while here was a guest at the Markham. Mrs. S. H. Stilwell of Becida brought her little boy to the city yesterday to consult a doctor. The boy injured his eye on a barb wire. “Pjctures can help win the war:” Uncle Sam says so. Paortraits, kodak prints: Rich Studio, 29 10th street. 1mol111 Mrs. E. W. Moxley of Butte, Mont:, was in the city yesterday, en route to Becida where she will visit her parents, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bush for -a--month. " Alex Doran, who has been confined at St. Anthony’s hospital for several days suffering from Spanish influ- enza, is convalescing and returned to his home yesterday. ~ Dr. E. H. Smith returned to his home, 717 Beltraml avenue, yester- day from ¢St. Anthony’s ~hospital where he has been confined with an infected hand for some time. Mrs. Olaf Anderson has returned from Copley township where she visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. 0. Malland, for a few days. - Mrs. Anderson was formerly Miss Molina Malland. M. G. Whitmere of Brainerd was in Bemidji yesterday, making ar- ~angements for the funeral of her little 2-year-old son. The boy died trom paralysis. Interment will be made at Clearbrook, their former home. The Bagley Independent says: “Rev. P. 0. Grambo and family ar- rived here Monday from theit home at Nymore. They will make their home here on the farm which they formerly owned east of town, while Mrs. Grambo recuperates from a seri- ous operation.” Mr. and Mrs. Vernie Daniel of Grand Forks, who conduct a theatre t that place, are taking advantage of the closing order in their city to visit at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. George Daniel and Mr. and Mrs. James McFarland at Bagley.— Bagley Independent. Mrs. Robert Farley of San Fran- cisco, Cal., arrived in the city yes- terday and will be the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Berke of the Fifth ward, before going to New York City, where she will join her hugband, who is an officer in the navy. Mrs. Farley formerly made her home in this city. Bemidji people will be interested in the following item appearing in the Littlefork Times as the Morris family formerly made their home in this city: *“The Kenneth Morris family now have all their children at home. Three have had typhoid fever and were in the Bemidji hos- pital. The last one was brought home on Friday.” The Littlefork Times says: “Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Miller are now ha ing their share of - trouble. Mrs. Miller contracted a severe cold and went to the Thospital at Bemidji Thursday evening. Mr. Miller ac- companied her there, and later con- sulted specialists in the southern _part of the state in regard to skin poisoning or other similar trouble, a malady that has bothered him for some vears and which has been acute of late. Later-—Friends here are sorry to learn that Mrs. Miller has pneuffionia, we hope mildly. A naturally rugged comnstitution Is ex- pected will overcome the trouble. Miss Bessie Newton is ill at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Newton, of Mississippi avenue. J. Leroy Elwell, cashier of the Farmers State bank of the Fifth ward, is expected to return tomorrow morning from Balta, N. D., where he was called on account of the death of the cashier of the Pierce County State bank, of which Mr. Elwell is president. He died from Spanish influenza. During his ab- sence, Julius Smith of the Northern National bank has been assisting at the Farmers State bank. NEWS AND LETTERS FROM BELTRAMI CO. SOLDIERS-SAILORS CAPT. GEIB WRITES. A most interesting letter comes to The Pioneer from Captain George A. Geib, in command of negro soldiers in France near the firing line, Cap- tain Gieb being a tthe time of his leaving for aofficers’ training camp a member of the engineering and architectural firm of Geib & Leibsle of Bemidji. The letter follows and was dated “Near the Front, Sept. 21, 1918 1 am writing to you so as to reach my friends in Bemidji, of whom I have thought of a great deal during the past three months since I have been over here. I wish they could see me mnow, writing this in the candle light in a French dugout very close to the front. In fact it is so close we have been awakened the last few nights by heavy bombarding and shelling. To begin from the start, you all perhaps know I have a company of Alabama darkies who have been mighty good soldiers. They are well behaved and surely doing their bit. We left Camp Dodge June 8 and after spending three days on the run land- ed at Camp Upton. We finished equipping the men there and on June 22 sailed the mighty Atlantic. On July 5 we landed safely at Brest, one of France's most beautiful spots. After spending or resting there four days w>» went to St. Nazaire on the western coast and assisted in the building of railroad yards and hos- pitals. After being there for about two months we moved up to the front and have now been here one month. We have moved all of ten times during that time and I want to tell you it is some job to move. I have seen many interesting as well as_exciting things. In fact I.don’t know what to say first. Of course you all have heard or read about the wonderful work of the boys on the St. Mihiel sector. Well, I had an opportunity to see a small portion of their prisoners that were brought in. We were doing some road work at one point and had a good oppor- tunity to see things . I have seen No Man’s Land, as it has been so often described by writ- ers, but which is so inadequate. I have seen German trenches, or what were formerly trenches, the ruins of sturdy and grand dugouts and bomb- proofs all caved in due to our accur- ate artillery fire. The place was lit- tered with busted barbed wire en- tanglements and other material of war. Helmets, shells, bullets, guns, clothing, etc., scattered all over. I have been in gas attacks, aeroplane raids, machine gun and bombs, bom- bardments and shrapnel showers from anti-aireraft guns. Then, too, the aeroplanes have given us many thrills. The other day I saw two boche planes very neatly and cun- ningly bronght to earth by a ruse on the part of the Americans and French. 3 Mr. Boche and his pal came over early in the p. m. to take observa- tion, no doubt. The antis opened up but suddenly stopped. All of a sud- den five allied planes popped out from behind the clouds somewhere and made for Fritz and Heine, who turned’ tail and beat it. They were too slow as the allied planes swooped down on-them like hawks and the result was a 2 to 0 defeat. We, who saw it, let out a hurrah just as if we had taken a hand in it. Did you ever happen to be in a tunnel and suddenly have it start caving in on you Well, that’s the same feeling one has when you hear a shell coming over you the first time. You simply are up on your toes looking hurriedly in, all direc- tions for a place to duck into. What's the use? If it hits near you, or on you, yon won't worry and if it goes over you don’t worry either; so after a bit you don’t mind the sound. Say, by the way, a shell whizzing through the air has a sound all its own. It cannot be imitated or copied. And it sure causes a funny feeling to go over; you the first time you hear it. One night last week some wise "Hun bird came over into our camp, thinking he would pick off a few troops. I happened to be standing outside without my helmet when the son-of-a-gun came directly over my head about 400 feet. He opened up with his machine gun on a road, thinking some troops were moving, but he wasted a bunch of good am- munition. It was a bright moon- light night and it wasn’t long before the antis opened up and so we had to scurry for cover or else get pep- pered with shrapnel. Such are a few of the daily occurences and grad- nally they become common. France is surely a beautiful coun- try, full of quaint people and customs, most of which we don’t notice any- more but it will be a happy day when yours truly can walk up to the Elko and call for a couple of stogies or real American cigars. Speaking of Cigars, did you ever try a French one? If you raven't, then don’t, and you’ll never miss much. Gosh! I wish you people could see me now with a Bemidji Pioneer dat- ed August 7 which I have read back- ward, forward, inside, outside and all sides. There is one thing missing though, that I hope will sure be.back|. at its old place, and that is the sign “Gieb & Leibsle.” Leave it to us. we will be back ‘“‘toot sweet,” as they say in French (only it isn't THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER spelled that way), which in our tongue means P. D. Q. 1 figured the mileage I have trav- eled since I've been away from Be- midji and it comes to about 6,000 miles. How’s that for a man who has had one bullet in the leg and then breaking it the second time? I tell you there’s nothing like the northern climate to make a fellow tough. There's another thing this life makes a fellow a d— good bum. The other night I slept under a per- fectly good French hay wagon and made breakfast in two tomato cans. For all of that I never felt better in my life. I wish I had Glen Hardings address, maybe we could have a Be- midji reunion. Notice by the last issue (of mine) that Lieut. Swinson is now in the service and I wish you would extend my greetings and best wishes to him. I used to think I was busy when I was building Bel- trami county school houses, but all I can say is join the army in war time and get to the front. Things MOVE up here and I hope they con- tinue to move so fast that, we don’t stop until Mr. Boche is back in Ber- lin licking his sores, and we are all back in our old places licking crooked contractors (?) and prohibitionists. Gad, you don’t know what a good drink of Johnnie Walker would do for a fellow these cold mornings or after a wet day with your feet wet. Oh, well, if Uncle Sam says we mustn’t then we won’t. is nice to think about it anyhow. I suppose you have read scads of letters as to how beautiful France is and how quaint her people are, so I won’t bother you with that dope, but I can tell you this much, they sure have got the gold brick artists of New York and Chicago backed off of the stage when it comes to highway robbery. As for me, I'm saving my Franes to buy tickets to the Elko when I get back, so if you all are real “correspondency’” I'll stake you to a show. Seriously. I certainly would be tickel. to death to hear from some of you and now that I am semi-permanently settled I hope we can keep in touch with one another. My very best regards to all. Hoping this reaches you in as good health as I am enjoying right now even though the terrible (¥) Hun is but a few miles away. As ever, your friends, CAPT. GEO. A. GEIB. Address, Capt. George A. Geib, Co. A, 527th Engineers, Army P. O. No. 769, Am. E. F. P. S.—Send me a few copies of The Pioneer, please! ! ! B e First Folding Pocket Knives. Pocket knives with blades to fold into the handle by a spring, were first made in the middle of the elghteenth century. POLITICAL ADVERTISING (Inserted by O. M. Skinvik. VOTE FOR Amount to be paid, $4.25 for series) SKINVIK for | J udge of Probate Olaf M. Skinvik But it sure @ | rem——— "O’Leary-Bowser COMPANY CONSIDER QUALITY -~ CONSIDER PRICE OU'LL always find our price as low as consistant with quality goods and in many cases as low as you are asked in many places for goods of inferior value. 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