Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 16, 1919, Page 1

NURSE CARED [ FRWOUNDED ASAIRPLANES ‘ Miss May MacGregor, Cited for b ; S Kout, announced ‘W, G, Bolcom, su- Bravery, Tells of War Work ! o "”ff‘fi.fi‘g"'fl‘e}fimflflffinfi' have a At the Commercial Club. | it o BEMIDJI, MINN., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1919 BEMIDJI SCHOOLS ¥ T0 CLOSE FOR SHORT - EASTER VACATION Classes Will be Discontinued| From Thursday Noon Until Next Tuesday Morning. ‘WHIPPET’ TANK TO START CAMPAIGN That ppupils may participate in the whippet: tank celebration tomorrow will ‘close at noon tomorrow, and | shopt Easter vacation, to include Goan Friday and Easter Monday, but { thechalf day was added that students might enjoy the paradé tomorrow art(?wen. : ses in the high school will start at §:30 tomorrow morning, the flrs%perlod being omitted. The next LIEUT. LYCAN EXPLAINS | HOW SHIPS PROTECTED | Operations of Mine Sweepers Qutlined—Reading by Miss Backus Enjoyed. UNIVERSITY SITE 1 E: i i ; 3 three classes will-be held according 3 to sthedule and at 10:45 Q’clock the last program of the Qui Vive Liter- ary,society for the year will be given. A program of much interest has been arranged. There will be a violin solp by Pascha Goldberg; a reading | by, Borghild Johnson; cartoons by Max Boyce; chemical demonstration by, Bertha Webster; piano duet by Muriel McGhee and Esther Hetland anfl the program will be concluded by:a play to be given.by: the students. How Red Cross nurses cared for wounded where German shell fell thick and where bombs from air- planes repeatedly endangered their! 1ives, was related at the Commercial club today by Miss May MacGregor, who has just returned from the bat- tle fields of France where she won twao citntions for bravery while serv- ing as » Red Cross nurse. Miss Mac-| An honest-to-goodness “baby Gregor ‘was flthe gl‘uesth of the club at|tank,” similar to those which the . noon .fay luncheon, as Wwere b ot Lieiit. Ralph B. Lycan, who has just :warrtnedt Ay hundreddsl tm;: ldgll’l E:e : returned from naval service, K. N. |forestsof Argonne and lurched In ac-}used extensively on the western vanhce of the infantry into the St.|front. Its weight is six tons, and its} - Irish, whq served overseas for 18 months, gnd Miss Vera Backus, who | Mihiel salient, will amble through|engine develops thirty-Aive-horse 0F BEMID." CLUB the streets of Bemidji.tomorrow, be- power. It Is entirely enclosed with e g8Ye o’ résding. thre ter-inch late, and e-quarter- mor plate, . . ing sent here to assist in starting the s » Letter, Written in French, Miss MacGregor related experi- ences .of her trip across the ocean g the conning towner is equipped with and on the traing, which carried ker | Victory Liberty loan campaign with|one of the latest Marlin machine| Praises America—Play to be *“.to the front, She visited Liverpool, {a rush. guns, which the operator is enabled 5 “Havre &nd-Pafis en route. She told | Bemidji people will have opportun-|to work at angles from within a.few Presented for Benefit Fund. of her work in caring for the woitnd- | ity to view the tank in the morning|feet of the tank to nearly perpendi- ed and the exciting conditions under | as it will arrive from Grand Rapids|cular. Its length is fourteen feet. which the work was carried on. ““The | early. The crew expects to put the Two men are required to handle air was literally filled with planes. tank through a few stunts, but it is|the tank in action, the driver and not - certain just where the ‘“‘baby’ |the machine gun man. Thierry frgut. I saw many baloons JIFSOLONS SEEKING To ,‘ | REACH COMPROMISE ~ INELECTION BILL come down' in flames and many. alr- planes fall to the ground: . : . i Now Plan to Combine TwaPri- -~ &pril 17th will be known as “Viv-} mary Measuies That Objec- ““The Germans were pretty” busy dropping bombs in our section as we tory” .day in our city. This is a-day jons be Out ; sét apart for stirring up enthusiasm ¢ May be Qu“‘ed were in a diréet line between the German front and Paris. On one oc- casion eight horses were killed by & bomp - a shert -djstance from our camp, A In Daneer Zone. = for the victory loan drive which will P begin Monday, April 21st. We have Legislators at St. Paul are making been fortunate in securing a whippet|an eleventh hour eflort to bring tank direct from the battle fields of | shout a compromise on the bill to france. reform the present. glection ‘system. “We, were Within the danger zone practieally. all of the time, as our . This tank will be on exhibition on | _"." g " A ouf streets--on Thursday, thé 17th| With only ‘one week of the legisla: organizatton kept moving with the ‘front line continually. At times we fell behind and the wounded did not receivé first aid for nearly sixty hours. Then again they were brought in so fast that we could not |- accommodate tizemdin, éll?;t qusr:ers, so they were placed on litters alomg{ .. 4 iy he operated by the boys who | tive session left,” leaders in both th‘]’u?l"gd:(;-:doguggmtfi fllefel;,m“ handled it over in France, it will|llouses of the Minnesota legislature 8 8 8 head a parade of soldiers, sailors and | 8re bestiring themselves. patriotic citizens, our band will dis- In order to satisfy advocates of course music for the occasion. both the Warner-Hompe bill, passed . Theré will bé several patriotic|by the house in February, and the speakers on hand ahd it is the desife | Rockne bill, now pending in the of our gocd people that Thursday the|senate, suggestions were made today 17th be proclaimed a holiday for our|to combine the hest ‘catures of the city, therefore, I, L. F. Johnson,|two bills. - APPRECIATES AID w&ll be given a chance to ‘“show off.” ; The tank is one of those manufac- tured for the American’ army and A. Howe, officer of the day; and J. H. McClure, The special Appreciation of the aid they are giving is shown in a letter to the members of the Bemidji “Y” club from the little French orphan they adopted some time ago. The little girl wrote in French, and a transla- tion of the letter is as follows: 4 {;ear Mademoiselle: 1 received your gentle letter. The address was exact. 1 am nine years old and am going to school where I do the best I can. 1 have two small brothers, Armand who is seyenand Albert who {8 two. With ‘us '{s mama and my grand- My dear papa is dead for Mayor »fichlaimi : Part Holiday For "~ Victory Paradeé DELEGATES :Jtwo years, 1 am sending you my photograph that is my brother Armand next to me. I think you will have a hard time to read my letter. 1 wish I could write it in English instead of French. My mattén understands a little English as shé studies it. You have a grand country. They" gave all for France for the dear sol- diers and little babies. - Thank you agfin dear Miss—you and your gentle company. It gives | me great pleasure to correspond with you. I'like you very well. Adrienne. At the last meeting of the club, it was decided that the membeés give a play to ruisc money to pay the re- maining amount that they owe on the orphan. Mrs. S. C. Brown has offered to coach the play and it is expected to be an excellent one. BOY SCOUTS ASSIST IN TRANSPLANTING TREES Whether France and Belgium get Minnesota’s surplus of pine seedlings or not the potential trees must be gotten out of the way some way ac- cording to State Forester Cox. The nursery at Cloquet has a mil- lion or so trapsplanted seedlings three years old that will soon be too old for shipping and planting else- where. The state forestry depart- Paris, April 16.—-The quarters at Versailles. ~ battle of death heroism at stake. FINDS OLD PAPERS lock while making avenue, tablishment of the Mine Cable Cut. When_the cable came in contact with a stitionary mine it would tend to work the mine out toward the end, where the mine cable would be forced Into the clippers, which were attached to the floats, and thus cut in two. This would then release the mine, which would come to the sur- face. Lieut Lycan sketchedd a draw- ing on the blackboard, and thus gave his audience a very vivid description of its workings. Miss Backus’' reading was of the comedy variety and was enjoyed by all. CECIL PETRIE DEAD:‘— RECEIVES REGIMENTAL PAPER. | HOLD DEVOTIONAL SERVICES. HOLD FUNERAL TOMORROW Ed. Dean, who recently returned Devotional services will be held at S from France where he participated |the Preshyterian church on Thurs- Cecil Petrie of Maltby, a brother |in several of the world war’s princi- day and Friday evenings in memory of Clyde Petrie of this city. died last | pal battles as a member of the Fifth of the last week of our Lord’s life. night at 11:15 at his home after a| Field Artillery, has received a copy|On Thursday evening the pastor will This is a newsy |speak on the subject, “Nearing the beautiful trees painted upon the She was at St. Miehel forest, Ar- Mayor. | and state officers. The Rockne bill work iff caring ‘for the wounded, By an overwhelming vote the|nrovision for county organizations. ports and battle ships were protected By a vote of 106 to 13, and with-|actually nominate candidates for the deok after several days out, It provides that all outstanding funds | ture of the Warner-Hompe bill 88}.50r Cox. He de lared the growing keep the floats full length at all L R il corresponder cc received here. Min- Gleason of F“‘THW! DOP S Honse members, inglst that, they In the meantime several thousand to the public today. The mew mar- filed today, wonderful piece of camouflage, un- der which an aviation camp was oused. “It looked from a distance background. It was surely deceiv- ing, as we did not discovir what it was until we were within twenty feet of the camp.” mayor, proclaim it as such and| The Warner-Hompe bill provides kindly ask all business places to be|for a convention, made up of duly closed between 12, noon, and 3 p. m. | glected delegates, to nominate party gonne salient and Chatteaox}) Thien('ly fronts and more than 30,000 wound- . P ides merely for conventions to ed were cared for by her company. prov: i h b recommend candidates for nomina- Two citations, which were given her HOUSE WOULD. OUST tion at the regular primaries. Country editors who objected at were read by Miss Backus. These SAFm COMM]SS!ON first to the Warner-Hompe bill did will appear in full in a later issuc - of The Pioneer. Lieut. Lycan gave an interesting | house of representatives has shown|It is now proposed to so amend the that it would put the public safety | Warner-Hompe bill that the county commission out of business. The|conventions will make recommenda- from stationary and floating mines | fate of the commission is now up to|tions for county and legislative of- and from the submarine. The de- seription was somewhat as follows: A cable supported by wires with |out debate, the lower branch of the|state office. legislature passed the bill introduced This proposal to combin€ the in-|p ent hasn't sufficient funds to by Representative W. A. Pittenger|dorsement feature of the Rockne transplant all of these seedlings in which extended some two hundred |of Duluth, which called for the clos- bill as applied to county and legigla-| 4} o woods where they belong. That's yards from either side of the ship The floats were equippeddwtnh r;\;‘i- 1tipr o g o o state oMt 4 M srs, which were controled from the jin:the commiss on’s hands be turn a o state offices was broac] 3 g p into the general revenue fund of the | by Senator Arch Coleman of Minne- g;:hZ,’:‘e:g,l"l';:mfl:):tBp';;;?:g‘:a"fl:h125 state. apolis. woods costs considerably more than times. The bill had been resting upon the the department’s fund will stand. Representative Leo nesota has them. Whether they will Minneapolis made the motion to be given away, sold or kept within {);ing the bm’"’ a vote. He '3;“;13":;’;‘1 : the state is as yet undetermined. At ere was no longer any need for the | ¢ 5.0 t}0 management of George|2ny rate France will ot be able to Kusba, who for some tiie has been appreciate the good work of the com- | employed at the Palace meal market, b b ispad out mission, but feel that now, with the|? new market has: been established ?‘: tnx Mggimg‘:fifmc:;:f;}:fl?gf‘ (t’ll;le war over, there i‘s no longer need of northwest for transplanting. By the safety board’s continuance. | ket fs modern in every respect and |having the boys transplant the trecs the building has been decorated in attractive manner. The owners are George Kusha & company. ¥¢ like a hillside, with green grass and -Cited For Bravery. L. F. JOHNSON, | candidates for United States senators company for bravery and wonderfu! s0 on the ground that it made no ‘talk, describing just how the trans- the state senate. ficers, while the state convention will a float at the end was dropped from ing up of the commission’s affairs.|tive officers and the nomination fea-| what costs money, according to For- ship and which were s0 placed as to table for some days, after having France needs trees according to two months. NEW MEAT MARKH IN b % commission continuing. use them until next spring. in the Fifth ward and it was opened The Pittenger bill now goes to the the state is enabled to do a small senate. Efforts will be made in that portion of its reforestation at small branch to have a vote taken before cokt. At the same time it becomes a the legislature adjourns. patriotic performance with the Scouts who have made ft a manifes- tation in honor of the late Theodore Roos=exelt. CHIEF ESSLER ORDERS DOGS MUST BE TAGGED from he had fully recovered. was before he was hurt. fons of ordinance “The Seven Last Words From The These meetings begin at 8 All are most cordially wel- Chief of Police er announced this morning that the order must be com- plied with. Tags may be secured at the office of George Stein, city clerk. Chief Essler also announces that hand bills will not be permitted on the streets of Bemidji hereafter. He says that bills may be delivered to house doers but that they must not The Howitzer was sent to the Be- midji soldier by Chaplain Hart, of C,ross.." the Fifth artillery. o’clock. come, WILL MEET The Bemidji club will meet next Saturday, at the Carr Lake scliool house. This is the|ecity of Limerick was virtually in a Mr. Petrie had been a resident of Maltby for the past twenty-two years. He was 31 years of age and jeaves his wife, two children, Paul age 6 and Edna age 2, his parents, #NMr, and Mrs. L. O. Petrie of Malthy, a- sister, Mrs. Frank Slough of this city, a brother, Clyde, also of this city, and two brothers, James and his imjury. ATURDAY. IN STATE OF SIEGE. Dublin, April 16.—The has entirely recovered. Martin was represented case by Township Farmers’ Ireland, Attorney Herbert _PIONE LOANCAMPAIGNTO PARADE FEATURE FOR MEMORIAL IS FAVORED BY GAR. Old Soldiers Think it Would be Most Appropriate Location for Hall Recomimended. Bemidji veterans of the civil war, members of the R. H. Carr post, No. 174, favor locating the State Mem- orial which is to be erected in honor and memory of Minnesota men and women who served in our country's war, at the University of Minnesota. At the last meeting of the post it was decided to so recommend and the plan is apprqved in resolution by William Schroeder, acting command- er, George Cheney, adjutant . Irish, H. P. Rice, J. M. Barnett, G. H. Cox committee appointed — by Governor Burnquist to plan the memorial recommends a hall, feet wide and 800 feet in with o memorial auditorium at the upper end and a campanile 225 feet high at the lower end on the bank of the Mississippi river at the Uni- versity where it would be seen by the greatest possible number of peo- ple and for all time serve as an in- spiration and education in patriot- ism to the thousands of young men and women who will attend the in- stitution from all parts of the state. length, WILL PASS THROUGH DEVASTATED ZONE By William Phillip Simms. *(United Press correspondent.) German peace delegation has heen officially ordered to Versailles April 26. delegates will follow the route over which they marched to the gates of Paris in 1914, but as in tuat year they will not be allowed to enter the city, but will be forced to skirt the city and proceed directly to thelr They will be whirled toward Cer- sailles through the scenes of devas- tation wrought by German hands and they will pass Liele, Namur, Waub- suge, Charleroi, the great but brok- en Hindenberg line defenses, and courage and WHILE IMPROVING STORE Copies of the Beltrami Eagle, pub- lished in *“Bermidji’’ in September, 1896, have been found by A. T. Whee- improvements and enlarging his store on Beltrami The Eagle was established in Bemidji a short time after The Ploneer was first published, and was produced by C. W. Speelman. One of the issues tells of the es- Presbyterian church, the city's first house of wor- ship, and of the building of a town at Buena Vista, where fifty years be- fore a large trading post of the Hud- son Bay company had been operated. CLYDE MARTIN ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION. COURT RULES That Clyde Martin is entitled to further compensation in consequence of injurfes received when he was thrown from a carriage in the Crook- ston Lumber company plant on Dec- oration day, last year, is the opinion of Judge C. W. Stanton, in a ruling The lumber confpany paid Martin compensation amounting to $12 a week, one-half of his regular wage, the time of his injury until Janunary 9, when it was claimed that Martin br51lght suit under the compensation law claiming that he had not recovered, from his injuries and that his earning capacity has been reduced to one-third of what he In his decision todady Judge Stan- ton rules that Martin s entitled to of wages lost by Martin by resson of This compensation will be paid for a period of not more than 300 weeks from the time of the in- jury, or until such time as it is con- clusively shown to the court that he week’s illness, death being due to|of The -Howitzer. Under the nr bronchial-pneumonia. following inr|newspaper *“manned by the enlisted Cross By Way of the Garden.” On|number 29. 1! dozs in Bemidji must|a weekly payment of $9.60, fluenza. men of the Iifth Field Artillery.”|Friday evening the theme will be, | be licenscd and zed by May 1, and | amount being two-thirds in the while, Gordan Cain, of the Minne- FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH ORY Bemidji's Victory loan campaign will be opened with a ‘bang” to- morrow when a ‘“whippet” tank, the sort that was used in the battie of the Argonne forest and the St. Mi« hiel salient and which is one of the twenty being sent through the Ninth federal reserve (istrict, will lead a parade through the business disfriets of the city. Under the direction of Earl W. Byer detalls for the celebration to- morrow have been completed. The parade will start from the City hall at two o'clock, and it will include the military band, soldiers, sanors, delegations from the various lodges, school children and other features. All To Decorate. It is urged that merchants decor- ate their stores for the occasfon, the decorations to be left until the cam- paign sale starts next Monday. Huns dreds of people from the surrounding country are planning to come to Be- midji for the celebration. This morning W. L. Brooks, campaign chairman, talked to every farmer who is connected with rural tele- phone Tlnen, the subscribers on each line listening to a cordial invitation to participate in the *‘doings’ here. There will be speeches from the whippet tank and several stunts to create interest {n the logn, have been planned. R. L. Given, chairman of the speake commit{eg. has ar- rranged for several talks which will be of interest. Rally In Evening, In the evening there will be a rous- ing Victory loan rally. There will be a number of patriotic speeches and the terms of the loan will be outlinéd. ' Weather permitting- the rally will' be held out-of-doors. Chairman, Brooks ls much pleased with the enthusiasm which is being taken in the loan and he lg confident that the county will subscribe its $270,000 quota in double quick time. Workers are eagerly awaiting the signal to start active work on sub- scriptions. The women's committee of the household reached in its drive to make knowg the particulgrg of the loan. At a meeting to be held Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock ‘in’ the Comumercigl club rooms Chairmen’ Brooks will discuss the loan. terms with the wo- men who are soliciting -uheeriptions. Mrs. A. P. White, « un of the women’s campalgn iittee, ans nounced today thet e¢yery house in Bemidji will be visited Saturday. The schools of Bemid]{ are to close for the parade tomorrow and Mayor Johnson has asked the stores to close between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock. Soldlers and sajlors are requested to meet at the Army and Navy club at 1:30 o'clock by Lieut. Thomas Swinson. The soldfers will be com- manded by Captain Hallan L. Huff- man in tno parade, and the sajlors by Lieut. Ralph B. Lycan. Every soldier and sailor is asked to partici- pate. Remember tho parade starts at 2 o'clock. SHOULD PUT NAMES INSIDE That packages sent by parcel post should carry the name and address of the sender and that of the ad- dressee inside the package as well as on the outside, {5 the recommen- dation of the postoffice department. This action is one of the first re- sults of the conference of postmas- ters with the big business houses held at Washington during the first days of April. ) The precaution of putting a card bearing the addrcss of the sender and addressee {nside the package is in- tended to lessen the number of par- cels which cannot be delivered and finally are sold at auction. Fre- quently packages are damaged 8o that names on the outsided cannot be deciphered. SECOND DIVISION HERO RETURNS ON FURLOUGH E. N. Irish, nephew of G. Irish, who wds wounded in the battles of Soissions and Argonne, is enjoying a thirty day furlougn in Bemidji. Irish, who is a regular, served with the famous second division in France and fought with the marines and in- fantry at Verdun, Chateau Thierry. Boissions, Campagne and Argonne, participating in the fighting which saved Paris from the rush of the Huns. He will return to Camp Grant May 7. T:os.r!g'%!n nndEThnmus uglyeé of the Beltrami Elevator and Milling company left last evening for the Twin Cities where they will purchese Cain, appeared for the lumber com-|machinery to be installed in the new plant of the company P Xathan, who live at hialtby. The re-| meeting which should e been held | state of siege today following the|be nailed on poles or distributed mains will be taken to Park Rapids. |last Saturday, but was postponed.|establishment of martial law. Brit-}along the streets. This order is in|apolis firm of Powell, Carmen and his oid home, where the funeral will| “The Community Market’”” will belish troops with full equipment were | consequence of the city’s desire fo he heid tomorrow. the topic for diacussion. fn possesdion of the streets keep the stroots as cleam ss possible. | pany. J - P S B S g ey Victory loan has practically complet. ed details for its campaign, and every.,. fn the county will h} 3 [ X