Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 8, 1919, Page 1

: “BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1919 MORRIS KAPLAN BEGINS BUILDING = OF $30,000 MODERN BUSINESS BLOEK| . FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH GERMANS STU - BABCOCK WIL - ASSIST BOARD - |39D6E sTaNTON WILL 2 ATTEND MEYST FUNERAL : : mi?‘.':fi C. W 'figifidrm leave = . 1 . 0 . ~fiBrainerd, where-he is holding a term New Structure May Provide Home for Macaroni Factory~~Op-|of district court, "té/rgmn‘;.nea%olln to- ¢ ‘fnight where he will attend the fan- WANS STUDY - MAP PROGRAM - FORHIGHWAYS £5 © © T¥350,000 bon County Commissioners Will Go! to St. Paul Tonight to Inter- | view Highway Commissioner |from Second street to MAY SPEND $465,000 - ON ROADS OF COUNTY _Appropriate $300 for Develop- ment Association—Home for Poor Will -Cost $14,000. That they may deflnit_ély map a pro- ‘gram-for road construciion and jm- provem'ol;t to be.carried on in del- ‘trami tounty under federal aid and “the. provisions of the proposed Bab- ‘cock -amendment, members of the board “of commissidnérs will leave this evening for St Paul to interview ° C. M. Baooock,,state highway com- missioner, RS ‘With the assista f 8. D. Snyd- er, county highway -engineer, the board has planned ‘& road construc- tion program which would require an expenditure ,of $465,000, of which amount $260,000 would be returned to the county by the Babcock amend- ment if it is adopted b{ the voters of the state in 1920. This money is se- cured in this manner: a -bond issue of $100,000, a resolution for.which purpose wag passed by the board yesterday ‘and “whick- takes advaut: age of a law making such action pos- sible until-May 15; $25,000 by a tax levy of some time ago; the issuing of $260,000 in bonds, -and $90,000 federal aid. Really Costs $115.000. 1t is readily seen that the cost to the county ' will - really amount to $115,000, while it will receive road improvements costing $465,000. The commissioners believe. that the fed- ”fix aid can lbe incre%n:d)o uzsébgs. _As now.planned the money of the wotld “he~used. © as follows: . $166,000 on the Cass Liake-Bemidji-SBolway road; $25,000 on' the Baudeétte cross county road, and $60,000 on-the Bemidji to Black- _duck road. The money of the $25,- 000 levy, the $30,000 federal aid and . the $100,000 bond issue would be mpent as follows: $72,000 on'the ‘Wilton to Red Lake road and $143,- 000 :on thé Kelliher to Baudette highway. Should the additional fed- eral ald be secured most of the money will .be used on the Kelliher to Bau- dette road. Chairman Lennon and Commissioners Paulson, . Imsdahl, Ells and Hayes plan to go to St. aul to interview Babcock as to the plan now suggested. Plang’ Being Drawn. A preliminary plan for the mew oor house 'was submitted to the oard by Architect Earl A. Roberts and he was instructed to draw plans and specifications that bids for its wrection may be advertised for fol- lowing the next hoard meeting. The building - will' ‘codt. approximately 14,000 and will include 30 rooms, “dining room, living room and kitchen for inmates and living quar- ters for the caretaker. The board this morning voted to appropriate $300° to be used by the Northern Minnesota Development aus::c(atibn in-promoting its activi- TICKETS ON SALE FOR “TURN TO THE RIGHT” S “Purn- to the Right” seats are on; sale. today at Netzer’s. drug. store, the great laughing hit 8o be'presént- ed at the Grand theatre Sunday, both matinee -and evening. The manage- ment is especially anxious to impress upon patrons the important fact of purchasing seats well in advance for this attraction, which is expected to play to capacity. During all its engagements on tour, hundreds have been turned away at the final per- formances, ‘Winchell Smith and John L. Gold- en, producers of “Turn to the Right” are confining presentations of the play to the two organizations which Introduced it in New York and Chi- cago. . The local engagement will-be played by the New York company, chief among whom will- be found Ethel Strickland, Rose Wilson, Thel- me White, Ida Ellis, Mary Archer, Joseph Striker, Howard I. Smith, Allen Mathes, Pacie Ripple, Mat Thompson, George Wallace, J. Cu- sack. Alfred Atfield and Charles Hicklin, 3 At the Gaiety theatre, New York, the play ran for fifty-four weeks. Though it is labeled a laughing suc- cess, “Turn to the Right” possesses heart interest of thé Winchell Smith variety found in that author’s *“For- tune Hunter,” “Brewster's Mil- lions.”” and ‘“The Boomerang.” John B. Hazzard collaborated with Mr. Smith in ~writing' “Turn to the R}ght." MAKING IMPROVEMENTS. Several improvements are being made at the garage of the C. W. Jewett Auto company, among which will he the painting of .the interior AAd the placing of & new roof: e tion on Machinery Secured—Value in Manufacturs - of Potato Flour. i Constraction of a $30,000 modern two-story business block has been started by Morris Kaplan, the struc- ture being: erected on the site at'the corner of Minnesota avenue and Sec- ond street which he just purchased from. the Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement company. The new build- ing’ will .be 140.feet long.,extending tracks of the Soo Line, and will run 50 feet on Second street. ¥ v The structure is to have a full base- ment and the foundation will be sup- ported by a series of piles which are to be driven. Large plate glass-win- dows will adorn the main floor, which will be rented for business purposes, should Mr. Kaplan decide not to es- tablish a macaroni factory, the feasi- bility of such a plan-being thorough- ly ‘investigated by him on a trip to Philadelphia, from which he hag f‘ust returned. The second story. will be arranged for a number ‘of comfort- able 'ving apartments. The build- ing will be direetly across Second stregt from the present.Kaplan store and- ‘brick to be'used : be' the same variety, adding much.to the at- tractiveness of this section of the business distriet: : Mr. Kaplan, who has had previous experience in the - manufactute of macaroni, is enthusiastic concerning the establishment of a plant here, but the high price demanded for flour at this time would work a severe handi- cap in the purchase.of raw materials. | o " CONCRESS FOR ROAD ACROSS RESERVATION Congfeuman,TJemidji, Tells Commissioners $13,000 Ap- prqpriafion Will Be Had. - Congressman Harold Knutson while in Bemidji this morningmwured the county: commissioners t - provision for a $13,000 fund for the building of .a road -across the Red Lake res- ervation and’ a bridge over the Red TLake River will “bé “included the Indian appropriation ‘bill which.is to: go before congress soon after it meets in ‘'special session May 19. /. Of ' the amount: promised $10,000 will bie expended in the erettion of a road from .Islmggs Lake through the reservation to-its “boundary at the south' line of Steenmerson township. A section of this road over the ridge is now in splendid shape, the portion from Island Lake to the ridge and three miles: from the ridge to the Steenerson line requiring the appro- priation. For the bridge $3,000 is required. Provision for the construec- tion of the bridge was included in the Indian appropriation bill which failed to pass during the last eongress. This nooh ' Congressman Knutson went to Cass Lake on matters per- taining to-a $90,000 fund which is planned to secure from the National Forestry. board to ‘be used for the building of a road from Cass Lake to Ball Club, which will be of great benefit. L This evening Congressman Knutson will return to Bemidji and will return to ashington tomgrrow where he will await the opeting of the special session, - The Cdngressman, who is Republican whip ifi.the house, is do- ing splendid. work for his district in Washington, where he is_considered one of the mogt active and influential gredmbers' of the ‘nation’s lawmaking ody. ¢ Mrs. George Stagg, who had she lived until May 25 would have been 63 years old, died at hér home this morning, as the result of a cancer, from ‘which she had long been a suf- ferer. Funeral arrangement have not been completed. 3 She is survived by her‘husand, an employe of the Bemidii Box Factory, and seven caildren, four ‘girls and three boys. / Mrs. Stagg’'s condition had been serious for a long time, and only'a determination to see her sons, Archie and Roy, wuo were in the military service; kept death away several months ago. After the boys had re- turned home, Roy having been in service overseas, Mrs. Stagg“patiently awaited the end, fully realizing that she had but a few more days to live. HERBERT HANNAH LANDS IN REW YORK FROM GERMANY Herbert Hannah, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hannah, of Bemidji, has landed in New- York, having re- turned from Germany where he served with the army of occupation. Hannah had been overseas since February of last year, being a mem= ber of the eighth balloon company, and from March until the armistice was signed participated in many of the principal battles of the war. Fences belong to the farm as a part of its buildings. An unfenced farm is not able to use its acres yp to their full capacity. Mr. Kaplan has &urchm for machinery which would comple ly equip a plant for the of ‘macaroni. While in the east Mr. Kaplas in- vestigated the value of potato flour and found that its manufacture; is| considered a success, the only draw- back being its color. The taste of potato flour made bread is satisfac- tory but its use must now he confined} * to the haking of food which does not | M omerer e e Keilin, el owever, a) 3 rominent ot a: Dx-.p L mee rg, chief of the bureau of -chemis- Hor-| - try at Washington and Dr. H. M. ton, chief of the bureau of - ture for the American Steel and Wire company of Chicago, are working ony a plan whereby potato flour may be; bleached and at the same time keep within the pure food laws. : Mr. Kaplan is enthusiastic concern-| ing the possibilities of the successfulf operation of a macaroni factory in: Bemidji as the. soil of this vicinity especially adapted to the growing of macaroni wheat. He has also fdun that thirty-three and a third\per ¢ potato flour can be used in the manu<| facture of macaroni. { ot The business block now under cton struction' is the first- structure actu- ally started in the building boom which Bemidji is to enjoy during th next few months. e erection of several business blocks, including:a: apartment houge, and a large number; residences being planned. { CIGARETTE LICENSES WILL |- Bemidji’s council will not have;, aus ;horny henceforth to issue cigarette: icenses, and instead they must be secured from the state dairy and food’ department. The legislature changed the law, taking the licensing power ¢ from the municipality and giving it Fees are $12 a year, } W to the state. and the money -is returned to the municipality twice each state treasurer. affect licenses now in Tforce. censes expire ou _the- first of each year. i b . FOR TOURISTS BY CITY PARK BOARD Zone for One Night Camping Provided Near “Diamond-{ = Point—Concessions Given. : Northern Minneepta tourists are to be given a cordial welcome in Be- midji this summer, and that they may be amply provided for the Park Board has designated a camping zone near Diamond point which will be re- served for their use. Thede grounds are not to be used for permanent camping purposes, but all visitors will be privileged to use them .for over-night stays. The board hhs given P. R. Peter- son the concessions rights at Dia- mond Point and he is also given po- lice -authority. Ray E. Connick ‘has been named park policeman, his sal- ary to be $85 per month. An-. appropriation of $150 was voted by the board to -be used in paying the expense of maintaining recreation activities in Bemidji dur- ing the summer. Members of the board are N. E. Given, H. C. Baer, Dr. B. W. John- son, Dr. E. A. Shannon and Joseph Bisiar. George Rhea, city treasur- er. gérves as: treasurer of the park board. A A erew of men is-to be put to work immediately in decorating and fm- proving the city parks. LOCAL CHAIRMEN URGED TO FILE LOAN REPORTS C. D. Lucas, vice-chairman of the Victory loan campaign, {8 anxious that all local chairmen of this sec- tion of the county file their:loan re- ports immediately. Of 654" districts only 18 reports have.been filed, ac- counting for but $30,000 ‘of more than a $100,000 quotas.| TO ATTEND MEETING. Judge J. E. Harris, of the probate court, will leave tonight for St. Paul where he will attend a child welfare meeting which has been called by the state board of control. The meeting will be held tomorrow and Saturday. ATTEND BOARD MEETING. Roy Bliler, division highway en- gineer, has returnéd from Walker and Park Rapids where he attended meetings of the Cass and Hubbard county boards of commissioners. He says that Cass county has a $560,- 000 road building program. Frank Long, wantéd in PBuluth on a charge of desertion, who was ar- redted in Bemidji by Chief of Police Jolin Essler, was returned to Duluth yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Duff of 8t. Louis county. ¢ mlng!:ét.itg i | M year by: the ‘The- law does : not: Li-| ‘geral -of Frank J. Meyst, a' close per- -jeonal friend of many years, who died [ yesterday morning following a shart “jiliness, pneumonia being the cause. Mr. Meyst was the Min- y manager “{ neapolis.office of the Western News- r Union, and for many years been prominent in- Minnesota newspaper circles. He was an uncle of Charles Vandersluis of Bemidji. The funeral will be: held Friday at 2:30 "p." m., at the -Scottish Rite cathedral, Minneapclis, and inter- [ ment:will be made at Hillside ceme- PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE ‘Amount Will be Used with Red Cross Appropriation.—State Aid"Also Available. When the Beltrami county board Lof tommissioners yesterday voted to spbpropriate $1,000 to be uged for;the ‘employing of a public health nurse, ereby. making use of a new state law, funds amounting t6°$2,000 were ‘Imade available for this important work, the Bemidji Red ‘Crosg chapter -} having some time ago appropriated a Nke amount from its surplus. State ald will ‘also be forthcoming for the ‘work. R © The 'naming of a muree -for:the county will be left to the welfare ‘eommittee of the Red-Cross ‘chapter; ‘J'of which.the following are members: Rev. L. P. Warford, Attorney E.. E: mald, Mrs. W. Z. Robinson, Mrs. BEWHSTATE Omm J. 1 omy, Dr. A. V. Garlock, Dr G..M. Palmer and County Commis- siofer Paulson. The name of the nurse selected will be submitted to the! board of commissioners for ap- g ~ e nurse will work under the su- (pervision of J. C. McGhee, county su- ‘perinteéndent of schools, and the en- county will come within her sdietion. Her duties will be to ‘act as hygiene expert for the schools ‘0 the county; to assist authorities chanrged with the care of the poor in safeguarding the health of such per- 80ns, .to assist in discovering and re- yorting communicable diseases;, to the work accomplished, . = v 1t is believed that'a fund of $2,600 ; énnually will be sufticient to pay the salary of a nurse and to pay all ex- penses for the. work. YEOMAN CLOVER HERE TO . ENLIST MEN-FOR NAVY ~If there are any Bemidji young men especially electricians . or. mechani- cians, who have a desire to enlist in the United States navy they now have just the opportunity they have been waiting for as Yoeman A. 8. Clover, of the Minneapolis recruiting office, is in the city today to secure enlistments. He will remain in Be- midji until tomorrow and will have an office in the postoffice building. He will be glad to explain attractions of the navy -to anyone interested. Yesterday Yoeman Glover enlisted five men for navy service at Brainerd. DIRECTORS MEET TO NAME SECRETARY Directors of the Bemidji Civic and Commerce association will meet this evening to select a secretary, and to name members of the various com- mittees {srovided for in the re-organi- zation plans as-adopted yesterday. The association will have the fol- lowing committees: executive, ad- ministrative, finance, membership, Licity, %ficultnml, industrial de- ‘velopment, trade, chatities and soli- citots, traffice and highways and in- tercommunity relations. The officers and board of directors named at the last regular eleetion will hold over until the next annual meeting. A revision of the dues, which enables men of every occupa- tion to join the association, is one of the chief features of the re-or- ganization. PLANS FOR CONVENTION. A. G. (Doc) Rutledge, former edi- tor of The Pioneer, and who is secre- tary of the Northern Minnesota Edi- torial association, is working on the program for the summer convention of the newspaper men which 18 to be held in Bemidji June 27-29, He says that the program will be full of features. 7The local arangement committee will meet the latter part of the week to completé plans for the entertainment of the visitors, H. Z. Mitchell, chairman, annbunces. SPECIAL COURT TERM _ AT BAUDETTE JUNE 12 Fred Rhoda, clerk of court; tpday announced that Judges C. W. Stan. ton, W. 8. McClenahan and B. F. Wright, of the district court, has designated June 12 as the date for the convening of the regular special term of court to be held at Baudette, There will be a petit jury . at the term and a number of civil cases will be ‘disposed. Several Bemidji law- yers will have cases at the Baudette term. a i H{sturlcnl Saciety LAV TREATY; - WILL BE SENT TO ~ BERLIN TONIGHT (By United Press) Versailles, May 8.—The German delegates worked nearly all night dissecting and studying the text of the peace treaty, which was submitted yesterday and in which 800,000 words tells Germany that she is to be deprived of her fleet, her army cut down to nominal dimensions and economically her future course is hedged about with stipulations intended to insure her ability to pay the indemnity demanded by the Allies, but to pre- vent her from exploiting her old time resources as a strangling competitor of the nations about her, which she overran and devas}fated during the war. A full report will be sent to Berlin tonight. WILL AWAIT SIGNING OF TREATY Paris, May 8.—President Wilson will not return to Wash- ington until the peace treaty is signed, it was learned today. The president’ will make no recommendations regarding the proposéd alliancé among the United States, Great Britain and France, when-it is-submitted to the senate for ratification. « The proposéd alliance will be laid before the senate simultaneously with the peace-treaty when the special session begins May 19. - The Big Four began today to discuss the program for pre- senting the peace treaty to Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur- 1 d8 visiting nurse ‘and she-will be k. fred to ‘mdke writtén réports of ' key. - AMERICAN LEGION HOLDS CONVENTION AT ST. LOUIS TODA Veterans of America’s Wars Meeting to Form Country’s Largest Military League. 0 ¥ 8.—Veterans of ‘the Mexican,. Civik:and Spanish American wars and the more recent veterans of the World gvar, are meeting here today to organize the latest-and what " lits promoters say will be the largest of all /AAmerican military organiza- tions—ithe. American Legion: - Mingling with the blue and gray on the streets of this convention city, are the khaki and pea green uniforms of America’s land forces and “the navy blue of the nation’s sea fighters. They have come from all" corners of the country, some independently and oth- ers as accredited delegates of the companies, battalions or regiments to which they were attached. The American Legion—which is to be the official name of the new “grand army’’ was conceived in Paris several months ago when a mass meeting of American soldiers and of- ficers was held. While it will be non- partisan and non-political, the Legion expects to wield a powerful influence in determining the politics of the na- tion. Its power will be exerted when- ever a national cricis appears. Lieut. Col. Theo. Roosevelt, was one of ltlue originators of the American Legion. Today is being devoted almost en- tirely to informal get-together meet- ings and registration of the delegates. Mayor of St. Louis, the Adjutant General of the state and Senator Spencer will address the soldiers. the G. A. R. and the United Confeders ate veterans will join with the Span: jsh-American War delegates in tend- ering the American Legion delegate a reception of wecome. Tomorrow will be devoted to work in committee, with alternative .ol executive sessions in the morning The delegates who are not members of the committees will be the city's guests on sight seeing tours. At To night Mexican War veternnsj the total necessary. IN MUNICIPAL COURT. Preliminary hearing in the case against Peter English and Julia Beaulien Wakazoo, arrested in Be- midJi yesterday on a statutory charge will be held in municipal court Sat- urday ,and in the meantime they are being held in the county jail in de- fault of pmvldigf $800 bail. Carrie Beaulieu and mon Sumner, also arrested. on statutory charges, and whe pleaded guilty, were fined §15 each by Judge Gibpans, the fines be- ing paid. 'English is on a 30-day fur- lough from Csmp Jackson, South Carolina, and was to have been back for duty next Baturday. English and Mrs. Wakazoo were arrested on com- plaint filed by the woman’s husband, who has inktituted a suit for divorce. All four are Red Lake Indians. TAG DAY PLANNED T0 “RAISE'FI FOR_ . RECREATION FUND Civic Club Committee Has Unique Scheme to Secure Money Necessary for Work. In order that sufficient funds may be raised with which to bring an ex- perienced play-ground and recrea- tional director to Bemidji during the months of June, July and. August, women of the Community and Civic club have decided to hold a tag day in Bemidji, Saturday, May 17. It has been found that $600 must be secured to completely finance the proposition, $150 of which has been appropriated for the purpose by the Park board. Several donations have been received and it is expected that the tag day will bring the amount to On the day of the sale, tags will be offered for sale at the hotels, railway stations, banks, and all pub- lic buildings and on the streets. No fixed price will be made for the tags, the purchasers obtaining them for any amount they desire to contribute to the work, which is so meritious and which is being so generally ap- proved. The recreational work is not to be night the visitors will be the city’s guests at a. theatye party. Saturday will be devoted to-wark by the dele- gates and at night the city will teri- der a huge ball at the Coliseum to the visitors. . ARRESTED FOR FIGHTING. Frank Dewey of Bemidji and Carl Recken of Pinewood were arrested by Chief of Police John Essler this af- ternoon on Minnesota avenue for fighting. and disorderly conduct will be pre- ferred against them. They are being held in jai] and their hearing will take place’ tomorrow in municipal court. NO LIQUOR FOUND. Although careful {investigation was made throughout the annual payment which has just been com- pleted at Red Lake, not a single drop of whisky was found on the Indians. W. J. Johnson, federal officer, says that instead of spending their money for whisky, the Indian used it for the purchase of farm machinery. furniture, clothing and other neces. Charges of drunkénness! confined to the children, special feat- ures being arranged for the young men and women of the city. A com- plete series of outdoors sports will be arranged. McDONALD RETURNS FROM BRAINERD: AT BAR BANQUET Attorney E. E. McDonald has re- turned from Brainerd where he has several cases in district court at the term over which Judge C. W. Stan- ton of this city is presiding. Mr. McDonald was one of the speakers at the Crow Wing County Bar associa- tion which was held Tuesday even- ing. Other sppakers were Judge Stanton and Judge W. S. McClena- han. Mr. McDonald says that the State Baer association, the board of governors of which he is a member, will meet with the Wisconsin Bar as- sociation at LaCross in July. PURCHASES RESTAURANT. L. W. Flinn, who returned to Be- midji Tuesday mniglit from Mizpah where he had been employed by the American Cedar company, has pur- chased the Jack O’Malley restaurant sities. The payment totaied $137. 736.98, or $92.50 per capita. B (et Sl | on Beltrami avenue, and took charge lof the business this morning