Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 28, 1920, Page 6

'_ ucz sx ER PRICE REDUCED B 'WHOLESALERS OF N. W. (Contlnqed from_Page One.) : that the present prices for most items| of. comm( ‘gtlumber ', %8 per st of July | 17, ate entirely justified By existing’ costs of ‘production and distribution| and are in line with other commodity values, butsthat there are not now , and are not lixely to e in the future, any ‘good reasons for further ad- vances in the price of lumber. We belfeve, ‘too, ‘that the best interests of all ‘branches of the industry will be better served by a more ntnble price situation. Not to Make Advances. 4 “For these reasons we deem it only fair to state ‘to our customers, that our companies will not, during.the next 90 days, makq any further price -advances on the rotlu'ct of any of our mills.” “The prices made effective at that time were continued, not only until Oct.” 1, but until Dec. 31, 1919. “Since Jury 17, 1919, there has been some “increase in the cost. of manufacturing and distributing lum- ber.. The increase in cost, however, has borne no relation, whatever, to the price changes which have taken place in the meantime. Still feeling, as we stated in our letter of July 19, 1919—*“that the best interests of all branches of the industry will be bet- ter served by a more stable price sit- uation”" our prices, which have been in effect since Jan. 15, and which prices are today anywhere from $6 to $26 per thousand less than the general mar- ket prices of this state, will not be increased by us on any item at any time between now and July 1 next. We have lists in course of prepara- tion, on this basis, and they will be sent to you as soon as we can gef them from the hands of the printer. In the meantime any business which we can taxe care of and: accept, will be filled on this basis. Lath Price Detrimental. “We regard the present price -on lath as detrimental to/the best inter- 1 ests of all branches of the trade and as not defensible, either on the basis of production and distribution cost, or on the basis of fair market ‘value. Just as soon as our mills are in oper. ation, which will be about April 1, and we have any quantity of lath for distribuytion to the trade, we expect to make a’ radical reduction in the price of lath and to distribute all we make in mixed cars, with other lum- ber, to our regular customers. “The causes which are chiefly re- sponsible for the present abnormal conditions in the lumber market are; First, under production; second, un- wise taxation. - “That the operation of the excess profits tax is largely responsible for the under production, is coming to be well understood, and on this fact rests our hope for wiser taxing legis- lation before the year is out. The most effective answer to present con- || ditions is, of course, greater produc- tion. . We are glad to state that at the present time the outlook is for . 100 per .cent production at our mills the coming season, and ‘weare hop- ing and expecting to receive the loyal co-operation of our employes in car-. rying out such a program.” U. S. ATHLETES TAKE PART ONCE MORE IN SPORTS (Continued from Page One.) national champion, for the pentath- lon and decathlon. : These are known by their deeds. Their fellow teammates will be pick- ed front more than 100,000 athleti- cilly inclined youngsters from the gulf to rocky Maine and from the At- lantic to the sunny shores of Cali- fornla. the incubator of stars.™ 'or every event there ln a wealth Y good-materfal. * -' In-the 100 and®220-vards dashes there, are Henry' Williams, of -Spo- kane A. C.; winner of the Pacific Coast championships last year in 9 4-5 and 22 seconds; Billy Hayes, Notre Dame winner of the “100” in the Western Conference meet in 9 4-6 seconds; Loren Murchison, Metropol- itan champion and others. The “440” has Frank Shea, Pitts. burgh A. A, national champion and the winner of the Allegheny title in 62 seconds; and Earl Eby, Pennsyl- vania, winner of the 440 and the 880 in the A. E. F. meet, first in the 400 meters and second in the 800 meters at the Inter-Allied games. Butler Available. -In the broad jump there are Fred Smart, Chicago A. A., national cham- pion with a mark of 22 ft. 7%-in.; Sol Butler, the big negro of Dubuque, 'wihner of the Inter-Allied "games with a jump of 24 ft. 9 3-16 in. and winner of the Penn relays; Sherman Landers and others. The high jump lists among its not- ables Johnny Murphy, Portland, Ore., winner of the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Coast championships at 6 ft. 2% 1in.; Landon, of Yale, inter- . collegiate champion, with a jump of 6 tt. 2 in.; and Larson, of Utah, sec-. ( ond in the Penn relay events and winner of the Inter-Allied jumps. Egon Erickson, veteran New York cop, star jumper of eight years ago, showed that. he must ‘be reckoned with yet in the recent Millrose games when ne sprightly cleared the bar at 6 ft. 2 in. and came near breaking the world’s record. . Why Not Crow a Bit? Bob Simpson will be missed in the hurdles but there are other able boys Y getting over the bars including Fred Kelly, metropolitan champion and fecond to Simpson in the Inter-Allfed games; Jo Loomis, Chicago, Central Association champion; ‘Earl Thom- son, Boston A. A. and others. Norman Ross should be supreme in all water events; Ray shoufd have his‘own way in the running events; ::l:pweishfij the 'pol: vault, the hop, an@® jump and the rel made for the Yanks el So, why not crow a bit. '—we beg to advise you, that|: Bemidji Market Quotjatio_ns‘ to $3.50 per cwt. : é BEMIDJI CASI_-I wuucn'r QUOTATIONS. |, GRAIN AND HAY Oats, bushel......... Barley, bushel ; . [Rye. bushel..cccooeecee Red clover, medium, 1b. . -$1 Cede "43¢-d6c Popcorn, pound- .cece.eooos8c-10C Wheat, No.'1 veed 32,60 Rutabagas, per cw! Carrots, per cwt Beets, per cwt. $1.00-$1.25 Cabbage, cwt. .........$5.00-§6.00 Onions, dry, cwt. ../...$6.00-36.00 Beans, cWt. . qceoees. .. $6.00-38.00 Dairy butter, pound 50c-660 Butterfat ....... . ..686¢c Eggs, fresh, dozen.........50¢-66¢ $1:50-32.00 GRAIN AND ‘HAY Wheat, No. 1.......... -$2.40-32.60 ‘Wheat, No..2 .$2.30-32.40 Wheat, No. 3 .$2.20-32.30 O ool e som owivie viane . .T4c-76¢ Barley .o .$1.20-$1.24 No. 2 timothy hay. No. 1 clover mixed.... Rye straw Corn ... ... -$24.00 -$23.00 ..... $8.60 $1.00-31.15 VEGETABLES Beans, hand picked, nuy. cwt. Si 50 Potntoes. per cwt. .. ... Beans, brown, cwt... Beets, .per cwt. . cesne Carvots, per cwt. .. .. Onions, dry, per ¢wt Eggs, per dozen.. Cabbage, ton Rutabagas, per cwt Butterfat Packing Butter . . E R. Burns of Ironton _spent Fri- day in Bemidji. . . Arvid Anderson of Kennedy spent the nny hére yesterday. M. P. Ostby of Walker was a Be- midji visitor on Friday. Roland Hicks of Remer was a Fri-|yine 4¢ the D. S. Mitchell home. Mrs. dny caller in this city. - John Nyberg of International Fnlls was a Friday caller here. N. Lindblad of Princeton was a|ipgy went the fore part of the week visitor in the city yesterday. Earl Riley left last evenlng for -Mlnnenpolls to visit wlth friends. Mrs. Edgal‘ Stephenson of Long|morning to be the guests of Mrs. D. J. Prairie was a visitor, in the city yes-| Moore for a short time.” terday. ‘Mrs. William Heritage of Red Lake Agency was a caller in the city on|Hat Shop returned’this mornigg from li‘rmny Miss M Dale of Turtle River is|visited the new millinery store at confined to her home with a seige of | Thief River Falls. i the measlea. g Mrs. Mary Vornwald of Twin |evening for Minneapolis, where he Lakes is transacting business in Be- will spend several weeks visiting midji thtis week. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Barness of Bag- ley were among the out of town call- ers in Bemidji on Friday. ¥ J. P Swanson of Deer Rlver en-|its regular meeting at the Library| tered St. Anthony’s hospital yester-{on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. day for a surgical operation. Mrs. M. Hogan and Mrs. Hal Wil- liams of Grant Valley were among the out of town shoppers in our city Friday." Miss Kite Hines’ u-rlved thizmorn- ing from Hines to spend a :week at ;::ll?sl;:“:t t%’:fi:;},’;"&“; - |was served nt 5 o’cloek. the home of her aunt, Mrs. P. Hines. e 2 Mrs. .C. M. Grover left yesterday for Brainerd, where she will enter the Northwestern hoqpltnl for. medleal trentmont, L B. E MocDonald of \Bemidji was |4 o'clock, for the faculty and student nference with |body, also a few invited lrlends Five . A. matters.— |o’clock tea was served. here Monday for a M. N. Koll on N. M. | Cass I.nld Times. o Mrs 1. J. Cool and children_left this morning for International Falls where. they will visit at the G. P. Ballou home for a week. Miss Julia Lehman, reading super- visor at the High school, went to Pine River this morning to spend the week end at the home of her sistar Bemidji. Mrs. John Noel of Northern was ih Bemidji Friday en route to Pine Is- land, where she will visit for & short time with her father, Louis Freeman. Mr. Fréeman was a resident of Be-|® midyi at one time. Chlcago, Feb. 28. ——Potato recelpts today, 36" cars, firm Northern thtes, bulk, $4.60°to $4.70; sacked $4 45 to $4.60. Idaho Russets, $4.90 to $65.15. - e f) 7 Bemldn Potato Market—All varieties, bulk small lots, 82 50 to $3.00 per cwt. CarYond lots, . _The following prices were .being paid at Stillwater, Minn., nt time of going to press of today s Pioneer: Mutton, W .......s PRSP X1 725 -1 Family Imprisoned in Chasm. * hogs .- s 140-166| Gy of Mexico—Unique in the an- Beef, dressed. e nals of the earthquake is the experi- Lambs ‘ence of the famlly of Prof. Francisco Garlic, -Riveros of Barranca Nueva, Mex. The Parsnips, ' pe quake opened & great chasm in the ‘| Squash, cwt. . earth in which their home was in- THE BEMIDJI PAILY PIONEER son and W. B. Hollenbeck of Minne- apolis, C. W. Kull and Sam Cohen of Milwaukee, A. J. Wolf, M. E. Collins and T. A. Luthander of St. Paul, A. 0. Henderson; K. E. Vexal of Duluth, and H. L. Gould of Brainerd. Today’s register includes “E w. Maier of Milwaukee, N. Kolliner of Market Stillwater, P. A, Wilson and ‘L. A. Page of Minnedpolis, E. C. Arnes of Sioux Falls, 8. D.,"M. 8. Whitcomb of St. Paul, H. O. Blodgett of Duluth, and “Mr."and Mrs. J. B. Gladstone of Kansas City. o s IRON. OUTPUT DROPS IN 1919 Total Production of 60,466,000 Tons _ ls a Decreass of 13 Per . Gent From 1918 Washington.—Iron ore production was reduced by the shutting down of blast furnaces last year during the steel and coal strikes and the total out- put was only 60,408,000 gross tons, a decrease ollspor cent compared with 1018, according to preliminary esti- mates nnmnced by the geoloxled survey. mpmu were valued at $208,274 000, the average selling price at th. | .mines being $8.60 a ton, compared with $3.89 in 1018, Stocks of ore at mines at the begin- ning of 1920, mainly in Michigan and Minnesota, were 12,089,000, an appar- ent inerease of about 83 per cent. The Lake Superior district mines shipped about 88 per cent of thé coun- try’s total. e Announcement' (330 T-IIS is to announce that Wllham Clish | has associated himself with D. D+ *Miller in the Northern ‘Minnesota Insur- ance Agency, which will enable us to serve. “this terrltory better than ever before We. ‘solicit your | busmess and can insure any-} tlnng anywhere. We write all forms of i automoblle msurance at 10 per cent below conference rates. ‘ [ sacked and losded, $3.00 . anken. liu, poun 0Id Toms, live, pound Geese, live, pound . Ducks, Hve, 1b. .... Hens, 4 1bs. and over .... Springers, all weights, 1b. .....32¢ > Northern Minnesota Agency ° Northern National Bank Building, Bemld,n Telephone 131 Cow. Hides, No. Bull hides, No. Kip hides, No. Calf skins, No. Deacons, each . Horse hid Tallow, pouna . eeesed0C \ . \ T S W S A S — MEATS gulfed. For more than a week mem- bers of the family have been living in the bottom of this abyss at least {440 feet below the surface of the g LIVE POULTRY Turkeys, 9 Ibs. UD...couees ...24¢ Turkeys, small and thin....At Value Do you reahze that the value of build- g:eske, 1!2 {lbs up, a! d fat. ;ge earth. - ckS, T8t oo ol 0 L0l .20¢ Surviving neighbors have been low- o mons hebvs 4 b und over. 306 | oot g water ot e m | 85, stock and personal property has in- Hens, 5 Tbe. up, Tat. ... i .. 30c| minent risk of dislodging rocks, which |} creased from 75 to 200 per cent? . might fall and crush those beneath. Rain or new shocks may mean the death of those imprisoned” in the abysa. ' D;fr::tlng:l;mry 3c pér ‘ponnd.over o % The amount required to replace prop- erty acquired a few years ago, is so much HID®S Cowhides, No. 1 g::%}:ég}::l i =l .greater now than the ‘original "eost th: t Deacons T00: LATE- TO CLASSIFY every property owner should ¢héck up his. . Horbe hide: The rate for want ads may insurance policies and see. if he i is not in Wool, semi- 3?::%:?;;?&5“3‘;;‘;&;:%? need of additional protectlon. Ads received later than 11 o’clock a. m. will appear un- der tlns head in current issue | : FOR RENT—Concrete block ‘building on- second street east ‘of laundryy| Inquire John F. Gibbons. 2-27tL ____________—-—— FOR SALE—Lots of houses. Let me sell you one. B. J. Willits, the Land-man. : 142-28 —_— LOST-—Bill ook . containing $25, contract for Ford tractor and other papers: Finder leave at Pioneer office. 4d2-3 e e D. $. Mitchell returned this morn- ing from Kelliher, where he has been for several days on b_usinm. Your addltlonal 1nsura{1ce can'be writ- ten without disturbing the old policies, Grant us an interview and we will be pleased to quote rates and talk the matter 6ver Gene Allen, Jos. Allen and Robert Koehn and Mrs. Madison and family, f Bemidji, were here Sinday, at- tending_the last rites over the Allen baby.—Cass Lake Times;, v “The BERMAN AGENCY Markham Hotel Bldg Telephone 19 Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Jdbobson of Memphln, Tenn., are the Pparents of a’ daughter, Florence Mathilda, born February 21. The Jacohsons are for- mer residents of this city." Mr. and Mrs. Frank Logan and son Byron, arrived this morning from Menominee, Wis., to visit for some \\ANTED——-Expenenned housekeep- er. Apply Casé’s Cash Store, 800 Logan is a sister of Mrs. Mitchell. i Irvine ave. 3d3-3 Mrs. Christa Groff and brother,| Elzie (Wallace, of ‘Canada, arrived this morning from Princeton, where to -byry their mother, Mrs. Lucina Wallaee Mrs, M. B. Jackson and little son arrivedrlrom Willetson, N. D., this Mrs. Jack< son and Mrs. Moore are sisters. Mrs. L. W. Galloway of t e Elitg the Twin Cities, where she has been on business.. While away she also Lieut. Clarende~Shannon left last with friends. He ‘will return to Be- midji again before taking up his dutiées at Washington, D. C. STUDY CLUB MEETING. The Woman’s Study club will hold —forget the Date and Place for the HARMONICK GLEE CLUB CONCERT ]| The program scheduled for March 16 | will. ve glven i HOSTESS AT nnmnx . Mrs. D. J. Moore entertained at two tables of bridge this afternoon at her home on Lake Boulevard, in - ~ NORNMAL DMIATIG CLUB GIVES PROGRAM The Dramati¢ Club of the Normal school gave a very fine program at the Normal school .this afternoon at éMondeY'March Ist Methodist Church--8 p. m. 4 MAHNOMEN LAWYER DIES. Bemidji friends have received word anouncing the death of John Carl, a3 well known lawyer of Mahnomeén, who died a short time ago in Tennes- see, following an operation for ap- pendicitis. His brother ‘brought the remains to Bolger, Minn., for inter- ment. Mr. Carl was wel.l known in MARKHAM REGISTER. Registered at the Markham on Fri- day were F. M. Kellogg, Louise Ever- ott and’F. Adams of Chicago, H. J. Deverell, H. B. Rogenberg, O. 8. Arni-