Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 8, 1920, Page 3

- 9 R ,_,.N._H s A H -, A SR o e e e R e e e et FARM OWNERS OF HOLST TWP. Regarding Their' Action in Clearwater County on Bond Issue for Highway ‘WERE NOT BENEFITTED AT ALL BY PROJECT Prominent Farmer Fully Ex- plains Reasons Why and Has No Apologies John C. Sjolander of Holst town- skip, Clearwater county, who re- eeives his mail at Clearbrook, and wno is a famous Minnesota brecder of pure bred and grade Holstejn- Friesian cattle and Hampshire pigs, in a letter to the Pioneer takes ex- ception to the Clearbrook correspond- ent who, in an article referrs to the vote of the Holst township farmers in a road bond issue. And when the writer had completed his side and tbat of his Holst neighbors. he had done so in a masterly and gentle- manly manner and right to the point exactly, of all concerned. And this is the viewpoint of the good farmers of Holst township: Mditor. Bemidji Pioeer. Sir:—The Clearbrook correspond- .ent to the Bemidji Daily Pioneer does not seem to like the stand taken by the people of Holst township in the matter of bonding the township.in question for road building. saying that he hopes the 200 citizens of Holst will reconsider the issue when they set their heads together and get down to ‘“brass tacks.” In another issue of the Pioneer the Clearbrook correspondent dwells at lergth, in nicely colored words and somplimentary remarks to the farm- ers, on the greatness and value of the socalled proposed Babcock $100,- 000,000 good roads plan, which, ac- cording to figures recently brought out by some interested and unpred- judiced parties, who got down to “brass tacks” finds that about 4,000 jnstead of 6,000 miles of the Bab- cock highways can be built in this state for the huge sum of $100,000,- 900. I agree that the farmer needs good roads. But how many farmers will really benefit by the proposeu Babcock good roads bill such huge expenditure? Learned Something Elsewhere. 1 happened to be visiting down in Sibley county, southern Minnesota, this winter and while there the gen- -eral talk was for bonding that county under the County Bonding law pass- ed at the last session of the legisla- ture. “1he good roads boosters in that county praposed bonding for $300,000—over a quarter of a mil- lion dollars—for good highways. Ti farmers were thinking about it seri- osuly, and every farmer I h:ppen to talk with regarding the bonding was agalnst it. Why? Because the farm- ers felt the same as we did in Holst township. when we were told in a very nice way that the money we raised would be used on a main road, eor nearly all of it would. The Sib- iey county farmers knew that the $360,000 would be used on the high- way and that all effort and enthus- jasm by the boosters would be con- centrated on the particular highway, and as a consequence, little, if any attention would be given the most needed roads from the farm gate to highway. . According to the beauti- ful pen pictures of the slick high- -way, if the proposed Babcotk bill passes at this coming election, drawn by boosters of the project who can’t see themselves as others see them, probably ‘the farmers could raise ad- ditional funds and build barns or re- lay station along the proposed high- way so that after the farmer gets his load hauled onto the highway by the aid of four horses from his farm gate, He can unhitch one team and put them in the highway barn, put rollers, or ice skates on the team hitched to the load, when on the highway, and roll into town. But then, we might as well buy airplanes, freighters, as far as the cost goes, and sail to market. [t would be just as reasonable. .. Solid Vote Against. After returning from my visit in Sibley county, I learned thru news- paper reporters that the county bond- ing was defeated by a two to one vote. The farmers voting solidly against the town people. The farmers in (Holst township turned down the road issues for the same reason the Sibley county farm- ers turned down the county road hond proposition. The money we were expected to raise or at least the greater part of it was to be ured for a certain road or highway. We were told in a nice manner. The talk at the Holst meeting was fav- orably against the majority of the voters—the grist of which was that all of us farmers should not expect ¢o have good roads up to our farm gates. No Outlet. No Bonds. Very well. If we can not bond our township to build good roads for transportation from out farm gates to the highway and to market, then we certainly do not want to burden ourselves, our children, and their grand children with taxes incurred for building boulevards for tourists. ‘Taxes are high enough right now. __uWe farmers know there is plenty involving MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1920 ! one thing, and that is that the farm- ers need good roads. And what is good enough for the farmer is good enough for the tourists—gravel roads S of the choicest kind of gravel in ev- ery locality in the county, with which very substantial roads can be built as a cost for less per mile than proposed in the Babcock good road plan. and we want these roads built from our farm gates to market. Any legitimate good roads proposition that will benefit the majority farmers will receive hearty support from them. Farme:s Also Need Roads. 1 agree with good road boosters on in everytownship in the state of Min- nesota, correctly built and maintain- ed. Respectfully, JOHN C. SJOLANDER. HILLS MOLDED BY GLACIERS Peculiar Formation of “Drumlins” Makes Them Appear as Though Intelligently Designed. Between Syracuse and Rochester, N. Y., lies a country of hills, known as drumlins, which is one of the most beautiful bits of scenery in the eastern United States. The term drumlin Is an Irish one, and is applied #o low, rolling hills of glacial origin which ex- ist in that country, and also in parts of New York and New England. This section between Syracuse and Roches- ter is the very heart of the American drumlins, Most American mountains and hills were formed by violent disturbances of the earth’s surface, and their rude origin is reflected in their ruggedness. But the drumlins were built by the great ice sheet which once covered all of North America. The materials of which they are made were pushed to- gether slowly by the crawling glaciers, molded and tamped and smoothed by the great ice fingers as a child makes mud pies. The drumlins look as though they had been designed by some great intel- ligence with a sense of beauty, for they rise in smooth, gentle curves. They are remarkably uniform in height, usually a little less than 200 feet, and so smooth and lenient are their slopes that many of them are cul- tivated to their summits. Some of them are as round as half an apple, and others are long welts or rolls. Scattered among the hills are a number of small lakes and ponds, clear and pretty, and there is good fishing in many of them. The drumlins are a favorite playground of the people in Syracuse, Rochester and other nearby towns, but they are little known be- yond the counties in which they lle. SAGACITY SHOWN BY BEARS Observers Have Seen and Noted in- stances of Reasoning That Are Little Short of Human. The grizzly bear, says Mr. Enos A. Mills. is superior in mental power to the horse, the dog and even the gray wolf, and in his hook, “The Grizzly,” he offers convincing evidence of his statement. A grizzly cub in Yellow- stone park, he says, once found a ham skin—a prized delicacy. Just as the little fellow was lifting it to his mouth The cub instant- a big bear appeared. ly dropped the ham skin, sat down on it and pretended to he greatly inter- ested In watching something in the edge of the woods. Another young grizzly in the Yellow- stone one doy found a tin can that was open at one end and partly filled with fish. He raised It in his forepaws and peeped in. then deliberately turned the can upside down and shook it. Noth- ing came out. He shook again, but still nothing calfie out. He then placed the c4n on the ground, open end down, “‘and hammered the bottom of it with a stone until the fish dropped out. In a zoo one day a piece of hard-tack that a grizzly bear wanted fell into the hands of a black bear. The black bear dipped the hard-tack in started to take a bite. Evidently It was too hard. He put it in the water again, and while it soaked gave his attention to something else. When the black bear was not looking, the grizzly, standing on the farther edge of the pool, stirred the water with a forepaw and started the hard-tack toward him on the waves. The instant the first wave touched the black bear he looked rouud, grabbed the precious hard-tack, which was rapidly floating away, and, pushing it to the bottom of the pool, put one hind foot upon it. How very like the mental processes of human beings ! water and Ground Hogs. In the American Boy Enos A. Mills says: “Two summers while I was ouiding on Long's peak, a ground hog summered on the summit. A few minutes after I arrived on top with a party oi climbers he showed him- self and waited for lunch scraps. After he was better acquainted he did not walt but expected to have help- ings from the first table. His winter den was 2,000 feet below the top. Ground hogs. especially in spring, wander in search of the first green plants; usually, from their tracks, they know just where these are most likely to be found.” Rare, However., “Are they happily married?” “How can they be? Why, his wife won’t let him smoke in the heuse.” “That isn’t always fatal to domestic bliss. There are cases on record where a man was so taken up with a womaa that he actually put her ahead of pipe, cigar or cigarette."—Birmingham Age- Herald ‘book, published by the author, John THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER channels often get irritated, obliging KE SALTS TO ! FLUSH KIDNEYS g:\:i n?tgstni:}:t.two or three times To neutralize these irritating acids Eat Less Meat If You Feel and flush off the body’s urinous 5 waste get about four ounces of Jad Backachy or Have Blad- Salts from any pharmacy; take a ta- der Trouble blespoonful in a glass of water be- Meat forms uric acid which excites|fore breakfast for a few days and and overworks the kidneys in their [ your kidneys will then act fine and efforts to filter it from the system.|bladder disorders disappear. This Regular eaters 8f meat must flush|famous salts is made from the acid of the kidneys occasionally. You must|grapes and lemon juice, combined relieve them like you relieve your]with lithia, and has been used for bowels; removing all the acids, waste | generations to clean and stimulate and poison, else you feel a dull mis-|sluggish kidneys and stop bladder ir- ery in the kidney region, sharp pains|ritation. Jad Salts is inexpensive; in the back or sick headache, diz-|harmless and makes a delightful ef- ziness, your stomach sours, tongue|fervescent lithia-water drink which HONOR CLAIMED BY WELSH|TA Writer Asserts Natives of That Coun. try Were the First White People in America. amazingly In an interesting old Willlams, Vale street, Denbigh, Wales, in 1856, entitled “Ancient and Modern Denbigh,” there appears the following rare bit of information: “In A. D. 1169, Madogap Owen Gwynedd, and his followers, are said to have left the Vale of Clwyd (in North Wales), and to have reached America 300 years before Columbus PROFESSIONAL ’ DOCTORS DR. EINER JOHNSON Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Minn, lausmnss AND discovered that vast continent. Re- turning, mnext year, they took many more with them, and are said to have founded a tribe of Welsh American In- dians.” - England had been conquered by the Normans in the previous century, and the sons of the great barons Willlam thd Conqueror had brought with him from Krance were taking possession by force of the conquered kingdom, as they could. They were not always successful In their little individual wars, and a good many Saxon earls and squires held their own against them. KEspecially did the Normans have a bad time trying to oust the ancient Britons from their property in Wales. It was not until 1283 that Da- vid, last king of the old British empire, was defeated, and King Arthur's royal crown was taken by the Norman-Eng- lish, as was the Welsh relic “croes- enydd” made of the true cross and in- closed in gold and silver, embossed with jewels by St. Helena, the British princess through whom it may be said that the Norman-English became Christlan. The author falls to quote the docu- mentary evidence of the discovery of America by the Welsh. is coated and when the weather is|millions of men and women take now bad you have rheumatic twinges. The|and then, thus avoiding serious kid- urine is cloudy, full of sediment; the' ney and bladder disegses. - — BEEMAN TRACTOR It Plows. It Harrows. It Drills. It Cultivates. It Hauls Mowing Machines, Lawn Mowers and Loads of all kinds, It does the farm work ordinarily done by one horse. It will also cultivate onions, carrots and other vegetables grown in rows as narrow as 12 inches—3 rows at a time, if desired. 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Of course not all those 25, in their ruins and environment, are so amazingly beautiful and picturesque today. Kirkstall abbey, charming as it still appears in certain ways, is too much overshadowed by the smoke of Leeds and the murky, evil-smelljng water of the Aire. But when the old monks first came to this abbey, the vale where it rested was almost surely as delightful as Fountains’ wondrous scene is today! However, most of the Yorkshire abbeys even vet retain their pristine delightful surroundings, their fairylike loveliness, and have thus won a world-wide renown, and are visited by tens ‘of thousands of folk from every quarter of the globe year by year. % ON =% St. Patrick's Day FEW SPECIALS AT THE PIONEER STATIONERY STORE Shamrock Seals, per package.......10c Card Board Shamrocks, per package.15¢ Dancing Boy Cut Outs, package. ... .15¢c Dancing Girl Cut Outs, package. .. ..15¢c Bon Bon Boxes, each...............7¢ Harp Place Cards, package........15¢ Decorative Flags, package..........15¢ Crepe Paper Caps, each. ....18¢ Crepe Napkins, package ....18¢c Decorative Crepe Paper, package. . . .20c Table Covers, each ...............60c ——— Influence of Lunar Cycle. Physical and mental alternations are well marked In chronic invalids and in the insane. In the case of a sufferer from heart disease. with asthmatic symptoms, a careful record was kept of the singularly regular lunar month- ly attacks. The cyclic excitement of lunatics has also heen studied by phy- sicians, and in one of the investiga- tlons it was found that 40 per cent of men and 46 per cent of women in 388 asylum patients had definite periods of relapse. The influence of the lunar cycle up- on the prevalence of suicide has been observed by several investigators. More cheerful is the evidence that the phase of the moon affects the marriage rate. The rhythm of the aptitude for mental attention is a topic of great sig- nificance in the conduct of life. Ghe Pioneer Stat. Store BEMIDJI, MINN. 403 Beltrami Ave. Phone 799-J DENTAL CORNER I 00 NOT DELAY YOUR DENTAL WORK AT THESE REASONABLE PRICES, NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO NEGLECT THEIR TEETH $5°00 Nitrous Oxide Laundry of the Millionaire. Order ix pleasant. If I were a mil- lonaire—which T thank heaven I am not, nor scarcely a millionth part of one—I should take pleasure in the silent orderliness that shadowed me through my home. Those invisible hands that patted out the pillows and shined the shoes and picked up every- thing, even the Sunday newspapers— those I should enjoy. I should enjoy especially the guardian angel who hid from mae the casualties of the laundry and put the surviving laundry away. In heaven there is nbo laundry, or mending of laundry. For the million- afre the laundry is sent and the laun- dry 1s sorted away, blessed be the name of the millionaire. 1 envy him little else—except, perhaps, his linen sheets.—New Republic. Bridge Work . Gold Crowns . White Crowns .. Pure Oxygen nunmnmnnnns 22 ) Disinction Without Difference. Donald went to get a drink, when Randall =aid: “Hand me a drink, Don- ald!” Mother said: “You mustn't order it like that, Randall, or Donald won't have to get it for you. Say, ‘Please hand me a drink, Donald.” So Randall said: “Please hand me a drink, Donald, I'm ordering it!” Extracting 50c ALL WORK GUARANTEED UNION DENTISTS arc o BEMIDJI Fmone We take impression in the morning and have your set of teeth ready the sime day. =l SR Those Girls! “Tell me just what sort of a man your fiance is.” “Oh,. he’s everything that is nice.” “I'm so glad. You know, I have al- ways said that people should marry thelr opposites.”—Boston Transcript. A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. Eye—Ear—Nose—Throat Glasses Pittea e e — DR. E. H. SMITH Physician and Surgeon Office Security Bank Block ————————e e .. DRS. GILMORE & McCANN .. Physicians and Surgeons Office Miles Block L ———— S — ——————————eeee | DR. H. A. NORTHROP Ibertson Block Office Phone 162 —_—_—— C. R. SANBORN, M. D. Physician and Surgeoa Office: Miles Block House Phone 449-—--Office Phone 56 LUNDE and DANNENBERG Chiropractors Hours 10 to 12 a.m.; 2 to 5, 7 to 8 p.m. Phone 401-W Calls Made 1st Nationul Bank Bldg. Bemiaji DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office in Mayo Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 DR. L. A. WARD Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Minn. Drs. Marcum & McAdory Physicians and Surgeons Barker Block, Third St. Hours—11-12 a. m., 2-6 p.m. Phones—Oftice 802, Res. 211 D EEE———— S —— | VETERINARIANS e e e s LU, —_— J. WARNINGER ARY SURGEON Office and Hospital 3 doors west of Troppmam’s. Phone No. 202 3rd Btreet and Irvine Ave. Dr. W. K. Denison—Dr. D. R. Burgess DENISON & BURGESS Vete: Phones: Office 8-R; Res. 99 Bemidji, Minn, A e DENTISTS | APAN A A A i DR. J. ')V. DIEDRICH Oftice—O' Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phones—Office 376-W. Res. g‘lG-R DR. G. M. PALMER Dentist and Orthodontist Barker Building Bemidji, Minn. BUSINESS FIRE INSURANCE REAL ESTATE REYNOLDS & WINTER 212 Beltrami Avenue Phone 144 DRY CLEANING The ORY CLEANING HAGANSON £ 6 Clothes Cleaners for Men, Women and Children E. M. SATHRE Buys Small Houses for cash and sells them on small monthly payments H. C. 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