Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 15, 1920, Page 1

s e MEMBER UNITED PRESS The Pioneer is a member of the United Press. - Today’s ‘world’s.news, today. | GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT.OF TODAY'S PAPER [ ZREmremrer. BEMIDJI, MINN,, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1920 gather: forecast 24 hours Markhay _— "{'?.”or, : : °¢l ‘,;;M!-: XVIIL NO. 66 5 45c PER MON ——r— THke. “OUNTY REPUBLICANS | REEN WD THER LUST PARAE ERNANYIS | ] DIVIDED, SAYS -REPORTTODAY - South German States Have - Not Accepted the New | Revolution . FAIRS ENGAGE | OF BELTRAMI | “STHILAR OPEN | VOTE TONIGHT " AIR FEATURES| ON DELEGATES Beltrami, ‘Itasca ‘and . Clear- Precincts to. Name Representa-{ ' water Representatives Meet | tives to County Conven- |~ in Bemidji Saturday . tion of That Party R ATTEMPT TO BE MADE | WOMEN CAN VOTE FOR TO SECURE AVIATOR| PRESIDENT PREFERENCE EBERT CALLED STRIKE BEFORE HE DEPARTED Free Acts Booked by Western| Bemidji Polls Open One Hour K e iy Fears Are Felt That a Great - Vandeville Assn. for All in Regular Voting Places a0 G g ) s : \ o Civil War Is Imminent |, 3 &, k. e BRSO Usderwood ln the N.tim ol i Veteran voluntesr firemén of N;w!'* clty with ope ‘of their old ‘hand pumping engines, who paraded to the i "Washington monument in Unlon square, fog what 18 believed to be the last time. By Carl D. Groat .. * N. s - : . : (United Press Correspondent’)” i BEST FARMING YEAR ° || can meawas ssoo: e AFTER 193250 %"g S. }?fi%fi?l’ufi?'f;"er‘,?.;n-y}‘:i"fififfifldfi 3 b Wm AD IT{|” . |1ts alleglance to the new revolution- et | LTINS o oensy b S SAYS GRA]N OF“CIAL | OEYYEARS BEHIND . South German states, according to advices, have not accepted the new ) Three ' Dates’ * in Various Wards Bemidji and Beltrami county pre- cincts will hold their republican pri- maries and caucuses this evening, be- tween the hours of 7:30 and 8:30 o’clock, to select delegates to the Representatives from Itasca, Clear- -water and Beltrami county. fair asso- ciations met at the Bemidji High .school building Saturday, to co-oper- .ate on arranging the dates for the fairs and to secure free attractions .at a saving to the associations, as|county convention, and women can well as to the booking agencies. vote on their preference for candidate Four booking agencies were repre- | for the nomination on the republican .aented with a line of attractions, in-|national ticket. B ‘W. L. Brooks offered his Cadil- ¢:touring car for sale through a Pioneer Want Ad and found a buy- er in Charles Hoyt. revolution. There was fear expressed cluding the Western: Vaudeville Co. Bemidj will do its voting in the 4 from which the attractions were se-|various word polling places and select| C, C. Chambers Says Section}]*- Just a few insertions did the ||Costs a Mint of Money to in many quarters that Germany is at - “~ .cured. The open air acts arranged |that precinct’s delegates to the Bel- . 5 DUSINGEE, e ev e vevn o0 cerannn B the beginning of a grave civil war, { for the fair at Grand Rapids and the|trami county convention. Must Raise Big Crop; ° |}. It doesn’t seem to matter much Pay for Its Annual and reports from many cities said ‘what the task is, these want ads X that disturbances had occurred. . i Hohdlyl Thirty have been reported killed | ‘fair at Bemidji include Florinne, an accomplished piano accompanist, the . P. E Burtinos, sensationa]l wire cycalists STATE G. 0. P. TO VOTE and a 15.foot man; and the John- (By United Press) “ 8t Paul, March 16.—An unpresed . 2 St. Paul, March 15.—Republican| St Paul, March 15.—An unpreced- stonnes’ Comedy circus, made up of ir L ented era of prosperity for 1ae north- 3 three people, two educated horses and | voters of Minnesota tonight, will ex- RAIL TRAGEDY TAKES Jasbo, the bucking mule. The latter ||press their preferences for »presiden-. west, with high prices for wheat, 18 attraction js advertised for laugl:ilng lall)ellxomltnee:. R forecast by C. C. Chambers, president «only, and promises to be very good. Delegates to the u! -1 0t the Consumers’ Grain company, > . ically all of the 3,119 S May Secure Avjator, BLEbE I P e who has just returned to St. Paul-aft- LIFE OF AN HONORED ; County conventions will be held ‘Wed- St s & ) -wheat territory; by _two, - different | 8nI€ onnor ys er Besides the fair officials of this|™“a 0 o'y iniquist, chairman of the | Toutesé on his way to Florida, where to Give Right-of-Way; Winter Wheat Poor do the business. - " Try onme. Most everybody has something for a want ad to do. and elgl;ty wounded and hundreds of ; i stores looted at Essen. A general _(By United Press) strike called by BEbert, before leaving New York, March 15.—There are|Saturday, was largely effective today. not enough figures on a typewriter |Trains have stopped running, water to indicate what the United States|gypplies cut off in many districts, res- pays for its annual array of holidays. |taurants closed and suffering is be- In both money and time, the high|ginning to be acute, particularly cost of loafing mounts in a year to|among the poorer classes. sums too great to conceive of to rows In some places there was a dispo- ] of figures too long to read. sition to believe that the revolution I Statistics sharks, however, have will be short lived. Reports regard- ! managed to gather data that may ing the whereabouts of Ebert and his e come within a few million dollars of [ War minister, Noske, were conflicting the correct mark, and may not tniss!today. No confirmation of their re- | the total time loss by much more than'|Ported arrest was learned. Noske is reported to be forming a military 1" Precinct caucuses will be held to- ‘lating securing an aviator Tor flying}. : «exhibitions, wing climbing apd para- tions will be named by this system. ,:;’“fl' ‘;":h"‘ othet winter wheat sece ons of the country. | i -of the state. . All three associations are gontemp- | Precinets o er an extensive trop through - ‘the -completed soon. republican convention will meet here. -county, Itasca county was represented o he spent a short vacation. : . : epublican state . Central committee] ¢ AR . A . a couple of centuries. sy Tresideit Hughes of the Itascaly,joy urged every republican voter| ~All'Of the winter whest section has, Meets His Fate . Here are some of the facts well- {n-|[OTCe t0 act against the revolutionists. ouhty Fair association, -.and . .Barliy, "o igter o preference for ‘county|been subject to alternate thaws and|® oA o sheni formed mathematicians point to as |- e . ! oA poving their 'point that America| SUPRENE COUNCIL MEETS - Martin of Bagley . represented the ention candid nd presiden- | freezes, which have greatly, deterior-| -:.. - ; “Clearwater association. ; :z:vm':ntt::lal.n ate’: 8 P e@ld ated the seed, m“'f: prziiets that| The funeral services for Daniel th‘“"‘:'“g tt‘ljlm‘:;d“:s ;‘;"‘;&ge‘} ‘;‘t There will be 1,100 delegates to|the crop in that section will be -very|O’Connor will ' be ~held tomorrow ‘Wi?l's:gsl‘:gl’d' S:pte:::er llp lg a:;' the state convention, picked on the|short. There was little snow south|morning at 6 o‘clock in the 8t. Phil- i 2 Dbasis of votes cast for governor in the|of Illinois, and with the cold weather lip" h 3 A 13; the Bagley fair September 13, 14, 1,54 "gereral election. ; the seed wheat was frozen, he reports, | .P"® church, and at 7:35 o'clock the Znd 25, and the Bemidji fair, Septem-| “Tne forces of Governor Burnquist|While there is little moisture in the remains will' be forwarded to Brain. L '_1 » and 18. i and his secretary, Lindquist have| ground. ¢ erd for interment. been thrown to the support of Maj.] Mr. Chambers’ findings are borne FARMERS HOLD THRBE Gen’l. Leonard Wood. out in the estimates of the govern-| A tragedy in life overtook ' Daniel United States Senator Hiram John-|ment regarding the winter wheat|(O'Connor of Bemidji, freight con- MEETINGS THIS MONTH|son, republican candidate for presi-|states. In contrast, the Northwest L y dent, also has campaigned the state.|has had an abundance of snow this|ductor on the Minnesota & Interna- = " Governor Frank O. Lowden deliver-| winter and the soil should be in ex- tional railroad, Saturday evening at ed a dozen or so speeches recently,|callefit condition. With favorable|8:15 o’clock, at the Gemmel gravel g;)lngMflrst to hisifll%hhome at S!ltn- weather, the northwest is assured of pit siding, when he was passing over . & esotd., isa v, | 4 3 s : rise, Minnesota., in go county,|a big crop and with the winter wheat his train of cars which was taking| Take for example an office of 100 business district three blocks wide March 20 at the school house at|where he was born. It was the first|states producing less than usual, : time Lowden had visited the place in h i the siding to allow a passenger special | Persons.” Thirty-five holidays are|and several vlocks long, causing a Solway, and on March 27 at the}time Lo P there should be big prices as well as|¢€ PUNE 0T ot a'ay. EELED granted each employe, making in all [damage estimated at a million dollars. school house at Hines. Speakers pre-|35 years. ! large yields. pared to discuss. general -farming| The Flerbert Hoover club of Minne-i pr Chambers reports that the gar-| —And Bemidji lost one of its best probléms, such as potatoes, grain and | apolis and St. Paul has sent outlgen an dfruit products of the South|beloved railroad service men, the forage crops, sheep, hogs and dairy-|thousands of stickers to have the|paye peen greatly damaged by recent|warm friend of everybody who knew ing, have been secured for the meet-|name of Her.ert Hoover p,‘“‘?" ON | frosts. |him, a prominent citizen of the en- ings. thex pre.cinct ballots, after Lha.l,rman I S e M B tire community in which he lived. At the Kellih'gr institute, C. E. L‘ilr;“sulst had refused the club’s re- Hi-was brifiging his train from Brown of Elk River and A. B. Hos-[? Senator Miles Poindexter and oth LEG]ON Pos'r ENMRSB International Falls when he received tetter of Duluth will be the speakers. soted to b d i th‘ - orders to take the siding after pulling J. E. Eastgate of Larimore, N. D.,| 18 B0 NG 1S Rty ior has GOVERNMENT BONUS |out from Margie, to allow the pas- ::g Ebw; S:;ith o: f:rkagtésr:ui:l-‘ie D s vt tamnal s {n Minssota, = 3 senger to = The tli;:in g shunt- ‘have been, secure ss the| “Miinesota Demoerats will hold ; . ing into the siding when he walked - Members of the committee ap-|, ¢on toward the rear and fell in a slack, it is reported, between two freight cars and in the blackness of meeting at the Solway school house|y.to convention Apri g, April 6. N - L lnrg; attendance is urged at each and Working People’s non-Partisan|Jegion held on Thursday, March 11, 1 A a 2 | Political league have called joint con-| 4, "qraw up a resolution to be for- thg mghig, fell to the ground on the of the meetings since many important|yentions to be held here March 24| .rdad for the consideration of the | Tails, being thrown to the path of topics concerning farm life will belang 25. - A mass meeting will be held | iq¢0 headquarters regarding an ad-‘fll'e onconl?r;lg passenger train which also struck him. would be richer by a few trillion dol- ( By United Press) lars if the public took fewer "“off| y,ndon, March 15.—The supreme days. council peace conference today met During 1920 the almanacs 1ist just {to consider the situation brought 9 national holidays. generally observ-{about by the revolution in Germany. Jed throughout every state, and none of which falls on a Saturday:”'Tn ad- dition, there are half-holidays obsgrv- WIP ed on Saturdays in most stqeles, ?EXAS cIry ED 0UT BY enough, they say, to amount to 26- WIDE SWEEP OF FLAMES whole holidays. In all, thén, there e are 35 whole holidays on which:office (By United Press) workers, store clerks, teéachers and Greenview, Texas, March 15.—Sev- tollers in dozens of other lines cease|era] hundred are rendered homeless work. following a fire which wiped out the Three farmers’ institutes are sched- :uled to be held in Beltrami county— March-16 at the City hall in Kelliher; 3,600 days for the office force, not e counting Sundays. This sum amounts to a little more than 11 years there- LABOR WILL TEACH fore, for each office of 100 persons. Placing the average weekly sal- FOREIGNERS lDEAIS oF ary of the employes at $30, simple arithmetic will show the loss 0 the ADOPTED COUNTRY one employer for the 11 years is - $1,716,000. To this sum must be ad- ded wages lost by union workers o g0 whose pay is reckoned on a time ba- Bemidji League Ml.ke Plans sis; loss because of no production; . . loss in manufacturing plants where tq Help Americanize steam must be kept up and overhead Alien Workers expenses go on regardless of the holi- day, and to railroads and transpor- | tation com'panies whose lines are To enable foreigners to pass the —r over-congested by freight and passen-| naturalization examinations in order gers the following day. to become citizens of the United discussed. . the evening of March 26 when speak- 4 justed federal compensation for those ) - |ers will be engaged to outlihe a"pro-| I} : Engineer Fred Moody of the freight| The money loss throughout the|States a proposition was token up by WOMAN’S CIVIC MEETING gram. Yho took part i the wobld ware bave [, Che Mr. O Come e inc¥ e United States would be somewhat |the Bemidji Labor Legion at its meet- P g around $8,580,000,000, counting only | ing Sunday, at the rooms of the Be- i caboose, it is stated, while the rear- end brakemen thought he was on the the items suggested above, while the midji Civic and Commerce associa- HAS SPLENDID PROGRAM 2 | sota branch at St.. Paul: : : h time loss in the whole country would |tion whereby a night school will be engine;, and then it was learned that be about 350,000,000 workj:g days started with a class once each week & The meeting of.the Women’s Civic v ‘:.“d Commugitty c‘;“b a;temeoc?:m:::; OVERLAND AGENCY .“..| ~ Whereas, the American Legion in |}~ missing tonirooms, Batrrday. a L9rnoOR, OPENS FOR BUS[NBS national convention assembled de- wis L or 559,118 workin r to instruct those who have taken out Daugherty, section foreman, had » g years. thair fifs t papers for naturalizatiom, which. has been sent to the Minne- —t a decided success. There was a large s A attendlance and all greatly enjoyed il:lr:gc::ntfieb%;h :h;:t::t;:nent °£n:}; left his home and walked down to| If the sharks are right, and there . . i1orq who are desirous of becom- the fine program which was given 1a; ~d-gl £ 'guéuteud the depot, returning home soon after-|has been no one to step forward to |\ . i on." Tpe class will be con- after the regular business meeting. paghagi vaf' iop Sty adj 41 %o | ward and discovered the missing con- |challenge their figures, the total loss diiied alons Amesfeanization: miothe Superintendent Bagby ‘made a pensation for those who served in the ductor. An engine was sent out and will probably nearly double the flg-| ;"4 evef' effort will be 'xlnade to ¥ splendid address on ‘‘Americaniza- opened Saturday by Kaliher & :De-|great war, anc.l y in his own caboose the ill fated train [ures already presented, because they ucfiualnt theystudents with the fact tion” and exhibited a number of post- Leuil Co., when a car load of new| Whereas, this matter is now under-| prought its former director to Bemid- [declare no consideration whatever has| .0 " v "o ouie them to ais the ers on “The A-1 American Girl.” Miss model Overland cars were received at|going consideration by congress, be|jj. been given for the 35 holidays that examination for natumllzat'c‘y,n The Josehine Parker gave several read-|the sales station at 116 Third street | it hereby. Mr. O’Connor was 37 years old and|are faithfully observed in variousf, ..., ."i"much interested in the bre ings in different dialects, which were | % the building formerly occupie_& by| Resolved, that Ralph Gracie post|his home at 609 Bemidji, and he states celebrating section, religious or gazfiration of Buch & Sohil Sindoins much appreciated. The Girls’ Glee the George T. Baker jewelry store. of the American Legion declare its|jeaves a wife and daughter. He came |l0cal hostorical incidents. e Tht i Amerioan clt‘i)z'e il - ¢lub of the High séhool “contributed lulK.ahher ilge:ivell:l kmr)wn in th}s city, | sentiment in favor of the‘ immediate [to Bemidji from Brainerd about 18 _— gible to become a m'mher of the Ying res ere for several years| enactment of a plan of adjusted com-|years ago, and in Brainerd leaves his The agency, formerly owned by George Keenan of Deer River, was three very good selections. All who n J) league. ?ttended spent a very profitable af- ;’:{xfi“i:‘:fii‘;;;’t%;%‘S“c:h:“gi’ii pensation. fathelr nng mother, %lr. a::)d xfi. SPRINKLING SYSTEM Earle A. Barker, president of the ‘ternoon. e e P i Charles ’Connor, and a brother, Bemidji Civic and Commerce associa- land factory and thoroughly under- bbbt Py 2 4 N land tactrs and thorougtly under | TENCTRIKE FARMER :3im. " locometive engineer on ths| FOR LOCAL GOLF LINKS tor, vas present ot‘tre meting ana x X; of the association in the movement. To improve the golf links at the |\, ;o5 o 511 persons wishing to bene- Country Club,steps are already under | g4 o" 410" ynstruction or those who way; and withlin the next few Weeks| ..., o roceive the course of in- two large water tanks witl ve install- 24 ke highest levels of the struction should be filed with H. M. on e & Stanton, secretary of the Bemidji as- grounds for the purpose of providing sociation. water for the greens. In addition to this proposition Pipes will be laid from the lake t0|committee reports were heard and a pumping station, which will pump | routine business carried out. The water to the tanks. Piping from the|committee appointed to investigate tanks will connect with all of the|the Johnson Taxpayers Plan for putting greens and a system of Te-|financing public improvements made volving sprinklers will be installed |jts report and recommended that the on each. plan be endorsed by the league. The The large tanks to hold the water |report was accepted and the plan will will be transported to the golf links|be voted upon at the next meeting to ! over the ice on Lake Bemidji. be held Sunday, March 21, M"‘L NEw ENTERPR‘SE to enter into a large agency busimess Bemidji. Mr. O’Connor was a mem- trami counties for the Overland and |Chased the William Marchant farm “known as the Grant Valley Lath com- hi . which is templ Licl Mo it contemplatng 'sumated Saturday while both men . ARE MEETING TODAY ready in operation on the shores of Soare sale Friday of this week to dispose of (By United Press) LEGION MEETS DEFEAT ' C. H. Allen is president of the con- lath making and some general mill|night when it played the fast Aitken |and licensed auctioneer, and plans to |railroads granted a reduced rate to A sories. He has moved his family-here & GRANT VALLEY LATH feories, e has moved hicfamily here) ™ prrwc” sNO/THER FARM [got o Brainerd, who s come to here. ber of the Brotherhood of Railway “The agency of Hubbard and Bel-| C- J. Wilde of Tenstrike has pur-|Trainmen. A new enterprise has launched it- ; " Willian 2 3 self in this section of the county 1 truck h ocated on Gu e, about five miles International truck has been secured |, o " ¢ mengtrike. The deal was con- | SCOTTISH RITE MASORS pany. Headquarters of the company | willys-Knight automobiles, and thi Will be Bemidji and the mill is ai-|ay extensive business. © | were in Bemidji. Mr. Marchant will hold an auction Boot Leg Lake, about seven miles " ~west of the city. his stock, farm implements and| Fargo, N. D., March 15—Scottish 1 2 household goods, He expects to return | Rite Masons are holding their an- cern and N. B. Backus is secretary | Bemidji’s American Legion basketball | to Wisconsin about April 15. nual three days’ winter reunion here and treasurer. Their business will be | quint met defeat at Aitkin Saturday| Mr. Wild is a well known farmer |A large class will be initiated. The work. The firm is now accepting ord- | Legion aggregation, the game ending | operate his new farm, in addition to those who came from other parts of -ers for future output. . with a score of 40 to 23. 4 his jresent farm property. the state: )