Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 20, 1920, Page 1

Gll SIIPEI!IITEIDEIIT . IIISTIIIJGTS TEAGIIEHS I FOR AT EXAMINATIONS }!!fiuht Letter Shownv'.l‘v'he Rules To ' 7 Be Followed By Rural AED LAKE SURVEY ~IN RIVERS AND IIARBflRS Bl Sentor xnnte Nelson So Advises S, 4§58 A. Selvog of Redby. ‘'In a letter to S.A ‘Selvog in cha!ge of' the State Fisheries at Redby, Sen- :ator -Knute Nelson stated that the ‘jtem for surveying the Red Lake har- - bor project is.in the Rivers and Har- * hors,bill, and added. that It is.there to In-.a letter .to- the: rural school hnolzen of the county, Superinten- dent J. C.-McGhee has called atten- tion that the March examination re- turns’ are very unsatisfactory and at it is evident that the teachers as:a body. did not give enough writ- stay . B lly knows|ten tests during the year. He ex- vtfh:ste 'fiifufi?‘:?.bxf?'- zmte Mr;|plalns. that several . examinations should be arranged before the May- fi- nals, based on the state models. & Rules which he has’submitted to be followed for the examlnatluns in May are as follows: iSecure the regular examination pa- per from any supply house or . from the Bemidji Pioneer. Fxplain how to fold and' 'briet the paper according to the rules. . - Do not allow the students to copy the questions, but only the number and the amswer to the guestion. In II S flVlIGS%EBIlHlTIES Darticular, give all thb'work in com- mmng the answer. - Whe‘rtn the class is. rtudy for work, A 5 e ' m Basiin:ia the Witth od | 5 (¥ #uten, 2nd Auen “open, the el Reserve District -|« Before you collect the papers see ; 1 lD'IB 3 : that-they are folded and briefed. Spe- i s e clal ‘care should be taken with the h 12 month& time more than $6- . student’s neme. ¥ ‘Grade the answers at once. Never| 45;.000 orth of Thrift Stamps, War | put it off until tomorrow.. Mark each E tamps and Treasury Savings | answer with the proper: credit, add (*'tflwtel wete bought, in the five and write the sum as:the prineipal’s .‘4fmtes of the Ninth-Federal Reserve |mark.. @atiict during the year 1919, accord-| Return the papers to this ‘office ‘%o figures just anpounced by thelwithin two days. Any teacher can W"nm!nt Ssavings organization. | have the papers ready to:mail with- nnesota led with $2,985,744.70; |in that time. They are to reach hers| th Dakota, 618,862.24; North Da~ wmfln a-week. 3 m 618,862.24; Montana, $600,-| - ‘No “Class lists” are. sent to ‘you. 50.63; Wisconsin: (part), $394,165.- You should nfake a list of the exam- d‘l(ichl&a,n (-part) 8181 240.- | inges. on common paper as a check- ing 1ist. for' this office; in ‘case ‘stu- anu._lod the. dlstrict with a|dents’ names cannot be read. %208, being exceed-| ['se common sense and. expediency. FTheve is- no‘harm in‘having all the clxfldren ig, . school -on_ examination deys. Let- them do wrltten work to e extent. . e..May -examinations in commoz. branches will be held on Tuesday and Wefinesday, May 25 and:26. Pupils régeiving certificates” in . spelling, geogmphy and_composition will. re- -{*You shouldt- ‘Selvpg and indications are ‘that the ‘b1l will go through with this item-a “part of it. V7T'his 18 of ;great importance to set- dlm in the mnorthern ‘part of this anil neighboring counties as well as territory tributary to Fivers flowing out of and into Red ‘Lake. 35 456,000 SPENT FOR i ‘'onlx-by ‘Ohfo 4t 3§ 5 the D!strict of Columbia, $2.- 38; nnd Rhode Island, $2.16. Other per capitasales of states in the dis- + trict were Squth Dakota, $1.49; Min- ‘nesota, $1.3%; Wisconsin and- mcm-' un, $1.04; ‘North- Dakota; 97 cents. The total sales throughout the na- tion and its_possessione: nmounted to ;134 zso.ss'z 84. ¢ value'of this'diploma; it | ktands® for ‘something . attempted; someth(ng dons,” said Mr. Me(}hoe. WIFE TIGKLED, NEGK - L DIPLOMAT_'GHAIIBE l‘ormer ‘Russian Oficml Alkn Divorce for Wearing Fancy Hosiery. - fiGxonsxowm R TRT o S CONSIST OF ¥ 7. ACTS| Word has been recéived from Rey- iy ‘ndlds & Lundberg, producers of Am- ‘. - 'wrican Legion . Vaudeville 'Revue vhleh will be presented -at-the Grand ‘theatre on Saturday, April 24, under ‘the. auspices: and for - the /bénefit of . Ralph. Grdcie post of ‘the American |- “Legion, that it will be impossible to ‘bring the .scemery .for: the Destreyer ast which was planned for this trip, “however, the entire cast will be here at that time and a special act has "been -arranged. ‘“The Destroyer Quar- 2N -tette is rounding out a routine for Be- ‘mo§d3i -that will knock them dead,” writes Lundberg. An extra‘act has been added tothe bill, making a ‘total of seven acts of ““high- class vaudeville, all perfoym- -ers being ‘masters'in their ‘lineof -en- -tértainment. - The added feature conr :#ists” of Irene Wenzel and Rae Le- Amse, two elever lady artists in piano and song. Lundberg: as a. swedé di- -aléct comedian {m‘‘Yens Yensen,-the “Yanitor” promises to fill ‘the - house * with-laughter. The entire.seven-acts -will give the Bemidji theatregoers a -exceptionally fine opportunity. to wit- -ness first class vaudeville at popular -prices. 3 Tickets will be on sale ‘until.the ‘night of the performance at Board- man’s drug store and the Cjty Drug ‘store at prices/ranging frofa 50 cents '$1 and $1.50 plus war tax. Eveg{e one is urged to’ procure. their ticke «early to assure the 10cal post -hearty port in this jn'o.‘leet - San Francisco, April 20.—Kitten- ish antics of ‘his wife drive him al- most to distraction, Alexandre Khod-. jayan, former official. of the Russian government, says | in a suit for divorce pending here. “They were married ih London and ‘he took his bride, Blanche Khodjay- an, to,Petrograd- where, he declares, she - “Jazzed up” 3n official party: Great was his embarrassment, Khod- jayan recites, ‘when his wife tickled the neck of a great dignitary who sat | next to her at a banquet of hig offi- cials in Petrograd. There ensued, ac- cording’ to his -complaint, ‘‘great whispering and merriment but poor- ly concealed among the thirty offi- cials, to the intense. humiliatipn of the plaintiff.” For that he forgave her, Khodjay- an .asserts, but when she:called on him while he was in a hospital here and displayed fancy stockings she had .purchased, to him and-all others in range, it was much too much. She was wearing the hosiery at the ‘time, | he says. POLITIGALS ORDFRED PALWER TO FIX PRIGES| pair. WRESTLING: n'rcxls T _ SURE T0 BE INTERESTING L. C.-Curtis of Bemidjl;, Weight 168 pounds, the: biggest . lightweight in they coml:try, ’% has ddntia all].. emeu. 8" nOwW ‘0]] &' mai who : “h” poum;t :‘e;‘vé:r tha::uhimn‘ ‘}: saunuu M to Housé ‘Bhow John Albrecht: neapolis, wetght| - Attgrney General's Stand 180 pounds, known as - the light-| - ; b ... Due to Pressure ; Weavyweight -~ champion -of the. twin cities’: police ‘and. dire- dmnmonu b9 B bt el Wuhlngton, “April 20. -—Cause and ehet in the setting df a price (2 Eved ago. ‘" mmeaty Curtis at the.Grand theatre to-| - morréw for the best two out of three e Halls, atch a8 catchcan style,” win-|Lo house, .extracts to show that.a num- a8 [ber of Louisiand.politicians. saw At- :{toraey General - 'and told -him to straighten out-the sugar situation: /maté ne elenufl orderly tulnnn ttondlm is. o‘pqch.lly urged. it _‘Tfii“ Teachers. ’ ks S{XTY PENSION GLERK Unusust Instance of Emplo; ; Govemhent Servioe of Elderly- - Wahsington, said 'to be the most ummnl instanoe of the application of the Civil Sers vice Ret(rement law now yending fore the hodse and already passed . by the senate exists in the pension'oftics. A One division, in chn‘;;e ctlvt Sum& G. Rogers employes 1 erks. sehate budget bill which, this number 60 are eligible tor fo dge ioh, -6 ‘od 70 years as the age for ret‘lrmm The retirement bill is ' generally: 3 ‘cotiéeded to.be one of the outstanding }legisia pleces of legislation scheduled for ac- wital. tion by the 66th congrees. NP | 1 WHY PRIGES Local : Skioe Dealers’ Pncel Under ap| In’a United Press article printed in :-| the ‘Saturday Daily Pioneer, under the heading ‘“American Shoes Less in Europe Than Here,” a statement was made that United government reports ‘‘wholesale prices in America now range'from 650 .}o below retail prices.* ticle ‘was received from the United Press and: was so Pioneer, the statement seemed so-im- possible that a representative of The Pioneer made investigations among th local shoe dealers and found the report to gard to pr . One loca ‘merchant handling shoes) was selling a certain well brand of men’s shoes for $10.50eper resentative called on the merchant; the wholesale representative selling the same shoe happened to-be in the store and. wholesale price on the same shoe wu today $10.75. ¥ Another dearer - was ~ selling -an. other well known brand for $11.75 and the wholesalefprice on the same shoes now is $2.25 more than the dealer was asking. Another dealer stated they wotild have to discontinue handling some-of their best lines owing to the fact that the prices were getting beyond the reach of their customers. vestigation showed that the Bemidji shoe dealers are not advancing their prices with the market but are tak- ing reasonable profits above the cost of ‘their shoes when"purchased. It might be interesting to readers to know the relative wages being paid for labor on shoes /now in com- parison with those paid a few years |1 There is given below a’ list taken from the cost sheets of a large Cincinnati shoe factory. This may explain why ‘‘Shoes Are Higher.” eration, column two, former wlnl per week, and column thrée, pruonz wages per week: Bottom Burnisher .. Bottom Stainer .... 20.00 to 50.00 ‘tekms representing this coyn- Hottom Sander ..... 24.00to 56.00, mter competition at Ant- Seamers (women) .. 12.00to am. - i Top Stitchers (wo- ; A certain merchant visited . the store of his non-advertising competi-. tor for -one-hour each day on four 1 tbnsecutive days. At length the non- advertising merchant asked his vis- itor why he came in every day. The reply was, I hope you won't mind., My doctor pmlbed absolute quf| ELECTRIC POWER OFF Machmery trqublc at the Electric Light plant delayed work a, the* Pionieer office this aftemoon. therefore: the lwaty of news and. the delay in the deh ery.of the- ‘paper. OVER SEVENTY.YEA — . IN GONSIDERING BUDGET uusuazs e~ tnmn. April 20.—Senator wocormxek, of Illinois, is pre- urge speedy consideration ,. will be unanimously re- .the senate this week. The i'chairman of the special - .which has been working i1l and.he believes that the on framed reaches all. the of the present system of| for the government. rmick bill will provide the creation of a Commissioner of Budget, Who with the Secrotary of the Treasury would be required to.- me all the preliminary re- sponsibility of the annual budget. Thé resident would be requested to ‘® review of the work of the fticials to congress, ,which- in 0F SHIIES ARE “lfiHEn '“flw 'txiritiwonld enact the final n,ppropfl.', ) ; Jegislation. ‘One’'notgworthy feature of the Mec- C(mn}ck plan is the provision for the utions comlng to comgress as _ in} t and th‘ir sideration ' ag &mlttea ld, L ,li' tfid ce of thie’ |merous onoa whlch now consider ‘ap- proprmtiom LATEST I QRIS ‘GLUBS SPREATING FAST stated in. The| Red Wing, April 19.—Now its put- y ting on khaki to beat the old high cost of living, Postmaster L.C. Strom- berg and 'his force of clerks at the federal ‘building purchased khaki trousers, ‘which they will continue to wear to work,until clothing prices are anatesially reduced. ' The khaki ‘overatls c¢ost” $3.00 per pair. Next the overall craze or buy seems cer- tain to hit the city. And maybe, the fair sex will be comin’ out in sunbonnets and ging- ham aprons too ‘before long. Who knows?, 100 per cent While this ar- . far-from ‘true with Te: n shoes here. known At the time The' Pioneer rep- informed him that - the ‘Stillwater, April 19.—An Overall club is being formed in the city, and hias already been signed by quite a number. The list issat the Mosier Cigar Store and everybody is invited to go in and sign it. No expense at- 'tachéd.. Everybody join. New York, April 20.—School boys, unfversity students, Bronx business mén' and members of theatrical or- ganizations Saturday Jjoined the movement to wear blue jeans and Jumpers. Students of Columbia Unlversny and other schools have agreed to wear only overalls until retail cloth- hls prices are reduced. ) S, Hockey: Stats Arrive At Antworp For Games Tmm Ynho M-(!lmon Are Out for lcmth Olympic Victory Close in- Column one shows tlie op- erll o . theentire. gate Teceipts, nll-et v;:‘ :03 ymA't;o mm the °°°""‘" Stitchers 3 (lnternltloul News Sporting Eritor) |3 ™ iven "an opportunity.'to do is being -actively pushed at- that- cepted: ‘house| inquiry ommittes by . Repre- |Eelers ........ 5 New “York, April 20 (By Jack|D® £%e0 K6, GAPor time,” contative Tiakbars He read Ito|Edge Trimmer .. X Veiock, International ‘News Sporting J&M S e T the recond " fromk. ithe ‘statements of | Heel Trimmer .. 4 Bditor} —America’s big drive to win ¥ 055 “BATTER UP” FOR ALL Representative Martin made to the|Edge Setter ....... 18 her..s ght victory in the S Heél Burnisher .... 1098 Ot s wm start next Tuee- ' BASEBALL mmm 4.00 to ,hl. ‘the > hockey and figyre vl 7 gv to take Mnmp timber up. for the. im-| tests in'which the. Unitad| -to gcoro her first points. in & 5 ] with ‘some of the best hoctoy W‘: in the United Staes and Canada | to sailing has convinced. foll ‘o{ ‘the speedy ice sport that Uncle Bam | has a mighty good chance to score’ W:¥ctoty this month end set:the pace fof other nations. ] threatened nation-wide strike last Fe individually in large numbers April 28 unless their wage demands are recognized, leaders declared today. has been petitioned to make request of President Wilson for temporary increase of one dollar -|half: for - over time, pend, |employees wage demands. . road conditior#“are rapidly resuming normal* REPAIR OF MAIL BAGS - Womnan’s Trade Union Leme Wutl ¢ Inquirv Made by Labor . ¢ % e by ; j Devartment ing investigation of the conditiong in the mail bag repair shop of the:post- office department, for employees who testify, has heen asked by the National Women’s Trade Union league. . The request developed out of recent statements made before {he joint co reclassificay W derrite ~land the discipitnary actioftiken by Postmaster General Butleson aganst an ‘employee who participated'in.the hearing. veéstigation, be made by the women'’s bureau of the department of ‘labor which has quiry into the working comm, women in the navy yards an pp- enals. P PERSIAN SHAH SLEEPS Persia was travelling incognit, special car attached to the Paris expresy pointsman’s mistake, the train was diverted to the wrong line near Ge- noa and came into collision, '‘With a goods train. killed and fifteen injured. that he did not notice the shock. He was taken back to Genoa by motor car. noticed that he was wearing a fa- mous diamond which is supposed to bring bad luck. COMPANY “K” MEMBERS Bemidljl’s National guard company “K” answered to assembly last night at the rooms of the Bemidji Civic and Commerce association with a total of eighty answering to roll call. Several city at the time, leaving only a very few men who can be counted absent without any apparent reason. commissioned officers were assigned to their duties and more complete organization of the company was made. information of the company officems was gathered from each man, and following this the company was dis- missed. company has not as yet been-decided upon, but at that time driil: ‘wiill be held. The drill will “loose order drill, without “arms,” F|since no issue of equipment.has been made. instructions at that time while those already experienced in- drilling will ... yourself, ; but lat -thesd.’ lttle. ' want.ad “salesmen” do it for time and only half cent a word IR\ STR!KERS -NEXT; CLERKS PREFER COURTS B Chicago, April 20. —-Ma;ntenance of way employees who bruary, will walk out E. F. Grable of Detroit, president of the organization, per day with time and'a ing decision oF ndmd labor‘board on " General Chmrmms m‘ iation of Northwestern districts clerks and fmghl handlers favor . mmmm strikes. ' The arrest. ofiwenw.fivg more lead- 's outlaw . strike was expected today. . Rail- \ HUGE OIL PLANT IS BEING BUILT- IN GREAT BRITAIN | T8 BE IIVESTIGATEII Befineries and Storage Tanks'to Cost - : $35.000.000 to Be Constructed. s Washington, April 20.—A sweep- v S (By International News Service) . London, April 20.—For tne pur- pose of distributing oil' throughout this country as needed large refiner- ies and storage tapks are being erect- ed at a place called Skewon, nbout ‘a-miles from Swansea. It is u thgt the ‘project-ia being o Al v T nhy ths ‘British government, which owns a large interest in the Anglo-: Persian Oil company, the organiza- tion which is erecting the plant. + It is intended to bring.the crude. oil from Persian ports to the Swan- sea port in the tank steamers owned by the company, and it will then be pumped direct to the Skewon works for refinement. It will then be pump- 5.+ |ed back to Swansea for distr{bution and will not be touched other than by mechanical means during the en- tire process. Over 400 acres of land have been taken for the factory site in Skewon and for the building of the factories,’ refineries, workmen's cottages, sup- ply stores, canteens and a model hos- pital. It is estimated that $85,000,- 000 must be expended. The value to the community will be very great, however, as it is estimated that the dock dues and charges alone will amount to about $400,000 per an- num. with immunity resslonnl mmmoe on | fi < of.. the el It is asked that.ithe.in- completed'a similgr. in- 18 of THROUGH TRAIN WRECK 20.—The ‘Shah ' of &ome. to a Mflnn, April when, owing' Three passengers were The Shah was sleeping so soundly Some supersititious passengers - e LEGION POST RECEIVES ' 4 ADVICE FROM HEADQUARTERS The American Legion should not ! delve in legislation of a national character not affecting that organi- zation, i{s the . opinion expressed by Franklin D'Olfer, national command- er, in a letter sent to the local post. The letter follows on numerous re- quests at Legion offices asking sup- port of a national character. “We are young,” D’'Olier’s letter reads, “and for the present we must concentrate our efforts on those mat- ters of particular interest to.the Am- erican Legion. “For the present, national head- quarters are concentrating their ef- forts upon securing satisfactory, ben- eficial legislation for the ex-service man, based on the four-fold optional plan as already outlined. ‘“While it is not the desire to in- fluenge or control in any way the in- dividual expression of our members, national headquarters would suggest ::'::e t::urtmenu or posts do mot support actively such propo- sitions, without first taking '.h: mat. ter up with the national headquar- ters to the end that'departments-and - - posts may learn just what legislation . - R’EABLY ALL PRESENT absentees were out of the Following roll call, temporary non- Data which is required for the; The next meeting night for the probably be “‘Boots” will be given special A nnml meeting - ot nll mn- lntmd in baseball in-any way hes - ibeen’ called for tonight at the., S of. the, Bemidji Civic:and’Comm ‘Association and all are ut, to’ . m‘fim to ‘mell two' dosen chickens, ‘Whieh - were 801d the same ovmu the’ ‘ad nppurod He is now going.to try hll_ duck-buying & plow. & "+ Results are aAlmost slways certain when you resort to Pi6- - neer for sale ads. It you have ' something to" sell, don’t exert ' Gracie post of the An'fleu Every effort will be:made at this t(nio to line up all players in the city to try-out for the team. ' A number of you. A cent a word the firat I8 an .exceptionally ‘good team - wm be: formed here.” The committee in charge of forming a team urge that - :varyono interested attend thh meet- - ng.. - & for_consecutive subsequent in- nertionl :