Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 16, 1920, Page 1

EARLY DUCK HUNTERS 'GET “DUCKED” IN LAKE |GRAINGROWERS DISCUSSPLANS STORES WILI- CI.OSE‘ - TOMORROW AFTERNOON’ Clyde Goodmanson and A. B. ~Amadon, of the Rex theatre or- chestra, ventured upon an early morning duck hunting trip to- day, paddling up the Mississippi river in a canoe and on to Lake . Plantaganet in gearch of “said game. -“After reaching the cen- ter of the lake, the canoce over- turned “and the oeccupants were dumped into the water. Mrs. William Smith and Miss Dora Hazen, who are residing at Lake Plantaganet this summer, heard their cries for help and immedi-’ ately proceeded to the rescue: Rowing out to the scene of the accident, the ladies succeeded in rescuing the two men from the widter, none the worse for the Al stores'in the. cxty will be _closed tomorrow afternoon in order that employees may at- ,tend the Beltrami county fair, it being Bemidji.Day. The Be- midji . public “schools. will - be - “closed this afternoon and tomor- ".row afterncon and the pupils are urged to spend this time at . the fair grounds. The. fair. as- ' sutuallthntaptofihhl&t!fier— ‘noon’ may be spent in this way and heartily. invites the attend- ance of .the -youngsters. The - program_ of sports and races iy plnnned for tomorrow afternoon is sure to please the school chil- - dren and as many as possible are urged to take part. Special features have been arranged for pupils of the junior department of_the high school.and the sev- enth grade in the other schools:: * } Clo.mg Day ‘of County Fair Will Co-plfle Judging of Exhihb . -and Will Wind Up with Feature Program of . Races and Contests _in_Afternoon - - ,Bel'trami county’s fair opened again this morning for Beltrami County Day with a small sized attendance, although thg weather promised a much larger turn-out. The attendance this nfpenmon was much better and fair officials were kept busy | and with the assistance of the sports committee staged a very entertammg program of races-and free attractions. Tomorrow” attendance is sure to be larger. ! accident. Both men decided Judging of stock and exhibits was begun this morning and|| that they had a “ducking” trip, from all appearances the competition is very keen. fubits - even though it was not planned this year are among the best ever displayed here, and promxse as such. to rank exceptionally high with ~other county fairs in the northern part of the state. The. Westem Vaudeville associa- tion’s free acts made their first appearance before the grand- stand this forenoon and another this afternoon. Both showings were well received. 3 The Juvenile band led the parade to the fair grounds at Wedtiesday'a Taacheon af the Hicl i 2 1 o’clock and rendered selections between the different events. 'midji Association was well attended| ~* el _ Friday’s program calls foria similar event. -and the meeting ‘'held after the | ann A . _-Tomorrow’s program promises to be even better than - Juncheon was featured with very’ ¢ o today’s. Judging of exhibits will be completed in the forenoon|: iErestihe maters, : if possible and then at 11:15 inspection of the stock and exhibits will take place. Free acts of vaudeville wfll complete the fore-|e . ‘Em:ourlzed Grain Ship- -~ ping Associations ol = | STILL HOLDING FOR BETTER MARKET PRICE : o L.il;nhewta,l-'nrmen Eiidd‘;\dy, RA“:ROADS WILL BE “Will Make Forturie in Clov- FORCEDTOPAY FOR | o Crop This Your ) CI.OOUET FIRE LOSS St :Paul, Sept. 16— Determinatioi of Minnesota farmers to hold their grain for better prll‘ces. and ‘tlo leave [ their notes in banks,until they sell Decision Handed Down by their products, was émphasized dur- Duluth Court Tod-y Forces |ing the past week in reports receiv- ed from every section of Minnesota C. &. Isted, of the Crookston Lui f the Kéiu‘é‘é“fi‘r“i?mi‘x‘.‘ h: Was noon; evelxlxts. Roads to Pay Sufferers for the weekly review of 'buslnest;‘ con- of 3 il I 'or. the afternoon the spom ro ill b d. B ditions, prepared by the Merchants chairman, regarding the acquil "N WAu, IREEI ""’ p. gram Wi e resume : e . s § AY At 2 o’clock there will be a human. flag display and songs by (By United Press) N%L",‘;“L,g;{“;;;’.s; Paul. couriits " of, virgin pine at the no;th end ot Lake Bemidji and:the land on whi Z it staitds, for park purposes: He o l’olu:e Estimate’ .No ‘Less “Than i ported that there was approximately . N $00,000 feet of timber on the tract| - 150 Persons Were Injured T of which 100,000 was already ma- by Falling Gliss - the school children. This will take place on the grandstand|,, Duluth, Sept 15— -The Great Nor- and will be assisted by the Juvemle band. Motorcycle and 3 logging railroads thru the govern- ;automobxle races as plaihed promise to be a feature of the|ment will be forced to pay to 51 sut- ga‘-,:f,fisfi‘:,':f:d";,,?;fll"de'f,;‘::':: s ate afternoon. All Bemxdn is urged to be in attendance at|ferers from the farest fires In the|gaposits but said loans either were tured iand should be cut down. This the fair all day tomorrow, sinc Cloguet district in 1918 between five ] Y W e fllls has been deslm“ted and six' million dollars, according to :;:;:)‘;?:‘;yo?rl;lelg:::l’i(:::‘;:;o:te‘;ezf . woild leave 400,000 feet of growing especml as. Bemld l ‘Pa ; " timber on a tract of 28.5 acres, Or| New York, Sept. 16.—Fifteen per- ly ? o g L5 : d“’“}“’t‘) llu::ded dd°,w“ by distriet| yancial” conditions practically un-- with road allowance deducted, aboutsons were known to have been killed = = == : = = - °‘;ft"° h N “‘h today. changed but many expect a decrease ; - twenty-four acres. “{by ag.explosion near the fllce qf J. - TID x ] AV : ) ‘: :whng 0{9“ fires which dev-| 'y, jahtedness, shortly. : i He ‘advised— that .the Crookston{P. Morgan & Co., at noon b ¥ ] ‘ ":' aLe tt o "leg t‘"" floo‘:l cases wiere Succesl(ul pooling of wool by farm- 2 Lumbér. company would agree to sell ' “:"‘:‘h :g'; Loedida '°"l 8. oharging| grq) aggocintions has cnm?d grain men the. timber, as it. nog owps.it, at thelcure . of ) Jthal ":“t ":‘“ an ;“5 ne were res- iy 5 nymber of countfes to discuss the . di i st o ) ) : SRR 2 "";’“"’ e for the conflagration. advisability of orzanlzlng cooperative i :nme hlsils m'1;;1' ‘thous¥nd as they pajd" 4 L namely...$22 for. T e g e P has % oy %fit‘l"‘(‘ !‘:";'ed;:‘lag:l )l.,l]l:tlnddlvidual cases | hre scemingly is-being brought to bear upon-farmers to;muke"disposi- ber- would thus be:about $8,800. A (A, 151 wii h- 13" bet . g | ber- A 8 ssay office ‘which - is' bein; DO Y . : it | valuation of the 24 actes of 1and | structed directly across Wall streei] " b b ! ‘'sults Early T.d” SIIW ] y's decision was handed|yion of gt least a portign of their ‘the six district ' Judges| o.oin within. the next ‘two weeks.as reported that loans were decreasing and deposits were on the insrease as was-considered to be-$1,200 makipg!from the Morgan house. a totak investment. of Jand and tim={ When -police ‘cleared the strects] - Race Will' Be Clase:: ..., m"flw fl“'“lg court. 1‘0 ,000 sufferers| ..yirqad . executives have visions of . “0f. $10,000. .- AT 12 injuted persons were stretched|” i LR et o Do AL decision | gorjqus car shortages it grain, is held is flll)fllgl <the: "CrooXston'on the sidewalk in froni of the As-} ° “Ghicago, Sept. 16.—The republicani'® not overruled by hizgher court. much longer. Freight car equipment company. offered to subscribe say building which a.djo!ns the Unit- (By United. Prm) "= .|party.may ‘present a ticket at the! Tiocal attorneys:believed that ow-|yqu1d-not be sufticlent to provide ing-to the fact that the six judges prompt service if farmers who have - 35@(*)1‘07“‘“8 the tract is bought |eq States sub-treasury. ~The inter- +Rome, Sept. 16. (By Camilla Clan-| November - election divided hetween eithel by the city or.by an organiza- ! seetion of Broad and Wall streets at - |the Thompson and Lowden factions, “l‘:l‘““'i'd ’3 !.‘!:e verdict no appeal | yoop “holding their grain and cattle tion “fermed for the purpose of @c-inoon day was probably the most in session all'over the country today-laccording to-indicatioms early today. IW be ';" he jury in the Moose | 4acide to market them simultaneous- - ‘quiring the property. The feasibility|{congested corner in the world. The trying to decide on means of 9“““’“‘ On incomplete ' returns of ‘yeste: ake district has already decided aly "~ goutn St. Paul Bankers have of-hdving the property taken over by |explosion shuok the entire lower sec-|HDE the control of their plants by |day's election the Thompson™candi- dimilar. :case in-favor of the suffer-|yo., yrging cattlemen to increase the State of Minnesota ds a state!tion of Manhat:in and. shattareq|labor organigitions. T i dates in Cook County, including Chi-|®™ their shipments. ’ park’ was also - discussed.. A. G.|windows thruout buildings in the vi-| Reports from Milan . were ihat|cago,-piled up plur-"“e; “here close One of thé interesting phases of Weidge: of Minneapolis, formerly -of|cinity. Somecne turned in the fire] menacing of plants continued on a{¢o 100,000.. - N NEW YORK POLm reports received during the past week, Bemidji, was psesent and offered sug-’'alarm and fire apparatus-and ambu- large scale. Cotton mills and jeyelry| As returns g[nrled 0 come in from CIANS were figures announced in various- gestions as to.the -possiblé financing jances came iash:nz thre. the preat|Works were among those put -under|jown state the Lowden slate shoyed counties which conducted road oem- . "ot the/project. - |throngs whiea aouring - from|the workers control. The action ex~|great gain. It tie average gains per AWA!T WHSUN’S ACTmN eus. Travel on the main highways The'matter oipu‘rchasing the-iand the buildings. . ~~“|tended into the peasantry. Land-|precinct outside of’ Cook county are was unpfecedented and in many cases which is owned by C. F. Ruggles, was| Reports which the police gather-|fords in Sicily were driven out by|maintained -until the final vote 13| (nicago, Sept. 16, (By L. C. Mart- | the check of vehicles, principally au~ ‘reférred to a committee consisting.of ied up te 12:50 indicated that the ex-|tenant farmers. counted, it will give-victory. ine —Presldmrt Wl]sonz active par-|tomoblles, exceeded unofficial estl- Charles. Warfleld, representing - the plosion ocourred .in a wagon :0ing Premier Glollitti's arrival in Tur- —a ticipation in the democratic national mates. On the average; one car out mw;{ association, and James Nich- glong Wall street. One theory was in and calling for immediaté -canfer- WIFE MURDER SUS v of every 156 was from another state. ed to result in a quick" turn in the & L8 exteptions, higher than on week know what form his campaign will situation. -Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept. 16'—- take. L3 ;iuzyoso t(’{‘hffiv‘\)r:;ekly totals range from R AT IR R . - -|The man ‘held as Eugene Leroy, sus-{ In the "White House it was safd ::'eh:;‘;::e:f the northern. °“m5«"|bile. The ;vreckage of an automobile WEATHER REPORT. - pécted of ‘heing the wifé murderer not?: ng was known of the probable Records made public By county ,." ‘s latter was fead from the Soo was found .in the street near the| Minesota - weather: -Fair tonight{wlo shipped the body of.his victim |course,of the president's activity. It S8880TS iwlll' also show: interest ?" Nints optotal aivising thet imrediate’ Morgan offices, -Fragments - of &|probably Friday. Warmer in western | tromi Detroit to.New York in a trunk, | was expected that he will continue | c0mPparisons affecting automoblie entlon woald . be. given fo. the. re: {horse were algo found. The numoer|portion tonight. Cooler in north-[arrived here aboard the steamer Dry— writing letters. Stump spsech making ownership. In Pennington county at & g \of the automobile destroyed DY the|west portion Friday afternoon. den. by the the president is not expected. for instance, the total number of hogs .que made by the Association to' explosion was' 24,246 New ‘“Jerse! » - €% lowmed was listed as 1873 and the havé} that railrad pave vMivnnesotn The, police asked New Jersey author- ~avenue between - its tracks. - {itles to ideptify it. - B ey R TENELI 1Y Tams Bixby “The Father of Be-| A -United Press reporter ‘counted e niidji”; gave some interesting remin- ten bodies on the sidewalk on the iscenses of the founding of the city corner of Broad and Wall streets at and of the part played by.-himself 13:50. They were covered with bur- and the-Bemitji Townsite company .ap and' were apparently all me ~"1n the arly stages.of its development.isome of the bodies were badly mutil- iHe rehearsed -the difficulties con-lated.” The: :police estimate that no - fronted\ by the Townsite Company 'less than 150 persons were injured and suted that while it was the com- by falling glass. “mon “gpinion, apparently .they had, "The first police theory of the ex- “made & lot of money out of the salg, plosion was that a bomb either had ©f the city lots not a cent of the pro- peen tossed from an automobile on _ceeds of the sale of the'lots had been | wall street side of the Morgan of- staken from Bemidji. fice, or thrown into the building by. Donations of sites, taxes and inter-.n_ passerby. A theory was advanced t had offset the returns, but he by one of the fire marshals that the stated he was glad to have been as-| explosion was not due to a bomb but Sociated with the founding and de-|that a truck load of dynamite being velopment of so_beautiful and pros-|transported to a building construc- perous a city. Many other featurestion job on Pearl street had blown vof the'city’s welfare was touchéd up. § upon and he finally left with the . . members of the. . Association the |- 5 (By United Press) thought that location does not make Washington, «Sept. 16.—All teder-| - a city; but that it is the people. |a) afficers available are working on Mr, MeCarthy, generdl: attorney ithe explosion near ‘the offices of J. for the ‘Northern Pacific Ry., and|p Morgan & Co. Acting Chief Neal, commander of a St. Paul American (Continued P. 8 Legion post, who has passed each {Continued on Page 8) summer Jhere for four or five years, o= = also nxmgrElnlated the Association-on HARMNG To omm“ “ils achievements and its interest in the welfare of the entire community. coNs"m“oNAL DAY STILL TWO VACANCIES (By United Press) IN PRIMARY DEPARTMENT | Marion, Ohio, Sept. 15. (By Ray- Superjntendent R. O. ’Bagby an-|mond Clapper)—Preparations for the nouncg§ that there are still two va-|observance of Constitutional Day are cangis in the primary teaching being made by Warren G. Harding to- fogffe, one at the Central school and |day during the present lull in the aflie other at the North building. front porch campaign. 2 Miss Gladys Chapin who was the; Several Ohio delegations will come primary instructor in the Central [to hear the republican candidate school has been released from her !speak on the constitution. The Ma- contract in order that she might|rion gathering will be only one of teach in the kindergarten at the Be- [the many held thruout the state. midji normal. In her stead; Mrs. 1da|James R. Garfield, secretary of-the Letford has been secured for the pri- |Interior under Roosevelt, talked with maTty work temporarily. Harding today. -ols ot the Crookston Lumber Co. {gh“ a2 load of T. N. T was bging tak- ‘A-testimonial from W. G. Goldman; 'en to an excavation on Pearl streei. an “annual visitor to- Bemldji -was. The police advanced the theory that read setting forth the splendid cura-the wagon was strick by an automo- proximately 1,000. A couple of weeks ago; it was announced that there were more autos than dogs in Hous- ton county. The value of automo- biles in Martin county far exceed the value of jewelry reported to the as- 8E880TS, ‘Minnesota (armers evidently will make fortunes in cloves this year. Northern counties are referring to ‘their districts as ‘“clover lands.” Bumper sugar beet crops myy inspire farmers to greatly ificrease ir acre- age-in 1921. Rosen rye also will be grown more extensively. The coal situation has become se- rious in many counties. Reports from the head of the laxes regarding an adequate supply were not reassuring. Lumber companies are sending men into the woods at unprecedented wages—an average of $756 a month and board. “Reports from school dis- tricts in 50 counties indicate few shortages of teachers but showed that salaries for teachers even in rural school have been shortply increased. Most of the salaries range from $100 to $136 a month. Practically no shortage of labor was reported from the country. Beltrami has a remarkable wild rice crop which is being harvested. ‘Minnesota apple growers are shipping to Chicago and New York. One farmer who came to Swift county penniless a decade ago. “harvested his ninth successful crop and is rated as a wealthy man. "OV John B. Thrift, Sr, CENSUS REPORT Washington, Sept. 16.—The census bureau today announced the follow- ing populations of Minnesota coun- ties: Dakota, 28,987, an increase of 3,796 or 15.1 per cent; Meeker, 18-~ 103, an increase of 1,081 or 6.4 per cent; Pipestone, 12,050, increase of 2,497 or 26.1 per cent. was agreed to have.six juflge- ariin shipping- “'{;"’ latfons, - l’i‘fl-‘ . number of machines was given as ap- -