Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 8, 1922, Page 4

e ok R LR S WS e B B A N BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING COMPANY G. E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Secy-Mgr. J. D. WINTER, News Editor 1=t TELEPHONE 922923 :—: Entered at-the Postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as Second-class ' Matter, under, Act of Congress of ? March, 3, 1879, — s e e Haadle MEMBER. NATIONAL EDJTORIAL .ASSQCIATION Poreign Advertising Representatives 8. C. Thels Co.. Chicago, IlI,"s w York, N. Y. No attention peid andnymous contributions. tor,;but not ione- for the - oftice not later than cation in the cur- Writer's name must be I.&o to. the necessarily for publication. '&mm Weekly Pioneer must reach .this Tuesday of each week to insure p rent 1ssue. 2 Thrée Months One Month . E One Week «++ .15 Three Months THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pagos, published every Thursday and sent. posta a A e e e e Unless credit is given this paper, only the United ::;B fllfi;pin!lel':led (:d}{la “t“ lffll‘ n—n:bnmuun of all es creditea to It, or otherwise credil and also the local mews published herein. tody OPPICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS ° MINNESOTA—THEN, AND NOW: '’ Congress passed an act admitting Minnesota ta the Union on May 11, 1858, The year previous, a financial panic had swept the country and the thou- sands of immigrants, who had been expected t¢ come with the building of new railroads, did not come because the crash of banks halted all im: Pprovements requiring money. : But the seed for what'is now a mighty empire had been sown, and while rapid development was delayed for a few years, there were thousands who were tilling the fertile lands of the state when, in April, 1861, a shot at Fort Sumter kindled the Civil war. Governor Alexander Ramsey happened to be in Vashington at the time and he hastened to offer 1,000 men from Minnesota. On April 15, President Lincoln’s war proclamation was published and on the following day Ignatius Donnelly, acting gover- nor, issued a call for the first regiment of volun- tecrs, which assembled with amazing rapidity at Fort Snelling; and before Lee surrendered at Ap- pomatox, Minnesota had furnished the Union forces 22,160 troops. At the close of the Civil war, a new. era of pros- perity began and in half a decade the population had increased to 239,760. Agriculture was given great impetus by the steady influx of immigration, * and by 1875 the population had reached 597,407— the million mark being passed between 1880 and 1885. The present population of the state is estimated ul about 2,725,000. Shortly, the 3,000,000 mark . will'have been passed and where, what is now Min- nesota was known as “Iowa” or the Northwest Ter- 1itory, the curling smoke of a few hundred cabins was watched by surly Sioux, we now have myriads farms, thriving villages. and great and growing cities. . Minnesota' has earned the title of “bread and butter” state, and to this could be added milk and noney. And still a large amount of her rich lands lay id'e, awaiting only the plow to make them bring fcrth abundant harvests. In Northern Minnesota, alone, there is enough rich soil awaiting cultivation to double the agricultural wealth of the state. True, our forests have been felled—and yet there is a lot of timber. left in Minnesota—but where the trees have disappeared, farms have appeared, so that new wealth has replaced the wealth of the woods. Minnesota, has every natural condition to mak.e her growth steady and stable: soil, water und' cli- mate. The state is progressing and will continue to progress beyond the dreams of the most optimis- _tic of those sturdy pioneers, CC'OC!CCC"CCICC * BUCK LAKE sarsasARERRESAETS Albin Carlson was in. Cass Lake Monday on business. £ Missionary Cummings of Beml.d]l has sent word to the Woodland Union Sunday school that he will meet with them next Sunday at the usual hour, 11:00 a. m. ma Fred Murphy Accomparied Alex Sawyer home Saturday evening, ‘when he returned from helping hgs son Henry. at his mill in the Kitichi coun- try. The “Smiles” Gleen club were en- tertained last, Sunday afternoon by the Sawyer girls. T, H. Phillips called on Oscar Rog- holt last Sunday. Vool Fred Murphy spent last Sunday night with Arthur and Martin Rog- holt, Several teams loaded with- wood and bolts for the Cass Lake matket,‘ made the trip Saturday despite the heavy snow. Mrs. Albin, Carlson visited school last Monday. " Mrs. Edwin Rogholt and Mes. Al Sawyer visited at the M. O. Roghol home Monday afternoon. 374 Miss Acsi- Sawyer called on- Mrss Albin_Carlson. and Mrs.' M. O, _Rog- holt Monday evening. teacher. be charged. served at noon. less cooker. nicely. “roads are’legion: .same-age. John Drew, ‘- Bernard Shaw, who went through the ';.——-_—————“—_——_———__— : == : | —— I - T TP W Rt i 3 { § [ s Ias ¥50 SCHEME WORKED OUT WELL |! Mrs. O. Wim’;, teacher, and tha Bucklake school, Mrs. A. B. Every one i invited to at- tend. An admission of ten cents will ; "A warm dinner will be There is two ‘feet of snow in the woods here now, and it is deeper in some places, the woodmen say. Mrs. A. B. Frost invited the moth- ers of her pupils to attend school last and served a mice d in their new fire- Several of the mothers were prevented from attending on ac- count of the storm.{ Those present enjoyed the afternocn very much. Friday afternoon, warm lunch cooke P S R R L \ x FERRE R SRR TR Sk The heavy snow storm has blockad- ed the roads somewhat, it ‘is, almost impossible to get ar There are a num! chickenpox in this neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nord are the \hnppy parents off a little daughter. ! Mothey and baby are getting along yady” Aid met at Srzflrduy. Despite i party. L would likg to.come to YOUT that seemed to him now a zood deal ound. ber of cases of "'The *“American perils ‘and, discomforts of the early day with that fortitude and perseverance which always has been typical of the North Star state. § § . UNCLE SAM AND GOOD ROADS During the six years that congress has been ap- propriating money for good roads, a total. federal enditure of 350 million dollars has been author- ed”and ‘the various states had matched this sum to the ‘extont of $265,5629,090,; 2 > zal ails .that ‘thé nationi gain: from - this md% 4 Qb4 miles, whivih, as-Collier’s-points out, is a strip long enough to en relethe globe with a broad highway and have s hou = miles left over. .. ... Al} this-is jof special ifi%ere cause this state admittedly is_in the front rank, bothi’as to the amount of ‘money to be spent jmproved highways and because:the work is'in. the,, hands of ‘men who are expected.to get full value in modern roads for every dollar that is.spent. Minnesota has complied with the federal re- quirements, first: the establishment of a complete gtate highway commission, and second, assurance that all roads built will be properly and permanent~ ly maintained. States failing to keep their roads in shape will see the government step in and put them in shape and at the same time federal appropria- tion will‘be shut off. Commercial advantage of well made, well kept - roads: has been established by actual tests. The average load in one instance on the old type road for a two-horse team was 1,750 pounds, and on the new roads, 2,750 pounds. The old hauling cost was figured at 37 cents per ton mile; while the cost on the new roads was only 20 cents. * The saving of 17 cents per ton mile amounts an- aually in that one county to $43,400. That saving, if-applied to principal and interest on the bond issue from which the roads were built, would in 17 years pay the entire original new road cost. The things which may be $aid in .favor of good they mean more value to the farm land; so far as Northern Minnesota is con- cerned, a quicker development; better and bigger .schools, churches; comforts of the city life brought | to the farmer’s door; added pleasure in outings; yuicker freight transportation, and even bette: service for passenger business. . Good roads is good sense. ~Congress _has’ done nothing of more direct and material benefit to the people than its appropria- sions, hedged about with reasonable precautions, for the continuous, construction in all parts of the VJnited States of good roads. § § WHO SAID IT? Who'said this was a young man’s age? The sub- ject has been interestingly discussed of late with more or less surprising revelations. Are the com- - | il manding figures of the world old or young? John D. Rockefeller is 82; Chauncey M. Depew je 87; 80 is Dr. Charles W. Eliot. Lyman Abbott is .§6+and “Uncle Joe” Cannon, 85; John ‘Wanantaker ic 83 ang Oliver Wendell. Holmes, supreme court jhlzice, ig 80, the same age as Geroges Clemenceau, the “tiger of France.” Our own United States senator, Knute Nelson, is 48, Whi¢h is the age of Justice Joseph McKenna of the United States supreme court. Dr. Harvéy w.' Wiley is 77, while Sarah Bernard is"75, which also is the age of Elihu Root. Thomas A. Edison is 74 and so is Alexander Graham Bell; Arthur James Halfour is 73 and Luther Burbank and Samuel Gompers are now at the age of 72. Henry Cabot Lodge is 71 and so is Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the pub- lisher, Senator Albert B. Cummins and Davie Starr Jordan.- il ‘Ferdinand Foch, marshal of the French army, carries the weight of 70 years.on his shoulders and that.is theage of Sir Oliver Lodge.. Henry Van- Dyke; the author, is'69 arid* General Joffre is the o age. the actor, is 68, as is Sir Hall Caine.. Robert B. Mantell, the actgr, is 67 and <o is Ceorge Eastman, the kodak man. George Judge Lonis D. Brandeis, Henry Morgenthau and former President Woodrow Wilson ore 66, 316 F. Vernon Indian school, Frost, Unwelcome Guest Would Not Attend Engagement Party. she would declina to attend, Sh she were not invited she would tal of it. party the couple managed to brin masculine acquaintance of — man were left alone. them hiwself. to the party. asked e to. accompany him, to..th theater on the-very-evening.-of. patty, but, I gave: Nim iy e Nels Hanson' butchered h-eef! lastf..:Mrs. Roy Elliatt.isogetti | hefore: T recelved your: inyltatio Monday. 3y "{nicely, after having the ?m:&x‘fi Fou see how 1t”, :- T déTHe Messre, Alfrad snd Oscar Rogholt Mrs. Woodford recei sad | will excuve me. > made a business visit to Casy Lake nvwthhnt "i’e home (of Jamesi¥ay- - Tuesusy. | 5 AT N4 lor, Roosevelt, Minn., had-begn.de+}. . il : iy Mosenrs. wiwin and Martin, Koghols, Siroved by fire on Jag:ed, an A BEE! Bolle. © L were business..callers in Cags Lake Tuesday. . Arthur Rogholt and Billie Hanson sawed wood for Oscar Rogholt Mon- day with the Rogholt wood machine. Messrs. Martin and Oscar Rogholt ford. Orano, Messrs. Alfred Rogholt and Albin Carlson braved the storm Friday and went to Cass Lake on business. Mrs. Frost and pupils are working hm:d preparing for the spelling match, which takes place Fridgy next, at the Cass Lake Indian school. - The schopls participating 'in’ this contest will Zbcl“l“ ¢ tific . methods. gix-months-old baby by to death. | K¢ Nirs. Taylor is a neice ;%r‘éi'wg 3- Men Students to-Raise Child. | d C. le~"The home ecbhnomics sewed wood for their, mill Iast Sst- { department of the Univérsity of Maine urday with the Rogholt wood machine. ' 14 temporarily udopted, Frances Paul- ine, four nouths old. men students of North hall in caring’ for. the infant will use the'latest scien- Little Frances is in perfect health and sleeps - and tukes nourishment _on & el It you want td flirt with death, t to take away the toy elephant th: toy as a little girl with her Christuy doll. The 16 young | of al life. were growing children, can help sha 1l-Qefined scl_ng\l- _genemtxon, as yet unborn.~Chica st to Minng@; ber3 How Host Made Pretty Sure That The :problem was how to invite & certain youbg woman to the engage- ment party and still be certain tlmt\l was known to_be a killjoy, but i About two weeks prior to the \5 e “He's a nice fellow,” ran part of the letter ‘in answer to the engage- poyse and lot!” ineat party inyitation, ““and he lms’ e Santa Claus brought to Tony und me. Waddy, elephauts in the Boston z00. They are as ‘delighted with their marked it with a tinger, and-looked at Mothers, by teaching - their small daughters to care for dolls as if they Colly, racters and careers of the third 6 S § the chiract ana cal o {73 (Co_ntixm'bd from lfaga 2) 1o Dvid Moteland’s mountiin.” “David—Moretand’s—mountainI” . The retired coal magnate breathed the three words'in a husky tone. He put forth a band and rested it against { one of the huge stone gateposts, as though to steady himself, and some of the color went from his face. : “You say David Moreland’s moun- tain, Carlyle?” jerkily. “Yes.” “And you—you learned about David Morelana?” - < “yes.” Bill Dale -folded his arms #tocd there looking at his father eyes that accused. u know who killed him?” old Dale. mustered, ’ “1'do, and it was a shame—a black shame.” i *Xes, it was a shame, Nobody-knows that half so well as 1 know it,” said John K. Dale, ' His mouth quivered. He, looked downward, looked up agaln. “Son, you can never say or think worse things about me than I have ‘said and thought - about myself—becanse of that,” ; 3 ! Dale the younger glanced toward the house.: Robert McLaurin’ was com- ing slowly down the veranda steps. Mrs. Dale was nowhere in sight. She {didn’t want to’see ‘her son; she didn’t even want him in the house. Bill Dale rend it all in his- friend's -downcast ‘countenance, and it was somehow 2 great disappointment. “You'll need money if you're going | to develop that coal - property,” Dale the elder was saying. - “You-haven't ‘any money, and those mountain folk haven’t any. I'll give you all that's H vl * V7 1 “You Know Who Killed Him?” Old ] Dale Muttered. needed. Il send you mining machin- ery,’and expert mining men; ra—" “You mneedn't,” broke in the embit- tered Bill Dale. *“I can get the neces- sary funds. without difficulty. I'll pay the debt myself. Youwve had a great many, years in which to try to make mends, and you haven’t done any- hing. . You might ‘have helped the Morelauds without their even kuowing that it was you—especially as they to have known you by another % name—and that's the only way you k together the young woman and @ ‘o, paye-heiped them. Here you thelrs. j,ve one reason why 1 kanrot accept After the proper introduction the in- i cooiance from you; don't you see, fa- nocent young wan and the yOUDE WO 4hery he Morelands wouldn’t have it, and 1 couldn’t lie to them.” The following week the young man ‘t'ue' motioned to McLaurin, who had recelved two theater tickets from NS yoyiq on the lower veranda step in acquaintance who was to be engaged, o qer that he might not overhéar, and who said lie would not be able to Use yreq and walked away. McLaurin Three days later the g4))0wed, and soon overtook him, young woman received -an invitation {"py; pale stopped suddenly and faced back to his father. “Remémber that Bobby pgets his “Yes,” replied John K. geta.hig house and 108" --He-went-sadly- toward -the-manslon 3obby Dale touched his lengd-on ) . 4l el fiiszbat dia’ mother say 2. 1 hwaviiesliting beside ¥h open win- @ Jibrary,” saidslclaarin. A “that you were at the gate, Ty an ed 1P she would like to see you. at- At first T-was afraid she haduo’t heard hen: she opened a book that she found her place and was reading, a e - “\Who did ygu say was at the gate, The p}xrentnl instinct fs the basts' Mr. McLaurin? she asked. i wiyour son Cariyle,! I answered. “sMr. » MleLgurln,” shie said to me *[ want you never to forget this: pe Lo me there -is- no such person on earth as'Carlyle Dale ™ gql‘ They ‘went downtown " (Contizued ia Next Iss ‘| kn6w 15 going to hurt, But=tell it." ROADS RECORDS FEATURE STATE HIGHWAY' SYSTEM (Continued From Page 1) * enue, $2,840,000 of; federal highway laid and $4,100,708.19 of proceeds ifrom county reimbursement - bond I sales,y " The remaining $6,764,416.01 used iumier the direction of the state high- {way department-was part of the fu.lulflv;;x,fi JIn “re-shaping 1 | trupk {of $21,099,232 provided last year-for high: it - 1$10,843,682 o township and fi%g | and vilage road and 2nd of;$2,084,287 of state aid.. With vided for localiroad: purpéses as for trunk route betterment, Commission- er Babcock is moving to insure maxi mum benefits from’ expenditures on’ highways. . Graphs Divide Dollars. Graphs showing from. where the average good roads dollar came and how it was used are another feature of the review. One graph shows that the average roads dollar is made up of 63 cents of road, and bridge tax funds, used on local roads, and 17 cents of motor-vehicle taxes, 8 cents of federal aid and 12 cents of coun- ty reimbursement bond money—the three trunk fund sources of revenue. Another picture how 53 cent sof the average trunk dollar went for new construction, 39 cents for mainte- nance, about 6% cents for equipment and less than 1% cents for general administration expense. Trunk system construction figures, c;;mp:!ed by O. L. Kipp, chief con- struction ‘engineer, total = $10,342,- 594.26 of expenditures and fimn’y ac- complishment items run into the mil- lions. Construction outfits during the year moved 7,991,986 cubic yards of dirt and gravel. - Dumped in a huge container covering’ an average city block 300 feet square with prependic- ular walls, the yardage would tower | nearly 2,700 feet or more than half a mile_high, Mr. Kipp added, by way of giving an idea of the tremendous volume handled. .Paving built on trunk routes in 1921 would cover 82 city blocks, each.300 feet square, or surface a 66-foot city street more than 100 blocks in length. Main Work Permanent. % Of the average dollar used for new construction on trunk routes, Mr. Kipp's report discloses, 40 cents went into permanent grades.to make:last- ing foundations for highway surfac- ing that future traffic may demand, 17 cents* into “gravel :surfacing and 267% cents'into paving and the re: maining 16% cents for many miscel laneous items. The paving item car- ries "an explanation that. about 18 per cent of the trunk highway con- struction fund was used for paving and that the 1921 paving mileage was abnormally -high due to the paving added by’ counties with reimburse- ment bond money. 3 ¢ Average mile costs of grading and graveling run higher on state than on county work, and this is due, Mr. Kipp said, to the fact that trunk routes car- ry four times as much traffic as the construction. That the state depart- ment secured the lowest figures.on 1921 work is shown, however, by pav- ing contracts averaging $1,200 a mile below the prices paid by counties. _Another’ tabulation - shows trui highway grading averaging $5,39. a miile; gravel surfacing at $3,510,- 36 a mile, and paving at $31,968.13 a mile, the last item including fine grad- ing, culverts and all other cost fig- ures. Bridge Work Advanced. . J. T. Ellison, chief bridge engineer in the highway department, announc- ed that comparatively less bridge work was done in 1921 than in other recent years, but 55 new bridge pro jects at an average of $11,989 each made an important addition to the |program. The engineer said that un- der the old highway laws many coun- ties out a good percentage of money into bridges ith the Tesult that bridge work gained a lead on other classes of Tighway improvement. Much other construction work is listed. road curves and, fills, 126,150 lineal feet or about 25 miles of guard rail| was built at a cost of 66 cents a foot. To keep the grades drained and dry, 459,514 lineal feet or nearly 83 miles of drain tile was Jaid at 55%: cents ‘a foot average cost. . There were also 60.773 feet of portable culverts main- ly at farm entrances, costing $1.76 a foot, and 455 monolithic culverts at an average of $705.73 each. Right- of-way clearing and grubbing, hand- ditching, special plowing, gutters and catch basins, - retaining walls and minor items are part of the new im- provements listed. . 5 Maintenance Spreads Benefits, The smoothing and other upkeep of 6,855 miles of trunk highways last season took $2,224,227 of the $3,000,000 fund set aside for mainte- nance, according to W. F. Rosenwald, chief maintenance engineer. 7 Eighty-two cents of each mainte- nance dollar was paid for labor, the summary shows. en and teams got 43 cents of the dollar or $964,200, | agaihét’a’ 28 ‘cents o1 '$624,000 paid men.and.trucks.. . In_addition, labor- ers took $133,500, 6 cents of cach average dollar. Other items making up the doHar-were-about-7-cents-for grayel, culverts and other materials, about 10, cents for, equipment opera- tion and less than one cent; for un- clagsified items. * i “Maintenance and special | upkeep work on the trunk routes aevraged $324.46 a mile for the season. That includes wages of patrolmen—one of each 6-mile section—the re-shaping and re-surfacing operations which in some cases ran close to new construc- tion figures, and other like outl Another maintenarce dollar dist: ution shows 44 % cents to patrolmen, 28 cents for repairs and 21 cents for betterments, a little over 1% cents for special work and 5 cents for over- head expenses and superintendence of all kinds from executives to foremen. Shown in another way, smoothing and mending duripg the season cost - 1§144:70 2 mile; repairs $90.17 an betterments $68.30; special ~work more than twjce: s muchi-noncy pros | & the secondary as well as the primary!c“lvetts' county roads and must be of heavier |/ $5.08 and'overhead $16.21 cents a mile. ¢ Miscellaneous Work Listed. ‘Maintenance forces also marked the truck routes with the official num- bers on yellow, stars, made the triffic census, ‘kept up the detours and did much other special work. X Patrolling of 6,855 miles {routes ‘included .the cutting of brush long 1,692 miles; cleaning of 969 miles of side-ditches and raking over- | sized stones from 1.651 miles of high- miles of ntdidice | érews of earth, Lsolid.xoek, a1 routeél; oved’ 36,846 cubic shoulders-along pavin . Maintenance forces built 15 wood- | en” bridges -and repaired 191 others land: placed- 1,067 and repaired 138 They built. 24,330 lineal feet of guard rails and painted and repaired 9,310 feet more: placed 45, 210 feet of snow fences, laid 15,780 lineal feet of drain tile and 2,911 cu- bic yards of rip-rap.. Last but not KEMP'S BALSAM " for that. COUGH / AchHe? o When' you're suffering ‘fromy ) headache, " backacke, - ‘toothache, ~ - neuralgia, or pain from #ny other cause, try . DAt DI Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills One or two and the pain stops Contain 'no habit-forming drugs Have you tried Dr."Miles’ Nervine? Ask vour Drugyist - ,_"'—"—" o least, the maintenance engineer add- ed, the forces built” 63 miles of de- tours and maintained 547% miles of detour routes. Egquipment and Inspection. . The "highway equipment " depart: ment ‘with shops .at the -state fair grounds ‘and many fleets and‘smallel outfits ‘in the ‘field was operated ir 1921 at an over-all expense of $382, 515.53, according to the report oi R. M. Cooley, superintendent of equipment, - A division of the averagc dollar spent for equipment shows that about 40 cents was used for new parts,- 30 cents for new machines and the remaining 30 cents for many small items. An, appraisel of surplus war equipment_held here to gether with the accumulated earnings of .going prices will show ‘a big gair for the state when it is completed Superintendent Cooley predicted, and preliminary figures show $100,000 of net_earnings. F: C. Lang, engineer of tests, is in charge of (field inspections:on con- at the University of Minnesota where many material and .other tests were made. Scientific tests of cement, as- phalt and other. materials :used by the state in highway = building™ are made by the*score: atthe laborator- ies and the costs ‘of the service like those of field inspection are mea: used by mills, rather than ‘cents, i the dollar- graphs. - This is the ‘maih insurance department - in ‘contiectiofi |’ with, the road ‘work—the safe-guard against inferior materials, the engin- eerg said and’ therefore one:.of first}, importance. TOUGHS AND COLDS 2 often tenacious,’ : g -are a drain upon the vital forces. J'scoTT’S EMULSION strengthens. the: whole system and helps | drive out the pre- ‘2 “disposing: cause.. Emlnono.mmmd,nx 219 D O ST struction and also of the laboratories |+ At all good druggists. ' VYOU SAVE MONEY ) By ; PAYING YOUR ELECTRIC LIGHT BILL Before 10th of the Month —GET YOUR DISCOUNT— MINN. 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