The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-03-14

Street building.
We have a number of our recent
boom edition of the PIONEER for sale
at 5 cents per copy.
The Solway Press is to go on a
journey from Solway to the new town
site of Turtle River.
All the schools in Cass Lake closed
on Friday and in accordance with the
decision Of the board, no more schools
will be maintained by them.
The headquarters camp of the Clear
water Logging Co. broke up on ThArs-
day morning and the boys all came to
town with agood stake. Solway Press.
Miss A. A. Feldmann is prepared to do
all kinds of fancy ORPHAN dressmaking
and solicits your patronage. First
door north OF High School on Beltrami
ave.
While hauling logs at our camp near
5Bagley Friday Jerome Thayer was
nearly killed by the whiffletree break
ing and flying back and part Of it
striking him on the head.
The dray business has SO much inn
proved lately that Yves Wright has
decided to adopt another assistant. A
ten-pound boy appeared at his home
Sunday night and applied for q life job.
w. .. Bright, Of Turtle River,
purchased two yearling heifers and a
mich COW from Mrs. Rofdal for the
sum OF fifty dollars. He took them to
his farm near the Turtle River dam.
We were startled to see couple of
steam thresher engines unloaded in
Bemidii last week, but soon learned
that they were intended to be used in
threshing out shingles and lumber up
near Buena Vista in a sawmill.
Bemidji ran out of ice last fall and
drew on Cass Lake to fill her hand.
Now Cass Lake has run short of cord
wood, and A. j. Post came over last
week and secured a large supply of
tamarack for his local patrons.
Joe Taggart, proprietor ofthe ever
popular Palace Hotel, is making
to continue the hotel
business in the new town of Turtle
River. He has purchased lot there,
and as soon as lumber can be secured
will erect a tWo-story building, 34x6O.
He thinks Turtle River has bright
future. .-t....
Carl o. Erickson met with very
severe accident Saturday night. He
was just coming out OF DR.. Adamson's
Office where he had been for treatment
when weakness overcame him ana he
fell down stairs, landing on his head.
He was taken to the hospital where he
is slowly recovering. His home is at
Cragnas, MINI. 5s Fl
w. r. and G. w. Baumbach and E.
j. Austen, Of Wadena, are heavily in
terested IN q new banking institution
that will open It's doors at Bemidji
about the, middle of This month. Mr..
Austen will probably act as cashier.
These gentlemen are among the best
Known bankers In Northern Mime
,ota, and Bemidji is to be congratu-
ated on obtaining an institution |
handled by such capable and enter
3rising men. Verndale Sun.
The Bemidji band and couple OF
'ledloads of other gentlemen and
aides from here went up to Tenstrike
Saturday to attend the opening Of the
Hotel Richards. They report royal
there. The roads were
% bad, though, that the attendance
vas not as large as expected. The
3emidji crowd returned Sunday noon.
sledload of the ladies was overturned
N the way home, and some of them
we're slightly injured.
A sawmill, with acapacity of3, 900, 600
Get per year, will be established at the
lew townsite of Hartford on the Brain
I'd & Northern railroad extension, on
turtle River lake. Kelso & Co., the
intend to have the plant in
peration by April l. Part of the
liant will be moved from Solway,
here smaller mill is now operated.
A bulletin just issued shows the gross
rea of Minnesota to be 50, 395 square
lilies. The state has a water. surface +
f 4, $50 square miles, which is exceeded ]
My by that of Florida. The total |
rea of United States lis $685., 1888
luare miles, including Alaska and 1
laval. Itasca county is the largest ,
! Minnesota. with an area of 5,575 ,
1uare miles, over four times as large ,
5 the state Of Rhode Island, which
as only 1850 square miles. b
o THOSE WHO EAT AND SLEEP.
I have just resumed control OF the r
ewey House and have newly return r
he'd it throughout, kitchen, dining /