The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-02-02
.BEMIDJI SHOULD
WISE THEM UP
Eastern Divorces Ought to
Know ofIts Summer Re-
sort Advantages.
SIOUX FALLS AND GRAND'FORKS
4. .-......,Ig WANING AS NIECE As. ....

Local attorney Says dH hdVeFtlS-
ing Campaign Would Bring
Many to Bemidji.
advertising will do the bust
ness. All the people of the effete
and ar1stocratic east to whom the
marriage ties have become irk-
some and who seek a sundering
need to know to make Bemidji
one of the most popular summer
resorts in the country, is that the
divorce laws of Minnesota are
not substantially more strict
than those of South or North
Dakota, that in all Minnesota
there is not a more picturesque
spot than Bemidji and they will
come here in mum bers that will
exceed the palmy days of either
Grand Forks, Fargo or Sioux
Falls, litigation in the divorce
line will flourish like horse radish
in sunny side hill, and every
attorney in the town will have a
business that will gain him a
comfortable competence and put
the red lines on the right side at
the banking houses when the end
of the year rolls around.
II saw in the Pioneerthe other.
day that thirty divorces had been
granted in Beltrami county dur.
ing the year 1908 and up to the
s28th day Of january. That
doesn't represent nearly all the
divorce actions that have been
before the district court in this
county. will venture that the
number will be tripled if Clear
water and Hub bard counties are
tal,en into consideration with
this. This is something Of a
record.
you know in the east when
people find that they are mis-
mated, especially those that move
in the higher social circles, they
have a horror of the publicity of
the divorce court and they come
west, acquire a residence and If
they have a just cause of action
in due time they are freed from
the marriage bond that is mu
tually disagreeable to both. II
is a mistake to call the divorce
courts of the Dakotas divorce.
mills. Ofcourse there is a very
great difference Of sopinion as to-
the moral right of divorces, and
there are unquestionably some.
abuses of the laws, but it is a
mistake to censure and criticise
the courts. Its duty is to put a
fair and equitable construction
upon these matters according, to
the law and I believe it is nearly
always done.
However, as long as people are
going to be divorced it is a fact
that is perhaps not generally
known that the divorce laws of
Minnesota are quite as lenient at
present as those Of North Dakota
and the same thing is true of
South Dakota, except that a di-
.vorce action may be begun in that
state after asix months residence
is acquired.
IN ow Bemidji's hotel facilities
are good at present and / under
stand we are promised another
large and modern house in the
near future. Summer here is a
paradise, that neither Of the Da-
kota towns can hope to. equal.
Why then don t we have some Of
this business. Advertising is
the great lever that moves all
lines of industry If the people
in the east thoroughly under
stood our divorce laws they
would come here quite as readily
as they go to the Dakota towns.
Think Of the fee in a case like
Mrs. Molineaux' S. Think of the
advertising Bemidji would get
and then get busy and tell the
people about it. :
Back From the Land of Erin.
Ed Goodrich, one of the well
known lumberman of this section
was at the Markham last night.
Mr.. Goodrich has just returned
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