The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-10-28
The Continued
Story Of
Current Events.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

= = Current Events. III
Try our No. 81 coffee and our
India Sundried teas, Bemidji Tea
Store, Phone 423.
]. L. Blaising of this city went to
Tenstrike this morning to transact
business with S. E. Thompson, the
: Tenstrike merchant.
T. r. Symons, the local agent for
the Minneapolis Brewing company
spent yesterday in Laporte and
returned home last evening. Bust
ness good, down there" says Tom"
The C. E. society will give a
Halloween social in the Presbyterian
church Friday evening, Oct. 20.
Everybody Come spend wi us a
happy NIGHT, and crack a joke
thegither.
! H. E.. Stevens, alineman for the
M. & I. Railway, spent yesterday at
Turtle River, repairing some wires
for the M. & I. He returned to
-Bemidji last evening, on the south.
bound M. & I. freight train. -
Anderson & Johnson, the local
employment agents, yesterday sent
bunch" of twenty-five men to
Nebish to work for the Crookston
Lumber company, and last evening
they shipped thirty to Blackjack to
work. for the same company.
| J. C. Taylor and wife of this city
left last evening for Kelliher, where
they will spend the winter. Mr..
Taylor has accepted a position as
saw filler for the Crookston Lumber
company, and he and his good wife
will live in the camp until the logging
season is over.
Arthur Brannon, a former Bemid il
boy, who left here sometime ago
to make his home at Dubuque, hav.
ing concluded visit of two weeks
with relatives in this city. Arthur
has done very we'll since he lief,
this section, which is pleasing news
to his many friends in this part of
the state. -
Fred Baumgardner, head lineman
for the Northwestern Telephone
Exchange company, accompanied
by two assistants, went to Tenstrike
last evening for the purpose of re.
moving some of the telephone com.
pany's poles which are on the M. &
l. right-of-way, near Tenstrike, where
the steam shovel is working.
]. H. and w. ]. Bailey and T. H.
Elliot, cruisers for the State Timber
Board, left last evening for Funkley
to look after some official work at
that place for the board. Messrs.
Beagle and Elliot have completed
the work which they were doing for
the board in Town LAG, Ranges
1884, which tracts of timber will
soon be sold by the state.
The Given Hardware Co. have
the best line of wood heaters ever
purchased in the city and they are
cheap.
Crookston Times: Peter Engh,
who has been working during the
fall season for Julius Voelker, one
of the prosperous farmers near this
city, is in the city and will leave
| Wednesday for Nebish, where he
has hired to the Crookston Lumber
Co. for the winter season. He
states that Mr.. Voelker had fine
crop this year. Pete is one of the
old timers in and about Crookston
Word comes from Tenstrike that
universal JOY is prevailing among
the M. & I. steam shovel and sur;
facing crew, owing to the fact that
apparently, bottom has at last beer
found in the "bottomless pit" at the
bridge at Erickson lake. The grave,
is now at the top of the water, with
every indication that there is a
solid foundation from which to build
the remainder of the fll-in. This
sink hole has given the M. & /
much trouble and expense in flline
in with gravel and several thousand
loads have been dumped into the