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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08

Wadena, in a discussion of a com.
promise measure where all could
take equal chances for the school.
McGarry and Larson stated EN-.
phatically that they would have
nothing to do with their neighbors
from up north, except to participate
in another meeting where they would
assist in discussing the needs of a
normal school in northern Mime:
sofa.
McGarry and Larson stated that
Cass Lake already had enough votes
pledged to get the school and the
rest of the aspirants could go it
alone"
This independent action put Cass
Lake on the defensive; and if the
Times man and his neighbors over
at Cass Lake can't stand the strenu-
BUSINESS of the campaign, they should
step aside and give McGarry full
swing. Mac" is doing very we'll
for them; and he doesn't give forth
any signs of being "piker," either,
although he has fallen considerably
short of claims which he first made.
If Cass Lake had intended to be
fair in this fight, why did the Hon.
Dan Gum deem it necessary to
accompany the legislative junketing
committee from St. Paul, when it
was distinctly understood, between
McGarry, Opsahl, Kinds and the
writer, that no one in any way
personally interested in the normal
fight should accompany the com
mittee? Why did E.. L. Warren, who
is prominent in Cass Lakes fight,
come over to Bemidji on the spec.
ial train with the legislators and
spend. the night here attempting to
sow seeds of discord, in which
effort he failed, utterly?
Bemidji has stood by every
promise made in this fight; and as
for acting 'honorably" the people
of this city, including the Pioneer,
have stood together and kept prom.
Uses to the letter.
The Pioneer, more than any
other paper in this part of the state,
has boosted" for a normal school;
and we have borne the burden OF
the Bemidji fight, as far as the news.
papers of this city are concerned;
and what is more, the assertions
made regarding Cass Lake and hel
overfowed shores, are such that we
| can prove to be true.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08

position Of opposition to any addi-
tional normal school.
In the house the first action on
the matter was taken by the house
normal school committee of thirteen
members, one being absent. The
vote stood six for Cas- Lake and
six for the general bill. After the
junket, the house committee, all
being present, acted upon motion
to recommend the Cass Lake bill
for indefinite postponement. Twelve
voted for indefinite postponement
and one, Mr.. =McGarry, voted against
it.
: The committee reported out the
general bill with the recommends
ton that it do pass. McGarry
succeeded in getting Representative
Emmel and Representative Jorgen-
son to join in a minority report.
A vote was taken upon Lemons
motion that the minority report be
adopted. This motion carried by
vote of sixty to ffty-seven. Opsahl
then moved that the majority report
be adopted. This was carried by a
vote of sixty-one to ffty-six.
These bills will come before the
house probably next Wednesday or
Thursday, and we expect that the
general bill will be passed by the
house.
It seems to be conceded that all
the aspirants for the PLACE, the
claims of Cass Lake are the least
meritorious, and as the members of
the legislature become convinced Of
this they are gradually asking to be
relieved Of their promise to support
Cass Lake.
Legislation is process of giving
and taking, and if the general bill is
defeated it will be because, for one
reason or another, we have not been
able to engage in as much of that
class of work as the friends of Cass
Lake have engaged in. !"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08

Three of Bemid ji's representatives
who have been lobbying at St. Paul
in the interest of the general
normal school bill, and who returned
to the city last Saturday, are fairly
we'll pleased with the situation as il
exists at st. Paul.
E. E.. Mcdonald, member of the
committee who returned Saturday,
says of the situation:
Two years ago there was a firm
and considerable opposition to an.
other normal school which has now
almost disappeared, it being con.
coded by a great majority of the
members of. the legislature that a
normal school should be located in
the northwestern portion of the
state.
I have met but one member OF
legislature who contended that Cass
Lake is the best place for the loca.
ton of normal school.
In the senate the supporters of
Cass Lake are found among those
men who are friendly to, or feel
under obligation to, Senator Gum.
The only vote taken upon the subject
was taken upon Senator Gums
motion to have the Cass Lake bill
reported from the committee Of the
whole to the senate with the recon.
mendation that it pass. This motion
was lost by vote of twenty for rec
ommendation to twenty-three against.
The matter will be reached again
probably tomorrow and will be
brought before the senate on motion
to amend the Cass Lake bill substi-
tuting the provisions Of the general
bill, and while the vote will be close,
we expect to carry this motion, and
if we do, the general bill will pass
and the supporters of Cass Lake
must either submit their chances of
getting the normal to the State
Normal School Board or take the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08
CASS LAKE TIMES BACKING
. UP IN THE NORMAL FIGHT
Times Editor Squirms When His Rapidly. Waning Town
Is Hit By Few Truthful Statements. Sounds
Like Despiaring Wall.

The venerable editor of the Cass
Lake Times has taken unto him
self much credit, through his own
paper and the Duluth News-Tribune
for the fight which Cass Lake has
been making to secure the location
of the proposed sixth state normal
school, and in so doing has never
been we'll informed, at any time
of just what has been going on
down at St. Paul, and also what
some of his fellow townsmen have
been doing. He recently insinuated,
among other things. that the school
should be located at Cass Lake
because the location there would
be more healthful than another
place which he had in mind, mean.
ing Bemidji. The Pioneer took UP
the matter of the "healthfulness'
of Cass Lake, and we have shown
by figures taken from government
reports, how the overflow from the
government dams would be a con-
slant cause for disease, should a
school be located on or adjoining
the banks of Cass Lake, with a
swamp intervening along the shore
to the main part of the lake.
TheTimes man has been cornered
at every turn in this fight, and heis not
one who can stand the gaf'' and
come up smiling. In his last paper he
prints a TRADE on yellow journal
ism," etc., which smacks very much
of a defeated, disgruntled individual
who can only stand to one side and
make faces" > -,
Among other things, Bro. Ives
says:
las before indicated Cass Lake
has endeavored to use all honorable
means in the furtherance of her in.
terests, and we have felt that should
Cass Lake be unsuccessful in her
attempts in securing the proposed
normal school, that we should boost
for our neighbor, Bemidji."
AS to fairness, the writer was
present at meeting when the
normal school measure was frs
preached at this session of the legis
lature, when every town that was {
candidate for the school had a repre-
sentative present, except Cass Lake
both P. H. McGarry and P M
Larson (the latter superintendent O
the Cass Lake schools) refusing tt
meet with the gentlemen from Be
midi, Park Rapids, Thief Rive
Falls, Red Lake Falls, Warren ant
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08
Funeral Services Yesterday.

Funeral services over the remains
of the late Mrs. Olive Benson were
conducted by Reverend Kolste, of
the Norwegian Lutheran church,
yesterday afternoon at the Benson
home, 621 Bemidji avenue.
A large number of friends of the
family attened the services and
many beautiful floral tributes were
offered in memory of the dead.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08

The facts of the matter are that
Cass Lake is about as well fitted for
the location of a normal school as
the city of Pekin. China. With a
forest reserve Chinese walp' prac-
tically surrounding the town, with
no immediate prospect of opening
the Indian land thereabouts; with a
shore line that is constantly menaced
with overflow from the government
reservoirs; with population that is
torn asunder the year around with
internal strife; where insurance COM
panies find it incumbent upon them
selves to send special agents to
determine what incendiary is at
tempting to collect his insurance
with a kerosene can" a favorite
expression of one of Cass Lakes
most prominent workers); where
when the mills close down there will
not be a bakers dozen of inhabi-
tants; where the principal effort is
directed towards booming bunch
of unsold townsite lots that are
rapidly depreciating in value; where
every other business man is looking
(Micawber-like) for something to
turn up" whereby he may dispose of
his holdings (including the Times
man )-such is Cass Lake, which
holds out as the only proper location
of a state normal school, or no
school, as against six ~other live,
progressive communities which are
surrounded by a contented, home
building population that would do
much to advance normal school to
the best of the six similar institu-
tions of the great North Star state.
If the editor of the Times is lay
ing down. in the normal fight, he
should do so more gracefully than
by attacking the standing of a sup
porter of the opposition which has
told nothing but the truth concern
ing the town which was first con-
ceived by a bunch of squatters on
government Indian reservation, who
when ordered off as trespassers
were allowed to purchase a portion
Of the land adjoining as a means of
temporary relief; and the government
and the state have had nothing but
trouble ever since the government
on account of the fight put up for
the opening of more land and the
abolishing of the national forest
reserve about the town, and the
state being called no later than a
year ago to interfere in a village
election, in order that peace might
prevail and an honest ballot be cast
and counted.
So much for Cass Lake and it's
editor. If they are playing the
game Of politics." let them take the
consequence. and not yell like
lot of infants when the opposition
tells the truth about their dead
community and tears down the
support gained by Misrepresentation
and wind jamming.
The Pioneer is loyal to il.
and in fighting for our home town
we are not to be governed by the
opinions or advice of a publication
in an admittedly hostile town.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08
INTEREST CONTINUES in
THE FARMERS MEETINGS
Mr.. Mel eran and w. R. Mackenzie Will
Hold Meeting in Bemidji This
Wednesday Evening.

~ - . q
The farmers meetings which are
being conducted by F. B. McLeran,
proprietor of the Maple-Wood
Farm" at Wrenshall, Mimi, in west
ern Beltrami county and eastern
Clearwater county are being very
we'll attended and great enthusiasm
I is being manifested in the meetings
and the formation of the farmers
clubs at the meetings. says w. r.
Mackenzie, who has accompanied
Mr.. McLeran on his trip through
the two counties, and who spent
Saturday night and part of Sunday
| in this city.
Mr. Mackenzie stated that the
meetings would be held every even
| ing during this week, and that Mr..
| McLeran was greatly pleased with
the attendance at the meetings and
|
the interest shown by the farmers
1 and their willingness to learn of the
advanced, up-to-date methods of
farming on cut-over lands and also
as to the best methods of dairying.
4 we desire to hold meeting in
Bemidji Wednesday evening of this
week, at which MI. McLeran will
address the people Of the city on the
subject, What Can We Do to Better
the Condition of Our Country
Neighbors?' I desire to have the
members Of the Beltrami County
/ Agricultural Society hold their meet
ing that same evening and elect
officers for the ensuing, year.. said
! Mr.. Mackenzie. There should be
as large an attendance as possible,a
Mr.. McLeran is a splendid, fact.
relating speaker who can assist in
Il
doing much good for both the city
and the farmer residents Of Beltrami
county. Every business man of Be.
midi should turn out and assist in
making the meeting success.
Mr.. McLeran will hold a meeting
at the school house on the Buena
Vista road, six miles north Of Be
midi, Friday evening, and We desire
large attendance at that meeting
as many matters of great interest t
the farmers will be discussed, and
it is desirable to form strong or
ganization Of farmers that evening"
Thomas Kerrick Of this city, who
travels for a tailoring company, went
to st. Cloud this morning for short
business trip.
Additional local matter Will be foun,
lon last page.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08
The body of the deceased, accom-.

The body of the deceased, accom-.
panied Ply her son, Elmer, and
daughters, Bertha and Clara, was
taken to Crookston on this mornings
early train where it was arranged to
have services in the Norwegian
Lutheran church this morning.
The body will be buried in the
family lot at Crookston, where Judge
Benson was laid to rest eleven years
ago.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08
WILL CONSIDER NORMAL
HOUSE BILLS WEDNESDAY
Nothing Doing at ST. Paul Today-Senate Will Possibly
Act Tomorrow. Returning Delegation Pleased With
. the Outlook for the General Bill

ST. Paul. March 8I2 M-(Special Pioneer The senate
will until tomorrow when the normal school may
be taken up and acted upon.
The house today II likely normal bills
will be reached in the Wednesday No new Developments
and indications good for general BILL
A. P. Ritche
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08
SPECIAL MEETING
OF ELkS TONIGHT

A special meeting Of Bemidji
Lodge, No. 1862, B. P. 0. E, will
be held at Masonic hall this
evening. All members should be
present. Business ofimportance.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08

Additional local matter Will be found
on last page.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08

Thomas Kerrick Of this city, who
travels for a tailoring company, went.
to St. Cloud this morning for a short
business trip.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-05

of the manual training work.
"No where in the work do we aim
to make artists, but we do aim to
develop in the pupils an appreciation
of what is good and beautiful and also
the power to create beautiful things
The Music Work.
In addition to the drawing work,
there is another special subject which
is taken up in the grade schools of
Fargo that has won for it a most en-
viable reputation. This subject is mu-
sic. Beginning in the lower grades the
work is carried on through the high
school and largely consists of vocal
music. This department like drawing
is taught by a special supervisor who
devotes her entire time to this branch
in the various grades and buildings
The music supervisor is Miss Dunning.
Few people realize the extent Of the
music work as it is carried on in the
Fargo public schools and a visit to
one of the grade rooms during the mu-
sic period would certainly be revel-
alton.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-05
Notice to Contractors.

State normal school. Valley City.
N. D.
Sealed bids for the erection of a
boiler house, according to plans and
specifications by Hancock Bros, ar
chitects, will be received by the un-
dersigned at the Office of the school
UP to p, m, Wednesday. LAY IL,
1909.
At the same time and place, sealed
bids will be received for the installa-
tion of a heating and lighting plant
and revision of the ventilating sys-
tenn.
Plans and specifications may be
seen from and after April % at the
office of the school, Valley City, N. D.,
and at the builders exchanges of Far
CO. Grand Forks and Minneapolis.
Each bid for the building or for
heating and lighting plant must be
accompanied by a certified check for
$500 payable to the president of the
board of management, as a guarantee
to enter into contract should bid be
accepted.
The right to reject any and all bids
is reserved.
signed. GEO. A. MCFARLAND,
Secretary.
(Daily April "a. April 27 to May s.)
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-05

servation and structural and decora-
tive design. In the lower grades the
purely imaginative, in the higher
grades the design is emphasized.
Observation work is essential to the
growth of the imagination and crea-
tion work "In giving this work 20
the younger children the aim Is to have
things dong something" said Miss
Rose, the supervisor. THE figures
must be alive and the objects tell a
story. In the higher grades we work
for more definite action and finally
from the pose.
In the lower grades everything is
visualized In the higher grades when
the pupils work a longer time on one
subject, they see the original study
occasionally while working to revive
the image to make it more DEFINITE.
In the high school great part OF the
work is directly from the object in
front Of them, although visualization
and quick sketching is encouraged.
The CONSTRUCTION Work.
Under structural and decorative de-
sign is included all construction work
and the decoration of it and the design
ttAS VI uCSoidbAOH VI VbJCCbS dllu llio-
terials, as the page of book, lace
collar, etc, that are not actually car
ried out.
THE proportions of the whole, the
relation of the parts to the whole and
to each other, is the underlying prin-
siple emphasized in all construction
work. The decoration must be pari
If the whole thought Of construction
"All of the objects are based on the
type Of solids. They are pretty things
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-05

a comparison of the average daily at
tendance in 1883 and the present time.
In 1888 the average daily. attendance
was only little over half of the total
enrolment while at the present time
this daily attendance has been in
creased to nearly five-fifths. 1t is be-
lieved that this is largely due to the
improved health of the children and
the board of education is contemplate
ing installing one of these systems in
the Longfellow building, one of the
three not so equipped at the present
time.
1t is in these excellent buildings that
the children of Fargo go to learn the
lessons of one of the most modern
systems of education to be found in
the entire country. Everything Is
done to make the education as effect
i've as possible. BY keeping the chill
dren in sanitary surroundings is has
been found that the best. results are
to be secured. This has been proven
by the success which has attended the
local and other institutions Of learn
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-05
Fur sale

l offer for sale. what believe to be
land, in the state Of Montana, for it's
size. and I would ask your careful in
vestigation of same, the property con-
sists of 1900 acres, and is the pick of
the country. this is Decided land, the
improvements on this tract such as
buildings, ditching. fencing, has cost
$4,000, there is now under irrigation
about 1000 acres more or less, and By
going further up the river, one could
put In a ditch that would irrigate all
this tract. Last year they cut 800 tons
of wild meadow hay, and 200 tons of
alfalfa, and 1000 bushels of small
grain. There was also fed $50 horses,
200 head of cattle and $4,000 sheep.
The owner did not do so bad. There
is about 1000 acres in bottom land, the
balance is on the first bench, and will
raise splendid small grain without ir-
rigation. The soil is very rich, none
better. Others have tried raising win
ter wheat on the bench land, and they
have roised big crops, as you will see.
Madison county is the southern county
60 the state and the climate is of the
best for raising grains of all kinds,
and for stock, very seldom tney put
stock under shelter in winter; it will
no doubt become a great fruit grow
ing valley. The above 1900 acres is
one and a half miles from Twin
Bridges. and Twin Bridges is 20
miles south of Whitehall and on the
N. P. r. R. Twin Bridges is on the
Ruby Valley branch of the N. P. r. r.
This tract is in the Jefferson valley,
and the Jefferson river runs along and
close to it. Besides the above decided
land there is some 5000 acres of
leased land. at a cost of S45 per every
$40 acres per year. If you are looking
for an investment, bu. this, put water
on same, cut it up into small farms.
DO this and you can sell readily at $50
to 500 per acre. There is no state in
the union where the Valley lands
raises so fast in value as in Montana.
This we all know. Don't try and
come back at me and say, why don't
you do as you advise others to do.
Money Is why don't do just as 1 ask
others to do. You will have the best
of home market for everything you
raise at Butte, Helena. Anaconda and
other mining camps. My price for the
1900 acres is SO per acre net to me.
One third cash, third in eighteen
months. and one third in three years
after date of sale; interest at per
cent, to be paid with eacn payment. If
oil cash will discount about $4,000
JOHN BLOODGOOD,
,.s-' New Salem. N. D
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-05

1t can be seen how the Fargo schools
have developed and kept up with the
times since their Inauguration thirty
five years ago. All the common
branches are taught in full with re-
suits that few cities twice the size of
Fargo can show.
The School Buildings.
Curriculum is not the only thing
in which the Fargo schools have ad
vanced in a phenomenal way.
From one small wooden building to
eight modern, brick structures is the
record of Fargo's public schools since
they began thirty five years ago. There
is one building in each of the seven
wards of the city and the high school,
These school buildings are the high
school and Central buildings in the
fourth ward, the Mckinley school in
the First ward. the washington in
the. second ward, the Hawthorne in
the third ward, the Longfellow in the
fifth ward, the Lincoln in the sixth
ward and the Roosevelt in the seventh
ward.
These excellent edifices have been
erected from time to time as the
growth of the city demanded. Some Of
them have replaced former buildings
while others have been added to at
various times to accommodate the in
creasing enrolment But no matter
what their evolution has been, they
are now the best collection of buildings
to be found in the northwest. They
are all constructed for the work Of
teaching. All are two story struc-
lures with the. exception of the high
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-05

ron STATE NEWS READ FORUM
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-05

Fourth ward is the largest grade build
ing in the city. This building con-
tains sixteen rooms with number of
rooms on the third floor which are
never used but in which 1t is some day
expected to install most complete
gymnasium. Here are two rooms of
every grade from the primary to the
sixth inclusive and one seventh and
one eighth grade room.
Part of this structure is the oldest
in the sity still in use, having been
erected in 1882. Then it consisted of
twelve rooms. In 1883 it was occupied
by the high school and several Of the
grade rooms. The high school contin-
ued to hold forth here until the pres
.ent high school building was erected
in 1900. In 1894 an additional four
rooms were added to the building on
the south. increasing the capacity to
sixteen rooms.
This building is situated in one of the
largest wards of the city and draws
it's quota Of children from large ter
ritory. It is situated in the same block
with the high school, the two buildings
being joined together and both make
most imposing and massive pile
which at once attracts the attention
OF the visitor, who not knowing its
real nature believes that it is uni
versity or college.
The lot on which this structure is
situated was purchased just prior to
the erection OF the building at a cost
of $4,000 A lot like this could not
ing.
The Central Building.
The Central school building in the