The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-08-02
NEWS FROM lTASCA PARK.
Various Bits Of General and Particular
Interest.

The tennis championship of Itasca
State Park is now claimed for the
Summer School by its student, F. R.
Paine of Duluth, who won from w.
White of st. Paul, guest at Doue las
Lodge, score rs in each of three
sets. Paine has ferocious drive,
smashing half volleys and a Lawford
stroke that comes some distance
from the other side of the Mississippi.
Mosquitoes have been almost an
unknown quantity here this sum-
mer and it is possible to sleep out
in q cedar swamp on the moss with.
out any protection being necessary.
Attendants at the Itasca summer
school which closes August 18, in
clude H. M. Dennis of Ashland,
Wis, Erling S. Norby of Ada, Mimi,
F. r. Paine of Duluth; and the
following active teachers in the
public schools of the state; the
Misses Chapman. Lillian Golfer,
Ruth M. Golfer, Anna Cronquist
and Elaine E. Swanson, of St. Paul,
Miss Demon of Hokah, Mimi, Miss
Donovan of Clentarf, and Miss Perry
and Miss Raihle of Minneapolis.
Colorado is represented by R. D.
Gle of the Springs. Though the
school is a real camp school, its
motto is, I'VE do not go to the
woods to rough it; we go to smooth
it; we get it rough enough in town."
Miss Grace Andrews of St. Paul
will visit Prof. and Mrs. E. G. Chey-
ney this week.
Professor LANCE spent Saturday
and Sunday chaperoning a party of
young ladies from the Summer
School, in the deep woods near Elk
Lake.
Professor Robinson, Professor
Ruggles and three budding foresters,
Brownie, Hauge and Hoffman,
fished two days in Squaw Lake,
portaging a canoe over from Lake
Itasca. Five pound bass and num-
erous eating fish were caught with
minnow bait.
Miss Mcclure, Robert Burrows
and Mr.. Schudette Of St. Paul
have returned home after an enjoy
able visit at Douglas Lodge.
Friday night Prof. and Mrs. T.
Stewart chaperoned a dance in
the Lecture Hall given to the sum-
mer girls by the forestry boys. In
between the intervals of dancing
to the photograph, music was fur
nished by Miss Damon at the or
gan, Paul Young, violin, and F.
R. Paine, mandolin.
Joe Wright of Itasca Town has
sold eighty acres of which twenty
acres are cleared, for near 81 900, to
a Mr.. Koontz of Iowa, who will take
possession soon and bring in a bunch
of sheep to run on the natural good
feed. The wild pea vine fattens
stock better than clover hay.
Prof. John T. Stewart had pain
full experience while out fishing on
Lake Itasca having forefnger pierre
ed by the fish hook which he was
taking from lively big pike. Surgi-
cal instruments we're used to extract
the hook.
Last week the faculty defeated
the students at baseball, score So
in S innings, barking back to the
good old days when Cheyney and
Ruggles held down the box and out :
field for Cornell, when Freeman was
a hard hitter for Iowa and Stewar t
caught with bare hands for the
University of Illinois.
Prof. f. V. Robinson, of the de-
partment of economics at the Uni.
versity of Minnesota, arrived the
Oath for a vacation of several weeks
in camp.
Prof. D. LANCE, principal of Hum.
boldt High School in St. Paul, is
here for the third season giving
popular geological courses to the
Summer School. The professor is
interested in field nature study of
badger, bear and wolves and more
accessible animals, such as skunks.
Prof. John T. Stewart and Mrs.
Stewart arrived July 20 and are
enjoying cottage life. -.
The Misses Isable and Helen