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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-19
STATE FAIR PRICES REDUCED
General Cut Made In Cost of Sitting
in the Grand Stand,

State fair visitors next September
can purchase admittance to the
grounds and a seat in the grandstand
for seventy-five cents. This is re-
duction of twenty-five cents.
At meeting of the board of man
ayers in st. Paul last night a new
schedule of ticket prices was deter
mined upon. Admittance at the out
side gates was not changed. The
prices remain at fifty cents for
adults and twenty-five cents for
children during the day time and
twenty-five cents general admission
missions there will be placed on sale
season tickets one admittance each
day for $500 and two or more adj
missions each day for $500.
A general reduction was made in
the grandstand schedule. The prices
to be charged this year will be
seventy-five cents for the boxes, fifty
cents for reserved seats and twenty
five cents for the back section. The
twenty-five cent admission also ad-
mits visitors to all bleachers and to
the paddock. Last year the lowest
priced seats were fifty cents and box
seats were one dollar.
Another radical change was made
in the decision to charge twenty five
cents admission for all persons not
having business on the fair grounds
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday pre-
ceding the fair.
Two sacred concerts will be given
on Sunday, Sept. 8, by the Kiltie
Band and the Patrick Conway Band.
The board voted to erect one
story building % rs feet connect
ing the woman's building with the
annex, to be used for the art exhibit.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-19

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government superintendent Of logs,
in this territory, was in Bemidji this
morning.
R. p. Keck of st. Paul, claim agent
for the Great Northern Railway com
pany was in Bemidji today on Off
cial business.
Mrs. Mary Wagner, Fourteenth
and Irvine, has returned to Bemidii
after an all winter absence in West
Union, Iowa. Her son, Joe Wagner
Sam Fullerton, assistant state fire
marshal who has been in Bemidji
the past few days on business in
connection with his new position, has
returned to St. Paul
County Commissioner Clementson.
has returned to his home in Baudette.
after having been present at the
meeting of the county board, which
adjourned last evening.
G.. H. Mills, of Brainerd, manager
of the Swift Packing company inter-
ests in the Bemidji and Brainerd
territory, was in Bemidji this morn
ing, Inspecting the Office in this city.
. Judge Marshall A. Spooner left
this morning for Aitkin, where, with
Attorney c. M. Torrance of Bemidji.
he will appear before Judge w. S..
McClenahan, on legal matters. Both
attorneys will return to Bemidji on
the early morning train.
Mrs. w. L. Davies of Crookston
who came to Bemidji Monday to visit
her daughter, Mrs. E. H. Marcum, is
now in the hospital in a critical con-
dition. Her daughter Helen of
Grand Forks and two sons, Hal of St.
Paul and S. R. Davies of Crookston,
arrived in the city yesterday and
will remain Indefinitely.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-19
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PERSONALS

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F. M. Grim of Orth, was Bemidji
visitor yesterday.
liver Knutson and wife of Pequot,
were visitors in Bemidji yesterday.
Oscar Ellingson of Federal Dam,
was a Bemidji business visitor this
morning:
Miss Meta Liesch, of Winona, is
the guest of Bemidji friends for a
few days. 49,.
Mrs. w. E. Neil left this morning
for Faribault, where she will visit
of Red Lake Falls, went to Iowa to
accompany her home. He leaves for
his home today
H. A. Campbell of Turtle River,
was among the Bemidji business
visitors yesterday.
Mrs. J. S. Scribner of Walker, was
in the city today on a combined
business and pleasure trip.
Mrs. F. S. Lycan, who has been
confined to the hospital for five
weeks, has returned to her home.
J. F. Morgan Of Fowlds, who is
connected with the Crookston Lum-
Der company, was in the city last
evening.
William O'Neil of Chippewa Falls,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-19
Editorial Telephone, "THREE-ONE''
DORA BARRETTE, Society Reporter

AYNE STANTON, City News Reporter
ORA BARRETTE, Society Reporter
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Embroidery and lace sale, hun
dreds of beautiful patterns to choose
from. Berman Emporium.
of Eveleth will visit the Bemidji Of
flee on June 8, and his office will
open for business June 70,
The new Norwegian Danish Luthe-
ran church in Brainerd will be dedi-
Gated on June Is in that city at
which time Right Rev. K. Bjoego
| of Red Wing, president of the Min
nesota District of the synod will
deliver an important address. Other
ministers to attend will be Rev. HI.
| w. Sorenson of Shevlin, Rev.J. Roer-
vik of Portland, N. D. Rev. D. J..
Grove of Fergus Falls and Rev. T..
L. Rosholt, of Renville. Mimi.
The students of the State Univers-
ity probably will have double treat
on the forenoon of May25, when it
is expected Governor Woodrow Will
son will address them in chapel, and
a short concert will be given by
Danish singers from the University
of Copenhagen, The Danes will ap-
pear in the Twin City on that day,
and Prof. elsie Bothne has secured
a promise from them to appear in
chapel Governor Wilson will speak
in the evening at the Association of
of Commerce banquet in St. Paul.
For the first time in the history
of the state the governor of Min
nesota is being sued as such. Cover
nor A.: o.. Eberhart is named as
defendant in an action instituted by
the Minnesota and Internationl and
| Big Fork and International Falls
Railroads, subsidiary corporations OF
the Northern Pacific, to enable them
to return to the three-cent fare July
| l.. An attempt many years ago to
enjoin the governor was thrown out
of the courts on the ground that a
private citizen cannot sue the state.
In all other rate INDUCTION cases the
attorney general and railroad and
warehouse commissioners have been
! named as defendants. IL
w. H. Gemmel of Brainerd, gener-
al manager of the Minnesota & Inter-
nationl, has been named a colonel
and aide on the staff Of Governor
Eberhart.s Howard Weirick has also
been named a colonel; M. H. Hinge
! ley of Floodwood, major and aide;
Gutaf Widell, inspector general with
the rank of brigadier general, who
succeeds Brigadier General E. L..
WEIGH of Minneapolis. C. H. Biorn
succeeds John Dwan as Judge ad-
vocate and Mr.. Dwan becomes colo
mel and aide. Paul Doty of St. Paul
becomes brigadier general and M. N.
Gasser of Duluth is made colonel and
aide. w. c. Handy is promoted to
be assistant quarter master general
He succeeds; Major J. Uno sebenius.
For having started fire in a forest,
P. A. Sundblom of Pine Creek was
fined $45 by Justice Randall in Little
Falls this week.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-19
Young Man Wanted.

This Office can use good strong
boy between the age Of 16 and 20.
One who is willing to work and learn
the printing business. Call at this
office.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-19
BEMIDJI BRIEFS

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Men are busily at work picking
up the logs of the Crookston Lumber
Company, blown loose by the severe
winds of last week. The men now
have a raft made up and are taking
it toward the mill on the other side
of the lake.
Money to loan. V. L. Ellis.
Work is progressing on the new
Commercial club building, the two
side walls having been completed,
and the construction of the floor has
been begun. According to Contract
or Johnson, the building will be COM
pleted by the first of August, as had
been planned.
Fresh Carnations Use per dozen at
the Green house this week.
Fearing that he might lose his
homestead through contests filed
against his entry, Ole o. Bjorge,
living six miles east of Thief River
Falls, hanged himself. Neighbors
found the body suspended from the
roof of an old barn. He leaves wife
and seven children:
The United States Government is
in sense a partner in the Northern
National Bank. Such a condition
must add additional security to your
savings there.
At the state land sales held in
Grand Rapids this week, one tract
was sold at the rate of $50 an acre
to B. w. Batchelder of Nashwauk
and J. H. Sellwood of Duluth. The
land fronts the shore of Swan Lake.
The. total receipts of the Grand
Rapids land sale amounted to
$4,000. .,-- ...
Lost-String of Roman gold beads.
Sunday, April 80. Return to O'Leary-
Bowser Co. Reward. -.
w. F. Ries, author of Men and
Mules" and public speaker of note,
will deliver an address at the Brink
man theatre on May 20 in this
city. He will make other addresses
near here as follows: Puposky, May
"a; Wilton, May Is; Fosston, May
26; Tenstrike, May 81; Akeley, May
20; Eagle Bend, May 80.
May sale of muslin 5underwearsn now
in full progress at Berman Empor-
ium.
Bemidji and Nymore mill en-
ployes are signing petition, ask
ing Congressman STEVENSON to sup
port Congressman Victor L. Berg
er's resolution, asking Congress to
investigate the arrest of the McNam-
ara brothers in Ohio who are charg-
ed with the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times Building. Berger is
a Socialist.
3d., $50 large geraniums fol- the yard
Ready to bloom. $3.50 per dozen.
At the Greenhouse, phone 1866. go,
Much seeding has been done by
the farmers near Bemidji and
throughout Beltrami county the past
week and with the exception of some
fax seed and corn, all the grain is
better condition. Plum, apple and
cherry trees are in full bloom and
unless harmed by late frosts there
will be a record breaking yield of
fruit.
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The last time to buy your silk
dress now at the dress sale. Newest
ideas shown in these dresses. Ber-
man Emporium.
Prof. F. L. Washburn says the
freezing weather around Crookston
and other parts of the Red River
valley a week ago did not kill all
the grasshopers. "The grasshoper
eggs had not all Matched; in fact they
are just Matching now," he says.
ES1TYl,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-05-19
BERRIES, TOMATOES
PLENTY Il I Y And J. CHEAP
Come in From Tennessee and Will
Sell at Lowest Prices so Far
This Spring.
HOME GROWN RHUBARB ON SALE
Radishes, Asparagus, Onions, New
Cabbage and Other Things for
the Sunday Dinner.

from Tennessee, sweet Strawberries
at, reduced prices and many other
vegetables and fruits will be in the
Bemidji market on Saturday for the
benefit Of the. housewife who buys
her Sunday dinner.
She will find home grown vege-
tables, asparagus, onions, rhubarb,
horse radish, and cowslips which,
while not on the market, are being
picked and used for green's.
Pie Plant at 5 cents
Home grown rhubarb is selling for
5 cents a pound, and is of the very
best while the asparagus, which has
been selling for Is cents bunch. is
down to 10 cents. The recent heavy
rains have brought the asparagus
out in the best of shape, and much
of it is now on the market.
Radishes, grown near Bemidji are
now on the market, selling for 10
cents a pound, and the better auali-
ty at20 cents pint, @ ~
Parsnips, both new and old, are
selling for from to 4. cents pound.
Bananas, as usual will be on sale
on the Saturday market at 80 cents.
This price is maintained throu ghout
the year in Bemidji. 80. - <
Cucumbers Bring Is Cents.
Cucumbers have not been on the
Bemidji market for several days but
will be on sale tomorrow, the price
being from Is to 20 cents.
Tomatoes, from Tennessee, have
dropped from 25.t 2O,cents a. pound.
Shipped from Tennessee and Miss
issippi, strawberries are selling for
20 cents a quart, showing a slight
drop in price. During the next few
weeks the berries will be received
from Missouri and Kentucky, gradual
ly lessening in price until there will
be Minnesota berries on the market
in August. e..
Cabbage, coming from Texas, is
worth from to cents pound.
Potatoes Back to 80 Cents.
Old potatoes are now selling for
from 20 to 80 cents a bushel, with
no new potatoes on the market. Old
potatoes are plentiful, while new
ones, which at this time of the year
come from Texas, are scarce.
Selling for 10 cents bunch, the
celery, coming from California, is
fair, not being bleached enough.
Home grown onions are plentiful
and are of extra good quality.
! Onions will be placed on the Satur-
day market at 5 cents a bunch.
Pineapples are selling ats25 cents
each.
The Saturday prices on oranges
will vary, as they will sell from 40 to
so cents dozen. -
lemons will sell at 80 cents a
dozen.
Grape fruit of good quality, will
sell at 2 for rs cents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-01-11
Decision in Van Dyke Case.

An opinion was handed down in
Supreme court last week in the
Caledonia County case of George
Van Dyke VS.. the Grand Trunk rail-
way company, which has been a
noted case on the dockets of YER
mont since 1903. In that year large
tracts of land in Essex county own
ed by George Van Dyke, the mil
lionaire lumberman, were burned
over during the August drouth. Suit
was brought by the plaintiff against
the defendant company with dam
ages fixed at 100000 as the claim
was made that the fires which des-
troyed the woodland of the plain
tiff were set by the locomotives of
the defendant company. This case
was docketed in Caledonia county in
August, 1904. 1t was first intended
to try it by struck jury, but in
asmuch as it was seen that it would
take from four to six weeks to try
the case, by consent of both
parties it was referred to Horace
F. Graham, W. Fl. Taylor and F. S..
Platt as special referees for hearing.
The time taken by the referees for
the hearing of the case occupied
nearly four years and nearly 10000
pages of testimony were taken. In
November, 1909, the referees rem
dered their report to the presiding
judge of Caledonia county court,
awarding the plaintiff $34,332.20.
The defendant company appealed
the case to the Supreme court on
several grounds, and the opinion
handed down by Judge Seneca
Haselton, which took an hour and
half to read, affirmed the judgment
of the lower court on the report of
the referees and makes final dis
position of the case. The Grand
Trunk Railway company will now be
obliged to pay the estate of George
Van Dyke the sum named with in
terest from November 80, 1909.
Some two years ago the plaintiff was
instantly killed in an automobile ac-
cident, but the case has been carried
on by Thomas II. Van Dyke of Here
ford, P. O., his brother.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-01-11
COMMERCIAL CLUB.
ADVERTISING the Academy

As result of recent dinner of
the executive committee of the Com
merciaI Club at the Cottage, where
they were the guests of Principal
Benedict, a subcommittee was ap-
pointed to prepare circular that
would properly advertise this school.
The circular which is herewith given
can be obtained at the cost of print
ing by applying to Charles G. Braley,
the secretary of the Commercial
Club, and it is hoped that many
of our business firms will utilize the
leaflet in their mail. 1t is splendid
presentation of one of the towns
best assets and reads as follows:
Why should your children attend
an up-to-date Academy?
Because-for boys and girls who
are not going to. college it furnishes
the most complete secondary educa-
ton. The Academy surpasses the
high school in its teaching force, in
courses taught. and in its equip
ment.
Because for boys and girls who
are going to college it furnishes the
best preparation. Watch the scholar
ship of it's graduates in college.
Because-as boarding school it
furnishes the impartial discipline
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-01-11

ditions existing. Pauperism has come
TO be one of the professions.
In the second place public senti-
ment should thoroughly support the.
department in the work of educating
people away from pauperism and in
discouraging politics in connection
with the department. A man who
tries to ride into power on the votes
of paupers caninyariabIy be set down
as a demagogue and one not to be
trusted with the best interests of
any community. Any man who will
make paupers for others to support
in order to make votes for himself
is menace to humanity, to say moth
ing of the cause of good government.
In the third place an effort should
be made by the people in general as
well as by the departments in
every instance except in the cases
of sickness and small children to af-
ford an opportunity to earn assist
ance rather than to give aims.
We recall the fact that when the
late Edward Everett Hale came to
Burlington some years ago to help
organize our charity work, he said
he found he had come to learn in
stead of instruct, SO we'll had our
work in this direction been perform
ed If what the woman from West
port told Mr.. Smith is to be taken as
a criterion, we have also gained a
reputation in another direction,
which should serve more than ever
to put us on our guard lest we
become the center for the promotion
of pauperism.- Burlington Free
Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-01-11
In the Public Mind,

Governors were inaugurated and
legislatures convened in many
states last week and in many cases
they were democrats following the
overturn of last fall. Consequently
their declarations have special in
terest and should be accepted as an
expression of public opinion. Gov
Eugene N. Foss, democrat, of Massa-
chusetts, recommended: Direct pri-
maries for all offices, without excep-
ton. Power of recall joined to direct
primary. Direct control over Iegis-
lation by initiative and referendum;
to be reached by constitutional
amendment. Abolition of railroad,
light, Boston transit and highway
commissions, and in their place a
public utilities board. Measures to
lower expenses of elections; halls to
be hired for candidates by state;
election literature to be got out at
public charge; candidates not to pro-
vide carriages for voters Popular
nominations for United States SEN
ators.
Gov. Dix of New York, democrat,
recommends:-Th the advisory
board of consulting engineers, now
working on the barge canal con-
struction, the highway commission,
the board of parole, the state fair
commission and the state water
supply commission, be abolished.
The establishment of a new state
s department through which all
goods used by the state in all in
stitutions shall be purchased.
The adoption of a statewide direct
prima ry law the ballot law be SO
changed that the name of candi-
date may appear in but one place. A
federal income tax, a parcels post
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-01-11
College Opportunities.

In view of the numerous and NUM-
fcent requests made to American
colleges and universities during the
last Is years, the question naturally
arises, are there greater educational
opportunities now than formerly for
the poor boy? or, to put it in another
way, have the opportunities of the
poor boy for obtaining a college ed
ucation increased with the increase
of endowments, gifts and requests?
It must be remembered that there al
ways has been opportunity for the
poor boy determined upon obtaining
an education, not only in this country
but in others. At all times there have
been boys willing to work for their
tuition and board, and at all times
such boys have found helpful friends
in colleges and college towns.
But a much larger number of boys
who have been without the means
have been deferred from seeking
higher instruction on these terms,
not so much because of an indisposi-
ton to work their way through" as
for lack of the self-assertion, persev-
erance, determination, which has
entered into the character of their
more pushing and, perhaps, more
successful brothers.
The question referred to has
are anxious to obtain an education
providing they do not have to make
too great sacrifices for it. It might
be even more correct to say that it
applies mostly to parents who are
DESTROYS of educating their boys, but
who cannot do SO unless the terms
are made easier than those normally
prevailing.
There is less difficulty today in
earning ones way through college
than ever before. Some sort of en-
ployment may be had by any willing
and competent youth. But the fact
must not be lost sight of that the
task requires courage and deter
mination; nor must we forget that
thousands of boys rather than enter
upon it leave school prematurely and
abandon careers in which they
might win notable success.
It is to be hoped that educational
benefactions may never cease until
every child and young man and
woman in the country shall be
granted free access, if found deserv-
ing, to the very best and highest
training that can be obtained. This,
however, will have to come to all as
right, not as a favor. In the
present age there should be no
charity scholars, for knowledge
should be as free as air. Christian
Science Monitor.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-01-11
Pay of Law Makers.

1--WE believe it would be a wise
move to pay members of the legis-
lature by the session instead of by
the day, and we move that the neces-
sary steps to that end be instituted
when the legislature reconyenes. -
Burlington Free Press.
The Messenger is glad to see the
esteemed contemporary converted to
this idea. If it is not mistaken,
similar opinion is growing among the
careful observers of the state press
and it is very probable that the
majority sentiment of newspaper
writer's who have first hand informal
ton as to the ways of legislatures
would recommend such a change.
Some states pay their legislators
a lump sum for the session, no matter
how long or how short, while others
have adopted the ingenious plan of
paying a per diem for a stated peri
cd, usually 80 days, and stipulating
that there shall be no pay for any
day after that. This does not amount
to a direct Limitation of the length of
the session, but it serves the same
purpose.
Vermont stands in need of some
such law. The Messenger has for
some time been convinced that the
best plan would be to pay lump
sum for the session, but it would be
glad to hear the objections to such
proposition that may be raised by
inquiring minds. The general as