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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27
CASHIER H. C. BAER TO WED
Claims Minneapolis Girl as Bride in
That City Tomorrow Evening.

The wedding of Homer c. Baer,
cashier of the Security State Bank
of this city, to Miss Isabelle Stene,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Stene
of Minneapolis, will take place to-
morrow evening at 8 o'clock, at the
home of Miss Stene's parents, in that
city. Miss Lillian Stevens of Ender-
by, B. c., will be the only attendant
of the bride. Rev. G. H. Trabert of
Minneapolis, will read the service.
Following the ceremony, there will
be- a reception, for which ESQ cards
have been issued.
After short honeymoon, Mr.. and
Mrs. Baer will be at home in Bemid-
il after January 1S, Mr.. Baer hav-
ing leased the w. L. Brooks residence
on Bemidji avenue.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27
RURAL TELEPHONE PROSPERS
Company Organized in Northern
Has 18 Subscribers; Officers Named.

The rural telephone company
Company" organized last spring in
the town of Northern, now is in full
operation and has 18 subscribers,
with something over 10 miles of line.
The members had the telephones
placed in their homes ready for ser
vice at total expense per share of
few cents less than $25. The fol-
lowing officers have been elected to
serve one year: president, D. A.
Whiting; secretary, G. G. Buell.;
o. A. Whiting, w. A. Rice and O. A.
Glidden.,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27
success, and it will not be long be-
fore Clearwater county will be in the
front ranks in tame fruit. -
Holsteins and Guernseys,

| u.
Holsteins and Guernseys.
:'There are two kinds of cattle
which predominant here, viz: in the
northern part, the Holsteins and in
the central and southern parts, the
Guernseys.
The leading breeds of hogs are the
Yorkshires and Poland-Chinas. Mar
kets are the best. >-.< -.
''The principal towns are Clear
brook, Gully and Leonard, on the
500, and Bagley and Shevlin, on the
Great Northern railway.
"Bagley, the county seat, has a
population of over one thousand peo-
pie, has four general stores, three
hardware stores, three blacksmith
shops, millinery store, photograph
gallery, harness shop, feed store, two
banks, two lumber yards, coop
erative creamery, farmers co-opera-
tive elevator and cold storage house,
lath mill, saw mill and five churches.
Proud Of Their School.
''The high school at this place is
one of the best in the state, where
agriculture, domestic science and
Normal work are taught and no boy
or girl needs go to the large cities
for first-class education.
"The inhabitants, over eight thou
sand, consist of Scandinavians, Ger
mans, Bohemianss Danes, Irish and
American born.
wild lands range from $1,000 to
$4,000, and improved from $4,000 to
$4,000 per acre, and are changing
hands rapidly at these prices"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27

It is predicted that in the near
future ships without tunnels or boil-
[ers will be making regular trips
across the Atlantic, using oil engines
for motive power:
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27
Nebraska Gets Some Snow.
Cold May Continue.

The weather forecast for Northern
Minnesota. tomorrow calls for slight
rise in the temperature but contin-
ued cold for the northwestern states
is predicted in weather bulletin is
sued in Washington.
traffic due to the holiday travel all
Despite the increased passenger
trains, with slight exceptions, have
maintained their usual schedules.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27

Rev. White Gets $35 Christmas Gift.
At the Christmas exercises of the
Presbyterian church on Sunday
morning, Rev S. b. P. White, pas
tor of the church, was given a purse
of s35. The gift was made by friends
in the congregation as token Of ap--
preciatiOn.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27

ACCORDING 10 the weather Man,
and prevailing atmospheric ,condi-
tions in the Northwest, tonight will
be the coolest of the present month.
Twelve degrees below was report
ed last night and it is expected that
the Is mark will be touched tonight.
Began to Sink Christmas.
Christmas day saw the doom of
three weeks of mild weather. On
that day the mercury curled up to
the zero mark and that night sank to
10 below, but expanded yesterday to
several degrees above.
Yesterday a gale from the north
sent the south breeze which had been
blowing scampering to parts un-
known and by 10 p. m. last night
the temperature was we'll below the
zero mark.
Hovers Around Zero Today.
1t. was noon today before a zero
temperature was reached and it has
remained in that vicinity through
out the day, a cutting gale from the
north making the day one of the
chilliest of a month most notable for
it's imitation of spring.
some suffering among the poor in
the city, comes as a benefit for it
makes safe the crusts of ice on lake,
river and swamp which have been
none too solid for the winter work
now on in the woods.
Loggers Get Busy.
The lumber companies have been
in in with orders for extra crews of
men and with the present favorable
condition for sleighing together with
the desired cold, the timbering op-
erations will 90 ahead, say the log
gers, with rush.
The present cold wave takes in a
large territory.
In Sunny Canada.
In Manitoba a temperature of %
below is reported while at Grand
Forks last night it was II below. At
Bismarck it was 22 below.
Below zero temperatures are re-
ported from as far south as Iowa and
Nebraska while in Chicago there was
sudden change from warm weather
to freezing and much suffering is re-
ported.
Nebraska Gets Some Snow.
Snow has fallen in some places to
the south, notable in Nebraska and
southern Missouri, the fall in the for
mer state being three inches and COW
ering what has up to this time has
been bare ground.
The Twin Cities report tempera-
ture last night of ten degrees below
zero.
Cold May Continue.
The weather forecast for Northern
Minnesota. tomorrow calls for slight
rise in the temperature but contin-
ued cold for the northwestern states
is predicted in a weather bulletin is
sued in Washington.
traffic due to the holiday travel all
;.,oroacad
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27

The municipality OF Berlin has
seen to it that women do not wear
hats in theaters. Managers of thea
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27

In the assembly hall of the new
National Museum at Washington
President Taft this morning deliy-
cred an address of welcome to sew
eral thousand scientists, members OF
the American Association for the
Advancement Of Science, who have
gathered there in annual session tc
make report on the scientific prog
ress Of the past year, to read papers
describing remarkable experiments
and to indicate the direction of re-
search during 1912.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27
. . 3 . . 8, . 9. . q @ 8 . . q
. Outside News Condensed.
O. q q q q q @ q a O. @ o o 9 q {

During the last year $40 crema-
tions took place in England.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27
Indications Point to Lowest Mark Of .
Month With Wind Blowing From
the North. -
MANITOBA REPORTS % BELOW
At Grand Forks Mercury Curls Up
to II Notch and At Bismarck
It Is 20.

According to the Weather Man,
and prevailing atmospheric .condi-
tions in the Northwest, tonight will
be the coldest of the present month.
Twelve degrees below was report
ed last night and it is expected that
the Is mark will be touched tonight.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27

A cane fitted with lenses and mir
rors to enable a person to look over
the heads of a crowd has been in
vented by French optician.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-27

Mayor Jacobs of Rockport, Ind,
took away the star of Policeman
Hamilton because he arrested a small
boy for shooting firecrackers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31
Bloody Angle"

~ HE most deadly battle of the en-
tire war. Pickett's famous charge,
is recalled by scores of soldiers.
One of these veterans. who was
wounded on the third day at Gettys-
burg, J. b. Block. of the Sumner Post,
New York, carried the bullet he re-
ceived until very recently.
we stood behind Picketts charge, F"
said he 1T is a matter OF history,
of course, how frightful the loss was
Later, when we came TO count the
cost, We found, as all the world knows.
that some of our regiments had lost
rs per cent. of all the men who went
into the fight I am told that there is
no such loss recorded elsewhere In
military history.
''The fighting at Bloody Angle beg
gars description. In any ordinary bat
tie. oven a lively one. you may see
man drop from time 10 time, and in a
desperate charge the ground nav be-
as the saying is. covered with the
dead and wounded. But that is an
exaggerstion. After a hard battle
have seen bodies scattered pretty
ihiokly. but the ground was not lit
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31
On the Mississippi

ESHE most continuous fighting in
the navy during the war was
n probably encountered by the
smaller boats engaged in keeping the
lower Mississippi open to Union ex-
petitions. The river was of course
well supplied with forts, many of
them very powerful ones, but the
banks were in addition lined almost
continuously with small guns, cannon
and sharpshooters. Charles Just, com
mander Of Rowles Post. New York,
who spent the greater part of the war
in this region. in recalling these DAYS.
said:
I'VE didn't so much mind the forts,
although they were bad enough, as
the bushwhackers. Any southerner
with gun or a pistol could fire at US
with comparative safety from the
shore trees and bushes. As a result
there was a continuous peppering Of
shots from off shore day and night
One was never safe for an instant.
The bullets raked our decks from sew
eral quarters at once, no matter what
our position. They used mimic balls
and occasionally they would bring up
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

Roman Campagna without quinine.
They retired at sunset to a mosquito
proof hut, with double doors and win
dows of wire net, and they did not
leave until sunrise. Tho fact that
they remained immune while the at
tendahts. sleeping outside contracted
malaria, confirmed the belief that the
mosquitoes were responsible But
how did they carry the disease? At
first it was thought to be by water.
To settle the question live mos
quitoes. which had bitten infected
peasants, we're sent home, and two
members of the school submitted to
be bitten by them. They both went
down with malaria. Again. how did
the mosquitoes transmit the germ Z?
By cutting sections of the proboscis
the malarious parasite was found; 1t
breaks through the skin of the pro
hoscis and is transmitted at the TINE
of the sting. From the first conjec-
ture to the final proof was a series of
careful experiments. ending with the
slicing of the mosquitoes proboscis:
now. this is finer than fine hair. II
is necessary to stop TO think. For It
Is easier to imagine the triumph of
the proof than the delicate operation
that produced it.-London Standard.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

Grams, the average age o. the sur
vivors is sixty-three years. With the
lengthening of life which has become
a feature of our time we ought to
have with us for many years at least
a fair remnant of the heroes.
The most desperate civil war of
modern times was fought, it is now
realized, by boys in their teens or
barely out of their teens The rec
ords Of the war and navy departments
show that of the enlistments 1,151, 43s
were at the age of eighteen years or
under, and that 2,159,7S9 enlistments
were at the age of twenty-one years
or under, while only 1851 of the
total 2,77S,309 enlistments were at
the age of twenty two years and over.
In decorating the graves of the dead
and in honoring the living soldiers of
'61 the whole nation renews yearly the
inspirations of patriotism. This year
there are still in the land of the living
and the country they saved more than
half a million of the heroic boys" Of
81, and we are just coming to see
that they really were boys, and boys
we'll worth neutrality-suspicious. who
have answered the last roll call and
those who are yet with us in the bat
ties of peace.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

the pocket-book and throw the left
carelessly over the watch and chain.
This delays suspicion
Rule III.-When leaving Society al.
ways walk backward and trust to luck
Rule IV.-When the hostess intro
duces you 10 lady always inquire
politely what her age is. If she tells
you In small figures raise the eye
brows with a slight doubt. If she
doesn't answer she is no lady
Rule WHEN you rise from the
pink tea table to take n smoke never
strike match on the back of the
hostess.
Rule VI.--Always drink tea with the
face. To drop it in between the neck
tie and the top of the waist-coat is
very selfish.
Rule VlI,-Never eat fresh.laid pick
les with a spoon. This is one of the
most pitiful mistakes that a man
could make in Society Use the
thumb and the little finger. squeezing
the victim slightly until it is still and
motionless Then bite It without
fear.
Rule NIIl.-During an argument at
the table with the host never try TO
score a point by throwing your plate
at him, Always throw the butter. II
spreads wider and lasts longer to get
it of.
Rule IX.--When you have placed
your napkin around your neck Just
before dinner never ask for { safety
pin Stick a fork through it and
wade in
Rule X--One Of the cutest ways TO
90 after the beans is with wooden
toothpick This custom has descend
ed from the inventor of the Chinese
chopsticks, aud it makes very inter
esting eating.
Rule XI-To eat soup through a
straw is new idea, but only those
who are not in hurry will find much
enjoyment in this plan The best way
Is 70 get mad at the soup, then get a
piece of bread and soak It.
Rule NII.--Always at a Society wed
ding be sure to kiss the bride The
| best way to kiss her is before the
I ceremony. because afterwards the
kisses belong TO another gentleman.
possibly her husband
Rule N1II-Nhen dinner is over
never ask the hostess what is for
! breakfast II is vulgar to be so han.
/ CRY in public
Rule NlV-Never use your throat
| to remove the bones from q fish. Ii
| sounds too unhappy.
/ Rule XV-Bc careful TO wear pale,
white kid gloves at wedding Kids
are always the national emblem Of a
| wedding
The little band of willing workers
howled with delight when / finished
reading. all save Conrad. who said.
earnestly. Mem lieber Chon. w
( should you blame such nice IDEAS on
| dis Bunch Cheffersone Society will
/ like him better for dis. yest"
Society won't do thing TO him, ."
/ 7 chuckled.
: Ven It is fine knowledge to know
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31
BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR RASTUS
His Day of Pleasure, But Woe and
Tribulatlon for the Rest
OF the Brood.

Human nature is a queer mixture
The average man. next to good for
tune for himself. is best pleased to
see Ill fortune befall his friends"
The speaker. George Barr McCutch-
con, was responding to a toast on
Man" at the Athletic club in Chi.
cage, He resumed:
Once. bicycling in Georgia. heard
a terrible hullabaloo In a cabin. Yells
and shrieks, sobs and groans it was
evident that half dozen pickanin-
mics were getting properly whaled. I
stopped. and eight pickaninnies came
ruefully from the cabin rubbing ten
derer parts OF their small persons
with the other
Then out bounded a little chap
with loud gleetul laughter. and, while
his brothers and sisters went. he
threw handsprings. cartwheels and
somersaults all over the garden.
The father of the brood. appearing
later. made things clear 10 me
Vas. sab. he said. hit wuz Rss.
tus birfday today sab. an All hadn't
no cash ter buy him muffin. an hit
made me so mad ter see mis- III hrud
dern an sistern all jes as gay as he
wu1 dat jes' hatchery guy EN- all
good trouucin' while Rastus looked
on. 70 see how pleased he is. sab
les as pleased as Il yo'd guy him Fl
cents ter celebrate de day. sah.'''
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working havoc among our men. We
got a glimpse of him now and then,
but nothing more. He was crack
shot and had brought down many Of
ficers and privates. In order to get
within range of him we had to go far
beyond our picket lines and beyond
any chance of assistance. This gen.
eral region was well within range of
the enemy.
THE three of us waited for night
and then crept with the greatest eau
ton toward the enemy's lines By
morning we had hidden ourselves in
trees we'll apart, where we awaited
developments. We were well enough
hidden. but the bullets whistled
through the trees and occasionally
dropped showers of leaves on US; but
that was to be expected Well. it took
us all day TO locate that negro. but we
got him finally. He had hidden him
self in an old chimney, which made a
pretty good defense He would fire
and then duck behind the bricks. and
our bullets would glance off During
that long wait both my companions
were silenced by the cross fire. 1t
was two lives for one, but we never
hesitated when such call came"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

pie is likely to have the force OF
law.
In Richmond, notably In "the muse
UNI in the Confederate white house. ="
are already many visible evidences of
the loyalty Of the women of the
south to the Confederacy while 1t was
battling for life. and of the sympathy
their daughters and granddaughters
ieel for the lost cause"
The exhibition of devices to which
the Confederate women were driven
when all the men folks" were at the
front and the blockade was drawing
its coils tighter. is pathetic in its IL
lustration of the efforts to make ne
cessities satisfy tastes formed on lux
uries
The Confederate cloth, hand-woven
and dyed with such extracts" as
could be substituted for chemicals;
the rough dresses bearing improvised
fnery. either OF deity fashioned rem
nants or CT coarse substitutes on
which refinement had lavished inge-
nuity-an these things bespeak a
state of siege. with the women Of the
besieged doing their utmost to help
the defenders and setting brave faces
toward the encircling foe.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31
John Henry
II MAKES A
NOTE
By GEORGE V. HOBART

NO" I said, I've got a better and
less expensive plan. You know Mr..
Bunch Jefferson thinks he's the best
little society man that ever walked be
hind a white vest. He's got an idea in
his noodle that the social push has
put up his photo on every mantel, and
now it's up to me to cure him"
How could you dit it?" asked Con
rad, while the other willing workers
went after the bug bitters.
We'll, I'll tell you," | answered
I've cooked up bunch of shine So
ciety advice which is supposed to have
been written by Bunch I've had TO-
900 cards printed with this phony pat
ter thereon, and when the society la
dies get a peep at It Bunch will be on
hts wey TO the mines. Bunch has
pulled off lot Of mouldy tricks on me
and now it's my play to chase him to
the woods"
Then I sprung on them this sample
of my campaign literature:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

a nine-poupd howitzer. When thew
got too hot we would try to dislodge
them with our cannon and. falling
this. We would go ashore and chase
them, but they always came back.
In our patrol we had of course tn
pass the forts, when we would be
raked by their heavier guns. We
seemed to be always in trouble. With
both sides of the river against us. we
would sometimes be raked by cross
fire from two or more forts at the
same time. Even on the quietest day
one was afraid to show himself on
deck, for the mimic balls would cut us
down when We least expected them.
was a soldier before the war, having
served in the Crimea had been cap
tured by the British and spent six
months in a tread mill Jail in London,
but those mimic balls were the most
insidious danger l have ever met
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

he ought to be STATESMAN just be
cause he have money enough in his
overalls to pay his fare TO Washing
ton
! don't know just where Barney
political dream finally landed him. for
at this moment & delegation of ward
workers waited upon me. so / had TO
go for the checkbook and have a
coughing spell
Dis man, Bunch Chefferson, Is
working, working. working to remove
der society vote" Conrad Puffenlotz,
my lieutenant in the fourth ward. in
formed me-
1--WE been wise to that gag for some
time, Conrad" answered.
Should We gif a pink tea or some
ding like lawn feet or a monkey din
ner to get society on our slider" in.
CURED Conrad earnestly
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

how to remove bones from a fsh.-
Conrad insisted. "Und maybe So
ciety should be glad to learn how to
eat soup through a straw. Perhaps
dis card is a boomdeTang. yes!"
Before could convince Conrad that
my idea, while somewhat cruel, bore
traces Of originality. the Rev. Mr.
Macy arrived to take tea with US and
was greeted cordially by the family.
We were all sitting around the YER
anda, discussing the outlook and
chatting pleasantly, everybody with
one ear primed for the supper bell.
when Lizzie Joyce, the irrepressible.
put in an agitated appearance. Once
more the lid trimmed with onions and
spaghetti fell over her left eye and
the grouchy grip kept company with
the freckled parasoi
Il give you my notice. Mem; I'm
leavin' this minute" she said to the
embarrassed Aunt Martha.
What's the matter now. woman.
what's the matter, eh?" asked Uncle
Peter, hungry and irritated
Before Lizzie could frame a come
back Clara ]. stepped in the breach.
What's the matter. Lizzie?" asked
Peaches, soothingly.
Sure, It's a dream I had last night
that came back TO me whilst / was
bastin' the chicken" Lizzie answered.
In me dream was kidnapped, and
they's so much political palaverin'
goin' on around here maybe It'll come
truel"
Who'd kidnap you, woman"
sneered Uncle Peter.
well, you never can tell" Lizzie
answered quietly "They's a lot Of
Woody old millionaires hanging
around these days tryin' to get their
money well cared for. I'm takin' no
chances"
That was about all for Uncle Peter,
and presently the excitable Lizzie was
led peacefully back to the kitchen by
Clara ].
But Lizzie's dream gave me an idea
that took my appetite away.
Copyright by G. W. Dillingham; Coz
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

OF blue is marching into the unknown.
Flowers are strewn upon the graves OF
the dead and statistics of mortality
are as freely flung at the heads of
the living soldiers. Possibly the vet.
Grams are not cheered by this sober
and convincing information, and GER
tainly their children and grandchil-
dren give 1t cold entertainment.
A look at the other side, the living
side, of the old soldiers great day
presents something of good cheer as
well as surprising fact-that of the
extreme youth Of the army of the
Union in those days when the life of
nation was at stake.
The survivors of the Union army of
the Civil war are known to number
at this date $4,000, and a majority
Of these men are in the active pur-
suits of industry. Although there are
few very old men among the vet
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31

orally covered. But after Bloody An
gle it would have been impossible to
exaggerate the awful loss. Some regt
ments were reduced to a mere hand
full Of men. Many of the companies
were practically wiped out of exist.
enca. Imagine the most fatal rail
road wreck, when scarcely any one
succeeds in escaping from the cars.
and you viii have some flea Of the
appearance Of our regiments / went
through the three days unhurt. but OF
the last of the third day a bullet
caught me in the leg. l carried that
bullet for 80 years until a bad fall
made IT necessary to extract it"
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indian Tribes AmaIaama;e

Students OF the Indian tell Us that
while the numbers of the red men are
diminishing there is a slow amalga-
nation of the tribes wherever their
geographical location makes this pos
sible. It is supposed that there were
900 600 Indians on this continent
when the Europeans settled here. In
1856 q government report showed an
Indian population Of $4,000. and II is
estimated that the present population
Is Sc, goo less.