The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-13
BEMIDJI BRIEFS

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The concert given by Captain and
Mrs, MINES, Salvation Army work
ers, in the city hall last night was
we'll attended and the program was
a pleasing one. The. special Army
meetings still continue. ..
The rain of today has flushed the
newly laid pavements and has given
the new drains a test. In most in
stances the pavements have carried
the water off splendidly, but in few
places the sand caused the drains to
be somewhat clogged. 10 -
DANCE! DANCE!! DANCE!! The
Bemidji Dancing Academy gives it's
weekly dance tonight. Be sure and
attend. There will be good music
and a good floor. Tell your friend.
Mrs. c. E. Hebron entertained a
few friends last evening in honor of
her guest, Miss Cora Davis of Brain
erd. The evening was spent in play
ing $500" and refreshments were
served. The guests were Mesdames
Earl Cell, Geo. McTaggert, N. Beld-
ing, Joe McTaggert and Misses Fin
ders, Hazel Olson, and Jennie Moen.
w. E. Johnson, or ''Pussyfoot'' as
ho &c,
who upon his retirement as chief
special agent of the Indian bureau,
issued a statement charging that
Supt. Clinton Crandall of the United
States industrial school at Santa Fe,
New Mexico, was interested in a
''speak-easy" drug store there, is be-
ing sued for libel by Crandall.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Brooks enter
tanned few friends last evening at
a partridge dinner. After the din
ner the entire party attended the re-
ception held in the Commercial Club
rooms. The guests included R. H.
Schumacher and wife, DR.. and Mrs
E. H. Marcum, Misses Berman, Coch-
rane and Knappen, and Messrs. Sher-
man Berge, H. c. Baer and Tom Err
win.
Go to Hakkerup's f,i Photos.
Charles Zepske, the young man
captured by Chief of Police Harring-
ton on the 500 train and who was
found to have stolen loot from a
Leon barber shop in his boots, was
taken before Judge w. S. Stanton
where he entered a plea of guilty of
burglary in the third degree and was
given an indeterminate sentence to
the state penitentiary, the maximum
penalty being five years.
A forestry magazine, The Birch
bark, is to be issued by the Mime
sofa forestry department. 1t will con-
tain largely information for the ran
gers and patrolmen in the employ of
the department. State Forester w.
T. Cox will have charge of it and the
cost of the publication is to be borne
largely by the state forestry depart
ment. 1t will be the only publica-
tion of that nature in the United
States.
Go to Chapman's Shop for horse
shoeing.
Fires in Minnesota during the dry
season between July 1 and Oct. 1
were far fewer in number this year
than last, according to figures COM
piled by D. P. Tierney, assistant state
forester, today. While fires were
burning in parts of the northern Sec
ton of the state almost continuously
last year, only 1876 we're encountered
this year, and few of them were of a
serious nature. PatrOlmen and ran
gers keeping close watch over the
dan gerous territory and the timber
men Obeying orders from the state
forester, lessened the CONGREGATIONS.
Mr.. Barackman, before leaving for
Minneapolis Monday evening to at
tend the Synod Of Minnesota, inform
ed the American that he had received
call from East Grand Forks but
that he is not in position to give the
East Grand Forks congregation an
answer for the present as he has, I'M
der certain conditions. agreed to ac-
cept a call from Duluth to take
charge of the Presbyterian mission
work at the Head of the Lakes. The
latter carries with it an annual SAL
airy of $1,000, and the passionate at
East Grand Forks $1,000. AS the
salary offered Mr.. Barackman in
either place exceeds by several hun
dred dollars the salary he receives
here it is not unlikely that Black
duck will lose him.-Blackduck Am
erican.
The fact that the Northern Ma
tional Bank is owned and controlled
by we'll known local business men is
one of many reasons you should have
an account there.
L. w. Akin, a real estate dealer
from Omaha, while making a trip
through the woods in company with
John McDougald of this city one day
last week lost a diamond ring val.