The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-09-12
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Mary's hospital in Rochester.
After "a years of service as teach
er in the New York east side schools,
Charles F. Hartman, principal of the
Public School 1O6, retired from his
position today 81
A heavy rain which did immense
good to late crop and pastures visited
Minneapolis yesterday and brought
with it the first hail Of the season in
that section of Minnesota.
The National Association of Post
masters of the first class assembled
at Omaha today, with Postmaster
General Hitchcock and Superinten-
dent Thomas of the division of ru-
raj mails as the principal guests.
With the steady trade winds of the
Pacific at his back, Robert F. Fowl
er, the first aviator to attempt a
trans-continental fight. sped yester-
day up the fertile Sacramento valley
and landed at $50 o'clock last even
ing, and will continue his flight to-
day.
Rev. Francis E. Clark, founder of
the Christian Endeayor society, was
a guest of honor at convention held
in Ottawa today, by the Ontario and
Quebec branches of the organization.
The gathering was held in honor of
DR.. Clark's sixtieth birthday ami
versary.
Gaby Deslys, the Partisan vaude-
vile artistic, whose visits to Lisbon
are said to have contributed to the
revolution which cost King Manuel
his throne, sails today to begin an
engag cement Of eight weeks in the
United States. Her first appearance
is scheduled for the Winter Garden
in New York city the latter part o
this month. 1t is said that Miss
Desyls is to receive a salary of $4,-
900 week during her appearance in
America.
More. than ordinary interest at
taches to the meeting of the Federal
parole board which met at Leaven-
worth, Kansas, today. 1t is expected
that before the meeting adjourns &C
ton will be taken in the case of John
r.. Walsh, the aged Chicago banker
who is serving term in the Leaven-
worth penitentiary for violation of
the banking laws. Mr. Walsh has
now served one-third CT his sentence
of five years and since all of the
outstanding indictments against him
have been dismissed he is eligible to
parole
Old Defenders Dav, the anniver-
sary of the battle Of North Point,
where the Marylanders made a sue
cessful resistance to the British in
vasion in 1914, was observed as
legal holiday in Baltimore today. 1t
was the battle of North Point that
inspired Francis Scott Key to write
The Star-Spangled Banner and
one of the interesting features in
connection with today's celebration
was the unfurling of the original flag
that inspired Key to write the ma
tional hymn over the ramparts of
historic Fort McHenry
The bettermen of waterways
throughout the entire country, but
mainly those in the eastern part of
the United States, is the subject to
be discussed by the 1000 delegates
who assembled in Richmond, Va, to-
day for the annual convention Of the
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Associa-
ton. The purpose of the convention
is to pass upon measures that may
best bring about the deepening of
such waterways and to promote the
project for a chain of inland water
ways from Boston to Beaufort, NJ
c., and thence to the Keys of Flori-
da. Several of the links in the pro-
posed intercoastal route are already
completed or under construction.
The special session of the Great
Camp of the Knights of the Modern
Maccabees, called to take action on
the proposed increase in assessme nt
rates, opened at Port Huron today.
Like other fraternal insurance or
ders the Maccabees has reached the
reached that stage of it's career when
an increase in rates appears neces-
sary to meet the losses resulting from
the maturity of the first class of GER
tiflcates issued to the early members
and carrying old age annuity as we'll
as death benefit. A considerable ele-
ment Of the membership is strenu-
ously opposed to the increase in as
sessments. Their representatives will
introduce resolution to meet the
loss not by raise in rates but by
abolishing a number of highly paid
Offices that are declared to be sine
cures and by otherwise reducing the
expenses of maintaining the order.
To Open Lakeshore Alley.
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