The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-09-22
Editorial Telephone, "THREE-ONE"
DORA BARRETTE, Society Reporter

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linger, Lawrence Dodge and Theo-
dore Louder. attended the county fair
at Bemidji Friday. Misses Rachel
Gerlinger and Nellie Knott remained
there until Saturday evening.-The
Ladies' Aid society met Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. S. G. Hartman.
-Dorie Louder is working on the
section at Turtle River.-School Dis
trict No. SO reports 10 pupils in at
tendance. District No. 1876 has an
enrolment of thirteen.
Henry Spencer, aged IS, of Brain
erd,. Mimi, was shot through the
groin by highwaymen and bled to
death on Fourth street north, yester-
day at Fargo, N. D. Spencer, in
walking in front of the Nichols &
Sheppard Thrashing Machine COM
pany building. Johnson says two
masked men stepped from a dark re-
,, cess of the building and ordered
''hands up Johnson complied, but
Spencer grappled with one highway
man and was shot. The bullet passed
through his leg and severed an ar
terry. There is no clew to the MUIR
| derer's identity.
If the present good weather con-
tinues it is expected that the original
IL blocks of paving will have been
completed by the end of next week.
| After completing the two strips on
Fourth street, the paving machine.
! will be taken to the foot of Beltrami
avenue to: pave the street to the 500
depot. 1t will then double back,
completing the" center section on Bel
! trami to Fifth and then for the last
work on Fourth between Beltrami
! and Minnesota, the last work being
to put in the remaining strip to the
500 depot and on Minnesota to the
! Great Northern tracks. Other blocks
| may then be added.
A three year old boy playing with
! matches started fire at the Chal-
lenge Hotel on Beltrami avenue late
! yesterday afternoon which caused a
loss estimated by Mrs. A. L. Smith,
| the proprietor, at about $500. The
loss in burned clothing alone amounts
to about 5000, practically the entire
wardrobe of Mrs Smith being con-
sumed The child, son of Mrs
Smiths sister, who is believed to
have started the fire came running
| downstairs and warned guests Of the
hotel The men got busy and all
danger was over by the time the fire.
| men arrived, although the depart
ment made record run. The flames
did not spread beyond one room, ex-
cept to scorch the hallway.
Billy Smith, arrested on suspicion
Of having robbed the till of Earl's
saloon Tuesday morning Of $50 and
placed in the city lookup and later
confessed, hanged himself with
leather belt in his cell at 4 a.. m.
| today. He carried Lake Seaman's
union card giving the name of pat
| Driscoll," dated April IT, 1911, and
signed A. Blood, District No. 6. 1t
| is believed he may have committed
other crimes leading him to commit
suicide. The deceased was about 80;
height 5 feet inches, weight $50
pounds, with brown hair, gray eyes,
with perpendicular scar 1 1-2 inches
long under the right eye. Smith and
Driscoll may be assumed names. The
body will be held one week at the
Brainerd morgue to try to identify
it.-Brainerd Dispatch.
Miss Hazel Smith entertained
eighteen Of her friends yesterday at
| the Smith home on America avenue
in honor of the ninth anniversary of
| her birth. The afternoon was spent
in playing games and at $50 lunch
was served, at which Mrs. Smith was
assisted by the Misses Murray and
Johnson. Hazel received many pref
| ty gifts among which was piano
from her parents. The guests were
Alice Dyer, Georgia Schumacher,
Margaret Wedge, Dorothy and Flor
ence Harris, Evelyn Kirk, Alice
Hammond, Bertha Webster, leila
Moore, Allen Crothers, Bernice Burs-
| ley, Grace Riley, Alma Martin. Ruth
Baumgardner, Alice Cameron, Dor
othy Bailey, Eva White and Mary
Warfeld During the afternoon Miss
Murray played on the piano for the
little girls.