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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
BOARD REFUSES
TO GRANT LICENSE
County Commissioners Grant, Re-
quest Of Puposky Citizens Cook
Allowed To Continue
TURN DOWN BATTLE PETITION
Secretary Schroeder's Report Of State
Fair Exhibit Approved-Do
Much Road Business

Complaints made by residents and
farmers in and around Puposky were
the principal reasons why the Coun-
ty Commissioners refused A. r. War
ner of Puposky a renewal of his
liquor license yesterday. Fred B.
Cook of Nebish also applied for a re-
newal Of his license and as there
were no reasons presented for not
granting him an extension the Board
allowed him his application.
Besides the liquor licenses a petit
ton was presented for county road
in the town OF Battle. The petition
was rejected as the proposed road
lies all in one town. A petition was
also presented for the Survey of sec
ton four, township 147, range 80.
The hearing was set for the next
meeting of the county board which
will be December ninth. At this
meeting a hearing will also he held
on the petition which was presented
yesterday for new school district
in the town Of Liberty.
The Commissioners appropriate
ed 5000 from the road and bridge
fund for the town of Shotely. The
change in the school district in town
ships 4 l and 16 was granted. Ad-
ditional territory, which was recon-
mended by the board of Education in
their petition which was presented
at the last meeting of the county
board which asked for change in
the boundary of school district 116,
was allowed. -. -& =. s-~
" Abatement Application
Applications for attachments were
read and the following were approx
ed; j. w. Russell, 1ngebor Sanding,
NJ. E. Gilleman. The application of
H. M. Evanstad was rejected. The ap-
plications of j. T. Ula and A. J.
Borchman were read and upon mo-
ton were laid on the. table ,z.,s,sss..4
December ninth at three P. M. was
the date set for the hearing of the
petition for road in townships 154
and 1856, Range 80, 81 and 80 in
organized towns. Lennon and Myhre
were appointed as committee to
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
HITS MODERATE DRINKER
Rankin Says He Is Worse Than Old
Booze Fighter Because Of Effect
Upon Younger Generation.
TALKS ON SOCIALISM TONIGHT

The moderate drinker was con-
demned by A. G. Rankin, temperance
lecturer, in his lecture at the Pres
byterian church last evening. He re-
ferred to the man who drinks little
nav and then as person
whose influence upon the young man
of today is worse than that of the
old booze fighter.
Mr.. Rankin brought out the point
that every youth looked to the mod
crate drinker as an example, never
to the drunkard, and gradually but
surely he allows liquor to gain q
foothold which he is unable to throw
of. ID ~ "t-@#'
Tonight he will discuss "The Sc
cret of the Liquor Traffic's Power,
in which he will discuss the question
Does Socialism Offer the Correct
Solution to this Great Question:"
This is one of the lecturers most
Interesting topics and has drawn {
crowded house in every place tina
Mr. Rankin has appeared. ~
Mr.. Rankin was much delighted
when he heard that the anti-saloor
element at Cloquet was victorious a
that place in the Tuesday election
Mr.. Rankin recently spent two weeks
in that nitv and takas q narSOn9
pride in the elections outcome
There are seventeen saloons in Clio
quet and this is the first time in tn
history of the place that the,
have been voted out.
'sThere will be fireworks tonight
and no one should miss the fun
said Rev. S. e. P. White this after
noon.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
Unclaimed Letters

List of advertised letters Gun
claimed" for the week ending Nov,
8, 1913. Men 'Ardus. Mr.. T. B.,
Brown, Mr.. Bert, Baker, Mr.. John,
Holbrook. John, Hagen, Michael j.,
Hammer. T. G., Haahcim, Mr.. A.,
Jensen. John, Kovar. M. Thorn,
Killing. Mr.. Oscar, Lezatte Mr.. George,
Liston. Mr.. P. w., Nagel. Chas., Will
liam Bros, Reinhardt Mr.. & Mrs. J.
NJ, Smith. Mr.. A. P, Smith. Mr.. Ed
win M, Turk. Mr.. Loster, Tonstead
Mr., Topper. Mr.. E., Taylor. Mr.. Rob
ert. Women. Berg. Mrs. Marta
Barrett. Mrs. Pearl. Miller. Mrs. Min
ME, Malby. Miss. Sina, McMeaton
Miss, Walen. Mrs. O. E.. .
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
ST. PAUL FIREMEN HERE
Captain and Engineer From Twin
Cities to Spend Ten Days Hunt
ing For Big Game.
PRAISES LOCAL DEPARTMENT

R. Messenger, engineer on the St..
Paul fire department., and Charles
Kaufer, captain of the same depart
ment, were in Bemidji this morn
ing en- route to Puposky where they
will spend the next ten days on a
hunting trip. Mr.. Messenger has
spent the past 10 years in the serv-
ice of the St. Paul department while
Mr.. Kaufer has seen "a years of &C
tive service. =.
While in the city the two gentle
men called upon the members of the
local department and visited the fire
hall and examined the fire fighting
apparatus. When the steamer
Bemidji's fire engine was. shown
them, they made ordinations of sur
prise to find an engine of this type
in city the size of Bemidji. Before
leaving the city the veterans compli.
mented the local firemen on the ex.
cellent team, fire fighting apparatus
and the efficient manner in which
the department has prepared to cope
with fires. They were also enthus
iastic about the city itself and pait
Bemidji several compliments. on be-
ing thriving trade center.
These firemen are now on a Is
day vacation and have chosen as ;
recreation the north woods wher,
they hope to bring down their shar'
of big game.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
p1NEwooD COUPLE WE'D.
Judge Clark Performs Ceremony
Yesterday Afternoon.

Daniel Ketcham obtained a mar
rage license yesterday afternoon
from Clerk of Court Fred Rhoda and
80 minutes later was married to Miss
Elizabeth Usher by Judge Clark of
the Probate Court. Miss Usher has
kept house for Mr.. Ketcham for the
past three years at Pinewood. The
newlyweds are both grey headed but
appear to be as happy as any of the
young couple who venture on the
matrimonial sea.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
1AVENNER TALKS
ON INCOME LAW
Tells Where And For What Purpose
You Will Pay $25 To The United
States Government
TALK OF WAR RIDICULOUS
Refers To Fact That Every Battle
Has Been Forced by This Country
Says Trusts Are To Blame
By Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner


Washington, Nov. 6.-Mr. Az
erage Citizen, during the next year
YOU will dig down into you pocket
and from the average salary you re-
ceiye for the support of your aver
age-sized family you will take SIS
and pay it out-for what? War.
No, there is no actual war in sight
the $25 lis just a trifle more than
you paid for war last year, and there
was no war then. Last year you paid
out just trifle less than $25-or
IS a head for yourself, your wife and
your three children-for war-past
war and war feared for the future.
All of the other government &C
tivities put together cost your family
only an equal sum. For the privilege
of sending your letters at cents a
peice, for the public health service,
for the maintainance of Congress,
for the tremendous work of the De-
partment OF Agriculture, for your
share of the expense in building the
Panama Canal, for the public build
ings erected by the government
throughout the country, for the i'm
provement of rivers and harbors, for
railroad regulation, for your pure
food bureau, for meat inspection, for
maintenance of lighthouses and
buoys in rivers, lakes and oceans,
making travel safe, and for all the
many other benefits you received
from the national government-for
all these you pand $25, just equal to
what war cost you.
The Cleveland Commission found
that during the present year war is
costing the American people $402.-
91S,347, while all government civil
functions are costing $436,6S6,9
But that isn't all. The war estimate
for next year is 100000, divid-
ed about as follows, navy, $175,00O,-
600; army, 100000; pensions,
100000. The per capita cost of
federal government is more than $12.
In 1900 it was So; in 1890 it was
only Sc. The increase has been large
ly due to the increased cost Of pre-
parations for war.
Because of these figures the reso-
luton introduced by Representative
Hensley, of Missouri, is certain to
receive serious consideration by the
House when the regular session of
Congress convenes in December. This
resolution endorses the plan of Wins
ton Churchill Of England for a
naval holiday of one year, during
which period all the great powers
shall rest from the construction of
battleships.
The willingness of the people (for
Congress only reflects the popular
will in respect) to vote these huge
war sums annually, is due principal
ly to fear of war-a fear largely TO.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
"Man And Wife"

When a young man and woman
entered the Markham hotel this
morning it was evident that they
were not at ease and after whisper
ed conversation the young man eau
tiously approached the register and
hastily wrote "Man and Wife, Many
of the travelling men became curious
and as a result it was discovered that
the couple are newlyWeds and are
now on their honey moon. They were
married ait Kelliher yesterday.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
BOYS STEAL TICKETS
Warrant Out For Arrest Of Young
Boys-Caught With the Goods

w. B. MacLachlan, manager of the
roller rink. has succeeded in tracing
tickets which were stolen from the
rink last sundaysto three young boys
of the city. Warrants have been is
sued for their arrest and it is prob
able that one of the trio will be sent
to the training school as he has been
a source of trouble to his parents and
the police for the past year. The
hearing will probably be set for to-
morrow at nine O'Clock before Judge
Crowell.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
FIRST PLANNED BEMIDJI
Charles A. Forbes, Member of the
State Highway Commission, Form
ed Townsite II Years Ago
BUNKED WITH CHIEF BEMIDJI

Charles A. Forbes, a member of
the State Highway commission and
who has been in eBmidji during the
last several days in attendance at
the meeting of the county commits
sioners, was the man who laid out
the original townsite for the city Of
Bemidji. 49,. ~ s...-<g~
This was II years ago. There were
few buildings here then and Mr..
Forbes and his companions shared
the lodging of Chief Bemidji. When
the surveyors left Bemidji they made
a present of their stove to the Chief
in payment for his many kindnesses
to them. ae9&# 20
At the time of this survery Mr..
Forbes who was the chief engineer
was assisted by two men by the
names of Smith and McPartlin. Mr..
Forbes said this morning that Smith
made his residence here at the time
but has since been lost trace Of Nc
Partlin is living in st. Paul.
Mr.. Forbes has nothing but praise
for Chief Bemidji, and says that he
was as fine an Indian as a person
could hope to meet. .:E
After the original survey, Mr.
Forbes returned to Bemidji a year
later and attended a Fourth of July
celebration and dramatic entertain
ment. He remembers that Earl Cell
now county treasurer was one of the
actors.
On this trip the stage broke, anG
Mr.. Forbes and his companions were
compelled to walk to Park Rapids.
1t was 16 years before Mr.. Forbes
visited Bemidji again, coming here
a year ago.
| "Your citizens may we'll feel proud
of Bemidji," said Mr.. Forbes, cit il
a grand little city. Of course hav,
somewhat of a personal feeling TO,
the place. I have enjoyed my visi
here any my dealings with you.
county commissioners, they are ;
business like board and.it is plea
sure to do business with them"
| The commissioner left this after
noon for Thief River Falls
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
COMEDY AT BRINKMAN
"Curing JOKER" To Be Attraction
At Popular Playhouse Tonight

Al Knight and Edwin Ransom will
appear this evening, and the rest of
the week in a comedy sketch entitl.
ed, "Curing JOKER" The act has
made a hit in all places it has been
staged and comes to Manager Brink.
man highly. recommended. The mo.
ton picture is a 1O1 Bison three rec
civil war feature.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
Send $4,000 In Orders

Ten thousand dollars in money or
ders were made out at the Bemidji
postoffice during. the month of Octo-
Der. While this is not record month
it is far better than the average. The
cause for the increase last month was
the sending of tax money.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
Find Women in Wine Room

Mayor William McCuaig and Of
ficer zacharias found three women
in the Larkin and Dale wine rooms
Tuesday night. Papers have been
served upon the women and It Is
probable that the matter viii be set
tod out Of court.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06

NOTICE

X There will be a meeting of 4
the B. P. o. Elks in the Elk's \
X hall tonight at eight O'Clock \
x sharp. Every member requested \
X to be present. \
4 4 4 4 Xxx X x x x w X X X x j
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
NAME ASSOCIATE
CHARITY DIRECTORS
Board for the Coming Year Selected
and Officers to be Elected
In Near Future.
1874 ARE GIVEN EMPLOYMENT
Reports Of Relief Committee and
Treasurer Made and Show Much
Good Work Being Done.

That the first year Of the Assoc
GIFTED charities has been a period OF
success was evidenced at the meet
ing Of the society at which the re-
ports of the committees and a new
board of directors named.
The finance report, as prepared by
G. D. Backus, treasurer, shows that
the total amount of money received
since the society was formed from
donations and membership fees was
$4,000, of which the total disburse-
ments for food, clothing and hospital
bills amounts to $267.77, leaving a
balance Of $1S2.13 on hand yester-
day.
Many Given Work. 1
One hundred and fifty-four men
and women have been provided with
work by the employment agency
committee, of which Mrs TT. Welsh
is head. This number includes wo-
men who wanted work by the day and
also maids wanting to do. housework
The report Of Mrs. E. H. Smith.
chairman of the relief committee
shows that this board has received
1880 in cash, $40 in donations and
SIS in relief from the city. z
Mrs. Smith also reports that 81
baskets We're sent to the poor Of Be-
midi last Christmas, that clothing
has been given to twelve families,
and that permanent relief been given
to eleven different families. Three
patients have been cared for at the
hospital There is now a small
quantity of clothing on hand.
Of the money received from the re-
I lief committee, $S6.93 was expended
at Christmas time and $61.695 for aid
since that time, leaving balance of
$1.93. &z 800 &
Directors Named. .sa
At the meeting the directors elect
ed were as follows: Mrs. R. F..
Murphy was named to succeed her
self for the one year term; E. e.
Mcdonald for one year; T. A. Nc
Can for two-year term and T. c.
Bailey was named to take Rev. Chas.
Flesher's place for the three-year
term. The other members of the
board are Mesdames A. P. White and
A. E. Whiting. ..: ~. .-.-...Jg.-.
At meeting of the directors which
is to he held soon, officers for the
coming year will be elected. The
new officials will then appoint the
various committees.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06

County attorney E. M. Stanton, Of
Pennington county is in Bemidji to-
day attending to legal matters,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-11-06
OPERATE CREA merry
DURING WINTER
Directors Believe To Do So Will Be
For Best Interests Of Institution
and Farmers of Community.
RECEIVING SHIPMENTS DAILY
Buttermaker Stiles Believes Dairy
men Will Appreciate Advantages
OF Year Around Service

Bemidji's creamery will be oper-
ated during the coming winter.
This will be the first winter that
Bemldji has had creamery in oper-
alton during the winter months, but
at meeting of the directors it was
decided that it would be a good busi-
ness action whether it would be sue
cesstul to do SO, and if it just broke
even.
It is believed that to keep the
creamery in operation during the
winter will be for the best interest
of the farmers of this community and
for the cream and butter business.
Receiving Shipments
cream shipments are being receiv-
ed daily at the creamery and farmers
Who have been informed that. the in
Estitution is to be operated during the
winter are very enthusiastic.
IN speaking of the proposition
'buttermaker Stiles today said.
Farmers will 1ealize the advant-
ages OF a. local creamery in opera
ton the year around. The centrali-
zers methods of dropping the price
on cream during the winter will be
brou ght to their attenti ton more for
chilly than ever. In the spring they
generally raise the price, in an ef-
fort to put the local creamery out of
business
To Discuss New Plans
At the meeting of the Commercial
club Tuesday evening the matter of
allowing a Morris man to put in a
creamery here was discussed. AS was
told in the Pioneer several weeks ago
this man wishes to purchase the To-
cal creamery from the Farmers COM
pany and to erect an entirely new
building and to place new machin-
cry. All he asks is that the CONNER
|clal club aid him in securing lot
on which to place the creamery. He
has been invited to visit Bemidji
and talk over the matter with the di-
rectors of the creamery company.
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& & * 4 * y & Xxx kk & x
Only Officials To Meet

While it has been advertised 4
+ that there would be meeting X
x of the members Of the Athletic X
< club this evening, such is not \
x the case. The meeting is for Of !!
< ficials of the club only. The X
x board of control will also meet. x
4 Il x X x x Xxx kfkk TX x 4
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MRS. FISK COMING

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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-30
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Labelling Jokes.

The Springfield (Mass.) Union
complains because some "irresponsi-
BILE paragrapher" noting that the
national wealth amounts to $34.72
per capita, advises his readers to
draw on the United States terasury
for their share.
AS a consequence Director of the
Mint Roberts has been flooded with
serious requests for the $34.72. The
Union says such jokes do harm and
should be tagged.
Should they? Just think how
easily lot of simple minded people
have got by this time. 1t has cost
them a 2-cent stamp, and probably
their time is not very valuable.
The world is full of a great many
very innocent and unsophisticated
people. They are continually in
vesting hard-earned money in rain
bows. If they got little practical
experience of life out of the news
paper paragraph column at no great
er cost than 2-cent stamp, it was
valuable preparation for the grim
jokes and bunco games of modern
high finance.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-30
THE INVITATION TO CONTEMPT

The limitations to judicial power
have been indicated by the case in
Idaho where three newspaper men
have been sent to jail on a contempt
charge because they caused the print
ing of Colonel Roosevelt's opinion
of the decision barring progressive
candidates from the official ballot.
Since these men have been impris-
oned, thousands of persons have gone
to much trouble and spent much
time to show them honor. Their
commitment to Jail has been made
triumph for them. They have been
feted, almost glorified. When they
leave their cells it will be to go back
to conditions that by comparison
must seem almost tiresome and pro-
sale.
The court Furnishing these newspa-
per men for a fancied slight to it's
dignity has invited expressions of
real contempt. Instead of checking
free speech as it sought to do, it
opened the floodgates of the freest
speech in the world. 1t could pun
ish few individuals, but cannot
punish an entire community. The
boundaries of judicial power are far
more circumscribed than many men,
bers of the bench are aware Of
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-30
THE COST OF ARSON.

II is astonishing into what remote
ramifications you can trace the eter-
nal cost of living question. Most
people, on reading of some crooked
ness, smile tolerantly at the smart
ness of the man who gets away
with it." They don't realize that it
is all footed up in the bill.
So it is with the alleged arson
trust, now under investigation in
New York city, representing a costly
phase of human Crookedness found
everywhere.
The United States pays annually
$5O0,OOO,OOO in premiums to insur-
ance companies, to cover the cost of
fires. The experts say 10 to 15 per
cent of these fires are incendiary.
So our bill for the smartness of the
crooks and the morbid brains of the
firebug is about $5O,OOO,OOO to $75,-
100000 annually.
After the insurance companies
have installed the last fire sprinkler,
and insisted on the latest perfection
of fire engine and water pressure,
there remains a vast twilight zone
of moral hazard into which they
scarce dare look.
There is more truth than poetry
in the unlovely story about the pre-
cocious youth who was looking over
his fathers shoulder at his insurance
policies.
why, father" he cried, don't
you see that policy runs out We'd
nesday?"
Yes, my child" said pater, "but
the firemen they runs out Tuesday"
A great many men, who never
would dream of a criminal act, never
get over the lure of the fire engine.
They will drop a good dinner of a
profitable business deal any time to
run to fire. There is a thrill in
the combat between human skill and
daring, and the untamed elements of
fire and smoke, that stirs any mans S
blood. ..
If this battle between man and
the forces of nature has this effect
on q normal mind, it is not strange
that there are so many weak-headed
IL h..
in the tumult and battle of a fire.
There are said to be enough insane
firebugs in the city of New York to
fill an institution.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-30
WRONG, WHATEVER HE DOES.

The anti-Roosevelt press, recov-
cred from the stresses of the cam
paign, threw one OF its characteristic
fits when Mr. Munsey proposed a
"get-together' plan for the progress
sives and republicans. 1t was per-
ceived at once-by the anti-Roose-
velters-that the colonel was respon-
sible for the suggestion, that he'd
devised the plan and, perhaps, pro-
vided the wording. So whole oceans
of abuse welled up and foamed over
in the direction of Oyster Bay.
Then Mr.. Roosevelt disclaimed any
participation in Mr.. Munsey's sug-
gestion, and, chapter and verse,
showed in his opinion wherein it
would not do. Whereupon the anti
Roosevelt press busted off the office
floors and threw the vepy widest
and most enthusiastic fit in it's out
fit. The colonel-this time-was
was egotistical, fat-headed, excessive
ly wrong and perverse.
1t has been given to few men to
be more everlastingly at fault than
Theodore Roosevelt.