davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1913-11-19
Work Compared With Expenditures

That the library work has Increased in
quantity and quality far faster than eN-
penditures is shown by table which
compares the record of 1907 (the first full
year the present central building was
occupied) with that of 1913. Library eN-
penditures increased from $4,000 in 1904
to sGS,307 in 1913 an increase of 80 per
cent: the book stock increased from IA. 41J
volumes in 1904 to loo -: volumes in 1913,
an increase of AZ per cent, and the home
circulation of books grew from 2IS, lie
volumes in 1894 to 6SG21S volumes In
1913, or an increase of 141 per cent. AT
the same time the percentage of fiction
of the whole circulation was reduced
from 81 in 1904 to .lS i'm 1913.
These comparisons show that, although
the library's financial abilities are but
little more than one and half times
larger than they were nine years ago. the
work it accomplishes. stated in terms
of the home circulation of books, is al
most two and n half times larger than
il was nine years ago. The facts that
cannot be stated by statistics. but ar
none the less real and perhaps of greater
Importance in the growth of the library :
service, include all the extension actiV-
tiles OF the library that have made 1t q
vital agent for social betterment in the
city. Such work was untouched nine
ya
Evening star., 1913-11-19
Picture Collection and Exhibitions.

The library's collection of pictures now
numbers nearly 10000 mounted prints
without counting the classified but un-
mounted material any of which may be
speedily prepared for circulation when re-
quired The home circulation for the
past year was u, 400 pictures. an increase
of 17.SS2 over the preceding year. The
users of the collection included art and
study clubs, artists. costumers. lecturers.
illustrators and stereopticon operators.
The largest users of the collection are,
however the school teachers. 401 of whom
are regular borrowers. representing Lbs
schools Although most emphasis In
library work is properly placed upon the
circulation OF books yet IL is evident
from the growing use of this collection
OF illustrative material that it meets a
distinct want.
The use of the Biblical pictures, OF
which the collection has considerable
number received a distinct impetus by
the exhibition of a selection from this
material for three days during the Dis
trict of Columbia Observation-Disclosures
Sunday school convention in the fall OF
1872. The secretary of the International
Sunday School Association was so much
impressed by the value of the work that
he asked for a description of it to include
in his report To be presented at the
Zurich convention.
Evening star., 1913-11-19
Book Accessions.

The book collection grew from 144,4a6
olumes TO I5G.2dS volumes, a net gain of
i.1ST volumes. The gross accessions- OF
S,2f1 volumes We're 1,6i5 smaller than
those of the previous year; the books
Evening star., 1913-11-19
Lecture Hall and Study Room Us

The need of meeting place often felt
by an organization devoted to study or
to a public object affords the library an
opportunity of aiding the organizati ton as
a whole and OF forming closer relations
with its members. @..... -.
Twenty-three different organizations
held sixty eight meetings in the lecture
hall. with a total recorded attendance of
tbs In the study room there We're held
40 meetings of eighteen organizations,
some of which also held meetings in the
lecture hall. These organizations rep
resent a very wide diversity of interest.
They included the study section of the
Washington Center of the Drama League
of America, whose meetings were de-
voted to a study of cotempOrary plays
organizations devoted TO missions, single
tax. socialism. woman suffrage. both pro
and anti: the social evil, vocational guild
ance. poultry. philosophy. elocution.
home economics, together with organiza-
tions whose exercises were conducted,
respectively. in Italian and in Spanish.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-29
PURELY PERSONAL

WI, Barry had business at DAVIS
City Monday.
w. E. Kemp had business at DAVIS
+ City last Friday.
Fred Teale had business at La
moni last Thursday.
Orr Stout, of Garden Grove, was
visitor in this Guy Monday.
VIM. Day, of Leroy, was business
visitor in this city last Friday.
Mrs, George Myers went to Saline,
I Mo-, Tuesday for a short visit.
Mrs. G. W. Blair, of Lamont, was
visiting in this city last Friday.
y. C, R. Riley, of Decatur City, had
4 hnsiness in this city last Friday
Mrs. L. A.. Blackr1lan, of Blockley,
was a visitor in this city Saturday.
Mrs. w. w. Stiles, of near Crown,
was visitor in this city Saturday.
Ralph Avery was business Vlsl-
tor at Davis City Monday evening.
Mrs. Green Hawk. of Davis City,
was a visitor in this, city Monday.
I Elmer Harris returned saturday
from business trip to Van Vert.
Mrs. VIM. Kimball, of Davis city,
was visitor in this city Monday.
Miss Leoti Peters, OF PleasantOn,
WAS VlSllOI Ill tAlo WY NSSN~''
G. v. Brown, of Kellerton, was
business visitor in this city Monday.
Attorney Geo. w. Baker had legal
business at Mt. Ayr Saturday even
ing
Fred Bone, of Grand River, was
business visitor in this city last Fri
day. r:.
Bryan Robbins. of Decatur City,
%ps Nv, 1oS II G.
day.
c. c. Beck and wife, of Decatur
City, were visiting in this city Mon
day.
Charles Shell, of Decatur City, was
business visitor in this city Mon
day.
William Carroll, of near Decatur
City, was visitor in this city Tues
day.
\. Pete Huddleston. of Weldon, was
business visitor in this city Tues
day.
w. H. McCalla, of Davis City, was
a business visitor in this city Tues
day
/. ~. V. Lemley returned last Thurs
day from a business trip to Des
Moines.
Miss Nora Acton, Of Davis City,
was visiting with friends in this city
Monday.
George Gray, OF near Akron, No,
was a business visitor in this city
Monday.
w. 3. Redman, Of near Dekalb,
was a business visitor IN tins city
Monday.
AMr. and Mrs. w. NJ. Akers, of De-
ea4ur City, were visitors in this city
1ftnday.
George Roberts, of Davis City,
was a business visitor in this city
Monday.
Deputy treasurer Floyd Cozad was
a business visitor at Decatur City
4 Monday.
e. W.. Franklin, of Pleasanton,
!. was a business visitor in this city
] Monday.
j.. N. Painter, of Pleasanton, was
transacting business in this city
Monday.
j. M. Ashburn, of near Lamont,
was business visitor in this city
Tuesday. =
Harry Crago, of Garden Grove,
was business visitor in this city
Tuesday. g..
ss Robert McClain, of Garden Grove,
was, a business visitor in this city
Tuesday.
&. Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Long, of Gar
4 den Grove, were visitors in this city
Tuesday. .l...
Virgil Ripple went to Decatur to
visit few days with relatives last
Saturday.
Earl Biddison and /. L. Goodman
returned from Des Moines Thursday
evening, where they accompanied
the :Homesteaders to visit the Des
Moines lodge. XII.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

J. d. Farrell publicly announces that
the o. q w. will not allow any official
to dictate or attempt to influence the
vote OF employees. Maybe this is all
right but it won't hurt for the people
to- keep an eye open ON the railways
just the same.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15
f4diforal panc ofsrht Cacoma Cimes PHONES
Hang sorrow; care'n kill cat-Ben Johnson.


Scarcely day passes carry
Louisville
girl and secretng in the big until with newly developed
ZEAL the police hailed him justice.
history; refreshing the
with which society forth break
Every time abused for Usually also gets
falls
that falls We have long pursued and hased the woman
go man..
Weakness easily this
willingness traffic
civilization?
unmistakab proofs that better that this
exception with
proof of
n SO long regarded fixed fact of life beyond reach of correction and
therefore left unnocd
social conscience turning himself the publicity he took much
pains ayoid2
The of pful and
must la her andh
happily beginning prosecution
Active
Women praise be- problem
MAN must be before will The
GOD, the BEAST
of this
that widely
The beast going UNDER the good getting the whip
Let publicity
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15
BRIDE Is, GROOM 60, ARRESTEDFOR BIGAMY
SOUTHERN CITY in MATRIMONIAL MIX UP

You remember the famous
matrimonial puzzle Of the Phart-
see lawyer in the New Tesla
ment.
The eldest of seven brothers
married wife, and then died.
The next brother married her.
and he died. All the rest mar
rted her in succession, and all of
them died. Finally the woman
herself died. And the lawyer
wanted to know whose wife she
would be in the Kingdom of
Heaven"
Well, this puzzle is something
like that, only worse. And IL
YOU can figure out whose wife
pretty Hattie Jones is here on
earth and whose husband her
first mate Is, and whose huband
Nathan Jones is, and whose wife
Nathan's first wife is, you can
beat any lawyer lin Wayne
county.
Nathan and Hattie met for the
first time a month ago. He was
so and she was only 16. 1t was
love at first sight, and In a week
they were married at the home
of the brides mother, Mrs. jane
Robertson.
Then some meddHng grand
juror remembered that Nathan
Jones had been married before to
a girl named Driggers, and he
couldn't recall any divorce or an
nulment. Also he seemed to re-
member that Hattie had been
married, to man named Thomas
and there wasn't any record of
legal separation. So a deputy
sheriff started after the bride and
groom with a warrant.
Hattie and Nathan got wind of
1t and lit out. They didn't carry
any excess baggage. They Just
slung a few things into a bag.
and old Nathan swung 1t over his
shoulder, and off went the honey
mooners from their home In Sore
ven, lodging the deputy.
II was very easy to follow their
trail, and the deputy caught them
and brought them to the Wayne
county jail.
Sure. I've been married be-
fore" admitted Nathan from be-
hind the bars. I've been married
twice that | reck'leet OF. My first
wife died. / lived alone ON my
farm several years then married
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

It would look better at least if the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

Mhen Bau vala states that the Panama Canal will not accommodate
We are building the big ditch only enough for the accommodation
they built
its locks The locks of
is launched bigger than anything hitherto -
The Weand Canal has history
built Canada
lakes The docks 265 length;
be ample accommodate the the lakes
Canada had vision New York fanked by the trade coming from
America through this
herself command Of the world continent
the
ports for the ports Of the world.
She awakening
building
the freghte1s of the
the
for ships which could the
could New York Baltimore
other freight from smaller
Even the lake shipping had outgrown the canal Now the
hundred
stage coach -
Will the Panama Canal the ourselves
the
will
This is something than Importance
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

trial OF that judicial salary case at the
court house was not before Judge but
jury Professional "ethics" is often
stronger than justice.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

Il love Nathan she said, "and
that's all that counts, isn't It? I
didn't love that Thomas man that
| married before. And, besides,
he told me one day that he had
another wife, and he Dragged
about the wives he'd had before
he married her. So l ran away
Then Nathan came along, and
married him, and I'm most dread
fully happy. Only, l wish they'd
let us out OF jail"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15
Alice priggers.

Alice Driggers.
Next morning Alice told me
that Driggers wasn't her maiden
name; that she was married to n
Driggers person, and he'd certain
ly make trouble when he found
she'd up and married me, too. So
/ sent her away. Wouldn't YOU?
When l met Hattie l Just couldn't
help marrying HER"
Then Hattie, in the next cell,
told her story
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15
THEY SELDOM LOOK 1T.
"Say, Florence, isn't he the typ

Say, Florence, isn't he the typ
ical highbrow poet, thought"
"You guessed wrong, Alice. I
happen to know that he's the au-
thor of that rag-time success,
Won't You Bail, Bail, Bail Me
Out of Jail, Jail, Jail?'"
you're not looking very well.
Haven't you lost a lot of flesh
lately?"
Eyes, I lost my wife. She
weighed two hundred"
my brother killed a man last
week and they put him in jail
month"
That's a light sentence for
murder"
"But at the end of the month
they're going to hang him."
Eyes. we have Just returned
from our trip to Cuba
"Ah! And how did you find all
the Cubists?"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15
THE CALL OF THE LAND.

Poet-The springtime makes
my pulses boil with yearning, aye,
with passion, to be a tiller of the
soil and live in rustic fashion.
But again it sounds too stern to
rob the fields of garniture, l fear
Id hesitate to turn flowers under
the green manure!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

docs your wife ever sit with
her chin resting on her 6nees?"
No, my wife never sits with
her chin resting at ALL"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

81 want to study to be a spe-
cialist, but l can't decide between
ears and teeth"
Take the teeth. Thirty-two
of them against only two ears"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

Tim friend of DR.. Fletcher.
Let me teach you how to Fetch
erize-how to chew your beef
steak"
First tell me how to get the
beefsteak-Tm poet"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

The fellow,
fance the end of the world
irresponsible ~
Any planet naturally want
the finish
Lots of folks since history
Inc great up until the strain OF has unsettled their
things
themselves The old earth waddles
Wherefore the reflection why fuss
is to
much less to the whole of things;
would something
couldn't dodge p - -'D5
80 the best white
and accounts ready a balancing
live that GONE
isn't that enough preparation
oi souvenir that
never modest
MONDAY AFTERNOON Professional
efforts of collectors Justice
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15
VIII the craze Of souvenir hunters

never ceaseg Many modest persons
were Mortified Monday afternoon at the
efforts of collectors to obtain CHASTITY
souvenirs of the Lakeview wreck. Sew
eral persons invaded the smoker car
before train officials could stop them
and carried off small articles belonging
to the dead passengers that lay beside
them in the wreckage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-05-15

and Driggers. Old Mr.. Jones and
young Mrs. Jones are trying to
figure 1t out while they while
away their honeymoon in jail on
a bigamy charge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-09
OVER THE WIRES
Firms RAVE AT RUSSIA.
BY United Press.


Helsingfors, January 9.-Intense
indignation has been aroused here by
the latest example of Russia's bur-
eaucratic methods. Two Russian ex-
aiming magistrates visited Viborg
to obtain a protocol drawn up by
the town council regarding a request
based on the Equality Law to carry
on trade in Finland. Russian offic-
ials having no right to examine the
protocol books of Finnish state in
situations, the mayor refused to
grant them access to the document,
and they departed.
Later, however, the chief of po-
lice appeared, armed with an order
from the provincial governor, to in
spect the protocol, and as soon as he
had got the document in his posses
sion, he produced another order, au-
thorizing him to take it to the exam
ming magistrates which he did de-
spite the protests of he mayor and
couyncil. The supreme court is to
be invoked.
Further dissatisfaction has been
caused by the appointment of an in
experienced Russian colonel to the
post of director of public buildings
in Finland, position which re-
quires considerable technical knowl-
edge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-09
BOARD STANDS PAT.

Minneapolis, Jan. 9.-Declaring
that the Minneapolis board of educa-
ton is not introducing into the
schools the round dance as part of
the educational system when it sane
lions dancing parties in the high
schools under proper supervision, the
board, through President Elwell, has
issued a statement to the committee
of ministers which has led in the
fight against school dances. Inc
statement says the board has not been
fit to reconsider it's action, that the
order allowing school dances was not
taken until after full consideration
and that it's ruling of Feb. 10, 1912
prohibiting social dances in school
buildings still holds good.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-09
FIRE LOSS WAS HEAVY.

Scott Stewart, secretary Of the Be-
midi fire department., explained at
the last annual meeting Bemidji's
fire loss in 1912 was $127,930. The
department answered thirty-flve calls,
two of which were false alarms, and
attended thirty-three fires, two
thirds of which started in: chimneys.
The worst were the destruction of the
Harry Gunsalus corner January 10,
in which the total loss was estimated
at $4,000, and the burning of the
Rex hotel. in which about $4,000
was lost. %e -
The department now numbers
Twenty-Five. -
The officers of the relief associa-
ton were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Charles Bailey; vice president,
R. E. Miller; secretary, John Falls;
treasurer, John Goodman.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-09
CASS LAKE RUSSIANS HIRE
KOHL TO TEACH THEM ENGLISH
Special to The Pioneer.

Special to The Pioneer.
-Cass Lake, Jan. 9.-The Cass Lake
colony of Russians who are unable to
speak the English language are de-
sirous of acquiring it and have band
ed together and engaged an instruc-
tor to assist them. The school starts
out with an enrolment of fifteen but
1t is expected the number will be in
creased to thirty. The board of edu-
cation has granted them the free use
Of the South Side school house, and
NJ. N. Kohl has consented to instruct
them in the rudiments of acquiring
their new language. Later on it is
eApec ted they will engage professor
from the high school, when they get
: far enough along to- be able to under
stand him.
4 Scholars range in age from nine
teen to flfty-three, fathers and sons
included, and 1t Is expected that
wives and sisters will. also attend
later on.
& ~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-09
PROTEST ON big DITCH.
Farmers From Clearwater County
Flocked to Bemidji in Force at
=. ::
Hearing Tuesday.
THE MATTER WAS COMPROMISED


Nearly two hundred farmers from
points on the 500 line In Clearwater
county came to sBemid1i Tuesday for
for the hearing befarss Judge stan
ton on Judicial Ditch No. /. This
ditch runs through Clearwater, Red
Lake, Polk and Pennington counties.
1t was proposed to empty the wa
ter from the river about twelve miles
nearer the mouth than the farmers
wanted as the engineer claimed that
as the river was so sluggish, the
ditch water would flood IT. The mat
ter was finally compromised. and the
men went home. apparently salts
fed. '~-t
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-09
NAVY MAsC0Ts CANNED"

Norfolk, Va. Jan. "a belliger-
ent goats lack of respect for the uni
form, it was said yesterday, was the
cause for an order of Rear Admiral
r. NJ. Doyle banishing all OF the
sailors pets and mascots from bat
tleships, cruisers and receiving
ships at this station. - ~.
=. Admiral Doyle is supposed to have
been inside the uniform when the
goat, a mascot aboard the New
Hampshire, butted it so vigorously
that it toppled over on the deck.
4 The goat now is an exile and with
i i'm went long train of cats, dogs,
parrots, bears and other goats.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-09
Great Northern Land Man Here With
Griffin Familiar With Every
Minnesota Township.
WAS ONE OF BEM1DJ1's PIONEERS

J. w. Hilligoss, land man for the
Great Northern railway, was here
this week With. II. Griffin and at.
tended the=meeting sof the CONNER.
cial club (which the sheep PROPOSE.
ton was discussed. Mr.. Hilligoss
was familiar with this country be-
fore : the Great Northern built
rough from Duluth +o Grand Forks
and had some good stories to tell. He
claims to have been in every town
ship in Minnesota. =.
"You know" he said, that at one
time l had an interest in the Bemidji
Townsite company and sold out be-
cause I thought the Great Northern
would not hit the town '4'~ fact.
When they surveyed through, they
wanted to build between here and
Lake George and spend many months
trying to figure out way through
the hills as to come to Bemidji
meant the addition of several miles
to the route: r
"But I do not believe a railroad
will ever be built through that coun-
try. Coming in from the west, the
level rises with table after table of
land and then suddenly drops off.
The grade is too long and high to
climb and the expense of cutting
through is prohibitive.
"This country used to be pretty
wild through here. I remember one
time when was in through the coun-
try few miles north of Bemidji, 1
had been walking all morning and
about noon sat down to eat. l was on
a windfall and was eating out of my
pack. @' s% W ; ~. =szss& .,s%#@
a "After I had been munching away
Ia few minutes, I felt jar on the log,
and turning my head saw big lynx
not four feet away from me and
crouched to spring. Hello old
boy said, just like that, where did
you come from?' The cat never
moved. / kept talking to nim and
slowly bent down and picked up my
automatic with my left hand. Shif+o ;
it to the right and slowly stretched
out my arm and pointed he gun.
e. "When my arm was ready, the end
of the gun was not foot from the
cats head All the time he was
watching me with those green eyes
and tail as stiff as it could be for it's
length. My hand was as steady as it
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-09
KILLED A COW MOOSE HILL IG0SS TELLS A STORY
Homesteader From Rapid River
Country Fined SIS and Costs
in Police Court Yesterday.
PLEAD GUILTY TO AVOID TRIAL

Charles Cook, a homesteader il
the Rapid River country sixty mile
south Of Baudette, was fined SIS ant
costs in police. court yesterday. fol
having the meat Of a COW moose Ii
his possession. His brother Free
Cook, who was in district court here
last spring on a criminal charge, wa,
also arrested and brought into court
Charles Cook plead guilty to the ac1
and Charles was released. s ..
The Cooks were taken by Deputy
Sheriff William Hazen as his last Of
fetal act. He was sent out under
the Hazen administration and re.
turned under the Johnson. Evidence
in the case was gathered jointly by
sherm Bailey, local game warden
and e. G. Cook, who is no relation to
the arrested men, of Thief River
Falls.
Charles and Fred Cook are alleged
to be two of a group Of homesteaders
in the Rapid River country who have
made habit in the past of killing
moose in season and out and selling
the meat as "beef'' in Thief River
Falls The game wardens wanted
the limit of 800 assessed on Charles
Cook but his attorney threatened a
jury trial if the fine was not less and
in order to save the county the ex-
pense of such rial, the fine was
made SIS.
Mr.. Bailey learned some time ago
that four homesteaders in that coun-
try had six moose in their possession
and prepared at once to take a trip to
find out. The movement was tipped
off to Frank Cook of .Nebish, a broth
er of Fred and Charles, and he at
once sent man to warn his brothers.
The messenger left Nebish late.on a
Saturday night and travelled on
horse back across the Red Lakes and
up the trail to the Rapid River
country. Two of. the moose were at
once hidden, ~ .@ - j. : Z
Mr.. Hazen went into the home
stead country by way of Warroad
and Baudette. and had a mileage &C.
count of 404 miles. ..gssr, :.