The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-11-11
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
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NYMORE VOLUNTEER
ia FIRT DEPT. MEETS

Eitor of the Pioneer.
The volunteer fire department held
it's regular monthly meeting on Tues
day evening, Nov. 9. Considerable
business was gone over and in the
proceedings of the evening, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted:
Resolved, that as all acts of hero
ism and bravery be honored and trib-
ute paid, that the city fire department
Of our sister, city, namely Bemidji,
not be forgotten, inasmuch that her
fire department is the most conse-
Grated observer of the Sabbath Day
this side of A. D. one, with a fire
raging in the resident district of her
neighboring village, Nymore, once
mile away. They refused to defile
their equipment by using it on the
Sabbath day Of course, the manly
thing to do was to keep the Sabbath
day holy, and do no servile work
therein. God made a mistake when
He said that if your ass fell into the
ditch on the Sabbath day, you should
call your neighbor and pull it out.
He also said that thou shalt remem-
Der. the Sabbath day and keep it holy;
said that you should not defraud
widows and orphans, and with these
things before them and mans form
over the spirit Of the devil, the Sab
bath must be kept. Women and
children could be thrown on the mer-
cies of charity, but on the Sabbath
you should do nothing except loaf
around some show, and hope by your
actions that your neighbors, who you
tried to coax, force and other ways
to unite their citizenship some time
ago, would be forced to except your
We say with the Historian Voltiare,
if there was no hell, there would have
to- be, one for to receive any such
that could degrade the name of man
to commit such an outrage as this.
The plea that Nymore is in debt does
not in any way justify such acts, and
besides, we also come out and say
that our books have been receipted
and the orders accepted for this debt
that is claimed unpaid, although we
would not say that it is so. Such.
principle as that shown Sunday
would not be above confisticating the
same, which was $500 and the
auto bill was paid besides.
Arson is crime and refusing to
help put out fire is not much bet
ter, and the writer wants to say per-
sonally that in the year 1898 he was
ready to go and sacrifice his all in
the chances of the tropical climate
of the Philippine Islands, for Chris
tian nation, but had he thought that
such rotten deal would ever have
been given to man, by any subject
he fought for as was handed out from
Bemidji to Nymore last Sunday morn
ing, he would have stayed in the
Islands forever. The man that does
this or the clique behind him, and
backed him in it would do we'll if
they repent in sackcloth and ashes,
then beg forgiveness and take out
citizenship papers, for surely no man
or woman of principle can ever honor
such acts as that with the Fellowship
of brotherhood that we owe ourselves
and the nation to which we belong,
America, the home of the free and
the land of the brave. Brave, heroic
fire department of Bemidji. They
who could stay in bed on Sunday
morning when homes of many were
In great danger are certainly worthy
of mention, and one to forget them
should be forgotten out of that book
which will be read on that last day.
In the army of this nation they pun
ish such acts of cowardice, but this
will go unpublished unless should they
Of Bemidji ever stand in danger of
the like the Nymore department
stands ready to do and die to save
life and property for them if neces-
sary. And in conclusion we want to
say that we sorrow and grieve with
many loyal men and women that weep
over the acts Of those. that had the
power to represent them in this I'M,
manly and unneighborly act, and we,
like they, hope and pray that those
that were so debased in thought to.
do the likes will repent and try to be
men from this time on, at least.
Thanking all that are sorry and the
few who came and did what they
could to help us. Signed by, ~~'
s - S 6 Rev. J. T.. CALDWELL,
Representing Nymore Fire. Dept. :
Madison, s. D., Nov. 10.--There is
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