The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-15
'BEMIDJ FARMERS CLUB SELECTS MOTTO;
WILL Be ADOPTED BY CI1Y'S CITIZENS
Enthusiastic Meeting Held Saturday Afternoon at Which Value Of Be-
midj's Progress to Surrounding Community Was Plainly
Observation-Disclosures Greater Cooperation.
GRAY, FARMER AND Elk MERCHANT TELLS OF POSSIBLE RESULTS
Encourages Home Trade, Boosts Better Market and Predicts That Thou.
sands of Immigrants Will Be Brought Here During Next Few
Years-Bemidji Men Join Plan and Will Become Active.

How can we help make Bemidji
a city of $4,000 population by
1852" was the topic of discussion
at a meeting of the Bemidji Farm
ers' club held in the Carr Lake school
house Saturday afternoon.
Think Of it, merchants, farmers
and business men, a live, wide-a-wake
farmers club in our midst advocating
a slogan to boost the city, your city,
to a population of $4,000 during the
next ten years. If that isn't food
for thought, we never had any. Why,
it's a slogan every citizen ought to
adopt. It's a slogan every farmers
club in this community ought to en-
panel into it's constitution. It's a
slogan every loyal booster should alb
sorb and direct his efforts in accom-
plishing this end.
Daniel Gray, an ex-merchant of
Iowa and a prosperous farmer of the
town of Bemidji and pres
ident of tie Bemidji Farmers
club, in his address to nearly one
hundred people, said:
Fail to Realize.
ut looks easy to me to accom-
plish this. We don't know or realize
what our possibilities are. 1t always
takes an outsider to discover our
own advantages and possibilities.
We have the railroads, schools, the
soil, the fresh air, the appetite and
the right kind of men, both in the
city and country, to make Bemidji
a city Of $4,000 population within
the next ten years. All that is nee
essary is for all to do his part.
Buy at Home.
Loyalty builds up a nation. 1t
will build up state. a country, and
a city. We are a. new community.
Let us start right by acquiring the
habit of buying all II merchandise
at home. Bemidji is our home. W.
should patroniZe Bemidji merchants.
Don't send away for your goods, be-
cause money sent out will re-
turn. By helping build up Bemidji
we must keep in mind the fact that
the country will grow with it. 1t
will enable the merchants to pay bet
ter prices for our produce.
II have seen several different new
communities grow into we'll settled
towns and country, where conditions
are not to be compared with those
we have right at our own door. Be-
midi should and can be made a mar
ket where we a sell produce.
Street Cars Soon.
Land here at SIS an acre will
grow just as much and as coop crops
as will land in our states further
south which is selling for 5000 an
acre. The city will come to is.
RA0uiCI IAdI WAIAAA IAASS yooAo VIC
will have street cars within a few
blocks from this very school house,
and that before many years our farms
will bring a handsome price per acre.
."Bemidji can prosper in spite OF
us as long as the big saw mills re-
main, but when. they r gone they
must seek the cooperation of the
farmer. Most of them realize this
and they have shown this by coming
to our meeting and taking an inter
est in us. Petty differences between
one merchant and one farmer should
make no difference. We should be
more liberal with each other. W.
| should learn to forget these differ
ences and always remember that what
is a boost for one is a boost for the
other. We as farmers cannot expect
our lands to increase unless Bemidji
grows. 1
Proud of Bemidji.
"The city of Bemidji is a fine one.
We are proud of it. The service
there is good. The prices there are
fair, but it seems to me that here is
room for Improvement. 1t looks as
if Bemidji's aim has been to get the