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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-24
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Fire is common occurrence
nowadays. There was terrible fire
near the Silver Lake school house
Tuesday. The school teacher and
children were sent home about II
o'clock. The neighbors hurried tC
the school house and soon had the
fire under control. Some seem tc
think that the fire was running al
the rate of 40 miles an hour, but
that was impossible as the wind was
blowing only about six miles an
hour.
Elizabeth and Edwin Simon and
Elma and Lester Peterson were
guests at the M. Sande home Mon
day evening.
Mrs. Irene Solomon and son, Her
man, Miss Irma Dye and Charles
Hedglin were Bemidji visitors Sat-
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Saddler and
Carlton Ladd were Bemidji visitors
Friday.
Elma and Lester Peterson trans
acted business in Bemidji Friday.
Charles Durand of Puposky was
a Bemidji business visitor Friday.
Mr. Durand drove his Overland home
from town. Everyone is glad to see
him driving his car again. 1t has
been one month since they say him
driving his car through the streets
of Puposky.
Miss Elizabeth Simon and brother,
Edwin, visited at the G. Peterson
home Monday.
A surprise was given in honor of
Mrs. A. Coy May 10. The ones that
attended the party are as follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rhoda of Be-
midi, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Coy and chill
dren, Mr.. and Mrs. William De-
Grave and daughter, 1nez, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dow Smith and children, Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Becker and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Becker and
children, Miss Gertrude Huntosh and
Henry Theil. Mr.. and Mrs. A. Coy
and children came to this county re-
Gently. They are employed on the
Fred Rhoda farm near Silver Lake.
Mrs. G. Peterson and daughters.
Elma, Mamie and Irene, and son.
Lester. were town of Northern Wis
itors Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Becker and
daughter, Pearl, son Earl and Miss
Gertrude Huntosh spent Sunday at
the Thomas Bailey home.
Misses Laura Simon and Jessamine
Long were guest of Puposky friends
Sunday.
Frank Maher has purchased a
Ford automobile from Charles Hedg-
lin.
Gilbert Peterson and son, Lester,
transacted business in Bemidji Mon
day.
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The Fishery gave a dance at the
Gust Berg home last Saturday. More
than As attended.
The Aardahl picnic held last Sum-
day was we'll attended. Dinner and
ice cream was served and large
crowd was present.
Miss Mamie Weber visited at the
Lish home Sunday.
Mrs. Roberts and children attended
the services in the Presbyterian
church Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haberle visited at
the Raymond home Sunday.
Mr.. Wonderland had an accident
last week while riding on his motor
cycle. He fell off and broke his COL
lar bone.
Mrs. Krogfoss who has been ill for
some time, is now recovering.
The farmers around here are busy
planting.
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Charles Gerlinger left Friday morn
ing for To11ey, N. D., where he will
visit his sisters and brothers before
returning to his studies at MAJ: leg.
ter college, St. Paul.
Thomas Croker of Minneapolis,
who is studying for the ministry
held service at the school house
Sunday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock.
His subject was "Prayer," and he
handled the subject very creditably.
After the service, Sunday school was
held, with G. Lawrence Dodge as SUI
perintendent.
Mrs. Frank Falls, who has ben
on the sick list, has improved.
Floyd and Lloyd Knott are stop
ping with their sister, Mrs. G. J..
Dodge.
Crops are backward owing to G; ii
nights and lack of rain.
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Some of the pupils in Miss Brond-
by's room have completed their writ
ing booklets for the school and coun-
ty exhibits.
Last Monday the pupils of the
fourth and fifth grades made char
coal sketches of lake scenes.
Miss Brondby took some snapshots
of her pupils last Tuesday.
The first grade has begun its
fourth reading book.
Some of the girls in Miss Duck
stad's room planted the school flower
garden after school on Tuesday.
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Miss Nina Knutson is spending a
short vacation with the home folks.
Irma Marcoe is visiting relatives
at Thief River Falls.
Miss Bertha Peterson, who has
been teaching at Sabin came home
a week ago to spend her summer va
cation.
Miss Agnes Fig departed for her
home near Goodridge Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jokela enter
tanned at a farewell party in Honor
of Miss Fig last Thursday. A deli
cious lunch was served and good
time was enjoyed by all.
F. J. Marcoe is making regular
trims to Goodridge with his Ford.
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The fires in this community are
all out now. The fires burned one
school house, barn and also burned
Mr.. Miller's house and barn.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. L. Edwards and
family spent Sunday with Mr.. Ed
wards sister, Mrs. William Wheeler.
Mrs. Frank Patterson spent Sum-
day evening at the home Of Mrs. H.
Aldrich.
Miss Alice Brennan visited at her
home in this town Sunday evening.
J. c. Ingersoll made a business
trip to Bemidji one day last week.
, George Brennan made business
trip to Bemidji Friday and bought a
team of horses.
Frank Annis and Frank Kesiner
of Elgin, ILL.,, have rented the Titus
farm, which they are going to plant
to potatoes.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-24
St. Paul, Mimi

feeling fine. My side and back have
stopped paining, the stools are not 80
frequent, and sleep well at night now;
which couldn't do before. I certainly
advise anyone suffering from kidney dis
orders to use Anuric. "-MRs. L. GU
F1LLAN, l64 E. Congress Street.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-24
WELL-KNOWN MINNESOTA
WOMAN SPEAKS.

i had been troubled
with disordered kid
neys for about two
years. My back
ached terribly, side
panied, and I had
frequent stools. Ilet
it run on until just re-
Gently, when l read of
DR.. Pierce's Anuric.
l have taken the
Anuric but a short
time b,,f ON now
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-17

THE WORkMEN AND WAR;
thought l would drop a few lines to
the readers of The Day Book on the
everyday complaint, War, What
For?" Is it any benefit to me or any
others of the working class? Why is
it we only hear or read a few lines in
the trust papers about the new COM
pulsoTy military bill? I suppose that
Just suits Major Mccormick, the
great war colonel in seven lessons. 1
expect he got his seven lessons in
the war from Bull Moose Teddy's
book.
It is about time for the workers to
make a hOller before they rush the
bill through congress.
Again the H. G. Of L.! Eggs are
scarce, but if you have the money
you can get all you can buy The
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-17

same with coal and lots Of other
things
There is only one way to end war
that I know Of: Take the kaiser and
the kings and presidents and all the
rest that want war and put them in
ring and let them fight it out as the
gladiators used to, and then I guess
you would not hear them hOlleTing
for war.-Frank Snider; 916 S. Fair
field Az.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-17

field Az.
TO KELLAM FOSTER.-You say
that you are against nonpartisan
elections because you believe that
officials who would be elected on a
nonpartisan slate would be a danger
to the working class because they
would be uncontrolled by political
party You further say that the Re
publican and Democratic parties
must exist for the following reason:
"Any power seeking to enact into law
a policy or a single measure must
control these officials" and so,
Friend Foster, if these are the only
arguments you have against non
partisan elections, you certainly are
wrong.
According to your own statement,
if the gas company or any other pub
lie corporation desires to grab a long
franchise all the head of such cor
poratiOn must do is to see the pOlit-
icaI boss, who in turn issues orders
to those in authority to enact such
a, measure into a city ordinance or
state law, and who do you think does
such a law favor? The corporation
or the public? You know, Friend
Foster, as well as do, that refusal
on the part of any such men in au-
thority to vote in the council or leg
islature against the wishes Of the po-
IiticaI boss" would mean for the par
ticular official digging his own po-
litical grave. Why? What is the
answer? Political organization.
Now let us digest the nOnpaTtisan
idea. Say the undersigned will be
elected as your next mayor and you
will be the next alderman of your
ward, including the other "a or So
alderman on a nonpartisan slate. and
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-17

ear on something you know would !
be highly cherished?
Did it ever occur to you, Stanley, |
while sitting at the Preside of your
large and palatial home in Lake For
est with your loving wife and family,
if through financial reverses you
were made a poor man, hunger and
poverty might come knocking at
your door? Perhaps your mind new
er gets a chance to drift off your mil
lions, but I'll say this much-if you
exercise your thought in what you
would do if compelled to work by the
sweat of your brow, your feeling for
union labor and all mankind would
be entirely different.
Stanley, you, l suppose, have chill
dren of your own. Think Of their
future. Your heart and soul, like
every other fathers, is to see them
go ahead through life in happiness.
So use the same consideration for
the poor men and women who toll
night and day at the Conway build
ing, whose aim is also to bring a lit
tie pleasure in the hearts of loved
ones at home.
l hope, if Mr.. Cochran publishes
my.letter, you will look at it in a hu-
man light and grant whatever is
asked by the striking janitors of the
Conway bUilding.-W. D.. Griffiths.
TILE MOpHMEN AMI MAD 7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
Held
By Grand Jury
In Loan Fraud
$1,000 of Liberty Bonds Miss
ing From Accused Mans
Safety Deposit Box

Elmer Dwiggins, former representa-
tive in this city Of the Bankers Life
Insurance Company, of Des Moines,
Iowa, was indicted yesterday afternoon
by the Federal grand jury on charge
of using the mails to defraud. The in
dictment was based on accusations
made by Assistant'United States Attor-
ney Ben A. Mathews regarding sub
scriptions obtained by pwiggins to the
United States Government Liberty Loan
OF 1917.
Charging Dwiggins with knowingly.
skilfully. unlawfully and feloniously
devising a scheme and artifice to de-
fraud divers persons" the indictment
consists of seven counts, each Of which
n based on the treatment Of alleged
Victims. Though it is charged by the
prosecution that 5000 persons were .af-
fectsd by Dwiggins's manipulations.
those named by the grand jury are NJ.
Doyle, +. B. Widmayer, |. W Farmer,
the Lenox Wall Paper Company, W. j.
Parker, julius Jorgenson and George
Ardon. The maximum sentence which
Dwiggins can receive if convicted on
any one of the seven counts Is nve
years.
On a court order Federal agents yes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
William Eugene Partridge

PASSAIC, n. j., Nov. William
Eugene Partridge, who had been editor
Of several technical magazines and a
contributor 10 many more, died here to-
day at his home, AZ Ascension Street.
lie was seventy-four years old, was
born in Monroe. Me-, and was graduated
from Wesleyan University. At the
time Of his death he was employed by
the J. G.. Brill Company, Of Phila-
delphia. He had been editor Of "The
Iron Age. Mechanics" "Anthony's
Photographic Bulletin" and Metal"
lie was a member Of the American So
ciety Of Mechanical Engineers and OF
the American Institute Of New York
City. His wife survives him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
Whitman Satisfied
With G.. 0. P. Here
Governor Leaves City After
Comforting for Week With
Republican Leaders

Governor Whitman expressed himself
as satisfied with conditions in the Re
publican organization at this end OF
the state as he left for Albany last
night after seven.day stay in the city.
During the week OF the Governors so.
journ in New York he had held confer
ences with practically all the Republi-
can organization leaders in Manhattan
and Brooklyn. Particular attention was
paid to the situation in Kings County,
where there were still evidences of
some fractional differences as an after
math of the recent city election.
Samuel s. Koenig, president of the
New York County Republican Commit
tee, was the last leader to call on the
Governor yesterday. Mr.. Koenig said
afterward that the party organization
here and throughout the state was in
better condition than il had been in
years.
81 believe that all disagreements have
been adjusted" said the Governor
"and on the whole ! am satisfied with
the condition of the Republican or
ganization hereabouts"
The Governor received a visit at tho
st. Regis yesterday from Theodore p
Shonts, president Of the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company Mr.. Shonts
spent an hour with the Governor. He
declined TO comment on the purpose OF
his visit, and Governor Whitman said
it had been purely personal and was
of no particular importance.
The Governor will return to the St
Regis on Saturday, and will leave for
Miami, Fla. on the following day, in
order to address the convention Of the
National Deeper Waterways Associa-
ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
Opera
Caruso and Marta Charm
. Big Metropolitan
Audience

We do not commonly regard Marta"
as a problem opera, yet the solution of
the servant problem as promulgated
therein ought 70 be of interest to any
modern audience. England was surely
"Merrie" England in those days, when
a gold piece would bind a servant 70
you for year. of course the servants
in Marta" did not stay bound, but
that was only because one Of them was
a noblewoman, and, the England Of that
day not being presided over by Lloyd
George, the aristocracy had certain
privileges.
At best they were great days for
capital, and to judge from Marta" no
body much objected.
Certainly last nights audience at the
Metropolitan did not object with Caruso
as Lionel, De Lucs as Plunkett, and
Miss Hsmpel as Lady Harriet.
Mr.. Caruso was again altogether
himself, and the opportunity the
music gives for the graces of bel canto
he accepted, as a rule, TO the utter
most. Mr.. De Luca was a worthy CO.
adjutor, though an utterly un-English
one Miss Hempel, now that she knows
low to sing THE Star-Spangled Ban
ner," has become altogether an An
glo-Saxon, and gave THE Last Rose
Of Summer" as il Berlin was as foreign
to her as Bagdad.
Mr.. Bodanzy, conducting at the Met
ropolitan for the first time this sea-
son, made the melodious, foolish, dear
old music sound like something we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
S5O,l53,O54 Total
OF c. A. Fund
Official Returns Show That
Amount Asked For Was
Far Oversubscribed

The final official returns OF the cam
paign for the Y. NJ. c. A. war fund
sent the total to s5O,153,054, far past
the original figure of s35,OOO,OOO set
at the beginning The revised returns
credit the Eastern Department, having
its headquarters in New York, with
more than s2O,0OO,OOO, and the Central
Department, with headquarters in Chi
cago. with more than s1S,00O,eoO.
DR.. John r. Mott, general secretary
OF the National War Work Council,
cabled to General Pershing the final
results. His message was as follows:
an most remarkable popular cam
paign, closed to-day, American people
subscribed $50,000,000 for work or
Young Mems Christian Association for
American army and navy and Allies.
Let me renew expressions of deepest
gratitude TO you for your own mes
sages. which eXerted wide and pro-
found influence. We are now in posi-
ton to afford you full cooperation
desired and assure you that 1t VIII be
Forthcoming"
In commenting on the results OF the
Y. VI. c. A. campaign, Colonel Roose-
welt said it was wonderfully signiti-
cant of the attitude of the people tow
ard the war. 1t shows, he declared.
that they are back of the war and
back of the folders.
AT this moment" said Colonel
Roosevelt, "the prime work that can
be done by this nation is that being
carried on by the fighting men: Every
man of sound body and eligible age
should be in it, Every man who can
not be in the thick of the fight, how
ever. can 90 no better work than
through the Y. NJ. c. A.
This is a peoples war, and it is
the people who have backed up the
Y. VI. C. A. | was tremendously i'm
pressed at Camp Upton last Sunday
by the immense amount of work being
done by the Y. NJ. c. A. for the sol
diers in training, and ! am very proud
that my daughter-in-law is now with
that organization in France"
In giving out the final figures,
George W. Perkins congratulated the
workers. He declared he had never
seen a more efficient organization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
Baker and Hurley
Tour N. Y. Harbor
Inspection Made to Co-ordi-
nate Facilities for Over
seas Shipping

Newton d. Baker, Secretary Of War,
accompanied by Edward n. Hurley,
chairman of the United States Shipping
Board, and Edward f. Cary, director
of shipping, arrived here from WASH
ington yesterday morning and MADE
trip about the harbor lasting three
hours. The inspection was made so
that the Secretary and his associates
might make a personal survey OF Ine
port. which would assist them in their
consideration of plans for an increase
Of the harbor's facilities. ,
The visitors were met at Jersey CITY,
where they boarded a scout patrol boat
bearing Irving T. Bush, executive
chairman of the War Board OF this
port; Major General David y. Shanks'
i. S. A.; William r. Wilcox, chairman
of the New York and New Jersey Com
mission for Port and Harbor Develop
ment, and Z. II. Outerbridge, president
of the Chamber of Commerce.
The patrol boat steamed down the
bay on the south and west sides, then
to the Brooklyn side, where short in
spection was made Of Bush Terminal
and the piers and basins OF South
Brooklyn. Returning via the Butter
milk Channel, the party Journcyed up
the Hudson TO SiXtieth street, Yhere
several new piers are being con,
structed. Mr.. Baker and mis- party had
an opportunity Of seeing the enormous
tonnage moored in the docks Of this
port. especially at the former piers Of
The North German Lloyd and Hamburg
American lines, in Hoboken.
Mr.. Baker and his party later mo-
tored 10 Newark, where they made a
basty survey of the shipping facilities
on Newark Bay.
Shortly before he Unframed Tor
Washington one OF the secretary rep
resentatives explained that the trip was
made to determine means TO arrange
for the coordination of all the facili-
ties of the places inspected, that there
might be brought about more efficient
and prompt dispatch of ships and car
goes to the ports of the Allies abroad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
Citizens Union Spent
S11,O43 for Mitchell
GSpecial Correspondence

Albany. Nov. 2l.--The Citizens
trnion according 10 the report filed
~ MS; he secretary day with the Seere-
~ tsrr ~ state, received and spent Sill
GA IN the last campaign to re-elect
Ws,or Mitchell. The largest contribu,,
.ors we're John D. Rockefeller, lr., and
William II. Nichols. who each gave
so5n Other contributors. included
SICV II. Dodge, Adrian lselln,
Charlns f. Lord, Mrs. II. Marnseil
Schieffclin. DIR. Abraham jacob VIII
am ] Burns. Mrs. Charles W. Cooper
I Henri r. Towne and l.. Gordon Ham,
ersley, 500 each. ,...o1 s716o N
Tammany Hall contributed sI,i9Vn 20
the Tammany Hall United CoIoreo s Ie
mocracy, according to the report ''eu
by Everett r. Chappell. c.,v Pc.
The repcr, of the Kings County ne
publican Committee showed that c Th.
tributions of s9,4O6 were received; Inc
contributors included Jacob A. LIVING
ston. $500; James c. CroPsey anu
J. II Krncke, 500 each; Meyer STEM ,
brink. $50; Prendergast campaign
committee, $4,000; Adamson eanpSa ,a,a
committee, $4,000; Republican Pm.
Committee. 81 900; Borough fres''ei'
Pounds, 500.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
Music
Miss Katharine Dayton Is
Heard in a Pleas
ing Recital

At the Punch and Judy Theatre yes
terday afternoon there was a recital
by Katharine Dayton, diseuse. A few
years ago she would have been called
a "monologist." but it is we'll that q
new name has been found, for under
the influence of Yvette Guiibert and
Kitty Cheatham the art of entertain
ment by mingled song, speech and
mimicry has taken on new colors.
Miss Dayton, in her scattered pro-
eramme, does a little of everything,
from musical limericks to tragic bal
lads of the sea, and does some OF it
extremely we'll She possesses much
charm and marked dizziness in deli
cate sort Of burlesque that is all her
own. Her voice, in its middle regis
tiers. is very prettily used.
From Yesterdays programme it was
Il little hard to form just impression
of Miss Daytcn's powers. Three
American minstrel songs, relics of a
good old day that is gone forever,
opened the recital in sprightly fashion.
The French Canadian folksongs and
the American Creole song were alto
gether charming, and two Greek folk
songs revealed a sombrc beauty.
But the musical nonsense which fol-
lowed proved trivial Miss Dayton is
inclined to carry mimicry too far in her
folksongs, and is hardly successful in
serious dramatic pieces. The great fault
of the afternoon, however. was the
scrappy and uneven character Of the
programme.
At the Evening Mail" concert, with
the Philharmonic Orchestra, in Car
negie Hall in the evening. the Grieg
concerto was played by Beryl Rubin
stein, a sympathetic and highly gifted
young pianist. and Marie Sundelius, of
the Metropolitan company, sang a group
of songs. Hadley's "North, East, South
and West" symphony opened the pro-
gramme,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
Find Liquor OH Lot

United States internal revenue off,
GERS found in Brooklyn yesterday TWEEN
ty.fve barrels of whiskey that had
been hidden TO escape payment ~
war taxes. Henry Abrahams, hotal
keeper, living at 1873 Conklin Avenue.
was arrested and held in $4,000 bail.
Several of the barrels were found in
the cellar and behind vacant house
AZ e4lO Flatlands Avenue, Carnarsie.
which is owned by Abrahams. and the
remainder in another house at III
Conklin Avenue. Suspicion was first
aroused by alleged discrepancies be-
tween sworn statements made by Abre 70
hams and the amounts named on ship
ping vouchers.
The revenue officials said that the
government intended dealing severely
with this case as a warning