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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
pre1bvterian.

Sunday morning at the Presbyter-
ian church at IL o'clock the pastor
will speak on the subject, "Wasted
Gains" proverbs 12:27). Sunday
evening at o'clock the sermon will
be on "The Rising Masses" (Mat-
thew SAD. Sunday school will
meet at 10 a. M, and Christian En-
deavor at z p. m. All are most cor
daily invited to attend these ser
vices. L. P. Warford, pastor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
NORWEGIAN CHURCHES
MERGED into ONE
(By United Press)

St. Paul, June 9.-The three Nor
wegian Lutheran church denomina-
lions in the United States merged at
10 o'clock this morning. The new
church will be known as the Nor
wegian Lutheran Church of America.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
CHURCHES
St. Philips Catholic,

Low mass at 8 O'clock; high mass
at 10 q. M; Sunday school at 1880
a. M; vespers and benediction at
1880 p. m. Father J. J. T. Philippe.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
MOOSE DANCE SUCCESS

The lodge of Moose gave another
dance last night in the
lodge hall which was largely attend
ed. Lunch was served as part OF the
evenings entertainment.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
RUSSIAN REGIMENTS
REFUSE COMMANDS
(By United Press)

Wy OH1COO Z 1851
Petrograd, June 9.-Four regi-
ments of the Russian army have re-
fused to obey the army officers. An
other regiment is reported to have ar
rested its own officers. All respon-
sible for the acts have been ordered
arrested.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
BADGER GUARD NOT
READY TO MOBILIZE
(By United Press)

Madison, Wis, June 9.-The mo-
bilization of the national guard, or
dered for June Is. has been indetin-
itely postponed. Equipment is lack
ing, asserted the adjutant general to-
day.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS


FOR SALE
40 acres good hardwood land east
of city and north of river; only $25
per acre: will trade.
20 acres joining first buy; in this
country; only $500.
91-acre farm 2h miles out; we'll
improved. A bargain.
40-acre farm 81 miles out, good
5-room house; part of crop in, andt
only $1,000. Easy terms. J
Well improved 1O-acre farm one
mile out, $1,000. !
4O-acre farm, 3 miles out, partly
improved, $1,05O.
VERY FINE THOROUGHLY
MODERN 7-room house and 2 lots.
Elegant location near lake and nor
NAL grounds. Only $1,000. Vacant
now.
Good S-room we'll finished house
and lot, only $1,000.
Good Groom house, right down
town; dandy little home for only
$3.50. Might trade towards automo-
bile and pay cash difference.
5-room house and one acre cleared
land, only $S25.O0.
My beautiful driving mare ruby
HAIL." made half mile on. ice. in
1903, harness and buggy. Cost me
$4,000; will sacrifice for $3.50;
buying automobile. :.
Good sound young horse, 1880,
only $3.50.
$4,000 Fair store stock to trade
for good improved land.
$50 pairs good new shoes to trade
for we'll improved 40, 60 or 80.
5-room house, lots, $500. Good
Overland 5-passenger car, $3.50.
Trade one or both for good improved
land Even deal.
3 good lots to trade towards house
or automobile and pay cash differ
ence.
Groom thoroughly modern house,
50-foot lot, reduced to $4,000; g
blocks from business center u
This is only a few of my bargainsa
Come and see. I'll make you twice
glad.
E. J. Willis,
Phone Al. lis 3rd St.
LET ME INSURE YOUR HOUSE
! OR AUTO. 5-613
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
EPISCOPAL.

Morning prayer and sermon II a.
m. Sunday school at IL. No vespers
during summer, months. First Sun
day in month, Holy Communion II
q. m. Third Sunday in month, Holy
Communion a. m. George Back
hurst, rector.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
Christian Science.

Services in the morning at 1:
o'clock in the Elks' hall.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Titus of Pine
wood were the guests of Mr.. Titus
mother, Mrs. Julia Titus, last eve
ming.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09
ADDITIONAL LOCALS

Miss Margaret McGhee returned
home this morning from Mankato,
where she has been attending the
state normal Miss McGhee gradu-
ated Thursday night and plans on
teaching.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-09

FOR SALE-Township plats show
ing government surveys and to
which has been added roads,
bitches and other local informa-
ton. CSC each. Pioneer office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

nobly to the plea for economy in the
use of staple foods, and are going to
much trouble to avoid unnecessary
waste. But there is little consolation
in the sacrifice, when it is realized
that great supplies of wholesome food
are being held back. With the single
exception of potatoes, which are
slightly lower in price. comments the
Rochester Democrat, all the official
talk about forcing the hands of the
profiteers has had little if any effect
in lowering the cost of even the pres
ent restricted living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

Latest dispatches from Italy indi-
cate that the Italians are holding the
line. Whatever gains the Teutons
are making are being paid for dearly
An the German victories since the
war began have been won thru vastly
stiDerfor numbers or refusal of their
aduersaries to fight. Wherever Teu-
tonic armies have been met by fight
ing forces of nearly equal size they
have been checked or turned back.
In view of these facts, German STRAIT
egv and German intrigue must be Civ
en- credit for the many advantages
gained over the allies. The German
victories on the eastern front and in
Italy were the results of. treachery.
Those in Serbia and Rumania were
due to overpowering numbers. That
the Germans are easily whipped in a
fair field was shown at the Marine;
that they can be held in check was
proven at Verdun. Better manage
nent and cooperation on the part of
the allies probably would have won
the war before this time. Every dis
aster to allied armies since their vic
tory at the Marine could have been
preyented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16
CONSERVATION "ExPERTs.'

The Nevada, Mo, Herald finds it
impossible to take much stock in the
advice of these high priced experts"
who are continually telling people
how to conserve food supplies
so much per tell. For instance" it
says, I'VE just can't help doubling the
practicability of advice from man
in Washington who draws big pay and
lives at a $10-a-day hotel to a man
we know in Nevada, Mo, despite the
fact that the Washington man has
s152, 100000 at his disposal for 'ad-
ministering' the foodless food law and
another $14,OOO,000 for making a food
survey whatever that is. We confess
to a feeling that this s166, 900, 900
would be mighty apt to do more good
if food were bought outright with it
and administered to the families
which are really hard pressed to get
along"
In round figures there are. con-
tinues the Herald, 100000 900 families
in the country. Probably not so many
actually are OF. will be needy this win
ter, but for arguments sake say that
one-fifth of them. or 1000, 900, could
use assistance to advantage. The
money congress has appropriated for
our food dopesters to blow in would
give each of these families $40 worth
of groceries, clothing and fuel if spent
direct. And where is the bonehead
who does not know that more, a thou
sand times more, good would result
from that than in spending the money
giving people advice on how to save
advice from fellows who know moth
ing about saving and skimping along,
because they live at s,eam-heated ho-
tells and pay $500 month for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16
CANADA's WAY.

In a published interview the Den
Pacific railroads, W. A Smith, states
that that corporation has put 1900.
American farmers upon Western Can
adam farms within the past year.
That may not seem a large number
but it does not tell the whole story
The Canadian Pacific requires pay
ment of $4,000 of those whom it settles
upon it's ready made farms" The
proportion of those actually settled
to those eager to go may be judged
from the fact that out of 500 appIi-
cations from tenant farmers of Texas
and New Mexico only 20 were classed
as good prospects, and of these only
three actually bought.
In telling of the arguments used,
Mr.. Smith speaks as a salesman. only.
He says:
Two of our best talking points are
the state hail insurance and the land
tax system.
Instead of paying high rates to
private insurance companies, a direct
tax is levied on the land in Saskatch-
evan and Alberta to pay off all hail
losses. In Alberta the rate is 2h
mills
There is no tax on personal prop
erty in Alberta. The farmer is not
penalized for getting more stock and
farming machinery, or for improving
his property. This means that the
Spectator, who is holding land out of
use, is taxed so heavily that he cannot
afford to hold his land idle. It does
not bear any more heavily on the
man who is using the land, because
he is exempted from other taxes.
"Since the war has started there
has been an additional wild land tax
levied, running to a maximum of $40
a section on wild land held out of any
use. This tax law was on the law
books years previously. but was not
enforced before.
1T has been brought into use now
to pay extra expenses caused by the
war. But it does not interfere with
the honest farmer who is using his
land and not holding it for specula-
/ ton. 1t lessons the tax on the real
farmer by collecting the additional
money from the speculator.''
Alberta is helping the working
farmer in a way that American Iegis-
lators are reluctant to follow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

The increasing activity of German
agents in this country is strongly in
dieated in the report of fire losses in
october. In the United States and
Canada these losses reached a total
OF S26. 3s4.45O, as compared with s17,-
701, S75 in October last year and $14,-
ass, $50 for the same month in 1915.
The unusually heavy October losses
added to the already serious record
thus far this year brings the total up
to $221,0O2,S15 for the first ten
months of 1917, as compared with
s9.4s1. 22O for the same months in
1916 and $14O,754,25O in 1915. The
losses OF October this year were in
creased by the large grain storehouse
fire in Brooklyn involving $4,000, 900
and the railroad dock fire at Baltimore
Involving sS.5OO,OO0. but aside from
these there was an unusual number of
fires resulting in losses anywhere be-
tween 100000 and s75O,OOO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16
LETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
From May. in Kansas, to Kate, in
New York.
BY ZOE BECKLEY.
Monday morning

Monday morning.
Kate Dearie: --.-.ssT
Listen: There is going to be. a
baby!
news? So please stop writing about
yourself for a while and write about
ME- 1 feel that L am the most inn
portant person in the world And If
it ever happens to you, you'll feel the
same way.
But it's such common event
you'll argue. My washerwoman can
have baby!
True, she probably can. Very fire.
queatly does (alas). But there is
something about the realization when
il comes to ones self that makes the
event take on a mystical, miracu-
lous quality.
why, even Curtis and his family
feel that 1 am suddenly person or
worth and distinction. That's the
best part of it. Kitsie; it has swept
away the storm clouds. Differences
have been adjusted, quarrels forgot
ten. l am happy again. Curtis is as
proud as II he had been elected presi-
dent of the United States. Why are
men always proud of approaching
parenthood and women just happy?
Picture me. dearie, knee deep in
yards and yards of nainsook, persian
lawn. dimity, scalloped flannel and
innumerable laces, manufacturing
you say should never be taken off the
piano keys') the most adorable gar
ments for that most adorable child to
be-and wondering at odd moments
whether / am just nodding over my
shorthand notebook and listening for
Kirby's buzZerl
But il is not all a path of roses.
Kate Far from It. have really
had an awful time standing a hot
spell we had late in the fall. then a
season of horrible blows and near
cyclones, with everything tossed
about and gritty, and terrifying to a
tenderfoot.
Then a period of feeling rotten
simply rotten is the only way to ex-
press it, with Illness and backaches
and other horrors. Not to mention a
young and exacting husband who
must be fed regularly and insists on
good housekeeping, no matter how
good for nothing the housekeeper
feels. oh. I am still suffering from
transportation. But, on the whole.
Kit. I'm happier than have ever been
before.
1t may not be a brilliant life, but
I am content to be way off here, baby
farming. with my own little house
my domestic round. my husband. my
hopes and my sewing, rather than
grinding out daily letters for Kirby
and the rest, chattering thru lunch
with the girls. walking ainIessIy on
Broadway after a 75-cent seat at a
matinee With dimes worth of candy
and the faint, vague, anxious prospecf
Of some man calling on me in the
evening! Oh yes, Kits. I'm better off
here, for I'm the domestic sort aftsr
all.
Curt and I have had our difficult
periods of adjustment. and the cook
ing and housekeeping with fncon-
veniences) have gotten on my aristo-
cratic nerves at times But again 7
summarize and say that I'm general 7
am entirely satisfied that ala the
wise thing.
Write me you're glad about the
babekin.
Thine ever NAV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

In addition to meatless, wheatless
ard sweetless days, it is announced
that we are now to have the riceless
wedding Isn't it. about time to sug-
gest a toyless and a turkeyless Christ
mas? Why leave anything undone
which is calculated to plunge the peo-
pie of the country into dependency
and gloom? Those who are engaged
IN telling the nation how to win the
war appear to think that the most
important means to be adopted is to
take the spirit out of the people and
remove every ordinary incentive for
living
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.l

ltrOm the AtcnlSon GLOBE
When a man forgets to wind his
watch it isn't a new watch.
An American is a person who eats
so per cent more than he needs.
Most of the inside information is as
unreliable as that on the outside.
What has become of the mother
Who used to iengthen daughters
skirts?
A good many 2-cent communica-
tions are coming thru at the 3-cent
rate.
A man doesn't know how much
wear there is to an overcoat until he
gets married.
Using cream as a substitute for but
ter in a cup cake is a good deal like
the economy of a short skirt that calls
for high shoes.
Vacations do a lot of good in spite
of the fact a man nearly always re-
turns to his work more completely
tagged out than when he left He is
benefited because he has had an op-
portunity to think of something be-
sides his work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16
DINNER STORIES

You'll have to pay fare for that
child, madam" said the conductor.
But he's only 8 years Old
1--WE collect for all children over IT,
well, why don't you have your
silly old rules put up where people
can see them?"
who owns million or he who has
seven daughters %
THE man who has seven daugh-
ters."
why SOP"
HE who has a million dollars
wishes for. more; the man who has
seven daughters does not"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

Meatless days may result in a bene-
fit to somebody, but certainly not to
the consumer. He pays as much for
a dinner of eggs. beans or any other
substitute as he would for a meat
ration. justification of the food con-
servation campaign is not apparent.
There is food enough of all kinds. in
the country, to supply the home de-
mand and fill all the ships that the
government has at its command An
other million dollars worth of eggs
has just been discovered in storage
warehouse. and vet eggs are selling
around 40 cents a dozen There is
enough poultry in storage in this
country to feed the entire population
for a considerable length of time, but
half chicken at the restaurants costs
so cents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

The latest proposal in connection
with the program of patriotic econ
omy' is one for a gasless day This is
needed more than anything else. The
flow of gas" in this country if it
could be made to serve some useful
purpose would be a most important
asset. But unfortunately it is of such
character that its entire elimination
would be highly beneficial to business
generally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16
ON SPUR 4 Fl MOMENT
BY ROY X. MoULToN

OF giddy life in gay New York,
The poet twitters,
But gay New Workers mostly are
Sad looking critters.
Except when some poor rural folk
Mere germ tranSmitters-
Blow into Gotham with roll,
Then New York filters.
We have the odorless onion. the
colicless cucumber the fireless cooker
and the wireless telegraph, and they
are all good, but it is a bet the kids
will never put up with the new 1917
whiskerless Santa Claus. 1t is pro-
posed to save the option for NUM-
lions.
R. K. M: The following gentlemen
are dealers in food at various points
in the United States. Please call Mr..
Hoover's attention to them:
George German, Rochester. N. Y.
Matthias Kaiser, Chicago, Ill.
James Lawless, Morristown, N. j.
NJ. Prussian, New York. H, D.
The Husbands Canning club is an
nounced over in a Jersey town.
Now seems to be the time to can
your husbands, girls. And so many
are doing it, too.
It's quite a movement.
HorrorsI
There are only 2OO,OOO,OOO gallons
of whiskey, gin and brandy left in
this country. Hardly enough for one
good souse all around.
War is gradually taking on sinister
~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

The German army in Flanders
seems to have lost the power to strike
back but still retains its capacity for
taking punishment. 1t yields but a
few hundred yards at a time to the
relentless advance of Field Marshal
Haig's forces. The line bends from
time to time but it does not break
Duration of the war depends largely
upon how long this can continue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

are to be placed to their credit as Wen
as to his own. Most of us can only
be foreign missionaries thru a subSti-
tute.
Some churches are more flourish
ing abroad than at home. Every year
their distinction between their home
and foreign work grows less and less,
and all insensibly to some or their
own members. the very largeness OF
the UNCONVENTIONAL bounds IS COM
polling close relations with other us-
nominations.
"Pn go over the cliff said boy.
elf father will hold the rope" The
cburcb at home holds the rope that
supports Christ's servants in foreign
lands.
Mission work is too great for indi-
viduals to undertake alone or even
for single congregations. Big bust
ness has organized corporations into
which individuals put. their capital
and which, thus made strong, act Tor
all. So the church organizes mis-
sion board in which all churches may
have a part. This is organized CO.
operation in evangeliEatiOn. A mis-
sion board enables church to work
on a plan that needs many years to
consummate. individuals may give
up the board remains, and the work
goes on.-R. p. Anderson.
The critics of missions are not per-
sons who are possessed of the most
facts about MISSIONS.
A widespread scattering of the
seed of the written truth is part OF
Christian propaganda that bears I'M
greatest literary achievement of the
greatest literary achievement of the
ages has been the translation and
dissemination Of the Scriptures and
Christian teachings among non-Chris-
| tan peoples.
| Everywhere in non Christian
lands the missionary is laying siege
| to the student body. II the leaders
of tomorrows thought are won for
Christ, the conversion of the nation
will quickly follow.
! In lands where women are Sc
| cluded, the missionary women work
in the privacy of their homes, lead
ing them to higher interests and loft
Ter ideals.
These are the brave days when
men and women are insisting upon
4 knowing. actual conditions, and. then
are unflinchingly facing them. This
portends great changes in religious
as we'll as civic and commercial life.
1t means, as many signs already indi-
cate, that the great company of level
headed, unbigoted church members
are growing impatient of sectarian-
ism and intolerance in mission work.
The churches are steadily and rapid
ly coming closer together in CO.
operative administrative work. They
cannot go too fast for the temper of
Christians generally, who are impa-
tent of mere narrow denominations
alism when there is a vast and vital
work of evangelization to be done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

If the war last another year. con-
Eressmen who come up for re-elec-
ton in the next campaign will have
a hard time explaining their failure
% include their own salaries in the
revenue bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

The expressed determination of the
federal food administration officials to
force spectators who are holding
enormous quantities of eggs, meats
and poultry in cold storage to dis
gorge has made the profiteers anxious.
but no palpable results have yet be-
come apparent to the consumer. The
people Of this country. have responded
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

There is no economic reason why
there should be exorbitant prices"
declares the food administrator If
the late Grover Cleveland were alive
he probably would comment: TT is
condition and not a theory which con-
fronts us"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

a9U. S. needs 100000 more hogs"
IS q headline in a farm journal. This
must of course, refer to the kind hav-
ing four legs, The war has developed
the fact that we have the other kind
in ABUNDANCE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

A Swedish Baptist church in New York
City recently rendered the nse OF their
church to Jewish congregation which
was unable to raise funds to build 4
synagogue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

The police Of Chattanooga are warning
to the soldiers from the trainfng cnI,ns
artificial stimulanfs - substitutes for
liquor. including spirits Of ammonia. ba !
rum and paregoric.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16
Keeping After Great Goals.

Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of The Young
Peoples Societies-Christian En-
deavor. etc.-For November. Is:
"Our UNCONVENTIONAL Foreign Mis-
sion Boards: Their History and
Achievements" lisa 55:1-13.
Before our eyes today we are see
ing the map of Europe changed. One
of the most historic corners of this
old world is coming under new rule
This means that all the old maps of
Europe are out of date. Consider the
consequences of this war to the man
ufacturer of aliases. schoolbooks
travel circulars, railroad timetables
prospectuses, etc. There is always more
involved in any notable action than
is at first apparent. So in the case
of missions The consequences of the
conquests of the cross are far more
widely distributed than at first
thought appears. 1t is no idle figure
of speech to say that the missionaries
of the cross have ever been the great
est agency in the changing of the
worlds maps. They who put new
ideas into mems heads are the ones
who put a new face upon the affairs
of history.
The very same forces that make
over an American or a Briton are
needed to make over Chinese.
Every missionary is only a repre-
sentative. What he does is not of
himself. He stands in the stead Of
the Christians at home who sent and
support him All OF his achievements