The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-02-25
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net REC [ { Pts OF
VOODDA Y BENEFIT / |
FOR R Ed ROSS
Total Receipts 500 80; Soft Roads
Prevent Several From Being
Able to Get Through.
TIP OVERS FREaUENT:: LOYAL, s
FARMERS BtTTIE TO FINISH
Spirited Rivalry Send Prices Sky
High; One Load Brings Nearly
Two Hundred Dollars,

Receipts from WOOD LAY y
amounted to 800. 90. From this
will come incidental expense, leaving
net s633.16
The expense of the dinner served
the visitors at the city hall BY the
Red Cross ladies was at least COM
pensated for by the supper served
In the evening at the city hall q by
the Red Cross, about $50 being Ing.
realized. t-. 81
Had It not been for the sudden.
turn to a warm day, there would
have been several more farmers ID
the Wood Day line in Bemidji Sat.
urday, and there were several dis &
appointed farmers. The reason Tor. OF.
their disapp tment was that owing
I. to the rise in temperature the snow "
on the roads became soft and they
were unable to make the drive over
roads deep in snow, soft drifts ant, and
sl0llding too soft to prevent eavy
loads breaking through and getting gl;.g
stalled.
One stalwart patriot tipped over
four times coming In but ne STUCK
to- IT and finally made It. Another r
started with huge load OF the best
wood he could find and was Obliged
Ito throw OF the top of the load TO
get through, I
Stick to Finish.
Another ins crossing the Ice on g g
lake had 8 most difficult time get
ting anywhere at all One drivers
load i went over three times. But
they stuck It out until they arrived,
while others olaldn Z get tilrough hat
all 5ssS.
However, there were 81 fine loads
81 all varieties of wood, various sizes
from stove wood up to pole wood,
\ wood for furnaces and wood for saw
Ing and splitting for cooking and
heating stoves, and the line stretch
"a from the Markham hotel corner
at Second street nearly to the court
! house at Sixth street. ts X
Kaplan Starts It.
AS the, loads lined up, eager buy
ers locked around and the loads SOLO
rapidly, those being S In on the
"grd6nd foOr,' being extremely Tor
tunate in securing fuel at reason son
able price. This didn't last long,
however, as Morris Kaplan and Al
derman Bagley got tangled up on q
big load .of wood brought In dis-
tance Of twelve miles by Wes Wrlgnt
Of Liberty township. This pair
started in to obtain the load and pc,
fore they got through with, the deal
Mr.. Wright was out the load, MT:
Kaplan was in possession OF the load
and the Red Cross chapter had $25
of Mr.. Kaplan's money for the the
treasury. :,
ing.
Load Brings $50.
Mayor Vandersluis and LaGrange
Worthington, manager Of the cleo
y tric light and power company, sort
Of got into mix over 9 load brought
in BY Mike Kerschbaum and they
went at 1t as II one held royal
flush and the other four aces. They
scrapped it out and when Mr. Worth
ingtoh casually remarked $5O, the
mayor answered, "It's your load.
w, N. Bowser and G. w. JeWett
was another pair that entered into
discussion on the wood problem, as
to who was to have a certain load
and Mr.. Bowser dug up $25 for the
privilege Of having 1t hauled to his
residence.
Last Load Nears $17a.
Sales ran along in this manner
until it came to the last load brought
in by Chris Hanson, who came SIX
miles and was the last to arrive: It
was a load of four-foot oak and at
tracted a large crowd, as it was the
last.
W. L. Brooks, H. G. Baer, G. p.
Carson, H. M. Stanton and c. w.
Jewett took hand and the fun
started. Everybody dropped out ex,
cept Mr.. Brooks and Mr.. Baer ana