The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-07-01
AVIATOR WILL
FLY HEREFR0M
MILL CITY IN
THREE HOURS
Lieutenant Manners, Whose
Flights Will Feature Cele- =,
hration, Come Tomorrow.
, 900 FIGHTERS TO
BE DINNER GUESTS
. 3Eram of Features Arranged
BY Chairman Harding-List
of Fund Subscribers.

=" Making the flight in three hours,
Lieutenant N. B. Manners. American
J. aviator who recently returned from
France, expects to reach BemidI to-
morrow afternoon from Minneapolis
and will rest Thursday in prepara-
J ton for his three sensational flights
which are to feature the Fourth OF
i. July celebration Manners has mott
fled G. S. Harding, chairman Of the
Bemidji celebration committee, that
he will send message from Brain
erd giving information as to when
he will arrive here.
Chairman Harding has practically
completed arrangements for the cele-
bration program and it contains a
series of features which is certain to
make the festivities Of the day the
most complete and successful ever
held in Bemidji Two contests which
are certain to attract interest will be
re tire changing and egg race
,v.Xents. The races and contests will
!6esheld in various parts Of the bust
ness district.
To Honor Soldiers.
~ If there is a hungry soldier on the
st, eets of Bemidji July 4, it will not
-, be the fault of the Bemidji business
j7men who are making preparation
, for the big patriotic dinner to re
eerved the returned soldiers free anc
the general public, the latter to pay
admission. Plans arc being made to
serve 1000 people and the dinner will
De given in the Walf d building,
formerly the old Otto SC 4wandt store,
on Third street, between Bemidji and
Beltrami avenue.
, Mrs. Tom Smart, who is at the
head Of the dinner committee, and
who has worked untiringly for the
past several weeks to make the af-
fair a complete success, announced
this morning that the following has
been secured for the big "feed"; $40
of meat, inclu!ing chicken,
VT0Sst pork and roast b, Is bushels
kf potatoes, 200 loa r bread, 80
bounds of butter s gallons
Yof@. cream, 81 milk, 20
pounds of eth Of loaf
sugar, 40 pounds of Ca rage salad,
several crates of>tomatoes, bushels
of lettuce, one bushel of radishes, 6
dozen punches OF onions, and one
b he'll of pickles. With the excep-
IN OF the meat all has been donated,
Mrs. Smart having solicited. the rest
of the menu.
!, These Have Subscribed.
r. l.. Given, president Of the Be
midi Association, this noon an
nounced that the following have sub
scribed to the celebration fund and
that 5000 is still needed: F. w.
,Rhoda, $1,000: A. D. Johnson. $500;
c. O. Moon. $500; VIM Everts, So
90; E. NJ. Satire, $500; J. E. Harris,
$500; Earl Cell, $500: H. =. Palm
,er, $1.00; Collard, $500; Geo. Steph,
's1.O0; Lars L. Lind, $500: Ben
Rosenthal, $1:00; J. Blonde, $500;
Joe Boucher, $1.00; Chas. Nangle
$1,000; Schroeder $1,000; Given
/, $1,000; Vandersluis, $1,000; Gill;
:. $1,000; Grossman, $500; Alex Dor
an, $1,000; Wilson Bros, $1,000;
Kaplan. $500 Boudac, $1.O0; Hun
man & OLeary, $1,000; Union Dem
. lists, $500; Kdbrs Bros, $25. 90: An
/ derson Second Hand Store, $500;
Bon ton Millinery. $500; Barker
$1,000; Crookston Lumber company,
800.
The celebration is to cost approx
mately $1,000, and Of the amount
1915 is secured from the balance of
asst years fund. Those who have
lot subscribed should do so at once
in order that they may help in max
~ ing the celebration this year the
greatest ever held, as it so we'll de-