The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-11-13
BUSINESS MEN VOTE
SUPPORT NAT. GUARD
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committee. Why city scales? Ask
any farmer.
Establish a municipal social for
UNI, preferably at the City hall, to
make use of the assembly room as a
means of getting the people Of the
city to come there on particular
evening of each week to "get
ACQUAINTED" and have a social time.
The matter of serving light lunches,
etc., can be worked out by a COM
mittee.
"Devise ways and means of estab-
fishing a "White Way" leading from
the Union and Great Northern depots
to the central part of the city. ADJ
vertise Bemidji as being an up to
date town.
"Recommend to park board to get
busy and get in touch with Great
Northern railway and 500 Line, ask
ing for cooperation in establishing
a city entrance wark, making use of
railroad grounds between 500 and
Great Northern right-of-way and Be-
midi and Minnesota avenues.
ALSO to park board, to purchase
and place for use Of children in Ii
brary park, various amusement fix
lures.
Request Electric Light company
to light up in display colors of red,
white and blue at city entrance an
archway, that shall be considered the
gateway to. the city on the north
side of depots.
Educate Police Force.
Educate our police force to be-
come efficient firemen so that their
services can be used constructively
in emergency cases of fire. Give
them, furthermore, to understand
that "pest houses" of all kinds must
be abolished.
paper waste can be re-utilized.
This is something that the Salvation
Army should be requested to take
hold Of. Get them paper baler
and let them collect all such waste
by employing someone to call regu-
larly through the city and take up
all waste.
'Torn and rotting sacks are being
burned up every day or thrown" into
garbage piles and yet burlap is worth
20 cents or more per yard. Common
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rags and pitch, or asphalt.
"A city garbage bureau will pay
for itself, assuming that the Saliva
ton Army does not take hold Of the
idea.
"There is nothing under the sun
that cannot be re-utilized, no matter
how bad the smell. i
why not organize class to study
utilization of waste? There is moth
ing lost in the universe. Whatsoever
we give out must come back in some
form. It is wasteful to destroy but
it is beneficial to build up. If each
of us were to try and rebuild to the
same extent that he destroys, there
would be some happiness to exist
ence. Let US all become producers.
Today the great mass of us are nom
producers, although every living one
of US is a consumer. .,..-..
y "The pool room Of today and the
bar room Of yesterday was and is
:. the recreation ground where we all
meet Is pass part " our' so-called
rest hours, playing cards or pool or
something else. There would be no
excuse for its existence if we were
given some real live means to exer-
else our body and mind. How about
a combination gymnasium and turk
ish bath, addendum, to our other
prospects? Let US get everyone busy
to think out something that will be
of benefit to the citizenship Of the
city.
What Thi. City Needs.
"City garbage collecting and in
Generator.
''City scales.
RAILROAD scales.
Improvement of Diamond Point
"Staking off danger zone at Dia-
mond Point.
municipal social forum.
"City park entrance.
"'White Way from Union and
Great Northern depots on Beltrami
and Minnesota avenues, leading to
court house.
How to Increase Population.
''Invite industrial enterprises.
mattress and upholstery factory
could be located here, if we can ar
range for Box company and Crook
ston hill to convert by-product into
excelsior.
'POtato chip enterprise can De op-
Grated here to advantage.
Foundry would pay here if right
party took hold.
'Land exchange bureau, under
supervision and control Of the banks
of this city, to institute campaign
of propaganda, circularizing sections
of the country that have crop failures
showing advantages of our lands for
potato and dairying. Although this
would have a tendency to eliminate
the individual land agency it could
at the same time utilize man hav-
ing land selling and prospecting ex'
perience to superintend this venture
It is self-evident that additional
weight would be given by persons
reading such literature if they know
definitely that this is public spirited
proposition.
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