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l. J. Flude Says Bemidji
Has Finest Chatauqua
Grounds in West.
WOULD LIKE TO SEE ASSOCIA-
TION ORGANIZED.
Offers to Take Twenty-five P"r
Cent of Stock and Thinks It a
Safe Business Investment.
L. J. Flude, who delivered a
lecture on the "Yellowstone Na
tional Park" ai the M. E. church
last Tuesday evening and who
for many years has been con
nected with amusement enter
prises in various capacities is
very much impressed with Be
midji. He says that in all his
travels which have covered prac
tically every state in the union he
has never seen a town that gave
the promise as a coming summer
resort that Bemidji does.
Mr. Flude visited Bemidji for
the first time Tuesday and saw
the city of pines wrapped in its
winter blanket of snow, but he
has an eye'for the picturesque
and he had been here but a short
time when he made the announce
ment that Bemidji was one ot the
finest natnral Chataupua grounds
that he had seen in his experi
ence. Mr. Flude was so much
impressed that before he left the
city he agitated the matter of or
ganizing a Chatauqua association
up with several business men and
made a proposition he would like
to undertake. He would very
much like to see a Chatauqua as
sociation organized and has a
standing* offer to subscribe 25
per cent of the stock necessary
to finance the ventu re.
During the past ten years he
has visited practically every Cha
tauqua in the western states. No
amusement enterprise has grown
in the public favor during the
past few years as the Chatauqua
has. During the summer season
there are no Chatauqua's nearer
Bemidji than Devils Lake, N. D.,
or Big Stone, S. D. Thousands
of Minnesotans annually attend
them. Mr. Flude sees no reason
.why when these are found to be
the paying investment that
they are that Bemidji could
not have one that would
draw from all of Northern Minne
sota and the Northwest. The
pines of the norttti country are
well known as a balm for many
ailments and in addition to the
people who would come to spend
the summer here for pleasure
many would find it a beneficial
health resort. Mr. Flude be
lieves that advertising will do the
business and make Bemidji one of
the most famous summexxesorts
in the country.
Ten acres of ground would be
sufficient for all purposes, it
would be necessary to have an
auditorium and secure a program
of Chatauqua talent. Then the
Chatauqua could bo advertised,
the excursion rates secured and
large numbers of people from all
over the northwest could be in
duced to spend their summers
here. The privileges of the
grounds, daily admissions and
the many features that rind favor
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Reed's Art Studio
Good Stages ot Water Will Make
Easy Driving in the
Spring.
The drivers will not be troubled
with low stages of water in the
streams in this vicinity during
the coining spring from present
indications. The snowfall of th
present winter will ive'.good
stages of water in allthe streams
with the opening of spring and
many drives that have been tied
up for several years on account
of low water will be successfully
moved to a market. Two large
drives on the Schoolcraft, each
of several million feet, will be
moved as soon as the weather
will permit. The Brainerd Lum
ber company's drive on the
Mississippi will also be moved
and all should reach Bemidji
within thirty days after the open
ing of the streams.
afrresorts of this kind would
easily be sufficient in Mr. Flude,
estimation to net a profit each
year.
He plans to return to the city
later and talk the matter up.
Little Falls Wants Lang & Carter.
Lang & Carter, who have just
located their broom handle fac
tory at Nary, have received a very
flattering letter from theCommer
cial club at Little Falls making
them an offer to take the factory
to that city. The Commercial
club makes a very liberal p*ro
position, and just how the matter
came to their attention is mystery
to the Messrs. Lang & Carter.
The factory is now located Nary,
and the Little Falls offer was a
little to late to admit of accept
ance.
Relief for Grand Rapids Mill.
The Grand Rapids paper mill,
which wras
seriously inconven
ienced last year by the lack of
water power, has received notice
from the government authorities
that in the future the government
reservoirs up the river will be so
regulated as to not interfere with
the water supply at that point.
The matter was taken up for the
Grand Rapids people by Con
gressmen Bede and carried to a
satisfactory conclusion.
The Little Fork Stage.
Little Fork Gaurdian: The
stage line that makes this point
from Northome has the unique
sign of two forks well painted on
the Tig, one of which is a tiny
thing representing the Little
Fork, and the other a large one
representing Ripple. It is only
a name that is large and small.
Some of these days little may be
big.
Wolves Tree Woodsmen.
Two woodsmen employed on
the landing by one of the logging
camps near Turtle River are re
ported to have had an unpleasant
experience with wolves. The
animals surrounded them and
they were compelled to take to
a tree for refuge for several
hours.
Snow Delays Train.
The northbound M. & I. pas
senger last night encountered
snow in considerable quantities
north of this city and was sub
jected to numerous annoying de-
lays.' The train did not reach
Keihher until o'clock this
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OS
LENTE N SEASO N IS
BEGU N
Forty Days of Fasting Begun
With Ash Wednesday
Yesterday.
SOCIETY WILL OBSERVE TIME
HON'OKE RELIGOUS FAST.
Bishop McGolrick Promulgates
the Lenten Regulations for
Diocese of Duluth.
Yesterday was Ash Wednes
day and marked the opening of
the Lenten season of forty days.
Until Easter Sunday, which falls
this year on April 3, social fes
tivities the world over will cease
and among the churches, es
pecially the Episcopal and Cath
olic, there will be special services
throughout the Lenten season.
After Ash Wednesday there
are no holy days until holy week
in the Episcopal church, but the
Catholic church observes Ember
days, February 24, 25 and 20,
during Lent.
At St. Phillip's Catholic church
yesterday, Ash Wednesday was
observed by the blessing of the
ashes and by mass at 8:30 o'clock.
Regulations for the members of
the Catholic church in the diocese
of Duluth have been issued by
Bishop McGolrick in a circular,
the substance of which is as fol
lows:
"All the days of Lent the Sun
days excepted, are days of fast.
"The precept of fast restricts
the use of food to one full meal
toward the middle of the day and
a collation in the evening .sot ex
ceeding the fourth part of a full
mealcustom, however, author
izing the taking in the morning
of a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate,
with a small piece of bread.
"For collation theologians allow
solid food to the amouut of eight
ounces. The solid food taken in
the imorning should not exceed
two ounces.
"When the full meal or princi
pal repast cannot be taken with
out serious inconvenience towards
the middle of the day, the order
of repast may be reversed, the
full meal or principal repast be
ing taken in the evening, and the
collation at an earlier hour of the
day.
"The use of flesh meat is al
lowed to all meals on Sundays,
and at the principal meal on Mon
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, except the Saturday
of Ember week (Feb. 27) and
Saturday of Holy week (April 2).
"The use of lard is permitted
at all times in the preparation of
food. Both tish and flesh meat
cannot be taken at the same meal
even on Sundays. Persons legi
timately excused or dispensed
from the precept of fasting may
use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is a general
permission to use it at the princi
pal meal.
"From the precept of fast are
excused: Those under the age
of twenty-one years or over the
age of sixty, the infirm and the
convalescent women bearing or
nursing children, persons en
gaged in hard labor or other du
ties exhaustive of physical
strength: persons who from po
verty are unable to procure for
the principal meal a sufficiency of
nutritive food.
"From the precept of absti
nence are excused: The young
under the age of seven years the
sick persons who are so situated
as not to be able to procure for
themselves abstinence food.
"In virtue of the authority con
ceded to bishops of the United
States by a recent pontifical in
dnlt, permission, is granted to
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all days of Lent, with the ex
ception of Fridays, Ash Wednes
day, the Wednesday and the Sat
urday of Holy week."
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Jill I New Laces
If
New Embroideries
I New Muslin Underwear
New Ginghams
New Wash Goods
Liquor Dealers' Ball.
The Retail Liquor Dealers'
masquerade ball next Monday
evening from present indications
will be the biggest event of the
kind which has ever taken place
in this section of the state. A
large number of masquerade
suits are ordered at Barker's
drug store and the committee ex
pects large delegations of visitors
from several of the neighboring
towns.
Camps Are Breaking Up.
The logging camps in this
vicinity are beginning to break
up. No less than ten camps have
C'
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BAZAAR
New Chatelain Bags
Our Spring Goods
acre coming some etre here balance on
the way.
gone out of business during the
past week. The winter's cut will
be finished much earlier than
usual and the breaking up will
be quite general in twenty days
more.
Saw Seven Caribou.
Caribou are reported to be
quite plentiful in the Big Fork
country. A party driving through
from Northome the first of the
week saw a herd of seven in
crossing the big swamp.
Ice Over Three Feet Thick.
Ice to a thickness of over
thirty six inches is being taken
from Lake Bemidji and is an ex
cellent proof of the fact that the
present winter has been one of
the hardest in vears.
If you want to know what smartly dressed men are wearing this season, ask to see Steln-Bloch Clothes."
STEIN-BLOQW I
SMART CLOnT^ms
HA^TMIS LABEL
BENEATH THE COLLAR
DO YOU KNOW
that you can wear fine custom made clothes at a very
moderate cost, if you come to us to be clothed? We sell
the ready-to-wear
Stein-Bloch Smart Clothes
which are acknowledged by clothing experts to be equal
in style, in fabric and in workmanship to the high grade
productions of the most fashionable "to-order tailors."
If you are a judge of fine workmanship you'll greatly
admire this apparel. If your clothes-knowledge is meagre
you may safely come here and let us show you what high
grade fabrics and superb workmanship are put into
Stein-Bloch Smart Clothesthe information will be worth
money to you now and for all time.
If you really want to be well dressed at small cost
and where is the man that doesn't?Stein-Bloch Smart
Clothes will do the trick."
Suits and Overcoats, $10 Upward
75he Clothiers
New Wool Dress Goods
New Trimmings
New Lace Curtains
New Hair Ornaments
New Belts
MA E POISONED
Mrs. Cummings at County Poor
Farm Exhibits Alarming
Symptoms.
Mrs. Cummings, the woman
who was taken to the poor farm
from Mill Park yesterday, is still
in a serious condition. She was
still unconscious this morning.
She exhibits symptoms of poison
ing and it is feared she has either
attempted to end her existence'
by some drug or it has been ad
ministered to her.
