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*ncTX tffiSCHOOLON is lunches S. aned 7 Called By fthe^'^ubertjr" Township Public Safety Commission Big TOERAHeE DYER, BROWN AND MRS. HETZER ON PROGRAM of loyalty Will Be Sung and All Are Invited to Bring Lunches and Spend Day. ^2 The patriotic meeting scheduled at ^the Pony Lake school house on Sun day afternoon is attracting consid erable attention in Bemidji and sur ,-rounding country and Indications are that a record'" crowd will be there. Visitors are requested to brjng their" make **day of lit. Th meetingaisregular called by the Liberty Township Public Safety* commission and is being spon sored by the Beltrami County Public Safety commission of which Dr. G. M. Palmer is president." Torrance On Program., County Attorney Graham M. Tor rance has been chosen orator of the day and will address the gathering on "The Duties of the American Citizen during the War." W. P. Dyer, superintendent of the Bemidji schools, is on the program lor an address and City Attorney M. J. Brown has been requested: to give a short talk on the Liberty Loan. Mrs. Netzer to Sneak. Woman's part in the war and the Jted Cross'work will be presented *hy Mrs. Eduard F. Netzer.. -In addition to this array of talent these will belongs* hychoirs and the ^entire assembly, of a patriotic na ~tx "to attend,:.- FARMERS' BOYCOTT CITIZENS WHO STOPPED N.P. LEAGUE MEETING (By United Press) St. Paul, Oct. 5.Over 350 farm ers at av meeting at Dumfries, Minn., declared a boycott upon Lake City merchants until they disavow and apologize, for preventing the Non partisan league-'meeting there. STATE IS SLIGHTED ON COAL, IS CHARGE St. Paul, Oct. 5.Judge John. F. "McOee, who has charge of the in vestigation of Minnesota's coal sup ply, and other members of the Pub lic Safety commission, are convinced the Northwest is not getting its share of the coal shipped from Lake Erie ports. To ascertain definitely whether the order to send coal to this section Is being obeyed, the commission will have checkers at each of the nine Lake Erie ports, to see a proper pro portion of shipments are sent to the -Northwests The shortage of both soft and hard coal is regarded as serious, and in-, auirers have been advised to buy their coal now, and not delay in the hope of buying at a reduced price. Judge McGee declared the coal sit uation is serious.. He has gone to the coal region to superintend the situation. 8,000 FROM CAMP DODGE TO DEMING (By United Press) Camp. Dodge, Oct. 5.Eight thou sand drafted men from Iowa, Minne sota and North Dakota will be trans ferred to Deming, N. M., a part of which will be taken from the con scripts to report October 30. ST. PAUL CAR MEN STRIKE TOMORROW (By United Press) St. Paul, Oct. 5.Unless some thing is done today, the street car strike will start tomorrow, R. P. Schroeder, state concilliator, declar ed, after trying to prevent the strike today. "*Ml*,lt-*. ctive Paae ^M&t&*-?-' ff-^f^' The Pioneer takes great jpleasujJe today_, in "Introducing Jyojy,. another of the new mem bers of its staff. He is a washl, and polish specialist and: wil play an important part in the great- automobile- -feature the Pioneer, is going to Introduce. \AiA$WtS AND VARIOUS CANS "Tomorrow, the Pioneer will present a group picture of its eight new members that have joined its staff to further the progress of the paper. Single Ad of Four Pages In "Pioneer" the Bemidji Weekly Pio feer, which made its appearance this morning, was one of the largest advertisements ever county. In fact it was eqt only once before and it was the Pioneer which contained it at that time. The advertisement occupied four full pages in the Pioneer and was that of the J. C. Pen-, ney company on Third street. The advertisement was the great fall announcement of the Penney store and each page was attrac tive in every detail, being pack ed full of bargains in endless variety. The Pioneer was selected for the huge ad, indicating that the Pioneer is recognized by the discriminating merchant as the medium which delivers tha goods when service and results are desired. SCHEURER COMPANY FIRST ON PROGRAM OF WOMAN'S CLUB "Music of the gods!" such a state ment might well apply to the com bination of violin, harp and 'cello. Especially so in the hands of real artists like Karl Scheurer, Henry Williams and Oscar Koch, of the Karl Scheurer Concert company, which appears at the Methodist church October 9 under the auspices of the Woman's Study club. These men all began their musical careers when little more than in fants. Today they rank among the foremost players of their chosen in struments. In order to greaty enhance and to lend color to the program Miss Mar tha Cook has been engaged to ap pear with the company as soprano soloist. Her beautiful voice will be heard to great advantage in this combination. Every lover of melody should cer tainly take advantage of the oppor tunity to hear, these artists in their forthcoming concert. FIRST SNOW REPORTED IN CENTRAL WEST (By United Press) Marquette, Mich., Oct. 5.The first snow in the Central West fell here today. It was over one-tenth of an inch at noon. The mercury registered 32 above zero. TO BE ORGANIZED AT BOTH ENDS OP LUNBMOWED *.^i Telegram to "Pioneer" From Held of District Tells Plan to Be Followed Here. .^.^1 ORGANIZE IN BEMIDJI OCT. 10 AND OCE. iZ & BAUDETTJ& This Will Give North and South Por i tiont of County Two Distinct U- Workin Forces.:._ ,r The" organization of "the Beltrami eounty Liberty Loan campaign, of which W. L. Brooks, eashier o)P|he Northern National bank, has b**endvan chosen the head by the officials of this district, will be effected in two places in the county, one in Bemidji for the southern portion of the coun ty and the other at Baudette, for the northern. part of the county. Last evening the Pioneer received the following telegram which is self explanatory: Minneapolis, Oct. 4-17. Bemidji Pioneer: Beltrami county will be organized for the Eiberty Loan campaign at two separate meetings. Townships south of range 154 will be or ganized at 2 o'clock, October 10 at a meeting in the court house-, in Bemidji township. 1 North of range 154 will be''' organized October 12 at on o'clock at a meeting at Baudette ROGERS, Chairman. Mr. Brooks intends to make a hard campaign that Beltrami county may do her part in the second Liberty Loan? eyen better than she did for the first ppe. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS St. Paul, Oct. 5.Congressman Er nest Lundeen has been dropped from membership in the Knights of Pyth ias, it was announced, by action of Hermion lodge, of which he was a member, after inquiry into charges that he had been guilty of "contin ued unpatriotic utterances." One of the citations in the charge was based on a letter one of the members of the lodge produced, which he said he had received from the congress man. In the letter Congressman Lun deen said he would rather stand with men in American history who at va rious times opposed wars, than with the*"two by fours who are now lead ing us into the world chaos." The charges were investigated by a trial committee and found true, amount ting to conduct "giving aid and com fort to the enemies of the United States in time Of war." In Washington, Mr. Lundeen "had nothing to say" regarding his expul sion from the lodge. He did not deny or affirm having had notice of the action taken, but said he did not care to discuss it. FORMER PUBLISHER HERE Paul F. Dehnel of Minneapolis is in the city and will be here for sev eral days while harvesting his crop of potatoes on his farm near Be midji. Mr. Dehnel was publisher of the Bemidji Herald while a resident of Bemidji. DISLOYAL MINISTER INDICTED HOPED FOR DEATH OF WILSONandGermany Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 5.The Federal grand jury in session here yesterday, returned twenty-six in dictments, thirteen of them against draft evaders or other alleged dis loyalists. Among those indicted is Rev. C. L. Lehnert, former pastor of the Central German Methodist church here, who is charged with mailing a Loan committee containing "lan guage of a nature to incite arson, murder and assassination. J. O. Bentall, one-time Socialist candidate for governor of Minnesota, also was indicted, charged with vio lation of the espionage act and with aiding and abetting those trying to jriolate the conscription act. HAD SLIGHT STROKE Elisabeth Stangle had a slight stroke of paralysis yesterday and was taken to St. Anthony's hospital. GRIDIRON GAME TOMORROW BEMIDJI 1 WILL MEET FOSSTON Bemidji closed its week of football practice for the Fosston game late yesterday with a scrimmage and long IjLjsfjBKal drill. For three-quarters of an hour or more the future gridiron greats struggled to show what they have learned in the first two weeks ef^rill. Both Fosston and Bemidji are pre pared for a hard battle and the game should be in doubt until the last If the Crookston-Fosston game can be taken as a criterian. Bemidji has a fast dashing backfleld, but Fosston has a heavy line and these men may be stopped. In weight there is not much in fa vor of either team. Following is the line-up and weight of each man the way the game will no doubt start: FosstonGranum (140) left end Vig (141) left tackle Thompson (150) left guard Lade (130) cen ter Larkin (137) right guard La- (145) right tackle R. Larson (185) rigjit end Brager (127) quar ter Hem (130) left half Kringle (133) right half Larson (145) full. BemidjiPhibbs (140) left end Opsahl (146) left tackle Koors (141) left guard Harvey (141) cen ter Knapp (130) right guard Grey, captain (152) right tackle Simons (143) right end Kittleson (130) quarter Morse (132) left half Tennstrom (139) right half Whit ney (130) full. JJighth grade students of the high school building will sell articles at the game for the Red Cross. Miss Hall will be in charge. New Party To RuleCongress, (By United Press) Chicago, Oct. 5.The new nation al party, composed of prohibitionists, socialists, single taxers, progressives and offshoots of other parties, in tends to hold the balance of power in congress in 1918, according to John Spargo, socialist, chairman of the conference closing today. There is no plan for a presidential candidate. The plan is for a nation wide convention to have a strong rep resentation in congress in 1918, he A joint committee of prohibition ists, socialists, progressives, single taxers and independents will meet to select a national committee of twen ty to organize each state. BRITISH HOLD SAFE HARD WON TERRITORY WILL RAID GERMANY 7 (By United Press) With the British armies, Oct. 5. The British bulldog is holding fast to the big bite on which its vice-like Jaws closed yesterday, close to a vital center of Lory's position in Belgium. German counter attacks failed. Counter Attacks Fail. London, Oct. 5.The British are in undisputed possession of the chunk of territory won yesterday. The counter attacks of the Germans were hopeless against the newly won posi tions. British to Retaliate. London, Oct. 5.The cabinet has proposed to carry out an elaborate plan of air reprisals upon Germany will raid German cities the same as has done in England. The new air fleet will act independ ently of the war planes on the battle fronts. WAR DEPARTMENT PREPARES TRANSPORTATION OF M^LIONS (By United Press) Washington, Oct. 5.The war de partment is preparing the railways for the transportation of millions of men and billions worth of munitions and supplies. In a pinch, practically nothing would be moved except these. Complete plans are in.the hands of the war department for turning all freight and cattle box car trains in to troop trains and all Pluumans in to hospital trains. HAS APPENDICITIS Joseph Loiselle of Deer River un derwent an operation for appendic itis at St. Anthony's hospital yes terday. xxM LARGE INTERESTS ARE INTERESTED IN MEETING TO PROMOTE Gathering in Bemidji Next Monday is Attracting1 BELTRAMI FORESTERS ARE SAFE IN FRANCE Mr. and Mrs. D. Gainey received a cablegram from their son, John Gainey, this morning stating that the whole "bunch" had arrived safely in France. NEW RESTAURANT Next week a new restaurant will be opened in the city, in the place formerly occupied by the Barney Erickson Toggery shop, which has been thoroughly remodeled. Frank Beach and John Larson will be the proprietors. WILL BE SELECTED TO HEA REPORTS OFST.MJLSPEECH Attention Throughout State. CR00KST0N LUMBER COMPANY AMONG THE MANY INTERESTED Northern Minnesota Bankers Will Be Approached to Make Loans at Satisfactory Rate. The meeting scheduled for the Commercial club quarters next Mon day and" Tuesday when prominent land men, railroad representatives, sheep growers, farmers and all others interested in-promoting the sheep in dustry ,in northern Minnesota, will discuss .sheep raising, promises to be. OB* ..6t:^^ -s^i0X^^iam^vii In--tula part of the "state in many ways.' The meeting is the direct outcome of the meeting held in Chicago sev eral days ago which' brought to light the fact that millions of acres of waste land in Minnesota could easily be utilized for sheep raising. Use of Idle Land Planned. The plan as formulated would bring about the development of vir tually all of the idle land and at the same time introduce into the north west an industry that would event ually bring millions of dollars in profits. "We are endeavoring to populate northern Minnesota with farmers! league whose presence will prove valuable to the country," said George Winter of the Crookston Lumber company in Minneapolis, "and in order to accom plish this end we must form an or ganization on the lines adopted by the Wisconsin Advancement associa tion. We must exclude politics from the organization in order to achieve our point. After a thorough inves tigation of conditions in Wisconsin, Michigan and other states, we are convinced that proper handling and careful dealing with the bankers of northern Minnesota, we can convert this state into one of the world's greatest sheep raising territories. Loaning of Money to Be Urged. "Our object is not entirely un selfish. We are eager to have the millions of acres of unused land oc cupied by the proper class of farm ers. To further this movement, we are preparing to approach the north ern Minnesota bankerswho here tofore have not offered to let the land buyer have money at a satisfactory rate of interestand it is our object to arrange for the successful launch ing of every prospective sheep raiser. While it is our plan to sell the differ ent parcels of land outright, the sys tem of leasing may be arranged in some cases. At any rate, we are de termined to make Minnesota a won derful wool state. "At the present time the northern part of the state Is more productive than the southern section. That is apparent in banking circles as most of the money flowing into Minneap olis banks comes from the north." (By United Press) Washington/ Oct. 5Charges of seditions utterances lodged against Senator LaFollette, are to be inves tigated by the senate. A sub-committee of five will be named by Senator Pomerene, chair man of the elections committee, to investigate the correctness of reports of LaFollette's speech, September 20, at St. Paul, Minn., and inquire into the correctness of his statements. The committee will then report to the full committee at the December session. IMPORTANT BRITISH VICTORY HAIG'S STROKE APPEARS (By United Press) With the British armies, Oct. 6. The most important victory of the war, was how General Haig's stroke appeared today. The enemy is com pletely disorganized. Praise is given all units engaged. English, Scots, AnzacB, New Foundlanders and Irish, all participated. Their victory ap pears to he one of the greatest land marks of the war thus far. LETS SEE1 DIDN'T., N.P. HEADS STAGE THE TREASON CHAMPION (By United Press) St. Paul, Oct. 5.The Nonpartisan league today appealed to Governor Burnquist for protection at the sched uled Fergus Falls meeting October 20. The charge is that Otter Tall coun ty Public Safety committee is mak ing direct indictment against the Governor Burnquist declared the league will have its legal rights and will be protected if it refrains from seditious talk. RUSSIA ON VERGE OF CIVIL WAR, REPORT i. (By United Press) Petrograd, Oct. 5.Russia is on the verge of a civil war, leaders in affairs of the new republic declared .today. NINE VESSELS ON PACIFIC OVERDUE: FEARS FOR SAFETY (By United Press) San FTancisco, Oct. d.Nine ves sels long overdue in the Pacific lane may have fallen victims of German submarine raiders reported to be op erating in the southern Pacific, ship ping men believe. The total cargoes are worth over 13,000,000. STATEWIDE PROBE FOR ALLEGED ALIEN EXEMPTION CLAIMS Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 5.Rep- resentatives of the department of justice have announced that a state wide investigation will be started immediately to determine the status of a large number of men who are alleged to have evaded military serv ice by claiming exemption as aliens. "From Information we have ob tained-it wonM appear that many draft subjects' obtained exemption through improper alien claims," said John McGivern, special agent. "These men will be promptly rounded up and turned over to army authorities and brought before Federal grand juries." PROMOTION DAY The promotion of pupils and the installation of officers of the Con gregational church school will take place tonight in the Fifth ward. --a******. !v -4-^=Vuji{i!KW-'!fc:'*