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VOLUME XVII. NO. 84.
SHORTAGEOF
CLASSROOMS
PROBLEMFOR
SCHOOLBOARD
Seriousness of Over-Crowded
Conditions in Bemidji Out
lined by Supt. Bolcom
USE OF COTTAGE PLAN
HERE IS SUGGESTED
Two Departments Must Have
New Quarters Improve
ment- of Grounds.
Bemidji's board of education faces
a momentous problem in the matter
of providing sufficient acommodations
for the boys and girls attending its
Schools, and at Monday evening's
.meeting- of the board the importance
of immediate action was made known
by W. G. Bolcom, superintendent of
schools. It was made evident dur
ing a review of the matter that im
mediate action is required to relieve
the. congested, sitxiatidn, and that the
establishment of a new high school
within the next few years Is a matter
of absolute necessity.
Committees were designated to in
vestigate the recommendations of the
superintendent, which are:
"That a plan be considered for re
lieving the congestion in the high
school building. It seems that this
can best 'be brought about at this
time by plans looking to the removal
of the domestic science and possibly
the agricultural department, from
the building. Could this be done by
the introduction of the cottage plan
for the domestic science department
it would alleviate serious crowded
conditions in this building for the
present. I wish to make the point
that it is absplutely imperative that
something toe ton*.'
"That at the close of school any
extra rooms in! the Central building
that can be put in shape for clasb
room work, shquld be given prompt
attention. Tos work out our plant
fon semester promotions in the
grades it would* 'fiirextt'emeljr desir
able so to arrange tKe-Hpace" fiitlie
Central buildittg that lh addition' To
relieving the congestion there, the
fifth and sixth grades at north could
also be accommodate"?!.,
"That some attention be given the
matter of Buildings at the school
farm. Allow me to saxlhat wfth the
exception of t!he,chicken coop, all of
the buildings^ there are \n disreput
able shape and totally beyond re
spectable repair. 1, am of the opinion
that as a district here we should give
very serious consideration to the
"matter of the school farm and plan
to enlarge this enterprise materially.
Beautifv Grounds.
"That we again 'take up this year
the matter of improving our,school
grounds. To this end, I believe at
tention should be' given to the Cen
tral grounds. There are many va
cant spaces here thslt small trees
rhould be planted-in, and this prac
tice shpuld be continued year after
year until the present Box Eldei
type of tree is displaced by a hardier
type, such as the Hard Matfle or Elm
tree, both of much slower growth.
We should consider, of course, that
we are planning for twenty-five
years hence in this connection, ana
not for the immediate present. The
Lincoln school' grouds should be
taken care of and plans laid to take
time by the fore-lock. The high
school grounds should have further
attention, particularly along the
line' of making provision to keep
tresoassers off in certain places.
"That some consideration be given
to the matter of an ungraded or sub
normal room for the school system.
,This will appeal to you as of prime
importance when it is called to your
attention that
ourf
tive Paae
school al-
ready has a list at leasnurse twenty
children in the school system whose
mentality is somewhaO or consider
ably below normal."
Bids Are Rejected.
Three bids for the purchase of the
duelling owned by the school dis
trict and which stands on the prop
erty of the Lincoln school were pre
sented to the honrd. all being reject
ed. Leroy Elwell offered to pay
$610 for the structure, Carl Schon
castle would give $525 and A
Ritchie offered $500. The board
seemed to be unanimous in the
opinion that if possible the residence
should be moved to the school farm,
where it is much needed.
Superintendent Bolcom told of the
need of at lea=t two more teachers,
ono for the high school and another
for th department, ami mpntioned
that if his recommendation1?
are
carried out, proper facilities for the
commercial department now over
crowded, will be provided
The resignation of Christ
Johnson, janitor of the Lincoln
school was accepted.
A committee to comprise Dr E.
Smith, president of the board. K.
Roe, secretary, and Superintendent
olcom, was named to meet with a
committee of the Women's Commun
ity and,. Civic club and representa
tives of the Park board at the Com
mercial club rooms Thursday even
ing
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WASKISH FARMERS:
TO FORM NEW CLUB
NEXT SATURDAY
Permanent Organization Will
be Perfected.Shotly Has
Farm Bureau Committee.
Waakish township's enterprising
&oil tillers afre to complete the organ
ization of a Farmers' club at a meet
ing 11 be held Saturday when a con
stituiion and bylawd will be voted
on.
At a meeting held in Waskish Sat
urday A. W. Aamodt, agricultural
agent for the southern part or Bel
trami county, told of trie advantages
of a farmers' club and a temporary
organization was formed, officers to
serve until the meeting of next Sat
urday being named as follows: H. L.
Bowen, president and A. Reed, sec
retary. These,, officers were named
to.-draw-up the constitution and by
laws to be submitted at the next
meeting.
At the Waskish meeting Aamodt
spoke on dairying and on the fol
lowing dav at Shotly, where he
formed a Farm Bureau Community
committee, his subject was potatoes.
O. O Espe w^fts named chairman of
the Shotlv committee.
Red Lake and Birch Island town
ships, which were represented at the
Waskish meeting last Saturday, have
requested that farmers' clubs be or
ganized in their communities, and
this will be done, said Aamodt.
HERBERT TRANSFERRED
TO PLANT IN OREGON
Captain John H. Herbert, who un
til entering the military service, was
assistant manager of the sales de
partment of the Crookston Lumber
company here, and who following
his discharge from the field artillery,
was located at Chicago, arfrived in
Bemidji this morning and will leave
Friday for Bend, Oregon, having
been transferred to the Shevlin-Hix
on plant in that city. He will be ac
companied to Bend by his wife and
little son, John.
REQUISITIONS FOR MAY
EXAMINATION BEING MATTjm
Requisitions are being mailed
from the office of J. C. MCOhee,
county superintendent of schools, to
teachers of the rural schools request
ing the number of question papers
necessary for the examinations to be
held the last Week in May. Papers
are now being received by Superin
tendent McGhee from the schools,
90 of them, which conducted the ex
aminations the latter part of March.
Examinations will be held in the
following subjects: eighth grade
composition and grammer, arithma
tic American history, geography,
spelling high school civics, physio
logy, elementary algebra physio
graphy and first year English When
the requisitions have been returned
Supeiintendent McGhee will make
request to the state high school
examination board for the number
of question pipers needed
COTTIN'S SENTENCE IS
REDUCED TO TEN YEARS
Paris, April 9 President Poin
care has commuted to (en years' im
prisonment thf death sentence im
posed upon Emile Cottin, who, in an
attempt to assassinate Premier Ctem
enceati on February 10, last, shot
and se^erely wounded him ihe
commutation of sentence was on the
recommendation of Clemenceau
himself
SIX PE0?LE_KTLLED.
(By United Press
Sherman. Texa, April 9 Six peo
ole vere killed and a fcore reported
injured in a severe wind storm at
Trenton, Texas, early today
BEMIDJI DAILY PIONE
SIR THOMAS UPTON COMES WITH MIDDLE WEST MEN
The Aquitania as she appeared decking at New York with almost 6,000 troops from Wisconsin Michigan. Ohio and
other western statesYnd some notable personages, including half a dozen brigadier generals and Sir Thomas Upton,
the noted English yachtsman, portrait of whom is inserted.
PRATT IS NAMED SECRETARY
OP RETURNED FIGHTERS UNIT
Albert Pratt of Anoka, former
lieutenant colonel of One Hundred
and Thirty-sixth field artillery, has
been appointed temporary secretary
for Minnesota of the~"Amerlcan Le-
gion," which is being organized
throughout the country by returned
soldiers, sailors and marines, with
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as head,
Pratt recently returned from over
seas service. He also saw service in
the Spanish-American war. and on
the Mexican border. He has been
county attorney of Anoka for sixLeen
years and was a member of the leg
islature for three terms
SCHEMES PLANNED FOR
BENEFIT OF SOLDIERS
WILL BE REVIEWED
House Subcommittee of Five
Will Consider all Sugges
tions and Submit Report.
Chairman Theodore Christianson
of the house committee on appropriaj
tions, has appointed a subcommittee
of five to consider all the schemes af
fored for soldiers' relief ana! submit
a report, With recommendations to
the committee.
Representative John B. Hompe of
Otter Tail county, a veteran of the
Civil war, is chairman of the sub
committee Bert L. Kingsley, Min
neapolis J. McPartlin, Interna
tional Falls, and B. Pattison of
St. Cloud, veterans of the Spanish
and Philipine wars, and Blias Nord
gren of Sunrise, are the other mem
bers of the committee
A number of amendnints to the
Dilley bill, appropriating ?10,000,-
000 with which to pay each soldier,
sailor and marine ?100 were offered.
Guy E Dilley author of the bill, of
fered one, by which each soldier was
to be paid on a monthly basis an
amount to be determined by the com
mittee for each month he was in
service
Hiitjh Hughes of Minneapolis
proposed that the state create a loan
fund irom which a soldier may bor
row without interest for five years,
a sum sufficient to complete his edu
cation, to buy a home or a farm, or
for any other legitimate purpose to'
give him a start in life. In this
scheme, too, the amounts to be
loaned are left to the committee. The
subcommittee will consider all of the
aid plans offered.
MAIL COURSES FOR
THE RURAL TEACHER
The University of Minnesota, at
Minneapolis, throught its corre
spondence study department, offers
to the rural teacher, as to all other
citizens of the state, the opportunity
for home study in a large number or
subjects It aids in her preparation
for leadership, and she has a splen
did opportunity for community lead
ership. But to be a leader she* mu6t
be a student For a complete under
standing of economic unrest she
needs to studv political economy, for
the interrelation of school and neigh
borhood such subjects as Boclal as
pects of education and rnral socio
logy are helpful for a clearer com
prehension of our government.
American government and state and
local goverment wHl repay study. If
f-he desires to perfect her understand
ing cf thp snbfccts she is teaching,
this can be done.
TO HAVE PLENTY NURSES.
St Paul April 9 In the event of
another severe epidemic of in
fluenza or other diseases Minne
sota will have an extra force of semi
trained nurses to cope with the sit
uation. The University of Minne
sota tod-'v opened a nine week's
course in firit aid work bed making
and bathing, improvising comfort for
the sick and the csre of the baby
Miss H. Fisher, Red Cross nurse,
is in charge of the course which any
one may enter.
BEMIDJI, MINN., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1919
FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH
twnnwuh
FOUR MORE ARRESTS
FOR FAILURE TO PAY
FEDERAL LIOUOR TAX
ERROR CONTEST BEING
HELD IN HIGH SCHOOL
Much interest is being manifested
in the grammatical error contest be
ing conducted between the second
year English classes of the high
school under the supervision of Mies
Sarah Mitchell of the high school
faculty. The classes are divided into
sections of odds and evens, members
of one group attempting to observe
mistakes which are made in the con
versation of their opponents.
The chief benefit of the contest is
that the participants will be remind
ed constantly of the importance of
correct use of words in. their daily
conversation arid in the writing of
cdmpositions, and that they may
avoid entirely comments of slang.
Each student has a note book con
stantly at hand and in it are record
ed the words which are spoken in
error. The losing side is to give a
picnic for the winners Just as soon
as weather permits.
SAW TANK AT ST. CLOUD.
John Essler, Bemidji chief of po
lice, returned to the city this morn
ing from St. Cloud where he took a
prisoner to the state reformatory. At
St. Cloud last evening the chief was
an Interested spectator at the vic
tory liberty parade. In which a
"whippet" tank of the variety soon
to visit Bemidji was featured. The
chief sayB the parade was a great
success, even though the -weather
was disagreeable, and that the Elks
band, returned soldiers, the home
guard and other patriotic organiza
tions participated.
BENZ. YAKIMA "SPUD KINO."
SHIPS FIVE CARS OF SEED
F. Bens, of Toppenlsh, Wash., who
is known as the "potato king" of the
Yakima Valley, will leave for his
home tonight after spending several
weeks In Bemidji purchasing Russet
potatoes to be used in his home state
for seed. He has shipped five car
loads of potatoes and these will be
distributed among the members of
the Yakima Valley Potato Growers'
association. Benz says that he will
return to Bemidji for potatoes next
spring if be can secure seed that has
been certified
n"ito
i
Gagnon, LaValley, Billedeau
and North Bound Over to
the Grand Jury.
Frank Gagnon and Clarence La
Valley have been arrested again, this
time in consequence of liquor charges
brought by the United States at
torney. They are charged with hav
ing conducted a retail iiquor busineps
without having first paid the govern
ment internal revenue tax required
by law. Pete Billedeau and Frank
North were also arrested Tuesday on
the same charge.
Gagnon was arraigned before
Judge Hiram A. Simons. United
States commissioner, pleaded not
guilty and was bound over to the
Fergus Jvalls federal grand jury
whibhTjneets May 6. He-was'relcaScd
on bonds of ?1,000. LaValley and
North were arraigned and both
pleaded guilty and were bound over
to the federal court They were re
leased on bonds of $500.
The arrests were made by Indian
Agents W. J. Johnson and Charles
Benson^, Frank Brtfdley, deputy
United 8tates marshal, being out of
the city on official business.
SPARES BRING ALARM.
Sparks, caused by electric wiring
in the store of Wold and Olson, in the
Nymore section of the citv, brought
a fire alarm at 8 o'clock this morn
ing. The fire department rushed to
the scene, finding that no damage
had resulted
sss
PEACE COUNCIL
KCAUI ES POINT
WHERE IT MUST
AGREE O WRECK
(By United Press)
Paris, April 9.The Peace Conference, it was declared to-
day in certain official quarters, has reached a stage where there
are just two alternatives, the arrival at an early agreement, or
the abandonment of its purpose as a wreck. The period in
which continued discussion is possible has passed, according
to authoritative information. Everyone is showing the effect of
the long strain and there is a nervous tension in the air of every
delegate which carries an implied ultimatum on his lips.
A complete summary of the situation is provided by the
United Press through its correspondents in Paris, dispatches
coming from William Philip Simms, who is in touch with Pre-
mier Clemenceau Lowell Mellet, who has information from the
highest British officials and Carl D. Grout who is in communi-
cation with President Wilson and his advisors. The positions of
the United States, Great Britain and France are:
United StatesThe other allies have abandoned the four-
teen points and the principles contained in the armistice in favor
of purely selfish interests and they must come to a quick agree-
ment for a just and lasting peace or the Americans will with-
draw from the conference.
Great BritainAn agreement has been reached on all im-
portant questions with the exception of a few details.. The
peace treaty will be drawn up without sacrificing any of the
American principles.
FranceFrance must have adequate indemnifies or be
burdened by debt for the next century while the Germans who
caused the war will profit from her plight. Clemenceau, Lloyd
George, Orlando and Colonel House virtually agreed on the
peace settlement during the illness of Wilson. It is now up to
the President of the United States to ratify these decisions.
SENIORS REHEARSING
CLASS PLAY WHICH IS
TO BE PRESENTED HAY 9
Four Act Comedy, "The Fort
une Hunter" Will be Staged
by Graduates at Grand.
Under the direction of Miss Sarah
Mitchell, instructor of English, high
school graduates are rehearsing
their class play, "The Fortune Hunt-
er," a four-act comedy, which is to
be presented at the Grand theatre
May 9
The cast of characters will be as
follows: Nathaniel Duncan, the for
tune hunter, Leo Opsahl Henry Kel
logg, a rising joung financier, Peder
Peterron George Burnham, a promo
ior, Philip Denu Sam Graham, the
druggist, Harvey Washburn Mr.
Lockwood, the banker, Harold Dahl
Tracey Tanner, the liveryman's son,
Kenneth Kenfleld Pete Willing, the
sheriff, Theodore Willits: Mr Sperry,
the drummer John Simons Watty,
the tailor, Arthur O'Leary, Hi, the
old inhabitant, H/rold Hankey. Bet
ty Graham, the druggist's daughter,
Avis Cameron Josephine Lockwood,
the banker's daughter, Myrtle Mad
son, Angle, Josie's friend, Dorothy
Nanglc Roland, the bank caihier,
John Koors
With the end of the school term
drawing near, other activities pre
ceding Commencement will soon take
place Pel haps the most important
event on the social calendar will be
the Junior-Senior pom which will
take place Friday evening, May 2
A committee has been named to
make arrangements for this ball,
which, it i Intended, will be the most
elaborate in the history of the
school. LITTLE LAND SOLD: GOULD
EXPLAINS LACK OF INTEREST
James F. Gould, manager of the
stat land department of the state
auditor's office, was In Bemidji to
day, and this morning conducted a
sale of land at the court house. Only
a few acres were sold, this being ex
plained by Gould who said that the
desirable land offered by the state
"had been disposed of, but that Just
as soon a othor tracts can be ap
praised the demand for state owned
land in Beltrami countv will be re
newed.
SIDNEY DREW. COMEDIAN OF
MOVIES. DIES IN NEW YORK
I (By United Press 1
New York, April .Sidney Drew,
popular motion picture and legiti
mate stage comedian, died here to
day.
GUILD POSTPONED.
The Episcopal Guild meeting has
been postponed until Thursday, next
week, at which time it will meet
with Mrs. W Bolger, 1115 Be
midji avenue
NAVAL AVTATORi-
MAY HAVE LANDING
PLACE IN BEMIDJI
Patrol of Northern Forests
Planned by State Forester
CoxFederal Aid.
Bemidji may be designated as one
of the landing places for naval avia
tors which are to be used to patrol
northern Minnesota forests, accord
ing to announcement made by W. T.
Cox, state forester, in which he says
the work may be done without state
appropriation, the United States for
est service and the Minnesota forest
ry department co-operating under
the plan.
"The government has two na
tional forests in the northern section
of the state," Mr. Cox said, "and It
is believed no appropriation will have
to be made by Minnesota to obtain
aerial patrol service from the navy
department."
The naval aviators, he pointed out.
could easily "cover" the entire
northern part of the state as well as
the government forests while on
duty
The w of airplanes in the in
terests of fire prevention would not
do away with forest rangers, he said,
but would enable the rangers to ob
tain prouipt Jnformation on the lo
cation of fires.
ALL AMERICAN TROOPS IN
FRANCE BACK BY SEPTEMBER
(By United Press
Washington. April 9 Barring un
expected developments all American
troops In France, with exception of
the army of occupation, should be
returned to this country by the end
of September, Admiral McKean, act
ing chief of operations for the navy,
announced today.
FORM BUREAU COMMITTEE.
At a meeting to be held at the
farm home of Nelse Willets. in the
town of Frohn, a Farm Bureau com
munity committee will be organized
tomorrow afternoon. A. W Hoskins,
chairman, who called the meeting
will preside. ,The meeting will be
attended by Agriculturalist A. W.
Aamodt
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103 NEW LAWS PASSED BY
LEGISLATURE ARE LISTED
The legislature to date has placed
193 new laws on the statute books,
JuliUB A. Schmahl, secretary of state,
announced. Rated of greatest im
portance, according to one" state of
ficial, is the law establishing an
eight-hour day in state institutions.
The list includes four bills signed
Monday by Governor iBurnquist.
These were house files numbers 298,
1141,1147 and 677, the latter fixing
the salary of the Hibbing town presi
dent (Victor Power) at ?200 a
month and those of Hibbing town su
pervisors at $150 a month earh.
