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l i Af I '-f^r'*tf^^e )y^jW^W^W^ BEMIDJI WILL HONOR HEROES PROGRAM FOR DAY COMPLETE Memorial Day Ceremonies Will Begin at 10 o'Clock When Parade Is Formed. AUTOMOBILES NEEDED FOR POST AND CIRCLE Boys of World War Will Par ticipate and School Children to Have Prominent Part. THE PROGRAM 10 a. m.Parade will form at City Hall. 11 a. m.Ceremonies at cemetery, G. A.. R., in charge. 12Dinner for Old Soldier* and invited guests in Odd Fel lows Hall. 2:30 p. m.Program in Grand Theater, at which Attor ney P. J. Russell will be the speaker. STORES TO CLOSE. All Bemidii stores, banks, barber shops, offices and depart ments in the City hall and court house will be closed Memorial dav. Memorial tajf anore signiricent than ever before, comes tomorrow and Bemfjlji is prepared to properly observe the occasion, paying tribute to the heitofts who fought that tlieif country might live jn peace, prosper ity an^H^p^lnefiB.'" 'While, not eteb orstfev Beiriidji's observances of the day will be sincere, and the entire city will unite in paying tribute to the heroic dead. The day's ceremonies will be opened by a parade winch will lead to Greenwood cemetery where the G. A. R. will conduct a program, songs being sung by the school child renand Rev. Lester P. Warford will speak. The parade will include mem bers of the G. A. R. Post'and the cir cle, automobile owners oeing request ed to provide their machines for use by the veterans. Returned world war diers and sailors are urged to arch in the parade, and the school children will also make up a division. ttfiV-' Wifi Meet at 9:45. ^tejrurned' soldiers are requested to apia&r in uniform at the City hall at,'jJ*.4o tomorrow morning, and dur- ing'.'the march they will be under the coninfend of Captain Hallan L. Huff man' and Lieutenant Thayer C. Bailey. The sailors, with Lieutenant R/BV Lycan in charge, will assemble al^hie same time, and they are re quested to wear their blue uniforms and white hats. The line of march for the parade, led by the Military band, will be down Minnesota avenue from the City hall to-Second street, over Second street to Beltrami avenue and up Bel trami avenue to Fourteenth street, and thence to the cemetery. Russell to Sneak At noon a dinner will be served for members of the G. A. R.. and their invited guests in the Odd Fellows hall. At 2:30 o'clock in the after noon a program will ibe presentedWat the Grand theatre! Attorney P.. J. Russell to be the orator. The invoaa on will be said by Rev, Lester P. Warford and several selections will be sung by a quartette comprising Raymond Hannah, C. M. Jacobson, C. Boyce and N. K. Given. Mayor L. F. Johnson, chairman of the committee in charge of Memorial day plans, announced this afternoon thai the predictions insure a beauti ful .weather for Memorial day. Marshal of Dav Lieutenant Clarence Fourcault will act as marshal of the day. The position, .was to have been filled by John Essler, chief of police, who is suffering from ap ulcerated tooth. BEMIDJI K. OF LODGE TO INITIATE TOMORROW Bemidji Knights of Columbus are planning a large initiation for to morrow, a Fargo degree team to be in charge of the ceremonies. Thomas Lloyd, grand knight of the Bemidji lodge, announces that about forty candidates will be initiated. The .Initiation class will include candidates from Grand Rapids, Park RaJtHacSiacirarack. Nortbome, Nevis, Cass "Lake and Big Falls. The cere monies will start at eight o'clock in _^-"fhe morning and will continue throughout the day. ending with a big banquet in the evening. Bemidji men in charge of arrange ments are J.. P. Lahr, Paul Winkle sky.. Ed.v Goulds Brett Sud P. J. OXw^V'..,' ST* Wtllrm Ncwipapar Union* J** r, u. i^$k fjia Miss Helen Coile.v meniht'i of the "(hi'i 'Ihere' The.it ei league .uul "Y" entertainer, who returned on the Es papne with a German dispatch dog and a shawl with the insignia of every 01- vision before whirl) li jippeared. TEN SCHOOL GIRLS WIN HONOR IN BREAD MAKING CONTESTS List of Winners Announced by Miss Alma Samdahl.One Hundred Participated. Of the one hundred girls of the Bemidji schools who participated in the bread making contest this year ten have been announced by Miss Samdahl, domestic science instructor, as being entitled to prizes offered by the Beltrami Elevator and Milling company and each will be awarded one dollar. The prizes this year are smaller than previously because of the close competition, a larger number of girls being entitled to consideration. The county representative, to the state fair has not been decided. Miss Samdahl announces the win ners as being: high school, Lily Hovey and Carolyn Groves eighth grade, Louisa Golz, Edith Hurlocker and Dorothy Virts seventh grade, Helen Lahr fifth and sixth grades North school, Jane Lucas Central school, Inez Madson Lincoln school, Grace Evanson and Douris McClus key. ENGLISH PLEADS G-UILTY: JUDGE SUSPENDS SENTENCE Peter English, arrested in Bemidji several weeks ago on a statutory charge, was arraigned before Judge C. W. Stanton yesterday. He plead ed guilty and was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail or fined $150. As English is a soldier and the period of his, furlough has expired Jtidge Stanton suspended sentence that he might return to Camp Jackson. Eng lish is a Red Lake Indian. BASEBALL TEAM FOR BEMIDJI IS ASSURED Bemidji is to have a fast serai professional baseball team this sea son. This was assured this'afternoon aL a meeting of baseball enthusiasts at which John Dalton was elected pr.eskten* Fred Langdon, vise-presi dent and A. B. Palmer secretary and treasurer, of the Bemidji Baseball association. Perle Davis, who has successfully managed teams in Bemidji in former years will be the manager and he is planning to give the city a nine of which it may be proud. There is an abundance of local talent and several fast outsiders will be brought here. The first game will probably be played a week from Saturday. Business men are contributing well to the support of the team. The list of contributors will be printed in The Pioneer during the next few days. C. W. Jewett of the Jewett Auto company, left last evening for Min neapolis, where he will meet his sis ters, Mrs. .Frank Collier of Chicago, and Mrs. O. Holcomb of Los Angeles. They will spend a few days at the home of Mr. Jewett's farther at Linwood lake. Mrs. Collier and Mrs. Linwood may return to Bemidji with their brother to visit here for a week or ten days. DANCE THIS EVENING. Members of the Athletic associa tion of the Bemidii Box company will give a dance at the armory this eve ning. This is the first dance given by the association and promises to be an enjoyable affair. The Synco pator* wJH furnish the music SUCCESS HAS MARKED TERM CITY SCHOOLS ENDINGTODAY Enrollment Large During Year. Twenty-Seven Complete High School Course. ABOUT SEVENTY TO LEAVE DEPARTMENT Graduation Exercises Will be Held Tomorrow Evening at Grand Theatf/\? T- f-***!,* BEMIDJI DAILY PIONE VOLUME XVII. NO. 127 BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1919 FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH Following" "a "most successful year, during which the enrollment has been larger than ever before, the schools of Bemidji came to a close to day. "Twenty-seven students, who have -completed the required high school course, will receive their di plomas of graduation at the com mencement exercises to be held in the Grand theatre tomorrow evening^ \V. Deputy, president of the Be-* midji Normal school, to be the ora tor. The program for the commenced ment exercises is of much interest! There will be songs by the girls', chorus, senior girls, mixed chorus and the audience will sing "The Star Spangled Banner." There will be several selections by the high school orchestra, and Harold Dahl will play a violin solo, the entire musical pro grain to be presented under the di rection of Mls Ivy Conant, supervis-, or of music in the Bemidji schools. Honor Students Sneak. Features of the program will be the valedictory oration by Miss Esther McGhee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McGhee. and the salutatory oration by Miss Avis Cameron, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Cam eron. The invocation will be given by Rev. A. M. Whitby, pastor of the Baptist- church, and the diplomas will be presented by Dr. E. H. Smith, president of the Bemidji board of education. IV. G. Bolcom, superin tendent of the Bemidji schools, will preside during the exercises. Miss Evelyn Hall, principal of the department, announces that there are 70 candidates for graduation but that the successfu students will not be known before tomorrow. The certi ficates of promotion to high school work will be presented at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, the graduation exercises of former being omitted. years BELTRAMI COUNTY HEALTH SOCIETY NAMES OFFICERS Attorney E. E. McDonald Elect ed President.Meeting Will Be Held Next Thursday. Attorney B. E. McDonald of Be midji was named president of the Beltrami County Public Health asso ciation at a meeting held this morn ing. Dr. B. H. Smith was elected vice-president, Mrs. A. E. Witting, secretary, and J. C. McGhee, treasur er. The board of directors will include the officers and Rev. Lester P. War ford, Attorney George W. Campbell, Mrs. Eduard F. Netzer, J. H. Her mann of Tenstrike and Mrs. J. M. Reed of Blackduck. State aid of $302 will be given the' county association and a portion of this will be used in providing for a public nurse, the Red Cross chapter and the board of county commission ers having made appropriations. The county association will aid In health work at aU times. A meeting of the association will be held next Thursday at which a definite pro gram of activities will be mapped. MILL CITY BUSINESS MEN HERE TUESDAY More than one hundred Minne apolis business men will visit Be midji next Tuesday, coming with the trade tour of the Civic and Commerce association Twelve special cars will be necessary to provide for the tour The visitors wijl be in Bemidji for an hour, coming from Walker where they will have dinner. They will be accompanied by a large military band and will be in the city between 2:50 o'clock p. m.. and 3.:50, going from here to Crookston. SPEAK AT HINES. Rev. Blaine Lambert and several minute men comprising C. L. Isted. A. T. Carlson, S. E. Hurlocker, and P. Hines. will speak at the cen tenary meeting in Hines this even ing J*. L. Gilbertson of the Bemidji Box factory and wife motored to Grand Rapids today. They will go from., there to DuJoth, returning to Bemidji Sunday. "SM'**' 1919 GRADUATES OF HIGH SCHOOL Hildur Elisabeth Anderson Jaue Catherine Berg. Avis Beryl Cameron. Harold William Dahl. Alice Viola Blmquist. Elizabeth Flynn. Jen el la Charlotte Gladen. Minnie Louise Granvold. Harold E. Hankey. Isabel Hankey. Elvera Edna Hedman. Kenneth Elsworth Kenfleld. Myrtle Irene Madson. Esther L. McGhee. Muriel M. McGee. Alice Gertrude Minnick Elsie Matilda Nuss.. Arthur James O'Leary. Leo Gordon Opsahl. Margaret Estelle" Rood. John Brimhall Simons. Gertrude Smith. Marian Gladys Steidl. Qlga Pauline Stephenson. -Matlge Joan Eliza Trafton. farve John Washburn. -Theodore Rudolph Willits. AAMODT RECOMMENDS METHOD BY WHICH CUT WORMS MAY BE KILLED Agriculturist Offers Suggestion t- Whereby Gardens May be Saved From the Pest rt*. Many splendid gardens are hefhg destroyed by the cut worms, and so numerous have been complaints that A. Aamodt, southern Beltrami uuty agricultural agent, suggests he use of a poisoned bran mash is getting rid of the pests. Mr. Aamodt says: "Secure 50 pounds of bran, and about 2 pounds of Paris Green or white arsenic, and a quart of cheap molasses. These materials should be thoroughly mixed and enough water added to moisten but not enough to cause it to drip. Sometimes it is ad vocated to add a few tinely chopped lemons. "If the bran could not be secured iiise substitutes such as shorts, mid dlings, ground screenings, oats hulls, pr even clean fine sawdust, the later not giving quite such good results. Clover or grass cut up line, such as lawn clippings, would do. The idea Is to secure a satisfactory carrier for the poison and molasses, the later be ing the attractive feature. "This bait should be scattered sparingly near (three to five Inches) the infested plants about'sundown. This should ho repeated as the dry ing out of the bait loseB its attrac tion. Do not scatter Just before a rain or when sprinkling the garden !is the poison may be washed off and the effectiveness lost. "Warning to poultry fanciers. Do not let your poultry trespass. A gar den is not always the best place to catch the early worm. WOMEN ASK FUNDS FOE FOREIGN HOSPITAL WORK New York, Mny 2S. (United Press.)With traveling medical units promised for immediate relief in Serbia and the Far East, the Ameri can Worn en' Hospitals, the official war agency of the Medical Women's National Association, is conducting the last week of a nation-wide cam paign for $250,000 with committees in more than 300 cities and towns working towards the quotas assigned each state. New York and Illinois lead with quotas of $50,000 each, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have $40,000, California, $35,000, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Wis consin, $10,000 each. Dr, Mary M. Crawford, chairman of the Executive Board of the Ameri can Women's Hospitals, has appealed to state and district chairmen to make a special effort this week to obtain dollar memberships among the general public BUT ONE DELIVERY WILL BE MADE MEMORIAL DAY A. I'. Ritchie, Bemidji postmaster, announces that there will be but one delivery by carriers tomorrow morn ing. There will be no rural route de livery and the general delivery win dow will be open from nine to ten in the morning. RAINS RUIN CROPS. Judge J. E. Harris, of the probate court, has received a letter from Cad Wallace, of Kenton, Ohio, in which the latter states that heavy rains have practically ruined the crops, and that no corn has been planted in that state at all. Wallace expects to visit Bemidji during the summer, having business matters in the probate court. STORES CLOSED TOMORROW. Bemidjt business houses are to be closed all day tomorrow, that Mem orial day may be properly observed by all. Several of the stores in.the residential district will be opened from nine to ten o'clock In the morn ing that milk deliveries may be made. The Daily Pioneer will go to press at noon, allowing employes op portunity to observe the day. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kenfleld and son, Kenneth, motored to Minneapo lis yesterday. They will return the latter part of the week with a new Oldsmoblle AUSTRIAN TREATY WILLuc SUBMITTED MONDAY COUNTER CLAIMS PRESENTED (By United Press) Paris, May 29.Presentation of the treaty to the Austrii an delegates was postponed until Monday after a plenary ses- sion of the Peace Conference today. The conference met to hear a summary of the Austrian treaty read, and just before the session Premier Venizolea of Greece and T. C. Bratiano, former premier of Rumania, engaged in a wordy argument. As soon as the conference convened Bratiano arose and requested a forty-eight hour postponement in the name of the Balkan states. The request was granted. All of the German counter proposals were delivered to the French foreign office today. They comprise about 60.0Q0 words. The proposals will declare that, regarding the colonies the Allied terms are in contradiction to a just peace and are dominated by the principle that might is greater than right. Re- garding responsibilities, the document says Germany is .ready to recognize that she and her allies are responsible for all -the damages caused to their adversaries, when it is an historic fact that some of her adversaries, such as Italy and Roumania, enter- ed the war with a view to territorial conquest. The covenant of the League of Nations is declared to be in contradiction with numerous declarations of Germany's adversaries and that it does not realize a genuine League of Nations. S. D. BUTCHER SUDDENLY DIES AT HOME OF HIS SON S. D. Butcher, 65 years old, who had been viBiting at the home of his son, D. A. Butcher, died suddenly this morning., Mr. Butcher was up and around this morning, but as he was not feeling well he returned to bed, his death soon following. He is sur vived by three sons, all of Bemidji, Funeral arrangements have not been completed. REALTY TAXES MUST BE PAID SATURDAY Earl Geil, county treasurer, calle4 attention to the fact that Beltrami county residents have until Saturday night to make a payment on their real estate taxes for 1918 without fear of the additional ten per cent penalty that will be levied June 1. The law requires that at least a half payment be made before June 1, but a large number of people are paying their entire tax at this time. Every office in the court house will be closed tomorrow, Memorial Day. WILL REPRESENT BEMIDJI POST AT STATE MEETING. G. P. Irish will leave for St. Pau.J Wednesday where he will represent the R. H. Carr post of Bemidji at the state G. A. R. annual encampment. The meetings will be held In the old capitol, it being the first time in 60 years that Mr. Irish has been in the building. During the civil war Mr. Irish fought with the Ninth Minnesota and it was on the regiment's return from the south that he participated in a celebration at the cavitol. Mr. Irish took part in the Black Hills en gagements with the Indians and was in the service for more than three years. HIGHWAY OFFICIALS FOR COUNTY NAMED At a meeting of good roads en thusiasts yesterday called by Frank S. Lycan, Beltrami county director of the Mississippi River Scenic High way, a county organization waB per fected and officers named. Mr. Lycan, as a member of the board of directors of the state or ganization, is president of the county association. Attorney Thayer Bailey was named vice-president James h. George, secretary and treasurer, and these with the following comprise the county organization board of di rectors: Edward Paulson, county commissioner Representative A. E. Rako, Dr. Rowland Gllmore and George Miller. The first meeting wilt be held In the room of the Bemidji Association next Wednesday. The county organi zation will be closely affiliated with the slate and national associations. FIREMEN NAME DELEGATES TO RED WING CONVENTION Members of the Bemidji Are depart ment are to be well represented at the annual state convention which is to be held in Red Wing June 10-11-12. Arthur N. Gould and Paul Winkle sky have been named to represent the Are department and the delegates of of the Relief association will be Arne Sande and John Kline. Charles Dailey. chief of the Bemidji depart ment, will probably attend tbe con vention 1 PLANS COMPLETED FOR WOOL SALESDAYWHICH WILL BE EP JUNE 28 Storage located at 110 Third Street.-To Receive Every Wednesday and Saturday Officers of the Beltrami County WooJ Growers' association have com* pleted arrangements whereby wool may be stored until the Sale Day which is to be held June 28. H. M. Clark, temporary president of the as sociation, has arranged to have a man in charge of the building, locat ed at 110 Third street every Wed nesday and Saturday, when wool will be. ffeelved. No woo] will be accepted after Wednesday, June 25, and between that date and the date of the sale the grading will be done In pre^ay|tlo|LfoE the bld&ng. The bids ora* wool wtlTOfer seal ed and the committee in *iflUrge oi1 the sale will be privileged to reject any or all of the bids. The purpose of grading the wool Is to give the producer the price he deserves for high grade wool. By pooling the wool In the manner planned it mar be Bold In carload lots of 24,000 pounds, a higher price being paid. Growers of wool are urged to take care in packing the fleece, using a uniform style and having it tied neatly. Storage Insurance has been provided for. A permanent wool growers asso ciation will be formed the day of the sale and all interested are urged to attend. 0PIE READ'S SPEECHES BETTER THAN HIS BOOKS Ople Read, famous as the writer of southern stories and the creator of "Old Llm Juckllns," will be one of the speaker* at Bemidji's summer Chautauqua. Most everyone is more or less familiar with Read's books and his short stories which appear In the current magazines. It is said that his speeches are as interesting as his books and he has come to hold a high place among the platform speakers of America. Opl Read belongs to the old school of American journalists a type now passing. In the old days Ople edited country papers in the rural districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkan sas and it was in these localities that he found material for his best stories. He received his newspaper training under "Marse" Henry Wat terson. the veteran editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Some time ago Mr. Read was elect ed to the presidency of the Chicago Press club, an organization made up of the newspaper men of Chicago and the authors and magazine writers through the Middle West. This or ganization maintains elegant club rooms in Chicago and it is there that Ople may be found most of tbe time when he is not out filling lecture en gagements. As a humorous philosopher and orator it is said that Opie Read stands alone. He represents, It Is said, all that Is beet in southern oratory. MISS NUSS HOSTESS- Miss Elsie Nnsfl entertained Misses Myrtle Rain. Madge Trafton, Cather ine Jackson, Esther McGhee, Alice Eltnrruist, Gertrude Smith, Marian Steidl and Hildur Anderson at 7 o'clock dinner last evening 'ftg* izsagStaL-!" ^iSSSKSt tti*^Jb**.-'4&^4dfl&*<m*t w~.V