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VOLUME XVII. NO. 198.
BEMIDJI SENDS
MANY VISITORS
TO BLACKDUCK
ONSOLDIERDAY
Brad and Ball Team Take
4*artin Day's Program
100 Make Trip.
AMERICAN LEGION POST
ORGANIZED DURING DAY
New Unit Inducted by Huff
man and Stanton, Local
Post Officials.
Over 100 Bemidjites were present
at the Blackduck Homecoming
-Thursday, including the Bemidji
military band, led by Director Rlggs,
and a Bemidji baseball team put to
gether in Bemidji for a game with
Bagley.
The affair was in, the nature of a
celebration in honor of Blackduck's
returned service men, arid various
sections of the county and adjoining
counties contributed to the 100 or
TOOTS soldiers, sailors and marines
present, all attired in their uniforms,
heightening the effect of the big
throng that spent the day in Black,
duck.
The score of the baseball game was
13 to 5 in favor of Bagley, the Win
ners taking advantage of several
costly misplays on the part of the
locals. They also batted heavily at
opportune tiriies.
Another feature of the day was
the'boxing match between Ray John
son of -Minneapolis and Harry .Brock
of Blackduck, which C. W. Jewett of
Bemidji refereed.
Throughout the day the Bemidji
band played and in the evening- pre-
sented: a concert which was warmly
received^ Dancing wa& alsq_afeat
ture*"6f the evening.
legion Joat' Organized.
The big feature of the day Was the
-organization of an American Legion
post, by Hallan L. Huffman, of Be
midji, Chairman of the Beltrami
Oounty Central committee, and H.
Mayne Stanton, commander of the
Ralph Gracie post of Bemidji. The
jjew post intends to be represented
at the state convention, to be held
during the state fair. Temporary
officers were elected as follows:
CommanderArthur Hustad
Senior vice.Earl Rader.
Junior vice'Henry Landord
TreasurerFred Reed
AdjutantNeil Witting
These officers will act as the exe
cutive committee until a permanent
organization is affected when the
charter is received
Attended Celebration.
Among the Bemidji people who at
tended the home coming celebration
at-Blackduck yesterday were: Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. Burke and family, Mrs.
o. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ly
can, County Attorney and Mrs. Gra
ham M. Torrance, Dr. Dannenberg,
Abe "Grossman and family, Mr. and
JMrs. J. H. Koors, Miss Marie Ray
mond of Duluth, who is a guest at
tNe Koors home, Alex Cameron, E. N.
Ebert'and family and Mr. and Mrs.
WiHiam Clish and family, Dr. B. H.
Smith, wife and sons,, and Dr. Smith's
latter, G. E. Carson and family, Mr.
aaiPISrs. A. Lord and party, Mr. and
Mi$.*$eerge T. Baker, daughter Rose
MarWMr. and Mrs. E. N. French and
daughter, Carleton Crothers, Mr. and
^jfers.
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Brown, John Messelt, A.
B. Palme party, Mills and
lI^IKmyrTrAchgnbTOfa and-family,
Mr. Rice and wife and three daugh
Jtof^-JHino OHve Cartts, W. Z. Robin
son, H. Z. Mitchell, D. S. Mitchell,
J. W. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. J, Dalton,
.Mr. ttnd Mrs. Fred Langdon and son,
air. and Mrs. Bart Stafford, Martin
Dunn and family, H. Mayne Stanton,
3udge C. W. Stanton, Mrs. C. R. San
Jborn, Dr. and Mrs. D. L. Stanton, Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Huffman, David Gill
and family, C. W. Jewett, L. P. Eck
strum and wife, Mr. and Mrs. George
Walker and daughter, Dale Walker,
J. J. longer, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Mc-
vNabfe, Misses Leota Hockett, Arlene
tyneau, Petra Larson and Marguar-
'?t teeters, W. L. Brooks, M]r. and
.J^T*. Charles Van, -Mrs.-^ William
3mith, Bemidji base ball team, anil
3emidji band.
POTATO BUYER ASSERTS
MARKET IS STRONG
F. G. Troppman, well known as a
-potato buyer and shipper, in connec
tion with his department store busl-
JF'^JlKB&, Temarked today in the course of
*Wa. conversation regarding the potato
situation that he had shipped four
carloads for a buyer, thus far this
spring, and sent out anoTHer car to
day.
Mr. Troppman said the price be
ing paid at present was $2 per hun
dred, with the small potatoes elim
inated, and that the demand was
"heavy.
SUGAR SHORTAGE IS
REPORTED IN BEMIDJI
BY MANY HOUSEHOLDS
Several Unable to Purchase
Any, While Some Secure
Small Supply.
It would seem from the results of
consumers attempts to obtain sugar
in Bemidji that there is a decided
shortage, as reported by the dealers
in the city. Several families have re
ported that they have been able to
obtain only a very small quantity,
and one famijy stated they were able
to secure only one pound after calling
the rounds of the groceries.
GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL.
Washington, Aug. 22.Active con
trol of sugar prices has been resumed
by the government, through an
agreement.reached between the De
partment" of justice and the food ad
ministration that licenses will be re
voked by the latter when it is shown
dealers have been profiteering.
Sugar jshould 'reach the consumer
at approximately lie a pound, it was
announced*, based on the ownership of
the entire domestic and Cuban crop
by the United States sugar equaliza
tion board, which is selling to re
finers at 7.28c a pound. Refiners are
unc|er contract with the board to sell
at J)c, less two per cent discount for
casty, wholesalers and jobbers are al
lowed a maximum of 68c per 100
pounds for handling and retailers are
permitted a profit of one to one and
one-half cents per pound making a
fair price lie, except in cases where
dealers have purchased at an "unreal
sonable" price due to misunderstand
ing in the trade. When this is a fact,
a reasonable advance over the actual
cost will be permitted.
NINETY-NINE POSTS
OF MINNESOTA HAVE
ORGANIZED LEGION
Ralpjb Gracie Post, Bemidji, In
the List Requests Ar-
2s*~
T- Complete organization of .99 posts
of the American Legion in Minnesota
is announced at state headquarters
in St. Paul, the legion being com
posed of returned soldiers, sailors and
marines.
There' is at least one post in every
county in the state except three and
organization work in these counties
is being pushed so that they may be
represented at the first state conven
tion of service men to organize the
state branch of the Legion. This
convention will be held in St. Paul
September 2, 3 and 4 and will be
made the occasion of a state home
coming reception for all former sol
diers, sailors and marines
Beltrami county is included in the
list of 99 counties, Ralph Gracie
post of Bemidji having a charter, H.
Mayne Stanton, commander. It is
stated that applications for charters
are being received at the rate of five
per day by George Chapin, state sec
retary of the organization, St. Paul.
LUTHERAN SERVICE TONIGHT.
There will be services in the Luth
eran Free church at Nymore this-eve
ning at 8 o'clock. O. P. Grambo, pas
tor.
WESTERN FOREST FIRES
SWEEP IN TORRENTS
(By United Press.)
Missoula, Mont., Aug. 22.With
ashes falling on Wallace and Mis
soula, "seriously menaced and out of
control," report flooded forestry offi
cials here from scores of camps near
the forest Ares in northern Idaho,
eastern Washington and western
Montana.
Help from Denver was rushed
here. The smoke in the city is dense
and business is practically paralyzed.
TO REVIVE RESOLUTION.
(By United Press.)
Grand Forks' N. D., Aug. 22.
The Grand Forks Commercial club
will make an effort to revive Senator
Gronna's resolution proposing one
cent a mile railroad fare for agricul
tural help. This bill which fixes a
one cent rate for help coming Into
the grain belt, providing they travel
under the direction and control of
the federal labor board, was defeated
last session. Present railroad rates,
it" is contended, by the local club, are
one factor in increasing the wages of
harvest and threshing workers.
ENTRIES COMING IN.
Rochester, Minn. Aug. 22.En-
tries for one of the best horse meets
in the northwest this season are be
ing received here today. The meet
is to be held during fair week, Sep
tember 10 to 12. A purse aggregat
ing $2,100 is"to be divided among
the winners. The card follows:
Wednesday, September 10, 2:30 trot,
nurse $300 2:15 pace, purse $400
Thursday 2:20 trot, purse $400
2:30 pace, puree $300 Friday, free-
or-^ll. purse $400 2:18 pace, purse
$300.
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BEMIDJI DAltY
BEMIDJI, MINN., FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 191 9
EW ORDINANCE
WHICHAFFECTS
STREET SIGNS
IS DUESEPT.1
Calculated to Prevent Head
Bumping from Low Hang
ing Obstructions.
AWNINGS MUST HANG
SEVEN FEET OVER WALKS
Already Provided for By Pre
vious Ordinance Some
Exceptions Made.
Failure to comply with the new
sign and awning ordinance,- which
goes into effect in Bemidji on Sep
tember 1, will mean that violators
are liable to a fine of $50 or 90 days
in the county jail
The ordinance is a late/me, passed
at the last meeting of the council,
and is calculated to prevent shoving
over the sidewalks, streets and alleys
of low hanging, head knocking signs,
wooden awnings, banners, flags or
decorations. They've got to be hung
at least seven feet from the walks,
streets or alleys and extend not more
than four feet from the building to
which they are attached.
That being a fact, there will be
several marked changes in the busi
ness district of the city
These are Permitted.
Banners advertising community af
fairs, cbautauquas, conventions legal
holiday celebrations or observances,
and along that line, will be permitted
to be flung to the breeze not more
than a week before the event takes
place, not longer than any one week
in any previous month, and they are
to be hung not*lees*than 25 feet high
oufc~.f ti^^jcyToi 'pedestrian* on!
walk, street or alley.
In several instances, it is claimed
long heavy signs are left to grow
dangerous in their fastenings and
liable to ^ause injury by a fall upon
passersby, and it is also to eliminate
this liability that the ordinance has
been passed.
HOUSE WIRING DRIVE
SWAMPS LOCAL OFFICE
When John M. Culver, special serv
ice man for the Minnesota Electric
Light & Power con oany came to Be
midji a few days pe,o with the inten
tion of institutive a house wiring
campaign, he po8Ffc
se the idea that
a number of residences would be con
nected, but the result has been that
orders for house wring have poured
in until he has been compelled to ask
the office headquarters in Chicago
for help in the installations.
In fact, over 60 contracts for wir
ing have been made and the work is
far behind, with calls being made
personally at the office to have work
done and the wiring installed im
mediately. And orders are still com
ing in, several electric irons and
washers being included as well as
other household electric equipment.
MASTER JOHN GIBBONS
COUSIN MET LIKE FATE
St. Paul, Alug. 22.Five years ago
this month the 12-year-old son of J.
C. Devereux, municipal court officer,
was drowned in the Black pool. He
has received a telegram from Bemidji
telling of the drowning of his 12-
year-old nephew, J. F. Gibbons, Jr.,
Thursday while swimming in the
lake.
The boy waj the son of Judge John
F^GIbbons of Bemidji, formerly* of
St. iPaul. He was the nephew of
Father J. C. Gibbons, .at one time
pastor of the Cathedral, who died a
few years ago.
MONTANA SHERIFF SATS
COUNTY HEBE PROSPEROUS
C. W. ^Powell, sheriff of Glasgow,
Mont., is among the business visitors
in the city. He states they have not
had any rain out there for six months
and the rain and country around here
looks good to him.
WILSON MAY GREET
PERSHING ON ARRIVAL
Washington, Aug. 22.President
Wilson may go to New York to greet
General Pershing, who is expected to
arrive from overseas September & or
9, it was announced at the White
House today.
It is not believed the president will
be in San Francisco to review the
Pacific fleet, September 3, as planned.
DANCE AT BIRCHM0NT.
There will be a dance at Birchmont
this evening" and a feature will be
good music.
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STRICT WATCH PLAN
IN LEGISLATIVE BILL
ON STORAGE PLANTS
State Official Draws Measure
ForjLegislation Regulating
Pood Supplies
St. Paul, Aug. 22.Aimed at the
high cost of living, a bill to regulate
eoH^totep^frkuifcts fcasijeen prepared
"Eftb%?g: Oakley, assistant attor-
ney*general,^ &.the request of Repre
sentative Frank E, Nimocks, Minne
apolis, who purposes to introduce the
measure as House File No. 1 at the
beginning, September 8, of the spe
cial session of the legislature.
The proposed law will make all
cold storage plants In the state sub
ject to license and supervision by the
newly created state department of
agriculture. Reports of all products
in storage must be made in detail
and filed quarterlyin January.
April, July and Octoberwith the
commissioner of agriculture
Containers must be stamped with
the date..of receipt and limitations
are placed on periods food products
may be kept in storage, as follows
Nine monthsDressed fowls, eggs,
etc.
Eight monthsButter and fresh
fish
Six monthsBeef carcasses, pork
and sheep.
Four monthsVeal.
Storage of food that is tainted, dis
eased or for other seasons unfit for
human consumption is prohibited.
While no special provision is made
for inspectors, the commissioner of
agriculture is called upon to make
periodical inspections and to perform
other duties in the enforcement of
the law.
STEEL WORKERS STRIKE
CALLED IN TEN DAYS
(By United Press.)
Youngstown, O., Aug. 22The
date for the nation wide strike, af
fecting 260,000 organized iron and
steel workers, will be announced in
ten days, unless the heads of the
United States Steel corporation agree
to arrange for conference with union
representatives, union officials have
asserjed,, &
"MYSTERIOUS" LADY
STATE ROAD CHECKER
There seems to 'be considerable
wonderment as to the continued pre
sence of a young lady who has been
frequenting Birchmont road the past
week, armed With a note boek and
spending the days along the roadside.
Guesses as to her mission have been
made and for the information of the
curious it can be said:
The woman in question is in the
service of the State highway associa
tion. The Birchmont road is a state
road and is annually checked for traf
fic each year, that the state may
know how much the road is used, in
judging now important it is and the
amount of money for its maintain
ence. A count of all autos are check
ed andi also vehicles that pass and
repoTt made.
Curiosity satisfied?
ARRESTED SECOND TIME.
Joe Durand has been arrested a
second time by Indian Agent John
son, charged with furnishing liquor
to an Indian. He has been held under
$500 bonds for hearing August 26.
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wind 8 tonight, tomorrow.
WHERE GERMAN DUCHESS IS P&
|e ex-duchess of Hessen will henceforth make the castle of Tarasp, In
rer Engadine, Switzerland, her permanent residence. The castle was
le duke of Hessen by the former proprietor.
PACKER'S SON-IN-LAW.
CLASSED ENEMY ALIEN.
HAS BEEN DEPORTED
Dr. Muck, Former Leader
Boston Orchestra, Goes
on Same Vessel.
DR. OARLOCK RETURNS FROM
POST GRADUATE COURSE
Dr. A. V. Garlock has returned to
Bemidji from a month's absence in
Chicago, where he took a post grad
uate course at the Illinois Eye and
Ear Infirmary. Dr. Garlock is a spe
cial practioner in these afflictions,
also in nose and throat, as well as
being a regularly registered physi
cian and surgeon, although his time
is not devoted to the latter.
Mrs. Garlock, whose home is Chica
go, and the children will remain un
til the first of September.
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THAT COST $5.50
MARKED $12 DT BOSTON
'Boston, Aug. 22.InquHy'Into the
high cost of Bhoes by the county
grand jury developed that some shoe
workers had been earning $120 a
week. These Instances were few,
but it was testified that many made
$60 a week while the average was
about $40. Boys have been getting
was displayed in a store 400 yards
from the factory marked $12.
POLISH WAR SECRETARY
PLEADS WITH ALLIES
By Carl Groat.
(United Press Correspondent.)
Berlin, Aug. 22Declaring that
Germany has resorted to massacre in
Upper Silesia, in order to establish
her power before th plebescite, was
held by Yorfanti, Polish secretary of
war, who pleaded today that the al
lies send a commission to organize
the country and preserve order.
"If the entente nations will not
send troops to pacify the district let
them give a mandate to the Poles,"
Yorfanti said.
vHk^^ CENTS PER MONTH
of
New York, Aug. 22.Count James
Minotto, son-in-law of Louis F.
Swift, the -Cbieaw- packer, *aa Dr^
Karl Muck, former leader of the Bos
ton Symphony orchestra, both of
whom were interned during the war
as enemy aliens, sailed from here for
Copenhagen on the Scandinavian
American liner Frederick VIII.
Asserting that he was an Ameri
can and not a German, but that he
sailed for Denmark "a man without
a country or a flag," Dr. Muck ar
rived at the pier with his wife only
a short time before the hour of de
rarture. He was accompanied by
operatives of the department of jus
tice, whose duty it was to see that
the musician boarded the liner
This done, a secret service agent
warned Capt. A. G. Thompson, com
manding the vessel, to make sure Dr
Muck did not leave it* within the
three-mile limit. Then ho took his
station on the pier at the gangplank
until the ship was warped out into
the river
Dr. Muckwhose lean figure,
swaying gracefully as he directed his
orchestra, had charmed so many au
diences in pre-war dayswas in a
bitter mood as today he took his de
parture from the land in which he
had been applauded.
$30 a week.
It was said that a pair of shoes __
sold by a manufacturer for $6.60 fan
partial embargo on exports
iol coal, sugar and other foodstuffs,
Euntil needs St this country have been
provided for.
The cold storage bill has been pre
pared. It requires all cold storage
Warehouses to be licensed by the
'commissioner of agriculture, and in
spected as to their sanitary condi
tktra. Each warehouse is to keep a
complete record of receipts and with
drawals of food, open to the state In
spteetors, and is to make a report to
the, commissioner four times a year.
All feod stored is to be stamped with
the date.
COMMITTEETO
LENGTHEN ITS
HEARING OVER
tREATY POINTS
gested That Greek, Irish'
^Egyptian and Other Prob-
'^V
lems Be Heard.
ARCHDUKE JOSEPH QUITS
Wv A S HUNGARIAN HEAD
V\V*v Austrian Rebels Attack Train
ftttof Supplies, Operated by
W the Red Cross.
A U\ By George Martin.
MvCUnited PresB Correspondent.)
\Washington, Aug. 22.Decision of
itna senate foreign relations commit
|eeVto lengthen the hearings on the,
treaty still further, by granting a
hearing to Greek, Irish, Egyptian
and mid-European representatives,
threatened today to renew the agita-
t|^n 'or taking the treaty out of the
committee's hands.
A majority of the committee took
JtmWsition that the subject peoples,
W^p'did not get a satisfaction at
latfs should be allowed to air their
jr^eyienceB.
ARCHDUKE RESIGNS.
Paris, Aug- 22.Archduke Joseph
has tealgned as head of the Hungar
ian proVertiraent and has left Buda
pest., a Vienna radio dispatch to a
S agency reported today.
REBELS ATTACK RED CROSS.
Washington, Aug. 22.Repeated
attacks by Austrian revolutionists
iipon an American Red Cross relief
supply train, travelling from Paris to
-Bucharest, were reported to Red
Cross headquarters here today. The
dispatch was sent by Americans in
charge and stated most of the attacks
were repelled by French, Serbian and
Roumanian soldiers, at the point of
rifles.
STATE PROHIBITION
LAW IS HELD VALID
Minneapolis, Aug. 22 The state
prohibition enforcement law, passed
by the last legislature, was held con
stitutional by Judge S Jelley in
district court here
The court overruled demurrerB to
Indictments returned by the Henne
pin county grand jury in fourteen
cases involving charges of selling,
manufacturing and transporting
liquor,.
Representative cases in all three
forms of alleged violations were cited
by Judge Jelley to be tried in the
state supreme court for hearings
early in the September session for
rulings.
STATE FOOD MEASURES
ARE BEING DRAWN
v
hlfo,' Paul, Aug. 22.Four bills deal
ipg' with the high cost of living are
being prepared for Representative
Ifrttttk H. Nimocks of Minneapolis,
Who will introduce them at the open
ing \ot the coming of the extra ses-
sion.- After study of the question, it
Jiiaft fieen decided that a state law lim
iting the amount of profit dealers
may earn would not be constitution
a}.
'dills being prepared by E S. Oak
ley,, assistant attorney general, are
88 ibllows:
Regulating cold storage of foods,
limiting time products may be kept
In storage, and providing tor inspec-
t|0&' by state department of agricul
"tjnre.
MAking it a felony to allow food
siirff* to rot and waste in the soil, in
earS,or on the ground,
gvs/fcinending antitrust law to provide
straight prison sentences without op-
tion.' of a fine, for conspiring to raise
prices on necessaries of life.
A A memorial to congress stiffing a
SHERIFF BRINGS INSANE.
..Sheriff Andrew Johnson returned
today from the township of Langor
With Per Olson, alleged to be Insane.
The hearing will be held tomorrow.
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