Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Insist on Kodak Goods—the goods that make photography simple and easy. Go buy a Kodak from experiencsd Kodakcrs sr.d save your time, patience and money. WE ARE HERE WITH THE GOODS. It will be a pleasure to show you whether you buy or not. Developing. Printing and Enlarging. Opposite Mannhelmer's. T. V. MOREAU CO. Opticians and Kodak Dealers, 114 East Sixth Street, St. Paul. “AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG THERMOMETER. ' 153 EAST FIFTH STREET................... DISCOUNTS TO STUDENTS. ST. PAUL, MINN. If you want to wear a Tailor made Suit, Oversoat or Pair of Pants at less than Tailor’s cost, then come to the Tailor’s Misfit Exchange, 238 HENNEPIN AVE., - MINNEAPOLIS Niffty Suits just arrived. 10 Per cent off to students. CHAS. A. OLSON. A. G. CARLSON. OLSON CARLSON, DEALERS IN Up=To=Date Footwear. Tri-State Phone 16403. 421 CENTRAL AVE., MINNEAPOLIS. North Side Office, Drug Store. Langford Ave. Tri-Stato 6637. E. C. HALL, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. Notary Public with Seal Phones: 6174. 6344; N. W. Midway 510 N. V. furniture Stove Exposition Hldg. Cor. University Raymond Avos.. St. Paul HOW ABOUT A uit Case FOR YOUR VACATION TRIP? We have them at ail prices. LIGHT WEIGHT MATTING CASES. 24” and 25” for $1.50 and up. Come and see us. F. V. GARLAND CO., 378 ROBERT ST., - - ST. PAUL.

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Get Your Graduation Suits of TALLAN I OUR GARMENTS ARE INDIVIDUALLY BECOMING, CORRECT IN STYLE, WILL KEEP THEIR SHAPE, AND ARE WORTH THE PRICE. TALLANT, NICOLLET AND FIFTH STREET MINNEAPOLIS. T. S. 16782. 0. E. LARSON UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER FLOAN LEVEROOS, SEVENTH JACKSON STS., ST. PAUL. Showing All the New Things in STEIN-BLOCH SUITS and SPRING OVERCOATS J. B. STETSON HATS, WILSON BROS. SHIRTS. THE BANISTER SHOES. 10 Per cent off to students. 1911 CENTRAL AVENUE. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. EYES BOTHER YOU! Have Your Eyes Carefully Examined and Fitted With Glasses DE MARS—OPTICIAN 3rd Floor Evanston Building, 122 6th St. So. Minneapolis, Minn. Both 'Phones. Students' Eyes Given Particular Attention. Kennedy Bros. Arms Co. ATHLETIC OUTFITTERS GUNS. SPORTING GOODS. KODAKS and PHOTO SUPPLIES. Cor. Robert and 3rd Sts., St. Paul. The largest and best Sporting Goods house in America. Regular 25c Meal for 19c. The Midway Restaurant J.H. HORNER, Prop. 21 Meals 3 4-00. 9 2 RaymoneAv. FRANK A. HOLCOMB, PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST DRUGS, MEDICINES AND SUNDRIES BASE BALL GOODS 960 PANE AVE., ST. PAUL. MINX.

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The Acorn VOL. I. MAY, 1909 No. 7 ARTISTIC EYE OF NATURE. Who can paint Like nature? ran imagination boast Amid her gay creatjor. hues like hers? And can he mi? them with that matchless skill. And lay them on so delicately tine. And loose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows? —Thomson. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE SCHOOL. It was in 1903. at the General Conference in Stromsburg. Nebr.. that the Swedish Baptists appointed a committee to consider the advisability of establishing a secondary school. At the next annual meeting. held in Kansas City, Mo., said committee submitted its plans and recommendations. The report led to the unaimous adoption of the following motion: That the brethren, Dr. Frank Peterson, Uev. O. P. Peterson, Rev. O. Bodien, Dr. Robert O. Earl. Dr. Drvid Gordh, Mr. John Halvarson, Mr. John Nicholson, be commissioned to organize a Board, to incorporate the same, and. in behalf of the General Conference, direct everything pertaining to the success ol the school.” In the minutes of the next annual meeting, in 1905. we read: — “The committee, appointed by the General Conference, has elected an additional number of members, and is now organized into a Board. The name of the school is Bethel Academy. Dr. Arvid Gordh and Rev. J. O. Backlund have been engaged as instructors. The school begins the second day of October in the new edifice of the Elim Church of Minneapolis.” The work of the opening year was divided into two departments—Preparatory and