The Order of Benedictine Sisters has decided to open a hospital in Bemidji at once. Mother Scholastica was in town on Saturday last, and rented for the temporary purpose the upper floor of Charles Nangle’s store building, which will at once be fitted up for use this winter. It was the original intention of the Sisters to build a hospital this fall, but owing to some hitch between the order and townsite company, building has been deferred until spring, when in all probability a handsome edifice will be erected near the lake shore. The temporary quarters secured will give them ample room for fifteen or twenty patients, while very serious or complicated cases can be sent by rail to either of their hospitals at Duluth, Grand Rapids or Grand Forks. The completion of a first-class hospital here will give the order a practical monopoly of the business of the Great Northern between Grand Forks and Duluth. Even a temporary sick house will be a welcome guest in Bemidji, the coming winter, as here is now the center of very extensive logging operations, and there will be many important and imperative demands for it. (Bemidji Weekly Pioneer, Nov 10, 1898)