Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 25, 1896, Page 1

Vor IV.—No. 48. Granp Rapips, ITasca County, Minn., Saturpay, JuLy 25, 1896. — Grand Rapids Herald Review, Heratp—Vot. II, No. 45 ZZ Large Line of Straw Hats 20 Wilson Bros. White and Colored Shirts, regular Misses Tan Shoes and Slippers, sizes 13 to 2, regular price, | 3 a 1.50, Children’s Shoes, sizes 5 | per cent Marked Down to off, and 6, regular ‘ price soc, C go goc. 37 argain. C Marked down to Psi sa Our Remnant Tables are More Attractive Than Ever Before. WELLL LY Le LLL LL LLL whether it is white or yellow metal. O 8.6 exchange for goods. We do not attempt to discuss the merits of either silver or gold. It is an open question, the country differ on it, but none of our customers differ as to where they can get the largest amount of goods We submit you a partial list of our mark-down goods: In order to thake room for FALL GOODS, we are selling our Summer Goods at COST and less. seems to be agitating the minds of the people at the present time. We are perfectly willing, however, to accept all the silver that is offered in and some of the greatest minds in for the smallest amount of money, a A ¥ Ladies’ Jersey Ribbed Ladies é Swiss Ribbed Vests an WHE? cand Vests in Ecru, ins cent regular price 6 C price 4oc i [9c marked down to tnarked down to Ladies’ “Ferffect Fitting” Vests, regular lar price price 60c, ’] C 15 & 20c, C marked down to Now - = Come Early and Get Advantage of These Great Bargains. Itasca Mercantile Co. Grand Rapids, Minn. _ ee eee Ladies’ Ecru Vests, regu- LL TTT ZT MV IV UV YU YU UY ULE LE LE FREE SILVER THE FINANCIAL QUESTION WL LZ LLL Ls SM LL LL SS LLM dddddduddedlddddddldldlduddldldlldldllildildlél eves aE A ae ae eae ae ae se ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ate shee ae ste ae eae ae he ates eae ae ae ae ae He A Wagon Tongue Por: po Can,t talk, but every 7 farmer who runs one of our new light-running Lake City Farm Wagons does enough talking to make up for what the wagon can’t say for it- self. Everyone using it says it is the best wagon on wheels. Best, becasue it is the lightest, strong- est and easiest running wagon built. PTT TTI Ti iiiLisdiiite tt Come in and See It, and learn, not how much, but how littly a first-class, high-grade wagon can be bought for. W. J. & H. D. Powers. : Grand Rapids Ladies Keep apace with the prevailing styles, and our experience with the trade here has demonstrated that no exception is made to this rule in the line of Jewelry. Belts are worn this season, and to meet the demand and to please every artistic taste, we have a carefully selected stock of Ladies’ Latest Leather Belts, Woven Wire Belts in both Gold and Silver, Dress Sets, Silver Buckles, Belt Pins and Skirt Supporters. They are well worth a careful inspection. Nisbett & Warriner, ; 0 OQ OQ The Jewelers. of that locality to the culture of small fruits is certainly assured, and it is certain that crab apples, and possibly the pyrus malus, may be grown there. “Our New England friends would be delighted to find in abundance, growing there naturally in the pine woods, the fragrant trailing arbutus and the wintergreen or checkerberry, as they grew with us im ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ “An opportunity of a few hours at Duluth revealed similar conditions in that section, where the soil and vege- FORECASTS THE FUTURE Secretary Latham of the State Horti- cultural Society Gives His Views OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA The Wealth of Valuable Vegetation Has Convinced Him That Farm- ing, Gardening and Horticul- ture Will Thrive Here. tation are much the same as at Grand Rapids, the age of the place making certain, however, what only seems probable at the newer locality. ‘There are to be found there many fine tregs of the crab varieties, and I saw some very nice Duchess, 15 to 18 years old, Among the prominent visitors who} in bearing, that looked healthy, only attended the Immigration convention | Showing lack of yigor from standing in the grass. Evidently any kind ot held here leet month, was. Nedeeaty tree or shrub that will grow in the A. W. Latham of the State Horti-|jocality of Minneapolis will thrive at cultural society. He is the widely} Duluth and mpen its fruit, taking into known editor of the Minnesota Hort-| consideration always the fact that the iculturist, in this month’s number of | S4U™mer 1s somewhat shorter at that lake port, and comes on nearly a which magazine he publishes an month later in the spring. At this article on his visit to Northern Min-|time, June 25, the snowball 1s just in nesota, as follows: flower there. “A pleasant tnp in the pine re- I saw some fine specimens of the gion of Northern Minnesota last week horse chestnut, although in some places they were sun-scalded on the gave an opportunity to note some of| south side; also handsome bearing the matters of interest to our horti-|cherry trees. Lake Superior is an cultural friends in that section. Grand | important factor in the situation there Rapids, the extreme northern point | not to be overlooked, visited, which is in about the latitude} ‘The small frults of this section are of Fargo, N. D., seems like an entire-| famous for their productiveness and ly different world on account of the|size. Mr. Bovee, at Carleton, a point liens in the character of the soil| twenty miles southwest of Duluth, on and of the trees and ,other plants|the St. Paul and Duluth railroad, has growing there. The Mississippi river | I understand, fifteen acres of straw- at this point is but a narrow stream, a| berries. The growing of strawberries hundred or two feet wide, and with|and raspberries for late shipment to the large amount of land overflowed|the Twin Cities markets is, I am in its course by the dam built by the| satisfied, an industry that will event- government and the great number of| ually be developed on a large scale.” lakes in that section the climate must necessarily be influenced favorably in Our Cyclone. the matter of exemption from frosts.| Anent the exuberance of our First While a large portion of the country | street contemporary over the prom- is swamp lands and white pine lands, | inence of “an honored citizen”—Law- the latter of which are usually of a| yerMcCarthy—as political stumper, light, sandy soil, yet much of the] 'The Herald-Review submits the fol- Some Reductions, Realizing that the price of Meats in Grand Rapids have never been properly graded we have decided to take the initiative in making some notable reductions, believing that territory is covered with a vigorous growth of hard wood, and the shrubs and wild flowers and fruits found through the timber are very much the same nature as those in the latitude of Minneapolis. lowing from the Duluth Herald with- outcomment; ‘‘An amusing incident has leaked out in regard to the Mc- Kinley meeting here last week. Mce- Carthy was introduced by the chair- man of the evening as a whirlwind, the people will appreciate the liberality thus shown. The reduction of prices which we propose making will not be evened up on by raising the price on other qualities. SHOULDER STEAK, per pound, BEEF STEW, POC DOUUG MOM 2. o.- 0 <b ate s oa ca eeebiea aw ce 5 to 8c POT ROAST, per Pound, font... 6s. sc te csteesne 9 to 10c The thrifty housewife will readily understand what this means on the | % Cable & Libby, | There are few cultivated fruits growing in this section, although some have been planted in the town of Grand Rapids, a thriving place of some 2,000 imhabitants. But that locality is certain in time to be- come a prosperous farming com- munity. Its wild fruits are most abundant, and in number of species and varieties considerably exceeds those grown in the big woods section of Minnesota. Several varieties of blueberries, the sand cherry, June- on Towne, it took the wind all out of pee rg — could be] M¢Carthy's sails, and he did not ven- 4 3 hative in| ture to repeat his St. Paul speech. It the big woods region. Especially} was noticeable that he handled strawberries grow wild in the greatest Thwne's name very guardedly, and abundance, and are of large size and| Was Very careful not to offend Towne’s ec P supporters in the least. He _ will uae poi — pep" and|never be again introduced in West gu arieties are found| Duluth as the ‘Whirlwind from freely intermingled. The adaptability |Grand Rapids,” and when he arose to speak the au- dience was on the wave of expectancy. He fell far below being a whirlwind, however, and was really nothing but agentle zephyr. After the meeting wag over everyone wondered where he secured the title of whirlwind. It has since been learned that he roast- ed Towne in a speech delivered in the disjrict convention at St. Cloud, and he/was brought here loaded to the muzzle with his Towne speech. When he! discovered the sentiment uf the audience, which was displayed when Norton, who preceded him, reflected SOLD THE D. & W. RAILWAY. Canadian Pacifie Representatives Bought the Road This Morning at Duluth. Dututu, July 25.—[Special Telegram.] The sale of the Duluth & Winnipeg rail- road was made this morning to represent- atives of the Canadian Pacific Railway. With this sale of the Duluth & Winnipeg the legal obstacles that limited improve- ments and extensions are removed, and the long-expected work is likely to be ac- complished soon. But little, if any, change is to be expected in the operating depart- ment. It seems likely that the obstructive tactics that have been employed in the St. Paul courts have gained points for the Great Northern by which that road ‘will build from Foston to Grand Rapids, and run from there to Duluth over the D. & W. tracks under a mutual traffic arrangement. T. R. Foley In Line. Aitkin Age. Hon. ‘I. R. Foley returned on Tues- day morning from Chicago, where he had been in attendance as a delegate to the National Democratic conven- tion. He came home with his pocket full of ‘16 to 1, No Compromise,” and other free silver buttons and badges, and proceeded to decorate the ‘‘boys’’ as fastas he met them. He pinned a handsome aluminum badge on our lapel, bearing the words “Kor Presi- dent, Wm. J. Bryan. Free Silver, 1776-1896-Free People,” and we shall wear it through the campaign. Mr. Foley went tw the convention a stauuch gold standard man, but he comes home with the declaration that he will support the ticket with heartness, for he has seen and heurd Mr. Bryan, and says that he said he is ‘all right.” He went to the convention to take part in its proceedings, and not to sulk in his seat. His first vote for the presidential nomination was cast for Pattison, the gold men’s can- didate, but seeing the hopelessness of his cause, picked out the best silver man, Bryan, and stayed with him until he was nominated. From the moment that Bryan closed his great speech Mr. Foley felt confident that he would be the nominee of the party. Not Enough to Organize The meeting called for last evening for the organization of a McKinley and Morris club failed to materalize. The leaders of the movement con- cluded that it would be bad policy to show their weakness in numbers and postponed the affair, hoping for 4 change of sentiment to overtake the peo) It 1s doubtful if 50 men could be found in Itasca’ county who will subscribe to the gold standard theory. Excursions From Duluth. During the summer season the Du- luth & Winnipeg railway will sell ex- cursion tickets from Duluth to Grand Rapids, good from Saturdays until Tuesdays, at $3.00 for the round trip. A large number of summer visitors from the head of the lakes will prob- ably take advantage of this favor- able means of enjoying the grand tishing and hunting resorts of this picturesque region. Special arrange- ments will be made here to furnish fishing parties with the needed re- quirements for a pleasant trip.. PREPARING FOR THE FAIR. The Itasea County Agricultural Society Gives Attention to General Business. The Itasca County Agricultural society got around to the point of do- ing some business at its meeting Wed- nesday afternoon, In accordance with the suggestions of The Herald-Review, the committee has included live stock in the items entitled to entry and exhibition and this department will be a valuable ad- dition to the revised premium list which was duly approved at the meet- ing. ‘The members present voted in favor of sending an exhibit to the state fair which opens at Hamlin on Sep- tember 1. ‘The fact that the G. A. R, encampment is to be held at St. Paul and ‘the gathering of the Knights of Pythias is to be at Minneapolis at that time, was urged in favor of being rep- resented at the state fair and of having printed matter relating to Itasca county and northern Minnesota dis- tributed there. In an informal discussion of plans for presenting the attractive features oj this district to the general public, the proposition most favored. was to have sixteen engravings made'showing the public buildings and prominent business. houses and_ hotels, together with the experiment farm and some of the leading farms of Itasca county. The engravings are to be used ina folder, to be gotten up in the style of an attractive railroad folder and to contain no advertising except such as relates directly to county matters, One of the leading members of the agricultural soclety said: “We will make inquiries at once and if the engravings don’t cost too much, that’s the kind of a publication we will issue.” Another meeting of the society to complete arrangements for the county fair will be held m the near future, Freight on Berries. W. Smith, a well-posted commis- sion man, is here from Duluth looking over the field of general business. He intended to buy some berries for ship- ment to~ Duluth, but found that the railroad freight would probably ab- sorb all of the profit on blueberries even if he could buy them here at five cents per quart. The big markets |have been well supplied with befries this week but it is hoped that there will be a better opening for the ber- ries that mpen later. Mr. Smith says; “This beats all for a summer vacation. Cool nights and pleasant days and plenty of lakes with good fishing in this upper Mississippi country.” The Haunted Mill. Rehearsals for the play to be given by the local talent at Village hall on Tuesday, August 11, are progress- ing very favorably. They will pres- ent the four act comedy entitled, “The Haunted Mill.” Twenty per cent discount on wal} paper during the next 30 days. H. E, RicHarRpDsoN, comes i _- | |