Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 26, 1896, Page 1

_ Grand Rapid A t 5 Herald Review. | Granp Rapins, Irasca County, Minn., SarurpAy, DECEMBER 26, 1896. * Two Dotvars A YEAR if Vou V.—No, 18. : | Most ! Important Sale of the e young or old, who winter garment should Take advantage of this Great Sale. ate eae a aes a eae a eae a ae ae ae a ae ae a ae ae a eae a ae eae ae se ah ae ae ae ae eae ae ae ae eae eae ae ae ae ate ate ae We are also making sweeping reductions in the rices of Men’s and Boys’ Clothing. We are selling Men’s Clothing at hac i ita in calc dca hb thug acacia e e Beginning Dec. 14, and continuing for two weeks, every lady, has not yet bought her Ae Se ae ee ee se ae ae ae ae ae ae ae teat ate and of The Most Stylish The Very Best LESS Than the Original Wholesale Cost. Do not miss this oppor- Call Today—Tomorrow soem | the season at ERE A ae Se a ae EH ae ae a ae eae ee ae ae ae ae a ae ae ae a ae ae a ae ae ae ate ae ae ae ee = 2 : : Season ieee as ¢ May be Too Late i 2 | of our original price, Boys’ Suits at Fifty per cent : = Reduction. Think of it, a complete suit for $2. : z : * Men’s and Boys’ Winter Caps at 25 cents. Gloves and 3 Itasca Mercantile = Mittens at less than manufacturers price. 2 Company 3 | : 2 AND SEE THEM. = = | FESS ual aaa OS aan Sees eHHNESeeASRESREEAAAAEEE EERE REMNANTS Ee e2eo Sses ¥ RYey. = re a) A Highway feObber .. : ‘ Will damand your money at the point of a revolver. but-he is not to be dreaded oye-teath as much as the man who sells you an article by misrepresentation: gets your money and keeps it. Were you eyer de- ceived like that? We don’t do busi- ness that way. Every person who buys from us gets a square deal. It ‘ we sell a cheap article, it goe a 5 cheap price, and the buye told just exactly what he is buying, but ‘ if forany reason the article what 4 he is buying: but if for any reason the article be can return it and get his money back. That’s the Way . the way we do business, and that’s the reason we here as headquarters for everything in the lil iron, steel, stoves, tinware, lumbermen’s st dows, paints, oils, glass, farming tools, guns, tackle, etc., etc- 1 W. J. & H. D. POWERS. are establi ot plies, doo cutlery, Expert Watchmaker and Engraver. Has already received many | beautiful and substantial addi- | tions to bis stock for the hoii- ie f i \ Holiday Goods day trade, and much more is ! yet to come. He is head- quarters in Grand Rapids tor ) EuZraving Done Frec on ali Gocds Bought of Me. WILL NISBETT. WCCCTVEVVVVBVUETVBISBE SVVTATVEG 4 SESSEAARESE SESE EE ER SEEN SEE OT ee oe 2 It is not #® But it is Profitable = * Re & + Necessary pi Both to the meat mer- # * to Advertise ee chant and to the custom- % 4 bed er to make announce- : ments concerning the : to tell people they are 3% best place vo buy eats : % un, or what they ** and provisions, and then # 4 BENET é Re furnish the evidence to # * * should eat. eR every patron. * * ee J Bee HE Be aE aE AE He ee eH eae REE EA i eB ae A a eae eae ae a a ee eee a eae That's What We do, and We Find That tt Pays. CABLE & LIBBY, DEALERS IN iT FRESH 7 andsact MEATS CANNED GOODS, FISH, OYSTERS, ETC., GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. QVOVTA BVWSOCOGTCTOODTDEB H ] WILL NISBETT, escececesoacsesscossces a ire. | consigned tot Wit-} fshing | oo, eyor in charge of the party which | iz é SOUTH OF BASS LAKE. The Great Northern Surveyors are Working Much Closer to Grand Rapids. é \A BETTER GRADE SECURED. | sae the Preliminary tine Ago. The Piaus, are Still Indefinite, * | | | | On Monday night 8000 pounds of supplies were received at Deer River Sreat Northern rail- Til,” who is the way care of John |has been up there for the past two jor three weeks. ‘The supplies had |been: transferred from the Eastern | Minnesotagrailway at Saunders, the ~ {junction pot from which they were brought by the Duluth, Superior & Western road. The supplies had been expected for some tine and were needed. _When they arrived at their !camp the boys hurriedly exchanged old rubbers ‘and old clothes for new and heavier articles. After repacking goods and taking down the tents the sevenieen men started on ‘Tuesday morning with three loaded sleighs to their new location. A drive of a mile took them down the Itasca _log- ging company’s railway to Deer River where they turned to the left and drove past the Sims farm build- ings and down the Deer River and Grand Rapids winter road _ six miles. |} Then they went up the old hay road to the southwest side of Bass lake to and across at the Nar- rows, It seemed like quite a |jump, about ten miles, but the inter- ~ | vening country has been carefully ex- amined by the cruiser W, J. Hilligoss jand a preliminary line was surveyed through the district south of Bass lake jabout three years ago when it was found that the grade was much better on the south than on the north of the lake and that the bottom at the Narrows was good and substantial fora railaoad |crossing. ‘The present work is on the \old prelimmary survey and will extend southeast from the Narrows running within six miles of Grand Rapids and on into the Mesaba iron range. While it is perfectly natural for a great road like the Great’ North- ern to desire to own its short line con- nection to the head of the lakes there are those who still feel certain that it ' will yet enter into an arrangement to railway’s tracks from Deer River into Duluth. These are the two sides to the question the true solution of which is still dependent upon the action of President Hill. The members of the surveying party are not communicative concerning their work and they don’t get to town much so for all that might be learned from them they might about as well | be in Africa as to be only nine or ten juse the Duluth, Superior & Western} miles northwest of here. The fact! that they are working on a southeas- erly course and coming nearer to the county seat does not help .this part of the situation any. Some fine mor- ning the metropolitan papers of Chi- cago or New York will have a_ report of the plan which will soon be de- cided upon and then the people will begin to see dirt a flymg between | Fosston and Deer River, Just Beginning to Leg. (vien this week logging may be said | to have gotten. well. under way in iis district. The present cool snap has trozen the lakes but soft spots are stil to be found in the marshes where | |the snow was so heavy that it was hard for the frost to get through to the water.} Where the snow was heavy on th@lakes the ice has sunk some and there is still danger to be looked out for in hauliug the heavy loads. Of the larger logging concerns about a dozen are at work to cut about two- thirds as much as they did last season. William Long returned from the Big Fork Tuesday. He had just put in his camp up there. His crew will num- |ber about thuty men who will cut 1,500,000 feet and he 1s to receive {from contractors about 1,000,000 feet. The logs will be run north down the Big Fork to Rainy nver and then to Beaver Milis near the Lake of the Woods where Mr. Long’s sawmill is jocated. He markets considerable of | bis lamber in Manitoba via the Cana- dian Pacific railway. 18 inches deep in the Big Fork forest but mn the marshes, where the hay held it up and prevented the recent warm spell from having much effect on it the depth is about two and a half feet. Hus teams were bothered in the woods by the crust on the snow which cut the shins of the horses. A Valuable Improvement. The bridge across the thoroughfare | was completed today. Commissioner vision to the work has secured a most substantial structure for the outlay and Contractor Bailey has done his part in excellent aney ‘The bridge opens a splendid territor¥ for settlement and with the connecting road it forms one of the best public improvements ever made in Itasca county. This outlet to the highways of Cass county isa great convenience to the numerous settlers of the intervening district and the action of the commissioners is highly appreciated. In the Land of Sunshine. (a letter of recent date from J. J. !McDonald to F. A. King, of this { place, indicates that our old friend is enjoying his Mexican visit. Mr. Mc- Donald was at Vera Cruz, Mexico, where he went to spend a other things, he says of the fimes and wages: ‘Times are good here. Plenty of work at from $3 to $4.50 per day. There are about seven hundred men at work -on the harbor.” What a Mr. Long says the snow is about} Logan who gave his personal super-j couple of winter months with a inena) Among} magnificent thing it would be just now if the United States could be- come Mexicanized. IN FESTAL ATTIRE, Christmas Brings Joy and Gladness to a Wide Circle of People. The holiday sea son is full of good cheer to the great majority of the members of Chrysendom and scarcely any are so far from its influences as to not feel the joy of Merry Christmas and the happy greeting of New Year. The churches of this place were pretuly decorated and ther varied programs of Christmas services con- tributed largely, as is their wont, to the genial life of this festal season. The joyous exercises made happy among both young and old. St, Joseph’s church was crowded with those who attended the Christ- mas tree exercises Thursday evening and Santa Claus proved to be the same good old fellow that he has had the reputation of being for.these hun- dreds of years. Well attended Christ- mas tree services were also given by other church organizations and if there are any youngsters in town that have no rememberance of the holiday time it is because they failed to go to Sunday school. The Christmas services yesterday were elaborate and of a high order especially in the features of music. The church choirs added _ their choicest efforts to the gladsome ritual of the holy day. These services were held both morring and evening at St. Joseph’s and at them all the good at- tendance showed the-notable interest that the people of thls growing place take in therr religious duties. HOTEL POKEGAMA. The Christmas dinner was made es- pecially attractive at the Hotei Pokeg- ama by the Grand Rapids band which Giscoursed entertaining musical selections during the progress of the meal, The good things of the menu were especially adapted to satisfy the holiday longings of the ner man. Proprietor Gunn supervised the pro- ceedings from the office and was pleased to note the smiles of satisfac- tion that played about the features of his guests. HOTEL GLADSTONE: The holiday eatables were the spec- al Christmas feature at the Hotel Gladstone. The chef, Rody Hawley, put an extra flourish into his excellent cookery and the diners found much to tickle their palates in testing his va- rious dishes. Proprietor; Doran and Manager Farrell found much to grati- fy them in the way their patrons ap- preciated the delicacies that served to mark the joyovs Chnistmas tide. Hi There! Mr. Porter. The railroad magnate who is ured of Chicago, H. H, Porter, 1s -respect- fully invited to come and settle down in Grand Rapids, Itasca county, Min- nesota. There is no city council here. A board of five Village trustees attends to running the municipal machine and Mr. Porter would be free from much of the annoyance of which he com plains at Chicago, If while here he many hearts} \ needs recreation from his duties as president of the Chicago & Eastern Uhnois railway and head push of the Minnesota Iron company he can pro- mote the project of an air ship line jfrom Grand Rapids to the North Pole and he is hereby guaranteed absolute teedom from trouble in securing a franchise through Northern Minnesota. | He should look over the field before | he takes the trail back to the straight laced oid city of New York. He needs a place where the aroma of pine jis in the air and where the thrill of new ore discoveries together with the compound interest that new railway enterprises occasion now-a-days will | give hima wide field for both mental and physical exercise. The attention of the secretary of the Itasca County Agricultural society and of the Immigration Association is directed to the fact that Mr. Porter contemplates moving from Chicago and it 1s recommended that copies of the resources of Itasca county and of the Immigration Journal be forwarded to him instanter. Promptness is the Promoter of success in dealing with magnates of H. -H.’s ampl - tions. i a The Judicial Grind. The next term of District court is near at hand and will open on Tues- day January sth. The number of cases on the calendar is comparatively light being about forty civil actions, and not over five criminal cases none of which are of particular importance excepting the charge of arson against Peter McKenna. _It is probable how- ever, that fudge Holland will be here much longer than the period of seven days required for the last term as some fo the civil actions involve knotty points of law that will require consid- erable time for the presentation of the testimony and arguments. There are only three divorce cases up to date. Northern Live Stock. The trade which William Nevius, Winona, expected to make for the Losh herd of cattle at the Winnibi- goshish reservation fell through on account of the ownership being di- vided among several members of the family. The cattle were in prime condition and as desirable for market as could be wished for, but Doe Put- ney was unable to straighten out the tangled skein for the Chippewas so he and Mr. Nevius cuncladed to postpone their trade. Before leaving for Winona Mr. Nevius, who is a thor- oughly experienced live stock man, said “he was convinced that this will Hes : good ony a cattle and if people wi ve proper tention to he boslnesst ¢ ee For New Settlers. The officials of the Duluth, Super- lor & Western railway have in view the making ofa half rate on home- seekers and their movables coming up into this section. next season.} The railroads 1n other parts of the céuntry are about to make howeseekers excur- sion rates and the local road will be in line to do its share of the business. Land Commissioner E.W. McPherran who was here a few days ago looking over the situation and he will be here again on similar business early in Jan- tuary.. ¢