Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 20, 1897, Page 1

oo §. Voit V.—No, 28. Closing Out Sale - - Granp Rapips, Itasca County, Minn,, SatuRDAy, MARCH 20, 1897. We submit for your consideration a list of goods that we are “long” on, at prices that cannot help but interest all those who know a bargain when they see it. The goods were all bought this season and are therefor fresh and new and cannot help but please you. In this closing out sal ie we are not considering tke first cost of the goods of which the following figures will convince you. Ladies’ Wool Hose.. Ladies’ Wool Hose Ladies’ Wool Hose Children’s Weol Hose. . f Children’s Wool Hose. “6 “ “ “ Bovs’ Wool Hose. Ladi La Ladies’ Wool Vests Children’s Wool Vests 15c former price, 30c 25c x se -40c Florentine Dress Suiting.. Black Brilliantine......... Black Serge. Black Henriette.. Dress Gingham.. Dress Gingham Prin’: ..2% e5< Outing Flannel. Outing Flannel Black Figured Dress Suiting Black Henriette Dress Suiting -+-. 25c former price, 40c 50c A T5e 45c st peg.) ce" « Be 85c si “ 65¢ 75c % bora i Se “We 6c OC « 8c 6c af «7 & 8c 9c # We 124 Ses © 10¢ Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, Minn. It Often Happens That the gvod housewife, in pre- paring her daily meals for the family. tinds a bole in this pan or that dipper: or, perhaps her pie tins have burned or rusted so that it is impossible te remove a pie from {bem. That’s beeause the bottom has burned so thin that it gets hot- ter than the rest of the pan, and burns the crust—then, of course, it rt sticks. -) H's Different with Graniteware, Graniteware is made of sheet iron, covered and lined with granite. a'ways the same; it don’t wear out like tin. it is the nicest thing you ever saw for pots, Kettles, pans, spiders, coflee < and tea pots, wash busins, pie plates, water pails—everything, anything. Use it once and ryou’ll have no other. You can clean it easy, and it is Jess trouble every way than tin. And the beauty of it is, that it don’t cost much more than tin, and will last.almost. 4 lifetime, Everything else in hardware. ‘I'he best at best prices. W. J. & H. D. POWERS. Tt is It den’t burn up, either. VCVCVTVVTVSSVS SUVTVSSETESVT BDUVVIAFD 2 HARD TIMES Are not the best times in which to sell jewelry, but then you do not kuow how cheap we are selling cur large stock of mB Speaey, Watches, Clocks, Diamonds, and in Made of all everything ele kept in a first Kinds of jewelry store. If youcomtemplate m: Repairing. ing -a purchase of anything iv our line— usefull or ornamental—dou’t. fail to call utd get our prices. Engraving Done Free 6f all Goods Bought of Me. WILL NISBETT, _ Expert Watchttiaker and Engraver. a a an a ta i i tw ae hn ts Tt tw nwt had If You Must Eat } and we suppdse you must, you should aiways try to get the best goods in the market at the lowest possible price. To do this, you should buy your Fresh and Salt Meats, ‘ Fish, Game, Etc. at the well-known meat market of Cable & Libby. This firm has always on hand the very best things.the season affords, at the very lowest prices. Fresh Butter and Eggs Received Daily From the Country, CABLE & LIBBY, GRAND R eS 2e! 4 The Final Meeting of the 1896 Coun- g THE NEW BODY ORGANIZES VEVVVSEVEBDECTVEVETE Be cil Heid Thursday Evening. | A Brief Resume of the Public Busi- | ness Transacted Last Year and the Result of New Methods Inaugurated. | _ The old village council held their ‘final meeting on Thursday evening, closed up th.ir business as far as | possible, the retirmg president made |a speech and Messrs. Kearney, Miller, | Hennessy, Robinson and Veint | stopped down and out, while Messrs, Powers, King, Knox, O’Connell and Decker tock the reins of village | gvvernment and made a start in the | performance of their duties for the en- suing year. Before reuring the ‘re- port of the recorder and treasurer was read and accepted, and ‘Trustee | Robinson made a verbal statement jas to the policy pursued during the past year, giving some figures of com- parison, which indicate thatthe judg- | ment exercised was not of the poorest quality by any means. He recited the tact that a year ago village orders { were selling at 35 per cent discount, with an uncertain market at that price. The ’g5 council had been issuing} orders in payment of salaries and other necessary expenses, adding thereto the discount charged. This! was certainly a suicidal policy and} could only result in incresing the village indebtedness—going from bad} to worse. It wasdetermined to adopt a cash system, creating a contingent fund to defray the running expenses of the village and turning over the balance to the cancellation of outstand- | jing orders. The total expenses for the! year amounted to $6,967.90, besides $1,632.30 for street and village hall hghung, which last amount was paid in orders drawn on the general fund, and is still outstanding. ‘This brings the actual running expenses up to $8,600.20. All bills for salaries,streets and sidewalas, street supplies, printing and stationery, water mains and plumb- ing, and interest on bonds, $6, 967.90, have been paid in.cash. Mr. Robin- son showed that if the former system | had been continued—that of adding the discount to the orders drawn— the village would have contracted an addiuonal debt of $3,741.94, or| a total of $10,719.84. ‘Io this sum j should be added the 7 per cent which ithe orders would draw, and making it only two years, the interest on the 35 per cent added would amount to $542.13. From these figures the jold council concludes that’ by the cash system $5,284.07 have been |saved to Grand Rapids in a single year. The total revenue received during the year from all sources was $9,820.00 of which $1,696.14 was received in village orders in payment of taxes and $393.96 cash | m payment of taxes. ‘Ihe balance Ou Da nask, colored.. le Felt, 54 inches Da z ‘Tab 3 skeins for 10c. Comet Knitting Silk, 10e perspeol, former price, 12c per spool. e Peerless Knitting Silk, 20e per speol, former price, 35c¢ per spool. 6c former price, 8c¢ bac se “ 80c 30c Z Belding’s Wash twist, 2 skeins for 5c, former price, Grand Rapids UeraldMebiew, | Two Doivars a YEAR “ “ 60c 50c C “ was cash paid into the village treas-|about him. Trustees Knox, O’Con- ury from liquor licenses, etc. Two thousand dollars was appropriated for the purpose of taking up outstand- ing orders. Added to the business of 1896 should have been $1,500 paid into the treasury on March 23, 1896, before the books had been turned over to Treasurer Hughes. This amount was also used to take up outstanding orders. And. so it appears that there was taken up dur- ink the past year the sumsof $5,196.- 14, of orders issued by former councils, In view of the fact that no new in- debtedness has been incurred except $1,631.20 by the present council it, will be seen that the record 1s not such a bad one after all. By deducting the new uupaid orders, $1,632°30, trom the amount of old orders redeemed viz: $5,196. 14 it will be found that the Labor League council, as it was called, k ft the village $3,563.84 better off than it wasa year ago when the boys took charge. If other councils had done as well Grand Rapids would be in pretty good shape today. If we may be pemitted to add to the amount actually saved, the difference between cash and 35-per-cent-inflated orders then there would be placed to the credit of the retiring corncil the neat little sum ot $8,847.91 saved to the village. Others might have done better—per- haps the new council will do better— but the retiring trustees should be given credit for the good they did do. ‘Ihey inaugurated the only system that’eould possibly bring the village out ot debt, and they adhered to 1t against strong opposition. It must have been gratifying to them, indeed, when on Thursday evening, the new council passed a resolution adopting the same plan. During the past year village expens-s might have been curtailed to a considerable extent. Less money might have been expended on the streets. A marshal and night watchman are an unnecessary luxury in a quiet, peace- able town like Grand Rapids, and a janitor at the village hall at $50 per. month might be dispensed with. ‘The three could be consolidated into one with headquarters at Village hall and the public would be just as se- cure as when two “sleuths” are standing on the street corner looking wise and systematically getting in the wrong place at the night time. At least a thousand dollars could be saved by this plan and it 1s one likely to be followed by the new council. There are some other expenses that might be curtailed, and it is expected that the new members will profit by past experience and make improve- ments along the line of economy, accomplishing better results than; did their immediate predecessors. TOOK THEIR SEATS, The Members of the Village Council Meet and Organize. Immediately following the adjourn- nell and Decker and Recorder King were present, All had qualified and were ready to begin their labors. Mr. Powers called the council to order, and after a few preliminary remarks in reponse to ex-President Kearney’s valedictory, he offered as a suggestion that the duties about to be commenced might be facilitated during the year by the appointment of a few permanent committees whose duties it would be to look after the affaurs of the village in the several departments. The idea met with the favor of the other members, and it was decided that the matter would ¢ acted on at the next meeting. As there were some matters of a legal nature to look aiter immediately it was deemed expedient to take up the matter of the appdintment of a village attorney at once. This developed the question of salaries and how they were to be paid. After some discussion it was decided to create a contingent fund and that all salaries would be paid in cash. Then it was voted that the attorney should be paid $200 per annum. Nomunations were declared in order, and Trustee Knox named Attorney C. L. Patt and ‘Trustee O’Connell presented the name of F. F, Price. The first ballot resulted in 3 to 2 in favor of Mr. Pratt and he was declared duly elected village attorney for the en- suing year. A moton to adjourn until tonight at 8:30 was carried, and the other numerous aspirants for municipal preferment were left to guess as to their fates untii this even- ing, when it is expected that several appointments will be made, Frozen to Death. R. M. Clough, formerly of Aitkin, and well known to many Grand Rap- ids people, was found about six miles east of Floodwood last Saturday, bad- ly frozen, lying upon the snow in an unconscious condition. He was brought, to Grand Rapids on the evening train and taken to the Rosser hospital. He did not regain con- sciousness and died Sunday afternoon, His brother, who resides at Aitkin ar- rived Sunday afternoon and the re- mains were taken to that town for burial. It is thought that the un- fortunate man became completely ex- hausted plodding through the deep snow on his way from one camp to another. Ladies of the Maccabees. Mrs. Mary A. Henry, Minnesota State Commander of the Ladies of the Maccabees, arrived from Min- neapolis on Thursday evening for the purpose of organizing a local tent in Grand Rapids. Some of the ladies interested’ had solicited ‘mem- bership and finding a general response Mrs. Henry was sent for and the first meeting was held at K. of P. hall last evening. There were nine- teen charter members and the follow- ing ladies were elected as officers: Past Lady Commander, Mrs. Effie May Crepar; Lady Commander, Miss Hattie Frances Gibson; Lady Lieuten- ment of the old council on Thursday ant Commander, Mrs. C. M. Storch; evenings last President Powers took} Record Keeper, Mrs. Jenme Blaker; the chair vacated by ex-President| Finance Keeper, Miss Kearney and called his counsellors! nan; Medical examin May McLen. er, Dr. Storch; Chaplain,Mrs. Lizzie Brooks; Sargent, Mrs. Lucy Tuller: Mistress at arms, Mrs. Grace Pellow; Sentinal, Muss Anna Erickson; Picket, Mrs. Mary Milaney. This organization was founded in 1888 with a membership 176. Today there are tents in every state of the union with a total mem- bership of over 67,000. One very invitng feature is the life benefits car- ried, from $500 to $2000. St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. The entertainment given at Village hall on Wednesday evening, under the auspices of the Catholic society, drew out a good-sized audience not- withstanding the unfavorable con- dition of the weather. The long program as printed in the Herald- Review last week, was carried out with very few changes. Every num- ber was admirably rendered and was appreciated, as evidenced by the frequent applause. The entertain- ment was coucluded by a one act drama entitled “Snow Storm.” March Ladies’ Home Journal. The first article of a notable series describing the official, social and domestic sides of life in the White House is one of a score or more ad- mirable features which make up the March Ladies’ Home Journal, It is by ex-President Harrison, and pre- sents a vivid, interesting pen pieture of “A Day With the President at His Desk,” detailing the wearisome routipe of our chief executive’s daily life. Another article with a bearing in the same direction recalls ““‘When Lincoln was First Innaugurated.” It tells the incideuts of Mr. Lincoln's memorable trip to Washington and his innauguration, tre apprehension for his safety, and the excited condi- tion of the country at that time Conspicuous in the same issue are Paolo Tosti’s “Home Again”—a song without words—the first instrumetal composition by this world-famous song writer, and Alice Barber Stephens’ drawing, ‘The Woman in Religion,” the second of her ‘“‘Ameri- can Woman” sketches. ‘The Day After Servia Got In,” a delightful short story, recerds the romantic adventure of a_ princess, and “The Colouel and Me,” the first of a series of chats by Isabel A. Mallon, gives some Shetuilon panes of Southern life. Edward W. Bok speaks with directness and to the point regarding the “‘fast’? young mau; discussed the rewards of literature, and the uses of adversity: to teach us to see the bright side of things. Evangilist Moody addresses his Bible class on ‘Regeneration,” and “Droch” dis- cusses ‘‘English Social Life and Eng- lish Fiction” in his delightful vein. illiam George Jordan tells many remarkable anatomical facts about “These Wonderful Bodies of Ours,” and ex-President Harsison, with an article on “Congress,” concludes his admirable series on ‘This Country of Ours.” Mrs. Rorer’s departments are, of course, rich in interest for women. Her lessons are on cooking tish and oysters, and her other contri- butions cover the whole tield of house- hold economy. “This Easter’s New Hats and Bonnets,” illustrated from the most recent Paris models; “The New. Easter Costumes.” “Planting the Lawn,” ‘A Model $2000 House,” “Amateur Poategraphy at the Besi,” etc.. eins oa © numerous prac- tical articles of timely value. The pictorial features of the March Jour- nal are admirable, especially the cover, which yracefully and symbol- izes the birth-month of crusus. 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