Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 27, 1897, Page 1

Vout V.—No 29. __.Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., SaturDay, Marcu 27, 1897. Ss os *) prices that cannot help* but interest a_l they see it. | Closing Out Sale * Two Do.tiars a YEAR e submit for your consideration a list of goods that we are “long’” on, at those who know a bargain when The goods were all bought this season and are therefor fresh and new and cannot help but please you. In this closing out sale we are not considering tke first cost of the goods of which the “following figures will convince you. é pe Ladies’ Wool Hose... lic former price, 30¢ Florentine Dress Suiting...... 25c . former price, 40¢ Ladies’ Wool Hose. 25c 40c Black Figured Dress mu LBe 50c bie ie v Ladies’ Wool Hose. Bde ws 60¢ Black Brilliantine.. 45¢ 2h sf Children’s Wool Ho: lic se es Black Serge. .... 3 at Children’s Wool Ho: 206 *f Black Henriette... ... . Bri C of se Lov’ Wool Hose qi Gee a Black Henriette Dress Suiting 75c ce sh Be 3 “ f 3 Dress Gingham 8c § ‘ Dress Gingham. 6c M4 2 L es Prinhss.s. ws Oe. e ir ‘ : Outing Flannel. 9c s . Children’s Crib Blaukeu Z . Outing Flannel.. 8c bY ‘ Outing Flannel Damask 5 Damask, colored.. 400 Table Felt, 54 inches. 30c Belding’s Wash twist, 2 skeins for 3 skeins for 10c. Comet Knitting Silk, 10c per spool, per spool. former price, 8c 80c 5e, fodmek: price, former price, 12¢ Peerless. Knitting Silk, 20e per spool, former price, 35¢ per spool. Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, Minn. aR OCR RR REERNA SeRON RT REARS RIRIREROOP OP EDTA GUA NAN AMM eter P Edge Tools We carry the only complete line of edge tools in thir part of the coun- try. No matter what you want, yowll tind it here—the best to be had at any price, and sold at a small price. One Thing We Dont Do: even a fool knows that if he buys “cheap.” trashy tools he will v soon discover tnat they are made of the stuff that pots and kettle: made of—polished up and made to LOOK LIKE STEEL, A never puts expensive met tal into cheap teols. of any kind, decent goods. No, when you W. J. & H. D. POWERS. We den't blow about our goods costing a little less than nothing, for} Are | facturer it a tool 1 it will pay you to come here, pay a decent price and get AS TO VALUATION: Itasea County’s Assessed Valuation by Far the Lowest in Minnesota. | SOME STRIKING COMPARISONS }Iu Natu al Wealth Itasea Has Few) )} Equals and is Nearly Nine ‘Times Larger Than a Majority of the Counties of the State. y ; In the Minneapolis ‘Tribune of Thursday is printed a table showing the’ussessed valuation of every county in the state together with the popula- jtion of each and the salaries paid VOBOUTOUO0OTTSTTVTBETB TUTE GEBOUMY 8 HARD TIMES Are not the best times in which to sell jewelry, but then you do not know how cheap we are selling our large stock of Watches, Clocks, Diamonds Jin fact A Specialty Made of all everything ele kept in a first. class Kinds of jewelry store. If youeomtemplate mak- Repairing. ing a purchase of anything in our line— usefull or ornamental—don’t fail to call and get our prices. Engraving Done Free ot all Goods Bought of Me. WILL NISBETT, Expert Watchmaker and Engraver. BVCTOVTVABOVVSBIBWEBVTVS connty auditors and _ treasurers. |The table was prepared by the joint | committee of the house and senate on | salaztes: and was presented ip support} ot a bill introduced to regulate the |compensation of the tw9 offices men- toned, It shows some figures that ‘should be called to the attention of T. B. Walker, the Minneapolis Jour- @ | nal and those representatives of Itasca county who are attempting to make It} appear that our assessed valuation 1s too large instead of being too small, and who are advocating a “readjust- ment of Itasca county’s indebtedness,” whatever that may mean. ‘he total number of counties in the state are sixty-nine, and the valuation of. fifty-| two are greater than that of itasca. In popvlation there are eight less than | 1s shown for Itasca by the last census. | But valuations are not fixed according to population. It is the wealth and area that are taken into consideration. Carlton county has twenty townships, If You Must Eat and we suppose you must, you sheuld aiw: try to get the best goods i in the ma p 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 RAPIDS, MINN. Itasca has one hundred and _seventy- eight, and yet the valuation of this! ; county is only placed at $1000 more j than that of Carlton, notwithstanding the fact that it is nearly me times |larger. When we remember that the majority of the counties of the state are composed of twenty townships, —about one-ninth the size of Itasca— with compara.ively httle wealth ex- cept that createa by the agricultural classes, the secret of our present in _|debtedness can be easily explained | Ours is the second largest county in | the state, and in regard to natural | wealth the same may be said” with absolute wuth, The iron mines of St, Louis county are greater in value j than are the pine lands of Itasca, but! with that single exception this county j1s second to none in rich _resources— jresources that are active in trade and commerce, yielding vast fortunes to the pine land owners, and year afte year adding constantly to the weal of the state at large, From the he: waters of the Mississippi—from Itasca !county—Minneapolis has been sup- plied with a never failing abundance of the raw material which has contri- buted so largely to the upbuilding of that city. Today the people of this community and the whole county are maligned by the very men who have grown rich at our expense without having contributed scarcely a tenth of the revenue in taxation that should have been levied and exacted. Those who have exerted themselves to injure Itasca county in advocating against the organization of Cass and Beltraini will do well to leave the lobby at St. Paul before the facts are presented for consideration, The people of this county, and state have stood by and watched the removal of miihons of dollars worth of logs during the past} twenty-five years that never contri-| buted enough in taxation to pay for the assessing of time to calla halt has arrived. ‘The citizen will take a hand hereafter and it has-been decided by a determined people to raise the assessed valuation of Itasca county to at least $10,- 000,000. ORGANIZATION DEFEATED. After Passing the House Almost Unani- mously the Senate Rejects the Bill. An Thursday the bill to organize the counties of Cass and Beltrami came up in the senate and was de- feated by a vote of 21 to 30, Senator Whitney voting in the negative for the purpose of moving a reconsideration of the measure ‘The Wadena senator spoke in favor of the bill before the vote was taken. He said that he owned no pine lands in the counties of Cass and Beltrami to be organized under the proposed law. “I have no interest in any town site in the coun- ties to be organized,” Senator Whit- ! ney continued, ‘save that of interest in my fellow men. It does not lie | within the province of any citizen or) ‘set _of men to deprive the citizens of those counties of their right of home rule. Wo not forget if the legislature refuses to grant the people of those districts the rights they ask that they will meet us again at: Philippi, and in their wrath every senator who votes against this measure may be burried | so deeply that he will never see again the light of day.” It is hard to understand why the senate has taken this position, and those who know the facts expect to see the vote reversed unless a number of the senators have already been bought and paid for. Mr. Gunn had charge of the bill in the house and succeeded in getting it through by al- most a unanimous vote, but Mr. Whitney appears to have been less successful, although there is no doubt! of his earnest efforts to secure its pas- sage. Itis openly charged that many members of the senate had been “seen” by the powerfui influence op- posed to organization. Certificates Issued. County Superintendent Mrz. H. O tilson has completed the work of marking the papers of those who. ap- plied for certificates to teach at the | recent examination, and fifteen of the twenty-one are rejoicing today in the knowledge that they have stood the crucial test and may enter the broad field of competition for place: and be- gin the climb to fame. Capt. Leahy received the only first grade certificate, while ten received second grade and, four third grade. the lands, but the | ° | LADIES TEMPLE QUARTETTE, Will Appear at Village Hall on Monday Evening March 29th. As annoumced in heretofore, the Temple Ladies Quar- tette have decided to give a concert in Grand Rapids, and Monday night* next at Village hall has been selected as the date. This organization of musical talent has justly been placed jin the forefront of entertainers of {the Zenith City, and no public casion in the line of concerts is without their ry) idered complete Grand Rapids during the winter, some changes bave been taade i the personnel of the Quartette. It is now composed of Miss Flora Louden, first soprano; Miss Anna Farrell, second soprano; s Justine Shannon, first contralto; Miss Dora Swan, second contralto. The following program will be rendered on Monday arene 1. “Ola Eppes Be oa ores ..-Root From Lorraine on, 1.....Mohring -Helmund 8. 3 4 5. “Blue Bells of ‘Seotinnd chilling Quartette. 6. Duet—"Swing Song,”. Germaine Misses Farrell and Shannon. 7. “Dinah Doe”... Juar 8. 9. 9 “Endearing Young: Miss Anna . Comin’ throthe Ry Molloy Moore -Root -Buek Goldberg Qui 10, “Under the Lindens 1. “Home, Sweet Home,” Quar-ette. While the time for advertising ubis entertainment is somewhat limited. yet the people of Grand Radids were so delighted with the splendid cun- cert given ‘some time ago by these young ladies, thatit is expected they will be greeted by a full house on Monday evening, and they certainly well deserve it. It speaks well for our village that talent of so bigh an order tinds a responsive audience, and Village hall should be crowded to the doors. The price of admission has been reduced to 35 cents. Railroad Building. In a general review of the probable railroad building for 1897, the Rail- way Age gives little encouragement regarding the immediate extemison of the Duluth, Superior & Western trom Deer River west. In tact no mention 1s made of this hne by the Age in its speculations. ‘hat paper says that “mm Minnesota the Great Northern has recently .made surveys for the long projected extension from Fosston to Duluth, but it is by no means certain that it will be built this year. ‘The report that J. J. Hill has bought the Duluth, Superior & Western is sulla matter of guess work with the 1 ‘| probabilities largely in. favor ‘of the claim that he has not made the pur- chase. If he has bought it, the great question is, why: did not Mr, Hill buy the road when it was sold last sum- mer under the hammer? If he wants the road now he must have wanted it then, for it is a property he is known to have had an eye on ever since it was projected. But it is not so much a question as to who the real owners e. What people hereaway _ are jostly interested in just now is whither the extension will be made during 1897? these columns} ¢ presence. Sirce the last visit of| these charming young ladies -to THE VILLAGE COUNCIL An Important Meeting Held at Which Much Business Was Done. COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED Salaries Fixed and the Herald-Review Unanimously Selected -as the Of- { ficial Village Paper for the | Ensuing Year. The new village council held an ad- journed meeting on Saturday evening last, the official proceedings of which are printed in today’s Herald- Review. Considerable business of importance was. transacted, and the new council proceeded to organize in a manner that indicated success in the handing of village affairs from the start. Com- mittees have been appointed as fol- lows: Streets and alleys—Decker and O’Conneli; water works—Knox and Decker; claims and accounts—King and Knox; police and _license— O’Connell and King. It will be the duty ot these committees to look after the business in the several depart- ments as indicated and report to the council with recommendations. The council voted unanimously to place $5.000 to the credit of a contingent fund for current running expenses, and fixed the salaries of the several village employes for the year. The marshal, who will be delegated to look after the village hall and fire apparat- us, as well as to quel riots and ‘run in” the hilarious drunks, will be paid $50 per month. A night watchman, who will only be employed during three or four months of the year, will ‘be paid the same. ‘The engineer at the village water works will also be paid fifty a month, Recorder King’s salary was fixed at $250 per year, the additional duty of collecting water rents having been impossed upon him. In keeping with the spirit of econ- omy which conditions make absolute- ly necessary and which the new council evince a determination to in- augurate and strictly adhere to, the Herald-Review and Magnet each sub- ‘mitted bids for the village printing at a reduction from legal rates of 20 per cent. Upona vote being taken, the Herald-Review* was unanimously selected as the Official village paper for the ensuing year, a high compli- ment for which it feels duly grateful. The compensation of the village treasurer was cut from three per cent on all moneys received to one and one-half per cent. Another meeting | will be held this evening when it is expected that appointments will be made for the several positions. The Ladies ot the Maccabees com- pleted their. orgamization this week, and will hold regular meetings on the second and tourth Mondays of each month in K. of P. hall. ue eye