Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 4, 1897, Page 1

In Our Dry Slee a Speaking of Neckwear to see them. : —THE FINEST. (BE RE EA ESE SIE ESO ee ae a aN a ae ae Great Attractions Goods-- Department. A Bargain in Gentlemen’s Light-Weight Overcoats—A Snap. ithchsachichaethechadiadithaasiciaeshsbesedbeshaestiasied SHSRHENESESCS ESR SESEREKS SOS KEeSESEES SERRE SEES me Come in and See Us. No Trouble to Show Goods. A Large Portion Of Our Fall Goods In, And More.to Follow. Courteous Treatment. Special Reductions on All Summer Goods. Our Hat Sale Still Continues—Get One Before Well, to appreciate them, you will have They are without a doubt Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, - it is too Late. Minn. see te te TTT TTT Tt TT i it ie ee AE ae Eee ee a ae ae ae a ae a ea hee hee he ae ae ea ee se ae ah ese SSRI ae a ae eae ae ate ae ate ae a ae ae ates ae ae ate ae ae ae ae ate ae ate ak ae: ee Sage a ee a ae ee a aR ae ea ae a ea ae RE - - - Prices Right. Mea Me i wee A ee ae a ae eae ae ae a ee ae a ae ae A EE Tinware Mended While You Wait. ‘ t And you won'thave to wait { very long, either. Our tin- ware hospital is in charge of an expert tinner, and we ean handle the most diff- cult jobs of repairing i short order. Bring in your holes and have them fixed up. A few cents will make an old boiler or coffee pot almost as good as new. But if the oid things are too far gone, we have AN ELEGANT STOCK OF TINWARE to replace them at a light expense, Come in and look us over. of Hardware, Farm Machinery. Sporting Goods, Lumbermen’s j Supplies, Bicycles, E orth country, und would like to } take you througi our nd show you out’ goods and tell you | the price of whuttever you huppen to want. And bear in mind, } that we give your money back when the goods don’t suit, | W. J. & H.D. POWERS. Clothing, Dry Goods, anpD Furnishings. ‘These are the lines to which we are giving:special attention during this season. Prices are down so low that all can reach them. Quality high grade; prices low grade. We'll get your trade if prices count. Marr's Clothing & Dry Goods Store GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. ® ° + ih ahahldalaadacthalcaathtadetiethcedededhcietaticatitacedncirhchaceciated 3 VA “You Should - wr Subscribe for the Herald-Review if you want the news of Itasca County and Northern Minnesota. Ls sha chesdsshsshectashashasheahashaalehashasdscatashesaalashastaoa The Herald-Review. x SHHU HHH EMO NARITA EO MESES SNORE REESeEES RRR RE eee a RE a governor. HORSES FOR THE FAIR Outside Horsemen, Consider the Itasca County Fair Worth Attending, GOOD SPEEDERS ARE GOMING Dr. €. H. Lydick Offers to Bring Up a Runner and Three Trotters If Transportation Can Be Secured. The Herald-Review is in receipt of several letters from owners of fast horses who are making inquiry con- cerning the Itascacounty fair. There is evidently a disposition on the part of horsemen in the northern part of the state to assist the local associations to increase the interest in county fairs. An effort will no doubt soon be made to form a northern circuit in which several of the counties will join. The first thing necessary to be done, how- ever, will be the making of satistactory arrangements with the rail roads for rates. The Duluth, Superior & West- ern has always dealt very generously with Itasca county and _ state fairs, and it is quite probable that the officers will be able to secure very material assistance from the same source this year. The general agn- cultural features for exhibit promises to be ona much larger scale than ever before. During the past three weeks a representative of the Herald- Review has visited a large number of farms in this vicinity. The crops on an average are equal to former years, although a little later than usual owing to the backwardness of the spring sea- son. The farmers of Itasca county fully understand the benefit to be de-} rived indirectly through the holding of annual fairs, and they are prepared |to do their full share towards making the exhibits all that may be deserved. The suggestion toadd racing and a general program of athletic attrac- tions. to the regular premium list is meeting with decided approval. Charles H. Lydick, who formerly re- sided here, writes from Mora, Mini that he will brng three horses that} will all trot below 2:40, and one run- ner, if there is enough in sight to pay expenses of shipment. He-also says that others will come under similar conditions. This suggestion is worthy of consideration by the officers of the association. Railroad rates can be secured that will make the cost of getting horses to Grand Rapids a very small sum, and thus the features of attraction wil! be very materially en- hanced. tes to the ers congress from tasca county A. J. Anderson and H. J. Bernard. ‘These men may be'resi- dents of this: county, but, we are acquainted with them, and we do not know of any qne who’ is-barring the distance. cle is drawn around the child and feeling the truth. The governor appointed as dele- | formed, enclosing all the oth WARREN W. PENDERGAST. “Leaves have their time to fall, And fiowers to wither at the North wind’s breath, And stars to set—but all. Thou hast all seasons for thine own,O Death, A young man has fallen by the way- side of life. A son, a child, has gone out from his father’s home, from his mother’s side, forever. A pupil, a student, a teacher, a_ scientist, a philosopher, has left class room and class mate, books,labaratory and ex- periment, and has gone away, never to return. A grand citizen of the state and of the nation has been taken from us and we hasten—one and all—to pay our respects to his memory; to express-our appreciation of his work and worth and to lay our hearts close to the hearts of his many friends, his brothers and sisters, his father and mother, in sympathy and love. The growth and development of men exhibit this phenomena: a child is born and asit sits upon its mo- ther’s knee there seems to be drawn dround mother and child a line—a cirele—a boundary within which no one can come; the child seems to be- long exclusively to the mother; even brothers and sisters seem to feel the unspoken truth and look on from a After a while another cir- mother, larger than the first, in which the brothers and sisters and the family moves, with the world shut out; the boy still occupies the first as before, but he has grown into the second and he is now the property of the family, while all outside look on, Again another circle is drawn around mother and family, larger than the second—in- closing the school house on the hill and schoolmates and teacher, and each and all feel a sort of relation- ship to the boy,asort of intitaate right exclusive of the world, and all outside feel this truth. Again, an- other circle is drawn around mother and child and family and school and teachers and school mates, and it in- closes the great university and pro- fessors and thinkers and classmates from many states and other lands. The boy becomes the man. He be- gins to feel within his heart the pulsations of the great world around him. He discovers the relation be- tween theory and practice, between the book and the fleld—between thinking and doing. He grasps scientitic truths, and in shop and field, in the practical affairs of every day life, makes those truths instru- ments and laborers in the great field of human endeavor in the betterment. of mankind—and lo, another.cirele is enclosing the citizens of his aye, of his country. - Weallclaim t} now. He belongs the days go by we “al : comes, and he falls by the wayside with his burden in his hands, and we, shocked and stunned, try to real- ize the truth and strive to pick up the burden he lay down. Warren W. Pendergast is dead, and Uhrougnout the state the story of his life is told; his efforts to obtain knowledge, his ability, his character, his capacity and power and, above all, that splendid disposition that brought him close to the hearts of all with whom he came in contact. The state press, speaking from the great cities, the country villages, the hamlets and towns, has told us of the bey and man; has told us of his boyhood days, his college life, his entry into the great field of usefulness to his fellow men—and we know that he gave promise of great things; from him we expected much. There is a saying that “every heart knoweth tts own sorrow;” and so we of Itasca county feel that all has not been told of this young man. We feel that he was in some respects pecu- liarly related to us and identified with us. We feel that he stool for much in the state and to the people of the state, and especially the north- ern part of the state, that has not yet been told. When it was decided to locate the Northeast experiment farm in Itasca county, the question as to who would be its superintendent was of consider- able moment to people here. It was one thing to have an experiment farm that might be practically isolat- ed and shut away from the people and from which no information or help could be derived exeept through the regular printed and published re- ports. It was another thing to have such a farm that would be open every day to the investigation and study of all the people and especially the small farmers and homesteaders in the woods and to havea superintend ent in charge who would be willing | and glad to impart knowledge and help to the poorest at any times It would be one thing to havea super- intendent in charge who would repel individual inquiry—a superintendent who could not be approached—or to have one as open azd frank and gen- érous as the day, who would always welcome every man and especially every stuggling farmer in the woods. : We were not long in suspense. We soon found that the young man in charge of the farm was not only wise but that he was as generous of his|couotry. ‘He did wisdom as the bounteous nature he studied and taught. We soon found that at the head of the farm there was one who was not only master. of the situation, bat who appreciated fully the position he held, what it was for and what it meant. 2 identified with us and our interests; he was one of us. We expected much of him because he was capable of inuch, and we feel his loss because a teacher and a friend has gone. But Warren W. Pendergast stood for much more than all this. He represented in the best sense the sav- ing grace of this Republic. He not only represented, but still represents it—though dead, he still lives. Today, all over our country, thou- sands of young men are leaving the farms and flocking to the cities and villages. They enter the already overcrowded professions; they clamor for employment as clerks, bookkeep- ers, accountants, cashiers, janitors, watchmen, doorkeepers, hod carriers, street workmen, anything, so that they may be employed—that is to say ~-anything so the responsibilities of independence shall be taken away from them—so that they may be re- lieved of the responsibility of inde- pendence. Thousands of men in all the large cities live in squalid tenement houses, live in poverty, looking for day wages, depending on day wages for existence. Day after day thése men hang on to existence, while their number con- stantly increase faster than their employment increases. . Slowly they become dwarfed and shrunken and withered and crushed in the fierce struggle for existence—in the fierce struggle for bread. These men are good citizens: They are willing to work—they are willing to work hard. But they want some- one to provide the work for them. ‘They want to be told to shovel here and dig there. In other. words, they want to sbirk the responsibility of freedom and of independence. In the United States today, thou- sands of young men are pouring into the ranks of wage earners who ought to be employers of labor. ‘They are asking others to think for them when they ought to think for themselves. So tar as what is called common labor is concerned, it ought to be-only a means to an end instead of being the end. There are too many young men in our country who look upon the being employed at a fixed salary e wage as the end-all and be-all of life. When Warren W. Pendergast graduated from the state university he did the very opposite to what most young men do, He turned his back upon the city and went to the ‘ deliberate choice. His action his best. thought~it was thought. In the city optn door oz opportuni could enter any or labor. vel “git