Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 11, 1897, Page 1

Pertti tT Tt Grand Rapid 4 eh is Heral Vout VI.—No, 2. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Saturpay, SEPTEMBER I1, 1897. Great Attractions RE SRE AE ES SE ESE SSRIS a a ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae a ae ae ate ae ES In Our 11 our Dry Goods-- “ Department. A Bargain in Gentlemen’s Light-Weight SLSlSle™ ~ Special Reductions on All Summer Goods. Overcoats—A Snap. Speaking of Neckwear Two DoLiars a YEAR Come in and See Us. e He ee ee ee ee ee te ee eat eae ee RE Ret te ete ate aie tee tea nO te eae eae te eae te Reale ee eee te ee gee No Trouble to Show Goods. ‘ade A Large Portion Of Our Fall Goods In, And More to Follow. Courteous Treatment. Our Hat Sale Still Continues—Get One Before it is too Late. Well, to appreciate them, you will have to see them. They a —THE FINEST. re without a doubt Itasca Mercantile Company, Grand Rapids, - Minn. Ak ste 8 se ae a ae eae ae ae ee a ee ae se ae ae ae ate ae af ae ae ae seat a af ae ae ae ae ate ae ae at at eae ae ae ae ate ae ae ate ae se eae a a fe ae ae ae ae a ae at eae a ee ie a ee ae ae ae a a ae ae ee ea ae ee ae ae a oe a a a RSI he a ee ae i a a eae ae a ae ae ae ae ee ae ae eee --- Prices Right. HII RHR IRE REISE REAR RR EI REnE a ei aieae JERR REE ERE EERE RE RE ERE REE ERE REE eae EE ae ‘5 y 4) A ‘Hot Sport.” ak what cares this little “Coon” »r he goes bobbing for with a bent pin or goes g fur bullheads with a tow He's fishing and he’s happy. But with the up-to-date sport it's different. Not much fun would it be for him to “roast his pate” in the hot sun, holding in his hand a crooked stick attached toa piece of wrapping twine on the end of which was a bent pin holding a chunk of meat. Well, | Should Say Not! When the man of today goes fish- ing, nothing satisfies him but the > finest spliced bamboo rod, with the finest and strongest silk line, and a fu!l-assortment of hooks _ / and flies. He didn’t use to be able to get all these fine “fixings” up here in the north country until Powers put in such a fine stock of fishing tackle and sporting goods. But he can get anything he wants now, from a fish hook to a com- plete fishing and hunting outfit. Stoves, Tinware, Lumbermens’ Supplies, Paints and everything else of that kind, W. J. & H.D. POWERS. And on the side, they sell everything in Hardware, Iton, Steel, e season. Clothing, Dry Goods, - AND. Furnishings. These are the lines to which we are giving special attention during this Prices are down so low that all can reach them. Quality high grade; prices low grade. Marr’s Clothing & Dry Goods Store GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. We'll get your trade if prices count. He Me AE ee ee A ee eee a ea ea ee ae ea ee ee ae ee ee a eae ae ae eae ae ae ae ae ae ate Do You See This ? Of course you do. ‘everybody else. Suppose YOUR ad was here! RE EE EE A ee ete a ea a aa a ea a ‘| matter. KELLY TELLS A TALE The Experience of Three Grand Rap- ids Sports at Deer Lake. |MARR, GUNN AND GILBERT The Minneapolis Journal Gives an Interesting Account of Their Trip---An_ Embarrass- ing Sequel. The following interesting story ap- peared in the Minneapolis Journal of a recent date, and is from the pen of our friend C. C. Kelly, who has done more good advertismg for Northern Minnesota than any other simgle- handed man that ever unravelled the mysteries of a “fish-hunt:” «“D. M. Gunn, member of the legis- lature from this district; W. C. Gil- bert, president of the First State bank, and Charlie Marr, a leading merchant of this town went out to Deer lake the other day, and among a goodly string of bass, brought back three little muskies, weighing respectively’ 13, 11 and 8 pounds. I do not know which caught the “muskies” and indeed, think a mystery as dense as that which covered the fate of the famous whisky-skin of Guilgal, hangs over the But at any rate they had them—and there are no “Injuns” at the lake to my knowlege. The day of rest promised to be op- pressively hot, and the three gentle- men went out more in search ot cool- ness than of fish, though they got both to their heart’s content. Neither are much of sportsman, though resi- dents of the sportsmen’s paradise: for all three are too much occupied with busmess to have much time for any- thing else; still Gunn and Gilbert could handle the rod and reel fairly well, while Charlie had never used either but ofce before, though on that occasion he scored a brilliant success and captured something very seldom taken in that way. ~ It was at the great Columbian Ex- position, and Charlie, in strolling around among the many sights of So does i a hab laa wonder that made the white city one of the world’s marvels, came upon one of the lagoons which diversified its landscape, and found a fine rod land reel, with hook baited witha piece of pork rind, leaning against the side of a small building at the water’s edge, Charlie had often heard of casting. but had never tried” his hand at it, and seeing nobody near, thought the opportunity to try his ‘prentice hand at it a good on. He accordin ly picked up the rod and tried“how he could sling the pork rind out into|of the lagoon.” How far he it he could never teil, as t! pened to be a swan sai same lagoon, and Charlie’s cast land- ed the pork rind mght in front of that regal but stupid, bird, which gobbled it hke a flash. And then began a circus which Charlie would have found yery inter- esting, no doubt, had he stopped +to witness it. But he did nothing of the kind. _ He was pressed for time about then, and made himself “minus” as rapidly as possible. Hus success at his second attempt, made last Sunday, while not so startling as that attend- ing his first effort, was yet great enough to fully satisfy his companions that he possessed all the energy need- ed to develop a first-class caster. The three gentlemen procured a boat and a good supply of bait at Lund & McComber’s, and were soon on the lake and under the lee of an island, where the water suddenly “dropped off” to twenty feet or more of depth, while they could anchor in quiet water and sheltered from the wind, yet have the advantage a fine mpple on the water they cast into. Now, three men in a boat, unless experts, can’t do much casting with- out getting sadly into each other’s way, and, if they are to keep peace at at all, must remain seated. So they all did at first, but after Charley had lost a fish or two through getting a “kink” in his line, which tact the wily big mouth will “get onto” and take advantage of with lightning rapidity, he began to grow warm with the ex- citement of battle, and, being in the stern of the boat, stood up, thinking he could do better work that way and at the same time avoid entangling al- liances with his neighbors, It would have been pleasanter for the neigh- bers aforesaid if he had, but then he didn’t,- for warming up to his work after a few casts in his erect position, he caught off Mr, Gilbert’s hat and swept it out forty feet into the lake, incidently plowing a furrow in that gentleman’s scalp with the barb of his 4-0 Sproat. With a dexterous cast, Mr. Gunn caught and rescued the hat and, peace being restored, Char- lie sat down and remained quiescent for some time. “But not tor long. ‘The excitement of the game proved too much for his forbearance, and he was on his feet again, and soon had the satisfaction of wrapping about ten feet of line around the neck of Mr. Gunn and of “swatting” that lawmaker right under the nght ear with his frog when the wrapping process was com- pleted. After that performance, Charlie sat down and stayed down till dinner time. It was a little lurid in the boat, per- haps, fora short time, but the bass began to bite freely, and all three hav- ing their hands full in taking them in, “the era of good teeling” resumed business, and Charhe’s feats m the casting line were forgotten. The big and “small” mouths fairly fought for the chance to strike, and each one put up a gallant fight, so that when Lund came out in a cano:; to call our sports- | men in they had fifty-seven black bass, - | all the way from one to three pounds in weight and a bushel, more or less, croppies. Of course they had cap- tured a lot of pickerel. ‘That curse always gets in where he is not wanted, but they had shortened each about a head as tast as taken, and cast him overboard. A hearty dinner, followed by a soul-solacing smoke and lounge under the great pine trees in the grove near the lake, with the strong breeze from the water fanning them into a state of beautitude, brought our fisker- men up to 4 o’ciock in the afternoon, and then they set out again after more of the scaly population of the lake. There happening to be two more gentlemen from town on hand, who had arrived just before dinner and were very anxious to try their luck, Messrs. Gunn and Gilbert arranged for them to accompany Charlie. Neither of the newcomers was expert in the management of water craft, and Charlie 1s, or at any rate his compan- ions of the morning so assured their new friends, and also added that as it looked as if there might be a good deal of wind, it would be the part of wisdom to insist on going in Charlie’s company. Of course, these two good gentle- men did not wish to be rid of Charlie. To be sure, he had been rather too emotional in his ways during the morning to be an altogether comfort- able companion, but it was only solici- tude for the comfort of the newcomers which led them to arrange for Charlie to navigate them. At any rate, it was so arranged, and the party set off in two boats, Charley and his two companions hav- ing much the smaller craft, and were soon under the lee of the friendly island which had sheltered them in the morning. But the fish had left, and after angling for about an hour they gave it up and started to cross the lake, some four miles, intending to poftage into a small lake for the evening fishing. But they failed to get there. The wind was dead against them, and though by taking advan- tage of the numerous bays and islands in the lake, and so getting compara- tively smooth water most of the time, Charlie managed to take his boat half way over—Gunn and Gilbert quit as soon as they saw how big a sea was running, and turned back—but the rest of the way was through the main jake, and the strangers insisted on either being landed that they might walk back—theye’d been walking yet in that case—or on Charlie turning back. Charlie hates to turn back when once his face is set in the direction he wants to go, and it 1s doubtful if he would not have held on at the immi- nent risk of drowning his cargo, had not Lund come out in his canoe, which can hve where an ocean steam- er could, and advised a retrograde movement. x So back they went, Charlie getting into the canoe as soon as they could find smooth water to allow the ex- change, and all the other gentlemen had to do was to run their boat out where the wind could strike her, hold her straight and let her ga. Which they did, and home she took them in short order. Lund took Charlie| 4 around along the shore line! and as he went Charlie kept practicing Bron 4 in hopes see king up a line on the ae ; to trail along in the water, while he picked out the kink. And then, with all his experience of ‘lunge, he gave the usual yell of: “Back her! I’ve caught a snag!” when a member of -the fighting family annexed his frog. Lund promptly swung the canoe around, but ’twas of no avail. ‘The line was too badly “kinked,” the reel would not work, and “musky,” making his usual hght- ning bolt, snapped the line at the rod tip as if it had been a piece of pack- thread. Ofcourse, as he got away he must have weighed forty pounds. That is the accepted weight of the escaped muskallonge every time. And Charley was glad to go home then, but swearshe 1s going to get even by taking a big muskallonge on the rod, if he has to practice all the rest of the year todo it. The team was soon hitched up, and our friends on their homeward way, and they had almost reached the town when they made a discovery which brought woe to one of them. They had taken along half a dozen of the prescrip- tions for fishing parties by the Minne- apolis Brewing company made and provided, and by some strange over- sight, one of them had been missed, and though sincerely mourned over, had been regarded as lost. But now one of them found it covered up in the bottom of the road wagon by an old newspaper, and as all had much dust in their throat, the discovery was hailed with joy. The finder had the cork out in a jiffy, and the bottle to his mouth, and in that attitude was taking an observation, when, as the road made a sharp curve just then, they “met up” with the pastor of the bibulous gentleman and his family, whom the good man was taking out for a little mde. The other boys saw the minister, but did not say anything. ‘The gentleman of the bottle saw him also as he lowered that well spring of comfort, and met his com- rades’roar of hilarity by remarking that he “had as well be hung fora sheep as a lamb”—and finished the bottle. I won’t mention his name, And I wouldn’t advise anyone to ask either of the three whom it was the minister caught with the beer bottle to his mouth—for he might bit on the nght one, and have a fight. Pianos at Less Than Cost. Ihave leased the Aegant store at No. 222 West Superior St., Duluth, and am closing out at less than cost prices the stocks of R. C. Munger of it. Paul, who assigned, and W. F. Edholm of West Superior, who also went into bankruptcy. The sale of these pianos is now going on, and I expect all of them to be closed out early next neek. Do you want @ piano? Ifso, get on the train and come to Duluth and see me. I can save you from $150 to $200 and you may never again have a similar chance. € pianos are of the best takes grades and, by the order of the courts to tura them into money, I am selling them at less than Hcost. All sou Bary apes ls Oe down rs ae per month, We are sats get 105, 8 3 They fan, Hanes, a: Ne 7 oon eeu den mie Sense he =.