Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 26, 1898, Page 1

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RE REE eRe Me Re aE Re Re ae ae RE ae ae ate ae ae ae Se ERE te complete line of Canned Goods, Dried Fruits, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Vegetables, Pick- —in fact everything one would expect to find in a first-class Grocery House. Se OO eee SRE RE AE HE RE AS Ee RS ee Ee Re ae a ee a ee a a a WESENSENNS Are You Cold? UST visit our Dry Goods and Clothing De- partment where you will find all kinds of Dress Goods and Wraps for the ladies, and kinds of Clothing and Furnishings for the gen- tlemen. ie ae a ae ae ea a ee ee a a ae a ea aN ae a ae ee ee a ee a ee ae a ee a ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae ae ae a: Also boots and shoes. rE ee se ee ee ee ete eae ae ae ae eae ae ae ae eae ae ee ea REE Are You Hungry? E carry, in our Grocery Department, a A A ee MR AEE EA A Ee ee a ae ae ae a a aa ea ae aaa cee 2a A A A SR A "arucle ly-refuse to offer ascheap article is one whit better than it really is. Liars come to gricf #ta low — QBZBSB, We are like Little George In one respect at least. We will tell a customer the exact truth about an article sold at our store, no matter if we miss a sale by it. We positive- price, claiming that the Sooner-or later, always. And the man who offers you ything in hardware at a lower price than we ask, has got to ier lie about thefquality, or admit that he is in business for his health, only, and don’t expect to make money. The best of goods, at moderate pri 1s what we stand or fall in pretty good shape, by. You wid nouce that we are “standin, yet, W.J. &H. D. POWERS. Veeewe—— mona a SVBOYS \ | SR ya) SSuerater= Semasass “| | We offer our line of Twelve Dollar Frieze Coats for BARGAINS To Reduce our Stock of Overecats Also a number of Good Warm Heavy Coats trom £4.00 to $8.00. In all | ines of winter goods. i TER es { grees 2S Serer et CO. COMMISSIONERS. Wilder, Robinson and Finnegan Will Hereafter Legisiate for Itasca. | MR. FINNEGAN NOT DECIDED. | His Position With the Government Ma Make His Refusal to Act Necessary. —The Matter of Assessed Valu- H ation to Be Insisted Upon. But Fttle time was lost by the ap- | pointing powers in filling the vacan- cies on the county board caused by the resignation of _Commissioncrs Logan and Lydick. The selection of C. W. Ropinson, of Deer River, in {place of Mr. Lydick was announced j1n, our last issue, and on Monday af- jternoon President Powers, of the Grand Rapids village council, John; Beckfelt, chairman of the town board of Grand Rapids, and Courtney Buell, president of the Laprairie village |beard, met at the county auditor’s office to select a successor to the place made vacant by Mr. Logan. |‘Two forma! nominations were made, | Mr. Buell presenting the name of Mr. J. J. Decker of Grand Rapids, and Mr. Beckfelt nominated B. C. Finnegan. By request Mr, Powers submitted a list of fifteen names for consideration. ‘The first ballot resulted in the elecuon of Mr. Finnegan by a vote of 2 to 1. In some quarters objection was offered to Mr. Finnegan on the theory that his position as local superintendent of the government reservoir at Pokega- ma Falls would place him in a some- | what awkward a.titude in the matter of | | increasemg the taxation of pme lands. It is a fact that the resevoirs are and have been sustained through the political influence of C. A. Pulsbury and others in Minneapolis who. be- lieve that the dams are a great benefit to their milling operations in the Flour City. These men are large holders of Itasca county pine lands and very naturally will be interested |to prevent any increase of the assess- ‘ed valuation of their property. On the other hand, Mr. Finnegan 1s as thoroughly competent to fill the posi- tion asany man in the county; a man of good business capaluiliues, shrewd and of good integnty and un- derstands the needs ef the county in every detail. The has not had an opportunity to inter-! view Commissioner Finnegan as to} his views relative to the important matter of taxation and re-assessment, but we are assured ‘by the gentlemen who elected him that he will be em- phatic in his efforts to carry out) the demands ofthe people and that” he will show no favoritism to any’ class. Its earnestly to be hoped that _ his future actions will justify the predic- tions of his friends and that he will work in harmony with his colleagues. Herald-Review | Employes of the government are us- | ually prohibited from holding political | offices and Mr, Finnegan may yet be requested to resign oné of the posi- tions. Commussioners Wiider and Robin son are men of good executive ability and they are determined to conduct the business affairs of the county strictly on economical principles. Now that the “great reform” grand ‘jury has adjourned, after increasing ‘the couniy’s indevtedness about ten thousand dollars, the people are be- ginning to realize that Messrs. Logan and Lydick were not the real culprits and that the existing eviis must be corrected by an entirely different pro- cess. It is now recognized and ad- mitted that the contentions of this paper relative to the under-valuation of pine lands has been well taken and is the true solution of the problem. It is a well-known fact that County Au- ditor King has always been the cham- pion of what is generally spoken of as the “pine land ring.” “Every claim that has been presented for taxation abatement during his mcumbency in office by pine land owners has receiv- ed the special. consideration of Mr. King, and he has ever been prepared with arguments in ther behalf. Through his machinations of many years thousands upon thousands of dolars has been lost to the county. lrue, it may be argued that the com- missioners should have prevented this unjust discrimination and called a halt on a conspiracy to defraud the county for the benefit of public pilferers, and the criticism is a just one, but they were not the guilty parties. In the language of the “sport” they were “strung” by King. Anyone who has ever attended a meeting of the com- missioners during the past three years knows this statement to be a fact, Mr. King 1s sly, cunning, and devil- ish treacherous in his operations, and he not only “conned” the commis- sioners through a long series of these transactions, but he also has ex- jercised a similar influence upon aj | majority of the business men of Grand Rapids In this manner he has succeeded in casting reflections upon others, while iu fact he has been the direct and insidious agent of more financial lossto the county than all ochers combined. ‘These abuses must be stopped. The board of county commissioners must make King realize ns proper position and instruct him to keep it. He must be made to understand that he is only the clerk of the board, and not a dic- tator. He should be ‘instructed in language that will have a telling effect that he can no longer act as attorney for the owners of pine lands in this county. ‘There are at least two com- missioners—Messis. Wilder and Rob- | inson—who will call an emphatic halt on any further work of this kind, and lit is the general opinion that a differ- ent condition will hereafter prevail, and that the receipts to the county trea- sury will be largely increased. Wake up, Democrats! The cam- paign of ’98has begun. Victory is ours if we but make an effort to win. Let us be up and doing. Wake up! Charch Notes. Rey. J. C. Hartley will morrow at Deer River. preach to- This village gave $55 to the sup- port of the Children’s Home Society of St Paul. Rev. August Andren will conduc- servicesin the M. E. church tot morrow morning and evening. The Ladies of the Episcopal Guild will hold their next meeting at the home of Mrs. Arthur A. Kremer on Thursday March 3rd at 2:30 p. m. Rev. D. A.-MacKenzie left on the Friday morning train in response to {an invitation to preach tomorrow in the First Presbyterian church of Red- wood Falls, Minn. Rey. C. V. Gamache, after an ab- sence of afew days at Hibbing, return ed Wednesday. Consequently services will be held at the usual hours at St. Joseph’s church tomorrow. A meeting of the Ladies Catholic Union will be held at the Catholic parsonage next ‘Thursday afternoon at 3 0’clock for the transaction of im portant business. All the ladies of the congregation are requested to at- tend this meeting. Arrangements have been made whereby the ladies of the Episcopal Guild have secured the use of the M. E. church, Services will be held there next Sunday;' morning services 1ra.m.and evening at 7:30 p. m. with special prayer service at the Rosser Hospital at 3 p. m. The advisory board of the Child- ren’s Home Society appointed from the churches of this place are as follows: Presbyterian, Mrs. J. J. Decker and O. L. Mather Methodist, Mrs. George Cox and R. S. Crandall; Episcopal, Mrs. Wade Blaker and A. A. Kremer. The board met Monday evening and organized by electing the following officers: President, Mrs. J. J. Decker: vice-president, O. L Mather; secty-treas., Mrs. Wade Blaker. Red Lake Timber All Estimated. Land Commissioner Hermann is not yet ablé to furnish any information as to when the Red Lake timber lands now being examined, will be ready for sale. Up to the date of the last report, Feb. 1, the examination of. tmber on sixteen townships had béen, completed, re ports showing an estimate of 101,579,- ooo feet of timber, but he could not say whether or not these townships had been examined before, nor could he say whether or not the reports i Showed a greater or less amount of timber than is shown by the former reports.—Lumberman. Teachers Examination. School building at Grand Rapids, o'clock a. m. Mrs, O. H. Stitson. County Supt. of schcols: Log Cut on the Upper Mississippi. From the Minneapolis Lumberman we glean that the log cut on the up- per. M sippt and its tributaries above Swan river for the season of 1897-98 will be, approximately, 226,500,000 feet. ‘This is a consider- able increase over the cut of the sea- son of 1896-97, which was in the neighborhood. of 117,000,000 feet. The estimate for the present season, | printed below, however, do not cover the entire field, many well known Jum- bermen’s cuts having been omitted, and when their inputs are added it will bing the grand total to the jneighborhood of 250,000,000 feet. Here is the Lumberman’s estimate: Price Bros., on Prairie rive! cee, . BW. 9 ),000 Swan river Ry. 13,000,000 Small loggers on Pokegama lake ..... 1,000,000 Dunean Harris, at Pokegama falls... 500.000 Deer rivers 45,000,000 ig, on Willow rive: ‘000,000 al, on Willow river 25,000,000 on’ Vermillion and 1,000,000 ),000 Milligan & M Swan riy 000,000 Sam Hamilton, a ‘000,000 Love 500,000 Bi 610,000 000,000 000,000 4,000,000 1,000,000 irbanks, on Cut Foot Siow 1,200,000 ears, on Cut Foot Sioux 300,000 i, Gilbrath, on Cut Foot Sion: 1,000,000 Jno, Lyo' oshish . 2,000,000 Nepenett ri 1,000,000 Smith & Nason, on Ucech river 1,000,000 The K. of P. Ball. The third annual ball of the Uni- form Rank, Kmghts of Pythias of Grand Rapids, held in the village hall last Monday evening, was the most successful social function of its kind ever held in Grand Rapids. Karly in the evening the spacious hall was filled with the uniformed knights, their ladies and other worshippers of Tersichpore,and from the opening grand march ‘till the strains of the “Home, Sweet Home” waltz remind- ed the gathering that the wee sma’ hours had arrived, the floor was put to its capacily to _accommodate the dancers. ‘An excellent ance te from Duluth The first teachers’ examination of this year will be held in the Central Friday and Saturday, March® 11th and 12th, commincing work at 8:30 furnished the music, which was in accordance with the occasion. At midnight supper was served by the Ladies’ Catholic Union, in- the council chambers on the first floor of the hall. The ladies did themselves proud with the magnificent spread they made, and established for the Union reputation of being the best cateress in Grand Rapids. Village Caucus. Notice is hereby given that 2 citi- zens’ caucus will be held in village hall, Grand Rapids, on Monday even- ing next, Feb. 28, at 8:30 o'clock, at which place and. time candidates for the several village offices to be filled at the village election, March, |3, will be nominated. ‘ ances at i / i i i |