Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 9, 1898, Page 1

oe fl Vor VI.—No 32. Ro SMA SS Soe Sees ewe gee = Pees essesecsssseesassGeeeeeaeCeeOSeSCERSSASOSSOOSSSSESSETSSER SET SSER SST SEER ARTS See eee Drugs Full line of Perfiimes, Toilél Articles, Stationary and Druggist’s Sundries. Headquarters for Periodicals. Shoe Department OUR SPRING GOODS. Ladies’ Gent’s and Children’s Black and Tan Shoes in the Latest Styles. If You Want a Good School Shoe for the Children, Give Us a Call. All Sizes in Cruisers’ and Drivers’ Shoes—Prices Right. Seeds White Russian Oats, BH Timothy, Buckwheat, Barley, Clover, ae Millel, Red Top, Extra Seed Corn. Secure Your Wants Early. Beov me, Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., SATURDAY APRIL 9, 1898 Two Dotiars a YEAR be chothcbechecdoche she dodo hesbech-dedbesbededesheededeshoob-dcded ITASCA MERCANTILE CO., Grand Rapids, Minn. Dry Goods We extend a general invitation to the public to call and examine our stock of Dry Goods. Dress A Full Assortment Ladies’ Wrappers Goods of Ladies’ Waists Brocaded Silk Skirts A New Lot of Laces and Trimmings. We expect in a few days a Full Line of the Latest Styled Ladies’ Capes and Spring Coats—Call and see them, Clothing and Gents’ Furnishings We are Strictly “In It” on Clothing. MEN’S SUITS FROM $4.50 TO SI5. FULL ASSOTMENT OF BOYS’ SUITS. Boys’ Overalls -dJust the thing for play. Spring Overcoats at a Bargain, If you are in need of anything in the Clothing line it will pay you not to forget us. Groceries Crescent Creamery Butter, Good Dairy Butter. Full Cream ¢ A Full Line of Black, Japan and Edam Che E. B. Teas, Moeoho and Java Coffee (Something Fine.) DRIED FRUITS—Peaches, Prunells, Apricots, SilverPrunes, Pears. CEREALS—Oatmeal, Quaker Oats, BOTTLED GOODS—Catsup, Chili Crushed Wheat, Postem Cereals. Sauce, Pickles, Sour and Sweet ate Olives, Worchester Sauce. California Canned Fruits, Hiawatha Maple Syrup (1 and 2 qt, cans.) Fresh Assortment of Kennedy and Lulibridge Crackers, ebbbd hhh bb bh hh hb bbb hebdded 4-44-b4b44bbehhbetehdkeae ieee FESSTRSSTTROSERSHESSRAAS ERSTE SS REESE I Bed Room Book Cases Lounges, Rockers, Willow Rockers, Dining Chairs, chen Chairs, Spring Carpets, Matting, Matresses, Etc. Hardware Department Furniture IT WILL SOON BE TIME FOR A REFRIGERATOR Suzts, , Couches, ice Cream Freezers. Crockery This Department ts Complete. all descriptions—all When in want Ka don't Forget ns. kinds. We Will Treat You Right. We have then—Prices Right. A munition, Coal Oil (Qts. and 2-Qfs.) Cook Stoves at a Bargain. Sete If you want a First-class Cook Stove giver us a call—we cannot fail to interest you. Glasses of Wis S - a hoa Semen eS ' _ COR DOU RN RE SH iS tae eA a A ee ee a ee a ee ee eee ae ee ee ee eee a a ee me ea Be ee a a a a a se tae a ea ae eat ae eae Oa AD SER Sey eS SESE seca cacaseseees Ses SSORSESESESEHONSHSE SHOEI SESHTTTTASASASRST CRSA OSS E SSS S SHS RO MSTA SR ORS ROS Ro ae aeRO Tae RE EDR ER SE Se aE os ee ee RS BCA, When You Break a Window Remember that Powers sells Glass. We have alwrys a sup- ply_on hand of Common Windgw aud Plate Glass, If we haven't the size you want we ean get it in about a minute. Glass is not cheap anywhere now. but we will sell it as cheap as you can get itanywhere. We will make y special price if you want a large quantity. Wher - e ¢ Are You Going to Build this summer? Yes?_ Then make your contracts with ect. for your sash, doors, win- s paints. oils, leads, ete. We y the best stock Northern a n make you as good han you can get else- s of as high quality. We Run a Hardware Store for particular people—people who want good goods and know when they are getting them. Farm Implements and Bicycles, too. Splendid Lines. W. J. & H. D. POWERS. Beeb 5—T—} = EF 1 To Reduce our iStock of Overecats — ao eS ! We offer our line of Twelve Dollar Frieze Coats for Also a number of Good Warm Heavy Coats trom $4.00 to $8.00. BARGAINS In all lines of winter goods. i SnGAEEES es | | PAPER MILL BONUS Village Council Calls Special Election to: Be Held April 19, PROPOSITION WELL GUARDED If a Big Pulp and Paper Mill Should Be Finally Located -at This Point Grand Rapids’ Future Pros- perity Would Be Assured. On Tuesday evening of this week the village council held a meet- ing and considered the mat- ter of a special election to vote on the proposition of raising a bonus of $10,000 by bonds for the location of a pulp and paper mill. A written contract had jpreviously been drawn and signed by a committee of busi- ness men appointed for the purpose and by the representative of the com- pany who was here last week. The gentlemen who represened the local interests were very careful to guard the wellfare of Grand Rapids, and the specifications will insure the completion of atwo hundred and fifty thousand dollar mill at this place within a few months, otherwise the village will not be out a dollar, except the small expense attending the election. The councilmen talked over the situation very carefully and were unanimous in the conclusion that the material interests of Grand Rapids would be well served by the appropriation of the amount asked. | ‘The election will be held on Tues- day, April 19. It is the duty of every citizen to investigate the pro- ject thoroughly, and if this is done 'we feel safe in predicting that the vote will be unanimously in fsvor of the bonus, There is entirely too much involved in this matter to be treated lightly hy the people of this community. The steady employ- ment of 200 to 300 nen means a great dealto any small community, besides the extra work that will be furnished to homesteaders and others in supplying the raw material. One Kind of Journalism. The most disagreeable -and unsatis- factory undertaking in any business or profession in which a man can engage without brains or experience 1s that of journalhsm, and yet there are more {incompetents—we might say im- beciles—engaged in country news- papers publishing and editing than in any other line of business carried on in the United States. When a man has tried his hand at about everything else from selling peanuts on the street corner to driving a hack, and has de- monstrated that he 1s conspicuously short in ability to carry on these por- tentious enterprises, he finally con- cludes that he can at least run a news- paper. In almost any community there ians ready to assist the nincompoop in getting started. The only trait of character required is a willingness at all times to defend whatever the political “stockholders” may demand. The Grand Rapids Magnet started in on} these lines when it was first established | six or seven years ago and it has held its own ever since. No class of citi- zens in this community has ever re- spected either the paper or any of its several proprietors. It has always been an H. R. King organ because that worthy has ever managed to hold a financial influence over the plant. Finally he has complete control—so far as its editorial and local news pages are concerned. The nominal editor—young Mr. Stevens—has no} more to say about the paper’s conduct than has the writer hereof. King has a deep feeling of intense hatred for the Heraid-Review and _ he has long been ambitious to vent his spleen, but} lacks the moral courage and ability to to do so over his own name. At last | he has discovered an incompetent} who is as clay in the moulder’s hands. His well-known methods of maaipu- lation will cause Itasca county to foot | the bills tor an editor, while the young | man who is thus being used to ad- vance the selfish ends of poliucians will soon find it necessary to take an- other “homestead” in order to play even. He will tind ere long that a servile press is not what this demo- cratic community will support, and he will retire from the Fourth estate a wiser but sadder chump. As the Magnet 1s now conducted a dog from every corner takes a hand at the quil, except the one whose name appears at the mast head. Any references that may appear in that sheet relative to the personality or character of the Herald- Review editor would be dificult to reply to because we do not know from what source it eminates, and if we did know, it 1s dollars to doughnuts that the author would be too nasty to handle in public print. In the mean- time, we will venture to suggest that! when the Magnet “roast” man again takes up his quil he will use it in- dependently and not steal from the Herald-Review files. ‘The article published last week was one garbled from these pages in which our old- time frend, the Moose was pictured out in becoming colors. New Superintendent. Thomas A. McHugh of Cohassett | was appointed . superintendent of the county poor farm by the board of commissioners at their meeting held on Saturday last. Mr. McHugh was the lowest bidder for the position. The terms specify that the county shall pay $2.50 per week for each ‘inmate’s maintainance. ‘Lhe use of the farm is furnished free, including stock and farm impliments. One- | half increase in stock will revert to the county at the expiration of Mr. McHugh’s term in charge. He also ‘agrees to clear fifteen acres of land during the next three years for which he will be paid $10. per acre. Mr. McHugh wili be a splendid guardian of |Our Two Financial Institutions Consolidate | management. the poor farm, he being well equipp- ed to do the position full justice. willbe found afew disgruntled politic . He will take possession next week IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. Under one Management. The two financial institutions of Grand Rapids were consolidated this | week, and hereafter the business of the two will be transacted under one The present quarters of the First Bank of Grand Rapids will be occupied by the consolidated banking firm, and it will be known as} the Lumbermen’s Bank of Grand! Rapids. It is understood that the| cashiers of the two institutions will be retained as cashier and assistant of the new banking house. The business| will be closed up as rapidly as possible and transferred to the .Lumbermen’s Bank. That such a step has been on} the tapis for some time past has been known to the patrons of both banks, and all are in accord that the consoli- dation is a wise step. It will give us a bank with a capital adequate for the needs of our growing town, and will inspire more confidence in the stabil- ity of the institution, and_ will furnish the new banking house the necessary capital to handle many of the large deals in pine lands which have _here- tofore sought Minneapolis for adjust- ment, which will result profitable to the bank and accomodate our people in amarked measure. i DR. GILBERT COMING. | Will Locate In Grand Rapids for the Prac- tice of Medicine. | As was reported last week Dr,| Geo. C. Gilbert, of ‘Duluth, looked over the field here with a view to lo- cating in Grand Rapids permanently for the practice of his profession. During his short stay in the village Dr. Gilbert became very frvorably | impressed with the present ‘and future prospects of this thriving metropolis, and it is evident from the foliowing, which appeared in yesterday’s Duluth Herald, that he will soon be here: “At the meeting of th: Elx lodge; last mght Dr. George C. Gilbert an- nounced that as he would soon leave | Duluth to make his home in Grand} Rapids, Minn., it would be impossible for him to serve another term as ex- alted ruler to which position he was} elected for the second time last} week.” Died. Mr. Henry Logan received the sad news today of the death of his sister, Mrs, Wm. Doyle, which occured at Grand Forks, N. D., at 4 oclock this morning. Mr. Doyle, who had been in busmess here with Mr. Logan, re- turned to Giand Forks on Tuesday in response to a telegram announcing | his wife’s illness. Mrs. Doyle had visited her relatives in Grand Rapids en two or three occasions and had made many friends here who will learn of her death with much sorrow. The deceased was about 35 years of age, and besides her husband leaves three little daughters to mourn her loss. The remains wjll be taken to Howell, Mich., her girlhood. home, | Jefferson & Kasson, St. THE LOG CROP. The Minneapolis Lumberman Gives the Input for 1897-98 as About 500,000,000 Feet. The log cut on the upper Missis- sippi is practically over tor the season, excepting what hauling 1s done by railroad, It is yet too early to pre- dict with any certainty the total input for the winter of 1897-98, but estimates have been made placing it as high as 500,000,000 feet. As there was only 231,000,000 feet ot logs left over in the Mississippi river last fall, this means a total log supply of only a little over 700,000,000 feet for the mills at Minneapolis and above, in- cluding the 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 feet that annually go over the falls to hte mills below Minneapolis. Some of the amounts put in on the different streams as reported are as follows: On Prairie and Swan rivers, J. H. Dunning & Co. put in 9,000,000 feet and McAlister Bros. 2,000,000 feet; S. Hamilton at two camps on the Mississippi below Grand Rapids put in 2,500,000 feet. On ,Split Hand, Hart & McGunre put in 1,500,- 000 feet; Love Bros. 1,4000,000 feet; H. Blake 600,000 feet; Milligan & McGurre put in 8,000,000 feet on lower Swan, which have been sold to Paul. The log cut on the Willow river, a_ tribu- tary to the Mississippi, is officially jestimated as follows: Jefferson & Kasson..... Ackley Lumber Co. H. F. Brown Sundry Smal. Total... Stabbed at Cloquet A Cloquet dispatch to the Herald, dated the 8th, says: “On Wednes- day evening a notorious character named Henry Maines stabbed and seriously injured a man named Sims, who isa cousin of J. P. sims, of Grand Rapids, Minn. The stabbing occured in the saloon of McCullough & McCarthy with a common jack knife. The victim was taken to the boarding house of John O’Donnell, where he was attended by Dr. A. E. Johnson. Sims was stabbed in four places, three times near the heart and once on the shoulder. The doc- tor has hope of Sims’ recovery. He was removed to a Duluth hospital yesterday.” Unbalanced Minds. John A. Gran, a carpenter, who has worked in Grand Rapids ana Deer River for some time, was brought into probate court on Friday last, ona com- plaint alleging insanity. Upon ex- amination the jury found that he was unbalanced and Sheriff Toole took him to Fergus Falls on Saturday. Dennis Muldoon was another un- fortunate who was taken to the asylum this morning by the sheriff. * @nly Three Trains on Earth Worthy of comparison with the Burlington’s “Minneapolis and St, Paul-Chicago Limited.” One in Eu- rope; two east of Chicago—none west, So beautiful, so luxurious, so costly a train has never before been at the for interment Mr. Logan willJeaye for Howell Monday morning. disposal of the traveling public of tha Northwest, z