Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 7, 1898, Page 1

Vout VI.—No 35. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Saturpay May 7, 1898 ° Two Dotiars A YEAR ae | ddd ddddddededdeded ee Ne Re Ree ne a a Re a aE Me: ae Poe Ree TRE SEM ER ed Drugs Full line of Perfumes, Toilet Articles, Slationary and Druggists Sundries. Headquarters for Periodicals. Shoe Department Ladies’ Gent’s and Children’s Black and Tan Shoes tn the Latest Styles. If You Want a Good Schoo! Shoe for the Children, Give Us a Call. All Sizes in Cruisers’ and Drivers’ Shoes—Prices Right. Seeds White Russtan Oats, Timothy, Buckwheat, Barley, Clover, Millet, Red Top, Extra Seed Corn. Secure Your Wants Early. eee eat ITASCA MERCANTILE CO. Grand Rapid s, inn. Dry Goods We extend a general tnvitation to the public to call and examine our stock of Dry Goods. Dress Goods A Full Assortment Ladies’ Wrappers 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 $15. FULL ASSOTMENT OF BOYS’ SUITS. Boys’ Overalls - dust 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 Cheese, Edam Cheese. A Full Line of Black, Japan and Mecho and dava Coffee (Something Fine.) DRIED FRUITS—Peaches, Prunells, Apricots, SilverPrunes, Pears. ALS—Oatmeal, Quaker Oats, Crushed Wheat, Postem Cereals. BOTTLED GOODS—Catsup, Chili Sauce, Pickles, Sour and Sweet Olives, Worchester Sauce. California Canned Fruits, Hiawatha Maple Syrup (1 and 2 qt, cans.) Fresh Assortment of Kennedy and Lulibridge Crackers, Dh ae ae a ate he ae a ae ae ae it ae ae ae ae ae ae Se a ote she ea ae he ae ate a oe ae ae a ae he ate a ae ae ae ate ae ae ae ae ate ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ae ae ae ae ate ae ate ae ae ae ae ae ae ah ae eae a ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae a a ae aE BRE Re ea ee ae ea ee RE AR aE ae ea AR aE A A AE ae EA AEA A EE EE Ea AE BREE ATE ERE RE EAE ee A REA ae ae ae a ae ae ae a ae ae ae a ae ae ae ae hee ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ale ae a he ae ae a aa a HK Nene ee ee ene Li dhhddddhddhbhhh bb bbhbbbbbbhbbbbhbhdt bb Lee L riit Seas Ksaee SHEGHRTASSLLSTAESTRITTTATTS CSSSTSIOTATT ALLS T SES OEHR SLL SEE SOSH SSSR ASSET OSERISER SRST SORE DOSE OS EEO OE TER ee eee eee eee knee nee ee Furniture Bed Room Suits, Book Cases, Couches, Lounges, Rockers, a4 Willow Rockers, Dining Chairs,’ se chen Chairs, Spring Carpets, bes Matting, Matresses, Etc. ak as ae ee iz Hardware Department rH +4 IT WILL SOON BE TIME FOR A REFRIGERATOR se ae We have them—Prices Right. ts ice Cream Freezers. A munition. = ae Coal Oil (Qts. and 2-Qis.) Cook Stoves at a Bargain. bes If you want a First-class Cook Stove giver us a call—we cannot be fail to interest you. ad ae ae ‘ ae ae Cc k ae rockery = This Department ts sf ee Complete. all descriptions—all When in want don’t forget ns. We Will Treat You Right. kinds. bs, deck hechechiohshesbechsodooboobsobeohsohcbsebsbeakesbc bee geen ote raan tS A A HAE a a ae ea eB a a a a oe ae a a a a a HH Glasses of | Up-to-Date Farim Tools. — - BRRR80 Muy be satisfied with cheap, out-of-date tools, inferior, sud wachines. Lntelligent, wide-awake, get-there farm- ers, who realize the benefits of} progress. are sensible enough to know that in these hustling times a man has to keep right to the front in order to make any money at farming or any- thing else. John Deere and Monitor Plows, MeCormick Mowers, Deere Spring ‘Tooth Harrews, Etc. ‘These tools z so { well known among farmers that they require no particu- } lar comment Ly us. With tbe world to choose from we | selected these tools because wo thought they were the | best inthe world, Come inand look over our stock, get é vur prices aud compare them with others. Seaaiew DRVOBVOO } PSSSS SS 2S S525 SSS SSS SeSeSesrsesesses A SURPRISE IN STORE fon tH? LADIES OF GRAND RAPIDS Flere "Tis: WHAT TIS? Ladies’ Tailor-Made Suits. To the Ladies of Grand Rapids: c Beautitul! You and each of you are hereby most cordially mvited to call at my store and examine a magnificent line of Ladies’ Tailor-Made This is the first consignment of these suits brought to our village, and in every I cordially invite an in- Miss Atherton will be pleased to show Suits and Skirts which have just been received. particular it is a most magniftcent line. spection of these goods. these suits and Skirts. Figured Armure Skirts Bayadere Brilliantine Skirts Fancy Figured Jacquard Skirts. Sold at Rock-Bottom Prices! Durable! a o Brilliantines,—Fancy Piaids,— Pla © Plaids,—also Linen Crash Suits. Tailor-Made! Elegant! Cheap! = My Stock of Ladies’ and Gent’s Furnishings is Superb. (— — = re 1 1 — hm C. H. MARR, THE cLorHIER ——— 1 — i SS SSS SeSsess5y - Black and Tan ie | aa h i i i fi i | i | hospital. j Was suffering from pneumonia and his jcondition rapidly grew worse until i i i FOUR DEATHS. Pneumonia Claims Two More Victims In Itasca County This Week. W.. H. Dunne, who_ has been a resident os Grand Rapids during the past three years, died of pneumonia at the Ehle & Russell hospital in this village on Thursday last. Mr. Dunne had been feeling poorly for about three weeks, and finally went to the Lhe doctors found that he Thursday, when he was released from lis sufferings by death. The deceased was a newspaper reporter of many years experience and since coming to Grand Rapids he has been the regular correspondent of many of the St. Paul Minneapolis and Duluth papers, be- sides doing work on the local paper-. He was a faithful and conscientious }reporter and felt much pride in the \ correctness of his news statements to the papers that he rzpresented. ‘The deceased was a son of the late W. H. Dunne, general superintendent of the prudential . Insurance company of rooklyn, N. Y., and word having been received from his mother, the remains will be shipped to Greater New York on Monday next. On Tuesday last at Deer River, that dread disease consumption gathered from this life another victim in the person of Miss Selma Bohn, aged 15 years. Though the un- relenting hand of Death has visited Deer River frequently of late and carried off many of her best citizens, in this stance its visitation seems most untimely plucking as it dida flower of youth; chosing a victim who stood on the threshold of womanhood when lite seems the brightest; snuffing out a life full of most brilliant promise —but death knows no favoritism, and this is but another grim reminder that “in the midst of hfe weare in death”. Her parents have the heartfelt sym- pathy of the people of Itasca county, with whom the deceased had a wide acquaintance. On Thursday night at Ins home- stead on Pokegama lake William Clark departed this life, death result- ing trom an attack of pneumonia, The deceased” has_resided in this sec- tion for many years, and his untimely death will be a deep blow to his many friends herebouts, who ever found him an honest, hard-working and uptight man. Upon his wite and family the blow will fall the -heaviest, and in their sad bereavement the condolence of the community go out to them, The remains will be sent to Pennsyl- vania for enterment 1n the oil regions ef some valuable holdings. The three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Angus McDonald died at his parents home in the Big Fork country, on ‘Tuesday last, inflammaiton of the bowels being the cause ‘The remains were brought to Grand Rapids on Wednesday, and interred in the cem- etery here.- Services suitable for the {occasion were held in the Presbyterian church, 6 | of which state his wife is the owner} Our Old Soldiers Would Fight. The veterans of the civil war who are members of B. F. Huson Post, G. A. R., at a recent meeting a adopt- ed the following resolutions, axent which comment would be superfluous: “It having come to our notice that through the inhumanity aud treachery of the Spanish nation, war with that country seems at this time unavoid- able; ‘Therefore, be it “Resolved, that the members of B. F. Huson Post, No. 140, G. A. R., in full council assembled, while depreciat- ing the posibilities of war, yet feel it our duty to tender, and do hereby tender to William McKinley, our pre- sident and commander-in-chief of the army of the United States, the services of this Pust, each and every member, and to be ready at any time, early or late, that may seem to our president most expedient,” H. S. Huson, Com. F. MaLrerte, Adjt. A Double Wedding. Double weddings are not an un- common thing, but Tuesday last saw the first one solomnized in Grand Rapids, when Miss Anna McKinnon and John Sheehy, and Miss Agnes Whaling and James O’Connell were united in wediock at St. Josephs Catholic Church, Rev. Fr. Gamache performing the ceremony. The con- tracting parties have resided in Grand Rapids for years, and are most deserv- edly popular in society. The Herald- Review voices the sentiment of the entire community when it bids the happy couples a hearty god-speed through hfe. Mrs. C. H. Marr returned Monday from her visit to her parents at Deer River. Mr. F. T. Bueneman, manager of the Itasca Mercantile Co., went to Duluth yesterday morning to ac- company his wife home on her return trip, after a two week’s visit with her parents at the Zenith City. Mrs. C. M. Storch returned from Duluth on Thursday evening whether she had been making a_ week’s visit to her parents, who departed this week for the Pacific Coast to make that section their home hereafter. Dr. A. Putney, delighted his host of friends herabouts by returning to the good town early in the week. **Doc” | had been gone for a couple of months, most of which time he spent in the ‘Turtle Mountain country, Dakota. Wm. Leahney, employed at the Metzer Meat Market, is confined to his room at the Hotel Gladstone suf- fering from injuries received by be- ing kicked in the chest by a horse. He is mending rapidly, and expects to resume his labors in the course of a few days, Adolph Erickson made a general nuisance of himself on the passenger train last night, and asa result was handed over to Marshal Robinson by Conductor Flynn when the train ar- rived here. He was brought before Judge Holman this morning, and was sent up for 4o days, Hotel Gladstone Changes. Hands. Hon, D. W. Doran this week leased the Hotel Gladstone to his brother, James Doran, of Hurley, Wis., for a term of years. That deservedly po- pular hosteling will be turned over to the new management on the 15th inst. Mr. James Doran arrived in town last Saturday and spent a few days in town looking over his new possession, and departed for his home in Hurley to make arrangements for removing his family and household goods here at once. Daniel W. will move onto his farm adjoining town, and devote his energies to tilling the soil. To the new proprietor the Herald-Review bids a hearty welcome to Grand Rapids, and wishes him every success in his enterprise, A Popular Young Man Goes to Hibbing John F. McKenna, who for the past six months had_ been night-clerk atthe Hotel Gladstone, resigned his position last ‘Tuesday and left for his home in West Superior for a bref visit with his parents. Mr. McKenna has accepted the position of chief clerk of the Hotel Superior at Hib- bing, which noted hostelry lately passed into the hands of McAlpine & McDonald, of this place, Johnnies many friends here regret his depart- ture from our town, but are pleased to know that he has bettered his position by going to Hibbing. May good luck and prosperity ever attend him is the wish of his Grand Rapids friends. Bass Lake Drive Out. D. C. Connors completed the Free- man & Gray drive out of Bass lake with four millions and will get into the lake with the entire seven millions of that big drive. This 1s a remarkable drive in face‘of the fact that water everywhere is scarce.” Dave Conners is a record breaker. Firemen’s Ball Next Friday Evening. Preparations for the annual Fire- men’s ball are progressing, and the committee in charge will endeaver to make, the closing dance of the season, one long to be remembered. It is to be given at Village hall, Friday even- ing next, May 13th, at Village Hall. The Itasca Circle, G. A. R., will meet at the department headquarters next Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Ladies of the Methodist so- ciety will give a dime social at the residence of Mrs. Brooks. Every- body 1s most cordially invited to attend. The Ladies Cathohe Union will; hold a meeting at fhe parsonage next Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. All members are requested to be present, The ladies of the Itasca Circle gave a very. successful card party at the Huson Post headquarters last Thursday evening. About 65 couple turned out, and most excellent time was had. A toothsome luncheon was served, and the affair netted the Circle 2 neat sum. Peoples Party County Convention Pursuant to a call issued by the Peoples Party state committee for Minnesota and a call issued by the People’s Party Congressional com- mittee for theSixthCongressional dist. of Minnesota, sin each of which said calls the 7th day of June, 1898, is de- signated by said committees as the date upon which the county conven- tions shall be held to elect delegates to said state and congressional con- ventions, to be held at Minneapolis on June 15th, 1898, and in St. Cloud on June 14th, 1898, respectively; And said state and congressional committees having apportioned Itasca county three delegates to re- present said county in each of said conventions; Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that said county conventions so designated to be held on June 7th, 1898, will be held at Village Hall, in the Village or Grand Rapids, Minn., at 3 o’clock p. m., of that day, at which time and place three delegates will be elected by said county conven- tions then and there assembled, to re- present Itasca county at said state convention, and three delegates to re- present Itasca county at said congres- sional convention; Notice is further given, that the primary elections to elect delegates to said county conventions will be held in the several precincts of said Itasca county on Friday, June 3d, 1898, ac- cording to the statutes in such cause madeand provided, and that each precinct in said county will be enti- tled to representation is said county conventions as follows: 1 delegate at large and | delegate for each 100 votes or major fraction thereof cast by said precinct for Hon. Charles A. ‘Towne ab the general election in 1896. The chvirman of the precinct com- mittee in each of the election pre- cincts is hereby notified to cause the necessary notices of holding the above named primary elections to be posted, and otherwise provide for the holdihg oF said primary elections according to aw. Grand Rapids, Minn., May 6, 1898. By order of the People’s Party County Committee of Itasca county, Minne- sola. Frep A, Kine, Attest: Gro. D. Smiru, Chairman. Secretary. Homeseekers’ Excursion Rates via. St. Paul & Duluth Railroad. On May 8rd and 17th, June 7th and 21st, 1898, the St. Paul & Duluth railroad will sell Homeseekers’ Ex- cursion Tickets to points in Arkausas Colorado, Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, North & South Carolina, Tennessee, Keu- tucky, Mississippi and other States at one tare plus $2.00. Call on F. B. Ross General Agent_ Duluth for par- ticulars cr address C, E. Stone, G. P. A., St. Paul, Minn. Democratic County Committee Meeting Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Democratic county committee of Itasca county will be held at Village Hall, Grand Rapids, on Thursday. May 12th, 1898, at3 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of designating the time and place of holding, apportion- ating the number of delegates to be elected s and pg the proper officers to take charge of the primary elections to be held in the several precincts of Itasca county to elect delegates to the county convention on June 9th. 1898, which said county convention willelect 9 delegates to represent Itasca county at the state convention to be held in Minneapolis on June 15th, 1898; also for the purpose of Ce tbe | the place where said county convention will be held and for the transaction of any and all other business that may come before said meeting. Grand Rapids, by os 30th, 1893, . W. Doran, Chairman. For SaLte—A large boat. Apply at residence of Chas. E. Manes, Grand Rapids. a bepress cnet 3+ } i