Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 9, 1899, Page 1

Vo. VIII.—No 6. Granp Rapips, Irasca CouNTY,. MInN., Sarurpay, SEpTrempsr g, 1899. Two Do.iars A YEAR eR RE Itasea Mereantile Ce. Bry Goods We will have in a few days the largest and finest line of Dress Goods and Dress patterns ever offered to the ladies of Grand Rapids— all the latest and newest styles. Will also have a full line of BEA REA RES SR SIEM ee aie A ae AIR EE A ee a A ae ae ae ae eae eae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae aE Silk. Waist Patterns, Silk Skirts, Silk Petticoats, Wool Kutt Petticoats, : Fancy Wool Waists, Full Line of Misses’ and Childrens’ Wool Tam’s, SSSELELEESSE See ee eeees Sora esse es eso ees Sones oH ee Ss ote New Goods Coming ! “AS a a a ae ae a ate eae ae ae ate ae a a ae eae ae ate ae ae ee a ae ae ae a as ae ae ea aa a ae ea ae ate a Seereereenenes t AAR A ee eae a bi decd gh Se Re ate ae ae ae ae ae ae ‘RE AGE Re RE she EE Me ae He Re ae ae ae He a a ee sad id ME a ae ae ae he ae se ae ate ae aE HE a I HE He HE a HE IE A SRE EAE AE AE AE TE a a ae ae ae ae a aE a ae ae a ae a TUeeseSUBSa REE AO ad SESE A I eA EE ae EE Re ea ah ae a ae ae ae ae ae We ae ae ate ate ats Re ae ae ate ae ae ate ate a ae EER, eae ae a ate ae a Full Line of Ladves’ and Misses’ Walking Hats. 3 New Line of Children’s Knit Goods, ae Dress Trimmings—mostly tinported. at <4 an , =e Come in and inspect our goods before buying Be ’ Re and be convinced that-we have an up-to-date Pi stock of Dress Goods and Trimmings. ae By ; é 4 We Expect a Carload of Furniture in a few days, a3 also Complete Stock of Couches. ae an —— Se ae 2 ue T | Be ae ae ASCA MERCAN ILE HIF ae 2 ae ee ae ae BR De RE Ee ak EME EA ABE SE AE AR AE ae gs ee a ak eae ae EE GE a ee te ae ea EE ie Too Much of a: Good Thing A sensible man knows it is quite possible when hunting for low prices on hardwe to get | too much of a good thi You can't tell by the looks of a piece of iron or steel whether it's good or not. But grown up peo- pie know that. it is impossible to get VERY GOOD yoods at VERY LOW prices. ~ We don’t claim to be ‘Cheap Johns.” But DO claim to have the BEST stock of hard- ware, farm implements. bicy- cles and all such things in the whole north country, and that our pr are the lowest when nsidered. quality W. J. & a. D. POWERS ee HEE A A he ee ate ae ae ate ae ae he ate ae ae ate oe ae at A ate ate ae ae te te oe te a a aa ae ae ane Ee ae ae ae ea ae ae EB ate ae ERE HEE EE ae ES A RK ee SSS aS ems xP SPS: ¢ # —e a! ew Ueenent peaking of Groceries Prompts us to remark that if you want the VERY BEST you will have to go tothestoreof J.D. Powers for it. Others may insist that their stock is larger— and perhaps it is—but itis not as good, and they know it. In staple groceries * he can meet all requirements, while his 8 Teas, Cots, Butter, Cheese, Pickles, Canned Goods and spices are absolutely the best that can be procurred in town. Powers’ coffees are particularly famous, he having a larger trade in this com- modity than any other grocer in the village.» His stock of cigars, tobaccos and smokers’ articies is an.excellent one and he invites you to try them. ~~ ee == J A Full Line of Gent’s Furnishing Goods. J. D. POWERS. Opposite Hotel Pokegama, GRAND RAPIDS. ORR SARE MRE RR 8 3 ; : | own city by doing so. \WANT ITASCA LA yee Windom, Minn., Parties Affer Two Thousand Acres. WILL INDUCE SETTLEMENT Land Will be Bonght in Large Tracts 4 Over the County and Settlers Located Thereon. Last week the httle steamer “Ro- salle” brought up from Aitkin a party whose operations in this section are liable to mark an epoch in Itasca county’s history, Two men—D. C. Hudson and F, S$. Cone—both of Windom, Minn., representing, besides themselves, two others from tke same place, came up for the purpose of closing a deal for a large tract of Itasca county farming lands. These gentlewen were accompanied by J. Ni Ady, the Aitkin real estate man. Mr. Ady enjoys the well-earned reputation of being one of the most successful hustlers for desirable set- lers that has ever pictured the beau- ties of northern Minnesota. His ex- perience has proved to him that this isa great agricultural region and be knows how to tell about it conyinc- ingly. Mess: Hudson and Cone found five thousand acres in this vi- cinity that just suite? them and they closed a deal with C. P. DeLaittre of Aitkin fora tract of 3,000 acres this side of Floodwood and another with BE. A. Gyde of Aitkin for 2,000 acres in the southeastern part of the coun ty. They are negotiating with par- ties for the purchase of several other tracts of. cutover lands in different sections of the county and in a short time. they expect to own a great many thousand acres of Itasca county real estate. While here the visitors were shown several farnis in this vi- cinity including the Experimental station. hey expressed much sur- prise at the abundant evidences of agricultural riches to be fdynd- ou every hand. When the gentlemen in- terested in this project have a@yuired title to a sufficient amount of Jand they “Will begin a systematic cam- paign of actual settlement. Mes: Hudson and Cone and their as ates are practical land men of wide experience. When they begin opera- tions of colonization and settlement it may be relied upon that their efforts will prove fruitful of good results. NOT VERY SEN A Duluth Paper Comments Rather Flip- pantly on the Diamond Mine. A week or so ago the Duluth News Tnbune contained an article on the prospective re-opening of the Dia- mond mine, and insinuated that if the water were pumped out ot it,that would be about the extent of the operation s. It also stated that tests had been made rof ore taken trom this mine and found to be of a very low grade. ‘The in- sinuation is foolish, as capitalists ot the kind interested in the property in question do not spend thousands of dollars to pump the water out of a mine.and then go away and leave it to fill up again. Lhe statement that ore from the mine had been tested 1s not true, as none of it has been sent out for this purpose up to date. ‘The proprietors of the Arcturus mine sent a car load of ore to Cnicago and had it tested, but it did not grade low—on the contrary, it was found to be of a very good quality, ‘he ‘cnly morn- ing” also comments on the probability ot the Eastern building a spur to the property, and says that diligent in- quiry in Duluth failed to develop any such intention on the part of the road’s management. Now, for our contemporary’s benefit, word has been received here to the effect that the Eastern is going to build the spur and that the most teasible route for Kt is now being considered. ‘The people here and also the proprietors of the mine want the branch to strike the main line above Grand Rapids, while other interested parties want it to come in at Blackberry. ‘The advan- tages of having it come in just below the dam have been presented to chose having the matter in charge, and has been promised due consideratiun. We would also like™to say a word | to the Duluth papers on this subject of deriding anything and everytning that would go to help out this section, and that is that they are hurting their Grand Kapids is’as wibutary to the Zenith City as 1sany of the other range towns and 1s enutled to the same consideration. SIBLE, It does ng} make us feel any better! N toward our. big neighbor to have its 0S newspapers taking a fall out of every- thing we undertake, ¢* TO IMPROVE ROADS. The Township .Appropriates Money for This Purpose. The board of supervisors of * the town of Grand’Rapidsat its last meet- ing_appropriated $100 for road-im- provement purposes, half of .which is to be expended on the Diamond Mine road and half on the Big Fork road. This money will be put onto those sections of these two roads lying be- | tween the outside line of the village limits and the outside line of the town- ship limits. The town of Iron Range has also appropriated $50 to be ex- pended on the Diamond Mine road. It is understood that the county com- | missioners will give $200 toward the improvement of tius highway, and this, with the $100 of the two town ships, ought to put it into very fair condition. The improvement of _ these roads, and particularly of the one leading to the Diamond Mine, is something that was absolutely needed if Grand Rapids intended to derive any benefit from the re-opening of this mining property. It. was trom the first the intention to tote supplies, etc., from here, but the work has been greatly delayed owing to the impassible condition of the road, This will now be remedied and the pre- liminary work will go on. New Postal Order. The postoffice department has ‘A PROGRESSING SHOOL adopted a new style of money order which, on account of its simplicity and sensible size is very much to be preferred to the monstrosity hereto- fore used, The size of the new order is about that of an ordinary bank draft, thus making tt easy to handle in connection with other kinds of commercial paper, It has two ad- juncts—the advice, or notification to be sent by the issuing to the paying postmaster, is a reproduction of the order through the use of carbonized, paper, and a recelpt for the amount, to be furnished by the issuing post: master to the remitter. ‘This receipt has been :n impossibility with the old order and will be generally appre- ciated because it enables the sender to refer back at any time and find dates, amounts and to whom sent. On the back of the order a seperate space bas been provided for the stamps of banks through which it may ve passed for collection. Fergusson’s Time Growing Short The ninety days allowed by the court in which the governor shall fix a date for the hangiug of George Fer- gusson, will expire on the 17th of this month—one week from tomorrow. No word from the executive h been received by Sheriff Tyndall. The prisoner still holds up and carries out wonderfully well his apparent unconeern. He laughed when the death sentense was pronounced by Judge Holland, but yesterday he flew into a violent-rage at sight of a Her- ald-Review man because of an item that appeared in these columns some time ago wherein it was stated that Fergusson was reported to have said that if he were hanged ‘the would walk to the scaffold in a manner that would make Harry Hayward look like a sucker.’ The prisoner denied that he had ever made such a remark, and denounced the newspapers for misrepresenting him in language that did not indicate that he has yet begun to make spiritual preparations for the great beyond. Watchman James McCormick was present and said that he had never heard Fer- gusson say any thing of the kind. It is probable that he did not. The Rear Drives The last of the logs for this season are coming in sight, and it looks as if a satisfactory clean-up will be made from this district. Powers-Simpson compauy have their logs in Prairie lake and will be out with the rear in about a week. John O’Brien has his rear drive in White Oak lake. There isa big jam to break and it will be between the 20th and 25th before the logs will be through and ready for the boom company.to kandle. The Akeley Leech lake. logs, including Seelye’s and others, are just out of Mud lake. he water is constantly raising. It isnot known whether the boom company will take out a drive about the 15th or wait until every- thing is in the Mississippi and make a clean sweep of it. The sidewalk along the south side of Central school grounds should be repaired cr rebuilt at once. This 1s the duty of the school board aud we hope-it will not be necessary to speak of the niatter again, The Amount of Work Accomplished Last Season is Remarkable. WILL ADVANCE THIS TERM Ty Work in the Seventh and Eighth Rooms to be Very~ Mater- ially Extended --- The Enrollment. These who have watched the school work in the village of Grand Rapids with even the slightest degree of interest know that up to last year the results were far from satisfactory. This was in a great measure due to our inability to secure competent in- structors—it must have been wholly due to this cause—as the reports for last year prove that with competent persons in charge, the pupils of Grand Rapids schools are at least the equals of any in the state. ‘There have been returned 61 papers that passed at the last state examination — averaging about six for each pupil that sent papers in. This 1s somewhat of an increase over the previous year, when none passed. This season the work in the Cen- tral school will be practically the. same as last up to the Seventh room, In this and the. Eighth, towever, the work will be greatly extended, par- ticularly in the latter. The pupils of the Seyenth will be compelled to take at least one and perhaps two state exammations. ‘This will be the first ume that this has been necessary, one class in the Eighth room being all that has heretofore had to do so. In this room, all the pupils must this term take the state examinations. In addition to the common branches, the Eighth room will also have one élass of regular high school work— Latin, algebra, physiology, etc.—and one fourth year high school class—Miss Bertha Fuller—who wil at the end of the term graduate. There are also three Latin classes, namely: first year, Caesar and Virgil. Another class is studying geometry and mediaval his- tory. All this high school work has been added’ siice the first of the year and is made pdssible by the excellent record made at the state examinations. Following are the teachers and en- rollment of the several rooms: Room opr Hattie Gibson, teacher: en- Trish, teache iss Katherine 3. 3. Clara Grove, teacher: en- rollme Room 4—Miss ‘Mabel Little, teacher: en- rollment 28. Room 5— enrollment Room 6—Miss Margaret Doran, teacher: enrollment 25. Room 7—Miss Julia O'Conner, teacher: en- rollment 31. ‘i Room 8—Miss Anna Donaldson, enrollment 29. The total enrollment 1s just about the same as at the beginning of last term. ‘Two of the rooms—the Fifth and Sixth—show a slight decrease in attendance, but an increase in one or two of the others brngs the total up to practically the same. It will be seen that five of the, teachers are new, the only ones being retained who taught last year being Misses Gibson, Cleveland and Doran. Th. board has made a special attempt to select the best educational material procurable and have examined closely into the qualifications of all applicants. The new teachers all come with the very highest recommendations, and under the able and thorough super- vision of Prof. E. ‘T. Carroll, will un- doubtedly prove a very able corps. ‘The school board has added a number of valuable historical works to the library that will prove ot great value to the advanced students. s Chink Cleveland, teacher: teacher: FAIR DATES CHANGED, The Exhibit Will Now Take Place One Week Later Than at First Announced. It has been announced from time to time that the eighth annual fair of the Itasca County Agricultural as- sociation would take place Sept, 21 and 22, but the officers have deemed it wise to postpone it for one week longer, making it take place on the 28th and 2gth. We believe that our farmers will consider this a very wise move, Last year, with a propitious season, the fair was held about the zoth, and there were many things that had not had tume to mpen. The growing season this year has been rather backward than otherwise, so it is certainly a good >move to give products a little longer time in which to mature. ‘ ‘The interest in the fair mcreases as the tme for holding 1 draws near. The summer has been an exception- ally wet one and farmers are anxious to compare notes. Reports from fairs held in other parts of the state are their usual. standard, the excessive rains having -damaged nearly every kind of crop, and it would be quite a feathery in Itasca’s cap if the com- ing exhibit was to prove that no matter what the conditions are, our farmers will always have good crops Don’t stay away because you think that your products are not as good as they were last year—your neighbor’s may not be as good, either, VILLAGE COUNCIL MEETS. Interesting Session Held on Thursday Eyening. The village fathers held their regular monthly meeting on Thursday even- ing and transacted considerable busi- ness. After the route had been disposed of and the usual grist of bills allowed, an application was read from George Prescott, engineer at the water works, asking that his salary be increased to $75 per month. Mr, Prescott stated that wages generally and those of mechanics particularly had advanced all over the country, and that he was on duty night and day he thought his request should be granted, which it was unanimously. ‘The resignation of Charles Kearney as justice of the peace was read and accepted. ‘There were three appli- cants for the place—John L. Barn- ard, A. Beery and H. S. Huson. A ballot was taken and resulted in the election of Mr. Barnard, he re- ceiving four votes and Mr. Beery one. The new justice is an old citi- zen of Grand Rapids, and the action of the council will be generally ap- proved. Recorder F. A. King tendered his resignation as collector of water rents, saying that he did not have time to attend to it properly, ‘Lhe resigna- tion was accepted, and after some dis- cussion it was decided that Marshal McCormick should look after the matter, having his salary raised to $65 per month for so domg. It was also decided that alter water-users had received notice that their rent was due they would either have to pay up or their supply would be shut off. ‘Lrustee O’Connell then made a motion that will be seconded by every resident of Grand Rapids. It was that when any show troup comes to town and “brings its hotel with it” the managers pay a license. fee of $50 be- fore being allowed.to exhibit. Trustee Hepfel moved to amend so that all shows coming~ would have te-pay a license. The ordinance reguylatin; such matters will have to be chang betore either motion can go into ef- fect and 1t was laid over until) Monday evening, when the council will again meet to open bids for the refunaing bonds. Quite an Edward Haskins Dead Edward Haskins died at Laprairie last Sunday morning at 3 o’clock, ver au illness of only a few days. ‘The cause of death was uremia. The deceased was 51 years of age. He had resided in this county about seven years and at the time of his death was in the employ of the Great Northern railway. He was a brother of Henry Haskins of Duluth. The latter was notitied and arrived on the Sunday. noon train .to attend the funeral which took place in Itasca_ cemetery Monday at 10 o’clock a. m. Deceased leaves a wife and two child- ren, one a young daughter, and ason 21 years of age whois in the naval service un board the cruiser Vermont, Getting Ready to Log George Dewey and H. R. King made a cruising trip into the terri- tory on the south side of Pokegama lake this week, looking up timber for which Mr. King.is the agent. Dewey & Doran expect vo put in a few mil- lion feet of logs during the coming winter. They will have a camp or two in the section just looked over. Hart NeGuire, of the logging firm of Milliken & McGuire, came up this week, having with him a number(of men and two teams. Hes getting everything in readivess for the firm’s winter operations. J. H. Dunning was also here this week looking after things. His log- cutting will be done principally in the Prairie river district. A Duluth Visitor. A} Salter of: Duluth, bro‘her of” Mrs. W. C. Tyndall, was bere during the week, dressed in his bunting clothes and gun. He took a look. around for a little game and enjoyed the luxury of rest and _ recreation at Pokegama hake. Sheriff Tyndall ac- companied him out to the hunting grounds on. Thursday when it was demonstrated that the sheriff is not likeiy to ever be arrested for viola- tivun of the game laws. He arrived bome All right with his gun. Al.— Salter is one of the most enthusiastic — aporeien in Duluth and he knows — ull the good hunting and fishing re- sorts in northern Minnesota ‘and Wes to the effect that they are not up to| consin and some parts of Michigag, ee 1 | i :} ; ¢