Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 30, 1899, Page 5

} } A COONTY AND VILLAGE OFFICERS COUNTY. .E. J. Farrell Tyndall Donobue Registe: . B. Clair Glerk of of Goart. Rassmussen Judge of Probate. . M. Brady Surveyor. A. Brown M. Storch . H. Stilson .W. A. Everton W.E. Myers Joho Rellis . V. Fuller . E, Leeman 8, Berney O'Connell “ 4 Joba Hepfel D'Anjou Fred_A. King Cc, E. Aiken jeorge Vient |. F. McCormick Street Commissio Marshal........... CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH— Rev. D. A. MacKenzie, pastor. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH—Rev. ©. V Gamache, pastor. M. E. CHURCH—Rev. J. C. Hartley. pastor. SECRET SOCIETIES. GRAND RAPIDS LODGE I. 0. 0. F, 184: ineeta every Wednesday night at K. JOHNSTON, N. v. J. SAUSTED. Rec. Sec. ITASCA LODGE A..-. F.’. *. No. 208: meets the first and tind Pridays of each month at K. of P. hall, E. A. Kremer, C.C. J.S. BERNIE, Secy. WAUBANA LODGE K. of P. No, 131; meets every Thursday evening in their hall, E. A. Kremer, C. C. Geo. F. Kremer, K. R. 8. ITASCA DIVISION No. 10, U. R. K. P.: meets first Monday of each, month in K. Fu P. hall. E. A. KREMER, Capt. Cuas. Kearney, Recorder. POKEGAMA TENT NO. 33. K.0.T.M: meets every first and third Thursday of each month at K. of P. hall E. J. FARRELL, Com. A. E. Wivper, R. K. A. O. U, W. No. 826—Meets every Monday night, J. J. Decker, W. M. F. A. McVicar, Recorder, ITASCA CAMP No. 6444, W. of. A.: meets second and fourth Saturdays of each month at K. of P. hall. Harry WIvcias, V. C. R. R. Bev, Clerk. B, F. HUSON POST G. A. R. No. 140: meets the last Friday of each month in Post hall. FELIX MALLETTE, Com, H. S. Huson, Adjt. ARBUTUS REBEKAH LODGE No. 150: meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in K. of P. hall. . Mars. ELizaABeTH Hennessy, N. G. Mrs. KATHERINE COLLETTE, Secy. 4) ITASCA HIVE L. 0. T. M.: meets eve second and fourth Fridays of each month .of P. hall. Mrs. Marte A. W. Kiiey, L. Com. Mrs. Bessie Ciatr, L. Re WAUBANA TEMPLE RATHBOD TERS: meet the afternoon of th Mot aay of each monn. and in the CIRCLE LADIES OF THE meets the first. Monday of each m¢ Post hall. Mus, Mary Husox, Pres. | Mrs. Eviza BAILEY, ye A.T.: | ©. W Hastines. F. P. SHELDON. President. Cashier P. J. SHELDON, C. E. AIKEN, Vice President. Asst. Cashier Lumbermen’s Bank “Of Grand Rapids. Minn Itasca County Abstract Office KREMER & KING, Proprietors. ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE. Conveyances Drawn, Taxes Paid for Non-Residents, GRAND RAPIDS, > ee W. E. MARTIN, MANAGER Irasca Lanp Co. MINN. PINE AND FARMING LANDS Bought and Sold. SETTLERS LOCATED. Choice Farming Lands for Sate on Long ‘Time and Easy Terms. GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINN. W.C. GILBERT, Pine Lands and [Loans Grand Rapids, - - Minn. PROFESSIONAL AXD BUSINE DIRECTORY — OF GRAND RAPIDS W . E. N E AL, ATTORNEYS. FrEAsK F. PRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Itasca Mercantile Meat: Market. GRAND RAPIDS. C C. McCARTHY, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Itasea Mercantile Meat Market. GRAND RAPIDS. C L. PRATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Marr's Clothing Store, GRAND RAPIDS. R. DONOHUE, ATTORNEY AT LAW County Attorney of Itasca County. GRAND RAPIDS. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, ‘ D® 20. ©. GILBERT, P HYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office over Cable's Meat Market, GRAND RAPIDS. D® CHAS. ¥. sToRCH, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence, Cor. Kindred and 3rd. GRAND RAPIDS. PD® THOMAS RUSSELL, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence, South Side, GRAND RAPIDS. DENTISTS. R H. CALELY, RESIDENT DENTIST Office over Itasca Mercantile Meat Market. + GRAND RAPIDS. Deuler in ‘Pine and Farming Lands The finest List of Agricultural and Grazing Lands in the County. The Most Excellent Sites for Manu facturing Enterprises. Prospective Settlers Located. Correspondence Solicited. Grand Rapids, - - Minn. A.B. CLAIR,» Register of Deeds of Itasca County. Mineral, Pine anda Farming Lands Pine Stumpage Bought. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. GRAND RAPIDS. The “Senate” Hotel and Restaurant. KELLY & O'REILLY, * Proprietors. The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars Board by the Day or Week. Short Orders.a Specialty. Good Rooms for Rent. Leland Avenue, + - Grand Rapids. HATS OF OUR ANCESTORS. Changes That .iave Tiken Place in \ Manufacturing” Headgear. “Spealing of the hat business, ” said a veteran of the business fo the local historian, “most wonderful “changes have taken place since 1850. In olden times scft felt and derby hats’ were not known, and it was as late as 1843 when silk dress hats were first. intro- duced in this country, this being a French invention, and all silk plush used for hats in the world was, up to this time, made in France. When Kos- suth came to America he introduced the soft felt hats, wearing one him- self. It did not take American hatters long to take up the idea, and in less than one year old and young Ameri- cans covered their heads with Kossuth hats. They were in shape nearly the same as tourist hats now, amed up with a nice, me. Along about 1858 tourist came along with y hat, and in a very few years they became the general headgear in the country, and up to the present date the demand for soft hats: and derby hats is nearly evenly divided. In those days all the best class of soft hats were imported from France, and stiff derbies from England. This, how- ever, has taken a material change, as American hats are now sold in all parts of the globe, and it is a known fact that we produce the most tasty and best hats made. Before the ar- rival of Kossuth and the English tour- ist, however, the Americans did not go bareheaded, but contented them- selves with napped otter and napped beaver hats, for the more expensive, and the so-called scratch-up or brush hats for the cheaper. Brush or scratch- up derive their name from the fact that nap was raised on them by means of a stiff brush constructed of whale- bones. INSECTS TO IMPROVE FIGS. They Have Been Introduced in Califor- nia After Many Trial-. The larger part of our fg supply eomes from Asia Minor, the Spanish peninsula and the south of France. Those of Asiatic Turkey are considered the best. Certain insects of the genera blastophaga and sycophaga which fre- quent the wild fig enter the minute ori- fice of the receptacie, apparent!~ ~> de- posit their eggs, conveying t the pollen more completely to the stigmas, thus insuring the fertilization and con- eequent ripening of the fruit. By some the nature of the process has been questioned and the better maturation of the fruit attributed merely to the stimulus given by the puncture of-the insect, as in the case of the apple, but the arrangement of the unisexual flow- ers in the figs renders the first theory mest prob A year ago the depart- ment of agriculture began a series of e ments on the introduction cf the ct which fertilizes the Smyrna fig; an agent was sent to Europe to obtain cuttings of all varieties of the wild fig ard te send over the fruit containing the live insect. By good fortune some of the insects succeeded in penetrating the closed flowers of the Capri figs and laid their eggs and reslly established themselves in California. It is now be- lieved that the insects will continue to breed and that in the near future a fig will be placed upon the market which possesses the same superior flavor as that which has given the imported Smyrna fig its present popularity. Precious Stone Industry. A report on the precious stone indus- try of the United States in the year 1898 has been issued by the Geological Survey. Some of its salient features are: The finding of rock crystal at Mokelumne Hill, Cal., of such purity and size as to almost rival the Japan- ese, and the successful cutting of these in the United States up to over seven inches in diameter; the increased out- put of the Fergus county, Mont., sap- phire mines and the yielding of fine blue gems up to two carats each, and the discovery of a new locality where the stones are more varied in color than those of any known locality; the ued output of the new Mexican mines and the opening up of mines in Nevada; the finding of mag- nificent green and other colored tour- malines at Paris Hill, Me., and Had- dam Neck, Conn.; the increased sale of Australian opals; greater use of all the fancy or semi-precious stones; the greater importation of uncut diamonds and the increase of the diamond cut- ting industry in the United States; the unprecedented increase in the impor- tation of cut diamonds and the revival of the precious stone industry in the United States. The value of all the precious stones found in the United States in 1°98 was $160,920, as com- pared with $136,675 in 1897. A Sensational Incident. During the performance of the drama “When London Sleeps,” at the Broad- way theater, Deptford, England, an unrehearsed incident of a sensational character was witnessed by the audi- ence. When the performance. had reached the stage at which the villain attempts to strangle the girl whom he has wronged and drown the child, someone in the gallery, apparently car- ried away by the situation, threw a knife at him as he stood in the center of the stage. The knife missed its aim, but struck the musical director in the back of the head, who staggered’ from his seat in the orchestra, and proceed- ed underneath the stage where his in- juries were attended to. The sensa- tional incident passed unnoticed by the actors, but was noticed by the audi- ence. Worse Than Automobile. The Germans call their new electrie cabs “automobiletaxameterdroschken.” By the time they get through calling them the cabs are generally out of sight—Boston Glohe. ‘DEFRAUDED. °.. By a‘New Pian of Bank Swindling By Duplieate_Dratt. Boston Special Caicago Tribune: A new schetie to defraud the banking houses of this community has been dis- covered through the officials cf ‘the Massachusetts National bank. The of- ficials are assisting t*o ps)ice in this country and those of the Scotland Yard force in unraveling the matter. The manner in which it is worked is as fol- lows: A man enters a bank and pur- chases a draft, at the same time tell- ing the cashier that he is going abroad and would like to have a duplicate drawn. He takes both of the drafts away, and the original is either taken or sent to Europe’ by the swindler. Some bank in Loncon cashes the origi- nal draft, and the duplicate is cashed on the continent by person. In this way double their m the Massachusetts used by one of tt $2,000 from a ban man who had the tran. local bank told the c. T going abroad and that he ld I!ke to have the drafts in two parts. He pur- chased two drafts of $1,009 each. These were drawn on a London k. Re- cently word Was received from London that one of the drafts marked dupli- cate had been cashed there. A few days ago a/letter was received from a banking house in switzerland, stating that it had cashed the c al draft for the party to wacm Miller had im dorsed it. The cashier of the Massachu- setts National bank wrete to a bank- ing house in Troy, N. Y., and asked that institution to look up a man giv- ing the name of J. P. Miller, who had bought the draft in March. The bank- ing house replied that it found three people of that name, all reputable bus- iness men. No one of the three an- swered the description of the Miller who bought the drafts. The Switzer- land bank will be the loser in this case, as the person who cashed the draft shculd have demanded the dupli- cate as well as the original before cash- ing it. An Interesting Discovery. An interesting discovery has reward- ed the researches of officials at Hamp- ton Court palace, London. There has always lurked a suspicion that the walls of the famous Queen Anne’s drawing room, which is in the center of the east wing of Wren’s famous building, contained mofe than the sec- ond rate portraits of the Georges, Never however, was it supposed than an im- portant work by that once famous dec- orative artist, Verrio, had been con- cealed from the public eye since 1725. owing to a stupendous act of vandal- ism, which, it is presumed, wes car- ried out by Queen: Caroline in 1735, Probably to prevent the apothesis of Queen Anne from meeting her eyes in her drawing room when she became queen. The date is known by the ex- traordinary act cf the paper haager of that time, who. in covering up Verrio’s work, scratcbed on his name and the date of the paper kanging. In taking down some of the portraits of the Georges, which were intended for Ken- sington palace, it was noticed by an official that the top right hand corner closed to the ceiling seemed abruptly cut off from the gencral scheme of the beautiful ceiling, which everyone had seen and admired, and which repre- sented Queen Anne in the chariot of Justice, dressed in purple lined with ermine. Over her head is a crown, held by Neptune and Britannia, while surrounding and floating in the clouds are various allegorical figures repre- senting Peace ana Plenty, etc. The discovery now made shows that the whole of the walls were originally painted by Verrio in the same manner, the subject being Queen Anne’s apotheosis as Queen of the Sea in the four great quarters of the globe. Heir to $500,".00, Robert E. M. Cooper, formerly a prominent newspaper man and politi- cian, has fallen heir to $500,000. The estate was left to Cooper by John C. Crego, a miser hermit, who recently died at Cripple Creek. Years ago Crego lived in the Panhondle country of Texas. Cooper made a tour of that regicn. Crego was not inclined to make acquaintances, but Cooper found him about to drown ina river and risked his own life to save the miser. That resulted in a friendship. Cooper returned to Springfield, Mo., and be- came prominent. He kept up a cor- respondence with Crego for some years but they finally lost track of each other. Crego left Texas and was a pioneer prospector at Cripple Creek. He cleaned up $500,000 and quit. There- after he lived in absolute seclusion. So far as he knew Cooper was still in Springfield, and a few days before he died he sent for Justice Martin, and a will was drawn up ee eee ere ne to Cooper. Fire Department Chaplains. The New York fire department is to be equipped with chaplains, just the same as a regiment of soldiers. The officials consider that it is as necessary to have chaplains at fires as it is to have. them a*company troops to the firing line in time of battle. Loss of life at fires is sometimes very heavy, as was recently shown here. There should always be some one present to, administer spiritual consolation, Fire Commissioner Scannel has appointed two chaplains for the department. They will hold the rauk of chief of batallion, and will perform the same duties as chaplains in the army, in all cases ac- companying their battalions into ac- tion, The only distinction between ar- my chaplains and fire chaplains is that the latter will receive no compensation for their services.—New York Corres- pordence Pittsburg Dispatch. SOC POX SOE KK THE GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW —, Official Paper of Itasca County mi and Village of Grand;Rapids. werner. — The Herald-Review aims to represent all the the varied Interests of all Itasca County. ‘When considering the material wellfare of the citizens of this aaa community it makes no poli tical or personal dis- Resin a { Our Job Department | Is complete and up-to-date in every way. Skilled workmanship, combined with ample facilities, enables us to -successfully compete with any job — house in Northern Minnesota. A Word to Advertisers. The circulation of the Herald-Review is at present the largest of any in the { county, and is steadily growing. It is the intention to hereafter publish the paper on Saturday morning, and_ this will make it an advertising medium exceptional value.