Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 20, 1900, Page 1

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Drop in on us at any time. You're welcome, always, whether to buy or only to inspeet goods. W. J. & H. D, POWERS. | be | Speaking of Groceries Prompts us to remark that if yoo want the VERY BEST you will have to go to the store of J.D. Powers for it. Others may insist that their stock is larger— and perhaps it is—but it is not as good, and they know it. In staple groceries he can meet all requirements, while his Teas, Coffees, 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. Ilis stock of cigars, tobaccos and smoke cies is an excellent one and he invites you to try them. aid SAVOOPO SIS SSO SHS ag ay 2 “ A Full Line of Gent’s Furnishing Goods. J. D. POWERS. . ' Opposite Hotel Pokegama, GRAND RAPIDS. PERSE E RSS: owe eaanes [exe me manlactoring enterprises that GTAND RAPIDS WATER POWER. Work of Constructing. the Mississipi Dam Will Soon Commence. The real foundation for the up- buildmg of an enduring and _pros- perous town is not laid until such time as manufacturing industries are established or other enterprises fixed, where men are employed in large numbers. The business men of Grend Rapids now fully realize the fact, and for more than a year past a concen- trated effort has been made by the village council and other prominent citizens to secure the construction of a dam across the Mississippi river for the purpose of: utilizing the great water power at this point. While not much has been said in a public way of these efforts, it is none the Jesstrue. that our public spirited citizens have been untiring in thew endeavors to. bring about the desired resulis. It was no small undertaking to accom-) plish what has clready been done in| the way of condemnation proceedings of lands that will be effected, and tie | expense was a considerable sum, ‘To do this it required the co-operation of the entire community and direction by broad-minded men. This _ essen- tial preliminary preparation is now completed, but there’ still remains the most important features of realizing substanual results. It will take many thousands of dollars to construct a dam, and capitalists must be convine- ed that the investment required will prove profitable. In fact, the dam will not be constructed unless the builders are prepared to utalize the power thus created. Almos simultaniously with the beginning of operations on the dam we will witness the foundaticn of will insure the future of Grand Rapids be- yond peradventure. It has long been well known that there is no more favoravle pomt the whole “North- west for a paper and pulp mill than is to be found night here, — Estimaies of the available supply of raw menal bave been made froin time to time during the past half dozen years, and those ina position to kiow declare that there is no more inviang section in the Northwest for such an industry than qs here offered, It goes without saying that other manufacturing en- will terprises inevitably follow im- mediately. ° In view of these acknowledged facts itis a matter of congratulation that the material interests of the com- munity isin the hands of wise and progressive men. Our present village council, aided and encouraged by every business man who has the in- terest of Grand Rapids at heart, have done all in their power to advance this nnportant project during the past year. Recorder F. A. King has been very active in his efforts along these lines. He has kept in constant com- munication with capitalists who have been awaiting the opportunity that is now offered for the building of the !dam. Messrs. D. M. Gunn and D. | H. Powers returned on Monday last from a trip to Chicago where they suc- ceeded in making such arrangements jas will result in the work being com- menced at an early day. ‘here no longer exists any doubt as to the final {outcome As stated. above the in- iual steps in this important undertak- ing have incurred the expenditure of considerable money, but the end sought will justify every expenditure and concession that may. be néces- sary. | THE MINNESOTA NATIONAL PARK. ' i |The Ladies of the Minnesota State Feder- ation of Women’s Clubs Stirred Up, | | The action of the Stillwater Lum- | bermen in petitioning the Minnesota | Senators to pay no attention to the ; memorial adopted by the legislature at its last session in favor of the Min- } besota national park, has stirred up | the ladies of the Minnesota State Federation of Women’s clubs, and | they will put ina counter petitign in | the hope of heading off the reaction- ary influence of the lumbermen: It was asked that the government with- ‘hold the timber on the Cass Lake ! reservation and town site, and upon | the otber reservations which it is proposed ts include in the park, from” j created the lands should not be de- i jladies rather than jpverhups justitied in urging vheir own call for the setting aside of 7,000,000 fing the Chippewa, taining comparatively { sale until the whole matter can ve | carefully investigated; but the Still- water luwbermen are urging the im- mediate sale so that the cutting of the timber may begin at once. The sale of the standing timber has been held up by the inter‘or depart- mentin accordance with that mem- orial, since it is manifest that if a Sanitarium and beauty spot is to be nuded and lett a vista of unsightly stumps open to the fierce rays of the sun in summer and the fierce blasts of winter. The ladies, accordingly, have pre- pared a circular letter which will be imu ediately sent to all the senators and members of congress, stating succinctly the manifold reasons that exist for the establisument of the park It is tobe hoped that the depart- ment and congress will listen to the the Stillwater lumbermen. The lumbermen are pecuniary iuterests, but the interests of the people of the whole state and of the country should be considered paramount tg those of a small num- ber of business men. The spirit of commercialism is important in its place, and should be eucouraged; but commercialism and private greed should not be permitted to mr or de- feat a project of such far-reaching heueficence as the creation of the pro- posed sanitarium, pleasure resort and forest reservation. When the project was first broached upon a scale of such magnitude as to acres, The Tribune opposed it. We thought it would be an injury to the people of Northern Minnesota and to the whole state to withd aw such a large tract of land from settiement. But when the proposed reservation was finally reduced toa tract of only about 800,000 acres of land north and east of the town of Walker, embrac- Winnebagoshish and Leech Lake Indian reservations —an area of which more than ‘third is water and the balance con- little mer- antable timber we concluded that he hetefit of sucha park woutd far outweigh any possible injury that could be inflicted upon private inter- ests. Private iaterests of course must give way to the greater public inter: est in any enterprise for the general benefit. Jf any private interest is in- jured by the setting aside of this tract of land, due compensation can aud should be made. The tract is a beautifuf and roman- tic one, embracing just the variety of surface and of land and water to make an attractive summer resoro, while the piney woods afford the balsamic odors suggestive of health and recuperation of worn-out nerves. The conservation of the forests of this region would undoubtedly be of vast benefit to the streams und the climate of the surrounding country. The Women’s clubs are meeting the movement of the Stillwater lumber- men by urging the appointment, by congress, of a special committee to investigate the subject and formulate a plan for the purchase from the In- dians of the land embraced in the In- dian reservations. It is only a ques- tion of time when this land wilk be alienated frow the aborigipes in any. event, and the important question is whether it shall pass into. the hands of the federal government and be re- served for a park for the present and one- yet unborn generations, or rather it .that night. shall pass into private ownership and be gradually denuded of all that now mukes it attractive and health giv- ing. Congress owes it to the people of Minnesota and of the country to take no hasty action in this matter. If the timber is alluwed to be cut it can- not be seplaced in 40 years, and will probably never be replaced. Oa the other hand, if the luinbermen are en- titled to cut it, a year’s delay will not injure them, 2s pine timber is con- stantly increasing in value. The least that congress can do in thematter, if it desires to please the general pub- lic, is to appoint the special commit- tee to consider the legislative mem- orial and to examine and report upon all the phases of the park project.— Minoneapoiis Tribune, Teachers’ Examination. The next regular examination of applicants for teachers’ certificates will be held at the school, building in Grand Rapids, Minn, on Friday and Saturday, February 2 and 3, 1gop. Examinations - will begin at 8 o’clock a. m., Mrs. O. H. Srison, County Supt. Subscribe for Herald-Reyiew. jand A. A. French, ESTIMATING VALUES. Commissioners Appointed to Apprase Con- demned Lands Do Their Work. Col. C. H. Graves and E. R. Jet- frson of Duluth and B. F. Nelson of Minneapolis, the commissioners ap- pointed by the war department to ap- praise the lands recently condemned by the government in the vicinity of Pokegama dam, arrived in Grand Rapids on Monday last to discharge their important duties. Assistant U. S. Attorney M. D, Purdy of St. Paul and U. S. Engineer Davenport ac- companied the commissioners’ and aided them in the performance of their labors Just why or how it happened that no citizen of Itasca county was selected to assist in mak- ing the appraisals has not yet been accounted for, although quite a num ber of people interested feel that a spirit of justice would have suggested the advisability of such ‘action being taken. It 1s certain that there are many men in this county much abler for such work in this section than any of the gentlemen who were appointed. The gentlemen appraised the land in question at Hotel Pokegama and it is to be hoped that their estimates of Itasca county real estate will Le satis- factory to the owners of the property. Little Man Morris, he who occupies a vacant seat In congress, made the ap- pointments by recommendation. ‘ihe party returned to homes on Thursday afternoon. their Death of Mrs. RR. Beil. The death of Mrs. R. R. Bell, which occurred yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, caused profound sorrow ‘The de- deceased had been ill but a few days. A daughter was born to Mr, and Mrs. but the mother was reported as feeling excellent up to Thursday noon, when she gradually grew weaker until’death came. Mrs. Bell yas 27 years of age. She had resided here about five years, and was married three years ago. ‘The funeral will take place tomorrow, funeral ser- vices being held at the Presbyterian church. Interment will be made in Itasca cemetery. throughout the community. Bell on Sunday last, A Sleighing Party. A jolly party of the Pokegama at- taches and their friends enjoyed a sleighing party Wednesday night. The start was made about 7:30, which caused considerable hilarity among the party and lots of amusement for the bystanders. The firey chargers of the Pokegama were on their mettle and taking the bits in their teeth, dashed down the street, leaving sev- eral of the party in the lurch. After going a few blocks the horses were quieted down, turned around and re- turned to the starting pomt when the balance of the party were loaded in. They then proceed a few miles in the country where they tripped the light fantastic and had a good time in general. ‘Lhey returned some time A Hibbing Roast. The St. Louis county grand jury in- cluded the following 1n its report to the court the other day. Inthe lan- of the times, it’s a hot one: “We find that the mayor and coun- cil of the village of Hipbing have al- lowed and suffered gambling to be carried on openly in several saloons and hotels of the said village; that gambling devices of the most common and notorious kind have been allowed to be openly exhibited in said saloons and hotels, and that they have been maintained for the purpose of getting | the laboring men of the village and locality to waste and squander their earnings; that the village has been in- | fested with professional gamblers and confidence men from the whole North- west, and in the opinion of this jury the village has become the readezyous of the crime and corruption of St. Louis county; that this state of affairs has been possible by reason of the consent, suftrance, 1f not the assistance of T. Waldo Mury hy, the mayor of the village, and the village council, marshal and night watchman,” In the line of dried fruits Powers has peaches, apples, prunes, apricots, raisins, ete. Go to Powers, | BRAINERD & NORTHERN SOLD. Reported That the Northern Pacific Has Segynge It. A dispatch from Minneapolis. dated January 17 says the Bramerd & Northern, a road ninety-two miles long, running from Brainerd, Minn,, to Bemidji, Minn, has passed out of the hands of the lumbermen, who originally built it for logging purposes. The stock has been transferred to a party headed by A. Y. Merrill, of Minneapolis, who has been: made president. It is said that the Merrill party 1s acting for the Northern Pa- cific, which would thus be: given an entrance to the Rainy River country, and eventually an air line from Min- neapolis to Winnepeg, since it forms a connection with the ,Brainerd & Northern at Brainerd, The road is a very profitable piece of property, and occupies a stragetic position in North- ern Minnesota, STAGE KISSES ARE GENUINE. The Public Demands Realism Even in Stage Love-Making, “Embraces and kisses are rehearsed with extreme care,” writes Franklin Fyles, on “The Rehearsal of a Play,” in the January Ladies’ Home Jour- nal. “They must have an impulsive manner. They must look sufficiently fervid. It 1s a curious sight—that of two players who are to express the arden love which Shakespear has written for his ‘Romeo and Jultet,’ but who at rehearsal, in modern clothes and no accessories of glamor, practice a kiss as mechanically and unfeelingly as though it were—as it is then— utterly devoid of sentiment. There must be no hesitation or clumsiness. Romeo is not permitted to decide whether to throw both arms around his sweetheart or only one, or which, yielding or resisting, as she chooses. (he director will place their arms for them if they do not themselves make a picturesque exhibit of tenderness. and the kiss? Shall it be delivered by the wooer on the lips of the won, or on brow, or cheek? ‘That question 1s considered and settled. Are kisses on the stage genuine? V)-li, not hearsals, except, maybe, once oF twice in order to show the effect fully. An actress would resent a real kiss xt a rehearsal except when necessary, For the satisfaction of natural curi- osity on that point it may be told right here that most of the kisses in the public performince of plays are actual kisses.” at re- Obituary. Mrs. Olonzo Hill, born Ker- nochan, died at her residence five miles west of the city of Battle Creek, Thursday, Jan, 11, 1900, at 11:45 a, m., after a brief but acute illness, that was not considered alarming until Wednesday morning. Although she had been an invalid for the past three years, her death will be a surprise to her many fiends in this vicinity and elsewhere, as she had been enjoying a very comfortable’ winter up to a short time since, being able to ride out and see her friends whenever the weather permitted. Mrs. Hill was‘ born’ in Orange county, New York, April 3, 1827, and was married to Alonzo Hill Novem- ber 20, 1845. They moyedto Michi- gan in 1850, and settled on the farm that has been thew home all these fifty years. The deceased was a charter member of the First Presby- terian church here, and always en- | joyed active church and social work as long as her health would allow. She was the mother of nine children, seven of whom are living, and leaves to mourn her loss her -beloved hus: husband, five sons and two daughters. The funeral took place at the family residence, Sunday, Jan. 14, at 2 p.m. Rev, W. SS. Potter, officiated. Interment at Oak Hill.—Battle ; Creek (Mich.) Journal, Jan. 12. The deceased was the mother of Mrs. O. L. Mather, of this village. Have you tried one of Booth’s * Union de Cuba” cigars? They ai about as popular as anybody in tow, Normay Juliet be “shy or forward; \