Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 31, 1900, Page 37

il: DEER RIVER, ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA. the resources of northern Minnesota, and that there is to be a tremendous immigration the present year. Pub- lic utilities are therefore being pro- vided to meet the requirement that will surely come during the year. A picture at the bottom of the pre- ceding page shows the appearance of the school building that was used in Deer River until the close of last year. Miss Hattie Brooks was the teacher when the picture was taken, and she and her pupils were standing in front of the rustic educational structure. The contrast between the old building and the new one is interesting. The members of the school board are W. J. Coffron, Director. James A. Woolford, Clerk. C. W. Robinson, Treasurer. The board deserves much credit for the able manner in which the school affairs have been managed. FRED L. CHURCHILL’S BIG BUSINESS. Fred L. Churchill has been mayor of Deer River during the term ending this spring, and has just been elected a member of the village council for the ensuing term. Although he is the owner and manager of the large Hotel Deer River, and is now completing a two-story addition to it, 26 by 65 feet in size, as shown in the upper picture on this page, he tinds time to attend to a great amount of other business. The above picture shows how the ad- dition appeared March 1, 1900, but by the time this book is issued, the latter part of the month, it will be complet- ed and in use. The second story is for a public hall, the only one in town. Mr. Churchill has had fifty men and nine teams at work all winter in the woods, about five miles from Deer River, and now has about 150,000 cedar posts piled at his railroad siding on the Eastern Minnesota railway, two miles below Deer River, besides hay- ing a large amount of cedar poles, pine logs, spruce, etc, at the same siding, a view of which is shown by the lower picture on this page, although the pic- ture could not be made to include the entire piling yards. The middle pic- ture represents one of Mr. Churchill’s camps in the woods. He intends to construct a mill at his siding this spring to rip fence-posts and manufac- ture cedar shingles. Mr. Churchill has been here eight years, but before coming here he was at La Prairie, this county, having lo- cated there before the railroad reached that point. Mrs. Churchill came by the first train to join him, and is said to have been the first white woman who arrived there by railroad. f mene ve remse STREET VIEW WITH HOTEL DEER RIVER IN FOREGROUND. FRED L. Cc HURCHILL’S RAILWAY SIDING.