Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 9, 1901, Page 1

Vor 1X.—No, 27 — Grand Uopids Herald-Review. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., SaturDAy, FEBRUARY 9). Igor. Two Do.iars A YEAR 5 ee eee ea ee ea em ma a mene When you buy our SCHOOL SHOE for your children and especially for The Boys. <A Good Healthy School Boy will wear out any shoes soon enough But hellwon’t wear out A Pair of Our Kind as: as Fast as He Will Other Kinds. That's Because Our Shoes are Honestly and Strong- ly Made-of Good Wear-Resist- ing Leathers. No Skimping. - No Shoddy Work in Uascen Places. ?SHOES sed Mercantile Co Ei ee ee pe a a ae ee ae ee te Ge ee RE ae a aan eae ae ae a a ao ee ae eae a a When you want Wheti you bry.. When you wear edie LiL rr errr rr itt i titi ttt itt tT eee Tr Th 002 RIOR eee OR (tHE REE REISISIG IE Rea tei a} ito tea ae tee tte ott ate ge RR ale teat ge Rete ne me eat * & * Ca Wat Yer Givin’ Us ? Said Jimmy Stokes to Billy Rake. ‘Dey ain’t no udder place in de bul nort’ were yous kin git es good a pair of skates es ye kin over to Powers’. Un dey don’ cost no more nor dem snide tings wot ye get at dem udder bum plices. I knows wot I'm talkin’ “bout; : See!” And we will add that there is no other place in the north were you can get as good quality in anything in the line of HARDWARE, as you can Be Come and see. “DA W.d2.8 F.0D. Powers. here. George F. Kremer Furniture and House Furnishings We have one of the largest and most complete Stocks in Northerr Minnesota. Come and see our line of Plain and Tufted Couches in Velours, Tapestry and Leather, from coouvuve.1,00 up to $35.00 In Rockers we have a great variety, ranging in price from $1.35 up. Also dining: chairs, round and square dining tables, parlor tables, bed room suits, book cases, writing desks, kitchen cabinets, iron, bedsteads, carpets, rugs, wall paper, window shades, pictures and PCLT Ef TAME DS 0 a) toi nth ie IE ot <a . LENT BLOCK, GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. GEO. F. KREMER “lof dependent poor in the average SOME. ELECTION TALK. It Now Appears That Two Tickets Will be in The Field As the time approaches for the holding of the annual village election more interest appears. It is not un- likely that there will be at least two tickets in the fleld. President George Riddell is being urged by a number of his friends to again become a candi- date and it looks as though he would yield tv their wishes. John Hepfel will also be renominated; and while he says at present that he does not want any more honors as a village father, it is safe to say that his name will be on a strong ticket election day. ‘Trustee O’Connell has served & number of years and he has given excellent satisfaction to all parties. Unless he absolutely refuses he will be continued on thecouncil. ‘Trustee Huntley has made an excellent official and if he should become a candidate there is no doubt of his re-election. However, it is rather difficult to guess just how the combinations will yet frame up. Recorder Fred A. King is conceded to be an able and conscientious keeper of the publié records, as well as a man of good judgment asa voting member of? the council. Mr. King is urged to continue in his present official posi> tion, but he feels that the salary paid at present is not sufficient com pensation for the labor invoived. Ib a fact that Grand Rapids pays its recorder less than any other village of equa) importance in Norther Min- nesofa. Care should be exercised in selecting a recorder to see that no incompetent is put in charge of the village affairs. 1t is by far the most important office to be filled. One ticket that has been talked of is made up of thé following: Presi= dent, D. M. Gunn; trustees, J. Fy O'Connell, George F. Kremer and Arthur O'Leary; Fred A. King, record” er, and Chas. E. Aitkin, treasurer. A GO3D POOR PLAN. Bill Before the Legislature to Establish One Poor Farm in Place of Many. It is a fact that the cost of the cares county is far greater than it should be. The total cost per capita in Itasca county during the past few years for caring for the poor has amounted to more thau if each charge had been boarded at an hotel. This does not imply that extravagance has prevailed in the management. It simply proyes that a separate institu- tion cannot be maintained for the ac- commodation of a few persons witbou! incurring unreasonable expense. It is for the purpose of curtailing this | useless expenditure of public funds that Senator McCarthy has introduced a bill to establish district institu- tions where two or more counties may combine for the support of their poor. Mr. McCarthy’s idea is that several counties, with a population of more than 10,000 may join in erecting a district poor house aad all the poor frcm the counties interested be placed therein, instead of each county main- taining such a place where there are only three or four paupers. The pro- visions of the bill have been approved by the state board. DUNN AFTER TREPASSERs. State Auditor Has Ordered The Arrest of Aitkin County Men. a4 Word comes from St Paul that State Auditor Dunn has resolved to begin criminal proceedings against trespassers upen state lands. The arrest has been ordered in Aitkin county of several offenders who per- sist in taking timber from these lands. Heretofore the rule has been to con- fiscare such timber whenever discov- ered and to exact a punitive price be- fore releasing the timber. But Mr. Dunn has found this plan insufficient to discourage the trespassers. He will therefore attempt an enforcement of the state law, which provides that a trespasser upon state lands shall be fined not less than $1,000 or imprison- ed for one year. Either or both pen- alties may be enforced. The trespas- sers are usually the agents of small lumber firms. The big . concerns, aware of the responsibilty do not wish to take any chances of punish- ment under the severe law. Excavating Discontinued. The Grand: Rapids Water Power & Boom company have suspended ex- le OUR MOTHER REFORMERS. Ladies of Grand Rapids Are Taking a Hand in Municipal Affairs. Several meetings have been held ot late under the auspices of what is known as “‘The Mothers’ Club,” for the purpose of instituting certain reforms in Grand Rapids. ‘The ladies appear to have conceived the idea that Glover’s pool and billiard room was exercising a demoralizing in- fluence on the youth of the village. As none of the good ladies had ever visited the place their information was all second hand and like such in- formation usually is, it was not very reliable. They seem to have pictured it out as a sort of Chinese opium joint that was sapping the very life and morals out -of every youngster who became detached from his mamma’s apron strings. It was lur- ing away certain susceptible pater families from their firesides, and in trath, from the picture conjured after much heated discussion, the innocent pool room was transformed—meta- phorically—into a veritable den of infamy. But the good ladies were all wrong in their findings. Tne pool room, as it 1s conducted, is an institu- tion to be encouraged. There 1s no place of amusement in the village for boys between the ages of twelve, fifteen and twenty-one. They cannot be kept in the nursery, nor will they remain upon the streets at ali times. Sensible mothers who have boys that are grown beyond their kilts know this fact and are not the ones who became so alarmed about the pool room. The Herald-Review knows, because it has had occasion to investigate, that there are «saloon men in this town who have unhesitat- ly sold beer and whisky tv school boys—sold it in quanities over their bars until the boys. were drunk. These men should be driven out of the traffic and out of the town. This is no hearsay. The writer has wit- uessed it and repeatedly. If. there had been a pool room where these boys might spend the evening they wouid very likely be there instead of beiug in the saloons. .It is said that -the ladies will also. protest’ against granting nse to sell intoxicating liquors on It is not: probable ice: Kindred avenue. that their petitions will receive much consideration at the hands of the council. avenue is not likely to do any more damage than that dispensed on Le- Whisky sold on Kindred land avenue or Third street. Jt is also elosed at 11 o’clock at night and remain abso- lutely tight onthe Sabbath. Saloon wen say that they bave no objection io this, provided such a rule would be rigidly enforced. It would be a good thing for hotels with barroom attach- ments. WHAT RECIPROCITY MEANS. The Newspaper and The Public and How The Latter Appreciates The Former. When anything ofa public or private character is totake place in which an in dividual or a class of individuals are interested and desire to have made pnblic and praised, the first thought is toseek the local paper. The editor is given the particulars with an urgent request to give all possible publicity to the matter. He promises and does as is desired. This applies | to eyerything in general and particu- larly to social affairs; the fraternal d beneficiary orders, the church so- ties and benefits of all kinds. Any one event that is advertised two, three or four week will receive space in the local press to the value of from five to twenty.dollars. Without the aid of the press these social functions to which the public is in- vited to contribute would be unkown, and the attendance would be confined to those immediately interested. When a society, fraternal or benefici- ary, is about to be organized, the press is first appéaled to and through its columns the advantages of the order are first set forth. When it has been successfully instituted, its meet- tings and progress is noted in the local paper. When a death occurs and a policy is paid the virtues and promptnessof the order are expected to be exploited in the home paper. They give annuals which must be All this gratuitous service is looked for and expected and if 1t is not fortheoming there isa bigtick. The Herald-Review recalls an incident where certain members of a fraternal cavating “operations at the dam for the present owing to the difficulty ex- perience in making progress through the deep frost. Other work will con- tinue, such as getting out piles, stone and other material that will be used 3n the construction of the dam, | orgauization were very muchincensed because a local paper reported the circumstances of a raember’s death exactly as they were. The reporter did not intend to refiect upon the character of the’ deceased nor to boomed in season and out of season. New Centu ry New Year New Store New Goods New Prices ginning business here. able profit—no more and HGNRY HUGHES & C0, We desire to express our appreciation of the splendid patronage that has been extended to us by the people of Grand Rapids and vicinity since be- It is a certain indication that our Goods and Prices are appreciated. Our aim is to sell goods at prices that will net a reason- General Merchandise Henry Hughes & Co. THE NEW STORE All of Which, We are assured, | the Good People of Grand Rapids | Warmly Welcomes. no less. Everything in say that which might cause the mem- bers of his family to feel the sting of printing the new—that which the yeroge. reader wants...No- meme. Of that order had taken eae to give the reporter an interview re- lative to his version of the circum- stances, and yet the newspaper was to be condemned without hearing. Now let it be remembered that this same order had received not less than jtwenty dollars’ worth of free advertis- ing from thissame newspaper during reported that the Mothers’tlub will |:the days when it was being organized. seek to have saloons Both the papers of the village were equally generous in making public the good qualities of the young society. Be it known, also, that when this saciety needed a few dollars worth of printing done the order was sent to Duluth, without even first extending Time For a Change. In such legislation as the general; shame added to their sorrow. He was assembly may. enact, or attempt to enact relative to the present ‘custom ; fit of a political campaign fund, let it. be borne in mind that the oil inspect- orship is not the only medium for the improper diversion of the funds that should find their way into the state treasury. It is true that the fees received by the oil inspector amount to at least $25,000 a year, of which about $15,000 must becovered into the Republican campaign fund. The pro- portionment may not be exact, but the practice is not denied. ‘The position of surveyor general of logs and lumber, and notably in the case of the second or Minneapolis dis- trict, is one of which it is at least fair to assume that the campaign fund is the courtesy of asking for prices} more of a beneficiary than the state. from the local print shops. The Herald-Review knows of many similar cases. One particularly aggravating instance was the act of an alleged literary society in sending out of town to have a program printed after hav- ing the same work donated by the local printer on two previous occasions. To say the least this does not display a spirit of reciprocity and it is not exercising good judgment. ‘The man- agers of newspapers should be recog- nized as a species of human being and treated as such. They can’t live on their own donations nor clothe them- selves and family on gratuitous praises of others. Along these lines Grand Rapids bas just about played the limit. ‘‘Even a worm will turn.” when ruthlessly trod upon A Bad Boy in Trouble. Feter Binsfield, fourteen years old, who resides with his parents at La- prairie, end has been attending school in Grand Rapids, did not report at his room Tuesday. That same morn- ing C. A. Burll, the Laprairie mer- chant, discovered that his store had been broken into and the till robbed of about seven dollars in change, mostly dimes, nickles and pennies. He notified Sheriff Tyndall. he boy’s disappearance ani the robbery at the same time caused suspicion to fall on young Binsfield. Entrance to the store was made by prying open a window at the rear of the building. On Wednesday the boy went to Cohas- set where he traded his small money for dollars and on the noon train he went to Bena. From there he went to the home of a farmgr living about twenty-five miles from Bena. There Sheriff Tyndall found him yesterday and brought him to Grand Rapids. He will have a hearing before Justice Barnard this afternoon. The boy ad- mitt his father yesterday that he was guilty of the burglary and rob- bery. It is probable that he will be sent to the state training school au Red Wing. The system of payment by fees is pernicious in principle. It is a temptation to practices which, while they may not be technically unlawful, aredemoralizing. It is a system of fattening political workers and swel- ling campaign funds at the expense of the taxpayers, for if revenues that should go into the treasury are taken, what is the moral or practical differ- ence hetween that custom and a direct appropriation ? Why not pay the oil inspector, surveyor generat or what not asalary, cover the fees into the , treasury and then appropriate say $25,000 or $50,000 at every legislatiye session for the campaign fund of the party in power? That would be the direct way.’ It would be, of course, an absurd and unheard of proceeding, but the suggestion is a logical re- duction ad absurdum. For the sake of political decency and common honesty in the dealings of the state government with the tax- payers there should be a change and Hurd’s bill fur placing the oil inspect- ship on a salary basis is a move in the right direction—Minneapolis Times. Hughes & Co. to Build Henry Hughes & Company have just closed a deal, through Kremer & King, the real estate men, forthe purchase of lot to in block 8,07 which stands the building now occu- pied by Hughes & Co. Arrangements have been made between this firm and M. McAlpine for the erection of a brick building with 50 feet front age on Leland avenue and 25 feet on Third street.. This will make one of the largest stcre rooms in Grand Rap- ids and the location 1s certainly one of the best. Valentine Dance at Deer River. On Thursday evening next, Febru- ary 14—Valentines's day—there will bea grand ball at Hotel Northeroia Deer River. Landlord Kelly extends an invitation to his Grand Rapids* friends to attend. Gvod music and # yood time assured,