Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 1, 1903, Page 1

ald-% INN., SATURDAY, AUGUST I, 1903. cvicw. Two Dotiars a YEAR. half in the next six weeks. and we therefore purpose led in Grand Rapids before. We are but we are offering you new and up-to-date goods, us to mention them all in such small space, but how which way the “wind is blowing” each week. we offer among other bargains the following which are worthy We want to reduce our immense stock at least one- giving you some money saving propositions that ha’ not offering you a clearance gale of old stock or of remnants, and articles that you buy everyday nearly simply look here for a few “pointers” to s| For one week only beginning Monday, $2.10 $3.75 ve never been equa Do not expect Conrad’s Breakfast Mocha and Java coffee, in one pound packages. This ts very fine coffee, giving good satistactiont worth 25c. for this week. Decorated Water Pails, just what you want, worth in 10 and 12quart sizes 9 cents an We offer this week your choice at Galvanized Wash Tubs, three sizes, selling at 75 cents, 90 cents and $1.00 each. Center Table, oak. polished and nicely designed, at only... ......-+ asic tess food Beds. some excellent designs. worth 86 to $8 50 each, choice now ut. Holgate’s Pure Baking Powder, a first-class cream tartar article. worth 40c a pound. sold the world over at that price, now only offer them now at One other item: Don’t miss our Daily Bargain Counters. d every day you will find it also interest you. y reap the benefit alone. vnless you come You can’t miss it on any of these items. We have two, one on each side of the store, an new ata price that will not only about it,” for we are telling you in to the store and see for yourself. We are making these prices to move Why not investigate? surprise you but advance now. Your neighbors ma) ) Re confident that we mean just what we say as an examination the goods at once, and this means every article and every department of Indifference will be your loss. AFFIDAVIT: GRAND Rapips. Minn., July 28, 1903. e Ttasca Mrcantile company, being duly sworn, de ‘other Which such affidavit may accompany, prices at which we have been selli of reducing our without exceptions this 28th. day of July, 1903. A. KREMER, Notary Public. C. H. Dickinson. manager of thi ment which this accom: or values” are the the past, and that the reductions made in the ‘departments. that such prices will be strictly | ' ‘during the time for which they are advertised. ing these articles in re for the sole purpos immense stock in all h and every purchaser Subscribed and s For One Week Beginning Monday, August 38, 1903. ITASCA MERCANTILE CO. The Organization of a Commercial Club Is a Grand Rapids Necessity. WHAT W. D. WASHBURN SAYS Thinks Grand Rapids Is the Best Prop- osition In Northern Minnesota and Advoeates Greater Activity By Citizens. 65e 70,80¢e In a private letter to the Herald- Review W. D. Washburn, Jr., the Minneapolis land man, ex- presses himself very enthusiastically on the natural resources of Itasca county and the future greatness of Grand Rapids as one of the most important cities in Northern Minne- sota. Mr. Washburn has already demonstrated his faith in the county by the acquirement of nearly seventy- five thousand acres of land within its borders. Hecalls the attention of the Herald-Review to the desirability of organizing a commercial club or similar working body inGrand Rapids for the purpose of disseminating news throughout thecountry relative to the natural resources and oppor- tunities of the county and village. Much good can be accomplished through such an agency and our |; business men should be alive to the necessity of creating and maintaining an organization for that purpose. There is much more going on ip the line of real estate transfers than many of our peopfe realize, and now that a move has started in this direc- tion every possible effort should be made to increase to rapid settlement the county's rich agricultural lands. Inno other way could our something new thereon, something Don’t say, “I did not know anything’ willshow you, ’ ses and affirms that in the advertise- he prices quoted as the “regular prices 1d c. H, DICKINSON. yA GOOD SUGGESTION |, WELCOME! We are always glad to see the dollars coming our way. We can start them your way i We have the largest and m tinware in the north country. hic not be duplicated outside of the cities. Come in and be convinced. We mean what we say, W. J. & H. D. POWERS. f you give us your patronage. complete stock of hardware and ) we will sell at prices that can- If you must eat, you should always try to get the best goods in the market at the lowest prices. You should buy Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Game etc., at the Market of Finnegan & They always have on hand the very. best — at lowest prices. Thos. Finnegan, Thos. Finnegan, Proprietor. s@ee and corrections were petitioned for of the handsomest and Leland avenue. GRAND RAPIDS A EEA FEE EE A AE A a aaa e = 4 = 4 * 2 a s * = H = 7 4 = * e 4 : * * * 4 #* COUNTY BOARD ADJOURNS After Equatizing Taxes and Dispos- ing of Considerable Business. It took the county board just five days, with a little extra time, to look | Over Une fish Of personal property taxes as returned by the assessors and to make such changes as in their judgment was thought to be just and proper. ‘The alterations ordered were fewer than usual. but the lists were long and it is necessarily a cumber- some job and progress is made slow. A short session was held Friday evening at which the equilization iboard finished their labors and ad- journed sine die. Saturday morning jthe. members met and. organized again asa board of county commis- sioners to dispose of some unfinished business. Hon. C. M. King appeared before the board with a petition for finaucial assistance in the construc tion of a public road in township 62, range 26. Since locating in that township Mr. King has been an inde- fatigable worker for improved roads and he finally succeeded in getting an appropriation of $300. This money will be used for the completion of a ruad from the northwest corner of section 8, town 62, range 25, running southeast to the northwest corner of. section 16, town 61-26, a distance of pine miles. Six miles of this road bas already been cut out by the settlers. The settlers will also put in six days’ work each as pol tax. A large number of petitions werere- ceived for road building and repajring from all sections of the county, which were laid over, in most cases, for fur- ther consideration. Anappropriation of $1,000 was made to be divided among the five townships known as Koochiching, Watrous, Jamieson, Ready and Cengmars, all in thenorth- ern part of the county. Bids for the construction of a pile bridge on the Deer River road above Cohasset will be advertised for. A large number of tax abatements jand considered. An appropriation’ of $175 was made io favor of Frank Cald- well for the construction of. a bridge ASHESESAENHAHSES HESS SHSSHHe UES Kee eeeR ees EeeAsooS sr Big Fork river in 149-27, Grand Rapids Village Lots A. M. JOHNSON Has some very desirable residence lots in Grand Rapids that he has placed on the market. many are located in different parts of the village and include some sites within the corporation, Call at his place of business on the cornor of Second strcet A. M. JOHNSON MINNESOTA. The matter of grounds for public uses was satisfactorily adjusted and the work of clearing the lands will now be resumed. Morris. contests and do other business that settlers in the Little Fork district. U. S. Commissioner For Little Fork A. R. McDonald, who has a claim on Little Fork, has been appointed United States commissioner by Judge Mr. McDonald will be em- powered to make filings on land, hear otherwise would be taken to the Du- luth land office. This appointment will convenience a large number of business men advance their own in- terests so substantiallyas to organize themselves ints a committee of the whole and all pull together for mutual benefit by devising ways and means to induce a desirable class of farmers into the county. AL sold_.11,000.. acres of land last, week for $4.10 per acre,” writes Mr. Wasbburn, “and bave just closed my tinal land purchase in your county, which include C. A. Smith, John Martin and Bovey-DeLaittre tracts, being nearly 75,000 acres in all. which I own‘in your county, 1 regard Itasca as the best county in the northern part of the state and have yradually centered my land holdings in that region.” W. D. Washburn, Jr., has been giving considerable at- tention to this county in the matter of advertising and having studied the situation he realizes great possibili- ties in a very short timeif proper attention is given to making known to outsiders the plain, unvarnished facts. LIKES ITASCA COUNTY BEST E.N. Remer Visits the West and Returns Well Satisfied With Itasca County. EN. Remer, of the Reishus-Remer Land company, recently made a west- ern trip, and like any observing busi- ness man he made a few notes along the) way and compared the country through which he traveled with northern Minnesota. His conclu- sions are decidedly favorable’to Min- nespta and especially Itasca county. Mr. Remer went as far as Spokane, Washington, where he visited a brother. ‘I never saw so much coun- try before in my life as I did om this western jaunt, andI donot exaggerate one iota when I say that Itasca coun- ty is the equal of anything in the way of agricultural land that I found be- tween here and the coast. I-traveled through much territory that is famed for its rich productiveness, and is advertised almost world wide, butI would rather take my chances right bere in Itasca county today that in any of the prairie sections or irrigated valleys.” Mr. Remer says that Spokane appears to ve overdone in most business lines and business men appear to be hard up. Wages, he gays, are about the same there as here the only difference being that eight hours constitutes a day’s work, “No thank you, I would not ex- chatge for any location I saw west of Minnesota. Itasca courty is good enoigh for me. The soil of the Milk River valley seems to be a good deal likethe lands we have here, but the rainfall is uncertain: and crops are, of curse, equally so.-The govern- ment will irrigate the valley and wha the lands are flooded in this matiner they may become reliably profuctive, but they can never be mate to excell Itasca county soil.’ WHY NOT ITASCA COUNTY? ‘ WILL SELL THE SYSTEM: The Grand Rapids Telephone Exchange Is Offered for Sale by Baumbach. reparation Now Being Made For Exhibits At St. Lowis World’s Fair. In a number of counties of the state, special exhibits of grainand grasses are being arranged te be shuwh at the St. Louis World’s Fair next year. The plan is for a commit- tee of twu or three of the business meu at the county seats to receive all specimens offered. These when col- lected by the committee will. be turned over toan agent of the state board of managers, Messrs. Conde Hamlin, St. Paul, J. M. Underwood, Lake City and Theodore L. Hays, Minneapolis, who will have them properly grouped, arranged and dis- played where they equal in excellence the samples from other counties. Not only will the county, but the farm from which the samples are gathered, be given due credit. If this is a good thing for other counties, it is a good thing for this one, and with proper care in the selection of samples no county can excel ours. All grains and grasses should be secured before quite ripe, and should be cured in a dark room. Only enough ofeach kind is needed to make a display bunch of heads, the size «fa man’s two fists. Corn in the ear is especially desired. Three ears of a kind is sufficient. SAID TO BE A BIG SNAP _ Some Remarkable Dividends Figured Out as Shown By Published Report —Citizens May Have All For $12,000 The people of Grand Rapids are to be offered an opportunity to purchase the Iron Range Telephone company’s interests in this village for $12,000, according to a published report. It- is claimed by Mr. W. R. Baumbach . that it is a paying proposition and returos about 20 per cent annually on the amount asked for the plant. A count of the names on the published card, giving the numbers of all who use the ‘phone, shows it to contain just one hundred and seventy-five. ‘Two dollars per month is charged for the service of each ’phone used in a business house and one dollar per month for use in residences. ‘There are eighty-five business houses using the service and ninety private resi- dences. This would make the total receipts amount to $3,120 per year. If the plant pays a dividend of 20 per cent on $12,000-—-which would be $2,- 200-—the total cost of running the exchange, inciuding all repairs, salar- jes, interest on the investment, etc., would be $920. The Iron Range com- pany must pay munificient salaries and make a net profit on other ex- penses. As a matter of fact the company has at no time lived up to its agree- ment with the municipality and the service here is practically of no value whatever. There is not now, and never has been, any night service, which is contrary to the agreement. It was specitically understood that a long distance service was to be install- ed at once when the council granted ‘permission. to operate the exchange in Grand Rapids. This has never been done and the company appears to entertain no idea of putting in a long distance system. Canducted as it has beeu in the pastthe Grand Rapids telephone exchange has been useful only for afternvon gossi pamong ladies who happen to be on speaking terms and who might thus avoid the exer- tion of dressing for the street. It is hardiy probable that any great: num- ber of our business men will hurry to get hold of Iron Range Electric Telephone stock at $12,000. The owners of the system now operating here are well aware that it is only a matter of time when auother com- pany will build to this point and be granted a franchise that would render DOESN LIKE THE IDEA. Northome People Would Like to Keep License Money For Home Consumption. Complaint was made to County Attorney Spear that saloons were being conducted at Northome with- out having procured the necessary license, The attorney had no altern- ative except to makean investigation, which he did last week. Accompani- ed by Deputy Sheriff Hulburt Mrs Spear made the trip to Northome and found that the allegations were found- edun fact. As a result five appli- cations were: made to the county board for the necessary permit tu curry on the traffic. One of the ap- plicants paid the full amount of $500, while the others made deposits ag- gregating two hundred dollars more, making a total of $700. Those who complained are residents of the town- corporate ‘limits of the village. Under d law passed by the last Jegis- lature one half of the liquor license money paid to the county from un- organized villages goes to the town- ship in which such saloons are con- ducted, and placed to the credit of the township’s road and bridge fund. The township in which Northome is located is blessed with two cuntend- ing factions, as most communities are, and therefore the prospective villagers and the outsiders agreed to disagree. [he latter want their share ‘of the _ license money for roads and bridges and the former want if’ all for village pur- poses. County Attorney Spear could not do oth¢rwise than to demand the! payment/ of licenses into the county { tbe present plant almost useless. treasury, after complaint had been { This is the sequel to the desire to tek kickers for the towaship H sell. Strayed. On or about July 24, 1903, one sor~ rell horse, weight about 1,600 pounds, avy mane and tail, seven years old. ‘inder please report to Herald- Review office, are kn@iyn as the Engelking faction, i backed"by Attorney A. A. Tone. The} Northome News has the following to; sayin its last issue: ' Geo. H.. Spear, county attorney, and William ; Hulburt. deputy sheriff, came up from Grant Rapids last Saturday and spent the day ral ing cain with our prospects for fixing up the | villago when it is organized. It may seom a{ good policy to some who have no interest here | C th to send all the license money out of town, t Instrumental teal tage by iit the Gay will come when thereswill be a | 900m. “OF termi.” Years ‘os’ Experiences reaction und the kickers now will be back | Mrs, J. H, Steves, Leland avenue, op- numbers. | posite John Phillips. 46-4t. Dna Bell’s Confectionery On Third Street. Soda Water right from the Fountain, can be had. I will make a specialty of serving soda with the most delicious Flavors. The only place in Grand where a Gelicious drink of Whi dering Sod: Bf fe Weerertai seer | ICE CREAM | "hcntinis” choice of the follow - ‘3 The best that 1: ing Flavors: duced in Bulugn get eed eae wong: O1 Lem receive lally express. Phosphate peed | eee | enone irawber! vanilla jan Ghorry Poosphate CRUSHED FRUITS | Thirst Quencher Sarsarparilla Marshmallow Moxie. Made Fresh Every Day, My Chocolates are Especially Fine. Try Them, I will always Keep a High Grade Line of Cigars. FSO COCHEEEE FESS KKKKESSS CESS CORSE EOS SESE ESET EE OE EES C. R. BELL, The Confectioner. = 2 2 e = = * * 2 = * 2 2 = * s 3 2 2 2 2 = 2 3 2 3 a : = = = = = = = = * = = = = 2 a * * = 2 = < REEREEEROSERTESESTESIGETHSSONES $49500000060008808808% Ee aad | semanas is RA A OER A EPCS 6 4 Sa SE AS es ALR Sa RABID EGE Te 2a RRS | i }