Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 12, 1904, Page 1

A coming season. limited.” stuffs. 3 $ : 3 The Difference in Figures If you just “rubber” around at what the other dealers have to offer vou then come and see our line of COOK STOVES and RANGES. and the price for which they can be vbtained you will uever go elsewhere to buy. When you think of your wife toiling over that old $stoye don’t you feel guilty? Well you ought to—if you don’t } You know that we have just putin a complete line of these neccessary things. So why put up with such a condition of affairs when you can have a new stoveatso small a price tbat your pocket book will hardly feel it. : Just give us a chauce to prove our assertions. Come in and lave a friondly chat,—you need not buy if you don't want to. W. J. & H. D. POWERS. jsseSes | Tit you must eat, WM. C. TYNDALL, Agent For A. FITGER & CO’S., Fine Bottled Beer and Malt Bxtraect. 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 Thes. Finne- ‘an. They always haveon hand the very best — at lowest prices. Thos. Finnegan, Thos. Finnegan, Proprietor. 1 >t i | | | | re not very plentiful around here just yet; but there may be seen in our Dry Goods Department unmis- takable signs of the approaching spring, As the open- ing of the buds portends the foliage of the ‘summer, so the little inklings tarown out by the metroplitan estab- lishments of the East, give an idea of the styles for the Wanamaker, then whom there is pro- bably no keener pilot in the tide of feminine fashions, says of the new dress goods, ‘'Voiles, crepe chiffons, chiffon, etamines and sicillienes are the first to be seen. Beautiful fabrics that a skilled designer loves to get hold of. The possibilities for Iovely effects are almost un- Bear this in miud, Fashion is bearing strong- ly to the softest and most transparent woolens that the loom can turn out, and to the ribbed novelties. is in strong demand and is well represented in these new We can interest you in these lines: voiles, mer- cerized novelties, ribola, chambrays, etc., From 25c up. Ter tt th ttt Cream OSLO PALI VII IAL AAAS LAA IAA EAL IAL EAL A ° Itasca Mercantile Co. The Ticket Elected. ERE RE For President— : George’ Riddell’ = For Trustees— I. D. Rassmussen A. B. Clair H.G. Becker For Recorder— J. S, Gole For Treasurer— E, C. Aiken For Justices of the Peace— Hugh McEwan Thomas Sims For Constables— Pat Landreault Tim Mahon RE EE ee ee A ae a Ee a a a a TIMBER AND STONE ACT. Its Repeal Recommended by President’s Special Commission. The commission appointed by the president on Oct. 22, 1903, consisting of W. A. Richards, commissioner of the general land office, Gifford Pin- chot, chief forester of the department of agriculture, and F. H. Newell, chief engineer of the reclamation ser- vice, to make suggestions regardiug revision of the laws relating to public lands, bas made to the president a partial report, which was sent to cun- gress today. It recoimmends the re- peal of the timber and stone act and the substitution of suitable provis- ions for selling, after appraisal, the timber on public lands, which is need- ed in large or small quantities for in- dustrial purposes. The committee who recommends the repeal of the law, especially of those provisions re- lating to obtaining an adequate per- manent water supply. It advucates the restriction of the comn.utation clause of the homestead entry, where such entries are located within forest reserves or where the land iychiefly valuable for timber. The recommen- dation is also made that when lands are restored to entry after temporary segregation, ample time should be al- lowed homéstead entrymen to exer- cise their rights, giving them the Preference over persons who may [se to select the land by the use of scrip or other fourm of entry. Six O'Clock Dinner. A six o’clock dinner, by the Cath- olic ladies, at Village hall. St. Patrick’s day. j EE eA a He EE ae meneees 4 Be ee ee ae ee a ee 5 ‘1 JIS SOCIETY. , Minn., SaturDay, Marcu 1404. Two Dotuars a YEAR, at Tuesday’s Election. IT IS A GLORIOUS VICTORY By Almost a Unanimous Vote the People of Grand Rapids Express Their Preference THE GUN TICKET IS DEFEATED 4 T0 | Out of a Total Vote of 412 the Ticket Gotten Up By Gunn and Backed By the Magnet Receives 83 Votes. PRESIDENT RIDDELL DEFEATS F,P, SHELDON Aldermen Rassmussen, Clair and Becker Re- ceive Magnificent Endorsement at the Hands of the Voters. GOLE WINS OUT IN THREE-CORNER FIGHT The Present Efficient Recorder, J.S. Gole, De- feats F. A. King and John Lefevre By a Handsome Majority. The most bikthtls Gonbasied maniek | pal fight ever had in Grand Rapids was that decided on Tuesday. It re- H. D. Powers, - John Beckfelt, - - C.H Dickinson, - sulted in a decisive victory for the| Fur Treasurer— people. It was almost unanimous. This is the result: ‘ For President— George Riddell, - et vag Frank P. Sheldon, - 81 For. Trustees— I. D. Rassmussen, : - 329 A. B. Clair, - - - 3% + H.G.Becker, - - “- 333 Chas. E. Aiken, - For Recorder-— J. S. Gole, pee tas F. A. King, SS John Lefevre, : For Justices of tha Peace— Hugh McEwan, Thomas Sims, : _H. S. Huson, - 126 41 William Weitzel, For Constable— Pat Landreault, seis Tim Mahon, - - - 278 282 As was repeatedly stated in the Herald-Review prior to Tuesday’s election, there were a few people in Grand Rapids who were very anxious to bring about the defeat of the pres- ent council. Their plans and schemes have been working during the past year. Every act of the present coun- cil was carefully watched with the hope that defects might be found on which adverse critivista could be based. But the constant yigil of the retired politicians availed them noth- ing. The present council made an enviable reputation, and in their con- duct of the affairs of the village economy and good business judgment was exercised. The experience of the year 1902 had made the people suspi- cious of village councils and close at- tention was given to the work done by the present body, A great deal of money was expended during the year 1903 in the building of the Kindred avenue sewer, the construction of the Mississippi bridge. in street and side- walk improvements. etc., and the council was, serving a very critical constituency. At the close of the year’s business a financial statement was submitted showing the people where every dollar was expended and for what purpose. No just criticism could be offered. They had performsd their duties faithfully and well as the records show. Those who sought to defeat the men who were so hand- somely endorsed last Tuesday found themselves to be up against a tough political proposition. They realized thatthe record of the council could not be successfully attacked, and then it was that they resorted to every conceivable device known to the ward healer to. create dissension among their opponents and to create acampaign issue. Politics was final- ly resorted tu as‘a means of creating interest among a few ultra-Republi- cans. It is said that D. M. Guon headed the coterie of politicians who urged that it was necessary to defeat certain members of the present coun- ‘cil for political reasons. This was thé: last reSort. Guawand his follow- — ers were driven to extremes for ma- terial with which to build a ticket. By some meats they succeeded in get- ting the consent of F. P. Sheldon to allow the use of his name for the oftice of president; H. D. Powers, John Beckfelt and C, H. Dickinson as trustees. It was the intention to make a special effort to defeat Clair and Rassmussen fur trustees. After a canvass of the situation the Shel- dou combination concluded that there was no possible chance of their elec- tion. It was~then decided to concen- trate theireffurts to bring abuut the defeat of Recorder Gole. F. A. King was brought gut to accomplish this feat. He is regarded as an able poli- tician and it is reported that consid- erable money was spent in his behalf. The result of this cuntest is a fair il- lustration of the sentiment of the people. King received 126 votes, Gole 244.and Juhu Lefevre 41. 1t should be said in justice Messrs. Sheldon, Powers, Beckfelt and Dickinsou that they made no effort whatever to se cure their election and regretted hav- ing agreed to allow their names to appear upon the Guuon ticket. In former years F. A. King has been an especiaily strong candidate for office in Grand Rapids, but the feeling that he was being backed by Guna ren- dered his e’ection impossible. It now looks ag though the days of Dan- iel’s political dictatorship in the af- fairs of Grand Rapids and Itasca county had passed away. He was never a powerful facvor, but at times has been tolerated. It is only neces- sary now to cunvince the people that he favors any man or measure and the stamp of disapproval will be placed thereun by the voters. The Herald-Review congratulates the people of Grand Rapids upon their splendid victory over the puliticians aod predicts that they will have nu occasivn to regret. their choice of vil- lage officials. It was a glorious vic- tury, and it demonstrates that one fouling by the same gang is all the taxpayers of this community will stand for. The Magnet’s Boomerang, If the Magnet bad more time iu which to issue extras before election the party championed by that paper would probably have failed to even had tickets printed. As a usual thing special editions at the eleventh hour for campaign purposes do not forcibly impress the average voters. They 291 | are usually born under circumstances 311] that casts suspicion upon their par- 115 entage, SOTA TORICAL