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‘The Itasca County Agricultural Association of Itasca County will Hold Its Annual Fair at Grand Rapids on September 29th and 30th. 1904. The attention of the farmers, gardners and householders of Itasca County is in- vited to give the following premiums the careful attention, and be prepared to ex- hibit at the county fair for 1904. Division A—Horses. Class 1—Thoroughbreds. Coot Ist 2nd Prem. Prem. = 91.00 5.00 Stallion, four years old and upward Stailion, two yeurs old Stallion, ld Stahiion w ‘Division @ Dairy Products Class 1—Butter and Che Cheése, cottage. Cheese, home dairy Butter, home dairy. Division H---Household Manu- factures. , lass 1. Rugs and rag carpet, each . Crocheted or knitted bed Cottgn gail Silk quilt Worsted quilt. Tied comtor Class 2—Faucy Artictes Etc. ¥mbroidered table Shaye Crocheted cuemise yoke and sieeves . Infants’ a ly sack and socks. Crochet tid Croehet collar Crochet edg Crochet toil Shopping Pillow sham.. Suit ladies’ underwear. five pieces Set crozheted table mats.. Dous with crocheted ‘borde! waundry bag. Stocking bag. Tea cosy.. Silk seta pi Cotton or |i Baby carriage pillow. Head rest Work bag Calendar. . Wall pocket. Card case H | } CASH GIVEN AWAY to. oe f. LION COFFEE In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums Brood ma. Like aCheck Like This? We Have Awarded $20,000.00 F239 (orien os eee ote erate ang contest Presidential Yote Contest Five Lion-Heads cut from Lion Coffee Packages and a 2-cent stamp entitle you (in addition to the regular, free premiums) to case... Wik broom | Embroidered piano Silk pincushion . Cotton pincushion Fancy hundke hiet. Tatted cente! Sucking horse or mare cot Class 2—General Purposes. } Stallion, four years } Stallion, ubtee yer lion, Lwo ve Suatlion, one y —| ptailion with Drawn work lunch cl Ladies’ fancy apro Child’s fancy apron Infant’s tine white dres: Ladies’ white petticoa' Handmade lace collar. hin haud m rocheted silk What will be the total Popular vote cast for President (votes for all can- didates combined) at the election November 8, 1904? In 1900 election, 13,959,653 people voted Infant's bib... Span curriuge hors: $5.00 Pair chamois glo’ one vote. The 2-cent stamp cov- for President. For nearest correct esti- Span horses tur ana Crocheted or knit i mates received in Woolson Spice Com- pany’s office, Toledo, O., on or before “ November 5, 1904, we will give first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize to the next nearest, etc., etc., as follows: ers our acknowledgment to you that your estimate is recorded. You can send as many esti- mates as desired. Grand First Prize of $5,000, 00 will be awarded to the one who is nearest correct on both our World’s Fair and Presi- dential Vote Contests. \ We also offer $5,000.00 Special Cash Prizes to Grocers’ Clerks. (Particulars in each case of Lion Coffee.) How Would Your Name Look on One of These Checks ? Everybody uses coffee. If you will use LION COFFEE long enough to get acquainted with it. you will be suited and convinced there is no other such value for the money. Then you will take no other—and that’s why we advertise. And we are using our advertising money so that both of us—you as well as we—will get a benefit. Hence for your Lion Heads WE GIVE BOTH FREE PREMIUMS AND CASH PRIZES Complete Detailed Particulars in Every Package of LION -COFFEE i Spin turee-year-old colts. Spui draft hurses, wo be ested ou &! Hind krittted hose peeves sun Crocheted or knitted Single ear : 7 a sw Ladies’ fancy shirt waist Ladies’ tie . . Hand knitted mitte: Division B—Cattle. Class 1— Thoroughbreds. (TO BE SHOWN BY PEDIGREE OF HERD BOOK OR PROOF.) Bull. three yeurs und over Bull, Uwo years od and und Hoult. one year old aud wader two ui ca Jsuul, (Stauuuru) with geL Jiciior, two Yeurs old dnd Under Luree eller, one year vid aud uuder Lire, Childrea not o Dressed dl doit Ciass 2—Natives and Graaes. : Burnished dol i Darning ¢ #1000 Pen wipe Pin cushion .. Hemstitehed handkerchie Book Best spe men. oe Best specime: Division C.- -Hogs, Sheep and | Match sare Poultry and Water Fowls. Needle cuse Class 1—Hogs—Thorougnbreds Vid lady’ ing Gentleman’s smoking Gentleman's smoking ja Baby carriage robe . Couch ufguln .... Class 3. -Children’s Department. 1800 Prizes— 2139 PRIZES, er twelve years of $20,000.00 TOTAL, yold aud under two. old aud tinder Lwu Sewing companion Blotter... a Class 4-—Misecellaneous. 1.00 Hair wi $0, 1.0) Taxide! 1 7 of pigs, uut joss Usau sixy uuuer 6 months old rw | pexide ry WOOLSON SPICE CO., (CONTEST DEP’T.) TOLEDO, OHIO. Exhibit of home-milline 1 : 3 Class 2—Mogs—Grades Display of house plants. 1 Boar, one year old and over. 00 1.00 = Muar, under one pet ae 00 lw Su’ ver oue year vid 0 1.00 : se : Sow, buder une Yer 0 LW ---Fine Arts x fs Pou of pigs, uot less than six, Under 6 monthsold.. 2.00 1.00 Division I---Fine t | N a QO R THE Class S—Sheep Class 1—Produections in Oil. a . PAINTER Ram, any age .. 1.00 Portrait: $1.00 + . — Lwe 1.00 Flowers. 1.00 * af 5 Hus i a Tatidigcapo 13 ? ' ewe lane wd ru 4 ern Flock, tour ewes. 1.vo Marino. 1 Pee ee yOUER nina 7 AD Jy N- Class 4— Poultry and Water Fowils da ING, FRESCO DECORAT- On all entries in this class premiums will be paid Ciass 2—Preduetions in Water Colors. Iuvu, PAINTING, HARD- , Vx BACH DISTINCT SUB-DIVISION of.........$2.00 $1.00 ‘ WOOD FINISH A SPECI- ALTY ATEHOTEL GLADSTONE, Or a-Postal will brirg him to your Home. FLW. TAYLOR, GrandRapids, - Mieneiete, Division D—Grains and Grasses Class 1—Grasses and Grains in bundies In this class ull eutries should be In bundles of ut THE NEW TOWN four lucays ind f $f ingle specimen china painting. : $0. ee Tae Be Ege i € ae Hata SUB WivistOs IEMs Classe. L005 Golfection of 4 on more locos in cian i ; Tes nowy baa oe — oe Sraonpe Pererrerr rT rT rr rT errr rrr otographs, landscal : 2 es 2 =sote i Class 2—Graine and S election of photographs, portraits an one of the prettiest lakes in Northern Minnesota. ur = 3 One peck winter wh 0 rounded with & G = ae peck spritig Wi : he peck burlu ; ean $ One peck ot oats LW Division J---County Schools. BEDS OF IRON ORE 2 DEALER IN = : (ate So Pca Pca 2 a bab bie 2 1.00 5 Xo Eehinte Denmnanship. % Fruits, Confectionery, : , al wor : pe Le By iit pene deawin Several mines now being opened. ‘Tributary to §]% Ice Cream Soda, = » ) jon press : . 9 . i One peck timothy seed rer Exhibit general school work a good farming district. Will be reached by the Great BI Joe Cream, Drinks, = One peck white be 1.00 Northern railroad in the near future, Within a nice §}% Powac | Best display oft beans 1. ie % oO VaCCOSs, * seo roo Prevents Sound and Smoke. distance of Grand Rapids, the county seat, of Itasca #/@ , . s : 4 sweral dispiay, Uhresived a A device for suppressing sound and county, s Choice Lines of Cigars = smoke has been provided for the ordi- * . . * Division E—Vegetabl es & Fruits nary rifle by a French soldier. It*con- 4 Grand Rapids, Minn. 2 sists. essentially of a steel tube about * LELAND AVENUE. = Cl “1 thirty inches long, with several parti- $ 2 ~] ass tions having orifices slightly larger Seeueedesestaacacceeeseee s Sugar bee's, twelve . ‘Turnips rooved beet than the bore of a gun, and this tube is attached in the front of the muzzle of a bayonet p whenever its use is desired. firing the gun the gases are retarded by each partition in turn, finally escaping without sound or smoke. With a knife at the end the auxiliary tube can be made to serve as a bayonet. LOTS NOW READY FOR SALE At reasonable prices, and on terms withinthe reach of all ITASCA COUNTY = ABSTRACT OFEIGE = ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE. Conveyances Drawn. 4 Taxes Paid for Non-Residents, = KREMER & KING, Proprietors. GRAND RAPIDS, - - Display of cabbag Display of turnips Display of onieus.. Largest squash Hubbard squasn, vuree. Boston or squash thre Field pumpkins, three Marblehead squash, thr Cucumbe Mangies Caulitiow Display grape Muskmellous, thre wate! rmolon ‘ General display... Chinese Fish Hatcheries. Those ever-ingenious people, the Chi- nese, are great at fish farming, and one of their little uvdges for hatching young fish is most ingenious. Taking a fresh egg they suck the contents through a tiny hole and refill the egg with the tiny eggs of the fish they Eibdetettdttetet tat WHO HAS E, J. LONGYEAR, 22" Hibbing Minnesota, APPLY TO Pes. ’ Burbank a Maggie Murphy. Sane ath “ie oth OR arly Kose i now Flake... m4 one Hundred Fold. Early Wisconsin want ‘to: -hatel 6 hale) -48 thee ADDRESS D" CHAS. M. STORCH, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence, Cor. Kindred and 3rd z= GRAND RAPIDs. sealed up and the egg placed under a sitting hen. In a very few days the fish ova are so far advanced that one has only to break the shell into mod- rately warm water and the little fish spring to life at once. esoti Beauty of Hebron: McKinley. Carmen No. 3... Best display of potatues.. Division F---Culinary Class |---Bread, Pastry, Jelly etc. Loaf of wheat bread... Louf of rye bread, loaf of corn pen Yoajor graam bi hop yeast bi a ake, sponge ca c. ginger bi EO H.SPEAR ATTORNEY AT LAW - GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINN a Historic House to Be Sold. “5 York house, Twickenham, England, 25 is now in the market, and will be sold at guction soon. It was named layer, fig c after James Il., when duke of York, 0. RANK F. PRICE ©. W. Hastinas. F. P. SHELDON. dark cookies, each and in it were born two princesses, ‘D® D Coste F P.3% Suc c.E. oo Mary and Anne, who both afterward Vice President. became queens of England. The house, standing in beautiful grounds on the C z banks of the Thames, has many his- lack- torical asseciation and, according to tradition, Lord Clarendon wrote some of bis essays in the garden walks, Sour and sweet cucumber pic’ Sour and sweet tomato pickles . Ripe cucumber, watermeion, beet, carrott and Spied. ickles, each. Mixed pickles... Chow chow, chill sauge, catsup, eac! Canned Steaupert oe raspberries, blueberries, berries, gooseberries. cranberries. plums, rhu- barb, ground cherries, currants, tomato pre- serves, citron preserves, each Asst. Cashier lirst National Bank, Grand Rapids, Minn. Transacts a General Banking Business, DENTIST. LAWYER —Office in First National Bank Building.— , (Office in the First National Bank building GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA |GRAND RAPIDS, - - MINN,