Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 19, 1905, Page 1

i Meseerceeneesovessosuscessnenoness Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Min iy SaturpDay, AUGUST I9, tgo5. Two Dotiars a YEAR. monht’s sales especially large now is the time. -_Hot Weather Hints The days of glorious sun-rises, intense heat, and the full, red harvest moon is here. No longer in the land is heard the swish of ladened boughs, in: tead in all comfort seeking homes the whir of POWERS’ ICE CREAM FREEZERS Is heard. The grass and the flowers send’ up their glad ery at the appearance of the Lawn Hose and Sprinkler. Flies, gnats and in- sects utter protestations at the entrance being blocked by Powers’ Rust Proof Wire Screens Ye old house, too, offers up her thanks: at being eoated with Powers’ superior brand of *‘ PAINTS AND OILS The pocket book quietly thanks W. J. & H. D, Powers, for not having filched him of his Jast cent. \ Powers are a ‘power’ with us and they are ‘‘powerful” nice people to trade with. I have witnessed their dealings for years and can recommend them. (Signed—The Silent Witness.) W. J. & H. D. Powers Granda! apids Minnesota. — We can interest you on these and many other lines just now. tion of our windows will give you a fair idea of the extremely Low Prices that we have put on many articles these days. / On everything that belongs to Summer Goods we have put a Spécial Low Price, and to induce you to invest just now we have added to this many early fall fabrics at money-saving prices, articles for use the year around are also included to interest you, and make this ' Summer Goods, Wash Goods Early Fall Styles Fancy Novelties Short Lengths Notions ares ~ RAYA DBVVVVVtEVoTess An examina- Many staple _If you want to save from twenty cents to fifty certs on every dollar you spend Itasca Mercantile Co. Grand Rapids, Minnesota. BALL GAME , FOR TOMORROW Panton & White’s team did not show up Sunday last, and no game was played by the first team. Tomurrow Deer River comes here for the fifth game and as each have won two it is certain that both will do} their best to take the rubber, ‘| McBride has left town and the team SAAS SK KASS AE AHSS SH SHSCLE SHAS SSO ERR Oe Grand Rapids qe fo pov", VillageLots. $5: am ®& We have choice residence lots all over town and we are sell- ~. ing them on such easy terme that anybody can buy. $5 “S. down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk thexmatter over. A house and three lots for sale cheap. t We algo}} choice business lots on our lists. They Ugozlia ve So) are Tor sale on elisy' terms. REISHUS:REMER LAND cOMPANY, Ee SOE a A Se pe ee a a ae ea 3 ® aciovsanlieladstnndgukihaintianiitacloceteielcans’ isshy one man. His successor has not been named, but Brier will pro- bably be moved into the infield. TO EXTEND THE SYSTEM At a_meeting of the council last évening bids were opened for the ex- tension of the sewer system from the corner of Fourth street and Kin- dred avenue west to Hoffman avenue, thence west three blocks to Seventh street. There were four bids sub- mitted. Thos. H. Hennessy of Grand Rapids put in a bid to complete the job according to plans and specifica- tions for the sum of $1,875; Pastoret and Lunz, Two Harbors, $1,854;. O. F. Doyle. St. Cloud. $1,10 per leviel foot; E Engle, Duluth, $2,000. In consideration of the bids considerable discussion was indulged in by the councilmen and contract- ors. Mr. Doyle’s bia was not accom- panied bp a certified cneck und it did not specify satisfactorily “as to compliance with the requirements of the council. The Doyle bid was the lowest but Was -not accepted because of the deficiencies noted: A senti- ment favoring the acceptance of Mr. Hennessey's bid ‘seeured to prevail among the aldermen, but it was final- ly decided to-instruct the: recerder to write Mr. Doyle requesting him to lucidate a littiec more learly on his Proposition. E % * The best lauudry Soap 1s the cheap- est. Do you catch the point? ( Pride.) “prayed for in the petition. INSPECTING THE RESERVOIRS The committec of United States the Mississippi river reservoirs, passed thraugh Grand Rapids last §Tues- 3 route to the Winnebigoshish and'Leech lake dams. The commit+ tee epnsisted of Major H. M. Chitten- den of Sioux City, Ia.; Capt, W. V. so isi appointed to investigate Judson of Wilwaukee, Wis., and Maj arles L. Potter, in charge of the Duluth district. After looking over the’ situation at the reservvirs the party returned to Pokegama dam on the Friday afternoon train, from which point the were taken on 1, D. Rassmussen’s . yacht. through the *horoughfare and around Pokegama lake, In the evemrag the party were yy driven to town and ensconsed at the Hotel Pokegama. Several citizens talked over the dam situation with che Committee and it was learned that “recommendations” will be made tw the authorities ab Washington to dy something. Just what this some- Uhing will be does not require a seer or sage to accurately foretell, The committee is: fixed in the ooinion thatthe dams are a gvod thing and should be maintained. Majur Potter stated that tbe tloods at Aitkin would have been four feet higher had iv nat been for the dams, ‘Thistfool assertion is a fair index of what the report will be. Certain it iv that no relief t@ the people Gf northeasterao Minnesvta will fullow. Our destroy- ing Nemesis will be, maintained, fed and fostered by appropriations from the national treasury. But the Hea- auld-Review has no tears to drup in sympathy for the farmers, manufac- turers and others who bave so long and patiently suffered incalculable losses through the incompetent and unreasonabie management vf these useless public nuisances. They have supplicated for mercy when they sbiuld have demanded justice; they have pleaded for relief when they suould have demanded relief. Until the people along the fertile valley of the upper Mississippi combine and” as‘one man serve notice upon cons gressitliat Ley will no longer supine. ly submit to the wanton and unneces- sary Gestfuction of their homes, wili any relief be granted. When this is, done justice will fol- low. All other methods will prove unayailing. Relief nust eventually come through congress, MORE DRILLS’ TO OPERATE Leroy Wheaton will put a number of drils to work on lands that be owns in the yicinity of Lilly lake, abouta quarter of a mile -ssuth of the village limits. Exploratory work was done in the vicinity cf Lilly lake further south three and four years ago by Al. Kribs and associates. . Good indications of ore were devel- oped at that time, but the work was abandoned before giving the Jand a thorough test. Mr. Wheaton owns considerable land in that section and he has steadfastly mainthined that there is iron there in paying quanti- ties. Now he proposes to find out for sure, INSPECTING COUNTY ROADS County Commissioners Passard and Tone made a tmp to International Fall last_ week. to make an official in- spection of county road work that is being done in Commissioner Lang's district. Owing to the continuous wet Weather little progress has been made in the matter of building and re- pairing roads. The highways that have been laid out in that vicinity are badly needed and the board hoped to be able to have them contpleted by freeging-up time, but this now seems ingesble Mr. Lang was not at homie when Messrs Passard and ‘lone reached the Falls. He had just left for St. Paul with his wife, wbo will re- ceive medtcal treatment at one of the hospitals in that city, In looking over the work that has beeu done the committee had to travel afoot considerable distance. They found that good work had been done so far and were entirely satisfied with the progress made under the eir- cumstances and the amount of money expended. They left International Falls at 3 o’clock Saturday morning. Chairman Passard and Commis- sioner Mullins made a trip this week to Bear river to inspect the bridge crossing that stream on the east line of section 25, 60-22, in respopse to a petiuon of citizens of that 1ocality, ‘They will report that the bridge should be builtat another point on the river and that two miles of road uid be built on the section line, as |SNEAKING LOW. | OPINIONS We've always bad a sneaking low opin jon of the city dailies who stole articles from their country and city {contemporaries} but it doesn’t begin to compare with our feel- ing toward the country editors who have so Uttle respect for themselves that they would steal stuff from the daily. press and fail to give credit, We notice a number of weeklies which reproduce the Duluth News Tribune's somewhut erroneous account of the recent Feeley drowning, Shame.—Itasca County In dependent, If you happen to ‘be of a critical turn just read the foregoing paragraph once more. It’s almost a prose poem and it starts out with a startlingly honest confession, i. ¢., “we've always had a sneaking low opinion.” The high and haughty standard of journal- is™ t at directs the course of the in- tellectual and schollarly frog that pen- ned the above quotation places him on the very tower top of the protes- sion. Small marvel indeed that he becomes dizzy with contempt of his contemporaries, as he looks from his exalted sphere upon the mental men- dicants blow, who are but his weak imitators. It is then that he becomes enmeshed with. “sneaking low opin- ions” no doubt. 1t was only a week or two since that the Herald-Review’s attention was called to an advertise- ment fn the Indépendent lauditory of it’s own superiority. over all other papers in the county. ‘The ad. con- cluded with the bald-headed statement that the Independent is _ the “best equipped moral paper in_ Itasca county” which, of course, was in- tended to mean something, but we are free to confess that in our -‘sneak- ing low opinion” the editorial efforts of Bro, Lauginyear should be submit- ted to Chief Mosimo for translation and elutriation before being submit- ted to a defenseless public. And, by the way, it might not be out of order to call the critical brother’s attention to the fact that someone in the Inde- pendent office “stole the stuff” almost bodily from the’ Herald. Review col- umns last week and failed to give proper credit—notably the gun clup shoot report. But mayhap he had ascended to. his lofty tower top to take a few observations and the boys “trun de hooks into de gee,” just to hnouliate His Scholarship. SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS The King Lumber company have been awarded a contract to iay cement sidewalks on_ the east, west and north sides of the High school building. The walks along the streets will be eight feet wide, with eight- foot entrance walks leading to the building from Leland and Kindred avenues, also from Seventh street to the building. A_ ten-foot ‘driveway will be built leading to the building from Leland avenue. A boulivard twelve feet wide will be laid out on the east, west and north sides of the school grounds, outside of the street walks. Bids on this work were ad- vertised fur and the King company were the successful bidders. The King Lumber company also have contracts to build cement walks in front of F. P. Sheldon’s residence, the First National bank, the residence occupied by C. L. Frye, and a tile walk to the residence of John Rellis. Hachey & Nelson have taken a contract to put in a cement walk in front of Will Nisbett’s home A street boulevard will also be laid out. Ground has been broken for the foundation of a barn just west of Hotel Gladstone on the ‘Tyndall pro- perty. tis being put up by the Fit- ger Brewing company for use by their local agent, Mr, W, C. ‘Tyndall. This change will largely increase the com- pany’s refrigerator capacity as the building now used_as a barn will be utilized for cold storage purposes, The building will be 22x60.° The King Lumber company are the con tractors. Superintendent McGuire will soon begin the erection of another buiding on the experiment farm, It will be 24x40 feet. He also has in contem- plation the erection ofa silo for the keeping of chopped feed. ‘This is a method of preserving green fodder for stock after the manner of canned vegetables, It will be 16 feet in diameter. T. H. Hennessy has just completed | the laving of 2500 feet of water pipe to the residence of Rose Kinney, op- posite the Doran farm house south of town. ‘This is the-longest piece of piping for single service in Grand apies and was put in at an expense of $560 to the owner of the property. ONE news report assures us that the Russians retreated in good order. If they also retreated in good time there is reason why the bear should congra- tulate himself. Carry the news to Nic. Peal tina? SEES EN ;PEACE negotiations.are progressing somewhat and M. Witte is reluctanly yielding step by step to the demands of thesJaps. The orientals would ra- ther fight than fool and it appears that the czar’s forces are up against the real thing. oo ee THE commission appointed to in- vestigate the upper Mississippi dams will not report in a manner that will result in changing the present system of management to the extent of one barrell of watzr. Mark the predic- tion, Pic act 0 aks Ives of the. Cass Lake Times, is giving some plain facts to the public relative to the forestry reserve fake of Northern Mtnnesota. ‘The Times's doing good and, the logic of Judge Ives cannot be successefully ‘met by Chief Pinchot of the forestry bureay or anybody else. ea Ir ATKrNSON jr., of the Mesaba Ore, Hibbing town, doesn’t develop into a finished and polished journalist it will not be the fault of the “old man”. Mark is the young man’s name, and if association with the fra- termity has any effect on his budding genius he will make his mark in the fourth estate. During. the past three years he has attended the annual out- ings(of the state editors, thus laying the foundation for his future greatness when he assumes, control-of the great family journal founded by his famous father. Tue village council of Deer River proposes to go so far and no farther, That body has limited the number of saloons that will be granted a license to sell hqugr. An application fora, deal in intoxicants was presented by A. D. Brooks last week but the village dads turned license to the old’ man down, The council is made up with a majority of saloon men and they are evidently following the theory that self preservation 1s the first law of business. pit hal oes A Case of prosecution for violation of the liquor law in St. Louis county, calls to mind the operations carried onin this.county by our own Spear~ head. A poor Italian woman, living husband and a halt dozeu children on a claim in the wilds of St, with her Louis county, was charged with hav- ing sold a bottle of beer to two men without a license. She was arrested and thrown 1n jail, bearing a child in arms. She coud not speak a word of English and according to the press reports the woman was indeed an ob- ject of pity as she bemoaned her un- fortunate lot. The husband had na money with which to secure her.re- lease on bond, and she was bound over to await the action of the grand jury. finally secured. Bail in the sum of $50 was The officers wha were so inexorable in the prosecution of this case are constantly in posses- sion of knowledgé that would convict almost any keeper of a saloon in the city of Duluth and’ yet these violators of the law go unwhipped of justice. ‘The same conditions exist in Itasca county. It is politics, not justice, that actuates the shyster in the per- formance of his “duties.” The merchant who has not learned that fall and winter ad vertising is the Mr. Hennessy made a very low bid on the work and his net profits show on the wrong side of the ledger. surest of the year in bringing business is not up to date _ by several fat homs.