Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 2, 1905, Page 1

Vou XIIIL—No, 10 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., SatuRDAY, SEPTEMBER Two Do.iars a YEAR. 4 | = | are already beginnipg to arrive and our display will soon be complete. Our buyers are now in the East, one in Chicago and one in New York and we expect tobe able to offer you this year a selection that for y quality, style and low price have never Be equalled in this market. To prove our statement we simply ask your personal examination as , the goods arrive, Ma 4 Dress Goods, Cloaks, Skirts, WAISTS, NOVELTIES, NOTIONS, HOISERY, FURNISHINGS. Every department will be especially complete and will certainly merit your careful consideration. eee 7 Summer-Goods Bargains While they last we can offer you some exceptional opportunities. We do not like to carry over any of the short length pieces and you will find them so temptingly priced on our counters and in our : windows as to warrant a liberal investment. Cravenettes for fall wear, wash goods of medium weight that are especially adapted for fall days now approaching are included in these summer offerings, in order to clear our shelves and make displiy room for the ampie stock now in transportation, Itasca Mercantile Co. Grand Rapids, Minnesota. & SCHOOLS OPEN NEXT TUESDAY By Monday next the teachers em- ployed to take charge in the several departments of the Grand Rapids schools will have arrived and ‘be pre- | pared to begin their labors. Several al hundred pupils are already here and | they, toc, are prepared to begin the | fall and winter campaign. School | i will open Tuesday morning. Mon- | st $ day being Labor Day the time fixed | for the “first of school” comes twenty- | } Easy four hours late. | : Considerable repairing has been ] doing the washing if you have one of our new improved done by the board to both the High | wringers. Hall the wringers are good for noting and not and Central buildings. ‘The grading | worth carryiugghome, and walks around High school build- | ing will not be completed until about | STANDARD RELIABLE WRINGERS October 1, The gymnasium room like we sell are cheapest, and like our hardware are reliable ee fe Be ponte oe age fp Pes | pot ip to give satisfaction, For Wringers and Hard- leading to the creek was put in, It » buy fe ¢ ve necessary to relay th: floors. entral building will be ready tor W. J. & H. D. P 0 W E RS . 3 occupancy when the bell rings ‘Tues- day morning. Contractor Schmidt, who had the job of painting the build- =) jing throughout, has it completed, = Following is a lst of the teachers —J oe —. ——_—_______— = who have been engaged so teach in | Save, Grand Rapids: | RR Ae AE AE a a eae ee ae Ea a ae ae a ae ee ae sae a ae a a aa EE ES i P | ‘ * E. A. Freeman, Superintendent; | H H Down $ | Ehzabeth Stanton, Frincipal of High FY ran i a | S are 3 school; Belle Parker, Agsistant Princi- 2 d $5 # |pal of High school; Olga Wetzel, 8th 4 a an # | grade; Katherine Connell, 7th grade; se | * % =| Mary McMahon, Principal of Central = VillageLots per month % |school; Came Foss, sth grade; May = 2 Mciennan, 4th grade; Serelda Mur- 3 3 pass 3rd grade; Margaret Aiton. 3rd ; ; grade; Mabie Edmunds, 2nd grade; = We have choice residence lots all over town and we are sell- - Miss H. G. Olson 2nd " grade; Viola = ing them on such easy terme that anybody can buy. % ® | Back, : : ; 7 down and $5 per month is certainly easy, Come inand talk ® | °° ers and Mrs. Grove, 1st grade; bh s the matter over. A house and’ three lots for sale cheap, & | Bena Wilson, Special Music Teacher; in| : We also have some choice business lots on our lists. They # | Mary Lathrop, Commercial Depart- are for sale on easy terms. : ment. $ ; = A complete commercial department : % [has been added, which will -include # jiustructions in stenography, short 4 REISHUS-R EMER LAND cOMPANY, % | hand, business forms, commercial law, 4 is : : etc., including everything that 1s Semen Ci tiiieiiitt tit Tit ttit taught in the commercial colleges, Pi, PS a BUSY SEASON IN: IRON! A LINE OF DRILLS EXTENDS COM- PLETELY ACROSS ITASCA COUNTY MINING MEN SEEM SATISFIED Hundreds of Drills Are Now Being Operated Along the Iron Belt From St. Louis County Line to Cass County in Rich Properties The man who is fortunate enough tolive in or near to Grand Rapids has ample reason for self-congratula- tion. Even without the discovery of rich iron mines this town and sur- roundiug territory were Gestined by nature to develop into the rarest gar- den spot of northeastern Minnesota, With rich agricultural lands extend- ing in every direction that are rapid- ly being transformed from the primi tive forest to fields of grain and grass, produce of every kiud, stock farms and dairies, mauufacturing plants operated by water and steam power, Grand Rapids and Itasca county could not fail in the upward and on- ward march to material greatness. Ittay be truthfully said that no otber county in the state has been so lavishly endowed with treasures of soil, forest and mine as has Itasca. Other localities may be rich in agri- culture, but they have not the wealth of iron and timber that is nere; others may point to the vast)oss of their iron deposits, but the agricultural lands and forests have’ been deuied them; where manufacturing leads it is usually alone. Itasca county is greatin all. Here each pursuit or iudustry enhances the value of every other, All combine—the field and forest-the mill and mine—to make our future industrial possibilities limitless. Thisis not a phantasmal vision—the goods are here and ready for delivery, and only await the en- terprise and skill that will bring them to. activity in the many ramifications industry. Noone who has given consideration to the conditions that prevail throughout Itasca county to- day will say that the Heraid-Review is over sanguine in its estimate of the present or its predictions of the future. The prospecting and drilling that has been going on within the county during the present season and the de- felopment of iron properties is evi- dence that mining men are convinced that the west end of the Mesaba range will prove no less productive of iron than has the east end. ‘There are over thirty-five mining leases of record now drawing revenue for fee owners in this vicinity. State min- ing leases hold good for only one year, when they must be renewed in order to be effective. Of these there are wore than a hundred now on record. A vast majority of the options are held by the Oliver Mining company, which is a part of the United States Steel company. 'E. J. Longyear hay a number of drills working at differeat points tor the Oliyer people and it is said that iron finds reported are satis- factory to the interested © parties. Drills are working on section 23-55-26, about one-half mile south of Pokega- madam. ‘The Oliver peuple hola op- tions on fourteen forties in that local- ity. J. F. and James McCormick have given an option on the set of section 27-55-26, and drills will be put to work on the property in a few days. T. D. Adams, of the Adamsand other working mines on the east end of the range, has bad six men doing explor- atory work west of Pokegama lake for some time. Rouchleau & Whitesides are also doing exploratory work and picking up options ia that vicinity. For some time drills have been oper- ating on lot 1 of section 3-55-25. Ex- Governor John Lind and Congress- man Buckman are the fee owners of the land. The swt of the swt of sec- tion 3-55-25, is also being tested by drills. The fee is owned by Kremer & King, W. C. Gilbert and W. D. Washburo, jr. Lhe Oliver company holds options and are drilling on nwt of nwt of section 2,55.25, owned by the Vermilion Range Land company; the net net of section 2,55,25. owned by the Gilbert Land company and L. F. Knox; the nwt ot nw of section 1- 55-25, owned by John Beckfelt and B. ©. Finnegan; the swi of net of sec- tion 9,55,25, and the se? of nw? of sec- tion 9,55,25, owned by Clinton Morri- and 19 in 60-22. Indications now point to the development of more than a townsite at Washburn, adjoin- ing the village of Bovey. Drills are down to a considerable depth in what is said to be a fine body of ore. The same conditions are reported to pre- vail at the Buckeye and about Bovey. The construction cf a railway from Hibbing through to Grand Rapids along the iron belt is coficlusive evi- deuce that the properties already de- veloped are of sufficient importance to warrant the faith that ex- ists as to the quality and quantity of iron ore to be found on the western Mesaha. FROM DULUTH TO WINNIPEG No doubt now exists that the Soo line will build an extension from Thief River Falis to Duluth. The suryey is known to be more than ‘half completed, and steps toward getting the right of way have already been taken. The latestaction along this line was taken by the commercial club of Biackduck, Minn., which succeeded in securing eighteen miles of right of way as adonation to the railway company. ‘The survey passes directly throug Blackduck, a village tweuty five miles north of Bemidji, on the Minnesota & International road. It is believed that contracts for actual construction of the road will be let before the end of the year. This information is gleaned from the Duluth Herald. There has been reasons to believe for some time that the Soo road contemplated the con- struction of a line that would direct- lyconnect Winnipeg with Duluth. The complete survey through to Loyey was made some time ago. This survey places Grand Rapids on the Soo line, which might possibly cun- nect with the Great Northern at Bovey. DO NOT RING THE FIRE BELL The Herald-Review has had occa: sion several times in the past to call attention to the unlawful, uaneces- saryy Unreasonable and senseless prac- tice indulged in by certain grown-up children of ringing the tlre bell when no flre exists. It usually occurs while some social dance or other entertain- ment is in progress. In mosb in- stances itis the work of grown-up young men and girls that are about as tall as they will ever be. This of- fense is as serious as it is foolish and itis the intention of the village police to arrest and prosecute the first of- fender who is caught in the act of pulling the fire rope for the fun of hearing the bell ring. Such thought- Jess acts often result seriously. When firemen become accustomed to hear- ing the alarm of fire sounded and re- spond only to be told that someone was “fooling,” the time will come when a tardy response will follow an alarm when somebody's property is burning up. Vigorous prosecution of offenders is the only sure romedy. it will be applied. THE STREETS IN GOOD CONDITION As fall comes apace the streets of Grand Rapids are in very good condi- tion, considering the unusual heavy rain falls that have prevailed throughout the summer. Street Commissioner Lane has had a busy season of it but under prevailing con- ditions the village streets are in ex- cellent shape. Much labor has been expended on repairs that do not show. Washouts were to be attended to at all times. Among the permanent imdrovements that were made was the opening of Sixth street between Duluth and Houghton avenues and Burrows avenue vetween Seventh anc Fourteenth streets. One block on Eighth street was graded up, and a filling twenty feet wide for the boulevard on three sides of the High schovi was made. The street com- missioner did a fine piece of work at the Phillips corner leading out to McKinney lake. This road has al- ways been in bad shape at all thies— in either dry or wet weather—and as itis traveled a great deal the work done will be appreciated by the trav- eling public. Mr. Lane is now build— ing a new piece of road on the west village limits leading to Cohasset where the water has drowned out the old road. The new engine to propel the ferry across Black’s atm of Pokegama lake on the Hill City road has been placed n; the set of set. of section 34,55,25, | and is doing good service. ‘The ferry owned by George Fay and Frank P. has been! out of commission most of Miller. Arthur C. Ely has a crew of | this weck. owing to the filling of the men operating on sections 13 aud 14 and 23 and 24 in 60-23 and sections 18 boat while being repaired. It is again in working order. ; REeEeRerAPrIUILZ BDARL ITASGA AT THE FAIR PRODUCTS OF ITASCA COUNTY ARE SHIPPED FOR STATE EXHIBIT SPLENDID SHOWING TO MAKE Many Kinds and Varieties of Cereals, ~ Grasses, Fodder, All Kinds of Vege- tables, Small Fruits, Iron, Ete Included in Collection. A splendid collection ef the pro- ducts of Itasca county were shipped to the seate fair on Thursday of this -week and Superintendent McGuire of the State Experiment farm unhesi- tatingly pronounces it to be among the best he has ever seen. While the Itasca booth will not be as extensive in size as some other county a $ are apt to he, he s in quality variety it will certainly attract favor- able attention and should merit a place high among the prize winners. For several days past President Sisler of the Itasca County Agricultural association has heen busy gathering suitable material from farmers and gardner’s for shipment, aud his effurts were abundantly rewarded. Any agri- cultural section of this or any other state might feel justly proud vu! the magnificent display that will be ar ranged in the booth by Messrs. McGuire and Sisler, who left yester- day tor that purpose. Superintendent A. J. McGuire of the Northwest Experiment farm bas devoted much attention to its selec- tion and preparation. He and Presi- dent Sisler have been untiring in their efforts to do the county full justice and as a result the exhibit this year will be the best yet sent from here in competition with the counties of the state. The samples of wheat, barley, rye, oats and corn were as fine as any that can be pro- duced in the northwest. Fodder corn grown in this county cannot be ex- celled anywhere, according to the judgment of men who know whereof they speak. A fine selection of it will be on display at Hamlin. The timo- thy sent down was a fine sample. Ten varieties of tame and fifteen varieties of wild grasses will be shown. A sample of second growth clover, 3+ feet high and first year al- falfa, 2 feet high, are among the ate Almost every kind of veg= etables known to this latitude will be displayed under the Itasca county banner. Eight varieties of potatoes, early and late cabbage, celery, squash, beets, mutabagas, ripe tomutoes, sweet corn, etc., will be there in abundance. Twelve varieties of small frnit, including ripe plums, both wild and cultivated. were in- cluded in the shipment. An exhibit from the mines of Itasca county will ! be shown and also finished products of the Itasca paper mill. Superintendent McGuire has ar- ranged an attractive design to place in the booth which is made of ground pines. It is a semi-circle bearing the words, ‘‘Itausca County, Agricul+ ture,” *‘Lumbering,” ‘‘Mining,” and ‘Manufacturing.’ In size it is 12x4 feet. The semi-circle isan oak tree found in the woods by Mr. McGuir It was bent over by a wind fall, evi- dently, and formed the desired ci to perfection. ‘laxidermist Store furnished a mounted deer head, owl and a partridge as a gentle minder that there is some game this vicinity. People from Itasca county who visit the state fair wil! flnd the booth selected by the committee near the south entrance to the agricultural building, [tis No. 7. Every citizen who has an opportunity should call at Itasca county headqnarters. THE M. W. A. HAVE ANNUAL PICNIC Last Sunday morning members of Itasca Camp, M. W. A., and their mothers, wives and sisters, the Royal Neighbors, accompanied by the Grand Rapids band, went to Cohasset where they were joined by other members of the same orders. From that port the party, numbering about one hun- dred and twenty-five, embarked ona barge to which was attached the launches of A. E. Wilder, M. Cala- han and I. D, Rassmussen, and there- after the day was spent on Pokegama lake. Every Woodman and Wood- lady was provided with a basket lunch which was spread for dinner on the lawns at the Chisholm and Shel-~ don summer homes on the west side of the lake. The whole day was most enjoyably spent, the party returning ; to Cohasset at 7 o'clock in the even- jog, spon eye