Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 25, 1905, Page 1

Vou XIII.—No, 22 | : - <Granp Rapips, Irasca County, iN., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1905. Two Dotxars A YEAR. | “Walk-Over” Shes. WALKOVER are the foremost in style and gen- eral all round reliability. ‘They hold their shape and give good comfort and wear well. We have a great variety of styles so that you can be suited for walking, for dress or for business wear. They appear well upon the feet because Military and other heels, and all kinds of leather used a last is made for every foot. in modern shoe making that has proven reliable. The Waik-Over Shoe has been put to every test. Its fame has been won by performance in actual service, and complete satisfaction can be assured everyone who purchases a pair of this well- known make. We recommend for the ladies for dress | Our gentlemen’s shoe for business: or a VESPER last in Patent 7 street wear is of Vici Calf Kid with a neat matt top or Box Calf, comfortable~ and medium sole, military $4.00 Pennsy tast, heavy double 3-50 REG], Abid cea hab ees cee sole and costing but......... For street wear, the same last ex- | For dress we have a similar shoe cept in a Vici Calf, with only lighter sole and Pat- medium heavy sole and A ent Colt, that is exceedingly O Blucher cut, that sell 3 “50 comfortable as weil as neat 4-0 cove Pee epee te ee ork The manufacturers of shoes have had to increase their prices owing to the leather trust—but as our line was purchased before the advance, the Walk-Over price and quality are unchanged. ust try ona pair, You will like them. ‘Itasca Mercantile Co. The Palace Restaurant DAVE CHAMBERS, Proprietor, Don’t Be Stuck on Carving Such ‘a nice looking turkey deserves being cut up right. Get your Thanksgiving Carving Hnife When you can’t get what you want to eat at Dave Chambers’ “Palace Res- taurant” it’s because the markets don’t keep it. TheSunday Dinner now. Get it from us. We have the best ones made and it’s a pride the family turkey always takes in being cnt up by our knives. Our kmives are new, keen edged, handsome to look at, and cheaper than you can buy their duplicates anywhere else, Try them. WJ& HD POWERS Is always prepared with the idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good things at home on Feastdays...... tee DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. SSS: Pioneer Meat Market THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fresh and Salt Meats We Carry Only the Best that Can be Had. Our Special Brands of CANNED GOODS are the best offered to the public. Poultry. Game, Etc. ; Butter. Eggs, Cheese. THOS. FINNEGAN “3 Aveo, oo. i Farm, Timber, and Meadow Lands in Itasca, Aitkin, Cass. Crow Wing, Lake, St, Louis, Cook and-wil northern counties. Send for free map of Minnesota, with full list of lands and descriptions of northern Minnesota. Prices—$6 to 815 per acre. Easy terms, 6 per cent. Will exchange cleqr lands for mortgaged or foreclosed Farms and Lands Send in full descriptions of your prop- erty. Will pay. ceah for Pine ana Hard ret . Want agents in all parts of the northwest. W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bla’g, Minneapolis, Minn, ARDNER WILL BE _ GIVEN ANOTHER CHANUE INSTITUTE BEING HELD TODAY Prof. Thomas Shaw, T. A. Hayerstad, 0. C. Craig and A. J. McGuire Will Give Instructions to Farmers of Itasca County Today Joseph H. Gardner, now serving a life sentence in the state penitenti- ary at Stillwater for killing William Garrison, has been granted a new trial by the supreme court. This news was received yesterday by Hon. C.C. McCarthy, attorney for Gard- ner. The application for a new trial was presented by Mr. McCarthy of Grand Rapids and Judge Steele of Superior. Ccunty Attorney Spear opposed the granting of a new trial in behalf of the state. It is not expect- ed that the retrial will come up at the ne#t term of court, but an applie cation for bonds will be made. The offense for which Gardner is now pay- ing the penalty was committed on July 8, 1904, io the north central part of the county. The case was'tried and a verdict rendered of guilty of mur- der in the second degree on Decem- ber 23, 1904. Gardner was well known throughout Itasca and St, Louis counties and in Superior, where he had lived a number of years. He has friends wherever he is known who have believed his contention that the shooting was done in self-defense. This friendship and belief in his in- nocense has shown itself ina very substantial manner by the raising of funds for his defense and to pay the large expense that an appeal to the supreme court has already incurred. THE FARMER'S INSTITUTE. The farmers of this vicinity will have’ an cpportunity today and this {evening to hear some valuable talks on agricultural topiés. 1t is to be '{}hoped that*the distinguished genele- men who will talk farm and. kindred subjects in Grand Rapids today for the first time will be greeted by large audiences. Prof. Thomas Shaw of St. Paul, for many years with the agricultural department of the state university, will deliver one of his masterly lectures at the morning ses- sion and again this evening. Prof O. C. Craig, in charge of the institute work of the state, will be here this afternoon and evening. The instute work for this section is under the personal direction of Mr. T. A. Hov- erstad, who will be une of the in- structors. Mr. A. J. McGuire, in charge of Northeast Experiment, sta- tion at Grand Rapids will be one of the speakers. STUMPAGE SALE NEXT MONDAY The sale of state stumpage in Itas- ca county will be held on Mondey next’at the court hous in Grand Rap- ids by State Auditor Iverson. The list to be offered has been published in a local paper a couple of weeks. 1t includes timber of all kinds on state lands that is deemed liable to waste, The timber has bean appraised by state cruisers and will be sold for _| spot cash. IRON FOUND AT WILLOW LAKE It is reported on what appears to be authentic sources that a big find of ore has been made by the Cole & McDonald drills now working on sec- tion 15, town 142, range 25. The ore has already been penetrated. The line, southwest of Grand Rapids about ten miles. A Rare Musical Treat, The Arnel Ladies’ quartette ap- peared at Village hall last evening and Everyone present was highly grati- next attraction will be Rev. Father Cleary, of Minneapolis, on Dec. 12. o'clock and” closed all day Thanks- giving. : drills started there about two weeks ago and it 1s said that a large body of land is in Cass county, just across the were greeted by .a large audience. fied with the rendition of the splendid program. ‘This was the second of the series of entertainments being given by the Iggal lyceum bureau. The Gene Neveux’ barber shop will be open Wednesday evening until 10 3 GRANTED A NEW TRIAL /@>VBB7z80N The péople of Aitkin have been alive to the value of advertising their agricultural resources fur a number of years and as a consequence they have attained remarkable re- sults. <A thrifty class of farmers have been brought into the county and every industry has been benefitted to a very. substantial degree. Itasca county is far behind Aitkin in this respect. We are overlooking many opportunities that should be taken advantage of. Next April a big state land sale will be held in Grand Rap- ids. Some -valuable advertising of this coming sale might be made through the Commercial club. | Sim- ilar organizations in other communi- ties have already given consideration to the spring sales. The Commercial club might also take up an advertis- ing proposition in cooperation with Duluth. The attention of Grand Rapids business men is called to the following, taken from the Aitkin Age: “An advertising proposition to attract settlers was laid before the Commercial club by Geo, H. Crosby, representing the Duluth Commercial club, on Friday evening of last week, and its features seemed to appeal to those fpresent. Ib is proposed to quip a car showing prodncts of these northern counties, togejher with pic- tures and literature setting forth the advantages, etc., and by joining with the other counties, the cost to us would not exceed $300. The car is to exhibit in Wisconsin, Lilinois, Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota. SUPERIOR 11 GRAND RAPIDS 0. The following report of the Supe- rior-Grand Rapids football game is taken from the Superior departmen: o{ the News Tribune. It shows that the visitors left Grand Rapids with a very good opinion of the local players: The Superior city football team went to Grand Rapids yesterday afternoon and after a hard struggle, which, as a football match, was all that the spectators could have asked, and assisted by disastrous fumbles on the part of the opponents, succeeded in wrenching victory away from the Grand Rapids team™ by a score of 11 to 0. Grand Rapids held Superior for downs’ on the third-vard line in two fumbles which lust the game. Grand Rapids played all around Superior but lacked in team practice, which accounts for the fumbles. The star playing of Patterson of Superior was afeature. It was a good clean game all around. Superior had hard inter- ference to break which resulted ina long gain in the first half. Neither side scored in this half. McGowan of Superior, admitted that Grand Rapids is the hardest team Superior has gone up against this season, The ball was on Supe- rior territory nearly all the time and only for the fumbles and if some of the regular players had been in the game, it would have been a victory for Grand Rapids. The only one hurt was Stev Reitze of Superior who had his ankle sprain- ed. Ihe Grand Rapids back field was crippled before the game. Mc- Gowan was thé backbone of the Supe- rior team. Hughes of Superior, also played good ball. The Grand Rapids men feel sure that with their regular players they would have won the game or tied the score. Victor Ro- mans, star university player, who played with Grand Rapias, was a man that could not be held back but broke through the defense time and time again, carrying the ball. Dur- ing the first half, the game seemed an easy victory for Grand Rapids, but in the second half Superior got the game on Grand Rapids’ fumbles. SHOT A BEAR AND A MOOSE Last Saturday Date Maturen came to town with a fine black bear that had been killed by State Treasurer Block up in the north woods about fifty miles from Grand Rapids. Mr. Maturen reported that the Herculean keeper of the state’s waumpum also had a big moose hung up. Besides Mr, Block there are in the party Messrs. ‘[. S. Powers of Grand Rapids, George Hall of St. Paul and ©, M, Grum of Iowa. Postponed. The announcement made on an- other page relative to the public en- fertainment to be given by the Odd Fellows has been postponed to Wed- nesday evening, December 6. Experiment farm at Grand Rapids. Mr. Chapman is now connected with | BIRCH FOR R. R. TIES | NORTHERN MINNESOTA FARMERS GIVEN SOME VALUABLE POINTERS GOOD PRICES FOR BIRCH H WChapman, Former Supt. of North- east Experiment Farm, Gives Some Valuable Information Thro Farm Student’s Review Some time ago the Herald-Review made brief mention of the investiga- tions being made through this section of the state by Mr, H. H. Chapman, former superintendent of the State the forestry bureau at Washington. He was assigned to the investigation of the visible supply of material suit- able for railroad ties. In the last issue of the Farm Student’s Review he gives his views in the following article: Northern Minnesota produces about five million ties per pear, most of which comes frum St. Louis, Itasca and Beltrami counties. Oak ties, formerly abundant, have, in spite of a good price, fallen off until they supply less than one-tenth of this total. Tamarack and white cedar make up the balance. Many tiesare shipped west, even to Montana, and south into Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. There would be ties enough to last ten or fifteen years even at the present rate of consump=- tion were all the tamarack made into ties. But cedar has, for some time, been made valuable in the form of poles, and is only made into ties when too crooked for poles, or by firms that find it more convenient to make ties than poles, on account of the simpli- city of the marketing and handling and the ease of driving out ties. Tamarack was not valued as lum- ber until within the past two years’ Now, however, its great strength and hardness have been recognized and it brings prices in the form of planking and dimension far in excess of those received for ties. : It is self-evident that over half of the available tie supply will therefore never-be made into ties. The rail- roads will either have to raise the price of tamarack ties or use some- thing else, within the next three or four years. As a consequence of the prospective shortage and increased price of tama- rack, the railroads will probably adoptin the near future the practice of preserving or treating the ties. Two materials are commonly used: creosote, or oil of coal tar, and zinc chloride. The creosote is more ex- pensive, but lasts longer. The cost of buying and treating ties is less in the long run on account of the great- erlifeof the tie, than to buy ties to replace the old ones as they rot out. If a tie costs fifty cents and can be treated for twenty- five cents and will then last ten years it is cheaper than to buy two ties at five year intervals, each costing fifty cents. Butif you could buy the tie for twenty-five cents it would be cheaper to wait and buy another than to treat the first one. Hence the higher priced the tie the greater reason for tieating it. The adoption of treating will make possible the use of some other woods whose chief drawback is the lack of durability. White birch rots quickly but will take treatment easily and when treated will last almost as long as tamarack, There are great quan- tities of birch in some sections of Minnesota, must of which. is either burned and destroyed or cut into cordwood. The probability is that if this birch is protected from fire it will be sought for railroad ties inside of five years. Farmers and settlers in northern Minnesota should take particular care to clear first such parts of their farms as have no valu- able timber on them, and never ta ruthlessly destroy timber of any kind simply because it seems t0 have na value at present. There is hardly a species of timber big enough to fvr+ nish some body-wood, that will not — increase in value fast enough to make 1t far more profitable to hold it than to cut it for starvation wages. Married in Minneapoiis. A license to marry was issued last Monday by Clerk of Court Rass- mussen to Milton J. Baker of Deer River and Mrs. Mary Mannion of Graud Rapids. The marriage cere- mony is reported to have taken place mn Minneapolis on Thursday of this week. The Herald-Review extends congratulations, : aR a