Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 1

Vout XIII.—No, 28 Granp Rapips, Irasca Coun saving reduction to you and ¢ the best values go first, as you can easily see i PAL NAS PAS PAGS PAL ANG PASS Wn Pn nn en nor rs ba f As fOr to make it easier to dispose of. ye you the benefit to induce a liberal purchase, Cloaks and Skirts, Furs and Woolens, Winter Dress Goods, You can buy the material for lars less than the usual price for the goods, Watch You do yourself an injustice if you fail to attend our January Clearance Sales Every piece of goods bought for the winter’s business has been cut in price Just think what this means to you—three months yet of cold weather to use these goods, and every article being sold at a money- We have to clean out for spring goods soon coming in— Some of the lines are now very able selection is thus assured, You know, of course, that heavy and a good desir- Winter Underwear, Men’s Furnishings, Ladies’ Novelties, taple Merchandise of All Kinds. imper?aah Page a you Window. our Show dress or skirt now at from two to five dol- The same is true of many other articles ior Health’s Sake sur department “must be properly equipped culinary with sanitary cooking uten- sils. Enameled Tea Kettles and Sauce Pans 3 are the best and cheapest in the end. ‘They wear longer and are the only pertect ves- sels for cooking purposes. We have a large stock of them just opened up. Wd & AD POWERS Prices are reason— able, as they are on everything else we sell. Call and look them over. su THOS. FINNEGA ioneer Meat Market THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. resh 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. Leland Avenue, Opposite Postoffice. The Palace! Restaurant DAVE CHAMBERS, Proprietor. 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. The Sunday Dinner Is always prepared with the idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good things at home on Meastdaye.s3 2.0. os eS DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. LANDS. Psa Timber and Meadow Lands in Aitkin, Cass. Crow Wing, Lake, ‘is, Cook and all northern counties. Sond for free map of Minnesota. with full list of lands aud descriptions of northern Minnesota. Prices—% to #15 peracre. Easy terms. 6 per cent. Will exchange clear lands for mortgaged or foreclosed Farms and Lands Send in full descriptions of your as erty. pan! pay cash for Pine and wood timber lands. Want good retwil agents in all parts of the northwest. W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bid’g, Minneapolis. Minn, J} county attorney probably hoped to | jmade public that SATURDAY January 6, 19 | COMMISSIONERS. MEET| ;{AND ORGANIZE BY ELECTING _ SRANK-S, LANG AS CHAIRMAN. PASSARD “IS : VICE-CHAIRMAN AppOititments Ate Made and Salaries Fixed—The Board Generously Dis- tributes Printing Three Ways. Adjourned to February 20. ‘he board of county. commissioners of Itasca county beld their first an- nual meeting‘ for the year 1906 on Tuesday of this week in the school superintennent’s office. Commissioner Tone was present from District No. 1, Lang from No. 2,O*Brien from No. 3, Passard fronr’No. 4;-and Mullins from the 5th. ‘Lhe first business to come up was the election of a chairman for ‘the ensuing year and’ the honor was unanimously accorded to Commis- sioner Lang. the member from the north end of the county. The selec- tion was a wise one as to ability and fitrress. Mr. Lang’s*several years’ ex- perience-on the board has admirably equipped him for the position. The retiring chairman, James Pas- sard, has discharged the duties of that important offiee to the satisfac- tion of his colleagues and the public. He was elected vice-chairman to serve during the present year. After organizing the board took up the matter of salaries of county of- ficeys. ~The salaries of the’ county physician and chairman of the board of health were fixed at $40° per month; sch90) superintendent, $800 per year; county attorney, $1,500 per year; judge of probate, $825 per years the treas- urez’s.com pensation was estinrated on the per cent basis, as prescribed by law,’ at $2,500 per year; ‘he’ court house and jail janitor wil! be paid $6C er month. — i). Dhouas Russell “wus “reap- boil county physician and Dr. J. Genfon chairman cf the board of healch. James A. Quigg was appointed as- sessor for the unorganized portion of the county. Charles Huss was reappointed jani- tor for the court house and jail. When the matter of the county printing was brought up there were several bids presented. The commis- sioners seemed inclined to divide the printing so far as possible, and ac- cepted bids as follows: ‘The Herald- Review was designated as the paper in which shall be published the finan- cial statement; the Magnet will pub- lish the official journal of the board and other notices, and the Border Budget and Press of International Falls will each publish the tax list. Auditor Spang was authorized to procure alist of blanks, books, sta- tionery and supplies from the several county officers of their respective estimated requirements for the ensu- ing year and to get bids for supplying the same from manufacturers and printers. In response to the advertisement one bid was submitted for the build- ing of a county road from Swan River station east to the St. Louis county line, a distance of sbout six miles, from W. A. Baune of Floods wood. The bid was very complete and concise, but the board did not feel justified at this time in letting the contract at the figures nanied and the bid was rejected as being too high. Peter Spina was granted a license to sell intoxicating liquors at the St. Paul mine location, section 24, town 57-22. The license will .date from January 1. County Surveyor Brown was au- thorized to lay out aroad from the north side of Feely township along the east side of Trout lake to Bovey, following the old road. This action is taken to straighten out the diffi- culties that have sc long made trouble among the residents of Trout lake tewnsbip. Seven hundred dollars was trans- ferred from the county revenue fuud to the “secret service” fund-of the county attorney. A like sum was set aside for use of the county attorney last year, but he used very little of it, preferring to send his expense ac- counts directly to the board for al- lowance. In this manner the shrewd Math eae to the tax payers that he had operated very economically. But ‘when the Spear ‘expense account is taxpavers will find a most extravagant luxury, and that the $700 put into aj contingent fund for his use would make up but a very small amount of he sum expended through his vin- dictive operations: The express and postage account was provided with a contingent fund of $150. Townships 68-27 and 157-25 were or- ganized as a_ civil township and named Lindford. Two hundred cords of wood are wanted at the court house. Buds will be advertised for. Bids are wanted for the comple- tion of the Romans read around Black’s arm on Pokegama lake. A hundred dollars was appropriated for the repair of a bridge in Manitou township. Auditor Spang was authorized to prepare a complete record of cuunty roads, A resolution was adopted making the filing of bills against the county obligatory on claimants at least three days prior to any special or regular meeting. Parties having claims against the county will do well to bear this requirement in mind, Heretofore it has been the habit of many persons to bring in their bills the day of the meeting and in some cases while the board was in sesslon, thus making it impossible to properly quae the accounts before passing on them. An adjournment was taken to February 20. $40,000 SCHOOL BUILDING The rapid increase in the popula- tion of Bevey makes greater school facilities immediately necessary. The permanency of the village 1s assured beyond any doubt. It will soon be one of the most important mining towns in northern Minnesota. It’s growth in population and wealth in assessed valuation will at once devel- op so rapidly that public improve- ments of all kinds will have to keep up arapid pace to meet the increased requirements. Bovey is still a part of school district No. 2, of which La. prairie is a portion, The officials of the district are residents of the latter place and Bovey, the richest township in the county; as “nd representation, ‘The board has been considering the advisability of erecting additional school room at the new mining town and now has the project under con- sideration. A building to cast $40,- ooo is being planned, ‘There are many residents of Bovey, however, who do not take kindly to the idea of submitting the management of their big school fund to outsiders and are advocating the organization of an independent district that will com- prise but the one township of Iron Range. The present assessed valua- tion .of the township is $777,952. Should the district be bonded for $40,000 or $50,000 for a school building the township of Iron Range, in which Bovey is located, would have to pay the bill, all but a small fraction, and why not adopt the home rule plan, is the argument being ad- vanced by citizens of the village. They point out that to organize an independent district it 1s only neces- sary to make application to the county board at the next meeting and it wiil be granted. This action will cause no trouble or expense. ‘These _ protest- ing citizens feel that they are better able to decide what they need and should have than are men who. reside in another town. ‘They desire, too, to have the selection of teachers within the control of a resident board. When matters relating to school affairs are to be considered the people do not feel that they should be required to dispatch word to officials residing in another village to come and adjust them. The argument seems to be all in favor of the contention of the Boveyites. The Woman’s Club, The Woman’s club will begin work again on Tuesday evening next, Jan. 9, 06. The study for the month will be on Japan or the lecture 1, volume 3, of Stoddard. The month’s rk will be in charge of the Misses L. ran and Boehr and Mrs. Clair. An in- teresting time is anticipated and it is hoped that all members will be present at every meeting. On Tues- day evening the meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Ciair. Roll call is to be answered with quota- tions about Japan or from Japanese writers; failing to find such, a cur- rent event may be given. The Land of Gold. If you want to learnabout the op- portunities to make money in Alaska in mining, stock-raising, farming. logging, or in the different vocations, eugiveering, surveying, mechanics, teaching, book keeping, printing, photography, - if you wi to great coming cr Ural subse ‘Transcript, capitol and That paper of charge f -y send $2.00 for a ption. to; the Weekly lished at Juneau, zal esi tres ares rites estions DEFECTIVE PAGE ting, contracting— an about that REPORT OF THE CENSUS BUREAU SHOWS PHENOMENAL INCREASE. .- ITASCA LEADS ALL OTHERS — ‘ Growth In Population of the State Ac- -_ credited Almost Entirely to North- - ern Counties—The Report Is a Splendid Advertisement. The decennial census of Minnesota: ~ just issued in advance sheets by Sec retary of State Hansen has been received by the Herald-Review. Under the heading ‘‘Counties That -Have Increased,” the report says of: Itasca: The list of counties showing an. in- crease under classified heads, with percentage of increase from 1895 to 1900 and from 1900 to 1905 shows some. very should be remembered that the per- interesting facts, though it.» , centages of growth of the northern = counties, many of which only started. their development but a. few years .- ago are misleading to those unace -- quainted with the settlement of that part of the state. The counties showing 100 per cent imerease and i over in the last tem- years are-all J northern counties. which for the most. : . part have been thewaetive field of operations for.athe lambermen and loggers who are leaving the cut over lands to the new settler. ‘The rail- road developments iv. that part of the state have opened up many avenues for the settler and the townsite pro- moter has been busy dotting the map of that part of the state with many new and thriving villages and cities in the last decade. ‘The develop- ment of that part of the state has been phenomenal, and yet most of northern Minnesota js in its iofancy as regards actual settlement. In Itasca county the present census shows returns from thirty-six organized and nearly 100 unorganized townships as against nine organized and sixty-two.unorganized ten years ago. Thelist,of villages in this county. also shows a remarkable growth. in. settlement. Itasca county has nearly,6,000 square miles | the . northern boundary of Aitkin county, | of territory and reaches from a distance of 100. miles to the Can- adian boundady line. In 1890 the county had less than 800 inhabitants, The record of. growth from 1890 to 1900 can easily be understood; as the . county has practically made all its development in the last few years. During the past ten years it has gained iu population nearly 200 per cent and the last tive years made a growth of over 150 per cent. In every:county of northern Minresota census returns show plainly the foot prints of the new settler. Itasca county’s increase during the. past five years is 6,956. Beltrami and / Clearwater, counties are reported as . one showing a combined increase - during the same period of 9,521: St. Louis county, outside the city of Du- i eased during the past five Thus it will be seen tbat the increase of this county has _ been greater than that. of any other northern. county except St. Louis. As compared with Aitkin county dur- ing the same period the increase .of Ivasca bas been 150 per cent, whe. thatof Aitkin was 41 percent. Dur- ing the past five years the popula- tion of the village of Grand Rapids has increased nearly 100 per cent. A Printer Farmer. J. H. Johnson, who is the sole pro- prietor of a Deer Lake farm, accom- panied by his son, A.. M., were. visitors to Grand Rapids Thursday.. For well nigh unto forty years Mr. Johnson made a living by doing things in the mechanical depart- ments of print shops—he is a printer. by trade. Having amassed a fortune | by picking up types he concluded to, retire with his family to the shores, of Deer lake and enjoy his declining years in luxurous leasure. Since coming to this’ section several years, ago he has actually grown younger in appearanse and be says if it were not contrary to the inexorable rule of. arithmetic he would actually believe. he had grown younger in years. Of course, like all printers, Johnson keeps busy at something all the time. In the summer he farms and in the winter he logs. During his logging operations he built a road. Now it appears that another man is doing some logging in the Johnson neigh- borhood and has taken lete- possession of the aforesaid 20a)” 4a the exclusion of everybody else. This Mr. Jobnson does not~ propose. stand ee andin order to town | t f \ | | | , | - | an | }