Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 17, 1906, Page 2

ee re omega Saye gerearee oe pe sc Aesth ne “a Uapids Vor, XII—No, 34 —— + 7 7 AISTOBOAL A “Sociery. erald-Meview. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., SaturRDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1906. Two Douuars A YEAR. Another Great Sale for Money Savers at the $ $ Itasca Mercantile After-Inventory Sale of White i Goods and Remnants. White Petticoats. $1.00 Vaiues—on sale at.........- 1.25 Values—on sale at 1.75 Values—on sale at 0 Values—on sale at. 3.00 Values—on sale at Corset Covers. Made of Nainsook fine Cam- bric; trimmed with Val. lace and ribbon braiding. 35¢ Values 23c Valuer .... 50e Values ..... 29¢ The: Values} ae. fae cate seca 38c » Drawers. Made in fine Cambric, trimmed and ‘embroidery and hemstitching. in lace MaieS ticks seca: cytes 22e 29¢ Bde HOC Valles: 02 a.cniein ois sien etter se ic Values $1.25 Values AAS! ASASLR SAS ASA Commences Saturday, Feb. 10. Night Gowns. Some are lace trimmed; are embroidered. some price. 5 Gowns—Sale 2.50 Gowus—Sale price.. price.. India Linens. Just received—a case of India Linens. These are positively the best bargains you | ever seen, extra fine........ extra fine loe Values, 1246 Value ab lbe Yi 40c al. "Qe Crash. Can you equal’ this— Bleached Roller Crash. . An all linen unbleached C. cheap at 124, on sale at... lde grade, on sale at s grade, on sale at. e grade, on sale ab. The Itasca Mercantile Company. dy au 30¢ synlaes: extra fine, on sale abv. 3200 5 yard Ends Saturday, Feb. 24. Curtain Swiss. Plain, Stripes and Figures at.. 22c Values—on sale at 25¢ Values—on sale 20¢ Values—on sale at.. 123 10¢ Values—on sale at VaJues—on sale at Towels. A large assortment in all linen and _ huck, plain; with borders, and some with fringe. some 10c Towels—on sale at............ Towels—on sale at........... Towels—on sale at...........5 20e $1.00 Towels—on sale at.......... 606 35¢ White Spreads. Standard patterns, $1.25 Values 2.25 3.75 Values 3.25 Values... desirable : in sizes Values... 4 Heater. It’s time, patience and valu- able fuel wasted for nothing. Good Heaters can be had at our hardware store. Prices on that kind commencing 19¢c6 are ex- tremely low. Don’t shiver; keep warm. convinced. 9 Don't Niece 0 Do it by buying a new keater. Do it now, and buy one. . Wd & HD POWERS ; : and be See them SWSVSVSSSVWSSSVSSSISSISVISLVVUSS OS Pioneer MeatMarket | THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fresh and Salt Meats We Carry Only the Best that Can be Had. _. FINNEGA Our Special Brands of CANNED GOODS are the | best offered to the public. ’ Poultry. Game, Etc. Butter. Eggs, Cheese. Leland Avetue, Opposite Postoffice. SISLSLSISOSS SOSLSIFSLSMSLSLSLSLS ISOS LSPS ELS The Palace Restaurant DAVE CHAMBERS, Proprietor, When you can’t get what you waut 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 Feast days: ....... ae DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. LANDS. Farm, Timber and Meadow Lands in Itasca, Aitkin, Crow Wing, Lake, St. Louis. Cook’ and ail northern counties. 1 for free map of Minnesota. with t of lands aud descriptions of Minnesoté. 6 to #15 per acre. Easy terms. Will exchange clear lands for, mortgaged or foreclosed Farms and Lands ptions of your prop- y.. Will pay cash for Pine and Hari- wood timber lands. Want good retail agents in all parts of the northwest. W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bid’g, Minneapolis. Minn. | FOREST RESERVE ¢/ scattering death tu all young trees; j ditions that defy success. serve. Is BUT A FARCE » Hon, A. L. Cole, of Walker, who Ras taken a very active part in all Matters looking to the development Of the state as a whole, and more es- pecially the north half of the state, has been a close observer of the forest reserve movement in Minnesota, and | is well posted on the movement ever” Since its inception, remarks a writer in the Duiuth News-Tribune. Mr, Cole has decided views in the matter and says relative thereto, and the es- tablishment of the park about Cass’ Lake: “I think it 1s surrounded by con- It is tra ersed from end to end by the Great Northera railway. All over the pro- posed reserve are scattered homes and farms. The fires from the en- they pass over the lands, are t certain to break out periodi- and "sweep over the reserve, cally and, more than that, it is menaced by a hostile local sentiment. I think the law creating this reserve was the result of impulse, founded on guess= work or hearsay testimony. ‘The his- tory of that legi ionjis somewhat Wteresving: “Some years ago a well-meaning gentleman from a distant state visited the Leech lake Indian reservation, and soon; thereafter began agitating the questiomof converting the whole reservation-into a national park. He succeeded in interesting the Women’s Federation of Clubs. ‘hese ladies at once got busy. They went to the legislature and obtained a memorial to congress. They went to some of the commercial clubs and got peti- tions which were afterwards scat- tered broadcast throughout the Mis- sissippi valley. All of these docu- ments favored the changing of those 600,000 acres into a national park. What was the evidence gny or all of these en acted upon? Did any one of these gentlemen investigate the question and«convince himself by dis- covered facts that on that reserva- tion is the best place in the state for a national ‘park? «If so, who is the uian an} what are bis reasons? I lave searched diligently for answer to these questions, but as yet nave discovered none. What did congre know about conditions here? So far us I have heen able to learn, every- thing was guesswork and hearsay. When I was last in Minneapolis, while talking on this question with one of the most zealous advocates of the Cass Lake forest reserve, he gave me the sentimental reason that the permanent forest at the headwaters ot the Mississippi should be sacredly preserved. Had he taker a little bit of pains, he would have learned twat the Cy ake forest reserve is not on the M sippi river at all, buton one of the numerous tributaries of the Mississippi. There is altogether too much ignorance surrounding this Important question. “As is usually the case when im- portant steps are taken without first giving them proper investigation and study great mistakes way be made, and needless barm done thereby, Look at the damage done by this hasty and ill-timed action. After congress had, a few years before, passed the so-called Nelson law, pro: viding:for th le of the entire reser- vation, and after the secretary of the | interior, pursuant to that law, had advertised and sold a few forty-acre tracts upon which to build Cass Lake as ($18,000, 1 think, being paid for one | and after many people, bes | lieving that an actof cong had stability, went to work and built up there a beautiful city, with all the modern improvements, investing in the upbuilding of the city all that they had in the world, there came the so-called Morris law amendment es- tablishing a national forest reserve, which bottled up and destroyed them. Besides this, the development of the country has been retarded by remoy- ing from settlement 225,000 acres of good agricultural land. I know that in certain quarters it is claimed that | this land is worthless. The best | answer to that claim is the sturdy farmers, who know what soil is, at the government sale last August, waiting to file on the few sections near Cass Lake which the governs | ment foresters were so good as to leave outside the national ferest re- Every forty was taken and hundreds went away disappointed. “Let us not repeat such follies. e time by the forelock and ate existing conditions before | | it 1s too late. Wm. Weitzel, the well-known taxi dermist, was at Hibbing last week on a business trip. While there he | line. ‘ | TO GIVE PLEASING ENTERTAINMENT The following is the excellent pro- gram prepared by Sunday school chil- dren of St. Joseph’s churca, which will be given in the High school audi- torium Friday evening, February 23. Admission: Adults, 35 cents; chil- dren, 25 cents. No reserved seats. Curtain rises at 8:30, sharp: Opening Chorus—(a) Old-Glory; (b) Labor Song. Piano Duet—Two Juveniles— Madge Sennit and Rosemary Logan. Recitation —“Tne Lion and the Glove.”— ‘e Ave the People.”"—Twenty- tival.”—Grace Florence Piano Solo—‘Spring Song.” — Mae Benton One-act Fare: he Ghost in the Boarding School.”—Margaret McAlpine, Ruby Le- mere, Alta McIntosh, Aura Lothrop, Zita Doran. Tableau—*Home, Sweet Home.”—Mi Boer and Mae Benton, accom pani: EIGHTH DISTRICT FEDERATED CLUBS The delegates of the Eighth dis- trict Woman’s Federated clubs met at the library building in Duluth on Tuesday last, holding both morning and afternoon sessions. While the number of delegates in attendance was not as large as had been antici- pated, the meeting was most helpful, entertaining and in every way memo- rable. The delegates from Grand Rapids were Mrs. J. F. O’Connell and Ellen Mrs. A. B. Clair, from the Woman's club, ef whom the Duluth News- ‘Tribune in the course of its report of the proceedings makes the following mention: “Mrs. O'Connell, of Grand Rapids, was called and gave a short history of the Woman’s club, speaking of its greatest work as the securing of th Carnegie library recently. She said: ‘The greatest trouble which we have found in clab life was that to many women join who are allured by ex+ pected social aspects, giving no con- sideration to the hard work eon- nected with preparing programs and papers. These invariably find fault with the clubs, both inside and out- side, and the blame lies entirely with themselves.’ “At this point the principal diver- sion of the afternoon was presented. Mrs. O'Connell suggested that Mrs. Clair, the other Grand Rapids dele- gate, might be able to add some in- formation, and she was promptly called up. She came to her feet, liter- ally gasping, and made one of the prettiest and most coherent little speeches ever heard in any woman’s meeting. She explained that it was her maiden effort, and that she had defeated a recent proposition for a stereopticon lecture in her own club because she simply felt that she could not stand up and make the announcement of it before the mem- bers. When she found herself on the floor before a hundred Duluth club women she felt like a man who has been pushed into cold water and finds the chill exbilarating. She talked delightfully, and announced her in- tention of going home to make a busi- ness of making speeches, and to spend the rest of her life discouraging timidityin other people. ‘Phe rafters of the club room started with the applause which greeted this boro orator.” DEATH OF JOHN E. BOWDEN, A Well-Know Citizen of Grand Rapids Summoned to Unkuown Beyond. John E. Bowden, an old-time resi- dent of this village, and who for many years followed the business of a blacksmith here, died very suddenly last Saturday evening. He went to visit with a neighbor, and had but | arrived there when he was stricken the end coming ina very few minutes. The funeral was held ou Tuesday from the M. E. church, Rev. Hollis R. Scott: preach ing the sermon, Mr.-Bowden was born in I}invis on August 3, 1884. In 1874 he was mar- ried to Miss Sarah Jones, who, lived but a few years after their union. Later in life, in 1884, he was marrried to Mrs. Jane Elder, who, with three children, survives him, The deceased was a member of Battery H, 2nd Regt. Illinois Light Artillery, and served a considerable length of time in tne civil war. with apoplexy, Don’t forget the ski tournament at | Bovey tomorrow afternoon. shde is reported to be in excellent condition, and the long list of famous jtook several orders for goods in his | runners who will take part ought to | be able to furnish sport worth seeing. The | | EXPERIMENT FARM BULLETINS Bulletin No. 53. SMALL GRAINS. The small grains—wheat, vats, bar- ley and rye—have been grown con- tinuously during the ten years’ work of the Experiment station. Flax, peas and buckwheat have also been grown. This last year, 1905, thirteen va- rieties of wheat were grown: twenty- one varieties of vats and four of bar- ley. These varieties were grown in small plots, the object being to deter- mine the varieties best adapted to this section of the state. This va- riety test has been conducted fora number of years. each year retaining the promising varieties and discard- ing those that are uot adapted. Aside from the variety plots, four acres of wheat were grown; 16.5 acres of vats and 9.5 acres of barley; also 4 acres of rye and 1] acre of peas. The field wheat was University 165, originated at the Central Experiment station at St. Anthony Park, from which the seed was secured. The yield was 18 bushels per acre, grain of good quality. This yield is con— sidered goud, as the season was very Unfavorable. The varieties were sown cn rather low ground, and largely drowned out. Enough seed, however, was.secured to continue the test. The yield of wheat for the past eight years has been 17 bushels per acre. The field oats in 1905 yielded 38.5 bushels per acre. The seed was Improved Ligowo, a variety found te be the best adapted to this part of the state. In the variety test the average yield was 39.2 bashels per acre; the highest being 51 bushels and the low- est 23.7 bushels. vorable season the varieties averaged 81 bushels. The average yield of bushels. ‘The field barley was on low ground drowned out. variety test, more favorably located, the best yield was 36,bushels; the average 30.6 bushéls. Of .the twenty varieties tested during.bhe pasty eight years, the variety Maasbury » has proven the most satisfaetory. Thig variety is now used: exelusively. for tiela use. A fleld of 4 acres was sown to win- ter rye. This was pastured with: twenty-six sheep from May 1 to June 1. A partof the,field, 1.8 acres, was not pastured afver.this date and was allowed to mature... This yielded 16 unshels per acre... Winter rye has never failed to live through the win-. ter, and when nob pagtured _ hax yielded as high as 30 bushels per acre: It is recommenaed for very sandy soil, where other grain would be more uncertain. It is also useful for early, spring pasture for sheep or hogs, but not for dairy cows, owing to in im- parting a disagreeable flavor to the milk. The growing of field peas is still in an experimental stage. Thus far the yield has been comparatively light. ‘The vines make splendid growth, but fill lightly. The yield for the past year was 9.8 bushels per acre. Ex- periments will be conducted more extensively in the future with the field pea, owing to its value as a feed for fattening hogs. It may be said that all of the small grains can be grown most success- fully in this section of the state. Tbe climate is favorable, but the yield, as elsewhere, will depend largely upon the fertility of the soil, the thoroughness of cultivation and the quality of the seed. A. SEEKING. FOR A LONG-LOST SISTER “Good news awaits Kittie Mary Drury, or Kilkowsky, and Victor Kilkowsky,” is the opening statement of a letter received by Marshal Jésse Harry the other day from Edwin W. Drury, of Watseka, Ill. The writer states that the woman, who 1s his Sister, was adopted by Kilkowsky ; from the Home for the Friendless at Chicago in 1@84and she may have, as- sumed the name of her foster parent. Drury says that he has not seen his seer since the time she was taken ftom the home, but is of the opinion that she with her father through adoption afterwards located some- | where jc Minnesota. Owing to the request embodied in the letter that every step possible be | taken to lovate the Parties, the au- thorities are of the opinion that the settling of a valuable estate is de- pending on the outcome of the search. McGuire. INTENTIONAL DUPLICATE EXPOSURE In 1904, a more fas » 67 bushels per acre, the highest being - oats for eight years has been 40,5... d and one-half the crop was mostly:y One field .of 4 acres-~ yielded 19.8 bushels per aere... In, thew rele