Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 24, 1906, Page 1

Grand Uapids ; Vor, XIIL—No, 35 erald-Heview. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1906. Two Dotiars A YEAR. Merchandise, years has been something unprecedented. yourself why it is. It Is Obvious:— the reasons to you more forcibly than we can the same time give better values. Dress Goods. Wash Goods. Muslin Underwear. Baby Bonnets. best line ever seen in Grand Rapids. and prices, The Store of Quality. Prices Lower than Elsewhere for the Same Quality of Goods. Itasca Mercantile Co. OF GRAND RAPIDS Is known everywhere as one of Itasca’s leaders in the way of The prominence gained during the past few You have un- ; doubtedly watchéd this phenomenal growth—and have asked Our display of SPRING GOODS next week will suggest tell them. It is due to our policy of showing a superior grade of Mer- chandise—styles that? are different, more exclusive, and at Ladées’ Coats, Skirts, Shirt Waists, Neckwear, Hosiery, All-over. Laces and Embrotderies to match. White Goods for Easter. Lace Curtains—the largest and We extend to all a cordial invitation to inspect these goods You have many opportunities for critical in- spection. {We await your, decision with «much pleasure. The Itasca Mercantile Company. % Don’t Monkey ——.j.- 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 1906 are ex- tremely low. Don’t shiver; keep warm. Do it by buyiog a new keater. convinced. Do it now, and buy one. WJ& HD POWERS See them and be Pioneer Meat Market THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. : Fresh and Salt Meats We Carry Onty 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 Avetue, 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 Feastdays........ ake DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. LANDS. Farm, Timber and Meadow Lands in Ttuscu, Aitkin, Cass. Crow Wing, Lake, St, Louis, Cook and ail northern counties. Send for free map of Minnesota. ‘with fall list of lands and descriptions of northern Minnesota. Prices—86 to #15 per acre. Easy terms. 6 per cent. Wall exchange clear lands for mortgaged or foreclosed Farms and Lands Send in full descriptions of your pro} erty. Will pay cash for Pine tna Hard- wood timber lands. Want good retail | agents in all parts of the northwest. W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bid’g, Minneapolis, Minn, EXPERIMENT FARM BULLETINS 4 Bulletin No. 54. ROOTS AS A FEED FOR LIVE STOCK. In producing cheap feed fur the wintering of liye stuck there is an- other very important. crop aside from fodder-corn. This is the root crop. The importance of this:crop is very far indeed from being appreciated to its full extent, and especially in this Section of the state where grain feed is so expensive. From 12 to 20 tons of roots can be grown on an acre cf ground and at a cost not exceeding $10, including the plowing of the ground, seed, cultivation of the crop, harvesting and getting them in the cellar. Twelve tons of routs, which is only a yery ordinary yield, and which may be produced at the aboye stated expense, is equal in feeding yalue to either three. tons of bran or shorts for dairy cows, pigs or sheep. The cost of the latter feed at the present time is over five titaes the expense of producing the roots, In 1904 two acres of roots (one of rutabagas and one of mangles) were grown on the Experiment farm, The tutabagas yiclded at the rate of 13 tons per acre, and the mangles 12.5 per acre. A small plot of mangles tear'the barnyard, on very,rich soil, yielded at the rate of 24 tons per acre. The field roots were on soil rather low in fertility. A rich soil is necessary for a very large yield, and a sandy loan), moresfavorable than ¢lay soil, During the winter the mangles were fed to the dairy cows, the ruta bagas to steers, young stock and iSheep, all giving very satisfactory re- sults, | Zn 1905 an experiment was con- ducted with different kinds of roots— Putabagas, mang'es, stuck carrots and Sugar beets being planted in separate plots in the same field. At planting time, June 1, the ground was very wet, and both the seed of the sugar eels and mangles were drowned out, roducing no crop, The rutabagas ad stock carrots came on and pro- uced a good crop, the. stock carrots yielding at the rate of-16 tons, per acre agdithe rutabags 14 tons. . “From this experiment conclusions are(drawn that the stock carrot éhould be sown in preference to man- igies, owing tu its greater hardiness. In yield and feeding value it is equal to the mangle, its feeding value, per- baps, being a little higher. For dairy cows either the stock carrot or man- gle should be grown. Rutabagas are all right for young stock or sheep, but when fed to dairy cows they tend to impart a disagreeable flavor to the milk. Rutabagas make splendid feed for hogs when boiled, but not raw. Mangles may be fed to hugs raw with very good results, Avimals fed roots are always ina healthier and better condition. With roots there is no need of expensive stuck foods. Rvuots are a valuable feed, both 1n milk and meat produc- tion, No farmer should thing of get- ting along without roots for his stock, especially in this section of the state. Plao on making a start at least next spring. The best system of growing roots will be taken up in another bulletin before the planting season. A. J. McGuire. MORE LAND FOR HOME SEEKERS The last of the towns in the Big Fork-country, in Itasca county, near the Canadian border, will be opened for homestead settlement some time in April. The plat of town 68 north, range 23 west, was received from Washington at the Duluth land office Tuesday of this week, and it is ex- pected notification of the exact time of openiag will be had shortly. The township is already alive with “squatters,” many of whom have been cuiltiyating farms there for years. ‘The Rat Root river, a tribu- tary of the Rainy river, flows through the center of the town. Most of the filings, 1t is expected, will be made at. International Falls before the Dhited States land commissioner. With the opening of the new town the state gets 5,600 acres of swamp land and two sections (1,280 acres) of land fer school purposes. Accom- ' panying the plat is the fullowing gen- éral description by N. Y. Taylor, deputy surveyor: This township is very heavily tim- bered, there being ov place except ‘along the river or on a clearing where |a person can run over three or four ‘chains on the level. The land is nearly all level with the exception of a few stony ledges which are scat- tered through the town. The soll ranges from rate agricultural to rocks, good soil is a thin a tos | sandy loam. with vegetable deposit over clay subsoil. ‘The good land ex- tends aloag the Rat Root river and its tributaries, Sections 13. 14, 15, 238, 24, 34. and 35, also part of sections 19 and 20, are exceptionally good for that part of the country. Butino the swamps the soil is very sandy. The township is partiy drained by the Kat Root river, which runs through the town, and by the many dry creeks it is seen that the water runs off rap- idly; also there is a good fall between the swamps and the river, so that the former could be easily drained, IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD ROADS Organize good roads clubs. Get every association of .business men, farmers, every newspaper, to push along the good roads ‘movement. There are few things more important to the people of agricultural com- munities and rural towns than the good roads proposition, says an ex- change. It is something that every good citizen should be interested in. It is a question of the greatest ele- ments of economy. Good roads throughout the farming districts of the country mean millions upen mil- lions of dollars yearly saved to the farmers. They mean millions more in benefit to the rural towns. Every citizen should appoint himself a com- mittee of one to work-for the end to be attained by the co-operation of the national with state governments in the road improvement matter: a Don’t be afraid to write to your member of congress, individually and collectively, and urge his support of the proposed measure for govern- mental appropriaticn for the needed improvement. Talk good “roads to your neighbor, join the people of your town in booming local improvement and urge your representatives in the state legislature to give support to any legistation that bas for its aim better roads for the farmingdistriets. | The Wages of Sin. Jobn A.” McCall, former president of the New York Life Losurance com: pany and a leading tigure in the life lnsurence scandals ef the» past. six months, is dead. His death is due, at least ia part, to the effects of the exposure that re- sulted in his resiguation and retire- ment. While undoubtedly the seeds of the disease from which he died were planted before the life insurance hearings, it 1s equally certain that his collapse was due to the mental and physical strain involved in his participation in the investigation. While the pathetic fact of his death cannot change in the slightest degree any fact brought out by the investi- gating committee, nor can it remove from him the stain of guilt or the ree sponsibility for conditions which he admitted himself responsible for, at the same time the fact that he has paid for his errors with his life can- not fail to soften public feeling toward him. Also, it must be remem- bered that he made every effort pus- sible, when he had admitted that mistakes had been made, to restore to the company funds which had been improperly removed by his authority. Yet what a significant lesson this sad ending of a busy life teaches! Had he appreciated at an earlier date the real nature of his duties as the responsible head of agreat trust fund, he would certainly be living today, honored and respected. His oppor- tunities were large and noble. Had he thought of it sooner he might have made himself, in his capacity of presi- deni, an invaluable servant of the people. Instead, since that was the manner of doing things then in vogue, he made himself a part of the corrupt and evil ring of “high finance,” and the result was dishonor, disgrace and death. Had he found it the custom to serve the policyholders faithfully, instead of Wall street, his end would have been vastly different. In a measure be was the victim of his eu- vironments, and his greatest fault was a lack of initiative in failing to resist this influence. Since he has gone beyond the reach of human judgment, which had con- demned him and hounded him with- out mercy, whether rightly or not, it is no longer fitting that he should be harshly and bitterly criticized. Yet for the sake of those who may profit by his fate, and turn away from evil paths while the lamp holds out to burn, it is proper, too, that the pathos of his death should not be per- mitted to obscure the cavse and the manner of it. He has paid the pen- alty, but if his example is potent enough to influence others still under the spell of the evil tendencies that were his undoing and to bring to thetr understanding the eternal truth that, there is no peace in sin, John A. Mee Cali will not have lved—and died— in’ vain.— Duluth Evening Herald, | SCRUTINY OF THE LIST In the American way of doing things, candidates are presented to the choice of the people by political parties, says the St. Paul News. The troublesome independent move- ment is exceptional. The usual and convenient way is through party ma- chinery. And by indifference of the mass of voters the preliminary choice is com- monly left toa small number of men who are active in party affairs. They bring out men, they put forward can- didates, and they determine the choice in the primaries. But when it comes to the polls the voters do take a more lively part. Voters are growing more critical than they were, and, though they cling to the party system as conven- ient, party names in these days count for very little in local affairs. It isa mighty good sigan when the voters don’t ask, ‘Is he a Repub- lican?” “Is he a Democrat?” But, ‘What does he stand for?” They want men who are not only good, but good for something. To the men in both parties who manage these things, the Daily News therefore would respectfully suggest that they.take good care to make up the strongest tickets that they know how. If there are places on the ticket where nobody so far proposed is quite up to par, bring out someone who wili measure full size and weight. Especialy is this true of the as- sembly, where, because the candi- dates should have reputation more than ward-wide, the strongest mate- rial is available and the voters are more highly critical. That a man should be honest is not enough. There are. men of unques- tioned probity in private life whose interests aré such that they are dis- qualified for judging the city’s affairs. Men should be voth honest and dis- interested to serve well. If the men who run these things have regard for high citizenship they must have a care for this. If shey think first cf party success, they must bot less take care to make such choice as will commend the party wo public favor. It is the wise politician’s business asa shrewd partisan to see that the best man available is put forward for each place. That puts it up to the voters. EAGLES TO GIVE THEIR THIRD BALL Pokegama Aerie No. 366, Fraternal Order of Kagles, has established for itself the reputation of pulling off the most enjoyable social dances given by any lodge in the town, and inasmuch as the Eagles spare no ex- bense in their functions it is not at all surprising that. their annual balls are the best ever. Monday evening, March 26, is the date set for the third annual ball of the society, and the committee on ar- rangements are making every prepa— ration to make the event the social one of the season. This is the last dance before the Lenten season and we bespeak for the Eagles a large attendance. NO ACTION TAKEN ON CO. DIVISION Word from St. Paul regarding the divisiun of Itasca county says that no action was taken by the commis~ sion composed of the governor, attor- ney-general and secretary of state. ‘The matter was laid over until March 16, in order to allow changes in the petition asking that the new county be called Forest and not Koochi- ching. It was discovered that the Forest petition failed to state deti- nitely the boundaries of the proposed county, and time to correct this was given. In other respects both peti- Uons were approved. The Bovey Tournament. Three out of the first eight prizes at the tournament of the Itasca Ski club at Bovey Sunday last were cap- tured by Duluth jumpers, while the Red Wing men carried off the first and second prizes. ‘The other three prize winners were from Ishpeming, Bovey and Ashlaaod. The day was an ideal one and the tournament was witnessed by about 1,000 spectators, a large number driv- ing out from Grand Rapids. Follow- it there was a banquet at Plummer’s camp, at the Ganisteo mine, covers being laid for 150 guests. ‘Try the Herald-Review for any~ tiling in job printing - MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.