Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 2, 1906, Page 1

| IF WE THE EWEST Pia Itasca Mercantile PLEASE mE Company. TELL OTHERS ” LARGEST IF NOT ASSORTMENT THE STORE OF QUALITY. - TELL US : pies: is the season we wish to see our customers. We offer invitations to everybody to call upon us; we can make it interesting, if quality, low prices and courteous treatment will count. We want your patronage and offer you the best goods the market affords at the lowest prices possible. We believe in doing a large business at small profits, rather than large profits and little business, This week we give you a list of every day bargains found throughout the big store. Compare them with prices you have been paying elsewhere. If we cannot give you better values we don’t expect,to get your business. ‘ Men/’s Department © Everything bright and new, fresh from fashion centers. New Oxfords. The Walk Over make, the best for 3 5 the price:..... <7... . Summer underwear—union suits, medium weight, French neck, silk trimmed, Women’s House Wrappers And two piece suits, made of the best quality of print and percales, neatly trimmed, cut full. Colors: Grey, blue, red and_ black. gar 34 to 42, prices, $1.50, $1.25 } BNC he shiney o's eed $1 .00 You should see our two piece house wrap., skirt and dres- sing sacque to match, prices Extra Values Women’s gause vests, 1 0c each Sharp’s perfect needles, per package......--.- Pearl buttons, per dozen.... Skirt braid, . rs—summer weights in Balbriggan, colors, 's ry By: foundati “ ree flesh, blue and ecru, rice, h cloth $1.75 arfd - per garment, 50c : 5 ‘ mee at and c Fancy Hosier, e prettiest line ever shown in large polka dots, strips, checks, grey, tan, black and mixed colors 5 per pair, 50c, 35c and... Cc Straw Hats—most time to shed Gingham apror each.. 6 rubber hair pins 1 0 for sseae (topheny AEs c Bachelor buttons, per box Black Underskirts Twelve different styles and prices to select from. 3 We have the best black satin Ww -n’s black hose, skirt on the market $ 0 the heavy felt hat for a light per pair. Es 1 Oc for $2.25 and........ 1 . 0 weight straw. We are here Childrens’ ho: The new Heatherbloom skirt, | with every new shape and porters..... C | the lighest weight skirt thatis | kind from a dress-up hatdown durable and wears like silk 12 yar f torchon 2 eee tor. and has the rustle of real silk, lace for to an outing hat, prices $1.50, $1, Toc, 50c......-. 25c Fishing Hats at from a OT ERE ees 10c Fans and Parasols Nothing goes any better with anice summer gown than a pretty parasol and this season itis style to have a different parasol for each gown. We have a large assortment of ladies’ and childrens’ — Childrens’ lic, Men’s Heavy Work Gloves We are over stocked with men’s work gloves and make thése extra low prices, to reduce the stock. Every glove is made from first grade leather and sewed with welted seams, Gloves valued at $1595 for..\ 550 ~...79¢e Gloves valued at $2.00 for.........5. Gloves valued at loves vale Te ee 39c Gloves valued ®t Itasca Mercantile Co. PRICE REGULATORS. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. 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. On the #lamond and baseball field—also on other fields just as attractive, Sporting Goods for the Hunter, Fisherman, Golfer and Tennis player. Here in bewildering profusion, at prices just as bewildering—simply because we took time by : the forelock and bought while other dealers were sleighing. For we're willing to take our pleasure by winning your ap- proval—and your trade—in disposing of this superb stock of Sporting Goods. W.bL. & H. D. POWERS Is always prepared with the idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good things at home on Feastdays..... RPSPSSSS SLSSSSSSSLSS SIS Fresh and Salt Meats Our Special Brands of CANNED GOODS are the Poultry, Game, Etc. THOS. The Palace Restaurant 2.36" DAVE CHAMBERS, The Sunday Dinner grown at less than a dollar a ton, and AVE CHAMBERS, Prop. | feed becomes a very important factor, Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. SATURDAY, JUNE 2, SAND FODDER CORN J. McGuire’s Instructive grow up so-thick that no weeds grow in the row. No ears are formed, ow- ing to the thich growth. All the nutriment of the plant goes into the Stalk and leaves. ‘The stalks are fine in texture and areeaten up as clean by the animals asa good quality of hay. A grain drill is best tor planting, stopping up all cups except those at right intervals. When a grain drill is nut used, it may be sown with a garden drill, or in the absence of this it may he sown by band, running fur- rows three feet apart, sowing along in the furrows and coyer with harrow. The ground should be plowed and harrowed first and gotten in the best possible condition. The fodder-corn crop should be cultivated once a week during the growing season. The ground should be manured for fodder-corn. In fact, the soil cannot be too rich for this crop. For seed any kind of ordinary seed will do. Itshould be sown between May 20th and June Ist. Sow from 3 pecks to 14 bushels per acre, owing to whether in single 2r double rows. Any seed house will supply the seed at from $1 to $1.50 per bushel | This fodder-corn will attain suffici- ent growth in ninety days to cut. 1b is best about two weeks after the tasseling stage, but may be cut even before tasseling out of darger of frost. It is most cheaply harvested with a corn binder, but it may be cut v; hand. In either case shock up i field right after ciltting and let stana in the field till after the ground is frozen. It may be stacked up in the barnyard in long narrow shocks, set- ting the bundles upright, as there is danger of heating if stacked like hay. It should be fed from the time of cutting, as it loses in feed value late iu the winter, owing to excessive dry- ing out. One acre of fodder-corn properly grown will feed from two to three cows throughout the winter. Try an acre, at least, to begin with. It can be grown for less than a dollar a von, and for Gairy cows is equal to the best timothy hay. Northeastern Minne- sota can be made the dairy section of the state, but the first step must be 1 A, Te McGuire, GOOD WORK FOR GOOD ROADS The St. Louis county Good Roads association has issued a circular letter that is colsulated to create public interest in the movement. It contains advise and suggestions that are just as applicable to Itasca as to St. Louis county, a portion of which is here quoted: “Farmers have discovered that good roads through a farm region add rmation That Will Prove to Progressive Ag- —Fodder Corn Great Importance. {OWING FEED—ROOTS, of ground well manured Hi cultivated will produce from Trots orrutabagas, The total labor expense from plowing the grougd to getting the roots in the cellar need not exceed $10, and taking an average yield of 15 tons to the acre, the cost of producing this feed would be less than 70c a ton. A garden drill is needed for planting (the Plan- et Junior bas been found most satis- factory) and a wheel hoe for cultiy- ating close to the row when the plant§aresmall. The cost of both implements is less than $10. The quantity of seed required per acre is 5 pounds of mangles, 3 pounds for syock carrots and 14 pounds for rutabagas. Grow the stock carrot for dairy cows, mangles for hogs and the rutabaga for sheep or young stock. Sandy soil is preferable to clay. Manure and plow deep. Harrow the ground till perfectly smooth. Plant in rows two feet apart. As soon as the han fell up start cultiv- atin Wheel hve to run the horse between le plants are about with the six inches apart, TU inches and the mangles from twelve to sixteen inches, owing to the riche ness of the soil. In this way you need practically no hand weeding aad the yield wiil be greater than if the plants grew closes together. Culti- vate once a week all summer. The amount of hand hveing necessary will be determined by the number of weeds intheland. The cultivation must be thorough and the weeds kept out to get a good crop. PY In pulling the roots lay them across the row with the tops even. ‘They can then be topped with a corn knife almost as fast as a man can walk. A man can plow, harrow and plant anacre of roots in a day. Three hours a week will keep them culti- Two acre of farm land, that they increase the profit on all crops by lessening the labor and expense of marketing them, and that they add very much to the comfort of living. “Business men in the cities and towns now regard good roads as essential to their business welfare. while the railroad companies have no doubt whatever that good roads in- crease their revenues and build up their Jines. In fact there is a univer- sal consensus of opinion that guod wagon roads are essential to the logal public welfare. “It is beginning to-be well known that the lands in many parts of this section tributary to its cities and vil- lages are excellent in quality and that when made accessible by good roads they will soon be occupied by perma- nent farmers who do so much every- where to provide a solid foundation for the prosperity of the country. We will not specify localities where this Work is needed not only to bring in new settlers but to improve the condition of the large number who now occupy much of the land and de- vote their whole time to tilling the svil. It is one objoct of this. assoei- the cellar in two days. 'To save labor in feeding. it is neces- sary to havea rovt eellar in connec- tion with the barn. A pit in the ground, covered with any kind of a cheap roof will answer the purpose. It must be made frost proof. Roots will largely take the place’ of grain, For dairy cows they are spleo- did milk producing food. Further- more, they keep animaJs in the best of health. Grow roots. They can be. when compared with the price of bran and other feed their food value is worth over $4a ton. Give them a atrial. Plant the last week in May. GROWING FEED--FODDER-CORN. Where there is not oatural meadow on the farm the growing of rough and especiaJly when there are but few acres under cultivation. This alone is responsible for the few ani- Pioneer Meat Market #| LANDS. THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Itasca, Aitkin, Cass. Crow now hern Minnesota. 6 per cent. We Carry Onty the Best that Can be Had. best offered to the public. Farms and Lands erty. Will pay for Pine and Butter. Eggs. Cheese. FINNEGAN in all parts of the northwest. Leiand Avenue, Opposite Postoffice. wteSetele® peel! Farm, Timber and Meadow Lands in Wing, Lake, St, Louis, Cook and all northern counties. Send for free map of Minnesota. with full list of lands and descriptions of rices—$6 to #15 per acre. Easy terms. Will exchange clear lands for mortgaged or foreclosed Send in full descriptions of your pro} cash “and Hard timber lands. Want good retail W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bid'g, Minneapolis, Minn, mals kept. Unless rough feed is pro- | ation to aid these citizens.” duced there is no profit in live stock, Hay, at its best, will produce only from 3 to 3} tons per acre during the season. Fodder-corn may be grown to take the place of hay, and will pro- duce from 5 to 8 tons of cured feed to the acre. ‘This large yield makes the growing of fodder corn of the great- est importance in this section of the; turn for’ Cole support in Itasca state. Corn will mot generally ma-| county. ture for grain in the northern tier of | would support Cole even though Mr. counties to any profitable extent, but; Gunn did nut appear as a candidate for fodder it yields abundantly and | for the senate,/and Gunn can almost attains sufficient maturity for this} bank on the fact that Cass would purpose. i help to get him into the seaate even Plant in rows 3 feet apart and from | though it had vo candidate for gov- 8to4dinches apartin the row. ‘The | ernor, so it looks like a fair trade and rows may be doubled—that is, two! nobody’s feelings hurt, From what rows about 3or4 inches apart, and | the Pilot kuows of Mr. Guun, it will then the 3 feet between the double | be.glad todo its mite to have him row to allow cultivation. ‘The plants represent this district at St. Paul, An Exchange of Courtesies. Walker Pilot. 1). M. Gunn of Grand Rapids is out for the job of state senator from the Fifty-second district. It might be said in passing that Mr. Gunn would like to count on Cass county, in re- Well, we believe that Itasca. Importoog Rage Two Dotiars a YEAR. MEMORIAL DAY Who OBSERVED In a Most Befitting Manner by Grand Rapids Citizens and Soldiers ADDRESS BY COMRADE WM. WEITZEL Fragrant Flowers Were Strewn - With Appropriate Ceremonies Over the Graves of the Na- tion’s Heroic Dead. During the past year thousands upon thousands of the brave men who faced death in the dark days of 1861 to 65 to preserve the union of states and make forever enduring the greatest’ republic ever instituted among meno, have passed to their eternal reward. An authoralive statement yecently issued by the head of the Grand Army post says that the old soldiers are passing away at the rate of five thousand per month. A grateful posterity cannot pay too great homage to the brave men who handed down so priceless ¢ heritage to the generations now and yet to come. During the past year seven have heen laid to rest in Itasca county. Following are the names of the hon- ored dead: Alfred Kenniston, K. Ist Minn. Inft. John Boden, H. 2ud Ill. Art. James McLeod, K. 2nd Minn. Cal. John Dolph, BE. 143rd Penn. Infs. Chas. Kelley, G. 5th Minn, Inft. B. B. Glines, H. 32nd Wis. Inft. Chas. A. Vanly, L. 3rd Lil. Inft, Memorial day was fittingly observed at Grand Rapids under the auspices of B. F. Huson Post G. A, R. and Ladies of the G. A. R. While the wheather was threatening during all of Wednesday there was no rainfall until the afternoon. Promptly at 10:30 in the forenoon the Bucktail martial band marched to Village hall where the procession was formed. The solemn march was made to the South Side cemetery, led by the Grand Rapids band. Eighteen veterans, many bent with age and several dollafs to the value of each’| intirmaties—all bearing the touch of time in theirsilver locks—kept step to the inspiring music. At the ceme- tery Rev. Scott of the M. E. church delivered the invucation. The ritual service of the G. A. R. was preformed by the post. Flowers were strewn on the graves and Comrade Weitzel de- livered an eloquent and inspiring address. The following old soldiers were in line: Wm Weitzel, Co H Penn Bucktails. W D Leiman. CoG 4th Minn Vols. BH Bailey, Co F, 39th Ill Vols. Ed Wilson. Co F, 16th U S Reg. EL Mitchell, Co H, 2nd Ill Art. David C Cochran, Co H, 9th Maine inft. Joseph Sayers, Co E 23rd Mich Vols. Milton Jones, Co M Ist Wis Cav. Nelson Arno, Co G 4th Wis Cav, * MA Yancy, Co b 138th Ill. S J Huffer, Co 1 Ill Inft. James Everton, Co A llth Mich W. L Palmer, Co B 7th Iowa Vet Inft. Herman Howland, Co A 3rd Wis Cav. Wm H Spath, Co E4th Minn Inft. A.Strine, Co H 50th Obio Inft. DD Jacobson, Co F 7th Lowa Cav. Henry G Klink Co L 6th Ky Cay. EA Ferster, Co B 13th Ky Cav. AJ Brook, CoB 1st Minn Heavy’ Art. In the afternoon members of B. F. Huson Post visited the veteran’s cemetery and there repeated the im- Dressive ceremonies ubserved at the morving services. Following is in part the address delivered by Comrade William Weitz- el: “Again we are called to assemble among the habitations of the dead; to behold the narrow house appointed forall living. Here about us, in that peace which the world cannot give or take away, sleep the unnumbered dead. The gentle breeze fans their verdant coverings; they heed it not. ‘The sunshine and the storm pass over Continued on fifth page.