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

Vor, XIV.—No, 22 — moras Ren NA erald-Review. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. = Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., SaturDAy, Nov. 24, tg06. Two Dotiars a YEAR. THE CHRISTMAS. SHOPPING TIME Some Gratuitous Advise About Holiday Shopping in Graud Rapids: THE STORES ARE ALL FILLED Early Purchases Gives Best Satisfac- tion—No Need to Patronize Mail Order Houses— Everything Here. The show windows in the Grand Rapids stores are already beginning to assume metropolitan airs, and it requires but a glance to convince anyone that there will be no excuse to send outof town for anything in the line of holiday shopping. Grana Rapids merchants are all up-to-date and take particular pride io carrying stocks that are calculated to fill every want. Every store in town is already well advanced in the work of arrang- ing for the big holiday trade, and it is a positive delight to the eye to be- hold the countless specialties that make beautiful every retail institu- tion io the village. Good timse} should insure a yood trade for all dealers and in anticipation of a big business the merchants have all put in unusually large stocks this year. In commenting on the subject of holiday shopping the Duluth Herald tenders some timely advise to the public: | to be talking about Christmas shop- | ping, but just the same itis the part (of wisdom to doit now. Ninety-rine | people out of every hundred, aud per- | haps an even larger proportion than | that, put off their Christmas, buying | until the last minute. Thatis the} | reason why tbe shops have to keep| /open evenings for a week before! Christmas, and why during the last! | day or two and the last evening they are so packed with buyers that it is /an acute discomfort to be compelled | to take part in the mad rush. If you do your Christmas buying now, you ‘have these advantages over those that put it off until the last chance: | You get the advantage of fresh, complete and varied stocks of mer- | chandise. You get the‘advantage of | doing your. shopping in ease and com- | fort and at your leisure, giving you | the added advantage of more mature) | judgment in your selecticns. Yon} can spread it oyer a month, jasteaa | of doing it in two or three days or in one eveniag, as many Go. You can spread the expense over a longer period and have more pay days to help meet it with, instead of burden ing yourself with all of 1t in one short interval. You can get it off your mind and save worrying and figuring over it, You can, if you are sweet enough to think of it, make life pleasanter for the salesmen and saleswomen who wait upon you. By doing’ your buying now you are mak- ing that last mad, awful, nerve-rack- ing crush so much easier for them. Also for yourself. On the other hand| if you wait until the last few days, you take your Chances on stocks that have been picked over, pulled about! and diminished until they are more or less battered and sofled, and until they are certainly reduced so that your selection is nothing like what is offered now. In short, you can make your Christmas buying a_ positive pleasure if you begin to do it now, and if you do as you did last year and| as nearly eyerybody else will do With Thanksgiving not yet out of the way it may seem a little premature} again this year, and leave it until the last day or two, yon can make ita burden, an agonizing experience, and more or less of a failure. Do you Christmas buying now. Norman Tully Wins Honors. The young*men and, women who go out from the Grand Rapids high school are a source of pride to our community, and their efforts at more advanced schools or in the busy world are watched with interest and sympathy by their many~ friends. The friends of Norman Tully, a graduate of last year’s cla were not surprised to read of his success in a recent oratorical contest, reported in the twin city dailies. From the Pioneer Press we gather the informa- tion that at the oratorical contest held at Macalaster college to select the college representative for the |- state contest, Norman was one of the six contestants, and was awarded second place. This distinction was all the more to his credit because of the brief time he has been at, college and tbe fact t»at the other cuntest- ants were men ‘who bad two more years of college training than he has had. Norman spoke from the subject, ‘A Modern Good Samari- tan,” taking as his representative Jacob Reis, In thought and com- position he ranked very close to the winner of the first place, and in_de- livery he tied his competitor, both receiving the same number of credits on delivery: Norman received a prize of ten dollars and became Macalas- ter’s delegate to Northfield to re- present the college in the prelimina- ary business arrangements incident to the state contest. lo this his first oratorical effort at college, he has given every evidence of winning many laurels to himself, his college and especially to his home town and school. His Grand Rapids friends re- joice with him in his success, and will watch his future with sympathe- tic interest and pride. Of all the li the ¢ it must the times when on that da h, wears well, worth $1.00, y price per yard SPECIAL TABLE DAMASK } inch all Linen Satin Dama lining room is the cente: look its best. To SPEC k, fine in special Thanks- flax, we value i per dozen ar: inch Satin Dama made for al Thanksg: sk, very r and $1.35 ving price per yard é Nothing that is not Good. Everything that is Good. te s se ot THANKSGIVING lt Vi i | F THANKSGIVING TABLE LINENS asta eral G 0, GROCERIES AND The Store of Quality At CHINAWARE ig es SPECIAL PRICES es Grand Rapids, - Minn. | ee Thanksgiving Linens Specizlly Priced Every house wife likes to see pretty table, linen handsome center pi attraction Thanksgivin: t you to make it look so we are offeri specially low prices some very fine cloths, with napkins to match, in beautiful igtterns. See Our Window Display nd tasty doilie: probably heads gat IAL NAPKINS 20 Damask Napkins, every thread pure well, special Thanksgiving sale price assorted patterns, regular $1.75 pretty patterns, 1 service, worth | per dozen 70 inch bleached all Linen fine wearing quality, good $1.25, special Than iving pri $1.00 and you will indeed have m today. Prices range from 20x20 inch Irish. Linen Napkins, pure linen up-to-date patterns. market at $3.25, Special Thanksgiving price The best Napkins in the $2.50 Table Damask, patterns, worth ice per yard | Steel Range uch to be thankful for, $18,00 © $60.00 2x22 inéh Irish Linen Damask Napkins, y beautiful patterns, fine in quality, worth special Thanksgiving price per dozen $2.98 Cook and Bake Your Thanksgiving Dinner on a Monareh Monarch Ranges, besides being the mos beautiful ranges on the market today, wear longer, bake better and more Muiforaly baie lees fuel and maintain their original appearance better than any other make of ranges on the market SEE WINDOW DISPLAY rr Chanksgiving Cranberry Sale As an exemplication of the bargains that this store constantl. Tuesday and Wednesday, offer Cranberries at 6 cents per quart. Cranberries and you know that they are selling in ordinary stores order to give all visitors an opportunity to participate in this Thanksgiving distribution wé will limit this sale to two quarts of Cranberries to any one customer all this week. This store will have many other Thanksgiving Bargains at prices typical of Grand Rapids’ greatest store. two quarts of Cranberries to the customer. Per Quart 6c gives we will on Monday, hése are the best grade of at 12% cents per quart. In ‘COUNTY BOARD HOLDS MEETING Considerable Public Business Trans- acted and Grist of Bills Allowed HERALO-REVIEW 1S OFFICAL PAPER Favorable Action Taken on Petition to Organize 62-22 As Town of Carpenter; Also Village of Bigfork. Last Tuesday afternoon the board of county commissioners met at the auditor's office and remained in ses- sion until Wednesday afternoo:, when an adjournment was, taken tu Friday, December 21. At that time the last meeting of the present board will be held for 1906, to close up the year’s business aud leave the county's Official affairs in readiness fur next year’s labors. Many road matters were reported by the committees and considered by the board, and as a result a number of new highways bave been officially es- tablished. Liquor licenses were grant- ed to Charles Ollila at Hollman; W. H. Dailey and John M. Jones at Big- fork; Ole Ferguson at Balclub; Edi- son Bereman at Dextervilleand W. A. Hadley at Suow Ball. The liquor license of Frank Larson at Bigfork wast raneferred to J. H. Finley. A petition was presented for the establishment of a road beginning at the porthwest corner of section 23, town 60, range 25 to run west across section 22 to the northwest corner of section 25, thence in a northwesterly direction to counect with the Kee- watin Lumber company road in secs tion 7, town 60-25, and the Bigfork town road. Commissioners Tone, O’Brien and Mullins were appointed acommittee to investigate the pro- posed highway and report. Another petition for the establish- ment of a new road begins at a point on the line between Ita and Cass sunties in section 33, town 55, range | running north and east-to the Mississippi river bridge located in section 32, 55-27, and to connect with the county road leading thence iuto Cohasset. Commissioners Mullins, O’Brien and Passard will ipvestigate this proposition and wake report to the board at the next meeeting. A road was Officially established beginning at the quarter stake of sections 2 and 3, town 151-28, ning north to the corners of sections 14 and 15, 10 and 11, town 14 also a road beginning at the southeast quarter of section 23, 160-28, running north and west to the northwest corner of section 7, 160-29. A petition for a road running south eighty rods from sections 32 und 33, 56-25, was granted. The hearivg on the Busticogan road matter was laid over. Two hundred dollars was appropris ated for the building of a bridge across Wabana brook on Prairie river“ road, to be expended under the supervision of John Lefevre. Two petitions were presented, for the organization of township 62-22 one specifying the town to be named “Carpenter” and the other ‘‘Togo.” The “Carpenter” petitioners hav been the first to file their prayer the same was granted. The board of audit, consisting of Counfy Auditor Spang, Clerk of Court Rassmussen and Chairman Passard of the board of county commissioners reported that they had examined the treasurer's accounts and found that he was indebted to the county in the sum of $114,225.09. The county attorney was instruct- ed to bring action agaiust the village of Northome for the board of Charles Brandt, who was sent to the county jail for sixty days on conviction of having violated a village ordinance within the corporate limits of North- ome. The officers of that municipal- ity seem to be laboring under the de- lusion that it is the duty of the | county to stand tie expense of caring for all offenders who violated Remember, muaicipal laws, while all fines paid go into the village coffers. The county commissioners do not see it in that light and will undertake to re- cover. A resolution was introduced and passed asking the United States gov- ernment tu permit the removal of run- | | the gate to the approach of Pokega- ma dam bridge, thus removing a very incouvenient obstruction to travel. Attorney C. C. McCarthy appeared before the buard and set forth that a report alleged to have been made by an expert accountant on the condition of the books of ex-County Treasurer Miller w incomplete form and fails to show that for which 10 is intended. A special election be held at Bigfork on December 28 for the purpose of voting on the pro- position tu organize as a village. The Grand Rapids Herald-Review was designated as the official paper of Itasca county for the balance of the year 1906. The sheriff submitted a list of de- linquent personal property taxes, which were taken under cons deration. A number of these ac- counts were charged to profit aud loss, while about thirty citations were ordered issued on the parties owing the county. G. W. Moore discovered that he was indebted to the county in the sum of $42.70 on a tax judgment en $1.00 Buys the Herald Review for IYEAR This proposition will remain open but for a short time, After Jan- uary 1, 1907, the price will again be placed at | $2.00 per year. The re- | duction is made for the | purpose of giving every citizen of the county an opportunity to become a reader of the Herald- | Review. Take advantage of this | opportunity to get the best paper in Itasca county at one-half reg- ular price. tered in 1899, which he paid,upon the | abatement of atcrued interest. A petition was presented from res dents of school district No. 10, pray- ing that certain territory be detach- ed from that district and be made a | part of No. 1. No action was taken. The matter of fuel for the court house and jail was considered and it was finally decided to purchase soft cecal. The board. would much prefer to buy wood from surrounding farmers but it has been found impos- sible todo this with any degree of satisfaction. Two car loads of soft coal were ordered through the Itasca Mercantile company. .» Some abatements of taxes were considered and a large number of bills were passed upon. Who’s Herd Is Lost? Marshal Harry, in his official capacity as.master of the village bovine department, has an annouce- ment in this issue of the Herald- Review in which he threatens to sell. three, head of cattie described as foliows: One light red cow with bellattached, four white feet; one black three-year-old heifer and one yearling heifer. These critters were taken up on the public streets of Grand Rapids on Nov, 19 as public nuisances, and if they are not called for and all charges for keeping, etc., paid to the poundmaster they will be sold to the highest bidder for cash in ten days ‘from the date of the offici- ai notice herein referred to. was ordered to | THE SEMEANNUAL APPORTIONMENT (County Auditor Spang Makes the Semi-Annual Distribution. “MANY THOUSANDS —APPORTIONED The Several Funds of County Re- venues Have Been Apportioned and Distributed According to Law by County Auditor. The semi-annual budget of the county has been figured out by County Auditor Spang and the ap- portionment of ‘funds made to the several sub-divisions of the county. The total amount distributed figures up to $73,263.54, divided as follows: State revenue and school, $8,028.01; State loans to school districts, $679.25; county revenue, $24,503.38; school dis- tricts, $20,157.08; towns and villages, $19,895.62. Following are the amovnts accredited to each of the several vil- lages, townships and school districts: Village of Grand Rapi Corporation Judgments Library. . Water Interest... Light Interest Lighting ... Sinking . Sewer.. Town of Grand Ra) Revenue Road and B: Poor. Bonds. Interes' Delinquent pids— Ardenhurst | Atvwood. Bridgi Big Fork... Big Falls B: rook . Jingmar: Deer Rive 148.40 214.638 Jameson. | Koochichin | Lake Jessie . | Moose Park . Manitou.......... Nore ..... Pine Top Popple Plum Cre Watrous. Wildwood Vallage Big Village of Di ool Distrigt No. ichool District No. chool District ) ; School District No. 10. School Distric ut STAR ROUTES IN ITASCA COUNTY Frank P. Smith, assistant superin- tendent of the railway mail service of the United States, wag in Grand Rap- ids some time ago where he-made up |a schedule of the star routes to be operated in Itasea county during the ensuing year. Proposals for the car- rying of mail by stage in this county will be received from bidders by the second assistant postmaster general at Washington, D.C., up to Decem- ber 4, 1906. There are twenty star routes this county, as follows: Deer River to Marcell three times a week Bigfork to Marcell, three times a week Bowstring to Marcell. three times a week Manitou to.Loman. -three times a week Orchid to Bergville, -three times a week Grand Rapids to Bove; . three times a week Wabana to Grand Rapids..three times a week Frontier to Beaudette two times a week Northome to Alvwood.......six times a week two times a week .two times a week two times a week Loman to International Falls three times a week -six times a week Pinetop to Northome. two times a week Littlefork to International Falls sissese ns vag te tere three times a week Cunningham to Bridgie...three times a week Remer to Grand Rapids. .onee a week ‘Hill City to Grand Rap! Jacobson to 8: ix. times a week to Swan Rive -Six.times a week