Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 9, 1907, Page 1

GraNnp Rapips, Irasca COUNTY, Minn., SATURDAY, MAR. 9, (907. Two Dollars a Year. All Mail Orders Promptly and Carefully Filled. _ Grand Rapids, 39¢ Itasca Mercantile Co, ‘ The Store of Quality Minn. 8 O’clock=--On Sale Monday Morning Nothing that is not Good. Everything that is Good. New Spring Goods in All Departments. $3 Thirty-Nine Cent Sale Stone Gray Enameled Ware 39 -8 O'clock A Another lucky purchase of heavy enameled ware. We bought twelve cases of this ware in order to get them for our customers at this small cost. Heavy, triple-coated, stone gray enameled ware. a This assorment consists of Coffee Pots, Tea Pots, Preserving Kettles, Oat Meal Cookers, Tea Ket- 1} + $ tles, 24-quart Dish Pans, Water Pails, Slop Jars. You neyer paid less than 50c for the smallest item and up to $1.25. i: } See them in Our Windows f° 3 —h A Carnival of White Waists Spring Gloves ‘\ It’s a trifle early for the ordinary stores to talk much on white | The Correct Shades for i} waists; but fortunately this is not an ordinary store. With no Easter Wear | { more han the first showing here, we’re quite anxious to have . ee ie you come and judge what our immense complete stock Will be It’s none too early to buy Easter { when only these few are so attractive and beautiful and so | gloves. Our glove department is reasonably priced. making a very handsome early iss $ At $1.00-Embroidered ef- At oLSe qace jneertons showing. | fects with tucked yokes, but- and band effects with allover a ae ss = ton at the back, short and long and insertion embroideries. ee i oad we ee re sleeves. At $4.00 — Still finer ma- button ied h in a i 1e Ja a At $2.69—Hemstitched lace terials used with finer laces spring sha stil |exce ent in fit inserted in many novel and and embroidery, plainly evi- and wear. We fit them at our 4 fancy ways; many quite elab- dencing Breates, 5 Jaber ang glove counter, per pair...$3.50 ate but very neatand tasty— more artistic beauty in the de- aes full in back and front, with signs—panels, insertions and | Same quality in 8-button length, lace trimmed collars. allovers being prominent. all colors, per pair .......$2.75 q Other styles at all prices up to $10.00. Women’s elbow-length Silk 4 i i in 8% ai Gloves in black and white, a pair & Extra Large Sizes—We carry large sizes in siock—40, 42 y t and 44, designed specially for large women. $2.25, $2.00 and $1.39 + : | H H Have this j e { Talking Machines te2ae mark t | on Your TalKing Machine and you’! have the best machine on earth. The Victor is ‘ by all odds the best reproducer on the market today. We in- ‘ vite you to come and hear it. a March Records —They $24.20 Victor Combi- are arriving daily and how pation — This combination " beautiful they are. Come in (ogists of a Victor Machine and heart them; we are always liter hi ; glad to play for you. Z, an excellent little machine i] < and a good reproducer, and $12.10 Victor Combi- one dozen 10-inch records. nation — This combination consists of a Victor Junior k gramophone with six 8-inch 7 | records. Terms: $4 cash and $1 a week. Terms: $5 cash, $5 a month, or $1 a week. Again, come in and hear them. A Corn Crib or Mansion neither one can be built without tools. The best tools are always the cheapest and here is where you | should buy them. It’s because we sell : The Best Hardware tools and everything else at, and generally under what plenty others ask for inferior goods. Buy our standard, safe, guaranteed hardware and save trouble. Stock now is extra good. W.Jj. & H. D. Powers Grand Rapids, Minn. Circus Well Patronized. The circus given by the athleticas- sociation of the high school last Sat- urday was one of the biggest events of the year, and was in every sense a success. The performance was com- plete and varied enough to satisfy anyone, ranging from pretty drills to wrestling and other forms of athletic sport. Although every number on the program was well received the singing and dancing quartette com- posed of Herbert Grove, Reuben UR TIMID TONY LIKE CHAMELEON Is Green With Envy Over Printing of Delinquent Tax List. DICTIONARY DESCRIBES SPECIES A Lizard-Like Reptile of the Genus Chamelo—Color Changes With Change of Surroundings or of the Temper. The Independent has devoted con- siderable space in the past twu issues ranting upon the honesty of purpoae attending the official acts of County Auditor Spang, and has made declam- ation that the genial county auditor did a most dishonest act when he fol- lowed the mandaté of the law and designated the newspaper in which the publication of the list of taxes delinquent for 1905 should be pub- lished. It is a fact known to all that the county board at the session held in January failed to get together, and that it became necessary tojnave the legislature enact a law dreating a fifth commissioner before the county legislators were able to get together and. transact county business, and that their first meeting was held on Peterson, Rome Myers, Otto King and Eddie Kremer, came in for the most commentand seemed to strike the popular fancy. The receipts were larger than the most optimistic of the boys had huped for and, after paying the expenses of the club fur the past season, quite asum will be left in the treasury. The Tekla Farm Concert. The Virginia Enterprise, comment- ing on the concert by Miss Tekla Farm which was given last week in that city, saysin part: “Miss Farm has a rich, powerful voice, her rendi- tion being pleasing to the most criti- cal. Her especiai care in enunciation was also a pleasing feature, and every number was so heartily encored that she was forced to respond. The num- bers in Swedish, her native tongue, were well received by those of that nationality, the encore number, a Swedish ditty creating considerable mirth.’’ Miss Farm will appear in con- cert under the suspices of the Presby- terian ladies’ aid society on March 21, Is Much Improved. The condition of little Edna Myers who was quite seriously injured while riding on a sle#h about a week ago is improving steadily but will not be w Subscribe for the Herald-Review out for several weeks. Her compan- ion in the accident, Gladys Afflick, is also getting along nicely and willsoon be about. Feb. 9th. of this year. Now, the law provides that the newspaper shall be named by the county board at their first meeting in January, and the failure of the board to so designate empowers the county auditor to make the designation. The law provides that the first publication shall be made on or before the 20th of Febru- ary, Auditor Spang, when he as- sumed office, took oath to perform the functions of his office, and has givenbood to the county that he will do so. Lhe county board having failed to hold any meeting in Janu- ary and the time limit becoming very short, the auditor designated the Heraid-Review as the paper in which the list should be published, and it was this action that angered ‘Touy of the Independent. Tony knows, if he kuows anything, thatit isa matter of absolutely no importance what newspaper publishes the list. He knows that the county is not put to one cent’s expense in the matter of costs of securing the judg- ment for taxes delinquent. He knows, or ought to know, that the costs are taxed against the parcel of land, and that when the owner pays his taxes he has to reimburse tbe county, for the costs sustained in securing the judgment. He should know that the people who pay their taxes care not one iota what expenses are put upon the owners of land who allow their lands to become delinquent for taxes. He knows that the county treasury is not tapped for one centin these mat- ters, and that any money expended is repaid with one per cent. per month, interest thereon. Thus it is that the people are not interested in what newspaper is designated as the paper in which the lists shall be published, and it prob- ably is this fact that actuated Mr. Spang in designating the best news- paper in the county in which the list should be published. Be that as it may, certainly no censure can be put upon Mr. Spang’s acts in the pre- mises. He did what any honest, painstaking and competent official would hava done—he performed his duty and seen to it that legal publica- tion was had within the prescribed time, and thus he protected the in- terests of the county. The only question that the Inde- pendent can feel aggrieved about the question of the newspaper designated, and thus we get at the whole cause of the Independent’s tirades against Mr. Spang. Tony is sore because his newspaper was not the one designated, and he is so small and contemptible that he has no hesitancy in arising and shouting that Mr. Spang is dis- honest. by what process of reasoning the Independent arrives at these conclu- sions we wot not, but then Tony is a funny cuss, and his rantings are to be taken with consideration. Newspa- pers haye their mission, but Tony seems to have becume infused with the belief that the Independent is like unto Ceasar’s wife, above sus- picion, and that anything that it chouses to print is accepted as fact, no matter if itis glaringly apparent that his infusions are actuated by the boiling over of his own personalities and troubles. We have no desire to infer that ‘Pony is dishonest in his purposes, but to the average denizen it will appear that he draws a fine line as to what is honest in matters of a like nature. The past rises before us, and we again live over the printing fiasco of 1905. At the meeting of the county commissioners in January of that year, the Herald-Review made tenure to print the tax list for 74 cents per description; Murry Taylor of the Deer River News allowed be could and would print the lists for 8 cents per BOND ISSUE 10 ~ BE ONE FEATURE Question to Be Voted on at Next Tuesday’s Election. TO MAKE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT: description, while Tony LaFreniere Supervisors of Township Propose: of the Northome Record—the same Touy of the Independent — required that he be paid 15 cents per descrip- tion if he did the work. And Tony got the work. The tax list was about twice the size of the list for this year, but Tony printed itand “tapped” the taxpayers for 15 cents a description therefor. At that time Commission- ers O’Brien, Mullins, Passard and Tone voted to give Tony the printing at the full legal rates, despite the fact that this family journal would have done the work for one-half the price paid. Now, will someone show us that Tony mentioned dishonesty at that time, What mauner of cuss is this Tony, anyway? What is his gauge of dishonesty? Is “who is who?” the gauge of dishonesty with the timid fellow? Now, if it were dishonest of Mr. Spang to designate a newspaper to ‘print. the list and allow the proprietor thereof to collect legal compensation therefor, why was it not more dishonest of this Honest Tony to accept the printing of a larger list at a fixed compensation twice the amount of a tenure made to do the same work? Or isit that Tony of the} -Record was dishonest and we have now a Tony, the personification of honesty as publisher of the Independ- ent? Was the 'lony of the Record a Mr. Hyde, while thesame Tony of the Indevendentisa veritable Dr. Jeckyl? Does Tony claim that it is more dis- honest to give than it is to receive? Or, is it that Tony gauges his ideas of honesty by the flow of coin to his pocket? It is assuredly a case of “Tony come to judgment.” and the general public would like to kriae how “disiosest Tony” can purge himseji and still Jeave odium upon the best and most efficient county auditorin the state. It will take more than the insane rantings of Tony to make the people believe that M. A. Spang is anything more than everybody knows him to be, a good, honest citizen and an ex- cellent public official. WOULD ELEC SAME COUNGL Sentiment of Village Seems to Favor Present Members. GUNN WILL NOT BE A CANDIDATE The Herald-Review, Voicing the Wishes of the People Suggests Keo LeRoux to Fill the Office of Trustee. The Herald-Review has, during the past week, made diligent efforts to secure the sentiment of the people of the village in regard to the election of village officials for the coming year; and has found the general trend of thought to bein favor of the nom- ination and election of the members of the present administration A technicality in the state laws, however, interferes with the election of D. M. Gunn of the present council as he is a member of the state senate. The Herald-Review, voicing the sentiment of the public, places be- fore the people the name of Keo LaRoux to fill the position on the ticket, and advocates his nomination as chairman of the town buard. Mr. LeRoux, as suggested ip last weeks issue, is the choice of the Herald-Review and it unhesitatingly recommends him as a man of ability, honesty and all those sterling yuali- ties which goto the making of a good official; and his n mination and election as yillage trustee will be a movement that will insure efficient and conversative legislation. The members of the present council, who are eligible. A. D. Powers, chairman; A. C. Bossard, Wm. Dibbert, trustees; F. E.Graffam, recorder; F. A King, treasurer. Their service during the past year has been irreprochable and the Herald-Review could suggest no nominees, better qualified to fill the positions to the best interests of the people. Securing Loan to Complete Improvement to Roads Already Commenced. The proposed issue of town bonds to be submitted at the annual elec- tion to be held next Tuesday deals with the most important improve ment the town of Grand Rapids has undertaken in years. Last summer « new town road was laid ning out run Grand Rapids to the Prairie river bridge and work com= menced on its construction. The proposed bond issue is placed before the voters in order that funds may be procured to finish what has already been started, it being intended by the supervisors to complete the high- way in the same thorough and sub- stantial manner in which it has beem commenced. This meansarvad of good width and easy grades, surfaced off with proper material and provided with ample ditches for carrying off all surface water. Good drainage is half the secret of road building. When work was begun it was rea- lized that the town funds at hand would not be sufficient to complete the improvement. Publicsentiment, however, was to the effect that the road was so necessary that the board would be justified in drawing orders, even though funds might not be immediately available for their pay- ment. This policy the board adopt- ed, and today there are outstanding: orders on the town road and bridge fund amounting to about $1,192, If the bond issue is voted, and the enterprise aud public spirit of the town officers thus indorsed, it is expected that the amount realized will not only provide for the comple~ tion of the Bovey road but will also permit the orders in question to be taken up. In additioa the towm board will be placed where it will be enabled to meet certain outstanding indebtedness in the form of unpaid bonds. The board considered the advisibility of a special bond issue for this purpose but concluded that the amount involved was not large enough to warrant the extra trouble and expense; moreover, it seemed coa- venient to arrange to cancel these bonds out of such surplusas might remain after the construction of the the Bovey road. Some of these unpaid town bonds were issued 10 years ago. and others were voted for the Prairie river bridge near the state experimental farm Of the first issue the board and Treasurer Passaad by careful finan- ciering paid off $6,000 last August, practically exhausting the resources of the town treasury at the time. There remains dve $2,000 o1 these bonds. Next month the town will be called on to pay Prairie river bridge bonds to the amount of $3 500: with interest and as there 18 ii@ money in hand for the payment of apy of these bonds, they cannot be taken care of unless by means of such surplus as will remain after the Bovey road is finished, if the bonds for that purpose are voted, or unless. there isa bond issue for refunding these unpaid bonds. It seemed to the supervisons that it would be more convenient and more satisfac- tory to provide for road bonds and so» use the surplus to care for outstand- ing road orders and the few bonds remaining from former issues, rather than togo to tHe expense of sub- mitting seyeral bond issues to the electors, as has beeu said, Before resolving to place the question before the electors the town board consulted with a large number of leading and influential citizens and taxpayers, and the result was ap unanimous sentiment in fayor of an issue of bonds large enough to secure sufficient funds to place the town in proper financial condition, Members of the board are anxious to have this, from Continued on Page 5. DEFECTIVE PAGE