Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 28, 1907, Page 1

VoL, XV.—No., 14. Graud Rapids Herald-Neview. Granp Rapips, ITasca County, MINN., SATURDAY, ‘SEPTEMBER 28 1907. Pf - i NESo ‘A ; HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Two Dollars a Year. THREE SALE DAYS Fair Week| Itasca Mercantile Co., | Tmrsday Specie THE STORE OF QUALITY Friday: October and 3d,4th,sth| Grand Rapids, - Minnesota] saturday For our country customers who usually cannot get in to attend our special sales, we have arranged this special sale during Fair Week to give you a chance to make a great saving on Fall and Winter goods. During the past two weeks we have made some wonderful purchases on Blankets, Underwear and Hosiery, and we have added many other items to make it interesting for everybody. The Goods are Here Ready for You In every department you will find values that are not to be found in any other store but the Itasca. Buying for two big stores and in case lots is the only way we could Fall Coats We are showing a greater completeness and variety of Coats and correct. styles than has ever been shown you in past seasons. 50-inch long broadcloth coats, excellent quality, lined throughout with heavy gray satin, collar, yoke and cuffs, trim- med with velvet and silk braid. Our price only -- $12.50 Heavy broadcloth Coats with blended musquash collars, yoke lined with heavy satin. Full 50 inches long, $17.50 value for only $15.00 Blankets and Comforts We placed our order for these goods when cotton was cheap, geting in on the low price mark, therefore we are able to save you GET THESE PRICES ITASCA COUNTY FAIR Next Friday and Saturday, Octo- ber 4th and 5th. PROSPECTS FOR A BIG EXHIBIT Farmers Are Making Great Prepa- rations for Big Time—New Agricultural Buildings Ready. | | But a few more days remain in which to make preparations for the Itasca County fair and it behooves those who contemplate making ex- hibits to give the matter a little con- sideration before the day of entry, Friday and Saturday, October 4th and Fall Dress Goods We lead in Dress Goods. Why? Because our two stores go togeteer, and buy di- rect from the woolen mills. saving the middlemens’ profits, making our $1.00 goods equal to a regular $1.25 goods, and our 50c equal to a regular 65c quality. A good opportunity to see and learn our prices now. We can dress you more fashionably and at considerably less cost than your neighbor who buys elsewhere and is disappointed. See these! 50-inch Panamas ata yard .. 54-inch Broadcloths at a ysrd 45-inch Serges at 38-inch Fancy Suitings at............ Hosiery Sale Women’s fleeced lined Hose, 20c values, a pair ...... 15¢ money on your winter beding at these prices. Our advice isto buy them now. . 10-4 cotton fleeced Blankets, gray, tan, or white, with pink biue or red borders. This sale price a pair...........-- -. . §9¢ 11-4 large size, white or gray, heavy blankets, cotton fleeced, make the best kind of sheets. this sale price a pair.............--- 98c - od heavy wool Blankets, gray, with pink or blue borders. eee allt sind the wear Gnatkees out the cold. A pair. $5.00 All wool Blankets, large size, white or gray, made from the finest selected wool, blue and pink borders, this sale .. -- $6.75 Two Comfort Specials—These Comforts are made from pure white cotton batting and we guarantee our prices to be cheaper than you can buy the material. 64x72 inch Comforts, silkoline covering, a good heavy Comfort, Women’s all wool Hose, a reg- ular 25c value, a pair...19¢ Chiluren’s School Hose,a good heavy. ribbed, fleece lined. Made for hardnox, apair, 19¢ Outing Flannel 40 pieces of white and colored Outing Flannel. 24 inches wide, good weight, regular 8c quality, this salea yard,6¢ regular $1.25 value, this sale. 68x72 inch Comfort, silkoline covering, two worth $1.50, this sale.............ee eee e eee ise astoltgie cee sie $1.39 8c 50 pieces of extra heavy Out- ing Flannel in assorted pat- terns, 28 inches wide,a yd10e different sides, well 5th. The Herald-Review has been advised by farmers that the 1907 fair, although a little late, shal] be as good if not better than any previous year. ‘lhey report that the crops are of the best, the frost so far having done lit- tle damage. The committee on revision of the premium list was careful to profit by Past experiences, and having received $500 from the county to aid them this year, the premiums are much higher and more of them. The officers of the association have caused a general circulation of the pamphlets containing the prizes of- fered. Secretary J. S. Gole will be pleased to forward copies to any one making application for them, It is the aim of the association to interest farmers and business men outside of Grand Rapids and in dis- tant sections of the country to attend the fair. It is maintained for the benefit of the whole county and it is desirable that representations be as general as possible. The fair will be held on the new fair grounds at the east end of Ice igke, north-ef towo. The beautiful new agricultural building will be in readiness and also the stock buildings, so that there will be comfortable quarters for all of the animals brought in. There will be stalls for the horses and cattle and pens for the pigs and sheep, With favorable weather the officers, directors, farmers and citizens in general are cunfident that the fair next week will cap the climax. Followirg is a list of the officers, directors and division superintend- ents: President, F. W. Fulton. Ae age aE SP ae ae ae ane ae aE gE ae ate Ak ae ae ge ae ate a a ae ae ae ae ST a a ae ae ate ate ae Hh a a ae ae a, he ae SESH ie aE ee ee ea ae ae ae aE aE see nea eae te ae ee te ae nea a ATTRACTIVE FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING Vice President, Neil Mullins. #| Secretary, J. S. Gole. Treasur ). E. Aiken. Director for live stock,A.J.McGuire. or for grains and vegetables, issler. Director for household department. JROIE IER Rte Rete thai ete ae te eae Re: you. When success rests upon eight cannot be called a matter of chance. os Eight years---sixteen seasons---with every year showing substantial growth---means something. They are a matter of pride to us, and should be a matter of satisfaction to years of consistent effort along the same lines it It is a matter of right intentions, right methods Merchandise and Right | Men’s Suits in the new browns | Men’s Ral and grey effects, slightly form lowcraft Shoes, showing the very 1 ston Health and Fel- | Men’s soft or stiff Hats. | latest Fall blocks. The and the prettiest colors to be had in town. Pricss 75¢, $1.00 and $1.50 fitting. See us for your Fall suit. | latest styles,and made to fit your See our line first at Prices $10 to $20 feet. $3.50 to $4.00 $2.50 and $3.00 Boys’ all-wool Sweaters, all sizes | Boys’ nobby School Suits, in | Boys’ School Shoes, heavy or heavy weights and dark colors. The kind the boy needs for school | | wear. Prices from $3.00 up. light weights, made of one solid pieee of leather. The kind that “Kant Rip,” at $1.50 to $2.50 Ladies’ Man-TailoredSkirts, show- ing them in the newest styles and exclusive patterns, with us at $5 to $15 Es Others at $3.50, $4.00 and $4.50 Latest Fall and Winter Cloaks, numbering 250 cloaks in any style and all colors, with or without fur collars, also fur lined cloaks, You surely can find what you want here at $8.50 to $20.00 Ladies’ Fascinators and Opera Shawls. When visiting our Hors ask the salespeople to them to you. They will gladly do it. We are showing them in wool and silks in any size, any weight, any color from 49¢ to $3.50 Mrs. U. C. Gravelle. THE VALUE OF PULPWOOD aE AE aE AGE ate ate age abe Me ahs ate a ape a ane ae aE ae ae aE } That the whole United States must svon look to northern Minnesota for the raw material forthe making of priot paper was empbasized last week by the visit ofa party of paper mill men, headed by J. J. Reimo, of Rhinelander, Wis., to the northern | part of the state, looking for a supply | of spruce sufficient to warrant the | establishment of a line of paper aud | pulp mills along the international boundary. The party went from Ely | to International Falls and the men | are now looking over the spruce for- ests near there on both sidesof the Rainy river. About ninety per cent of the news- papers of the country are printed on paper made ofspruce, the main source ot supply having been in the New England states. The eastern spruce ! is practically exhaugted and the sup- ply in Wisconsin has become depleted to such an extent that the mills are now looking to this state for their spruce. A few year ago the only valuable timber land in this section was that forested with white pine, Beu Levy, Prop. {JOSE OEE RE ee Re te agen mean ate te ee ea ee se ae ae ee ate ae ae RE te se ae at ate ae ae ae tae a i ae a a A ae ae ae ae sh ae ae a ae a ae ae aa eae _Levy’s Enterprise Store ADJOINING HOTRL POKEGAMA GRAND RAPIDS and COLERAINE, TINN. SCASCAM PSCTS CISA TH AOA E TEKS SE STeT STURT Sees Se ATeRNAETSEREEEEOKERRERAEEES wrrrrT Tit ttt etd SOE IE AE Ae 08 ee he ea He a ea a ae ee ate RE RE aE a te but now the owner of a quarter sec- ‘| tion of spruce land has a more val- uable piece of property than many of the pine claims that have been picked up over this section. The exhausting of the spruce wood in Maine, Wisconsin and other sec- tions where it has been the handiest has compelled the paper mill men to turn their attention to new fields, bodies of the timber in this section and the opening up of the great} 7 bound to attract the attention of the big users of pulpwood. It will result in competion that will make prices never before heard of in the industry. Mr. Reimo says that another in- dustry that will ultimately be of great importance in this part of Minnesota is the manufacture of excelsior,which is largely usedin the mnaking of matresses. Poplar is the kind of timber now most valuable for excelsior making and as there is an inexhaustable sup- ply of good timber of that kind in this section, Mr. Reimo believes that it will be but a short time until poplar will be one of the most valu- able species of timber. It is now largely used as lumber, and is prov- ing to be valuable for the manufac- ture of handles, etc. Speaking of the excelsior business, Mr. Reino Stated that there were now a number of factories of that kind in Wisconsin and that % per cord (single cord) was the ruling price for the timber. The wood is delivered stripped of its bark, it being cut at the season of the year when the bark can be easily taken off. <A tree is cut down, the top cut off (there being no limbs on the trunk of the tree); then the chopper runs the blade of his ax through the bark for its length, when the entire coat of the tree can be peeled off with but little trouble. When sawed into cord wood lengths it is ready for delivery.—Cloquet Pine Knot. STATE DRAINAGE TROUBLE OVER RANGE VALUES Iron Ore Returns May Cause a Split in the State Board of Equalization THE §MEMBERS = MAY RESIGN ‘Extract From Trade Paper Read By J. N. Gaynor Precipitated The Trouble—Whole Thing In the Air. Consideration of the iron mine valuations fixed by the state tax commission threatens to breed dis- sension in the state board of equaliza- tion. There w n acrimonious dis- cussion Wednesday which may result in the resignation of at least one if not more members. Just before the noon hour the board was visited by the tax commis- sion in compliance with the resolu- tion of last week calling for certain data and information relating toe mine values in its possesion. Chair- man McVey, of the commission, COMMISSION HERE The members of the state drainage commission reached here early Thurs- day morning and remained here near- ly all day investigating this vicinity. In the party were: State Auditor S. C. Iverson; Secretary of State Julius Schmahl; Frank A. Day, personal representative of Governor Jobnson; George A. Ralph, engineer of drain- age commission, George W. Welch, ‘State imigration inspectur and Hon: G. G. Hartley, The parties left on the late west bound passenger, in their special car for Bemidji where added orally a statement explaining the methods used in the investiga tion and the conclusions arrived at. The custom in such cases is to refer the matter to the proper com~- mittee, that of real estate, but J. N. Gaynor, of Litchfield. at the conclu- sion of the commission’s visit, moved that it be referred to the board, sit- ting asa committee of the whole. When his motion was seconded, he asked to have read an article appear- ing inthe Iron Age. It mentioned the valuation placed on the iron pro- perties by the commission, the desire of some of the members of the equal- ization board to increase the figures, butconcluded with the statement that the matter would go to the real estate committee, which would without doubt recommend a cut. Mr. Gaynor perhaps did not intend to place the construction on’ the article im the way it was taken by some of the members. Almost iz an instant he was challenged by W. A. Hardenburgh, of St. Paul, who, with- out mincing any words, tendered his they were guests of honor at the opening of the Beltrami county fair. DEMISE OF WILLIAM GREY Suddenly, without warning Wm. Grey was called to the great beyond last Sunday. He died at Duluth, and was taken to Deer River, his home. From there he was brought to Grand Rapids for interment by the Masonic and Redmen lodges. He wasa mem- ber of Masonic lodge No. 208. He} also a member of the B. O. E. of Grand Rapids. Wm. Grey was very popular throughout this section, having hosts of friends in Deer River and the Rapids. He was a hail fellow well met, and his Joss is.mourned not only by his immediate family, but by} jmumberless friends and acquain | | tances. He is survered by a widow] and one child. Selene ———— j DYNAMITE | | insisted, j;came from a new resignation as a member of the coms mittee to the board, There was achurous of ‘‘no” from the members, but Mr. Hardenburgh until Thomas Meighan poured oil on the troubled water by deciding it be not accepted. In answer, Mr. Hardenburgh said the insinuation hurt, especially when it member Gaynor. He thought reflection and uncalled for. his action a Adjournment followed with the whole thing in the air and an effort }on the part of some of the members jto ger Mr. Gaynorand Mr. Harden- be together, but the attempt at pe availed little. Mr. Gaynor insisted that he had intended no re- flection and Mr. Hardenberg was UNDER BUILDING The Duluth News Tribune of the} 21st reports the following: | “That a dastardly attempt was| made to blow up the office of the La-| Rue mine here, in which the records | and hooks of the company are kept aud where the bookkeeper sleeps was discovered yesterday, when the book- keeper insuperintending some repairs me across twelve sticks of dyna- te to which was attached a piece! of partly burned fuse, lying under the | building. The fuse had burned to within eight feet of the explosive, 1f the dynamite had gone off during the night the bookkeeper would have been killed beyoned a doubt and the building wrecked. The discovery of this indisputable evidence of the devilish work of some human fiends who would not stop at taking life to accomplish their purpose has aroused the community, following so closely oo the attempts made at Virginia to blow up a boarding house, where some miners were liying. The authorities are working on the case and have several lines out that may prove good ones and land the villians in the penitentiary. The attempt at} heinous crime is laid at the doors of 1s sure that an injustice had ally the matter culminated with a threat on the part of Mr. Gay- nor that he would resign from the board if bis motives were to be mis- construed. Members tried to dis- uade him from this step, and when the gathering broke up for luncheon, he was still of that mind.—St. Paul Dispatch. ATTRACTION COMING Without doubt the leading attrac- tion to visit Grand Rapids this season is the popular and talented actress, Ruth Craven, supported by her tine company in that most famous play of English life, ‘‘Dora Thorue.’’ Miss Craven is conceded by the press and puplic of every city in which she has appeared to be the most finished artist ever appearing upon their stage. Miss Craven has been given a suporting company this season seldom seen outside the larger cities, whose intelligent rendering of the parts assigned them make the play what it is, a fine story beautifully and intel- the Western Federation of Miners despite denials and claims to the con- trary. Itis expected that if there are any more attempts to do violence with dynamite, appeal will be made to the county and state authorities by the coming of the railroads is | to offer up sewards.”’ ligently told. Do not fail to see this superior. attraction, as it is guaran- teed to be the very best to visit our village this season. Do not wait until the best ones are gone but secure your seats early. They will be on sale at the usual place. RFPFrFAPIAUSE PANRL i