Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 23, 1907, Page 2

Vor, XV.—No. 22. HOMESTEADERS SEEK REDRESS ~ Many Cases Come Before General Land Office. ” THINK MINERAL GLAUSE UNJUST Commissioner Ballinger Will At- tempt to Have Congress Change Law In the Min- eral States of West. . The Bemidji Pioneer says: Home- steaders who have been putting in two or three of the best years of their life improving their claims will be interested in. the announcement that Commissioner Vallinger of the general land office believes that home steaders in the mineral states of the west are getting the worst of it under the present laws and will urge congress next winter to change the laws. Under the present mineral law if a man takes a homestead for agricul- tural purposes and it developes before he secures his final patent, that the land is. underlaid with mineral, he Nothing That Is Not Good. Everything That Is Gooa eR loses the homstead, improvements and all. Many such cases have come to the attention of the land office officials. One man took a humestead six years ago and improved it highly. He’put most of itin cultivation and spent over $5,000 in erecting buildings on it. He had one more year to live on it before he could get a patent under the homestead laws. Beture the time came to receive a patent the ‘uvernment discovered that the farm was underlaid with coal and the man ‘was deprived of his, homestead with all of its improvements, which repre- sented his labor for nearly seven years. . POSTAL CARDS MAKE TROUBLE Many postoffices are being overrun with postcards placed in transparent envelopes with asmall opening in the envelope on the right hand corner, where the stamp is placed. on the card enclosed. These transpar- ent envelopes are used for the pur- pose of protecting the cards. Many of them are forsale at the local stores. Postmasters have been notified that all postal cards mailed under cover of sealed envelopes, transparent or otherwise, are chargeable with postage at first class rates, two cents an ounce or fraction thereof. If the enclosed is in an unsealed envelope, they are subject to postal rates cording to the character of the mes— sage, at the first class rate, if wholly GRAND Rapips, Irasca CouNT or partly in writing and todo the ‘third, one cent for two ounces or fraction thereof, if entirely in print and the envelope covering the same. Postage stamps affixed to such cards having an opening exposing stamp cannot be recognized in payment of postage thereon. The postmark must appear on the stamp and en- velope on the same surface. i HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENTS Are you going to. give a party for your children, or for your friends of your own age during the coming Christmas “holiday? Do you waot some ideas whicn no one has had a chance to try before? Get the De- cember number of the New Idea Woman’s Magazine and read ‘‘Mrs. Santa Claus at Home,” and ‘‘Christ- mas Frolics for the Youngster.” Send your friends one of the original invitations illustrated in ‘an article on thf®subject and maké the affair complete. We publish this month words? and music for a charming Christmas carol which the children can learn, a8 weil as four programs for amateur musical entertainments, “Good Housekeeping” is full of good recipes, not only for the dainty things such as Christmas cakes, sweetmeats and puddings, but the method of cooking steak and fish ona wooden plank—a method not known to many housewives—is also discussed. Mark- eting for small Families” will help all those who have:to make the best of a smal] income. Thanksgiving i Thanksgiving Groceries Table Linens | At Special. THE BIG THE and ’ DEPARTMENT | ' GRAND RAPIDS STORE OF : Prices STORE MINN. QUALITY Chinaware Thanksgiving Cranberry Sale Our annual cranberry sale takes place Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. the bargains that this store constantly gives we will sell the very best grade of fresh cranberries that you pay 15 cents for in ordinary stores at eight cents per quatt. opportunity to participate in this Thanksgiving distribution we will limit this sale to two quarts of many, other Thanksgiving Don’t forget your cranberries Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Wes cranberries to one Cusiomer. departments. 25th, 26th and 27th for per quart We will also have As an exemplification of In order to give all visitors an in other bargains Thanksgiving Table Linen Table Damask 66-inch all Linen Satin Damask, fine in finish, precial Thanksgiving wears well, worth $1.00. price, per yard 20x20 Damask Sarees 90c Special Napkins. wears well, assorted patterns, regular value, $.25 Special Thanksgiving sale price per dozen $1.75 Napkins, every thread pnre flax, 72 inch Satin Danae very pretty patterns; a damask made for sAdpye and service, worth $1.50. to-date patterns. at $3.25. 20x20-inch Irish Linen Napkins, pure linen, up- Special Thanksgiving price per dozen, only.:........5.5 The best napkins in the market 2.50 ring quality, inch bleached all Linen Table Damask, fine we good patterns, Special Thanksgiving price per yard worth $1.25. weeeed 1.00 22x23-inch Irish Linen Damask Napkins, ve beautiful patterns, fine in quality, Special Tnanksgiving p.ice per dozen ....$2 worth $3.2 98 Monarch Steel Range. Cook and bake your Thanksgiving dinner on a Monarch steel range and you will indeed be thankful we can refer you toa large number of range in the market today. satisfied customers who are using this famous range and they are indeed thankful. Why? Because it is without a doubt the best malleable When a woman has had.a Monarch in her kitchen and found out its capabilities she ‘at once begins to praise it. unlformly, burn less fuel and maintain their orriginal ap- pearance better than any other range on the market : today. Prices range from $18.00 to............... $60.00 They bake better and more Roy R. Bell Pharmacist Drugs and Patent Medicines Druggist’s Sundries Medical Appliances Book, News and Cigar Stand Stationery Supplies Regular Hours Week days 7a. m. to 9:30 p. m Sunday 9 a. m, to 6p. m. Telephone No. 10 Calt No. 166 or 272 dita: other hours INTENTION ITASCA COUNTY ABSIRAGT OFFICE ABSTRACTS, ; REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE. Conveyances Drawn, * Taxes Paid for Non-Residents, KREMER & KING, Proprietors. GRAND RAPIDS, - :- -MIDN Al ¢ GOTO 2 o MILLER’S Ice Cream Parlors For the Best Dish of Ice Cream to : be had in the city. - For anything refreshing in the Soft Drinks line. } For Fresh Fruits, Candies, Nuts, inbulkorbox, ~ For Foreign and vomestic Cigars, Tobaccos, Ete, | the approach of eae | >? | Prout Jake near Grand Rapids, and | Minn., Saturpay, NovemnEr .23, (907. UNION THANKS. GIVING SERVICES The time of year has come when in accordance with the wise custom of our forefathers, the president of our nation has set apart a special day of thanksgiving and prayers to Al- mighty God for the blessings we have received and of prayer that they may be continued. The Presbyterian and Methodist churches have arranged to unite in a special service at the Methodist church at 10:30 en Thanks- giving morning. . Every one’ is cordi- ally invited to join 1 this service and the. members of these congregations are urged to remember this hour and help to make it oneof great profit and blessing. The following service to be used: is the order of Authem, ‘Magnify His name,’' —choir. Hymn, congregation. Prayer. Authem, .“Sing unto the Lord” —choir. Scripture Reading. , Thanksgiving offering, Hymn, congregation. oes ‘Sermon, Rev. J. M. Davies. Solo, Miss Anna Whiting. Doxology and Benediction. GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION Upon a day set apart for that pur- pose in the closing of each year, it is the custow of the people of the na- tion and state to engage in a special festival of praise aud thanks to the Giver of all Good. Therefore, I, Sonn A. Johuson, governor of the state of Minnesota, do hereby desig- nate Thursday, the 28th day of No- vember as a day of thanksgiving. The year now drawing to a close is replete with evidences of divine good- bess. The people of Minnesota have enjoyed material prosperity: farm, forest and mine have -yielded abund- i watly: there have been no visitations ‘of tire, famine or pestilence, and the countless benefits showred upon us during the past twelve-month call for our fervent gratitude. The preva- lence of health, the fullness of the harvest, the stability of peace and order, the growth of fraternal feeling, the spread of education, and all the eountless blessings that Srighten the pathway of life’s wayfarer—all these are cause for rejoicing and praise. Above and beyond the material wealth that has come to our state, we | should reflect with greateful hearts upon the moral uplift that is every- where apparent. Inthe great civic awakening—io the regeneration of the public conscience, we have reason for belief that a better day is dawn- ing, that there will be less worship of self, less love of power, less lust of gold, less weakening of faith, and that the return to honesty and honor will lead easily and inevitably to the walk of virtue, the way of happiness, the path of glory. Out of financial storms resultant from the stress of an era of fraud and frenzy, will come the sun, rising from the darkness serene and smiling. marking the muddled pools along the way. With that newer and better order, let us hope and believe institutions, liberty less tinged with license, in progress more glorious. And unto Him who holds in the hol- low of His hand the fate of nations, and yet marks the sparrow’s fall, let j us lift our hearts commending our- selves, our éhildren, oar country to His infinite mercy and care. WAITED FOR GIANT BUCK Nothing but their desire to observe the game laws to the letter prevented a hunting party, composed of Dr. W. ‘H. Magie, Cc. S. Carpenter, E. H. ‘Windom, W. E.* Morrow and Capt. Alexander MacDonald from® bringing back a_ whole trainload of deer, says the Duluth Herald. ~ The members of this party spent ‘ten days at Dr. Magie’s cottage . on | The Duluth’ Evening Herald— Fc brought back all “the sane daily at Millers KHIIDIL IP ATL CY DnReEIIDLE ) will comea more abiding faith in ra {) allowed them under the state laws, -congress was act! The buriters, also bring back a story of a big buck thatis akind of ward boss in deer politics around Trout lake. He was sighted the first day the party was out, but was too far away for a shot, and the wembers of the party could see nothing but visions of this big buck during the remainder, of the trip. Nine deer were bagged, but the hunters saved tenth tag for the big back, fighting off with clubs other deer that attack- ed them during their stay in camp. Day after'day they tramred the woods looking for the big buck. Whether he had been brought up in some zoological gatden or a game preserve like an Ernest Thompson Seton deer, or whether he was just naturally wise, he not known, but he seemed to have the happy faculty of making himself exceedingly scarce, while the long distance rifles were in evidence. Finally on the last day of the‘hunt, the members of the party despaired of landing the giant buck, and pick- ing off afat doe to complete their bag, they packed their belongings and came home. “ A nature faker in the party. wanted to add to the story that after the doe had been shot, the big buck walked boldly up to the campand kicked over the camp stove, but the other mein- bers would not stay with him in such trifling with the truth. % Would Cost Minnesota $4,000,000. One result of the ownership of the railroads by the states and national government as advocated by Mr. Bryan, would be their exemption from all taxation. Minnesota alone would lose from this source nearly $4,000,000 annually which would have to be added to the revenue tax levy and would increase the rate about four times. Moreover,this would be placing the tax on the people of Minnesota who now pay but asmall portion of it. For example,the railroads of St. Louis county pay a fourth of the gross earnings tax collected by the state. Of this about 90 per cent comes from the transportation of iron ore and is added tothe priceof the ere. Minue- sota only pays as much of that tax as it uses of the iron produced. The same is true of that portion of the tax which comes from the carry- ing of grain and other farm produce, only, as the boy said. “‘more so,” asa large proportion of the farm produce consumed in the state neversee a railroad. “To owo the railroads,there fore a state would need both to as- sume anenormous debt and to lose its mach largest source of tax re- venue, assuming in consequence a tax now paid by consumers of com- modities outside its boundaries and much. of 1t by foreigners. . This result would be the same whether the government, the state or both took the railroads and isa feature of yovernment ownership Jaborated upon recently by ex-Sena- tor Manderson ot Mr. Bryan’s state of Nebraska. But more than this as the government cannot be used the the only recourse for damages in cases of accident would be by a special bil] in congress. Who would wish to take the chances of a broken neck in a raiiroad wreck and leave his hgirs to starve while gas a court to fix the responsibility and measure of damage? The courts are slow enough but as compared to congress they are as winged. mercury. These are but’ two, features of the practical difficulties of the operation of what as a theory has many attrac- tions. What men might like toe do and what they profitably can do are yery different matters, especially so in public matters under a written constitution with specific prohibi- tions.—News Tribune. Judge Huson, of Grand Rapids, was a Bovey visitor Friday. He was accompanied by an old schoolmate of his, Geo. B. Drennan, president of a large automobile manufactnring: es- tablishment of the Buckeye state. The two men, tho past the ‘prime of }'s life, were in a youthful spirit, and were reminiscent of early days. Per- haps there is something in the Buck- eye State that keeps the Ohio boys always youthtul, and Mr. Huson and ir. Drennan exemplify the Ohio type. Incidentally, Mr. | Drennan made arrangements to furnish our |‘ Mts hustling liveryman, John. Hurley, a]! horseless carriage, to be used next stmmer between Bovey and Grand Rapids.—Itasca Iron New. | : RE PrRARPrMWsIF FAME Two Dollars a Year. \ THREE HUNDRED BABIES WANTED With the November issue The Delineatur started a Child-rescue Campagin, she bringing into the home that needs a child the: child that needs a home.. There are 2,000,— 000 homes in America that know nob the;joys that children bring. There are 25,000 children in New York alone who know not what home means, We started this campaigu with fear and doubt. To ask strangers to us to adopt these little ones equally strangers to us seemed daring indeed. And we could appeal to only a million homes, tbe million homes into which The “Delineatur goes—not one= twentieth of all the homes in this great country. Caution made us tell the stories of only two. We feared that even these might not be asked for. We doubted, and we areashamed Over two hundred eager hands have already been extended. Three hundred requests for these little ones —for any homeless little one—have already been reveived through the mails. Women have come for miles away into our building asking for these precious ones; men have journ- eyed a thousard miles to beg one for their homes. We told their story; we appealed‘to our worshiped Ameri-— can womanhood, andit hastens to take these little ones into its heart. We continue this campagin for homes for other homeless waifs in the De- cember Delineator. We shall keep on with it. Ifone brief appeal to one- twentieth of the homes in America can bring this result, what of good may we nob yet do? We are proud of the Delineator. December Itcontains many notable features. We are proud of our work for the year: proud that we stand acknowledged as the greatest fashion authority in the world; proud of the most famous people who have con- tributed to our pages. Butit is not in these that our greatest pride lies, The Child-Rescue Campaign, the homeless child, the childless home, the bringing of these little ones into the homes Where little ones are need- ed, this movement is of our prid@ and uf mur heart. Aud yolu—wil! you toake it of yourheart? Will you give us such assistance as you can? ‘THE DELINEATOR, Buttérick Building, New York, Village Council Proceedings — Official Publication. a Recorder Yu aeey respond- On motio Leroux, was appointed as president p i Minutes of the previous meeting wer and avproved. Reports of the village treasurer and Huson were read and ordered to be placed on nd carried. warrant for cancelled. tructed to draw war- 4 able to King Lumber being the amount collected from T. Froder. ick, Peter Foley. and R. Watterson, for cement walk. The work of King Lumber Uo. under con- tract with the village for the constraction of cement walks. was. on motion male and carried, accepted with the exception of that + done at lot 18 block 19 town of Grand Rac und the recorder was instructed to warrants payable to Kiug Lumber follow: 1636.56 payable June 1. 1908 with per cent interest, $1636.56 p: June 1, 1909 with 6 per cent interest; $164 payable June 1, 1910 with 6 per cent inte: The village treasurer was ucted to transfer enough from sinking fand to sewer fund, to pay warrant for $511.77, due Nov. 1, 1907, payable to O. F. Doyle, same to ferred back,to sinking fund as soon coilections are available. A contract between the village and the G. N. Ry. Co. for lighting the depot was duly executed. Applications for liquor licenses were re- ceived from Cal Gilman and Quackenbush & Pearson, and time for hearing same set for December 12, 1907. The following bills were audited and allowed. wm Hoolthan, fees , Wm Hollihan, board bi Itasca Paper Co. machinists lal ‘Balpment Co. wire S Huson, E Graffam, stamps & dater. WJ&H D Powers. hardware N ber ay 2 Co, freight, ca! ». 35184, No,6974. W Forest, draying. : C Gilbert, cedar poles. < C Yancey, hall supplies, freight tc ‘hos Hennessey, 18 days 01 f ing Lumber Co. lumber. Thos Benton 17 days.. E Leroux 14% days on street H McKinnons1? day: W Gildersleéve 2 d: V 8 Blood Lis L Carrier,car| “Phe follow: the construction of cathe itters and cz rner walk same to be paid in equal in’ Stall ments.Aoné each, on June qr 1908, June 1. 1909 and June 1, 1910, with interest at the ratq of 6 Nisa cent aia eo es - #98 8 BB B justice fees..... Frank nee 3B Gunn, 26 26 ‘ill Nisbett. BB KCL - 61 TL B13 CH Marr.. 17 88 WIS 48 5 Bills of BE. A. Lefebvre amd Schoo! District were laid on the tal : “On mo’ hols the council ried. — ¢ YANCEY, Recorder,