Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 1

Vor, XV.—No, 24. Grand Uapids Herald-Review Granp Rapips, ITasca County, MINN., SatuRDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1907. / MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Two Dollars a Year. things you need most Brim Full of Happy Suggestions For Yule Tide Tokens. Everybody-Bazaar of Holiday Helpfulness and Economy. NOW is the time to Shopping. If you wait longer the may be gone. THEBIG DEPARTMENT STORE GRAND RAPIDS Hundreds of gifts, not one requiring the expenditure of more than a dollar. It makes little difference in what “direction your desires lay, whether you prefer the usefut or the orna- mental, or a combination of both, your wants can be satisfied at the Itasca Mercantile. Take a look at our windows, they represent only a small portion of the hundreds of articles suitable for Christmas. The list below will make easy for you to decide how to divide the amount you want to spend. No need to puzzle over the gift problem. Just come in and -be- MINN. eas _ fERCANTILE/ONTA Telephone No. 29 ‘ian a) THE STORE OF QUALITY The Children’s Favorite and just what you want. Gifts innumerable at modest prices just be supplied and here they are— Ta make a Merry Christman for everybody in your family it is not necessary to spend more money than you can afford, if you make your selections at the Itasca. You will furthermore be sure that what you buy will not prove to be trash. We have paid particular attention in making our purchases for this occasion to buy only such goods as will give satisfaction, and therefore produce appreciation on the part of the recipient. To show just how far little money will go we quote you below priceson a number of items that will prove acceptable to gin. almost everybody. Talking Machines cellent entertainer for both ing. We full ¢ stock of Victor 2s, needles and all size records. New rec- ords arriving d Come in and hear them play. Below area few of our Victor combinations. — Our $12.10 Victor Combination—This combination con- sists of a Victor Junior Gramophode, with exhibition sound box and six 8 inch records. Terms, $4.00 cash and $1.00 a week. Our $17.20 Victor Combination This combinaiion consists Victor Junior Machine 10-incn records. Terms, $5 cz and $4 a month, | { | Our $24.20 Victor Combination Consists of a Victor Machine Z, an excellent little machine and a good producer and and dozen 10 inch reeords. Term ash, #5 a month or $1,00 a week. Our $2 -20 Victor Combination Consists of a Victor Machine No. 1. fine oak mackine with taper arm, japanned brass trim- med horn and one dozen 10-in. records. Terms, 5 cash, * month or $1 a week. a What could you buy them that they could get more enjoyment from for so little money as we ask for sleds and sleighs. There’s no better made in the market than the kind we sell. You can pay Take a look at Prices range from 85¢, $2.75 more for sleds but you’ll get no more real value. them for your own satisfaction. Salad or Berry Dishes nice dish. Every woman appreciates nice chinaware. We can sell you one like the cut for 50c, other values $2, $1, down to 25c. Christmas Tree Ornaments 2) the newest shapes in tfe prettiest and brightest lor combinations, tinsel strings, balls, globes, bal- Joons, bells—some cost a good deal, but you can buy jPretty ones for as little as....... +++... sees eee e eee 5¢ / Sled and Sleighs BIG FOR BOYS AND GIRLS LITTLE Plush Bears CUPS AND SAUCERS 10c, 25c, 50c, to $2.50 Ladies’ Neckwear You will be sure to please all ladies, young or old, withsame of our pretty neckwear. We have any number of tasty designs and shapes to choose from, none of them too high priced, and many of them as low as 25¢ ie Xmas Handkerchiefs. 25 Different Patterns at 5c A complete showing of Men’s, Womens and children’s goods. You will buy your handkerchiefs right if you buy them here at these prices. Children’s 1¢, 3¢, 5¢ and up. Women’s 5¢, 10¢, 15¢ up to $1.00 Men’s 5e, 10¢, 12's up to 50e¢ Teddy-Brown and White The best line of imported bears on the market. Soft, stuffed,long plush, chamois palms and soles, jointed limbs, turning head, each with voice, well modeled, can be placed in almost any position, 98¢, $1.50 $2.50, $3.50, $5.00 Ua J If its something for a lady Any one admires a nice | phe average boy kes SN ‘ : a Si {cup and Saucer and we ee : = S that you want, get her a a : nothing better tfina have something like 50 good pocket kn: designs to pick from all those that we ard sel- imported fine transparent ling vill ieee S a Pe china rangingin price from him.10c 2c 50c dnd up ec they bwa. A size for . .-+--j-- ‘ery fine stuffed and Gifts For Boys Make the boy happy with one of our new Ingersoll Watches, open face, stem wind ,and set. Guar- anteed by the factory for one year @ Price $1.00 New Puss in Boots plush — bodies, dinted limbs, felt paws and ears, raid trimmed, velvet boots, very tural and life-llke appearance, ith voice, white and gray. Prices $1.25, $2.50 PRYSENTS FOR A BOY ISTMAS CANDLES Of course, if yo {have a tree, you must have candles. and if ysu have }’tone, you must have them anyway. Welhave them in four sizes; the bigger they are the lo box of 48, 24 or 12, according to PINE ied a sSianie'g oifee tins obey aed 10c Che Earlier you buy your Holi- day Goods the more likely you are to get || THE MESSAGE IN BRIEF FORM The annual message of President Rovsevelt, presented to congress at noon today, is very conservative tn tone, as compared with former com- munications te that body and his speeches during the past year, but jit is not reactiona ry and portions of his previous: message are repeated as j tocrimes against business to show that his views are unchanged. But there 1s an evident intent to reassure |A VERY SMALL POTATO AVERAGE Farm, Stock and Home comments on the average potato in the United States as compared with other coun- tries. F.,S & H, says on the subject. “The average yield of potatoes this year in the United States is reported to be 95 bushels, against 102 bushels last year. The increased acreage this year—54,000 acres—fails to make good the shortage in yield by almost 20,000,000 bushels. With normal con- the business world that his desire is to build up rather than to tear down and that his purposes is to weed out the evils of railroad and industrial combines without injuring the com- bines in business life that are of benefit to the public. In brief the following are the pre- sident’s principal recommendations: Expresses belief in soundness of business conditions. Favors legislation that will give railroads power to enter into agree- ments. Would have Sherman antitrust law amended so as to permit combinations beneficial to the public. Railroads should be permitted to increase their capital stock under supervision of the government. Provision should be made fcr an emergency currency. No changes should be made in the tariff until after the presidential election and the protective system should be retained. Favors income and inheritance tax laws. Preferable to punish offender by imprisonment than fine the corporation. Congress should devise some way to limit the abuse of injunctions. A far-reaching employers’ liability law should be enacted. Eight-bour law should be extended and compulsory inqviry into i labor disputes provided. National system of grain tion favored. Deep waterway from Great Lakes to mouth of the Mississippi, with branches, favored. Changes in public land laws urged. Tariff on wood pulp should be repealed. Eighty-tive feet level lock canal at the isthmus declared the best. Postal savings banks and parcel post extension recommended. Campaign expenses of great poli- tical parties might be paid by con- gress. Higher pay for officers and men of army and navy fayored. Building of four battleships should be provided for this y Peopie of Porto the prime rather inspec- ico should be sumption it looks as if all the pota- toes grown will be needed before a new crop is available. While on this subject it is difficult to avoid deploring the small average yield of potatoes in this country The 10-year average is only 85 bushels the smallest of any country whick publishes crop statistics. A recor¢ of this kind must be unnecessary There are growers, wany of them who prove every year that the aver- age islower than need be, because they have no difficult in getting from 150 to 200 bushels every year. There must be individual growers who get not over 40 to 50 bushels to the acre, to make the average as low as 85. It is these last that need to improye their methods, and itis hoped they will set about it.” In order to bring about this low average, of course the entire country is considered. The showing that might be made from northern Minne- sota would probably beat the world. From 200 to 400 bushels per acre is not uncommon in this section. The President. and His — Abraham. Lincoln was typical of America as it stepped from the pioneer stage of growth and entered upon an entirely new era, facing the national calamity of disunion. He had the graver, more somber, more gently sympathetic and somewhat majestic strain of character and mein that came to the best type of the pioneer from the conquest of ature in its more primitive forms. Theodore Roosevelt’ is equally typical of the America of today as it steps from the pioneer stage of in- dustrialism, of self-contained and self-limited growth to world-wide activities, facing a national calamity of dishonest finance and commercial- ism. He has more of impetuosity and of daring, a less regard for de= t and a freer, more restless and reaching impulse born of cosmopoli- tanism. But there is no difference in the lives of the two men in their regard for personal and national of high motive, of lofty tdei granted rights of citizenship. moral impv It is asu Bureau of mines should be created, | @bLempt to e or disciplir es eee EE dure Roosevelt as it was t * 7 Lincoln. ‘Pu bovh could This Year : Crops. but the one weaning, anc oe SUR ea interest could be but a sec 3radstreet’s have issued their] : et t . . + neiden never to be seri annual Thanksgiving estimate of t 5 , : nation’s crop yield, and it affords, th ' , : . :. . s this been vO conciue when prices are considered with it, - ; . : . } sively proven of our Presideut than plenty of occasion for thankfulness, - even thougb nearly all of the yields in bis message read yeste i are lower than those of last ee ee band 0 ie This was expected, because the spring | bel soravesiandg ciate ¥eb ‘the season was backward and uniavor- whole tone Oo the docur tem able. "Yetthe d gesare relatively | perate, frank and fair. [tis in sub- small, and they are more than offset ae a hee re by eee ce be by increased prices. In six leading if ine gin ae “a fe ee 2 s 2 cereals the crop is 15 per cent smaller | CMY Pe twisted by those A ae than last year, but the prices have seea kink in the shortest distance run from 11 to 40 per cent higher. between ung peyote: ie While wheat production is 14.9 per It is more than a message to the present congres: Itis a text-book cent lower than last year’s, the price of wheat was 22 per cent higher last week than it/was last year at the same time. Corn production de- creased 12.7 per cent, but the price is 14 per cent higher. ‘Taken as a whole,” says Bradstreet’s, “this year’s cereal crops will yield fully as much if nut more than they did a year ago.” And some,crops yield more gore than Jast year. Hay, a crop whose value was exceeded only by corn and cotton in 1906, gained 6 per cent over last year; rice gained 20.2 per cent and sugar 9 per cent. Furthermore, while the) yields are generally smaller than last year, they are not greatly lower than those of the record years, hence they are above the average. Corn decreased 12.7 per cent from last year, yet last year’s crop was the record, an‘ the same 1s true of winter wheat, which lost 17 per cent from last year. It is hard to be pessimistic {in the face of such figures: impossible, in- deed, without being at the same time foolish and illogical.— Duluth Herald. { = Call and see the paintings at the photo studio, whether you buy or not. This is a treat in art you can’t afford ! y to miss. in needed legislation that it will take years to digest and to put in effect. Yet there is not a recommendation of which the great body of the people will not approve in spirit if not in the immediate suggested metbod. America loves ‘I'heodore Roosevelt because he typities what all recognize as truly American. He is the em- bodied spirit of the country at a transitional stage of its development. —Duluth News Tribune. Brownell-Lee. Lesiie Brownell and Alma Lee were married Friday evening, Dec. 6, at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. F. E. Patterson, Rev. H, R. Scott officiating. The ceremony was per-~ {formed in the presence of a few friends and relatives. Miss Claudia Allen attended the bride and Mr. Rex Larmey attended the groom. After a bounteous supper they left on the morning train for a trip to Duluth and the twin cities after which they will at home to their friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Patterson for the present. The Herald- Review joinsin wishing | them happiness through their wedded life.