Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 2

ws! VoL. XV.—No, 24. Grand. < € x . a Rapids, Granp Rapips, Irasca CounTY, Minn., SarurDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1907. 2 : Brim Full of Happy Suggestions For Yule Tide Tokens. Everybody-Bazaar of Holiday Helpfulness and Economy. Shopping. If you wait longer the things you need most may be gone. THE BIG DEPARTMENT STORE 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 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 Itasca Mercantile. you want to spend. No need to puzzle over the gift problem. Just come in and -be- gin. NI GRAND RAPIDS MINN. Sete on ERCANTILEPOMPA Telephone No. 29 pny ll THE STORE OF QUALITY = SS The Children’s Favorite and Che Earlier you buy your Holi- day Goods the more likely you are to get just what you want. Gifts innumerable at modest ptices just be supplied and here | they are— To 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 almost everybody. i What You Want to Give and what You Want to Pay Cictor A Fine Xmas Gift for the home, an e the young and old, igexpen stock of Victor machines, ords arriving daily. few of our Victor combinations. sive and ve Our $12.10 Victor Combination—This combination con- sramophode, with exhibition sound box Terms, $4.00 cash and $1.00 a week. sists of a Victor Junior and six § inch records. Vic No. records. Talking Machines cellent entertainer tor both ing. Wecarry a full ry las needles and all size records. Come in and hear them play. Our $17.20 Victor Combination— This combinaiion consists of a or Junior Machine 10-incn records. Terms,$5 cash 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 d 10 inch reeords. Terms,$5 ¢: #5 a month or $1,00 a week. Our $29.20 Victor Combination Consists of 1. fine Sled and Sleighs FOR BOYS AND GIRLS neckwear. New rec- Below area and many of them as low d 12 zen sh, and children’s goods. a Victor Machine oak mackine with | them here at these prices. Ladies’ Neckwear You will be sure to please all ladies, young or old, withsame of our pretty We have any tasty designs and shapes to choose from, none of them too high priced, Xmas Handkerchiefs 25 Different Patterns at 5c Acomplete showing of Men’s, Womens You will buy your handkerchiefs right if you buy Gifts For Boys Make the boy happy with one of our new Ingersoll Watches, open of | face, stem wind ,and set. Guar- anteed by the factory for one year § Price $1.00 LITTLE taper arm, japanned brass trim- med horn and one dozen 10-in. Terms, $% cash, $5 a month or $1 a week. What could you buy them that they could get more enjoyment from for so little money as we ask for sleds and sleighs. no better made in the market than the kind we sell. imore for sleds but you’ll get no more real value. them for your own satisfaction. Prices range from 85¢, $2.75 | nice dish. $1, down to Christmas Tree Ornaments Zl the newest shapes in the prettiest and brightest plor combinations, tinsel strings, balls, globes, bal- /oons, bells—some cost a good deal, but you can buy pretty ones for as quite Be Ble 's vied eas ote Gite antes Se OP 5¢ or Berry Dishes If its something for a lady that you want, get her a Every appreciates nice chinaware. We can sell you one like the cut for 50c, other values $2, Bate f= Oo seams mat A 8 woman have designs to imported fine transparent china ranging in price from 10c, 25c, 50c, to $2.50 There’s You can pay Take a look at (UPS AND SAUCERS Any one admires a cup and Saucer and we something like 50 Children’s 1¢, 3e, 5¢ and up. Women’s §¢, 10¢, 15¢ up to $1.00 Men’s 5e, 10c, 12's up to 50e Teddy-Brown and White; Plush Bears 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 nice pick from all ling will sure to him. 10e, 25¢,50e d size for ....+-}-- } \ ‘ery fine stuffed yinted limbs, felt paws and ears, raid trimmed, velvet boots, very CHRISTMAS CANDLES Of course, if yo {have a tree, you must have candles. and if ysu have yVtone, you must have them anyway. Welhave them in four sizes; the bigger they are the ‘oder they bm”. A box of 48, 24 or 12, according to New Puss in Boots plush | bodies, tural and life-llke appearance, ith voice, white and gray. Prices $1.25, $2.50 1 ae a emcee ME et ep ae 10c erald-Neview. Two Dollars a Year. |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 to that body and his | speeches during the past year, but it is not reactionary and portions of his previous: message are repeated as to crimes against business to show that his views are unchanged. But ; there 1s an evident intent to reassure | 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 reconmendations: 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 madein the tariff until after the presidential election and the protective system should be retained. Favors income and inheritance tax laws. Preferable to punish the prime offender by imprisonment rather 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-hour law should be extended and compulsory inqviry into , labor disputes provided. National system of grain inspec- 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 year. Peopie of Porto Rico should be granted rights of citizenship. Bureau of nines should be created. This Year’s Crops. Bradstreet’s have issued their annual Thanksgiving estimate of the nation’s crop yield, and it affords, when prices are considered with it, plenty of occasion for thankfulness, even though nearly all of the yields are lower than those of last year. This was expected, because the spring season was backward and unlavor- able. Yet the decreases are relatively small, and they are more than offset by increased prices. In six leading cereals the crop is 15 per cent smaller than last year, but the prices have run from 11 to 40 per cent higher. While wheat production is 14.9 per 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 ih 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, and 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. to miss. |A VERY SMALL | perate, frank and fair. 1 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- 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 couatry 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 is lower 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 Message. 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 nature in its more primitive forms. Theodore Roosevelt is equally typical of the America of tuday 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« tails 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 natioual integrity, of high motive, of lofty ideals and moral impulse sss te attempt to scare or (discipline Theo dore Roosevelt as it) was Lincoln. To bovh right could have but the one meaning, and personal interest could be b condary cident never to be It is as use to swerve tiously con er has this been more conclu. sively proven ¢ ur President than in his message d yesterday to con- He does not budge He ates and emphasizes. Yet the whole tone of the document is tem {tis in sub- stance as in language so simple, so plain and straightforward that it can only be twisted by those who would seea kink in the shortest distance between two points. It is more than a message to the present congress. Itis a text-book in needed legislation that it will take years to digest and to put in effect. Yet there is not a recommendation uf which the great body of the people will not approve io spirit if not inthe immediate suggested metbod. America loves ‘'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 This 1s a treat in art you can’t afford | them happiness through their wedded life.