Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 10, 1908, Page 1

Vor. XV.—No, 51. MAY GET WATER ON METER SYOTE Committee Appointed Last Monday to Look Into the Matter MORE CEMENT WALKS ORDERED Five Thousand Feet Needed to Close up the Gaps in Various Sections of the Town and Bids Asked For Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., Wepnzspay, JUNE 10, 1908. _!BLOWED THEM TO PIECES Two Italian Laborers Killed at the Holman Location Monday. While Anonio Hondala and Sarfino Bicenzo, two Italian miners working at the Holman mine two miles from Bovey, were eating dinner last Mon- day ten sticks of dynamite exploded near them, blowing them to pieces. It is not known just how the ex- plosion occurred as no one else was near but it 1s presumed that they were smoking and became careless. Hondala was 42 years old and Bicenzo 25. Buth were unmarried and had brothers working at the mine. They were in the empluy of the Oliver Iron Mining company, The bodies were taken to Eveleth Tuesday morning for the funeral and interment. DISTRIGT COURT 7° Sa:S°r asta NOW IN SESSION A Big Calendar and Many Cases to Come on for Trial GRAND JURY FINISHES ITS LABORS Seventy-Seven Civil and Thirty-Five Criminal Cases are to Oc- cupy the Attention of the Court State Auditor Iverson says State is Losing Money by Present System. Minnesota's state auditor has rec- ommended to the state timber board that the sale of timber on state lands be discontinued. He claims that the State is constantly losing money be- cause the tracts sold invariably con- tain more timber than the state cruisers find previous to thesales. It is said that purchasers usually have better information as to the amount of timber than the state has, and that they know they are getting the’ better of the bargain when they buy. tb would appear that there ought to be a better way than to withdraw the timber from the market. Itis hardly to be expected that any lumber con- cern is going to ‘‘buy a pig in a poke.” The man who buys timber at the Gun Club Practice Shoot. Saturday afternoon several mem- The village council beld its regular session last Monday evening and but little business of importance came The tirst week of District court has | Prices he has to pay nowadays is not passed and the preliminary matters|80ing to take any chances, and it are all attended to and the court is} Would be a poor lumberman who now down to steady grind. The ca)-| Who would buy timber without first up for consideration. Considerable discussion was had in regard to plac- ing the water supply of the village on a meter system and a committee was appointed to investigate as to cost, etc., and present to the council ascale of prices so that an intelligent deci- sion may be arrived at. It was decided to lay cement walks on Hoffman, Houghton and Kindred avenues and on Fourth, Fifth and Seventh streets, a total of about 5,000 feet,*and bids were called for for the construction of the same. A delegation: from the town board appeared and asked for help in open- ing up a road to the fair grounds and| EB some arrangement will be entered in- to between the village, town and county. Will Visit Canada The annual, meeting of the Min-| nesota State Editorial Association will be held at St.-Paul about the middle of July, and the editors and their familes will then go to Duluth where they will take a train for a trip over the iron ranges. They will take the Duluth, Rainy Lake & Win- nipeg road to International Falls and Fort Frances, and then the Canadian Northern for Winnipeg, continuing their western trip to Banff and re- turning to St. Paul via Moose Jaw, over the Soo road ECLIPSE OF SUN SUNDAY, JUNE 28 Visible Here as Partial Eclipse If Weather Conditions Permit A aunualar eclipse of the sun will take place on Jun , and it will be visible in America as a_ partial eclipse. A large portion of the face of the sun will be eclipsed, and it will probably be one of the most interest- ing natural phenomena of this kind which has taken place and which will be visible in North America for bers of the gun club opened the sea- son with a practice shoot at the club grounds north of town. No phenom- inal scores were made but the work was good throughout. Keo Leroux and W. C. Yancey are new members and the following score demonstrates that some of the old shooters will have to look to their laurels ‘else they will lose them. Two events of ten and fifteen birds each were shot as follows: s 10 birds 15 birds H. D. Powers 8 11 Keo Leroux 5 10 W. C. Yancey 6 8 A. A. Garris 7 7 . A. Kremer 7 14 Regular shoots every Thursday af- ternoon hereafter. TheDupont people have presented the club with a hand- some shooting picture as a trophy to | be shot for this season. Notice to All Eagles. Members of Pokegama Aerie No. 366, F.O.E., of Grand Rapids, Minn., are hereby notified that memorial services will be held at the Episcopal church in Grand Rapids, Minn., on Sunday after- noon, June 14th, 1908, at three o'clock in the afternoon of said Sunday. All members are requested to assemble at the hail at 2:30 o’clock on said afternoon, to the end that the Aerie will attend said services ina body. Visiting Eagles especi- ally invited to attend. Dated June 8th, 1908. L. W. HUNTLEY, Worthy President. Attest: HUGH McEWAN, Wor. Secy. { ~ nan some time. June 28th is on Surday. and the eclipse will commence about 8:30 o’clock in the morning and end at about 11:15. If the weather proves favorable, and there are no clouds or but few of them, the inhabitants of this section of the world will have the opportunity of witnessing a fairly good eclipse of the sun. Great Sale of Women’s Fine Dress Shoes Women’s New Style $2.00 Shoes, a pair $1.19 50 pairs of women’s fine kid shoes, Blucher cut, new style last and heel, medium weight soles, made by the Brown Shoe Co., a regular $2 value, for our June Shoe $2.50 Women’s Shoes $1.69 75 pairs of women’s Enter- prize shoes, Blucher cut, made of Vici kid with patent leather tip, large eyelets. the very newest style toe and heel, made by the Brown Shoe Co., a $2.50 value, at the Itasca Shoe Sale a pair.... - 4....$1.69 in Gommaae sepa: Women’s Oxfords, $2.00 Values for $1.39 25 pairs women’s oxfords, new style, Vici kid with patent tip, Blucher cut, common senge last, made by the Brown Shoe Co., all sizes, $2 value, a pair.... $4.00 Women’s Shoes $2.48 200 pairs of women’s fine dress shoes, all late styles in patent leathers, Vici kid with patent tips, White House, Walk-Over and May Flower brands, all sizes, a chance to buy a swell dress shoe for little money, $3.50 and $4 values at only.... -$2.48 | endar contains seventy-seven civil and thirty*five criminal cases, thirteen of the latter being presented to the court by the grand jury which finish- ed its labors last Saturday. Of the civil cases eleven were continued, three stricken from the calender, two dismissed and balance will come on for trial. In the case of, Julius Kessler & Co. vs. George Ruby the jury disagreed. This was a suit for recovery on goods alleged to be sold Ruby by Kessler & Co. The case of William Volk, — vs. Duan & Marcia for trespass is now on trial and will probably occupy the greater part of the week. The grand jury sent in true bills against the following parties: Fred Van Vorden, grand larceny in the second degree. Hector Bray, grand larceny in the second degree. ¥ Josephine and Katherine Ponti, assault in the second degree. Js Ella Fisher, keeping house of i fame. | Louis Miller, adultry. Frank Veer, adultry. Peter Harrison, assault in first de- gree. David and John Munroe, grand lar- ceny in first degree. David and John Munroe, burglary in first degree. } Matt Biondich, arson in first degree. Ed. Holdenand Herbert McKelvey, yrand larceny in first degree. Mable ‘Nellis, adultry. } In the case of the state against Fred Van Vordan, Van Vorden pleaded guilty ascharged and was fined $75 and costs which he paid. It will take several weeks to dis- pose of the cases now up for trial and many may have to be put over until next term. The LaPrairie school picniced last Saturday at that place on the soe of the Mississippi. A number of Grant Rapids and Coleraine people attended and a delightful time was reported. | having sent a cruiser over the property. If the state cruisers fall down in their estimates it is not the fault of the lumbermen, and the state has every opportunity for finding out what it has for sale before it is put on the market. Hulett C. Merritt, Multi-Millionaire. Hulett C. Merritt, head of the Itasca Mercantile company of this place and a resident of Pasadena, Cal., has completed the purchase of a prominent corner at the intersection of Broadway and eighth streets, Los Angeles, for $234,000. The sale was made on the basis of $3.600 per front fuot, the property having a frontage of sixty-five feet on Broadway by one hundred and fifteen feet on Eight street. It is claimed that an offer a year ago of $4,000 a front foot was re- fused and that the only inducement held out by Mr. Merritt was the agreement to erect on-the lot a mod- ern building as high as the city ordinances will permit. Commenting on the purchase the Los Angeles Daily Times says that Mr. Merritt is a millionaire many times over, and that he was one of the principal organizers of the United States steel corporation and is a director in many other large corpora- tions. Special Service at Episcopal Church Rey. J. Spencer Murphy will con- duct a special memorial service in the Episcopal church next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at which Po- kegama Aeria, F. O. E., will attend ina body. Elaborate preparations have been made in the way of flowers and music and the service will be open to all. The heavy rains in this locality have raised the stage of water in the rivers away above normal and the lumbeymen are having no trouble moving the drives. TASCA MERCANTILEPOMPA THEBIG DEPARTMENT STORE MIN 1# GRAND RAPIDS THE STORE OF N. QUALITY Two Dollars a Year. GRAND RAPIDS A GOOD TOWN So Says Editor Lammon of the Itasca Iron News WOULD MAKE A SUMMER RESORT One of the Few Lumbering Towns That is Really Better Than it was When Depending Upon Lumbering L. D. Lammon, editor of the Itasca lron News of Bovey visited Grand Rapids some ten days ago ‘and as a result the following appeared in the last issue of his paper. “You sometimes hear Grand Rapids cited as a slow town, nevertheless Grand Rapids is one of the surest, good towns in northern Minnescta. Grand Rapids is going thru the metamorphosis necessary from con- verting a village depending on lum- bering to that of ome dependent on diverse and other interests. Those who have watched this north country developed could not but have noticed that in the majority of cases the transition between lumbering days and what followed, has not only been abrubt but disheartening to investors in the city realty, Black Duck in Beltrami county might be taken as anexample. When lumbering struck Black Duck it struck ina heap. Cedar buyers gobbled up an immense quan- tity of state timber, the lumber bar- ons came from the south with crews that slaughtered the white pine. 1t seemed that all mankind had con- spired to denude the surrounding country. Business houses gathered in a rich hayvest while it lasted, but when the timber was gone, the con- trast made everything really worse than it was. Grand Rapids is one of the few lumbering towns that didn’t drop. The transition has come, and while money may not be as free as it was ten years ago, the village is really a better town now than it was then. Grand Rapids has great hopes of be- coming a mining town, and we be- lieve that mining is a part of its future but if it never mines a ton of ore Grand Rapids is bouad to prosper. Grand Rapids bas one manufacturing institution that any city may be proud of—the Itasca Paper mills. As asupport to the town they employ skilled labor, and as a manufacturer, their product ranks with the best in the world. As long as Grand Rapids carries that honor she need not fear for her future. We do not believe that the people of Grand Rapids value or appreciate their paper mill as they should. Sometimes we think one of Grand Save Money AITKIN HAS | ANNUAL FLOOD ‘River Now Within Four Feet of Highest Known Watermark E. P. Jaques writing from Aitkin to the Duluth News Tribune says; “The annual government flood on the Mississippi river at Aitkin is now on. When the snow melted and the ice went out ir April the river was at a very low staye. There was little rain and much sunshine through Apri} and a part of May so that when the water made by the melting snow ha@ run off it got dry and we had much trouble with forest fires. The river began to rise steadily by the last of April and has been rising steadily ever since. By the time the rains began and we were done fight- ing fire it was creeping out over the meadows. I[t has not rained heavily heretofore in this section but there has been a good deal of drizzleduring the last of May and so far in June. Meantime, the river has risin to with- in four feet of the highest known water mark and is over the state road north of Aitkin in many places. Today there is falling heavy rain, real flood rain; this leaves the situa- tion along the river above Aitkin in a hopeless condition. Fortunately most of the farm lands are lying idle and only a few will lose their labor and the price of seed sown, anda great many timothy and clover meadows will be drowned out. There is no drainage way as the river is 16 to 18 feet above the break-up stage and the ground covered with rain water.” Attorney B. F. Wright of Park Rapids, candidate for Judge in the Fifteenth Judicial district, was in Grand Rapids last Thursday calling on friends and making new ones. The gentleman is an able attorney who has practiced law some seventeen years in this distnct and considers his chances for nomination as quite favor- able. He reahzes however that he is. in Mr. Thwing’s stronghold in this section but is nevertheless a persistant worker and will make a good canvass of the district. ‘The Herald-Review acknowledges a call. The Grand Rapids ball players visited Bovey last Sunday and cleared up the Iron boys by a score of six to five. This is becoming monotonous, and while both teams contain good material, it is time Bovey got some new blood into the game and returned the compliment. Wantep—Room with a piano by a music teacher. Enquire at this office. Rapid’s chief misfurtunes lies in her dream of being a mining town. Its the old story of hunting for the key tiower—the one that unlocked the treasures of earth, and overlooking greater treasures right at hand. We notice Cass Lake and Bemidji are be- ining to rank as summer resorts of importance, and they are only adver- tising in a modest way. An effective advertising campaign would make Grand Rapids one of the best summer resorts in the state.” On Your Boys’ and Girls’ Shoes. Misses’ and Children’s $1.50 K -61 Boys’ Buster Brown NNESOT A HISTORICAL rand Uapids Herald-Neview. “~~ Shoes for 95¢. children’s good, 150 pairs of shoes, sizes 5 to 12 strong kid shoes pat- ent tips, low heels. We ex- pect a big rush on these. Come early. $1.50 values, 95c F-42 Buster Brown, box calf, Blucher cut, large eye- Jets, low heels, for little boys and girlspsizes 12 to 2, $2 values $1.55 Sizes 5to 119, F-36 Buster Brown’ Blue Ribbon made of fine kid with patent leather tips, for little girls and boys. $2.50 values, size 24 to 4, a pair DEFECTIVE PAGE Blue Ribbon shoes, kang- aroo calf, made with two full soles, Buster last, a neat looking and a good wearing shoe, sizes 214 to 514, $2.75 value $2.25 Sizes same quality K-70 Boys’ Buster Brown Blue Ribbon shoes, Blucher cut, gun metal stock. a swell dress shoe and no better shoe made to wear, $2.75 value, a pair. 2.25 Sizes 1314 to 2, same quality, Boys’ Bullet brand shoes, good heavy box calf, blucher cut, heavy soles, made for good hard ware, 2. 25, values, sizes 214 to5 $1.55 Sizes 1344 to 2, same quality,