Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 7, 1909, Page 1

| t scien | / | Vor. XVII.—No, 3. Granp Rapips, Irasca CounTY, Minn., Wepngspay, JULY 7, 1909. ee SOCIETY. | cw. “MINNESOTA _ HISTORICAL. | Two Dollars a Year. THE CELEBRATION DRAWS Blo CROWD Nearby Towns Celebrated on July 5, All Coming to Grand Rap- ids on Monday. EVERYBODY HAD A GOOD TIME Sports of Various Kinds Helped to Entertain the Large Crowds During the Day—Some Good Races Run. The morning of Monday, July 5th, dawned bright and clear and at the first faint streaks of dawn a large number were out apprising their more sleepy neighbors with volly up- on volly of salutes, that this was the glorous day of the celebration of the Declaration of Independence, on account of July 4th falling on Sunday People from outside commenced to arrive early and at 9:00 oc’lock, wher the parade took place, there was al- ready a large crowd on the streets to Much credit is due the enterpris- ing committee that had the affair in charge. The undertaking was not brought to public attention until a late hour and the amount of hust- ling required was not small. E. A. LeFebvre, chairman, and Hugh Mc- Ewan,. secretary, of the committee had charge of the entire arrange- ments and that they were the right men in the right place the results are ample evidence. The parade, consisted of the follow- ing, in the order named: Grand Rapids band, John Costello float fol- lowed by a boys drum-corps and twenty little girls dressed in red, white and blue, Henry Hughes & Co. float, W. J. & H. D. Powers float, First National Bank float, E. T. Douglas comic float and the Itasca Jaundry float, followed by vehicles of various kinds, forming at Village hall on Leland avenue and marched east on Fourth. street to Winnipeg avenue, turning north on Winnipeg to Seventh street and from there west to Kindred avenue. ‘When Kindred avenue was reached the par- ade turned south and marched to Second street and turned east to Le- Jand avenue. From Leland avenue the parade marched directly to the baseball park, where a game between Grand Rapids and Marshall-Wells of Duluth took place. The afternoon was spent at -the fair grounds where the various races took place. No admission was charg- ed, the committee having decided that everything at the race track should be witnessed free of charge. Prizes Awarded. Best representative business man’s float: 1st Henry Hughes & Co., 2nd John Costello. Best comical float: ist E. T. Douglas, 2nd John Costello and Howard Doran. Best comic characters: George Hewis and G. M. Miles. Best character by boys 8 to 12: Elmer Roecker and Harver King- ston. Best character girls 8 to 12: Calimia Olin and Jennie Fiddlebie. Farmer with largest family in vehi- cle in parade: Pat Kinney, Cohasset and Wm. Hoolihan. Farmer with family in vehicle coming longest dis- tance: Albert Phillips and Albert Brooks. Farmei) with largest number of actual emplcyes in vehicle: Wm. Hoolihan and A. M. Sissler. Foot Races. 100 yard dash: 1st Lester Lofberg, 2nd Herman Blood, 3rd Stewart Mc- Laughlin. 75 yard dash: ist Lester Lofberg, 2nd F. E. Patterson, 3rd Stewart McLachlan, Fat Man’s race Is L. W. Huntley, 2nd Chas. Hillbrauck. 100 yard dash, boys 12 to 18: Ist Oley Doran, 2nd Louis Carrier, Co- jhasset. 50 yard dash, boys 12 to 18: ist Harvey Jorgerson, 2nd Oley Doran 75 yard dash, boys 8 to 12: 1st Ed- win Farrell, 2nd Clifton Thomes. 50 yard dash, boys 8 to 12: Ist Andrew Blair, 2nd Hartley Dewey. 50 yard dash, boys 8 and under: ist Stanley Farrell, 2nd Edward Riley. 75 yard dash, girls 10 to 15: 1st Katie Mc- Cormic, 2nd Tressa Hepfel, 3rd Flor- ence McHugh. 60 yard dash, girls 10 to 12: ist Katie McCormick, 2nd Bmma Bolin, 3rd Tressa Hepfel, 4th Florence McHugh. 50 yard dash, girls 8 to 10: Emma Bolin, 2nd Addie Litchke, 3rd Ethel Johnson, 4th Alice McCormick. 50 yard dash, girls 5 to 8: 1st Gladys Mooers, 2nd Alice Mc- Cormick, 3rd Viola LeFebre, 4th Gert- rude Richards. 15 yard dash, girls under 5: 1st Rose Ihler, 2nd Dora Lesarge, 3rd Lillian Neveaux, 4th Iva Bell. COUNCIL DECIDES | Horse Races. Green race, trot or, se, 5 entries, 1st “Doctor I” ownea by Henry Hughes, 2nd “Alda Belle” owned by. Wm. Myres, 3rd “Baby Wilkes” own- ed by Geo. F. Kremer. Running race, one mile dash, 5 en- tries, 1st “William” owned by Geo. Myers, 2nd “Maggie 2” owned by Col. Woods of Bovey. Free for all,. trot or pace: ‘Except- ion” owned by Dr. Clapper, Hibbing, 2nd “American Count’ owned by Chas. Jensmore, Eyeleth. Shetland pony race: 1st Wayne Gil- bert, 2nd Willie Costello. A one-mile marathon race was pull- ed off around Central school park at 7:30 o’clock which was entered in- to by Lester Lofberg, Stewart and Howard McLachlan and a Mr. Stride. The race consisted of five laps around the park. At the beginning of the second lap Mr. Stride dropped out but the other three continued to eat up the space. On the fifth lap Howard McLachlan’s heart gave out and he fell unconscious and was taken into Miller’s ice cream parlors and a doctor and nurse summoned. He remained ‘unconscious until about four o’clock Tuesday morning. Stew- art McLachlan droped just after cross ing the line on the fifth lap, but was up and around in a short time. Les- ter Lofberg finished the race in good condition. The committee decided to give them $5.00 each, as the to- tal amount of the prize amounted to $15.00. During the evening all those who were so inclined tripped the “light fantastic” at the bowery on Third street and at the Dance given by Roecker’s orchestra at Village hall. It was one of the most harmonious crowds that ever assembled at any one place to celebrate the nation’s natal day and not a little credit is due ‘the committee in charge, Messrs. LeFebvre, McEwan, Patterson and Aiken for the good time had by all. Grand Rapids has always had are- putation for hospitality and this year she certainly lived up to her name. INJUCTION HAS BEEN GRANTED Judge McClenahan Issues Order Restraining Town Board From Selling Bonds Judge McClenahan handed down a decision last Thursday afternoon which makes the township bond elec- tion void. He ruled that at least two seperate ballots should have been used and a temporary injunction was granted restraining the board of sup- ervisors of Grand Rapids township from advertising for bids or selling bonds. A petition is being circulated and a new election will be held in the near future when the refunding of the floating indebtedness and the road proposition will be on separate ballots. It is thought by those who are in a position to know that the two prop- ositions will carry by larger majori- ties than they received at the recent election. The board ha ~“.=?4.a meeting and fixed Tuesday, July 20th, as the date for holding the election, when two ballots will be used to conform with Judge McClenahan’s decision. A large number of citizens have peti- tioned the town board to immediate- ly call another election and in com- pliance with public sentiment they have taken action. Pretty Good Test. The exchange editor can easily con- sume one full pipe of tobacco while perusing the columns of the Grand Rapids Herald-Review since Brer Kiley installed his new type setting machine, to make no mention of the number of times the pipe goes out. And we hold that a paper that will hold that test is a pretty good one.— Walker Pilot. Observance at St. Joseph’s. The Fourth of July was observed in a very beautiful manner at the Catho- lic church Sunday forenoon. The local G. A. R. and affiliated societies were invited to march to the church on the way to which, they were met by a procession of alter boys and priest. About twenty little girls dressed in white preceded the old soldiers, scattering garlands of flow- ers along the way. The entrance to the church was draped with flags, while the inside was beautifully decor- ated with the national colors. Ar- Grand Rapids Assumes Metropoli- tan Airs and Will Pave Seven Blocks of Third Shreet. GRANITOID PAVING WILL BE USED Pavement Will be 27 Feet in Width Between Gutters—Contract Let to Chicago Company at $2.00 per Yard. At a meeting of the village council which. was held last Wednesday even- ing, it was decided to pave Third street from a point two hundred feet east of Leland avenue west to the east side of Clough avenue, a distanc: of a little over seven blocks. Granit- oid was the paving material “which was decided upon and the contract has been let to Rudolph S. Blome company of Chicago, in accordance with its bid of $2.00 per square yard for street paving, 55 cents per foot for curb and gutter and 25 cents per cubic yard for excavating. The pavement will be twenty-seven feet in width between gutters, fifteen feet in width from the curbing on the south side of Third street to be paid by the owners of the abutting prop- erty.. The gutters will be eighteen inches wide on each side, making the street thirty feet wide from curb to curb. The north side of the street will be boulevarded, thereby cutting down the cost of the paving. A com- mittee composed of three members of the council were at Minneapolis and Chicago last week looking up the various kinds of paving and con- sidering which would be the most advisable at the price at which the council was willing to let a contract. After thoroughly considering the mat- ter it was becided to use granitoid, which met all the repuire- ments and was satisfactory in price. Granitoid, as the name implies, is powdered granite stone which is mix- ed with cement, no sand being used, The committee examined different walks in Chicago which had stood for a number of years and were thor- oughly satisfied that the granitoid met all the claims that were set up for it. The condition of Third street has always been a source of annoyance to all who have occasion to cross it or walk along its length, as the dust lies to a depth of about five inches and whenever the wind raises the passersby and those who reside along it are given a dust bath. When the paving is completed it will greatly curtail the dust evil. The paving will commence in the near future. The paving of Third street will be ids to which all will point, in years to come, as the beginning of a big- ger and better city. Grand Rapids is yet in its infancy and with the completion of the Great Northern ex- tension to Hibbing, it is thought that the business and population of our hustling and growing city will be greatly augmented, as it is a well established fact that Grand Rapids is one of the most desirable resi- dence locations and has one of the best systems of schools of any city on the range. Now let everybody put their shoul- der to the wheel and boost for a bigger and better Grand Rapids. pe eee riving at the church, the way to which was lined with people, the Procession entered the church, the congregation falling in and following behind. The national airs were play- ed at intervals during the services. The Very Rev. Dean Buechler never loses a chance to instill a love of country in the hearts of his congre- gation. 5 H. P. Cochrane took a picture of the Grand Rapids ball team last Tues day, just before the game with the “Gophers” and he certainly succeed- ed in getting a good likeness of the a gallery in the building just north of the Hearld-Review office and will take postals and stamp pictures. | -Herald-Review, Jop an epoch in the history of Grand Rap- | THE LOCALS LOSE bunch. Mr. Cochran has opened up | NEFECTIVE PAGE TO PAVE STREET = THREE STRAIGHT Marshall-Wells Proves Too Much for Grand Rapids—Gives the Pitcher Good Support. ° THE GAMES WERE HOTLY CONTESTED Huss’ Arm Played Out at End of First Game—Lofberg Pitched Second Game—Gave Good Account of Himself. The Marshall-Wells team of Duluth defeated the locals three straight games in a series which were played here Sunday and Monday. The line- up of the locals has been consider- ably changed and their failure to win can be charged to the fact that they have not received cufficient-prac- tice in team work. Bell is again in the game holding down the bag at second and although he has not played for over a year, he is doing good work. “Bob” Zimmers is again pick- ing them off behind the bat and plays the game all the time. Th lin-up of the team is now as follows: Lofberg, ss, McKibbage ist b, LaFreniere 3rd b, Zimmers ¢, Huss p, Wellein If, Blair cf, and Bell 2nd b. With a little practice they will be in a position to overcome the run of hard luck which has been attending them during the last two weeks. The Sunday Game.’ j The first game of the series was hard fought. In the first in- ning the visitors were first up. Aech- ter struck out, Johnson drove out a single and M. Hilbert knocked a lin- er to shortstop who fumbled it and he got to first. N. Hilbert connected with a two-bagger and brought in beth men. The next two men‘ up were struck out. When Grand Rapids went to bat they found the pitcher allright, but everything was fielded and no one reached first. The sec- ond inning was a goose egg apiece. In the third the visitors ran in two more scores and Grand Rapids got ahother goose egg. In the fourth Duluth failed to see home plate, Mc- Kibbage walked to first, stole second and came in on a two-bagger by La- Freniere. In the next four innings both teams settled down to business and neither side scored a run but in the ninth each managed to get another score. Score by innings: Grand Rapids 00010000 1—2 Marshall Wells 20200000 1—5 Batteries: Grand Rapids, Huss and Zimmer; Marshall-Wells, Wiggins and Soltan; Uupire Bell. Monday Forenoon. Game. In the Sunday game Huss threw his arm out and Lofberg pitched the Monday forenoon game, and on oc- count of their being two games for the day, Zimmers did not play. The team was filled up by Cloutier and Wahlen. Although inexperienced as a “twirler,” Lofberg done some good work in the box, but during the first half of the game the locals seemed “dead” and did not play with their accustomed snap and vim. Marshall- Wells secured a run in the first in- ning and five in the second, while the locals failed to score. However in the last half the boys came out of their trance and attempted to re- trive the lost ground but the visitors had too big a lead on them, Score by innings : Grand Rapids 00000100 2—3 Marshall Wells 15000010 0—7 Batteries: Grand Rapids, Lofberg and McKibbage; Marshall-Wells, Hil- pert and Soltan; Umpire, Zimmers. The Afternoon Game. On account of the races being pull- ed off so late, the game was not called until 5:30 oc’lock and was not concluded until 7:30. Huss pitched two innings and then his arm gave out again, when Lofberg again went in the box. The game was exciting from start to finish and was thor- oughly enjoyed by the large crowd which turned out to witness the affair. It was decided the best game of the three. In the first inning Grand Rap- ids secured two runs and Marshall- Wells failed to score although they got a man to third. In the second the locals failed to get past second, and Marshall-Wells scored a run, i two innings were shut-outs for rboth sides, but in the fitth the | visitors got busy amd ran in three scores, securing one more in the sixth, the locals again failing to score. In the seventh Grand Rapids got another run and in the eighth both got goose egs. The last inning was a hard fought one, each team securing a run. Score by innings : Grand “apids 20000010 1—4 Marshail Wells 01003100 1—6 Batteries: Grand Rapids, Huss Lofberg and Zimmers; Marshall- Wells, Wiggins, Hilbert and Soltan; Umpire, Pogus. More Injunction Talk. County Commissioner Morris O’Brien was in town this morning on his way to balsam township to look after the bridge to be built across Prairie river. He stated that a@ rumor was currant in Cohasset to the effect that certain parties in Grand Rapids proposed to use an injunction Process to prevent the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at that point. Fif- veen thousand dollars was~ recently voted by the people of the township of Bass Brook for the® construction of the bridge. The proposition car- ried by a vote of 162 to 21. This is pretty good evidence that the people realize the great need of the bridge and are willing to pay for it, and those who are said to be doing the kicking are said to be men who own property there who have no interest whatever in the general welfare of the community. Cohasset: is a live, progressive village, made up largely of a progressive class of . citizens who are aiming to build up their town. Any citizen of Grand Rapids or elsewhere that attempts to inter- fere with necessary advancement of Cohasset. will probably learn that he is going up against a_ solid, senti- ment that will be jidkey 04,0ver- come. wee <i ae Contracts have already been let by the village council of Cohasset for several blocks of cement sidewalk, Mr. O’Brien says, and this promises to be.a busy season in that lively yileege. Attend Eagle Convention. The Eagle convention. which was held at Hibbing the fore part of last week, was one of the biggest things of its kind ever held in the state. The citizens of Hibbing certainly did themselves proud in ther efforts to eclipse all other conventions of that kind'and they spared neither pains nor expense in decorating the city for the event, a firm of Chicago ar- tists being employed to do the decor- ating. The following were the dele- gates from the Grand Rapids aerie: Hugh McEwan, L. W. Huntley, E. A. LeFevbre and H. E. Nevux. Mr. Mc- Ewan was elected Inside Guard of the grand lodge. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McGowan, H. EB. LaVasseaur, W. E Younger, Paddy Burk, J. B. O'Reilly, Geo. Miles and Wm. Wetzel were al- so at Hibbing during the convention. ONE TO 500 LAW HELD TO BE GOOD Judge B. F. Wright Hands Down Decision Holding the Alderman Law to be Constitutional. The Alderman law, limiting sa- loons to one for 500 inhabitants in towns where a larger number does not already exhist, has been sustain- ed in a decision just handed down dy Judge B. F. Wright of the Fif- teenth Judicial district in the case of Edward Langthig against County Auditor M. A. Spang of this county. The case was argued entirely on the constitutionality of the law, and Judge Wright sustained the contention of the states’ attorneys. Thwing & Rossman of Grand Rapids presented the case for Langthig. a The case was argued at Grand Rap- ids, April 27. Langthig applied for a lisence in one of the towns in the county and the county auditor re- fused to receive the application or publish it, holding that the village already had more than one saloon for each 500 people and no more licenses could be issued. Langthig sued out an alternative writ of man- damus to compel the auditor to re- ceive the application? For Sale—Lot 6 block 8 Village of Cohasset, good residence or business location, access to river and railroad. W. W. FLETCHER, Agent For sale or exchange for beef cat- tle—Six good fresh milch cows. SOLBERG & co. FEELEY’S CITIZENS HAVE CELEBRATION Our Eastern Neighbors Enjoy One of the Best Fourth-of-Julys {Reported in Itasca County. OLD AND YOUNG FROM FAR AND NEAR Gather at the Thriving Village and in Befitting Manner Observe the Nation’s Birthday From Early Morn to Morn. To remark that a small hamlet in loyal Northern Minnesota cannot pro- duce as much genuine enthusiasm and patriotism per capita as any city anywhere in the entire country would be presumptuous. Feeley, east on the edge of the G. N. Ry., being neither a ‘“‘spur, siding or station,” on that great trans-continental rail- way, certainly got together as a small community, augmented by the set- tlers from all points of the compass within a radius of several miles, and caused the big, white-headed bird of freedom to scream his loudest screech, At sunrise the proverbial 100 guns boomed to notify the people for miles around about that the nation’s natal day was to be observed in real, old- fashioned style, and by 10 o’clock the people were there to show their inalienable right to, celebrate, bunch and gorge themselves to their hearts’ content, with no nation to make them afraid. sf At 11 o’clock Maj.iW. W. Cooley, of Coleraine, was jounced as or- ator of the day, and if he did not fill the bill there is no use for him to undertake to accumulate a fortune in any other capacity. He rode the eagle to such a dizzy hight that those people never expect to see the glorious emblem of America descend to terra firma for food or drink be- fore next year at about the same date, and at the conclusion of his twentm minutes’ remarks—how the people did yell! A picnic dinner was announced and not a member of the jolly crowd failed to do his part, even down to the speechless infant in arms. It did one’s soul good to see the little kids munch the oranges, banana, pea- nut and popcorn and wash them down with lemonade that never saw the photograph of the circus variety. Then the ball game between the local nine and the team from Flood- wood, a few miles further down the line was pulled off, the latter win- ning by a score of 13 to 4. There were the usual races, games, etc., but the ladies’ foot race was the center of attraction, and to have seen that bunch of laughing, jolly women romp down the course , with the speed of dear (as they are), caus- ed the hearts of many young swains and older fellows for that matter, to throb with joy, which feat added to prove to any live man that they are worthy to be the wives and sweet- hearts of our sturdy frontiersmen—or any other class of men on this con- tinent, and none other should be al- lowed to win them. The bowery dance in the evening was enjoyed by a large portion of the celebrationists until Old Sol peeped above the horizon and announced that it was the proper caper to re- turn to their regular vocations. There was no more orderly nor happy crowd assembled in the state than that which celebrated the Fourth of July, 1909, at Feeley, Itasca County, Min- nesota. Brown Released. W. R. Brown of Deer River, who was accused of complicity in the sup- posed murder of John Johnson at Deer River on the night of December 25, 1908, has been released on his own recognizance, the principal wit- nesses being out of the state and the evidence being purely circumstantial A peculiar feature of the case is the fact that the autopsy developed no abnormal conditions. Johnson was in perfect physical condition and ex- cept for some _ superficial bruises over the right eye and right ear, there was nothing to show that he had been roughly handled in. any, manner, : — ||