Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 11, 1909, Page 1

INNES SOcic 7), ee VoL, XVII.—No. 8. Granp Rapips, ITasca County, MINN., WepnEspDAy, AUGUST II, 1909. ‘ Two Dollars a Year. ITASCA COUNTY'S ANNUAL EXHIBIT Eighteenth Annual Fair Will Surpass All Others Held in This Agricultural County. HELD SEPTEMBER 23, 24 AND 25 Premium List Revised and Publish- ed Today in Herald-Review. Substantial Prizes Offered For All ' Exhibits. A large number of changes have been made in the premium list of the Itasca County Agricultural fair; In most instances fourth money has been eliminated and the other three prizes have been materially increased. In class one of division A., prizes have been created for grade stallions four years old and over and one year and under. In class one of division E., graded bulls have also been ad- ded to the list. Graded bulls and stallions must show characteristics of breading and quality, as no prem- iums will be given on a scrub sire. In grains, grasses, vegetables and fruits, the prize money has been in- creased and the list has also been enlarged. There are three important things that should be considered by those selecting vegetables for the ex- hibit, market qualities, good breed-j; ing and general uniformity, given in the order of their importance. The list of premiums for household articles has also been increased, as has also the prizes. The officers and directors in charge of the asso- ciation are sparing neither pains nor expense to make the fair a com- plete success. The premium list, by- laws and some very valuable sug- gestions and hints are being pnblish- ed in this issue of the Herald-Review and those who intend to place ex- hibits with the intention of securing prizes will do well to read them over very carefully. The improvements which have al- ready been added will contribute very much to the comfort of the ex- hibitors and the erection of a grand- stand will be greatly appreciated by the public. It should be remembered that all information concerning entries should be in the hands of the secretary of the association as early as possible, for the assembling of the different groups and classes will be no small matter. The big event will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sep- tember 23, 24 and 25. No arrange- ments have been made as yet for the racing meet, as it is thought that the board of county commission- ers will lengthen the track, which falls short of measuring the re- quired half mile, and many fear it will not be completed in time for the fair. Grand Rapids has found the arc light system very expensive, they con- suming about fifty-five per cent of the uice generated at the power plant. The poles which support the cable on Third street will have to be removed on account of the paving which makes some kind of a change necessary. Superintendent Garris was at Cole- raine recently and looked over the system there for the purpose of gain- ing suggestions to lay before the council and found that by using the Tungston lamp, eight lamps can be placed on each block, which will give better service and will only con- sume about thirty per cent of the electricity now being used in light- ing the streets. After the matter had been thor- oughly investigated, it was decided to follow Superintendent Garris’ ad- vice and was instructed to order 104 lamps, that being the number requir- ed for lighting Third street. A lamp containing four bulbs will be placed at the corner of each block and two lamps will be placed along the center of the block, each containing two bulbs. A contract was let at the meeting for the sewer work on Hoffman ave- nue for the sum of $1,600.00 to James Passard. Residents on Leland avenue between Seventh street and Hale Lake were ordered to construct side- walks and also on Sixth street be- tween Kindred and Leland avenues. REVEREND HILL CAUSES ARREST Swears Out Warrant Against Con. Grefe on Charge of Shooting With Intent to Kill. HUSTLED TO GRAND HPIDS JAIL Six Days -After Alleged Offense Is Arrested and Given Hearing at Night, ‘Although Working at Bovey. Monday night about 12:30 o’clock Officer Carson arrived from Cole- raine with Con. Grefe in charge and a committment to the county jail for his prisoner, on a serious charge— that of shooting at and attempting to kill F. W. Hill, a Methodist preach- er of Coleraine. The offense is al- leged to have been committed iy Bovey on August 3. At that time Grefe is said to have met the preach- er on the street, and after some words slapped his sanctified features Hill thereupon took to his heels and made tracks for a place of safety. The altercation arose, over a report to the effect that Hill had boasted of his ability to “lick” any saloon- keeper or bartender in Bovey. Grefe is a bartender and took exception to the claim said to have been made by the alleged deciple of Christ. Address all communications con- cerning the fair to H. E. Graffam, secretary, Grand Rapids. Commence Paving Work Thursday B. S. Andrus arrived here from Chi- cago Tuesday with a force of men to commence the work of paving Third street. A deal was made with the township whereby the Blome compan) has secured the use of the stone crusher and they also purchased rock from the township. Herman Schoen- feld has charge of the actual lay- ing of the pavement and has with him a number of. mechanics, who. will do the smith work, etc. Mr. Andrus informs us that they will lay about six hundred square yards of paving per day and estimates that the work will be finished by October 1. Operations will commence tomorrow. ‘CHANGE MADE IN LIGHT SYSTEM Council Decides to Use laiaiilen- cent Lights on Third Street-— Consume Less Power. At a meeting of the village council Monday evening, the matter of chang- ing the system of lights on Third Grefe says that after the preacher had sprinted some distance he heard what he thought to be a revolver shot, and supposed it was Hill shoot- ing to keep up his courage. The next day Grefe appeared before a justice of the peace and pleaded guilty to assult and battery and was fined a nominal sum. He continued to report daily for duty at Peter- son’s saloon where he was employed and thought no more of what he sup- posed was a closed incident until Monday evening about 8:30 when he was served with a warrant by Officer Carson, charging him with having discharged a revolver at Hill with in- tent to commit murder. Hill filed the information. Yesterday morning Grefe was taken before Court Commissioner Pratt and held to the grand jury, bond being fixed in the sum of five hundred dollars, which was promptly furnish- ed. The. fact that Grefe might have been arrested at any hour of the day at any time since the alleged offense took place, and in view of the ac- tion taken, at an unseemly hour, the prisoner hustled to Grand Rapids in the dead of night, at a time when he could not secure a bond, puts an ugly look on the action taken by the preacher. It savors strongly of spite- ful effort to get Grefe in jail for at least a few hours just for the satis- faction it would afford the meek and street was taken up.’ For some time | lowly one. NASHWAUK LINE PREACHER HILL SOON COMPLETED) MAKES A THREAT Rapids and Bovey—Two Cuts To Go Through. ‘Now Working Between Grand! Evidently Wants the Herald-Review to Boost Him Into Greater Notoriety. WILL BE COMPLETE IN 30 DAYS|WILL PROSECUTE US FOR LIBEL 20 Dinky Engines, 8 Steam Shovels|Coleraine’s Notorious Methodist: and: 400 Ballast Cars Used In Work—1,100,000 Cubic Yards Dirt Moved. Few people, unless they have been on the grounds, can realize the mag- nitude of the amount of labor an@) money required in the building of the Great Northern extension from Nasia- wauk to Grand Rapids. The work of construction has been hurried with all possible speed and it is now thought that ore trains can be hauled over the line by September 1. The grading is practically completed with the exception of going through two big cuts about four miles north of the junction. The construction crew is laying the steel as fast as. the grading is done and they will finish their labors within a day or two after the road bed is finished. The geological formation of the country through which the road pass- es is such that its been one continual fight with nature and some idea ‘lof the amount of labor involved can be obtained from the following figures: The work was commenced in January and the extension is twenty-three miles long. Twenty nar- row guage engires were used in haul- ing the four hundred ballast cars and eight steam shovels were quired to keep them filled with bal- last. Eleven hundred thousand cubic yards of dirt were moved in the build- ing of the road bed, and an idea of the amount can be obtained from the fact that if the dirt was in squares, five feet high, five feet wide and five feet thick, placed end to end, they would extend a distance of one hun- dred and thirty-five miles. The construction of the bridge over the tracks of the Oliver Iron Mining company at Bovey was held up on account of its interfer- ing with the stripping of the mine ‘but arrangements were made so that the stripping operations were transferred elswhere and the work of building the bridge will go on unin: terupted and will be finished in @ short time. The road was constructed, primaril for the purpose of shortening the dis- tance of the route into Duluth for the ore trains. As soon as the mines are! in active operation, switching yards will be built at the junction, which is located about two miles east of Grand Rapids on the other side of the Laprairie river and engines will haul the loaded ore cars to the yards where they will be made up into trains for the Duluth ore _ docks. Nothing definite can be obtained at} this time about the train service. The firm of A. Guthrie & Co., of St. Paul have charge of the con- struction of the road and the ap- purtenances thereto, and as fast as the steel is laid through the var- ious villages along the line, depots and section houses are errected. Mr. A. Guthrie, who is at the head of the firm, was in Grand Rapids Thursday and stated while in conver- sation with a Herald‘Review reporter that he had just returned from a trip over the extension where he had been looking over the progress made, and present indications are that the road bed will be completed and the steel laid inside of thirty days. Mr. Guthrie is a pioneer railway contractor and is full of many in- teresting reminiscences of the .early days of northern Minnesota, with which he was very prominently iden- tified, having had charge of the build-, ing of the Great Northern from Du- luth to Grand Forks. Two gangs are working on the cuts between Bovey and the junction, a steam shovel being worked both day and night at each end. When com- plete and the passenger service in- stalled, Grand Rapids will have a direct route to Hibbing and -on to Duluth, the result of which will be mutually benefical. 4 re-|> Preacher Wrote a Note and De- mands Retraction of Article Published Last May. Now we are up against it. No less a character than the “Rev. F. W. dealt with characters of ‘the Hill kind in the past, and knows them from a to izzard. Hill is simply seek- ing notoriety. He desires the Herald- | Review to discuss him and his crazy performances’ through its columns. We may find it necessary to do so, much as we dislike it, but if the task is undertaken it will be done toa dark brown. The fellow Hill knows there is nothing of a libelous nature in the article referred to. He wants to get his obnoxious name before the public, free of charge, through the columns of this eminently respectable paper. He may have a warrant is- sued. Warrants don’t usually cost anything and prosecutions by a man like Hill can be carried on very cheaply. In this way he hopes to get the craved-for notoriety. But in this case he reckons without his host. The Herald-Review has a way of handling these fellows that brings them anything but comfort. We have as much fear of prosecution fcr libel by Hill as we have hope inat he will lead us to the pearly gates and seat us on the high, white heights of Hill,” (as he sfgns himself) of Cole- | Heaven. raine demands a retraction “in a |, public issue of your paper or pro-| All the boys and girls who desire ceedings for libel wil? be at once be- gun.” Inasmuch as the reverned roust-about fails. to specify what par- ticular part of the objectionable ar- ticle he desires to have retracted we are unable to accommodate him. This is the note he sent through ‘the mail: Coleraine, Minn., August. 6th, 1909. Mr. E. C. Kiley, Grand Rapids, Minn. Dear Sir:—In the issue of your “Grand Rapids Herald-Review” of May 26th, 1909, there is an article entitled “‘Preach- er Hill Tilts the Lid.’ Owing to the fact that statements made in this article and edited evidently by yourself are un- true, I hereby demand of you to retract this article in a public issue of your paper or proceedings for libel will be at once begun. Yours truly, “REV. F. W. HILL” Following is the article to which reference is made in the foregoing communication, and which appeared in the Herald-Review’s news columns in the issue of May 26th, 1909: PREACHER HILL: TILTS THE LID Coleraine Methodist Minister and Two Colerain Offiicers Invade Bovey and Get Arrested. “Preacher Hill of the Coleraine M. E. church, August Johnson, marshal and Capt.Ramquist, deputy marshal, oi Coleraine, invaded the village of Bovey last Sunday evening for the purpose of securing evidence against saloon keepers for violation of the liquor laws, and got themselves into serious trouble. The trio have been arrested on charges of burglary. It seems they broke down doors. of saloons and made forcible entry. The saloons of John Specht and N. S. Knobloch were thus unlawfully Traided. They are out on bonds of $500 each. The report published in the Duluth News Tribune says the saloon men claim their places were ropbed, one saying he lost $200 and the other $63. “The Herald-Review is not surprise at the action taken by Preacher Hill, as he is recognized as one afflicted with booze-bats in his belfrey, but why citizens and officers like August Johnson and Capt. Ramquist should stray into another man’s town and perpetrate such an act as they are charged with, is beyond the under- standing of those who know them.” The editor of the Herald-Review would indeed be delighted to at- commodate the meek and lowly one, but in truth it is impossible to under- stand just what it is that he would have withdrawn of the several state- ments made in the foregoing article. His name is Hill and he is reputed to be a preacher in the M. B. church at Coleraine. On May 23, 1909, which was the Lord’s day, Preacher Hill in company with the men named in the article quoted, did go unto the village of Bovey, and did then and there, according to common report and police records, do the things as reported in this very reliable news- paper. The reports as stated were published in the Duluth News Tribune. The last paragraph in the unretractable article expressed the opinion entertained by the Herald- Review editor of Hill and his co-raid- ers at that time and that opinion remains unchanged. We have herein endeavored to con- sider the alleged offense in detail and trust that the apology and re- traction will meet the requirements to compete for the prize offered by Dean Beuchler for the best flower and kitchen gardens are requested to give their names to Mr. C. H. Dickinson at the Itasca Mercantile’s score before the 16th of this month. AETHL CLERKS ATHLETIC CLUB Clerks Met at Village Hall Monday Evening and Organized for Social and Athletic Purposes. STARTS WITH MEMBERSHIP OF 38 Officers Were Elected and an Ex- ecutive Committee Appointed to Draft By-Laws-Next Meet- ing Held August 23. The retail clerks and the employes of the various business establishments of Grand Rapids met at the Village hall Monty evening for the purpose of perfecting plans for the permanent organization of a Clerks’ atheletic and amusement club. The meeting was called to order by T. M. Shoaf, who was elected pre- sident pro tem of the organization. W Guy Finch was elected secretary of the meeting. A motion was made and carried that the officers of the or- ganization shall consist of an hon- orary president, a president, a vice- president, secetary, treasurer and an executive committee of three to be ap- pointed by the president. The follow- ing officers were elected: Hon- orary president, A. B. Seamans; pre- sident, C. J. Eiler; vice-pres- ident, T. M. Shoaff; secretary, M. Mulvihill; treasurer, E. J. Whaling. The president, Mr. Hiler, then took the chair and appointed Frank Sher- man, Roy Strain and “Doc” Whitte- more to serve as an executive com- mittee. The terms of office are to be one year. i The purpose of the club is to pro- mote social intercourse between the clerks and employes of the business houses and: to provide a place where, during the long winter months, they can enjoy athletic sports and other forms of amusement. The matter of organizing a club has long been talked of, but nothing was ever done towards perfecting a per- manent organization until Monday eve ing, and although still in its infancy of the wild and wooly individual who | signes himself “Rev. F. W. Hill.” ~In conclusion the it will, perhaps, in time to come, be- come a powerful factor in the social life of the city. . The club starts out with a mem- bership of thirty-eight and as soon as possible, a suitable place will be se- cured for club rooms. It was decided that the organiza- tion shall be known as the Retail Clerks’ Athletic club. The executive committee held a short session dur- ing the meeting and the entrance fees of the ‘thirty-eight charter mem- bers was fixed at $1.00 each. A set of by-laws will be drafted -and pre- sented to the club for its considera- Herald-Review | tion at the next meeting which will editor wishes to remark that he has | be held Monday evening, August 23. BG RACING MEET AT GRMO APS Local Horsemen Have Arranged for Fast Race Meet to be Held Sunday, August 15. WILL MAKE HORSES SHOW SPEED The Principal [Events Will be Free For All, Trot or Pace, 2:30 Pace, 2:40 Pace and 2:45 Trot. Local horsemen wishing to let it be known outside the county that Grand Rapids has the best race course in the northwest, with the ex- ception of the state fair track at Hamline have arranged for a big race meet to be held here Sunday, August 15. Among the well-known horsemen who will enter their speeders for the event are James. Callahan, Superior; Dr. Davis, Duluth; H. C. Beck, Superior; A. Larson, Duluth; H. E. Redmont, Superior; and J. B. Ennis, Superior; Chas. Jesmore, Eveleth; Alex TIland, McKinley; W. E. Myers, G. F. Kremer and Wm. McGraw of Grand Rapids will also enter horses for some of the races. The following is the program of events, including entries: Free for all, trot or pace, three heats—Geography, time 2:17%4, owned by James Callahan, Dr. D., time 2:12%,Dr. Davis; Big Tom, time 2:20, A. Larson; Exception, no mark, Wm. McGraw; Nellie M., time 2:17%4, Clau Johnson, Rugby, N. D; Better Prom- ise, time 2:18, John Beadford, Vern- dale, Minnesota, 2:30 pace, three heats—Stoneheart, H. C. Beck, American Count, Chas. Jesmore; Dr. I., Alex Hand; Skiddo, Claud Jebnson, Rugby, N. D. 2:40 pace, three heats—Alda Belle, W. E. Myers; Lakeside, H. C. Beck; Minnesota Bell of Virginia. 2:40 trot, three heats—Baby Wilton G. F. Kremer; Conderay, H. E. Red- mont; Black and White, J. B. Ennis. This will be the fastest string of horses that has ever attended a meet in the range country and it is expected that the local horses will give a good account of themselves, This will be a real horse race, no holding back, and each jockey’ will get all the-speed possible out of his animal, as each horseman wishes to ascertain just how speedy his horse is. Everybody should take advantage of the opportunity to witness the best races that will be held here for some time to come. The meet will take place at the race track at the fair grounds and are scheduled to start at 1:30 o’clock, p. m. E WILL BEAUTIFY THE GROUNDS Base Has Been Erected for Statue of Our Lord at St. Benedict’s Hospital. A pedestal base of stone has been errected on St. Benedict’s hos- pital lawn and a life size statue of Our Lord in marble has _ been ordered. It is expected to arrive in a short time and will be placed on the pedestal. The foundation work was done by Mr. Edward Hachey. A short time ago a lawn social was given on the hospital lawn, by friends of the Sisters, to raise money for the embellishing of the surroundings rat the hospital and it was a success in every way, about one hundred dol- lars being realized. It will all be expended in beautifying the grounds. Foot Race Thursday, Evening There has been some discussion as to who is the swiftest runner between friends of Lester Lofberg and Albert Wellein and a hundred yard dash will decide the matter Thursday evening. The race will be pulled off on Kin- dred avenue opposite the Central school. We understand that a side bet of $5.00 has been posted to make things interesting. THe Herald-Review for job work.