Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 29, 1909, Page 5

Brand Rapits Heratas'Review Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second. Class Matter. ' | { ' THE HERALD-REVIEW IS THE Official Paper of Irasca County. RRAND RaPips, CoHASSET. KeEEWATIN, NaAsHWAUK, Hoban. Official Paper of U. S. Disrrrot Court in Bankruptey Proceedings. ITASCNS FAIR DREW BIG CROWD (Continued from first page) Official Paper of Village of will be required to display [their en- tries. Last week, two sides of the building |and the center were given over to the entries of potatoes and other products for which room jcould not be found in the agricultural building. General satisfaction was expressed with the new grand stand, the rear part of which will be under roof be- fore next fair time. | Ten box stalls were added for the accomodation of racing horses this fall, giving a total box stalls. Most of them are enough to stable two horses. Temporary sheds for {cattle were er- ected, which will doubtless be replac- d with permanent sheds before next fallj First Attempt at Racing. This year marks the first attempt of the Itasca County Agricultural As- sociation to put on horse jraces for good purses, and vaudeville acts. For four races $900 in purses was given, most of jwhich went to horses owned locally. Secretary | Graffam has been the busiest man in the county during the past few weeks, most lof the ar- duous labor of making the fair a suc- cess developing upon him. How {well he did his work the fair last week is proof. The Secretary says that intending exhibitors sent or rought in their lists of entries jtoo For two nights he and Vice sident Yost sat up nearly all nt to arrange jthe entries, some hich people endeayored to make fter the judges had rendered their decisions. ;All persons intend- ing to exhibit next year are requested to keep these facts in mind,-or jthey will be too late with their entries. Mr. Graffam thinks that an early meeting of the Association jshould be held and plans made to start earlier next year in making arrangements the fair. (He also believes that stock sheds should be many ven additional built. Best Track in Northern Minnesota. Horsemen were enthusiastic over the Grand Rapids race track, 'which they pronounce one of the best in this section of the state and the fastest in northern Minnesota. They declared on Friday that it was in fine condition and before the races jpre- dicted the fast time made in several of the heats. Charles Jessmore, the liveryman of Eveleth, owner of the Eveleth-Virginia stage line, and also a veteran horseman, is the owner of American Count, who made a fine showing in the big mixed race Fri- day, although he was in company that was much too fast for a green /horse, and who was started again on Satur- day. Although seven years old, this is the Count’s first season. He took one heat in Grand Rapids on July 4th, last, in 2:18, making the half in 1:07%. Mr. Jessmore said: “This is the fastest track in this section. It is not only faster than the Hibbing track, but it is faster than the track at Duluth. It has one of the best locations for a track I have seen. I congratulate the peo- ple of Itasca County upon the magni- ficent exhibits of grain, forage, vege- tables, particularly roots, of all kinds and fruits. It would seem as though the farmers of Itasca county can raise almost everything that is good to eat.” William McGraw, the trainer, had a string of speedy ones in his charge at the fair. They included Skidoo, owned by Thomas Kerr of Grand Rap ids; Better Promise, owned by Henry Hughes of Grand Rapids,who won af- ter such a splendid [contest and un- der difficulties on Friday, /when it took five heats to decide the race; Baby Wilton, owned by George Kre- mer of Grand Rapids; Exception, own- ed by Dr. Plaffer, of Hibbing; Ameri- Count, owned by Charles Jess- more, of Eveleth; jAlda Belle, owned by W. E. Myers, ‘of Grand Rapids; Dr. I, owned by Alex. Iland of McKin- ley, and Lady Hal and Hazel Gale, owned by Mayor W. J. Smith, of Eveleth. | Mr. McGraw attended the county fairs at Sauk Centre and Hibbing. He said ‘that while Sauk Centre is in the midst of an agricultural dis- ever can DEFECTIVE PAGE trict its vegetable display did not compare with Itasca county’s. The racing however, was good. { Hibbing made a better showing than Sauk Centre, but was not in the running with the fair jheld here so far as ag- ricultural exhibits was concerned. Praise from Sir. Hubert. Superintendent A. J. McGuire, of the experimental farm, which is only a mile and a half from Grand Rapids, was a very busy man every day of the fair, but took time on Friday to show the Herald-Review man some of the fine points of the exhibits. After the inspection he sat down and said:” “This is the largest live stock ex- hibit they have ever had in Itasca County, and especially so of dairy stock. The farmers are beginning to see that special dairying is the best for this section of the state and are breeding along that line. There are sheep here that might be shone at the State Fair. The showing of vegetables is good and there is con- centration on fewer varieties. ‘The farmers are beginning to realize that it pays better to grow uniform varie- ties, for example potatoes. Some years we have had as high as fifty to sixty varieties exhibited, varieties which have never been seen or heard of on the markets, and consequently poor sellers. The trend now is to grow the Carmen and the Burbank for late fall, especially the Carmen, and the early Sunlight and early Ohio for an early harvest. “These are the varieties best known on the Duluth market. Further, when they grow ‘these varieties they can ship in car load lots, while so many varieties mix ed together no buyer wants to handle The corn exhibit this year is espec- ially strong. .It has been said by visitor from outside the state that it would do credit to Southern Minneso- ta. The fruit exhibit is exceptionally good, especially grapes and plums. Some very fine samples of Alfalfa are exhibited. This plant, as yet, is not commonly grown here, but those who are growing it seem to find it quite adaptable. In the way of grains -wheat, oats, barley-the showing is the largest and best that: the Itasca County Fair has had. Iii stock roots, such as mangels, carrots and sugar beets, the showing is large and fine. This is another crop the farmers are paying more attention to, due to its value for dairy cows and its abun- dant yield. The exhibition of ruta- begas is very good. They are unusual- ly large and smooth.” The Two Star Exhibits. As usual, the heaviest and taken all in all, perhaps the best exhibits, were made by U. C. Gravelle and P. P. Elliott, who entered all {sorts of grains, vegetables, chickens, geese, turkeys, horses and cattle. Mr. Gra- velle’s fine farm is on Pokegama lake, only three miles from town. His entries included white leghorn, white Wyandotte and Rhode Island red chickens and jgray geese; sever- al kinds of grain, all kinds of vege- tables, three kinds of apples, cher- ries, plums; two Jersey cows and one Guernsey bull and Durhams. In all he showed eight head {of horned stock and a two-year-old mare colt. Less than sixteen years ago (Mr. Gravelle bought his farm of 160 acres for $850.00. Seventy acres of it is cleared, and he would |not take less than $37.50 per acre for the whole, which makes its present value about $6,000. uring all these years, too, he has made a living from the farm, and something besides. Mr. Grevelle told the writer that he raises wheat, oats, buckwheat, speltz, barley, field peas, and vege- tables of all sorts. “Although the season is short, “he said,” the crops grow quickly and we jean raise ev- erything. Intending settlers cannot do better than come to Itasca coun- ty, where unimproved jland is still cheap, the soil rich and the crops varied and bountiful.” P. P. |Hliott’s farm, on Pogegama lake, is four miles from Grand Rap- ids. Mr. Elliott entered joats in bun- dles and threshed, yellow and white Dent corn, sweet corn, and pop corn; timothy, barley, speltz, clover, first and second cuttings; fodder corn, butter for which his wife took first prize; chickens and turkeys, seven head: of cattle and a team of horses. Big Crop on a Small Area. While Mr. |Elliott has only eighteen acres cleared he manages to raise a heap upon that limited area. | “The soil is good, he said: ‘It will raise everything. I have had {the best of luck with everything I have tried to raise except apples. Farmers can- not do jbetter in any country than right here in Itasca county. We have good crops and jet good prices. Owning’ three-quarters of a mile of lake shore we never Jack for fresh fish. In addition to the entries I have already mentioned, I am exhibit- ing rutabagas, mangles, celery, caul- iflower, cabbage, carrots, musk mel- ons, parsnips, onions, tomatoes, beets, water melons, squashes, pumkins and four different kinds of plums, while you ought to see the canned goods my wife exhibited. This exhibit would make the average farmer in ‘the wheat belt open his eyes. We can grow everything we eat and ‘have a lot to sell at good prices.” Mr. Elliott has six cows. He sells all his cream in Grand Rapids at very good prices, and says he gets twice ‘as much for it as he would if he turned it into butter. Sheep Farming Pays Here. Much attention was paid to the fine full-blooded Shropshire sheep ex- hibited by Cortland K. Mundy, whose farm is four miles south of Grand Rapids, near Pokegama lake. The flock of eight included a big regis- tered buck. Mr. Mundy has nine- teen of these sheep, but declared that he wished he had [one hundred. He has found sheep raising very pro- fitable and says that Itasca county is well adapted |to sheep. “I did not have to feed grain last winter, only hay, and I think jthose sheep speak for themselves, and so does the wool I got from them this sea- son.”” (Mr. Mundy farmed in Illinois before coming to Itasca county. He has found that he can raise anything her that he raised in Illinois. He believes that alfalfa is going to make a great ferop for Itasca county and is going to plant it next season. He finds the soil {fertile and says that all the settlers have to do is to bend their backs to get the best of re- sults. Mr. Munday has 70 acres 7, his farm cleared. Equally enthusiastic was W. H. Clark, living on Deer lake, [about ten miles from Grand Rapids. He settled there eighteen years ago and expressed himself as perfectly satis- fied [with his farm. He raises vege- tables of all kinds and says that none finer grow anywhere. Cattle and chickens also thrive ‘and are profitable, and he finds that summer boarders pay well. } Mrs. Clark re- gretted that they had not come in on Thursday, so that she {could en- ter melons, cucumbers and tomatoes, which she felt sure would have taken prizes. H Ardenhurst’s Great Showing. Every farmer who attended the Fair will take off his hat to the Town of Ardenhurst for that was the title over one of the finest exhibits of farm products ever seen at this or any other fair. The exhibit took up the entire rear end of the new Childrens Industrial building. Agricul- tural hall being crammed with displays which over- flowed into the new structure. Strict ly speaking, the display was from the Township of Ardenhurst and was the only entry for the township prize of $50.00. Ardenhurst is in the extreme northern part of Itasca County, and sixty miles north of the county seat as the crow flies. Ardenhurst’s ex- hibit demonstrated in striking fash- ion that practically all grains, vege- tables and fruits—all kinds of farm produce—mature and produce prolific crops of the best quality in the most notherrly part of the county and that Itasca, if it is not a farmer’s para- dise, comes pretty close to it. An amazing variety was shown in Arden- hurst’s exhibit, and is worth recount- ing. It included fodder corn planted July 7th and cut September ist, 12 feet in highth, and fodder corn plant- ed in June, 13 feet 6 inches tall; bar- ley, oats, maccaroni wheat, Chivilar barley, hops on a vine one year old and 20 feet in length; celery, apples, seedling apples, natives of Itasca county; Siberian crab apples, toma- toes, yellow peach tomatoes, pop corn white rice pop corn, the finest ever; Kentucky blue grass, timothy five feet tall, red clover, alsike clover, white clover, flax, smoky dent, white rustler, flint and yellow dent corn; sorgum cane, about 11 feet in height; bundle of peas, the longest vines 11 feet; hog millet, navy beans, golden millet, water melons, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, summer cab- bages, magnificent sweet corn Carmen No. 1 potatoes, big and smooth, from seed from the State Experimental Station, near Grand Rapids; early russet potatoes, which took the first prize at the Koochiching county fair, white spine cucumbers, weighing as much as six pounds each; rutabagas, musk melons, also prize winners at the Koochiching fair; black Mexican sweet corn, onions averaging a pound apiece, table carrots, large and smooth; mangels, big and smooth; Hubbard squashes weighing 39 pound chile squash, casha pumpkins, ten pound cabbages, field pumpkins, lar- ger than any shown at the State Fair and pie pumpkins which took the prize in Koochiching county. David Rose and C. D. Fish were in charge of the exhibit. Mr. Rose en- tered, in agricultural hall, for a spec- ial prizes, three intehsely green and very solid cucumbers, called the Bur- bank, a new variety which it is claimed will keep for months stored away as potatoes are stored. Mr. Rose was enjoying the races and Mr. Fish was in charge of the exhibit when the Herald-Review man cata- state. Of course jit is heavily tim- bered. There was nothing there five years ago but the woods. We now have settlers who have as many as twenty acres cleared. I have twelve. All settlement points to agriculture, and when the ground is cleared th: land will be’ some of the best in the county. Additional settlers are com- ing in every year. “Good land, not cleared—cut-over land—which was sold a year ago by W. D. Washburn, is being held at $15 an acre. The season is short but the crops are quick. We have had no frosts so far this season. There has been no failure of any crop th™ year, but in the northern part of the county the summer has been dry and it is the poorest season we have had. We are coming to the fair every year to show what Ardenhurst can do. We want good neighbors and will de- monstrate. what inducements our soil | has to offer them.” Mr. Fish was accompanied to Granc Rapids by Mrs. Fish and their two bright children, Malcolm and Muriel. Farm Implements, Machinery and Wagons. The exhibits of farming implements | and { machinery, wagons, buggies sleighs were creditable. W. J. & H. D. Powers of Grand Rapids, were the largest exhibitors, They operated a large McCormick harvester, using a gasoline emgine for power, on Friday j afternoon and all day Saturday. Wil- liam Wheaton was in charge of the display, which included also sleighs and buggies, seeders, plows, cream separators, farm wagons, mowers and hay, rakes. Henry Hughes & Co., the large gen eral merchandise dealers of Grand Rapids, had on exhibition a farm wagon, a delivery wagon, a spring wagon, buggies, washing machines, a cream separator and a potato digger. A. B. Siewert, the Duluth clothier, and head of the Seiwert Spring-Spike Harrow company, gave practical ill- ustrations of the advantages of his harrow by having a team draw it over ground on which rocks and boul- ders had been placed, without damage to the harrow. This harrow ,attract- ed much attention, and Mr. Siewert booked a number of orders for it. Big Grapes of Fine Flavor. Handsome displays of grapes there | were in plenty, those of John Hep- fel and George F. Meyers attracting particular attention because of their size and beauty. Mr. Meyers con- fined his fruit entries to grapes, which were enclosed in a large glass case. They were of different varie- ties, unusually large and of fine flavor. They were raised on Mr. Meyer’s farm on Pokegama lake, three miles from Grand Rapids Mr. Meyers is in the real estate business in Grand Rapids but has taken time to demonstrate on his farm the wealth of the soil of this section. Mr. Hepfel is also a busi- ness man of Grand Rapids, but farm- ing is his hobby, and unlike most hobbies it pays well. He has 25 acres of a fine farm cleared on Pokegama lake, four miles southwest of Grand Rapids. He also used a glass case in making his display, which consis- ited of large and finely colored cat- awba and concord grapes, DeSoto and cherry plums, compass cherries and Whitney No. 20 crab apples. Mr. Hep- fel said: “Our’s is a good, rich soil and iwill raise big crops of any kind of grains and vegetables. You ought to see the strawberries, currants, gooseberries and raspberries I raise on my farm.” Mr. Meyers said: “The fair is certainly the best ever peen held in Itasca county. I help- ed to get up the first fair eighteen yaars ago, and it certainly was a small beginning. The display of ag- ricultural exhibits last week was very good and the variety of the ex- hibits would surprise one not ac- quainted with the adaptibility of Itasca county’s soil. In regard to my e¥bibit of grapes, I have not had gued it on Friday afternoon. Fine Farms Hewed out of Forests. Mr. Fish is enthusiastic over the agricultural results achieved in his township. He said: “It is as good an agricultural county as there is in the much experience in that line, but raised about 120 pounds this year and hope to double it the coming year, although the soil in which the roots are implanted is of clay.” Some of the Household Exhibits. Mrs. fe. J. Niles, Director of the Household department, said that many women had told her it was the best exhibition that has been made in that department, although not so large as in former years, She call- ed attention to an exquisite piece of point lace made by Mrs. David Rose, of Ardenhurst township, who is more than jsixty years old. This lace took first prize. Mrs. Rose also exhibited jsome Japanese embroid- ery. Mrs. Niles declared much other work shown was of almost |equal merit. In this department Miss Minnie E. Sickler {showed ten photographs which took the gold medal recently at the meeting of the Northwestern Photo- graphers’ Association. |Mme. Dupre, the well known French teacher and artist, was too late to enter two oil paintings which jshow much ability. Mme. Dupre, however, kindly placed them on exhibition anyhow. Notable in this department, were the [table scarfs, fancy sofa pillows, center pieces and.a table Piece which “he bought out Rovnd, Oak I4 years fore | was born and that itis y just as. good as eve d / Vm 9 years ol NOW, W. J. & H. D. POWERS, Ask the User See the name ROUND OAK on the leg. - - - Grand Rapid, Minnesota Did youever know a man who owned and used a genuine ROUND OAK STOVE? If not, and you are going to buy a heat- ing stove, find one—for ROUND OAKS are eve- rywhere—and ask him and his family what they think of it. That is the way to prove the ROUND OAK. We will abide by “the returns.”’ It never failed a user yet. It has friends every- where. Why? Because it’s a good and honestly made stove. It heats up, it holds the fire, it saves the fuel and it lasts. Sound and perfect, it comes forward year after year, ready for business. There are reasons for the remarkable showing this stove has made. If interested you sho’d know them. No trouble to show the stove and ex- plain reasons why. Get curious! Investigate! We will sell all the dry goods in our store at cost as we wish to close out all these goods at once. We will carry a clean and fresh stock of Groceries and ask for a share of your patronage. THE CASH STORE Arsenault @ Cashen, Props. NEW HOME THIS FALL If you are, we just want you to give us an opportunity of showing you through the store. An introduction to our goods— an aquaintance with the prices will result greatly to your benefit. Beautiful New Carpet-Rugs and all manner of New Floor Coverings These Special Prices For This Week 17. 5 For 9x12 Blue Rib- bon Velvet Rugs— rich colorings—finest grade vel- vet—our regular $25.00 values. 1 7 For 27x54 inch Velvet . Rugs. Floral or Or- iental pattern—fine heavy grade of goods—colorings beautiful, new combinations, $2.25 grade. EORGE F. 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