Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 3, 1909, Page 7

BUVEY EDITOR V3, POSTMASTER (Continued from first page) Also arted a petition asking that the ar site be chosen. Nine-tenths of the property owners and voters signed it. Then they sent for.Con- n Miller, who came up on § of last week, and assured the people would have their f he could get it for them. And etically assured that Post- 1mon will go to the new t why unwillingly, I can’t new site is one- Editor Lammon’s newspaper and job office. Still the, citizens > because when they had rais- they suggested to the Post- that as the fixtures were for they -e ‘the ock from ped x it would be a graceful thing for him to chip in the remaining $50 He declined. The Editor was asked to give the $50 on the ground af public spirit. He also refused. They would’t talk about anything en I arrived Thursday night to do I special number work here except the postoffice matter, and I am giv- ing them a complete hearing in print be allowed to go on with work. First I reasoned an hour with the Postmaster, try- z to convince him that the nine- is of his fellow citizens must be righ He could not see it. I ht to do better with the Editor the Postmaster to litor’s office. No use. The r told the Postmaster and me, ly, but I understood what he he did not see where it ifiair Both the Editor and tmaster then endeavored to to their side. They me all about but not to be quoted in so as to own accompanied that over Were willing to tell ything, s story | outlined to the Editor what I was going to write about the Postmaster, and offered to turn my copy over to him, head and all, after it was writ- ten, permitting the Editor to defend the Postmaster and riddle my story f ne wished, with the assurance I would print’ his story right with mine just as he might He declined the challenge, keeping all his thunder, Iron News, but the will be “cold”? by that time, Postmaster’s side might shown up by the able not been so chary of words. With the ex- ytion of the Editor“and Postmaster body else in town was willing to It would take a page to told me, and so I have s ed out only a few of the things se by the principal citizens. First of all I will give the version of Erik Johnson, who runs the largest general built up a large business, write it presumably for the Ita have been = or had he golden r all they store, h who preceded Lammon as Postmaster and who, it is charged, wants to keep the postoffice in the rear of his store because it is good for his busi- R Mr. Johnson, unlike the Post- r and the Editor, spoke freely with evi appearance of He said: mas and sincerity. ‘I think the way the town is de- veloping the postoffice is in a good location where it is. So far as I am personally concerned, I would just as the room now occupied postoffice, as it is required by my expanding business. But the business part of town is growing along Second avenue toward Coleraine and the best location is at or near Second avenue and Second street. Anybody is welcome to have the postoffice for a tenant, but the office ought to be very near to where it is. if I had wanted to keep the post- office in my store I could have secur- ed a lease for ten years. I never asked Mr. Lammon or did he promise to use his efforts to keep the postoffice where it is. When I found it necessary to give up the office, my business demanding all of my at- tention, I recommended Mr. Lammon for the place because I considered him well-equipped to fill .it.’”” Frank Provinske, Village President, the principal hardware dealer and one of the town’s most public spirited citizens who was one of the leaders in the fight to remove the postoffice to a mew site, although it will be no nearer his place of business than it is now, said: “The place select- ed in the Star building is the only available location im the heart of town. Everybody in town favors it except the people living on Second avenue. Ninety per cent of the peo- ple favor the Star site.” Andrew Bottelson, the druggist, who was also one of the leaders in the movement said:. “In my opinion the only location that would receive the assent of the majority of the people is’ the Star| site.” P. K. Priest, dry goods and cloth- img, who did as much as any other man to bring about the change declared: “When 90 per cent of the d4axpayers and voters sign a petition leave have by the me tor a change of the postoffice it ought to be granted. The site chosen is the best avaialble in town.” A. H. Grimpo is the proprietor of the Hotel Fitger, in the business and geographical center of town. He and his associates put up the fine three story brick hotel building, in- vesting a large sum, because ‘it was the best site for a hotel in town, and for the same reasons, for the post- office, the Star building being only two doors away from the hotel. Mr. Grimpo told me: “We want the post- office located in the Star building because there it will, serve best the business men and the residence dis- tricts. It is now located on the ex- treme northwest edge of town, on an alleyway, and in an undesirable location altogether. We built this hotel, making a large investment, in the exact business center of the) town, and those who are advocating | the postoffice change are simply| showing the same judgment that we} showed. The removal of the post-| office to the Star building cannot help my hotel in any way. I favor the| change because nine people out of ten inj tdwn want it.” | E. H. Bither, the well-known lawy- er, who lately has been very active in the matter, having raised the $1,- 000 required for new fixtures in two hours with the help of Alderman Nelson and Andrew Bottelson, re- ceived me in his commodious pri- vate office and said: “The post- office should be on the main street and, mot on an alley facing a side street in one corner of the town. Them are mo residences to the west or north of the postoffice as it is now located. They are principally | to the east of the Star site. It is more centrally located and the best possible for the business men and} residents. Nine tenths of the peo-| ple in town favor the change. The | present room, fixtures and equipment are entirely inadequate to the needs of the people at this time. The new building will give double the space and it is proposed to equip it with entire new fixtures in keeping with the needs of the town.” Alderman Andy Nelson: ‘We want the postoffice moved to the Star building because it is the only loca- tion available in the business center of town, where for years to come it ‘will also be nearest to the resident sections. Bovey has only one direc- tion in which to build, and that is east.” E. H. Lehrke, the grocer: ‘Where it is now is a poor place for the post- office. Sometimes people have to stumble over grocery boxes to get their mail. The Star building is in the exact business center of town. All residence growth is to the east. The Star building site will best serve the people for years to come.” The citizens having raised the $1,- 000 required by the postoffice de- partment for the proper fittings for the new office, the owner of the building has met all conditions impos- ed by the department and has for- warded the lease to. Washington for signature, and if it does not come back signed Congressman Miller will hear a whoop that will be wafted all the way from Bovey to Duluth. ANOTHER VIEW ON. WATER QUESTION (Continued from first page.) would not have to toil as “father and mother did,” consequently, an ena- meled bath-tub would have been a luxury indeed, and a bathroom the limit of extravagance in the architec- turd of the dwelling. On Saturday nights mother bath- ed the little ones in the washtub in two or three inches of water. Why two or three inches of water? How absured! I heard someone exclaim, but mother had a good reason for us- ing no more, jif she lived in a village where there was no water system of mains and pipes, and some member of the family had to carry it in a pail for a block or two from some pump, which by rights, (only like Ireland it never had any) required a gasoline engine to run it or per- chance the home was situated in the country on a hill at the foot of whose long, steep slope was a clear cold spring, the sole source of the family water supply. There were too many other demands on mother’s strength for her to carry many pails in the course of a day. It always gave big sister a pain in her side. The big boy, the half-grown boy and the small boy shirked the task as often as possible. Father after or before his hard day’s work or at the nooning hour growled “what do you do with so much water any- GRAND RAPIDS HEDALD-REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1909 liable to catch cold. Anyway, dirt’s healthy and I am not going to tote water for you to throw out. What do you take me for anyway.” zi Patient mother therefore resolves to economise on water as she does on everything else. The half-grown boys and the grown ones, and sometimes even father, takes an occasional plunge in river, ereek or Jake during the summer months when the temperature is com- fortable or rather so uncomfortable that instinct, the same instinct, that | causes an overheated dog to plunge into any available pond or ‘the cat- tle to drowse knee-deep in the pool’, guides the human male into the wated to cool off, and for this reason only. | During the remainder of the year;us ually three times each day, father | washes his hands and his face, neck} and ears with his hands in a half basin of water and dries on the rol-! ler towel. The grown boys follow | suit and the half-grown and smaller | ones are sometimes persuaded and) sometimes driven to perform similar ; ablutions at least once each day. i I have seen a father and three boys’ come in from the barn and wash in the same half-basin of water andj wipe on a towel of half a square Yara in size before ssitting down to sup- per, and this in a home that was ex-} ceptionally neat, to all other outward! appearances, | Not long ago I read this statement, | that ‘‘the boy whose mother could no i persuade him to wash his face and | hands often grew up to be a cee) who went abroad for baths.” That! is very true, but it was some more | potent agent than uncleanliness of | person that made a successful busi- | ness or ‘professional man of him. I| will venture this assertion that, if | instead, he had been taught and re-| quired by his mother to make an tellegent use of water, he would neve | need ta go abroad for baths. | Wher father was going to a funerai | and must don a boiled shirt, or if he was a church-going man, then once a week mother took a rag and wash- ed his neck and ears. She performs similar services for the half-growns before sending them to Sunday school’ and on the last day of schoo] or some like special occasion. When the grown up boy begins to ‘take notice” on Sundays and before various #oci- al events he asks mother or big sis- ter for a rag to wash his neck and ears. « Big sister, the would-be teacher, studies hygiene and she religiously take3 a sponge bath, in a couple of quarts of water, once every week. She does this in a room, where, in the cold months her teeth chatter, she is covered with a goose flesh and her fingers get so blue and stiff that she can scarcely dress. She may even, in her study of hygiene, grow so enthusiastic about the sub- ject of bathing that she will make spasmodic efforts to take a cold sponge each morning during the wary and mild weather, that is if she has the privacy of a room to herself. But you may ask, in all this great waste of water, where does mother come in. Poor mother! She washes her hands innumerable times each day. She keeps her hands, face and neck and ears clean and oftentimes in- | i eet. At various intervals, whenever she can steal the time and has a small surplus of water she indulges in a bath. This being the condition in the aver- age home of the cleanly housewife of tthe common people, in the small town and country place, is it any wonder that, Miss Sanford, knowing these conditions, should think it nec- essary to speak thus to a body of teachers? Teachers are often compelled on} account of a limited water supply and cold rooms to become indifferent to the subject of bathing, but I have in mind a normal graduate who lived | in a modern house and covered her unclean cuticle and filthy underwear with a silk dress, who was so offensive to the other teachers that they avoid- ed her as much as possible and felt like holding their noses whenever! she passed. I have also in mind an- ‘other who taught in the country and boarded in the home where the schoo mam was want to board im that dis- trict. She was much liked by the; patrons of the school and they often at night she soaks fer burning, aching’ by shcotng another with a gun, a WE GIVE TRADING TASCA THEBIG DEPARTMENT STORE $7.50 seen. The best showing of furs had. The best and most stylish in Grand Rapids. we sell. 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HUNTERS REPORT DEER PLENTIFUL (Continued from first page) other firearms, when resulting from | carelessness in mistaking the person shot for a deer or other animal, same shall be considered as manslaughter in the first degree. Many hunters ? e kitied each year, owing to being mistaken for deer by city sportsmen on their first hunting excursion and too much care cannot be ex-| ercised when in chase of game. Moose are reported to be plentiful in tte town of Balsam and it is thought game will be more numerous this year than for several seasons. Bear bave also been seen in large numbers. and one even invaded the sacted limits of the village Thursday. ‘The hostiers at the City Livery barn conductea by W. E. Meyers, receiv- ed a ’phone message recently stating oe of the bears owned by that es- tablishment was loose and playing} nesr the watertank. They immedi- ately 1ushed out to the cage, but both bears were still in captivity, and the person giving the information was informed that Bruin had ev)- dently strayed from his “reservation” and was taking in the sights. sung her praises. The young lady of! the house was, one day, extolling the teacher’s virtues to a friend and a- mong other nice things she said “Miss ———is so very neat and clean, why, she takes a bath every..week.” I cite these imstances to support my statements that the common peo- how? You must throw it out or let the kids throw it out. more, selves every five minutes. You youngsters take a drink just take|for further proof go to a dancing hall what you want in the dipper and no] in town or country, where a crowd of} By order of town board. and there is no use of your} young men and women of the com- ple have not yet come to an intel- When you|legent use of water, and if you wish | standing ceasing on said date. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that all out- standing orders issued by the town of Grand Rapids, Itasca county, Minn. are called in for payment. All orders on whatsoever fund issue will be presented to the treasurer for payment on Saturday, November 6, 1909, interest on all orders out- Dated) November 3rd, 1909. WILL NISBETT, Chair. JOS. H. McMAHON, Clerk NOT STINGY | Mother cooked it on the Rounp Oak Gnier STEEL Rance than any range you ever saw before. It is because you cannot find in all its make-up a single spot nor place where it has | beed skimped or pinched or shaved to save a sin- gle cent. Every part and parcel is made just as good as skilled workmen the best material and an ambition to maintain the great reputation of the name Round Oak can make them. A look through this in- comparable construction will prove all we say. Its superior features are eas- | ily to beseen. Then when | you consider its working qualities, its durability and economy of fuel, you will not be satisfied to spend your money for any kind of a range but 4 the Chief or we miss our guess. Call in—we have more of this mental mas- sage-— and then— don’t forget to ask for a book of the range. | It’s free and it’s a dandy. tT , FOR SALE BY W. J. & H. D. Powers i Grand Rapids, Minn 3 $ ALL KINDS OF HARD AND SOFT WOOD FOR SALE JOHN O’BRIEN *Phone 114 eview for Printing Herald-R