Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 13, 1910, Page 5

GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1210. 5 With the Opening of Spring Comes Business and to handle it properly you must have a tele- phone. service is first class. The rates are very reasonable, and the Think it over, and give us an order. All information can be had of the Lo- cal Manager. Telephone 67-2. Mesaba Telephone Company F. W. McCGRATH, Local Manager. Are You Going Camping? We are headquarters for all kinds of Camp Furniture Including the famous Gold Medal Canvas Cots, Camp Stools, Chairs and Folding Tables. Porch Furniture, Lawn Settees and Swings and Hammocks. WE tue PRICE grt nor E QUALITY EORGE F. THE HOUSE FURNISHER ONE PRICE TO ALL AND THAT IN PLAIN z KREME FIGURES : ee | ALWAYS In case of serious illness, fire, or a number of other ; things that might happen, the telephone is always at hand in any emergency where a conversation is the only means of explaining the situation properly. Ce local service is the best and Think it over and Telephone for a Telephone No. 67 F. M. McGRATH, Local Manager. YSON DUTY Our we solicit your patronage GEO. BOOTH Manufacturer of Have achieved an excelleat repetacien all over Norti nnesota. hey ar Fence mrato workmen Booth’s own shops here, and uader his personal super sion. This insures the utmost cleanliness and care in manufacture. Fer sale everywhere. Grand Rapids, Minneseta. ” “BOOTH’S CIGARS is of the finest selected stock by Call for them. H. E. GRAFFAM REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE FIDELITY, JUDICIAL, EXCISE, CONTRACT, and in fact all kinds of Bonds issued. ——<——— Netary Public Office opposite Post Office. Over Finnigan's SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ITASCA COUNTY ABSTRACT OFFIC —+? ABSTRACTS REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE -—t CONVEYANCES BRAWN TAXES PAID FOR NON- RESIDENTS KREMER & KING PROPRIETORS GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. ANOTHER BLAZE REGISTERS L005) Clysdale Building on Kindred Ave- nue Badly Damaged Last Fri- day Afternoon. TOTAL LOSS OF ABOUT $2,500 Numerous Brakes In Hose Prevents Firemen From Extinguishing Fire With Usual Promptness and Total Loss Is Increased. About two o’clock Friday afternoon | the fire alarm called the department | to the Clysdale building on Kindred | avenue, which was burning in the second story. Water was promptly turned on and the plaze would have been under control in short order had not the hose yielded to the pressure | and broke in several places. Three) streams were soon playing on the| fire and fn each case the force was lost through breakage of hose. The time required to substitute new sec- tions for the damaged ones gave the fire such headway throughout the | second story of the building that much fierce effort was required to} get it out and to save the adjacent | buildings. The loss on the building | will probably be about $1,500; that of A, J. Amberg, who conducted the Grand Rapids) bakery on the first floor and lived on the second fioor with his family, will be about $900, while the furniture and instruments of Dr, Gendron, who had offices in the rear of the second story, were} damaged between $200 and $300.Therc | was a total insurance on the buiild- ing and contents of $2,500. The fire originated from the bake| oven chimney and caught between MEETING CALLED AT GRAND RAPIDS To Consider Matter of Driving Logs Down Mississippi River From This Point. PUBLIC MEETING TO BE HAD Major Francis R. Shunk of the War Department Names July 20 as Date of Presenting Sub- ject to the Authorities. There wiil be a meeting at Village hall in Grand Rapids on July 20, to hear arguments relative to the hand- ling logs in transit on the Missis- sippi river from Grand Rapids, The meeting has been called by Maj. Fran- cis R. Shunk in charge of the United States engineer’s officein St. Paul,.at the request of the Mississippi Trans- portation company of Aitkin. This concern operates the steamer Oriole from Aitkin north, making trips to this point at irregular intervals dur- ing the summer months onan average of once in two weeks. Complaint is made that the driving of logs down the river interferes with navigation, and the owners of the craft will ask that certain regulations be promulgat- ed by the war department for their belief it is very doubtful if such ac- tion will be taken by the department as the boat owners request. It is un- derstood that the department will be urged to direct the releasing of logs through the dam at this poimt in a manner that will not interfere with the running of the boat. Inasmuch as logs should be released at favor- able times and when the water may be turned loose, and the further fact that boats are nce now used to any the ceiling and floor of the second | story. When discovered it had al good start and volumes of smoke | simultaneously poured = out from | many crevices. Miss Agnes Amberg was in the sales room of the bakery when she noticed the fire and at once ran up stairs to save some valuable papers, By this time the smoke was so dense that she was forced back from the room in which the papers werd kept, but after several at- tempts she succeeded in getting them. The smoke and fire pre- vented her from gett'pg down the stairway. She was nearly suffocated when rescued through a/ window by two of the firemen. The building adjoining the burning struc- ture on the south is owned by George Booth and is occupied by him with his cigar busimess on the first floor and as residence on the second. R. R. Bell owns Ithe building to the north as a drug and stationery store, the second floor being occupied by Claude Bell and family. The two adjoining build- ings are frame structures and for a time it appeared that the firemen would have trouble in saving them from damage, but fortunately the fire was prevented from communicat- ing to them by liberal aplications of water. Most of the household furni- ture was removed from the Booth and Bell residences and were handled in a manner that resulted in very little damage. Druggist Bell under- stood the situation and knew what would happen if the crowd was al- lowed to undertake the removal of the stock of drugs, stationery, etc., into the street. He forsaw sure de- struction and stood guard to prevent removal unless the building caught fire. In this way he sustained no loss whatever. : (Mr. Clysdale will repair the build- ing at once and as soon as possible Mr. Amberg will resume business at} the! did stand. Dr. Gendron secured office rooms in the Litchke building. Bert LaFreniere Leaves Town. Bert LaFreniere left for his former home at Red Lake Falls Friday morn- ing where he will remafa for a short visit, before starting out in the world to make fame and fortune. Bert was a resident of of Grand Rapids for about three years, putting in his time manipulating the types at the Independent and Hrald-Review of- fices and as a side-line tooted the tuba as a member of the Grand Rapids Cornet band. He is a musician of con siderable ability and had offers to join traveling musical companies that were worth considering, but thus far has declined to try life on the road. On Wednesday last a number of young people gave a farewell pic- nic party in honor of Mr, LaFrepiere and Frank Stebbens, who also left considerable extent on the river above Aitkiy, it is doubtful if the logging interests will be unnecessar- ily hampered under the cireum- | stances. Those interested should ap- pear at the appoimted time in Grand Rapids, July 20, and present their ar- guments. The circular letter sent out by Maj. Shunk calling the meeting is as fol- lows: “Application having been made by the Mississippi Transportation company for the promulgation by the Secretary of War or regulations to govern the sluicing and running of jlogs on the Upper Mississippi River below Grand Rapids, a public hearing will be held at Grand Rapids, Minne- sota, on July 20th, 1910, at which hearing all those interested in this question are invited to appear. In order to facilitate the rtansaction of business it is eaynestly requested that arguments and statements be presented in writing, and in dupli- cate.” JUDGE KEARNEY IS READY TO RACE On His Sixty-Seventh Birthday Feels That He Is Not Too Old To Come Back. Last Saturday Charles Kearney celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday by putting in about sixteen hours la- por at his bakery and confectionery store. “In the nexttwenty years or so I may begin to feel old and realize that in the course of time I'll have to close up my affairs here below,but I never felt more like a winning derby runner in my life than I do at the present time,” said Judge Kear- ney, as he threw an extra cookie into the sack for the customer he was serving. “Yes,” said he in reply to a question, “I feel like getting into the game this fall for the office of judge of probate and get acquainted with all the new people that have moved into the county in recent years and renew acquaintance with all the old timers. I have been prac- tically out of public life for fourteen years, put, unlike Jeffries, I am not too old to come back. I haven't dis- sipated as he is said to have done— haven’t smoked cigarettes nor hit the high wines, etc., as the pugilists do while taking a few years vacation, and hence I feel in better trim for a political battle than ever before. Yes, I expect to get enough votes to authorize the proper board to certi- fy to my election to the office. This emphatic conclusion is reached not only from my personal feelings and inclinations, but from the unanimous feelings ‘ and imclinations of my friends throughout the country.” The judge looked like one who meant what he said and was satisfied with the Grand Rapids for Chicago, where he will spend the summer. present political situatich and the future prospects. ea CO-OPERATION IN ANIMAL BREEDING Systematic Improvement of Live- stock Best Fostered By This Modern Method. With the constant growing tendency to conduct various business enter- prises and carry on the woftks of communities in a cooperative way, we are beginning to turn to this method to help us in the systematic improvement of our live stock. Co- operative methods have developed be- yond the experimental stage. The cooperative creamery, the cooperative elevator nad other cooperative en- terprises are accomplished facts and are working out satisfactorily in Min- nesota and elsewhere in the United States. In Europe cooperative meth- ods have been employed much more generally than in this counrty, and have proven of great value, especial- ly to the agricultural population. Before \start|ng to discuss cooper- ative methods in breeding. it might be well to take a sort of general sur- vey of our live stock conditions in Minnesota. A little travel about the state will soon convince one of the need of live stock improvement along all lines. The general inferior- ity and lack of uniformity of our beef cattle is well known to our buyers and feeders, and usually necessitates the buying of western stuff where uniform feeders are wanted. Although our} dairy cattle are beginning to show signs of improved breeding, especially in a few communities, a much more general distribution of good blood iis necessary before the average standard can be much raised. It has been only within the past few years, and mainly through the in- fluence of the stallion registration board, that substantial improvement has been made in the production of horses in Minnesota. Our sheep are mostly grade, but are beginning to show the ‘nfluence of pure breed rams and much improvement should be made within the next few years. Perhaps the greatest general improve ment that has been made in our live stock is in our hogs. Almost all show some signs of improved breed- ing, and many herds contain much that is valuable from a_ breeding standpoint. Although a beginning, showing a desire on the part of our farmers for petter stock, has been made much remains to be be done along all lines. The progress that has been made, was made mainly by a few enterpris- ing individuals who purchased pure pred sires and occasionally a few pure bred females. And while, in the main, this system has proven profit- able to the breeders and added ma- terially to the wealth of the commun- ity in which they lived, it has bene- fited only a comparatively small number of people and fallen far short of its possibilities for various reasons In the first place, the majority of our farmers have not yet learned the value of good breeding. To many of tham the scrub is as good as the animal with a line of high class an- cestry back of him, They have not learned that good animals do not come by accident but rather from many generations of careful selection and intelligent management. An- other drawback is that many of our farmers have small herds and feel that they cannot afford a pure sire for so few animals, even though the cost, per head, of providing pure bred sires for the offsprings would be rea- sonable even in an average sized herd. High class sires are scarce and high priced and can be used in the same herd only a short time and, under our present conditions must be disposed of long before they have out lived their period of usefulness to keep from inbreeding. Only a few sires really possess out- standing merit and this can be deter- mined only after several service through a knowledge of their offspring. With dairy sires, values can be determined quite accurately through the production of their daughters, but not until the sire is five or six years old. And so with all classes of sires, they must first serve a period of probation, and have known values ohly after being years of} proven. It is after htis that they really begin to be valuable. » By working cooperatively one group of men, could use a sire until they were through with him, and then pass him on to another group, thus reducing the cost and avoiding the use of untried sires, and enabling them to use the really great sires as long as possible. The value of hay- ing a great many farmers in one community with a common interest, the interchange of ideas, and the rec- ords of breeding operations are car- ried on to operative work, would be qo important factor in making the work successful. In many of the European countries breeding operations are carried on to a large extent under government su- pervision. In the Upited States the Bureau of Animal Husbandry is carry ing on cooperative work with several state experiment stations and a num- ber of states are plawning legislative action to carry on work of a similar nature. Michigan seems to be the first’ state to have established co- operative breeding in a general way, They are forming circles umder the supervision of field agents, in various ‘parts of the state to breed dairy cat- tle. This is to be extended to the other classes of live stock as soon as practical and the work carried on under state supervision. While it is hard to estmate exact- ly the value of cooperative breeding in a large state like ours, we have some very good examples of what has ibeen done in ‘many smaller areas working more or less cooperatively. The small county of LaPerch sells annually over a million dollars worth of horses; the Islandss of Jer- sey and Guernsey, neither of which is as large wis many of our counties, sell hundreds of thousands of dol- lars: worth of cattle each year, or coming closer home, the sale of diary cattle from Ft. Atkinso$n, Lake Mills, and Waukesha, Wis., which amount to several hundred thousand dollars annually, Even our own little breed- ing center at Norhtfield brings many thousands of dollars into the com- mynity each year. In fact it is an asset to any community to be able to furnish improved animals in large numbers, since it attracts buyers and therefore increases prices instead of lowering them as many believed for- merly. If, through! cooperation, we could establish breeding centers for the va- rious breeds of horses, -cattle, sheep and swine and introduce these im- proved breeds more generally throughout Minnesota, it would add millions of dollars to the wealth of our state.—. F, Handschin, Assistant in Animal Husbandry. Hobos Are Numerous. The building of additional railroad tracts in the Great Northern yards is thought to be the cause of an un- usual number of hobos in Grand Rap- ids of late. Where railroad graders are wanted men are given free trans- portation, and in this way the Tired Thomases gain easy access to the vilage. In any event Marshal Mc- Cormick has been kept busy of late giving orders to move on. In some instances the unwelcome _ visitors show a disposition to argue the ques- tidn with the officer and the latter unually wins the argument in short order. When necessary he can use the “big stick” more effectually than Roosevelt. During the past few days several small robberies have been re- ported, and in some instances un- kept looking chaps have offered arti- cles for sale that didn’t have the ap- pearance of property they were likely to get possession of in a legitimate manner, Several articles that are us- ually found in a drug and stationery store were peddled about town and disposed of at cut prices are suppos- ed to have been picked up from the counters of the Bell store. Sunday night several watches and some pocket books were extracted from the possession of roomers at the Boston Grand. A local “sport” is suspected of this theft, but no evidence is yet in the possession of the police as to his guilt. Grand Rapids has always been notably free from sneak-thieves and burglars and Marshal Mc- Cormick says he proposes to keep up the good reputation of the town. $90698S558S8 8855 ESET CSSSESS FETS OSESE FESS SESE SE: Grand Rapids Village Lots $5 DOWN AND $5 PER MONTH. We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and #5 per month is certainly easy, Come io and talk the matter ever. We also have some choice business lots om our lists. for sale om casy terms. They are REISHUS-REMER “LAND COMPANY,