Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 28, 1911, Page 5

GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW Grand Rapids Weralds' 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. Official Paper of Itasca County Where Innocence Is Bliss. Editcr Tankersley, of the Deer River News, refers to the game be- n the Deer River city team and Grand Rpaids Juniors as “The 3 € he ‘Innocence.’ ” It] was to lose to a team one gathered up by Deer r fcr that game, and about the nocence” we can see is Tank- 2 knowledge: of the Que hat is innocence per- and $ , the poet spoke wise- “Where ignorance is folly to be wise.” aid: Wm. 1. Albert Grey Dead. Sn | Albert Grey, one of the | ar eers on the Swan Logging road, died at he i. B, Simons, at Mississip- | st e Services were held at esidence and later at Hill | ity by Rev. Gilerist. Interment was in the cemetery at Grand Rap- The deceased was born near ‘ss Moines, Iowa, May 26, 1886, and | to Swan River about nine years worked with the company up to the time of his death. He was easily one of the most popular men n that region and will be missed by nad: ame ago and Home ‘Taloat At LaPrairie evening of July 4th of LaPrairie will pre- | ht comedy at the La- | Prairi school auditorium entitled: Following is the ucters: the | Chums caste | of cha Tom I ..J. D. McLaughlin. | Th su.. .. .. Lottie Ethridge. | Mr. Breed +. .. .Andrew Olson. eed .. .....Margaret Sisler larry Beed . Raymond Meyers; The performance will start at 8:30 irnham.. o'clock, promptly, and immedjately | at its close a dance will be given. | The admission is 35 cents for the} evening | Progress on the Church. | The workmen employed on the | new St. Joseph’s church are more | than busy putting the brick in place | ind at present time only have about | two more feet of work on the walls. Of course, the arches and tower will take considerable time, but it is chought the brick work will be finist ed about July 20. Methodist Services. | | | | Regular preachjng services will be} eld at 10:30 o’clock, a. m. Rev. W.| Croffard and wife, returning m sionaries from China, will be pres- | ut for the Sunday meetings and M Croffard will address the Sun-! day schcol and have charge of hoe Epworth legaue meeting. Rev. tard will deliver an address at ea vening service. | Picnic Postponed. Supt. A. east Experiment farm, announces | that owing to numerous other pic: | nics arranged for the Fourth, the one announced to take place at the farm has been postponed to a later date. Summer Resort For Sale. FOR SALE—The Ogema hotel, on Pokegama lake, three miles from irand Rapids. Hotel contains 24 roauis, and building is in good con- dition, With ice house, laundry and barns. Thirtythree acres of grove, or as desired, go with the buil the only desireable tract of jand for sale on the lake — shore. Pokegama lake is consjdered one of he most beautiful in the northwest, with good fishing, and has 267 miles of shore line. rge numbers from yuis'de, as well,as many Grand Rap- ds , spend their summers at he nd this is an excepticnal opportunity for a hustler. For a ba in write or call on M. McAlpine, Grand Rapids, Minn. Alterations at Court House. The workmen at the court hous been remodelling the vault in auditor’s office and as a conse- quence, Auditor Spang is compelled to move his private office out in the The workmen are making more vault room in the base- | wave the main room. ment, which will be reached by means of a circular vault from the present one, f-| the girls’ GAINS BY AKMY CHANGE Fort Snelling to Be Made Larger | Military Post. July 1 steps will be taken by the war department, it is reported, looking to the development of Fort Snelling into one of the biggest mili- tary posts in the United States. Snell- ing will then become a brigade head- quarters and as such will be enlarg: by General Wood, chief of staff, and by Representative Stevens of St. Paul, who, as a member of the house com- mittee on military affairs, has kept in close touch for years with the general and department officers of the army service. The enlargement of Snelling and the location there of the h quarters of the department of the Lakes Twin Cities commercially. ONE DEAD; ANOTHER DYING Locomotive Boiler on the St. Paul! Road Blows Up. U. P. Carroil, engineer, and H. An- derson, fireman, of a locomotive on the St. Paul road, both residents of Min- neapolis, were blown from the cab of the engine when the boiler of the lo- comotive blew up three miles west of Lake City. Carroll was instantly killed and Anderson was probably fa- tally injured. Anderson w distance of 100 feet and Carroll was thrown against a fence at the edge of ; lg the right of way. Both men were ter- ribly scalded. The engine was hauling a train of seventy-five freight cars. The cause | of the explosion is supposed to have been a defect in the boiler. The train was westbound from the Mill City. MINNESOTA WINS TAX CASE Supreme Court Decides Against Unit- ed States Express Company. Judgment in favor of the state of Minnesota was rendered in the state supreme court in the suit brought by Attorney General George T. Simpson to collect $9,719.66 disputed taxes from | the United States Express company. Taxes were claimed on earnings from business originating in one place in | the state crossing the state line and ending at another place in the state and also on money order business originating in the state. All this is held by the supreme court to be tax able, except that portion of the mile age outside the state. The case will be appealed to the supreme court of the United States or the issue cf interference with inter state commerce. LUMBER TRUST PROBE OPENS Special Federal Grand Jury Convenes at Chicago. Chicago, June *—A United States investigation of conditions in the lum- ber industry looking toward the prose. cution of the so called “lumber trust” began before a special grand jury in the United States district court. Three Chicagoans, Henry A. Sellen, vice president of a sash and door com- ; pany; Harry B. Munger, president of a door company, and George J. Pope, vice president of a locai lumber con cern, were examined. MOVE TO OUST WHITTIER Filed Against Minnesota Training School Head. Charging F. A. Whittier, superin- tendent of the boys’ training school, not only with having brutally whipped and beaten inmates of that institu- tion with a leather thong, but also in- flicting similar punishment to girls in training school, Ralph Wheelock, private secretary to Gov- ernor Eberhart, filed a formal com- plaint with the board of control, ask- ing for Whittier’s removal. The com- plaint was drawn by attorneys under Charges McGuire, of the North- jithe direction of A. D. Stephens of | Crookston. FATAL PLUNGE | INTO WELL Minnesota Man Meets | Meets Death in Pecu- liar Manner. Chris Christopherson plunged head- long into a thirty-foot well at South Stillwater and was taken out dead. He had several ugly cuts on his fore- head, face and head. His head was submerged in water. The man was single, about fifty years old, and has been working for years about sawmills and in the pineries. It is presumed he went to the well to drink from a bucket used to draw water, and, losing his balance, fall in. MORTGAGE TAX IS $60,070 Great Northern Pays on $45,000,000 Property in Minnesota. The state of Minnesota, through the plan of James J. Hill to issue $600,- 000,000 bonds by the Great Northern railroad, received as its share of the deal $60,070, the amount of mortgage registry tax due the state for filing the trust deed. The instrument, which was filed with the secretary of state by the Great Northern, covers 123 printed pages and in effect reports the pro ceedings of the board of directors of the railroad company held in St. Paul May 25, which authorized the issue of bonds payable in gold coin and to ma- ture June 1, 1961. The $60,070 was paid to the state as the mortgage registry tax on $45,000,- | 000 of the bonds, which is the value of the real estate of the company in Minnesota. be a good thing for the} blown into a field aj ( 1 ! | i ied along lines now under consideration | POOOSOSS . News Gathered During the Week Mrs. Wm. Lehman visited friends at Duluth last week. Mrs. C. P. Moore, of Cohasset, was a visitor in the village Tuesday. FOR SALE—Canvas covered cedar} cance, a bargain. Inquire of T. R. Pravitz. 1tf. Neal Sutton, timekeeper in the mine at Marble, came over Mon- to visit his parents. G. F. Schmidt is visiting | friends and relatives in the! southern part of the state. J. J. Arbo, of Arbo, of pioneers of Itasca’ county, was village on business Monday. the in one the Duluth has cojned the ex “Duluth is cool.” If you ression: | Cc. H. Dickinson, ma Mercantile Co. from a week's go this noon. store, business trip Mrs, Fred A. King went to Lake City yesterday where she will spend two or three weeks visiting at the home of her son, Charles King. i Miss Ethel E. Barr arrived here from Racine, Wis., this noon to spend the summer at the lake with her aunt, Mrs. H. E. Graffam. WANTED—Girl for general house- work at Trout Lake Lodge. Call at Beckfelt’s store Saturday noon, | July 1st—Mrs. John McAlpine. Miss Janet Doran, who has been teaching at Sancta Villa, Scholisitca, at Duluth, for the past nine months, | came home last week to spend the summer. Mrs. Ed. Jetland and children| and sister, Lydia Eide, returned from Mcintosh Monday where they have been visiting relatives for the past two weeks. Coleraine has secured the next | Northern Minnescta Firemen’s: tour-| nament and we notice that George Riddell has been elected vice pres- | ident for the ensuing year. | Mrs. J. D. Doran and sjster, Miss Mary Connell, departed for Water-| ville, Wis., Thursday afternoon, | where they will spend the summer} at the home of their parents. Miss Lewis, a Rapids at Village hall Tuesday ev- ening, July 11. An invitation is ex: | tended all to attend the meeting. The retail clerks of Grand Rapids announce that they wish to play the! victors in the court house-profession geme. They have a strong team! and think they can win hands down. | The ladies’ aid scciety of the} Swedish Lutheran church met at the, home of Mrs. Nels Weiburg Wednes- | day afternoon. It was decided to} hold no further meetings during the summer months. Fred A. King was a business vis- itor at Duluth Thursday and Friday. E. F. Logan, of Marble, who con- ducts a bottling factory at Calumet, spent Sunday in the village vjsiting with friends and relatives. At the Eagle's convention, held at Chisholm last week, Hugh McEwe was elected worthy vice-president of | grand lodge. Th‘s is no light honor and Mr. McEwen js to be congratula- ted on securing the honor for Grand Rapids. Manager Comer, of the Gem the-| atre, has announced that until fur- ther notice the Gem will only be open Saturday and Sunday evenings. He has taken this action on account of the hot weather, which deters many from attending. Allen and Clement Doran spending the week at the home are of their brother, Chas., at Hill City. Mrs. W. C. Gilbert and daughter, Miss Catherine, returned from Duluth Monday evening re they spent the day vi ng friends. Rey. Dr. Burrows, of Hamilton, Bermuda, siopped off here Sunday for a three or four weeks’ visit with his son, Rev. Leo R. Burrows, pas- tor of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Burrows has been a delegate to the general assembly ed up at Ottawa. Two services were held at the Swedish Lutheran church last Sun- day. The first was in Swedish and the topic was “What does it cost to be a deciple of Christ,” and the second was in English, the subject being, “Chrsit, the only source of eternal life.” ( want. tor | keep cool, come to Grand Rapids. | wood. jad a single shot from hi | rifle socjalist lecturer, | urday last. will address the socialists of Grand|to Canada where they ; of the | town line on the west s'de of | Bass Brook, ‘ids, and which just finish-_ The young people of the Swedish Lutheran church are plannjng on giv-| ing an entertainment and lawn cial in the near future, The so- ed, but it will be held in the early part of July. There will be no services either morning or evening at the Swedis. Lutheran chur on Sunday, July 2 jad 9, as A. G, Anderson, who has | cha of the services, wiil visit oth- \iid-week sual, how- to attend them. Rev. of the Bethany Duluth, Ww. Swedish y evening of child meeting. Olson, pastor church services in the chur-h Thurs nuniber Lutheran conduct Lutheran » at at the conducted adinavians prettiest Minnescta, travels for a fiui his headquarters at Virginia will | shortly move to Grand Rapids with | his family and make this village headquarters, 23 rai tions are aiso very rented the W. Q. Y good. He house. ALYWOOD. Walter Clark is quite busy of late improving his farm with a post and} rail fence. There are a great many Canadian thistles growing in the town of Alv- It is the duty of the oj to see that they ure kept down. ials Mrs. A. H. Delap is harvesting | a great quanti of strawberries from a half ac patch. They are} of a fine qua! and Mrs. Delap is} be complimented on her succe:s 1 ters Mr. and Mrs son were vis home Sunday. Whitmy the V J. M. Price and son, H. L., left cn Friday fer Bemidji, where they will finish up a couple of houses. Louie Delap came in contact with | rm large black bear a few d trusty laid the animal to rest. A farwell party in honor of J. | Jacobson and family was given at | the home of Frank Kanabel on Sat- The Jacobson have gone will make their future home. Notice of Sealed Bids. Sealed bids will be received the Board Town of ty, Minn. on Frid by for the rebuilding and line Grand F S construction cf the tow between Townsh and Township ning at the northwe 3, section 30, towns! thence running due road uth on Le and and 4, section 30 and Lois 4 section 31, townshsp 55, Range a distance of one mile, more or to a point where said road sects Pokegama lake. The said road is to be coastruct-| ed and completed according to plans and specificatjcns prepared by Town Engineer Warner, and are on file with the town clerk of the Town of at his office in the First State Bank of Cohasset and in the office of Jos. H. McMahon, town clerk of the Town of in the office of Will bett in Grand Rapids, M The Board cf Super Town of Grand Rap ds the right to reject any and all bids. Dated June 28. 1911. JOS. H. McMAHON, Town Cl Grand Rapjés, Mi HR June 28-July 5. Nis- sors of the (Natural and Colored) If it’s a floor, or a door, either inside or out; a boat, a canoe, or your piazza steps, there’s a KYANIZE FINISH FOR IT Varnish satisfaction—or your money back. Try Kyanize—satisfy yourself. date | has not yet been definitely announc- | inter- Grand Rap- res°rves | Cy bt ‘= i, Ar tit il by im sls lig muscu ett | V&A aay pt pee iil ie T tog rem 4 ile eS oa li nas Ui SHOE We've just received our new “ Queen Quality” styles for Shring and they're beauties. We did not believe such footwear fossible at the | price. The makers have outdone an themselves. Smart, snappy styles with Y plenty of comfort and service—just what you have been looking for. You'll buy here eventually. Why not to-day ? he PIONEER STORE Jan BECKFELT, Prop. A Good Water Cooler-- A Mighty Convenient Summer Requisite And here’s a good one and the price but $3.:5. faucet It’s full galvanized tank, 4 gallons capacity—with nickel —and in beautiful rich Japan finished exterior. None ever better made for the price asked. W.J.&H. D. Powers Have You Tried A | Chauncy-Russ or a Gem Trio yet? If You Haven’t You Have Missed A Great Deal. | Get the Habit--Follow the Crowd Tax Chauncy-Russ Parlor Opposite Ghe Gem Theatre i Creators of \) Good Things | Smoke the Chauncy-Russ Cigar--5c | Best in Town for the price {SPRING WORRIES Everybody has their worries about this time of the year and if you are worrying aboutthe weave or cut of your spring suit, come in and let us lighten you of your burden. Ourline of samples is more complete than ever and our designs are more perfect in shape, fit andlooks. No use having that troubled feeling as long as we are in business. Perhaps your last year’s spring and summer suits need repairing and cleaning, or maybe they only need pressing. No matter what it is, we can fix them up in the proper manner. ‘‘Satisfaction is our motto.’’ Yours For Satisfaction, Wacthel & Hansen We also handle a fine fine of ladies’ tailor made garments and invite inspection.