Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 12, 1911, Page 1

} } | } Grand Wapids -Ucvicw. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SODIETY. Vor, XXII. —No 3 GRranp Rapips, Itasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, {QII Two Dollars a Year PROMISES 10 BE A BUSY WINTER Indications Are the Oliver People Will Soon Commence Stripping Section Sixteen. AT PRESENT EMPLOYING 600 MER Shipping 150 Cars Daily of Mer- chantable Ore on the Great North- ern and Nearly 300 Cars to the Concentrator. From Iron Index, Marble. There has been a rumor going over the range to the effect that the mines will close down early this year on the western Mesaba and that | no stripping will be done. In the opinion of The Iron Index this rumor is absolutely without foundation and we venture to predict that this win- ter will see more stripping, especially} at the Hill mime, than ever before. While The Iron Index has no offi- | cial information on the subject, still it is a well understood fact that all the mines on the western Mesaba have instructions to make as heavy a shipment as possible during the shipping season of 1911. Also the fact that all the mines on the east end of the range, with one or two exceptions, are practically idle lends color to the belief the mines here will run to their fullest capacity When questioned on the subject, one mining man stated the Hill mime will see one of the busiest years in its history. It has been stated that section sixteen will be stripped this winter and this| looks plausible on its face for it is a well-known fact that the | Hill will necessarily be compelled to strip this fall and nearly all the stripping is being worked at the present time, The Hill mine now has a little ov- er 600 men on the pay roll and is; shipping over 400 cars daily, of which 150 are merchantable ore and go direct to the docks over the Great; Northern, while the balance, being | low grade ore, goes over the Missa- 1 Postal Clerk Examination. Walter Erickson, for the past two years clerk at the Grand Rapids post- office, has been appointed deputy postmaster at International Falls and consequently an examination will be held at the Grand Rapids postoffice | August 5, to secure” on Saturday, some one to take the position made vacant by his promotion. Any per- son between the ages of eighteen and forty-five may take the exam- ination and the following subjects will be given them to determine who is best fit for the position: Spelling, Arithmetic, Letter writing, Penman- ship, Copying from plain copy, Unit- ed States geography, Reading ad- dresses. For application form and in structions to applicants see Otto F. Radke, assjstant postmaster. All ap- plications must be sent in before August 1, 1911. FIVE NEW LAWS IN EFFECT JULY 1 Can’t Sell Malt Outside Licensed Places—Can’t Sell Colored Oleomargarine at All. Five new laws of general impor- tance passed by the last legislature went into effect July 1. They are: Prohibiting the sale of ‘‘malt” out- side of licensed drinking places or drug stores. Creating a state department weights and measures. Prohibiting the sale of oleomarga- rine colored to imitate butter. Prohibiting the marriage of cousins, Requiring rubber tires and casings of first to bear the name of the maker and date of manufacture. The “malt bill” was the most im- portant temperance measure passed by the last legislature. It prohibits the sale of any kind of malt drinks except in licensed saloons or in drug stores for medicinal purposes. The object of the measure is to do away with a number of refreshment stands! in dry territory that sell semi-intoxi- eatnig drinks and to make it impossi- ble for blind piggers to plead they were selling only malt when they were selling beer. The new weights and mesaures law creates a department under the State Railroad and Warehouse commission which will inspect and test scales and measures used in every bus‘ness in the state. The members of the be to the concentrator at Coleraine, before gojng to the docks. | commissicn are at present in the (continued on page 4.) Copyright 1999, by ¢ The older you get, the harder it will permit of laying account the better. Capital $2 §,000,00 President, F. P. Sheldon. Cashier, C. E. Aiken. LIFE BURNS Dor SOME Money IN Our BANK . Zimmerman Co. a certain age, the harder it is for you to earn an income aside, so the sooner you start that bank irst National Bank GRAND RAPIDS. MI OFFICERS LOW — is to form the habit, and passed which Lubpolus: $5,000.00 Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr Ass't. Cashier, J. G. Peterson DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon. D. M. Gunn. A G. Wedge. W. C. Gilbert. Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfelt H. D. Powers. ATTEND oPECIAL All Tax Payers Should Be Present. ‘IMPORTANT MATTER COMING UP |Making An Attempt to Change| | This District to an Independent One Which Would Be a Very Bad Move. A special meeting has been called for Monday evening to vote on whether school district No. 1 shall continue as a common school district | or whether it shall be changed to an independent district. Those who are working in favor of the latter plan are using the argu- | ment it will reduce taxes and change the boundaries of\ the district so that jonly the townships with a large as- ‘sessed valuation will be included in | the new district, but this is not so. | There will be absolutely no change in the boundaries of the district. By making the change the people take ;from themselves all rights in rela- tion to schoo] matters and every man should turn out and turn the proposition down. Following is a petition which was circulated this morning by those who have the best interests of the district at heart. The signers are all property owners in the village and their opinion should carry weight with those who are unacquainted with the subject. The petition fol- lows: We, the undersigned, citizens and voters of Common School District No. One of Itasca County, Minneso- ta, hereby express our disapproval of the proposition of changing satu district from a common to an inde- pendent school district. Such a change could have no good effect and its evident object in to throw out of office the present school board. Some of the arguments such a change are: I, The board in an independent district would consist of six instead of three members and would thus divide and scatter the responsibility of the school government which is contrary to the modern trend in the theory of government. 2. In an independent district the taxes are levied by the board with- out a vote of the people hence the people have practically no control over the levy, while in a common school district the taxes are levied by vote of the people. 3. In an independent district the salaries of the clerk and treasurer are fixed by the board while in a common school district the salaries of all officers are fixed by law. A further argument against the pro posed change in this district is that it would result in putting out of office a board elected by the vote of the entire district and substitute therefor a board elected in Grand Rapids, thus dépriving the great majority of the voters of the district of the right to participate in election of school officers. . We hereby affirm our entire confj- dence in the honesty and integrity of the present school board and their desire and ability to adminis- ter the affairs of the district in an economical manner, and we call up- on all those who are interested in the welfare of our schools to go to polls Monday evening, July 17, and vote NO on the proposition of chang- ing District No. One from a common to an independent schoo] district. H. D. Powers. John Beckfelt. Nils Johnson. W. J. Powers. Will Nisbett. against GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOL MEETING) SHOWS GOOD GAIN Will Be Held Monday Evening and| Census Taken By Assessors Milaney and McEwan Shows 2,600 In- habitants in Village. MORE HOUSE OWNERS THAN RENTERS Report Shows There Are 319 Own- ers of Residences in the Vil- lage, While There Are Only 180 Renters. 4 As there was some dissatisfaction in the village when the census fig- ures for the village of Grand Rapids were made public, the report only showing 2,230 people, so, when Chas. Mila€ney prepared to make a canvas of the personal property owners it was! suggested that he also take a census of the village in conjunction with his work of assessing. The pro- position looked good to him and he appeared before the village council, explaining the matter and was giv- en an appropriat.on of $100. He then appointed Hugh McEwan deputy as- sessor and the work was started. Forms were printed showing the age of the person, the number of years residence in the village, what proper- ty, if any, owned and the place of residence. Their report on the census was made public Monday evening when it was approved at the village council meeting and shows that the popula- tion of Grand Rapids is 2,600. Only persons who lived in the village in ‘May, 1910, are taken into account in this “list as that was the date on which the government census was taken and in the report, which is alphabetically arranged the facts are given in neatly tabulated form, the work done by that expert draftsman, Hugh McEwan. In the report it is interesting to note that the number of actual resi- dent owners outnumbers the renters nearly two to one, the figures being: Owners, 319; renters, 180. CROP CONDITIONS "ARE UNEXGELLED Bemidji Man Says Northern Min- nesota Is Immune From Climatic Calamities. “Noting the daily reports ® condition of this year’s crops grow- ing in the several well-known farm- ing districts surrounding this soon- to-be-famous Northern Minnesota, one is again impressed} with the in- controvertible into that this portion of Northern Minnesota is . immune from the vicissitudes of fluctuating climatic conditions common to other localities where with one year bring- ing forth a normal crop, the year the! A. A. Garris. C. C. McCarthy. P. J. Billeadeau. Geo. F. Schmidt. W. A. Rossman. B. C. Finnegan. Keo Leroux. D. Costello, L. A. Whittemore. Ed. Wilson, following may prove a total failure for the production of agricultural products,” says R. M. Cook, a mem- ber of the Bemidji Real Estate Ex- change, who is a shrewd observer of market conditions, their relation te growing crops and the effect on this section of the state. “ven during tlie year of 1910, the dryest year ever known in northern Minnesota, the consistency of this} Geo. M. D. Meyer. Theodore R. Pravitz. Charles E. Huson. O. B. Seamans. W. L. Maddy. Frank Sherman. R. R. Bell. A. C. Bossard. Wm. Dibbert. H. P. Shannon. soil, aided by the moisture retaing | qualities of the clay sub-soil, served the exceptionally small) amount of rainfall to such an extent as to furnish sufficient nourishment | to a crop which was equal to our banner crop of the year of 1909. “Reliable reports of the condition of this year’s crops throughout south- western Minnesota, northern and western Iowa, and other localities, especially South Dakota, and the southwest, show these communities to be in great need of ran to save the already impoverished and greatly diminished harvests, most of which are being burned out with the ex: cessive heat; while here in north- ern Minnesota the conditions are certainly favorable for the most bountiful crops ever known to a! specially favored region. Although the weather this spring and summer has been exceptionally warm, customary spring rains have furnish- ed this district with moisture suffi- cient to assure a bumper crop of everything planted; and although rain would be most welcome later on in the growing season, this section is already assured of having the greatest and best harvest ever known to this country, and one that will compare more than favorably with that of any other known equal area. “The Chicago market on June 21st reflected an almost unprecedented condition when December corn was quoted at % cent over July. This shows a well founded fear of a gen- eral crop failure. Corn stands heat and drouth better than any other grain.” Saturday was a busy day in au:o circles and the citizess were sull sizing up Mr. Welleins car when Wi. C. Gilbert and son, Wayne, and Chauffeur Shinlaub arrived in a new Cadillac five passenger car. This er and js certainly built on solid and the| machine is a thirty-eight horse pow- | <= SITS ‘FRISCO CHINATOWN SLUMS ' Stafford King Tells of His Impres- sions While Going Through Chinatown. |S AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE \This Is The Third of a Series of Letters on the West and Her People as Told By Mr. King. San Francisco, June 21, 191% | Mr. Editor: | We arrived in San Franciso om | the afternoon of June 20th. AB WS were somewhat tired from our jour ney, we rested until supper time. AE ter supper we started out to see Chinatown—a city of 40,000 within a | city of 200,000 people. It was then about 8 o’clock and the streets were lighted. For a few blocks we | walked over cracked and uneven | pavements, the effects of the earth- |quake. At last we entered the | gorgeously lighted streets of China- town. The little shop windows on | either side were well lighted by many colored Chinese lanterns. Beneath the lanterns the wndows were full of various peculiar:y shaped trink- ets. Puzzles, pictures, beads, boxes | were to be seen everywhere. In the ' jewelry shop windows, curiously hand | wrought rings and bracelets and neck ‘Jaces hung in dazzling splendor. For many blocks these shops lined .the substantial lines. Mr. Gilbert has purchased the car for his private use and his son, Wayne,-who has al- ready mastered its mechanism, will act as machinist and chauffeur. Misses Ada Kremer and Catherine Gilbert departed for San Francisco last week where they will attend the N. E. A. meeting, which is now ih session and will then make a tour of the west before returning home. | streets, and 4 wondered if after all Chinatown was not thoroughly mod- fern, (My minds was suddenly set at ease for our guide had disappeared down as narrow and as black an al- ley as I have ever seen. After stumbling along over a rough floor for a minute we came to a dark evil smelling room. 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