Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 19, 1911, Page 1

Grand Vapids Herald-Nevie Fei _, MINNESOTA HISTORICAL @ society, GRAND Rapips, Itasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19. (911 Two Dollars a Year Vor, XXII —No 4 | the adjourned annual meeting. Immediately on this announcement NEUSSWIG STEPS G. Spear got up and made a motion | ‘that the meeting adjourn without FF SCHOOL BOARD faking a vote on the propos'tion of | changing the form of government of } the district, stating that certain | events which had recentiy trans! Opposition Secured Their Point By | pired (meaning Mr. Ruesswig’s res g- His Resignation aad Meeting nation) had made that action unne- cessary. E J. Farrell protested Adjourned Without Vote. jagainst this, stating the meeting | was called for the purpose of voting | on the proposition, but the meeting | adjourned over his protest. A majority of those who believe in conducting the schools for the | best interests of all are in favorr | igi naming a Cohasset man to suc- Public Sentiment Seems Favorable |"... say SE a he ohocaal, to Appointing Cohasset Man on jn it id very probable this will be | the Board—Several jeans Saturday evening. The people, of Cohasset should now get togeth- Talked Of. ler and decide on whom shall repre-! {sent them and come down en masse | ; to the meeting. As was advertised, there was aj While many thave cersured Mr.! , : , | Reusswig for resigning, he takes the meeting held at Village hall Monday heigl Weeiae ic ANGEL ok ccana: evening, at which the people Were! yr th, district for him to do so. In SELECT SUCCESSOR SATURDAY NIGHT ‘mon school district No. 1 was held ‘Henry Hughes was made moderator ANNUAL SCHOOL MEET ADJOURNED Committee of Seven Appointed to Pass on Levy and Make Recommendations. WANT APPROPRIATION OF $63,000, Will Meet Again Saturday Evening' At Village Hall and Every Citizen Should Attend the Meeting. The annual school meeting of com- at Village hall Saturday evening and ed to examine the work done on the QMMISSIONERS —[=2==-=""7"~ ~ GRAND RAPIOS HAS ‘Chairman Mullins was elected to 9 attend the meeting of the good roads, IN TWO (IAYS MEET committee of the N. M. D. A., which IRON ORE Ml will meet at* Bemidji July 25. The petition of citizens of the town of, - Sand Lake, asking for the opening | Tee aee : A of the Spring Lake road, was laia | Question of New Roads Occupied! >... tor turther consideration. |Contractor Schultz Gpes Through the Attention of the Board Major |, The board, after allowing a batch! 20 Feet of Ore While Dril- Portion of Time. of bills, adjourned until today, when | ling for Water. they are again in session. | Shot Sam Martin’s Horses. Harry Hill was arrested by Sheriff Riley charged with shooting two horses belonging to Sam Martin. Hill, 2 Tarn Down a Liquor License Ap-| who is engineer on the Mayflower, Samples Appear to Be High Grade plication and Granted Appropri- |W>%h operated on Pokegama lake,| and It Is Probable a Company was with Charles Runnels and} a ation to Several Towns— Will Be Eormed to the two were “shining.” Mistaking Meeting Again To-day. ing the horses for wild game they Operate Mine. shot them before discovering their error. They then, according to Hill's ; The county commissioners held Nereiom, ett mare foe eevee : enware company’s barn and dragged | ‘ hi their semi-annual] meeting last week, them out in the woods, seeking to |rest on a big deposit of high grade as was required by law and there |hide the evidence of their crime. | 07” That is a question that has LET MANY CONTRACTS FOR ROADS IS PROPERTY OF THE VILLAGE * Does the village of Grand Rapids supposed to decide whether this any event, the people of the dis- Of the meeting. The clerk’s and shall remain a common school dis- |frict will lock for a long time be- treasurer’s reports were read and trict or be changed to an independ- |fore they will find anyone who will accepted as was also the directors’ Guns. |take as much interest in the schools Teports of the expenditures in the At the annual meeting Saturday ev-|and their advaneement as has Mr. different schools throughout the dis- where | Reusswig. i trict. | The board requested a tax levy ; Of $63,000 to conduct the schools dur- iyg the ensuing year and in their ‘estimate showed what the different BUYS MORE YARDS amounts were for. It follows: ; Teachers’ salaries.... .... $45,000 aan | Janitors’ salaries.... 4,500 | Acquires Yards at Deerwood, Cros- Transportation.... .... .... ..1,500 by and Cuyuna, on the New | use| ae Ones Cuyuna Range. | ros ening John Lefevre asked certain moneys were spent and when | the meeting was called to order Mon- KING LUMBER 60 day evening by Henry Hughes, who! 1 was made moderator, Treasurer | Dickinson read from his report; where the moneys in question had been spent and for what purpose. He was followed by Hon . C. C. McCarthy who in an address which | was given full attention by all pres- ent, gave a brief history of our| schools, the manner in which money | was fi raised to build them and he made a masterly plea for harmony) New Buildings.... | Manual training.... .. The King Lumber company, with ' Furniture and apparatus headquarters at this place, operai-| Text books.... 5 .. sv; |ing @ line of lumber yards on the, Library books. among the people, stating that if dis-!y; sana range, have acquired _ three Incidentals.... 000 sension and strife were constantly more yards on the Cuyuna range at Interest on bonds.... ..0. ..7,250 Grand Rapids would finally | neerwood, Crosby and Cuyuna. The | wake up to the fact that she would |1,.+ three yards were formerly oper-| small part of the dis- | a:eq and owned by the Mahlum Lum-! Total. .... + sees cess $63,000 This brought forth a considerable have © trict ne ning to support the por company of Brainerd, but now, | discussion as to the rate of taxes for schools. He also bade bias wh dded to the King Lumber company School purposes and it was finally are pro uinst the high taxes | interests, make them one of the decided to adjourn the meeting un- to look elsewhere for the cau ~ strongest retail lumber companies in til Saturday evening, July 22, and in | ing th ate hi was not e the state, they being represented in the meantime, the chair to appoint when compared with other — school 11 established as well as new ,4 committee of seven, at his con- districts. wns, whith are all rapidly coming’ venience, to go over the proposed’ At the conclusion of Mr. McCar-/to the front. The King Lumber com- levy with the board and make re- thy’s address Treasurer Dickinsoa,! pany, now a corporation, began busi- port at the meeting. of the schoo] board, made the an- ness. with only one yard at Grand} Mr. Hughes appointed the follow: nouncement that Director Reusswig: Rapids, but by shrewd management! ing gentlemen to meet with the had resigned from the board that! and good business principles has be-' board: H. G. Becker, W. C. Gilbert, events which had recently tvans-!come one of the largest concerns’ Dr. F, R. Harrison, Chas. Milaney, been accepted. He also further | of its kind in the northern part of , Emil Litchke, M. A. Spang and G. H. stated that the remaining two mem- | the state. F. BE. King of this place | Spear. This committee will meet ded to|has the general management of the | tommorrow evening with the board {at the Central school. ‘THE HERALD AND HON. C. G. M’CARTHY Reproduces His Likeness in Write- up of the Bar Association Meeting. bers of the board had d let the people name his successor at | ompany’s interests. The Duluth Herald, under the heading, “double-crossing the bar,” gives some humorous wrjte-ups of ; Prominent members of the state bar and reproduces an excellent likeness of Hon. C. C. McCarthy arrayed in his gardening apparel with a big basket of healthy tubers at his feet and refers facetieusly to his kinship yas the honored “murphies”. The ; article follows: SUPERVISION Savane || Soo Sot tie, armen Copsright 1909, by C.F M THERE IS A CONFIDENCE AND SENSE OF SECURITY THAT COMES WITH THE POSSESSION OF MONEY IN THE BANK, THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ENJOY ANY OTHER WAY. aaseues: ae of Tippe Raree, near the town j Corque.. e e ; Mr. Murphy fs almost as much of|ond mile, $140; Ingwald Didrickson ja farmer as a lawyer, and is now/|to construct third mile of the same experimenting with onions. He is|road, $128; Thorwold O, Johnson, one’ trying to cross them with radishes|half mile of same road for $120; O. and ruin the Sen Sen industry. OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr Cashier, C. E. Aike: Ass't. Cashier, J. G. Peterson is containted on the potato under jhis finger. He says Mr. Murphy ough to be a judge, which shows that in DIRECTORS spite of the excitable French tem- F. P. Sheldon. D. M. Gunn. ‘Perament of both members of the A G. Wedge. W. C. Gilbert. firm, they get along amicably, and John Beckfelt H. D. Powers. retain a mutual respect for each oth- “a? 1. - “Here is a firm of Murphy & Me-j ‘Mr. Murphy and Mr. McCarthy are |{M. Callahan to construct part of the both of good old Hugenot stock. Mr.|road, from Carlson’s place to the , Murphy formerly spelled his name| Hill City road at $2.75 per rod; Carl Murfee, and Mr. McCarthy is de-| Magnuson to construct the Orth road French | for $1,065; Abe Palon to family of Carthees in the province|¢ounty road No. 91, $1,20 per mile; | of| Thorwold O. Johnson, to construct | In the picture Mr. McCarthy is|road, $106; O. P. Grambo, one-half Pointing to the picture of the senior | mile of said road, $130; C. D. Horton, member of this firm, which he says! one-half mile of said road, $90. was so much business to transact ijt required two days to dispose of the business, on hand. ‘Good roads is the most important question in northern Minnesota at/ ‘this time and no other one thing will do so much to imduce settlers to settle here. The meeting last week dealt largely with new and con- templated roads and the first mat- ter ‘up was county road No. 90. The county auditor was instructed to advqntise for b\js for the construc- tion of a portion of this road. It was decided that the whole board should examine county road No. 24, known as the Shoal lake road. The petition of the town {board of Blackberry, asking that the ;county appropriate $7,000, one-half jthe cost of the bridge across the Mississippi river, was granted. Three hundred dollars, each, was granted to the towns of Grand Rapids and Bass Lake to aid in the construction of roads. The application of Ira Stew- | art for license to sell intoxicating li- |quors in the town of Bearville was rejected. | Commissioners Shellman, | Neison and O’Brien were appointed | a committee to examine the old | Trout lake road. The hearing om the petition for |} the formation of a new school dis- jtriet, to be composed of the organ- ized township cf Marcell, was con-! jtintied. $300 each was appropriated | from the county road and bridge fund to the towns of Moose Park, Good Hope and Third River to aid in the construction of roads and bridges, and the county auditor was instructed to advertise for bids for the construction of a road in 62-26. It was decided to place $5,000 ad- ditional insurance on the county jail and sheriff's residence, $300 on the barn and $200 on the tool house. The depository bonds of the First State bank of Bovey and the Nash- wauk State bank were approved and @ number of applications for correc- tions of assessment and abatements of taxes were approved. It was decided to make an appro- ‘pridtion of $150 to assist in defray- ing the expenses of taking the Itas- ca county exhibit to the state fair. Commissioners Nelson, O’Brien and Mullins were appointed a committee to examine road No. 79, and the committee was given authority to expend not more than $300 on neces- sary improvements. By a vote of three to two it was decided to pur- chase a grader for use in the towns of Good Hope, Alvwood and Third River. The following contracts were let: construct road in 146-25, first mile, $185, sec- P. Grambo, one-half mile of same It was decided to discontinue the operation of the Pokegama lake af- ter August 1. The petition of Wm. F. McCaffrey to detach certain lands from the vil- lage of Warba was granted. County road No. 96 was established and Commissioner O’Brien was appoint- Mr. Martin, however discovered them| been bothering Grand Rapids people and started for Grand Rapjds. At| since Contractor Schultz struck @ the Ogema he found Mr. Riley, who | large body of ore Tuesday morning aay = stot bi ponent | while drilling the new well for the lads anu ths ghevttiek bows: ature: | water and light commission on the ed in pursuit with the result Hil | SB0res of Hale lake. They were down 220 feet and om ‘was apprehended. The horses wer?! 5 killed by bullets from a 30-30 rifle. passing through twenty-two inches of slate ran into a body of ore, the The Home Restaurant. | depth of which is unknown, although ia | the drill was down twenty feet when Mrs. A. O’Leary has opened up a, they left off work yesterday even- restaurant in her building formerly | jng. accupied' by H. E. Neveux’s tonsor- As to the quality of the ore, it ial parlors and announces she will: appears to be of high grade, but hold her opening on Sunday, July ‘nothing definite will be known until 23, and dinner will be the first re- it has been tested. It is very prob- past. Mrs. O’Leary stetes that ev-| able samples will be sent over to ery article of food served will be| Coleraine this afterncon. home cooked and for that reason the} The vein has every appearance of title is “The Home Restaurant.” She| being an immense one and if the will make a ‘specialty of catering to | tests show the ore to be high grade those who wish the food to taste |it is very probable a company will “like mother used to make.” | be formed’ to work it. Play Camp Mishawaka Monday. | State Land Sale Light. The Juniors will play the Camp | As was to be expected, the July Mishawaka team at Southside park! sale of state lands, conducted by Monday evening and the game will! Theo. Nelson, was very light and not commence until 6:30 in order to; only 325 acres was disposed of. The give all a chance to witness the! NE% of SE, section 16, 5 sold contest. | for $20 per acre, Dear Amy:- dohn and dS will have our tenth wedding S want dohn told me the other day that he was more my sweetheart than anniversary next Wednesday’ night. you and Bol to come. ever. We had just made a good business deal and said SJ cauld have anything S wanted. oS made him Luy me new furniture and new SF don't hetieve in having old things in the house, do Your old friend, nugs to replace what was worn out. you? Lou. OP. $.-We Lought every single thing from F, E. REUSSWIG FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING