Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 4, 1911, Page 1

Min, eT p, Aur stericar Cea, MINNESOTA VoL, XXII. —No 15 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, IQII Two Dollars a Year CONVINCING EXPOSITION OF THE SOIL DISPLAYED AT ITASCA COUNTY’S FAIR Exhibits Were of Better Quality and More Uniform Size Than Ever Before. SURPASSED ALL FORMER EXHIBITS More Entries in the Livestock De- partment and Marked Improve- ments in the Strains. WHAT COUNTY OFFERS TO FARMERS Rich Soil, Producing Prolific Crops and Commanding Highest Prices in Nearby Markets. Northern Minnesota is coming into its own. When the claim was made ten years ago that in another decade northern Minnesota would be peopled with settlers, successfully engaged in securing a living from the land by indulging in agricultural pursuits, it was scouted, many openly proclaim ing that when the timber and iron i tion of the wealth of the soil. many the exhibits of grains, grasses, tion. They showed that Itasca coun- produced elsewhere and what is of more importance, showed the yields here are of super- ior quality and size of any in the state. In genera] appearance, .uni- formity of size and the artistic grouping of the dispjays, the exhibits surpassed anything hereto fore shown in this section. Thursday was given to entering the exhibits and arranging the dis- plays, Friday was a raw, chilly day, but despite this fact, the attendance was two times as large as on the same day at last year’s fair. The grounds were in such condition that the man- agement was compelled to call the races off, but the crowd got the worth of its money in the football game between the high school foot- ball team and the alumni team of the high school, the music discoursed by the Grand Rapids band and’ the vaudeville and feature acts of “Bertie” Newton, also a home pro- duct. They were confronted too with magnificent displays of all kinds of farm produce, and the exhibits of blooded cattle, horses, sheep, swine deposits were removed the country | and poultry. become a dreary, cut-over| uninhabited and unfitted for commercial purpose. However, those who saw into the! future have lived to see their theorieg established Northern Minnesota is now known as the garden spot of the northwest and the fact that this por-| tion of the state is the greatest gar- den spot in the northwest was never more exemplified than at the twenti- eth annual Itasca county fair, held at; Grand Rapids Thursday, Friday and} would On Saturday the weather was no improvement over that of the day previous, yet, the grounds were crowded with people who wished to see for themselves what improve- ments had been made in agricultural and dairy lines over last year’s fair. On this day it was also necessary to declare the races off and it was a great disappointment to the crowd, many coming here from a distance to witness the races and several cars were over from Hibbing, among them iy, September 28, 29 and 30. Wee no worse It tained all day Thurs- day and the larger portion of Friday, despite this fact, wagon grounds Thursday to be entered in competition for prizes, and the dis- play buildings were filled with pro- ducts of the farm, although it is also| work, slack wire walking, a sensat- | for well-known fact that had weather conditions been ideal, the list of “Ted” Smith’s famous racer, to take her conditions could have been! part in the automobile meet, but the track was too sloppy and all races were declared off with the exception after | of a pony race. However, those who n of produce was hauled to the] came out were well repaid by a Grand Coleraine clown baseball game between the Rapids Juniors and the city team, revolving ladder tional automobile act and music by the Grand Rapids and Coleraine entries would have been so large that) pands. it would have been impossible to house them all. The fair was a convincing exposi- Strangers Amazed. But what struck the serious mind- Copyright 1909, by C. E. There is a confidence and with the posseession of money in enjoy any other way. Capilal $2 5,000,00 President, F. P. Sheldon. Cashier, C. E. Aiken. F. P. Sheldon. A G. Wedge. Cc. E. Aiken DIRECTORS John Beckfelt . Zimmerman Co.--No. 33N seense of security that comes the bank, that is impossible to First National Bank GRAND RAPIDS. MIN Subpolus 5,000,00 OFFICERS Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr Ass’t. Cashier, J. G. Peterson D. M. Gunn. W. C. Gilbert. H. D. Powers. To ed visitor most was the fact vegetables and fruits were a revela- as one of the greatest, if not the ty can produce anything in the line ty in the state. Visitors from out-| Long, rg; Rima, lg; Kelly, rt; Gar- of agricultural produce that can be side the county and in the state—!from Iowa and southern Minnesota! Powers, rh; Costello, Ih; H. Doran, that | was especially worthy of commenda- Itasca county has come into its own | tion. Following was the line-up of | greatest agricultura] and dairy coun-|elevens: High School—Tyndall, ¢; particularly | rison, lt; Kribs, re; McAlpine, le; | were amazed at the extent, variety |fbj Aiken, qb. Alumni—Finnegan, c; land uniform excellence and size of|Hepfel, rg; Kremer, 1g; ‘Whaling, |the farm products. They praised ev- rt} Graffam, It; Logan, re; McAlpine, erything except the weather and |le; Brandon, lh; Erskine, rh; A, | were unanimous in declaring Itasca Doran, fb; Lofberg, qb. ‘the greatest agricultural county in {this and several other states. All | of these gentlemen will be big boost- ers for Itasca county. Juniors Humble Coleraine. ; The Grand Rapids Juniors demon- strated they will be ready to step out of the junior class after the Large Amount of Farm Products. coming season, for | Farm products, especially pota-|the Coleraine city team Saturday | toes, were entered in such volume /afternoon. The game was one of it was found necessary to utilize athe fastest ever played, only 55 | portion of the school children’s in- | minutes’ time being consumed and the | dustrial building for this purpose. All| fact the score was 1 to 0 and a no | jof the potatoes, with the exception | nit, no run game for Weaver shows | ; Of those in the township displays were | that it was a fast one. the | | they defeated! rhe potatoes were some of the fin- ‘shown in this building. They would e ground was in bad condition have delighted the eye of a Michigan | trom the heavy rains but this made street produce ‘merchant. for they | no difference to either team. They were large, smooth and solid and, j picked up the grounders, that is, | what is more important, they were| what few were batted, as quickly as | | uniform in size, the kind that the | ig they had been playing on a mar- | housewife prizes, no matter where ple floor. It was oe, two, three | \ : . , | she may live. In the agricultural! oyt, ad libitum, ad infinitum, until j building, on which an addition was | the eighth inning, and at that time | built to Becomodate the township ©X" lit looked as though the game would hibits, the grains, grasses, fruits|¢o fourteen or fifteen innings, when and roots, with the exception Of P0-| Rudow, who played first base tatoes, were shown. There were 'Poleraine, went to sleep for just a squashes weighing over 100 pounds, |row seconds, but that was cantaloupes, apples and grapes of er things that will be told about in detail in another column. the score by innings: RH zE) Awakening of the People. Grand Rapids..00000001x—1 3 3 Last week's fair was an epoch in | Colevaine...... the history of Itasca county, for it Lian and Nelson were on the firing can be properly claimed as the time | line for the visitors, while Weaver | 4 “ and place when the people of Itasca | 2nd Hicks did the battery work for county have been brought to realize | Grand Rapids. Weaver secured 17 that this is an agricultural anq /Strike-outs to his credit, while Lien | dairy country of the greatest possi- | 8°t 18. ! bilities. How great, no one knows; The game was watched by nearly no one has had the temerity to sug-|every fair visitor on the grounds | gest that it will ever reach its zen- 22d all who witnessed it claim it; ith; that its possibilities can be de-|W@S the fastest game of the season. veloped to a point where it wil] be The Coleraine boys are all good fel- impossible to make further progress, |!0WS and good losers. As they were opportunities are practically two players short, the manly forms of, boundless here for the intelligent | Will McAlpine and H. R. Shortman farmer—one who has a little money | Were adorned with the gray and ma- and is able to make his brain and i roon colors, they filling in for the brawn work together in unison for ‘absent Coleraine boys and, of course, his own betterment. The lands, too, j they were good naturedly roasted are stitl within the reach of the poor! bY the Grand Rapids portion of the! man—but they will not long remain | cTowd. 1 pumpkins of mammoth proportions, | enough for a junior at third to steal | it will undoubtedly do so. large and luscious watermelons and | ome, which netted the only run made | hibit was in charge of Mr. and Mrs. 000000000—0 0 4; Henry Cronkhite farms. was certainly an extensive one, cOv- | ering a wide range of farm products , so, for after an exposition of the wealth of the soil, such as was dis- nlayed: last week, it cannot fail to in charge of that pioneer agricultur- | bring in many settlers and every | alist of the north country, David | tract that is sojd boosts the price of Rose, was a miniature county fair! the pomalinin ones, for the price display all in itself and those who of land, like everything else, is regu- visited the booth which housed the | lated by the law of supply and de-| oxnibit, after one glance, paused in! [pune Land, good land, can be involuntary admiration of the artist- | bought now at from $8 to $20 an acre ;. arrangement of the dislay. Every- | and as we are in close touch with thing was seemingly in the only |the range and the Duluth and Super- piace for it. Each exhibit showed eee matke lS Htere ee & demand’ for up to the best advantage and when | everything that is raised on the farm, a Herald-Review reporter commented providing it is of marketable size and on it, Mr. Rose explained that the Crank design for the display was worked High School Team Lost Out. out by his daughter, Mrs. Guptill, | For the first time in the history of who is a graduate of the Boston) the Grand Rapids high school the school of art and designing. It cer- j; alumni team won out against the tainly was a creditable piece of work.’ |regular high school team Friday af- The first thing to strike the eye} ternoon when they defeated them was stalks of fodder corn, 14 feet, | by a score of 3 to 0. The alumni 4 inches in heighth. Next were | was the heavier team, but otherwise stalks of sweet corn, 13 feet high. | they were evenly matched. During There were bundles of hog millet, the first quarter the ball was in puckwheat, flax, four samples of high school territory the greater Wo. 1 wheat that went 25 bushels to share of the time, but in perilous the acre, oats that went 60 bushels, | places that team worked the forward’ parley that averaged 30 bushels and pass to get out of the dangerous po- hulless barley that averaged the sitions, but after about 12 minutes game. of play, the alumni scored 3 points. were also shown of the threshed on a field goal kick. grains and many were the exclama- During the three remaining quar- tions of surprise over the excellence ters the fight was fiercely waged, of the quality, Then were shown jboth teams working the forward samples of field corn, Minnesota jpass numerous times, but neither dent, No. 13 and Smoky dent being |side was able to score and the game the best samples. Four samples of ended 3 to 0. Howard Doran, full- sweet corn were on display as well ‘back for the high school team did as three or four of pop corn. _|some exceptionally fine work, catch- In grasses, four samples were fiing the pigskin when fo rd plays shown. There was timothy, the Ardenhurst’s Display, The Ardenhurst township exhibit, | In addition to these, samples | | were made by the alumni and “Pink” stems of which were five and a half Erskine also did fine work for the feet long, Kentucky blue grass, ajfal- alumni on the same kind of plays. fa, first and second cuttings, and Of the new men on the high school clover, the seed for which was sown team, the work of Aiken and Kribs on July 1, There were also samples of clover which were secured from seed of this season’s clover. In the vegetable line there were! monster squashes, Hubbard squash- es, field and pie pumpkins, cabbage, four or five of which would make a barrel of sauer kraut and which ! would have delighted the heart of any person of. Tuetonic origin, pickles and cucumbers, sugar beets, stock car- rots, mangles, Watertown rutabagas, green topped turnips, celery, keel, | table beets, parsnips, water melons, cantaloupes, citron, cauliflower, three varieties of beans, two varieties of peas, eight varieties tomatoes and | samples of the grains in glass jars. | est ever raised in the town of Arden- hurst and the best ones were of the | Early Rose variety. Twenty-six varieties of canned fruits were shown, three jars of but- ter and some of the clearest and sweetest honey ever brought to the village. The whole was set off by a monster jar of flowers, set in the center of the display and the effect was indeed beautiful beyond any de- | scription. i The Ardenhurst exhibit was award- | ed first prize in the township entry ; class. Bass Brook a Close Second. The Bass Brook exhibit was the for | first one made from that township, but despite: this fact it very nearly The ex- i during the entire game, as neither! P. P. Elliott and the larger portion | ‘ the very best quality and many Oth-!team scored after that. Following is fof the display was from the Eliott | Rapids was broached for the farm, although part of it was also se-) cured from the E. L. Buck, J. Vi Morris, J. H. Becker, M. O’Brien and | ‘other meeting will be held. The road The display and Mr. and Mrs. Elliott’s efforts should be the means of bringing many more settlers to the already , fast growing town of Bass Brook. There were samples in the bundle of wheat oats, rye, the stalks of which were nearly six feet long, first and second cuttings of clover and hog millet and timothy, the stems of (continued on page 5) through a country that has DIRECT ROAD FROM OT, PAUL TO CANADA East and West Highway Passes Through Grand Rapids via MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE TOMORROW Where This Road Will Be Discuss- ed and Its Building Consid- ered—Part of Route Already Fixed. The good roads conference held at Aitkin last Friday was of decided importance to Itasca county. D. M. Gunn was in attendance from Grand | Rapids, while C. M. King also at- tended as chairman of the good roads committee of the development asso ciation. The Moorhead to Duluth road was long | captured first premium and next year discussed and the route from Brain- erd to Duluth was fixed and the proposed road from International Falls to St. Paul by way of Grand first time, but on account of lack of data it was decided to take action on it at Cambridge tomorrow when an- met with the approbation of the dele- gates present and it is of the great- est importance to Koochiching, Itas- ca and Aitkin counties that it be constructed, as it will run in part never before been accessible, especially the Sandy lake and Hill City country. Action will be taken on this road to morrow to adopt it as one of the trunk roads of the association and the route from International Falls to ;Grand Rapids has already been fix- Dear Amy:- Lots of people who are prepared to re- ceive you in their parlors would Le ashamed #o have you see their kitchens. oS believe that the kitchen should be the tidiest Aoom in the whole house and git for company to enter. Food tastes so much Letter when prepared in a nice, clean kitchen. My kitchen ig a joy to me. ALways your friend, Lou. @. S-Laura got her a Leauty of a kitchen cabinet yesterday from REUSSWIG F, E. aE ian NITURE and UNDERTAKING