Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 27, 1911, Page 2

et Impervoat age Grand Rapids XXIIl. —No 26 GRAND Rapips, Irasca County, MINNX., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, Dery, ‘Rae Mage Herald-Review, a; Hho Ai, Pat reOrye, ” 9, tgri Two Dollars a Year Apportioned to — APPORTIONMENT OF es." LAST HALF WE Grand Rapids... .. .. .. 939.07 247.24 17,574.83 | MES TESTIMONY “= WM.BR RATE CASE | Holman. ee er eer i | Keewatin. 19,605. ~ ‘ Auditor Spang Mailed Out War- | marbie.. -.29,469.65 | Railroad Commission Hears Argu- | rants To Various Treasurers | Nashwauk.. 11,048.77 | ments at Deer River in Regard e Taconite. . one - 7,079.93 | : s | Seturday Afternoon, Wasa ing) to Lowering Tariff Rates. | IZeMpel in... sss . i * Apportioned to Schools. AMOUNT DISTRBUTED $235,006.13 2:=- xe. “SreseenANDTHER HEARING. JANUARY 15 ne 143,801, 04 | a | Dist. erst yy Penne } | vist. 505.39 | h Which Goes to Village, Town, and | Dist. No. «20,5 7.64 Will Be Held at St. Paul and ai, Schools and County—Largest Diet. Ne seat Report Submitted by the State Amount Ever Apportion- Apportioned State Loans Examiner Will Be Part | ed im Itasca. |Town of Ardenhurst.. .. ..$ 10.71| of the Evidence. i jDist. No. 1 . 63} _ {Dist, No. 2..°.. 55 5,265.78) | vanty Auditor Spang completed | [DMM Mo. Go ae Ss eer At the rate hearing which was! be November apportionment of tax. | Diet. a a . = a i ogg sale at Deer River last Tuesday by}} 3 ‘ i No. he Minnesota State Railroad and || at week. ana! mare WarTeND | Dist Nd. IL.) oy ool Warehouse Commission, there were |} © various village, town and school’ These taxes are the last half of|.ome important developments. The easurers the same afternoon. The | those levied for the year 1910. The\yearing occupied an afternoon and! ‘ portioned, $335,006.13, was |B€xt apportionment will be 1ade iM| evening session and was attended by| Werehly in.exceas of any dis | March, ae |Chairman Mills, C. F. Staples and| eretofore made and was C. EB. Elinquist, members of the com- a as follows: state rev- 'mission, Thomas Yapp, traffic ex- 26 $4; county caper se. WOULD INCREASE pert of the commission, and a num. || 80; school revenue, $ ber of the officials of the M. & RL ge revenue, $93,062.84; town SUPREME COURT R. $ state loans, $5 During the hearing it appeared! detailed statement of that a re-examination of the books | s distributed follows Chief Justice Start Says That the aig pccoras of the railroad conbareh Apportioned to Towns Tribunal Has Too Much had been made by the public exam: é| fe 1s Work to Do. iner and that he has submitted a -413.90 ‘detailed report to the attorney | Speaking from an experience which! CT! showing gross earnings which || has covered the space. of 17 youre it is stated have not been reported i| k kj | by t ilroa il Chief Justice C. H. Start of the su-| DY the railroad. {| x preme court declared the time has! This disclosure came in connec-| . ” leome when the court’s membership | ¥en with an inquiry made of the || \could be increased properly to care | Seneral superintendent W. Ci Croix, as to Lumber business whether or not the With an | Itasca had paid! ; pte gp average of 500 cases a year on the! freight on supplies, equipment and. i , court calendar, the working power of | horses which were shipped trom We e go (the judges is sorely tried and re- jae to the Itasca camps 280.03 lief should be afforded, according | the hearing concluded the 7,047.11 t© the chief justice. ‘commission ordered -the railroad | 21 The chief justice did not speak in | company to prepare and submit al = 14 4 tone of complaint. Rather he im m- statement which would show .1,057.81 | Plied that the increase should be |important features of the oper ration | | 623.16 ‘made because of the increased im-/of the road including the total earn. | “193, 00 | portance of the character of cases | ings, the total operating expenses 1,248.42 ‘that are coming before the court, | the dividends and interest paid, an .582.05|As the years go by, the points in- ‘the cost of the property to date, 175 ae 12| volved become more technical. The | for the great volume of jthat is coming before it. company setor i many | The nature of the questions asked | .136,32| Cases require more study, more de-! witnesses and the action of the com-| Popple + se ee ee ++818,24] liberation. The chief justice fully! iission in ordering certain figures Saxe .249.00 |accords with the views expressed |to be submitted by the railroad com a Lak ..6.98|by Associate Justice David F. Simp-/ pany indicates that the entire ques “940, 05}60n, who has handed in his resigna-/tion of rates is to be thoroughly gone | | 3.879 94 | tion, effective Jan. 2. Mr. Simpson | into, Upon adjournment it was ar-!! “714.68 | says the work is too much for five ranged to hold a hearing at St. 168.36 | men to do. Paul| {some time about January 15. This —— | will allow an opportunity to examine | the report of the public examin- jer and to obtain certain information |from the books and corporation leords of the railroad company. Wawina Copyrieht 1% It is not as easy to ats a foothold re- | The witnesses who testified includ- |, ed farmers from Jessie Lake, Mr. Herried was one of those who| imade it plain to the | through ‘ory i} commission testimony that the prohibit- prevented the opening up their marketing produce. A very ant asked by || Chairman Mills in this connection |when be inquired in effect it it was | claimed by the railroad | \that the territory through which |the road passed would not become a/| i productive agricultural region | it was settled and cleared. The exhibits in the case freight bills which show many instances it costs little more, || if any, to ship from Deer River to!| Duluth than it does to ship from a point 30 miles north of Deer River | to Deer River. Other : rates settlers | from farms and | |from signi question was company || when | included || that in in business or to own real estate as it was a generation or two ago. The easiest and surest way to be prepared for the inter of life is to put money in the bank. Money in the goes a long way towards insuring exhibits show- a happy Christmas and it always enables Santa Claus to visit }/is that the rates charged on You can see examples every year at this time of by the M. & R. R. families who have no bank account. Start your bank The investigation involves a yery and you will always be prepared for this event | {large amount of work both on the|| bart of the commissin and the attor- nays but it is hoped that it will be: brought to a conclusion some during January. The report of the public examiner | was made for the purpose of enabling ties your home. were excessive. unhappy account at once in the future. time || First National Bank GRAND RAPIDS. MINN. the state to collect taxes on gross Capilal $25, 000,00 Sutplus § 5,000.00 earnings which Were not communi-'| cated to the state authorities by the || lroad company. The original in- OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr igation by the public examiner Cashier, C. E. Aiken. Ass't. Cashier, J. G. Peterson showed such unreported gross earn- DIRECTORS ings, according to the contention of F. P. Sheldon. ann, the state, to be about $300,000. The | A G. Wedge. railroad company denies any liabil-| Cc. E. Aiken JohniBeckfelt! ity for the gross earnings tax oe! earnings not reported. Unperfeat Page GRAND RAPIDS: DEAD OR ALIVE? Would the people Rapids like classed among the live, active, of Grand to see their town growing ones of Northern Min- nesota, or, Would they prefer to see it quieUy inurned? It is about up to them. Which shall it be? Towns, villages, cities grow and prosper in proportion to the enterprise of their citizens. They stand still, they “go broke,” they decay for lack of citizenship enterprise. A town gets What it is en- titled to if the people go after the things their town naturally should have. If the people fail in their duty, the town will fail. It is inevitable, If Grand Rapids has all it needs; If its railway facilities are enough; If its manufacturing plants are a plenty If its lateral highways are sutficiently good and = num- erous; If its surrounding vacant lands are better idle than in tillage; . - If paying higher freight rates taan its neighbors is satisfac- tory; i sending seventy-five to ove hundred thousand dollars yeaily to catalogue houses is good business; If public parks are not de- sirable; If modern buildings are not needed—in short, if advance ment is not wanted— then These remarks are uncalled for. How can present conditions be remedied? By remedying them. How can it be done? By doing it. Through the Grand Rapids Commercial club conditions can be improved a hundred thou- sand dollars yearly. How? By taking active and ener- action on the enterprises noted; by getic and subjects herein intelligent and pers’stent ef- fort by abandoning the ‘what's the use” policy that now pre vails. There will be a regular meet- ing of the Commercial club at the Court House Friday ev- eving. Every male citizen of Grand Rapids, who is interested in the town’s welfare, should at- tend this meeting. It is not necessary to be a@ member of the club to attend the meetings. It is not necessary to be a member of the club to offer suggestions for the club’s con- sideration, Be present and take an in- terest in the affairs of the community in which you live. During the winter months there should be a series of in- teresting meetings held, and these meetings should be well attended, Grand Rapids should be aroused from her present leth- argic condition. "MAY EXTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING MARRRRALROAD BE HELD TUESDAY | Rumor is That Branch Will Be Stockholders of Itasca Farmers” | Built Connecting Deer River Cooperative Association Hold | and Little Fork. First Annual Meeting. | MEN kaw SURVEYING ROUTE BEST CREAMERY IN THE STATE Little Fork Times Thinks Work on First Two Weeks December Paadi One of Two Possible Routes 38 Cents for Churning Cream; Will Be Started Early 40 for Table Cream and 56 the Coming Spring. for Butterfat in Milk. The latest railroad rumor is that; the Backus-Brooks people will puita | a line from Little Fork to {With the northern Itasca Logging road. The first annual meeting of tne: ‘a Farmers’ Cooperative Creeamesy connect | association will be held at illage terminus of the; hall Tuesday afternoon, January 2. The Herald-Re- at 2 o'clock, and all shareholders, pa- |view hopes the rumor will come true,/trons, and in fact, every one inter jas it will open up a rich country to/ested in the ultimate success of the \settlement. The article from the | creamery is invited and urged to at- Litlte Fork Time follows: !tend this meeting. jj The Backus interests are still en-| During the first two weeks of a gaged with their railway surveys in| December the creamery paid the fet = & j|the country south of here. A sur-/iowing prices: For butterfat and = ||vey line has been run straight from|churning cream, 38 cents; table = ||Nakota to the northern terminus of!cream, 40 cents; butterfat in milk, 2 the Deer River railway in the south-!50 cents. We knew of no creamery 3 |jwest of the southwest of section 36,/in the state that has paid as bi ~ }{township 63, range 26, which cross- prices as the one here. |jes the Little Fork river near William! J» speaking of the creamery, Supt. | Keiver’s place. A crew of 12 men | McGuire, who is president of the as+ j{are now employed in running a sur-| sociation, said ‘We are ce a vey live uth from the depot he | ratified with the spirit of coopera P jas far as section 8-67-2 or in’ the’ tion among the townspeople. rhey {town south of here, this follows thelare certainly doing all in their pow- {east sixteenth line in sections S,ler to assist the rs in making 17 9 and 32 in this town andj}the creamery a ing institution. sections 5 and 8 in town 67-25. Fur-|Qne of the most successful features, : |}ther than this we are not informed,|, think, is the pastuerizer. All the * but it is said this survey will con-/jniik and cream is thus cleansed of =} nect with the Deer River road. It| ai) germs and those Who are pairons is reported that a rock bluff thirt: !or the creamery are assured there |)feet in length was encountered male an be no danger in using its pror the northeast quarter of section $2 aucts.” of this town, and this may cause a; om detour in the survey at Which line will be built the secret of the as we can ortain, with show of that point. | ~ remains| point of leaving the M. the same but it is said, run more to the west & I, railway promoters as far | remains the new line but it is said} will, authority that | connecting with the line run by Eng. somewhere due south of, the state asc some some line will be before spring. construction | Sheffield ‘and between under reclamatiow It was announced last week that! tract on the west sde of section 17 \|the rock bridge in section 32, men-jand the south boundary of this town. \Itioned above, has caused the aban-; The southern connection is with the \|donment of that line, and a start is!Deer River, road, and the line is |; being made this morning. ‘The | practically the same. —=—=—__ | | ee) tt | | } | Dear Amy:- | May is going to invite you and Bol to | take New Year's dinner with them. John and oS will Le there too. We wanted to Le at home \] New Years and have you with us, but Lecause | pe ||| Shad helped May pick out her new dining Aoom set, she insisted that John and & take ! dinner with her Qkways, | Lou. P. S.-May is tickled all kinds of ways with het. Ske, of courie, G heA new aining room hLought ik from F, E. REUSSWI FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING {uparfeat Page