Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 3, 1912, Page 3

settee tues A. D. Campbell in Northwestern Agriculturlist Nothing is more calculated to give stimulus to the “back to the land” movement than the recently pub- flished figures of the 1910 census. Perhaps some of our farmer friends will fear that the stimulus will be @ competition that will lessen the good prices they have been receiving the past few years. However, those who have been engaged in the work of inducing the people to go to the land are fully aware of the fact that there is no danger of any ex- edus of city people countryward, that will at all seriously interfere with the continuance of good prices for farm products. The fact is, that there are so many separate districts appealing for | the immigrant and so many con- fusing representations made, that! the homesecker is unable to make; ap his mind where to go This condition of affairs has arisen in) the last five or ten years. It has been sustained in many sections by an immense fund for advertising, pamphlets and agents, and has only dately subsided, probably for the reason that the expense has been greater than the results warranted. It is a matter of history that many of the promoting concerns have gone the way of all those who spend more than they make. These campaigns for settlers have had their center of activity in the central western states, where peo- ple who have been prosperous have been invited to sell their holdings and go to some distant region and Proceed to raise products with which they are unfamiliar, with prac- tices with which they are un- acquainted. Many have done 50—); too many to their loss and regret. During all this time there has been close at hand a large area of un- used lands, adapted to the produc- tion of crops with the needs of which our peple are familiar, areas surrounded with markets and pleas- @nt environments. The unused lands spoken of are in Minnesota, Wisconsin thd Mich'- gan and have Lake Superior for their northern border and the set- tled country of the three states for their southern limits. In these states there are, yet unused, ap- proximately 40,000,000 acres of land —a considerable portion of which is now ready for settlement and the rest steadily becoming available. Here are lands enough for a million forty-acre farms, or five hundred thousand eight-acre farms—certainly enough to take care of the overflow of the central western states for some time to come. The home- seekers in the older parts of these three states amd of the adjoining \ states know the products that can be raised on these unused lands and the practices necessary there ——there is no guess, no hazard, question of success. The newspapers and farm journals have given liberal space to the “back to the land” movement for several years, and yet the census returns show but 4.2 per cent more farmers of land in 1910 than in 1900, while the total population increased 21 per cent. Why? There is no area of any consider- able size where the new settler is so safe and sure of success as in jthe cheap land areas of the upper counties of the state of Minnesota. | There he gets at the beginning the | cheapest lands \to be found any- where, and at the same time lands chat will ultimately reach the high- est price that will prevail in the central west. This opinion is based upon the fact that these are the premier clover lands in Ameri- ca—and for that matter, they have een shown to be well suited to al- falfa. They are likewise the prem- ier of pea-producing lands. They will grow corn that for silage—and ali corn should be fed as silage—is anexcelled anywhere. They will produce all the small grains as well 4% any $200 land in the central west, and they are better for such crops as potatoes, sugar beets, clo- ver seed, peas for the canneries, the root crops, vegetables and the small jfruits. They possess cond-tions as- suring farm practices that will re- sult in the maintenance of fertility when, owing to environments, the wands of other districts will have deteriorated to a serious degree. | ‘These lands have the best and most. ,active and permanent markets on ,all sides. They have as healthy a climate as the sun shines upon. What, then, are the drawbacks to be met with? Just one; the stumps, and that problem has been reduced to a minimum. For years stump pullers have been improved until the removal of stumps has become a simplified problem, by their use or by dynamite. The homeseeker of today has one of five chances: he may buy high priced land and take a chance on paying for it; he may buy irrigated jan@ and encounter the labors and expense of that process of farming; he may undertake what is called “dry-farming,” or he may go into che cutover lands of Minnesota or oe may undertake the production of perishable products in some distant section. It is my judgment that every consideration looking to safety, success amd satisfaction should lead him to the cut-over regions of Min- nesota, SCHOOL TROUBLES OF DISTRICT NO. 6) Deer River News: After a hard tussle with the problem last. sum- mer, the more influential citizens of school district No. Six, having the better interests of the whole district in mind, succeeded in con- vineing the county board that there was no profitable or sane merit in the petition of some people in the northeast corner of the district to dave a township there withdrawn from the district, and so pet.tion was not granted. To satisfy the morbid discontent and to rather wheedie the trouble makers over in that little corner of ths big district, the school board gramted certain favors and did everything to give ideal ser- vice to that section, and so far as thas been made known everything has been going along satisfactorily. But now again comes the same people of the same Marcell town- ship with a petition to the county commissioners again asking to be separated from the district. What the new grounds are if any given in the petition is mot known, put it does seem queer that the people in that quarter cannot re- main satisfied or that the directors cannot satisfy them. The second segregation appeal is to be heard by the county board next Tuesday, and whether the request is to be opposed or not is not known, but quite certain it is that the question is then to be settled for some time to come. What, No Sante’Claus? ‘Will some one pray for the Metho- dist minister at Grand Rapids. On Christmas morning he told the blessed little children, of his church tthlat Old Santa Claus was a myth end a lie, and sent the little ones home with bleeding hearts, having pps of childhood. no Santa Claus? Dear |: ae eat aa of Grand Rapids, there is a Santa Claus just as real as there is a heaven above and an earth beneath. He comes with his reindeers straight from the north pole, Antaire, Prong Dancer, Antler and old Ganta’s other favorites. We never saw the real Santa Claus, nor his reindeers, but we ure as sure of their existence as we are sure that the Bible is an inspired book. Little ones, when you grow old- er, you will learn that the gremt cealities of this life are not the ma- terial things that you meet up against. The real grand things of life, you never touch or see or feel, but you know that they exist. Without faith the realities of the gospel crumble before the logic of the Ingersoll’s. Santa Claus is a typical character representing a spirit of the Christmas tide, that beats in the heart of every Christ- ian man and woman. He is the saint of gift giving, and such a glori- ous old saint he is. He breathes of mirth and good will. He may nave been a pagan at birth, but his ideal of love and good will was too good for paganism. That the ‘Christian world took him ag thci saint was an inspiration, an inspira- tion that we bel'eve was approved by the creator and glorified by the angels, and blessed by men of broad hearts with veneration and love. Santa Claus is typical of the | Savior’s message to the world, peace jon earth, gcod will toward men. The man who deludes himself with the belief that Santa Claus is a ‘white Ie is groping in the dark. He has not yet been blessed with an insight of the Christmas spirit, but the who puts his authority none sees: or touches or feels, but only the chosen know to exist. This minister is undoubtedly hon- est in his conviction, earnest in what he thinks is right, fearless in what he thinks is an untruth, but that does not make up for his de- jficit in imagery or his insight im the glorious and real world that is not tangible to such as whom have no desire to see, or whose mind has traveled in a narrow gecove which prevents the sceing of one of the world’s sweetest rea- lities—Bovey Iron News. NOTORIOUS DAVIS REPORTED CAUGHT Mike Davis, the notorious yegg, who escaped the ra‘d of Pinkertons and state deputies when an attempt was made June 17 last to rob and ‘burn the postoffice and general store at Puposky, Minn., was captured December 13 at Durand, Mich., fol- lowing the robbery three days pre- viously of a postoffice amd general store at Ganes, Mich. He was convicted along with a pal named Howard, and is now serving an in- determinate sentence of seven and a half to fifteen years im the Michi- gan branch state prison at Marquette. {nformation to ths effect was made public by the St. Paul office of the Pinkerton National Detective agency. ft was in connection with aileged complicity in the Puposky affair that Mayor D. F. Dumas of Cass Lake, Minn., was arrested and con- |taken away from them a cherished | ”|A short while later victed later at a trial in Bemidji, information against him having been tiled by C. E. Keller, state fire marshal, who alleged he was one of a ring in Northern Minnesota which nad been engaged in the burglariz- img of stores, etc., and the burning of property to obtain the insurance. Pinkerton men and deputies of Min- nesota at Puposky in a carefully planned trap to capiure him, and after eluding the special. detectives and officers of this state for several months, Davis should have been shals in the village of Durand. Davis’ yegg name is Mauchester Cur- Jey, and he was generally called Curley. According to the information of the Pinkerton’s, two men giving the names of Frank Howard and James Callahan, were caught rob- ving the postoffice at Gaines, Mich. On December 18 they pleaded guilty and were sentenced. The Chicago offices of the Pinkertons communi- cated with the St. Paul headquart- ers, and obtaining necessary data positively identified Callahan as Mike Davis. {t was also learned that Mike | Davis and Ed Le Claire were re- sponsible for the escape from the penitentiary last March of Jerry men” at whose hands two Twin City policemen met death. Patrol- man Joseph Ollinger of Minneapo- 'iis was killed im a revolver duel with McCarthy last July, the ban- dit also dying in the sireet battle. Detective Frank Fraser of St. Paul was shot and fat- ally wounded by Juhl on a_ Selby- Lake street car. Davis and Le Claire, the iatter equally as well known to the police of this country as any of the others, epent several weeks in St. Paul plan- ning to aid the convicts at Still- water to escape. The early pant of last March they smuggled the neces- sary tools to McCarthy and Juhl, und they escaped by forcing open doors that held them prisonere and scaling the high walls around the penitentiary. “ Davis and Le Claire ‘brought the escaped convicts to Min- neapolis in an automobile. Whether Le Claire is the Frank Aoward now serving time with Davis for the Michigan postoffice robbery is being investigated by the Pinker- ton. FOR SALE. About 100 acres well improved farm, 4 miles north of Grand Rapids and 5 miles west of Bovey and Cole- raine; 60 acres seeded to clover; well improved, with good residence building, summer home, and stock buildings. Good road to Bovey or Grand Rapids and three-fourths mile fronting on lake shore; cut 80 tons hay this year. Plenty wild pasture for 20 head cattle; 2 acres grove spruce and pine; portion of farm is enced for hogs. If you are inter- ested and want the best farm in Itasca county, call on or write .W. man that of the wise men of!E. Myers, Grand Rapids, Minn. It seems to have been the irony # F of fate that after escaping from the| Ries member of the ‘good roads captured by a couple of town mar- McCarthy and Peter Juhl, the “gun} It Cures The Liquor Habit Composed of Purely Vegetable Compounds The interview of G. G. Hartley at Gyand Rapids, which appeared in the Herald-Review, concerning the advantages of good roads for nor- thern Minnesota, was shown Chair- man King of Deer Riyer, of the good roads committee, and he was asked for an expression of his views in regard to it. He said: “I keenly appreciate Mr. Hartley's reference to me, and to the work we have in hand, and I hope to so continue to labor for the develop- ment of this section as to justify his estimate. Mr. Hartley’s views are interesting and his advice of One of the most thoroughly equipped institutions of especial value, for he ‘S$ nor- thern str somtog i pega Rg in the kind in the United States. Officially endorsed by the Medical Profession. northern Minnesota, when other men had none; he believed in the Recommended and Designated under the Minnesota Inebriate Law. great fertility of northern Minnesota’ low lands, when no other man did; he followed his belief with energe- | tic action and has demonstrated the ” A . . oe a ape Rr Thousands of testimonials to be submitted on application. man has. He went into the bog A ee akon nay or aul toc Write for our illustrated booklet; (sent in plain wrapper) nimself and his hired man and came All out with a train load of food for the correspondence confidential. markets of the world. and dragged, plowed and pulverized; MURRAY CURE INSTITUTE he banished the bog fly and brought in the honey-bee he pushed out the . . . caribou and put in the Guernsey; he|/ 620 So, Tenth St. - Minneapolis, Minnesota drove out the pack and drove in the eieiitiniaaiii te al J flock; he made the bog to blossom, turned.the turf to tubers.and changed the corngrass to corn-fodder; un- der his touch the swamp became a field;—all the low-land a veritable garden. Indeed when one stands amid the music of the farm sounds at Island;—of ecackle and crow, hiss and hum, gobble and grunt, bellow and pleat, he realizes that he is listening “eto a great agricultural phone" gh, in which there is not nets economic note. Destroys the appetite for drink, removes the alcohol from the system and builds the system up to its normal condition leaving the patient mentally and physically the same as he was before the drink habit was formed. With past experience to look back to, one who has a desire to be a man again can do so. We do not want a patient to come to us who does not desire to stop drinking, and we will not take any one who is forced to come to us, as we do not care to take money and not giye value received to our patients in return, “He cleared and cleaned, ditched lettuce-bed, the moose-pond a celery committee’ greatly appreciates and highly values Mr. Hartley’s ener- getic aiid.” APPOINTMENTS BY ~~ THE GOVERNOR Governor Mherhart distributed a number of New Year’s presents Sat- urday when he announced a number of appointments to the various state boards and bureaus. Those re- ceiving recognition Saturday were: Advisory Comm ssion Sanitarium for Consumptives—Dr. C. L. Scofield, Benson, new. State Board of Pharmacy—Robt. T. Moreland, Worthington, reappoint- ed. ee Medical Examiners— . A. Mack, Stillwater, reappointed. srs Board cf Examiners of Bar- bers—G. H. Becker, St. Paul, reap- pointed; Wm. Hamblin, Minneapolis, |reappointed; Emil A. Sabel, Du- here is no better way of locating goods, keeping track of things and getting rid of mountains of detail than by the~Bell Telephone, Ne other way is so far reaching, so quick, so inexpen- sive, so satisfactory, and so necessary to the progres- sive business man. It is the modern way and takes the place of a personal visit. If your inquiry must extend to distant points, the Bell Long Distance Service is indispensable 0. V. Hemsworth, Manager Office No. 67 Residence No. 108 jiuth, mew. Game and Fish Commiss'on—D. L. Durkin, Detroit, new. Osteopathic Examiners and Regis- tration—Frank D. Parker, St. Paul, reappointed. Livestock Sanitary Board—Dr. A. M. Reynolds, St. Anthony Park, Highway Commission—F. S. Bell, Winona, new. | Board of Accountancy—Harry W. Mann, St. Paul, reappointed. Theoretically, on New Year's day —Monday—Lyndon A. Smith got his present from the government—ap- pointment as attorney general to suc- ceed George T. Simpson, although he did not formally take the oath of office until Tuesday. Judge Andrew Holt of Minneapolis got his present —appointment to the supreme bench, Tuesday. J. H. Maxfield of Wadena, who has been offered the position fo state émmigration commissioner, is ¢x- pected to be im St. Paul today and inform the governor whether or not he will accept the place, Ralph Wheelock, the governor’s private secretary, said this morning pres-— sure was being brought to bear on Mr. Maxfield by friends to induce him to take the place. It pays $3,- v00 a yeoar.. P. M. Ringdal, chairman of the state board of control, signed 45 orders of discharge for boys who have been formerly inhates of the training school at Red Wing, but who have been out om parole. He also sent recommendations to judges of juvenile courts that 43 other ys, sent to the school by them, be discharged from parole. All of these were delivered as New Year's presents to the boys who have been walking the straight and narrow path Grand Rapids Village Lots $5 DOWN AND $5 PER MONTH We have choice residence lots over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter over. Wealso have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY GEO. BOOTH Mannfacturer of . FINE CIGARS.. Grand Rapids, Minnesota “ J} Have achieved an excellent BOOTH’ S CIGARS cometotee all over Northern inesota. They are made of the finest selected stock by epesimnawe workman in Mr. Booth’s own shops here, and under his personal supervision. This insures the utmost cleanliness and care in manufacture. For sale everywhere. Call for them. FOR RENT—6 room house with a For good, dry tamarack wood in good chicken house and yard. Elec-| 16 inch or pole length, cali on U. C. tric lighted and good well. Apply at | Gravelle, Second street and Kindre this office. avenre, Ee