Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 17, 1912, Page 1

| | ry EE > rald-Heview. MINNESOTA SCOIETY, Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, (912 Two Dollars a Year VoL, XXII. —No 29 \ pounds of milk yielded by each cow. The system of ventilating the barns |and the watering of steck was also GLOQUET GUESTS sna OF GRAND RAPIDS ss“ “== sv They are just now engaged in ex- /perimental work with the poultry} flock, and one man does nothing but! Visitors Well Pleased With What care for the 350 chickens kept. The! They Saw and Learned | chickens are housed in large coops, | with compartments holding about 75} Here Last Week. | birds. Great care is exercised in the ventilation of the coops and Neg |feed is carefully weighed and a | complete record of all the workings CARLTON 00. FARMERS INVESTIGATE of poultry yard is carefully kept. | After looking the farm over thoroughly, the party drove back to n, és Grand Rapids and visited the cream- Cordial Reception Tendered Com- ery. The city owns the lot where mittee That Came to Learn it is located and charges no rent. From Observation Concern- The building is a fine one construct- ni |ed for the purpose for which it is: ing Cows and Creamery. ;Used and has concrete foundation andj |floors. The walls are also concrete | up to a height of four and a half or | five feet. Mr. Mokler, the buttermaker,! |showed the party through the plant} and explained all the details of its working. It has modern machinery |of the best type and the building and machirery was built and installed at {a cost of $900.00. The shares of FA , | Stock were sold at $50 each. The Sree tie mnctb odes eeeplbrod sary maximum number of cows that have ing at the Experimental farm, the been used to supply the creamery is care of the herd, etc., and also to | 250, It is not claimed that the cream- mote the operations of the Itasca ery has yet shown a profit, but this Co-operative Creamery at Grand |was not expected as market for the Rapids. Fred D. Vibert, postmaster’ nix had to be created before suf- of Cloquet and publisher of the Pine | ficient cows could be kept on the Knot, was responsible for the trip: (farms. It is expected that within a On Wednesday the parties who/ year it will show a profit. were to take the trip under the au- From the creamery the party went spices of the Pine Knot up to Grand |to the potato warehouse, erected this Rapids to inspect the state agricul-|fall by Mr. Hughes, one of the enter- tural] experiment farm and the co prising merchants there, at a cost of operative creamery there and also $2,800. This building is 28x48 feet to look over the famous Island Farm,;and the lower floor is about eight of G. G. Hartley at Island, Minn., left! feet below the surface of the ground. here on the 10:25 train and arrived |The lower floor and the walls are of at Grand Rapids shortly after noon. | double concrete, with dead air space They were met at the station, by|between. The walls are brought up Supt. A. J. McGuire of the state|to a height level with a car door; farm; O. J. Niles, secretary of the; where another floor is laid. The ereamery association, ~and~-Editors|}upper~ story walls are of aoubte | EB. C. Kiley and A. L. LaFreniere, as brick, with the dead air space. The representatives of the Grand Rapids | potatoes are handled and loaded in commercial club. |sacks by a mechanical carrier sys-/ Arriving at the experiment farm, | tem and the warehouse will accomo- the party sat down to a sumptuous | date from 10,000 to 12,000 bushels. dinner, all of which was the product! From here the visitors were piloted) of the farm, and which afforded a re-;to the Pokegama hotel, where they past. of which the most noted chef|Mmet a number of business men of might well be proud. After dinner|the city, who were plied with ques- Supt. McGuire took the party out to tions on all topics of interest to the the barns, and showed them _ the Cloquet crowd. At eight o’clock inj methods and care of the stock of the|the large dining room of the hotel, | farm. He explained the measuring|the visitors and business men of| and weighing of the rations for the| Grand Rapids sat down to a fine ban- dairy stock, a-herd of some forty | duet given im honor of the excursion- cows, being milked there at present.| ists, about 20 covers being laid./ He showed how the tests for butter] Speeches were made by A. C. Bos-) fat is made and how its record is se kept, as well aa the number of} (Continued: from: page: four.) Last week's issue of the Cloquet Pine Knot contained the following re- port of the trip made a week ago to Grand Rapids and Island Farm by a delegation of farmers and business men from Cloquet and surrounding country. The party came to investi- TRAPOFORUNWARY A FEW FACTS ON TRICKS OF TRADE Advertising Schemes of the Mail Or- der Houses Serve to Cheat ten Sold Below Cost in Order sions of Cheapness. ij The theory upon which a great number of mail order concerns pro- ceed is to select a certain number of articles, those of standard values and well-known, and mark them down to! wholesale prices or lower. This is for the purpose of ‘‘baiting,” as well as to give the impression that regu- lar dealers are selling goods at prices too high. On many widely advertis- ed goods which are in constant de- mand the mail order house advertises } the Consumer. | GOODS ARE PRICED BELOW COST PROTECT PROPERTY WW THEIR a eo ee Articles of Standard Value are Of. | Figures and Facts From the Public te state of Minnesota from several | to Create False Impres- | ‘state is tefuse the use of a school building {to a red anarch’st or a dynamite jmaniac. Such a character would be jtoo apt to apply the torch to the PUBLIC CCHOOLS that had given him szelter.| j ‘Bay ge j | | , It costs nearly $30,000 yearly to | carry on the Grand Rapids schools. } The tax levy for school purposes in The Directors of School District No. ‘the village of Grand Rapids yields’ One Respect the Mandates approximately $12,000 annually. | Where does the balance of the of the State Laws. ; twenty-nine or thirty thousand dol-/ \lars come from to maintain the! jschools of one village? “Why, from jlying to you. Between $20,000 and/ $25,000 is paid into this district by | sources: From the general school! fund; from the mortgage tax, pupil | | per capita appropriation, state ap-| | portionment, state aid and from de-| | linquent tax sales. A large portion of the amount contributed by the; secured because of the/ When the history of school dis | high rating of Grand Rapids public| trict Number Ore of Itasca county ‘schools. | is written by an unprejudiced narra-| ese tor im future years it will be a his- | Another important feature the} tory of engrossing interest both 48 enemy of our schcols will not call| to the manner of its official business your attention to is the fact that management and the good that has 41 out of a total of 136, or 30 1-10 been accomplished within its cON-' per cent of the pupils attending the fines for the education of the grow-| Grand Rapids High sehool are non- ing generations with which it has residents. These non-resident pu- had to deal. It will be a history that pils do not pay one dollar tuition} should add glory to the names and and yet the law requires that they Records that Will Not Be Relished by Our Polit- ical Pirates. prices much lower thap the actual cost of the goods to the house. This is done with a view of catering cus- tomers, killing off the trade of local) dealers, and with hopes of selling other goods at enormous profits. Then the advertising part of the. deal is of some value. People like to buy goods at the lowest possible cost. They get im-! pressions of low prices from compari-, son of goods of which they know the selling price. If a certain rifle is | always sold in the gum-store at $14 and the catalogue house sells the | same at $11, the average man reali-; zes that he is getting a bargain, even though the concern may lose a. half dollar in the transaction. But | the ma ic also impressed wit.‘ the, idea that prices are just as low on | other goods of which he has little in- formation as to values. It is know-| ing this fact that causes the mail| order houses to resort to this trick. | Then there is difference in quality | of goods. In the different }ines there! are different grades. It is not tong | ago that a United States district | court grand jury returned an in- dictment against a large mail order house on three different charges of! fraud. In each case there was mis- Tepresentation. One of the charges was that “pure white lead’ paint, supposed to be manufactured by the concern, did not contain a trace of white lead, and was mamufactured by contract by another concern. The other charge was that jewelry was misrepresented. In the matter of jewelry there is great chance for fraud. That which is called . solid gold may be not over one-tenth gold, | parties from using school a little better than brass. Gold al-| memory of men and women who ha\@ pe educated on an equality with! been chosen to direct its destinies the resident pupils. In 1904-5 the| through the early years of the dis-'total enrollment at the Grand Rap-/ trict’s struggles. A vast territory | ids High school was 45, with only has been cared for during the years 3 non-resident students. It will be since Itasca county’s organization,' observed that the increase of at- and the rural sections have been tendance from without the village looked after in a manner that re-| ig rapidly advancing. At present | flects credit upon .those into whose there are nearly as many non-res‘- hands the district's affairs have dent pupils attending our High) been placed from time to time by | school as made up the total attend. | the electors. Honorable, earnest, ance in 1905. It cosis a lot of money) and intelligent men have guided the! to earry on Hjgh school work—but! district as it has grown until today it is money well invested. it is recognized and rated among @e foremost school centers of the) gtate. The directcrs have had _ to deal with many difficult problems in| hele efforts’ to. keop the ee installed the following officers at all sect te Sa possi | their regular’ meeting: Monday night: ble standard excellence. Bui the! Oracle, Mrs. Lyla Halverson; vice- most eats 308 en joracle, Mrs. Mabel Pogue; past or-' Sapeenest that hee ay | Mrs. M. L, Lothrop; chi - tervals comes through the machinelen 25 : eae Sees i Rae ‘i TE pianics, Sain lor, Miss Grace Fraser; recorder, a designing Aura Lothrop; receiver, Mrs. Del-! wee tear down every waver seas phine Wellein; marshal, Miss Kate! ture in the state to advance their | pining: inner sentinel, Miss Mat- | own devilish designs to capture +i. prescott; outer sentinel, Mrs.! and: centro! public ‘office. Christine Gilman; manager, Mrs. M. {L. Lathrop. j Royal Neighbors Elect Officers. The Royal Neighbors of America eee The directors of District No. One | irresponsible landmen IMMIGRATION WORK TO BE PUSHED HARD New Commissioner Proposes to Re- organize Bureau and Get Set- lers for Minnesota. WILL CO-OPERATE WITH LAND MEN Plans Will Be Evolved to Get Best Possible Results From Ad- vertising the State’s Resources. Inquiries which come to the state commissioner of immigration im re gard to Minnesota land will be turn ed over to real estate dealers in am effort to sell land. This wae 2&2 | nounced by Commissioner H. J, Max- field. The plan to be followed has not been worked out, but will be soon, “As the matter now stands,” Mr. Maxfield said, “the bureau sends out information about the state, and there the matter ends. I believe that if letters of inquiry are turned over to dealers, the applicants will be flooded with offerings, from which they should be able to select some thing to suit their particular needm Arrangements will be made to treat all dealers alike—give each am equal chance at the prospective buyer.” Some plan will be evolved to pre vent unscrupulous and dishonest land men from fleecing buyers. It is poe sible that with the information sent out by the bureau, a “blacklist” of or those whe have been convinced of unfair deal- ings may be included. However, this plan has not been decided upon. All persons who visit Minnesota exhibit car which will leave Sunday morning for a tour of the Central states will be asked to register. The list will be printed when the car re- turns and distributed to land men. This will be the first step in carry- ing out the plan Mr. Maxfield pro poses. He said he expects some of the lists sent out from his office dur (continued on page 4.) have been charged with the offense of posting notices forbidding all buildings without first securing permission jfrom the school board. They did do jthat very thing. Why? Simply and !solely because the statutes of Min- | nesota. require them to do so. They are the legal custodians of all school } buildings within the district, and the law requires that they shall not | permit persons to occupy them with-| out first getting . permission. ways has a certain value. it is in jewelry or in a coin of the Whether | The section of the law referred to reads as follows: “‘The school board | realm, the value is just the same. | may, upon a petition of a majority | Its purity and weight is what counts. j of legal voters authorize the use of! It is curious how intelligent people @2Y school house in the district for! who know of the fixed value of gold ‘divine worship, Sunday schools, pub- will take the word of a mail order | lic meetings, elections and such other schemer as to quality, where the ar-|Similar purposes as, in their judg-| ticle is sold at a less price than the metal which it is claimed is repres- ented in it can be bought for in the markets. Low prices are generally quoted upon goods which the average peo- Copyright 1909, by €. E. Zimmerman Co.--No. 47 ——_ +e — inst National Bank OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr Cashier, C. E. Aiken. DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon. A G. Wedge. Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfelt ple understand, and are acquainted with, and the loss is made up on the classes of goods which allow the practice of deception, of the value of which the people little know. Peo- ple who patronize mail order con- cerns should undrestand that in the majority of cases they are paying more.than they.would.be compelled to pay if they Jmade their purchases at home. Then there is involved the principle of sending money away from the neighborhood where it is earned. If the people who patronize mail order houses would only buy such goods as they know are priced be- low cost to. the concern, the mail or- der houses could not continue in business a year. But these concerns know that Mr. Barnum was about right when he.said.that.the.“American people liked to be humbugged.” They transact their business . accordingly. .The home merchant must go ahead on a different basis. He depends up- on his reputation for mae }ment, will not interfere with its use; for school purposes; but before; | permitting such use, the board may | |require the bond of some responsi- ible party, in the penal sum of one hundred dollars, conditioned for the | proper use of such school house, the payment of all rent, and the nepal) lof all damage occasioned by such} use, and they shall charge and col- lect for the use of the district from such reasonable compensation as’ the persons using such school house they may fix. (1321, as amended by} chap. 445, sec. 1, 1907)” In po case, however, has a bond been required, There is not a single instance wherein permission has been refused applicants for the | use of school buildings for proper! purposes. Many of the school build- ings of the district are regularly used for holding church services and Sun- day school work. The board net = i He knows that he must be honest, whether he is inclined to be or not, | or that he will socom be compelled to get out of business for lack of pat-' ronage. The mail order concerns look | : for a new crop of “suckers” every | year, and they find more or less of a crop. Dear Amy:- She other day S told me fix up the parlor. stay down town ‘nig mine from E,, of the home as mine has Leen. is glad that we've fixed up our parton. enjoys home much more, and he doesn't want to REUSSWI FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING dohn he just had to Let S got tined of seeing the old things in it any longer. Shope your husband is not so thoughtless Bui now he too we his” any more. dohkn wants you and Bol to come to see us. Qtways your friend, Lou. P. §.--When you want fusniture and rugs go Aight where J did, J am so pleased. SF Lought G HISTORICAL oe