Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 24, 1912, Page 1

) j 4 , Min evi [pp ISTAIDIOA: apache wi uwwril. SOCIETY, Granp Rapids, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, [912 Two Doilars a Year VoL, XXIL —No 30 that cannot fail to result in much good to publishers of Norhtern Min- BIG CONVENTION nesota papers, and also will operate as a mighty agency for the material AT LONG PRAIRIE good and advancement of this section of the state. Individual communi-| | ties will profit through the things! it is accomplishing and will continue! orth: Min mesota Edit e |to accomplish. It is making better ) N a = ig Hold jocal papers, and better papers make | Business Meeting and Sit better communities. It will ultimate-| at Banquet Board. |ly eliminate the unworthy and un-/ iy 4 drig and a drag on so many small Pr eR ee SB te |tewns. Publishers and job printers | JUNE MEETING Al GRAND RAPIDS | #22 country over are at last awaken- ing to the frigid fact that they! have been doing business on a price basis that prohibited profit. The’re coming out of it. doing business on a price basis that Newspaper Makers Will Be Our Guests for Their Summer Onting. | prohibited prifit. The’re coming out Big Program Is Already | off it. Planned For Event | Long Prairie is one of the best and most: prosperous towns in all Nor- |thern Minnesota, It is the capital | rected in a spirit and with a purpose | Money paid into the treasury of School District the heart of our national life. What-. ever is needed to supply the needs No, One, Itasca County, Minnesota, @uring | of every household in evety commun- the year 1911, from sources other than the ity should be sold over the counter of a local store and not through the) tax levy made by the district for that year. | postotfice and the mail trade. The following figures are taken verbatim from the records of the auditor of Itasca|is where the county editors and mer- County, Minnesota: Mortgage registry tax . | necessary publications that are now! State apportionnment, per Id A a ai sees | Tax sale .. State aid for rural and semni-givided ‘etna ES | State aid for high school and normal dept .. State apportionment, per pupil. ‘ 2 eh aR er we. 1,071.26 Interest and penalties ............ ' State aid for rural and semi-graded schools .. Absolute tax sale. State loan repayment... se eeeeeeade 894.81 2,500.00 216.00 lof Todd county, and Todd county|Fine paid........ .... Giclees meee Le ad 10.00 About fifty members of ‘the ‘North-| boasts with justifiable pride of its! Distributed under Chapter 341 Laws 1911............ 6,655.36 ern Minnesota Hditorial association | 4éricultural and dainying supremacy wea ep Ree attended the winter meeting ‘held at ;@mong the counties of the state. Long Prairie on Friday and Saturday | Long Prairie is not a very big town ot last week. Long Prairie. is not|—#bout two thousand population conveniently reached from Grand |but that it is and for long has been Rapids. Going out on the mid-night | # prosperous village is apparent to train to Cass Lake: three hours’/the visitor at first glance. Its busi- | eleep there, and then soutb at 7:00/mess buildings are nearly all of | o'clock in the morning to the place|>rick; the town is clean and well! of rendezvous, arriving at 11:30 2. | kept, showing a spirit of civic pride| m., has a tendency to dampen an /#Mong its citizens that always makes | old fellow’s professional @Athusiasm, |for municipal prosperity and com- | K's easier to take the train at|Munity happiness. A more hospita-| Grand Rapids in the afternoon and|le people is no where to be found. | travel to Chicago, where one is The editors were royally entertained landed about 8:30 the next merning.|2nd every attention given to their But notwithstanding the inconvenien-|¢omfort and care while guests of ces the Herald-Review man is glad/the little city. Long Prairie has one he didn’t go to Chicago, and he is Of the best hotels, the Reichert, mightily pleased that he did go to/@longe the Great Northern line. It Long Prairie. He learned a lot of | W@s at this popular hostelry the/ things that he ought to know—things | 2eWspaper men were banqueted. that every newspaper man ought to| It is a notable fact that where | know. It was a good business ‘meet-' 00d newspapers are the good towns | ing they had. There was ample «vi-|are. This coincident is easily ac- dence that the publishing and print- | counted for. The good town is made ing business is rapidly getting into UP of enterprising business men. En competent hands: ample evidence | terprising business men a)ways ad- that it is not safe for the man who Vertise. They are successful com- has succeeded in making a failure Petitors with the catalogue houses. | of almost every other line of indus-| Their liberal patronage of the local try to venture into country journal-|2ewspaper makes money for them ism and printing. There was aj@nd in turn the publisher prospers. number of able papers, pertinent lias is the condition that prevails} the trade and profession, read and|in Long Prairie. The Leader, pub- discussed; a better fraternal feeling|lished by Rudolph Lee, and the was engendered among the editors; Eaten, published by A. H. Sheets, the speeches made were calculated to|4re two of leading weekly papers | create a highr sense of dignity and | Published in Minnesota. They have self-respect and importance for the|helped to make the town and the country newspaper and the country| People thereof appreciate their newspaper man. The Northern Min- value. The two editors werg ably mesota editorial association is the|assisteé by a citizens’ committee to! best. organization of the kind. the|make the winter meeting of the news- | Herald-Review man has ever been|Paper men the splendid success it Its efforts are di-| proved to be. The words of appre- identified with. 4 Copyrirht 1 0%, —- ~+ee -— First Mational Bank GRAND RAPIDS. FOU. nao | Capital $25,000,00 OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres.,, A. G. Wedge. Jr Cashier, C. E. Aiken. DIRECTORS D. M. Gunn. W. C. Gilbert. H. D. Powers. F. P. Sheldon. A G. Wedge. Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfelt | meeting. The naming of Grand ‘the securing of this convention aj | distinction of more than ordinary im- | persistent the visitors in| their resolutions were written and ciation expressed by adopted in all sincerity. As hosts the Long Prairie editors and citi- zens generally take high rank wiith the members of the northern Minne- sota editorial association, and their ; hospitality wilt long be kindly re-| membered. Editor Dare of the Walker Pilot was elected president of the associa- tion for the year 1912; E. C. Kiley| of the Herald-Review, vice-president; | A. G. Rultedge, the old reliable, was! continued as secretary-treasurer. Grand Rapids was selected as the| 1912, Rap- ids as the meeting place for the} | summer outing is another evidence} of what persistent effort will ac-! complish. Any city or village in Northern Minnesota would consider) place for holding the June, portance. Grand Rapids was con- ceded the honor this year because the editors of this town have been; during the past three years in setting forth the advan- tages which Grand Rapids and Itas- ca county have to offer the seeker of pleasure, recreation and interest- ing sights, including our great iron} mines, ore concentrators, paper mill, state agricultural farm, good roads, pleasant drives, magnificent lakes well dotted with boats and filled with fish; our public schools and other public buildings; beautiful private residences; unsurpassed! hotel facilities, and our unbounded hospi- tality. After hearing these attrac- tions oft repeated the brethren of the press could not longer resist the temptation to come to Grand Rapids. And so the editors, their wives, daughters and sweethearts will be here a hundred strong or more in June. We will be prepared to do unto them even as they have done unto us. Stole Footwear. R. McCaffrey a young man of War- ba, suffered the loss of a portion of his thumb Saturday while working about a wood sawing machine and came to the city to have it attended to. Charles McKinnon, who evidently needed a pair of shoes and overshoes! and didn’t have the wherewith to purchase them, took advantage of an opportunity to procure them. Sat- urday morning a dray stopped in front of John Beckfelt’s store and when the draymen stepped into the store for a moment McKinnon pur- Joined the necessary articles and made his getaway. Later in the day he offered them for sale in a saloon. Chief McCormick got on to the fel- lJow’s trail and presented him to Jus- tice Bailey, who committed him to the careful care of Sheriff Riley, where-he will camp for thirty days. Barney Riley Wins. Barney Riley, the Coleraine Irish lad, who has been at the head of the amateur “ski jumpers” of the! state for the past two years, and who recently joined the professional ranks, won first place at the Virginia meet recently, clearing a distance of| big cities, and thereby taken away | 126 feet. It had been predicted that |from the locality where it originates m one. belongs, is an influence CIVILIZATION NEECS THE SMALL TOWN The Bulwark and Hope of Coun- try Centers in the Rural Districts Everywhere “CENTRALIZATION THE MODERN EVIL. ‘Building Up of Large Cities With! Prowded and Discontented Pop- ulation, One of the Perils That Menace the Nation. There are few persons who realize that the mail order problem is a na- tional one, and that it is wrapped up in and a part of the great funda- mental question whether this nation shall be perpetuated or shall be de- stroyed by the physical degeneration | ot humanity, the social unrest, in- dustrial discontent, moral and poli- tical corruption and class destroying social upheavals as the result of some long continued period of anarchist crimes, riotous mobs and all industrial and commercial de-! pression. The fact is that the upbuilding of the country town and suburban vil- lage, as an antidote and safeguard against the poisonous social, moral, physical and political consequences of herding millions of our working peo-j ple together in the unnautral con- gested life of the tenements, is the one great question that -rises above all others in importance as a prob- lem that this nation must solve. Unless it does solve it, it will suf- fer death as the nations and’ civilizations that have risen in the past only to be destroyed. Ours will be likewise destroyed unless we take heed in time. The tion in cities and from nothing else. The solution lies in checking the! further growth of cities as the homes of industrial workers and scattering those homes into and among subur-, ban homecraft villages and in coun-| try towns and rural settlements, To do that, trade and industry | must be decentralized. Industries of all kinds must be established in the suburbs ‘of the cities or in the town instead of in the congested cen- ters. That is something that requires! an organized campaign, but first it requires a current of right in the minds of the people. It requires that everything should be done that can be done to hold in the existing towns and villages the trade that now naturally centers there. Any part of it, small or large,! that is diverted to any of the huge’ central mail order concerns in the that . just to that extent the hatred | bred in the city slums and tene-' ments and certain to culminate in danger | arises from the congestion of popula-' thought | Then comes the question of growth of towns and villages. There | chants can help themselves. get it into the minds of the Once w hole | .§ 397.23 American people that the salvation of| the union depends on the upbuilding? 3 733.00 of the country towns and suburban; villages—get the — planted and} THE IMMIGRATION WORK BEING DONE ‘Northern Minnesota Development. Association Accomplishing Good Results With Bureau. et hicks sae tc PERSO OBSERVATIONS BY KOLL. 442.00 and a thousand influences will enter the field and enlist for this great | eampaign for rural and country town) 4,263.00 |and villaze development to check the overgrowth of cities with all its resultant evils. It can not be done all at once. The, first thing is to get public thought) 1,166.22 actively aroused and turned into | 2, 742.65 right channels. There must be a complete common conception minds of millions of people of this new national idea. Then there must be united, concerted and vigorous ac- tion to realize that ideal. The facts and arguments to support it must be disseminated through a great educational campaign—entirely sep- arate and aprt from politics. Every country editor and merchant should be a leader in the {movement in his locality. Minnesota Exhibition Car. The exhiitbion car of the Minne-{ sota State Board of Immigration that left St. Paul on the 14th is already |showing good results. Missouri and Towa are the states invaded. Sixty-| eight towns will be visited in the two states, according to the officia. itinerary. The trip will terminate }at Riverton, la., on March 30. i New Tailoring Firm. | A. L. Roecker and Charley Ham- mer, two of the oldest merchant) tailors in Grand Rapids, have formed ja partnership. The business will be jcarried on in the building on Leland | avenue where Mr. Roecker has been for some time. This firm should do a good business, as both mem- bers are well known throughout the established. The Chinese celebrate their New Year by paying all their debts—and still we call them heathen. in the! country | jcounty and their reputation for re- | lliiability and excellent work is well’ What He Saw at Exhibit Room im: Minneapolis Under Where Sec- retary Mackenzie is Looking After Our Interests. The importance of taking advan tage of the opportunity to advertise Itasca county by maintaining a per- |manent exhibit at the rooms being maintained at Minneapolis by the | Northern Minnesota Development as- | sociation, is forceably brought out \by M. N. Koll of Cass Lake. The following is taken from the Cass Lake Times, and was written by Mr. Koll: “T had a land deal on and in order to help clinch my arguments for ‘Northern Minnesota, I took my cum tomer over to the N. M. D. A’s e& ‘hibit room at 39 Third Street South, | Minneapolis, and landed my man. \ “Secretary W. R. Mackenzie has the ‘room all ready to put exhibits im |place. Several are already. there, |'Those counties tt have not sent theirs in ought to do so at once for they are overlooking a big bet. “I will cite a few instances of in- \quiries that were made in my pres- jence at the exhibit room in the few |hours that I spent there. “A young lad about 16 years old | lookea in at the door and appeared jso interested that Mr, Mackenzie asked him to come in. Mr. M. asked him if he was interested in land or if his father was. The lad answered that his father was not but that his mother was. They had been watch- ing for the opening of ‘the exhibit room. He stated that there were ' several boys im the family and five of them were figuring on going to farms. He stated that they would i (continued on page 4.) \ | ! Dear Amy:- you will take my tip, get one Like it. F. Shave justi bought a new chiffonier. S don' along without one. St is just the place to put alt the things you need to get at quickly. I'm going to get another for John's room. When S want any more furniture, I cer-~ || tainty will go where S Lought my chigfonier. Their prices were so reasonakte. Sf you'll go right off and £ see how S ever did get Atways your friend, Lou. P. S.--I, of course, Lought from E. REUSSWI FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING G ~~