Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 7, 1912, Page 1

{ Village and Township. Vor, XXII. —No 32 GRanpD RapiDs, Tasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, to12 Two Dollars a Year jtamarack studding. The silo is octa-| : |gon im shape. The studdings were| leut into lengths about 4 feet long, | and in sawing them in two they were} in on @ mitre at both ends, the | work being done at the local mills, | | ether. haze ready to put tog The 2x4! ee jpieces were laid flat, one on top) |of another, and spiked together firm-} COMMISSIONERS CLOSE SEsald | tuny marking it, handed the slip to }the election judge. “I challenge that lvote,” spoke up Jess. “On what | grounds,” was asked by the judge. !‘$On general disqualifications; on | the ground that he is not a resident {of thisi town or county; that he is irrelevent and immaterial, not a | fit subject to vote any place, and I cae | ; “Over half the people, who suc- | ‘cumb to tuberculosis could be saved | ‘if the proper treatment was begun | How It May Be Built Substantially, |}, Six thousand feet of tamarack | Appropriate $10,650 As County Aid think at the present time he is un-jearly enough,” says Miss Anna Fine Exhibit of Agricultural Pro- |made a silo 14 feet in diameter and | | 30 feet high and it holds about 100; » \tons of ensilage. Any farmer who) lege drive nails can put one up after | {the pieces are sawed, which are all PROPER CARE OF STOCK NECESSARY | == so that it is impossible to make! |a mistake in putting them together. | Mr. Buck dipped all these 4 feetj | pieces in a barrel of creosote paint; Cheaply and Easily by Any Farmer In Building Bridges Across Miss- issippi and Round Rivers. ASKS FOR $7,000 ROAD FUND der the influence of liquor.” Bill | was asked if he wished to swear in his vote. He didn’t vote, but he | went outside and swore. | | Carl Eiler’s Father Passes Away } Carl Efler left for Duluth Monday, jim respomse to a message announc- | Wang, visiting nurse for Itasca coun- | | ducts Shipped to Immigration Headquarters. ;ty in the anti-tuberculosis work. ‘Miss Wang began her work in the |county the first of the current year | j and her plans comprise much educa- | iti 1 work 2 ved | [scientific metnods or ‘ieneine, the SECOND TD NONE IN MINNESOTA white plague. She will visit homes| where there are tubercular patients | Ss . 5 | before laying, to preserve them. A ing the death off his father. Mr. {4nd give personal instruction in 3 : Industry and Ordinary Intelligence | Statements Submitted By County | 5.1... s:, nad been a resident of Du.|sanitation, food, etc., while in cases Specimens of Soil Products Put Up |He reports the silo thus built a success and is feeding his herd) the Only Requisits to Success- fal Dairying in from it this winter. Itasca County A silo of this size will provide en-| silage sufficient for a herd of from 30 to 40 cows from fall until spring. | | Of course the silo could be smaller! Now that Itasca county is blos-|fo1 smaller herds. This makes a| ecming as a farming and dairying | VeTY inexpensive silo for section, the question of silos for the |here Where the material can be ob-| Officials---Auditor’s Annual Re- port Shows Gratifying Financial Situation In Itasca County. Itasca county will ask the State ' uth for a number of years and | Where the families cannot afford the funeral services will be held there|}expense of a nurse Miss Wang will | tomorrow. Mrs. Eiler left yester- By U. C. Gravelle Shipped to Bureau of N. M. D: A. at take charge of the cases. day to join her husband in the last} Visits to the schcols cf the county Minneapolis. tribute to the departed. |are also planned, so that tubercular} | The Duluth News Tribune says: | children may have the early attentio | RE RE | H. Biler, 82 years old, and for 20/80 necessary in this work. | After some unnecessary delay the farmers | Highway commission for an allotme.# years a resident of Duluth, died yes-| Two cases, one at Deer River and! exhibit of Itasca county agricultural to this county in the sum of $7,000 |terday at the home of his daughter{one at Popple are already under | products, put up by U. C. Gravelle, in Chicago: Deceased is survived by} Miss Wang’s care. She is especially | on his Pekegama lake farm, was farm is becoming one of great in-| tained so cheaply, and it is quickly|from the fund to be distribute@ on terest to the farmers who are in| built. earnest and want to keep abreast of| Some farmers make the mistake of |state roads. the times. March 5, for improvements upon It has been conclusively demon-|Stockraising and dairying before/missioners at the session of that strated that ensilage fed to milch \they have sufficient land cleared to}body held last Thursday and Friday. , Sixth street; Mrs. John Powers, Pe- | or with the county physician. cows during the winter months keeps | Taise their winter feed to carry the | The meeting of the commissioners ‘five daughters and three sons, who/|anxious that cases in the early | shipped to the immigration headquar- This action was deter-}are Mrs. John Miller, Chicago; Mrs./stages may be brought to her atten-|ters of the Northern Minnesota de- undertaking to go extensively into|/mined by the board of county com-|T. J. Thompson, 2002 West Fourth} tion and asks that anyone knoWing| velopment association at Minneapolis ‘street; Mrs. J. W. Rehbein, 1321 Hast!of such will communicate with her}jast Saturday. The Immigration com- oria, INL; iMrs. Ed. Johnson, Ger- mittee of the association has rented Outside of the large cities Itasca) a large room at 39 Third street Weet up the flow of milk almost equal to|®Ows through in good shape and |last week proved a busy one, many } many; A. W. Eiler, Proctor; H. A.jcounty is one of the first to inaug-|in Minneapolis and there is exhibit |Biler, Chicago, and Carl J, iler,! urate the system of a visiting nurse|ing farm products from the several tame grass pasture during the sum-| keep up the flow of milk. They seem} matters of more than ordinary im- mer and fall months, and besides, | tO lose sight of the fact that a long! ensilage provides a cheap feed. portance coming before the board. Grand Rapids, Minn. The funeral ‘winter is ahead of them, and that | Chief among these were the petitions will be held Thursday at 1 p. m..from! Cornfodder grows enormously on|if they expect to get returns from|from the supervisors of the towns of the home of T. J. Thompson. Mr. these Northern Minnesota lands, and!the cows during the winter they|}Grand Rapids and Popple tor county Wiler was the oldest Dane in puiwth | THIEF LOCATED every farmer who makes any pre-|must provide plenty and the right!aid in the construction of bridges @nd was very popular with people of | tense at dairying should provide him-|Kind of feed. As a result they get/across the Missisippi and Round -riv- that nationality, as well as others. self with a silo as soon as possible, | discouraged when they find that be-|ers. In each case one-half of the where he can store away for his/fore grass comes they must buy/ amount required for bridge building. | herd a large amount of succulent grain at the local markets to carry}was voted by the Grand Rapids receiving $9,750 =. GEORGE SHERBURNE feed in a very small space. Clover their stock through. There is also hay, root crops, such as rutabagoes, |a@ tendency on the part of newcomers mangels, sugar beets and cornfodder,|to put up at first a very cheap class in enormous quantities to the acre, | of board buildings for shelter for the can be and are raised here, and they | Stock, some of them being very poor provide a balanced and succulent ra-;™Makeshifts in which to house domes- tion for milch cows as well as other!tic animals. Such buildings are cold stock that can scarcely be over esti-|and poorly ventilated. They are mated. | poor economy. Such buildings re-} Root cellars in which to store thq Wire that the stock be fed about Winter's supply of roots such as! twice the amount of feed that a good are mentioned above, can be very! tight, well ventilated building would. cheaply constructed out of good|Farm buildings do not necessarily timber found in the woods on almost | eed to be expensive, but they should any piece of land, and a root cellar be well built. Im fact it is almost is one of the first things the farmer | impossible to build them too good should have on the place. Dead and 2nd warm with proper ventilation. down cedar, sawed into short logs This saves feed and is the cheapest 8 feet long and stcod up endwise|in the end by long odds. serve for the walls, and the same ma Pea aeeeR terial answers fcr the roof, and; The members of the Young Ladies’ when well covered with dirt makes Sodality, St. Joseph’s church, will | bridges across the Bigfork river on the examining @ root house that will stand for years honor the good Saint Valentine with Silos can also be constructed very !a luncheon served in the church par- cheaply in yorthern Minnesota where lors Wednesday evening, February the lumber can be had cheaply at 14, from 4:00 to 00 o'clock. local mills. E. L. Buck built one charge of 1l5c will be made and the last season on his Riverside Farm young ladies extend a general invi- just west of Cohasset, out of Copyright 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co.--No. 44 Of all the unhappy homes, not one in a hundred has a bank ac- count, and not one home ina hundred who hasa bank account is unhappy. It seems almost foolish to put it off any longer when it is such a simple, easy matter to start a bank account. First National Bank Aihitel AD RAE = 5000.00 OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheidon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr. Cashier, C. E. Aiken. DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon. A G. Wedg Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfelt commissioners, Popple $900 for the proposed work. The bridge across the Mississippi is on county road \No, 110 and will be of steel and concrete, while the Round river bridge will be on the | Dora. Lake road. The proposed rehearing in the matter of the formation of the | and laid over until the next meeting. | ‘The bid of E. R. Browne, Grand , Rapids, $568.00, for installing a vacu- um system to the heating plant in the court house was accepted. Other bidders were A. C. Kent, Grand Rap- ids, and P. E. Clark, Hibbing. The commissioners instructed J. A. | Brown, county surveyor, to prepare |plans for the construction of two | county roads No. 28 and No. 56. ' Several petitions for the formation’ |of new school districts were laid Allover until the next meeting pending four days in jail; the charge pre-| }the consideration of the commis- sioners, and, before adjournment the | board made plans to take under ad- visement the improvement of certain main roads in the townships of Iron Range and Balsam. The usual monthly assortment of | bills were allowed, and the financial |statement for the preceding year submitted by County Auditor Spang. The statement was approved and or- dered published for distribution. The next meeting of the commis- sioners will be held Thursday, Feb. Telephone to Hill City. | Bert Wideman of Pine River was in Grand Rapids Monday, and visit- ed with his old-time friend, County man. drove to Hill City. He has secured a franchise to put in @ telephone system to connect with Grand Rapids. He is now engaged ‘in selecting a route for the lines, and as soon as the frost is out of the ground he will begin setting the | Poles and stringing wire. | Bill Didn’t Vote. Willie Heymour surprised his ‘Grand Rapids friends Monday by unexpectedly dropping in on them from Remer, where, he says, he has ; been teaching school during the win- |ter. Bill consideres Grand Rapids {his home, and offered to vote at the election Monday. Jess Harry argu- ed with Bill that it was his duty, in the anti-tuberculosis work. }counties of northern Minnesota. It is said some fine displays are made, but the Herald-Review will venture \to say that’ none will excel that of Itasca county. Every variety of grass, wild and tame, grains of all jes corn fodder and corn in ear, { | alfalfa, millet, peas,, wild and tame, Robert Taplin, charged with steal-| ‘ . . | ete., are included in the collection. ing a watch from the express office | at Swan River, was arrested in Min- town of Marcell into a new school district was argued’ pro-and con,’ Auditor Spang. From here Mr. Wide to Grand Rapids. He will have preliminary hearing Saturday. ° Hearing In Insanity Case Tuesday | Young Taplin was employed at the | Great Northern depot at Swan River | Frank Caldwell Bound Over and the watch which he is alleged ‘to Grand Jury; Four Men Jailed to have taken was. consigned to Mrs. J. F. Metzger, Hill City. Tap- lin was paying attention to a young lady at Swan River and gave the watch to her. It was through her that the railway detectives located the watch and also learned of Tap- lin’s whereabouts. Sheriff Riley located his man in Minneapolis last Friday and brought t DECLARED INSANE neapolis by Sheriff Riley and brought | a At a hearing held Tuesday in pro- bate court before Judge Webster and a jury, George Sherburne was found to be mentally deranged and ordered removed to the detention hospital at! Fergus Falls for treatment. i Sherburne is a married man with a} family of four children and eas lived hini-bacie td BaGtane robtieny chnewe here about two years, coming from 7 vi ef against him Gouin: fs condone ine| foe eee eee {February 10. to mental worry and anxiety andj | Everything was put up in good con- ‘dition and was in excellent preserva- ;tion. Mr. Gravelle exhibited his col- |lection at the state fair and took sev- eral first and second prizes. Re | ports from Secretary Mackenzie, whe ‘has charge of the Minneapolis bureau, {indicate that much good results are {being secured through the efforts of ' his committee. Itasca county is fortunate in being able to secure so fine a display of what the soil pro- duces. E. N. Remer, of the Reishus-Remer Land company, went to Minneapolis to see that the ship- ment was promptly delivered and properly placed . lf you want all the official news Herald- of Itasca county get the Review. physicians believe | that he will ultimately recover. j In Judge Huson’s court Tuesday | four lumberjacks were sentenced to! ferred against them by Mr. Ers- | kine was for railway fare paid from Cloquet, the men refusing to work ,out their fare after reaching their} ‘destination. | | In the case of the State vs. Frank LaSarge and two sons, Joe and! Frank LaSarge, Judge Bailey’s.cdurt, | ‘the hearing was adjourned until Friday. The LaSarge trio was charg-! ,@d with assault in the second de- gree on Claude Burres, who in the | resultant melee was badly cut about | the face and neck with a knife wield- ed by one of the LaSarge family. ! | (Frank Caldwell was given a hear-!| |ing Tuesday and bound over to the} ‘grand jury on a statutory charge. | | | j ‘BOND ELECTION BY BIG MAJORITY : Voters of This Town Want Miss- | issippi Bridge and Road Al- most Unanimously. | The special township election held |on Monday to vote for or against the} ‘issuance of the bonds of the towwn.cf |Grand Rapids in the sum of $10,000! jearried by a vote of 173 to 4, with| one vote not counted. The four) votes recorded against the proposi-! tion were probably marked by mis-/| take or by voters who wanted to be, ‘on the contrary side. The raising| | of this money is for the buiilding of} | | | Dear Amy:- | you and Bot to come. day that he was mor éver. and said S could have YS made him buy me hLelieve in having old you? ¥o aS an American citizen, to vote when a town road and bridge which will | ever he had a chance. Bill finally grew patriotic under the influence of Harry’s eloquence, and the two start- ed; for the polls, a distance of about ten blocks from where they chanced to meet. Bill secured a | ats, went to the booth and care- P. S.--We Lought every F. veross the Mississippi river on the! west line of the village of Grandj ‘Rapids. This highway has long been needed, and the investment is | one of the best the town could | make. Itasca county pays one-half; je total cost of the bridge. i ‘ anniversary next Wednesday night. rugs to replace what was worn out. dohn and S will have our tenth wedding S want dohn told me the other e my sweetheart than we had just made a good ‘business deat anything S wanted new furniture and new S don't things in the house, do ur old friend, Lou. single thing from E. REUSSWIG FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING