Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 14, 1912, Page 1

Paper of ald-Review. “Grand Rapids Itasca County | Village and Popa tai Township. Dist. No. 1. Vor, XXII. —No 33 They Can’t be Beat Queen Quality Shoes For Women _fe's $2.50 $3 $3.50 $4 $4.50 $5 King Quality Shoes For Men wall $3.50 $3 $4.50 $5 | Red School House and Kalt Zimmer Shoes for Children a $1.00 © $2.50 | The Pioneer Store GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. ‘This Store Offers Splendid Opportunity for Real Savings | And real savings are just what interest! you, are they not, when you find the home in need of things. Then why not come to this store. where selections are ample and where your interests are given first consideration. All we ask is the opportunity of demonstratinng our ability to satisfactorily serve you. a *) Won't the opportunity be soon? W. J. & H. D. POWERS Copyrieht 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 has a 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 Capital $25,000,00 Seetpoleeds OFFICERS in. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge. Jr. President, F. P. She Cashier, Cc. E. Aiken. DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon. A G. Wedge. John Beckfelt | E. , GRAND RAPIDS. MINN. cae Granp Rapids, Irasca County, MINN., Wepnzspay, FEBRUARY 14, [yI2 ‘GOHASSET SCHOOL | HOUSE DEDICATED - New $35,000 Building Was Formal- ly Opened Last Saturday With i a Varied Program. MANY VISITORS IN ATTENDANCE | Addresses by State High School In- | spector /~ ~~" * * en field o Bs | Last Saturday, Febvruary 10, mari an epoch in the history of Cohasset, when the handsome $35,000 | school building was formally opened! jand dedicated. Business houses were closed during the afternoon ex-! ercises, so that all citizens might! take advantage of the opportunity! offered to inspect one of the finest} and most perfectly appointed school | buildings in northern Minnesota. The building is in the Moorish; type of architecture and has: been | given an admirable setting im spac- ious grounds in the northeastern part of the village. It is of cream colored brick with dark green trim- mings. The designs were the work! ot F. W. Hollister of Saginaw, Mich., | while the construction wes by Red- field & Colburn of Cloquet, Minn. | The first floor accomodates a| library and four grade rooms, each with spacious cloak room and book | closet. The second floor follows} ‘the plan of the first, with the ad- new dition of two office rooms, for the| convenience of the directors and! Superintendent. The attic, which includes the entire third floor, will be fitted up later as a gymnasium, In the basement is a large which will be utilized domestic science department, the lavatories and engine room. The heating and ventilating system is of | the most approved mcdern type, so that uniform heat and pure air are assured throughout the building. Spacious corridors, wide and easy stairways, electric bells and lights are excellent features of the new building, and special attention has alsé been given to the lighting of the different recitation rooms. Tha interior finishings combine beauty of color tints and practibility in an exceptionally fine manner. The walls of the recitation rooms are in soft shades of buff, while the halls are in green. The woodwork is green throughout, and the hardwood, oiled. The building was thrown inspection at 2:00 o'clock afternoon and was soon with visitors from Cohasset } Rapids and adjacent distr ceiving the reom later for the floors are of open for Saturday thronged Grand ts. Re- guests were Directer C. Burgess, Miss Canfield, of the Cohasset school, eron, Miss Smith and ner. | At 3:00 o'clock the following pro- | principal Miss Cam- Miss Scrib- Bt shee oo he Stains la 5c .. Grades *Song, Star-Spangled Banner..Grades | grams were given: ' Upper Grades. Song, America . Grades Recitation ..Roy Schneider and Fred Cannon Reading .. ..George Morse Recitation .. .. Myrtle Coleman Song, Lincoln Was a Little Boy .. Grades Recitation ..Helen Morse Recitation . Horace Ervin { and Audley Robert | Recitation ee .-Pansy Cushman , Recitation, Gettysburg Speech { Recitation .. ++ .. ..Willie Carter | Recitation -.Laura McCabe Recitation .. . Margaret O'Brien ! Recitation .. ..Hazel Coleman , Hurrah For the Flag “A . Grades .-Delia Goulet .- Violet Voss and Goldie Edgette , Recitation .. ..Maurice O’Briew | Recitation .. .. ..LeRoy Cushman ; Song, Thy Name We Sing ..Grades : .. + Stella. McMann Recitation .. .. Dialogue, The Prophecy ....Lioyd’ Schneider, Willie Carter, Hazel Recitation .. .. .. .. ..Anma Duna “(Continued on Cohasset page) jranking in the Se | civil Bullock “that government of the people, by! Two Dollars a Year ‘apd press work. The type was ali set on the Herald-Review Mergen | Choynski Will Come Back. | ’ | Joe Choynski, one of the heavy-! i i thaler machine, and the press work | weight boxers whose reputation for} this office This usually sent | being om the square makes him a/| nee bias s F A he ncant favorite, is a personal friend! 2 sre ay Y naa as — lot our townsman, Wm. Weitzel. In} te ee ee city to be handled, |a recent letter to Mr. Weitzel Joe | cot ne AO Mien ssateaanad wate says he is getting ready to come oa oO} 2 ste! equipped to do a , OF mite t f 81ze. back to meet some of the big fel- 1 ee ee Oe a ie ee Auditor Spang Sets Forth in De- addition to the regula 3 lows, and he expects to make good. 4 lar run of job He says he is in better shape than| tail Receipts and Disburse- work in the office during the past ever fore; can take a ten-mile| ments For Year 1911. two weeks this financial statement run three times a week and enjoys! has been produced. County Auditor Spang says it is the best printed fi it. Choynski has never dissipated, | Pee ee . as i | nancial. statement he has ever pre- which is an advantage he has_ over| ; heidi 3 jared. most of is class who nave made GOMPLETE FINANCIAL STATEMENT 8m coumey anacmmma g0od in days gone by. He has met i a ~ ei re obs | will also publish the statement im Corbett, Jeffries, Fitzsimmons, and gr hee te fhilin: ite ths if ‘ its ree succeding issues. they all knew they were fighting i 2 Se ae sors wher they were in the ring with Every Dollar Paid Into Treanetiy) he coantes, commuisstnness: daxig nated the two Grand Rapids papers and From What Source; Every to make publications ! Dollar Paid Out, To Whom and the him. | these because combined circulations of the PT M’G IRE A K | For What Purpose Made Clear. Herald-Review and Independent i reaches nearly every resident of the county, and thus the object of the law will be more fully complied with It is not unusual to hear the ques-| than by any other means they could FROM ST. ANTHONY. eae tion asked, where does all the money! have employed. Supt. A. G. McGuire of the North- go that is yearly paid into the coun- The cost to the county for this east Experiment farm returned Sun- ty treasury? The taxpayers have|complete service will be no greater day trom St. Anthony Park where |g right to know, and they should’ than if the publication had been he has been giving special] instruc- tion in the winter course -arranged | themselves with the business de- for farmers. itails of the county, it is their own The farmers’ short course, which|faujt. Every is a special feature of the agricul- ment of | know. If they do not acquaint! made in but one paper. pas eS Objections to Consolidation. the county is issued, un- state- Comrade Wm. Weitzel is in re tural scheol, is a six weeks’ course . rity aw 4 auditor ‘ ; . : a? ya a | der authority of law, by the auditor. | ceipt of a letter from his old friend, during January and February and) Today this anual statement appears F. G. Magdeburg, U. S. pensida Rovere & variety of topics designed lin the Herald-Review. Every: citizen agent at Milwaukee, in which he needs of to meet the especial the! should look it refully’ and Minnesota farmer. Supt. McGuire} then file it away for future reference. reports an encouraging attendance,! auditor Spang has prepared as com- farmers from every section of the| plete and detailed a statement of State taking advantage of the oppor-|the county’s finances as it is possible ove be speaks of the proposed consolidation of all pension bureaus at Wa The opposed by who are really interested in the wel hington proposition jis men : ‘ ad fare of the old soldiers. It would tunities which this course offers!to make. The man who does not increase the. red tape isis: ten: coo them. |familiarize himself with these im- extent, 5 chekanend:.ihuaty woukal ce Syren Ty | portant facts has no excuse to offer lay the issuance of quarterly per ANNIVERSARY IS funless it be that he cannot read the sion payments indefinitely. Under English language. It is a valuable! tp, present system, from the Milwau- two million dollars soldiers in jcounty document that is far from | Kee office, nearly HONORED IN CITY | veins sufficiently appreciated by the; was mailed out to old : average man. Every expenditure, | jess than nine days whether wisely or unwisely made, is Lincoin,|compiled and published for the ex- thé great emancipator, was geuer-|cjusive benefit of who are ally? recognized in Grand Rapids,| essentially interested in the welfare the city schools and banks being} of Itasca county. The Herald-Review closed and the day being more or particular to so less of a holiday in all SUPT. JORGENSEN BUYS RESIDENCE The 103rd anniversary of those has been arrange business cir-/the report in its pages that it reads cles, |through from start to finish without The general reports from all parts!the usual disconnected sections in| -Supt. Jurgersen of the Itasca Pa- of the country indicate that never!the presentation of so voluminous a Per company has purchased the has there been a time when Lin-| document in the average country pap- Presbyterian parsonage, the second coln has been more widely recog-jer. This precaution has been ob- house north from the Presbyterian nized as the type of a man to be/served for the convenience of those Church, and will move into his new imitated, voth in public and private|who wish to preserve the statement. "esidence about the frst of May. life, “A common man, touched by! The entire job was done in the The house is new occupied by Bert the grace of God,” as one writer} Herald-Review office—composition Weeks. speaks of him; and alb over the! enti A aad a are: land today men, who would be lead- PRR OS RE Ee EE Es Ss Se ers of men, are studying the life} of this man of the people to learn| the secret of his personality and | purpose. | An interesting thing in this con-; nection is that Lincoln has come to be recognized as a master in Eng-| Gettysburg speech ipture of common lish speech, the humanity as a perfect specimen of lofty, literary perfection. Who has not thrilled to simplicity of the words “Four score and seven years fachers brought forth on a new nation, conceived | and dedicated to the} born the rare ago our this | continent in liberty proposition free and equal. that all men are “Now we are engaged in a war, testing whether that or any other nation so ceived and so dedicated, endure. We are met on a battlefield of that war. We come here to dedicate a portion of, that field as a final resting place for! those who here gave their lives| that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that wa should do this. “But, in a larger sense, we not dedicate—we cannot consecrate | —we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it { far above our pocr power to add} or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we great. na- | con- long great | have | tion, can j t % : | Dear Amy:- an dohn and S will have our tenth wedding anniversary nexi Wednesday night. SF want dohn told me the other sweetheart than We had just made a good ‘business deal you and Bol to come. day that he was more my ever. and said S could have anything 4% wanted ee EEEEEEEREEEIIEEEE have a new birth of freedom; and say here, but it cam never forget Sinddiétsn lee Se ae AE aie ee what they did here. It is for us, , the living, rather, to be here dedi- rugs to replace what was worn out. VS don't cated to the great task remaining believe in having eta things ei tirhistenil, ae before us—that from these honored é ise wer takes increased ‘devation, toll ¥O™? Your old friend, that cause for which they gave the Lau. last full measure of devotion; that @. §.--We bought every single thing from we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; 7 ‘that this nation, under God, shall | ; E i R E U s S W I G e FURNITURE and UNDERTAKIN the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” *