Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 20, 1912, Page 1

v | . Grand Rapids Village and Township HISTORIC: OFFICIAL PAPER OF Itasca Co. and School Dist. No. One ° VoL, XXII. —No 33 TRUSTEE feel ; without sacrificing anything in the! | sea of efficiency in. the different de-| New Council Take Seats at Meeting , P*tments.’ Mr. Arscott also recommended the | Of Village Officials On Monday Night. quite possible—the village will — his suggestion. On account of the suggested chang APPOINTEES NAMED FRIDAY) i= coine away with the services of a night watchman, it was thought best ae eisead i lay over the matter of appointing! @ marshal, and this) will be taken up Plan Of Retrenchment To Meet; at an adjourned meeting of the coun- Water Bonds 0} tli d In De- cil Friday evening, March 22. tail by Trustee ‘STATE LAND SALE IN Arscott. At the counei] meeting Mo:day: evening the session was called to} eh, order by President Bossard, follow- ze ‘. ing which the old couneil adjourn- Sales of State Lands Will Begin ea sine die and the newly elected| April 8—Dates of Sale in members took the reins of govern- Neaz.bi ‘ounties ment, with President Riddell in the| zar.by C chair. Trustees King, Arscott, Rus-| sell and Recorder Sherman, mem-} State Auditor Samuel G. ent to assume official Minutes of the previous meeting | Tead, corrected and approved. The matter of appointees for mar-, | take, place. The sales of Itasca coun- ity will be held in Grand Rapids on ! sprit 15, May 20, June 17, July 15, shal came before the council. and the} August 19, September 16, October 21,\ ter the state commission has approy- | for~ university extension work which (ed a proposed highway ‘the state! have begun to assume tangible form, The first sales of land: will take ' shalh pay one-half the cost, the coun-/thi, central thought being the con- Stevens, Sylvester Hewis and Thos. | Place at International Falls April 8; |ty one-quarter, and the other quarter |sigsration of the vital problems of | applications of J. F. McCormick, | November 18, Frank McKeown, O. E. Johnson, Art! Trainor were nead. | Bemidji, April 10; Walker, April 12; Before action was taken Trustee, Same Rapids, April 15; Duluth, April Anscott addressed the council on the | 17 se ae April 19, and Roseau, necessity for vigorous retrenchment Apri] 24. Each of the sales will in village expenditures during the} jcommence at 10:00 o'clock in the next two years, -that the water bond | forenoon. éeane:. might be met., wien: due: ini ¢ ‘The: following ts theeachedule; of May, 1914. “The village can save dates: c : $1700 yearly in salaries,” said| Mr. | Itasca county—Grand Rapids, at Arscott. “‘The:night marshal can be } o'clock a m., om April 15, May done away with,.making a saving of |, June 17, July 15, August 19, Sepf.! $900 a year in one item. The vil- 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18 + lege attorney's salary can pe eli- Beltrami county—Bemidji, at 10| miminated, and a cut of $150 made y Clock a. m, on April 10, May 8,/ the treasurer's salary, and $100 on June 12, July 10, August 14, Sept. 11, the recorder’s, leaving $300 a year Ont; 9, Nov. 13. each for these two officials. Then Koochiching ‘ if $10 each were deducted from the Falls, at 10 o’clock a. m., on April 8, | trustees’ salaries it would make a May 18, June 10, July 8, August 12, | saving to the village of $1700 a S¢Pt. 9, Oct. 14, Nov. 1 year, without detracting in any. way Cass coun Walker, at 10 o'clock} from efficiency of the village govern-, 2: ™., on April 12, May 10, June 14, ment:” July; 12, August 9, Sept. 13, Oct. 11, “Last year,” Mr. Arscott continued, Nov. 8. | county—Internation2}| ‘the funds to meet the $19,000.00 bond 5 HISGUSSES. ietne when it. falls due May first,! {appointment of the street commis-' sioner as a police officer, the other j members of the board concuring with | THIS GITY APRIL 15 Iverson | construction of rural highways, and bers of the new council, being pres.;548 announced the Uates on whtels an effort to test its constitUtionality | Vincent, head of the University ot duties, | the 1912 sales of state lands wwill/is being made, the point..of conten-/ Minnesota. | Deer River and Northome road; the! |rookston and Breckenridge road, GRAND ENR ety Itasca County, MINN., WepNESDay, MarcH 20, (gt2 Two Dollars a Year HOLD UNNERSITY THE ELWELL LAW WEEK NEXT JUNE ras 'Tells Of The Proposed Roads For’ Tentative Plans Submitted by Prof. Itasca County Under The Vincent, Head of State | Elwell Act. University. ‘COULD BUILD 120 MILES ROAD UNIVERSITY EXTENSION WEEK ” | Previsives of’ Law Explained-Good|Six ‘Days’ Progetn' “WiR-be Given | Roads Paramount Question in | In Four Different Parts of Northern Minnesota De- i State—Grand Rapids | clairs C. M. King. Selected. | vatican j pie ie eae i ; C. M. King, head of the Good Roads’ A six days’ program, which will: |committee of the Northern Minnesota! include lectures ‘by the foremost an-| Development league, has been spend /thorities, concerts, dramatic perfor- | jing the past two. weeks in St. Paul ;Mances, exhibits of art and industti- | | aiding in the defense of the Ewell |at work, health exhibits, etc., will} law passed at the last session of the'be given in Grand Rapids in’ June |tegisiature. ' wnder the direction of the state uni- | The law affords state aid in eee according to tentative plans | submitted to Supt. Freeman by Prof. tion being that a rural highway 's The idea of a week’s program of not a local improvement. The pro- this character in different sections | visions of the Elwell act are that atf- (of the state is the result of plans} lig to be assessed against the prop- | eaein community. erty benefitted by the improvement. | frof. Samuel Quigley is in charge Mr. RiGee eee & FEDRopen- jof the plan and has taken up the tative of the Herald-Review what) yoto. of financing the project: with roads in northern Minnesota would 4 the Grand Rapide Commercial: club. affected by the Elwell law. He re! iy is estimated the pi out. | pie: s lined can pe placed here for $300, \ The Duluth-St. Vincent road; the|snqi.-s:usom tleket for the. entire | Satie . ; week's entertainment would only! International Falls-Aitkin and Twin! .., $1.00; It is believed that there| City road; the Twin City and Duluth | yumhe no hesitancy on the part of | road; the International Falls-Itasca | ena Commercial chub in giving the Park and Twin City road; the Brain-| gogireq support and assuring a week | erd and St. Cloud road; the Crooks | o¢ the best in musical, dramatic and | ton and Breckenridge road, and the! saueational work tothe people of | Brainard and St. Cloud road; the! shies district. | In, connection with the program a) number of exhibits will be held; one; by the Minnesota State Art society, | one by the state board of health; | school exhibits; library exhibits, etc. | The program will be varied enough} to appeal to all the different inter-; ests and groups of the community, and the Brainerd and Moose Lake Questioned as ta what parts of Itasca county these contemplated roads would run through, Mr. King said: “The Duluth-St. Vincent road runs along the southern border, pass- “there was $9000 of floating debts Aitkin county—Aitkin, at 10 o'clock paid. I would suggest paying $8,000 * ¥2-, on Aprij 19, May 17, une} of such debts this year. In the mat- 21, July 19, August 16, Sept. 20, Oct. ter of street improvements $2,000 a 18, Nov: aR | Roseau county—Roseau, at» 2, year céuld be saved, and in this way —if the water and light commission save an equal amount, and _ their last year figures show that this is o'clock p. m., on April 22, May 27, June 24, July 22, August 26, Sept. 23, Oct. 28, Nov. 25. ACCOUNT. TODAY Copyright 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co. Money once spent is gone from you, and can only be acquired again by labor or effort, but money in the bank will work for you day and night till it reaches the point where it cven doubles itself. Time passes rapidly and the money in the bank grows all the time. | First National Bank GRAND RAPIDS. MINA. Capital $2 5,000,00 Suiplus $5,000.00 OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A.{G. Wedge. Jr. Cashier, . Aiken. ; DIRECTORS ‘ r F. P. Sheldon. D. M. Gunn. A G. Wedge. W. C. Gilbert. Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfeit: H. D. Powers. ling through the towns of Swan River, | Rapids. Cohasset, Deer River, Dumas 'Ttasea county *- and @uring the week such undertak- | ings as a free kindergarten, a yaaey tion school, parents’ symposium and | cluds for boys and girls will be or-! ganized. The plan of a university week con- templates the leaving behind in the, enommunity a permanent organiza-/ tion for continued activities in dif- ferent directions, and it is probaple | that arrangements will be conclud- i ed this week to place Grand Rapids} jon the list of Minnesota towns that/ ‘will javail themselves of the oppor-/ tunii which this program affords in| so many and varied directions. | Feeley, Warba, Blackberry, Grand and Ball Club. The Deer River and Northome road runs directly north, almost through the exact. center ‘of the county and will go through the towns of Oteneagen, Jesse Lake, Marcell, Big Fork and Wirt. The In- ternational Falls-ltasca Park and}, Twin City road will run through the northwestern part of Itasca county, passing through Ardenhurst, Alvwocd and Moose Park, while the Interna tional Falis-Aitkin road will pass from north to south, through the cen- ter of the eastern half of the coun- ty, running through Balsam, Bovey, Coleraine and Grand Rapids.” “How do you pact pied pe le ons! SCHOOL NL BUILDINGS ARE SOCIAL CENTERS, money under the Elwell law to build | i | \ the proposed roads?” { “ttasca county received this year| $6,000 from the state highway com-!} Z : mission,” was the reply. “This will | Rural Communities oa probably build about six mils of ed Use of Buildings for Neigh- road. The amount is a fair estimate Meeti jeetings of what will come to Itasca county borhood sanectnc jannually from the highway commis- z ; sion, under our present valuation. The use of the school buildings as With $6,000 we could build six miles | centers for the social life of the | of road every year for ten years, community is one of the features tha but if we were to take all the money | modern educational thought is em-| this year it would build 60 miles in-| Phasiging strongly, and there is} |stead. Add the $6,000 per year| Probably no district in the state | that would come from the county and, where this is being paneer benefited property and it is plain, more satisfactorily than in district that we could puild 120 miles of|No. One of Itasca county. ; | |road—or every ome of the roads Especially in the rural communi-) |Row contemplated.” ties, where no other building offers; | Make Use of Elwell Law. adequate accomodation for neighbor- | “The Elwell law provides.” said} hood gatherings of different kinds, | Mr. King, “that the-amount for the the school house has in recent times construction of roads may be antici- been made the center, not only of pated ten years in advance, that is,|the neighborhood’s educationa} life, we can build the roads now and pay | but for the discussion of local prob- | \for them in ten equal annual install-| lems, lectures, meetings of literary ments. In the system of roads men-/| Societies and religious gatherings. tioned there are about 1850 miles, an; A mew. feature of added useful- jthe probable cost’ will total $2-|ness during. the coming spring and 250,600.00, or a trifle over $1,000 a|summer will be the use of the rural ‘mile. Unless the Elwell law is de-|School buildings for farmers’ meet- _¢lared unconstitutional work on alj|ings, the board having employed an |community become even more of a social centers has been worked ont jin Rochester, New York, where the! | music of the day and meet neigh- |Mareh 27, loft the district to hold farmers’ con- | ‘OHERIFF CLOSES DISORDERLY PLACES ferences and in other ways aid the agricultural interests of the various communities. The directors of the district have ‘pursued the policy of opening the buildings for all meetings of neigh- borhood interest, when such meetings! jdo not conflict with the regular / school work, with the single proviso} that some reliable person take charge of the building and be responsible for its proper use. This has worked out ‘in a most satisfactory manner; < the | |people in. every instance appreciat-/ ing the advantage afforded by a | j the school buildyngs at their dis- ;Posal, and doing their utmost to} by a careful observation of precau tiors toward safeguarding the school} property. The patrons of the Delap school use their buildings for literary and religious purposes, a debating club meeting there regularly. The Mc- mé€rit the confidence reposed in them | { | Kinley, Reed Lake, Harrington, Ot-; tum -and Bergville schools are used | jfor Sunday school. meetings: Warba | juses the school building for band | j Practice and Bearville for election purposes, while social gatherings and} religious services are held in the) Splithand and Bergville schools. So satisfactory have the results| of this policy been that the directors hope to see the buildings in each, neighborhood meeting place than in| ‘the past. A notable example of the results of opening the schools for) patrons of the school meet to hear | lectures, to discuss social and politi- cal problems, to listen to the best bors in the finest sense of such gatherings. The new educational thought does not set the school build- ing-aside in which for a few hours a day certain branches of instruction | may ‘be imparted to the young, but} | makes it stand as a type of the com- munity life of the neighborhood and | serve in the largest measure the so- cial needs of the people. GREAMERY MEETING FOR BLACKBERRY: A creamery meeting will be held} jat — Wednesday af ernoon: | 2:00 o'clock. Supt. A. J. McGuire ac be in charge of the | meeting and will speak on farm top- ies, with especial] reference to cream- ery and dairying matters. Dear Amy:- Some people think don't. stairs, and Oh! whata ings! all over my house, oS think every moth her children in a kh throughout. them. Qtway from anyone Lut F. agricultural instructor, Prof. Holmes, who will visit the different schools Bree Continued on page eight.) ; bonds, ;@Muired amount Rhody was E. REUSSWIG FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING Raid Made Early Sunday Morning On Rhody House By Coun- ty Officers. PRELIMINARY HEARING THURSDAY Eleven Women and Three Men Caught in Sheriff's Net and Will Face Charges Tomorrow. At am early hour Sunday mor the resort run’ by Jim Rhody raided: by Sheriff Riley; and Rhcdy, James Harcourt, Harry Stone and ll women were taken-into custody. Rhody was dispensing liquor be- bn (hind the bar whem arrested by - the sheriff, and apout 25 visitors to the Place made their escape on the ap- pearance of the county officials, some of the men taking their departure by means of the upper window route. Rhody appeared before Court Com- missioner Taylor Monday morning and secured a continuance of his case through the absence of his at- torney, being released under $2,500 Immediately after his re- lease he was rearrested on charges of conducting an unlicensed drinking place, of selling liquor after 11 o’clock, of sellimg liquor on Sunday and of accepting the earnings of -& fallen woman. Bail in the cases amounted to $3,- 200, and failing to furnish the re detained at the county jail. The cases against the women inmates of the place were also continued until Thursday, bail being fixed at $200 each. Harcourt and Stone will Doth face charges of running houses of ill repute. It has beem rumored that women have peen enticed from Duluth to the Rhody house on the pretext of having employment furnished them These stories Jed io active investiga- tion by the county authorities and as a result a vigorous house clean- ing is impending, not only for Grand Rapids, Dut for every village and dis. trict in the county that ‘has allowed places of questionable character te be maintained. that any kind of old furniture, will do for the upstairs, ‘but] oS S have jusi newkly furnished my fu p - diggerence in my feet- Now, J am not ashamed to take anyone en should tay to Aaise ome fuAnished nicely St has a refining influence on 4 your friend, Lou. P. $.-I never think of Luying my furniture