Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 3, 1912, Page 3

EHS GOOD WORD === : FOR ITASCA COUN Publisher Of Northern Minnesota Journal Devotes Leading Article To Opportunities Here. TELLS OF EXPERIMENT WORK Resources and Possibilities Of the j County Stated In March Number breakfast and a dull day’s work one Stony and broken, a little OF RE tien Helen PHomaeou:. whos tes Of Leading Farm Journal Of Duluth. more and practical line of experimentations, to more widened plantings of roots and conduct which is an essential pur- grains, and we are at last coming pose of the state farm. . To illustrate to know that there is no country yet the situation, let us appropriate @ discovered where a surer growth or few sentences here and there from better yields of the finest product in a brochure on “The Farm” issued |these lines can be secured than in some time ago by Supt. McGuire: ‘this nearly abandoned cut-over em- “The state legislature of 1895 passed ‘pire. The accident of the seeding a pill providing for an experiment of the grasses fell upon the ob- station for Northeastern Minnesota, | servation of intelligence, and the ac- or the timbered section of the state. hievements of the brainy husband- Grand Rapids was chosen after much man in Northern Minnesota, while deliberation for the location, Itasca) ‘thus far noteworthy, have as yet only county donating 375 acres of land | , had a beginning. for the farm. A Minneapolis concern} History is made by conditions aris- in sympathy with the movement, lat ing which call for change. The in- “eT donated 80 acres, making 455 gee ertness that came from jong regard- { ‘all. The land of the experi-| ling as a matter of course that agri- ment farm is very representative of Sculture was out of the question in @l1 of Northern Minnesota, having: , Northern Minnesota got the call for some sandy soil, some clay, some, | home Tuesday, April 2. COHASSET, MINNESOTA, APRIL 3, 1912 | most successful in the history of the school. Cohasset Cullings C. M. Erskine and Owen Skelly | Dr. and Mrs. M. M. Hurshj spent attended the meeting of fire mar- Tuesday at Grand Rapids. |shals at Virginia last Friday. They |Teport a very interesting meeting Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Beaudry wel-|and that the fire marshals are do! comed a baby daughter at their ing everything possible to allay de- ‘structive forest fires by getting the lumbermen interested in the move- ment+ C. H. Marr was up from Grand Rap ids Friday attending to business mat- ters here. W. W. Fletcher was pleasantly sur- Prof. Kreuger and the Rev. Mr. prised last Wednesday evening, a Suver of Marble spent a few hours number of friends remembering that here Tuesday. s jit was Mr. Fletcher's birthday. About , twenty called to extend good wishes George Knutson, one of the faculty for future anniversaries and the of the Sauk Rapids schools, visited evening passed delightfully in play- Miss Scribner this week: | ing games, followed by the service of a delicious supper as a_ pleasant conclusion to the evening’s pleasure. BOOST FOR COHASSET Seed Corn. .I have the “Smut Nose” and “Early White Dent” seed corn, both Minnesota grown, showing high germination test. Good seed corn is very scarce this season. Both varie- ties have matured in Northern Minne sota, Also have Minnesota Experimental Farm No- 6 and No. 26 seed oats, also seed barley, wheat, potatoes, ete, Reliable seed is the cheapest. Pure bred Rhode Island Red rose comb eggs, $5.10 per setting of 15. Sucking pigs $6.00 per pair. One fine Guernsey bull calf, $20.00. is E. L, BUCK, Cohasset, Minn. 40 2t , morning when it was realized that muskeg swamp.and also the cedar and ' been attending schoo] at Red Wing, j there was a mining community crowd ee ong wan kg ore hag home for the Haster holidays. i ling the pioneers and demanding. some tablis the experiment farm : | Feang ta cat. ‘Tests for the fun of der to determine the agricultural pos The Methodist Sunday school re-) | the thing and to satisfied personal sibilities of the country, and to work! Ported 100 attendance last Sunday, —_—-<~7-__———————————— The leading article in the current needs had proven the soil good and number of the Northern Minnesota the climate just the thing to mature Journal, publishea by J. L. Thwing CTOPs right. Lethargy was shaken ig devoted to a review of Itasca off, the good market the iron indus- county, the work of the experiment ‘try produced as if over night made farm and some experiences of Itasca, farming, where farms had never been county farmers. | known before, an interesting and We who live here are sometimes profitable business from the word accused of too great enthusiasm in ase # ; our prophecies of the wonderful de | And here we are: Potasoons car- velopment of this region which ar‘ | rots, celery, beets, turnips, peas, just on the eve of fulfilment, and beams, onions, cabbage, tomatoes it is gratifying to see such an able flveet corn, cucumbers, and so on, —} and far-sighted writer as Mr. Thwirg 2@king a list much longer, and cover emphasise the advantages that Itasce ; ing practically everything in the veg- county holds out to those wise en |etable line that contributes naturally ough to grasp the opportunities of. | and largely to the living of the hu- fered. }man race in the north temperate The Journal says: zone, are demanded by the rapidly in- “The fear of wild beasts and the | creasing settlement of the country, ial | stimulated much by the mining re- 0) ava: er the . terror of savages did not deter t! ' quirements. It has been shown con- Ne Qt SS asta v eecaciaucuses clusively by practical experience that considered to be adapted to agricul- ture. Lumber barons even gaye it over to the Indians, game and wild erness until logs in more accessible places became scarce, ‘hen the cruiser P . and great companies of ]umberiacks Na! swept the country, selecting the best, and hurrvine on from frequent newly estimated border lands of the Pineries. The lumber kings drove over it with their armies again and Of assed valuation among the again, and are driving over still mu & counties of Minnesota, is situated of their old battle ground. Waat wes Midway between Duluth and Crook- } not good enough spoil the first on- Ston, with Grand Rapids its county slaught was made captive in sub- Seat. In 1860 the assessed valuation sequent raids over great bredths Of the entire state was only $36,753,- | of this territory until there 000 while the valuation of {tasca cour- a was finally left monster stret- ty aloneby ‘h>pas yer'sas s ent wight here that can .produce every- thing needed to supply this demand if the farmers can be had to take the opportunity that is open ‘to them to get into a good business and to Set it quick. Many have grasped th situation and are busy making good, but there is meed of more farmers, Itasca, which ranks fourth in point t——-F i ches of the cut-over lands réached the total of $25,449,577. The é for uses which no one could guess V@luation of the county, by the way, been, where the teams had been fed, the increase the past year has where the bales of hay.had been brok- amounted to practically 2,000,000. en, there hadi been scattered clover There has been a large increase in and timothy and the seeds of many population in recent years, vigilant varieties of the hay that had been workers, sensible people who have needs Reports hauled into the woods for feed. These Provided for the community seeds fell upon good soil, sprang up liberally but judiciously, into luxurious growth and produced lately complied show, for example, -¢ | But where the lumber camps had has nearly trebled in eight years, and } | The wind, the birds, the shaky bridge work the past year reached vehicles by which the ripened grass.@ the total of $52,244.18. Disblurse- Were transferred from place to place ments of the school fund in the same there is a wonderful extent of country out a system of farming that would'the best attendance reported dur-| be practical and’ most profitable un-| ing the year. der the natural conditions peculiar to Northeastern Minnesota. | Thomas Breen of Superior spent |Sunday here, visiting Mrs. Breen, fa: h records : a The experiment farm has who has been the guest of Mrs. covering ten years of work, and thes # records speak best in answering the|°<el'y for several weeks. | many inquiries pertaining to farming.) s§ 4. Thompson, manager of the | | Wheat has yielded as high as 30|woodenware factory, is in Chicago bushels to the acre, oats 80, barleY|ihis week on bus'ness connected 40 and potatoes 300 bushels per acres' with the factory. and the average of all these crops fo ten years has been congiderable above | C. M. Erskine) Ed Erskine and |} the average of the state. |John Snyder went to the Hrskine- The farm over there, cornering | Stackhouse camp Monday for a final the experiment farm, where the big! inspection of the ties. | = poaenceer By srg aries Charles Palmer, of Duluth, son-in- lath tite boeh codl hoine sin: Canada 1g, /@¥ of Mrs. Jellison, sr., is puild- feanueisie ermine. wonne in| "BE & house at Bass Lake, near the winter and on the section in summer | /<1'S°n bcs as until he had saved up $1,500, which’ Miss Canfield and Miss Cameron he invested in 57 acres partly cle@r-| served luncheon Friday at the close ed and a team. Mr, Mullins noW of the lecture given at the school owns 231 acres. The buildings on!)y Mrs. M. M. Hursh. Cohasset, A MODE. N HOTEL | | in Every RESPECT John Nelson Proprietor Minnesota his place could not be erected; at the, | present time for less than $5,000,| Mr. Hiler, foreman of the wooden-} | The actual sales from his farm dur-| Ware factory, has gone to Crandon, ing the year, in farm products, were) Wis. to bring his family out here. over $1,600, and this from 60 acres,| They will occupy the O’Brien house. it being the amount he has under cultivation While Mr. Mullins has never been to an agricultural school The Rev. A. J. Marshall of Nevis preached at the Christian church Sun day in the absence of Rev. Burgess, talking on his experiences while a missionary in India. | (continued on page 5) J. A. Monger of the Duluth News- 'Tribune visited Cohasset Friday ;and Saturday in search of material POKEGAMA LAKE ‘<" a series of articles on this sec- tion of the country. | | | Harry Walters went to Hill C'ty Large Territory Lies Unused Saturday to attend the funeral of Through Circuitous Route Neces- his sister's little daughter. The re- | mains were taken to the family home j y to Reach Land. ;at Ashland, Wis., for interment. | Settlers and others interested in| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jutras return- the development of a large stretch of °4 Saturday. Mrs. Jutras has been territory lying south of Pokegama Visiting @ sister at Tenstrike and lake, are circulating a petition to|Mr. Jutras was looking up business the county board asking that body |Conditions at International Falls. to provide a bridge or at least a) | Rew ferry for the crossing at the barrows of the lake where the ,ferry has been operated for some don’t be tempted to put liberal terms that over again, The date of the dance which was ;to have been given Friday evening, | April 12, has been changed to Tues- DE LAVAL cceazarors Every Year of Use If you are thinking about buying a cream separator, and have only a small amount of ready cash to invest, your money into one of the, so-called, “cheap” machines. Why pay your hard-earned money for a “cheap,” trashy machine, when you can buy a reliable De Laval upon such It_will more than earn its cost while _you are paying for it. ‘When you buy a De Laval you have positive assurance that your machine will be good for at least twenty years of service, during which time it will save every pos- sible dollar for you and earn its original cost over If you purchase the so-called “cheap” sepa- rator, you must pay cash in advance and then take the chance of the machine becoming worthless after a year or two of use, to say Easiest { | many hundred fold the seed again. that figures of expense for road and sowed) the mysterious little “be- ginnings of hay fields in and out among the brushes and where trees had been removed and where wagon ‘roads had been deserted, unti] @ stranger wondering upon the scene d@ Ziven as $522,494.21. clared he had found a country where tame grasses grew Wild. Man no- ticed that these cut-over lands were nature’s richest fields for the Pro duction of hay. Those who came to harvest began after a time to ex- ew Spring -— N\Villinery Mrs. W. W. Has returned from Minneapolis with a handsome line of Spring Millinery for Ladies, Misses and Children. A special line of Art Goods just arrived and on display Advance Styles Im Hats Being Shown Now Formal opening later in the month Mrs. W. W. Fletcher, Cohasset, Minn. time amounted to $58,958.60. But years, as the old ferry is worn out. the cash in the treasury at the end. The settlers are alarmed over the of the fiscal year to the credit of prospect of the ferry crossing being the county funds was reported a8 closed to travel this season, and $125,493.05, while the total assets are urge that with the present move- | ment of settlers to this section, and jday, April 9. Other arrangements ‘had been made for the hall, so that iit was found necessary to make the jchange in dates. to turns easiest to wash, skims the cleanest lasts the longest. nothing of the cream it will waste while it does last. More De Laval machines : are in use than any other | ! 5 ant bere A excellent program hag peen ein SOONER OR LATER FLETCHER larranged for Easter Sunday by the we will tell In charge of the Experiment Farm in the interest of the settlers of the| pupils of the Methodist Sunday YOU WILL BUY A at Grand Rapids at present 1s A. J.|region, who will be compelled t! schoo] and will be given at 10:30. MaGuire, a gentleman of boundless drive 0 to 30 miles around the] 4 cordial invitation is extended to resources and indefatigable industry, arm of the lake, to get to Grand all i who seems to answer every call and | Rapids, a new ferry should be pro-| | have his hand always in control of @ vided. There will be no morning service The section refered to lies up tOjin the Methodist church owing to within five miles of Grand Rapids the Easter program by the Sunday’ and stretches southward to the|school, but in the evening the Rev./ southern poundery 6f the county.! parish will speak from the subject: Some four or five townships of |.*Resurrection.” H aga good land as the county con- tains, is thus liable to be isolated The ladies’ Aid society of the j from Grand Rapids, except as the| Methodist church will meet with ; @aveling public go to and from it} Mrs. Jeronto Thursday, April 11. The iby the long, circuitous road around! social committee of the Aid society the Jake. New settlers pass the/jis arranging for an Anagram social district up on account of not know-/at the home of Mrs. William Kuehn ‘ing what is to be done about the| Thursday evening. lake crossing, over which the main road to Hill City also runs. This Settlers living on the south side large section of country would now/|4@re petitioning the county commis- settle rapidly, it is contended, if, Sioners for the extension of the home-seekers could pe given the|Thorofare road to the road which assurance that they will be provid-|crosses the Mississipp} nine miles ed with a permanent crossing over; west of Cohasset. If this road is the lake at all times of the year.!opened up it will make good roads With the advent of creameries and; from that section to Cohasset. | potato warehouses. this country will) now settle and the farmers will malq Tha patrons ofthe school are headway, if they can get good roads |™ore than pleased over the fact leading direct to such a market |that all of the Cohasset teachers as Grand Rapids is establishing for) have been re-appointed for the com- farm produce. As it is now, that/img year. An excellent spirit of great scope of hard-wood country is industry has been shown by teachers lying almost dormant and unused,| 4nd pupils alike and the year just for the reasons above stated. ‘closing has been in every way the you why. DE LAVAL ITASCA MERC. CO. GRAND RAPIDS CHARLES BROWN Saloon The very best of every- thing always on hand et 3 aera