Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 17, 1912, Page 1

OFFICIAL PAPER OF Grand Uapids Jerald Review, OFFICIAL PAPER OF Grand Rapids Itasca Co. and Village and School Dist. Township No. One vor, XXIL —No 42 : WepNEspDAY, APRIL 17, (912 Two Dollars a Year Granp Kapips, Irasca County, Mr WILL BOOST FOR [TASCA COUNT! Enthusiastic Mass Meeting Of Citi- zens Monday Evening To Plan Publicity Campaign WILL TURN ON THE SPOTLIGHT “Get the Get-Together Habit” Says C. S. Mitchell of Duluth In Talking To Grand Rapids People That Itasca county needs an effec- tive publicity campaign that will bring the advantages she offers prom-) inently before the public was the con census of opinion at an enthus‘astic mass meeting of citizens held in the county court rooms Monday evening. The meeting wes called by the} Commercial club; President Kiley | outlining the present situation brici- ly when he spoke cf the werk that had been accomplished by neighbor- ing counties in the way of advertis- ing their respective districts, while | Itasca had done practically nothing | along these lines. He pointed out that earnest, purposeful work must; be done during the present seascn if | Itasca. county is to reap her share} of the large influx of settlers that | are seeking homes in Minnesota this year. C. S. Mitchell of the Duluth News- Trisune folo;ed h i.tred_eory talk’ by President Kiley with a practical ; summing-up of the situation usually found in new districts, where the people attempt to secure factories. and manufacturing plants rather ‘than! making an earnest effort to get! farmers on the land. i “The men cf vision, men of im-} agination, need to realize” said Mr. Mitchell, “that only as the soil | is developed can communities hcpe to prosper. You have the land here, | the wealth is here, ycu only need | the people to bring wealth out of the soil. When you cut the timber the wealth is gone, when you take out the iron ore the wealth is gone, but | when the farmer takes out his crop | of potatces, or ccrn or celery the} land is still there—ready to yield another gclden harvest.” Mr. Mitchell pointed out the fact can offer unexcelled opportunities to citizens who want to make homes for themselves and their families and be assured cf @ competence and pros- | perity.”” The business men at the meeting ; Were unanimous in expressing) their belief thet the time was ripe for @ |vigorous publicity campaign that STATE LAND SELLS | AT GOOD FIGURES would include the whole county in’ First Land Sale For Itasca County lits scope; and the Commercial club | H of i ie will take the matter up at once, co- | Opens With Sal | operating with the other clubs of the | 8,500 Acres county along lines that will place | ; Miss Hessicn, prircipal of the Cen- | Berg, and in the Forest Lake, data on Itasca county in the hands of hundreds of settlers who are looking toward the lands of northern Minne- sota with a view to making their future homes in a district where good soil is still cheap and where diversi- fied farming offcrs sure returrs to the man who will farm his lands along modern, scientific lines. THESE WILL TEACH HERE NEXT SEASON |Many Vacancies To Be Filled In | Teaching Staff of Vil- lage Schools. Accord'ng to Secretary Doran the following teachens have accepted re- appointment fer the coming s-hool year of 1912-13: High school: Florence Burlingame, English; Harriet Kummerer, ma- thematics; Katherine L. Fisk, eighth grade; Katherine Roney, seventh | grade. Central school: Agnes S. Bryan, normal; Alida R. Holmes, third grade; Mrs. Clara R- Grove first grade; Dorothea Ely, kindergarten; Mae Benton, assisiant kindergarten; tral schoo] was not a candidate for reappointment. Forest Lake: Margaret Aiton, prin- cipal and third grade; Carrie Trogan, first grade; Sophia Thomas, fourth grade. Cohasset schcol, Miss A. B. Can- field. Those who have declined to ac- cept their ,reappointments for the coming year are. Miss Lothrop, high schoo] principal; Miss Carpen- ter, domestic science; Miss Annie M. Becker, music and drawing; S. Bar- ish, science; Miss Ada A. Kremer, language. In the Central school Miss Anna Reusswig and Mrs. Mary Miss Helen Cole. The work in music and drawing will be divided the coming year, Miss Emma Vogel teaching music and / that in recent years Duluth was waking to the need of encouraging | agriculture and will spend $12,000' second grade, and Miss Erna Rhein- berger drawing and second grade work. Numerovs applications for this year along these lines. +He /the vacancies have been received urged that the business men of Itas- | put no appointments have been made ca county get together in a syste- |ag yet. The greatest number of matic, practical advertising campaign vacancies occur im the high school UNPRECEDENTED INTEREST SHOWN Lands On Lake Frontage Bring $36 An Acre At April Sale— | Many Buyers From Other States Monday evidenced the active inter- est that is being taken in Itasca county lands, 8,500 acres . peing sold for which the average price paid was $8.00, the range being from the lands with a lake frontage were spirited) these running from $25 $27.25, $27.50, up to $36. The buyers came from all over the country, a large number being from lowa, while many southern Minne- ‘sota people were present to invest in Itasca county soil. The 8,500 acres sold represented land in every sec- tion of the county. Theodore Nelson, manager of the land sales department of the state auditor's office, conducted the sale and says that more interest is being displayed in state lands this year than at any previous time. “We find the demand for land extraordi- nary, when the.season is considered,” said Mr. Nelson, “as the rush for lands rarely begins unti] a couple of months later.” The state owns about 400,000 acres of land in Itasca county and of this amount 40,000 acres have been ap- praised for sale this year. Monthly sales will be held from April to No- vember in Itasea, St. Louis, Cass, Beltrami, Koochiching, Aitkin and Roseau counties, while in addition to these there will be sales of state jands during June in Carlton, Pine, Wadena, Hubbard, Marshall and Kittson counties. Of the lands appraised last year in Itasea county 30,000 acres were sold, a large amount being Deer River vicinity. Mr. Nelson left Tuesday for Duluth, where he con- ducted the sale for St. Louis coun- ty Wednesday. ‘VINCENT TO VISIT The state land sale conducted here || minimum of $5 to $36. Bids for |! ITASCA MERCANTILE SELLS DEPARTMENT ‘Deal Closed Last Weck for Sale of | Dry Goods Department to | Crookston Man Mey OWNER IN CHARGE MONDAY C. C. Peterson Moves Stock of | Store At Crookston Here and Combine With Dry Goods Stock Of the Itasca | C. C. Peterson cf Crookston, pro- prietor of the Emporium Dry Goods \store of that place, purchased ithe sid goods department of the Itasca ercantile company last week, and took over the business Monday. | The Mercantile company will con- finue the groceries, hardware and drug departments of the busines: un- fer its former name, and the dry @0ods department will pe conducted under the name of the Itasca Dry Goods company. Mr. Peterson is stock of his (Crookston to removing the former store at | ‘this point, and ill combine the two continuing ieinsen in the same building, where loor space is being leased him by e Itasca company. C. H. Dickinson has found the teadily innereasing business of the Itasca too large to give personal supervision to al] the departments, and the change will enable him to five more direct attention to the re- ‘maining departments of the business. “wir. Peterson is an experienced dry goods man and h’s plans include sub- stantial additions to the excellent sto¢k which the Itasca has carried in the past. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson and\children arrived Sunday from Crookston and have taken the T. B. Munce home. RAMQUIST LOSES-- JOHNSON GOT $568.70 in the | Long-Drawn Out Case In District Court Concluded Last Saturday The case of Emil Johnson against P. L. Ramquist of Coleraine, which had occupied the attention of dis- trict court nine days—at an approxi- mate cost to the county of $100 a day—ended Saturday morning, when ts this custom. For a very small sum the accumulation of the winter AUTO ean be hauled away by a dray man, insuring that the clean-up will IS NOW ASSURED eertainly do not resemble in any: degree the “spring fragrance” that) is supposed to be on tap at this| season. Just west of the city water tamk | there are three residences where the winter accumulation from the stables is piled up on the bank over- be thorough, eliminating the danger of fire and the prevalence of odors that | Meeting Last Wednesday Nigh | To Perfect Organization of Auto. Enthusiasts. hanging Hale Lake, in a place ad- jacent to the intake pipe that fur-| ee ee \nishes the city water supply amd / where the drainage from this refuse OFFICERS FOR COUNTY ELECTED is certain to contaminate the water. A self-appointed committee of cith | zens has taken the matter up with, the village council, and will see this Committees Appointed and Resol- violation of the state law governing utions Passed- Will Work for matters of public health is put a stop) Bett R % to. Unless prompt action is taken er oadways in in this matter it would not be sur- Itasca County prising to see an epidemic of typhoid follow such wanton disregard of the| laws of public health. 7 PUBLICITY WOR Sitz, Grand Rapids; vice-presidents: BE. L. Buck, Cohasset; D. D. ( Pictures of Farm Scenery and Lake Coleraine; Percy Brooks, Deer River; At a meeting held Wednesday even. ing, April 1, the Itasca County Auto. | molite association completed its or- | ganization, with ‘the following offi- cers: President, L. M. Bolter, Grand Rapids; secretary-treasurer, A. W. 'R. Lux, Taconite; Mr. Scannell, Mar- and Wood Scenes In Itasca i )..areang Olin, Keewatin; Gordon County Needed | Mahar, Bovey; Dr. John P, Shellman, es |Nashwauk; D. M. Gunn, Grand Ra Have you any pictures showing ids. farm scenes in Itasca county, pictureg The following standing committees of the beautiful woods and lakes of | Were created and appointments made: the district, farm homes or farm- Organization and by-laws: W. CG. ing operations? | Gilbert, A. W. Sitz and Frank King. The committee that will have | Roads: E. L. Buck, Cohasset; P. R, charge of compiling the materials to| Brooks, Deer River; D. M. Gunn, be used in the booklets to form a|Grand Rapids; Robert Lux, Taconite, feature of the publicity campaign for |42d Dr. Shellman, Nashwauk. the county wants such photographs Club house and publicity: and asks thet you will help the| Rasmussen, A. L. Wellien work along by forwarding them to 5. Wilder. the Herald-Review office at cmce. Entertainment and membership: Ed Pictures of actual farming opera. | Herschbach, C. T. Kennedy and W. tions, farm houses of the country, | Moore. dairy herds, or bits of the beautiful! A Communication was read to the scenery of the dis‘rict are needed. embers from George W. Cooley, en- By forwarding them at once, with the gineer of the state highway commis- necessary data, you will help very sion, stating that if Itasca county materially in the publicity work un-| would meet certain requirements, re- dertaken by the Commercial clubs of 8*MMing completing, graveling and the county. | ditching six miles of state road in | the county the commission would ap- | point some man, recommended by WILL IMPROVE ;the county commiss’oners, to care | tor the road during the summer COUNTY ROADWAY months, at a selary of $55 a month. The association will take up the County Commissioners Receive Ix- L. D. and A, question of a road patro] on main- traveled highways with the town and county officials, it being pointed out structions From State High- that the necessary repairs and up- way Commission. keep mean a saving eve an ually im stead of the building of new road- ways. Commis:ioners Maurice O’Brien and ; + ; ; ‘ je A resolution Neil Mullins received imstructions F lect week? fi th PL ae forth the desire of th — st tak ie ae Fs a . to cooperate with farmers and pedes- Ss: c e acing a a a petuenoagnr notes arte re placing tiang in the use of the public roads section men on the seven miles of wag adopted sotting association ” knowledge. that will show the homeseekers of the country what the district has to | offer, what can be produced, and | what has already been accomplished by the Itasca county farmers who have discovered the wonderful possi- j bilities that this rich new land af- | fords. | Supt. A. J. McGuire of the North- east Experiment farm was the next speaker, telling of his recent trip on the “agricultural special” over lands that were supposed to be worthless a few years ago but that are now yielding a bountiful return to the men who have seen, the bossi- bilities of dairying-and potato raising! and are taking advantage of this Like Mr. Mitchell, the speaker pointed out the fact that the surest means of advancing the pros- perity of the towns was to make a market for the farmers’ wares along all lines of production. Senator C. C. McCarthy added em- phasis to the remarks of the preced- ing speakers hy citing how little had peen done during the past 25 years toward encouraging farmers to take up lands in the county and toward providing warchouscs and creameries for their produce. The scientific farming of recent years was doing much to change this condition and Mr. McCarthy urged the citizers to remember that every acre cleared meant $50 increase in valuation. “Let our slogan be ‘1,000 new families on and in the Cohasset school. In the latter only one teacher is returning, Miss A. B, Canfield, who will take grade work next year. DIRECTORS TAKE UP SCHOOL BONDS Four Bonds Of $1,000 Denomina- tion Taken Up At Meeting of School Board. At a meeting of the school board last Wednesday evening the direc- tors, acting in accordance with in- structions of the annual school meet- ing, took up four refunding bonds of the issue of 1909, due in 1921. The premium on the ponds was $308.80, amd the accrued interest $38.32. By taking up the bonds at this time $1500 is saved to the dis- trict. It is the purpose of the di- rectors to take up about 18 of these bonds and thts a large sum of ac- erued interest will be saved to the taxpayers. The funds from which the bonds are being taken up were raised by special levy last year when it was the land this year’,” said the speak-| planned to make some alterations to er. “Millcns of pecple are looking|the high schoal bu'lding. Later it of a8 for homes in the new and unculti-| was decided to leave the building in yated districts here, where we have|its present condition, and at’ the“an- no crop failurcs, or devastaticn by|nual school mecting the directors hail, where we are in the center of the} were instructed to use the funds to ; ards markets where We; take up bonds of the district. . | Qa f3: a IN ITASCA COUNTY University President Accepts In. vitation To Be In Grand Rapids “Extension Week” President Vincent of the State uni- versity will attend the week of uni- versity extension work to be given here the later part of June, accord- ing to a letter recently received by Supt. E. A. Freeman, in which he ex- pressed his pleasure at the invitation received from Mr. Freeman in behadf of the Grand Rapids people. At a meeting held Friday evening | the following were named to work with Mr. Freeman on the committee | that will attend to the local anrange- ments for the week’s course planned: L. M. Bolter, A. L. LaFreniere, O. J. Niles, C. H. Dickinson, C. E. Bungess, A. J. McGuire, Mrs. C. C. McCarthy and Mrs. L. W. Huntley. It had been hoped to have the week of extension work given during the last days of June, as the Northern Minnescta Development associaticn meeting at International Falls comes on June 20 and 21,-put recent ad- vices from university headquarters state that the dates for Grand Rap- ids have beem fixed for the week of ; June 17. Other towns in this vicinity that have completed arrangements for a | week’s program by the university workers are Coléraine, Cloquet and | Bemidji. | St. Louis county is to establish a penal farm for prisoners, believing | mer sun. The practice is also highly|dry goods business of the the jury found for the plaintiff in|roadway leading from Grand Rapids of the county and that, to this end, the full amount asked. Johnson, who is a Minneapolis con- tractor, sued Ramquist for $568.70, the balance alleged to be due on the construction of a house for the de fendant. at Coleraine. Ramquist claimed that the house was not fin- ished in the time specified in the eontract and was of faulty con- struction. A mass of testimony, relevant and otherwise, drew the case out beyond all proportion to the sum involved, the jury returning its finding after an all-night session Friday night. Johnson was given the sum sued for with interest, the total being $670.75. BURNING RUBBISH UNSANITARY METHOD | Danger of i ee Disagreeable Practice Prevailing--City Water Being Contaminated. One of the most disagreeable, dan- '8erous and unsightly practices that the spring months bring is the habit of citizens who gather up the winter | refuse and burn it in their yards. | For the past week there has been | @ pall of smoke hanging over the vil- | lage caused by the numerous “clean- up” fires and the resultant stench is—to put the matter very mildly, most disagreeable, and more unsani- ; tary than if the accumulation were left to disintegrate under the sum- t il ok C farmers, teamsters and pedestrians @ Point two miles west of Co- ua receive every consideration and nrg : ; ‘courtesy compatible with the ethics This roadway will be in change of of road usage. these men permanently and the road k ; leat nt The next meeting of the associa- WEE De Tee We emcee tion was set for Wednesday evening, all times. 4 PAE Ri ' April 17, when it is expected there paste thoroughfares of the state ‘Tom the other villages of the county. have men placed on them to look | after their upkeep. The different auto- | mobile clubs of the state have been an COURT GRIND WAS active factor in urging road improve- ment and at the meeting held here Wednesday evening by the Itasca County Automobile association it was proposed to take up the question | with the county commissioners of hav" ing a similar service instituted tor Judge McClenahan Began Hearing the road Between Grand Rapids and) Remaining District Court Cases Coleraine. Not only is s in- | z estimable value to owners of motor —Rhody Trial On cars, but the matter of road improve- ment is a vital one with every resi-| District court was resumed Mon- dent of the rural sections, as good day, with Judge W. S. McClenahan roads mean dollars in the pocket of 4 the bench, the Rhody case, which every farmer who must.haul his pro- tigi teres weateenst from time to duce to market. time for several weeks coming on for , hearing Monday morning. Itasca Company Incorporated. | Monday and part of Tuesday was The Itasea Dry Goods company of | occupied with securing a jury, and Grand Rapids, Minn., filed articles evidence for the state was begun of incorporation with the register of | Tuesday afternoon. Up to the time deeds at Duluth Tuesday. The in-.of going to press 12 witnesses had corporators are Wilson G. Crosby, been examined by the state. O. S. Anderson and A. J. Roth, all of Rhody is under six indictments by Duluth. The first board of directors the grand jury, which include charges consists of C. C. Peterson and C. of selling liquor illegally and running H. Dickenson, both of Grand Rapids, a house of ill repute. A large num- and William L. Winans of Hibbing. ber of witnesses have been subpoen- The new concern wili take over the ed@ by both the defense and prosecu- Itasca tion, but it is not anticipated that the farm idea to be the best solution | dangerous, as much of the heavy an_| Mercantile company at Grand Rap- the case will occupy the entire week of the criminal problem, fire loss may be directly traced %, ids which is capitalized at $25,000. as was formerly expected.