Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 15, 1912, Page 3

IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, may !&, 1912 BOOST FOR COHASSET urge needed road improvements in i Cohasset Cullings + his district. ‘Wm. Lofbeng has been awarded Mrs. Henry Ranfranz and children ‘}eft Tuesday for Rochester, Minn., | where they will visit with rejatives ‘of Mr. Ranfranz, going from there here. | Association I made a study of the { she is held among the young ladies president of the Minnesota Merchants in the idea of making a flat rate on freight as we do on a letter, that is mail order question ag it affects near to charge the same for carrying a ly one hundred thousand retail mer- ten pound package a few mi’ s that 1 Will Bertram spent Tuesday at|the contract of moving the os to Rader ieee ree Wis., where — a SCHOOL CHILDREN ‘chants, clerks, salesmen: jobbers and we charge for carrying it a few thou- oe || Cohasset. eit which was purchas' d frane’s parents reside. She will be} ‘manufaeturers in Minnesota. I came sand miles. In the cld countries the ’ rom H. H. Carrier to a position ju:d gone about six weeks. to the conclusion that there was governmert owns the railroads, but | Mr. Freeman visited the local| east of the village hall. | AE ita SE a in WILL PRESENT PLAY very little gcods shipped into our inthis country we have to pay schools last week. Among these who attended the county republican convention at Grand Rapids Monday was an auto load consisting of John Nelson, Art Clausier, F. Skocdopole and Mr. | Brown, Otto King was among the visitors here from Deer River Friday. The Misses Recker entertained a number of friends Friday evening. E. L. Buck hés just completed a mew warehouse west of the village | Methodist church Sunday evening, in S. L. Parish in village hall last Thursday evening was largely at- tended and @ most delightful pro- gram of readings given. Mrs. Parish was assisted’ by local musical talent. | | | John ‘Skelly wes a visitor to Su- Dr. M. M. Hursh will preach in the perjor the latter raat of last week.' John Eurge, barber in the Bass ‘Fourth Annual Entertainment Will | Be Given in Village Hall Friday Evening | The children of the Cohasset school will give their fourth annual entertainment, a play entitled “The state on mail orders, but what was shipped here from Chicago. After the Chicago mail order houses had defeated the teamsters and garment | workers in their strike, I noticed a slight imcreezse in their business, which was due to their victories over labor, but that soon faded awar, The Saturday Evening Post, in an editorial says: “New York, Boston them so much per pound for carry- ing the mails, and where they haul @ few milleg we would have to haul a thousand miles. It is obvious that enactments calculated to bene- fit the greatest number, in order to be practicable, must be ones in which the masses are interested. Therefore in order that the greatest number of people will be benefitted i hall, the place of Rev. Parish who will a, Min- | be iip:Mbiaeupola matarattie itaean! poner onc ve ee nee Lost Children” in village hall Fri- @0@ Philadelphia have three times by a reduced parcels post) it must The Silver Pitchers and The Win-|eral conference of the Methodist one artist to attend to the facial im- ape bears ‘May 17. yee population brs Chicago, but the maturally follow that they receive ners enjoyed their picnic Saturday |church. 5 provement of the citizens. j n admission of 25c-will be charged icago postoffice cashes more merchandise shipments by mail. afternoon. Yolm Nelson has a crew of men’ Neal, the young som of Maurice ‘and the following program will H be given: money orders than the postoffices of the other three cities combined. This is not now done by the masses, but it ‘s evident that such legislation j J. C. Gillmore returned last week|at work clearing his farm at Black- o’prjien, was badly scalded last I: Chorus, “Slumber Song,” Inter- This is largely due to the great ja calculated to have them do so from Florida, whene he had spent! water, one and a half miles up the week py walking into some hot wate mediate Grades. mail order business at Chicago. One and induce the consumer to make ~ the winter. river. Fifteen acres are cleared al- ¢hat had just been tummed out. Dr. Il. Play, “The Lost Children,” Granm< Of the mail order houses there re his purchases from other points < e . ready and will be planted to potatced Hursh was speedily summoned, and | mar Grades. cently declared an extra dividend, which are not his Jogical channel, mi i H. D. Reed, president of the Co-| this year. soon relieved the little fellow’s suf- 1. Prologue. which at the current price of its They will not cnly cripple your Min- a hasset State Bank, was in Cohasset fering, so that he is getting on nice 2 Chorus “From Yonder Costly Stock, is worth $18,000,000 to its nesota retailers, but your manufac- i over Sunday. John Cochran, who has the con- ‘ty. Dwelling.” shareholders. At the current price, turers, jobbers and salesmen es well. tract for towing the Superior Wood- 3. Act I. The Children at Home. insiders in this house have created A parcels post can at pest only bene bd Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cone have enware Co's logs from river and’ Mrs. Hanson entertained a few] 4. Act Il. The Soldiers. for themselves a total profit of $70,- fit a. limited number of consumers , begun housekeeping in their recentlY jake points to the mill at Cohasset, S$ of her neighbors lest Friday after-| 5. Act II. The Ethiopians. 000,000 in five years. In five years and a special class cf merchants and purchased home. ringing them in now at the rate noon, servirg cone of her delicious| 6 Act III. The Lost Children. the volume of sales nearly doubled, large ccrporations. It ‘can readily S. H. Thompson went to the Twi on 100,000 feet per trip. luncheons at the close. Among| 7. Chorus “Lantern Song.” and last year the net profits amount- pe figured that heavy commodities ce 2 those prescrt were Mesdames Skoc-| 8. Act IV. The Sailor Boy’s ©4 to almost 12 per cent of the gross and what are ordinarily termed sia- cities the first of the week to attend Ww. gtockwell, who recently A rg : x4 dopole, Kuehn, Scribner and Misses | Home. sales. ples will net commonly B trarsport- to business matters. purchased 200 acres of land 2% miles west of Cohasset, has begun im- Mrs. M- M. Hursh left Tuesday for by Scribner, Smith, Cameron and Can- field. tc 9. Trio and Chorus “Home.” 10. Act V. The Children Received. “Olwing to the vast army employed in the retail business in ‘Minnesota, ed by mail, but the lighter articles, which are really the only remunere- - a two weeks’ visit with relatives and TRON en eas ai Lg eae oe Dave Estaprock’s new dwelling | 11. Chorus “Come With Me.” the high wages paid to clerks, and tive cnes to the retailer, will find friends in Minneapolis. Of; aiget-of brie pat ee e work cross the river hes been completed, 12. Epilogue. the short houns they work, I know their way through parcels post, and of clearing up the land. and the family has moved in. The |III. “The Merry Little Gypsies.” Of MO merchant in the state whose in that manner cripple h’g business. Nap. Payment, who has been worl- ing in Hill City, hes returned and Mrs. W. R. Newman of North Da- new house is ene of a number of comfortatle residences that are be Primary Grades. Characters Represented. net profit on the gross volume of his business is over 3 per cent. Is “T learned some years ago through correspondence thet parcels pest in will spend the summer here. ee es ea img erected in Cchasset this year.; 1. Mr. Manly .. .. ..Ralph Becker DOt that a better condition for our Great Britain had concentrated the - _ Mr. and Mrs. Newman are removirg L4ushlin McKinnon was tihe contrac-| 2. Mrs. Manly .. ..Dorothy Keer People than we would have if every retail business in the army and navy _ Charles Christiansen, shoemaker id th MARAE: MAGE: “ehowek dhiep pall tor in chamge of the construction. 8. Jamie . Robert McCabe basement and cellar in the Twin Cit store in London, with its branches | | } the Ranfranz store, has gone to see ‘ ie por tate a 4, Lilly .. Delia Goulet Were honeycombed with sweat shors all over the islands, and that there “warroad) to spend a week on his ™ i Sesarauen amereessnaie ais aas | Miss Blanche Cameron has accept-/ 5. Bridget .. .. ..Margaret O’Brie ®S they @re im Chicego. Our gov- are a few co-orerative societies left, | claim. | The good roads club of the county ed a positicn ni the Eveleth achodis 6. Miss Fitzallen ..Mabel Robideau @Tnment has and should exercise its put that the independent merchant, al to aneNelanideltieh tobliten: thecal at a decided advance in salary: Miss/ 7, Mr. Bonville .. Audley Lemicux Powers in regulating excessive as we know him here, had practically * ¢ Otto Fredrick, former bookkeeper right-of-way road between Cohasset fameron has been one of the effi-| 8. Dick ..LeRoy Cushman Charges made by railroads, express disappeared. I do not think there for the Erskine-Stackhouse company, and Deer Lake put into more pas- cient teachers in the Cohasset school 9. Town Crier ..Fred Gannon Companies and similar public service jis a demand for parcels post in this | * is visiting this week at the home cf sible Geudition. fer taduis ait autos. and while her friends regret her|10. Watchman Maurice O’Brien Corporations, but aside from such country, tut if there is it has been ; John Lane, departure they are pleased to learn /1i. Sailor's Mother ..Lilly Payment Tesulaticn by the government the|created directly or indirectly by the \ | Why not? Good country, that. | All the Cohasset fans went down | Woik-hegisineady teen startediion to Grand Rapids lest Sunday to see beautifying the echool yard at Co-| the pall game between Grand Rapids C? delle. tense: je. bene end: Clodieg- built around the wood yard amd the i 0 4 Frank Jutras left Monday «for Piaget cuted ne Grand Rapids, where he has taken a the building. position in the meat market with William Leham. | James Reilly arrived from Minne- 4 apolis this week and is loading the The village council has extended tug “Cohasset” for shipment to Hill the sewer on up Superior avenue to City. He hes sold the tug to Hill drain the low place just west of the Git+ parties and it will be used on school grounds. the lake there to tow summer. * The Rev. Samuel L- Parish of Fer- Christian church services at the village hall at 10:30 and 8:00 every Sunday. Everybody is welcome to! all these services. t ‘The Rev. John Blackhurst of Deer the Rev. Justus Parish. There was River held the third quartenly con- @ lange audience and he spoke most ef the excellent position that has | been offered her. Some of the wagon roads leading into Cohasset are in bad condition. There is a pad spot at Alex Dunn’s corner; the sand hills on the road to the thoroughfare bridge from Cohasset need some covering too, and the old Black water bridge still stands condemned- Just how many more teams will cross it before it falls down is a question. ‘Carl Ohman, from Harris, Minne- week from E. \L. Buck. The land he purchased lies 3 miles west of Co- hasset on the river road. Mr. the land. 12 Jack the Sailor, Thaddeus Goulet WEATHER MAN GIVES — CHOIGE ASSORTMENT Rain and Incidental §Snowfalls Characterize May Weather-- Sunshine Promised The weather mam appears to have | logs this sota, has bought a small farm this beenm trying to see what he could do in the way of all varieties of rainy: | weather since May started. There ‘has been warm rain, cold rain, rain gus Falls preached in the Methodist purchased lics 7 miles west of Co- and sleet mixed and just plain rain church Sunday evening for his uncle, Ohman and his father will improve |—you could choose which variety yc pleased to go out in and get wet. Incidental’fj May is halif over with ference of the year at the M. E. effectively on the text: “Am I My' Skelly Bros. are operating their out a day of continuous sunshine or church ‘Tuesday evening. Brother's Keeper?” Mrs. Parks of St. Paul was a guest Mrs. Fletcher entertained nearly farm at McCormick’s Logan, west of Cohasset. on a larger scale this year than ever. Im fact greater \& day when there has not been some precipitation. Conditions generally ‘have been of the sort that one ex- at the home of her brother, Dr. M. forty ladies at the M. H. Aid Thurs- farming operations are on in every! pects in March rather than May and M, Hursh, this week, returning with day last. The resignation of Miss qirection. The high price of all! following up a winter of unusual se-| Mrs. Hursh to St. Paul Tuesday. Smith as secretary and Miss Canfield farm products over the country gives' verity the late spring is becoming as treasurer were filled by electing encouragement to farmers to clear! wearisome. \ E. R. Erskine of the Enskine-Stack Mrs. Gilmore and Mrs. Stapleton, re-| housd company, took a crew of men spectively. ‘ up to Vermilion lake on.the.Wyoming , the first of the week to start the, Edwin Dibbly has just finished 4) drive. new picket fence in front of his home on the east side which has James Ross of the Venmilion lake greatly improved the appearance of country was in town last week on the street in front of his home as his way to Walker, where he was well as eet his nice yard off to eppearing es a committee of one to good advantage. up more land, as they see that idle acres do not earn anything. The way to build up a town is to build it up, and you can’t do it by sending your money away from home for thread, needles, coffee, clothing or fuel. dealer should be applied to when meeding anything in these lines. It is the republican plan, the encourage ment of home industries, the one that has built up America. It is a loyal thing. It is proper encourage- ment of people who have invested their money here, who are helping to pay the cost of supporting our insti- One advantage is that the steady! rains have left a good stage of wa», ter in rivers and streams and lumber ,men who had given up hope of get- ting out drives that have been tied up for*several seasons believe now | that they will be able to get the The home merchant and jogs down to “the father of waters” this spring. MINNESOTA HAS NO MAIL ORDER HOUSES matter of transportation charges can rest between the seller and ‘buyer.” “Concentration amd centralization of retail interests in a few monster concerns are made not only \possiblle, but very probable by enlarged par- cels post. The development of ab- normally large industries and cities is a menace to the best interests of our country, and creates a condition which is particularly detrimental to the poorer classes. I have no faith lure of the beautiful pictures and classical descriptions to be found in the mighty catalogues sent out by the mail order houses of Chicago, of which, the editor of the Saturday Evening Post speaks.” A compilation of motor cans im Hibbing shows that there are an even 100 cans owned in the city today. Seventeen cars are owned in Chis- holm. BASS BROOK HoTEL Cohasset, Minnesota A Mope?n HOTEL in Every RESPECT John Nelson Proprietor | tutions. It is the only plan that will dined dustrit {| satisfy and seit reer moving a" to Shou he “t Mrs. W. W. FLETCHER New Hats every day. Call and inspect them. POPULAR TEACHER iin statement regarding the ‘ — situation in Minnesota as it relates! An especially fine line of One of the most enjoyable social ; 6 ee pout ey m AUTOMOBILE VEILS. affairs of the sprmg months was| ‘We have no mail order houses in) just in Dew Art Goods and Materials For Spring Needlework Spend the dollars where LINEN SHOWER FOR the limen shower given at the home of Mrs. F. W. Stockwell Tuesday evening, complimentary to Miss Esther Scripner, who will be a June bride, her engagement to Mr. ‘Georgd Knudtson of the Sauk Rap- lares St. Paul Man In am address before the grocers’ association at St. Paul, John W. Luy inational vicepresidemt of the re- tail grocegs’ association, made the Minnesota) There was an attempt | made some years agosto establish one | ,in Minneapolis, but it failed, owing ‘to the high wages paid to labor in the Northwest. The mail order busi- ness flourishes only where the sweat CHARLES BROWN Saloon The very best of every- thing always on hand ids faculty, having been announced. ‘shop system exists. It is an outlet A large number of the young ladies for the products of cheap labor, and of Cohasset were present and Miss’ when I say this don't understand the Scribner received some beautiful I am finding fault with the quality, gifts, tokens of the esteem in which of the goods they sell. When I was A Fine Line of Children’s Hats being shown mrs: W. W. Fletcher, Cohasset, Mist. Soil anem es