Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 22, 1912, Page 6

‘i | ! SPECIAL SALE Of Children’s Undermusilins A lot of Children’s and Misses’ Undermuslins_ will be put on sale this week at prices that will surprise you. Every garment substantially made and bears the sanitary label. In some cases will cost you less than the price of the laces and embroidery that trim them. Call and look them over. Boys’ Wash Suits $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 Suits in White, Tan and Tan and Blue. These garments are especially well made and just the thing for summer wear. Boys “Rough Rider” Suits Especially Priced at 69c PIONEER STORE JOHN BECKFELT GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. INFORMATION: by -TELEPHONE Pp... are not leaving so much to chance in these days of universal telephone service. In- stead of risking disappointment they telephone and get the facts. Will school be held on a stormy morning! Will your friend be in if you call? What does the weather man predict and when does the train leave—are samples of myriads of questions con- stantly passing over the wire and being answered by the proper authorities. There are also questions to be asked about the telephone service; how somebody can be reached over the Bell Long Dis- tance Telephones and what it will cost, and similar questions. which are being answered by the information operators.’ 0. V. Hemsworth, medeane Office No. 67 Residence No. 108 Village tots 09 DOWN AND $5 PER MONTH We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter over. Wealso have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY SUPERFLUOUS HAIR, MOLES, WARTS Permanently removed by electricity. Exclusive specialist, expert operator. MISS AMES, 425 Lindley-Skiles Building, 620 1-2 Nicollet, Minne- apolis, Minnesota, Phones: Main 414, Center 3330, CHNSTITUTIONAL Continued from page one Another Elwell road is that pro- county on the meridian line to a point west of Effie, and thence di- rectly west to Northome, connecting with the International Falls-Twip Ci 4 road at Northome and the Duluth ar St. Vincent road at Deer River. Under the Elwell law one-fourth of | the cost of a public highway is to be borne by the property benefitted by | posed to run from Deer River direct] | north through the center of Itasca j How About that Linen Suit the impovement, one-fourth by the| county in which the road lies and| one-half by the state, to be paid out | of the state roads and bridges fund raised by a one-fourth mill tax. It provides that such a road may be) jestablished by petition to county} commissioners if the road lies wholly) within a county and to the district | jcourt if not. Petition is to be by six or more land owners or by @ pub- lic corporation, like a town board | and is to be accompanied by plans and estimates of cost. After appro- | | val by a board of viewers a survey | | follows and then a bond issue by the }county. Payments are to be made in 10 annual installments. Each coun- ty is limited to a maxium of 3 per! cent of the state aid fund and a | minimum of one-half per cent. Thus state aid is provided for high- way construction, which might other- | wise have to wait for years, and state highway commission supervision is provided, as the highway must be constructed under the commission’s rules, insuring pcrza-sent constricti-n | definite grade lines, safe bridges and an absclute minimu of 20 feet in traversible width of r . | The supreme jon up-{ holds the constitutionality of the law ; Without qualification. An old law in |this state gave munic ties the | right to levy and collect assessments | for local improvements upon property | court’s dec f| benefitted. The court holds that coun- | ties are municipal corporations with- | in the meaning of the constitutional | provision and adds: | “There is no difficulty in « | this rule to the present cas | Under the Elwell law, roads: may | laid out by counties acting jointly | and, if the petitions are approved by the state highway commission and road-building standards set by the commission are adhered to the state will pay one-half of the ccst of the roads, the county one-fourth, and one- fourth may be assessed against the | property benefitted or may be paid by any organization or municipality. | The law also allows anticipation of state aid for ten years, and the plans of the development association con- template taking advantages of that | provision of the law. | “The land of the farmer who is giv, en a good road to market where pe-/| fore he had a poor one,” the court holds, “certainly is enhanced by the) improvement.’ So is the land of | every other owner who is thus giv en| easy access to the cities or towns) where he sells his produce and makes his purchases. The general public | receives a benefit wholly different in| character. The benefit to the motorist | of the cities in having good roads for his pleasure runs is an example of the general benefit. Lands not in! the territory reached by the highway, nd whose owners cannot use it, re- ceive no special benefit. xtending i} | “The law in question does not at-| tempt to say what lands are benefitt-| ed, but leaves the determination of the district as well as the distribu- tion of the assessment to the viewers and ultimately to the courts. It is right that lands tributary to the higt« way should pay a part of the cost thereof, over and above what the} public pays, for they receive a pene-| fit over and above what the public re ceives. The principles applied to the spreading of assessments, parks for paving cities, for laying side- walks, would be entirely erroneous if) applied to fixing the district or spreading the assessment for rural highways. But this is a questiion tht does not concern the validity of the law, but rather the validity of the} action that the viewers and the boar of county commissioners may take into the matter. If they proceed up-| on an erroneous principle or make/| a demonstrable mistake of fact, there is a remedy by appeal. “The farmer now has his automo- bile, his traction engine, and his tele- phone. He has all the facilities for reaching the best markets at the ' right time except the good roads. We think it can fairly be said that the establishment and maintenance of rural highways that give the owners of land easy and convenient access t ;his markets enhance the value of the land, and constitute a special benefit different in character from | highway, | Huson, who leaves shortly for Britih ; Tuesday evening for | school teachers and the members of |Mnrs. Gilbert’s and Mrs. You Will Want Later. Why Not Order Now Fancy Whipcord, Rough Linens, and all wash ma- terials suitable for Summer Suits. A Fine Line Of Them At $10 and Up bDADIB |MPERI GRAND RAPIDS, FURNISHING HOUSE MINNESOTA. AL, true that at no time have farm lands out of Buffalo rapidly. It is said been assessed for roads except that, that in two weeks the grain will be in as ng damages, benefits to entirely out of the country. Wheat | the land have been deducted from boats at Duluth are taki amount awarded to the land. This is a recognition of the fact that a highway may be a special benefit to land outside of the cities and vil- lages. It would seem that if there are local benefits that can be set off against damages awarded to the landowner, by the establishment of a' spent Sunday the same local benefits are! River. sufficient to warrant an assessment-| Rev. Father Buechler spent Sun- The weight of authority today seems! day at this place, reutrning to Grand to be the effect that a highway may, Rapids Monday noon. be a local improvement, and that an; Willard Millen met with a painful assessment of land specially benefited accident at the coal chute Friday may be sustained,” night, crushing one of his fingers quite badly. Miss Bell Hooker of Wawina re- turned home from St. Luke's hospi- tal where she has been for the past five weeks. In the death of James J. McDonald which occured Wednesday, May Swan River lost one of her pio-| neers, in fact the founder of the pres ent townsite. Mr. McDonald was SWAN RIVER. A. M. Palon has his drive well un- der way and expects to begin loading timber on cats next week. Miss Josephine Pehle of Wawina with friends at Swan Additional Scciety. Neemes Will Dance. The Neeme club will give another of its series of popular dances next | Wednesday evening, May 29. | Change Date Of Meeting. . The ladies of thé English Luthera Aid society will meet with Mrs. Opp gaard Thursday, May 30, instead of May 23, as previously announced. 1852, and moved to Dubuque, Iowa, | when he was twelve years old, where! , he resided with his parents for! Party For Miss Weitzel. A pretty birthday party was given for Miss Helen Weitzel Friday even- ing, at the home of her parents, Miss Weitzel being the recepient of a number of charming gifts as me- mentoes of the occasion. disposition Mr. McDonald could not | remain long in one place and for} the next few years he traveled over | Wisconsin and Minnesota, finally lo- cating at La Prairie, Itasca county: | Minn., akout 1890. He moved from there to Swan River in the fall of 1893, where he has continued in pusiness for the past nineteen years. He has been in bad health for some | Columbia was given by the ladies of | time and last fall, becoming suddenly, worse, he was taken to St. Mary's hos- the Degree of Honor lodge Tuesday evening. Mrs. Huson was presented | Pital, Duluth, where he remained for} with a gold emblem of the order, five weeks. His doctor then inform-| and the evening was passed infor-|¢d his wife that there was no hope} | mally at cards, followed by the ser- | for his recovery, that it was but a |}question of time, and that the best vice of refreshments. thing for her was to take him home, which she did, first procuring the sen The mempers of the Young Men’s vices of Miss Mabel Reid to help her Bible class of the Methodist Sunday | DUrse him, and for the past nineteen school entertained in village hall| Weeks, both day and night, Miss Rei the Sunday |r Mrs. McDonald have remained in| constant attendance at his bedside Schmidt's | until the hour of his death, when classes. ~ . he breathed his last and without a An enjoyable program of recita-| struggle or.tremor passed peacefully tions and musical numbers was giv- |to the Great Unknown world, = en, followed by the service of deli-| Whence no traveler returns. cious refreshments. The rou ae McDonald leaves three brothers Men’s class is making a feature 2nd four sisters to mourn his loss; of their social evenings, Mrs. Mary Hayes, St. Paul, Minn., cellent results. Mrs. Esther Cooper, Kansas City, Mo Thomas McDonald, Independence, Of the 15,000,000 bushels of bonded Iowa, Mrs. Fanny Murry, Dubuque: Canadian grain handled by local elc* Iowa; Terrence McDonald and Peter vators this spring, there is but 3,-| McDonald of Victoria, B. C. In 000,000 bushels left. This means th § childhood Mr. McDonald attended the business in Canadian grain is the Roman Catholic church, but in well cleaned up. All the grain was ‘later years he neglected his church Farwell For Mrs. Huson. A farewell party for Mrs. Harry Bible Class Entertains, with ex-| 15t1! born in Longford county, Ireland, in| several years, but being of a roving | | last night. |for him Sunday and a short but im- pressive sermon was preached by Rey. her Buech of d Rap- ids. The body was taken t Monday morning and interment will |}be made in one of the Protestant |cemeteries at that place. A lot has been purchased by his wife, Carrie McDonald, and it is her express wish ‘that when she dies she be laid be- side him. Satta te tet t teint tete de et tatetetetate tated hed Pot-Pourri. One way to avoid spending foolishly is not to have any. eee money Nothing succeeds like the efforts of | Some of our friends to be disagree- | able. eae A little girl in one of the local schools had brought a piece of quartz to show her teacher, and the teacher | was explaining to the children the process of mining gold. “And, now, children,” she said, “does any little poy or girl know where the gold in the ground comes from?” One wee miss held up her timidly. “Please, ma’am-” said the little one, “maybe it comes from fillings in the teeth of Indians who died years, hand | and years, and years ago.” ae Here are a few samples of the ex- asperating jokes that are being sprung around town: "I cast my eye on a pretty girl But she threw it back to j me.” “She went into hysterics, but she came back in a taxicab.” “He jumped on the spur of the Moment, but he got stung.” “When my wife flies into a passion |I clip her wings.” “I can’t trust my own feelings, so I do business with them on a cash basis.” eee A San Francisco woman, whose husband had been dead some years, went to a medium, who produced to her satisfaction the spirit of her dead husband. “My dear John,” said the widow to the spirit, “are you happy now?” “Iam very happy,” John replied. “Happier than you were on earth with me?” she asked. “Yes,” was the answer, “I am far happier now than I was on earth with you.” “Tell me, John, what is it like in Heaven?” “Heaven,” John replied, “I'm not the public or general benefit. It i export and it is being shipped to some extent. Prayers were = Heaven.”