Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 29, 1912, Page 1

OFFICIAL PAPER OF Grand Rapids Village and Township VoL, XXII. —No 48 VETERANS WHO SAW SERVICE IN WAR Local Fost Of Grand Army Of the | Rept blic Has Many Who Were In Battle. GRAND RAPS 6. AR. MEN Ranks Become Thinner Each Year —Many Since Last Memorial Day Answered Great Roll Call. Once a year the nation pauses in i its activitics to place flowers on the graves cf the honored dead, who gave their lives that we as a nation migit live, and to honor the men— fewcr in number each year—who sur- wived the days of battle and are with | us to lead their friends and neigh- | bors in the commemoration of Me- morial day. £ In the lc€al pest are many who sav service in the dark days of the | ‘Civil war and to whom the war is a Vivid ality instead of school day his-ory. Among the men who have seen service and who will decorate the graves of their tallen comrades are the following: | served in Nelscn Arno, age 76, Company “A” Fourth Wisconsin Ca- vwalry. | Andrew Brock; age 67, Company “H,” First Minnesota Infantry. B. A. Brgigs, age 68, Company “B,’ 110 Pennsylvania Infantry. | Thomas Clark, age 79, Company “A,” 140 Illinois Volunteers. John Gecodhill, age 76, Company “A,” 41 Oh‘o Volunteers. M. H- Jones, age 68, Company “M, First Wiscous:in Cavalry. Wallace Leeman, age 69, Company “G,” Fourth Minnesota Infantry, John B. Rahier, age 69, United | States Navy. . Charles Sumner, age 66, Company “D”, Second Minnesota Infantry. O. B. Seamans, age 68, Company “D,” 104 Ohio Infantry. James Temby, age 78, Company “KF,” Eighth Wisconsin Intantry. Neison Vansteenburg, age 69, Com- pany “G,” Third Iowa Cavalry. Charles Weed. age 70, Company “D,” 77th New York Infantry. Miartin Yancey, age 63, Company 138 Illincis Infantry. Daniel Clifford, age 64, Company “D,” First Minnesota Infantry. Remington Bidgood, age 80, Com- pany “C,” 14th N. Y. H. Artillery. Samuel W. Thomas, age 67, Com- “G," 188 Ohio Infantry. Frank Vandresser, age 72, Company “Bp, Second and 27th New Jersey | Infantry. H. S. Huson, age 65, Company “D” and “L,” Eleventh Ohio Cavalry Volunteers. Lemuel Madden, age 75, Company “B,” First lowa Infantry. R. H. Bailey, age 69, 38th Illinois Infantry. W. H. Freeman, 81 years, Ohio, O. N. G. William Weitzel, 77, Company “H,” 12th Pennsylvania Volunteers, trans- ferred June, 1864, to 190th Pennsyl- vania Volunteer Infantry. | Others in the list of local soldiers who saw service are Ed Wilson, David Cochran, George Poole, D. Jacobs, J. Mills and “Dad” Palmer: Under the new ruling all old soldi- ers over 75 years of age who served two years have their pension increas- } ed to $30 a month. The government | records show that there are only | 16,929 veterans over 75 years of age now living. DEVELOPMENT MEN POSTPONE MEETING Owing to the meeting of the State | P 138th Grand ; | { ‘s | Road Improvements Take Up Mos: ‘tional pastime the Grand Rapids) GRAND = The ‘Grand Army of the dead continues to grow. The Grand Army of the living is in the af- termath. The evening shadesi, of life are failing about them. They are as brave in confronting. the great enemy of mankind thas has never been vanquished ay they were on the battlefield thail Love, rever\ ence and patriotism demand thak, we obey our more than willing, hearts and consecrate to their memory May 30, when flowers, by land and sea will be the tes-/ timonials of a grateful peopte. Adolph 0. Eber- hart, governor of the state of, Minnesota, so issue this procia> mation and earnestly urge that observance of Thursday, May 1912, as Decoration ang Memorial day- } MUCH REPAIR WORK FOR COUNTY ROADS ~ THE PROCLAMATION, Therefore, |, Of Recent Session Of County Commissioners. ADD $50 10 MEMORIAL DAY FUND | Many Petitions For New Roadways} and Organization Of School Districts Continued To June 12. Road improvement occupied the at- tention of the board of county com- missioners almost exclusively at the board meeting this week. An appro- priation of $400 was made for repaiis to the road from Cohasset to Deer River, and as the road from Grand Rapids to Cohasset was put in excel- lent condition th's spring the action of the board will give a good high- way from Deer River to Grand Rap- ids. The Blackberry road received an appropriaticn of $100 for repairs and a similar sum was appropriated , for repair work on the Drumbeater ‘road; $150 was appropriated to im- prove the Feeley-Bovey road and $75 to improve the Sucker Brook road in the town of Balsam. The commissioners set aside a sum of $50 for the Memorial Day exercises to be held in Grand Rapids tomorrow, Petitions for two sluice dams, on/| the Big Fork amd Popple rivers were | presented to the board on behalf of | the International Boom company. fearing on the petitions were con- tinued until the next meeting. Sev- eral petitions for tax abatements, and petitions for the organization of new schoo] districts were also con- tinued. The board as a whole will meet with the commissioners of St- Louis county at a date to be determined later and jointly inspect the judicial highway between Itasca and St. Loug counties. | The board will also be a committcq to examine and ascertain the repair work necessary on the roads im Ar-} denhurst, Gratton, Wirt and ROUNe! towns. A license to sell liquor was granted to J."F. O’Connell of Swan River, A petition to attach certain terri- tory to the town of Carpenter will | be given @ hearing at the next meet- | ing of the board Wednesday, June 12 JUNIORS DEFEATED COHASSET PLAYERS In a good exhibition of the na- { Juniors ran away with’ the game Sunday afternoon on the —— grounds, beating the Cohasset play- Rapips, Itasca CouNTY, MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM READY Will Honer Soldiers Dead With Ex- i ercises At Central School Grounds. PARADE TO START AT 9:30 A.W School Children Will Take Leading Part In Observation Of Decora- tion Day Ceremonies Here. The Memorial Day exercises to- | morrow will be conducted largely by the children of the schools, several beautiful drills having been prepared while the floats will be a feature of the parade. The exercises for the day as follows: The parade will start from the high school grounds at nine-thirty, Thurs- day morning, and will move Third to Hoffman avenuc, up Hoff- man to Fifth street, down Fifth to the East side of the Central school. The order of parade will be as fol- lows: Automopiles with veterans and | their wives. Grand Rapids Band. Fire Department. Pupils of the Public schools. The program will be given at the Central schocl grounds immediately |following the parade and will in- clude the following numbers: Music .. . Selected Grand. Rapids Band. . .. Selected Pupils of Public Schools Invocation—Rey. Larson. Music Mnsie 0.95 Ss... 5s SBelseted Double Quartet. Declamation .. ‘Gettysburg Address” Frank LeMere. | Music .. 5 . Selected Pupils of Public Schools. Drill .. as : . Patriotic Pupils of Central School. 'Music .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Selected Double Quartet Drill .. . Patriotic Pupils of Forest Lake school Declamation .. William Powers, Selo and Chorus, “We Shall Meet But We Shalll Miss#Him” Song “America” Benedie tol on. the G. A. R. are requested to meet at the Central schoo! at nine o'clock Preparatory to forming the line of Darade. TEACH CORRECT METHODS TO FARMERS ' Department ae ae Agriculture Plans to Take Schools to Tillers of the Soil announced plans to .be instituted for \farm management study and work in the North, for which both houses of Congress have made provision in the agricultural appropriation _ pill. This plan, on which the secretary and Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the bureau of plant industry, have been working for several months, corres- ponds to the co-operative demonstra- tion work in the South. The federal government, through tion with state and local inspectors proposes to make a study of the farms of the country with a view especially of carrying to the farmer ‘ certain branch of his industry unprofitable and how he can mi it pay, or if not, why he should drop ers by @ score of 11 to 8. There were some good fielding fea- Highway commission in St. Paul té- day the meeting of the Northern ‘Minnesota Development men, which | ‘was scheduled for this date at Coneee ‘tures on both side, and the Se ‘are showing form that warrants the eaptiet o oan ares up to|1 ‘thd Junior record set pt A pn gaan banger te that branch. “We will carry the agricultural school to the farmer,” said Secre- tary oe “Ordinarily only one ‘man in a lerge number can go to Cites aonpoh: tee ) study farming. We will be| down | |Leland Averue to Third street, up “A Dream of the Wag would be made, but the installation ' The veterans and the ladies of | Secretary of Agriculture Wilson hag its agents, who will act in co-opera- | information which will show him = gathered in during the first inning. ; Minn., WEDNESDAY, May 29, (912 THE WORK FINISHED QN Sesser ~TLEST CHIMNEY away to nothing and Reid went in to finish the sad story, which read 30 torious City bunch. | against Grand Rapids in two games Decoration day, playing a ‘double Htasea New Co . Fi i Im! header’ the initial game jto be called at 1:30. Sunday provements Te Local Plant | the home team goes to Coleraine, Last Week. : | here | players, who are a picked bunch of Coleraine, Bovey and Taconite men, find who ought to put up a gooa FAPEMDITURE TOTALS $80,000 afternoon. ‘UBRARY WILL BE CLOSED AFTERNOONS On and after June first the Carne- gie public library will be closed dur- ing the afternoons until the autumn The Stars and Stripes are gi ee a pi Fecha: “i ing from the tallest chimney inj seven to nine o'clock. ~ DEMOGRATS ELECT ; Per mill completed last Friday, ena | feet | a Ae New Machinery and Equipment In- stalled Will Supply Power Sufficient To Double Pres- ent Output. which towers 208 feet above the sur.) rounding buildings. The chimney ig a part of the ex-! tensive improvements which are be-} ing made at the Itasca mill and which were begun last summer. The! chimney is of concrete, 32x32 gquare at the base. The outside | diameter at the base is 16 feet, and |the inside diameter measures 11 feet.| j At the top the mammoth chimney has a diameter of 10 feet outside, | with an inside diameter of seven feet six inches. In addition to the chimney recent- ly completed, a large steel and con- erele boiler house is being con- strueted and equipped with new boil- \ ers off600-horse power capacity. New | Delegation Favor Woodrow Wil- mo,ors, @nd other imcidental ma- nia a son As Nation’s Chief—En- charg which is being added will | brig to cost of expenditure for build | dorse Work of C. M. King in, and equipment improvements this >. | yeet in the neighborhood of $80,000. For Northern Minnesota. | The Itasca Paper Mill is the lead- ling manufacturing concern of the | district, “ith a monthly payroll that; At a harmonious meeting of the | averages $6,000, while a similar sum Itasca county Democrats this after- is expended monthly for pulpwood moon the delegates declared in favor and fuel. The output for the past, of Woodrow Wilson as the nation’s year totalled 8,000 tons of paper. chief, reiterated their belief in the The new machinery that is being | ‘principles of democracy and elected installed means that the company | jSeven delegates and alternates to | will have sufficient power to more |t2¢ state convention at Duluth June than double the output of previous | years. Asked concerning the con-| templated chamges and extension of Kean, John Hermarson, Coleraine; C. the business: A. C. Bossard, mana- | B. Burgess, Cohasset; C. M. Kine ger of the Itasca Paper company, re- | ‘Deer River; Fred) A. King, E. C. Ki- plied that no immediate changes | ‘ley and Henry Hughes, Grand Rapids. Alternates: Dr. L, C. of the new machinery had been ' liam Schmeige, Coleraine; made with a view toward ultimate O’Brien, Cohasset; Jake Reigelsper- improvements that would more than| ger, Deer River; M. A. Spang, Hugh double the present output of the' McEwen and L. W. Huntley, Grand | mill. | Rapids. At a directors meeting held last; The convention elected Dr. May of Wednesday the report showed 4n Coleraine chairman, excellent year’s business, in spite of King of Grand Rapids, secretary. the fact that low water had made it’ The committee of credentials were necessary to buy most of the pulp jused, thereby cutting into the re- turns of the business to some ex- tent. During seasons of high water jit is possible to bring down the pulp bovted by water and so avoid freight Delegates To State Convention In | Duluth Named At County Convention Today. ‘ENDORSE WILSON FOR PRESIDENT Weston. Committee to name delegates to the state convention: R- A. McOuat, ‘WwW. L. O. Bartlett, Hugh McEwen. Committee on resolutions: rates, but the past season’s low wa-| "Burgess, L. W. Huntley and R. A. | lter has put this out of the question. TAKES CASS LAKE | McOuat. | The delegates in attendance were: Grand Rapids No. One: M. A. Spang) Jess Anthony, L. W. Hunt- | Mahon- City Team Add 1 Te More Scalps To List Of Winnings—Cloquet Here Decoration Day. It was a shut-out at Akeley anda swatfest at Cass Lake. That’s the story of the games played by the (City team at Akeley and Cass Lake last Saturday and Sunday, when the! official score read 5 to 0 at Akeley, and 30 to 3 when the last sad record recommendations read as follows: was chalked up for the Cass Lake , Resolved, That it be the sense of ' game. |this convention that the delegates , Lofberg pitched for the home play- , ©@8t their vote in the state conven- ers Saturday and five runs were tiom at Duluth on June 6, 1912, for Woodrow Wilson. That looked good enough to the voys| “Be it further resolved that we ideas and con- and they let it go at that, with the hereby approve the somone 5-0 oe jvietions of William Jennings Bryan Cass Lake had strengthened up and expect to see the time when his | their team three brand-new im- ideals may be realized. ations. Sunday’s game and put “We further commend the course | L ydick in the box, taking him out pursued by the present Democratic i h Grand Rapids had hit | ‘congress in curtailing ‘expenditures _ > ae gy nag of the, son, E. A. LeFebre, J. F. McCormick, | John Hepfel, I. A. Johnson. Coleraine: Dr. N. D. Kean, Dr. C. L. May, W. C. O. Bartlett, Carl | Schmeige, John Hermanson, Thomas Remington. Cohasset: C. E. Burgess. Deer River: Jake Reigelsperger. Taconite: Dave Roche. The report of the committee on (Continued om Page Might) to 3, with Whalen piching for the vic- 1 | The Cloquet City team will go up | Where they will meet the Canisteo brand of ball and give the fans a big | “The delegates will be: Dr. N. D. | May, W il- | Maurice | and Fred A. | John MeMahon, Dr. Kean and Charles Will be spent in Itasca county ley, F. A. King, Gene Neveau, Hugh | AND AKELEY IN CAMP Scns” R. A. McOuat, Charles | Weston, C. B. Websier, Jno. E. Me- | Grand Rapids No. Two: Tim Nel- | Itasca Co. and School Dist. No. One Two Samus a Year TASCA GOUNTY WILL RUSH ROADS Opportunity Given By The Elwell Law Will Be Taken Advantage Of At Once. ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING WEDNESDAY H illage, Town and County Officials | Will — Here To Lay Out Roadways For | County. Itasca county will take advantage jt once of the opportunities which |} the Elwell law affords. Plans for | the construction of lateral roads | which will connect with the trunk | highways and cover the country with a network of roadways, doing away with what hag been the greatest ob- | stacle in the development and set- | Hemant of the county’s rich agricul- | tural lands will be made at once. This was the conclusion reached at the mass meeting of citizens held | last Wednesday evening im the coun- ty court rooms to discuss the good |roads movement in its various phases. Ex-Attorney General.George | T. Simpson, C. M. King, head of the good roads movement in northern | Minnesota and H. W. Volk, attorney of Mankato, were among the promin- j ent men present to advise concern- | ing the immediate steps to be taken- The meeting was opened by Presi- dent E. C. Kiley of the Grand Rapids Couimercial club, who stated the pur- | pose of the meeting and pointed | out that a definite plan of action |must be drafted,’in order that the | county might secure the greatest | benifits from the road building that the Elwell law makes possible. | In speaking of the Elwell measure Commissioner C. M. King took oc- casion to congratulate the citizens of the state on having a supreme | court whose decisions were based (on the demands of pubiic welfare. ‘The Elwell law makes it possible,” | said Mr. King, “for Itasca county to raise and expend om her roads this year $240,000. This will cause no \increase in taxation whatever but, |on the contrary, Itasca county will get her $240,000 wcerth of good roads at an expense ‘to the county of only $60,000, | “The average township in this county: is paying a 10-mill tax for roads and the added increase to this | will be only 1% miles, which will insure good roads to all parts of the county. If the Dunn amendment car- | ries at the next session of the legis- | lature it means that over $1,000,000 next year in highway construction.” | L. M. Bolter, president of the Itas- ca County Automobile association, | presented several ques‘ions regarding the method of proceeding under the | Elwell law, and these were answered | by George T. Simpson, who spoke lat some length on the best manner ‘of proceeding that the county might | reap its full share of benefit from the measure, and secure dollar for dollar in road improvement, H. W. Volk was one of the inter ! esting speakers, telling of the im- portance of laying out roadways to connect with the trunk highways | planned and so give a network of | Ponds that would make all parts of | | the county accessible, | President Kiley appointed a com-* mittee of three, Messrs. L. M- Bolter, Henry Hughes and H. D. Powers to | confer with the village and town offi- cials of the county and fix a date for a meeting to be held in Grand : | Rapids, when these officials will con- fer with the county commissioners ‘and plan the proposed readways un- der state supervision. It is pro- Posed to have three delegates from each village and township of the eounty, the commissioners to repre- sent the unorganized districts, and actual work on the roadways will be | begun, following this meeting, with _ as little delay as possible. | Late Democratic returns show that _ Wilson will get the entire state unde the®unit rule, Clark failing to carry [Fe ser t erst SN ES