Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 1

4 —+—-cluded in their domains. ; |day evening, August 3, at the village | O00 SITUATION IN DISTRICT Sik were present when President Burgess of the school board cf district No. 1 | Number of Families Find Them-'cajica the annual meeting to orzer Make Thirty-Minute Stop Here to Agriculture Here Past Experimental si q at 7 o'clock last Saturday evening | J. Lefevre and E. C. Kiley were placed in nomination to preside over the deliberations of the meeting as NO. TEN REFUSES NEW TERRITORY |mocerssor-_. ns. itiiey was chosen There were present several rep- * Al eagmnge se from outlyving section. Attorney General Must Settle Mat-| where schocis are petitioned for. | ter and Decide Which District | T™smuch 25 the chartered Ac: Re countants employed by the county to Shall Take Section in check up and report on the books of Question Tkeq school district, were not yet ready to submit a report, members Shela ae ae jot the board requested that an ad- A unique situation in school affairs journment be taken for ten days is being experienced in school dis-|or two weeks, as they desired to trict No. ‘Six, where parts of the have the result of the investigation | residents find themselves without submitted in full detail at the an- schoo] facilities, with the district | nual meeting. refusing to build them a school| President Burgess of the poard ex- house where it would be accessible |presed the opinion that action | and with a neighboring district re-|should be taken on some of the peti- fusing to let the isolated portion join' tions for new buildings. The time ite limite. |for Jetting contracts is somewhat | A part of District No. Six is cut\ijmited, and these buildings should off by the. Mississippi river and|pe-under way of construction at the Island Jake from the main part of |earliest possible moment. At Black the district which is one of the larg-!perry there is requirements for a est in the state. The isolated | puilding that will cost in the neigh- section contains five or six families porhood of $4,000. Swan River is al- with children of school age and they so in need of a schol as fourteen petitioned the district officials to | children of echcol age are to be edu-| build them a schoo] house in their) cated! In the town of Wirt there section, but this was refused are also children of schoo} age, and Seeking further relief, the isolat-|the North Deer lake section and | ed portion petitioned the county com in Goodhope. A motion authorizing! missioners to attach them to 4is-/the board to proceed with the pre- trict No, Ten. . This the commissior liminary work fcr the erection of’ ers granted, but the residents of No these buildings, and appropriating Ten have come forward with 4 | $9,500 for the. purpose of constructizg counter-petition in which the resi-|them, wes carried by a unanimous } dents ¢laim that they do not wish yote of the electors present. this portion of district No. Six in-| Adjournment was taken to Satur- | County Attorney McOuat bas writ-\nan in Grand Rapids. ten Attorney General Smith for an) opinion in the matter, as it is neces: | sary to either compel district No. Mrs. Edith McMahon Six to build the school house re} | quired, or have the territory in come on | troversy included in district No. Ten,’ The residents of Grand Rap- and as the attorney general's opin. ids were shocked this morn- ing to learn of the death of} jon in schocl matters is binding; until reversed by a legislative act, the @icision from his office is being looked forward to with considerable interest. Mrs. John McMahon, which occurred | ‘at St. Anthony’s hospital, Bemidji, at’ |9-10 o'clock Tuesday evening. | Mrs. McMahon was taken ta Be-' jmidji for medical treatment two! weeks ago, her ailment supposedly | PERFECTING PLANS \being of ‘a minor nature: A sungical | {examination showed the malady to| 'pe al cancer of the liver, rendering FOR COUNTY FAIR an operation out of the question. Thq best treatment that medical skill | could devise wap resorted to, but} itrip, and IN GRAND RAPIDS Extend Glad Hand to Local Trade 100 BUSINESS MEN ON TRADE TRIP Songsters of Association Make New “Minnesota” Song Famous —Fourth Annual Junket A Success. er buttons, radiant smiles and linen dusters the Duluth boosters stop- ped off in Grand Rapids Thursday afternoon for a 30-minute session with the local trade—and every min- ute was used to such good advantage that good cheer was scattered around kneedeep. During the half hour spent.here.the visitors distributed souvenir thim- bles, buttons, and candy, told us “raggy” music of the Third Regiment ‘band and proved themselves to be the bunch of good fellows one expects to see representing Duluth. This was the fourth annual trip of the Duluth business men to the towns of northern Minnesota and during their three days’ trip they visited 62 towns and covered some 800 miles of territory. The song birds of the association made Harry Earnshaw's new ‘Minne- gota” song famous during the trip, The song is one of a collection that Harry Earnshaw and Norton Mat- tecks composed for the boosters’ the harmony is being spread over the country and sung in the theatres of Duluth this week. The words are as follows: MINNESOTA, THE STAR I LOVE. Minnesota the state where the skies are blue, whole day thro’, Minnesota, the state with her sors so true, Ev'ry one, ev’ry son, is true, is true- so blue, Where a man isaman and a man all thro’; roam, T'll call Minnesota home! M: t A - in spite of medical aid and loving, ement of I i County ‘care she erew worse, passing away cultural Association Preparing —_[jast evening into the dreamless sleep for Big Event |that knows o mortal waking. | Edith Aikin was born in Brookings, ‘South Dakota, December 9, 1886. She | The management of the Itasca cours same to Grand Rapids with her, ty fair association are getting their parents as a child 17 years ago, and | arrangements in shape for the 1912 gpent her school days and young | fair, which will pe held September womanhood here. She became the! 19, 20 and 21. | wife of John MeMahon October 12)! The plans and specifications for the 1909, and.Mr. and Mrs. McMahon have improvements to the fair grounds ar@ made their home in Grand Rapids now in the cfiice cf County Auditor gince their marriage. | Spang, where they, will remaim On, Besides the breaved husband she file for the inspection of prospective jegayes to mourn her loss an infant bidders. The buildings will in” son of eight months, Charles Stanley } clude a new township exhibit build- pyemanon, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ing with room for about 10 town- ¢, H. Aikin, three sisters, Jessie, | ship exhibits, a ticket office at the agelle, Leleh J. and Marie; two gate, shelving for general agricultur- prothers, Wallace and Walter Aikin. al building and painting most of the Not in years h@s a death occurred buildings. that has cast such a pall of sadness The Itasca county fair promises oyer the community 2s the untimely | to be the best this year in the his--pacsing away of Mrs, MeMahon. Paes tcry of the association. The large ing her childhood days here and increase in the acreage under culti tye brief years cf her married life, vation and the number of new set’ she was admired and loved by all who tlers that have come in recently Will ynew her and had enjoyed the friend- make the exhibits many times l2r&- snip thet her sweet, lovable na- er and more varied than ever before tyre extended to her school mates A department to which consider- anq girlhood frierds In the social able attention will be given will be church and club life of the com- the township exhibits, and especial munity her influence had always been efforts will be made to get @8 M@ny for that which wee best and sweet entries as poss‘ble in this departmer nq fine, and the res'dents mourn hibits by township exhibits for the jatives in their hour of bitter grief, 1912 fair. The prizes for this d@ |anq at the tragic end of the young ‘that. time will visit friends in Bos- | where partment range from $50 for the jite for whom earthly ties held so ton and will also'spend some time in tpat there is still a great deal of un first prize down. much hope and brightness. - Funeral services will be held Fri- \day morning at 10:00 o’clock from St. Joseph's church, when a.requiem | faneecers the Rev, Ir people, say unmannered things, Just keep your anger hidden; Smile sweetly at them and remark: “Put on your chains, you're Father Buechler will conduct the ‘eastern states and Canada. (Chorus) Minnesota, in war first to meet the foe, How her sons mann’d the guns all the vet’rans know, Minnesota, the first to forgiveness show, When the Goddess of Peace bade the War God go. Sing the song of our farms, where the wheat-fields grow, Where th2 sun s-i es upo2 evrything below, Minnesota, I'll sing as my plow turns loam, Dear old Minnesota home! (Chorus) gkeam high free! As the daylight preaks o’er 4e! love— See it stream in the breeze above! Each state it is a star, but one seems brightest far, The star I love! Miss Fraser Visits in East Miss Carrie Fraser left Tuesday morning for an extended trip in the She wi pe gone about two months and during New Brunswick. ‘A large number of her friends gath that all that land is Jecking is men), ‘ered at the train to bid Miss Fraser “ten voyage” amd to wish her a Armed with pennants, badges, poost- | ‘NORTH COUNTRY — | | | Stage, Declares Supt. | McGuire COUNTRY FULFILS EXPECTATION t } | _ Experiment Farm Expert Tells of Reward That Awaits Farm- er in Northern . Minnesota | An interesting account of his work | along agricultural lines in northern | | Minnesota was given by Supt. A. J. | | McGuire recently in the Duluth News | Tribune. Mr. McGuire eays: | “I came to the timbered section of | northern Minnesota eight years ago asia miner might come into a new | country intending to stake out a/ | caim, That is, I believed! that \ there was gold in the country in my | particular line, and like most min- what a good town Grand Rapids was H ers I had many friends who thought’ tures for protection, and the incident sung the praises of the Zenith city, | it an adventurous undertaking. But ! closed. did some impromptu steps to the | I was a dairyman and the indications yeny sheriff Itasca county has) i saw of gold was in the first foot | | of soil, in the clover that seemed to, grow wild, in the abundant rainfall, \ j in the splendid climate, J felt that | if northern Minnesota was not an | agricultural country, that if my judg-, ment of it was wrong, the study I had | been making of scientific agriculture for ten long struggling years, was wasted. “When I took charge of the ex- perimient farm at Grand Rapids, the | | first thing I bought for myself was | a suit of overalls. I made up my_| | mina that I was going to get a first: | nand knowledge of the soil and cro) @ | by working with them. I let the cf-, fice work go till after 6 o’clock. | | che first letter that came to the - | experiment farm for the kind of in- | formation that I was supposed to be ‘ale to give was from a man named | Matt Dohahue who lived up on the | 1 He had a homestead there, he 5 ; and he wanted to know if it wou pay him to keep it. Would it ever | Make a farming country? One hundred } Miles still further north cr nearly ecy | L thought about it. would. : “With the grece of God I no long: | I thought it , i fi Minmesota, tho’ far I may sometimes | er have to tell people what I think. and John Samuelscn of Duluth, and ly @m able to tell a few things I know about the agriculture of the timbered section of northern Minne- | | Sota. I was out this morning and | milked a few of my three-quarter Guernsey heifers. After breakfast I | | walked across the farm and s2w the | |eorn and potatoes peeping through | the ground, clover up to my knees ‘and beginning to blossom out, the! oats looking like 75 bushels to the acre crop, and over there in the pas: ture the ‘great herd of dairy cattle, | | 45 cows and over 50 grade Guernsey | | neifeds, 20 of them coming fresh in _ the fall When I came back to! | the house, my Wife looked up from jher flower garden and said: eS interestirg local capitalists in @ bar- in since the early spring, and every | beautiful morning aioe re] stave factony which he rroposes county in nerthern i 7 F | Blue is the sky where the stars me of Colorado Springs. Woulin't +4 erect here if sufficient support is reaping returns from the influx of | bright, | you like to be there again?” “No” I 'O'er the Jand of the brave and the | gaid “there is no place on earth , would rather be than right here.” ¢ CONDITIONS GOOD <=." st,“ jtendered in behalf of said barrister. | teport. KOOCHICHING TAX GRAND Rapids, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912 THE ANNUAL SCHOOL JL TH BOOSTERS MEETING ADJOURNED - | Twenty-two men and three women | ‘paradise. It is still a frontier with | mary things to overcome and many hardships to be endured. but for the} man who will use judgment in select ing his land, and who will work who will presevere, it can be made all that a farmer could desire.’ ’ GETS HIS REGULAR CUFFING IN COURT Sheriff Riley sued Frank F. Price, the parrister, to recover fees in the | gum of $82.50, for official services ‘The case’came up for hearing be- fore Justice Bailey, and a change of venue taken to Justice Shaunessy, and will be tried tomorrow, Attor- ney H. W. Stark appeared on behalf of the plaintiff, which act the be ligerent barrister seemed to consid- | er a breach of “professional ethics” | end referred to Mr. Stark as a cur. | The latter very firmly admonished | Price to. refrain from further insult- H remarks on pain and penalty of get- ting his’ fat chops slapped. “That’s just what I want you to try” yel- led the defendant. No sooner said | than done. Mr. Stark landed with | fn open-hander that resounded | through the corridors of the court | house. Price ducked to cover with | arms wrapped about his ample fea- | had since Price came to town has | experienced the same trouble in| eollecting bills from him that Mr. | Riley is havirg, according to commcn GASES ON TUESDAY Two Dollars a Year CHAIRMAN OF BOARD RESIGNS OFFICE Dr.John Shellman Resigns From Chairmanship of County Board at Recent Meeting COMMISSIONER KING TAKES CHAIR Road Contracts Aggregating $8,000 Let--Appropriation of $150 to Agricultural Society At a meeting of the county board held last Wednesday the chairman of the board, Dr. John L. Shellman, and vice-chairman Andy Nelson, both tednered their resignations. Dr. Shellman stated that the duties of the office seriously interfered with his professional practice and asked to be relieved from the office on this ground. Dr. Shellman’s resignation was accepted by the members of the boz jand C. M. King was elected to fill the unexpired term of office. Mr. Nelson was re-elected to the vice ebairmanship. ‘A.large number of minor road con- tracts were let, ome in 55-25, to P. W. Wilkie of Grand Rapids; a con- tract on the Lyford road in Bass Brook town to P. S. Kinney, some {repair work on County Road No. 112 in Balsam township to William Smith, work on the Lydick road to P. S. Kinney and a contract on the Alvwood road to William Smith. The distance of new roadway to be con- structed under these contracts will Special Hearing Held by Judge McLenahan on Tax Cases | Here Tuesday | | Thirteen suits to quiet title to) lands in Koochiching county were heard Tuesday before Judge Mc- Lenahan at the county court rooms. | The lands in questiom had been sold the casks were heard here as more | convenient than holding the hearing | at International Falls. | The Cosme politan company was | the plaintiff in eleven of the suits * o q i hat + Minnesota, the state with the lakes | Well I could only tell him then wi heard, the other two cases being | brought against the Cosmopolitan. Attorney Bert Fessler of Duluth represented the Cosmopolitan people, | | Kane & Palmer of International Falis apeared for the defendants. TWO FACTORIES | MAY BE STARTED Barrel Stave and Box Factories Among Possibilities of Near Future | | -J. J. Russell of Memphis, _Tenn., is in town this week given the project. Mr- Russell hes’ al patent for @ new proces of manu- | facturing barrel staves, which is | be about 11 miles ,at an approximate cost of $8,900. A large number of petiti sectional surveys were read and ¥ be acted upon at the coming meet ing of the board. An appropriation of $150 was to the Itasca county agricultural so ciety for the annual exhibit at the state fair. Messrs. Nelson, King and O’Brien Where the birds warble sweetly the Re Spee right on the Camadian line. taxes prior to county division ard vere appointed a committee to ex e Ps vi y amine the bridge built by L. E. Hun- ter over the Big Fork river in town of Sand Lake. The next m¢eting of the board will be held Wednesday, July 31- COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION HERE H. J. Maxfield Says Thousands are Locating in Northern Minnesota H. J. Maxfield, com ioner of immigration, spent Tuesday here has some encouraging things to s of the tide of immigration that turning toward northern Minnesota this year. According to Mr. Maxfield thous- ands of settlers have been coming Minnesota is settlers. The commissioner ecommended the advertising campaign that sev- | Blue is. the field in the flag reveal’d, «yy japors seem rewarded one hun- peing successfully used at a factory ‘eral of the northern counties have dred fclé, but the thing I am most which Mr. Russell is now operating /inaugurated this ‘spring and stated Bright gleam the stars in the flag I | 4.onk¢ul for ie that I deceived no| It is pointed out that this factory that it had helped materially in | man in telling him that this was to would give the farmers of the dis- turning prospective residents tow- be a farming country. It is’ trict surrounding Grand Rapids “rom Milaca to International Falg market for the timber on the: | where my friend, Matt Donahue, lands which is not available | mow owns a farm worth $200 an acr other use. ‘townsite property). (But Matt | still farming it.) And from Bagley | lands for agricultural purposes. ‘to Grand Marais there are farmers) | who can show as productive farms, as comfortable homes and as bright | tion of their farms as farmers any- ‘ering favorably a | occupied land, but it is equally true ‘ cial support. ito farm it. There is still need for; the prespective (¢ is for said Mr. and would thus aid ma-|tura] resources of the county. He is terially in the work of clearing the js not interested in the photogra- @ ards the districts advertised. ir| “The new settler is interested.” Maxfield, “in the agricul- ‘phs of the leading citizens, but he A pox factony isanother manufactur- does want authentic information on {mg industry which will probably be the resources and conditions of erected in Grand Rapids-very short- jeountry. Last year there were but three eX- wth the sorrowing husband ard re- | eastern states and Canada. She will | an outlook for the increased valua- ly, as local pusiness men are cons'd- servative and ject of this kind als from farmers, as to their crop jn the middle west. It is tra and are planning to get behind the wields, experience, ete. movement with the necessary finan-|eq@ to see that Itasea the He wants to read con- truthful ~ testimoni- I am pleas- county is among those that have taken steps \to do some effective work in thisy The Rural Hditor says: We sued direction.” put roads are now being built, the tailor for a suit of clothes which) Mr. Maxfield visited the state farm og js only a matter of time till we thought were due us, but were during his stay here and spoke in s, that is we high terms of commendation regard- We almost | ing the agricultural work that is