Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 2

ot | _ cluded in their domains. | Vor, XXIII. —No 4 O00 SITUATION IN DISTRICT ox Number of Families Find Them- selves Without School Facil- ities For Children NO. TEN REFUSES NEW TERRITORY Attorney General Must Settle Mat- ter and Decide Which District Shall Take Section in Question A unigue situation in school affairs is being experienced in school dis- trict No. Six, where parts of the residents find schoo] facilities, with the district refusing to build them a school house where it would be accessible and with a neighboring district re- fusing to let the isolated portion join ite limits. \ A part of District No. Six is cut off by the Mississippi river and Island Jake from the main part of the district which is one of the larg- est in the state. The isolated section contains five or six families with children of school age and they petitioned the district officials to build them a school house in their section, but this was refused: Seeking further relief, the isolat- ed portion petitioned the county com: missioners to attach them to dis- trict No. Ten. come forward with a counter-petition in which the resi-; dents claim that they do not wish this portion of district No. Six in- Ten have County Attorney MecOuat has writ-j| ten Attorney General Smith for an, opinion in the matter, as it is neces-| sary to either compel district No. themselves without | This the commissior ers granted, but the residents of No) these buildings, Granp Rapips, ITasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JuLY 24, tg12 THE ANNUAL SCHOOL [DULUTH BOOSTERS \NORTH COUNTRY MEETING ADJOURNED Twenty-two men and three women of the school board cf district No. 1 at. 7 o'clock last Saturday evening in Village hall. J. Lefevre and E. C. Kiley were placed in nomination to preside over the deliberations of the meeting as moderator. Mr. Kiley was chosen by a vote of 14 to 9. There were present several rep- jrepresentaties from outlyving section. | Where schocls are petitioned for. Inasmuch 2s the chartered ac- countants employed by the county to eheck up and report op the books of Te school district, were not yet ready to submit a report, members Jof the board requested that an ad- journment be taken for ten days for two weeks, as they desired to have the result of the investigation submitted in full detail at the an- nual meeting. President Burgess of the poard ex- presed the opinion that action should be taken on some: of the peti- tions for new buildings. The time for Jetting contracts is somewhat limited, and these buildings should besunder way” of construction at the earliest possible moment. At Black- berry there is requirements for a building that will cost in the neigh- borhood of $4,000, Swan River is al- so in need of a schol ag fourteen cated! In the town of Wirt there are also children of schoo} age, and the North Deer lake section and in Goodhope. A motion authorizing the board to proceed with the pre- and appropriating them, wes carried by a unanimous vote of the electors present. Adjournment was taken to Satur- day evening, August 3, at the village hall in Grand Rapids. Mrs, Edith McMahon Six to build the school house fre} quired, or have the territory in ccm troversy included in district No. Ten,’ and as the attorney general's opin. jon in schocl matters is binding; until reversed by a legislative act, the dicision from his office is being looked forward to with considerable interest. PERFECTING PLANS FOR COUNTY FAIR Management of Itasca County Agri-, cultural Association Preparing The residents of Grand Rap- ids were shocked this morn- ing to learn of the death of children of echcco] age are to be edu-} liminary work fcr the erection of ' $9,500 for the purpose of constructirg ~ TN-GRAND RAPIDS t were present when President Burgess called the annual meeting to orter Make Thirty-Minute Stop Here to . Agriculture Here Past Experimental | 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- with the local trade—and every min- that good cheer was scattered around kneedeep. During the half hour spent.here.the visitors distributed souvenir thim bles, buttons, and candy, told us what a good town Grand Rapids was sung the praises of the Zenith city, did some impromptu steps to the “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 jof 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 colection that (Harry Earnshaw and Norton Mat- tocks composed for the boosters’ | trip, and the harmony is being 'spread over the country and sung { i in the theatres of Duluth this week. The words are as follows: | MINNESOTA. THE STAR I LOVE. | Minnesota the state where the skies Armed with pennants, badges, poost- | jped off in Grand Rapids Thursday | afternoon for a 30-minute session | ute was used to such good advantage | CONDITIONS GOOD \ | | | 1 Stage, Declares | McGuire COUNTRY FULFILS EXPECTATION _ 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 as a miner might come into a new |eountry intending to stake out a | caim. That is, I believed! that there was gold in the country in my articular line, and like most min- ers I had many friends who thought it an adventurous undertaking. But ! | I was a dairyman and the indications i saw of gold ‘was in the first foot | | of soil, in the clover that seemed to | grow wild, in the abundant rainfall, 1 | im the splendid climate, I 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 | ‘tor ten long struggling years, was wasted. “When I took charge of the ¢x- periment 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- | hand knowledge of the soil and cro ' by working with them. I let the | fice work go till after 6 o'clock | 1 | | experiment farm for the kind of in- | formation that I was supposed to be | ate to give was from a man named , Matt Dohahue who lived up on the 'gum of $82.50, for official services jrendered in behalf of said barrister. len open-hander | Rilev is havire, according to commca | che first letter that came to the - Mrs. John McMahon, which occurred | paradise. mary things to overcome and many STORICAL SOCIETY, Qa Itasca Co. and School Dist. No. One Two Dollars a Year It is still a frontier with | f hardships to be endured, but for the} HAIRMAN ll BOARD man who will use judgment in select ing his lend, and who will work not only hard put intelligently, and who will presevere, it cam be made all that a farmer could desire.’ ” GETS HIS REGULAR GUFFING IN COURT Sheriff Riley sued Frank F. Price, the parrister, to recover fees in the ‘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” | and referred to Mr. Stark as a cur. | The latter very firmly admonished | Price to, refrain from further insult- 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 | that resounded through the corridors of the court house. Price ducked to cover with! arms wrapped about his ample fea- tures for protection, and the incident closed, Eveny sheriff Itasca county has had since Price came to town has | experienced the same trouble in| vollecting ills from him that Mr. | teport. KOOCHICHING TAX CASES ON TUESDAY Special Hearing Held by Judge, McLenahan on Tax Cases | Here Tuesday | Thirteen suits to quiet title to) Jands in Koochiching county were heard Tuesday before Judge Mc- Lenahan at the county court rooms. | The lands in questiom had been sold jin Balsam 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. Sheliman, 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 board and C. M. King was elected to fill the unexpired term of office. Mr. Nelson was re-elected to the vice- cekairmanship. A,Jarge number of minor road con- tracts were let, one in » te. Be 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 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 be about 11 miles ,at an approximate cost of $8,000. A large number of petitions for sectional surveys were read and 1 be acted upo: t the coming meet ing of the board. An appropriation of $150 was ma to the Itasca county 2g itural so ciety for the annual exhibit at the state fair. Mess Nelson, King and O’Brien ‘at St. Anthony’s hospital, Bemidji, at’ |9-10 o'clock Tuesday evening. weeks ago, her ailment supposedly being of a minor nature. A sungical examination showed the malady to 'pe al cancer of the liver, rendering best treatment that medical skill could devise wags resorted to, but in spite of medical aid and loving for Big Event ‘that knows 70 mortal waking. The management of the Itasca cours ty fair associ n, are getting their arrangements in shape for the 1912 fair, which will be held September 19, 20 and 21. The plans and specifications for the Edith Aikin wes born in Brookings, ‘South Dakota, December 9, 1886. She came to Grand Rapids with her parents as a child 17 years ago, and spent her school days and young , Womanhood here. She became the | wife of John McMahon October 12, 1909, and.Mr. and Mrs. McMahon have improvements to the fair grounds a7@ ade their home in Grand Rapids now inthe cfiice cf County Auditor Spang, where they will remain on file for the inspection of prospective bidders. The buildings will in- clude a new township exhibit build- ing with room for about 10 town- ship exhibits, a ticket office at the gate, shelving for general agricultur- al building and painting most of the buildings. The Itasca county fair promises to be the best this year in the his- tcry of the association. The large increase in the acreage under culti- wation and the number of new set- tlers that have come in recently will make the exhibits many times Jarg- er and more varied than ever before _A department to which consider- able attention will be given will be the township exhibits, and especial efforts will be made to get as many entries as poss'ble in this departmer{ ang fine, and the residents mourn | eastern states and Canada. since their marriage. Besides the breaved husband she leaves to mourn her loss an infant son of eight months, Charles Stanley McMahon, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. EB. Aikin, three sisters, Jessie, Adelle, Leleh J. and Marie; two brothers, Wallace and Walter Aikin. Not in years h@s a death occurred that has cast such a pal] of sadness Mrs. McMahon wes taken to Be-' |midji for medical treatment two ap operation out of the question. Tha cere she grew worse, passing away | last evening into the dreamless sleep hin. in war first to meet the are blue, Where the birds warble sweetly the whole day thro’, i true, | Ev’ry one, ev'ry son, is true, is true- ' Minnesota, the state with the lakes so blue, Where a man isaman and a man all thro’; ‘Minnesota, tho’ far I may sometimes cam, |I'll call Minnesota home! (Chorus) i foe, How her sons mann’@ 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 the sun s-i es upo? evrything ' below, loam, | Dear old Minnesota home! (Chorus) | Blue is the sky where the stars gheam high O'er the land of the brave and the free! | Blue is the field in the flag reveal’d, over the community @s the untimely | ,. tne daylight preaks o'er we! ‘passing away of Mrs, McMahon. Paes Bright gleam the stars in the flag I img her childhood days here and the brief years cf her married life, she was admired ard loved by €l] who knew her and had enjoyed the friend- ship thet her sweet, lovable ma- ture extended to her school mates and girlhcod frierds. In the social church and club life of the com- love— See it stream in the breeze above! brightest far, | The star I love! Miss Fraser Visits in East munity her influence had always ‘saan! Miss Carrie Fraser left Tuesday for that which wae best and sweet morning for an extended trip in the She wi Last year there were but three eX- w:th the sorrowirg husband ard re- | &@sterR states and Canada, She will hibits by township exhibits for the jatives in their hour of bitter grief, 1912 fair. The prizes for this de partment range from $50 for the first prize down. Ir people, say unmannered things, Just keep your anger hidden; Smile sweetly at them and remark: land at the tragic end of the young (that. time will visit friends in Bos- Minnesota, the state with her sors so pay him to keep it. Minnesota, I'll sing as my plow turns Each state it is a star; but one seems be gone about two months and during | tion of their farms as farmers any- ering favorably @ | border, right on thé Camiadian line. for taxes prior to county division ard vere appointed a committee to ex ; and he wanted to ee convenient than holding the hearing |ter over the Big Fork river in town _-. at International Falls. 'of Sand Lake. | Miles still further north cr nearly ec. Seeger aan ; saan ee tel] him then Sake the plaintiff in eleven of the suits | be held Wednesday, July 31 heard, the other two cases being Riga Fa Seas oeta brought against the Cosmopolitan. | pe | Attorney Bert Fessler of Duluth | COMMISSIONER OF With the grece of God I no leng- ‘represented the Cosmopolitan people, | H I am able to tell a few things I yng @ Palmer of International Fal's know about the agriculture of the apeared for the defendants. | Sota. I was out this, morning and | § milked a few of my threeauarter TWO) FACTORIES |H. J. Maxfield Says Thousands | Guernsey heifers. After breakfast I | { Bhs ce are Locating in Northern corn and potatoes peeping through | ; the ground, clover up to my knees oats looking like 75 bushels to the Barrel Stave and Box Factories immigration, spent Tuesday here acre crop, and over there in the pas- Among Possibilities of has some encouraging things to say i / 5 cows and over 50 Srade Guer sad : | tur: ning toward northern Minnesota | peifeds, 20 of them coming fresh in | : j | According to Mr. Maxfield thous- | the house, my wife lopited. Biop wabs Tenn, is in town this week ands of settlers have been coming jher flower garden and said: ‘This \ beautiful morning ree rel stave factory which he proposes county in northern Minnesota is ;me of Colorado Springs. Wouldn't +5 creet here if sufficient support is reaping returns from the influx of ‘gaid “there is no place on ce 1 2 patent for @ new proces of manu-| The commissioner scommended , would rather be than right here. facturing barrel staves, which is|the advertising campaign that scv- | dred fold, but the thing I am most which Mr. Russell is now operating |inaugurated this ‘spring and stated | tbankful for is that I deceived nO| It is pointed out that this factory that it had helped materially in be a farming country. It is” trict surrounding Grand Rapids a ards the districts advertised. “From Milaca to International Falg market for the timber om their| “The new settler is interested,” | mow owns a farm worth $200 an acr other use. and would thus aid ma-|tural resources of the county. He ‘townsite property). (But Matt is terially in the work of clearing the js not interested in the photogra- |to Grand Marais there are farmers) ‘A pox factory isanother manufactur- goes want authentic information on | who can show as productive farms, ing industry which will probably be ,the resources and conditions of the \ ‘an outlook for the increased valua- ‘ly, as local business men are cons'd-'gervative and truthful ~ testimoni- ject of this kind als from farmers, as to their crop | aid He had a homestead there, he sald, 11 (oecs were heard here as more amine the bridge built by L. B. Hun- “ ta try? One hundred | piste piece The Cosm:politan company was | The next meeting of the board will I thought about it. I thought it | jer have to tell people what I think. 2.4 Jonn Samuelscn of Duluth, and IMMIGRATION HERE timbered section of northern Minne-| walked across the farm and s2w the | | é MAY BE STARTED anny and beginning to blossom out, the | SRS: om: 5 Maxfield, commissioner | ture the great herd of dairy cattle, | Fatdita) tide: obs bosmterati iris Near Future 0: e tide immigration that is i des ear. -— When I came back to, 3, J. Russell of Memphis, interesting local capitalists in @ bar- in since the early spring, and every | bright, | you like to be there again?” “No” I given the project. Mr- Russell h2s' settlers. “My labors seem rewarded one hun peing successfully used at a factory eral of the northern counties have | man in telling him that this was to would give the farmers of the dis- turning prospective residents tow- | Gwhere my friend, Matt Donahue, lands which is not available for said Mr. Maxfield, “in the agricul- | still farming it.) And from Bagley |lands for agricultural purposes. ‘phe of the leading citizens, but he as comfortable homes and as bright erected in Grand Rapids-very short- ¢ountry. He wants to read con- | where in the middle weet. It is tra and ere planning to get behind the yields, experience, ete. 1 am pleas- ‘life for Whom earthly ties held so ‘ton and will also spend some time in that there is still a great deal of un- movement with the necessary finan-|ed@ to see that Itasea county is much hope and brightness: - New Brunswick. | occupied land, but it is equally true jclal support. | among those that have taken steps Funeral services will be held Fri-| A Jarge number of her friends gath that ll that Jand is Jacking is men ‘to do some effective work in th's jday morning at 10:00 o'clock from ered at the train to bid Miss Fraser | |St. Joseph's church, when a.requiem| “Len voyage” and to wish her a ‘igh mass will be sung, and the Rev, Safe return to Grand Rapids, she Will be missed in social where. farm it. There is stil! neekesar The Rural Editor says: We sued direction.” put roads are now being built, the tailor for a suit of clothes which, Mr. Maxfield visited the state farm tis only a matter of time till, we thought were due us, but were during his stay here, and spoke in every community has good roads. : that is we high terms of commendation regard- t- We @lmost| ing the agricultural work that is being demonstrated by Supt. McGuire