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| The ceremony took place in the Vou. XXIII. —No 7 library under a floral arch of green hi BODY iF WILDER and white, centered by a wedding A | pen of white carnations, while a FOUND IN RIVER packground of ferns made a pretty | setting for the bridal party. ‘ Bincis |al group Miss Minnie Reynolds sang Grand Rapids Business Man Who , *°v<r#! appropriate selections, the i Mendelssohn wedding march herald- Disappeared From Home Ten ling the entrance of the party. The Days Ago Found Sunday bride entered on the arm of her i brother, Duncan Eecker, and was 1 i. EEE | preceded by Master Edwin Carbine, the ring bearer, and little Miss Clara HAD DRIFTED 18 MILES DOWN RIVER (carbine, tne nower sir quisitely gowned in white silk mar- | —_—_—_ | quisette, over white satin messaline, 4 | trimmed in princess lace and caught Yorry Over Financial Troubles Be-| with orange blossoms. lieved to Have Been Cause of *2¢ blossoms in her hair and car- 5 aisle? | ried a shower boquet of bride roses. Seeking Relief in Waters : SSE a Miss Isabelle Becker, sister of the of Mississippi bride, was maid of honor. She was gowned in white and carried roses. | Rev. R. W. Paul of the Fremont Con- The body of A. E. Wilder, who dis-| gregational church read the marriage appeared from his home here Fri- ,S¢rvice, using the impressive ring day, August 2, was discovered in \ceremony, and the Rev. J. W. Law- the Mississipi river at Blackberry |t02 of the Hesperia Presbyterian last Sunday, about 18 miles by river church pronounced the benediction. below Grand Rapids. The body A dainty three-course luncheon had become caught in drift wood |followed the ceremony, apout fifty near shore and was discovered by |Telatives and friends being present. a@ man named Erickson, who was| The color plan of green and white putting up hay near the river bank. | Was emphasized in dining table ap- He secured the body to prevent its; Pointments. A basket of white car- drifting away and _ notified the | nations formed the central note, and authorities. white satin ribbons were fastened to Identification was made by means |the four corners of the table. White of the clothing worn and by an em-| candles in crystal candlesticks wound blem ring, as discoloration and decom| With smilax added to the beauty of Position had rendered the features | the table decorations. unrecognizable, The body was} The wedding gifts were unusually brought to town Sunday night and | beautiful, and showed the esteem in taken to the Kremer undertaking | which the young couple are held by Parlors. |their large circle of friends. Mr. Wilder disappeared Friday,) mr. and Mrs. McOuat left that the last seen of him being when he) evening for Detroit, where they em- was walking along the river road / east of town. Later, when a search Was instituted. footsteps were found feading down to the bank toward the; river and no return steps could be parked on the lake trip for Duluth, arrived home yesterday. Miss Becker has been instructor of music and drawing in the Grand Rapids schools for the past three years and seen. A revolver that he always “Kedt in his desk was discovered ly- ing on the bank. Mr. McOuat is prosecuting attorney ,of Itasca county: Both the young ‘people have a host of friends in Whether he shot himself before the! Grang Rapids and vicinity who are! waters of the river claimed their vic-' gelighted to welcome them to the tim, or met death by drowning is | jist of young married couples who not known, as the body was in such!are making new homes in Grand condition that it was practically im- | Rapids thiaigummer: possible to ascertain the cause of death, abrasions from contact with driftwood covering the exposed vor. CREAMERY PICNIC Mr. Wilder was one of the best HERE SATURDAY known residents of Itasca county Patrons of Co-operative Creamery and had peen a resident of northern Minnesota, for the past 25 years. He! Will Celebrate First Anni- versary Picnic ‘was born in Rice county, Minnesota, in 1861, and came here in the early days of lumbering and river naviga- tion. ° He conducted the Gladstone hotel i for a number of years, later taking| TBE first anniversary, of: the open- charge of the Morrisey hotel at Deer | 78 of the Itasca co-operative River, now the Everton, when he |‘Te@mery will be celebrated Satur- was appointed receiver of the Mor- day, August 17, with a picnic on the risey estate. For the past three |“Tmery grounds. years he had an automobile garage Business men and farmers will un- here, which was closed out by exe- ite to observe the opening of the eution proceeding the day that Mr. linstitution, which has proved in its Wilder disappeared. Worry and dis-|year’s existence the desirability of pondency over his financial condi-|the creamery as a factor in the tion is believed to have been the | money-making enterprises of reason for his seeking relief from |northern Minnesota, business worries in the waters of! The local business men have ar- the Mississippi. A Widow, two daughters, Emmaand ‘couple of hours Saturday, beginning Preceding the entrance of the brid- She wore or-/| | ;Tanged to close their stores for a} Blizabeth, and one brother, W. L./at ‘12:00 o'clock, so that everyone; Wilder, of Grand Forks, N. Dak., |will have a chance to attend the are the immediate relatives surviv- |'picmic and hear the report of the ing. Funeral services were held from’ year’s business, which the officers the Kremer undertaking parlors Mon-! will give. i day afternoon, the Rev. H. L. Snyder! since the opening of the local Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, [912 OFFICIAL PAPER OF Itasca Co. and School Dist. “No. One MESABAORE MAN COMMENTS ON “HOME: | Believes That Message Contained in Special Edition Will Give Seeker of Knowledge an Adequate Idea of the Opportunities That Itasca County Offers She es “YOUNG MAN HEREOF” SAYS COMPILIMENTARY THINGS 0 PUBLISHER Truthfulness of Articles Commended in Editorial Mention of Special Edition--Message for Homeseekers Will Result In Large Measure of Good to Itasca County Says Ore Publisher On an ees Mesabe Ore:—Any sort of a booster is good for a locality, but at a town and county can boast cta booster the calibre of E. C. Kiley, editor and owner of the Grand Rapids Herald-Review, they have just cause to swell up a little with pride. “Governor” Kiley, as the newspaper boys call him, has been run ning the Herald-Review for the past twenty years, and during that time there has not been a day when he has not backed somebody up ‘in a corner and given them his booster talk for Grand Rapids and Itasca county. Nor has there been an issue of the Herald-Review that has not had something to say of the wonderful advantages at hand there- To take Governor Kiley and his journal at their word, and we have never known or heard of either telling anything but the unadulterated truth, you would conclude that Itasca county was the original Garden of Eden. Now comes the crowning effort of the entire twenty years of boost- ing in the shape of a handsome “Homeseekers Edition” of the Re- view. Folded in with the regular edition of the Herald-Review, which at any time is plenty good enough, is a large supplement, which is printed on the best of beck paper, embellished with the -OEENERS EDITION” OF HERALD-REVIEW j |can bring to the office a knowledge | of school matters that would prove GOHASSET BA of incalculable benefit to every | | school over which her supervision | ROBBED TUESDAY would extend- | GLENWOOD SCOUTS ii ee About $1600 Currency | Left Here Saturday for Trip Down! Mississippi to Little Ty Row Bost,” HAVE NOT BEEN APPREHENDED A party of Boy Scouts from the | Glenwood Minnewaska troop were |in Grand Rapids Saturday, preparing /P ‘osse Scours Woods North of Co- to make the trip by row boat down} hasset in Vain Search for Men | the Mississippi river to Little Falls, a distance of about 225 miles, Who Plundered Bank Yesterday The party numbered 16, 13 boys; and Scoutmasters N. H. Hegel, C. C. |Torgeson and T. Rovelstad, who | have been giving their charges some ree nec Ge PelilitonGrperion ana rency at 11:45 Tuesday forenoon, by | 4 bs two men who held up Cashier Skocdo- Duluth. From there the party went | pole. one of the men holding a g | by boat to Two Harbors, where a! cs eae slgpthoiae ee 2 Lai jat his head while the other went short stay was made, arriving here| through the vault for the currency. from the range jeountry Friday. A’ after securing the available currency visit.to the open pit.mines at Coleraine the two men shut Mr. Skocdopole in jand Bovey was made. Saturday and | the vault and escaped, making for the boys left that evening for the! the forest northwest of town. down river trip. Mr. Skocdopole was in the bank The boys on the trip pack their own | alone when the two men entered, one outfits, camp out and cook their approaching the window and request- own meals. Most of those in the! ing the cashier to change $5 for him panty are about 12 or 13 years old | While so engaged Mr. Skocdopole and were selected from a troop Of | noticed the other man coming through 30 as the hardiest and best-qualified | the side entrance to the room where to stand the trip. |the vault was located, and as he s ! In the party are: Scoutmasters jogkeg around, the man at the wicket N. H. Hegel, C. C. Torgesen, and T- | pulled his revolver and ordered the Rovelstad; the boys include Lewis cashier to throw up his hands. Robards, Chester Koldahl,; Arthur | Ofsthun, Luverne McLaury, The First State bank of Cohasset The two went through the vault se- Ernest ;curing the currency there, then back- of the printer’s art. scenes, are eMtertaining articles Tt is not a landman’s advert'sy and in them. That the business men of the Kiley. and his booster spirit getting the number out. deal more. tion—if they have not already the young man hereof. Review! ® even just seeker of knowledge 4 messege of all finest grade of half-tone cuts and printed in the highest finesse | Koldahl, Herbert Peterson, Wayne Interspersed here and there about the cuts, : t which are farm, mining, lake, river, industrial, Martin, Ernest Billehus, Raymond Graye, Ralph Lee, Eugene Sather, Erling Wollan and Ralph Koefod. civie and mature tha: carry to the homeseeker, or the opportunities is manifest from’ the of advertising they have contricuted to help defray the expense of He is deserving of it all—and a May Mr. Kiley be spared to his town and county for a half century longer, that he nay continue his good work, and may the people of Grand Rapids an? Itasca county come to a full realiza- and we judge they have—of the val- uable citizen they have in Booster Kiley. Long live Governor Kiley and the Herald- that Itasca county and Grand Ré@pids ‘eve to offer. ui, out just plainly a booster ed- ition that tells, in story and pi¢:ure, plain and uncolored, just what the little “Garden City” and th ¢ unty it is located in have about town and county appreciate Mr. liberal amount great Such are the wishes of Swe HUNTERS PROMISED EXCELLENT SPORT Numerous Quail, Partridge, Deer and Moose Await Open Seasen in North Woods With the cpening of the huntiag season only a few weeks away. ir- dications for gcod sport in the w tds of Itasca county were never better. The game warden reports partridges and quail numerous and of a fod size for this time cf the year. Deer and mocse are seek in uni large numbers and are also in ‘plen- fa condition, The people are “on ing to realize that unless the game aad fish are cunserved it will hg on- ly a question of a few years unil MISS BURLINGAME WILL BE CANDIDATE Enters Race For Superintendent of Itasca County Schools ENTERTAIN PARTY AT WEEK END AFFAIR Mr. and Mrs Jerome Myres enter- tained at a delightful week end party |charming home at Pokegama lake last week. These who enjoyed a delightful pennies at Mr. and Mrs. Myers’ bid- ding were: Miss Lillian LeFebre, Miss Katherine Gilbert, Miss Jessie Aiken, Miss Alice Tyndall, the Mes- srs. Carlson, Marr and Seamans, Setterland-Winkenwerder The marriage of Miss Myrtle Win- kenwerder of Coleraine to A. B. Set- jterland of Minot N. Dak., took place last Thursday noon at the Method- ist parsonage, the Rev. Justus Parish officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Setterland left after the ceremony for Hibbing where they will make their home in the future- Miss Florence Burlingame, who has} DULUTH STRIKERS JOBLESS taught in the Grand Rapids schools for the past six years, will be a candidate this fall for superintendent of schools of Itasca county. Since the state legislature has tak- en this office out of politics by mak- ing it non-partisan, it has come to be more generally demanded that i { the | Northern Pacific Will Take Dockmen Only as Needed. Technically the strike of the freigh: handlers on the Northern Pacific dock |is over. In reality, according to the officials, the men are still without jobs and may be for some time to come. | The company states that they will Back superintendent of schools should be! take the strikers back to work only a person especially fitted by educa- as they are needed and at the present officiating, and interment was made creamery one year ago there has! tion, training and experience for this | time no men are needed on the dock. responsible position. For this rea-}It may be several months before ail | jed Mr. Skocdopole in the vault, locked him in and made their escape Postmaster Carrier, whose building j adjoins the bank, was sitting between ; the two buildings and was the first | to hear the muffled cries for help, though it was about °0 minutes pbe- fore the cries were heard and Mr Skocdopole wag released from his precarious position. | Constable Stapleton started in the direction taken by the robbers but was unable to locate their tracks. Sheriff Riley was n ied and arriy- ed on the one o'clock train, going out with a posse at once. A des- cription of the two was wired to all] the sheriffs of the state, and every town along the line officers were watching last night to catch the men if they were on any of outgoing trains. The two men had been hang loediiad Cohasset for several days. One of them was described as weigh- ing about 190 pounds, blonde, and apout 5 ft. 10 in. in height. He wore a tan shirt and ordinary pair of wo ingmans trousers. His companion was shorter and dark, with a very thin, peaked face. He weighed about 150 pounds and was dressed in rough, or- dinary working clothes, Both men were smooth faced. believed that the two had a camp in the woods between Cohas- set and Deer River, as two men answering to their description had received lumbermen’s packs from th Great Northern at River S day and had been seen on the ro | between the two towns by Mr. Her- red and C. M. King of Deer River. ‘An energetic search of the woods ‘was made yesterday by the officers ‘and is being continued today. A reward of $500 is offered by Deer he in the Itasca Cemetery.’ been a steady and satisfactory growth | } lin the number of farmers patroniz- | { there w:il ts pene left and, is a consequence, there has been votpér- aiively little vietatiecn of the laws son the Herald-Review learns with | of the old employes are taken back. jing it, and cream is now shipped lin recent years, and the vigilance cf Concessions were made on both pleasure that an educator of sth sides in order to reach a settlement. wide experience and ability of Miss | The strike was carried on in a most . Pretty Home Wedding in from Cohasset, Blackberry, ‘surrounding Grand Rapids. Bride of R. A. McOuat at |ness men and farmers, Supt. Me- Guire will tell What the co-opera- tive creamery is doing for northern \ i ; Minnesota, and Secretary O. J. Niles pretty midsummer wedding took » a at Brunswick, Mich., last Wed- | will give a report of the operations place neust'T: when’ Miss Annie of the creamery during the year. ‘Becker, youngest daughter of Those attending are requested to ” HenryB ecker became the bride |bring a basket dinner, and coffee ond Arthur McOuat, of Gra 4 cream and sugar will be furnished ‘ iby the creamer.y e charming country home of the; Come out to the picnic; join the mother was artistically dec-| get-together session of the creamery n rod throughout the spac- At the picnic Saturday there wil)!ing will be legal the Miss Annie Mary Becker Became), 7) oro.e prosram of talks by busi- ouaes ie in green and white, white car-| patrons and enjoy a day off Saturday, | He was arrested about two ‘ ‘smilax, clematis and feath- while you learn at the same time ' ago, giving bail in the sum of $1,000. ‘ being used with de-| what is being done at the local|The case wes set for Mond: Prosecuting the|the game wardens has resulted in “ MOUAT-BECKER | Deer River district and other points | « ‘tributary, in addition to the support! Ae NUPTIALS A given the institution by the farmers) | increased respect for the state game laws. September first will be open sea- ‘son for chickens, while duck shoot- middie of HICKS CASE ON NEXT THURSDAY The hearing in the case of Jer- ry Hicks, former cashier at the |Great Northern depot. will be lieard Thursday, August 2°. | Hicks is charged with being short in bis cash to the extent of $900. veeks but Burlingame has entered the race for! the superintendent’s office. | Miss Burlingame was educated in| the rural schools of Minnesota, hav-; ing been connected with the Euneh schools—poth as pupil and ae for fifteen years. She is a graduate of the State Normal at St. Cloud | and of the New York university. She holds‘ the degree of Master of Pedagogy and a state professional certificate. Since 1901 she has taught continu- ously in the schools of northern orderly manner. TWO STEAMERS IN COLLISION Vessel Carrying Coal Sinks in Lake Superior. The steamer James Gayley sank in Lake Superior forty miles east of Mani- tou after being rammed by the steam- | er Rensselear. There were no lives lost. The crew was taken off by the steamer Standacona, bound for Du- | uth. The James Gayley sank twenty min- | utes after the collision. She was laden | with coal. The loss is estimated at Minnesota, and for the last six years | $399,900. she has been at the head of the Eng-} The Rensselear suffered heavily in lish department of the Grand Rapids | the collision. She carried ore. high school. Her varied experience as a teacher | in northern Minnesota would make | her an invaluable superintendent of Workman Instantly Killed. Thomas Melchoir, laborer at the William Bros.’ Boiler and Manufactur- ing company 1n Minneapolis, was in- stantly killed when his garments be schools, as she knows the condi-| ..n6 entangled in a shaft over which tions and problems of educatjonal| ye had been working. The marks left state for the capture of the men and the company with which the Co hasset bank was insured against burglary and holdups offers $250. NASHWALK MAN SERIOUSLY HURT James Dorgan was thrown from a steam shovel in operation at the La Rue mine at Nashwauk Tuesday fore- |noon, sustaining injuries that may | prove fatal. The.accident occured at 11:30 Tues | day forenoon, the injured man strik- ing his head in falling from the shov- jel, and at 12:30 today he had not yet regained consciousness. In ad ‘dition to a fracture of the skull, his ‘right arm was fractured in two places and there are internal injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Dorgan are well known in Grand Rapids, the latter jpets a sister of Mrs, T. T. Riley.