Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 14, 1912, Page 6

+ —— oe PAGE SIX GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW i ft OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE . School Board School District No. 1, Grand Rap- ids, Itasca County, Minnesota. Grand Rapids, Minn. July 29, 1912. A meeting of the school board of school district No. One was held at eight o'clock p. m. All members of the board were presert The minutes of the meeting held July 22, were read and approved. The contract with Wm. Ashton to cal- camine the Central school and certain rooms in the High and Forest Lake schools was signed and his bond with Henry Hughes and F. A. King as sure- ties was approved. | Superintendent Freeman submitted a report showing money received from the sale of school books and supplies, and | fines collected, the amount of which was $33.57. Which sum has been turn- ed over to Treasurer Dickinson. Prices on boiler insurance to cover the boilers in the City schools were re- ceived as follows: HH. E. Graffam, for the Hartford $150.00,for the Ocean $110.00, First State Bank, for the “Maryland” $105.00. The offer of the First State Bank was, upon motion ac- cepted. Director Burgess, was, by motion au- thorized to look after the matter of re- pairs to the rural school buildings and to have necessary minor repairs made. Upon motion, the clerk was instruct- ed to advertise for bids for building frame buildings for Wirt and Deer Lake schools and a log school building in the north end of Good Hope town- whip. The following bills were, upon mo- tion, allowed: First National Bank, interest on bonds}. . 96: 016) we) pe oo oe, 392,000.00 J. V. Morse, transportation of his child- ren to Cohasset school 15.00 Louis Nelson, rent of Nelson school house.. .. .. «--- - 17.50 I” D. Doran, postage.. .. .. .. 1.50 N. M. Truxel, sharpening lawn ‘mowers... 2... ee ee ee ee ee 1.50 F. J. Mundigel, laundry.. .. .. .. 8.20] H. W. Stark, drawing contract and bond, Wm. Ashton a] eases 4.00 John J. Johnson, hauling suplies to Round Lake school.. .. .. .. 2.00 Syver Hanson, perpetual lease of ground for Shallowpond school 20.00 Upon motion the meeting adjourned. J. D. DORAN, Clerk. Grand Rapids, Minn., August 5, 1912. A meeting of the school board of ‘School District No. One was held at three o'clock. were present. It was moved that a reward of $10.00 be offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who broke the windows and otherwise damaged the Pokegama Lake school. The motion was carried. Upon motion, the clerk was instructed to advertise for bids for the transporta- tion of schoo) children as follows; High school pupils residing in Cohasset, to | Grand Rapids High school; pupils of the McMahon school to the Cohasset school; pupils of the McCormick school to the Grand Rapids schools; pupils of the Pokegama Lake school to the Grand Rapids schools; pupils of the Lond and McKinley neighborhood to the Blackberry school. Director Burgess was, upon motion authorized to obtain bids for painting and calsomining the McKinley school. The matter of purchasing busses to be used in transporting school children was taken up, and in order to procure vehi- cles that would comply with the State requirements, Director Burgess was, up- on motion, delegated to go to St. Paul and consult with the State Superinten- dent of Public Instructions as to the requirements of such busses and was authorized to purchase four busses for the use of the school district. The clerk was, upon motion, instruct- ed to advertise for bids for building a fire proof vault in the Central school bufiding. Order No. 386 issued Jan. 16, 1912 to E. H. Dorothy in the sum of $4.00 never received by said E. Y. Dorothy and has never been paid by the bank. It was moved that payment of order No. 386 be stopped and that a new or- der be issued to E. H. Dorothy in the sum of $4.00. Motion carried. Clerk Doran was, upon motion, author ized to employ some one to repair and and varnish the school desks in the city schools. Upon motion, Director Burgess was authorized to contract with Elerbe, Round & Sullivan for plans and speci- fications for the Blackberry school. The following bills were, upon motion tallowed: Henry Hughes & Co., lawn mow- er, hose, nails, etc --$ 17.44 Mesaba Telephone Co., telephone rent .. ... 3.00 E. C .Kiley, publishing notices and minutes .. .. .. .. .. «2 «16.85 A. LL. LaFreniere, publishing notices and minutes 16.85 George Riddell, repair material for Central school .. .. .. .. .. 6.25 J. S. Lofberg, repair at Central school Peas be, oa bene a a Clarence Buchanan, livery for superintendent .. .... ...... 3.00 Kink Lumber Co., plaster, ete for city-achools .. .. .. .. .. 2. 2. 20.05 C. W. Forrest, draying .. .. .. 3.70 C. H. Dickinson, exchange charg- ed to district by First National Houghton, Mifflin Co., text books 100.99 Atkinson, Menzter & Co., text BNEW ooo ees on) ois ies wes ORD George Sawyer, labor at Central school .. .. ++ ee 16.80; John Beckfelt, bunting, etc. for com- mmemn .. .. -- +. «. « 10.47 W. J. & H. D. Powers, lawn mower, hose for High school .. 26.25 Mrs. Gilbert Lessard, cleaning Shoal Lake school .. .. .. .. 4.00 Water and Light Commission, elec- mada MUM a ee eats foo OO Art. Clusieau, livery for school All members of the board | Chas. | First State Bank, boiler Insurance 103.95 Waterman Waterbury Co., stove Minnie Parish, organ for McKinley Dunn & Marcia, materials for wood door, Cohasset .. .. .. -. 48.00 Superior Woodenware Co., dynamite etc. for clearing school garden at Cohasset school .. .. .. -. 1.75 Upon motion, the meeting adjourned. J. D. DORAN, Clerk. “OFFICAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE Village Council Of The Village of Grand Rapids, Itas- ca County, Minnesota. Special meeting held Aug. 2, 1912. A special meeting of the village coun- cil of the village of Grand Rapids, Itas- ca county, Minnesota, was held in the council rooms, village hall, this 2nd, day of August, 1912, at 8 o’clock p. m. Members present: President Riddell, Trustee King and Recorder Sherman. The reading of the minutes were dis- pensed with. It being the time and place for the hearing upon the application of P. E. Grefe, to sell intoxicating liquors for a term of one year from August Ist, 1912, President Riddell declared this the or- der of business. The recorder stated that said appli- cation had been published according to law, and the fees required by law had been paid. There being no objections or remonstrances against the granting of said license, upon motion by King seconded by Sherman the license was granted. and license ordered issued to Pp. E. Grefe. Upon a roll call being had the motion received the unanimous vote of all members present. President Riddell declared the motion carried. The following bills were audited and allowed: | Lieberman Bros., assignees sundry labor Dills.. .. ©... - $180.90 |John Beckfelt, assignee sundry Yabor bills... den sien’ isles hee: 23.00 Itasca Dry Goods Co., assignees sundry labor bills.. awe 12.00 le. A. Carlson, building cement walks and curbs.. .. .. -- 193.52 There being no further business the meeting adjourned. GEORGE RIDDELL, Village President. Attest: FRANK SHERMAN, Village Recorder. Notice to Building Contractors. Sealed bids will be received by |the school board of Schoo] District NO. One, Itasca county, Minnesota at Grand Rapids, Minn., up until jeight o'clock p. m. of Monday, Aug- {ust 19, as follows: For building a frame schoo] house at Swan River, Minn. For building a frame school house at the present site of the Rahier schoo] in Section 29, Town- ‘ship 62, Range 25. For building a brick vault in the basement of the | Central school building at Grand | Rapids. Plans and specifications may be optained from any member of the board. Each bid must be accompanied by. |a certified check for 5 per cent of the amount of the same. The board reserves the right to reject @ny or all bids. J. D. DORAN, Clerk. AMENDMENT OF THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE RANGE SAND LIME BRICK COMPANY. 1 We hereby certify that at a special meeting of the stock holders of the Range Sand Lime Brick com- pany, duly called and held at the office of the corporation at Pengilly, Minnesota, on Saturday, May 11,1912, at 11 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of amending its artjcles of in- corporation as hereinafter stated, and transacting such other business as migh be necessary, the following resolution was offered, and, on motion, the same was duly adopted by a majority of all o the shares of the stock of said corpora- tion: | Resolved that Article VI of the Arti- cles of Incorporation be amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: The amount of the capjtal stock of this cor- poration including both common and preferred stock shall be $150,000.00, Its common stock shall be divided into shares of $10.00 each, and may be is- sued in series. If preferred stock is issued it shall be divided into shares of $100.00 each. The first series of com- mon stock issued shall not exceed $75,- 000.00. If deemed advisable by its boar of directors, said corporation may issue 750 shares of either special or prefer- red stock of $100.00 each, redeemable at the option of the board of directors at any time after two years from its date of issuance, bearing interest at mot to exceed 8 per cent. per annum, |and without any voting power, but con- stituting a first lien upon the corpor- ;ate assets, provided however, that the board of directors may at any time after such redemption reissue such preferred stock or in lieu thereof is- sue common stock. J. W. BRAGDON, President. A. W. KERRIDGE, Secretary. (CORPORATE SEAL) STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF ‘Carlton—ss. On this 15th day of May, 1912, before Tie, a Notary Public within and for said county, personally appeared J. W. Bragdon as president, and A. W. Ker- ridge as secretary of the Range Sand Lime Brick company, and each ac- kKnowledged the execution of the fore- going certificate to be his free act and deed, and for and in behalf of said corporation. HENRY P. GEORGE, Notary Public, Hennepin County, Minn. My commission expires Oct, 22nd 1918. STATE OF MINNESOTA, DEPART- ment of State: I hereby certify that the within instru ment was filed for record in this of- fice on the 8th day of June, A. D., 1912, at 9 o’clock a. m., and was duly record- ed in book V-3 of Incorporations, on page 507. JULIUS A. SCHMAHL, Secretary of State. OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS, STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Itasca—ss. I hereby certify that the within in- strument was filed in this office for record, Aug. 9, 1912, at 10:45 a. m., and was duly recorded in Book 33 of M. R., page 104. E. J. McGOWAN, Register .™ Deeds By IRENE BECKER, Deput H. R. Aug. 14-2: Notice for Publication. Bepartment of the Interior, U. S. Land office at Duluth, Minnesota, July 15, 1912. Notice is hereby given that Julius Westring, of Warba, Minnesota, who on April 11th, 1911, made Homestead entry, Seria] No. 09218, for Lot 12, section 21, township 54 N. of range 23 W. 4th Principal] Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final Commutation proof, to estaplis claim to the land above described, before I. D. Rassmussen, clerk of the district court at his office at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on the 28th day of August ,1912. Claimant names as witnesses: Karl Heyman, Charles Lindgren, Severt Peterson and Henning Carlso all of Warba, Minnesota. CHARLES F. HARTMAN, Register. H.R. July 24 Aug. 21. Call for Bids on Judicial Road Work. Sealed bids will be received by the county auditors of St. Louis and Itasca counties, Minnesota at the office of A. E. Dyer, county surveyor of St Louis county, in the Rood building in the village of Hibbing, Minnesota, up to 12 o'clock noon, of Saturday, the 17th day of August, A. D., 1912, on the fol- lowing described road work on the county line between St. Louis and Itas- ca counties, Minnesota; all work to |be done in accordance with plans and specifications therefor prepared by, and on file with, said county surveyor of St. Louis county; payments therefor to be made upon monthly estimates furnish ed to the county boards of said St. Louis and Itasca counties. The work upon which bids are asked fis as follows: Constructing and completing ten (10) miles of the Judicial Highway on the county line between Itasca and St. Louis counties, commencing at the southwest (SW) corner of section 19, township 61) N. of Range 21 W. in St. Louis county, and extending north- erly on.said county line to the southwest (SW) corner of section 6, in twp. 62 N. of range 21 W. in said St. Louis county. Al bids must be made in du- plitate. Bids will be received for all or any portion of said work equal to one (1) mile or any multiple ihereof. The successful bidder on said work or any portion thereof, will be required to enter into a contract with the coun- ties of St. Louis and Itasca, and to furnish gocd and sufficient bond in @n amount equal to the amount of his Said contract. The county boards of said counties re- serve the right to reject any and all bids and parts of bids. By order of the Ceunty boards of St. Louis and Itasca counties. 0. HALDEN, County Auditor, St. Louis County M. A. SPANG, County Auditor, Itasca County. Aug. 7 and 14. SALE OF SCHOOL AND OTHER STATE LANDS State of Minnesota, State Auditor’s Office. St. Paul, August 5, 1912. Notice is hereby given that on August 1€, 1912, at 10 o'clock a. m. in the office of the County Auditor, at Grand Rapids, Itasca county, in the State of Minnesota, I will offer for sale certain unsold state lands and also those state lands which have reverted to the State by rea- son of the non-payment of interest. Terms: Fifteen per cent of the purchase price and interest on the unpaid palance from date of sale to June ist, 1913, must be paid at the time of sale. The balance of pur- chase money is payable in whole or in part on or before forty years from date of sale; the rate of interest on the unpaid balance is four per cent per annum, payable in advance on June ist, of each year, provided the principal remains unpaid for ten years; but if the principal is paid within ten years from date of sale the rate of interest will be computed at five per cent per annum. Appraised value of timber, if any, must also be paid at time of sale. Lands on which the interest is de- linguent may be redeemed at any time up to the hour of sale, or be- fore resale to an actual purchaser. All mineral rights are reserved by the laws of the state. Not more than 320 acres can be sold or contracted to be sold to any one purchaser. Agents acting for purchasers must furnish affidavit of authority. Ap- praiser's reports, showing quality and kind of soil, are on file in this office. Lists of lands to be offered may be obtained of the State Auditor or the State Commissioner of Immigra- tion at St. Paul, and of the County Auditor at above address. SAMUEL G. IVERSON, State Auditor. H. R. ug. 7, 14, 21, 28. | Home Course In Road Making IL.—Advantages of Im- i proved Roads. | | By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, | Director Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. | Copyright by American Press Asso- | ciation, 1912 O road is as expensive as a bad road. We spend about $100.- 000,000 a year on our roads, and they are costing us in ad- dition a bad roads tax of at least $250,000,000 annually. It actually costs the average farmer as much to haul a bushel of wheat from his farm to the railroad as it does to ship it from New York to Liverpool, 3,100 miles. The loss to the people of the United States annually on account of bad roads would more than pay for their general and widespread improvement. " The burden of bad roads bears heav- ily upon the shoulders of the entire | UNIMPROVED EARTH ROAD — MAXIMUM LOAD FOR TWO HORSE TEAM, ONE BALE | OF COTTON, 500 POUNDS. | people, for such roads diminish the profits of the farmer because he must | haul fewer loads, make fewer trips |and market his products when the roads are passable and not when prices are best. They are a burden which compels the consumer in the city to pay heavily, not to swell the |farmer’s earnings, but to help the farmer to pay the money value of the absolute waste of energy and property due to bad roads. There would be an immediate and tangible saving by road improvement in reducing the cost of hauling. How much this saving would amount to in dollars and cents would depend upon the character and extent of the im- provement and the amount of traffic passing over the road. In 1908 the railroads of the United States handled about 800,000,000 tons |of ‘freight originating on the respec- | tive railroads. Of this amount about 265,000,000 tons represented agricul- tural, forest and miscellaneous prod- ucts, all of which moved over the country roads at initial or terminal | points or both. The average haul from farms to shipping points in the United States is about nine and one-quarter miles. The average cost of hauling on the country roads is about 23 cents per ton per mile. The total cost of haul- ing 265,000,000 tons would therefore be about $2.16 per ton, or a total of $572,930,000. improvement of the roads may be un- derstood when we compare the cost of hauling in Germany, France and Eng- land with the cost of hauling in this country. The average in these three countries is about 10 cents per ton per mile, and in many cases it is as low as |7 cents. If we cut the rate in the United States exactly in half by the |named. If we could do this it follows |that our annual saving would be in the neighborhood of $250,000,000 on hauling alone. vehicles due to bad roads may seem a 25,000,000 horses and mules in the United States, valued at $2.770,000,000, and about 1,500,000 carriages, buggies |and wagons. valued at about $83,000,- ;000. If by the improvement of the roads the vehicles would last one year longer and if one-tenth of the amount paid out for repairs were saved the re- sultant sum would run far into the millions. Property is much more valuable on an improved road than on an unim- proved road. This increase in the val- ue of the land adjacent to the improv- ed road has been sufficient in many cases to pay for the improvement. An effort has been made to estimate the neral increase in land values due to proved roads. and the average has been placed at somewhere between $2 and $9 per acre. There are positively thousands of examples where farms have been sold at an increase of from $50 to $200 per acre over their value before road improvement. An investigation recently made in Ohio shows that there are sixteen ag- Ficultural counties in the state that have less than 10 per cent of the roads The possibilities of saving by the | improvement of our main roads we | | would ‘still be 1%4 cents over the aver- | age for the three European countries | ‘The wear and tear on horses and | | trivial matter until we take into con- | | sideration the fact that there are about | improved, while there are forty-five agricultural counties that have more than 10 per cent improved. The aver- age price of farm lands in the sixteen counties, according to the report of the United States census, was $48.50 per acre, while the average price of land in the forty-five counties was $65.79 | per acre. In other words, the average | price of farm lands in the good road counties was $17.29. or 35 per cent | More than in the poor road counties. | When we consider the fact that there | are 873,000,000 acres of farm lands in | the United States the possibilities | along this line are rather startling. Even assuming that the land would be increased only $5 an acre the total enhancement on farm lands alone would be $4,365.000.000. Improved roads will yield an addi- tional income by enabling the farmer to cultivate with profit land which otherwise would be less profitably em- ployed. There are about 400,000,000 acres of | unimproved farm land in the United States. An average annual profit of 50 cents an acre on this land would | mean a net gain to the wealth of the United States of $200,000,000 a year. Truck products and small fruits must be delivered quickly to market if any | Profit is to be realized. Truck and | small fruit farms cannot be maintained with profit if a long haul over bad roads intervenes between them and the railroad station. A network of first class hard smooth roads will al- most immediately increase the number | of truck, fruit and dairy farms in any community. While the average value of wheat per acre is only $7.03 and corn $8.72, the average value of vege- {tables per acre is about $40 and of | small fruits $80. | There is a steady trend of popula- | tion from the country to the city, and ‘this may be attributed to some extent | to bad roads. During the ten year pe- | Tiod 1890-1900 the cities gained 2,174,- 000 more people than the country. In | 1860 only 16.1 per cent of the popula- | tion lived in cities, in 1900 the city | population represented about 31 per | cent of the total, and now it is proba- bly about 45 per cent. With hundreds of millions of acres | of land uncultivated we have the spec- tacle of hundreds of thousands of hu- ;man beings crowded into the cities, while year after year the human tide i | rolls restlessly in from the country to | furnish more consumers and decrease | the number of producers. | To prove that a relation exists be- tween the question of population and | roads the following illustration may be | cited: | In twenty-five counties selected from eastern. southern, western and north- | western states it has been found that ‘only 1% per cent of roads were im- | proved in 1904. These same counties | show an actual decrease in population | averaging 3,112 for each county for the ten year period 1890-1900. Twenty-five jother counties located in the same | states containing 40 per cent of im- | proved roads show an actual increase |in population for each county of 31,095. Whether good roads cause good | schools, or vice versa, it is true that | they exist together and that one of the | most important reasons for their im- | provement is their effect on school at- | tendance in the country. If the coun- | try schools are to have a maximum ef- ficiency in training and instruction the | children must be afforded facilities for |reaching them. With improved roads | the graded school and the consolidated | school will replace the little one room one teacher schools so prevalent in many sections of the country. The possibilities of a region of im- | proved roads are made apparent by | WELL BUILT MACADAM ROAD — MAXIMUM LOAD FOR TWO HORSE TEAM, TWELVE BALES OF COTTON, 6,000 POUNDS. | Many examples of schools which oper- |ate wagons regularly, which gather up | the pupils and carry them to and from |school. When the roads are placed in |such condition as to make this practice genera] a tremendous impetus will be given to education in the United States. | To Wlustrate this phase of the sub- |elted: In five states conspicuous for their good roads there was in 1904 an average school attendance of 77.13 per cent, while in five other states having exceptionally bad roads the average was only 59.16 per cent. Furthermore, ft has been ascertained that in the five states having an exceptionally high percentage of improved roads the white illiterates formed only three-quarters of 1 per cent of the total population, | while in the five states which showed |a searcely appreciable amount of road Improvement the white illiterates form- jed 4% per cent of the total population, & percentage six and a third times as great as in the former case. ject the following example may be | PREPARING FOR HARD CAMPAIGN Managers of Three Parties on Duty at Chicago. TO OPEN HEADQUARTERS Men at Head of Republican, Demo- cratic and Progressive Committees Ready to Begin Struggle for Votes at the November Election. Chicago, Aug. 14—Chairmen and leaders of the Republican, Democratic and Progressive parties will be in Chicago shortly to inaugurate their different campaigns for votes at the November elections. Permanent Republican headquarters already are open, with David W. Mul- vane of Kansas as director in charge. Permanent Progressive headquarters will be opened immediately at the Hotel La Salle and it is expected that a location for the Democratic head- quarters will have been decided upon within twenty-four hours. Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Republican executive committee, tel- egraphed he would arrive in a few hours; Senator Dixon, Progressive chairman, is expected to return to Chicago from New York at the same time and Chairman McCombs of the Democratic committee also will be on hand. Director Mulvane of the Republican organization announced a meeting of the executive commitee for today. A hard fight for the votes of women in suffrage states and for the infiu- ence of women in other states will be made by all parties. The Progressives feem to think they have the early ad- | vantage because of the woman suf- | frage plank in their platform and the influence of such women as Miss Jane Addams in their support of the new perty. UNCLE SAM IS STOREKEEPER High Cost of Living Has Not Hit the Canal Zone. Washington, Aug. 14.—The high | cost of living problem has not yet reached the canal zone. While house- wives here in the States are paying record prices for meat, Uncle Sam’s commissary on the zone is furnishing steaks, roasts and chops as cheaply as &@ year or SO ago. Porterhouse steak, selling at from 30 to 35 cents a pound, can be pur- chased at Panama for 20 cents. Sir- loin brings 19 cents on the zone. Ham is 28 cents a pound from the commis- saries <rd 40 cents from the grocery stores here. The Canal Record, official publication of the isthmian canal com- mission, gives many other figures showing low meat prices. The explanation is that on the zone | Uncle Sam himself is the storekeeper, buying direct from the packers and | Selling to the public at wholesale prices, plus only the cost of selling. VOTING TRUST AT AN END McCormicks Now in Control of Harves- ter Company. Chicago, Aug. 14.—The voting trust which has controlled the International Harvester company has expired. The organization is now in absolute control of the McCormicks. The International Harvester com- pany was formed under the laws of New Jersey on Aug. 12, 1902. Its cap- | ital stock was $120,000,000 and all of this capital was delivered as certifi- cates to William C. Lane, who on the ,Rext day turned it over to George W. Perkins, representing the house of J. |P. Morgan & Co., which had financed | the deal, and to Charles Deering and Cyrus McCormick. These three men were selected as a voting trust for ten years “unless sooner terminated in accordance with the provisions of the voting trust agreement.” STEAMER’S BOWS STOVE IN | Atlantic Liner in Collision With an ! Iceberg. Montreal, Aug. 14.—Wireless sta- tions all along the Canadian coast are on the lookout for messages from the Allan liner Corsican, Montreal to »- erpool, which reported her bows stove in by collision with an iceberg. Captain Cook’s wireless to the Allan line said the damage to the ship’s stem was above the water line; that there was no danger and that he s proceeding on his way. The Corsican left Montreal with twenty-five first class, sixty-two sec ond class and 200 third class passen- gers. { Five Dead in Train Wreck. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 14.—Five per- sons were killed and several injured when the westbound Olympian train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound railroad broke through a bridge half a mile west of Keechelus, sixty- seven miles east of Seattle. j Philadelphia’s Smallest Baby. Philadelphia, Aug. 14.— Russell Daily, the smallest baby ever born here, is making rapid strides at the University hospital. Now nearly two weeks old, he has attained a weight of one pound, eleven ounces and a length of six and three-fourths inches. ee gg ed | Td