Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 8, 1913, Page 1

Grand Uapid Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Wepnzspay, JANUARY 8, 1913 XXHI.—No 28 ‘Unpe rfaod Vase COMMISSIONERS ORGANIZE FOR 191d C. M. King Re-elected Chairmaw) other ofie and James Passard Vice Chairman. WERILO-REVIEW IS OFFICIAL PAPER| Dr. Russell Made County Physician ; and Dr. Jendron Physician for Health Board--Other Appoimtments. The board of county } | | jone criminal libel one received a jail sentence, paid fines, and one case was Pid missed. Besides this last-named case there were also dismissed a manslaughter case of four years standing in which all the witnesses had disappeared, assualt case, one violation of game }ond degree and one for third de- tion of liquor Jaws, one gambling, ment on nine counts for consent- ing to the payment of fraudulent | wecounts. The fines assessed in district ; court amounted to $597.40. Of the }139 cases in jacquitted and justice resulted in convictions ,three were ‘The tot- sioners met at the court house yes-/ a} amount collected through fines terday at 10:30 and organized for the ensuing year by elecing C. M. King chairman and James Pas- sard vice-chairman. Mr. Passard was the only new member’ as a result of the late election, and he was not entirely new to the job as he served Itasca county as commissioner from this district for a period of six years, retiring four years ago when he was succeeded by Neil Mullins. All the members were present, viz: C. M. King, Morris O’Brien, James Passard, Dr. Shellman and Andy Nelson. After organizing, the board went into executive session for an hour to talk over salaries, appointments, etc. Atthe atfernoon session business was disposed of with little confus- sion a§d no friction. Salaries were fixed as follows: County Attorney, $2,000; superintendent of schools, $1,200; county physician, $60.00 per month ;-health. board, physician and. assistant county physician $35 per month; court house jaintor$75 per month; clerk to judge of probate, $30 per month; visiting nurse $65 per month; assessors, $4 per day. Appointments were made as fol- Jows: Dr. Thomas Russell, eoun- ty physician; Dr. Jules Gendron, board of health physician; Dr. A. C. Macgee, assistant physician for Deer River district; Dr. Edwin Se- guin, Bovey; Dr. George C. Gil- | bert, Marble: Dr. M. F. Hayes, Nash- wauk. The county board of health consists of Commissioners Shell-} man and Passard and Dr. Gendron. &. M. Dinwiddie was continued as superintendent of the poor farm; Miss Anna Wang was re-elected as visiting nurse. Charles Ervin was elected assessor, district No. 4; Thomas Griffin, district No. 2; W. R. Seele, district No. 3; Levi Cock N Wm. Osufson, No. 5. Thomas Ward was named as ap- praiser of state lands. The Herald-Review was designat- ed the official paper of Itasca coun- ty for the year. The Independent will also publish the proceedings of the board, financial statement and all other notices required by law to be published. The bid for do- ing this work was made jointly by the publishers of the two papers, thus giving the benefit of their ocmbined circulations, which aggre gates more than 2,400. The tax list will be published in the Coleraine Optic. The proceedings in offitial de- tail will be published next week. ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY ATTORNEY Fifty Criminal Cases in District Court and 139 in Justice Court is Year’s Record. County Attorney R. A. McOuat this week sent his yearly report in to the attorney general. It shows that the year 1912 was a quiet one in the county’s criminal court, but fifty cases coming before the district court, while the justice courts disposed of 139. Of the cases brought before the district court, for hearing, 24 resulted in conviction, 11 were nolled and 15 are still pending. Most all of the offenses were or a minor charac- ter. There were 17 cases against keepers of disreputable and 46 of these resulted’ in con-| Hill, is|Carpenter, Fresh Air and How to victions. One of the accused was $1814.77, the fines amounted to $1317.50 and the costs footed up $1434.10. WM. WIETZEL PLAYS HISTORIC DRUM |Grand Rapids Veteran Qne of the Attractions at G. A. R. Re- union at Bemidji. William Weitzel of Grand Rapids, a 79-year-old fifer who played the drum in the terrific battle at Petersburg and on other Civil war fields, is one of the orchestra to supply music for the old time dance the city hall for the benefit of the local G. A. R. post, says a dispatch to the daily papers from Bemidji. Mr. Weitzel will bring with him two_old drums, a.snare..drum, that. was carried through the Civil war and which’ still has the ee in the heads made by @ Con bullet at the second battle of “Bull Run, which lodged in its player's knapsack, and a bass drum made in Germantown, Pa., in 1174. The lat- jter was used by Mr. Weitzel’s great grandfather through the R evolu- tionary war and was later found in his grandmother's attic with a head knocked out, being used as a wasta basket. ‘SIGNS ORDER FOR GOODLAND ROAD Judge Hughes Approves Proceed- ing for Proposed Judicial Highway. Judge Martin Hughes has made the final order necessary to the construction -of the new judicial road from Keewatin to Goodland, pending for a year. The report of the commissioners and viewers |has been approved and the highway authorized. It will be about sixteen miles long and will make tributary to Hibbing and Keewatin, some excel- lent farming country. The towns of Stuntz and Nashwauk will build a section of the road, the town of Greenway and St. Louis county a portion, and the town of Goodland and St. Louis county a portion. The road is located for the great- er part of the distance on the line between Itasca and St. Louis coun- ties. New Offici-ls Assume Charge. It is doubtful if in the history of Itasca county so few changes were made in personel of the offices at the court house on the first of Jan- uary following an election as is the case this year. But two changes were made in the head of depart- ments—J. E. MeMahon succeeded Glen Strader as county treasurer, and Oscar Lidberg taking over the office of County Surveyor John Brown. New Library Books. The following is a list of new books added to the library dur- ing December: Prodigal Judge, The Net, Street Called Straight, Bachelor's Comedy, Woman of It, Cease Firing, Red Cross Girl, Mus- houses,|ic Master, Romance of Billy-Goat Promised Land, Call of the now serving a term in Sti!lwater,|Use it, Kim, and Crofton Chums. “THE GET-TOGETHER ANNUAL REPORTS | | | | a third degree | jlaws and seven counts against a former county official. Among the » for which convic- tions were secured or which are still to be tried are one for see- | jsree assault, one robbery in the | | second degree, one in the third de- grec, one forgery, one rape, erim- court, 130 | six dsimissed. Of | | those convicted 38 received jail sen- commis~ | tences and 92 were fined. “HOW 10 ESTABLISH” 1S THE inal knowledge of child, one viola- | and one indict- ; |The Differeut Speakers Will U 4 | from the United States government. MEET JANUARY 16 : ARE SUBMITTED Meeting of Itasca Co-Operative Creamery Association Held Yestorday Afteonoon. Second Meeting of Grand Rapi Citizens is Announced ror That Date. EISATISFACTORY SHOWING IS MADE ¢,0. J. Niles, Secretary and Treas- _ urer, Makes Report--Officers and Directors Elected for Ensuing Year. This as Keynote for Ad- dresses--Women to Take Part. The second “Get-together” meet+} The annual meeting of the Itasca ing of the citizens of Grand Raps) Co-operative Creamery association ids and vicinity will be held iffwas held yesterday afternoon at the dining room of the Catholig} Village hall in Grand Rapids. O. church on Thursday evening, Jan=|J. Niles, who has served during uary 46. Supper will be served at|the past year as secretary-treasur- 7 o'clock by the ladies of the Pres-ler, submitted a detailed report of byterian church. As the room isthe business done, and the present large enough to seat 200 or more/financial condition of the associa- people, the women as well as thé/tion. While it cannot be said that men are asked to come. A chargeé|the creamery has experienced a big of 25 cents is necessarily made to}business, yet the officers and direc- cover the cost of the eatables. In|tors feel satisfied with the pro- order that the ladies in charge of gress thus far made. When the pro- the supper will know how many|ject of organizing the association plates to provide at the banquet/came up two years ago, it was un- table the tickets muct be bought|dersteod and fully explained by A. not later than Tuesday preceeding J. MeGuire and others that the the meeting. ‘javailable supply of cream and milk Every man and woman wh@jat that time was not sufficient to makes their home in this communs maintain a creamery on a profit- ity should attend this meeting,|able h but the presence of the The program wili center around} ereg vould rapidly increase subjects that are vital to the prop hereabouts. The er development of this city and su! been what was rounding country. A united cag projectors, but munity can move moumtains whe «that suc- single individuals cannot moy the ir effors. molehills.. Some__.cammunity.. advanta be the best in the state. Why not} of , ours? Be. a_ booster. Add your)tain @fforts to the efforts of your feigh-| produets bors. If it will benefit anybody | patronage else, it will benefit you. mianently ind The committee named atthe last | The meeting meeting to lay plans for a perma-jtended by twe nent organization will make their/men who are.inter report and present a form for} sociation. 3 such . organization with constitu-| Secretary Niles submi' tion and by-laws. lowing detailed report, wh The following subjects have|quired by the state dairy and been selected for discussion at this department: meeting: Number of months operated 4 How to Establish a.Neigh- |No. of eae am oon (es- borhooed .. -. C,-A. Buell} timated) .. .. .. sectcas | ee 2 How to Establish a Home |Milk received .. .. Industry .. .. O. M. Niles|Cream received .. 3 How to Establish an Indus trial Center .. _ pounds 85162 + pounds 99072 Average test of créaim Sere as ee H. G. Becker|Average test of milk 4.24 4 How to Establish Public |Butterfat from milk..pounds 3615 Convenience ..Miss Burlingame | Butterfat from cream pounds 26983 5 How to Establish “Team- —_——— Work”... ..Rev. L. D. Beuchler Total butterfat .. . 31598 Tickets will be on sale by- the|Butter made .. .. .. .. .. 25429 committee er at the Itasca store. |Butterfat sold in cream or milk .. .. .. .. pounds 9189 Chippewa Indian Council. Butter shipped .. .. pounds 2010 ; Butter sold’ elsewhere, pounds 17346 At a general council of the Chip-| Price paid perine per pound pewa Indians held on the Fon du} of butterfat . - cents 35 Lac reservation recently, resolu- Butter sold in cream or milk tions were adopted constituting g . -.pounds 9189 that council a working body for the|Is butter made, of pasteurized purpose of promoting the welfare| cream? :. -. cc te No of the Chippewas in Minnesota, says Overrun .. 49 ‘6-40 per cent the Cass Lake Times. . A resolution | Average price ‘obtained for was adopted to the effect that all| butter .. ..... .. .. cents 34 chiefs, leaders and head men on all} Butter sold on New York quota- the Chippewa reservations in Min-| tions. . nesota be invited to attend a con-| The following financial state- vention or great council to be|ment was presented: held at Cass Lake, on Tuesday, Receipts— February,: 4th, 1913, for the pur-|Milk .... .. .. .. +fj-- $2479 27 | pose of organizing the Chippewas /Sp. Gr... .. .. .. .... .. 2651 69 of Minnesota into an incorporation|Butter .. .. ... , 7286 64 to enable them to act in unison and|N. EB. Exp..farm .. .. .. .. 640 45] as one ‘band; to concentrate their|/A. M. Sisler .. ........ 7 37| powers, and to do, all things. and/ Other Sources .. .. .. .. 491 oF acts that seem necessary to pro- 13,562 49 mote their interests, to protect their Expenditures— property and obtain their just dues|Vouchers Ret. ..-.. .. ..413030 16 Cheeks issued, not cashed 154 12 Checks to be issued for last half of December .. .. It is suggested that members of each reservation call a council im- mediately and choose delegates of not less than three in number to will be given the power to repre- sent the people upon the reserva- tion from which they are chosen, so they will be able to exercise their best judgment and act upon all matters that may come up for discussion at the convention. _It is. proposed that the conven- tien, constitution and by-laws be Bills payable— adopted which shall govern the|Ghecks not cashed .. .. ..$ 349 12 body to be created and organized.|Due patrons Dec. 15, 31 .. 387 24 This corporate body shall bd yen; Demand note and Int... .. permanent headquarters, with of-| oss ficers, and the~ rs V be selected by the convention 378 24 13562 49 Financal statemenit Jan. 6, 1913: Bills receivable— Aecs due Jan. 1 -... ..$ 384 24 Bal in bank 1-6 ..-!. .. 234 74 N. E. X. ie earns 90%) Cash on hand .. .. .. .. 82 00 | Value B. fat at Creamery 408 Required to balance .. .. 00 63 | 2 33 ae ow Two Dollars a Year Frank King for $100. Officers and directors for the en- suing year were elected as follows: A. J: MeGuire, president; Neil Me- Kinley, vice-president; 0, J. Niles, secretary; A. M. Sisler, treasurer; Frank B. Gran, Wm. Hoolihan and George Becker, directors. CO-OPERATION IS - URGED BY WILSON Superintendent of Farmers’ i- | tutes Believes That All Should Help. Organization for agricultural de- velopment. in Minnesota will reach its ervalest efficiency only when the county, state and federal gov- ernment combine to finance perma- nently the field work necessary. That i> the opinion of A. D. Wil- son, superintendent of the extension division and farmers’ institutes of the staf. agricultural college. Prof. Wilson was in Duluth last week to attend a meeting of the agricultural committee of the Commercial club to discuss the proposed district or- gani:atiow in Northeastern Minne- sota. Just now the extension division of the agricultural college is in- terested in the forming of coun- ty organization to take charge of development work. Seven counties engaged field men, one for each county. Each county has subscrib- ed $1,000 for the work, and has guaranteed $1,000 for the second year. The extension division is al- lowed. to spend $200 in each county. The department also has $5,000 of government money to be allotted in sums of $65 a month to each coun- ty. Four additional counties may be cared for by that. sum. The organization entitles each county to $1,000 of the sum being distributed by the crop committee Council of Grain Exchanges, bu hat is on ‘ora s ingle year. _ _Aamoeyvement is now on to have ‘the legislature pass a law at the coming session giving county boards authority to appropriate $1,000 an- ally for agricultural development within the county. gz would like to see the state law on the principle of the et providing state aid al high schools, said day. “It should pro- ¥ which has ap- $1,000 for ag- t shall be| jount an- Federal ac- nd 0 h tion. “About “ae for the work the county, s ernment were to ing the money yea or organization and fi be solved. i, “The federal department, culture spends: much mone ly in research work. Considé money is expended by the ? in research and immigration. Thé research work is without avail un- less some channels are opened to} © convey the information to the farm- ers. ' “The county agricultural agent, supported by county, state and na- aion, would be a position to aet as a medium through which the (results of research work would be made available to the farmers to show them how to farm. He would be a man to work with them in solving their problems, and he would open to him the .mines. of infor- ation of the state and Federal ag- ricultural departments. : “The best sort of immigration work is done right among the set- tlers already on the ground. To make them contented with their lot, to teach them the best meth- | ods of farming, to shape things so that their production is ample to meet their needs are the lines of endeavor now most necessary. The} successful farmer will attract oth- ers to the land.” courses are being held this win- ter by the extension division. Ef- forts are being made to bring the farmers into oc-operation in ob- tain uniformity of crops and co- operative marketing. Plans for the Duulth demonstra- tion farm school are going along satisfactorily in Prof. Wilson’s op- inion, and the site will be a scene of activity next nila | oe hall Satundby AemOn STATE. AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Interesting Figures of the Statés 4 es Submitted to the” : Exceeded Only by St, pp ne nepin and Ramssy — Some Comparisons Prove Acopy of the advance report »of State Auditor Iverson for the year 1912 is at hand and contains seme interesting figures. amount of taxes levied for all pur- 5 poses during the year, Itasca ranks 3 fourth with a sum of $98,750.41. = being exceeded only by St. Louis county with $1,105,481.05, Hennepin $843,072.40, and Ramsey, $503,893— The next county below Itasca Stearns, the levy of which ds have already organized and have smallest amount of taxes into the : state treasury is Red Lake with In this connection shows some remarkable compari- sons. It proves that in proportion to the taxes paid the four most heavily assessed counties are nét getting their pro rata the money returned by the state. ~ For instance, on a tax levy of near- ly a hundred Itasea county received from the state treasurer $42,000 while Otter Tail .county, -total.taxes amounted £0.347,-- 595.13 received: the sum of $93,689.- 98 from the state treasury. county of Red Lake, the total fax levy of which does not reach $7;00@ receives a return of nearly $16,000. St. Louis county, with over a mil- lion dollars, receives payments from the state amounting to quarter of that sum, while Kandi- yohi county receives $18,012.40 in return for the $7,738.71 it turns in, report county has borrowed the sum, ¢ $107,000 from the school fund «a the state, said indebtedness bein | divided as follows: ($101,500 and town $5,500, A comparison of the sales of state r the year 1911 and 1912 is also made interesting opunt sold during the two years 94,745.76 acres and 168,270.95 Tespectively, while the amount from the sale of these sed from $639,013.60 in feet. Nearly 40,6 altogether, and about $10 per thou’ Itasca county’s sha paid by the state on pied lands amounted to & 4941, and $8,944.92 in 1912. were but two counties in the receiving a greater sum than this— St. Louis county getting $11,085.17 and $12,768,47 for the two years re- spectively, while Koochiching coun- ty received $9,300 and $10,045.10. Th auditor urges the creation by the legislature of a separate state land department, as the business of this branch requires a large amount of the time of the state auditor, and Mr. Iverson believes that the creation of a separate de- many partment to handle this important Poot. Wisin saya shee division is urgently needed. Over 200 Wolves Killed. That an occasional wolf may yet be found within the confines of Itasea county, is evidenced by the - fact that the auditor's office paid — out the sum of $2,140 in wolf founties during the year just past. Of this number 200 were. fl! grown animals on which a ™ . ney x $10 was paid for each. Attend . agricultural meeting at were whelps which brought apiece. ; Legislature. Inteeestiug. In the total - The county paying the the report share of thousand — dollars, but a trifle over The about a shows that Itase; School district in the report and reading. The 44 in 1912... The acre was 27 cents in the preceed- n 1912 to $6.73 ine and oth- amounted just pas- The im-