Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 8, 1913, Page 7

Brand Rapes Werate-Review Published Every Wednesday Northern Minnesota Development association at its last meeting at Crookston is as follows: “Whereas, many schools in the northern part of the state are maintained only three months out lor the year because of lack of | funds for their support, and Where- las, the state holds 2,381,640 acres of By E. C. KILEY. Two DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Sntered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap. Sés, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Peper of Itasca -County ooo = { state ands, much of which lies in} The Northome Record is twelve} tose districts and others taht are vears old and Editor Kuechenmeis- | 5, ertaxed; and Whereas, the state | ter celebrates the event by chan8- | pears no share of its burden of ing his paper from the cumbersome; jtaxation, and the state lands are Blanket style to a neat six column | not being used for public purposes size. The Record is a booster for | but are held for speculation, Borthome and Koochiching county ; | “Resolved, that the state tax com and its prosperous appearance | inission be and is hereby urged to would indicate that it is being aD- | place all state lands not used for preciated. | public purposes upon the tax lists SAVAGE i 3 Pa lot the taxing districts in which} Our old friend Joe Bailey of Tex-| such lands fie in the same manner as, leaves the United States senate|as is provided by law for omitted | Joe is just as mad | property.” as he can be about this referend- | The Constitution of our state um and recall business, and he took | provides that all property be taxed eceasion the other day to tell us/equally, and that none except cer- se. All right, Joe, but progress will tain properties used for public anc go on notwithstanding your retire-| quasi public purposes shall be ex- ment. Your eloquent protest didn’t) empted. The state lands above re- make a ripple on the political sea.| ferred to are not in the category o« {exempted lands and have long been CM ine wae River, is|he ld by the state for speculation prominently mentioned as a good | only. The settler who owns conti- Panoncet as register of |8uous lands whieh he is improving the Cass Lake land office. The Her-} is the main ‘factor in the problem Review is not advised whether jor increasing values; he pays taxes, . King wants the job or not, but |20t only on his own holdings, but ‘part of the burden that the state if he does it should be his for the, s more loyal ;should willingly bear. im a grouch. oO Deer to serve sking. There is no Democrat in land office an ideal official. Minnesota the lands until the people | rounding them have caused their {values to five to and as a register he! sur- would make increase from ——-———— The forthcoming ‘| sion will no doubt be asked to con- sider a proposition to place nomi- |} | twenty-five dollars per acre, |justice to those who have wrought the change in price that he be en- itled to and have some of the pri- nal benefits of civilization? honest. for ative ses- nees for county offices on a non-| partisan ballot, officials and, judic ial as is now the case} jfair or with school candidates, and such a measure | jerness of the rights he was born! should certainly become, a law.} |}to inherit, and turn his, the set- There is no more sense in electing | 2 county auditor or prosecuting at-|'er’s rights and priveleges into hare torney becatise he happens to be|40llars to enrich the state? a Democrat or a: Republican’ than} there selecting a{ies believe, that public poundmaster because he wasa Bap-|not be taxed,which theory we deny, lit is only fair and equitable for the Legislature to make an appropria- would be for lands can- tist or,a Finlander. a The International Falls Echo is | tiou, large enough to cover the ten years old. Editor Montgomery; taxes that should be assess fas accomplished much in the way | every tract of Jand in every dis- trict where state lands are located. Petitions to the being signed in every county ef building a newspaper during the past decade. When he launched the Echo there were two very good pa- Falls, and they did not |Suffering the above recounted. ills welcome the newcomer. He had to;#2d it is hoped that everybody will fight for what he got, but he kept | Sign them and that the legislature eternally. at it and the success of /Will see the imposition placed up- Jegislature are How pers al the his venlure is a satisfying triumph | ‘orn the pioneer and devise some to-him.. Today he has one of thé [means for his relief—Cass Lake Dest plants. in Northern Minnesota, | ‘limes. gets. oul ood paper and is mak- | PR ASS Pea tees inz-moucy. ‘The Herald-Review con- WHO'S A PROGRESSIVE? gratulates him. | Editor Verity, in his Wadena Pio ‘ |neer Journal, discusses the incon- ,; | Sigtencies of some alleged progres! While we are not disposed. to par- areeree | sives.. He says: ticularly question the necessity or| “Politicians are notoriously incon=, desirability of the several sets of|sistent. Anything to win is the | investizatiug committees now clut-|Tule of the game, and the result Sdring wp the business. of congress, |!8 the truth of the old saying that “ politics makes strange bed-fel- we very much doubt their practical) | lows.” Just a few years ago the value. At an outlay of hundreds of |true test of a progressive thousands of dollars congress has | “Are you opposed to Cannon and made the discovery that Standard j the system which perniits him to tho:\dwth va waaiees | be the czar of the house of repre- hat i |sentatives? Much argument was that the used to show that the everlasting money trust is a dangerous combi- | |System strangled all hope of rule} nation and that the tobacco trust|by the people. The remedy as This see sms | Pointed out at the time, was to | take from the speaker the power |; to appoint committees and place in fov mformation that everybody out-| jis stead a committee named by side of congress has been in pos-|the members. No longer ago than Oi! is a trust, ers constitute a bad trust, isthe worst of the lot. an awful lot of money to pay: session of for the last twenty-five | two years the same contest was ren |waged and the same line of argu- fais ment used in the Minnesota legis- SDS ‘ . jlature. A ti e “Father Bill” Hannaford of the pe. et ahah ee ee Sere ed progressives were in the min- Virginia Enterprise has sold his |ority. The speaker elected was not paper to a stock company and will|in accord with them. and they de- Bereafter share the labors and hon-/Manded a committee on commit- ers of publishing the oldest paper {tes a prisicbigacn eed of the on the Iron Ranges with others. W eeBUt oes nae ee all this. knew that Mr. Hannaford would not fet go. the reins entirely, and he|other foot and the progressives is to be president of the new com-j (s0-called) are in controll in. the res his see sia ake kanes lee Lieut: as publisher of the Enterprise, the| Go. Burnquist, is one’of them, It paper has steadily gained in pop-| would seem, under such conditions, wiarity and influence and is today|these men would adopt the re- wall toward the top among Min-|forms they so loudly called for but wesota weeklies. “Bill” has earned |*¥° years ago. They should, if sin- me right to ease up a little and eere and consistent, have the com- mittees named by a committee ga we understand that the consid-|gejegated by themselves. The geation for tle transfer was very|power should be taken from both satisfactory we congratulate him. presiding officers. Not so, how- One of the pertinent resolutions mittees in the house and passed and promulgated by the }quist, who was one of the If it be the ; than he j Policy of the commonwealth to hold | is it} Is it} the great state | to deprive the pioneer of the wild- | If, as some of our contemporar-} was: ) Today the shoe seems to be on the | In the -sen-! est supporters of the reform p ) during the last legislative session is fighting stubbornly against ate to force the appointment of a committee on committees. To- day Mr. Burnquist says the people elected him to appoint those com- {mittees and thus secure for the people the voice they demand i state affairs. But Mr. Burnquist does not attempt to square his ar- gument of today with his argument of two years ago. “It is amusing, and-not a matter to be taken seriously, of course. {Any man has a right to his own opinions, but it does seem that a would-be-statesman ought to keep }one idea on straight for at least two consecutive sessions of the legisla- ture. These sudden shifts of base are confusing to us common peo- | ple.” | SEND 2. ES ESO | What of Toworrow? | There is life, and light and hope in the editorial which follows. It} j will do anyone good to read it, and} ponder how enobling it is in senti- jemnt and hopefullness to the dire- ful disaster pictured by so many} modern pessimists. The article is from Farm, Stock and Home: “This is an age of transition. In. every such age men say and believe! that the doors of opportunity are clossing and that the boys and girls of today do not have the same chance in life that their fathers and mothers had. So the placer miners believed when the sands failed them. So men thought wher the game disappeared. And as they thought then, so they think now, and will think to the end of time. This dark view of the future is jwarranted neither by present facts nor by past experience. The trap- |per gave way to the cattle man, and |he to the skin-the-land farmer, jand each transfer of soil brought new progress, more homes, larger comforts and better living for all. The passing of the old system of farming and coming of the new will prove no exception to the rule, Heretofore the profits of farming The | rise in land values is about all the average man of sixty years of age has to show for his labors in the harvest field. We have withdrawn} from the soil its surplus of fertility} jand nature refuses further to honor | | our overdrafts. We have farmed ac cording to our lights, but the liglits of the past aré failing. From now }on we must farm each. acre in a} | way to make the soil -pay us inter jest on Our investment and a fair urn for our labor, without les- sening the fertility of the soil. * ‘This is what scientific farming means. And we older fellows, who have about reached the end of our} | journey, should remember that our way of doing things is passing, never to return. When we say that | the boys and girls have no oppor- | tunity we mean only that. they can- }not repeat our mistakes with our (Measure of suce Nor is it likely jthat they will attempt to do so. | Their day is to be the day of wide-| |have been largely immaginary. | open opportunity for brains and | business talent on the farm. They | will till our fallow fields. They | will open up our idle acres to the | sunshine and the rain. They will bridge our rivers and build our highways. Their barns and their cattle will make sure the harvests |of the lean years. They will work with and fer each other. They will [have great schools for their chil- dren, and social centers where they }will gather when the work of the day is over to take comfort out of jlife and thought for the future. They will think of this great West- ‘land of ours as a good place to live jin, and their homes will have the | comforts that ours have been de- nied. They will work with hand an brain to feed the growing millions | of our cities,and their factory-farms |will be more profitable to them | than the great mercantile houses jare to the financial giants of our jday.And only he who idles need suf jfer hunger; and only he who will ;not train himself for the battle shall lack. And that Tomorrow be- gins Today.” “Come, join in the only battle Wherein no man may fail; Where whoso fadeth and dieth His deed shail yet prevail! Come! join the army of progress For this we surely know, That the day and the dawn is coming, And forward the banners go.” RSAIRUiebat SEAT EET Notice. . The executive committee of the Itasca County Agricultural asso- ciation ‘are requested to meet at the office of the village reeorder, Grand Rapids, Minn., Saturday, De- cember. 14, at 2:30 p. m L 3h cordial invitation is extended |to all others interested in the as- Sociation as matters of importance will be considered. attempt now being made itr the sen-| j ;D. “dD. isdinens aii ‘Sensei Will Move Here. hree more practical farmers || ere this week added to the’ list || of those who will begin tilling the |) Soil of Itasca for the first time the coming of spring. James Burns, his son, Robert Burns, and Otto Ludke, all of Walworth coun- ty, Wis., farmers were here last| week to look things over and each became the owner of a fine tract |] just north of Taconite before he} left. Mr. Burns senior, said that jand at his old home is worth up to $200 an acre, and hundreds of farmers are turning their eyes toward a section where it does not |} require the tying up o so uhfme} require the tying up of so much capital to own-a sizable farm. He says that there is considerable in- terest in this section among his neighbors, and believes that he iso nly the forerunner of a large number whe will seek new fields in these parts. Sunday School Meeting. The next meeting of the Union Sunday school association for the southern district of Itasca county will be hold next Saturday after- noon at Warba. There’ will be de- votional exercises from 3:15 to 3:40, followed by talks on “Sunday School Music,” “Teaching Temper- ance,” “Organization” and “Bus: ness.” The evening exercises will begin with devotional exercises led by Rey. L. R. Burrows of Grand Rapids, followed by a round table discussion on “Training,” with the following subjects: “Training Sen- icrs Into Responsiveness,” “Stimul- ating Church Attendance and Loy- alty,’” “raining for Missionary | Giving,” and “How to - Promote More Effective Teaching.” The meeting will close with. an address by Rey. <A. A. Myers of Grand Rapids. In Justice Court. between W.. E.. Myers and John Beaudry resulted in the arrest of Beaudry. It seems that Joé Leisure owned the wood and both Meyers and. Beaudry claimed to have pur= chased it. A hearing was. to be had this morning, but the matter was adjusted out of court. W. J. Bibbs, who keeps a stop- ping place on the Bigfork river above Cutfoot Sioux, was arrested by Gamewarden D. F. Carmichael for having in his possession, the carcas of a deer. An adjournmeit was taken from the 3rd inst. to the j 20th, in Justice Baiiey’s court. Andy Hill was taken from Great Northern passenger train Tuesday in an intoxicated condi- tion. He pleaded guilty in Justice court and drew a prize of six days in the county jail. Raising Funds For Development. A. G. Wedge of Bemidji, vice- president of the First Naitonal bank of Grand Rapids was in Grand! Rapids this week on business. Mr. Wedge is treasurer of the North- ern Minnesota Development associa- tion, and is one of the most active members. He is one of a committee appointed to solicit funds for the’ organization. The other members are L. B. Arnold of Duluth and Fenny of Minneapolis. The committee has already secured pledges from the counties of north-' ern Minnesota which amounts. to over $8,000.00, The Civic and Com- merce associaion of Minneapolis has practically pledged $4,000, and St. Paul is expected to: do equally as well. These sums of money, to- gether with railway constibutions, Mr. Wedge says, will enable the as- sociation to carry on an extensive campaign of advertising northern Minnesota during 1913. Itasea’s share Covered and Heated of the general contribution will be ' FLORAL EMBLEMS AND FLOWERS Are sympathetic tokens in times of bereavament. THE HOME OF FLOWERS WRITE, WIRE OR DELIVERY THRU GBO. F, INTENTIONAI DUPLICATE FYPOCIIRE A controversy over the: rightful : ownership. of twelve cords of wood the | We venture the statement that these are the greatest dress goods values that have ever been offered in Grand Rapdis But we want you see for yourself. We want tosee what you can save by taking advantage of sales at the ITASCA. BROADDLOTHS, SUITINGS, HERRINGBONE, WAIPCORD, WIDE WALES TWEEDS and FANCY SUITINGS in wool and sflk-and-wool. A large lines of colors and black, plain and mixtures, checks and stripes. Goods that sell every in the year for $1.25, $1.39, $1.50, and $1,75 are offered in this sale at yard only. PANAMA, BATISTE, BROADCLOTH, BRILLIANTINE, WHIPCORD, VOILF, STORM SERGE, CRAVENETTE etc, in black, white, navy, brown, reds as welt asa good assortment of mixed colors and the plain light colored pink, blues, niles. etc. This lot takes in goods formerly sold at 75c, 90c, 1.00, $1.25, $1.50. Your choice of this lot for these two days with a limit of one dress length to each customer at yard only 69c. CASHMERE, SERGES, BATISTES, BRILLIANTINE. etc, in plain, checks - and plaids, white and light colors that sold for 50c, 59c, 65c , and 75c, choice of the lot with a limit of one dress length to each customer at yard only 39c NEXT WEEK on Eriday and Saturday we shall make some exceptional offers in hosiery. You will find the ad im next weeks papers. Itasca Dry Goods Co. A man with money in our bank always has a deep feeling of security. This is only one of many advantages derived from allowing us to take care of your savings. First National Ban GRAND RAPIDS. M . MANA. ae §265,000,00 OFFICERS President, F. P. ene lice-Pres., A. G. Wedge Jr. Cashier, C. E. Aiken é DIRECTORS 4 4 “”