Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 15, 1913, Page 11

* ‘PAGE EIGHT REMEDY FOR SOLVING GOOD ROADS PROBLEM By F. J.. MePARTLIN, International Falls, Minn. Many remedies are being sug- gested at the present time to solve the need of good roads. In most cases the remedies suggested are immediately branded by the more conservative as in violation of some constitutional limitation. It seems rather absurd that whenever a great. public need reveals itself the supplying of that need is contin- uously delayed by those who shout “unconstitutionality.” There is a power in the state of Minnesota particularly vested in the legislative bodies, in the exer- eise of which the constitutional | limitations is far removed. It is| my belief that in the exercise of | this power there is no limitation} upon the amount of money which | the legislature may appropriate} for the construction of roads and their maintenance in all parts of the state. This power is known as the “police power.” After the examination of the de- finition of “police power” given by| the courts of many states in the Bnion, I find that they are nearly) all uniform and may be summed up in the following quotation from a; ease found in 115 United States en page 650: “To the police power j may be referred the authority of the state to create educational and charitable institution. and provide for the establishment, maintenance and control of public highways, turnpikes, roads, canals, ferries and telegraph lines and the draining of | swamps, and in general all those internal regulations necessary to secure peace, good order, the health and comfort of society and the reg- ulation and protection of all prop- erty in the state.” Under such a broad and compre- hensive authority as is vested in dhe legislature by the police power ef the state, there is no reason why any limitation can be said to be placed upon its powers to ap- propriate money for the construc- tion of highways and to exercise control over the same and to main- tain them. A public highway isan aid to education by furnishing to the children a way to reach the school. A public highway is a nec- cesity for the protection of settlers against fire, as has been amply il- lustrated by the great forest fires ef this state. Highways are neces- sary in carrying out the game laws, and as a means of game preserva- tion; highways are necessary as an aid to the forestry work of the state. Highways are of absolute necessity in preserving the health} ef the settlers and those living in rural communities, by furnishing the best means of travel in the se- curing of medical assistance. High- ways are absolutely necessary in Northern Minnesota as a public aid! | Falls. | | | stocks and mixed trust funds with his | | years of age. peonch ever since. Jank unused for p ic positive there is no constitutional objection to the highest kind of | appropriation for the sonstznation | of good roads, if the law is framed upon the basis of an exercise of | the state’s police power. TeNs we teu vUTEY Mills Set New High Mark for the Year | 1912. Running ahead of the most sanguine estimates made by the millers the Min- neapolis flour output for 1912 reached the total of 17,031,935 barrels. The Northwestern Miller has finished its annual compilation and its summary carries the authoritative tigures. The production was not only far in excess of the 15,795,470 barrels in 1911, but it is nearly a million barrels greater than the production of the great mill- ing year of 1902, when, in the calendar year, 16,260,105 barrels were turned out and which was the Minneapolis record until 1912. ADMINISTRATOR TO PRISON Fergus Falls Man, Short in Accounts, Given Indeterminate Sentence. John C. Peterson, the professional | administrator, who was short in his | accounts with several estates, asked | that he be allowed to plead guilty | in the district court at The court sentenced him to | Stillwater for an indeterminate period. Mr. Peterson dealt in wheat and Fergus | own. He was a man of considerable proverty to his bondsmen some time | ago. Boy Kills Brother in Play. | John Hruska, Jr., twelve years old, | son of John Hruska, a prominent Steele county farmer, was shot and killed by his little brother. nine The boys were playing warfare and secured an old army rifle, supposedly useless. They loaded the weapon and it is thought that the child pulled the trigger with the gun pointed at his brother. Two Railroad Men Killed. Martin J. Booze, switchman, was killed and Solm Stonniker, trainman, sustained injuries which caused his death two hours later, when they were crushed between freight cars in the Shoreham yards of the Soo Line at Minneapolis. Mistaken signals on the part of the switching crew are be- lieved to have caused the accident. Great Lakes Veteran Dies. Captain Alex R. Sinclair, well imown veteran of the Great Lakes; who for a number of years has been a vessel broker in Duluth, died at Port Huron, Mich. Previous to his taking up vessel brokerage Captain Sinclair commanded boats on Lake Superior. { Slept Fifteen Years in Coffin. | Anton Geller, ninety-three years of age, who has lived as a hermit near Frazee for over thirty years, is dead. Geller, who came from | Buffalo, N. Y., purchased his coffin fif- teen years ago and has used it for a Mortgage Foreclosure Sale Whereas, default has been mad in the conditions of that certain mortgage, dat. ed January 30, 19807 made by Cors Rhody James Rhody, mortgagors, to Fit. in the pretection of the public peace, accomplishing the apprehen | morfgagee, and recorded in the office sion of criminals in rural communi ties and giving to prosecuting of. ficials the proper means of reach ing the place of crime, in whi eases the lack of roads has fre- quently resulted in the escape of criminals and the perpetration of additional crimes. All will admit | that in the settlement of Northern Minnesota roads are necessary to| prevent pauperism on the part of | many settlers who are deprived of | the necessary means of marketing} their produce or receiving any re- §ward for their labors. The legislature of this state and the courts of this state have re- peatedly exercised their respective authorities in maintaining that the police power of the state extended to each one of the cases mention- ed in the last paragraph. Can they now say that in the construction of good roads, which embrace with- in its sphere of usefullness all of | the different sub-divisions of the police power, the Constitution will interfere? A great many laws pass ed by the legislature of this state and upheld by the courts, are re- pugnant to the constitution of this state, but have been held valid by the courts as a legitimate exer- cise of the police power, because their aim was the preservation of the health, morals, safety and gen- eral welfare of the public. I be- lieve that the supreme court of this state and its various district courts would not hesitate in con- struing any act of the legislature in the interest of good roads as a proper and legitimate exercise of the police power. Since the sus- taining of the so-called Elwell law by our supreme court the people may rest assured that past author- ities or precedents, decided accord- ing to the conditions of those times will not be followed where the con- ditions have so changed as to re- quire different rules. While I am strongly inclined to believe that there is no constitutional limitation against the taxation of state lands | nesta on the 19th day of July, 1909, at jSages at page 37 thereof, which default |three and 79.100 dollars, ser Brewing Company, a corporation, f thea Register of Deeds in and for e county of Itasca and State of Min. o'clock p. m., in Book “W" of Mort- consists! in the failure of the mortgag- ors to pay a portion of the principal of the debt secured thereby and the whole of the interest thereon, and taxes and insurance provided for therein; and Whereas, the mortgagee has paid the tames on said lands for the year 1910, amounting to the sum of $17.60; and has jalso paid the premium for insurance on said premises in default of the payment thereof by mortgagors; and there is clIpimed to be due at the date of |tl¢s notice on account of said mort. gage debt, taxes, insurance and inter- est the sum of Seven hundred eighty. viz: $500.00 principal; $17.86, taxes; $9.00 insurance; $256.p8, interest; and no action or pro. cee@ing has been instituted to recov- er said sum or any part htereof; Now, therefore, notice is hereby giv- en that said mortgage will be forecios- ed ‘by a sale of the premises described in qaid mortgage, by virtue of the pow- er of salle therein contained and pursu-. ant to the statute in such case made ard provided, which sale will be made ‘by the Sheriff of the county of Itasca, at public auction to the highest bid- der therefore in cash, at the front door of the court house in Grand Rapids, Itas. ca, county, Minnesota on the 27th day of February, 1913, at 10 o’clock, a. m. to satisfy the amount then due on said mort. gage, including said taxes and insurance, together with the costs of such sale and the sum of fifty dollars, attorneys fees, stipulated in said mortgage. The real estate described in said mortgage and’ so to be sole is situate in the county of Itasca and State of Minnesota and despribed as follows, viz: Lots four (4), five (5), six (6), seven, (7), eight (8), nine, (9), ten (10) eleven (11) and twelve (12), block ten (10), Syndicate division of Grand Rapids, Min. nesta, according to the recorded plat thereof in the office of the Register of Deeds of Itasca county, and lot one (1), Block fifteen (15), First Addition to Bovey, according to the rec. orded plat thereof on file and of record in the said office of Register of Deeds within and for said county excepting the minerals with the tight to the owner thereof to explore for, mine and remove the same in the usual manner. Dated/ January 6, 1913. FITGER BREWING COMPANY, Mortgagee. Cc. L. PRATT, Attorney for Mort. gagee, Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Jan, 15 Feb. 19.) | tenant Parker was in the effice of the } 5 he Mr. |means and turned over all of his | ERE ner nee to me. Ne Wonder Lincoln Always Had aj‘ Fund of Stories on Hand. Lieutenant David B. of “A Chautauqua Boy of ‘ti, some light on the question of where Lincoln got his stock of stories. Lieu- provost marshal at City Point when an Irishman presented himself for a pass through the Union lines. The Irishman was dressed in cordu- roys, with hobnailed shoes. He had a humorous, ruddy face, and his eyes sparkled with fun. He handed out a card, but held on to one corner of it. The card read: “Pass the bearer, —, to General Meagher’s brigade in the Army of the Potomac and return to Washington, with free transporta-! 4 tion. A. LINCOLN.” “All right.” said Major Beckwith. “I will give you a pass, but I want you to tell me how you got the card.” The Irishman said: “lt had three sons in this counthry who were in the ar- my. One was killed. The others sent me money to come over and visit them. They told me to come t’ Wash- ington and | could git a pass. I came | t Washington, but I could git no pass. I wint iverywhere. 1 pushed me way in to that old Turk in th’ war depart- ment, and I thought for a minute he would put me in prison for gittin’ into | his room. Then I hung around the | White House and went into the gar- den and talked with the gardener, who was a kind fellah, and told him me story. He said: ‘Come tomorrow morn- ing early, and I will put you at work Lincoln comes to walk in the garden you can speak to him.’ “So in the mornin’ I wint there and fussed wid some plants along the walk. Pretty soon I saw the master comin’, As he saw me he stopped and spoke. He said: “‘New man here? “] said, ‘I am helpin’ the gardener a little’ And he said: “*Are you a gardener? “‘T’m just come from Ireland,” said 1. “*‘But are you a gardener? said he. “‘T am,’ said 1, but that was a lie, fr I’m a groom. “Then he stopped there and talked and | told him my story. ‘Ceme into the office.” he says. ‘and I will fix you out’ So the gardener told me what door to go sm and what to tell ‘im, and I walked past those fellahs as if I owned the place. “When I come in, Mr. Lincoln said, ‘Have a seat, sir, and warm your feet by the fire.” He sat writin’ and a man was shovin’ papers before him, and he would sign them. He said, ‘You must know lots of Irish stories, and I said: “I know some,’ and he said: “*All right; talk to me, talk to me!” “Well, 1 could always talk if 1 hadn’t much to say,-but I kep’ talkin’ and talk- in’, and a man came in to see ’imoon business, and he said, “Never you mind; sit ‘where you are, and -hé’kep’ ‘me there. When dinner time came ‘he told the man to take me down and see that I had some dinner. Then T came baek again. I stayed with him day afther day. I was given a dinner of turkey and iv hing, but there was no whis- ky. Finally he said. ‘It is time for tide to go to the boys, and I will let you go.’ But he had pumped ivery story out of me that I had iver heard.” 4. +- Boston, Jan. 14.—No sign that tne deadlock among Massachusetts legis- lators, who have cast twenty-two futile ' ballots to nominate a United States senator, would be broken was apparent when the caucus resumed sessions at the statehouse. The one new development in the situation was that Secretary of the Navy Meyer finally has said if the deadlock can be broken no other way he will “accept the nomination.” OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE School Board OF School District Ne. 1, Grand Rap- ids, Itasca County, Minnesota. Grand Rapids, Minn. December 30, 1912, A. meeting of the School Board of Schoo] District No. One was held in the board’s office at 2:30 p. m. C. E. Burgess, C. H Dickinson and J. D. Doran were present. The minutes of the meeting of Decem- ber 23, were read and approved. A. H. Delap submitted an offer to fur- nish all material and put in a pump for the Delap school for the sum of $36.00. The offer was, upon motion, ac- cepted. In order to comply with the state re- quirements, it was moved thatt he sum of $52.50 be appropriated for buying dic- tionaries and the sum of $285.00 for buy- ing library books for the rural schools. The motion was carried. As the gasoline system for furnish. ing fuel for the domestic science depart ment is out of order and has never work ed satisfactorily, it was moved that a Blau-Gas system be installed. (The motion was carried. The fojlowing bills were, upon mo- tion, allowed: Bernard Smith, wood and labor Sturgeon Lake school .. «8 19 00 c. E. Burgess, freight, postage and raffroad fare .. .. John” Forsythe, clock for Stingy Lake school .. . F. W. Stockwell, removing heater from McMahon to serene: iSchool .. . . o 850 AR. Bujlock, do. 2... E, 340 Peterson & Goodwin, repair mater. jal and supplies for Smith school .. .. - Ben Rahier, ‘transportation chareee, for Peter Rahier.. . My hatha tle dette diotndadiedaededutedadadadeiedudededa MILLINERY The latest and best inLadids’,Mis- ses and Children’s Headgear, at rea sonable prices. A trimmer who knews her business. DRESS MAKING You will “have a fit’’ and be delight- ed if our expert designer make your clothes. Fit, Style Floss, Etc. Pretty and Workmanship work for pretty « guaranteed. singers. 3 DRESS MATERIALS Silks, Voiles, Chiffons, Mar- quisettes, Etc. Laces, Bandings, Fancy Trimmings, Beautiful Excius- ive Designs. | Thomas Charles Co., kindergar- ten supplies .. ; ery and other expenses in con- nection with work of agricultural stone and Swan River schools. . J. C. Hendricks, wood for Hanson . , dake school . was) rejected. to 2:30 p. m. 1918, of Monday January 6, = Grand Rapids, Minn. January 6, 1913. A meeting of the School] Board of School the board’s office in the Central school: building at 2:30 p. m. C. E. Burgess, C ent. cember 30, 1912, were read and approved Director Burgess reporter that he has had the heating plant removed from the varant McMahon school to the Thoro- fare school. It was moved that a public meeting be held im the high school building Tues- day evening, January 14, to consider the matter of opening a night school. ‘Nhe motion was carried. The following bills were, upon motion, allow ed: Itasca Paper Co., paper .. .. Chas. Johnson, wood and repairs, Bergville school .. .. .. . Radium Chemica] Co., spray for John Whaling, plastering “at “Trout Lake school .. .. Soe Itasca Dry Goods Co. “general sup- plies .. .. . A. Jondrsau, transferring ‘pussce 4 $ 34 83 47 75 17 50 10 70 2 62 to sleds 19 00 Cc. W. Forest, team “work | o* 11 8 Harry Huber, hauling supplies to Wiayden schoo] .. .. . Itasca Mercantile Co., water " cooi- ers for rural schools, gasoline 6 38 E. H. Sheldon, domestic science Henry Korpi, mene work at ‘Round tables for Cohasset school .. .. 111 0 Lake school .. -. .. - aoe 8 0® Mesaba Telephone Co., tolls and A. Flanagan Co. genera sup. werlials .. .. 916 plies .. .. 31 50 Clarence Buchanan, livery ‘tor sup. Radium Chemical Co., labratory erintymdent .. .. .. 2 50 supplies .. .. 26 25 W. J. & H. D. Powers, sleds for O. W. Holmes, railroad fare, liv. school busses, repair and general department .. .. ... 1078 School . & 25 00) ©. H, Dickinson, freight and ex- Frank Myers, team work .. . 1 75| press paid .. .. 2516 Wm. Ashton, varnishing desks W. N. Dalcour, electric work at in Central schoo] .. .. 62 50 Cohasset and high school .. $. 1080 Weston & Cloutier, caicomining Smith System Heating Co., heat. and painting at McKinley and ers for Wirt, Effie, Ervin, Free- Cowhorn Lake schools .. .. .. 7614 435 06 Milton Betts, putting schoo] buss om sleds . = Pri vey Ab tien motion ‘the mesting adjourned ‘Phe bill. of Will F. Miller for trans. to 2:30 p. m. of Monday, January 13, | portation to the Cowhorn Lake school 1918. 1 Upen motion, the meeting adjourned — —| ,State of Minnesota, County of It-} i District No. One was held in| H Dickinson, and J D Doran were pres- ‘The minutes of the meeting of De. “| FURNISHING HOUSE GRAND RAPIDS. Black Ribbons Overstocked on black taffeta ribbons, I offer a special sale on them Friday & Saturday Girls here’s your chance for nice hair bows Other cheap also, ribbons MINNESOTA. remnants LADIES’ TAILORING Suits, Skirts, and Coats, well mad: welllined and a per- fect fit guaranteed. FANCY WORK Pillows, Towels, Centerpleces, Scarfs, Doilies, Aprons, Pin Cush- ions, Caps, Bags, Fringe, Lace, Silk, ES SSSR T ORES ERE FSFE SEO EEEE SEES REM EPEEEPO SEI OO SY CORSETES AND BRASSIERRS A full line of Case Corsets always on hand. Once worn, always worn. Cor- sess made to order. The best on the market. SERDREPR ERE REDS ER EDO SE EEAAV EE OE mand other supplies .. .. .. .. sapplips .. .. 102 90 William Bereman, “wood for “Houpt 3 00 Clerk. Summons. asea, District Court, 15th Judic-+ ial District R. A. McOuat , Plaintiff vs. Jonn Sullivan, i Defendant. The State of Minnesota, above named defendant: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint of the plaintiff above named, which complaint has been filed in the of- fice of the clerk of the above nam- ed district court, and to serve your answer to said complaint upon the subscribers at their office in the} village of Grand Rapids, in Itasca county, Minnesota, within twenty; days after the service of this sum- mons upon you exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer said complaint as afore- said, plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief prayed for in the complaint, including the recov- ery of plaintiff's costs and dis- bursements herein. Dated November 29, 1912. THWING & ROSSMAN, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Grand Rapids, Minn. Jan. 1-8-15-22-29 to the i Watch Them. We are in the Midst of Inventory As we come to them: Exceptional values in Dry Goods, Ladies’ and Men’s Furnishings, Shoes, Etc., will be placed on Bargain Counter. tm PIONEER STORE se 90 f A Calling The Fire Department The Pohce The Baker The Butcher The Grocer The Caterer The Livery Stable and anybodyjelse you want; called by Telephone. Place your order now and get your name in our new Telephone Directory which goes to press in a few days. MESABE TELEPHONE COMPANY. For Further Information Call E. J. MICKA, Commercial Manager. Tel. 67. Grand Ranids Minnesota Phone] 168 Surveying Estimating Construction Superintending Drafting 3