Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 12, 1913, Page 3

| { + | | = {[T PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY 12, 1913 ; Cohasset Locals Wr oetontenteateetontonteeteeontoezoecoafoateetontontoedentontoetoetontoatye Dr. Hursh made a trip te Warba Sunday evening. Nels Goulet Sunday ‘elurned to spend from the woods. Little Ethel Fletcher has been quite sick the past three days. Misses Lena and Christina Lone are visiting Mrs. L. Dorholt. Mrs. Chas Brook of Grand Rapids was a caller in town Friday. Mrs. S. H. Thompson has been quite sick ofr the past few days. J. D. Doran transacted business in Cohasset on Tuesday of this week. Evalynne Lane and Mable Thomp son spent Sunday with friends in Grand Rapids. The M. E. Ladies Aid will meet at the home of Mrs. M. H. Jones next Thursday. Curtiss Cleve~ Mr. and Mrs. Edward spent Sunday with H. A. pland and family. Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Goodell from Vermillion stook dinner on Friday at the end Burgess home in the west s|was here last week Jellison and Mrs. Baker of Lake were calling on friends Puesday. last Arthur Fuller has gone to Arbo, where he will be engaged on a farm for the next few weeks. Preaching services at the Christ- church next Sunday at 10:30. ‘hristian endeavor at 6:30. M. O’Brien has returned from his cam@ at Ray, where he has been very busy for seevral weeks. Che Philatian Bible class of the M. E. church will meet at the home of Mrs. Dorholt Thursday even- ing: ach F, W. Stockwell and Frank Wood attended the Agricultural meeting at the county seat Friday and Sat- urday, Madison and Harvey Bullock left Friday for Hill City, where they are employed in the Woodenware factory. M. E. Sunday school had a good attendance Sunday morning in spite of the cold weather, 87 answering to roll call. A large number of Cohasset young. people went to Grand Rapids Sat- urday night to attend the play at the high school. A. J. Cushman went to Spring Lake Sunday to take charge of the logging engine for the Spring Lake logging camps for the remainder of the winter. Frank Wood has purchased the Dan Gill property in the east side of the village. Mr. Wood expects to make Cohasset his permanent home. The ladies Aid of the Christian church met with Mrs. Lane Thurs- day afternoon. They reported a good time. They will sew for Mrs. Dibbly a week from Thursday. Mrs. F. W. Stockwell, who has been ill for the past week, has recovered sufficiently to be about her home once more. ‘The Happy Hustlers class of the M. E. church will have a valentine al at the church Friday even- ing of this week. All are invited to come and have a good time. The lunch will be in boxes sold at 50 and 25 cents. Miss Johnson has recovered from her recent illness sufficiently to return to her work in the schools Miss Emma Hursh, from the Nor- mal department, acceptably sup- plied during Miss Johnsons — ab- sence. Mr. Bosfield from Bay City, Mich., looking over the Woodenware situation. Mr. Bosfield says it has become so that it is hard to get wood in Michi- gan for his work so he is figuring on a location for his heading mill. If he aen arrange to buy several million feet of basswood be will loeate a plant at Cohasset this year. Nelson to Remain. An error was made last week re- garding the news item concerning the sale of the Bass Brook hotel. Mr. Nelson says he has no intention of leaving and that the report was circulated without foundation. The people of Cohasset will be glad to hear that he has no intention of leaving for he has large busi- ness interests here as well as many friends. Mr. Nelson figures on largely increasing his holdings here, Rey. H. J. Snyder shipped out a car load of posts from here Mon- day. They were hauled in from Mr. Snyder’s farm north of here. C. E. Burgess went to Deer River Tuesday in the interest of the schools, ‘ SAYS THEY GRABBED HIS GOAL MILLIONS Charles MeGillis of Duluth says he was cheated by a rich mine owner and some of his own friends: out of millions, and now he is su- ing to get poss nm of a third in- terest oin a big iron proprety near Buhl. The defendants are the Pennsyl- vania lron & Steel company, Ja- cob and Amelia Stubler, St. Mary’s hospital, and John Eihle, all of Du- luth, and the state of Minnesota. MeGillis claims to have bought the land in question at tax sale years ago, and that the tax deed was issued in the name of Mrs. Stubler for safe keeping. A second deed was issued to him, allegedly b mistake. When it was ofund that there was ore on the property, A. M. Chisholm, a wealthy iron man, ap- peared on the scene, and in he for- mation of a company to develop it McGillis says he was double crossed. He got 500, however, and was also given 25 shares of the stock, and says he was promised 75 more, which he did not get. Five hundred additional shares of stock, lie says, were promised him as se- curiyt for $5000, but he claims he | has seen neither the the stock. As a consequence he has begun suit in the district court for a full un- divided third interest in the mine. money hor FORCE THE FARMER MAN TO RAISE BEEF CATTLE MINNEAPOLIS BANKER SPRINGS BRAND NEW ONE Would Refuse to Lend Money to Tiller of the Soil Unless He Mea:u-es Up to the Money Baron’s Style of Cultivating His | Broad Acres. { | That the bankers of Minnesota|buy stock, but remember that the and North Dakota unite in a cam-|time has come when he must raise gaign to force down the high cost — eh a race ee See neds e mre: on. I plan to take this matter w Ce at ete veh Suaee eae Be We with the Minnesota Bankers’ a j Decker, president of the Northwest-| .ociation and ‘see what can be | ern National Bank of Minneapolis.}done here in our state. ' He says the cost of necessities is} “A man down at Browns Valley { being greatly added to because the |told me that he had raised a crop farmers of these states refuse to}! thistles on his farm this year. | breed beef cattle, thus limiting the|! said that I thought that it was supply and adding to the price. a lesson to him. I told him that | According to his plan, the bank- he should have seen that he should | ers would refuse to lend money to|have had some stock a year ago. | farmers unless they raise a fair|At that time he had no crop. It amount of stock. He thinks the |Was the Lord’s warning. He did no money men have the key to the heed it. Now he has a crop. of situation, and that in a short time thistles. ‘conditions will right themselves if| “The farmer who will raise stock | l they act promptly and energetical-| Will be able to rotate his crops and | Ny. will, have plenty of fertilizer. I Speaking on the subject he said:|40 not mean necessarily that the “Meat is so high that we can farmer should curtail his grain hardly afford to eat it. They are|acreage, but he should raise other selling yearling ‘steers on Texas essentials. The reason that we | ranches on the hoof for $26 apiece. | hear all of this talk about $200 an ; North Dakota farmers are getting|acre farms in Towa is because the | $15 apiece for hogs. The prices|bankers and farmers down there | asked for meat are simply mon-|have read the handwriting on the rous. If we do not look out we|Wwall. They raise corn and wheat may find ourselves in a position | certainly, but they feed much of it, where we cannot buy meat. In|and as a result every farmer has a } Germany IL they are eating good buneh of stock. | dog: “The time is coming, in fact it “The solution of this is that the|is here already, when the discern- | farmer must raise more stock. He|ing banker will have to refuse has devoted all of his attention in}loans,unless a farmer has stock on | the past to raising wheat. Now he|his farm. The reason farmers in = complains that the cost of harvest-|Minnesota do not raise stock may | ing is very high and the price of be because it is easier to raise wheat is very low. It is selling/grain. It will be easier to establish for 60 and 70 cents and the farmer |credit if he raises stock, and there- wants to know what the trouble is.|by helps to force down the price “IT was talking with some North of meat. It will mean cheaper Dakota bankers recently and they|living cost and in times when | {told me the situation up there. [)the price of grain is low he will | told them to stop lending money be able to fall back upon another ! to the farmer who will not raise asset and have prosperity where stock. Lend the farmer money to see t he would have had poverty.” | i E = soo | | cost to clear land either in cash or labor the increased value of the } cleared land will invariably equal | it. You can’t waste labor in clear- ‘CHANCE FOR FARMER 10 ATTAIN WEALTH er pocogtanp sham t eh | A. J. McGuire Discusses the Great}on a rented farm and have noth- | rtuniti ing for it, but if it is applied to Oppo: ines Ojfered by making a farm of your own you [ltasca County. will be amply repaid. “The timbered section of today ; The opportunities for the farmer |that can be bought at a price not in Itasca county are well deseribed|much higher than the price of |by A. J. McGuire, superintendent of|rent in older sections has just as | the state experimental farm in|great opportuniies, in fact, greater | ithe following interview, in which|than the timbered sections of | he compares the reward that comes} states of 50 years ago that today to the industrious man in tilling|are worth $200 an acre. his own ground, with that of the} “A prospective settler will often | He says:|ask: ‘How soon do you suppose this. land will be worth $100 an acre?’ irenter in older districts. | There is land in Itasea county that will produce as much oats per acre as any Illinois land; will beat the Illinois land in the production of clover and will make two dollars in the production of potatoes wherg the Illinois land makes one dollar The answer is, whenever farmers | will make it worth that value in | production. When it is cleareed | and cultivated and built up into | farming communities, it will be | worth as much to farmers as Jand E other day a Kansas farmer walked into the IH C local dealer’s place of business to buy his third I H C wagon. “The question of the age of his first IHC wagon came up. He thought he had had it about five years. The dealer looked up his old books and found that the wagon was pur- chased on the 15th of July, 1905, being now seven years old and practically as good as new. A man may forget when he bought his I H C Ser Columbus 'e New Bettendorf Steel King but he cannot forget the long, faithful service he gets from it. I H C wagons are built to last long and give satisfactory service. "Where you finda man owning an I H C wagon, you will rarely see him with any other make at any time. The wood parts of I H C wagons are made from selected, high-grade, air-dried lumber. ! The metal parts are mostly steel of the t strongest and best kind. Weber and Colum- t bus wagons have wood gears, while Steel King and New Bettendorf have steel gears. The best wagon for your purpose is sold by the I HC local dealer who will give you the best of reasons for buying it. Get literature and information from him, or write . International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) é St. Cloud Minn. IHC Service Bureau The purpose of this Bureau is to furnish, free ef charge to all, the best information obtainable om better farming. If you have any worthy ques- tions concerning soils, crops, land drainage, irri- ir inquiries specific ervice Bureau, Harvester tion, fertili: tc., mak End send them to LHC Serv: Building, Chicago, USA BASS BROOK HoTEL Cohasset, Minnesota A Mopern HOTEL in Every RESPECT John Nelson Proprietor Hi anywhere. It will be, because it has the fertility, the rainfall, the | climate and the accessibility to market. “Nothing else can give land a per- minent- value, and land that has these requirements is bound to ac- quire the value.” Treddennick Fared Badly i in the production of corn. And much of this land can be bought at from $10 to $15 per acre. But the question always comes up what does it cost to clear it. Just what it cos jmany of the Illinois farmers to \ bd » ‘ clear their land that is now worth t from $150 to $200 per acre. It may be cleared by the farmer’s own labor with but very little cash out- , lay. It is a fact that it takes some —— Grand Rapids Village Lots $ DOWN AND $5 PER MON Sabie ty Shdan its Bint iit de tek tin Jack Treddenick, Eveleth stock | hard to clear as the virgin forests! broker, who absconded after ee | were in the early days, and fur-, bezzling about $40,000 of his clients thermore, where there is timber} money, has been brought back, has of any kind on the land there is} jjeqied guilty at Virginia Tuesday. | generally a market for it. The av- é p: erage man’s capital is his labor|#@ got iadetoenrnete sentences on and if on a rented farm he can| two courts with a possible maxi- | make but little more than a living | mum of 30 years in states prison. | as the price of his labor, it should] He had a hard time while a fugi- | be infinitely more profitable for tive. He worked as hotel porter, him t 1 ie ” ing a iC maken ee and at any other’ odd jobs he could | He was caught at Denver, made but a living in clearing up|set- Mrs. MW. W. Fletcher his land the increased valuation of|and says he is perfectly satisfied Cohasset, Minnesota We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter over. Wealso have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY ;, — his farm would make him rich.|that his experience while hiding | What has the renter got to grow| from the law is ended, as nothing IaAoR Tl oo) * in value? the future has in store can be SUBSCRIBE FOR THE =k 4 “Notice this: Whatever it may |*worse. i z : is