Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 12, 1913, Page 4

oe I. iis so Bess: er Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap. ‘ds, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County Bat Nelson’s brand new wife says he must give up fighting. Of cours she means outside the family. There is an end to all things. Even Secretary of Agriculture Wil- son seems doomed to lose his job. PPS ee Adam Bede doesn’t see any need of re-organizing the Republican party. Neither does anybody else. SEO OES Capt Amundson says his discover of the south pole was largely due t his dogs. Didn’t he have a wife to blame it on? mea een A man can live ona cent a day in China, according to the lat- est information. But it takes about a week to earn it. PORES CRE | Sackecloth and ashes may be the } eorrect thing in lent, but anohter good way out is to quit making re- marks about how flip wyour neigh- bors daughter is getting. AE EA RTS It isn’t al s good policy to poke your nose into other people’s affairs. There once was a man who make a lot of money by mind- ing his own business. ‘pidaiea Sid apa es The front cover picture on the magazine is a fine looking lassie surely, but we never saw one just like that who could fry doughnuts er do a good job of boiling pork and beans. ———————__. A man killed a woman who re- fused to marry him, at Minneapolis} the other dya, while two policemen were guarding her. They didn’t see him do it either. And what is} more they weren’t asleep. It’s your guess. vase le oS Over at Chisholm they had a young mother examined at to her | sanity because she worried about ; a baby she had to give up owng to} poverty. Evidently the sane way} ever there is for mothers not to| give a rip. $i? EME 09 OAD a Yale’s oldest graduate, who is 97, says, “go to bed early, eat plain food regularly, don’t gad around looking for excitement. “John Smith, Bena Indian chief, 128 years, yemarks: “Kat em dog, chew em snuff, sleep nuder tree, drink em fire water.” And there you are. er eS “Your childrens life is too narrow.| They need a club to develop their social instincts and induce them to remain at the farm,” remarked the social reformer to the Good- Jands farmer. ‘And they'll have it by gum,” returned the agriculturist. Then he took out his jack knife and made for the nearby hickory sap- hing. ag ae A Minneapolis daily prints an al- most life size portrait of a lady from the ccoast who is visiting a friend in Minneapolis. What did she do, did you ask? Nothing—just, visited. Still they make fun of} country papers when they merely mention the fact that “Belinda Jones Sundayed the Bifkins home.” ——_—________ An error in reporting the settle- ment of a tax suit against the Standard Lumber company, in the issue of the Herald Review of Jan. 29, made it appear that the village | assessor had overlooked the logs! in making his assessment. As as a matter of fact they were placed on the rolls by him, and the action was started through the | company fighting the levy. Sie NET THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK A little over forty years ago Glad- stone, speaking of the condition of | Bulgaria under the Turks, said the | spirit of the people was so broken by tyranny that their eyes were on the ground—that “they dare not even look up to their Father in heaven.” Since then the Bulgar has learned 1 to look up. He has broken the Mos- lera chain and the Ottoman sword. He has progressed as no nation in Europe has. Now he is finish- ing up the brief but glorious record ly putting the last touches on the downfall of his old oppressor. In less than two months fighting the Bulgars and their allies have so} signally defeated the Turk that the world has been made speechless with amazement. The allied ar- mies are practically at the gates of Gonstantinople, and it is only a matter of weeks until the line of forts that, defend it must fall. The Turk has been in Europe five at | Brant Reps Werats- Review they nmiade their homes five cen- |turies. But if at all justifiable, it lis so in the case of the Turk. He gress of the’ world; he has ilearned nothing; he has shed the blood of his neighbors without cause; he has been the ruffian of nations, the stumbling block in the way of progress, a menace to the peace of the world since he crossed (the Hellespont. peoples a free hand, the Turkish | power will have vanished from the earth, so far as Europe is concerne at least, before another winter. The amazing success of the allies is a reminder, fully as pointed as was the Boer war a dozen years ago, that soldiers are not bred in camps or commanders made in schools. The allied ‘armies are commanded by men with little technical training, yet they have done what the best products of the Eurepean military institutions coul hope to do in the same time. Patriotism, hatred of an enemy, and a good cause go far to make armies and commanders—that and effective guns and enough to eat while using them. ite ARG ED EE SERENE SOO REPRESENTATIVES VISIT President Pennington of the Soo road will send a representative to Grand Rapids to attend the meet- ing of the Booster’s club, on the 48th of This month. Presumably he will say something of interest to the people of this community and [tasca county; possibly he will not. Anyway he will be made welcome, and it is to be hoped, will enjoy his visit, There seems to be a general ex- pectancy that the Soo will enter Grand Rapids from Remer or some other nearby point.. That hope is almost certain to be realized, whether soon or late depends upon when the officials of the road may | deem the building of the line a profitable undertaking. The rich farming district, which its coming would help develop, should offer an attraction and-call for early con- struction. The Soo will hardly build in this year or next, however, unless the development of mines here prom- ises a fair tonnage. The road is enlarging its docks at Superior, aud seems to contemplate increas- | ed business. The Boosters club has done well ta invite the road’s representative. The enthusiasm born of social min ling and the boosting habit will help awaken community spirit;and that spirit will attract business men, railroaders as well as others. It will make the town better by sibilities. not be influenced by social or feasting. Whether the road will build to Grand Rapids this year or next, or the year after, has al- ready been decided. Mr. Penning- ton’s representative may enlight- en us, but he cannot alter that de- ‘cision. ES EE AS COMMENTS OF THE PRESS Sauk Center Herald: “A whole lot of the fellows who are now pos- ing as Pros ves are just as rank machin and standpatters as they always were, but it’s the popular thing to talk and act like a real, simon pure Progressive. But these counterfeit coins will never fool the plain peopie. Wadena Pioneer Journal: “Frank A.’ Day, former private secretary under John A. Johnson’s adminis- tration, is a candidate for collector of customs, the position now held by Mareus Johnson. Frank is an active, capable man, and stands a mighty good chance of landing the job.” Pine River Sentinel: “Women suf trage has. lost in the state senate. Just a tip to the women that are the most aetive for this measure in their own behalf we might say it would be a good plan to get bet- ter acquainted with the senators’ wives.” The Labor World “There is such a thing as peace in this world, and it is earned by kindness to others, 'a smile for the ejected, a sympe- thetic word for those in pain, a thought that there are higher and better things in life than our own self-advancement.” Bemidji Sentinel: “General -Sick- les is beginning to find out that Gen. Sherman’s. description of war might also appropriately be applied to other things.” Brainerd Tribune: Some day when farmers learn their own real strength when united, they will do the dictating, instead af taking what the other fellow sees fit to hand out—as they do now.” Hibbing Tribune: “The defeat of hundred years, but his hour has Senator Sageng’s bill providing for has contributed nothing to the pro- If Europe will but give the Balkan However, the Soo officials will | Pr we se eS VOCS See SS eS ee ee This is the way the Duluth Her- ald sizes up the situation in Itasca county. and elsewhere, in relation to the mail-order house and the Jocal merchant: “Small merchants in Itasca county are reported to be worrying about their business, which they believe to be threatened by the operation of the parcel post. So alarmed are they that it is said a meeting of men from all parts of the county is to be held to consider the best methods to meet the new condi- tions. Their problem is no new one. It is the same one that confronted the sumption when the railroad system dealers in articles of general con- was introduced. Before that time the local merchant had all the ad- vantages in trade. If anybody munity it meant delay and uncer- tainty in delivery. With the com- ing of the railroads all this was changed, and no such sinecure was left for the small dealer as he had enjoyed before that time. The merchants of those days met _ the difficulty—or such of them as |were awake to their opportunities met it—the result was an increase while the coming of rapid trans- portation meant better facilities for outside dealers, it also meant equal- ly improved facilities for the local merchants, who could fill orders more promptly and get their own orders filled with greater expedi- tion than before. When the parecl post was first introduced in this country a month ago the Herald pointed out the wanted to order outside of the com- of business and income for them. Fis way of prosperity for the small merchant and many communities have approved the suggestion. It rests first of all on closer rela- tions between the merchant and the relations, on more consistent and insistent publicity. You, Mr. Merehant, may have. the goods that the people want. But if you do not let them know you have such goods, they will go to the peo ple they know have them, You have every advantage over the mail order house, Your goods can be seen and examined by most of the people to whom you want to sell, or you are “known personally to those people. The mail order houses can only show their wares by means of catalogues and other forms of advertising. But nobody is going to take the trouble to visit your place of business unless he has reason to believe you have what he wants to see. two things—your own reputation as a fair, square, up to date dealer, and your persistence in letting the peo- ple know you have what they want or may want. Live up to your pos- sibilities in these respects and you need have no fear of the catalogue houses. Every feature that seems to favor them favors you equally, and you hove the additional advan- tage of being on the ground, or at least nearer to the people you de- pend on for trade. But you can’t sleep on the job. You must be alive to your oppor- tunities: and to the needs of the community you serve. That is your protection against outsiders. tending to the women of Minnesota the right of suffrage has developed that suffrage has more friends among the newspapers of the state than its most ardent admirers imagined. the state line in Iowa command fifty dollars an acre more than Minnesota lands is because of grav- eled roads and weedless highways. Moral: Boost for good roads every day in the year.” Sa LES eee “ihe skull of a man who lived a million years ago has been found in Essex, England. He had no chin. oniking the people believe in them-| That's how he differed from some selves, their community and its pos-| people we know in Grand EN RETEO SLES SEE Linecoln’s day is to be celebrated Rapids. cheer | tomorrow evening by the Lincoln club at the St. Paul hotel, St. Paul, ley of Missouri will be the chief or- ator. ov. Hadley’s unique posi- tion in national polities is expected to make it a momentuous event. Sun DPAT ROE SIEM {| Under the organized charity ‘sys- | tem it takes five dollars to pay for | distributing one dollar to the needy. The fellow who promotes and runs the organization gets the five. The women’s church societies do the work and the grafter gets his name in the paper—and a picture twice a week, PERERA Eli tl ss ra That was a real enthusiastic little feed they handed to Knute Nelson. Some men who were there honored the senator by their presence. Most of the 800, however, honored neither the astute Norwegian nor themselves. They went because they got the chance, and, it was given them after the worthy ones were found too few to make a mob. However, the papers mentioned them prominent men. May Manufacture Brick. George Comer is exhibiting sam- ples of brick and a flower pot made from clay taken from the LeRoy’ That helps some. Rapids. The articles are as good as the best of their kind and Mr. Comer and some of his associates believe an important brick and pottery in- , dustry may be developed at that place. Mr. Comer is a potter and famil- iar with the requirements of the industry as to raw material. He says no better clay for this pur- pose could be found anywhere. The firing of the specimens was done at Redwing, and the pottery people there have expressed favor- able opinions on the prospects of utilizing the Grand Rapids clay. Saw Mill for Sale J. 8. Fosberg’s saw mill for sale or trade . Mill can be in- spected at Pine River bridge, one | with a banquet at which Gov. Had- | as among the state's a Wheaton farm, just south of Grand ¢ HEALTH SUPERVISION IN STATE SCHOOLS Martin County Sentinel: “One’ rea | Commonwealth May Require Strict- son why farms fifty miles across | er Supervision or Pupils Throughout Minnesota state paying one-half the cost, is proposed in a bill introduced in the legislature by Senator Stebbins ;of Olmstead county. According to the provisions of the bill counties municipalities or i school districts may employ a phy- sician who will combine the office ef medical school supervisor and health officer. Such officers shall have power to require proper seat- ‘ing, lighting -and ventilation in school rooms. ‘They may require ; proper conditions, from a_ sanitary standpoint, of all school buildings ; and school grounds, take steps to diseases among students, and~ in- ! quire into the general physical con- ‘dition of the children. In addi- tion to this, they. as health offi- lcers, will have authority to super- ivise slaughter houses, milk supplies land abate nuisances. The condition of each child in “school will receive attention. Good health for a pupil is as essential as good books or good teachers, and even more so. The state board of ‘health employed Dr. E. B. Hoag, of the University of California, an ex- pert, for one year, to canvass the ; state and demonstrate why medi- teal supervision in schools is desir- jable and necessary. Twenty thousand dollars is asked {for in the Stebbins bill with which ithe state may pay its half the cost | for these health officials. POOR LO SHAMING IDLE WHITE FOLK Indians on Reservations Are Best Labor to Be Had Says Capt O'Neill. Capt. Wm. O'Neill of Cass Lake, in charge of logging opperations on the Chippewa reservations, was in Grand Rapids Saturday on busi- ness connected with his work. He reports logging on the White Earth and other reservations as progress- ing favorably, and says the cut this winter will be all that was expected. to be found anywhere. r The Indians are prospering, Capt. come. It shocks the humane mind | the submission to the people of the|mile from Pine River. Wil! ~sell| O'Neill says, and many of them to contemplate dispossessing even) state at the next general election | outright or trade for land. Capaci. an alien people of a land in which | of a constitutional amendment ex- | ty, 15,000 feet a day. Call tel. 412. people, and in furtherance of these || The part you are to play in the || trade world of today depends on}, Medical supervision of schools, the) prevent the spread of infectious * “ f | Copyright 1909, by C. E, Zimay i & G. Wedge. Cc. E. Aiken father place, year old. She has the chance to get employment,|at that place when po sae among tho 2 best woodsmen|from. Sheriff Foster at Cavalier, |; hear from her. N. D., is anxious to that much better. F. P. Sheldon. Seeks Missing Woman. Sheriff Foster of Pembina coun- ty, N. D., was here Monday trying to locate Catherine Newell, whose recently died near that leaving her a farm, and whdse mother is now reported as probably fatally ill. Mrs. left home in 1911 because of’ abu- sive treatment by her husband. She has two children, a boy four years old and a girl less than a For the Last Two Days of This Week. We Offer You NEW GINGHAMS in plain, checks or stripes. New soft finished Chambray in plain colors, and a lot of wide Zephyrs. Goods selling in the regular way for 12%c and 15c a yard. | Sale price with limit of 8 yards to SWEATERS FOR CHILDREN. Boys’ and Girls’. sizes from 24 ts 34 Colors are red, white and grey. Goods that - Es sold for 50c, 65c $1.00 and $1,25. Sale price, each ae 35 Cents White Sale | 1 Our February White Sale will begin Monday, Febreary 17 Hi and continuing until the end of the month. For items and ~ | prices see our large circulars. Unavoidable conditions have made us a little late for this sale, but the values offered are ss | a 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. MIN ny, Capital $2 5:000,00 OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Cashier, C. E. Aiken. DIRECTORS John Beckfeit _#H Newell written her The loggers on the reservation, she calls Lonesomehurst, on says Capt. O'Neill, are not suffer-|!ine somewhere between Crooks- ing for men, as are other contract-!ton and Duluth. ors, as the young Indians are glad|for a woman named Mrs. Newland mother four times in the past year, mailing the: letters from a_ place the She was working last heard Two furnished rooms to rent in are making beautiful and fertile) modern house. Enquire at this customer for in Co.--No. 19 1c’ § 5,000.00 Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge Jr. Will Become Citizens The Italians, of Hibbing have ormed a naturalization club which promotion of the ci paganda. é