Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 19, 1913, Page 4

+ | | | | | | CoHASSET DEPAR IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY 19, 1913 Wareroecectecterdensecetentectetenseeteceeteetecteteetectetenteedey i Cohasset Locals : NS pston ton teesoedeentontententontentontintintieteeteatectententetenter es Aiken and Roberts spent rday at Grand Rapids. s born at the Bur- e last Saturday. M. E. choir will practice on evening after prayer rs. N. W. Fletcher and — son, in Grand. Rapids Marie Aiken visited her Miss Jessie Aiken, last esday. iss Marie Stapleton attended a party last Thursday evening at Grand Rapids. A. J shman, who is running the lo engine at Crystal Lake, spent Sunday at home, Mr. Baldwin, Misses Stenberg, Johnson, Roberts and Aiken will attend the convention at Duluth Thursday and Friday. Miss Lillian Johnson is still suf- fering from an attack of grippe, although she is at her work again. Pete Robideau was on the sick list the first of the week. He has sufficiently recovered to be on the hack again. A baby was born at the home of seorge Best, who lives on the old Gary farm west of town, the first of the week. H. Thompson, returned to Co- t Sunday afternoon from a business trip in the western part of the county. Anna Songer spent the day Sun- day visiting with Gladys McNaugh- ton at the home of the latter’s mother, Mrs. Phair. A number of the Cohasset teach- ers are going to Duluth to attend the meeting-of educators that takes place there on Thursday. met at the home of Arthur Baker at Bass Lake Tuesday evening and report an excellent time. Mrs. Otto King of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. F. E. King and Mrs. Mur- ray of Nisama, were the guests of Mrs. Ranfranz last Thursday. The woodenware factory started again ‘Tuesday. Lights came on Sun day night in time for church. Ever one seems more cheerful now. The box social given by the Hap- py Hustlers was well attended in spite of the storm and was a suc- cess both socially and financially. Dr. Cooper, District Superinten- dent of the Duluth M. E. church was at Cohasset and preached to a large audience Sunday evening. F. J. Scocdopole, cashier of the Cohasset State bank, lost a horse last Monday. This is the second animal he has lost within the last month. Harry Hill, from Spring Lake, was in town the first of the week looking for an extra team to aid in getting the winter’s supply of logs to market. A petition was filed with the vil- lage recorder last Saturday re- questing a vote on the question of local option for Cohasset in the coming spring. election. A special: meeting of the village board last week served notice that unless the company furnished ser- vice within seven days the fran- chise would be annulled. R. K. Stokes, manager of tht Stokes & Co. Store at Cohasset, was called upon. to run the engine at th engineer arrives. Mr. Stokes is one of the old engineers at the fac- tory, and one who can always be relied upon to make things hum. Dunn & Marcia moved their heav boilers and other heavy machinery across the river last week, prepara- tory to lo¢ating their new mill for \the summer. They will work a large crew and will saw everything in the lumber line. This will be a jlarge help to the village of Cohas- set in every way. ¥ Desire Nedieu of Hill City, took N. Hursh and family. She reports that Mrs. Nedeau is still hospital at Grand Rapids, where she will undergo an operation. Mr. Nedeau has recently invented a fastener for pail covers that is being extensively used throughout the country. ry The company which furnishes electric light and power to the. vil- lage, saved its franchise rights by a timely compliance with the order of the village board that it furnish service under penalty of forfeiture. The light which had been out for ten days were turned on Monday, and provision has been made for uninterrupted service. The electric current of the village is a by-pro- ‘duet of the power plant of the Su- perior Woodenware company, which conducts a large factory here. The plant was foreed to close down for repairs the firsts week in Febru- ‘ary, and the electric generators were laid idle. As a consequence the streets went dark, and the home and business places of other patrons were unilluminated until recourse was had to the time hon- ored kerosene lamp. The action indicated was the re- sult. KEEWATIN TO. HAVE A $60,000 SCHOOL The school board of district No. 9. has p ractically decided to erect a $60,000 school building at Keewatin this year, all having been agreed upon and the plans of the architect will probab- ly be approved at a meeting to be held the latter part of this week. The members of the board have decided to visit the other towns on the range tomorrow, to get ideas for features that should be included in the new building to make it the most modern in Itasca feounty. “ The board has also decided to en- large the building at, Nashwauk by the addition of two wings which will take care of the rapidly creasing school population. . The dinner Monday evening with Dr. M.! in *the' details | STATE SHOULD BUY BONDS ISSUED FOR ROAD-MAKING ; HIGHWAY ENGINEER FORBES SUGGESTS A PLAN woodenware factory until the new Well Satisfied With Work Done in Itasca County, But Says More Ex- tensive System of Good Roads is Needed All Through North Country—Plan for Supplying Cash Will be Put Up to the Legisleture. Charles A. Forbes, an engineer \in the employ of the state high- way commission, thinks the state should give more practical assist- ance in the matter of building, roads in the north country, and suggests that as a starter it be- come the purchaser of county boncg issued for that purpose. Mr. Forbes was in Grand Rapids Friday on his way home? from the good roads meeting at Internation- lal Falls. He is*entirely satisfied with the manner in which the ,roads work is being carried on in this county, and says its continu- ance and enlargement will mean the rapid development of the fer- ‘tile lands which need only a pro- per system of highways to make it \ possible for settlers to bring products of their land to markets. | Speaking of the sale of county ;bonds for road purposes he said: | ““The legislature will be asked ;to provide that county bonds for the building of good roads shall be purchased by the state. I consider this a matter of practical business investment and a move that will, in some degree, give an even break to the northern counties, The state is now purchasing the bonds ;of other states, and has plenty of ‘money for such investment. Why not help the counties and munici- |palities of our own state if neces- sary, instead of making such coun- ties as Itasca and Koochiching go into the bond market and beg that hteir bonds be taken? I be- lieve the state should not hesitate in giving such financial aid for the northern part of the state. North- fern Mnnesota is paying heavy tax- fspots on its record, and es and will be,a heavier contribu- tor to the coffers of the comnion- wealth as soon as development is advanced as it should be. “There is no question about the richness of the soil of these north- ern counties. You should have jeard the testimony of the home- steaders who appeared at the In- ternational Falls meeting. They all agreed that they are producing large crops, but declared that ‘be- cause of the roads, or rather the | lack of them, they are unable to market what they raise. Mr. Kib- bey, father. of the engineer of In- ternational Falls, told us that on a patch of three-quarters of an acre he raised enough produce to sell $300 worth and put $200 worth in his own sellar last year. Lots of others told stories just as con- vincing. | “But there was another side to the picture. There were the tales of hardship and suffering _ testi- mony that made some of us gasp. One told of a settler living near him. The mother of the family became sick. Her husband start- ed to town to get medical assis- tance. He was almost a week in making the journey, because of the absence of roads, and returned to his cabin in the woods to find his children weeping mother, who had died in his ab- sence. Forbes said that the state’s neg- lect of the northern country and! black | its settlers is one of the carries with it the additional fault of being the very worst possible business \ policy. ‘PREACHERS OPPOSE TONNAGE TAX BILL Ran e Association Sends in Protest to the Legislature-—Praise Mine Operators The preachers in the iron coun- try have been as keen as others jin their opposition to the proposed ‘tonnage tax on ore, and at its jmeeting at Hibbing Wednesday ‘the Ministerial association voiced ‘its opposition in the following pro- !test toj the legislature: | “We, the Range Ministerial as- sociation of the Vermillion Mesaba_ ranges, and ! do herewith set ‘Bjorge-Frankson tonnage tax law “Third. We speak of the educa- , tional and moral conditions. Civil- ization and morals are ing due to schools and churches. ‘Through the mines we secure mon- ey, erect fine schoo] buildings, pay for them when completed, hire the best teachers and pay the high- est salaries. Our present tax system maintains the schools permanently | We all have constitutional and equitable right, not one of which | is sacrificed by the state in leaving | taxation as it is since no financial | emergency requires the. proposed | change. The mines regard the state claims and carry their large | share of taxation People settling on the range to develop the mines found profitable and continued em- ployment and became part of the permanent population of the state. in- {forth our position relative to the] A large number of these were fore- ign to our institutions, churches, present building was erected three | 20W before the legislature. Since|schoois and language, which fact years: ago, and was so desigened that the wings can be added with- out detracting from its architec- tural beauty. | Dry Goods Millinery - Fancy Goods Mrs. MW. W. Fletcher Cohasset, Minnesota this affects all of our industries and activities, we ask a hearing. “First. We speak of the mine operators. They are humane in their treatment of employes and of< | ficials, helpful in the government! and protection for all; just in their dealings and honorable in their methods. Their club - houses are modern and fully furnished for em- ‘ployes; their railroads are among ithe best in equipment and service. “Second. We speak of the fi- | nancial aspect. Our county just |paid the state a tax of over $900,- | 000 from the mines; the railroads ig our county paid over $1,000,000, the tax on their earnings from the iron industries, which was one-third of the entire state tax on railroad earnings. There are 86 other coun- jties in the state, but our county paid 21 per cent, or one-fifth of all the taxes of the state. We have 100,000 people on our ranges, and if the other 86 counties paid as much per capita, the revenue would be $80,000,000. “The mining industry is. the prin« cipal source of revenue. Our real estate had no value after the tim- ber was removed until ore was dis- covered. Ninety-five per cent of the real estate of assessed valua- tion of our county outside of Du- luth is in our mine. placed great obligations upon the state. The property holders’ of the mining districts accepted these responsibilities and made great ef- forts to meet them. Ina few years they built up and equipped a school system to prepare the chil- dren fer American citizenship. We have 15,000 school children 1,200 men in the night schools. The iron industries make these advan- tages possible. “We protest against the passage of this bill because it discriminates against the norhern part of the state. It is an enemy of the iron industry. It festers class legislation. It is partial and sacrifices industrial ac- tivity and success with an unjust and unequal system. Therefore we protest.” : ee reels Walker Pilot: It looks as though a bill would be passed at this ses- sion, authorizing county boards to appropriate a five cents per capita tax for the support of state devel- opment associations. The bill is a good one. There is many a nickle that goes toward the development of a schooner appetite, that might just as well go toward the devel- opment of the state instead. TMENT os around their | progress- | and } It originated in jealousy. | \ : od BOOST FOR COHASSET A Plain Statement of I H OME farmer saves money every time an IHC wagon is sold. Not because it costs less money to begin with, but be- cause of the length of s2rvice it gives, an I H C wagon is the cheapest wagon you can buy. The longer a wagon lasts the cheaner itis. That is why it is economy to Luy the best wagon — one that will outlast any ordinary . ‘wagon. When you buy anI H C wagon her New Bettendorf | Columbus Steel King you invest in a wagon built of the highest grade material which experience and cate can select or money can buy, built in the most thorough, painstaking manner, by skilled work- men, in factories which have modern appli- ances for doing work of the highest standard at the lowest possible cost. All lumber used is air-dried in sheds with concrete floors. ‘This insures toughness and resiliency. All metal parts are made of espec- ially prepared steel, guaranteeing the longest service. Each wagon undergoes four inspece tions before being shipped so that it reaches the purchaser in first class condition, ready to be put to work at once, and able to carry any reasonable load over any road where a wagon should go. Weber and Columbus wagons have wood gears, New Bettendorf and Steel King have steel gears. The I HC dealer knows which wagon is best suited to your work. When you see him get literature from him, or, write at ‘ International Harvester Company of America (ncorporated) St. Cloud Minn. IHC Service Bureau The purpose of this Bureau is to furnish, free of charge to all, the best information obtainable on better farming. If you have any worthy ques- tions concerning soils, crops, land drainage, irri- gation, fertilizers, oie make Four inauities specific and send them to 1H. Midhcamme vee ee Bass BROOK HoTEL Cohasset, Minnesota A Mopern HOTEL in Every RESPECT John Nelson Proprietor | Grand Rapids Village Lots $5 D AND $5 PER MONTH OWN; | We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling yy them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and af $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter A over. Wealso have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY | ‘s SUBSORIBE FOR THE HERALD-REVIEW