Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 26, 1913, Page 4

7 ploye. « efficient ; GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEWWEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1913. Brand Mapias Werata-'Review Published Every Wednesday By KILEY ¢ cs SPENCER TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap- ids, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County A scientist asks: is a chin?” We don’t know of any purpose it serves in Minnesota since they abolis! hanging. The tariff is dressed meats dope. Let us more effective the meat trust. EE AACE Ek A delver into ancient mysteries inquires significantly: “Was Queen} Elizabeth a man?” Sure she was. We knew it all the time but would-, n’t give the lady away. ea REE Admiral Eaton’s widow is in jail charged with poisoning her hus- band, who died recently. She is fat and forty, and doesn’t look like a real, sure-enough villianess, if her picture is to be trusted. ————— A preacher at Keister has been accused of burning down his own house to get the insurance money. Some people who don’t like preach- ers may make remarks, not think- ing of the number of clergymen who) never burned a house or stole a chicken. to be taken off according to the hope this will be than the busting of The State Bankers’ association is promoting a contest for the rais- ing of corn by offering cash prizes to school boys who grow acre corn patches. Bankers could do better in the promotion line by cutting the rate on loans they make the boys’ dads from ten percent and a com- mission down to something half way reasonable. Short Sighted Policy. The joint appropriations com- mittee of the state legislature last Saturday tabled the $150,000 appro- priation for a Minnesota building at the Panama exposition. The action should be reconsidere and Minnesota should have space at the show in proportion to its im- portance. This is particularly im- portant to the northern part of the state, and everybody who wishes to see this section graw should write the committee at once and urge favorable action. We have much to advertise. We need outside capital. Are we to get it by hiding our advantages and remaining silent? Millions of people will see the displays of the various states and judge these states accordingly. If Minnesota sends nothing it will be only natural to conclude it has nothing worth sending. Let other appropriations wait, but by all means tell the world of our resources. _—_————_ The Efficiency Question. In the last’ some time a lot has been written about efficiency. Near- ly every scribbler in the trade pa- pers, practically every talker at the annual meetings of business people, the head of nearly,every trust, al- most every heavy employer of la- bor, has told all he knew about it, or all he thought he knew, which is generally a great deal more. And it was all directed at the em- It was hustle, git, hump, be But will somebody please read the employer a lecture on the same subject. He needs it and it might do.him good, although it is doubt- ful. The man at the head of a big business is usually above taking ad- vice. ‘There are a lot of inefficient em- ployers. Every’ employer who grows rich while those who work for him remain on the verge of pauperism, is an undesirable; every boss who wears out the body and mind of the employe without making provision for the employe’s declining years or paying a wage that will permit the victim to do so, is plainly dis- honest, and dishonest men are not efficient; every newly rich person who passes an employe without re- cognition in the street is a prig and an inefficient and of such are a considerable number of the bosses of business;every grumbler without cause is a nuisance in the business he thinks he is conducting, and a rank incompetent. This, of course, from the employes standpoint and as it effects his welfare. The workers seem to be capable enough. They supply practically all vthe ideas, give ten times as much «of their energy to the business and its patrons as does their employer -and they are more honest with him ethan he is with them, the public ~or himself. *By all means let us have more ef ‘ficient workers, but the boss is the one who most needs reform at the amoment, Don’t mention it or he will tie a sean to you. BLACKBERRY ey. Carl Swenson of Duluth has conducted a week of revival ser- vices at the adventist church here | and departed Monday for his home. | The services were held in the Swed ish tongue, and in that way avery | large number were accomodated | outside of the church membership. There is now a regular attendance of thirty-six and the interest man- ifested by others during . the preaching of Rev. Swenson augurs well for an increase of membership. He expects to return later in the spring for a longer series of ad- dresses. Contending factions for a pro- | posed location for the contemplated | school house for this place were represented in Grand Rapids, Mon- day before the school board of Dis-| trict No. 4. Mr. Murphy of Black- berry, represented those who want | the new school house erected north of the townsite,and Mr. McKinley was asking that those: who live south of here be considered a little more generously. A petition had} recently been circulated by those who wanted the school house built north of here. On account| of the intense feeling engendered the board decided to postpone the receiving of bids for a new school house. A motion was put on the minutes of the board sometime ago setting April 14, as the time of receiving bids for the erection of the building. This motion was re- scinded and a usbstitute motion made, which was carried, setting April 14 as the date for considering the question over again. It seemed to be the opinion of the board members that no school house should be built with this location ‘disagreement in the air. It is up to the patrons of the schoo! to reac ‘an amicable agreement as to loca- tion before April 14 or else no schoo] house will be erected this spring. 1 Soo os WARBA tee testestontoentententestontontectecntontostontectetoetoatedtedtee The new depot which the Great Northern has recently erected has been completed and Station Agent Pierce has installed himself there- in. Electricians from Virginia were} busy yesterday and today changing the telegraph cables from the old depot to the new. The old depot, it has been reported, will be moved | to Blackberry. Rey. Mr. Snyder of Grand Rapids was present at the Tichenor school house Easter Sunday and delivered aa excellent address. The thoughts of his remarks were based on a verse in the second chapter ‘of Revelations, “To Him that Over-| cémeth,” Rey. Snyder is a schol- arly speaker and surely did not dis-; appoit anyone present. The chil-| dren of the school district gave a program under the direction of Mrs. Melvin Rosholt. A Sunday schuuol is to be organized in this district a little later. On Friday, nineteen ladies living in the neighborhood of J. M. Pogue, gave Mrs. Pogue a birthday surprisa which was complete and effective. The involuntary host of the occa- sion although found in workaday attire rallied with tolerable celerity aud diu her’part. The geod things to eat and the very agreeable after- noon spent was most gratifying to all. Eimer and Frank Bliss started to work for M. W. Pogiie, who is taking out timber on the tenry Johnson forty just north of the Tichnor blacksmith shop. Mr. , Pogue has already landed about 125,- {000 feet of logs on Swan river and expects to get out a lot of ties and posts besides. Joe Cook, who has been helping him for some time left yesterday for Osnabrock, N. Dak. Andrew Johnson, manager of the Itasea Cedar & Tie Co., of War- ba, has purchased the greater part of the logs of Mr. Pogue and the same will be shipped to Hill City for consumption. A proposition is before the sup- ervisors of the village of Warba to construct a new town hall. The three supervisors, Fred Ingersoll, George Fischer, and Mr. Shute are in favor of building a hall, as enough rental offers have already been suggested to make a_ good in- come likely. Mr. Shute has pro- posed to build a suitable hall for $300 but there is only a probability that his offer will be accepted. A birthday surprise party was given on Mrs. G. H. Fisher on Mon- day. The event was a complete have {of their treasurers, The March apportionment of all monies paid into the county trea- sury for taxes on real and personal property from Noy. 1st., 1912, to March ist, 1913, will come to the hands of the various treasurers of the villages, towns and school dis- tricts in the county somewhat earlier than in prior years, in fact} the subdivisions of municipal gov- ernment are responsible that the apportionment is not in the hands County Trea- surer McMahon and Auditor Spang having completed the work of mak-! ing said apportionment last week, | but the County Auditor is required to have the bond certificates of the various treasurers on file in his office ere he can deliver the war-| rants to the treasurers. At this/| {writing but very few of these cer- tificates have been filed, owing in a large measure to the fact that th Annual Town Elections were held on March 11th, and the treasurers elect have not had time to have their bonds, prepared, approved and filed. Until this bond certifi- eate is filed the Auditor will re- tain the warrants of the towns} jand -villages in his hands, so that! it behooves the town and village officers to aid their treasurers in having their bonds approved and | filed. Through the courtesy of Auditor Spang, the Herald-Review is en- abled to give its) readers a state- ment showing the amount of taxes collected in the various towns and! of the county, together with the amounts that were apportioned to the Towns, Villages, County and State and school funds according to the amounts paid in each of said towns and villages, which state- ment follows below. It will be seen from the state- ment that there was $55,232.21 paid in as taxes, of which the county receives $10,329.79, the towns $10,- 760.95, the villages $11,141.10, and the State and School District funds $23,000.48. On the face of the statement it would appear that the county tax jis about 18 per cent. of the whole, but such a deduction would be. er- roneous, as the township and vill- age taxes comprise local assess- ments, such as sidewalks, sewers and delinquent road taxes which are assessed in specific amounts and are not taken into considera- tion in the compiling of the tax rates, and thus to consider the amount paid in taxes in any town or village as a whole with another tax that is not based on valuations paid by said town, villages and the unorganized portion’ CASH IS NOW READY FOR © THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES ences in township, village and school levies it is a difficult mat- ter to strike an average ratio of county taxes with the balance of the county as a whole, and the only fair means would be to com= pare them with each separate township or village. Thus we find that for county purposes the Town of Alvwood contributes a __ trifle over 17 per cent of the total taxes the Town of Ardenhurst about 16 per cent, the Town of Arbo less than 10 per cent, while the village of Grand Rapids is something like 12 per cent, and in the unorganized section of the county it foots up to in the neigh- borhood of 27 per cent. That the county taxes are such a small amount of the total will probably be surprising news to many taxpayers, for it has been the custom to blame the county for all raises in taxes, when as a mat- ter of fact the county rates: have been reduced of late years, and the increase is the direct result of the local government in voting large sums for expenditure in the various towns and villages in the county. The table given below does not give the exact sums that will be paid to the various treasurers, there being deducted from some of said amounts the proportionate share of the refunds for 1912 that appertains to the said town and village funds. The Town of Big- fork will receive $282.57; Bass Brook, $907.62; Bass Lake, $127.69; Balsam, $546.65; Deer River, $218.- 87; Feeley, $10.43; Grand Rapids, $1,326.15; Goodland, $145.40; Green- way, $637.30; Harris, $93.14; Iron Range, $574. 91; Lake Jessie, $151.- 49; Nora, $122.84; Nashwauk, $347.- 15; Otenaegan, $129.95; Sago, $117.- 44; Sand Lake, $19.20; Wirt, $258.- 91; and the balance of the towns the amount set forth in the state- ment, The villages will receive the Tol- lowing sums; Bovey, $1,164.05; Big- fork, $5.45; Cohasset, $498.98; Cole- raine, $1,438.27; Calumet, $360.06; Deer River, $1.93; Grand Rapids, $4,088.44; Keewatin, $1,069.93; La- Prairie, $3.00; Marble, $659.98; Nash wauk, $1,253.86; Taconite, $310.00 and Warba, $232.63. The school districts will receive the following sums: No. 4, $7,132.- 57; No. 2, $3,238.50; No. 5, $132.25; No. 6, $3,910.80; No. 9, $1,957.44; No. #0, $153.18; and No. 41, $117.72. In the following table the first column contains the amount of the taxes paid in the town, and under the other captions is given the would not allow you to arrive at a preper per centage. In fact, in- asmuech as there are many differ- success, being attended by nearly a score of women, all intent on ex- pressing feelings of cordiality. and esteem for the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher came to this locality nearly eight years ago from Greene, Iowa and during that time Mrs. Fisher has won the friendship of all her neighbors. Monday that feeling was admirably expressed. amounts of such taxes apportioned to the town, county, village and state and school funds: AtLess than r a store like ours there are neinvetaaile a lot of goods accumulating that must I sold at a sacrifice. Every line sold out leaves a few odds and ends; every piece leaves a remnant; every line of colors leaves a few that did not sell out as fast as the rest, And then there are the many opportunities we have for pick ing up bargains in the factories and wholesale houses, oftentimes at less than the cost of production, Friday morning we place on sale the following articles and they will continue on sale for a week unless gone before the end of that time: Coat Hangers Double wire Coat Hangers $1.00 Sweaters, 39c White Sweaters for girls in with the wide shoulders. The sizes 10 to 16 years. Made from usual 50c article on sale 1 Sc good wool and sold in the reg- at SIX FOR-_----.------ rons aL. for oe Only a small lot goes at this 20c Embroideries, 10c price. Each ___.______. 39c Edges and insertions in widths from 1 to 4 inches. Goods that sold for 12c, 15c and 20c 1 Oc on sale at per yard_--_-- 50c Corset Covers, !9c Embroidery and lace-trimmed in almost every size. The lot includes goods that sold for 25c, 39c and 50c. 9 Choice of the lot___----- Ic 5Oc Drawers. [9c Muslin and Cambric Drawers with Icce embroidery or tuck- ed ruffles. Goods sola for 25c, 35 id 50c in thi pale-dt penn adie 1 9c $1.50 Petticoats, 98c 4\ line of colored, black ard a few white tticoats that sold for $1.25, $1.50 and $1.98. Bt wheats aoe in the rack riday to sold at — ee ae $1.25 Batting, 98c. The large sized batt., full four (4) pounds to each roll. (The usual $1.00 batts weigh only three pounds.) Until goods on hand are gone they will sell at each, only Take Advantage of These Bargains TOWNS Total Taxes Town Village County State and Collected School Alvwood $338 49 $124 13 $ 56 98 157 08 Ardenhurst 776 57 254 52 124 14 387 91 Arbo) 787 50 524 94 7 93 186 63 Bearville 803 48 281 45 148 86 373 17 Bigfork 268 73 4163 67 37 19 85 86 Bass Brook 1372 34 559 64 224 10 588 57 Bass Lake 437 25 429 44 80 02 229 82 Balsam » 879 16 547 37 106 56 225 23 Blackberry 468 18 212 70 67 18 4188 30 Carpenter 275 27 94 83 52 48 127 96 Deer River 566 16 259 23 82 51 224 42 Feeley 359 13 145 02 64 44 4153 00 Grand Rapids 41031 19 412 50 210 37 408 32 Goodland 548 43 186 96 78 03 283 44 Grattan 418 39 42 91 21 82 53 66 Greenway : 432 70 81 32 129 53 224 85 Good Hope 87 45 36 73 44 78 36 94 Harris 310 38 4100 38 59 14 150 86 Tron Range 440 44 44 34 50 95 74 85 Lake Jessie 490 54 4155 14 62 50 272 90 Moose Park 150 80 65 29 24 78 60 73 Marcell 537 03 167 93 71 02 298 08 Nore 370 55 123 87 72 93 173 75 Nashwauk 307 21 32 92 95 86 178 43 Oteneagen 541 26 146 98 71 36 322 92 Popple 237 72 92 30 42 16 103 26 Sago 371 29 143 30 66 28 464 74 Spang ‘ 4147 61 57 79 25 82 64 00 Sand Lake 86 05 21 09 441 71 43 25 Trout Lake 3186 34 1786 27 _ 562 62 1837 45 Third River 339 34 441 86 57 35 4140 12 Wirt 4129 74 365 45 4159 65 604 64 Wawina 310 54 130 58 50 74 129 26 VILLAGES Bovey 2018 87 88 49 4153 44 319 44 458 16 Bigfork 297 77 148 90 5 45 “44 31 129 14 Cohasset 1428 66 350 77 498 98 169 28 409 63 Coleraine 4934 49 363 48 1484 49 1286 03 41800 49 Calumet 554 68 38 31 352 34 67 47 96 59 Deer River 1704 93 290 14 9 81 258 11 1146 90 Grand Rapids 8811 96 906 47 4105 74 41094 12 2705 63 Holman 28 44 3 02 410 63 414 79 Keewatin 3296 30 «183 84 = 1059 730 06 4 ©1322 57 Laprairie 61 58 414 10 3 00 47 75 26 73 Marble 3208 17-517 67 659 98 842 83 = 1182 69 Nashwauk 3382 87 175 42 1255 04 690 40 = 1262 01 Taconite 1327 59 «=. 107 58 310 00 380 45 529 56 Warba 633 20 243 36 4115 36 247 48 Zempel 2278 57 446 66 48©=—- 1861 94 Unoranized 3061 26 82978 2231 48 Koochiching Taxes 4 36 4 04 35 95 $141141 10 $10329 78 $23000 48 [IMAKESTHING il SAFE ° 4 iv 1 WO ae “Wreetiiy, "copyright 1908, by C. E. Zimmerman Co.--No. 19 4 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. =| 77a 7 * First National Bank GRAND RAPIDS. MIN = | Capilal $2 5,000,00 Ketplees $ 5,000, 09 ; scone A. G. Wedge Jr. DIRECTORS D. M. Gunn. W. C. Gilbert. F. P. Sheldon. A G. Wed: Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfeit Atkinsons’ New Paper. The Cuyuna Range Crucible, pub- northern part of the state are pre- mage Be oS eee wae paring to inaugurate a campaign’) j,, appearance. It is published and for the boosting of the Itasca Park) edited by Claude and Marc Atkin- country as a summer resort. It is)/son of the Hibbing Ore and is a proposed to interest the railroads|paper in keeping with the high in the move, with the view of gain-| abilities and enterprise of these ing extensive advertising for the | two, tf region and thus attracting tourists.| It is an eight page seven colum That the park is bound to become) paper, and brim full of the kind the play ground of the northwest is! of stuff that is bound to count for geverally recognized, and it only) its town and district. needs publicity to bring it about. That the business people of the The success of the campaign | place are determined to see that it will do much to bring the}does not die or languish for want summer attractiveness of all the] of the sinews of war is amply test-- northern Minnesota lake country to/ified by the heavy advertising pa the attention of the leisure classes. . omen Kens on eae To Boost Pack Commercial bodies throughout th