Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 4, 1913, Page 4

Published Every Wednesday anette iia By KILEY @& 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 presenting Northern that Bemidji people are reasons why the next school should be located in city. The Herald-Review ‘is in- elined to believe that the citizens of this section would record their votes in favor of Bemidji, if the selection of a site could be settled in that manner. Centrally located, unusually well equipped with rail-|, way cilities, sion would do a popular thing by Woeating the school at that place. WARBA sSosdostoedeeteetotontonteeteeteetectets aie [ eM OPPO PTET HIT Bees tosfosloeteetoaten issippi Land- sionary work . Simons of N c g, who is doing m in’ Northern Minnesota, to the of McGuire’s Lake. Rey. Simons pre ached at the Union ehurch at Blackberry on Sunday evening. The Verna Brick eently experienced a company re- boom in busi- ness conditions. A large contract was recently completed for Thiet |¥ River Falls parties, and Friday or- ders were received from several points in the Western part of the} state which will take all the brick; now in the kilns. Mr. Carlson, the manager, is making a complete success of the enterprise and em-| ployment is given to nearly a score | of men. (he last of the logs, ties, posts | and poles to be brought down this spring by the Itasca Cedar company arrive at W arba night or Thursday is expected to by Wednesday morning. George Ritter, acre homestead north of the Sand Lake school house, is going to prove up on his claim soon, and is getting the papers in readiness pow. Fred Ingersoll, one of the town- ship supervisors, is in possession of an automobile. He made the pur- ehase of Mr. Blanchard of Grand Rapids, paying 8,000 feet of lum- ber for the car. As Mr. te inspect roads a good deal from now on he ma nource all roads unfit that do not afford a ready passage for the chug) In that event the super- not attempt to machine. visor had bettter travel the road past Sand Lake into Warba ! (Glen Willets was a Grand Ra- pids visior Saturday and Sunday. Several people from this vicinity are in Grand Rapids this week in attendance at the high school clos- ing scenes. Fred Rosholt and -his i Cora, Richard Fisher, and Kelly, are in the senior class which somewhat enlivens the in- terest. The township supervisors at a meeting held Saturday awarded the south half of the mile of road to be buif from south ofthe G. H. Fisher residence to the main , west of the Fisher school, to ld Ham and Clarence Rosholt { ».00. At a previous meeting Tichenor made a bid of $300 for "ery and being one of mature’s beauty spots, the commis- came to afternoon and went who has an 80 Ingersoll is be preparing to pro this part of the road, but the suj rs thought the price too high and called the meeting for Saturday and secured the lower bid. Others gut in bids on the same piece of road for much higher sums, the most of them around $450.00 for a | completed contract. J. M. Page was | some time ago awarded -the contrac for placing the grade of the north half of the mile for $80.00. The bass season is surely here, and those who are ambitious to cap} ture members of the finny tribe aid almost daily visitors at Sand Lake, Shallow Lake and MeGuire’s Lake. | Manson caught 150 fish on Friday. Others have done about as well at times. Word has been received from Miss O'Donnell from Duluth, where she She is visiting on her way home. says she is enjoying herself. The Sand Lake school will be | about the last to close in this sec- tion, the 29th of June having been set-as the closing da.y Swan Carlson and Joe McGuire took 48 fine bass out of Shallow Lake. Sunday. Mr. McGuire weat to Brookston Monday to rejoice for 2 few days over his good luck. Erick Lind, Warba’s postmaster, and John Henry, are each suffer- ing |from injured arms. Mr. Lind thinks that he will recover soon but Mr. Henry has been to Grand Rapids to consult a doctor, and in- dications are hewill be laid up| for some time. The injury was sustained when he fell from a log deck and struck a _ log on the round. a Se a a te eee ae ata : FUNKLEY RANGE = j ( BERG VILLE POSTOFFICE) vagoetonteateeteateetossondondpeteetoetondecoetoetoetetondentontnetosdoneet s Viola Franti and Martha McDonald, two of the West side. teachers, left Friday for their home at Deer River. geeeet Pond on Wednesday. P. P. Johnson was a pleasant caller at the Syver Hanson home ( unday. Misses Belle Ose, Agnes Cassidy, Carolyn Bardsley, and Messrs. Ed Norbo and Harry Bardsley called | ‘on Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnson of Dunbar Lake on Sunday. About ten couples enjoyed the dancing party given Saturday even- ing in the Rosy school house. All report a most enjoyable time. Mrs. A. Mills and Miss Sadie Dy- er called on Mrs. Dan Long on Fri- day. A number of young folks ‘spent a most enjoyable afternoon at the East Lynn farm on Sunday. (Mrs. J. M. Price and her two jsons, Carl and Clair, visited with the L. H.-Price family Thursday afternoon. Miss Agnes Cassidy, the Spruce Grove school teacher, left Thursday evening for her home at Grand Rapids. Miss Cassidy has the good | wishes of the entire neighborhood. We would ilke very much to have her with us again next year. | April. May is the time for | for sets Nursery Stock, | Plants, Garden Spring Bulbs, | Settings, Flow- Seeds..%.%%% || ers of all kinds Always Buy the Right Kind--Our Kind DULUTH FLORAL CO. Cut Flowers, Funeral Decorations Overland Model 69,R: Mutual Completely Equipped $985 Without Question the Greatest Auto- mobile Value Ever Offered You need not take our word for this—ask the Grand Rapids people who own one. GRAND RAPIDS Garage GOOD ROADS DAY Many Localities Preparing to Celebrate June 17, PRINCETON TO HAVE BIG TIME Will Obesrve Holiday by Building Half Mile of Road Within Confines of Village. (Special Correspondence.) St. Paul, June 2.—Minnesota’s grow- ing list of holidays, on which the peo- ple are asked to lay aside business and affairs of state and celebrate, has an interesting addition this year in the shape of a “Good Roads day.” June 17 is the date set aside for its ob- servance and Governor Eberhart, in accordance with a law passed by the last legislature giving the day legal standing throughout the state, has is- sued a proclamation fixing the date named for its observance and asking that all persons interested in good roads enter into the spirit of the oc- casion. Already letters telling of preparations for the purpose of mak- ing the day a gala one have been re- iceived from a number of districts and the new holiday looks as if it would work out into something of more than * | ordinary profit to the state as a whole. Representative Dunn, the author of the latest thing in good roads legisla- tion, was the one who incorporated in ithe good roads act passed by the late legislature a provision creating a Good Roads day and his district is preparing to observe it in a manner that will create general interest in James Vandervort and Carl Price |road construction and improvement made a business trip to Shallow | work. On June 17 the village of ‘Princeton will honor the day by the | construction and improvement of half a mile of road within its confines and \has secured several cars of crushed stone from St. Cloud for the occasion. Interested residents will furnish teams and labor and with their wives and families will make the day one long to be remembered. The one time husking bee or the house raising day lof old will not be in tt ie the way of fun and pleasure wk» ‘his particu- lar occasion will provide, Other dis- tricts throughout the state learning jof what Princeton is preparing to do have in mind a similar observance of the day. i ++ & There is now on the statute books two road acts of more than ordinary length, the Dunn law, passed by the last legislature, and the Elwell act, a product of the state lawmakers two sessions back. Attending a meeting lof the highway commission the other \day I could not but be impressed with the fact that the oldest of these must go soon or else the best of its features be incorporated with the Dunn law. The two laws and the efforts of those interested in good highways to get out of both the best for their particu- lar project only tends to confusion. Another thing that impressed was the need of freedom on the part of the highway commission from the exac- tions made by county boards and town jcouncils in the location of proposed roads and the demand by all as a rule for the consideration of their scheme jof laterals and trynk lines instead of |a comprehensive system of state high- ways which the commission is direct- jIng every effort to obtain. Centraliza- jtion of effort and authority is now the order of the day. It has been extend- led to many lines of government and effort and some day Minnesota wili have such centralization without local interference in the matter of its high- When General James H. Baker died jat his home in Mankato last week history recorded the passing of one whose life and political activities, while a resident of the state, are of | more than ordinary interest. A vet- | | | oF + | i General Baker was not content with the honors that came with such a service, but continued his activities in a political way that easily him the first Republican in Minnesota for a number of years. Twice he served the state as its secretary, for several years he was surveyor gen- eral and up to the time of the passing jof the state convention he was promi- jnently identified with every state Re- | publican gathering held. At the na- jtional gatherings he was always a prominent figure. His last appearance | |was at the convention which nomi- |nated President Taft. When John Lind ran for congress in the Second district | |General Baker was his Republican opponent. Besides being identified with the political life of Minnesota General Baker found time to write a number of books, his last being the biographies of the governors of Min- nesota. He was the founder of the Mankato Free Press. re & Hugh T. Halbert of St. Paul, promi- nent in the Roosevelt presidential campaign of last fall, is positive that the accusation of drunkard, laid at the door of the colonel by a Michigan editor, now defendant in a $10,000 libel suit brought by the colonel, is not true. Mr. Halbert says it is the way he walks that makes many think he has been looking upon the cup that cheers. Mr. Halbert unearthed a let- ‘ter fifteen years old written by Colonel Roosevelt when he was located at San , Antonio, Tex., with his regiment, then en route to Cuba. A friend, represent- ing a whisky house at Corsicana, Tex., gent the colonel several gallons of whisky and the letter was an ac- Enowledgment of the gift. The let- ter was to the effect that while the colonel was not a drinking man he thought the whisky might be a handy thing to have around for medicinal purposes. He has sent the letter to Mr. Roosevelt in the belief that it will show that the colonel is telling the truth when he says he is not a drinking man. Colonel “Bill” Rich of St. Paul is the owner of the letter. +e + With the first of the month the state began borrowing. money with which to pay its bills and now the state university has arranged to do some additional borrowing. Monday it touched the Minnesota Loan and Trust company for $100,000 and will pay 5% per cent for the privilege. State Treasurer Smith pays only 5 per cent, as the state will not allow any more. Unless the next legisla- ture takes on an economical streak Minnesota is going to be swamped with interest charges. This year State Treasurer Smith -has been com- pelled to call upon the banks for money with which to pay running ex- penses fully two months earlier than usual. This means that the “touch” next year will be still earlier. Last year Minnesota paid nearly $60,000 for borrowed money. be + Senator A. J. Rockne has raised a nice point in connection with the spe- cial session of the legislature which Governor Eberhart has announced he will call for the purpose of passing a public utilities act. When the late legislature passed the reapportion- ment bill he says it directed that the next legislature should consist of six- ty-seven senators and 130 house mem- bers. Inasmuch as the late legis- lature adjourned sine die he holds that the special session, with its pres- ent membership, will not have the re- quired legal standing. Senator Rock- ne, however, says that he is not pressing the point. Others senators say the thing is absurd. oe + July 1 next the various counties will pay into the state nearly $1,250, 000, principal and interest, borrowed by them from the several state funds. The amount will come due on the date named. ‘The school fund will receive the major share of the amount. This money, as soon as re- ceived, will be loaned out again. State Auditor Iverson, who watches over the permanent state funds, says the above sum is not a marker to what the state will be collecting in the shape of 4] eran of the Indian and Civil wars, made | principal and interest in the next ten years. ++ + This may be news to some of you, but Professor Eugene Grubb, consid- ered the foremost potato expert in America, who was at the capitol last week, relieved himself of the opinion that Minnesota and the Northwest is approaching a crisis in its potato in- dustry. Insect disease and innumer- able varieties of fungi, he says, threat- ens the coming crop of tubers and | that if the crop is to be saved farmers must get busy at once. He has made an examination of a number of potato fields and finds them all badly infected. +e + Former Governor John Lind has been honored with a decoration by the king of Sweden which entitles him to be called “Sir” and now those who keep their eye on things po- litical in Minnesota say that in its ac- ceptance the former Democratic gov- ernor has put the lid on his ambi- tions to be United States senator. Under the federal constitution those | persons holding titles of nobility are jbarred from federal office. Knute Nelson could have had the best in the nobility line that Norway has to give, jbut no one ever heard of him being | decorated. Not if big Uncle Knute | knows it. | | | | Pe > Letters and pictorial postal cards \received from E. E. Smith, Republic- | an state chairman now in Europe for | his health, indicate that he is en- joying himself. Several of his friends in Minnesota have been honored with souvenirs and they all speak of a | highly enjoyable time. From all ac- ‘counts Mr. Smith left Minnesota a very sick man and his tour of the old country is to be an extended one. ++ <= Some comment is being indulged in | because Governor Eberhart, in nam- ing a minimum wage commission and | ‘also one whose duties will be the | placing of the state labor bureau on ‘a civil service basis, confined his se- jlections entirely to men of German extraction. His excellency, however, sees nothing in the selection that | would call for any comment. + + + Frank A. Day, the former Demo- cratic king maker, visited the state capitol this week and in deference to ‘old times George Authier, who now | fills thé position that Frank once oc- jcupied as private secretary, permitted |him to occupy the chair of state and ponder over things of old for a short period. Frank has not heard from Washington in the matter of that fed- eral job he would like to have and the probabilities are that he will not, for a while at least. The tip"down here is that there will be no plums until after the tariff bill is out of the way. THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. Herald Review, St. Paul, June 2. Grand Rapids, Minn. Can't get you any copy for our regular ad this week as I am down here attending the annual clearing sales by the whole- salers. Am picking up a lot of good things at clearing sale prices and will have some- thing to talk about as soon as the goods arrivee Yours truly, Cc. C. PETERSON. ITASCA DRY GOODS CO. STANLEY McMAHON Staple and Fancy Groceries Confectionery, Fruits and Cigars. ICE CREAM AND SODA BUFFET Telephone 59. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. MISS BARRYMORE. Actress May Quit Stage to Remain With Her Children, FASCINATION IN MOTHERHOOD Miss Barrymore May Quit Stage for Children. New York, June 3.—Ethel Barry- more (Mrs. Colt) may quit the stage for the sake of her children, she said at the hospital, where her one-year- old daughter is suffering from diph- theria. “I came here because I wanted to be at the bedside of my baby girl,” she said. “One never thinks of the stage in a moment like thie, T would give up niy whole career rather than one of my children. “There is a wonderful fascination in the stage, but greater than this—in- finitely greater—is the fascination of motherhood. Now I know I can never be away from my children and my home for a single night.” “Does that mean you will give up your career?” “Possibly.” There was no regret in her voice. “One thing is certain. I shall never go on tour again, I will appear only in New York.” This summer another baby is ex- pected in the Colt home. With and at a Will. A drill sergeant was drilling the re- cruit squad in the use of the rifle. Eyv- erything went smoothly until blank cartridges were distributed. The re- cruits were instructed to load their pieces and stand at the “ready,” then the sergeant gave the command: “Fire at will!” Private Dunn was puzzled. He low- ered his gun. “Which one is Will?” he asked.—New York Post. He Listened to All. Fontenelle listened to everything, and he offended no one by disputing any- thing. At the close of his life he was asked the secret of his success, and he replied that it was, by observing two maxims, “Everybody may be right” and “Everything may be so.” ——_____. HergPostscript. “Why does a woman always add a Postscript to her letter?” “Well,” answered the ungallant wretch, “she probably figures out in ber own mind what her letter has made you think.and then tries to have the last word.” The Demure Thing. Edith—You haven't seen my engage- ment ring yet, have you? Marie—L don’t know, dear. Who's the man?— Boston Transcript.