Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 25, 1913, Page 5

Grn Reyes Hers-AReven| GRAND RAPIDS Published Every Wednesday 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 —OOOOCOOoOoOoooSSeo= Wilson’s Currency Legislation, ’ “Jt is not enough -to strike the shackles from business. The duty of statesmanship is not negative merely. It We must what business needs; and that we iknow how to supply it. No man, however casual and — superficial ‘his observ things business needs now, and will need increasingly as it gains in scope and vigor in the years immediately ahead of us, is the proper means by which readily to vitalize its credit, corporate and individual, and its originative rains. What will it profit us to be free, if we are not to have the best and most mentalities of commerce and en- terprise? What will it profit us to be quit of one kind of monopoly, if we are to remain in the grip of another and more effective kind? How are we to gain and keep the confidence of the business com- munity, unless we show that we is constructive, also. show that we understand ion of the conditions now prevailing in the country, can fail to see that one of the chief} accessible instru- FROM BIG BEMIDG By a Seven to Four Score Beats Fast Beltrami Aggregation on Sunday. ‘Phe Grand Rapids base ball team can. also play some ball away fromm home. Last Sunday the nine went ot Bemidji and lifted the scalps of the braye baliwick, do- ing it to the tune of 7 to 4. We use part of the Bemidji Sentinel’s | report of the affair to show how it} jwas done: “The game was one of the most closely played by either team this year and was featured with spec- tacular plays including a home run} and several double plays. | Bemidji led until the eighth in- ning when with three men on ba- ses, Bentz, pitcher for the oppon- ents,tapped out a four base hit oyer the right fielder’s head mak- ing the score7 to 4 intheir favor. No more scores were made during the rest of the game by either team although Bemidji had three | men<on bases and only one out. One decision by the Grand Rapids} umpire was disputed by the Bemi-| aji players and the fans gathered | in the diamond and he was forced} to withdraw the decision. With| two men on bases a Grand Rapids | player knocked a high ball out to) leftfield and which the local | players and fans disputed was on} SYSTEMIZES WORK Continued from Page One. there remained unpaid of the 4914) taxes levied and assessed in said town the sum of $132.38, of.which, amount $10.00 was for State taxes, $19.58 for County, $56.91, for Town, 489.44 for Scheol and $6.45" for State Loan to Town funds. The unpaid taxes are added by the Au- ditcr and the amount of the un- paid taxes must total $132.38. For each town, village; and the un- organized portion of the county like accounts are kept, and thus an accurate check is had upan the funds of the town and upon the collections of the treasurer. The record has been compiled so that the amount of taxes unpaid, when the treasurer turns the books over to the County Auditor, can he treated in a like manner until the whole tax is entirely paid, provi- sions being made for the carrying of the account for 12 years. There is entailed a goodly amount of work in the keeping of the record, but the check is so absolute that Auditor Spang feels that it is in- cumbent upon him ot have sucha check upon the tax collections of the county. In addition to this it vill be possible for each town to have a check upon the amount of} money that will be liable to be paid to the town each year. Another feature of the systemiza- es AUDITOR'S OFFICE | so unpaid, with the date of the judgment—in fact ft is the dupli- cate judgment record for 1941. ae index also has a column wherein. the number of the receipt paying the 1944, taxes is put, so that ifa fdeed is presented to the Auditor's office for certification as to taxes a glance.at the Index shows us whether there are any unpaid taxes against the lands, Since Jan. 4st, 1908, there has been issued by the Auditor’s office 5096 tax certificates in connect; with the judgment; sales, the f feited sales and sales by assi ment, and something like 690 demption certificates have been issued during the same period, twice the number theretofore issued in the entire history of the county. The vast amount of labor involved} in issuing these certificates is not appreciated by the average citizen, who has little or no knowledge of the many entries upon the records that have to bemade in connec-} tion with the issuing of these cer- tificates and the statements of taxes that go with each certificate. In connection therewith is the thousands of notices of expiration of redemption that have. to be pre- pared upon these certificates, and the making of the file data that | | goes to make up the recordof the jissuance and subsequent pruceed- ings had in the matter. So volumi-| nous has become this partof the} / work of the office that it was nec-| essary to change the system of f in each of the tax sale mat- originally advertised are gone, we are add- ing others and cutting the price on more. This is the way the wash goods will go: 25ce—Wash Silks, Foulards, Ramie silk, Silk crepe- Silk brocades, etc. All the goods we sold in the 25c regular way at soc go inthis saleat . yard 15c—Lappets, Swisses, Silk finished mulls, Flaxon, etc. All the printed and figured goods we sold in the 15¢ regular way for 25c and 35c go in this sale yard 9c—Lawns, Swisses, etc. Everything that sold in this department for 15c, 18c and 22c. Choice of the 9c Job abe he ee ee yard 3c A complete line at every price HAMMOCKS From 69c to 8.50 know both how to aid and to pro- tect it? What shall we say if we make fresh enterprise’ necessary, and also make it very difficult by leaving all else except the tariff just as we found it? “Our banking laws must mobilize reserves; must not permit the con- ters, and Mr. Spang has under way the work of placing all matters appertaining to tax certificates, where notice of expiration of re- demption has issued, in compact the left side of the foul line. With-|tion of the work ofthe office is out moving from his position be-|the compiling of a complete set of hind the pitcher the umpire called|tax and tax judgment indexes, a it a hit and allowed the two men|iabor nearing its completion. Au- tc come home. Protests were im-|ditor Spang found the increasing ‘demand for tax certificates on|and undetachable volumes. The {Itasca County lands, upon which|Auditor found that the system of. for the baby, for fishing and camping, for the porch The ardi- 29c Ladies’ pure silk boot hose in size to only. f pe nary 50c value. mediately sounded and the decision ¥ 5 was withdrawn.” For Friday and Saturday’s sale -------pair TonebPadt Pago teperfect Page wentration anywhere in a of the country or their use for speculative purposes in such vol- fime as to hinder or impede or stand in the way of other more leg- itimate, more fruitful uses. And the control of the system of bank- fing and of issue which our new Jaws are to setup must be public, not private, must be vested in the government itself, so that banks may be the instruments, not the masters, of business and of indi- vidual enterprise and initiative.” —. STOCK FROM ITASCA IS ON EXHIBITION ‘The Agricultural Train of the North- ern Pacific Railway Shows Stock Raised Here. Five head of cattle from the herd of the Northeast Experimental farm here are being used for ex- hibition purposesby the agricul- tural demonstration train sent through the West by the Northern Pacific railway. At the head of the small herd is a thoroughbred Guernsey bull while the cows are of common stock, the purpose of the display being to show the re- sults in the progeny made possible thy this sort of breeding. Itis the contention of all dairy authori- ties that a high grade of cattle would soon result if everyone strove to secure a full blood sire to head their herds, and as the work of the state farm here has been largely along these lines the cat- tle for exhibit were selected from stock showing the results of this system. 'G. G. Hartley spent a week at Wolf rvke lodge, returning t¢}after the plumbing affairs of Duluth, Monday. Whe firm. ALAS ANG NAS A cooked on the ing a dozen other things. few hands of the monetary resources j shipped between points within the Electric Table Cooking Suggests Magic When you have buttered your toast and sweetened your coffee, the eggs are ready. A fried egg deserves a new name when El Tostovo Electric Toaster Stove One top for toasting, another for cooking eggs, baking griddle cakes, frylng bacon and do- H. D. POWERS The lineup was as follows: Grand Rapids : Bemidji aseBSe ses as OWS) ist b.. .. ....Bell Benton . Hicks +C.. ..+---Boscoe} Farrel. -3d b.. ....Bailey Powers . -.2nd b.. ..Brando Bentz... . 4 f.. ..C. Bailey. Lofberg. 0B Leiner gereRiog Warren... . r f.. ..Erickson. Bentz... + eeeePe. o. ».MeKeig. Railroads agree to put in new rates as soon as the Supreme Court mandate is received, probably July, *9. Also agree to pay rebates prompt- ly. and arrange for practice in re- gard to proof of claims. This means. that the 2-cent pas- senger. fare wil] be in force with-4, in twenty days. and-also the com- modity and merchandise rates. There will: be a net saving of 1 cent for every mile traveled. by a Passenger, and approximately 200 per ¢ent on every pound of freight state. ‘ Bad Storm at Taconite. During the most severe electric | storm of the season, John Brown, a brakeman in the employ of the Oliver Mining company at Taconite, was rendered’ unconscious by a belt of lightening while in a small switch shanty. He was taken to Coleraine and is recovering. The residence of Engineer Vincent was also struck, but none of the in- mates were injured. R. P. Glover, formerly auditor of Wilkin County, has accepted a position in Auditor Spang’s office. ‘A. C. Kent expects to leave to- morrow on a visit to Elgin, Ill., his old home, which he has not seen in about thirty years. During his absence Mort Taylor will look the owners had failed to pay tax-| filing all papers in connection with Dress ginghams in plain, checks and stripes. The lot es, made it impossible for the con- tinuance of the system that has been in vogue in the county prior | to and since its organization, and he set out. to inaugurate a system } that would be best suited for this branch of the labors of his office. He found that since 1881 for ‘tach year, except in a very few eaSes, ‘there were tax judgment books-for each year from that year to the year 1910, and that in the matter of looking up tax records some 25 large, cumbersome records had to be kept ready for. reference, entail- ing a considerable loss of time in the handling of the same. He had prepared a large volume in which he has had written up a e duplicate of all the’entrie® ‘thafgare én the original tax judgment Je- cords when there had been a‘sal of the lands to’an actual purclips- er, together. with a comple is- tory of the subsequent proceedifigs had in connection with said a If the lands had not been soldto a purchaser, but had been bid in for the state, the history. of that parcel ‘is-set forth, and the unpaid taxes subsequent to the sale to ‘the state are listed for each year they are unpaid, allowance being marigie carrysamounts of unpaid taxes twenty years. This record willc6n- tain an absolute and complete his- tory of the transactions affecting the tax matters upon all the par- cels of land in the county that have taxes unpaid against them or upon which certificates have been issued for 1908 and all prior years, back to the days when Itasca was attached to Crow Wing County. It can readily be seen that the com- piling of such a record would take a goodly amount of labor, but Au- ditor Spang, finding that the work performed upon the record to date is such a labor saver, he has made preparations for the immediate completion of the record, there be- ing all the platted property to be added before the record is complete. This record takes the place of all ihe judgment records of 1908 and all prior years, and wifh the judg- racnt records of 1909, 19410, and 1914 gives ihe office the daca upon tax niattersin four volumes, easy oi access and renders unnecessary the handling of dozens of cumbe:- some records—being a space saver as well as a time saver. In connec- tion with these records is a set of. indexes, in which each parcel of land in the entire county is listed, and in which the book and page number of the record in which is to be found items apper- taining to taxes or tax certificates affecting said parcel of land are to be found. For instance, if on the NE 4-4 of NE 1-4; Section 4, 55-25, ‘these tax title matters was not only cumbersome, but the attor- neys were apt to forget to_return important papers belonging to the file, and that considerable urg- ing was necessary to have the pa- pers returned to have the file com- plete. To make .it impossible;.for any papers to go astray, he is hav- ing each: paper that belongs to the tax title matter bound ina volume which carinot be taken from the of- fice, thus insuring’ the maintenance ofthe ¢omplete record. of pro-- céedin iad in the matter of the The ‘itor ‘is Oftimes called up- on to furnish important data in connection with some proceedings had by the Board of County Gom- missioners at their meetings’ of years gone by, and it many times takes hours to locate the meeting where some important procedure waS had. To bring all the acts of the County Banrd for ready refer- ence, Mr. Spang has had prepared a Commissioner’s Index, which he hopes to have written up at avery early date. When complete it. will be only the labor of a few moments) to present before any applicant the record of any.act of. the county beard since the county was organ- fzed, and prior thereto ~ when Courtney A. Buel, A. T. Nason and L. F. Knox, were members of the Board of County Commis- sioners, having supervision over road matters while the County was attached to Aitkin county. Probab!y one of the most impor- tant records that County Auditor Spang has practically completed is his road record. So numerous have the roads become that have been laid out, established and construct- ed by the county that the old sys- temof @alling the road Laprariie Road, Prairie River, Smooky Hol- low, and other like designating names became confusing, so Mr. Spang proceeded to have each road! numbered, and have his records written up so that when informa- tion is desired anent a certain road itcan easily Be had. The number ef roads thus numbered is 136, with 10 more in course of establishment. With this road record is an index that shows State Road No. 1 to be the road running through Grand Rapids and Cohasset, and Road No. 440 to be the road running across | the new bridge west of Grand Rap- ids and into the town of Bass Brook. This index is a unique piece of work and should be seen to be appreciated. You know that it is impossible for anyone to keep in their head the location of so many roads, but Mr. Spang’s system is such that if you tell him the town the road is located he will tell Nord, etc. contains the best 12%c goods such as A. F. C. Toile de Friday and Saturday with a limit of 16 yards to a customer at-...-.. SS ea yard ITASCA DRY GOODS CO. ic they will be held upon the second Monday of August of each year. The sale this year accurs on the 11th of August. Chapter 74, General Laws of 1913, provides that the County Auditor shall in June of each year prepare and transmit to. the State Auditor a list of all lands in the entire county which have become the absolute property of the state, together with a list of all taxes, penalties, interest and cost charged thereon. Now, inasmuch as there are over six thousand parcels of land in Itasca county that have be- come the absolute property of the state, and that the largest propor- tion of these parcels are village lots in Laprairie and the outlying additions to Grand Rapids, Cohasset Deer River, Bovey, Nashwauk, Cal- umet, and in thousands of cases there are taxes against these lots for ten and more years, it is no small matter to prepare these lists for the State Auditor, but they must be gotten out, else there could be no sale conducted, and from the many inquiries had by the Audi- tor’s office as to the sale’ it looks as though there would be a general cleaning up of thousands of these parcels of land in August next. To be absolutely positive that these lists will bein the State Auditor’s harf@s at The proper time, Auditor Spang has secured additional and experienced assistance in the com- piling of the lists. The legislature seems to have been anxious that all taxes should be cleaned’ up, for it enacted an- other law that requires the County Auditor to eonduct another clean- ing up sale in May, 1914, and of course, they made it different, and handed the County Auditor’s an- other bunch of grief in compiling lists that will meet the requisites of the law under which the sale is to be conducted. Personally Auditor Spang has his hands full in looking after the proceedings and mandates of the Board of County Commissioners- That board now meets twice a month, it being found that the volume of business to be disposed of at its hands necessitated these semi-monthly meetings. It seems to bean easy matter for the Coun- ty Board to sanction and ordain the establishment of a legal highway, completion of certain work, to or- er a sectional survey, and do kin- dred things that take but a few seconds to ordain, but when the Auditor executes its mandates and. prepares the dozens of blanks that are necessary in the performance of those mandates, time has flown very swiftly. We know that Just Received De a Blue Serge Sults for men, and Norfolk Blue Serges for Boys. our goods are there was a tax certificate issued|you the number of the road, and in 1881, the index will show oppo-|the book and page number of the site said parcel of land 1908-35,|record wherein will be found the and to find what bearing the certi-}complete data as to the petitioning ficate has on the title of the land|for, the laying out and establish- the 1908 book of judgment and tax | ment of the road. records is opened at page 35and| At the last session of the legis- the history of the tax certificate |lature there was enacted a law is before you. If taxes against the| whereby the time of the holding of same pareel of land are delinquent|the annual sale of lands forfeited for 1914, opposite the year 19/4 and|to the state by reason of the fail- under the parcel cited is found|ure of the owners to pay ‘taxes 1911-15, and by reference to the|thereon. These sales were former-| 4944 tax judgment record atpage ly held in November, but hereafter right and we make the price right ne LIEBERMAN BROTHERS ae Clothiers and Furnishers ‘