Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 25, 1913, Page 6

| Trne hPa ae Pago tuperfect Page Grand Rayics Derad-'Review ed Every Wednesday =, {a emepalahed: Seer Sear 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 Wilson’s Currency Legislation. shac. is not enough to strike the from busines: The duty of statesmanship is not negative merely It is constructive, also. Wer t show that we understand what | s needs; and that we iknow how to supply it. No man, however casual and — superficial his observation of the conditions in the country, can t one of the chief s needs now, and reasingly as it gains in scope and vigor in the years the ahead of us, s by which adily to ts credit, corporate and al, and its originative What will it profit us to if we are not to have the most accessible instru- s of commerce and en- ? What will it profit us to one kind of monopoly, remain in the grip of effective kind? immediate and of and more we to gain ¢ keep the of the bu Ss com- unless we show that we 1 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? ing laws must mobilize reserves; must not permit the con- wentration anywhere in a few hands of the monetary resources of the country or their use for speculative purposes in such vol- gime as to hinder or impede or stand in the way of other more leg- itimate, more fruitful uses. And the contro] 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 purposes by 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 tiresel lines the cat- | tle for exhibit were selected from stock showing the results of this system. 'G. G. Hartley spent a week at Wolf fvke lodge, returning te Duluth, Monday. - {nperfest Pase GRAND RAPIDS WINS By a Seven to Four Score Beats Fast Beltrami Aggregation on Sunday. he Grand Rapids base bal! team can also play some ball away went ot Bemidji and lifted the scalps of the brave 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 ywas done: “The game was one of the most closely played by either team this r and was featured with spec- ;and several double plays. Bemidji led until the eighth in- ning when with three men on ba- ents,tapped out a four base hit over the right fielder’s head mak- ing the sc 7 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- Gji players and the fans gathered in the diamond and he was forced to withdraw the With two men on bases a Grand Rapids jplayer knocked a high ball out to Jleft field and which the _ local and fans disputed was on decision. | player: out moving from his position be- }hind the pitcher the umpire called jit a hit and allowed the two men mediately sounded and the decision was withdrawn.” | The lineup was as follows: Grand Rapids Benton .. | Hicks... Farrel.. Powers .. Bentz. Lofber, Warren. Bentz... ..C. Bailey. + «o.-Rice . «. .-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- in twenty days and.also the com- modity and merchandise rates. There will. be a net saving of 4 cent for every mile traveled by a Passenger, and approximately 200 per cent on every pound of freight shipped between points within the state. Bad Sern 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 after the plumbing affairs of Whe firm. 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 cooked on the El Tostovo Electric Toaster Stove One top for toasting, another for cooking eggs, baking griddle cak ing a dozen other things. es, frying bacon and do- POWERS a pois Se FROM BIG BEMIDG from home. Last Sunday the nine | tacular plays including a home run} ses, Bentz, pitcher for the oppon-| the left side of the foul line. With- senger fare will be in force with-4. GRAND RAPIRS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1913. ‘AUDITOR'S OFFICE | SYSTEMIZES WORK | Continued from Page One. ithere remained unpaid of the 4914 ltaxes levied and assessed in said {town the sum of $132.38, of which | amount $10.00 was for State taxes, 219.58 for County, $56.91, for Town, 44 for School and $6.45 for State Loan to Town funds. The unpaid taxes are added by the Au- 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 t s unpaid, when the treasurer tu 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 citcr ar ° is entailed a work in the keepi the record, jbut the check is absolute that Auditor Spang feels that it is in- cumbent upon him ot have sucha check upon the tax collections of amount of gone the county. In addition to this it kill be p ble for each town to] have a check upon the amount of money that will be 1 to be paid to the town each year. Another feature of the systemiza- tion of the work ofthe offi the compiling of a complete < and tax judgment indexes, a or nearing its completion. Au- | tc come home. Protests were im-/ditor Spang found the increasing demption has issued, demand for tax certificates on 'Itasea County lands, upon which lthe owners had failed to pay tax- Bemidji|es, made it impossible for the con-|these tax title matters was not . Howe|tinuance of the system that has | only cumbersome, but the attor- ..--Bell) been in vogue in the county prior | neys were apt to forget to_return Boscoe|to and since its organization, and | important papers . ...-Bailey|/he set out. to inaugurate a system | the file, and that considerable urg- +. .-Brando | that would be best suited for this | ing was neeessary to have the pa- {branch of the labors of his office. year, except in a very few cases, ‘there were tax judgment books for each year from that year to the year 1910, and that in the matter of lookingup 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 complete duplicate of all the entries ‘thajgare én the original tax judgment Qe- of the lands to’an actual purchips- er, together. with a complete Iis- tory of the subsequent proceedings had in connection with said sale. 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 madgto |carrys amounts of unpaid taxes for twenty years. This record will cén- |tain an absolute and complete his- |tory of the transactions affecting |the tax matters upon all the par- lcels of land in the county that | have taxes unpaid against them or jupon which certificates have been | issued for 1908 and all prior years, |back to the days when Itasca was jattached to Crow Wing County. It jean readily be seen that the com- piling of such a record would take ja 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 thé immediate |completion of the record, there be- jing all the platted property to be added before the record is complete. |This record takes the place ofall ihe judgment records of 1908 and ell prior years, and wifh the judg- racnt records of 1909, 1910, and 1914 gives ihe office the daca upon tax |miattersin four volumes, easy oi jaccess and renders unnecessary jthe 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 1-4 of NE 1-4, Section 4, 55-25, there was a tax certificate issued in 1881, the index will show oppo- site said parcel of land 1908-35, and to find what bearing the certi- ficate has on the title of the land the 1908 book of judgment and tax records is opened at page 35 and the history of the tax certificate is before you. If taxes against the same pareel of land are delinquent for 1944, opposite the year 1911 and under the parcel cited is found 1944-15, and by reference to the 41944 tax judgment record at page the account for 12 years. There } f | the |He found that since 1881 for “each | . «Erickson. | cords when there had been a*salé|years gone by, and it many times 15 is found the amount of the tax- es so unpaid, with the date of the judgment—in fact ft is the dupli- cate judgment record for 1911. The index also has a column wherein the number of the receipt paying the 1944 taxes is put, so that ifa |deed is presented to the Auditor's joffice 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 connection with the judgment, sales, the for- feited sales and sales by assign- ment, and something like 690 re+ 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, | jwho 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 certificat and }the making of the file data that} }goes to make up the record of the} jissuance and subsequent prceed-| ings had in the matter. So volumi-| nous has becomethis partof the} work of the office that it was nec-| essary to change the system of} files in each of the tax sale mat- ters, and Mr. Spang has under way | work of placing all matters | jappertaining to tax certificates, | jwhere notice of expiration of re- 1 in compact land undetachable volumes. The} | Auditor found that the system of | filing all papers in connection with belonging to | 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 cannot be taken from the of- fice, thus insuring’ the maintenance of the complete record. of pro-- céedings: had in the matter of the The iter ‘is oftimes called up- on to furnish important data in connection with some proceedings had by the Board of County Gem- missioners at their meetings’ of takes hours to locate the meeting where some important procedure was had. To bring all the acts of the County Bard 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 board 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 thecounty that the old sys- itemof @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 De 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 you ‘tthe number of the road, and the book and page number of the record wherein will be found the complete data as to the petitioning | for, the laying out and establish-| ment of the road. At the last session of the legis- lature there was enacted a law whereby the time of the holding of the annual sale of lands forfeited to the state by reason of the fail- ure of the owners to pay taxes Wash Goods ut Again Our big Clearance Sale is on for another week. While some of the bargains we 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, Sik crepe. Silk brocades, etc. All the goods we sold in the regular way at 5oc go in this sale at 25c yard 15c—Lappets, Swisses, Silk finished mulls, Flaxon, etc. All the printed and figured goods we sold in the regular way for 25c and 35c go in this sale yard 15¢ 9c—Lawns, Swisses, etc. Everything that sold in this department for 15c, 18c and 22¢. IT (Le ASR SAE ain Ree ae en yard Choice of the 9c 3c Hammocks nary 50c value. Nord, etc. they will be held upon the second Monday of August of each year, The sale this year occurs on the 41th 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 thereon. These sales were former- ly held in November, but hereafter ENTIONAL DUPLICATE EXPOSURE A complete line at every price From 69c to 8.50 16 yards to a customer at ITASCA DRY GOODS CO. Just Received Blue Serge Sults for men, and Norfolk Blue Serges for Boys..... We know that our goods are right and we make the price right LIEBERMAN BROTHERS Clothiers and Furnishers ‘ for the baby, for fishing and camping, for the porch Ladies’ pure silk boot hose in size 10 only. The ordi- For Friday and Saturday’s sale 1 2 ROS ee oh AE CS Pe ie pair 29c Dress ginghams in plain, checks and stripes. The lot contains the best 12%c goods such as A. F. C. Toile de Friday and Saturday with a limit of a NS ant Oe aa yard ic 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, 1944, 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 trands 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. I