Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 9, 1913, Page 2

VoL. XXIV. No. ¢ THE LAND CLEARING ANONYMOUS LETTERS |RESCIND ACTION ON STILL REACH SHERIFF The Problem of of Reclaiming Cut- Latest From Keewatin in Line With MEETING AT DULUTH { | Over Lands is Discussed at Large Gathering. The land clearing meeting at Du- luth on July 1, was well attended and the results of the delibera- tions of those present should be far-reaching. There was no divi- gion of cpinion as to the desira- bility of aiding the settler in mak- ing a start, and the discussions were simply as to how bestac- | complish this. The report of | the proceedings which follow are gleaned from the columns of the | Duluth Herald. and gives a good | account of the business transact- | “Tf will pay to clear the land, ig | A. J. MeGuire of Grand Rapids told | the delegates to the land clearing convention, which opened at the | Commercial club Tuesday morning. | With that assurance on which to) base their efforts, public spirited | men of Northern Minnesota, act- | ing individually and as representa- tives of Commercial organizations, endeavored to work out some means, by which the land canbe cleared. They had no visions of a sud- | | den transformation of the cut- | over wilds of Northern Minnesota into rolling fields. The clearing of | great acres did not enter into their calculations. ‘They endeavored to, work out a plan by which the heavy | handicap now placed on the sé tler during the time necessary for him to clear sufficient land for the raising of products for his subsis- tence and that, of his family may be r ed. The o1 ing compar ation of land clear- , the organization of j comm: Lie stand behind the deserving farmer in the mutter of credit, the forming of community co-operative land heating organi=| zations, the eounty bond plan of as- sisting the in clearing his lands and distribution of ble were consideration. The committee on resolutions | consists of A. J. McGuire of Grand Rapids, George P. Wa of Inter- national Falls; W. H. en of | Minnear 2oree W. Empey of | Hinckley and N. J.. Upham of luth. The members: of the committee on the cost of dynamite are Char- les Swain of Hinckley, C. L. Goor | dell of Barnum, H. E. Reynolds of Bemidji, G. T. Robinson of Big Falls and Fred Ward of Duluth. While not as large as wais ex- pected, the gathering was thor- oughly representative, not only of Northern Minnesota, but of North- ern Wisconsin. / After the opening of the con- | ‘vention in the morning an inspir- | fing talk was given by A. J. Me- Guire, superintendent of the North-) east experiment station at Grand ! Rapids. Mr. McGuire advocated the pasturage of stump land as op- | posed to the pulling of green | stumps. Land that may be cleared fou €10 an acre after a few years | of pasturagemay cost $50 if an effort is made to clear it while the stumps are green. Mr. McGuire said the yield at the experiment farm last year wasan average of sixty-five bushels of oats to the acre, thirteen tons of | fodder corn to the acre, 396 bu- | shels of potatoes to the acre, five tous of hay tothe acre.‘‘Where a farm has been intelligently farm- ed it has shown that land inthis section is as well adapted to agri- culture as land anywhere,” he said. “Twenty acres under the plow will afford a man asplendid in- come, so that he can make a liv- | ing and pay for his farm,” said Mr. McGuire. “The brush should be removed from the remaining land: and grass seed sown. Then if cows are put on that stump land it will yield a return while time is re- | ducing the cost of clearing by rot- ting the stumps.” farmer the cheap for stump the convention for dynamite wing all before | proper Du- | § {the problems of hardwood Others Previously Received by Official. ‘ Sheriff T. T. Riley has of late heen pestered ‘considerably by, par- ties who write letters telling him of this or that misdemeanor being perpetrated within the county, and generally requesting office to do something about The latest is from Keewatin, as’ it is a fair sample of all others, we reproduce it: Keewatin, Minn, July 8, 1913. Mr. Riley, Grand Rapfds. Sir: in Keewatin should not be open dn a Sunday. every Sunday and that is Gust Johnson. I don't see why he ' should be allowed to run when the rest of us“have to keep closed, and if you want-him you can easily get nim. He has from 3 to 4 on the | watch for you all the time. { From a Citizen of Keewatin, There is absolutely nothi the sheriff can do with a ication of this kind exe | sign it to the waste basket, If “A Citizen of Keewatin” will go be- fore the county attorney and swear out a complaint, setting forth his grievances, he will find that there it. will be no hesitaney on the part of | the above the sheriff in appreherding offender. Letters, like, the peace officer in America would pay the least attention to them. These people. who. have. complaints make should have faith enough in their gepuineness to go before the authorities with them, otherwise they will be disregard- ed. the sheriff's and the |r Tunderstand that thé saloons There is one that is busy Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY JULY 9, 1913 ‘COUNTY MUST PAY CLERKS WIN FROM COURT HOUSE TEAM Latter Are Beaten in an Exciting COUNTY SANITARIUM To Build Hospital and Have No the aetion taken andl the retail clerks came off ac- | vording to schedule on Monday , held last week at the June meeting appropriating for Itasca county was reseinded and selves the better batsmen amount ordered replaced by the | voh by a seore of 7 auditer. It seems that the com- | thugiastic crowd witnessed the ;.er- ssioners discovered after the | formance, and when the. fact that matter had been decided that while | mot, of the players had not the county was authorized to make tou¢hed a base ball for years, the this provision for consumptives | reset is rather surprising. There the management of the institution) washmo way in which the number of ‘would practically revert to the| hits and errors could be kept track state upon its completion. As this|of, .and there may have been a did not exactly coincide with the | maa or two struek out. Clerk of views held by the members of the | Co! Rassmussen, who performed board, the matter was dropped for) in field for the court house Voice in Its Management is Contest by a Score of 7 to Not Approved. 4—Two Hurt. “At the meeting of tha! The widely advertised base ball ' board of county commissioners! game between the court house nine $15,000 for a tuberculosis hospital 'e\ening. The clerks proved them | and | to 4. An .en- } to} | the present. again, however, if further study ' of the requirements of such an in- stitution make its construction seem advisable at this time. BALL BOYS KICK ON KEEWATIN OUTCOME Say They are Entitled to the $50.00 Promised if They Won Game on Fourth. The members of the Grand Rap- |? ave jsimply a nuisance and NQ} igs tase ball team are somewhat | amiffed at the. treatment. they. al- lege watin O'Day claims was that the team should receive §£0 if they won the game against the “ageregatién “cf ithe mining tawn, and that he -has’ the letters of.the committee haying,the,mat- on the Fourth. Manager twenty or even ten acresof every j ber in) charge to show for. ite The ,t ‘hapids-teamy-had-the fortyy” there would, ber-a “teh | ater development: heres ... Phe ind owners who have land to sell should follow the same course. G plow, e the settler a little land under and his initial-problem will Le solved.” D. E. Willar of the Nor n Pacific railroad, | pire and F. Di Visert of Cloquet gave | her se land clearing exper ain of Hinekl wing method Mr. Swan said | that the best system he found was | Lo encourage every man in his own} method. “If you can get a man to clear ore ecre, go over fo his neighbor ard gej him to clear two,” said Mr. Swain. “Then come back to the first fellow and taunt him, and he'll get busy. I have cleareda lot fof my own land, and have ailsq | cleared a lot of other people's land by getting them mad.” F. R. Duxbury, who presided over the meeting, called C. S. Mitchell to the chair while hegave his views. Mr. Duxbury summed up land, pine land and tamarack swamps. He suggested that land-clearing a as-| | sociations should be organized in each county, not to do the work but too interest others, informing, crews and doing the actual work of clearing. He said country mer- chants, bankers, city business men ard railroads should unite to put dynamite in the reach of the set- tler. “Any business man who is not interested in farming is not inter- ested in his own business,” he said. “I don’t believe any banker ip Northern Minnesota would re- fuse afarmer credit for the pur- chase of dynamite’ or stock, if the farmer is worthy, and those who are mot worthy should not be | given credit.” W. B. Kellogg, of Superior ex- plained the method of organizing a land clearing company there. Cc. §. Mitchell of Duluth urged the convention to get down toa program. He outlined five subjects | for discussion during the afternoon | session—land-clearing, commun- “Mr. McGuire said there are two | ity co-operation, county bonds for reasons for no land clearing com- spanies being in operation in this section. One is the fact that the j land clearing, andcheap dynamite. The meeting was an outgrowth of the recent convention of the farmers hayen’t the money topay cash. the and without clearing. “The clearing of Iand shouldbe | 8. Mitchell, George W. Empey, and the business. of the state,” said ‘Mr. McGuire. “If the state cleared | call the meeting at Duluth. The second reason is that | association at Hinckley. ‘the land companies prefer to sell meeting a committee consisting of Northern Minnesota Development At that °F, R. Duxbury, D. E. Willard, C. W. R. Mackenzie was appointed to er ! ic { i “game wom, ssenen; to four, in the last-half of | the ninth inning, when Shortstop Lee was fouled by a runner on the »Keewatin. team as he, was in the ; oct of fielding a grounder. This | perfor mance the Grand Rapids d, development agent players objeeted to and the um- ed the runner out. A num- of the Grand Rapids players ices, ald | left the grouncs and the spectat- were followed by Charles T.|ors were dispersing when. for some y. Talking of land-| reason the umpire reversed his de- cisicn ard called the play fair and the runner safe. As a number of the Grand Rapids players were elreacy far away and could not handily be recalled, the umpire gave the game to Keewatin, claim- ing it was forfeited. A A demand has been made upon the Keewatin committee for the | $£0 and steps may be taken to enforce payment. AWORD. TO THE | WISE ON’T be a pessimist. A pes- simist is.never wise. He only sees the other fellow’s advantage—not his own. The average merchant is a pessimist about the parcel post. He sees~ in it only an advantage to the mail order house. But if he would look a little further he would see in it possibilities for his own development hitherto unsuspected. By means of it he can reach” every customer within’ fifty miles of him more cheaply, more quickly and more satisfactorily than any mail order house in a big city. He should hasten to make the buyers in.this territory acquainted with this fact. Then he should back up his advertised claims for his goods with abso- lute fidelity. The seque! will be inevitable success. 4 WATCH HIM GROW. a IAITC AITIMAIAS It may be taken up| was aceorded them at Kee-/, the understanding} oul threw his arm out: at the shy er, but the injury_was at once remedied and he continued i in the.game, although he did not at- tempt any more fancy throws. Mort Tayler, first baseman for the cleviks, sprained his ankle and has sinee been navigating on crutches, but as he hit cut the only home 1un in the game, he says that he dees net mind the injury. A fair sized crowd witnessed the tmanuevers, and made up in enthu- | siasm what they lacked in num- | ~ CTS. { Clerks Respond Slowly The new law ordering all town } : jgages’ and cther conyeyances in ; their custody recorded in the of- fice of the register of deeds has no* met with very general response in Itasea county. The only officials whe have thus far complied with the law are these of Grand Ra- town: and village, Bovey... lageyand Marcell and Deer Riv | Lowilships. As there are over ro ;towns and Villages in the county, the rest should get busy and bring in their reports in order thatthe ‘records may. be completed. Clerks are allowed a mileage fee of 10 cents .per.. mile for taking docu- Hurled Stone at Sweetheart. Herman Risinen of Keewatin must serve a term of twenty-five |. | days in the Itasca county jail just because he is of a jealous, suspic- ious nature. It seems that upon go- ing to call upon the lady of his ehoice the other evening over at xeewatin, he found her in the company of another man, and this so angered him that he hurled a icck threugh the window at the pair. He was arrested and fined twenty-five dollars, which he was | unable to pay. He will therefore (‘put in the time at the rate of a dollar a day with Sheriff Riley. Likes Life at Soldiers’ Home. Robert H. Bailey, who recently left Grand Rapids for the old Sol- diers’ home at Dayton, Ohio, has written to B. L. Lieberman de- scribing conditions there. Judge place, plenty to eat, clothing fur- nished and permission granted to wear civilian clothes outside home grounds if desired. The in- mates go to bed at 8:30 androll out at 5:30, have breakfast at 6, dinner at 12 and supper at 5:30. Mr. Bailey is going on the police $10 per month, the duties consist mostly of sitting around and do- ing nothing. . He sends Mr. Lieberman the money with which to pay off a number of small accounts, asks to be. remembered to all the old friends and demands particularly tohave the Herald-Review sent to gain. A Challenge. The Has-Beens, an organization formed for the purpose of show- ing the natives how the game of base ball used to be and ought to played, hereby challenges the ches- ity clerks to a game to be played at any time within a week or ten c In ‘FALIRI IR Ae and village clerks to have: mort- | ‘ments to the county seat. ! Bailey says that it isa first-class | the } July 1, and while the pay is only; FOR ROAD WORK DONE $1,402.61 for Work Done on Thief River Road, . After having been before the of Mitchell & Co. against the coun- ty of Itasca has been decided in favor of the company. The ase was brought to compel payment for extra work done on the Thief Ri- ver road in the summer of 1912. Upon completion of the work, County Surveyor Brown refused to approve the bill for any greater sum than the contract price, al- though the company claimed that ; work other than that included in the specification had been found absolutely necessary. Surveyor Lid- berg, who succeeded Mr. Brown, made an estimate of the work done and recommended to the commissioners the payment to the firm of the sum of $1,607.90. Sev- eu taxpayers secured a restrain- ing order preventing the payment of the money, and Mitchell & Co. brought suit. The amount of the judgment with costs will bring the total up to about the sum. recom- mended by the surveyor and al- | lowed by the commissioners. MISSIONARY MEETING ‘OF SWEDISH LUTHERANS Many Clergymen Will Visit Grand Rapids and Pastor Will be Called. A missionary meeting of the Swedish Lutheran church will be held at Grand Rapids, on Monday, July 14. It is announced that there lwill ke about a dozen clergymen cn the — a Mon Tuesday. The stbject. for sion on the first evening will be: i ‘“Cen a person be Held Responsi- ble for His Own Condemnation?” with introductory remarks by Rey. Dr. Krantz. The sermon, on Tues- day evening will be in English, and will be delivered by Rev. Ryden and Rey. Thoren. At the meeti: will also be issued by the ,congre- gaticn here for a ashe to fill th local pulpit. x \ BEAR RIVER ER PEOPLE WANT COUNTY FAIR The Duluth News Tribune says that the Bear River Farmers’ club at a recent meeting decided to make some changes in ‘the plan of conducting their business in orde that a large number of the mem- | bers may be utilized for active work in promoting the. welfare of the community. As a measure of promoting greater efficiency com- | mittees on publicity, agriculture, entertainment and finance were named with from five to fifteen / on each committee, the agricultural committee being the largest. Plans were put on foot for hold- ing a tri-county fair—Koochiching, Itasca and St. Louis counties—at Bear River, August 25thand 26th, with a two days’ session of Farm- ers’ institute. In addition to holding the tri- county fair, plans are also on foot for capturing the community prize tat the St. Louis county fair at Hibbing, and the Itasca county fair at Grand Rapids. There is much in- terest in the competitive commun- ity exhibits already on and the old maids and bachelors have join- dd hands to win the first prize for the Bear River Farmers’ club in all three counties. Give The Baby Water A Grand Rapids business man who sometimes takes notice of things when he sees them says that a great many times on the trains or other places when little babies have “cried their heart out” in the heat he has gone and given them a little cold water and al- raz, PRP Puaiir =~ acall! youngsters with their parents, the! DESTRUCTION OF ~ BOULEVARD TREES Shacks 0 Lainey andi Thastenstibi.eb Shade Towcn’ te de: comodate Flectric Wires Should be Prohibited. The. “City Beautiful” and the courts for nearly a year, the case| Electric Light and Water commis- sion are confronted with some- what of a problem. The city hag laid out a street boulevard system: on which many citizens have trans- planted shade trees at’ consider- able expense, care and labor. They constitute*the most valuable asset of the municipality from the artis- tic view point, and in which ev- ery citizen feels a personal interest and pride. These trees should ‘be protected with jealous care, be- ceuse their real value is inesti- mable. The beautiful branches of these trees, in many instances, have stretched out and up until they are mingling with the elec- tric wires, and the contact makes a ground current, charging the trees with electricity. Along comes ‘Mr. Line Repairer of the electric department, who proceeds to mer- cilessly slash off the interfering branches without regard to re sults. One instance of this van- dalism was called to the attention of the Herald-Review this week. A beautiful elm at the corner of Sixth street and Kindred avenue in front. of Postmaster McVicar’s residence, Has been practically ruined in this manner. The bran- ches were hacked off and left hang- ing in the tree as they fell. When Mrs. MeVicar appeared and pro- tested against the destruction of the treethe, workman calmly. in- formed her he had authoroty from the commission» and Mr. MeVicar’s permission to remove the bran- ches. She at once called up her hus- band whom she found to bein en- given the men employed under them. In the meantime the tree wae practically destroyed. A number of other trees have been. similiarly treated. Whoever may be at fault boulevard trees must cease. The trimming process would be ayear- ly aceurrence and in a short time | the trees would all be hacked to death. The electric wires properly belong in the alleys. Why they wers net put there originally is beyond ithe Herald-Review’s power to ex= plain. What is true in this respect of Grand Rapids, however, is true of nearly every ‘town in the coun- try. It is to be presumed that the early village authorities felt there was some reason for erecting the unsightly poles in the street. Be- cause of this however, is no reason why they should remain there. Che time has come for their ,re- tiremennt to the alleys, evidently, and rather than destroy one tree the work of stringing the wires in the alleys should be instituted forthwith. Wife-Beater Arrested. John Gothard of Deer River was brought to the county jail charged with having beaten his wife to such ,en extent that her injuries were for a time deemed dangerous. Jus- tice Tellin at Deer River, before whom the case was first brought, centinued the hearing for ten days, gwhen the case will come before Judge Kearney. P, M. Examination for Swan River. | An examination will be held at Grard Rapids on Saturday, July 26, before O. A. Radke, deputy post= master and local secretary of the civil service commission, of par- ties who wish to serve Uncle Sam as postmaster at Swan River. The compensation received by the * postmaster at Swan River during the past year was henna A Good Man in the Rigi Right Place. = B. Hershler, well known to many of our people through hav- ing made this territory as a tra- veling salesman for a number of years, has become the manager of the new Rex Hotelat Moose Lake. The building is 30x117 long, ‘and one of the ar, tire Jeporence of the pipoeedine:. . ‘the work of destroying the” city’s - -