Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 23, 1913, Page 2

Grand Vapid Vor, XXIV. No. 3 erald-2 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 1913 Minn Hisserical Society ST PAUK\—_ \ view, Riis Jit ee VALI, SOcieT Y. Two Dollars a Year HIGH SCHOOL WILL HAVE MORE ROOM Forty Thousand Dollar Structure to be Added to North End of Present Building. PROPOSITION CARRIED TWO 10 ONE Twelve New Rural Schools Author- ized in Different Sections of the County — Meeting Largely Attended. At the annual school meeting held at the Village hall Saturday the people decided, by a 80 to 41, to erect an addi- tiom to the high school building at a cost of $40,000. Twelve rural schools were also provided for at 0. called to order Burgess of the eveni vote a total cost of The meeting w by Chairman C. E. board. E. C. Kiley was elected mod- | erator and J. D. Doran, secretar The annual reperts of the clerk and treasurer were read and that of the treasurer ordered published. Twelve rural schools, at a total cost of $9,200 were authorized at- ter a short discussion. They are localed as feiicws:One in Ticut Lake township, £800; an addition | to the present building at Trout Lake, $1000; new building at Dora Lake, $1000; additional buildings at ‘Max, ; pew school at north end of Squaw lake, $600; new build- ing in southeast corner of Wawina township, 0; new building in towiship 24-30, near Bergville, $12- 60; new beilding in township 62-25 $600; one in: township 148-29; $600; new fat exst end of Deer Lake sclic! ~woschool in t.wn of Good 400, cew butlding in’ town S800, These way, the principal preliminaries out of the business of the of authorizing an ex- penditure of C00 for an addi- tion to the high schcol at Grand Rapids, was taken up. There seem- ed to be no division of opinion as to the necessity of the improve- ment, the sole question apparent- ly being whether or not it were not Letter to wait a yeur and see if certain develcpments now go- ing forward in the neighborhood would materialize. If this proved to Le the case, it was the opinion of many that the district had bet- ter get along for another year, as at that time it might be found! that any provision now made would be inadequate. evening, that Superintendent A. E. Freeman of | the schools, spoke of the crowded condition of the building at pres- | ent, and maintained that the best of work cculd not be done in the space now allowed to the different depariments. He was followed by Miss f‘orence Burlingame, who spoke of the handicap under which both ed, and presented many arguments gcivg to show that more room was absolutely nec py. C. C. MeCar- thy, Ralph Stone and others, also made telling addresses in favor of the extension being made at this time, contending that the commun- ity’s future prospects had nothing to do with the matter—the build- ing was too small for the school population already here. No one spoke in opposition to the bond | issue, although that all present did not share the views of those advo- | cating the improvement was evi- denced when the matter came to, a vote. There were 80 votes in fa- vor of the measure and 41 against. | Many explained their negative vote after the meeting by saying that | should Grand Rapids go forward at the rate now confidently expect- ed of it, this high school would not be adequate anyway, and pro- vision would have to be made ina year or two for still another bond issue. The majority of those pres- ent, however, seemed to consider | the urgency of the matter, and voted to build at once. A street carnival concern is look- ang for a Grand Rapids date. buiiding to replace Freestone‘ Off for Aurora. The competing team of the Grand Rapids Fire department left yesterday for Aurora, where the tournament will be held during the remainder of the week. These at- tending are: Leo Sutton, Joseph Cloutie Arthur Cloutier, Fred Bentz, Clem Doran, Hugh Logan, Lester Lofberg, Wallace Aitken, David Kribs, Otto Litch'ke, Edward Farrell, Allen Doran, Thomas Me- Veigh, William Powers, Lon Pow- ! , Henry Graffam, Edward Mur- phy, John Benton and Albert Ho- fer. The members of the base ball team left this morning, an will EXPERIMENT FARM —WGITED BY DEAN ity Pay Visit to Institution at This Point. ‘RECLAMATION OF SWAMP LANDS |play the Aurora team today. GETS TIRED OF LIVING; DYNAMITES HEAD OFF Finnish Farm Laborer at Trout Lake Concludes He is of No Ac- count in This World. Osear Aho, a Finnish farm labor- er about 30 years old, living near here committed suicide Sunday af- | ternoon by blowing his head off | with dynamite. Aho walked from his boarding place to where several men_ were | putting up hay and told them that | after figuring the matter he had come to the conclusion that he was of no account in the world and had better leave it. He then ‘precuced a piece of dynamite with a short fuse attached, and ig- niting it, held it on top of his head with both hands, calling out to the workman: “Now watch me.” The explosion shattered his head com- pletely and both hands were | blown off. The men who witnessed the deed said that they could have done nothing to prevent the man from destroying himself even had they known that such was his inten- tion. The fuse was so short that any attempt in this direction might* have ‘caused the death . of anyone approaching. The causal aud: rational way in which Aho spoxe, however, convinced them all that he was joking, and they did not attempt to s:up him. Sheriff Riley and Deputy Coroner Peterson of Coleraine, viewed the remains and | rought them here. No inquest will be held. NASHWAUK RESORT RAIDED BY SHERIFF Five Women Arrested and Fined For Running Unlicensed Drinking Place. Deputy Sheriffs Carson and Gun- derson returned early Sunday r ling from Nashwauk, where they had arrested five women for illezal selling of intoxicants. The | Brown, Jessie Wilson, Myrtle Pe- tevson, Amelia Gardner and Dolly Gibson. They were arraigned be- fore Judge Kearney Monday and pleaced guilty. A fine of $25 and j costs wi imposed, totaling $42.- | £0 each. The fie was paid by the | Brown woman who left to secure |funcs with which to secure the | release of the others, but she has ‘eacher and pupils now labor-| thus far failed to show up, and the | others are still in jail. ; ‘Lo anyone who has observed the j activity of Sheriff Riley’s office in arresting and securing the con- | viction of people of this character | it would seem that it would hard-, | ly be worth while to evade the law | in Itasca county, but every little ; While a raid is made that discloses | | the fact that undesirables are still trafficing in the community. The | sheriff jurisdiction of people of this kind, lut it} seems hard to make them ‘understand it. This is only one of a half coezen raids in which the culprits have been punished, and the sheriff says that the program will be continued un- | til it is thoroughly understood that Itasca county will not harbor peo- ple of this character. —— ae 1 Odd Fellows Install. | Grand Rapids Lodge, No. 184, I. : O. O. F, held its annual installation of officers on Wednesday evening: last. The following were installed by Deputy District Grand Master | ' George Riddell: Noble Grand, Will-| jiam Lehman; vice grand, Elmer | Brock; recording secretary, William | Maddy. over, | women gave their names as Gladys is determined to rid his! captured and: Visitors Do Not Believe That This | Would Prove a Paying Invest- | ment—Crops in Fine | Condition. Dean A. F. Woods and Ex-Lieu-| euant Governor A. E. Rice of Wil- tur, agricultural committee of the | > hee ! university of Minnesota, were here }cn a tour of inspection to the jjocal experiment station the first jof the week. They expressed ! themselves as being highly pleased with the appearance of things at the farm, and complimented Supt. McGuire very highly on the suc- ; cess of the season’s work. In conversation with the Herald- Review, Dean Woods said that the committee’s visit was prompted at this time primarily by a desire to. lancs in the neighborhood with a view to ascertaining the possibil- ity of draining them and thus Lringing them under the head of 'proaucing acres. In this connec- tion Dean Woods said: “These swamps are nearly all sour blue- berry marshes and would require a tremendous amount of lime before the soil would be sweetened suf- Ticiently to carry any kindof cul. tivated crop. In time the drainage of these lands may become practi- catle, Lut it will have to be done cn a large scale by the state, as the cost would be too great for in- dividuals, or even for local com- munities. There is really no very great need for attempting the cul- tivation of these acres as there is plenty of land that the labor might Le expended on that would bring Ligger and surer returns. The swamps should be devoted to hay, es they will carry good crops of this staple even in their present condition.” ; After completing’their inspection, Dean Woods and Gov. Rice spent the remainder of their stay in this neighborhood at the summer home of Prof. W. M. West, at Pokegama lake. Don't Kick Against a Stone Wall — 1CKING a stone wall does no good and only prevents 1 further progress. As a pastime it may furnish some exercise, but it is extremely wearing on the nerves, shoe leather and i temper. The parcel post is a stone wall that the small mer- chant thinks falsely he has rea- son to kick. It has brought bim increased competition with the i qaail order houses, according to { his view. t But the parcel post stone wall bas a hole in it that leads the small merchant into a fertile country where his erstwhile competitors can only follow aft- er considerable delay and at greater expense. The “hole” is the zone system, which makes every merchant the center of a circle whose diameter is 100 miles, within which be can de- liver goods much more quickly and at & lower postal rate than any mai! order house. The parce! post is no longer a theory, but a fact; and facts, like stone walls, are futile things to kick. Take advantage of what it offers instead. ————— Ss sS- ClUTl ee ele Agricultural Committee of Univers- | investigate the condition of bog! IN PUBLIC ROADS Should be Carefully Investi- | gated by Tax Payers. | (5 IT SOUND BUSINESS PROPOSITION? | | | peas el | ‘That is the Question—Ascertain | | What it Will Cost the Average Tax Payer and Then Figure the Benefits | ElSewhere in this issue of the 'Herald-Review is to be found the notice of special election called to |Le held throughout the county on |August 19th, 1913, for the purpose | lof allowing the electors to decide |whetker or not the bonds of taseca county shall be issued in the sum of $300,000 for the purpose of | opening up, improvirg, and gravel-| ling certain roads throughout the ' county, The rcads it is proposed to ex- pend this sum on are specificially set forth in the notice, together with the amount that it is contem- plated such improvements will cost, ard ly reference thereto it will Le seen that these roads reach all parts of the county. The ‘Herald-Review cannot go into an extensive investigation of the matter in this issue, but from the investigation that we Have ymade of the proposition we have no hesitancy in stating that the preposition should receive a un- animous vote of approval at the tors of the county. ‘But at‘ this time we will briefly state the principal reason that act- uates this newspaper in support- |ing the proposition. Since the organization of the county hundreds of thousands of ;Ccllars have Leen raised fer the building and improvement of roads by the county, and while the money has, perhaps, been judiciously ex- |perced, yet for the vast sum that has been raised by taxation there are no apparent attainments in the } matter of having the county cover- ed with a system of roads that will izirg all parts of the county in |close touch with each component ‘part. As a matter of fact, it was |net until the past few years that, roads were laid out with the pur- ipcse cf making them a part of a system that would eventually cover the entire county. Thousands of dollars of both county and township money has been expended upon roads that, as has been aptly put, “Begin nowhere and end nowhere.” ‘she present plan is to con- struct these roads as trunk line | roads, making them the main ar- teries in the road system of the | vecunty, into which all the roads | hereafter built by either the coun- ty or towns will lead, thus event- ually ‘having a net work of roads that will bring the vast acerage of | tillable lands in the county in close connection with the markets of the county. This being’a move in the right direction, the Herald- Review will lend its aid to the con- suination of the proposition, and this is one fo the chief reasons that the aid of this newspaper } will be given to the proposition. The Herald-Review well knows that the financial end of the matter will appeal strongly to the aver- | age voter, but we believe that when it is ‘known that the rate of taxa- jtion for county purposes will not te increased to ary material ex- | tert ly the issuance of the pro- posed bonds, that our people will give the proposition a practically unanimous vote of approval. As stated, we cannot enter into an | extended resume of the facts at this time, but we feel that there is one fact that the average taxpayer should be put in possession of, and that is that regardless of the ‘fact that there is money in the county treasury to liquidate bonds that mature in 4914 and 1915, and leave a goodly balance over, and regard- interest to liquidate these bonds these bonds ($60,000.00 worth), are paid, and the tax levy can be cor- respondingly reduced, and, regard- less of the fact that the amounts so levied can hereafter be applied upon the amounts necessary to be The Proposed County Bond Issue !*vied to pay the principal and in-} terest of the proposed bond issue, it is an absolute fact that ifalevy of an amount sufficient to liquidat the debt incurred by reason of the issuing of these bonds was raised annually during the next 49 years, ard the valuation of the taxable property throughout the county remain the same as at present, $25,591,755.00, it would require an acditicnal yearly tax levy of less than one mill to raise sufficient money to liquidate the bonds, and the interest thereon. One mill levy raises $25,591.76 in the county, a sum in excess of the required | amount to care for the obligation. This would mean that the aver- age farmer and home-cwner would ‘ke called upon te pay a sum less than 75 cents per year additional «ccurty itexes. If the valuation of your property is $1,000 you would } ke called upon to pay $1.00 more yearly; if $10,000 it would be $10.00; if $100,000 there would accrue $100.00, and if you owned property valued at $1,000.000 the tax increase would be $1,000 annually. In its next issue the Herald Review will undertake to give more AN T. | taxation to provide principal ana| INVESTMENT will not again be needed. whey FIRST RECLAIMED TATE TRACT SOLD Twenty Acres Ready For Seeding Purchased by Grand Rarids Young Woman. SOLD AT THE APPRAISED VALUATION Six Hundred Acres Disposed of | at am Average Price of About Six Dollars Per Acre— Mostly Local Buyers The July siate land sale was conducted at the court house on Monday by County Auditor Spang in the aksence of State Land Ag- {ent Nelson. Nearly 600 acres were | disposed of, the price averaging about $6.00 per acre. The reclaimed 40-acre tract in 16-54-24, 20 acres of which is ready for seeding, was sold to Miss Marie Farrell of Grand Rapids, at the appraised valuation of $17.50 per ‘acre. County Commissioner John L. in detail facts and figures that wiil| Shellman secured an 80-acre tract. enable readers to reach intelligent | Other purchasers were: Michael T. conclusions relative to the business Daly of Minneapolis, 40 acres; Jas. status of the proposition as it will | MeVeigh, Grand Rapids, 40 acres; effect taxable property. Marth-Partridge. Jarvis M. Partridge of Grand Ra- pids, and Miss Winnie L. Marth of Barnsville, were united. in mar- riage at the bride’s home. in the latter city on July 16, the Rev. E. Erickson, performing the ceremony The groom is the son of, Mrs. El- vira Partridge, has grcwh up in first graduates of the high school here. He chose a pedagogical caree and has made a success of :his call- ing. He is at present the instruc- tor in science at the schools.in Vir- ginia, to which city the couple will return after the summer holidays. The bride is also a school teacher, having been employed during the past two seasons in that edpacity at, Stillwater. We join in the\eongrat- ulations extended by their. many | friends. Anent Shade Trees. Charles Keath, attorney, capital- ist and extensive land owner of Princeton, evidently reads the Her- ald-Review, of which he is a sub- seriber. The comment herein relat- ing to the destruction of shade trees on the Grand Rapids boulevards seems to have attracted his. atten- ticn, and he enclosed to this of- fice the following supreme court decision on the subject: St. Paul Realty and Assets company, respondent, versus the Tri-state Telephone and Telegraph com- pany, appellant. Syllabus: The license conferred by R. L. 1905, section 2927, to construct and maintain a telephone line in a road or street, is not exclusive of the rights of the abutting land owner, and the rights of each must ! be exercised as not unnecessarily to impinge upon, interfere with or impede those of the other. A telephone company having the right to construct and maintain a line upon the boulevard of a public street must exercise due care not to injure trees growing thereon and upon the adjacent property. Evidence held sufficient to. sus- Ernest L. Barlow, Chester, Iowa, 160 acres; Joseph Taranto, Nash- wauk, 40 acres; Tony Palumbo, Nashwauk, 40 acres; Charles C. Rose Bear River, 40 acres; William Hutchins, Rosy, 40 acres. Miss Far- rell also secured two forties ad- joining the reclaimed tract bought by her. jhatéssof the taxpayers~and-elec=}-Grand-Rapide,-amd-was~onte of the’} NASHWAUK.. BEATEN IN GOOD BALL GAME Secure the Small End of 4 to 1 Score Against the Invincibles Here Sunday. Nashwauk has a nine that can alsa play some ball. The fact that they were ail but blanked by the locals on Sunday is no disgrace, be- ;cause “everybocy is doing it” this season. Tho visitors collected a Fenetse assortment of goose eggs up | to the eighth inning, when the lo- cals drepped into a siesta long | cacugh to allow a run to get ‘around to where it counted. Grand Rapids’ score card also showed ‘seven ciphers, they securing two ; runs in the third inning and an- jother brace in the eighth. Bentz jon the mound for the locals was ja star performer, striking out ;eleven men and allowing but four ‘hits. Hicks, his battery mate, play- ,ed his usual consistent game, and the others balanced up well. Aura 'and Carlson, at the points for the visitors,also put up a very good exhibition, but the support be- hind them was more ragged. A | fair crowd witnessed the game. | In Fevor of Building. C. E. Saunders of Bergville was amo1g those who attended the an- nual school meeting of district No. ,One last Saturday evening from ‘distant parts of the district. In ,common with a majority of out of town people he was a strong advo- cate of the proposed increase of | the size of the Grand Rapids high sehool building. tain a verdict for damages to plain- tiff’s trees from defendant's wires Some Fine Attractions. and cable strung along the boule- |; “The Power ci the Cross,’ o26 vard in front of plaintiff's premi-; of the strongest two-reel features ses. a! } presented at the Gem this season, Assignments of error upon refusal will be the offering on Saturday to instruct held without merit. Order affirmed. —PHILIP E. BROWN, J. and Sunday next. The star roles will be played by Arthur Johnson and Lottie Brisco, and these are less of the fact that the amounts. that have been raised. annually. by eC MFCIITFFAL IMATE CYDVNACIIRE favorites here.’ On Friday even- New Instructor Here. ifing a modern drama and a high John Klug, who has been appoint | grade comedy will divide the bill ed by the school board of District | with Pathe Weekly No. 24. ‘No. 4, as the successeor to R. €.) A packed house witnessed the Hoisington in the manual training | presentation of “From the Man- department of the high school, ar- | ger to the Cross” on Monday even- rived here last week. Mr. Klug oc-j; ing. There is nothing of a plot cupied a similar position in the | connected with this production, it schools of Two Rivers, Wis., f(x | doing simply a pictured series of four years, and comes ‘most high-| ireicents in the life of the Sav- ly recommended. Mr. Klug is mar-|iour. The scenes were laid in Pal- ried, and the family -will occupy | estine and Egypt and are interest- one of the Anscott hou: ing from a historical standpoint. _ Ay AY. | 8 I I eet 4 wpe rg soos at rat asi ena A Se } s * i pb