Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 3, 1913, Page 1

VoL, XXIV. No.8 Gran {mperfegt Page\\ 4 fre PUBLG SCHOLS OPEN MONDAY NEXT An Able Corp of Teachers Engaged for Educational Work in District Number One. EA. FREEMAN REMAINS AT HEAD County Teachers’ Institute in Session this Week at High School Under Direction of Prof. Young of State University. The schools of District No. One, including the Grand Rapids public schools, will open for work on Mon- day, September eighth. The entire ‘staff of teachers has been selected with great care, and it is believed) that we shall havethe most effi- cient year in the history | of the schools. At the present time a County Teachers’ Institute is be- ing held at the high school under ; the direction of Prof. Young of the University and Miss Grace Sher- wood, former Superintendent of Mower County. All the rural teach ers of District No. One are in at- tendance at this institute, and the valuable suggestions received here will add much to the efficiency of the rural school work. Supt. George E. Keenan, Inspector E. M. ruillips | and C. E. Burgess, will have parts} on the program. The Grand Rapids High school is, from now on to be considered the High school of District No. One. ‘Lhe generous provision made fon helping tha) students living outside | the environs of Grand Rapids and! within the ‘district makes it possi- | bie for most all who are ambitious to secure an education to dq so, and makes the ;Grand Rapids High; school their high school. the commercial department of the high school will be in charge of! Miss Eva Cowles, formerly of Miles City, Montana. Miss Cowles’! experience and training ; for this! work warrants the board in believ- ing the! the high standard set by’ this department will be maintain-| ed. Any young man or woman who' can spare any part of the day to! take advantage of its benefits will be permitted to enter the classes. ! If only one subject is wanted that’ subject will be allowed the appli-* thave charge of the German class= jIll., will preside over ‘tender, who refused credit, stat- sults of her teaching indicated a very high grade of efficiency. The courses in the college and normal school preparatory depart- ments will contain about the same lines of work as has been offered heretofore. The debating class, which was in charge of Mr. Fra- last year, will be in charge of Mr. Fred Carson. Mr. Carson has | had much experience and training in this line of work and the high standard set by the class of last year will be maintained. A new subject will be introduced; this and newspaper study. The purpose of this course is to train students THE COUNT FR SEP, 25,26 2 Bigger Preparations for Bigger Fair Being Made this Year than Ever Before in Itasca County. the smelters. It is evident the Jones-Laughlin people have enter- ed on their task of determining the extent and quality of ore in this district in a very thorough manner. Two shafts are now being Ss CRO sunk on the Fargo and Buckeye properties and some drifting; will Exploration on Rather Small Scale|be done. Drills are still} being Carried on at Grand Rapids, worked on the Grand Rapids prop- pit % erty. Fargo and Buckeye Properties. The company established and has maintained offices at Grand Rap- ids since beginning work here, ,of the field work. In answer to any cout newepaner stadg, ‘The purpose! OUOD STATE EXHIBIT BEING SHOWN) WHEN WILL OPERATIONS BEGIN ? AG Sawrenpe”” tae sled" raed in the use of the great periodicals and to give them an intelligent survey of the great public ques- tions, and what is being done in the fields of present day endeav- or. ‘The Literary Digest will be the basic periodical of this, course. Miss Florence Burlingame will have charge ‘of this work, Mrs, C,/ B. Webster, nee Kummerer, will} es. Mr. A. A. Atterholt will have! charge of the science department. Mr. Atterholt is a graduate of Oberlin college and is a teacher of successful experience. Miss ‘Mary C. Strickler of Polo, the high: school as its principal. Miss Strick-! Continued on page four, column five. J. M, JONES STABBED. WITH POCKET KNIFE Frank Reigelsperger Becomes An- gered and Jabs Knife Blade Into Stomach and Back The Deer River Times makes the following report of the Reigelsper- ger stabbing affray in that town last week. At about 41245 Thursday neon the businees section of town was startled by. the report that Jack Jones had beer slashed across the stomach with a knife in a bad serap, which was, in part, true. It appears from reports that while in the saloon of George Siverse>, formerly Jones’; Mr. Jones became involved in an altercation with Fran'k Reigelsperger over a matter of credit Reigelsperger wanted for a bottle of whiskey of the bar! ing the proprietor was away dnd had left instructions to trust no one. Jones, it is stated, took a hand and talked ina rough way to Reigelsperger.’***’ Reigelspers ger had been drinking some and was in a quarrelsome mood. In front of the place on the sidewalk tthe two grappled for a moment, when Jones left the battle and President D. C. Anderson, P. P. Elliott and Henry Truempler Have Charge of Itasca’s Display at State Fair. —— The officers of Itasca County among the farmers |gathering ma- terial for the state fair exhibit at Hamline, and as a result ;they are highly elated over the prospects for the biggest coutity’ fair Itasca has ever had. “It’s too bad the real estate men of the county and land holders’ don’t make a united effort to bring’ a large number of prospective buyers from | other states and the southern part of Minnesota to see the exhibits of the farm at our county fair,” salid Review the other day. “It would be the greatest hit they could pos- sibly make in éffectually advertis- ing the splendid agricultural re sources of the county. After be- ing; out gathering up; material for the state fair exhibit and seeing what the farmers are doing,I am convineed we will have the most attractive fair yet recorded for this county. The ;farmers are tak ‘ing more interest, it seems to me, in the coming county fair tnar-ws- ual.” The premium list is now’ be- ing distributed. It has been thor- oughly revised and made to harmo nize with this year’s require- ments. The attractions, aside from the exhibits, will be of unusual interest. A program of entertain- ment is being prepared on a larger scale than heretofore. D. C. Anders6ti, president of the county association, Farmer P.| P. Elliott and Farmer Henry Truem- pler, are at Hamline, this week with the county exhibit for the state fair. If they fail to bring back some high class prizes it will ke due to the fact that/jthose in charge of preparing ;the exhibit were limited in time and were forced to neglect Some of the es- Fait association have been out} Secretary Buell to the ; Herald- | inquiries as to the probable result 5 a . of the preliminary investigations, That is the Interesting Question Be-| y. Lawrence very affably replies ing Asked by the People of {that he only knows what he is di- Grand Rapids and Vicinity rected to do by his superiors, and és whether the Jones-Laughlin com- with no Satisfactory Reply pany, will ever mine any ore in the Grand Rapids district, he has, ' Since exploratory work began resident of the county. : > about six months ago on proper-|. 4 barge ganks fogt aid dimensions ties in the vicinity of Grand Ra- 16 DOW, ge h Oe SORM HODES ‘ ‘ by the Inter-State company at the pids to determine the extent and|Itasca Paper company yards. jIt value of iron ore hereabouts, by|has the appearance of a huge the Jones-Laughlin company of| floating craft that is calculated for Pittsburg, the Herald-Review has|S0me heavy service. The report been appealed to quite frequently|that it is to be used on Prairie for information as to the probable|tiver is absurd. When jit is put wesult of the preliminary tests|into commission it will probably be ‘and “how long will it be before the| found operating on| Pokegama lake. mimes will be opened and actual ot j operations begin in the producing SUE TO RECOVER (er \Candidly, the Herald-Re- : view doesn’t know, and it is doubt- ;fu' if any one does know who will $600,000 IN TAXES divulge the real purposesof the operating company. | This paper | State Will Attempt to Collect onUn- might have carried some very in- . teresting reading each issue based reported Railroad Gross Earn- on unauthenticated rumors’ con- ings From G. N. andN, P. cerning prospective developments,! Suits to recover the largest back |and making ‘pen pictures of the|tax claim in the history of the j future greatness of Grand Rapids,! Northwest, aggregating more than as a result of operating {ron mines | $600,000, alleged to be due on un- let cur front and back doors, ahd|reported gross earnings, will be gp either side. But such a coiirse|begun by the State of Minnesota would - fiave--been poor journal-lagainst. the Great Northern and ism..A neWspaper has no right to} the Northern Pacific railway com-= portray a condition of prospec-| panies, All but $50,000 of this sum tive prosperity to the public of|is charged against the former com- which it jhas no definite knowl-| pany. j Coe In this case it ;would have] Public Examiner Andrew Fritz been an injustice to those already|this morning certified to the tax begets in business here because|commission the amount due. War- ing ore to the Superior port for | no more knowledge than any other PEAT BEDS AS NEW SATE INDUSTRY Expert Makes Investigation and Re- ports on Supply in Northern Part of Minnesota. LARGE FIELDS OF GREAT VALUE A Trip Over Mesaba Ranges Con- vinces Investigator that Immense Industry will Rapidly be De- yeloped in This Section, Northern Minnesota and particu- larly the district tributary, to the Head of the Lakes will have a new industry in the near future, that of peat production. If the result of the investigation now being car- ried on by C. A. Davis of national bureau of mines, Washington, D. C., nationally known as a miner- alogist, comes up to expectations. W. H. Emmons, head of the geology department of the univer- sity of Minnesota, will co-operate with the government experts in their work. Professor Emmons, following a week’s tour of. the Mesaba range as a guest of the Lake Superior Mining institute, de- clared thet there was an abund- ance of peat all through the terri- tory covered by the mine experts. Two or three years development vould give the northwestern states 8 peat industry that compared wit the European industry, he said. “< Peat bogs of Europe have been used for years as a source of fuel, fertilizer and by-products of vari- gue kinds, Comp: it, close= iy rolated to lignite coal, is’ used” for fuel in Ireland and on the Scandinavian peninsula more than any thing else. es “Americans have never fully rea~ ized the value of their enormous peat fields,” said Mr. Davis, “and of the fact that such representa-| rants to be drawn on the companies!'if this survey shows that the bogs tions as might have been made|for the amounts are expected tv would very, likely have induced|be dishonored, when Attorney others ‘to. venture into business|General Lydon A. Smith will be pursuits | when the field is al-|instructed to start suit. Prolonged ready amply supplied. It would|and bitter litigation is expected. also create inflated real estate |Because of the adverse decision in values where there may be no/the recent rate ‘cases, it is said justification for such inflation. that the entire legal force of the For the benefit of Herald-Re-|Great Northern and Northern Pa- yiew readers, however, such in-|¢ific roads will be put to work on formation as we have will be given|the case, and the general belief from time to time, and when this} is that the dispute will go to the as a|United States Supreme Court for cant providing that he shows bY walked home, telling the first per- trial that he can do the work in json he met to send’ the doctor to ity | |his house, that he had been stab- sentials required by the state fair! Pape makes a statement directors of county jexhibits, fact with relation to what is, do- ing or what is likely to transpire, the publie may rely upon it. final settlement. The largest item in dispute is $510,859, the tax on $13,447,703 de- school will include classes in pen-| manship and spelling, stenography, and typewriting, bookkeeping ! and commercial law. What is per-| mitted in this work will be permit ted in any of the jelasses of the | ~ This department of the Sigh Ipod. Dr. Fairnall immediately iiadé examination and found Jones had ar incision through the inner lin- ing of the abdomen, which ap- peared to have beet! made by a small knife point; he did not Stephen Bilodeau Dies. Stephen Bilodeau, age 68, |died Sunday, at St. Benedict’s hospital after a long illness. Mr. Bilodeau was oné of the oldest residents of Grand Rapids: The body was re- moved ta the home of his’ sister, high school, providing the student) think the intestines were injured. A) p<. Bensfield. The funeral took applying for work in them is able to do the work. j A normal department! will be again opened this year. At one time it ,was thought that there | would not be enough students to} take this work| to warrant the beard in opening this department, but # sufficient number have mani-+ fested adesire to take this jwork, and a most efficient teacher has been employed to conduct the classes therein } | The manual trafting department’ will be strengthened by the addi-~ tion of an assistant, Whe will ,also have charge of the work at Black-| berry 4nd Cohasset. Mr. John Klug} of Three Rivers; Wis., and Mr. Harry Vestal will have chargé’ of the work. | A The agricultural department ‘will be presided over by Mr. W.©. Corwin, Mr. Corwin comes from Sherburn, this state, whiere he had ‘charge of |the agricultural depart- ment for a period of two years. He. received his preparation at Cornell Agricultural college, |Ithaca, N. Y. Mr. Corwin will spenda large! part of his time among the farm- -ersand inthe rural schools. <A class in animal husbandry will be|tives have before had’ trouble. Mr-| min Bergman was also suffering from) lake to overflow Mr. Sundloff’s | lief there The domestic science department! dropsy, which has broken ows on'|land. The case will likely be ni ore. ichitately will be in charge of Miss Grace |his leg. Judge Webster’ sent Hitr|at the October term of district | Grand Rapids,|and of course every|t Norton. Miss|Norton had chargejto the Fergus Falls’ dsylati—\court if prior settlement is not | palpate. sre ng of onened in the ‘high school. of this work last :year and the re- «mall cut was also’tade in the back above the hip, but in this the penetration was not deep. Dr. (storeh arrived on the one o'clock train from Grand Rapids and as- sisted Dr. Fairall in dressing the wounds. Jones was rémoved to a hospital at Bemidji on the night train and report from there today is to the effect that he is feeling well and that no complications have set in. Reigelsperger was arrested shorts ly after the trouble and hé ae- clared he did not stab Jones, No knife eruld bé found on his per- son. He was takéi to Grand Rap- ids by the sheriff and yesterday was released on bonds. Reigelsperger’ is a labérérj has lived here about ten years and has & wife and five ghildren. Hight years ago he served on the police foree. Ns Sent To Asylum. John Bergrnan, for years a é6ét- tler near Island’ Lake, was brought to town’ Monday, and induced to go ft. place Monday morning at 9 o’clock trom St. Joseph’s Catholic ehurch, Rey. Father Beuchler officiating. TO CONSIDER ROADS TOMORROW NIGH Booster Club Will Discuss (County Road Matters at Meeting in Village Hall, A call for the Boostei's #f Itasca county has been issued by the offis cers of the club to meet at Village hall tomorrow (Thursday) evening. Matters pertaining to road build-+ ing in genetal will be discussed. Mr. Chas. A. Forbes; assistant en- gineer of the state highway com- mission, will be present to de- liver a lecture, which will be illus- trated with | lantern slides. This will be a good meeting to (attend. ; Sues For $1,150 “8 J. #. Sundleff came down yés|!argé amount of money expended. There are three embryo iron!ducted by the Great Northern “mines” {h the immediate vicin-| from its Minnesota reyenue before ity of Grand Rapids, that are in reporting, on account of payments process of being drilléd and ex-| '0 the Allouez Bay Dock company plored by the Jones-Laugtiliti com-| for hanling ore shipments at “Su- pany, operating as the Inter-State perior, Wis. This covers a period Irom Company, with headquarters| of twelve years and the additional at Grand Rapids. These preliminary|Penalty for nonpayment is 25,542. preparations for| probable future|Other items are $21,822 tax om development have now been going| $683,979 received by the Great on for more than six months. On| Northern on hire of equipemnt August first, the options held by| account, $16,875 tax on $443,803 the Inter-State | company on the received by the Northern Pacific lands being tested were extended for handling freight for other roa by fee holders for another six|@t Minneapolis and Duluth, and months. The locations of these ag = on i Hoe by properties are designated as the|the Northern Pacific for handling Grand Rapids mine, jon section 13, freight at Duluth docks. township 55, range 26, west of town; the Fargo mine on section 2, [town 55, range 25; the Buckeye mine on section 36, rahge 56, range 26, northeast of town; As TO STATE, 7 TO 69 is usual at the beginning of iron; “* —— ors exploratioti work, the nuthber| At thé spe6ial school election for of wish employed have been limit-| District! No One; held at the -Vil- ed to sinall ¢rews. These have been| age hall Saturday événing to vote engaged af drilling, surveying, ete.|% the proposition authorizing the The same p¥operties were former=|#0ard to negotiate the bonds of ly held under option and leasé by|the distrivt, recently voted, t the the Steel corporation, but jfor state at 40 per cent, the vote was some reason were all surrendered.|S°V! Under the direction of the Oliver | 9#! fron Mining company a gréat deal of drilling had been done jand a VOTE TO SELL BOND | Typhoid Fever Henry, the sixt een-year-old son to Grand Rapids on important bus<|ferday from Jessie Lake. Mr. Sun-|AS @ result the ‘Steel corporation] of Mrs. John Sjolund, Oteneagen, iness, which: proved to be’ a mild form of insanity from whieh rela- Deer Riiver News. te dloff has sued 4 neighbor, E. G. Pifher, for $1,150 damage for dam- ig a creck which causes the made-Deer River Nowa, - féck leases on several tracts’ and'|was taken to Grand Rapids Sun- for some time paid advance royal-|day in a very critical condition ties or them. It is the general be-'| from typhoid fever whieh he con- ire valuable deposits of| tracted by overwork and drinking surroundil seven against and 69 in favor of the mn they will ! are extensive enough, it would give that part of the country an industry second only to that of ore production. The development is not a matter of months. There are thousands of acres of bog in north- ern Minnesota and just across the Canadian line and we feel sure that the result of our tests will be surprising to the average business man,” * “We plan to follow the Euro- pean methods « closely as possi- ble, as they have developed a high- ly perfected system of production,” said Mr. Davis. i The climate in northern Minne- sota is ideal for peat growth, ac- zording to mineralogists, being very similar to that of Ireland, where there are nearly 3,000,000 ac- res of bog. The result of the joint investigation of the state and na- tional mineralogists and geologists will be incorporated in ‘a report to the head of the national bureau of mines. ae. Substantial Improvements. The Mohaupt| Realty Company of Duluth, proprietors of the5 and 10 cent store, have - ~~ -s-d the August Johnson building on the south of their present place of business and will move it to thé lot om Second street side. Brock & Carlson have the contract an fare now doing the work. A con: crete basement will be |put in and the two buildings heated by steam: ‘The second floors fof the doubie structure will be fifted up into twenty-two rooms for living pur- poses. The jtwo structures will be connected and the entire first floor used by the Mohaupt company for their 5 and 10 cent business. | Dis- play windows will be put in the building at. the ‘corner of Kindred avenue and Second street. A new cement (sidewalk will be laid be- tween Kindred and Leland javenue on Second street. E Mr. A. L. Sheldon of the First National bank, accompanied by his son, Raymond, Will leave to- the golden wed- of anniversary: Mr. Sheldon’s =