Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 22, 1913, Page 1

VoL; XXIV. No. 15 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDay OCTOBER 22, 1913 250,000 AGRES OF STATE LAND LEFT Public Sale at Grand Rapids Mon- day Resulted in the Disposal of 742.50 Acres, APPRAISER AFTER MORE ACREAGE 15,000 Acres to be Valued and Put on the Market at First 1914 Sale in Month of March. The sale of state land im Itasea county Monday forenoon resulted in, the disposal of a total of 742.- acres for a sum of $4386.25. This total included $475 for timber. The following are the purchasers} Elmer E. Phillips, Bengal 40 acres at $5.00; Frank M. Brown of St. Paul, 320 acres, $5.00 per acre; Bertha Brown of St. Paul, 320 acres 45.00 per acre; B. S. Booth of ‘Grand Rapids, 40 acres, $5.00 per acre; Cyrus Erskine of Grand Rapids, 80 acres, $5.00 per acre; Bernard C. Finnegan of Grand | Rapids, 40 acres, $7.00 per acre; John Lake of Marcel, 39.50 acres $5.00 per acre; John Pohacka of Max, 40 acres, $5.00 per acre. The land purchased by Frank M. Brown and Bertha Brown of St. Paul had $300 worth of timber which they paid, and the 40 acres secured by Bernard C. Finnegan of Grand Rapids had $175 worth of timber for which he paid cash, The sale was conducted by Theodore Nelson of the state audi- tor’s office. According to figures ! given out by Mr. Nelson there are about 250.000 acres of state land remaining in this county. Only 40, 000 of this hag been offered for | sale during the past summer be- cause no more than that had been appraised. At the present hime? a board of appraiserg ¢ msisting | @ E. J. Farrell of Grand Rapids, who the appointee of Governor Eberhart; ThomasWard, represent- ing the Itasca county commissioi ers, and Thomas Fitzgerald, repre- senting the state auditor’s office, are out working on the appraismer of more land which is to be of- fered at the first sale of 1914 to be held in the month of March. It is expected that to the land offered this year 15,000 acres will be valued and added by these men this fall. These figures indicate that there remains much land in this counfy |for the settler and homeseeker. ROAD CONTRACTOR STRUCK HARD JOB About Twenty Men will Draw Wages Until Bonding Company Makes Settlement. The county commissioners) were called in extra session by Chair- man King Thursday and convened at 4 o'clock that afternoon. The occasion for the meeting was the condition of the road contract No. 414. This contract has been held by Ross Noble. He filed a com- munication with the board of com- missioners to the effect that he in- tended to abandon the work and leave the uncompleted contract. At ihe time of the ciose of work he had about twenty men and these came into the Rapids and awaited disposition of the matter. As they, were ready to either work or quit, their wages went on. At.that time there was a total of $2-700 due for material and labor. The greater part of the material had been pur- chased from the Coleraine Mer- cantile Co. The United States Fi- delity and Guaranty compan¥ of Baltimore, Maryland, filed a bond for Mr. Noble at the time of the making of the contract and County: Attorney McOuat thought that his bond insures the county from any Joss. Acting with this idea in mind an effort was made to get a resolution, through the board on ‘Thursday, evening pledging the county to guarantee the payment but Com~ missioners Shellman and O’Brien voted no and so the matter took a slightly different turn. This reso- ‘lution was for the purpose of assuring the Coleraine Mercantile company that the bills would be paid or guaranteed by the county. Attorney Price who represented several of the claimants against tha contract) suggested a plam for set- tlement, which was that the Cole- raine Mercantile company pay all the bills filed against the Noble contract and then wait until the regular meeting of the board on tlh@ twenty-eighth of this month for reimbursements. The failure of a unanimous agreement threw this in the air. It might occur by this arrangement that the Coleraine comcern would have to pay more than would be due from the county and the remainder would have to be collected from the Guaranty company. If the bond shculd hap- pen to be unsound the Coleraine company would be loser unless the commis icrers stcod for the difference. Through Attorney Me- Carthy. Mr. Hermanson, manage of the Coleraine Mercantile com- pany, refused to advance the mone | to straighten up affairs unlers the board would pass the resolution) unanimously, The board concluded by; passing al resolution, directing that the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. of Baltimore, Maryland, be notified that Mr. Noble has abandoned the road contract and that it will be expected to settle up the affairs. The men who have been at work will draw wages until such, settlement is made and it is under- stood this will add about $60 each day of delay. It. was to avoid this addition off expense that a settlement was de- tired by some members of the board, s The amount due to Mr. Noble ati this time from the county is not known and will not be until the en gineer has made an inspection and followed it by a repart. LAYING PLANS FOR A PICKLE FACTORY H. C. Mohoupt, Mgr. of Five and | Ten Cent Store Proposes New Industry for Grand Rapids. H. C. Mohoupt, manager of the Five and, Ten -cent store of this place, has recently proposed the establishment of a pickle factory. here and he expects fo put the pro position up to the Booster club an the other businesd men of the vil- lage in a short time for considera- tion. He says that the Mohoupt Brothers will donate a lot on whici to erect a factory building and will take stock in such an undertaking, The plan would betoget |the matter under way in time to secure con- tracts with farmers around here or in territory within hauling dis- tance of the factory to assure sufficient crop to operate the facy tory next fall. The same plan was used to start, a similar undertaking at Princeton, a few years ago and it has succeed ed beyond the wildest dreams of | Northern was slightly delayed Mon-' 33- 34. its sponsors. The farmers there made contracts to raise acre and half acre plots of pickles and in,| Bena at two o'clock that morning. | 37. that way the factory was supplied |The special car of C. 0. Jenks of |38- with an abundance of product the first year of operation. If it would be thought necessary | Hitched to the 12:30 passenger go-| 43 to erect a building along the track,|iM@ west and the special car and | 4 a location, could no doubt be se- cured f(® a nominal rental. At, Princeton such a contract was had with the railroad for land at an, regular rental of $5.00 per|month, This question is deserving of con- sideration, by Grand Rapids boosters. | inry Pioneer Lady Answers Call. Mrs. Phillip Bennet of Taconite died at her home Tuesday. She an her husband came from the south- em part of /this state a number of years ago. After a short residence at Coleraine they moved to Taco- nite five years ago. The husband and three sons are left to moumy the loss of a loving wife and mother. | MARY BALAOADS 10 THESE PART ; Buildiag Era for Koochiching, Itasca and Beltrami Counties is Just Approaching. SOO LINE TO. MAKE EXTENSIONS ' | Line to Big Fork Which Will Give Through Line to Deer River. Information which comes from dependable but unofficial sources is to the effect that railroad build- ing will be carried on) toga great ‘extent in Keoochiching, Beltrami, ‘Itasca and other of the Rerthern counties within the nextgyear and that the Soo line will have a direct line into Internafional Falls. The roposed extensions and develop- ments are confidently expected by the commercial clubs of the variou border towns. The Minnesota, Dakota & West- ern, built and operated by the | Backus interests, has a line paralle |ing the Rainy river westward from International Falls ta/Loman and the survey has been made for the extension westward, reaching out toward Thief Rver Falls. Another line of this road is that from Little Fork reaching south, through the timber country and twhere 500 men are now at work extending the line toward Big Fork, which will give a through | connection with Deer River on the dine through Jessie Lake-and Bow- i string. Two visits of President Penning- ton of the Soo lin ;tc tui section recently has given credence to the belief that the Soo is interested int the vast section of country which would be traversed by a line of road reaching westward from In- | ternational Falls to its main line lat Thief River Falls and also south j from International Falls through /500 Men Now at Work Extending MUCH INTEREST IN PIANO CONTEST Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Have Entered The Race and Are Hustling Votes. WH GRADE $409 INSTRUMENT Te be Givea Away by the Herald- Review and Allen Dry Goods Company to Lady Re- ceiving Most Votes a No goubt you have heard and read Something about the piano contest. And you are wondering how any one can give away such a valuable prize, without increasing he high cost cf living. Well, this i the way of it: The object of he Alen Dry Goods Co. and the erald-Review is to inerease busi- ness. The Allen Dry Goods Co. ‘wants to show you that you can do better trading with them than elsewhere, and the Herald-Review wants to prove to you that it is a better paper than ig published e| here in Itasca county, ie Allen Dry Goods Co. issues transferable trade certificates with every purchase, and the Herald-Re- view issues 3,000 votes with each! Tefewal of a subscription or a new subscriber. Some one is going to win so get in the game and per- haps it will be you. Look up your number in the piano contest. and see where you stand. If you are a few numbers behind, keep: on boosting and per- -you can get in the lead next The ‘piano is he first prize to the one getting the most votes from Oct. 41, to Merch 14, 1914. The second prize is well worth going after, a handsome twenty year watch wih Elgin works. The third | prize is) a watch with a ten year case. Fourth prize is a beautiful Uhrae piece silver toilet set. . is S 4 No. Votes | so. Votes Deer River to a point on its main | ; 10,000 9,100 line of road in Cass county. Only; 2 10,640 10,200 a few miles of construction are; 3 peg Lips required to make the southern con-) . pe poo nection. 6 2,000 9,300 Another line in the northern | 7 ages ee counties, ~vhich has been surveyed 4 ohne ae and which, in operation would tra-| 49 2,000 9,835 verse the largest section of the |11 12,000 state now without a railroad, is the 11,700 proposed, Canadian Northern ecut- aves off, leaving the Winnipeg-Port 9,900 Arthur line at Beaudette and join- 10,100 ing the Fort Frances-Duluth line 9,000 at or near Cook in St. Louis county pt laine a 11,000 G. N. GENERAL SUPT “som oN 1 stan 23. 9,200 IN WRECK AT BENA|:: ‘te 5 11,800 Re ge 26. 9,900 C. 0. Jenks Passenger on Train|27 —— That Was Ditched by a ‘3300 Broken Rail. ane The train service on the Great 10,000 10,000 day on account of an accident be « " 3! - 10,100 which oceurred two miles west of 11,000 9,300 9,400 Superior, general superintendent 2 me of the Great! Northern, was 4 11,000 _ 10,300 9,100 sleeper ahead were thrown from|*+- Ee the track. The cause was a broken “a bs rail. 2,420 Deputy Sheriff Gunderson was 0 _ the passenger and with many of pes the occupants of other cars went ‘2,000 to the scene of derailment. No in- Lets juries were reported among the oc — cupants of the sleeper but Mr. tae Jenks was pinned.under his car, 10,000 and then, to add to the excitement — a fire broke out in the special car. 5 ot Before he was extricated from {the yer debris serious burns were received 9,200 about the face and’ hands. 8,300 2,000 C. C. Peterson of the Itasca Dry pee Goods company, was a ] of thd week: 4 10,000 Club Will Hunt Deer. The approach of the deer ‘humt-— ing geason is causing those inter- esied im that sport to make preparations for it. The frequency, of hunting close to the Rapids or for that matter close to any village will make the game scarce so that in order to be sure of securing the al'oted deer the hunters must go farther back from! settlements. Fred Bentz of Grand Rapids be- Jongs ‘o a club the greater part of whose members are located at Col- eraine and whose members are jmaking preparations to go on the usual two weeks hunt in a territory near Bear lake. The country where they will chase the deer is located in. 60-23 and 24. John Griffin of Bovey is the treasurer anid each’ member has to put in $15 for the expense of the trip. Two teams will be taken, one of which is to be a driving team. It, will be used in case any of the members get sick or hurt. The start will be made about November 7. One day and a half will be take to go to the field and two days to HUNTER 1S SHOT NEAR BALL CLUB William Githbloch, Former Grand While Hunting Near Home. SoS rae 17 YEAR OLD SON OF 6. W. GITHBLOCH Funeral Services Were Conducted: at Local Roman ; Church at 8 o'clock: Tuesday Morning. Grand Rapids friends of the B.'N. Gilhbloch family, formerly of this village but now residing near Ball Club, were shocked Sunday by the build camps. The club would take| intelligence that William, the 417 several more and it is possible tha thdze will be found to go from Grand Rapids. ee A NEW DEVICE FOR THE TELEPHONE LINE Crew of Men Here This Week on Way. From Duluth to Grand Forks. The telephone company has a crew of men in the village this week making some improvements on the lines which promises to as- year-cld son. while out hunting Saturday about 11 o'clock, accident- ally shot himself. the effect of which was almost instant death. The dead boy, with a smaller brother, was out hunting, and Wil- liam climbed upon a stump to get a good view of a small swamp, Oa gelting aown the trigger of the shot gun struck against a slip) of bark and the gun was discharged. ‘The load of shot went intg his breast. The farm home is six miles from Ball Club but the wagon road to that place 1s about 14 miles, and 30 @ neighbor, Julius Tasher. and a sure much better long distance talk| other of the boy, Edward Gith- ing facilities. The improvement is the placing of a “Booster Coil.” This is a coil which is attached to the line every eight miles. One only _ will be-put in Grand Rapids on a pole across from the Pokegama hotel. This crew started some time ago from Duluth and will travel west, putting one of these every eight miles until they meet another gang of men who are doing the same thing along the line from Grand Forks. This is practicaly a new device designed tq eliminate some of the noises which obtrude while the line is in use and it will also j increase the volume of the voice over the line. It is generally calle the Pupin coil as a man by that name invented it some years ago. It was, however, so expensive that, its: installation was not attempted until its utility and durability was thoroughly demonstrated. The putting of these coils on the line fron: Duluth to Grand Forks will be the first use of it west of Chicago. iii THE COMMUNITY EXHIBIT AT WARBA block, drove with the body a dis- tance of 30 miles {o Grand Rapids. Mr. Githbloch and family lived at Grand Rapids for about six years, but two years ago they moved to Arriving at|Cohasset they hired a team to go back to the Githbloch farm and bring the parents. They arrived here Monday. The funeral was held from the Catholic church at 8 o'clock, Tues- day morning. The sympathy of many friends is extended to the be- reaved parents and members of the tamily, | SUNDAY SCHOOLS TO HOLD CONVENTION Every Organization in Itasca County is Invited to Send Delegates— Good Speakers Coming. Rev. A. A. Myers, Grand Rapids. secretary of the Itasca County Sune day School Union, has announced the date of the fall convention to ‘|be held in the Presbyterian church Grand Rapids, on Thursday and Friday, November 6 and 7. A treat is in store for all interested in the Sunday Schools. The special- ists to be present are: Miss Eliza- beth Kilpatrick of Corinth, Miss.; The community fair at Warba on Mrs. Jean E. Hobart of Minnea- Friday, Oct. 24, is attracting atten- tion of all within driving distance of that place. Much interest has been noted in the gathering, and it is expected that creditable repre- ‘sentations of farm ;products jwill be shown on that date. The schools especially are asked to display any work that hag been done./ All schools near are invited to participate. Poe Wedded in Grand Rapids. Mrs. Martha Edwards of this vil- lage and Rev. Martin V. Briggg of Manistee, Michigan, were married at the home ‘of the bride at eight o'clock, Wednesday evening, Oct. 15 Rev. A. A. Myers, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. The bride has been a resident of thi@ village for five years and is highly respected by all who are acquainted: with her. ‘ The groom is a retired Methodist: polis; Mr. A. T. Powell and Mr. A. M. Locker of St. Paul. Every Sunday School in the county is invited to send delegates. Free entertainment will be proy vided. t Teachers Will Not Attend. _ According to all obtainable in- formation none of the teachers at the Grand Rapids High school will attend the state teacher's con- vention to be held at Minneapolis on the 2% 24 and 25th of this wmonth Supt. A, E. Freeman expects to go from here but tha distance and expense of the trip does not appear to be a very great lure. The trip would cost each} stemcher making it at least calou~ lations, $25. Washing Plant Not Molested. Judge Page Morris in the Federal minister and a member of the|court at Duluth has declined ta Grand Army, holding membership| grant the injunction asked, iy in Old Glory Post of Chicago. which John Munter, a saloon keep- They will make their future|er of Hibbing. asked that the Wis- home in this village. Each) of tha contracting parties has many ac- | i consin Co. be enjoined from ‘washing ore in’ Swan lake. Th plaintiff owns a farm near the % s