Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 29, 1913, Page 1

Grand Uapids Granp Rapips, Irasca Country, MINN., WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29, 1913 Le VoL, XXIV. No. 16 CLEARING MEET IS A GREAT SUCCESS Many Attend Sessions at Experi- mental Farm and Watch Demonstrations. PROMINENT EDUCATORS PRESEN Specialists From State University and Other Schools Aid Farmers of Northern Minnesota to Get Right Start. The first land clearing meeting | at which actual demonstrations in the work were given opened at the Experiment farm here on Monday morning with farmers in attend- wnee from nearly all sections of the north country. Representative were on hand irom the northern part of Koochoching county and irom as far south as Hinckley. At the opening session Monday morn- fing Supt. McGuire of the farm spoke of the aims of the meeting and gave a short resume of the work that had been done at the institution durin’ the past season. He said that the oat crop was ex- ceptionally goed, going 70 bushels to the acre; barley yielding 60 bushels and potatoes 27 bushels. The hay yield was five tons tothe acre in two cuttings, while fodder corm went: 15 tons to the acre, green weight. In discussing the land clearing problem, the too much for a planted crop. He advocated clearing off the trees and allowing cattle to graze among a Jas a timber reserve that wag a} mighty important part of his wo WARBA TEAGHERS ible assets. The speaker called at- tention to places in Wiscousin VERY SHPCESSELIL where young timber had been, | allowed to stand for 20 years had | at the end of that time been worth | With Community Fair Held Friday in Village Hall of That j Hustling Village. | $106 per acre, or had increased in, | | value at the rate af §5 per acre pen year. He also said that much lim- ber that had been cut down andj ° allowed to rot had a commercial value.. This was particularily true} jof soft woods such as poplar» | which grows fast and is in great} { emand for the manufacture of ex- | | celisior, packing,veneer ceniers and MUCH INTEREST WAS DISPLAYED similar purposes. This is a pro; | duct that is steadily increasing in | i price while it is growing, and he Miss O’Donnell and Miss Stevens , predicted that the man who now | Tek ee ibility for the Pre- started to take care of this part of | : pa ility . his property would be amply re- parations and Arrangements paid in the very near future. tor This Gathering. periment station delivered a mov- ing pneture lecture on land clearin ‘in the evening before a large audi- ence of farmers and townspeople jat the Gem theatre in town. | Different methods now em- (Continued on Page Six) | i Supt. A. J. MeGuire of the Ex- | | The Community fair held at) Warba, Friday, was a great succes all round. The exhibits shown there and the large crowd in at-} jtendance indicates clearly that ther are some real farmers in that vicinity. ‘Lhe eggs, chickens, corn, ‘squash. pumpkins and garden vege- tables of many varieties attest the t that a sudy is being made of GRAND RAPIDS WINS FROM BEMIDJI ELEVEN: ditions and methods of agricul- H ural proceedure in Northern Min- Spirited Contestin Which Good Luck’... <ota. Helped Good Playing Carry | The teachers at the Warba Off the Honors. ‘schools. Misses Lucy Stevens and superintendent said | that he considered it a mistake for | a beginner to undertake clearing ; ‘The Grand Rapids football team ‘Margaret O'Donnell, did the work started the season away from hom in proper shape by winning from the strong Bemidji team by score of 7 to 0 on the latter's field last Saturday. Ih seems from the jreports that the Itasca bunch were @ little the heavier of the two teams, and that hard luck also helped in ¢he defeat of the Be- midji lads. The newspapens from the seat of war give particular praise to the back field of the Grand Rapids team—Lee, McAlpine. | Whalling and Farrell. Especially did the latter cover himself with ,mud and glory Ly his speed in cirs stumps as a very handsome ¢jing the ers; hitting the line vevenue could thus be gotten | and general defensive work. To- from these partly cleared lands. | caijer with. Whaling he backed As an example he said that 50 hea up the Grand Rapids line and gains of cattle had been pestred On | through them were an impossibi- land of this kind at the farm and jjty, The Grand Rapids line-up that the revenue from them was as follows: Powers, !e; amounted to between $400 and $5.0! Moores, 1b; Price, lg; Gilbert. c¢; per month. |'McLean, rg; Riley, rt; Kribs, re; Pr@fessors A. V. Storm and E. | Lee, q; Farrell, fb; McAlpine, rh; G. Cheyney were the speakers | Whaling, lh. Monday afternoon. Prof. Storm’s; ‘The same teamis will contest on qemarks were chiefly devoted to the gridiron here next Saturday. the value of teaching agriculture i the public schoois. ‘of preparing for the exhibit and ‘heli a box supper a few nights before the fair for the purpose of | raising money with which to pay; , the premiums on exhibits. The services of Prof. Corwin of the Grand Rapids schco's were se- secured for the grading work and of Miss Norton, domestid science ‘teacher at the Grand Rapids High choel for grading of the work shown in that line and for a short discourse on. cooking methods. Following the addresses by these teachers, O. J. Niles of the Co-op- erative creamery,was called and in response he urged ihe dairy busi- ness as the proper one for this part of Minnesota. The report of | the agricultural society shows that! last year the 680 creameries in Minnesota did a business of $150,00 apiece. The creamery here did a $25,000 business but paid five cents a pound more for butter -fat than was paid on an average by the! whole of the state creameries. Su 'perintendent McGuire from the Ex ; periment farm arrived while Mr. | Niles was speaking and responded 'to the subject of crop rotation and DWISION 1S MADE OF SCHOOL FUNDS Over Thirteen Thousand Dollars Divided Between Seven Scheol Districts. SWAN RIVER LAD IS RUN OVER Kenneth Palon Struck by Great Northern Train and Both Legs are Cut Off (Be- low Knee.) County Auditor Spang this week made the apportionment of the moneys in the general school fund of the county. The total amount thus divided is $13,224.88, and is derived as follows: $14,966.40 from the state; $1,256.21 from .penalties, interests and costs on delinquent taxes, and $2.25 from fines. apportionment is made on a basis of 3324 pupils in the schools of the county entitled to this aid, being $3.97 for each pupil. The number of pupils and amount received by each district under this division is as follows: District No. 1—1545 pupils,” $6146.94; District No. 2 —735 pupils, $2,924.27; District No. 5—35 pupils, $139.25; District No. 6 ~~422 pupils, $1,678.97; District No. 9—500 pupils, $1,989.30; District No. 10—40 pupils, $159.14; District No. 11—47 pupils, $186.99. Warrants have been mailed to the treasurers of the several dis- tricts whose bond certificate have been filed. The law requires that this bond be filed before the money ispaid to the treasurer and if any of theseeefficers-haye not received the apportionment for their dis- trict, it is because the law in this respect has not been complied | | with. STRUCK BY TRAIN; ~ LOSES BOTH LEGS Twelve-Year-Old Kenneth Palon is Struck by Freight at Swan River Monday Night. Kenneth, ¢he 12-year-old son, of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Palon of Swan River, was rum over by a Great The | Jessie Lake Couple Marry. The marriage of Miss Martha | Erickson and Victor E. Wicklund, ‘both of Jesie Lake, was quietly | celebrated Saturday aflernoon at ; the court house by Probate Judge | Clarence B.Webster. The witnesses | were Miss Signe Wicklund and | Charles Stahl, both of Jessie Lake. ; Mr. and Mrs. Wicklund left town | Saturday afternoon and after a \short honeymoon will make their | home at Jessie Lake. | A marriage liceense has been is- ; sued to John Heikkinen and Miss | Ina Marjama both of Bovey. Selling Timber Land. Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Tinkeyi and Walter Haury were Grand Rapids visitors from Bear River, Friday. They were here to com- |plete a land deal whereby Mr. Haury became the owner of forty acres of land in that township previously owned by Mr. Tinkey. ‘The land has a good lot of timber on it and the new owner is ex- pecting to take that off the coming winter. | FEDERAL OFFICIAL INSPECTING SCHOOLS \ Prof. Foght of Washington, Making Tour of Rural Schools in This Section. brof. W. H. Foght. rural school specialist of the United States de- Two Dollars a Year ————— ee HOOLHAN LEADS POTATO RISES Crop of Tubers Around Grand Rap- ids is Not so Large as Last Year. PRIGE DOUBLES THAT OF tEAR AGO Average Yield Placed Around 200 Bushels to the Acre According to Numerous Reports Received. ' The potato crop is such am inte portant industry in Itasea county that the yield secured by those whor imak@ the raising of that crop & business is a subject which usuale ly receives considerable altenti a ion. This year the yield: hag not been as satisfactory as. mosg- seasons, yet whem the average, is taken and all the reports are» im it, will be found that Irish potatoes still occupy a prominent place among the proaucts that make for prosperity and plenty. | The price last year was} only partment of education at Washing-| about half what it is thie fall. It «on, has been im the village the|will be readily remembered that past week with the particular in-|many sold at 20 cents then, while tention of looking into the admin-|no one has been. asked to dis- istration of School Districts Nos.|pose of their crop for any less. a i and 6. Prof. Foght says that in |figure than 40 cents per bushed mone of his travels has he found |this season and the prospects are conditions exactly as they are pre-; quite favorable for a much higher | sentdd in these two districts of |price than that before the first of Itasea county. He is a strong be-|the year. |liever in centralization of school} The Herald-Review has taken work and he here finds this idea }the trouble to interview some, of carried out to a more complete de ‘he farmers near Grand Rapids re- | gree than at any other ‘point he jgarding the crop. + ; =e has visited./ He believes that the; Wm. Hoolihan, who owns one of ! successful working out of the prob | ‘he finest of farms east of Grand iems that confront the two large | Rapids, had 12 acres and gathered districts in this county is proof |{rom that acreage 3500 bushels. ; that the administration of a large | That, it will be seen, is almost 300 area is feasible from a central Jo- | ushels to the acre. cation. He found that the work) Mike Hagen, near Pokegama lake. done by the schools here included |!aised 300 bushels from two acres everything from the kindergarden | While B. S. Booth, on the ouiskirts up, and that besides the general run of school instruction they in- }clude in their curriculum normal \of the village, picked 125 bushels from a one-half acre plot. O. J. Niles had a field of eight lof dairying, Northern freight traim near. his siudies, manual training, agricul-|2¢res. and the yield was 1,800 ture, domestic science, and all }bushels. Louis Dahl, who resides adjuncts of the very highes: grade | 2a? Warba, tilled a field of four wt cify schools. He will make a|#¢res and gathered 600 bushels repert to the department heads | Mr. Dahl - shipping his crop co spon his reiurn East, and it is ; the range and gives the infcrmation tlhe next decade would show the | necessity of efforts along lines al- together different from those here tofore followed in this country if the production of food products is to keep pace with the growth in population. Already the effects of waste and prodigality are to be seen in the high and steadily grow ing cost of living, and there is no reason to suppose that there will ‘be relief of any kind until the American farmer learns to till his acres more intellignetly. “Mental physiologists tell us.” said the pro- fessor, “that the human mind | NOW READY FOR WORK: The barge, John B., built and equipped by the Inter-State Iron company, is now ready for opefa- | tions on the company’s property. | | 4. would be eating its way into ; the bowels of the earth on the | first practical test of its practica- | | bility as a means of removing the overburden from ore deposits were | it not for the iilness of the chief ‘engineer, William McCorquodale. ; lt is expected the machinery will Mr. McGuire spoke from an actua (Continued on Page Six) BEMIDJI MAN GETS SCHOOL CONTRACT William Jackson Will Build Addi- tion to Building For Sum of $30,107.00 The school board of District No. 1, Tuesday awarded the contract for! the building of the addition to the Grand Rapids high school to Wil; gathers but few new impressions | be put into operation in a day or after a person is 25 years of age. |two.. W. L. Jones, general manager Where, then, should the value of | and vice-president of the Jones conservation of effort and time be | Laughlin Co., accompanied by M. ineuleated if not in school? asked | C. Angloch. one of Mr. Jones’ as- the professor. He maintained that} sistants, were here from Friday the ideas could not be inculcated | last to Tuesday, looking over the too early, and added that there are. company’s operations. ymany things now taught in our, ONCE TT eh schools that might better be done Wealth in Peat Lands. That, Minnescta peat lands, of evaway with in order that these teachings, so vital in importance t | whieh there are several million, the future of the race and the | acres, will prove of great value country, might have greater oppor | is the substance of a preliminary tunities. One of the listeners in- report on the investigations by the terrupted the speaker to ask how | University Farm and the Federal we were going to do away with the government. teaching of superfluous subjects| ¢, A. Davis, fuel technologist ‘of ‘and thus get the time to devote | the Federal bureau of mines, who ‘liam Jackson of Bemidji, for the sum of $30,407. There were four bidders on the general contract, th home on Monday evening. The wheels passed over both legs below the knees, making amputation nec- essary. The lad was delivering milk to a crew of railroad workers stationed in boarding cars on a side track and in crossing’ over did not hear the freight bearing down on him on the main line. He was brought to St. Benedict's hospital here at once, and reports are to the effect that he is doing very well under the circumstance and that his recovery is looked for. Foot Ball Saturday. The Bemidji high school foot ball team will play a return gama at the South Side park here next ngether likely thai the schools that they will bring in small quan- iof Hasca conniy may be cited ag; tities a net price of fifty cents per models. bushel. A.M. Sisler, east of Grand Rapids raised, 1,500 bushels from eight COUNTY ROAD BONDS aang barn vee 7 Po GO AT GOOD FIGURE) "‘stte\cr nex ot noes nave. ao of cattle or pen of | hogs have noe marketable tubers but Mr. Sisler is At the meeting of the board |not bothered in that way. of county commissionres held yes-} The Experiment farm did nob ! terday the county road bonds in| have as large a crop of potatoes | th sum of $300,000 were sold to|fhis year as in some other years the Duluth Securities company,|but the yield was easily an average The price at which the bonds were|The number of acres planted by taken is 4 3-4 per cent. There|Mr. McGuire was six and a yield of were three other bidders, the high 1,300 bushels was/gathered. ather three being from Duluth. |Saturday. The Grand Rapids team There was a difference of but $300 |efeated the Bemidji eleven last between Mr. Jackson’s bid and that| Saturday in the Beltrami town, and! ,of the highest competitor. The} the boys from the West are coming’ j bids were opened last Wednesday, | 40wn with a determination to wipe but owing to the absence from the ;0Ut the stain. This will be the} | ity of Treasurer Dickinson of the |;°2!y game played on the home being about five perc ent. The sale} Glen Strader has become quitea is considered a very advantageous |farmer in the last season and asa result, of his efforts this year re- er ero ports a,crop of 1,100 bushels ot Died in The West. potatoes. Some fof these tha, SWord was received here thisraised near Grand Rapids and the iweek that V. A. Blooc, far many|remainder on his land near Swam years a resident of Grand Rapids |River. He had all together about had died at Fresno, Cal., to which }40 acres, the averace was somewhat ‘board, the award was not made ‘until yesterday. The heating and ,Piumbing contract was not included ) in this bid and this part of the _ work has not yet been let. It will, | however, not amount to more than 310,000, so that the total will be kept within the $40,000 provided ;for the improvement by a recent grqunds this season and the boys | plac#the family moved from here| reduced by the fact that some of should be greeted by a large crowd| about three years ago. Mr. Blood| the field made a very poor yield. The game will be called at 3:30 | was a native of New York and 65| Leroy Wheaton is one who! had sharp. vear@ of age at the time of his|some loss in the crcp during the oe ae cae death. Besides the wife, deceased | freeze. He had 24 acres - planted Will Use Many Horses. . leaves four children: Mrs. Bertha|and was digging them when the There will surely be some log- | Clawson. Mrs. F. E. Bowden, Her-|ground froze. The yield as far as ging operations carried on near | man E. and Roy H. Blood, all of\|the diggmg had gone was about the border this winter! if prepara- | Fresno. lj [j) 200 bushels to the acre but he had to subjects ofmore immediate needs recently completed a study of the “By hammering away at it,” an-| peat swamps in St. Louis, Carlton. swered the speakre. \Itasea, Koochiching, and other bond issue. Injured Man Recovers. tions going on by ‘the Internation- al Lumber company; operating out of International Falls, indicate any- many on the ground, dug but not picked up, and his loss was con4 siderable. According to advices from| Hib- Prof. E. G. Cheyney, forestry ex- counties, informed Dean Woods pert at the university, delivered an that these lands gave promise of address after having given the | wealth in fertility and fuel. in forestry in the field. He main- Mr. Davis also has studied the tained that the farmer with 160 ;Deat industry in Sweden, Germany, class some practical demonstration dtussia, Italy and Canada, and he acres should! make no effort to clear more than half of it, and should learn to think of the balance | declared Minnescta peat is similar and fully as valuable as that utilized abroad for fuel. Word has been received in Grand | Rapids to the effect that Benjamin Wiley who was injured some weeks ago while working with a broncho out at his home near Pokegama lake, and later sent’ to the asylum at Fergus Falls, is recovering and may be able to return'to his hi within a very short jtime, thing. That’ company is to use | bing, P. Maros, an Australian saloon} The 43 acre field on the Ey L 600 head of horses in the woods. The manager, C. B. Kinney, has been to Minneapolis to get a large number which were shipped from the southwest. He expects to go intos the Red ‘river valley to se- eure the remainder of 'the needed. keeper there. ‘has brought suit in|}Buck farm near Pakegama lake is Minneapolis against two confidence] reported to be almost'an entire men. He bet on a horse race! atliogs, Mike Haren, near the Pokeg- Lick Springs, Indiana, last| March |'ama lake had two acres and and won, through an agency con-| produced! 300 bushels, dug’ them ducted by these jmen. They then|'some time aco and put |thenr in. — iT pits where they were!covered with |