Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 29, 1913, Page 2

VoL, XXIV. No. 16 CLEARING MEET IS A GREAT SUCCESS Many Attend Sessions at Experi- mental Farm and Watch Demonstrations. PROMINENT EDUCATORS PRESENT Specialists From State University and Other Schools Aid Farmers of Northern Minnesota to Get Right Start. The first land clearing meeting j at which actual demonstrations in the work were given opened at the Experiment farm here on Monday morning with farmers in attend- wnce from nearly all sections of the north country. Representative were on hand irom the northerm part of Koochoching county and from as far south as Hinckley. At the opening session Monday morn- fing Supt. MeGuire of the farm spoke of the aims of tha meeting and gave a short resume of the work that had been done at the institution durin’ the past season. He said that the oab crop was ex- ceptionally goed, going 70 bushels to the acre; barley yielding 60 bushels and potatoes 270 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 superintendent said | that he considered it a mistake for | a beginner to undertake clearing ; too much for a planted crop. He; advocated clearing off the trees and allowing cattle to graze among stumps as a very handsome revenue could thus be . gotten | from these partly cleared lands. } As an example he said that 50 hea ! of cattle had been pes.tred on land of this kind at the farm and that the revenue from them amounted to between $400 and $510 | per month. “ Prdfessors A. V. Storm and E. | G. Cheyney were the speakers | Monday afternoon. Prof. Storm’s gemarks were chiefly devoted to the value of teaching agriculture i the public schools. He slated that 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 | {which grows fast and is in great | | Different nen as a limber reserve that wag a} mighty important part of his tang- ible assets. The speaker ¢alled at- tention to places in Wisconsin where young timber had been} allowed to stand for 20 years ti at the end of that time been worth $106 per acre, Or had inereased in,| value at the rate af §5 per acre pen year. He also said that much tim-, ber that had been cut down andj” allowed to rot had a commercial | value.. This was particularly true of soft woods such as _ poplary demand for the manufacture of ex- cellsior, packing,veneer ceniers and similar purposes. This is a pro> duct that is steadily increasing in | price while it is growing, and he predicted that the man jwho now ; started to take care of this part of his property would be amply re- paid in the very near future. | Supt. A. J. McGuire of the Ex- periment station delivered a mov- ing pneture lecture on land clearin | in the evening before a large audi-' ence of farmers and townspeople at the Gem theatre in town. methods now em- (Continued on Page Six) GRAND RAPIDS WINS FROM BEMIDI ELEVEN { Spirited Contestin Which Good Luck | Helped Good Playing Carry Off the Honors. The Grand Rapids football team , started the seasor 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. If seems from the reports that the Itasca bunch | were @ litthe»the heavier of the two teams, and that hard luck also helped in the defeat of the Be-; midji lads. The newspapers 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 cling the ends; hitting the line and general defensive work. To- gelher with. Whaling he backed up the Grard Rapids line and gains through them were an impossibi- lity. The Grand Rapids line-up was as follows: Powers, le; Moores, 1; Price, lg; Gilbert. c; ' |'MeLean, rg; Riley, rt; Kribs, re; Lee q; Farrell, fb; McAlpine, rh; Whaling, Ih. The same teams will contest on. the gridiron here next Saturday. | | THE BARGE JOHN BIS | NOW READY FOR WORK The barge, Johy B., built and equipped by the Inter-State Iron population. Already the effecis of | company, is now ready for opera- waste and prodigality are ta be | tions om the company’s property. i seen in the high and steadily grow | it would be eating its way into: ing cost of living, and there is no; the bowels of' the earth on the reason to suppose that there will | first practical test of its practica- | be relief of any kind until the | bility as a means of removing the American farmer learns to till his overburden from ore deposits were acres more intellignetly. “Mental | if not for the iilness of the chief physiologists tell us,” said the pro-| engineer, William McCorquodale. ! fessor, “that the human mind} lt is expected the machinery will - 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. inculeated 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 schools that might better be done ‘away with in order that these Wealth in Peat Lands. | That, Minnescta peat lands, of | teachings, so vital in importance t | the future of the race and the} country, might have greater oppor tunities. One of the listeners in- 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, to subjects ofmore immediate need. recently completed a study of the “By hammering away at it,” an-| peat swamps in St. Louis, Carlton, swered the speakre. ‘Itasca, Koochiching. and other Prof. E. G. Cheyney, forestry ex- | counties, informed Dean Woods pert at {he 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 th tained that the farmer with 160 class some practical demonstration dtussia, Italy and Canada, acres should! make no effort to | declared Minnescta peat is clear more than half of it. andj/ and fully as valuable should learn to think of the balance | utilized abroad for fuel. ;Deat industry in Sweden, Germany: | out at his home near and hej lake, and later sent'to the asylum |the southwest. similar | at Fergus Falls, is recovering and|into-the Red ‘ as thati|may be able to return'to his f WARBA TEACHERS VERY SUCCESSFUL With Community Fair Held Friday in Village Hall of That Hustling Village. MUCH INTEREST WAS DISPLAYED Miss O’Donnell and Miss Stevens Took Responsibility for the Pre- parations and Arrangeiments tor This Gathering. The Community fair held 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 fact that a sudy is being made so.ditions and methods of agricul- tural proceedure in Northern Min- esota. The teachers at the Warba schools. Misses Lucy Stevens and Margaret O'Donnell, did the work of preparing for the exhibit and held 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 choo] 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 the dairy busi- mess as the proper one for this part of Minnesota. the agricultural society shows that last year the 680 creameries in Minnesota did a Lusiness of $150,00 apiece. The creamery here did ja $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 of dairying, | 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; ‘liam Jackson of Bemidji, for the sum of $30,107. There were four bidders on the general contract, th other three being from Duluth. There was a difference of but $300 between Mr. Jackson's bid and that of the highest competitor. The bids were opened last Wednesday, but owing to the absence from the city of Treasurer Dickinson of the board, the award was not made however, not amount to more than | 340,000. so that the total will be kept within the $40,000 provided bond issue. Injured Man Recovers. Word has been received in,Grand Rapids to the effect that Benjamin Wiley who was injured some weeks ago while working with a broncho within a very short jtime. i at | of} The report of | fl OF SCHOOL FINDS Over Thirteen Thousand Dollars | Divided Between Seven | Scheol Districts. SWAN RIVER LAD IS RUN. OVER /Kenneth Palon Struck by Great Legs are Cut Off (Be- low Knee.) County Auditor Spang this week qmade the apportionment of the moneys in the general school fund j 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 $225 from fines. The apportionment is made on a basis | of 3324 pupils in the schools of the \ county entitled to this aid, being $8.97 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 haye been mailed to the treasurers of the several dis- tvicts 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 thesecefficers*haye not received the apportionment for their dis- | triet, it is beeause 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, the 12-year-old son, of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Palon of Swan River, was rum over by a Great Northern freight traim near. his 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 game at the South Side park here next Saturday. The Grand Rapids team defeated the Bemidji eleven last Saturday in the Beltrami town, and’ the boys from the West are coming’ down with a determination to wipe only game played on the home grqunds this season and the boys which there are several million’ until yesterday. The heating and |should be greeted by a large crowd ; acres, will prove of great value piumbing contract was not included The game will be called at 3:30 jis the substance of a preliminary | in this bid and this part of the |sharp. report on the investigations by the work has not yet been let. It will, | Will Use Many Horses. . There will surely be some log- ging ‘operations carried on near who jfor the improvement by a recent |the border this winter/if prepara- tions going on by !the Internation- al Lumber company; operating out of International Falls, indicate any- thing. That’ company is to use 600 head of horses in the woods. The manager, C. B. Kinney, has been to Minneapolis to get a large INTENTIONAL NIIDIICATEC CYDQACIDL NIG MADE The marriage of Miss Marth Erickson and Victor E. Wicklund, both of Jesie Lake, was quietly celebrated Saturday afternoon 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. Tinkey 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. Prof. W. H. Foght. rural school specialist of the United States de- partment of education at Washing- yon, has been in the village the past week with the particular in- tention of looking into the admin- istration. of School Districts Nos. if and 6.. Prof. Foght says that in inone of his travels has he found, conditions exactly as they are pre- | sentdd in these two districts of Itasea county. He is a strong be- liever in centralization of school work and he here finds this idea carried out to a more complete de gree {han at any other "point-ne has visited.| He believes that the | suecessful working out of the prob iems that confront the two large districts in this county is proof , that the administration of a large area is feasible from a central lo- cation. He found that the work done by the schools here included everything from the kindergarden up, and that besides the general run of school instruction they in- !eclude in their curriculum normal siudies, Manual training, agricul- ture. domestic science, and all adjuncts of the very highest grade “ot city schools. He will make a repart to the department heads zpon his return East, and it is ellegether likely thai the schools iof Itasca conniy may be citéd as models. . COUNTY ROAD BONDS PRICE DOUBLES THAT OF YEAR ABD Average Yield Placed Around 200 Bushels to the Acre According to Numerous Reports Received. ' The potato crop is such an inh portant industry in Itasca county that the yield secured by those whor (maka the raising of that crop @ business is a subject which usual This year d: ha been as satisfactory as. | seasons, yet whem the average, taken and all the reports are-im i will be found that Irish potatoes still occupy a prominent place among the progucts that make for prosperity and plenty. | The price last year was} only about half what it is this fall. It will be readily remembered that many sold at 20 cents then, while no one has been. asked to dis- pose of their crop for any less. a figure than 40 cents per bushed this season and the prospects are quite favorable for a much higher price than that before the first of the year. The Herald-Review has. taken the trouble to interview some; of the farmers near Grand Rapids re- garding. the-crop,- “~~ So Wm. Hoolihan, who owns one of the finest of farms east of Grand Rapids, had 12 acres and gathered~ from that acreage 3.500 ° bushels. That, it will be seen, is almost 300 bushels to the acre. Mike Hagen, near Pokegama lake: raised 300 bushels from two acres i while B. S. Booth, on the ouiskirts ‘of the village, picked 125 bushels from a one-half acre. plot. O. J. Niles had a field of eight acres and the yield was 1,800 bushels. Louis Dahl, who resides ‘near Warba, tilled a field of four acres and gathered 600 bushels Mr. Dahl is shipping his crop te ‘the range and gives the infcrmation that they will bring in small quan- tities a net, price of fifty cents per bushel. A.M. Sisler, east of Grand Rapids raised; 1,500 bushels from eight out the stain. This will be the} years a resident of Grand Rapids acres. Those who have no, herd way of utilizing the small and un- 60 AT 6000 FIGURE of cattle or pen of|hogs have no 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 not (erday the county road bonds in|have as large a.crop of potatoes tha 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. being about five pere ent. The sale} Glen Strader has hecome quite a is considered a very advantageous | farmer in the last season and asa one. ‘jresult. of his efforts this year re- ports a,crop of 1,100 bushels off potatoes. Some{of these were near Grand Rapids and the remainder on his land near Swam Died in The West. SWord was received here yweek that V. A. Bloov, far many had died at Fresno, Cal., to which plac@the family moved from here River. He had all together about 10 acres, the averace was somewhat reduced by the fact that some of the field made a very poor yield. Leroy Wheaton is one who! had some loss in the crep during the freeze. He had 2% acres - planted and was digging them when the ground froze. The yield as far as about three years ago. Mr. Blood was a native of New York and 65 vear@ of age at the time of his death. Besides the wife, deceased leaves four children: Mrs. Bertha Clawson, Mrs. F. E. Bowden, Her- man E. and Roy H. Blood, all of\|the diggimg had gone was about : labist Fresno. 200 bushels tothe acre but he had beste ema many on the ground, dug but not Hibbing Man Loses $20,000. | ickea up, and his loss was comy According to advices from} Hib- | siderable. bees bing, P. Maros, an Australian saloon} The 13 acre field on the EB. Le 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| at: Mike Haren, near the Pokeg=