Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 10, 1913, Page 14

Grand Uapids IETY, _ VoL, XXIV. No. 23 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10, 1913. NO FIREWORKS AT BENIN NEETNG Northern Minnesota Development | retary, a position ‘he has filled to | Association Endorses Action Of King and Mackenzie BRAINERD MAN IS NEW PRESIDENT Harmonious Gathering Reviews Work Done Thus Far by Or- ganization and Outlines Future Policy. | further and greater ‘meeting, and the annual successor the same kindly treat- ment and enthusiastic support that had characterized his terms of office and added that the work was by no means completed but: that the future would reveal still opportunities for the association’s endeavors. Mr. Mackenzie was re-elected sec- the satisfaction of everyone since the organization was formed. C. S. Condon of McIntosh. was elect-"| ed vice president im Mr. Albright’s ! place. Thief River Falls won out over Coleraine and Baudette as the place for holding the summer, meeting next winter will be held at Brain- | erd. Prize Winning Poultry. The Northern Minnesota Poultry | Association held its annual exhibi-.| bition of poultry at Crookston from from December 2 to December 7. | It might truthfully be said that | C. H. Dickinson of Grand Rapids, | After an existence of four years of noteworthy achievement the held a poultry show of his own, in- asynuch as he brought back about HOLIDAY EDITION OF HERALD-EVIEW This Number Will Be Mailed To More Than Two Thousand Residents of County. THIS IS A FORTY-EIGHT PAGE ISSUE The Largest Newspaper Ever Print- ed In This County—An In- | dustrial Edition Now Being Planned, This issue of the Herald-Review \ is the largest newspaper ever pub- established especially to offer in= ducement for increased dairy herds in this vicinity, and the dairy herds are only wanted use the \make for better conditions. They twill serve as the dominant factor im making for the farmer a com- Sch. LOGGERS Weather Conditions Such That Op-| creamery is a far bigger institu- ‘erators May Be Forced to Dis- | tion than most of us realize. It '” continue For the Season COLD WEATHER AND SNOW WANT { praises of every citizen. The people of Grand Rapidg are supplied by it with) pasteurized milk—healthful and! rich, The statements published in these columns from time to time show that the amount of cash al- Off ready paid out semi-monthly ag- ¢€regates a sum of money of con- siderable importance both to the farmers and to the local merch- ants, { Tt furnishes a steady market at Several Concerns Have Turned Crews And Will Let Timber Stand Instead Of Tak- ing Chances. should receive the patronage arp Two Dollars a Year THE MILLION MARK MAY BE REACHED Will be Passed Before January 1, in Piano Contest. NUMBER 40 HAS 787,575 VOTES Others Gaining Rapidly And First Five Are Pretty Well Bunched Together In The Big Piano Race. the highest cash price for all the | milk and cream offered. sy representatives of four log- gihg concerns met here on Friday The institution has been parti- Several of the contestants in the Northern Minnesota Development asyociation again met last! week at Bemidji. the city in which tha organization had its inception. The delegates to this convention could Jook back on a record of accomy all the prizes bestowed at the meeting in the classes in which he competed. As an exhibitor Mr. Dickinson is ‘hard to beat. He took with him to: the show 22 birds in all, and (Magazine section, which| is made | ditions changed very suddenly it lished in Itasea county. It consists|!a$t to discuss matters pertaining of twenty-eight pages of the regu-| to their business and came to the lar ize, besides the Agricultural ater that unless weather con up of twenty pages, making in all uld be best to abandon any at- forty-eight pages. The Herald-Re-|tempt to continue operations and view this week is essentially a | al the timber to remain on the, cularly fortunate in its. manage- | piano contest of the Herald-Review ment from the first. Secretary|and the Allen Dry Goods company Niles and his co-managers havejare climbing toward the million Made every effort to keep expenses \mark, and we expect to sea some ‘down to the minimum, and the |of them surpass this figure before main effort has been to pay the | the first of the new year. Number highest possible price for material | 40 still continues in the lead with furnished. a tatal of 787,575 votes, a gain of plishments seldom if ever equaled by a quasi-public organization any- where in America. Many of the jjects for which the association as organized have been accom- plished and more will soon be ad- ded to the list. Reapportionment, the chief goal of the members at the time of orgamization is an ac- complisehd fact, and with the ad- ded representation for Northern, Minnesota thus made possible, other matters will follow in rapid order. j Tt was predicted that this meet- ing would prove the parting of the {ways for the delegates, the criti- eism of the state’s land policy be- ing the rock upon which harmony was expected to be shattered. Noth- ing of the kind happened, ‘however. When the delegates to the conven- tion came to realize the high sense of duty and absolutely unselfish mo tiv hat. dictated the policy of the association officials in demanding | that the commonwealth live up to its agreement with the federal gov- ernment in the matter of swamp land grants, their action was en- dorsed. Judge C. W. Stanton was {placed} at the head of the com- mittee having the swamp land question in charge, and he im, turn. appointed a sub-committee consist- ing of R. J. Bell of Roseau, M. : Koll of Cass, and A. H. Crassweller ‘of St. Louis, to draw the resolu- tions voicing the attitude of the meeting with regard to the matter. The resolution submitted by this sub-committee and adopted by the convention is as follows: ‘We recognize the merit and justice of the representations made to tha Department of In- terior by the president and secre- tary of the association with refer- ence to the drainage, of state swamp lands. 4 “We urge legislation providing that none of the swamp lands here inafler patented by the United States to the State of Minnesota, be disposed of bly the State. until provision is made by constitutional amendment and appropriate legis- lation for the expenditure of an adequate portion of the proceeds of the sale of such lands, in drain? ing, clearing and otherwise improv- ing and reclaiming, and in build- img roads fire breaks, ithrough nad around state school and swamp lands then remaining | unsold.” Had not the by-laws of the or- ganization prevented Cyrus M. King} River, from succeeding | of Deer jhimself as president, there is no doubt but that he could have been we-elected, it being realized that to his work and that of Secretary {Mackenzie is largely due the suc- cess that has attended the efforts of the association. In surrender- A. Albrecht of Brainerd, the retir- ing the gavel to his successor, A- ing president thanked the dele- gates for the hearty co-operation’ #hat had at all times pervailed ‘within the body, and pledged that while he was no longer permitted ito be the leader in the work, he ‘would always be found lined up for anything the association hala in hand that would make for the further advancement of North- ern Minnesota. He bespoke for his in | | ing. brought back with him 22 ribbons, These consisted of nineteen single prizes and three pen prizes. He gathered in all of the first prizes jbut two, and all of the second awards but one. Can you beat it? There were about 130 exhibitors at the meeting, with a showing df over 600 birds. These came from all over Northern Minnesota and western North Dakota. A silver cup was the trophy awarded Mr. Dickinson for owning) the bird scoring the highest num ber of points at the show. One of his beautiful White Orpington pul-} lets securing 95 1-2 points, Anoth- er black Orphington was content. with 95 points, while two others of} his, exhibit secured 94, \ LARGE AUDIENCES AT MISSION MEETINGS St. Joseph’s Church Is Filled Twice Daily By People Anxious To Hear Father Burke. The most successful religious mission work ever attempted in, Grand Rapids-is that now in pro- gress at St. Joseph’s Catholic church under the leadership of Rev Father Burke of the Paulist order. Contrary to the usual -experience the attendance at morning service has beem nearly as large as those of the evening. The church has been filled to its seating capacity each evening. Sunday night’s subject, “Christ's | Divinity,” was discussed in a mast-; erly manner by the reverend gentle- man. Scriptural quotations coupled with other evidences made a strong argument that creatde a deep im- pression on the audience. “The Bible and the Church’s At- titude Toward It,” was Tuesday| evening’s subject. The speaker pro- duced much evidence to show that the Catholic chyrch is not now and never has been the enemy of the Bible: On the contrary his arguments went to prove the op- posite to be the case. The centuries that rolled by, dur5 jing the Christian era before Protestantism was established ‘when the bible was alone in the ‘xeeping of the Catholic church. was sufficient within itself to re- fute the chafge that the Catholic church undertook, at any period of its existence to suppress the bible. Tuesklay evening was given to a } | | i discussion of “The Church,” — in | which Father Burke’s argument was calculated to show that . the Catholic church is the true church of Christ. ‘ Yhe question box is very liberally patronized and the answers to the many pertinent questions pro- pounded are exceedingly interest- The subject for this evening will be “The Future Life.” | Thursday evening—‘“Can a Priest Worgive Sins.” | each one of whom will receive 4 | copy. Friday evening—“The, Blessed Eucharist.” Sunday morning—‘Social Duties | of Catholics.” Sunday evening—“Why I am a ‘Catholio.” ‘ PaLeh as | ‘parties everything will be holiday number for Itasca county people. The reading matter car- vied is all in keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, ang in harmony with the announce- ments of the business men of, Grand Rapids. while these are more conspicuous and more attrac-| tive than ordinarily. Twenty-five hundred copies of this number will be distributed, the extras going exclusively to Itasca county resi- dents, As an advertising medium the publishens consider that every. patron whose business is represent. ed in these pages is to be con- gratulated. The names of more, than twenty-two hundred Itasca, county residents are on our lists,j The territory immediately, surrounding Grand Rapids will be closely covered, thus insuring to our merchants the best possible re- sults. This number is not a “boom edition” in any sense, being made up exclusively of holiday reading matter, with the exception of the usual local and general news fea- tures. ‘ The Agricultural Magazine sec- tion is also featured with the Christmas spirit throughout its pages and is an especially strong number in evéry way. A special number of the Herald- Review that will give particular attention to the agricultural, min- ing, manufacturing and general in- dustrial interests of Grand Rapids and Itasca county will be issu within the near future, provided sufficient patronage can be secured} to justify the venture. Arrange ments are now under way to this end. The publishers plan to make the industrial number of great} stump until conditions for its cut- ting were more favorable. im for a decade has Northern Minnesota witnessed a winter such ag the present one. The grass on the lawns has remained green up until a day or two ago and the finest kind of Indian summer weather has been the rule. Satis4 factpry as} this is to most peoples it has set logging operations back to such an extent that even if the weather changes and the work is again taken up nothing like a ‘complete season’g cut. can be ex7 pécted. Under ordinary circumstances men: can work in the woods event tl b there is little or no snow ifthe weather is sufficiently cold to freeze up the swamps. No suchi weather has materialized up to date’ and it is feared that it may not do so. In such case any timben that had been cut down would have to remain in the woods umtik next winter, and this would mean, a deterioration in its value of about The local bankers are giving favorable consideration to the pro- Position, to} accommodate ‘worthy: farmers with loans with which to «uy cows, at a low rate of inter- est and on easy terms. If this arrangement is made and farmers generally take advantge of the op- portunity thus offered the problem of better conditions will be solved for this particular locality. ITASGA BAZAAR AT HIBBING IS SOLD The Merritt Interests In The Big Department Store Taken Over By Mrs. Power. A deal was last week consumat- 187,575 over last week, Numbers 32 , anid 46 change places in this re- port. the last named having to her. credit a total of 700,000 to 690,845 for the former. This is a gain for thie first-named of nearly 100,000 for the weék. Number 119 made a |Dhenominal leap during the week, |gaining 200.000 votes and placing her in fourth place. Another lady. whose hustling friends are making her a formidable contender is No. 38, whose aggregate is well over the half million mark. We mention. those at the head of the list simply to show the trend of the vote at ; this particular time, and not be- cause we necessarily believe that the leaders now wll be the event- ual winners, although those far in the lead naturally have an advant- age. There are a number of con- ad whereby Mrs. D. M. Power be, testants between the four hundred comes the sole owner of the Itasca, thousand and half million mark ‘Bazaar store at) Hibbing, a com- ose,chances are just as good as panion enterprise of the Itasca! those of the leaders. A half day's Mercantile company here. Both’ Hustling may easily put any one of & eal AN INSTITUTION OF material benefit as an advertising, medium of the county’s resources; During the past six. months sev- eral hundred names have been .ad* ded to the Herald-Review subscrip- tion list. most of whom are resi- dents of the county. The price of yearly subscription to the Herald- Review to Itasca county people hag been reduced to one dollar. The four hundred dollar piano contest! now being carried by the Henald- Review and the Allen Dry Goods company is adding many names to our list, and by the first of the: year we expect to pass the two thousand mark, The Booster Dance. .The first,annual dance of tha Town and Country Booster club} will take place, at Village hall on Friday evening, and to judge by ‘the prdparations made, it will be the ala affair of the season. The committees in charge have spared no pains to have all in the highest: order of preparedness and those attending are sure of a good time. This is the first dancing party of the. Booster club since its organi- | zation, and as the members wish; td make a reputation for their of the best. {t W. J. Sullivna, architect for the ‘new high school addition was in progress of the work. the “|not this generation take advant- tically clear profit. This experi- {have been the property of H. Cy Merritt of Pasadena, Cal. and the, resident manager of the store here, (©. H. Dickinson, has been‘ secre= tary and treasurer of the Hibbing enterprise. This disposes of all the. property of the Merritt in- terests at Hibbing, except the lease of the building occupied by the store. c ‘ Whiat disposition will be made of the Itasca Mercantile company. property here is not definitely settled, although it ig likely that one third. ; Loggers say that men are plenti- ful this year and that every thing locked favorable. for a successful season if weather conditions had been normal. The companies rep- resented at the meeting were: Min- nesota Cedar & Logging company, Deer River; Erskine Timber com- pany, Grand Rapids; Gilbert & Fin- negan, Grand Rapids, and Skelly, Brothers, Cohasset. Mr. Dickinson leaves here to make his home in California in the spring and it is likely that mat- ters will remain as they are until "GREAT IMPORTANCE Itasca Co-Operative Creamery is Great Factor in Development |i ee of the oddest and) best of This Section. known mercantile houses in North- The ‘Itasca Co-Operative cream- | ern Minnesota, and its annual vol- ery at Grand Rapids is an institu- |ume of business-is perhaps the tion of. great} importance to every | largest in the county. farmer within patronizing distance CK BET SAGES A Valuahle Load. of it. It makes a market for milk and cream, the year round and} 4 ioad of about 25 bushels of ‘pays the highest price in cash-|aisace clover seed was on Satur- This is a dairy country—right here| jay brought to town by 0. J. Niles in Itasca county. Nature made it seeretary of the Itasca Co-operative so. The water, the grass, the|.roamery, which for value is ai grains, stock vegetables, the ait |pecord breaker when the size of the the climate conditions—all com-|igaq is considered. The seed was bine to make this particular sec-| harvested and threshed on Mr. tion of Minnesota one of the great-|Nijes farm at Pokegama lake, and ‘Jest dairy regions in the United'|at the prices received for this Slates! This is no} simply the | product last spring is worth 25, Herald-Review’s say-so of the mat-| cents a pound, or $375 for the load. ter. Investigation and experiment|of approximately 1500 pounds, has been made from every angle—|-This clover was cut from a plob the test has been made complete |treated’ no different from those and the result of thorough expert | surrounding it and the yield was investigation is the conclusionj|};y no means remarkable. The that Northeastern Minnesota is to} huller used was also somewhat of the dairy cow what Kentucky | an antiquated affair and Mr. Niles is to the race horse. believes it likely that considerable This being true the time will ]of the seed was lost on this ac- come when Northeastern Minnesota| count. The value of the straw left ‘will be world famous, not for its |after the seed was threshed out. is iron, timber or soil products, buti}more than sufficient to pay all ex- the property will be sold outright, | near the time for his departure. It | them in the front ranks. and even thiose mearer the bottom, of tha list may spring surprises that will | upset present indications. We would again urge those who have not tried the scheme to se- cure the subscription and renewal blanks oriinted for the purpose by. the Herald-Review and increase their vote 3000 at a jump by se~ curing subscribers. Several who have tried this means of increasing their standing have found it most pleasant and satisfactory. We will be glad to explain further to any- one interasted who will drop into ithe office. In the Allen holiday announce | ment on another page will be found the standing of the contest. ants at this time. 'ARE STILL TALKING STREET GAR LINE President Mitchell Of Road Asks Hibbing For Information (‘on- cerning Extention. The people of the other side of the Mesaba ranga are working hard to secure the extension of tha \Mesaba electric railway line ta Grand Rapids. They have succeed= ed in interesting Oscar Mitchell. president of the company, in the project, and he has asked the com- mercial club of Hibbing fo furnish’ the company with such data as the organization may have concerning, the tqwns to be passed through, the probable businesg to be ex+ pected, and other information, In his reply to a committee of Hib- ping business men who called on him to advocate the extension, Mr. Mitchell has written Rupert Swin- nerton, president of the club, stat- for its dairy products. This is in-|penses connected with the grew- evitable. The opportunity for this|ing and harvesting of the crop, | fu development is here today. Why|and the price thus received is prac- age of it now and garner the rich jtment opens up a new line of en- ‘reward? There is no need| to}deavor for our farmers, and at the wait and conserve the opportunity | price this crop always brings. it | for generations of the future. _|ahould prove a profitable line to| - ‘The Rapids creamery was | follow. Sais Tele ing that the matter would receive rther attenion as soon as the required information was forthcom ing. The Hibbing club is to hold a meeting this evening at which a eammittee wil! in all oe wee