Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 17, 1913, Page 2

VoL, XXIV. No. 24 Granp RapipDs, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17. 1913 FAIR ASSOCIATION ANNUAL METI County Association Elects Officers and Transacts Much Other Important Business. ANDERSON RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT Steps Taken to Have Producers Start Working With Fall Ex- hibitions in View--Very Satisfactory Year. President D. C. Anderson of the Itasca County Agricultural associa- tion called the members to order at Village hall last Saturday after- noon, for the annual meeting, as required by law. The minutes of the last annual, meeting were read by Secretary Buell, and after being approved the reports of the secretary and treas- urer were submitted. President Anderson read a report submitted by a state bank examin- ers deputy, who had gone over the | books of the association. Sugges~ tions were made therein for the ad option of better methods of book- | keeping. President Anderson ex- plained that neither the presentor | former treasurers should be per- sonally criticised, as the methods now employed were continued by custom, but did not conform with the public examiner's require- ments. The last legislature, it wasi explained, passed a law plac- ing county fair associations under inspection by the public examiner, anda system of bookkeeping and the rendering of statemnets ‘was now made necess in a uniform manner, as that official might dir- ect, A committee was appointed, consisting of A. J. McGuire. O. J. Niles and A. M. Sisler to take action in procuring such record, books and forms as they might find necessary. The matter of a state fair exhibit by Itasca county next year was | given considerable discussion. All those who spckke upon the subject agreed that Itasca county should jgtand well to the head of the list «mong the counties of the gtate. The fact that this has not been the tase in the past, has beer largely: due to a lack of funds to make the state exhibit what it might have been. Another reason attributable to past failures was due to requir- ing the county fair officials to look aftar the matter at a time when they were also busy with prepar- ations for the local show. A reso- lution was passed authorizing the president and secretary to appoint a committee of five, of which the two officials named shall be mem- wers, to take full charge of the state exhibit. This committee is to be named at once. It’s first duty will be to make arrangements | ‘with farmers and to have an un- denstanding with them to supply certain articles suitable for exhibit. it will be the duty of this com-{ mittee also to secure funds to defray the necessary and legitimate expenses of the project. The matter of membership was taken up, and it was decided that the annual fee of one dollar must ibe paid as a voting requirement: Twenty-eight of those present paid ! This number now constitutes | up. the Itasca County Agricultural as- sociation, and the affairs of the | organization are under their con- trol. The election of officers resulted in retaining D. C. Anderson as ‘president. .. Kremer were named as nomi- ees and the vote gave thirteen to each. A second vote made no change and it was decided to toss a dollar to break the deadlock. “Head” was chosen for Mr. Ander- «son and heads won. C. A. Buell declined to serve another term as secretary and A. M. Sisler was elected by a unanimous vote, not- withstanding his vigorous pro- eat. Mr. Sisler served the association three terms served the association three terms prior to the election last year of Mr. Buell. His conscientious and able service in that capacity was recognized, and all those who had! sufficient | Mr. Andersom and Geo. | | the best. interests of the associa~ tion at heart were delighted to | again see him acting as secretary: L. M. Bolter, C. E. Aiken and H. E! Graffam were named for the office | of treasurer. Mr. Graffam was | elected by ballot to succeed him- | self. Maurice O’Brien was elected | vice-president by a unanimous The naming of vice-presi- | | vote. ‘dents from different sections of the | county was being acted upon, when | it was suggested that inasmuch as ; the Itasca County Agricultural as- corporate body or- | the laws of the ciation is a ganized under | state. such action would be | trary to the constitution and) by- | laws, and ‘hence invalid. The plan thereupon abandoned. P. A. | Smith was named as superintend- | ent of grains and grasses’ H. A. | | Wordall, superintendent of the live | stock division; Mrs. H. W. Stark, CATHOLIG MISSION ASSOGIATED RURAL ENDED ON SUNDAY’ SCHOOL BENEFIT |Rev. Father Burke Creates NojState Superintendent Schultz Says Little Religious Discussion by District May Include as Many His Able Lectures. Schools as It Sees Fit. con~ | PRESENTED DIAMOND SET CROSS|FIFTY-FIVE MAY BE THUS EQUIPPED Knights of Columbus Make Pre- sentation — Large Audiences of Non-Catholics Listen ' These Would Receive $150 Each From the State, Making a | superintendent of the household \ division, and Miss Florence Burlin- | game superintendent of the public | schools department. | Several recommendations were | made relative to improvements on | the fair grounds. Enlarged accom- | modations for poultry and live | stock was especially urged. | The treasurer's report show2d | that over three thousand dollars | was paid out last year. i ‘BIG BOOSTER EVENT ~ FOR CHRISTMAS DAY |Round’s Specialty Company And Ladies’ Orchestra Will Be Here On That Date. Ait a daring expense. but with | great faith in the appreciativeness, |jof our citizens, the Booster Club has arranged for the appearance of} the Rounds’ Specialty Company and} Ladies Orchestra to finish up the festivities in the evening of Christ- | | mas day. | This organization, which is, | | known from the Atlamtic to the | Pacific as “Americas greatest” ears ries a greater assembly of artists ‘than any similar orgnaization in, the country. One of the members | of the company. Mrs. Flora Spra- i gue Rounds, claims the distinction, | of belag the greatest lady drummer | ) in the world and her wonderful {manipulation of the drumsticks | give@ coe a new idea of the pos- | sibilities of this instrument. To hear her is to have her carry you off {to distamt space and then gradually bring you back on @& tumultious roar like a rattling of heaven’s artillery. Any one wha has once heard her perform will never forget the inspiration she brings to the audience. One fault. sometimes found with great companies is that they give their audience only euch] high clasg music that it goes over the head of most of the hearers. But the Rounds do not confined themselves: to the classics, delightfully inter- mingling them with popular numb ers, late popular songs and the old | time favorities, mirth provoking: monologs, novologs. etc., in inimit- able combinations thiat you will ‘never forget and long to hear again. While the price of admission had been held, and should be nol less | than $1.00, the board of directors have deciddd that some of our ‘people would find it difficult to buy as many tickets as some of the | families will need, and have ar- ranged for a graduated admission: fee Af $1.00, 75¢ and 50c for this entertainment. The season tickets for the Ly ,seum Course, now that two numb- j erg are gone, has been reduced. to $1.50 for the four remaining numb- | ers. | SESE CEES | Chinge in Fire Calls. The Mesaba Telephone company | | has notified the village authorities | that hereafier the central operator | will not act as relay agent for mes- | sages to the pump house in cases | of fire. It has been the custom to | not}fy central of the location of | {the fire and thereafter leaving it to her to see that the pumping’ | station was properly advised, but this will: now be done away with and the party calling up must wait jand give the information. This in Total of $6;250 For the to Discourses. Entire District, Last Sunday morning the two week’s mission at St. Joseph’s At the las: mee‘ing board of education Supt. Freeman | Catholie church closed, with a | masterful sermon by Rey. John E, | Burke. The full seating capacity of the church was required to accom- weported that he had received de- finite word from State Superinten- dent Schultz respecting the possi- Grand Uapids Herald-Acview.— | 1 of the jtry as the most important depart- , of the cost of the maintenance of on Two Dollars a Year LEADNG VERE = GLOSE TOGETHER Number 32 Passes No. 40 .in See- Saw Game, While No. 46 is Only 20,000 Behind. will be noted that if we provide dor the association of fifty-five ‘schools, the district will receive $8,250 associated aid and it is esti- mated that this amount will cover ithe entire cost of the industrial. and agricultural instruction and equipment in the district includ- ing the Grand Rapids schools. « Thus, it cannot be said in the future that the Grand Rapids échools are receiving such atten- ‘tion as the rural schools of the district are not receiving and that ‘tthe game industrial advantages ard not afforded the rural schools that are afforded the local schools. Then too, it will relieve from the local taxpayers and the taxpayers of the entire district ‘a large part HERALD-REVIEW SQUAD IS NOW BUSY Letters and Subscription Blanks these departments which are look-| Sent Out This Week Will ed upon by more of the people as Make Getti H extnavagances but which are re- si ing Votes an : garded at the present time by the Easy Matter. ‘department of education and all | the leading educators of the coun- Be aa In the piano contest inaugurated ments of public school work. Un- ln thigis ieee eines aan Aa der this arrangement an agricul- tural instructor will devote his Dry Goods company, the leading entire time to the outlying schools of the district and thus the bility and requirements for making} schools of the entire district will contestants again change} places this week. The iasi report gave he lead to No. 40, but she has modate the people who were anxi- the rural schools of District Num- one to hear the eloquent divine | ber One associated rural schodols explain Christianity from the view /under the associated rural school paint of Gatholic doctrine. At- | aw passed! by the last legislature, tendance at the evening lectures | whith extended the right of the throughout the period was well! Putnam agricultural school law: to, divided between Protestants and; the Benson Lee schools. The state Catholics, and all alike were agreed! superintendent in his communica-, that Grand Rapids people profitted| tiom to Mr. Freeman. says: by the scholarly, earnest and emi-| “The Grand Rapids district is en- nently fair presentation of the sev-/ titled to $150 aid by reason of out- eral subjects relative to Catholic |lying rural schools. In counting doctrine as explained and defend- | your expenditures on account of ed by Father Burke. He made no | the industrial courses. you will in- direct plea for converts, and offer-| clude: (1) Salaries of all industrial ed no objection to the teachings of | teachers.(2)—Such part of your Protestant denominations, but rath-| own salary as superintendent as er, confined his lecture to an. appeal for rational consideration of | additional service and expense of the great truth of Christianity and! supervising the outlying rural thea many evidences to establish | schools, say $1,000.(3)—All expendi- it. The question box was aj|tures on account of industrial sup- scource of unusual. interest, and wies and materials. beth in the much time was consumed each evening in. making answer to the pertinent. and im. pertinent propositions submitted: Father Burke has a wonderful fac- ulty in such an emergency; and his replies were both entertaining and instructive. As an evidence of the favorable ‘impression created by the rever- end gentleman in Grnad Rapids, schools. (4)—The. traveling expen- ses of: yourself as superintendent. of the several industrial’ teachers and’of other special teachers wha may supervise and direct: or carry on instruction in the industrial subjects in the rural schools. You are receiving aid under the so-cal= led Benson act, which) grants $1,800 finnually to the central school on last Saturday afternoon a party of |®ccount of agricultural and other non-Catholic citizens called on him,| industrial work. In determining ' to express their appreciation of the, 2UMber of rural schools for which. good work he had done in the com |¥OU may claim association aid of munity, and to say, in their opin- | 150, for each, you may include as ion, his lectures would have aten- }™any rural schools as you are pro- ‘dency ta make for better ang Viding industrial instruction anrd purer citizenship. The local mem-| industrial supplies and material bers of the order of Knights of or. The high school board rules |to enter into the competition. The! may be fairly counted towards tha ‘swith such success that the Kensor | central school and in the rurat |! eT noe a jthis week given the honor to No. j PSEA SERS 32, who, however. only leads by e GRAND RAPIDS FOWLS :0,000 votes, and this is a de-, ARE PRIZE WINNERS athe first five contestants are sa ‘closely bunched that a little good cidediy gmall margin. In fact, luck or brisk hustling will put any ~! | Chickens From The Yards of (°. H.| dne of them in first place. The sine Sh Se veader will be seen to have am | Dickinson Win Distinction at © | 2.500.000 to her credit while No. National Exhibition. 46 is only 10,000 votes behind her, C. H. Dickinson, manager of the} No. 47 has only 20,000 votes to get Itasca Mercantile company, ha‘ in order to be even. The two next, for some years been interested in are so close to the leaders that a the raising of fancy poultry and | very small amount of work cani } his efforts have been attended! -asily put them in the lead, Nos ; 47 having 760,670, and No. 59 a Orphington yards have a national |:tctal of 737,930. reputatign. The Herald-Review has _ thig Mr. Dickinson has a large assort-|.veek sent out letters to all cony ‘ment of ribbons and medals won testants together with subscrip- sy his birds at poultry exhibits in, tion blanks to be used in securing. different places, his latest achieve- Subscribers for the paper: The ment in this respect being the win-|!etler is self-explanatory ¢ «. ning of first prize for a male bird S4ows how easy it is for a cong of the Silver Gampine variety at orn ainiage se danonoraaisibe case. {the national poultry show at Chi- ink banat aoies Seema tena cago There were 94 entries in this ii aera onbiatebbeces was oat ldss at the emhibit. which is the ("5 ino, pee iiin eiemsks social kormenth, shiowe off this kinkiiteo, are oe eee ting subscribers quickly and eas-- ‘u the country. Last year there jily we loak to see energetic con~ vere exhibitors from 29 states tostants go forward with leaps and represented at the exhibition, and bounds through this sure and somewhere in the neighborhood of pleasant process. 5000 birds were on display. The, following is the standing of cdck receiving this honor was tha candidates for the last report: only one exhibited at this show by ci sis Mr. Dickinson, with the exception Noe- of a young bird of the same' 5" 2. ies which was to light as yet 3. 4 5 Columbus presented him a beauti- ful gold cross with diamond setting and the ladies of St. Joseph’sy Al. jdimit the industrial aid you may'|last mentioned specimen, however, | receive to an amount not larger |has been pronounced by poultry} than the expenditures your district,| experts to have the whitest hackle | drowned while attempting to cross tar society presented him a sub-y stantial purse. Farther Burke began a series of lectures at Coleraine last Sunday. vening. He will remain there during the week. Many from Grand Rapids are attending the evening lectures at Coleraine. It may be truthfully said that no defender of the faith who ever spoke to a Grand Rapids audience created so much earnest discussion jof the subject of Christianity as’ has Father Burke. The Catholics, non-Gatholics and non-believers have all been busy, and the inter- est has as yet by mo means sub- sided. trial courses. There is no fixed limit as to the number of rural fehoals you may count for asso- ciation aid. That number will be determined by Inspector Aiton and! yourself along the lines and on the. basis I have indicated above.” Supt. Freeman informed the board of education that State In- jspector Aiton would expect tha¥ in such schools where it would. be vadvisable to put in a bench ang tools for manual training for the jboys. and simple domestic science ‘equipment for the girls, that this foe done. But, above all he would expect close supervision of these schools. Op. this basis he would recommend such schools as were given this attention for associated schools. BODIES OF DROWNED MEN ARE RECOVERED |...°:,'%2 reemmenastions of the T. C. Kennedy of the firm of | cation passed a resolution instruct- Kennedy & Klement, who are this, ‘ing Mr. Freeman to go ahead and winter operating in the neighbor-| prepare as many schools as pos- ‘hodd of Boy River, received word sible for association, and the em- on Monday morning that four men| ployment of an additional agricul- employed by the firm had been} tural instructor to handle the work of the loval schools in order. t« Skelly lake on Saturday night. The Permit Mr. Corwin to give his at- men had started out after supper |tention to the rural schools in the to walk to Boy river a small set- | community. tlement in the neighborhood, and, On talking this matter over with attempted to cross the lake to get “Mr. Freeman he says that this is Lo their destination. From the|a splendid business meager information received here’ for the districts as by adopting it 't would seem that two of the (he fund derived from associated men went through the ice first and| schools and Benson-Lee aid will | that the other two lost their lives in an attempt to rescue them. The fay the entire cost of the ing -tustrial teachers’ salaries and ta great measure has made the | bodies were recovered and brought: maintenance of the manual train- company responsible for the cor- | kectness of the report to the sta- | tion, and it is believed that there will be less liability of error if the calls are made direet. INTENTIONAL DUPLICATE EXPO to Cass Lake on Monday. The were: Louis Larson and Walter ing, domestic science and agricul- ural departments of the local ‘Tinde of Moorehead; E. §. Golda~| schools. This would not be possible mer. of Neilsville, Wis, and Fred: Awere it not for the great number Krogan of Gass Lake. ” ; 4 a has made on account of the indus- | they have ever seen. 8 proposition | +0 Alt the exhibition of prize win~ mt ning’ chickens recently held af) 1:. Crodkston. Mr. Dickinson had in | 13 competition pens of Black Orping-| |? tons and White Orpingtons which | 1," fairly swept everything before! 17. them. At this show his white | 18. strain received the first award for! 19- hens. cockrels and pullets, whil@ »;° the black variety captured first, ' 22. second and third on hens, first and | %- ‘second on pullete, first prize for! 3° ‘the best pen and second on cocks. | 26. ‘Allogéther at this show Mr. Dick-| 27. inson’s exhifit carried off ning) 28- first prizes, seven, seconds, three ;)° tthirdsj two fourths and one fifth.! s. prize. At three shows last year 22. birds from the Kenson Orpington: $°- ‘yards here were awarded 29 rib- 5." bons and prizes out of 35 entries. | 36. Yesterday Mr. Dickinson received we word from Winona, where a poul-| 39. ‘try show is in progress, stating « that-a cock of the White Orping-! a. :'on stock recently sold by him| > had secured first prize in competi-' 44° tion, with 1200 birds in show. _—| 45. — 46. WOULD OPEN TO SETTLEMENT |‘: NORTHERN MINNESOTA LANDS * Representalive Lindbergh has | introduced a bill in congress to re- | =3" re about 8.000 acres of around the reservoir at the head 55. waters of the Mississippi to settle- es ment and entry. These are lands which have been held in reserve as‘ subject to possible overflow from the reservoirs, but have not been actually flooded. Patents will con- tain a provision that the lands are subject to flooding, for which the - vf rural schools in the district. It, countable. : . ‘ SURE government is not to be held ac- 4 .