Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 7, 1914, Page 1

el . department. VoL. XXIV. No. 26 Granp Rapips, Itasca County, Min YEARLY MEETING Commissioners Organize and Trans- act Much Business at First Meeting of New Year. NELSON IS ELECTED AS. CHAIRMAN James Passard Re-elected Vice- Chairman—Herald-Review is Again Official Paper. Miss Wang Resigns The board of county commission-| ers mel to organize for the year 1914 yesterday morning. In the absence much business was transacted at the forenoon session. In the aft- ernoon, with a full membership present, the first order of busi- ness was the election of a chair- man. Andy Nelson of the Bovey district, was selected for the hon- or, James Passard of Grand Rap- ids, being re-elecied as vice-chair- man. Dr. Thomas Russell of Grand Rapids, was appointed county phy- sician, and Dr. Charles M. Storch | physician to the board of health. As assistant counyt physicians were appointed: Dr. H. 8S. Farrell of Deer River; Dr. Edward Seguin, pf Bovey; Dr. G. C. Gilbert of | Marble, and Dr. M. S. Hayes, of Nashwauk. The resignation of Miss Ann:. Wang as county nurse was accepted, and Mrs. Isabelle LeMere of Grand Rapids, was appointed to fill the position providing she can qualify. Commissioners King | and Shellman were appointed as the board’s wembers cf the health ; of Chairman King not | has the following to say on the subject in a dispatch from Grand “It is asserted here that business men will in the spring renew their aftempt to get the Duluth, Mis- sabe & Northern railway to close up the gap between the present terminus of its line at Coleraine; and thia point. 'State Tax Shows Increase 0 The distance is less than, 10 miles, and an effort will be made to con- Last Year While County Tax Has Been Reduced vince the railroad officials that the traffic to be secured by the exten- i sion would make it a most profit- i able investment. The new mining town of Fayton would be on . the line between the two towns and ‘with the business that the new mines of the Inter-State company would bring to the section it looks! like a good business proposition. | REPORT OF TAXES: Must Meet a Total Tax Rate % k é 110.80 Mills—Due to Calling | ‘Grand Rapids has’ for yearg i a hoped that the Misabe would build in of Outsiding Warrants in here, as the passenger traffio by Local Bank. F between the Itasca county seat and the range towns is in itself an iter | that should prove tempting to the 4 road officials.. j County Treasurer John E. Me-= | Nothing definite can be learned Mahon will shortly mail the tax» of the intentions of the Migsabe Staiements fer the year 1913 to the Electric campany, but the recent 'properiy cwners of the county, r | the back cf each statement wi found ibe figures showing t! rate for state, school, village,.. ity and town. State taxes show ai ‘increase of 145 mills, the levy for IMPORTANT MEETINGS 0c siti now | visits of men connected with it are taken to mean that the company hias its! eye on this point as tha western terminus of its lines. On| shows that the criminal calendar having been 812° a year ago t@, ‘GRAND RAPIDS VILLAGE 1S HIT HAR|MOSTLY LIQUOR AND GAME CASES) County Attorney R. A. McOuat _ Forwards Report of Court - - Transactions to Attorney General Smith. The annual report of County At- torney R. A. McOuat has been for- warded to the attorney general. It, court was concerned, while the of- ticn of the justice courts were about up tothe average in, number and importance. Of the serious crimes, in the first }George S. Carson «ft Iowa City, Ia., some of the five foot sat FORMER ITASCAN T0 BE HELD SATURDAY county taxes show a slight decrease 7.87 at this time. School taxes are | acquittal, as Agricultural Association Officers’ @°2¢tally, higher than a year ago. gree And (: Di The maximum assessment, for this | of + ‘reamery Directors Both ‘purpose last year was 37.70 mill | fraudulent lai To Meet on That Day as compared with 36.70 im the( pres | vietion ane There will be a meeting of the ; ent statements. Town taxes vary board of directora of the Itasca’ from ' 37.00 mills in Deer Riyert Co-operative Creamery association | 1.00 mill, the latter being the rate) the © held on Saturday forenoon at the | it the town of Sand Lake.. A com-| game violation c: fore: office of Secretary O. J. Niles. This Parison shows the total taxes tojin the district court, three off gathering will be for the purpose | 2@ Slightly higher for all purposes | which resulted in conviction _ and of going over the books of the of- | than a year ago. The increase will }4 in acquittal. “ Two robbery ficers previous to their presenta~ | average about seven mills thro were dismissed. There were tion at the annual meeting to’ be ;OUt the county, except in Grand ation held om the 43th. _ Rapids village, where the rate to-. In the afternoon the Itasea Coun-, tals 110.80, _ i ty Agrieultnral: assceiation will.$ Dhis, ahpermal.inores ag hold a meeting at the recorder’s of | tax rate of the village isadue The proposition to purchase the Hotel Ogama property at Pokega- | ma lake as a sile for a poor farm | was voled down. The price asked | was $9000 and it was the opinion | of a majority of the board that | the present farm could be put in shape to take care of all demands likely to be made upon it for a} long time to come at a much low- “er cost. The only matter coming up at) the evening session was the selec- tion of the official newspaper in which will appear the tax list, fi- nancial statement, reports of board | meetings and all other matters re-| quired by law to be published dur- ing the year. The Grand Rapids ‘Herald-Review was made the offi- cial paper by a unanimous vote, tetipulation being made that the wiublishers of this paper furnish ‘The Independent of Grand Rapids, “Seer River News, Coleraine Optic, Ttasca Iron News and Nashwauk Herald with supplements contain- ing the tax list and financial state- ment to be published shortly in numbers sufficient to permit of | their sending one to each of their | subscribers. This proposition will give this important matter the wid- est possible publicity, as any per- tson in the county taking any one , ‘of the above papers will receive these statements htis year. We are naturally greatly pleased over the compliment paid this pa- per and in the confidence shown in its ability to get this impor- tant work properly and promptly before the people. This forenoon’s session was most- ly taken up with the reading of road petitions, consideration of ills and other routine business, a full report of which will be found in the Herald-Review next week. WILL TRY TO SECURE D.M. & N. EXTENSION ‘Business Men Will Ask Road To Bridge Gap Between Here And Coleraine. There may be some sort ofl “Potteerted effort made in the early spring tO-convince the officials of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern fice in the village Hall at which ‘the fact that a number of out- 3 » everyone interested in the works | standing bonds, aggregating in: the| the other: two being acquitted. of the association is invited to be , neighborhood of $14.000, were un=|'Theré “were two convictions for present. Among the important mat- expectedly placed in judgment by: burglary in the third degree. One ters to come before this meeting the holders thereof. The issue of | conviction. for petit larceny is re- is the selection of the committee ' which these bonds form a part’was|corded and one dismissal on the to have charge of the Itasea coun- | originally for $28,000, and it was | Same charge. Charges against two ty exhibit at the state fair next! expected that the liquidation of |parties for resisting an officer fall. There are to be five members the balance would be extended over| wer? dismissed. One case of con- of this committee, two of which a period of years, but the holders |tempt of court resulted in convic- are to be the president and sec- ‘ called the loan and secured judg-|tion, and a libel case was dismiss= retary of the association. Anoth- | mewt for the amount which. will | 4) er matter that will receive atten- ! now have to be met under this one| In the justice courts there were tion is the revision of the prem- | levys Last year the levy in the ium list fo the county fair. It is | village was 32.02, being at that the intention of Secretary Sisler | time only exceeded by the village to get this list into the hands of | of Calumet, where the assessment; the printer as early as possible in | was 37.00. In the latter village the order that it may be ready for ' tax is thig year reduced to 61.30, distribution among the farmers at bringing it into fourth place, Co- an early date. In this manner the | passet being second) with a total list would act as a suggestion of | of 78.80, and Bigfork thind with what was wanted at the fall ex- | 6340 mills. hibition and give the exhibitor ees EES an opportunity to begin at planting time to work toward securing the f:nest specimens for the fair. It is hoped that the meeting will be ‘largely attended as any suggestion | looking to the good of the organ- ization or the exhibitor will be gladly received. Review Contains Much of Value to Farmers. With this issue the Herald-Re- pmncces CHILDREN SENT TO | un tS Herd Re STATE INSTITUTION sist ssaive Sopoianet \for January. It will as usual, be \Two More Follow the Five Previ-| 2°24 [0 contain many items of timely interest to the farmer, and ously Sent From Home of Mr. | this number will prove of particu- and Mrs. Lon Johnson. lar value to the farmer in North- ern Minnesota. A very interesting Judge C. B. Webster of the pro~ |!" : bate court has ordered two chil- |27icle on “The Stump Problem," dren of Mr. and Mrs. Lon John-|,Vill be found on. the first page. This is tollowed by an article on: son taken from them and sent to “Handting Corawood,” which is ‘of the state school at Owatonna. The! sa saat: a t the peta a children are five and thtee years | °>" Fes a jee ot eee iN of age, respectively. The couple | ~ seaie mierda us ater) will be allowed to retain one child, ‘have this commodity upon which \ aa} one and¢ one-half years old, on SAgaee bg Sfp yf a probation. The charges against | isory. Nei thie Wa acieent the couple are habitual drunken-| ,. * . - | ness, the children being often neg- )#ims from time to time to give lected. Five children of the fam-| “1p et da te ie natto te come re ily were taken by the state about leek & ee if eg ota cieivpaies pane contact. _ Interesting editorials. on | various subjects will be found with Northern Shesifi’s Hompred. ie its pages, one entitled: “The - Betier U: f (Sta . i Beltrami county’s sheriff, Andrew! mormon wet oa Johnson, was elected vice president people here just now. Departments tion at the convention held at St. eration and Education,” “The Dairy OF MUCH INTEREST. Agricultural Magazine of the Herald- | of the Minnesota Sheriff's associa- | 9n “Farm Management,” ‘“Co-op- |. 201 convictions, three acquitals and three dismissals. The total! costs assessed in these courts were $918.- 29, and the fines imposed amount- ed to $1,438. The fines collected famounted, with) costs, to $2,065.- 79. Of the 72 offenders tried, 28 received jail sentences. The cases coming before thei justice courts: were principally those/involving assault, petit larceny, drunkenness ‘and liquor and game law viola- tions. WINTER BUSINESS — LOOMS UP WELL Cream Sufficient For 1000 Pounds of Butter Per Week is Now Being Received. | The butitermaker’s report for the first. two weeks of December show- | ing the business transacted at the Itasca creamery, indicates that re- ceipts have beem very satisfactory. It shows that the total amount’ of butter fat received during the two, weeks amounted to 1600 ‘pounds, which is equivalent:io about 2000 pounds of buttér per week. Over half of this. amquot,, however, was sold}ds-.inilk, #irieh brings a better p to The average price re- ceived for butter during the peri- dd wag 35¢ per pound, and thig ‘enabled the creamery to pay pa- ‘rons 47e for butter fat in milk, 39¢ for butter fat in special cream, and 36c for first cream. For the season of the year the volume of business compares very favorably with that done by many older and larger plants in the state. That the dairymen of the ery village. _ Pi é cay Drills of the Olson & Berg velopment company working “he direction of M. P. Batsford, mining engineer, have been operat- ing on section £3, township 48, range 27, on properly owned by and-the first hole put down pene- trated manganese ore of high grade. The drills are now om the fourth) hole, and it is reported that three of these showed mi ore, x iy 3 tak- ‘en out gqing over 34 per cent! manganese. The other hole show- ed a low grade cre. ~ VISITS OLD HAUNTS George W, Moore, Now Located in Oregon, Pays Visit to Old Neighbors Here. George W. Moore, formerly coun- ly commissioner from the Cohasset district, and for years a prominent resident of Itasca county, is here on a visit from his present place. of business, Yamhill, Oregon. Mr. Moore, who has: become one of the j| Wealthy lumbermen and sawmill of the West : ly’ ‘believes & ie ek is the greatest section in the world He has been successful to .a marked degree since taking up his residence there, his experiente in lumbering gained in Minnesota standing him in good stead in that timbered section. One son and one daughter have been married since the family moved out there and all are getting along very well. Mr. Moore says that everyone in Oregon is strongly for Woodrow Wilson. The sentiment in favor of the president is remarkable, ac- cording to Mr. Moore. This feeling is by no means confined to Repub- licans, but is shared by all the people, and as far as this particu- lar Western state is concerned, the present ocoupant of the White House is by far the most popular of any president of recent times. Mr. Moore still retains some pro- perty interests in Itasca coun- ty which he will look after beforq returning to his Western home. Cupid Loafed a. Little. According to the records of Clerk of Court Rassmussen, there were 22 fewer marriage licenses issued during the year 1913 than in the, previous twelve months, the total for last year being 122, to 144 for 1912. The reports of births and deaths in the county during the year are not yet available, these being sent by the town clerks di- rectly to the state board of health’ which in turn sends them to the county clerks at the end of the year. th: pro: | railway company that it would be | Paul. Robert DeLury of Cass coun-! Farm,” together with an illustrated ood business to extend’ the lion ty, was named secretary;\ William | page of special interest. to ead from Coleraine, its present ter- | Fosbery of Marshall county, presi-| should make this issue espec minus, to this place. The Dulutiy| dent, and William Gieger, sheriff | vatuable; not only to the News Tribune of Monday morning |of Rice county, treasurer. - —| but to the town resident Imperfect Page } ke Depr- River :News-+seys that while eitgaged, at ‘helping to, saw wood on’a small steam sawing ma- chine on the A. Rasmussen farm four miles north of town last Wed- mesday, a young man giving his name of Alfred George Cooper tripped on a round stick of wood lying at his feet and fell’ with his body directly upon a circu- lar saw which was running full His chest wes cut open from the back of the left shoulder through! the ribs down the side and pretty well. forward into the stomach so that his heart was openly exposed. Cooper refused to give his name until his end was near. When he place and yielded the fea _Herald-Review's Some interesting taken place in ‘the piano contest of and Allen Dry Goods. ing the past week. Co B2, who last week led sion, has dropped ba honor to No. 46, who comes out with a total a gain during the week quarter of a million. mains second, having $75, during the per her count up to 1,498, 32 gained an even 89, her total 4,474,000, increased her standing making her total 4,420, four contestants kept at the head and terest naturally ¢ : them, but others are ¢ rapidly, and it is likely leaders wil! be givel hold their positions wale: contest is aiding extra pirze of a fine ladi ham wrist' watch, which given to the lady or girl the largest number of subi to the paper up to : contest closes, 2 ee u in this mode of securing votes, This watch is an extra prize and has nothing to do with the main event. The contestant ou. th usual number of votes on ano, and besides has a chance the watcb & 381,416 6 1,113,160 7 118,380 71. 16,500 72. B. m4: