Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 7, 1914, Page 2

' Commissioners Organize and Trans-| * = ies | | on ene | | Imperfect Page VoLt. XXIV. No. 26 \ ee Grand Uapids Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7. 1914 YEARLY MEETING — OF COUNTY BOARD act Much Business at First Meeting of New Year. NELSON 1S ELECTED AS CHAIRMAN James Passard Re-elected Vice-' Chairman—Herald-Review is | Again Official Paper. Miss Wang Resigns | The board of county commission-, ers met lo organize for the year has the following to say on the | subject in a dispatch from Grand REPORT (lf TAXES Rapids): ! Id “It is asserted here that business} FAR 19/3 (5 Ou men will in the spring renew their attempt to get the Duluth, Mis- ; sabe & Northern railway to close, up the gap between the present terminus of its line at Coleraine, and this point. The distance is less than, 10 miles and an effort will be made to con- | vince the railroad officials that the! traffic to be secured by the exten- sion would make it a most profit- able investment. The new mining | town of Fayton would be on — the | Un of Faion would be on the, GRAND RAPIOS VILAGE I HT HARD ‘with the business that the new eae ot by mines of the Inter-State company | would bring to the section it looks' Must Meet a Total Tax Rate of like a good business proposition. 5 i. Grand Rapids has for yearg 110.80 Mills—Due to Calling in of Outsiding Warrants by Local Bank. Last Year While County Tax Has Been Reduced hoped that the Misabe would build in here, as the passenger traffio between the Itasca county seat and the range towns is in itself an, iter that should prove tempting to the road officials.. Nothing definite can be learned County Treasurer John E. Me- Mahon will shortly mail the taxes iState Tax Shows Increase ovale Offences During Past Year 1914 yesterday morning. In the |f the intentions of the Miasabe absence of Chairman King not | Electric campany, but the recent Staiements fer the year 1913 to the ‘property cwners of the county, Gn 15 for their product during the two weeks mentioned, A. L. Pierce, who resides on the Buck place at’ Pokegama lake, and R. W. Cooky whose place igs south of town. Fol- lowing is a list of those whose checks reached this amount:. J. D. Hniegardner, $17.41; C. A. Buell, $29.94; Neil Mullens, $37.30; A. F. Brooks, $17.72; Experimental Farm, $328.75; Niles & Aiton, $31.68; G. \Heinzelman, $16.74; R. W. Cook, CRIME CALENOA WAS VERY LG Were Very Few While Jus- tice Courts Were Busy. MOSTLY LIQUOR AND GAME CASES County Attorney R. A. McOuat Forwards Report of Court Transactions to Attorney General Smith. Sisler, $16.46; A. L. Pierce, $16.17. Iron in Aitkin County. That recent explorations for iron ore have brought the field nearet to Aitkin is demonstrated by a good strike six iniles north of that village. Drills of the Gison & Berg De- velopment compary working under “he direction of M. P. Botsford, mining engineer, huve been operat- ing on section £3, township 48, range 27, on property owned by! George S. Carson «f Iowa City, Ia., and-the first hole put down pene- trated manganese ore of high grade. The drills are now on the fourth) The annual report of County At- torney R. A. McOuat has been for- warded to the attorney general. It shows that the criminal calendar $18.46; W. M. West, $53.34; A. M. | much business 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 counly phy- sician, and Dr. Charles M. Storch | physician {o the hoard of health. As assistant counyi physicians were appointed: Dr. H. 8. Farrell of Deer River; Dr. Edward Seguin, pf Bovey; Dr. G. C. Gilbert of | Marble, and Dr. M. 8. Hayes, of | Nashwauk. The resignation of Miss Anne. Wang as county nurse was accepted, and Mrs. Isabelle LeMere of Grand Rapids, was appointed to fill the position providing she ean qualify. Commissioners King! and Shellman were appointed as the board’s rembers of the health | department. | ‘4 The proposition to purchase the | 1\ Hotel Ogama property at Pokega- | j> ma lake ag a sile for a poor farm | ' was voted 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, “Deer 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 their sending one to each of their subscribers. This proposition will | give this important matter the wid- est possible publicity, as any per- | ison 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 © 0.M.& N. EXTENSION Business Men Will Ask Road To) Bridge Gap Between Here And Coleraine. | There may be some sort of! eofteerted effort made in the early spring to-convince the officials of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern railway company that it would ba .4g00d business to extend the ling from Coleraine, its present ter- minus, to this place. The Duluth News Tribune of Monday morning ac0e was transacted at | Visits of men connected with it are ‘IMPORTANT MEETINGS jan early date. of | jz TENTIONAL DUPLICATE EXP | the back cf each statement will be found ibe figures showing the tax rate for state, school, village,. goun= ity and town. State taxes show am ‘increase of 1.45 mills, the levy for ‘this purpose having: been 3.58 as ‘compared with 5.03 mills now. The ounty taxes show a slight decrease having been 8.12: a year ago to, Agricultural Association Officers £°2¢rally higher than a year ‘aed, And ( Di The maximum assessment for this reamery Directors Both | purpose last year was 37.70 mill> To Meet on That Day as compared with 36.70 in the( pres: There will be a meeting of the ,ent statements. Town taxes vary board of directors of the Itasca! from “37.00 mills in Deer River to Co-operative Creamery association | 4.00 mill, the latter being the rate held on Saturday forenoon at the , it the town of Sand Lake. A com- effice of Secretary O. J. Niles. This Parison shows the total taxes to gathering will be for the purpose ‘ De slightly higher for all purposes of going over the books of the of- than a year ago. The increase will ficers previous to their presenta~ | average about seven mills through- taken to mean that the company has its! eye on this point as the western terminus of its lines. | tion at the annual meeting to be ; OUt the county, except in Grand nine cases involving @ violation of Rapids village, where the rate to-.| liguc held on the 13th. i In the afternoon the Itasea Coun-, tals 110.80, ty Agricultnral: assceiation swill.} This, abnormal. increases hold a meeting at the recorder’s of | tex rate of the village isadue © /S fice im the village hall at which{ ‘the fact that a number of out- everyone interested in the wor's | standing bonds, aggregating in: the of the association ig invited to be , neighborhood of $14.000, were un- present, Among the important mat- expectedly placed in judgment by: ters to come before this meeting the holders thereof. The issue of is the selection of the committee | which these bonds form a part'was to have charge of the Itasea coun- | originally for $28,000, and it was ty exhibit at the state fair next !expected that the liquidation of | fall. There are to be five members the balance would be extended over of this committee, two of which a period of years, but the holders are to be the president and sec- ‘called the loan and) secured judg- retary of the association. Anoth- | meni, for the amount which will er matter that will receive atten- ‘now have to be met under this one tion is the revision of the prem- | levy, Last year the levy in the ium list fo the county fair. It is j 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 im | 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 pringing it into fourth place, Co- 1 In this manner the | hasse, 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- | 6310 mills. hibition and give the exhibitor ae an opportunity to begin at planting OUR SUPPLEMENT iime to work toward securing the | Agricultural Magazine of the Herald- est specimens for the fair. It} s hoped that the meeting will be Review Contains Much of Value to Farmers. largely attended as any suggestion With this issue the Herald-Re- looking to the good of the organ- tion or the exhibitor will be gladly received. CHILDREN SENT TO | view presents its readers with the STATE INSTITUTION | Agricultural Magazine Supplement | \for January. It will as usual, be Two More Follow the Five Preyi-|?U*4 to contain many ilems 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- em Minnesota. A very interesting Judge C. B. Webster of the pro- Saat rt ” bate court has ordered two chil- particle Gn tbe. Stump Peron, dren of Mr. and Mrs. Lon John-|. vill be found on the first page. son taken from them and@ sent to; This is tollowed by an article on the state school at Owatonna. The Handling «Commwegd. sNetne, 16 -08 children are five and thtee years | | special interest to the many land of age, respectively. The couple) venere: tne prise who ron will be allowed to retain one child, to denen. “Th reaBe ata “sine one and one-half years old, on thi pel th Ks ‘ oat i probation. The charges against | lena ee ae pinche the couple are habitual drunken- | bad renee time is time 46. a the children being often neg- i ie 5 i 8 re \farmers advice on sections of law were taken by the state about: | Five children of the fam-' vith which he is liable to come in contact. Interesting editorials on ie Years eee various subjects will be found with sees in its pages, one entiiled: “The Northern Sheriff's Honored. | Better Use of (Siate Land,” being Beltrami county’s sheriff, Andrew! more than ordinarily interesting to Johnson, was elected vice president people here just now. Departments of the Minnesota Sheriff's associa-| on “Farm Management,” “Co-op- tion at the convention held at St.’ eration and Education,” “The Dairy Paul. Robert DeLury of Cass coun-! Farm,” together with an illustrated ty. was named secretary;\ William | } ss Fosbery of Marsball county, presi-| should make this issue especially dent, and William Gieger, sheriff | valuable, not only to the farm i of Rice county, treasurer. 4 * Imperfect Page SO of the county for the past year ‘wag small as far as the district court was concerned, while the of- hole, and it is reported that three of these showed manganese ore, some of the five foot samples tak- fences coming under the jurisdic- ticn of the justice courts were ‘about up to the average in number and importance. Of the “mos6, serious crimes, one case of murder in the first degree resulted in an’ acquittal, as did the only first de- gree manslaughter case, One case en out going over 34 per cent! manganese. The other hole show- ed a low grade cre. FORMER ITASCAN 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 wealthy lumbermen and sawmill rowners. of the Western country, ‘evidently ‘believes that ihe west) is tha greatest section in the world He has been successful to a marked degree since taking up his residence there, his experience 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 of consenting. to the payment of fraudulent ¢laims resulted: in con- vietion and an indeterminate sen- tenee. But two assault cases were tried, one resulting in acquittal, the other being dismissed. Four game violation cases were heard in the district court, three of which resulted in conviction andi one in acquittal. Two robbery cases were dismissed. There were laws, resulting in four con- Js. Four third. degree as~ | eases were tried, in, twe of} wilich convictions were securéd, the other two being acquitted. ‘Theré ‘were two convictions for burglary in the third degree. One conviction for petit larceny is re- corded and one dismissal on, the same charge. Charges against twa parties for resisting an officer were dismissed. One case of con- tempt of court resulted in convic- tion, and a libel case was dismiss= ad) Oregon is strongly for Woodrow In the justice courts there were | Wilson. The sentiment in favor 201 convictions, three acquitals and) of the president is remarkable, ac- three dismissals. The total! costs | cording to Mr. Moore. This feeling assessed in these courts were $918.-| is by no means confined to Repub- {2 and the fines imposed amount- |licans, but is shared by all the jed to $1,438. The fines collected | people, and as far as this particu- |jamounted, with) costs, to $2,065.- lar Western. state is concerned, 79. Of the 72 offenders tried, 28 | the present occupant of the White received jail sentences. The cases |House is by far the most popular. coming before the justice courts | of any president of recent times. were principally those/involving | Mr. Moore still retains some pro- assault, petit larceny, drunkenness |perty interests in Itasca coun- ‘and liquor and game law viola- |ty which he will look after beforq | tions. returning to his Western home. WINTER BUSINESS BG res LOOMS UP WELL! tsetse senso con of Court Rassmussen, there were Cream Sufficient For 1000 Pounds 22 fewer marriage licenses issued during the year 1913 than in the, of Butter Per Week is Now Being Received. previous twelve months, the total for last. year being 122, to 144 for | 4912. The reports of births and The butitermaker’s report for the |deaths in the county during the first. two weeks of December show- | ing the business transacted at the jitasea creamery, indicates that re- iyear are not yet available, these being sent by the town clerks di-, jceipts have been very satisfactory. Tt shows that the total amount’ rectly to the state board of health’ which in turn sends them to the of butter fat received during the two, weeks amounted to 1600 county clerks at the end of the year. ‘pounds, which is equivalent: to. | about 2000 pounds of buttér: ped +i]. .2 2 — Over ant of het ae ‘The Depr: River ;News-sgys that ever, was sold:ds-inilk, #kieh | while eftgaged, at Relpiny to saw inte a better profit -tc tht prio | wood ona small cnet pe ead ma- ducer; The average price re-|chine on the A. Rasmussen farm ceived for butter during the peri- | four miles north of town last. Wed- dd wag 35¢ per pound, and thig|nesday, a young man giving his enabled the creamery to pay pa|name of Alfred George Cooper jtpons 47¢ for butter fat in milk, | tripped on a round stick of wood 39e for butter fat in special cream, | lying at his fee, and fell with and 36c for first cream. his body directly upon a circu- For the season of the year the|lar saw which was running full volume of business compares Very | speed. pe favorably with that done by many| His chest wes cut open from the older and larger plants in the back of the left shoulder through! state. That the dairymen of the) the ribs down the side and pretty section are awakening to the ad-/ well forward into the stomach so vantages held out by the cream-| that his heart was openly exposed. ery is evidenced by the fact that} Cooper refused to give his name ‘they are able to thus keep up, a | until his end was near. When he page of special interest. to women, | good supply of milk and creamy| did he said he was born in -east— during the season when prices are| ern Canada, was 24 years old and the highest. ‘had no near relatives or. friends | OSURE _ list of those who received oven j TEN WEEKS TILL CONTEST CLE Half Way Point is Reached in Million And a Half in Their Race For Grand Prize ing More Interest in The Outcome. _ Some interesting changes uf have: taken. piano contest of the He’ and Allen Dry Goods ¢ ing the past week. B2, who last week led sion, has dropped back to place and yielded the position comes a gain during the week of al quartsr of a million.. Nov mains 875, during the period, brit her count up to 1,498,450. Ni 32 gained an even 89,000, mak her total 4,474,000, while No. increased her standing by 41. making her total 41,420,075. four contestants have consi kept at the head and the most in. terest them, rapidly, and it is likely that leaders wil! be given a s | bold their positions ; ‘The Herald-Review’s contest is aiding [their standing, and.as this ineans will be more popular than ‘at’ extra pirze of a fine lad ham wrist watch, which given to the lady or girl securing the largest number of subscribers to the paper up to the time the , contest closes, is stimulating interes in this mode of securing votes, This watch is an extra prize and has nothing to do with the maim event. place in ‘the’ vote in the Cont out with a total of second, having naturally centers aroun but’ others are coming The contestant gets the usual number of votes on the pi< ano, and besides has a chance on the watch z.. - 881,416 69. 319,100 2. 1,113,160 70.. 643,680 3.0 118,380 71. 4.. 16,500 72. 1,002,100 73... 6 12,000 1,000,940 16,000 740,300 128... 117,100 129.