Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 25, 1914, Page 1

——E Grand Vor, XXIVe. Ne: 33 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., Wepnespay Fepsruary 25. 1914 { | ANNUAL ELECTION VILLAGE GOUNCIL March 10 Electors of Grand Rapids | Will Elect Village Officers | For Another Year | CAUCUS CALL FOR FRIDAY THIS WEEK | Present Council Has Made Good Record For Economy And Will Probably be Continued, Ex- vept Fred A. King. a Up to the present very little excit- ment has appeared on the political surface relative to the forthcoming election of spring village officers. | This may be accounted for by the fact that the present council, which has been practically unchanged dur- ing the past four years, has given gen 1 satisfaction and taxpayers are willing to let well enough alone. Holding public office is very much like publishing a newspaper. When the official does the best he can and does well, the only evidence of ap- preciation discernable is a general apathy and lack of interest. There | are very few to speak a word of | praise and encouragement. When ap- | proval is given it is usually qualified | with a but—. So it is with the news- | paper that devotes thousands of dol- | lars worth of free space every year | to the community's advancement. It’s all very well—but. However, when | Term of William Hoolihan Expires the board the official makes a mistake, or an alleged mistake, everybody howls for his political scalp. Adverse criticism of incompetency is perfectly proper, of course. But why not equally strong expression of approval of work | well done. The Herald-Review be- | lieves the village authorities have | been rendering good service during the past four years. At the beginning of that period there was a floating:| indebtedness of approximately $38,- | 000. This imdebtedness was in ex- cess of the bonded obligations of the the village. More than $20,000 of the open account has been paid off. Strict economy has been the policy pursued ! and good results have followed. While | it is true that taxes are higher in Grand Rapids this year than ever be- | fore in the history of the village the | responsibility does not rest with men now directing municipal affairs. ! The First State bank judgment of over fifteen thousand dollars is all; included in the taxes now payable. Continuing the policy now being fol- lowed taxes will steadily decrease in the village from now on. While the total indebtedness has been material- ly decreased all necessary public im- provements have been carried on and cash paid for everything done. Ex- tensive street improvements have been made, sidewalks built and many crossings put in. Money has bene appropriated out of the village bud- | get for the maintainance of a ball | park; a public skating rink has been provided;, the council has been lib- | eral in its treatment of the volun- teer fire department. These have | been cash transactions while at the same time the public debt has been reduced more than twenty thousand in the past four years. The general | showing is so astisfactory that littie | attention is being given to village affairs by the average elector, and it | is a safe bet that a very light vote | will be cast at the coming election. President George Riddell has not signified any desire to continue at the head of the municipal government but his nomination and election is | the ataong the probabilities. George Arscott, who might be termed the! watch dog of the exchequer, is a, desirable man to continue on the council and the same may truthfully be said of Dr. Thomas Russell. Frank Sherman has served three years as recorder and will be a candidate for re-election. As a member of the council and as keeper of the accounts | and minutes his public record is very ‘likely prefer that his name be | again, but Notice of Village Caucus Notice is hereby given that a caucus of the qualified electors of the Village of Grand Ropids, Min- nesota, will be held at the Village Hall in said village on Friday Evening, February 27, 1914, at 8 o’clock, for the purpose of placing in nomination candidates for the following offices, to be voted on at the annual election to be held in said village on March 10, 1914: One Village President. Three Village Trustees. One Village Clerk. One Village Treasurer. One Village Justice of the Peace for two years. One Village Constable, E. C. KILEY, T. R. PRAVEEZ, HENRY HUGHES, Village Caucus Committee accordance with a resolution adopted at the regular caucus two years ago, instructing the village committee to call the reguiar caucus at least ten days before election. Friday even- ing is selected in deference to ‘store clerks who are unable to get away from their lduties on Saturday even- ing. GRAND RAPIDS TOWN ELECTION MARCH 10 as Supervisor—Should be Re- Elected on His Record. There is one supervisor, a clerk and a treasurer to be elected for the town- ship of Grand Rapids at the election to be held on .March 10. The ‘su- pervisor whose term expires at this time is William Hoolihan, who has been chairman of the board during the past year. Mr. Hoolihan would not as a candidate for the office indications are that the citizens of the township are not go- ing to allow him to retire. He has made a splendid official, and aided by the other supervisors, Charles Breck and A. Zieninger, has looked after the interests of the town in a most able and acceptable manner. The affairs of the township bid fair to become of the greatest importance during the next year or two and the people will be anxious to return of- ficers of Mr. Hoolihan’s experience and ability. For the office of clerk Hugh Mc- Ewan, the present incumbent, is the only candidate mentioned, He is a capable and obliging official and will in all likelihood have no oppo- used sition. The same applies also for James Connell, township treasurer. He has not signified his intention of again becoming a candidate, but everyone seems to take it for grant- ed that he will be and are glad of it. SATURDAY’S ELECTION ALMOST UNANIMOUS But Four Votes Were Cast Against the Proposition to Issue $19,- 000 Refunding Bonds. The special election on Saturday last for the purpose of authorizing an issue of $19,000 in refunding bonds resulting in the proposition being car- ried almost unanimously. There were but 95 votes cast and of these 90 were in favor of the bonds, four against and one blank ballot. by the fact that there was no ques- taken in the matter. the sureties. It is’ understood that creditable and there seems to be little disposition to displace him. Lester Lofberg has served the past year as treasurer and up to date no oppositio1 | to his re-election has appeared. The removal of Fred A. King to Cass Lake will make it necessary to se- lect a new man to fill his place on the council. Several names have been mentioned in this connection, among them, T. R. Pravitz, Carl Hiler, Roy Bell, J. G. Allen, Chas. Pogue and Geo. F. Kremer. The resignation of form- er Justice Bailey leaves a vacancy that will be filled at the coming election. In another column will be found @ call by the village committee for @ caucus at Village hall on Friday evening of this week at 8 o'clock. The caucus as .called .at this time in | there will be no difficulty in dispos- | ing of them to the state at a rate of | four and one half per cent, which wil mean a large saving over the seven per cent paid on the old issue which the bonds will retire. The extension of this indebtedness over a period of twenty years at a/ low rate of interest will materially | the finaucial condition of the! twe other bon:i} help village. There are issues ovtstanding but sinking funds ‘are being created for the taking up \of these upon maturity and the out- {look for a low tax rate in the vil- | lage are the best in its history. \ and Grand Rapids hibh school teams| was appointed at High School auditorium on Sat- | urdal evening.. The; unusually light vote is accounted for | tion but what the bonds would be, | authorized and but little interest was The next move will be the sale of: ‘WANT NEW POOR Board of Control Thinks That Present Quarters Are Inade- quate for Their Purpose. ‘COMMISSIONERS ARE NOT SO SURE Have Asked State Body for More Information on the Subject | and Will Not at Present Heed Instructions. ' At the meeting of the board of county commissioners held yesterday the matter communication from the state board of control containing the information that the buildings at the Itasca county poor farm were inadequate to care for the the inmates and ad- vocating the building of new ones. This request came as a surprise to the board and County Auditor Spang was instructed to write the com- mission and find cut in what respect the buildings are inadequate. County Physician Russell and Dr. Shellman, | the latter also a member of the board ‘of county commissioners, lately in- !spected the premises and reported that they were in excellent conditi- ,tion, the only trouble to be ‘at all being that they might be a ‘trifle small. This defect, however, seems to think can be ‘remedied in some other way besides| and be- ‘erecting new buildings entirely, | will await further instructions ‘fore going ahead. | A grist of bills were allowed, a ‘number of road petitions heard and several bonds approved. The hearing in the matter of tlie - Hill City-Rc- “lease road was continued to the Lith of March. | OLD-TIMERS’ DANGE | WAS A BIG SUCCESS Ninth Annual Event Eclipses All | Previous Efforts at Enter- tainment By Ancients. The most enjoyable, best attended and altogether successful annual ty Old Settlers Association was the ninth annual affair of its kind at Vil- |lage hall on Monday evening. There | were about seventy-five couples pres- ent and it would have been a good place for the younger generation to go and learn how to have a good | time. It was 9:30 o’elock sharp | When the grand march was begun, j being led by Will Wheaton and Mrs. _M. McAlpine. From this time on until the party broke about 2 o’clock jon Tuesday morning the fun never lagged. Old fashioned quadrilles, lan- cers, Virginia reels, the Money Musk and other ancient examples of the terpischorean art were on the pro- gram, every number having its enthu- siastic votaries. The supper was served by Mine Host Billodeau of the European restaurant, ‘and. was just what a supper at an |old settlers’ dance should have been. The music, also, was exceptionally good and all the appointments per- | fect. A guest or two, not exactly to be counted among the old settlers of the county, were included in the list of those present. Among these was W. A. Hicken of Duluth, commissioner {of public safety of that city. The re- ‘port that Mr. Hicken, who has some- thing of a reputation as a social re- former, was there to see that the Bunny Hug, Tango and other abom- inations in the way of dancing were not practiced, is not correct, both he jand Mr. Achenbach, who accompan- ied him, enjoying the affair to the utmost. The next affair of the Old Settlers will be the picnic to. be given at Po- kegama lake sometime during the coming summer. Fire Department Elects. : At the annual meeting of the Grand Rapids. fire department held this week the old officers were re-elected for another year. They are as fol- lows: Lester, Lofberg, chief; Miller Williams, first assistant; William Whaling, second assistant; Will Pow- ers, secretary; E. A. Kremer, trea- FARM BUILDINGS of greatest importance} coming up for consideration was a} found, dance ever given by the Itasca Coun-, BOYLE ANNOUNCES ~ HIS WILLINGNESS To Contest For Miller’s Seat in Con- | gress And Tells The Public Who He Is | WILL SEEK REPUBLICAN NOMINATION The Brilliant Young Man From Eve- | leth Will Help to Liven Up | Things Politically in This pore James P. Boyle of Eveleth, now & senator from the range district, announced his candidacy for the | blican nomination for congress | | fi the Highth district. _The an- nouncement is no surprise to those | | who have been keeping in touch with the sentiment of the district. Boyle | made a record in the state senate as a forceful speaker and a successful jadvecate of measures in which his | constituents were interested. Boyle | is personally popular, and there seem | to be considerable sentiment among leading Republicans of the district , fayorable to his candidacy. Con- gressman Miller will also be a candi- | date, according to popular belief, and with these two young Republican Demosthenes in the political arena there will be lots of oratorical en- tertainment, with a good chance on the side to elect some substantial | Democrat. Mr. Boyle’s announcement follows: “I hereby announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for representative to the Congress of the United States from the Eighth con-- gressional district of Minnesota. | “In making this announcement I ime’ by representative men through. out the district among whom are numbered many newspaper men. My most earnest desire. should be to prove myself worthy of their confi- dence. “I was born and reared in Minne- | sota and feel that I know the people of Minnesota. I was graduated from the Academic department of Indi- jana university in 1905. My legal training I received at Indiana uni- versity and the St. Paul College of Law. Since the fall of 1908 I have ibeen practicing law in Eveleth, Min- ‘nesota. For the most part my prac- tice has been of a general nature. I have been particularly fortunate, however, in getting employment from the various Municipalities hereabouts, townships, school-districts and vil- lages, through which employment I have acquired considerable training in public affairs and an intimate ac- quaintance with the people generally. 1 am now city attorney of the city of Eveleth. For two years under Mr. John H. Norton I was the , range as- sistant county attorney. My work during this period impelled me often to ask why do men who seem to be like the rest of us, break the laws of their state. I wondered if legisla- tion or lack of legislation, both state and national, had anything to do with this. In the month of Novem- ber, 1910, I was elected to the state legislature. As senator from the old Forty-ninth district I have | served two terms and an extra session in the legislature of Minnesota. I have witnessed and participated in the de- feat of two tonnage tax bills, the reapportionment of the state into legislative and congressional districts, the enactment of laws submitting to the people for constitutional amend- ment, provisions for the initiative, the referendum and the recall, the making of appropriations compelling state lands in these northern coun- ties to do a little something by way of helping our settlers, and the pas- sage of the state wide primary law, the workmens’ compensation act, the minimum wage law for women and children and the good roads leg- islation under which we are now working. My record in the legisla- ture, being recent, is so well known to you that I need not set it out here. Upon that record and my work here in the Iron Range coun- try, I must necessarily stand. Now- adays one is judged by what he does rather than by what he says, and therefore, in asking you to support me, I invite you to make inquiry in- to my business, professional and pub- lie life. “Few congressional districts are greater than ours. We are rich in ; early pioneers, died at his home in! | Aitkin early Friday morning, | veyed him from Rochester, where he Notice of Township Caucus Notice is hereby given that a caucus of the qualified electors of the Town of Grand Rapids, Min- nesota, will be held in the Village Hall in the Village of Grand Rap- ids, Minnesota, on Monday even- ing, March 2, 1914, at 8 o’clock, for the purpose of placing in nom- ination candidates for the follow- ing offices to be voted on at the annual election to be held in said township on Tuesday, March 10, 1914: One Supervisor for term of three years. i One Clerk, one year. | One Treasurer, one year, One Justice of the Peace, two years. One Constable, two years. THOMAS RUSSELL, C. E. AIKEN, KEO LEROUX, Town Caucus Committee || tion and homesteading, regulation of | manufacturing and the ways of doing | business, and the very vital question | of transportation by water and by rail discriminations therein and agree- ments therein doing away with the competition that should naturally ex- ist, are denianding our closest atten- tion. The representative from this district has a big work to do. To it he should give his entire time, all the while keeping in touch with his constituents that he may know what they are thinking and doing. This work I want to do and feel that I am prepared to do and therefore I submit my candidacy to the people of the district.” COL. WARREN POTTER | Northern Minnesota Pioneer and Former Grand Rapids Business Man Dies at Aitkin Home Col. Warren Potter, one of the best known of Northern Minnesota’s ! two hours after a special train had con- had been under the treatment of the Mayo doctors since December. As he became aware that the end was,;)° approaching he requested that he be taken to the town where most of his life had been spent in order that he might die there, and his wish was granted, he expiring two hours after} reaching Aitkin. Col. Potter was one of the oldest! and best known pioneers in this part; of the state. During the early days of Grand Rapids he was engaged in the mercantile business here and was well known to most of our people. At the time of his death he was at) the head of the Potter-Casey com-; pany at Aitkin, one of the largest | mercantile establishments in this sec- tion of the state. Mr. Potter was a native of Maine, and came to Minnesota in 1858, just three day before the territory became a state. At an early age he struck out for himself going first to Wiscon- sin, where he remained until the breaking out of the civil war when he enlisted and served with credit un | til its close. In 1871 Mr. Potter re | Moved to Aitkin, where he engaged in the general merchantile business, do- ing lumberirg as a side line, accum- ulating a fortune thereby. He is sur- vived by his wife and four daughters. Nashwauk Hearing Postponed. The preliminary hearing in the case of the men arrested for the shooting of Police Officer Kokko at Nashwauk, on the 10th of this month, which was to have held at that place} last Wednesday, was postponed to March 4. Rosa Barich, one of the men implicated in the shooting, ‘is slowly recovering at a Hibbing hos- pital, and it was for the purpose of making it possible for him to be present that _the postponment was taken. In the meantime Marco Bar- ich, Steve Stanich, Steve Halor, Mike Yaher, Mike Sertich and Eli Karacus are in jail here awaiting a hearing. Watch Thief Convicted. Robert Hamilton was convicted on a charge of stealing. a watch at Deer River on Monday. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail by judge C. F. Tel- that Z Two Dollars a ARE SPRINTING 10. AN EXCITING GLO GANS TWO AND A HALF MILLONS This is The Record of One Since Last Report And’ Others Are Follow- ing Close. enews The votes are fairly roiling in the favorite candidates in the g piano contest of the Herald-Re' and Allen Dry Goods company. ers have shifted positions ‘so o during the past week that nearly of them was at one time or ano at the head of the procession. Nu oer 38 was the leader when the port was gathered for this issue o the Herald-Review, but the way th are jumping around this does not n cessarily mean anything. This lad made the phenominal gain of 2, 500 during the week, but slightly ot stripping No. 96, who gained an e en two and a half million, and “, With a two million increase. le 40 is second on the list at this time, having 6,675,000, an increase the last report of 1,889,465. No. looms up in third place with 6, 500, while No. 32 is close. behind h with 6,666,880. Number 2 has 5, 000 to her credit, she being the p mentioned above who made the ev two million gain. But little over two weeks” of the contest and some in changes are due to develops ‘It @ merry race and there is no as yet who is the lucky party, until the aK the standing of th this time: + 5,750,890 4,500,700 2 5,981'000 4,000,300 2 5,000,000 4,975,000 2 5,081,810 5,070,000 5,550,000 £975,000 5,848,375 5,200,000: 5,948,775 5,459,915 2 5,750,000 3,000,000 2 5,875,000 5,526,365. 2 5,970,000 3,500,000. + 5,500 500 3,900,000 5,700,000 6,72! $00,505 5,600,300 600. 700 4,700, + 5,950,000 4,700,600 2 5°971,510 5,950,000 2 5,650,400 5,750 300: + 5,850,250 5,300,000 2 2 5,676,400 5,876,316 5.550000 5,023,800 2 5,900,000 4,000,300 23 5,850,750 3.700, 700° 24. 2 5,775,600 4, 25. 2 5,900,500 5 901,360- 126. + 5,777,600 5 550,600 27. 2 5,960,200 5,750,300 28 5,762,752 6,670,300 29 5,600,550 6, 30 5,952,400 5,200 '31 2 5'900,000 4,000,200 32. 2 6,666,880 5,642,105 33 2 5,550,775 5,550,000 34 + 5,840,600 5,900,000 35 2 5,800,700 4°000,000° 36 5,350,800 4,010,000 3 5'866,650 5,300,600. 38 6,682,585 5,000,000 £ 1 5000000 $'900°130- ecco Bteteo 3:300't50 ab 800,600 3 2 504, 4,415,345 47. 2 5,970,635 5,400,300 48. 2 5,000,000 5,000’ 000° 49. - 5,550,300 3,500,350 50. 2 5,600,000 3,271,365 8,900,000 4,000,300 52 (875,900 4 975,000. 53* 800,500 5,700,650 oa. = 4,500,700 4,000,300 56... 2 5,200,600 4,500,000, 56. 2 5,400;000 4,000 57. + 3,784,050 3,750, 58. 5,750,009 3.965.300 59 917 525 4,000,000 60 875 500 4,500. & 200500 tea 63 750,400 ese 64 600,000 4 65 749,360 3 6 950,200 z 000 3 é Died at Grand Rapids at the ho of his brother, Geo. Affleck, Feb. James Affleck, of anemia, The ceased was a well known logger the early days, coming to this co try in 1878, and in late years kept a ranch on the Prairie River road. H was born in Lenark, Ontario, Ji 2nd, 1846, and besides his here, leaves three other brotl John, William and Robert, in Cai da,. also two sisters, Mrs. James §$ wart and Mrs. John Anderson, also | Canada. He was ill for more than | year; his brother brought him to home in Grand Rapids about thi weeks ago, since then he has b confined to his bed. The funerax