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AITKIN, AITKIN COUNTY, MIN NfBSOTA, SATURDAY AUGUST 3 1912. Sr H, ?
THE AGE-VOLUME 30, NO. 19
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INDEPENDENT-VOLUME 11 NO. 30
SON OF AITKIN'S BURGLARS TAKE COURT MODIFIES
§ PLANS AGREED ON CONSOLIDATION
CM REGISTER 1 DITCH DECISION TEACHERS' EXAM'S
FOR FAIR BUILDING OF LOCAL PAPERS GODFATHER DIES
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£ To Have Cement Floor and Age and Independent Merge, Roger B. Aitkin, Son of Hud­ Poston's Pool Hall Entered Allows Gleason to Enter Into Results of the Examinations
Will Not be Known until
Contract With County at
Editor Hollister Retiring son Bay Fur Trader, Passes I Wednesday Night and
Entrances North, East
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Just before Sept 1st
Away at White Earth
$25 Cash Carried Off
Original Award Figures
From the Field
South and West.
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7 Some one raided an unfastened Wm. A. Watts, attorney for the ^ At the teachers' examination conA*
White Earth Minn. July, 29-i
For some years past the trend in
The committee appointed by the
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county board, Messrs L. E. Turner
••v>5 and E. A. Hanson, met with Col. W.
Potter last week to decide upon
a plan for the county fair build­
ing the erection of which was
authorized by the county commiss­
ioners at their last meeting.
The building agreed "upon will
have four wings, each wing having
an entrance and these being locat­
ed north., south, east and west, be­
ing in the shape of a cross, the
lovger wings extending east and
weet.
The north and south wings will
be of the dimensions 24x24 feet,
and the east and west wings will
be 24x40.
The dimensions of
the whole
bv>ilding will be 72x104 feet.
The building will rest upon cem­
ent foundations and the floor for
the entire building will be of cem­
ent. Col. Potter has offered to
furnish the lumber at actual cost
and has ordered it from one of the
Pacific coast mills direct.
The plan of the building pro­
vides a spacious rotunda at the
int< rtection of the w T ings in which
it is planned to place a stand
for speakers, band or orchestra.
:Over the rotunda the roof will be
^ raifed to two stories, the iextra
story provided with large windows
on each side to admit plenty of
light, and spacious windows will
also be placed in the wings.
The premium list js in type and
is published on page two of this
issxie.. It is in the hands of the
~ job printer and will be printed
and bound in a neat and substan­
tial manner and be ready for dis­
tribution within a week.
That more than the usual inter­
est centers in the fair this year is
. * made manifest by the fact that
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already five
townships
have
?' applied for space to make exhibits
in Liie to'vnship contest^, and there
3& probably will be more.
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S?«r*>t*!ry '<'rc.vncv i: .JLii'Ljj
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/tfst to secure amusement attractJ^'ioDs, it being the intention of the
maragers to make this feature
more promineat than heretofore
and in this they will receive the
hearty approval of the patrons.
Edward "Williams, while loitering
around the Osterhout shingle saw
room yesterday, heedlessly put his
hand on the drop board and lost
the small finger of his left hand
and three others badly c*ut.
He
exhibit.*? I good ne'rve while having
the hand dressed.
the newspaper field has been to­
ward consolidation. In the smaller
communities particularly, (where
two or three papers indifferently
covered the news, the merging of
such publications has
become
pretty general, and publishers and
the public have been benefited
thereby.
The conditions w?uch brought
about consolidation
elsewhere
have existed here and the result is
the Aitkin Independent Age, a con­
solidation of the Independent and
the Age, which eliminates one
newspaper from the field.
We think the name is a good
one, as it is expressive of the
spirit of the times.
The union was unevitable, as it
has been for some time apparent
that the field was overcrowded,
and the increased cost of labor,
of type and printing materials, of
paper, and the other items that
are needful to make a newspaper,
all emphasized that fact.
Mr. Hollister offered to sell us
the Age, and we quickly ,came to
terms.
The merging of the two papers
gives us a circulation about double
that enjoyed by any local paper
heretofore, and that circulation be­
comes our chief asset. The Inde­
pendent Age becomes far and away
the leading as well as the oldest
newspaper, and as an advertising
mtdium its value is greatly enhaiced. [While the subscription
price will remain the same, our ad­
vertising rates will be advanced
to 15 cents per inch for our
regular advertisers, Avhile .tran­
sient one
time advertisements
will be charged for at the rate
of 25 cents per inch. All political
advertising will be charged for at
regular lepra) ^ates.
ft v.- ill be pur aim to make the
paper, and in this our readers can
materially help us by sending or
'phoning in little items or
big
news as the case may be. A news­
paper can report only what it
hears, ar.d if our great family of
readers will help us, we will thor­
oughly cover the local news field.
Those who have been subscrib­
ers to both the Independent and
the Age will receive a credit by
havin e their subscription advanced
to such a date as their overpay­
ment will warrant. The paper will
be published on Saturdays, which
day we believe to be the best of
the week.
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Roger Aitkin of the Whit! Window near the rear of Poston's
pool hall last Wednesday night and
Earth reservation, died at his
home near Beaulieu yesterday I [carried off the cash register con­
yesterday, aged 84 years. MrJ taining about $25 in cash. John
Poston is of the dpinion that it
Aitkin served in Company G
-Ninth regiment of Minnesota} may have, been done by boys, and
is investigating on that theory,
during the war of the rebellion
He was a son of Roger Aitkin' .There is no clue.
or., one of the earliest fur
The contents (ft a purse in Miss
traders of the northwest and
Evelyn
Young's handbag amount­
a t e r .^y. oni the city and county
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ing to about $10 were taken from
of Aitkin were named.
the hall of D. L. Young's res­
idence where it was hanging, a
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item appeared wfcek ago last Sunday night.
in the_T\vin City dailies last Tues­
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day. It is of more than ordinary
interest to the people of this j
\illage and of Aitkin county, fo ¥
s t a t * d i n the dia-fe
patch, that Roger Aitkin was tho fe
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son of the man for whom the
county and village were aiamed. $
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He had some Indian blood in his r
vei . ns ' and during the early eighties ft
and before, waa a frequent visitor p
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Aitkin
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cheerfully told what he knew of it. E \
But as far as is known no record 11' *
was ever made of his recollections If '
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and to preserve, if possible, his & ^
Naturally the pioneer settler* iFoFBUCF
here made frequent inquiries of!'
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knowledge of
his father's res-jp r idei.ee here, B. M. Hungerford,! ^
some fourteen years ago wrote to Residents of three states and
Mr. Aitkin, and received from him piticials andjs/'aMaployes of the
the following reply
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Beaulieu, Jan. 3rd, 189b intertsfefl.si^ a Redding which
Mr Hungerford:
. took place/last Wednesday afterDear Sir: feriO'OB,
Julyat 5 o'clock, i at
I received your letter some time ''Fo&nsn*-- £?*•• •©.,-. ^'hen. Misis 'Nellie
ago in which you wish to inform .Dei.een W$s married ^to, Earl ^ N.
you about my father's history, ho .Jljfce. ^
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I will try and inform you all what ^
Denet?i?Tias been living atI know about my father
Btitton, S. D., htit ' Went to the
As far back, as 1 can remember tame of a sistefc in Forman to
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I was born at Fond du Lac in 1' Miss Deneeh, a former Aitkin
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i_ girU is the daughter of Mr. and
1827. I think that he had a tradMrs. John Deneen of
ing post there before I wa9 born some
^ Libby, and
but I cannot tell you whether he
years ago was an employe in
was living there or not at that. the Age office. She is a charming
time. He did not come by way of young woman and has many
the Mississippi, he cam ^from Can- 1 friends here.
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ad a. When he was 1 seventeen l-1*5 state house is interested
years old he came to Mackinac as in her marriage from the fact that
a clerk for the American Pur Miss Deneen is a sister of the exCompany, and from there hcjeame ecutive clerk to Governor Eberto Fond du Lac and from there; hart. Her father is employed in
he came to -Sandy Lake.
i the state land department, and her
He lived there for a long time; brother in the state drainage burI think that is the reason that ^an. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes attended
Aitkin is named after him.
He the wedding at Forman.
was of Scotch descent, I think' v'
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that when he came to Sandy lake | R c Trudgen has resigned his
they was no white men unless he
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bad some hired Canadian from P°sltloD as manager
of
the
Montreal. In them days they used Potter-Casey Co. drug store, and
to hire Canadians for three years, will'probably return to Staples,
When I was up to Aitkin last frQm which place he came here
W « S a man by t ? e ? am ! with his family.
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then a merchant at:
that time living there. Maybe you '
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uiow him. He wanted me to spell Ojibway. One o,f them was named
my father's name and write it Mr. Moulton I don't remember
down for him and he wanted me to his given name. They put iip some
write it down a good many times buildings at that, time that ,tthey
so I wrote it down. Aitkin, that laid out townsite.
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is the way-my father spell it and; I don t think that my father ever
that is the way I spell it, it. is put up a tradijg post there so I
a Scotch name, this is all the in- think that those buildings that was
formation I can give.
~; ;i put up there must have Deen those
And about, those ibuildings at that Mr. Moulton and his partner
Sisfcibegama that you want to find built.
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is all the information that
out, I think it was in the ]year
1857 or in 1858 I am not jsure I can give.
Dwhich year, that some persons laid ;
Yours Truly>
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ROGER B. AITKIN,
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petitioners in the Judicial Ditch
No. 2 cage, County Attorney Hallum
appearing for himself and the
county auditor, and F. E. Ebner,
^ttoiriiey for W. J. Gleason, the
contractor to whom the contract
for constructing the ditch was
originally awarded, but the award
declared illegal by Judge McClenahan of the district court, met
by agreement at the judges
chambers in Brainerd last Wed­
nesday and went over the whole
matter with him.
As a result of the conference
a stipulation was agreed to de­
claring the original award invalid
and allowing Contractor Gleason,
to go on with the work at the fig­
ures of his former bid but specify­
ing that a new contract, approved,
and signed by the engineer be
drawn.
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The contract has been drawn by
the attorney general, and Engineer
O'Hara, who is expected home to­
day will undoubtedly approve it
this leaving the way open for Mr.
Gleason to go on with the work
and disposes of the injunction pro­
ceedings.
toneluded here last Wednesday,
eighty-four candidates for jcertificktes which will entitle them to
tejich in the schools of Aitkiin
county, took part.
The results of the examination
wrill not be known until just before
the firgt of . September. The three
clashes of certificates issued in
Aitkin county are the limited, good
for one year; the second grade,
good for two years; and the first
grade, good for five years.
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public interest, .appealing for
co-operation and making .timely
suggestions.
The bulletin follows:
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PRIMARY ELECTION
DATES AND FILINGS
Seven Candidates for County
Office Have Now Filed I
Their
The primary election occurs on
September 17 and canaidatei for
.county office must file their in­
dentions with tjhe county auditor
at least twenty days before that
date, which makes the last day of
which filings will be accepted by
the auditor August 27.
Seven filings have now been
made, all for the Republican nom­
inations. The}* hre John B. Lemire
and^ Fred Stearns for county
auditor; Loui3 Hallum for county
attorney; C. G. Haugen for sheriff;
Milton P. Botsford and Chas. MacDonald for county surveyor.
TO PREVENT
CAR SHORTAGE
The Railroad and Warehouse
ant
Foreseeing a possible car short­
age this fall in the< movement of
the expected great crop, the state
Railroad and Warehouse commiss­
ion has issued a bulletin to corniron carriers and shippers which
they 5' do
believe tot T>e
of
Attention is called to the
in past jear& of the shortafi^^it^ft in
the fall and winter monfch'syefof the
sbipmefit of coa], grain, potatoes and f,
otherfarm products. T h e presenc i n - j j
dications are that there will be a larpe*
crop to handle this fall. Shortage of
can; with all the inconvenience and
IJSS incidental ibereu», cannot be prev?nted without the co operation of the
shippers and iaii.vay companies. If
shippers do not leod their assistance;
hy prompt loading and unloading ofS^:^
cars, there is bound to be a shortage,
no matter bout, efficient service the
company try to render^ It is wi.sh the
purpose of securing 1 the co-operation of
the shippers in the movement of the^y<^
c o m i n gc r o p t h a t noticesa r e b e i n gs e n t '
out.^.^^ Every;shipper or receiver of any^ £
cai-load freight; is urged to load and un-^
load promptly.
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. The railroad and warehouse .commis-s^,
sip^4<B$i^'i^> r tioularly
the at-. .-*^6
tentiou of the coai dealers in tbis state"^~ ^
i^ tbe prospective shortaije-pftcKVs, aad- *
asks them to place their orders for coal
as soon as possible, in order that it may
be shipped and stored before the grain
begins to move. The distribution of
cars has been a frequent source of con­
troversy between shippers and the rail­
road companies, and in-order to pre­
vent complaints and undue charges of
discrimination, which naturally araises
on account of shortage of cars, the com^
mission deems it a duty to the shipper
and the railroad companies to make
the followiug suggestions:
1. Shippers should make demand for •
car.- on the .station agent in writing.
2. Load- cars as promptly as possible
and 10 f ill cap aciiy of cars ordered and
not take advantage of ttie full free time
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allowed for loadipg, and should give
railway coinpany immediate notice
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when car is ready for release.
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3. See that sufficient grain or other
products is on hand to load the cars to
iheir capacity.
4. Not use cars for storage while
waiting for deliveries io complete carloads.
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5. Not place orders for more cars
than absolutely needed. _
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6 Consignees should unload cars as
promptly as possible., and not take ad­
vantage of the free time allowed for
unloading, and should give company
immediate notice when car is ready for
release.
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7._ J^ive disposition of all cat's as
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We have fost ooloaded a car of fresh
Hard Plastert Wood Fibre Plaster and ^
Portland Cement and we are prepared ^
to fill any kind of kn order. f, ' (:
Use Wood pibre
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If you have a little daughter, bank for her right now
three dollars for her first year of life, six dollars for her se­
cond, nine dollars for her third, and' so on until you catch up
to her present age; and then on her next birthday, bank to
her credit three dollars for each year of her age and keep
this up until she is 21. She'll then have nearly A THOUS­
AND DOLLARS and you'll never miss the money. DO
THIS; its your DUTY.
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OWN and hav i lor fttle'the choicest central res?
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kin, pewers, t idewalks, water mains complete,
splendid subdivinott property three blocks from
principal street, firms adjoining town, etc.
AITKIN, MINNESOTA
LANDS F0R SALE!
2S,000 ACRES
Choice Farm and Mineral Lands
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