1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

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tinel" plant having been "hauled overland from La Prairie by Wm.
McGrath. Publication of the "Sentinel" was discontinued in the fall
of 1899, but resumed in July, 1902.
The "Tribune," which of late years has been an evening journal,
was founded in June, 1899, and in the early years was a weekly publication.
It was originally owned, it has been stated, "by a stock
company, whose manager was J. Waldo Murphy." Another record is
to the effect that in 1902 the plant was owned by H. C. Garrott, of
Eveleth, and that the editor then was Theodore C. Surdson. Early
identified with it as partners were T. C. Congdon, druggist of Hibbing,
and F. G. Jewett, pioneer dentist of the village. A. E. Pfremmer was
the sole owner of the paper in 1906, when R. W. Hitchcock, present
editor-owner, acquired a part-interest in the journal. With the retirement
of Pfremmer in 1910 Mr. Hitchcock became sole owner. The
"Hibbing Daily Tribune" has a good circulation, and covers the afternoon
field well.
Another local paper of merit established recently is the "Gopher
Labor Journal," a weekly, founded by W. T. and C. J. Lauzon, at
South Hibbing in 1919. W. T. Lauzon became sole owner in March,
1920, Sandford A. Howard, an experienced newspaper man, coming
to Hibbing to assume editorial direction of the paper. Recently from
the Gopher Printing House came a well-written and elaborately-illu^
strated booklet on Hibbing, "The Old and the New\"
Transportation.—Hibbing has two railroads, and a wonderfully
efficient motor-bus service along the range. And in addition, an electric
trolley system that brings all the important places of the range
within an hour of Hibbing. The motor-bus service, owned by the
Mesabi Transportation Company, is an instance of how rapidly
worth-while things are developed in that country. The Mesabi Transportation
Company was organized on January 1, 1916, to operate a
line of motor buses between Hibbing and Grand Rapids. At the outset,
the company had five busses, the officers of the company being the
drivers. In 1920 they were building a $75,000 garage at South Hib-
bing to house its twenty-three White and Studebaker buses ; and they
were averaging seven thousand passengers daily, and maintaining a
service "as regular and reliable as a good clock." The officers of the
company are : C. A. Heed, president ; C. E. Wickman, vice president
and manager; E. C. Ekstrom, secretary; A. G. Anderson, treasurer,
and R. L. Bogan, director.
Court House.—The magnificent District Court House at Hibl)ing
is one of the finest buildings, probably the finest, in old Hibbing;
and it is far enough away from the point of mining to be sure of
its present site for many years. It was built in 1911, so as to give to
the western part of the Mesabi range within St. Louis county a service
equal
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to that established in Virginia, for that part of the range, in
Hil)l)ing ere long hopes to have a Federal building.
War Record.—Hibbing's war record w^as a meritorious one. Its
young men went into the fighting forces, as has been recorded elsewhere
; its women formed a powerful Red Cross chapter; its miners
put even more "steam" into their work ; its people, rich and poor,
and
combined to give to the limit of their means to the various war funds.
If the Lake Superior district represents 8-lOths of America's ore supply,
and the Mesabi produces more than all the other ranges coml)ined.
then Hibbing's j)art in the providing of the raw material with
which to make the shells and the ships was by no means insignificant,