The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-08-08
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"a Reunion Of the Hartleys.
There was considerable gathering
Of the Hartley family in Grand Rap
ids this week at Hotel Pokegama. In
the party were Mr.. and Mrs. G. G.
Hartley and their son, Guilford, Of
Duluth, Mr.. and Mrs. B. f.. Hartley
and Roland H. Hartley Of Everett,
Washington. They spent yesterday
in Coleraine, the guests Of Mrs. Yer
non Claypoole, daughter Of Mr.. and
4 Mrs. G. G. Hartley. Returning to the
Pokegama last evening, the party
started by auto this morning for
Wolf Lake lodge for brief outing.
B. F. and R. H. Hartley are engaged
in extensive logging and saw mill
operations at Eeverett, where they are
associated with Ex-Governor David
M. Clough. In the early days Of
Northern Minnesota's history, when
all this region was young and in its
primative condition, the Hartley
brothers discovered that it was des-
tined to be developed into great in
dustrial wealth. G.. G. Hartley was
one Of the first to discover iron ore
in Itasca county. That probably was
as far back as 1880. About that
time he explored the territory where
Coleraine and Bovey are now the cen
ter Of great mining operations. He
had faith then in the ultimate devel-
opment Of mining properties and he
has never lost it. And incidentally he
has profted through his faith. B. r.
Hartley bought the townsite of Grand
Rapids way back in the early eigh-
ties when it was but wilderness.
"Here is a natural townsite, and
here I will build city," he said. But
settlement and development was
slower than he planned and he later
disposed of the property. Roland
Hartley worked in the woods Of Itasca
county when he was but boy and to-
day he remembers the old sites of
big operations and all the streams
adown which the logs were driven to
the Mississippi and on to the Mime
apolis mills. The Hartleys were all
young men in those days, full of
vigor, ambition and virility It was
then they learned to love the north
woods and when they plan on hav-
ing genuinely good outing, to walk
and talk and dream over the glories
Of days gone by, they just naturally
are impelled to come up to the Grand
Rapids region for few days.
It is now sixteen years since Roland
and B. F. Hartley went to Washing
ton and engaged in the timber and
lumber business. They are directing
one of the largest operations in the
west. Roland Hartley was a candidate
for governor of Washington in the
last campaign, and in one Of the hot
test political campaigns ever witnessed
in the west he came within five thous-
and votes of being elected. It was
during the time of labor troubles on
the coast, when I. w. w. lawlessness
terrorized the citizens and their acts
of violence paralyzed every class Of
industry. Mr.. Hartley went into the
campaign as candidate and defed
the outlaws, promising that if elected
he would make the soil Of Washington
too hot to hold them. They threat
ened him with violence and death, but
he never once wavered, and his
singlehanded fight against the most
desperate band of organized criminals
ever seen outside of prison walls at
tracted countrywide attention. Roll
and Hartley is in fair way to be
made the next governor of his state
as result of his first BATTLE Grand
Rapids Herald Review.