The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-04-17
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

OF LOCALINTERElsT,
Register Oarhart visited Lutsen this
week, So. IS,
]. Montferrand, Of Grand Portage,
was in town Tuesday. #..s55
M. johnson and family have moved
into town for the summer. II s 81
Jas. A. Tucker has been under the
weather for several days past. . .. .,4
County Commissio Jackson, of
/ oyland, and Eng lson, Of Carlton Peak
were in town the first Of the week attend
ing the meeting Of the county board.
Alex Easier, j. G. Kelly, VIM. Larkin,
CA. Nelson, N. Hamlin and L. Lundine
constituted party of Lutsenites who
we're in attendance at the.
meeting Monday. ~ s..1@:.
At the meeting Of the county board
last Monday, petitions were presented
asking for a redivision of the territory
comprising the First, Third and Fourth
school districts. The matter, was referred
to the county attorney who decided that
none Of these were legal school districts.
The Third and Fourth districts, he said,
were illegalSbecause of their not having
been legally organized, and the First
which had, been illegally organized, had
been made illegal by the addition of
territory without petition. Petitions
were at once. gotten out asking for the
organization of two school districts, one
comprising the territory Of what is now
the Fourth with,a few additional town.
ships, the other to comprise the territory
now divided between the First andThird.
This will bring the settlements north OF
town in the Grand Marais district.
We have just received communication
from Judge Morris, Congressman from
the Sixth District of Minnesota, stating
that an examination will be held at St.
Cloud, Minnesota at the office of S. s.
Parr, Superintendent of the City Schools,
in the High School building of that
city on Wednesday, May IL, 1897, be-
tween the hours of $50 A. NJ and $50
P. NJ, for the purpose of designating a
candidate for the appointment as cadet
Of the United States Military Academy
at West Point, from this Cong ress1onal
District, and also for the purpose of
designating an alternate to be appointed
ia: case the party nominated for cadet
ship shall fail either to report at the
proper time or pass the commencement
examination at the Military Academy.
+ The young man passing the best ex-
animation, mental and physical, will be
nominated for the cadetship and the one
passing second best examination will be
nominated as alternate. The age of adnis-
sion for the cadets to the Academy is be-
tween II and % years. The candidates
mnst be unmarried, over five feet in hight
free from any infectious or immoral dis
order, and generally free from any de-
D formity, disease or infrnity which may
render them unfit for military service
They must be we'll versed in reading; in
writing, including orthograph; in arith-
metic; have knowledge of the elements
#of the English gram mar; of descriptive
geography particularly Of our own
: country; and of the history of the
United States.
The successful candidates Will not be
required to report at the Academy for
about one yeat after their nomination
and therefore the examination will be
open to all young men between the ages
of Is and 81 years and who are actual and
permanent residents of the District.
The alternate must be willing to report
and be examined at the same time as
the regular nominee at the Military
Academy.