The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-09-24
oFIsOCA.L INTEREST.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Postmaster johnson spent Monday at
HOLLAND
John Z. Howenstine left for Duluth
Thursday afternoon. . .= 5..
H. NJ. Brady, the Duluth lumberman,
lis in town or business.
III. Gust Z. Nelson, of Lutsen, made a
visit to Rowland this week.
Mrs. Gust Olson and daughter, Ethel,
left on the Dixon Tuesday morning for
Dnluth. .5.. @.s !. +
Miss Ella Mayhem left on the Dixon
Tuesday morning for visit with friends
in Duluth. ! 4 *>@
Register Carhart returned Sunday
evening from Lutsen and left Tuesday
morning for Duluth. 49,
John McF arland came up from Hoy
land Wednesday and left Thursday
afternoon for Duluth. 49,
T. Auditor and Mrs. Fisher and Miss
Hilda Benson returned home Sunday
evening from their visit to Lutsen.
The Maple Hill Sunday School class
were given a picnic at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Hans Gilbertson yesterday
afternoon. We acknowledge an invi-
tation and regret that we were unable to
participate.
Miss Maud Miller, of Duluth, and Miss
Beatty, of Carlton, who will teach the two
schools on Maple Hill arrived here on
the Dixon Wednesday evening. Miss
Beatty will teach the east side and Miss
Miller the west side school.
In this issue will be found few in
teresting itums from Grand Portage,
from the pen of A. F. Geraghty, govern
ment school teacher at that place, who
has kindly volunteered to send us such
items as may be of interest to our road
ers. We would be pleased to receive
like correspondence from other parts of
the county also.
The railroad surveying party are going
right along with their work. They are
now about eight miles out and have
succeeded in locating a feasible road
over the hills west of the village. This
difficulty having been overcome they
will now have "clear sailing'' and will
make rapid progress with the survey.
They have large crew of men employed
and are pushing the work with all pos
sible speed.
In our last issue we noted the arrival
at Good Harbor bay of a tug and scow
loaded with supplies for logging camp
which will be put in at that point. The
work Of unloading the scow was not
completed until Tuesday. The camp is
being put in by Fl. II. Bartlett who has
contract from Duncan & Brewer, the
Duluth sawmill men. Mr.. Bartlett
brought down two teams of horses and
supplies enough to run the camp nine
! months and will begin logging opera
. tions as soon as he can get the Necessary
camps built and roads cut. The estab-
lishment of this camp is source of en-
couragement to our citizens as it is
hoped that plumber of them will be
given employment the comm1ng winter.
H. J. Braun aud Chris Murphy of
The HERALD made trip to Grand
Portage the first of the week. It was
our first visit to that hamlet and we
were surprised at the pictursqueness of
the surroundings, the village being beau
tifully situated between two ranges Of
mountains whose lofty peaks rise to
height of 800 feet above the level of the
lake. "Pete's Island" which forms part
of the harbor IS a beautiful spot compr1s-
ing in the neighborhood of sixty acres.
It derives its name from the fact that
it Is owned by Peter Gagnon who con-
ducts general store and has pretty
little village of his own on the island.
Here Mr.. Gagnon conducts the most
extensive fishing business on the north
shore, his weekly catch at this season OF
the year being in the neighborhood of
four tons. It is here that the govern
ment fish hatchery at Duluth secures a
great deal of its lake trout spawn. At
the present time two men from the
hatchery are there securing spawn. Our
trip to Grand Portage was very enjoy
able one and we hope to again enjoy a
visit with the hospitable people of that
burg era long. ~
GRANN pnRTAGE ITEMc