The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-10-01
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

oFLoGAL IN TERESA.
Hans Larson went to Duluth Tuesday
County Attorney Titus visited How
land this week. ssss s Gs
Chris Hottie returned from Duluth
Sunday evening.
s Register Carhart returned home from
Duluth Sunday evening.
q. FOR SALE-:A first class family COW.
Enquire Of Gust Olson, Maple Hill.
Mrs. Gust Olson and daughter re-
turned Sunday evening from Duluth.
Judge Carey and Capt. Greene Of Du-
luth visited with the Messrs. Mayhem
between boats Thursday. ~.:s
The Fifteenth Minnesota regiment
now at Camp Meade, Pa, will be sent to
Cuba to do garrison duty ST.
John f. 2Howenstine passed through
town on the Dixon Sunday. evening on
his way to the. Canadian gold fields.
! P. NJ. Graft passed through town on
the Dixon Sunday evening on his way to
his homestead in the Hovland district.
John Matheson has been appointed as
the Cook county member OF the Eleventh
district Democratic judicial committee
Ole Gunderson of Hovland passed
through town on the Dixon Sunday
evening on his return home fromDuluth.
The first bicycle owned in Grand Ma
rails was brought here by Julius McLaren
who arrived from Fort William Tuesday
morning.
The Peoples party county convention
for the placing in nomination of full
set of candidates for county offices will
be held at the court house this after
noon. -
Miss Mary Howenstine came down
from Duluth Wednesday accompanied;
by her cousin, Miss Mary McLaren, of
Fort William who will visit with friends
in town. Il
The two schools on Maple Hill opened
Tuesday morning. Miss Maud Miller,
of Duluth, teaches the West Side school
and Miss Beatty, of Carlton, the East
Side school. -<~< 49,
The opening of the Fosston branch of
the Great Northern railway system
which connects Duluth with the Red
River Valley was fttingly celebrated in
Duluth last week.
E. W. Forester came down on the
Dixon from West Superior Sunday to
harvest his crop and make some improve
ments on his homestead which is IN the
vicinity of Gunh1nt. -
The Fourteenth Minnesota regiment
arrived in st. Paul from Knoxville, Tenn.
on Saturday last and were given a great
ovation. The work Of mastering out the
regiment has probably been completed
by this time and the mon discharged. j..
John G. O'Hara, who is connectad with
IA. Il. Bartlett in the logging camp being
put in at Good Harbor bay, came down
on the Dixon Sunday evening. He re-
turned to Duluth Tuesday to complete
SOHO business arrangements before re-
moving here for the winter.
The Grand Marais school opens next
week. Kerby Jones who will teach the
comming term arrived here from Duluth
Wednesday evening. The school board
were fortunate IN securing the services
OF Mr.. Jones who comes highly recon-
mended as teacher of more than ordin-
airy ability.
A rural editor in his bicycle items
wrote that "Miss Pert looked charming
on her wheel in her short skirt" but
when the compositor reached the word
''sk1rt' letter III" had wandered to the
*" box and the poor scribe lost seven
teen subscribers before the paper had
been out twenty minutes.-Ex.
r. s. Howe returned here Sund ay
evening to look after his homestead.
During the past summer Mr.. Howe has
been engaged in successful business
In North Dakota where he went last
spring for the benefit OF his health He
is also engaged in the confectionery
manufacturing business in Duluth. Mr.
n. left on the Dixon Thursday afternoon
to close out his North Dakota business
after which he will return here to reside
on his homestead.
An Irishman undertook to dig a we'll
When he came out one morning he
found that it had fallen IN and was filled
in nearly to the top. Pat looked eau.
tious]y around and saw no person was
near, then took off his coat and hat and
hung them on the windlass and crawlec
into some bushes to await results. In &
short time the neia hbors discovered that
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