The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-11-24
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Topics |! !! of j Week k.
Concerning our People, Business and
Progress in the County and Town.
RELIGIOUS i, i NOTICES.
The Union Sunday School meets at
the church Sunday morning at HOO.

G. J. johnson made business trip to
Duluth this week.
| T. I. Carter spent few days in Du-
luth the first of the week.
| A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
jackson Monday morning.
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day:
The corner on the turkey and cranberry
| n arket is due to be busted.
Mrs. John EIiasen of Hovland was a
visitor &C the home of her sister, Mrs
Fred Jackson, few days this week.
Rev. W. H. Gable, who preached his
farewell sermon here last Sunday even
ing. departed yesterday morning for
Superior, his future field.
Geo. Mayhem went to Duluth Mon
day night to arrange for the defense
of his interests in the contest filed
against hfm for clerk Of court.
Nels Daibec of Cascade went to Du-
luth Monday. He will probably visit
his former home at Waverly, Mimi, be-
fore returning to his homestead
F. l.. Smith, who has had charge of
Taylor's meat market for several months,
left for Superior Monday night. He
has grocery business in Superior,
! which has been conducted by Mrs.
Smith during his absence. and he went
back with the intention OF adding a
meat market to the enterprise.
While ont hunting last week Sam
BaIly and Joe Croft we're overtaken by
darkness and had to stay in the woods
one night, camping under balsam tree
until daylight came again. They were
! at Bally's moose farm, where ye editor
| inspected deer" tracks for about ten
| days last fall.
| In an amateur photographers contest
conducted by the "Young Folks" maya
zine of Philadelphia Victor johnson OF
Maple Hill was awarded prize for a
| scene On Brule Lake. The prize picture
is published ia the current number of
Young Folks. Mr.. johnson is fond OF
his camera and shows excellent taste IN
his work. He has an interesting COL
lection of views illustrating Cook county
which he has taken during the past sea-
son
Cruisers and others returning to
town report that conditions 10 the
woods now are bad beyond description.
The snow storm last week caused the
trouble. The snow is from two to three
feet deep. Roads are thick'y strewn
with windfalls and it is impossible for
the most expert woodsmen to follow
trails that are not clearly marked out,
and these only with the greatest difficult
ty. The trees are borne down and the
branches bend close to the ground,
being weighted down with ice and snow.
forming network through which one
must cut his way. William Forsythe,
foreman of tho Devils Track lumber
camp, started for town Tuesday. When
night came on he was only about three
miles from his starting point, having
been five hours on the way then. C. c..
Monker was with him. They camped
under tree that night and succeeded
in reaching town the next day.
At the point of death from exposure
aud exhaustion, John Koran was acct
dental]y discovered by John Gustafson
last Sunday evening lying on the road
side on Good HarDor Hill. Mr.. Gustaf-
son tried TO place the helpless old man
upon his (Gustafson's) horse but was
unable to do so and had to 80 to Her.
man Helmerson's for assistance. A team
was sent out and the old gentleman was
cared for during the night. He was
brought to town next day and placed
under the care of DR.. Hicks. He is still
suffering from the effects OF the expo
sure. Both of his feet were FROST bitten,
and his groans of pain as he tries in
his otherwise debllitated condition to
vain dIOuuu GOWu u1dA0 u1u ODJcCt
of pity. The county authorities have
taken the case in hand and will send the
old gentleman TO some of his children.
70 people who have visited the. Koran
homestead 1t seems wonder that hu-
man could exist in the dilapidated shack
that Mr.. Koran has occupied as a home.
The novelist's pen never pictured 10 fan
cy more desolate abode "a rude log
shack barely large enough to house a
single person, with little of the once tar
covered roof remaining to protect the
occupant from rain or snow. It is heated
by stove without stovepipe or chimney
to carry off the smoke. Here. in the
dense forest, >decrepit old man has
made his home for several years, sup
ported by the remnants of once sturdy
constitution and proud spirit chat has
separated him from the comforts that are
due to old age. i: -.
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