The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-12-08

| John D. O'Connor has gone to Super
ior to spend the winter.
Louis Nichols went to Duluth last
week to attend the funeral of his mother
He returned to Grand Marais Monday
EVENING.
Emil Eliason of Hovland passed thro'
town on the America Monday evening,
| on his way home from a business visit to
Duluth.
Chris and Matt johnson and Ole An
! derson have engaged In herring fishing
| for the market to continue until the end
OF the season.
Major Wilson is in town for few
days. In spite Of present bad conditions
he located several settlers on govern
ment lands this week.
The Cook County Manufacturing
company's new Office In the keystone
building Is being fitted. out with the
| necessary fixtures and is fast assuming
! business-like aspect.
Miss Allen, who taught school on Ma
pie Hill last year, visited in Grand Ma
rails couple of days last week, return
ing on Sunday to Iron Junction, where
she is teaching at present.
The Willing Workers will hold a
! Christmas sale in the keystone building
this evening. The ladies have diligently
prepared for this event and place on
sale tonight nice stock of fancy goods.
Lunch will be- served during the even
ing,
G. H. Taylor promises the largest and
most attractive display OF Christmas
goods ever seen in Grand Marais. The
room recently vacated by the postof1ice
| will be used for this stock, and the work
of decorating and fitting 1t up is now
being done. Mr.. Yaylor's next ad. will
be of special interest to holiday shop
pers.
! John Kluck, who is operating log
cling camp near Rowland, lost his most
valuable horse few days ago. While
engaged in opening roads the team
| broke through the ice on small creek.
They fell down and remained in the wa
ter for some time before help came.
One horse was gotten out in time to be
saved, but the other died shortly after
being pulled out of the water. '>* go
The postoffice was removed the first
OF the week to the new Keystone office
building in Harbor addition. The office
| occupies the south wing Of the building
and, as now arranged, it has an abun.
dance OF lobby room. Sidewalks will in
due time be extended to the new loca-
ton, street lights will probably be e.
tablished, and as its newness wears off
people will become pleased with the
change.
Frank Horan, son of John Koran,
deceased, arrived from Iron River, Wis.,,
Monday afternoon. After consulting
with his brother, who had been here for
several days, it was decided to bury
the remains in the Catholic cemetery at
! Chippewa City, to b. removed to Mar.
qnette in the spring and reinforced be-
side the grave of tho dead mans wife
The funeral was held Tuesday forenoon,
attended by many friends OF the deceas.
ed.
Joe Thomas is laid up with bad Gu,
in the knee, inflicted with sharp hatch.
ct. The accident happened at Jim Nor.
rlson's trapping camp on the South
Brule Monday afternoon, and the injur.
ed man had to lie in camp while mes.
senger came to town for dog team and
toboggan to bring him home. the roads
being impossible most of the way for
horses. Thomas is now at his home at
Chippewa City He will be laid up TO,
several weeks.
They having received word of the ser.
ions illness of Mrs. Palne's mother at
Ashland, Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. Paine left
on Sunday to go to her bedside. They
will return to Grand Marais. Fred il
to be considered a fixture in Cool
county now. He Is very much attached
to his ranch and intends to spend {
good deal of his time there. Situated
as it's enthusiastic proprietor claims
convenient to the best moose hunting
tgrounds on the continent, it is not i'm
probable that the fame of Paine's rancl
will bring President Roosevelt to Cool
county some day.
| The first bushel Of grain to be take,
from the straw by,a thresh,ng machine
in Cook county was threshed on Chri
Murphy's farm last Wednesday evening
by the Little Giant Thresher, recent.
purchased by-we'll call it the Coopera