The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-07
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DOlNGS.

Items Of More or Less Interest Con-
corning the People, the Business
and the Progress of the County and
and Town.
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Miss Jeanette Benson returned Wed
nesday evening from visit in Duluth.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Method and chill
dreu returned to Duluth Thursday
night.
Whltesky Gesick of Lutsen visited
friends in the village the first of the
week..
John Ellasen of Hovland was passen-
ger on the Easton Monday night, home
ward bound from Duluth.
Mrs. August J. johnson, of Maple
Hill, who has been dangerously i'll for
several days, is reported to be no better
this morning.
The Herald was in error last week in
saying that N. J. Bray went to St. Paul
in connection with the Carhart inquiry
He did not 20.
At a meeting of the school board last
evening Frank LeSage was appointed
janitor and truant officer at salary of
$55 for the two positions.
Charlie Howenst1ne, who has been
sick with typhoid fever for several
weeks, is we'll on the road to recovery
and expects to be out again soon.
M. j. Brown, of Minneapolis, was in
town Monday and spent the day at the
court house gathering data for the tax
commission, ty which he is employed.
c. H. Carhart and family are moving
into the residence of P. E. Aim, which
Mr.. Carhart has rented for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aim will live on their
homestead.
Henry Howenstine returned from Du-
luth Sunday evening accompanied by
his son, Fred Howenstine, of Sharon,
Kan., who comes with the intention of
making his home in this village.
Martin jacobson of Hovland was a
passenger on the Easton Thursday night
being on his way home from the state
fair. He says 1t is great show, conced-
ed by those who know to be the best
ever held in the state.
Justice Brown of the supreme court,
Senators Nelson and Clapp passed
through here on the America Sunday
night. Judge Brown returned Monday
night and the Senators continued on
trip down the Canadian shore of the
lake.
Fred Bramer returned Wednesday
evening from Duluth where he went on
business connected with his sawmill
operations at Devils Track lake. He
will add-a planer to the equipment and
is making considerable improvements on
sawmill building.
Fifty certificates have been awarded
by the state board to pupils of the
Grand Marais school, which is larger
number than succeeded IN any three
room school in the state, and better
showing than was made in many of the
high schools. It is showing of which
pupils and teachers alike have reason
to be proud.
An exchange offers this useful remind
er: "The best time to enter
school is on the first day of the school
year; the best time TO leave it is on the
last day of the last term of the school
year. First year pupils, that is, pupils
who are entering the school for the first
time after reaching six pears of age
should not enter after the. first month of
the term is past. The interruption and
hindrance to the rest of the pupils of
this grade is more than a considerate
parent ought to demand"
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Hedstrom re-
turned Wednesday night from the Twin
Cities. Mrs. Hedstrom met with a Pc
culiag accident in Minneapolis on Tues
day. Pnssing through the union depot
on the way to the train she stepped into
small sewer hole which had been care.
lessly left uncovered. Her shoe became
fast in the hole and held in that posi-
ton for about ten minutes, when, a by
stander having succeeded in unlacing
the shoe, she was able to work her foot
out Of it and extricate herself. On &C
count of the cramped position in which
she was held during this time the mus
cles of the other leg were so severely
strained that she has been laid up since
her return home. DR.. Hicks was called
to attend her.
A young man who did not believe in
patronizing home merchants sent to a
mail order house for suit of clothes,
In the pockets of the pants he found
the following note: SHOULD this fall
into tho hands IF pO0d lO0kino vonn q