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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-23

Cams, Wardan Tabor, of Two Harbors,
and assistant, spent several days in town
the past week, and while here went out
to see the beaver dam at Carl Thorson's.
The beavers there have been SO indus
trious in their dam construction that
the water is now flooding the adjacent
land and damaging the standing timber.
Steps will doubtless he taken to open
up the dam
Anton Fischer returned from Grand
Marais on Monday with Ben Ro} ertson,
and is enthusiastic over the northshore
international automobile road of the fu-
ture. He is already talking a long dis
tance jitney bus line, which If under
taken would prove great boon to our
erstwhile pedestrians of the past.
Word has been received by Mr.. john
son that the publishers of the Poultry
Herald of st. Paul, will offer a free
yearly subscription of the paper to the
exhibitor of each of the ten best pens of
poultry (including ducks, geese, turkeys
etc. } shown at the coming county fair,
in addition to the regular premiums Of
fered by the society This ought to
prove quite an incentive to our numer-
Gus poultry fanciers in the county.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-23
Grand Portage.

Superintendent NJ. D. Archiquette
returned Monday from a business trip
to Duluth.
Mrs. Susan Maymaushkawash was
taken with stroke CT paralysis Sunday,
DR.. Hicks was called ard he said she
was in a critical condition.
Mrs. Jane Zimmerman and Mrs. Le-
Sage came up on the America Sunday
night to be with their mother Mrs Su-
san Maymauskowaush
Peter Gagnop and W. G. WiIHhan
made trip to Reservation Bay by mo-
tor boat Sunday.
The telephone liue is down somewhere
between Grand Portage and Reservation
so the government people are shut off
from communication with the outside.
The following items we're written for
last week:
The government surveyors have ar
rived and have set up camp southwest
of Grand Portage.
VIM. LaPlante went to Grand Marais
Monday night.
A government helrship man is here.
Mike FIatt and family came home
from Grand Marais last week.
Dr.. Hicks came up in his boat last
Wednesday.
About thirty Indians from Grand Ma
rails came down here last Tuesday and
with the Indians here held a council at
the school house that night.
School began Tuesday Sept. 7th with
an enrolment of fifteen. Miss Eva B.
Thompson teacher, Mrs. Will1han tea
cher of domestic science.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-23
Thinking.

Few mon really think, although
each would deny the accusation.
Although man IS supposed to be a
rational thinking animal, thinking is
actually the hardest work and the
rarest he does. We hear IA thing,
ordinarily, and Immediately form an
opinion about it. Usually self-in-
terest is at the bottom of our con-
clus1ons. We are told, for instance,
that woman suffrage is Il good
thing and we ought to have a law
allowing women to vote. Do we
look into the matter? DO we study
the arguments for and against wo
men suffrage? 1t is the same with
the tariff, prohibition, the unions,
the Mexican situation, the European
war, in fact everything we have
anything to do with. How much
more rational it would be to hold
up our judgment On question un-
til we have had an opportunity to
study it from every angle. Then
form an opinion and stand or fall by
that opinion, until we learn some
thing of which we have been in 1g-
norance that might change our
minds on the subject. Not to be
open for conviction is pig-headed.
Narrowness is the bane of our whole
system of civilization. Let your
mind be open to every argument,
and thlnl-th1nk for yourself.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-23
Select Seed Potatoes Now.

Potato-digging is beginning IN north
ern Minnesota and potato. digging time
is the time to select seed potatoes says
M. j. Thompson, of the Northeast Ex-
pertinent Station at Duluth.
By hill-se]ection one farmer found the
first year that only 16 hills out of 100
yielded six marketable tubers. After
following up the work for four years,
saving his seed potatoes from hills con-
tanning not less than six marketable po-
tatoes each, his yield was 70 bills per
hun arod, or al increase OF nearly 500
per cent.
All diseased potatoes should be dis
carded.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-23

Geo. El1asen came up from thdklRsst.
age on Saturday to spend Sunday at
the Bay.
Emil Johnson left for Duluth on Fri
day via Colvi]l to attend to some land
business.
Sam Zimmerman autoed out with n
load of young folks to attend the dance
Saturday evening.
Chas. and Joe Peterson and VIM,
Kllbrath came in from the Reservation
on Saturday to remain for few days.
z. M. Linnell drove in from the Re-
servation on Monday on business and to
haul out load of miscellaneous SUP
plies.
Axel Berglund and Olof Fredrickson
came in on Thursday from a cruise in
the interior and remained fora few days.
work near the Bay.
Remember the Community Club meet
ing at the Town Hall on Monday even
ing, Oct. 4th, to be addressed by W. A.
Dickinson and others.
Knute Berntsen came in on Friday
with another four-horse load Of Poland
Chinas from the Pigeon camps to be
shipped to various points,
Isaac Hagen and John Blomquist
passed through on their way 10 the Res
ervation road camp with load of beef
on Thursday, returning next day.
l.. A. Simonson arrived on the Amer
lea Mondoy morning and next day
started with George Eliasen for cruise
to Isle Royle in his gasoline launch.
Seven sacks of mail arrived on Sun
days boat for Hovland, and the carrier
had to call in the assistance of a horse
and wagon to carry same to the post
office.
Mrs. j. W. Olson was called to Duluth
on Thursdays boat by receiving notice
of sisters death. Rube Smith brought
her and children in from Brentwood in
the afteanoon.
Nels Reno and Fred Gauthier came in
from the Reservation road-camp on
Thursday, the former for a few days
rest and the latter on his way to Grand
Marais to file all Reservation farm.
Ben Robertson, while on his way down
from Grand Marais with two travelling
men, saw silver-gray fox cross the road
near the Ashford place. and stopping his
auto gave chase and soon captured his
prize. Lucky catch.
Osborne ElIquist brought out on Sun
day party of five, consisting of Alfred
and the Misses Judith, Ade1ine and
Mabel Rerglund and Emil Englund,
for an auto ride out to Moose Valley to
make A. L. Ellquist call.
Ellingson's saw-miIl whistle startled
the "natlves" on Wednesday evening,
and it was supposed that it was an
nouncing to the settlers at the Bay that
it was in running order and ready for
business at the mouth of the Flutereed,
but on Investigation it was found to be
Mel blowing off superfuour steam at
the Lakeside.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-23
Topics Of a Week
A party was gwen at the Murphy
farm last Saturday evening.

A party was gwen at the Murphy
farm last Saturday evening.
Mrs. Andrew Tofte and daughter
are visiting friends in town this week.
J. A. johnson, of Duluth, visited
relatives and friends in town Mon
day.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Gilbertson last Friday, the
18th.
Miss Mabel Dalbec, who has been
employed at bayfield,, Wis, came
home last Sunday evening.
A new Ford automobile arrived
on the America last evening for
County Superintendent Clinch.
l.. G.. Ludquist, V. N. Johnson,
James Woods and Sam Zimmerman, J,
Jr, lett Monday for Duluth in Mr..
Zimmerman automobile.
Oscar Olson returned Yesterday
afternoon from tour Of the state in
his automobile. Emil Anderson
came with him from Duluth.
Invitations are out for the wedd-
ing of John A. W'nger and Miss
Laura Lindberg, which will take
place next Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Cronon, mother Of Mrs. AL
bert Gilbertson, arrived Sunday from
her home at Rose Creek, Minn., for
visit with her daughter and family.
James A. Hurst of Detroit, Mich.,
has been in the village the past few
days looking after property interests
IN the county. He returned home
last Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Anderson
returned Sunday from Duluth, where
they we're married last Friday. We
join with their many friends in
wishing them happiness.
Hans Kasper has taken a contract
from the North Shore Cooperage Co.
for saving slaves, and has moved
the stave saw to Elbow Lake where
he has purchased considerable
amount of pine timber.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Murphy left
Monday morning for Duluth, where
they were called as witnesses in
Probate Court in the case of E. w.
Wakelin. Fred Winger took them
up in his automobile. Mrs. Winger
accompanied them.
The towns Of Hovland, Maple
Hill and Colvlll, III the order named,
have generously and promptly re-
sponded to the call for aid for the
County Agricultural Society. Checks
for fifty dollars have been received
from each Of the above named. 1t
is hoped that equally favorable re-
plies will be received from the
other towns.
For Rent or will sell on monthly
payments, a four-room cottage. In
qulre from Ed Nunstedt.
For Sale-Four female full-blood
Foxhound pups, ten weeks old.
Write for prices.-Carl Hagberg,
Lutsen, MINI.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-23

lntendent of the Congregations
churches of the northwest will
preach in the morning and evening
at the village hall Sunday, Septem'
ber 26th. DR.. Sutherland will also
address the Sunday school in the
morning at 10 A. M. Don't 1a1l to
hear him as he will haye some very
interesting things to tell us about
church work in Minnesota.
Last Saturday evening Mrs. F.
r. Paine entertained about fifty
guests at cards. The occasion be-
ing in honor of Mr.. Paine's birth
day. Head prizes were awarded to
Mr.. E. L. Rude and Mrs. Daniels.
Shortly before midnight a delicious
luncheon was served by the hostess
assisted by the Misses Abrams, Bro
ply and Cavanaugh. All spent a
a pleasant evening and wished that
Mr.. Paine would have another birth .
day soon.
The local key factory is 1ncreas-
ing its daily output rapidly. Sever
al new machines have been installed
lately, which adds to the capacity of
the plant and makes their product
mnch better. One improvement
being the iron hoop on each end of
the keg IN place Of the wooden. for
the manufacture OF which two new
machines have been installed. These
improvements, together with the
we'll seasoned material they now
have, makes their kegs equal to the
best on the market, and the demand
for their product is now increasing
so they will not be able to turn them
out fast enough to fill their orders.
State Engineers Acton and Null
len and District Engineer Hanson Of
Lake county, arrived in Grand Ma
rails last Saturday night on tour Of
inspection Of Lake and Cook county
roads. On Sunday, accompanied by
District Engineer Hughes of this
county, they continued their tour
over the state road eastward to the
Canadian line. They made the tri ip
by auto to a point within three miles
from the Canadian line, continuing
afoot to the site of the proposed in
ternational bridge across the Pigeon
River. Speaking Of the trip, Mr..
Acton regarded it as a fair demon
stratlon of the progress of road
work in this county. When he first
took charge Of this work and went
over the route it required hours to
cover distances that now are made
with comfort IN minutes. The con-
dition of this great highway enter.
prise is certainly encouraging. And
recent travellers between here and
Duluth report that our Lake county
neighbors are also showing a truly
progressive spirit both IN the guam
t1ty and quality of the road-building
beng done by them. Excepting a
short distance at the Cook county
line, which will be completed this
fall, the State road through Lake
county is in very good condition,
and large crews are employed max
ing the whole a standard road.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-23
County Fair Notice

The first Cook county annual fair
will be held on the 9TH, 9Th, ard 9th
of October, in the Trading Post
building, kindly placed at the dis
posal of the board of managers by
Mr.. @. J. johnson.
Messrs. w. A. Dickinson and n.
E. Chapman, of the State Extension
Division, will act as judges and
give talks on agricultural topics of
interest to the farmers and poultry
keepers of the county.
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On account Ct the large number of
breeds and varieties which might be ex-
hibited, and owing to the limited
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08

of individual liberty and of the free
labor that supports life and the I'M
censored thought that Quickens it.
Conquest and dominion are not in our
reckoning or agreeable to our princi-
pies. But just because we demand I'M
molested development and the undis-
turbed government of our own lives
upon our own principles of right and
liberty, we resent, from whatever
quarter it may come, the aggression we
ourselves will not practice. We insist
upon security in prosecuting our self
chosen lines of national development.
We do more than that. We demand it
also for others. We do not cOnf1ne our
enthusiasm for individual liberty and
free national development to the Incl
dents and movements of affairs which
affect only ourselves. We feel it wher-
ever there is people that tries to walk
in these difficult paths of independence
and right. From the first we have
made common cause with all partisans
of liberty on this side the sea and have
deemed it as important that our neigh
bOrs should be free from all outside
domination as that we ourselves should
be; have set America aside as a whole
for the uses of Independent nations and
political freemen.
Out of such thoughts grow all our
policies. We regard war merely as a
means of asserting the rights of peo-
pie against aggression. And we are
as fiercely jealous Of coerciye or dicta-
torial power within our own nation
as of aggression from without. We
will not maintain a standing army ex-
cept for uses which are as necessary
in times of peace as in times of war
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08
SUGGESTS BROAD PLAN
FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE.
Increase Standing Regular Force-Four
Hundred Thousand Citizen Soldiers.

Increase Standing Regular Force-Four
Hundred Thousand Citizen Soldiers.
But war has never been a mere mat
ter of men and guns. 1t is a thing
of disciplined might. If our citizens
are ever to fight effectively upon a
sudden summons, they must know
how modern fighting is done, and what
to do when the summons comes to
render themselves Immediately avail
able and Immediately effective. And
the government must be their servant
in this matter, must supply them with
the training they need to take care of
themselves and of it. The military
arm of their government, which they
will not allow to direct them. they may
properly use to serve them and make
their independence secure, and not
their own independence merely, but
the rights also of those with whom
they have made common cause, should
they also be nut in jeopardy. They
must be fitted to play the great role
in the world. and particularly in this
hemisphere, for which they are quail
fed by principle and by chastened am
bitiOn to play.
1t is with these ideals in mind that
the plans of the department of war for
more adequate national defense were
conceived which will be laid before
you. and which 1 urge you to sanction
and put into effect as soon as they can
be properly scrutinized and discussed.
They seem to me the essential first
steps. and they seem to me for the
present sufficient.
They contemplate an increase of the
standing force of the regular army
from its present strength of 5.O23 Off
GERS and 1O2, $50 enlisted men of all
services to a strength of 7.136 officers
and 134.707 enlisted men, or 141. S43
all told, all services. rank and file. by
the addition of fifty-two companies of
coast artillery. fifteen companies of en-
gineers, ten regiments of infantry, four
regiments of field artillery and four
aero squadrons. besides $50 officers re-
quired for a great variety of extra
service. especially the all important
duty of training the citizen force of
which / shall presently speak. 1872 non
commissioned officers for service in
drill. recruiting and the like and the
necessary quota Of enlisted men for
the quartermaster corps. the hospital
corps, the ordnance department and
other similar auxiliary services. These
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08
SHOULD AGREE ON POLICY
IN THE PHILIPPINES.

Recommends Early Adoption of Meas
ures Giving Them Fuller Justice.
The president recommends the early
adoption of bills for the alteration and
reform of the government of the Phil
ippines and for rendering fuller polit-
zeal justice to the people of Porto Rico,
which were submitted to the Sixty
third congress. The president refers
to the increased cost of carrying out
the plans for the armed forces of the
nation and tells of the fiscal problems
confronting the government.
On the Both of June last there was
an available balance in the general
fund of the treasury of $104, ITO, 105.7S.
The total estimated receipts for the
year 1916, on the assumption that the
emergency revenue measure passed by
the last congress viii not be extended
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08

department. an effective navy consist
ing Of q battleships Of the first line, 6
battle cruisers, % battleships of the
second line, 10 armOred cruisers, Is
scout cruisers, 5 first class cruisers, 3
second class cruisers. 10 third class
cruisers, 10S destroyers, IS feet sub
marines, 157 coast submarines, mon
itors, 20 gunboats. supply ships. 10
fuel ships, transports, 3 tenders to
torpedo vessels, s vessels of special
types and two ammunition ships. This
would be a navy fitted to our needs
and worthy of our traditions.
But armies and instruments of war
are only part of what has to be con-
Eidered if we are to consider the su-
preme matter of national self suficien-
cy and security in all its aspects.
There are other great matters which
will be thrust upon our attention
whether we will or not. There is, for
example, a very pressing question of
trade and shipping involved in this
great problem of national adequacy.
1t is necessary for many weighty rea-
sons of national efficiency and devel-
OPuCul LndL we SuOQAQ hdNG a great
merchant marine. The great merchant
feet we once used to make US rich,
that great body of sturdy sailors who
used to carry our flag into every sea,
and who were the pride and often the
bulwark Of the nation, we have almost
driven out of existence by inexcusable
neglect and indifference and by a hope
lessly blind and provincial policy of
so called economic protection. 1t is
high time we repaired our mistake and
resumed our commercial independence
on the seas.
With view to meeting these press
ing necessities of our commerce and
availing ourselves at the earliest posi-
bic moment OF the present unparalleled
opportunity of linking the two Ameri-
cas- together in bonds of mutual inter
est and service, an opportunity which
may never return again if we miss it
now, proposals will be made to the
present congress for the purchase or
construction of ships to be owned and
directed by the government similar to
those made to the last congress, but
modified in some essential particulars.
1 recommend these proposals to you
for your prompt acceptance with the
more confidence because every month
that has elapsed since the former pro-
posals were made has made the ne
cessity for such action more and more
manifestly imperative. That need was
then foreseen. 1t is now acutely felt
and everywhere realized by those for
whom trade is waiting, but who can
find no conveyance for their goods. l
am not so much interested in the par
ticulars of the program as l am in
taking immediate advantage of the
great opportunity which awaits us if
we will but act in this emergency. In
this matter, as in all others, a spirit of
common counsel should prevail. and
out of it should come an early solu-
ton of this pressing problem.
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CONTINUED on page four. }
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08
NATIONS SECRET FOES
SHOULD BE CRUSHED.
GraVest Danger to Country Comes
From Within Our Own Borders.

Gravest Danger to Country Comes
From Within Our Own Borders.
The president says that the precise
reckonings of the problem to be met
are set forth in the report of the secre-
tary of the treasury.
have spoken to you today, gentle
men, upon a single theme. the thor
ough preparation of the nation to care
for its own security and to make sure
Of entire freedom to play the impair
tial role in this hemisphere and in the
world which we all believe to have
been providentially assigned to it.
have had in my mind no thought of
any immediate or particular danger
arising out of our relations with other
nations. We are at peace with all the
nations of the world, and there is rea-
son to hope that no question in con-
troversy between this and other gov
ernments will lead to any serious
breach of amicable relations, grave as
some differences Of attitude and policy
have been and may yet turn out 10 be.
I am sorry to say that the gravest
threats against our national peace and
safety have been uttered within our
own borders. There are citizens Of the
United States, blush to admit, born
under other flags, but welcomed under
our generous naturalization laws to the
full freedom and opportunity of Amer
lea, who have poured the poison of dis
loyalty into the very arteries of our
national life, who have sought to bring
the authority and good name of our
government into contempt, to destroy
our industries wherever they thought
it effective for their vindictive pur-
poses to strike at them and to debase
our politics to the uses of foreign in
trigue. Their number is not great as
compared with the whole number of
those sturdy hosts by which our ma
ton has been enriched In recent gen
erations out of virile foreign stocks.
but it is great enough to have brought
deep disgrace upon US and to have
made it necessary that we should
promptly make use of processes of law
by which we may be purged of their
corrupt distemperS.
America never witnessed anything
like this before. 1t never dreamed it
possible that men sworn into its own
citizenship, men drawn out of great
free stocks such as supplied some of
the best and strongest elements of that
little, but how heroic, nation that in
high day of old staked it's very life to
free itself from every ENHANCEMENT
that had darkened the fortunes of the
older nations and set up new stand
ard here-that men of such origins and
such free choices of allegiance would
ever turn in malign reaction against
the government and people who had
welcomed and nurtured them and seek
to make this proud country once more
a hOtbed of European passion. A lit
tie while ago such a thing would have
seemed incredible. Because it was in
credible we made no preparation for
1t. We would have been almost
to prepare for it. as if we
were suspicious Of ourselves. our own
comrades and neighbors! But the ugly
and incredible thing has actually come
about, and we are without adequate !
federal laws to deal with it. I urge |
you to enact such laws at the earliest |
moment and feel that in doing