The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

election ballot for March IA.
The department of agriculture of
the University of Minnesota has is
sued warning to farmers of the
scarcity of good seed corn this year.
Representatives of Italian societies
of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, Vir-
ginia, Hibbing and Eveleth met at Dr.
luth and organized the Italian Society
of Minnesota.
Professor Francis lager of the state
agricultural college at St. Paul, was
elected president of the National Bee
keepers association at the annual con-
vention in Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Toway of st. Paul bat
tied with a burglar who entered her
home. She used a flatiron for a
weapon, but tainted when the burglar
seized her about the throat.
G. D. Barstow, aged sixty-eight, vet.
eran Great Northern railroad man, is
dead at st. Paul. Mr.. Barstow had
filled various positions on railroad
trains for thirty-eight years.
The directors of the Northwestern
Minnesota Agricultural Fair associa.
ton propose to hold the greatest fair
ever held by the association at Crook
ston July II to Is, inclusive.
More than 700 Minnesota retail
hardware dealers attended the twen-
tieth annual convention and exposi-
ton Of the Minnesota Retail Hard
ware association at st. Paul.
A petition has been filed with the
village clerk of Pine Island asking
that the question of license or no Ii
cense be submitted to the voters at
an election to be held March IA.
The body of John Kelley, county
auditor of Rock county, who disap-
peared from his home in Luverne on
Jan. rs, has been found on farm a
mile and one-half from that town.
Emil Bader, past commander of
Jacob Schaefer post, G. A. R., is dead
at Minneapolis, aged seventy-two. Mr.
Bader was a prisoner in Anderson
vile prison for time during the war.
A largely attended meeting of farm
ers of Redwood and Renville counties
was held at Redwood Falls and an Or
ganization perfected to be known as
the Renville-Redwood Dairy associa-
ton.
State warrants totaling $4S5,O0O
have been redeemed in the past few
days by State Treasurer Gooding.
These Cancelled the debt incurred by
borrowing from the Federal Reserve
bank.
After fifty hours of deliberation the
Jury trying Oscar Pearl, accused of
padding a payroll in the St. Paul de-
partment of public works, failed to
reach an agreement and was dis
charged.
The state treasury was put on Easy
street temporarily when a check for
$341,146 was received from the Du-
luth, Messabe and Northern Railway
company representing the gross earn.
ings tax.
G. c. Stillman, secretary of the st.
Paul United Charities, has been
named as chairman Of the committee
on labor and unemployment of the
Minnesota state conference of chart
ties and corrections.
Mrs. Gulbrandson of Chicago is
dead of carbolic acid poisoning at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. X. o.
Fjelbroten, wife Of Freeborn county
farmer. The acid is said to have been
taken with suicidal intent.
A district court jury at Minneapolis
returned verdict of $4,000 for Miss
bile in which she was riding collided
with that of Fred T. Yates. Miss Sage
had asked $4,000 damages.
George o. Austin, brother of the
late Governor Horace Aus"ia of Min
nes0ta, died recently at Everett, Wash.
Mr.. Austin was seventy-elyht years
old. He lived in St. Paul for many
years, going west ten years ago.
The first fatality at the Duluth steel
plant in two years occurred the other
day, when Oswald G. Gauthier, twenty
two years old, crane operator, was
killed by being crushed between a
crane and the wall of the building.
The Minnesota Steel company has
begun the construction Of modern
hospital Of large size at Morgan Park,
its model city at the Head of the
Lakes. An up-to-date clubhouse for