The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-04-06
News ot:'Especiat Interest to
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elected mayor Of Little Falls.
Peter Rosch, aged seventy-tive,
pioneer resident of Hastings, is dead.
Superintendent O. w. Herr has
been reelected head Of the Red Wing
public schools.
Governor Burnquist has issued q
proclamation designating April % as
Arbor and Bird day.
Grandma" Seymour, ninety.seven
years old, is dead at the Home for the
Friendless at st. Paul.
Henry Heck, a St. Cloud saloon
keeper, has undergone 1913 operations
in the last ten years.
Mrs. Mary Margaret Evans, a resi-
dent Of Minneapolis for fifty years, is
dead, aged eighty-four.
DR.. w. c. Hanscom, who was born
in Hennepin county sixty-one years
ago, is dead at Minneapolis.
Miss Ida NJ. Cowan. f1fty-two years
old, secretary of the Duluth Y. w. C..
A.. is dead after short illness.
Contracts have been let for the con.
struction Of fifteen bitches in Traverse
county to cost more than $150,000.
The ten.room high school building
at Staples has been destroyed by fire,
entailing loss Of more than $4,000.
Banks Of Clay county have total de-
posits of $2.966,120.ss. seven times
greater than they were twenty years
ago.
George Prange, farmer near
Wells, recently sold a hog weighing
S11 pounds, for which he received
$64.sS.
A 32O-acre farm near the village OF
Utica, Winona county, belonging to
Charles H. Peabody, has been sold for
| $4,000.
M. w. Bates, seventy-six years old.
one Of Duluth's, prominent residents
and widely known Grand Army man.
is dead.
Thirty-hve descendants were present
at the home of Mrs. Mary G. lngen-
hutt of Minneapolis on the occasion
of her 1929 birthday.
Agricultural instructors in the sec.
ondary schools of Minnesota will
hold three days. convention at Min
neapolis beginning March 30.
To remove snow and ice from the
streets Of Minneapolis during January
and February cost $41,973.2S, which is
| 81. 1862 more than last year.
Mrs. Mary Davis, aged seventy
years, a wealthy Minneapolis woman.
is dead. She was known as liberal
| contributor 20 works of charity.
Kasper Weiner, forty-two years of
age, farmer and cigarmaker of
Smiley, Pennington county, is the
! father of sixteen children, all living.
Suit brought by Mrs. Catherine Ryan
of st. Paul against the Illinois Steel
| company for infringement of patent
has been compromised by payment of
$4,000.
George Craig Of Duluth, one of the
oldest locomotive engineers in point
| of service Of the Northern Pacific rail-
way, is dead at the Northern Pacific
hospital at Brainerd:
Under the direction Of Rupert Blue,
surgeon general of the United States
public health service, a sanitary sur
vey Of st. Paul and Minneapolis will
be made next month.
Moorhead will build a new high
school costing approximately $125,000
as result of approval given the
board Of education's action by a gen.
eral committee of citizens
James A. Kellogg, a veteran Of tho
Civil war, formerly law student in
the ONCE OF Stephen A. Douglas and
Minneapolis attorney since 1887, is
dead. He was sixty-nine years old. .
Alonzo w. Rood is dead at Mankato
at the age Of eighty.three. He was 4
native Of New York, but reached MIC
ollet county, this state, in 1860 and
was closely identified with it's early
history.
William E. Marvin, for twenty
years q prominent business man of
Pipestone, committed suicide BY tax.
ing strychntne. He was, to have been
examined Z few hours later by the in
sanity hoard.
Fatker Francis x. Mershman, o. s.
S., professor OF theology and sacred
liturgy in st. Johns university at Col
legeville, ID dead at the age Of sixty
three. He had been with the univer.
sity since 1863.
North Star college at Warren has
| finished ita campaign for funds by
popular subscription to pay OF its in
debtedness. The amount raised in viz.
tualiy $4,000, including a donation Of
$4,000 from J. J. Hill.
| Mrs. Charlotte b. Chamberlain.
widow Of w. H. Chamberlain and sis.
ter Of the late Bishop David b. Knick.
erbacker Of" Indiana, 10 dead ,ata the
home Of her daughter At Excelsior ut
the age of eighty-four.
+ Mrs.. Mary Optopchnck of South St.
Paul. aged thirty years, who swsss shot
recently by her husband. 40 the culmi-
*Aefion Of 4 quarrel over divorce pro.
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