The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-29
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Weekiifl Brief
An Epitome Of All the Big and
Interesting Events of the Past
Few Days In the State.


university of Minnesota this wear
tnan last' it is estimated by Floyd
Lyle, secretary to President Burton.
stuoles will not be dropped from the
curriculum this year, and the work
Will go on as usual. Classes will start
October 10.
VI the $50 men called for service in
District No. 1, stearns county, 1888
nave claimed exemption, the list
shows. A large majority of the men
claim exemption on account of mar
rage, while many of the others seek
to be excused because of the fact that
they are employed on farms or are
conducting them.
Captain Carroll A. Nye of Moorhead,
called into active service early in the
summer and who is the senior Judge
in the Seventh judicial district, is now
on his way across the Atlantic to join
General Pershing's army in France.
News Of the port Of embarkation and
the date CT the sailing is withheld by
the War department.
Mrs. Herbert Flansburg, wife of
u,
broke her right leg near the ankle
when log fell from an old barn which
had previously been badly damaged by
Rwind storm, as she passed by while
putting the sheep in the lot. She was
thrown to the ground by the log which
rolled from the building without warn
ing.
Ieoohccs Of the Minnesota chapter,
Order Of the Eastern Star, met in
convention at St. Paul this week. Jul
.ius Schmanl, secretary Of state, Vel
coined the visitors on behalf of the
state. Replies on behalf of the visit
Ing delegates we're made by Mrs.
Louisa Webb, worthy grand matron, of
IChic" 20. and Mrs. Lee Hamilton of
Rockford, Ill.
y jury has been completed at Brain
crd FOR the trial Of George A. FL
Ger, Duluth bond broker, charged
with offering $50 to a Koochichi1.g
county official to influence official &C.
ton. The case was transferred to
Grow Wing county on the plea of the
defendant for a change Of venue.
Eighty talesmen were called before
the jury was selected.
The offer of A. G. Whitney, St. Cloud,
of $4,000 or more for an acre Of ground
in the State Normal school site in that
city, adjoining his residence property,
was presented 50 the state normal
school board in session at the Cap
itol. 1t was said that the commit
tee to which the matter was referred
would report unfavorably and that the
proposal would be rejected.
AnOka has way of it's own of
handling persons who are not whole
heartedly in sympathy with the nation
in the present crisis. Only one man
in town had the nerve to speak dis
paragingly Of Americas war motives
While the patriotic meeting was in
r~cgress he was confined in the lock-
up, while guardsmen paced back and
forth before the door with drawn bay
Onets.
Doctors Walter Courtney and John
A. Evert of Brainerd have not yet
given out a statement as to the num-
Der OF men accepted for service in
Grow Wing county. The countys quo
ia is 233 men and the local board sum-
moned for examination 1855 men. Of
this number sixty failed to report, said
Sheriff Claus A. Theorin. At least IS
per cent are busy making out exemp-
ton papers.
J. O. Bentall, candidate for COVER
nor on the Socialist ticket, who was
arrested on charges Of interfering with
enlistments and with the draft, has
been unable to obtain bond of $4,000
ard is still in the Hennepin county
Jail. When arraigned before United
States Commissioner Abbott, Bentall
asserted that he was sure the Social
list party would furnish the bond set
by the commissioner
To the First Minnesota field artil-
lery falls the honor Of being Mime
sofas first contingent of troops for
service in France. The artillery reg
iment will be a constituent part of
Americas first RAINBOW" division of
national guardsmen, which will include
troops from 26 states and the District
CT Columbia. Plans for sending the
division to France have been perfect
ed and the makeup of the division is
announced.
An anti-draft meeting, widely adver-
tised by word OF mouth in the vicinity
of Hanover, lost it's standing as such
and was changed into q patriotic dem
onstration. At its close more than 800
persons, assembled to protest against
sending American troops to Europe,
stood with barred heads in salute to
the American flag and Justify sang
"The Star Spangled Banner Pre-
vious 10 this they had cheered the men
who delivered the patriotic speeches
and had made verbal pledges of feal-
ty to the American government.
Oscar Moore, expert accountant, tes.
tilted before Judge Wilbur +. Booth in
United States district court of Min
neapo1is that the Dan Patch road made
a profit Of $29,3S0 in 1915 and that it
lest s16,226.52 in the receivership
from July 20 of last year TO May 81
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