The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-10-03

An Epitome Of An the Big and
Interesting Events Of the Past i
Few Days In the State.

NAoAU oOAt4 al AOLOA at 0ts rN1Ouus Has
given out a statement in which he in
Dictated he intended erecting q new
hotel of $50 rooms. <& .$$ r. =.
The Little Falls Milling company
has been incorporated to handle the
increase in its business, the articles of
incorporation to take effect at once.
The capital stock is 100000.
Reports from the Guyana iron range
say a number of supposed I. w. WIS
from Bisbee, Ariz., have drifted in.
Officials say no action will be taken as
long as they work and remain quiet.
Carleton Lindquist, who graduated
from the Wheaton high school last
June, has been awarded a 500 per
year scholarship at Hamline university
for period of four years, from the
DR.. Innes fund \
Shipments OF ore from the mines of
the Chisholm district for the season
now reaches close to the $500, 000-ton
mark, and before the close of naviga-
ton it Is estimated the total will ex-
coed 100000 tons. !
The Otter Tail County Public Safety
association circulated a petition asking
that Senator La Toilette be ousted
from the United States Senate, fol-
lowing his speech befor the Non-Par-
tisan league convention in st Paul.
Hugh J. Donohue of Pine Lake was
arrested by the sheriff on the charge
of assaulting another man with cold
cnisel. His bonds we're fixed at $1,000,
which he produced and was released.
His wife has applied for divorce.
The Montevideo Leader has been
sold to Ludwig I. Roe of Mortified,
MIMI, and possession will be given on
or before Oct. 1. H. e. Hoard, the re-
firing editor, has been in charge of the
paper for the past thirty-five years.
The Farmers State bank of Deer
Creek has built new bank building
and will open at once. The officers
are: Andy Veden, president; Carl A.
Johnson, first vice president; Richard
Anderson, second vice president; A. G.
Johnson, cashier.
'' Rev. w. F. Fritze, formerly pastor
of a Winona church, was selected to
replace Rev. c. L. Lehnert, as pastor
of the Central German Methodist
church of Minneapolis at the closing
session of the thirty-6rst North Ger
man conference at Winona.
William Wyhill, prominent in Brain
erd mining circles, and his wife were
injured when their automobile became
uncomfortable and ran into ditch, on
the Pillaget-Walker highway. Mr..
Wyhill was probably fatally injured
and his wife had two ribs broken.
A petrifed human head was I'M
earthed on a farm near Virginia by
Irwin Fredrichs, in digging a root Gel
lar. The stone weighs 81@ pounds and
is perfect in formation, the teeth dis
tinguishable. Local archaeologists are
of the belief that it is the head of an
Indian buried centuries ago. It has
been sent to the University of Mime
sofa.
Now that potatoes have become
legal tender for the movies" and other
necessaries of life, the potato bank"
is about to be established in the iron
mining sections of Minnesota where
"spud' owners can deposit them and
"check' them out. Thousands of
bushels of potatoes will be deposited"
in the potato banks" that are rapidly
rearing their walls everywhere on the
iron range.
Loyalty gained a victory at Bruins
wick, seven miles south of Mora, when
a meeting addressed by ]. r. Emme,
st. Paul Socialist, was broken up by
sheriffs and home guard organizations
from Kanabec and surrounding coun-
ties and loyalty meeting held at
which speakers addressed $500 per-
sons. Mr.. Emme and woman were
arrested and taken to Mora.
The Northern Conference Of the Ger.
man Methodist Episcopal church has
sustained the charge that the Rev. C.
L. Lehnert, pastor of the Central Ger
man M. e. church of Minneapolis, had
made threats against President Wilson
in a letter to the Liberty Loan COM
mittee of Minneapolis last May, but
did not expel him from the church. In
stead the temporary suspension was
continued indefinitely because of his
penitence for his offense and other
"extenuating circumstances" sur
rounding the letter.
meeting Of the Duluth Fargo High.
way association, commonly known as
the Black Diamond trail, will be held
in Wadena October 1. Everyone who
is interested in good roads should at.
tend this meeting" writes John Dover,
secretary of the organization. "The
building of good road between Du.
1uth and Fargo means much to everv
citizen in every county through which
this road passes" Mr.. Downer has
asked every delegate and visitor to
come by automobile, if possible, thus
getting first hand knowledge of the
condition of the road. -,
The state timber boards meeting at
the capitol ordered the largest sale OF
fire killed timber of record for Oct. 80
rescinded recent resolution increas
ing price of pulpwood taken from state
land from 81 to 81 a cord, and fixed
!, fees for. scaling and measuring by the
surveyor generals Office.
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