The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-01-10
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! Mrs. c. E. Lien, pioneer of Will
mar, is dead, aged seventy-two.
A St. Paul firm has received an or
der for poison fly paper from China.
Four business buildings, one the
largest in town, were destroyed by
fire at Danube.
Mrs. George Pomerleau, sixty-three
years old, an early resident of Mime
polls is dead.
Mrs. Samuel Hess, eighty-two
years old, pioneer resident of Min
nesota, is dead at St. Paul.
Mrs. Ellen O'Conor, seventy-five
years old, resident of St. Paul for
fifty-five years, is dead.
Leonard S. Storey, son of H. ].
Storey, of Puposky, is dead as the
result of kick by a horse.
Charles Grodnik, who located in
Minneapolis thirty-three years ago,
is dead following an operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Malone, pio-
neer residents of Minneapolis, died
within fourteen hours of each other.
M. Quigley, editor of the Pipestone
Courier-Times and oldest newspaper
publisher in that county, is dead.
A new high record in marriage H.
censes was established in Minneapo-
lis in 1916, when 4,919 were issued.
Bernard, the one-year old son of
Mr.: and Mrs. John Newport, Of Min
neapolis, choked to death on pea
nut shell.
The First National Bank of Man.
kato presented it's employees with
cash bonus equal to 5 per cent of
their salaries.
Fred Anderson, twenty-six years of
age, shot and killed himself with
rifle at the home of his parents near
Hastings.
Minneapolis bank clearings for
1916 broke all records, the total be-
ing close to STATS, 100000, gain of
$134,000,00O over 1915.
L. L. De Rosia, eighty-nine years
old, who recently retired after twen-
ty-eight years in the hotel business
at Mankato, is dead.
Mrs. Mary Smith Harrison" of Min
neapolis, prominent member of the
Territorial Pioneer Woman's club, is
dead in California.
H. H. Cheney, aged sixty-eight, a
resident of Minneapolis since 1866, is
dead from injuries sustained in
street car accident.
Albert Stromire, a switchman, was
killed at Minneapolis in attempting
to board moving passenger train in
the Milwaukee yards.
Every workman in the mills of the
Watab Pulp and Paper company near
st. Cloud has received raise in wa
ges of Sc month.
Ether Leonard Shepley, vice-presi-
dent of the Northwestern Fuel COM
pany, is dead at St. Paul. He was
fifty-eight years of age.
Miss Mary ]. Wingate, an old time
school teacher and a resident of
North Minneapolis for thirty-six
years, is dead, aged eigthy-three.
DIR. Arthur c. Rogers, superinten-
dent of the state school for feeble
minded at Faribault, died at the
University hospital at Hamline.
Building permits issued in Minnea-
polls during 1916 reached a total of
$22,899, 29O, an increase of $6,547, $50
over 1915, the previous year.
John Fuller, trapper, sixty years
old, was found dead in the ruins of
his shack in Clough township, Morri-
son county, his body burned to q
crisp.
Daniel Taylor, formerly of Minnea-
polls, for many yeras in the engineer
ing department of the Great North
ern railroad, is dead at Sierra. Ma
Dire, Cal.
Two thousand four hundred and
six more persons were born in St..
Paul during 1916 than died. During
the year there were 5,161 births and
2,755 deaths.
William Markoe, pioneer of RAM
sey county, died at his home at
White Bear lake. Mr.. Markoe was
born in Philadelphia in 1920 and
reache St. Paul in 1856.
Charles Stevens, a fireman for the
Great Northern railway, dropped
dead while climbing aboard his en-
CINE in the yards at St. Paul. He
was forty-five years of age.
Mrs. Jane Clapp, eighty-ive years
old, mother of United States Senator
Moses E. Clapp, was seriously in
jured when she fell on an lev side
walk near her home at St. Paul
Each member of H. COMPANY. Sec-
Old Minnesota infantry, at Llano