The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-01-17

Official County and Village Paper.
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
,olis is dead.
Mrs. Samuel Hess, eighty-two
years old, pioneer resident of Min
nesota, is dead at St. Paul.
Mrs. Ellen O'Conor, seventy-fve
years old, a resident of St. Paul for
fifty-fve 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 IL
censes was established in Minneapo-
lis in 1916, when 1919 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 a
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 81 100000, a gain of
$134,OOO,OOO over 1916.
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 q
street car accident.
Albert Stromire, a switchman, was
killed at Minneapolis in attempting
to board moving passenger train ir
the Milwaukee yards.
Every workman in the mills of the
Watab Pulp and Paper company neal
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 wa!
fifty-eight years of age.
Miss Mary J. Wingate, an old TIM
school teacher and a resident O.
North Minneapolis for thirty-si:
years, is dead, aged eigthy-three.
DR.. Arthur c. Rogers, superinten
dent of the state school for feeble
minded at Faribault, died at tn
University hospital at Hamline.
Building permits issued in Minnea
polls during 1916 reached a total O
$22,899, 290, an increase of $6,547, 35
over 1915, the previous year.
John Fuller, trapper, sixty year
old, was found dead in the ruins O
his shack in Clough township, Morri
son county, his body burned to
crisp.
Daniel Taylor, formerly of Minnea
polls, for many yeras in the enginee
ing department of the Great North
ern railroad, is dead at Sierra, Ma
DIRE, Cal.
Two thousand four hundred an
six more persons were born in ST
Paul during 1915 than died. Durin
the year there were 5,161 births an
2,755 deaths.
William Markoe, pioneer of Ram
sey county, died at his home a
White Bear lake. Mr.. Markoe wa
born in Philadelphia in 1920 an
reache St. Paul in 1885,
Charles Stevens, a fireman for tn
Great Northern railway, droppe
dead while climbing aboard his er
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