The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-09-26

AZ & meeting q NQrwegtan-Danish
Tn z46te. Mepbef$ toured the city
H 91pfiles. Resofutlons indorsing
10 Pfesidspt were adopted.
AAnocessful dedication meeting was
hald 6 Henson IN honor of the twelve
young hen who constitute Swift coun-
t9s quota Of the first draft. Fully
5000 persons gathered. despite. the
weather for the ceremonies, which
were held under tho auspices Of the
Grand Army post. u @> i
Mrs. Sophie stuhr. ~ years old. WI
nona's oldest pioneer woman. died last
week q the 6rst sickness she ever
had known. - -.~ ~
Nine alleged slackers were arrested
at Kinney by Deputy United States
Marshal William Bradley. The prison
ers were taken to Virginia for arraign-
ment.
Winona coal distributors, while
they are urging patrons to wait until
the government fixes the retail price,
began yesterday delivering coal Sub
ject to government price regulations."'
Precipitation, totaling IT Of an inch
for August, the highest for that month
in the history Of the Moorhead weather
station, is the outstanding feature Of
the monthly meteorological summary.
At the farm Of w. H. Johnston In
South Long Lake township near Brain
erd there is q crab apple tree with
fruit hanging from its limbs and bios.
SONS appearing a second time this
season.
twenty-five laborers were discharged
by the city council Of Bull because
they had failed to observe the order
that all employees take out citizenship
papers. Several other aliens quit be-
fore they were discharged.
Shakopee is to be included in new
organization plans of the State HUI.
name society, and Welcome w. Brad
ley, secretary and executive officer of
the Minnesota Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty, announces that he
plans soon to arrange the work in that
county.
John Cochrane, on his farm adjoin-
ing Wtnnebago City, threshed out an
eighteen-acre field Of wheat that av-
eraged twenty eight bushels an acre.
He sold the wheat raised on this
eighteen acres for $1,050.40. Forty.
five acres of oats threshed averaged
fifty bushels an acre.
With the first frosts Of fall comes
statement by Hibbing coal CON-
panies that they are short or out
of coal, and that no hard wood is to
be had at any price. Coal prices are
the highest ever recorded here. Pros
poets, dealers claim, are for "modi-
fed fuel famine" at least. Orders
for coal are untitled to dealers.
If the city commission of St. Cloud
plans its permanent improvement pro-
gram for next year as it is now con-
templating, the city will contract for
about two miles more Of permanent
paving. About two miles of paved
streets are being built this season.
A greater part of the work2to be done
next year will be in the residence dis
trict.
Miss Alice Cynthia Archibald of
Mortified, has been selected by the
woman's bureau of the American Red
Cross, to serve with Miss Katherine
P. E. Lansing and Miss Emma Ster-
ling Lansing of WATERFOWL, N. Y, SIS
tiers Of the secretary of state, on the
first committee of 100 women to be
sent abroad to take charge of the can
teens and rest stations along the route
to the French front.
Many club women of the state are
planning to attend the twenty-third
annual meeting Of the Minnesota Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs, which will
be held at Mankato October 2, 8 and
4. All sessions Of the convention will
be held at the Presbyterian church,
and Mankato women have made ar
rangements with the three large no.
tells of the town, and with many pri-
vate families, for the housing of dele
gates and guests.
Minnesota State Fair attendance
records for all previous years were
smashed by many thousands at this
years fair. The last days attend
ance of 60,525 brought the grand to-
tai for the week to 382,205, which is
8,013 more than the biggest other week
on record, that of 1912, when the to-
tai was 374,128. The total in 1912
was swelled by 10000 which Fair Of
ficials that year estimated was the
number of children passed free on
Monday in 1912. The estimate for the
number of children not checked at the
gates who passed in Monday of this
year is only 1000, and this years fair
attendance averages more than the
fair of 1912.
Investigation by county officials fol-
lowing the discovery of the bodies of
Mrs. Park L. Day and her two chill
dren, all victims of poison, developed
a heart-rending story. Robbed of the
husband and father, who is victim
Of tuberculosis and confined to a san
itOrium herself i'll and not ohio to