The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-04-04
GATHERED FROM ALL
SECTIONS OF The STATE
Happenings of the Week Briefly
Told for the Convenience of
the Busy Reader.


Mrs. Lydia M. Misz, pioneer resi-
dent of St. Paul, is dead.
Rev. Plus Schmid, former pastor of
St. Johns church at Vermillion, is
dead
Edward S. Thomas, eighty eight
years old, a retired merchant, is dead
at St. Paul.
Mrs. Sarah c. Kennedy, aged nine
tyrone, a resident of Minneapolis
since 1855, is dead.
Governor Burnquist has announced
the appointment of thirty-six new
state boiler inspectors.
Nick Barr, forty-four years old, is
lead at St. Paul from injuries re-
'eived when he was struck by a
;treet car.
About $50 members of the house Of
representatives and house employees
visited the state penitentiary at Still.
water.
The high dam, the $1,50OOOO gov
ernment project located about mid.
way between St. Paul and Minneapo.
lis, is finished.
r. F. A. Otto of St. Paul, was elected
president Of the Minnesota Electri
,al association at it's annual conven
lion at St. Paul.
DR.. A. P. Walrath, sixty-one years
Did, who had practiced medicine ir
Minneapolis for nearly thirty-fv
jears, is dead.
r. H. Thomas Of Minneapolis, 1os'
lis life while working to rescue pas
,engers from a snowbound train neal
eden Prairie
The United States Guaranty com
?any of ST. Paul, capitalized at ST.,
100000, has filed articles of incor
)oration with the secretary of state
Albert L. Graves, sixty-fve years
I'D, probation officer for fourteen
years and original publisher of thu
West st. Paul Times, is dead.
The annual convention of German
Lutheran parochial school teacher:
If the Minnesota synod will be ir
:ession in Fairmont April 10, II anc
12.
Reynold O'Neill of Window, for
ward on the Minnesota Aggie basket
ball team the past season, has beer
elected captain of next seasons
Iuint.
Billy Polak was found guilty oil
murder in the first degree by jury
in the district court at Bemidj il fol
the killing of Nick Subegys or
Christmas eve.
Peter Vondervour, ffty-fve years
OF age, an employe of a Shakopee
brewing concern, was run down and
killed by passenger train on the
Omaha road.
Elijah Remore, eighty-eight years
old, who was taken prisoner at the
first battle Of Bull Run and spent
months in Libby prison, is dead at
St. Paul.
p. j. Detore, residing near Mel
rose, caught a silver gray fox whose
fur is valued at about $500. This is
the. first silver gray fox ever caught
in that vicinity.
Neglect and carelessness caused 9
property loss Of $780, ,240 from fires
in Minnesota in 1916, according tc
the report of R. w. Hargadine, state
fire marshal.
Patriotic young men of Red Wing
are organizing two companies of re
serve militia. They will be instruct
ed by officers of the federal militia
and will drill weekly.
The United States Steel corpora
tion is building a large number o1
new houses in it's new model city
Morgan Park, the location of it's bis
steel plant near Duluth.
Mrs. Mary Slifer of St. Paul, wa.
elected state oracle of the Minnesota
Royal Neighbors at the annual cor
vention at Winona. Three hundred
delegates were present.
Former Treasurer Schwerdtfege]
of Brown county, is dead in Califor
MIA, where he went last fall for the
benefit of his health. He conducted
sawmills at Madelia, Sanborn anc
Iberia.
Fifty-seven Minnesota towns have
a place on the national roll of honor
of the American Red Cross for sell
ing five or more Christmas seals fo,
Royal Neighbors at. the annual con
paign.
H. E. Gickling, Great Northern
switchman, was fatally crushed ii
the South Minneapolis yards when :
coupling rod broke, causing him tt