The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-11

Minnesota home guard members
| will be permitted to wear uniforms
and will be equipped with government
rifles, Major Oscar Seebach, home
guard organizer says.
Women at the Virginia e Rainy
| Lake Lumber company's plant, recent
ly employed to take the places of en-
listed men, are making good, accord
ing to S. J. Cusson, general superin-
| tendent
| The annual flower show and sum-
mer meeting of the Minnesota State
Horticultural society and it's auxiliaries
was held Wednesday, June 81, in the
gymnasium building at the university
farm, St. Anthony Park.
Fourth of July celebrations in Min
nesota this year will be sober and Sc
rious as we'll as safe and sane under
plans which are being urged by the
State Public Safety Commission
through it's county directors.
Julius Weidner, of St. Paul, a fore
man for l.. w. Baumeister and Com
pany, st. Paul contractors, died Of
heart disease at Red Lake Falls while
swimming in Clear Water river with
fellow workmen. The body was re-
covered. He was % years old.
Fergus Falls on June rs, had over
subscribed it's Red Cross fund allot-
ment $4,000, and contributions con-
tinued to pour in. The city's allotment
was $1,000. Campaign leaders expect
ed the total to go we'll over the $1O,-
900 mark
w. T. Coe and P. J. Youngdahl of
Minneapolis, representing milling
concern that produces whole wheat
flour, are here attempting to get the
War department to change the army
regulation on bread so whole wheat
flour may be used.
Brewery officials of Duluth called in
to conference by Sheriff Meining have
pledged their support to the require
ments of the Order No. 8, issued by
the State Public Safety Commission
regulating the sale and disposition of
liquor in Minnesota during the war.
Ray P. speer of St. Paul, publicity
manager of the American Association
of Fairs and Expeditions, has received
a telegram from Herbert c. Hoover,
food controller, calling him to Wash
lngton for conference on the part
OF food training camps, planned in con-
nectlon with the fairs, will play in the
food conservation campaign of the ma
ton.
Construction work on Rochester's
municipal owned water power dam, the
first public owned hydro-electric plant
in the state, is under way at TOP
speed at the dam site A crew of over
100 labOrers and several carloads of
excavating and construction machin-
cry already have arrived at the site,
which is about twelve miles northwest
of Rochester on the Zumbro river.
Under authority given by the meas
ure passed by the City council, pro.
hibiting unpatriotic demonstrations by
professional agitators, Elizabeth Cur.
ley Flynn, Of New York city, who
recently arrived in Duluth, was ar
rested. The police then raided Indus
trial Workers Of the World headquar-
tiers here, arresting nine men and a
woman, and closing the headquarters.
A meeting of committees from North
Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota
to perfect the drainage district has
been held in Breckenridge. The dele
gates considered further steps in the
Red River reclamation proceedings.
The engineering department of the
North Dakota state commission has
been put in charge of organizing dis
trlcts, the latest of which was organ
lied at Wheaton, Mimi.
John S. Johnson, of MINNEAPOLIS,
was elected president of the Mime
sofa Elks in the closing business ses-
sion of the state body here. John
Kelly of Crookston, was elected vice
president; F. J. Thompson of Manka-
to, second vice president; Fred Schaf-
fer, of Winona, trustee for three
years; D. D. McEachin, OF Hibbing,
treasurer, and R. F. Eldridge of St.
Paul, secretary. The new constitu.
ton as prepared by the grand lodge
officials at St. Louis was adopted.
Plans whereby Minnesota will have
a day all her own at Peoria, ILL.,, fair,
September 10 to 20, have been an
nounced by Fred D Sherman, state
immigration commissioner The states
immigration exhibit will be shown at
this fair, in competition with those of
several other states, for a large silver
trophy cup offered Tor the best state
display of crop products.
Fifty-fve automobiles, containing
300 farmers and business men inter.
ested i'm silos, have visited stock and
dairy farms on which silos are part
of the equipment, in the vicinity of
Staples, Motley, Aldrich and Verndale
Silo day at Staples was the begin.
ming Of series of similar days
through central Minnesota, opening
a campaign for 1000 more silos.
With prohibition in force in Clay
county through the county option law,
and everything pointing to dry ma.
ton within a few years, citizens OF
! GAINESVILLE have decided RI chanon