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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
NEWS-ETTES Of GRAND
MARAlS AND VICINITY
Jottings Heard About Town OF
Things Of General Interest
to Local Readers
See Peoples Supply Co. ad on last

See Peoples Supply Co. ad on last
page.
Costumes for the masquerade for
sale at Jackson's store.
See Lake Shore Telephone Com
pany's prize offer in another column.
Don't forget the St. Valentine
Days program at the Princess thea
ire.
Mons Hanson, of Hovland, trans
acted business in the village yester-
day.
Mrs. Charley Seglem and daughter
returned from Carriboo Point yes
terday.
The Norwegian Ladies Aid will
meet Thursday afternoon, Feb. 18th,
with Mrs. Hans Holte.
Max Gould, of Duluth, arrived on
the stage yesterday with a stock of
drygoods which he is peddling in the
village
The Swedish Ladies' Aid will meet
with Mrs. John Samskar Wednesday
afternoon, February 18th.
Joe Peterson, of Hovland, was in
the village yesterday. He purchased
a cow from the Murphy farm.
Jack Hursch, of Pigeon Point, pas
sed through yesterday on his return
from a business trip to Duluth.
Get ready for the annaul mas
querade ball for the benefit of the
public library February 17th.
The ground hog saw his shadow on
Groundhog's day, Feb. End, and we
suppose he will not come out again
for forty days.
Carl Nelson, of Lutsen, has been
in town a few day this week, having
some dental work DONE He return
ed home yesterday.
John Bohlin drove one of the Win
ger & Robertson trucks from Duluth.
He is now visiting friends and rela-
tives on Good Harbor Hill.
The ice harvest of the winter COM
menced this week. Toftey & Co. are
putting up ice for their store and
James Scott has also started to fill
his ice house.
Don't miss the entertainment at
the school house tomorrow evening
given by the Des Moines Lyceum Bu-
reau. 1t will be we'll worth your
time-and money too.
The Modern Samaritans will hold
their annual election of officers
Tuesday evening, February 18th, at
the village hall. All members are
urged to be present at this meeting.
Special St. Valentines Day pro-
gram at the Princess Theatre We'd
nesday, February 18th. "Dolls of
Intrigue" in 2 parts. "Uncle Sans
Money Shops,'' in 2 parts. "The
Kangaroo" in one part. "Soaking
the Clothes" comedy. Be sure and
see this program as it will be very
interesting. Admission IS and Is
cents.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
| SOME MORE ABOUT
THE JONES BILLS

why SnOulu HOuSenOAu luiHlIule De
taxed?
Why should people be taxed be-
cause they have clothes to wear.
clocks to tell the time of the day,
stoves and utensils for cooking their
food and beds to sleep in?
If it is crime to live like civil
lied human beings, let us abolish
homes and factories and stores, and
return to savagery.
The Jones bill proposes to reduce
the tax on household furniture to a
basis of ten per cent.
The only good reason for not a.
polishing these taxes entirely is be-
cause such action would require an
amendment to the constitution of
the state, and that is not easy to
get; so Senator Jones thinks that he
will come as near abolishing these
taxes as possible.
The passage of the Jones bill
would greatly lessen the work of
the assessors and save much expense.
Indeed, the assessor of Ramsey coun-
ty says publicly that it costs more
to assess and tax household goods
than all the money collected from
such taxes.
Push the Jones bills. Write your
senator and representatives to sup
port them.
C. ]. BUELL., St. Paul.
Mr.. Haglund, of Maple Hill, who
was taken to the St. Lukes' hospital
a couple of months ago is still in a
critical condition. The Duluth doc
tors insist on sending him to the
University for further treatment.
The school children will observe
Lincoln's birthday, Monday February
18th, by appropriate exercises in the
school house. The program will
commence at two o'clock in the af-
ternoon. The public is invited to at
tend
A bad chimney fire at the Soder-
berg residence last Wednesday even
ing caused quite an excitement for
a short time. There was a strong
wind blowing, sending the sparks a
long distance. The fire engine was
gotten ready but there was no oc-
casion to use it.
The Cook County Commercial Club
held their monthly meeting at the
village hall Monday evening. Among
the business transacted was the pre-
pairing of an article advertising the
North Shore Boulevard and our coun-
ty to summer tourists. This article
will be printed on card for general
circulation.
Winger & Robertson put their
"White" twelve-passenger car on the
mail service route between here and
Lutsen last Monday. This car is of
the very latest model, has all the
conveniences of an up-to-date auto
mobile, completely enclosed and with
radiators in front of each seat,
warmed by the exhaust from the en-
glne, so that passengers are COM
fortably warm in the coolest wea-
ther. So far they have not driven
this car farther than Lutsen but as
soon as some of the road is ploughed
they intend driving it to within a
few miles of Cramer bringing mail
and passengers through from here
to Cramer in one dav.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

WANTED-To hire good team of
horses for hauling logs.-W. S.
Smith, Schroeder, Mimi.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
NOTICE!

AS my wife, Snifred Hanson, has
left me will pay no bills contracted
by her hereafter.
PETER B. HANSON,
Tofte, MINI.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
SIX DOLLARS IN PRIZES

Will be given for the three best es-
says on "The Telephone, and How it
Helps" to be written by the grade
pupils of the schools of the county.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
BIRCHWOOD NEWS.

Gorden Finley returned from the
Pigeon River camps where he has
been employed for the past severa
weeks.
The stork arrived at the home Of
MIR. and Mrs. Lester Smith on Jan
% and brought them a bow.
Miss Ruby McGath is again EN-.
ployed at the Portage.
We are having some very cold Wea.
ther, the temperature going as low
as 27 below. Judge Roberts says ne
believes that it went into the ground
some place.
Lester Smith had the misfortune
to lose his house and all the furni.
ture by fire on Feb. End.
The Poets are going
They cannot find ryhme;
The Northwest wind is blowing
So they find breezy time.
IT it ever quits showing,
They will find a warmer cline.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

LOST-a pair of eye glasses in a
case, with gold chain. Lost just be-
fore Christmas. Finder will please
return them to this office and re-
ceive reward.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

Good dry wood for sale-$2 90 per
cord. EVER JOHNSON.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

peting papers must be mailed or de-
livered to the Secretary of the COM
pany before that date. Three disin-
terested persons will act as Judges.
to whom the names of the competi-
tors will not be disclosed. Be brief.
Essays should not exceed 300 words.
The prize winning essays will be
published in the News-Herald.
LAKE SHORE TELEPHONE CO.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

Anyone having an old horse or cow
that they wish to dispose Of for fox
feed phone THE FOX FARM
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

FOR RENT-a dwelling house, in
quire from Ed. Nunstedt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12

Mayor Breslin and prominent bust
ness men Of Rutland refuse to become
guarantors for the Chautauaua enter
tainments to be given in their city next
summer. They are exactly right. The
Chautaqua people may furnish a series
Of excellent performances at a mini
mum price, but they are in the bust
ness fer what they can get out of it.
They have worked a clever scheme here
tofore by having a certain number of
men in each community where they
stage their entertainments guarantee
them against loss. If the receipts were
insufficient the guarantors went into
their pockets and made up the def
| cheney TO the Chautauqua promoters
II there was big profit the Chautauqua
people pocketed it and the guaranters
escaped being touched. 1t was heads |
win tails YOU lose sort of a PROPOSE
ton. There is no good reason why the
Chautauqua should not stand or fall
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
MONDAY, NOVEMBER u, 1917.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.

The Reformer is in full accord with
the belief of the National Association
Of Railway Commissioners that one
great result OF the war in this country
will bee complete government ownership
Of public utilities.
The commissioners appear 10 think
that it will soon be found advisable
for the government 70 take over the
railroads, telephone and telegraph sys,
tens.
Speaking in particular Of the rail-
roads. representing the one utility with
which these experts are most familiar,
they point out that earnings have not
risen sufficiently to provide necessary
Improvements. extensions and rolling
stock; that under our present system
Of regulation the roads will not be per
mittcd 10 raise rates high enough to
obtain the necessary capital from net
earning; that the funds must therefore
come either from private investors or
from the government. They can hard
~ bee got from private sources, the ex-
perts think, under present conditions.
The only feasible way to get them, ap-
parently, is in the form of government
loans.
Thus the situation uarrows down to
government ownership. As for govern
ment operation, we have practically
that, already. 1t is but a step, then,
to changing the corporation bonds and
stock certificate into federal securities,
and financing the national transporta
tion system by popular loans, as We
ARE financing the war
+. The same process, presumably, would
br applied to the telephone and tclc.
/ graph systems, and possibly the ex
\ press companies. The predicament of
these Industries is not so serious as that
Of the railroads, but the federal absorp
tion Of ope would probably lead tc
likc treatment of all
y. It's an immensely interesting possi
bllitv. And in the comment aroused
by the prospect, it S worth nothing that
there is little of the rancor and preiu
dice which formerly marked govern
meut ownership discussions. The qucs
tion is no longer academic. It's severe
7 ly practical. What men ask now il
mot, "should the government take Owe
these industries! but, "is it ncces
sarv to take them over?"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12

When there Is q shortage of sugar
or flour many people help it along by
buying a lot more than they need, even
going to the point of making purchases
at several stores when the amount Of
the commodity is limited in single lots.
1t is well TO remember that the stores
of town are never supplied to with,
stand run on any single product. On
the other hand they try 10 keep plenty
of each article 80 meet the usual and
necessary demands.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
Too Sensitive.
( Burlin gton News. )

The Middlebury Register think. Yer,
mont Is no Joke and urges Nermonters
not to hc sensitive over criticism
Some OF our State papers rise up in
mingled alarm and indignation every
time an outside paper attempts a Joke
on Vermont of the vintage OF 1889 or
thcreabout.
Il reminds US OF the man in an old
English comedy, who said, 'Thev were
laughing consumedly and so | suppose
they were talking about me
Let us not get excited every time
Ia New FORK paper attempts to brea K
IA Jest upon Vermont Il won brea /
US, we may rest assured. Vermont
has worried along for more than cen
fury, and il will continue TO live and
prosper, in spite of all the would be
testers in the world.
Let EN- Joke, nobody is hurt; no
body cares, except in few Vermont
newspaper offices.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
Start Tomorrow
and Keep It Up
Every Morning
Get In the habit of drinking a
glass of hot water before
breakfast.

We re not here long, so let s make
our stay agreeable. Let Us live well,
ieat well, digest WELL work well, sleep
well, and look we'll What a glorious
condition to attain, and vet, how very
easy it is if one viii only adopt the
morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
duh and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stufy from a cold, foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach,
can, instead, feel as fresh as daisy
by opening the sluices of the system
each morning and flushing out the
whole of the internal poisonous stag
nant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing. sick or
well, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
| phosphate in it to wash from the stom-
ach, liver and bowels the previous day s
| indigestiblc waste, sour bile and poison
Gus toxins; thus cleansing, swcetening
and purifying the entire alimentary
canal before putting more food into the
stomach. The action of hot water and
limestone phosphate on an empty stom-
ach is wonderfully invigorating. It
cleans out all the sour lamentations,
gases, waste and aciditv and gives one
a splendid appetite for breakfast.
While YOU are enjoying your breakfast
the water and phosphate are quietly
extracting a large volume Of water from
the blood and getting ready for a
thorough flushing Of eli the inside or
gans.
The millions Of people who are
bothered with constipation, bilious
spells, stomach trouble; others who
have sallow skins. blood disorders and
sicklv complications are urged to get a
quarter pound Of limestone phosphate
from the drug store This will cost very
little, but is sufficient to make anyone 4
pronounced crank on the subject OF
inside bathing before breakfast-Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12

What ia = Bolsheviki and what is
Maximalist? It is difficult to give a
precise definition to these terms The
meaning, if there is any meaning. is
TO be found in their purposes. There
is little difference in this respect In
general way, it would not be far
wrong TO say that a Bolsheviki and a
MaXimalist are persons who have
wheels in their heads all turning in the
wrong direction. Their ideal concep-
tion of democracy is democracy of
unlimited liberty without responsible
ty. Their theory of natural rights is
that every man has a right to be as
Well of rs his neighbor. They would
take from those who have and give to
those who have not. They would abol-
ish rent on land and interest on CAPT,
tal-accumulated savings. Unless the
experience of the ages is at fault, the
practical effects Of this theory of un.
limited liberty in the working out
would be to rob the wise for the bene-
fit of the foolish. It would put the
world back into savagery. It is en-
tirelv contrary to the teaching of
Christ in the parable of the talents.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
Thanksgiving.
New York Times.)

N-N'N i u iuAtN.
President Wilson 5 Thanksgiving
proclamation rccitea the causes OF
thankfulness that Americans have,
their "great blessings. They are
fighting against tyranny that
threatened to master and debase men
everywhere. - They are defending
their own rights and those of free
men throughout the world They are
united in a common purpose and filed
with a new and greater national spir-
it. -
To many the world looks dark and
Thanksgiving a sort Of mockerv or a
hypocrisy. They are grievously wrong.
The United States has been reused BY
p momentous danger into heroic mood
and action. America has not designed
to eat the fnt and drink the sweet,
! to heap up wealth. and forget courage,
! patience, self-sacrifice. love of coun-
| try, to stink ignobly from the supreme
/ battle for liberty and democracy. TO
| wait, prosperous and dishonored, until
Germany, having had her will Of Eu.
rope, comes TO chastise and dominate
i the United States. Though our sons
/ be called 10 wounds and death. though
/ our purses be thinned, though doubtful
! or disastrous days come upon us for a
| time, we have chosen the better part
/ We shall be able TO endure the worst
/ fortune and the bitterest hardships. We
are strong in union, in the Justice of
/ our cause. We have learned TO be
| brave, to be kind, to put by sIperlui-
ties, TO further by every good means
! the defense and rescue of democracy.
This will be a Thanksgiving of ma
tlonal patriotism, of men and women
| purified and strengthened by peril and
the discipline Of self-denial, grateful
that America has proved her greatnes.
OF soul.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
The Crckets in the Hay.

When the year is past its zenith
And the nights are growing cool.
And the DAYS are somewhat shorter,
And the children 60 TO school,
And the golden-rod is powdered
BY the dusty white highway,
It is then l like to listen
To the crickets IN the hay.
When within the woodland shadow
Turks the curious Indian pipe,
And the waited orchard odors
Tell Of apples red and ripe;
And the cowbell's tempered echo
Follows where the cattle stray
/ am haunted by the music
OF the crickets in the hay.
When the evening shadows lengthen
And the daylight tasks are done.
And the tranquil twilight follows
The departure of the sun
Lo' myriad musicians
For my entertainment play
And | hear the drowSv music
OF the crickcts i'll the hay.
Very pleasing -very soothing
Is tha; quaint monotony,
When the welcome. couch is waiting
Aud the stars are in the sky;
And sleepilv listen
Till drift i'll dreams away
On the current of the music
OF the erickets in the hay,
Goodenough of West Brattl
boro in Springfield, Mass, Republican
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
Posted Lands and Hunters.
vermont Tribune, Ludlow. 5

vermont Tribune. Ludlow
\ correspondent Of The Brattleboro
Reformer protests against the extern
Sive posting Of land by the farmers
as against hunters, trappers and ang
lcrs. He insists that this sort of thing
is not square deal for the hunter;
that if 4 fellow can t hunt on wild land.
his hunting privilege is decidedly cur
tailed; that there is big hole in the
game law; that while undoubtedly some
farmers who post their lands do so
because they don I want the game
killed and don t propose to do any hunt.
ing themselves, others post their land
and 20 hunting thereon themselves and
this, he claims. does not seem Just right.
He wants the farmer who posts his
land prohibited from hunting on il.
In view of the extent 70 which the
forbiddiug signs are being put UP
throughout the state, it seems perfectly
natural that the fellow who wants
10 hunt and who has no premises Of
his own on which to pursue game.
! should pause and wonder where he is
at.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
EDITOR IN TROUBLE.
Several Things Are Causing Him Weari
ness CT Soul

The woes of an editor arc many and
varied. Now comes Editor Lucas of
The Tarpon Springs Leader with this
chronicle OF his recent troubles:
Little incidents Of daily life at
The Leader office: Our office boy want
ed couple days off. 50 he generated
a pain in his tummy and said he was
sick Tuesday morning and at noon he
departed for the old swimming places
and the green pastures adjacent to the
cltN. II" assured us that he would be
well by the coming Thursday and back
on duty. He is here today but a long
way from well, as he managed to cut
his foot pretty badly and is hobbling
around, but almost as good as ever.
Onr assistant Mr.. Williams, who
by the way. is leaving us Saturday, has
3 rain IN his neck, and we suggested
that he 90 home and go TO bed, but
he IS game old man and insists that
ne i stick around even il he can I
do much with stiff neck 1t is also
the last Of the month and we have all
our bills to make out ready for col
lection Saturday so we II be able to
pay OF the force-and yet life is one
sweet dream for the editor FLORIDA
Times Unisn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

l was bark in the back ward and pop
came out to see wat was the matter
with the gate on account of it not
wunting to open unless it was pushed,
and sed Hay, pop, look wat Mr.. Jones
Jest throo over the tents into our yard.
MeeninG old top without eny peg
to it, and pop sed, Some people are
born with nerve, and others force it
on YOU. That little shrimp gets more
like a little shrimp every day.
Mecning Mr.. Jones, and he took the
top and throo it rite back over the
tents into Joneses yard agen, wich l
Good heer it hit ash box.
That will show him weather he can
make Belgium out of my yard, SD
pop. Wieh Jest then the top came fly
ing over the tents agen, almost hit
ting pop in the ankle, and pop sed,
retrack my original statemint. hes no
shrimp, hes nlinnv.
And he throo the top back into the
Joneses yard agen. saying, guess
an keep il up as long as he can, the
newly hatched goldfish.
Wich Jest then wat came over in
to our yard but the top agen, hitting
lpop fearse krack rite in the nee.
| Owtch, the hairless scourdeen, seil
lpop, And he picked the top up and
was Jest going to throw it back ager
All his mite, and l sed. Its a old tor
enyway, / don't care weather he keep
/ it or not.
Wat, sed pop, do you meen to say
this article of ferriture is yours after
ALE
| Yes sir, I sed
| Follow me. sed pop.
| N;ob lid
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12

And the members OF the club who had
been drawing on the windows had just
about finished their work.
'Eut tho garden violets. pansies and
sweet alyssum flowers would not listen
to Jack Frost. Wen he said, they
never will obey me. 50 | might as we'll
give them up. They wait for the snow
to cover them and never mind me At
all. But the rest Of The flowers do,
heigh-ho. and we've had Jolly. merry
evening To which the Frost Broth
ers ana all the members of the club
agreed"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-12
TO TIE SUBSCRIBERS.

II Is the aim OF the management TO
secure efficient service in the delivery of
the paper each night, and II solicts the
cooperation ~ subscribers to that end.
Prompt reports should be given of each
failure TO receive the paper on the morn
Ing following the omission. in person,
rs telephone or postal card, thus enabling
the cause OF the error to be promptly and
accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied 1t IL only
by this method that the publisher can Sc
cure the desired service.