The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-09-26
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The store and stock Of tho Mercan-
0le sonpany dt Pine City were heavily
damaged by Are and water.
Neal Plafsted has located at Hinck-
jay and win make Hinckley his head.
q harters as shipper for the South st.
Paul Society Of Equity exchange.
John Mckinney. . pioneer citizen Of
Winpebago CITY Is dead. He was born
p Plattsburg, N. T., February 26,
1910. He was a veteran OF the Civil
War.
The record for patriotic relatives is
claimed by Mrs. John Murphy Of GIL
bert. She has nine brothers and cous-
ms in the British army. Two have
been killed and one slightly wounded.
The M0orhead normal school attend
ance will probably be as large this
fall as last fall in spite of the war,
according to the large numbers of
young women arriving in that city
for the opening.
The board Of directors of the In
tsrnational Bowling association at it's
meeting ut the West Hotel, Mime
Apolis, awarded the eighth annual
tournament to the Mill City, the meet
to take place in February.
A letter found written by Mrs. Lot
tie Dunbar, wife of Freeman Dunbar
Of Brainerd, dated Aug. 20, shortly
before she committed suicide by hang
ing, gives proof of the dependency
suffered by her and which led to her
death.
In letter to the Commercial club
OF St. Cloud, Congressman Harold
Knutson expresses his belief that the
$4,000 appropriation for an addition
to the postofice building for that city
will be one Of the appropriations that
will not be cut down.
Indians are beginning to gather the
wild rice crop near Tower and will
soon have it on the market. The crop
Is said to be fairly good. 1t will bring
86 cents pound here, the highest
price ever paid. In previous years it
has been sold at 8 and 10 cents.
st. Paul, Sept. ia list Of more
than 1000 Minnesota men who failed
to respond to draft notices from loc-
al exemption boards will be forward
ed at once to the federal authorities
at Washington, Captain A. G.. Touch
ert, draft aide to Adjutant General
Rhinow, said.
The citizens of Little Falls turned
out to bid farewell to the men who
left for Camp Dodge. At the court
house square, a number of speeches
were made by prominent men and the
seventeen men left for the depot where
they were presented with comfort bags
by the Red Cross.
The legal battle which has been
waged in court at Red Wing for the
past few years between Emma Math-
ews and her sister, Clara Mires, for
possession OF property left by their
mother, is over, the suit in partition
brought by Emma and Robert Math-
ews against Miss Mires being settled
out of court.
The Norman county exemption board
has been forced to use newspaper
space to make right an error which
exempted Manly Madison Of Halstad.
The board, thinking Manly was the
postmaster Of Halstad, married and
having family, allowed the claim.
Through the Ada newspapers, the
board advises the public that his name
has been certified to the district board
at Duluth.
Several millions of dollars damage
was done to the corn crop and to
late garden truck in Minnesota, North
Dakota, Northern Iowa and Northern
Wisconsin by the killing frost. This
is the earliest killing frost known in
the Northwest for As years, and it
lacks two days of being a month
earlier than the average arrival cov-
ering that number Of years, which is
October 8.
Arnie Barton Clayton Swanson, ~
years old, Of Center City, Mimi, was
arrested by Chell M. Smith, United
States deputy marshal, charged with
failure to register June 5. He was
taken to st. Paul and arraigned be-
fore Samuel Whaley, United States
commissioner, and pleaded not gull
ty. His mother accompanied him to
st. Paul and gave bond of $1,000 for
his appearance next October at the
Minneapolis session of the Federal
court. The young man said he was
Ill at the time Of registration.
E. T. Sandberg of Aurora has more
Jobs, official and otherwise, than any
other man in America. And he fills
them all capably. He is the follow
Ing: Mayor of Aurora, chief of the
fire department, member of the park
board, member of the library board,
manager Of motion picture theater
and chauffeur for himself. In his lei
sure moments Sandberg cultivates
war garden, is a baseball fan, goes
fishing, does odd jobs about the house,
corresponds for a Duluth newspaper
and follows the war in the newspa-
pers.
Mrs. Mary Wolter, just on the edge
of St. Cloud on the ST. .J0senh road