The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-18
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The Minnesota Steel company will
expend 100000 on new construction
at the Duluth plant this year.
At the first drill of the Red Wing
home guards held at the armory with
Captain Fred Seebach in charge, Y
men were in line.
The beer seized by Indian agents
and each led at the city hall at Brain.
erd, being $50 pint bottles and 40
quarts, has been spilled into a. sewer,
Richard Flood, rs years old, of Min.
neapolis, Douglas street, was drowned
when the wind overturned the boat he
and three other men were fishing from
In Rush lake near Rush City, MINI.
The Kenyon Farmers Township
club entertained the Kenyon CONNER.
cial club members at a picnic in the
Sathrum grove at Kenyon. Fully 1000
| persons took part in the days festiv.
| tiles.
Bakers in section 70, comprising the
| Northern half of st. Louis county and
all OF Lake county, will be modified
for the conservation of food at meet
ing called by District Chairman Pc
ter Wall
Twice voted out of existence by Du-
1uthians, once on a saloon mems Pc
t1tion questioning the intent of the vot-
ers at the first wet and dry election
two years ago, the final So saloons
here have gone out of business.
A resolution urging Senators Nelson
and Kellogg to support the bill now
pending in Congress to prohibit the
use of grains in the manufacture of
liquors was adopted at the closing ses-
sion of the State Dairymen's associa-
ton at Brainerd.
Reads Landing association has held
Its tenth annual "Home coming. More
than zoo former residents gathered on
the site of the once prosperous lum-
bering town to renew former &C.
quaintances and tell again the old riv-
er stories they once reveled in.
Despite the small increase of $41,-
1O7.49 in the liquor tax of Minnesota
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
the internal revenue Office of St. Paul
with total collection of $1O,O52, $685.
IS set record for the office, surpas-
sing by $3,224,990.96 the previous rec
ord made last year.
Minnesota railroads will not ask in
definite postponement of action on
their joint petition for a Is per cent
increase in Interstate freight rates de-
spite the virtual denial of a similar in
crease by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. They have Indicated
that they intend to keep up the fight.
Twenty persons were injured, ten Sc
r1ously, at Winona, when a high pow
cred racing car, driven by King Kel-
ley, Chicago millionaire sportsman,
crashed through a fence and into
crowd of spectators at race program
at the Tri-County fair grounds. Ten
OF the injured were treated at the local
hospital. All will recover
Minnesota will have food commits
sioner, who will be named shortly by
Washington. The state also will have
a woman economics expert. These
wartime food conservation plans have
been announced by Josephine Berry of
the University of Minnesota. The de-
tails are being worked out in the Of
tails are being worked out in the Of
food commissioner, in Washington.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn told Duluth
police before departing for her home
that William Haywood of Chicago,
president of the Industrial Workers of
the World, had discharged her from
the organization. Miss Flynn said
Haywood and his advisers say she con-
spired with Carl Tresca, former lieu
tenant to Haywood, to double cross"
four !. w. W. on the Minnesota iron
range last summer.
Prospects for bu1nper crops in Good
hue county never were better, accord
ing to reports received at Red Wing.
Strawberries are drug on the mar
ket at Winona. Thousands Of quarts
Will 20 10 WASTE uuloSS housewife Is
hear the appeal of those who urge
canning as means of preserving this
food.
Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, the new
president of the University of Mime
sofa, has arrived at Duluth on the
steamer Tionesta. He and his party
left Immediately for Minneapolis in
| automobiles.
The annual Methodist Episcopal
camp meeting opened at Red Rock
with six workers present. Dr. James
l.. Brasher, of Alfalfa, Ala, and DR..
John Paul, of Wilmore, KY, evange-
lists, who will remain for the entire
encampment, will speak, and Prof. U.
S. Yates, music director, will lead the
singing.
A thumb print on an empty bottle
found in the ruins Of the Tondro mill,
| which was destroyed by fire here on
! the night of June with a loss of
$4,000, resulted in the arrest of Henry
| J. Wiese, prominent local real estate
owner, on charge of arson.