The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-11-07
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Interesting Events ofS the Past II
Few Days Is the State.
Red Wing raised 100000 the first
day Of the Liberty Loan drive toward
IT'S quota Of 100000. sss.s s,@.4 3 53.
!. Every man connected with the Fer
gus Falls postof1ce from. postmaster.
to janitor has subscribed for the Lib
erty bonds. The total from the office
is $4,000 from IS employees. s.*. .s.,.&
Walter Schrider, Elkton, S. D., BUSH
ness man, met death when the auto
mobile he was driving turned over a
few miles north Of Pipestone. schrid-
er's machine collideds with another car.
P. H. PAUL., for the past five years
manager at The Minneapolis Tribune
office Of the Western Union Telegraph
company, has received commission as
lieutenant in the signal corps of the
United States army. -:
Joseph Vavra, pioneer resident of
Swanville locality, was found dead in
his bed at his home one mile west of
Pillsbury. He was about 20 years of
age. He had been about his work as
usual on Wednesday,.
J. J. Mcdonald, Superintendent of
the st. Paul Southern railroad for the
last eighteen months, has resigned to
60 to Russia with the American rail-
road men,. Roy La Belle, auditor Of
the road, will succeed him.
A proposal to increase the minimum
carload of potatoes is being discussed
by railroad traffic men as q move
toward relieving the car shortage sit
uation. The plan is to increase the
minimum from $4,000 pounds, or about
600 sacks, to $4,000 pounds, or 900
sacks.
Tim Fravel, a farmer living a short
distance from St. Cloud, received a.
severe scalp wound when Fred Adams,
with whom he was hunting ducks
shot part of his scalp away. Fravel
was standing only short distance
a flock of birds.
"Tile war must be fought out. The
surest way to peace is through the
war. Liberty bonds will insure VIC
tory These were keynotes in the
address of John Burke, United States
treasurer and former governor of
North Dakota, at the open forum meet
ing Of the st. Paul association.
The Fleckenstein brewery at Fari-
bault was Quilted by fire, entailing a
loss estimated at $4,000. The con-
denser and brew room were destroyed
and the walls of the building so weak
! ened that the police have ordered that
no one pass the ruins until the walls
| have been wrecked. 1t is believed,
sthe building was struck by lightning
| DR.. H. E. Sutton, son of Captain
| and Mrs. c.. A. Sutton of Minneapolis,
| died at his home in St. Cloud follow
! ing a brief illness. Dr. Sutton, who
was ~ years old, received his degree
from the University of Minnesota just
at the opening of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. He enlisted and was COM
missioned lieutenant in the medical
corps.
Charles H. Cochran was given an in
determinate sentence in the peniten-
tiary by Judge McClenahan at Aitkin,
and has been taken to Saltwater by
Sheriff Boekenoogen. when arrested
for theft at McGregor he gave the
| name of Charles Smith, but later said
his name was Cochran, that he was
u years old, had served five years in
the army and that his home was in
Missouri.
The largest crowd ever packed into
hall In Waseca assembled there and
put that place on the map of loyal
towns in Minnesota. Hundreds were
turned away. The principal address
was by Secretary of State Julius "A.
Schmahl, whose patriotic sentiments
were wildly appiauded. After dis
cussing the causes Of the war, Sec
rotary Schmahl told the people of
their debt of allegiance and loyalty.
The contract for the proposed new
consolidated school at Plummer was
let by the local school board to the
following contractors: General con-
tract, James Brady Of Red Lake Falls,
amount, $1,000; plumbing, heating
and ventilating, Holt & George, Thief
River Falls, amount, $9,9S4; electric
wiring, Pioneer = Electric company,
Thief River Falls, amount, $42S: This
makes total of $2S,392 fer the build.
ing completed.
AS a result of the action of Mayor
George D. Hamilton of Detroit. fol
lowing the recommendation of the
city council, in barring A. C. Townley
| president Of the Nonpartisan league
from speaking in\that city, resolutions
Identical with those adopted at Fergus
Falls, requesting the removal of Mayor
Leonard Erickson of that place, were
adopted and have been sent to Gov
ernor Burnquist by the Nonpartisan
league, requesting the removal o.
Mayor Hamilton. Mayor Hamilton de
MED the Use of the halls Of the city
to the Nonpartisans should President
Townley speak, and as q result the
meeting was held two miles from the
city on country road. + 51'3.>
49,. Heavy losses to shippers and a big
! curtailment in receipts to the South