The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-10-10

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of 35s5cal mn de on ON Olsen, gecre-
tary of . orhead need nr1 81, and
Henry Schroe Ter, to 90 5to Washing
ton to attend e. conferences called by
Herbert 6, \ Hoover, national food al
ministrat Ss 4. NJ s5 q 4a 33S
Chicken and duck season was ushered
into Grow Wing county by hundreds 4
Of hunters, but game was scarce owing
to heavy fogs which obscured the low
lands. Prairie chickens are reported
to be scarce in that vicinity by farm
ers who say that they have seen very
few in their fields this year. j.. sl {. Il
n Dan Driscoll was held to the Novem-
Der grand jury at Saltwater on AZ
charge of arson. It is alleged he at
tempted to burn the South Side school
building. =. -: ~ .=:=H ..:
p Charges signed by so persons have
been preferred, against Mayor J. J.
Reiter Of Rochester. The complaint
against the mayor as yet has not been
revealed. .,y%' =. - l@; fs<2
Five crews are working on the state
roads of Mile Laos county under the
supervision of ;, Highway Engineer
Gray, and a great deal of effective
work Is being done. & ~ J..
The Better Farming association,
which will hold meeting in Saltwater,
has promised that President M. L.
Burton of the University of Minnesota,
will be the principal speaker.
The county commissioners of Inter-
national Falls have offered the base.
ment Of the courthouse as storage
space for families which do not have
suitable cellars for winter storage.
Melvin Henderson received broken
leg and dislocated shoulder when he
caught his arm between the belt d nd
the fywheel of a gas engine and his
body was thrown against hay press
at Foxhome.
Carl Larson lost. forty acres of flax
and William Mccain 1877 acres of
standing flax as the result of hail
storm which passed over the country
northeast of Beltrani. The loss is
placed at $4,000.
= Members of the state board of con-
troll we're in Shakopee recently to Sc.
lect building sites for the state re.
formatory for women which will be
established in that city. The buildings
will be contracted for by the board
probably in the near future.
The new concrete bridge over the
Minnesota river at Mankato has been
opened for travel. It cost approx
mately 100000. The street railway
company will use the bridge to enter
North Mankato, having already laid the
rails. Work on the bridge was started
in May of last year.
While walking from the Olmstead
county fair at Rochester five persons
were struck by an automobile driven
by Ambrose Kelly of Stewartville.
Enos DAILY, IT, was killed and Anna
Jorgenson, Lester Weed, Helga Han
son and Lena Nelson were injured,
two Of them perhaps fatally. 49,
With cabbage selling as low as rs
cents a dozen in Winona, a ray of
sunshine has crept into the home of
the humble and the wealthy, alike,
for there is assurance of an abundance
of sauerkraut at unusually low prices.
Buyers and sellers agree that this
years crop Of the essential Ingredient
is a record breaker.
Winona county farmers, facing
heavy losses because of the frost
damage to corn, are being aided to
garner the salvage by soldiers. Cap
tain j. D. Burke, responsive to the
urgent appeal for men, permitted as
many as possible of his members of
c company to spend a day in the field
assisting in filling silos with corn for
fodder
Red Lake Falls is now practically
assured of a new hotel, as $4,000 of
the $4,000 necessary stock has been
subscribed and every effort will be
made to bring the subscription up to
the required amount. A loan of 100000
or $4,000 will then be secured, which,
with the $4,000, will be sufficient for
building a. 80 or 35-room modern
structure.
When the saloons of st. Louis county
are closed six months hence as the
result of the dry victory Monday, Red
Lake county will be the most northern
most wet county, not only in Mime
sofa, but in the United States. Wash
ington, Idaho, North Dakota and Maine
are already dry and Montana, the only
other state on the 10th parallel, has
voted dry, but prohibition is not yet
in effect.
Rev. Charles L. Lehnert, pastor of
the Central German Methodist Episco-
pal church of Minneapolis, will be
tried in Winona at the Northern Ger
man conference of that church, on the
charge of improper conduct. The case
grows out of letter written to the
Liberty Loan committee at Mime
apolis last May. Lehnert now is facing
prosecution under a criminal charge
in the United States court at Mime
apolis. 49,.
When the Northern Minnesota De-
velopment association holds it's annual
meeting in Brainerd December 6 and
Z, the first gun in the, campaign to
boom that section of the state as a ban
ner potato seed producing locality will
h