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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25
NEW THRIFT CARD ISSUED.

AS result of many complaints Of
the unwiehfly size of the thrift card,
which prevented women from carry
ing it in their pockebooks, the Trea-
sury Department has just issued a
new handy-size thrift card, This is
small enough to carry in the purse
without trouble, and when carried in
a mans pocket does not take up
nearly so much room as the old~o
The new cards have just been print
ed, and distribution to the post Of
fees has not yet become general.
The old ones will :have@to be used up
first, but wherever postmasters or
der new supplies the new cards will
be sent. The Government is setting
an example of conservation in the
new cards, as they are only about
half the size of the old ones and
cost only half as much.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25
FAITH AND WORKS,

Mrs. Emily P. Bishop, author of
Seventy Years Young" tells this
little story to illustrate the fact
that 1t is as easy to do as to wish to
do.
A little girls brother set a trap
to catch birds. The little girl knew
that it was wrong, cruel against the
laws of kindness, and altogether in
excusable. She wept at first, then
her mother noticed that she became
cheerful again, and she was asked
the cause.
Il prayed for my brother to be a
better boy" -:
''What else?" inquired her mo-
ther."
II prayed that the trap would not
catch any little birds"
"What else?" -
"Then went out and kicked the
old trap all to pieces"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25
RULES OlgauLATEp ~ $I
1 THE b ARD or HEALTH

Believing that q close quarantine
lis necessary in avoiding the spread
of the prevailing influenza the board
Eof health Of the village Of Grand Ma.
rails has adopted the following rules
of quarantine which will Immediate
y go into force: ~ q. ..%.3 .55s. S@s*# 81.
@S5 a. ALI persons who are sick with
any malady whatever: must report
the fact that they are sick to the
quarantine officer or some other
member Of the board of health. =
|. ~ ALL persons found to be in
fected with influenza must stay upon
their own. premises until given per
mission by the board Of health to
go outside. - ,:~
(3) Members of households in
which there is influenza who are not
themselves infected are at liberty to
go about their ordinary duties but
are not to linger unnecessarily in
public places, except that children
of such households may not attend
the public school until the quaran.
tine is lifted. '-@.
(4) Persons living outside are
not to enter a quarantined house ex-
cept to be helpers in the Household
and by permission of the board Of
health.
~ Persons from neighboring
towns, suspected of being carriers
of the disease as for instance those
recently sick will be requested to
keep out Of public places and priv
ate homes in the village.
BOARD OF HEALTH,
Village of Grand Marais.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25

The American Commi ttee for Ar
menianA and Syrian Relief which win
conduct q nationwide campai ignY for
$50, ,O0O, 900 through the week Of Jan.
y To 19, IS the only agency organ
lied for affording relief in the Near
] East, aside from the Red Crescent
controlled by the Turkish Govern
ment. } It has already spent more
than SIS, 100000 in administering to
the relief of starving Armenians and
Syrians and portion of the Greek
population in the Turkish Empire. r.
All of the money spent to. date
has been used merely to keep alive
the destitute, until such time as. the
actual rehabilitation of the Near
East could be begun. Now that the
war. is: over, that time is at hand.
Experts of the COMMITTEES have esti-
mated that $30,0OO,0OO will be need
ed Immediately to start this work,
and a drive will be Carried on
through the United States from
January 18th to 10Th. ~ =
+ Half Of the amount to be raised
during the drive will be expended in
keeping alive the destitute. More
than 1,770,O00 .exiles are to be re-
turned to their homes, and clothing
must be provided for 100000 re-
fugees. There are more than 4OO. 900
children made orphans by the war
who must be cared for at once if
they are to be made assets to the
world. An estimated expenditure of
$40 for each child brings the total
needed for these orphans to $4,000
900. Houses for the 1,77O,OO0 per-
sons whose homes have been DESTROY
ed will cost $2,500,ooO, and many
more millions will be needed to buy
seeds, cattle, and farm implements
for the repatriated, before the coun-
try can be put again on producing
basis.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25

One hurried glance at coat lapels
or blouses the week of December 16-l
%, will tell q lot about the IDEALS of
Cook county men and women.
If the 1919 membership button of
the Red Cross is being worn, the
glance will register q fiattering I'M
preston. This button is to be gfvln
to every adult who pays the one dol
lar membership dues, but the dollar
lis the least significant thing about
the transaction. zS
What the American Red Cross
wants this Christmas is to have the
world see that the American people
are behind the Red Gross spirit. Uni
versM membership will prove this.
To record such a membership the
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call is to
be held the week before Christmas.
No quota has been assigned to Cook
county, because it is planned to en-
roll everybody. p
The membership button has blue
rim with red cross in the center Of
a white background and the figure
1919 under the red cross. For homes,
stores, factories and offices there is
a Red Cross Service Flag to- be dis.
played in windows. It has double
blue border representing the second
membership appeal and red cross
in the center of a white background
and the figure 100 per cent for a
business house which has enrolled
every person employed there,
No family in Cook county should
be content to display Service Flag
with only one cross. There should
be added small Red Cross for each
member of the family. The aim is to
enroll families 100 per cent. equally
with business concerns. A Red Cross
can be added for each memberships.
The White House in Washington
will have 100 per cent. Red Cross
Service Flag, and President Wilson,
who also is president of the Red
Cross, asks every home in the coun-
try to follow suit. He has said, II
summon you to the comradeship,"
and Cook county homes will accept
the invitation. :
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25
WHERE he FOUND Them.

'And where have you been, my
pet?"
Thus little Willie's mother to lit
tie Willie on his return home after
an absence of several hours.
"Playing postman,' replied the
family hope.
"Playing postman?" repeated Will
lies mother. "And how does one
play postman, sweet?"
"Why, l just left letter at each
house in the road" explained the
prodigy, "real letters, too."
"Real letters, darling?" inquired
mama, smiling. 'But where did you
get the real letters from?"
"Out of your wardrobe drawer
responded Willie. "Those old ones
tied up with pink ribbon" It'd Bits
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25
WHEN IRIS GOOD 70 BE CRAZY.

!. An eastern architect recently re-
marked ont "the mania Of Americans
for single dwellings,. Il. 2
The mania" he complains of is
peculiar to most Of the human race.
Before the war we didn't call it a
. mania" We regarded it as mani
festatfon of an entirely human love
for home all ones own. l:... s1.ss1 :. :.
~ It's q "mania" hard to kill It has
made this largely a nation of home
owners, ~ !. M. 3z. .5 ].
While love Of home lives society
will be safe from every storm. .,.s .,.. i.
It's good to be crazy in that way.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25

Peter Albrom Nov IL csnnty jill
Charged With v.granoy. 55S53

EEE ~
a young Russian, giving his name
as Peter s Albrom, who has been
wanted BY the authorities for some
time, was brought down from East
Bears 3 kin lake last Friday BY Sheriff
! Lien. e He was caught in the, forest
rangers cabin at East Bearskin 81
Deputy Sheriff Charles Boostron.
Mr.. Boostrom, who: had been on tie
watch for him for some time, came
onto his track and followed him. q
whole day, finally caught him in this
cabin where he evidently intended to
stop over night. The next .day Ne
brought him to South Brule where
they were met by Sheriff Lien who
brought him down and placed him il
Jail. - H.. = ..~~r5 :. 5's*ss5=ss 5sgs
: He was brought before Justice 81
Peace Matt johnson SATURDAY..
charged with vagrancy, which Re
did not deny, but as he could speak
very little English and it was doubt
full that he understood what was
said to, him the hearing was post
poned for ten days when an inter
prefer may be secured. #.s q q
Albrom is a. pitiful sight. He IS
26 years of age and has been in this
country six years, according to his
own story. His struggling black
hair hanging down over his face and
his clothes torn and ragged. He pre-
sented a good picture of modern
Van Winkle: When asked why lie
stayed in the woods and did not find
employment and live like other peo-
pie, he said the men made fun of
him, cuffed and kicked him and told
him to get out of here: Can get no
work." he said, $50 me live in the
woods and eat porcupine." The sher-
iff asked him if he ever had been in
Jail before. He said Eyes, lots Of
times. Put me in at night, next
morning-'get out of here" and he
went throught the motions of q
man being kicked out. He is a verv
good specimen of a good-for-nothinp,
who cannot live among other men
and therefore had to go to the
woods and live by himself. i.< 81
Some time ago Deputy Sheriff
John Jacobson came across this man
and two others of the same charac-
ter in a shack north of Chicago Bay.
He took their gun away from them
but did not want to tackle the lob
OF taking three wild looking men to
town against their will, and drive
his team ofvhorses, so let them 20.
Complaint has been made bv the
Pigeon River Lumber company that
goods has been carried away from
their logging camps which they are
not operating this winter. Several
stories are told of their appearance
at these camps and at the settlers
homes north of Chicago Bay.
The immigration authorities in
Duluth have been notified and it is
expected that they will take him in
charge and deport him as an unde-
sirable citizen.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25
sNEWs.ETTEs OF GRAND # i
alARAIs AND VICINITY
lettings Hsard About lows sf3
@ Things of osnsrA Interest
a$ f' 10 Local Readers. I sss. 81
Y Elmer Gilbertsen of Maple Hill
left for Duluth on last Saturdays

AZ Elmer Gilbertsen of Maple Hill
left for Duluth on last Saturdays
stage. = = q. g.. ~=#5Ss}:zsa 4 4,
3;8 5s Tom and Leo Hussey returned Sun:
day evening from a weeks visit in
Duluth. 49,. ss.s4!e>>.,.s !..:.,.s.,. + +
Mike Flatt of Grand Portage, pas
& sed through Saturday enroute for
Duluth. H., 5S.-
. Esten Jacobson walked in from
Hovland Sunday. He was on. his way
to Duluth, -
# Miss Merle Lien came home Mon
. day evening to spend Christmas with
her parents.
%54 Miss Linderman, teacher on Maple
Hill, left on the stage Saturday to
spend Christmas at her home in
Harmony, MINI.
q Have you joined the Red Cross
yet? If not why not? The local
committee is striving hard to get a
100 per cent membership in the vii
lage,
The sudden change in the wea-
ther was welcomed by the fishermen.
Many of them had several tons of
herring standing in boxes waiting
for the weather to turn cold enough
to freeze and ship them.
Word was received here Monday
evening that Albert Bally, SOM of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bally of this viii
3 lhge, was seriously wounded on Octo-
1 ber 5th. Albert was among the first
American troops landed in France.
il The warm weather of last week
stopped several of the loggers from
hauling, as their roads became bare.
But it enables many to do more
skidding and cutting which would
have been impossible had the snow
stayed
/ Frank LeSage returned home on
the Liberty Monday morning, having
been discharged from service He
has been training at Camp Near
thur, Texas. Paul Cyrette of Grand
Portage, who was at the same camp,
also returned home.
The theater and the pool hall was
permitted to open again Monday ev
ening. Since very few people from
the outside come here at this time of
year and a closer quarantine will be
kept on the homes where the disease
is in evidence it was thought safe to
lift the ban.
) The mail has been received very
irregular of late owing to the very
bad condition of the road. The hea-
Wy sn =. and soft weather of last
week made unusual hard going for
the cars and the men worked night
and day to give us what service we
have had. Several buses are broken
down and abandoned by the read
side. The cold weather which COM
menced Sunday makes it little cas-
ier for the carriers but the road is
very rought and hard on the ma
chimes. 1t IS hoped that after they
get their broken cars repaired again
they will soon be- running on their
regular schedule. T..
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25
"OUR WORK NOT DOME.

I'VE are an unduly extravagant
people; and the lesson of the hour is
economy-to add as little as possible
to the heavy burden of credit which
the country is now called upon to
bear: Let us save every dollar we
can against the day of investment
opportunity just. ahead Of us. This
is best for the individual and for the
country as a whole, as we will have
no financial help from Europe for
years to come-and great develop-
ment-work will need every dollar
that can be saved Ray Stannard
Baker.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25

FOR SALE-a very fine team of draft
horses, also nearly new harness,
sleigh and wagon.-Albert Helmer-
son, Good Harbor Hill.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25

Services will be held in the Luth-
5eran church next Sunday for the
first time since the commencement
Of the influenza epidemic. The Sun
day school will give Christmas
program in the evening, though the
school has been closed for several
! months. no and very little preparing has
been done for the program, yet the
children will entertain with such
selections as they have chosen and
learned h at home. Everyone is invit-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07
German Youths No
Longer Enthusiastic

Washington, June s. - German
youths no longer rush to the colors
with the enthusiasm that marked the
mobilization of 1914, according to an
article in the Berlin Vossische Zeit-
ung, telling of the wartime impair
ment of the German educational sys-
tenn
THE spirit Of voluntary service
which at the beginning of the war re-
vealed itself in its fairest aspect has
now disappeared" says the article.
Everywhere we hear lamentations ov-
er the increasing distaste shown for
military service"
Scholastic standards in the public
schools have fallen so low, it is said,
that promotions no longer represent
any definite standard of accomplish
ment." Scholastic efficiency has suf-
| fered considerably because pupils sub
! sisting on war diets for long periods
are found to be generally undernou.
I rished.
Juvenile delinquency has spread to
an alarming extent, and it is announc-
ed that already the number of VIC
lent crimes committed by youths in
/ the city of Berlin is more than three
times the number reported in 1914"
Thus concludes the article, dark
shadows are falling over the brilliant
picture Of 1914. Every disciplinary
! influence, every effort of the still fun.
damentally sound German nation must
be exerted to. oppose this tendency
and to lead the children back to the
path of rectitude"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07
FLAG DAY PROGRAMS PLANNED
EORINDUSTRIAL PLANTS, JUNE IA

ellis war bureaus or town commit
tees will result in assistance in secur-
ing speakers.
The suggested Flag Day program
for industrial plants calls for the ap-
pontment of a representative COM
mittee by both employers and en-
ployes to arrange the details. The,
program opens with the bugle call to-
rally the workers at the plants to the
flag staff, followed by the flag rails
ing, during which 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner" will be sung. Following
this is the salute to the Flag and
the pledge of allegiance: 81 pledge al
legiance to my flag and to the Repub-
lie for which it stands, one nation
indivisible with Liberty and Justice
for all.' After this, the suggestion
is that all persons at the exercises
repeat in unison the following
Americans Creed:
''I believe in the United States of
America as government of the peo-
pie, by the people, for the people;
whose just powers are derived from
the consent of the governed; a
democracy in a republic; a sovereign
nation of many sovereign States; a
perfect union, one and inseparable, es-
tablished upon these principles of
freedom, equality, justice and hui
mainly for which American patriots
sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
II therefore believe it is my duty
to my country to love it; to support
its Constitution; to obey its laws; to
respect its flag, and to defend it
against all enemies"
A brief address by Four Minute
Man or other speaker to be confin-
ed to not more than ten minutes is
suggested as the next number on the
program, following it the suggestion
is that all present sing America.
1t is known by the state defense
council that a large number of in
dustrial plants throughout the state
are contemplating the ARRANGEMENT
of exercises such as these suggested
on Fag Day June IA.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07
Daring Of Ginger Shields
One Of the Royal Scots
SINGLE-HANDED A LITTLE MACHINE GUNNER
HOLDS UP ENEMY HORDE.

that Scots are not to be hurried on a
job like this.
"Ginger" Shields, the Machine Gunner
You know the story of little Gin
ger" Shields, the "baby" machine
gunner of our lot. In the retire.
ment he got overlooked Ginger"
was too good a soldier to go back
without orders, so he just took it into
his head that it was the coloners wish
he should remain at his post to give
the enemy a lively time when they
came to occupy the position we had
left.
At last the Huns came rushing for
ward. Ginger lay low until they
were in front of him, offering a nice
target, and there was never a better
machin egunner than Shields. When
he had got the enemy near enough
to his liking he just got going with
his two thumbs, and after that it
wasn't exactly thumbs up for the Ger
mans.
They went Keeling back faster than
they came, and little Shields had the
time of his life blazing away at them.
He kept it up for nearly three hours,
and then his ammunition ran out.
Fired His Last Round and Smashed
His Gun.
By that time his comrades were far
away and there was little chance of
escape, for the enemy were swarm
ing forward in the rear, to the right
and left, and from everywhere: Shields
fired his last rounds into the enemy
in front, then smashed his gun and
flung it at the heads of a bunch of
Germans coming along the commu-
nication trench. They replied with
round after round of machine gun
fire, and poor little "ginger" went
down.
He wasn't done with yet, however
He still had a rifle and was able to
use it. He lay on the ground and fir
ed into the Huns. Some of them ap-
peared on the parapet. They must
have seen that it was a case of one
wounded man against thousands of
the Kaisers best troops, but there
were no bowels of compassion in the
swine. They sent a stream of liquid
fire into the trench where the lad lay
There was no escape from it. He got
it full over him, and it must have
been agony to him, but he never
flinched. He struggled to his feet
and bayoneted the first German who
came near enough.
Then he stood up and shouted de.
fiance at the rest. They fired vol.
ley after volley at him, and he drop
ped without word.
There was one white German who
buried the lad as he deserved to be
buried, and told US the story of his
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07
SECOND SECTION
STATE COUNCIL
DESIRES DATAON
ALIEN PROPERTY

If there is any enemy-owned prop
erty within the borders of the State
of Connecticut, the Connecticut State
Council of Defense wants to know
about it, according to information
given to the press by the Council.
The Council of National Defense
has, at the request of the Alien Prop
erty Custodian, requested the state
council of defense to secure ''the full
est possible information concerning
all enemy-owned property in Connec-
ticut and transmit such information
at once to the Council of National
Defense"
The state defense council has is
sued the following request:-'Citi-
zens of Connecticut having any in
formation concerning enemy-owned
property in the State of Connecticut
are requested to inform this council
at once, addressing their letters to the
Council at Room 81, State Capitol,
Hartford, Connecticut. AS fast as
such information is received, even
though it is unverified, this council
will transmit it to the Council of Ma
tional Defense.
THE Alien Property Custodian Is
endeavoring to locate all property in
the United States owned by enemies
or allies of enemies
1.-The term enemy as here used in
cludes every person now living with
in, and every company incorporated
within Germany, Austria Hungary,
and all territory occupied by the
armed forces of the Central powers.
Similarly the term ally of enemy in
cludes every person now living with
in, and every company incorporated
within any of the allies of Germany
and Austria Hungary. Residence and
not citizenship, is the determining
factor. Germans, Austro- Hungarians,
Turks, etc, residing in the United
States are not by reason of their ma
tionaltty considered enemies or al
lies of enemies Germans and Aus
tro-Hungarians held in the custody
of the War Department are included
within the term enemy Americans
residing in Germany or Austria Hun
gary, or in the territory occupied by
their forces, are included within the
term enemy and Americans in Bull
garia or Turkey or in territory &C.
cupied by their forces are included in
the term ally of enemy
"Enemy-owned property includes
all kinds of property, tangible or in
tangible, money, chattels, securities,
lands, accounts receivable, ETC., be-
longing to an enemy. If the property
is held in the name of another-by
a dummy or in trust-it is enemy
property provided the beneficial in
terests belong to an enemy
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-07
REAL DIAMONDS
ARTIFICIALLY MADE

London, June 6.-Real diamonds.
artificially made, were exhibited in
connection with the annual May lee
ture before the British Institute of
Medals. The speaker, Sir Charles A.
Parsons, who is widely known for his
work in developing the turbine engine
told of experiments which showed
that diamonds exist in iron.
The diamonds displayed were few
and small, and it was stated that they
were produced at enormous cost. On
ly the resources of great engineering
works made the experiments possible.
However, the lecturer believed that
with the advance of chemistry and
electrical engineering, it might some
day be cheaper to make diamonds
than dig them.
A method of making diamonds of
commercial size and quantity was sug-
gested by Sir Charles. His plan was
to submit a large mass of iron, alloy
Cd with other elements, to heat. After
The molten metal had set, but when
still at a temperature permeable to
gas, It should be subjected to carbon
monoxide at a pressure of about =
900 atmospheres. Under this process
he believed, segregations forming into
diamonds might take place slowly
within the mass.
One source Of diamonds might be
/ attributed, he said, to prehistoric
falls of meteors.