The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-01-09
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Seized with an attack Of appendi-
citis while at her duties as opera
tor at Carlton for the Zenith !Tele-
phone company, Miss Agnes Peacho
was hurried to St. Mary's hospital
Duluth, and successfully operated
on. :. & <7' 'r.s%s.~2
DR.. Thomas Lowe of Pipestone and
DR.. G. p. Putney of Paynesville have
been reappointed by Governor Burn
quist to membership on the State
Board of Medical Examiners. Their
old terms will expire April 1918:
Funeral services were held at Ste
phen for John Gillespie, who died a
his home near there Dec. %. Mr..
Gillespie was "a years Of age and an
old pioneer. Of the Red River valley.
He leaves wife aHnd family of
grown sons and daughters.
Donald Dow, alias Fred Anderson,
still claims that he did not kill Geo.
Sheffield, Great Northern railway
agent at Moorhead. On. the way to
the state prison at Saltwater, where
he was taken by Sheriff Dan w. Nc
Donald and Chief of Police Peter E.
Malvey, Dow did not appear to wor-
ry about the future.
The Federal Reserve bank for the
Ninth district has sold $292,0O0
worth of war savings and thrift
stamps, according to Theodore Void,
governor. This amount does not rep
resent total sale in the district, how
ever, because large amounts of
stamps have been disposed of thru
the postal system, Mr.. Void said.
Mrs. Sophia Hass, whose funeral
was held at Belle PLANE, is survived
by 1877 descendants. There are six
grandchildren, "a great-grandchild-
rem and S Observation-Disclosures.
She was a native of Germany and
had lived for sixty years in the Bel
lie PLANE community. She had reach
ed the age of IS years and seven
months. 49,. 81.
Masked robbers found the cashier
alone in the First State bank of
White Bear, suburban resort, fore
I'd him at the point of a pistol, to
open the vault, gathered up $4,000
in currency and escaped in an auto
nobile. The machine headed for the
Twin Cities, but was intercepted as
t approached St. Paul by carload
Of local police, wheeled about and
shook off it's pursuers.
Announcement of civil service ex-
animation to procure one woman and
four men as assistant directors of
agricultural, trade and industrial,
commercial and home economics edu-
cation to be conducted in St. Paul
January % has been made. Three
Of the mems salaries as directors
will be $4,000 annually and the 9TH
er as an assistant in the research
work planned by the board will re-
ceive $4,000.
To aid people in figuring out their
income taxes federal officer will
be sent to Clay county next month
and will assist residents of the coun-
ty who are not familiar with the
law in making out the reports, which
must be in by March l, 1918, accord
ing to an announcement by E: j.
Lynch of the internal revenue de-
partment. According to- the present
schedule, the officer will be in Haw-
ley Jan. 81 to Feb. 2, Moorhead Feb.
4 to Feb. -16 and GAINESVILLE Feb. 10
to Feb. 26.
The United States Civil Service
commission announces an examina-
tion to be held at East Grand Forks
and at Crookston on Jan. II, to fill
the position of rural carrier at Fer
tile and East Grand Forks.
H. Mayne, Stanton, editor of the
Bemidj Sentinel, has disposed of
his interests in that publication to
Henry z. Mitchell, former editor and
J, part owner of the Thief River Falls
News-Press. Mr.. Stanton will enter
the military service.
Oscar Adler Of Red Wing, brake
man on the Great Western railway,
was badly injured at Win6na when
he was crushed between cars as he
:: was trying to make q coupling in
the Great Western yards. He is at
the Winona general hospital.
Oscar Keller, St. Paul commissions
er Of public works; James Manahan,
attorney for the Nonpartisan league,
! and Thomas ]. McGrath, speaker at
the labor meeting in Rice park, St.
Paul on December 2, were formally
charged with rioting before Judge G.
3. Haunt in RAMSEY county court Thee