The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-12-03

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Buhl. The village souncil granted
village employes Z wage boost Of 10
per cent.
Thief River Falls. At meeting Of
the village council raise approx
mating 10 per cent was given ali en-.
ployes. : .. S1s5
81 Fairmont. - Franklin Cherry,
shsrburne. has been indicted by the
Martin county grand jury on charges
Of forgery and bigamy. z.l
petroit.-B. r. Wadsworth, super
visor IN the Indian service, il to sue.
coed G. v. Peel as agent ct White
Earth. the transfer to occur some time
this month. N. ..%.@.,sz ~.
Z Aoo:head. = Miss Anna Weum of
noorhsad has been appointed as AZ.
sistant to Miss Eva L. Anderson. direc-
tor Of nursing for the Northern divi.
sion Of the American Red Cross.
Duluth.-Chauncey H. Troyer. mem
Der Of the Duluth police department
tor . quarter of century and its chief
for more than Is years. and later chief
OF police at Fargo, N. D., died here
Stillwater.-T. w. Totem, president
Of the Cosmopolitan bank Of stillwa-
ter, accidentally shot and killed him.
self In his home here. He was clean
ing his rife. when it was discharged
Bralnerd.-Dr. c. A. Nelson, presi-
dent OF the Minne1ota State Veteri-
nary Medical association, left to at
tend the annual meeting Of the Ameri-
can Veterinary association at New
Orleans.
Aankato.-Mrs. Gertrude Rebbe,
aged Is years, was found dead at her
room here, death being due to apo.
plexy. She is survived by several
sons residing at Albert Lea and two
daughters In California.
Warroad.-Laks of the Woods 10
frozen over. Indians, trarpers and
farmers say winter il here in full
blast about month ahead Of time
They look for long winter with ex-
tended periods of bitter cold.
Fergus Falls.-Charles r. Wright
has offered the city gift of $4,000
toward the erection of a community
building here. It is probable that
combined city hall, armory and com
munity building will be erected at the
cost of about 100000.
Little Falls.-One Of Morrison coun-
tvs finest and largest farms, the Mead
owview stock farm, has changed
hands, M. M. Williams, the owner,
disposing Of it to Roepke & Hubbard
OF Fairmont. While the price is not
given out 1t was said to be In the
neighborhood Of $4,000.
Morristown.-H. E. Hershey. pro
prietor Of a motion picture theater
here, and his helper, Leonard Witter,
1S years old, were burned to death
when the theater was partly destroyed
by IRE. An explosion in the operators
booth is held responsible.> Hershey
was 3S years old and unmarried Wit
ter evidently was trapped in the oper-
ator's room. No patrons were in the
building when tho explosion took
place.
Observation-Disclosures county is the
banner potato county in southwestern
Minnesota. according to statistics
compiled by reports received from the
different counties of this section. The
potato yield in this county is 100
bushels to the acre lock county
comes second with yield Of SO
bushels. The yield in Cottonwood
county was 81; Jackson, 50; Lincoln,
81: Lyon, ~; Murray, 60; Mobiles, so,
and Redwood, 43.
Duluth.-Flora III Of the Bells, con-
signed by the Jean Du Luth stock
farm, brought the highest price at the
here. The highest bid was 1878, and
was offered by the university farm of
the University of Minnesota The
next highest bid was $500, made by
Simon Cruise of Minneapolis on a cow,
Caribou Violet, consigned by the
Moose Valley farm and bought for the
Radisson hotel of Minneapolis.
st. Paul.-Little acts of kindness
will be rewarded after many years In
the case OF Peter J. Lavalle. st. Paul
pawnshop inspector, who is the only
known heir to an estate of $4,000
left by Anthoni Genini at Marshall,
MINI. Th1rty-three years ago MIR
Lavalle read newspapers and talked
French, to Genini on cold winter
nights, when, he was a roomer in La
valle's mothers rooming house. After
all these years, Genini is repaying his
kindness in hard cash.
Virginia-Rev. E. N. Raymond.
founder of the Virginia. Presbyterian
church in pioneer days, when gam
bling and drinking wcrt general, was
buried at Tower. His first congrega-
ton was a poker crowd and his first
song leader card shark. The Rev.
Mr.. Raymond came to Virginia De.
cember 81, 1892. On April 20, 1893,
his first church was organized He
remained at its head until 1896 After
leaving Virginia Mr.. Raymond estab:
hshed church at Tower. His wife
IL buried there:
Duluth "A vigilance committee
whose duty it will be to watch all
radicals and to report to. the Ameri-
can Legion with a view to taking law
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