The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1920-03-17
STATE BRfV|TIES

Stillwater.-At the meeting of the
Scandal Farmers Club it was voted to
hold a calf show at Scandal on Octo-
Der A.
Stephens.-The congregation of the
Catholic church at Stephens presented
their pastor, Rev. J. Fraling, with
new touring car.
acknowledgements Clay County
schools opened last week, according
to an announcement made by S. O.
Tang, Clay County superintendent.
WilmoQt.-Floyd Liebeck, 10, was
instantly killed when he collided with
an automobile driven by w. A. Shell
quist here. The boy was thrown from
his wheel and his neck was broken.
Detroit. Ranger P. S. Con-
verse has been busy posting signs
of warning in the wooded sections Of
the county and securing the co-opera-
ton of the settlers and others in an
attempt to eliminate the fire danger
always prevalent at this time of the
year.
Trommaldy- The special election
held at Trommald by Independent
School District No. 40, on the prOpO-
sition to bond the district for $4,000,
carried by more than four to one.
The bonds will pay for the building
of an addition to the Trommald
school building
st. Paul.-Armistice day, November
II, will be proclaimed legal holiday
in Minnesota by Governor Burnquist.
The American Legion, during it's con-
vention in this city, received the gov.
errors intentions to that effect in a
messaPe, in which he urged the great
est demonstration in the history of the
state on that date.
ROseau.-Hans Trandem has half
acre on his lots on North Riverside
Avenue from which he has without
doubt harvested the biggest money
return for an equal tract Of land in
the county, if not in the state. The
half acre is in raspberries and when
the picking is finally completed the
gross returns will be close to $500.
Minneapolis.-The veteran wearers
of the blue and the gray will be pres
ent at the American Legion national
convention to take place November
10. II and IL, on the invitation of the
local Legion officers and Of T. Semmes
Walmsley, president of the Louisiana
branch Of the Legion, who sends out
the call to all veterans in his state
St. Paul.-Rush D. Simmons, post
office inspector in charge at st. Paul.
was informed that the postofice at
Sanborn, Mimi, was robbed of $500.
Postmaster Herman E. Kemp of San
born reported that his safe was
cracked by burglars and $500 in cash
taken Poctoffice inspectors NJ R.
Ryan and Fred R. Bell went to San
born to investigate.
Warren.-Levi Hawkins was sem
fenced to the St. Cloud reformatory
on his plea of guilty to the Indictment
returned by the last grand jury charg-
ing him with forgery in the second
degree. Hawkins was cashier of the
Farmers State Bank of Gryla, whose
manager G. E. Ballard, wrecked that
institution and is now serving time
Hawkins but recently returned from
service in the United States army.
Red Lake Falls-Rev. Charles E..
Bronson, DID,, pastor of Westhope
Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia
for the past nineteen years, returned
here last week after an absence Of
thirty-six years and preached in the
Presbyterian church which he founded
here in 1883. DR.. Bronson came here
from Crookston in a lumber wagon in
1888 with Dan Patterson of St. Hilaire,
Mr.. Thibeau who came to start a
saloon, and Mr.. Morris who was to
start a bank
St. Paul.-The 1920 convention of
the Minnesota American Legion will
be held in Duluth, that city having
been selected by the state convention
here. The convention selected dele
gates to the national convention to be
held in Minneapolis November II and
~, and elected officers. A feature of
one session was the address of Lieut.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who outlined
in part the program which will be
discussed at the national convention
in Minneapolis in November.
Minneapolis. - Delegates from all
over the state were here when H. j.
Merdicnk of Ely, president of the Min
nesota division. Woodrow Wilson Way
Association, opened the annual meet
ing which was devoted largely to com
mittee reports and recommendations
looking toward state development
through betterment of it's highways.
The "Way' extends from Ely, in the
northeast corner of Minnesota, thence
over the Shakopee bridge, southwest
- to Albert Lea and Des Moines. It's
southern terminum is Ell Paso, Tex.
st. Paul.-ExtEa precautions against
fire in pine forest along the North
,ern Pacific Railroad south of Moose
Lake, which is rated an extraordinary
fire hazard as the result of a severe
hail storm, have been ordered by w.
T. Cox, state forester. The hail
stripped the needles and the bark from
the pines, leaving them to dry and
make an unusual fire danger, the for.
ester said. Special crews were sent