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NEWS-ETTES OF GRAND
RIARAIS AND VICINITY
Jottings Heard About Town of
Things of General Interest
to Local Readers
Howard Smith of Hovland, is in
town today.
T. Bright and family of Port Ar­
thur, drove through last Saturday.
Louis Ellingson of Hovland, is
transacting business in town today.
Agnes Lanktree left last week for
Bayfield where she will spend the
Fourth.
The Norwegian Ladies Aid will
meet next Friday with Mrs. Hans
Holte.
Fred Jackson has installed a new
soda fountain in his confectionery
store.
John Samskar returned on the Sun­
day boat from a short business trip
in Duluth.
Elmer Weik of Duluth, is visiting
his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
Claus Hanson.
W. T. Smith and family of Duluth,
drove down Saturday afternoon, re­
turning Sunday.
Mrs. H. Helmerson returned on the
last boat from a visit with friends
and relatives in Duluth.
We are printing the paper a little
early this week so as to give the Her­
ald force a chance to celebrate.
Mrs. J. A. Blackwell and daughter
Faith arrived on the boat Sunday
night for a short visit with friends.
Mrs. Kirkwood returned from Du­
luth Sunday night. Her sister, Mrs.
J. R. Jones, and two children, accom­
panied her.
A party of young people chaperon­
ed by Mrs. C. A. Congdon, motored
from Duluth last Wednesday, spend­
ing the night here.
The work on the new Congrega­
tional church is progressing rapidly
and they expect to have the building
completed by July 22nd.
Miss Esther Juberg and Miss Hilda
Berg of LaMoure N. D., arrived on
the America Sunday evening far a
Visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Zimmer­
man, Jr.
There will be a meeting of the Red
Cross on Friday afternoon, July 6, at
the home of Mrs. J. A. Kirkwood, Jr.
All those who are interested in this
work are invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Iver Anderson and
son Walter of Rosebush, and Miss
Christiania Everson of Maple Hill,
motored to Big Bay and back last
Sunday in Mr. Anderson's Ford.
All plans are completed for the
biggest Fourth of July celebration
Grand Marais has ever had, and at
this writing it looks as though we
are going to have a large crowd from
out-of-town.
Great success attended the efforts
of the Red Cross Committee at their
dance last week. The proceeds a
mounted to over sixty dollars, after
expenses were paid. The committee
wishes to thank the school board for
the hall and also the musicians, as
well as others who donated. They
were highly pleased at the manner
in which everyone responded to their
requests and feel that it was a great
credit to the village.
Twelve Reasons
Why You
Should Buy Your
Groceries of Us
Ao. J.
BECAUSE you are guaranteed
prompt, courteous and efficient
service.
Clerks and delivery men on the
jump to serve you accurately.
This is a big feature of our live
wire policy.
Ed. Toftey & Company
Mrs. Mousaolf, sister of Mr. Sey­
mour Mitchell, and two sons return­
ed to Duluth on the stage Monday
morning, after a two weeks visit
with Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell and fam
i!y.
Woods & Seglem have purchased
the Erick Bramer pool hall building
and will move their barber shop into
it as soon as they have made some
necessary alterations. They intend to
lengthen the building about twelve
feet and remodel the second floor.
JOHNSON-OLSON NUPTIALS
The marriage of Miss Karin John­
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O.*
Johnson of Rosebush, and Oscar Ol­
son of this village, took place at 3:30
o'clock Saturday afternoon at the
home of the bride. Rev. Ripon offi­
ciating. Miss Bertha Johnson, sister
of the bride, and Gunner Olson, bro­
ther of the bride groom, were the at­
tendants. The wadding march was
played by Miss Adeline Berglund.
The ceremony was performed on
the lawn, where the wedding supper
was served later.
The bride wore a gown of silk and
the customary veil, carrying a beau­
tiful bouquet of bride's roses.
Mr. and Mrs. Olson left Sunday
morning for a trip through southern
Minnesota.
MAY ESTABLISH ELECTRIC
LIGHTING PLANT HERE
T. M. McCormick of Duluth, was
in town Saturday. Mr. McCormick
is contempalting establishing an
electric lighting plant here and he
met a number of the business men
and members of the village council
Saturday evening to consider the
proposition. The plant would be
run in connection with the cooperage
factory.
-An electric lighting plant for this
village has been coveted for some
time and it is earnestly hoped that
Mr. McCormick can be induced to
establish one.
CAN SURPLUS FOOD USE
JARS AND CANS WISELY
Don't have an empty preserving
jar in your home next fall.
There may be some difficulty in
securing cans and preserving jars.
Reserve regular tight-sealing con­
tainers for vegetables, concentrated
soups, meats and fish.
Concentrate products so that each
jar or can will hold as much food and
as little water as possible.
Put up jams, jellies, and preserves
in glasses sealed with cork or paper
and paraffin. Pack fruit juice in or­
dinary bottles.
Don't can anything that can be
kept just as well dried or in other
forms. Dry navy and mature Lima
beans for winter use.
Produce in your garden lots of
cabbage, potatoes, and root crops
that can be kept for the winter
without canning.—U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
My Dental Office in the cabin will
be open during the summer months
as usual.—Dr. T. M. Robertson.
GATHERED FROM ALL
SECTIONS OF THE STATE
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
The Great Northern railway has
subscribed $5,000,000 to the liberty
loan.
Lieutenant P. A. Brannan, Elk Ri­
ver, this state, with the Canadian
oversea forces, has been killed" some­
where in France."
Edward F. Wallace, thirty-five
years old, a brakeman on the Great
Northern railroad, was killed by a
train at Hopkins Junction.
J. C. Munroe, former grand com­
mander of the state Masons, is dead
at his home in St. Cloud. He was
seventy-four years old.
James O'Brien, ninety-one years old
an Indian fighter and a veteran of
the Civil war, is dead at Winona fol­
lowing an illness of several months.
Mrs. Herman Oshman, residing near
Rosemount, is dead from burns re­
ceived when she poured gasoline on a
wood fire in mistake for kerosene.
Mrs. Frances Buell Olson of St.
Paul was elected president of the su­
perior lodge, Degree of Honor, at the
fourteenth annual meeting at Chi­
cago.
Herman Mensing, a wealthy farmer
sixty years of age, was killed by a
Stroke of lightning near his home in
Cherry Grove, near Spring Valley.
Mistaking a bottle of poison for
medicine, Bernadette Gallagher of
Winona, sixteen years old, drank its
contents and died within a few min­
utes.
J. F. Ebersole, for six years a mem­
ber of the economics faculty at the
University of Minnesota, has left
that institution to engage in the
banking business.
E. A. Bloomquist, widely known a
mong realty men and attorneys, is
dead at Minneapolis. Mr. Bloomquist
was fifty-nine years of age and was
born in Minnesota.
Former Representative Frederick
C. Stevens of St. Paul has been re­
commended to the president for ap­
pointment as a member of the inter­
state commerce commission.
Thirty-two Indians registered' in
Carlton county under the selective
draft proclamation are all real Amer­
icans, not one having indicated a
claim for exemption from service.
Rev. V. Arvid Hagstrom of St.
Paul was elected president of the
Minnesota state conference of the
Swedish Baptist church at the an­
nual meeting of the conference at
Alexandria.
By
Minneapolis chapters of the Daugh­
ters of the American Revolution will
join in a flag raiising ceremony at
Gateway park July 4. Governor
Burnquist will be the principal
speaker.
W. J. Bryan will speak in Minneso­
ta during the prohibition constitu­
tional amendment campaign next
year if plans he has transmitted to
the prohibition state committee can
be carried out.
Dr. Burnside Foster, prominent
physician and medical writer of St.
Paul for more' than twenty-five years
and known as a leader in St. Paul
medical circles, is dead. He was fif­
ty-six years of age.
Nick Luona, twenty-eight years old,
an I. W. W., was shot in the back by
a policeman at Virginia while seek­
ing to escape arrest as a slacker.
Sixty-one arrests have been made in
and near Virginia.
,T. A. Champion, sixty years old,
was drowned in a creek near Ivanhoe
containing about two feet of water.
He had gone to the creek to fish and
it is thought that he fainted and fell
into the water.
THE JOYOUS FOURTH
William Gerard
An' grab my box an' go
•A Kitin* out behin' the barn
An* light my punK an', sayt
You won't hear nothing much but nntlt
The rest o' that whole day.
But, goshi that ain't a circumstance
To what'U happen when
It gets right dark. You ^est be there*
You'll see some doin's, then!
Well breaK in Si, the blacksmith's., shop
An get his anvils out
An' shoot tfiem all around the town
Frank O'Connor, a farmer living
near Mountain Lake, stabbed and kil­
led his sister in a fit of despondency
and later cut off the hand in which
he held the knife with which his sis­
ter was killed.
John F. Calderwood, former vice
president and general manager of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company
and until seventeen years ago con­
troller of the Minnesota Street Rail­
way company, is dead at Minneapolis.
Minnesota fire losses during May
totaled $676,502, compared with los­
ses of $558,523 in the corresponding
month last year. There were 438
fires reported in May, this year, com­
pared with 257 for the same month
last year.
The University of Minnesota a
warded diplomas to 832 students at
its forty-fifth annual commencement
at Minneapolis. Fifty-one students,
members of the Fort Snelling train­
ing camp, received their sheepskins
at the fort.
Donald Grant, one of the most
prominent railroad builders in the
Northwest, is dead at his home in
Faribault after a brief illness, aged
seventy-nine. Mr. Grant began rail­
road construction work in 1863 and
he.lped to build many of the North­
west's principal lines.
W. W. Bradley of Minneapolis, has
been elected executive officer of the
Minnesota Society for Prevention of
Cruelty. He will eq^er on his new
duties Aug. 1. in joint offices with
the St. Paul Humane Society. His
main endeavor will be to promote
child welfare work outside of Ram­
sey, Hennepin and St. Louis counties,
all of which have effective agencies.
Chapman
Gee, don't I wish, the Fourth wuz htrtl
It seems lifte I can't wait
Until the days jest catch up with
That blame' red-iigger date.
I got a lot o' fire-worKs,
Oh, more'n you could thinK*
A bully cannon, too, of brass,
So shiny mah.es you blinh.
The minute when I get awaKe,
'Bout four o'clocK or so.
You bet 111 hustle in my clothes
Then there'll be noise, don't doutott
Afore each house well set one down
An' pour the powder in.
An' set the other top of it
Then jest you hear the dinl
Some folKsll come a-runnin' out
An' raise an awful row
But mostll laugh like fun an' shout
"Jest get along, boys, now."
Oh. gee^ I wish the Fourth wuz. here I
But Ma sez, "Mercy mel
Why you're so set on gettin' burns
An' blisters. I can't see."
But shucks I who cares for things UK* thatf
As how he has jest loads o* fun
A-gettin' of those burns.
(Copyright, ltlfi. by W. Gh Chapman.)
S
STATE CAPITOL WEEKLY
POLITICAL NEWS LETTER
Much Interest Shown in War Tax
Bill. I, W. W. Secretary in St.
Louis County Workhouse.
Merchants and farmers throughout
the northwest are watching with in­
terest the progress of the war tax
bill now pending in the United States
senate. Minnesota is particularly in­
terested whether or not the senators
adhere to their plai not to place du­
ties upon those articles now on the
free list, which include leather and
hides, fish, wheat, lumber iind other
products. That the Minnesota con­
tingent will stick is expected. The
bill as it came from the house con­
tained provisions for a horizontal
raise of 10 per cent on all duties in
the existing tariff bill and a ten per
cent duty on many of the articles
now on the free list. The senate
committee struck the latter increase
from the bill but it is yet to be acted
upon by the senate as a whole, with
of course house concurrence. With
the food situation in the northwest,
and the whole United States for that
matter serious, consumers would be
heavily hit by an increase and espec­
ially by a duty, say on fish and other
articles now imported from Canada
free of duty. The same applies to
leather hides and lumber. It is un­
derstood that the Minnesota mem­
bers in the lower house are not at all
anxious to see the duty placed on
the free list articles, though they
voted for the original bill just as did
many others, "with their eyes shut."
Word has come that the Minnesota
members and others from the north­
west are satisfied with the proposals
in the senate to raise thd revenue
needed for war purposes in other
ways. Lumber is now selling for
higher prices in Canada than in the
United States. Placing a duty on it
will simply increase the cost to the
farmers of the northwest who will
be building granaries, and to the
government in the erection of the big
cantonments where the great armies
of soldiers are to be trained.
That newspaper criticism because
of his veto of the school deficiency
appropriation has not been lost upon
his excellency, the governor, is shown
in the naming of a commission to in­
vestigate school finances and the sy­
stem of distributing the same. The
governor contends that the present
system of school aid is wrong and he
proposes to show to the next legis­
lature that his recent disapproval of
better than $1,000,000 state school
aid was justified. His excellency has
obtained from the state legal depart­
ment an opinion to the effect that
the regular school fund which he
permitted to get by is now available,
but the state school board can not
see it in that light. They say there
is a serious deficit and that it can
not be corrected by any juggling of
funds or facts.
A new political adviser for the go­
vernor is mentioned in the person of
A. M. Opsahl of the state oil depart­
ment, who by reason of the gover­
nor's new department consolidation
COOK COUNTY ST. BANK
Crand m«nHa. Minn.
Help Your Children to Make Good
COOK COUNTY
STATE BANK
Capital and Surplus, $27,500.00
scheme will be out of a Job next
month. It is proposed to make him
private secretary to the governor to
succeed Eric Thornton, who will
shortly resign. Mr. Opsahl was for­
merly political manager of Congress­
man Lindbergh of the sixth district.
At. Duluth recently a local justice
of the peace sentenced the secretary
of the local lodge of the I. W. W. to
85 days in the St. Louis county work­
house. The punishment inflicted was
as a result of a law passed by the
recent legislature placing any organi­
zation which incited to industrial
strife under the ban. That the law
will go to the supreme court for in­
terpretation is certain. It was not
shown that the secretary had done
anything, but the fact 'that he be­
longed to an organization supposed
to favor industrial strife was respon­
sible for his imprisonment.
There is a growing feeling that
the state safety commission with its
$1,000,000 appropriation, if it wants
to merit public confidence, -will have
to do something more than concern
itself with so-called moral uplift.
This opinion, it is said, is also shared
by some of the members of the com­
mission, among them former Gover­
nor John Lind and he has taken oc­
casion to so state in remarks made
before the board. Of the seven or
eight general orders issued to date
by the board, five concern liquor and
moral uplift. Added to this have
been the launching of many plans
&nd schemes for the organization of
women's clubs and civic cooperation
generally. All the high cost of liv­
ing and other inflictions have receiv­
ed has been unused publicity urging
increased acreage and conservation.
An observer writing to the local pa­
per thinks the commission might do
some good if it would buy several
hundred carloads of potatoes and
sell them to the people at cost. This
perhaps, is somewhat farfetched^ but
it contains much food for thought.
The commission is composed of big
men and they have it in their power
to be of great aid to the state.
MjfPLE HILL DOINGS
Emil Anderson and Roy Hedstrom
went to Duluth Thursday evening.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
with Mrs. Elling Olson next Wednes­
day afternoon.
The Literary Society will meet at
the home of Olaf Berglund Saturday
evening.
Andrew Hedstrom and daughter
Lucile left for Duluth Saturday.
"My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing!"
But how about fighting for it!
Before you crack your voice
Double up your fist!
Here's where they'll put a pin in it:
Lonsdale Building,
West Duluth,
Northwestern Ticket Office,
New Armory,
Lyceum Building,
328 Central Avenue.
-.if
Duluth, Minn.
A Savings Bank FREE with
the First Dollar Deposit.
Sea Them in the Window.
Bring the boy or girl in to
deposit a dollar get a bank
book with the dollar credit­
ed in it, and take home one
of these banks to help save
the next dollar.
You have the bank, we
have the key. Money grows
quickly. Bring the bank in
from time to time and have
the contents credited in
your bank book.
Pennies and nickels soon
make dollars. Dolllars make
independence. It's worth
the effort. Come in today.
-.-iS.
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