Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 17, 1911, Page 3

IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, MAY 17, 1911 ~ ConasseT HeRaLp-REVIEW BOOST FOR COHASSET | OFFERINGS ; | | The Ladies of Cohasset and | vicinity should remember 3 that I carry a nice line of Ladies Gloves | Hats and Sunshades {Ben Smith house on State Children’s Hats | Hair Goods | COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER the hospital with a bad case of MRS. W. W. FLETCHER : | _|J.H. Grady & Co. carry a very Complete Line of _ [General Merchandise Call and See Them for Any of Your Necessaries COHASSET, MINNESOTA | | | | ; with Mrs. B. C. Hanson Thursday af- | Murray, of Grand Rapids, visited at |the Henry Rannfranz home Friday afternoon. lA Cohasset Cullings B. C. Hanson was a Grand Rapids visitor Monday. Mrs. J. C. Gilmore has been very ill the past week. . O’Brien was a Duluth business tl visitor Friday and Saturday. school. parents who will make that province boys. Song—“The Faded Coat of Blue”— 6th and 7th grade pupils. “Mr. Bob”, Act 2. SCHOOL NOTES. Paul Payment of the 4th grade left He goes to Canada with his heir future home. Leslie Hanson and Laura Nelson Mike Prebish has moved into ‘the; are back after a week’s illness with street. The Methodist ladies will meet ternoon. The Methodist choir will meet at mumps. Florence Ostrom of Hutch'ns-n, hes entered school here. Recent visitors are Messrs. Fred- erick, Quackenbush and Beasman. Seventh grade pupils are now re- the home of Mrs. J. M. Stackhouse {viewin” geography preparatory to Friday evening. The Catholic Ladies’ Altar society will meet with Mrs. C. P. Moore Thursday afternoon. Sandy Brooks, who was taken to pneumonia, is getting along nicely. Mass will be said at St. Augus- tine’s Catholic church at the hours of 8 and 10 o’clock Sunday morning b Rey. Ft. Turbiaux. | taking the state examination. ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, Mrs. F. E. King and s‘ster, Miss ARSENIC IS FOUND IN COFFEE The dancing party given by the dancing club Saturday evening was much enjoyed by those who attend- ed. The little son of Mr. and Phinney injured his finger on a nail recently and blood poison set in. He is getting along nicely, however. Mrs. Mrs. W. W. Fletcher visited at the C. M. Erskine home at Grand Rapids Friday. but is now on the road to recovery. Miss Agnes Berg came up from Minneapolis last week to visit her sister, Mrs. Chas. Brown, and a brother, who recently arrived from the old country. Dr. and Myrtle Hursh and Mildred Stockwell drove to Grand Rapids} Tuesday. Mrs. Stockwell, who is at the hospital, is getting along very nicely. Work on the new school house is progressing rapidly and the force of men, about twenty in all, have the excavating completed and are laying the molds for the concrete founda- tion. C. M. Erskine, J. M. Stackhouse, Ileged Attempted Poisoning at State Soldiers’ Home to Be Investi- gated by Trustees. Arsenic was in the coffee served to Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Davis, Dr. Heron and two others, when they dined in the cottage of the chief surgeon of the Soldiers’ Home April 28, according to a report submitted to the board of Mrs. Erskine has been ill | trustees at its meeting at the home. It is believed that, before the board adjourns, startling disclosures will be made, since it has been intimated that a special investigating committee has cognizance of how and by whom the deadly poison was put into the coffee On April 28 Dr. Davis, chief sur. geon at the home, and four others, were dining in the surgeon’s cottage. Coffee was brought in from the home hospital. Soon after they all became very ill. A sample of the coffee was sent to the state chemist, who discov. ered the presence of arsenic, DOZEN BUILDINGS TORN DOWN Terrific Wind Storm Strikes the Town of Felton. A great funnel shaped cloud, bring. =i. Lous OD tue o-vent rate. Ven three roads have been excepted by | Judge Willard’s decision from putting ; the lower rates into effect and July 1 the 3-cents-a-mile rate will Be restored by these roads. These suits for temporary injunction will be filed with the federal court in| a few days. NEW PROBE IS NECESSARY Minnesota Attorney General Rules on Whittier Case. Specific charges will have to be filed before the state board of con- trol and a hearing be held before F. A. Whittier, superintendent of the state training school at Red Wing, can be removed from office. This was decided in an opinion given by George T. Simpson, attorney general, in answer to questions asked him by the board of control. “The duty of the board of contro is to await the filing before it of spe cific charges by some person, who may be so advised, other than a mem ber of the board of control,” Mr Simpson says, REAL ESTATE MAN ARRESTED Head of Prominent Duluth Firm Must Face Serious Charge. De Courcey Niles of Duluth, presi- dent of the firm of C. H. Graves & Co. of that city, real estate and loans, was arrested on a bench war- rant and arraigned in the district court on an indictment for grand lar- ceny in the first degree. He is charged by the Maryland Cas- ualty company of Baltimore with hav- | ing appropriated to his own use $574 last July. Child Is Fatally Burned. Burning kerosene which po over the eighteen-months-old < Mrs. Mollie Schreiber of ‘: caused burns that resulte’ death of the child at the « where it was taken after The mother was seve . while attempting to save life and the home, which x: menaced by the flames. Meets Death In the Air. When George H. Hallman of Man- kato, lineman for the General Elec- tric company of Minneapolis, went to Twenty-seventh street and Stevens avenue to repair a break in the lines he came in contact with a high volt- age wire, which threw him across the crossarm, lifeless. The fire depart ment was called to remove the body. TO CLEAR LAND TITLES Bill to Relieve Innocent Buyers on N NIZATION PLAR Department of Dakota to Be Abolished July 1. The department of Dakota, with headquarters at St. Paul, will be dis- continued on July 1, according to a dispatch from Washington. This will be done incident to a plan of army re organization to be put into effect at the instance of General Wood, chief of staff. Orders now being prepared provide that the military service of the United States shall be composed of three con- tinental divisions, the Eastern divi sion, with headquarters at New York; the Central division, with headquar- ters at Chicago, and the Western di vision with headquarters at San Fran- cisco. This readjustment contemplates the discontinuance of the department of Colorado as well as the department of Dakota. The business now transacted in these two departments will be merged in the Western or Central di- vision. Probably the department of Dakota is the smallest of the present military subdivisions, comprising Forts Snelling, Yellowstone, Lincoln, Mis souri and Harrison. PIONEER EDUCATOR IS DEAD Dr. C. W. Hall at Minnesota Univer. sity for Thirty Years. sor Dr. Christopher W. Hall years connected with the University of Minnesota in varying capacities, is dead at his home in Min neapolis from an affliction of anaemia Dr. Hall, who was sixty-six years olé had been suffering from the disease for two years, having contracted ii while attending a convention of the International Geological association in Chile, South America. For the past month he has been confined to his bed, where he has grown steadily weaker Portion Wiped Out. Portion of La Porte re. Just how or wh ated is not positi § were first seen shy The charred remaips oi Kitto mr kalla, a bachelor farmer, who re sided alone in the.Mud Hen district near Eveleth, was found in the burned building on his place. A for est fire swept over his place and it is presumed that he died fighting it Mikalla was forty-seven years of age and was well to do. Nearly Wiped Out by Fire. Lake Wilson, a town seventeen miles east of Pipestone, was nearly wiped out by fire. Seventeen business places were destroyed, including the Omaha Station, two grain elevators, two im- plement houses, a bank, several gen- ’ White Earth. A bill “for the relief of innocent purchasers of Jand on the White Earth reservation,” was introduced in the house by Representative Steenerson. eral stores, two lumber yards, a hard Tass ~ S ing with it a terrific wind, bore down Jonny Neloan, Ones sero uonn oven ware store, a hotel and the town hall ‘ | upon Felton. a smal! town north of Skelly drove to Deer River Tuesday | ta a tare down a dduea bulla to attend the joint meeting of the ings, blew in every good sized window county boards of Itasca and Cass | jn the town and tore up trees in large Up-to-Date Accommodations John Nelson Proprietor - Minnesota | SALOON The Very Best ofEvery- thing Alwayson Hand | Which will be used to purchase decor | counties, relative to the new bridge. The subject for Rev. von Stilli’s sermon at the Methodist church Sunday evening will be: “The Living Sacrifice.” The male quartette will render several selections and every- | body is invited to attend the ser- vices. The last number of the lecture numbers. The only one hurt, as far as could} be learned, was Andrew Peterson, a | farmer living two and one-half miles west of Felton, who sustained serious injuries about the head. He was in his barn when it was overturned. The buildings blown down were mostly machine sheds and barns. In addition to this damage the wind took the top off a box car and overturned course at the Methodist church will! Several wagons, with teams hitched to be g#ven Wednesday evening and the | subject is, “The Social Problem and | World Evangelism.” price ia 10 and 15 cents and no one | should fail to attend. Mrs. J. C. Gilmore announces that them, causing much excitement. The admission’ ROADS ASK THREE-CENT FARE | Injunction Suits to Be Started by Six Minnesota Lines. Papers are being prepared for in- she has just received a new lot of / junction suits in the federal court by goods at the variety store includ-| the stockholders of the six roads in ing a nice line of dishes. and good variety of straw hats, sunbonnets, toy garden tools, sand pails with shovels, tin- ware, notions, etc. Call in and look the line over. You will find some A large! the state not affected in the previous children’s | rate cases. This action is being taken to put al! the roads of the state in the same po- sition as are the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Minneapolis and It is designed to protect persons who bought lands at White Earth pre-| sumably from mixed bloods, who un- der authority of the Clapp law are authorized to alienate their holdings. Fire at Stillwater Prison. Fire which broke out in the paint shop of the old prison at Stillwater de. stroyed much material that is used in the construction of farm machinery and damaged the floor and ceiling The prison fire department, consist ing of twenty convicts, assisted by the city department, put out the flames in ten minutes. The loss is $2,000. Two Killed by Lightning. Mrs. Andrew Larson, aged fifty-six and her daughter Alva, aged nine teen, residing near Carver, were instantly killed by lightning while they were planting corn in a field. The husband and father was at work in the same field not far distant, but was uninjured. There was no rain and no other sign of electrical disturbance. THREE BOYS ARE DROWNED Rowboat Is Overturned by Large Wave on lowa Lake, Onawa, Ia, May 15.—A triple drowning took place in Blue lake here when a boat in which six boys wers riding was struck by a huge white cap, sinking it. The dead are: Tommy Bristow of Turine, Lloyd Huff of Whiting and Mack Boyle of Whiting. Not being able to swim the boys were unable to keep above water and drowned near shore. The three oth- er boys were saved by companions in another boat. All of the boys were about fifteen years of age. Alleges False Arrest. Los Angeles, Cal., May 14—C. W. Caddegan, arrested on a charge of be ing a passer of gold bricks, filed suit against E. W. Chaffee for $27,000 dam- ages for false arrest in the supreme court. Caddegan has been held on a charge of selling a gold brick to Chaf- fee in Minneapolis, and declares he is the victim of mistaken identity. bargains. Mesdames M.°M. Hursh, J. M.} Stackhouse, W. W. Fletcher, M. Stapleton and W. C, Parker went to Deer River Wednesday as delegates) to the Itasca County Sunday school association convention. Mesdames | Hursh and Stackhouse are both down on the program for talks, as is | also Rev. Burgess of the Christian | church. “Mr. Bob.” An entertainment, the proceeds of ations for the new schoo] building, will be given by the pupils and local tal- ent of Cohasset Thursday evening May 25 at Village hall. S Program. Song—‘If We Were You and You Were We'’—4th and 5th grade pupils. Lullaby—‘‘Little Sleepy Head Dolly” —Primary pupils. Rose March—eight girls. “Mr. Bob,” Act 1. Song—‘Farmer. Boys’—lower grade! E@rer MAYEN SNWE GUARANTEE OF QUALITY AND PURITY Copenhagen Snuff is made of the best, old, rich, high- flavored leaf tobacco, to which is added only such in- gredients as are component parts of natural leaf tobacco and absolutely pure flavoring extracts. The Snuff Pro- cess retains the good of the tobacco and expels the bitter and acid of natural leaf tobacco. AMERICAN SNUFF COMPANY, 111 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.