10 Years Ago
· Oc t. 25, 1999 • Less than two weeks after being assured that people who paid to have downed wood from the July 4 storm cleared within a 150-foot perimeter of their home or cabin could be reimbursed by the federal government, a federal agency has said it won’t happen.
“No one who has already cleaned up their property will be reimbursed by FEMA,” said the county’s Emergency Management Director Nancy Koss. • TheGrand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will sponsor the second running of the Grand Portage Passage Sled Dog Race, which is developing into one of the premier races in the lower 48 states.
This year, both the 330-mile race and the 100- mile race will have a segment through the Canadian Wilderness as racers compete for a combined purse of $81,000.
20 Years Ago ·
Oc t. 23, 1989 • Five people were seriously injured in a head-on collision on Highway 61 at Gull Harbor near Tofte at 4 p.m. Oct. 18. • The District 166 school board and the Cook County Education Association both ratified a two-year contract agreement last week. • Fire of unknown origin Thursday destroyed a summer home just east of Hovland. Theowners had left only a week earlier to return to their winter home in Arizona. • Duluth fisherman Dave Anderson weighed in his state record 33-pound, 4-ounce chinook salmon at North Shore Market. The record has since been tied by another salmon caught in Lake Superior off French River.
50 Years Ago ·
Oc t. 22, 1959 • A gun that was “not loaded” was responsible for the death last Friday of a 7-year-old Grand Portage boy at Hat Point. The whole community was plunged into sorrow.
The boy had been playing cowboy with the other children when the gun went off in the hands of his brother, 14. The 30-30 bullet struck the victim and he died instantly. • Mrs. Arthur Berg sprained her left hand and was bruised as she tripped and fell on a small wire hoop on a downtown street. She was in the local hospital for a few days, but is now at home recuperating. • The Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a dedication of the new post office here, probably some time next month, Postmaster M.D. Quaife announced yesterday. • Dollar supper will be served by the Home Mission Circle Oct. 23 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church parlors. Fish cakes and meatballs are on the menu.
90 Years Ago ·
Oc t. 22, 1919 • T.F. Thomas of Lutsen returned last Saturday from Cumberland, Wis., where he was called on account of the death of his brother William. The deceased was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in Company C, 12th Wisconsin Volunteers Infantry. He was a little over 74 years of age at the time of his death, and had been engaged in the mercantile business most of the time since the close of the war. • Arthur Nunstedt, who has been out of school the last week, had his feet rather badly hurt by the gangplank from the steamer “America” falling on them. • Rangers are needed by the U.S. Forest Service to fill vacancies in the national forest field service. To secure men for these positions the civil service commission announces an open competitive examination, for men only, on Oct. 27.
The entrance salary for rangers is from $900 to $1,200 per year and appointees whose services are satisfactory may be allowed, after the first month, the temporary increase granted by Congress of $20 per month. • Thomas Fitzgerald, who on July 22 murdered Janet Wilkinson, 6 years old, was hanged in Chicago last week. He said he killed her because she screamed when he took her into his room to give her candy.
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