10 Years Ago
Nov. 12, 2004
The Cook County Board approved $6,800 for the Cook County Snowmobile Club on Tuesday, the amount bid by S.J. Bautch Construction to re-route part of the trail around Hungry Jack Lake. The new trail will run along state and private land, rather than Hungry Jack Road, and will afford direct access to the lake.
County Highway Engineer Chuck Schmit introduced Paul Vander Heiden, the new highway maintenance supervisor, to a welcoming county board Tuesday. After moving here from Montana, Vander Heiden is looking forward to his new job with enthusiastic plans. “You’re going to see some changes made,” he said.
20 Years Ago
Nov. 14, 1994
The citizens’ desire for change was evident in the Cook County elections as it was across the state and entire country last week, as 83 percent of registered voters flocked to the polls. Cook County will have a new sheriff and a new county attorney. One incumbent was voted out of his seat on the county board, while a newcomer to county board politics won a vacant seat by the narrowest of margins.
The home of Brian and Marcy Olsen of South Shore Drive, Devil Track Lake, burned Sunday evening when they were visiting neighbors. The structure and possessions were a total loss.
50 Years Ago
Nov. 12, 1964
Nothing was saved in the Hovland cabin fire Friday night. Kenneth and Roy Kjarum of Austin had arrived, unloaded their hunting supplies, made a fire in the wood stove, and while they were at the Bay on an errand, a fire must have started. When they returned the building was in flames and it was too late to save anything.
With the weather turning cold, rats will be seeking warmth and shelter and unless precautions are taken now, some folks may wind up with a rat problem on their hands. Rats need only three things to survive: food, water and shelter. If we provide the shelter, they are usually pretty good at finding the other two items.
90 Years Ago
Nov. 20, 1924
A bear was shot Monday on the Gunflint road near the pines by a woman from Minneapolis. She shot a deer the day before, which she left in the woods, and when she reached her deer Monday morning the bear had eaten the hind legs and most of the body. The front legs and head was all there was left for a trophy. But she got the bear.
Two hundred cans of fish fry were brought up on the America last night and are being put into the various trout streams along the shore in Cook County.
Carl Holt shot a wolf near Cascade Saturday. He also got his deer.
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