10 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 8, 2006
Members of the Flute Reed Partnership were scrambling all over the Flute Reed River last month, checking it out foot-by-foot to determine where major erosion problems exist. They found a few surprises, among them four large beaver dams that have been built on the river since the Department of Natural Resources did a survey of the river five years ago. “One of the beaver dams was probably seven feet tall,” a spokesman said. “There were just acres of water behind some of those dams.”
Two campers on Kelso Lake were awakened very early Saturday morning by a loud noise outside of their tent. Afraid that the visitor was a bear they shot out of the tent in chase mode. But the visitor was a large bull moose, who walked to the lake shore and swam across a narrow inlet to the opposite shore.
20 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 9, 1996
William Haas of Wooddale, Illinois was arrested in Two Harbors on Sept. 4 and charged with illegal transportation of walleye over-limit. Haas was the on-site campground host at the U.S. Forest Service campground on Crescent Lake in Cook County this summer. Returning to his home for the season, he was found to be in possession of at least 107 walleyes, 95 over the legal limit. They were frozen in several blocks of ice making a legitimate count impossible for DNR agents. The citations were based on the count Haas had marked on the packages.
The grim wait continued for the body of a 42-year-old Michigan man presumed drowned on Aug. 29 in Trout Lake to surface. Sheriff Dave Wirt said he would soon try again to locate the body with the help of a “water search” dog. The missing man is believed to be in a spot close to a 70-foot-deep area of the lake.
50 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 8, 1966
The Gunflint and Tofte Ranger Districts of the Superior National Forest have recently summed up the timber harvest for the past year. More than 31,000 cords of wood were sent to various mills from the two districts in Cook County. The figure represents only 14 percent of the annual allowable cut for the U.S. Forest Service land in the county.
Local police and the Cook County sheriff are in search of outlaws who broke into the Trapper’s Shack and took five guns and a hunting knife early Monday morning.
For the 15th year Lorraine Cote has had paintings accepted at the Minnesota State Fair. This year she has an oil, November Haze, and two watercolors. Mrs. Cote is a Minneapolis artist, but some of her painting is done on the North Shore.
90 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 9, 1926
Found – A fountain pen. Inquire of Mrs. William Olson.
Mr. and Mrs. Sverre Mathison of Lutsen are in town today with their new baby, now three weeks old. Mr. Mathison says he is another fisherman.
Spencer Ficklin bought a Chevrolet truck and is hauling the Rosebush school children.
Arthur Eliasen of Hovland drove a car to Chicago for a party of campers who spent the summer at Hovland. He returned to Grand Marais today, via railroad and bus.
Mr. and Mrs. C.O. Johnson and son Harry returned Monday from a two-day stay in Duluth. Miss Selina Tofte accompanied them to Duluth where she entered the Teachers’ College.
The Royal Neighbors held a meeting Aug. 26 and initiated three new members. A nice lunch was served after the meeting.
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