10 Years Ago ·
April 24, 2000
• George Morrison, perhaps the most celebrated Native American artist of this generation, died at the North Shore Hospital and Care Center on the morning of April 17, 2000.
Morrison was born Sept. 30, 1919 in Chippewa City near Grand Marais. He was the third of 12 children.
• TheMinnesota DNR plans to raise about 2.6 million walleyes to stock next fall in state lakes. The target was announced at the annual walleye production meeting last week in St. Paul.
Steve Hirsch, fisheries operations manager, said the state plans to produce 121,000 pounds of walleye fingerlings and to buy an additional 4,000 pounds of fingerlings from the private sector.
Figuring an average of 21 fingerlings to the pound, the total number of fish is 2.6 million.
• Thecounty commissioners voted unanimously to appoint county accountant Braidy Powers to fill out the term of county auditor-treasurer Carol Gresczyk, who announced her retirement last month.
Asked what the biggest challenge might be in his new job, Powers said: “Dealing with change.”
20 Years Ago ·
April 23, 1990
• Back in March nearly everyone was predicting an early spring. Torrential rains had washed away much of the snow and the weather was unseasonably warm. Then came April and winter returned. Now, except for the lack of snow, the arrival of spring has been pushed back — just how far is anyone’s guess.
• Moose population estimates for northeastern and northwestern Minnesota are down 34 percent and 13 percent respectively, based on this winter’s aerial moose survey by the Department of Natural Resources.
• A Grand Marais man who was injured in an accident at Hedstrom’s planing mill remains hospitalized at St. Luke’s in Duluth.
The man’s arm was caught in the outreach rollers, and he suffered splinters in his wrist and elbow, a fractured thumb, and nerve damage.
He is expected to be recuperating in the hospital until the end of the month.
50 Years Ago ·
April 21, 1960
• Thevillage firealarm sounded at noon hour Monday for a grass fire at the John Backlund home. The volunteers and truck arrived and returned immediately as the fire was under control.
The village fire marshal, John M. Blackwell, states that all residents must obtain a permit to burn.
• A 9-year-old Schroeder girl was rescued last Monday while playing and swimming with a group of children in the pool at Lutsen Resort. Dean Hanson, 11, of Tofte, swam out and pulled the girl to safety after she ventured out over her head. Just two weeks previously, Ray Cummings had given life-saving instructions, which Dean had remembered and put to good use.
• Neil Hall and son Skippy trapped beaver on Easter Sunday. A wolf had just eaten a beaver as they arrived, the bright red blood was all that remained of the beaver, and there were many wolf tracks.
They report the trappers are complaining about the large number of wolves prowling around their traps.
90 Years Ago ·
April 21, 1920
• Alger, Smith & Co. are preparing to tear up their tracks on the D&NM railway from Knife River to north of Cramer.
• Henry Benson has returned to Flint, Mich., where he is employed in an automobile factory.
• Highway Engineer Smith has a crew repairing the road to the gravel loader. As soon as weather permits it is his intention to commence graveling the new road from the village west.
• Do you know you can see just as good a photoplay here as you see in the milliondollar palace in the city?
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