20 YEARS AGO
MARCH 27, 2000
An excerpt from Frank Hansen’s column: “We know that spring is coming when the pine grosbeaks leave us to fly north to their summer range. They leave very abruptly. One day, as has been true all winter, there are dozens of pine grosbeaks and then there are none. We understand that we are on the southern edge of their range. It is nice to be on the southern edge of something.”
30 YEARS AGO
JUNE 4, 1990
Hippies are a common sight in Cook County as more people continue to arrive for the Rainbow gathering. Sheriff John Lyght estimated at least 75 to 100 were in the county, camping in the Poplar River valley above Lutsen and off the Pine Mountain Road. So far, they’ve caused little trouble.
Market values in Cook County increased 13.1 percent between 1984 and 1988, according to State Auditor Arne Carlson in his annual Financial Profile last week. Outside the metro area, only Sherburne County had a larger increase. During that same five-year period, retail sales increased 16.9 percent, with all of the growth coming in 1987 and 1988.
50 YEARS AGO
APRIL 9, 1970
From Raymond Naddy on the Superior National Forest: Big trees are where you find them. The Superior National Forest is credited with having the largest jack pine, white spruce, and black spruce trees. These are giants of their species. The white spruce, credited to the Gunflint District, is registered at 116 feet high and has a circumference of eight feet six inches. The black spruce, located on the Moose River of the LaCroix District, is 94 feet high and has a circumference of four feet five inches.
100 YEARS AGO
JUNE 2, 1920
Friends of Miss Inga Toftey and George Nelson were surprised to hear that they were married in Duluth last Friday, having stolen a march on their friends and slipped down to Duluth for a quiet wedding ceremony. Both young people are well known in this county, having grown up from childhood and received their schooling here. To them we wish every happiness.
The close of another school year was marked by an appropriate program last Wednesday evening at the school auditorium. There were three graduates from high school this year.
115 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 2, 1905
LOTS FOR SALE: The Grand Marais Real Estate and Improvement Company offers for sale Two Hundred Lots in the recorded plat of Grand Marais, Minnesota, at reasonable prices and on EASY TERMS. Title Perfect. Free from Encumbrances.
The Village of Grand Marais is on a sheltered natural harbor on the north shore of Lake Superior. The village is rapidly growing in population and business. The village enjoys regular service of five steamers per week from Duluth.
The spirit of enterprise and progress is very manifest in the demand for homes and the growth of industries here. T.L. KENNAN, President, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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