20 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 1, 2000
Cook County officials will soon install a weather transmitter in the Gunflint District to alert residents and campers of bad weather. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration transmitter will provide early storm warnings to people who own the $40 radios. The radios turn on automatically when a storm warning is issued.
The lodging tax figures for the first seven months of the year reflect a robust year for the lodging industry. Although the July totals were incomplete in all three districts, comparisons with the first seven months of 1999 show respectable growth in the Grand Marais, Gunflint Trail, and Lutsen-Tofte- Schroeder districts.
Voters in Grand Marais will face a real challenge in November. While only three positions — mayor and two council seats — are under contention, nine citizens have applied to appear on the ballot.
30 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 17, 1990
The Cook County Board expressed no interest in purchasing a 1.2-acre tract along the Flute Reed River in Hovland. The county had been contacted by the land’s owner to see if it was interested in purchasing the tract for $25,000. The property is along the east bank of the river from County Road 76 and Lake Superior. The Minnesota DNR had been trying to obtain a fisherman’s easement along both sides of the river for a price of $8 per foot. In response, the owner said he was unwilling to grant the easement, but offered to sell the property.
60 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 15, 1960
The pre-election prediction of thin turn-out of voters throughout the state for the 1960 Primary showed itself in the results for Cook County. A total of 843 ballots were cast in the county in comparison to a total of 1,341 in the 1958 Primary.
The AAA publication has recently devoted four pages to the beauty of the new road on the Gunflint Trail, and the North Shore Drive, urging people to take a fall trip and enjoy the late coloring found along the Shore during the last of September and early October.
100 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 15, 1920
The Lake Shore Telephone Company is improving its line along the shore. They expect to have a metallic line all the way from Two Harbors to Grand Marais and will have a separate wire for long distance business.
Chris Nelson has purchased a Delco lighting plant and is having it installed on his farm on Maple Hill.
The North Shore Garage has received its first order of Nobby Tread tires this week.
115 YEARS AGO
JUNE 24, 1905
FROM HARPER’S WEEKLY A little more than twenty years ago (early 1880s), this notice appeared from a newspaper journal published in Dodge City: In view of the fact that we cannot pay the road tax of $10 assessed against us this year, we have been sentenced to confinement. Consequently, there will be no issue of this paper for the next three weeks. But, as the state will have to board us, we figure that we shall come out some $20 ahead.
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