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20 YEARS AGO
JUNE 4, 2001
With still no answers from the Legislature as to how much funding the local school district will get next year, anxiety runs high about higher fuel costs and other unmanageable expenses thrust upon administrators. Little help is expected when the special session of the state Legislature finally does hammer out a budget this week.
30 YEARS AGO
JUNE 3, 1991
It will be the first time in the history of Cook County when, on July 16, an election will be conducted by mail to determine the fate of the proposed 2 percent lodging tax for businesses on the Gunflint Trail. Ballots will be mailed to the 293 registered voters for the June 25 election. According to Richard Smith of Gunflint Pines, president of the Gunflint Trail Association, it is the first time in the history of Minnesota the lodging tax has been subjected to such a referendum.
60 YEARS AGO
JUNE 1, 1961
The district ranger for Superior National Forest reported that there have already been four forest fires so far – all of them small, fortunately. These fires indicate the need for constant care while in the woods, which are tinder-dry.
Although the Cook County High School track team did not place in the regional meet held at Virginia last Saturday, they did set two new school records and tied one. Coach Dave Erholtz said this was the stiffest of competition, with some records made by the leading schools near individual Olympic records.
100 YEARS AGO
JUNE 2, 1921
A river man, named Isaac Campbell, while trying to open up a jam of logs a few days ago at the chute which conveys the logs around the Pigeon River falls, was taken down the chute and came out of the terrific ride with only a few minor scratches. With wonderful presence of mind he clinched the log, and, as the logs were forced out of the water when they reached the bottom of the chute, he threw himself clear of the log he rode and the numerous logs following closely. He is the first man who has ever come out alive through this chute, and modestly informs his hearers that he did not feel very wet, but that the ride could have gone a bit faster.
The Fourth of July Committee is meeting with encouragement in their canvass for funds to celebrate with. They may have a band, and will surely have a ball game, lots of noise, lemonade, pop, candy, chewing gum and ice cream at the refreshment parlors, a dance, and everything that goes to make a good old-fashioned Fourth.
Charles Boostrom is building an addition to the Motor Inn which will, when completed, make that garage 50 by 120 feet. Twenty feet of one end will be used for a repair shop and 50 by 100 feet of the floor space will be used for storage.
125 YEARS AGO
MARCH 28, 1896
The front page of this paper includes several fictional stories: “The Tramp,” “Prince Charming,” and “She Chews Tobacco.” “The Tramp” is about a young boy befriending a homeless man that hangs out on the large family estate. The homeless man saves the boy from drowning one day and over time, they become friends. One day, the boy’s father discovers the two secret friends eating lunch together in the woods; he becomes very angry and demands that the homeless man leave the property. The father brings home a vicious dog as a security measure. The dog grows meaner and meaner and breaks away from its chain one day, going after the boy. But the homeless man has been hiding in the woods and jumps out to save the boy from the wild mad dog. Dog and man fight to the death. When the father comes upon the scene, he gathers his son into his arms to make sure his son is okay. As the father examines the dead homeless man, he is horrified to discover that it is his long lost brother James. THAT CONFOUNDED PARROT (also from the front page of the paper) It was a revengeful creature and broke up a marriage engagement. “What is the trouble, Frank?” “Someone has taught this parrot to call me a young hayseed,” answered her lover, flushed and angry, “And I will not stand it.” “Did you hurt poor Polly?” picking up the maimed creature. “I tried to kill the thing.” The young woman vigorously upbraided her lover, and hurriedly slipping her engagement ring from her finger and handing it back, said: “A man who loses his temper on such slight provocation cannot be my companion for life. The engagement is broken and you need not call again.”
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