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20 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER. 15, 2001
After months of negotiations that involved even the highest officials in the state, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. and Minnesota Power have finally reached an agreement with LTV Corporation to acquire the assets of LTV Steel Mining Company in northeastern Minnesota for a total of $87.5 million. The deal was finalized Wednesday. Cleveland-Cliffs said it would also make approximately 3,000 acres available to the IRRRB for future development of industrial projects.
30 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 14, 1991
A design concept for the controversial Sawbill Trail reconstruction project, calling for a gravel surface, all-weather road engineered for 45 mph traffic was approved by the Cook County Board of Commissioners last week. It will be a nine-ton road with 12-foot lanes. The design was a compromise reached the week before at a marathon meeting of a committee appointed last March after Cook County’s original plans for the road ran into a storm of protest. That earlier plan called for construction of a blacktop-surfaced road designed for 55 mph speeds, requiring wider and deeper ditches, and more cutting down on the curves and hills. Environmental groups alleged the higher-speed road would destroy the character of the trail, which leads from Tofte to Sawbill Lake, an entry point for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
A proposal that Cook County take over the lower (southern) portion of Maple Hill Cemetery was approved by the board. The cemetery was established between 1897 and 1899. A number of persons have said they want to buy plots in that portion of the cemetery, but no one has the authority to sell them. The northern half of the cemetery is owned by the Congregational Church and it is filling up.
60 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 12, 1961
Excavation began this week on the lots just east of the Ogema Realty Company office, facing the harbor where Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nunstedt are erecting a new restaurant and living quarters. The property was acquired from the Ogema Company. The building will have the living quarters on the second floor. Mr. Nunstedt plans to complete the second-story rooms first so that the family can move in, and the restaurant will be completed by next spring.
A group of people were watching the sunset on Little Clearwater Lake Friday, when suddenly, three sharp lines appeared in the sky and large circular objects of a gold color seemed to drop to the earth. “It was the strangest sight,” said Mrs. A.H. Savage.
100 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 20, 1921
Alfred Fenstad of the Lake Shore Telephone Company has been spending the week in Grand Marais. He is having the numerous wires in the village replaced by cables which will do away with crossed wires after the storms. Also, the sound of many voices known as “cross talk” will be done away with.
Smith’s Store will have a new collection of phonograph records and needles on the Sunday night boat. The latest and best music.
The young people of this village who are interested in ice skating are requested to see Henry Lindskog and help make a skating rink.
115 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 6, 1906
HORSES Livery, Feed, and Sale Stable General Drayage and Team Work, Charges Reasonable All Kinds of Blacksmithing Done, Louis E.M. Plante, proprietor STAGELINE: Between Grand Marais and Grand Portage
SCHOOL NOTES The Spelling Class are trying to get perfect lessons this week. Several of the fifth-grade pupils kept an account of the changes in the weather for the month of September. The A History Class have begun the study of the Civil War and have drawn a map of the southern states to aid them in this work. (note: The Civil War had ended just 41 years before in 1865.)
SPELLING CHART FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC The Public Printer at Washington has prepared a set consisting of a pocket pamphlet and a wall card containing the 300 words included in the new simplified spelling order issued by the President. It will be sold for 25 cents by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.
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