The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21

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ment of the courthouse as storage
space for families which do not have
suitable cellars for winter storage.
Melvin Henderson received broken
leg and dislocated shoulder when he
caught his arm between the belt and
the fywheel of a gas engine and his
body was Thrown against a hay press
at Foxhome.
Carl Larson lost forty acres of fax
and William Mccain 1877 acres of
standing flax as the result of hail
storm which passed over the country
northeast of Beltrami. The loss is
placed at $4,000.
Members Of the state board of con-
troll were in Shakopee recently to Sc.
1ect building sites for the state re.
formatory for women which will be
established in that city. The buildings
will be contracted for by the board
probably in the near future.
The new concrete bridge over the
Minnesota river at Mankato has been
opened for travel. 1t cost approx
mately 100000. The street railway
company will use the bridge to enter
North Mankato, having already laid the
rails. Work on the bridge was started
in May of last year.
While walking from the Olmstead
county fair at Rochester five persons
were struck by an automobile driven
by Ambrose Kelly of Stewartville.
Enos Daily, II, was killed and Anna
Jorgenson, Lester Weed, Helga Han
son and Lena Nelson were injured,
two of them perhaps fatally.
With cabbage selling as low as %
cents dozen in Winona, a ray of
sunshine has crept into the home of
the humble and the wealthy, alike,
for there is assurance of an abundance
of sauerkraut at unusually low prices.
Buyers and sellers agree that this
years crop of the essential ingredient
Is record breaker.
Winona county farmers, facing
heavy losses because of the frost
damage to corn, are being aided to
garner the salvage by soldiers. Cap
tain j. D. Burke, responsive to the
urgent appeal for men, permitted as
many as possible of his members of
G company to spend a day in the field
assisting in filling silos with corn for
fodder.
Red Lake Falls is now practically
assured of new hotel, as $4,000 Of
the $4,000 necessary stock has been
subscribed and every effort will be
made to bring the subscription up to
the required amount A loan of $4,000
or $4,000 will then be secured, which,
with the $4,000, will be sufficient for
building 80 or 35-room modern
structure.
When the saloons of st. Louis county
are closed six months hence as the
result of the dry victory Monday, Red
Lake county will be the most northern
most wet county, not only in Mime
sofa, but in the United States Wash
lngton, Idaho, North Dakota and Maine
are already dry and Montana, the only
other state on the 49th parallel, has
voted dry, but prohibition is not yet
In effect.
2 Rev. Charles L. Lehnert, pastor of
the Central German Methodist Episco-
pal church of Minneapolis, will be
tried in Winona at the Northern Ger
man conference of that church, on the
charge of improper conduct. The case
grows out Of letter written to the
Liberty Loan committee at Mime
hpolis last May. Lehnert now is facing
prosecution under a criminal charge
In the United States court at Mime
apolis.
When the Northern Minnesota De-
velopment association holds its annual
meeting In Brainerd December and
I, the first gun in the campaign to
boom that section of the state as ban
ner potato seed producing locality will
bD fired. The executive committee Of
the booster organization has voted to
appropriate 5000 to be used in provid-
Ing premiums for the Minnesota Po-
tato Growers association that it might
hold its annual exhibit in conjunction
with the Boys and Girls potato show
at Brainerd.
Forty-two women patients at the
state hospital for the insane at st.
Peter have joined a movement begun
by Mrs. B. Leverland, an employe of the
institution, to knit garments for the
Red Cross. Much difficulty is pre-
dicted in beginning the work.
Word has just been received at Pipe
stone that Lieutenant Colonel Cecil
Currer Briggs, acting lieutenant col
onel of the Sixth Kings East Lanca-
shire regiment, has been decorated
with the Distinguished Service Order.
Lieutenant Colonel Briggs is the son
of w. c. Briggs, state representative
from the Pipestone district.
Pinned under locomotive for six
hours, unable to extricate himself, was
the experience of Thomas Dempsey,
an engineer on the Mesaba railroad.
The engine jumped the track near
Hibbing and Dempsey was caught
under it. He was unhurt.
Goods who will board at the girls
d0rmitory of Gustavus Adolphus col
lege at st. Peter will eat cheese in
place of meat one day each week dur
ing the school year, to do their share
in conserving the nations meat sup
ply. This was the announcement made
today by Dr. o. J. Johnson, president
Of the institution.