The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-01
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

East Grand Forks-Local contribu
tions to the fire sufferers fund now
exceed $1,000.
Bemidji-A. L. Dickinson has dis
posed of half interest in his Park
hotel to R. c. Davis, and hereafter the
management of the hotel will be under
Davis & Dickinson.
Park River, N. D.-J E. Cole of Min,
neapolis, hide buyer for Mill City
fur company, was killed near here
when his car overturned, being pin.
ned under the wreckage.
st. Cloud. = Louis Lorinser we'll
known st. Cloud boy, who is serving
In France, has lost all the fingers on
his right hand, according to word re-
ceived by relatives here.
Red Lake Falls.-Chairman Walter
j. Quesnell's final report on the fourth
Liberty Loan shows that Red Lake
county subscribed $215,950, or $3.50
more than the allotted quota &
Red Lake Falls.-During the month
the Red Cross shipped to headquarters
at Minneapolis 80 altered army shirts,
% helmets, $50 hand towels, 125 bath
towels, so shirts, IT'S handkerchiefs,
and Is napkins.
Hastings. &C. w. Howes, So, for
merly cashier Of the old Farmer and
Traders bank here, died at the home
of his brother, Brantford Howes, in
st. Paul A son, E. B. Howes, of Los
Angeles, survives him.
East Grand Forks.-The custer case
In proceedings brought to remove
Chief of Police Albert Hurst and
Mayor Cornelius ]. Gelleher from Of
fee in East Grand Forks, took two
days to be heard in Crookston.
Fergus Falls.-Peter Olson, living at
Battle Lake, became respondent be-
cause members of his family were sif-
fering from influenza and drowned
himself in lake. He left note of
explanation and told where his body
would be found.
Stillwater-The Minnesota Imple-
ment Dealers Mutual Insurance COM
pany recently elected Frank ]. Lake,
formerly of Scandal, now a resident
Of Minneapolis, president of the COM
pany. Mr.. Lake takes the place of D.
H. Evans of Tracy.
Red Lake Falls.-CaEl Gerlach, 76,
one of Red Lake county's pioneers,
died of cancer after long Illness In
1884 he came to Red Lake Falls town
and took a homestead He was town
assessor for twelve years, town chair
man for six years, and treasurer of the
school district for ten. He was twice
married.
Brainerd.-The Dispatches fire suf
ferers fund reached $4,018 a few days
since, all being placed to the credit of
Brainerd Chapter American Red Cross
for immediate relief work. Every de-
partment of the Northern Pacific rail
way shops and yards, even the track
men and the Minnesota & Interna-
tional railway are represented
Red Lake Falls.-Aime Cyr and Pat
Cyr of this city were arrested at Lake
Union, Polk county, by Deputy Game
Warden William Munich on a charge
of illegal hunting and pleaded guilty
before Judge Charles Hallas of Err
skine. Anne Cyr was charged with
hunting from an automobile and Pat
Cyr for killing a partridge out of sea-
son. Their guns were confiscated and
each paid $27 fine.
Northfield.- Donald Cow
ling of Carleton college has returned
from the east, where, as chairman or
the reception committee of the Ameri-
can Council of Education, he had
charge of the entertainment of the
British Education mission, sent to this
country by the British government
The mission is expected to visit the
University Of Minnesota and Carleton
college about Nov. Is.
Thief River Falls.-The Home Mis-
sion board of the Norwegian Lutheran
church for the district of Northern
Minnesota held special meeting here
The affairs of the mission field were
gone over and plans for the carrying
on of the work discussed. Reports
from the different sections were to
the effect that the smaller congrega-
lions are in a good condition as a
general thing and that new interest in
church work has generally increased
since the union was effected.
st. Paul.-The Minnesota federation
of farmers clubs is organizing it's
clubs which are not in the forest-fire-
swept region, to aid members of clubs
in the fireswept region. The execu-
tive committee is asking all farmers
clubs not in the burned area to call
special meetings, make up donations
of livestock, feed, machinery, seed or
money, and notify the secretary, Mrs.
l. e. Richardson, 1893 Cleveland ave-
emu north, st. Paul, of what they have.
Yhe federation will then provide for
the distribution of the donations.
Clubs ready to cooperate should send
to Mrs. Richardson nothing but a mott
fication of what they have to give.
She will then indicate to what points
shipments should be made.
Foley.-Judge John A. Roeser of the
district court filed decision with the
clerk of court here in which he
granted the writ of Injunction asked
for by the Stearns county attorney in
the case of DR.. w. A Bach, accused
of maintaining a disorderly house at
his sanatorium on the East side, st.
Cloud. He denied the injunction
against his wife, Frieda Bach.
Aitkin.-Mrs. Pies Marmon died at
the family home in Glory township
leaving her husband and five children,
the youngest but few hours old. The
family moved to Aitkin county three
months ago from North Dakota.
Wilmont-A thresher bought a flax
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