The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-12-20
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

accident in st. Paul last July, died at
Rochester, Mimi. She had been a
resident of Saltwater for 33 years.
Red Lake Falls.-A total of 523
people contributed to the relief of fire
sufferers of Northeastern Minnesota
in the Red Lake county campaign
managed by the Red Lake County
Farm Bureau association.
Aitkin.-J. R. Peters was convicted
by jury in justice court and fined
$50 and costs for setting fires in the
neighborhood of Carson on October
10. Peters also was arrested on a
charge of non-support. That offense
cost him 500.
International Falls.-C. r. Hoyt, for
merly principal of the Birchdale con-
solidated schools, has returned from
the naval aviation school at Charles
ton, S. c. Mr.. Hoyt was aboard ves-
armistice was signed.
Brainerd.-Jack Burns, a local char
acter for forty years, died here of in
fluenza complications. He was a man
about town in the rough old days
when Brainerd was frontier town.
Burns real name was John Mcclure.
He came here from Montreal He was
about so years old.
Red Lake Falls.-Red Lake county's
quota of seventy-five members of the
Victory Girls division of the United
War Work campaign has been almost
raised by the city of Red Lake Falls
alone, there beiAg sixty-nine enrolled
to date, according to Miss Edna D.
Chatel, county chairman.
Crookston.-Mr. Van Scoick of the
Polk county farm bureau spent sew
eral days in territory in the vicinity
of Winger, Erskine and Gully, locat-
ing demonstration plots for fertilizing
work on peat land. This work is to
be patterned after that at Golden Val
ley in Southern Minnesota.
Moorhead.-John Weiss, 15-year-old
son Of George Weiss, Spring Prairie
township farmer, was adjudged a de-
Hnquent by Judge of Probate Sharp
and placed on probation with his
father. The boy had become unman-
ageable and the complaint was made
several days ago by his father.
st. Cloud.-George Dobmeic and
George Pfannenstein, workmen at the
Great Northern car shops at Waite
Park, were injured Thursday at the
railroad crossing about one mile east
of st. Joseph when they drove their
car into passing train, one suffering
a broken rib and the other a broken
thumb.
CHARACTERIZATION are being cir
culated at Crosby urging the candid
acy of Ezra R. Smith for judge of the
Crosby municipal court. He is a
Spanish-American war veteran. After
graduating from the University Of
Minnesota, Smith enlisted in the Thir-
teenth Minnesota and served in the
Philippines.
Minneapolis.-Two thousand retail
lumbermen from six different states
are expected to attend the 29th annual
meeting of the Northwestern Lum-
bermen's association. It has been
called for Jan. IA, Is and Is and will
be at the West hotel, Minneapolis.
President F. j. Ward of Clinton, Iowa,
and Secretary Adolph Pfund of Min.
neapolis are making preparations for
the meeting and expect to have a pro-
gram Of unusual interest.
st. Paul-The sugar division of the
Minnesota Food administration is now
thing of the past. Through the eff
forts of this bureau, headed by F. S.
Pool sugar division representative
for the federal food administration in
this state, several million pounds Of
sugar have been saved for the Allies.
The amount saved was above the
specified allotment for Minnesota, Mr.
Pool said. The sugar division had
been in operation since May 10, last.
st. Paul-The adjutant generals of
central states closed their two-day
conference here after adopting res
olution appealing for place for the
National Guard in any new Federal
military system that may be adopted
The appeal will be presented by Adjt.-
Gen. w. F. Rhinow of Minnesota at a
conference in Washington this month
of the executive committee of the ma
tional association adjutant generals.
Rochester. - George P. Coiseler,
French and Spanish teacher in the
Rochester high school, has been dis
missed by the school board officials,
because of alleged pronounced Social
ism and pro-Germanism. The dismiss
sal was partly the result of testimony
from the surgeon-generals Office
where he was employed. 1t is alleged
he made disloyal remarks to medical
officers and refused to salute the flag
In the high school. He was born in
Germany.
Minneapolis. Twin City police
were asked to find John Dwyer, IT.
year-old son of w. ]. Dwyer, TIC
North Fifty-ninth avenue, West Du-
luth, who left home three weeks ago.
The boys mother is i'll and his father,
believing the lad went to the Twin
Cities, came in search of him.
St. Cloud.-John Rupprecht, who
was indicted by the grand jury on a
charge of assault in the second degree,
pleaded guilty in the district court
before Judge John A. Roeser. He
was accused of striking Mrs. Chris
tina Hellman and breaking a bone in
her finger. He paid fine of $50.
Janesyille.-Edwin Yonke, Is years
old, was accidentally shot and killed
while hunting. With several other
boys, he had freed coon in the
woods near here. His shotgun lay on
a wood pile, and as he dragged the
:Seapon to him it went off, the charge
from both barrels entering his body
just below the ribs. He died within
an hour.
Red Lake Falls.-Though the Red
Lake County Farm Bureau associa-
ton has only III members there will