The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-04-18

Brainerd.-Braiperd schools Easter
4 vacation started APril11- and the re-
opening is set for April 81
/ Detroit REV. j. D. Gallagher of
Detroit has gone to Minot. N. D., to
accept the pastorate p, the Episcopal
congregation.
Moorhead-Rev. Ernest A. Allin of
St. Paul has accepted the call ex-
tended him by the First Congrega-
tional church of Moorhead
St. Paul.-Higgins Harris, 70, of
White Bear, dropped dead after an
attack of apoplexy while on his way
to work. Mr.. Harris is survived by
his widow and three daughters.
| Glyndon.-H. L. Webb, postmaster
at Glyncon, has resigned and will de-
vote his entire time to his farming
interests, as under ruling of the
postoffice department a postmaster
must personally attend to the duties
of the office.
Crystal Lake. - Mark ]. Barney a
local business man, is arranging to
-embark in the raising of rabbits for
their furs and meat, and is putting in
an extensive plant. He expects to
raise Siberian, New Zealand and
Flemish rabbits.
Minneapolis.-Act of the state
fuel administration have been COM
pleted and Judge John MCGEE, fuel
administrator, returned to private
life. Judge MCGEE recently received
a check for 81 from the government
for his wartime services.
Hibbing.-The board of education
has decided to reject the proposed
new twelve months, all-the-year
school plan. The siX-week summer
session will be retained. The board
decided to send two local school
nurses to the meeting of the state
association of school nurses at St.
Paul. --- .... -
| Brainerd.-At a meeting of the
Crow Wing county board William T..
Harris, of Alden & Harris, st. Paul
architects, submitted courthouse plans
and specifications. Suggestions were
offered by the commissioners and
changes will be made in the tentative
plans. The building will be three
stories high and 80 by 135 feet.
Pipestone.-The Chicago-Watertown
passenger train of the Rock Island
line was wrecked in snow storm
forty miles from here. The engine
and two coaches left the track and
turned over. Engineer Douglas
Brown of Watertown, S. D., sustained
injuries which caused his death. No
passengers were seriously injured.
Red Lake Falls, Minn.-Application
for a charter to start fourth bank
at Red Lake Falls has been made
by Walter ]. Quesnell and others, and
a hearing will be hold by the state
securities commission at st. Paul,
April 90, to decide the matter. The
| name of the new bank will be Citi-
zens State bank, and it will have a
capital of $4,000 if granted a charter.
Mankato.-Mayor-ele Erastus Wat
tiers in his inaugural address an
nounced he would launch a fight
against the electric light and gas COM
pany to reinstate the prewar priAs
of that commodity If the company
will not abide by the decision of the
council he will take the question to
the courts. He aRso advocated the
building of municipal abbatoir.
Minneapolis. "A jury in Hennepin
district court awarded a verdict of
$4,000 to Mrs. Louise Bratschi in her
suit against Elmer c. Patterson, Min
neapolis, who she asserted forcibly,
and. without authority of the courts,
took her sons child out of her Gus
4 tody while legal action was pending
According to the findings of the trial
jury the attorney, acted without legal
authority ret s.--...-.-. =.
st. Paul.-Minnesota casualties in
the world war numbered 1880. &C
cording to preliminary estimate
made by Lieut.. T. Glenn Harrison, in
telligence officer, to Adjt.-Gen. Rhinow.
Lieut.. Harrison is compiling war rec
ords of Minnesota men and has tabu-
| lated the casualty lists as made public
Minnesota men in service totaled
| about $4,000. and the name of one
man in each ten will appear on the
complete casualty list, Lieut.. Harrl-
son predicted.
| Minnea polis.-The naval recruiting
station here, is. one of seven similar
stations of the United States to be
designated by the navy department as
demobilization stations. The Minnea-
polls station will discharge all sailors
of Minnesota, North Dakota and South
Dakota and Montana, who are eligible
! to. leave the service in the next few
months, Lieut.. George A. Treadwell,
recruiting officer, estimated that be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 Northwest
Sailors will be discharged at the Min
neapolis recruiting station
! Minneapolis. - Rev. Stephen J..
Schatz, who resigned the pastorage
of ST. Cyril's Catholic church here,
! following several threats against his
| life made by Pensioners has left for
| his home in Montgomery to await an
other appointment. After a confer
ence with Archbishop Bowling, Father
| Schatz gave out word that no new
priest will be sent to st. Cyril's church
| for the present. Substitution of the
English language for the Slovak in the
| teaching of the cathechism was listed
as one grievance against Father
| SchatZ in anOnymolfS letters he re-