The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-26
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
BUSY Readers.

Moorhead - Lieut.. Alex Nemzek,
former football star Of the North Da.
kota Aggies, has taken charge of the
Moorhead normal squad and practice
has started.
East Grand Forks. - Eighty-seven
sheep belonging to Rand Smith were
killed on his farm three miles east of
East Grand Forks, by the incoming
Northern Pacific passenger train.
st. Paul.-Governor Burnquist has
appointed ]. w. Pike, retired Lyon
county farmer and former justice of
the peace, to preside over the newly
created municipal courts at Marshall,
MINI.
st. Paul.-Merchants of Virginia,
Mimi. have been complaining against
the high switch rates on railroads,
and have been asked to send their
complaints to the Railroad and Ware
house commission here.
st. Cloud.-A new edifice for ST.
Augustine's Catholic church in East
st. Cloud will be erected soon. The
contract for the new building was let
to Edward M. VAIL for $15,439. Five
other contractors submitted bids.
Virginia.-Albert Peterson of Cook
is making efforts to find the owner of
Ford car he found in the woods near
his home Aug. 8. The license number
of the car had been thrown away. The
engine number is 3073117. The car is
In good shape.
Aitkin.-Cedar street, Atkins long
est street, is being macadamized with
waste iron ore from the Guyana range
mines. Part of this street is very
sandy and the ore is expected to make
top that will stand up under auto
mobile traffic.
Wabasha.-Indian John of Stillwa-
ter. with the aid of his trained musk
rats, found the body of Henry Appel
Of Highland, who was drowned in the
Mississippi. The boy had been fishing
with his father when he slipped and
fell into the water.
Winona.-A dynamite cap, which he
was rolling on the floor at his home
near Ridgeway, this county, exploded
and Roy Anderson, who is in local
hospital, may be fatally injured. One
hand was badly mutilated and the boy
was otherwise seriously injured.
Hibbing.-The Oliver Iron Mining
company is advised that the finance
committee of the United States Steel
corporation has authorized the erec-
ton Of modern LAG room hotel in
the Central addition together with
twenty dwellings,, involving an expen-
diture of 100000.
Brainerd.- Fatty" Wood, for
time acting opposite Charlie Chaplin,
and billed as the worlds heaviest
comedian, weight 500 pounds, is home
on a visit with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Wood. He has left the
Chaplin studio and will head his cwn
organization.
Red Wing-Deplorable home condi-
tions are not found alone in the large
cities of Minnesota, such as Minneap-
oils, St. Paul and Duluth, but in small
Ter cities and towns as well, Otto w.
Davis of Minneapolis, told the dele
gates to the annual conference of
Charities and Corrections in session
here.
University Farm.-A boys and girls
Junior dairy cattle judging contest for
the state will take place at university
farm, Oct. 1, under the auspices OF the
Minnesota Livestock Breeders associa-
ton, for the selection of team Of
three to represent Minnesota in a
judging contest at the national dairy
show in Chicago, Oct. to IL.
st. Paul-Potato growers should
get their crop out of the ground be-
lore freezing temperatures occur to
avoid field frost" advises Hugh J..
hughes of the state department of
rgriculture. This is different from
he frost which affects the potato after
'igging it from the ground, in thai it
ieceives both grower and shipper, and
continues to work its harm through
The final unloading of the car.
Brainerd.-On the Oak street road
cast of Brainerd, McCree & Moos have
started the concrete culverts, closing
the road from the One-Mile Corner
20 the Two-Mile Corner. The county
engineer has marked the detour to be
made around the road construction.
This will be made four-mile section
of road under Babcock specifications,
the roadbed having thirty-foot base
and the cement being laid 1S feet wide.
Minneapolis.-Mrs. B. M. Egeland,
formerly of Minnesota, met death with
her husband, Captain e. G. Egeland. in
the storm at Corpus Christi, Texas,
rather than be separated from him by
death, according to word received in
Minneapolis. Mrs. Egeland, when the
food waters crept up to her, was given
the only life belt, the report said. See
ing that her husband was unable to
keep atioat, as they endeavored to
wade from the swiftly rising water,
she discarded her belt, threw her
arms about her husband and both were
swept out In the bay to their death.
st. Cloud.-Uncle Sam wasted" a
lot of beer at Cold Spring. near here,
when his agents poured ABS bottels OF
the brew that made that place famous
into the sewer. The Cold spring COM
pany had paid 81 per case tax upon It
before July 1. The company got a
refund. then the government ordered
the liquid destroyed. the pouring out
following.
winnebago.-The Mankato Presby-
tiers, in session here. adopted an over
ture to the Minnesota Synod, asking
that body to appoint committee to
present a protest against Sunday
opening of the State Fair henceforth.
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