The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-11-21
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News of Events in Gopher State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged in
Crisp Readable Form.

| DULL u0 village COuuCll STduIcu
village employees a wage boost of 10
per cent.
Fairmont. = Franklin P. Cherry,
Sherburne, has been indicted by the
Martin county grand jury ON charges
of forgery and bigamy.
Luverne.-Ben Huston of NLuverne
holds Rock county's championship as
a corn husker on a nine-hour day
basis, having picked 100 bushels in
one day.
Moo.heau = Miss Anna Weum of
Moorhead has been appointed as as
sistant to Miss Eva l.. Anderson. direc-
tor of nursing for the Northern divi-
sion of the American Red Cross.
Stillwater.-T. w. Totem, president
of the Cosmopolitan bank of Stillwa-
ter, accidentally shot and killed him
self in his home here. He was clean
ing his rife. when it was discharged
Willmar.-At meeting here several
hundred farmers discussed the i'm
portance of farmers organizations,
marketing, and the relation of the
American farmers to commercial in.
situations.
| Winona.-By vote of lis to SO the
Lewiston Consolidated School district
at a special election, approved the is
suance of bonds in the sum of $75.0 900
for the construction of new high
school building.
Manufactures. Gertrude Rebbe,
aged 70 years, was found dead at her
room here, death being due to apo
plexy. She is survived by several
sons residing at Albert Lea and two
daughters in California.
st. Paul-Establishm of a deer
sanctuary in the northeast corner OF
Aitkin county is announced by Carlos
| Avery, state game md fish commits.
sioner, after hearing at Aitkin. The
refuge will include 60 square miles.
ST. Paul.-State treasury checks
aggregating 1886, dating back to
E1901, remain to be cashed, Henry
Rines, state treasurer, reported, and
the items, ranging from one cent to
$4,000, must be transferred monthly
on treasury records.
Fergus Falls.-Charles R. Wright
has offered the city gift of $4,000
toward the erection of a community
building here. 1t is probs bic that a
combined city hall, armory and com.
munity building will be erected at the
cost of about 100000.
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS new $4,000
school has opened to pupils. This is
the first consolidated schoolhouse dis.
trict to be organized in Rock county,
representing district Nos 5, 8, and 30
The present enrolment is 104, and
from their homes in two motor buses.
emidji.-Reports reached here that
four deer hunters had been killed near
Northome, on the Minnesota and In
ternational railway in Koochiching
county. There were no details. Hun
dreds of hunters are stalking the
northern trails in quest of deer and
moose Game is plentiful according
to all reports.
Morristown.-H. E. Hershey. pro
prietor of motion picture theater
here. and his helper, Leonard Witter,
Is years old, were burned to death
when the theater was partly destroyed
by fire. An explosion in the operator s
booth is held responsible. Hershey
was SO years old and unmarried. Wit
ter evidently was trapped in the oper-
ators room No patrons were in the
building when the explosion took
place
Fergus Falls-"The apple crop in
this state is 80 per cent of a normal
production" according to government
statistics. "The number of bearing
trees compared to those in 1910 is
10 per cent greater While the acre
age of clover seed is not as heavy as
usual, the yield is reported at 2.5
bushels per acre, which is So per cent
of normal yield. The acreage har-
vested is 80 per cent of the usual acre
age harvested"
st. Paula gain of nearly $780,
| 100000 in the true and full value" of
| personal property in Minnesota in one
| year was reported by the Minnesota
| tax commission. The full value of
the states personal property is placed
at 1917, S39,03S In 1918 it was $751;
397 1885, Among other facts shown by
the board are these: There are $4,000
| fewer horses in the state than in 1918.
/ There are $4,000 more cattle and al
most 100000 more hogs. There are
10000 more automobiles. The average
full value" of an automobile has in
creased $22, and is now $442.59.
st. Cloud.-A new armory, proposed
as a memorial to the service men of
st. Cloud, has been suggested by the
/ Commercial club and other civic
bodies. Petitions will be circulated
asking for special election in Janu-
airy. The proposed armory will cost
100000.
| Winona.-Fire caused loss of ap-
proximately $4,000 to the Halloran
| -four mill at Chatfield, according to
word reaching here. The loss is GOV
cred by Insurance. This is the third
| flour mill in Chatfield to suffer fire
losses. the previous two having been
total.
/ Coleraine-To acquire ideas of mod
ern, up-to-date high schools to be
adopted in the proposed new building
here. Supt. ]. A. Vandyke of the local
schools, members of the board Of edu-
cation and Architect w. T. Bray of
Duluth VISITED the Fargo schools and
those of Minneapolis.
| Coleraine.-Pursuant to the request
of Mrs. Ina Edwards. a daughter liv-
ing at Grand Rapids, Mich, the body
of her father, James Francisco. who
! killed himself In his lonely home on