The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-21
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY told
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For /
Busy Readers
Moorhead.-c. H. Knapp is the new

busy hedu9rS
Moorhead.-C. H. Knapp is the new
chief of police here.
Duluth.--In a supposed recurrent
fit of insanity Aaron Lindstrom, aged
So. killed his wife with ttatiron and
then killed himself with razor.
Forty-two cases of in
fiuenza are reported in the little vii
lage of Ceylon. Two Red Cross nurses
from the Twin Cities have arrived at
the village. f
East Grand Forks.-Raising 1885,
724.5S in eight drives is the record of
East Grand Forks, city of approxi-
mately $500 inhabitants, which has
never failed to go over the top"
ST. Cloud.-At a meeting of the
farm bureau agents in this vicinity,
held at the courthouse, arrangements
were made for smut prevention cam
paign to be started next week. and to
continue until seeding time.
Grand Rapids.-The local school
board has re-engaged Supt. e. A. Free
man, long head of the schools of Dis
trict No. /. The matter of salaries
for the teachers of the schools in this
district was discussed, but no formal
action was taken.
Eveleth.-The Eveleth and Virginia
city councils will meet here to take
final action on paving road between
the two cities. If they decide to build
the highway, it is probable that work
will be started by June l and finished
about the middle of July.
ST. Paul-The third annual conven-
ton of the Minnesota Shoe Retailers
association was held in the Ryan no.
tel. the first three days of this week.
Mayor Hodgson gave the address of
welcome George A. Pierce of Min
ncapolis, former president, gave the
response.
Little Falls-Playing it's last game
of the season, Little Falls swamped
Bemidji at basketball, 35 to TO-. Little
Falls led from the start and the score
at the end of the first half was 10 to
in favor of the locals. Little Falls
played fourteen games this winter,
winning all
Neutrality-suspicious. Hodgson of st.
Paul was the chief speaker at the ST.,
Patrick's Day entertainment of the
young people of the Guardian Angel
Cathedral, held in Wilson's Audi
torium.- The young people pre-
-9zsnted musical program and a
farce comedy. The audience filled
the auditorium for the celebration of
Ireland's patron saint.
Crookston.-Farmers living in the
vicinity of Crookston and Euclid are
up in arms over the proposed route OF
state road No. IA, which they declare
should be changed SO that elevators
along the Northern Pacific railroad
may be reached by it. Forty-five
farmers were present at the monthly
meeting of the Polk county commits
sioners requesting that the route be
changed.
Deer River.-The output of timber
in this section is estimated to be the
greatest ever known, not excepting the
days when the pine was logged off by
the millions of feet. At any hour
teamloads of the various products
cou] be seen during the past five
months passing through the village
either to railroad cars or to the mills
here, all the output of the smaller
local loggers operating close to town
or of the settlers. ..-.- ....
Observation-Disclosures soldiers and
sailors were given an official well
come by officials and people of Hast
ings and vicinity. Each service man
was given by the city council hand
some certificate conveying the thanks
OF the community for his services to
the nation in the war. The celebra-
ton began with parade in the after
noon in which the service men had
the place of honor. A banquet about
6 o'clock followed at Wilson's Audi
forum, and this was merged into
dance at the same place.
Winona. - Approximately $4,000
worth of lighthouses, motor boats and
accessories are lodged in an ice jam
in the Mississippi river here, having
been torn loose from their moorings
by floating ice and strong wind.
Twenty of the finest motor boats on
the upper Mississippi belonging to
members of the Winona Motor Boat
club are subject to destruction by the
ice jam. An effort to save the water
craft is being made. Officials of the
boat club were doubtful as to whether
or not they would meet with success.
Brainerd-Two firemen were in
jured and $4,000 damage done by a
fire here. Starting, it is believed,
from an overheated stove, the blaze
damaged the cement wall warehouse
of Con O'Brien; destroyed six automo-
biles and a tractor, damaged six light
ing plants, three plows and other
property of the Woodhead Motor COM
pany, and burned a touring car. truck
and roadster of the O'Brien Mercan-
tile company. Dean White and Vern
White, firemen, were injured by &C.
ment blocks falling when the roof
caved in.
Moorhead.-Thursda March 81,
has been designated as the date for
the special bond election for new high
and Third ward school buildings by
the Moorhead board Of education. 1t
was decided to place the two bond
propositions on the same ballot-for
the high school 100000, and the
Third ward grade building $4,000.
Work on both buildings to be begun
as soon as possible.
Dilworth. = This village voted
against the proposed $4,000 bond is