The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-19
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
: >6iven in Brief TENS for
Busy Readers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News of Events In Gorher State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.


Mems association.
Crookston.-W. 1. Nolan of Mime
apolis was the principal speaker at
the Red River Valley Dairymens' as
sociation in annual convention here.
Owatonna-In the first interscholas-
tic debate Of the Minnesota High
School Debating league. Owatonna
high school was given unanimous deci-
sion over the Blooming Prairie school.
Observation-Disclosures Steele county
soldiers died on the battlefield or in
army camps during the world war, ac-
cording to a list compiled here for
the Minnesota public safety commits
sion
Grand Rapids. further de-
lays are experienced in securing ned
ed transformers, Grand Rapids, Co
hasset and Deer River will be supplied
| with electric current from the Mime
sofa Utilities company.
Jasper.-Because the bonds recent,
ly voted for the completion of the
community building here are dated to
run too long period, the state invest
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have the $4,000 carried by the bonds.
ST. Cloud Minneapolis has been Sc
lected as the meeting place for the
second reunion of Company X, the old
"St. Cloud company" organized for
service on the border and later Fed
eralized and sent to France and Ger
| many.
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the youngest moose hunters in the
state of Minnesota. He returned to
| the village with moose shot at An
| fora. Peltonen is only 16 years old
| and is one of the best shots on the
range.
Stillwater-A. G.. Mccormick, who
has held the position as county agent
here for the past year and half tend
cred his resignation to the officers of
the Washington Country Farm bureau
to become cashier of the Cosmopolitan
State bank.
Moorhead. -Farmers of the Averill
neighborhood in Clay county will form
cooperative potato shipping associa-
| tion with a central cellar and ware
house at Averill. The association will
be ready to handle the 1920 crop for
| its members.
Euclid.-Funeral services over the
| remains of Herman Helm, 81, who
committed suicide by drinking strych-
nine and chloroform at a farm house,
east of Euclid, were held here. Helm
committed suicide because of his love
for the wife of his brother.
Minneapolis.-Th University of
Minnesota by verdict Of 2 to 1 de-
feated Iowa in debate here on the
question of whether congress should
enact into law the Cummins plan for
administration of railroads. Mime
sofa supported the affirmative.
Fairmont--District Judge E. C..
Dean granted an extension of one
month to attorneys for A. G. Townley
and Joseph Gilbert to file their briefs
to support their motions for new trials
for the two who were convicted at
jackson last summer of having con-
spired to teach disloyalty.
st. Cloud-Sam Hass and Albert
Frietag, both indicted by the grand
jury, were arraigned and entered
pleas of not guilty. Hass is charged
| with the theft of the Jerrard & Brun-
ing cars in this city and Frietag is
charged with carnal knowledge. Both
of these cases were set for Jan. 6.
Buhl.-That civil action to recover
some of the alleged shortages in the
handling of school funds will be in
stituted by parties interested is
rumored here. The trial of those in
dicted at the last term grand jury
session of the charge of MISLEADING
school funds will be conducted in Hib-
bling in February.
Virginia.-W. e. Adelman and M.
Madigan, indicted here for forgery,
will not appear here for trial until
after Jan. I, according to County At
torney Boyle, as both will be tried at
st. Paul on charge Of first degree
grand larceny in connection with the
theft of checks from the county treas
urer of Ramsey county.
Austin.-More than LOO chickens,
geese, ducks, pheasants and other fowl
now on exhibition at the Austin poul-
| try show will be forced to remain here
| indefinitely due to the lack Of shipping
| facilities. The railroad and express
companies have refused to guarantee
| the safe shipping of the birds and the
owners are not taking any risks.
st. Paul-Strikes in which violence
| is resorted to were denounced and adj
| justment of all labor differences by
peaceful means was advocated in reso-
lutions adopted here at the annual
convention of the Minnesota confer.
ence of bricklayers and masons.
Stillwater.-The city school board
has refused the application of high
school teachers for raise in salary
of $3Oe year each. The board said
there was. no money to meet such an
increase, and that the teachers are un.
der contract The board granted an
increase of $40 month 70 grade
| school teachers.
Crookston.-A new crop for the Red
river valley is expected to be raised
next year following meeting of 20(
Polk county farmers here with repre-
sentatives of the Chaska sugar rein
cry. A large number of the farmers
contracted to plant part of their acre
age with sugar beets.
Hutchinson.-Msynard Alexander
Glencoe, committed suicide by hang
| ing in his brothers garage here. He
came here to assist In the arrange
| ments for his mothers funeral. Alex
/ ander left note indicating that des
pondency on account Of his mothers
| death was the cause for his act.