The Ely miner., 1919-11-28

named by the city council member
Of the library board to fill a vacancy.
Spooner-Daniel Beardsley, Roose-
velt, died in local hospital following
| accidental discharge of his rifle while
hunting. He was SO years old.
Duluth. H. Troyer,
former chief of police of Duluth, who
died Nov. Is, left an estate valued at
| 1900, according to petition filed in
probate court.
Fergus Falls.-Plans for a big
semicentennial celebration and
Homecoming to be staged in this city
in 1921 are under consideration. The
| city was founded in 1871.
Hibbing.-Every commercial club
of the Mesaba range will take an ac-
tive part this winter in combating
the tonnage tax propaganda circulated
in the southern half of the state.
Frazee.-Dr. S. S. Jones, who has
been practicing medicine here for the
past twenty-three years, has sold his
practice to DR.. George e. Runner
strom, who comes here from Tacoma.
| Wash.
Alexandria.-Geor L. Treat has
left for Washington, where he will be-
come law clerk for the judiciary COM
mittee of the senate, of which Senator
Knute Nelson is chairman. Mr.. Treat
has been secretary of the Commercial
club of this city.
Hutchinson Albert Nuwash, so
years old, Silver Lake livestock
dealer, was killed by the eastbound
train near Komensky station four
miles from here. He was walking on
the track and being very deaf did not
hear the approaching train.
Worthington. Ludwig Swanson
may die from wounds received from
a shotgun in the hands of COM
panion- The two were hunting and
in crawling through a wire fence the
gun was accidentally discharged. The
charge of shot struck Swanson in the
face.
Fergus Falls.-The Fergus Falls
high school will enter the state debat-
ing contest this year. The subject for
debate will be: Resolved, That the
Philippine islands should be granted
complete independence" The first
debate will be with the Moorhead
high school.
Hibbings.-Range fair price COM
mittee men, village mayors and other
officials who are engaged in the fight
against the high cost of living, will
attend the conference to be called in
st. Paul, Dec. 1, under the direction
of A. Mitchell Palmer, United States
attorney general.
| -Austin.-A quarter mile driveway
is being constructed around the plot
of land bought by the state here to
establish a state park along the bank
of Cedar river The driveway will
extend alon~ the south bank of the
river, which was converted into i
bathing beach last summer.
| Hutchinson.-Cloverdale club, a
progressive farmers club near Hutch.
inson, has called a meeting of fruit
growers and other farmers clubs for
Dec. 1, to discuss the organization of
a company to market apples and other
fruits which go to waste every year
on Hutchinson community farms.
Virginia.-The first fatal case OF
sleeping" sickness on the Mesaba
range was reported in the Lenont hos
pital here when Mrs. Eli Donculovich
of Aurora, aged A. died of what ap.
pears to be that disease It is said
she had been sick only a short time.
but for three days all efforts to arouse
her had been futile.
Minneapolis Of 1. w. w. lit
erature, secreted in store on Nicol-
let avenue, has been discovered by
the police, it was learned after the
arrest of man giving the name of
Joseph Hall. Hall was held without
charge, but, according to J. Frank
Walker, superintendent of police, he
was custodian of the plant"
St Paul.-The state railroad and
warehouse commission has granted
the Great Nortnarn railroad permis-
sion to remove it's tracks and pas
senger and freight stations from the
village of Hibbing, to carry out the
project of moving the village of Hib-
bing to Alice so the iron ore under
lying the village can be mined.
Hibbing.-Of the 94 county fairs in
the state the St. Louis County Agri-
cultural Society fair takes top rank,
according to a report presented the
members by Secretary Richard Giffin
The :secretary's report showed re-
ceipts of s15,47447 for the last year.
Disbursements amounted to $11 1,256 81.
The cash balance totaled $4,217.56.
ENeleth.-Jalmer Eskala, Is, is
dead of fractured skull, his father,
Matt, SO, is confined to the More hos
pital here with broken right leg
and younger brother, William 16, is
at the same hospital with a broken
arm as the result of an accident at
Elba when their Ford car col,ided
with the Iron Range railway passen-
ger train.
| East Chain.-East Chain township
of Martin county has dedicated a
$60,000 consolidated school, which
serves the entire town. Children are
brought to school by nine motor
| busses. Although in a rural COM
munity which is 10 miles from a rail-
road, the school offers the 200 pupils
complete high school as well as grade
courses.
Crookston.-Several weeks ago
Arthur Kirsch of Crookston, bought a
| tiny chicken at local five-and-ten-
cent-store for a dime. He entered the
chicken at the recent Pennington
county poultry show. 1t was adjudged
to be a full blooded White Leghorn
| and carried off a blue ribbon with a