The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12


Company, in which local business men
are interested, has shipped three cars
of potatoes and has two more to ship
soon.
Crookston.-Carl Rude, s years old,
of Valley City, was crushed to death
south of here in an automobile acct
dent. The car tipped over in ditch
and caught fire The body was
brought here.
Perham.-The big new barn of Mike
Schwedowski, his granary and ma.
chine sheds, also his grain crop and
hay were destroyed by a fire recent
ly. The loss is close to $4,000, it is
estimated, and the insurance is only
partial
Winona.-Rt. Rev. Patrick R. Hef-
from, DID,, bishop of the diocese of
Winona, has started on two weeks
trip throughout the diocese in the
interest of the campaign for raising
of fund of $1,000,O0O for Greater
st. Mary's College in Winona
International Falls.-Miss Phyllis
Sullivan is now principal of the South
International Falls school. She for
merly taught there, but during the
past year was engaged in training as
nurse in the army service and was dis
charged but few months ago.
Tracy.-Broom and other corns in
this vicinity are record crops. Ben
Hughes, local grower of broom corn,
has fine field, which stands from ten
to eleven feet high. The heads are well
filled and it is said to be the finest
corn of the kind ever raised in this To-
cality.
Sank Rapids.-Over a month ago
Donald Campbell, IA, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John D. Campbell of Sank Rapids,
went to the postoffice to get the mail
for his mother and has never returned.
His disappearance is one of the most
mysterious that has happened in this
section in years.
Trommald. = The special election
held at Trommald by Independent
School District No. ITO, on the propo-
sition to bond the district for $4,000,
carried by more than four to one.
The bonds will pay for the building
of an addition to the Trommald
school building.
Fairmont.- w. S. Carver has
gone to Charlesvoix, Mich, with war
rants for the arrest of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Saborowski, charging forgery.
1t is asserted that while on a visit
here they passed considerable
amount of worthless paper. Zaborow-
ski is a returned soldier
Fairmont-Turtle Lake, the largest
of Martin county's half hundred bodies
of water, is to be damned by the state
of Iowa at its southern outlet, accord
ing to word received here, in order to
increase the flow of water in the Des
Moines river in dry seasons and make
it navigable for small crafts.
st. Paul-Calvin l.. Brown, chief
justice of the state supreme court,
has returned from a vacation outing
spent near Spicer. Associate justices
also are returning from vacations and
the court will resume regular sessions
Sept %. Seventy-three appeals are
set for hearing between the opening
date and Nov. I. .....
st. Cloud.-The seventh annual fair
of the Benton County Agricultural So
ciety registered the biggest attendance
and was said to be one of the best
fairs ever promoted by the society.
Only one auto theft was reported at
the fair grounds during the fair days
and that auto was recovered twenty
minutes after the theft.
Roseau.-Hans Trandem has a half
acre on his lots on North Riverside
Avenue from which he has without
doubt harvested the biggest money
return for an equal tract of land in
the county, if not in the state. The
half acre is in raspberries and when
the picking is finally completed the
gross returns will be close to $500.
st. Paul-First indication of a seri-
Gus shortage of grain cars in Mime
sofa was given in telegram from the
st. Vincent Elevator company, to the
state railroad and warehouse commits
sion, appealing for cars in which to
ship grain and added that Kittson
county granary room is filled and that
grain now being threshed will have to
be dumped on the ground unless cars
are furnished promptly.
Fergus Falls.-That Minnesota will
have the largest corn crop in the his
tory of the state is indicated by the
September report of the Bureau of
Crop estimates issued through the
Minnesota Field Agent, Paul H. Kirk.
Speaking about crop conditions in
Minnesota, Mr.. Kirk says: BASED on
condition of SO per cent of normal,
a corn crop of 111,672,O00 bushels is
indicated which is the greatest ever
produced in this state. The total
crop last year was 110,0O0,000 bushels.
Observation-Disclosures Charles A.
Krahmer, known throughout southern
Minnesota as a band leader and in
structor of music, shot and killed him
self here. He had started for an
automobile ride with his wife. Get
ting out of the car to shut the garage
door, he stepped inside the building
and fired bullet from pistol through
the right temple. Melancholia over
the recent commitment to an asylum
of a brother is believed to have
prompted the act. He was So years
old.
Detroit.-Fire Ranger P. s. Con-
verse has been busy posting signs
of warning in the wooded sections of
the county and securing the co-opera-
ton of the settlers and others in an
attempt to eliminate the fire danger
alwavs nrevaIent at this time of fhe