The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-07
NEWS or STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In minnesota
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Mankato.-Cam Is to have state
bank, having just organized one with
w. d. Harris president and H. H.
Krook vice-president
Dilworth.-At the Dilworth village
election the proposition to issue bonds
for the construction of village hall
will be submitted to vote on March
II.
virginia. Clinton Albert Rabideau,
IL, son of Walter Rabideau, died of
hemorrhage of the brain. He fell UNI
conscious at noon while going home
from school.
Winona.-Dr. John Steinbach served
thirty days in the Winona county jail
he might have spent at liberty if he
paid $3.50 fine oyer month ago in
stead of doing so now.
st. Paul-Annual guard inspection
dates announced by the, adjutant gen.
eral include Winona March 10, Crook
ston March S, Moorhead Marchs10. Hib-
bling IL, Virginia IS. Eveleth IA.
st. Cloud.-Delegates from every VIII
lage, town and city in Stearns county
assembled here Saturday for the .pur-
pose of organizing a county health as
sociation to handle tubercular cases.
st. Cloud-The old fire bell, which
mas sounded the alarm of fire for years,
must come down. The tower is getting
wobbly under the weight of the bell
and hammer, and there is danger of an
accident.
Mankato.-Contract for the con-
struction of judicial Ditch No. "a, run
ming in Blue Earth, Martin and Fari-
bault counties, was awarded to the
North Star Concrete company of Man
kato at $66.924.96.
Madison Lake.-A community club
has been organized here as a result
of the efforts of Judge Frank T. Will
son of Saltwater of the University ex-
tension service Many farmers as well
as villagers are members.
New Ulm.-A branch of the Mime
sofa Game Protective league has been
organized here, with Judge William B.
Mather, president; DR.. c. A. Hintz,
vice-president; Joseph Karl, secretary,
and A. l.. Book, treasurer.
Pipestone-Rev. Burdette l.. Main,
for several years pastor of the Pipe
stone Methodist church, who enlisted
as a chaplain In the army last sum-
mer, has accepted call to the AL
gonna Street M. E. church in Oshkosh,
Wis,
Marshall.-An innovation in an
nouncing the birth of child is a fea-
ture of one of the local moving pic
ture houses here. Patrons were in
formed the other night by a slide
Mrs. Nalstad we're the parents Of a
newly born boy.
Thief River Falls. = Pennington
county breeders have organized live
stock association. The following Off
GERS we're elected: President, NJ. Nc
Address; vice-president,a Fred Beer
bower; secretary, J. j. Mccain; treas
urer, A. ]. anderson; directors, F. B.
Conklin, R. J. McKercher and Paul En-
gelstad. ~a~
Virginia.--Fire of unknown origin
in the garage of w. Thayer caused
$4,000 damage. A car owned by E. d.
Cron was completely destroyed and an
other was partly damaged. The ga
rage was being used as a warehouse
by Cron, the undertaken, and was filled
with caskets and other funeral appli-
ances, which were totally destroyed.
Stillwater.-Mayor J. r. Kolliner
named W. L. Prince, Charles Morton
and Mrs. Patrick Murphy members of
the city advisory board of the city
hospital to act with a committee of
four recently named by the county
commissioners to take charge of the
city hospital, the idea being to make
the local institution a city and county
hospital.
ST. Cloud-About twenty farmers of
Stearns, Benton and Sherburne coun-
ties engaged in tobacco growing gath
cred here and discussed the industry
especially with a view of getting a
tobacco house agency to handle the
crop established here. That tobacco
is a profitable crop in this locality had
been conclusively proven by the re-
suits obtained by several enterprising
farmers who have long since passed
the experimental stage with the crop.
Last year a heavy crop and high
price combined to give the industry a
boom. -
Anoka-A pail of buttermilk he was
carrying home after closing his store
for the night enabled o. S. Miller,
storekeeper at Champlin, near here, to
blind a bandit by dashing the liquid
into his face and escape being robbed.
AS Miller was ordered to throw up his
hands he struck the highwaymans pis-
toll so that the latter could not shoot,
while he dashed the contents of the
pail in the mans face. The bandit
then grabbed Miller by the coat, out Of
which the merchant quickly slipped.
Leaving the coat in the hands of his
assailant, Miller ran into his house.
The holdup man fed across the river
on the ice and disappeared.
Steinbach completed serving a SEN
tence of thirty days for violation of
the espionage act when he declined to
pay a fine also imposed He served
thirty additional days and then petit
toned the court for release, signing a
statement that he had no funds Fed
eral inquiry, however, revealed assets
and the petition was denied The Fed
eral authorities gave him the choice
of paying the fine or serving indefinite