The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-11-14
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
scent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief items For
BUSY Readers

ouJoiiliu6 Tie CITY Hall WHICH VIII pC
used as hook and ladder station.
Sturgeon Lake.-George Cunning
ham of Sturgeon Lake, son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. William Cunningham, lost two
| fingers from his right hand while oper.
ating a wood saving machine.
Moorhead. = Amendments to the
| Moorhead city charter, authorizing
| bond issues for public improvements
| aggregating SAL 500, were recommend
ed to the city council by the charter
commission
New Ulm.-John Schnobrich, son of
Martin Schnobrich of New Ulm, lost
his left hand in corn shredder, while
assisting in shredding operations at
| the farm of Henry Reinhart in Cotton
wood township.
Winona.-Permission to close the
| station at Homer, five miles south of
| this city, has been granted the Chi
| cago. Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad
company by the Minnesota railroad
| and warehouse commission.
Virginia. of Virginia is re-
| f1ected in the steady gain of enroll
| ment in the local schools. In October
the enrolment was 1884, compared
with 3,173 a year ago, an increase of
221. Night classes also are popular
St. Cloud.-The ST. Cloud Armory
proposition, which is scheduled to
come up again during January, was
indorsed by the st. Cloud Commercial
club by members of the club and rep.
| resentatives of the trade unions pres
ent.
Grand Rapids.-Because Of lack of
| financial ability to do it's part, if other
public work planned is carried out,
the village council this week unani-
mously resolved not to join the state in
building the proposed armory-village
hall here.
Cottonwood.-A loss of more than
| $4,000 was caused here by a fire
which completely destroyed the kero-
sene and gasoline storage tanks of
| Trageser Brothers. The fire started
early in the morning and burned for
several hours.
Observation-Disclosures of the Red
River valley are making efforts to OBJ
tain the organization of a drainage and
flood control district, which will in
clude portions of Beltrami, Pennington,
Red Lake, Polk and Clearwater coun-
ties. A hearing on the project, which
was begun before district court judges
of Warren and Bemidji, will be con-
tinued Jan. 20.
| Although the average
price per head for boars, gifts and
rams at the first annual sale held at
the livestock pavilion was not high,
the attendance reached close to ESQ
and every animal put up was quickly
| purchased. twenty-five hundred and
thirty-five dollars was what the entire
lot of animals, including approx.
mately fifty hogs and ten sheep, to.
tailed.
| Observation-Disclosures dav was gen.
| orally observed throughout southwest.
| ern Minnesota. In the schools of near
ly every town, appropriate exercises
we're conducted, and in many places
public programs were arranged in con-
nection with parades, football games
| and other features. Business was
practically suspended in some towns
that the day could be given over en-
tirely to celebrating.
Madison.-The annual convention of
| the Minnesota division of the King of
| Trails association was held here with
delegations from all towns along the
| trail in Minnesota present. General
business looking to the welfare of the
King of Trails highway was discussed
The trail has been logged and marked
| from Mexico City to Winnipeg and
much improvement of the highways
| in this section is planned.
Hill City. - Fifteen experienced
woodsmen are still searching the woods
in vain attempt to find some trace of
Alfred Amonson, who has been lost in
the woods for several days. Splotches
of blood were discovered in the snow
near the place where the man was
last seen, and Coroner D. F. Williams
| has sent them to the state university
| laboratory to be analysed to ascertain
if it is the blood of human being or
| wild animal.
Fergus Falls.-"The crop of potatoes
this year in Minnesota is considerably
below that of last year." says the
| government crop report. "The crop
| in the southern and southwestern
parts of the state was badly damaged
by continued wet weather and too
| much heat. The crop in the Red River
valley and in the northern and eastern
sections of the state, though spotted,
is very satisfactory. The yield this
year is 81 bushels compared to 112
bushels for 1918. The preliminary pro.
| duction for this year is placed at 26,-
| 1888 900 bushels, compared to the final
estimate in 1918 of 32,760,000 bushels.
The quality of the crop is very good,
being free from disease"
Mankato.-Arnold Schulz, 16-year.
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Schulz
| of Fairmont, was injured in the man
ual training department of the school.
He was using small circular saw,
which is operated by electric power.
His left hand was caught in some
manner by the saw and lacerated in
painful and serious manner.
Redwood Falls.-The Redwood Elec.
trio Telephone company has taken
over the local business of the Tri-
State Northwestern exchange. The
Northwestern company will maintain
checking Office and their long dis
lance service here.
Winona.-The annual convention OF
the Southeastern Minnesota Congrega.
tional association, which was held here
| In a two days session, was arranged