The Ely miner., 1919-11-28
h.oent Happenings in Minnesota
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-DciulCt 11O3oh, III hiOA
chief of police of Duluth. died here.
Brainerd-The 2-weeks-old oaby
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Davis,
vas smothered to death in bed.
Aitkin.-Judge w. c. McClenahan,
3rainerd, has denied an application to
Train Big Rice lake, famous duck
hunting ground.
Bemidji-KennethM Mohler, II years
Did and Elof Gustafson, 13 years old,
we're drowned in Lake Bemidji when
hey broke through the ice while
skating
Wilbert.-A new $4,000 German
Lutheran school has been dedicated
bere. Professor Theodore Buenger of
Concordia college, st. Paul, delivered
the dedicatory address.
Bemidji-Forest c. Halgren of Be-
midi has been named to succeed
Deputy United States Marshall
Frank Bradley, who was recently
transferred to the Duluth district.
East Grand Forks.-The equipment
and horses of the city fire departm ent
have been moved into the fire hall of
the new city hall, this section of the
building being now practically COM
pleted.
East Grand Forks.-At a meeting
of the school board an increase of $40
per month in wages was granted to
practically the entire teaching staff
of the East Grand Forks public
schools.
Eyota.-F. w. Woodcock, we'll
known citizen of this vicinity, lost
his right arm up to the elbow as the
result of an accident which befell
him while operating his corn shred
ding machine.
Luverne.-Martin Dollander has the
distinction of harvesting the largest
number of bushels of corn per acre in
southwestern Minnesota. A 80 acre
field of white dent corn averaged ITO
bushels to the acre.
Austin.-Lee Bauman and Henry
Harma, Wellsberg,, Iowa, are dead
from injuries received when a train
struck their automobile two miles
north of Lyle. The injured men were
rushed to this city where they died
three hours later. ....
Buhl.-Anthrax, the dread cattle
disease, contracted from using a new
shaving brush, is credited by local
physicians with having caused the
death of William Latunen, employed
in the Wade mine, after an illness
of barely week.
tillwater.-Jamieson, Thoreen &
Sandeen, who have a contract for the
construction of a new county road
from Boom Coulee to Marine-St. Croix,
appeared before the board of county
commissioners here and got an extern
sion of their contract to July 1, next.
Virginia.. w. w. agitators re-
ported to be working among lumber
jacks working for the Rainy Lake
Lumber company north of here, seek
ing to foment trouble, appear to have
met with partial success as it was
stated that ninety men quit at Camp
81 of the company for no known rea-
son.
Bemidji-Andrew Anschwegel and
his son Michael paid fine of SIS and
$100 respectively in municipal court
here when found guilty of shooting
deer out of season. The arrest of the
two men followed the accidental kill
ing of another son, Anthony, by the
father. A coroner's jury ,exonerated
the father of all blame.
Rochester.-The worst fire in sew
9eral months swept a portion of Roch-
ester business district causing loss
of about $4,000. The fire started in
the basement of the Wagener hotel
and spread to several stores on the
ground floor. The Conrad Fur COM
pany of Winona was the heaviest
loser, sustaining about $4,000 dam
age.
Minneapolis.-The first Northwest
IS. o. S." call for coal was received
by the State Railroad and Warehouse
commission. Lamberton, Mimi, is ex-
periencing an acute shortage, accord
ing to A. J. Praxel of that city. Ia a
message received by o. P. B. Jacob
son, commissioner, Mr.. Praxel says
that unless coal is received imme-
diately the Lamberton Light & Power
station will, be forced to shut down.
In that event the nearby towns of
Wabasso and Walnut Grove, supplied
by the plant, will be in darkness and
without adequate fire protection.
-Epitome- Tuesday
Moorhead.-Averill was the first
branch of Moorhead chapter of the
Red Cross to report on the 1920 roll
call with Al annual members. Ulen
was second with 207 and two magazine
members. FELTON, reports seventy
seven members under the roll call.
st. Paul.-State fixed potato grades
and marketing regulations are needed
in Minnesota to stabilize markets and
end friction between potato growers
and dealers, in the opinion of J. H.
Hay, assistant commissioner of agri-
culture for Minnesota and Hugh J..
Hughes. marketing director for the
commission.
Two Harbors.-The first hunting
accident of the big game season in
this locality occurred in the Goose
berry river country when Nick Mag
nuson, son of Peter Magnuson, re-
siding in this city, was shot and seri-
ously injured by his father, who mis-
took him for deer while moving
through the brush.
Worthington.-Ten Thousand per-
sons passed through the gates of the
annual Mobiles county fair last fall,
and the total receipts of the fair asso-
citation from all sources were $s,-
1887, according to the annual re-
port of the secretary.