The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-30
NEWS or STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

| Slayton.-Murray County will ex-
| pend 100000 on it's roads this year,
| exclusive of work done on the state
roads.
Sank Alphabetically $4,000 was
realized at the recent bazar of the
Catholic church. Preparations for the
erection of new parochial residence
| are under way.
Moorhead.-Plans for a cooperative
advertising campaign by the mer-
chants were discussed at the annual
| meeting of the Merchants association
following a banquet in Masonic hall.
Thief River Falls.-Among the
many features for the Pennington
county fair will be Lieut.. Kisler, an
| instructor in the aviation department
of the army. His contract will include
| every known air stunt.
Walker-Judge G.. w. Stanton of
this city will be the principal speaker
at the Walker high school commence
ment, the evening of May 80. In the
| morning Judge Stanton will be the
Memorial day orator at Laporte
Bemidji-A. P. Richie, local post
| master, was notified by the postal de-
| partment that the rural mail route
to be operated in the territory north
west of Bemidji, to be known as No.
A, has been established and will start
June 16.
Virginia rain fell throughout
the district in which brush and forest
| fires have been smouldering and
breaking forth at intervals for the
past week in Northern Minnesota.
Reports state that the rain was suffi-
| cient to prevent spread at present of
the flames.
Two Harbors.-Iron Range railroad
section men reported that forest fires
in the vicinity of Mile Post SO are all
| out. The fires at Mile Post so are
| smouldering and are not considered at
all serious Stories of bad fires are
much exaggerated.
Mankato.-The body of John Otto
was found hanging in barn at the
rear of his home. He had committed
suicide by hanging with a clothesline
to one of the rafters in the barn. Ill
health and dependency are thought
to have prompted the act.
Chisholm. = Chisholm's celebration
of the Fourth this year will be made
| notable by the presence of the famous
One Hundred and Fitty-first artillery,
or Gopher gunners' band, fresh from
| overseas, chamber of commerce COM
| ro,ift ho clio hn
organization for the day. Returned
soldiers will figure prominently in the
days events.
ST. Cloud.-The sixty-second ami
versary of the First M. E. church was
marked by a banquet of over 200
guests. The pastor, Rev. George E.
Tindall, spoke briefly of the church's
history and introduced Rev. w. C.
Lee, the district superintendent, who
presented DR.. F. E. Ross of Columbus,
Ohio, former pastor of the church,
the chief speaker.
| Waseca.-O. s. Bagne, 60, farmer
living near here was burned to death
and his wife is not expected to live
as result of burns received when she
attempted to rescue her husband. A
can containing kerosene exploded
when he was starting fire in the
kitchen range in his home. Two
small children also were severely
burned trying to save their parents.
Slayton.-A commission company
for the sale of grain handled by the
farmers elevators in this state was
organized here by representatives of
farmers elevators in the counties Of
Murray, Cottonwood, Mobiles and
Pipestone. The association will be
statewide, with headquarters in st.
Paul. A district meeting to further
the organization will be held at Man
kato in the near future.
East Grand Forks.-Reconstru
work on the stone paving of De Mers
avenue, next to the bridge, has been
completed. This paving has been in
very bad shape for number of years.
ST. Paul-Orders for $4,000 tons of
coal in the new supply of $4,000 tons
for state institutions were placed by
the state board of control. The first
purchase is for institutions in the
northern half of the state and is all
dock coal bought f. 0. b. Duluth.
| Minneapolis Determination of DR..
bar from the teaching staff all expo
nents of radical principles or of So
cialistic tendencies was seen at the
meeting of the board of regents. The
| decision was obvious in DR.. Burton's
announcement of fifteen new profess
ors, associate professors, assistants
and instructors, who were accepted
by the regents. To make sure that
radical theories would not be brought
to the university by the new men, DIR.
Burton made a tour of the country
this month and had personal inter-
views with all the men selected. In
submitting the list to the regents he
gave them his guarantee that each of
the fifteen could be depended upon
for 100 per cent Americanism.
st. Paul.-Higher standards of sani-
tation will be effected in Minnesota
Ice cream stands, confectionery shops
and other refreshment parlors, w.
A. Wittebecker, state hotel inspec-
tor, said, through enforcement of new
laws governing these places of bust
ness and already operative. General
cleanliness will be rigidly insisted up
on in all instances, the inspector as
serted and three deputies will be as
signed to enforce the law. Proprie-
tors operating now without state IL
censes, for which the fee is $3.50 a
year, are subject to prosecution under