The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-23
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

Hibbing.-The Victory Loan sub
scriptions here will total close to $780,
600 when figures are all checked up.
Crookston.-Knights of Columbus
Council No. 1916, at regular meeting
decided to invest $500 in the Fifth
Liberty loan.
Pine River.-Thi3 community will be
visited by more than 100 Minneapolis
business men in June, on the occasion
Of the renewal of the annual friend
ship-making tours from that city.
st. Paul-After many months of de-
lay, the state has paid check OF
$6,521.44 to Ambrose Tighe, a st. Paul
attorney, for services as special coun-
sci for the Public Safety commission
in 1917 and 1918.
Stillwater.-Eugene Williams. for
many years superintendent of the
Irvine factory at the Minnesota state
prison here, died at the city hospital
where he had been taken for treat
ment week or ten days ago.
Erskine-Erskine has elected M. G..
Randolph of Crosby as superintendent
of the consolidated school. Mr.. Ran
dolph has been principal of the Crosby
junior high school at Crosby and has
also acted as assistant superintendent.
Minneapolis.-Ma of the Min
nesota state fair and the State board
of control have decided to postpone
the erection of the proposed 100000
livestock barn on the state fair
ton this fall.
Commissioners Of Dako-
to county, at meeting here, turned
down bids for paving six miles on the
Jefferson Highway from the city north
toward Westcot, on account of being
too high. New bids will be advertised
for June 9.
Brainerd.-Under the auspices of the
council of defense, thrift clubs are be-
ing organized in the different wards.
These thrift clubs for the present will
fit out neglected children from in and
near Brainerd, cooperating with the
county child welfare board.
st. Paul-The State Securities COM
mission refused charter to the pro-
posed peoples State bank of, Goodthun-
der, acting under the provisions of
recent statute making it's approval
necessary to the chartering of state
banks. A new bank would affect the
solvency of existing banks, the COM
mission contended.
Crosby.-T. E. Aho, local shoemaker,
claims to have calf educated to turn
the water faucet whenever he is thir-
sty. A watchful eye has always been
kept on the animal to see that the
water is not left running. A few nights
since, however, the calf got out of his
shed and turned the water on; result,
an extra large water bill.
st. Peter.-Bernard Schotman, 10, in
the fourth grade at CORTLAND, is the
champion speller of Nicollet county.
After nearly two hours of spelling at
the annual county spelling match
here young Schotman Spelled down"
Miss Evelyn Peterson of North Man.
kato and thirty-two other contestants,
thereby winning first place in the
match. .
International Falls.-Blind pig raids
here and at Rainier are bringing in the
money these days as local court rec
ords testify. The city treasury was
enriched $500 as the result of four
raids made here. At Heiberg & La
ages seven cases of booze were
found. Dutch" Reiser in the Nurick
building had some stock on hand, as
did Slim Ryder, and Smoke" at the
Pease barber shop.
ST. Paul-Beginning a $3,500,0O
state building program for 1919-1920,
the Board of Control will open bids on
three new structures estimated to cost
e175,000. Proposals will be opened on
the contract for $4,000 building for
employees at the Faribault State School
for Feeble Minded, and on contracts
for similar buildings to cost $4,000
each at st. Peter and Hastings State
Institutions for the Insane.
st. Paul-Contracts for the erection
Of new building for employees at the
Faribault state school for feeble-mind-
ed, probably will be awarded soon on
bids opened by the state board of con-
troll. The lowest bids in each class
total $63,60S. The preliminary fees,
and other items, was
$4,000, sum provided by the last
legislature. The building is made nee
essary, board members said, by the
new law fixing an eight-hour day in
state institutions.
st. Paul-Dr. H. M. Bracken has
resigned as secretary and executive
officer of the State Board of Health.
The resignation followed his accept
ance of commission as surgeon in
the Reserve corps of the United States
Public Health service. The commits
sion was issued by Surgeon General
Rupert Blue and DR.. Bracken is de-
tailed as supervisor to organize agen-
cies and care for war risk patients in
District No. 10, comprising Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota and Mon
tana.
Bemidji.-Beltrami county bee keep
ers are to hold an interesting meeting
Monday, May 26, at which study of
the production of extracted honey will
feature. A. w. Aamodt, county agri-
culturist, announces that hurry, of the
government agricultural department,
will be the principal speaker.
Rice Lake.-The mystery surround.
ing the disappearance on April 10 of
Thomas Grady of this city, aged blind
and dumb man, was cleared up when
his body was found by 500 railroad
section men four miles from town,
death apparently having resulted from
exhaustion as he wandered about lost