The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-17
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief items For
BUSY Readers.

Wlnton.-LeOS FRANK ana Henry
Chosa are advised of the death of their
father at Keweenaw Bay at the age of
104 years.
Stillwater.-George Noltmier plead
ed guilty here to hunting in Newport
township without a license and paid a
fine of $3.50 and costs.
Hibbing.-Jewish residents of Hib-
bling and vicinity interested in the
building of synagogue will meet Sun
day night at the Rood hall
Moorhead.-Plans are under way for
the big meeting and show of the Min
nesota State Potato Growers associa
ton to be held in Moorhead Nov. 5, 6
| and Z.
Crookston. An auxiliary office of
the Minnesota State Public Health as
ISOLATION has been opened on the up
per floor of the Polk county court
house.
Minneapolis.-Sam Hayth of Bemidji
was arraigned before Judge Page Nor.
ris, and pleaded guilty to charge of
operating a still in that place. He
now awaits sentence.
Hibbing. = When James Monroe
needed a piece of rope to tie some
packages, he cut it from flag pole at
Stevenson and it cost him $40 in court
before Judge Thomas Brady.
Brainerd.-Carl Wheeler raised 5000
bushels of Green Mountain potatoes on
is acres of his farm near Brainerd and
sold the whole lot, field run, to a Hum.
bolt, Iowa, man at $1.30 bushel fob.
Brainerd.
Beresford.-Rev. w. E. Distad of
Beresford was backing his automobile
out of his yard when his young child
toddled up. The machine struck the
infant and crushed it. Death was in
Simultaneous.
Hibbing.-In order to give those
wishing an opportunity to learn
French or Spanish, the Hibbing board
of education has made arrangements
languages.
st. Pau1.-More than $50 young wo-
| men who prepared themselves to be-
| come nurses during the war have ap-
| piled for state licenses, according to a
report of the state board of examiners
at the capitol
Aitkin.-One of Aitkin county's i'm.
portant industries is gathering Christ
| mas trees. In the Solana district
| many car loads will be cut from now
| on and stored for shipment for the
holiday season.
Princeton.-The Aldrich evangelistic
campaign being conducted in the big
tabernacle in Princeton is attracting
crowds to all the meetings. The adj
jacent country and surrounding towns
| all appear to be interested.
Brainerd.-At special meeting of
the city council the resignation of
City Clerk Lloyd Greene was accepted.
1t was decided to continue the deputy
clerk, Miss Jennie Nelson, as city
clerk until successor is elected.
st. Paul.-Ralph Budd, executive
vice president of the Great Northern
railroad, succeeded Louis w. Hill as
president Of the road at the annual
meeting of the board of directors. Mr..
Hill retains, temporarily at least, the
Craftsmanship of the board.
st. Peter-At the final session con-
ference of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
German-Lutheran clergymen here, the
language question was given lengthy
consideration and it was unanimously
decided that greater stress be laid up
on the teaching of English in the paro-
chial schools and that English services
ho hold with
Frazee.-L. F. Bradke of Spruce
Grove got yield of thirty-two bushels
of Scotch fife winter wheat to the acre
the record for this section. The rust
did not get the winter wheat like it
did the spring wheat, but it is under
stood farmers of this section will raise
more clover and will cut out the worry
over the rust getting the wheat in the
future.
Hinckley.-Fire here destroyed all
the buildings between the new theater
building and the corner opposite the
old village hall, including the Dix tire
repair shop, the Harth harness store
and the Engleman Land company Of
fee the old Swain place. The fire
started at about o'clock in the morn
ing and, famed by the south wind,
swept things clean to the corner and
would doubtless have gone beyond but
for light rain.
st. Paul-Minnesota has the largest
"fox ranch in the United States and
will soon have the largest one in the
world, according to DR.. G. P. Fitch.
chief of the veterinary division, and
DR.. w. A. Riley, head of the division
of entomology, university farm, who
have been inspecting the properties of
the Melville Fox Company, Inc, near
Milville, fifteen miles out of Lake City.
The ranches of Prince Edward Island
have generally been supposed to Lead.
but hereafter must take back seat
Bemidji.-The meeting of fraternal
societies and labor unions to form an
organization was success. A motion
by e. A. Barker that the chairman of
the meeting, c. B. Hoyt, appoint three
from each fraternity membership, they
to meet and name an executive COM
mittee of seven, was carried.
St. Cloud.-E. L. Wurst, who has
been postmaster at Richmond for the
last four years or more, has resigned
and will hereafter be associated with
his father in the milling business at
that place. He will be succeeded by
P. P. Rueggnemer, formerly in charge
of the Cargill elevator at that place.
Winona.-Rev. A. T. Wallace,
Brighton, ILL.,, has accepted call to
become pastor Of the First Baptist
church, one of the leading congrega-