The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-07
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

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Busy Readers.
Crookston--The Crookston Associa
ton of Public Affairs put on mem
bership campaign last week.
Bemidji-Lieut. Thayer C. Bailey
has arrived home from service in the
military Of Uncle Sam and resumed
his law practice.
st. Cloud-Register of Deeds John
Lang is confined to his home with a
broken leg as a result of falling on
the icy sidewalk
st. Cloud-Stearns county sub
scribed $63,532.11 in the united war
work campaign, according to report
issued by A. G. Whitney, Stearns coun
| ty chairman.
| Ortonvflle - The Ortonville high
! school has abandoned it's debate this
year because the Influenza epidemic
made it impossible for contestants to
hold meetings
has again notified its agents along the
Duluth-Thief River Falls line that live
stock will be picked up on Saturdays
instead of Tuesdays hereafter until
| further notice
| Moorhead-The croix de guerre, the
coveted decoration of the French army
and the distinguished service cross OF
the American army were conferred
upon Lieut.. James HI. Sharp, Jr., OF
Moorhead, in France on Dec. 80.
Thief River Falls-The epidemic of
Influenza has SO far abated that it has
been deemed wise to now close the
| detention hospital which has been
maintained for some time In the old
Telemarken hotel. Dances are again
permitted
| Stillwater-A. c.. Staples, brought
back from Chicago on a charge of
passing forged checks here, pleaded
| guilty before a justice of the peace
and was held to the grand jury in
$1,000 bail. Staples gave checks on a
| Seattle bank in which he had no funds.
Minneapolis appointment of Maj.
Harvey B. Smith of Minneapolis, for
! merly In charge of the largest army
reserve department of the United
States at New Cumberland, Pa, as
| general manager of the Minneapolis
war chest, is announced by John s.
| Pillsbury.
International Falls-Henry Andrews,
IS, an old time woodsman in this dis
trict, died recently at the local hospi-
tai of pneumonia. He left an estate
consisting of $1,100 in Liberty bonds.
The body is being held at the local
morgue pending word from brother
as to it's disposition.
Mankato-H b. Faster shoe
merchant who died few days ago,
| left $1,000 to the Jewish Board Of
Charities, st. Paul; $500 to the Sal
vation Army, and $500 in Liberty bonds
to Miss Lydia Knaub, an employee in
his store, as special requests in his
will, disposing of $4,000 estate.
ST. Paul-Frank j. Dunn, serving a
life sentence in the Saltwater peniten-
tiary for the murder of his wife, was
In st. Paul to defend suit for $4,000
brought by d. w. Lawler, attorney
| who defended him in district court on
the murder charge. He was kept in
the Ramsey county Jail until the trial
was over.
Brainerd- Grieving over the death
of his oldest son, Judge G. W. Mantor
| killed himself here at his home. 1t is
! said that following the burial of his
| son. Guilford, the Judge became un-
consolidate. Judge Mantor was at one
time city attorney here and municipal
Judge. He is survived by his wife and
two sons, both of whom are serving
In the military forces of the country
Aurora-.A new bank, the First Ma
| tional, is to be opened here soon in a
new building to be erected. Those in
| terested in the new institution are F.
H. Welcome of Minneapolis, John A.
Barton, cashier of the First State
Bank of Two Harbors, C. E. Moore of
Aurora and Virginia, H. c. Doerr, Jr.,
! assistant cashier of the First State
Bank of Two Harbors, and several
others, residents of Aurora
Minneapolis Plans whereby
churches may join together to make
! democracy safe for the world" will be
| formulated as one activity of Mime
sofa Ministers council to be held in
| Westminster Presbyterian church,
February 10, II and IL under direction
Of the Laymen's Missionary movement
Invitations to the council have been
sent to about 1000 ministers of all
communions in SO counties of south
ern Minnesota.
| .Brainerd-A notable array of coun-
| sci was on hand in Judge McLenahan's
court here when the case of George
o. Russell VS.. the Northern Pacific
Railway company to recover $4,000
damages for injuries alleged to have
been sustained in the local shops of
the company, was called for trial. Rus
sells complaint recites that a machin-
list in the shops, cutting cotter pin
bolt, Clipped piece against a boiler
and it rebounded and struck him in the
eye, breaking his glasses and destroy
Ing the sight of his left eye
Brainerd-Thomas Wood, known
all over the Northwest as Fatty"
Brainerd's well known heavyweight
! comedian who was Joe Bush's;
first sponsor and trainer, is on his way
to Los Angeles to become rival of
Fatty Arbuckle and other film stars,
whose chief asset is poundage. He
weighs about $50 pounds and has con-
siderable natural histrionic ability.