The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-03-05
NEWS OF STATE
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Recent Happenings in Minnesota
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| Observation-Disclosures valued a
$1,000 which was stolen from a stor,
here was found in a vacant house Oh
the road between Sibley and Sheldon
Luverne.-The First National banl
of Beaver Creek, Rock County, O
which NJ. o. Page has been president
for IL years, was sold to G. c. Laufi
nan and A. L. Vennum of Sioux Falls
is. d.
Little Falls-A new charter has
been drafted by a committee Of II
citizens and will be filed with the
city council and be submitted to g
vote by the people at a special cleo
ton following the spring election
here.
st. Peter.-Cash prizes amounting
to $3.50 and numerous special prizes
will be given winners of the boys and
girls club work in LIE Sueur county in
1920. The clubs which are being fin.
anced are pig, sheep and poultry
clubs. the corn growers club and the
bread baking club.
Little Falls.-Sam Putnam, escap-
ed inmate of the Jamestown, N. D.,
hospital for the insane was picked up
here by the local police. He had been
| sleeping in barns for the past few
days and HIS hands and ears had been
| II Czen. He viii, be returned to the
Jamestown Institution. -
Luverne.-At a special school cleo
ton held at Hill Rock county for the
purpose of consolidating Districts 49,,
35 and 40 with District No. 66, locat-
ed at Hill, the question was carried
by vote Of 46 to 20. This consolida-
tion embraces an area of twenty Sec
lions with a school population of $50
pupils.
Renville.-A mass meeting of vot-
ers in the local school district was
held here in the interests of the pro-
posed new high school building The
meeting was addressed by S. A. Chall-
man of the state department of educa-
ton and F. c. Boerner, an architect
A call will soon be made for a bond
election to the sum of 100000
New Richland.-S. o. Shurson was
elected president of the New Richland
Cooperative Creamery association at
their annual meeting here, and Olaf
Lame was elected secretary, George
Echatt treasurer and J. H. Discher,
Oscar Rugroden and Jacob Echtern-
ach directors. The association did
nearly $125,0O0 worth of business in
the past year.
Windom.-Rev John G. Jacobsen,
70 years old, pioneer among the
Swedish Lutheran pastors of the
Northwest died at his home here fol-
lowing an attack Of pneumonia.
Rev. Jacobsen resided in st. Paul for
a number of years. He became pastor
of the Norwegian church at West
brook, Mimi, and served there for 81
years until his retirement in 1911.
Moorhead. - Potato growers and
shippers of the Red River valley are
becoming desperate over the car stu
alton. Although the railroad manage
ment has promised refrigerator cars
for the shipment Of seed potatoes to
the South and Southwest, practically
none is available. All of the potato
warehouses at the shipping points in
Clay county are filled and only occa-
sional shipments are made. There is
no room at the stations for storing
potatoes now held in root cellars on
the farms. --...
Pipestone.-While driving his car
along country road five miles south
Of here Severt Swanson, a business
man of Ihlen, died Of apoplexy. The
automobile was travelling about %
miles an hour when death overlook
from the road, ran through fence
and across a half section cornfield be-
fore striking an obstruction which
brought it to a stop. Persons who
had seen the machine leave the road
and dash across the field investigated
and found the body of Swanson in the
car, one Of his hands still gripping
the steering wheel.
Northfield.- the annual election
Of officers of the Mortified Commu-
nifty club, Herman Poe was elected
president and William E. Revier and
w. F. Schilling, directors, Norttfield's
community building is one of the first
Of it's kind to be opened in Minnesota
A government bulletin just issued de-
votes considerable space to a descrip-
ton of the building and the service it
renders the Northfield community 1t
contains public rest room and is
used for all meetings of farmers or
CARNATIONS, as well as for commu-
nifty clubs, civic organizations and the
city council meetings.
Pipestone.-Plans have been &C
cepted and work will soon be COM
menced on the Ashton Memorial hos
pital, to be erected in this city. The
funds for the erection of the structure
are furnished by o. e. Ashton in mem
DRY of his father, the late R. w.
Ashton.
Minneapolis hundred mem
bers of the Minnesota Editorial asso-
citation gathered at the West hotel,
Minneapolis, in its fifty-fourth annual
convention. Registration of publish
ers, editors and their wives numbered
about 400. The convention was in
session two days.
Marshall.-Mrs. Louise Bickford
Shequen, Balaton, has just celebrated
her 101st birthday. Mrs. Shequen is
the widow of the late John B. Shequen,
whose death occurred three years ago
at the age of 108. Mrs. Shequen has
children, 26 great-grandchildren and
10 Observation-Disclosures.
st. Paul.-Five children living in
ilthy surroundings while livestock is
veil cared for, is the report by Sam
). Fullerton, executive agent of the
'tate Humane S, ciety, on conditions