The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-05-21

| Foley-The Great Northern stock
yards here were burned Sunday and
six head of cattle persisted
| Virginia-At meeting here of about
80 news writer's of the range plans fol
a regular organization were completed
/ Fergus Falls-At meeting here at
which state issues were discussed OF.
tertail county branch of the Minnesota
Sound Government association was
organized.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the present city
light plant has been outgrown, 20
Fairmont homes are without lights
awaiting compilations of a new plant
| Aug. Is.
Moorhead-Six freight cars were
smashed up when an east bound
freight train on the Northern Pacific
struck a cook shack at the east edge
of Moorhead Saturday night
Virginia-Herman Jackson, aged %,
Is in hospital at Gilbert with frac-
tured skull. the result of being struck
| by an auto. The driver, John Botalla,
is being held pending investigation by
the police,
Thief River Falls-The senior class
OF the Lincoln high school to graduate
this year is the largest in the history
| OF the local schools. The class has
e1ghty-five members, including thirty
| one in the normal department.
st. Cloud. r. Jerrard got advices
from the government fish hatchery at
Duluth that ten cans of young trout
will be shipped to him for distribu-
ton in the nearby spring brooks at the
request Of Congressman Harold Knut-
SON.
Winona-While riding bicycle on
his way to work Charles Emery, 40
years old. painter, suddenly collapsed
and pitched headlong from his wheel.
When picked up by passersby he was
dead. He was victim of heart dis
ease.
Observation-Disclosures will welcome the
sessions of the grand lodge and state
encampment of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows in this city June z,
8, 9, 10 and IL. More than 1000 dele
gates are expected to be present for
the sessions.
Red Lake Falls.-Under a proposed
ordinance before the City council, milk
vendors selling in this city will be re-
quired to have their COWS tested for
tuberculosis once a year. 1t is esti-
mated the cost of the tuberculin test
will not exceed So.
Bemidji-With the sale of 100000
of road bonds which were purchased
by Beltrami county banks, the board
Of county commissioners are now en-
tering upon an aggressive road build
ing campaign and another 100000
bond will be offered for sale June l.
Pequot-F. Wefelmeyer, president
of the Wefelmeyer & Thiessen Pickle
company, has secured enough con-
tracts from cucumber growers in the
vicinity Of Pequot to warrant his es-
tablishing a pickle station here. A
site for the new plant has been secur-
ed
Hibbing-Unless the farmers in the
rural districts near Hibbing can obtain
labor, crops will not be up to expecta-
tons, according to statement credit
ed to Secretary Richard Griffin of the
st. Louis County fair The farmers
in many instances cannot afford to pay
the salaries demanded of them by
farm labor. Potatoes will be one of
the biggest crops planted this year.
Hibbing-One thousand dollars in
Liberty bonds have mysteriously dis
appeared from the vaults in the board
of education's rooms of the Jefferson
school building. The bonds are believ-
ed to have been stolen and the police
are working on the case. Eight hun
dreds dollars worth of bonds belonged
to ]. w. Richardson, principal of the
Washington school and the remainder
to G. C. Alexander, superintendent of
schools
Alexandria-Two officers of the
United Society of Christian Endeavor,
the national organization of the Chris |
tian Endeavor movement, will speak |
at the 30th annual Minnesota Chris
tian Endeavor convention here, June |
24-27. DR.. Daniel A. Polling, associate |
president, will open the convention |
with an address on Thursday evening, |
June oath, Clarence G. Hamilton, field |
of the Christian Endeavor
World will be the chief conference
leader.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS B. Lees, who
served as captain in the army during |
the war seeks an order from Judge |
Bardwell of the Hennepin county dis
trict court restraining the appoint
ment Of Earle Brown as sheriff of |
Hennepin county as the first step in
1 fight which Lees will make for that
office. He will ask the order, he said,
1nder the law passed by the last ses-
sion Of the Minnesota legislature pro-
7iding that ex-service men should be
given the preference in appointive of
ices.
Minneapolis-Por school build
ngs probably will house part of this
,ity's school children next year. Be-
,ause of the increased cost Of mate
'ials and labor construction of
even schools has been indefinitely
Bids for four schools
amount to the entire available build
ng fund, from which it was planned
o construct seven high grade struc-
ures- Members of the local board of
education are inclined to believe that
portable buildings, which can be put
lp much cheaper than the regulation
choolhouse, would be a better solu-
ion.