The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-03-12
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief TENS for
Busy Rc--ders.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News Of Events In GOPHER State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

mers in this city plan of erecting a
stock sales pavilion was launched.
The territory will cover several coun-
ties.
Jacksonville present indications
are that the $1,000,000 ditch project
plan for Sioux Valley township will be
abandoned without further proceed
ings.
Hastings.-Royai Arch Masons from
Lake City, Red Wing and Pennington
assisted the local lodge in initiating
classes. A banquet followed the cere-
monies.
Bemidji.--A. T. Carlson. city chair
man of the Near East relief drive, re-
Gently held in Bemidji, reports
$1,0074O was secured, while the ex-
penses were only $17.03.
Stillwater.-John Brewer, SO years
old, is dead at his home in South Still
water He was a resident of South
Saltwater for 55 years. The body was
taken to Prescott for burial.
Albert Lea.-Professor w. H. Alder
man and Professor e. S. Mcintosh, of
the University farm, were the leading
speakers here at the annual meeting
of the Southern Minnesota Horticul-
tural society.
Hastings Dakota County Treas
urer Maurice O'Brien received from
the state treasury $13,598.60, the coun-
tvs share of the semiannual school aid
apportionment. Dakota county has
5,018 enrolled pupils.
Winona-Announcem was made
by Ames Brothers of Weaver that they
had sold Leader of Fashion" a Duroc
boar to the Underwood farms at Lake
City for $4,000. This is believed to
be a record price for this section of
the country.
East Grand Forks.-Supt. H. e.
Wolff, formerly superintendent of
schools in East Grand Forks, has been
reelected at Deer River, Mimi. at an
increase in salary. Mr.. Wolff left this
city five years ago for Fairmont and
later to Deer River.
ST. Paula stubborn fire of spec
tacular proportions, which threatened
to spread to three small hotels, de-
stroyed the Rialto theater. Firemen
fought the blaze for five hours. The
temperature was deg. below zero.
Loss is estimated at 100000.
Moorhead County Agent
A. w. Aamodt resigned his position,
which will take effect April 1, when
he will come to Moorhead to take the
position as manager of the Clay Coun-
ty Certified Seed Potato Growers as
sociation at largely increased salary.
Winona.-The threatened strike of
the janitors OF Winona public schools
was avoided here when a compromise
of $50 bonus for the balance of the
school year was accepted. The jani-
tors had notified the board if their de-
mands for a fiat increase of SIS O
month was not met they would turn 81
their keys.
st. Paul.-Acting on recommends
tion of acting Sheriff John p Wall,
Governor Burnquist has ordered the
withdrawal of National Guardsmen
from International Falls after nearly
three months service on. the border.
The detachment at International Falls
consisted of SO men and two officers
from Morris. They have entrained for
home.
Duluth.--"Twenty years from now
an illegal sale of liquor will be looked
upon as violat IN OF law, but the
people of this country will consider it
as great disgrace rs stealing" Judge
Page Morris told John Beaton, Robert
Blossingham and Terrence Lennon in
United States district court when he
sentenced them to 80 days terms at
the Beltrami county jail at Bemidji.
Duluth.-The board of education re-
jected a petition signed by practically
all teachers in the Duluth public
schools asking for a bonus to carry
them over at the end of the current
school year. A resolution stating that
the board has no funds with which to
pay the teachers bonus will be sent to
the Duluth Teachers association,
Chairman A. c. Leduc said, after the
executive session.
Moorhead-An order restraining the
school officers and the superintendent
of schools of Norman county from
certifying the result of the election on
the proposed consolidation of the Bor-
up school district with the north half
of District No. 81 in Norman county
was extended. by Judge C.. A. Nye in
Clay county district court and the case
ordered placed in the calendar for the
May term of district court.
Duluth.-Although fire sufferers in
the Cloquet district are willing that
all claims for losses growing out of
the 1918 fires be pooled and tried as
single lawsuit, it became known here
that the United States railroad adj
disapproved the plan. 1t
is probable that individual suits will
be started.
ST. James.-St James district re-
ported it's quota raised for the Near
East Relief in the campaign for $780,
GOO to be raised in the state for the
famine stricken Armenians Will Cur
tbs, publisher of ST. James Plain
dealer, is chairman of the district
Luverne.- plans are
now going forward for the extensive
road work that is to be carried on in
Rock county. Several of the state
roads in the county are to be grayeled
and it is stated work to be done here
will be the most extensive road pro-
gram carried on in any county of the
state this year.
Owatonna.-.Iore t-4n $500 of
Steele county's $4,000 quota for the
Near East relief fund las been raised,
according to officials If the county
executive committee Forts will be
ace to csmplete the quota Within the