The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-10-01

Albert Lea-John Weld is dead OF
lockjaw brought on by injuries sus-
| tanned five weeks ago when cranking
car that backfired.
Crosby-While underneath his auto.
repairing it, John Shepherd received
broken back when the car slipped
from the jacks and fell on him.
Fergus Falls-Crushed beneath a
tree he felled, Christian Zorn died
shortly after help arrived. He had
struggled for hours to free himself.
st. Paul-The United StatesGeolog-
ical Surveys report, issued fhsWash-
ington, shows that the northernmost
point on the United States mainland
is in Minnesota.
Hastings Walter Stone of Denmark,
Washington county, was injured in a
30-foot fall from silo on the farm of
Henry Foley. He will recover. Stone
is prominent stock raiser
Jackson-Because the annual county
fair was rained out this year, the di-
rectors of the agricultural association
are making plans for big corn show
and race meet in this city Oct. 6 and z.
Winona- While picking apples from
tree, August Miller, As years old, a
farmer living near Alma, Wis, lost his
grip and fell to the ground fracturing
his skull. He died few hours later
st. Paul-The state securities COM
mission has denied charter to the
Citizens State bank of Starbuck, stat
ing that the business done in the vic
Unity did not warrant an additional
bank.
st. Paul-"More than Fl years" is
sufficient for women voters to tell Oct.
%, when election judges ask their age,
state officials said. Women unwilling
to give their true age need not fear to,
register.
Duluth-The five district court
judges sitting en- bloc in the Moose
Lake $10,000,000 damage cases against
the 500 railroad, growing out of the
forest fires of 1918, will hear more
than 200 witnesses.
Minneapolis-Wa A. Williams,
former secretary of the South St. Paul
Commercial club, will direct cam
paign backed by the South st. Paul
live stock interests to eradicate tu-
berculosis in livestock.
Minneapolis-The dates of the Min
nesota potato show and Minnesota Po-
tato Growers convention have been
advanced to Nov. s, 9 and 10, accord
ing to A. G. Tolaas, secretary. The Of
fetal program is now being prepared.
Granite Falls-Public dancing was
sanctioned in Granite Falls when the
voters of the city by vote of 251 to
121 authorized the village council to
at once adopt an ordinance licensing
public dance halls and regulating dane
ing.
nneapolis-Fridley will have
$1,000,000 creosoting plant whose an
nual output will be 1000 cars of poles,
100000 posts and 100000 ties, accord
ing to statement made by B. R. Cop
page of the w. H. Evans company,
which sold the site to the Walsh creo-
soting company of st. Louis.
Minneapolis-To determine whether
physicians are writing whisky pre-
scriptions for their friends rather than
their patients, five men are now check
ing the prescription blanks issued in
the state of Minnesota, Jesse G. Steen-
son, state federal prohibition director,
said. Few Irregularities have been
found so far, Mr.. Steenson reported.
st. Paul-John F. Fulton, Jr., st.
Paul, was chosen as the 1921 Rhodes
scholar from Minnesota, to be one of
GA scholars chosen to represent the
United States at Oxford for the next
three years, according to an announce
ment made by Prof Frank Aydelotte
of the Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology, American secretary of the
Rhodes trustees.
Minneapolis-Five carloads of rein
deer carcasses, sent frozen from
Nome, Alaska, for consumption as
meat in the United States, reached
consigned to the Ornes-
Eswein corporation, American distrib-
utors for that product. The shipment
1000 animals and is part of
a $4,000 consignment of which the
remainder is expected in early in Oc-
tober.
Observation-Disclosures of the Amer
lean Legion in the seventh Minnesota
comprising IA counties, will
form a permanent organization at a
in Montevideo, Friday, Oct.
s. The Legion has sc posts I'm the dis
trict. Officers of the Minnesota de-
partment will attend the meeting and
State Commander A. H. Vernon will
deliver an address.
st. Paul-Unless the supply of grain
cars to the northwest is brought up
to 100 per cent of normal by Oct Is,
grain shipments will be tied up, ele-
vators clogged and grain wasted, O.
P. B. Jacobson, member of the rail-
road and warehouse commission, said
on his return to st. Paul from a con-
ference of North Dakota, South Da-
kota and Minnesota officials at Chi
cago, where the car shortage problem
was discussed with railroad men,
st. Paul-Sugar beets in large guam
ties are being raised in northwestern
Minnesota for the first time this sea-
son, ]. H. Ray, deputy agricultural
commissioner said after his return
from tour. Pennington, Clearwater,
Red Lake, Polk and Beltrami counties
are getting into the beet raising bust
ness in earnest, Mr.. Ray said. Yields
are running from to Is tons to the
acre and the farmers are guaranteed
4 minimum price Of more than $40 a
.on at the nearest railroad station
st. Paul-Royalty receipts from iron
ore mined on properties owned by the
state of Minnesota during the three
months ending with September, will
total 100000, the largest amount re-
,eived by state trust funds from that