The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-08-27

| Long Prairie-Frank F. Bedell, own
er of forty-acre farm in section 2s
Of Leslie township, was found dead
there by Will Lunceford. neighbor
Fairmont-The Minneapolis Trust
company bid in $4,000 worth of Mar
tin county ditch bonds, and $4,000
highway bonds at premiums of $1,175
and 1910 respectively.
Huntley-Shortly after an elevator
He'd to the limit collapsed and allowed
| grain to fall in carloads over the Mil.
waukee tracks, freight train dashed
| into the debris and was derailed.
international Falls-Dr. Osborn, for.
merly of Baudette, has purchased the
interest of his partner, DR.. Craig, in
the Northern Minnesota hospital here,
and now is in sole charge of the insti-
| tuition.
Brainerd-A school of instruction
OF the League of Women Voters will
be conducted in Brainerd Wednesday,
Sept. %, Miss Anne Severance of
Crosby, county chairman, has an
nounced
Pine City-Inez and Cora Soderquist
who won in the competitive spelling
contest in the local school last spring,
have been chosen to represent Pine
county in the state contest at the
state fair
Minneapolis executive commit
tee of the State Horseshoe Pitchers
association invited the national body
to hold its 1921 tournament at the
Minnesota state fair with meetings in
Minneapolis.
Winona-A proposition to erect
consolidated school at Pickwick, near
here, was defeated by decisive ma
jority Of the voters. Winona county
has but one consolidated school, locat-
ed at Lewistown.
Cook-Former citizens of various
old world nations have participated in
pageant here, depicting scenes pc
culiar to their own native land, some
thing never attempted on such a scale
in this section before.
Crookston-J. NJ McHenry, sought
in Crookston by Grand Forks authori-
ties for the illegal sale of auto tires,
has been arrested at Devils Lake, N.
D., according to word received by
Sheriff o. K Rolstad
Minneapolis-Fou hundred mem
bers of Twin City subordinate lodges
of the Knights of Pythias celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of the order in Minnesota in Py-
THAN hall, Masonic temple.
Winona-The corn crop in southern
Minnesota and eastern South Dakota
is in excellent condition and a good
yield is indicated, according to an Off
cial railroad crop report issued here
Rain is needed badly in some sections
Reports on the result of threshing in
80 communities show an average for
wheat of 10 bushels to the acre.
Luverne-Insurance companies have
come to settlement in the matter of
the policies held by G. E. Knaack of
Hartley, Iowa, a banker, who was
found dead on the morning of May
%, 1919, on the shore of the lake at
Worthington. More than $4,000 is
paid to the widow, Mrs. Ada H.
Knaack, as result of the settlement
Lake City-Temporarily insane,
Fred Hoffman, a farmer near here,
shot and then hung himself, after fir
ing his barns and the beds of the up
per story of his house. Neighbors at
tracted by the fire found the body
hanging in a buggy shed. He was 55
years of age, unmarried, born in Ger
many and came to this section 80
years ago.
Duluth-For the second time in his
tory Daniel de Greysolon, Sieur Du
Lhut landed on the uncharted shores
of the Head of the Lakes, established
friendship with the Ojibway Indians,
and wrote the first page in the history
of the Zenith City. The occasion was
the North Star festival and Golden
Jubilee anniversary Of the city of Du-
luth-staged fifty years afted the city
received its charter.
Ivanhoe-Fred Jensen, a farmer
near here, had narrow escape from
death when mower passed over h IS
body. An obstruction caused Jensen
to leave his seat and while he was in
front of the machine the horses start
ed to run. The man was thrown down
and when the mower passed over him
the main artery in one of his legs was
severed. The man was nearly dead
from loss of blood when physician
called from this place arrived.
Hendricks-Vera Cnader, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. C.. H. Chader, had a
narrow escape from drowning in Lake
Hendricks while bathing with a num-
Der of girl companions. The girl got |
over her depth, and after her compan-
ions made frantic efforts to rescue her, |
they obtained the help of Policeman
Johnson. He dove to the bottom of |
the lake and brought up the girl 1t |
was only after several hours of siren
uous work that her life was restored.
Thief River Falls-The first grain
from the 1920 harvest has been sold |
at the elevator of the Hanson & Bar |
zen Milling Co. j. s. Brown, Carl Hill
lard and p. H. McAndrews each |
brought in several loads of rye, which |
breaks all previous records in Pen |
nington county by at least two weeks, |
according to those who have kept tab |
on such things The new crops are
of excellent quality, with large, plump
kernels, and the yield is said to be ex-
ceptionally heavy.
Fairmont-T county board provid- |
ed transportation back to Minot, N. D.,
for Mrs. A. ID. Gilmor and her six chill |
dren. The mother came here to put
the children in local orphanage, but
the board declined to allow public
charges to be brought from another
state.
Owatonna-The city council has re-