The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-07-02

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were brisk, buyers coming from a
radius of 35 miles.
| Duluth-The Lake Superior Proven
| tion of Accidents conference was held.
Safe installation of electrical blasting
| equipment" was the subject of an ad-
dress to be given by T. H. Mischief.
| Virginia-The play ground season
opened here with the five city play
grounds filled to capacity. Coach ALI
Jackson and Miss Kathryn Carey of
1 the high school faculty are in charge.
| Fairmont-Two thousand members
of young peoples societies from 20
German Lutheran congregations of
southern Minnesota met here to form
a central body to increase the scope of
these organizations.
Hibbing-Frank Brackvich is dead
from wounds received when shot
through the head twice by an un-
known man in dispute over a card
game. The man who did the shoot
| ing has not been captured
| Ivanhoe-Contact with a live wire
seriously injured Clifford Lien, IA
years old. Turning on a light, young
Lien grasped the wire which carried
voltage enough to throw him to the
floor and render him unconscious.
Crosby Crosby is making prepare
tions to greet the members of the
Northern Minnesota Editorial associa-
ton on July 16, IL and Is. Knute
Nelson, United States senator from
this state, will be here to address the
gathering on Saturday evening of the
| convention.
Duluth-The Saengerfest convened
here with nearly 1000 delegates from
all over the central and western states
and from Canada present. More than
1000 singers were in the concert.
Members of Scandinavian lodges that
had been in session in Duluth and
| Superior remained over for the event.
| Caney-Because of the complaint
that too many young girls and boys
attend public dances here, Chief of
| Police Oscar Snortum says the old law
| has been in the statute books of Min
nesota for many years, relating to the
age of those attending public dances,
|
| future.
Bemidji-Lightning struck the barn
on the I. E. Raymond farm five miles
east of Bemidji last week and fire to-
tally destroyed the building and con-
tents. Mr.. Raymond is rs years old
and has successfully operated his farm
single handed The loss sustained is
| CHI a. I, f,;o
soliciting funds in his behalf.
Mankato-Eugene Conner has been
arrested on charge of setting fire
to the Hotel Francis at Glendale, op-
Grated by Mrs. Zada Conner. He had
| caused considerable disturbance
around the hotel for several days past
and had been told to leave and stay
away, but he returned only to start
| trouble again so it is claimed.
Eating lettuce which had
been sprinkled with insect powder
| nearly resulted in the death of the
| family of Wesley Proxies, living near
here The lettuce bed and cucumber
plot on the Proxies place adjoin each
other and insect powder placed on the
| cucumber vines had been blown by
I the wind onto the lettuce. Several
members of the family were poisoned
and dangerously i'll for time
Stepping from a NOV
| ing airplane at an altitude of 100
feet, Orville Bonn of Montevideo, a
sergeant pilot in the American air
service in the world war, made sue
cessful descent with the aid of a new
parachute. This was the first demon
stration in Minnesota of this para
chute, an invention of Roy Calm of
this city. 1t has been adopted by the
government after thorough tests.
Dell Rapids-Ralph Riley, of Mt
Vernon, is dead as the result of drink
ing the contents of bottle of strich-
nine. The boys father had been dig
ging ditch for a drain when he found
the bottle and threw it aside The boy
| found the bottle and died in convul-
| sions few minutes after drinking
the contents. About year ago the
| boys brother was fatally burned
while playing with fire of old news
papers near his home.
Red Wing-A cloudburst which
struck this city caused derailment of
nine freight cars on the Chicago Great
Western railway and caused the turn
ing over of an automobile with six
occupants on road three miles from
here. The approach to trestle three
miles from the city limits on the
Great Western road was washed out
and derailed nine cars of train en-
tering the city. The cars were loaded
with stock, but none was injured.
| st. Paul-Failure of the United
States Health service to secure prior
ity orders for shipments of alum and
chlorine to purify local water supplies
| leaves many Minnesota cities and
DR.. Charles E. Smith, Jr., executive
officer of the State Board of Health,
declared. Several Minnesota towns
using such chemicals to purify water
have only limited supplies on hand
now, DR.. Smith said, which when ex-
hausted will leave the town without
pure water. The state health depart
| 40 "a iOi QUILL OH CliiCi-
gency and intends to launch local cam
paigns to inform the people of the nee
essity of boiling water for drinking
purposes to safeguard against possible
epidemics of typhoid fever.
Sandstone-Mr. and Mrs. Emil Lar
son of Sandstone celebrated their gol-
den wedding at their home here, being
surrounded by their six children who
all live in Sandstone and twenty-seven
! grandchildren as well as other rela-
tiyes and many friends-about $50