The Ely miner., 1920-12-24
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
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News of Events In Gopher State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged in
Crisp Readable Form.

| prominent and pioneer citizens Of this
| city.
st. Paul-The ST. Paul Council of
the American Association for the Rec
ognition of the Irish Republic was or
ganized at meeting held in Bowlby
| hall.
Adrian-The police department by
| order of the mayor has removed all
| slot machines, punchboards, and other
gambling devices from poorrooms of
| the city.
st. Peter-At the annual meeting
| of the William r. Witty post, No. 27,
| American Legion, Edward Molster ad-
jutant for the last year, was elected
commander
st. Cloud-Frank j. Lorinser, resi-
| dent of st. Cloud for the last half cen
| tury, employe of the city almost con
| tinually for nearly two score years,
| passed away.
Morris-The final report of the
| fourth rollcall of the Red Cross drive
in Stevens county shows a member
| ship of 1,4S4 and a total amount of ST.
5S6.75 collected.
st. Peter-Dr. w. w. Covell, former
Regular Army captain, was elected
president of the Nicollet-LeSueur
County Medical association at their
annual meeting here.
st. Paul-An order Of the Railroad
and Warehouse ommission requires
the Great Northern Railroad company
to erect new and suitable depot at
| Sandstone by December 1, 1921
st. Paul-T. w. Doughty, banker
of Armstrong, Iowa, was suffocated or
burned to death in his room on the
ninth floor of the st. Paul Athletic
| club when fire was discovered in the
room.
| Thief River Falls-On a lake that
usually is covered with from 80 to
| 35 inches of ice this time of the year,
| local ice companies have started har-
vesting ice that is only inches in
thickness.
Duluth-A comprehensive report of
the work of the Minnesota forest relief
association will be submitted soon to
Governor ]. A. A. BurnquisG for pre-
sentation to the state legislature when
| it meets in January.
| Battle Lake-Three lives were lost
when skating party broke through
the ice on a lake in Amor township
near here. The dead are: Ike Bixby
and the youns son and daughter of H.
Loefelholtz, all residents of that town
ship.
| st. Paul-His feet slipping oD an icy
windowsill on the ninth floo~ of the
Guardian Life building, Steve Bodner,
81 years old, window washer, fell six
stories to the roof of a three-story
building next door and was almost in
stantly killed.
Moorhead-In the roundup of sus-
poets for the attempted liquor robbery
near Glyndon, Mimi, police of Fargo
and Moorhead have arrested six per-
sons. According to Garfield H. Rus
tad, county auditor, confessions in his
hands implicate nine more.
| Red Wing-Isadore Rosenfeldt, St.
| Paul, an inmate at the training school
| here was given into the custody of
Sheriff John A. Anderson to be held
| in connection with the death of Edwin
Holt of Duluth who died as the result
of knife wound. Both boys are Is
years old.
Minneapolis-Pla for the estab.
| lishment Of a grading system for po-
| tatoes by which the product may be
standardized and the consumer may be
| protected against overcharge were dis
cussed by directors of the Minnesota
Potato exchange, meeting at the asso-
cations headquarters.
Minneapolis-Re lumber dealers
| of Minnesota, Iowa, North and South
Dakota will gather here January IS,
| 10 and 20 to attend the thirty-frst an
nual convention of the Northwestern
Lumbermen's association. secretary
| Alfred Pfund, Minneapolis, announces
that hotel reservations coming already
indicate the largest attendance in the
history of the association.
ST. Paul-Net profit of the Mime
sofa State Fair this year was $217,-
| 03017, which is SIS, ,44347 more than
| the record figures of 1919, despite an
| increase in cost of staging the Fair
| and an increase in the total amount
| given in premiums, according to the
| report of Thomas Garfield, secretary
of the Minnesota State Agricultural So
ciety, to Governor Burnquist.
Appleton-A machine gun company
with II members, was mustered into
| federal service here by Captain T. w.
Black, U. S. A. Lester A. Hancock is
captain of the new organization, T. L..
| Gill, first lieutenant, and Joseph M.
Johnson, second lieutenant The COM
pany is almost entirely composed Of
| former service men.
Sleepy Eye-Paul Christensen, a
| telephone worker, received fatal injur-
| les while assisting in the removal Of
telephone pole at Springfield, Chris
| tionsen became entangled in a guy
wire and was thrown to the ground,
| his skull being fractured
South st. Paul-While returning
from a funeral at Pennington, James
c. Kirk, commission dealer of ST. Paul
was killed when the automobile in
| which he was riding went over an en-
bankment along Jefferson highway
| ave miles from the st. Paul city linn
it's. William S. Samels, who was driv-
ing the car, escaped serious injury.
Minneapolis-Lo valued at 1000
which included $4,000 in cash and
| $4,000 in negotiable bonds was OBJ
| aimed by bandits who held up the Mil
aukee train between Hopkins and
inneapolis December 3, postoffice in