The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-05-07
Recent happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief TENS for
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vendors selling in this city will be re
| tuberculosis once year. 1t is esti
mated the cost of the tuberculin tes
will not exceed so.
/ Red Lake lis.-Enrollment at the
Red Lake Falls high school for the
| present term was 72, according to the
annual report of E. M. Phillips, state
high school inspector. Of this mum
Der 81 were boys and 81 girls. There
were Isl enrolled in the grades, 7S
boys and 70 girls.
Chisholm.-Steven Popnotnik, cloth
ing merchant of this village, aged 3S
died while being taken to a hospital
from poisoning caused by eating
| olives. This is the first case of olive
poisoning reported on the Range and
as result the health authorities have
issued warning.
st. Paul.-Governor Burnquist has
announced that he will order hearings
on the request for removal of Louis
G.. Vogel as auditor of Brown county
| on charges made by August G. Erick-
son, Springfield attorney and editor
of the Springfield Free Press, who
says that he was assaulted by the audi
tor February II, while in the New Ulm
courthouse on official business
Beaver-Mrs. Joseph Betzler, be,
lieved to have had the largest family
of children in northern Minnesota
died here. She was mother to FL chill
dren, eleven of whom are living. Mrs
Betzler was born in Berne, Switzer-
land, January II, 1851, and came to
Beaver Bay IS years ago at the age of
three. Beaver Bay is older than Du.
luth. Timber cut on the 'Betzler home
stead was used in early Duluth and
Ashland buildings
Akeley-Target practice four miles
east of Akeley put the Guyana Range
Power company out of commission and
resulted in damage to the big dynamo
at the plant. Some one shot off the
insulators ON the Akeley-Walker line
and soon big sheets of flame burst
from the dynamo. The engineer sum-
moned the fire department and had a
thrilling experience shutting off the
engine, not being able to reach the
throttle. 1t took day to make re-
pairs.
Duluth-Three hundred and three
damage suits, affecting claims aggre-
eating $10,00O,000 will be disposed of
at single sweep, when the entire jul
dietary of the 18th district takes the
bench at Duluth as associate judges.
They will decide by a test case
whether Walker D. Hines, as agent for
the president under the wartime con-
fiscation act, shall be held liable for
damages resulting from the forest
fires, which devastated northern Min
nesota Oct. IL, 1913.
st. Publishing that he be paid
for work he did for them extending
over period of 20 years, Adam Schu-
maker, flied suit in district court to
recover $10,692 from Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Laumann, ST. Paul In his
complaint Schumacher alleges that he
worked for the Laumanns practically
for nothing until he was of age, when
they agreed to give him $40 a week
and board but that all he received was
meager amounts for tobacco and cloth
ing aggregating less than $50 a year
st. Paul-Less than one-third of the
people of Minnesota, which is rated
an agricultural state, are on farms, in
stead of more than half the state po-
pulation as commonly supposed. Hugh
]. Hughes marketing director in the
state department of agriculture, made
the announcement after a careful
study of United States census reports
and declared that the condition is an
other reason for the high cost of liv-
ing. 1.-THE farm as factory is shorter
handed than is generally believed"
said the director.
Observation-Disclosures will enter
tain the 30th annual convention of the
Minnesota Christian Endeavor Union,
Inc, June 24-27 The Christian En-.
deavor movement is world wide in
scope and in over 80 denominations
has about 100000 active societies with
100000 members. In Minnesota
there are about 600 societies. At the
1917 conventions with a view toward
raising an Endowment Fund for ex-
tention word these societies directed
that the state union be Incorporated
This has been accomplished and will
come before the Alexandria conven-
ton business session, June 26th, for
final ratification.
ST. Paul.-Minnesota will celebrate
the sixty-second anniversary of her
admission to the union as a state
Tuesday, May IL. Territorial pioneers
will hold an all-day meeting at the old
capitol to commemorate the event, re-
calling "reminiscences of the days
when Minnesota was a territory Min
nesota was admitted to the union May
IL, 1858.
Luverne.-Tke first official act of
Mayor c. 0. Wright, upon his return
from spending the winter in California
was to order the police to strictly en-
force the traffic laws Violators are
to be severely dealt with
Observation-Disclosures Of the local
Legion post have taken the
first steps in the financing of a nov
ing picture theater to provide amuse-
ment for this village. They are to be
aided by members of the Glendale
Business Mems association.
Luverne.-Preliminary steps to-
wards the establishment of free mail
delivery service in Luverne are being
taken in this city. All of the resi-
dences and business buildings will