The Ely miner., 1920-10-22
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
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News of Events In Gopher State
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Sources and Arranged in
Crisp Readable Form.

Pipestone-The city council has
voted a tax of / mill on the assessed
valuation of the city for the support
of the Pipestone band.
ST. Paul--Fred Schloss of Rose,
Mimi, is in Jail here following raid
on his farm, in which federal officers
said they found one still in lake, 16
empty barrels in his cellar and 900
pounds of sugar in the barn.
tillwater-Arnold, the 16 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Berglund of
this city, is dead. He was a substi.
tute in recent football game here and
at the end of the contest complained
of not feeling we'll Physicians found
blood clot on his brain which re-
suited fatally
Hibbing-Game Warden George
Wood cleared iup the mysterious shoot
ing of Joseph Boscoe, IA year old Stew.
enson youth, who was shot through
the jaw while hunting in the woods
north of Stevenson. William Niemi
confessed to the game warden that he
mistook the youth for deer and fired.
Tyler-Public ceremonies which
were very largely attended marked
the opening of the new Tyler commu-
nifty hospital, an institution erected
through the efforts of the public of this
place. The hospital takes the place
of the one which was entirely destroy
ed by the tornado which visited Tyler
two years ago.
neapolis-Shevlin Hall has been
thrown open to University of Mime
sofa girls who live near the campus,
evening until p. m. A rest room, a
study hall and a place for dancing have
been provided for nonresident girls
who spend their evenings on the cam
pus.
ST. Paula challenge to ST. Paul
Catholics to equal the mark of $4,000
600 which Minneapolis has set as its
goal in the $5,OOO,0O0 Archbishop Ire
land Educational Fund campaign. was
delivered by Paul Daggett, secretary
of the Minneapolis active committee,
at st. Paul committee meeting in the
MERCHANTS National DdnK.
st. Faul-Minnesota will take a lead
ing part in a national campaign to ex-
tend the use of milk and dairy pro-
ducts and through increasing their con-
sumption to extend and encourage the
dairy phase of the farm industry and
stimulate the creamery industry, ]. w.
McKerrow, secretary of the Minnesota
Dairy council, announced.
ST. Paul-The state securities COM
mission reported that applications for
charters by three banks were denied
and one granted last week Applica-
tions by the First State bank of Emily,
Peoples State bank of Nevis and
Farmers State bank of Akeley were
denied, and a charter was granted to
the Commercial State bank of Brai-
nerd.
st. Paul-Minnesota will be the GEN.
trail figure in military aviation for the
entire Middle West as soon as the re-
of the national guard and
the regular army is complete. There
will be in addition to the observation
squadron of % officers and 81 men, a
pursuit squadron of Sc officers and 225
men. This latter outfit will have 26
planes of the latest and fastest fight
ing type.
ST. Paul-Resignation of Cal. e.
Stone, passenger traffic manager of
the Great Northern railroad was an
nounced in ST. Paul Mr.. Stone will
make his home in California after set
tling his ST. Paul affairs Mr.. Stone
is widely known. In 1912 he was man.
ager of w H. Taft's campaign in Min
nesota He was a member of the Min
nesota state legislature for three ses-
sions, and was the Minnesota commits
sioner of the Panama exposition in San
Francisco.
Minneapolis-The difficulty a year
ago of getting labor for cordwood cut
ting and the fact that most southern
farms have been cleared
about as much as their owners wish
them to be, combined with the heavy
freight charges on soft woods brought
down. from northern Minnesota, are
to make good cordwood a
scarce article in Minneapolis. Hard
woods, to be available for burning this
year. must have been cut year ago,
when labor was scarce, to have sea-
soned sufficiently. Softwoods are
plentiful in the north, but both labor
and freight costs have worked against
getting it out.
Wells-Hans Johnson, whose farm
adjoins the town of Wells, had stated
that his corn would go 100 bushels to
a portion of his 40 acre field was meas
ured off and husked. 1t yielded 101
bushels to the acre.
st. Paul-The State Pardon board,
definitely denied the application of
Joseph W. Bragdon, Minneapolis club
man, known as Uncle Ned" He was
convicted of an offense against a
young girl in Minneapolis. The case
was considered, when a petition from
100000 clubwomen was received in
protest.
Buhl-M. A. Morse, former superin-
tendent of schools, who was the GEN.
trail figure in a school controversy
here, is now assistant director of re-
education of Minnesota, having been
chosen at a quarterly meeting of the
state board of education just held in
ST. Paul.
Deluth-Five hundred dollars day
is the expense of the forest fire test
cases now being heard in district
court, according to estimates of
judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and
reporters engaged in the trial The
present trial began Sept. 20 and is ex-
oected to last more than two months