The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-05-07

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st. Peter Citizens of Nicollet coun-
| ty have organized the Nicollet county
branch. of the Minnesota Sound Gov
eminent association.
Pipestone.-Rural school teachers of
this county, meeting here, adopted res
olutions asking for increases in salar-
les and certain improvements.
Truman.-Two hundred Odd Fellows
and friends celebrated the 101st an
niversary of the foundation of the or
der with program of music and ad-
| dresses.
Duluth-Coal dealers here have re-
ceived notice the prices of soft coal
will be $3.50 higher than last year on
cargoes now en- route for Duluth from
Lake Erie ports.
Pine City-Pine county is being Wis
tied this spring by many landseekers
from southern Minnesota, Iowa and
the Dakotas, attracted here by low
priced productive lands.
Owatonna-Owatonna bankers will
be hosts to members of the First dis
trict group of the Minnesota Bankers
association at that body's annual meet
ing here May % and 26.
Hibbing. Hibbing's first serious la
Dor disturbance came to an end when
the carpenters who have been asking
for an increase in wages had their re-
quest granted by the contractors.
Farmers of this vicinity
who have formed a cooperative eleva-
tor company have asked for bids for
10000 bushels elevator to be located
on Omaha railroad trackage here
Beardsley-C Crowds coming from the
surrounding territory for many miles
are attending the community evang-
elistic campaign conducted in the
Methodist Episcopal church here.
Fairmont.-D. C. Stewart, farmer,
used a lantern when he peeped into
the tank to see if an oil station had
given him good measure of gasoline
for his f1ivver. The chassis was saved.
st. Paul-Two new state banks were
chartered by the State Securities COM
mission, following recent hearings.
The banks are to be located at New
Prairie and Skyberg, with $4,000 ca
pital each
Hastings-By a, decision handed
down in Dakota county district court
here the village of Pennington is en-
Joined from issuing bonds for paving
until approved by a five-eighths ma,
jority of the voters.
Worthington-A. J. Goff for num-
Der of years member of the city,
council, was unanimously elected
mayor of Worthington by the city
council to fill the unexpired term of
the late w. e. Oliver.
ST Cloud-N. ]. Ostraas of Mime
apolis has purchased the ST. Cloud ho-
tel from Mrs. Lawrence F. Schaefer
Mrs. Schaefer has conducted the hotel
for the past six years. The new owner
is to take possession May 1.
Owatonna-Plans for the forty-third
annual commencement of Pillsbury
academy are being completed. The
commencement exercises will be June
2 and will be marked by speakers,
physical and military drill. A class of
% will be graduated.
Brainerd-Woo growers of Grow
Wing county will organize a wool
pooling association through which
they will pool their clip this year and
have bidders from wool mills and other
wool buyers place bids on the Crow
Wing county wool crop.
Thief River Falls.-Frontis Parker
and Oscar Johnson are held here un-
der $1,000 bail each, to appear before
the United States district court May
4 at Fergus Falls on charges of trans
porting liquor into the United States
in violation of the nationwide pro-
hibition act The men were arrested
at Warroad.
Sleepy Eye-An up to date aviation
field is being prepared on the Hilles-
helm farm at the west outskirts of
Sleepy Eye and Edward F. Berkner,
the promoter of the enterprise, will
have a hangar built there which will
accommodate his two machines and
provide space for one visiting plane.
Mr.. Berkner will employ the machines
in his business as real estate man.
o"dtOLlud -DiuS LUZ tuO lllplOFo-
ment of eight miles of the Jefferson
highway on both sides of this city,
were rejected by the board of Steel
county commissioners, when they were
informed the state authorities would
refuse to grant aid for the project, be-
cause the bids were considered too
high. The rejection of the bids means
that the improvement will probably be
dropped for year.
Pipestone-Plans are now being
made for the annual commencement |
exercises of the Pipestone high school
on Thursday evening, May q. The
exercises will be in the auditorium of |
the new $4,000 high school building |
and it will be the first public opening |
of this portion of the new structure. |
A class of nearly so will receive dip |
Tomas.
Hibbing-The Mesaba range will en- |
terrain more mining and civil en-
gineers this summer than at any one |
period in the history of the iron ore |
In addition to the national |
of engineers, which is to be |
in Minnesota the coming, sumner, the |
Lake Superior institute and the Mich
igan College of Mines alumni are also
planning junkets to the .Mesaba |
range.
Ivanhoe.-At largely attended |
the Ivanhoe Community club
was organized here, following num-
Der of meetings which had been con-