The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-04-16
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief TENS for
Busy Re- iers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News Of Events In Gorher State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

Sank Center.-Robert ]. Swift post
of the American Legion passed reso-
lutions urging congress to back the
bonus bill.
Mora.-The Mora Booster band has
secured William r. Wehrend, musical
director at the University of Mime
sofa, as a permanent instructor.
Sank Rapids.-At meeting of the
board of education of Sank Rapids all
the present teachers were reelected
crease in salary.
Luverne-The farm Of Charles
Tatge, adjoining the city limits, was
sold to l.. M. Meyer of Adrian for
$1,000 an acre. This is said to be the
highest price paid for farm land in
Rock county.
Cloquet.-Now is the time for farm
ers to burn the grass in natural mea-
dows, according to Percy Vibert, for
est ranger for this district, who also
says that a permit must be secured
before the burning is done.
Observation-Disclosures of the Rock
County Boys and Girls Registered
Calf club have received calves and
will Immediately begin preparing the
stock for the annual exhibition to be
slated September II at the county
| fair.
Brainerd.-Plans for erecting new
$4,000 church building by the First
Baptist church here are made, and
the entire sum, together with an addi-
tional $4,000, the congregations
quota in the statewide financial cam
paign, was raised in one Sunday.
Observation-Disclosures Rooney, Ovation
ma, was perhaps fatally injured and
the two small sons of John Perry are
suffering from severe burns and
bruises at hospital here as the re-
suit of an explosion of gas light
ing plant which was being installed at
the Perry farm.
| Moorhead.-The last mortgage on
the First Presbyterian church of
Moorhead was burned by DR.. w. ].
Hail, pastor of the church, at serv-
| ices held in the church. The last
| payment on the mortgage, given in
| 1914, was paid this year, in the sum
of $1,176, four years before the prin-
| cipal was due.
Fergus Falls.-Winter wheat and
rye in Minnesota have come through
the winter in fair condition, according
| to the April crop report of the Bureau
of Crop Estimates issued by Paul H.
Kirk, Minnesota field agent here. The
| condition of the rye crop is estimated
| at 90 per cent of normal as compared
with al per cent at the same time
last year. The condition of winter
| wheat in Minnesota is placed at 90
percent OF normal.
polis.--The population of
Minneapolis is 3S0,498, according to
the official Federal census for 1920 an
nounced by the Census bureau in
Washington This is an increase of
$1,000 over the total of 1910, or an
increase of 1924 per cent. The 1910
census gave Minneapolis population
Of 301, 40S persons. The percentage of
growth in Minneapolis population COM
pares favorably with the growth of
the cities of more than 100000 popula-
tion for which official 1920 figures
have been. issued
st. Paul.-Concern about Joseph T.
Mannix, former state printer, who
started on a tour of the world Oct
8, 1917, and kept state house friends
posted on his movements by postal
cards, the last of which came from
hoc ohofn hot
he had been lost somewhere between
Singapore and some other place in
the Far East prove to have been
groundless. Advices have just been
received that instead of being lost he
has found wife, wealthy widow of
Manila, and has located there, becom-
ing agent for the Standard Oil COM
pany.
Minneapolis. Investigation con-
Quoted by the publicity department Of
the Interchurch World Movement in
dicates that nearly twice as many per-
sons were taken into membership by
the churches represented in the move
figures of other years. One denomina-
ton alone in Minneapolis took in 1923
members on Easter Sunday. Other
denominations report similar figures.
This increase in membership aud in
terest in the church is taken as an
augury of success for the financial
campaign Of the movement, which will
take place April 25 to May 2, and for
which organization in every state in
the union is now being perfected.
Minneapolis.-Wi the removal by
the United States Grain corporation of
its rule prohibiting contracts by
millers and -four jobbers from deliv-
cry of -four later than sixty days after
date of contract, Minneapolis flour
mills took their first step toward re-
sumption of complete private control,
after more than two years OF govern
meDt supervision.
New Ulm.--Dr. L. A. Fritschje
ousted from the mayors office by Gov
ernor Burncuist during the war, was
elected mayor here by a majority of
46S over the incumbent, Willibald Lib
ner
Minneapolis. -Twenty-two thousand
dollars was paid for a six-months' old
bull calf, Sir Lola Pontiac Segis Orms-
by, in the Hackney-Irwin cattle sale at
the Hippodrome building at the State
Fair grounds. The purchase was
made jointly by the ST. Olaf College
of Northhs!d and the Fleck farm of