The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-03-25
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News Of Events In Gopher State
= Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.
Moose Lake-Local Masons have let
contracts for the new temple.
Blue Earth-The dates for the Fari-
bault county fair in Blue Earth have
been set for Sept IA, Is and 16.
Rochester body of William
Weber, aged 81, resident of this city,
was found in the Zumbra river here.
He had been in poor health.
Crookston- Students Of the North
west School of Agriculture will stage
an opera here March % in connection
| with the commencement exercises.
About so will take part.
Mantorville-Orlan s. Campbell, a
pioneer resident of this county, COM
mitted suicide at his home by hanging
himself in the basement, according to
information received here
Blue Earth-Lester Barnes of this
city, claims to have received the larg-
est bonus paid to any former service
man In the state. Barnes received $425
for 33 months service in the army.
St Cloud-Co Construction of the new
$4,000 club house for the st. Cloud
Country club will be begun this spring,
it was determined at recent meeting
of the board of governors of the club.
Rochester Olmsted county rural
school teachers to the number of 80
gathered here at the semi-annual meet
ing of the instructors to confer regard
ing the welfare of the rural school
work in the county.
Minneapolis Minneapolis gas con-
sumers viii pay $1.28 thousand cubic
feet, a reduction of three cents, for all
gas used after May /, according to a
new rate announced by the Minneapo-
lis Gas Light company.
Minneapolis interrurban
bus lines out of Minneapolis will begin
operations within few days. The
Touring Car Bus company will put on
six buses between Minneapolis and
Rochester by way of Owatonna.
Pipestone- Approximately an inch of
rain fell in this section Sunday, ac-
cording to the government observers
report today. The section was visited
by severe wind and electrical storm
which was the first of the season.
Rochester-Members of Painters I'M
| ion, No. 681, went on strike here fol-
lowing refusal of contractors to pay
the wage schedule of IS cents per hour
as asked by the men. The contractors
offered 80 cents per hour, it is said.
] Tracy-Bert Van Dusen escaped
death in an explosion by leaping from
his auto truck when the engine took
/ fire. A large tank of gasoline on the
truck exploded, hurting wreckage in all
directions. Van Dusen was driving the
truck.
Duluth-For the purpose Of outlining
the 1921 program of fire prevention,
fighting, suppression and protection,
Henry G. Weber, supervisor Of the
state forest service, with headquarters
In Duluth, is comforting with represen-
tatives Of the lumber companies and
loggers in the Wales district.
ST. Paul-C L. Hilton, attorney gen.
eral for Minnesota, announced that
state laws prohibited the sale of beer
to invalids by prescription. Before
leaving office Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer interpreted the Vol
stead act to permit an invalid" to
have a maximum of So bottles of brew
per month.
Fergus Falls-A new armory was
assured this city when the state in
vestment board approved the city's
bonds for $4,000 and forwarded the
money. The bonds were voted over a
year ago, but the money has not been
available UP to this time. The state
will furnish $4,000 toward the cost of
the building and this sum will be avail
able July /.
Cloquet-Lieut. Art Pierce, Minnea-
polls air pilot, and Bill Oswald, pas
senger, were seriously injured here
when the formers plane crashed to
earth as Pierce attempted to make
forced landing. Oswald is suffering
from conclusion Of the brain and
numerous bruises and cuts. He is not
expected to live. Pierce received a
fractured right leg and minor bruises
and cuts about the head and body.
Minneapolis The Lutheran Brother
hood of America will hold State Con-
yention for Minnesota at the Curtis
hotel, Minneapolis, on April Goth. A
permanent state organization will be
formed at this convention. Among
matters to be considered, will be the
erection and maintenance of club
rooms and a dormitory for the benefit
of the Lutheran students at the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
Minneapolis Minneapolis rum run
ners pulled the biggest coup of the
year when they smuggled IS cases of
Canadian liquor into Long Lake m a
carload of coal, unloaded it literally
under the noses" of Long Lake resi-
dents, and escaped in motor trucks, ac-
cording to information received by fed
eral prohibition agents. Long Lake is
a small village near Wayzata.
4 Crookston-By winning the state
semi-final debating contest from Clio
quet high school, Crookston high
school won the right to meet the win
4 ner of the Austin-H Henderson contest
for the state high school championship.
Thief River Falls-O Officers of the
Pennington county Holstein Breeders
association were elected in meeting
here They are: Hans Alton, re-
elected president; F. ID. Satire, secre-
tary-treasurer; NJ T. Mcfarland,
Fred Beerbower and ". c. Noper were
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