The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-12-23
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.

10 De known as EDWIN Holt post.
acknowledgements of the
Fairmont Hotel company, with cap
ital stock of $4,000 is announced
here.
Marshall-Will Banford, a farmer
had one of his hands severed at the
wrist while working with corn pick
ing machine.
Virginia-Carlo Gobatz, charged
with arson, was found not guilty by a
jury in district court after five hours
deliberation.
Fergus Falls-Turkey bandits have
been doing a big business in this
neighborhood, having robbed a dozen
farms in the last week.
Virginia. fight for lower freight
rates has been inaugurated by the Vir
Manufacturers association.
Freeborn-By a vote of 1872 to 81
this village decided to issue bonds to
the amount of $4,000 for the erection
of a modern school building.
Solway-Solway lodge of Odd Eel
lOWo uOolSdlSo IuCll uCW udl1 Will q ~
propriate ceremonies. Bemidji AND
other towns sent large delegations.
ST. Peter-All former records were
shattered at the second annual show
of the Nicollet County Poultry asso
citation, at the st. Peter armory. The
entries totaled 420 birds.
-Seventy-six persons have
paid 81 each for trappers licenses in
this county. Some farmers have an
nounced they intend to recoup their
losses on grain by fur hunting.
Austin Superintendent OF Schools
S. T. Nevelin announces that the facili
ties of the new $1,000,000 high school
especially the swimming pool and
gymnasium, will be extended to the
public at once.
Fergus Falls-The village council al
Perham, this county, is going to SUI
pervise public dances, and has an
nounced it will put stop to the ''in
formal grips and wiggles" that are
now so popular.
Northfield-The various Protestant
denominations in the state are urged
to send representative to the second
annual Ministers Convocation of Min
nesota scheduled to be held at earle
ton College, here, January ?, and
next.
Fergus Falls-A wolf chase across
Citherall lake in an automobile lee
Oscar Anderson to his death wheI
the machine he and three other com
panions were riding in plunged
through thin ice and sank in 100 feet
of water.
Virginia-This city will raise $50,
900 on certificates of Indebtedness
bearing six per cent interest to be
used in relieving the unemployment
situation here. Already over 100 mer
have been given employment on mu
nicipal work.
Hibbing = Committees have beer
named to frame the various sections
of the proposed new charter for Hib
bling and it is now assured that the
charter will be ready for presentation
to the voters in March, when the mu
nicipal election is held.
Red Wing-Bandits, who held uI
the cashier, assistant cashier and a
customer in the Farmers State bank
at WEIGH, Is miles north of here, and
got away with between $1,000 and ST.,
900 in cash, are believed to have made
good their escape to ST. Paul.
st. Paul-An automobile which has
used the public highways or which is
equipped to use the public highways
is subject to the motor vehicle tax
even though it is stored throughout
the year and is not operated, Attorney
General Clifford L. Hilton ruled.
Sank Center-The meeting of the
Northern Minnesota Editorial associa
ton will be conducted here Thursday
Friday, and Saturday, Jan. 26, 27 and
%. 1t is expected that rs members OF
the association will be present and a
number of prominent speakers will be
heard.
Gilbert-Northern Minnesota wit
messed it's first organized protest
against the 18th amendment here
when citizens of % towns in the eighth
congressional district met in mass
meeting. Senator Mike Boylan was
named chairman for the eighth dis
trict of the Minnesota Sanity league
and w. D. Hayes was named secre
tary. Both live in Virginia. Horace
G. Whitmore of Minneapolis, state
chairman of the league, addressed the
y,,ootipu ua oppo,,poad fLot ~, oo+io ,,e
will be conducted in every town oil
the district next month when voters
will be enrolled to carry on the fight
Luverne-Arrangem are being
made to get vote by the farmers Of
Rock county on the reduction of the
1922 corn crop in order to obtain bet
ter price for the product in the future
Questionnaires will be sent them and
their answers will govern next years
crop.
Hibbing-A temporary restraining
order, preventing the Village of Hib
bling, the Warren Iron Mining com
pany and the Oliver Iron Mining com
pany from proceeding with plans fol
the dismantling of the city hall was
issued by Judge Edward Freeman, in
district court at Virginia.
Red Wing-Andrew M. Dahl, pic
neer stone mason of this city and q
resident for almost 60 years, died
here at the age of II. Death was due
to heart disease.
Hibbing-Con Kepple, who has beer
directing the sale of Irish bonds here
says that $4,000 of the bonds have
been disposed of. and asserts they are
now at premium, locally.
Mortified The first collegiate
Woodrow Wilson" club in Minnesota