The Ely miner., 1921-05-27
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
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News Of Events In Gopher State
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Crisp Readable Form.

st. Paul-Jewelry and silks valued
at $4,000 were stolen by burglars who
looted the home of M. P. Ryan.
Barnesville e-The Barnesville high
! school will graduate class of 10 at
the commencement exercises to be held
in the city operahouse, June 8.
/ st. Paul-Edward Lee Brown, form
er president of the Minneapolis and st.
| Louis railway and official of many
roads in the northwest, died at the An
! gus hotel, following an illness of sew
| eral months.
! Minneapolis-Op of the to.
>bacco habit will meet in the assembly
room of the courthouse June to form
a state organization as an auxiliary of
/ the No Tobacco League of America.
| Officers are to be elected and consti-
tuition and bylaws drafted.
| Oliyia-Plans for the county histori-
cal pageant to be staged at Sacred
Heart Old Settlers meeting, June 8,
are being completed. The work is be-
ing carried on under the direction of
| the County Red Cross recreation di-
rector, Miss Sidney e. Book
| Windom-The special charter elec-
tion here resulted in the proposed
amendments being carried by the re-
quired three-fifths majority. The prin-
cipal amendment was to authorize vot-
ing of bonds by the city for the pur.
pose of erecting fremen's building
and municipal.
Winona- Crop conditions in southern
Minnesota could hardly be improved
upon, according to the weekly report
issued here at division headquarters of
the Chicago & North Western railway
Small grains are reported to be doing
excellently and corn planting is practi-
cally completed.
st. Paul-The State Securities COM
mission denied the application for a
charter of the proposed Farmers and
Merchants State bank of Farwell. The
commission found that the village had
sufficient banking facilities and that
there was not sufficient business to
warrant new bank.
Brainerd-Signs warning against
heavy loads on bridge did not deter
a truck driver on the Mississippi bridge
in the Rapid Lake country. He drove
on with six tons of mining timber and
went through the bridge approach,
swapping two 8x8 beams and Is inch
plank in his descent.
Marshall-A committee of business
men who have investigated the propo-
sition of establishing a 100000 milk
condensing plant here have reported
unfavorably on taking up the project
at this time. There are not suffi-
cient number of dairy cows in the COM
munity to make the milk condensing
business profitable the committee re-
ported
Canby-An average of $437 per head
was secured on the fullblood Herefords
sold at the sale of Ferguson Brothers
herd on the farm where their prize
$4,000 Hereford bull, Richard Fairfax,
is quartered. Fifty Herefords were
disposed at the sale, the top price be-
ing $1,710, received for a son of the
famous Fairfax.
st. Paul-Gen. G. G.. Andrews, who
participated in the battle of Nashville
1864, presided at the ceremonies on
the occasion of unveiling of the monu-
ment erected to the memory of 1874
Minnesota soldiers who died in action.
General Andrews was then Captain in
the third Minnesota regiment, and is
now go years old.
ST. Paul-Directors of the United
States Grain Growers, Inc, Minnesota
Farm Bureau federation, Equity Co
operative exchange and other farm or
ganizations will meet June 8 and 10 in
the Old Capitol building, to work out
plans for the actual marketing Of
grain which is to be sold through the
Grain Growers, Inc.
Brainerd-William LANCER, former
attorney general of North Dakota, has
challenged A. c. Townley, president
of the National Nonpartisan league, to
a series of debates in Minnesota, ac-
cording to word received here by Rich
erd Tribune and formerly manager Of
Mr.. Langer's preconveution campaign
for governor of North Dakota.
Fergus Falls-After hearing the evil
dence in the case of William M. Cor
liss against the Great Northern rail-
| road, Judge Parsons directed the jury
to return a verdict in favor of the
company Mr.. Corliss charged that the
company negligently rama train into
a cyclone on the Dakota prairie short
distance west of Fargo and that the
car in which he was riding was over
turned by the wind. BE sued for ST.
500 damages.
Minneapolis-Dare Barkulo, state
chess champion, who played a draw
with nine-year-old Samuel Rzesgchewe-
ski, the Polish wizard, here was de-
feated by the youth in st. Paul Satur-
day night The lad was reported at
his best and with apparent ease dis
posed of the state champion and nine
other st. Paul players of note. Bark
ula and the lad played on giant board
using high school boys as chessmen
ochester-According to the city di-
rectory just completed, Rochester had
a population of 14,629. This is a gain
of nearly 1000 since the federal CEN
sus in January, 1920.
Owatonna-A policewoman has been
added to Owatonna's police force, CIV
ing it the first woman member in its
history. The new member of the po-
lice department is Mrs. Kitty Fitzger-
aid, formerly connected with the ST.
Paul police department Her appoint
ment was demanded by the Steele
County League of Women voters.
BraiLerd- The annual picnic of the
Crow Wing Farm bureau will be some