The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-12-02

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sofa, is dead at hospital here.
Hibbing-The Rotarians at their
weekly MONDAY luncheon went on rec
ord as favoring bond issue to take
up the outstanding Indebtedness of the
city.
Red Wing E. G. Olson brought
back from hunting trip in northern
| Minnesota the hide of 400-pound
black bear. He shot the animal near
Willow river.
| Mankato-Sales of shorthorn cattle
at the local livestock pavilion by the
Minnesota Shorthorn Breeders asso-
citation netted $2,1S35O. The highest
price was $40.
| st. Paul-The state Supreme court
affirmed former decision holding the
railroad companies and the govern
ment responsible for damage caused
by the forest fire of 1918 in Northern
| Minnesota.
| Red Lake Falls-Red Lake county
has just received $13,240 from r. P.
Chase, state auditor, this amount be-
Ing the county's share of the $685.
1875 of special school aid approprit-
ed by the last legislature.
Hibbing-What is considered one of
the best yields per acre in oats in this
| section of the country is the record
| claimed for the John Olson farm, To-
Gated in the Swandale farming region.
Oats went 45 bushels to the acre.
st. Paul-Colonel e. L. Butts, as
| signed to the Minnesota National
| guard as senior instructor, and who
won two citations for bravery while
| he served throughout the World war
| on the British front, arrived Friday
| in st. Paul.
Crosby = A class of 48 candidates
was initiated by the degree team of
Brainerd lodge, B. P. o. E., here, all
| candidates being from the Guyana
Iron range. Following the services,
| 800 lodge members and visitors were
given banquet.
Hastings Hastings seventh annual
poultry show will be conducted here
Dec. IA to 16. The cash and special
| premiums are liberal and will be an
inducement for fanciers to exhibit.
The committee in chrge plans to make
| this the banner show
| Red Lake Falls - Final arrange
ments for the third annual show of
the Red Lake County Poultry associ-
alton are now being made by Presi-
dent Kruger and Secretary S. A. Rice
of Plummer and a committee of the
Red Lake Falls Commercial club.
| Hibbing- to Dennis Bow,
| in charge of the state mine offices
| here, ore shipments from the mines of
| Minnesota to the docks at Duluth,
Two Harbors and Superior for the
season totaled 17,433,359 tons, as COM
pared with 39,570,197 tons in 1920.
st. Paul-The annual state sale of
| Christmas seals and health bonds to
raise $250,000 to finance anti-tuber-
| culosis activities in Minnesota next
year was launched by the Minnesota
| Public Health association. The cam
| paign will continue until Christmas
| eve.
| Redwood Falls-A new scale of low
| prices was reached at a mortgage
! foreclosure sale at the farm of P. M.
Fuller and son. A Duroc boar, sold
| which the owners paid $4,000, sold
over the block for $52, and some saws
costing more than $4,000 brought only
| 500.
st. Paul-Adjutant General W. F.
Rhinow was notified that equipment
for the First Minnesota Observation
! squadron of the twin cities will be for
warded by the war department within
| a short time. The equipment includes
| 10 airplanes, ameras, and various
other apparatus.
Fergus Falls-From reports received
| by Paul H. Kirk, Minnesota agricul-
tural statistician, from growers, buyers
and shippers of commercial potatoes,
| it is estimated that the carlot move
ments of Minnesota potatoes for 1921,
will be about 22,734 cars compared
| with slightly more than $4,000 for
1920.
| Cook-John Wilkin, living nine
miles west of here, was found MUIR
| dered in his cabin. A broken window
| pane indicated, authorities said, that
he had been shot by an unknown as
sailant while he lay in bed. The body
was taken to Virginia. Authorities ex-
| pressed the belief that Wilkin had
been dead at least a week.
Red Lake Falls-L. E. Healy, chair
man of the Red Lake County Child
| Welfare board, was at Thief River
Falls to meet other members of the
| committee on arrangements for re-
| gional conference of child welfare
workers of Roseau, Marshall, Red Lake
and Pennington counties to discuss
plans for the enforcement of laws re-
| lating to children.
| Minneapolis - Sixteen agricultural
associations, four of them with mem
| bers throughout the state numbering
several thousand in each, have COM
bined to give from Dec. Ii to 16, at
the Hennepin county courthouse,
what is, believed will be the greatest
agricultural exhibition, exclusive of
! livestock, the state has ever seen.
More than 1000 competing entries
have been made. Thousands of Wis
itors are expected to attend the show.
The railroads have announced re-
duced rate of fare and half, accord
| ing to announcement by the Civic and
| Commerce association, with whose CO.
operation the show is given.
| Faribault-Thomas Hagerty, con-
victed on charge of first degree muir
der in Rice county district court here
was sentenced to serve life sentence