The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-03-18
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.

first district group, Minnesota Bankers
association, will be at Winona, June
9Th and 9th.
Winona-Mrs. Mary Dotterweich,
pioneer resident of this city, is dead
at her home here at the age Of "a.
She was born in Germany and came
to Winona in 1863
Alexandria-Frank Rehor, former
car repairer for the Great Northern,
was awarded $4,000 for the loss of a
leg by jury in the Douglas county
district court here.
Wells-George G. Graham has pur-
chased the Hinckley News, it vas an
nounced here Graham is well known
here and for a considerable time was
employed on the Wells Mirror.
Litchfield-Owing to crowded condi-
tions in the high school and two grade
school buildings, special election to
vote on bond issue of $275,000 for a
new high school building will be con.
Quoted April IL.
Stillwater-The first towboat to be
constructed here will be ready for
launching shortly. The boat will be
used by the United States government
for towing steel barges on the upper
Mississippi river.
Stillwater-Lloyd Pominville, an en-
ployee of soft drink parlor here, has
been bound over to the grand jury I'm.
der $500 bonds after a hearing before
Municipal Judge C. E. Lee on a charge
of selling intoxicating liquor.
Detroit-Mrs. Nick Riewer, who de-
capitated her months old child with
a butcher knife and then attempted
to drown herself in tub of water,
has been ordered committed to the
state hospital for the insane at Fergus
Falls. =
Thief River Falls-H- H. Hathaway
of Fargo, here on an inspection trip,
said that the Standard Oil company
plans to make this place one of the
central distributing plants for this sec
ton of the state. The plant proposed
would employ 90 to 80 men throughout
the year.
st. PauI-The time for tapping ma
PIE trees and boiling for syrup and SUI
gar is at hand, w. T. Cox, state for.
ester, said. The maple sugar industry
was never given great deal of atten,
ton in this state, the forester said,
and not more than one tree in thou
sand is tapped.
Jackson-Silnon ,Johanek, farmer,
~ nT &c
here by hanging himself in the hay
loft of his barn. When members of
his family returned from church they
found note saying where his body
would be found. Ill health is attrib
uted as the cause.
Winona-The Olmsted County Co
operative association, which operates
retail stores at Rochester, Eyota and
Viola, has been adjudged bankrupt and
a meeting of creditors has been set by
the referee in bankruptcy for March 2e
in this city. The association is said
to have assets of approximately $100,
600 and liabilities of practically the
same amount.
Litchfeld-Nearly all the creameries
of Meeker county have been signed
up for the creamery cooperative move
ment by A. J. Mcguire of the state
extension department and T. G. Stitts
county agent The principal object is
to standardiZe the output of the cream
cries on behalf of uniform grade OF
butter and to facilitate carlot ship.
ments.
st. Paul-The state of Minnesota,
through the attorney generals office
obtained an order from the Ramsey
county district court staying all pro-
ceedings to increase telephone rates
in the state. The move came on the
eve of the hearing in federal court OF
the suit brought by the Northwestern
Bell Telephone company and the Tri
State Telephone company for an in.
junction to restrain the state Railroad
and Warehouse commission from in.
terfering with its new schedule of
rates.
St Paul-IncreaseS in juvenile de.
linquency were called to the attention
of state authorities by the state board
of visitors, in report to the governor
and by the state board of control in
presenting needs of the institutions to
the senate finance committee. This
phase of the postwar wave of crime is
displayed in oyercrowding of the state
training schools for boys and for girls,
and in rapid increase of population
at the state reformatory.
Winona-Winona will have a Boy
Scout council of the first class and a
salaried scout executive, if the cam
paign which opens here to raise $4,000
for scout work is successful F. H.
Zeller of Minneapolis, national field
executive for the Boy Scouts, is direct
ing the campaign.
Crookston- 18th annual COM
mencemeI1t exercises of the University
Of Minnesota, northwest school of agri-
culture, Crookston, will be conducted
March "a. when 50 seniors will COM
plete their courses. President J. c.
Brown of ST. Cloud normal school, will
deliver the commencement address.
Mipneapolis-Wage reductions OF Is
per cent for skilled labor and 25 per
cent for unskilled labor became
effective March 14th at all Minneap-
oils wheat flour mills, except those of
the Washburn-Crosby company, Pills
bury Flour Milling company and the
Russell-Miller Milling company.
Minneapolis-County farm bureaus
throughout the state were urged by
officials Of the Minnesota Farm Bu-
reau federation to cooperate with the