The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-11-11

Jackson countys oldest woman, cele-
| brated her 101st birthday at the home
| Of her son here.
Hibbing~The village of Hibbing
has contE.buted $3.50 to the $4,000
raised in st. Louis county for the
Irish relief fund.
st. Paul-There have been 500 cases
OF infantile paralysis in Minnesota this
year and so deaths, according to DR.. O.
Mcdaniel of the State Board of Health.
Rochester-The American Neuroi
ogical Surgical society is in session at
the Mayo clinic. Many prominent sur
geons from all parts of the country
are in attendance.
Bagley-A verdict of murder in the
third degree was returned by jury In
the case Of the state against George
Quinn, an Indian charged with the
| killing of Walter Westfall
Minneapolis-After an hour of par
liamentary battling the Minnesota
| Education association voted to join
the National Education association at
its annual convention here.
Bemidji-Fifteen health clinics will
be conducted in the southern part of
Beltrami county, during this month
according to present plans of the
South Beltrami County Public Health
association.
Duluth-Less than half an hour af.
ter she had withdrawn her life saving
of $1,000 from bank, Mrs. v. Vexal
| lost the money somewhere" in a five
and ten cent store, according to re-
| port made to the police.
Brainerd-Crow Wing county has
| secured state experimental farm for
the testing of sandy land. Twenty
acres were leased by the University
Of Minnesota from Fred Johnson,
near Grow Wing station.
Marshall-Henry Olson, residing
near Cottonwood, was held on $4,000
bail on the charge of having beaten
his wife. Olson says he was under
the influence Of moonshine when he
| administered the beating.
So. st. Paul-The school board has
accepted the plans for a new junior
| high school. Bids will be opened No
vember %. Only part of the build.
Ing will be erected at first. The entire
cost will be within $250,000.
Little Falls-Axel Bergstrom, aged
80, was shot in the head and killed as
he was returning from a hunting trip.
| Sheriff Paul Felix is of the opinion
that the bullet came from gun in the
hands of boys playing nearby.
Duluth-Desponden since his wife
took her own life by asphyxiation,
John Pikkarainen committed suicide.
Gas from the same jet purposely open
ed by Mrs. Pikkarainen six weeks ago,
| caused the death Pikkarainen.
Minneapolis-Th National Tractor
| and Power Farming show will be held
in the new exhibit building at the
Minnesota State Fair grounds Febru-
airy to II, it was announced by E. E.
Whaley, secretary of the show
st. Paul-Charles M. Babcock, state
highway commissioner, started the
more work-better roads" program
in Minnesota with call for bids on
twenty-seven winter construction
projects estimated at $1,6S7,0 900.
Minneapolis-Plan carefully laid
to initiate a drive for $1,500,000 for
dunn and assembly hall at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota at the annual home
coming ceremonies were abandoned
for the present.
st. Paul-Cash balances in Mime.
sofa state business when the state
treasurer's office opened Nov. 1, to-
tailed $13,3S6, 6O1.44, compared with
SIS, 000,621.03 on Oct. l. Disbursements
for the month were $4,O32,854.59,
while receipts were only $1,714,019.59.
White Earth-Benjamine L. Fair
banks, Minnesota pioneer and son of
one of the states earliest settlers died
here at the age of g. Mr.. Fairbanks
was born at Grow Wing, one of the
early frontier trading posts located
near the present site of Brainerd, Nov.
4, 1855.
st. Paul-Minnesota has 1,380,834
residents of voting age of whom l.
237,203 are qualified voters, according
to the 1920 complication of statistics
made public by the department of
commerce of the bureau of census at
Washington, D. c. The official figures
compiled show that of the total num-
Der of persons of voting age, 1888
are men and 642,502 are women. OF
the men of voting age 64S,433 are
qualified to vote and the total num-
Der of women voters is 588,770.
Minneapolis against the &C
1f orty MI
izing the sale of beer as medicine was
voiced by the executive committee of
the Minnesota League of Women Vot-
ers. 1.-THE Minnesota League of Wo-
men Voters believe the ruling of Sec
rotary Mellon authorizing the wide
sale of beer as medicine to be clear
evasion of the law, tending to bring
general observance of the law into dis
repute in the United States" a resolu-
ton adopted by the organization said.
st. Paul Government census fig
ures show Minnesota ranking first
among states of the Union in the
number of farmers marketing their
products comparatively. The state
ranks second in the value of products
uduuiou ny Co-opOldtlFc VI SduiZe1tlOuS,
exceeded only by California with it's
great citrus fruits products. The
government figures show why Mime
sofa is taking the lead in the new
development, which is union of local
cooperative concerns in central sell
ing agencies.
Minneapolis - Educational extern
sion will be emphasized at the poultry
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