The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-09-22

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Winona-Chester Pease; 3S years
old, serving in the county Jail for rob-
berry, has been released and will be-
come an evangelist, delivering his first
sermon here next week. He was mar
ried in jail last May to Miss Harriet
Stahman. Winona school teacher.
DuIuth--A general QUESTIONABLE adj
dressed to Duluth wood yards shows
them all oversold. The demand for
stove wood, which in normal times,
shows a falling off during end of the
summer, now shows heavy increase
over all previous years.
Luverne- The engine on an ensilage
Gutter on the farm of Lee English,
near here, exploded, hurting parts of
the machine more than 200 feet, sew
eral of them going through the wall
of concrete silo.
Observation-Disclosures was selected
as the 1923 meeting place of the ninth
district convention of the Degree of
Honor lodge at the close of its annual
meeting here. Two hundred delegates
represented Crookston, Walker, Cass
Lake, Moorhead, Breckenridge, Bemid-
ii and Fergus Falls lodges were pres
ent.
Decentralization owners in the
river section of Crookston are in
quandary Mink, they declare, are
nightly raiding their chicken coops
and they are helpless to stop them as
the mink are protected by the state
game laws.
ChishoIm-Three banks of Chisholm
served notice on the city council that
they would Immediately discontinue
village warrants. Funds
of the city are near the point of ex-
haustion.
Thief River FaIls-Samuel T.
Johnson, 80 years old, veteran of the
civil war, and pioneer in this section,
is dead at the family home here.
Fairmont-The Fairmont creamery
claims the 1922 canning record for
The creamery reports an
output this year of 10000 cases OF
peas and $4,000 cases of corn.
Red Wing-Charles J. Nelson, flag
man for the Milwaukee railroad for
the past 10 years, dropped dead in his
shanty at a crossing here just after
tagging train
Owatonna-The Owatonna fuel COM
has been formed here, as the
result of appointments made by Mayor
w. C. Zamboni with F. w. Sawyer as
chairman and v. F. Leary as secretary.
The commission is conducting sur
vey of fuel wood resources in Steele
county.
st. cioud-A delegation of 1000
from the twin cities is expected to at
tend the state convention of the Fed
Grafton of German Catholic societies
of this city Sept "a, 25.~and rs. Seven
societies from st. Paul are planning
on coming in body.
pipestone-Carl A. Amundson of
Fergus Falls has purchased the Royal
hotel here and has taken charge. Mr..
Afnundson obtained the property from
w. A. Barley of Fergus Falls.
NorthfieId-Registra figures, in
complete, show an enrolment of 712
students at Carleton college, there be-
ing $40 men and 1858 women. Regis
tration is continuing.
Fergus FaIls-The st. Cloud Crushed
Stone company filed a bankruptcy pc
tition in the United States court here
today, placing its assets at $80,015.64,
of which $7S,111.64 is in buildings and
machinery, and its liabilities at $164,-
144.35. It's heaviest creditor is the
First National bank of st. Cloud, to
which 1t owes $13,22S.
ST. CIoud-The city council has au-
thorized the city attorney to prepare
an amendment to the taxi ordinance
dropping the property damage insur-
ance, but retaining the personal liabil-
ity feature. The ordinance, as now
will require taxi operators
to take out insurance costing $125
yearly, with limits of $4,000 and &c.,
Ooc.
st. Paul Immigrants to Minnesota
and adjacent states shipped thirty
five carloads of livestock, poultry, ma
chinery and household goods through
the Minnesota transfer during the
month of August, as reported by Oscar
H. Smith, State Commissioner of I'm
Thirteen of the thirty
five carloads were destined to north
ern Minnesota points, practically all
being owned by settlers moving from
Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska to new
homes in this state. Due to the fact
that farmers in the middle west and
northwest states are busy completing
grain threshing and commencing fall
work, August is classed as one of the
''low-ebb" months of the year in the
matter of moving settlers to new To-
cations. and Mr.. Smith looks for an
increase in the number coming to
durfag September and Oc-
tober.
Thief River FaIls-Pure drinking
water Is assured this city after Jan.
Is NEXT, through the awarding of a
contract by the city council for mill
lion gallon daily filtration plant, cost
ing $4,000. G. M. Carlson, of this
city, will erect TIE structure
ST. Paul-Scalped when her hair
caught in power shaft OF the machine
she was operating A. I.indeke, Warner
& Sons, Miss Marie bhearn, aged 81,
240 White Bear road. 81 Paul, submit
ted to an operation at the ST. Paul city
hospital in which her scalp was graft
d. The operation apparently was sue
assf,l,