The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-06
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st. Louis county officials. The in.
crease will BIS due to an increase in
interest on outstanding bonds, prin.
cipally road bonds.
Duluth-Contracts FOR two crawling
jobs and installation of drain tiles on
six state and federal projects entai!ing
an expenditure of $63.2S1, were award
ed by the st. Louis board of county
commissioners.
Duluth-Duluth is the only city in
the United States where the paving
program for the year will be COM
pleted
LitchfieId-This city and Meeker
county will attend the> National Dairy
show at the State Fair grounds in a
body Oct. IL All business will close.
st. Cloud. Lawrence G. Hodgson,
former mayor of st. Paul, and j. F.
Reed, president of the Minnesota Farm
bdreau federation, made addresses
during the meeting here of the Ger
man Catholic societies.
Luverne-Fire, originating in
small stack of straw on the county
fair grounds here destroyed the horse
and poultry buildings, entailing loss
of about $2,5G0. The flames were kept
from spreading by bucket brigade.
Crookston-At we'll attended
meeting of the Red River Valley Live.
stock Association, it was decided to
complete the payments Of the live
stock pavilion buildings at Crookston
owned by the association members.
The eleven northwestern Minnesota
counties have been divided into 100
districts, each district being asked to
sell $3.50 of shares in the building. All
the counties are going ahead enthus-
iastically to complete the payments
and save the winter shows for the
Valley.
St. Louis Park-Injunction proceed.
ings to prevent the Minneapolis public
welfare board from erecting tuber-
cular hospital on the site of the citY's
abandoned quarantine station near St.
Louis park, has been started by the
st. Louis park village council
NorthfeId, Minn.-Dr. George 0.
Berg, registrar of St. Olaf college, an
nounces that registration has now
reached a total of 8S5 students, which
includes TIA seniors, 157 juniors, 223
sophomores, 2S7 freshmen and Al mu-
sic students.
Bemidji, Minn.-Bishop G. G. Ben
nett of Duluth, has been chosen by
the Ralph D. Oracle post of this city
to deliver the Armistice day Grafton
on Nov. II. The celebration promises
to surpass all others attempted here.
st. PauI-An Identification bureau,
nation wide in extent, is being organ.
lied throughout the country. Under
takers are at the head of the move
ment and police departments, officials
of hospitals, asylums and other insti
buttons will assist. a
DuIuth-Because of the condition of
the state highway department fund,
the department will allow refundments
on roads only up to the cost of one
course concrete. This will prevent
the construction bithulitic asphalt or
macadam covering on the concrete
base by the county.
Crookston-Increase interest in
education in rural communities is evi.
denced by the large preliminary en-.
rollment at the Northwest School of
Agriculture here. The fall term will
open Oct. 9 with the largest enroll.
ment in the schools history.
St. Paul-Minnesota members of the
National Association of Twenty-fifth
Engineers celebrated the arrival of
their regimental colors at banquet
at the st. Paul Athletic club. The
flags, presented to the state at that
time, were first claimed by New York
state but later awarded Minnesota up.
on the formation of the national as.
ISOLATION.
st. PauI-The dates of the annual
conference of agricultural extension
workers of the University of Mime
sofa have been advanced from Nov.
20 and 81 to Nov. 13 and a. The meet.
ing will be held at University Farm.
The change in dates was made to
avoid conflict with the annual meet
ing of the Association of Land Grant
Colleges which is to be held at Wash.
ington, D. c., Nov. 81 to %.
Rush city-One of the biggest dele
cations which ever represented Chi
sage county will attend the National
Dairy show next month. it was decid-
ed at meeting here, at which every
township in the county was represent
ed. The meeting decided to send a
representation of 1000 to the show and
500 automobiles were pledged to carry
the crowd and the three bands from
Rush City, North Branch and Chisago
Lake that will accompany it.
st. PauI-Propagating mu5krats for
the purpose of starting a fur farm in
Minnesota is the latest proposition put
up to Oscar H. Smith, Minnesota Com.
missioner of immigration, in a letter
received from Mack Lee, Long Pine,
Nebraska. 1--WE receive all sorts of
inquiries in our department" says
Commissioner Smith, land we aim to
locate an intending purchaser on the
sort of land he desires. We will do
all we can to assist the Nebraska fur
farmer in securing a suitable place
for his rat-raising enterprise"
Faribault-A recent seven day cen.
sus of traffic on the Jefferson high
way, five miles north of here, showed
that only II horse drawn wagons and
10 horse drawn buggies were counted
by the enumerators.
Moorhead-Plans for a campaign to
raise s2,000,000 fund TO construct a
stadium at the University of Mime
sofa, were discussed by E. B. PieHe.