The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-07-28
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che In the crosby jail by hanging MINI
self to his cell with chain he took
from his bunk. He was rescued by the
| jailer.
Winona-The annual meeting of the
Southeastern Minnesota Education as
| ISOLATION will be conducted here next
| spring, it was decided at a meeting of
the executive committee.
ST. Paul-Major E. D. Libby, pioneer
resident of st. Paul, Civil war veteran
and adjutant general of Minnesota in
Governor S. R. Van SAINTS administra-
ton, is critically i'll at his home.
Grand Rapids for the con.
| struction of the senior high school
here have been awarded by the board
of education for $205, 540.55, or about
$4,000 more than the estimate.
| FaribauIt-A joint picnic of the
knights Templar of southern Mime
sofa was conducted at Cannon lake,
near here. The Knights prepared an
all day program of entertainment.
| Hbbing-At the meeting of the town
board of Stuntz, 13 bids were received
for the filling in of the Iron Junction
road contract.
| Marshail-An automobile owned by
NJ R. Ford, of Minneapolis, which was
stolen from the street here, was found
upside down in ditch on country
highway not far from here.
| Owatonna-Private services were
held at the home preceding the funeral
of James NJ Diment, former postmas-
| ter and mayor of Owatonna, because
of the serious illness of Mrs. Diment.
| Minneapolis While Minneapolis is
going ahead with it's engineering pro.
gram for the development of power at
| the Mississippi river high dam, st.
Paul has turned its attention to other
power sites.
| Sleepy Eye-St Patrick's council,
knights of Columbus, of Sleepy Eye,
have plans perfected for the entertain
ment of visiting knights at the annual
district picnic at Sleepy Eye Lake.
State Park, Sunday, July 80. Several
bands will furnish music.
Rochester-The first "barberry bee"
in history is planned in this vicinity
when farmers in the northwest section
of the county gather in drive to
eradicate the barberry bush, 1900
plants of which have been found in one
small section.
| MinneapoIis-A cent reduction in
the price of gasoline and cent re.
duction in the price of refined oil by
| all gasoline companies went into eff.
| feet in Minneapolis. Gasoline is now
selling at 245 cents for standard
grades, with one brand selling at 27.5
cents.
Crookston-More than two score pro.
| fessional and amateur painters donat-
ed their services at painting bee"
at the fair grounds here. The clean
| up" campaign was inaugurated to inn
| prove the appearance of the fair build.
| ings for the annual fair August Z, 8,
9 and 10.
| New Praaue-The American Legion
of New Prague did it's job welk That
was the verdict of hundreds of legion.
aries of the third district in Minnesota,
who returned to their homes following
the close of the third district conven.
| ton here.
| Lamberton-Fire of mysterious orr
gin completely destroyed the large
barn on the Fred Black farm near
here. Six head of horses, registered
bull, several head of cattle and large
quantity of grain and hay burned with
the building.
| Fairmont-Omaha passenger train
1 No. 6 pulled out for the Twin Cities
backward and 40 minutes late because
a union brakeman refused to tell S. F.
Durga, agent, how to release the air
when the train pulled in.
Fairmont-W. L. Nichols, court re-
porter in this district, will resign Oct.
1, because of impaired health and his
| business interests. Mr.. Nichols has
served for 25 years, being appointed by
Judge James H. Quinn, now associate
Justice of the Minnesota supreme court
in the spring of 1897.
| Fairmont-The pea picking season
at this point will be finished soon. of.
| ficials of the canning plant say. The
pack will amount to 40 carloads, twice
the amount of last years pack, $4,000
I
weeks for 100 workers to handle the
| crop.
| OrtonviIle-More than 100 Minnesota
and South Dakota boys and girls at.
tended the second annual meeting OF
| the boys and girls clubs at Simpson
park Lere. Eleven counties in the two
states had representatives at the gath.
ering. Two Pope county boys rode
more than 100 miles on their bicycles
to attend the meeting.
| DuIuth-Lieutenant Governor Louis
l.. Collins, Mayor George E. Leach
of Minneapolis and Mrs. Sandy Hamil.
ton, president of the state auxiliary
| of the American Legion, will be guests
at the banquets of the Legion and aux
Hilary posts of the eighth District in
Duluth.
Austin-L. F. Liebenstein, agricul.
tural agent of Mower county, has a
sample of a fungous disease of the
smut variety, which, he says, if not
checked, will rapidly spread through.
out the entire county. The growth is
known as ergot and so far it has been
found on only few farms in rye fields.
chaska-Sugar bee. growers in Min.
nesota this year will receive at least
s750,0OO net for their. crop, according
to II. A. Dougl a,sprYbgRe is cmfwyy
to H. A. Douglas, president of the
| Minnesota Sugar company.
| Morris-Winter wheat plots estimat-
ed to yield at rate of from 80 to 35
bushels an acre and hard spring wheat
plots from 25 to 80 bushels at the agri-
cultural college experiment station at
Morris impressed the touring party OF