The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-04-28
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ST. PauI-Application for milk II
censes have been mailed to $500 milk
dealers in Minnesota by the dairy and
food commission.
Austin-S. H. Drake, a farmer,
brought in one grown wolf carcass and
eight wo.f cub carcasses and collected
$3.50 as bounty.
Hibbing Organization OF range
wholesale association to include all
jobbers and wholesalers in Hibbing
and Virginia is being perfected.
Luverne-An extensive road gravel
ling program will be carried out in
Rock county the coming summer, on
contracts which were let at figures
nearly $4,000 under the estimate.
Minneapolis-And now-jazz jewel.
ry. That is the latest development, &C
cording to more than 200 Minnesota
jewellers, gathered in their 18th an
nual convention at the West hotel.
Ely-Three thousand persons stood
uncovered in drenching rain while
services were conducted for George
E. Porthan, Ely youth, killed in
France.
st. CIoud-Several members of the
board of education have expressed
themselves in favor of standardized
dress to be worn by the students OF
the high school.
Warren-At a meeting Of the exec
utive board of the Marshall County
Farm bureau, it was decided that the
work of the bureau should be contin'
ued in Marshall county for another
year.
OWatonna-After hearing argp
ments on the plan to separate part oil
the Glendale consolidated school dis
trict from the Glendale unit, the coun
ty commissioners took the matter un
der Amusement
St. Cloud-Mrs. Samuel Belisle, pre-
sident of the Minnesota Federation OF
Women's clubs, was the principal
speaker at a banquet given by the st.
Cloud Business Women's club.
Hibbing-The prospects are report
ed good for the opening of flock
of new mines on the Messaba range
Exploration work, either with test pits
or drills, has been started on a num-
Der of new leases.
MinneapoIis-An essay contest on
the subject, How Good Roads Are
Developing My Community" has been
opened to Minneapolis high school
students. A university scholarship
will be the prize donated by H. S
Firestone.
DuIuth-Plans for "circle tour" by
which hundreds of tourists will be
able to see the recreational, mining
and agricultural possibilities of ST.
Louis county were Endorsed by the
chamber of commerce.
CoIeraine-Most of the teachers in
this district, when presented contracts
calling for reduction in wages fol
the coming year, returned the con.
tracts unsigned. Teachers in Cole.
raine, Bovey, Marble, Calumet and La
Prairie are involved.
WilImar-For the 49th time T. o.
Thorson, walked into printing office
and paid his annual subscription tc
the newspaper. Next year the prin.
ters intend to prepare a receipt print.
ed in gold and present it to Mr.. Thor
son as payment for his paper for the
seth year.
Winona-According to word receiv.
ed here, the new sternwheel. all steel
towboat illinois, in an official Fl
mile test at st. Louis, pushed up
stream the largest lightweight tow in
the history of the Mississippi river ma
vigation at better than 21a miles an
hour in raging current filed with
drift.
MinneapoIis-Th most honest man
in South Dakota guarded battered
suitcase containing more than $4,000
in negotiable securities, cash and
jewelry, awaiting the arrival from
Minneapolis of John Fitzgerald, who
lives at the Russell hotel and who lost
the suitcase from his automobile
when he drove through Sioux Falls.
DuIuth-W. A. Pittinger, Duluth at
torney, announced he had filed with
the secretary of state for the republic
can nomination for congress from the
Eighth district. He will oppose Con
gresham o. ]. Larson at the prim-
aries June 49, Mr.. Larson who was
indorsed by the district convention.
has indicated he will file soon.
ST. PauI-The interstate commerce
commission was urged to suspend the
order increasing the tariff on lumber
from California to western and south.
ern Minnesota. The request was
made by o., P. B. Jacobson, state
chairman of the Interstate Commerce
commission that that body had in
creased the tariff on lumber So the
thousand.
ST. PauI-Mrs. Peter Olesen of Clio.
quet may have to file again as the
democratic candidate for the United
States senate so that no one will vote
for her under the misapprehension
that Peter Oleson is running. She
should have filed as Anna Dickie Ole
sen, according to an apinion given by
Rollin L. Smith, assistant attorney
general assigned to election matters
Minneapolis = Damages amounting
to S2,625 are asked of the Great Nor.
thern railway in suit filed in Hen
nepin county district court by John
v. Westernson, Charles Newdall and
Albert E. Hill. The plaintiffs charge
that, last fall, sparks from q Great
Northern engine ignited the roof of
their cottage at Arcola, on Lake Min
netonka and that the cottage was de-
stroyed in the ensuing fire.
MinneapoIis-Dr. r. N. Chapman, as
sistant professor of entomology and
animal biology at the college of agri
culture, University of Minnesota, has
refused a $1,000 offer to head the de
partment of entomology and zoology
at Iowa State College at Ames
Observation-Disclosures of racnnn,