The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-07-20
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IIOH Ol the southeastern Minnesota
Bar association here.
Winona-Reduction Of $4,000 in
the tax levy for Winona county funds
for the year 1924 has been announced
by the county board. The new levy
is $247,000
Moorhe ad-Paving bonds totalling
$4,000 were sold by the city of Moor
head. The bids were very low he
said, the terms being 5 per cent in
terest and $275 legal expenses.
Granite FaIls-Sever Olson has the
record for the big fish catch of the
season here. Olson, fishing with q
cane pole in the Minnesota river,
caught 16 pound catfish
Sturgeon Lake-Ernest MacKale,
aged %, and A. M. Cunningham, Jr,
aged II, were drowned here, when a
boat in which they were fishing cap
sized. The bodies were recovered.
Winona-Miss Sarah Lowrey OF
Granite Falls, was appointed execu-
tive secretary of the Winona county
child welfare board, succeeding Miss
Caroline Forster of Minneapolis, re:
signed.
Winona-The month old baby Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Whalen, living near
Caledonia, was strangled to death by
falling between the iron rails and a
spring of the bed on which he and
his twin brother were lying.
luverne-The Rev. w. w. Fowler,
pioneer missionary of Minnesota and
the Dakotas and rector of the Episco-
pal church here for number of years,
died at his home after a prolonged
illness. He was 80 years old.
Chisholm-The special election call.
ed for the voting upon the question
Of 100000 bond issue will be con-
dCcted here July %. The money is
to be used in refunding the outstand-
ing Indebtedness of the municipality
Northrop-Fifteen hundred persons
attended the Northrop Cooperative
Creamery outing. Northrop business
men and members of the Waverly and
Westford Farmers clubs attended as
did delegations from many towns in
this section.
Red Lake Falls-Red Lake county
is asking S105,O00 in loans from the
Minnesota rural credits bureau.
Twelve applications have been sent
in from this county OH a total of g..
S46 acres, or an average of 237 acres
to the application.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from Sioux
Falls, Jackson, Luverne and Fairmont
met here to consider ways and means
of bringing the new Atlantic Yellow
stone-Pacific highway through south.
ern Minnesota on State Road No. 9.
Sioux Falls has raised $4,000 to help
put it through.
Neutrality-suspicious. they have
failed to comply with state laws regu-
lating rural schools, nine school dis.
tricts in Mobiles county win lose $3.50 |
each this year. One achool had neg
lected to fly the stars and stripes; an.
other had poor facilities for drinking
water and the others have inadequate
buildings.
Window Farmyard watering
troughs have claimed two little chill. !
dren as victims by drowning in the |
last few days. On a farm near Viii |
mont little year and one-half old son
of Henry Sieve fell into the watering !
trough and was dead when found. !,
Near Springfield, a 2 year old son of |
Fred c. BOTANY was drowned in a
similar manner.
Mnneapolis-Many babies in Min |
nesota have a better chance to live |
and grow strong with the taking effect !
of the filled milk" law passed by the
last legislature. The law prohibits the |
manufacture or sale in Minnesota of |
milk or cream from which the butter.
fat is taken and another oil or fat sub.
stituted
Waseca-In special mayoraIty |
election here, William c. Johnston,
president of the city council, defeated
DR.. F. A. Swartwood, incumbent, 697 !
to 56S votes. DR.. Swartwood was de.
feated by 26 votes at the spring cleo.
ton by George Goodspeed, but
brought action charging violation OF
the corrupt practises act by follow.
ers of Goodspeed, and in district
court Judge w. c. Dean held that the
act had been violated, thus voiding
the election.
MinneapoIis-The Dakota league,
with its four-town organization, decid.
ed at meeting in Minneapolis to fin.
ish out the season even though some
of the clubs have run into financial
difficulties of late. The presidents of
the four clubs meeting with President
Mike Cantillon here, assured the
league head that their hackers would
finance their clubs for the rest of the
season no matter what the attendance
is With that assurance from the club
heads, all talk of closing up the league
at this early stage was abandoned.
DuIuth-FEom all parts of the north.
west and as far east of Philadelphia
and as far west as Montana, letters
are coming to the Duluth land office
inquiring about the tracts of public
lands which recently were thrown
open to homestead entry by the de-
partment of interior. Former service
men mentioned in the original an
nouncement as preferable to the gen.
eral public, are flooding Robert e.
Patterson, register of the land office
with requests for detailed information
about the land.
Chisholm moving machine cut
both legs off the year old son Of E.
Nusich, farmer living five miles
north of this city. One leg was cut
off half way to the knee, while the
other was cut through the ankle
joints. According to physicians, the
boy will live.
Madison That several hundred
acres of fine grain were destroyed by
the hailstorm west and northwest OF
Madison is indicated by reports that