The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-17

Rochester-This city is the home
of a number of blood relatives OF
President Coolidge.
MiIan-Seventeen cars, including
five oil cars, were demolished when
an east bound freight train left the
rails west of here.
Winnebago-A new church edif1ce
Is to be erected here for the Winnie
bago Methodist congregation at cost
of $4,000.
Observation-Disclosures entered the Of
fees Of the Central Cooperative Oil
association here, blew the safe and
obtained cash totalling about 500.
Fairmont-Magnus Johnson, newly
elected United States senator, has
accepted an invitation to attend the
Martin county fair and deliver an adj
dress. The fair dates are Sept. 26,
81, % and 20.
Fairmont-Contracts have been let
for the improvement of the lake chan
nels between Lakes Sisseton and Budd
and Budd and Hail. The channels will
be deepened and walled with cement,
SO there will be no more filling up.
ST. James - Announcement was
made here by Congressman Frank
Clague of the appointment of Clayton
Larson, a World war veteran, to be
postmaster here, succeeding P. H.
Grogan.
Winona-Miss Sarah S. Lowry of
Grinnell, Iowa, has assumed her du.
ties as secretary of the Winona coun.
ty Child Welfare association. Her
appointment by District Judge C. E.
Callaghan as county probation officer
Is expected in a few days.
notwithstanding of oats and bar
ley has been finished at the Evergreen
farm near here, the yield being one
OF the heaviest in years. One field
Of II acres Of oats threshed out SO
bushels to the acre, the largest yield
reported this season in this section.
Mankato-Charles K. Mayer, who
has been acting president of the Civic
and Commerce association for two
months, was regularly elected to the
position at the annual meeting. Other
officers chosen are: Charles T. Taylor,
and George Atchison, vice presidents;
M. D. Fritz, treasurer.
Crookston-The Northwest School
Of Agriculture here, which is in ses-
sion during the winter months, con-
tinues its usefulness all the year
around as the Mecca for those who
are interested in all phases Of diver
sifled farming, dairying, livestock rails
ing and poultry culture.
Minneapolis - approximately nine
hundred of purebred dairy cattle will
be In competition during the 1923
Northwest Dairy exposition, which
will be heSl in conjunction with the
Minnesota State Fair September 1 to
8. 1t was announced by julie NJ. Han
naford, Jr., executive chairman
HalIock-Kittson county, which in
1912 grew only sos acres Of potatoes,
this year is growing more than 10000
acres, one acre for every eight acres
of wheat, according to figures given
to potato tourists, who are inspecting
the fields of several northern Mime
sofa counties, by w. v. Longley, coun-
ty agent of Kittson county.
nneapolis-The> first s550,000 to
be loaned to farmers of the state I'M
der the Minnesota Rural Credits bu-
reau was available Monday morning.
The installment will be paid by the
Wells-Dickey company and the Min
nesota Loan & Trust company Of Min
neapolis, which contracted for the
sale Of the bonds.
HIbbing-The Duluth, Messabe and
Northern passenger train was de-
rallied near the Standard Oil station in
Brooklyn The engine and two
coaches remained on the main track,
but the two cars behind the engine,
passenger coach and baggage car,
went off into the side tracks, tearing
rails and ties apart, for distance of
several hundred feet.
Albert Lea-The Albert Lea Bust
ness Mems league has decided to fl
nance the sending Of two carloads of
Freedom county Holstein and Guern-
sey cattle to the Minnesota State Fair.
DR.. H. D. Burns, Cy OFT and Fred Ru-
blee are actively in charge of assem-
bling the specimens to be sent, after
they have been shown at the Free
born county fair.
Grand Rapids-Potatoes, corn and
alfalfa were shown to Minnesota's po-
tato tourists from the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, the University
Department of Agriculture, and else
where in various parts of Itasca coun-
Il. Itasca county this year has 5000
acres in potatoes, only a slight de-
crease from last year, and most Of
the decrease is in the acreage of po-
tatoes for the table.
Roche Ihrke, who runs
a farm few miles from here, thresh-
ed 923 bushels of barley from an is
acre field, or at the rate of 81 bushels
an acre. August King, living near
Ihrke, reports barley yield Vt 50
bushels to the acre.
Hastings-Walter Gibbons, 10 years
old, of st. Paul, was taken to a local
hospital burned ABOUT the face and
hands as the result of taking the cap
of the radiator of his machine. Glib
bons attempted to put some cold wa
ter in the radiator and the force of the
boiling water kisw the cap OK. scald-