The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-05-04
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ton of issuing bonds in the amount |
of $125,000 for a new high school.
Wheaton-John e. Pearson, superin- |
tendent of schools at Halton, n. D., |
has been elected superintendent Of
the Wheaton schools.
Rochester-To aid in the campaign |
against the fly in Rochester, the city |
health department is offering a prize
of SIS to the boy who will invent the
best flytrap for household purposes.
Crookston-The Northwest Minneso-
Ia fair will be conducted in Crookston
July % to 81 it was announced at a
meeting of the board of directors.
WIlmar-The state asylum at Will
mar has been granted $437,300 by the
legislature and the place will be fur
Their improved during the summer.
Owatonna-Many rural schools hav-
ing the eight months term will close
for the season and will not reopen I'm.
til fall The districts having the five
and six months terms already have
closed.
st. Cloud-Robert Calhoun, former
st. Cloud boy, now professor of psy-
chology and philosophy at Carleton
college, Mortified, has accepted
chair in the Divinity college at Yale
for the coming year.
virsinia-Douglas Greedy, aged SO,
president Of the State Bank OF Vir-
ginia, is dead here after a prolonged
| illness. He came to Virginia in 1910
from Pine City, Mimi, and opened the
State Bank of Virginia.
Austin-Dr. Raymond C. Swisher,
pastor of the First Congregational
church for four years, has resigned.
and after June 1 will be pastor of the
First Congregational church at York,
Nebr.
| JanesviIIe-The Women's club OF
GAINESVILLE will entertain the Women's
club of Waseca county at luncheon.
At this meeting officers will be elect
ed as we'll as delegates to the district
convention at Rochester.
crosby-A speeding automobile,
while rounding curve near from
maid, north of here, struck team be-
longing to Edward Christensen and
driven by Harry Peterson. The driver
was badly cut about the head.
Duluth-Carrying supplies for the
settlers, fishermen, woodsmen and vii
layers along the isolated north shore
of Lake Superior, the U. S. S. America
steamed out of the local Larbor. 1t
was the first scheduled trip of the sea.
son from the Head of the Lakes.
Rochester-John M. Rowley, one OF
the leading Masons of the state, wai
buried here with full Masonic honors
Prominent members of the order were
present from all over the northwest,
!, and the funeral was one of the larg-
est ever conducted in Rochester.
St. Paul-DelegateS from all parts
of the state will be present when the
annual convention of the Minnesota
State Osteopathic association assem-
bles at the Saint Paul hotel, DR.. S. D.
Foster, st. Paul, chairman of the COM
mittee on activities, announced.
Fairmont-At it's first meeting the
new city council appointed he follow
; ing officers: City clerk,W. R. Surgeon;
city attorney, Frank Dougherty; as
SCISSOR, William Viesselman. The lat
ter is to work only two months in the
year, at $500 a month
Rochester-To obtain a representa-
tive civic organization, business men
and business women have been divid
ed into IA groups in drive to obtain
memberships at $25 each in the new
Civic association, which supplants the
Civic and Commerce association and
the Kiwanis club.
/ acknowledgement Of the
Minnesota conference of the Evangel
/ ical church appeared in district court
) here and petitioned Judge F. W. Sem
9 for permission to transfer the prop
: erty of the Emmanuel church society
= of Meriden to the state body.
Duluth-Determined to make 1928 s
5 record year from the standpoint o.
{ the low number of forest fires, state
S and national forestry men in northern
0 Minnesota and in the vicinity of the
L head of the lakes expect to make the
o best of the National Forestry week tt
II further their program OF preventing
and suppressing forest fires.
s Mankato-Ray Pool, st. Paul, &C
cused of breaking into a postal sub
u station in st. Paul, pleaded guilty tt
q the charge in United States distric
e court before Judge Wilbur F. Boot
u here and was sentenced to two years
q in Leavenworth prison George Warm
s. ington and William Davis were sen
$ fenced to five years in Leavenwortl
4 on charge of robbing custodian o
q the mails at Mortified, Mimi.
Owatonna- Announcement was mad
g from the county superintendent o
t. schools office that the rural spelling
n contest will be conducted in the higl
e school here. One pupil from eacl
e, rural school in the county will com
z pete, and the winners in the oral ant
n written examinations will be given
a. free trip to the State Fair next fall
a. Jasper-Three bloodhounds wer
e used ineffectively in an effort to IL
t. cate robbers who entered the A. 1
. Roevold drug store here and escape
q with a large amount of merchandise
Of The dogs followed roundabout cours
t. through town to the stockyards, wher
a. they stopped. 1t is believed that tn
is robbers had an automobile parked a
the stockyards.
o. st. Paula. c. Jensen, superintent
al emit of Minneapolis police, was name
I'd member of the executive committe
D. of the newly formed Minnesota Polio
tie association, and Minneapolis wa
e, picked as the 1924 meeting place a
the final organization meeting of th