The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-22
SEvENTs:of the week
- d1roughoats the State
Iof Ten Thousand Lakes"
told in brief formA

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livestock. weighing 1,94S,101 pounds,
were made from this village by the
Meridian Farmers Cooperative COM
pany, shipping association.
Duluth-Duluth Forest, No. Al. Tall
Cedars of Lebanon, will cooperate
with the Proctor, Cloquet and Brain
erd lodges in the installation of a
new lodge at Owatonna, March 8.
Redwood Falls-Through the coop
Grafton Of the county farm bureau
and the Livestock Breeders associa-
ton, farmers in the vicinity Of Morgan
purchased eight pure bred Holsteins,
Short Horn and Angus sires.
Appleton Opposition to the Mel
lon tax plan has increased from 13 to
to 16 to in the second week of bal
loting in the referendum being con-
Quoted by the Appleton Press. news
paper.
Hibbins Members Of the Hibbing
Lions club will raise a fund for the
benefit of widows and orphans of Al
miners drowned when the Milford
Mine, at Crosby. Mimi. was flooded.
collection was started with SUBJ
stantial sum.
Willmar-Bids are now being re-
ceived for the erection Of the new
100000 Lincoln school. Work on the
new building will begin in the spring.
The new school will relieve the con-
gested condition of the Willmar city
school.
Rochester-To insure tn, transfer
nation of the present Lake City road
into well graded and properly gray
eled state highway. the county COM
missioners of Olmsted county will dis
pose of $4,000 in bonds to. obtain
money for the work.
DuIuth-Three ST. Louis county
youths, Joe Kulaszewick of Biwabik;
Tony Zaler of Eveleth. and Loren
Rutter of Buhl, have won free trips
to the state fair at Minneapolis next
fall as a result of their achievements
in work as members of the Boys and
Girls Poultry clubs.
PIainview-Fire which originated in
the coalbin from spontaneous COM
bustion, and which was discovered
about 6 a. m. by John Rutherford,
janitor, destroyed the Plainview pub
lie school, with an estimated loss of
$50, 900.
Red Lake FalIs-The Red River
Power Co., thru its manager at Grand
Forks, w. H. Brown, announces that
an immense power plant will be con-
structed at this point, to replace the
old plant which is now inadequate to
care for the needs of the city.
MinneapoIis-Miss Ruth Anderson
of Austin, who won the contest con-
Quoted by The Austin Herald, was in
troduced as miss Northwest" to the
thousands who thronged the Twin
City Automotive exposition during it's
closing hours.
Rochester-The statement of DR..
Charles H. Mayo that he would not
be a candidate for the democratic
nomination for the presidency did
not stop his friends from trying to in.
duce the noted surgeon to change his
mind
St. PauI-Tbe st. Paul Union Stock
yards company is permanently enjoin-
ed from interfering with the state OF
Minnesota in the weighing OF live
stock in a decision to be filed in the
Dakota county district court at Hast
ings by Judge Albert E. Johnson of
Red Wing.
WilImar-The postal department
<xun nncfnffinac
on the line of the Minneapolis & Lake
Lillian railway. One is at Corvuso
with Mrs. Harold Calundan as post
mistress, and the other is at Lake
Lillian where Miss Mary Anderson
has been named postmistress.
ST. PAUL. F. Reed, president OF
the Minnesota Farm Bureau fedora
ton, left to complete his Canadian
speaking tour in the interests of the
st. -Tidewater project. Mr..
Reed will go to Winnipeg, and, later,
speak at Saskatoon, Swift Current,
and other western Canadian points.
DuIuth-Duluth district judges are
directed in writ of mandamus by the
state supreme court to try at the
March term of court as jury case
the action instituted by Leonard
Swanson for s2,500,000 against M. H.
Alworth, Duluth mining man. Swan
SON is an explorer and claims the
amount owing him as commissions.
ST. PauI-Herman E. Samuelson of
st. Paul, executive clerk in the gov
ernor's office for the last nine years,
was appointed by Governor j. A. o.
Preus as his private secretary, sue
ceeding Charles f. Adams. resigned.
Governor Preus had no secretary dur
ing January, and no salary was paid
for the position during that time.
Little FalIs-Town and village OF.
ficers, schol officers and county Off
Gals met here to discuss the question
of tax reduction. Theo. Christensen
of Dawson made the address.
Brainerd-Was Mrs. Mako Tollan
of Crosby already widow when
granted a divorce in district court
here, and therefore, is the decree in
valid? This question was raised be-
fore Judge w. C. McClenahan here on
behalf of the woman, whose husband
died in the Crosby disaster, and on
his decision rests her right to collect
insurance under the workmen's com
pensation act.