The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-01
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the Waseca County Holstein Breeders
association at meeting held here.
Robert d. Geiger, st. Paul, secretary
of the Minnesota Holstein- Fresian as
ISOLATION, assisted in the organization
and spoke at the session.
New UIm-Miss Eva L. Blair has
been engaged to take up the work of
home demonstration agent in Brown
and Blue Earth counties. Miss Blair
plans to spend the first half of each
month in Brown county and the sec
opd half in Blue Earth county.
Minneapolis = Agricultural depart
ment officials of the Northern Pacific
railway, reporting harvest hand re-
quirement survey, list by communities
the need for approximately twelve
thousand harvest hands in Minnesota
and North Dakota along their lines.
Moorhead-E. c.. Cole has been
named chairman of q committee to
promote Clay county's participation in
the tour to be made by Red River val
ley farmers to the Minnesota State
=
at st. Cloud August 80.
Brainerd-All Breezy Point turned
out to welcome Captain William H.
Fawcett, of the victorious Olympic
trap shooting team, who returned
home. The American trapshooters
mopped up everything in the Olympic
game and also every shoot they at
tended in France, England and Italy
Slayton-Murray county will contin.
ue to have county agent with finan.
cial assistance from the county. This
| was decided when the county com.
missioners laid on the table, petition
signed by more than 500 persons, ask.
ing that the usual appropriation Of
$1,000 be not made because 1t was a
burden upon the taxpayers.
Owantonna-Sevente citizens, de
MED a temporary injunction to pre-
vent the Owatonna public utilities com.
mission from going ahead with Inn.
mediate construction of the proposed
municipal heating, light and power
plant, filed notice of appeal to the
| state supreme court from Judge F.
w. Senn's order dismissing the ap
plication
RenviIIe-Six armed bandits who
| cut all wires leading into the village
of Prinsburg, IL miles north of here,
held the village at bay, blew the vault
of the Prinsburg State bank and es.
capped with $1,000 in cash. The rob.
bers drove into town and cut wires at
the railroad station and the telephone
office. Threatening death to anyone
| who should attempt to interfere, the
men drove to the bank, where they
broke into the building.
| Red Wing-Minnesota has entered
on new period of prosperity, in q
| large measure the result of better con
ditions in agriculture, according to a
number of speakers at luncheon here
osta Realty association caravan, on an
automobile tour of the southern part of
| the state, were guests of the Goodhue
| County Real Estate board and the 10
| cal Kiwanis club.
Observation-Disclosures of the Min
neosta Editorial association meeting
| at the office of T. H. Garfield, State
Fair secretary, announced that the
association will again have an ex.
hibit at the state fair, and will issue
| a daily paper during the week of the
fair. Frank A. Day, committee chair.
man of the association, announced the
| membership of the committee that will
assist with the work this year.
Duluth-With the appointment OF
John Shambeau as chairman of the
general committee on arrangements
for the annual convention of the Min.
nesota Elks' association, the program
| is fast taking shap1 for the three-day
meeting to be held here August IA, 15
and It, Indications are that several
| thousands Elks and members of their
families will be here for the conven-
| ton.
Duluth-The Minnesota Cooperative
Creameries association will establish
| branch in Duluth, according to the
announcement made here by A. J. Nc
| CURE, president of the organization.
| The association, which markets the
Land o. Lakes butter, is made up OF
ATS creameries in the state, and cares
for the products of more than $4,000
! farmers. The association manufac
lures 100000 pounds of butter a
! year.
New RichIand-Directors of New
Richards dairy days" celebration
have set Thursday and Friday, Sep
| TENDER Is and 10, as dates for the
| event, which is one of the most out
standing dairying exhibitions in the
| state. Leading livestock breeders of
the New Richland community donated
| livestock valued at 1890 for the do.
nation sale, which created the bulk Of
fund to be used for the immediate
construction of dairy barns to house a
part of the exhibits.
MinneapoIis-Line and terminal ele-
vator companies with general offices
| in Minneapolis and Duluth, made a
| formal offer to the American Farm
| Bureau Federation at Chicago to sell
| 1902 line elevators in Minnesota,
North and South Dakota and Mon
| tara, % terminal elevators in Min
| neapolis and IL in Duluth. The pro-
posed is to turn over to properties of
| grain companies in the northwest
which have been engaged in competi.
tive. private business, to the farm in
terests in connection with their pro.
gram for cooperative marketing of
grain