The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-29
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the village council on a petition pre-
sented by property owners on the
street
Appleton-In the worst thunder.
storm of the season the grain eleva-
tor of John ]. Hagen & Son at this
place, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground with its con-
tents, about 1000 bushels of grain.
Slayton-Work on the foundation for
the monument to mark the graves Of
the settlers at Lake Shetek who were
killed by the Indians in the massacre
of 1851 is about completed and it is
expected the monument will be set up
by October 1. Thirteen Shetek pio-
neers were massacred.
Thief River .Falls-Miss Marion
Wash, organizing secretary for the
Minnesota League of Women Voters,
accompanied by her assistant, Miss
Elizabeth Paige, conducted al informal
meeting here with women preparatory
to recognizing the women voters Of
Pennington county this fall
ST. PauI-Bishop Charles Bayard
Mitchell took formal leave of the st.
Paul area of the Methodist Episcopal
church, of which he has been head for
eight years. His address of farewell
was largely a story of his relations
| with Bishop Charles Edward Locke,
| retiring head of the Manila, P l., area,
| with whom he is exchanging posts.
Msnkato-The butter entry of Mar
yin Frederickson of the Cambria CO.
{ elative Creamery, was given the
highest award of any butter submitted
from the Is cooperative creameries in
this section at the exhibits of the Min
nesota Cooperative Creamery Associa-
ton at the Mankato fair. The Cam
bria entry score 94A points.
Thief River FalIs-The offices of the
Minnesota Wheat Growers Associa-
tion which have been located in this
city since it's inception, will be moved
to Minneapolis occupying quarters
there in connection with the American
Wheat Growers Association, of which
William j. Brown of this city, has been
president for the last year.
Duiuth-District Judge H. J. Grannis
refused to grant third trial to the
Model Woodland fire case, which in
volved the settler ent Of several mil
lions dollars losses in the Woodland
district of Duluth in the October 1918
forest fires Mr.. and Mrs. Harry F.
McCool were awarded verdict of So
985 for losses suffered in the fire.
Red Lake FaIls-Seventy farmers
and business men attending a meet
| ing at the court house here to discuss
the sugar beet situation in this To-
cality and to ascertain sentiments to-
wards building new sugar refinery
at East Grand Forks. A COMMITTEES
| will be appointed to canvass the COM
munity and see how much stock can
be subscribed.
observation-disclosures ringneck pleas
ants within the county of Big Stone,
will be protected from hunters this
season, If Governor Preus acts favor
ably upon petition being circulated
among the sportsmen of this county
The petition asks that closed season
be ordered, as the pheasants have not
increased sufficiently in numbers and
cites the effect of the severe winter
of 1922, when hundreds of the birds
were frozen to death.
Albert Lea-Following the example
of the Sumner Valley Creamery. at
Sigsbee, the Moscow Creamery is the
second in Freedom county to refuse
to receive milk or cream from any
herd that has not been tested for tub
erculosis. The good result OF what
was then considered a drastic step by
the Sumner Valley Creamery was
shown by the fact that all the herds
supplying it with milk and cream be-
came 100 per cent free of tuberculosis
by test.
Anoka-Minnesota farmers set in
motion the machinery of their newest
cooperative marketing enterprise,
when they opened the first of nearly
200 warehouses to the first load of po-
tatoes of the 100000 bushel crop
they expect to handle this year
through their own agency. The Min
nesota Potato Growers Exchange,
made up of IL, 500 farmers received the
first shipment of the 1924 crop at its
Anoka warehouse, with more than a
dozen other warehouses opening the
same day.
Minneapolis A. Ludwig, cashier
of the First National bank OF Mime
sofa Lake, who disappeared on August
6, following an examination of the
banks books which showed shortages
said to total between $4,000 and $45,-
600. was found living in an abandoned
barn on a farm in Belgrade township,
10 miles south of ST. Peter. He ap.
Sparently was a victim of aphasia, fail.
ing to recall anything Of the past or to
recognize his wife and sister during
an examination by police who arrested
him.
Hibbing-Hibbing's paving program,
now in progress, is the greatest under
taken by any city in Minnesota this
year, not even excepting the cities of
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth. APP
proximately 40 blocks will be put in
here, all of the thickness required by
the state highway department in or
der to receive reimbursement from
the state, according to the engineer In
charge. The village expects to be re-
imbursed to the extent of about $780,
900.
DuIuth-District Judge e. j. Kenny
took under advisement the claims for
s2,500,000 back pay made by Leonard
Swanson, iron ore prospector, for sew
vices in discovering mines on the Mes
saba range for Marshall H. Alworth,
n1Iufh mining u1~n