The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-08
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tion Of Stationery Engineers opened
it's fifteenth annual convention here
with approximately 800 memt IS and
| large number of visitors present.
st. Peter-Pioneers of Nicollet coun.
| ty and grainmen here are unanimous
in their verdicts tina: the 1924 crop
now being harvested in this commun-
ity is the heaviest and finest in "a
years.
Misunderstanding an ironclad rule
and to prevent any misunderstanding
| the st. Louis County Agricultural So
ciety has gone on record as objecting
! to any political talks during the coun-
ty fair in Hibbing.
Windom-"Dodder," parasitic plant
which is among the weeds being fought
by the state weed inspectors, has been
| discovered in several fax fields in Cot
| tonwood county. 1t is said that in
/ some fields half of the crop will be
| lost.
/ Fergus Fals-Hog cholera is re-
ported in this locality and a number
of serious losses have been sustained.
The Fergus Packing Company order,
ed serum to vaccinate ell of its feeding
hogs and numerous farmers will also
vaccinate their herds
Fergus FaiIs-The organization of
an Ottertail County Taxpayers League
has been perfected here, with com.
mittees named for each of the So town.
ships and all villages of the county
Nearly 800 leading citizens are on the
] committees.
Pine island-Pine Island will have a
new bank with capital stock of $780,.
600 and a paid up surplus of $4,000.
| The following officers and directors
were elected: J. A. Bringgold, presi-
dent; D. c. Sheldon and E. F. Reiter.
vicepresidents; Arthur A. Raddatz,
cashier; Sam Closner, Edward Walter
and c. A. Mellinger, directors.
Duluth-A new railroad company,
the Duluth and Port Arthur railroad,
is being organized by Robert Waldron
of Duluth. This railroad will join the
United States and Canadian Twin
Ports at the Head of the Great Lakes.
Twin City capitalists as well as Du.
luthians are said to be interested in
the new project.
Minneapolis. B. Gilbert resigned
as state manager of the Nonpartisan
has part in it's political ACTIVITY. Mr..
Gilbert announced his resignation fol-
lowing meeting of the Minnesota
Nonpartisan League executive COM
mittee, called to indorse candidates in
the forthcoming campaign.
Bemidji-Two brothers were killed
and third brother was perhaps fatal
ly hurt when lightning struck them
as they were wedding their garden,
eight miles east of here. Lloyd Nell
son, IL years old, and his year old
brother, Elmer, were killed and Cliff
ford, 10 years old, is in critical con-
dition at a hospital
| Tracy = Motor caravans, railway
trains and horse drawn buggies
brought 10000 citizens to southwestern
Minnesota to Tracy to replace 10000
other visitors who had left behind
them $4,000 spent on the first day of
the mammoth benefit festival staged
by AZ cooperating communities to
raise money for the relief of tornado
victims.
Austin-Two sets Of tentative plans
have been offered trustees for the
Shaw Memorial Gymnasium for boys,
gift made to the youth OF Austin this
summer Construction of the gymna-
SUM, which will also contain club and
reading rooms for boys, is TO begin by
September 1 at a site facink on both
Main street and the Horacn Austin
State park.
Notwithstanding in eackards
| and other cars of the most expensive
| makes, party of 35 gipsies stopped
and pitched their tents on piece Of
land they claimed to have rented. The
| officers who went to the camp to in
vestigate and then warned the gipsies
to move on were met with defiance
and were told the unwelcome visitors
had brought one of their women here
for treatment at the clinic.
Little Falls-Probably the youngest
i globe trotter that has ever appeared
in this city, was here when Betty
Rose, 6 years old and her mother, Mrs.
Blanche Rose of Pittsburgh. reached
Little Falls en- route to Seattle. They
left Pittsburgh July Is and although
they have been given rides mere and
there, they have also done lot of
walking" Little Betty. despite the
! strenuous daily exercise, is getting
fat" on the trip.
ST. cloud-Tobacco growers Of
Stearns and adjoining counties are to
have a booth this year, for the first
time at the Benton county fair, and
/ probably at other fairs. This decision
to exhibit followed a conference here
at which the growers were assured by
D. H. Blattner, who has returned from
trip in Kentucky, that in this sec
/ ton of Minnesota tobacco can be
grown even more proftably than in
that state.
MinneapoIis-Ma desire
for first hand information upon every
| phase of diversified farming including
dairy cows, livestock generally and
/ crops of all sorts in order that they
may assist the community's ney pro-
/ gram of balanced agriculture, 700 far
mers and business men from the Red
i River valley will come 20 the North.
west Dairy Exposition at the Mime
sofa State Fair in carSan of ITO cars
on August 81 and September