The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-03
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vor or merger into one congregation.
Moorhead-The annual meeting of
the Northwest Central Education As
ISOLATION will be conducted in Moor
head October 8, 10 and II.
Bemidji = Saving operations for
the season were completed at the
Crookston Lumber company at Plant
No. /, several weeks earlier than us.
ual, on account of the large supply of
lumber now on hand in the yards.
Alborn-A hail storm that beat all
they had ever experienced in this Sec
ton OF the country, was passed thru
Alborn by tourists of Alborn who had
been camping at Cook and have Just
| returned
Welcome-E. w. Halkney who rails.
es cattle and hogs on large scale on
his farm near here, this week shipped
a trainload of cattle and hogs to Chi.
| cago. The shipment was said to be
one OF the largest ever made from
Martin county.
Slayton-Plans are now being made
for the SEEMING of number of the
lakes in this section of the state for
the purpose Of making away with the
buffalo, carp, suckers and other rough
| fish.
Albert Lea = Realizing the need of
physical development as well as men
tai development, the school board here
has made physical training compul-
sorry in the high school for boys and
voluntary for girls for the first time.
Lake City-The firm of H. A. Young
& Co. of this city celebrates it's 61st
birthday and for that entire time has
been in business in Wabasha county
and with the exception of about two
year spent in Reads Landing has been
in Lake City.
Shakopee = Justice Pierce Butler
of the United States Supreme Court
resigned as member of the board of
regents of the University of Mime.
sofa, and Governor j. A. o. Preus ap-
pointed Julius A. Collier of Shakopee
to fill the vacancy.
| Redwood FaIs-Four older boys
conferences with an enrolment of l..
600 delegates from rs high schools of
Minnesota have been planned. A con-
ference for boys in the southwestern
part of the state will be held at Red
wood Falls November 21-23.
FaribauIt-Authority to proceed with
preliminary plans for floating $4,000
worth Of municipal bonds has been
granted. Several projects will be GOV.
cred In the bond issue. The largest
is the purchase of additional fire
equipment, costing approximately $26,
600.
Magnolia nearly completed check
of the loot obtained by bandits who
rif1ed the safety deposit boxes in the
vault of the Magnolia State Bank, in
dicates that the loss will be in the
neighborhood of $1,000. Several
pearls, valued at around $1,000, were
| included in the loot.
Rochester-Just one year to the day,
after he was Struck and injured by an
automobile, and almost the same spot,
Aston Twiss, 6 years old, was again
! hit by an automobile. He has frac-
tured skull and several body bruises,
but physicians say he has an even
chance for recovery.
st. PauI-Governor j. A. o. Preus
closed the 1924 hunting season to the
shooting of imported ringneck pleas
ants. Game laws hitherto provided
that male ringneck pheasants could
be taken from October Is to Is, in
elusive, in even numbered years, lin.
iting the bag to three male birds in
! one day or in any one open season.
Duuth-Fire thought to have origi-
mated at the top of the elevator shaft
at the Spaulding hotel here, did dam
age estimated, roughly, between $780,
600 and $125,000 to the BUILDING and
contents. The 1876 guests aroused had
time to clothe themselves anu pack
baggage before descending to the
| street.
| WiIImar-Company /, 205th Infan.
try, Minnesota National Guard, which
was stationed at Willmar, has been
mustered out and the headquarters
company which was stationed at Fair.
mont, has been designated as Com
pany E. Willmar had no armory or
drill ground and there was a lack of
| interest.
ST. Cloud = Four of the larger gran.
| lite producing firms in the st. Cloud
district have been merged with a cap
! ital of $4,000, 900. The firms included
| in the merger are: Campbell North
star Granite Company, Great Northern
Granite Company, Pioneer Granite
! Company and the Allied Saving Com
pany.
Detroit-G. j. Norby, resident OF
this community since 1871, who died
| in a st. Paul hospital, was buried here.
He served in public office nearly all
of his life He was representative
of this district in the Minnesota leg.
| islature in 1921 and 1922. He served
as mayor of Detroit for two terms
and was sheriff of Becker. county for
| three terms.
saltwater - Mrs Grace Stauifer,
wife of William Stauffer, convicted
murderer of Emil Engs.-om, police
| motorcab inspector, was granted d.
vorce. The divorce action was start
| ed before Stauffer killed Engstrom
Mrs. Stauffer, called back from Miles
| City to aid in the hunt for her hus-
band, employed her attorney to defend
her husband, dropping the divorce ac-
| ton for the time.
West Concord-Unusual yields ara
| reported by John Newman from a
farm in Dodge county. From field of
! 81 acres Of cats and wheat mixed. l.
600 bushels, machine measure and 10
acres of oats nroduced 685 bushels.