The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24

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Red Wins-The Red Wing Retail
Grocers Association voted to become
offiliated with the State Retail Grocers
Association.
Hibbine-A parade of former SER
vice men preceded the laying of the
cornerstone of the new Memorial
building here.
Jasper-The new steel and concrete
bridge spanning the Splitrock west of
Jasper has been accepted by the state
highway commission.
Eveleth-Courses in safety instruc-
tion throughout the entire school sys-
tenn were authorized at meeting OF
the Eveleth school board.
Winona-Dr. A. H. Maze was elected
commander of the Winona Legion post
at it's annual meeting here.
Aurora-The American Legion post
of Aurora has just finished and equip
ped a structure which is occupied as
the Aurora postoffice.
Winona = The Winona Rebekah
Lodge, auxiliary of the Odd Fellows,
entertained delegates from five other
lodges at the annual district conven.
ton here. About 100 women attended.
Fairmont-The Interstate Power
company has made the Fairmont city
council an offer of $450,OO0 cash for
| the power and light plant and the city
heating system here.
Owatonna-The Owatonna Public
| Utilities Commission rejected bids for
| the construction of distribution sys-
year.
MarshaII-Well supplied with bread,
| but without monty, two little Indian
| boys who had run away from the gov
| eminent Indian school at Fipestone
were picked up here and returned.
| Ada-Ole Bergestrom was severely
burned while at work on high ten
sion line. He received 5000 volts in
his right hand Both hands and feet
were severely burned.
! Winona-F. w. Peck, director of
the University of Minnesota agricul.
| - .
Reed, state farm bureau president,
addressed a gathering of 200 business
men and farmers here.
| Winona-The new 100000 College
Hall of the Winona Teachers College
was opened to the public. The hall,
which was completed last week, re.
places the old building destroyed by
fire Dec. 8, 1922.
| Austin-James Hitler Of Austin,
one of the Mower county club boys, has
received check for S226.80, the top
| price on more than ton of hog flesh.
His nine hogs tipped the scales at
$3.50 pounds.
| st. PauI-There was 81 per cent
| increase in production of iron ore in
Minnesota in 1923, according to the
| department of the interior. Produc-
| ton in 1922 was 27,768,960 gross tons.
44,34S,296 in 1923.
observation-disclosures of Kanaranzi
| spent week changing the course OF
the Kanaranzi river, which like the
| national old Missouri. has habit Of
changing its course every once in a
while.
Winona-Four local residents re-
| ceived from Germany letters which
had been carried by the giant Zeppe-
| lin ZR-3 on it's nonstop fight to Amer
lea. The letters were all mailed on
the day the dirigible left Europe.
Albert Lea-The event of the year,
to which workers in more than $500
| Sunday schools in Minnesota, the
! meetings in different parts of the
state of the Minnesota Council of Re-
ligious Education was held here.
Duluth-Registratio figures here
reached 3S,388 when 1928 voters en-
| rolled on the final day for registra-
| ton before the general election. The
highest previous registration for ar
election was $4,000.
Fairmont-Mrs. Katy Miller, Mar.
tin county's oldest citizen, is 100
years old. Born at Littenberg, Ger.
many, Oct. IS, 1924, Mrs. Miller spent
! the first is years of her life in that
| country. In 1912 she accompanied heI
parents to America.
! Misunderstanding black walnut logs
is sideline in the farming business
| of E. H. Schloeman, owner of the
| Riyerview stock farm near Judson.
He brought in two, 9 and s feet in
| length, for which he was paid $113
cash. The logs were cut from tree
said to have been 247 years old.
st. PauI-Mrs. E. T. Vincent of St
| Paul, parachute jumper known pro.
| fessionally as Monte" lie May, was
killed at Houston. Texas, when para
chute failed to open while she was
making triple drop" She fell 1000
feet. Her husband witnessed the ac-
| cident.
Warren-Clara L. Paschke Of Chas.
ka. Mimi, has established headquar-
tiers here and will spend about six
months in Marshall county doing pub
lie health nursing under auspices Of
the Minnesota Public Health Associa-
| ton and the Marshall county chapter
| of the Red Cross.
Minneapolis-Th Northwest's crop
this year is real billion dollar
harvest" with plenty to spare. The
value of eight major crops of 1924 in
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da-
Rota and Montana totaled s1,124,02S.
600, greater by s472,366,000 than the
value of the 1923 harvest, estimated at
1851, 692, 900.
! Grand Rapids William
| Whaling, of the United States Ma
rines, who has been visiting here with
his wife at the home of his parents,
has received orders to proceed to
| China for duty at the American lega-