The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-12-19

of st. Paul, judged the exhibits.
Red Wing-Mrs. G. F. Russell. moth
er of eight children. was the first per.
son to cross the Mississippi river on
the ice opposite Red Wing this win
ter.
Rochester The Olmsted county
commissioners re-engaged Miss Mary
2. Mckay as county public health
asrse and appropriated $4,000 as her
salary.
| Fairmont - Business men here sub
scribed $3.50 in an hour to clear snow
blocked roads leading into Fairmont
and eight horse teams and graders be.
gan opening them up.
Rochester - To further their So
cial and professional interests and to
stimulate self improvement, the teach
ers of the public schools here have
formed the Rochester Educational As
| ISOLATION.
| Waseca-Tuesday to Friday, Sep
TENDER to II, inclusive, were the
dates set for the 1925 Waseca County
I
the board of directors of the Waseca
Agricultural Society.
st. Publications from hundreds
of Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for
500 per capita payment out of the
tribal funds, to assist them through
the winter, were filed in the House by
Representative Knud Wefald.
ST. Paul - One hundred and thirty
million dollars was spent by tourists
in Minnesota during the past season,
according to c. M. Babcock. state high
way commissioner, who addressed the
10000 Lakes of Minnesota association.
/ Marshall - Thirty men, who are
] familiar with firearms, make up gun
! squad that has just been organized
here with full authority to act in cases
of emergency with the local police de-
partment. High power rifles are to
be furnished to all of the gunners.
] Minneapolis = An effort to enlist
the facilities of the United States
Shipping board for the expectation to
Great Britain of 100000 bushels Of
i Z
Growers exchange was launched in
Minneapolis.
/ New Ulm Joseph ]. Schneider
of Springfield, who was indicted by
the Brown county grand jury for the
killing of 14-year-old Mayette Bielen
last Halloween night, entered a plea
of guilty to murder in the third de-
gree this morning.
Mlnneapolis-The Irish potato crop
is failure, and Ireland is ready to
import 100000 bushels of potatoes
from America and thereby take the
| surplus off the market and raise the
| American price, Herbert Myrick,
Springfield, Mass publisher of sew
/ eral farm papers said.
/ Prairie Farm - With the death of
William Hager, an old resident Of this
place, August Roemhild Post 237,
| Grand Army of the Republic, has van
! ished from the rolls of that organiza-
ton. He was the last member of the
post and died at the Wisconsin Veter.
/ ans home.
| Minneapolis - A general upward
1 sweep on the America. markets in
response to weather conditions and
| foreign demand carried wheat and
corn up to new records for the last
four years. All other grains partici-
pated in the sharp increases in prices.
Crosby-The village council was
called on by Commander JEFF Leigh.
| ton, of the local American Legion, who
stated that If the council wished it
the post would take as part OF its
years work improvement of the park
site along the lake shore donated two
years ago by George H. Crosby.
Minneapolis Minnesota chickens
escaped the embargo raised by New
York against chicken shipments from
| eight Middle West states because the
] thorough inspection tests here guar.
antee the health of the birds, R. F.
Hall, chief inspector of the Minnesota
Department of Agriculture, said.
Rochester-When this city recently
found itself in possession of a per-
fectly good and going grist mill,
] through purchase Of property of
milling company for city purposes, the
i city attorney gave it as his opinion
that the mill could be legally operat
ed by the municipality. A competent
man has been kept in charge of the
mill and "grists" are being turned out
regularly for farmers, with a result.
| ing steady profit to the city treasury.
/ Rochester - At meeting here to
extend formal welcome to 81 Kahler
| student nurses who after completing
| three months of preliminary prepare
/ ton, donned their caps. ]. H. Kah-
! Ter reminded the students that the
first class entered just six years ago
/ when the school vas opened as war
/ measure. He added that it is one Of
/ the largest schools in the United
States, with an enrolment Of 270 stu
/ dents.
Minneapolis-The General Educa-
| ton board, an organization allied
/ with the Rockefeller Foundation, has
promised to give the University of
Minnesota $1.250.000 for the compile
ton Of the medical school including
purchase of land as site for new
Minneapolis General hospital, pro-
vided the university obtains elsewhere
$2,350,000, the remainder Of the 3d.
100000 which the proposed expansion
will cost.
Rochester-The Queen City Silver
Fox farm, located three miles south.
west OF Rochester, has been added by
the Detroit Silver Fox Farms organi-
cation to its group of producing units.
it was announced here. The Detroit