The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-06-27
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st. Paul-Checks totaling s21 $3.50,
bounties on 1888 wolves ard TAT wolf
cubs, were mailed to county treasur.
ers by Ray P. Chase, state auditor.
The checks are issued quarterly, and
bring the total paid out in wolf boun.
ties to S66,11S.50 Residents of 40
counties shared in the June bounty.
DuIuth-The $1,5OQ,00O hospital for
tubercular treatment of World war
veterans, just allotted to the Tenth
district of the United States Veterans
bureau by congress, will be sought by
Duluth, according to announcement
made by S. V. Saxby, secretary
misunderstanding here in a very
modest way back in 1872, A. L. Sleep
er, Of this town, has built up bust.
ness in manufacturing fiypaper which
necessitates a warehouse in the twin
cities and sales agencies in IL states.
He also sends his product to China
and Japan, as well as other countries.
MinneapoIis-A new, all-steel. non.
stop passenger train, to operate be-
tween the Twin Cities and Rochester,
Mimi, began service over the route of
the Chicago Great Western railroad
company, leaving Minneapolis daily at
9 a. m. st. Paul daily at $50 a. m.
and arriving in Rochester at 12.40
p. m.
St. PauI-During the month of May,
as the result of drive conducted by
Oscar H. Smith, state commissioner
of immigration, Is immigrant families
passed through the Minnesota Trans
fer to new farm homes in Minnesota,
among them being families from Wis
consin, Missouri, Iowa, North Dakota
and South Dakota.
Luverne-A small tornado visited
Denver and Battle Plain townships in
the northern part Of this (Rock) coun.
ty, doing damage over a wide terri
tory. Trees were uprooted and car.
ried some distance, farm buildings
were destroyed, considerable livestock
killed in pastures and barnyards.
Park Repositories Heddon is en-.
PERTAINING this week at his summer
home on Big Mantrap lake, near here,
party of authors and magazine writ.
ers, among them Irwin S. Cobb and
Zane Gray. Endeavoring to conceal
his identity, Mr.. Cobb has been pass.
ing as a representative of a wholesale
shoe manufacturer.
OrtonvilIe-A strange malady car
ried off the entire pig crop from IL
sows from the ]. j. Anderson farm, six
miles west of Clinton County Agent
Buchanan and DR.. W. A. Billings OF
the state university, have been at the
farm conducting investigation. While
the sows appear to be in perfect
health, it is believed that the trouble
is goiter.
Triumph-Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stur-
devant, were agreeably surprised when
more than a score of their neighbors
drove into their yard with proper
equipment of farm implements. The
visitors said they knew Sturdevant
had been ailing and unable to work
his place as it should be, then pro-
ceeded to cultivate his corn and pre-
pare another field for later planting.
Fergus Falls-Deciding not to wait
for city council action, Mayor M. Ben
son leased a gasoline filling tank here,
brought in gasoline and sold it at re-
duced prices. Shortly after the open
ing of the station by the mayor, other
oil companies in the city reduced the
price of their gasoline from % $40
cents to 10 $40 cents, the price set
at the filling station conducted by the
mayor.
Detroit-Economy of municipal ex.
penditures was the chief topic for dis
cussion when the League of Mime.
sofa Municipalities opened its three
day convention here. More than $50
delegates from more than 100 cities,
villages and towns Of the state were
in attendance when the session open
ed. Twenty-one new municipalities
have been added to the league mem.
bership since the last yearly meeting.
saltwater = The Last Mans Club"
which has held its annual reunion in
the Sawyer House here since the or.
ganization of the club shortly follow
ing the Civil war. will hold its next
meeting July 81 in the directors room
Of the First National bank here. The
Sawyer House was RACED to make
room for the construction of large
modern hotel, and as a result one of
the landmarks of the city was re-
moved
DuIuth-One precinct in st. Louis
county, the unorganized townships SO
and Ga, on range II, did not vote be.
cause election supplies failed to ar.
rive, according to dispatch filed in
the office of Walter H. Bergen, county
treasurer The voting center of the
precinct is at Vermillion, point 40
miles overland from railroad station
and 25 miles by water. According to
Mr.. Bergen, when supplies fail to ar.
rive, it is a legal privilege of voters
to cast their ballots on any available
paper.
Fergus Falls-One of the principal
matters to come before the annual con-
vention of Vosselaget here will be the
proposal to purchase the house in
which the late Senator Knuts Nelson
was born at Voss, in Norway. The
house is then to be presented to the
town for museum. 1t is also planned
to raise money to help pay for the
monument to be unveiled to Senator
Nelson July at Evanger, Norway.
Governor Nestos, of North Dakota, who
was born only three miles from the
birthplace of Senator Nelson, is to
deliver an address at the convention
here.
Hibbing = Plans are in the embryo