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

has decided on the first week of Aug
ust in 1925 as the date for the fair
Virginia-The Virginia rifle club has
requested the council to provide a
rifle range in the new recreational
building here.
Hibbing-The village council set
the 1925 tax levy for general corpora
ton purposes at $1,622,2OO, plus s4S,.
600 allowed as a result Of the annex.
alton of the village of Kitzville.
Willmar-The Kandiyohi County
Bank of this place, which claims to
be the second oldest bank in Mime
sofa, unconsolidated, celebrated its
45th anniversary.
Austn-Hog cholera has broken out
in at least seven farms in Mower
county, resulting in the loss of sew
eral hundred hogs.
Faribault - With an attendance
estimated at between 10000 and 90,
900 persons, Faribault celebrated its
fourth annual open house party.
slime, 70 years old, prominent Roches-
ter physician and former state sena'
tor, was killed when the car in which
he was driving skidded and turned
over on highway two miles north OF
town.
Northfield-The mems senate of St
Olaf College has elected Herbert Gjert.
sen of Madelia president; Loyal Tai
lakson of Willmar, vicepresident, and
Harold Schiotz Of Ladysmith, Wis,
secretary.
WiIImar-Formation of an associa.
ton of federal employees in every
congressional district in Minnesota
was proposed at meeting oil
the Association of Federal Employees
of Central Minnesota.
CaIloway-Miss Monica Zurn, 49,
year-old Junior Calf Club member
who won a trip to the National Dairy
exposition for good work, distinguish
ed herself by winning the first prize
in the health contest here.
MinneapoIis-Mrs. Eugenia B. Far
mer, Minnesota's oldest suffrage
worker, is dead. Mrs. Farmer has
been an ardent worker for equal rights
for women ever since she was Is
years old.
Manufacturing to lack Of suf
ficient appropriation by congress,
the guard must be reduced to main
tenance strength" % men from here
will be transferred to the Transports
ton Company E of Fairmont.
Pipestone The Pipestone boys
dairy demonstrating team, made up OF
Donald Merrill, Donald Fairchild and
Howard Wohlford, won high honors
at the national dairy show in Milwau
kee.
Waseca-Carlstad Brothers, con
tractors who built the new s350,00O
high school building here, have been
awarded a $4,000 bonus by the board
Of education for completing the build
ing in advance of the date specified in
their contract.
Redwood Falls = That Redwood
county corn is not a complete fail
ure this year is shown by recent
sales that have been made of corn
standing in the fields. At the Fred
Werner place, near Vesta, corn in the
field brought $25 per acre.
Grand Rapids-Christ Hansen, a
graduate of "a Denmark agricultural
school, has inaugurated COW testing
association, with % herds listed. All
the herds are located in the vicinity
of this city and it is proposed to con
tinue the test for one year.
Owatonna-P. G. Peterson, butter
maker of the Hope Cooperative
Creamery, was elected president OF
district 10 of the Minnesota Creamery
Operators and Managers Association
at the annual meeting of that body
here.
Rochester - Buried under 2,50O
pounds of coke, George Ross. Roches
ter transfer agent, was found alive
and still grasping the wheel Of his
car when he was pulled from the
wreckage. His truck had been hit by
the Chicago & Great Western special
Hibbins-Ground has been broken
here for the new Duluth, Messabe &
Northern depot, to be one of the most
modern passenger and freight sta
tions on the range. An Improvement
program which will cost in the neigh
borhood Of s5,oOO,OOO has been an
nounced.
DuIuth-Constructi of two more
mills in Duluth by the United States
Steel Corporation for the manufacture
of sheets and tinp1ate, is forecast
by James P. Craig, executive director
of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tide
water Association, who is now in
Washington.
DuIuth-The largest amount of tax
es ever collected in one Minnesota
county in a three-month period was
reported from St Louis county during
the period March 1 to June 80. accord
ing to a report 1.ed in the office Of
State Auditor. The total was s11,-
743.9S1S9
Wykoff-Six or seven auto bandits
armed with sawedoff shotguns "cap-
tIred" Wykoff, cut telephone and
telegraph wires. patrolled the streets.
shot into homes where lights were
seen. terrorized citizens, robbed the
Exchange State Bank Of $1,000 and
ESCAPED