The Ely miner., 1924-05-16

Albert Lea-Representatives from
Faribault. Waseca, Mower and Free
born counties met here in regional
conference on child welfare work.
kennedy-Rev. o. o. Gustafson OF
Elbow Lake was reelected president
of the Red River Valley conference
at their annual convention here.
Springfieid-The fifth annual meet.
ing of the Southwestern Minnesota
Firemen's association will be con-
Quoted in Springfield, May Fl. A
large attendance from this section
is expected.
FaribauIt-Faribault was named as
the first entry of towns in the vicin-
ity of Minneapolis to join in the
Minneapolis community sing under the
auspices of the Minneapolis park
board.
Winnebaso-The small town OF AL
den, east of here, reports that the
last year dealers there handled and
shipped $37S,000 worth of butter.
Farmers were paid cash for their pro-
duce.
Little FalIs-The Ryan Hardware
company store of this city, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss esti.
mated at $4,000. A call for help
was sent to ST. Cloud for additional
equipment, as the department here
was unable to cope with the flames.
Jackson-A petition nearly 10 feet
in length and signed by 80 per cent
of the land owners affected by the
construction of judicial ditch No. Al,
known as the Million Dollar Ditch
in southwestern Jackson county, has
been filed in the clerk of courts Of
fee, objecting to the construction OF
the ditch at this time.
Chisholm-When some schoolboys
saw several beavers making their
way into town in leisurely fashion,
they gazed at the animals in aston
ishmeat, and then got busy. Using
some haywire and few gunny sacks,
the boys got the beavers into the
sacks and a game warden was notf-
fed.
Sleepy Eye-There has never been
q time when so much interest has
been taken in the boys and girls
club work in this county as there has
this spring. The baby beef, dairy
calf and pig clubs all have large en-
rolments and additional poultry and
corn clubs have been organized for
the first time this year.
Park Rapids-The Commercial
Club of Park Rapids has set aside
$1,000 of its annual budget to be
used for community advertising. Hav-
ing had little experience and tasted
of the fruit that the tourist brings
where attractions lure, the business
men of Park Rapids realize that
much Of their prosperity in future
years will depend upon a unified ef-
fort to attract the summer traveller.
Zumbrota-Between $4,000 and
$4,000 damage was caused by fire
which destroyed the Zumbrota city
hall, housing the Jail and fire sta
ton, and damaged the public library
buildings. Because of the rapidity
with which the flames spread, fire
fighters were unable to use the ap-
paratus and were forced to wait un-
til help arrived from surrounding
towns.
Rochester-Rocheste will not lose
it's community center This announce
ment was made by M. G. Lawler,
chairman of the committee which
has been receiving money and
pledges for continued support of the
Commercial Association building. We
have raised the necessary pledges,
said Mr.. Lawler, "and 1 believe all
who have made pledges will cheer
fully pay up and that we will have
the necessary $4,000 with which to
operate the community CENTER"
Notwithstanding the second seri-
Gus ice blockade at the Head of the
Lakes this spring, 10 ships, includ-
ing two Canadian passenger liners,
the Harmonic and Huronic, reached
the Duluth-Superior harbor. With
the exception of the inconvenience
caused men passengers and members
of the crews because of limited tobac-
co supplies, every one Jared well dur
ing the four-day Imprisonment, skip
pers reported. None of the ships
was seriously damaged.
MinneapoIis-Fir steps to consoli-
date cooperative egg and poultry mar
ketirg machinery in Minnesota were
taken at meeting held in the head
quarters of the Minnesota Farm Bu-
reau federation. For several months,
egg producers of the state have been
Organizing on the California plan, using
a 5-year contract AS fast as enough
contracts were obtained in a given
producing area, a district selling
agency has been established.
Rochester-Co1ecting for airplane
work at the rate Of dollar minute
is the profitable business now being
done by William Yunker, Rochester
man, who left herA a month ago iyr
Alaska
Lake city-Lake City chronicled its
second tragic death within three days
when DR.. Frank fitzgeral was found
dead in chair in the John Gamm real
estate office.
Ada-Crookston was selected as
the meeting place in 1925 at the
closing session of the annual conven-
ton ~ ths 14th district i7omen's S
Christian Temperance union here.