The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-10-09
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All Me State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
OF the Week in Minnesota

ment has purchased large part of a
block in Willmar where buildings will
be erected for district headquarters
Lanesboro-Nearly 1000 people gath
cred at Sylvan park here to assist Mrs.
Brita Hoium of this place to observe
her Tooth birthday.
Standardization college is given
100000 for memorial to her hus-
band, the late Cordinio A. Severance,
under terms Of the will of Mrs. Mary
F. Severance.
Minneapoiis-An army of between
5000 and 10000 students will attend
the first classes of the fifty-eighth an
nual fall term of the University of
Minnesota.
Faribault-More than 5000 people
watched troupe of rs cowboys, cow
girls, Indians and Juveniles do their
rodeo stuff with two carloads of wild
bulls and steers, and another carload
OF horses here in competition for 1000
in prizes.
st. Paui-Complete shakeup of the
present prohibition force In the north
west, with removal of virtually all
present heads, will take place within
10 days, when General Walter F.
Rhinow, new prohibition administrator,
makes his appointments.
within an inch of it's end.
st. PauI-Trailing a diamond sales.
man from a Minneapolis hotel to a
jewelry store in the st. Paul loop, three
bandits strolled into the store, robbed
the salesman of $4,000 in unset dia-
monds, stuffed the gems into their
pockets and walked away.
Claremont- of Ripley town
ship have completed an organization
to halt the theft of poultry in their
community and have arranged for a
meeting to organize the entire farming
population of Dodge county in similar
| township units.
Minneapolis Discovery Of five sticks
of dynamite in the ticket office of the
Wonderland theater, 81 Washington
avenue N, led to investigation Of a
supposed bomb plot at a place which
once was the center of labor dispute.
The fuse of the bomb was burned to
Belle Plaine--Anton Gansen, a far
mer near here, received $S14.45 for 80
spring pigs, six months old. Their to-
tai weight was 6,420 pounds, an aver
age of 214 pounds each, and they
brought the top price in the South st.
Paul yards.
a
agent for the state penitentiary and
recognized nationally for his know
edge of criminal psychology, died of
heart disease in Saltwater. He was
IS years old. For more than 80 years
he was active in rehabilitating men
Of criminal tendencies, and the meth
DDS which resulted from his studies
were widely followed in other states.
st. Paul-The state department OF
administration and finance authorized
building program appropriating
s1,000,000, under an appropriation
authorized by the 1925 legislature.
The schedule includes construction of
buildings at the University of Mime
sofa, at Teachers college sites at
Moorhead and Bemidji, and an addi-
ton to the epileptic colony at Cam
bridge.
MinneapoIls-Hea by three drum
corps, two brass bands, one Scotch
"kilties" band, women's glee club and
male quartet, mre than 1000 Mime
sofa Legionaries and their friends left
for Omaha to attend the seventh an
nual national convention of the Amer
lean Legion and the national conven-
ton of the American Legion auxiliary.
BarnesvilIe-Drying racks are being
installed in the pavilion at the Clay
county fair grounds here for the pur-
pose of drying seed corn. Farmers
held a meeting recently to arrange for
which is of fine quality this year. A
heating plant is being placed in the
building and racks on which about 300
bushels of corn can be dried have been
provided.
st. PauI-The Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission took its
first step in campaign to reduce the
states annual grade crossing accident
toll by ordering the Northern Pacific
railroad to place stop" signs at 1873
crossings on its lines within 80 days.
Automobile drivers who fail to heed
the order to come to full stop be-
fore crossing the track will lay them
selves open to fine or imprisonment.
or both.
ST. PauI-The par capita cost OF
maintenance and operation Of the
Minnesota state government, and the
net Indebtedness showed downward
trend in 1924, according to report by
the United States department Of COM
merce at Washington. The peak was
reached In 1928. For the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1924, $31,030,056 was
spent for maintenance and operation
for general state departments, or
1924 per capita. The per capita was
$13.43 in 1928 and $S.15 back in 1917.
Minneapolis Fifteen hundred Min
nesota county rangers we're ordered
to be on the lookout for bandits who
broke into the United States Welding
Company's plant, 120 North Second
street, and stole an oxyacetylene torch
and a tank Of oxygen.
Minneapolis Striking Improvement
in general business conditions was
experienced by practically all indus
tries and interests throughout the
Northwest in August this year, as
compared to the same month in 1924,
according to the September agricul-
turSf and business review of the ninth
district Federal Reserve bank.