The Ely miner., 1925-05-15


Austin-Owatonna high school won
first place in the district high school
livestock judging contest here. North
field was second and Elkton third.
Mlnneapolis-Mrs. Alice c. Nash
was elected a supreme manager OF
Royal Neighbors of America at the
quadrennial conference of the supreme
camp at Hot Springs, Ark.
st. PauI-Minnesota's state treasury
has total cash balance on hand, in
cluding all funds, of s14.016,SS1 on
May l, as compared to s13,S95.164 in
the state treasury year ago.
New UIm-Dr. H. c. Edmiston, OF
New Ulm was elected president OF the
Minnesota State Osteopathic associa-
ton at its annual convention in St.
Paul.
st. PauI-Cordenio A. Severance.
pioneer Minnesota lawyer, former
president of the American Bar asso-
citation and law partner of Secretary
Of State Frank B. Kellogg. died at
Pasadena, Calf.
MinneapoIls-Mo than 1900 moth
ers from Minnesota, Michigan, Wis
consin, North and South Dakota and
Iowa watched sons and daughters go
through a typical college day at the
University of Minnesota.
Wabasha-Mrs. S. r. Rask, Bloom
ing Prairie, was elected president of
the First District Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs at the closing session Of
it's twenty-frst annual convention at
Wabasha.
Observation-Disclosures Of log
setting retarder, device used on
sawmill carriers has won for Edward
McCluskey of Cloquet, Mimi, second
prize in a contest conducted by the
National Lumber Manufacturers AS
sociation. The award was $500 cash.
Fort SneIIing-A resolution approv-
ing the move to erect a chapel at Fort
Smelling was adopted by IA Minnesota
chaplains of the regular army, the re-
serve corps, and the national guard
when they met at Fort Smelling with
John T. Axton, chief chaplain, U. s. A.
ST. Paul-The s10,000,000 Ford
plant at the high dam got down to
the business Of producing automo-
biles, when the first car at the new
plant came down the assembling line
and was driven off the rack with civic
officials and businessmen of the Twin
Cities In the car and in the audience.
Rocheste-The Rev. G. P. Sheri-
dan. pastor of the Congregational
church, was elected president of the
Rochester Rotary club, organized to
affiliate with Rotary international.
ninth district Rotary, attended the
meeting.
ST. Paul-Mrs. Georgine Kelly, who
was adjudged insane in st. Paul in
1918, has won a verdict Of $27,500
against former officials of the Mon
tana state insane asylum for illegally
keeping her in the place and perform
ing an operation on her against her
will, 1t was announced. She was also
adjudged mentally competent after a
sensational trial at Anaconda, Mont.
Fergus FaIls-Three months in Jail
and s4O0 fine was the rule in liquor
cases where defendants were charged
with sale and possession, while vio-
lators of the immigration laws drew
five to six months straight in the
doubIe-header United States court,
conducted by Judges w. A. Cant and
John B. Sanborn.
st. PauI-The state board Of invest
ment purchased 100000 worth Of Sc
curities, the interest from which will
be used In welfare work among war
veterans of the state. The money will
be expended by the state board Of
control and 1t is estimated that about
900 veterans will benefit. The 1928
legislature turned over the unexpend-
ed balance of S180,000 from the SOL
diers' tuition fund to the soldiers well
fare fund, making the board of con-
troll custodians.
Mankato-Mankato won point scor-
ing honors in the district high school
music contest with 46 points, Fair
mount was second with 80, Albert Lea
25, Sleepy Eye Is, Wells Z, and Ma
della A.
st. James-Frank ]. Appel, As years
old, deputy state game warden sta
toned at Grand Marais, was killed in
a motorcycle accident on the Gun
Flint trail, the new highway between
Grand Marais and Gun Flint lake.
oIenwood-Mayor Edward e. Bars
ness, editor of the Pope County Tri-
bune has been selected as one World
War veteran who will be honorable
body guard to President Coolidge at
the Norse-American Centennial on
June Z, and 9Th. Mr.. Barsness'
father served in the Civil war while
an older brother served in the Span
ish American War.
Representatives of 120 or
more Minnesota towns are expected to
attend the state Mail Carriers Conven-
tion to be conducted here July %, "a
and 25.
BaIaton-Jumping from hayrack
onto sleeping prairie wolf is a GER
tain method of obtaining a long,
though not comfortable rest, for an
overworked farmland. Patrick Caine,
a farmland employed on the Erickson
place, four miles west OF here, drove
a rack alongside a stack Of hay and
vaulted lightly into the fodder He
landed squarely on large prairie
wo,t, partially esvered with hay.