The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-05-08
NEWS OF THE NATION BRIEFLY TOLD


Mankato - To date 479 Blue Earth
county boys and girls have enrolled
In club work, according to l.. E. Nc
MILAN, county agent.
st. Paul - Mrs. Mary Arthur, los
years old, a resident of st. Paul for
more-than SO years, died at Little Sis
tiers of the Poor home.
New Prague Joseph ]. Rachac,
president of the Third District Bank
ers' Association, announced that the
annual district convention will be in
New Prague in June.
New Ulm-Dr. H. c.. Edmiston of
New Ulm was elected president of the
Minnesota State Osteopathic associa-
ton at it's annual convention in st.
Paul.
Mankato = Approximately $12,0 900
has been subscribed toward the $780,
900 which the Mankato Y. NJ. c.. A..
has set as a goal for it's financial cam
paign.
Red Wing A site for the new
substation of the electrical power line
which the Northern States Power
Company expects to run into Red
Wing this summer, has been chosen.
cIoquet Two Cloquet men affict.
ed with blindness for many years are
the recipients of radio sets given by
the American Foundation for the Blind
at New York city.
Duluth Steaming in through the
Allouex ship canal the steamer Har-
vester officially ushered in the 1925
season of navigation, eight days earl
Ter than was the opening last year.
st. James The Watonowan Co.
operative Egg and Poultry unit now
has lob members, who are deliver
ing their eggs to receiving stations Of
this association.
StilIwater-Robert S.. Davis, 20 years
old, pioneer banker of Minnesota, died
at the Lakeview Memorial hospital
after a short illness. He was presi.
dent of the First National bank of this
city.
Observation-Disclosures persons were
injured in accidents reported to police.
WV VI hCh Del lOuoly , anu IL &C WV
men, whose automobile was struck by
a street car, escaping with minor in.
juries.
Duluth = The iron ore shipping sea-
son is well under way with opening of
navigation on the Great Lakes. The
season is well in advance of last year
and indications point to a banner year
in both mining and shipping. a
Austin-Word has been received by
Albert HOPPE, manager of the South
ern Minnesota Holstein Co. hat the
young bull, Sir Inka May, raised here,
has been sold at Philadelphia, for $12,-
600. The animal will go to Seattle.
ST. Paul-Beltrami county in north
central Minnesota has 1884 farms
valued at $9,414,110, according to re-
suits of the 1925 farm census received
from the department of commerce at
Washington.
kenyon-The congregation of the
First Evangelical Lutheran church of
Kenyon at a meeting decided to erect
a new church this summer, at a cost.
of approximately $4,000. The old
church was destroyed by fire two
years ago.
St. Cloud = Schools of every state
in the United States and many for
eign countries have bought copies of
Reading in the Saint Cloud Public
Schools" published by the St. Cloud
board of education and written by
Mrs. Ruth Ewing Hilpert, formerly
grade supervisor here.
DuIuth-Plans for a $375,000 lift
bridge across the upper waters of st.
Louis bay have been prepared by the
Twin Ports Bridge Company, which
will require the vertical lifting Of a
300 foot span AZ feet every time a
vessel of substantial size passed be-
meath.
Henderson-Wages for farm hands
in this section average $4,000 a month
on season contracts, a survey of 20
farms revealed. With a few excep.
lions the employed men are fully ex-
perienced. Day wage in the current
month range from 81 to $3.50, farm.
ers said.
Springfield - Two prize winning
Chester White brood sows purchased
by the Italian government, have been
shipped from here. One of the sows
was from the herd of Andrew P. Rams,
a Springfield farmer, and the other
was from the herd Of Andrew Ander-
son Of Tyler.
Austin Burr Oaks" a rambling
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billiard room, a fireplace and a gym
nasium, will be the future domain of
Sir Larry O'Keefe, former packing
house employee. Sir Larry inherited
the title and much Of value from his
grandfather who died in Ireland.
Crookston-As the result of a vote
of 826 for the bond issue and 1852
against, the Crookston school district
/ will erect an auditorium and gymna-
SUM to cost $4,000, as an addition
to the present high school building.
Voting of these bonds ends a long
contest.
Minneapolis. N. Jacobs, author
of the "Magnus Johnson Steps Out"
article, involving the former United
States senator in an arrest whose CEN
trail figure turned put to be another
Magnus johnson, was found guilty of
criminal libel in Hennepin county dis
trict court.
Observation-Disclosures of people are
expected to visit the Carleton campus
May 16, when two of the biggest
events of the college year take place.
In the afternoon, Carleton's Gath IN
nual interscholastic track meet will
be run off on Laird field, and in the
evening, 'aThe Enchanted Flute" the