The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-08-07

Albert Lea-The annual meeting of
the Ninth and Half District" Ro-
tarians will be conducted here Aug
ust 10 at the Country Club.
ruIda-rhe second annual area tu-
berculosis COW test conducted in Muir
ray county, disclosed that out of
more than $4,000 cows. 27S reactors
were found.
Detroit-A man, young married
woman and 10-year-old girl were
burned to death here when the air
plane in which they had just taken
off caught fire after a forced landing.
Minneapolis - Seventeen persons
are dead, four others critically hurt,
and more than a score of others were
injured as the result of traffic and
drowning accidents in the northwest
over the weekend.
Hibbins-The state forestry depart
ment has decided upon the erection
OF three large steel towers, observa-
ton points which will be used by
forest rangers in detecting fires, it is
announced here.
Henderson-Gust Brandt, a Blakely
township farmer, has completed his
twenty-eighth harvest with the same
binder. The machine performed as
well this year as it did the year he
bought it, Mr.. Brandt said.
st. Cloud-Tobacco this year will
be harvested earlier than at any
time in the history of the state,
Charles Lien, state tobacco expert,
says. Harvesting will start the latter
part of August.
Minneapolis - Northwestern rail-
roads have on their own rails an aver
age of 95 per cent of their grain cars,
many of which are stored in the grain
growing territory, in preparation for
q crop movement comparable with
that of 1924.
EIy-Forest fire suppression costs,
the first ever collected from private
individual in Minnesota, were paid by
Glenn Shields and ]. P. Riddell to the
United States government in connec-
ton with fire trespass case in the
Superior national forest.
Hibbing-D. G. Kerr of New York,
vicepresident of the United States
Steel Corporation, was here for his
annual trip of inspection of mine
properties on the Mesaba range. Mr..
Kerr expressed himself as very op-
ttmistic over the prospective business
for the remainder of the year.
South st. Paul-Purchase of the
Newport plEnt of the Farmers Ter
minal Packing Company, with so
acres Of land, by the Cudahy Packing
Company of Chicago, for $4,000,
brought another large packing COM
pany actively into the South st. Paul
field.
LakefieId-Through efforts of the
Commercial club plan has been
worked out whereby farms in the vi
cinity of Lakefield can obtain fire pro-
lection from the department here.
The firemen have agreed to answer
all calls within seven miles for a fiat
charge of s25.
st. cloud-A man and a 17-year-old
boy are dead, the boys mother prob
ably fatally injured and four othors
are in a st. Cloud hospital, injured
when two automobiles crashed in a
headon collision on the paved high
way between st. Cloud and st. Jo-
seph.
Minneapoiis-One hundred and fifty
University of Minnesota students who
spent their vacations studying and list
ening to lectures received their de-
grees at commencement exercises in
the music building, which brought
to close the first term of the univer-
sity summer school, at which more
than $500 students were enrolled
FaribauIt-Armed squads of World
war veterans, sworn in as deputy
sheriffs, and equipped with high pow
cred automobiles, were being organ
lied to protect the banks of Rice
county against bandit raids. Deci-
sion to adopt the ranger system was
County Bankers Association.
Owatonna-A 2-year-old purebred
Holstein heifer is being shipped to
Japan by H. w. Schroeder, a breeder
and dairy farmer. The animal was
bought by K Takahaski, commission
er of agriculture and forestry, for the
Japanese government. 1t is the third
occasion on which the Schroeder farm
has shipped blooded stock to Japan.
Redwood Faiis-The North Western
railway has announced that the after
noon passenger train on the Sleepy
Eye-Redwood Falls branch will be
restored. Citizens of Morgan, Red
wood Falls and other places asked
restoration Of the service and after
several hearings the company has .de-
cided to restore the train.
Princeton-One hundred and eighty
members Of the Minnesota Potato
Growers Exchange residing in terri
tory tributary to Princeton. meeting
here, went on record as being opposed
to continuance Of the exchange.
ST. PauI-St. Thomas Military AGA
denny was the recipient few days ago
Of the greatest honor that can be con-
ferred on a school unit of its class by
the war department when 1t was
named as military honor high
school," for its work in the school
year 1924-25 and was placed on an
accredited list Of military schools Of
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