The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-08-14


National Fraternal congress.
cIinton-The Clinton creamery.
which opened for business June 1,
paid out more than $14,330 for butter.
fat in June.
Windom-Thronged with hundreds
of old settlers from all parts Of the
United States, Window held open
house in celebration of Cottonwood
county Homecoming festival
Every federated club in
the third district has Endorsed the
candidacy OF Miss Minnie Dilley,
Mortified. for president of the Mime.
sofa Federation of Woman's Clubs.
Columbia Heights Mrs. Anna Gould,
so years old, a member of the city
council, was fatally injured when
an automobile in which she was riding
overturned two miles east of Forest
Lake.
Twin Naiiey-A contribution of
$4,000 was made to the Wild Rice Chill
dren's Home, an institution of the
Norwegian Lutheran church, by DR..
Theodore Bratrud of Warren, a ply.
stefan.
Warren-Warren was admittedly
dry, very dry. And the city shipped
in $4,000 gallons in railroad tank car
from Crookston. Prohibition agents
took no notice of the shipment. 1t
was water
ogema-Ogema, On White Earth re.
servation, has creamery where no
ice is used. The creamery has an ar
tesian well that flows with such force
that the water has been piped through
the building. The water maintains a
steady temperature of As degrees.
Wadena-J. w. Swigart, Of Stuts.
man county, N. D., and Miss Ida B.
Thompson, of Wadena county were
disappointed when they sought to be
married here and had to go to another
town. All the local ministers were
on vacation
Thief River Faiis-Bands, drum
corps, delegates, visitors and state
and national officers, 5000 strong, in.
vaded Thief River Falls for the an
nual convention of the American
Legion and it's auxiliary. The dele
gates represented $4,000 members of
$40 posts and $50 units in the state.
Henderson, radio greeting from
President Coolidge is planned as a
part of the celebration of the 73d an.
nfversary of the foundation of Hen.
derson, August 25, DR.. ]. Felix Traxler,
chairman of the program committee,
announced.
St. Paul-That Minnesota will use
about 250, 100000 gallons of gasoline by
the end of the year became evident,
when the annual report of Halmar
Nilsson, chief oil inspector, covering
the fiscal year ending June 80, showed
shipments into the state of $4,000 gal.
Ions.
ST. Peter-Colonel Arthur e. John.
son, q. s. A., who served with distinc-
ton In the Spanish-American and
World wars, Is soon to be retired be-
cause of age. Colonel Johnson is a ma.
tive of ST. Peter and was chief mus
tering officer at Fort Smelling during
the national guard mobilization of
1915.
Bemidji-Announcem that Swift
& Co. is interested in establishing a
creamery in this section and is con.
sidering purchasing of the Bemidji
Creamery Company plant, was made at
a meeting of the Bemidji Civic and
Commerce Association by a represen.
tative of the company.
st. PauI-Fifty-seven thousand more
automobiles are travelling Minnesota
highways this year than last, and cars
owned in the state have brought
$9,256,53 in revenue to the state
treasury, more than s1,0o0,00O in ex.
cess of license fee revenues for the
first seven months of 1924. Mike
Holm, secretary of state, announced.
DuIuth-Seven hundred Knights Of
Columbus, wearied from travelling It's
miles by special train and automobile
over the Iron Range, left Duluth for
their homes in various parts of the
United States and American posses
sions, Mexico and Canada, with the
impression that Philadelphia will see
the 1926 convention.
Wilkin county is go.
ing to build a new courthouse at
Breckenridge years from now
for cash. The county has no outstand-
ing bonds, except for drainage, and has
had none for the last Is years. Levies
for the new courthouse have been
made until the county now has 100000
in the fund and in three years more
it expects to have enough to build.
lie sueur center-Bootlegger now
serving time or waiting of the federal
grand jury in the LIE Sueur county jail,
have been put to work in the fields.
Several days ago farmers complained
of the shortage of help. Sheriff Hugo
Bolke put up the proposition of field
work to his prisoners and they agreed
they would prefer the outdoor to Jail
ST. Paui-The first memorial IL
honor of Mrs. j. e. Rounds, president
of the Minnesota Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, who died July %, to be
presented sluce HeI ucdlh, was given
by Mrs. Emily Speechley Whitacre,
st. Paul Mrs. Whitacre presented a
ST, 900 endowment scholarship to Ham
line University, proceeds of which will
be used to aid two young women stu
dents at Hamline, worthy and needy,
who are ambitious to develop their
own abilities to give public service.
lie Roy-A woman spectator was
injured by runaway steer, a relay
race rfder was hurt when his horse
collided with a second mount and
alarm was caused when heat mad
dened buffalo climbed into the grand
stand at the rodeo and roundup at Oak
dale park, near here.