The Ely miner., 1925-11-06
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of st. Cloud were paid $4,000 this
season for peas, corn and cabbage, a
local canning factory announced.
caIedona-The Houston county jun
ior fair has just brought to close a
successful season of boys and girls
club work. approximately 440 boys
and girls were enrolled in the projects.
alrmont-Seventeen groups of Mar
tin county housewives have register
ed under the nutrition project recently
organized under tb7 supervision Of
University Farm extension workers.
Observation-Disclosures Elks will
hold their annual convention at st.
Cloud next August, it was decided at
meeting of the executive board of
the state association.
DuIuth-C Construction Of a flying
field for Duluth is under way and with
In month airplanes will be flying be-
tween here, the Twin Cities and Chi
cago, A. ]. Haze, manager Of the Ar
rowhead Air Ways Co., announced.
The company has bought a 40-acre
tract.
Rochester-Sale of all Rochester
theaters to the Twin City amusement
trust, controlled by the Finkelstein &
Ruben and the William Hamm inter-
ests of st. Paul, was announced. The
new owners plan S250,000 theater to
be built next spring.
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Government and Politics conducted by
the Minnesota League of Women
Voters in cooperation with the Uni
versity of Minnesota will be held No
vember 16 to 20 in ST. Paul at the st.
Paul hotel The course of study in
cludes several lectures by prominent
public speakers.
Roseau-Roseau county farmers are
staging a poultry Improvement cam
paign in continuation of the work be-
gun when 10 meetings were held,
Specialists are advising the farmers
about feeding and housing and giving
demonstrations in dressing, packing
and proper sticking of chickens and
turkeys.
st. Scientists are searching
the Mississippi river for a bit of ra,
dunn about the size of pinhead.
Seventy-five milligrams Of radium,
valued at $500, inclosed in contain
er smaller than a marble, slipped down
drainpipe when it was being used
in treating patient.
An Gz<
the past 20 years active in the public
life of the state and who completed a
four year term as governor last JAN
uary, has resigned as general mana
ger of the Minneapolis Committee to
promote industrial activity and will
become vice president of a large in
surance corporation with headQuar-
ters in Chicago.
st. PauI-Seventy-two more grade
intersections on the Great Northern
railway were designed as stop cross
ings by the Minnesota railroad and
warehouse commission. More than
600 crossings now have been designat
ed for full stops by motorists, On the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific and
500 Line.
DuIuth-A skirmish between Duluth
and Superior, for supremacy in the
grain marketing business at the Head
of the Lakes developed, when the Wis
consin grain and warehouse commits
sion announced a reduction Of 25
cents per carload, from 81 to rs cents,
in the Wisconsin rate for testing
wheat for protein content.
Hutchinson-An inquest over the
body of Frank Micka, wealthy retired
farmer, whose body was found under.
a pile of sticks and stones, resulted
in verdict, that Micka met his death
'by bullet in the back of his head"
At the same time the county sheriff
and the county attorney made plans
to go forward with a vigorous hunt
for Micka's unknown assailant.
MinneapoIis-The Gopher and the
Badger tangled for the 35th time and
like their last two encounters the
battle ended in a deadlock. The count
was IL and IL. After whipping the
Badger for three quarters, the Gopher,
with several substitutes in the line
up, could not stave off 'do or die
rally of the snarling, beaten Badger.
and saw victory snatched from its
grasp in the last 10 minutes of the en-
gagement.
Mendota-More than $4,000 persons,
nearly twice as many as last year,
visited the old Sibley House at Men
dota, memorial shrine of the Mime
sofa Daughters of the Revolution, in
the summer months in which it was
open to the public. The house was
closed after the most successful sea-
son 1t has ever had season which
marked the beginning of campaign
on the part of the Minnesota Society,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, to make the Sibley House better
known and more frequented.
Rochester-Dr. Charles H. Mayo
was presented with, the medal worn
by officers of the French Legion Of
Honor. The presentation was made
at the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can College of Surgeons by DIR. Thiery
de Martel, emissary OF the French re-
public, at Philadelphia.
MinneapoIis--Six hundred Univer-
sity of Minnesota dads" cheered and
sang themselves hoarse and then
pledged themselves to assist Univer-
sity heads in program of better hous-
ing for students at the school at the
second annual Dads Day dinner at
the Minnesota Union night.