The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-03

Caledonia Caledonia sportsmen
have received $4,000 trout fry from
the state game and fish department
and have begun planting them in the
streams of Houston county.
Fergus Falls = The city of Fergus
county fair grounds. The city re-
Gently voted $4,000 to buy the ground,
and the transfer includes the grand
stand, tourist camp and race track.
Jordan - More than 5000 persons
attended the annual rally of the Min
nesota Walther League here. Rev.
C. Oberschulte of st. Paul, president
of the Minnesota Walther League,
spoke.
Wells = Alfalfa crops in Faribault
county promise good yield this sea-
son. First cuttings have been made.
Ma1katq ~ Enrolled In the various
departments In which work is offered,
5S7 students are studying during the
annual six weeks summer course at
the Mankato Teachers College.
Faribault = Several hundred Rice
county women Joined in an exposition
Of project work at the Faribault high
school when the first achievement day
program under the auspices of the
Rice County Farm Bureau was given.
Browerville - Joseph Kiselewski, a
farm boy just four years away from
this village, has won $1,000
scholarship of the Beaux Arts Insti.
tute OF Design, providing years
study of sculpture in Paris. He is
American born of Polish parents.
Red Wing = The city council wants
larger armory than that partially
destroyed by fire last April and is will.
ing to put $4,000 into the venture,
even though it will remain a state
building and under state control
Fairfax = Fort Ridgely was the
mecca for $4,000 Masons from the
counties of Brown, Redwood, Renville
Cottonwood, Lyon, Lincoln, Sibley,
Yellow Medicine and Watonwan. Next
years meeting will be conducted at
Sanborn.
Argyle - Bequests totaling $4,000
are made to institutions here in the
will of Mrs. F. D. Keye. filed in Pro.
bate Court here. Mrs. Keye died here
June Z, leaving an estate valued at
S10O, 900.
Hlbbing = The seasons record for
shipments of iron ore in single day
was broken by the Great Northern
railway when close to 100000 tons
were shipped. This is far in excess
of the tonnage of any other day this
summer.
Bemidji Bemidji Teachers col.
lege has just graduated it's largest
class, u young men and women re-
ceiving diplomas at the commence
ment exercises. In 1924, AZ students
completed their work at the local
school and the year before the grad.
uating class numbered 63.
Rochester - Their wedding having
been postponed because illness of the
brides mother caused her to be
brought to this city, Arnold D. Olson,
of Bookings, S. D., and Miss Eva
Kautson of Lidgerwood, N. D., were
married in the sunroom of a sana-
forum here. The ceremony was wit.
messed by patients from Is states and
one from Holland.
crookston = Virtually every phase
of agricultural experimentation is in.
Guided in the project work of the
Northwest School of Agriculture here.
The scope of agricultural activities is
explained in a specially prepared bull.
letin issued by the school for the
benefit Of visiting farm groups, two
of which have already visited the
school. Twenty-Five others are ex.
Minneapolis = Edward A. Bromley,
pioneer Minneapolis newspaper man
and pictorial historian OF the north.
west, is dead. For many years, Mr..
Bromley had been a prominent figure
in the northwest, personal friend OF
all its prominent men, student of its
history, and owner of a remarkable
collection of original photographs Of
men and scenes of early Minnesota
days.
St. Paul - Because two sets Of
highway improvements will cost the
state $4,000 under estimates and
revenue from the new gasoline tax is
exceeding expectations, more than
S1,000,0OO will be added to the
states road building program for
1925. This means that whole set
of Improvements, tentatively planned
for 1926, will be started year ahead
Of schedule.
st. Paul Four major state ap-
pointments were announced by Gov
ernor Theodore Christianson. They
are: Chairman, rural credit bureau,
Ole o. Sageng, Dalton; commission.
er of game and fish, J. F. Gould, re-
appointed; commissioner of forestry
and fire prevention, Grover M. Con-
get present state forester. commits
sioner of agriculture, N. ]. Holmberg,
reappointed.
Scandal - Sloshing around in rub
hers and umbrellas, undeterred by
threatening weather. 10000 sons of
Sweden marched through the streets
Of Scandal, beneath the red, white
and blue of the American flag and
the yellow and blue Of the Swedish
flag, to do honor to their pioneer an
cestcrs, who IS years ago settled in
a log cabin in Washington county and
began Swedish immigration to Min
uesota.
Waseca-J. j. Cahill OF GAINESVILLE
and r. ]. Risdau of Iosco were named
as members of the board of directors
of the Waseca County Agricultural So
icety to fill vacancies caused by re-
cent resignation at meeting of the
board here.
owatonna-A meeting of directors