The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-05-29

Bethel-Two city fire trucks raced
% miles to Bethel, north of Minneapo-
lis, to aid in checking flames which
destroyed two buildings.
Slayton-At the annual meeting of
the Murray county convention of wo-
mems clubs here, Mrs Axel Frisk of
Hadley was elected president.
Albert Lea-Despite recent heavy
frosts in this section of the state, the
fruit crop in this vicinity has not been
greatly damaged, fruit men said.
Madison-John Wollschlager Of Bel.
bingham purchased the farm of John
Kemen, two miles south of here, pay
ing $3.50 cash per acre for the tract.
Winona More than 400 under.
nourished children in the public grade
school Of Winona have been given a
half pint Of milk daily during the last
five months.
Cottonwood county will
stage historical pageant under aus
pices Of the American Legion and the
Window Community club on Home
coming" day August 4 and 5.
Crookston = DR.. ]. 8. Cnapin, physi.
clan of Euclid, Mimi, fell dead while
making professional call. He was
SO years old and had been practicing
medicine at Euclid for 43 years.
Fairmont-Fairmont has been chosen
by the Minnesota College of Agricul-
ture for the first of a series of boys
and girls club summer camps planned
to be conducted throughout the state.
cIoquet-Forest fires over a wide
spread area broke out anew in nor.
thern Minnesota and brought cali
from rangers for immediate aid to
check their threatened spread to seri.
GUS proportions.
Genola-E. R. ASpund, special dep.
uty bank examiner, announced here
that the First State bank, which wal
closed by the state banking de-.
partment, probably will reopen in
June.
Winona-Committees have been ap-
pointed representing Winona police
authorities and merchants to work out
a plan for furnishing the business dis
trict here with better police protection
against robberies.
Minneapolis-A petition asking for
an increase in Minnesota rates on
grain and some grain products was
filed by nine railroads with the Min
nesota railroad and warehouse COM
mission.
Minneapolis The famous United
States Marine band of Washington,
D. c., the presidents own band"
will accompany President Coolidge to
Minnesota for the Norge American
Centennial.
BuhI-Dorothy Erickson of Bull
high school won first place in cake
making, and Veronica O'Donnell also
of Bull, captured individual honors
in breadmaking, in the st. Louis coun.
ty breadbaking, cakemaking and sew.
ing competitions.
Thief River FaiIs-The Minnesota
Cooperative Egg and Poultry Elk.
change is planning to have dressing
plant in operation here in time for
the fall season. New district ex.
dlc uSIuS III w a
dena, Fergus Falls and Willmar.
Worthington-The Worthington Ki.
wants Club adopted resolution in
which the state railroad and ware
house commission Is asked to refuse
licenses for either buses or trucks to
operate on the highway through the
town on the main line of the Omaha.
Rochester-Dr. G. NJ. Waldie, super
intendent Of the Buena Vista sana-
forum for tuberculosis in Wabasha
county, has proposed that Olmstead
and Wabasha counties join to main
tricounty agreement expires.
st. PauI-The Great Northern rail-
way, through two subsidiary corpora
lions, each with a capitalization of
$1,000, 900, is to go into the business Of
operating motor buses in Minnesota
for passenger and freight traffic.. 1t
was announced.
Virginia-St. Paul was selected for
the 1926 gathering place for the Min
nesota State Americanization Council,
and S. o. Hartwell, superintendent of
st. Paul public schols, was selected
president as the seventh annual con.
ference ended here.
Owatonna-The final $4,000 block
of bond issue of s350,000 voted by
the people of Owatonna to finance con.
struction of the municipal electric
lighting plant was sold at SPECIAL
meeting of the city council to the Sc
curity State Bank of this city.
Winthrop-Organi a protective
system to safeguard member banks
against raids by outlaws, the Sibley
County Bankers Association has put
a price on the head Of every robber
captured and convicted in the holdup
of any member bank.
StiIIwater-A new National Guard
company, A Company, 135th infantry.
has been organized in this city, sup
planting the smaller Headquarters
Company. A Company has been trans
ferred from Pine River to this city.
with the Headquarters Company go
ing to Fine River.
WeIls--The state banking commits
sion has granted Theodore Aune of
Glenwood, Mimi, and group OF bust
ness men a charter for the Security
State Bank to be opened here shortly.
The bank will be Incorporated for
$4,000
Lake cIty-The matter of organic
ing a Lake City historical society to
collect and preserve the many historic
relics in this community, to collect
and edit historical data concerning
Lake City and this part of the valley
and to collect and classify letters and
photographs is now under considera-
ffon