The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-14
Neult BrietrMw
All h STATE
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota

A. Cant.
neapoIs-Edmund Pennington,
chairman OF the board of directors
and former president of the 500 Line,
died of heart disease at his home. He
was II years old and had been ac-
tiyey connected with railroads for So
years.
Shakopee-Plans for combining the
celebration of the seventy-flfth ami
versary of the settlement of Scott
county and the foundation of Shake
pee and the annual farm bureau pic
mic have been announced.
Wsnona-A proposal to lease Lake
Winona to the United States govern
ment for a period of 20 years, as a
part of the Upper Mississippi river
game and fish refuge, is under con-
sideration of the city council.
DuIuth-Leonidas ]. Merit, 50
years old, discoverer of the first iron
ore on the Mesaba range, mining
genius, railroad builder, civic leader,
and the oldest Duluthian in point of
residence, died at his home here, fol-
lowing heart attack.
DuIuth-In addition to six volunteer,
unpaid special commissioned patrol
men and the sir members of his paid
staff, District Ranger Carl S. Lind, of
the state forest service, has announc-
ed that 81 township patrolmen have
been appointed in district two, which
&C. oh ;c+r ,of
st. Paul-Ray P. Chase, state adj
tor, filed as a candidate for renomina-
ton to that office. Mr.. Chase was ap-
pointed a clerk in the auditors office
in 1916 and was later appointed dep
uty auditor by Governor Preus, who
was auditor at that time. In January,
1921, he was appointed state auditor
and the following year he was elected
to the office.
Cwatonna-Steele county's biggest
single manufacturing industry brought
more than 100000 into the county
during 1925, survey indicates. 1t is
the butter manufacturing industry,
and during the past year farmers who
operate it received from outside Of
the county and from home consump-
ton of the principal product manu-
factured-butter- just s2,774,7S5.14.
New Ulm-Tom Davis, candidate
for the farmer-labor nomination for
governor, opened his campaign here
with an address outlining his CAM
paign platform. The meeting also
rallied number of his supporters in
this section of the state. DR.. L. A.
Fritsche, who was one of Mr.. Davis
opponents in the primary contest two
years ago, presided and introduced
the candidate.
international Falls-Eight hundred
men joined with two city fire depart
ments in fighting blaze which de-
stroyed an entire residence block
here. Low water pressure in city
hydrants prevented successful check
of the blaze until after it had de-
stroyed nine dwellings, several gar
ages and barns and forced the removal
of patients from Craig hospital which
caught fire.
Minnesota Lake-Efforts are under
way to make a permanent memorial
here of an old Dutch windmill, be-
lieved to be the only one of it's kind
in the United States. The mill,
erected in 1868, according to Probate
Judge j. w. Vance of Blue Earth, was
built by Gottlieb Schostag, who was
born in Holland in 1884. For many
years, the mill ground flour and feed
for the pioneers Of this region.
lie Sueur - An economic school
board at Medina, Ohio, decided so
years ago that it couldn't afford to
give a diploma to the one lone gradu-
ate of the class. Sharply disappoint-
| ed, Miss Erva Goodwin, the sole mem
| Der of the class, decided to make the
| best of it. This week, Mrs. William
| Snow, formerly Miss Goodwin, re-
| ceived a letter stating that the school
board Of Medina was forwarding her
| the long delayed diploma.
MinneapoIis-The first general rain
| since seeding was well started wa
| tered fields of the northwest while
overcast skies in many sections gave
| promise of further rainfall. Every
| where. cities and country alike, re-
| joiced in showers, however light, as
breaking the long drouth. The gen.
| eral rain came just in time, and sis
| the finest thing in the world" for Min
nesota, Paul H. Kirk, state agricul-
tural statistician said.
Bemidii-A 14-year-old girl is ma
tional champion after an essay con-
| test which attracted the efforts OF
thousands of boys and girls in the
American public schools-the annual
nationwide contest conducted by the
highway education board of Washing.
ton, D. C. This girl, Dorothy Jean
Utley, oldest in family of six chill
dren, has written an essay on "My
] Conduct on Streets and Highways
which has won for her local, state and
| national honors.
Mankato-Asa C. Barney, 80 years
| old, who came here SO years ago as
the Indians went on the warpath to
rid the country of white settlers, lies
in the soil that he helped wrest from
! the natives. He died after brief Ill
ness and was buried in a cemetery
once part of the Indians undisputed
domains.
Arlington-Forty years of con
/ tinuous service have won for Hugh
McGovern, chief of police here, father
of Johnny McGnvern, famous Mime
sofa footbaE star, congratulations
from all sectors of the northwest.