The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-03-12
Nemc Brietrhw
All Mo State
Condensed Stories Of happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota


Moose Lake-Hugo Anderson OF
Maplewood Poultry Farm has installed
$4,000 egg incubator.
Window high school won
the second congressional district cham.
plonship of the Minnesota high school
debating league by defeating Wells.
Worthinston = Introduction of a
course In general ethics in Minnesota
public schools as a step in crime pre-
vention is asked in resolution adopt.
ed by the w. G. T. U. here.
BiWabik-Thrift soon will be part
OF the public school curriculum here
with the installation of savings sys-
stem for pupils under supervision of
the board of education.
eapoIis-Plans for the first
banker-farmer short course ever held
in Minnesota have been announced by
Fred P. Fellows, secretary of the Min
nesota Bankers association.
st. Paui-Members of the Minnesota
Territorial Pioneers association are
preparing for their annual meeting,
which will be held on the birthday Of
the state-the day it was admitted to
the union-May II, in the old capitol.
Duluth-B. D. Edwards, general sec
rotary of the Duluth Y. M. c. A, an
nounced that the fiftieth annual state
convention of the Young Mems Chris.
tian Association will be conducted in
this city Thursday, March 25.
Pequot-A II year old girl who
burned the East Gull Lake school
house near here because she did not
like the teacher, is to be tried at the
June term of District Court.
Sleepy Eye-The Izaak Walton
League will buy plot of ground near
the Cottonwood river for picnic and
camping grounds. Other outdoor i'm
provements are planned.
Waseca - Squads of Minnesota
rangers will be organized at once and
equipped in Waseca, GAINESVILLE, New
Richland, Waldorf, Otisco and Mata-
wan as the result of a decision of the
Waseca County Bankers Association.
Dodge Center-Nearly 300 Dodge
county village and farm women began
work in poultry production project
which promises to increase the value
of the county's poultry and egg output
considerably.
polis-Despite the heaviest
snowfall of the year ceremonies of
laying the cornerstone of the new
100000 municipal auditorium, char.
acterized by officials as lone of the
most significant steps in the history
of Minneapolis" were conducted Sat
urday,
DuIuth-George w. Lorenzo, form,
er cashier of the Peoples State bank
Of Duluth, who confessed to embezz.
ling $S3,500 of the banks funds,
pleaded guilty in district court, and
was sentenced to serve not more
than 10 years on two counts.
st. Paul-Otis E. Clymer, former
major league baseball player and star
outfielder for the Minneapolis base.
ball team from 1910 to 1912, was ia.
tally injured in an automobile accident
at st. Paul.
Winona-A further step to make
this section of the state a sports
mans paradise" has been taken with
completion of arrangements for the
reception of 460 pairs of Hungarian
partridge to be liberated in Winona
county about March 20.
ST. Paula tabulation completed by
the state tax commission shows that
railroads operating in Minnesota in
creased their gross earnings in 1925
more than 100000 as compared to
the previous year The gross earn
ings of all roads in the state for the
year totaled $160,561,S07 as compared
with $153,551, 349 in 1924.
ST. PauI-With $50 dangerous grade
intersections In Minnesota already de.
signated as stop crossings" and stop
signals" installed by the railways at
about 600 Of them, the Minnesota rail.
road and warehouse commission will
begin an inspection of crossings on
the last major line to be surveyed-the
Minneapolis & ST. Louis.
ST. PauI-Declaring that IL Mime.
sofa is to reap the benefits of the
present tide of industrial decentral
ization, 1t must act at once, Colonel
L. H. Brittin, author of the proposal
for a state industrial promotion bu
reau, announced that he will offer his
services to Governor Christianson to
organize a volunteer bureau for the
work.
DuIuth-The supply Of anthracite
coal at the head of the lakes is entire
ly exhausted, but Duluth has little
need to worry over the fuel situation
for there is plenty of soft coal In stor
age, coal company officials said, Al
the end of the 1926 lakes shipping sea
son only 10000 tons Of hard coal
were in storage at the docks, the sup
ply being much lower than In former
| years,
Shakopee-To insure uniform
high grade of seed corn in Eagle Greek
township, the Eagle Greek Farmers
Club has established township test
ing station, Experienced testers will
have charge of the station and all far
mers In the township have been in
vited to submit samples of their corn
Minneapolis-The has been an in.
crease in the amount of land under
cultivation during the last five years,
and farm land alone Tow is valued at
$4,000, 900, Bernard v. Moore, deputy
governor of the Federal Reserve
Bank, told the Minneapolis Business
Mems Association.