The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-01-08
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FinIayson-Five unmasked bandits
who locked four persons in a vault
obtained $1,000 in a daylight robbery
of the First State bank. They fed in
q large sedan.
st. Paul-Secretary of State Frank
B. Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg. who had
spent the Christmas holidays at their
home in st. Paul, left the Twin Cities
on their return trip to Washington.
chishoIm-First indications of i'm
proved labor conditions in the iron
mining industry, forecast for 1926 were
evident with the announcement of the
reopening of the Leonard mine at
North Bank.
st. Peter-Gustavus Adolphus col
lege went over its goal of 100000,
ending a four-year campaign, and as
a result will received 100000 from
the general educational board of the
Rockefeller Institute of New York, to
be added to the original fund of $780,
600, thus giving the school the $780,
600 endowment necessary as a college.
st. PauI-With the 1925 total of
nine principal crops in Minnesota es-
timated at 464,000,00O bushels by the
department of agriculture and the
states wheat production for the year
fixed at 26,000,000 bushels, the acre
age planted to winter wheat this fall
shows a decline of 10000 acres from
the figure of year ago.
Lake City-Forty-two trucks and
warehouse, familiar to hundreds Of
Minnesota National Guardsmen, were
destroyed by fire at Camp Lakeview
at an estimated loss of 100000. The
warehouse, a brick structure, 40 by
$50 feet, housed the National Guard
trucks used for the annual encamp-
ment of the Minnesota guardsmen.
Belle Plaine-Resumpt of the
campaign for protection against over
flow of the Minnesota river has been
undertaken by bottom land" farmers
in Scott county, south of here. Lead
ers of the movement >said that Con-
gresham August H. Anderson will be
asked to carry out the program map
ped out by former Congressman C. r.
Davis.
st. Contractors making pri-
mary excavations for St. Clouds new
$1,000,000 hospital, struck a vein of
low grade coal. The vein was discov-
cred by workmen sinking wells and is
reported to be so feet below the sur
face. 1t has been arranged for ex-
perts to take samples of the coal to
determine whether its quality and
quantity will make it feasible to con-
slider working it.
Brooten-Mrs. Marie Rengel OF
Brooten, wife of Leo Rengel, World
war veteran, started fight for part
of thee $6,00O.000 estate of Edwin B.
Jennings, eccentric millionaire of Chi
cago, when she filed suit in Chicago
for 100000. Her claim is based on
the assertion that she saved the aged
man from being struck by an automo-
bile truck and that in gratitude he
promised her part of his fortune.
MinneapoIis-The University of Min
nesota entered upon the fifty-eighth
year of its. institutional life after the
most successful IL months in it's his
tory. In February, 1858, the univer-
sity, little more than an academy, iso-
lated and forlorn on the banks of the
Mississippi river, was opened. The
university will open for its first 1925
quarter, with an enrolment expected
to reach close to the 10000 mark, ex-
elusive of the thousands registered in
extension and short courses and in
the high school courses in the agricul-
ture division.
Minneapolis-Two high producing
Guernsey grade cows owned by the
University of Minnesota are an
nounced as winners of high records in
the Guernsey breed, in bulletin re-
ceived at University farm, from the
American Guernsey Cattle club.
spot g." grade cow in the north
central experiment station herd at
Grand Rapids, won with production
record Of AIT pounds of butterfat in
305 days. Sawyer g." another grade
cow owned by the university, COM
pleted years test in Glass "a" pro-
ducing 14.679.2 pounds of milk and
707.12 pounds of butterfat.
ST. Paul-The Minnesota State Fair
yielded profit of $3S,225.17, above all
expenses, despite the greatest expen-
ditures in history for entertainment
and premiums, Thomas II. Garfield,
secretary and general manager, said
In his report to Governor Theodore
Christianson. Total receipts for the
1925 fair, he said, were s42s, 468.04,
$12,457.28 more than in 1924. The to-
tai cost was 391,242.S7. Cash re-
eeipts from ticket sales. including
outside gates, grandstand and night
horse show, were $2S6.S56.75. Conces-
sion revenues. including percentage
concessions, attractions and shows,
paid s60,64103, and exhibit space
rentals totaled s22,S51.20.
Ciaremont Diversified farming.
now popular in Minnesota. has induced
Eric Bowman and his son to go their
neighbors one better by raising skunks
as farm product. The Bowmans
have purchased a foundation stock of
two varieties of skunks and plan to
raise the animals on large scale for
their valuable furs.
ST. auI-Minnesota's farm produo
ton In 1925 broke the record OF out
put set by the big crop Of 1924. Paul
H. Kirk. state agricultural statistician
said In issuing final estimates showing
that nine principal crops totaled S.
000. 900 more bushels than n 1924.