The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-07-14

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Hampton-Three bandits held up
the State Bank of Hampton and es-
capped with $500.
200 persons attended
the annual three-day convention of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Battle Lake-The per capita debt Of
Battle Lake village is STA, the small
est amount of any village or city in
this section.
Duluth = Federal beer revenue
stamps valued at s2,135 and 81 in
currency were taken from the safe of
the Peoples brewery in West Duluth.
ST. Paul-All men working on the
seasonal maintenance crews of the
Minnesota State Highway department
have been put on 30-hour week bas-
| is.
White Bear-Five masked bandits
raided Wildwood park, on White Bear
lake and escaped with $500 in cash
the amusement parks weekend re-
ceipts.
Red Wing-The plant of the former
Red Wing Brewing Company, used in
recent years for making vinegar, will
be reopened soon by group of Twin
City men as brewery.
BuaffIo-George Anderson, 32-year-
old farmer, killed his mother and
father with an axe while they were
sleeping, then committed suicide.
There had been insanity in the fam
lily
Parkers Prairie-S. v. Sigfrid, pilot
for one of the large air transportation
companies between Para and Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, arrived by plane to
visit his boyhood home and his par
ents here.
Deerwood-Vern Johnson of Mime
apolis had an added thrill while fish
ing at Bordan lake, 20 miles south Of
here. Casting for bass, he hooked one
and on the reel-in another bass struck.
Both were landed.
Red Wing-The erosion army, 10
Gated here, started it's work on the
first project along Hay creek just west
Of Red Wing, where much valuable
land has been washed away. There
are 10 youths in the camp here.
Minneapoiis-U. G. Purssell, meteo-
rologist was ordered to discontinue
four of the Is substations operated by
the Minneapolis weather bureau in
various parts of Minnesota. The order
was issued under the government
economy program.
st. Cloud-Machine cunning of st.
Cloud night club in which one man
was critically wounded led to the ar.
rest of Fred Bukowski, Sank Rapids,
and discovery of an armored automo-
bile containing a small arsenal OF
arms and $4,000 in bonds.
DuIuth-Nearly 5000 young men
from scattered sections of the United
States are in the woods of northern
Minnesota as members of the civilian
conservation corps. Five camps al
ready have been established in the
Superior national forest.
Bemidji-Nearly 5000 persons view
ed the first formal presentation of the
Minnesota diamond jubilee pageant at
Itasca state park under the auspices
of the Minnesota conservation COM
mission and the Northwestern Mime
sofa Historical Association.
ExceIsIor-Five hundred baby chicks
and zoe baby turkeys were burned to
death in a fire that destroyed two
fowl breeders, garage and an auto
mobile at the farm home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adolph Honus at Tonkawood,
about seven miles east of here.
Ivanhoe-Don Roberts was credit
ed with saving the North Western
railway trestle west of Ivanhoe from
destruction by fire He found a brisk
He extinguished the flames before the
trestle was seriously damaged.
Austin-Even storm that totally
destroyed crops and caused loss con-
servatively estimated at over $1,000
600 could not dampen optimism and
persistence Of many farmers in Now
er, Olmsted, Fillmore and Dodge coun-
ties who are back in the fields with
tractors and horse drawn plows get
ting the ground ready to sow corn to
give feed for the winter.
st. PauI-Payless vacations have
been abandoned by state departments
and instead several thousand state Of
fiicals and employees took cut aver
aging from 10 to IL per cent. By the
salary reductions, state departments
are reducing their expenditures 20
per cent as ordered by the legislature.
Use of unexpended balances and vari-
Gus economies are serving to hold the
average reduction below IL per cent
lie Sueur-Although bonds are not
due until 1895, the school board here
will retire $1,000 on the new school
building this year. Ten thousand dol
lars was paid on the bond account
last year.
ne StOiA liNCI iOe(N
between this city and Taylors Falls
is expected to be among the first to
receive Improvement under statewide
plans now being mapped by the state
highway department The route
through Saltwater along the river
was designated as state highway by
the recent legislature.
ST. Paul-Minnesota's increasing i'm
portance as a fruit growing center
and national recognition of its superior
apples, raspberries and other small
fruit, brought horticulturists from
all parts Of the state to st. Paul, for
the organization of the Minnesota
Fruit Growers association.
neapoIis-Upwards Of 5000 Min
nesota men are expected to be given
within faU month";