The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-16


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Battle Lake-The Old Settlers pic.
mic will be held July 8.
MInneapoIis-A grain elevator burn
ed to the ground after two dust ex-
plosions started the blaze.
/ Pipestone-An all-time heat record
for early June was set when the mer-
curry rose to 99.5 degrees.
| chaska-Free open-air band con-
certs will be held here each Saturday
evening during the summer.
Red Wing-Milk producers and dis
tributors announce an increase in milk
prices of two cents a quart.
DasselEThe First Lutheran and the
Swan Lake Lutheran churches OBJ
served their sixtieth anniversary.
St. Paul-State highway patrols
have been instructed to tag motorists
who are still using 1892 license plates.
Hutchinson-The sixty-fourth annual
convention of the German Baptist
churches of the state was held here.
Minneapolis - One hundred fifty
thousand dollars in federal relief
money has been made available to the
city.
Fairfax-A crowd estimated at about
10000 gathered in the Fort Ridgeley
State Park, for a festival of music
in which more than 400 musicians
took part.
St. PauI-Major Minnesota indus
tries will be organized at once into
trade groups under government con-
troll provisions of President Roose-
velts recovery program.
Jordan-When the wind broke off
branch of tree, 20 feet in the air,
on the farm of Mich Eischens, few
miles southeast of here, an old hoe
was found embedded in the crotch.
ST .PauI-Jim Fouls, Hinsdale, ILL.,.
won the fourth annual Keller Golf
tournament with a score of 2S3.
George Won Elm, Los Angeles, was
second and Walter Hagen, Detroit,
third.
st. Paul-Minnesota will receive ap-
proximately 100000 of the 100000
600 for highways and related pro-
| jects provided in the $4,000, 100000
federal public works program now be-
fore congress.
/ Crookston-The annual junior short
course, which was the first of series
of summer meetings to be held at the
Northwest School of Agriculture,
opened with an attendance that sur
passed all previous records.
Halstad-The new bridge over Red
river will be dedicated July 1, and
the Old Settlers picnic will be held
July 2. Governors Olson of Minnesota
and LANCER of North Dakota are ex-
pected to take part in the activities.
Worthington Sweeping across
southern Minnesota a terrific wind
storm caused damage estimated at
hundreds of thousands of dollars as
it RACED farm buildings, disrupted tele-
phone and power service to several
communities and injured a score of
persons. The storm apparently CEN
tered in the district about Worthing-
ton, although it cut path all the
way across the state.
/ Mnneapolis-Walter H. Newton Of
Minneapolis, former congressman and
secretary to President Hoover, was
nominated by President Roosevelt as
member of the federal home loan
bank board and State Senator Robert
G. Bell of Detroit Lakes was nominal
ed for United States district judge for
Minnesota, to fill the vacancy on the
federal bench caused by the death of
Judge William A. Cant.
st. PauI-Ringneck pheasants which
choose grassy sides of trunk high
ways for their nests have won the Of
fetal protection of the state highway
department. N. w. Elsberg, highway
commissioner, has issued orders that
employees of the department do all in
their power to guard the birds DUR
ing the Matching season On one main
tenance section more than 20 nests
were reported in less than 80 miles,
with no special search being made
for them.
Duluth-Final plans for another SCI
ries Of great historical pageants at
shape at meeting of directors Of the
Northwestern Minnesota Historical
association with state conservation Of
ficials at Douglas lodge in the park.
These pageants, celebrating the 10th
anniversary of Minnesota statehood,
will be presented July 2, 16, and 30,
August 13 and q and September A.,
by the state conservation commits
sion and the association.
DuIuth-Shipments of iron ore from
ports at the Head of the Lakes since
the opening of navigation about six
weeks ago total nearly a million tons,
about one-third of the total shipped in
1892.
Fort sneIlng-The Citizens Mill,
tary Training camp at Fort Smelling
will open Aug. 1 and continue through
the month, according to word received
from Mai. Gen. Johnson Hagood, COM
mander of the Seventh corps area of
the army. Candidates from Minnesota
and eastern South Dakota will train
here.
PaynesviIIe-A marker showing the
location of the old stockade was un-
yelled Memorial day.
Minneapolis-4S,O00 bottles Of bur-
gundy wine, the first since 81 wines
and beers became legal. will arrive
about June 10.
ST. PAULA consignment of 100000
new illustrated highway maps of Min