The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-02-10

tive year, Faribault residents paid
tribute to local industries at the an
nual "Made-in-Faribault" dinner.
Eagle Thieves hammered
open a safe in the postoffice and OBJ
tanned $135. Using similar tactics at
Madison Lake, nearby, they secured
$40.
lhIen-Two roughly dressed men
held up the Ihlen State bank here and
fled with $500 in an automobile driven
by a third. Ihlen is miles west of
Pipestone.
Thief River FaIls-The treasury de-
partment has accepted lots 6 to IL,
block 81 here as the site Of the new
postoffice. The property was pur-
chased for $3.50.
Stewart-John Beach, farmer near
Hutchinson had the largest average
sugar beet yield per acre in Mcleod
county the last season, his beets aver
aging 14.5 tons per acre.
Anoka-Robert Arthur and Harry
Hunter, year old neighbor boys
were drowned in the Rum river here.
Mrs. Hunter dove in the icy water
and recovered the bodies.
DuIuth-St. Louis county farmers
are being organized into an exchange
association to cooperate with Duluth
Unemployed, Inc, and will accept
scrip in return for farm products, it
was announced.
Rapport Honoring his services as
mayor of this village for % years, 100
business men of Bayport and Stillwa-
ter, state and county officials attend
ed a testimonial dinner here for
John Mcpherson.
Morgan-Offering Is cents for corn
delivered at his farm, Charles o. Gill
fillan is helping out many farmers
who have refrained from selling their
corn because of the low market price.
He wants $4,000 bushels.
St. Paul-According to figures re-
leased by the Minnesota Taxpayers
Association, the total tax reduction in
Minnesota as made in 1882, payable in
1888 for all taxing units, with four
counties missing, is $10,S24,695.
Observation-Disclosures 60 and 70 men
are given part time employment when
operations were resumed on small
scale at the Dunwoody underground
mine here. The mine has been idle
since the close of shipping last fall.
Madison-Farm mortgage foreclo-
sures in Lac Qui Parle county here
after will be referred to a board Of
arbitration composed of three farmers
in an effort to forestall sales in JUS
tifiable cases, it was decided at a
mass meeting here of 600 farmers.
Anoka-Curiosity of Game Warden
James Wesley led to the discovery
of an automobile loaded with fish,
cartridges and 260-pound buck and
arrest of an Illinois man on charges
of illegal possession of deer and
illegal possession of game fish. The
owner of the car pleaded guilty and
was fined $500.
Sleepy Eye-Knights of the road
are stunning Sleepy Eye these days.
Mayor Charles Hansen recently urged
housewives to stop giving handouts to
transients, and to send them to the
city Jail. There they were told they
would be given square meal-if
they earned it by exerting some effort
at the community woodpile. The
plan worked.
st. Paui-The state highway de-
partment will spend less than half as
much money in 1888 as in 1892, and
will reduce the net amount spent for
new construction by rs to 80 per cent,
N. w. Elsberg, highway commissioner,
announced. The reduction in expendi.
lures will be necessary even though
no cut is made in automobile license
fees, Elsberg said.
Madison-The foreclosure revolt of
the farmers of the northwest spread
to Minnesota and halted the forced
sale of five farms in the western part
Of the state. Thousands Of farmers
gathered at the courthouse here, hun.
dreds milled about the sheriff's office
at Montevideo and other hundreds
cried down the sale Of a farm al
Granite Falls. In each instance a
farm was being sold for debt.
St. Paula group of 35 ST. Paul
business men voted to oppose the me
tropolitan sewage disposal bill now
before the city councils of the Twin
Cities and to reiterate the stand taken
by st. Paul before the legislature two
years ago. They voted to demand re
passage of the bill vetoed by Cover
nor Olson in 1881 which would in
clude South st. Paul and Newport In
a metropolitan drainage area with the
Twin Cities.
Park Rapids-A department store
here was destroyed by fire with the
loss estimated at approximately s34,
900. Firemen fought the blaze three
hours, succeeding in preventing the
flames from spreading to adjoining
buildings.
Pipestone-This city may become
the distributing point for beer over &
large territory if congress modifies
the Volstead act. Large brewery in
terests in Milwaukee were reported
to have selected Pipestone as place
to establish a large beer bottlins
plant.
GIencoe-Glencoe formally dedicat
ed it's new school building, erected a
q cost of S215 600 Two addresses h,
]. NJ. Mcconnell, state commissions
of education and George Selke, pre-
sident of st. Cloud Teachers College
were made.
GIuek-The Interstate Commerce
commission has authorized the Min
nesota Western Railway company t
acquire and operate the Miunesot;