The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-04-07

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Heron Lake-Plans for the annual
public schools commencement exer-
cises are being made.
st. James-Farm produce Is being
accepted for payment of dues in an
American Legion membership here.
Blooming Prairle-An unusual de-
mand for farms to rent still prevails
here with the renting season at an
end.
Walker-Proposed changes in trunk
highway No. 10 through the grounds
of the state tuberculosis sanatorium
here were approved.
Rochester-Rev. w. A. (Billy) Sum-
day, evangelist, recuperating from a
recent illness expects to be here an.
other week or 10 days.
Mankato-The award won by the
city of Mankato in the national traf-
fic safety contest of 1892 was pre-
sented at a community celebration in
the Mankato armory.
DuIuth-Hiking 4S miles on skis,
Douglas Macmillan of Duluth, % years
old, got help to three men marooned
at Fraser Lake, north of Ely, when
an airplane motor failed to start.
Little Falis-Four hundred fifty
voices and instruments Joined in the
most elaborate school music festival
ever attempted here at the annual
music demonstration of Little Falls
public schools.
Rochester-Dr. w. ]. Mayo will
leave here late in June to go to Scot
land to receive the honorary degree
of doctor of laws from Aberdeen Uni
yersity, Aberdeen, Scotland at the
July graduations.
MinneapoIis-The bank holiday def
nitely signalized the low point of the
depression, and the business cycle Is
again on its upward swing, according
to Dean R. A. Stevenson of the school
of business administration of the UNI
versity of Minnesota.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on the upper
Mississippi river was officially opened
here when the steamer General Allen
from Fountain City, Wis, govern
ment boat yards, passed Winona en-
route down stream to set out chan
mel bankers and buoys.
DuIuth-In recognition of operation
with low-accident records, II iron ore
mines in the Lake Superior district
have been awarded certificates of
honor by the Joseph A. Holmes Safety
Association.
WaIker-Claiming he shot in self
defense, Walter Barr, 23-year-old Ait
kin youth, is in Cass county Jail here
7 following the killing of Lenart Lid
man, SO years old, as an outgroth of a
quarrel over the right to trap musk
rats.
Glencoe-McLeod county is now
entirely free from debt and the COM
missioners have been able to reduce
the tax rate to six and three-fifths
mills for county purposes this year.
The rate is one of the lowest in the
state.
MinneapoIis-Harry E. Pence, 65, a
figure Of national prominence in the
automobile industry from its begin
ming and leader in the development
and the business life of Minneapolis
for nearly half century died at Day
ton, Ohio.
ST. PauI-With one exception in
1899 the extreme cold wave which
struck Minnesota during the first
three weeks of February was the
severest and most protracted in the
history Of the state, according to the
United States weather bureaus
monthly report.
st. Paul-It costs nearly $4,000 a
year to supply spring water and ice
to quench the thirst of state office
employees. This sum Is expended an.
nually to supply water and ice for the
coolers in so different offices. The
cost is exclusive of the sum spent for
purchase of individual paper drinking
cups.
Hastings-Sponsored by the Lions
Club, Hastings million dollar appre-
citation day dinner was conducted
with 100 persons present. Represen-
tatives from each of the city's five
manufacturing industries spoke. The
purpose Of the meeting was to ex-
press appreciation of the benefits &C.
cruing to the city through it's indus
tries.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of util-
ity commissions, city councils and
citizenry of a dozen Minnesota cities,
citizenry in Owatonna, adopted reso-
luton fighting house file S22, provid-
ing tax Of 10 cents thousand Gu
bic feet on natural gas, as unfair to
the citizens of their communities and
urged the legislature to prevent pas
sage Of the proposed law.
ST. PauI-Approximately 100000
900 will be available to Minnesota as
an outright federal grant for public
aid construction projects, such as
the proposed metropolitan drainage
project, according to government re-
lief plans laid before state officials.
The grants would be distinct from fed
eral loans and would not have to be
repaid, but would require the state
to match lollar for dollar either with
construction funds of its own or with
funds borrowed from the Reconstruc-
ton Finance corporation at low in
terests.
Deer River-Racing against the
spring thaw, lumber operators are
hauling as large an amount of logs
and pulpwood as possible before
county highway officials prohibit use
of the roads to heavy trucks. Fleets
of trucks are running now on a "a
hour schedule.
DuItith-With navigation on the