The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-10-06

"thheaPoHs-z,UVo freshman enter
ed the University at The start of the
school year.
St. PauI-Exact figures on the vote
for repeal in Minnesota were 390,179
in favor and 2O9,O49 against.
Spring VaIley-An organization
meeting to form a Pierce County
Young Democratic Club was conduct
ed here.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF five
township groups in the wheat control
and allotment plan in Steele county
has been completed.
Observation-Disclosures of George F.
Sullivan Of Jordan as United States
district attorney for Minnesota was
announced in Washington.
ST. PauI-Contracts for highway
construction projects totalling $780,
573 were awarded by the highway de-
partment. Work will begin at once.
ST. PauI-An investigation of the
Minnesota department OF agriculture,
dairy and food, ordered by Gov. Floyd
B. Olson, has been under way for
nearly a month.
kerkhoVen-The first annual Bean
Hole" day was celebrated here with
visitors from nearby communities. 1t
was a success and plans are to hold
this event every year.
ST. PauI-More than $500 Mime
sofa home owners have applied for
aid to the Federal Home Owners Loan
corporation. The amounts asked to-
tai approximately S75O,OOO.
Fergus FaIIs-Ffre started by prai-
RE chicken hunters burned over grass
and hay meadows for a distance Of
Is miles in Wadena county. Two
hundred fifty men fought the fire.
St. PauI-Minnesota farmers con-
trolling between 60 and IS per cent
the states wheat acreage will have
signed up under the governments
wheat acreage reduction program.
Minneapolis-A goal of $3.50, 900
for the Community fund crusade Nov.
5 TO Is was announced by John S.
PilIsbury, chairman of the finance
committee Of the Minneapolis Council
Of Social Agencies.
Deer Rivera development pro-
gram that has given employment to
approximately 14O men is getting Of
ficiaIly under way in four forest SER
vice camps in the Cutfoot district Of
the Chippewa National Forest.
Fort SneIIing-One hundred thirty
sun-bronzed and weather-hardened
sons of Minnesota waved farewell to
the life Of a conservation soldier and
returned to a changed civilian life.
They had been to camp in California.
ST. PauI-Bids on construction of
two dams for the upper Mississippi
nine-fOot channel have been received
by the United States engineers. Con-
tracts will be awarded at once and
work is expected to start by Novem-
Der l. with 1000 or more men en-
plOyed on each job.
Pelican Rapids-Representa of
eight Fish and Game Club attended
meeting of the Minnesota Conserva-
ton League here. Resolutions were
adopted deploring the early opening
of the prairie chicken season and
urging the establishment of a fish
hatchery at Otter Tail lake.
Browns Valley-An unprecedented
condition has been announced by the
game and fish department in the stage
of water at Lake Traverse. Game
wardens who made an investigation
of the lake recently found that in no
place was the water more than four
feet deep. Open fishing has been pre-.
scribed to prevent smothering Of fish
when cold weather comes.
EIy-Agreement announced between
the city of Ely and mining companies
operating here is taken as a possible
fOrerunner of a general settlement Of
the tax deadlock on the Minnesota
iron range. The mining companies
announced last spring that, owing to
excessive tax burdens, they would not
pay the second half Of their taxes this
year, amounting TO about S7,0O0,0O0.
The pact at Ely results from action
of the city council, restricting its levy
to S250,000 1t was followed by an
nouncement from the Oliver Iron Min
ing Company and the Pickands-Ma-
Their Company that they will pay their
taxes in Ely, amounting to 1923, S56.54,
and that three mines will be reopened
within thirty days. The mines nor
maIly employ 600 men.
Ely-The body Of Howard Schaefer,
nOrthwoods guide, who went to his
death with H. H. Bigelow and Mrs.
Ralph Mather of st. Paul, when a
canoe in which the three were cross
ing Eastwood lake September Is, cap
sized, was recovered from the lake.
Battle Lake-A tiny baby girl,
weighing only IS ounces. born to Mrs.
Emil Kragness here, is still living
after some days in a homemade in
cubator. Medical authorities said that
the smaIIness of the child. while not
a record in the state, was very IN
usual
ST. PauI-Congressman Einar Hoi-
dale made a plea for 100000 in fed
eral funds for completion Of the fed
eral prison project at Sandstone be-
for the state public works advisory
board in st. Paul
WiIImar-The board Of education
has cut another $4,000 from the
school levy and the amount Of the
budget for next year has been placed
at $4,000. Last year the levy was
cut from $4,000 to $4,000. A special
tax levy Of $4,000 for the sinking fund
is again arranged for in the new bud