The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-08-18
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SE.vENTs:of the week
- dlroughoGk the State
of. Ten Thousand Lakes
told IN brief form

| ociic TIdine-A IWO-Qdy ODSSTF-
ance of the seventy-fifth anniversary
of the West Union Swedish church,
was held here.
st. Paul-More than $1,000,000 al
ready has been paid by Minnesota
millers, wholesalers and bakers on the
flour processing tax levied July 8.
st. Paul-The state executive coun-
Gil made available for veterans re-
lief in Minnesota $225,000 from the
$1,500,000 state relief fund set up by
the last legislature.
Fergus FaIls-The city council ap-
proved applying to the federal gov
eminent for loan of S2S4,770, the
money to be used to install a sewer
| system and sewage disposal plant.
| st. Cloud-The recall petition ask
ing removal of the three present city
officials was rejected by the commits
sion on the grounds that it was In
sufficiently signed.
Hutchinson-Materia salvaged from
the Zion Evangelical church at Acoma,
y
vice to the community, will be used
| to enlarge the Bethlehem Lutheran
church here.
Hamlin-A premium list totaling
$70,105 to be offered for educational
exhibits at the Minnesota State Fair
and Northwest Livestock show, Sep
TENDER to 8, was announced by Ray
, mond A. Lee, secretary.
Alexandria, large delegation &C
companied by the high school girls
drum corps anG little German band
made their third get-acquainted tour,
visiting the villages of Nelson, Carlos,
Miltona and Parkers Prairie.
Redwood Falls The Redwood
County Game Protection League has
adopted resolutions favoring immedi-
ate steps in the sewage disposal pro-
ject to abolish what is termed pres
ent menace to Redwood Falls society.
Lake Wilson-Ole Oldson, 81, who
lives on a farm near here, is a con-
sistent man. He has lived on the
same farm continuously since settling
here in 1889 and has subscribed to
the local newspaper without Interrupt
ton for "a years.
Olivia-Two Mexicans are in Jail
here accused of breaking the seals on
three carloads of hogs on a stock
train. Several hogs were killed and
| thrown from the train while about 20
are missing, having evidently fallen
out the car doors.
ST. PauI-The Federal Home Loan
bank board conferred with Otto Bre-
mer, state manager for the Home
Owners Loan corporation, and select
ed st. Paul, as headquarters for the
state with branch offices at Duluth
and Minneapolis.
FrldIey-Herding cows on a road
way adjoining his fathers farm near
here, Theodore Therris, came upon a
freshly dug grave. In it was the
body of Edward (Speed) Gabriel,
Minneapolis former convict, riddled
with shot gun wounds.
st. PauI-There has been notice
able decrease in the number of mis-
haps on highways since the start of
the united campaign Of police
throughout the state in testing lights
and brakes, John P. Arnoldy, chief of
the state highway patrol said.
st. Paul-Revenues of the state
highway department from automobile
license fees so far this year total S.
$4,000 compared with s9,779,000 in
the same period of 1892. This is a
| drop of s3,SS3,000 in the first seven
months of 1888. The decrease is due
to reductions in license fees made by
the last legislature
Observation-Disclosures in Mime
sofa benefits to the extent of $4,000
| day because of the 81 civilian conser-
walton corps camps in operation in the
state. That amount is spent daily
to feed the workers engaged in road
building, the elimination of fire ha-
yards, planting of trees, construction
of game shelters and Identification
| of roads.
Monteemery-An old threshing en-
CINE, equipped with wooden wheels,
has been shipped from here to Detroit
to be added to Henry Ford's Dearborn
Institute collection of early American
machinery. The engine was brought
into the Montgomery community in
1882 and was largely used in harvest
ing operations previous to 1900. 1t
has been owned during the past by
Joseph T. Rynda.
Maple Lake-There is a movement
on foot to organize a wheat allotment
program here. w. C. Coffey. dean of
the agricultural college, University
of Minnesota, has appointed R. S. Har-
ris to serve in Wright county as the
agricultural emergency assistant.
st. Paul-Minnesota's s10,600,000
federal aid and highway program.
awaiting formal approval by Washing
ton authorities, provides for the i'm
provement of more than 1,200 miles
of road, construction of "a bridges
and separation of grades at several
railroad crossings.
ST. PauI-The state executive coun-
ell made an emergency appropriation
IF 100000 to extend relief to farmers
IN western Minnesota whose crops
lave been affected by the drouth.
| DasselI-The first load of new wheat
was delivered to the local elevator on
July %, the earliest delivery on rec.
ord Winter wheat will everage II
| and 20 bushels and spring wheat 12
to Is. Yields on small fields are as
high as 81 bushels per acre of wheat
Oats will average 35 bushels, barley
rs bushels. Corn has excellent pros.
poets.