The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-23

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Swift-A new schoolhouse to cost
$4,000 will be erected.
Delano-Business men are sponsor
ing celebration July 4.
Observation-Disclosures of a new 49,
O0O-bushel grain elevator was started
here.
Winona-The temperature rose to
100 degrees during the recent heat
wave.
lie Sueur-The local theatre burned
with a loss of $4,000. One fireman
was badly hurt.
Dodge center-The Dodge county
farm bureau sponsored a livestock
tour for farmers.
| Grand Rapids-The annual picnic of
the Itasca county unit of the farm
bureau was held at the Itasca fair
grounds.
Mankato-Thirty-one liquor law vio-
lators We're sentenced here after
pleading guilty before Judge Joseph
w. MolyneaLx.
Mankato-The twenty-seventh an
nual picnic of the Notwithstanding
Old Settlers association, organized in
1906, was conducted here.
lhIen-Four bandits robbed the
Ihlen State bank of $1,000, terrorized
the business district after shooting
two bankers, and escaped.
MonteVideo-Montevideo is to have
horseshoe club. Enthusiastic shoe
pitchers met recently to make plans
for the formation of such a club.
Farmlneton-Three thousand per-
sons attended the opening festivities
of the annual convention here of the
third district American Legion.
Minneapolis-The largest number
of students to ever graduate from To-
cal high schools were given their dip
Tomas. There were 2,94O of them.
Sank center-With deliveries of
approximately 10000 pounds of good
grade wool, the Sank Center Wool
Growers Association concluded its
first pool of sales.
Elgin-Olga Affeldt, Is year old girl,
was named Minnesota's best groomed
girl at the annual All Club short
course at the University Farm. Leona
White, 10, of Hastings, was second.
st. Paul-The state conservation de-
partment will do its own SEEMING of
rough fish, the conservation commits
sion decided when it ordered that no
more commercial fishing contracts be
let
Nerstrand-A week of special
events, which eliminated with a full
! days program, marked the seventy
seventh anniversary of the founding
of the Nerstrand Methodist Episcopal
Church.
st. Paul-With so per cent or more
OF the grasshoppers Matched in many
districts of Minnesota, spreading of
poison bait now is in progress in 80
of the 56 counties where limited in
festations are to be found this year.
St. PauI-Constructio of sewage
disposal plants in several Minnesota
cities will be possible under the gen.
eral provisions of the indutrial plan
ming act, which passed congress, car
rying with a s3,300,0OO,OOO public
works program to meet the unemploy-
ment problem.
EIy-A searching party of deputy
sheriffs, game wardens and Methodist
ministers, totaling nearly 200 men,
combed the heavy woods in the Birch
lake district, not far from Ely, Mimi,
in an effort to find Rev. William H.
Downing, 55-year-old Eveleth Metho-
dist pastor, who is missing.
ST Paul-Most of the 400 or more
cooperative elevators of Minnesota
already are eligible to borrow money
from the government on their eleva-
tors and other physical properties,
under the new farm credit act, and
the remainder can qualify to do so by
making slight changes in constitu-
lions or bylaws.
kenyon-Charles Lindholm, known
for his production of "The Man from
Minnesota" will enter into a new
show enterprise this coming season,
when he and his company tour small
towns using dryland showboat idea.
An outdoor theater is being construct
ed resembling somewhat the show
boats of the old river days.
st. PauI-Of the $50, 900 in state aid
extended to 2,400 farmers in "a coun-
ties because of drouth damage, $2,923
has been returned to the state, George
H. Lund of the department of agricul-
ture, in charge of the distribution Of
| funds, reports. The rebates came
| from farmers who have been able to
make loans or who have received ad-
ditional revenue from milk cows or
the increased price of hogs, Mr.. Lund
said.
Wabasha-John R. Foley, chairman
of the Minnesota conservation COM
mission requested Attorney General
| Harry H. Peterson for an opinion
whether the state legally could take
over the commercial fishing projects
and seine its own lakes.
st. PauI-Razing of the old capitol
in st. Paul, home of the state admin
istration from 1888 to 1905, was recon.
mended by j. Earle Lawner. secretary
of the state commission of administra-
ton and finance, in reoprt to the
commission. He estimates the build
ing can be wrecked for s11,S40.
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.
Worthington - Sweeping across
southern Minnesota terrific wind.
storm caused damage estimated at
\ hundreds of thousands OF dollars as