The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-09-29
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Blue Earth-A record corn crop Ia
practically assured for Faribault
county.
MarshaII-Marshal voted to en-
large and complete its sewage dis
posal plant.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS county is
issuing warrants in lieu of cash as
only $4,000 remained in the treasury.
Jordan-Appointm of George F.
Sullivan of Jordan as United States
district attorney for Minnesota was
announced in Washington.
Glen Lake-Two passengers who
turned out to be bandits boarded a
bus bound from Excelsior to Mime
apolis, and robbed athe driver and
three passengers of $25.
| st. Cioud-One of the most impos-
ing edifices in the northwest lay in
ruins following a fire that leveled the
Holy Angels Catholic cathedral, which
was struck by lightning.
Pine City-The first hunting fatal
| ity of the fall hunting season was re-
ported here when Lawrence Scofeld,
25 year old farmer, was found dead
Of gun shot wound near here.
Grand Rapids the approval
of the county board, the erection Of
new county home at the poor farm
awaits but the approval of Governor
Olson before construction can be
started.
Faribault-Two contracts totaling
$13,536 for work at the Minnesota
state prison and the school for feeble
minded at Faribault were awarded by
the state commission of administra-
ton and finance.
ST. PauI-The state executive coun-
Gil appropriated $1,5O0 for beautifica-
ton of the Capitol and state office
building grounds under the direction
of Mr.. Mason, former st. Paul super
intendent of parks.
Granite FalIs-Several local sports
men have been assisting Game War
den OConnor in SEEMING fish from the
shallow waters below Minnesota Falls
power dam and placing them in the
deep water above the dam.
st. PauI-Swamped by a flood of
applications for money from the 3d.
3OO,000,000 federal public works fund,
the Minnesota agencies in charge Of
these requests are moving ahead as
swiftly as possible though hampered
by mass of red tape.
Fairmont-The biggest wedding
ever seen in Martin countyshas gone
on the rocks in week. Roy Meal
lister and Florence M. Houston were
married at the county fair before a
grandstand audience of 5000 persons.
She is now asking for a divorce.
st. Paul-The ghosts Of Paul Bun
yam, mythical hero of north woods
lumberjacks and greatest Of all Amer
lean folklore characters, and of Babe,
the blue OK, his ever-present COM
panion, were features of Minnesota
day at the Century of Progress in
Chicago.
Jackson-Convicted of participating
In the holdup of the State Bank of
Okabena, Tony Strain and his COM
mon-law wife, Mildred Strain, both
former convicts, were sentenced to
terms of so and 40 years, respective
ly, by Judge ]. E. Haycraft in Jack
son county District Court.
st. PauI-H. H. Bigelow, capitalist
and president of the Brown & Bige-
low printing company and Mrs. r. ].
Mather, wife of director of the con-
Germ were drowned during a canoe
trip out of Ely. Their bodies were
recovered, but that of Howard Schaef-
fer, guide, has not been located.
st. PauI-Lewis L. Drill, United
States district attorney, received Of
fetal notice of his dismissal from At
torney General Homer S. Cummings.
At the same time George F. Sullivan
of Jordan, appointed as Mr.. Drills
successor, received his commission
and announced he would take office
at once.
Aibany-The Minnesota State fed
Grafton Of Catholic Mems societies
Catholic Aid association and State
Federation of Catholic Women's So
cieties will open their annual conven-
ton here Sunday, September "a, with
a pontffical high mass to be celebrat-
ed by Archbishop John Gregory Muir
ray, of st. Paul.
Cannon Falla-A patriotic celebra-
ton to commemorate the Hath ami
versary of the adoption of the United
States constitution was conducted at
the little community house at War
saw township near here. At the same
time national movement to place all
townships and smaller units Of gov
eminent under constitution was in
augurated.
DuIuth-A 400-pound black bear
paid with his life here for a sweet
tooth that during the last week led
him in marauding expeditions to fruit
orchards in residence district of
the city. Householders who had been
looking for the bruin since he began
breaking branches of apple and plum
trees and robbing them of their fruit,
shot and killed him in the act Of
raiding a tree in the back yard of a
Lakeside district home. The carcass
was shipped to the state game and
fish department in st. Paul.
North Mankato-Four separate
counterfeiting charges were placed
against Raymond Marti, IS, North
Mankato artist and engraver, when he
was arraigned in Mankato before Uni
ted States Commissioner Raymond
Hughes. He pied guilty.
MinneapoIis-Registr for ex-
tension division courses at the Uni
versity of Minnesota has begun. Stu