The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-09-28
MINNESOTA NEWS

MlnneapoIis-A campaign to raise
$4,000 to continue the Minneapolis
Symphony orchestra is under way.
kiester-Corn in this section was
badly nipped by frost but farmers
protected tomato crops with smudges.
Montsomery-The annual Kolacky
day celebration will be held Septem.
Der 30 and plans for the occasion are
nearing completion.
MlnneapoIls-Po General
James A. Farley was principal speak
er at the dedication of the new post
office building here.
Mendota-Minnesota's oldest Cath
Ollie church, ST. Peters Of Mendoza,
held its annual booya and fall fes-
tival at the church grounds.
kenyon-More than 1000 veterans
and visitors attended the picnic and
sports program sponsored by the
Kenyon Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Frost-A lone bandit walked into
the State Bank of Frost, scooped up
small amount of currency and fed
as an assistant cashier fired three
| shots at him.
Jasper-The pulpit of the Metho-
dist church here will be filled this
| fall and winter by woman pastor,
Miss Constance Erickson, deacon
ess in the church.
Arlington-Dedication exercises for
Arlingtons new $4,000 school build
ing were held with John G.. Rock
well, state commissioner of educa-
ton, as principal speaker.
Minneapolis University foot
ball squad has started preparing for
a gruelling season and Bernie Bier
| man, coach, has a number of new
prospects to bolster the team.
Anoka-A mother and her three
children drowned in Coon lake as her
husband made frantic efforts to res
cue them. They were Mrs. Carl A.
Larson and family of Minneapolis.
Worthington-L. S. Webster, Wash.
ington federal grain purchasing agent,
was principal speaker at joint meet
| ing Of the Southern Minnesota and
| Western Minnesota Grain Managers
| Association.
osseo-Many old-timers helped to
| celebrate this little community's
eighty-second anniversary of its
! founding as the annual affair took
| place. Osseo was organized and
| founded in 1852.
st. Paul-State Treasurer julius
Schmahl announced that $6,OO0,000 of
certificates of Indebtedness had been
sold by the state at one and one
quarter per cent interest, the lowest
rate in the history Of the state.
Frost-The first crop of hemp ever
raised in this section is being har-
vested with the average yield about
three-ffths ton per acre. There are
approximately 1000 acres planted
and the contract price is SIS an
| acre.
ST. PauI-Maroon and gold, the col
ors Of the University of Minnesota,
will appear on the 1885 motor vehi.
Gle license plates, Secretary of State
Mike Holm said. The plates will
have a maroon background with gold
letters.
St. PauI-Dangerous center piers
where highways pass underneath
railroad tracks soon will be almost
eliminated from Minnesota's 1000.
mile trunk road system, N. w. Els
berg, state highway commissioner,
announced.
Minneapolis-The emergency crop
and feed loan office announced that
the farm credit administration has ex-
tended the deadline for receiving ap-
plications for emergency loans from
Sept. Is to Dec. 81 in secondary
drouth areas.
observation-disclosures Of $500, 900
by the PWA for soil erosion work in
the area around Caledonia in south.
eastern Minnesota, was announced in
Washington. The area to be covered
Is about 100000 acres. Decision to
make the appropriation was reached
after an extensive survey Allotment
will be made from the 100000 re.
Gently allotted by Administrator
Ickes for soil erosion purposes.
st. PauI-The Federal Land bank
reported that more farms were sold
in Minnesota during August than in
any other state in the seventh reserve
district in the past two years. The
| bank reported go homesteads sold in
Minnesota for cash considerations
with Michigan reporting 26 cash
sales, Wisconsin II, and North Da-
| kota 1. Minnesota also led the other
states in repayment of loans by land
bank borrowers.
Hamel-A young country school
teacher, Miss Patricia Kelly, was bru.
tally stabbed and beaten and left un.
conscious in the coal bin of her
schoolhouse. She is recovering from
her narrowing experience, while near
1y $50 grim-faced men carried on a
widespread search through the coun-
tryside for her attacker The posse
was made up of businessmen and
farmers from the Hamel district and
a group of men from the school teach.
er's home town of Annandale.
AnnandaIe-To Offset the possible
/ depletion of waterfowl and other game
birds, Annandale sportsmen have set
loose crate of black pheasants as
a step to maintain hunting prospects
| in this vicinity in the future.
| Chaska-L. ]. Miller, So, retired
business man, was taken for a ride,
slugged and thrown from car near