The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-03-16
MINNESOTA NEWS

Osseo-A full days program was
held in the interest of potato growing,
at the annual potato day here.
| st. Cloud Railroad agents reported
the theft of 1850 pounds of butter
from refrigerator car here.
Hestings-A new parochial school
building to cost between 100000 and
$4,000, is to be built by the Guardian
! Angels church of Hastings.
Cannon Falls-A team of horses
sold for $3.50 at an auction at the w.
V. Stimson farm here. Cows brought
$50 to $50 and young calves SIS.
ST. Paul-Minnesota's oldest bach
elor, Dan Eyre of ST. Paul, was 10S
years old March 7. He received a
cake with 103 candles on it, small
bonfire.
Winona-L. L. Brown, rs, southern
Minnesota lawyer who had practiced
in Winona the last so years died from
complications of injuries suffered in
an automobile accident 10 days ago.
Fort SneIIins-Citizens Military
Training camps will be held again
this year, Major General Frank r.
Mccoy, commanding the Seventh
Corps area, announced at Omaha.
Rochester-Dr. w. A. Allen, said to
be the oldest practicing in Minnesota,
observed his Tooth anniversary here,
March 6. Knights Templar and
Eastern Star members held a birth
day party for the physician.
Edina-The mill pond, once beau
ty spot near the Minneapolis city
limits, will be restored soon. The
water level is to be raised and the
shores Handicapped in connection with
the proposed Minnehaha creek restor-
alton program.
ST. PauI-Cancellation of CWA pro-
| jects will follow any attempts to
bring personal or political pressure
to bear in CWA employment offices,
or failure to follow federal prefer
'ence procedure, Gov. Floyd B. Olson,
state administrator, warned.
Neutrality-suspicious. hundred students
at Carleton College conducted a mass
meeting in Skinner Memorial chape,
and decided never to support the gov
eminent in aggressive warfare AMI
to take definite action towards the
establishments of international peace.
ST. PauI-Processing taxes totaling
S14,533,330 have been collected by
! the U. S. internal revenue office since
/ Ir,1,y hy
Wolf, collector. The money, collect
! ed principally from wheat and hogs
in Minnesota, will be paid back to
farmers as benefits for crop reduc-
ton.
ST. Paul-Purchasers of intoxicating
| liquor in Minnesota will now know
whether the blended whisky they are
buying contains ethyl alcohol, colored
water on prune juice. New federal
| labelling regulations became effective
March for domestic liquors, with
April Z the deadline for more specific
labels on imported brands.
Mankato-Farmers of Blue Earth
county are obtaining federal corn
loans at the rate of $1,000 day, ac-
cording to figures compiled in the Of
fee of L. E. Mcmillan, county agent
| here. Applications received in his
office cover $4,000 bushels of corn.
These came from 57S farmers who,
if their applications are approved,
will get s245,7O0.
| st. Louis Park-Determined to keep
| gangsters and other criminals out of
! st. Louis Park, citizens of the village
moved to form a committee of vigil
lantes to cooperate with police in a
war on lawlessness. The movement,
backed by all civic and school groups
and women's organizations, is d.
rect outcome of the mysterious STAY
ing recently of Theodore Kidder in
he heart of the village.
Shakopee-A new state highway up
the Minnesota river bottom, from
Mendoza to Shakopee, is being plan
ned as a CWA project, with unem-
ployed men housed at Fort Smelling
to do most Of the work. This will re-
place the old Minnesota valley road
| which was included in the mileage
| added to the trunk highway system
| by the 1888 legislature and will pa
rallel the Omaha railway through
Savage.
ST. Paula drive to halt the sale
| of inferior spirits and poor quality
whisky in Minnesota is under way,
according to David R. Arundel, state
] liquor control commissioner. Com
| missioner Arundel said he has as
| signed two inspectors to check Min
neapolis and st. Paul on-sale liquor
| establishments to make analysis of
| liquors sold over the bar to determine
whether state labelling requirements
are being met.
ST. Paula homemade relief plan,
| government appropriations to be
matched dollar for dollar by the
states, to replace the CWA program
in drouth areas in six north central
states March Is, was evolved by rep
resentatives of those common
wealths at the relief program confer
ence here. The work relief program
| virtually assures continuation of re-
| lief administration throughout the
| upper Mississippi valley after May /.
when CWA workers will be demo-
bilized throughout the United States.
Hancock-A Kandiyohi county All
| club worker. Melvin Williams, WILL