The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-28
MINNESOTA NEWS


st. Peter-"The Christmas Story"
a musical pageant relating to the
birth of Christ, was presented by the
Gustavus Adolphus college choir.
Winona-Fifteen on-sale liquor IL
censes and rs on and off-sale beer Ii
cense were issued by the city council,
bringing net revenue to Winona or
S22,675.
DuIuth-The state conservation
commission will conduct a hearing
here January 4, on the proposal for
series of dams along Pigeon river
at the border.
Albert Lea-A masket bandit was
believed wounded in a gunf1ght that
climaxed the holdup of Pete Larson,
attendant at an oil station here. The
robber got away with $40.
MarshaIl-Twenty drivers were ar
rested and paid fines of eight dollars
for speeding and five dollars for dis
regarding stop signs the first two
days of traffic campaign here.
MinneapoIis-Two thousand men
were thrown on city relief lines as the
result of the refusal of the board Of
estimate and taxation to vote $4,000
in bonds to finance school board ERA
projects.
st. Paul-Pay checks of Minnesota
railroad workers will be nearly S4,-
100000 greater next year than this
because of pay boosts to take effect
Jan. and April /, railroad officials
estimated.
MinneapoIis-Navy recruiting Of
fees here enlisted 1928 men during
1884 from Minnesota, North Dakota
and northwestern Wisconsin. Naval
officials reported 72 re-enlistments for
the district.
st. PauI-Voting in favor of imme-
date cash payment Of veterans adj
justed service certificates, Minnesota
Veterans OF Foreign Wars held their
third annual school of instruction and
pow-wow here.
Anoka-Otto and Charles Wells had
narrow escape from drowning in
Rum River opposite the power plant
here when their car broke through
the ice and sank, only the top pro-
trudirg from the water.
Jackson-James Thompson and C.
A. Robertson, both of st. Paul, plead
ed guilty to charges of taking pleas
ants out of season and shooting from
a motor vehicle beofre Justice w. P.
King here, and were fined STAT each.
St. Paul-Establishmen of GEN.
trail state bank in Minnesota as a fis-
cal agent for state funds and deposit
tory for state banks will be recon-
mended to the coming legislature by
Elmer Benson, state banking commits
sioner
lie Center-Two women who said
they lived at st. Paul, are held in the
LIE Sueur county Jail for second
time, on shoplifting charges, after
having jumped bond following their
arraignment. They were re-arrested
in st. Paul.
Observation-Disclosures aside the laws
that prevented legal sale of liquor, a
number of Minnesota villages, includ-
ing Lakefield, are preparing to dis
pense the hard spirits as the result
of wet victories in the recent NUM-
cipal elections.
Tracy-A transient camp located
at Lake Shetek near Tracy has set up
a self governing body, and has as it's
head, two lawyers, members of the
camp. The rules drawn up by the
body are more rigid than the author
tiles would emand.
ST. PauI-It cost Minnesota taxpay-
ers $394,65S.49 for National Guard
troops in the two truck driver strikes
in Minneapolis last summer and for
the cattle embargo in June, a state
ment by Colonel ]. E. Nelson, assistant
adjutant general, revealed.
St. PauI-Real estate valuations in
Minnesota may drop $15O,O00, 900 this
year, it was estimated from state tax
commission records. Part of the re-
duction is the result of the homestead
assessment act and part because of
lower assessments by local assessors.
Duluth-A reduction in mining
property valuations, aggregating so
per cent, as sought in the original
trial, was asked for amended findings
filed in District Court as arguments
on motions by the state to have the
Minnesota state tax commission val
uations upheld.
Luverne-Earl Tunstall and his
two sons, Marmon, Ia years old, and
Robert, Is, of Luverne, escaped seri-
GUS injuries when their truck was hit
and demolished by an Omaha railway
passenger train at a local crossing.
The train dragged the car 20 feet.
The two boys were hurled into a snow
bank.
MinneapoIis-Plans for launching
the 1885 corn-hog program in Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, North, Dakota, and
South Dakota were perfected at a
meeting of corn-hog administrative
workers at University Farm. Prof.
Andrew Boss, in charge of the work
in Minnesota, said the producers con-
tract for 1885 is now ready, and the
aim of the meeting was to acquaint
administrative workers with details
of the plan.
MISUNDERSTANDING of Luverne's
school bonded Indebtedness of $780,
600 with a new bond issue for the
same amount was unanimously voted
here at a special election. Only SO
votes were cast and all favored is
suance of the bonds.
Virginia-A $500 workmen's COM
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