The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Red Lake FalIs-A countrywide
meeting of the Red Lake county chap
ter Of the Red Cross Society was held
here.
Morris-Seventy women enrolled for
the homemakers' short course at the
farm school here at its twentieth an.
nual session.
Minneapolis-This city was host to
the Shrine convention and over 100,-
600 members from all over the world
attended the conclave.
Fosston-Wiiliam e. Brown, IS
years old. Austin, shot himself
through the heart with a shotgun
while in his automobile.
Saltwater Minnesota Odd Fellows,
meeting here, installed E. G. Hay
maker of Motley as grand patriarch
of the grand encampment. @g
kenyon-The Goodhue County Tax
payers League went on record at a
meeting here indorsing the gross in
come tax plan for Minnesota.
Fergus FalIs-Reduction of its Hol-
stein cattle herd from 260 to $50 head
because Of drouth-prompted feed
shortages was announced by the state
hospital.
Fairmont-Grocery men in this part
of southern Minnesota are highly in
favor of the grading of eggs. recently
ordered by the state dairy and food
department.
Tracy-Fifty candidates from four
towns, Iona, Currie, Fulda and Tracy,
entered the Catholic Order of Fores-
tiers at an initiation ceremony at St.
Mary's Catholic churhc.
owatonna-Plans for the first farm
practice study tour by the Owatonna
chapter of the Future Farmers of
America, osganized here in the high
school "ag" club, was held.
Brainerd-An attendance of 200 per-
sons was recorded at the district con-
vention of the Minnesota State Osteo-
pathic association converting at the
Brainerd Chamber Of Commerce Of
fees.
Hibbing-Extemporaneous speaking
will be encouraged in Hibbing high
school next fall through a $40 prize
donated by Chief Justice John P. De-
vaney of the Minnesota Supreme
Court.
eaIaton-With appropriate cere.
monies, in which number of visiting
ministers participated, the fiftieth
anniversary of the organization of ST..
Peters Evangelical church here was
observed.
MadeIia Rosendale Lutheran
church, oldest Lutheran congregation
in Watonwan county, celebrated it's
seventy-fifth anniversary. Several
former pastors participated in the
ceremonies.
Professionalism Kumper and Merle
Jansen were sentenced to year and
a half in the st. Cloud reformatory
upon their pleas of guilty to charges
of stealing wool from storage houses.
Wailbur Jansen got six months.
st. PauI-Minnesota was allotted So
425,551 by the federal government out
Of the $200,000,O00 road fund for high
way construction projects for the next
fiscal year starting July 1. South Da-
kota was allotted $3,047,643 and Wis
consin s4,941,S37.
Jackson-Two persons were killed
and seven injured, two critically,
when two automobiles crashed head
on about mile north of Jackson.
Martin S. Anderson, farmer living
north of here, and Dorothy Woodman
of Omaha are dead.
Montevideo-Farmer of Chippewa
county have been furnished a large
supply Of millet seed through the re-
lief agency here. Two carloads of the
seed were received in one shipment
and a total of 491 farmers were fur
nished with seed for immediate plant
Frazee-Fire which destroyed their
farm home left eight members of the
Louis Renollet family practically des-
titute of clothes and household fur
nishings. No insurance was carried
on the house, which burned to the
ground, and little was saved of it's
contents.
Webster-Louis Bartels, pioneer
farmer of Webster, was at neighbor's
home short distance away when
thieves pried open his door with a
crowbar, ransacked the home for the
key that fits an cd trunk, and then
discovered $4,000 in old s1O0 bills and
the remaining $500 in SIS and $40 and
$40 bills.
NorthfieId-The Mortified post sffice
bill, was slipped through congress
in the closing hour Of the session in
Washington. The passage of the bill
will now permit the postoffice depart
ment to go ahead with plans for the
new $4,000 postoffice building, con-
struction of which has been delayed
several years because of the litigation
over the land on which it is to be
built.
ST. Paui-E. v. Willard, state con-
servation commissioner, was author
lied by the state conservation COM
mission to purchase 5000 acres of
land bordering the Arrowhead river,
in the Grand Portage state forest DIS
a game refuge and game production
area. The tract will be purchased
with funds from the public shooting
grounds and game refuge account in
the division of game and fish.
ST. Paul-The Minnesota railroad
and worehouse commission announced
that railroads in the state have
agreed to haul poison grasshopper
bait to the affected districts in Mime.