The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-03-09
MINNESOTA NEWS


versary of the founding of the First
Congregational church of st. Charles
was observed at program last week.
nneapoIis-Mayor A. G. Balm
bridge has been ordered to bed by his
physician and told to stay there for
a month. He is suffering from
heart ailment.
Warren-Judge julius ]. Olson of
Warren was named by Governor Floyd
B. Olson as an associate justice of
the state supreme court, to succeed
the late Justice Homer B. Dibell Of
Duluth.
Duluth-This years program calls
for the planting of 3O,000.000 trees on
10000 acres in the northern forest,
nearly four times as great as the num-
Der planted in 1888 when $500 acres
were seeded.
Prirceton-The Republican state in
dorsement convention will be held at
the Minneapolis auditorium April Is,
E. L. Mcmillan, chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee, an
nounced here.
St. James-One hundred farmers
from Watonwan, Martin, Blue Earth
and Jackson counties prevented
Sheriff ]. c. Burned from holding a
mortgage foreclosure sale of the Hen
ry Gieske farm here.
apoIis-Ninety thousand Min
nesota farmers, about So per cent of
those eligible, will have signed con-
tracts in the corn-hog reduction cam
paign by March Is, according to DR..
Andrew Boss, University Farm.
Red Wing-A church built between
1859 and 1861, known as one of the
oldest landmarks in Goodhue county,
will be razed. 1t had served for wor-
ship by members of the German Meth
Odist church in Belvidere township.
neutrality-suspicious. 1900
teachers received checks sweIled by
a dividend amounting to % per cent
of their December pay when the
salary dividend voted by the board of
education was added to the regular
February pay checks.
st. Paul-For the four months be-
ginning October 1, precipitation in
the state was 20 of an inch below
normal, according to reports from
nearly 100 observation stations main.
tanned by the U. S. weather bureau
in all parts of Minnesota.
Granite FaIls-About rs school men
from central western Minnesota, the
Knights of the Hickory Stick and the
Birch Coulee school masters met at
the Granite Falls high school here.
Professional problems were discussed,
and a turkey dinner was served.
Rochester-Two Olmsted county
deputies deturned from Heber
Springs, Ark, without their man.
They made a 1,000-mile trip for Lee
Holmes, ordered extradited on child
abandonment charge, only to find he
had been freed from Cleburne county
Jail because the county couldn't af.
ford to keep him.
ST. PauI-Acting under instructions
from Washington, the state emergency
relief and CWA committee informed
county administrators that those
needing work the least should be the
first dropped from the CWA payroll.
Under no condition can there be more
than one person gainfully employed
in any one family on the personnel.
neapoIis-Farmers unable to
buy or get seed otherwise have access
to S40,000,000 seed loan fund, avail.
able after President Roosevelt signed
the crop loan bill. Loans for Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota, Mon.
tana, Nebraska, Wisconsin and upper
Michigan will be made through the
emergency crop loan section of the
Production Credit Corporation, Min
neapolis.
st. Paul-The first meeting of the
newly-formed Minnesota committee
for the study of crime in the state
probably will be held March 10 in the
senate chamber at the state capitol,
Chief Justice John P. Devaney of the
state supreme court, chairman, said.
The committee, made up of 80 attor-
neys and judges and % laymen, was
named by Frank w. Murphy of Whea-
ton, president of the state bar asso-
citation. The committee is to study
crime conditions and recommend re-
NEEDLES.
MinneapoIis-The Golden Glove box
ing tournament was held here with
boys from all over the northwest
competing. The champions, who sue
cessfully fought their way to the top
through an entry list of $50, are:
Heavyweight-Ben Blanchette, No.
Oak. university; Light Heavyweight
Russ Schultz, Minneapolis: Middle
Weight-Kenny Brown, No. Oak. uni
versity; Welterweight-Wal Petrie.
Park Rapids; acknowledgements
Martin; Featherweight-Owen Trio
key; Bantamweight-Cul Eckstrom;
Flyweight-Carlyle Loverud, all from
Minneapolis.
ST. PauI-Further declines in the
corn market is predicted by observ-
ers, according to Lloyd Eveland, gov
eminent supervisor for corn loans,
now in Minnesota. Government SUM-
port has raised the price and when
this support is withdrawn. authori-
ties believe the price will naturally
slide back. Because of this. farmers
who have not taken advantage of the
government loan because of advanc-
ing prices MAJ be disappointed.
Time for applying for corn loans has
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