The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-05-25
MINNESOTA NEWS

l Val.
SprinefieId-A Springfield Game
Protective league was organized here
with V. H. Forster as president.
Ada-Thirtyt-two candidates for
county offices and six candidates for
| legislative offices have filed from Nor
man county.
Cross lake-A picnic brought TO
an end the crow hunt conducted by
the Cross Lake Game and Fish Pro-
! tective Association.
Austin-Pipestone and Austin have
been the hottest PAGES in the state so
far this summer. The mercury rose
| to 100 degrees in both towns.
Fergus FaIIs-Duane Grover Spro-
que, 7-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sprague, was instantly killed when
a cross beam on a swing on which he
was playing broke, crushing his
| skull.
ST. cIoud-A life term in prison
was imposed on Walter F. Hornstein,
% years old, when he pleaded guilty
TO charge of Staying Patrolman
Fred W. Nolan Of st. Cloud two
weeks ago.
Winona-The department of phys
zeal education for women at Winona
State Teachers College issued invita-
tions to 80 girls in the neighboring
high schools to attend a play-day at
the college.
| Tyler-The annual Lincoln County
| Cooperative Association picnic will
take pace on the county fair grounds
here June with members of the Old
Settlers Association of the county in
vited 10 attend.
Mountain Lake-Petitions seeking
bituminous pavement for the main
business street of Mountain Lake are
being circulated among property own
| ers by the village council and the
Commercial Club.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have been made
for a concerted drive TO enlist the
support of organizations throughout
the state in the campaign against cur
tailment of school facilities, due to
decreasing revenues.
Virginia-Cutting the phone wire
between Orr and Virginia to forestall
| spread of an alarm, two men held up
and robbed Peter Novak, General
| store at Greaney, As miles northwest
of here, and fed in an automobile.
Crookston-Sixty-se candidates
started down the home stretch in the
primary race for Polk county offices.
including legislature. One OF the
greatest number of entrants within
the memory of oldtimers here, filed.
Albert Iea-Mrs. c. H. Leighty,
| Chenille, and her two children, Mary
and Robert, suffered cuts and bruises
when their automobile struck a team
OF unattended horses on a highway
mile south of here. The horses were
killed.
Minneapois-Martial airs and mill
tary numbers will provide the tempo
for rs uniformed bodies representing
159 Shrine temples of North America
who will attend the International
Shrine convention in Minneapolis the
week Of June II, Ray G. Butts, direc-
tor general, announced.
nneapoIis-Successfu financing
OF the $4,000, 900 Minneapolis-St. Paul
sewage disposal system was assured
when signed contract binding the
federal government to purchase ST.
$4,000 in bonds from the city OF st.
Paul and make grant Of 80 per cent
Of that city's share of the cost Of Ia
Dor and materials was received.
MinneapoIis-The truck drivers and
their helpers went on strike for
| higher wages and demoralized the en-
tire city. Groceries, bakeries and
every other line were forced to run
until supplies gave out and then slow
up and in some instances stop COM
pletely. The strike spread to st.
Paul also. No trucks except ice, milk
and garbage trucks were allowed
Tow.r-Commemorating the iftieth
anniversary of the first shipment Of
iron ore from the Soudan mine, the
Vermillion Range Old Settlers Asso-
citation will hold its annual meeting
here July 80, exactly a half century
after the initial expectation of the
metal from this region. Plans call for
the placing of a monument at the
scene of the loading of the first ore.
Jordan-At the courthouse here the
federal government began distribution
in Minnesota of corn-hog bonus
checks which within the next two
months are expected to total $4,000
600. Twenty-six Scott county farmers,
who had completed their production
reduction contracts first in the state,
were given bonus checks by the coun-
ty committee in charge of the govern
ment's campaign.
Goodland-Officials OF subsistence
homesteads division in Washington
said it would be impossible to secure
funds for the cooperative project Of
Ethan Allen near here. The original
allotment of s25, 900 to the divi-
sion all has been assigned and there
is no immediate prospect Of further
grant While Aliens $4,000 projects
is looked upon favorably, it VIII be
shelved until an additional appropri-
alton is made.
st. PauI-The state executive coun-
Gil voted an appropriation Of $4,000
to the state fair board to meet $4,000
in federal relief funds for extension
Of the fair grounds and construction
Of a new conservation department
building.
Minneapolis-The executive COM
mittee of the Minneapolis Hospitality