The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-26
MINNESOTA NEWS

No pAoiSSS WAS maui pOSSluie Wy Ter
lief funds.
Observation-Disclosures got break
last week when filling stations staged
a gas war and the price slumped to
SO per gallon.
Observation-Disclosures Junior Col
eye set new record for the largest
freshman class in history, with the
highest ration of out-of-town students.
st. Paul-Governor Floyd B. Olson's
resignation as relief administrator for
Minnesota, was accepted by Harry
Hopkins, federal emergency relief al
st. Paul-Two bandits held up
messenger and escaped with more
than $4,000 in cash and checks be-
longing to the Hancock-Nelson Whole.
sale Grocery Co.
Observation-Disclosures second an
nual corn show was conducted here
with the program consisting of corn
husking contest, tug-o'-war, foot races
and band concerts.
MinneapoIis-A total Of $40 loans
aggregating $4,000 have been made
by Minneapolis financial institutions
for home modernization and repair
work under the FILA program.
MarshaIl-Headed by Archbishop
John Gregory Murray of ST. Paul.
many church dignitaries of the north
west were here for the two-day OBJ
servance marking the founding lof
the Holy Redeemer parish so years
ago.
st. PauI-More than 1000 farmers
in IL Minnesota drouth counties have
been given seed rye this fall to be
planted for spring pasture. This
seed totaled 127,SS0 bushels and
cost the relief administration $122,-
1923.
st. Paula total of $2S,537.713 Of
federal money is being or will be
spent in Minnesota on loans or grants
by the United States government, to
finance lis public building and inn
provement projects under the PWA
st. Paul-Selection of county cham
pions to compete in the state corn
husking contest near Owatonna Oct.
81 has begun. Winners in the state
contest will be entered in the national
meet which will be conducted this
year in Minnesota, near Fairmont
Nov. s.
st. Paul-Returns from corn-hog
contract signers of 81 Minnesota
counties in the poll being conducted
by Andrew Boss, state director of
production control under the AAA,
showed that 21,79O favor and 1913
oppose corn-hog adjustment pro-
gram in 1885.
Milan-A "Lefse" celebration held
here October 16 and II was a success.
Lefse is first cousin to the Norwegian
fiat bread The baking of the former
stops before it reaches the crispness
of the later. 1t is served in rolls with
butter and sugar. Free "lefse" and
coffee were given to all attending
Minneapolis-A plea for immediate
appropriation of the s60,O00,00O need.
ed to complete the nine-foot channel
in the upper Mississippi was addressed
to President Roosevelt and the PWA,
in a resolution adopted unanimously
at the annual meeting of the Upper
Mississippi Waterway Association.
Observation-Disclosures that the ad-
intends to push the nine.
foot channel project on the upper
Mississippi river through to compile
tion as speedily as possible was given
by Secretary of War George H. Dern
on his arrival in Minneapolis to be-
gin an inspection trip of the inland
waterways.
Minneapolis-The pheasant-hunting
season in Minnesota was cut nearly
in half by Erling Swenson, state
game and fish commissioner, after a
poll of state conservation members.
The new regulations call for pheasant
hunting in all of the II counties to
close at sunset October %, with hunt
ing from noon to sunset.
st. Peter-The Gustavus Adolphus
College choir of 40 voices will make
the most extensive tour in the his
tory of the st. Peter school this year.
Concerts alreary have been scheduled
in Duluth, Detroit, Mich, Akron and
Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Des Moines and
Sioux City, Iowa. and Sioux Falls.
Minneapolis-Th city council pass
ed bicycle licensing ordinance i'm
posing a fee of SO cents for each BIZ
cycle and 25 cents for each transfer.
The purpose of the ordinance, ac-
cording to its sponsor, is not to raise
revenue for the city, but to provide a
means Of identifying bicycles and to
aid the police department in curbing
bicycle thefts.
So. St. Paul-More than 500 Al
club boys and girls in Minnesota and
a few. counties edjoining the state
in Wisconsin are preparing pigs. baby
beeves, lambs, chickens. ducks. geese
and turkeys which have placed high
in county and district shows for the
Minnesota Junior Livestock show, to
be held here November II to Is. 1t
was estimated that more than 1000
animals and birds would be entered
by the young exhibitors.
StiIIwater-Minnesota's state prison
has population of 14,069, the highest
in history and at the present time
has 225 more prisoners than cells,
Warden John ]. Sullivan said in his
biennial report to the state board Of
control.
Waseca-With the rent paid in adj
vance for four years more and more
than ST. 5(l0 snent in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS