The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-04-26
MINNESOTA NEWS

brooder house exploded.
Giencoe-A new bank, to be known
as the Security State Bank. viii be-
gin operation here soon. The charter
was granted to Frank j. Haney and
A. ". Hoese.
Waseea-Waseca residents have
voted opposition to proposal to turn
the local airport, leased for five
year period, year ago. back to its
original owners.
Aitkin-Arthur Lind, 80 years old.
farmer. was fatally injured when
belt from a saw rig he was operating
few of and struck him on the head.
He suffered a fractured skull.
Red Lake Falls-Red Lake County
farms have grown from SCI in 1880
to $50 now, according to the agricul-
tural census taken under direction Of
c. ". Bouvette, census supervisor
Perham-Four men, charged with
disorders at farm mortgage sale
here April 5, were sentenced to Jail
terms or to pay fines ranging from
10 days or SO to 80 days or 800.
ST. PauI-In the opening baseball
game Of the season here, st. Paul
routed Minneapolis Is to 0, while on
the following day across the river the
Saints again walloped the Millers 10
to s.
Fort Snelline-More than 5000
youths and some $50 war veterans in
the state will be enrolled in CCC
camps. Enrolment is for a period Of
six months and all recruits will be
sent to camps in northern Minnesota.
ST. Paul-The state drivers license
bureau last year issued 930,957 L.
censes, representing a revenue Of
1857, 159, according to Gil Carmi-
chael, director of the bureau. Ex-
penditures were s133,15s and 1,40O T.
censes were suspended
Duluth-The state executive coun-
ell appropriated s425,o00 out of the
legislatures $4,000, 900 relief appro-
priation to acquire land for the Lac
Quit Parle county water conservation
project. The federal government will
aid the state in completing the pro-
ject, furnishing the labor and ma
terials.
MinneapoIis-The 1900 Minnesota,
wisconsin and Michigan families
which have been selected from relief
rolls to form a new colony in Alaska,
where they will have a chance to get
a fresh start in life, will sail I'D the
coast from San Francisco on the ar
my transport ship St Mihiel, May 1
and Is.
st. Peter-Mrs. E. N. Nelson Of this
community was announced as the win
ner Of $4,000 prize in a national
baby naming contest conducted by
General Mills, Inc. Mrs. Nelson sub
mitted the name ''Norita,', a deriTa-
tive Of the English name, "Norry,"
meaning foster child" and the gypsy
name, "Noritza" which means to
"nourish" The check was presented
to, Mrs. Nelson at the Twin City Of
fee Of the Washburn Crosby Com
pany.
Windom-The Cottonwood County
Farm Bureau Association has adopted
a resolution demanding that persons
on relief rolls, able to do manual la
Dor, be removed from the relief lists
If they refuse to go to work on farms
at the prevailing wage scale. The as
ISOLATION declared there have been
several instances where men on relief
have refused jobs on farms at SIS to
$50 a month, stating they would rath-
er remain on the relief rolls than
work for that wage.
So. St. Paul-In the largest indivi-
dual sale Of cattle in Canadian live
stock circles for many years, 1850
fat yearlings were sold by Senator
P. Burns to South st. Paul packers,
involving payment Of more than $685.
600. The cattle aggregate 1,166.000
pounds in weight with a sale price of
8 cents per pound reported. The
first shipment Of the yearlings, prob
ably II carloads arrived here, with
the balance to be shipped at inter-
walls during the next four weeks.
ST. PauI-Four thousand more men
will be put to work this summer on
Mississippi river locks and dams in the
St Paul district if money is available,
the United States engineers office in
St Paul reported. Dispatches from
Washington indicated a good share, if
not all, Of the necessary money will
be provided. approximately 1,4o0
men now are at work on river projects
in the st. Paul district which extends
south to the mouth Of the Wisconsin
river, just below Prairie du Chen,
Wis.
MinneapoIis-An children in Min
neapolis up to seven years of age
were ordered guaranteed to their
homes for period Of three weeks by
DR.. F. E. Harrington, public health
commissioner. The order was issued
to combat the spread of scarlet fever.
Children who are seven years old are
not included. DR.. Harrington esti-
mated 10000 children are affected BY
the order, which requires all the chill
dren affected to remain in their own
homes or on their own premises I'M
til May 6.
ST. PauI-The Republican-controlled
state executive council stripped the
Farmer-Labor party Of control of the
administration of soldiers relief funds
in Minnesota. At a meeting in the
governors Office, the council removed
the supervision Of the $3.50, 900 fund
recently granted by the legislature
from the board Of control and vested
it in new agency, the executive coun-
ell war veterans relief agency. This