The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-09-12
MINNESOTA NEWS

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AtWater-The Annual Watermelon
Day festival was huge success with
more than a carload of the melons
being devoured.
Blooming Prairie-Ten carloads OF
onions were received here from the
Hollandale trucking district. The
crop matured early because of hot
weather.
Hibbing-Official approval by the
PWA removed the last obstacle him
dering construction of the refrigera.
ton plant which will supply artificial
ice in the new memorial building
here. Work will start at once.
Cass Lake-Purchase of white
spruce cones for seed extraction is
| being made by the United States
forest service at price of 81 per
bushel. Six thousand bushels of Nor
way pine cones will be collected in
the next few weeks.
Redwood Falls-Plans for the state
Sunday school convention October "a
and rs were furthered at a meeting
here between city officials and H. L.
| Stright Of st. Paul, general secretary
of the state unit. The Methodist Epis-
copal church will be headquarters of
the convention.
st. PauI-Shooting of mourning
doves in Minnesota this year has been
prohibited by the conservation COM
mission, Erling Swenson, director,
said. The commission took this &C
ton at it's last meeting and at the
same time ordered upland plover and
woodcock protected.
chatfieId-At a special school cleo
ton, a $4,000 bond issue was author
lied, for the purpose Of building an
$4,000 school auditorium. A federal
grant will furnish the remaining $780,
600. The bond issue carried by 10
votes, with total vote of 53S cast
out of possible 700.
st. PauI-Between March Is and
Aug. 1, the SERA provided employ
ment for 10000 persons on work pro-
jects costing s33,711,101, L. P. Zim-
norman, administrator, reported to
the state executive council. Of the
total expenditures, $2S,556,695 went
for labor, $3,S99,2SS to livestock re-
lief clients and s1,6S3,S65 to non-re-
lief clients.
OrtonviIIe-A new corn eating
champion rules the world, because the
defending titleholder didn't take his
training seriously. Berge Simonson,
17S pound farmer living near here,
dethroned the reigning corn chewer,
Ed !(King Korn) Kottwitz, by the
margin of single ear, So to 81, and
assumed the latter's title of Cham
pion corn eater of the world"
Duluth-An increase of 203 quaran-
tines last week for equine encephalo-
meylitis, commonly known as sleep
ing sickness, discloses a further
spread of the malady from north
western Minnesota into southern
counties, officials of the state live
stock sanitary board have announced.
The total number of premises
under quarantine is $50 and in the
majority of cases from one to three
horses are afflicted.
Minneapolis = President Roosevelt
allotted Minnesota $391,551 as it's
share of a $20,21S,0O0 allotment of
work relief funds to provide WPA
jobs for women. The allotment will
supply jobs for 54,199 women in Al
states and in the District of Column
bia. Activities which the women will
engage in will include canning veg
etables and making clothing for the
unemployed, along with a number of
projects including research and spe-
cial surveys, landscape Identification,
transcribing reading matter into
Braille for the blind and work in COM
munity centers.
Tower-A letter written and posted
in Finland and addressed only Mrs.
Sanni A. Harju, route /, box Al, u. S.
A." has been received by Mrs Harju
near here despite the fact that the
city, county or state was not desig.
mated. Postoffice authorities in New
York, knowing of Scandinavian and
Finnish settlements in Minnesota,
forwarded the letter to Minneapolis.
Authorities there recalled that a
large Finnish settlement in the state
is in Otter Tail county addressed it
to New York Mills. The postoffice
there happened to know that the
Harjus reside near here and the let
ter was sent here.
Cloquet-Victinis of the disastrous
fire which swept northern Minnesota
in 1913 won their long fight for fed
eral compensation as President Roose-
welt signed the bill authorizing pay
ment of claims estimated at between
100000 and s12,50O,000. By this
action more than 5000 claimants, now
scattered through 3S states, are as
sured full payment Of losses suffered
in 1913 when devastating fire swept
through approximately 1000 square
miles of northern Minnesota timber
land. Seven thousand homes were
destroyed and more than 500 persons
burned to death. The total damage
was estimated at between 80 and 40
million dollars.
st. PauI-The failure of congress
to complete social security pro-
gram before adjournment will have
no effect on his plans to call a special
session of the Minnesota legislature,
Governor Olson said on his return
from Washington. He said there was
no doubt at all that congress at its
next session would complete President
| Rnnsnvelt,s social sacnrit. n1ann and