The Ely miner., 1935-03-22
MINNESOTA NEWS


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Dserwood-Final approval Of plans
for the new $4,000 Deerwood audito-
rum has been received at the ERA
Office in Crosby.
Litchs1eId-For the first time in sew.
eral years. the Grow River is filed
from bank to bank with water run
ming TO a depth Of eight feet.
WelIs-The Wells Civic and Com
merce Association viii sponsor main
tenance of relief gardens to provide
work for unemployed and food for
needy persons.
Pipestone-E. P. Squire of Hanley
Falls has been named director Of
SERA rural rehabilitation work in
Pipestone county. He succeeds Ed
win Iverson of Watson
ST. Peter-Andrew Larson, who
pleaded guilty to the brutal slugging
of Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Nelson at their
! home near Gaylord February 7, start
ed serving 2e-year sentence in Still
water penitentiary.
Owatonna-The Owatonna American
Legion post charged that the national
unemployment service had failed TO
keep pledges concerning soldiers
preference rules and named a COM
mittee to take action.
Roehester-Julius ]. Reiter, mayor
Of Rochester, for the last five terms,
was defeated by DR.. W. A. Moore, a
dentist, the vote being 1888 to 2,03s.
Carl G. SchwarZ, city treasurer, was
defeated by Theodore H. Tollefson.
MoorheadECharles Halvorson, As,
farmer near Moorhead, who was miss
ing week, was found dead on the
prairie six miles south of here. An
automobile which he had been using
was found abandoned in a cornfeld
StiIIwater-Carl G. Neumeier, for
II years law partner of the late Sem
ator George H. Sullivan, was elected
to succeed him in the state senate.
He defeated r. g. Thoreen in the spe-
cial Washington county election cali
ed to I'LL the vacancy.
MinneapoIis-More than half of
the dry skim milk purchased by Har-
ry L. Hopkins as president of the Fed
eral Surplus Relief corporation for
distribution % the unemployed will
be supplied by Minnesota, il was
learned from Washington.
Hutehinson-More than s143,o00
Wi ho h n
summer for modernization, remodel
ing and repairing of new homes,
George Umland, chairman of the Hut
Crimson better housing committee, re-
ports. Twenty-six new homes will
| be built.
ST. Paui-The 109th air squadron
in st. Paul viii probably receive two
/ Of the latest type 230-mile-an-hour
| observation planes some time this
spring, Major Ray S. Miller, COM
! mandant, said. They will be high
| wing monoplanes The war depart
ment let contracts for the two ships
some time ago.
| Burnett-Peat and moss, as is
/ grown in swamps of northern Mime
/ sofa may be used for dairy feed, in
the opinion of Peter Krogen, who
bases his assertions on recent studies
near Oslo, Norway, where. he said,
large factories are engaged in bailing
this type of feed, after a treatment
with molasses.
characterization of the Trempe-
aleau migratory waterfowl refuge, a
| gigantic game farm maintained by the
| federal government in the Mississippi
river bottomlands between Winona
and Trempealeau, Wis, was an
nounced here by Ray c. Steele, su-
perintendent of the Upper Mississippi
Wild Life refuge.
Crookston-Philip S. Smith, Oak
Island. federal farm census enumera-
| tor, found he had a real job on his
hands to visit the 80 farms located in
the Northwest Angle country in the
Lake of the Woods Smith was forced
| to fly across the lake in an airplane
and then mush the rest of the way on
snowshoes with dog team to reach
| the farmers. Smith received So a
| visit instead of the usual so cents.
DuIuth-Governor Olson has taken
hand in efforts to win approval for
construction OF a s3,0eO,000 Duluth
Superior bridge by the federal gov
ernment- The governor and con-
ferees from Duluth decided to seek
the project as exclusively a govern
| ment job in which federal financing
would take care Of the entire propo-
sition. leaving it unnecessary for
either Duluth or Superior to defray
| the costs.
Shakopee-Four additional Mime
sofa counties-Scott, Nicollet, Vino
na and Houston-became eligible for
emergency feed loans as the result
| OF action by the farm credit admin
istration in Washington. Farmers
and stock raisers may obtain loans
| from the emergency drouth fund ap-
| propriated last year. The maximum
allowances are SO per head per month
for farm cattle. $50 for range cattle,
81 for workstock, 50 for saddle and
pack horses. 80 cents for sheep and
35 cents for goats.
MinneapoIis-A request that about
| s250,000 be set aside for the AXE
Minnetonka-Crow river diversion pro-
ject from the states $4,000. 900 relief
| fund was made OF the state executive
council by Mayo A. G. cambridge.
In letter to the council. the mayor
/ pointed out the SERA Estate emer-
gency relief administration has
agreed to provide up to 100000 to
nav labor cosfz IF the f~ro-r river r,rr-