The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-07-25
MINNESOTA NEWS


found hidden in a culvert near town.
Money order books. four $1,000 bonds
and other valuables were recovered.
st. James-The city council will
ask for federal funds to finance ex-
tensiye improvements to the water
works system. Two new wells are
to be sunk and a new stand pipe
erected. If the loan is available.
ST. Cloud-A headon collision be-
tween an automobile and a truck near
Albany cost the life of Theodore
(Ted) Schields, 80 Faribault attor-
ney and former secretary to United
States Senator Henrik Shipstead.
neutrality-suspicious. on an addition
to the municipal power house here has
begun. The addition will contain a
large turbine recently purchased by
the city that will double the capacity
of the plant 1t will cost $4,000
ST. Peter-The official session Of
the sixteenth annual encampmnet of
the Minnesota department Of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars was held
with P R. Barry, South ST. Paul, de-
partment commander, presiding.
Glencoe total of 1,108 pheasant
eggs have been rescued from aban-
doned nests in Mcleod county and
sent to the state hatchery at Madelia
this spring. There the eggs are
Matched and the birds distributed to
other sections Of the state where
pheasant are scarce.
Minneapolis-The entire staff Of
the Minnesota state board Of health,
numbering more than 20 experts, was
thrown into the fight of Minneapolis
local health agencies to discover at
the earliest possible moment, sources
Of contamination which have resulted
in 100 cases Of typhoid fever in the
city since May IS.
St. Paul-When the expansion pro-
gram Of the Civilian Conservation
corps, now under way, is completed,
Minnesota will be covered by 104
camps, Of which So will be new. Pre-
sident Roosevelt approved s97, SOC, coo
for continuation of this program.
Enrolment Of young men for the
camps is now in progress.
Duluth-Juvenile ardor put a rag
weed eradication campaign 81 ,296 in
the red. Backers of the drive put up
$500 for penny bounty for each
bundle of so reeds collected. The
youths responded with such vigor
that IL two days the bounties aggre-
gated s1,7S6. Now the campaign sup
porters are trying to determine how
to make the payments
st. Paul-Total Indebtedness of all
classes Of governmental units in Min
nesota was 32,297 POI as Of January
1, 1885, according to a report issued
by the Minnesota Taxpayers asso-
ciatioL Special emergencies have
increased the amount this year, the
report said, including the necessity
Of issuing certificates of indebted
ness to meet relief needs and cur
rent deficit.
St. Paul-Seed loans totaling $685.
OILS have been made to farmers in q
counties under the provisions Of the
s2,000,000 seed loan act Of the 1885
legislature. State Audior Stafford
King said that few Of the loans had
already been repaid. The money, I'D
to $500 per farmer, Is advanced by
the county boads and in case of
losses, the counties are reimbursed
by the state
Minneapolis special audit of
125, 900 cancelled pay roll checks was
begun by state emergency relief ad-
ministration headquarters in st. Paul
TO determine If any other forged
checks had been passed, in addition
to the SIS forgeries for $500 which
came to the Minneapolis SERA fin
ance division. In addition to the
SERA forgeries. $3.50 in CCC pay
roll forgeries also have been discov.
cred by state and federal investigat-
ors. United Staes secret service
agents are seeking a former disburs-
ing agent while state crime bureau
men are hunting a band passing
SERA checks.
Aitkin-A waterfowl sanctuary in
Aitkin county, known as the Big Rice
lake project, involving some 10000
acres and federal expenditure of
some $50, 600 may be dropped, It was
intimated in Washington because Of
the activities If two Aitkin county
individuals. The project was consider
ed by federal migratory waterfowl Of
fcials as the best of its kind In the
northwest and options for most Of
the property involved has already
been taken. Government officials
said the landowners were satisfied
with agreed purchase prices but that
two Aitkin county citizens interested
in private duck shooting on Big Rice
lake have sought to staIemate the
whole project.
Morris - With home Identification
and Improvement in mind, women
from this section of Minnesota, num-
bering about 200. gathered here for
the annual homemakers' short course
at West Central School Of Agricul-
uret. Sessions continued three days.
st. Paul-President Roosevelt al
lotted s2,376.920 in work relief funds
for control Of black stem rust and era
dication OF certain types Of barberry
bushes in II states. Minnesota will
receive s252.120; North Dakota $685.
$50; South Dakota s24,s60 and Wis
consin s24s,s0o
MinneapoIis-With the SERA rap
idly transferring its efforts to direct
relief, the two federal work relief
agencies In Minnesota laid down
classifcations Of the type Of projects
to be submitted to each. The Public