The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-06
MINNESOTA NEWS

lions OBJECTED TO the manner III WHICH
flower beds were being laid out in the
city park, the city council ordered
work stopped at once and the garden
work removed.
ST. PauI-Gasoline taxes paid in
Minnesota in June will make $1,424,-
lit available to the state highway
fund. ALLEGATIONS to the fund from
gasoline taxes for June last year to-
tailed s1,O22,O34.
St. Paula total of $673,000 was
distributed in Minnesota last month
as old age assistance payments, re-
ports reveal. In Hennepin county 81
657 recipients received $6S,157 and in
Ramsey a total of $2S,432 was paid
to 1,466.
Observation-Disclosures Bake and Duane
Houkom, both 10, were on spending
expedition. Finding purse containing
SAILS in Island park, they turned it in
to police and received SIS reward
from James A. Ashton, Plainsfield.
Ore, the owner.
Hopkins-Hopkins gave the world
the raspberries. Thousands Of WISH
tors who came here to do homage to
King Raspberry at the second annual
berry festival were given portions of
sugared berries to prove that Hopkins
is the raspberry capital of the world.
MnneapoIis-Mi commune
ties have pending in Washington 119
PWA projects, totaling $26,934,373, at
least 81 of which are included in a
list President Roosevelt took with
him on his vacation for personal con-
sideration, Washington dispatches re-
veal.
st. PauI-Approximately $1,000 de-
pendent children in 5000 Minnesota
families are to be given aid at an es-
timated annual cost of $1,75O,00O un-
der the federal social security act, it
was estimated as Attorney General
Harry H. Peterson approved regula-
lions for operation of the act.
ochester-Radium treatments for
the stomach ailment with which Gov.
ernor Floyd B. Olson is suffering
have been postponed temporarily un.
til further improvement occurs, it was
announced by the Mayo clinic. The
Governor still is experiencing some
nausea, but his condition is improving
st. Paula federal court jury found
Jack PETER guilty of conspiracy in
the William Hamm kidnapping. Sen
fencing of the former operator of the
Hollyhocks, st. Paul night club, was
deferred for several days. PETER was
allowed his freedom meanwhile under
a continuation of the 100000 bono
he posted after his arrest.
eapoIis-When it shows signs
of rain or freezing temperature
the Memorial stadium gridiron viii
be protected this year by nearly 10,
900 feet of new 12-pound double-fil
tarpaulin. Bids have just been let OF
the huge canvas cover for the football
field. 1t will be approximately 10:
feet wide, and about $50 feet long.
h DuIuth-Miss Catheryn Mcnamara
stenographer, looked at her bridge
hand in a game the other night, ant
bid seven hearts, a grand slam. D. P
Moore, promptly doubled. And thel
E. C. Reichert, Miss McNamara's part
ner, looked at his heart-less hand
gulped, and just as promptly passed
Miss Mcnamara dropped her cards
She had Is hearts.
ST. PauI-"Tourism," the bushes
of travel, will be a $170,00O,000 indus
try for Minnesota in 1886, Joe II
Thompson, national director of tn
Conoco Travel Bureau, predicted.
will be the biggest tourist bushes
the state has received and prove
that the 10000 lakes region is NOV
ing up to the top as the nations sum
mer playground, he declared.
st. PauI-Charges that county Off
Gals are playing politics" with oil
age assistance payments were mad
by Kenneth C. Haycraft, old age as
sistance director, as he ordered a re
investigation of every case in Mime
sofa. Haycraft said he had foun
cases where county officials had Gel
tilted persons who were not yet
years old; where others had as niue
as $4,000 hidden in safety deposi
boxes, yet were recipients of benef
payments.
Fairmont-A new baby and a
award as the best correspondent fo
a rural newspaper came almost simu
taneously to Mrs. Susan Frawle
Eisele of Blue Earth. The winner {
the $500 cash prize and a trip to Ne
York and Washington lives on farl
nine miles from Blue Earth with he
husband and three children and upo
announcement of the award decide
she could not leave at once as he
baby is only two weeks old and cal
not be left alone. The award wa
made by Wheeler McMillen, editor th
Country Home Magazine, which give
this annual award to rural newspape
men and women, and is the equiv;
lent of the Pulitzer award of the me
ropolitan press.
Fort SneIIing-Supplies for &C
camps in this area henceforth wi
be purchased at Fort Smelling, instea
of Chicago, a move that is expecte
to bring between 100000 and S;
} 100000 in additional business
wholesalers here. Senator Elmer !
Benson announced. Prior to last ia
uary, supplies for the CCC CAM
were purchased through the Fo
Smelling commissary. Then Gen.
C. Bolles, commander Of the Seyeni
corps airy area, transferred this pu
chasing business to Chicago.
Dallas Shaken by $1,003,o00 Stor
Dallas, Texas-Dallas arose sha