The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-11
MINNESOTA NEWS

unit.
MnneapoIis-Af four years Of
study, more than 5000 seniors in
eight Minneapolis high schools par
ticipated in graduation exercises
here.
Rush city-The 60th anniversary
of the First Lutheran church was OBJ
served here. The feature of the meet
ing was a confirmation reunion of
more than 800 members.
neapoIis-Members of the Min
nesota Historical Society will visit
historic points along the st. Croix river
on their fourteenth annual summer
tour and convention June 81.
Ada-Lorene Riggers was sem
fenced to life Imprisonment in the
state prison when he pleaded guilty
in district court to the Staying Of
John Keninger, A, Ada bachelor far
mer.
Waconia-George A. King, county
agricultural agent, distributed corn
hog checks totaling $4,000 to 400 Car
yer county farmers who had signed
contracts. The checks represented
the final payments to contracting
farmers.
Austin-The building program here
building permit day was establish
ed for the last 20 days, with issuance
Of IS permits for building of new
homes. The cost of these homes
range from $4,000 to $1,000.
Minneap oIis-Application totaling
$1,517,750 and setting record were
accepted in May by the Minnesota
office of the Federal Housing admin
istration, the office reported. Total
loans insured by the FILA in Mime
sofa now amount to $7,O2S179.
Wadena-A compilation by Wa
dena county officials shows that ST.
64S has been approved for payments
Of old age assistance. This amount
covers 166 cases that were approved.
Three hundred persons have made ap-
plication for old age assistance and
about 200 have had hearings.
StapIes-Thirteen youngsters of
Staples high school agricultural class
carried off sweepstakes honors at
the fifteenth annual Minnesota high
school agricultural congress which
took $50 students from Sc high
schools to the University farm for
three days Of judging, lectures, de-
monstrations and tours of the Twin
Cities.
Acknowledgements of old age pen
sions to % persons in Aitkin county
for April increased the total of pen
sion recipients in the state to 19,4S0,
with every county participating, it
was reported by Kenneth C. Hay
craft, state old age assistance direc.
tor. April payments amounts to
1851 1863, an average of $18.27 per
person. Administrative costs for
May totaled $6,675.
Winton-The northland's lakes and
streams, not to be outdone by India s
white elephants have yielded white
beaver. Exhausted and gasping, the
| abino was founu floundering along the
Sioux river by Allan league, CCC
worker, who brought it with his craft
into camp. 1t is believed to have
been excluded from the colony by
other members who regarded the
| white beaver ss an "outcast.
Hibbng-Approval next November
| Of the constitutional amendment eli,
minating state taxes on properly was
| urged by former Representative R.
| w. Hitchcock of Hibbing in a speech
to the Minneapolis Property Owners
! association. AS basis for his adj
dress, Mr.. Hitchcock asserted that
| state taxes have nearly trebled since
1880, when the state tax rate was
| 81 mills. The current rate is 1857
mills
st. PauI-Minnesota will get $4,453,
800 out of the total of $461, 100000 ap
propriated for highway construction
by the Hayden-Cartwright bill. OF
this amount $3,423,3O6 will be fed
eral aid, to be matched by state
funds; $6S0,000 must be spent on
farm-to-market highways; and $3.50.
900 will go for Embarrassing elimin'
alton. Minnesota is ready to match
the appropriations where necessary
N. w. Elsberg, highway commission
er said.
Minneapolis - Nearly 1000 men
must be cut off the WPA lists in
Minnesota within the next 60 days
according to direct orders from WPA
headquarters in Washington. The re
duction figures were made public in
a lashing reply the relief superinten
dent directed at critics of his inves
tigation of fraud and chiseling in the
relief department. When unemploy
ed leaders declared the relief super
intendent should concentrate his eff
forts on placing men on WPA instead
Of exposing grafters, Pearson replied
that WPA was cutting down steadily
and there will be no new employment
until after July 1.
eapclis-Guarding against the
expected drive of sharpers in q
search for golden fleece" among vet
Grams spending their bonus money
the American Legion has an "advis
ory'' committee functioning in so pei
cent Of the posts outside the Twin
Cities and in so per cent of those in
Minneapolis. The committees com
posed of men experienced in invest
ments, such as bankers and real es