The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-30
MINNESOTA NEWS

Blooming Prairie-Seeding opera
lions are nearly completed in this ter
ritory with most fields in good shape.
FaribauIt-The seventy-eighth Min
nesota State Sunday School conven-
ton will be held here October % and
%.
Seton-Fire wiped out a garage in
this Lake Minnetonka village. destroy
ing $4,000 worth of new and stored
cars.
chatfieId-Bryan Petty, farmer near
here, was arrested and charged with
manufacture of counterfeit slot ma
chine coins.
WiIImar-Over three hundred dele
gates gathered here for the seventy
eighth annual conference of Luther
an churches.
ST. PauI-Julius Schmahl. state
treasurer, has received sos, 900 from
the federal government as its share
of Minnesota's old-age expense.
Shakopee-A stretch of highway
No. 101 near here was washed away
by spring floods, causing motorists to
detour until repairs were made.
Grand Rapids-This community in
augurated an annual Progress Expo
sition with industrial exhibits and an
elaborate entertainment program.
MarshaII-The Jenson Construction
Co. Of Duluth was the low bidder on
the new federal postofice to be erect
ed here shortly, at a cost OF s51, $50.
Saint PauI-White raincoats will be
worn by Minnesota highway patrol
men in dark, rainy weather to make
them more easily seen by motorists.
nneapoIis-Attracted by low in
terest on new federal land bank loans,
4,705 state farmers borrowed s21. 1884,
900 in the nine months ending April I,
MinneapoIis-A poll taken among
the Big Ten football coaches shows
that Minnesota and Ohio State are
the two teams to be feared most this
fall.
ST. PauI-All persons failing to mail
in their last years hunting reports
will be denied 1886 licenses, according
to the Minnesota Game and Fish de-
partment.
Rochester-Final plans have been
laid to entertain the eighty-third an
nual meeting Of the Minnesota State
Medical Association, May 4, and 6.
Tod n nh -1Cs- l,
world over will attend.
Fergus FaIIs-Mayor Theurer was
indicated by grand jury on charges
Of extortion 1t is alleged that he at
tempted to extort $500 from the oper-
ator of a restaurant in connection
with issuance Of a license for soft
drinks.
st. PauI-Fighting to smash the last
vestige of the Barker-Karpis gang,
the government placed a price of ST.
500 on the fugitives Alvin Karpis and
Henry Campbell, while it indicted
Karpis and six others as kidnapers
Of William Hamm, Jr.
Eiy-Jalmer Koski was sentenced
to 80 days in the st. Louis county
workhouse for failure to pay a SIT
fine assessed last fall for illegal fish
netting. Two weeks before he had
found a purse containing s119 in cash
and refused to accept half as a re-
ward for returning TO to the owner.
Albert Lea-Motorists are looking
forward to fishing from the car as it
spins along the highway north of &C.
neva after the season opens. The
roadside ditch along No. 65-and they
vouch for the story-is full of pick
erel. The fish are believed to have
been marooned after a spring freshet.
Hibbing-Iron mining, one of the
states chief industries, mill soon
come back from a six-year Iegarthy,
mine officials here indicate. Hun
dreds OF workers, unemployed over a
long period, will be returned to pay
rolls this year when at least ten mines
not operated in 1885 resume opera
tons.
MinneapoIis-A total Of $500 ap-
plications for adjusted service certifi-
Gates have been received from World
War veterans agencies in the north
west by the federal reserve bank OF
Minneapolis and 54,107 bonds of $50
each have been inscribed with the ap-
plicant's names in readiness for deli
very in June.
ST. PauI-Goyernor Floyd B. Olson
opened wide the door for coalition of
Farmer-Laborites and Democrats in
the forthcoming political campaign
a coalition in which the Farmer-Lab-
orites would support President Roose-
welt in exchange for support of their
slate of state candidates by the Demo-
cratic faction headed by Joseph Wolf.
neapoIis-Provision of old age
aid by Congress will probably net be
found unconstitutional, says Emerson
P Schmidt, assistant professor of &C.
onomics at the University Of Mimi
esota. His pamphlet on "Old Age
Security" makes the point that since
similar congressional grants for spe-
cif1c purposes haven't been disallowed
by the courts, there is reason to be-
heve that cid age grants to the states
made possible by the Social Security
Act will be upheld.
MinneapoIis-With moisture condi-
tons the finest in years, spring plow-
ing and seeding is in full swing on
Minnesota and northwest farms. Cold.
wet weather delayed seeding one to
two weeks in many districts but farm
ers welcomed the additional moisture.
ST. PauI-Repcrt of pheasant losses
during the winter were exaggerated,
according to Frank Blair, superinten-
dent OF game propagation Losses in