The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
MINNESOTA NEWS

Paul.
Minneapolis-Stanley Mades, tail
or has started to believe in miracles
A 16-year-old apple tree which he
planted in his back yard has apples
growing on one side of the tree and
of all things-apple blossoms bloom
ing on the other side.
st. Louis Park-Louis Larson. dairy
farmer was found guilty of unneces.
sary cruelty for dragging his pet
shepherd dog behind his automobile
until the dog died. A fine of $50 or
30-day county Jail term was impos-
ed. A stay of 10 days was allowed
for Larson to file an appeal to dis
trict court with bond set at 5000.
MarshaII-Irere Martineau, 21-year.
old and 110-pound clerk in mail or
der house, represents the state as
Miss Minnesota" at a contest Of
bathing beauties in Atlantic City.
She won that trip at Lynwood park,
near Marshall, in statewide con-
test, but didn't know at first whether
she should go to Atlantic City or take
a trip to Hollywood.
MinneapoIis-T G. Carlton Brown,
New York state newspaper publisher,
hadn't seen Emily Lane, soloist with
Eddie Duchin's orchestra, recently ap-
pearing at Minneapolis theater, for
three months So he journeyed from
his home in Syracuse, N. Y, talked
with her for Is minutes and then
rushed to the license bureau to take
out a marriage license.
st. PauI-Prize Minnesota flowers
and vegetables will be exhibited when
the first International Horticultural
Exposition is presented in the new
International Amphitheater at the
Chicago stockyards September IL to
20. The exhibit will be installed by
the Growers Association of Mime
sofa, according to Joseph G. Germann
secretary of the association. =
Cokato-When journalism students
trek back to their classes at the Uni
versity of North Dakota this fall they
will be in the hands of new depart
ment chairman, Carlton Lee, former
co-publisher of the Cokato Enterprise.
Lee, a graduate of the University Of
Minnesota newspaper school, succeeds
Joseph Maeder, who has been ap-
pointed as graduate assistant at
Minnesota.
st. PauI-If weather conditions re-
main favorable the state division Of
forestry will begin planting 100000
pine and spruce seedlings in burnt
over areas in Hubbard, Beltrami, Koo-
chiching, Itasca, st. Louis, Carlton,
Cook, Lake of the Woods and Clear
water counties, Grover M. Comet,
director of forestry, announced. The
planting will be done largely by CCC
men and will require approximately
a month:
MinneapoIis-The Mill City, picked
as a focal point for the famed Liter
airy Digest presidential poll, gave
Landon almost a 81 lead over Presi-
dent Roosevelt as second returns on
the nationwide balloting were flashed
to the public. In the state, the Kan
sas governor was leading his Demo
cratic opponent by margin of $500
to 5,939, and was Boosting 81 lead
on the returns from all over the coun-
try. Landon will speak in Minneapo-
lis on September "a at the municipal
auditorium.
MinneapoIis-Farm prices received
by Minnesota producers rose IL per
cent between July Is and August Is,
according to survey made public
by. two University Of Minnesota agri-
cultural economists. The general
range Of prices on August Is was the
highest for this month since 1929 and
within three per cent OF the pre-de-
preston years of 1924, 1925 and 1926.
The index is based on the prices for
16 principal Minnesota products
wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, fax,
potatoes, hay, hogs, cattle, lambs and
sheep, chickens, eggs, butterfat and
milk. Prices on some of these COM
modities were actually higher August
Is than during the base period.
Minneapois-Th 1886 edition of
Minnesota's golden-clad football outfit
romped onto the practice turf on the
University of Minnesota campus with
each members eyes on the crucial
opening contest with washington at
Seattle on September 26. Stressing
the need of a fast start, Coach Ber-
ME Bierman ordered secret practice
from the outset, barring all but news
papermen from the gridiron. The
Gophers will be defending a national
championship bagged two years in
row, and Bernie doesn't want anything
to interfere with preparations for the
gruelling schedule which involves
washington, Nebraska, Michigan, Pur-
due, Northwestern, Iowa, Texas, and
Wisconsin in order. Football fever
enveloped the state as season ticket
sales scared past the ten thousand
mark, an all time record.
ST. PauI-Tracks of a six-state
northwest underground railway of
vice were unmasked before the new
United States district court grand
jury by U. S. District Attorney George
Sullivan, and by operatives of the bu-
reau of investigation, department of
justice. A mass of evidence, some OF
it definitely establishing existence of
a white slave market, was being sys-
tematically given the jury. The evil