The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-31
MINNESOTA NEWS


who has resigned TO devote more time
to his business.
ST. PauI-Frank Mccormick, athle-
tic director of the University of Min
nesota, will be honored by st. Paul
through an appreciation and testi-
monial dinner at the ST. Paul Athletic
club Jan. IS.
Duluth-Mrs. p F. Demore, Duluth,
who began serving her third term as
a member of the ST. Louis county poor
commission the first of the year, is
scheduled to be elected chairman Of
the 1887 poor board.
Pipestone-The board of education
has just paid off a $1,000 bond on the
high school building debt. This makes
total of $4,000 which has been paid
of in the last five years. The school
district debt is now $23S,00
Duluth-Bert Onsgard, curator of
the Duluth zoo, has a headache
4,000-pound one, persisting for about
two months-ever since he bought
from the Chicago Geological Garden at
Broofield, a suburb of the Windy City.
Sanborn-The controversy over a
site for the proposed new city hall in
Sanborn has been settled, and the
council has voted to purchase tract
known as the Dietz place. The pro-
posed new structure, a PWA project,
will be 81 by LOG feet in size and the
estimated cost is $4,000.
Winona-During the coming year
southeastern Minnesota farmers will
apply contour farming practices to
more than 1900 acres in an effort to
reduce erosion, said r. H. Davis, La
Cross, Wis, state co-oordinator for the
soil conservation service. Contour
farming is farming around the hills
instead of up and down them.
Deephaven-By vote of 214 to A,
the village of Deephaven decided to
issue $S2,500 in bonds to build new
district school. The voting, which
was extremely heavy for an election
where only one question was involved,
took place between 6 and 9 D. m.
PWA will be asked to advance an ad-
ditional $4,000 for the new building.
MinneapoIis-The largest real estate
transaction in Minneapolis in several
years was announced by G. Nelson
Dayton, general manager of the Day
ton Co., which has purchased the
land at the corner of Nieollet avenue
and Eighth street occupied by part of
the Dayton store and by the ]. B,
Hudson Co., which the Dayton Co.
owns.
Albert Lea-One of southern Min,
nesota's famous duck shooting lakes
proved a death trap for hundreds of
waterfowl, victims of lead poisoning.
The picture of dead ducks littering
the edge of Bear lake, II miles south
west of Albert Lea, and others flop.
ping about helplessly, greeted investi.
gators from the state university and
game and fish department.
DuTuth-Postal authorizes are war
ring on a wide front against distribu.
ton of tickets in the Northwest for
the Irish sweepstakes, to be run March
g. One man is sought in northern
Minnesota as the suspected distribu.
tor of large blocks of tickets in the
northwest, it was learned. Blocks OF
tickets mailed to Minneapolis and st
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ST. Paula campaign to have the
state legislature curb activities of loan
sharks in Minnesota is disclosed in q
copy of the magazine To-day" Al.
though Minnesota has usury law Il
is no more effective than similar laws
In other states where action has been
taken to GUST loan sharks, the maya
zine states. A committee is now al
work studying small loan legislation
in other states.
kenyon-Charles Lindholm of Ken
yon has played his last Santa Claus
role. The 5S-year-old actor, play
wright and newspaper man who was
known to thousands of Minnesota chill
dren for his portrayals of old Kris
Kringle, died in St. Joseph's hospital
/ in ST. Paul. Pm umonia, with which
he was stricken while playing his last
Santa Claus role in st. Paul store
December 5, caused his death.
ST. PauI-The state unemployment
insurance act was passed by both
houses of the Minnesota legislature
and signed by the governor. The
measure as passed calls for: Limita
ton of unemployment insurance taxes
to employers of eight or more persons
for 1886, and including all employers
Of one or more persons, beginning
with January 1, 1887. Employer
viii bear the entire cost of building
up the fund, there being no provision
for employe contributions. Minimum
benefits to unemployed individuals Of
IS per week, and maximum benefits o.
/ SIS per week. Establishment of {
pool type of fund, to which all EN-
ployers would contribute. Establish
ment Of a merit rating for employers
to give lower tax rate for sustained
employment.
nneapoIis-Hundred of acres o
agriculturally worthless land within /;
few miles of Minneapolis could bs
turned into wild-life and recreation
area for the city's youth, Ralph T
King of the University of Minnesota
zoology department asserted at con
seryation meeting of the Minneapolii
Junior Association of Commerce a
the Curtis hotel Other lands through
out the state that have reverted TO th'
government and are untaxable can b
made profitable through wild-life de
yelopment, he said.
st. Peter-Five students of Gusos
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