The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-17
MINNESOTA NEWS

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| Luverne-With the goal placed al
$50 group of so solicitors are now
working In Rock county securing
members for the Farm Bureau asso
| citation.
| DuIuth-Strikers quietly picketed
the West Duluth and New Duluth
| plants of the Coolerator Corporation
while awaiting the first move toward
settlement of the controversy,
Warroad-E. A. Harloff, mayor OF
Warroad, was shot three times and
fatally wounded allegedly by Alton
Obeson, AZ of Roseau. After the shoot.
Ing Obeson surrendered to the sheriff.
st. Paul-Five million dollars of
state funds will be needed by the
three large cities next year because the
relief burden has not declined, an in
term legislative committee was told.
st. PauI-Minnesota's first lame
duck legislature will be called into
session by Gov Hjalmar Peterson Dec.
%, barring an unexpected clearing up
of the unemployment insurance I'm
passe
Minneapolis-Peggy Jerome of Min
neapolis, senior in home economics at
University farm, was announced the
winner of the schools traditional
award, the little red oil can, at the
annual Christmas assembly of agri-
cultural students on the campus.
owatonna-Mayor C. P. Anderson
received appointment as member of
the Minnesota League of Municipal
ties Zoning and Planning committee,
league unit in whose hands Is the
study of city and village coming and
planning and ordinances and regula-
tons pertaining thereto.
Jasper-A family of polecats went
in for book larnin' and promptly
brought weeks vacation for pupils
of rural school near here. The
school board after due elaboration de-
cided that it would take at least a
week to dispossess the animals and
properly ventilate the place.
MinneapoIis-The wrestling final at
the auditorium had tragic ending.
Jack Reeder, 20S-pound grappler from
Hot Springs, Ark, was tossed so
heavily by the 245-pound Dick Raines
that he suffered paralysis of the right
side and had to be removed by police
ambulance to the Fairview hospital
MarshaII-Lyle Streeter, 23-year-old
Marshall youth, was acquitted of
first degree murder charge growing
out of the shooting of Arnold Borson,
Client policeman August IS, last, In
garage burglary. A Lyon county
district court jury returned its YER
dict 10 hours after receiving the case.
Observation-Disclosures of VIII.
liam A. Anderson, former Minneapolis
mayor, as municipal judge to succeed
Judge Vince A. Day, elevated to the
Hennepin county district bench, was
announced by Governor Petersen. Mr..
Anderson was mayor of Minneapolis
from 1881 to 1888. He returned to the
private practice of law on leaving the
mayors office.
Windom-Two diesel power units
have been placed in operation by the
city to bring the combined power cap
acity Of the city's municipal light and
power plant to sos kilowatts. Each
Of the new units has capacity of $50
kilowatts, while the building in which
they were housed is so constructed
that another unit may be installed
without further building changes.
Tracy-Florence E. Erickson, Al
Club girl of Tracy, recently named
national champion in the All girls
achievement contest, was guest with
several other All champions On the
National Barn Dance broadcast over
NBC-KSTP. They were chosen from
among delegates to the All Congress,
meeting in connection with the Inter-
national Livestock Show at Chicago.
Sank centre-Eight buildings on the
Main Street made famous by Sinclair
Lewis were crystalcoated ice palaces
following the worst fire in the history
of this central Minnesota town, with
damage estimated at $3.50, 900 to $780,
900. Six persons narrowly escaped
death, three of them being injured, as
flames leaped 100 feet into the air
to make the spectacular fire visible
10 miles.
Albert Lea-Mrs. A. A. Hartz of
Albert Lea, is new chairman of the in
ternational relations department for
this district of the Minnesota Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs. Mrs. J. A.
Vandenberg of Austin will continue as
district chairman of the motion pic
ture division of the education depart
ment. Mrs. Einar Gulbrandson of AL
bert Lea, the state president, made the
appointments.
MinneapoIis-A motion by United
States Senator Guy v. Howard for a
more definite complaint in the Hart
ford Accident C Indemnity Co.'s &C
ton for $699.94 against him will be
argued at special term session of
Hennepin county district court Deem
Der IS. The motion asks that the
names, addresses, and amounts paid
by automobile license applicants
whose fees he allegedly failed to pay
over to the state be set forth in the
complaint.
st. PauI-Supervisory positions pay
Ing almost three times as much as
the $50 paid monthly to CCC enroles
will be opened within the next month
to approximately 1000 members of
the conservation corps eligible for
The jobs, which will give
selected workers the title of Junior
assistant to technician," will carry