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The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
HOME TOWN BUILDING
A Farmers Plan for Keeping the Young Folks
at Home.

amusement was to put a couple OF
the farm hands with teams and
scrapers at work in the little creek
which crosses the farm near the
house. A substantial sluice gate
was built, so that surplus water
could be disposed of. The earth
scraped from the banks of the
creek was piled in half circle shape
at each side of the sluice gate, so
that it reached the higher ground
at each end. In less than a week
we had miniature lake covering
about one acre of ground, with a
depth of six or seven feet. This
makes superb swimming pool in
summer and good skating rink in
winter. 1t is now plentifully
stocked with fish.
A tennis court, and a baseball
diamond followed as latter i'm
provements.
For indoor games, we have a
handball court and a billiard table.
The latter is usually working over
time.
l have made some additions to
our home amusem ents since my
fathers time, but at no great outlay
of time or money.
The plan pays mighty good in
terest on the investment by keeping
the young folks at home.
l agree with Mr.. Moorehead of
Kansas City. who said in his Chi
cago speech that the boy must have
companionship. You must provide
him with means of recreation and
amusement. If he longs for out
door sports in summer and bowling,
billiards. roller skating or indoor
baseball or even dancing under
proper restrictions, as winter pas
times. see that he gets them.
Give him commercial opportuni-
ties at home. Educate your
country town merchants in adver-
tising. Show them the value of
their home town papers. These
are the cheapest and best advertis
ing mediums in the world. Teach
both the editor of the weekly news
paper and the merchant how to
copy the display advertisements of
the big stores of the city. Show
them the necessity of the up-to-date
methods of quoting prices i'll plain
figures. That will enable them to
hold their own in getting their
share of the business. 1t will inn
prove the business of the country
town and will give the boy and the
girl a chance at home. That will
help to settle the whole question.
(This letter will be continued in
our next week issue
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

| am indebted to friend for a
copy of your paper containing an
article on Home Town Building,
and l want to congratulate you on
the good work you have started
It's move in the right direction
and | wish you success.
Ny nearest town is one of the
kind that you describe. 1t has been
going down hill for the past twenty
years. We formerly had a news
paper, but that went out with the
last street lamp together with the
only spark of enterprise remaining
after some fifty farmers of the
county rented, or sold their farms
and moved into town to take things
easy.
| have been through the mill in
both ways, and it seems to me that
the job of keeping the young people
at home is very simple. If we will
treat the boy and girl like human
beings instead of handling them
like young criminals, we can easily
get the desired results. l am a
farmer, as my grandfather was be-
fore me, and there has never been
any trouble worth mentioning in
keeping the young folks of the
family on the farm, although did
try city life for six years long
time ago.
Right here it is but fair to saw,
that long before l came back from
roughing it in the city, father had
established a new order of things at
the farm. He said that he had
figured it out and found it too ex-
pensive to raise children to the age
where they might be of some value
and then have some other fellow
coax them away from him. His
plan for safeguarding his little
bucks, as he called them, was
very simple. 1t consisted of, first,
a change in working hours, so that
the life of the boy and girl on the
farm did not mean work from day
light until dark, and then
chores until bed time. He ascer-
tanned the working hours prevail
ing with some of the largest manu-
facturers and wholesalers of the
city and arranged his work on the
same time schedule. He then
started in to provide home amuse-
ments that would fill in the gap
and keep the young people busy.
Favorite expressions of his were,
never say don't" to a child; never
let it know that you see more than
one-tenth of the things that it does,
and always keep it busy during
every minute while it is awake.
His first move toward a place of
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
What AN ENORMOUS COW! Such am animal. YOU saw.

WHAT AN ENORMOUS COW! Such an animal, you say,
w never existed. You absolutely right. However if
all the cattle to be shown at the Minnesota State Fair Sept
to H. reduced to she would be big She
would furnish enough meat to fill sandwich for every
son in Minnesota and enough milk at milking wash
it down If all the sheep horses, and swine handled
in the same way what big animals they would form Every
thing at the Minnesota State Fair is conducted same
scale There to be forty county exhibits 20
of machinery immense amounts of butter cheese
and fruit and farm products. Art Smith, the aviator
is the leading amusement attraction in America tOday
Auto polo, music by dozen bands and orchestras big
automobile racing program the fire works. 245OO horse
racing program, all these and other features will thrill
visitor. ET'S GOi
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
NEWEST IN SCIENCE

The daily ration of Japanese sol.
dier in the field consists of three lit
tie bags Of rice and a bunch of dried
vegetables.
Both Americans and Chinese are ex-
perimenting in China with American
cotton seed with view to improving
the native cotton.
The bar which holds new metal
and cork bottle stopper in place car
ries corkscrew on its under side for
removing the cork.
An electric lamp and reflector for
inspecting the inside Of shoes in q
factory have been patented by a
Massachusetts inventor.
A simple wire loop to be fastened
to door iamb and locked around the
Gecks of two milk bottles to prevent
their theft has been patented.
Vienna has an automobile that can
be used as a fire engine. a street
sprinkler or sweeper, or simply as a
freight truck of six tons capacity.
An old idea in the history of tele-
phony has been revived by British
inventor who has patented a trans
mitter shaped like the human ear.
For touring automobilists there has
been invented a bed to be carried
under the top of a car and lowered
into position for use when desired.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
VWintofl

About twelve couple from Winton
gave house party at Tower last
Sunday, at the summer cottage of
]. ID. Murphy. The crowd left on
the high ball Saturday afternoon,
and brought with them eatables
enough to last week, so were not
wanting in this line of amusement.
AT Tower the boys rented a phono-
graph and brought to the cottage
with them, and dancing was en-
joyed to this music in the spacious
reception hall. They also chartered
boat to take them to and from
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
E|cO to Reopen

Manager Graves of the Elco
Theatre announces that the show
house will be open to the patrons
next Wednesday evening. The
place has been remodeled and re-
built and is now one of the most
up-to-date playhouses on the
ranges. A feature program will
be put on the first evening.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

the cottage, while canoes and row
boats were rented for use during
other times of the day. Those in
the party were: Misses Maude
and Nellie Whitten, Elvira and
Ethel Nelson, Florence Smith, Vir-
ginia McFadden, Nellie Hawley
Mabel McGee, Florence Fielder,
Helen Hurning, Mabel Gylland,
Bessie Lambert and Gladys and
Norine Simpson, and Messrs Hen
ming Nordlund, Harold Vince, A.
E. Johnson, Marion Green, Jack
White, Ed. Pipple, Perry Simpson,
Leo Kelley, Alex Whitten, Rex St.
Clair, Helmer Johnson and Alvin
and Leroy Schaefer. The crowd
returned Monday morning.
Mrs. Nj. c. Green is spending
the week visiting in Tower, where
she is camping at her sisters
cottage on Lake Vermilion.
Miss Meme Hegburg of St.
Cloud is visiting at the home of
Mrs. William Johnson.
Harry Stein left Monday for
Minneapolis where he will make
his future home. Mr.. Stein has
many friends here who regret his
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
AROUND THE CITIES

Philadelphia pulled off Davy Crock.
EFT stunt on the local electric light
company and prices came down.
Among the proposed reforms fea-
tured in Chicago is municipal laun.
Try. 1t will not be ready for the
springs cleanup of political linen
Salt Lake City has sent to coast
towns a police missionary commission
ed to get points on the best method of
installing the Bertillon system of Grim.
lnal Identification.
With motor truck equipment in its
street cleaning department Springfield,
o., in 1914, did third more work for
S18,278 than it did with horse-drawn
vehicles at cost of $4,000 in 1913.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
BRIEFS FROM BILLVILLE

Spring plowing is in order. A few
mules are left that didn't enlist for
the war.
We take the hopeful view, in that
We haven't yet had rain enough to
drown the memory of last years
roses.
When there isn't trouble enough In
this world you'll always find some dis
gruntled soul quite ready to whirl in
and make it.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

Ice Cream served in sanitary
manner at the Candy Kitchen
Adv.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
IN-sH0OTS

Too much credit has proved the
downfall of many.
Satan seldom collects pay in ad
vance, but he never neglects the
accounts at the wind-up.
The man really deserving of
sympathy never bewails the fact
that he has not had a square deal
The one who jumps from the di
vorce frying pan into the matri-
monial fire can never be accused
of cowardice.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

The average depth Of the sands on
che African deserts is from 80 to 40
feet.
There are 300 iron mines in opera
tfon in Sweden and 40 mines of other
.metals.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

The soil which will raise good crops
of wheat and hay and corn and cattle
is plumb sure, as we'll, to have its
most successful crop of railways and
factories and shops and homes
From McClary's Magazine.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

Shadows, your opinion to the con.
trary, perhaps, are the most consist.
emily cheerful of things; they never
come out but in the sunlight.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

Will someone kindly explain to US
why we don't call collins bury:
boxes?
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

The trouble with other peoples ex.
perience is not that it does not apply
to us, but that we do not apply to it.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

The columns of the MINER are open to the
public for the dicusson of affairs of a public
nature. Anything tending towards the personal
slanderous will not be published under any
condition. We invite communications of a
public nature and only request that you sign
your name-not necessarily for publication but
as guarantee of good faith. Write and get it to
this office not later than Thursday noon Editor.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

Your aspirations are not the prod
uct of your will; your will, and your
achievements, are the product of your
aspirations.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN

Miss Gladys Newman, an English
girl motorcyclist, has been detailed to
the Red Cross service in the French
war zone.
Owing to the shortage of funds
Cleveland, o., has been compelled to
dispense with the service of the only
female policeman in that city.
Miss Anna Pendleton Schenck and
Miss Marcia Mead, architects of New
York city, have been awarded first
prize by the City club Of Chicago for
the best plans submitted for an ideal
ritv center.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
Subscription So per Year.

Entered at the post Office at Ely. Mime
sofa as second class matter
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

What you would do effectively to
morrow must be planned today.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
M'CLARYGRAMS

Where there is lack of preparation
opportunity has no value.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

This paper is on file at 39-South 3rd street
Minneapolis. MINI. at the exhibit room of The
Immigration Commission. of The Northern
Minnesota Development Association"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20

Miss Meme Hegburg of St.
Cloud is visiting at the home of
Mrs. William Johnson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19
BIG NEW REALTY
DEVELOPMENT ON
THE WEST SHORE
Big Farm of Mccormick Estate
Marked Out Into
Building Lots

Another big real estate development
is promised for the West Shore.
According to an announcement made
this morning by Donald Mccormick.
president of the Dauphin Deposit
Trust Company the completion of the
engineers work a few days ago mark
ed the passing of one of the big farms
of the James Mccormick estate.
The farm, which contains 100 acres
of ground, is located just south of the
border of Lemoyne and extends south
ward, on both sides of the New Cum
berland car line. for a distance of
1000 feet. The tract has been cut up
into half-acre building plots by the
engineers and will be sold. Each lot,
on each side of the. car track, will
have a frontage of about 100 feet
tract and on these, too. many of the
lots will face. The plot extends from
a point close to the river to a line
500 feet west of the car line.
The passing of this farm will bring
New Cumberland and Lemoyne closer
together and when the new tract is
built up there will be only one farm
which will separate Lemoyne from the
northern end of Elkwood, which ad-
joins New Cumberland. There are
similar conditions existing at a num-
ber of other points along the West
Shore and with the passing of few
more years of continued progress,
there appears to be a likelihood of the
West Shore becoming one great town.
Continuous construction of new
homes i'm the vicinity of Washington
Heights has practically Joined that
community to Lemoyne. Between
Washington Heights and Camp Hill
is a very short distance. and accord
ing to plans it will not be long be-
fore farms in that section will be cut
up into lots for building purposes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19
Submarine Shells Ship
After it Stops While
Crew Jeers at Victims

Naples Nov. 10, 1910 p. M-(De-
layed in Transinission).
The official report of the investiga-
tion into the sinking of the Italian
steamship Ancona by submarine of
the TInisian coast on November z,
was sent to Thomas Nelson Page, the
American ambassador at Rome to-
night. The investigation reached the
conclusion that the submarine fired
n shell against the wireless apparatus
aboard the Ancona without any warn
ing. The captain brought the vessel
Immediately To u halt.
The submarine having hoisted the
Austrian flag the investigators found,
the Ancona Agas about to hoist the
Italian ensign, but the flag reached
only halfway up the mast when the
submarine launched "a torpedo which
struck the steamer amidships.
The captain of the Ancona, the ac-
county says ordered the Iifeboats low
cred but while this was being done
the submarine continued firing against
the steamers boats. Some of the boats
were pierced by shots obliging the
survivors to use their clothes to stop
up the holes. In the meanwhile, It
is alleged, those on board the sub
marine jeered at their victims.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19
NEW PEST PUTS
UPPER PAXTON IN
HYSTERICALSTATE
These Atropos Divinatoria,
Said Not to Disturb Humans,
Untrue to Species

Residents of Upper Paxton town
ship, Dauphin county. were in a hys-
terical state during. the past two weeks
owing to the discovery in the com
munity of hitherto unknown insect.
The social and religious life of inhabi-
tants in and around Killinger, have
been in an upheaval. For two weeks
the Methodist and Lutheran churches
and Granger's Hall at that place have
been closed owing to the fear of the
members that they would become in
tested.
The insects were first observed in
the house of Samuel Weaver and since
the discovery this family has been
stunned by the entire neighborhood.
Feeling deeply the charge that they
were responsible for the presence of
the pests in the neigh borhood, Mr..
Weaver appealed to the State Depart
ment of Health. An officer of the
Department made. an inspection and
secured various specimens which were
forwarded to the Academy of Natural
Science in Philadelphia for identifica-
ton. Word was To-Day received by
Commissioner of Health Dixon, that
they have been identified as the Afro
pos diyinatoria of the family Psocidae.
commonly known as the book louise,
but in no relation other than in name
to the human parasite. They are said
not to disturb human beings but
Weaver apparently has some ideas to
the contrary.
The samples of the lice were found
on the roof
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19
Four Women Overcome
by Gas Fumes in Church

Four women from Camp Hill and
Washington Heights narrowly escaped
being overcome by gas this morning
while preparing for the annual bazaar
and chicken supper given by the Trim
ity Lutheran Church, of Camp Hill.
They We're: Mrs. Charles Fl. Bishop.
Of Washington Heights: Mrs. U. G. Fry,
Mrs. Robert Haldeman and Mrs. w. TIL
Kendall, of Camp Hill.
A number of the women were making
preparations for the bazaar which wifi
be held this evening in the Camp Hill
fire engine house. They were worlSin q
in the basement at the time, and did
not notice the strong odor of gas which
was escaping from a leak in the pipes.
Soon the. four women became sick and
dizzy, and the other who were busy AZ
the time thought they were sufferine
from an attack of acute INDIGESTION,
DR.. II. C. Lawton, of Camp Hill was
called in. The women soon reEained
full consciousness after they were
taken upstairs i'm the fresh aiaf.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19
AUTOPSY UPON
BABY SUPPORTS
DOCTORS VIEW
Malformations of Chicago In
FAINT Doomed 1t to Life
of Anguish

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 19.-The autopsy
over Baby Bollinger. the defective in
fant who died after his mother and
the attending physician agreed not to
attempt to prolong life. was held late
yesterday by II. G. Reinhardt, coro-
ners physician, and w. d. McNally.
city chemist. Their conclusions are
said to have sustained previously ex-
pressed beliefs that the infant was
anguish and TO have justified DR.. II. ].
Haiselden, who allowed the child to
die when an operation might have
saved its life. --.f
The inquest before a jury of six
well-known physicians was continued
until 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The inquest Is really a trial of DIR.
Haiselden by his professional peers.
Six noted physicians took their places
In the jury box yesterday and listened
TO the testimony of DIR. Reinhardt, the
request an autopsy was performed un-
der their eyes. DR.. Reinhardt said
after he had given his testimony that
he had made discoveries.
Case Worse Than Supposed
I'VE found the child was even more
de1ecuVe tnan Dr FialSelden had
said" announced Dr. Reinhardt.
The men sitting on the jury were
DIR. John f. Godlen, surgeon at Mercy
Hospital, sent as substitute for Dr.
John B. Murphy DIR. Arthur Rankin,
professor lof anatomy at Loyola Uni
versity: DR.. Howard Chislett, dean of
the Hahnemann Medical College: DR.
d. A. X. Steel. dean of physiology at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of the University of Illinois; DIR. Henry
+. Lewis. obstetrician OF Cook County
Hospital, and DR.. Ludwig Hektoen,
professor of pathology in the Rush
Medical College of the University of
Chicago.
When the result of the autopsy per-
formed by DR.. Reinhardt was read to
the jury it revealed that the Bollinger
infant had come into the world suf-
fering the following maIformations
and defects: ,l
There was paralysis on the left side
from head to foot On the right side
the outer ear was formed. but il lacked
the drum, and the child would have
been deaf. There was no ear on tho
left side. On the right side there was
no neck. the skin growing from the
cheek TO the shoulderblade. There
were curvature of the spine and
hemorrhage of the spinal canal.
OF tho last trouhle-hemorrhag of
the spine-a score of physicians said
IL would have caused complete paraly-
sis and would have resulted in death
even had there been no other trouble.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19
Harrisburg Woman Is
Nominated For Secretary
of Suffrage Association

Philadelphia, Nov 19-The state
convention of, the Pennsylvania Woman
Suffrage Association will be held I'm
this city, November 80, when the new
committee. covering every office in the
association. will be voted upon. Miss
Helen G. Clark, of Harrisburg has
been nominated for the office of secre-
tary. The other nominations are as
follows:
President, Mrs. George B. Orlady,
OF Huntingdon; first vice-president,
Mrs. John o. Miller. Pittsburgh sec
ond president, Miss NJ. Carey
Thomas, Bryn Mawr: third vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. L. L. Smith, STAFFORD;
fourth president, Mrs. C. e. Kier-
nan. Somerset; fifth vice. president.
Mrs. James P. Rogers. Reading; sixth
vice-president. Mrs. IT. II. Harvey,
Wilkes Barre; treasurer, Mrs p. F.
Allen. Williamsport.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19
Woman Novelist Takes
Poison When Judgment
Is Pronounced by Court
By Associated Press

London. Nov. 19.-"My lord, I told
you you were trying a woman for her
life; have taken enough poison to
kill five people, was the dramatic ex
clamation made by the weIl-known
novelist, Miss Annesley Kenealy, as she
threw upon the floor a bottle the con-
tents of which she had just swallowed
on hearing the court pronounce judg.
ment against her.
Miss Keneaiy Immediately collapsed
and was carried to the emergency
ward of the courthouse. Later she was
removed to the hospital, where the
doctors believe she has a chance to re-
cover. Her suit. which has been be-
fore the court for some days, was a
claim for damages against a whole
sale book distributing firm for alleged
false and malicious statements de-
famatory of her book.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19
Crying Need For New High
School Finds Committee

The crying need of new High
school to accommodate the overflow
which is taxing the present building
to tine utmost, is becoming more and
mittee representing the Rotary Club.
composed of Professor Il. j. Decevee,
chairman. c. C. Herman, the Rev. 5.
Winfield Herman and John w. Phil
lips. This committee visited Central
High school on an investigation tour
yesterday, and are unanimous in their
opinion that the matter OF the erec-
ton of a new High school should be
taken before the people at the earliest
opportunity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-19

New York, Nov. 19.-High gales ac-
companied by rains swept over New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
the New England States to-day, seri-
ously interfering with telegraphic
communication in many places and
endangering shipping along the coast.
Conditions in these states. termed
the most unusual in many years" by
the Weather Bureau, were created by
heavy storm moving in a north
westerly direction up the coast and
another storm of almost equal inten-
sity moving east and slightly north
from the Ohio valley. The Weather
Bureau thought the two storms would
meet over the New England States or
the Great Lakes.
As these two storms moved toward
New England low pressure area eX-
tending from Southern Pennsylvania
TO Maine was created early to-day. At
New York city the wind at s a. m.
had velocity of between sixty and
sixty-five miles an hour. Similar heavy
winds were reported from various
points over the low pressure area.
Heavy gales ragged over the Atlantic
from Jacksonville, Fla, to Eastport,
Maine, but storm warnings had been
displayed since late yesterday, and
with the exception of the Norwegian
bark Killena, which was driven
aground near Brunswick. Ga, IL was
thought coastwise shipping had taken
refuge before the storm had reached
its maximum. One or two westbound
transatlantic liners were reported to
have encountered the gales off the
coast.
Heavy storm conditions were also
reported to prevail to-day over parts
of Illinois and Indiana. virtually all
of Ohio and we'll into Michigan. While
the rainfall at most points was COM
paratively light, the velocity of tho
wind was in all cases high.