The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-29
MINNESOTA NEWS
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Women at the Virginia & Rainy
Lake Lumber company's plant, recent
~ employed to take the places of en-
listed men, are making good, accord
Ing to S. ]. Cusson, general superin-
tendent.
Stlllwater's seventh annual Chautau-
qua will open here with a program in
Guiding talks and entertainments by
Judge Ben Lindsey, Gypsy Smith, Sar-
an Tyson Rorer and Representative
Abercrombie of Alabama.
First steps to relieve congestion of
slackers in st. Louis county were TAX
en- by sheriffs' forces of St. Louis and
ltasca counties, when thirty men, held
for lodging registration, were removed
from Virginia to Grand Rapids.
Fergus Falls on June 25, had over
subscribed its Red Cross fund allot-
ment $4,000, and contributions con-
tlnued to pour in. The citys allotment
was $1,000. Campaign leaders expect
ed the total to go well over the $1O,-
600 mark.
w. T. Coe and P. ]. Youngdahl of
Minneapolis, representing milling
concern that produces whole wheat
flour, are here attempting to get the
War department to change the army
regulation on bread so whole wheat
flour may be used.
Brewery officials of Duluth called in
to conference by Sheriff Meining have
pledged their support to the require
ments of the Order No. s, issued by
the State Public Safety Commission
regulating the sale and disposition of
liquor in Minnesota during the war.
Charles E. LamLerton, Redwood
Falls transfer man and garage owner,
has been shot and instantly killed
here. His alleged slayer, William
Rosendahl, formerly black smith in
Lamberton's employ, and now an au.
tomobile agent, is under arrest.
The question of voting st. Louis
county, Minnesota, dry, will be sub.
mitted to the voters Monday, Sep.
TENDER 10, under the county option
law, according to plans which took
shape when temporary dry county
committee was completed, and State
Senator Richard Jones of Duluth was
engaged to manage the campaign.
A threatening letter received by
Frank Anderson of Boy River, near
Leech lake in Cass county, has been
forwarded to Commissioner Carlos Av.
cry of the state game and fish depart
ment and turned over to the Federal
postofice inspectors for investigation.
Anderson is said to have been aiding
In prosecution of game law violators.
Ray P. Speer of st. Paul, publicity
manager of the American Association
of Fairs and Expeditions, has received
q telegram from Herbert G. Hoover,
food controller, calling him to Wash.
ington for a conference on the part
of food training camps, planned in con-
nection with the fairs, will play in the
food conservation campaign of the ma.
ton.
Construction work on Rochester,
municipal owned water power dam, the
first public owned hydro-electrie plant
in the state, is under way at top
speed at the dam site. A crew of over
100 laborers and several carloads OF
excavating and construction machin.
cry already have arrived at the site
which is about twelve miles northwest
of Rochester on the Zumbro river.
Under authority given by the meas.
ure passed by the City council, pro
hibiting unpatriotic demonstrations by
professional agitators, Elizabeth Cur
ley Flynn, of New York city, who
recently arrived in Duluth, was ar.
rested. The police then raided Indus
trial Workers of the World headquar.
tiers here, arresting nine men and a
woman, and closing the headquarters
A meeting Of committees from North
Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota
to perfect the drainage district has
been held in Breckenridge. The dele.
gates considered further steps in the
Red River reclamation proceedings
The engineering department of the
North Dakota state commission has
been put in charge of organizing dis.
tricts, the latest of which was organ.
lied at Wheaton, MINI.
John S. Johnson, of Minneapolis,
was elected president of the Mime
sofa Elks in the closing business ses.
sion of the state body here. John
Kelly Of Crookston, was elected vice
president; F. J. Thompson of Manka.
to, second vice president; Fred Schaf.
fer, of Winona, trustee for three
years; D. D. McEachin, of Hibbing,
treasurer, and R. F. Eldridge of st.
Paul, secretary. The new constitu.
ton as prepared by the grand lodge
officials at st. Louis was adopted.
Three boxcars were loaded with
clamshells in Fairfax last week, the
first of large shipment which will
be made this year from hauls made
in the Minnesota river. Shells bring
$32 ton. The bulk of the shells are
shipped to button factories in Iowa.
Waters of the Root river had sub.
sided sufficiently at Lanesboro and
Preston for train service to be re-
sumed on the southern Minnesota
branch of the Milwaukee road. Sc.
rious danger now is believed past from
the high water which threatened crops
along the stream following near
cloudburst.
The convention of the Minnesota
Live Stock Breeders association was
crowded with meetings and addresses.
c. H. Frederickson of Clements talked
on "use Of farm pastures" DR.. c. w.
Gay of the University farm, st. Paul,
and w. F. Shilling of Mortified also