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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-06
Base ball Rules In Need of Doctor
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Williams Yields s Runs Per Game

lost twenty In "A row. only the end NJ the
season stopped George, OF boy, from add
Ing to his ingIorious string.
The one-time Yankee started off fairly
we'll and soon had record Of four game.
won In seven contests, giving him an
average OF $40, Right there George
halted on the winning pathway and then
detoured He worked In nine more AMI
lost them ali, He was prepared TO add
more losses to his string when the stage
hands Sdng down the October curtain
Apd they blams Joe Tinker for the
complete failure OF the Cubs.
Yielded Eight nuns Per Game.
Williams Is his name. He worked In
ten games for the 1915 Athletics And
the records show that he yielded nearly
eight runs per combat. He still lives.
That's because patient. long suffering
Connie Mack was his boss. But what do
YOU thiak would have been his fate II
George StaliinGs or Johnny McGraw OF
Fieldsr Jones had been supervising his
destiDy7
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-06

Leaving aside the morality OF the pres-
ent argument. can you imagine Mr.. Dar-
cy re-enterinS Australia and Mr.. Welsh
re-enterins England about the same timc
the troops return homo and being well
coined ~ national heroes for the fame
they have achieved In America Or
isn't your masination quite that elastic, a.,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an ex-
animation for the County of Saint
Louis, Minnesota. to be held at
Ely at l P. NJ, on July IA, 1917,
to fill the position of rural carrier
at Embarrass, and vacancies that
may later occur on rural routes
from other post Offices in the above
mentioned counties. The ex-
animation will be open only to
male citizens who are actually
domiciled in the territory of a
post Office in the county and who
meet the other requirements set
forth in Form No. 1877. This
form and application blanks may
be obtained from the Offices men
toned above or from the United
States Civil Service Commission at
Washington, D. G. Applications
should be forwarded to the Com
mission at Washington at the
earliest practicable date. The ex-
aminations will be in charge of
Miss Ellen Nelson of the Ely post
Office force.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
FOR RECRUITS
Drive for Recruits for Third
Regiment Being Made.

"The Sieur du L'Hut Battal-
ions. +"
The above is the name that will
be used by the Third Minnesota
infantry, which will 60 to France.
The new name suggestion has been
warmly approved by the officers
and others. The infantry's new
name is in honor Of the great ex-
plorer, who made so many sacri-
fees in his work.
The advantages of joining the
Third Minnesota infantry at once
are well set forth in the follow
ing, which is part of a letter
sent by Duluth boosters for the
new recruiting "drive."
Dear Sir:
Believing that printers ink"
points the way the flag is to fol-
low, in this country at least, Col.
Hubert Eva, commanding the
Third Minnesota Infantry and
Capt. Ned Green, U. S. Army re-
cruiting officer, have asked the
editors Of the Duluth recruiting
district, which includes your
town, to help them to put this
district at the head Of all parts
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
Red Cross Work

A meeting of The Council of
Defence and Red Cross Society
was called on Thursday afternoon
at the City hall to adopt plans of
raising funds to carry on the Red
Cross work. The president of the
United States has asked that the
United States raise 500, 900 900,
Ely's allotment being 5000.
The rueeting was called to order
by DR.. G. T. Ayers, who outlined
the object of the same and i'm
pressing each individual with the
seriousness of the war and the i'm
perative need of doing his or her
share toward this worthy cause.
After general discussion, the
following committees were ap-
pointed to carry on the work.
Miss Kane, Pres. of the Red Cross,
to appoint her assistants.
Committee to solicit the mines:
Supt. Chas. Trezona, w. A. Nc
Curdy and w. E. Gowling.
A volunteer committee to visit
the business houses consists of the
following: Jas. Moonan, chair
man; DR.. G. T. Ayres, Ed. Jones,
H. E. White, U. S. McMahan
and Geo. L. Brozich.
A motion was made that mass
meeting be called for Wednesday
evening for the purpose of ex-
planning more fully the object of
the contribution and that speakers
of the several nationalities and a
speaker from out of town be
secured to address the meeting.
The campaign will embrace the
whole city and everyone will be
asked to give to the great cause
and to which everyone should give.
The smallest mite will be accepted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15

i'm getting men for the army and
state troops, who will not be sup
piled by the draft.
We want to put northeastern
and north central Minnesota at
the head of all the lists of states
to fill their quota. Seven men
out of every thousand of the pop
ulation are needed-dating the
number from April 16. You can
work out the number needed
from your town by the figure of
seven per thousand.
Men ~hC tn..;t with the state
troops will go to war in company
with their friends, a great big adj
vantage. Men who enlist in the
regular army can choose the
branch of the service they like
best. But men who are drafted
go into any regiment and any
branch the drafting officers think
they should go without regard to
the drafted mans wishes or pre-
ferences.
Daniel Greysolon du L'Hut
was the biggest Frenchman
among all the explorers who
came to this country and it was
largely through his indominable
will, clinging to a great ideal and
logged persistence that this sec
ton was redeemed from prime.
val forest. He played square
with the Indians. He gave up his
home, his sweetheart and made
the opening up of this country a
career. He gained nothing by it
except the fame that has come to
his memory. He was reviled by
the commercial fur trading ex-
plorers who resented his fair
treatment of the Indians.
We want to Undue the Third
Minnesota with something of the
spirit OF this great man and for
that reason we are calling the
regiment, "The Sieur du L'Hut
battalion and want it to carry
back to France some of the spirit
OF that great man. We have
made "The Marseillaise" the
regimental hymn and marching
song. We want to get that spirit
and that fact hammered into the
people in this recruiting cam
paign. That these men are carry
ing back to France the spirit to
do for the native land of du L.
Hut what he did for this country
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
Frommelt. Little Falls.

FIOuluuc1C, LlGIlC Il dllo.
Lincoln School-Alpha Stan
ley, Kimball; Adelaide zanzibar
com, Ely; Helen Wheaton, Elk
River; Florence Olsen, 21S, W.
7th ST., Duluth; Mabelle Myron,
Glenwood; Florence Schallern,
Little Falls; Dollie Dennis, Ham
mond, Wis; Rose Buckley, Du-
luth.
Pioneer School-Mae Coughlin,
GAINESVILLE; Agnes Hobe, 1903
18th ST., Superior, Wis; Agnes
Proctor, Arcadia, Wis.,; Verna
Carpenter, Sank Rapids; Ruth
Dindell, Crookston; Lois Ander-
son, Marinette, Wis.
Winton School-Arthur Selke,
Cold Springs; Kathryn Johns,
1886 Nelson Ave-, st. Paul; Julia
Ross, st. Cloud; Gladys Lalley,
Berlin, Wis.,; Pearl Hagen, Vir-
ginia; Rebecca Olson, Spicer.
Savoy School-Alice Brown,
Ely; Ella Carlson, Moose Lake.
White Iron School-Fred Kel-
ly, Little Falls; Mabyn Kelly,
Little Falls.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
SCHOOL ELECTIONS
New Law Concerning Candidates
for Election

Those who have noted the hap
hazard system of voting at school
elections when voters came drift
ing up to the polls without know
ing who to cast a ballot for be-
cause there was no public infor-
nation as to candidates will be
glad to know that this condition
is remedied by the last legisla-
ture. The new law is an impor-
tant Improvement on the old law
under which a few voters at a
quiet election might appear at
the last minute and unopposed
dictate the election of their can
didates without. regard to their
fitness for attending to the well
fare of the school district.
From now on any man or swo-
man desiring to be a candidate
for any school district position
must, not more than thirty days
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
TEACHERS Leave
Instructors Leave for Homes
Friday and Saturday

The annual picnic Friday at
Sandy Point wound up the exer.
cises and festivities of the School
District No. II, and that evening
and the following day the VA
rious instructors departed for
their homes. Next year there
wilp be several changes in the
faculty as it is understood that
several will not return.
Following is complete list Of
the names and homes of the diff
ferent instructors
High School-W. E. Englund,
Ely; Mary S. Cotter, Austin !;
Julius Anderson, Valley Springs,
Iowa; Ivy Green, Mora; Lillian
Becker, Lake Nebagamon, Wis. !;
Jessie Abbott, Fremont A., Min
neapolis; Therese GUIDE, MINI. A.
Duluth; Rose A. Fortier, Little
Falls; c. l.. Mergenthaler, Fos-
toria, Ohio; H. A. Shepard, Ely;
Thos. j. Murn, Parent; c. M.
Hewitt, Ely; Mary May Miller,
Fargo, N. D.; Josephine Sven.
son, Raymond A., st. Paul; Anna
Keefe, S. 21st St., Omaha; Eliza
Batter, Royalton.
Washington School,. w.
Mokros, Ely; Esther Englund,
Jordan; Bess X. Mcdonald, Wa
tersmeet, Mich; Cecilia Corey,
Elk River; Evan Ryan, Smiths
Mills; Ruth Demulling, River
Falls, Wis; Julia Erickson, Fer
tile; Viola Richie, Annandale;
Ina Campbell, Ellsworth, Wis;
Katherine Ellsworth, Adrian;
Charlotte Gianotti, Ely; Lavina
Fouks, New Richmond, Wis; Car.
RE McDougall, Royalton; Ottelia
Keough, Brainerd; Ella Kirch-
gessner, Staples; Katherine
Chance, Little Falls; Selma Mel
son, Wells; Bertha Grundman,
Pella, Iowa; Mary R. Erb, Gil
bert; Emma Goodmanson, Little
Falls; L. Fay Doten, Little Falls;
Mabel Smith, Brainerd; Millicent
Roskilly, Virginia; Helena Horo,
vitz, Lidgerwood, N. D.; Adeline
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
y. MINNESOTA. FRIDAY. JUNE Is. 1917.


nor less than IL days before cleo
ton, file with the clerk of the dis
trict an application to have his
or her name placed on the ballot.
Or, if it is a case of the office
seeking the man, five voters Of
the district may file an applica-
ton for and on behalf of any
voter they desire to be a candid
ate. The clerk will then prepare
ballots at the expense Of the dis
trict with blank squares opposite
the names of candidates for
marking in crosses as at general
elections.
The law does not apply to dis
tric's having only one teacher.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
MINING AND
GARDENING
Government Urges Mining Com
panIes to Encourage Grow.
Ing Of Vegetables.

Following is a copy of letter
prepared by Franklin H. Lane,
secretary of of the interior, cop
les of which have been sent to
every mining company in the
country by the Bureau of Mines !:
ct has come to my attention
that certain of the mining COM
panies throughout the United
States have officially taken up for
their employees, the wives of en-
ployes, and children, plans for
the growing of vegetables in the
yards of the workers and even on
vacant land owned by the com
panies. Some Of the companies
have even gone to the extent Of
supplying, either free or at cost,
fertilizer and seeds, and also
made provision for the blowing of
the ground at actual cost. In
other instances the companies
have offered prizes for the best
gardens of $25 for the first; SIS
for the second; $40 for the third.
and a number of minor prizes,
with the result that a great
amount of patriotic enthusiasm
has been aroused.
Il have been so impressed with
the movement, modest as it us at
the present, that l feel it to be
my patriotic duty to urge upon
all mining companies, where the
conditions are favorable, to start
some similar plan that would i'm
the end result in a vast increase
in the amout of food products
raised during this time of ma
tional emergency.
War today is as much a mat
ter of food supplies as actual
fighting in the trenches. The man
or woman or child who raises
enough vegetables this summer to
feed the family places at the dis
posal Of the men at the front
fighting for world democracy
just that much food.
"The growing of these vegeta-
bles has the additional yirtue of
giving healthful outdoor exercise
to the people and for their con.
sumption vegetables which are
fresh. Back of all this you are
helping to maintain the soldiers
and the less fortunate populations
of the world that have been
thrown out of their natural or
derby life by the encroachment of
the war upon their properties.
"The department of agriculture
is enthusiastically in favor of this
movement and has prepared for
the use of those interested Far
mers' Bulletin 255, "The Home
Vegetable Garden" which will
be sent to anyone who makes ap-
plication. This pamphlet has al
ready proved of valuable assist
ance to those engaged lin making
a garden. | take pleasure in send
ing to you under separate cover
a copy Of the pamphlet, so that
you may see it's value in this
work.
ct is suggested that those who
join in this garden movement
shall place in their gardens an
American flag as a reminder that
he who serves his country in this
capacity serves the flag"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
New Saloon Order

The order that saloons should
not be opened before 8 o'clock a.
m. and after 10 p. m. was put into
effect in this city Monday even
ing.
This new order clips four hours
off the business day of the sa-
looms. The order also says that
there will be no more beer sold to
the ''blind pigs Of the location.
BY enforcing the "pig' order the
licensed and regulated saloon will
surely profit thereby.
Included in this edict was an
order making it criminal Of
Tense for women to enter any
place where Intoxicating liquors
are sold.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15
Card Of Thanks

We wish to thank our many
friends of Winton and Tower for
their kindness and beautiful floral
offerings during the sudden death
of our beloved son and brother,
George Strand.
MR.. AND MRS. AXEL STRAND
AND FAMILY.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-15

Cyrille Fortier was in the city
from Duluth several days this week
on business.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-16
SECRET SERVICE MEN
CAPTURE PRO GERMANS

Government secret service men
have been busy in the Northwest
the past week with the result that z
large number of well-known Ger
man sympathizers nave been taken
into custody and will later be sent
TO intern camps until the close of the
war. 1t is undoubtedly true thai
hundreds of German agents ana
thousands of dollars of German mon
ey are at work on the Pacific Coast
stirring up strife among laborins
men who are engaged in turning ou,
war products for Uncle Sam. They
have met with lot of success and
the fact that dozens of important in
iustries are being crippled on acc
cunt of strikes is traceable direct tt
German influence. In Seattle hun
dreds of men have been induced tt
resist conscription, due largely t.
German propaganda. Government
agents have been slow to take steps
against German sympathizers and
agents, but the roundup has now
started and it is stated that it will
continue until there has been tho
rough cleaning out of these people.
at least so far as the Pacific Coast
is concerned.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-16
LIBERTY LOAN BONDS
ARE PREFERRED STOCK

I.ikening the United States to a
great corporation with more than a
hundred million stock holders and
with capital stock and resources of
more than two hundred and fifty
billions of dollars, and an annual
income of fifty billions of dollars
each American citizen is stock
holder in this great corporation.
Even those whose only assets are
their earning capacity own shares
in our public domain and property
and are working on profit sharing
basis with vote and voice in the
management of the corporation and
with the right to acquire more stock
at any time.
A Liberty Loan Bond may be Ii
kened to a share of preferred stock
in this gigantic corporation. Like
preferred stock in other corpor-
ations it may not return, at times, so
large dividend as common stock,
but the dividend from it is certain
and sure. 1t is stock that pays 3R
per cent dividend but the stock and
dividend cannot be taxed and while
crop failures may decrease the farm
er's dividend from his land some
years to less than nothing, and var
ious causes may lessen or destroy
dividends from all other sorts of
property, the dividend from the Lib
erty Loan Bond is certain and sure,
subject to no failure or diminution.
The owner of Liberty Loan Bond
holds written tangible evidence OF
being a preferred stock holder in the
United States, the greatest, the most
glorious, the most honorable and the
most successful corporation in the
world. He holds the certificate OF
being a citizen willing to support
his government and TO lend money
| to his country when it needs it and
calls for it.
There is honor in being the owner
of a Liberty Loan Bond as well as
profit.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-16

the food ration without disturbing
the standard of quality of the flour
now in use.
The American public is not large
consumer of either rye or of corn
flour, yet both of these could be
somewhat added 20 the ration, and
if the total addition of corn and rye
and the coarse by-products and
wheat milling were sufficient to Off
set the bread consumption of the A
merican family one day in the week,
it would mean the addition of nearly
100,0O0,000. bushels of wheat added
to the available export volume, and
this would narrow down the margin
of absolute requirement on the part
of our allies to approximately 100,-
100000 bushels-a gap that could
be filled in large measures by wheat
substitutes.
That it is not impossible to bridge
this gap is made clear by the fact
that according to the best informati-
on at hand the current years per
capita consumption is more nearly
five bushels than six, and if America
can maintain itself for the period
of the war on the same per capita
basis the deficiency in Allied supply
nearly if not entirely disappears.
Consequently, as view it, the sit
uation is serious but not alarming
The thing we must first do is to
grasp firmly in our minds the essen
tial fact that the feeding of the ar
mics and the munition workers of
our western allies is our first patri-
otic duty, and that second only to
this is the duty of assuring an equit-
able distribution of bread through
out the entire allied group.
American Review of Reviews.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-16
COULEE CITY SCHOOLS WILL
OPEN SEPTEMBER TENTH
Record Breaking Attendance Expected in
Spite Of Unfavorable Conditions
New Branches Added.

The Coulee City Schools will open
Monday, September 10th with a COM
plete corpse of teachers for both
high school and grades. In spite of
unfavorable crop conditions and un-
certain international affairs, the au-
thorities look for the largest attend
ance in the history of the school.
Owing to the increase in population
of the city the attendance in the
grades last year was far in advance
of any previous year and with the
large class which received their
eighth grade diplomas last spring
and the uniformly large classes in
the high school record breaking
attendance is almost assured. Com
munity life in Coulee is ideal and the
best influences surround the pupils,
who find few distractions of an evil
nature. This coupled with the in
fluence of competent, Christian, in
structors will insure ideal conditions
fo those attending school here. Miss
Grace Wilson, the principal, an
nounces that all courses offered in
the past will be continued with the
addition of regular course in Music
and art which will be presented in
accordance with the high standard
of the school. An attempt will be
made to standardize the courses i'll
agriculture, manual training and do
mestic science so that there will be
complete and separate course of
work for each year and that by con-
tinuing in the course the pupil will
not be taking over some of the work
he has had. These courses will be
taught as usual to both the high
school and seventh and eighth
grades. Special attention will be
given to Oratory and Debate in or
der to keep up with the present high
school standard in these lines.
Basket ball will be re-instated and
also some form of gymnasium work
Prospective students are invited to
correspond with the principal who
will be glad to assist them in any
way possible.
The Coulee City School which is
on the accredited list offers COM
plete course in the following branch
es: Agriculture, Manual Training,
Music and Art, Domestic Science,
English, History, Latin, German, and
Economics.
The course offers special training
in Oratory and debate. Graduates
from the Coulee City High School
may enter any of the higher edu-
cational institutions of the state.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-16
SPOKANE SHOE MERCHANT
TO MANAGE APPLE SHOW

SPOKANE, Aug, 15.-Does the re-
tail shoe business equip man to be
manager of an Apple show? Is there
any analogy between selling leather
footwear to the public and putting
on an exhibition of red-cheeked
pippins?
Whatever the answer may be the
public will have an opportunity to
Judge for itself when the Tenth
National Apple show opens its doors
in Spokane, November 10 with Jake
Hill, shoe merchant as president
of the organization.
Mr.. Hill in accepting the office
made a stipulation that two other
men who knew nothing more about
apples than he did be chosen as an
executive board ]. D. Sherwood,
clubman and owner of the Sherwood
building, was named, also T. H. He
bert of the Kemp and Hebert depart
ment store. About twenty five other
men chosen among apple growers
and shippers will act as an advisory
committee, directing the affairs OF
the exhibition.
The aim of the show is to be more
educational than ever, following out
the lines suggested by food admins
TRAITOR Herbert Hoover who has said
that the value of the apple as food
product and its saving in the pre-
pared form is more essential this
year that any time in the nations
history.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-16
MAY HAVE AVIATION
CAMP AT SPOKANE.

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 15.-A Wig
orous effort is being made to secure
the location of government avi-
alton camp at Spokane. For the past
three weeks an energetic committee
has been visiting available sites and
securing data such as the govern
ment requires in making its select
ion. The committee believes it has
a good chance to make showing be-
cause of the large number of loca-
tions and the geographical situation
Of the city. Many locations have
been offered but the committee has
kept in mind the governments re-
quirement as to the size and access
iSility and now have about a dozen
proposals to lay before the govern
ment. The government requires at
least so acres of ground and prefers
an inland city with favorable climat-
ic conditions. Level ground is de-
sirable.
]. c. Ralston, formerly city engin-
eer, has gone to Washington, to pre-
sent the matter to the war depart
ment officials with the assistance of
Senators Poindexter and Jones who
have promised to give all aid in
their power. The financing of the
preliminary work and including all
the surveying done and the expenses
Of Mr.. Ralston are being bourne by
general subscription in Spokane.
The establishment of govern
inent aviation camp would be big
advertising feature for the whole In
land Empire, drawing an unusual
amount of the highest class publicity
besides giving employment to an
army of skilled mechanics.