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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Lambert ac-
companied by Misses Brinkman
and Wertz and Messrs. Hussey
and Rose, motored to Chisholm
Sunday to witness the ball game
between Chisholm and Iibbing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

In another column will be found
a time table of the D. & I. R. rail-
road. This table will be kept up
to date and the patrons of the road
by looking at the Miner can always
keep up on the time of arrival and
departure of trains.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

The city council met Tuesday
evening and transacted consider
able business. The meeting was
adjourned until Wednesday after
noon when the tax levy came up
for discussion and action.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Mrs. Ella Hornibrook of New
York returned to Tower yesterday
after few days visit with Mrs. J.
Goldsworthy in this city. Mrs.
Hornibrook formerly resided at
Tower and is known by many in
this CITY.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

The concert and ball given Fri
day evening at the Opera House by
the. Troubadors was we'll attended
and enjoyed. Miss Edith Ellefsen
was the sponsor for the entertain
lment and ball. The Troubadors
will furnish the music for the ball
at Winton tomorrow night.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Gus Kileen of the Section 80
Mining company returned Monday
from three weeks visit spent with
relatives and friends in the southern
part of the state and the Twin
Cities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Hibbing won the deciding game
of the series Monday from Chisholm
in the range championship contest
and Hibbing was awarded the pen
nant.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Elmer Lindbeck left Wednesday
morning for Phoenix, Arizona,
where he has secured a position
Mrs. Lindbeck preceded him to
Arizona two weeks ago. Many
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Lindbeck
wish them success in their new
home,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Peter Western cashier of the
State Bank at Chisholm is in the
city this week on visit with his
mother and sister. Mr.. Western
has been certified as member of
the National army and will leave
with the next contingent for Camp
Dodge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

The Modern Samaritans will
initiate large class at the meeting
next Wednesday evening. Several
of the Grand Lodge officers will be
present. All members are request
ed to be there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

This morning began to look like
winter. Snow was falling rapidly
but it did not remain long after
striking the ground. Snow at this
time would raise havoc with large
number of garden patches as many
have as yet not dug their potatoes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

$1,000 up to $4,000 Coats for
Ladies and Misses at Berglund Bros.
at S.. 40. Call Monday and take
your pick.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

See the Coats for Ladies and
Misses at Berglund Bros. $40 to
$50 Coats at $40. Sale starts
Monday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Don't forget the food sale by the
Ladies of the Presbyterian church
at James Drug store, Saturday
afternoon, Oct. E.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

For SALE will sell my bust.
ness property, suitable for office OF
other business. Now being &C.
cupied as a barber shop. Good
location. Wish to sell at once as !
intend to make my home on my
farm. FRANK CHURCH. 1O-5
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

The address by John E. Porthan
on The Duty of the Alien" at
the Elco Wednesday evening was
we'll received. Mr.. Porthan was
one of the speaker in the Four
Minute Programs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

A. A. Sheridan with Co. c of
the Fourth regiment stationed at
Duluth was in the city for a visit
Saturday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

See the Coats for Ladies and
Misses at Berglund Bros. $40 to
$50 Coats at $5.49. Sale starts
Monday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Commissioner Grant McMa har
returned Saturday from Manistee,
Mich. where he had been on a
visit with his sister.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Erchu1 re-
turned Monday from a visit with
friends and relatives on the Mesaba
range.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

$1,000 up to $4,000 Coats fol
Ladies and Misses at Berg1und Bros
at SIS. 40. Call Monday and take
your pick.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Hugo Swenson of Duluth is in
the city this week in the interests
of the Modern Sam aritans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Read the ads in the Miner and
keep in touch with the progressive
merchants that advertise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

$1,000 up to $1,000 Coats for
Ladies and Misses at Berglund
Bros. at $40. Call Monday and
take your pick.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Singer Sewing Machine for Sale:
Price S25. Practically new. In
quire of Miss Weber at Winton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Matt Strukel and Miss Anna
Terlip secured license to marry
yesterday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Mary Pickford at the Elco next
Wednesday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

The Elco has the program of fea-
lures in another column and it will
pay you to look them over.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

DR.. and Mrs. o. w. Parker leave
today for months trip in the east
and south.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

DR.. Wells and family of
Rochester who are spending some
time at the Brozich cottage on
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

A meeting of the Eastern Stars
will be held Monday evening, Oct
Sth.
EDITH GALLAGHER, Asst Secy
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Furnished room for rent. In
quire of MRS. L. w. PHILLIPS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Palo, Monday, a son.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald
Cowling, Wednesday, a son.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05
THE CHURCHES,

CATHOLIC CHURCH:-First Mass at $3.50
with Slovenic Sermon. High Mass at 1880
with English Sermon. Vespers and Ser
mon at 1880. Children's Catechism at 9. m.
every Saturday.
Mons. Jos. f. Bun PARISH PRIEST.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

Fatty Arbuckle every "Wednesday
at the Elco.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05

your pick
The Washington times., 1917-01-01
Nineteen sixteen.

Nineteen Sixteen.
With small regrets we bid goodby
To this Improbable year:
Calmly we watch it droop and die,
And cannot squeeze a single tear!
To this one journey OF our sphere
Around its orbit in the sky,
We turn our backs, and as We sneer
With small regrets, we say Good
fby!"
Year when all prices scared SO high
That we could buy no beef nor
Why should we give a parting sigh
To this Improbable year?
They're raised the price OF goods and
gear,
They've even raised the price of pie!
Since only thus we hold it dear"
Calmly we watch it droop and die.
Though sentimentally we try
To let some show of grief appear
We hold an onion to the eye,
And cannot squeeze a single tear!
Farewell! Good night! Take wings
and fly!
At any rate, get out of here!
New hope with the New Year draws
nigh
We see the end of your career
With small regrets!
Ted Robinson. in Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01

good will be accomplished by the
early consideration of possibilities
and preliminaries. The mere CONVEX
sation about peace inevitably inspires
cheer; it is a good habit; it pro-
notes a proper mental attitude,
places people and peoples in a frame
at least receptive.
For America the old year was in
deed one to be remembered with
double gratitude. 1t was kind in
leaving US out of the war; generous
in showering its bounties, with
drawn from well-nigh all the rest of
mankind, upon us. The new year
opens with strange mixture of por-
tents; the oracles would have found
the signs most difficult of interpre-
tation. There is more than a little
ground for the fear that 1917 will
either bring peace to the world, or
war to US; wherefore especial de-
voutness will associate with the wish
that peace may be the great boon
which the new year may bring.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01

This is the first day of the New
Year. That is what we call it; but
it is really an arbitrary designation
and was so decreed by William the
Conqueror 1876 years ago. 1t was not
until 100 that Germany, Sweden,
and Denmark, and not until l75l
that England, accepted the first OF
January as New Year Day. The
ancient Egyptians, Phoenecians, and
Persians began their year Septem-
Der 81, the autumnal equinox, the
Greeks on December 81, the winter
solstice, and most Christian peoples
in early medieval days ON the 18th OF
March. The Jews reckon to this day
their civil year from the first day
of the month of Tishri september g.
October 81 and their ecclesiastical
year from March 81, the spring equi-
ncX.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01
WELLS HAWKS IN DEMAND
Russian 5aIIet Asks Loan Of Mary
Pickford's Herald.

Artistic courtesy will vie with the
Senatorial variety II the dispatches
from New York today really get a
fashion. Mary Pickford has been ap-
preached by the Imperial Russian
Ballet for the loan of her personal
press agent, Wells Hawks, the former
Baltimore newspaper man.
Hawks was the special representa-
tive of the ballet last year as pub
Iicity man of the Metropolitan Grand
Opera Company. This year he became
Miss Pickford's chief herald and per-
sonal representative
The Imperial Ballet, which is a part
of the Metropolitan force, started on
tour without the former Baltimorean,
and the farther IT penetrated into the
West and South the more it missed
him.
Therefore the ballet people have
asked Miss Pickford to extend them
the great favor of lending Mr.. Hawks
to them for the remainder of their
tour. Hawks will join the classic
dancers in Chicago today or tomor-
row, and will remain with them until
the end of the month. He then re-
turns to Miss Pickford.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01
FINANCING WITH BONDS

If bond issue in time of peace is
ever justifiable for any reason other
than absolute necessity, it would
seem to be warranted in order to
meet the Goverpment's necessities
this year. There is more money in
the country than ever before; it
seeks investment in new forms, and
recently there was proposal to emit
an issue of treasury notes of the
British government, larger than the
bond flotation that is proposed by
our Treasury. There was no doubt
that these foreign government Sc
curities would have been absorbed
quickly. They would have com
manded, indeed, a higher interest
rate than will be secured on the
bonds, and would have been nomi-
nally at least short-time paper,
though pretty certain to require re-
newals and, ultimately, to be funded.
That avenue of investment having
been foreclosed, the issue of our own
Government securities will accom-
plish much of the useful purpose
that is involved in any plan, at this
time, for promoting conservative in
vestment in things that will tend to
absorb surplus cash away from spec
ulative uses.
Nevertheless, issuing bonds in
such a time as this, time of abound
ing prosperity and unprecedented
profits, is business to be entered
upon with caution. If the revenues
produced by various emergency
measures are not sufficient now to
meet the country's demands, what
may be expected when, under very
different conditions, the inevitxaAs
The Washington times., 1917-01-01
GIRL ROCKIES WILL
HAVE CAMP AGAIN
Smell of PoWder-Not TaIcum
Kind-to Pervade the Air
About Chevy Chase.

Joy reigned in many a debutante
heart today-for a second open sea
son for girl rockies was officially an
nounced.
They'll drill and march, and wig
wag and shoot, and the smell of pow
der-no, sir, not talcum powder
will pervade the air out about Chevy
Chase again next spring.
FOR the First National Service
School, Inc. will hold its second en-
campment in Washington, beginning
April 10. Announcement to this effect
was made by the Executive commit.
tee. The school is under the auspices
of woman's section of the Navy
League.
1880 Applications on File.
The school. will be in session six
weeks. Each course probably will be
twenty days. The site used last year,
on Senator Newlands' property, prob
ably will be used again.
Courses will be practically the
same as last year. instruction will
be under Red Cross jurisdiction. More
than 1900 applications for member
ship are on file. Information can be
obtained at 1906 Twentieth street.
Some of the junior officers will be
chosen from the special officers
training class. which meets Monday
morning for drill and study Of mill
tary tactics under Chief Quartermas-
ter William J. Ranger, U. s, A.
Officers of Glass.
Miss Georgia SchofieId is chairman
of the junior officers class; Miss Dor
othy Denys, vice chairman; Miss
Carolyn Ogden-Jones. secretary. and
Miss Margaret Fahnestock, treas
urer.
Among those in the class are Miss
Blanchard Scott, Miss Eudora Glover,
Miss Carolyn Nash, Miss Anne Hop
kins. the Misses Chase, Mrs. Howard
Hume, Miss Katherine Harlow, Miss
Lillian Kendrick, Miss Katherine Bur
dette, Miss Julia Whiting, Miss Lou
Use King, and Miss Frances Hoar.
Miss Dorothy Potter, of Clear
water, Mont, who served as a lieu
tenant last year, has won the prize Of
fered for the best essay on the ideals
and aims of the school. The second
award was given to Miss Madge
Cook, of Front Royal, Va.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01
WHO CAUSES THE FIREsP

In 1915 the District of Columbia
lost S246,035 worth of property, &C
eording to the figures of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters.
In a vague way, the average citi-
zen has an idea that large proper
ton of this dead loss to the COM
munity was preventable. What pro-
portion could have been averted, and
what causes lead to the losses,
usually are largely guess work.
The underwriters board has made
a survey to determine these facts.
The result does not speak well for
the citizens of Washington in the
precautions they exercise against
fires.
Property to the value of $72,187
went up in smoke from causes listed
as strictly preventable." That was
29.9 per cent of the entire loss.
Under "partly preventable" causes,
$97, 66S is accounted for, or 1913 per
cent. Unknown causes are assigned
in 3O.5 per cent of the cases. But it
is highly probable that, were these
causes known, they would be largely
preventable.
A comparison Of the preventable
table with the figures of Maryland
and Virginia is not encouraging.
Washington's strictly preventable"
percentage of 29.9 per cent lines up
with 23.8 per cent for Maryland and
14.1 per cent for Virginia:
A study of the causes of fires
leads this board to conclude that,
Important as are building laws and
regulatory measures, individual care
fulness is the big factor in fire pre-
vention.
OF the strictly preventable causes
the presence of rubbish and litter,
carelessness with cigars, cigarettes
and pipes, open lights, defective
chimneys and f1ues, and defective
stoves, furnaces, boilers and pipes,
loom largest.
OF the partly preventable causes
incendiarism, exposure, electricity,
and explosions are the principal
dangers.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01
LITTLE RAILWAY BUILDING

Two interesting railway compila-
tons have recently been given to the
public. A few days ago it was cal
culated by the Interstate Commits
sion authorities that the net reve-
nues of the country's roads would be
much larger for 1916 than in any
other year in their history. Now it
is announced from Chicago, the
greatest railway center and operat-
ing headquarters, that the 1916 con-
struction of new mileage is the small
est since the civil war save only in
1915. The new mileage for 1916 is
only 1,O9S, against 9S3 in 1915.
These figures indicate that devel-
opment of new territory must be
close to a standstill; for the railroad
is the prime requisite to opening
new country. In the old days of rapid
Western development it was an
adage that the railroad came first,
and brought settlement and business
with it. This country possesses
about 40 per cent of the railway
mileage of the world; but in pecu-
liar way America is dependent on
railways for development, because
there are so few opportunities to use
arms of the sea for transportation.
Europe, the continent which, after
this, is best supplied with railways,
has an extremely irregular coast
line; the indentations make it pos
sible to use salt water for proper
ton of transportation that is utterly
impossible here.
The railroads have bought more
equipment in the past year, and are
doing everything in their power to
make their present lines meet the de-
mands upon them. But in a time
when there is universal. realization
Of the need to encourage larger pro-
duction of many staples, and espe-
cially of the agricultural ones, it is
manifest that expansion of the
transportation fabric is vitality neces-
sary. There is territory in almost
every State, in which profitable rail-
roads could yet be built; profitable
not only to the builders, operators,
and investors, but still more so to
the country because of the impetus
they would give to general produc-
ton. .....
This matter of getting new rail-
road mileage built is one of the
phases of the railway situation in
this country that is destined to re-
ceive more and more attention.
There must be a change. The coun-
try could provide development, year
by year, of a territory represented
by the addition of several times as
much new mileage as is now being
laid down. A glance at a map of
the transit Missouri West and of the
Southwest will indicate quickly the
possibilities of these sections. But
it is just as true that development in
States like Maryland and Virginia
would be immensely encouraged, and
in territories where it would be most
profitable, by a great railway con-
struction movement.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01
AMERICAS BONANZA MINES

That the mines of the United
States produced three billions of
wealth in the year 1916 is startling
but it is not necessarily an occasion
for qualification. The minerals and
metals that come out of the earth
will not grow there again; human
labor will not reproduce them, nor
the arts of husbandry.
But it is a satisfaction to learn,
from Secretary Lanes discussion of
the record-breaking product of the
mines, that "never have minerals
been extracted with less waste or
utilized to better advantage in adj
vancing the general prosperity of
the country. The wonderful record
of our mines this year sets forth a
degree of national industrial indie
pendence only hoped for few years
ago."
1t is not only that the production
of coal and copper and many other
staples of the mines has been ex-
banded in a degree that would hardly
have been accounted possible; but
that this huge increase is accom-
plished without waste. American
mining methods have been notori-
ously wasteful, and it is only in re-
cent years that effective attention
has been given to improved methods.
The anthracite supply is now being
brought out with less loss than ever
before, and the improved refining
methods are making it possible to
get gold, silver, copper, and other
metals from ores that once would
have been reduced only at positive
loss-and therefore not reduced at
all.
No other country possesses such
wealth in its mines, as America.
With all the immense drafts We have
made, and the greater ones we are
making on them, the surface of this
store of riches has hardly been
scratched. The story of metal pro-
duction in 1915 and 1916 is an epic
of American power and capacity to
rescue a world that faced dire need
for certain supplies that could not
possibly have been produced else
where. America at peace, able to
speed up and improve her producing
processes, has made a contribution
without which the whole course of
the worlds history might have been
changed. For even if the same de-
posits of metals and minerals had
been existent and known, in some
other country, it happens that no
other country could have found the
capital, men and business Organiza-
ton, under the present circumstances
of the world, to increase production
as America has done.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01
THE NEW YEAR

This harried old world will look
forward with hope to the year begin
ming today; speaking broadly, it will
hardly be able to treat humanity
worse than the year just ended did.
A ye4r ago there was the hope that
peace might come within the twelve
month, but the years end sees that
hope hardly brighter than it was in
the beginning. Ye: there has been
q. settling down to very firm convic-
ton that the end must come and
that, however distant it be, some
The Washington times., 1917-01-01

business sag shall come and revenues
shall slump a good deal faster than
the need for them? The great de
tense program will not end with one
year or two; the expansion OF the
budget will continue. There VIII
have to be recognition of this fact,
and permanent provision to produce
revenues that will meet it. To issue
bonds year after year, when there
is no great exigency such as the
European countries face, is mani
testify impossible.
Secretary McAdoo's statement on
this subject is considered to intimate
that the public building bill now
framing may be vetoed if it passes.
That is a desirable bit in the pro-
gram; this is no time for pork.
The Secretary's analysis of the
conditions which have made ex-
penses outrun revenues is interest
ing. Whether the purchase Of the
Danish West Indies, at the price
agreed upon, is good business or not,
the fact remains that it has become
policy of the country. Whether the
army on the Mexican border and in
Mexico has done anything to justify
spending a good share of Sl0O,OOO,-
900 in that adventure, the army was
sent there, and the bills must be
paid. It was an extraordinary con-
dition, and there will be little dis
sent from the proposal to meet the
costs bv extraordinary methods.
The Washington times., 1917-01-01

Meeting. Johnson-Powell Teachers Associa-
ton. Powell School, D. m.
Meeting, Georgia Society, New Ebbitt, $50
y. m.
Supper, Ladies' Auxiliary Army and Navy
Veterans, Pythian Temple. p. m.
Meeting, advertising section Retail Mer.
chants Association. in board rooms. p. m.
Entertainment. Shakespeare Society OF WASH
Ington, gold parloT, New Ebbitt, y. m.
Meeting Columbia Heights Citizens Assoc
citation, Postoffice Hall. Park road, on
Fourteenth street northwest. y. m.
Meeting Informal. Anthony League, at home
OF Mrs. Anna Z. Handley. 1901 Columbia
MasonicLNationaI. No. L.. social. Arminlus.
No. %: Myron VI. Parker. No. q; King
David, No. Is.
ROYAL Arch Chapter-Ia Fayette, No. 3;
Washington Naval, No. 6.
Scottish Rite-Mithras Lodge OF Perfection,
No l. fifteenth degree.
Eastern Star Chapters-Mlzpath, No. S; Ffdel-
ity, No. 10.
KNIGHTS OF Pythias-webster. No, i Excel
sIor. No. Il: Capital No. "a. and Myrtle No.
e5, installation.
Odd Fellows-washington. No. 6: Golden
Rule, No. q: Amity. No. q. and MI.
Pleasant, No. Is. installation Of officers.
Rebekah LOdges-Fidelity. No. Z, degree.
Red Men-Idaho Tribe, No. >. and Naneta
Council No. 8, installation.