The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-08-24
STATE BRfWT|ES

acre farm two miles from Mankato
to John Maloney. The consideration
was $4,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson, go years
old, the wealthiest woman in Winona,
died at Glen Morris Inn, Lake Christ
mas, near Minneapolis. Death was
due to bronchial pneumonia.
Interest is awakening in Red Cross
work at Sandstone. For Labor day
parade, ball game and dance are be-
ing arranged. 1t will also be Tag day.
good cause.
Governor Burnquist has issued in
structions to sheriffs to prohibit all
meetings anti-American in their ma
ture in the state and to promptly ar
rest all speakers who make seditious
utterances. These anti-draft meetings
are to be treated the same as riots.
Brainerd sportsmen are aroused over
game hogs at Stony Brook, which emp
ties into Gull lake. Heads of brook
trout showed that 600 fish had been
taken, and the stream stripped. A
party has been stripping Hubert lake
OF bass, catching the limit every day.
The Minnesota exhibit of grains,
grasses, fruits and vegetables, in
| charge Of Commissioner Fred D. Sher-
man and w. c. King of the state inn
migration department, has begun it's
annual fall tour. 1t first will be shown
at Rock Island, ILL.,, and the following
week at Streator. III.
James r. Dooley, 40, of Anoka, trav-
cling salesman for textbook con-
| Germ. was killed when his auto was
| struck by q train on q crossing near
Cannon, Del. News Of the accident
was received by his family at Anoka.
Mrs. Dooley had just returned from q
visit with him. Besides his wife, he
is survived by two children.
The cutting and balfng Of hay on
hundreds of acres of unoccupied
meadow lands In Eastern Pennington
county will be an industry of consid-
cradle importance this fall. For some
weeks persons representing North Da-
kota stockmen have been in this neigh
borhood for the purpose of securing
the right to cut and bale the hay that
under ordinary circumstances would
go to waste.
Although there has been some anxf-
ETY. In Southeastern Minnesota over the
corn crop prospects, reports gathered
from scattered places give positive as
surance that the crop will be enor-
nous and that it will mature in nor
NAL time. The cool weather of the
first half of August tended to delay
the growth, but the return of more sea-
sonable temperatures with sunshine
are giving corn new life and the dan
ger of frost damage before the crop is
ready to gather is said to be remote.
j. A. Bentall, former Socialist can
didate for governor, at liberty under
$4,000 bonds for alleged anti-draft &C.
t1vities, spoke at the Lake Manuella
anti-draft meeting. Before he began,
Sheriff Konslak told him that he would
be permitted to speak providing that
he confined himself to remarks which
could not be interpreted as an attack
on the government or the laws of the
country. Although he preached So
cialistic doctrines, Bentall was care
full not to overstep the bounds set by
an order of Governor Burnquist.
The striking miners at Crosby have
voted to return to work today. None
of the demands they made were
granted.
A. l.. Sugarman, secretary of the So
cialist party, was held to the federal
grand jury, which meets in st. Paul
next December, after a hearing before
U. S. Commissioner Samuel Whaley,
st. Paul, on charge of agitating
against young men responding to the
draft bill. He was released on $500
bonds.
Morrison county's quota of III men,
with the 10 per cent additional which
the boards are asked to certify to the
district boards, will not be obtained
from the first 400 examined, in the
opinion of members of the local board
at Little Falls, and notices were sent
to additional men to appear for ex-
animation.
| Rev. Frank Atkinson of Sanborn, N.
D., who attended the organization
meeting of Labor's Loyal Legion, has
left Minneapolis to act as an organ
izer in his state. The membership in
the legion is growing rapidly, accord
ing to S. E. Farnham, secretary, who
expects the list to reach the 1000
mark today.
Attorney Arthur Benson of st. Cloud
graduated from the aviation training
| n of EnI, y,,h L; cl,
honors, according to word received
| here. He headed the honor squadron
and had an average in all subjects of
81, with candidates from ten states
competing. Benson has been ordered
to New York and will sail for France
soon to complete his training.
| Eight young boys of high school age
have left Thief River Falls for Darcy,
| N. D., where they will work on the
thousand-acre farm Of Albert Johnson,
| formerly science instructor in the pub
lie schools of this city. The young
men are Roy Brown, Raymond Han
son, Raymond Kiland, Hobson Rogers,
Murval Kroner, Reuben Teslow, Clar-
ence bingham and Roy Miller.
The sophomore and junior classes
| have presented the Pine City high
school with new by 10-foot flag.
The coal situation in East Grand
Forks is still serious, with little prom
| Use of becoming better late in the sea-
son, according to local coal dealer.
Rev. c. A. Cressy,, former Meth
odist minister of Saltwater, twenty
five years ago, died at his home at
Newport, after an illness of a couple
OF months, aged "a years. He had
charge of churches in Saltwater, Min