The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-08-31

OuS0 WOO Will w. W ISI ISC6. Mluuo'
sofa National Guard. He enlisted as
private and rose through the ranks
finally obtaining commission as first
lieutenant.
Herbert Conner, son of John B. Con-
ner, president of the Thief River Falls
Commercial club, was attacked by a
bull on his farm and was seriously in
jured.
William Poyonen, 20 years old, a
shoemaker, and Charles Kilmala, "a
years old, a tailor, were arrested at
Virginia as slackers. This is the first
of Stacker drive"
The annual fair for Mile Laos coun-
ty will be held at Princeton on Sept.
IL. IL, IA and Is with premium list
which surpasses in magnitude that of
any previous year.
The Bemidji band is being reorgan-
lied and new officers have been elect
ed as follows: Director and manager,
P. R. Peterson; treasurer, Paul Fou-
Pcault; secretary, Elford Benson.
John F. Behrens, who conducts q
saloon in Saltwater was arrested We'd
nesday by United States Commission
er A. E. Doe and held to the grand
jury for selling liquor to soldiers.
The Kingfisher, the cruising yacht of
e. L. King, wealthy medicine manu-
facturer and banker of Winona, has
loft horo for jtc 6ro< fri,, M %ha MI.
sissippi to the head Of navigation.
At special election held in the vii
lage of Albany the citizens voted Sc
to 2, to sell the municipal electric light
and power plant to the Union Light &
Power company of st. Cloud for
$4,000.
Andrew E. Reardon of Mora, who re-
ceived injuries of the spine and con-
cussion Of the brain by a fall in the
dropping of the elevator at the new
school building is rapidly regaining
his health.
The board of directors of the Farm
ers' Produce company at Badger
opened bids for the proposed potato
warehouse. The contract was let to
B. A. Boberg for $5,325. Mr. Boberg
started on the work at once.
C.. z. Ladner, chairman of the
Stearns county auxiliary of the Min
nesota Commission of Public Safety,
has issued a call for meeting of the
Stearns county committee on market
conditions to be held in ST. Cloud.
D. L. Durkin Of Frazee, former mem
Der of the state game and fish COM
mission, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Burnquist to attend a meeting Of
the National Association of Game and
Fish Commissioners, to be held in St.
Paul.
The framework of the new Evange-
lical Lutheran church at Cass Lake is
rapidly being put up. When finished
the new church will be one of the most
imposing church buildings in the vii
lage and will be thoroughly equipped
inside and a pipe organ installed.
Mayor F. H. Cambell of Thief River
Falls, recently hurt in an auto acct
dent while driving to Fargo, has re-
turned home after resting for three
weeks at his summer home at Detroit.
The mayor Is going about on crutches,
his hip still troubling his somewhat.
Miss Laura Kvernstoen of Dalton is
the champion breadmaker in Ottertail
county The committee was unani-
nous in awarding to the Dalton young
woman trip to the Minnesota state
fair, where she will compete with 9TH
er county winners for the state cham
pionship.
J. A. Anderegg, for the past several
years practicing attorney at Sank
Rapids, has been elected to position
in the legal department of the Federal
Farm Loan bank located at St. Paul.
Mr.. Anderegg will be the fourth at
torney employed in this department
for the consideration CT mortgages and
loans. aa.fH
Following flood of protests from
farmers against the proposal for a
single government-fixed minimum price
of 50 bushel for wheat, Governor
Burnquist has called a conference at
the Capitol of representatives from
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da-
kota and Montana, and requested Her
bert c. Hoover, national food admins.
traitor, to defer Federal action.
While attempting to replace a belt
on G shaft Of a fast running thresh-
ing Machine, Louis Ferg's arm was
:orE from the socket and his body was
-.ircwn q considerable distance, land
ing on a wagon with such force as
% fracture his skull. He died three
hours later
The Pine county Sunday school con.
vention ended at Sandstone Tuesday
and proved to be the largest gather
ing of its kind ever held in the county
Eighty-six outside delegates registered
and with the local representatives the
meeting place, the large Congregation
al church, was well filled.
Reports from farmers who have be-
gun threshing in the Long Prairie dis
trict indicate that the rye crop will
average about twenty-five bushels to
the acre. The quality is exceptionally
good. 1t is estimated that the wheat
crop will overreach last years by full
ly so per cent.
Beginning with half dozen loyalty
mass meetings in widely separated dis
tricts of the state, the week promises
to Guido any similar period in Mime
sofas history for demonstrations OF
patriotism by the commemorative cit
izenship. Morris, Staples, Silver Lake
Henderson and Princeton are among
the communities which the same day
demonstrated the loyalty of their
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