The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-07-27
STATE BRfv|T|ES


state capitol and Minnesota pioneer,
Is dead at his st. Paul home
Americas best known food experts
and lecturers will give a series Of.
educational talks at the Minnesota
State Fair, Sept. 3 to s, according to
Ray P. Speer, publicity agent.
The State Railroad and Warehouse
Commission has issued on order d.
recting the Northern Pacific railroad
to restore passenger train service over
the old st. Paul e Duluth line through
Minnesota territory.
Nine Wellesley college girls, visi-
tors at the Bennett mine at Keewatin,
who are studying Minnesota industries.
donned overalls and oilskins before be-
ing taken through the underground
workings and the open pit.
Six country banks in Minnesota, hav-
ing combined assets of over $1,250,0O0,
have just been sold to four Minneso-
ia men, all of them interested in the
banking business. The banks are at
Frazee, Perham, Vergas, Dent and
Richville.
The first wartime sheep raising and
wool growing venture in Minnesota
will be started at once by E. G..
Quamme, president of the Federal
Farm Loan bank, st. Paul. The an
nouncement was made after Mr..
Quamme leased, through State Audi
tor Preus, 400 acres of state land.
Fort Smelling and not Fort Riley will
be the point for the second officers
reserve training camp. The announce
ment has been made officially and al
30 that Snelling's second condensed
West Point academy of Mars would
open on Aug. q and continue for the
three months period.
Five thousand members of the Ger
man Lutheran church were expected
at Fairmont to celebrate the four hun
dredth anniversary of the Reforma-
ton. Special trains were run from
several Southern Minnesota points.
Several leading churchmen of the
Northwest participated in the exer-
cises.
The recent hot spell is great for
corn and it will not hurt the small
grain in Minnesota, which is too far
| advanced to be damaged by heat, &C.
cording to farm experts. Wheat is be-
yond the state when it can be DAM
aged by rust and the dry heat of the
| past few days is not of the kind Nat
| causes rust, they say.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
| the big sawmill known as Plant No.
l of the Crookston Lumber company,
a Shevlin mill at Bemidji. The flames
| wrecked the building in twenty min
| utes. One minute after the blaze was
| discovered the sixty workmen of the
| night shift were rushing out, barely
| in time to save their lives.
President Wilson has announced the
members of the district for appeal ex-
emption draft tribunals for 80 states,
| including Minnesota. Each board con-
| sists of five members-each is a rep
resentative of the laboring man, the
| employer of labor, a man familiar
with industrial conditions in the dis
trict, a physician and lawyer.
The action of the socialists and rad
icals in the Minnesota State Fedora
ton of Labor in walking out of the
state convention at Fairibault when
reconsideration of loyalty resolution
previously passed was delayed is deep
| ly resented by many Minneapolis I'M
ion men, who contend that the boilers
| did their best to bring discredit on
| organized labor in Minnesota.
The following nominations of Min
resota postmasters have been sent to
the Senate: E. E. Putnam, Big Lake;
Ludwig L. Johnson, Brookpark; Rob-
| ert w. Stewart, Ceylon; Albert Ander-
| son, Clearbrook; Bernard W. Comis-
ky, Currie; Halbert L. Webb, Glyndon;
Ruth G. Soderberg, Grand March; Gus.
tave J. Jarchow, Harris; Frank E.
Smith, Kimball; Olof Ristag, Lancas-
ter; Edw. C. Sommermeyer, Mariet-
ia; Ralph V. Townsend, Minnesota
Lake; Walter w. Pearson, Nevis;
| Henry Goulet, Onamia; Amelia M.
Rajkowski, Rice; Albert K. Anderson,
Spicer; John c. Klein, st. Joseph; Ger
trude A. Muske, Swanville; Alton E.
Martin, Woodlake
Captain T. c. Musgraves, examining
officer for the officers training camp
at Fort Riley, Kan, has received over
1000 applications from various parts
of the state.
Maj. E. C. Clemans, chaplain of the
Second Minnesota infantry, wants the
Minnesota cities having companies in
his regiment to raise fund of $4,000
for general welfare work.
Petitions signed by officials of many
Minnesota labor unions have been put
in the hands of Victor L. Power, mayor
of Hibbing, Mimi, asking him to be-
come candidate for governor.
One of the features of the Mime
sofa State Fair, held Sept. 3 to 8,
which should attract considerable at
tention will be the events for mill
tary horses at the horse show
DR.. Marion LIE Roy Burton, presi-
dent of the University of Minnesota,
old the rural life conference at the
university farm that the doctrine of
business as usual is nonsense. He
declared, among other things, that
| women must standardize their dress.
Samuel A. Spriegel, member of C
company of Winona, who failed to re-
port for mobilization, will not be pros
ecuted as deserter. A message from
Calgary, Alta, said that Spriegel had
enlisted with Canadian forces, and is
now in the trenches in France. or
ficers of the company say Spriegel
couldn't wait" Captain j. D. Burke
wired Spriegel's discharge to Canada.
Colonel George H. Morgan, muster
officer, has announced the order in
which Second regiment companies