The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-29

IhAuhOopoAos
More than 5000 gathered in the
Dodge Center park for the forty-flrst
annual program of the Dodge County
Old Settlers association.
Patrick Hammel, of Duluth, has
won his fight to establish claim to
partnership in CuyuTa range from
lands valued at $5,00O,00O.
Henry Slade Golf, educator, author,
poet, soldier and pioneer of the north
west, is dead at his home in Mime
apolis. He was rs years old.
Twenty-Five vacancies in the Sixth
enlisted engineers regiment, now in
training at Detroit, Mich, are being
held open for recruits from ST. Paul.
An unfavorable report has been
submitted to the House by the Secre-
tary of War and chief of engineers
upon the proposed drainage project
of Traverse and Big Stone lakes.
Minnesota home guard members
will be permitted to wear uniforms
and will be equipped with government
rifles, Major Oscar Seebach, home
guard organizer says.
The annual flower show and sum-
mer meeting of the Minnesota State
Horticultural society and its auxiliaries
was held Wednesday, June 81, in the
gymnasium building at the university
farm, st. Anthony Park.
Fourth Of July celebrations in Min
nesota this year will be sober and Sc
rious as we'll as safe and sane under
| plans which are being urged by the
State Public Safety Commission
through it's county directors.
The bodies of the two young men
and two young women who were
drowned when a launch in which they
were returning from an outing down
river struck a submerged piling, have
been found two miles below the city.
Fifty-two Jefferson Highway asso-
citation directors have just held their
semi-annual session in st. Paul. The
importance of the road as a military
route will be discussed and plans to
interest federal authorities will be
made.
Laura Woodcock, II years old,
daughter of a prominent farmer living
near here, has been found dead in a
tank of water. 1t is believed that the
girl was injured by fall, as there
was not enough water to drown her If
she kneeled or stood up.
julius Weidner, of st. Paul, fore
man for L. w. Baumeister and Com
pany, st. Paul contractors, died of
| heart disease at Red Lake Falls while
swimming in Clear Water river with
fellow workmen. The body was re-
covered. He was % years old.
The annual meeting of the veterans
of the st. Paul railroad, of this divi-
sion, known in 1864 as the Central
Minnesota and McGregor Western
railroad, has just been held in Austin,
thirty-three of those who were in the
service, 1854 and 1870, attending.
A. c. Gooding, of Rochester, former
state treasurer, has been elected presi-
dent of the Minnesota Bankers asso-
citation, succeeding Henry Won der
Weyer, of the Merchants National
bank, ST. Paul. The bankers were the
guests of the St. Paul bankers on a
steamboat excursion down the river.
Observation-Disclosures G. H. Clayton
probably saved the lives of several
score of passengers on the North
Western railroad when he drove his
gasoline speeder over device that
derailed the machine and caused
minor injuries. Clayton's car was
demolished but he escaped without
broken bones.
Twenty farm superintendent and
gardeners from fifteen state institu-
tions attended a semi-annual conven-
ton at Fairmont. Demonstrations in
soil tests and spraying Of plants to
rid them of disease and parasites were
featured. Prof. R. S. Mcintosh lee
tured at the state school for the
feeble-minded.
Minnesota subjects of Germany, en-
gagged in nonhostile occupations and
permitted to remain in the United
States during the war, are entitled to
1
pendents under the Minnesota work
ingmen's compensation act, according
to an opinion Attorney General Smith
has just given William F. Houk, state
labor commissioner.
Plans whereby Minnesota will have
day all her own at Peoria, ILL.,, fair,
September Is to 20, have been an.
nounced by Fred D Sherman, state
immigration commissioner. The states
immigration exhibit will be shown at
this fair, in competition with those of
several other states, for large silver
trophy cup offered for the best state
display of crop products.
Fifty-ive automobiles, containing
800 farmers and business men inter
ested i'm silos, have visited stock and
dairy farms on which silos are part
Of the equipment, in the vicinity of
Staples, Motley, Aldrich and Verndale.
Silo day at Staples was the begin
through central Minnesota, opening
campaign for 1000 more silos.
With prohibition in force in Clay
county through the county option law,
and everything pointing to a dry ma
ton within few years, citizens of
GAINESVILLE have decided to change
the name of Whiskey creek.
Ignore Injunction to Garry Flag.
Virginia, June 26.-Despite injunc-
lions from authorities forbidding pa
rades in which the American flag is
not prominently displayed 5000 Fin
nish picnickers, each wearing red