The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-07-06
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| The Minnesota Steel company will
expend 100000 on new construction
at the Duluth plant this year.
At the first drill of the Red Wing
home guards held at the armory with
Captain Fred Seebach in charge, ~
men were in line.
| and cached at the city hall at Brain.
erd, being $50 pint bottles and 40
quarts, has been spilled into a sewer
Richard Flood, Is years old, of Min.
neapolis, Douglas street, was drowned
when the wind overturned the boat he
and three other men were fishing from
in Rush lake near Rush City, Mimi.
The Kenyon Farmers Township
club entertained the Kenyon CONNER.
cial club members at a picnic in the
Sathrum grove at Kenyon. Fully 1000
persons took part in the days festiv-
tiles.
Bakers in section 70, comprising the
Northern half of st. Louis county and
all of Lake county, will be modified
for the conservation of food at meet
ing called by District Chairman Pc
ter Wall.
Twice voted out of existence by Du-
1uthians, once on a saloon mems Pc
tition questioning the intent of the vot.
ers at the first wet and dry election
two years ago, the final 60 saloons
here have gone out of business.
A resolution urging Senators Nelson
and Kellogg to support the bill now
pending in Congress to prohibit the
use of grains in the manufacture of
liquors was adopted at the closing ses.
sion of the State Dairymens associa.
ton at Brainerd.
Reads Landing association has held
its tenth annual Home coming. More
than 200 former residents gathered on
the site of the once prosperous lum-
bering town to renew former &C
quaintances and tell again the old riv-
er stories they once reveled in.
Despite the small increase of SAL
107.49 in the liquor tax of Minnesota
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
the internal revenue office of St. Paul
with total collection of $10,052,368.-
As set record for the office, surpas-
sing by $3,224,99O96 the previous rec
ord made last year.
Minnesota railroads will not ask in
definite postponement of action on
their joint petition for Is per cent
increase in interstate freight rates de-
spite the virtual denial of similar in
crease by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. They have indicated
that they intend to keep up the fight.
Twenty persons were injured, ten Sc
riously, at Winona, when high pow
cred racing car, driven by King Kel-
ley, Chicago millionaire sportsman,
crashed through a fence and into a
crowd of spectators at a race program
at the Tri-County fair grounds. Ten
of the injured were treated at the local
hospital. All will recover.
Minnesota will have food commits
sioner, who will be named shortly by
Washington. The state also will have
woman economics expert. These
wartime food conservation plans have
been announced by Josephine Berry of
the University Of Minnesota. The de-
tails are being worked out in the Of
tails are being worked out in the Of
food commissioner, in Washington.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn told Duluth
police before departing for her home
that William Haywood of Chicago,
president of the Industrial Workers of
the organization. Miss Flynn said
Haywood and his advisers say she con-
spired with Carl Tresca, former lieu
tenant to Haywood, to double cross"
four 1. w. w. on the Minnesota iron
range last summer.
Prospects for bumper crops in Good
hue county never were better, accord
ing to reports received at Red Wing.
Strawberries are drug on the mar
ket at Winona. Thousands of quarts
VIII go to waste unless housewives
hear the appeal of those who urge
canning as a means of preserving this
food
LIZ hdl lOu LCloy lOu, LuO NC"
president of the University of Mime
sofa, has arrived at Duluth on the
steamer Tionesta. He and his party
left Immediately for Minneapolis in
automobiles.
The annual Methodist Episcopal
camp meeting opened at Red Rock
with six workers present. DR.. James
L. Brasher, of Alfalfa, Ala, and DR..
John Paul, Of Wilmore, KY, evange-
lists, who will remain for the entire
encampment, will speak, and Prof. U.
S. Yates, music director, will lead the
singing.
A thumb print on an empty bottle
found in the ruins of the Tondro mill,
which was destroyed by fire here on
the night of June with a loss of
| $4,000, resulted in the arrest Of Henry
]. Wiese, prominent local real estate
| owner, on charge of arson.
The Minnesota Scandinavian grand
lodge of International Order of Good
Templars in it's yearly meeting in ST.
Paul adopted resolutions demanding
that Congress pass Immediately as a
war measure prohibition of the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating liquors
as beverages.
| An unconditional pardon for Walter
]. Smith, former state treasurer, will
be asked at the next meeting of the
State Board of Pardons, July 9, at the
Capitol. A similar application, it is
expected, will be made in behalf of
Robert c. Pickit, former investment
clerk in the state auditors office.