The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-11-23

In the last casualty list sent out
from Ottawa, Ont. is the name Of e.
Anderson, Gonvick, Mimi, listed
among the wounded and missing.
Eighteen Minnesota merchants paid
fines totaling more than $3.50 last
month for violations of the state pure
food laws, Commissioner James Sor'
ensen of the dairy and food depart.
ment announces.
With road conditions growing worse
daily, the prospects for relief of the
International Falls wood famine grows
more unfavorable. No hard coal can
be secured by dealers, so the fuel sit
uation is very serious.
Inheritance taxes Of $793 were paid
the state on the estate of Emerson
Hadley, q ST. Paul attorney, who died
Nov. II, 1915. Mr. Hadley left prop
erty valued at $S9,565 to his widow,
daughter and grandchildren
Several bad cases of black diphthe.
ria have developed in the Kuppela
family, living about four miles east of
Plummer. Mary, eight-year-old daugh.
ter, and John, a 14-year-old son, passed
away. The school in that district has
been closed.
Fergus Falls Elks donated $3.50 to
the Y. M. C. A. fund and $50 to the
knights of Columbus fund for the
hoys at the front They also set aside
$50 for the poor fuel bills in the city,
besides making arrangements for their
Christmas charities.
The little parks of the Great North
ern at GAINESVILLE will not receive
their usual winter covering to protect
the tender plants and shrubs this win
ter. as the officials of the Fergus Falls
division refused the expense necessary
for their protection.
Red Cross organizations are now
established and at work in the follow
ing Polk county centers: Angus, Bel
trami, Chester township, Climax,
Crookston, Erskine, Euclid, Fertile,
Fisher, Fosston, Lengthy, Mallory, Nc
lntosh, Mentor, Neilsville, Trail, Ia
Dor, Key West.
Sarah Olson, mother of Baby Ruth
Olson, who is fighting George Weston,
living near Faribault, for the return of
her baby, is willing to take her
chances on a jury of IL men. Through
her attorney, James B. Hickey, the
mother asked Judge Childress of Rice
county to have jury trial. When
the case goes to trial Nov. % a moth
er's right to her child born out of wed
lock will be considered by the jury.
A new dividend of Is per cent will
be paid creditors of the defunct Osseo
State bank about Dec. Is. The an
noUncement was made by F. E. Pear
son, state superintendent of banks and
receiver 81 the Osseo institution, fol-
lowing the payment of $4,000 by the
surety company on the bond of James
B. Thompson, former cashier of the
bank. who was sentenced to state
prison for misappropriation of bank
funds.
The entertainment committee G. the
Crookston Red Cross chapter has
planned a series of afternoon or even
ing chain parties, each member of the
committee to entertain four of their
friends at party each one of the four
bringing Is cents for the Red Cross.
The four guests are then to promise
that they will each entertain four of
their friends, who will contribute a
quarter. Each of these guests will be
requested to do the same thing, thus
making a Continuous chain. 1t has
been figured up that this series for six
weeks would raise $500.
From now on all manufacturers,
miners, dealers and foremen handling
explosives in Minnesota will be OBJ
liged to take out licenses, and to keep
itemiZed records of all such explo-
sives that come into their possession,
telegram from Washington to Labor
Commissioners w. F. Houk stated. The
state labor department is charged with
the enforcement of the law.
Postmaster Henry J. Schaefer of Al
bany sent in his resignation last June
and not until recently was it accepted
by the postmaster general. Owing to
the vacancy there will be an examina-
ton for the position at ST. Cloud
Andrew NJ Halseth, Bemidji, who
died in the transport service Nov.
from conclusion of the brain, fell from
hammock, it is believed. He left
Bemidji with the Bemidji division of
Minnesota naval militia in April. His
sister, Anna Halseth, is chief operator
for the Northwestern Telephone com.
pany at Bemidji.
Ten-cent milk for st. Paul and Min.
neapolis will not mean milk of poorer
quality, James Sorensen, state dairy
and food commissioner, said in hcom
ment1ng on the 10-cent milk price fix
ing order of the State Public Safety
commission, which Is effective now.