The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-08-31
ALL OF THE STATE
news OF THE WEEK

BIG STORIES TOLD IN ONE
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EFT OF BUSY READERS.
Another infantile paralysis case 10
reported at East Grand Forks. The
z-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
=. e. Hutchinson is the latest vic
tim.
The thirty-sixth annual convention
Of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION will be held at st. Paul Oc-
tober IL and IL. Plans for obtaining
speakers and entertaining visitors are
well under way. ''
Fred Nash. son of Mrs. w. C. Mash.
Of East Grand Forks, sailed on Aug
Is with American aviators for France,
according to word received here by
his mother. Mr.. Nash enlisted in the
aviation service while in California.
The st. Paul road bridge over the
Straight river, Az miles east
| Of Farfbault, was burned. AS no trains
that could have set fire to the bridge
had passed over it for some time pre-
viOusly, the authorities suspect arson.
The jury in the case of George A..
Elder, a Duluth bond broker, charged
with attempting to influence the Of
fetal action of County Treasurer Fog
arty at Brainerd by offering him $50,
brought In a verdict Of guilty, after
being out four and one-half hours.
A man who gave his name to the
police as George Baldwin is held in
the county Jail at Moorhead, as the
result of the finding of spike and
pieces of iron on the Northern Pacific
railway tracks near Muskoda. The
county authorities are investigating.
The train was stopped in time.
N. A. Lee, superintendent of the
electric light plant at Hawley, had
his right arm broken and his left hand
cut and bruised when he was caught
in the cam shaft Of the gas engine.
He was pulled into the fywheel and
only the fact that he pulled his shirt
sleeve out Of the wheel saved his
life.
President Marion Leroy Burton Of
the University of Minnesota will de-
liver an address on loyalty at Little
Falls, where big Dedication day
demonstration is planned September
1. Director M. Williams of Morrison
county, who is in charge of the cele-
bration, has advised the Public Safety
Commission.
The American Fisheries society and
the National Association of Game and
Fish commissions met at st. Paul four
days this week. The st. Paul Asso-
citation, the Ramsey County Game Pro
tective league, the st. Paul Rod and
Gun club and the Minneapolis Game
Protective league co-operated in en-
PERTAINING the visitors.
Five express cars loaded with Hud-
son Bay blankets passed through this
city, routed somewhere in the United
States" to be used by American
troops. The shipment, valued at $780,
900, was the first of its kind to enter
this country since the Canadian gov
eminent placed an embargo on wool
products. The train was closely
guarded.
Members of the Moorhead board of
education received happy surprise
when they were notified that the
state investment board had allowed
the application for loan of $150,000
to provide funds for the erection of
q new high school, and, that after
several years of work, their efforts to
provide new high school will be re-
Warded
Numerous applications from farm
ing districts for exemption on the ag-
ricultural grounds received by the
Fourth Federal exemption board at
Duluth, have caused the board consid-
cradle difficulty. The men working
on farms feel that the statement, Il
work on farm is sufficient to grant
them exemption from service in the
national army.
The Bemidji Game Protective asso-
citation held it's annual meeting and
elected George N. Woods president,
Joseph H. Osgood, vice president; Will
liam R. Howe, secretary, and E. E.
Mcdonald, treasurer. Reports of the
presence of deer and partridge were
received and action was taken look
ing towards greater security for the
game within the preserve.
The Minnesota Chiropractors asso-
citation, in convention at Brainerd, re-
elected DR.. I. G. Edwards president
of the association DR.. Edwards has
been called to the second officers re-
serve training camp, but members de-
clared that no man should lose office
in the association simply because he
was serving the United States govern
ment in a war emergency.
Frank Morse of Winona was too
patriotic to take chance with Uncle
Sam on registration day, June 5,
when uncertain of his age. He did
not know how old he was so he reg
istered, and later received his birth
records, which show him to be 33
years old. He has been discharged
by the draft board, notation on his
certificate, ''over age when regis
tered" being the governments dis
missal
An outburst of patriotism which riv-
allied any shown by the state since the
outbreak of the war marked the 10y
atty meeting held at Silver Lake and
answered each person in Minnesota
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