The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-11-16

Mrs. Lucy Hail. of Frazee is the
new superintendent of the Fargo day
nursery and has already assumed
active charge of the work.
Archie Cyrs, II, son of G. w. Cyrs,
living near Ten Strike, was drowned
in Grill Lake by breaking through the
ice, while setting traps for muskrats.
Lake Minnetonka carp were offered
for sale by the state Wednesday, the
first consignment of this fish to be
placed on sale in Minneapolis as a
state food conservation measure.
I Ole Skridsol was bound over to the
district court by in Moorehead by
Police Magistrate e. L. Wade on a
charge of keeping an unlicensed
drinking place in his grocery store.
Pitching from the seat OF wagon.
Louis Burke, Winona county farmer,
was killed near st. Charles. His neck
was broken. The physician says he
probably was seized with a stroke
of appoplexy which caused the fall.
'fhe American Red Cross society of
International Falls has been asked by
headquarters in Minneapolis to fur
nish twenty-five additional Christmas
packets for the soldiers at the front,
SO the Red Cross boxes which are
in the. business places will be left
there few weeks longer.
State Dairy and Food Inspector
Peter Schetty of ST. Paul filed com
plants against Brainerd restaurant
and against a woman conducting a
dairy, charging them with selling milk
below standard, being less than the
required amount of butter fat. Both
were found guilty and sentence sus-
pended.
Fred Gates, Winnebago, a lineman
living at Blue Earth, was killed when
he fell from pole.
Mayor Neil Kelleher and the entire
city. administration were reelected
at East Grand Forks.
Robbers entered r. L. Singleton's
store at Nemadji and stole a type
writer and also took a 5O-pound can
of lard from the 500 station.
G. A. Penney was elected mayor of
Thief River Falls. He easily defeated
+. H. Gambel, candidate for re-elec-
ton, Gambel carrying but one ward
in the city.
Fred Busch, former mayor of Hast
ings, 20 years old, died at Macon,
Ga, on train while en- route to
Florida, according to a telegram re-
ceived by friends at Hastings.
If he can get the men, James E.
McGrath, owner of the White Pine
mills, at Moose Lake, plans to take
out 100000 feet of white pine dur
ing the winter, employing $50 men
in eight camps. He also plans to
work 100 men in the mill
The Brainerd city council believes
it is in fair way to rejuvenate
Brainerd city finances by an amend
ment to the city charter to provide
a decrease in the city valuation and
an increase in the levy, thus giving
Breanerd more revenue and the state
smaller proportion.
While taking gasoline from barrel
standing outside his home between
Carlton and Cloquet, F. Gruning was
badly burned when the liquid spurted
onto lighted lantern he was carry
ing and an explosion resulted. A
Cloquet doctor had to graft several
inches of skin onto the burned places
S. H. Selvog, the agent of the state
fisheries on Red lake, and Mr.. Shoes
ter of Kelliher had a narrow escape
from drowning while on an automobile
trip from Kelliher. They took the
ice on the lake from Shotly to Hen.
lin, a distance of twenty-five miles
but when within half mile of Shotly
the car went under in about six feet
of water. The occupants were saved
by the homesteaders living along the
lake shore.
Michael Godfrey, superintendent OF
the Oliver Mining company at .Hib
bling, announces that a 40-acre tract
of land, in the heart of Hibbing, will
be mined. According to the plan, a
dozen square blocks in the center OF
the city in which are located the
leading hotels, the city hall and prac
tically all the business houses will
be razed. 1t is planned to move the
business center of the city to Alice
suburb south of Hibbing.
The city election at Crookston was
full Of surprises. First reports had
1T that in a four-cornered fight for
mayor Former Postmaster Elias Stee.
nerson, brother of Congressman Stee
nerson, was elected by fourteen
votes over A. J. Neal, Great Northern
conductor, running on .'stickers," but
a recount revealed that J. E. Morris
sey was elected by one vote over
Stevenson, the detail vote being:
Morrissey, 295; STEVENSON, 294; Neal
2S2; NJ R. Hussey, 23S.
Directors of the Minnesota State
Creamery and Cheese Factory Oper.
ators' and Managers association
formerly the Butter and Cheese Max.
ers' association, were elected at a
meeting at the Ryan hotel in st. Paul
According to the new constitution
five directors were elected, to organ.
ize themselves, instead of the Gus
tomary president and other officials
Emil G. Oman, Delano, was elected
director for three-year term. H
Sandholt, st. Paul; Alex Johnson
Lafayette; M. Sorensen, Pelican Rap
ids, were elected for two-year terms
and j. Parenteau, Mantorville, was
elected for a one-year term.
Mess such as grows in the woods
and swamps of Northern Minnesota
has come into use for surgical dress
ing in war hospitals. Moss has been
found TO be four times as absorbent
as cotton. It will hold sixteen OF
twenty-five times its weight in water