The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-08-10
MINNESOTA NEWS
ITEMS CONDENSED
ALL THE BIG STORIES AND THE
MOST INTERESTING OF THE
SMALLER ONES CONDENSED.

SMALLER ONES CONDENSED.
Due to lack of patronage, the Ulen
| creamery has closed it's doors. Ar
rangements have been made for the
Hitterdal creamery to take care Of it's
patrons.
Mesaba Range alumni of the Uni
ident Burton to be their guest at the
annual meeting to be held in Hib-
bling about September 10.
Peter Ongman, so, former resident
of Cloquet, shot himself in the heart
at his home at Brainerd, dying in
stantly. Dependency over an attack
of asthma is believed to be the cause.
The first new wheat brought to Fer
gus Falls offered on the market
weighed 60 pounds to the bushel and
was graded No. l northern. 1t sold
for 1910 a bushel. Experts say this
years harvest will be of the highest
quality ever grown there.
Almost 40 per cent of the drafted
men in the eastern section of Stearns
| COuuty Will U0 W pass Tic Dlly 81
cal examination. This was evident in
the first fifty examined at st. Cloud.
OF the first fifty-three examined, thir-
ty-three passed and twenty were re-
jected.
Thieves entered the Stenerson Lum-
Der Co. store at Erhard and secured
$40 from the safe. Two days later
the same store caught on fire at
o'clock in the morning. A general
alarm was given and bucket brigade
promptly extinguished the fire before
it gained much Roadway.
Word has been received at Staples
of the wedding at Fort Leavenworth
of Miss Bessie Knowles of Staples
and Clifford Robbers of Sank Rapids,
Mimi. The groom has been taking en-
cheering at the State University the
past two years and recently enlisted
in the engineering corps.
Machinists, boilermakers and help
ers at the Red Wing Shops of the
Great Western are out on strike
and refuse to work until given the
same pay received by employees of the
st. Paul shops. Machinists sent from
St. Paul refused to work when they
found that there was strike on.
Miss Barbara Kuhn of Euclid and
Miss Cora Clemenson of Crookston
were winners in the Polk county
bread-baking contest Each of them
will receive a free trip to the state
fair this fall where they will compete
for the state prize with the champions
from the other counties in the state.
Thirty-nine of the forty-three sum-
moned to be examined under the draft
at Saltwater, appeared at the court
house Snd were examined by Doctors
Charles Cappellin and j. H. Haines.
They rejected fifteen on account of
physical disability and they reported
to DR.. E. E. Wells for further exam
nation
On the eve Of their departure for
Fort Smelling members of F company,
First Minnesota Federalized National
Guard, were showered with gifts
from commercial and industrial inter
ests at Winonaa. All sorts of remem-
ORANGES were given the Minneapolis
guardsmen who have been on duty
patrolling transportation facilities
for four months.
has granted a gas franchise to VIM.
Glenn of Sheldon, Iowa, representing
the Public Construction Co. of Mime
apolis, for a period of Is years. Accord
ing to Mr.. Glenn the construction of
the plant will be started as soon as all
the papers are signed and a consider
able portion Of the mains will be laid
before cold weather starts.
Mrs. w. F. Edgar of Thief River
Falls is in receipt of cablegram stat
ing that her son, Clarence Diffenbach-
er, had been wounded during one of
the recent battles i'm France. The mes
sage gave the information that the
wound was in the hand but contained
nothing to indicate it's seriousness. Mr..
Diffenbacher is with the Canadian
Overseas battalions.
When lightning struck the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Johnson
at Fergus Falls the electric light wires
were severed and the house left in
darkness. Hearing the baby crying,
Mr.. Johnson lighted candle and went
in the room, where he found the 49,
month7old child in it's crib almost COM
that had been knocked off the CELL
ing. When he picked the child up it
gave glad little cry and reached out
and tried to grab the candle, none the
worse for the experience.
Only fair and reasonable investment
projects will be licensed by the Min
nesota Securities commission if it
adopts the governing policy of the
Michigan commission, which is oper-
ating under similar law, according
to reports by John B. Sanborn, state
insurance commissioner, and G. Louis
Weaks, assistant attorney general, who
consulted the Michigan commissioners
at Lansing in behalf of the Minnesota
body.
A fight over the school election at
St. Cloud has been opened and con-
testants of the election predict that it
will be taken to the supreme court of
the state. l.. d. Brown is contesting
the election of w. w. Smith, president
of the board. Only one vote now sep
arates them.
The first public demonstration of a
device to launch torpedoes from air
planes, invented by Rear Admiral
Bradley A. Fiske, retired, will be made
in Minneapolis under the personal di-
rection of the inventor, during the re-
gatta of the American Power Boat as
ISOLATION, August % to 81.
The threat made by Industrial Work
ers of the World agitators in Gogebic
oO11utv Michioap tbof tho MoSaho