The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-07-13
STATE FAIR TO BE
FOOD CAMP MODEL
RAY p. SPEER RETURNS FROM
CONFERENCE WITH HOOVER
AND PRESIDENT WILSON,.
ACCEPTS ADVISORY POSITIONS
Publicity Agent for Minnesota Exhibit
ton Says Lectures by Noted Men
and Displays of Food Products
Are Scheduled.
st. Paul.

st. Paul.
With noted men of the country as
lecturers and an extensive exhibition;
OF food products, the Minnesota State
Fair, September to 8, will be model
for other food training camps to be;
conducted at state fairs as a part of
the governments food conservation
program, Ray P. Speer of the Mime
sofa State Agricultural society, who
arrived in st. Paul from Washington
last week, said
While in Washington Mr.. Speer had
conference with Mr.. Hoover and
President Wilson on the proposal and
has returned to accept a position on
Mr.. Hoover's advisory council to be in
charge of the fair camps.
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Former Treasurer Sees Governor.
On visit of the State Pardon
board to the penitentiary at Saltwater
Governor Burnquist talked with w. J.
Smith, former state treasurer, whose
application for pardon has come be-
fore the board. Governor Burnquist,
Chief Justice Brown of the supreme
court and Attorney General Smith,
who constitute the pardon board, inter-
viewed dozen prisoners who have
applied for pardons.
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Woods Accounts Approved.
Approval by the War department of
Adjt. Gen. Fred B. Woods financial
account with the federal government,
as reported from Washington, means
that Minnesota will be able to draw
on the government from time to time
for whatever funds are needed by
state guardsmen in federal service.
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Uniform Commercial Acts Distributed.
Copies of the uniform commercial
acts adopted in Minnesota, printed in
pamphlet form, are being distributed
by the secretary of state. Four uni
form acts have been adopted, those on
negotiable instruments, warehouse re-
ceipts, bills of lading and sales.
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Preserving of Food Urged.
The canning and preserving of all
fruits and seasonable vegetables as
they come on the market in sufficient
quantities to insure cheapness, is ad-
vocated by Miss Josephine Berry,
chairman of the State Conservation
committee.
First Infantry Reaches War Strength.
The enlistment of % men has
brought the First Minnesota infantry
up to war strength. Col. Erie D. Luce
says that he believes his regiment is
in as fine shape physically as any in
fantry regiment in the United States.
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Asks $4,000 for Cancelled Leases.
]. A. o. Preus, state auditor, has re-
quested Attorney General Lyndon A.
Smith to begin action to recover near
ly $4,000, said to be due the state
from cancelled mineral leases.
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Seeks 10000 For Harvest Work.
Measures to obtain nearly 10000
men for work in Minnesota harvest
fields are under consideration by the
Minnesota Public Safety commission.
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Sale of Swamp Land Held Fraud.
In purchasing lao acre farm in
Yellow Medicine county in the dry
summer of 1915, Hans H. Sievers was
deceived, the supreme court holds in
a decision just handed down, because
Frank Humphrey, who sold the land
failed to tell the purchaser that in or
binary years &c acres Of the land was
under the waters of former mean
dered lake.
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Timber Worth $25, ZOO, 900 In Danger.
twenty-five billion feet of merchant.
able white pine in Minnesota, worth
perhaps $25,000,000 as it stands, is
threatened by the possible further
spread of the white pine blister rust,
according to information contained in
the sixteenth report of the state en-
tomologist, F. l.. Washburn, Univer.
sity farm, just made public.
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Organize to End "Pigqinq."
Minnesota brewers and foreign brew
ers who have agencies in the state
have formed an organization to make
war on blindpiggers, and will act in
cooperation with the police authorities
of the state to that end.
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300 Apply for Second Camp.
More than 800 have applied to Fort
Smelling for the second reserve off,
GERS training camp to be established
in August at Fort Riley, Kan.
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State Leads in Road Work.
Within a year Minnesota will have a
stretch of $40 miles of gravel road ex-
tending from the southern border to
the Canadian border. This was the
prediction of ]. H. Beck of st. Paul,
president of the Jefferson Highway as
ISOLATION, following a tour of inspec-
ton to points along the highway in
Minnesota. Minnesota will be the
first state along the highway" Mr..
Beck said, ito have it's entire line i'm
proved with gravel At present work
is being done particularly near Thief
River Falls.
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Ask New Federal Highway.
A delegation of thirty good roads
boosters from Anoka, Isanti, Kanabec
and Pine counties has called on the
State Highway Commission and asked
that a road leading from Central ave-
nue., Minneapolis, through Columbia
Heights, Eastern Anoka county, Isanti