The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-08-10
h NAMED TO HELP
MARKET NEW CROPS
COMMISSION PLANS, TO FIGHT
WASTE IN SELLING PRODUCTS
AND LOOK AFTER STORAGE.
STATE FOOD QUIZ PROGRAM
Committee From Safety Commission to
Probe High Cost of Living and Any
Exorbitant Prices on Necessi-
ties of Life.
St. Panl.

ties or Lire.
St. Paul.
The markets division of the state
food production and conservation COM
mission perfected plans to educate the
farmers and gardeners in every coun-
ty of the state through a personal sert
vice campaign to advantageously mar
ket their surplus products without
waste to themselves or the consum.
erS.
The plan is intended mainly to aid
the producer in finding markets for
crops he has grown for the first time.
A corps of eleven representative
men will scatter over the state to
cover every county and assist the To-
cal committees already proposed by the
State Public Safety Commission to
work out various market problems.
Special attention will be given to ar
ranging for storage for perishable
| crops on the farms and in towns.
The movement will extend also to
distribution of the coal supply, de-
liveries of necessary machinery and
machine repairs and to handling crops
X X X
Minnesota good roads work toward
which the federal government will con-
tribute $4,000 this year, will begin
within the next few weeks, George G.
Scales, assistant manager of the Min
neapolis Office of the United States
department of public roads, announces.
The first project to which the gov
eminent will contribute will be $110,-
600 road in Chisago county. Other
road work in which the government
will join includes a $4,000 project in
Freedom county, and 100000 expen.
diture in Pine county; Grow Wing
county, 100000; Mile Laos county,
100000; Winona county, $4,000, and
Washington county, $4,000.
X X r
Reports of Anti-Draft Sentiment.
Reports of anti-draft sentiment in
various localities of Minnesota contin-
ue to pour into the offices of the Min
nesota Public Safety Commission
Secretary John S. Pardee made pub
lie some of the returns as follows
AL OllCIdl III hlIlSOu County Is
charged with summoning men called
by the exemption boards for exam
ination to his Office and advising them
that the sending of drafted men to
France is unconstitutional"
"a communication from Long Prairie
complains that certain peace official
in that section is not cooperating in
otrin fhof
German situation in that vicinity is
no better"
1t also was reported that business
men of Hutchinson and Glencoe who
support the governments war meas
ures were being inundated
Mayor L. A. Fritchie of New Ulm,
Auditor Louis G. Vogel and Treasurer
Henry J. Berg of Brown county are
cited to appear before the commission
to explain their part in the recent pro-
test meeting at New Ulm.
X X X
VIII Not Remove Sheriff.
Sheriff Joseph j. Urness of Mahno.
men county will not be removed from
office on the evidence on which the
State Public Safety commission rec.
commended his summary removal by
Governor Burnquist under the author.
ity of the 1917 law creating the com.
mission, according to a statement
made last night by the governor The
sheriff denied the charges on which
the state commission recommended
his removal and the governor was ad.
xl.2&
be ill-advised.
Warehouse Men to Confer.
Minneapolis and st. Paul ware
house men are to confer at the cap.
itol with the markets division of the
state committee on food production
and conservation of which Hugh j.
Hughes is chairman. Provision for
storage facilities for semi perishable
produce will be the principal subject
X X X
Mannix Quits Onice.
Joseph T. Mannix, whose ten years
service as state printer ended Tues
day at midnight, is going on a long
! trip through the Orient 1t will not
be Mr.. Mannix's first visit to the East
ern hemisphere. He has been there
several times.
State Auditor Names Clerks.
State Auditor J. A. o. Preus an.
nounces that he has appointed Henry
G. Brasie of Monticello, Mimi, and
| w. A. Hinton of st. Paul to clerkships
in his department.
U. S. Ships Many Apples to Britain.
Washington, Aug. Figures com
piled for the department of agriculture
show that during the biggest apple sea-
son, that of 1914 and 1915, this coun.
try forwarded 2,667,873 barrels and
| 1,423, 1872 boxes of fresh apples to for
eign countries. The following years
| the shipments decreased considerably
on account of the war. New York ex
ported the largeset number of barrels
and boxes, and Liverpool received the
| largest number at her piers. London
| was the next largest consignee and
after that city came Glasgow.
Villa Not Military Factor.
| Juarez, Mexico, Aug. francisco
Villa has been eliminated as a mill
tary factor in Mexico and has reverted
to his old methods of banditry, Gen
eral Murgula, commander-in-chie OF
the Northeastern military zone, said
here. General Murgula, accompanied
by his wife and children, came from
Chihuahua City for visit. villa has
less than 100 men and is no longer tc