The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-08-17
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The Week IN Brief
An Epitome of All the Big and
Interesting Events Of the Past
Few Days In the State.

Few Days In the State.
The Cambridge Home and Mothers
circle Is having a porcelain drinking
fountain installed on Main street.
The Canadian casualty list, issued
last, contains among the wounded the
name of G. Simons. Glenwood, MINI.
The St. Cloud branch of the Rail-
way Employees association is complet-
ing plans for an all day picnic to be
held at the Wife Park pavilion on La
Dor day.
| The farmers of England township,
| Polk county, are fighting the sow this
tie. This menace has not been SO
| great in that community as many 9TH
ers, but it is commencing to get
good start.
The International Falls band is now
without leader, Ernie Sly, who has
been acting in that capacity, having
departed for Omaha, after having been
laid off at the paper mill, where he
was employed as a brick mason.
The 200 employees of the Northwest
district OF the Bell Telephone COM
pany, comprising the Seventh Tele-
graph battalion, U. S. A., have been or
dered officially by the War department
to mobilize at once at the Minneapolis
armory.
| The annual convention of the Up
per Mississippi River Improvement as
sociation will be In Winona Sept. 26
and 81, according to secretary A. ".
Gardner Of the Winona association Of
commerce and the arrangements will
be started Immediately.
Judge ]. ]. Fitzpatrick of the Winona
municipal court has been accepted as
candidate for entrance to the Sec
ond officers training camp at Fort
Smelling and will leave the bench to
try for commission. He was elect
ed to the judgeship last spring.
A meeting of the men was held at
Sank Rapids for the purpose of get
ting the sentiment regarding the or
ganization Of home guard. About
so men at once signed as members
and proceeded to elect ]. P. Keller,
captain, and Lew Beatty, lieutenant.
| Speakers at the peace meeting at
Ada advocated the repeal Of the con-
scription law and declared that the
CONSUMPTION question should be sub
mitted to vote Of the people. Peti-
lions asking Congress to submit the
question of CONSUMPTION to the people
were circulated.
Three hundred ring-neck pheasants
have been delivered at Winona from
the state farm by members of the Wi
nina Sportsmen's club. They were
distributed to two new game preserves
in the county. The birds, purchased
by the Winona club and propagated
at the State Game Protective leagues
farm, will join others which were
placed there recently.
Four loads of improved Manchuria
barley, yielding 101 bushels, have been
threshed at the State University farm
Instructors at the farm say that, at
this rate, the field will run better than
60 bushels to the acre. All of the
grain will be saved for seed. Farm.
ers who want this seed, Minnesota No
2 Pedigreed rye or car lots of com.
mon rye should notify C.-P. Bull, at
the University farm, st. Paul.
Matt Schimp1in, Scandinavian EN-.
ploye Of the Dry Milk factory at Ano-
ka, has been jailed on charge of
using seditious language and is under
military guard. He will be turned over
to federal authorities. Schimplin and
other employees were discussing the
war at the factory and Schimplin, II
is alleged, grew very much heated and
made the statement that it was his
opinion that President Wilson should
be shot.
Names of the young women who
graduated from Mankato high school
last year, have been requested by the
committee on nursing of the general
medical board council of National De
tense, Washington, D. c., and have
been supplied. The names were
sought with view of writing to the
young women i'm regard to entering
school of nursing to fit themselves
for patriotic duty during the war.
Though inclement weather com
PEELED Anoka to hold its patriotic meet
ing indoors, 5000 people damned the
Company B armory to suffocation and
cheered to the echo five stirring speak
ers who voiced sentiments of loyalty
to the government that could leave nc
doubt of the whole-hearted American
ism of Anoka and Washington coun
ties. Every speaker was repeatedly
interrupted by applause and the meet
ing ended with the audience, brought
to it's feet by the "Star Spangled Ban
ner," giving three deafening cheers fol
Uncle Sam.
The draft has brought two tragedies
to the family of Carl Krafve Of Ma
pie Ridge. When Mrs. Krafve heard
that her son, Reuben, was drafted
she suffered stroke and died. Reu
ben hanged himself after the exam
nation.
Triplets, girls, have been born al
Remer to Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Jones
Mrs. Jones is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Ellis of Nymore, and q
granddaughter of Louis Freeman OF
Pine Island, formerly of Bemidji, an
old soldier and member of the Be
midi post, G.. A. R.
Contractor John Lauritzen of the
new Federal building has been in Be
midi from Fergus Falls looking over
the progress of the work on the new
postofffce. The excavating is all done
the concrete footings i'm and the foun
dalton practically complete with the
walls going up.
Joseph Schneider, aged 81, for the
past eight years resident of Montana