The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-03-08

proprietor, was cOnVfcted Dy a jury III
municipal court on the charge of per-
hitting minors to play pool in his
place of business.
st. Cloud-Arthur Mellum, "a
years old, six feet or better, in the city
jail mere, is ill with the small pox.
Mellum was picked up by the police
several days ago.
Minneapolis-Ho Penny, IL
years cid, disappeared from his home
at 26iJ First avenue south several
days ago and searching party has
been unable to find any trace Of him.
st. Paul.-Bids on the erection of
new state normal school building at
Benlidji will be opened March IL By
the state board of control. The build
ing is expected to cost approximately
100000.
Fertile-Albert Refling of Fertile
has returned from a seven-year So
journ in Alaska, having been in bust
ness at st. Petersburg. He stated
that business conditions in that part
of the country were good.
Remer.-W. E. Provonost, chairman
of the local war savings stamp
committee, who made a special effort
TO boost the stamps in Remer, an
nounces that he succeeded in inter-
esting every family in the project
| Little Falls-The fire loss il Morri-
! son county last year was $36,al3
| from thirty-nine fires. This is an in
! crease over the preceding year OF
| S12,25S with fourteen more fires, says
state fire marshal
/, St Cloud.-John Glaidon of this city
. has been given an honorable dis
Charge from the army because he had
tailed to take out his second papers.
tIe was drafted with the first incre-
ment which left this city and has
been stationed at Camp Dodge.
Cass Lake-Rev. G. NJ. Peacock,
former pastor of the First Congrega-
tiona! church here and who has had
charge of the Congregational parish
at Detroit Mimi, for the past two
years, has left Detroit with his wife
for Ault, Colo, where he will take
charge of church.
+ Saltwater = Coroner Wells was
summoned to the southwestern por
tion Of the town of Woodbury. to view
the body of Nels P. Nelson, SO years
old, who committed suicide because
of illness by hanging himself in the
basement of his barn An inquest
was not deemed necessary
East Grand Forks.-Two recruits
fer the aviation section of the signal
corps have been accepted at the re-
cruiting office BY Sergeant M. Il.
Coon,ier and sent to the main re
cruiting station at Minneapolis: Will
fred Gandette Of Erskine, Mimi, and
Frank Ostrander, of Mentor, Mimi.
Aitkin.-The attempt of the Aitkin
merchants to do away with deliver
les Of goods has proven unsatisfac-
tory and new policy is now to be in
augurated IN which all deliveries will
be made by one management. The
deliveries will be scheduled 10 diff
ferent parts of the town at certain
hours and only one delivery a day
will be made to each section,
? ST. Paul-The wartime farm al the
state prison in Saltwater will COM
prise 1000 acres, Warden Reed an
nounced when the state board of con-
, troll leased an additional tract Of $50
acres to increase the food production
at the institutions. The land was
leased for five years at an annual rem
, tai of $1,000 with the privilege of
purchase at 5000 an acre at any time
during the period.
ST. Paul-Five Federal aid road
projects in Minnesota have been let
! and contractors will begin work as
soon as the weather permits, accord
| ing to c. NJ. Babcock, state highway
, commissioner. The five projects are
the first of thirty and they have an
r aggrcgate length of ,143 miles and
: will cost $542,OOO The thirty pro-
: jects will aggregate 700 miles and
will cost $2,2OO,OO0
: Minneapolis. - Marietta Mimi.
? stands high at the Ninth District Fed
, eral Reserve bank Of Minneapolis.
4 When Governor Theodore Void open
$ ed his mail he found letter from
h Cashier A. c. Miller of the Marietta
1 State bank, enclosing $4,000 in
+ drafts to cover the purchase Of Unit
+ ed States government certificates.
4 The cashier wrote: Kaiserism'
0 must be stamped out and our boys
: returned to their American homes.
b Until this is accomplished, the mat
n ter of bank earnings becomes second
ary."
e Hutchinson. = August Mueller oS
= Lester Prairie entered a plea OF
y guilty to the charge of blackmatl and
C was sentenced to an indeterminata
e term in the ST. Cloud reformatory by
It District Judge c. M. Tiff. Peter
a Feltmann, farmer, living near here,
n found a note demanding that $4,000
G be left in his rural mail box if he de-
S sired to escape arrest because of the
: alleged fact he had a German flag IN
e his possession. The note was written
e on a typewriter. Mueller, who is OF
IS German descent, denied he owned a
e typewriter until Sheriff Frank Klaus
s produced the machine in court. Muel-
Ter then pleaded guilty.
If st. Paul-Announcing that it stands
n ready to acquire by condemnation il
A. necessary the right to idle land fol-
Ii wartime crop production, the State
a. Public Safety commission in resolu-
n ton, calls public attention to the i'm
portance of utilizing all available
TT land and promoting the war garden