The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-07


Crookston; vice president, G. /. Brandt
Greenbush;, secretary and treasurer,
]. E. Bake, Detroit.
Minneapolis at the Uni
versity of Montana are still undecided
and puzzled over a large devil fish
which was caught in an irrigation
ditch near Missoula The creatures
body measured IL inches in circum-
ference and tentacles were five feet
long. Experts say the fish was cap
| able of drowning a man.
Warren.-Extensive preparations
are being made for the fifth annual
summer meeting of the Red River
| Valley Live Stock Breeders and the
Red River Valley Development asso-
citation to be held here. The program
committee will announce soon the list
of speakers who will address, the
everal sessions of the meeting.
Red Lake Falls.-The present steel
and wood bridge across the Clear
water river, here will be replaced this
summer with 100000 reinforced
concrete structure as the result of the
combined action of the city council
and the Red Lake county board, the
| county to pay $4,000, and the city
| to furnish $4,000 in cash and do
$4,000 worth of work in grading and in
building temporary road to be used
while the bridge is under construction.
st. Paul-The burden of short
hauls is to be transferred from the
railroads of the country to automo-
bile trucks through campaign in
augurated by the highway transport
! commission of the National Council
| Of Defense at Washington and pre-
scented to the State Public Safety
commission. The request for Min
! nesota's cooperation and also for a
| conference at Washington was re-
ferred to the state highway commits
sion
| st. Paul-Seventeen guns were
fired in salute when Governor ]. A A.
Burnquist arrived at st. Thomas COL
lege to attend Home Coming celebra-
ton and the dedication of the college
service flag containing 511 stars. The
flag was dedicated in the new college
chapel by Bishop James Trobec, at
tended by DR.. F. X. Schaefer, of st.
Paul seminary and Rev. Walter Daily
of ST. Thomas college. There was
music by choir of 200 voices from
st. Paul Seminary and by the 36th
| infantry band, Fort Smelling.
Cloquet-Red Cross activity here
nounced The outstanding feature was
/ the success of the drive for the Red
Cross war fund. Cloquet's quota was
$4,000 and this was exceeded by at
least 20 per cent, and contributions
are still coming in. The Red Cross
salvage sale conducted by the salvage
committee of the local branch also
had gratifying results, S775 being
cleared Mrs. c. B. Watkins is chair
man of this committee. The CloqHet
branch sent in to the Duluth chapter
this week 700 surgical dressings, rep
resenting the weeks work of the var
ious classes.
Minneapolis-The 59th Annual con-
vention Of the Evangelical Lutheran
Augustana Synod which convened in
the Emanuel Lutheran church, On the
4th inst has brought to the twin cities
representatives of Swedish and Eng
lish speaking Lutheran, congregations
from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Cal
ifornia This Is the annual conven-
ton of the Augustana Synod which
has an exceedingly large constituency
in the northwest, particularly i'll Min
nesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas.
The total membership of the synod is
about 100000 in 1925 congregations
and the convention is attended by
some 400 pastors and lay delegates.
Minneapolis--The law requires draft
ed men to always carry their regis
| tration and classification card at all
times on their person, SO that they
may show it to any duly accredited
official or police officer when demand
ed. The penalty fof failure TO carry
such cards is one year in the federal
penitentiary. great many men
! from the country districts are assum-
| ing the hazard Of this penalty, and
! hundreds of them are coming to the
cities without registration card OF
any sort. Emphasis should be laid up
| on the necessity of carrying the cards,
and it will undoubtedly save many
| of them from serious consequences
/ 5ne IN cir neplect
/ Warren-At the summer melting of
/ the Red River Valley Livestock Breed
er's and the Red River Valley Develop
ment associations to be held here
| June 20 and 81 well-known stock spe-
cialists will be on hand to acquaint
Northwestern Minnesota farmers with
needs for meat production in these
war times. Among speakers expected
/ are Duncan Marshall, minister of ag-
riculture of Alberta; j. d. McGregor,
Brandon, Man, who raised the inter
! national champion two years in sue.
/ cession, and Dr. G. w. Gay There
will also be discussion of the pro.
posed building at Crookston for a
winter livestock show.
/ Weseca.-Lieut. Bernard Gallagher
attached to medical corps, reported
missing In action in war department
| casualty list last April, is prisoner
In a German camp at VAIN Rhine.
! land, Germany, according to cable
gram received by his father, r. NJ
Gallagher of this city. The message
which said that Lieut.. Gallagher is
! perfectly well and not worried, was
forwarded through the Paris headquar
/ tiers of the American Red Cross.
Brainerd.-Crow Wing county has
passed the $4,000 mark i'll it's cam