The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-04
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debating team will meet the Red Lake
Falls high school team at the former
city on Jan. 8.
Burns suffered while playing the role
of Santa Claus at her home on Christ
mas eve, resulted in the death of Mrs.
Rachael Nelson, of Moorhead.
The explosion of gas in an empty
gasoline tank being repaired at Park
Rapids seriously injured James Kis-
sock and blew out fifteen windows.
Chief Berg of the International Falls
fire department is congratulated over
the fact that that city escaped a fire
On Christmas day for the first time
In q good many years.
As result Of the seed corn short
age in Minnesota, the Martin County
Public Safety commission and the pub
lie marketing committee have decided
to send questi"Enaice to every far
mer in the county to ascertain how
much seed each has and whether he
can spare any for the remainder Of
the state.
The winter term of the Northwest
School of Agriculture at Crookston
opened jan 1 and will continue until
March 2S. The usual courses are Of
fered this year and viii. include work
in the various branches Of agriculture,
home economics, farm economics, gaso-
line and auto engineering music and
falm accounts.
Mile Laos lake has been opened
by the Minnesota Public Safety COM
mission for commercial fishing during
the period of the war Charles e.
Lucas of Wahkon has been appointed
by the commission as a buyer for the
entire Mile Laos lake country and the
state will buy all the marketable fish
| offered for sale.
Brigadier General Charles B. Wheel
| err, who recently was made acting
chief of the ordnance bureau of the
| United States army, is Minnesota
| product. He was appointed to the
| military academy at West Point by
| Senator Knute Nelson, then repre-
| tors first apointee.
John Bettendorf, son of Peter Bet
| tendorf of ST. Paul has been ordained
| by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph F..
| Busch, D. D. Rev. BettendOrf cele-
| brated his first solemn mass at the
| cathedral He was born and received
| his early education in ST. Cloud and
was for some time the assistant cash
| der of Security State bank
Every phase of the newspaper bust
| ness will be discussed at the annual
business meeting of the Northern
| Minnesota Editorial association at
Fergus Falls January II, Is, and 10.
| Among the speakers will be officials
of the National Editorial association,
Minnesota Editorial association and
Northern association and merchants.
| Edith Lindblom, Minneapolis, was
killed and Olga Bolimgren, Minneapo-
| lis, seriously injured when an auto
| mobile in which they were riding was
struck by Lake Superior transfer
freigh train at Superior, Wis, cross
| ing Florence Winters, Carl ElgstrOm
and Robert Lyons, all of Duluth, also
were seriously injured. Lyons was
driving the car.
| Immediate curtailment of luxurious
| passenger service equipment was
among the first steps taken by some
OF the railroads operating in Minneso-
ia, when the government came into
control of the nations rail systems.
announced that it would eliminate
both observation and understanding
cars from it's trains.
Motion for new trial for Jacob o.
Bentall, Socialist nominee for Cover
nor in 1916, who was sentenced tn
one year in Crow Wing county Jail for
obstructing the draft, was denied by
Federal Judge Wilbur F. Booth. T. E.
Latimer, attorney for Bentall, announc
ed he would appeal and a seven day
stay of execution of sentence was
granted to enable him to perfect the
appeal
st. Clouds new Jail, now nearing
completion, held its first prisoner fol
several hours a few days since. A
workman employed on the building
went into one of the cells, slammed
the door and accidentally locked him
self in. 1t was several hours before
he was released. The new building
| Is the first unit of municipal grOul
| which is to be erected at a cost o.
$125,
Members of the Duluth Board o
Trade have inaugurated campaign
toward promoting the sowing of whea
over the northwest next spring, az
opposed to the probable sowing o.
coarse grains. At special meeting
of the board a resolution was passed
urging the necessity Of action by Con
gress to guarantee the farmers of thu
Northwest the cost of putting in thei
crop of wheat during the year 1918, il
order to induce the sowing of a large
acreage.
After thirty-five years of welded lift
| and raising a family of five childrel
ranging in ages from % to So years
Henry Kornfeld, ga, of Ely has decid
ed to ask the courts for divorce from
| Meierl Kornfeld, so, and has filed al
to that end They were married il
Russian Poland in 1882.
Mai. Ned Green, former head re
cutting officer for the Virginia district
| writes Mayor Michael Boylan that h
| is at Washington, but that he has bee
granted months furlough and il
} | tends to spend it in hunting game. o
, his return he expects to leave TO
France to hunt Germans.
At Red Cross auction sale at Je
, fers for Cottonwood county, nearl
$500 was realized for the war relic
organization The sale was attende
: by a large crowd and comes in az
, dition to a record number of men
berships obtainded in this section.