The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-08


oversubscribed to the fourth Liberty
Loan by $1S,15O. The amount Of $685.
$50 was taken by LIS subscribers.
Plainview. = Fifteen residents Of
Plainview have died since the infiu
enza epidemic began. Health officials
consider that the crest has been
reached
Fergus Falls - The influenza cpl
demic has resulted in a number of
deaths among the patients at the state
hospital here. The hospital is ex-
| tremely short of help.
Roosevelt-Gilbert Roen, Per Eng
strom, Ed Turner and others went to
Warroad with lot of cattle to ship,
| but had to return with the animals, as
| there were no cars available.
| Hastings.-Rev. Rudolph Ericsson,
| former pastor of the Methodist church
here, but recently commissioned a
chaplain in the navy, has left for
Seattle, where he will report for duty.
East Grand Forks.-Alice Thatcher,
| Lillian Marsh, Josephine Eichammer
and Cecile Ebinstine, local girls, have
gone to the farm of Fay Reed, near the
city, to attempt to hurry along the
potato picking.
| st. Cloud.-SiAIy-three out of the
eighty-two men who were called by
the local draft board to entrain for
Camp Forrest, Ga, answered the roll.
| Several were out of the ranks because
of sickness or had been transferred.
! Bemidji.-A permanent shipping as
ISOLATION was formed by farmers at
a meeting to be held at Hines The
success of this years potato crop has
4 led to this action Several carloads
of potatoes have already been shipped
from this vicinity.
| Crookston-Adeline KehJert has re-
ported for work at the Stebbins &
Robert garage to drive taxi and
work on the floor to take the place of
| William Sumpman, who left some time
ago for military training at the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
Minneapolis. = Col. w. r. Stephens,
commander of the Motor Reserve
corps of Minnesota, who returned to
Minneapolis Wednesday night after
nearly two weeks of continuous ser.
vice in the fire district about Moose
Lake, is seriously ill with pneumonia
at his home here. Col. Stephens was
one of the first of the relief officers to
reach the scene of the fire disasters.
| Crookston.-C /, after being
modified for state duty only few
days after it was sworn in, has again
been demobilized. Capt. Chesterman
received word from Maj. Paul Spooner
Of Morris that he had been notified
that the services of the local company
would not be needed The boys were
in keen anticipation of going to Du-
luth or Moose Lake to help the fire
sufferers.
Moose Lake.-Minnesota people are
responding literally to the call for
furniture and other articles for losers
by the recent fire disaster here, and
many tons are arriving for distribu-
ton. Several hundred shacks have
been built for those who lost their
homes and these are being furnished
rapidly as possible notably with kitch-
en- utensils which are coming from
Duluth, the Twin Cities sad other
points.
/ Winona.-Plainview's E.aie cpula-
, ton is much bewhiskered as result
, of the influenza epidemic. The only
, BARRIERS in the village are ill with the
malady and tonsorial shops are closed.
Efforts to import barber have been
unavailable. The supply of safety
t razors has been exhausted and the
: facial adornments have added a new
| phase to the changed village, which
has been laboring under a rigid lid
: for few days.
Anoka.-The body of strange man
: who had been murdered by uniden-
: titled persons was found in haystack
| just inside the city limits and near the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
5 tracks. The skull had been crushed
and the face disfgured by blews from
3 club or bar. There is evidence that
1 the man was attacked somewhere on
road and his body dragged to the
: stack and partially covered with hay.
, The body has not been identified
n Fertile.-G. J. DeMars, proprietor of
. drug store here, and graduate of
e the College of Pharmacy of the Uni
3 versity of Minnesota, has just given
S twenty-five pounds of sugar to the
D sugar division of the United States
: food administration, for the benefit of
a | the American soldiers in France In
n returning the sugar certificate, Mr..
1 DeMars says: 81 am returning certif-
icate for twenty-five pounds of sugar,
d as l can get along without it. Give
$ it to the boys"
: Virginia-Because he is alleged to
S have wagged his tongue seditiously,
: ing disloyal, Arthur Guenther or
/ Guenthl, arrested recently, was held
s by Commissioner Poirier to the Fed
r eral grand jury. "The United States
!. lgovernment sends men around to lie
) about the Germans" is part of state
!, ment alleged to have been made by
r Guenther In reference to the German
!, atrocities Guenther is alleged to have
said on Sept II, "These are all lies,
l. there is not a bit of truth. The gov.
}. eminent sends men around to lie
s about the Germans. I am a German
and shall stick up for Germany"
e Ortonville. - Ernest Vanhorn, 90
e died of Spanish influenza, making the
e third death in the family Of p E. Van
d horn. Leila, a girl of IS, and Merle
n a boy of z, died not long ago of the
d same disease. Vanhorn and family
t movedsto farm one mile from orion
t. Vile year ago from Grand Junction
n Iowa.
East Grand Forks. = Before the
t schools are reopened they will all be