The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-25
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The Minnesota Aggies basketball
team defeated the st. Cloud Normal,
&c to 8. Ress, with six baskets, and
Molstad with five, were the Aggies
stellar performers.
Mike Osga, ST., of Opole, arrested
on charge of selling liquor without
license, was taken before Justice
Alden in court at ST. Cloud and paid a
fine Of $50 and costs, amounting to
$61.75.
Winona Masonic orders are patri-
otto, and the Winona Temple dedica-
ton, which was to have been attend
ed by several hundred members, has
been postponed to assist in conserva-
ton Of fuel.
An executive committee meeting of
the Crow Wing County Sunday
Sclool association was held at Brain
erd The county convention, it was
decided, will be held at Brainerd the
week of June II.
Deputy Game Warden Walter Kline
felter is engaged in cutting holes in
some of the shallow lakes OF the i'm
to allow air to get to the fish so as to
prevent them from being smothered.
Sales of more than 100000 Red
Cross Christmas seals in Minnesota
| already have been reported to the ma
| tional headquarters and the total is
expected to reach 1000 900, according
to Dr. l. j. Murphy, executive secre-
| tary for Minnesota.
Duluth will derive $9,O05,537 in
taxes from the mines located within
| its boundaries. The report of the
| county auditor shows the value of the
mines as $27O,OOO,OO0, granting tax
| assessment over 100000 larger
than ever before collected
A. A. McPheeters, agricultural in
structor at the Mortified high school,
| has been appointed agricultural agent
in Dakota county. He is successor
| to R. G. Pollock, who has been ap-
| pointed to an important position in
| agricultural work in South Dakota
| The 50th anniversary of the found
| Mankato is to be observed next June.
The faculty has the matter in charge,
| but owing to the war it has decided
not to make the celebration as elab-
crate as had at first been planned.
War lunches served to the school
| students of tle domestic science
rooms at the Central school at East
Grand Forks seems to be very popu-
lar with the school children, for 141
were served during the first week
after the lunches were commenced.
Winona's BARRIERS are the latest re-
cruits in Fuel Administrator Garfield s
coal saving campaign. They have
| agreed to open half hour later in
! the morning and close an hour earlier
in the evening. This, in spite of the
| fact that the Garfield order issued
Wednesday means the loss of a day
each. week.
AS result of the liberality of the
people of Luverne in purchasing Red
Cross seals, the pupils of the schools
of that place are to have the benefits
of five weeks service of a visiting
nurse without further financial outlay
by the taxpayers of tae city Christ
mas seals to the number of $4,000
were sold in Luverne
A resolution condemning the Non
partisan league and recommending
that it's propaganda be discouraged
and promoters thereof be rejected
from our homes, our halls, oul
churches, our schools, and all other
places of public gathering" has been
adopted by the public safety commits
sion of Faribault county.
A passenger train on the Great
Western railroad was held up for two
hours while the train crew and pas
sengers labored to remove a team OF
horses from a trestle so feet high
The team had run away at Altura vii
lage and ran out upon the trestle
stretching across a ravine. The ami
mails legs slipped between the ties
and they were imprisoned.
Profiteering by seed dealers is
charged by A. P. Erickson of Ray ir
letter received by the State Public
Safety Commission and referred t.
Prof. G. P. Bull of the agricultural
extension division of the University
| of Minnesota. Farmers in Koochi
ching and other counties in Northern
Minnesota, Mr.. Ericksons letter
| stated, are forced to depend on othe,
| sections for seeds of all kinds except
| grain.
BY oversubscribing it's allotment Of
$4,000 in the second Liberty Loar
by $135,S00, Lake county, of which
| Two Harbors is the capital, has wor
/ the silk banner offered as a prize by
the Public Safety Commission to the
county returning the largest oversub
scriptiOn. A similar prize was award
ed Mobiles county as the one obtain
ing the largest number of loan sub
scriptions in proportion to the popu
lation. Mobiles county returned 4,69t
individual subscriptions out of pop
ulation of 15,412.
Forced to change their plans at the
last moment, because the use of the
Spring Valley opera house was re
fused them, National Nonpartisar
league representatives succeeded il
renting the Independent Order of Ode
Fellows nall there, where a meeting
was addressed by Louis Martin.
Following the resignation of P. J
Sexberger of st. Cloud, Vice Presi
dent Fred T. Lincoln of Brainerd has
succeeded to the presidency of the
League of Minnesota Communit,
Clubs. The league is made up o.
some 80 leading commercial clubs ant
community organizations of the state
Charles Bowers, who was born OF
July a, 1874, in Pennsylvania ant
; who, having been brought to Mime
sofa by his parents at an early day
had for playmates Indian boys o
1tasca county, died at Anoka. il