The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-05-10

kato high school are believed to have.
been responsible for breaking into
the high school and destroying all
German text books over the weekend
holiday.
Bemidji.- miss Dorothy Torrance,
instructor of music in the Bemidjf
city schools, and well known in the
city's musical circles, has been APP
pointed assistant supervisor of music
in the st. Paul public schools.
inneapolis.-Notice of appeal from
the decision of Federal Judge Page
Morris in the case in which James
A. Peterson, candidate for Republic
can nomination as United States SEN
ator, was found guilty of violation
OF the espionage act, has been filed.
st. Paul.-Resignation of Mabel
Carney, superintendent Of teacher
training departments in Minnesota
high schools, will be accepted by the
state high school board Miss Carney
has been appointed to the faculty Of
Teachers college, Columbia univer-.
sity.
Red Lake Falls.-P. B. Gauss se-
cured So cans of brook trout from the
Minnesota State Game and Fish COM
mission, and with the assistance of
several Red Laks Falls business men,
planted the small fish in the Hill and
Lost rivers in the eastern part of the
county.
st. Pau1-Judge Ira B. Mills, chair
man of thp OF rai1rood opJ
house commission, is expected soon to
issue the formal order that will make
possible the operating consolidation
| OF the Northwestern Telephone Ex-
change company and Tri-State Tele-
phone and Telegraph company lines
| in Minnesota.
st. Paul.-Machinery for taking the
votes of Minnesota men in military
service outside the state at the pri-
mary and general elections has been
officially created by the State Public
Safety commission. Under prelimin-
airy arrangements applications for bal
lots under the voting by mail plan
are being distributed in the camps
and environments.
Carlton William Aho, "a years old,
employed at the Great Northern
Power company house near Bronell,
was electrocuted while working un-
der feed wires carrying $500 volts of
electricity. Aho was throwing dirt
under the wires, which are suspended
eight feet above the ground, and the
electricity jumped to his shovel, in
stantly killing him.
Winona.-Mrs. Garry Irish was killA
ed, her sister, Mrs. Anna Bannon,
seriously injured, and her husband,
an aviator of the Lafayette, on leave,
suffered broken arm and other in
juries when an automobile in which
they were riding turned over, pinning
them beneath it after plunging down
10foot embankment at Oronoco
Mr.. and Mrs. Irish were married in
Winona last January. He had just
returned from France.
st. Paul-Proposed organization of
a new Minnesota National guard to
replace units called into federal serv-
ice, Adjutant General Rhinow an
nounces will be entirely Independent
of the Minnesota Home Guards and
the Fourth Minnesota infantry Home
GuaSdsmen will be permitted to trans
fer to any National guard company
ordered in the same town, General
Rhinow explained, but the Home
Guard organization will be unaffected
otherwise
st. Paul.-Minnesota has no place
for a disloyal teacher, and o. N Bre-
Wig, principal of the state grade school
in Rothsay, Wilkin county, is pro-
hibited from teaching in any school
of the state from the close of the
G. Schulz, state superintendent of ed
ucation, has written Bervig and the
school board of Rothsay as a result
of charges of disloyalty made against
the teacher, and his admission of
their truth in published affidavit
st. Paul-Alien teachers are barred
from schools of all kinds in Minnesota
by an order adopted by the Minnesota
Safety commission. In certain cases
exception may be made by the state
superintendent of education, who is
authorized by the commission to en-
force the order. Friendly aliens may
overcome the order by filing their
declaration of intention. Many re-
ports have come to the commission
from over the state, it was declared
of the aliens teaching in various
schools, though the aggregate number
is not believed to be large.
Minneapolis weeks extension
of time has been granted for reports
on flour in consumers hands, which
were to have been made to county
food administrators by May 1, A. D.
Wilson, federal food administrator
for Minnesota, announced the flour
survey had been extended to May 10.
This will give the county food adj
ministrators time to check up and
tabulate returns. Some counties are
turning in heavy reports of surplus
flour. Isanti county, for instance, has
reported a surplus averaging about
$50 pounds to the family, or $4,000
pounds for the county.
White Bear-M. j. Sullivan, 81 years
old, retired contractor, was found
burned to death five feet from a rain
barrel in his yard, which he tried to
reach in an effort to extinguish his
clothes, which caught fire when he
attempted to light a stove in his
home.
Thief River Falls.-The permanent
organization of Red Cross branches
in Reiner and Deer PARK townships
gives Pennington county seventeen