The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-01

nave been commissioned captains
Both are in. the medical corps.
Mora. = Kanabec county citizens
over-subscribed to the fourth Liberty
Loan by $18,15O. The amount of $138,
$50 was taken by LIS subscribers.
Plainview. = Fifteen residents OF
Plainview have died since the influ
enza epidemic began. Health officials
consider that the crest has been
reached.
Fergus Falls. - The influenza cpl
demic has resulted in 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
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
Lillian Marsh, Josephine Eichammel
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.-Sixty-three out of the
eighty-two men who were called by
the local draft board to entrain for
Camp Forrest, Ca, 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
led to this action. Several carloads
of potatoes have already been shipped
from this vicinity.
rookston.-Adeline Kchlert has re-
ported for work at the Stebbins &
Robert garage to drive a 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.-Company /, after being
modified for state duty only a 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 and other
points ntae tua
Winona.-Plainview' male popula.
ton is much bewhiskered as a result
of the influenza epidemic. The only
BARRIERS in the village are ill with the
malady and tonsorial shops are closed.
Efforts to import a barber have been
unavailable. The supply of safety
razors has been exhausted and the
facial adornments have added a new
phase to the changed village, which
has been laboring under a rigid liu
for few days.
Anoka.-The body of strange man
who had been murdered by uniden-
titled persons was found in a haystack
just inside the city limits and near the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
tracks. The skull had been crushed
and the face disfigured by blows from
a club or bar. There is evidence that
the man was attacked somewhere on
a road and his body dragged to the
stack and partially covered with hay.
The body has not been identified.
Fertile.-G. J. DeMars, proprietor Of
a drug store here, and a graduate Of
the College of Pharmacy of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, has just given
twenty-five pounds of sugar to the
sugar division of the United States
food administration, for the benefit of
the American soldiers In France. In
returning the sugar certificate, Mr..
DeMars says. 81 am returning certif-
icate for twenty-five pounds of sugar,
as I can get along without it. Give
it to the boys"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES he is alleged to
have wagged his tongue seditiously,
emitting statements construed as be-
ing disloyal, Arthur Guenther or
Guenthl, arrested recently, was held
by Commissioner Poirier to the Fed
eral grand jury. "The United States
government sends men around to lie
about the Germans" is part of state
ment alleged to have been made by
Guenther. In reference to the German
atrocities Guenther is alleged to have
said on Sept. II, These are all lies,
there is not bit of truth. The gov.
eminent sends men around to lie
about the Germans. am a German
and shall stick up for Germany"
Ortonville. - Ernest Vanhorn, 20,
died of Spanish influenza, making the
third death in the family of P. E. Van
horn. Leila, girl Of 10, and Merle,
boy of 7, died not long ago of the
same disease. Vanhorn and family
moved to farm one mile from Orion.