The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-09-27

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the position has filed his affidavit With
County Auditor A. o. Houglum.
Williams.-The Williams public
school had flag-raising exercise, all
the children giving the flag salute as
Old Glory was unfurled to the. breeze.
Crookston.-The'C rookston National
Guard is rapidly becoming recruited
UP to the required strength needed be-
fore 1t can be mustered into state ser
| vice.
East Grand Forks-Five of the To-
cal business establishments of the city
are uniting and forming new deliv.
| cry service, calling it the East Side
Delivery service
minneapolis Ralph R. Adams,
United States infantry, has arrived
from New York and assumed COM
mand of the students army training
corps at the University Of Minnesota.
st. Paul.-Ernest Vuercher, Gloster,
Mimi, who was taken to bethesda hos.
pital, this city, following fall from
silo on a farm near Gloster, Mimi,
died at p. M, yesterday. He had
Suu6ISu lntOTudt Injuries.
Crookston.-W. w. floyd, district
agent here for the Great Northern, re-
signed to take st. Paul position. E.
o. Fox, formerly cashier, takes Mr..
Lloyds position as depot agent, while
Charles Emmerick has been appointed
as first cashier.
East Grand Forks.-Postmaste E.
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rendered his resignation to take effect
on Oct. 1. A successor has not yet
been named. Mr.. Buckley has been
appointed cashier of the First State
bank of Ardock, N. D.
Little Falls.-Ever since the replace
| ment of the west wing of the dam by
concrete structure, tho water power
company has contemplated replacing
the whole dam in this manner. and it
is now given out that work on the
west wing will commence in the Eear
future.
Mankato-While William Parsons
of Kasota was motoring into Mankato
with his family to attend the county
fair, he found a purse in the road
containing valuable papers and note
| for $1,000 on the Kasota bank, made
payable to Nils Johnson of Kasota.
nneapolis.-Married more than so
years ago, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl ]. Wal
lin, who had passed the four-score-
year mark, are dead IN their home
here, in which they lived for thirty
six years, their deaths occurring with
in three days of each other. They
were residents of this city for forty
years and had outlived all except
three of their ten children.
Fargo.-Fred Milbrath, laborer,
wanted at Wadena, Mimi, on charge
in connection with the Staying of AL
bert Mundfrom, Tripoli, Iowa, is said
by the sheriff at Wadena to have
been driving Mundfrom's auto shortly
after the Iowa mans body was found
on a road near Wadena. Milbrath was
taken to Wadena to face the charge.
waving examination proceedings.
Duluth. for discharge
| are piling in on Captains Toutellot and
Sherman of d and c companies of the
Fourth Minnesota Infantry because of
the order which reduces compensation
by so cents day. When soldiers
| were needed to guard Duluth indus
tries the citizens subscribed to fund
to pay the men bonus. Commission
er MCGEE claims the bonus was for
one year only.
Hibbing. = Many Hibbing families
will go without coal unless they turn
1 in, hot OF n
Deputy Fuel Administrator Cyrus
Forsberg. "Coal is coming in regular
| ly but the national fuel administration
| insists that the peoples needs be
placed on paper and unless orders are
| given now to local coal dealers there
will be a shortage in many quarters"
| There is limited supply of hard coal
| coming here.
Fergus Falls.-The Otter Tail Power
company, which generates power here
| for 80 cities and villages, has been
| finding it difficult to maintain full SER
| vice, on account of the low stage of
| water in Minnesota streams and has
been compelled to use large quantities
of coal. AS a result, it has asked the
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a voluntary increase in rates of rs
| per cent. Thus far 81 of the 80 places
served have granted the increase.
| st. Paul-While game birds in Min
nesota, including both ducks and
| prairie chickens, are greatly increased
| this year, the number Of hunters is
reduced by fully one-half, Carlos
| Avery, state game and fish commits.
sioner, said yesterday at the opening
| Of the wild fowl hunting season
| Hunters are now regulated by both
state and federal laws, and also by
| Che international treaty with Canada,
| which still further protects migratory
birds.
st. Paul.-The Minnesota Commits
sion of Public Safety is sending out
warnings to settlers, campers, con-
! struction crews and to those who have
4 occasion to pass any time in the
| woods, of the danger Of forest fires at
this time of the year. According to an
order issued by the commission, it is
unlawful for anyone to kindle or SET
any fire in grass, stubble, brush, slash
or woods or kindle fire, except for do
nestle or industrial purposes, in any
of the northern counties
st. Chicken experts are being
sought by the government department
of agriculture to Gull the focks OF
poultry to separate the ''slackers" from
the layers The major part Of the &C
tive work will be confined to about rs
counties in northern Minnesota. The
work of instruction IN culling the
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