The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-30
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Rush City-Frank Hanson of Rush
City has been appointed deputy state
oil inspector for the district, including
Pine, Chisago and Kanabec counties.
Thief River Falls. Pennington
county has been reported to Victory
Loan headquarters in Washington as
having subscribed the $270,000 allotted
as it's share.
Observation-Disclosures of the Wash
ington County Rod and Gun club will
hold tournament shoot here on We'd
nesday, June Is. at which goodly
awards will be made to the winners.
Tenstrike.-One thousand selected
ewes purchased of L. H. White, the
North Dakota sheep grower, will be
brought to Tenstrike next week to be
placed on the A. E. Gibson farm in the
town of O'Brien.
Bemidji. = w. G. Schroeder, pro-
prietor of the Alfalfa dairy farm, an.
ncunces that his thirty Holstein cows
are producing 500 quarts of milk daily.
record production for this season of
the year at his dairy.
International FaHs.-The Howell
brothers, aged 10 and IA years, started
on little trip west without the knowl-
edge of their parents. The sheriff's Of
flee located the young fellows at Lit
tlefork and they were returned home.
lackduck.-Farmers of the Black
duck territory are to form Potato
Growers association, and at meeting
to be held the organization will be per-
fected. A. W. Aamodt, agriculturist,
will assist in forming the association.
Aitkin. - Llewellyn Rice, butter
maker at the AL Zoerb creamery, was
seized with coughing spell in thea
ter, and as he attempted to leave his
limbs became useless. He was taken
to the N. P. Hospital at Brainerd and
is suffering from paralysis.
Hibbing.-The 13-months-old child of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Coppar was stricken
with infantile paralysis and the home
was quarantined. There were five
cases of infantile paralysis in the
township last year. Two new cases
of it were reported this week, but the
total number of cases at the present
time is less than six.
Warren.-Warren has been chosen
for the 1920 district convention of the
Federation of Women's clubs. Officers
for the coming year are: Mrs. c. c.
Sclvig, Crookston, president; Miss An
ma Tenant, vice president; Mrs. G. p.
Rice, Breckenridge, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. E, S. jenkins, Ada, treas
urer; Mrs. Bernard, Warren, secretary.
Winton.-The teachers and pupils of
the Winton school gave short pro-
gram on the lawn at the school
grounds when new flag was raised.
AS the flag was being raised the chill
dren sang "The Star Spangled Ban
ner," then all recited the flag salute.
A short address by Supt. H. E. White
and the singing of America closed the
exercises.
Eveleth.-The fuel possibilities of
the peat boys Of Northern Minnesota
and the proposition of finding a mar
ket for such product if this enormous
resource of st. Louis county and the
northern part of the state can be COM
mercialized We're discussed at the last
meeting of the Engineers Club of
Northern Minnesota, held in the Oil
yer clubrooms here.
East Grand Forks.-Directors Of the
Farmers Cooperative Marketing as
sociation have been offered several
sites for their elevator The Northern
Pacific have offered a site on their
road near De Mers avenue. The
Great Northern site offered is near the
Great Northern depot and A. G. Sorlie
has offered site which will also place
them on the Great Northern line.
Winona.-The six weeks strike of
employees of the Interstate Packing
company was settled by compromise
effected by Mayor ]. H. Protz.
The company raises the mems wages
five per cent in addition to the
ten per cent increase offered just be-
fore the strike. The hours remain the
same, the new union is not recognized,
the packing plant remains an open
shop and the company reserves the
right to exclude men chiefly active in
the recent strike.
st. Paul.-The fifty-third annual ses-
sion of the Minnesota State Homeo-
pathic institute held here elected H. o.
Skinner of st. Paul, president; Ethel
Hurd, Minneapolis, vice president; G.
NJ Schmidt, Lake City, secretary, and
Margaret Koch, Minneapolis, treas
urer. George Haywood of Minneapo-
lis was named on the censor board,
and George B. Hamlin, William E.
Leonard and d. A. Locke, also of Min
neapolis, were chosen members of the
executive committee.
st. Paul. = Thrifty housewives can
have fancy fish fresh from the lakes
delivered anywhere in Minnesota at
wholesale prices, under an offer made
late yesterdaysby Carlos Avery, state
game and fish commissioner. The plan
will bring state fishing operations q
step nearer consumers toward reduc-
ing the cost of living, the commits
sioner said. While the smallest ship
ment made is twenty-five pounds,
housewives may club together, Mr..
Avery explained, and purchase state
caught fish, well packed and iced and
all charges paid at reasonable prices.
st. Paul.-State Auditor J. A. 0.
Preus has returned from Washing
ton conference with federal and state
representatives on land utilization, pri-
marily toward providing lands for re-
turning soldiers. The secretary Of
agriculture was urged by the confer
ence to investigate at once the adapt
ability of more than 100000 acres OF
cutover lands in Minnesota. Wiscon-