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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

Any means by which separate pur-
chasers pool their order for the pur-
pose of escaping the tax imposed by
Section $50 shall be carefully guard
ed against by the vendor, for its en-
ployment subjects the purchaser and
the vender (if he connives in it,. to
the penalties provided in Section
1903 of the act.
There has been much discussion
the past week regarding the tax
placed on goods sold at soda water
fountains. There is tax on orange
ade, lemonade, pineapple juice, root
beer, phosphates, fruit favoring,
syrups, mixed with carbonated water
or plain water, milk shakes, matted
milk shakes, ice cream, ice cream
sodas, sundaes, ice cream sandwiches
and favored ices, when mixed and
sold, at the fountain for consumption
on the premises.
The following drinks are not tax
able: Hot beef tea, coffee, tea, but
termilk,. milk, hot chocolate, hot clam
broth, tomato bouillon, bottled drinks
sold direct from the container. Man
ufacturer's taxes are imposed on
drinks of that class. When sold in
containers and to be carried away
from the selling place to be eaten, ice
Sc l. I.-l
tax on ice cream cones.
Soft drink stands and persons own
ing street carts subject to the
tax, as are booths a county fairs, cir
cuses or ball games Restaurants, or
other places serving ice cream Incl
dent to their business, are not re-
CURED to pay the tax. Church So
Gals and clubs are exempt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
FIRE PREVENTION.

Every Minnesota city and village
of more than 1000 population will
have an active fire prevention COM
mittee to aid in a continuous state
wide campaign under plans made
public by G. H. Nettleton, fire mar
shall.
Four department deputies will be
assigned soon to organize the pro-
posed local committees. Further
plans are for more effective results
in fire prevention day clean-ups, the
fire marshal said, and to stimulate
interest through annual state fire
prevention congresses.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
NATIONAL FORESTS
YOU ARE INVITED TO MAKE USE
OF THESE FAIRGROUNDS.

Uncle Sam is starting out on a
campaign to make the National For
ests better known to the public. The
Denver Office of the Forest service,
through booklets, stamps, buttons,
letters of invitation and lantern
slides distributed to motion picture
houses, is trying to educate people to
the fact that the National Forests Of
fer the finest opportunities for out
door life and recreation to be found
in America.
There are twenty million acres of
/! Fairgrounds that include mountains,
glaciers, lakes, streams, forests and
all awaiting the summer vacation
seeker. National Forest Fairgrounds
where you are free to roam at will,
and where there are no burdensome
restrictions. Fairgrounds where
camp may be pitched as the fancy
prompts, and where you can come
and go at your pleasure, and stay as
long as you like. All this, and more
Uncle Sam invites you to come and
enjoy.
Forsake the beaten paths. Leave
the sweltering cities and farms. Take
real vacation in the Forests. They
are all accessible to the motorist, to
the hiker, and the lover of the sad
die. Good roads are numerous
throughout the National Forests, and
new roads are being built each year.
Hotel and garage facilities can be
found in almost all towns. Pack out
fits and guides, if desired, can usually
be hired in most communities. Many
ranches and resorts also cater to the
comforts of visitors.
If you want a summer home of
your own in the National Forests,
you can lease site for your cottage,
at small annual rental, from the
Government. Many, beautiful lots
bordering lakes and streams are
available for your use.
The National Forests offer fishing
unexcelled. Each year the Forest
Service, in cooperation with State
officials and private companies, plants
millions of young fish, thus keeping
the most frequented waters plenti-
fully supplied. Fishing and hunting
are free but sportsmen, before going
into the Forests, should provide them
selves with a copy of the State game
laws and the necessary license.
Camping places? Their name is
legion-and you may pick and choose
to your hearts content In the more
popular Forests, camping sites have
been set aside and improved for the
use of visitors. .But-watch your
camp fire. Build it small, as a true
woodsman does, and keep it away
from brush and small timber. Above
all, put it out with both water and
earth every time you leave your
camp. For fire is an ever present
menace and the destruction of the
Forest would mean an irreparable
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

cellent grade, and conditions favor
able for mining, or he may find his
effort and investment Improbable.
He may get by with profit if he To-
Gates a considerable deposit of fair
grade ore that may be stripped and
mined with steam shovel, either for
direct shipment, or for. treating in
plant. But the inducement at pres
ent prices of ore and costs of mining
are not very alluring. Beside, there
is the legislature, which every two
years endeavors to saddle a further
burden in the shape of tonnage tax,
in addition to all other taxes. So,
on the whole, the small operator, and
the explorer who seeks mines to sell
the control to some large operator
for profit, are not going to be so
much in evidence until conditions
become more favorable. Large iron
mine operators as a rule do not seek
new mines by exploration, but pur-
chase the control of mines already
proven.
1t is to be hoped that once the
iron and steel industry gets back on
its feet, going good, and prices for
iron and steel products are profitable,
that prosperity will return to the in
dependent iron ore producer, and to
the explorer. Taxation of iron ore
in Minnesota is now so high that ex-
plorers dread to disclose an ore de-
post for fear. that they may not be
able to turn it before they have paid
out in taxes large part of the pros
pective profits. Any time that it be-
comes so that explorers quit seeking
iron ore for profit there will be wit
messed sharp decline in the unmined
reserves of the state. If they be dis
couraged from exploration for the
next ten vars we shall surely see the
known unmined ore reserves of Min
nesota drop well below the one-bil-
ion tons mark. 1t is expected that
the ore shipments for the next ten
years will be of much larger volume
than for any preceding decade in the
history of Lake Superior, and to in
crease, or even maintain reserves at
the end of that period as of May1,
1917, is going to call for a great
amount of new known ore. No such
amount as is going to be required
will be located under present induce
ments, unless another Guyana. hap
pens to come to the rescue.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
TOTAL OF $243.700
Victory Bond Sales Up to Today Totals as
Above...889 Subscribers.
This Total Also Takes Credit for the Oliver
Mining Company Share.

Figures on the Victory Loan drive
are now complete and the summary
shows that Ely in its accustomed
manner has gone proudly and pat
riotically over the top over 100000.
The total amount purchased by Ely
citizens was $4,000. Added to this
the amount credited to Ely by the
Oliver Iron Mining Company and the
Equitable Life Insurance company
and the total comes up to $245,700.
The total number of subscribers
here, figuring the Oliver and the
Equitable as one, amount to $50 and
the total percentage amounts to
about $273.6O per subscriber. Fig
uring the population of this city at
5000 the percentage of subscriptions
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

per capita amounts to about $40.70.
1856 employees of the Oliver COM
pany took 300; SO employees of
the Duluth & Iron Range subscribed
for $6,750; the First National Bank
disposed of $11s,95O to 474 SUBJ
scribers and the First State Bank
distributed $4,000 to 1919 sub
scribers.
Among the larger subscribers to
the Victory Loan are Capt. Frank
Kent, Mrs. Kent, the South Slavonic
Catholic Union, John Kapsch, Oliver
company, Equitable Insurance COM
pany, Supt. Chas. Trezona and fam
lily.
Chairman Murphy makes the state
ment that he is very well pleased
with the showing made by his district.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
BIG PAVED
ROAD PROGRAM
THE ST. LOUIS COUNTY PAVED
ROAD PROGRAM BIGGEST
IN THE STATE.

Of the % counties in Minnesota
that have decided to issue bonds and
pave it's roads in anticipation of the
adoption of the Babcock amendment,
the program adopted by the st. Louis
county commissioners is greater than
the aggregate of the remaining 81.
St. Louis county will issue $780,
900 worth of bonds to pave more than
200 miles of road, according to the
plans adopted by the couny commits
sioners. The remaining 27 counties
have decided to issue bonds totaling
$6,527, 900 to pave 261 miles of road
way. This information was obtained
from the reports received by C. M.
Babcock, state highway commissioner
who drafted the program under which
this work is contemplated.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
work may be obtained when it is con-
sidered that the federal aid for Min
nesota for the next ten years, will be
but $25, 100000 and of this amount,
St. Louis county will receive one
sixth. The remainder will come from
the state if the Babcock amendment
is adopted so that in the end. the
county will have paved roads without
one penny coming out of the county
treasury.
The Babcock amendment author
ICES the state to levy special tax on
motor vehicles. This money will go
into the trunk highways sinking
fund.-" out of which the 5000 miles
of trunk roadways are to be paid.
Not more than $75,0OO,OO0 in bonds
may be outstanding at any one time.
The Babcock amendment provides
that counties may be reimbursed out
of the bond issue for money spent on
any part of the trunk highway sys-
tenn. So the counties are going
ahead to raise the money, confident
that the voters will approve the
amendment next year.
The following counties have let
contracts already for naved roads.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

FOR SALE-One Fumed Oak
Davenport. One Fumed Oak Rock
err. Inquire of MRS. W. E. TIRE
IONA.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

Peerless Laundry Agency.-M.
If.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
loss, both from timber and water
conservation standpoint.

The National Forests are YOUR
property-did you ever think Of that?
They have been set aside for your
use and enjoyment, and the Govern
ment is spending thousands Of dol
lars every year in protecting their
natural beauty. Uncle Sam wants
you to come and get acquainted with
these great vacation lands wherein
may be found rest, health and pleas
ure.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
HISTORY AND ORIGIN
OF
"a VISIT FROM ST NICHOLAS.
tsee poem on front page)

companying the original manuscript
when 1t. was presented to the society
by T. w. Moore. q relative, some nifty
years ago, Is q letter inswhlch the
writer tells how the verses came to.
be written and how Ii happened that
they were eventually published.
Mr.. Moore lived at the time In .
handsome house overlooking The Hud-
son. at Ninth avenue and TWENTY
third street. Then Chelsea. like Green,l
witch village, further south was quite
remote from the city. EachSWas large
" populated BY the Ditch settlersI
from Nieuw Amsterdam. Living neaiI
his country seat wasaa pcftly. rubtI
cund Dutchman, who suggested I'll
him the idea OF making st. NicholssI
the hero, Of Christmas piece for bis
children. TX ass
It was. however. with no th0ught OIL
its ever being published. that Mr.
Moore wrote the poem. but the linesI
were copied BY d feiatiyetu f the au-
thor in her album. From Il anotheiI
copy was made by q friend Of hersI
from Troy. Some time later, much til
the surprise of Or. Moore. It vas foi|
the first time published in : news
paper. BY such small chance was this
choice little poem saved sfor posterity|
In those days there was no such
celebration OF Christmas.as IL now tbs
case, but DR. Moore, having absorbed
the ancient traditions. ofs;his Dutch
neighbors, wove theIns into sthe poem
for his children. Hes did more thar
that, for be- built upsaFpuhd the cen
trail thought an Interpretation which
has gradually come to be 0ur own
AS some one has so aptly said, II has
become 80 much part and parcel Of ouE
literature that 1t seldom occurs to pe0
pie 1t ever had an. author. Since fof
nearly, hundred years American chill
dren have been fed on II, 1t has now
tecome theirs III very truth.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18

education, or of means, but are
hard working men, and two out
side agitators, one a lawyer and
one a labor aqert, came into court
and pleadcd guilty to the charge
of urging these men to enter into
this unlawful conspiracy. The
judge who tried the case saw fit
in his wisdom, which / do not
question, to impose fines upou
the chief conspirators, and | do
not think that these ignorant
people, who followed the advice
of men of more education and
more experience than themselves,
ought to be worked on the roads.
Case and illustration.
"The whole case illustrates
how dangerous it is for our
people to act upon the advise Of
outside agitators, who have nc
| Jobs in the community, who are
not personally interested in the
development of the business
| interests. of the comfnu! iity, who
have no particular friends in the
community and who have moth.
ing to lose in case the commun.
4 ity is stricken with business par.
alysis. Our people would dc
well before listening to any
agitator to ascertain whether OF
not he proposes to lose his joE
when they lose theirs, to go hun
CRY when they go hungry. and
when they 60 tojail to go with
them. For these reasons the
road Sentence against each Of
the five defendants above named
lis committed to "a fine of SIS
Each to be paid SIS cash, and the
balance in instruments of SIC
every 80 days
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
GOOD WORK COMMENDED
Atlanta, Ca, Dec. II,

Atldlllil, Nd.s DoC. IL.
Mrs. w. P. Webb, Chairman,
Third Red Cross Roll Call,
Rockingham, n. C.
My Dear Mrs. Webb: f"
The Southern Division of the
American Red Cross wishes to con-
graduate you on the results achiev-
ed in the Roll Call, and ] feel that
you and your associates deserve the
highest praise. ! know that you Ell
countered in your campaign the
same difficulties which faced the
majority of our chapters, and ]
know that the members you secured
came as result of sacrifice and the
hardest sort of effort. Personally,
feel that this is the hardest cam
paign the Red Cross has ever con-
Quoted, and probably the hardest
it will ever have. Will you kindly
extend to your workers our thanks
and appreciation.
| want you to know That the Red
Cross appreciates the contribution
you have made to it in managing
the Roll Call for Rockingham.
Through your efforts and those OF
your associates in this Campaign
you have kept alive the Red Cross
and / feel that the results which
YOU have accomplished will mean
much more to your city and county
than you can possibly estimate now.
The fact that you and your workers
have given your time and effort
when the excitement OF war has
passed away, and when the calls up
on the community leaders are more
numerous than ever, is all the more
season for the Red Gross apprecia.
ton of your services.
With every good wish, ] am,
Cordially yours,
]. L. McMILLIN,
eampaign Manager Southern Div,
American Red Cross.
M q = !. y
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
Want a Good Farm.

Do you want a GOOD farm
One that contains 205 acres Of
land; 100000 feet of sawable
timber has a good house; q
good barn; plenty Of good wa
ter. This farm can be used as
a stock or tobacco farm. The
land lays in a perfect square and
has between fifty and seventy,
five acres in high state Of cult
walton. 1t is one mile off the
highway and three and one-hal1
miles west.of Ashehoro. If yoU
want a good farm write Box All
Asheboro, N. G.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
LITTLE book bound In red
morocco holds the kernel
Of the children's celebration

"a morocco holds the kernel
Of the children's celebration
the world over Of Christmas.
70 look at 1t no one would dream its
hidden words are even now vibrating
In the hearts Of countless children,
yet the charm Its bright covers en-
brace is perennial. It Is the manu-
script Of the famous children's classic,
"A Visit from st. Nicholas" written
by Clement @. Moore almost hundred
years ago, and dedicated to his own
children In particular. and, as It has
since proved, to childhood the world
over. =
This season It has as Its companion
in the library Of the New York County
Historical society in Central Park West
s Photographic copy Of the original
text enlarged sufficiently to enable Il
to be easily.read, for though the orig
inal chirography Is quite remarkable
for a m, "A Of DR.. Moore's years eighty,
two when he indited the pocm-it
: is fine and oldrfashioned, and there
fore somewhat difficult to read.
The innovation has proved a rare
treat to. the library patrons, and It Il
interesting to note with what rever
ence It Is handled by men and women
whose childhood days are long past
yet whose holiday memories are still
bright. Two pages and half are con
sumed In committing the poem t
paper, and the repetition OF the ole
familiar lines brings to mind pleasant
thoughts Of the season, for no one hal
ever visualized our American Christ
mas from the chiIdren's viewpoint al
has Clement G. Moore in his rart
little poem.
The lines were written as q Christ
mas gift for the authors two young
daughters nearly q century ago. but 4
has since become q progressive gift
to countless other girls and boys. Ac
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
Where There's a Baby on Farm
Keen Rat -SnaD.

Rats are on most farms. Once
they get inside the houselook
out. Rats kill infants biting
them Is not unusual. Nursing
bottles attract rats. Break q
cake Of RAT-SNAP and throw
it around. 1t will surely rid
you Of rats and mice. Three
sizes, 25c, Soc, $1.O0. Sold and
guaranteed BY Everett Hard
ware CO., Watson-K King Co, and
pox Drug Store.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
North Carolina,

-NOrLn OAFOLlna,
Richmond County,
Having qualified as administrator
Of the estate Of A. j. Millikin, de-
ceased, late of Richmond county,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the es-
tate of said deceased to exhibit them
to the undersigned at Rockingham
North Carolina, on or before the LIST
day Of December, 1920, or this no
tice will be pleaded in bar Of then
recovery.
This the list day Of December, 1918
w. A. MCDONALD,
Administrator Of "A. J, Millikin,
Deceased.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
Governor Beckett has com
muted the sentence of George
Iineherrv Grady Rnvd Paul

muted the sentence of George
Lineberry, Grady Boyd, Paul
Austin, Duncan Solomon and
Nick Simmons, charged with as
sault with intent to kill and con-
spiracy 70 prevent the enforce
ment of the law, from four
months on the roads to fines of
SIS each. These defendants
we're sentenced as the result of
the riot at Albemarle, which
Governor Beckett asserted in no
certain terms, was due more to
the activities of outside agitators
than to the men upon whom
road sentences were imposed.
With the announcement that he
had committed these sentences,
Governor Beckett issued the fol
lowing statement:
The Governors Statement.
These defendants, together
with Is other prisoners, pleaded
guilty at the November term Of
Stanly superior court to a con.
spiracy to prevent workers from
entering a cotton mill to work, on
the morning of September Is,
1919. The defendants. Marvin
L. Ritch and ]. H. Graham were
sentenced to pay a fine Of $500
and all the other defendants
were sentenced to pay fines
ranging from SIS, downward
except the five defendants above
named, who were all given road
sentences of four months each.
"a petition is presented to me
presenting that the road sentence
against the above named de
iendants be committed to fines
This petition IS aligned by all The
county officials Of Stanly county
BY all the town officials Of Able
marie; by the pastors Of the
chorches; by the owners and Of
fcers Of the cotton mills Of ths
town, and every representative
citizen in that community, witt
whom am personally acquaint
led. The evidence IN the cast
discIoses that these five nler
were more sinned against thar
Shining They ale not men B
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18

Half million large frostproof
Early Jersey Wakefelds: Price
$2.00fa thousand by express,
Oakdale Farm Marshville, N. G.
At
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
Tho WAY 81 4

"Your dog reminds me Of some
men
@How SOP
Elm the way he Is always practical
|'ly asserting Ne can lick any man In
the community and In giving tongue
70 his challenge.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
Army No PIses Ifor Him.

\ aIt's dlsgracefal: al, abIe-bodied mai,
like Won selling umbrella rings n
the street Why don't ycu 10 IA the
armyfs NJ 4
s'What's the use. Iidml The harmy
don't want shumbrefla. fibgs. Iondch
Tit-Bits
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18

We this week received a large
new shipment Of electrical fix
lures and globes. Let US show,
you. j. Corbeit Hinson.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-12-18
SETTING 4 1s1GIr Mark.

First Artist did yop ever make
any pot-boilers2
Second Artist--No. success has
aevsr crowned my sfforta
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-01-07
Advertisements.

Fire wood, dry, cut in stove lengths
Aaron Warner, 300 Washington street,
Mount Holly.
Wanted Small farm of about 80
acres. Good land required. Address
A. A. Anderson, Mount Holly.
For sale, 100 cords oak wood. Price
Sc per cord in the woods; IS per cord
delivered in Mount Holly Easily &C.
cessible. A. A. Anderson.
Fifty cords of dry oak wood. cut in
stove lengths, delivered promptly. Ad
dress Walter E. Woolston. tR. d. 2,
Mount Holly, or call phone 97-R-S. -
Give your money the advantage OF
safety and a fair rate of interest by
having an account with the Mount
Holly Safe Deposit & Trust Company.
Three per cent. interest paid on time
deposits.
The tax duplicate Of Eastampton
township is now completed and ready
for inspection. 1t will be at the home
of the assessor, ]. P. Croshaw, on the
road from Mount Holly to Smithville,
any time after ten o'clock tomorrow,
and taxpayers are invited to look ii
over.
BURLINGTON COUNTY TRUST COMPANY
MooREsTowN, NEW JERSEY.
Capital OO.0oO y
Surplus and Profits (Earned) 1873, S.0l
/ DEPOSITS 1,75z 288. O.
Resources &ZyS, 0ozc
Trust Funds-Separate from above A4l347l.a'
Special Time Deposits OF Sl.O0 re
ceived, and interest on balances o
$500 and upward. at the rate of three
per cent. per annum, allowed from
date of deposit until due-date OF with
drawal. Interest compounded semi
annually. William w. Stokes, Presi
dent. VIM. r. Lippincott, Treasurer