The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-02
COUNTY CLUB
HOLDS Meeting
INTERESTING MEETING OF ST
LOUIS COUNTY CLUB AT
VIRGINIA.

Several cars of Ely members of the
st. Louis County Club went to Vir-
ginia Saturday morning where a
meeting of the newly appointed COM
mittees of the Glib was called for
10 o'clock. Thos. who attended
from here were President Geo. l..
Brozich, Jas. Moor an, G. B. Hughes,
Fred B. James, Peter Schaefer, H. E.
White, John B. Smrekar, Andrew
Wattilo, Mrs. H. E. White, Mrs.
Peter Schaefer, Miss Dorothy White
and Miss Martha Trezona.
Owing to the la ;eness of the train
from Duluth the meeting was not
called to order until after IL o'clock
Addresses were made by President
Brozich, Secretary Giffin and others
before lunch was announced. Lunch
was served at the High School by the
Domestic Science class and the in
structors.
Mayor Johnson of Virginia well
coined the guests at the beginning of
the afternoon session at the E!k's
lodge rooms and other speakers oc-
cupied the attention until after four
Many measures of import
ance towards the development of the
county were brought up. Notable
features of the meeting were res
olutions urging the board of county
commissioners at its meeting May 6
to call an election to vote on the
proposition of bonding the county in
the sum of not less than $4,000, 900
to pave the 256 miles of state trunk
highway system in St. Louis county,
an appropriation of $500 for a re-
volving fund for potato experiment
tation and a unanimous vote ssking
the county board to appoint one
county nurse for rural health work
in each commissioner district.
The action on highways was taken
following talk on the subject by
Representative R. w. Hitchcock.
The revolving potato plan is to have
fifteen farmers in the southern part
of the county and like number in
the northern part each plant five
buhels chosen from certain picked
varieties. From the crop, each
farmer is to return to the club seven
bushels, the extra two bushels to
make up for spoilage and shrinkage.
In this way, it is hoped, the county
will be able to ascertain the best po-
tato to raise in different parts of the
county. Miss Mary E. Stilwell de-
clared that children are just as i'm
portant as potatoes and made
spirited appeal for better rural super
vision, with the result that COM
mittee of five from the club, headed
by DR.. Lenont of Virginia will wait
on the county board May 6 to ask
for visiting nurses in each COM
missioner district.
A resolution was adopted praising
the work of H. G. Larson, retiring
county agent as follows:
Whereas H. G. Larson for the past
several years has been county agent
in st. Louis county and whereas Mr..
Larson's work has been in the high
est degree helpful and stimulating to
the development and growth of the
agricultural interests of the county
and to the material prosperity of the
county as a whole
Now therefore, be it resolved by
the st. Louis county club meeting at
Virginia that the club hereby express
it's appreciation of the high charac-
ter of Mr.. Larson's work as county
agent. He has proven himself in
dustrious, resourceful and efficient.
The county has already harvested
many of the fruits of his labors and
will continue to reap them for years
to come. The entire county will say
with the County Club, "Well done
good and faithful servant"