The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-31

| SCHOOLS are serving hot soup at lunch
con for out-of-town pupils, under the
direction of Miss Loretta McGhee.
Motley.-The motley postoffice has
been advanced to third class with a
salary of $1,100 per year for the post
master, John Monahan, coupled with
additional rent and clerk hire
| Hastings.-R C. C. Greenwood
pastor of the Hastings Baptist church.
has accepted call from the Baptist
church at Detroit, MINI. He will
preach his farewell sermon here No
vember 2.
Wahkon.-A channel has been
blasted between Mulvey's island and
the mainland of Mile Laos lake to
enable boats to pass from one side
of the bay to the other without max
ing long detour.
Hallock.-Kittson county has enter
ed county and thirty individual ex
hibits for the big potato show in con.
nection with the meeting of the Min
nesota Potato Growers association, to
be held in Moorhead, Nov. 5, 6, and Z
Bemidji-The home service depart
ment of Bemidji is seeking the where
abouts of boy by the name of Shotto
who enlisted in Bemidji in the TWEEN
tieth engineers, Twenty-first company
He has not been heard from since
March II.
| observation-disclosures received when
he was accidentally shot about week
ago while hunting with Harold Childs
on Twin Lakes, developed lockjaw and
Clayson Ellison, 81, Calumet barber
died in Coleraine hospital. The body
was sent to Zumbrota, Mimi, fol
burial y
| Moorhead.-Clay county will fur.
| nish the Early Ohio potatoes for the
| Minnesota exhibit of the Midwest
Horticultural exposition, to be held
at Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. IL to a.
The Minnesota exhibit will include the
eight standard varieties grown in the
state.
st. Paul. -. E. F. Marlborough, fol-
four years secretary of the ways and
means subdivision of the st. Paul as
ISOLATION, has accepted the offer of the
F." oICiIOO, lO"o3 puolhCoo IlCh W NC
come general secretary of the Greater
Waterloo association and will leave in
about a month.
Minneapolis s. Henry L. Stimson
former secretary of war; Charles w
Whittlesey, who commanded the IA
nous 'lost battalion" and Sergeant
Alvin C.. York of Tennessee are some
of the prospective visitors to the ma
tional convention of the American
legion here Nov. 10, II and IL.
st. Paul-The Duluth A. c. made a
return to the state of $2,412.30 from
1,097 paid admissions to the Tillman-
Griffiths match Oct %. The check for
the 10 per cent due the state was for
only $240.23, however, and Treasurer
R. J. Carnes was asked to remit 81
more to keep the state records
straight.
Aitkin.-As Nina Voll, 10, was going
home from school recently, a boy
struck her across the face with some
heavy grasses which cut the eyelid
and left a scar on the eyeball. She
| was blinded for a time but given
prompt medical attention and the doc
| tors hope by giving the eye complete
rest the sight may be completely re-
stored.
st. Cloud-Elmer Neslund, 20, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter J. Neslund,
| near Foley, Benton county, was shot
| and killed by brother shooting with
.22-caliber rife in target practice.
Elmer was blowing twenty rods from
the place of shooting and when lunch
con was brought out to him his body
was found with bullet hole in the
back of his head.
Pipestone. Lieut. Robert Ryan,
formerly of Pipestone, who served in
the army in France, is seriously ill in
a hospital at Sioux Falls as conse-
quence of injuries sustained in an air
| plane landing. Ryan was riding with
Lieutenant Putnam who attempted to
| tail spin and the machine struck the
ground with terrific force. Ryan sus.
| tanned conclusion of the brain. Lieu
| tenant Putnam was not hurt.
Chicago.-Moving pictures showing
the Pan Motor company's plant at st.
Cloud, Mimi, as it appears today in &C.
| tive operation manufacturing automo-
biles, motor trucks and farm tractors
will be shown the jury in the trial of
thirteen officials charged with using
the mails to defraud, if Judge Lands
of the United States district court will
admit such evidence. This announce
ment was made by r. B. Brewer, an
attorney of St. Cloud, who said the de-
PENDANTS were anxious to exhibit the
moving pictures in court as part OF
their evidence in refuting the allega-
lions of the government.
Moorhead.-T value of the potato
crop produced this year in the Req
River valley is over $10,000,O0O. While
this is startling total, growers have
already received over s6,000,000 for
shipments made before Oct. Is. Off
cial reports of the United States bu-
reau of markets show total of 1853
carloads of potatoes grown this year
shipped out of the Red River valley
up to Oct Is. OF these shipments
5,54S were from the Minnesota side
of the river and 1,511 from the valley
in North Dakota. Shipments from
the valley, both sides of the river
last year, including Oct. Is, were
$3.50, showing an increase per acre
for this year in even dates of 4,179
carloads.
Minneapolis.-Car out an al
legged threat made in Hennepin coun-
ty district court two weeks ago,
George East, returned soldier, who
u,os ha;no cuod for divorce shot and