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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-20
LOCAL NEWS

Miss Mabel Noel is at Forrest Lake
spending week.
Miss Margaret Simonds of Albany
is visiting in town.
David Porter and family were in
Woodsville, Wednesday.
Charles McMann of Stratford is
visiting his sister, Mrs, Martin Carr.
E. A. Cook of Orleans attended
court here Wednesday.
Miss Helen Jameson spent We'd
nesday at Passumpsic.
Mrs. ]. Dutile and Mrs. E. Bushey
spent Thursday with Mrs. Fred Lab
bay at Passumpsic.
C. F. Chase of McIndoe Falls Wis
tied at his son, C. B. Chase's, Thurs
day.
Miss Daisy, Astbury of Franklin,
Miss Eva Astbury of Claremont and
Mrs. Bert Lowell of Franklin have
been visiting at Richard Astbury's a
few days returned to their homes
Thursday.
Mrs Fred Pound and Miss Crystal
Pound, Mrs. c. L. Hoyt, Mrs. f. E.
Deoss Of Lyndonville, Mrs. A. J.
Clark of Sutton, Frank Davis of
Pittsburg, Miss Mildred Bennett of
Dalton, N. H., Mrs. George Copp of
East st. Johnsbury, Margaret Ranney
of Concord, Mrs. Floyd Lee, Mrs.
Dean Hall of st. Johnsbury Center
were here Thursday visiting friends.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-20
ST. JOENSBURY CHAUTAUOUA JULY 7 Toll INCLUSIVE

study the methods and it's needs in
foreign fields.
Well, maybe he didn't beat the
Dutch in Germany, but just let him
get one sight of them in his field in
South America! His chance is com
ing yet!
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-20
Evening Caledonian
Established 1887
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1918
LOCAL NEWS

Arthur Liberty has returned from
Barre.
Carl Bonnet is here from Camp
Merritt on a furlough.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Darling have
taken a tenement on Green street.
John P. Webster of Lyndonville
visited at E. H. Hallett's, Wednesday,.
Miss Helen Albee is at Joe's Pond
for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Knowlton, Mr..
and Mrs. e. H. Hallett attended Po-
mona Grange at Lyndon, Wednesday.
Peter Kontorily of Burlington has
formed a partnership with Michael
Philopoulos of the Star Restaurant.
Annie Sicard and sister, Johanna,
left Thursday for Hanover, N. H., to
spend their vacation.
Miss Laura Demers of the Will
hanson millinery store is taking a
vacation.
Miss Marie Courchesne has return
ed homie from visit to friends in
Sherbroke.
Mrs. Charles Ruiter and two chill
dren left Friday for Rutland on va
cation.
Mrs. +. B. Jacques left Thursday
morning for Canada to spend some
time visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dryer Of
West Danville are visiting friends in
town.
DR.. Provost and family leave Sat-
urday for Montreal to be gone week
visiting relatives.
Miss Rhea ellison and her grand
mother, Mrs. l.. M. Hodgkins left
Friday to visit Mrs. H. r. Brown at
Brattleboro for some time.
Miss M. L. Hayes, the Commercial
teacher at Lyndon Institute, was in
town Thursday on her way to her
home in Durham, N. H.
Floyd Lee is finishing work at the
Scale factory this week and has ac-
cepted a position at Clifton Gray's
meat market at Lyndonville.
Mrs. Luella Webb of Boston is at
Mrs. Carl Smiths since the accident
of her sister-in-law, Mrs. George E.
| Gookin.
Dudley Fitzgerald of West Barnet
delivered five tons of maple sugar at
one load to the Cary Maple Sugar
Co., Wednesday.
Arthur J. Drouin of Montreal has
been visiting his mother, Mrs. ].
O. Drouin and other relatives the past
week. Thursday he went to Boston.
The members of the Comus Club
were very pleasantly entertained
Thursday evening by Mrs. Elmer
Hooker at her home on Railroad
street.
Mr. and Mrs. George Willzie, Mr..
and Mrs. Sullivan, Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
son Ranney left Friday morning by
auto for Boston, remaining until
Tuesday.
DR.. and Mrs. T. R. Stiles and Miss
Charlotte Stiles left by auto Friday
morning for Worcester, Providence,
Hartford and other points, returning
about July LIST.
Norman Lowe of Ryegate, Louis
and Milton Bell of Westfield, class
of II, were in town Thursday to at
tend the graduating exercises of the
st. Johnsbury Academy.
Rev. George Martin delivered the
commencement address to the gradu-
ating class of Phillips Academy at
Danville Thursday, and Friday to the
class of the Richford Academy at
Richford.
George E. Gookin and Mrs. Berton
E. Blood of Boston were called here
by the serious illness of Mrs. Gookin
at Brightlook hospital. 1t will be re-
membered that Mrs. Gookin was a
victim of an auto accident about five
weeks ago, on the way to Lyndon
vile.
Misses Eva and Louisa King of
Dover, who have been spending their
vacation at Mrs. Catherine DeForge's
returned to their home Thursday
morning.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

from the State Fire Marshal. The
letter explains itself and is as fol-
lows:
Dear Sir: AS Chief of the Fire De-
partment of your town, the people
rely on you and your department for
protection in case of fire. They ex-
pect you and your men to get on the
job in the quickest possible time day
and night, regardless of the weather
to protect their property from des-
truction by fire which possibly has
started from their own carelesness.
Sometimes fremen are called upon
to risk their own lives in an effort to
rescue someone who is trapped in a
burning building. Your duty may
subject you to the severest weather
and you run the chances of con-
tracing pneumonia from exposure in
sub-zero weather. Your job is not
a pleasant one and it is not fair to
shoulder all the responsibility on the
Fire Department. Every person in
your town should share this response
bility with you. They should help
you fight their fires before they start
by removing the cause.
If all Easements, attics and store
rooms were kept free from rubbish,
if all chimneys and fiues were kept
clean and all defective ones repaired,
if electric wiring and electric ap-
planes were looked after and kept
in good condition, if people would
stop using oil for starting fires ant
stop placing ashes in wooden recep-
tacles or dumping them near fences
or buildings, if people would be more
careful in the use of matches and
not leave them where children could
get hold of them, if people would ex-
ercise some care with reference to
the above suggestions, fire hazard
would be greatly reduced in your
town. Everyone would be working
together with one object in view--that
of preventing FIRE.
Why not put it up to the people
in your towr IN this way through
your local press asking their Coop
Grafton and then see tina. they make
good by inspections every thirty
days. I an sure they will do it if
ycr put it up to them in the right
way and, though it will TAX, a little
O.. the time of you and yoIr men FOR
Inspection work, it may keep you
from being lcuted out on many bad
Il eht to figas fire and viii make your
town better and safer one to live in.
GEO. W. NETTLEBY,
State Fire Marshal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

wood to Itasca county line-roughly
A miles;
From Duluth northwesterly and
northerly through Eveleth, Virginia,
Cook, Orr, Cusson to the Koochi-
ching county line-approximately
100 miles;
From the Itasca county line be-
tween Keewatin and Kelly Lake
east and northeast through Hibbing,
Chisholm, Bull, Mountain Iron, Vir-
ginia, Gilbert, Mckinley, Biwabik,
Aurora, Tower, to Ely-approxi-
mately 70 miles.
TotaIapproximately 265 miles.
What st. Louis county proposes to
do is to pave these 265 miles at once
that is, just as soon as it is physi-
cally possible to do it.
What will it cost? At $4,000 per
mile, which engineers believe to be a
fair estimate, it will cost between six
and seven million dollars. If the
Minnesota Plan is ratified by the
people of the state in 1920, the state
will repay St. Louis county for the
entire cost of paving the 265 miles;
if the impossible should happen, and
the Minnesota Plan is not ratified, St..
Louis county will have 265 miles of
paved road anyhow-and it cannot
afford NOT to have them.
That is what St. Louis county pro-
poses to do and that is what it will
cost. What do you think of it?
If you believe in it, get busy. Tell
everybody you see between now and
July all about it. Get everybody you
know to go to the polls on bond cleo
ton day and vote eyes"
This is our affair; let's attend to it
right up to the handle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

In another column will be found
an editorial from the Christian
Science Monitor of Boston dealing
with the pay of teachers as compared
to other labor and the miner is cited
as an example. The editorial is
straight to the point and goes to
show that something must be done to
hold young people in the teaching
profession or the education of our
children will suffer. In speaking to
several of the popular instructors
among our acquaintance recently
considerable dissatisfaction was eX-
pressed in regards to the salaries Of
fered for teaching jobs to people who
have put in many dollars and years
of study to fit themselves for the
work. 1t was pointd out that 500
a month with only two months lin
many cases nine) of work during the
year, the teacher is paid several dol
lars less per year than is the ditch
digger or street sweeper. The
chances of promotion are also very
slim. Every once in a while some
one is made superintendent or prin-
cipal at fair salary and these po-
sitions are also subject to the whit
or whim of politically chosen school
boards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
MINERS AND TEACHERS
The fact is, as all must admit, that
drom the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR


The fact is, as all must admit, that
the profession or vocation of the pub
lic-school teacher, under the present
industrial and economic conditions,
is not, economically considered, at
tractive. Hundreds of thousands of
trained and capable teachers, who
have made teaching their life work,
and who feel themselves inadequate
ly qualified to enter successfully any
other profession or occupation are
today continuing their work in the
public schools in spite of the fact that
they are not being paid fair living
wage. So long as these experienced
teachers feel themselves forced, be-
cause of circumstances, to continue
in their chosen work, perhaps dis
aster to the public-school system as
a whole can be averted. But their
work will not continue indefinitely.
This fact cannot, of course, be de-
MED. Neither can there be recruit
ed from the ranks of seasoned teach
ers the instructors for the thousands
of new schools being established to
provide for the increasing number of
native and alien pupils of school age
in all sections.
There was recently made public
the result of Investigations carried
on by the secretary of the Illinois
State Teachers Association, showing
that the average monthly wage of
fifteen miners in Illinois for a GER
tain month was SPLITS, while the
average wage of like number of
school teachers in the same town was
$55. In the same town, it appears,
a certain miner, an Austrian alien,
was paid more than $2.700 in wages
last year, while the principal of the
high school, an American woman,
with university training, received
an annual salary of $765. All over
the country, it is reported, the young
er men and women teachers are
leaving the schools simply because
of the low salaries paid, and, in ad-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

Where are we arriving at" seems
to be the paramount question today
of this country at least. What, with
industries at standstill as COM
pared to pre-war times. With mines
here and there closing. No railroad
extensions. No big building OPP
erations. With labor resting un-
easily and demanding more pay.
with strikes and riots on many sides.
With dollar that is ever vanishing
in purchasing power. With living
expenses jumping, the above ques-
ton is pertinent one to all of us.
Where will it all end and how, seems
to be bothering US all from the wheel
barrow to the theodolite operators.
What good is dollar? We once had
a smile at the Mexican so cent dol
lar and threw out our chest as we
looked at our own 100 cent dollar.
But, today the Mexicans have a smile
coming from Uncle Sam. Where
will it all end? Is there a financial
crash ahead of US or will Big Bust
ness step in and save the day?
Just at present Big Business is CUES
sing with the rest of us smaller fry.
and when Capital suffers financially
it means an unsettled condition for
the common herd.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

dition, that the attendance at nor
NAL and teachers training schools
has decreased to an alarming extent.
1t is claimed that school teachers are
now paid less for their work than any
other class of workers in the United
States. There can be but one result,
logically, unless conditions are
changed. The places of those who
leave the schools will be filled, if
they are filled at all, by those of less
ability and training and of less ex-
perience and culture.
1t would seem that the time has
come when the public must assume a
different attitude toward the subject
of education as a whole, and toward
the public schools in particular. Vast
sums are spent annually by the people
of the United States in providing
buildings and equipment for the
public schools. There never has been
serious complaint on this score, ex-
cept, perhaps, in isolated cases. But
no school is adequately equipped, no
matter what it's material surround
ings, unless it's teaching force is
wisely selected. Until the standard
of efficiency and the qualifications of
the faculty are maintained at the
highest possible degree, the aim
sought can be obtained. The aim
is, in very large measure, the Ameri-
canization of boys and girls. The
people of every community, as indi-
viduals, hold the remedy for present
and future conditions in their own
hands. Primarily, the public school
problem has been, and, so far as can
be seen, will continue to be, local
problem. Questions of federal and
state aid even are too remote to offer
the necessary solution. The true
patriotism which has always guided
in times of great emergency should
be the guide at this time. The duty
of the public is not primarily to the
teachers as individuals, but to the
schools as an institution.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

o, they'll sign alright, alright, and
whether they do or not incises but a
a very little of the frigid. It's only
matter of form anyhow, for what
good is their signature? Ask a Bel
gian about that. Our boys should
show them the
dotted line and say-"Sign here. "
End this kid pickering and treat
them as prisoners of war taken by a
Christian nation and one looking for
a square deal rather than Hun ma
ton looking for rapine and murder.
If it were the Hun the top dog, how
long would they be in getting their
spiked boots in the face of every
thing American. They must sign.
They are lucky that they have real
men to deal with who want only JUS
tice done rather than atrocities COM
mitted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

The forest fire is again with US and
the smoke is rolling as of yore. Min
nesota is one vast finder box and the
forest ranger carries his gas mask to
bed with him. Re-forestry is of but
little use until such time as the forest
fire may be kept down. And ap-
parently this is always to be with US
so long as pine trees and grasses
grow. All preventative measures so
far found have been of but small
avail. And now sheep are being
tried out in some quarters. The Du-
Pont Powder company bought 500 of
these animals last week and turned
hem loose around their powder mag
azine at Hibbing with the hope that
they would clear the premises of
grass and weeds which, when dry,
might start disastrous confiagration.
And perhaps these may be one way
of combating the forest menace.
Sheep are great land clearers, and,
but for the wolves would be intro
duced here no doubt in large num-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

The city and nearby country is
beginning to look like garden time
has arrived, again. The pillow has
been busy and the. fences are being
repaired in anticipation of another
crop of the "eats." If one wishes to
know what intensive farming"
means he should take a walk over
Ely and have a look at the garden
plots and then later watch the har-
vest taken from few feet square.
Many a root house is packed full of
he home grown stuff raised on the
few feet of the home lot. Ely is one
big garden and thousands of dollars
are thus kept at home instead of 60
ng to the wholesale houses for vege-
tables. .....
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
LET'S GO NOW
(By R. W. Hitchcock, Rep. 61st.
District.)

(by II. w. Hltchcock, Rep. 6lst.
District.)
The plan to "Pave St. Louis
County NOW" is well under way.
The county board at its March
meeting unanimously resolved to go
ahead with the work. At its May
meeting this week it unanimously re-
solved to call the necessary bond
election as soon as possible, probably
early in July.
Just what is it that st. Louis
county proposes to do? How much
will it cost?
The Minnesota plan of hard sur
faced roads, adopted by the recent
legislature, subject to the approval
of the people in November 1920, calls
for the paving of about $500 miles
of country roads with some hard ma
terial, probably, for the most part,
concrete. In this Minnesota plan as
it will be submitted to the people in
1920 for ratification the general
routes of all roads to be paved are
specified. There are 256 miles of
these roads in st. Louis county as
follows:
From Duluth northeasterly to the
Lake County ine-roughly IL miles;
From Duluth west through Flood
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

The innovation of having the handi-
work of the Ely schools exhibited
in the several windows throughout
the city instead of at one big exhibit
in the auditorium one night in the
week is meeting with popular favor
among the patrons of the school. The
displays being made are certainly
beautiful and speak volumes for the
educational institutions of the dis
trict and the teachers responsible
for their production.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

1t ought to be an easy question
for Holland to answer when they are
asked to push Bill over the border
for final opinion from the Allies on
Bills recent atrocities. If old Bill
had single spark of manhood in him
he would never wait for justice to
overtake him but would stand i'm
mediately under the pile-driver ham,
mer as it fell. But, he will get off
scot free as killing him only once
will never expiate the crimes he has
done and why waste hemp on such a
brute? Perhaps if left alone on
some ship at sea which would never
be allowed to land, he might grow a
conscience which would hold up to
him the dastardly deeds he has COM
mitted in the recent past. But one
death-that is too easy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

The very few northern men
sprinkled in among the southern ap-
pointees to prominent positions on
the part of the government, have
somewhat opened the eyes of the
public to the push, enterprise and
executive ability shown by these men
from the north. Take as an example
that man, julius Barnes. of Duluth
who has been made United States
wheat director. No sooner did he
get his bearings on the job when
things began to happen. The wheat
gamblers were given program to
run by and footnote stated the
rules would be mandatory and rigid
ly lived up to. In consequence of
the firm stand, mills, and dealers
realize what is wanted and are re-
covering their business sanity. For
the future Director Barnes holds out
the hope of every encouragement
without promising anything radical.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

The City Council of Ely have gone
on record as follows: The City Time
Keeper and the City Street CON-
missioner shall adopt card system
in keeping the records of all employees
Of the city as to their citizenship.
That is a good start and in the right
direction. America for Americans
Is the slogan just now coming into
being in America. No man is to be
allowed to take out his first papers
but once. Once is enough. If he
does not follow lp with the second
ones, then home he goes. This de-
claring and then failing to make good
10 over with. The war condition
brought out clearly who our friends
and also who our enemies are. Any
man who comes here, lives here,
raises a family here and does it as
an alien is no friend of ours. Why
should he be allowed to remain here
under such conditions as that? The
City COuICllS VI lldily villages dhu
cities are setting pace and the cause
Of Americanship is growing. Put no
one on guard but Americans. Make
America truly America. If a for
eigner wants to be a true foreigner,
treat him as such. If this country
furnishes him the job he could not
get over home, it is his duty to tie to
it, and should the time ever come as
it recently did, he should shoulder
his gun and fight for his job, even
~ our boys fought for him while he
held that job down for them while
they were away-and still holds af-
ter the boys get back. What right
has he to the place? Why should
our boys walk the streets while the
alien works? We have been too
easy in the past and now is the time
to get busy and be thick with our
friends, and make America safe for
Americans. The City Council of
Ely are to be commended for their
action in this matter. And now
their example should spread to every
employer of labor wherever. The
alien is welcome here, but there is a
time when he should be made one of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

bers. There is but little left on the
land to burn after a flock of sheep
have been pastured on it for season.
The sheep experiment is well worth
trying as wool and mutton command
good prices and thus the lowly sheep
brings three returns wool-mutton
and forest fire preventers. The pres
ence of the shep will call for the ex-
tinction of the wolf, and thus our
deer and moose will gain yet better
protection.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

From this distance it looks as if
the Allies were treating the Huns as
f they were the guests instead of a lot
of thoroughly whipped ours. What do
we care what the Hun thinks of the
peace terms? Hand them the ul-
timatum and tell them to put that in
their pipes and smoke it, is our idea
of a settlement with them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
Deep Stuff.

London Answers tells the story of
musical student who, one night at
Queens Hall, slithered up TO a couple
of long-haired professors in the hope
Of hearing some learned conversation.
'"Ten cents EACH" one of the profess
sors was observing, "and not even,
new-laid
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16

us or else made to go back. We
have begun on this line of action and
now let us keep it up to finish.
National responsibility should rest
upon each alike where participation
of its benefits are likewise bestowed
Come across or go across.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-16
COMMUNICATED

Editor Ely Miner.
Dear Sir: Having failed to see
any mention of the subscription to
the Victory loan of the South Slavon-
ic Catholic Union, among the rest of
the large subscribers, think it would
be of interest to the people of this
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< X X X X X \ \ X \ \ X \ X
NOTICE.!

Beginning at once, The Ely
Miner will make it an IRON
clad rule to charge for all
notices of entertainments
and gatherings where an ad-
mission fee is asked or is
being given for the purpose
Of making money.
Cards of Thanks, of not
over ten lines, will be insert
ed at SO cents in each case.
Copy must be in the office
not later than Thursday
noon for Fridays paper.
THE ELY MINER.
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community to know what this So
ciety, an Ely organization, did to
make the various drives successful.
The Society subscribed for the fol
lowing loans in Ely:
First Liberty Loan---$ 100000
Third Liberty Loan - 25,000.00
Fourth Liberty Loan 100000
"Victory" ---- 100000
5 100000
Loans subscribed out
side of Ety. 100000
Total amt. subscribed, 5 95,000.00
A mention of the above in the Ely
Miner will be greatly appreciated by
the officers and members of this or
ganization.
Yours very 1ruly,
JOSEPH PISHLER.
Secretary.
Chief Cox of the Ely Fire Depart
ment has received the following letter