The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-21

Greenbush. Greenbush Is contem-
plating the erection of q new school
building at cost of about $4,000.
Gilbert.-An Iron Range train
struck an auto bus stalled on the
crossing near Elba, injuring eight oc-
cupants of the bus. two seriously.
Wadena.-At the regular meeting of
the Commercial club the Babcock
road plan and the Ten Thousand
Lakes advertising plan were Endorsed.
Fergus Falls.-W. l.. Barker, feed
mill proprietor at AImora, was killed
at his mill there when in trying to
start an engine The igniter blew OF,
striking him on the forehead
Long Prairie.-Joseph Gerlach,
thought to have been drowned on the
Tuscania when it was torpedoed and
who was mourned for dead for nearly
a year, is alive and well and expects
soon to be able to start home for
America.
st. Cloud.-Some months ago the
factory building of the Sank Rapids
Automatic Roller Shade company
burned to the ground and since that
time C. w. Warren has been erecting
new structure that surpasses the old
one in appearance and in output.
Fairmont.-Farmers of this vicin.
ity had such profitable year a larger
number are retiring and moving to
cities and villages than ever before.
FOrty-four auctions of farm nipple
ments, stock and grain are listed in
this county between now and March
10, most of them farmers who are to
retire from active work.
st. Paul-Warden C. S. Reed and
N. C. Mcmillan, salesmanager, of the
state prison plant have left Saltwater
for Washington, New York and Bos-
ton, to investigate the MANILA and
sisal market situation. They will
seek information to enable the state
to buy raw materials for the prison
plant this year at best advantage.
ST. Paul.-The Northwestern Tele-
phone Exchange company has appeal
ed to the Minnesota supreme court
from the order of the Ramsey county
district court issued January 20 re-
straining it from effecting proposed
rs per cent increase in long distance
telephone rates in Minnesota and from
continuing telephone installation and
removal charges.
neapolis.-Richard A. Enganm,
81, for twenty-one years manager of
the j. M. Bassett Lumber company,
and president of the Richard Enganm
company here, died at his home here
after an illness of three months. Mr..
Enganm was born in Norway and
had been a resident of Minneapolis
twenty-one years. Retiring from &C
tive business five years ago.
GAINESVILLE Fred Janneck of
GAINESVILLE, now on thirty-day fur
Tough and visiting at McCanna, N. D.,
was on the steamship Northern Pa
cific, which was recently stranded for
nineteen days on sandbar off Fire
Island. Mr.. Janneck holds the rank
of seaman and postmaster aboard the
u. s. s. Northern Pacific, which is
now lying in South Brooklyn.
Detroit. John H. Hinton, who has
been superintendent and disbursing
officer at White Earth Indian agency
for several years and who was recent
ly recommended for removal in the
report of E. B. Linnen, special inspec-
tor for the Indian bureau, resigned
and left for his old home in Kentucky.
Maj. Dickens, agent at Red Lake, was
appointed to succeed Mr.. Hinton.
Virginia.-On Feb. 25, the third di-
vision of the Pastors Aid of the Pres
byterian church will hold a miscel-
laneous sale at the Odd Fellows hall,
the proceeds to go to the building
fund for the new church There will
also be musical program. After the
supper the handkerchief sent by Mrs.
w. H. Taft, wife of ex-President Taft,
to Mrs. Gade, will be auctioned off.
Gilbert-A district association of
the Christian Endeavor society of the
range was formed at meeting held
here at the Presbyterian church and
the following officers were chosen:
President, Miss Stoudt, Virginia, first
vice president, Rev. William Jobusch,
Eveleth; second vice president, w. j.
Bell, Mountain Iron; secretary, j. H.
Hayilla, Gilbert; treasurer, C. E.
Dahlquist, Gilbert; counsellor, Rev.
Won Thurn. Hibbing.
Minneapolis Minnesota Retail
Clothiers' association with a member
ship of $50 of the states leading mer-
chants and representing buying
power conservatively estimated at
s50,OOO,O00, has pledged itself to do
everything possible to bring about the
return of pre-war prices and pre-war
qualities of clothing. The convention,
attended by 100 delegates, also went
on record against trade acceptances
and the luxury tax, which, it was held,
means the throwing of the burden
back on the shoulders of the consumer.
Winona.-Rain, sleet and snow in
southern Minnesota will be beneficial
to the crops, according to A. B. Blair,
federal reporter in this territory. The
fall of snow will serve to protect win
ter wheat and clover and prevent a
repetition of the experiences of year
ago. Not only is the moisture, af-
forded by the recent storms, desirable
for the winter crops, but the SOIL it is
asserted by experts here, needs the
ingredients provided by the rain and
the snow The crops are in critical
stage, it is declared, and alternate
freezes and thaws will mean losses.
The snow blanket will serve as stim-
ulant to the crops.
St. Cloud.-Private Robert Maynard
of West Virginia, who was taken from