The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-02-13

ton service to the exclusion of prac-
tically all other traffic.
No decision was the result of
three-cornered fight for the next meet
ing place of the South Dakota Corn
and Grain Growers association at Wa
tertown. Strength in the convention
was so evenly divided between Yank-
ton, Brookings and Mitchell that the
matter was finally referred to execu-
tive committee for solution.
A controversy is developing between
the states of Michigan and Wisconsin
over approximately 400 square miles
of territory that is now included with
in the boundary of Wisconsin. A
triangular strip of territory bordering
on Gogebic county and including Hur-
ley, the county seat of Iron county,
Wis, is the cause of dispute.
Washington
The committee of the American Le-
gion appointed to develop the organ
ization of the national woman's auxili-
airy of the American Legion will hold
it's first meeting in Washington on
Feb. 16.
The decennial census now being TAX
en-, will reveal that sbe center of pop
ulation has moved eastward. j. A.
Hill, statistician of the census bureau,
said the 1910 census showed the GEN.
ter of population to be in Bloomington,
Ind.
Completing the task of mailing out
December checks, totalling 1862
420, the bureau of war risk insurance
announced that insurance of compen-
sation checks to disabled former serv-
ice men had been placed on a cur
rent basis. The December checks
pient, contained retroactive adjust
ments due to the Sweet law raising
the compensation rate.
At the sessions of the national con.
ference of church women, represent
ing nearly 80 religious denominations,
come what was characterized as the
dangerously insidious modern tenden-
cy toward indecent clothes, indecent
dances and tune of African jungle
syncopation." The conference decid.
ed unanimously to convene in every
state series of mothers meetings at
which it is proposed to enlist every
woman in the campaign.
Foreign
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland
and Holland have agreed they will not
resume trade with soviet Russia before
Russia's debt to nationals to those
countries have been paid or guaran.
teed
An illiterate Austrian earned S..
527 in Canada during single year of
the war, as laborer, at the Welland
Steel foundries, it was learned when
Mike Ennis was fined for making a
false income tax return.
An Italian train has just arrived to
take $500 starving children of Wen.
ma to Milan for the remainder of the
winter. The departure Of the children
completes the 10th consignment sent to
Italian towns to recuperate.
Designation of Archduke Joseph as
king by the Hungarian national assem-.
bly, seems probable as a result of the
| strong royalist tendency in that coun.
try. This movement persists despite
| objections to the Hapsburgs on the
part of the allied and Hungarian So
cialists.
Domestic
One man was killed and three 9th
ers seriously injured when fire de-
stroyed the Barnett hotel at Logans
port, Ind, causing loss estimated a,
100000.
Loss estimated at 100000 resulted
from fire of undetermined origin
which destroyed two buildings and
damaged a number of others at Nc
Keesport, Pa.
Total output of the meat packing in
dustry in the United States for 1918
was estimated at more than $4,000,
| 000,0 900 in a statement given out by the
institute of American Meat Packers.
John F. Mullaney, Madison, Wis.
coffee house owner, advertised:
Wanted: Slender waitress" Asked
why slender" John said: "They take
up less room, are quicker on theil
feet, eat less and don't get fiat feet"
Henry P. Davision chairman of the
League of Red Cross societies, recent
ly organized at Paris, and four other
American delegates sailed from New
York on the steamship Mauretania
to attend the first meeting of the gen
eral council of the league at Geneva
Switzerland, on March 2.
A warrant was issued by A J
O'Melia, district attornel at Rhineland
er, Wisconsin, for the arrest of Stan
ley Blomski for the alleged murder Of
his 6-year-old son at the Blomski home
in Sugar Camp. The child died last
week. An investigation revealed thai
injuries due to a severe beating was
the cause, it is alleged.
Because their name was not listed
in new telephone directories the Davi!
Coal company, of Morgantown, w. Va.
obtained an injunction restraining tn.
telephone company from circulating
the new books or collecting the ole
ones.
The First National bank and thu
Northwestern bank of Kildeer, N. d.
have consolidated and taken out ma
tional charter. In the future the con
solidated bank will be known as thu
Northwestern National bank
The South Dakota Swine Breeders
association will stage it's annual con
vention at Aberdeen, June 1 and 2. Il
is expected that 300 swine breeder:
from all parts of the state will b.
present.
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