The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-07-29
IT WENTY YEARS AGO|
! Taken from The Ely Miner of
! the same date in 1901.

At the Fourth Quarterly Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Trus-
tees of church and parsonage Rich
ard Chinn, Thos. Champion, Frank
Blackwell, VIM. Richards, John Prout,
Nicholas Cowling, Chas. Trezona and
Martin Prisk. Stewards Mrs. Thorn
as, Mrs. Odds, Mrs. Champion, Rich
ard Chinn, Mrs. .Whiteside, Mrs. M.
Davey, Frank Blackwell and Miss
Beatrice Mitchell. The conference
unanimously extended to Rev. Logan
an invitation to return to the Ely
pastorage another year, an action
which meets with the approval of our
citizens.
What nearly proved a tragedy took
place on Eastwood lake Sunday and
which almost proved fatal to Capt.
Jeffry of the Swallow & Hopkins
boat. As the story is told, Capt.
Jeffry and another man went bathing,
both being expert swimmers it is said
by those who know. In some man.
ner, unaccountable, Capt. Jeffry lost
control over himself and very nearly
drowned, in fact IT took several
minutes of hard work by those pre-
sent to revive him. The many friends
of the Capt. are pleased to hear moth
ing more serious has resulted.
Fifteen horses were shot and bur-
led Friday afflicted with CHAMBERS.
They were the property of O'Neil
Bros.
Among the transfers recorded with
the register of deeds last week was
the sale of two lots in block 16 by
Robert Whiteside to A. j. Fenske for
500.
w. E. Pike has so far recovered his
recent serious illness as to enable
him to be out of the house. His
many friends are pleased to note the
improvement.
Miss Tena WESTERN arrived home
Saturday evening for visit with her
mother and friends. She is employed
in the Offices of the Wells-Stone Co.
in Duluth.
]. H. Hickey has sold his cigar
factory at Tower to G. S. Van Hotten
and has gone to Duluth where he will
be employed. He will play ball with
the Duluth Fashions this summer.
Thos. Jury and Peter Schaefer re-
turned Saturday noon from Virginia
where they had attended the meeting
of the Vermiion- Mesaba Firemen's
Association as delegates from the Ely
department.
The party which has been occupy
ing the Pattison cottage on BURNSIDE
the past week returned to the city
Sunday having spent delightful
time. In the party were Misses
Carey, Whaley, Doyle, McDermott
and Mrs. Horovitz and Messrs.
Hughes, Gallagher, Munroe and Tai
boys.
Robert A. Benson the Duluth de-
tective has begun suit against w. J..
Conan for services rendered the be-
ginning of the year. He sues for
$334.34 spent in this city, it is claim
ed in the work of removing the
''house" from across the swamp to
its present location.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Grabowskv and
daughter, returned last week from
their extended visit to Detroit and
other Michigan and Wisconsin cities.
They were accompanied on their re-
turn from Detroit by Miss Rhoda
Grabowsky, sister of Chas. who will
spend some time here visiting with
her brother and family.
Anton Wulotz and family returned
Friday evening from Oregon where
they had gone two weeks ago to take
up their residence Mr.. Wulotz
says Oregon is oyerdone to such an
extent that it is hard to make living
there. He met many Elyites in
Portland, several of whom were doing
well and also some who were not SO
prosperous. He returned to Ely
satisfiedthat this country is not the
poorest place in which to live and get
along.