The Ely miner., 1921-03-25

Geo. Brozich stated that at the re-
quest of the president of the Com
mercial Club and Rep. A. j. Thomas
he had attended the tonnage tax
hearing of the legislature last week,
and that because he had attended to
personal business at the same time
no charges would be presented to the
Club for his expenses.
H. e. White spoke on certain
school tax legislation now before the
legislature of the state.
Moved and supported that the.
matter be turned over to the legis-
lative committee for their consider
alton. Carried.
H. j. Merdink brought up the
recent ruling Of the City Council
with reference to only citizens of
Ely being employed for city work.
Mr.. Merdink stated that he had been
approached by several parties, dir
ectly and >indirectly affected by the
ruling and while it was not his in
tention to criticize the Council yet
he thought the action was somewhat
severe due to the house shortage, and
for this, reason it would be hard,
ship on all concerned to compel those
people employed by the city to live
within the city limits, and suggested
that the Club request the City Coun-
Gil to reconsider it's action on the
matter. Joe Rothman spoke in favor
of Mr.. Merdink's proposal and said
that in his mind the entire question
had been caused by jealousy on the
part Of a very few people of the
city.
Moved and supported that the
Club take no action in the matter
and that the Council use its own
judgement. Carried.
| Geo. L. Brozich spoke of the lack
of publicity that the City of Ely is
receiving in the Duluth papers and
suggested that the Club if possible,
finance and create bureau of pub
licity to furnish live news to the
Duluth papers and furthermore to
see that the news is printed.
Moved and supported that the
Club endeavor to secure more pub
licity in the Duluth papers. Carried.
The chair announced that he would
discuss the question of publicity
with the secretary and something
would be worked out to secure more
publicity in the Duluth papers.
| Don Rogers gave very complete
talk on the recent tour made by the
Ely Basketball team, and the man
ner in which the men conducted
themselves on the trip, and the class
of basketball displayed was indeed
a credit to Ely. Mr.. Rogers stated
that while the strictest economy was
lpracticed throughout the entire trip
the deficit for the trip was approx
mately $250.00. r. G. Schreck spoke
on the advertising obtained for the
city through the basketball tour and
compared the results obtained thru
the advertising matter distributed by
the team, that thus far nearly 80 re-
quests had been received from people
who had read the advertising ask
ing for information on the city and
our recreational resources.
Geo. L. Brozich stated that his firm
oh 1@c rrrl. 1a n
vertising he had furnished for the
tour.
| Moved and supported that an order
be drawn on the treasurer for the
deficit in the expenses for the recent
basketball tour. Carried.
! Albert McMahan asked the Club
for its approval in allowing the Am
erican Legion of this city to have
Icharge Of the Fourth of July cele-
bration this year. Carried.
| Moved and supported that the AM
erican Legion be given the privilege
of having charge of the 4th of July
celebration. Carried.
| L. j. White brought up the ques-
tion of waterway between Long and
BURNSIDE Lakes. Geo. Hughes sug.
gested that this matter be taken up
with the legislature. Mr.. Hughes dis
cussed the aGvisability of obtaining
some action whereby the portages
in this region might be considered as
main thorofares and that. in case
private parties bought lands on lake
shores that involved portages it
would be possible for the owner to
close them to the public which would
create a hardship to all concerned
and be a grave detriments to our
recreational possibilities. Mr.. Hughes
Suggested that no time be lost in
securing legislation making portages
main thorofares.
Moved and supported that the
question of creating legislation max
| ing portages main thorofares and
thus keep them open to the public
also the question of obtainig legisla-
tion for obtaining navigable water
way between Long and BURNSIDE
Lakes be turned over to the legisla-
tive committee for their immediate
action. Carried.
| Messrse McMahan and Wolff dis
cussed the Rogers-Capper bill and
the Four-Fold Compensation bill as
it affected the American Legion.