The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-01-19

it can lick the world. We have
won four games this season and
have nine other games scheduled
for the next four weeks" Bemid-
]: il also claims the best Legion bas-
! ketball team, as do a score of
other teams thruout the state. The
Madelia boys licked the Fairmont
National Guard team &c to IA last
! week. "Ortonville ,Leg.ona;res are
clean sports" is the compliment
paid the. Ortonville Legion basket
ball team by Editor E. E. Howard
of the Wheaton Gazette, who adds
1.-THE game which our Wheaton Le-
gion team played with the Orion
vile boys was one Of the finest
examples of clean healthy sports
man-like athletics seen between any
two towns in the Northwest
Music Makes Lots of Pep.
A big leap forward is being
made by. the Minnesota Legion in
the organization of Drum Bugle
corps. In December, 1922, drum
corps were formed at Red Wing,
Hutchinson and Mortified. These
and older Legion drum corps such
as that of st. Paul Post No. 8, are
headed for Faribault and San Fran
cisco next Fall. Ten other drum
corps are being organized.
Legion Motto IL Service.
To interpret their loyalty in
deeds of service to the homeland
is the aim Of Minnesota Legion
aires, who have designed an illus
trated panel exhibit as one of their
expressions of service. Originally
prepared for exhibition at the Lee
gion National Convention in New
Orleans, where it was viewed by
more than one hundred thousand
buddies from all over America,
this exhibit was executed at cost
of $4,000. and consists of twelve
panels suitably mounted, each panel
bearing on a space three by four
feet an outline of some big Mime
sofa industry appropriately pictured
in colors, the whole exhibit being
provided with special shipping
case so that packing, shipping and
exhibiting takes very little time.
n M
Land of Sky-blue Water.
So popular is the Gopher Legion
Minnesota Exhibit that it is contiz.
ually on display at local, state and
national gatherings of various or
CARNATIONS. And wherever it goes
it pictures to many thousands of
people the glories and beauties of
MInnesota-her ten thousand crys-
tai lakes with ten thousand green
islands, her wilderness trails thru.
virgin forests, her thousands of
miles OF canoe trips, her splendid
highways, hotels, summer resorts,
camping grounds, and fishing that
cannot be surpassed, combining an
ideal vacation land full of pleasant
memories. And to make the jour
ney smooth, Minnesota is using
$50 100000 each year to build and
maintain good roads, bringing at
tractive farms closer to thriving
towns and linking forest, lake and
other recreational regions for your |
convenience.
Minnesota Leads the World.
The name Minnesota is derived |
from the Indian word "Minn-e-so-
tab" meaning Land Of Sky-blue
Waters" In this delightful empire
the soil is rich, water pure, climate
ideal-a land where crops never
fail and prosperity reigns supreme.
Minnesota is offering for sale 50,-
900 acres Of agricultural land, q
good Investment at any time, only
1870 OF the purchase price re-
CURED as an initial payment, the I
balance within forty years with in
terest at 4% payable annually.
Minnesota has more than 10000
prosperous farms producing each
year more than $1,000 bushels Of
potatoes, 100000 bushels of
corn, 90,000,000 bushels Of oats,
$4,000 900 bushels of wheat, 49,
O00, 900 bushels Of barley, 5000
900 bushels of rye and 10000
bushels OF flax; while in 1920 she
received more than 100000 Goo for
her 2ouhry, cattle, horses. sheep,
swine ard bees; not to mention ncr
dair. industry which in 1921 pro.
duced $173,107,397.0O, surprising
all states in the production value
OF her creamery butter, operating
q total of e16 creameries and
cheese factories. Verify, land &
lowing with milk and honey.
Legion 10 Proud Of Home State.
In telling the country these facts
n the Gopher Legion State Exhibit,
he buddies point out that like the
great well-balanced state she is,
Minnesota industries and educa-
ional facilities are keeping pace
With her agricultural strides, as is
evidenced by the fact that she
eads the world in the production
II iron ore, producing 355, ZOO, 900
,ons in the last ten years, has the
argest open pit iron mine, the
argest iron ore docks, and huge
'teel plants covering many miles
II territory. In the numbering in
iustry she is equally alert, ship
,ing 467,000,000 feet Of lumber in
he year 1920 alone. Her great
i've. stock market at South st.
Paul huns with acfivitv her flour