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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
BILLY" NOONAN SAYS

In the Baudette Regl0n.)
If you are holding back the tears
that threaten to ruin your COM
plexion because Governor Preus
didn't win the senatorship, forget it.
Jake has been offered $4,000 a
year to head big New York insur-
ance company, which is almost as
profitable as running weekly
newspaper.
About all the Twin City dailies
have missed is running a picture of
Magnus Johnson in his nightie says
the Anoka Herald.
Business doesn't come back. You
have to go after it. Advertise.
One problem this hot weather is
what to eat and how to get rid of
it.
Dempsey wants 100000 for
fighting Firpo. Jack didn't 20 to
France but he's regular dough"
boy.
Magnus Johnson will get elong
all right if he doesn't nod yes,
every time LaFolette talks to him.
international Falls kids have dis
covered a better way of acting
worse. They bounce bad eggs off
good citizens skulls.
The quiet fight that has developed
in the Republican party in Mime
sofa reminds you a lot of the mar
ried couples who call each other pet
names in public and fight at home.
One of the dissappointments of
life in Baudette is to ask for ginger
ale and get it.
If those who kick because their
names do not appear in the Region
would phone in the news promptly
they would have nothing to kick
about. We don't like to report a
birth after the baby is weaned or
wedding after the groom calls her
skinny instead of slender, CIR a
death after the widow is looking
around for another match.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
ROUND FIGURES TO
THINK OVER

Clip this out and put it in your
pocket memo, paste it in your hat
or tuck it up in the garage, and
when thinking about good roads and
auto taxes just remember that
In Minnesota this year.
100000 motor vehicles worth
$322,500,000, at $3.50, are cover
ing
100000 miles, at 5000
each, and
$215, 100000 is the aggregate
cost at 10c a mile
$33,500,000 for gasoline at Is
miles on % NC gallon,
$34 100000 for tires, besides re-
pairs and depreciation
While the average car pays
$16.30 auto tax or 1-3c mile
for using
1000 miles of better state high
ways, including
42O miles of pavement and 1000
of rural boulevards, taking
1870 foot-7%c for upkeep
and 11%c for improvement this
year
So good roads savings at only 1c
a mile mean
$21, 100000 year-nearly 8
times the auto tax
So saved at that rate on every
auto tax dollar paid in
Charles M. Babcock, state high
way commissioner, whose figures al
ways have proved conservative,
asserts that good roads are paving
for themselves many times over.
And the question is whether you
want to go on spending your money
for extra gasoline, tires, repairs and
so forth, or put part of that extra
money into better roads at home
and go when you please, with econ
omy, in comfort and convenience.
HIGHWAY BULLETIN.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
FURNISH TIMELY AID TO VET
ERANS BUREAU TRAINERS.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars
for Minnesota, George A. Ferguson,
Minneapolis, Commander, have just
rendered some timely aid to the
disabled veterans in agricult ural
project training at Veteransville
and Silver Star in the cutover coun-
try near McGrath, Minnesota.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of
Minnesota has voted to appropriate
the sum of $1,000 to pay the sal
aries of tractor operators to man
the four caterpillar factors that
have been loaned to the men on
these projects by the Minnesota
State Highway Department.
After the Highway Department
had sent the tractors to McGrath,
it was found that no funds were
available from any source to pay
for the cost of running them, in
Guiding the salaries of expert op-
orators, and the above organization
Immediately closed up the break by
making this generous donation.
1t is such interest and coopera-
ton, concretely expressed, that will
put heart and spirit into these dis
abled trainees of the Veterans
Bureau who are establishing them
selves on small farms where they
can enjoy industrial independence.
There is necessarily mucn hard
and heavy work involved in clear
ing and breaking wild land, under
ordinary conditions, but these pow
erful tractors will pull the stumps,
and do all the other heavy work
for these men who will be enabled
to have enough land cleared next
spring to insure them a good acre
age of crops and success.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
by this action, have given a real
meaning to the term buddy. A
Buddy is one who helps you
"when a Teller needs a friend"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
The Poison Of idIsnsss,

We are like wells. When the life is
rull the dregs Of shallow selfishness
at the bottom do not often rise to con.
seriousness. But when we are empty
our selishness is necessarily exposed.
The full life has so many interests
that 1t does not busy itself with its
own petty Ills. defects and tormenting
self-consciousness. We think of our.
selves when we have no more health.
tul range of thought, who acquire the
habit of centering their interest upon
watching their own pulse. Self-con-
seriousness cannot extinguish itself at
VIII; 1t must hear some call from out
SIDE That Is why the daily work, at
which we often rebel, Is one of life's
greatest blessings. And the jostling
humanity around US, with Its insistent
calls on every side, Is the gift God
sends us instead Of the idle peace we
so often crave.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
APPLICATION OF GOLDEN
RULE

New York City is the headquar-
tiers of the Motorists League for
Countryside Preservation, and the
object of the league is a most
worthy one. 1t is to teach the auto
mobile tourist to treat other
peoples property just as he would
have his own property treated, in
the matter of fires, litter, rubbish,
decency and the destruction of trees
and shrubbery.
There is need for such teaching,
and greater need for the pupil to
absorb the lesson to the letter.
Automobile touring is a new form
of pastime, and too many travellers
are thoughtlessly careless as they
pass along the open highways. The
failure to stamp out their camp
fires has been the cause of great
loss of timber in many sections of
the country; the cigarette and cigar
butts thrown from the moving
machines have caused more; they
leave all kinds of litter and rubbish
to mark their camping places, and
they needlessly destroy trees and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
BUY BETTER ROADS
|. At 88C ON DOLLAR.
STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
AWARDS CONTRACTS ON
TWENTY PROJECTS AT
LOWER PRICES.

Twenty important improvements
on the Minnesota trunk highway
system placed under contract at
$1,000, 500-nearly $4,000 less
than engineers estimates-that is
the result of the biggest 1923 high
way letting to date on awards by
Charles M. Babcock, state highway
commissioner. A call for bids on
another list is planned within thirty
days.
New contracts will cover 1872
miles of grading, 81 of paving, 10
of crawling and bridges, widely
distributed over the statewide sys-
tenn. They will be financed mainly
with county reimbursement bond
money, Commissioner Babcock said.
But is planned to use less than half
the 100000 total of new county
bonds authorized by the 1923 leg
islature, he added, because the re-
quirement that funds must be used
In the county issuing the bonds, in
some cases would mean the taking
of money for minor improvements
ahead of those most needed for
economy and general public gain.
more low prices are gratifying,
but increase the regret that the state
is without working capital necessary
to take greater advantage of them
to give the public needed road i'm
provements now and at big savings
in the end" said Mr. Babcock.
Highway officials commented On
decrease in the number of bidders.
More local road work on which COM
petition is not so keen and greater
building activities taking excavating
and other equipment had an effect,
they explained. Competition for
state jobs was sharp, nevertheless,
and prices tended to justify state
rather than county contracting on
trunk route projects.
No contacts were made for any
road work in this section of the
country.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
Ame rican
- LS99riSSe.,
Good News for Disabled Veterans.


Good News for Disabled Veterans.
At the request of Joe Sparks,
American Legion National Rehab-
ilitation Committee Chairman, Di-
rector General Hines of the u. S.
Veterans Bureau has taken by far
the most vital step to solve the
problem of Americas war manned
soldiers, since the organization of
the veterans bureau. In a far
reaching order just issued, Director
Hines makes ruling that will grant
permanent compensation to approx
mately 100000 former service men
who are partially disabled as re-
suit of the great war, settling for
all time the compensation problem
for this group of veterans.
This new ruling, for which The
American Legion has worked for
months, will affect huge saving in
the operation of the Veterans Bur-
eau by eliminating much personnel,
according to Stafford King, Mime
sofa Legion Adjutant, who estimates
that the order will affect about s.
900 Minnesota veterans, wounded
soldiers of the world war, who will
be saved from further loss Of time
and from worry over their monthly
compensation checks. "Under the
former method" declares Mr.. King,
"a soldier who lost leg or an arm
in service had to come before a
medical rating board every 80 days
for REORGANIZATION. His pay. was
often changed and many of the boys
lost their civilian jobs because of
the loss of time necessary for ex-
aminations. According to the new
plan, the expensive medical and
clerical force needed to examine
these men every 90 days will be
greatly reduced, and the veteran
will know definitely how much COM
pensation he will receive regularly
for the rest of his life"
In urging this new plan, The
American Legion through it's Ma
tional Rehabilitation Committee, has
also urged that the decision as to
which disabled veterans should come
under the permanently disabled
classification be made by the vari-
Gus district branches of the Veter-
ans Bureau, rather than at far-off
Washington; and Director General
Hines has indicated that he agrees
with this plan, feeling that the work
of administration can be handled
better and cheaper in the veterans
own territory than at the central
office in Washington. At the pres
ent time the disabled veterans con-
cerned are receiving approximately
the same average amount they will
get under the new order-but the
new ruling insures them this month
ly allowance as long as they live
Mimi. Legion News.
"a ~
Everybody will be welcome when
the Minnesota Legion gathers for
it's state convention at Faribault
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

August 13-14-15. All Legion men
and their families and all others
are cordially invited to come to
Faribault and enjoy the splendid
entertainment which is being pro-
vided. There will be something for
all. Plan to drive to Faribault for
at least one day at the Legion Con-
vention.
Sport fans from all parts of the
state are expected to turn their
faces toward Faribault August ID,
when Judge Lands appears on the
program of the Legion convention.
Other notables who have promised
to be present and speak to the Lee
gionaires and members of the aux
iliary are National Commander
Owsley and National President Mrs.
Barrett of the auxiliary.
Pa "a
Leave your bootleggers at iicme.
If you bring them with you to Fari-
bault they will be dealt with harsh
ly". This is the statement of John
Lieb, chairman of the law and order
committee. All hoodlum hangers on
and other scalaways will be given
short shrift at the convention. Mem
bers of the Faribault post and the
state department of the Legion are
cooperating to make this convention
without any regrets.
"a "a
Members of the Auxiliary will
hold their state convention at the
Faribault high school, 315 Fourth
Ave. N. w. All auxiliary activities
will be entered at the High School,
according to Mrs. E. H. Loyhed,
general chairman, and the auxiliary
women are requested to go there as
soon as they reach the city. Autos
are being provided for the con-
venience Of auxiliary visitors.
"a -
An even thousand dollars worth
of badges has been ordered by the
registration committee for use dur
ing the convention. They are now
in the process of preparation and
will be handed out when the dele
gates and visitors register. There
will be badge for official delegates,
for convention visitors and for mem
bers of the Faribault post who will
act as members of the information
committee. Classy badges with
bronze pendants have been selected
They will make a dandy souvenir
of the convention.
"a "a
The Legion goes strong on enter
tainment. Knowing this, the mem
bers of the convention committee of
the Faribault post has provided for
one which will satisfy the appetite
of the greatest epicure that ever
lived. According to DR.. d. F.
Hogan, every delegate and visitor
at the convention will be given $40
worth of free entertainment Make
it point to be there and get your
share of the spoils!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
THE JOYOUS EATER.

uoW Hdppy is the SeHtle Sodt
He eats tomato cans,
And isinglass and billiard balls,
And dippers, pots and pans;
For breakfast he has yellow rugs,
For dinner, carpet tacks,
For supper paris green and screws,
For luncheon, sugar sacks.
All, sure, it is vast delight
To see him eye his grub
And masticate three rusty hoops
From off the kitchen tub;
With what eclat he ticks his chops
Above his dish of nails,
He chortles as he slows away
A host of water pals.
His eye is mild, his manner calm,
He knows no doubt or fright,
1t seems to him the world was made
To serve his appetite,
Serene he keeps his joyous way
Whatever winds may blow,
And only stops to gobble up
A hayrack or hoe.-''Larry Ho".
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

The register at the tourist camp
shows that the people are getting
acquainted with their own state.
About three-fourth of the visitors
to register so far this season are
from the lower and western sections
of Minnesota. There are, however,
visitors from nearly every other
state in the Union, and the outsider
will be more numerous from now on.
-Hibbing News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
coffee Ono. caus. for Divorce

Coffee Once Cause for Divorce.
In these days of the fashionable and
easy divorce II will interest freedom
seeking husbands to read In All About
Coffee that In Turkey. during the Sew
enteenth century. to refuse or neglect
to give coffee to ones wife was legiti-
mate cause for divorce. The men made
promises, when marrying. never to let
their wives be without coffee. Nova
days the wife's neglect to serve her
husband good coffee has led to many
. separation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

The Northern Minnesota Editorial
Association held summer meeting
at Brainerd last week and we regret
our inability to be present. These
gatherings of the newspaper boys
are conducive to the welfare of the
state and nation besides being a
source of pleasure and an outing for
those attending.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

apartment hotel to be erected at
Calhoun Lake.
Wadena-M ason Brothers new
wholesale warehouse completed.
Minneapolis-New garage on Lake
street completed.
Hillsboro-20 blocks of streets to
be paved during summer
Marshall-$25,000 building an d
creamery plant to be erected.
Springfield-St. Paul Lutheran con-
gregation to build new church at
cost of $4,000.
Park Rapids Reconstruction of state
fish hatchery building started,
capacity to be 100,000,000 fish fry
a season.
White Bear Lake-East Third street
improved from Railroad avenue to
Cook avenue.
Duluth-$SOO,OO hotel proposed /;
100000 already raised.
Spring Valley-First National Bank
reports total resources of more
than 100000.
Observation-Disclosures Milling Com
pany soon to resume operations.
129 miles of Jefferson Highway in
state to be paved at estimated
cost of $1,7O0,O0O.
Rose Creek-New church building
constructed.
Willmar-Lincoln school building
planned, approximate cost 1885,
Duluth-Railroad and Commerce
streets to be paved at cost of
$31,781.
CLo~loe Nv, com nm
under construction.
Greenbush-New bridge on Trunk
highway No. 80 to cost $8,928.
State began fiscal year with more
than $7,OOO,0OO cash in bank.
Receipts and disbursements for
year ending June 1922 were
$11O,239,999.
Hibbing-This city and Stuntz join
in constructing water line to Kelly
Lake.
Cloquet-Phoenix Utility Company
to spend 100000 on hydro
electric development of st. Louis
river.
Wheaton-19 miles of road TO be
constructed through forest reserve
in Itasca county.
Staples Eight miles of road to be
gravel surfaced on Staples bower
vile road.
Scanlon-Another new dam to be
erected soon between this city and
Carlton.
MISUNDERSTANDING permits for
1928 to date passed $16,000,000
mark.
Albert Lea-Local packing plant
plans extensive enlargement.
Webb Lake-Fox farm to be estab-
ished at this point.
Observation-Disclosures bureau of
twin cities placed 2,31 in one
week.
White Bear Lake-Improvem in
armory building completed.
st. Paul-Children's hospital costing
$125,00O to be erected.
Minneapolis-To spend 100000 on
park improvements.
Trunk highways of state being
equipped with sign guide posts.
st. Paul-New Rural Credits Bur-
eau selling its first bond issue to
secure $2,0O0,0OO, has applica-
tons for farm loans exceeding
100000.
Owatonna-New 100000 Mutual
Insurance building completed.
East Grand Forks-Street paving to
be commenced.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY

Larry Ho" says that an expert
estimates that the last World War
Veteran will die in the year zoos,
and he is of the opinion that by,
that time he'll possibly receive his
bonus.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
MINNESOTA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW.

U. S. Employers Need 500, 900
Workers according to reports of U.
S. Employment Bureau. Improved
Wage Conditions result from stead
lily Operating Industries. Sound
Conditions which Encourage Invest
ments automatically Increase En-
ployment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

And What Would the Papers Dor
If it were not for our mistakes life
would be pretty monotOnOus-Bosto
Evening Transcript.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

Church Bells Of Porcelain.
A cathedral in France Is TO have a
carlton Of go bells made of porcelain.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03
Nourishment in Copra Cake

"OUr TsTFTTeIIK III OOpFa Cake.
According TO health experts copra
cake, the residue from dried coconut
meat after the oil has been extracted
is as nOuriShing q food as beefsteak.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

Rochester-Drilling of first oil well
to be sunk started on Bigelow hill.
Minneapolis-$1 100000 SKIS ryl
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

During the first nine weeks of
1923, the Western Electric Company
shipped three billion eight hun
million conductor feet of lead-cov-
cred telephone cable to the oporat-
ing companies of the Bell system.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

The Supreme Court of the United
States has twice within 80 days an
nounced the doctrine that present
costs must be given fair and Just
consideration in arriving at the
value of a public service corpora
TONS property for rate making pur-
poses.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

Active agitation has been carried
on to launch the government into
the field of crop insurance, but a
report Just issued by Deartment of
Agriculture, while emphasizing the
necessity for crop insurance, does
not favor a government agency.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-03

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Everybody will be welcome when
the Minnesota Legion gathers for
it's state convention at Faribault
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
STATE GAS PROBE

Investigation by joint legislative
committee of gasoline and other fuel
oil prices in Wisconsin would be auth
orized under a resolution introduced
in the assembly by Assemblyman
Mark, of Iron county. 1t was refer
ed to the committee on highways.
The resolution sets forth that allie
cations have been made to the effect
that gasoline and oil prices are higher
in Wisconsin than in other states and
that if such difference exists, it is a
"gress injustice" and unfair expense
to the citizens of this state.
The investigation committee would
be instructed to make such recon-
mendations in bill form as it may
deem expedient at the present legisla-
tive session.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
SECRECY CLAUSE BILL GOES

Final approval was given the Sc
version bill removing the secrecy
clause to the Wisconsin income tax
law when the assembly Wednesday
night concurred in the senate action
on the measure and sent it to Gov.
Blaine for his signature.
With the signature of the governor
assured, the Progressive Republicans
assert they have rof carried out their
first campaign pledge. The move to
open incom tax returns to the inSpec-
ton of any person OF interest was an
outstanding feature of the last politi-
cal campaign.
The bill was concurred in by the
assembly without even the formality
of roll CALL Gov. Blaine will sign
it within six days after it reaches his
office.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
GOING UP

A comprehensive program of high
way tax legislation is proposed by a
bill introduced in the legislature We'd
nesday at the request of the County
Boards association and the League
of Wisconsin Municipalities.
Through taxes on weight and valu-
alton of automobiles and upon gaso-
line, the bill would raise $10,000,000
annually for state, county and city
street improvement.
Under provisions of the bill a
graduated license fee, based upon
weight, ranging from So to $24 is call
ed for to raise $4,500,000 annually.
This revenue would be distributed, So
per cent to the state and Is per cent
to the counties.
A valuation tax of per cent of
the value of automobiles, graded ae-
cording to age, would be levied to
raise $2,50O,OOO. OF this revenue, 70
per cent would go to the state and 80
per cent to the counties.
The 2-cent gasoline tax proposed
would raise 100000 annually, S5
per cent of which would go to the
state and Is per cent to the counties.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
the Dahl general income tax bill was

the Dahl general income tax bill was
announced by Speaker Dahl Friday.
He declared he intended to push his
revenue proposal in the Legislature de.
spite the governors bill, which he
branded as impractical.
The Dahl bill is now moderate in
tone, with the rate on corporation in
come cut from pei cent to Az per
cent, and the individual rate ranging
from l per cent to 10 per cent, instead
of from / per cent to 20 per cent as
formerly, its author declared.
Highly theoretical, speculative and
complicated" are the terms Speaker
John L. Dahl used to characterize
Gov. Blaine's new tax bill, outlined
before the legislature Wednesday in
a special message.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
STATE
LEGISLATURE
PROTEST BLUE LAW EXTENSION

Madison-Petitions are begirning
to pile up against Assemblyman Hol-
ly's bill to extend the blue laws to le-
gal holidays.
The state law now says that any
person who dances, or attends diver
sion, show or entertainment or takes
part in a sport, play or game on the
first day of the week, NAV &c penal
lied by a SO fine. The ad's.inistra-
ton of this law occasionally stifs
some community where officials take
it in hand.
Mr.. Holly's bill places legal holi-
days in the same category as Sundays,
and under it's provisions there can be
no baseball on the Fourth of July,
and no movies or other entertain
ments ON Thanksgiving, Christmas or
New Years.
Assemblyman Grain thinks the
blue laws are now too stringent. He
would amend this statute SO that per-
sons who are present at public d.
version, show or entertainment" shall
not be subject to charges of viola
ton.