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Evening star., 1924-01-27
the Postmaster General

to the Postmaster General.
The Postmaster General has the
authority by law to bring these
grafters to trial. while the organized
motorists OF the country can play
their part by cooperating with the
National Motorists Association in
furnishing the evidence. The results
that are had through the application
of this policy not only show the mo-
toriSt that progress is being made
but mainly that be- may expect 10
see some of his fondest hopes realized
in the near future"
Evening star., 1924-01-27

was formerly connected with Hender-
Rowe and the Zimmerman firm of
this city about sly years ago. Tha
Justice Motor Company is the newly
appointed Chandler dealer for this
city
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Columbia Motors Company, becomes
Interested and will act as general
manager of the Young-Simm Auto
mobile Company, Inc
A complete line OF the new 1924
models Of the Columbia will be imme-
diateIy displayed in Washington at
Evening star., 1924-01-27
John Smith and His Car
BY FREDERICK c. RUSSELL.

John Smith whom should welcome He
lhh chap willing and glad
benefit OF
the other l0000000 rmorem members of the clan
Evening star., 1924-01-27
SimpIc-When You Know.

simplest thing in the world" the
mechanic assured him. "AIl You have
to do is adjust these push rods 50
that both valves are closed when the
piston for the cylinder you are work
Evening star., 1924-01-27

the salesroom, 1897 18th street north
west
w. T. Golden has just returned to
this city, after an absence Of about
SIX years, TO Join the Justice Motor
Company as sales manager. Golden
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
Cutters Realize Thot
TWain Had Right Idea

Many years ago Mark Twain wrote
one of his characteristic little sketches
about boy buying a jackknife. His
observation was that in the presence
of the infinite variety of shiny knives
which the hardware man had in his
showcase any knife that the boy select
ed from the rest looked like a clumsy,
inferior affair, but that as soon as the
boy had made his choice and got away
from the influence of all of the other
knives his particular knife became a
precious and radiant thing of beauty
1t was generations ago that the
great humorist discussed this topic,
but the cutters have taken the lesson
to heart at last and decided that they
have been making too many kinds of
pocketknives Their interest in the
matter is economic; their aim is more
profits and they hope to achieve that
end by ceasing to turn out many &C.
centric varieties of Slnives that are
slow sale and not much good anyway.
Their meeting was, in fact, a part of
Mr.. Hoover's comprehensive scheme
for saving money by standardizing
products and scrapping unnecessary
models, but behind all of that one sees
the eternal small boy, who is just the
same now that he was when Mark
Twain observed him relieved of an an
cient embarrassment Detroit Free
Press. -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
building completed, American Le-

building completed, American Le-
gion to dedicate.
Duluth-Building active, enough
projected to maintain the various
trades in good average employ
ment till close of year; construc-
tion started on $1,500,000 Hotel
Duluth.
Proctor Remodeling of d. M. & N,
railroad depot completed.
Wadena-Corn crop in this vicinity
in best possible condition.
Minnesota Potato Growers
Exchange ships from here first
carload of potatoes for season;
fifty stations now receiving pota-
toes.
Comfrey-Reinforced concret e
bridge for c. & N. railroad over
Little Cottonwood river completed
at cost of $4,000.
Minneapolis-M n ne t a Wheat
Growers Cooperative Marketing
Association moves headquarters
from Thief River Falls to this
city; expects to handle 100000
bushels of Minnesota wheat this
year.
Proctor-City's first street paving
under way, ready for traffic in
November.
Hibbing-Council orders four addi-
tional blocks on First avenue and
Mesaba street paved.
Minneapolis-Great Northern rail
road shops in this city to begin
building 100 automobile freight
cars, estimated to cost $180,000;
100 men to be employed in the
work.
Austin-Contract to be let for con-
structing sewer system and dis
posal plant.
Neutrality-suspicious. laid for $685.
600 school addition.
st. Francis-Eastern Minnesota
Power Company to extend cleo
trio service here, lines to be con-
structed from Bethel.
Observation-Disclosures Steel Com.
pany employs 200 additional men
at plant, due to increased demand
for company's products.
Hibbing Property within town linn
its has true value of more than
$175, 100000, according to asses
sor's figures.
Minneapolis-Ninth Federal Reserve
Bank here reports increased vol
ume of general business, rising
bank deposits, declining loans and
expansion of building activity
throughout ninth district.
Railroads in northwest" group are
about to install additional rail-rid-
ing motor coaches and highway
motor buses. Minneapolis & st.
Louis and Minneapolis, st. Paul
q Sault Ste. Marie railroads will
install rail-riding buses; Chicago
Great Western and Northern
Pacific railroads will increase their
fleets of rail buses and another
railroad system will install fleet
of buses.
A wheat crop of 814,417, 900 bushels
in the United States is indicated
for this year. Winter wheat har-
vests are far greater than expect
ed and preliminary estimate places
them at 509,350,00O bushels.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
Queer Ceremonies at
NupfiGIs of Indians

Among the Indians of Ecuador the
marriage ceremony is, weird and tu-
multuous rite; this function begins
with a feast in which all the neigh
boring families take part. AT dawn
they gather around huge bowls of a
nauseous concoction known as chica,
which is a fermented and highly In
toxicating drink made from the fruit
of the chonta palm. While the drink
ing is going on the bride Is being
dressed. All her clothing is removed
"a short process-and she is provid-
ed with a new skirt Of blue cloth
which reaches almost to her knees,
says III. S. Dickey in Current History
Magazine. Around her shoulders are
tied two red bandanna handkerchiefs
and across her forehead red ribbon.
Thus attired and accompanied by the
guests she goes to the house of the
bridegroom, who Is dressed in white
knee trousers with~a bandanna hand
kerchief tied about his neck. Togeth-
er they proceed to the house of the
Sudy hth ", u SUI VI OlliCl WIN
officiates at the marriage. Then two
lines are formed, one of men and
one of women, with the bride in the
center All stand for minute fac
ing each other; then, the women adj
vance, the men recede. Thousands
upon thousands of times this shut
fling back and forth is repeated. Oc-
casionally dancer will drop out to
refresh himself; at times one will fall
to the ground exhausted; but the stur-
diest manage to last out the whole af-
fair which continues throughout three
days and three nights. The most stall
wart Yumbo requires at least three
weeks to recover from one of these
functions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
WILL VOTE YES FOR
GAS TAX AND SELVES.
TWO CLASSES OF HIGHWAY
USERS SURE TO GIVE
AMENDMENT NO.
UNITED SUPPORT.

st. Louis county and all other
Minnesota owners of automobiles
will find one sure way to cast 3
vote for themselves-fo their in
dividual cash gain at the November
election, and that will be by voting
yes on Amendment No. 1 to put
the money from any gas tax that
may be levied on the roads.
The gas tax man added that the
gas tax, as forecast for Minnesota,
commends itself to the average
farmer and all other owners of light
automobiles driven comparatively
small mileages. The plan means
that they will pay proportionately
less tax than the man whose car is
pounding the highways all day week
in and week out, he explained. And
under the proposed plan, the farm
err will be taxed on gasoline only
for the uses on the roads.
On the other hand, continued
Nickles N. Dimes, owners of the
heavy cars and those covering great
mileages have as good or better rea-
son for favoring a gas tax to i'm
prove roads. "Take the machine
travelling $4,000 miles year" he
suggested. "Good roads will reduce
the cost of running 8 and even 5
cents a mile-but at only 1-cent a
mile, the saving totals $500 year.
At only 10 miles to a gallon, 2
cent gas tax would take 500. So
it's to l gain on that car.
"But we're getting ahead of the
story in Minnesota" continued the
gas tax man. First, the voters of
the state will decide in November
whether they will let the legislature
put all the taxes collected on motor
vehicles on the roads-and the own
ers of the 100000 cars and trucks
in the state ought to favor that.
Then the legislature will decide
whether gas tax will be levied-to
give the average car owner paying
probably less than 81 in small sums
the use of $4,OO0,00O of highway
improvements in acknowledging
probably 100000 paid for by tour
lists from outside states.
"Noise it around among friends
and neighbors that they'll vote in
November, not on the question OF
whether Minnesota will tax gasoline,
but only whether the money, if there
is a gas tax, will be used on the
roads," he urged.
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THIS PAPER BEGINNING SEPT. 26.
ness of their wear.

ness of their wear.
o
Poverty Pete-It's certainly dam
gerous to be going out in the streets
these nights, with so many holdups
going on
Cigar-Butt-S my GU needn't
worry; if thug saw you, he'd just
think you were working that side of
the street.
Lost-A lady's pocketbook in a
car driven by an unknown man con-
tanning $40. and two passengers.
Return to Reward
Classified ad in the Nashville Ban
ner.
The guy that I hate
Wakes me from my slumber
To yell DER my phone;
"Beg pawdon! Wrong number"
In Columbus, Ohio, man and his
wife served on the same jury. The
jury disagreed.
Some of our statesmen, observes
Luke, are wonderfully like that air
mail pilot in Alaska who got lost
aloft in the dark and didn't know
where to come down.
"That,s what makes me soar, said
the eagle, looking at his wings.
O.
The Ely cowboy is a fellow who
buys a girl soda and then takes
her home and tries to squeeze it out
of her.
Won't it sound odd, says Luke,
for the great man of the future to
say, retrospectfully, that he owes his
success and fame to his sainted bob
haired mother?
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Howdy, Gloom and Pessimism are
a combination in restraint of trade.
81 am no good unless | strike, !"
said the match.
"And you lose your head every
time you do strike" said the match
box.
It is better to put your whole
soul into what you are doing, thinks
Luke than to put your foot in it..
About the only article that is
homespun, nowadays, is gossip.
Keep that schoolgirl complexion
but not on your coat lapel.
as there no hope for my hus-
band"
$50 on, madam"
''Is there no hope, doctor, is there
no hope"
''That depends, madame, on what
you are hoping for" said the doctor
reaching for his hat.
It is becoming the fashion now,
not to announce engagements but
to deny them-and then get mar
ried.
The age of joke is nothing to be
held against it. 1t may be so old
that almost everyone has forgotten
it.
The young man is sometimes dis
turbed over the shortness of his
fiancee's gowns. The married man
is always disturbed over the short
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
Obelisks Misnoned

The name "Cleopatra's Needles" is
improperly given to two famous OBJ
elisks erected by Thothmes III, at On
(Heliopolis) about 1900 B. c., and
brought to Alexandria by Augustus
about % B. c., to add to the beauty of
the city. One of these granite mono
liths now stands on the Victoria EN-.
banBment in London, While the other
is in Central park, New York.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
Cabinet Has Crolur,

When George Washington was Pres
ident, there were five men sitting
about the table with him as his first
cabinet. Today when the Chief Elk
ecutiye calls his aides together there
are ten occupying accredited depart
ment chairs. These departments are
State, War, Navy, Treasury, Justice,
Postoffice, Agriculture, Commerce
Labor and Interior
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
Who Calls the Frogs?

Frogs and toads in winter are deep
ly buried in the mud or beneath some
stump, log or stone. Nature awak-
ems them at the proper time, however.
says Nature Magazine. How it is that
they know when it is time for them
to come forth is one of the mysteries
of nature that has never been salts
factorily solved Nevertheless, they
are never late.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
All Nations Chew Gun,

The gum-chewing habit encircles the
globe. The American soldiers intro
duced gum TO the soldiers of the other
nations engaged in the World war,
who, in turn, took it to their countries.
In this way chewing gum is now known
in practically every country which has
contact with the world
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
HEIGHT. Net Mensv,

Mrs. Countershop with an injured
air)-You told me before We were
married that you were the highest sal
aried clerk In the factory.
Mr.. Countershop equally inJsrsd)-
So l am. I'm two inches anasa hall
taller than any other salaried clerk in
the establishment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

All DC III dI 11dIu A&OOAs OAASAAS~
with Thoughtful Attention to Bust
ness is What Our Country and the
Whole World Need.
Ely. A. Rothman begins con-
struction of $4,000 garage build
ing.
st. Paul-Plans being made to re-
open 25 banks throughout state
closed during past several years
bumper crops this year assure
prosperity; depositors' losses to
be rapid On installment plan.
Fulda-Contract let for construction
of creamery building.
Minnesota highway department tc
eliminate 523 out Of $50 grade
crossings on state trunk highway
system, 263 separations already
accomplished.
Faribault-Contracts let for install
ing central heating plant to serve
Cathedral and Guild house.
celebration held tt
mark opening of fve-mile paved
road between Friesland and Sand
stone.
Cromwell-Cromwell Creamery re
ports excellent business; last yea
distributed 100000 in this com
munity in payment for milk AM
cream.
Minneapolis-Co to be let TO
building $3,000,000 auditorium
day labor plan deemed inadvis
able.
National Bond & Invest
ment Company to begin bushes
in this city, will have new build
ing on east First street.
Bovey-Contract let at $1,000 fo
building. fire hall.
Clarissa-Crop conditions never bet
ter; second clover and alfalfa be
ing cut; corn ripening fast, qualit
excellent.
Ely-New 100000 high schos
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
Wives Beat Husbands

Wives may whip faithless husbands
and the husbands mustn't complain,
according to recent decision of the
Austrian Supreme, court. When a
woman beats her hayward spouse, the
court held, such beating is "but the
natural reaction to his conduct"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

the tourists from other states will
help carry the burden of keeping
the highways in condition, and they
will pay willingly, for most of them
are already used to it.-Worthing-
ton Times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
susnicious Circumstance

There will be investigating commit
tees so long as candidates spend more
to get an office than the office pays
Duluth Herald.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

FOR PERMANENT URE+
When drunken drivers are given a
year in close confinement, a man
who drinks will never look at a car
Staples World.
FLIVVERS CAN'T THINK-You
can drive a mule to water but you
can't make it drink; you can make
a fiivver sputter but you can't make
it think.-Hendrick's Pioneer.
EYES OPEN AND FRONT
About the worst possible place to
sleep is at the steering wheel of an
automobile when the automobile is
not standing still.-Jordan indie
pendent.
DON'T PARK ON TRUNKS
People should exercise caution in
hitching teams or parking cars on
that portion of the highway which
passes through the village. The
street is narrow enough as it is and
with cars parked or horses hitched
along both sides of the road the
passage way is altogether too mar
row for safe driving. Mcintosh
| Times.
A HINT ABOUT HUGGING-
Judging from observation but not
from experience, we are of the opin-
ion that it is much safer for an
automobile driver to hug the curve
than anything that might happen to
he in the front seat with him.
Bemidji Sentinel.
A GAS TAX FORECAST
Thirty-six states now levy tax on
gasoline for road S. Minnesota,
Michigan and Wisconsin will vote
on the tax this fall That will
leave nine. Iowa's legislature will
enact such tax this winter and
that will leave only eight. Indiana
collected $4,600,00O from its gas
tax at an expense of Sc 400 for
collection. Lea Tribune.
| REMEDY HEADLIGHT MEN
ACE-The use of high power bulbs
in automobile headlights has become
altogether too common, and motor
lists are voicing indignation at the
practice. Even year ago, when
there already was plenty of talk re-
garding the strong light menace
thirty candlepower lights were the
exception, but local garages are now
meeting demand for fifty candle
power bulbs.A An Aitkinite return
ing from Duluth stated that he con.
sidered himself in peril all of the
way, because he found himself crop
ing along whenever he met another
car. Some means of controlling
the danger must be found shortly OF
accident totals will climb ever
higher.-Aitkin Republican.
He didn't heed the traffic laws,
But ran pell nell;
The doctor told the preacher,
The preacher tolled the bell.
-Milaca Times
Let other take due warning,
Lest another tale they tell,
For 'Old Horns" is getting ready
To take them down to-hades.
Buffalo Journal
PAYS TO LOOK AHEAD-Th.
5 owner of car, here in Minnesota
: that would vote against a gas tai
would be very short sighted. If !;
r person pays in proportion to the ga
he uses he pays only in proportion
: to the use he makes of the high
: ways, and that is fair. This vii
Y make the bus people pay NOR
nearly in proportion to the heav,
j use they make of the roads, an,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
TWENTY YEARS AGO|
Tuken from The Ely Miner of
the same date in 1904.
A Little Different Today.

A Little Dlnefent oday.
Petitions from Skantze and Nirva
asking the council to buy 100 cords
of dry tamarack wood at $500 per
cord: and from John Bedford ask
ing the council to purchase $50
cords of mixed wood at 1910 per
cord, were read and were referred
| by the Mayor to finance committee.
The following resolution present
ed by Alderman Textbook:
Resolved that there be levied
against the taxable property of the
City of Ely for the year 1904, the
sum of $21, 100000 and that the
itor for collection, and that the said
sum be credited to the various funds
as follows:
Court and Police, 100000
Permanent Improvement, 100000
Fire Department ---- 100000
Bond Interest, - 100000
Bond Sinking, 100000
$21, 100000
Rev. L. H. Schock who has oc-
cupied the pulpit. of the Presbyterian
church here for the past month in
the absence of the pastor returned
to his home in Illinois last Tuesday
Rev. Schock's services were much ap-
preciated by the congregation here.
A marriage license was issued
Monday to Majk Erzar and Meri
Nagodja. +.
Erick Siren secured first papers
Wednesday.
Joseph Majerle and Fannie Brun-
ozic secured a license to wed today.
Thos. Glynn and family took their
departure Sunday for Saltwater
where they will reside, having pur-
chased a farm near there.
VIM. j. Bates, the successful
candidate for the Republican NOM
nation for sheriff, was in the city
today receiving the congratulations
of various friends.
E. A. Roberts has disposed of his
tonsorial establishment to M. Vein
zierl and the same has leased to l.
G.. Cox who will take possession
next Monday.
x
VIM. T. Pickavance, Louis Pluth
and Arvid Mattson secured first
papers Monday from Deputy Clerk
Schaefer, the first renouncing his al
legiance to the King of England,
the second to the Emperor of Austria
and the last to the Gar of Russia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
A Radio Thought
Bobby haired Betty
Is q radio slave.
She hopes they'll broadcaas
A permanent wave.


Hubby was evidently worried and
WHEY was trying to cheer him up.
Cheer up, John, and don't worry
she said. "It doesn't do any sood to
borrow trouble"
Borrow trouble" echoed her hus
band. Great Caesars ghosti I amt
borrowing trouble; I've got 1t t. lsnd.s
Chicago News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

E. A. Roberts has disposed of his
tonsorial establishment to M. Vein
zierl and the same has leased to /.
G. Cox who will take possession
next Monday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

VIM. J. Bates, the successful
candidate for the Republican NOM
nation for sheriff, was in the city
today receiving the congratulations
of various friends.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
MINNESOTA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW.

The Agitators of the Loud Voice,
Those Who Make the laundering,
Reverberating Political Noise, Should
All Be Put at Hard Labor. Silence
with Thoughtful Attention to Bust
ness is What Our Country and the
Whole World Need.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

Thos. Glynn and family took their
departure Sunday for Saltwater
where they will reside, having pur-
chased a farm near there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

FOR PERMANENT CUR E.
When drunken drivers are given a
year in close confinement, a man
who drinks will never look at a car
Staples World.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

Joseph Majerle and Fannie Brun-
ozic secured license to wed today.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
$21,OOo.oO

Erick Siren secured first papers
Wednesday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19

FLIVVERS CAN'T THINK-You
can drive a mule to water but you
can't make it drink; you can make
filvver sputter but you can't make
it think. -Hendrick' Pioneer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-10
Malaria in Philippines
To Be Eradicated

Manila. June IA. p. by Mail)-
A modern hospital designed primarily
for the eradication of malaria in the
provinces of Pampanga and Bataan,
Island of Luzon. has just been opened
at the Pampanga Sugar Mills Central
at Del Carmen, SO miles north of
Manila.
The hospital, which Is one Of the
most completely equipped In the
Philippines, is the gift of John D. and
Adolph b. Spreckles of San Fran
cisco. who are largely interested in
the Del Carmen sugar central
The institution in addition to being
used for the care of medical and sur
gical cases in the two provinces will
be the headquarters for the Rookie
Teller Foundation and the Philippine
Health service in their campaign for
control of malaria.
The central court of the building
contains pond. the gift OF the
Rockefeller Foundation. which will be
stocked with fish from the United
States. to be studied In connection
with experiments on anopheies mos
quito larvae.
r. II. Hind general manager Of the
central. outlining the purpose Of the
donors in making the hospital pos
sible. pointed out that the physical
welfare of the Filipino workman was
most important not only TO himself
but to his employer.