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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
BILLY NOONANETTES"

(From the Baudette Region
One trouble with Minnesota is
that it has too many legislators and
too much legislation.
Don't laugh, girls" read a
placard on the back of dilapidat-
ed Ford the other day, ''if you had
all the paint rubbed off you'd look
like the dickens too" -Akely Her
aid Tribune.
Scientists say that Niagara Falls
will be dry in 10000 years. There
is still hope for the Twin Cities.
Several cities are prohibiting
sirens on autoes. However sirens
in autoes cause most of the trouble.
Solomon STATE, aged ~, was mar
ried recently to Rose Sennett, aged
IT. "Who named him Solomon"
asks an exchange.
This one has been going the
rounds, so you might as we'll read
it, "a drink of this stuff will
straighten you out in no time," re-
marked the bootlegger to his sick
customer.
Coroner's verdict-It did.
We noted the approach of spring
Tuesday. A liar came in and said
he saw the first robin.
An Ontario woman wants a
divorce because her husband called
her fzgig. You would be sore
too if your husband called you a
fizgig.
"Flee in Night Attire" says a
headline. It's tough luck no mat
ter how you spell it.
It's too bad that Speaker John
son can't bang his gavel on the
heads of a half dozen windiammers
who are obstructihg the business of
the legislatp The majority of
the members are doing their best,
but the windy boys are taking up
so much time that the session may
be a failure as far as constructive
legislation is concerned.
In order to get your name in a
city paper you have to shoot your
husband, get gored to death by a
f1ivver, marry movie star, predict
the end of the world or do some
thing as sensational. To get your
name in the Region all you have to
do is to have guest or baby at
your house, invite in a few friends.
go on trip or improve your prop
erty. But the trouble with most of
you is that the information has to
be pried out of you. The paper
would be much newsier if you
would phone in the news promptly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

be, the young people want to dance
instead of sitting about, playing
"postoffice", ''forfeits" and such
other games as delighted their fore
fathers. The majority of the young
people prefer to dance among
friends and neighbors and this law
would drive them autoing into the
dark to road houses and question
able places, for dance they will.
School houses are built for the
public COOS and the taxpayers foot
the bill. If the taxpayers of GER
tain community feel (say Ham Lake
for instance) that dancing is wrong,
let them shut up their school houses
to this amusement. Other commun-
tiles could oversee school houses
which their own money has tuilt
without criminal law to keep them
from attending to their own affairs.
Dancing has been sanctioned from
the beginning of history as one of
the gIaces and privileges of youth.
If it is right to dance at all, of
which there seems no question, then
why is it not right and proper to
dance in school houses?
ScHOOi DullulIlSS cost enormous
sums to build and maintain. They
are occupied 35 hours week for
actual academic work and sometimes
a few hours more for athletics, etc.
1873 hours week are idle hours
and these should be utilized for
social affairs and gathering of
neighbors for wholesome anus ,ment
in order to furnish the best results
for the money invested. Some of
the city churches feel likewise and
are turning their buildings over to
the youth of the parish for social
centre activities, which includes
dancing, as well as other sports and
amusements. We ask the young
people to make the school house the
center of social activities and then
deny them the privilege of doing the
things they most desire. This is
not fair. The senator's bill SHOULD
be killed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

The days Of fake journalism never
were here so far as respectable
newspapers are concerned. A news
paper could no more afford to fake
a story deliberately than reputable
merchant could afford to misrepre-
sent his goods. Misrepresentation
of facts, either for the sake of ere
ating sensation or for the sake Of
forwarding the political game CT a
wspaper, is even more serious than
gross misrepresentation on the part
of a merchant. For such misrepre-
sentation on the part of merchant
can at best fool only few as COM
pared with the thousands who would
be fooled by a newspaper. Once in
a while we hear the expression, "Oh,
that's all newspaper talk" News
paper men are particularly impa-
tient with this remark, for they
know that no reputable reporter and
no reputable newspaper ever know
ingly misrepresents facts or "fakes a
story" And ninety-nine per cent of
American newspapers are reputable
publications. The days of fake
Journalism" never did exist and God
forbid that they ever shall.-Ex.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

And now comes Senator Wahlund
who halls from Ham Lake in Anoka
county with a bill before the Min
nesota legislature making it crime
to use any schoolhouse in the state
for dancing. The senator is Rev.
and is pictured in the blue book as
whiskers, horn trimmed glasses, re-
versible collar undertaker's tie and
pompadour, untrimmed hair. The
tenor of his bill does not belle this
makeup. In his zeal to make other
people good, by law, evidently not
being satisfied with his success in
the pulpit he is laboring under the
delusion that to make it crime to
dance in the school houses of the
state, he is making the world bet
ter.
Why he should feel that to dance
in a school house would be crime,
is hard to penetrate the layman's
mind. Had he stipulated that the
crime would be to dance to the
music of some of the alleged orches-
tras, we would have sympathised
with his bill. As it is we SYM
pathise with him and the people he
represents in the senate of this en-
lightened commonwealth. Should he
Tucceed in mastering enough votes
to pass such measure, we can
assure him 4ho. the effects of the
bill would be just contrary to his
expectations.
Az this time when the right
thinking world is very much occu-
pied in furnishing it's young people
with well-lighted, properly vent'lat-
81 and the best possible places, for
wholesouled amusement. it seems
kind of out of place to make it
harder for the young folks to find
a respectable place in which to
dance-and no matter what the
opinion Of the Rev. gentleman may
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

Recent estimates give the United
States wealth as 100000, 900, 900,
or about $4,000 per capita. The
greatest single item is real estate;
second IS personal property--cloth-
ing, furniture, automobiles, ETC.;
manufactured goods ready for use
rank third; real estate that is not
taxable comes fourth; railroaos,
fifth; manufacturing plants, sixth
and public Notwithstanding. irri-
cation workS-seventh.
The surprising thing is the
amount of untaxable public or semi
public property-more than twenty
billion dollars worth, besides the
estimated thirty billion dallars worth
of untaxed securities.
The tax-exemption theory as it be-
comes better understood is having
more difficult shedding. Some day
Congress will be forced to act on
repeal of such special privilege laws
in order to equalize the nations
tax burden.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
WANTED

Man employed to give US their
spare time collecting for and selling
Health and Accident Insurance, good
renewal income to right party. Gen
eral Accident CORPORATION, j. R.
Burroughs, District manager Phone
Ely 294 from to P. M, for APP
polntment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

Following in the footsteps of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
which few weeks ago posted not
ices that any employe found guilty
of making or peodling booze would
at once be discharged several other
heavy employers of labor have
issued similar notices. Several OF
the Michigan mining companies have
made the order stick and while the
making of beer and wine for home
consumption was not expressly pro-
hibited the der strictly frowned on
the traffic in the stuff.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

Thomas Edison makes the >la
that man is finally going to live to
be two hundred years old, through
better ways of living. Fhis SOUNDS
alluring and especially to US of the
Arrowhead country where living IS
Just one sure delight. No lorna
does, earthquakes, floods or ether
pests which infect some of the cthar
states of the Union to bother US and
the healthiest, livingiest climate all
the year round.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
Dry Cleaned

A little girl returning from visit
to the BARRIERS and referring to his
use Of the electric clippers an her re-
marked to her mother: II know my
neck was dirty, cause he used the
vacuum cleaner on it."-Boston Tran
script.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

Senator Michael Boylan has in
troduced bill n the legislature cut
ting the salary of the governor OF
Minnesota from $1,000 to S4,6vo
per year. 1t is supposed the ssnat-
or became peeved over the action or
Governor christensen IN vetolng
the st Louis county salary increase
bills and is attempting to show the
governor how it feels to get along
on a short salary. Colleagues or
Senator Boylan do not take the mat
ter seriously and are prone tc be-
lieve the senator feels likewise about
it. However, the governor knows
the personal feelings of Senator
Boylan.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

From now on new bills in the
legislature must be accompanied by
a letter from Governor Christensen
giving his consent to the introduc-
ton and the governor has given 1t
out cold that only bills of the ut
most Importance will have cnance
of getting such letter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
Contributed

Young ladies, would you guess 1t, are
like arrows, don't you know. They
cannot pierce single heart until they
without bow can nothing do. young
ladies till they get beau are in a
CULVER, toO.-Boston Transcript
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
LonRer-Lifs CAMPAIGN

Advice on health by means If bill
beard is giving way to verses and pic
lures on the subject flashed by cleo
tric signs in the campaign to lengthen
lives Of LondOners.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.

"Sprig has cub" sings the man
who changed 'em two weeks ago
when the sun came out from behind
the zero mark and has been out
ever since.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03

Anyone interested in bill before
the legislature which is not now on
general or special orders, can pack
the same away and forget it for two
years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
New Cars Now Here.

The 1925 Durant and Star auto
mobiles having arrived. we invite
your inspection. Berglund Bros
Automobile Co., Ely, Mimi.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
Prudence Necessary

Every state, every commonwealth
is to be governed by prudence, IL It
Is to be lasting.
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Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
Bunco kid Is
/ Going Straight
During Y ear

CHICAGO, 5an. 1.--Addcd to the
prosperity predicted for 1925 Chi,
cago receip ed good financial news
today with the announcement by
Joseph "Yeliow Kid We'll, CONT
denee operator de luxe, that wealthy
Chicagoans are safe. The :" Kid y
is going honest and will be banker
henceforth, he says.
"The New Year will see me
changed from the old life, " the ex-
pert swindler said.
"'It used TO be that anybody with
ten grand (Sl0,000) or more, was IN
danger OF losing it to me. Now it s
all changed. In gong 10 be hon
est and nobody is in danger.
"I've been offered 4 job as vice
president of a good bank and I've
decided to accept
But the "Kid' must first face in.
dictments charging him with swind.
ling Herman l.. Kutter of Hamilton,
Ohio, out Of more than $37, 900. That
was his last confidence opera
t1pn
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
NEW YORK GOES WILD

NEW YORK, Jan. !. - Father
Knickerbocker's annual tribute to
Father Time was paid last night and
it was neither, quiet nor wholly dry.
When baby 1925 came creeping
down Broadway, the roaring forties
eatapulted into an ecstasy of glee.
And the discovery that the newcom-
er was accompanied by one Of those
cold waves the weather man is al
ways talking about, failed TO restore
calm.
Though liquor flowed freely and
many a toast, was given in In mode
it was the first New Years eve in
ten years that no intoxicated person
was arraigned in night court.
Twenty-Five tinhorn peddlers were
arrested, charged with making too
much noise, but outside of this the
regular police and the hundreds of
reserves spent most of their time
keeping pedestrians on the side
walks.
Thousands who thought they
would be different went to bed
early-but notaito sleep. If they
did manage to steal u few hours
slumber, they were rudely awakened
when the stroke of u put 1924 in
the past tense.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
More Sensations
In Divorce Suit
of Congressman
by United Press LEASED Wire

ALPENA, Mich, Jan. with
calling of Mrs. Seett TO ethe stand
postponed by the adjournment of
court over New Years, sensations in
the divorce trial of Congressman
Frank ID. Scott were confined to
revelations of secret codes used by
his wife in talking with Harry
Wyckoff, clerk at the Wardman
Park hotel, and lavish spending of
money FOR parties it was testified
late yesterday.
/ Under cross examination in the
late afternoon session Scott told of
relations between Mrs. Scott and
Wyckoff assisted Mrs. Scott in
his secretary, Miss Jane Kennedy,
who lived at the Scott apartment
during the campaign. In converse
tions and requests for hotel service
were used as code TO make appoint
ments and tell Wyckoff when she
would be alone in her apartment,
Scott said.
At one time while he was away
Wyckoff, assisted Mrs. Scott in
dressing. Scott said. Mrs. Ireland,
wife of Congressman Ireland of Illi-
nois, telephoned to tell Mrs. Scott
she had but q few moments to dress
for dinner. Wyckoff came up to her
apartment to help her.
a $2l7 tablecloth purchased for
special dinner in honor of the
late President Harding and the
purchase of $500 Swiss clock
while the Scots were abroad, were
brought into the testimony by Scott.
''I didn I know the cloth was pur-
chased for the presidential party, "
Scott testified. Mrs. Scott bought
this expensive tablccloth for her
Christmas present for me. l did
not even know the use of some of
the sterling silver Mrs. Scott had.
I am mot up on these new tangled
tricks
Court will reconvene at 10 o clock
Friday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
Ford Predicts
a Banner Year

DETROIT, Mich, Jan, l.-Orti-
r,istie predictions for 4 banner scar
in the automobile industry and Q
general business boom were made
bv the Ford MOTOR Company here
today in a, report issued snmlRaliz-
ing the preparations made during
the past year to handle the 1925
business. ,.....
Tho Ford annourieemeitfpu output, OF
Detroit for 1922, ,750, 900 ears, tho
largest ON iecord--nshered in The
New Year with prospects of the
best year for business since the war.
The report ON the motor industry
in Detroit, also issued today, showed
growth in production from 942,-
600 cars manufactured in 1916 to
the 2,750,000 mark set i'll 1924. lhe
retail value of the ears was placed
at $a,500,000,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
1925 Holds Many
Good Things
for Farmer


SACRAMENTO, Jan. 1.-The
new year holds many good
things for the California farm
er and through the farmer 1or
the state as whole, 1t Is Off
cially prophesied by G H. Hecke,
director OF the State Department
OF Agriculture, i'll his annual re
port.
Despite drouth and hoof and
mouth disease, California farm
products in 1924 put the state
in fourth position among all the
states, Hecke declared, sand with
just average good luck in the
year to come he expects the
state to crowd first place.
California has risen from 18th
place to fourth since 1909.
Forty one percent of all the
frc2h fruit consumed il the Unit
ed States is grown i'll California,
Hecke's report shows.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
King Jazz and
Queen Joy to
Reign in,Corona

King Jazz and Queen JOY will
reign over Corona at the Carnival
of Lights" ON the evening of Jan
uary s.
Representatives of the city gov
ernment, Chamber of Commerce
and local American Legion post
gathered at the Hotel Kinney last
night and definitely decided upon
the Carnival of Lights as the best
and most fitting means OF celebrat-
ing the mark Of progress BENG
registered by the community,
Thursday evening, January s, is
the date set FOR the. turning on of
the new lighting system and its
Carnival of Lights Arrangements
are being made 10 entertaih thouss
ands of citizens from the surround
ing districts During the Carnigal.
Plans are. being made TO bring a
chef to Corona for the barbecue.
who is recognized as being one ct
the very best for this kind Of work
III the west.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
NEWS BRIEFS
From City and Comfy

Robbins Transferred-S, T. Rob.
bins, employed for the rast vear in
this city by the Standard Oil Com.
pan7- hrs been transferred u San
Diego, effeotive today, ord lcJt
yes'erlay for that city. Daring his
sra hers he was prominent in
social affairs of the younger set and
HIS n host of friends here who svill
be glad to learn that his frar sfcr
is in the nature of = promotion.
DR.. Harry Hooper, Dentist, CAT
Main st. Phone Ss2W. adv
Davis Beauty parlor. Phone o27.
adv
Davis Beauty earlor. Phone o27
adv
Fresh Rolls al Gay long. National
Bakery. adv
DR.. w. E. Lyons, Dunaway Bldg.
Office Phone 137. Res. 744. adv
Steve's Evening steak dinners.
aGV
Big time Holtville New Year s.
Valley Beauty Shoppe. Phone
324J for appointments. Open by ap-
pointment on Thursday and Satur-
day evenings. Valley Theater Bldg,
Ell Centre, Calf. odv
Money to Loan on automobiles
Contracts bought Fred B. Cross
500 Main st. Phone 359. adv
Pure Country Cream. It will
Whip. a. NJ. Williams. Phone 653.
adv
Piano For Rent. See DeLozier-
Reynolds Furniture Co. 576 Main
st. adv
Singer Sewing Machine for sale
or rent. DeLozier-Reynolds Furni
ture Co. SO Main st. adv
Loynd Serves the Best Fountain
Lunch in Southern Calf. Try it
once and get the habit. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
PERSONALS

DIR. IT. A. Atwood and daughter,
also Miss Margaret Robb and Miss
Mary Dunlap, AL of Riverside, mo
tored down to El Centre yesterday
and were guests at thr' home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Costello during
their short visit in the. .citY.,,- The
party left El Centre last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j.. ,MecroEy have
leased, the G. s.; HehDis house Of
SAP Brighton avenue for n year and
expect to reside there. Mrs. Helms
left yesterday for Los Angeles
where she will make her home with
her brother. III
DIR. and Mrs. Roy vermillion left
this morning for SAN Diego where
they will reside permanently. Doc
.or Vermilion will open up offices
in the latter city.
Mrs. S. o. Lingo returned this
morning from three-days' trip to
:Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
Here Is What Our
Local Citizens
Resolve to DO
CONTINUED from Page y

Bert Lemons-All persona diving
IN 1928 for the second time. viii
be buried without charge, and where
an inquest is necessary. we will paw
S25 for the privilege of holding one
c. w. Runge-The Southern Paci.
fic Company authorizes me 20 of
fer free transportation between
Imperial Valley points and Los An.
geles every Monday during the com.
ing year.
c. c. Jenkins-That 1925 shah see
Imperial Valley boasting the big
gest farm bureau membership in the
state.
B. a. Harrigar-Rpsolved-to mas
sacre every weed that shows its
head above the earth in Imperial
County durins 1925. =
''Finky' iIond-T resolve to he
a lavali sgNlofter of /. s, fC.f fllIr-
ing 1926 and viii .dooeyerytlling in
my power 70 discourage Stanford
propaga,da. -. 81 - 4;
Charlie Giilett-0peratiag stills
is a risky bpsitess, and 4 Will siv6
the mpanshiners every assistance
during the coming Year Assittis one
of the. most important L indugfrte
in the vanev. s, y zs,. -
Bob Moore Now fifat, We ARE
to have a es1ipetitoF here. the I'm
periaIF lea Eaud, Desefopalent cn5ns
pany fwiH deiver ice gratis 10. All
desiring IT, :
Frank Richmond No natter how
much 1T NAV hurt me, ] propose to
tell the truth about my hunting ex-
peditions IN 1925,
o, G. Horne-rhe Paeific-South-
west hank will pay .121a per cent
on savings aeceunts during 1925, as
we are. in the business for benevo-
lent purposes only and do not wish
10 make any dividends.
Postmaster, Collins-I have fesolv-
ed to. turn oyer the operation CT
the postoffice' TO committee of
citizens during 1925 and feel GER
tain they viii greatly improve the
service.
s. L. McCrory, Scout Executive
Resolved that there will be 600 boy
scouts registered by December 81,
1925 in the valley.
Dr.. N. z. Dupont belieye in
the future of thu valley and want
business TO increase during the
new year as it has every year in
tile past five years. There was an
increase of 40 per cent in business
this year.
County supt. n. G. Coe-Resoived
that this coming year as | meet nv
teachers from time to time, ] shall
never fail to encourage them TO in
still into every child n desire for
the best education attainable.
Farm Advisor z. L. Garthwaite-
Resolved that all Imperial Valley
turkeys viii be marketed at Il top
price this year.
Miss Orpha A. Miller-Resolved
not 10 conduct any more campaigns
on healthful sweets.
Mrs. z. D. Jacobs. President Of
tho Ten Thougand CluE-New
Years day in the club year marks
the beginning Of our greatest ae-
tivities. This year more than ever
we wish to accomplish through 60
operation and individual effort
much in the way of splendid pro
grams and community work that
will be both educational and OF
lasting benefit to the city. 1t is
fitting on this day that we, as
club women. re-dedieate ourselves
TO the great work that women
throughout the wof1 are aeconp
lishing. We extend TO all happy
New Year.
The worst thing about winter II
il doesn't come in summer.
News from Paris. Artists have sc
lecfed what thew call the most Der
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01

Daffodils from Alameda county
were sent by air mail TO Swashin gt ton,
D. C., to grace the Thanksgiving
table at the white house 2 /.
Riverside county residents held
o09 agricultural meetings during the
last wear.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01
BRYAN JOINS SOCIETY
FOR SCIENCE ADVANCEMENT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-William
Jennings Bryan, foremost opponent
of scientific theories of evolution,
became a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science. The check for payment of
annual dues which he mailed le-
Gently, was unsigned. He signed
today and formally became mem
Der of the science body.
Everybody loves fat man dress
ed up rs Santa Claus.
About this time every year we al
WAYS decide that what our town
needs is change of climate.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-01-01

The road from Riverside 20 Or
ange County. through the Santa Ana
Canyon. viii be closed for some
time, whne! the two counties re-
build the road