The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-07
TWENTY YEARS AG0|
Taken from The Ely Miner of
the same date in 1906.

IL the same date IN iSoo.
The st. Croix Lumber Company
m.. at Winton will start Monday
morning with full crew. The cut
for the coming season will be a
particularly large one and an early
start needs be made.
A special meeting of the Ely Fire
| Department was called Monday
evening Tor the purpose of making
arrangements for attending and
having a running team in the Cass
Lake Tournament to be held June
20, 81, % and %. Much enthusi-
asm was shown and a running
team of 16 men with captain
-are chosen. C. j. Mott was
SEN as captain and trainer and
We practice has begun.
Iayor Dinsmore has received a
est from Governor Johnson to
! a fund for the assistance <of
I,e San Francisco sufferers. The
! Mayor will do all in his power to
render the required assistance and
requests our liberal-minded citizens
to do their share. San Francisco
needs the money and every dona-
ton will be thankfully received.
Oscar Laitinen and Anton Mistek
secured first papers Saturday and
Monday.
Ed. Drummond, we'll known in
this city is confined at the Soudan
Hospital with a badly crushed leg
occasioned by having a log rolled
over the same.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Westlund and
Miss Agnes Westlund have returned
from their winter spent in Still
water and have taken up their sum-
mer's home at Winton.
L. R. Sims, who for several years
has been connected with the Sibley,
Zenith and Savoy mines as chief
clerk has resigned and will soon de-
part with his family for Colorado
where he has interests. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sims have many friends here
who wish them success wherever
they may decide to locate.
The marriage of John Zobek and
Mary TelAavec was solemnized at
the Catholic church Sunday. After
the ceremony reception was tend
cred the young couple at the home
of the brides uncle, Ignatz thinner
,1,a,, af tho ChapAlay. location
Joseph Rosa, young man, %
years of age, was instantly killed
by fall of ground at the Savoy
mine Saturday morning.
The shipments of ore reported
from Two Harbors will be about
400, 900 or 100000 tons greater
than the shipments for April 1905.
This will give the d. g. l. R. good
start for again breaking the record
this season. May is expected to be
one of the heavy months.
The Mountain Iron company has
purchased considerable lands in this
vicinity recently. Emanuel Autijo
and party sold to this concern lands
in section 80 and 81, 64-13 and in
section 6. 63-13 for $4,000.
Local pride was certainly mani
tested in the man who went to
heaven and when being shown
around remarked that 'this is no
better than Ely" This was strange
ly in contrast with the Superior
man who was being shown about
and remarked to his guide that had
he known things were so beautiful
he would have left Superior long
before. Imagine his surprise when
the guide informed him he was not
in heaven but in the other place.
A. NJ. Chisholm and Edw. Lynch
of the Shagawa Iron company were
in the city from Duluth yesterday.
Aldermen Kandelin and Vuoti
went TO Duluth yesterday morning
on business. 1t is understood the
gentlemen intend to put in a livery
stable here.
Advices from Mrs. Grant Nc
Mahan who is in Boone, Iowa, are
to the effect that her mother died
Friday. Mrs. McMahan has been
at the bedside of her dying parent
for several weeks.
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VIM. LaBeau who has held the
position of chief of police for nine
years resigned Monday evening and
Mayor Dinsmore appointed Peter
O'Connor in his place with John
Lamuth and Alex Winchester as
patrolmen.
A party composed of Mr.. and
MRS. Frank Hodge and son, John,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. &C. Miller and Phil
and Miss Pet Gilman, A. D. Ellef-
sen, Louis Larson, w. II. Meyne, F.
L. Cowen and Dave Childers left
Tuesday morning for the Hunters
Island waters on trout fishing
trip.