The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-27

We want to tell you that we were
proud of the Ely Community band and
the Ely attendance at the Old Settlers
Reunion at Tower last week. The
band played three very fine concerts
at Tower and later at Mckinley Park.
Their music was well received by the
large number of outside and local peo-
pie. In this connection we cannot fail
to mention the excellent vocal work
done by Linton KrauSe accompanied
by the band. Mrs. Noah, the directresS
deserves credit for bringing the or
ganization to the efficiency shown and
in interesting so many of the younger
boys to keep the band up to strength
and replace the older players who are
continually dropping out. The trip to
Tower was made possible by the enter
prise of local citizens who paid the
losses of the players sustained by be-
ing deprived of their days wages.
Those who made up the deficiency
were M. j. Murphy, Peter Schaefer,
Chas. Trezona, Leonard Slabodnik,
John E. johnson, L. j. White, Andrew
Hedloff, j. NJ Brown, T. E. Miller, I.
G. Cox, o. Berglund, H. E. Kurvinen,
Thos Harri, Jas. Moonan, Jos. Palcher,
Matt Moravitz and A. j. Thomas.
School District No. II furnished the
buses for taking the band to and from
Tower.
And now the prisoners at the Wau-
pun, Wisconsin, state prison are to
work only eight hours a day and will
get an hour every afternoon for recrea-
ton. 1t is also stated that if this rule
is not put in effect at once a general
strike will be called Just how this
will come to pass IS not made known
but as many of the organizers OF
strikes and lockouts are among those
present, it should be an easy matter
to organize an I. w. w. II won't work.
local among 18th Amendment busters,
gun-men, murderers and manslaugh-
ter inmates The sob-sister must be
served however, and this new ultima
tum will make it easier by about four
or more hours a day to earn a living
as a convict than as a farmer, editor
or a doctor.
This great state of Minnesota has
been in the limelight for some time by
reason of Secretary Kellogg, Charlie
Lindberg, j. Adam Bede, Jim Tawney,
Knute Nelson, Tom Schall, Charley
Towne, Ignatius Donnelly, Henrick
Shipstead and others we could name.
George Erickson at Brainerd says in
his paper that it was lucky thing for
Minnesota, the country and the world
at large when Kellogg was defeated by
Shipstead. Since that Kellogg has been
Ambassador to England, Secretary OF
State and in the latter he has placed
the country in a leading position
among the nations of the earth and
his peace plan is being approved by the
civilized countries of the globe. Had
he been elected as Senator, he would
have been simply one of nearly hun
,dred and defeat gave him the oppor-
,tunity to serve in high places for which
he is so abundantly qualified.
Late advices are that hard fight
will be made to adopt the gas tax
amendment to the constitution this
fall. This amendment takes one
third of the gasoline tax and places
it into a fund to improve secondary
roads. All the tax money from gaso-
line is now expended on the state
trunk highway system in addition 10
the automobile tax money. If the
people of the state know when they
are well off and want to see Com
missioner Babcock finish the program
of trunk road building he has so
efficiently begun, they will vote NO
on the adoption of Amendment No.
l on the ballot next fall Besides we
don't think the committee named to
further the amendment will impress
the voter to any large extent. All are
Of the class that is doing everything
possible to array the country against
(C0ntinued On mage four