The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-11-30
On This
Occasion
Just few thoughts by the Editor on things
Material and Immaterial.

"Rufe" Hitchcock over in Hibbing,
who was prominently mentioned as
possible candidate for Speaker Of the
House at the coming session, wants
to know why a speaker" and then
goes on to state that no speaker while
encompassed within the dignity of the
office ever made a speech. He fur
ther goes on to state that the speaker
has the most limited vocabulary of
any man in the House. He might fur
ther have said that the speaker is
supposed to listen to the flow of ora
tory of members and has got to take
it while the members sideStep to the
retiring room to smoke and tell stories.
This is not always the ease. Some
member speakers have something to
say and are listened to. Oratory how
ever gives way to sense. We remem-
Der one of the most influential men,
bers of the House and Senate vino
never made speech in his life and
never lost out on any of his proposals.
1t was said of him that the longest
speech he ever made was "Wnatl you
have" and this very classic and effec-
tive address was not made on the
House or Senate floor either. Further,
this was several years ago but some
of the old timers remember the &C.
.currance quite distinctly. The meas
ure under debate at the time was
passed without dissenting voice.
Sundays NewS-Tribune sport page
had very fine picture of the Ely H.
S. football squad, runners-up for range
football championship. The Ely team
deserved all the fine. mention made
of it. During the season just closed,
only one game was lost and that to
Eveleth early in the season. EveleJh
and Aurora were the only teams to
cross Ely's goal line during the season
and our team scored 102 points to
their opponents 80. The picture
showed the team with Coach Buckley
and Manager CoombS and the players;
Gerzin, Anderson, Banovetz, Sasek,
Indy, Beck, Johnson, R. Banovetz,
Zgonc, Hill, Smrekar, Nicholas, Gouze
and Krall Eight of these boys will
be lost from the team by graduation
next year. They are r. Banoyetz,
Gerzin, Anderson, Sasek, Zgonc, Hill
Smrekar and Gouze.
Giving stranded motoriSt lift
cost Gerald Maloney, White Bear
yacht club golf pro, $500. Maloney
was driving to st. Paul, when Geo.
Peterson, who was out of gasoline,
signalled for ride to a filling station
and was picked up. Later the Ma
loney car was wrecked and Peterson
was killed. The widow sued and a
verdict for $500 was the result. Had
he passed the man up he would have
been more varieties of all that is bad
than Heinz has pickles, but he would
be $500 bucks to the good Kind
deeds sometimes go blooey.
The anniversary rotagravure section
of the Minneapolis Journal which
came out in last Sundays paper was
one of the best historical works on
Minneapolis ever issued in that city.
The tabloid showed Minneapolis pro-
greSS from the time the Journal was
founded to the present day. 1t showed
it in pictures which are easily read
and digeSted. 1t also showed, Duluth,
Winona, Rochester, st. Cloud and sew
eral other cities and the changes made
in their appearances during the past
fifty years. 1t was remarkable piece
of pictorial and editorial work and
will be treasured in all honor to the
Jones Family.
Those who cared to watch at an
early hour Tuesday morning could
plainly view the complete eclipse Of
the moon. The affairs started about
2:30 and ended at about $3.50. The
observation reached its height at
about o'clock Coming as it did
short time after election it further
substantiates the claim that only few
short hours are required to dim other
wise shining examples on both the
aerial and political horizon.
The stock exchanges have been IN
an uproar for week or more and the
end is not in sight When the end does
come, which it will sooner or later,
there will be some sore spots and
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