The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-17
On This
Occasion
lust few thoughts by the Editor on things
Material and Immaterial

The Kansas Supreme Court has up
held the law prohibiting bill boards
along the public highways. This de-
cision is probably the entering wedge
for other states to put into effect
similar laws abolishing these mnostro-
sites from the sight of the motorist
and covering every scenic spot on the
public highways. If you care to see
a real tumble of roadside advertising
calling attention TO everything the
travelling public cares nothing about,
take look at the tumble infesting the
Y branch on No. 2 south of Tower
where the Cook road leaves the Vir-
GINA road.
Over in Virginia a group of business
and professional men have organized
the Virginia Protective Club. The pur-
pose of the organization is for the
encouragement of home trade, en-
ployment of local labor and placing
of contracts for local construction ard
supplies with Virginia firms. The Vir-
GINA business and professional men
forming the organization see the
handwriting on the wall which will
spell the ruination of local firms AMI
labor unless means can be perfeetI
ed to curb the inroadS of the peddler,
the mail order house and the timer
ant contractor who after receiving a
contract takes advantage Of the labor
slump in the larger cities and imports
men for just enough to keep body and
soul together.
The Saltwater Gazette was So years
old August 9th. In its issue of August
9Th the Gazette carried a full page
congratulatory message signed by so or
more of the leading citizens and bust
men in which they pay tribute to w.
E. Easton, the senior editor, the son
of the founder, A. B. Easton, for So
years of service to the community. The
congratulatory message reads as fol-
lows: I'm recognition of the Still
water Gazette's unwavering, unselfish
and whole-hearted support of every
civic project tended to better this
community, and in compliment to the
progresSiveneSs, initiative and superb
loyalty of its senior editor whose
more than half-century of labor in be-
half of this publication and his COM
munity and the state of Minnesota,
and to its junior editor, w. c. Master
man, we the undersigned business and
professional men and friends, extend
our sincere and hearty congratula-
tons, with a wish that these gentle
men may continue their laudable
activities for many years to come"
To all of which the editor of the
Miner says, here too. 1t Is such
things as these that warns the heart
cookies of the newspaper man and
makes him feel that his efforts in be-
half of his community and its people
are appreciated.
We are in receipt of book, we'll
printed and neatly bound containing
valuable pen and pencil sketches by
our friend Sam S. Sherman, formerly
in the newspaper business in Williams
in Lake of the Woods County. The
book contains many illustrations in
Guiding four hand made sketches by
the author; five hundred and forty
seven original limericks in single verse
and poems and songs galore all ex-
tolling the virtues of this northern
section and its people The book is fit
to grace any library table and Sam
has our heartfelt thanks for the copy.
Who killed Cock Robin and who hit
Billy Patterson are enigmas of easy
solution compared with the question
who killed President-elect Obregon of
Mexico" It is very plain that the
Mexican nun has been selected as the
scrapegoat upon whom will be laid in
stigation of the murder 1t has been
proven that thirteen or more shots
were fired at the banquet table and it
has not been proven that Toral who
is being held for the actual murder
fired more than one or two. Toral ap-
preached Obregon from the front
ostensibly to show him some cartoons