The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-20
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travellers tell you that this information
was given them in person. In order to
bring this to a head, let us get to-
gether and figure out route for the
Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois tourists to
this country so that they will not be
compelled to take the misinformation
and other hazards in passing through
the Twin Cities.
The trouble with these information
bureaus is that they are not informa-
ton bureaus but diffuse mis-informa-
ton. And, they are not exactly to
blame for it. During the past two
months the papers of the Twin Cities
have been filled with accounts of forest
fires in the Arrowhead Country and
reading their offerings one would be
led to believe that the whole country
was af1re. Some city-bred reporter,
who probably had never seen forest
had written up the fires to create a
sensation. He certainly did what he
set out to do.
ST. Louis County alone has 3,249, no.
SO acres of land in it's confines exclu-
sive Of town lots. st. Louis County Is
only a small part of the Arrowhead
The fires this year burned over about
10000 acres in the Arrowhead or an
infinitiSmal part of the whole. At no
time was there fire in the territory
visited by tourists and they were safer
than they would have been in either
of the Twin Cities. The reporter how
ever, got in his nickel's worth and it
had the effect of keeping many away
from this most desirable outing Sec
ton.
This week We have sent out large
amount of subscription bills and we
sincerely hope that each and everyone
receiving them will call and arrange
for the payment. The larger part are
small accounts but the whole amount
to sum sufficient to enable us to pay
our bills. Our weekly pay roll must be
met and paper and supplies cost money.
You are perfectly good for the few
dollars you owe but we are compelled
on many occasions to borrow at the
banks to meet our necessary expenses.
We shoot our credit full of holes for
the accommodation of many of our
people The few dollars you owe added
to the few dollars the others owe make
a sum total which will change our
color on the banks books. Please.
Friend Hitchcock of Hibbing, chair
man Of the, house appropriations COM
mittee and chairman of the state
office building committee has gone to
Rochester for physical examination
According to all accounts this is moth
ing to be alarmed about as his health
is in first class condition it is said. 1t
is not surprising however should he
eventually wind up at some hospital
for treatment. The st. Paul office
building site squabble would give any,
one pain in the neck.
Slight snow f1urries on Tuesday gave
advance notice of the coming of
winter. While we are not at all alarm
ed Of the advent of actual winter for
a month or more, it nevertheless
caused us to think of coal and snow
Shovels September, october and No
vember are fine outing months in this
section, with crisp, cool atmosphere;
an absence of flies and mosquitoes and
climatic conditions that make for long
lives, fine appetite and an absence of
insomnia. Now is. the accepted time
to spend a vacation in the "Play-
ground of the Nation"
The local poStoffice has been crowd
ed this week with tier after tier of
catalogues from the mail order houses.
The mail carriers have been over
worked delivering the books and later
will become ump-backed delivering
the goods ordered from these cata-
logueS on which postage Is only paid
to the poStoffice. Shortly there will
be another howl on the part of the
treasury department over a deficit in
the poStofhce department and the
congressman will frank out another
several millions of dollars worth of
AA1CSAAd4 III "LuCLl Oilcy Will U6plOr6
the necessity of increasing postage
rates in order to meet the deficit"
There will be nothing done about it
however.
The catalogue houses will continue
to have their goods delivered free. The
congressman will continue to send
their household effects for their resi-
dence in Washington, including COWS,
chickens and horses, cats and dogs,
through the mails-all ranked Then
the deluge of speeches and copies of
the congressional record, seeds, etc. to
the constituency back home.
In another column will be found an
ad concerning the excursion sponsored
by the Loyal Order of Moose to Chi
cago, Mooseheart and Aurora, Illinois.
The order is furnishing the members
a chance to see the fruits of their
labors at Mooseheart at very attrac-
tive expense figure. Many will take
advantage of the opportunity to make
the trip.
We don't know exactly what Senator
Lommen is driving at in his fight