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The matter of purchasing lawn
mowers for the Cemetery was referred
to the Committee of the Whole.
The Council dissolved into a. Com
mittee of the Whole to consider the
various matters referred.
Alderman Homer appointed chair
man of the Committee.
Recess declared.
Meeting called to order.
Report Of the Committee of the
Whole was read as follows:
Ely, Minnesota, May 10. 1891.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council,
City of Ely, Minnesota.
Gentlemen:
We, your Committee OF the Whole.
to whom certain matters were referred,
beg to report and commend as fol-
lows:
l. That the standing committee on
securing right-of-way easements
for the proposed water line to
Burnside Lake be instructed to
proceed to close contracts with the
following property owners. viz:
John T. Richards, John Lasslla.
Mrs. Joseph Schiltz, Robert B.
Whiteside, Braddock Iron Mining
Company, Roger B. Whiteside,
cat the terms stated in their in
dividual proposals.)
q That the report of the City At
torney concerning the revision of
the City Charter be accepted and
filed and the matter referred to the
Ely Commercial Club with a re-
quest that they proceed to secure
the necessary petition.
3. That the matter of the Frank
Peshel injury case be laid on the
table until the report Of the In
dustrial Commission is received.
4. That compensation payments in
the Matt Muhvich injury case be
discontinued and the city request
hearing by the Industrial Com
mission at the earliest possible
time.
S. That the City Engineers recon-
mendation regarding trellis in
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priation Of 5000 to the Citv NJ Ely
to help defray the cost Of Memorial
Day exepnses, was read and ordered
filed.
Communication from the League of
Minnesota Municipalities, inviting the
City to send delegates to the 18th An
nual Convention of the League which
will take place in st. Cloud, Minnesota.
June II, 18, 10, 1881, was read and re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
Application from Joseph Shikonja
for an electricians license, was read.
Moved by Alderman Tauzell, sup
ported by Alderman Wolff, that the
application be accepted and license
granted upon payment of the proper
fee. Carried.
Applications from Alfred Kittila and
Harry D. Newgord for employment as
Life Guards at the Municipal Bathing
Beach during the coming season. were
read and ordered filed.
Application from the Ely Baseball
Team for permit to conduct public
dance in the Washington Auditorium
on May %, 1881, was read.
Moved by Alderman Olson, sup
ported by Alderman Tauzell, that the
application be accepted and filed and
permit granted upon payment Of the
proper fee. Carried.
Surety bond of Charles HendrickSon,
Contractor, in the amount of $4,000,
with the Etna Casualty and Surety
Company as surety was read.
Moved by Alderman Homer, sup
ported by Alderman Banovetz, that the
bond of Charles Hendrickson be ap-
proved, accepted, and filed. Carried.
Proposed Ordinance No. SO, intro
duced, read, and ordered published
May 5, 1881, being an ordinance en-
titled "An Ordinance to Regulate the
Disposal of Paper and Rubbish" had
its second reading.
Alderman Wolff offered the follow
ing resolution:
RESOLVED that the proposed Or
dinance as read, together with its title,
be adopted and be numbered Ordin-
ance No. SO.
Alderman Wolff, who offered the
foregoing resolution, thereupon moved
it's adoption, which was seconded by
Alderman Homer, and upon being put
to vote, was adopted by a unanimous
vote as follows:
Ayes: Alderman Banovetz, Homer,
Olson, Tauzell, Wolff, Mayor Trezona
Noes: None.
The City Clerk reported no bids re-
ceived for the construction of 10 inch
Storm Sewer Extension on 4th Avenue
East, between Pattison and James
Streets
Moved by Alderman Banovetz, sup
ported by Alderman Tauzell, that the
City Engineer and Street Commissioner
be instructed to construct said 10 inch
Storm Sewer Extension by day labor
as soon as possible. Carried.
Proposal from Louis Garni and j. N.
Rautio to construct sidewalk, curb and
gutter, and street grading on 9th Ave.
East, between Chapman and Harvey
Streets for the sum of $117318, more
or less, according to the unit prices
given in said proposal, was read and
referred to the Committee of the
Whole.
Proposal from the following for
painting the Community Service Gen.
ter Building, according to specifi-
cations, were opened, read, and re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole,
viz: G
BIDDER PRICE
Walter Lampi, .....$ 831.50
Chas. Hendrickson, ....... 1,2500O
Matt Mattila, ............ 1851 90
PROPOSALS from the following to fur
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The gas tax is painless one and
only paid by the motorist while actu-
ally using the roads built by this tax.
Years ago the country was afflicted
with toll roads and a driver spent
many dollars in the course OF days
travel. The gas tax takes the place
of the toll gate. Under three cent
gas tax the motorist pays one cent
toll every four miles. Under a six cent
tax he would pay a cent every two
miles. Under the latter instance, if he
drives 400 miles in day he would pay
two dollars in tolls. These tolls now
aggregate more than S500,000,000 4
year and are constantly increasing.
KarSac Eitxr choir. cinacraa. nina ,.croc
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minister with kissing her against her
will and wants 5000 from the Rev.
gentleman. Rather a high fee for
such simple ceremony but of course,
the public is not aware of the kissable
efficiency of the minister in question
Editor DAILY of the Saltwater News is
OF the opinion that this should be a
warning to all preachers in America
who should exercise great care in
selecting choir singers.
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BASE BALL TEAM WAS
ORGANIZED ON MONDAY

Those interested in baseball met at
the Community Center on Monday
and organized for the seasons play.
Those present at the organization
were: E. H. Starkman, Ray
Hoefler, Oscar Lindeborg, Frank Ger
zin, Felix Alfalfa, Bert Maddern, Ken
meth Grinden, John Anderson, John
Somroqk, Dick Starkman, Uno Jokinen,
Theo. Passi, Ralph Swanson, James
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CONTINUED from First Page)

the taxpayers money to prove some
thing already admitted. This fellow
should be taken out of circulation at
once by means that would forever keep
him out
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nish IS Tons, more or less. Calcium
Chloride, F. o. B., Ely, Minnesota,
were opened, read, and referred to the
Committee of the Whole:
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A Kansas City choir singer charges
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Real Beauty Matter of Form, Color and Taste

Many persons believe that 70 be
beautiful and artistic the work of man
must be expensive. Cheap things are
considered tawdry and even vulgar.
Articles that are useful are also
barred by some individuals who con-
slider themselves capable Of judging.
Edward P Richardson. educational
director Of the Detroit Institute of
Arts. holds different ideas. He de
clares beauty to he matter Of form
and color and that good design need
not be expensive To prove that his
theory is correct Mr.. Richardson start
ed out with reasonable sum of money
provided by the Junior league TO buy
useful articles that would conform 70
the requirements Of artistic beauty.
By visiting department stores. hard
ware establishments. cbinaware en-
pOriums. Mr. Richardson. collected 1SS
different articles, not one of which
cost more than 80 cents and most Of
them much less. and assembled them
in corridor of the art institute where
an exhibition Of American painting
was on view. They included table
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-12-18
High Honors Accorded
Fourth-Century Hermit

The world laughed tolerantly at
last summers Monkey Marathon"
when small boys took to trees in en-
durance contests; and there could
De no better proof that times have
changed. The Fourth century took
similar performances more seriously.
Consider Simeon Stylites. He
chained himself TO a great rock on
which he began to erect a column
of smaller stones. Aided by his adj
mirers. who rapidly increased il
numbers, he raised the pile, first to
height of 9. and finally to 60
feet. In this last and lofty situa-
ton. he endured the heat of 80 sum-
mers and the cold of as many win
tiers.
He sometimes prayed in an erect
attitude with his outstretched arms
in the figure of a cross; but his most
familiar practice was that of bend
ing his meager skeleton from the
forehead to the feet. and a curious
spectator, after numbering 1.244 rep
etitions, at length desisted from the
endless account.
Simeon died. without descending
from his pillar. as result Of an ul-
Ger on his thigh. The ulcer owed its
origin to pride. The devil. so the
story goes. assumed an angelic form
and drew up beside the pillar top
in fiery chariot. He invited Simeon
TO ascend. as had Elijah, and the
saint was ready. As he lifted his
foot to step in, the devil spanked
him cruelty and vanished in a cloud
of sulphurous smoke.
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Two Days of Freedom"
for Husband and Wife

1t is a mistake to think that two
people can, in this Twentieth century.
live their whole lives happily, sue
cessfully and abundantly on the basis
that husband and wife are one. IN
less each party to the arrangement is
free to follow his own tastes and fam
cies. Otherwise you inevitably get
boredom and unbearable dizziness.
Dizziness has wrecked many mar
riages which otherwise would have
been successful
/ have eliminated the possibility of
dizziness. On two days each week /
never see my husband. 1t has proved
really sound arrangement / do
what l like, go out with friends
choose. even though some of them he
Gislikes and others he thinks just
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Odorless Skunks

The much maligned poleeat. mophi-
tbs mephitis, to give his scientific name,
is on the way to losing its one claim
TO notoriety. Thanks to intensive
breeding experiments. the odorless
skunk has come to stay. Not only
has careful breeding, supplemented By
veterinary surgery, removed the objec-
tionable feature of close companion
ship with the wood pussy" but the
animals also are stripeless. Although
experiments are not fully concluded. il
is felt that these hygienic poIecats
have reached stage of development
where they may be offered to the
worlds fur market.
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Christmas Tree in the Home.

er distance-say, across the street
should be composed to allow for the
diminution of the object by the
greater distance.
In a general way. the longer the
view the larger the object, or the
larger mass of small objects of the
same kind. as in a store window dis
play. A large number of small OBJ
;ects scattered haphazard over a given
area, when viewed AT a distance, lose
effectiveness, while the same objects
k-Ouped as TO size, color or shape,
with proper spacing. render the dis
play much more striking and effective.
In a large hall or room, strings of
lights give a finer effect If all the
lights of one strand are of a uniform
color. the contrasts being between the
strands as a whole rather than be-
tween the various colored lights on
one strand and all strands alike. Al
ternating colors Of a strand serves to
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neutralize the value Of all; while the
strands of solid colors give the con-
trast desired by the heavier weight
of color in proportion to the rooms
dimensions.
Many cities and towns of late years
have done considerable street decorat-
ing for the holiday season. These dec
orations often include strands of col
ored lights at the intersections,
crossed from corner TO corner. The
natural thing is to arrange the strands
with a red globe, then white, then
blue. Looked at as a single unit at
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Marion English was one of those
caught in the jam. 1t was now late in
the afternoon, the next day would be
Christmas, and there still was Uncle
George, Cousin Essie and Old Mrs.
Brighton unchecked on her list. What
in the world could she get for them?
Helplessly she wandered up and down
the aisles. Why hadn't she needed
all the warnings to shop early? Well.
they just would have TO be satisfied
with anything she could pick up now
Yearningly, she looked up toward
the balcony of the big store. where
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-12-18

"You don't let him call you Meta.
do you darlingg"
That's what I'm coming to, honeys
If you'll let me. Miss Meta he says
the boys tell me you're just the coyest
young girl in this Office and make all
the flappers look like prayer meet
ing"
"Nervew
Nerve doesn't express 1t. Nothing
in the world on his mind but dating
up with me. oh, you have to be in
business to know what it means to
keep man in his place"
would he propose, Meta?'
"Would he propose? Give man
like that an inch and he'd be calling
her every night
That's right. darling. keep them
In their places"
If ii percolated through at all, TO
the Meeker girls, who in the forties
and fifties, were lean and rather
plucked-looking. that pathos and
amusement we're blended in the atti-
tude of their friends. certainly that
consciousness was slow to reach the
close little inner circle.
Romance brushed this circle night
after night, sat in Pushes on the dry
flushed cheeks of the sisters, warmed
the recesses of the draughty old house.
Then came the time when, outside
that inner sanctum, the amusement of
friends became laughter and the laugh
ter, derision.
Man-crazy as the Meeker girls.
That sounds like a Meeker pipe-dream.
Hear the latest? Another secret lover
has sued for Lily Meeker's hand. Ac-
cent on the secretl
That was the beginning of a strange
and deadening thing that began to
happen to the Meeker girls. Delicate
ly bred. sensitive to the information or
the suppressed laugh, there seemed
to seep slowly into that home as the
girls wore on in years awareness that
the cat of pretense was out Of the
bag. More and more silently the girls
gathered about their little circle eve
nings; less and less they came to dis
cuss with friends, the repudiated
amOurs and wooings. Even Meta, as
time wore on. came more and more TO
maintain silence concerning the many
oyertures of the men about the Office
II was during the period of those
silent, rather dreadful years in the
great old house that had used to ring
to the tales of conquest, that Nicholas
Lang, seventy-one. took Teena Meeker.
ffty-three. off one day to the town
of Greenwich. Conn, and married her
A Meeker sister had succumhed.
A Meeker sister. marrying. had proved
to an all too cynical world that she
was desirable in the eyes of a man.
II gave authenticity. it gave reality.
it gave authority. not only to Teena.
but to the Meeker sisters.
Something flowed back into the eyes
of the remaining four. The old light
of conquest. The old vistas of ro-
nance. The old air of desirability.
The Meeker sisters are once more
reciting with authority the sagas of
the suitors who have sued in vain.
There is even about Teena. the
wife. a slight air of sheepishness
toward her sisters, for the human
ness of not only having permitted
herself to be wooed, but won.
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Parents of Presidents

The parents of Washington and
Adams were of English descent; those
of Jefferson. Welsh; those of Madison,
Monroe and ]. Q. Adams. English !:
those of Jackson, Scotch-Irish of Van
Buren,. Dutch: of Harrison and Tyler,
English; of Polk, Scotch-Irish: of Tay-
Tor, Fillmore and Pierce. English; of
Buchanan, Irish; Of Lincoln. Johnson
and Grant, English; of Hayes. Scotch !;
of Garfield. English. though his moth
er was of Huguenot descent; of Ar
thur. Scotch-Irish; of Cleveland and
Benjamin Harrison, English; of Nc
Kinley. Scotch Irish; of Roosevelt.
Dutch; of Taft. English: Of Wilson,
Scotch-Irish; Of Harding and Coolidge.
English; of Hoover. Swiss.
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3 1881 s
How to Make Old Santa's
White Beard Fireproof

NEVER Christmas passes without
accidents from fire. Last Christ
mas a schOolmaster who had dressed
up as Santa Claus was badly burned
through the cottonwood of which his
white beard was made catching fire.
1t is not easy TO find a substitute
for cottonwood, but it is not difficult
70 make cottonwood fireprOof. Dis
solve an ounce and a half of powdered
alum in hot water and soak the wool
in ii. Then dry the wool and fluff it
out again. Cottonwood treated in this
way will shoulder, hut not blaze.
Even tissue paper can be made quite
safe by dipping it in a solution of am
monium sulphate. bOracic acid, and
water. 1t must be dipped quickly and
dried at once.
Canvas or similar material used for
stage decoration may be fireproofed
by solution of ammonium sulphate.
gypsum, and water. Take four ounces
of each and use just enough water to
make a liquid about as thick as thin
paste. Then spread it on the fabric
with a brush.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-12-18
At Christmas Eve
By ReU. Abrarrl Ryan
In Philadelphia Record

All! there's nothing like Christ
~ mas Eve
To change life's bitter gall to sweet,
And change the sweet 20 gall again;
To take the thorns from out our feet
The thorns and all their dreary pain,
Only TO put them back again.
To take old stings from out our heart
Old stings that made them bleed and
smart
Only &c sharpen them the more,
And press them back TO the hearts core.
Ali there's nothing ike Christmas Eve
To melt, with l1r-dly glowing heat.
From of our souls the snow and sleet,
The dreary drift Of wintry years,
orIv to make the cold winds blow,
Only to make colder snow;
And make it drift, and drift, and drift,
In fakes so icy cold and swift,
Until the hesrt that lies below
Il cold and -older than the snow.
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ware. glassware. curtain materials. ia
BILE covers and napkins. The exhi-
bition attracted much attention and
there was no dispute regarding the
claim that the expert had proved his
contention
Pepper and salt shakers need not
offend the lover of the beautiful. and
cups and saucers can be decorative
and at the same time have the element
of utility. BY keeping this fact in
mind housewives can make life more
pleasant. Manufacturers would do
well TO examine the collection made
by Mr.. Richardson. and if they will
learn the lesson he set about TO teach
they will improve the standard of taste
and find it profitable.-Miami Herald.
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All Joined in Song

While on a tour OF the coal mines.
near Ashland. Pa, Leo Minister. barry
tone and member of the Apollo club
of Boston, heard a miner far down
underground singing AT his work
The song was MY Wild Irish Rose >
Minister took up the song and be and
the miner made ii a duet. Then ev-
cry miner within hearing distance as
well as officials Of the company who
were taking Minister on the tour
Joined in the chorus.
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Camels and Locomotives

One of the biggest concrete bridges
in the world is along the new railway
lines being built through Turkey. Al
though only a little over 500 miles
long. the two lines penetrate difficult
country, necessitating the building of
about 1000 bridges. large and small
and many tunnels. In Angora an
average of 5000 blasts of dynamite
day are used to dislodge the rocky
wastes. More than 1900 peasants
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silly. Still, he does not object. For
those two days we live our lives
apart as IL We had no mutual re-
sponsibilities at all.
He chooses his own friends. Some
Of his friends dislike as much as
he dislikes some of mine Others are
just dull and uninteresting.
The days we are together We enjoy
each other more because We have
teen apart. We are each OF Us re-
freshed and have something new 10
talk about. II is not a bad plan. and
| might even say that it is a plan
which many other people might find
very suitable. They will be sur
prised at the results.-Anita Loos in
the London Saturday Review.
It isn't necessary for women 70 be
voters in order TO become rulers.
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Scientific Fruit Treatment

The way in which science can deal
with fruit is astonishing 1t can
change the flavor, shape, color and
size; it can improve its keeping quail
ties: it can produce earlier or later
ripening. Take apples. for instance.
Scientific treatment has now given US
a ripening season for English apples
which extends from June. when the
earliest are ready, until the following
March. when the latest come to per-
lection. Before long we may have
homegrown apples at their best the
whole year round.-Exchange.
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and shepherds are employed on the
work besides thousands of peasant
women who labor as stone breakers
An oriental touch is given TO the pic
ture by thousands of camels used TO
transport supplies as the building
progresses
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S e V eral persons
" ere occupying
comfortable chairs.
And then an idea
flashed through her
brain.
7 en- ut e S
later, she was
walking through
the crowded aisles
again, but the wor-
ried look had left
her face. In the
snort time she ndd
taken TO rest and
think she had tried
TO put herself in
the place of three
persons for whom
she was seeking
gifts. and now, in
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This chastisement 10 pride wOn for
the hermit great repute and wnen. a
few years later. his bones were borne
to Antioch. the patriarch of the city.
the master-general Of the East, SIX
bishops, 81 counts or tribunes ana
COCO soldiers former the guard OF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Plain Dealer.
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Well Fortified

Germany is estimated TO use one
fourth of the worlds chemical plant
fertilizers in an area slightly larger
than the combined areas Of New York.
Pennsylvania. Ohio and Indiana. Ev-
cry farm in the country is fortified
least every two yearz.
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Stokes by Push Button

One man, by merely pressing push
buttons, stokes all the cOal-burning
boilers in a 4T-story New York hO-
tel. The boilers burn pulyerized coal,
and when a button is pushed exactly
the right amount of coal 10 keep the
fire at proper heat is automatically
released from the bunkers Of the fire
box.
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Medals for Rent

An enterprising citizen makes q
good living in Hollywood. Calf. rent
ing out medals to the heaving be-
oms of the movie heroes. He is said
to have 1900 varieties, one for every
type Of screen heayies.
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stead of just taking anything she had
a very definite idea of what to get for
the amount she had to spend She re-
membered that Uncle George had a
pet weakness for fancy socks. that
Cousin Essie liked nothing better than
new fiction, and she felt sure that
Mrs. Brighton would welcome a pair
of bright-colored bedroom slippers.
BY $50 her selections were all
made This was the way TO do Christ
mas shopping. she thought. not the
haphazard way she had been doing it
for years. She remembered now. with
a pang. the rather inappropriate gifts
she had chosen sometimes. Never
again, she vowed, would she wait until
the last minute TO make selections.
From now on, she would heed the
many warnings to shop early. and so
bring an added share of happiness to
herself and others.
(S 1881. Western Newspaper UnionD
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HE biting cold of a zero das.
coupled with finding mef'
chandise stocks badly de
pleted, filed many last min
ute shoppers with good res
olutions to do their Christ
mas shopping early next
year.
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RRANGING decorations at
Christmas time affords great
pleasure in the planning
and execution as well as in
the behOlding.
This is especially true in
the home, but the merchant
takes pride in his displays
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That's the Question

Every dollar 1 have was made
honestly"
"By whom?"