The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
COUNTY GROUPS
DISCUSS SAFETY
Business Session and Safety
Conference Held Friday by
County Employees.

Headed by Sheldon Shepherd, county
highway engineer, and Commissioners
Veranth and Schadewald, the employees
of st. Louis county held their regular
monthly meeting in this city Friday.
The employees of the county called to
these meetings are the engineering
forces, maintenance superintendent
and construction foremen. All Of these
claSsifications were present almost to a
man. The meeting Friday was desig-
mated safety conference"
A business meeting was held at the
council chambers in the city hall at
which the safety drive for the month
of September was discussed and ar
rangements made for unified action in
preventing highway and other accidents
in conformity with the program out
lined by the Minnesota Public Safety
committee of which C. H. Zealand is
the director and A. v. Rohweder, chair
man.
Following the meeting the party had
dinner at the Silver Rapids Lodge on
White Iron lake at which further dis
cussion of the safety subject was had
with member of the state department
showing reels of pictures depicting the
horrors of the accidents on the high
ways in Minnesota.
A letter from the Minnesota Public
Safety committee was read in which the
month of September was stressed as a
month of tragedy and death for motor
lists The letter further went on to
state that during the year 1884, traffic
accidents took the lives of SO persons in
Minnesota. In 1885, through the siren
uous and united efforts of safety leaders
of the state, the toll was reduced to "a"
The letter further stated that "it is
the belief of this committee that the
GA deaths that brought sorrow into
Minnesota homes in September of 1885
can be reduced to almost half that
number this year and your committee
is confident that the citizens of Mime
sofa can, by individual and collective eff
fort, stop the all too many deaths and
injuries occurring on our streets and
highways"
Accompanying the letter read at the
meeting was the proclamation of Cover
nor Olson, the last official document to
which he affixed his signature before
his death. The proclamation read:
| WHEREAS there was conducted in
Minnesota in 1895 a campaign of such
effectiveness that September traffic &C
cident deaths and injuries were materi-
ally lower than in the preceding year;
and
WHEREAS the possibility for reduc-
ton in deaths and injuries from motor
vehicle mishaps by co-ordinated efforts
was so demonstrated;
! I, THEREFORE, as Governor of the
State of Minnesota, hereby proclaim
the Month of September, next following
as Minnesota Safety Month" and call
upon the Minnesota Public Safety Com
mittee to initiate and sponsor such eff
forts and activities as may serve to en-
list the active cooperation of all citi-
zens for still greater reduction of traffic
deaths and injuries, particularly during
the month of September, but, as well
for all succeeding months.
I, urge and request of all the depart
ments of state all courts of jurisdiction
all county and municipal officers, and
others in authority, full cooperation
toward making Minnesota the safest
state, and particularly toward changing
September from the month of high