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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Legion Auxiliary Plan
Public Keno Party.

A handsome line of gifts, such as
groceries and other items, will be dis
tributed at the keno party to be given
by the American Legion Auxiliary at
the Community Center on the evening
of January II, at 8 o'clock
Coffee and home made doughnuts will
be served and the public IS cordially
invited to attend and ENJOY most
profitable evening.
Mrs. Peter Kayute is general chair
man in charge of the party, assisted by
Mrs. E. W. Hanson, unit activities
chairman; Lillian Forsman, Signe Gust
afson. Florence FreidSburg, Anna Eovak,
Hulda Murphy. Inez Norby, Anna Alb
banat, Lillian Nyman, Anna Palmgaro,
Angelina Pirsch, Lillian Wenstrom,
Agnes Fogelberg, Siiri Luthanen and
Lennie Fogelberg.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Report Reveals Hl,755
Attended Functions at
6. G. During Past Year
Community Service Center
Boasts Wide Patronage
Last Year.
VARIED GROUPS MEET
Attendance Figures Show
Need for Proposed New
Building.

Ray Hoeflar in charge Of the Com
munity Center has made his report to
the City Council showing the attend
ance and functions held at the building
during the past year.
His report shows that the attendance
at the library presided over by Mrs.
Ruth King amounted 10 Al 40 with an
equal number of books circulated.
The report also shows that the I'M
organized attendance figured at I23 a
day amounted TO 1925. This is a very
conservative figure as many Ia e oc-
casion to visit the Center which 2 n not
be tabulated unless a check system is
installed 10 register every one stepping
over the threshold.
Mr.. H0efler shows that 649 reserved
meetings were held during the year
bringing the total attendance figures
to I1l,755. This figure is prima :acie
evidence of the need of a new Con-
munity Center brought out by the over
whelming vote for bonds at a recent
election. The bonds were voted with
the understanding that the PWA would
furnish an outright grant for the
building.
The PWA will furnish the funds as
soon as the condition Of its treasury
will warrant city officials have been in
formed. Being a secondary project,
water works, street improvements, sewer
projects, etc, Of the first rank, will re-
caiya first attention The Ely DrOiact
is now near the top Of the list ard it
is expected will be heard from within
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
City Department Heads
Named at irst Session
of New Administration
Newly Organized Council
Reflects Majority of
City Officers.
TWO OFFICES VACANT
Appointment of Attorney
and Street Commissioner
Slated for Friday.

The organization meeting of the Ely
City Council took place Tuesday even
ing. The council chamber was filled
with interested spectators. No speech
making marked the organization meet
ing and the council, from the beginning,
went at the business in hand and COM
pleted its session by o'clock
Seated with the hold-oVer members
were the new members elected and re-
elected the fore part of December. The
rejected member was Alderman Frank
zgonc who served last year and was re-
elected by the high vote on the alder
manic ticket. Holdover members of the
council are Mayor Steve Banovetz and
Aldermen Frank Schweiger, John j.
Slabodnik and Martin Skala, Jr.
The new members who assumed their
seats with the council for the first time
were Robert c. Ellis and John N. Maxi.
After roll call, the naming of the ap-
pointive officers took place and the
following were returned to their
positions without a dissenting vote:
City Clerk-A. o. Knutson.
City TreaSurer-Andrew watIo, Jr.
City Engineer-Waino Somero.
Superintendent of Light and Water
DEPARTMENTAL Buccowich.
City AsSeSSor-Nick Popovich.
Health CommisSioner-Dr. o. w.
Parker.
Fire Warden-I. G. Cox.
Clerk of Municipal Court-Lutie
JarVa. Manned by Judge Toms and ap-
proved by the council0
City Chemist and Veterinariau-DrJ
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
ELY PUckSTERS
Defeat SOUDAN
Ely Club, Member of Vermilion
Urban League, Lists Series
of Games for Season.

Manager Jack PoShak of the Ely
Hockey team abs arranged for a series
Of games fer his proteges in the YER
million Urban Hockey league. The Ely
boys are practicing assidiously and will
needs be reckoned with in the games to
follow during the winter.
The first game was played last Sun
day at Soudan with the fast Soudan
team managed by Adolph Holm. This
game was won by Ely on score of
to 2. Frank Ulasich of the Ely squad
was the sensation of the game, counting
two goals on assists from Isaacson in
the first period and one unassisted in
the second and third periods to COM
plete Ely's total of four. Sarkela and
Nelson scored Soudan's markers in the
first and third stanzas. A clean brand
of hockey was exhibited by both teams
only two penalties being called on Ely
and one on Soudan. Those partici-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
JOHN SMREkAR
TO TEACH TOTS
Musical Instruction for Small
Children With Miniature
Instruments Planned.

Instruction on miniature musical in
struments is being planned for the
smaller school children as a part of
the Works Progress Administration
under the direction of John Smrekar,
recently appointed senior recreational
supervisor for the WPA in this city.
Mr.. Smrekar is local musician and
has for years been member of Dusty's
Rhythm Rougies. He plans course
providing logical starting point for
small children interested in music on
simple instruments such as the ninia-
ture flute, harmonica, xylophone, ukul-
ele, drums, bells, rhythm sticks, tam
BOURNE and cymbals.
These instruments are to be played
by note and the course is destined to
start the youngsters in the first steps
OF note reading and is to determine
the musical ability of the child. Tee
ME Vicente" bands are the outcome of
this instruction and it is supposed that
several of these viii be organized
One of these has been in existence
at the Washington school for some time
and the little band has appeared at
several functions in the past year be-
sides displaying their skill at school
entertainments Miss Vera Nelson was
in charge of the band
Applications for instructions can be
made to the teachers at the kinder
garten classes at the schools and classes
will be conducted by Mr.. Smrekar after
school hours Interested parents car
make application for their children by
contracting Mr.. Smrekar.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
UNIFORM RULES
FOR CITIZENSHIP
Definite Procedure Adopted for
Examining Applicants for
u. S. Citizenship.

Colonel D. w. Mccormack, Commits
sioner of immigration and Naturaliza-
ton, announced in instructions made
public today the formulation of a
definite and uniform procedure for ex-
amining applicants for citizenship, the
first to be adopted in the nearly thirty
years since the enactment of the present
basic naturalization law.
Applicants will no longer be asked
such questions as How many gallons
of water does the Amazon River dis
charge per hour?" under the provision
of law requiring proof that they are
attached to the principles Of the Con-
stitution. Actual familiarity with and
attachment to these principles are to be
required rather than memorizatoin OF
facts and phrases.
The instruction provides that the re-
quirements for citizenship shall be those
prescribed by law rather than a re-
Election of the views of individual ex-
aminers and that good moral character
and the petitioners attitude toward his
home, family, neighbors, community
agencies of government, and the public
welfare, shall be stressed rather than
mere technical knowledge of detailed
facts concerning government.
Although the Constitution provides
for and Congress has enacted uniform
naturalization law, administrative uni
formity has been lacking in its ap-
plication. This is clearly disclosed by
an investigation conducted throughout
the United States during the past two
years which indicates that in questions
put to applicants the views Of individual
examiners have been substituted in
many instances for the requirements OF
the naturalizat ton law
A compilation Of questions used by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Drum e BugLe Corps
Arranging for Carnival.

The Drum & Bugle Corps Of the
American Legion have started prepar-
ations for their annual carniva. TO be
given at the Washington Auditorium on
April %. q and Is.
The carnival last year was most Sue
ceSsful event and attended by capacity
crowds on all the evenings of the carni-
val.
A new idea this year will include the
operation Of the booths at the carnival
by Ely societies and organizations other
than the Drum Corps.
Tentative plans call for three en-
tertaining acts with a floor show.
Hormel'S Chill Beaners" from Austin,
Minnesota, will be one Of the features
of the floor show providing arrange
mentS now pending can be made.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Ely WPA Projects NolD
Employing SeUenty-tIUO,

F1fty-Seven men are employed on the
West Chapman street WPA project and
Is men on the Park Improvement pro-
ject under the supervision of City En-
gineer Somero.
After the completion of the street
improvement project the crew will be
moved to ledge elimination project on
second avenue west. Work will also
begin on a street Improvement project
on east Chapman street and eleventh
avenue.
All the men eligible for WPA work
IN the city are now employed. A little
later more men VIII become eligible by
registration with the relief setup in the
city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
On This
Occasion
A Few Observations on Matters
Material and Immaterial by
the Editor.

The greatest contribution to
traffic moving made by some
drivers is horn footing. Similar
in bringing back better national
conditions by many public ser
vices is horn blowing. So
necessary is this regarded by
some that great press agencies
have been established in the
national capitol for that pur-
pose. Every Administration has
its own horn tooters. This idea
is carried down from Washing
ton to the States, where adj
ministrations have their own
noise makers who attempt to
hide mistakes of government
under a blanket of praise fol
minor accomplishments.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Ely Tax Rate

The figures gave in last weeks story wherein
showed the tax rate for the City of Ely to be 1172
mills for next years payment with total taxes of
1892, to be collected, correct.
We made mistake, however, in the article
which has been called attention by several this
week. The mistake not in the figures but in
the fact that failed to state that this the total
for both the city and the schools.
The setup received by not separated to
the city and the schools and took for granted that
the reader would know that the figures given the
total for both.
The paper had barely been circulated when Mayor
Banovetz called the phone and by personal con-
tact and ribbed in regard to the increase in the city
tax rate. Men who paid taxes whatever par
ticularly concerned
Mayor Banovetz asked The Miner to set the thing
right by giving the figures in detail In truth the city
rate is one-tenth of mill less than it last year.
Tie figures given follows:
State Taxes, ------------13.57 mills
County Taxes, -----------16.93 mills
City Taxes, --------------39.9 mills
School Taxes ------------46.8 mills
Total, -----------117.2 mills
The Miner admits that the story might lead the
unthinkng to arrive at conclusions not consistent with
the facts and that the increase due to the ad-
mnistration. We cheerfuly give the figures in the
hopes of setting the administration right in the eyes of
the taxpayer
The public press is given the figures through the
Office of the county auditor the setup is
peted The totals for the cities given except where
the city is encompassed in two school districts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
1895 City Council
Met Monday Evening

The City Council, composed of Mayer
Banovetz and Aldermen Otto Hokkanen,
Frank Schweiger, John Slabodnik, ThoS
Brennan, Martin Skala, Jr., and Frank
Zgonc, met in a final session Monday
evening.
The Council cleaned up their I'M
finished work and cleared the decks
for the incoming council on Tuesday
evening.
The final settlement with Lenci &
Lenci and Ray Englund, contractors on
the water plant was made and bills
for the end of the year payroll and
supplies were allowed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
NeU Officers Chosen
For st. Andrews Club

At the meeting of the st. Andrews
club, held in the Presbyterian church
club rooms on Friday evening, new
officers were chosen for the ensuing
year. Those elected were:
PreSident-Sigurd Olson.
Vice President-J H Santo.
Secretary Treasurer-Morris Stern
berg.
Directors-C. G. Haugen, Fred Hand
berg, Lawrence Ludke and Thomas Nc
Laughlin.
Preceding the election and the general
meeting that followed, a dinner was
served by committee composed of Ed.
c. Jones, A. B. bakers, j. M Brown and
Thomas Mclaughlin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Hitting The
High Spots
Stories Aside From the News
By s. p. s.

Unlimited are the numbers of stories
told about the frugahty of the Scotch
people, but you do not have to be very
old to remember an Ely merchant who
could give lessons to any Scotchman
when it came to economical living and
conservative spending. A keen and
shrewd merchant he had accumulated
a fortune with his business.
Adjectives, as modernly used, would
catalog him as cheap, tight, close or
stingy and he was regarded by the local
residents as combination of them all.
Many and varied are the tales of
dividing an egg or quartering weiners at
the family board.
Not feeling well, on one occasion. he
consulted physician who advised him
to retard his business activity and spend
more time out doors in the fresh air. He
related the doctors orders to friend
who encouraged him to join hunting
party that had been organized for the
next day.
Mr.. Merchant agreed to Join the
group so he borrowed a gun from a
neighbor and purchased some shot gun
shells. The next day he accompanied
the party to the hunting grounds and
succeeded in bagging three rabbits.
But 10. when he returned He re-
turned the borrowed gun to the neigh
Dor and the unexploded shells to the
store for credit. Two of the rabbits he
SOLD to pay for the shells he had used
and the third rabbit was hung in the
cellar where steaks were cut from it
all winterl
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09

The Hon. W. E. Easton of the
Saltwater Gazette celebrated
his 85th birthday on Friday,
December 81. For over 65
years Bill" Easton has served
the community with his wise
counsel and the Gazette. Dur
ing all that time he has rarely
missed a day at the Office and
has been the power at the helm
of his newspaper. The editor
of the Miner congratulates Mr..
Easton and wishes for him
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Births and Deaths
During Last Year.

Registrar of Births and Deaths DR..
o. w. Parker has made his official re-
port in which he shows the birth Of
4S boys and 48 girls for the year in
Ely. The deaths numbered Al for the
year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09

The cold wave scheduled for this
section struck us on Tuesday morning
when the thermometer sunk to the
seasons low Of "a below zero at 800
O'Clock with II below in Duluth.
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

You want %fne-tasting whiskey. But
wait!Not even a professional faster
can tell the degree of ub~iskey-kind-
ness from the taste alone.
Months of research by a group of
trained, impartial men engaged by
Seagram has provided a reliable
guide to whiskey-kindness Seagram's
Crown Whistles, used in modera-
ton, we're proved to be kind,
considerable whistles, a.ld most
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27
treasure State
News i'm Brief

TOWNSEND-John s. Connors, "a, Town
send resident IS years and q Montana resident
half a century, died during q fatal heart at
tack.
BILLINGS-Approximately $50 Boy Scout
leaders from eastern Montana points attend
ed a meeting Of the Yellowstone valley council
here q few days ago.
BILLINGS-Ray Anderson has been notified
OF his appointment as United States commits
sioner here for the sixth consecutive term.
Nov. l he completed 20 years of continuous
service as federal commissioner for Billings.
RONAN-Ramona Rae, the four-month-old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Hardy Of
Roman, died of suffocation and burns in a
fire that broke out recently in the family
home. The mother was burned painfully in her
attempt to rescue the infant.
BILINGS-Eddie Collins, general manager
Of the American league Boston Red Sox, and
Bling Miller, Red Sox coach, caught an east
bound plane here a few days ago following
q hunting trip in northern Wyoming in
which each bagged an elk, a deer, an ante
lope and several ducks.
BILLINGS-James A. Hopper, 10, driven
from his farm by drouth and insects four
years ago and now a resident of Billings. re-
Gently returned three months old-age pension
checks to the county pension director with
the explanation he just received word an es-
tate had been left to him. He handed the
director three checks for 81 each.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

spread from bush to bush. In late sum-
mel and early autumn, pine-infecting
spores are carried by winds from the
bushes to the trees, where they enter
the ends of needles to progress slowly
through foliage to the tree trunks and
cause the trees deaths. Eradication OF
wild currant and gooseberry bushes is
the only known method of control.
Blister rust control work normally is
virtually at a standstill at this time
of year, when foliage is gone from
underbrush in the forests and the wild
currant and gooseberry bushes cannot
be identified.
Two types of projects, however, can
be continued advantageously. Some
brushy bottom lands are so heavily
grown up with currant and. gooseberry
bushes that their removal is necessary.
In such places. a tractor with a heavy
comb blade is used to remove the brush
from the land. Other small areas sup
port such a mass of these bushes under
a network of fire-killed down timber
that broadcast burning to kill the
bushes must be resorted to-. Winter
work will include preparation for
burning.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27
BLISTER RUST
WAR GOES ON
ONLY KNOWN CONTROL METHOD
is ERADICATION OF WILD
BERRY BUSHES

Five hundred and sixty-three
men we're engaged in white pine
blister rust control work at the
close of October in northwestern
Montana, eastern Washington and
northern Idaho, attempting to halt
inroads of the fungus disease
which is damaging sizeable stands
of virgin timber.
More than 5000 workers were en-
ployed in the battle against the
scourge during the height of the sea-
son, the majority of the men enlisted
from relief rolls, while technical ex-
perts on forestry were furnished by
the federal government.
Blister rust does not spread from
tree to tree. 1t spores lodge on wild
currant and gooseberry bushes in the
spring, there to incubate and then
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27
of other duus


Jack Travis, head man of a Havre
newspaper, ex-golfing champ of Mon
tana newsmen, is the proud father Of
several children. Before Jack married,
even before he became inoculated with
the newspaper bug, he was a football
player at Montana State college.
Jack was a linesman. Like many
linesmen Jack thought he would be a
backfield hot-shot if given the chance.
In his senior year, when Coach OFT
Romney issued the call for football,
Travis pretended to be deaf. Several
workouts were held without the benefit
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

ANACONDA-The western United States
amateur ski tournament will be held in Ana
conda this winter. the first in Montana. T.
Anaconda ski club will select the dates for
the event in which more than so jumper
from Montana, Wyoming. Utah and Colorado
are expected to compete.
BILLINGs-water for next years irrisatiop
in the Rock Greek and Clark Fork Valley
from Rockville to Edgar is being stored in thu
newly-completed 100000 Cooney dam near
Roberts. Gates of the 100-foot high earth-fi1
dam were closed a few days ago. The project
will store floodwater Of the Smith river.
MIssoULA-Henry Mallory. Missoula, came
with a Chinese pheasant he declared he caught
by hand. He said he crept along q ditch and
bounced on the bird in q bush. Mallory ex-
hibited q scratch on his right hand and
said: He kicked me when I grabbed him."
the bridegroom's parents in 1901 played again
a few days ago at the wedding Of Miss Ellen
Amanda Rasmussen, youngest daughter Of
Argyle Stephens, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. d. J.
Stephens. both natives Of the Big Hole. Mrs.
i Jennie Stephenson played Mendelssohn's we'd
ding March, the march she played at the
Wedding Of: MI. and Mrs. D. J. stephens IS
years ago.
MISSOULA-Four mountain lions was the
reward of r. D. Nelson, member Of the
Missoula fire department, as the result Of
west Of Missoula. Mr.. Nelson trailed two big
deer for miles in the snow and finally came
to q precipice. In the meantime he came
across the trail Of the lions. He finally spot
spotted one Of the lions as the looked over
a precipice. It was, less than $50 feet away
and he downed the animal with the first
peared and he shot It also. Subsequently the
two cubs appeared and one shot each leveled
them to the ground. He shot one other non,
but it escaped, and the sixth lion got awaS
before he could get q shot at II.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27
PROJECT IS LAY

Construction of the proposed water control
project at Bcaverhead rock depends on the
jefferson river between Dillon and Whitehall,
according to R. J. Kelly, secretary of the
state water conservation board: The federal
the work, but the water must be contracted
for before the state board can approve con-
struction.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

Anger and fear have a relation to
the differences in the color of the eyes
and hair and in the shape of the heads
of different persons, according to a
University of California scientist.
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yersity on the following Saturday; put
game after Denver won from w. S.. G.
While Dobie was at Washington, his
teams never lost a game in eight sea-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

John Mccormack is at work on a
novel based on the events of his career.