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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF THE
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
THE BRUNO FARMERS FEED ASSO-
CITATION, OF BRUNO, MINNESOTA.

We, the undersigned J. H. Hill and
w. M. Englund, do hereby certify that
secretary Of the Bruno Farmers Feed
Association, of Bruno, Minnesota, CO.
operative association organized under the
laws of Minnesota;
holders of said association. called and
held for that expressly stated purpose ,s
of Bruno. Minnesota. at which quorum
was present and so registered, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted by more
than majority 90. Of the eet shares OF stock
RESOLVED: That Article v, Of the
articles of incorporation of the Bruno
Farmers Feed Association. which reads
Sec l. The capital stock of this cor
poration shall be Five Thousand Dollars
(S500000) divided into Five Hundred 5000
shares OF Ten Dollars s 'shoHo he eacn sid ShaI al
at such times and in such amounts as
the board of directors may determine.
Sec. 2; No person shall receive or be
capital stock of this corporation. No per-
son shall be entitled to more than l
vote at any regular or specia! meeting
or elections of this corporation:
be and the same is hereby amended to
read as follows:
THE capital stock of this association
shall be five thousand (S5,000.00) dollars
$4,000 shares of par value of one dol
lar each. Such shares shall be nom
assessable, shall draw not to exceed six
such stock shall have but one vote in
the affairs of the association"
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. we have
hereunto set our hands and caused the
hereunto affixed this 31st day of March,
1887.
(SeaD J. H. HILL,
w. M. ENGLUND,
Secretary.
State of Minnesota, county of Pine, IS.
Be it remembered that on this 31st
day of March, 1887, before me notary
PUBLIC within and for said county, per
Englund to me known to be the persons
described in the above and foregoing
instrument and whose names are SUBJ
edged that they executed the same freely
and voluntarily and for the uses and pur-
j. H. LINGREN,
Notary Public.
County of Pine, Minnesota
My commission expires Aug. 1, 1912
STATE OF MINNESOTA, DEPARTMENT
OF STATE
Filed May IA, 1887.
MIKE HOLM,
Secretary of State.
The foregoing amended articles exam
ined and approved as to form and legality
this 18th day of May 1887.
WILLIAM S. ERWIN
Attorney General
FRANK H. OSTERLIND,
Assistant Attorney General.
OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS,
PINE COUNTY, MINI.
I hereby certify that the within instru-
ment was filed in this Office for Record
on the 18th day of May A. D. 1887. at
8 o'clock A. NJ, and was duly Recorded
in Book No. of Misc. on page 1873.
P. l.. HAMLIN,
Register of Deeds.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-27
STATE OF MINNESOTA, DEPARTMENT
OF STATE
OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS,
PINE COUNTY, MINI.

I hereby certify that the within instru-
ment was filed in this Office for Record
on the 18th day of May A. D. 1887. at
8 o'clock A. NJ, and was duly Recorded
in Book No. 3 of Misc. on page 1873.
P. L. HAMLIN,
Register of Deeds.
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England. They were President
Abraham Lincoln of the United
States of America and Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lee, commander-in-chief
of the armed forces of the Con-
federate States of America.
During those two centuries the
Virginia Hankses, like the Mass
achusetts Lincolns, had also be-
gun to move westward, although
not travelling so far as the New
Englanders. Some time after the
Indian uprising of 1875 and Ba-
cons rebellion of 1876 Thomas
Hanks disappeared from history
but not until he had started the
line which. would come to it's
greatest glory in the little boy
who was born in a Kentucky log
cabin 1913 years ago this month.
That line was as follows:
Thomas Hanks. His son was
William Hanks. Born probably
in Gloucester county, Virginia,
about 1866. Died in Richmond
county in 17O4. His son was
John Hanks. Born in North
Farnham parish in Richmond
county, date unknown, and died
in 1740. His son was
Joseph Hanks. Born in North
Farnham parish, December 20,
1725. Died in Nelson county, Ken
lucky in 1893. His daughter was
Lucy Hanks. Born probably in
1865 in Richmond county, Vir-
ginia, and died in 1925(?). Her
daughter was
Nancy Hanks. Born in Mineral
county, West Virginia in 1888.
Died in Spencer county, Indiana,
October 5, 1918. Her son was
Abraham Lincoln.
In 1860 the America which had
once hailed those frontier he
roes, "Old Hickory" Jackson and
"Old Tippecanoe" Harrison was
ready now to hail another from
tiersman - "Old Abe" Lincoln.
True, as an Indian fighter, his
record in the Black Hawk war
wasn't 'much shakes" when
compared to Jackson's conquest
of the Creeks and Harrison's vic
tories over The Prophet and
Tecumseh and their Shawnees.
The "Rail-Splitter" Elected.
But the AK was as potent a
symbol as the rifle. Of course, it
wasn't as useful to defend your
cabin against the onslaughts of
the cred devils" But, without it,
you couldn't have built your cab
in in the first place. And when
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This sturdy pair, dressed in
their Sunday BEST" are sure to
walk right into the heart of some
wee tot. You'll have fun, too, max
ing both the dolls and their bright
finery, specially if your scrap bag
furnishes you with gay odds and
ends. Hair and features are done
with a few simple embroidery
stitches. Grand indeed for gifts
are Sambo of the checkered over
ais, and Nanny, in apron and
kerchief. In pattern 5247 you will
find transfer pattern for a doll
about IA inches high; patterns for
making the clothes; directions for
making doll and clothes; materi-
al requirements.
To obtain this pattern send Is
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept, 259 w.
Fourteenth ST., New York, N. Y.
Write plainly your name, ad-
dress and pattern number.
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Mordecai, dropped the red raid
er in his tracks.
Despite this tragedy tn e
widow, Bathsheba, continued to
live on their new farm. That
autumn when George Rogers
Clark organized a company to
fight the Indians, the settlers
made contribution of arms and
provisions to the extent of their
ability. Highest in appraisal on
the list was a fine rifle credited
to "the widow Lincoln" One Won
ders if it was the rifle, notched
with the knife of young Morde-
cal after he had avenged the
death of the first Frontiersman,
Abraham Lincoln.
Later the Widow Lincoln
moved with her brood to a home
on Beech Fork in that part of
Nelson county which later be-
came Washington county n d
there she lived until they were
grown. One of them, young Tom
Lincoln, was serving in the mill
tia at the age of seventeen. In
1898 he went to work as a hired
hand for an uncle who lived on
the Wautauga in Tennessee and,
returning from there, he stopped
in Cumberland county and
bought some land. In 1902 he was
made constable in that county
but he evidently didn't linger
there long. He moved to Hardin
county and in 1903 bought a farm
on Mill Creek.
Most of the young folks of
Kentucky in those days married
early. But Tom Lincoln didn't
seem to be in any hurry to get
himself wife and settle down.
That is, he didn't until his eyes
finally rested one day on a twen-
ty-three-year-old girl who h a d
come with her family from
Hampshire county, Virginia,
Cater Mineral county, West Vir-
ginia) back in 1874 when she was
only a year old. Nancy Hanks
was her name and she was the
natural daughter of Lucy Hanks.
But folks also called her Nancy
Sparrow because Lucy Hanks,
changing from the ways of her
wild girlhood, had become the
faithful wife of Henry Sparrow.
A Century-Old Mystery.
Who Nancy Hanks father was
is still as much a mystery today
as it was that day more than
three-quarters of a century ago
when Abraham Lincoln told one
of his friends that his unknown
grandfather was "a Virginia gen.
tleman" from whom he had in
herited whatever fine qualities
he had. 1t was probably mys-
terry also when the Hankses came
to Kentucky. But evidently Tom
Lincoln wasn't troubled by the
fact that there was a faint on the
name of Nancy Hanks.
In June, 1906, he went back to
Beech Fork and there on June
IL, in the big double log house of
family named Berry, Rev. Jes-
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Patent for Salt

The first patent ever issued in
America, says Scientific Ameri-
can, was granted in the colony Of
the Massachusetts Bay in New
England to Samuel Winslow for a
chemical process, the manufac-
ture of salt, on the second day Of
April, 1641. The wording of the
patent follows:
A GENERAL COURT OF ELECTIONS,
HELD AT BOSTON THE 9th. 4th No,
1641. Whereas Sanu: Winslow hath made
a pposition to this Court to furnish the
countrey with salt at more easy rates than
otherwise can bee had, & to make il by
a meanes, & way, web hitherto hath not
bene discovered. It is therefore ordered,
that if the said Samu: shall within the
space of one yeare, set upon the said
worke, hee shall enjoy the same. to him
& his assosiats, for the space Of 10 yeares,
so as it shall not bee lawful to any other
pson to make sale after the same way
during the said years: pvided, nevrthe-
less, that it shall bee lawful for any psOa
to bring in any salt, or to make salt after
any othr way dureing the said tearme.
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you used it to split rails with
which to fence the land you had
won from those same "red dew
lis" it meant that this land was
going to be yours to have and
to hold and to hand down to your
children. So they elected the
"Rail Splitter" President and
who knows how much that cleo
ton was due to the fact that in
1860 America was still frontier
minded?
Nearly a hundred years before
that time there had been another
Abraham Lincoln who might
have been an even greater from
tier hero-if the ''red devils" had
spared his life. He was Capt.
Abraham Lincoln, the grandfath-
er of the "Rail-Splitter," who
sold his comfortable home in the
beautiful Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia in 1870. Then he started
west with his wife and their five
children-Mordecai, aged eleven;
Josiah, nine; Mary, six; Thorn
as, four; and Nancy, a baby in
the strong arms of her mother,
Bathsheba Lincoln.
Capt. Abraham Lincoln carried
with him three treasury war
rants each acknowledging receipt
of 100 pounds in Virginia money
and each calling for 400 acres
of land to be located in any
county in Virginia, Kentucky
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then being such a county. Thus
it was that an Abraham Lincoln
crossed over the mountains into
what was then "the West" and
became the first Frontiersman
Lincoln.
Late in the spring he entered
400 acres of land on Floyd's Fork
in what later became Jefferson
county, Kentucky, and a little
later 300 acres below Green Riv-
er Licks in Lincoln county. Two
years later an official survey
was made and his patents were
issued in due course of time.
But he did not live long to enjoy
his new domain.
A Frontier Tragedy.
One morning in May, 1876,
while Capt. Abraham Lincoln
was at work on his farm near
Hughes Station on Floyd's Fork
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04
; Why Laxatives
Fail Ii, Stubborn
Consultation

Twelve to "a hours is too long TO WAN
when relief from efogaed bowels and
constipation is needed, for then enor-
nous quantities OF bacteria accumu.
late, causing GAS, Indigestion ana
many restless, sleepiess nights.
u you want REAL, QUICK RELIEF.
take a liquid compound such as Ad-
lerika. Adierika contains SEVEN ca
thartio and carminatiye ingredients
that act on the stomach and BOTH
bowels. Most Overnight" iaXatiYes
contain one Ingredient that acts on thu
lower bowel only.
AdIerika's DOUBLE ACTION gives
your system a thorough cleansing,
bringing out old poisonous waste mat
ter that may have caused GAS pains,
sour stomach, headaches and sleepless
nights for months.
Adlerika relieves stomach GAS az
once and usually removes bowel con.
pestion In less than two hours No
waiting for overnight results. This
famous treatment has been recon.
mended by many doctors and drug
gists for IS years. Take Adlerika one
half hour before breakfast or one hour
before bedtime and in a short ~lsifs
you will feel marveIously refreshed.
At all Leading Druggists.
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from the cellar and helping dis.
tribute it uniformly throughout
the fuel bed.
Those things being true, it is
dangerous to neglect keeping the
ashpit clean. Accumulated ashes
will cut off incoming air circula-
ton and hamper the complete
combustion of fuel, creating trou-
blesome clinkers. An ashpit that
is choked up with ashes is quite
liable to overhead the CRATES, re-
sulting in their warping or break
ing. This, of course, means an
expense in replacing the damaged
CRATES.
So, 1 say again, don't take
chances. Keep the ashpit cleaned
out. Take a few minutes every
day to remove the dead ashes.
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achusetts Bay colony there ar
rived in Virginia little group of
q persons. They had been de-
ported from England as a punish
ment that was being inflicted up
on Cromwell's men who were
captured by the Royalists, now
back in power. Among them was
man named Thomas Hanks
whose origin is unknown except
that the Hankses were Malmes-
bury men. In the American col
ony Thomas Hanks, through va
rious purchases, became an i'm
portant landowner in what is now
Gloucester county.
In the Virginia land office at
Richmond are preserved some
of the patents granted to Hanks
and they show that he held sew
eral hundred acres of land adj
joining the estate of a certain
Col. Richard Lee, who had es-
tablished his home in Virginia
II years before Hanks arrival.
Lee was Royalist, one of the
foremost in Virginia in support
of Charles I. and one of the first
to hail Charles II as the lawful
sovereign of England. And now
he found himself next-plantation
neighbor to Thomas Hanks, the
Rebel, who had been deported
from England because he had
ridden with the Ironheads of
Oliver Cromwell!
Lincoln and Lee.
How amicably the two men
lived as neighbors we have no
means of knowing. But we do
know that the Lees and the
Hankses in the years that fol-
lowed, intermarried. Two CEN
turtles later two men, who
claimed Col. Richard Lee as a
common ancestor, found them
selves arrayed against each 9TH
er in greater civil war than
their forefathers had known in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04

died in Virginia in 1888. His son
Capt. Abraham Lincoln was
born in Virginia in 1744 and died
in Kentucky in 1876. His son
Thomas Lincoln was born in
Virginia in 1778 and died in IL
IinoiS in 1851. His son
Abraham Lincoln was born in
Kentucky in 1909 and died in
Washington in 1865.
So much, for the moment, for
New England's contribution to
the "Man of the Ages"
Seventeen years after the first
of the LincolnS came to Mass
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Home Heating
Esnac By John Barclay
EshEnGO Heating Expert
Keep Furnace Ashpit Clean-Get
Better Heat, Prevent Costly
Repairs

COMBINES we are prone to
- grow careless and get the idea
that all a furnace ashpit is for is
to receive ashes as they come
from the CRATES. AS a matter of
fact, however, receiving the ashes
is but one of three important
things an ashpit does. Besides
holding ashes, it performs the very
necessary function of receiving air
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04
Father of Piqua Indians

Piqua. the name of one of the
Shawnee tribes, means ga man
formed out of the ashes" According
to Indian tradition, the Shawnee
were seated around their campfire
centuries ago when suddenly full
formed man grew out of the ashes.
He was the beginning and the father
of the Piqua tribe.
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a skulking Indian shot him down.
Sending his younger brother, Jo-
siah, to the station for help, sew
enteen-year-old Mordecai sprang
into the cabin and seized the
long rifle which rested on two
wooden pegs set in the logs over
the fireplace. Then, as the
hideously-painted red man dart
ed from his ambush toward the
place where little Tom Lincoln
sat crying beside the body of
his dead father, shot from the
long rifle, poked through the UNI
chinked longs of the cabin by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04
Linco|n-the First American President
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
BRAHAM LINCOLN, the first American President?
Yes he was!
Yes, he was

Now that doesn't that attempt being made to
upset commonly accepted history to deny George Wash
ngton who First War; First in Peace and First in the
Hearts of His Countrymen the further honor usually accord
ed him. of being the first chief executive of this republic But
the fact is that Lincoln not Washington the First Amer
President and for this
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Sc Head married Thomas Lin
coin and Nancy Hanks. He took
his bride first to Elizabethtown
and there their first child was
born-a girl. A year before his
marriage Tom Lincoln h a d
bought farm near Sinking
Spring in Hardin county an d
there he took his family next.
There on February IL, 1909,
was born the boy who was given
the name of his grandfather-a
name which Americans have en-
Shrined in their hearts.
G-WNU Service.
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A Migratory Family.

generations of the Lincolns felt
that urge for a westward mi
grafton which was such strik-
ing characteristic of the pioneer
stock that conquered the wilder
ness of North America and did
so much to build in it a new
nation. Not one of the seven died
in the same town in which he
was born and only one died in
the same state. The westward
faring of the Lincolns took them
from Massachusetts, to New Jer-
sey to Pennsylvania, to Virginia,
to Kentucky, to Indiana. They
came finally to Illinois from
whence they sent one of their
sons back East again, there to
die and in the dying, as well
as in his living, to achieve i'm
mortality.
Here is the record of those
seven LincolnS:
Samuel Lincoln was born in
bingham, England, in 1919 and
died in bingham, Mass, in 1890.
His son Mordecai Lincoln, ST.,
was born in bingham, Mass,
in 1857 and died in Scituate,
Mass, in 1727. His son
Mordecai Lincoln was born
in Scituate, Mass, April "a,
1886, and after a residence in
New Jersey died in Berks coun-
ty, Pa, in 1875. His son
John Lincoln was born in
Berks county, Pa, in 1716 and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04
The Best Woman

The best woman has always
somewhat of mans strength;
and the noblest man of a woman's
gentleness.-Miss Mulock.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04

After using It I had a good appetite and
felt much stronger and / was not nearly SO
nervous" New size, tabs. soc.
Buy of your neighborhood druggist today.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04
Stepping Stones

Failures are with heroic minds
the stepping stones to success
Halliburton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04
" MGM
ASK YOUR DOCTOR THIS
Ask Him Before Giving Your
Child on Unknown Remedy

Practically any doctor you ask will
warn: Don't giDe your child unknown
remedies Without asking your doctor
first"
When it comes to the widely used
children's remedy = milk of mag
nesia," the standard of the world is
established. For over half century
many doctors have said PHILLIPS
Milk of Magnesia." Safe for children.
No other is quite like it"
Keep this in mind, and say ''PFIIL-
LIPS MILK OF MAGNESIA"
whenyou buy. Now alsointa bletform.
Get the form you prefer. But see that
what you get is labeled Genuine
Phillips Milk of Magnesia.'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04
Not Without Dignity

He is never without dignity who
avoids wounding the dignity Of 9TH
erS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04
y ssE Nerves on Edge :?

Mrs. Peter ]. Witt of
720 No. Fairfax Ave, Sioux
Falls, S. D., said: Some
time ago my nerves were
on edge and I felt weak
and miserable. I just had
to drag myself about the
house. n. Pierce's Favor
lite Prescription taken as
a tonic helped me a lot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-04

When a child is born, it's
nationality is that of its par
ents, regardless of its birth
place. The parents of all the
Presidents from Washington
down to Buchanan were born
before the Declaration of In
dependence was signed and
were therefore British sub
jects, even though they were
born in America, Lincoln's
father and mother were the
first parents of a President
born after July 4, 1776. So
he was the first chief eXecu-
tive, born in the United States
of AMERICAN parents and
therefore he was the first
REAL American President.
That characterization of
Lincoln, however, is not based
alone on a mere technicality
in regard to the nationality
of his parents. More impor-
tant is the fact that there was
blended in him the strains of
the two cultures which were
such a vital force in the MAX
ing of America. One was
from New England and the
other from Virginia.
1t was just 800 years ago that
the first of the Lincolns came
to America. Samuel Lincoln was
his name and he was born at
bingham in Norfolk, England, in
1919. In 1887 he emigrated to
the Massachusetts Bay colony
and lived there until his death
in bingham, Mass, in 1890. From
this original immigrant seven
Lincolns can be traced in direct
line to the man who became
President.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06

Los Angeles and Vicinity: Fair
tonight and Friday with consider
able cloudiness night and morning;
little change in temperature; gen.
tie to moderate wind. mostly south
east to southwest
Southern California: Fair tonight
and Friday but overcast on coast
night and morning; no change III
temperature; moderate northwest
wind off coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-06
Cash Ready for
Power on Canal
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Continued From Page u
than double its present capacity,
and 500 miles of rural transmission
lines in the farm sections Of the
county.
The PWA contract carries a di-
rect gift of S1242,000 and a loan
of S1,513,0O0 to be used in con-
struction Of the power plant, main
distribution system and increas-
ing the capacity of the BraWley
standby plant. Forty-five per cent
of the cost of the plant, main Sys-
tenn and standby increase will be
paid by the direct grant.
The 100000 REA loan will be
used exclusively for construction
of a rural distribution system,
linked with the main system and
the canal power plant.
The people of Imperial Valley
HeWes said, are fortunate in OBJ
tanning these funds, especially since
the government within the last
week discontinued its policy OF
making as per cent grants. 1t is
our very good fortune to have won
approval of our contract before
the new order was effective"
No Taxes
Under the contracts, the dis
trict president pointed out con-
struction of the power system will
be financed at very nearly two pei
cent interest-With the total pay
able only from power revenue
Even if some future personnel o.
the district board wished to levy
taxes or water charges to pay fol
the system, it could not do so, hi
declared
"All this financing" HeWeS add
ed, both REA and PWA, will b'
repaid, as 1 have said, solely anc
exclusively from power revenue
The government has agreed tina
the district shall not be required
to pay one dollar from any othe
source to retire these loans. M
assessment will be required agains
land; no water charges. The powe
system will pay for itself. Our con
tracts with the government SO pro
! vide, in definite terms"