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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
Fifty Years Ago
From Issue of October Is, 1889.

Reports are to the effect that the
condition Of Capt. H. R. Harvey, who
is Ill at Alma, Michigan, is improving
%""The trout season has opened and
many parties are at BURNSIDE lake. az"
Work on the school house has been
completed and school will begin to-
tomorrow morning. *"* J. c. Hunter, R.
R. McFarlane and R. Donavan of
Duluth are hunting in the neighbor-
hood Of Eastwood lake. """NIiSs Lena
Jeffrey of SOudan has been visiting
friends here this week.
Dick Foley was fined $40 and costs
by Justice Sletten and ordered out of
town. The town now has fewer con-
stables and fewer toughS. '""Jack WEIGH
was fined SIS or 20 days in the county
jail for aSsaulting ice Kornfield. He
went to jail. T""The Ely Cornet Band
is the latest. 1t is composed of Finnish
players who came in a body from
Michigan to work in the mines here.
Landlord Nelson of the Pioneer hotel
gave a dance on Friday evening at
which about 20 couples were present,
who enjoyed themselves up to nearly
a. m. A lunch was served at mid
night. """The Chandler Hotel was closed
TO the public Thursday by ]. W. Marvin
and John Frazer, the Duluth owners.
The owners will rent the place as soon
as possible.
John Poost and John Orneu. miners
at the Chandler were killed during the
lunch hour in the open pit when sew
eral tons of earth and rocks was
IOOsened from the hanging wall and
buried the two who were eating their
lunch. According to a dispatch sent
out, the VermiIion range extends across
the Canadian boundary for some dis
lance and valuable deposits are located
on the Canadian side It is said that
the Minnesota Iron Company has &C
quired large holdings in Canada and
will hold it without developing until
the tariff on ore is taken off when
the deposits will come in competition
with the Ely and Tower ores.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
new BOOKS
AT THE LIBRARY
FICTION

Edgar Rice Burroughs. Two new
booksbooks by this noted adventure
story writer have been received: Back
to the Stone Age" and 1.-The OakdaIe
Affair and the Rider" Additional
copies of four Tarzan books have been
purchased: 'Tarzan Triumphant" "Tar-
IAN the Invincible," "Tarzan the IN
tanned" and "Tarzan at the Earth's
Core"
Mr.. Pinkerton at the Old Angel
David Frome. A new mystery adven-
ture for this little old Englishman.
Novels: Secret Marriage Kathleen
Norris. Victorian House"-Dorothy
Hewlett. Inevitable Dawn"-Arthur c.
Baldwin.
NON-FICTION
Betrayal in Central Europe"-G. E.
R. Gedye. The truth about the fallen
Bastians, Austria and Czechoslovakia, as
told by an eyewitness who is also one
of the worlds greatest journalists
The American Way"-George S.
kaufman and Moss Hart A play that
is making history on the New York
stage.
The Aircraft Yearbook for 1882
edited by Howard Mingos.
Il Believe"-edited by Clifton Fadi-
man. Personal PHILOSOPHERS of certain
eminent men and women of our time,
including Pearl Buck, Stuart Chase,
Thomas Mann, Theodore Dresser, H.
@. Wells, Albert Einstein and others.
"AIl in the Days work"-Ida M.
Tarben. An autobiography by the
noted author, now 30 years old, of ''The
History of the Standard Oil Company.
THE Life of Abraham Lincoln" etc.
America in Midpassage"- Charles A
Beard and Mary R. Beard. A history
of the immediate Cten years. past of
the United States.
Seven Grass Huts"-Cecile HuIse
Matschat. The story of an engineer s
wife in Central and South America.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
What is the difference between singI
and double strength window glass?
Sanitary Engineer Inspects
Diaries, Resorts, Homes.

z. C. Slagle, sanitary engineer with
the State Board of Health as inspector
of water supplies and toilet facilities, in
spected the diaries and outlying schools
for three days last week.
He inspected 81 diaries, the schools
and homes without city sewer con-
nections on the hill south of Ely in
the Town of Morse
Changes will be ordered for the larger
number of the diaries and other places
inspected in their sanitary arrange
ments in the report to be submitted to
DR.. Scherer, health officer for st. Louis
County who in turn will make his re-
port to the County Health Board.
On his three-day trip, Mr. Slagle
also inspected several resorts on Moose
Lake as to their water supply It is
expected that a recommendation from
DR.. Scherer will be forthcoming within
the next two weeks, according to DR.. j.
E. Thompson, city veterinarian and
chemist, who accompanied the inspector
on the larger part Of his inspection trip.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19

sheen over the snow. Unfamiliar with
the cause Of the apparent phenomenon,
they called it black or red snow, but
Crosshaul said he never heard of blue
snow from a woodsman.
In At years he has collected over
II 900 pieces about Paul Bunyau. over
600 are of considerable length, but the
most are wise cracks, anecdotes, etc.
When Paul was lad of IA years, he
said, he obtained his first shot gun.
1t took four dish pans of powder to load
it, and he shot geese so high up in
the sky that they spoiled before they
hit the ground; so he put salt in the
charge and by the time they came down
the meat was cured. Crosshaul pointed
to the meager chemical knowledge the
woodsmen had of curing meat with salt
for the origin of this story.
BY the time Bunyan had reached q
years he continued, it was said that no
trail was too old or too dim for him
to follow One day he came across the
skeleton of a moose in the woods, and
out of curiosity he picked up the trail
of the moose and followed it back to
the place where the animal was born.
Crosshaul's Paul Bunyan may arouse
a great storm of argument among
people who have believed for many
years that they had true picture of
the legendary figure. He was critical
of the giant-sized man that was re-
Gently erected in Bemidji as the real
Paul Bunyan, because this wasn't the
lumberjack's conception of their con-
slant companion. A mural painter even
put blue boomers on Paul Bunyan
fighting another mythical adversary in
blue boomers at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, he said.
But nearly a life time of research
must give Crosshaul, famous in his own
right, authority for his beliefs. The
folklore of Paul Bunyan is one Of
Americans greatest, he said, but it has
never been given the place it deserves.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
Many Common Beliefs
About Bunyan Exploded
NORTHERN PIKE
IsFAT PlckEREL

A great northern pike is only we'll
fed pickerel, according to DR.. Samuel
Eddy of the University of Minnesota, an
assertion that will start anew a contro-
versy that has ragged for as long perhaps
as the fish has existed
This noted expert on fish bases his
statement on knowledge obtained from
dissecting and studying every part of
a great northern and-or pickerel hun
dreds of times
Give a pickerel steady and sub
stantial diet for period of time and
he fattens into northern, he claims.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
HHDTNY~ DA| II Into the Files
LOONllVO DAM of The Miner
time of his death.

time of his death.
A four-wheel drive Jeffrey truck,
is being tested on the Stoney road for
hauling supplies to the camps. A truck
tested two weeks ago failed to fill the
bill The new one is 40-H P. with
four wheel drive.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Coad,
a son; to Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Brownell,
a daughter; to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Paulos, a son.
Mrs. Sarah A Felt, mother of the
late Mrs. James Moonan, died at a
Minneapolis hospital, Sunday. She was
IS years of age and well known in this
city where she made her home with her
daughter for some time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19

I wOrmed my yeariing hens in
September and they quit laying. Since
then I have been told that the brand
of tablets I used was poisonous to
chickens. Do you think this is true?
Regardless of the kind of tablet used,
worms alone are sufficient to make hens
stop laying especially at that time of
year. Any treatment you might use
would be all the harder on them and
cause an even greater drop in pro-
duction. In giving the worm tablets
you simply fastened the mott which
would have started soon anyway-Cora
Cooke, extension poultry specialist.
How can fruits and nuts be kept from
sinking to the bottom of the cake
batter?
If sprinkling nuts and fruits with
flour does not prevent their sinking to
the bottom, your batter may be too rich.
Usually rolling them in the last fourth
Of the flour before it goes into the other
ingredients is sufficient to avoid this
trouble.-Ina B. Rowe, extension nu-
tritionist
Do you recommend yellow rasp-
berries" for northern Minnesota?
No. The yellow raspberries you men
toned were popular some years ago.
However, at the present time it is
almost impossible to obtain stock of
them from any nursery. Although the
berries were of good quality, the canes
were not at all winter hardy and re-
quired covering with soil every winter.
The yellow varieties were also very sus-
ceptible to diseases, factor to which
we now have to give serious consider
alton in any raspberry planting.
would suggest that you stick to the
Chief for an early bearing raspberry
and the Latham for a slightly later
season one. These are quite winter
hardy and will give higher production
than almost any others-E. NJ Hunt,
extension specialist in horticulture
What is the difference between single
and double strength window glass?
Strengths in window glass applies
to its thickness and breaking resist
ance. Most panes 8''x1O" or smaller are
single strength. While the ordinary
sasf1-window may have either single or
double strength glass the latter is much
stronger and more durable Fer open
ings larger than 3 feet by feet, triple
strength is best.-Ncrton c. Ives, ex-
tension engineer
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
A Fish Story
That's q WhOpper.

Pine City-Ed Miller, Sr., tells a fish
story that's dandy-and it's true too.
One day recently while fishing I'D the
river he hooked a pickerel which was
Ii inches long. Ed started Keeling it
in, and Just before he pulled the fish
out of the water another pickereI weigh
ing pounds caught the 13-inch one by
the middle and hung on with great
tenacity. Ed pulled both fish out Of
the water, swinging them through the
air and dropping them in the boat.
The second fish dropped loose when
they hit the boat. Now, the best part
of his story IS this: he found a third
pickerel, to 8 inches long, inside the
second fish that had grabbed onto the
first one. Three fish on one hook
some fishing and some story.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
NeU EnrOILees ArriUe
at Portage RiUer Camp.

Seventy EIGHT new enroIlees have been
added to those stationed at the Portage
River camp. A group of IS came Tues
day and SO last week The total num-
Der now at the camp is 100.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
Smith Raises Huge
Pumpkins at Moose Lake

Moose Lake-W. B. Smith, who lives
east of town, claims and is waiting to
prove that he has pumpkins that will
tip the scale at rs pounds or better.
They're SO large" said Smith, lone man
can't carry them from the field-it takes
two, and good men, at that"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
Ask University Farm

Staff members will gladly give
what help they can with regard to
farm problems. Address inquiries
to University Farm, st. Paul.
Here are few questions answered
recently.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19
County GiUes Payroll
for Fourth District.

The labor payroll for the Fourth COM
missioner district for the period, Sept.
1880 totaled $5,6O8, according to figures
received here from County Auditor
Walter H. Bergen.
The materials and service payroll for
the month of September was $5,055.14.
This does not include the purchase of
a new three-ton FWD truck at a cost of
about $4,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-19

The Miner is the Only Newspaper
Interested in Ely and It's People!
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
o 51R%xe POCOMOKE CITY PHARMACY JULY 22I

AT THE LEFT IS THE EXTERIOR VIEW
OF THE NEW PoCoMOKE CITY
PHARMACY
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

AT THE RIGHT rs THE EXTERIOR VIEW
OF STORE BEFORE REMODELING
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Appeal Made
For Life Of
Jail Slayer

Raleigh, May 10.-(AP)-James
Goodwin, who allegedly murdered a
textile worker a few hours after be-
ing released from prison by the jail
or's daughter, was insane when the
Staying occurred, his attorneys ar
gued before the State Supreme
Court today. The lawyers, Thomas
Gold, Thomas Turner, Jr., and John
A. Meyers, all Of High Point, also
asserted that 81 errors were COM
mitted in Godwin's trial in Gull
ford county last October. The
youth was sentenced to be asphy-
xjated at Central Prison here
Only brief mention was made of
Codwin's escape from the Lexing-
ton jail at $3.50 o'clock in the after
noon of October 3. Myers said sim
ply that the defendant and Bill
Wilson, held in the jail on charges
OF robbery with firearms, were Civ
en- the keys to the lookup by Lula
Belle Kimel.
Five or six hours later, in High
Point, Donald Moss was fatally
wounded Turner said the de-
fendant at the time of the killing
was "as abnormal mentally as a
man without arms and legs is alb
normally physically"
Evidence which purported to show
that Goodwin and Wilson command
eered two automobiles shortly after
their escape should not have been
admitted, he added
The court excluded one alleged
confession by Goodwin, Turner ex-
planned, but admitted another
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Methodist
Conference
Nears End
Landon Precipitates
Sharp Debate on War
time conscientious
Objectors"; 7 h r e e
Units Join 100000
Members.

Kansas City, May 1O.-(AP)-The
Methodist Uniting Conference turn
ed to international and social prob
lens today after rejecting a propo-
sal by Alf M. Landon to reconsider
clause of the church creed pledg-
ing support to all members who
"conscienciously object" to military
service
Delegates faced crowded final
day calendar. Tonight they will
complete formation of a single
church of 100000 members from
three branches which have been
separate more than a century.
Landon, 1896 Republican presi-
dental candidate, last night preci-
pitated the sharpest debate of the
two weeks session when he moved to
refer to committee the conscientious
objector clause, along with a reso-
luton proposing the conference op-
pose shipment of munitions to Japan.
The Japanese munitions resolu-
ton, termed by Landon an "unfriend
ly act to sovereign power" had been
referred to committee earlier. The
committee must determine whether
it can be brought back to the floor,
since the Uniting Conference was
empowered only to harmonic the
disciplines of the three churches
the Methodist Episcopal Church
(North), the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and the Methodist
Protestant Church.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Navy Saves
66 People Or
British Ship

Washington, May 10-(AP)-
Admiral Harry Yarnell, Asiatic fleet
commander, reported to the Navy
today the rescue of 66 passengers
and creWmen of the British steam
er Lindenbank, which sank in the
Sulu Sea, Philippine islands
They were taken to Iloilo by the
destroyer Pope. No lives were. lost
and all escaped injury
The Lindenbank sank, Admiral
Yarnell reported, .. in waters 5000
lcet deep at 10 a. m. today g p. m.
eastern standard time last night)
after being freed from reef. The
steamer, operated by the Bank
Line, of London, struck reef on
The south side of Arena island last
hight and a large hole opened III
TIE bow Shortly after midnight the
vessel was refloated and proceeded
on its voyage
Three hours later, the admiral
Sald the Navy received wireless
cal for assistance at Manila, and
he destroyers Peary and Pope were
dispatched to the scene.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Judge Kerr
Fights For
State Fund
Demands Rivers and
Harbors Money for
North Carolina, With
Fifth Largest Shore
Line in Nation; Roose-
welt Again Has Sinus
Trouble

Washington, May 10-(AP)-After
a bitter fight behind closed doors,
the House Appropriation Commit
tee recommended a $255, 1854 ap-
preparation today for non-military
activities of the War Department,
chiefly for river and harbor i'm
provements and flood control. 1t re-
fused, however, to take an addition
al $5O,OOO,OOO for the purpose from
next years relief funds
The military appropriations sub
committee, in charge of the bill, pre-
viously had recommended that an ex-
ira $50,O00,000 be approved, and de-
Quoted from the relief appropriation
when it comes up for consideration
later. This procedure was recon-
mended after administration spokes-
men had said President Roosevelt
was willing to allocate $50,OO0,OO0
from relief funds for flood control
and rivers and harbors work, if pro-
pOnentS of such work agreed not to
boost the total of direct appropria-
tions.
The total finally agreed upon was
$445, $40 below the amount original
ly recommended by the Budget Bu-
reau, but still was $16,O4O,647 in ex-
cess of the current years appropria-
ton for the same purpose.
Other develops:
Roosevelt Has Sinus Trouble.
President Roosevelt stayed away
from his office to doctor a sinus
cold, the third he has had in recent
months. White House officials said it
was not serious, and that the Presi-
dent had no fever.
Representative John H. Kerr,
North Cardinals new member of the
House Appropriations Committee, is
watching out for his State. Publish
ed testimony before the committee
on the War Departments annual
civil functions appropriations bill,
released today, disclosed Kerr want
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, May 1O.-Continuing a
climb checked only once since 1888,
North Cardinals commercial banks
reached new spring peak in total
resources; the States 156 banks
with 113 branches) showing COM
bined resources of $356,205, ,453.24 ac-
cording to the report of Commission
er of Banks Gurney p. Hood, based
on his call of March 20.
This figure has been exceeded but
once at any time in the history OF
the State, resources as Of last De-
cember 81 being some 100000 up,
at $356,589, 1888.
simultaneously with the increase
in resources of commercial banks,
there was a corresponding increase
in resources Of North Carolina's 81
industrial banks to total of $19,3O9,-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Business Is Frightened
Over Thought OF New War

of plain business men that I've OBJ
served treated the subject quite pure
ly as of business interest alone. From
that angle I've heard them discuss it
aplenty, but not with tears in their
voices, and shudders and things. This
time l listened to their Spokesmen
give warning that another world con-
flict will lend civilization as we've
known it''-they fairly threw catfits
at the very idea. I never realized be-
fore that business set so high a value
upon civilization. What's more, 1
don't believe that it used to do so.
Not So Satisfactory.
The fact is, 1 surmise, that the
1914-'18 struggle didn't prove as sat-
isfactory to business as perhaps some
earlier wars did.
Probably there were earlier and
smaller wars which were profitable
to certain groups-not to folk in gen
eral, but to individual businesses,
here and there. Even during 1914-'18
guess there were prefiteers. For
little while after the strife was
over maybe they reckoned that
they'd made pretty good thing out
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Chandler To
Force Mines
To Reopen

Frankfort, KY, May 1O.-(AP)-
Governor Chandler said today that
unless eastern Kentucky coal min
ers were operating by Monday he
would send National Guard troops
into the area to give protection to
men wishing to work.
'There is no dispute between rep
resentatives of the mine union and
the operators with respect to wages,
working hours or working condi-
tions," the governor said. ''The whole
controversy is demand for CLOSED
shops and elimination of penalty
clauses to prohibit illegal strikes
both Of which are aimed at keep
ing American Federation miners
from the mines, and both provisions
ore being insisted upon by John L.
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, and the Go
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Cotton Plan Gets
Farmer Opposition

Washington, May 10.-(AP)-
Spokesman who said they repre-
sented "the little cotton farmers"
sharply protested today a bill
which would shift all cotton trad
ing from the present gross weight
to a net weight basis. Senator
BilbO, Democrat, Mississippi, au-
thor of the measure, who preSid-
ed at hearings of a Senate Agri-
culture sub committee, promised
he "wOuld withdraw the bill if
you can prove it would hurt the
farmers, because I'm one of 'em."
DR.. F. V. Taylor, of Murphy, N.
c., who said he "raised small
cotton crop and baby crop each
year." testified the net weight bill
"wOuld take 100000 a year out
Of the pockets of the cotton far
mer and put it into other pockets" ;"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Coal Group
Seeks Plan
OF Operation

New York, May 10.-(AP)-Soft
coal operators and miners, seeking to
comply With President Roosevelt's
demands that they find by tonight a
way to reopen closed mines in &c
states, studied today a definite for
mula designed to break their long
deadlock.
AS representatives of the two sides
met with federal conciliators after
yesterdays conference with the
President, there was no indication
what the plan was. However, sour
ces close to both groups said they
saw no immediate possibility of a
resumption Of mine operations un-
der tentative agreement.
Dr. John Steelman, director of the
participated in the contract negotia-
tons for several weeks, remained
optimistic that an agreement of some
sort would be reached.
Il think you can reassure the coun-
try he said, "that some settlement
here is under way"
Steelman interpreted Mr.. Roose-
VeIt's demand for a solution by to-
night as a midnight deadline, and
indicated the conferees would remain
IN session almost continuously. Just
before entering the conference room
to reopen negotiations on new con-
tract, one of the conferees' shook his
head sadly and said
"The President sure put the heat
on us yesterday"
He declined to permit use of his
name
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Military Aid From
Russia Asked Onlv
IL Britain Fights
Chamberlain State
ment in Commons In
tended To Clarity Sit
uation to Russians;
Says Soviets Would
Not Be Left Alone

London, May 1O.-(AP)-Prime
Minister Chamberlain told the House
of Commons today that Britain
sought Soviet Russia's promise of
military aid in eastern Europe only
after Britain and France themselves
had taken the field.
Breaking his silence on the gov
crnments security alliance proposals
to remove what he said appeared to
be a misunderstanding of the offer
in Soviet Russia, Chamberlain said
the proposals made plain it was not
a part of their (the British) inten-
tons that the Soviet government
should commit themselves to inter-
Vene irrespective of whether Great
Britain and France had already, in
discharge of their obligations, done
So"
Asked whether, in view of the de-
lay in the negotiations, Foreign Sec
rotary Viscount Halifax would "pro-
ceed to Moscow and have straight
forward discussions" with the new
Soviet Minister Molotoff, the prime
minister replied: 1--WE had better
await reply of the Soviet govern
ment."
Chamberlain sought to allay any
Soviet suspicious that Russia might
be left alone in intervening in be-
half Of smaller states in some cir
cumstances. He said Russia could
make her Intervention contingent on
that of Britain.
RusSia's position in regard to Pol
and or Roumania, to whom Britain
and France already have given sep
arate guarantees, thus would be the
same as in the Soviet-French pact
with the old Czechoslovakia, where
Russia was obligated to aid only if
France did so.