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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-10
Fifty Years Ago
From Issue of August 6, 1889.

John Horkey, the Tower harness
maker, was here Saturday on business.
'*"Mr. and Mrs. A. j. DeTourville have
been out of town for several days this
week. *+*A. S. James residence on
Sheridan street is about completed and
he will move in this week. *++Capt. and
Mrs. Harvey have left for home after
a three weeks visit with their nephew,
Fred B. James. The Rev. Freeman will
preach his farewell sermon next Sun
day.
The Chandler stockpiles have been
sent out and number of men have
been laid off or transferred to under
ground work. ***G H. Warren has re-
turned from visit in Minneapolis.
He is drilling the Capt. Bozemans
property. ***The contract for grading
Harvey Street has been let to Thos.
Nelson for $840 The latest public i'm
provement is the sidewalk on First
Avenue between Sheridan and Chap
man streets.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Hoover of 64-13 were
in town this week. Mrs. Hoover is con-
Quoting school for II pupils at the
claim Frank Hodge now occupies his
new place of business at the corner of
Second Avenue and Sheridan Street.
***The council has let the contract for
laying the water pipes for $780, Some
of the taxpayers are wondering why
the contract was not let for 5000 when
tho ODr,ort1,Y,itx, moo ,,racoptod co,,aro I
weeks ago.
Capt. Morcom and D. T. Denton have
returned from Cuba where they were
opening mine for the Minnesota Iron
company. No ore can be shipped from
the new workings until a railroad has
been built and a breakwater con-
structed. The railroad will be built
3R miles from the mines. This work
will require 2 years ***The Chandler
mine is making a splendid record as
a producer this season considering it
had only one forty to work on. The
mine has shipped 1850 tons up to
August 8. Two grades of ore are being
shipped, Chandler and Long Lake.
l.. A. Marsell, who opened up a stock
of alleged dry goods few days ago has
returned to Tower. The quality of
goods carried by the Ely merchants
made the sale of the Tower shop-worn
stuff unsaleable. ***A special school
meeting held Saturday was for the
purpose of bonding the district for 5000
payable in ten years. The meeting was
only slightly attended. The bonds were
for the purpose of building the second
story of the present building. The work
will be completed for the opening of
the fall term.
The D. & I. r. will run special train
to Duluth from Ely and Tower for the
4-Paw and Wild West circus on August
9.***The fire department met for the
first time since the Fourth of July,
Saturday. G. A. Goldsborough resigned
as treasurer and j. A. Cleveland was
elected to fill the vacancy. George
Holmes was accepted as new member.
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ORDER FOR HEARING ON FINAL
ACCOUNT AND PETITION FOR
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ESTATE.
State of Minnesota, County of st.
LouiS-SS.

State of Minnesota, County of st.
LouiS-SS.
IN PROBATE COURT
(No. 32566)
In the Matter of the Estate of Thomas
Erkkila, Decedent.
1t Is Ordered that the petition for
settlement and allowance of the final
account filed herein by Sulo Erkkila,
as representative of the estate of said
decedent, and for the assignment of the
residue of said estate to the persons
entitled thereto, be heard before this
Court on Monday, August 21st, 1889, at
ten o'clock A. M, in the Probate Court
Room in the Court House in Duluth,
Minnesota, and that all persons inter-
ested then show cause, if any they
have, why such petition should not be
granted.
Witness the HON. VIM. j. ARCHER,
Judge of Probate Court, this Goth
day of July, 1889.
Sheldon Watts, Clerk of Probate.
(Seal of Probate Court
Peter MoScatelli, Attorney for Petit
toner, Ely, Minnesota. 7-27 8-10
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CALL FOR BIDS
FOR STADIUM, FIELD LIGHTING
AND FRESH AIR INTAKE
Independent School District No. IL
EIy Minnesota

Independent School District No. IL
Ely, Minnesota
Sealed bids will be received by Anton
F. Kotchevar, Clerk of the Board of
Education, Independent School District
No. IL, Ely, st. Louis County, Minnesota,
up to seven-thirty p. NJ, August 18th,
1899, at the Office of the Clerk, Board
of Education, Ely, st. Louis County,
Minnesota, for the erection and COM
pletion of steel stadium, field lighting,
and fresh air intake in the old high
school.
All materials and labor to conform to
plans and specifications as prepared by
j. G. Taylor, Architect, 9O2 Minnesota
Street, Hibbing, Minnesota.
Copies of said plans and specifications
may be obtained at the office of the
Architect, 902 Minnesota Street, Hib-
bling, Minnesota, upon deposit of $500.
Deposit will be returned provided plans
are returned within five days after bids
are opened; otherwise a sufficient
amount will be retained to defray the
expense of replacing same.
All bids must be made in strict ac-
cordance with plans and specifications
and submitted on contractors stationery
in the same form as indicated in speci-
fications.
Bids must be sealed in envelopes adj
dressed to the Clerk, Independent School
District No. II, Ely, st. Louis County
Minnesota, and marked on the outside:
IBID for Steel Stadium"
IBID for Field Lighting"
bid for Fresh Air Intake"
All bids must be accompanied by
certified check for 1919 of the amount
of the bid, made payable to John
Dragavon, Treas, Independent School
District No. IL, Ely, st. Louis County,
Minnesota, as a guarantee that the
bidder, if awarded the contract, will
enter into same and furnish a salts
factory bond in its full amount.
The Board reserves the right to ac-
cept the lowest responsible bid or reject |
any or all bids.
Dated at Ely, st. Louis County, Min
nesota, this Goth day of July, 1899.
ANTON F. KOTCHEVAR,
Clerk, Independent School District
No. Il, Ely, st. Louis County, MINI.
7-27 8-3
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NOTICE FOR BIDS
Ely, Minnesota, August 2, 1889.
Office of the City Clerk

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That
sealed proposals, or bids, will be re-
ceived in the Office of the City Clerk of
the City of Ely, st. Louis County, Min
nesota up to seven-thirty G::3O) o'clock
P. M, Tuesday, August IS, 1899, for
the furnishing of electric current to
the City of Ely, Minnesota for five
year period and ten year period COM
mencing not later than the First day
of April, 1910, in accordance with speci-
fications therefor on file in the Office
of the City Clerk.
Copies of specifications may be OBJ
tanned from the City Clerk upon APP
plication.
Each bidder shall accompany his pre-
poSal with certified check in the
amount of Five Thousand Dollars
($5,0O0O0), made payable to the City
Treasurer. Check to be drawn on some
National or State bank duly authorized
to do business in the State of Mime
Sota
Check of the successful bidder shall
be held until contract is signed. Al,
other checks shall be returned within
ten days from date the contract is
signed.
If successful bidder to whom this
contract is awarded fails to sign con-
tract within ten days after being award
ed the contract, said deposit shall be
forfeited to the City of Ely, Mime
sofa, who shall then proceed to award
the contract to other bidders.
All bids shall be addressed to the
City Clerk, City of Ely, Minnesota and
marked plainly on the outside of the
envelope IBID for Electric Current"
The City Council of the City of Ely
Minnesota, reserves the right to reject
any and all bids and to waive any de-
fects or informalities in any proposal.
BY order of the City Council of
the City of Ely, Minnesota
A. 0. KNUTSON,
0-3 8-lO City Clerk.
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nn1YATr DArT Into the Files
LOOxAxlV0 DAWN of The Miner

tax monies from County Auditor Odin
Halden The school district received
SAL ,926.28.
Owing to the European war, the in
terchange Of money orders between
Austria, Belgium and the Sudan has
been discontinued. The parcel post
service to France and Germany also
has been discontinued.
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Ely Has Good Chance at
Second Place in League
Fourth District May Get
Brush Cutting Project.

A brush and weed cutting project on
the right-of-ways of county highways
in the Fourth district will be inaug-
urated If an appropriation can be OBJ
tanned to finance the work.
Jacob L. Pete, Fourth district COM
missioner, will make request for such
an appropriation at the meeting of the
county commissioners being conducted
in Duluth this week.
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Ely S, Calumet 4.
Keewatin 8, Chisholm 2.
Virginia 10, Taconite 8.
Eveleth IA, Bull 5.
NEXT SUNDAYS SCHEDULE.
Buhl at Ely.
Eveleth at Virginia.
Keewatin at Calumet.
Taconite at Chisholm.
Keewatin's defeat of the Chisholm
White Sox, 81, Sunday made nice
kettle of fish out of the league race
which until that time apparently was
going along just about as Chisholm
wanted it to.
If Chisholm had won, the league
title unquestionably would have gone
along with the game, but now both
Eveleth and Keewatin have a chance
at the title or share in it.
The postponed game between Kee-
watin and Chisholm that remains to be
played will be day of reckoning OF
much more Importance than it appear
ed to be at the time it was rained out
at Chisholm June Is.
Ely's position in the picture has
bright hue, but probably the best that
the local club can get is third or a
share of second place, but it has an
outside chance of sharing the league
title with one or more clubs.
There are a dozen or more ways of
figlEing a possible outcome at the end
of league play, but only the logical ones
will be computed here.
Chisholm should whip Taconite SUM-
day and Calumet the following week
to end the season, with the exception
of the postponed game with Keewatin,
with 10 wins and defeats. Ely should
also dispose of Bull and Taconite, al
though the latter may give it some
trouble, for a total of 9 wins and 5
defeats
Now comes the veleth-Keewatin
schedules. The Hilltoppers should turn
back Virginia Sunday, although they
may have whale of time doing it,
and Keewatin should dump Calumet.
The following week the au-important
struggle between Keewatin and Eve
leth, on the latter's diamond, will fea-
ture the windup of the regular league
season.
If Keewatin wins it will go into the
Chisholm game with wins and de-
feats, as compared with the White
Sox's 10 and 3, with undisputed pos
session of the league title at state A
victory for the Kings would tie it up
at 10 and for both. Eveleth and Ely
would share second place with wins
and losses.
If Chisholm turns back Keewatin,
it will take the title and the latter will
share second place with Eveleth and
Ely.
Returning to that Eveleth-Keewatin
headliner, if the Hilltoppers win, they
will end the season with a 10 and 4
record, and Keewatin with and S,
as compared with Chosholm's 10 and
8. Then if the White Sox drop the
game with the Kings, the former will
share the title with Eveleth, both hay
ing 10 and 4. Ely and the Kings will
split second place honors with 8 and S.
However, if Chisholm wins the post
poned game, it will annex the title with
it, Eveleth will get second, Ely third,
and Keewatin fourth.
These are few of the more logical
ways for the season to end. You can
spend whole evening figuring out the
rest of them.
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GOV. STASSEN
CONTINUED from Page One)

bring along from their countries the
arts and their love of music, free to
adopt things from their neighborS
(here), free to build their churches
and schools. That is what has made
Minnesota and the United States great
today"
Mayor Bern Lambert first appeared
before the audience, after General
Chairman zbasnik had explained the
reason for the observance, and well
coined the delegates and outsiders to
the city. He expressed the hope that
the next convention would be con-
Quoted here.
He was followed by Anton j. Ter
bovec, Cleveland, editor of Nova Doba,
official organ Of the union, who spoke
in Slovenian; F. E. Vranichar, who
spoke in English, and Louis Adamic,
Milford, N. j., noted writer and lee
turer of the Slav race. They were fol-
lowed by the governor. Seated on the
speaking platform were members of
the reception committee.
In the evening one of three dances
conducted during the convention was
held at Sandy Point. Friday night
athletic conference delegates were
honored at a dance in the Community
Center auditorium and Saturday even
ing the municipal band played for a
street dance on First avenue opposite
the Forest hotel.
Albert Adamich, Joliet, H., was
chosen chairman of the juvenile con-
vention at it's business session, Friday
morning. Other officers include Leon
ard Perushek, Ely, Louis Kuznik, Ex-
port, Pa, Miss Angelina Yakopich,
Helper, Utah, and Miss Mary Petritz,
Butte, Mont, vice chairmen; Miss Helen
Okoren, Denver, Colo, secretary; Miss
Elsie Desmond, Cleveland, and Miss
Marie Stimac, Roundup, Mont, record
ing secretaries; Louis Smith, East Hell
ena, Mont, chairman of the credentials
committee; Miss RoSeline Mantel, Ely,
chairman of the resolutions committee,
and James Klobuchar, Ely, sergeant-at-
arms.
Mr.. Adamic spoke to the convention
Athletic conference officers, named
Saturday morning, include: Stanley
Prozar, Strabane, Pa. chairman; Joseph
Kovach, Ely, vice chairman; Miss Ann
Prosen, Cleveland, and Emil Zebre,
Kemmerer, Wyo., recording secretaries;
Joseph Milkovich, Ely, secretary; John
F. Kardell, Cleveland, chairman of the
credentials committee; Frank Tomsich,
Jr, Ely, chairman of the resolutions
committee, and Klobuchar, honorary
Sergenat-at-armS
Stanley Pechaver was made chairman
Of the publicity committee for the
juvenile department. Mr. Zbasnik, who
has had the title of father of the
juvenile convention, was also given the
title of father of the athletic con-
ference.
A large crowd gathered at the depot
Thursday afternoon to welcome the
delegates to Ely. Miss Desmond and
Miss Okoren, first off the special coach
attached to the regular passenger, pre-
Sented Mr.. Zbasnik with a bouquet
which bore card on which was
written: Greetings, Mr. Zbasnik, father
of the juvenile convention. We are
glad to be back" Led by the Ely
Junior band, the delegates marched to
the S. S. G. U. Office
Friday afternoon they visited the
Indian reservation at Tower where the
braves staged war dance for their
entertainment. An excursion on Lake
Vermilion was made
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-10
TO COMPLETE OILING WORK.

Oiling of nine miles of county high
way No. 26 south of Tower and two
miles of No. "a northeast of Cook, will
start this week, according to John T.
Richards, superintendent for the Fourth
district. Scheduled for some time ago,
the work was held up because of the
delay in obtaining oil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-10
CEMENT DEMONSTRATION.

Carl Widseth of the Portland Cement
association will put on a series of
demonstrations for the All clubs of the
county There are trips to the State
Fair to the individual club members
who put on the best demonstrations
showing how to use cement in making
something pertaining to their project
or club activity. The All members in
tending to attend these demonstrations
are asked to go to Eshquaguma to-
morrow to attend the school at 1870.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-10
Naming of Patron Saints

In the old Norman French village
OF Vaucelles the Fifteenth-century
choir of the church named its pa
tron saints very democratically, for
here are statues to Monsieur Saint
Paul, Monsieur Saint Pierre, Ma
dame Sainte Anne, and others.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-10

India Once Diamond Center
India was for centuries the chief
source of diamonds, then Brazil,
and at present South Africa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-10

Women Have Most Hair
Women normally have more hair
on their heads than men and
blondes more than brunettes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-10

The Miner is the Only Newspaper
Interested in Ely and Its People!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-10
BASEBALL

Continued from Page One)
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Keewatin's Defeat of Chisholm
Makes Race for Top Berths
Wide Open Affair.
STANDINGS.
SUNDAYS SCORES.

SUNDAYS SCORES.
Ely S, Calumet 4.
Keewatin 8, Chisholm 2.
Virginia 10, Taconite 8.
Eveleth IA, Bull 5.
NEXT SUNDAYS SCHEDULE.
Bull at Ely.
Eveleth at Virginia.
Xaeuatin of Calumet
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
Charges States Shirk
Relief RESPONSIBILITIES

Mayor Hoan appeared to believe
that some of the states were, and
are, shirking their responsibilities.
1t is so easy to come to Washington
and tell congressional committee
that ''our people are destitute and
we have no money to care for
them" Aside from the mayors be-
lief, it ought to be observed that
the mayors and the governors are
prone to think only of how much
money they can pay out without hav-
ing to assess their own taxpayers
for it. They are not to be concerned
with federal policy in relief mat
ters, and they are all too willing to
avoid references to their own re-
sponsibility. They apparently have
a new slogan: Pull Uncle Sans
leg"
Another mayor was around town
at the same time that Mayor Hoan
was here. He was Mayor LaGuardia
of New York. Nobody seems to know
exactly where "the Little Flower"
should be catalogued, politically. He
once was a member of congress as
a RepU 2lican. That is, he was
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
PEOPLE:
Brinkmann Finale

Germany's complex, unorthodox,
infationary financial situation is
enough to make any banker bite his
fingernails. When DR.. Hjalmar
Schacht was removed from the
Reichsbank presidency last winter.
Adolf Hitler named DIR. Rudolf
Brinkmann as his successor. Last
February Banker Brinkmann was
repeatedly found lighting cigarettes
with 50-mark $500 bills, suffering
complete nervous breakdown. Civ
en- a leave of absence, Herr Brink
mann still did not recover and has
now been retired permanently.
q Named governor general of Puerto
Rico to succeed retiring Blanton
Winship, Admiral william ID. Leahy,
64-year-old retiring chief of naval
operations.
q When Germany seized Austria,
Baron Eugene de Rothschild of the
international banking family fed to
France. Less fortunate was his
brother, Baron Louis de Rothschild,
who in midMay was en- route to ex-
lie after IA months incarceration at
Vienna's Hotel Metropole where he
had been held for reported $40, ,000,-
600 ransom"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
TAXATION:
Rehash

No. l surprise Of this seasons
economy minded congress is that
the senate should vote 81, 2l0, 666, 600
for farm purposes. To the White
House-not economy minded-this
was also a surprise, so much that
administration pressure will proba-
bly, make congress buy its farm
appropriation by sitting all summer
to figure out new taxes. Reason:
The President charges congress
broke its promise not to vote any
special appropriations without pro-
viding new taxes to meet the cost.
Last years parity payments Of $212,-
900, 900 compared with the senate's
current S225, ,000 000) were voted un-
der similar circumstances and left
big hole in Mr.. Roosevelt's budget.
Capitol Hills. two major tax fig
ures are Mississippi's Sen. Pat Har-
rison, chairman of the upper house
finance committee, and North Caro-
lina's Rep. Robert Doughton, whose
ways and means committee must
originate all tax legislation. Cen
orally speaking they agree with the
President on one fundamental: That
levies on low incomes shall not be
raised. They therefore agree also
that any tax revision this session
must be merely rehash Of present
hro
is another White House principle,
that government income must not
be lowered. But congress, having
invited deficit with its farm bill, has
little choice. Revenue can hardly
be lowered now.
With several weeks debate still
ahead if tax revision comes this ses-
sion Git should, because corporate
taxes yielding $1,000, 900, 900 expire
next December) some solution like
this is possible: Abandonment of the
undistributed profits tax and reten-
ton Of capital stock and excess prof
its levies; creation of fat 18 per
cent corporate levy instead of one
varying, as at present, from 1914 to
l9 per cent; lower rates for corpora
tions making $25,000 or less. Pro-
ponents expect the rehash would
touch business for $4,000, 900 a year
more than at present-not much in
actual cost but lot in principle
when next years election is consid-
cred.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
NAVY:
Beef Ste1U

Fresh Argentine beef is barred
from the u. S. by sanitary regula-
tions, which is one major reason
why Argentina disrupted the Pan
American conference at Lima last
December. But canned beef C'Wil-
ly'D is not barred. President Roose-
welt made news recently by asking
congress to permit the navy to buy
its canned beef from Argentina at
IS cents a pound. cents less than
American beef. Moreover, he said,
the Argentine product is better.
At Buenos Aires, Argentine For
eign Minister Jose Cantilo thought
Mr.. Roosevelts taste for South
American beef was "a fine gesture
which may become an important
precedent in friendly relations be-
tween the two countries" But at
Washington congress tremendous
ly conscious Of the farm vote thought
otherwise. Discovering a cause
ceiebre, Illinois Rep. Leo Allen
raised visions of congressman
smacking their lips over a beef-tast-
ing contest. Said he: MANY of us
believe American beef has no su-
perior. For that reason am offer
ing a resolution for a committee Of
five to investigate and determine
whether Argentine beef is better"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
POLITICS:
Early RumblingS

. From coast to coast extend the
great rural regions whose political
power has been recognized too late
by many an office seeker. More vo-
cal, more government-minded than
their apathetic city cousins, Ameri-
cas- small towns and farms write
three-fourths of all letters to con-
gressmen. They vent an opinion
readily on such matters as those
destined to determine 1940s elec-
ton, namely: ID foreign policy, and
% agriculture, as related to the U.
S. economic. labor and relief prob
lens.
. In 1888 serious Democratic re-
verses in farm states gave rise to
Republican hope: That the nations
midland vote pool will go G. o. P. in
1910. A Gallup poll recently con-
firmed it, giving Democratic hope
fuls the jitters and forcing prema-
ture rumblings of next years cam
paign. Nobody yet knows whether
President Roosevelt will run again
(3l per cent Of u. S. voters would
approve IT'D but this month three