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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
EXPECT 100 AT
FINNISH Meet
Delegates From Range Clubs
Gather Here for Conference
Sunday Afternoon.

From rs to 100 delegates are expected
to attend the August meeting of the
Range American-Ffnnish clubs here
Sunday, George Wolff, a member of the
committee in charge, reports Serving
with Mr.. Volt are Anton Sjoberg and
Oscar Laajala.
An executive committee meeting is
scheduled for p. m, followed by the
regular meeting at 2 o'clock. A lunch
will be served in the evening. A men,
bership drive will be among the business
items coming before the gathering, it
is believed.
Delegates from Ely include v. j.
Thompson, chairman, and Gust A.
Maxi, vice chairman of the local or
ganization.
Delegates will meet in the Community
Center cafeteria.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
POLICE ball
FRIDAY NIGHT
Noted 1O-Piece Orchestra Will
Provide Music for Cops
Annual Dance.

The fifth annual poncemen's ball is
scheduled for the Community Center
auditorium, Friday night, with Don
Victor and his orchestra, one of the
best dance bands ever to come here,
providing the music
The auditorium floor has just been
refinished and this will be the first
dance to be held on it.
When ready to go to work, the band
features an unusually distinctive setup
and has a very attractive appearance.
A feature attraction at the Avalon ball
room, Lacrosse, Wis, the orchestra will
travel here in 40-foot Semi-trailer,
one of the finest and largest of it's
kind in the country. The band has
ten pieces.
Jack Poshak, chairman; Joseph Mark
ovich, and Rudy Banovetz are the
committee in charge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
Ely's 18th Community
Fair is Scheduled Next
Week at Gymnasium,
Expect Record Display of
Domestic Science and
Home Canning.
NAME DISPLAY LIST
st. Louis County Agents
to Judge Entries of
Local Exhibit.

Ely's fifteenth annual community fair
will get under way one week from today
with the receiving of entries at the
Memorial high school gymnasium. Dis
plays will be ready for public inspection
on the day following.
Entries will be received from l to
5 p. m. Persons residing in the Ely
trading territory may make them.
Divisions in which articles may be
entered include domestic science and
sewing, baking, dried and canned goods,
fruits, flowers, garden vegetables, po-
tatoes, stock foods and forage crops.
Ely merchants are being invited to
arrange industrial exhibits on the floor
of the fair.
Prizes, unless otherwise noted, will be
81 for first, rs cents for second, and
so cents for third Special awards,
however, will be made for unusually
noteworthy displays at the discretion
of the judges.
Prize lists may be obtained from
Frank Strukel, fair secretary.
The st. Louis County Club and Farm
Bureau association will again provide a
judge for the fair. Expected to be in
attendance are Miss Elizabeth Spries-
terSbach, county home demonstration
agent, and August Neubauer, agricuI-
tural agent, both of Virginia.
Following is the display list:
Domestic science and sewing Patch,
applique, and afgan quilts, coverau
aprons, handbags, crocheted and en-
broidered guest towels, crocheted and
embroidered luncheon sets, knit nit
tens, crocheted and embroidered pillow
cases, crocheted and embroidered scarfs,
crocheted and embroidered buffet or
vanity sets, sofa pillows, knit sock, knit
or crocheted sweater, fancy apron, girls
and women's tub dress, pajamas, braid
ed, hooked, crocheted and loom hand
made rugs, handmade handkerchief,
child'S outfit up to 4 years, best made
over garment, wall hanging, bath robe.
Baking Bread with yeast), Finnish
coffee, one loaf Boston brown, one
loaf graham, pan raised biscuits, pan
baking powder biscuits, one loaf rye,
one loaf white, potica. Cakes, saffron
buns, light and dark cookies, devils
food, raised and baking powder dough-
nuts, jelly roll, spice or molasseS loaf,
unfrosted sponge cake, fruit cake, I'M
frosted white angel, Lady Baltimore,
torta, Finnish tarts, light colored layer
cake, cake, with recipe. Pies, apple,
berry, pumpkin, pasty.
Dried and canned goods (pintS or
quarts)-Apricots baby beets, beet tops,
collection five varieties of
preserves or jams and jellieS, cauli-
flower, carrots, corn, horse radish, peas,
tomatoes, peaches, pears, plums, rhu-
barb, string beans, tame or wild straw
berries and raspberries.
Pickles Cabbage, carrot, cauliflower,
chow-chow, onions, peppers, sliced TOM
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24

Rautio to Construct Building
on Site Between Theatre
and James Block.

j. G. Penney company, nationally
known dry goods and clothing firm,
will open store here the first week
in December, according to information
given the Miner. Contracts will be
signed this week for the construc-
ton of a building for the company.
1t was also revealed that ten-year
lease was signed with the builder of
the structure about a year ago.
j. N. Rautio, Ely building contractor,
will put up the building for E. C. John
son, Virginia. Work has already started.
1t will be located on East Chapman
street between the Baehr and James
buildings, where foundation was put
in number of years ago for theatre
building that was never completed.
Constructed of brick, it will be SIS
feet wide and 125 feet long. 1t will be
one story in height but will contain
merchandising balcony. A basement
will be put in under the rear half of
the building
The company itself is architect for
the building. It will be completed and
ready for occupancy in about three
months.
Several prominent buildings here have
been constructed by the Ely contracting
firm. They include the Ely Coop
building, Peteis Garage, State Theatre,
and the Zenith power plant building.
1t also constructed the Embarrass No.
10 school. 1t was awarded the contract
for the Suomi-Synod Lutheran church
building several weeks ago.
Only part of the foundation on the
site can be utilized, Mr.. Rautio states,
Part of it must be rebuilt.
Contracts for the plumbing and cleo
trical work will be let next week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
Announce Engagement of
EIyite, Minneapolis Girl.

Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Pielo of Mime
apolis, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Frances, to Joseph A.
Jerich, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Jerich of this city.
The marriage will take place, Sept.
3d. at the All Saints Polish Catholic
church in N. E. Minneapolis.
Miss Pielo has selected Miss Mary
Patricia Jerich, sister of the groom, as
her maid of honor and the Misses
Frances and Amelia Jerich, sisters of
the groom, Miss Jennie Yerich of Aur-
ora, and Miss Virginia Grumek of
Minneapolis as her bridesmaids.
Completing the bridal party will be
Josephine Grumek as flower girl and
Billie Belmont as ringbearer Miss
Josephine Shepel, who is attending the
summer session at the University, will
be the soloist for the occasion.
Several members of the family from
this city will attend the ceremony
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
CELEBRATED BIRTHDAY.

The Forest hotel was the scene of a
family dinner on Sunday in celebration
of the 68th birthday of Mrs. L. Kero at
which all her family was present.
Besides Elmer and Miss Florence,
who are at home with their mother in
this city, were the following: Mrs. F.
j. Sullivan of st. Paul; Mr.. and Mrs.
G. M. Russell and son, Donald, of Min
neapolis; Mrs. A. S. Plummer and son,
Richard, of Elizabethtown, Pennsyl-
vania; Mrs. Leonard Larson and
daughters, Sigrid and Kristin, of
Walkerville,. Ontario.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
Drive Inaugurated to
Obtain Morning Mail
Dispatch From Ely
Tiny Canoeist
On Border rip

What is believed to be the youngest
canoeiSt ever to embark on a trip into
Hunters Island left here Monday for
a two-week's trek into the Kahnipimin-
anikok country.
She is five-months-old Ruth Moore,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Moore,
Livingston, N. j.
AT an age when most youngsters are
padding around in a wash bowl on
the kitchen table at home, tiny Ruth
will be padding along over a route
taken by many hard-bitten voyageur,
who along about $50 years ago, kept one
eye open for furs and the other for
hostile Indians.
Striking out from the headquarters
Of the Wilderness Outfitters here, they
went to Eastwood lake and then by
canoe up through Alice lake into the
'Kahnipi" territory. Veterans of many
an excursion into the wilderness
country, Mr.. and Mrs. Moore weren't
to be deprived Of their annual vacation
this year because of the baby-so they
bundled her up and brought her along
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
Prominent Men Visit
Here on Vacation Trips

party. They went to Eastwood lodge
of the wilderness Outftters, and ex-
pected to return last night.
L. Lampert, Jr., st. Paul, president
of the Lampert Lumber company, ar
rived here Monday for three-day trip
with a group of friends on one of Jacob
L. Pete's cabin boats on Eastwood lake.
w. M. Quirk, st. Paul, vice president
of the company, will head another party
expected to come in today for a four
day cabin boat vacation.
Two parties ended cabin-boat excus-
sions Saturday. One was headed by W.
L. Cozzens, head of a Chicago book
publishing firm, and another included
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Bagot and Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Fox, st. Louis
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24

Lake trout fingerlings planted in Eastwood
lake recently, received an airplane ride to the
spot in ship piloted by William "Bill Leithold.
Several cans of the fish were dumped together
in order to take as many as possible Mortality
rate of the fingerlings when transported to the
site by boat is comparatively high, but they sur
vived the short plane trip remarkably we'll
The trip was arranged by Ray Hoefler Sec
rotary of the Ely Commercial Club, who accom-
panied Leithold, as a demonstration of the posi-
bilities involved in planting fish fry in remote
lakes. The top picture shows the ship as it is
being loaded on Shagawa lake, and in the one
to the left, Lethold is dumping cream can of
fingerlings into Eastwood lake.
Pictures Courtesy Minneapolis Star Journal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
On This
Occasion
A Few Observations on Matters
Material and Immaterial by
the Editor.

Our old friend, Charley
Cheney, a member of the Min
nesota Editorial association for
the past 38 years, writes that
he is now with the Times
Tribune, the new Minneapolis
Evening newspaper. Charley's
column is treat to the reader
and will be equally so whether
he is on the Journal or the new
paper. Here's success.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
Nationally Knovn Men
To be Here Labor Day

held at the ball park at p. m. to in
augurate the afternoon program.
The feature sports attraction of the
day will bring the Hibbing and Ely
baseball teams together at 2:30 o.
clock. A tug-of-war between team
members is also being arranged. The
Ely junior band will provide music at
the ball park
At 6 o'clock the city championship
diamond ball team will tangle with a
team of all-Stars composed of two
players from each league team. A little
German band will provide music.
A celebration viii end with dance
in the Community Center auditorium
with Frank Kromar's orchestra playing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
Ely Girl Married to
Bemidji Man at Virginia

Miss Marian Hytonen, operator in
the Vermilion Beauty Parlor in the
James Block, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Onni Hytonen of Deer. River, and
Godfred A Pearson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Kvanvig of Bemidji, were
united in marriage at Virginia by the
Rev. B. j. Rothnem on Saturday, Aug
ust II. The couple will make their
home in this city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24

A movement is on foot to
erect a great memorial to the
famous Drs. Mayo at Rochester.
The suggestion has been made,
and it is a good one, that the
memorial take on the nature of
a hospital. 1t has also been
suggested that the hospital be
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24

Your per capita share of the
public debt on August a, was
$313.29. This is some debt in
addition to our local city debt
for each of our nearly 1000
people. The end is not in
sight.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24

New Deal Spend Yourself
Prosperous Theory" Born,
April 1888. Kept alive by re-
peated "shots in the arm" dur
ing 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887 and
1888. Died, August 1, 1910.
Funeral, November 1910.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
DULUTH PAPERS
MUM AS CLANS
Musical Groups at Sundays
Professional Football Game
Failed to be Mentioned.

''The best and most attractive feature
of Sundays football classic was the
work of the Ely Drum and Bugle corps
said a letter received here Tuesday
from a Duluth banker.
The Ely corps left for Duluth, Sun
day morning and gave one of its snappy
exhibition drills on Ordean field be-
tween halves of the Minnesota Reds
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
ON BUYING TRIP.

Mrs. Mamie Riikola went to Mime
apolis, Monday to visit the markets in
quest of fall and winter merchandise
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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-01-13
AFRICAN PEOPLE,
Continued from pare on.l

Continued from page one)
treatment Of Jews within the same
country which now demands TO be
given rule over Djibouti and Tunis
should serve as a warning signal and
as handwriting on the wall to the
native peoples of those fascist
threatened colonies.
That the danger of their falling
under fascist rule is real may be
seen in the fact that fascist Italy
has massed on the Tunis-Libyan
border an army Of almost 100000
men. And the governor-general Of
Libya, Balbo, former axeman Of
Mussolini III Abyssinia, recently de-
clared in the fascist newspaper,
'Gazeta del Popolo,' that .'ali Of
the central basin Of the Mediter-
ranean sea will be Italian, not only
formally, but in reality. It is easy
to foresee to what after effects this
will leadp
The attitude Of the French people,
as distinguished from that of the
reactionary French ruling circles,
concerning the handing over to the
tender mercies Of Hitler Germany
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-01-13

Britannica for his fathering the
blues.
Slowly it dawned on him the
music that went best was mournful
and repetitious, akin to the way
Negroes had long sung their troubles.
At his fathers church he had heard
kind Of music that was evolved
from the bondage Of another day,
soft and low on the gentle breeze
from cotton field and cabins, over
swamps and meadows Such as that
clear sweet melody Of the Negro's
hope and depression
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows but Jesus
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Glory! Halleluiah!
IT was strange enthralling blend
Of angaished ecstasy, reflecting as
d mirror, the Negro soul, responsive
to the ruin aud romance of slavery.
Most of the Handy output con-
tains this emotional fervor in i
happier vein. Yet, as he complains,
They don't seem to want to hear
anything else from my pen since st.
Louis Blues, when truth Is, when
compared with ST Louis Blues, some
Of my other numbers, Harlem Blues
and East st. Louis Blues, for ex-
ample, have been neglected far
more than they deserve to be. !" That
Mr.. Handy isn't the only one to
share this opinion, cite Mr.. John
Whitaker, writing for a New York
paper some ten years back, He said /:
4.Jot on paper the titles of the blues
you like best. You may find as | did
that the list are all Iandy's. He
wrote the Memphis Blues, st. Louis
Blues, Aunt Hagar's Blues, Hesitat-
ing Blues, and 50 many more you
marvel how the quality should have
kept pace with the output.
Other novel accomplishment of
which Mr.. Handy is exceptionally
proud are 4 recently published col
lection Of eleven of his best known
+, and standard blues arranged by
John Martell for the Hawaiian gui.
tar: d book Of work songs by Rose
mond Johnson titled DE Chain
| Gang" that was highly eStolled BY
Sigmund Spaeth; and a book fol
trumpet or bugle for American
Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, edit
ed by A. Jack Thomas, wherein the
author has invented method by
which the bugle with no valves will
produce all the notes common to the
trumpet with valves.
Strange to relate Mr.. Handy is
doing a bigger business out Of
America than he is here. Example:
a recent Down Beat ed brought an
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-01-13
BISHOP DEMBY, AMERICAS
FIRST NEGRO EPISCOPAL
PRELATE, PLANS RETIREMENT

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7 lANP)
After long and distinguished SER
vice in the Southwest Province
which includes the dioceses of Ar
kansas, Texas, Kansas, Missouri,
oklahoma and New MeXico-cover-
ing 100000 square miles of terri
tory--the Rt. Rev. Edward Thomas
Demby, Episcopal Bishop Sutflagan
and the first Of his race to reach
this office in the United States, will
retire in February.
The venerable churchman last
Sunday concluded his final tour of
his district at a meeting conducted
by st. Augustine's church. Still
active and vigorous, the Bishop said
his retirement would not be COM
plete and he is considering offers to
conduct lecture courses at several
schools. Bishop Demby prepared
for the priesthood IN Denver at st.
Mathews hall.
After his ordination as deacon,
he went to Tennessee and became
successively a priest, arch deacon
and bishop. Other colored Episco-
palians have been elevated to the
bishopric, but they were assigned
to Haiti and Liberia. Bishop Demby
was the first to be 50 honored in
this country.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-01-13
Gaines Reaction

1t has been interesting to observe
the reaction of various groups in
American life to the Supreme Court
decision in the Gaines case. The
daily newspapers of Missouri at first
tried to discount the edict, but the
serious implications were recogniz-
ed when the State of Missouri ap-
Piled for rehearing Of the case in
Washington, which was promptly
denied.
In the South we find the various
white leaders bringing up the sup
posed barriers to fulfilling the terms
ox the new ruling. The cost Of
giving Negroes graduate education
al privileges equal to those Of other
citizens within a state is the most
frequently mentioned factor. A
few Southerners are brave enough
to come out and say it might be all
right to admit Negroes to the regu-
larly established State Universities
for their graduate work.
Negro leaders of the South have
uniformly backed the Gaines pro-
nouncement This is encouraging,
for it shows that equal rights under
the law is still the ideal Of Negroes
! themselves, in spite of the pussy
footing that is sometimes necessary
to get money for certain worthy
causes in the South.
The Commonwealth Of New York,
] representing the high Catholic
viewpoint, says: Missouri, which is
an enlightened and progressive
state. may now take the wholly right
1 course Of throwing open her state
university doors to her colored citi-
zens VINO prove themselves entitled
by prevailing standards to the edu-
cation given there.
4 But it remains for the Interracial
Review Of New York to give the ag
1 gressive Catholic attitude. This
magazine, which led the fight OF
Catholic schools of higher learning
themselves to open their doors tx
! Negro students, says:
/ @The Interraeial Review is hope
full that this decision will be reae
and carefully studied BY the admin
istrative heads Of Catholic colleges
throughout America, particularly b
those who have not yet seen fit tt
admit the Catholic Negro student
We do not contend that this decision
is in any way binding upon private
" maintained institutions. How
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-01-13
SORORITY LEADER URGES
GIRLS TO TAKE HIGHER
BUSINESS TRAINING

CHICAGO, Jan. Z (ANP) Writ
ing in the current9issue of the Apex
News, beauty culture publication,
Mrs. Lola NJ. Parker, national presi-
dent Iota Phi Lambda sorority de-
clared that there are opportunities
higher business training
for Negro girls who take courses in
She showed the many opportunities
for employment open to women,
qualified through commercial train
ing, pointed out the fields in which
women may seek higher positions.
ing in business administration she
Urging young women To seek train
said that while the other professions
felnain essential to our welfare.
sheiE waiting lists are crowded with
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-01-13

shook in their gravesfor young
Handy was the son and grandson
OF Methodist Episcopalian ministers,
and everyone knew in 1898 that
popular music was by no means
d respectable profession.
Today w. G. Handy is recognized
as a musician, colnetist, composer,
and band leader, and is popularly
known as the Father of the Blues.
In 1913 he founded the Pace &
Handy Music Co. In 1921 he be-
came treasurer of Handy Bros. Mu
Sic Co, and still fills that position.
He is the composer Of Memphis
Blues st Louis Blues" ''Pasa-
dena," Birth Of Jazz" and more
than 40 other songs published by
Pace & Handy or BY Handy Bros.
Left School for Pipe Works.
At 10. Handy was a school teach
er. A year later, he began work at
the Harrison Pipe Works in Bess-
mer, Ala, at S1.85 day-which
was more money than he could
make teaching school. AS a minsi-
ter's son, he knew that people con-
sidered being a musician a disgrace.
But young Handy liked nothing so
well as his battered cornet and a
bit of close harmony with the boys
on the street. He was taking les
sons on the cornet and other instru-
ments when he got through his
days work at the pipe works. In
1893 he organized a quartet-and
when they heard Of the Worlds
Fair, they hoped freight to Chi
cago. There they remained iobless,
until they decided to work their
way south.
But Handy's ambition. persisted.
Until 1900, he travelled with one
band and another giving concerts
throughout the United States, Mex
leo, Cuba and Canada.
From 1900 to 1903, Handy was
teacher Of music at A & M Normal
College, Huntsville, Ala. BY 1908
he had a nine-pieee band of his own,
went around playing for dances. In
1905 he was in Memphis with band
for which he made all the arrange
ments. AS early as 1909 he was
using a saxaphone in his orchestra.
At this time he had 55 musicians
working for him. Curiously enough,
it was as . hobo that he actually
started the musical career that earn
ed him mention in Encyclopedia
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-01-13
Subscription Rssss
N A I 10 N AL
NEWS BRIEFS
SIERRA LEONE ELECTS
FIRST WOMAN COUNCILLOR
I'M BRITISH WEST AFRICA"

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, W.
Africa, Jan. (ANP)- feature
of the recent Municipal elections
held here was the success at the polls
Of Mrs. Constance Cummings-John,
brilliant candidate Of the Youth
league, who, representing the Cen
trail Ward in the Town Council thus
becomes "the first woman Councillor
in British West Africa. :
Mrs. Cummings John, new leader
Of the native women here, was Miss
Elsie Horton before her marriage
to Mr.. Ethan Cummings John, who
for many years served ereditably
here as Barrister-at-law The new
Councillor was educated IN America
and took advanced training IN
England.