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The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
LIST Delivery
TINE OF mail
Hours Ely Dispatches Arrive
in Duluth, Twin Cities and
Chicago Given.

Delivery time of Ely mail in Duluth,
st. Paul and Chicago, has been received
by Secretary Ray Hoefler of the Ely
Commercial club from N. DeForest,
Duluth, chief clerk of the railway mail
service.
The first dispatch from Ely, closing
at the postoffice at 1:3O p. m. and
going out on the afternoon D. M. &
I. R. passenger, arrives in Duluth at
$50 o'clock and is delivered on the
first delivery next morning.
1t arrives in st. Paul at 5:55 a. m. the
next morning and is delivered there on
the first delivery. 1t reaches Chicago
at $40 a. m. and goes out on the Sec
ond delivery
The. second dispatch from Ely, closing
at $3.50 p. m. and going out on the
star carrier, arrives in Duluth at 11:2O
p. m, and is delivered in Duluth next
morning on the first delivery.
The Twin City portion of the dis
patch reached ST. Paul at 5:55 a. m. and
is distributed on the first morning de-
livery. Chicago mail arrives in the
Windy City at 2:55 p. m and is de-
livered that afternoon.
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
.2LETTERMEN
ON swim TEAM
Coach Haapaniemi Has Tough
Job Ahead; Talented 9TH
Grader Gets Berth.

Swimming practice for aspirantS to
berths on the Ely high school boys
team got under way in earnest this
week with the first inter-team meet
being held Wednesday afternoon.
Coach Edmond M Haapaniemi, start
ing his first season as head of the
boys team, has only two lettermen on
deck from last year around which to
build his club. They are Captain Joe
Atkins, back stroker, and Albin Markun,
diver and crawl swimmer. Both, how
ever, were consistent point getters for
Coach Max Herseth, Atkins winning one
first, seven seconds and three thirds in
dual meets and Markun, topped only by
Ed Klun in total points, with three
firsts, two seconds, and four thirds.
Newcomers on the squad, some of
whom saw service year ago, include
Frank Mavetz, Louis Roman, David
Goulet, Bernard Jerich and Clarence
Cardew, dash men; William Herranen,
James Saari, Harold Koski and Melvin
Ivonen, distance swimmers; Bruce Carl
son, back stroker; Wayne Bolitho, Mar
vim Buskala, Al Pechaver and Louis
Bryant, breast, and Raymond Berglund,
diver. Buskala is also being groomed
as diver.
Klun, Douglas Nankervis, Captain
William Carlson, John Zaic, Paul Hen
erickson, and Ellwood Lindholm, main
stays on the 1888 team, graduated last
spring.
These paddlers won from Eveleth and
Coleraine, tied Chisholm, and lost to
Hibbing and Virginia, twice, and
Eveleth and Virginia Several of these
defeats. however, were decided only
in the last relay.
This year the team opens the season
here with Virginia one month from
Saturday. Hibbing, Chisholm and Eve
leth, besides Virginia, will be engaged
twice, while the club will travel to
Coleraine for one meet.
Cardew, a seventh grader, is a pro-
tege Of Coach Herseth. Herseth, who
used the youthful paddler in most of
the meets year ago in an exhibition
capacity, used to say that Cardew would
be able to defeat most high school
swimmers in year or two. Cardew,
one of the few junior high students to
make the local team, will have his
chance this year.
Ivonen, Carlson, Berglund and Koski
are freshmen, Goulet, Herranen and
Saari are sophomores, Jerich, Bolitho,
Markun and Buskala are juniors, and
Atkins, Roman, Mavetz, Bryant and
Pechaver are seniors
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
Doctors Plan VenereaL
Disease Campaign.

Of all the disease scourges that af-
lict mankind, the venereal diseases and
particularly syphilis, offer the best hope
of eradication and are, at the same time,
the slowest and most difficult to con-
troll.
The difficulty does not lie in the lack
of a cure, according to bulletin from
the Minnesota State Medical associ-
atoms committee on public health edu-
cation, but in the tradition of secrecy
and evasion which still leads thousands
of persons to ignore facts, hide in
fection and neglect treatment until
treatment is of no avail and terrible
disabilities lie ahead.
The committee announced campaign
of public education on syphilis and gon-
orrhea to be carried on during October
in connection with the associations
regular co-ordinated medical and pub
lie health program. The object will be
to aid in spreading correct information
about the disease and to persuade all
who suspect infection to seek immediate
aid.
If a specific cure were available for
cancer or tuberculosis, people would
Immediately rush to benefit by it," ac-
cording to this bulletin. Syphilis is
as disastrous in it's ultimate results
os either of these two diseases and as
greatly feared; but the disgrace that
has traditionally attached to it has
prompted people to hide it instead OF
fastening to benefit by modern effec-
tive treatment methods.
''The chief disgrace of venereal dis
ease is the disgrace that attaches to
people who hide its presence" the doc
tors declare, "and thus expose innocent
persons, including the helpless babies OF
untreated syphilitic mothers, to the
disease"
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
Coach Smrekar to Face 1910
Material With Long List
of Potent Players.

Eleven lettermen from this years high
school football squad will be on deck
when Coach Steve Smrekar calls the
roll in 1910, to give Ely veteran club
with which to start the campaign.
Seven members of this years first
string will receive their sheep skins next
spring, but there will be plenty OF
material available to fill in the positions
which they will vacate.
Incidentally what Coach Smrekar
lCSes here his colleague of the Junior
College, Coach Matt Barney" Banks
will gain, providing these students
register at the college next fall.
Quarterback Albert Rowe and Half
back John Novak, ace performers on the
1889 club, will return, as will Stanley
Mestnik, Roy johnson and James Pete,
lettermen who saw considerable service
at Juggling the ball. Ed Grahek, who
had the misfortune to crack an ankle
early in the season, will also be avail
able. This accident deprived Grahek of
a letter.
Ted Grahek, end; Bernard Hutar,
tackle, and Archie Lundeen, guard, all
regulars will be on deck for the 1910
club. Donald Myntti, guard, Gerald
Johnson, who plays equally well at
tackle and guard, william LeBeau, CEN
ter, and Roland Brennan, ineman, re-
serves, who saw enough service to win
letters this year, will be available again.
This lineup of veterans should form
the nucleus for mighty potent ball
club about year from now, with most
Of the players weighing in the neigh
borhood of ITO pounds if they put on
the usual amount of beef that growing
young men of their age acquire. OF
the group, Rowe, Lundeen, Pete, Myntti,
T. Grahek, Brennan, Hutar, Ed Grahek,
and R. johnson will be seniors. LeBeau.
G. Johnson, and Mestnik will be juniors,
and Novak, a sophomore. Novak, now
II, will be 20 in June following his
junior year SO has but two more years
ahead Of him. If he performs as
brilliantly as anticipated they will be
very noteworthy years both for him and
Ely high.
Donald Prola, now junior, and Will
liam Klun, a sophomore, all of whom
showed considerable ability but didn't
play enough this year to earn letter,
will be back. Other squad members,
who will be available include Joe
Grandpa" Kuzma, Al Bunney and
Steve Tratnik, now juniors, and Tony
Okasich, Louis Janesich and John Per-
ushek, Sophs.
Senior members Of the club who will
graduate into Coach Banks squad in
clude a number Of promising backs and
linemen who undoubtedly will be most
welcome to the Jaysee mentor. Paul
Prola, al-around backfield ace and
punter, and the speedy Willie Grahek
will be available if they register at the
college next spring.
Linemen include Dan Mestnik, tackle;
William Mills, center; Peter Handberg,
guard; Andrew Luthanen, end, and
Tony Grahek, sub, all of whom earned
letters. Frank Kalan a sub back who
did not play enough to earn a letter,
will also be available
Coach Smrekar's boys inaugurated the
season in great style, holding the
powerful Hibbing squad to TT tie on
Memorial filed. They followed this
win by handing the visiting Tower
aggregation a 20-7 drubbing. But dis
aster dogged their heels during the re-
mainder of the season, with the ex-
ception of short letup during the
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
IL Letternen to Return
for Football Next Year

International Falls game.
After the Tower game, the team
travelled to Coleraine where they had
1910 until the final six minutes arrived.
Then the Coleraine crew pushed over
two touchdowns and converted one
extra point to win, 1872.
The boys took this defeat pretty hard
and went into the Virginia game the
following weekend with their belts
frightened up couple of notches. When
the smoke of battle cleared away, the
score board said the BluedevilS had the
most points, IA to 6, but the game
statistics indicated Ely had the better
team. The points are what win, how
ever, so Ely took another whipping.
The Falls, coming into the city one
jump ahead of Sleet storm, bowed to
Coach Smrekar and his crew, II to 0,
On a slippery, wind-swept field.
Then came the seasons finale at
Gilbert, which was lost 60, although
a 6-6 or 90 score might have been
better indication as to the relative
strength Of the two clubs.
OF the II teams competing for the
mythical all-range championship Ely
finished eleventh, but its total of 81
points gave it a tie with Eveleth for
sixth in this department.
Ely, which engaged the Hibbing crew
for the first time a year ago after
Athletic Director Edward T. Buckley
had negotiated a two-game contract
with the Bluejackets, will undoubtedly
continue its schedule with the Iron Ore
capital, since the latter has asked for
a renewal of the contract.
Here are the scores for the past two
football seasons, with the points first
listed being those made by Ely:
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
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10 V5He GatstyMmH HH

Any person who drives car or truck
with poor brakes is violating one of
the very first rules of safety He may
live to regret it.
1t reminds me of the story of the
farmer and his son who were working
in field where line crew from the
power company was repairing damage
done by a previous storm. Abner, the
farmers son, while fussing around the
operations, got hold of live wire His
father yelled to him Put that down,
Abner. 1t don't belong to YOU" But
Abner couldn't let go of the live wire.
Poor brakes put you in the same
position. You want to stop and apply
the brakes, but they fail to hold and
the result may be a serious accident
and possibly death.
It's Smart to Drive Carefully!
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
OUR CONGRESSMAN
News Letter Written for The Ely Miner by
WILLIAM A. PITTENGER
Member of Congress- Eighth Minnesota District
Member Of Congress, Eighth Minnesota District


state and we are always glad to well
come them. This time I want to talk
about another recent visitor-George R.
Blanchfill. His visit was unique be-
cause the last time saw him was some
30 years ago in Indiana We were
warm boys and school mates together,
ran around bare-footed because there
was no money to buy shoes. We were
both taught to work For % years
George has been working for the same
industrial organization, in West Vir-
ginia. He is typical American, and
a typical visitor.
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
TO PUBLISH
vOYAGEUR II
Jaysee Students Decide to
Issue Another Yearbook;
Staff Being Named.

The student body of the Ely Junior
College has decided to issue another
year book, Voyageur II, according to
Dean Sigurd F. Olson.
Applications for positions on the
staff are now being received, and it is
expected that appointments will be an
nounced Friday in the Jaysee Lookout,
student publication.
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
IN Constant PRAYER

Accustofu yourself gradually to
Gerry prayer into all your daily oc-
cupatiens. Speak, move, work, in
peace, as Il gou were in prayer, as
indeed you Oh ght to be. Do every
thing withoUa excitement, by the
spirit Of grace -Fenelon.
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
Name Committee for
Junior College AssembIy.

Milton Stenlund, chairma-; Helen
Sundholm, William Hastings, Mabel
Lampi and Olga Tome compose the
committee for Friday mornings Junior
College assembly program.
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
FINAL STANDINGS

Game Scores
Chisholm 20, Grand Rapids Z.
Crosby-Ironton 13, Coleraine 7.
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
JUNIOR COLLEGE CONFERENCE
FOOTBALL

Game Scores
Virginia II, Itasca O.
Hibbing II, Duluth O.
Eveleth z, Northland o.
Saturday, Nov. 4.
Ely at Eveleth.
The MINER SELLS Every Thursday
At the ELY NEWS STORE!
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02

The Miner is the Only Newspaper
Interested in Ely and Its PeopIe!
The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
Gift With String to It

Making a gift with a string to it
is just as kind as feeding a fish
with a baited hook.
Evening star., 1939-04-23

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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14
EVERYTHING
MERCHANDISE
&
KOOTENAI
Mercantile
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

Commercial Club meets every 3rd
Thursday. Karl A. Klehm, presi-
dent, Bonner Hooks, secretary.
American Legion Auxiliary Lodge
No 81 meets 1st and Bird Thurs
days. Mrs w, c. collars, presi-
dent, Mrs. Russell Whitefield, sec
rotary.
Lions Club meets every End and
4th Mondays. James Christie, pres
ident, Paul Church, secretary.
Libby Woman's Club meets End
Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. in community
room of court house. Mrs J. A.
Krall, president, Mrs. c. w. Gildea,
secretary.
American Legion Post No. 81
meets LIST and 3rd Thursdays at the
Legion hall. DR.. ]. P. Campbell, COM
mander, w. G. collars, adjutant.
Libby Farm Woman's Club meets
Ist Wednesday. Mrs. John Fuller,
president, Mrs. Monte Carol, secre-
tary.
Libby Junior Woman's Club meets
second Tuesdays at 8 p. m. in the
community room of the court house.
Mrs. Donald Hargreaves, president
and Mrs. William Baeth. secretary.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14
DIRECTORY
Libby Montana
LODGES
Libby, Montana

T. o. O. F. Cabinet chapter No. So,
meets every Tuesday evening. Floyd
Peterson, Noble Grand and Ernest
Davidson, recording secretary.
A. F. & A. M. Libby Lodge No. IS
meets End and 4th Thursdays at
Masonic Temple. Otto Nordstrom,
w. NJ, VIM. Anderson, secretary.
Royal Arch Masons, Libby lodge
No. 33 meets LIST and 3rd Wednes-
days at Masonic Temple. Frank Up
ham, High Priest, J. F. McCully,
secretary.
Order of the Eastern Star. Libby
Chapter No. SO meets lst and 3rd
Tuesdays at Masonic Temple. Louise
LIE Due, W. NJ, Marie Jaqueth, sec
rotary.
Libby Moose Lodge No. 1899 meets
End and 4th Mondays at Moose hall.
VIM. underwood, Dictator, Gleason
Pitcher, secretary.
Royal Neighbors, Mountain View
Camp No. 1858 meets End and 4th
| Wednesdays at the Moose hall.
Mrs. Mae thinner, oracle; Mrs. Ag-
mes Larsen, recorder.
Medora Rebekah Lodge No. SO
meets LIST and 3rd Mondays at I. o..
10. F. hall. Hester Dunn, Noble
Grand and Ruth hampton, secretary.
A. O. u. w. meets the End Friday
Of each month at the Legion hall.
Virgo Dutton, w. M. and l.. J..
Brown, secretary.
Libby Chapter De Molay meets
lst and 3rd Mondays, Masonic Tenn
pie. Gene NOVEL;, M. c.; Fred
Clark, scribe.
Rainbow Girls meet second and
fourth Mondays at Masonic Temple.
| Betty Baker W. A.; Phyllis De
Rosia, secretary Mrs. Harold Hall,
mother advisor.
Women of the Moose, Libby
Chapter No. 895 meets on the first
and third Tuesdays at the Moose
hall. Muriel Oylear, Senior Regent
and Agnes Brennan, recorder
Theta Rho Club No. 27 meets LIST
and 3rd Tuesdays in |. 0. O. f. hall
at tbs p. m. Celia Ann Nolop, pres
ident, Lenore Martin, vice presi :
dent; Helen Rasmussen, recording
| secretary Hester Dunn, advisor Of
ficer.
Libby Townsend club No. meets
on the first and third Fridays of
each month in the community hall,
at 300 p. m. E. M. Bitterman, pres
ident; Ellen Clary, secretary.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14
Proceedings of County
Commissioners

Libby. Mont, September 5. 1888
The Board of County Commission
ers, Lincoln County, Montana. met
in regular session in the Court House
on September 5, 6. and 8.
Present: Ray C. Frost. James Ma
honey. Chef o. Hoisington, Com
missioners. and Eldon j. Schuck,
Clerk.
The report of the County Clerk
and Recorder, as required under
Section 4l63.7 R. c. M. 1885 was
submitted to the Board
County and Township officials
were authorized to leave the state
at any time they may deem neces-
sary during the month of Septem-
Der and up to the next regular
meeting of the Board
Sponsorship of a sewing room
project for Libby in the amount of
$4,000 was executed by the Board.
The following claims were audit
ed. approved and warrants ordered
drawn for same.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD

United States relations Nth
Japan may be changed as
result of the Hitler-Stalin
pact The difference be-
tween the Russian and Ger
man governments is hard 10
figure out :. To gain his mat
inum strength before the
next election, the President
needs poor business and a sub
nlisSire congress.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14
Poured Water on Wheels
OF the IsoIationist Bloc

Curiously enough the Stalin-Hitler
agreement poured lot of water on
the wheels Of the isolationist bloc.
They are not doing much screaming
from the housetops about it, yet,
but they are studying it quietly,
gathering ammunition for their own
battle with the White House and
state department IN the event that
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14

CHURCHES
First Lutheran Church
Harold Olson. Student Pastor
st. Johns Lutheran
II. L. Pfotenhauer, Pastor
Methodist Episcopal
II. E. Baber, Pastor
st. Luke's Episcopal
Arthur B. Ward, Pastor
Christian Science
: First Presbyterian Church
Rev. Albert M. Hart, Pastor
Calvary PentecostaI
f. A. Dalton, Pastor
st. Joseph's Catholic
Edmond Taylor, Priest
Church of God
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14

congress is called back TO Washing
ton and the heat turned on to get
rid of that embargo provision for
farms, ammunition and implements
of war. !"
If the Stalin-Hitler pact proves to
be only temporary, the isolationists
will argue that it's fair warning of
the danger of monkeying in power
politics. If the pact proves TO be
durable as well as logical, produc-
ing peace by winning for the dicta-
tors just what they want without
war, they will argue that Roosevelt S
effort TO define neutrality as policy
of preventing war is superfuous.
The immediate reaction in Wash
ington to Hitlers coup is chagrin
that the blind spot in policy of
defending democracy wherever IT is
attacked was so quickly and brutal
ly exposed-reliance on participa-
ton in this policy of a dictatorship
generally included verbally in the
list of 'democracies.
4 Of course this inclusion of the So
Wet among "democracies' has al
ways been a laugh to everybody
except the so-called liberals. I'm
less one is for the Soviet lock, stock
and barrel, one is not apt to con-
slider Russia under its present gov
eminent as anything but a dictator
ship. Most people in this country
do not approve either the Hitler or
the Stain methods of government.
In fact the dissenting majority, who
always wondered why the Soviet
was called a democracy, have also
been hard put to it mentally to I'M
derstand just why those in this
country who favor the Soviet have
been so bitter against the Nails,
and why those who favor the Nazis
are so bitter against the Commu-
nists.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14
Hard to Figure Difference
Beflceen Stain and Hitler

IT one eliminates the fact that
the Stain government has never
been excited about what race par
ticular person springs from mot
what religion, because both Stain
and Hitler have been rather tough
on all religions) whereas the Nazis
have no use for Jews, Negroes, or
in fact any non-Aryans, the differ
ence between the two governments
is a bit hard to figure out.
So perhaps it should not have been
such blow to certain observers,
including the United States state de-
partment, that the Stain and Hitler
governments have been getting to-
gether, despite the utmost efforts of
Britain and France to bring the So
Wet into their alliance against Hit
ler.~
However, all these developments
are making it more difficult for the
President to get what he wants on
neutrality legislation. They are cit
ed as demonstration of the instabili-
ty of the promises of European gov
ernments; as proofs that the United
States will do we'll to keep out al
tauathar
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-09-14
Needs Poor Business and
4 Submissive Congress

Whatever critics of the New Deal,
in or outside of business, may figure
about what a boom between now
and next January would mean polit-
ically to Franklin D. Roosevelt and
the New Deal, it is very real ques-
ton to the President
The problem is that lit is not
simple question. To attain his max
imum strength from now until No
vember, 1910, Roosevelt should have
very poor business from now until
January, then an utterly submissive
congress to vote all the appropria-
tons for government spending that
Roosevelt may want early next
spring, and finally very real re-
vival of business during next sum-
mer and fall
The bad business from now until
January is necessary in order to
brighten congress into giving Roose-
welt his own way when the laWmak-
ers meet again, 1t is also neces-
sary to prove to the country that
Roosevelt knows much better than
congress what is needed. Besides,
it is necessary in order to put the
Would-be budget balancers and econ
omy-minded group headed by Sen.
Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, Sen.
Josiah w. Bailey of North Carolina,
Walter F. George of Georgia, Alva
3. Adams of Colorado, etc, in their
places.
The good business that is neces-
sary to the maximum Roosevelt
strength after the new appropria-
tions are made by submissive con-
gress next January is essential to
provide good times SO that the coun-
try will be satisfied with the New
Deal when it goes to the polls in
November, 1910, to elect new Pres
ident, and will vote either for Roose-
welt himself, for another term, or
for some candidate Roosevelt has
picked.
President Believes the
Old Doctrine Still Works
1t is perfectly true that many Of
the New Dealers know little Of prac-
teal politics, and do not agree with
the doctrine that there must be good
times if the party in power is to be
retained by the voters. But Roose
welt is no tyro in politics. He knows
his way around pretty well, and
there is very little doubt among po-
litical observers that the President
believes the old doctrine still works.
They point to the condition which
was allowed to prevail during the
summer and early fall of 1886. The
administration so tempered the wind
to the shorn lamb during that peri
cd, and for few months prior to
it, that the country had mild
boom. A great many business men
decided that the Roosevelt admin
istration was not so bad for their
own prohts-the only thing that in
fiuences any business man in the
conduct Of his business and political
operations the Republican ora
tors were claiming.
IBcii synuicate-Whu scrNicc1
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-16
CAMPAIGN issue
FOR REPUBLICANS
Ch ange Of Thanksgiving
Day May Give Party
New Line for Talk

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. = New
Deal Senator Guffey, of Pennsyl-
vania, jokingly predicted a major
political battle over President Roo
sevelts plan to change the date
of Thanksgiving to November 70.
Said Guffey: Personally, l am
in favor of the change but I have
no doubt that it will be attacked
by powerful alliance of Repub-
licans and Democrats financed by
the Liberty League. In fact, the
Thanksgiving Day change looks
like it might furnish the Repubh-
cans with something they badly
need, an issue for their 1910 cam
paign."