The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-28
LET CONTRACT
FOR ROAD JOB
State Highway Commission to
Complete Sheridan Street
Work This Fall.

The contract for completing the
Sheridan street extension job has been
let and an attempt will be made to
complete the project this fall, Secretary
Ray Hoefler of the Ely Commercial
club reported at the September meet
ing of the organization, Tuesday night.
Secretary Hoefler was informed of the
letting by Commissioner M. j. Hoff-
mann in Duluth last week
The subject of blacktopping the
lower end of state highway No. was
also discussed and Secretary Hoefler
made the suggestion that five miles of
the road starting from No. 81 on Lake
mann as saying that the department
would attempt to find funds for the
project.
P. D. Mold, engineer for the Duluth
district, told Hoefler that he would be
"glad to recommend it," and an at
tempt will be made by the club to see
that Mold includes the job in the
1910 project for the district.
| The clubs budget for the coming
year in the sum of $3.50 was ap-
proved by the board of directors and
the club membership and will be sub
mitted to the city council for con-
sideration at it's october meeting.
A communication from the Ely post
No. 2717, Veterans of Foreign Wars was
read asking that the club devise some
means for the eradication of rag weed
so that Ely can continue to be haven
for hay fever sufferers. The post also
notified the club that it was sponsoring
a benefit show. Oct. IA, Is, and 16, to
raise funds with which to purchase
post colors, and that any cooperation
received would be appreciated.
The secretary reported that $3.50 was
spent in maintaining the Ely exhibit
at the state fair, nearly all of which
came from funds given the club by the
st. Louis County club. A total OF
1873 200 persons passed through the ex-
hibit, he said, with approximately 10000
the largest attendance during the day
Resort owners meeting Monday
recommended that the club sponsor a
purely Ely exhibit at the Navy Pier
outdoor show in Chicago, the secretary
reported, but that the club continue to
cooperate with the Minnesota Arrow
head association on other shows as in
the past.
R. K. LeBarron, Halfway, in charge
of the experimental station work in the
northeastern part of the state, outlined
in detail the manufacturing of SOU
venirs as a local project. The clut
approved the appointing of committee
to make a study of this work and re-
port at the next regular meeting.
Very few of the souvenirs offered fol-
sale to tourists here are of local make
LeBarron said, and pointed out that
the designs were similar to those found
anywhere in the county.
Goods of this sort raises sales re-
siStance," he declared. eff it were
marked Made in Ely it would increase
its desirability."
LeBarron, who has made hobby OF
souvenir making, displayed number
of articles that might be manufactured
They included birch bark wren house
birch and black spruce bookends, hot
pads made from wood, birch bark
flower pot, and birch bark postal card
He also outlined the ornamental use OF
pine cones.
Emphasizing that the reason the work
had never gained foothold here was
because no organized group had ever
taken it in hand, he suggested that the