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benches, vices and connections for
electrical and metal work, a forge
and anvil, and lathes, ETC., COM
plete the set-up which compares
more than favorably with similar
divisions Of study in larger schools.
The course Of study includes wood
working, blacksmithing, electrical
and metal work. All Of the mach
inery is electrically operated. This
department gives the impression of
a modern machine shop, and the
equipment has been selected to give
students an advanced course in the
use of all kinds of tools and mod
ern machinery.
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COMPLETE
Electrical Service
Radio = Refrigeration
Wiring
PHONE 2lO-W
Sauk Centre Radio
Service
COnkey Electrical Service
Council Proceedings

A special meeting was called to
order March IL, 1910, by President
Carl Eckberg for the purpose of
discussing special business.
A resolution entitled Resolution
Fixing Salaries of Judge and Spec
ial Judge of Municipal Court" was
presented and read. Alderman j.
c. Kinsella moved that said resolu-
ton, reading that $50 (fifty dol
lars) plus fees, be paid as salary
for Municipal Judge Of the Mum
icipal Court of the City Of Sauk
Centre, be adopted. Alderman F.
T. Pangburn seconded the motion
and it was favorably carried.
Motion was made to adjourn, and
motion carried.
J. A. Schoenhoff,
City Clerk
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Mrs. Carl Emblom and children,
Lorraine, Darlene, Carl Jr. and
Russell were Sunday afternoon
visitors at the Albin Holmguist
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jens Lying, Mr.. and
Mrs. Vird Neal and daughter,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Eckberg
spent Wednesday evening at the
Hans Fossen home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Weir and
sons were Easter dinner guests at
the Belize home.
Helmer and Siebert Elan called
at the Albin Holmquist home Sun
day evening.
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NOTICE OF MORTAGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that default has occurred in that
certain mortgage bearing date the
26th day of November, 1882 made
and executed by Fred p. Michaelis
and Mary Michaelis, his wife, mort
gagers, and the First State Bank
of Albany, a corporation, mort
gagee, which mortgage with the
power of sale contained therein was
duly recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds in and for the
county of Stearns, State Of Minne-
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East Grove Lake

Miss Dorothy Kruger, Of st.
Paul, is spending Easter with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Krueg-
er.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Fisher, Of
Willard, spent Sunday evening at
the Clarence Pepper home.
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The Home Economics Depart
ment, as pictured above, is one of
the most modern of special school
departments. 1t was planned and
equipped throughout in detail &C
cording to specifications and rec
concentrations made by the State
Educational department in con-
formity with the best and latest
standards of federal home econom-
les departments.
This department includes sew
ing room, which will accommodate
class of twenty-four at one time.
1t is equipped with sewing ma
chimes, tables, chairs, ironing
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THANK YOU
For the splendid cooperation OF
the people of Sauk Centre and
community in our recent drive for
funds and the tag day held Sat
urday, we wish to offer a hearty
Thank You! The financial sue
cess attained through this drive
and our contacts with the good
people of your community will be
happy reminders in our future
work in Sank Centre. Again we say
Thank You.
The Salvation Army
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Pleasant VaIley-Kandota

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Rasmussen
and children Mrs. Andrew Ras-
mussen and Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Brown were dinner and supper
guests at the Anton Nelson home
Easter Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Art Holmquist and
daughter, Venetta, of Coram. Mon
tana, arrived Thursday for visit
at the homes of the gentlemen's
brothers, Albin Holmquist, of Kan
dota, and Albert Holmquist, Of Lin
coin, Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Severin and
children, June and Willard, motor
ed to Staples a week ago Sunday
and visited at the home of the
formers brother, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Severin.
Henry Blank was a caller at the
Jesse Weir home Saturday morn
ing.
Bert Neal and son, Jimmy, call
ed at the Albin Eckberg home FRI
day evening.
Orden Johnson visited at Pete
Anderson's Thursday evening.
Lea Weir visited with his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand
Belize, from Friday until Sunday.
Gerald, Ernest and Helen Thorn
bloom were visitors at the Albin
Holmquist home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Neal and
children, Beverly and Jimmy, Mr..
and Mrs. Albin Eckberg and child
rem, Bobbie, Shirley and Betty and
Mrs. Jonas Eckberg were visitors
at the home Of Mrs. Ella Christie
and children Wednesday evening.
Easter Sunday dinner guests at
the Albin Holmquist home were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Holmquist and
daughter, of Montana, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Holmquist and sons,
Clifford and Floyd of Lincoln.
Otto Belize was a caller at the
Jesse Weir home Saturday.
Marvel Berry called on Myrtle
Christie Saturday.
Dinner guests at the Helmer Sew
erin home Easter Sunday were:
Mrs. Carl Ecklund, ST., and sons
Jerome, Joe and Art, Mr. and Mrs
Clarence Pherson and children
David, Lois and Beverly, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Ecklund and children
and Carol Hoff.
The town Board met for an all
day session at the Helmer SEVERN
home Monday.
Bert Neal assisted Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Sieman and family in moving
from the Frank Pangburn farm to
near Freeport Wednesday and
Thursday.
Mrs. Jonas Eckberg and Shirley
Eckberg spent from Saturday
until Wednesday at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Bohn.
Beverly Neal was an over night
guest of Connie Christie Sunday
night.
Jens Lying and sons, Robert and
Herman, were visitors at the Albin
Eckberg home Saturday afternoon
Joe and Art Ecklund spent the
first part of last week at the home
of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Carl Ecklund, Sr.
-cohiiIiy ociihc NlSilcu Will MS
cousins, the Weir boys, from Sun
day until Monday.
Tom and Marvin Johnson called
at Sam Rasmussen's Tuesday NOR
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Holmquist
and sons, Clifford and Floyd of
Lincoln visited and were dinner
guests at the Albin Holmquist
home Wednesday.
Bill Trones from Minneapolis,
spent Friday ninght with Rubin
Eckberg.
Lawrence Christie who Is as
sisting at r. v. Plants had the
misfortune to cut his foot while
cutting wood Thursday.
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Science DEBT.

One Of the special departments,
that for the study Of science, is
completely located in the renovated
part of the Senior High Building.
1t Is the only special department
in that part Of the building and the
equipment has not been changed.
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Hazel and Gladys and Mrs. Emma
Payne and Arlo were Sunday din
ner guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey
Payne.
The Raymond-Ashley All club
met at the Henry Judes home
Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Abraham and
son, Waldo, and daughters, Noreen
and Jane, visited at the Vern
Beecher home Sunday evening.
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boards, irons, individual work bas-
kets. The individual baskets are
in steel cabinet form. A fitting
room is connected with the sew
ing department.
In the cooking division of this
department, equipped with the lat
est in kitchen devices, there are
six cooking ranges, three of them
electric and three gas, all of them
four-burner stoves. There are also
six work tables with sinks, water
connections and storage drawers
Other equipment includes six sets
of tables and chairs for student
class work, a teachers desk, electric
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been placed in use for the study
of physics, and the remodeled lab
oratory, completely equipped, has
room for thirty-two students at one
class session. Appropriately 140 stu
dents are enrolled in the classes of
science and physics.
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refrigerator, towel drying cabinets.
These units are arranged for class
es of twenty-four pupils. In con-
nection with this division are two
storage rooms and a dining room,
the latter equipped with table,
chairs, buffet and dishes.
With the removal of the Home
Economics department from the
Junior High School building, the
school has acquired additional
space for the nurses office, the
art department and one additional
room now being used for noon
recreation.
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
Uncle LeMlA
Says: ~
Looking Beyond for 1t

Looking Beyond FOR IL
There truly is "tide in the af-
fairs of men," but what man real
ICES when it has arrived?
A good man may find that he
has to devote as much energy to
correcting a fault of his, as would
be required to achieve some high
office.
Counterfeit smiles are as easily
detected as other counterfeits.
"Smile weeks" have their pitfalls.
Fight for the Right!
If you are wrong, to surrender
is honorable. But if you are right,
tits treason. And, as Judge
Hughes has said, "You can't re-
peal surrender"
Emotional people run around
with halo in hand seeking to clap
it on the object of their admira-
tiOn, totally unsuspiciOus of clay
feet.
If truth and morality are on the
increase, it isn't very creditable
to our ancestors.
Though the Heauens Fall
Young people start quarrels
recklessly. 1t takes long to learn
how hard it is to end them. Quar-
rel not with an old friend.
A man who locks only at one
side of a thing imagines that ev-
cry other man does the same
thing.
If you do a good work every
day, never mind if you waste a lot
of time otherwise. That's life.
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
THE DRAFT:
COnscripts?

What about universal military
service in peace time? That was a
burning question before all the
Americans. Some of the best mill
tary critics opposed it as inefficient,
and the Republican Senator Vanden-
berg and the Democratic Senator
Wheeler did not seem to like it Ell
ther. Neither did the pacifsts, nor
many of the isolationists. A real
congressional debate over the issue
was taking definite shape.
Was it scientific, in the light of
modern warfare, which demands
highly trained small groups of me-
chanical specialists, like tankmen
and flyers and motor-minded tech
nicians? Perhaps it was. Perhaps
it was not. There was need for
cool, hard rationalizing, and no place
for hysteria or emotionalistics Some
of the best generals were for it,
and so were many public-spirited
citizens. BY and large, American
youth seemed to be anti-conscript,
and some people linked intervention
ism with the proposed draft. It was
fair field for patriotic debate, and
intelligent study. Many good U. S.
nationalists went at it in that en-
ightened spirit.
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
N A M E S
:. in the ne,Us

q Mrs. Daisy Borden Hartman, the
American lady ambassador to Nor
way, was reported en- route home,
on the U. S. army transport Ameri-
can Legion-in company with the
Yankee ministers to Estonia, Lat
via and Lithuania, recently absorbed
by Soviet Russia.
q Vice President Garner went home
to Texas. He said: "I'm not talking
politics" Would he bolt, too, pom
dered railbirds of his native Uvalde?
q Said Adrien Marquet, new French
minister of interior: "Ten America
her time is coming unless she wakes
up. The nation presents these three
manifestations of decadence-wom-
en- filling the jobs of men in in
dustry and commerce, wearing too
much makeup, and refusing to bear
children" Have these ''three mani
festations" taken the place of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness? So queried a humble listener.
q Said DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, of the IA
NOUS Smithsonian institute: eff you
chew enough raw meat, you may
develop an accessory set of teeth"
The anthropologist described the ac-
cessory teeth as supplementary
hard bony tissue" and cited Eski-
mos and Greenlanders. 1t seems
they have them.
q News finally came in that the
British 16,000-tonner Lancashire,
with thousands aboard, was bombed
to the bottom by the Germans last
June. Some $50 souls were lost, but
the British had kept it a secret.
Death came in the channel, as usual.
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siders itself the natural leader and
champion of Spanish America,
against Uncle Sam, Hitler, and the
Mikado alike. Argentines think that
Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, etc., should
take advice from themselves-and
not from the Yankee Colossus, as
they call the Americanos. Ireland
generally throws a monkey wrench
into British imperial conferences,
and DR. Leopoldo Melo has been do
ing approximately the same thing,
to the secret distress of Secretary
Hull.
AS the conference ended the 81
nations signed a pact, known as
the "Act of Havana" which pro-
vided for provisional administra-
ton" of any European owned pos
sessions in this hemisphere 'if a
non-American state shall attempt to
replace another non-American state,
thus threatening the peace of the
continent"
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08

I Asst week Marty helped to talk
- Grandmother out of her old
buffet. The Martindale family
were in a dither when she told
them that she was going to furnish
a combination guest and sewing
room with the mirror and two
legs of the old buffet; plus some
spools, a butter tub, unbleached
muslin, some old rags and other
odds and ends.
The rags were used for the hook
rug in this sketch of a corner of
that new guest and sewing room.
Directions for the rug and for
making the spool tables shown
her are both in Sewing Book 5.
The mirror was hung end-wise and
is marvellous for fitting dresses.
The muslin drapery was used to
cover the irregular edge of the
mirror and makes just the right
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
THE CAMPAICN:
Fuss e Fume

Wendell Willkie planned to wiz
Democratic converts in the soliC
South. He was an ex-active Demo
crat himself; and northern Demo
Gratis, of a conservative stripe, were
deserting to the Willkie standard
daily (around New York, they still
persisted in calling him Wiki.
In the South there are many So
called Tory Democrats and econom.
ic royalists who have opposed New
Deal reforms, the IVA project, ano
the row over utilities. These people
would naturally be meat for Mr.
Willkie. And the anti-III term feel
ing really appeared to be growing
although one interesting historical.
fact came to light. George Wash
ington did not go in for III term
due to i'll health, and not from prin
ciple. It seems that Jefferson anc
Lafayette were anti-III termites, but
not necessarily Farmer George
More e More
If Willkie was an ex-Democrat
consider the Republicans in the
Roosevelt menage. Stimson, Knox
Ickes, Wallace, for instance, plus
social-minded Hopkins and Perkins
and some non-partisans like Nor.
genthau. The only two Democrats
in the bunch, according to Gen. Hugh
Johnson of the late NRA, were HUI
and Farley. It did really appea,
that the party lines were shifting
into liberals and conservatives, ano
away from the principle of two com.
paratively meaningless ball-teams
who took turns at bat. That might
or might not, prove to be a good
thing.
Henry Wallace announced he
would either resign or take long
leave of absence without pay, from
his position as secretary of agricul
ture. There had been hot dispute
about this, for many considered il
improper for vice presidential can
didate to retain his "lobby-power''
during a critical campaign. Mr.
Roosevelt himself had resigned as
assistant secretary of the navy, ir
1920, when he ran for vice president
on the Democratic ticket with jim
Cox. Meanwhile, there was more
and more talk as to Jim Farley
The Republicans kept saying thai
Mr.. Farley had had a raw deal
while some of the Democrats fol
lowed suit. But it must be con
fessed, that the fondness of the Re
publicans for Farley was something
rather new. Everyone united in ad
mitting, however, that Big Jim was
a good sport and square shooter
He was not the man to stake
walk"
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
Offering Information
AN()lH LII on Various Subjects

4. What is the tactile sense?
S. Where do the Hottentots live?
6. What is the Aurora Australis?
7. How is the word "aye" as
used in voting to mean "yes" pro-
nounced?
8. What is the satellite of the
earth?
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
BRETONS:
From Britain

Early in the Middle ages, lot of
frightened Celts escaped from Brit
ain and settled across the channel
in France. They called their new
home Brittany" in honor of their
old home. The people that chased
them out of Britain were the heath
en- Anglo-Saxons, who changed Brit
ain into Anglo-land (England.) The
Bretons kept on speaking Celtic, and
they refused to join France politi-
cally until about 1900. When the
great French revolution came, in
1889, they resisted it by force for
eight long years, for they were back
ward and ultra-conservative.
Of late years, they learned about
independence from the Celtic nation
alists of Ireland, and a Breton ma
ticnalist movement got going. When
war broke out last fall, Premier Da-
Ladder jailed some of the Breton ma
tionalists, along with other danger
Gus" elements. This was a mistake.
1t made the Bretons pro-German.
Now, with German help, a new and
semi-independent Brittany may be
set up: its capital at Rennes.
Flemings
The German plan was perhaps to
separate France from England, by
a row of little buffer channel states.
A Flemish state was outlined. It
would consist of French Flanders,
Belgian Flanders, and the Dutch
province of iceland. For cities, it
would take in Flushing, Ostend, Ant
werp, Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne and
other channel ports. In between the
new Brittany and the new Flanders
was what used to be Normandy
whence came our neighbors, the
French Canadians.
Would Berlin invent" a neo-Nor-
mandy, too? 1t was remembered
that the French had tried to set up
an independent Rhineland and a
ditto Bavaria, after the German de-
feat of 1918, and had then rugged up
dummy Austrian fragment.
Meanwhile, Alsace-Lorraine was
going back to Germany proper, and
the Strassburg street-signs were
changed over into the language of
Goethe, who went to college there.
The departed French had spelled"
the town, Strasbourg. Now the 90"
went out, and the extra as" came
back in.
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
HAVANA:
The 2I

The 81 American republics and
republics" found out, at Havana,
that the Argentine was the chief
stumbling block This generally
happens at Pan-American get-to-
gethers, for the following reasons:
The Argentine is pure white-much
purer than the United States. 1t is
two-thirds Hispanic, and a third
sturdy North Italian, extremely
good stock. 1t is prouder than
Punch, and ultra-patriotic. 1t con-
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
The Questions

!. What country is the Holy Land
of three religions?
2. How are the freezing and boil
ing points of water designated on
the centigrade thermometer?
3. Where is the best known
maelstrom Ga whirlpooD?
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
The AnsUers

/. Palestine is reverenced alike
as the Holy Land by the Jews,
Christians, and Mohammedans.
2. Zero and 100 degrees respec-
lively.
8. Off the coast of Norway.
4. The sense of touch.
S. In South Africa.
6. The northern lights" of the
southern hemisphere.
z. In such use it is pronounced
as "I."
8. The moon.
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HOW. q SEW
w- Ruth Wyeh Spears oSp

background for the blue spool ia
bles. You can see in the sketch
how the lamps and stool were
made.
EDITORS NOTE: As a special
service to our readers, $50 of these
homemaking ideas have been pub
lished in five 32-page booklets
which are 10 cents each to cover
cost and mailing. Send order to:
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
RESPONSIBILITIES

Be thankful for responsibilities.
The more heavy they are the more
thankful you should be. Response
bilities are what make men Of
those who might otherwise be
failures.
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
[OIZl,N2lII

Liberty to Do Right
The saddest thing is to be en-
dowed with liberty to do as we
please, and then to please to do
the wrong thing.-Rollins.
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
IN AMERICA:
More e More

Empress Zita, once of Austria.
Hungary, was reported to have set
UP a "court" in Massachusetts,,
while Crown Prince Otto did New
York. Their cousins, the Luxem-
burgs, a whole bevy of them, came
over, too. The Dutch Crown Prin-
cess was in Canada, and the Hohen-
zollern pretender, young Louis Fer
dinand, was expected to be ar
irving soon. Also, King Zog, wife,
child, and sisters three, were ru-
mored almost en- route.
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
Vigorous Decision

Vigorous Decision
Men must decide on what they
will not do, and then they are
able to act with vigor in what they
ought to do.-Mencius.
The Ely miner., 1940-08-08
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Washington, d. G.
JAPAN'S RAMPAGE

U. S. intelligence reports from the
Far East stated late in July that
Japan would join the Axis officially
and actively just as soon as Hitler
launches his big blitzkrieg on Brit
ain.
Meanwhile, the japanese military
have adopted the policy of causing
as many incidents as possible to
annoy the United States and to fan
them up in the Japanese press.
There is no question in the minds
of u. S. officials that this strategy
is being worked out in cooperation
with Hitler and has two ends in
view:
First, to keep the American pub
lie worried about the Far East, so
that the White House cannot be-
come too absorbed with the plight
of England during Hitler's bitz-
krieg.
Second, to convince the Japanese
public that there is nothing to fear
from the United States. The more
the Japanese press attacks this coun-
try, and the more American citi-
zens are beaten up in Shanghai,
the more the Japanese public will
be led to believe that the United
States is powerless to send armed
forces across the Pacific.
Then when this conviction is thor
oughly embedded, the military will
make their long contemplated drive
into the Dutch East Indies.
Note-Looking further ahead, U.
S. observers in the Orient also are
convinced that when Hitler gets
ready for his drive into South Amer
lea, Japan will strike toward the
Pacific coast of South America ST.
multaneously.
Russia-U. s. Allies?
All Of this demonstrates the fact
that the United States, if it is not to
be left entirely alone in the Pacific,
must move quickly and must secure
friends. To date, there are only
two potential friends worth worry
ing about.
No. / is Great Britain, which in
fact is Americas first line of de-
tense, and which might be saved if
the United States gave major aid.
No. is Russia, the natural enc
my of Japan, whom Japan fears
more than she fears the United
States. A hook-up between Russia
and the United States could ham,
string Japan, keep her powerless in
the North Pacific.
That is why the Roosevelt-Bullit
statement denouncing Russia is so
important. Bullitt was the man who
persuaded Roosevelt
G. o. p. MUTTERS
Privately, some of the G. o. P.
farm leaders in congress are most
enthusiastic about the prominence
of Iowa's Gov. George Wilson in
Wendell Wilkes agricultural cam
paign.
The Capitol Hill group, who have
devoted a lot of time and effort to
preaching Republican doctrine in the
grain belt, and who carried the ball
on the farm plank, don't consider
Governor Wilson to be any farm
spokesman.
However, it is possible that the
real cause of the politicos' mutter-
ing is the fact that Wilson stole
march on them, by climbing aboard
the Willkie bandwagon while they
were still pooh-poohing Willkie as a
serious contender.
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