The Wahpeton times. [volume], April 11, 1918, Image 1

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In front of the city opera house
the Home Guards went through their
drill exercises and is certainly is a
well trained and fine looking com
pany. The writer has visited Fargo,
Grand Forks and several other places
the past year and seen the Home
Guards cn review, but Wahpeton has
the finest and best trained bunch of
reserves we have yet seen. The pro
gram at the opera house started at
1:10 p. m. or shortly after, with Hon.
W. E. Purcell as chairman of the
ceremonies. The first number on the
program was a quartette by eight
girls from the Science School who
were encored for a second number.
Mr. Purcell then introduced the first
speaker, V. R. Lovell of Fargo, who
gave a very patriotic address on the
issues ot the war and the Third
Liberty Loan drive. He was follow
ed by J. P. Hardy, secretary of the
Fargo Commercial Club. Mayor
places'on thepflatferm. A double
quartette of male voices rendered
musle.
•t the Conclusion of the ceremon
ies gold medals were presented by
W. E. Purcell, the chairman, to five of
the Boy Scouts for their work in
helping to dispose of the bonds of
the Second Liberty Loan. The Science
School girls gave a sketch entitled,
"The Girls Over Here."
The boys who received the gold
medals were: Vernon Forbes, Victor
Parsons, Paul Wiig, Donald Farns
worth and Robert Heath.
LOCAL NEWS NOTES OF
THE WEEK TERSELY TOLD
Rooms for rent over Times office.
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For all kinds of draying see C. A.
Kohlhott. Phone 303W. 12 2nd
Street south. 50tl
Mrs. Holmes of Moorhead, Minn.,
is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Thompson this week.
Attention is called to the several
new advs. on the Abercrombie page
in this issue.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanton of Chippewa
Falls, Wis., are visiting their cousin,
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Christianson.
Woman wants position as house
keeper on the farm or in some town.
Inquire at Times office. 50tl
For Sale Very Cheap.—My prop
erty on First Street if sold by June.
Mrs. Hartwell. 50tf
Mrs. Wesley Oliver left Monday
for Sisseton, S. D., for an extended
visit with her masher.
James W. Frutchey last week
closed a deal for the purchase of the
SW'/iof 16-133-49. The considera
tion was $7,200.
R. M. Lunday left Friday for
Towner, this state, to look after
farming interest and the seeding of
his crops. He will return the latter
part of April.
The ladies missionary society of the
Methodist church met at the home
of Mrs. C. A. Kohlhoff on 2nd street
Tuesday afternoon.
John L. Slatery, a nephew of Hon.
W. E. Purcell of this city, has been
made a member of the executive com
mittee of the Third Liberty Loan
Drive at Glasgow. Valley County,
Montana.
Aprons
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Made from good quality
Percale worth $1.25
All sizes each
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WAHPETON SUCCESSFULLY CELE
BRATED LOM MY ML II
Reserves Gave a Splendid Drilling Fol
lowing the Grand Street Parade
on the Dakota Avenue
The celebration of Loyalty Day
last Saturday and the first annual
entrance of America into the Euro
pean War was a perfect success
taken from any standpoint whatso
ever, and convinced even the most
skeptical of the loyalty and patriot
ism of the good citizens of progres
sive Wahpeton. The street parade
started down Dakota Avenue short
ly after 1:00 p. ni. headed by the
police department, followed by the
Wahpeton City Council, the band, the
Women's Relief Corps, the fast dimin
ishing G. A. R. Corps, Miss Carter
representing the Weapon of Liberty,
Home Guards—as fine a body of rep
resentative men as there is in the
state, then came the Red Cross
Auxiliary, followed by the Boy
Scouts and Scout Master Rife, Uncle
Sam's float, then came the school
children—our future great citizens
and the teachers of our schols. The
line of march was up and down Da
kota Avenue.
TOMORROW
JILL RE
ARROR DAY EVENT
Bismarck, N. D., April 11—Gover
nor Lynn J. Frazier impresses upon
the people of this state the impor
tance of planting trees as a means of
conservation in the proclamation pro
claiming Friday, April 12, Arbor and
Bird day. His proclamation follows:
"One of the great and highly im
portant lessons the American people
are learning from the war is that of
conservation. Our resources from the
most humble and insignificant to the
most highly prized and desirable are
coming into their own, and are ap
preciated in the ratio of their value
to mankind.
"Trees and birds are surely worthy
of a fair shave of our consideration.
Forests Destroyed
"We have been prone to stand
complacently by while fires and mill
ing interests have destroyed vast sec
tions of our national forests, and
calmly noted the consequent disap
pearance of wild bird and animal
life. Is it because these wonderful
resources have cost us nothing that
we value them so lightly? Preven
tive measures have been wholly in
adequate, and there has not been
sufficient, concerted action to replace
these losses. On our own North Da
kota prairies there is everywhere evi
dence of the efforts of man to satisfy
his natural longing for the compan
ionship and sheltering protection of
trees, and wherever trees have been
planted and grown up about a farm
stead there is an atmosphere of com
fort and quietude alike attractive to
the weary individual and merry pic
nickers seeking pleasure and recrea
tion. Let pkmt -more trees
and
have more groves and more birds.
Certain Day Set Aside
"It has long been the custom thru
out the entire country to set aside a
day of which to plant trees, and more
recently there has been combined
with this the observance of Bird Day
for study and instruction in the ways
and habits of birds. The second
Friday in April is the day most com
monly observed, and this year by
reason of favorable climatic condi
tions generally it is practicable for
North Dakota to assist in making the
observance of this date nation-wide.
It it therefore hereby proclaimed that
Friday, April 12th be observed as
Arbor and Bird Day. and 1 wish to
impress upon all tne importance of
planting trees and studying birds,
seeking to teach everywhere the ne
cessity of conserving and propagat
ing these truly great heritages of
mankind.
"Done at the Capitol at Bismarck,
under my hand and the Grea Seal of
the state of North Dakota, this 6th
day of April, 1918.
M. F. Flaherty of Lidgerwood.
foreman of the Broadaxe. spent Tues
day in Wahpeton on business before
the County exemption board. He
passed the examination and is await
ing the call. He is a good printer and
a fine fellow to meet. Mr. Flaherty
was formerly editor of a paper in
Kidder County.
The Times has been without a
linotype operator for the past three
weeks and only through the kind
generosity of the Globe-Gazette have
we been able to get our news set up
in type. We phoned the secretary of
the union at Fargo the other day
only to be told that ten or twelve
operators are needed there with none
to supply the demand. We got a like
reply from Aberdeen, also from Min
neapolis. We are prepared however
to handle all work that comes our
way.
VOLUME XLII WAHPETON, RICHLAND COUNTY, IsUKTH IJAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1918
Daughter
To-To
Yum-Yum
Du-Du
Tu-Lip
IF
Lynn J. Frazier,
Governor.
By the Governor,
Thomas Hall. Secretary of State.
BROMMXE FOREMAN HERE
FOR ARMY EXAMINATION
pression.
Poreic+M/..
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like a blow
^afjpeton ®tmes
TJhe £iee Club
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u/ahpeton Jfigh Schooi
PRESEKt
Uhe {Princess Chrysanthemum
A JAPANESE OPERETTA
MISS ELSIE BOSWORTH. DIRECTOR
Friday, Jfprt'/ 12, at 8:30 !P. Vf.
ACT I. The Emperor's Garden
ACT II. The Cave of Inky Night
ACT III. The Emperor's Garden
Princess Chrysanthemum, The Emperor's
Attendants
Monarch Hubert Wolfe"
Prince-So-Tru In love with Harold Myhra
Prince-So-Sli the Princess Stanley Forbes
Top-Not, Court Chamberlain, Myran Weis
Saucer-Eyes, A Wizard Cat
ia revealed by dally inquiries at the
offices of the state board of universi
ty and school lands. Interest in the
dates for approaching sales of school
lands, the location and valuation of
of insertion is just as important as clever phrasing. The man who
hangs on is the man who wins out. Cato the Elder is an example to
Carthage. In the beginning he lound his conferees very unrespon-
sive. But he kept on everv day. month after month and year after
mercantile
MILLINER SALE
(1} y. 98 A large assortment of trim
JL med hats to select from
VALUES UP TO $6.00
THE WONDER STORE, WAHPETON, NORTH DAKOTA
Lucife Myhra
Do""a
of the
Princess
Fairy Moonbeam, The Princess's Good
Genius Ariel Bassett
The Emporer What-for-Whi, A Merciful
Farrisworth
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Florence Eagon
Helen Martin
Francis Adams
Jerome
SPRITES, FAIRIES AND MAIDENS
a is a
hankeriny for North Dakota^ these lands, is shown in scores of
Wftoor leads the part of the farm- inters coming In every day from
ers in Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota.
By HERBERT KAUFMAN
Author of "Do Something! Be Somethtngl"
A MAN lambasted you on the eye and walked away and waited
a week before he repeateil the performance, he wouldn't hurt
you very badly. Between attacks you would have an opportunity
to recover from the effect of the first blow.
But if he smashed you ami kept mauling, each impact of his fist
would find you less able to stand the hammering, and a half-dozen
jaks would probably knock you down.
Now advertising is, alter all, a matter of hitting the eye of the
public. If you allow too great an interval to elapse between inser
tions of copy the effect of the first advertisement will have worn
away by the time you hit again. You may continue your scattered
talks over a stretch of years, hut you will hot derive the same benefit
that would result from a greater concentration. In other words, by
appearing in print every day. you are able to get the benefit of the
impression created the day before, and as each piece of copy makes
Us^appearance, the result
of y.„,r
Oppenheimer
aRriculturl8ta who
Cato's Follow-up System
ave made a suc-
cess of their profession in the corn
belt and who are attracted to the
Northwest by the high prices guar
anteed for wheat.
publicity on the reader's mind i,
more pronounced—you mustnt stop short of a knock-down im- the world safe tor you. Unless the
tion to every storekeeper who 'iocs not. or twenty years he arose the itichland County Committee has
daily in the Roman senate and cried out for the destruction of -ordered "Charge!" Victory or de-
persistent utterances ot a single man did it.
., people wert- up early that morning,
tne history of every
success
is
tiser who does not let a day slip by without having his say, is bound ,tor-v'
Q-s
UBERHr UMII DRDfE
US 01M IS
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Persistence IS the found i:: of advertising success. Regularity Kvery Liberty Bond sold shortens the "T
roal
fl w*
..r.rv .. it, 'he Third Libcrtv Loan. Our com- 1'iociucuos n.is been in the mak
e\ery merchant who uses the newspapers and should be an mspira- wander.
parallel. The adver-
to be heard and have his ir.iluence felt. Every insertion of copy f,(1'sedthto
brings stronger returns, because it has the benefit of what has been marks that angered the crowd" 'a
said before, until the public's attention is struck like an eye that has ',1*ar-riot. took place, but cooler heads
been so repeatedly struck, that the least touch of suggestion will feel
\y
feat
,l,is
year, sinking into the min i- of all the necessity of destroying ... ipeton to'witness a! pubUc p'erformance
Carthage, until he set all the senate thinking upon the subject, and 'pHi.-d" by '.vn^rv Htiz'ens to^ii-.u""'! I h..,he
the end Rome sent an arntv across the Mediterranean and ended I Public apology' and to kneel .n.l Tiss! 2^ °n of stu
the reign of the Hannibals an Ilamilcars over northern Africa. The ""K- Monday, for making pro
~^. ..... German utterances. Willow Citv
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OF
On April 15 a committee will call
on you to take an active part in help
ing our boys in France go over the
top. They will a:you to buy your
country's bonds. 11,, TT. Govern
ment Bonds ol j.he Thirl Liberty
Loan are a sale investment made nfe
lor the people. They are in tii
highest sense a security of the
people, by the people and for the
people. They are today the safest
investment in the world. Buy them
as a mainspring of our holy endeav
or. As our duty to the boys at the
tront who are today marching to
take part in the greatest tight the
world has ever known, because the 1
Germans have challenged our right.' had a scratch
Inrn •.* 1 ...
"""VVt VUI 1 1^111,
to live at peace with our neighbors.
We must buy that liberty with our
blood and, we that are here at
home must back our boys by lending
to our government. And yet this is
our part in this great world war It
is not a small bit to what our boys
are sacrificing? They are risking
their lives that our liberty may be
safe, and in return they shall need
and weapons to fight our battles.
Prom you who are their resource
and reliance, who are the heart and
hope of that community for which
they smite and strive, must come
these things. Buy your country's
bonds. Do not wait for the commit
tee to call on you. Notify them how
many you can take. They are in the
denominations so low and on such1 them
terms that virtually every citizen of Christmas, 1917
this country may share in the benefit
they bring and the purpose they
aerve. You, Mr. Workingman: What
would your job be worth, if we
should,not win this war. What would
that old Liberty Bell mean if we
were defeated. It would mean you
would De a slave of the Kaiser as the
workingmen of Belgium are today.
Whether you are to be a free man de
pends upon how you invest in these
bonds.
And you Mr. Farmer: You may
raise great crops and become enor
mously rich but what will your
tarms be worth if our armies are de
feated and our women and children
are driven into captivity as the
women and children of Belgium have
been.
We must work on the farms to
feed our boys "over there but we
must put the profit we gain from the
farm into Liberty Bonds that our
Government may buy our wheat.
Our soldiers are doing everything
they can to hold the Germans back,
if they (ail your farms will be levied
to pay the indemnity. Buy a bond
and help drive the Hun back.
Wahpeton will subscribe at least
$»!(),00(1. And now Mr. Businessman,
what would your business be worth
if Uncle Sam is defeated? A Hun
would be placed at the head of every
men are properly eq'uiped their idood V,'-!' 'Ii','nli""-ss
sacrificed to vour selfishness
F. KY^S chairm-m of
rfePen(ls
celebrating the reported allied vic-
an(*
A-
THE HOLT LAND IN PALESTINE
The Times Editor Receives Interesting
Letter From "Scottie" McLaren,
a Brave British Soldier
inK ,or
when they formed a par-
i*'Ivise'1 sen«linB
66 was
(,one-
'Copyright.) were let oft with a public apology.
$1
for the sheriff, whieh
and on his arrival with a
couple ol deputies, the offenders
.98
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NUMBER 50
The writer received the following
very interesting letter last Saturday
from an old printer friend, a brave
Scotch laddie, who has been fighting
with the British army in the Holv
Land:
Palastine, January 29.
Dear Friend Hurly:
I have some time at hand today,
so thought I would write you this
little surprise note to let you know
how your "Scottie" friend is faring
through these times of strife.
I left the old country September
27. I91.i, ami have not had fur
home since. I was three
niontas on Gallipoli, up until the
evacuation, and have served the rest
ol the-,.* 28 long weary months in
Lgypt and Palestine. You will un
doubtedly read of our big advance,
crowned with the capture of Jerusa
lem. I have been through the whole
show, and as has been luck, have not
Yes, we had a most
envious experience during these two
months of "strafing" toward the
Holy City. That joyous shout that
morning we came in sight of Jeru
salem. But I am sorry to say it was
the last cheer for many of our poor
comrades, but I can safely say their
deaths were duly avenged, it was
at this point that 1 could ever call
fighting sport. It was like a game
their bodies, of hounds'and hare am a machU
gunner so I can tell you we had some
sport. It seemed quite good fun at
the time, but after the din of the
battle had quieted and one looked
back at. what he had come through,
it seemed too uncivilized.
I have seen some wondrous sights
in this country, but I would not give
up my own native valley for any of
was the most
miserable I have ever gone through.
We got enters to move on at Xmas
iw at
tack. We marched ov#r tnont miser*
able ground in sheets of rain for
12 hours practically continuous
walking, arriving at our destination
at dawn on Christmas morning,
soaked to the skin. It cannot be ex
pressed in words, how miserable we
felt. We were both hungry and fa
tigued and the prospects of going
out the next day in the hunt for our
Xmas Turk were before us. We
straled on all Xmas week and on New
ear's nay, again in torrents of rain,
we came out of the line victors of an
other light. Wo have been in res.erve
since and although the weather has
not be-m all that is desired, we have
had quite a decent time.
HIGH SCHOOL OIM:UI:TI
What promises to be one of the
prettiest operettas ever given in this
city for some time, is to be presented
this Friday evening, April 12th. by
about sixty .students of the high
school. The operetta is to lie staged
at the opera house and from the ad
vance sale o! tickets a large crowd
is assured. The performance will
commence at 8 ::().
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to Berlin. musical numbers, consisting of solos.
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today on how you an-
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I'1'* is that or a love
'"dispersed with thirty
Pe0PT
"i«' well deserves
Pil,l'onil^- the public.
operetta is to be substituted
V:"'
lor
(he
annual senior class
wi"
hi*h
V,e
srh001
,ast
students. Tickets
dents md can be had for fiity cents.
Reservations tan be made at Wolfe's
Grocery on Thursday and Friday.
The balcony behind the first row will
be opened for sale on the evening of
the performance at thirty-live cents.
No war tax is charged on any admis
sion. See program elsewehere.
Mrs. John Xe.ss and little daugh
ter, Margaret, returned home Mon
day evening from Wyndmere after
spending several days at the C. D.
Clipfel home.
Wash Dresses
For Children
Age 2 to 12 Years
Sale price
69c