The Wahpeton times. [volume], April 25, 1918, Image 1

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WOE»DIG HIT HERE
"The Volunteers," appeared at
theWahpeton Opera House on
Monday and Tuesday nights to
packed houses and many had to
be turned away for lack of room.
The company had just come from
Canada showing the towns along
the way and when they reached
Wahpeton were greeted with
cordial hospitality by our people,
and the Reserve company of this
city escorted the Volunteers
about the city in autos and show
ed them around. At the Armory
hall Monday afternoon and at the
City Hall the following afternoon
the Volunteers related some of
their exploits and experience on
the European battlefields.
The audience witnessed the
transition of a raw recruit to a
perfect piece of fighting machin
ery, and the fortunes of a Canad
ian battalion were followed from
the time of enlistment until the
brave lads met the Hun in death
grips in France.
There were four acts and 12
scenes in the production inter
sperced with a scream, a riot of
mirth and side-splitting comedy,
and of whijph was produced re
gardless of expense, so that a
worthy and faithful production
was witnessed. These included
a scene outside of the recruiting
office, where the prospective
rookies made the acquaintance
of the suave recruiting corporal
the orderly room, where the re
cruits woe attested the barrack
room oh beard the transport
ship, "Calgarian the trenches
N&Man's-Land on the road to
billets the brigade and signaling
headquarters. During the per
formances the audience witness
ed some flesh and blood charact
ers which went to show the ami
position of every battalion of the
C. E. P.
Manager Brown is to be con
gratulated on securing the pro
duction of this as well as other
high class productions and by so
doing he is assured the support
of the people of Wahpeton and
territory.
The Reserve corps are also
to be commended for the wel
come and entertainment furnish
ed the visiting Canadian soldiers.
The company is showing und
er the auspices of the Canadian
government and the idea is to in
terest young men of British birth
in enlisting and Sergt. George
D. Gittus of the 12th C. M. D.,
author of the production, is an
official recruiting officer. He in
formed the Times that the hos
pitality and welcome extended
them by the people of Wahpeton
was out of the ordinary and
would long be cherished by them
as a sacred memory.
If yoo are sick call Phone 123,
or see Blocher, your Chiro
practor 43tf.
WILL WORK GERMAN
PRISONERSJ THIS U. S.
Reports from Washington state
that beginning immediately all
German prisoners of war must
work and earn their keep. There
are now nearly 1,400 inmates in
the enemy prison camps at Fort
McPherson and Oglethorpe, Ga.,
and they will be place# on road
construction work on anew sys
tem of roads about the forts.
FORMER WAHPETON YOUNG
LADY WEDS ABERDONIAN
The Times received the follow
ing clipping from Miss Mamie
O'Connor of Aberdeen, S. D., tak
en from the April 17 issue of the
Daily American of that city, and
we reproduce the same here
with:
"A 8:00 o'clock yesterday morn-1
ing occured the marriage of Syl
vester J. Bowe, better known as!
"Steve" Bowe, to Etta Maude
Kelley. The marriage was sol
emnized at the Church of the!
Sacred Heart, Rev. Fr. Dermody
officiating. Miss Mame O'Con-jcounty
nor of Aberdeen acted as brides
maid, and Mr. Gene Bowe of
Minneapolis, Minn., football star
of St. Thomas college and a
brother of the groom, acted as
best man.
The bride was attired in a
traveling suit of navy blue with
cherry-red hat and wore a cor
sage of roses and sweet peas.
Miss Kelley was formerly of
Wahpeton, N.
D.,
VOLUME XLII VVAHPETON, RICHLAND COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1918
having lived
there several years. She
been for
tbe past
and efficient member, jf
has
year a genial
the
Sherman hotel fdrce and will be
greatly missed by the traveling
public among whom she had
many friends. Mr. Bowe has for
several years affiliated with the
Northwestern Life Insurance Co.
of Aberdeen.
A dainty four-course wedding
breakfast was served by Mrs.
Dan O'Connor, mother of the
bridesmaid. The table was beau
tifuily decorated with a large
basket center-piece of flowers,
and ferns.
The happy couple will be miss-1
ed by their host of friends in this
city. They will be at home after I
May 1 at 4300 Blaisdell Avenue,
Minneapolis, Minn.
WILL DUILD NEW QI-OPtR
ATIVE ELEVATOR IN
Forman, N. D., April 25—The
stockholders of the Co-operative
Elevator Company of Forman
held a special meeting and voted
to build a modern fifteen thous
and dollar elevator, having out
grown the present structure.
Carrying booze in North Da
kota is classed as a hazardous
occupation.
Mr. and Mes. Albert Chezik returned
Monday from California Monday.
MISS M. GHEZIK
NOT A CANDIDATE
Miss Mary Movius of Lidger
wood phoned this office last Sat
urday to the effect that Miss M.
Chezik is not a candidate for the
office of County Superintendent
of Schools in Richland county, is
not a member of the Nonpartis
an leage and would not consider
the nomination. Miss Movius
was authorized to speak for Miss
Chezik and that puts a quietous
on the false rumor that has been
going the rounds for some time.
NORTH DAKOTA LUTHERANS
SECURE LARGE AMOUNT
North Dakota Lutherans sub
scribed $62,159.72 for the seven
hundred fifty thousand fund rais
ed by that church for mainte
nance of religious work in the
United States army.
According to a report just
made public by State Chairman
R. A. Nestos of Minot, Richland
contributed two thousand
sixty-six dollars and forty cents.
According to the official report
of average retail prices for the
country, North Dakota prices for
butter are quoted lower than any
where else in the union with one
exception, Wyoming bananas
ure higher in this state than any
where else in the United States.
The last war department ord
er fpr the selective draft will put
fieany 2,5QP North
Dakota
youfeg
in a
May. in class one. It will not do
any good to marry to escape the
draft.
Victory is a
Question
|THD STATES FOOD
fc.
STMD DEBG SENT
TO RUML SCHOOLS
The state aid provided by the
last legislature' for rural schools
standardized by the state board
of education last August is now
being sent- out to "the school
treasurers, of the several school
districts. The delay was due to
the fact that taxes were slow in
coming in this year.
The amount distributed is 92,
148.85 dollars the largest in the
history of the state. This is an
increase of over thirty-two thous
and dollars more than a year
ago. For next year the sum
total available is 112,500 dollars.
The
rural
state aid is distributed
among
three general classes of
schools,namely: One-room,
graded,
and consolidated graded
schools.
ed into
These in turn are grad­
first, second and third
Classes.
The amount of money sian Guard German mess
that
each school receives depends! and fork.
upon its class and the tax rate of!
district. For the one-room
rural
schools, the state aid for
year
ranges from 30 to 150 dol
lars
for graded schools, from 50
io .300 dollars and for consolidat
ed
graded schools, from 138.07
tc 552 dollars. The one-room
a go he
amount, but the aid for the con
solidated schools had to be pro
rated on account of the large
number classifying in proportion
to the funds available.
The largest proportion of this
state aid goes to the western
counties on account of the large
number of schools classifying
and the much htgfeir tax rateeji'
there. For instance* Bowman
and Divine counties, separately
or combined, get more of the
state aid than do the more popul-
Stamina
of
Send-the Wheat
Sugar
the fuel for Fldtiters
Wishes Won't Smash Hindenburg Line
COLD CASH AND STEEL MUSI GO OVER THE TOP TOGETHER
Every Idle Dollar Is An Enemy Alien
Make up your mind to
ABOVE SPACE IS DONATED BY THE WONDER STORE
HBTRATION
a Bond
VOLUNTEER COMPANY DIS
PLAYED GERMAN TROPHIES
Members of "The Volunteer,''
the show troup which appeared
at the Wahpeton Opera House
Monday night, displayed a rare
exhibit of German trophies cap
tured while they were on the
field of battle. They were on
exhibition in a local show win
dow. The Canadians were not
very particular what they took
away from Fritz. The exhibit
consisted of soma Prussian belts,
on the buckles of which were en
graved the words, "Gott Mit
Uns a brilliantly decorated
German pipe shrapnel bullets
and pieccs of shells shrapnel
helmets and artillerymen's hel
an E is a
French bullets British gas mask
marble from the cathedral of
Rheims German cigarette case
tassel from officer of the Prus
knife
PENNEY STORES PLACE A
MILLION OOLUR ORDER
The local managers of the J. C.
Penney Co.'s Golden Rule stores
were in Grand Forks a few days
ago where thev met the eastern
representatives and placed orders
for future delivery. This cor
poration, according to the Dry
Goods Economist, did a five mil
lion dollar business in shoes last
year. One order
which
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Ou,
they
gave recently was for one mil
lion dollars worth of shoes.
BROTHER Of MRS.
I
BOUT
DIES NEAR HANNNSON
Fred Falk, a brother of Mrs.
Carl Popp and Mrs. Herman
Boldt of Wahpeton, died of pneu
monia at his home near Hankin
sonlast week. He was one of
Richland county's pioneer settlers
locating at Hankinson 37 years
ago. He was a native of Ger
many and was 52 yeors of age at
the time of his death. He came
to America and married Amelia,
Voltz and to this union 16 child-!
ren were born, 13 of whom sur
vive. A son, Herman, who re
sides at Wolf Point, Mont., came
home to attend the funeral which
took place last Saturday from the
German Immanuel church, the
Rev. Oberdoerster presiding. All
other members of the family are
residents of Richland county.
The aged mother of the deceased
mnkes her home with Mrs.
Boldt.
ous and wealthy counties of
Richland and Pembina, having as
they do more standardized
schools and paying higher tax
rates. This is as it should be,,
for this money is provided not
only to hold and advance stand
ards, but to help the less wealthy
districts in a financial way
S.
NUMBER 52
HELP NEEDED TO FILL
WMPETONCOXL DINS
Getting the coal is not the only
problem Wahpeton dealers face
this season. The labor situation
is another big factor they must
take cognizance of.
A Wahpeton dealer stated yes
terday that his ability to fill the
many orders now on file in his
office earlp this summer depends
on his ability to get and keep the
necessary help.
One of the causes threatening
coal shortage in Fargo early last
winter was lack of help to un
load the coal cars in the summer.
Several dealers stated yesterday
that they started to ship in coal
early last summer and when the
coal arrived they had to pay de
murage because they failed to
unload the coal within the time
limit allowed. "So we stopped
the coal shipments," said one
dealer. "The result was that
when cold weather came there
was but very little coal in Wah
peton and we had a hard time to
get cars to haul it in then. We
must get plenty of help to handle
the coal this summer while we
can get cars for it or we will face
the same conditions next fall and
winter."
Wahpeton coal dealers are not
complaining on the profits of the
business under the present gov
ernment regulation. Unlike re
ports from cities in the east, none
of them are thinking of going
out of business here.
Under the present fuel regula
tions retail dealers are allowed to
deliver up six tons of hard coal
to a householder at once. After
all the customers have been pro
vided up to this amount the deal
ers can begin to add to the sup
ply of those households requiring
larger amounts.
TOMORROWJJDERTY DAY
Friday, April 26, has been des
ignated under presidential proc
lamation as Liberty Day. Patri
otic demonstrations and the
pledging anew their financial
support to sustain the nation's
cause is asked of all loyal citizens
S00 DEPOT AT MANTADOR
IS BURNED TO GROUND
The Soo Line depot at Manta
dor was destroyed' by fire last
week, the cause being unknown,
and the loss included all freight
and express. A boxcar is now
used as a temporary depot.
The Times has on hand a stock
of the latest food application
cards, copy for which was pre
pared by Dr. Ladd, state food
administrator. These cards are
sold in small lots at 25c per 100,
one dollar for 500 and one dollar
fifty cents for 1,000. Cards will
be mailed to any address the day
order is received.
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