The Wahpeton times. [volume], July 18, 1918, Image 1

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VOLUME XLIII
One Hundred and Sixty
Seven Will Be Selected
for Service—Entrain
for Camp Custer Next
Tuesday—To Be En
tertained by Reserve
Company
One hundred ninety one men
have been called for examination
before the county board for next
Monday morning at nine o'clock.
Of these one hundred and sixty
seven men will entrain for Camp
Custer, Mich., the next day at
10:30 over the Great Northern.
Just at this time «*e mole
country is aflame with patriotism,
the kind of do and win stuff that
counts. These youths of the selec
tive service, are called to fill the
quota from this county and they
are more than willing that this is
their call, in the majority of cases.
In some cases a. few has appeared
before the county board and claim
ed exemption on the grounds' of
being married, but after the facts
have been simmered down it be
came known that these men had
been married after the proclama
tion of May 18, 1917, and so they
ar required to remain in class one.
These boys, like the others will
be taken from amongst us. and
while our well wishes go with them
it is up to them, to sustain the
honor of our flag, when it comes
up to them, will do it. Should the
honor be theirs to plant the first
American flag on the palace of
Potsdam, and that flag will be the
first one, that honor will always
be remembered, not only by them
tot jbijr the community as
The tiiiie is n©w at hand when the
ranks of our boys across the pond
is being thinned by the enemy in
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M. B. A. ENTERTAINS
The local society of Modern Broth
erhood for America had an entertain
ment last Monday nightin honor of its
young men that have gone or ahput to
go to the front.
The entertainment was an address
by Judge Van Ariuuu. tlttueiitj iml re-'
freshments.
This is one of the liveliest fraternal I
societies in the town and this event
while it had its pathetic parts, was on
the whole, was a very pleasant one.
One more star was added to their
service flag, in honor of Mr. John
Diedrick, who leaves next Tuesday for
Camp Ouster, with Richland County's
quota. Mr. Diedrick has been an of
ficer and a faithful member of the so
ciety for a number of years.
WOMAN BADLY INJURED
WHILE DRIVING HAY RAKE
Mrs. Wm. Mittendorf daugh
ter-in-law of Mrs. Mittendorf of
Wahpeton, was taken to the St.
Francis hospital last Thursday
suffering from frightful injuries
sustained when a team she was
driving on a hay rake, ran away
and threw her onto the ground.
The woman's body is a mass of
fearful gashes and bruises, some
of the former being nearly a foot
in length and several inches deep.
She underwent an operation at
the hospital the same evening.
WHITE CANVAS
PUMPS
Are cool, good-looking and thrifty. Our Pumps are thor
orally well made and fit to perfection.
Colonial style, French heel and hand turned Qfi
sole, our former price was $3.48, sale price
OLDER MEN OF
CIIY TURN OUT
MIGHT
Will Pay Freight
On Carload Lots to
Richland Co. Fair
Even gray haired men have got
the enthusiasm of coming out to
drill, while some of their younger
brothers, ivavbe in fact a son, who
to busy idling his time away,
doing something useless, while
military movements i-ould be learn
ed .before they become part of the
national army when the time ar
rives and be able to rise in ::ik
immediately.
During the week ago the re
serve company members passed
cards around the city of Wahpe
ton asking the citizens who were
physically able to sign up as a
member of the company and come
out to drill, every, every Monday
night or when the call was issued
for the men to appear. A large
number of men signed these cards,
but only the real red blooded ones
appeared, with a few absent, with
reasonable excuses. If its worth the
nbnor and word of a man to sign'
a card its worth the time to be
present at eaoh drill, of course un
advoidable attendance is not count
ed.
RESERVE COMPANY WILL HELP
IN TMQN6IMREOF I. W. W.'S
The other day a gang of about
fourten men came to this city and
were looking tor work, but decid
ed to stick out for certain wages
and hours. They happened up to
the corner of Sixth street where
a well known citizen of Wahpetou
overheard the above conversation
and just then the reserve company
came out to drill and they thought
immediately that this was no
place to foment industrial trouble
and all went out to work at the
.prevailing hours and wages.
At the same time this became
known to the public (Japt. Louns
bury of the reserve company stat
ed he had received a letter from
the Fargo war council in which
they stated that they had informa
tion that last year the I- W. W. or
ganization in this state intended
to burn wholesale the grain erops
and elevators and further added
that it was the wish of this coun
cil that the company be recruited
to as full a strength as possible
and be in as good a shape as an or
ganization as possible, because it
was no telling when such a thing
might become a fact this year, and
it was only through such organized
bodies as the reserve company of
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A
boost to the county to have the
best fair ever this year, and the
results derived will benefit one and
all directly.
OLE JE8LUM ATTEMPTS SUI
CIDE BY MM HIS THROAT
Mr., Ole Jeglum, a tailoring man of
Dwight, tried to take his life, last Fri
day morning, by cutting his throat. He
made a great gash in his throat with a
razor, but did not succeed in peue
trating the jugular vein. He was very
weak from the loss of blood, when
found by his wife. Dr. Durkee was
summoned and the patient was soon
on the road to recovery.
Hr. Jeglum had been very despond
ent, for some time over financial mat
ters. He owed a few small accounts
which he was unable to pay, which
led to the rash act.
Dr. Durkee being a man as well as
a physician ministered to his financial
and mental as well as to his physical
troubles and conditions are better in
the Jeglum home.
®f)e l^afjpeton Cimes
At the meeting of the thresher
men in this city Saturday after
noon County Agent Wolf took
time enough, to explain some things
about the county fair, in part he
said:
"1 want you gentlemen to un
derstand this thoruoghly that
this is not a Wahpeton County
Fair but a Richland County Fair,
aiid it concerns every man pres
ent. It may not seem the proper
time to discuss this fair at this
meeting but we don't always have
such a representative body of men
together and 1 want to say that we
are going to this year pay the
freight on all live stock and ex
hibits shipped to the fair this year
How are we going to do it. By
carload lots. Through the farmers
clubs it will be arrangde to have a
ear load from the different points
in the county. The fair board will
see that the exhibits are taken
care of and resliipped home. Thus
you will see that it will cost yon
no more to have an exhibit at the
fair than were you living near to
Wahpeton. It has always been a
bone fo contention, were I living
near Wahpeton, it wouldn't be so
much trouble to bring in a
prize animal, or other exhibits, but
this year that contention has been
done away with. The Red River
valley isknowaall over the world
as the 'bread basket of the western
continent and that when eastern
people who come here during the
fair if they only saw",two or three
exhibits of wheat, would naturally
say, why they don't raise any
wheat around here, and so it
would naturally be the same with!
all other exhibits.
"So now you gentlemen here.
while out in the county should be
talking about the county fair, ami I
help to arrange for a carload or!
two or three of exhibits to ship to!
the county fair here. It will be a
WAHPETON, RICHLAND COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 18.1918
191 OF MUI MOTS TOIING MEN Ml 1MUEI DEI SJJl» IT CITY
CHiiEOTB DEFHBE OF WHITS HMWRHMI III WSHK1 FIRM I Mm Mum
WOMEN'S KNIT
UNION SUITS
Wahpeton Reserve
Company Takes Up
Company I's Debts
Tl»e Wahpeton Reserve company
at its regular business meeting af
ter drill Monday night, almost un
animously agreed to pay the four
hundred and forty dollars against
company J, debts contracted from
the time the armory was built un
til the boys left for France.
The Reserve company has on
hand some fifteen hundred1 dollars,
the majority of which was derived
from the Fourth of July celebra
tion. held at Island Park, just
passed. The boys of the company
thought that the men who are now
in France should feel that when
they return to this city that they
wonM know that debts contract
ed by them as a company, were
paid by the boys at home.
It was also agreed to send the
receipts of these bills to Capt.
'I'lioiiisin in Frai.ce and let him
forward the word that the b'.'N at
honu- are -i!! paid to the boys, i'or
iuerly of his coinp-riiiy, if any have
been sent to other units
1 his action of the reserve com
pany should meet the hearty ap
proval of every eitzen in Wahpe
ton and UiehUiii county and the
endorsement :f this con.pany
should grow and in fact is gi- wr
ing stronger every day as time
nits by. The boys are unassuming
,bu1^ they are doing their might in
trying to help the government win
the war.
1
RESERVE BAHO ORBAHIZEO
Last Sunday afternoon at the
armory, fifteen men met and or
ganized the nucleus of the reserve
band which will hereafter be on
hand for all entertainments, etc.,
whenever a band is needed. Many
old timers are getting their lips in
to shape and also many young
members who know how to play
real good on band instruments are
intermingled with the older ones
and in a few good practices will
be able to discourse some real mu
sic of the martial kind for all pa
triotic entertainments.
This band after it becomes fully
organized will be equipped with
reserve uniforms and will make a
splendid appearance, and will lead
parades* of all kinds in the future.
They will 110 doubt be seen for
the first time, next Monday even
ing when they will lead the selec
tive boys to the hall of entertain
from the court house. All
Wahpeton and vicinity have miss
ed the band for the last year and
during the last farewell the Fair
mount band had to be called upon
to fill the job. Tliis will now be
avoided. The band is practicing
hard and it is the universal con
sensus of opnion that they will
make a splendid showing next
Monday evening.
Mrs. Wilbor Epoch of Everett, Wash,
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Maurice Murphy of Rreckenridge. Mrs.
Epoch was formerly Miss Tda'Murphy.
VERY SPECIAL PRICES PREVAIL
at the wonder store
DURIN3 OUR MIDSUMMER CLEARANCE SALE
We have on tand a large number of Ribbed Union Suits
forsummer, in all sizes. Former price $1.00.
A very remarkable Rfhg* I
value at Uvv
WAHPETON TEAM
DEFEATS DWIGHT
E
Last Sunday afternoon the
Wahpeton baseball team journey
ed to Dwight, where they met and
defeated the fast team that repre
sents that place on heir own dia
mond, by he score of 9 to 3. It was
not until the eighth inning was
the game put. on ice and all during
the game it was a question which
team would win. Clever pitching
by the Dwight pitcher, who had
plenty of speed, enough to singe
the horsehide. with a fast breaking
courve, and with a change of pace
with a beautiful slow ball, mixed
up so perfectly that more than
twice in succession he sat down the
man with the big stick.
Brahy for Wahpeton twirled ex
cellent ball and more than once!
crawled out of a hole (that is the
mound was reversed), and the
ability of the Wahpeton outfield
ers stood out prominently. (Hush i-
In all it was a clever, fast and
neat exhibition of ball and the side
line bleachers were kept in a hu
morous state of mind, by that old
favorite. Doe Durkee.
OLE K. ULSAKER DIES SUNDAY
FOLLOWING PARALYTIC STROKE
Mr- Ole K. Ulsaker died at his
home Sunday night. He had a
paralytic stroke several weeks ago,
and has been gradually growing
weaker, until the end. The funer
al was conducted in the church,
by Rev. Dalit, Wednesday after
noon.
Mr. Ulsaker was born in .Nor
way, Dec. 1st, 1849, came to Am
erica as a bov, was educated at
St. Olaf College, Northfield. Minn,
and the Luther College at. Decorah
Iowa, lie came to Dakota
and
lo
eated in the northern part of the
county in 1878, was elected and
came to Wahpeton as county treas
urer in 1881. an office he held for
five terms- He was married to Miss
Cecil IIuss in 1885. To this union
five children were born. Mrs. Os
car Erickson, of Hatton, Oscar, a
lawyer located at Moore, Mont..
Carl a lieutenant
in
No money for the Red Cross! Pick
up that tin foil, tobacco wrappings,
gum wrappings to ball it up, drop it in
Whiting's contribution box at his drug
store. Worth 2S cents a pound. Sold
for Red Cross.
WAHPETON
only, while they last,
per pair
Official City Paper
NUMBER 11
Meeting Called to Order
by County Agent Wolf
—Paul Kinn Chairman
—No Inspector of Ma
chines Appointed—Cit
izens of Wahpeton Will
Assist In Harvest
Two hundred threshennen from
oyer Richland County met at tho
City hall Saturday afternoon
discussed the crop and labor
situaiton and the parfrt they
will play this fall in helping to
save every kernel of grain of alL
classes that will be harvested in
this county this fall.
The meeting was called to order
at about two fifteen with about
sixty present and before an hour
had passed the remainder of those
present came in and took" part in
the discussion of quest ion that
came up before them.
County Agent Geo. ]?, Wolf
called the meeting to order and
Paul Kinn of Ilankinson was elect
ed chairman and then County Ag
ent Wolf acting as spokesman told
the reasons why the meeting was
called and what was hoped to be
derived from it.
The government, has asked that
all county councils of defense in
case where there is no county ag
ent. to call the threshers together
and impress upon them the need
of saving all the food grains that
possibly can this fall more than
ever. The necessity of having the
machines in good repair and sav
ing of grain by using tight, bundle
racks, a thorough clean up around
the machines and not threshing
when the grain is tough. Among
the things that the Food Admin
istration through its circulars wish
ed that every thresher be prepared
nthe following ways: Seeing that
each machine is in good repair,
sufficient labor, placing of coal
and gasoline orders now so that
they can be filled when needed
The meeting then proceeded to dis
cuss these phases of the situation.
The question came up whether
there were enough rigs in the coun
ty to handle the crop this fall, and
Mr. Kinn, the chairman thought
that there were enough rigs in the
county to fresh all the grain in
twenty days of actual work.
The county council of defense
which consists of the County Aud
itor, the County Commissioners
and County Superintendent of
Schools, were requested by the
government to appoint
and
the army,
and
in Frnce. Walter and Lawrence at
home.
The whole community sympath
izes with the bereaved familv.
a
sr.-
LADIES' COTTON
HOSIERY
Superior lisle finish, fast dyes, wide welt top, double
jphced heel and toe, all sizes, black and white
retired
tliresherman to have the power of
inspecting rigs on cam plaint of 3
farmer who said that the machine
at his place was not threshing
clean and that, there was too much
grain going into the straw stack,
said appointee to have the
power to stop all such rigs in ease
they were not doing good work
and
order such repairs made a*
he deemed necessary This the
defense
neil turned over to the
threshe'»i:»n to pi (he man they
wanted to fill this position, as they
were the ones directly concerned.
After considerable discussion and
with several tributes of praise as
to his ability, Frank Forman of
this city, who at the presnt time,
is in the confectionery business in
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