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B. TASBBH Olrenlattoa Wanager
Toreifn B*7resentatlv«e!
Avenue, How
Generals of the olden time operated over wide ex
panses of territory which were often destitute of popula
tion, and which, again, were 'peopled only by peasants
and villagers who took no part in the proceedings. To
illustrate the point we need, not go back to the time of
Alexander and Caesar, but have only to glance at the
events of our own civil war. Grant at Vlcksburg, Sher
man on his march to the sea, Sheridan with his rapidly
moving columns, Lee «.t Gettysburg, all operated under
conditions which have no parallels in the field where the
greatest battles of this war are being fought. Relatively,
ihey commanded few men. They had a freedom of move
ment which is unknown in France. Their campaigns
were fluid, and in them all there was the wide sweep
of action that the crowd always loves to see.
Thus far the operations in Prance have more nearly
resembled a continuous siege, with men massed in close
formation, and gains or losses often measured by yards.
Foch, the master strategist, has matters In his own
hands, and we may view his work in the large, but those
who support him. Petaln, Haig and Pershing, stand
elbow to elbow, with their forces in many cases overlap
ping and intermingled, so that except to the initiated it
Is Impossible to identify their work or follow it contin
uously.
There have been exceptions, of course. When the
fun history of the war is written, if it ever Is,' some
thrilling chapters will be devoted to the campaigns on
the Russian front and along the northern slopes of the
Carpathians, where, utfler conditions of strategy more
nearly resembling those of our civil war, great armies
swung back and forth across hundreds of miles of coun
try, and where the long march was more familiar than
the trench raid We will learn, too, more a^out the ad
vance of the British np the Tigris valley, of the obstacles
met and how they were overcome. We will, perhaps see
the laconic dispatch telling that a British force had
taken possession of Baku expanded into a war classic
we are told of forced marches across a broken and desert
country to gain the shores of the. Caspian and make se
cure from Gei^nan control the great oil depot of south
eastern Europe-.
All of these stories will be told, and the telling ot
them in such form that they'will seize upon the Imagin
ation will be a worthy task for milky great writers. But
of the campaigns in the west, where the men are massed
and the trenches are deep and strong, what Is to be said
of our generals and our men up to the 'present save that
they fought, and fought, and fought, again? Unless,
perhaps, the variations are to come, and that presently
the Huns will be got into sufficiently rapid motion for our
generals to weave some picturesque features around the
maroh to Berlin J.
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TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 27, 1918.
SUBMARINES OFF OUR COAST
A submarine has been operating off the eastern
coast of the United States. One ^report says that there
are as many as six of these craft. They are, of course,
seeking an opportunity to destroy some of the transports
which. an leaving our eastern ports every day. We are
sending men across the ocean at the rate of 300,000 a
month. That means that several transports are sailing
laden with men, every day. The fact is well known to
the Germans. The Germans know from which of cor
ports it is possible to send these vessels, and it requires
no great astuteness on their part for them to understand
that within a certain time ships must sail from this or
that particular port. Yet/the stream of men process
without Interruption. Whatever effort has been made
to Interfere with them has been unavailing. The victims
of the submarines thus far have been fishing smacks, of
•which several have been sunk. One of these fishing vw
sela, tnwtnari of being sunk, was captured, which was a
perfectly easy and simple operation, and it was manned
iai aimed from the submarine, and went on. its way as
a German raider.
These things are annoying, but it is scarcely possi
ble to prevent them. The fact that they do occur occa
sionally is no reflection on our navy, which is doing ts
•work, and doing it well The submarines will be sunk
or this side of the Atlantic will be made too hot for
them- Then, in some unexpected quarter another sub
marine vDl appear, t6 run its course and be succeeded
by another. So long as Germany has seaports and the
material with which "to build submarines, she will be able
to set submarines Into deep water, and, once there, they
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may bob up anywhere.
WAR AS A SEW SCIENCE
War, one of the oldest occupations of man, has be
come a new science, and reputations won in it must, for
the greater part, be won in a manner different from that
with which we have become familiar in studying the
lives of the world's great generals. So far as the on
looker is concerned, the spectacular element which al
ways attended the campaign of movement has been prac
tically obliterated, and we have come to basepur esti
mate of an army on its ability to give and take punish
ment rather than on its ability to perform surprising and
unexpected feats.
IWtt
Many men have got Into trouble by signing their own
damn .Others have involved themselves in complica
tions by signing the name* of other people. But, so long
the use of names at the end of documents Is the usual
thing, it seems to be reasonable that the name shall be
write** in such a manner that it can be read, .. This
^Js a point often overlooked. .^?
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.purpose^/jtt |i» supposed to Identify tile signer, that 4*
to Convey to the Trader information as to the
*f-the document or communication, and\ife is sup- the ejnstructio^ of .plants and the selection and isolleetion
posed to be a means of guarding against forgery. -Ex
cept Cor the latter reason all names might as well be
typewritten or printed with a robber stamp.
The Average signature is a fearsome thing/ A few
months ago a Minneapolis paper published faMtwii..
of the signatures, of several dozen. Minneapolis bankers.
Most of them were illegible. Occasionally there was one
in which the scrawl suggested certain initials, and In
that case the person -.whose acquaintance was Vrnong
Minneapolis bankera might guess at the rest But in
nearly every case the signature was achieved In such a
manner that if it had been appended to a letter sent to a
stranger 'the stranger would have been utterly unable to
tell whether the name was Tom Smoth or Bill Jones,
Rear Admiral Wood, who seems to have headquar
ters at Boston has issued an order to his subordinates
which might profitably be made the basis of a general
law. Hereafter, when an' officer under the admiral's
jurisdiction writes him a letter or forwards to him a re
port, if the use of a typewriter is practicable, the name
will appear in the simple and legible typewriter char
acters, to be followed by the personal signature of the
writer, with all the flourishes that he cares to attach to
it- The admiral will thus have the"advantage of know
ing from whom the missive is received, while'the author
will not be denied the 'gymnastic exercise from which so
many signers seem to derive pleasure!
GUARD THE CHILDREN
Physicians report an unusual number of cases of dis
ease of. \he familiar summer type, particularly among liV
tle children. The Board of Health and tho city physician
have published warnings with reference to care In feed
ing and general treatment, and these warnings should be
heeded.
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Most of the troubles of the little ones Just now. can
be traced to sudden changes in temperature, to unsuit
able food, or to both- To .counteract the former the ob
vious course is to see that the child is properly clotned
and is not subjected needlessly to great and sudden
changes of'heai and cold. On a boiling hot day the child
Is naturally more comfortable as lightly clothed as pos
sible, byt If this great heaf: Is followed quickly by a cool
ing of the air, which is quite common, the thinly clad
child is given a shock which may easily be followed by
a whole train of ills. Heavy clothing in hot weatner is
an abomination, but the authorities seem to be agreed
that the best combination oi comfort and safety are to be
obtained by the use of a thin garment of light wool next!
to the child's skin. This is not uncomfortable In hot
weather, but the absorbent and non-conducting properties
of the wool tend to prevent chills which may be disas
trous.
In the matter of food, simplicity-Is'the rule.# Under
feeding is safer for the normal child than over-reedlng.
With the exception of certain fruit juices, uncooked foods
are to be avoided. There should be scrupulous care as to
and absolute purity of milk and water. Food of all
kinds should be freshly prepared, and It is needless to
say that all dishes and utensils used in connection with
it should be immaculate.
Details of care and treatment must be governed by
the ascertained needs of the Individual child. There is
n$ general rule whidh applies to all cases, and there is no
unfailing authority as to the course to be pursued in any
individual case. That which comes nearest to infallibility
is the scientific skill of the family physician who is
familiar with the child from birth with the observation
and eternal vigilance of a wise and loving mother. This
combination is not infallible, but there is nothing known
which equals it
The fact that a given child w^s fed in a given' way
with good results is not necessarily a guide for the feed
ing of another child. One may be robust and the other
frail- One may be highly nervous and another phlegmat
ic. The digestion of one may be perfect while that of
the other is not In a section of Chicago's West Side, in
habited by Italian tenement dwellers, children of all ages,
down to the very youngest, may be seen In the hottest
weather parading the streets and regaling themselves
freely on green cucumbers, over-ripe melons and other
odds and ends which they have picked up from the pave
ment or begged or pilfered from passing hucksters, and
The Herald has it from a physician who has practiced
for years In that district that the children are an unusual
ly healthy lot, little given to digestive disturbances. To
most.of our children a course of that treatment would be
as fa^tal as a German invasion.
The whole thing may be summarized in the recom
mendation to prevent disease, if possible, by good care
and judicious feeding, and, on the first sign of disturb
ance that is not thoroughly understood, call the family
physician.
TWENTY THOUSAND AIRPLANES
Tlya country become rather familiar ttith the state
ment that the United States would have 20,000 battle
planes in France early this summer. That Statement
was generally assumed to have come from the! war de
partment, which is incorrect The war department made
no aucii prediction, but it seems to have erred, in permit
ting the statement to go so long unchallenged.
Doubtless thousands of people have read that state
ment without realizing in the slightest degree what it in
volved. The outstanding thought was that great squad
rons of American planes were to go sailing across Ger
many, dropping bombs at will on everything in sight,
sinking ships at Kiel and Wllhelmshaveh, destroying tfye
Kiel canal, bloyrfng up the bridges across the Rhine,
blasting munitions factories to powder, and, as a fitting
climax, obliterating the imperial palace at Potsdam, it
was a fine program—°n paper.-
Flying is one of the arts in which success depends
on the skill of the Individual operator more than in
most other branches of the service, hence, to make such
a fleet 'Of airplanes effective, it would be necessary to
train 20,000 men to a very high degree of perfection in
the art of flying under war conditions. That would oe
quite an army. But to allow for the necessary
Theee ltewu deal with but a few features, There is
In addltibn the actual building of planes, which Involves
(rest,
cas­
ualties and so forth, that training would have to be given,
not to 20,000, but to perhaps 100,000 men
To keep,an airplane in service requires the servtc.«
of others than flyers- There must be mechanics and
helpers of all sorts.. In the British air service, in which
some efficiency has been reached, the complement /is 7 *4U*len that in some measure always
men to each plane. -Multiply that by the proposed ntun- fe^^JS^truthhum^n^Hghtg
ber of planes, and we have close to a million men. in this
branch of the service alone. Since the war began we
have transported' 1,500,000 men of all classes across the
ocean. We thlnk'we have done Well. Otho* nations think
that we have Odne marvelously well. Men could not have
been,sent faster, for therei have not been ships to e^jriy
them* If we had devoted two-thirds of our forte W air
craft work, wouldn't our program have been A little one
ild4d?
3RAND FORKS HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1918:
oeefctAi. auarn
of material and many other .matters
which are now under discussion.
There would be, on this side, the im
portant feature of the selection and
preparation of training grounds and
the development of capable instruc
tors. Across the water the housing
of such a number of planes would re
quire untold quantities of lumber arid
other material, and the services of
thousands upon thousands of arti
sans. One writer has made an esti
mate of the area that would be re
quired merely for the landing of such
a number of planes, and his conclu
sion is that there is not enough level
ground within working diptancj back
of our lines\ between the North sea
and Switzerland to provide the neces
sary landing space. Evidently the
Idea that airplanes must land occa
sionally did not occur to some of the
enthusiasts.
The Sinking German
(From Minneapolis Journal.)
Nothing better contrasts the char
acter of the German and the French
people than the temper in'Which they
take defeat France reduced in ter
ritory and in the numbers of her
fighting men is more nearly undefeat
able than at the beginning of^the war.
As Victor Hugo said of Mllhaud's
cuirassiers at the Battle of Waterloo:
"As their numbers diminshed they
multiplied by ten." The thought of
ultimate defeat has never been enter
tained by the French mind.
The German people on the other
hand, whose armies have fed and
bedded on French soil for four yeaxs
and that yet hold the richest eighth
of French territory, now that their
fighters have had to retire from the
Marne salient, are wringing their
hands in woe. "The Marne defeat
has produced unspeakable scenes of
despair In Berlin," says the Berliner
Tageblatt, and adds: "Such outbreaks
of utter discouragement and down
heartedness never before were wit
nessed." Yet but an acre or two of
German soil has been marred by the
enemy. Not one bomb has yet been
dropped on Berlin.
Aside from the fact that the Ger
mans are a subject people, and in
that measure dependent on others for.
their ideas, and the French a self
governing people and so more inde
pendent fn thought there is yet an
other reason for this contrast in the
spirit of the two peoples. The French
attitude toward victory or defeat
must be explained by the fact that
the man who. knows he is right,
whether he is defeated or not, has a
consolation the man cannot hiave who
knows he is wrong only when he fln#
himself defeated. It is the difference
between the moral value of truth and
brute force..
Now that Germany's fighting line is
beginning to crumble, it is dawning
on the mind of the German people
that they were wrong- Their condi
tion Is not much »cin to repentance
in the sense in which we define it, "a
godly sorrow on account of sin." It
is more nearly that despair mentioned
in the discarded verse of our Nation
al Hymn:
"No refuge could save the hirHng
and slave,
from terror of flight or the gloom
of the grave."
Theirs Is a defeat without the con-
There Is no salvage ih the wrecked
Hopes of the burglar. "Utter 'dWV
couragement and downheartedness"
are all that the beaten robber can
ever hope to bring out of the fight
PRUSSIAN PICTURES REMOVED.
Honolulu, T' H., Aug. 27.—Large oil
paintings of Marshal Blucher and
Frederick ,'VWUtam III. of Prussia,
presented Ao King Kamehameha III
of Hawaii nearly a century jjro by the
Prussian government, .have been re
moved from the wall of the capital
building here.
3. E. Crowder of Bottineau has been
comm(ssl6ned second lieutenant In
tbe S8tfe division.
In And Out of the Trenches
on West Front
Uhouse on west front built by American fighters, American soldier In listening post,, wounded U. S. lads
getting smokes.
The upper picture, a French official photo just received in this country, shows a section of the American line
on the western front where a blockhouse has been built by the boys. Our troops were the first to construct block
houses on thfe French and British fronts. Listening and observation posts play an important part in the war.
Abova is a photo of an American soldier In one of these posts ready to sound the alarrp in case of a gas attack. The
picture shows the alarm apparatus. The other picture shows a Red Cross girl giving some of our wounded boys
6mokes in a French hospital. The photo also shows the devises for suspending wounded limbs so that there is no
strain on them.
Today's War
Summary
The Associated Press)
British pressure is being maintain
ed all along the front from the
Scarpe to the Somme and an advance,
through the Hindenburg line south
of the Scarpe appears as one of, thfe
possibilities of the near future.
On one section of the battlefield
the British are on the Hindenburg
.line but apparently have not pro
gressed east of It on a front' of any
great width. Important gains have
been made astride the Arras Cambrai
road and another push like that of
Monday's will place the northern
wing of the British attacking army
on ground virtually unscarred by
fighting.
German resistance continues to be
stubborn, but it is believed that the
enemy is fighting rear guard actions
in the hope of checking the British
Jong enough to get on a new defense
line, probably north and south
.through Peron'ne. Divisions which
have stood the brunt of the fighting
for several days are still in the Jine.
Additional prisoners have been
taken by the British, who" also have
increased their captures of material
and machine guns. The'j G^rlj^an
losses still are heavy, particularly
where enemy counter, attacks have
been broken up by British artillery
•.fire.
Each extension northwa'rd of the
fighting lines adds to the difficulties
and dangers of the Germans within
the Picardy salient. An advance of
several miles south of the Scarpe or
the winning of the Hindenburg line
on a front of any width would out
flank virtually all the German gains
made In Picardy this year. Behind
the advancing British line astride
the Scarpe are the hills around Ar
ras from which hundreds of guns
poun a devastating fire on the hard
pressed Germans. Several miles in
the rear of the Hindenburg line east
of Arras is a trench system known
ae the Queant-Brocourt switch line.
How formidable this is, is uncertain,
but it is on a table land with no hills
behind it
British patrols are reported to
have gone into Bapaiune and beyond
without coming uponr any of the en
emy. The usefulness of B£paume a?
a base has been lost to the .Germans
as the British artillery has had it un
der easy range for several days. Par
ticularly bitter fighting, marks the
British progress around Bapaume.
On the southern" wing the British
have taken several more towns east
of Albert and astride the Somme.
West of Peronne the British have
moved eastward through Suzanne
and Cappy, on opposite banks of the
Somme. Australian troops are on
the southern wing while Canadian
unite are along the Scarpe, in the
north.
Fighting activity on the. French
secUon of the battle line has been
confined to the eastern and western
extremities. North and south of Roye
in hard fighting agaihst German
units that were ordered to fight to
the last the French have taken Fres
noy and St. Mard. Six hundred pris
oners and many machine guns also
were captured. From Roye through
Noyon to the Allette, French pres
sure is- being maintained. Between
sian guard has not repeated:, its vain
attacks against the French. Artillery
bombardments continue
the Allette and Soissons the Prue-.
British aviators again have
bombed Mannheim and Frankfort
with success, while American bomb
ing machines have attacked Con
flans. 'between Metz and "Verdun. In
aortal fighting on the battlefront
Sunday British aviators accounted
for 8 en«tray machines.
driven from Fieri, and Berat the
most Important towns captured in
the July offensive. Vienna says that
Fieri was taken after desperate fight
ing and that the Italians suffered
heavily In men and material. Paris
reports that Austrian attacks at the
Juncture of the Devoli and Tomorlca
rivers, east of Berat were repulsed,
the French afterward withdrawing
slightly to maintain contact with the
Italian right wing.
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United States
Casualty List
The following casualties are report
ed by the Commanding-General of
the .American Expeditionary Forces:
Killed In action 41 missing action 3
wounded severely,'83 died of wounds
18 died from accident and other
causes, 3 died of 'disease, 1 wound
ed, degree undetermined, 7. Total
156.
Killed in Action.
Srgts. William B. Cairns, .2010 Mad
ison st., Madison, Wis. Lyle Morris,
Berlin, Wis. Charles William Pond,
1612 17th st., Superior, Wis.' Richard
L. Simonson, North Hudson, Wis.
Corporals William Henry Graham,
Whitewater, Wis. Carl E. Ktefer,
Tunnel City, Wis. Morton Sabean,
New Richmond, Wis. Henry P. Svet
lik, Cadott, Wis.
Bled of Wounds Bedved in Action.
Pvtes.' Maurice H. Johnson, Dooley,
Mont. Ray D. Stubbs, Sidney, Mont.
Wounded Severely.
Lt. Maii rice T. Carr, Stoughton,
Wis. Sgt. Edward W. Anderson,
Care D. Peterson, Ashland, Wis.
Wounded Severely: Mecb&nlca.
Pvtes. Walter Gray, Loma, jiMont.
Edward Tayerle. R. F. D. fi. River
Falls, Wis. 2 i*.
Marino Corps C£sintftie«f.
Officers.—Deaths, 34 wounded, 60
missing, 1. Sub total, 95.
Enlisted Men.—Deaths 852 wound
ed, 1,862 in hands of enemy, 6}-•miss
ing, 118./ Sub total. 2,838. Grand
total, 2,933.
Bled of Wounds Received In Action.
Corp. Earl E. Jensen Galesville.
Wis.
Massing in Action.
Pvts. Sarvaul H. Albert, Gen. Del.,*
Alberton, Mont. .Roy C. Anderson,
Platte, S. D.
S1XTEB) SHELL
HOLES IN ONE
SAMMTSBODY
All Received Same Day and
He will Soon be Able to
Return to Battle.
With the American Army in
France, Aug. 26. (Monday).—(By
the Associated sPrese).—American
courage and grit again were exempli
fied Saturday night when units on
the Woevre front repulsed a German
raid without serious loss.'
One American sustained sixteen
machine gun wounds-—three in the
calf of the -leg, ten between the knee
and the waist and three in the arm
but "fought on. He will recover and
be able to return to the fray. This
soldier probably holds the American
record for simultaneous -wounds. An-
AZ^h
aian p-im rd Vi«a nnt Mnutaifi *. .mi. grenade and his nose was blown off
blown off
and his face torn. He continued to
fight the Germans andjiad almost to
be forced to go to a dressing station.
alaingv
the
Vesle -and American gunners have
destroyed several enemy ammuni
tion dumps in the area north of the
riVer.
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MORE SILVKR MJNTNG.
Dawson City, Aug. 27.—The Yukon
is turning.from gold to silver mining.
While' the viUtie of the former, or its
purchasing power, has decreased, that
of silver has been doubled. There Is
great activity in two silver bearing
areas tributary to .Dawson, the Mayo
district on the upper Stewart river and
aldng the Twelve-Mile creek.
In Albania the Italians have been fields are 150 miles apart. Oliver was
OIMI BK !«.' *J At.
in these, areas years ago,
but Ho work was ever done.
scoi
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The Canadlah government has dis
patched a party .of geologists' to In
vestigate the prospects of«developln*
the j^lver mining industry in this we
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Or, E. J. .Haus«rsof .Dickinson, was
flned tlO aild costs the other day. for
shpoting a prairie chicken out of
fMIW,
Nubs of Nkiw
Fred Olln, a well known^ young
farmer near Fortuna, committed sui
cide on account of poor health.
English telephone fctrli matrimon
ially inclined, says a newspaper head
ing. Well, what is ttje matter with
ours?
The insurgent -press--meet at Fargo
has notr been 'characterised as a
howling success"—not evieh by
Knappen.
The New Rockford shock troops
did valient work Sunday, it Is report
ed. About a hundred men were out
every rilght the Matter part of last
week helping the farmers.
Sixteen civilians between the ages
of 18 and 45 are to be selected by the
governor and adjutaht general to at
tend the annual small arms firing
school at Camp Perry, Ohio, from
September 1 to 21.
Professor H. Louis Jacktipn of the
N. D. Agricultural college,. has been
commissioned first lieutenant in the
sanitary corps of the eurge«n getier
al's office and will leave in a few days
for Camp Greenleaf.
So many band men havei enlisted
that the stay-at-home organizations
are composed of musicians of all ages.
After attending a South Dakota con
cert a stranger remarked "the di
rector must have robbed bith the
cradle and the grave wheij he got
that bunch tb^ether." (i
According to the Glasgow courier,
A. C. Xpwnley, while at Le^lstown,
registered as "Jo.hn Thompson."
LewistOwn has an' ordinance, that
makes lt a misdemeanor to Hscrib4
fictitious or assumed 'name on *a
hotel register.
-®B8P
ill
Dally newspapers. The Herald in
cluded, containing report of the sen
ate investigation1 of the aircraft situ-*
ation, will not be allowed circulation
outside of the United States. The-or.
der was first made effective at th»'
New York postoffice and advises Mm
Winnipeg last night stated that no
American papers have been receive®
there since "Friday. The postmaster
general holds that this information
might be of value to the enemy.
D. D. Finley has moved from
Vllle to- Petersburg an£
lishing the Record. Tbe Hecora is a,
good proposition and''Petersburg Is &
good town. Brother Finley should
make good and the Arena Is here to
help him as the writer has felt
ashamed of himself for semng' tbtt
Record to Meyer and hopes to see it
regain its former prestige.—MlrWlgaa
Arena.
Out at Chris Saxhmd's Carta tltermi
frnm 3
Montana who has donned overalls*
and is earning harvest wages by
keeping up after a binder, says
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E. G. Wanner, late secretary »f the
state board of control, has accepted
a position with Capt. Baker 6t the
Federal fuel administration. Wan
ner's duties will embrace supervision
of the distribution of all bituminous
and anthracite coal consumed in the
state during the next winter.
September 24 to 26 have been,se
lected as dates for the annual Stuts
man county fair to be held at Jartjes
towri. The fair officials expect An ex
ceptional large live stock show on ac
count of the interest farmers In that
territory ^are showing in pure brid
stock.
Word has been received in Nev
Rockford that Captain Leslie Wheel
er, now in France, has been offered i.
promotion to the rank of. major, with
a return to this country, where he
will be used at one of the training
camps. His friends do not, however,
believe that he will accept promotion
under the circumstances as he is en
thusiastic about active service abroad.
Superintendent of the Fargo di
vision of the Northern Pacific Rail-j
way company, yesterday afternoon'
declared that the consolidation of the
passenger and freight business of the.utl
two railways entering Moorhead and
three railways entering Fargo was
highly improbable and that no orders
for wbrk with regard to it has beeu
reeeived at division headquarters.
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New Rockford State Center. This is-:
the kind of loyalty that counts, and,
quite different from the stuff dis
played by some well dressed, well fed
and able-bodied males, who every day.
are putting away three good, square-1
meals but have not since the war be
gan produced enough to keep a hea:
alive.
The electrical storm of Wednesday
was severe on stock, and reports are
coming, in of losses of animals killed
by lightning, say* the Maadan- Pi
oneer. Henry Johnson who lives
southwest of Mandan. lost two valu
able horses in his pasture. Another
horse belonging to onfe of the Carlson
boys' was also killed In the samet
pasture. Will Frank lost a horse in
a pasture just north of Mandan. The
damage by hail just south of Mandan
was great especially to corn and gar
dens. Some of the fields of corn were
virtually stripped, and tomatoes, .cab
cages and other vegetables suffered
heavy loss.
John Andrews, editor of a Non
par tlsan .paper at Wahpeton, is 'get.
ting a good deal of credit from the
other Townley papers because he rei
fers to the republicans who won'
abide by the results of the primariei
as "poor sports." Another editor
also being lauded. He is Carl N6Iso:
of Cando, a lifelong democrat whfc
says he is a democrat still. He alsi
won't abide by the^result of the .pri
maries and says so. He'is credited
with being a man "who strike
straight from the. shoulder," for ho
supporting his party ticket, while
republican who won't support hi
party ticket, is a "poor sport." Con
sistency, isn't it.—Bottlfteau Farmers
Advocate.
Sargent county is the banner oottntj
of the state this year, according t(jeth
estimated conditions of all crops at
the end of July, given out by &
Suratt North Dakota field agent of
the United States department of agri^1
culture. Ransom county shows an
splendid average of all crops, wheat'
oats, barley, corn, potatoes, flax!ana
hay, all being over 93 per cent wheat!
being 98, flax 97, and oats 95. Theji
next county in estimated yields, is
Richland, with all of said crops except
hay being 'well over the 90 per cent!
mark, wheat and barley being ssti-i
mated-at '96 and oats at 94. Pembina!
Comes next with wheat, oats, barley at
98 and 99 per cent of a normal yield.
Where Pembiha falls down is on oorn,4
hay arid pssturage 4 -A'
The Michigan /Arena *ls a' giwat
I -*v:
booster for Stumtt lake as a summer
resort /"Every time Stump lake is
visited Its appeal reaches all of us wlth
accumulated force," says Editor
Reeder. "Nelson county has wtth
In Its limits this magnificent body,
of water, the picturesque scenery and .
the other artistic touches that nature fl
only gives to chosen spots. If Is the jf.:!
making of one' of the most splendid
resorts of North Dakota. It need* fix
lng. There should be a club hoyse—
a sort of country club, with a.batlung
beach,, boats, perhaps llhks arm tennis
courts. This can be easily promoted.
A 99 year lease can be obtainfilyfor ^4
pound upon which many wows- also m.
build cottages." W
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