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The executive committee this after
noon issued the following statement
"It is hard to imagine that there
are any Liberty Loan slackers in
BELMONT DANCE
HALL DESTROYED
BY RAPID BLAZE
Fire Discovered by Work
men at Early Hour This
Morning.
New Building to be Con
structed on Old Founda
tion at Once.
A fire, supposed to be of incen
diary origin, early this morning com
pletely destroyed, the dancing pavilion
at Belmont park, south of Grand
Forks. The fire was discovered
about 6:30 o'clock by the workmen
who have been repairing the pavilion.
The fire was then well under way
and it is thought that the fire broke
out about 6 o'clock-
The loss estimated by CVConnor
Bros., owners of the pavilion, is about
$4
,000, partially covered by insur
ance. Besides the loss of the bulg
ing the piano was lost, and a number
of musical instruments-belonging to
members of the pavilion orchestra.
Only Foundation Remains.
Workmen have been at work on
the building for the past week, in
stalling an immense fire place to
make the hall more attractive and
^comfortable during the autumn
months. When they arrived at their
work this morning about 6:30 they
discovered the fire which was then
burning with considerable energy. It
was impossible to check the flames,
and as the building was of a light
frame construction, it was soon com
pletely destroyed. Only the cement
foundation remains.
The Belmont pavilion, which open
ed on the Fourth of July, has proved
to be one of the most popular recrea
tion centers in the cpmm unity during
the summer months.
The dancing populace was looking
forward to the re-opening of the hall
tomorrow night with the new fire
place to add cheer to the dancing
room. Last Friday night about 400
young people from the city were pres
ent and during the summer a similar
rnumber .have enjoyed the dances e*
ery Tuesday and Friday.
It is already decided to rebuild
the pavilion on the old( foundation,
and construction will begin immedi-
ately.
MARLEi 2y* IN. DEVON 1VA IN.
CWITT, PCABOPY 4 CO.. INC. MAKCM
JEWELERS
LOAN SLACKERS IN
GRAND FORKS CITY?
Subscribers Have Not Been Responding Readily—$200,000
Must Be Raised in Two Days—Support of
Every Person in City Needed.
Unless the small subscribers In
Grand Forks city come forward at
once, the quota of $600,000 for the
Fourth Liberty Loan will not be
raised. This is the word that came
from headquarters at 3 o'clock this
afternoon, when it was announced
that only $400,000 had been subscrib
ed. This represents a business of on
ly $25,000 for the morning.
Something: must be done at once, it
was announced, to stir the people of
the city to a full realisation of their
duty.- The $50 subscribers are want
ed in large numbers they sire abso
lutely essential to the success of the
loan, and if they do not come in vol
untarily, some means will have to be
adopted to stir them up.
tile Liberty Loan stereoptican show
will be presented again tonight. Views
of Grand Forks men in the different
branches of the service will be thrown
on the screen, together with pictures
of battlefront scenes furnished by the
Committee on Public Information.
The pictures of Grand Forks men
have attracted considerable attention.
Views of Captains R. D. Campbell, L.
L. Eckman, O. G. Holm and H. H.
Healy, as well as of a number of
lieutenants and privates from this
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Grand Forks, yet this seems to te the
case. We have made appeal after
appeal, but the response has been
luke warm. The "people still are
lethargic something must be done to
stir them to a deep realization of
their duty.
"This is your ^ar, you people of
Grand Forks. This is your loan, and
upon you depends its success. We
must raise $600,000. Grand Forks
'never has failed she cannot fail
now. We have $200,000 to raise in
two days, and to raise it we must
have the support of every man, wom
an and child in the city.
"The $50 subscriber is needed. We
need many of them. There is a large
force of salesmen on duty all day
they can take care of all who come.
Let's have a rush of business Friday
and Saturday."
According to word received from
Fargo today, Wesley McDowell, state
director, has had depart/nent of jus
tice agents sent to Fingal, Barnes
county, and into Mcintosh and south
ern and western Morton county to
ferret out anti-Liberty Loan propa
gandists. He declares they are at
work in those districts.
Mr. McDowell also announced that
twenty counties have made their
city, have been shown. A number of quota. They are Burke, Burleigh,
new slides have been secured for to
night's show.
Dickey, Divide, Dunn, Foster, Griggs,
Grant, Mercer, Nelson, Oliver, Ren
ville. Sargent, Steele, Rolette. Town
er, Sioux, Slope, Wells and Williams.
The total subscriptions are about
$16,000,000.
MILK PRICES
ARE HIGHER
Increased Cost in Dairy Pro
duction Accounts For
Rise.
The rise in the price of milk to 15
cents during the present week has
caused no little consternation among
the local consumers. With the almost
prohibitive price of 65 cents per pound
for butter,'and the increase in milk
prices the situation becomes serious
for the householders who depend so
much on these products in the prep
aration of food.
The rise in the price of milk, how
ever, should cause no surprise to those
who are familiar with the present cost
of dairy production. Local dairymen
say that the increase in the price of
milk can be attributed to the steadily
increasing cost of all dairy supplies,
besides the enormous wages now paid
to dairy help.
The scarcity of ensilage due to the
freezing of late fodder has created a
demand for feed. Other fodder is
also sky high. St. Paul quotations for
No. 1 alfalfa yesterday were $32.75,
with all other feed relatively high.
Butter fat is.now selling for 64 cents
at the local creameries and the de
mand for cream is also a cause for the
price of milk, as the dairymen find It
more profitable to sell creani direct
to the creameries.
Live cattle are also selling at an in
creased price which makes the main
taining of the herds a financial prob
lem to the dairymen. Reliable help
for the dairy farms is also in demand
and the high labor wage for good
workmen is a considerable item in the
dairy farm expense.
As long as these conditions continue
to exsit consumers will be obliged to
pay more for both milk and butter.
Butter is now selling for 65 cents at
local dealers and there is little likeli
hood that any immediate decrease will
occur, according to well informed pro
ducers and retailers interviewed today
—Boy Liberty Bond*—
PROF. STEVENS
DIES IN EAST
Former University Teacher Succumbs
to Attack of Pneumonia.
Prof. j. Floyd Stevens, until re
cently connected with the department
of electrical engineering at the Uni
versity of North Dakota, died yester
day at Schenectady, N. Y.
Prof. Stevens left Grand Forks
about two weeks ago to take up work
with an electrical company in Sche
nectady. He was accompanied by his
I wife and two small sons. Shortly after
reaching his destination he was sud
denly taken ill with pneumonia, which
resulted in his death. He is survived
by his wife and two sons, and his
mother, Mrs. J. D. Van Fleet of Minot.
After graduating from the electrical
engineering course at the university,
he became an instructor in the engi
neering department. He was a man
with fine abilities in his line of work,
and rendered great service to the uni
versity from which he graduated.
—Buy Utoty Bonds
AN AMERICAN PRAYER.
Chicago, Oct. 3.—"Make America
custodian of the tomb of Christ"
This was the burden of a prayer de
livered at the Rock River conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
here today by Bishop Quayle.
—Buy Liberty Bonds—
MdMAHOIf IS nATJ.BT
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 3.—Harold Me
Mahon, star half back of the Univer
sity of Nebraska football team, has
received a call to report for dnty at
the Great Lakes naval training sta
tion.
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TAX LAW WORK
Meetings Are Being
Grand* Forks-This
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The state tax commission is hold
ing a hearing in the court house here
as well as fn all cpunties throughout
the state, upon "thJ assessment of
money and credits. N. W. Carlson
has been employed as field agent and
has made investigations 'in each
county upon the basis, of informa
tion secured by him, parties who are
believed to have moneys and credits
which were not returned for asses
ment, are appearing before the tax
commission for hearing.
To Make Low Operative.
The objection the part of the, tax
commission in taking this action is
to effectively put into operation a new
money and credit law, which was
passed by the last session of the legis
lature. This law classifies moneys
and credits, taking it put from under
an assessment heretofore made upon
the same basis as otHer property,
and assessing it at the flat rate of
three mills on the dollar. Under the
old law moneys and credits were as
sessed the same as real estate and
personal property, under which if
money and credits were returned In
many districts, the tax would, in many
instances, be greater than the income
received from the property.
Under the old law it becalhe the
habitual custom of taxpayers to eith
er fail or refuse to'list this class of
property, but under the new law the
rate of tax being so low there is no
reason why every taxpayer should not
make a full return.
It is considered that the action tak
en by the tax commission will'have
the moral effect of securing a full
listment of all property which here
tofore escaped its share of the cost
of government.
In the 1917 assessment but $2,000,-\
000 was returned h'y the taxpayers
of the state on money and credits,
while in 1918 -under the new law more
than a hundred million has been
added to this amount.
Tax Commissioner H. H. Sheele 5f
Bismarck is here in .connection with
the hearings.
—Bny liberty Bonds—
NEW CITIZENS
ARE ADMITTED
BY THE COURT
Possession or Non-posses
sion of Liberty Bonds Con
sidered Essential.
A number of new citizens were
created in the district court today, by
order of District Judge Charles M.
Cooley upon the recommendation of
Federal Examiner R. K. Doe who
first put the candidates- through a
rigorous intelligence test. The test of
patriotism was also applied, for in
each instance the applicant for citi
zens' rights was asked: "Have you
bought any Liberty Bonds? If you
have—how many? If you haven't—
why haven't you?" In more than one
instance the answer to these ques
tions became of supreme importance
to the applicant.
Once in a while the answers to a
series of questions revealed a rather
surprising lack of knowledge of the
institutions of the United States, and
in other cases correct answers were
given to practically every question
asked.
Some of the Answers.
One candidate was asked: "Who is
Robert Lansing?"
He answered: "I don't know."
"Who Is Newton D. Baker?"
"Dunno."
"Who is secreUfry of the navy?"
"Dunno."
The case of this particular applicant
was continued until spring.'
Another man who wanted,to be
come a citizen, told Mr. Doe that
President Wilson has only two sec
retaries, Mr. Baker and Mr. McAdoo,
and that congress is not in session at
the present time.
A Roumanian when asked as to
the identity of the governor of North
Dakota said:
"It is supposed to be Frazier, and
he is supposed to be in Bismarck."
He answered other questions intel
ligently, but although admitted to
citizenship was given a stern" lecture
by Mr. Doe who pointed out that one
Liberty bond was too little for a man
in the applicant's economic situation.
Witnesses Also Asked.
The examiner did not stop at di
recting personal questions to the* ap-^
plicants: the witnesses accompanying
them were also put through a search
ing examination for the purpose of
ascertaining their status as patriots.
One witness said he had given one
dollar to the Red Cross and con
tributed nothing else to America's war
activities.
The examiner demanded registra
tion and classification cards of one of
the applicants. Another was sent
post-haste to the Liberty Loan bead
quarters to purchase a bond before
the examiner would recommend that
he be admitted to citizenship.
There were several cases of' appll
cants who lacked elemental knowN
edge about the functions of state, city
and township government' and who
proved to be as ignorant in dther di
rections. One such applicant did not
know what office was held by a clerk
of court, and he was quitie positive in
asserting that a district judge held
the office of sheriff.
The New Citizens.
Following is a list of thfe citizens
of October 3, 1918:
Dougald Campbell. «.
Edson Garfield WithereL
Bert Eisinkirch.
Ralph Bredahl....
Sam Marck.
Ole Andreas Hovlck.
Mark Morton. .'I'
Thomas Laidley.
Isaac Odoroff.' .•
Hans Erik Welgandt.
Henry Aiken Fisher, n-y 28L. .'.
Annie_Maud Savage.
Edward Demers.
Ernest Maurltz Carlson.
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GRAND FORKS HERALD. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3,1918.
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First Section of Latelt Reg
istrants Will Appear Be
fore Board.
This afternoon the war office
sent oat the following appeal:
"There is urgent need of assist
ance with the physical' examina
tion taking place tomorrow, and
any man in the city who feels
be can spare some time for such
work. Is asked to can at the office
of the war boded In the court
boose at once.l%e examination
begins at o'clock tomorrow morn
ing."
Tomorrow the first section of the,
registrants of September 12, 1918, to
be examined for military service, will
appear before the county msgical
board in the farmers' room of the
court house. The physical examination
which will take place, tomorrow, does
not necessarily mean that the quali
fied registrant will be immediately
called for service but it does' mean
that the local war board is enabled to
find out exactly how" many men 'are
available when calls from Washing
ton arrive.
Drs. S. H. Irwin, H. W. F. Law, J.
E. Hetherington and Henry O'Keefe,
members of the medical board, will
conduct the examination in Addition
members of the draft board as well as
a corps of clerks and assistants will
be present during the examination.
Following is a list of registrants
who have been called for tomorrow:
No.
TO Jacob Zintel.
71 Erwfri Louis*Priess,
72 Wilford Grodahl Day.
73 Elmer Joseph Heistand.
77 Jacob Greenberg.
78' John McLachlan.
SO John Franklin Phelps, Jr.
George Dea^ Baker.
Carl Bernhard Cederholm.
Herman William Olson.,
Peter Cornelius Telle.
Emanuel Stanislaus Morrow.
George William/ Getts, Jr.
John Fry.
John Herbert Urness.
Oscar Leonard Berge.
Edward Alfred Stiles.
John Hunphery Carnegie.
Algot Valdemar Larson.
Gilbert Kindred.
Axel Sigurd Peterson.
82
83
85
87
88
90
91
96
98
99
101
116
185
137
153
155
156
157
162
167
Ernest Linwood Merry.
Nick Bockell.
477 John Gust Tspumpas.
480 Gabriel Stamios Cavadas.
482 John Johnson.
501a David Walker Brown.
510 Elvin Grande.
Selah Raymond Wilcox.
Edwin Helmer Erickeon.
Joseph Pierdcioch.
George James Wilcox.
Ivar Morierison.
511
512
518
519
529
543
555
'556
560
563
576
579
595
598
602
605
617
623
687
701
708
718
719
729
733
734
735
Mayer Frewnan:
Edward Grosfcman.
Sam Krochock.
Oliver Tharaldson.
Alfred Rasmussen.
Hugh Blair McLachlan.
Alexander Conway McLachlan.
Lawrence M. Moor.e.
Albert Martin Lommen,
John Malinowaki.
Albert Loman Tysver.
Morris Silverman.
Otis Alonze Hubbard.
Fred Oberg.
John Steiner.
Lars Johnson Slljan.
Sveinbjorn'Johnson.
Gust Xenos.
Nels Johnson.
Clarence Lester Curtis.
William Arthur Morrow.
Christian Suby.
739 Harry Nels Wilson.
837
839
843
844
893
894
895
896
988
999
1011
1015
1022
1033
1097
1110
ftl3
1135
1187
1210
121&
1230
1235
1290
1330
1336
1359
1362
1363
1372
1375
1876
1422
1424
1426
1432
1443
1447
1556
1560
1592
1597*
1645
1671
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Martin' NieJ, Hagness.
Charles Harding Perrott.
EddiQ Kortadler Iverson.
Robert Alvin Hawley.
Holland Charles Kermott.,
Lawrence Franklin Linfoot.
Oscar Melvin Olson.
Albin Bernhardt Vaaler.
Harvey Dean Johnston.
Alfred Alexander Anderson.
Arthur Ferdinand Lungrea.
George Berg.
Earl Charles Bliven.
Wilmer Irving Record.
Walter Perry Beatt.
Melvin Francis Bloomer.
Hjalmer Denius Hanson.
Melvin 8chol,
Paul DeLafayette Williams,
Adolph Theodore Easer.
Randolph' Francis Olmsted.
Henry Martin Viken.
Fred JT.obert teillson.
Boyd Milne Begg.
Henry Emgard Dahl.
George Samuel Breidford.
Paul Da.rrell Miller.
John Wesley.
Fred Charleg Hartson. I
Albert, Edward Gansvlk,
Ardell Kmmett Harvey.
Ray Edmond Buckingham,
Edward Oracle.
Kenneth Robert Hunter.
Harry Cullen Aarhus.
Henry carl Hxm,
Gilbert L. Oordsr., \,
James Grayson,
Lloyd Smith.
George Tj-ydahl.
Charles Salmonson.
Ola* H. Kjorvestad.
Arthur Liqpon/
Oswald Johannes Tweot,
William Henry Tryon,'
at\ Orath.
Oscar Henrjr Hoverson,
Norman Ssnbcrn Wilcox.
Amund Kmil Kppp«dal,
Thorway
William Bs«r«r
Peter P. Haugen.
Donald William Dlekjum,
Laures Olson."'
Tom Ed. Carrjss,
Samwjl Pierce
(Guy Davis,
John Cummuttirt
-.'George Hartwlck.
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2343
2271
2274
2333
2381
2460
2485
2472
2512
2578
2846
2865
2965
2994
2995
2998
3002
3004
3011
3012
3013
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Michael Harstad.
Raymond Durick.
Gustave Adolf Nelson.
Peter John Fauske.
192c John Herbert Bustin.
293 Ben F. Corcoran.
294 Peter Nicholas Robertson.
316 Gerald James Rafter.
329 Henry Lawrence Glass, Jr.
330 Alfred Eugene Coulter.
334 Harold John Franklin.
335 Ralph Joseph DeLaney.
353 Conrad Marius Kleven.
366 Victor Newton Chase.
381 David Walter Helmer.
389 Wilfred English.
390 Edwin V)tto Arneson.
398 Irvin Samuel Bratley.
404 Charles Edward O'Gorman.
411 Joseph Jay Mathews.
416 Earl Garrison Antheny.
417 Maynard Amill Coyer.
422 Palmer Theodore Medhus.
430 William Reuben Bahr.
439 Adolph Oliver Ulland.
443" Melvin Thompson.
463 James Frances Thaddeus
Women
Children
Hans Peter Rasmussen.
Hassel Theodore Thingelstad.
Torger Halvorson.
Peter Jenson Madsen.
Arthur Miller Eidem.
William Martin Drinnln.
James Patrick Chisholm.
Bernhart Albert Bakken.
Gustav Marius Jacobson.
Walter Motylenski
John M. Swanson.
Joseph Freeman.
Peter Sweeney.
Walter Irvin Countryman.
Frank Peter Dostert.
Carlos Joseph Jordan.
Emory Lazzel Cunningham.
Clarence Augustinus Johnson.
Durward Elton Jordan.
Willis Winfred Nichols.
Earl Atwater Woods.
—Boy liberty Bonds—
PAT O'BRIEN
TO SPEAK HERE
American Aviator Escaped
From Germany, Will De
liver Message.
"Smiling Pat O'Brien," lieutenant
in the Royal Flying Corps before
America's entry into the war, will
open the Soldiers' course presented
by the University Extension division
at the citj auditorium on October 17,
at, 8:15 p. m. He will tell his thrilling
story which he calls "My Escape from
a German Prison Camp." Lieutenant
O'Brien was the first American to es
cape from Germany. His achieve
ment is a forerunner of the fact that
American strategy and ingenuity will
win the war.
Lieutenant O'Brien will address the
soldiers of the national army special
detachment and the S. A. T. C. on the
afternoon of the seventeenth. His
address will be of an intimate nature.
Only soldiers and officers will i»e ad
mitted.
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The course offered 'try the univer
sity extension division 5* irtr the bene
fit of the eoldlerst. AH the taient have
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c*sh. first lieutenant and surgeon H
A. Doak, second lieutenant and pe'r
sonnel officer: F. E. Hall, H. R. Hall
and J. Goldstein, second lieutenants.
I The vocational section which has
been stationed at the university dur
ing the summer, has been merged into
the S. A. T. C. and the whole has
been divided into two companies,
Company A and Company B, of which
Lieutenants South and Hall, respec
1 tively. are in comipand of. Vigorous
drilling takes place each and every
morning. Girl students rushing fran
tically to make their 8 o'clock classes
are treated to the sight of the hoys
going through their setting up exer
cises, drilling and marching. Reveille
is at 6:15. So far the health of the
men has been fine. The epidemic of
Spanish influenza, which seems to be
prevalent in so many other camps,
has not touched the university camp.
—Bny Livcrty Bonds—
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EVENING EDITION.
RECLASSIFICATION MADE
Most of Those Appealing Have Been
Placed In Class a, Group "C."
The local war board has received
reports on the reclassification made in
a number "6f cases, and from the list
below it will be seen that most of the
registrants who appealed to the dis
trict board, have been placed in Class
Two, Group "C," that is, characteriz
ed as "necessary skilled laborer in
necessary agricultural enterprise."
The list follows:
David Kirkeide, Mekinock, I.E
Clarence Tanberg, Northwood, I,E
Arthur H. Bjorge, Grand Forks, I,F
Roy Ness, Hatton, II,A Peter Eider,
Arvilla, II.C Arthur Lindberg, Lari
more, II,C Arthur S. Paupst, Arvilla,
II.C Carl M. Bang, Pilot, II,C John
C. Willert, Thompson, II.C Benhard
E. Larson, Northwood, II,C Olaf H.
Halvorson, Mekinock, III.J.
Columbus Day, October 12
The Hoosier, Too, Is a
Sign of Progress
OMAN'S progress in domestic attainments has taken
her from the open-fire of Columbus' time to the
kitchen with its labor-saving Hoosier Cabinet.
Yet there never was a time when you needed the Hoosier
more than today. Because it will give you extra time for war
work, save labor, energy and health, ^nd will also protect
your food from waste and spoilage..
JViomtr te the leading kitchen cabinet because It Is the most con*
TfctiMsnt, it scientifically arranged to save the most work and pro
tbt mozt room.
we'll deliver the Hoosier. Pay the balance In con*
wmfj*, Torur money all back if you're not delighted.
A N O I
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOKRA DAKOTA
EXTENSION DIVISION
at ll-munber soldiers' come, the entire
which win be soldlera' fond,
Lienteoaot Fit O'Brien
"My Escape Fran a German Prison Csmp'
AT JHE AUDITORIUM, OCT. 17,8sl« P. M.
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