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NAVY DEPARTMENT WANTS PHO*
TOG RAP HS OF ENLISTED MEN
WHO PERISH IN WAR.
FOR MEMORIAL GALLERIES
Size of Army Camps and Cantonments
Increased in Past Six Months
Improvement in Ship Loading Helps
Our Allies.
(From Committee on Public Information
Washington.The navy department
Is collecting photographs of enlisted
men who lose their lives in the war
that their memory may be perpetu
ated. Secretary Daniels asks relatives
Or others having such photographs to
lend them to the navy that copies may
be made for the navy's records. Orig
inals will be returned to the owners
as fast as copies can be made.
A photograph of each man is to be
forwarded by the navy department to
the training station where he began
his career in the service. At each of
these stations a memorial gallery of
honor or a hero's corner is to be es
tablished so that for all time the face
of the man of the navy who has made
the supreme sacrifice may be honored
by the youth of the future sent to the
station for training.
All pictures, loaned or contributed,
should be securely wrapped for mail
ing after they have been marked with
the name, branch of service, and train
ing station the young man entered aft
er enlistment. They should be ad
dressed to the recruiting division, bu
reau of navigation, navy department,
Washington, D. C. Care will be taken
to return safely the photograph to
the sender, when desired, together
with one of the copies made of it
More than $22,000,000 has been ex
pended during the past six months un
der the direction of the construction
division of the army in making addi
tions and improvements to camps and
cantonments. This sum does not in
elude the cost of additions to the hos
pital equipments or the improvements
made at other army stations.
The improvement work consisted of
additional buildings for housing the
men and providing for their comfort
and needs. Among buildings erected
were quarters for officers and nurses,
repairs-plants, kitchens and bakeries,
and theaters. New roads were laid and
sanitation work improved and ex
tended.
Many additional buildings are con
templated, and general construction
work will be rushed to completion dur
ing the summer and fall. In some in
stances the camp work has been ex
tended to drainage of an entire district
surrounding the camp to remove dan
ger of disease arising from the proxim
ity of swamps.
Liberty theaters have been erect
ed at all National Army cantonments.
Each of these theaters has an aver
age inclosed seating capacity of 2,000.
Theaters and amusement halls have
been erected also in the National
Guard camps and at other points where
troops are in training.
Economies of approximately 20 per
cert in shipping weight and 50 per cent
in shipping space have resulted from
Impro\ ed methods of packing merchan
dise for overseas practiced by the
army quartermaster corps. This is
equivalent to about 2 500 tons space
per month.
For the shipment of clothes and
equipage, including such items as
blanket's, barracks, bags, towels, shel
ter tent halves, bedding, and other
drv goods in addition to wearing ap
parel, bailing has been substituted for
boxing, and the weight of the lumber
has been saved The bales average
80 by 15 inches and weigh 90 pounds.
They are bound with not less than
four cold rolled unannealed steel
bands. Burlap over waterproofed
heavy paper is used to cover the bales,
and there are two "ears" on both
ends of the bale for handling.
Women are stevedores on the docks
in France. There is a law they "hall
not be required to carry packages
weighing more than 70 pounds. Pack
ages shipped to the American expedi
tionary forces are standardized so
they shall not weigh more than 70
pounds for handling by one woman
carrier or more than 140 pounds by
two women carriers. Men handle the
heavier packages and the boxes must
be used instead of bales.
The quartermaster corps recom
mends to manufacturers supplying the
army similar economies In packing and
shipping which will result in even
more pronounced space and weight
saving. Round cans and containers
entail a waste in space of 23 per
cent. Square containers are urged. It
is estimated that every inch saved
through bale compression is worth 65
cents in ship space.
Illinois is the center of agricultural
production of the United States says
the department of agriculture. States
f greatest production during 1917 are:
Iowa, $1,330,000,000 Illinois, $1,255,-
000,000 Texas, $1,045,000,000 Mis
souri, $947,000,000 Ohio, S851,
Nebraska, $774,000,000 Indiss*. ^7J
000,000 Kansas, $735,0m
York, $700,000,000 Mln^of*. ttS
-'000,000 Pennsylvania, f63bTOD,OOQ
Georgia, $605,000,000 Wisjonsin,
$664000,000 California, J9|ttfMQa
Michigan, $534,000,000 KeofadeJaf.
$629,000,000.
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Manufacturers and dealers are en
couraged under the policy of the navy
department to deal direct with the de
partment. The purpose is to eliminate
the middleman in purchases of sup
plies and materials.
"In my annual report," says Rear
Admiral Samuel McGowan. "manufac
turers were warned against profiteer
ing agents, professional contractors,
and naval brokers. In our regular mail
ing circulars of January 8,1918, we ex
pressed the hope that 'manufacturers
who have not availed themselves of
the opportunity to bid direct will do
so, as it will prove of advantage to
them in bringing them in more inti
mate touch with the navy and thereby
make a reputation for the materials
which they manufacture.'
"The fact is the responsibility of
contractors was never so thoroughly
investigated and they were never held
to a stricter accountability than they
have been since this country entered
the war. The number of responsible
direct bidders has increased greatly
and the number of agents and interme
diaries has been reduced to a min
imum. The safeguards against profit
eering have been strengthened, not re
laxed."
There are over 14,000 names on the
bidders' list of the navy bureau of
supplies and accounts, representing
ver section of the country. These
manufacturers and dealers furnish
over 60,000 classes of articles used by
the navy.
Because of an acute shortage in the
supply of paper the war industries
board announced, effective July 15,
the following preliminary economies
to be enforced by newspapers pub
lishing a daily and weekly edition:
Discontinue the acceptance or the re
turn of unsold copies.
Discontinue the use of all sample or
free promotion copies.
Discontinue giving copies to any
body except for office-working copies
or where required by statute law in
the official advertising.
Discontinue giving free copies to ad
vertisers, except not more than one
copy for checking purposes.
Discontinue the arbitrary forcing of
copies on news dealers (1. e., compell
ing them to buy more copies than
they can legitimately sell in order to
hold certain territory).
Discontinue the buying back of pa
pers at either wholesale or retail sell
ing price from dealers or agents in
order to secure preferential represent
ation.
Discontinue the payment of salaries
or commissions to agents, dealers, or
newsboys for the purpose of securing
the equivalent of return privileges.
Discontinue all free exchanges.
Three hundred applicants for stu
dent nurses to enter training schools
in the base hospitals at cantonments
were accepted recently. There have
been more than a thousand applica
tions for entrance tn these army
schools of nursing since the govern
ment sent out its call for student
nurses.
The majority of those offering their
services have been college women, or
women with a complete high-school
education. The training units will be
assigned, it is expected, during the
present month. Each unit vull num
ber 25 or 30 student nurses and will
be supervised by an accredited and
complete nursing instructor and a
trained woman who will be responsi
ble for the physical welfare and rec
reation.
The service bureau of the commit
tee on public information has taken
over various departmental independent
information bureaus at Union station,
Washington, will consolidate and reor
ganize them and be prepared to give
all visitors information on govern
ment business and the names and loca
tion of tho^e clothed with authority to
speak and act for the government.
Since the service bureau opened of
fices May 1 it has built up a card-in
dex system, with 50,000 entries, many
of the cards being subject to daily
revisions and correction. In a recent
week the bureau handled 1630 visit
ors seeking special information and
answered an average of 150 query let
ters daily.
The medical department, United
States army, needs women as recon
struction aids. The office of the sur
geon general announces: "The work
of reconstruction aids is divided into
two sections. (1) those women who
are well trained in massage and the
other forms of physiotherapy, and (2)
those who are trained in simple handi
crafts." Foreign service pay is $60,
home service pay $50 per month and
quarters allowance.
The division on woman's war work
of the committee on public informa1
tion announces that the trustees of
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., offer
to wives and daughters of army offi
cers three scholarships, including tui
tion and laboratory fees, for 1918-19
covering household science, household
arts, and preparation for institutional
work.
Department of agriculture special
ists, appealing for increased produc
tion of poultry and eggs, make these
suggestions: Keep better poultry se
lect healthy, vigorous breeders hatch
early preserve eggs cull the flocks
grow as much poultry feed as possi
ble supply the family table eat poul
try and eggs and conserve meat supply.
Southern farm hoy club members
produced in 1917 food and feed val
ued at $4,019,121, the department of
agriculture reports^ A total of 115,-
74^F hoys were enrolled to regular.
clubs in 14 states.
STRANDQUIST.
.Wm. Brecht and family and Win.
Baker and family autoed to Rosewood
last Sunday to visit Mr. Brecht's sis
ter. Mrs. Fred Dols.
The Mission Young Peoples' Society
meet at Erick Lefroth's last Sunday
and to prove that it was well attended
can state that the church fund was
$41.15 richer in the evening then be
fore. Well done.
Miss Louise Stavig came down from
Grygla on Saturday to spend a few
days with Mis*s O. Rokke, before re
turning to Grand Forks.
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Gjerde, from
Angus, visited at Timmanson's Sunday.
M*rs. Gust Thun and Annie Nelson
went to Thief River Falls Monday, re
turning Tuesday morning.
Willie Hanson called on home folks
at Viking over Sunday on his way to
Warren to take his physical examina
tion.
Mrs. Wm. Bock spent Tuesday at
Thief River Falls, having some dental
work performed.
Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Hanson and Mr.
and Mrs. Emil Johnson made an auto
trip to Red Lake Falls last Tuesday,
trying the fisherman's skill.
Mesdames G. P. Haugard, Netteland
and J. E. Paulson will entertain in be
half of the Red Cross at the school
house Sunday afternoon, July 21st.
Lunch will be sold and do not only
make it a point for yourself to come
but encourage your friends to come and
make the doing a success as the sol
diers will be the one benefited, and
who is not willing to do their bit in
the country's critical hour.
Mr. and Mrs. G. I. Netteland visit
ed at Alfred Erickson's at Bronson
Friday.
Mrs. G. P. Johnson broke her right
arm on Tuesday when cranking her
car.
Miss Ottine Rokke is adding a parti
tion to her building. Andrew Sihlberg
and Tom Nilson are employed as car
penters.
Week's Food Fact I
Any statement to the effect that bar
ley flour and other barley products are
unhealthful and that their continued
use will cause serious illness is with
out foundation and not substantiated
by the medical authorities of national
reputation connected with the food ad
ministration and whose work it is to
investigate these foods and the result
of their use. Barley flour may not
agree with certain individuals, just as
potatoes do not agree with certain in
dividuals, but for general uses, barley
is as agreeable and nutritious as any
cereal.
Because of a further curtailment of
the supply of sugar allotted to Minne
sota for July, the state food adminis
tration announces a change in the
amount of sugar allowed to consumors
for canning purposes Under this
change no sugar may be purchased by
a family or a person for canning pur
poses if they have previously made one
or more purchases for this purpose
The family or person who has had no
sugar for canning and preserving may
buy one lot of 25 pounds or less, but
not until a certificate has first been ap
proved by the food administrator for
the county in which the family or per
son lives.
Sugar for regular household pur
poses may be used at the rate of three
pounds per month per individual, but
may be purchased quantities of 2
pounds by residents of cities, and quan
tities of 5 pounds by residents of rural
communities.
"The use of sugar in fruit preserva
tion is not necessary to prevent spoil-
age." says the state food administra
tion '"It is necessary that the fruit
be brought to the temperature of boil
ing water throughout to kill all yeasts
and molds and that no air. water or
unsterilized utensil shall come in con
tact with it after it is heated. The
purposes of sugar in canning has been
two-fold.. To produce the extreme
sweetness demanded by the American
taste: and to make the liquid surround
ing the fruit thick enough so that the
fruit will not break, nor the sweetness
be so much drawn out of it that the
pulp would be tasteless The problem
of savins fruit without the use of
sugar may be solved in several ways.
1 Canning fruit in water: 2 Canning
fruit juices without sugar: 3 Canning
fruit in fruit juice: 4. Canning fruit
butter without sugar 5. Drying fruit
Methods and recipes for canning
without sugar by these various plans
may be secured by application to the
Home Economics Division, University
Farm, St. Paul.
A contribution of $250 to be appor
tioned between the Red Cross, Y. M. C.
,A. and the K. of C. war funds, was
made this week by Owen Lilly in lieu
of punishment by the state food admin
istration for hoarding wheat. Mr.
Lilly, a resident of Janesville. Wajeca
county, held 100 bushels of wheat after
May 15 and after he had been twice
ordered by C. H. Watson, county food
administrator to market it, the wheat
was sold by the food administration
officials and Mr Lilly summoned be
fore A. D. Wilson, state food adminis
trator, to explain his conduct.
Food conservation in England and
France is touched upon in a statement
given out thi3 week to all food workers
by the state food administration. The
statement reads: "The English meat
ration is one pound of bacon per week
per head. Sugar ration is one-half
ounce of sugar per week. Edible fats,
five ounces. Bread is not rationed."
"The French bread ration is ten and
one-half ounces per day for adults do
ing work. Sugar, four ounces per week
per head. Meat is not rationed but
only seven ounces of meat may be
bought on Tuesday, and on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday no meat'at all
can be bought or served*. In France
fat is not rationed."
VIKING
Ruth Peterson arrived in Viking last
Saturday evening and remained over
Sunday visiting relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Anderson, Mr. and
Mrs. M. Forsberg, Mrs. Tangquist, and
Mr. and Mrs. Lindell were pleasantly
entertained at John Lindquist's Sun
day afternoon.
The auction sale last Saturday eve
ning by the Swedish Ladies Aid was
successful. A large crowd had gathered
and the^ bidding was lively. Mr. Nest
rud auctioned off the articles in an
amiable manner. The proceeds for the
articles and lunch netted $96.
A. Westerlund and Chas. Lindell
autoed to Warren last Monday to at
tend to business matters.
Willie Hanson of Strandquist spent
Sunday at his parental home here.
Esther and Minnie Anderson left
for the cities this week, after having
spent some time visiting at their home.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Anderson of New
folden were Viking callers Sunday.
The Sunday school children of the
Mission church are going to hold their
annual Sunday School picnic at the
Indian Mound Sunday, July 28th, at
2:00 p. m.
Helen Wittensten of Warren and a
friend of her's, visited at I. M. Myrbo's
Saturday.
Mrs. and Mrs. William Forsberg of
Warren and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fors
berg of Karlstad visited at A. Wester
lund's Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Anderson of Minneapolis will
speak on Prohibition at the Mission
church next Tuesday, July 23rd. Every
body come.
Willie Hansen was to Warren Mon
day to take his physical examination.
Ruth Peterson and Florence Lindell
spent Sunday afternoon at F. Ander
son's.
Anna Melve spent a couple of days
last week at her home here.
Rev. Drotts and family were enter
tained at John Larson's Sunday after
noon.
Dr. Walter Lindquist received his
final call to the colors this week. He
left for Minneapolis Tuesday evening.
The best wishes of the people of Mar
shall county go with him. Let us hope
and pray that he and the rest of the
Marshall county boys may all return
to their homes when the cruel war is
over, safe and sound in body and in
mind and with a wealth of new ex
perience ready then to take up again
the pursuits of peace.
Albert Styrlund entertained a num
ber of relatives and friends for din
ner Sunday.
Oscar Swuii^cn -if Warren visited at
Uncle's 1'uiit u* this village l:t -t.
week.
Mission Church of Viking
WERNER DROTTS. Pastor.
Services will be held next Sunday at
the Baptist church of Alma at 2
Sunday school of Viking at 10 30 a
m.
Mr Steenson, of the Anti-Saloon
League, will have a temperence lecture
at Viking next Tuesday, July 23, at 8
and in Foldahl or Comstock next
"Wednesday Fullv announced at the
services in the Baptist church on Sun
day
STEINER
Cyrus Malberg has made a contract
with C. A. Swauson to break some
bru^h land for him.
Soren Bergland wa a business visit
or at Pennington county seat Friday
attending to buines.
Cyrus Malberg was a caller at the
C. A. Swanhon home last Sunday af
ternoon
Julius Liden was a business caller
at Thief River Falls last Wednesday
afternoon
Aasland. of thi$ place as a busi
ness visitor at Warren last Wednesday
automg home company with the
Liden folk-.
The Malberg boys have been work
ing on the state road by Sterner these
days.
The late rams have proven good to
both the helds and haymeadow^ The
fields here are looking fine but the hay
crop seems to be poor on account of too
little ram
Mr and Mrs O Warring were
among the Sterner callers last Wednes
day afternoon
Some one has aid "If one of our i
boys hesitated a long going over
the top as some people do in buying
Liberty Bonds or War Savmgs Stamps
he would be court-martialed and shot
for cowardice And if the -ame pun-j
ishment were meted out to noneom
batants for financial cowardice an
awful lot of people would be shot at_,
dawn" I
D.Farrell i
IA/ARRBN MINN.
Largest and best selected stock
WATCHES, CLOCKS.
JEWELRY, SILVER,
WARE, CUT GLASS
AND MUSICAL IN-
STRUMENTS to be found in Marshall County, at
prices that are right A visit to my
store win convince you that above is
correct.
Edison Phonographs and Records.
Fine watch repairing a specialty.
Clean Wallowing and Shade
Help to Make Healthy Hogs.
They help the hogs to turn corn in pork faster and at less cost.
Every day you get along WITHOUT such eqipment costs you
some good profits.
Plans and figures can be had here for the asking, and we have
lots of fresh cement and good lumber.
St. Hilaire Retail Lumber Co.
A. I. BYSTROM, Local Manager WARREN, MINN.
MR. FARMER
You are saving 40% of your entire corn crop, that
otherwise would go to waste, if you store your corn in a
cement stave silo.
The whole crop60% corn and 40% stalksis turned
into succulant fe%d.
YOU WANT YOUR SILO OF CONCRETE for that
only is wind-proof, rot-proof, fire-proof and everlasting.
Let us build you an INTERLOCKING CEMENT
STAVE SILO on your farm and be on the safe side.
Place your order NOW, and have the silo ready for your
corn. STRANDELL CEMENT PRODUCTS CO.
E. STRANDELL, Mgr.
Phone 690f
Crookston, Minn.
Come In and See This
Spreader Work.
We announced a short time ago that we have the agency
for the Nisco Manure Spreader. We believed at the time
that this was the best spreader made, and now, after scores
have examined it thoroughly and commented favorably,
we are more than ever convinced that we have the ideal
spreaderthe original wide-spreading machine.
We want our customers to come in and see this practical, low-down,
light-draft spreader. We have it ail set up and can put the mechanism in
motion just as you'd see it in the field.
Perhaps you don't need a spreader. No matter! Come in just the same
and see the "Nisco." Our word for it, you'll be interested anyway. The
N
The two pictures
shown here are made
from actual photographs
showing how two differ
ent farmers handle hogs.
The tell their own
story.
A cement hog wallow
with a roof over it may
sound like luxuryit
may even sound foolish
to some farmersbut
those who have them say
that it looks good in the
bank account when the
hogs are sold.
CEMENT
Feeding floors.
Hog wallows.
Dipping tanks,
and
Hog houses, founda
tions and floors.
ISCO
ThrftewideaW
Manure Spreader
Stands unique among spreaders. It puts manure on the soil in the best pos-
sible condition to furnish necessary plant food. A chain conveyor carries
the load to a pair of cylinders, revolving one over the other, where it is
thoroughly pulverized and thrown onto swiftly revolving paddles that dis-
tribute it evenly over three corn rows. The feed can be easily regulated,
3, 6* 9,12,15,18 loads per acre, or shut off entirely.
The Hiaco Spreader will carry a big load of manurenever clogs,
and with reasonable care will last a lifetime. It is the
First Wide-Spreading Spreader Ever Built
Introduced 17 years agothe first machine to embody this great improve-
meatwide-spreading, WFIP a rMTraPCTTMA Called "Helpine Mother Nature." Tens more about
B^J^/riSS^SS? manure than yon ever thought of. Shows how fresh
BOOK TO GIVE YOU. manure, distributed by the Nisco Spreader, builds up
soil fertility and increases farm profits. Don't miss your copyit's here when you calL
WARREN MACHINE & IRON WORKS
Warren, Minnesota
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