The Bottineau courant., 1907-04-12

town. She 1s cousin OF Mrs.
Martin. Hong, and should she
like the town will, remain here
permanently.
Old residents of Willow City
will be interested to learn that
Oscar Romanson, who for
many years conducted drug
store here, and who helped out
many a fellow man in the early
days of Bottineau county, and
who has many friends here yet,
has been elected mayor of Fes-
senden.
Spring seemed a long ways
off to Willow City residents on
Wednesday morning when they
arose and found a blizzard
blowing, but in the afternoon
the kids" got out on the old
diamond and startsd a game of
baseball and straightway the
sun began to shine, balmy
breezes to blow, and 10, spring
was with us again.
Mrs. Alex McBain, who has
spent the greater part of the
winter in Willow City at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. T.
G. Michaels, left on Tuesday
for her home in BOttineau.
The following is taken from
a letter written by Lloyd Sims
to S. B. Mahaney. Lloyd is one
of the boys who recently joined
the navy, and his letter will
doubtless be of interest to many
of our readers:
Friend Mack:
We boys received your
letter a few days ago. I was
never better pleased with any
move I ever made than when I
joined the navy. It is a great
deal better than [ ever imagin-
ed. OF course some of the boys
are having it a little hard with
their drilling but it will get
better every day. We are on
the receiving ship, Franklin"
which is permanently anchored
in the Elizabeth river between
Norfolk and Portmouth navy
yards; they are just a few rods
from our ship and are the finest
in the world. It is here that
many of the finest battle ships
are built. There are several in
the docks here now. The
Minnesota, which cost six
million dollars, and the best
ship in the navy is anchored
within a stones throw of the
Franklin.
All kinds of sport is provid-
ed for the navy men free of
charge, besides every means
possible for keeping them clean
and healthy. The food is plain
but clean and wholesome. Miss
Helen Gould has endowed a
naval Y. NJ. G. A. at Norfolk
and here on the ships grounds.
She seems to think a whole lot
of the navy as there are several
souvenir cards with the greet
ing in her own handwriting,
from foreign ports where she
has been travelling.
Will Pepin, Peck Gardner
and l were all through the navy
yards yesterday. There we saw
old guns from the revolutionary
war, Chinese cannon and Span
ish mines and torpedoes and in
fact relics of all the wars the
United States had been en-
gagged in. The naval cemetery
is very nicely laid out and the
hospital has every modern de-
vice to take care of the sick or
wounded and make them as
comfortable as possible.
Roy Sims has been sick with
the measles but he is up to-day
and will be all right by the
time this reaches you.
It is all fake about the Of
ficers using the men mean.
They don't dare go very far, as
the men have always the
chance of a trial and the right
to appeal if they have not had
justice done them. / have not
had a cross word spoken to me
since | joined and have always
been treated as a gentleman.
It is only the worst class who
desert. They are the chronic
kickers and hoboes who do not
know what they want.
Well, Mack, if I like the
navy as we'll at the end of my
four years enlistment as I do
now / will certainly go in
again.
Il guess this will do for this
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