The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-22

members. was chosen to confer with
the city health officer. DR.. Robert
pence. and also with Professor E. F.
I-add. the state food inspector.
The fact that the city commission
OF Minot Is already taking up the mat
ter of providing an ordinance for the
inspection of all meat sold in the city
doubleday will have the support Of
al city officials in their good work.
The ordinance considered is mt to
regulate the slaughter and sale of
meat especially from tubercular cat
tie. n also provides for a meat i'll
spcctor.
Mrs. L. w. Gammons. a prominent
member of the Woman's club of Mi.
not and president of the first library
in thai city. was paid a high
tribute at the formal opening of the
new library in that city by r. A. Nes-
tos VINO spoke in behalf of the state
library commission. He stated that
Mrs. Gammons was n of the most
untiring worke for the establish
ment of a large public library and it
was largely through her efforts that
funds necessary for the erection of
h Carnegie building we're secured.
The same speaker also commended
the Woman's n Art clubs highly for
their splendid gifts to the library, the
fireplace and Il beautiful picture.
The members of the Century club
OF Devils Lake exhibited their pa
triotism Tuesday afternoon when
they devoted their regular meeting to
a program on THE Flag" The scs-
sion was held at the home of Mrs. Eva
Olson who used the national colors in
her house decorations and also in the
a noninffT ante re <1, 1;,rl,k ~r.--l,
ment course. The most interesting
paper was that Of Mrs. P. 6. Miller on
Our Flag" from which the following
excerpt Is taken:
The present national flag called
stars and stripes originated June II,
1T1. when the Continental congress
resolved that the flag Of the United
rod M white and that the union he
thirteen white stars on a blue field.
Congress changed the flag to fifteen
rcd and white stripes and fifteen stars
in. 1194. but in 1915 an act was pass
cd by which the original thirteen
stripes n fifteen stars were restored
as tho additional state would make the
flag too large. at that time it was pro-
Nided that the thirteen horizontal
stripes. which represent the thirteen
origtnal states should be continued.
while a new star should he added to
tho number with the admission of a
new state into the union. the addition
to take effect on the Fourth day of
July next. succeeding the admission.
The first flag under this law was hois-
ted over the u. S. House of Reprcser-
tatives in 1918 and remained I'M
changed except as tn the number of
stars. General Washington. Col.
George Ross, aud Robert Morris con-
stitutcd the committee appointed by
congress to designate a national flag,
and Mrs. Betsey Ross made the first
flag at her residence in Philadelphia.
The material used in the first stars
and stripes was a soldiers white shirt.
an old blue army ovcrcoat and a red
fnannel %petticoat. There are forty
eight stars in the union of the flag
up to tho present time. the stars
symbolic the perpetuity of the
union In Union there is strength
united we stand. divided We fall
The @ signifies divine love VAL
or. war: the color calls to mind the
blood shed for our country. The white
expresses truth. hope, purity and
peace. The blue denotes loyalty. sim
cerity and Justice"