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The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-08-03
TWO BRIDGES
ARE ALLOWED
STRUCTURES OVER RED AND
MISSOURI RIVERS FAVORED BIZ
THE SENATE.

Washington, D. c., Aug. 1.-Author.
ization for the construction of bridge
across the Missouri river at Williston
N. D., was favsrably acted upon b.
the senate today. .,...... .s4.
At the same time the senate grant
ed its consent to the Village of Hen.
drum, NIinn., and the township of Elm
River, N. D., to construct bridge
across the Red river.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-08-03
NOW ESTIMATE DEAD IN
ONTARIO FIRES AT BOG
LONE COMMISSIONER DIRECTS
GOVERNMENT RELIEF.

Cobalt, Ont. Aug. 1.-Frederick
Dane, lone commissioner representing
the Ontario government in relief of
north Ontario fire sufferers, said to-
night that reports received from ware
ious fire swept sections the number Of
dead now is estimated at 3O6.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-08-03
Il. C. HANSBROUGH
IN THE CITY.

Hon. H. C. Hansbrough, who for
eighteen years represented North Da-
kota in the U. S. Senate arrived here
recently from his Virginia home and
is looking after business matters ana
greeting old time friends. For many
years, Devils Lake was his home and
before he went to the senate he own
ed and published the Inter-O Ocean of
this city. He has a host of friends in
North Dakota who are always pleased
to see him and to know that he is well
and prospering.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-08-03

Prof. Nelson Sauvain has returned
home after attending the national edu-
cational meeting in New York. He
was accompanied home by his moth
er, Mrs. Julia Sauvain of Pittsburgh,
Pa,
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23
Is an Old Institution.

Despite popular opinion to the con-
trary, Thanksgiving day as an insti-
tuition is not peculiarly American.
For history shows that all ancient ma
tons used TO celebrate some feast Of a
thanksgiving nature, while most of the
tribes of our American Indians had a
big gathering and n harvest feast
years before the white man ever set
foot on the shores of the new world.
BY the Greeks and Romans the fes-
tival days in honor of the goddess OF
agriculture were times of rustic sport,
of professions through the fields and
the decorating of the home with fruits
and flowers. The people of Egypt en-
joyed a time of feasting after gather
ing I'm their harvests and laid the
fruits of the year on the altar OK the
Goddess Isis.
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23
THANKSGIVING Fable.

An aged Turkey, once upon a time
had occasion to read the Riot act to a
Grandson because the latter was a
Glutton.
at Behooves you to Fast for few
weeks" said the Wise Old Bird, ''for
Thanksgiving draweth apace-that
season when lOng-legged Bipeds
Swoop down upon Us without Warn
ing and give it to our Family in the
Neck"
ooh. go tol" exclaimed the Young
Clutton. "You think because Old Age
has made you GOuty and rendered you
Unable TO Partake of the Good things
of Life that you can Stuff me. I'm
Dead Next. Seer"
every WELL" answered the Grand
sire. Keep right on getting Obese
and you will be Dead Next for keeps
then You'll see who does the Stuffing.
And the late November returns
showed that the Old Turk knew
Whereof he Spoke.
Moral-If you would Live Long and
Prosper, Don't get Gay.
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23
Feast Of the Tahernacles.

The feast of the tabernacles In the
Old Testament times was also har-
vest celebration and took place on the
seventh day of the month, which cor
responds to our November, sometimes
lasting for a whole week. They gath
cred in the temple in great process.
sions. holding palms. and in the streets
we're booths decorated with the flow
ers and fruits of autumn.
Among the Indians Of America the
custom of having Thanksgiving feast
was practically universal-at least
among those who had any amount of
planting. AS corn was the main arti-
Gle grown, their dances and feasting
were generally In honor of the har.
vesting of that food. The writer's OF
several hundred years ago who first
studied the Indian on his native heath
all speak of these festivals and the
elaborate ceremonial with which they
were attended. While most of the
tribes have vanished as such. there are
still some left on government reserva
lions which observe. though possibly
in a modified degree, the ancient CTS
tom of their race.
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

Thanksgiving l think we ought to
give something more besides giving
thanks
There's a young fellah setting down
here that has been secretary of our
committee of arrangements, who has
been Citing off a lot of ideas up at our
place about us folks Citing together
and want to tell you they're sound.
l move you that we go into commit
tee of the whole, or something, and
that, after we git organized, that Dan
Meeker be made secretary OF the
blamed business, whatever 1t is"
1t didn't take more than minute
to make Dan secretary. They wanted
to make April president, but he
wouldn't have it. But he would act as
treasurer, so the Methodist minister
turned over the collection.
"Wait n minute" said April Jones,
"you amt through with this here col
lection yet. Here's this hill west of
town, that sends half the farmers to
Spragueville with their produce be
cause it's too hard to haul. How many
men1l give days WORK WIN IsaihS
TO grade her DOWN.
Fifty hands went up in the air like
bayonets. "Good!' said April Jones.
That's the first thing we tackle. But
we're going to git power plant at the
old dam. and we're going to pay off the
mortgage on the Methodist church, and
do a few more things. And, as for the
mortgage, put me down, Mr.. Secre'
tory. for two hundred for starter
There isn't any mortgage on the Cen
trail Nj. f. church at Hometown, and
there is n power plant at the dam, and
Dan Meeker is working In the bank
No. April hasn't taken him into part
nership.
But June has.
1copyriSht. 1916. Western Newspaper Unioa
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

said the pastor, "would throw cold wa
ter on the whole service"
"Well, little cold water amt going
TO hurt a Baptist, is it?" asked April,
with something that approached a
chuckle. And, not quite so pleasantly,
he said he would see.
April Jones was suspicious per-
son; and that night when Dan asked
him if he wouldn't come to the Con-
gregational service, he roared:
what are you fellows up to?
amt no heather, that you have to start
missionarying met
1t took little time to convince him
that there was no conspiracy of cOrdi'
atty against him. Suddenly the old
fellow got up, raised one finger al
arms length above his head, and said
II tell you what I'm going to do:
amt going to any of 'em, and I'm go
ing to 'em all I" And with this para
doxical pronouncement he stomped of
To bed.
Next morning April Jones sent the
cashier to ask the three clergymen tC
meet him at the bank.
I'm much obliged to you all for YOU
invitations" he said, while the Congre
gationalist looked at him mystified, ant
the Methodist and Baptist looked a
each other, "but l can't be in no three
places at once. That shows you thu
ruinous effect of competition. Now
I'm going to suggest this: Let's opeI
up the school auditorium and have on
big. bang-up Thanksgiving service ant
invite the whole town y
That is how the famous tow
Thanksgiving i'm Hometown cam
about. Before they got through Apri
Jones was made chairman of the com
mittee of arrangements, and Dan Meek
or was called over from the grocer,
and made secretary. II was agreed tina
the Methodist minister was to opel
the meeting. that the Baptist paste
should offer prayer, and that the Con
gregational brother should preach IN
sermon. with the Methodist to pre-
nounce the benediction.
"And well have three choirs get tC
gether up at June's house tomorrow
night" suggested Dan, "and practic
each others hymnsl"
So one idea suggested another, an
before Thursday arrived the Who'll
town had been invited. and had agree
TO come.
No one in Hometown will forget tina
Thanksgiving service in the school AZ
ditorium. What singing there was b
that chorus of nearly thirty voices
minglIng In the best old Methods
and Baptist and Congregations
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23
WHERE THE WILD TURKEY CALLS-THE REAL THANKSGIVING BIRD

America has more TO be thankful for
yearly, than any other nation In the
world; but our thanks are tempered
by the gravity Of the sorrow of our
neighbors.
The year has not been one Of great
happiness, peace and prosperity. 1t ie
a wear of travail for humanity-the
travail of people being born again.
But out of II will come n disciplined
and sober people; a people who will
know the realities of life better.
We will learn that life is n serious
natter and no silly, simpering affair.
The war has brought us again TO an
understanding of the terrible earnest
ness of the thing we call life.
The earth is in process, and we still
have earthquakes and volcanic erup-
tiOns.
Humanity, too, is in process, and
strife and sorrow and death will con-
tinue TO be its lot. We must face life
resolutely and meet destiny undis-
mayed.
This year we will not be thankful
so much for the blessings we have re-
ceived, for the things that have been
given to us-for being pampered by a
prodigal Providence-and being re-
lieved of our burdens, as we will be
thankful for the strength TO bear them.
In the shrine of our hearts our deep
est prayer is not that we shall be re-
| n. - htrf xra
shall be given the strength to bear
them. for we are great in the degree
and the manner in which we face our
tasks and perform them. The Great
Souls are those that have suffered
and endured.
Our Thanksgiving this year will be
no perfunctory, infantile prattle be-
cause of safety.
This is year of reckoning with
fate; of being thankful If we, our
selves, have not fallen in the wreck
age. We are thankful not for what
has happened; but for what has not
happened.
Life is not trivial pastime. Ii Is
deadly earnest. 1t is the course that
destiny takes, and let us be thankful
not for less of life, but for more of it
and the courage, the fortitude, the
strength, and the persistence to meet
its difficulties and continue its course
undaunted by disaster and unspoilet
by success.
We are thankful for Character, no
charity, and for iron wills that have
not been broken by the inevitable =
From the Sunday Magazine.
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

He give us a navigable river, but it
amt never been navigated by anything
much but bullheads and canoes. lie
give us high hill to shut off the
west wind, but there's some of us that
mint been TO the top of it yet. He
give us good soil, but we're keepin
il more or less of a secret. He give
us a lot of natural advantages, and
quite a bunch of natural loafers, one
of whom l guess l am which. FACE
is. he give us a darned sight more than
we ever give ourselves. Six days he
labored and made Hometown; and 1t
amt never had any next week since"
OF course, it wasn't as bad as that.
Dan Meeker. who had been tent-boy
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

TNHIS is the week of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving day is an Ameri-
can custom started by the Pill
grims who landed on the new
continent and faced hardshlps which
few can realize who are reared in
the wealth and luxury of the land to-
day.
The season had been q hard one.
Many had died and the prospect of
starvation during the cold winter with
its ice and snow loomed large. So,
when the harvest yielded enough to
keep them until another season would
produce the necessities of life, they
met that last Thursday in November
In year 1921, and gave thanks to their
God, who had remembered them.
Thankfuness is usually in inverse
ratio to the value of the thing for
which we give thanks. This is no dis
arrangement of the things we are CRATE
full for; but humanity does not think
of thanks until it has felt the terrors
of distress.
The rich who live In luxury and ease
do not thank with their hearts. Their
thanks are but formal expressions of
meaningless words. How can words
mean anything when one has not felt
the things which make for thankful
ness?
But the poverty-stricken who have
laced starvation pour out thanks from
their humble hearts for the things
that have saved their lives.
Those who live in gorgeous homes
with comfortable fireplaces do not
think of thanks. But those who live
I'm the little howell with big cracks in
the walls and crevices about the doors
and windows and without fuel give
thanks for the comfort of fire.
We do not prize health until we have
lost II. and we do not appreciate life
until we have faced the danger of hav-
ing TO give IL up.
That which we have we are likely to
accept as matter of course; but be
deprived of IL and the sudden realiza.
ton Of its value jars our souls like an
earthquake.
We are thankful In the full sense OF
the word for things necessary to life
and happiness only when we have had
20 do without them.
We are not thankful for that &c
which we are accustomed and accept
thoughtlessly. But when we are de
prived of the necessities of life and
face the hardships, including death
that come as a result, we are thankful
with all our heart.
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

help, but q nInorance. II made TOO
hard haul, and II shut Hometown
in so that ii almost forgot about the
world outside. Even Hometowns adj
vantages were In some ways a disad-
vantage.
Three squares a day have come so
easy to most of us here" said Dan to
himself, that we've kind of forgot that
there is anything else"
There never was n town so good
that ID couldn't be made better. Dan
thought it would be n fine idea TO get
up some kind of n community club or
something and take up the work where
Harry Dee claimed creation had left
off. Harry Dee agreed with him, but
that is all he did. II doesn't take
much effort 10 agree. Dan did well as
Il clerk in the grocery, but as a slim
ulator of the town he didn't make
much progress. Likewise he didn't
make much progress up at the Jones
place. June smiled, but April stormed.
AS Thanksgiving approached, the
tllItt lONhi bhNiOlo bNSdh W tAAt''H
about their Thanksgiving services. The
chors were rehearsed. and certain
Thanksgiving sermons were busted of
looked over and rewritten. One day
the minister OF the Methodist church
said TO his wife:
There's April Jones. He has more
TO be thankful for than any of us, as
far as this worlds goods go. Wouldn't
1t be a fine thing TO get Ape out &c
our Thanksgiving meetingY
His wife Immediately said 1t would
and she couldn't help wondering II
il might not ultimately have some
effect on her husbands back salary
although it was worldly thought. 81
that very afternoon her husband called
at the bank and invited April Jones.
April Jones said he'd see-and III
was so decent about ut that the min
lister told his wife that April Jones
was a misjudged man. The Baptis
pastor saw them through the banI
window and, as May taught in the Bap
| fist Sunday school and June sang il
the choir, he decided that it would b,
no more than right 10 drop in and hav'
talk with their father and mention
the Thanksgiving services.
1.-THE absence of our leading citizen,
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23
THANKSGIVING DAY

That we're at peace with all the world
Safe in our cities and our homes
That unto this. our favored land.
Such gift. with all its blessiffe1 comes.
That men go not to war and death.
That women do not fearful brood
BY anxious hearths for dear ones gone,
We thank Thee, Giver Of all good.
That no ambitious strife is ours
That lust Of conquest does not thrill
! This mighty nations Utmost heart
That we abhor to burn and kill
That weaker nations we protect
Fight but to make their wronsing cease.
Z And only comes to make them free.
We thank Thee. God Of love and peace.
That in the stress around US now.
We feel our hearts with pity throh
And haste to heal the wounded man
To hush the child and woman's sob
That we are eager still to share
The goods that heap our stores again
Z With those who have but US to help
We thank Thee Father Of all menl
geees.Ggs,GGee EEEEGGGG
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23
Their 1hanksalvlna Serious.

When that serious-minded old Pill
grim. Governor Bradford, ordered n
day set apart for prayer and thanks
giving for the first harvest in the new
country, he certainly never dreamed
of the elaborate feasts that would be
served up on that occasion for nearly
300 years. And as for all the nIceties
of table service and fruit and floral
decorations and the etiquette of invi-
tations and all that sort Of thing. why
the mere thought of 1t would be
enough to cast any housewife of those
Gays into outer darkness. For the
stern members of the Plymouth col.
ony considered such superhuitles as
so many traps cunningly baited for rs
perdition by mans worst enemy
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23
The Thankful Spirit.

Cultivate the thankful spirit. II
will be to thee a perpetual feast.
There is,. or ought to be, with us no
such thing as small mercies; all are
great, because the least are uude.
served. Indeed, really thankful
heart will extract motive for gratitude
from eyerything.-J. n. Macduff.
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

hymns How the preachers Wed WIZ
each other in eloquencel And when
the Methodist minister took up a col
lection, although nobody knew exactly
what for, everybody laughed right out.
But that was April Jones turn TO
speak. 81 don't know whether It's
Just regular for me TO speak now, afts-s
these good brothers" said April, "or TO
speak at all. hut | tell you what we
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

are going to do with this money. Us
folks here in Hometown have got Il
lot to be thankful for but we don't
know il. We ought To give thanks for
these three brothers here, who are pull
Ing the weeds in our little vineyard.
We ought to give thanks for our good
school. We ought to give thanks for
our good soil, ana the good power In
our river that we amt never developed
vet. But | tell you what | think about
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

with a Chautauqua last summer. came
home to realize that Hometown had
about the best people in the world In IL
industrious in their work, honest In
their dealings and kind to their neigh
bors. But Il hadn't any navigable river,
Harry to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. The old mill dam below, long
out OF use since the sawmill was gone,
but still In existence. backed the river
up for a mile and bred canoes and bull
heads. The hsa west OF town wasn't
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23
April. JONES
GIVES THANKS
DouqIas haIloch

A PRIL Jones was the
!" !. :: :. :. !. !: !: !.
"A worst crouch In Home
NN town. Perhaps it was
enough to make a man
WIN grouchy, to have had
MX{Ae' parents with no more
S.SSQpAss originality than to name
% AU him april" because
April happened TO be the
.dontn ~ which he was born. Especial
" since he had had to go through life
with the nickname Ape" natural
shortening of his longer name, but one
that was not so very complimentary.
"a darned good name, April or
Ape" said Harry Dee time and again.
IF it's Ape he's as sociable as a
gorilla. And, if it's April he's as
pleasant as the breaking up of hard
winter"
Yet April had acquired funds, If he
hadn't made friends. And he had 9th
or riches. Chief among them was
June, daughter named for her birth
month, like her father. She was well
named, too-fOr she had roses in her
cheeks, and eyes that were twin
patches of blue sky. Nearly every,
body preferred her to her sister May
Dan Meeker certainly did-Or to any
one. April, May and June were the
whole Jones family.
AS for Hometown. and the kind OF
town Hometown was, this is the way
Harry Dee described it when he went
down 10 the city, and they asked:
Hometown is the best little towT
the Lord ever made, but there aim
anybody else ever worked at 1t much
When he quit, everybody else laid off
The Yale expositor., 1916-11-23

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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-09-13
PLAGUE Claims "A
YEAR OLD Victim
Three -Year-Old Child Also
Dies of Disease at Car
ney Point
POWDER co. TAKING
EXTRA PRECAUTIONS

Word Was received in this city to-
day of the death in Pennsgrove,. N. j.,
of a young man "a years OF age. Of
infantile paralysis. The name of the
young man could not be learned. Al
though he was not employed at the
dupont Powder Co. plant. DR.. Garrett
the company's physician, assisted the
Pennsgroye health authorities in look
ing after the case and the company's
guards also assisted with the quar-
antine.
Prince Danning aged years. Of No.
1919 Washington street. Carney Point
village. also died of infantile paralysis
at 8 o'clock this morning. The child
had only been i'll for a short time.
Only employees of the powder plant
live in the village and this is the
first case Of the plague that has de-
veloped there. The father of the child
works in the plant Every possible
precaution is being taken by the COM
pany to prevent the spread Of the dis
ease.
The Powder Co. Is maintaining
a rigid quarantine at its Carney Point
plant and no children are allowed on
the property unless they can show the
proper health certificates.
In addition 20 this the company for
a week or more, has been cooperating
with the Pennsgroye authorities and
their guards have been acting as spe-
cial quarantine officers and sanitary
/ inspectors.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-09-13
HUGHES OUT NEXT
Week ON NEW TRIP
Meets Party Leaders in
New York Today; Con-
fident of Victory
WILL CONTINUE
WILSON ATTACK
BY PERRY ARNOLD

United Press StaE Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 1s.-Elated with
the result of the Maine election and
highly pleased with his record-break-
ing campaign trip. Charles e. Hughes
Republican Presidential nominee, re-
turned to New York early today.
The candidates trip, which took
him from coast to coast during which
he made scores of speeches kept him
on the road Just three days more than
five weeks. He delivered the hnal
speech of his trip in Plattsburgh last
night and with Mrs. Hughes stepped
off the train here today, somewhat
tired but vigorous and enthusiastic.
Governor Hughes and Mrs. Hughes
we're driven direct to the Astor Hotel
where they had breakfast and then
the candidate took up the task of a
series Of conferences with RepublF
can leaders.
Chairman Wilcox. OF the national
committee. was the first of the leaders
10 see the candidate. He had also ar
ranged for numerous other Republi-
cans to confer with him and busy
day was in prospect Senator Smoot
Of Utah; Murray Crane, Frank Hitch
cock. and others we're waiting for a
word with Hughes in going over the
campaign trip just closed and lay
ing plans for a second tour to start
next Monday. IF all conferences are
disposed of in time. the candidate
hopes to visit Republican headquar.
ters during the day and see wheels
go round" At o'clock this after.
noon. however. he will leave for his
summer home at Bridgehampton, L. 1.
for a complete rest before agair
starting out on his quest for votes ir
November.
The candidate plans to avoid as
many conferences as possible during
the remainder OF the week. During
today It is expected his complete itin'
erary for the second trip win be
worked out, and announcement will
then be made OF his speaking dates.
Hughes is well satisfied with the
results OF the trip just closed, anC
has made Il clear that he intends e
continue the fight along the same
line.
He will continue TO assail the ad
ministration's method of settling thu
threatened railroad strike by enact
ueut of the eight-hour law, attack thu
Democratic tairff law, continue. his as
saults on the Democrats in connec
ton with the civil service. and at
tack the administration Mexican pol
lev. He regards his criticism of thi
administration as having been cor
structive as well as pointing out TIL
weaknesses Of Democratic rule ant
with the success in Maine believe
that the people have been aroused 4
the Justice OF his attacks.
Starting on his second tour Monday
Hughes will have the Maine election
10 point to as proof of the reunion
of the Progressive and Republican
parties.
The candidate has given his Ell
dorsement to preparedness as a re
suit of his visit to Plattsburg. II
expressed his approval of such pre-
paredness camps and said he hope
more might be established.