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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-10-19
SCHOOL NOTES

The LIST grade is making
Mother Goose booklets.
Dina Jensen visited Miss Fro
kjer's room last Wednesday.
County Superintendent Blank
enship visited the school Friday.
The work bench in the Manu-
al Training department will be
completed this week.
The tables and cupboard for
the Domestic Science room have
arrived and the girls can now
work to better advantage.
The teachers and officers oil
Dist. No. II plan to attend the
joint meeting Of teachers and
officers at Sandstone Oct. Fl.
The following is partial list of
the pupils present every day the
first month.
Miss Frokjer's room:
John Degerman, John Kuffel,
Lawrence Kuffel, Margaret Lun-
de, Sigurd Lunde, Viola Peter
sen, Paul Plesner, Agnete
Simonsgaard, Helen Smidt. Rag
ma Sorensen, Sigvard Sorensen,
Thorvald Sorensen, Thyra Soren-
sen.
Grammar room:
Agnes Sebald, Jutta Poulsen.
Holger Jorgensen, Esther Dixen.
Rudolph Petersen, Agnes Smidt.
Agnes Krantz. Byron Olsen, Elna
Petersen, Edith Grayesen, Carl
Jensen. Verna Krantz. Barbara
Kuffel, Astrid Pearson. Ellen
Poulsen.
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KERRICK

From Our Correspondent.
Jas. Renfro was in Sandstone
Tuesday for dental work.
Chester Dean has accepted a
position with the G. N. Ry. at
Bena.
Several of our people were in
Carlton yesterday attending q
road meeting.
Mrs. M. McGrath. Raymond
and Macy spent Saturday and
Sunday at Duluth.
Martin Johnson left Wednes-
day for South Shore, s. D., to
visit his daughter.
Ole Berset went to MaGrath,
Monday, to finish up a new school
house at that place.
MIR. and Mrs. John Harris OF
Foxboro. spent the week end at
j. H. Hogan's home.
Emil Petersen moved up from
Grandy Saturday and will locate
on his place near town.
Mrs. S. e. Reynolds returned
to Minneapolis. Saturday, after q
weeks visit with her daughter,
Mrs. A. j. Warren.
Ryder Edison has finished the
barn on the Curry q White farm
and is now putting up a sheep
barn for Nels Berset.
Nels Barset sold a carload Of
steers to Curry & White, Mon
day. They have placed them on
their farm east of town.
The shadow social held Satur-
day evening in the section 8
school was a big success in every
way. $35 were realized.
E. M. and Nels Berset went to
Duluth Tuesday to close up a big
timber contract they have taken
to get out in Beltrami county.
w. P. and j. H. Hogan attend
ed the meeting of the County
Commissioners, Monday, in the
interest of the good roads propo-
sition.
Tom Furlot and Chas. Swan
son left Sunday and are now
working on a bridge contract
with VIM. Christensen in the
western part of the state.
Plaisted Bros of Sandstone and
Minneapolis, were in town Satur-
day. They are thinking Of put
ting on a force Of men and get
ting out the timber on the north
east of Sec. 4-45-18.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Spring
called in town Tuesday. They
are spending few days at Du.
quette with the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Narcotic, later they
will go to Gladstone, Michigan
to spend the winter.
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VOLUME Ill.
TALKS ON
THRIFT

This article is a part of a series
prepared by the Savings Bank Sec
ton of the American Bankers Assoc
citation, No. S Nassau Street. New
York City, in connection with the
celebration in 1916 of the one hum
dreth anniversary of Savings Bank
ing in the United States. F..
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Auction bills-the kind that
draw the crowd-are printed at
the American office.
write accident and life insur-
ance in a good company. H. Pet
ersen, at the American Office. 40
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him, and they know and trust each
other, but his opportunity for study
of the cold science of naval warfare
is limited to about twelve months of
shore courses in engineering, gunnery.
electricity and general study. The
game board and kindred studies are
not practiced on a large scale.
Each ship was perfect In detail: her
engines were ready, her guns ready.
her crew ready. and in fleet evolutions
they upheld the best British traditions
Picked officers and crews were aboard
the battle cruiser fleet. and no more
gallant set of sailormen ever raised the
whom the Germans were tolling into
their snare. reckoning upon their pluck
as the factor to lead them to destruc-
ton.
Eighteen thousand yards Is a long
range, but a falling shot from a thir-
teen-inch gun is nearly as dangerous
to a battleship at that distance as 1t
would be to a cruiser. At 1000 yards
"A shot from such q gun will not pierce
the armor of a battleship. but the shot
with which 1t is answered Will pierce
the armor of a cruiser as one from the
smooth bores OF the Merrimac did the
Cumberland or the Minnesota.
admiral Beatty on the wireless call
of the destroyers relayed the message
TO the second division of his squadron.
hurrying them on. and gave an invita-
ton to Admiral Jellicoe to come to the
party and bring the whole high seas
feet with him. Then he started for the
fee, which ut las. vas 'e2.hihS cut.
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KADY BROwNELL,
In army costume.

the LIST Michigan. served variously as
chaplain, vivandiere, daughter of the
regiment, nurse. hospital steward. ward
master. and sometimes as surgeon.
Sharing all the dangers of the brigade
in the field. she had several horses
killed under her. She slept on the
ground like a soldier. and after the war
Joined a detachment that crossed the
Rockies for the Indian service.
-
One of the few women pensioned by
the government for civil war service
other than nursing was Mrs. Sarah z.
Thompson. Tennessean, who led a
force of Union cavalry to the hiding
place of Gen. John T. Morgan upon the
eve of his death in battle. 1t was the
irony of fate that after performing
such perilous service unscathed Mrs.
Thompson. a generation after the war,
should be killed by street car in
Washington. She was employed as
clerk in the Treasury.
Many who have visited the battle
field of Gettysburg have viewed the
monument erected to that battles one
woman victim, Jennie Wade. who was
killed there July 3, not while fighting,
but while baking bread for the Union
soldiers.
Even in the little brush with Spain
we find a Yankee girl winning her
straps. This was Anita Newcomb Nc
Gee, a young Washington physician.
daughter of the great astronomer,
Simon Newcomb. and wife of the
anthropologist. w J MCGEE. After
war had been declared President Nc
kinley commissioned herSas acting as
sistant surgeon. with the rank of first
lieutenant. and she was placed in
charge of the Army Nurse Corps. In
the Russo-Japanese war she held sim
liar rank in the army of the mikado.
who conferred upon her the Imperial
Order of the Sacred Crown.
preparedness was watchword as
yet uncoined in the day of these wom-
en-. But they were ready
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for what purpose he was not inquisitive.
AS he had only heard about battle
cruisers. he might have supposed they
were talking a roundabout cruise for
another raid on the English coast.
He presumably had with him the
Lion tfiagship), Tiger Queen Elizabeth,
Princess Royal and possibly one or
more other battle cruisers. the larger
able to make thirty knots and carrying
each eight 13.5-inch guns. the older
ones carrying the same number OF
pieces, but only of twelve-inch caliber.
Besides these were number of the War
rior class of 14.6O0 tons. and a rela-
lively large number of destroyers. AS
far as can be learned or surmiSed, he
had neither submarines nor Zeppelins.
and either he did not have aeroplanes
IL he did they were Of no value
either In scouting or fighting.
This was the first British division
on that drizzling, overcast afternoon to
come into contact with the German
battle cruiser advance division. pre-
sumably consisting of the Seydlitz. Vik-
toria Louise, LutZgow, Moltke and Won
der Tam and possibly some others, all
nearly equal in size and speed to Beat
tvs fleet. but armed with lighter guns,
eleven and twelve inch. in the main bat
terry. They were perfectly informed by
their Zeppelins of the approach of the
cruisers and Of what lay behind them.
Although the superiority was with
the Teutons, they promptly withdrew,
adroitly steering a carefully rehearsed
course which led the English who pur-
sueI peil nell, on i line tet"'een them
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and the battleship fleet, of course. out
of sight. Fire was opened as soon as
the squadrons could distinguish each
other. the Germans allowing their en-
envy to engage.
Meantime three more battle cruis-
ers under Admiral Sir Horace Hood,
well known in Washington and de-
scendant of the famous admiral of that
name. were coming at top speed with
the second cruiser division and appear
to have Joined the advanced fleet not
long after action was begun, thus CIV
ing to his side preponderance.
But at the moment planned the Ger
man battle fleet, perfectly informed by
radio of events. made its appearance
in the mist and the English battle
cruisers found themselves opposed to
vastly superior dreadnaught force,
making withdrawal to their supports
necessary This was made the more
urgent by the large fleet of destroyers
which appeared suddenly in their
course.
THE turn-about sixteen points-was
executed by head-of-the-column move
ment-that is. the leading vessel turned
and each succeeding vessel followed in
her course. At that time the battle feet.
at about 1000 yards, opened with salvos
which at that distance were almost as
effective as anything which the heavier
British guns could return, and, picking
each cruiser as 1t turned. sank the In
vincible and the interchangeable with al
most every soul aboard. including the
gallant Hood. the Queen Mary having
gone down before.
BIT Rad. given to cruisers to keep
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DR.. MARY F.. WALKER,
In costume worn in army.

duty Garfield gave her the rank of ma
jor.
A captains commission was person.
ally conferred by President Lincoln on
Mrs Emily E. Woodley of Philadelphia,
who served as civil war nurse, and
who at the age of seventy-three died
in that city May Is, 1908. majors
commission was given during the civil
war by Gov. Yates of Illinois to Mrs
Belle Reynolds of Shelburne Falls,
Mass. who followed her husband to
war and shared with him the hardshiPs
of the Union troops.
Better known than any of these was
DIR. Mary f. Walker. who since the
civil war has worn male attire. Or.
Mary is the only American woman
who ever held an officers commission
in the. regular army and who has re-
ceived the priced military medal Of
honor. At the outbreak of the civil
war she was one of the few of our
countrywomen to have a diploma from
a medical college. She had practiced
for some time at Oswego when she ap-
peared in Washington to offer her
services al the War Depa rtment, which
commissioned her first assistant
surgeon without pay, and later as an
assistant surgeon of regulars with the
rank and pay of first lieutenant
While she was detailed with Sher-
mans army an epidemic broke out in
the territory overrun with Champ Fur
geson's bushwhackers, which horde was
a terror to both armies alike, and al
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of her term she re-enlisted with her
husband, and the two went with Burn
side to the south of Richmond. She
then donned the coast uniform and
served not only color bearer, but as
nurse and daughter of the regiment.
Upon the battlefield she gathered
blankets from the dead to comfort the
wounded. and many a man in her com
pany. her husband among them. owed
his life to her careful nursing.
Even before the civil war Sarah Ed
monds of Maguadanick, New Bruins
wick. adopted male attire and the name
Frank Thompson the better to ply
her avocation as a Bible agent through
the Canadian wilds. Crossing into
Michigan at the outbreak of the war.
she enlisted under the same name in
the FLINT Union Grays." shared the de
feat at Bull Run, escaped to Alexandria
and rejoined the Union forces at York
town. Disguised a contraband, she
crossed the enemy's lines. and after
having been forced by a southern off
Ger to wheel gravel for brea stWork
escaped back to the federals with
much eeded information
In the guise Of a woman peddler she
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~ COFF. If you like, at this prepared
~ ness movement among our wom-
en-. The fact remains that since
Molly Pitcher dropped her buck
ct and took her fallen husbands place
In the brunt of the battle of Monmouth.
thus winning a sergeant's rank and. a
place on the pay list for life. our maids
wanting when war has threatened
their homes and their loved ones
Six women won officers commissions
In the civil war. One of these was Maj.
Pauline Cushman. an actress born in
New Orleans in 1888. While playing in
Louisville in 1853 she entered the Sc
cret service of the Union army, and
one of her first clever ruses to allay
suspicion was to toast the Confeder-
acy from the stage of Woods Theater,
Tor which act she was. as she had ex-
peeted. expelled from the company.
Then she took the field as spy, but
was soon captured by Jack Morgan,
the guerrilla raider. He turned her
over to Forrest, who let her go. Later
she fell into the hands of Bragg. and
ON being court -martialed was condemn
ID to death, but fell i'll. While she
was being nursed for the firing squad
Bragg's men fed before Rosecrans' ad-
vance, and she was found on her bed
by the Union troops. As reward for
ltwo severe wounds received while on
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them away from contact with dread
naughts. was now proving it's value, and
the mists which had prevented the Brit
ish from seeing the dangers ahead now
befriended them as they disappeared from
sight.
"All this time the British main fleet of
more than sixty great battleships was on
it's way to the party fast as steam
could drive it. The first to arrive were
six of the Warspite class. which with the
battle cruisers. again took up the battle
against the German fleet it came into
sight, and the battle became general
1.-THE Warspite. which had her steering
gear put out. was struck twice by shell
and was torpedoed from destroyer, a
submarine or a battleship. The MARI
borough was struck. The Warrior, Black
Prince and the Defense We're sunk and
destroyers were put out of the fight
But the great-mouthed. long guns of
the English were not idle. This open
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though Furgeson had declared that he
would kill every blue coat" captured,
DIR. Mary rode alone to make her
rounds of the sick countryfolk. She
had many narrow escapes. and at last,
while turning a bend in a road, found
herself confronted by Furgeson and his
band. who commanded her to surren-
der.
this frail girl replied to Furgeson. But
first escort me to the bedside of a dy-
ing woman whom as a physician l am
going to attend?'
Furgeson let her pass. Later she was
captured and held prisoner at Castle
Thunder. Richmond. for four months.
after which she was exchanged for DR..
Lightfoot of Tennessee
Two women held officers commissions
in the Confederate army. the more ia
nous of these being Sue Mondey. or
Lieut.. Flowers" of Capt. Berry's staff,
who wore a full Confederate uniform,
with a jaunty plumed hat. from beneath
which sometimes escaped wealth of
dark brown hair in 1uxuriant curl. She
had a beautiful figure. dark piercing
eye and soft and musical voice. She
was a bold rider and a daring leader
Her sister officer in the Confederate
service, Capt Sallie Tompkins, estab-
lished and maintained at her own eA-
pense the Robertson Hospital, where
1900 wounded Confederate soldlers
were treated between 1851 and 1862
When the Confederate secretary of war
required all military hospitals to be in
charge of an officer, President DAVIS
commissioned Miss Tompkins a captain
of infantry.
A score of women fought in the ranks
during the civil war. One OF the most
picturesque was Kady Brownell. daugh-
ter of Scotch soldier who was serving
in Caffroria. Africa, at the time of her
birth, in 1912. Coming to America,
Kady married Robert S. Brownell. or
derby sergeant. 1st Rhode Island In
fantry. with which she marched off to
war as color bearer. She wore ser
geants saber and engaged in target
parctice. until she became proficient as
a sharpshooter, as we'll as In sword
practice.
While marching from the Potomac to
Richmond her regiment was under fire,
but, undaunted by shot and shell, she
stuck to her colors. around which her
comrades rallied to victory. At the end
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American Women Prepared When War Threatene

Wanting Since Molly Pitcher the Place of Her
Husband atthe Battle Women Won Officers Commissions
Walker
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WIN rne OreaOnduSnt meet retriever
the day for England.
photo by Underwood & UNDERWORLD
known and probably does not exceed
the admissions of the admiralty-three
battle cruisers, three second-class
cruisers and eight destroyers sunk:
with others, the WarSpite and MARI
borough crippled.
The Germans admit the loss of one
battleship. the Pommerna tsaid by them
to be an old second-class ship. claimed
by the English to be the Pommern
ersatz, a new first-class ship. bearing
the same name), four smaller cruisers
and five torpedo boats. The English
claim that another battle cruiser and a
battleship were torpedoed and sunk.
Most likely they were torpedoed, but
being near their base reached harbor in
safety. Doubtless, several German ships.
if not sunk, We're SO badly injured that
they will be under repairs for several
months.
* <
'The loss of life on the English ships
cannot be less than 5000 of her best
officers and men: that of the Teutons
probably 5000, and many more if the
two capital ships. the Seydlitz and the
great dreadnaught Hindenburg. claim
ed by the English to have been tor
pedoed, went down.
w nile nothing can exceed tHe SUI
perb way in which the ships. of the
British were handled. the quality of
their gunnery and the gallantrS with
which they battled against odds, it
seems plain that the German fleet was,
from the military point of view, di-
rected more skilfully, and. strange to
say, took the measure of the personal
equation, for they so Unanswered with
an inferior force that they induced the
English TO battle against the odds.
.JelllcOe.
to the fleet says that officers and men
lived up to the best traditions of the
navy. Had they done less than that
and quit when the cruisers found them
selves against the whole German fleet,
they would have suffered a severe de-
feat: but as it was they in part or
wholly equalized the losses. saved pres
tige and have. doubtless, convinced the
German leaders of what they must
have known. that they cannot over
come the English high seas fleet of
dreadnaughts.
The sea power has not been trans
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COMMANDING inc EnsHsn DattIc cruiser
squadron.
Copyright by International News Service,
fighting was. as in the days of old, to
their liking. and now the best of English
naval traditions were being upheld. Hit
after hit was counted. and now the Ger
man battle fleet was being mauled The
Rostock went down. the Pommern was
fought to a standstill and eventually
sunk. British destroyers in the approach
ing darkness began to dash in.
"A little later the advanced ships of the
main fleet of Great Britain began to make
their delayed appearance. a cloud of de-
stroyers steaming ahead of them.
1.-The German fleet had fought CALAMITY
and with skill. and now in good order. in
spite of the Overwhelming force against
it, withdrew under cover of night. having
done all that 1t had attempted. AS the
ships steamed away they threw behind
them floating mines and sent out their
destroyers for night attacks. which APP
pear to have brought no return. But they
were not TO be unscathed from torpedoes
sent from British destroyers.
The loss of the British is quite well
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OFFICERS United States Navy Interested the Battle Which Was Fought Under
Unusual Condrons-ow the Mighty Ws
Togeth-Stegy GoodLessons
This Country.
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did further spy service of value, but
not until twenty years after parting
with her old commander did she sur
prise him with the unsupported intelii-
gence that his gallant Frank Thomp-
son" was a woman. Two years after
the war she married L. II. Seelye of La
Porte, Tex.
In the spring of '62 Annie Lilly
bridge. sixteen-year-oId girl, was
employed in store in Detroit, where
she fell in love with lieutenant of the
2lst Michigan Infantry. Resolving to
share his danger. she purchased male
attire, enlisted in another company of
his regiment and managed to keep her
secret from even the object of her af
fections. She shared with him the dan =
gers and trials of the Kentucky cam =
paign, endured long marches and slept
on the ground without a murmur She
became a favorite in the regiment and
Col. Stephens frequently detailed her
as regimental clerk. When on picket
duty she received a severe wound in
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correct thing to do. and thew had cour-
age enough to follow the e -act though
cold studied plan.
Since they could not fight cruiser
was to induce the enemy battle cruis-
to send their battle cruisers
against the German cruisers and bat
tleships. They selected a time, not a
difficult thing in that section, when
rain, fog and drizZle might be ex-
pected, and then arranging a sailing
order of cruisers first, battIeships be-
hind and just beyond sight, most likely
sending word TO Sir David Beatty that
they were under way, not in the old
form of challenge by herald and
trumpet, but by means of neutral
tramp steamer dispatched to be cap
tured. II is quite positively reported
that the German fleet came upon Brit
ish destroyers holding up a merchant
man.
"The English for wonder, did not
try TO capture the German squadron,
but ran off, telling the news by wire
less that there were some German
cruisers In those waters that might be
surprised and caught IL the British
light feet should come quickly enough.
Now the designers of the Tiger and
her sister ships had given them long,
me ZINES lot speed, ana Han Duilt IN
them engines designed to develop l20.-
900 horsepower to drive them at 30
knots or a little better, and had told
the officers that this speed was OBJ
tained by sacrificing armor, that il
was unsafe to take them too close
TO heavy guns. but that their speed
would keep them away from dangerous
dreadnaughts.
The officers of the Tiger and his
fierece sisters. however. said that speed
would also take them close aboard
the enemy, and that was the traditional
way in the British navy to fight, as
Lord Nelson had fully proved CEN
fury ago.
The English naval officer is pic
killed. in deep sea brine man. Sent to
sea when boy, his training Is of the
old school type. at least. IL was until
wooden ships were abandoned. Then
ne became. in addition to his other
qualifications, a machinist and engi-
neer. He knows his ship. be IL what II
may. from, submarine TO snperdresd-
i.susat, he knows the DlueJSck ahds-