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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07

German nation has been fed on q false
philosophy, believing they are q SUI
perior people. He said that the cause
Of the struggling nations was also our
cause-to defend ones freedom and
the freedom Of the world at the same
time. He commended the efforts of
the mayor along patriotic lines, re-
marking that MI. Bergheim was our
first war mayor. Father Lamothe fin
ished his talk by paying q tribute to
the work of the Red Cross, and ask
ing that it be given every. support in
its noble and patriotic work.
Warren Gibson, treasurer Of the To-
cal Red Cross chapter, gave . state
men Of the finances Of this organize
ton, which showed approximately 49,
900 taken in since it was organized.
About twelve hundred dollars has
been spent for yarn alone. .-..-r
Rev. Gregory was the last speaker.
He said that this nation now stands
ready to give proof to the world of
her boast of being the champion of
democracy, by doing her share in this
war. He concluded by telling Of the
great work done by the Red Cross on
the European battle6elds.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07
CUSHING

Dec. 4.-The rag ball social held in
school district No. 81 last Wednes.
dav was we'll attended. The sum Of
1875 was netted. S 'S
Miss Caroline Sutliff spent her
Thanksgiving vacation at her home in
Little Falls. gs..@ ..s=i55s53
Quite a few from here attended the
show at Little Falls Thursday eve
ming. ,.@E5 '1..,l
a: W. Anderson bought Ford tour
ing car from L. L. !Tippy last week. !.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson Of Lin
coin spent Thursday with friends and
relatives ct this place. 2 20.
Gust Erickson Of Bowden, N. D.. ar
rived Friday and spent several. days
with relatives and old acquaintance
at this place, leaving Monday for Min
neapolis, where he will reside during
the winter months. He has served
rs years in the U. s. army.
A. w. Anderson and family spent
Sunday visiting friends and relatives
at Green Prairie. :,
0. 0. Kjeldergaard, manager Of the
shipping association at Cushing, ship.
ped a car Of stock to st. Paul Mon
day.
Henry Schafer motored to Grand
Rapids last week and spent a few DAYS
deer hunting there.
Louis Ecklund, who is EMPLOYED at
Brainerd, spent Sunday at this place.
Chas. Mostrom of Lincoln visited
trends here a few days last week.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07
CONE AND GONE

Dorothy Davis, daughter Of Mrs.
Jean Davis, returned Wednesday from
Minneapolis, where she has been
staying for several months.
Mrs. Katherine Farnham returned
to her home in Minneapolis Wednes-
day, after visit at the G.. G. Ray
mond home here.
Mrs. Lee Biteman and Mrs. F. Jos
eph of Swanville were in the city
Wednesday, enroute home from Ano-
ka.
Sherman Lewis made business trip
to Minneapolis Wednesday.
Frank Hurd came down from Nc
Gregor Wednesday for brief visit.
E. V. Wetzel made a business trip
to the twin cities Wednesday.
Mrs. Elmer Barg returned to st.
Cloud Tuesday, after visit with her
parents here.
DR.. ind Mrs. A. W. Ide Of Brainerd
visited Mrs. Ide's parents, DR.. and
Mrs. j. G.. Millspaugh of this city,
Wednesday, enroute east.
County Attorney =. Rosenmeier was
in St. Paul on business the middle of
the week.
Sheriff Felix transacted business in
st. Paul Wednesday.
Minor Raymond of Minneapolis
came up the first Of the week for a
visit with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dubbels re-
turned the first of the week from a
visit at Viola. John Dubbels and
Mrs. J. E. Sawyer of that city &C.
companied them here for visit.
Leon Willard of Bismarck, N. D.,
arrived the first Of the week for a
visit with his brother, R. B. Millard,
for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Boisjolie have
been visiting relatives in the city and
Belle Prairie for a. few weeks.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07
RANDALL

! Dec. 5.-Mrs. Cassie Bowie and chill.
dren have returned to their home in
North Dakota, after a two weeks
visit here with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Oothoudt.
John Treacy, who was home several
days of last week on account of ill
| ness, returned to Little Falls Sunday.
where he is attending high school.
The Ladies Sewing society meets
next time on Saturday, the 18th, with
Mrs. Herman Schmidt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burt and daughter
Camilla Of Royalton spent Thanksgiv-
ing here with their son, Will Burt and
family and daughter, Mrs. Mable An.
derson.
Ben Guilds of Granada, was a Ran.
dali visitor the first Of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Cole spent
Thanksgiving with their daughter,
Mrs. Strenad and family, at Piilager,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Bjarnoos, who
have spending the summer and fall
months in Driscoll, N. D., returned
home Tuesday Of last week.
G. M. Dreher Of Lincoln visited Sat
urday and Sunday here, the guest Of
Mrs. c. Bingo.
Miss Mary Roche spent Thanksgiv.
ing vacation at her home in Motley,
returning to this place Sunday.
Mrs. E. W. Sullivan and son Ralph
returned home Sunday, after a few
days spent with her son, Will Sullivan
and family, in Clear Lake. LII
The Red Cross society meets next
Friday afternoon with Mrs. I. N.
Davis. H.. :"
Mrs. N. F Weston and family left
Friday for their new home in Little
Falls. Mr.. Weston will still continue
to run his paper at this place.
The Misses Adams, Elvik and Sta
pies, teachers at this place, spent
Thanksgiving vacation at their homes.
Miss Florence Treacy, who is en-
gagged in teaching near Anoka, spent
Thanksgiving vacation at her home
here. r4.
Mrs. F. g. Noggle and daughter
Florence arrived here Friday, for q
few days. stay with her sister, Mrs.
Anna Barnes. They returned home
Sunday. 4l..
Nat Kempenick, who has been en-
ployed in North Dakota for the past
few months, returned home the first
Of the week. s..{sr
Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Smith. Of Lincoln
spent Thanksgiving day here with
relatives, the guest OF Mrs. Smith Is
brother, Roy Burt and family.
Hugh Kennedy and j.. O.. Noggle
q Royalton spent Sunday here with
relatives. 3: .-558 '3..., 4. Il. II s5l5.i
Mrs. Anna Hagen was. : Little Tails
visitor Wednesday. 81. 81. 5 b
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07
EAST RIPLEY

Dec. 4:-Those from here who visit
ed in Little Falls Saturday were Mr..
and Mrs. Adam Khole and Mrs. John
Schilling.
Mrs. KILLER and daughter Lizzie Wis.
tied at the home Of Mrs. Nordahl last
Sunday.
"A number Of ladies met with Mrs.
E.. A. James Tuesday afternoon for
an afternoon visit. Refreshments
were served and everyone reported
a good time.
r. A. James and Johnnie Nelson
returned from the northern woods.
where they we're hunting deer. They
brought one home with them.
Charley Lyon and family Of Brain
erd visited over Sunday with Sam
Tough's. -
Mrs. Adolph Nordah1 spent Thanks
giving with her mother in Little Falls.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07

was sorry to see the stand they took
and that the only way to remove sus-
picion from religion was to get into
the work. ~ 49,
In speaking of the absence Of the
band, which he expected would play
at the meeting, he said they would
not play without pay. (Mr. Bastien,
leader Of the band, in a statement said
that the band members had no thought
Of being paid in this case, and that
the reason that the band did not play
was that the number that turned out
was not sufficient, many of them be-
ing at Thanksgiving parties or out Of
the city that evening.)
M. w. Zipoy, member Of the com
mittee recently appointed to organize
a Junior Red Cross in the schools here,
gave a short talk on what this organ
ization proposes to do. The member.
ship fees will be raised by means Of
entertainments and the students can
also contribute to the fund, he said
Mr.. Zipoy also called attention to the
coming sale of Red Cross seals, OF
which he will have charge. He said
that the funds derived from the sale
of the seals this year will be equally
divided between the state for tuber'
culosis work and the local Red Cross
chapter.
Father LaMothe, introduced as one
who had stood solidly by the govern
ment during the war, said that this
was a time when the whole energy of
the nation is necessary. Some do not
realize how powerful and treacherous
a nation, which understood organizing
where it would do the most good, we
have to deal with, he said, but we
expect to overcome it, because it is
war Of liberty and the same cause
for which our forefathers fought. The
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07
DTXVTT,T,E

Dec. 4.-Mr. and Mrs. Herman Saue1
and daughter Lizzie and sons Joe and
Alois motored to st. Cloud, Cold
Spring and st. Joe Saturday, return
ing Monday, to visit with relatives
and friends.
Mrs. Gust Borne of Constance is a
visitor, at the G. Parker home.
Mrs. Mary Britz and son Henry au-
toed to st. Cloud Wednesday on bust
ness.
Joe Sauer was a business caller at
Royalton Wednesday,.
Joe Nagel is busy hauling hay from
Buchanan these fine days.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Miller, Miss
Margaret Yokish and Mrs. David Frye
and Mr.. and Mrs. Rudy Baumgardne1
autoed to st. Cloud Wednesday.
John Britz and Fred Wischnewski,
who are employed at Sartell, were wei.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07
TWINl IAKES

Dec. 3.-John Piecharski Of Little
Falls spent Thanksgiving evening.
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Piehowski.
John Cimenski Of the BrickyaTdas
was here on business Thursday. !.
Jack Stoltman took a load Of iaY
to Little Falls Friday. .s S1,.'g
Frank Deering made business tEil
to Little Falls Fiday. .gs,@..
Hugo Larson returned from Dn1ath,
Wednesday morning. - .s+ ss.. ri.s I.
John Witte was a city visitor Sat-
urday. .g. II. .s, u.
Leo Witte autoed to Little FAM a.
Saturday. z%. !.
Anton shulz was county scat WHIT
or Saturday. s3M ..a54 .:*.z
Frank Minchow was . city visitor
Sunday. J5ss.......
Bill Larson was in Little Falls aat.
urday. ~ -.I r. =. 49, =
Joe stoltman was q county seat ealki
er Saturday. .>>',' :.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-07
come guests at the Britt home Sun

cOMo SutSIS az tAo DIlCZ uOuo Dull
day.
Geo. Palmershein is here visiting
with friends for several days.
Britt Bros. were busy grinding feed
in and around this vicinity the past
week. t1'.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Houn motored
to st. Cloud on business Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncy Parkins and
family and Mrs. G.. Borne were visit
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Muncy
Saturday and Sunday, at Royalton..
Mrs. Amelia Hodorff is q welcome
guest at the Henry Dengel home at
Buchanan. ~ | -
Mr.. and Mrs. Aug. Sauer and fam
ily motored to st. Joe Friday, to visit
With relatives.
Mrs. sJohn Bauer was visitor at
the Henry yelling home Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary Britt and son Peter were
county seat callers Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ewald Roehm and
Mrs. B. Roehm were visitors at the
Kriefall home Sunday.
Math. Zenner made trip to Little
Falls Saturday with load of wheat.
Mrs. Joe Nerves and daughter Liz
zie made trip to Royalton Monday.
Her daughter left for st. Cloud where
she is employed at the Grand Central
hotel.
Joe WINNER left for Anoka Tues
day, where he will take treatments at
Kline's sanatorium.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Kuschel and
family were visitors at the Geo. Ku-
schel home Sunday. !
Mr.. and Mrs. Billie Adams and fam.
lily and Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Kuschel and
family were guests at the Peter Wisch.
newski home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Denzen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Math Zormeier, Mr.. and Mrs. Pc.
ter Houn and Mr.. and Mrs. Wenze]
Houn were visitors at the Joe Houn
home Sunday.
Mrs. Geo. Kowitz and daughter Min.
ME attended the birthday party which
was held in honor Of Mrs. Rickhof on
Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Mowan left for Rice Mon.
day, where she will be employed fol-
Herman Wischnewski for several
weeks.
Miss Tracy Zormeier left for st.
Cloud Monday, where she will be en-.
ploved for some time.
Thoen Bros. made a fishing trip to
Sullivan lake the past week and re.
port good catch.
George WINNER and sister Tracy
were visitors at the M. E. Hesch home
Monday afternoon and evening.
Henry Britz autoed to st. Cloud on
Monday.
Mrs. r. Kriefall and son Henry wc1c
callers at Rova1ton Monday.
Geo. Kowitz took load of hogs
to the Rovalton market Monday.
Henry Schnider was visitor at
st. Cloud Tuesday and Wednesday.
Ferdinand Sauer took a load of
butter to Royalton for the Little
Rock Creamery Monday.
Mrs. Gust Borne was a. visitor at
the Geo. Dubmeier home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Friary from
Preston are visiting with their moth
er Mrs. Robert Parkins.
All had a good time at the Supper
party which was held at Nick Kais-
er's in honor Of his birthday Satur-
day evening.
Mr.. j. A. Thoen is business cal
Ter at Minneapolis this week.
John Bauer transacted business in
Genola Tuesday.
G. W. Miller was a caller at Royal
ton Tuesday.
Julius Thoen is a visitor at Mount
Morris for several days, with rela-
tives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudy Baumgardner,
Mr.: and Mrs: Tom ferguson and Mr..
and Mr.. and Mrs. David Frye and
family were visitors at the G. w,
Miller home Sunday.
Nick Daniel was a. caller at St..
Cloud between trains Friday.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
WESTERN.

Archbishop George w. Mundelein,
head of the Catholic Diocese of Chi
cago. joined the American Red Cross
Society.
Silver is again on the up-climb af-
ter its recession from the 79.cent
point reached when the German EN-
barge on all shipping was declared.
Harry j. Spaniel, convicted at Cole.
man, Tex, and sentenced to five
years Imprisonment for killing Lieut..
Col. Nj. C. Butler, U. S. A, was re-
leased on $4,000 bond.
The Pueblo Indians at Taos, N. NJ,
are organizing two companies of sol
diers for enlistment among their
number. and have also made sub.
stantial contribution to the Red
Cross.
After deliberating forty minutes,
during which time one ballot was
taken by the jury, Howard DeWeese,
charged with the murder of his wife,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree at Salt Lake.
Il. Jacob Crull of Roundup, Mon.
tana, who was defeated for the Re.
publican nomination for Congress In
his district by jeanette Rankin at the
1916 primary, died at Elkhart, Ind, as
the result OF taking poison.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
GEN e RAJ.

Best grades of flour advanced 40
cents barrel at Minneapolis May 7th,
fancy patents touching SIS, said to be
the highest mark in the history of the
flour exchange.
Twenty-Five persons were injured
when a westbound Lake Shore cleo
trio limited crashed into local at Glib.
sonburg Junction, twenty-five miles
east of Toledo, Ohio.
Charges that Cuban negro rebels
are burning and pillaging the homes
and properties of Americans and other
foreigners in the districts of Palma
rito, Bayate and Miranda, Oriente
province, were made by. twenty-four
American and British refugees who
arrived in New York.
England and France are in immeai-
ate need of 1000 medical officers and
5000 ambulance attendants.
Ambassador Elkins, sick in Constan.
tinople with typhus, is much better,
but may not be able to leave for home
for three weeks.
Eastern railroads at the opening OF
hearings before the Interstate Com
merce Commission on the applicat ton
OF all roads for a general Is per cent
increase in freight rates, stated that
the advance sought would fall $75,0OO,.
900 short of the 100000 increase
OF 1917 operating expenses over 1915.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
FOREIGN.

Eighteen survivors of the Vacuum
arrived at Liverpool.
Japan may send a war commission
to the United States.
Deaths from measles reached eighty
eight week in London this spring
Russian duma summoned in special
session because of seriousness of stu
alton.
Wages of women and girls en-
ployed in munitions work in England
will be raised by from 10 to Is per
cent.
Since the beginning of the war
Italy has sent 16,399,325 pounds of
bread through Switzerland to Italian
prisoners Of war in Austria.
Special dispatches from Holland say
that the persistent torpedoing of
Dutch trawlers has caused the fisher
men to lay up their boats.
Several persons have been killed
and about 100 injured as the result of
sham battle in which $4,000 school
boys took part at Mexico City.
The national service bill, which is
now before the Senate, provides for
census of all males resident in
France between the ages of 16 and
60, regardless of nationality.
All prisoners captured by govern
ment troops during the fight with Jose
Ynez Salazar's Villa command near
the San Juan mines were executed
h., -
According to Central News dis
patch from Copenhagen, the Norwe-
gian foreign office has announced the
sinking by German submarines of the
steamships Capto and Natuna. The
crews were rescued.
An understanding under which at
least 80 per cent of all Canadian
wheat will be sold to the allied gov
ernments or to dominion mills was
announced in cablegram from the
Winnipeg Grain Exchange Council to
the Royal Grain Commission in Lon
DON
Highly patriotic German newspa-
pers like the Fremdenblatt, warn the
government of the danger of disre-
garding the demands that are being
made for some reform, and that the
present system of government pro-
vides too narrow basis for Ger
many's future.
Sixty of the seventy-six German
merchant steamers that were in Por-
tuguese ports when Portugal entered
the war, and which were promptly
seized by the government, have been
turned over to Great Britain on a rem
tai basis. England has rented the
ships for s7,OoO,0OO a year, to be paid
after the war.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
WASHINGTON.

Unqualified authority for proclama-
tion of export Ell. bargoes by the Pres
ident was restored to the administra-
tion espionage bill by the Senate.
Attorney General Gregory publicly
praised COMMUNICATIONS of the
United States for their obedience to
the laws OF the country since war was
begun with Germany.
The Uruguayan steamer Gorizia.
aboard which were five Americans.
was sunk by a German submarine
April 30th, according to a consular re-
port to the State Department.
1t was revealed in the House that
an unpublished provision in the agree.
ment with Denmark by which the
Danish West Indies were acquired by
the United States was that German or
other warbound ships in the island
would not be seized or confiscated.
The War Department announced
that orders had been sent out for the
raising of nine regiments of engineers
for duty at the earliest possible mo.
ment on the communication lines in
France. These troops will be in addi.
tlon to the forces contemplated In the
administrations army plans.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o IN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

French gun fire destroys German
position at Winterburg.
Vienna declares Russian attack in
Carpathian mountains was repulsed.
New German division, drawn from
other war zones, appear on western
front
The British steamer Howthhead, A.
400 tons, was sunk by German sub
marine off the Irish coast.
French drive back Germans in ef-
forts to reach fortress of Laon. Ad-
vance stretches over four-mile front.
1t was reported at Amsterdam that
the Germans are preparing to evacu-
ate st. Quentin on the Arras-Aisne
front.
French and British consolidate new
eighteen-mile front. In assaults against
this new line Sunday Germans lost
6,100 prisoners.
Berlin claims that in Sunday nights
fighting the Germans obtained local
successes at numerous points, not
ably on the Winterburg.
British drive lines farther forward
In Mesopotamia, while Turks force
Russians to evacuate Mush, an impor.
tant city in Turkish Armenia.
. Nine new regiments of army engi-
neers, to be composed exclusively of
highly trained railway men, will be
the first American troops sent to
France.
The British and Germans through
out Monday were still engaged in vio-
lent fighting for possession of Bulle-
court, midway between Arras and
Cambrai, and also in this immediate
region at Roeux and between Fontaine
and Reincourt. The British forces are
now on the northern, western and
eastern outskirts of Bullecourt, leav-
ing only the southern part of it avail.
able for a retreat of the Germans still
inside. Unofficial reports have as
serted that the British entered well
into the town. North of this sector
the Germans report that heavy Brit
tsh attacks at RoeuX and between
Fontaine and Reincourt were repulsed
with sanguinary losses. while still far
ther north, near Lens, the British Of
ficial communication records the re-
pulse of third German counter at
tack on the British positions south of
the Souchez river.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
Arrest Three In Hioh.erade Plot.

Denver.-Three more men were ar
rested Monday in the dragnet of per-
sons suspected of completely in the
$1,000,0OO high-grading plot involving
prominent men in Denver, Cripple
Creek and Cheyenne. A Secret Serv-
ice operative took into custody Dem
mis- F. Sullivan in this city and
ordered the arrest of Daniel Nc
Leod. an assayer, and Charles Daniels
in Cripple Creek. All three were
given hearing before United States
Commissioner w. F. Stone in Denver
and held under $4,000 bond each for
appearance before the Federal Grand
Jury in Cheyenne, May 21st. George
]. Heber, the Denver man arrested
last week on the same charge, was
also released on $4,000 bond. The
arrests bring the total to eleven ap-
pretended to date. Five were arrest
ed in Cheyenne, three in Cripple
Creek, two in Denver and one, Tony
Cuaz, in San Francisco.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
Miners to Plant Wheat and Bean.

Frederick. While ordinarily
counted a mining district, agriculture
In the Frederick country has taken a
boom this year and crop will be put
in where formerly the land has lain
idle except for the coal that under
lies it. Il. II. Bennowitz estimates the
the value of the agricultural output
this year will exceed the total value
of all coal mined. He says that every
acre of irrigated land and much non.
irrigated land will be planted to beans
and wheat.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
PLANTING Season Celebrated.

Rocky Ford.-The parade and exer.
cises here in opening the planting sea.
son were better attended than had
been expected. Thousands of per
sons from all towns in the Arkansas
valley were here and took part in the
exercises. The industrial parade was
mile and half long. At the fair
ground patriotic exercises were held.
Addresses were made by DIR. w. K.
Weaver and w. E. Collett of Denver,
Jchn vroman, Jr., of Manzanola and
Judge McDaniels of La Junta. A com.
mittee has been named to see that
the planting of food products in this
section is greater than is usual.
Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10
Pueblo Carpenters Get Raise.

Pueblo.-Two hundred Pueblo car
penters who have been on strike since
May /, returned to work following a
settlement of their grievances with
were striking for advance in wages,
accepted compromise agreement
which practically grants their de-
mands. The men were striking for
7R cents per hour raise Under the
terms of the settlement they will re-
ceive cents Immediately and on
June 10, 2h cents additional.