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Morris tribune., 1917-10-05
Death of Mrs. Yarger

The many friends of Morris and
vicinity we're greatly grieved to
learn of the death Of Mrs. J. A.
Yarger, at Werner, N. D., Septem-
Der 27. Mrs. Yarger had been spend
ing the summer with relatives at
Werner and until recently seemed
to be improving in health. The fol-
lowing account has been cOntribut-
ed:
Martha NJ. Hart Yarger was born
at Green, Iowa, August 9Th, 1858
and died at Werner, N. D., where
she had gone to live for the summer,
Sept. 9th, 1917, in her 6Oth year.
She was married to Mr.. Yarger
July 1874 and for many years they
made Green their home.
Seventeen years ago they moved
to Morris.
For many years Mrs. Yarger was
a member of the Christian church
and on coming to Morris, she aff1Iiat-
ed with First Methodist church
of this city.
She was actively interested in the
Ladies' Aid Society Of the church
and in all other movements that
meant for the helpfulness of those
around her. In all the walks Of life
she manifested the spirit of Chris
tian consistency, willing service,
tender patience.
Specially was this christian spirit
manifested in these later days, when
with a fortitude that was Unf1inch-
ing a courage that was brave-a
Cheerfulness that would not allow
itself to be overcome she endured
months of suffering, believing her
self to be in the Loving Fathers
hands and that all was for the best
She was also a member of the
Elizabeth Reem Circle No. 46, La
dies of the G. A. R.
She will be lovingly remembered
and highly appreciated by a wide
circle Of friends who knew the
worth of her simple beautiful life
and character.
Husband, seven sons and one
daughter are left to mourn their
loss.
Funeral services were held at
First Methodist Episcopal church
Sunday, Sept 3Oth conducted by
Rev. Henry NObbs
Interment was at Summit ceme-
terry. The six sons acted as pail
bearers.
Morris tribune., 1917-10-05
WILL ORGANIZE FOR
SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
Meeting to Be Held at the CONNER
ciaI Club Rooms at 2 O'Clock
Saturday Afternoon

A. R. Rogers, chairman Of the eX-
ecutive committee Ninth Federal Re-
serve District Second Liberty Loan
of 1917, has asked S. A. Siverts
cashier of the Citizens Bank, to
again act as chairman of the cam
paign for the sale of Liberty Bonds
in Stevens county. Mr.. Siverts at
tended meeting of all the county
chairmen for this district at Will
mar last Thursday, at which time
plans for the campaign were dis
cussed.
It is understood that township and
village officials will be especially
Liberty Bonds in their respective
communities, and these officials are
to be asked to attend the meeting
at Norris on Saturday afternoon at
2 o'clock at the Commercial Club
rooms. 1t is also expected that at
the state committee will be present
to suggest methods to be used in
canvassing for the loan.
The new Liberty Loan is for $3,-
000,OO0,0OO, and is fully described
in the statement by Secretary Nc
Adoo printed on the editorial page.
Stevens cOuntys apportionment of
this loan is approximately 100000,
and it is expected that this amount
in bonds will be easily sold here
now.
Chairman Siverts received a teIe-
gram yesterday that Fred B. Snyder
of Minneapolis would be here to ad-
dress the meeting on Saturday. Mr..
Snyder is chairman of the Board of
Regents of the state university, and
an earnest and convincing speaker.
He spoke at the agricultural school
last year, and those who heard him
know that he will make a lucid and
informing talk on the Liberty Bonds.
Chairman Siverts wants it clearly
understood that every citizen inter
ested will be welcome at the meet
ing Saturday.
Morris tribune., 1917-10-05

river short way, and then turned
round toward home. Under the trees
it was quite dark and not easy to
distinguish things at distance. We
saw group of men, four, coming
towards us. They we're enlisted men,
and as they saw us they, of course,
thought we we're enlisted men too.
They began to pass some familiar
remarks about the swimming and
the hole, when one of them noticed
the silver bar on our shirt collar
Their attitude changed to stammer-
ing that they had permission from
the sergeant to be out of bounds We
said it was alright, and passed on.
But when they we're out of ear-shot
we had a good laugh. 1t is hard to
remember that a first lieutenant is
man looked up to by the privates,
and it is long way for them to go,
before they get there. We have much
to learn, tho, and will make better
officers in six months. We eat at
an officers mess, with a bunch of the
infantry men. We sit on benches
1I 4OAAS IoO1SOS Will 1lO ClOIuS, DuI
with good plates, knives, etc., and
glasses. We have niger boys as
walters, and the fellow at our table
is joke. He is so stupid and dense
but has the biggest smile, and just
tears around trying to satisfy the
boys. I call him Lilly, and tonight
the fellow opposite me, called him,
and said that he was ready for his
dessert. The boy looked at him,
asked him what he wanted, and the
man repeated that he was ready for
his dessert. The boy smiled and
then said, in his broad southern
dilect, 1--WE haven't got no 'sert, sab,
but we'se got ice cream 1t was
funny. It made us all feel good.
Smith and 1 were on the edge of the
table. The supper had been rather
punk. They have onions in every
thing and in every way. I honestly
think that if they had pumpkin pie,
the cook would sprinkle chopped on
ions on the top. Anyway tonight
we felt good and thought that we
would supplement our supper with
an extra dose of dessert. So we
called one boy over and. had him
bring us dish of cream. Then our
own boy came and we hid our dish
under the table and he gave
Us another. We transferred it
all to one dish and put
the empties in the middle of the
table. The boy came over and look
ing at me said, Better give me them
thar dishes, sab, cause I've got to
take them back or if the boss catches
me I'll get hell 1t was funny and
we all left the table feeling good.
Things like that look small but they
help to break the monotony of this
dull life.
Yesterday Smith and l went to
a big down town Methodist church.
1t did seem good to hear the music
and to have chance to sing. But
timagine our keen disappointment
when after church not a single per-
son spoke to us or noticed us in any
way. I was bitterly disappointed
because 1 would have appreciated a
friendly handshake. It is a darned
and little things mean a lot these
days. 1t seemed to me that soldiers
with enough interest to go to a
church as soldiers are entitled to a
welcome. However, next Sunday
Morris tribune., 1917-10-05
Henry WatZke EnliStS

Henry Watzke is the most recent
Morris boy to sacrifice his position
in the city and seek to serve Uncle
Sam. Henry left Friday night for
Fort Smelling and enlisted in the
First Minnesota infantry the next
day. He has written his friends
here that he passed his physical ex-
animation without difficulty and ex-
poets to be transferred in the near
future to the First Minnesota Band.
Morris tribune., 1917-10-05
LIEUT.. ARTHUR NOBBS SENDS CHATTY LETTER
DESCRIBING SIGHTS AT SAN ANTONIO CAMP

Thru the kindness of Rev. and
Mrs. Henry Nobbs, we are privileged
to publish the following letter de-
scriptive of army life at the Camp
Travis, San Antonio, Texas, from
their son Arthur H. Nobbs, who is
lieutenant in the Medical Corps,
and is stationed in the base hospital
at Camp Travis. He says
II have nothing at all important
to write about. l am we'll settled in
my new life now. A very good
friend of mine from Minneapolis,
named Will Smith, is here with me.
He is a splendid fellow, absolutely
clean and manly, and we enjoy each
others company. We are comfort
ably fixed and are we'll cared for
So far we have absolutely no restric-
tiOns of any kind. No drill, no re-
ports, no exercises, in fact nothing
but do as we like. We are short of
equipment, but tomorrow morning
an infirmary equipped for four men
will open, and we will alternately
take our turns, working a half day
at time. l went over today and
inspected the infirmary and it's
equipment. The government is not
at all stingy, and gives us the best
of everything. We have all we want,
even to books. When more equip
ment comes we will most likely be as
signed to a regiment, and then will
nj
reports and have our own quarters.
That will be much better. At pres
ent the chaos and unsettled state of
things gets on my nerves. l always
want things to go along in smooth
orderly and efficient manner
AN unofficial rumor says that the
government has a sixteen weeks
course of training laid out for the
draft men here, and that we will be
assigned to a regiment and be part
Of that unit, going where it goes,
and when it goes. That seems a very
likely course of action, and sounds
reasonable.
Il have been out to the large gov
ernment aviation camp at Keeley
Field. 1t is the other side of San
Antonio. 1t is a mammoth place,
and being commissioned men, we
were given guides who showed us
every detail of the camp. We saw
and had explained the construction
and working of an aeroplane Many
of them were in the air. Yesterday
most thrilling exhibition that have
ever seen. He did every form of loop
and twist, and ended by doing the
tail-twist in which he goes up a cou-
pie Of thousand feet, and drops right
down, nose first. His plane goes
round and round like big leaf, and
when he gets within a few hundred
feet of the ground he sets his planes
and if they catch he glides out and
alights, but if he misjudges his dis
tance, he just ordinarily squashes on
mother earth. The planes are worth
about $4,000. Those are the cheap
est ones. (The boys call them junk
heaps.) The new late models of
war planes are dandies.
This business of being an army
officer has many experiences some
of them laughable. Tonight Smith
and l took a walk to a small river
about a mile from camp. There is
swimming hole up the river where
the enlisted men go swimming and
do their washing. We went up the
Morris tribune., 1917-10-05
Students Club

The first regular meeting Of the
Students Club was held at the home
of Mrs. Frank Gould Monday, Oct
ober 1st. The meeting was called
to order by the president, Mrs. Nor
rison.
Miss King in a very pleasing and
interesting way gave a little talk on
"The Short Story" and then read
''The Revolt Of Mother" by May
wilkins Freeman.
The current events were in charge
of Mrs. Spooner who spoke of the
Morris tribune., 1917-10-05
COMFORT GIRLS GET
LETTERS OF THANKS
Victor Flatner Writes From "Some.
where" Philip Johnson Writes
From Dodge Camp

The Comfort Girls of Morris have
boys, who are now in the service of
Uncle Sam, thanking the girls for
their recent comfort kits in such a
whOlehearted and graceful manner
that the girls feel greatly rewarded
for their recent hard work and eff
fort.
The first letter received was from
Victor Flatner, now in the service
of the United States navy. Vic gives
his place of residence as Some
where on the Atlantic" and the let
ter had to receive the approval of
censor. The letter reads as follows:
U. S. S. Kansas
Somewhere"
Sept. 23, 1917.
To the Young Women of the Red
Cross Comfort Club:
Dear Friends
"a Sunday on the Atlantic is
somewhat lonesome but when you
receive a comfort bag from folks
back home, it sure puts some spirit
into you. Now friends I wish to
thank you one and all for this grand
bag and for it's use to a sailor it
can't be beat. I don't think that I
can remember of receiving any nicer
gife, and I want to say 1 don't think
there is anything like it board this
ship. One of the fellows that was
around when I opened it said, that
must be some town where you came
form Vic 1t didn't take me long
to say, Norris
"As I belonged to the Minnesota
Naval Militia, Fifth Division, I was
called April z and have now been
in the service for six months and
can say that like it real we'll. Of
course there are things that bring
real hardships, but since we have
been in the service for this long a
time, we look over them with a
smile.
The ship that I am on is some
| ship. I was first on the u. S. S.
! Massachusetts, but was transferred
in the early spring. There are lots
of things that I would like to tell
you about, but as all my mail is
censored and I can only write so
long a letter, I won't be able to tell
about those things until I arrive
home in Morris, which time I don't
expect will be before we have made
those Germans say "yes, Sir" to us.
Well, once more many thanks to all
of you and best wishes to all of the
club which I shall long remember.
ct remain.
Victor T. Flatner."
Philip Johnson writes a note of
thanks from the National Army
cantonment at Des Moines, where
the twenty-three Stevens county
boys comprising the first quota of
selective soldiers went two weeks
ago. Mr.. Johnson's letter is as fol-
lows:
Dearest Girls Of the Comfort Club
'The boys of the new National
Army of Stevens county, Norris,
| Mimi, the twenty-three selected
men, wish to extend their extreme
qualification for the unique comfort
kit, which we're so generously be-
queathed to the boys. One of the
boys, however, made the comical re-
mark as the writer was inquirfng
| from various ones as what to say
and this was his response, "telI
them the kit was fine but we'd ap-
preciate some of the comfort part
of it right now.
But most thoughtful girls, we
twenty-three boys in all sincerity
thank you most benef1ciently fol-
your delightful and convenient gifts
! Concluded on page 81
Morris tribune., 1917-10-05
may make a difference.

II am feeling very we'll, am TAX
ing excellent care of myself, and 1
need not say that I will be just as
clean a man when I go out of the
service as when I went into it. You
people need never worry about that
part of life. I have always been
clean and fairly decent in my living
and now 1 have everything to live
for and want to be more of man
than ever"
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and expression just at a time. when
opinion is concerning itself actively
and effectively with the deepest prob
lens Of our politics and our social life.
To make such a change now. whatever
its intention. in the minds Of those who
propose it, would be to attack and en-
barrass the free processes of opinion.
Surely, sober. second thought will pre-
vent any such mischievous blunder."
The present law was forced by the
House after the Senate upon full hear
ings had rejected it, and the House re-
fused to give hearings or consider the
merits Of the case. If ever bigotry and
figured in the production OF
a law, it figured in this blow at pub
fishers and readers.
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NAVY kENnEBEC JOURNAL SATURDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1917.

an operating profit than that the De-
partment of Agriculture or the Wealth
er Bureau should do so. All are edu-
cational and misunderstanding devices
of incalculable value to the nation
If the Postoffice must be run Tor gam
then why not abandon the rural free
delivery and save s40,000,000 a year:
Nor is 1t true that the present Sec
ond class postal rate constitutes a
subsidy Of magazines and periodicals.
The fallacy of that argument has been
proven. Would you assert that Ameri-
can farmers are subsidized in an
amount equal to the operating cost OF
the Department Of Agriculture? or
that American shipping is subsidized
in an amount equal to the cost of Gov
eminent Weather Reports? No.
Magazines and periodicals are not
luxuries, they are necessities. Their
reading pages are more than boon,
more than benefaction to the people,
they are an essential. Their advertls-
ing pages are vast bulletin boards set
up in American homes. The greater
the circulation afforded 10 them, the
greater the market afforded TO manu-
facturers who use their advertising
space. Upon the sales produced by
those pages depends the prosperity of
hundreds of thousands or American
workers, already heavily taxed to carry
on this war. To lessen the number of
those reading pages. to tear down
those bulletin boards-the most eff
ficient selling force in existense-even
90 e.
hardship upon the business of our
country; it is an attack upon the in
dustry and the prosperity of the ma
ton. What is more, it will result not
in an increase in postal revenue but in
a vast decrease therein. To choke the
periodicals by the imposition of "A des-
tructive postal rate will result in the
asphyxiatfOn of the greatest mer-
chandising and selling agency ever
developed
In considering a repeal of this un-
fair. destructive and conservative
measure may I beg of YOU to weigh
carefully it's effect not oniy upon the
periodical publisher but also its wider
and deeper consequences as applied to
the general public, and to the business
interests OF the country? May | beg
of you also to reflect upon the Injustice
and the lack of wisdom of destroying
the means Of livelihood of American
writer's with all that such q wrong en-
tails? In calling your attention to this
phase of a very vital matter | give
voice to the protest of the thoughtful
men and women who are making
American literature
An expression OF your opinion will
reach these men and women if ad-
dressed to me at the Authors League of
America, 33 West 42d ST, New York
City.
REN BEACH.
President Of the Authors League Of
America, Inc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-15

Laura E. Richards several wears ago
wrote the poem Help the Red Cross"
which is reprinted this morning at tie
head of the Maine Gossip column on
this page, and it attracted much atten-
ton and received much praise. Mrs.
Richards writes the Journal that the
verses are now contained in a little
volume called ITO Arms"' published by
the Page Company, Boston. and the
he devoted by her to the Red Cross.
Read the poem, it is worth it. Having
read it, you will then reread it-for you
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The Christmas Mail Rush

The Christmas mail rush is already
on, and all the postmasters are frantic
ally wig wagging to the newspapers,
urging them to warn the public that
the public is about to food the post
offices. When the public has been off,
cially informed by the postmasters
through the newspapers Of what it Is
to do next week, the rush will begin.
the newspapers will have performed
their duty, and all the postmasters will
be happy. Here is a specimen of what
the postmasters are sending to the
kennebec Journal-and each wants 1t
published in HIS section Of the news
paper:
The postoffice has already be-
gun to feel the Christmas rush In the
mailing of parcel post packages. Next
week the greatest volume of mail ever
known is anticipated by the officials
of the PostofTice Department at WASH
ington. Owing to the serious conges-
ton in the train service throughout the
v,
Western and Southern states should be
in the mails NOW. All the facilities
of the Postoffice Department and OF
the railroads will be strained to the ut
most to take care Of the great increase
lin the mails during the net few days.
The timeliness of gifts depends upon
their being received on or before
Christmas Day, and it is in the inter-
est of the public itself that the neces-
sity is urged of mailing their gifts
early. Parcels may be endorsed DO
not open until Christmas, or with
words of similar import, and if mailed
this week will reach their destinations
quicker, safer, and in a much better
condition"
DO your Christmas mailing early"
is as good a slogan as the other. Get
your packages away early. especially
to the boys in the big camps, If you
wish to be sure that they reach their
Another point to be remembered in
the sending of Christmas and New
Years cards, is that the postage on
cards is now two cents instead Of one.
AS the Journal can hardly afford to
repeat this information inspired by the
Postofiice Department from all the
cities and towns in its circulation area,
we are taking this way of calling at
tention to it, and readers of the Jour-
nal may apply it to their own post
offices, and to their own cases.
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The Postal Zone System

IN another column we are publishing
n statement by Rex Beach. the wida,v
hh""h author and president of the
AUTHORS League. Mr.. Beach deals at
length and IN unanswcrabIc logic with
the question Of the unjust and de-
SuucttNc postal zone system as applied
10 periodical publications. The meas
IRE was passed at the last session Of
congress increasing the postage on
periodicals from % to 900 percent TINS
pcualizinG the reading public and de-
stroying many important industries as
means of making the Post Office
Department a paying institution for
the sake OF the boast of the holder Of
the department portfolio, rather than
to make 1T what it was calculated to
he, an institution Of service to the
people Of the United States.
1t IS not our purpose to attempt to
set forth all the evils and iniustices of
this zone law. but in reinforcement OF
would recall to the public mind that
President Wilson opposed the principle
~ the postal increase even on maya
zine advertising and here are the
words he used
1t must he that those who are pro-
posing this change of rates do not
comprehend the effect it would have.
The attacks upon the business Of the
more widely circulated magazines and
periodicals would he a tax on their
means of living. and performing their
functions. They obtain their circulation
by their direct appeal to the popular
thought. TNeir circulation attracts
advertisers. Their advertisements en-
able them TO pay their writers. and to
enlarge their enterprise and influence.
This proposed new postal rate would
be a direct tax. and a very serious one.
,ipon the formation and expression OF
opinion---its more deliberate formation
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Ruth Millet, aged s. of Augusta, Me-
Chad's town-has knit sweater and a
muller for the soldiers. besides making
many squares for an afghan: which
should serve as a reminder to Bill Kaiser
that Americans of all ages are cunning
for him.-Manchester Union.
We are permitting few of these re-
markable Instances to leak out nova
Gays, BUT-after the war is over, come
to Augusta !-kennebec journal.
The. Journals Gardiner city editor
adds: And stop off in Gardiner for
that is where little Miss Ruth above
referred to resides" It's all the same
to Colonel Condor, for he thinks "Au-
gusty" covers the Kennebec from In
dian Pond to the sea-
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Did you know that your second
lieutenant friend was at last to come
into his rights by wearing insignia
which will speak for his rank? The
war Department has decreed that Sec
end lieutenants shall have a golden
bar on the epaulette Of his coat and
one band of braid about his overcoat
sleeves. The first lieutenant's rank
will continue to be designated by the
silver bar and the captain by two sill
yer bars.
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SO far as personal experience goes. they
may be moving machines, or churns. or
brands of whiskey .--Biddeford Journal.
Why Deak. Don't You EVER have
anything to do with ANY of those things?
Journal.
Certainly we have. Chad. AS boy on
the farm we frequently assisted in doing
the churning The churn used was of the
upland down variety. Ever use one
Yes? Then you can form your own opin-
ion whether it is likely we've later. had
anything to do with moving machines
and whiskey. particularly whiskey.-Bid-
deford Journal
At last, Now we begin to COM
mence to understand why Deak is SO
solemn that old, upland down,
iron-bound, small-topped, cream-b be-
smirched, future embittering. wooden
bucket of other days. S a wonder he
ever escaped whisky after that, and
we bet he has such an aversion to ma
chinery that he cannot look monkey
wrench in the face.