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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26
LOAN IS SWELLEO
ON LIBERTY. DAY.
INSCRIPTIONS OF DAY BRING
TOTAL CLOSE TO $4,000, 100000
MARK.
PRESIDENT GIVES $4,000
Pershing's Force In France Are Sub
scribers To Amount Of Million
and Haif-Army and Red
Cross Add Quota.

Washington, Oct. 25.-Liberty gave
q definite, determined rebuke to Ger
man autocracy on Liberty Day by
swelling the second Liberty Loan close
to the $4,000, 100000 mark. . No.
On Liberty Day, proclaimed by Pres.
1dent Wilson, who started the national
work with his personal subscription of
$4,000, the people of the country
rolled in their gold until the treasury
officials announced that $1,731, 0SS, 900
worth of bonds had been reported
bought. Their unofficial estimates,
based only upon the incomplete report,
put the amount of the sales up to
s$2,;15 100000, and this was made as a
most conservative estimate.
Storms prevailing all over the East
ern part of the country made it almost
impossible for the officials to obtain a
complete report from any of the fed
eral districts and they confidently
stated that they had not the slightest
doubt that the minimum mark set at
the beginning of the campaign would
be completed in the final returns.
NoI'OudS LAY VOT S~sIs
It was a day, a national day, for
everyone. Washington had half hol-
iday, but the banks were open until
late in the evening and there were
Liberty Loan rallies in all parts of the
city.
President Wilson's own subscription
of $4,000 aroused the greatest enthu-
siasm. It was his second-he had pur-
chased $4,000 bond in the first loan.
Almost upon the heels Of this an
nouncement came one that General
iPershings expeditionary force had
purchased $1,500,000 worth of bonds;
that the various branches of the army
had subscribed more than $47,00O,00
worth and the Red Cross 100000
worth.
Up to the present only one of the
federal districts has exceeded the
amount subscribed in the last loan.
Minneapolis has bought $76,00G,000
worth of bonds, 100000 more than
she took before. All the others are
behind.
Look For Squirt at Windvp.
New York is about $3.50. 100000 be-
hind her last purchase; Chicago, $780,
100000 behind; Cleveland, $90,000,000;
Boston, $120,000,OO0; Philadelphia,
s1S0,000,000; San Francisco, 100000.
600; Richmond, $30,000,o0o; Kansas
City, s60,000,000; St. Louis, $30,oo0,-
900; Atlanta, $40,o00,0o0, and Dallas,
630,000,000. But the officials are hop
ing and confidently expecting that all
will take a great squirt in the windup.
Figures will be coming in for two
weeks and it was pointed out that
even after the last loan closed, pessi-
mistic persons were saying that the
loan had not been subscribed when
final figures showed it had been over.
subscribed $1,O35, 100000.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

Brother Sheer's paper at Akeley
will carry the name of the Akeley
Herald Tribune and Northern Mime
sofa Sheep Grower. 1t is intended by
the publishers to give a good deal OF
space to articles on sheep growing, an
endeavor> to foster the industry in
Northern Minnesota.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

Mrs. John Bergquist Of Belle Prai-
RE will entertain the Ladies Aid Of
the Swedish Lutheran church at the
church parlors next Thursday after
noon at $3.50 p. m. All are welcome
to attend.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

New auto licenses, covering peri
Cd of three years, are required com
mencing with the new year. Five dol
lars will be the price instead OF $l.5o
as at present.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

Etatistics Of the Allied armies show
that there has not been more than one
killed ia thirty during the past year
and that fifteen out of sixteen have
been safe through three years of fight
ing; that the death rate from disease
is less than in peace times and that
only one in 500 loses a limb The
death loss On the western European
front is put at three times that of
men Of the same age in civil life. From
these figures it would seem that caus-
alties are much less than has been
generally supposed.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

Hard coal retail prices in Duluth
range, as per quality, from $500 to
$780,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26
AS TO ONE CRITIC

Fergus Falls Free Press: Roosevelt
is mercilpss in his criticism of the ad-
ministration at Washington for its
failure to prepare for the war before
it came and for it's slowness and in
efficiency in mastering the forces of
the M ton after the war declaration.
If LaFollette were to lodge such criti-
cism against the administration his
words would be Immediately denounc-
ed as treason and dis1ovaltv, but
Roosevelt seems to have appropriated
to himself the lion s share OF patrio-
tism and anything he says goes for
patriotism. AS a matter Of fact, how
ever, the administration has carried
on a gigantic undertaking with fewer
blunders and more efficiency than was
to be expected, and it is exceedingly
doubtful if an administration headed
by Roosevelt would have done as WE'LL
Lesueur Leader Democrat: A pion-
eer of Nicollet county in paying his
subscription to the Herald, at st. Pc
ter, remarked that he had taken the
paper for many years and it had bean
the same price, and that it was the
onlv thing he gets now which has not
raised in the past year.
Clara City Herald: Every line ;r a
newspaper costs the proprietor some
thing. If it is for the benefit of the
individual it should he paid for. If
the grocer were asked to contribute
groceries to one abundantlv able to
paw for them, he would refuse. The
proprietor of newspaper must pay
for the free advertising if the benefi-
ciarv does not, and YET it is one Of the
hardest things to be learned by many,
that a newspaper has space in its col
umns to rent, and must rent them to
live. To give away rent for anything
less than living rates ia as fatal to a
newspaper as for a landlord to furnish
rent free.
HOW TO PLANT HARDWOOD SEED
In raising hardwoods from seeds,
species having soft, unprotected seeds,
such as elms and soft naples, should
be planted az soon az the seeds fall.
The hard, nutl;ke seeds from such trees
as oaks. h:ckories. walnuts, butter
nuts, should be gathered in the fall,
buried either in sand in the cellar or
in we'll drained sandy soil outside, and
planted in the spring lust soon a.
thew are taken out OF the sand.
The seeds can be planted in garden
rows, spacing the seeds about six in.
ches apart. or with .. dibble the nuts
can be planted in spetiany prepared
snots where the trees are to remain
Soft. d"1ir"te seeds like the elm, how.
ever. should be planted in the garden
and tr"nsplanted after they are two
years old.
A s,ulch around the young trees will
furnish good protection for tho fall
growth and shane.
Younp trees should be trimmed from
/ the start ii order to give the bos'
and winter. i
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

Services will be held in the Darling
Mission church Sunday at 10:30 ..
m. Rev. Quist will preach. All are
welcome. .-
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26
|kERElN NJ; Makes APPE:A[|
SAYS PEACE WILL COME BY
CHRISTMAS II RUSSIANS FlGHT.-
War Continues, He Asserts, Because
Old Regime Influences Dlsinte-
crate Army.

Petrograd, Oct. 25.-1n an emotion
al address to the. preliminary parlia-
ment Premier Kerensky appealed to
the delegates to endeavor to arouse
in the people the same sense OF indt
,vidual responsibility at the front and
In the rear which carried the Russians
to victory for a time in the post revo'
llutiohary offensive early in July. The
premier deplored the present democrat
'iZation of the army.
If only we could rekindle the en-
ithusiasm of those July days in the
heart Of each man." he said, 1--WE
SHOULD have peace by Christmas, an
honorable peace for free Russia, with
the war fought to an honorable end.'
The premier talked for an hour, run.
ming the gamut Of emotions from de-
spair to hope. He was applauded on
all sides. 50
Fighting For Existence.
1--WE are not fighting for political
ends, but for the very existence of
Russia" he declared. "'The army in
Iu0 LIc4CACo S0C4AO ~ A<1V0 AOSk IuO
sense Of duty and honor, although at
some places it is filled with 4 new
spirit. The batteries on Oesel island
gave up without struggle while, the
little Dago island forces fought brave.
1y."
M. Kerensky defended the govern.
ment against charges made by NJ Mar.
koff, radical, who blamed officers for
the decentralization OF the army and
limited at monarch.al plots. He said
the Korniloff revolt was not 1nonar.
;chial, but mere attempt at a dicta.
torship, as also was the Bolsheviki re.
volt of July.
"Peace has been postponed by the
.disintegration of the army by forces
which are continuing the work of the
old regime" he said.
Other ministers were subjected to
heavy fire of questions. General Yer
hovsku-fninister of war, said the front
was not being helped by the rear and
that no army could fight when it was
hungry and cold.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

James M. Elder, one Of Brainerd' IS
foremost citizens, succurled to an
atttaek of appendicitis Wednesday
morning at Owensboro, Kentucky.
Mr.. Elder, known to his friends as
*Jim,' had been called to Kentucky
to be present at an operation to be
performed upon his brother, when he
himself was stricken, and was una
BILE to Withstand the attack. Mr.. Ell
der was heavily interested in farm
SGd mining lands. Mr.. Elder was a
democrat and member of the state
central committee from Grow Wing
county, and has always been more OF
less active in party matters.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

The full tax on cigars, cigarettes
and tobacco will be effective Novem-
Der 3. On stock that was in the deal
ers hands on October fourth one-half
the regular tax was attached. The
full war tax On smoking and plug to-
bacco will be five cents per pound, CT
garettes will cost 80 cents more per
thousand, and the extra tax on ci.
gars will be 81 per 1000 on cigars
costing from to z cents, So on the
LOCO costing from to Is cents, SIS on
1000 costing from Is to 20 cents.
and 81 on those costing from 20 cents
up. Retail prices have accordingly
been advanced on many tobaccos and
cigarettes and on many brands of ci-
CARS.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26

A great part of our country is be.
ing awakened to the injustice done
Tom Mooney, convicted of murder in
San Francisco, who was accused of
throwing bomb during a prepared.
ness parade. The feeling between
"big business and Union labor in San
Francisco is intense and from what
ono can gather the conviction seems
to have been obtained through periur-
ed witnesses and unfair prosecuting
officers. Mrs. Mooney, charged with
the same act, was acquitted, but is
still held. Through President Wilson,
it is likely that Mooney will get a new
trial, bat will have to combat the
same unfair influences that were in
control of matters during the first
trial. Justice Raped in California -
apparently strikes the nail right on
the head o. . proper reference to the
,tFisl and the Jury Q verdict.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-10-26


After being in force for seven years,
the commission form of government
was voted ont at Appleton, Wis, by a
vote Of 2,073 to 1,491. The city will
return to the aldermanic and mayor
plan. Other cities have during the
past year thrown the commission form
into the discard also. There are 9TH
er cities, however, having this form
of government, that claim to be get
ting along better than formerly. We
are inclined to believe that officials
under the commission form become
more autocratic in the use of their pow
er than the people wish to stand for
which greatly adds to it's meeting with
disfavor. Good officials or poor Of
fcials can be selected under either
form.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
EMPLOYEES,

s (, MESS FUND
With each contribution limited to
90 cents, mess fund Of $3.50 has
been donated by EMPLOYEES Of the
Bell Telephone System in this terri
tory to their former associates who
volunteered for military service and
are now with the 40Sth and 405th
Battalions, Y. 8. Signal Corps. 0
The greater part Of the mess fund
viii 60 to the 40Sth Battalion, which
III composed almost entirely Of Bell
Telephone men from this territory;
but the twenty-five former telephone
employees from this state who are
s. the 4O6th Battalion will receive
their pro-rata share. ss;;.s sSi
Early In Sept Der the 40Sth Bat
talon went into camp at Little Sill
yer. The 40 9Th Battalion is at
American Lake WI ID. { n n Il s
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
McC CUMBER'S SON
SHOT ON SHIP:
ISNAVAL RESERVE

Washington, Dec. 3.-Donald Nc
Cum(ber, son of Senator Porter J..
McCumber Of North Dakota, is in
the naval hospital at Portsmouth,
Va, suffering from an accidental
bullet wound in the left shoulder
His condition is serious. Young Nc
Cumber is naval reserve in train
ing on ship at Norfolk.
Donald was to go on watch at
10 P. M. Friday" Senator McCum-
Der said today, after visit to the
hospital. "As usual, he, had laid
down on couch, all dressed and
ready for his duties, for a little nap
and rest before being called. The
last he remembers was going to
sleep. An hour afterward he found
the surgeons working on him.
1.-TWO of his mates reported that
they were examining and handling
one Of the ships revolvers of 84-cal-
iber and that it was accidentally dis
charged.
The bullet struck Donald just
below the collar bone on the left
side, passed the collar bone, clear
thru the neck and lodged in the mus
cles of the neck, about midway be-
tween the left side and the back
part of the opposite side from which
the bullet entered, and upward. How
it ever escaped striking a vital spot
is simply marvel. 1t evidently pass
ed back of the vocal cords and burn
ed them, whether permanently can
not say -
The senator said an operation
probably will not be attempted be-
cause the physicians fear it might be
most dangerous.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
MOVIE PRICES AND
WAR TAXES

There has been considerable dis
cussion of the advance in the prices
of moving picture tickets for adults
at the local movie houses. The in
crease of five cents for adults, when
the government tax is only two cents,
has been taken by many to mean that
the picture establishments are max
ing a clean three cent profit over the
old price of the ticket, which was
Is cents. But this is not the fact,
according to moving picture house
who state that the new
special war taxes on their business,
more than consume the three cents
charged above the government tax.
The special taxes consist of ten
per cent tax on the gross receipts,
regardless of whether there is
paying house or not. In addition
there is Is cents excise tax per
reel displayed each day, which ag-
eregates about $7.20 week. There
is a per cent tax on each express
shipment coming and going, and a
tax of $500 per year direct to the
Federal government. In addition
there is a tax of one cent for each
ten cent children's ticket, and one
cent for each matinee or five cent
children's ticket, and as the Satur-
day matinees are attended by from
$50 to 800 children, and 100 adults
the tax runs from $500 to $500 a
week from that source, while no ad-
vance has been made on the five and
ten cent prices. On the Is cent
ticket the tax is three cents with no
advance.
Moving picture men claim that
with all these special taxes to be
met, that the raise of five cents on
the adults ticket still leaves them
paying heavy tax for war purposes
to the government,-which they are
willing to do as their bit towards
winning the war. The average thea
ire goer attends twice a week, which
means an increase of ten cents over
the old price, or $500 a year. This
is not great amount to pay for the
purpose. The movie men claim they
are paying more than the average
patron proportionately, and that
they get no increased business to
compensate them.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
BRITISH SECURE
EAST AFRICA
LAST GERMAN COLONY PASSES
INTO BRITISH HANDS.
(By the Associated Press)

London, Dec. 81 East Africa has
been completely cleared of the en-
envy. -. ,s.5 sei .ss..,
This official announcement was
made tonight. The text Of the an
nouncement reads:
"Telegraphing under date Of De-
cember /, General Vandeventer
Commander Of the military forces
in East Africal has reported that
reconnaissances have definitely es-
tablished that German East Africa Is
completely cleared of the enemy.
Thus the whole of German overseas
possessions have passed into our
hands and those OF our Belgian al
lies s. 5.s
With the loss Of East Africa, all
her colonies have been taken from
Germany. These had an area of more
than 100000 square miles and q
population of about 14,000,0O0, in
Guiding $4,000 whites. s
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
BREAD PRICES LOWER, /
RECOMMENDATION
(By the Associated Press)

Washington, Dec. Immediate
reduction in bread prices wherever
possible has been recommended to
bakers thruout the country by the
war emergency council of baking in
dustry. Bakers will go under govern
ment license Dec 10, using a set
formula and producing a standard
lied loaf required by the food ad-
ministration.
In announcing recently that the
baking industry was to be put under
license the food administration de-
clare there is no reason why the
prices should not be sharply reduced.
The information that a reduction has
been recommended came to the food
administration today in a telegram
from Henry Stude, of Houston, Tex
as, president of the national associa-
tiOn of bakers.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
ALLIED CONFERENCE
CONSIDERS MAN POWER
(By the Associated Press)

London. Dec. s. Consideration Of
the question of man power for the
). osecution Of war was one Of the
q ortant matters taken up by the
IL o ,llied conference in Paris, it
bee. e. known today when the Off
cial 10 ne of results of the con-
ference made public.
In theA ,tmanent committee which
will handle this problem the United
States will be represented, 1T having
been decided by the conference that
the United States should appoint del
egates to participate in deliberations
of the committee.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
ANOTHER EXPRESS CAR
DESTROYED BY FIRE
ON NORTHERN PACIFIC
(By the Associated Press)

. Ts n - . ~ H .
The second express car to be to-
tally destroyed BY fire Of unknown
origin, on the Northern Pacific with
in the last two weeks occurred be-
tween Windsor and Cleveland, N.
D., Wednesday and railroad officials
announced that thorough investi-
cation would be conducted to deter
mine its origin.
Several weeks ago an express car
on the North coast limited was to-
tally destroyed by fire, with loss Of
more than $4,000. The loss sus-
tanned by today's fire ia not known,
Railroad officials announced that de-
tails would not be made public until
after careful investigation.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
GRAND FORKS AVIATOR
FELL FROM CLOUDS;
TWO MEN KILLED

Toronto, Ont, Dec. 4.-Two men,
bers of the Royal Flying corps in
training here were instantly killed
today when they were struck by a
falling airplane driven by Cadet J.
H. Bacon, a native of Grand Forks,
N. D. They are: Corporal Frank E..
Mercer, aged 18. Toronto; Private
Harold D. McPhail, %, Kincardine,
Ont, air mechanic.
The two men were riding motor
cycle with a side car in the vicinity
of the airdrome at Armour Heights
when the plane fell and struck
them. The aviator escaped without
serious injury. The accident was
witnessed by number of flyers who
were in the air at the time. They at
once descended and endeavored to
extricate the two men who were
pinned beneath: the machine. Mer-
Ger was dead when pulled out Of the
,wreckage and McPhail died few
minutes afterward.
The aviation officer in charge does
not know how the accident occurred
and has ordered a2court Of inquiry.
The bodies of the victims were badly
smashed while the plane and motor
cycle were demolished. Cadet Ba-
con has been flying, for some time
and was considered careful avia-
tor. He believes his machine drop
ped thru an air pocket. Bacon is a
son Of ]. d. Bacon, prominent resi-
dent Of Grand Forks.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
WAR SUMMARY
SHOWS SITUATION
lit Tie CHAN
British Salient Before Cambria
Holds Before Desperate At
tacks Ausho Germans
Busy in Italy.
(By the Associated .Press)

President Wilson's message call
ing for war against Austria-Hungary
and denunciating strongly Americas
purpose to defeat German power as
now constituted, is printed most
prominently by London newspapers
In their comment the newspapers re-
ceived the address kindly.
After four days Of effort which
brought them but small gains of ter
rain at great cost in casualties,
the Germans have not renewed their
efforts in the Cambria sector. The
British salient there, however, is
still q menace to the security OF
German lines north and south of
Cambrai and German artillery bonn
bardment is probably but the pre-
lude to further desperate efforts to
wipe out the gains made by Gen.
Byng's troops.
British artillery yesterday broke
enemy troop concentrations east OF
Gouxeaucourt and near Moeuvres,
on the southern and northern legs
of the salients respectively, and Ger
mans violently shelled the region OF
La vacquerie. the center of much OF
the fighting activity of the last few
days. That the German purpose may
have been to break thru into the
somme regionras well as to blot out
the Cambrai salient, is indicated In
dispatches from the front.
Isolated enemy attacks along the
northern Italian front have been
checked by the Italians but the Aus
tro- Germans have not attacked
again in force. Troop movements
continue behind the enemy lines and
the Itatan 4artillery sis busily shell
ing them. The Austr0sG German ar
tillery has been busy in the Asiago
region. iss.ss; ~ tsa
Eighty passengers and the crew
Of the British steamer Apapa, OF
1882 tons, were lost when the YES
sci was torpedoed and sunk by q
German submarine. It is reported
that the submarine fred on open
boats containing women and chill
dren. About 12o passengers were
rescued.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-12-06
TWELVE OoNYlIlC,'Trs 55BS u
HAVE BEEN CAUGHT
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penitentiary here early Int Monday;
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