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and community in our county, for the purpose of their selecting an executive committee and township committees to carry out the work of organizing this county, and enable us to get in touch with each individual in it, for the purpose of carrying out the object of this campaign of preparedness. The state organization will carry this same work to every county in the state. Our newspapers will contain all the litera- ture pertaining to the details of this work from day to day. The county executive committee will procure and disseminate all of the literature pos sible bearing on this subject. Meet ings will probably be provided for, speakers obtained, and the utmost necessity of our people feeding them selves and avoiding possible deep privations will be kept carefully before our people in the next few weeks.
 "This is the time to do whatever can be done in the raising of foodstuffs before an excess of our lands have been planted to cotton. Keep this fact strictly before you. President Will
 son asks that you plant one-halt o your acreage in the staple food crops that are known to be successful III this section, and assist him in every way possible to prevent a failure In his expectations of bringing this re- grettable war to quick and vlctorl- ous conclusion"
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tives and friends of the victims surged thru the streets in the effort to To-
 cate loved ones. Morbidly curious crowds gathered in front of hospitals and morgues, held back by guards
 men. No one was allowed in the morgues, and only those who could establish right to be t:.ere were per mitted to enter the hospitals.
 Companies B and c of the Sixth
 Pennsylvania were called into service early tonight to assist the machine
 gun company of the First Regiment and cadets of the Pennsylvania Mill tary academy, who patrolled the streets turnout the afternoon.
 Survivor Relates Experience.
 Vim. A. Draper, one of those seri-
 ously injured, told of his experience :: About 10 o'clock" he said, Y turned in my chair and asked one of the girls what time it was. She told me. and I had no sooner turned back to my desk when the first explosion occurred. The first sounded like d five-gallon of gasoline, When the third explosion occurred I was blown lIOlll lIy ucSk tIli Il lNc QOOI tO lAI side of donkey locomotive, which
 was standing on the railroad tracks
 east of the building. After regainins consciousness, I noticed flames burst ing out of the structure. I saw giel
 rush out with her clothing in flames She stumbled and fell. I tried to pick her up, but I was so weak, I also fell. Later another man rescued her. The Eddystone Ammunition cor poration. which was formerly owned
 by the Baldwin Locomotive works,
 was taken over last September by a commission representing the British
 and Russian governments. Since that time this commission has been
 carrying on the manufacture of muni- tions fer the entente allies.
 The financial loss as result of
 the explosion is estimated at less than $25, 5,o00. not including the ammunition destroyed.
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CROSS, FEyER|SH CHILD IS BILIOUS
 OR C0NST|PATED
Look, Mother! If Tongue Is Coated Give California Syrup of
 Figs.''

Every mother realizes, after giving her children California Syrup of Figs" that this is their ideal laxa- tive, because they love, it's pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bow els without griping.
 When cross, irritable, feverish or breath is bad, stomach sour, look at the tongue, mother! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless "fruit laxative" and in 9 few hours all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bowels, and you have well, playful child again. When it's little system is full of cold, throat sore, has stom- ach-ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, collie remember, a good "inside cleansing should always be the first treatment given.
 Millions of mothers keep "Cali- fornia Syrup of Figs" handy; they know teaspoonful today saves sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for 50 cent bottle of California Syrup of Figs" which has directions for babies, children of all ages and grown-ups printed on the bottle. Be ware of counterfeits sold here, so don't be fooled. Get the genuine, made by California Fig Syrup Company Adv. ,e5 F. s. -e+s ass Y
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Jefferson Must Grow Own Food, or
 People Likely to Suffer Hunger
Announcing Meeting for Thursday at Courthouse to Or ganize Food Supply Campaign, J. K. Boyce Elm
 phasizes Need for Increasing Production.

itself, and that unless we do make preparations at once to raise that sixty-five million dollars worth of foodstuffs within the borders of our state, our people may suffer the bangs of hunger during this year.
 "Our government must contribute largely in money, foodstuffs and muni- tions of war to the allies that they may be able to live and prosecute this war to a successful termination. We must feed our own troops, and not withstanding the drain upon our agri- cultural labor by reason of enlistments in the army and navy, we must do more in the line of raising our food than we have ever done before.
 "Mr. Vrooman states that it is quite probable that the government may within the next few months either take over or control our transportation facilities, and may commander the surplus food and feed products of the states from which we have heretofore been buying, in order that they may procure and move to the seaboard those items needed to assist the arm iesf of >the allies and, ourselves. 1t is not at all improbable that during the next six months it may be impossible for the man in the South with plenty of money to buy the staple elements of food, by reason of the facts stated Wheat Crop Short. "The winter wheat crop for the com ing season is now estimated to be something over four hundred million bushels-not two-thirds of what it was two or three years ago in the banner year, and within fifty million bushels of the lowest crop we have had for g number of years. "Our people are urged to begin right now to conserve every item of food ane feedstuffs possible, that there may be nc waste of those things which may 1 become so valuable to us in the neal future. Our good women are asked tt l carry this plan ofeconomy and conser
 vation to the home of every family il ! our state. Our boys and girls are ask
 ed to redouble their efforts in raising
 gardens, poultry, pigs, corn, cotton ant everything else that our demonstration agents have taught them to raise thu
 past few years. And in particular tht girls and their mothers are asked by
 all means to save through canning ol
 otherwise every spare vegetable o1
 fruits grown on their place.
 Organize by Townships.
 "A call has been issued by County
 Judge Cheek for meeting to be hele
 Thursday morning next at 10:30 at the
 chamber of commerce, to which people
 have been invited from each townshi,
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FORT SMITH PEOPLE
 ORGANIZING GUARDS

Fort Smith, April 10.-The decla- ration of a state of war between the United States and Germany has re- suited in unusual military activity in this city. In the past ten days S2 enlistments in the regular army, the Arkansas national guards and the United States navy have been report ed. Twenty-four men enlisted today, 12 in the army, eight iL the navy and four in Company D, Arkansas nation al guard. Three guard companies are being formed here, Company D, with it's machine gun companies, supply company and headquarters com pany. The guards will be inspected tomorrow night by Lieut.. Walker of the Nineteenth infantry, U. s. A.
 A company of automobile rifle guards, composed of auto owners and drivers, is being organized to solve transportation problems in emerg- ency cases in inland towns. Over 75 machines have been pledged and a membership ranging from 100 to 2O) is expected. These members are not available for regular duty. Mayor J H. Wright is one of the leading spirits in this organization.
 Maple Leat camp, No. g, Woodmen of the World, with a membership close to 1,1O0 has organized guard company with an initial membershtc of 100 and nightly drills are to oe held on the Plaza, Fort Smiths pig park.
 The Young Mems Home Guard mas been organized with membership of 30 and holds nightly drills in the historic United States jail yard.
 Employees and owners of the job ping and wholesale houses have more than 50 members to what is known as the Jobbers' Guard, a semi-military organization that drills nightly in the wholesale district.
 Close to 100 business men and their employees drill three nights each week on The Plaza. John B. Williams anl members of the Fort Smith Polo club, all expert horsemen, are organizing a company of cavalry. The local camp of the Spanish American war veterans is arranging to lend its SUD- port to encourage enlisting.
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ll2 KILLED; l2l INJURED

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Discussing the imminency of food shortage in the United States if the European war should continue another year, J. E.. Boyce, president of the Cotton Belt Savings & Trust com pany, in his speech to the people gathered at the patriotic demonstra- tion said
 The Greatest U. s. Problem.
 T come before you tonight to talk about one phase of the great patri- Otic question that is filling the minds of our people at this time-the suc- cessful preparation and prosecution of the war our country has under taken against the German people and their allies.
 .The president of the United States has sent to the South as his personal spokesman MT. Carl Vrooman, first assistant secretary of agriculture, possibly the ablest man in that de- pertinent, to urge our people to take steps at once to plant sufficient food and feed crops to feed the people of the South and their livestock during the coming year and next.
 s.Mr VroDmans delivered a very pa triotic, able. and sensible address in Little Rock last night, in which he asks that every farmer in the South be requested to agree to plant one half of his cultivated acreage in food and feed crops, the remainder in cot ton or such other crops as he may choose. MT. Vrooman asks that every one in the city or country who has the ground to plant home garden of sufficient size to feed the family to enable them to can, preserve or dry all that may be needed to provide ing the winter season. In particular he asks that the large farmer be pa triotic enough to be unselfish enough to insist that each of his tenants plant enough food and feed crops to supply his place and have sufficient amount for sale to assist those in the cities to live. He states that the man who will not undertake this inconvenience. this trouble, this expense, this possible loss of revenue, in a time of public peril like this, is not a man fit to live under the flag of our glorious coun- tidy.
 South Depends on West.
 MT. Vrooman states that the rec ords of his department show that the South imports from states north and west of us seven hundred million dol. lars worth of food and feedstuffs each year, that the state of Arkansas buys outside of it's borders sixty-five million dollars worth of such products. The president of the United States, through him, asks that the South at least feeG
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I. M. BRAKEMAN SHOT.
Was on Train Bringing lG0 Strike
 breakers to Van Buren.

Van Buren. April, 10.-Fay Neal Iron Mountain brakeman, was shot and seriously wounded near here to- night by an unknown assailant. while Meals train was bringing into this city about 100 strikebreakers, who will take the place of striking sec. tion hands on this division of the Iron Mountain railroad.
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can dO. -SneflII R. ii. WlIIldAHS.
 Just three expressions of opinion as to last nights patriotic demonstra- ton are shown here, but these three are indicative of the general opinion of all the many persons who helped make up that great crowd, at what was undoubtedly the most demonstra- tive exhibition of patriotism Pine Bluff has had in years.
 From beginning to end the program for the meeting moved along without hitch. There was. plenty of good speaking, yet not single speech was too long. And there was patriotic music interspersed to add to the en- ts,usiasm Over and above it all, proudly waved "Old Glory,'' the blue field and the red and white stripes gleaming brightly and clearly. bring ing out countless expressions of pleas ure at the most beautiful picture.
 Judge Sorrells was on the program for a talk, but consented to give his time to President J. B. Boyce of the Cotton Belt bank, who had been urged to speak on the great necessity for a campaign for great production and
 
 Boyce's address is printed elsewhere in The Graphic today, in it's entirety, because of it's importance and the seriousness of the situation. The police department received many compliments last night for the manner in which the street was kept clear of vehicles. Ropes were stretched across the streets and red lights placed to prevent vehicles of any kind from approaching the court house, and as result the crowd was not disturbed at any time during the demonstration, and there was the quiet necessary in order for the speakers to be heard.
 Forming Home Guard. A motion was adopted by the meet ing, as it's closing action, naming Sheriff R. H. Williams and Mayor Simon Bloom as committee to have charge of the arrangements for the organization of the home guard, which is already under way. It was announced last night, after the meeting, that they will immediate ly communicate with the authorities to get the instructions and advice de- sired in the matter, so that the or ganization can be perfected in the manner required and to the greatest meantime, the names of volunteer members of the guard will he re- ceived by both Mayor Bloom and Sheriff Williams, oas we'll as at The Graphic office.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-11
ALLIES SINK GERMAN SUB.

Amsterdam, via London, April 1O.- The German torpedo boat G-SS was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy sub marine off the Flemish coast on the night of April z, according to an of ficial statement issued at Berlin. Mo st of the crew was saved,
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DAUGHTER IN TERRIBLE SHAPE

A. MltcheIl, Bagdad, Ky, Wrltes: "My daughter was in terrible shape with kidney trouble. I got her to take Foley Kidney Pills and she is com pletely cured" Foley Kidney Pills strengthen weak, deranged kidneys; correct bladder troubles; stop rheu- matic pains and backache; relieve sore muscles and still joints. For sale by the Mann's Pharmacy.-Adv.
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CUT THIS QUILT IS WORTH
 MONEY.

Don't miss this. Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c to Foley & Co.,, 2835 Sheffield Avenue, Chicago, H., writ ing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial pack age containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets. For Sale by the Mann's Pharmacy.-Adv.
 There is $50O.0O0,O0O invested in United States lumber plants.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-18
GREAT NORTHERN WILL
BUILD ADDITION HERE
Plans on File for Mail and Express
Office to be Built East of Passen-
Ger Station to Cost $4,000.

A building, 40x100 feet in size, for
the handling of mail and express, to
cost about $4,000, will be erected by
the Great Northern. on its right-of-
way in Fargo, just east of the pas
senger station, to fit in between the
present passenger station and Fourth
street. ~
Plans and specifications are on file
at the. office of the Fargo Builders
& Traders exchange. Bids will be
received up to August 1, after which
time with. the letting of the contract,
the structure will be rushed to COM
pletion.
The style of architecture will be
the same as that of the Great North
ern' station erected several years
ago. Announcement made Tuesday
by James l.. Rohan, agent for the
Great Northern at this point, is to
the effect that there will be no
changes of material Importance, the
downtown office of the express COM
pany to be maintained at its present
quarters on Broadway.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-18
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N. d. BRIEFS

Kensal-Emil Pospishfl recruited
twenty-nfne young men in the Kensal
community for Co. H Of the Second
regiment:
Bismarck-The state auditing board
met in the governors ONCE yesterday
and allowed all claims which had been
filed.
Dunn Center-A portable tow mill
and engine will be here this week to
manufacture fax straw into tow for
shipment to the. east. z. o. White, Of
the Krohler Manufacturing Co., will
be required to manufacture the fax
straw which has already been con-
tracted for.
Bismarck-Charles Meske, sentenc-
ed to one years Imprisonment for
staying Dep. Sheriff Evan s. Jones at
Hankinson, was delivered over to the
state penitentiary here yesterday.
Bismarek-Capt. C. ]. Dick and as
sistant, w. G.. MacMuIlen, paymasters
from the central department, yestcr-
day paid off 500 state troops in federal
service at Fort Lincoln.
Marmarth-Two women, one past
SO, en- route from Billings, Mont, to
Chicago, in the saddle, passed through
Marmarth with horses and riders
fresh and averaging. twenty miles a
day.
was the finding of Coroner T. L. De-
Puy in the inquest conducted over the
remains of the, late Lorenz e. Doyle,
FL, of Bird Island, Mimi, who lost his
life in the James river here Monday
afternoon.
Jamestown-Bids were opened to-
day for a new two-story,i $4,000
by ]. B. Bertel near the new Northern
Pacific passenger depot.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-18
GERTSON Will
MAKE FLIGHTS
DAILY AT FAIR
" Man-to-Earth "Feats Will
Be Seen By Fargo
Crowds -

''Man-to-earth" feats will be, per-
formed by Louis Gertson. the human
night hawk" who will be seen at the
interstate exposition to be held in
Fargo. July % to %, inclusive.
This style, in the flying vernacular,
is known as ground flying and is
much more difficult than altitude
work and has proven more entertain
ing to the crowds.
To Race With Endicott.
These "man-to-ea earth feats will be
seen by the Fargo crowds in the race
which the state fair management has
booked between Endicott and Cert
son.
With the exception of the late Lin
coin Beachey, Gertson is the only
aviator, to attempt this extremely
hazardous style Of racing. 1t was in
Los Angeles in 1912, that this form
of sport was first attempted when
Beachey and Gertson were flying at
Ascot park, doing their sensational
aerial leap frog" game. A race was
arranged between Beachey and Bar
ney Oldfield, who was then driving
his 900 horse power Bitten Benz, a
make of which Endicott will drive in
the Fargo races.
Proved a Revelation.
The race proved such a revela-
ton to the followers of the sport that
another race was immediately arrang-
ed between Gertson and Earl Cooper,
then driving Stutz car, and who has
been in Fargo. Both Beachey and
Gertson won their races by the mar
rowest kind of margins, and the new
form Of racing was proclaimed by the
thousands who witnessed it such an
unqualified and. sensational success
that Beachey went on tour racing with
Oldfield, while Gertson remained on
the coast for the balance Of the sea-
son, racing in turn Bob Burman, driv-
ing a Keeton, Lewis driving a Fiat,
Nichols with his Apperson and Taafe,
driving a National.
So, Two Flights Daily.
Gertson will make both day and
night flights, at the interstate fair.
He flies with an utter disregard to
wind, rain or weather, "hawk" who
startled the entire world when he
spelled his name against the night
sky during one of his illuminated
night flights in Washington, D. c.
Lieutenant Gertson will leave Chi
cago for Fargo Thursday.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-18
STRAND

The .vitagraph Blue Ribbon feat
ture, The Hawk, which will be shown
at the Strand theatre today lS
adapted from the famous play which
had a. long run abroad. The Hawk
Count George de 'Dazetta earle
Williams) preys upon society with
the aid of his beautiful wife (Etnel
Gray Terry. She seems to be ~
love with young French noblemapl
who is, however, the real aggressor n
this triangle. De Dazetta finds thai
the young nobleman's love Tor nls
wife is changing her strangely for
the better-that she begins to abhor
his gambling profession and his I'M
roads upon society.
However, he continues to use her
beauty as lure to his gaming tables
and wins prodigiously. In the mean
time the nobleman breaks with Y
young woman aristocrat whom MS
mother wishes him to wed. During
transaction with an American
from whom he borrows money 20
repay his gaming losses to de Daz-
eta, the nobleman learns OF the
Hawks deep and sincere love for ms
wife, which is further complicated
by discovery that the woman -
helping de Dazetta to win.
Marina, the wife, now washes ner
hands of the whole gaming enterprise
and is accused of infidelity by her
husband, who tries to kill the noble-
man. Failing, he leaves and the
nobleman protects the wife while at
tempting to locate the gambler ana
get his consent to a divorce. That
is until she learns that de Dazetta
is now penniless, having lavished his
every cent upon her and really loves
her, consenting to give her up only
because he thinks it best for ner
welfare. At this nobility her womarls
hood comes to the surface and she
cleaves to him, renouncing the mobiles
man, her love for the latter having
been without sin throughout.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-18
TROLLEY Wire
HITS PAVEMENT
Lives of Several Endanger-
ed By Mishap Early
This Morning

Lives of the occupants of the car
as we'll as several pedestrians were
endangered this morning at S:45
o'clock when the trolley on car No. 5
of the Fargo Moorhead street rail-
way, snapped an overhead wire
which fell on part of the car and the
pavement, emitting battery OF
sparks.
The break occurred at the inter-
section of Northern Pacific avenue
and Fourth street and resulted in a
large number hurrying to the scene.
Police held back the crowd until the
current was turned off when the re-
pair was made. Fortunately the
break occurred alta time Of the day
when traffic was not heavy on the
avenue
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-18
ONE IN SEVEN DEAD.

Copenhagen.-Of a total OF ~. 600
German university students called e
the colors up to the conclusion OF IN
last fall and winter semester, 6,0Ot
have been reported as killed, ac-
cording to advices received here from
Berlin.
Berlin university was repTesenteo
in Germanys fighting ranks by 81
2s5 men of whom 500 are dead. Bonn
university supplied 3,647 of whom
1854 are killed. The figures for some
other universities follow:
Heidelberg, 1,649 called up. zoo
killed: Munich, 5,255 called up, ten
per cent killed; Leipzig, 300 called
up, 654 killed.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-18
CANNOT ORDER PROPERTY
DESTROYED. COURT SAYS
Find That Power to Close Buildings
is Clear, But Burleigh Judge
Went Too Far.

Bismarck, N. d., July 1S.-Under
the North Dakota statutes courts
have authority to seize upon and re-
tain under an injunctional order for
a period of one year property prov
en- to have been used for immoral
purposes and may seize and place in
the custody of the sheriff for one
year any personal property found in
such house but the courts cannot
order the destruction of any such
property, ruled the North Dakota
supreme court today in modifying an
order of Judge Nuessle in the Bur-
leigh county district court, ordering
the destruction of personal proper
ty found in a residence owned by
Annie Bennett and John H. Bennett,
which was closed as a bawdy house.