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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

washington, Oct. 5.-Training work
mapped out by the war department
for national guard and national army
divisions before they will be regarded
as ready for duty abroad, Is based on
a 16-week course of the most inten-
sive kind of work in the open, varied
by lectures by American and allied Of
ficers. To insure uniformity of train
ing throughout the entire army divis-
ional commanders have been urged to
see that the schedules, announced to-
day are followed closely.
Great stress is laid on the necessity
for night training Trench raiding,
scouting, trench building and opera
tions of all kinds which may be called
for in actual combat, will be duplicat-
ed at the camps through the night
hours. To give the men some respite,
their Wednesday and Saturday after
moons will be kept free except in the
case of backward individuals or units.
Target practice runs through the en-.
tire course and the schedules call for
forty hours training each week.
BIG Units Trained Later
A striking feature of the program is
the fact that practically the entire 16
weeks will be devoted to training in
dividuals, platoons and companies.
Brigade, divisional and even regimen
tai exercises are reserved for later
period with some minor expression
during the last weeks. Since the pla-
tOon, commanded by lieutenant, is
the actual fighting unit in trench bat
ties, the new regulations fix upon the
lieutenants of each company the re-
sponsibility for training of less than
= in close touch with their men and to
set up an understanding of each other
that will be invaluable when they
finally "go over the top"
Rigid requirement is made that Of
ficers be present with their commands
at all drills and clock-like regularity
in carrying out training schedules is
insisted upon The whole system is
to be coordinated and prepared in ad-
vance SO that each officer and man
will know just the work to be done
during the day and night before him.
Gives illustrated Lectures
New elements will be injected into
the training each week so that every
phase of modern warfare will be dealt
with. The lecture program is ca1cul-
lated to show the soldier not only just
what he is to expect at the front, but
! also what will be his duty under all
circumstances Of war. Lectures with
graphic illustrations will show what
fhroo voorc If war havo hrOu0ht Of
gas attack. Of bombing and of bayo-
net work. First aid instruction holds
a high place, for wounded soldiers to-
day depend largely upon themselves
and their immediate neighbors in a
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11
North Dakotans to Go
From Dodge to Cody

Camp Dodge, Iowa, Oct. Cone
hundred twenty-five national army
men, "a Iowans and 81 Minnesotans,
were assigned to duty today with the
Twentieth United States engineers at
Washington, d. c., and are expected
to be sent to France considerably in
advance Of the rest of their comrades
here.
It was also announced that 5000
men would. be transferred from the
camp. here, to Camp Cody, at Deming,
N. NJ, to be used to fll the ranks OF
the guard units there. Iowa is to
furnish 1928 of these men, Minnesota
300 and North Dakota 13. ....... ".
Most of these men will be taken
from the next increment of selected
men to reach camp. .-"
A list Of 265 rejected men was an
nonnced today, all Of whom will be
discharged at once and given trans.
portation home. These were dropped
because OF physical imperfecttions.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11
North Dakota Ready
Whenever Uncle Sam Is

Bismarck, Oct. Awhile North d.
kota did not join today in the move
ment Of the second forty per cent of
the select service men to Camp Dodge,
1t has ready, more than the required
number of accepted registrants hay
ing been. certified to all OF the local
draft boards. ~
$50 far as can learn" said Judge
Birdzell, chairman of the district
board, "the order to hold up the quo
tas originally called for October 8 ap-
piled only to North Dakota and Mon
tana."
Neighboring states entrained their
quotas yesterday in compliance with
original instructions. In North d.
kota the extension of time is real
boon, as it leaves in the field several
hundred competent farm laborers
whose services are still needed in har:
vesting late crops and completing the
threshing. No intimation had come
today as to the date on which these
mon will be moved. 1t is possible that
the total remaining IS per cent in
North Dak6ta and Minnesota, will be
moved at one time, instead of in two
divisions, as will be the case in other
states. -
Judge Birdzell is of the opinion that
when the district board completes its
nal grind, which it began yesterday,
a full 10 per cent of their quota will
have been certified in all of the coun-
ties. Several hundred industrial claims
coming from the second classes of reg
istrants examined by the various cour-
ties and as many more appeals taken
from the ruling of the local boards
are to be considered, and the district
board has a lot of work ahead of it.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11
John D. Gray Company
il New Organization

The department store Of the John
D. Gray Company will soon be-, under
the firm name of Peoples Cooperative
Trading Company. A meeting of the
stockholders was held Friday evening
at which time the organization was
perfected and officers elected. There
are about IT'S stockholders in the new
concern, principally farmers. Anoth.
or meeting will be held the first of
next week at which time the new Or
ganization will be ratified by the pres.
ent concern which will then pass out
of existence. After the ratification
the names Of the officers and manager
will be given for publication. i
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11
Soldiers and Iz,ilors' Insurance
Bill Passes Senate Unanimously

Washington, Oct. with the $780,
900 maximum insurance plan restored
as urged by the administration, and
with an additional provision raising
Major General Pershing, commanding
the American forces in France, and
Major General Bliss, chief Of STAFF, to
the rank of general, the soldiers and
sailors insurance bill, carrying an ap.
preparation of $176,00O,0OO was passed
tonight by the senate by vote of II
to o. The bill was at once sent to con-
ference, where prompt agreement is
expected. An amendment by Senator
Smoot, adopted 81 to SO, provided that
SIS month shall be paid widows Of
men who may be killed in the present
war. = .-
This will mean an added cost to the
government of $3,500,O00 annually and
an advance of SIS month to 4,141
Spanish war widows and IS month
to 1854 Civil war widows.
Other amendments offered by the
Utah senator authorizing the bureau
OF war risks insurance after the war
to turn over to life insurance COM
panies at government expense policies
held by soldiers and sailors, and pro-
viding for the payment of 500 a
month to men permanently incapaci-d
tated because OF wounds or disease,
were rejected.
Reductions were made by the SEN
ate in the house provisions for COM
pensation paid for death or disability
Of soldiers and sailors or members Of
the army and navy nurse corps. Under
the bill rs it now stands q widow with
two children would receive $47.50, a
reduction of IS. The other sections
Of the, house bill were accepted with
only minor changes, with the exception
Of the insurance section, in which was
inserted q provision which permits q
soldier. not later than five years after
the war ends, to convert his insurance,
without medical examination, into any
other form Of insurance he may re-
quest.
A proposal of the senate finance
committee to reduce the Maximum
amount Of insurance allowed to each
soldier from $4,000, as passed by the
house, to $500, was rejected by a vote
of 40 to is. ~ N
Allowances to dependents Of men at
the front range from SIS q month for
wife to $3.50 for wife and two
children, and IS more for each ad.
ditionat child. One half Sof, each mans
pay is to be retained by the govern
ment for dependents. or II none, to bel
sp9fd 10 the men With interest On his
discharge or his heirs IN event Of
his death.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11
For Sixteen Weeks Men Will
Be Drilled in Intensive Work

shell-torn trench for first treatment.
The instruction starts with that OF
individual soldiers, changes gradually
until the squad of eight men spend
most of their time in joint drill which
merges into platoon operations and
finally into the school of the COM
pany. AS the men harden to their
work, the hours of vigorous physical
exercises increase and the marching
maneuvers are extended. At regular
intervals review courses will be given
and a program of test courses to de-
termine the proficiency Of each man
in each phase of his work has been
devised which will give perfect line
upon every soldiers ability and be the
stepping stone to promotion.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11
UNITED IN MARRIAGE

4 Courtenay Gazette: John Blomberg
and Miss Lorena Karr, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Alex Karr, of Spiritwood
Lake, were united in marriage at the
Methodist church in Wimbledon, Wed.
nesday. A number of immediate rela-
tives and friends were in attendance.
After the ceremony fine dinner was
served at the Glide hotel Mr.. and Mrs
Blomberg left on the evening train for
a wedding trip east after which they
Will return to Courtenay to make their
future home. Both are well known
young people of this part Of the state.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Tower City Topics: Miss Pearl Dali
ton and Matilda Pinter and Morris
Whitegard autoed to Sanborn Sunday
in the latter's Ford. At Sanborn they
were dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Potter where the afternoon
was most delightfully."- spent On the
way home the travellers partook of a
splendid supper in Valley City,. Mr..
and Mrs. J. H. Schultz autoed to Val
ley City Tuesday where they went with
their daughter; Miss Ethel, who will
take up her second year work at the
Normal At Valley City they were
pleasantly surprise to greet their son,
Sylvester, who was homeward bound
after year spent in the northern part
of the state. j. A. Caldwell and
Miss Bennett autoed to Valley City
Sunday where they babe farewell to
mutual friend, Mr.. Mcdonald, who
is one of Uncle Sans soldier boys.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11
North Dakota Congre-
qahonalsts Make De-
claraion Of Patriotism

The Congregational churches fully
realize the tremendous calamity that
has come upon US In this world war.
And in the midst Of the struggle we
feel that it beh0oves US to pray that
our own minds may be cleansed from
all Ill feeling and bitter hatred; that
we may strive for those things which
make for the peace, prosperity and
happiness of the whole world. There.
fore be 1t resolved; -....
I. That we assure our government,
both national, state and local, of our
sympathy and cooperation in this
world war and pledge our support in
every way. @
2. In the confusion occasioned by
contending armies and the necessary
readjustment of our social life, there
Is constant and pressing danger that
the standards Of life, and labor which
have been built up by such long and
patient efforts be all destroyed; there.
fore we call upon our churches and
people to match carefully in their: re.
spective communities and firmly 0p.
pose any and, al efforts that may be
made to rescind the laws which at
present control labor and wages, and
protect s~oAen anseaildfen. :s,F.ss !:
8. We pledge the chaplains, the Y.
NJ. C. A. and the Red Cross worker in
our army and navy our support in the
work that they have been called to do;
and will do all In our power to help
them and the men who have SO gal.
lantly offered their lives in the service
Of their country that the sacrifice
which they are making may not be in
vain. 8
4. We pledge Mr.. Hoover, our food
administrator, our hearty cooperation
in making effective his plans by which
our nation is to help feed the hungry
people of the world.
5. We call upon our church mem
bers and friends to oppose all forces
that are divisive, or tend toward sedi-
ton and to give ourselves whole heart.
edly to the great undertaking that is
ours. To this end we urge that the
regular business, devotional, evange-
listic. educational, social service and
missionary activities of our church be
maintained al their highest state of
efficiency.
Respectfully submitted,
j. G. Duling,
- IN. X. Woon,
zig r. A. Jungerward,
Committee.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Williston Herald: Miss Bertha R.
Palmer and Miss Emma Hagert were
hostesses at farewell party for Miss
Eta Irgens, who leaves next week for
California where she will make her
future home, Friday evening at the
E. C. Carney home. The evening was
spent informally with knitting and
fancy work. Delicious refreshments
were served by the. hostesses. Miss
Irgens was presented with a beautiful
cameo brooch by the girls who were
present.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11
Pioneer Travelling
Man Loses Wife

The many friends in this city of J..
S. SINNERS, the veteran travelling
man, who has been selling Valley City
merchants merchandise for the past
30 odd years, will regret to hear that
Mrs. SINNERS died at her home in ST.
Paul On Sept Is. On this account
last month was the second time in IS
years that Mr.. SINNERS missed max
ing his call to this city. His loss is
indeed heavy one and he will have
the condolences of his many friends
insValley City, --.,-'
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

The Liberty War fund, which has
been collected all over the country,
to supply books and magazines for the
soldier boys has amounted to $251 .48,
which will buy quite few books etc,
for the boys. -.... 80. :.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Ransom County Gazette: Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Dehn and family of Valley
City were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
vey Hoffman on Sunday. .. Miss Jen-
ME Bissell left Saturday for Valley
City where she will attend school this
winter. .-
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Wahpeton Gazette: Miss Pauline
Voelker left for Hankinson Sunday
morning to resume teaching. Miss
Voelker has the same school she
taught last year,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Musser left for
Freeport, ILL.,, Thursday, where they
were called on account of the sickness
of Mr.. Musser's father. -..
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Courtenay Gazette: Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Isensee have moved to Valley
City, where he has purchased livery
barn. s.a =.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Enderlin independents: Mrs. E. L.
Tilney, of Kalamazoo, Mich, was in
town Wednesday. She went to Valley
CITY last night.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Rev. J. F. L. Bohnhoff went to St.
Paul Friday evening to,attend the Ger
man Lutheran Synodical meeting,
which is being hold at st. Paul.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-10-11

Mrs. Price and Mrs. Bye, of Fingal,
were shoppers in the city Wednesday.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-11
WESTERN.

Coal operators In central field ask
Garfield to permit raise In prices.
In a battle over a negro, three white
men are dead and three wounded at
La Pine, Ala
Ex'President Taft was the principal
speaker at the dedication of the Nc.
Kinley memorial at Niles, Ohio.
Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford of
Detroit, Mich, denied exemption from
selective service by the district appeal
board.
Three men were instantly killed and
q fourth escaped unhurt when they
were hit by Union Pacific freight
train two and onehalf miles east OF
Van Dyke, Wyo.
Five hundred and thirty.six enlisted
men OF detachment OF 6sf negro cav.
alrymen of the regular army stationed
at Fort huachuca, near Blsbee, Ariz..
have subscribed to $4,000 worth Of
Liberty bonds.
AT Enid, Okla, eight men charged
with conspiracy In connection with
Working Class Union and other al.
legged antidraft organizations. were
convicted, and three acquitted In the
Federal Court. The convicted men
were sentenced TO six years.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-11
WASHINGTON.

La Toilette defends himself as Con.
gress adiourns.
Many bills become laws as President
Wilson signs them.
Submarine menace reduced and In.
surance rates go down.
President Wilson praised Congress
Tor work accomplished.
Helms charges unsubstantiated
and are open to criticism.
The State Department has in It's DOS.
session documentary evidence that
Count Won Bernstorff. the former Ger.
man ambassador. not only was the dis
tributor Of gigantic peace slush fund
In this country, but directed the oper.
ations Of Captains Won Papen and Boy.
Ed, the discredited and recalled Ger.
man military attaches.
The largest appropriation measure
IN the history Of the United States be-
came law when President Wilson
signed the urgent deficiency bill car.
rying $7,75S.12l,o0o, principally for
war purposes.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-11
HERMIT SCULPTOR Is FOUND !
Spends Time Modelling Little Master.
pieces Which He Promptly De-
stroys Upon Completion.

There has been discovered at Cape
Scott one of the most solitary points
In Vancouver island, by the chief en-
gineer of the public works department
OF British Columbia, a sculptor who
spends his time In modelling little mas
terpieces from Jumps Of clay and then
destroying them, relates an exchange.
He Is A. +. Whittier. and he calls
himself "prospectOr." Living entire
ly alone, he has for the past two years
been carrying out lonely investigations
Of mineral claims in his neighborhood.
His sculptor's tools are Of the simplest
kind, and II is his habit to work with
the same piece Of clay, which weighs
scarcely five pounds. but with that he
has modelled scores Of objects.
The government engineer found him
Just as he had completed bust OF, the
martyred British nurse, Edith C/kell.
Mr.. Whittier was about to destroJ the
work in order that he might use the
clay for miniature statue Of his son,
who was recently killed. He was, how.
ever, persuaded to part with the bust,
which is to be auchoned In aid Of the
Red Cross funds.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-11
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
oHoWiNG THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Peru handed German minister his
passports.
American destroyer sinks German
submarine.
American patrol boat founders in
European waters.
The government has declared a
state OF war In Turkestan.
Bulgarian and Teutonie troops be-
gin offensiyes In Roumanla.
Twenty thousand airplanes for
America are under construction.
Berlin reports the capture OF sec
ton OF French trenches on northern
slope OF Hill 344.
American artillery is successfully
passing the seYerest test of all gun
nery-the barrage.
Gen. Haig Is blazing the way with
his artillery for another drive through
the German lines In Flanders.
French repulse two surprise attacks
In Champagne and artillery fire scat.
tiers German troops on banks OF the
Meuse.
Uruguay has severed diplomatic re.
lations with Germany and the Berlin
representative has been given his
passports.
British hold ground won In great
drive east OF Ypres and repulse eoun.
ter attacks. Total of prisoners taken
In Thursdays battle is 4.446
The steamer Tolo and tug Magic col.
lided In a dense fog, the Toto being
sunk. The steamer II. b. Kennedy
picked up the Tolo's passengers and
crew.
Big gun factories are In progress
along the Flanders front with indica.
tons that the Germans. as usual, In
this form OF combat. are playing the
secondary role.
The Ostend-Lille road Is menaced
by the British wedge which has been
thrown close to the line, and the great
naval and airplane bases at zeebrugge
and Ostend are in imminent danger of
being cut off.
Secretary Bakers resume of recent
lighting says conditions warrant the
expectation that the Kaiser will with.
draw his forces from Belgium at an
early date and that the Teuton grip
on the coast has been broken.
The German general staff has been
forced to invent new term-"hurri.
cane flre''-for the terrific and contln.
uous bombardment with which the lat.
est battle In Flanders was inaugural.
ed. The day when the term drum.
fire represented the elimination OF
artillery activity has long passed.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-11
SPORT.

Fighter Stanley Yoakum was pinned
under an auto near Pueblo and badly
injured.
Playing hard, fighting football, the
Wyoming Cowboys defeated the Colo.
RADIO Aggies at Laramie by score OF
6 to 0.
Ty Cobb, the Detroit star and Eddie
Rousch, the hard-hitting outfielder
with Cincinnati, are the 1917 batting
champions OF the major leagues.
The untrled and but slightly trained
football eleven OF the Teachers Col.
lege al Greeley were easy victims OF
the University OF Colorado men at
Boulder.
Battering down an attack that grew
In power as the game progressed, the
University OF Denver won their first
intercollegiate contest OF the season
from the Montana State Aggles by q
score of 80 to I, at Denver.
Eddie Cieotte Of Detroit, pitcher ex.
traordinary 10 the Chicago Americans,
plotted his team to victory at Chicago
over the New York Nationals by
score OF TO In the first game OF the
1917 worlds series. and the Sox won
the second game Sunday, 10,
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-11
GENERAL

Money to pay German spy passed
through several American banks.
Fifteen persons were injured sever.
al seriously. when two passenger
trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st Paul railroad collided at Colmar,
Iowa.
New York states oldest resident,
John Sweeney, died at Cortland. He
was born in Ireland 1O5 years ago
Anna Robinson, formerly Countess
OF Rosslyn. died in the Manhattan
State Hospital on Wards island, New
York.
Z. P. Ripley, president of the Atchi
son. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Com
pany, looks for a quick finish OF the
world war
Evidence OF new |. w. W. plot to
overthrow the government OF the Unit.
ed States, which may result in the
immediate internment OF 100000 men,
bers OF the organization was placed
In the hands OF Chicago federal OF.
flcials.
Secretary McAdoo, en- route to the
Pacific coast on Liberty Loan speak.
ing tour, telegraphed Vice President
Marshall and Speaker Clark urging
them TO invite all members OF the Sen.
ate and House to devote the next three
weeks after adjournment OF Congress
to speaking to their constituents on
the subject of the new loan.
Thousands OF American ayitators to
drive the Germans from the air and
hurl destructive bombs into the Ger.
man trenches were promised In an OF.
fetal statement by Secretary OF War
Baker outlining the nations plans for
aerial warfare. More than 10000 air.
PLANES provided for in the 100000.
900 aviation bill are now under con.
struction in the United States.
Exposure Of the State Department Of
Bolo Pasha's activities in this country
resulted in reopening In New York
OF the state attorneys inquiry into the
Vaccinations Of the spy with former
Ambassador Won Bernstorff to bring
about separate peace between Ger.
many and France early in 1916.
Nearly 500 telephone girls who re-
Gently organized union in Seattle,
Wash, have voted almost unanimously
to 90 on strike Oct. 10 II their de-
mands for increased wages and i'm.
proved working conditions are moi
granted.