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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-07-12
BLUE HILL

Albert Boehm is erecting a large
machine shed on his fathers farm.
A neighborhood picnic was held on
July 18th in a grove at the St. Fran
els river near Chas. Brande's. The
Blue Hill boys played a game Of base
ball with pickup nine Of north Blue
Hill, partly consisting of ladies.
Ed. Shaul Of Minneapolis, brother
in-law of Oliver and Joe Sproessig
died at the University hospital last
Sunday evening. The funeral services
were held at the Blue Hill church We'd
nesday afternoon and interrment was
in Blue Hill cemetery. Mr.. Shaul has
been suffering for several years with
some unknown disease which has been
beyond the doctors knowledge.
The north Blue Hill Ladies' Aid So
ciety will meet with Mrs. Marion
Northway on Wednesday, July IS.
Mrs. w. H. Thompson and grand
daughter, Ruth Northway, returned
last week from five weeks visit with
relatives at Sioux Falls and Beresford,
South Dakota.
Mrs. Philip Boehm and baby re-
turned home last week from the
Northwestern hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. McKown spent from
Saturday to Monday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Webb of Wyanett.
J.G. Hutchinson is taking treatment
and was operated on at Rochester, and
was improved in health when last
heard from.
John Kisner and wife spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Hartman Camp.
The south Blue Hill Ladies' Aid So
ciety will be entertained by Mrs.
Hegstrom, on Thursday, July 10.
Grace VanKleek has gone to Duluth
to spend the summer. She was ac-
companied as far as Sandstone by her
mother.
Geo. Swearinger has hired out to
Grover Jensen Of Baldwin for the
summer months.
Clarence Taylor and family and c..
w. Taylor and wife spent the 18th at
Big Lake.
The clover crop is very light this
year. But the wild hay on the St..
Francis meadows promises to be a
heavy crop and with month to grow
yet before haying will certainly thicken
up more.
Geo. Reichert Of KEENAN,, Wis.,, Wis
tied his brother, Chas., the past week.
A ditch is being dug from Battle
Brook to the new road to drain off
the surplus water and enable Mr.. Soule
to complete the state road job.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-07-12

Beaver Creek Stock and Grain Farm.
. Well improved, 800 acres, either
cash or grain rent. Can give part
possession this fall. Over one hundred
acres should be fall plowed. 1O8 miles
northwest Of DesMoines, Iowa, miles
from good town. 14-room frame house.
Plenty of room for stock of all kinds.
N. A. Lind, Rolfe, Iowa. 27-3tc
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-07-12
GALLANT IRISHMEN.
How They Assisted in Capturing Mes
sines Ridge in Belgium.

How They Assisted in Capturing Mes
sines Ridge in Belgium.
Some Of the best fighters in the
British army are Irfshmen-all Irish
men are not rebels and rioters. Re-
spectacle Irishmen, Protestant and
Catholic alike, are heart and soul with
England and Scotland in battling for
liberty and democracy; it is only the
bog-trotting Irish, led by crack
Drained visionary dreamers, who are
doing their little best to make trouble
in Ireland for the allies of the United
States.
The annexed article from the Ty-
rome (Ireland) Constitution of recent
date tells how the Protestant and
Catholic Irish fought side by side in
Belgium:
"The special correspondent Of the
Times, wiring on Friday from the
war correspondents headquarters,
says-The part of Messines ridge
which I traversed was that which was
allotted to the Irishmen, and I have
already told you how the northern and
southern Irish units fought side by
side Ulstermen and men of the
south-in the finest and friendliest
rivalry. If either had failed or fallen
short the other would have beaten and
triumphed over it; but there was no
chance for either to do better than the
other, for both did the best possible.
"The Ulstermen are in the happy DO
sition of having hardly any story to
tell of their achievement. They had
no hitch, their casualties were very
slight, and they took over one thous-
and prisoners-or immensely more
than their total casualties. One bat
talon had less than SO casualties, of
who only three were killed, and the
quartermaster was given charge of
more than 100 prisoners. On the
Ancre on LIST July last year the Ulster
troops showed what they could do
when they had set them a task which
was humanity insuperable. On Friday
they had fair chance at the German,
under conditions less one-sided, and
they did their work Clearly and beau
tifully.
"And the South Irish on their left
were just as good. In Wytschaete
Wood they found that the Germans
had organized the wood for defense on
all sides, and it was full of machine
guns and wire. They took it with gre
nades and bayonet. In the village of
Wytschaete-or the dust heaps which
represent it-there was one strong
point in the middle which gave them
some trouble, but it hardly checked
them. 1t was the companies which
went over first that had the greatest
opposition, but they went through ev-
cry trench and stronghold as regularly
as If at rehearsal, and when the sup
porting companies came through and
took up the advance they went jaunti-
ly-without opposition at first, and
when they did run against machine
gun positions and fortified posts they
went for them in a way that no Ger
man could withstand:
From officers of both units I have
heard how impossible it was to hold
the men, and to-day, as one went over
the ground and saw the slope which
they had had to face, the intricate de-
tense lines, the woods and ruins it was
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-07-12

to Magnus Anderson of Woodward
Brook and the other to Daniel Ander-
son.
Mrs. D. Anderson entertained in
honor of Mrs. j. J. Nelson and Miss
Thora Ringdal Monday afternoon.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-07-12

Some folks would give anything if
they could get rid of constipation.
HOLSTERS Rock Mountain Tea will do
the work, and do it quick. Take it
once a week and YOU will be regular,
happy and free. C. A. Jack Drug
Co. Adv. I.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-07-12
They Are t'There"

St. Paul is noted as the capitol of
Minnesota. Other distinctions are that
it is the home of the best police chief
in the world, John J. O'Conner, s.
county attorney named O'Brien, who
is there with bells on.-Chaska Herald.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-07-12
impossible not to be amazed at their
performance. We are now apparently
firmly in possession Of all the ground
won, and the victory Isl ofarabsolute."
THE FIGHTING RACE.
BY JOSEPH I. c.. CLARK

BY JOSEPH I. C.. CLARK
"Read out the names!" and Burke sat
back,
And Kelly dropped his head,
While Shea-they call him Scholar
Jack
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and the yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his
teens,
Carpenters, coal passers-all
Then, knocking the ashes from out his
pipe, ,s+
Said Burke in an offhand way:
"We're all in that dead mans list, by
Grippe!
Kelly and Burke and Shea"
"Well, here's to the Maine, and I'm
sorry for Spain,"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
"Wherever there's Kellys there's
trouble" said Burke.
wherever fghting's the game,
Or spice of danger is grown mans
work."
Said Kelly, "you1l find my name"
"And do we fall Short" said Burke,
getting mad,
- "When it's touch and go for life?"
Said Shea, cts thirty-odd years. be-
dad,
Since I charged to drum and fife
Up Marye's Heights, and my old can
teen
Stopped a rebel ball in it's way;
There were blossoms of blood on our
sprigs Of green
Kelly and Burke and Shea
And the dead didn't brag." "Well,
here's to the fag!'
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
81 wish twas in Ireland, for there's
the place." -
Said Burke, "that we'd die by right
In the cradle of our soldier. race,
After one good, stand-up fight.
N.Y. grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pixies in the cabin still,
With Hessian blood on the blade"
AYE, ave." said Kelly, "the pixies
were great
When the word was clear the way!'
We were thick on the roll in ninety
eight
Kelly and Burke and Shea"
well, here's to the pike and the sword
and the like!"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
And Shea, the scholar, with rising joy,
Said, 1--WE were at Families,
We left our bones at Fontenoy
And up in the Pyrenees,
Before Dunkirk, on Landen's plain,
Cremona, Lille and Client,
We're all over Austria, France and
Wherever they pitched tent.
We've died for England from Water
100
To E gypt and Dargai;
And still there's enough for a corps
or crew;
Kelly and Burke and Shea,
"Well, here's to good honest fighting
blood"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
"Oh, the fighting races don't die out.
If they seldom die in bed,
For love is first in their hearts, no
doubt"
0alO burke, Cnen Kelly SAID:
when Michael, the Irish Archangel,
stands, .-- w.
The angel with the sword,
And the battle-dead from a hundred
lands -.
Are ranged in one big horde,
Our line, that for Gabriel's trumpet
waits,
Will stretch three deep that day,
From Jehosaphat to the Golden
Gates
Kelly and Burke and Shea"
We'll, here's thank God for the race
and the sod!''
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08
FARM.GARDEN SUNDAY IN FAVOR
Missouri Pastors Are to Be EncOur.
aged to Observe May IS.

THE proposed Farm and Garden
Sunday is being observed to some ex-
tent by religious denominations over
the state" said Jewell Mayes. secre-
tary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture. today. "A call came from the
Rev. A. r. Hardy of Jackson County
for lecturere from the College Of
Agriculture. Archbishop ]. ]. Cen
non of st. Louis is advising his coun-
try parish priests to consider such
an observance The American board
of Missions of the Presbyterian
Church is getting out circular to
Missouri pastors indorsing the plan"
The Farm and Garden Sunday will
be held on May 13. Pastors of cOun-
try churches are asked to observe the
day by urging large food production.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

festatiOn, and il has become at once
a slogan and a stratagem. Few are
the German women who do not wear
with the pride of sacrifice some ring
pin or necklace of iron.
Iron has played. indeed. great role
in the evolution of contemporary Ger
many. Iron. steel. bronze-the Teu-
tonic civilization seems to be founded
on such mateials. Have the Germans
not had their Iron Chancellor. the
empire builder whose famous cement
of blood and iron plastered together
Prussian militarism and the free
states into a unified Germany. 1t is
the iron gauntlet that the Kaiser has
thrown down to Europe. His troops
have. according to the reports. will
of iron. The reward of valor is the
iron cross; the spikelhaupte has an
iron point.
Perhaps ii is one of Fates' little
ironies that the women of Germany
should deck themselves now with the
Teuton metal par excellence. The
Age of Iron reigns in the Fatherland.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08
"The BackwaSb OF War,


No other conflict in the worlds his.
tory has caused the writing of sc
many books as the present war in
Europe. and probably no book gives
a more realistic and truthful portray
al OF one phase OF the struggle than
Miss Ellen n. La Notes work. 1.-The
Backwash OF War" She is an Amer
lean nurse. and the war she writes OF
is not magnificent and glorious. but
naked and loathsOme as seen in her
work in hospital near the front.
Viyidly she shows the real horror
OF war-the human wreckage on the
battlefields. The book is far from be-
ing cheerful reading. for it is a series
OF thirteen letters. nearly all telling
of the death of various types of sold
lers. And the types are those from
the slime in the shallows"-the
backwash OF war. Ii is the interval
between life and death. so to speak.
that Miss La Motto portrays. Life
is clean," she writes, "and death is
clean. but this interval between the
two is gross, absurd. fantastic"
The stories of the book are the un-
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08
EEIAs The Pages lurrR
80 @
"The Son Of Tarzan"

Full of the jungle life, but made in
spring by the vein of love running
through it, presenting a weird rela-
tionship of a man and his son to a
tribe of apes and other beasts of the
forests-this characterizes briefly
THE Son of Tarzan" the latest book
of the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice
Burroughs. This book is a sequel to
"Tarzan of the Apes" and THE Re-
turn of Tarzan," by the same author.
The story centers around Jack
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08
X. b. Gibson Visits Here.

r. B. Gibson. who taught physiolog-
ical chemistry in the University OF
Missouri from 19O6-11 is visiting Dr.
Charles w. Greene. Mr.. Gibson is
now a professor in the University of
Manila, where he has taught for the
last five years. He will go from here
to his home in New Haven. Mr.. Glib
son is on a vacation. He will return
to the Philippines in July.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

Greystroke, the son of Lord Grey
stroke. the hero of 'Tarzan of the
Apes" Now living in civilized life
the e.der Greystroke seeks to prevent
his son, Jack, from viewing any ex-
hibitions of wild animals. thinking his
own subdued instinct will fame forth
in his son. The boy manifests an in
tense desire to attend exhibitions. un-
til finally he leaves for Africa. taking
with him an ape with which his father
had been familiar during his exper-
fence in the jungle.
The younger Greystroke assumes
the leadership of his father among the
apes and other jungle denizens. He
goes by the name of Korak. the Kill
er. Although beset continually. he.
with the aid of the forest beasts. is
always able to triumph He meets
Meriem, an Arab girl.
Lord GreystrOke returns to Africa
to search for his son, dOns the attire
6 his jungle days and enters the for
ests. He encounters Meriem Just as
Tantor. the elephant. is about to kill
her Tantor recognizes Lord Grey
stroke and becomes dociIe. Tarzan
then recognizes his son, and. together
with Meriem. Mrs. Greystroke and
others, they return to England. Kor-
ak and Meriem are married.
The book ends happily, as Meriem.
it develops, is the daughter of
French prince, early in life having
been kidnapped by Arabs.
"a. G. McClurg & Co. Chicago:
cloth. illustrated. 1874 pages; sl.3OD
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usual ones. which. probably on ac-
count of their truth and awfulness,
are not allowed publicity by the CEN
sor. The bright spot in the book is
the account of the work of the Red
Cross. A bitterness of tone runs
through the sketches which indicates
they were written in a war atmos-
phere.
&C. p Putnam's Sons, New York;
cloth, 1S6 pages.)
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

This old world will have taken a
big step forward when such phrases
as "Bevies of Bewilderingly Bewitch-
ing Broadway Bellies" and Dozens of
Dainty, Dashing, Dimpled Dresden
doll Divinities" cease to appear in
theatrical advertisements. Truth in
advertising is coming. it is hoped.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08
IRONICS

The patriotic hausfrau of Germany
has given all her gold ornaments to
the Reichsbank to help finance the
war In return, the government re-
places the gold with iron trinkets
made in 4 similar design. "Gebt Geld
fuer Eisen," say placards. inseparable
in Germany from every public mani
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

was also election of officers y.
Ben r. Shore was elected presids,,
Mrs. Charles Hale, vice-presids,.
Miss Artelia Prather, recording "a.
retary: Miss Marian Babb. eor,a.
ponding secretary and Miss E.h.,
May Hill. treasurer.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

Marshal JOffre passed through
Boone County on his way from Kan
sas City to st. Louis. Perhaps many
Boone County boys will honor France
with their presence-next spring.
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SOLDIERS-LIVING AND DEAD

Soldiers-just plain, unassumini
soldiers by the millions-through tn
ages have given their lives for tn
things they have thought were right
Soldiers, at the behest of fOOlhard,
and inexperienced leaders, have giver
all for single gun or trench
They have borne the cross of relig
ious militarism, of intolerance, Of
hatred and love for hundreds of years
cut of darkness and ignorance into
light and knowledge.
Beneath every flannel shirt in the
trenches today beats the heart of a
man. In the armies of Germany
our enemy-are men of true heroic
mold. soldiers of Prussia. tools of a
misguided ruler. But every man
among them is fighting for his Faith
erland. Combined against these SOL
diers, fighting for the principle in
which they may or may not believe
are millions of allied soldiers-men,
every one of them, fighting for their
lives with their lives.
Permit a picture of war to rise be-
fore you. See these brave hearts
torn from brave bodies, lives given
for cause or lives just given. Pic
ture modern warfare, cutting low
thousands of human beings-sons of
God. Picture the great hand-to- hand
encounters, where men fight like
dogs. where mankind fiickers out and
brute force wins. where soldiers be-
come beasts.
Then picture Americas youthful
army between the ages of 81 an& 81.
Happy, free, brave-they are in useful
occupations. in the labors of mankind.
Picture them living and vital. sons of
God. Then take them to the trenches
of France. where they are now duty
bound to go. See the brave Ameri-
can youth fight for his country, his
honor and humanity, just as the Eng
lishman, the Frenchman and the Teu-
ton are fighting for their homes and
firesides. The great misery of war.
the untold hardships. the ungodly
organized murder of nationalism-
present themselves to us as vivid and
real. But the youth of America must
go. His conscience and his country
call. He owes duty to his country.
Our American lives are precious.
but not more precious than the lives
of the men of France and England.
If wars must continue-and it seems
they must until Prussianism in its
present form is gone forever-Amer-
leans must be soldiers of freedom. |
America has been reluctant to enter |
the great conflict. but it is in and will |
fight. If war continues until the !
spring of 1918. American soldiers,
men of God. will be on the French |
front fighting Germany's soldiers.
more men of God and of Prussianism.
And when the Allied armies of the
world stack arms in Berlin, when the
world shows Prussia that one nation
will never again master humanity
when these things come to pass.
America will feel that it has fought a
glorious war, despite the fact that
thousands of its brave young soldiers
may lie rotting beside the soldiers of
he world on French. Belgian and
German soil.
The picture of war is unpleasant II
Il has no glamor. But until mankind II
is GOdlike. soldiers will continue to Il
lie for a cause and just to die.
Crushed and crushing, innocent, Cod
tearing peoples-on through the ages
must die for humanity
While we cheer Nivelle and Haig
and Joffre, humanity must not forget
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stephens Alumnae to Give $50 Prize.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Stephens College Alumnae Assocla-
ton took place yesterday at Stephens
College. 1t was decided that SsO
would be given for a scholarship for
the first semester of next year. There
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

Now is the time when those German
rooters are shouting to Hindenburg.
Hold that linei"
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

The price of eggs is very low in
China. Now we know why it is called
the Celestial Kingdom.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

The man who is elated over every
thing. usually has nothing over which
to be elated.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-08

Why call for volunteers to register
the men liable to draft? Why not
conscript the registrars?
Smyrna times., 1917-09-19
SMYRNA HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Students Visit the Hoffecker Cannery
and Were Shown the Interesting
Process-Reception to Freshmen

and Were Shown the Interesting
Process-Reception to Freshmen
Last Thursday afternoon the teach
ers visited the vineyard of Mr.. WIN.
G. Anthony and were treated to
several kinds of delicious grapes.
Friday afternoon the students of the
High School visited the tomato can
merry of the ]. H. Hoffecker Canning
Co., and studied the canning process.
Many things of interest were ex-
planned by Mr.. W. o. Hoffecker and
MIR. Hervey P. Hall. Monday the
students handed in compositions about
the trip, some of which were inter-
estingly written. At the close of
school Friday afternoon it was moved
and unanimously carried that a vote
of thanks be extended to the Canning
Company and to Mr.. Hoffecker and
Mr.. Hall in appreciation of their
kindness. On September % the
seniors, juniors and sophomores will
tender "Rubes" reception to the
Freshmen in the high school. Games
will be played and refreshments
served. A literary program is being
arraigned for Columbus Day, this
will be given in one of the town halls
that the patrons and friends of the
school many attend. Watch for the
program to be given by the Literary
Society at the school Friday afternoon
September % at 2 O'Clock. The
boys are busy laying out a new run
ming track, for due to the addition to
the old grounds 300 yard track can
be laid out. Prof. VanHorn is plan
ming to hold an inter.class fields day,
Friday afternoon October II. 1t is
possible that teams from other schools
will take part.
Smyrna times., 1917-09-19
NEW JEWISH YEAR UsHsRED IN

Several Business Places Closed in
Smyrna Monday and Yesterday
Smyrna stores and business places
conducted by proprietors of the Jewish
faith, were closed Monday and yester-
day and they went to the cities where
they entered their synagogues for wor-
ship For with sunset Sunday evening
millions of Jewes ushered in "Rosh
HashAnha" or the new year, 5678,
which marks the beginning of the
cycle of sacred observances held dur
ing the month of Tishri, the first
month of the Jewish calendar. Rosh
Hashanah is known as the day of
Memorial and the day of Judgment.
Traditions tells of this day as the day
when the Ruler of Life weighs the
doings of man and allots to each his
destiny, as it were, for the coming
year, for veal or woe. for life or
death.