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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-29
We ARE RUSHING ~ '''''
'S .a2,4 ssSssls,
AHEAD WAR SUPPLIES
PRESIDENT AND ADVISERS
GUARDING PURPOSES Il
CLOSELY 'stf>@ ~.
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS
"a Destroyers Contracted for on
Day Bids Are 0pened---Price
''Cuts Little Figure"

Washington-Having taken virtu-
ally every defense measure possible
before the assembling of congress
President Wilson and his advisers
in the executive branch of the gov-
ernment are concentrating their eff
orts to prepare for the more sweep
ing steps for which congressional
authority will be sought.
The details of the steps to be re-
commended are held in closest con-
fidence.
Day of Activity e
During Saturday the council of
national defense held long confer
ence with it's advisory committee of
seven industrial leaders who map
ped out mobilization plans for the
country's economic resources; the
navy department awarded contracts
for "a destroyers and called con-
ference of steel and other material
companies for this week to consider
means of speeding naval construct
ion. The war department announc-
ed the failure of the army approp-
ration bill at the last session. Of
congress would not be permitted to
handicap the army's preparations.
Regulations were promulgated to
guide the. country's newspapers in
voluntary censorship preventing
publications of details which might
embarass the government.
Many More Destroyers.
In making the awards on destroy
ers Secretary Daniels accepted the
maximum estimates of each Of the
three companies submitting figures.
Of the "a ordered nine will be built
under the emergency fund, congress
having specifically authorized only
Is. A considerable number Of
other builders were in conference
with officials, however, and indicat-
ions are that this order will be
doubled or even trebled if facilities
for constructor of the vessels can
DE found.
Regarding the activities Of the
war department Secretary Baker
made this statement to the news
paper men:
Prepare Before the Call.
"Of course everybody knows that
the international situation is tense.
The war department, like every
other department of the govern
ment, is busy with a state prepara-
ton, but without attempt on the
part of the department Or anybody
else to determine what the prepare
ton is for, except to put oul nation
al strength in state of efficiency.
Everybody realizes that this is a
sort of unnatural situation. We are
making preparations and buying
supplies and all that sort Of ling
and yet the policy Of the country
is still to be determined by the pres
ident and congress.
"All that you can say of the war
department is that it is pressing
ahead all purchases of everything
That will be needed to keep an army
if the army is to be called upon."
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The Rev. James Thompson, of
Ephrata, was Tuesday rendered the
position Of field secretary for Whit
worth College.
MIR. Thompson has taken the mat
ter under consideration and will
give his answer in a few days.
eve hope Rev. Thompson will see
fit to accept the place." said DR..
Sherman L. Divine, meber of the
board Tuesday. "He is an energetic
man and would make good at the
job"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-29

Inc D1SpatCn mas 1nStalleQ a type
setting machine, one of the most
wonderful inventions of modern
times. This important addition to
our equipment has been made be-
cause it will enable Us to publish "a
better and newsier paper, and at the
same time greatly increase our job
composition facilities. This mach
inc which the Dispatch has purch-
ased, is manufactured by the Inter-
type Corporation of Brooklyn, NJ Y,
and is the last word in composing
room equipment. Money cannot buy
better machine of it's class; it re-
presents the pinnacle of inventive
genius in it's field. One man on the
machine can set as much type as
four or five men can set by hand. :
Only few years ago many print
ers firmly believed that machine
for setting type was dream which,
like perpetual motion, would never
be realized. Inventors had been
spending time and money in attem-
pts to build such a machine for so
long and so uniformly unsuccessful,
that it was often stated that, until
a machine could be made to think,
type would continue to be set in ex-
actly the same way that Benjamin
Franklin set it in his day.. Many
and large were the fortunes which
were lost in unsuccessful inventions
of this kind. One typical failure
was a complicated machine which
was backed for several years by
Mark Twain. The great humorist
spent huge fortune in attempting
to establish this machine, but it was
never a commercial success and he
lost everything that he put into it.
At last a man appeared, Ottmar
Mergenthaler, a Matchmaker, who
conceived the idea of setting line
Of type instead of single letters.
After much study and experimental
ton he developed machine, the
Linotype, which almost immedi-
ately proved successful in operation
in some of the larger newspaper
composing rooms. The Linotype
was further developed and gradu-
ally spread, all over the world
and for many years no other manu-
facturer attempted to build a similar
machine. A few years ago, how
ever. new concern appeared in the
field with machine designed along
the lines of the Linotype but equ-
ipped with large number of detail
improvements and simplifications.
The new machine was called the
"Intertype." 1t is manufactured by
the 1ntertype Corporation and the
machine just installed by the Dis
patch is the model B which is sold
by that Company.
While the Intertype is necessarily
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Reappointment of Dove McQues-
ten, of Tacoma, as member of the
state board Of control for term be-
ginning April is announced by
Governor Lister. McQuestion was
named on January 1 to fill out
Frank c. Morse's unexpired term.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-11-23

warmers for footrests, then of Mrs
Hall walking miles to her work to
save five cents.
Attending a Kinsolving concert a re.
cent morning in the crystal ballroom
of the Blackstone hotel, after the con-
cert lettering awhile In the lobby,
later sauntering along Michigan ave-
u and stopping to look at this win
dow of exotic blooms, at that one
where platinum, diamonds and pearls
showed up with full effect against their
velvet backgrounds, the while seeing
the stream of luxurious vehicles flow
ing on In such volume, the companion
that was with me had said, swell un-
d%oubtedly America is prosperous this
year; I have never been so impressed
with luxury, with the general we'll
being"
Coming from the Halls that later
day I thought of this remark, of the
whole pleasurable cen calling 1t
forth and I wondered at the why and
the ~wherefores of the inequalities.
Why the too-much on the one table
the bare subsistence or the other?
The slothful warmth, and the dreary
cold? The over-brilliant rooms, and
the long darkness? OF chiffon bor-
dered with fur, and Of %shivering JIM
mic? OF "the colonel's lady, and Of
Julia O'Grady"?
Who are going to solve it, when Is
it going to be solved? Nobody, it
seems. Never, it seems. But at least
once in awhile, at this special season
and that, a momentary lifting of the
cloud may oceur-at least for the chill
dren. Say at Thanksgiving and Christ
mas, If each able one would look after
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-11-23

one unable family, what a lot of "kids
could be made crazy!"
Come on. pile up the basket Tele-
phone to the center that knows the
needs, or take a case whose needs you
yourself know, and do your best to
spoil n group of small ones for one
day. Put in the chicken! Put In vege-
tables enough for a week. Don't for,
get the potatoes. Remember the fruit.
Add candy. Get some Jimmie q WOODEN
coat, and long thick stockings, and ex-
change his misshapen, run-down-at-
the-heels shoes for brand-new ones,
thick-soled and equal to keeping out
the cold. Give the sure-to-be-there
baby q, warm outfit, secondhand or
hrst-hand, matters not. Cover that lit
tie girls thin red fingers with thick.
red mittens. Be sure to give plenty of
eandy-it won't hurt 'em. And tie all
the stuff up fancy like and foolish
ike. Your friends are bored to ex-
inction, of course, by the repeated,
complexities of today's Christmas
packing; but folk like the Halls won't
)e. They'll like it luxuries will help
coward that wildness Of joy you are.
working for. Come on, We unhappy
,verfed, We over-warmed,- We blinded
l)y too much light and color, We Of the
frivolous fur trimming, and We lady of
he limousine; come all and have q
land in this riot, this midwinter mad
less, this effort to make a certain class
f kids ~"crazy."
Copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper Union-l
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-11-23

-.
That was the letter she dictated to
me, the woman from way over there
where rents are relatively cheap,
where coal is bought by the single bas-
ket and where a can of timed milk
can be made to last a family Of four
a whole week. I put the words down
just as she said them, for I thought
the "1adies" would find it heart-warm-
ing to learn that their gift had such
an effect on the dull gray household
that "the kids .Wuz crazy"
She told me It was a IS basket.
There was a chicken, vegetables
enough for a week, even potatoes
the first in their house this winter
fruit, everything to make a real feast.
Who sent itf Well, she didn't know
their names, but she knew 1t was
through the Bureau of Charities her
family had got all that. So she had
called up the bureau and thanked them
and they said q club of ladies were
the ones that sent the things. The
club had t~elephoned In and asked for
the address Of some family that would
not be likely to have a big dinner, and
then they had filled the basket and
sent 1t to the address given. Now she
would like to thank the club. She
could read English but she couldn't
spell the words. Would I write the let
ter for her? And that was the way
the ladies found out that the "kids
wuz crazy" .
I went wei to Mrs. Halls home. and
the setting and situation seemed to
my inexperience exaggerated beyonc
actuality. The place looked like q
stage representation of poverty. The
husband had deserted; there were
three children, a toddler, a sickly CIR
of nine, a sickly boy of ten; and the
mother had 'pains in the chest" could
work only internationally. There was
plenty of work to be had this year
she said, but first one child fell sick
then another, and she herself, after
being so hot in the steamy Easements
where she did washings and then go
ing out into the cold, would get those
pains in the chest and would have ia
give up for awhile. At present abou'
all Sne WIS uOluB was WOlhiuB a.
home. putting strings on express tags
Going home in the street car I fel
Into such an abstraction I went nearly
to the limits before I woke up enough
to consider the matter of alighting.
got to thinking of contrasts-of {
world Of folk fussing about the over
amount Of protein they had in theil
systems, and that other world with the
family milk ration one tin a week; o.
people suffering from s~uperheatet
apartments, and of those that watched
a~nxiously the dwindling nuggets In thu
basket; Of people blinking under thu
glare of too-many-and-too-high-powe
bulbs, of the Hall family that went t.
bed right after supper to save Hight
of dancing-dresses trimmed with fur
of the thin cottony coat Jimmie Hal
was wearing; of limousine~w with orch
ids showing at the glass and foot
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02
Bic Fire at Sisseton. S. D.

Graceville Enterprise.-Fir which
started in the basement of the gener-
al store of Stavig Bros, general mer-
chants at Sisseton last Tuesday
night about 10 o'clock, destroyed
eight business buildings in one of
the best business blocks in the city.
The fire burned all night and the
next day, being made more difficult
to control by the wind. All the
business buildings in the block, in
Guiding me Golden Rule Store, Sta
Wig Bros, general store, the Standard
printing Office, a garage, and except
ing only a clothing store, bank, drug
store and Waletich & Plut's general
store, we're burned in the block. The
Dakota Central telephone office was
in one of the burned buildings so
phone connection with other towns
was cut off. The loss is a heavy one
for SissetOn, but all the buildings
consumed were frame structures and
will probably be replaced by better
buildings.
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02
RED CROSS AUCTION
NETS ALMOST $500
Less Than $25 Expense; Large
Amount of Grain, Etc, Not Yet
Delivered Nor Sold

The Red Cross benefit auction held
in Morris Monday afternoon promises
to net almost $500, possibly more
than this amount There is a large
amount of grain and farm products
that have not yet been delivered and
sold by farmers in the county that
will swell the amount of cash on
hand to the above figure according
to G.. w. Geenty, one of the commit
tee in charge of the funds derived
from the proceeds Of the sale.
The amount of cash on hand yes
terday morning was $1O39. 10. This
amount included the amount $474.36
that was derived from the cash re-
ceived from the sale Monday, and
$564.83 the amount of cash received
from farmers and Morris business
men who pledged their support for
the sale. Added to these amounts
there is still $52.75 the amount that
was sold at the sale and not yet been
settled for. The expenses of the sale
were less than $25. These expenses
included the travelling expenses of
Mr.. Coffey, the auctiOneer; and the
purchase of sandwiches, doughnuts
and coffee.
The result Of the sale was plea
SAINT surprise to every one. All of the
donations that were given to be sold
at auction were goods Of a recog-
niZed market value and the bidders
usually were willing to purchase
the goods at a price better than the
usual retail price The first thing
sold at the sale was a Is pound tur.
key that brought $40. There was
numerous instances where the bid
ders started the bidding on an arti
Gle at a figure representing its face
value. Gwen glass jar Of preserves
showing fly that had been cooked
in the fruit brought a fair price. J
The grain and farm products viii
probably be all brought in this weel
and will be sold to the different mer
chants for their market value 1t il
thought that these products will
bring the proceeds close to $500
All of the proceeds will go to the 10
cal chapter Of the Red Cross.
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02

he proposes to call it the Cash and
Carry Groceteer. He is going to eli
inmate many items of cost and eX-
pense and thus be able to attract
trade and custom by the exceeding
ly low prices he will make. The
store will be entirely rearranged so
that the goods can all be displayed
handy for the customer. Prices will
be marked plainly on everything.
The customer has the freedom of the
entire store. He or she walks around
takes the articles desired and before
going out is obliged to pass by the
desk where payment is made.
1T is the simplest method known
of getting goods from the manu-
facturer or jobber to the consumer,
and in this time when the expensive
methods of conducting the ordinary
retail business are criticised, and
everyone desires to save as much as
possible on the cost of food, it should
be exceedingly popular.
while this plan of conducting a
grocery is new in this part of the
country, it is not an untried system.
1t has worked successfully in other
places and without doubt will be
successful here. Of course it will
take a little time to get the public
thoroughly familiar with all the de-
tails and to get everything running
smoothly in the store, but we are
sure that Mr.. Galley will put his best
thought and effort into the business
and can be depended on to do just
as he says he will do"
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02

here until after the war is over and
it is hard to tell when that will be.
Our officers seem to think we will be
in France in less than six months.
They keep us drilling pretty steady.
Get up at $50, breakfast at 6:15,
go to drill at 700 until 1880, then
from 100 to 4:3O, but am getting
used to it now so it isn't so bad. We
have Wednesday afternoon off and
Saturday and Sunday. Am in a
good bunch; there are $50 men in
the company, so we have a pretty
good time when no thrilling. Clar-
ence McConville is in the next bar
racks to me and AL. Nelson and
young Edmonds are in the same
neighborhood so see them once in a
while. Sent you picture Of the
camp; did you get it? Quite a city
with over $4,000 men and 1000
head of horses"
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02
Real Estate Transfers

N w. Bramhall to Fred Messerli,
2 acres in sw corner, swA seA "a,
Morris, $1,4OO.OO.
Wenzel Bartos to Stanley G. Hunt
er, lot 9, block IS, LIST add. to Morris,
$28OO.OO.
A. o. Clave, Edw Capesius and
Emil Welter to Otter Tail Power Co.,
1OOx10O TT. in Sc corner, e1a "a,
Everglade, $4,000.
Ashley Coffman to Margaret Laut-
ges, s1a 35, Everglade, 81 and other.
Olive Gullickson to Ole A. Awsumb
lot 9, block IT, Donnelly, $825.OO.
John Grove to Olive Gullickson,
lot g. block II, Donnelly, $500
James and Roy M. Harris to
Adolph c. Hong, neA "a, Darnen,
81 and other.
Fred L. Seamans to Frank A. Han
cock, e12 swA IS, Morris, 100000.
S. P. Swenson to Robert Thedin,
lots 16 and II, block Is, Morris LIST
add, Morris, $4,000.
Ole Sanaker to Peter o. Lyseth,
nwA 5, Synnes, (gvn. to Correct for
d., $1.OO.
State Bank of DonnelIy to Level
lyn D. Perkins, pit. lot 13, block Fl,
Donnelly, $25O0.OO.
Margaret Toutges to Laura Coff-
man, s13 35, Everglade, 81 and 9th
er.
R. L. Wood to Wood Bros. Thresh-
er Co. S IL "A rs, Pepperton, 81 and
other.
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02

the officers at Camp Dodge are learn
ing to speak French. All of the Sec
ond lieutenants of the 352nd infan-
try are taking French lessons from
an officer of the regiment. At mess
the officers speak nothing but French
and the second lieutenant who can
not call for a second helping of
bread, meat, or potatoes in French
is out of luck. He has to go hungry
until he improves on his French.
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02
Cash and Garry Groceteer0

GlenWOod HeraId:-'All Herald
readers who have visited the cities
in recent years have eaten at the
"Cafeterias" where the patron waits
on himself by selecting the food he
wants from the table where it is dis
played, takes it to a chair or table,
eats his meal, and pays the cashier
on his way out
"This is what Mr.. Caley's grocery
store will be after November list, and
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02
SCHOOL CHILDREN TO
BE TAUGHT TO SAVE
Grade School Pupils Will Bring
Teachers Weekly Savings
er School Notes

In response to the nationwide de-
mand for every one to conserve and
to save, Superintendent Utne intends
to teach the school children of Nor
ris to save all of the pennies, nickles.
and dimes that thye earn. Beginning
with Monday Of next week the pu-
pills of each grade will save their
weekly earnings and every Monday
morning will bring the savings to
their teacher who will give the chill
dren receipts for the money and
when the child has one dollars
worth of savings this amount will
be deposited in one of the local banks
by Supt. Utne in the child's name.
''It is the saving habit that is Gre
ated in the child that will make the
thrifty business man." said Mr.. Utne,
eff the public schools can create such
greater good than the rest of the
studies combined. Just now it is
highly essential that all should save.
It cannot be tolerated that America
now engaged in the bitterest strug-
gle of her history can continue as
the nation that wastes enough to
keep alive another nation of equal
size Teach the child in the way
he goes and when he is old he will
not depart from it,"
Mr.. Utne urged the parents to CO.
operate with him on this savings
plan, if the parents did not coop
crate then it would be next to i'm
possible for there to be a school saw
ings bank he said The friendly
rivalry between pupils and between
pupils and between different grades
should furnish an incentive for the
pupils to make and save money Mr..
| Utne believes.
There are 100 grade pupils and
rs high school pupils that have saw
ings bank accounts. This is less
than one third of the total enroll
ment. But this might be a credit
able showing but for the fact that
large PARTON of these are dead &C
counts, that is, there has been no
savings added to the accounts for a
long time. 1t is the ambition and
intention of Supt. Utne to have a
live savings account listed under the
name of every grade pupil in the
Morris public schools.
The public schools took active part
in the recent campaign for the Sec
ond Liberty Loan. The teachers
and high school pupils subscribed
$1O5O. This amount was subscribed
as follows: Teachers $3.50, high
school pupils $275 and grade pupils
$225.
The high school was dismissed
Monday afternoon to permit the pu-
pills to attend the sale and allow the
high school boys who are members
of the Home Guard to attend the
parade. Some of the high schoo
students also played in the Morris
band. The grade school pupils were
dismissed at p. m.
The seniors of the high schoo
were excellent hosts at a HalIoWe' eI
party given for the faculty Of the
high school and for the members O.
the Sophomore class last Saturday
night in the high school auditorium
Lawrence ZahI Writes of Morris Boy
Thru the courtesy of Frank A
Zahl, we are permitted to print eX
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02
Must Talk French or Go Hungry

Must Talk French or Go Hungry
Some of the officers of the 352nd
infantry at Camp Dodge are going
hungry these days, according to
some of the letters received from
the Morris boys, who are members
of that regiment. But if the officers
are going hungry they are learning
to talk French with increditable
rapidity.
While soldiers of foreign birth are
learning to speak English, many of
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02
About That New
Building

WE ARE in business to serve you. The profit on
2x4 is small these days but the total of orders,
big and small-yours and those of several hum
dred others means that we can continue to
offer you good materials at fair prices A fair
deal on quality, service and price means long
time friends and longtime customers.
LET US figure with you on your next building
needs. If it is only bundle of lath, or material
for poultry house or sidewalk, we are in
terested.
NOW is THE TIME TO BUILD
TAKE advantage of the present high prices for
farm and factory products by making improve
ments now. You should tile your farm now,
and be ready for any kind of weather conditions
next spring.
Morris tribune., 1917-11-02
Lawrence Zahl Writes of Morris Boys

Lawrence Zahl Writes of Morris Boys
Thru the courtesy of Frank A.
ZahI, we are permitted to print ex-
tracts from a recent letter from his
son Lawrence Zahl, who is in the
10th Battalion, 166 Depot Brigade,
40 Co., at Camp Lewis, near Tacoma,
Washington. He says
Had our final examination last
week and passed it so guess I'll be
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-27
SPECIAL FOR
 FANS TONIGHT
Party Going Out Line to See Big Ball Games Will Reach Anchorage
 Saturday Evening

At II o'clock tonight special train with fans bent on seeing the big ball games at Anchorage will leave for Kern creek.
 Frank Cotter was cOnversing with Charley Nutter at Anchorage this morning and Charles promised to meet the train at Kern creek tomorrow morning with the fast and commo- dious launch "Kumback," which can accommodate 90 to 100 passengers, and land them in Anchorage at 4:SO tomorrow afternoon.
 Excursion rates will be given of $15.75 for the full round trip to An chorage.
 Fans already over there report that things look fine and Seward is going to win three Straights.
 Cotter says that from what he has heard over the line. the rumOr that the Inlet metropolis is dry camp Is subject to continuation
 Hoben had the team out this mon- ing for little practice and the boys certainly have the class.