The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-06-05
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nifty to enroll when the registrars COM
menced work at o'clock.
Report to the Sheriff.
All registration cards are to be de-
livered to the sheriff by the registrar
of the precinct. Sheriff Andrew Ross
of Cass county, expects to get ma
jority Of the returns for Cass county
by noon Thursday. Inasmuch as the
registration work closes at 8 o'clock,
comparatively few reports will be avail
able Of the total registration tonight
from the outlying counties Of the state.
All Out of Buttons.
At o'clock this afternoon, the Home
Defense league supply of buttons had
been exhausted, and five precincts had
made calls for additional supplies. AS
result of the depletion of the supply,
the league ordered that names Of all
men registering and failing to receive
buttons, be listed, and they will be pro-
vided with a button later.
The First TO Register.
The first five men registered In each
of the city registration districts follow:
First Ward-Harrison Henry Ware,
lick, Karl liver Nelson and Fred Victor
second ward--Dana T. Colby; Annex
hotel: olav Christian Bakke' S9s First st
schmaing; Ira Manning. 11s Third
street south; Carl John Nordstrom, FL
Fourth street south.
Third Ward-Melvin Davis Hildreth,
800 Eighth street south; Albert Ber-
nard Elvgren. All Tenth avenue south;
Arvy Victor Myers. 1914 Sixth street
south, Fargo; Otto Christianson, 306
Portef rotsOH. aKs4oH SG 4o5 Eshth M avenae
Fourth Ward. First Precinct-H. d.
Brown. dry, cleaner: Lorenzo Olson.
creamery; r. c. Thomas, Standard Oil
Co.; and F. S. owens. dry cleaner for
Fourth Ward, Second Precinct-Fred
williams, 1918 Tenth avenue SOUTH
boilermaker; Herb. Arthur Hanson, 1915
First avenue south, foreman Building
Material Co.; Geo. VIM. Frederick, 1888
First avenue south. farm machinery;
Henry oscar Kroelle, 1917 Second ave-
nue. south, tile worker; William Fred
erck Keye, 1921 Second avenue south,
civil engineer.
Fifth Ward, First Precinct--Curtis e.
Lloyd 4. quinn, 1112 Second avenue
north; Walter Milbrath, 81 Tenth Street
north. Walter l.. Beaton, 1433 First
avenue north; Leo L. German, ll5
Fifth Ward, Second Precinct-Oscar
Elmer Olson, Samuel Philander Smith,
Ferdinand Charles Breyer. John Hurlie
Cooper and Joseph Clarence McCor-
mick.
Sixth ward-John Edward CIonkey,
Carl Edwin Olson, Francis V. William
son, Andrew Hass and John Joseph
Seventh Ward, First Precinct-Philip
C. SCHUYLER Oscar B. Ruud, Louis A.
Gherum, VIM. B. Stevenson and Olof j.
Seventh Ward, Second Precinct-otis
Leonard Larson, Lawrence Colvin
Thomas, Matthias Belverud, John Han
son, Lee Miles Roderick, ErVing Clar-|
ence Erickson and Clarence Floyd Dai-
ly. ("The first two registered IN ad-
vance. The next FIVE registered in per
son.)
Grand Forks, N. D., June 5.-Grand
Forks and East Grand Forks today
united in celebrating Registration day
and honoring the men, who, as Pres
ident Wilson said in his proclamation
stepped forward in one solid rank in
defense. of the ideals to which TINS
nation is consecrated."
In accordance with the proclama-
tions of the mayors of the two cities,
no business, either in office or store,
was transacted after 1880 o'clock.
A monster parade-the largest ever
given in North Dakota or Northwest
ern Minnesota-featured the after
moons program. Every business house
on both sides of the river and every
fraternal and social organization, as
well as the University of North Da-
kota, was represented, and 1t Is es-
timated that nearly 1000 people
marched in the pageant, which was
two hours in passing given point.
1t was not an advertising analr. put
every business house was represented
with a patriotic float or display. the
university had the largest individual
unit there being something like 400 In
this section. Such figures as Uncle
sam. George and Martha Washington.
Columbia, Betsy Ross making the first
flag, the Spirit Of '76 and the Spirit OF
America Today, were represented.
Music played an important part in the
procession, there being singing soci-
cites, which sang the national an
thems of the allies, and four bands
Grand Forks military, The kiltles.
the university and the Boys.
Following the parade, program
was given in Central park in Grand
Forks, with T. A. Sullivan, of East
Grand Forks presiding, President T.
L. McVey of the university gave the
principal address, and other speakers
were Mayor James Dinnie of Grand
Forks, Mayor N. Kelleher OF East
Grand Forks, J. D. Bacon of Grand
Forks and Rev. VIM. Klinkhammer
Of East Grand Forks.
There were a number Of uniformed
ranks in the parade. The procession
was headed by Company M, and Ma
chine Gun company, N. D. n. G.. al
ter which came the Knights Templar
in full uniform.
Registration of men was accomp-
lished without difficulty. The patrl-
otic day committee appointed COM
mittees for all precincts, who spent
the entire day seeing that the men
within the age limits registered.
Grand Forks city and county has
had no pre-registration trouble, and
no complaints have come to the au-
thorities anent the draft system.
When the county auditors office
closed Saturday night, over 500 appli-
cants for enrolment had been filed,
and all day Monday there was
steady stream of men making elev-
enth hour demand for registration.
Many of these men were from the twin
Minnesota, Montana, Illinois and
South Dakota.
Bismarck, N. d., June 5.-Three
hundred seventy seven registrations
were recorded before noon here. In
every precinct the registration was
brisk from early morning. hnasAl
arm badges are provided signers IN
300 arm badges provided were
exhausted before noon, and 8 hurry
up call sent for more. IN one Bls-
marck ward more than figty per cent
signing are aliens, large portion oL
them German.
Adjutant General Tharalson IN re-
sponse to many queries this mornins'
advised registrars to accept registra-