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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
SHELLY NAN OF
] r. HIKES WHEN
WORK Is Light
Red River Valley Pioneer
Insists on Getting Full
Days Exercise.

| J. T. RedIand, prominent farmer re-
siding one mile south of Shelly, Mimi,
is one Of the real pioneers of the Red
River valley.
Mr.. Redland has forty-six years of
continuous residence to his credit, and
at u is as well preserved and spry as
many man of 40 years. He reads
without glasses. can run without eff
fort. walks erect and when he finds
that "doin' chores" on his well equip
| ped half section near Shelly is insult
ficient exercise, he walks four or five
miles to make up the difference. He is
married, and has one daughter.
Left Norway in 1855.
Mr.. RedIand left his home in Nor
way in 1856, coming to Quebec by
sailship. From Quebec he went to
Chicago by rail and canal boat, and
from there to Galena. ILL.,, by the only
ten miles OF railroad west of Chicago
at that time. and from there up the
Mississippi river to Lacrosse, Wis.
In 1871. Mr.. Redland became ac-
quainted with Horace Greeleyss advice
to young men to Ego west young man"
and, securing an OK and q COW for a
team, started the long journey to the
great northwest He landed where
Moorhead now stands. and might have
gone into what is now North Dakota
had the Red river been passable.
Turning to the north. however, he
kept going until he reached the site OF
his present home.
The first winters were hard ones.
Money was very scarce. and supplies
We're hard to get.
There was. in the sixties, a Hudson
-. -
"a miles from Shelly, where Mr.. Red
land had his plowshares sharpened,
and bought his supplies. The post was
discontinued about 1871. making it
necessary to go to Alexandria. Mimi,
160 miles distant, a trip requiring
three to four weeks by OK team. until
Moorhead blossomed into a tent city.
John Erickson. still a Moorhead
resident, was the first storekeeper,
carrying q general line Of supplies in
tent. Mr.. Redland spent several
nights with Mr.. Erickson in that same
tent, with the weather forty degrees
below zero.
Laid Ties on Ground.
The Northern Pacific hit Glyndon
/ in the fall OF 1871. but, being unable
to continue to Moorhead the same
year, laid ties on the ground to hold
its rights The road was put through
to Moorhead the following spring.
In 1876, Mr.. Redland was appointed
assessor for the portion of Polk
county in which he lived. It being
winter, and impossible to take his OK
team, he walked over the snow to
Crookston. A thaw preceded his re-
turn. and encumbered by the heavy
assessors books. he found travelling
hard.
A coulee, which presented no DIM
culties on the trip over, was small
lake on the return trip. and to cross IL
throw his clothes and books across.
swim over and dress again In the snow
and cold.
During those pioneer days. Mr.. Red
land made II point to make friends
with all the Indians, feeding and en-
tertaining them az his home. They
called him the little white man"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
STATE BOUNDARY
| BOARD TO MEET
HERE ON MONDAY
Commission in Charge of
Red River Flood Control
Program Will Organize.
TWO OTHER STATES
JOIN IN MOVEMENT
Hard, Sorlie and Streeter
Comprise Membership of
n. d. Commission.

Responsibility for the origination
and supervision of a project which
will reclaim 100000 acres of North
Dakota land Of an average value of $40
the acre. will be undertaken by the
boundary drainage commission which
meets in Fargo Monday next to per-
feet its organization. The members of
this important board are A. g. Sorlie,
a prominent Grand Forks business
man; l. p. Streeter of Wahpeton, who
has large real estate interests in Rich
land county, and Herbert A. Hard,
geological engineer with the depart
ment Of the interior. Governor Frazier,
in making his appointments, did not
designate the chairman and secretary.
who will be chosen at the Fargo meet
ing. 1t is anticipated that Hard, as
the practical technologist of the COM
mission, will act as secretary.
Act With Other Boards.
The North Dakota boundary COM
mission will cooperate with similar
boards appointed or to be created in
Minnesota and North Dakota In work
ing out a system Of drainage which
will relieve distressed conditions pre-
vailing throughout the upper reaches
OF the Red river and its tributaries,
and affecting not only many hundred
square miles of valuable farming coun-
try but numerous villages and cities as
well.
See Water Power Asset.
To correct this condition there has
been tentatively proposed the con-
struction OF a system OF reservoirs on
the Sheyenne river, on Lake Traverse
Big Stone lake, Tongus river and 9th
er streams. The cost OF this construc-
ton, together with the dredging and
Strengthening of the Red river and
tributaries win range in the millions
but IT is predicted that the system will
more than pay for itself in the water
power which can be developed.
"A system well worked out" said
Mr.. Hard today. ''will mean a control
of the flood situation and at the same
time the solution OF the drainage
problems for farmers in the Red river
valley. 1t should prove OF inestimable
value to farmers who cannot bear the
expense Of thing. and who now could
find no proper outlet were they pre-
pared to put in tile drains"
$4,000 Preliminary Expense.
CasS county alone is expending
about $25O,OOO on this drainage prob
lem, and every county lying In or
adjacent to the Red river valley il
deeply interested in the outcome OF the
concerted effort which these three
states are to make. North Dakota's
share OF the preliminary expense has
been estimated by federal engineers
at $4,000. Three thousand is ap-
propriated by the bill creating the
boundary commission. and it il
thought the remainder of the funds
necessary may be obtained from other
sources.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
HUEY SAYS THE
AVIATION CAMP
WORK IS GREAT
Fargo Young Man, Volun-
teer in Aerial Service,
Gets First Training.
LONG TIME BEFORE
THEY HANDLE PLANES
In Letter Home He Depicts
Flight of United States
First Dirigible.

It takes three months work listen.
ing to lectures and watching the oper-
atoms in aeroplane shops. and i've
months starting motors and caring for
machines before a student In the avia.
ton corps has a chance to try to fly
machine himself, according to Lynn
Huey, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. @.
Huey, 1045 Tenth street north, a vol
unteer in the service and now at PEN
sacola, Fla, where he IL in training.
Mr.. Huey says there isn't any real
work to be done unless a man would
call two hours a day and caring for
his sleeping quarters work.
"As for furnishing things for my
self, wouldn't have to spend q cent
as long as ! stayed out at school,"
four pairs Of socks. three suits OF
underwear. two big Turkish towels.
two pairs Of shoes, pairs Of over
alls, two overall Jackets. two suits Of
blue dress clothes. four suits Of white
inspection clothes. whisk broom. shoe
brushes. scrub brushes and, in fact.
everything that could possibly use.
was given to me.
"As for work, there isn't anything
to do unless you would call drilling
work. We drill an hour in the morn
ing and an hour in the evening. Half
Of the morning hour IL taken up with
setting UP exercises. The rest OF the
day we go to the various shops such
as the erecting shop, motor shop. cop
per shop, blacksmith shop and take
notes on lectures. At the end Of three
months we are supposed to be able to
know where every bolt or nut on an
airplane goes and what its functions
are. Then, IL we pass all examinations
in all these shops, we are rated airmen
and our pay Is increased from $3.50
to $3.50. We now spend FIVE months
on the beach starting motors and tax
ing care Of the planes. From time to
time we are taken up and given in-
struction in the handling Of the plane.
When the officers who are in charge
of us think We can handle a plane, we
make a trial flight and IL we don't
have an accident, we continue to make
flights until we have spent 40 hours in
the air. Then we get a pilots license
and are sent out to various stations
for service work.
That is our work in a nutshell.
There IL no real work attached to any
of 1t. We have to take care Of our
sleeping quarters. scrub the floor once
week, ct cetera, but as far as real
work In concerned there isn't any
here"
Mr.. Huey tells Of the fun the people
of that part Of the country have swine
ming, bathing and fishing.
Worked on First DirigibIe.
"If you see an account in any paper
about the flight Of Americas first
dirigible, remember that helped get
it out Of its hangar. Gee! but there
was lots of excitement around here
the day they got 1t out. It certainly
was a pretty sight after 1t got up into
the air, but a propeller and wing
were smashed in getting 1t back into
the hangar. 1t cost Uncle sam S4e,OVu
and. according to the Pensacola paper,
IL is the only one in the United States
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
MOTHERS DAY
TO Be OBSERVED
IN STATE May IS
North Dakota in Line in
Paying Tribute to
motherhood.

In a proclamation. just issued, Gov.
Lynn J. Frazier has designated sun
day, May 10. as Mothers day.
Mothers day, equally Fathers day,
was originally designed to deepen and
perpetuate all family ties. 1t is
observed by some distinct act Oh
kindness. visit, letter. a gift or a
mother or father to whom graceful
affection is due. The day Is socaaled
because in most countries there Is no
national celebration in honor Of the
home or noble motherhood.
The time of observance by
individuals. churches and organiza-
tons is always the second Sunday In
er's day on the Friday preceding the
second Sunday. while business houses
and firms celebrate it on Saturday.
Mothers day had its inception in a
resolution passed by the senate and
the house of representatives on May
10, 1913, for observance by members
of the senate and house. the president
and his cabinet and heads of the vari-
Gus government departments. In the
same year, the Nebraska state legis-
lature made Mothers day a state nag
day in honor of the patriotism of
Nebraska's true homes and mothers.
The first proclamation for the ma
tional observance of Mothers day was
made by President Woodrow Wilson
on May 10, 1914, making the United
States the first nation in the world to
give such a patriotic tribute to its
homes. Since that time the governors
of nearly all the states have issued
Mothers day proclamations.
There is a Mothers Day association
in the United tSates the purpose of
which is to promote the idea to other
countries. Its founder and president
is Miss Anna Jarvis OF Philadelphia.
Among its honorary national officers
are President Wilson, ex-Presidents
Taft and Roosevelt and many Of the
state governors.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
OF
DELEGATES IS
Big FEATURE
Woodmen of State, Meeting
in Fargo Wednesday, Cen
ter on National Meet.

Cine of the principal items of bust
ness to be transacted at. the state
camp meeting OF the Modern Wood
men of America in Fargo May 2, will
be the selecting of six delegates to
represent the state at the head camp
meeting to be held in Chicago on
June Is. t,.. -. Pc, o.
Arrangements are being made To-
cally for the largest Woodmen meet
ing ever held in the state as there will
be so regularly accredited delegates,
many officers and visitors from all
parts of the commonwealth present.
The SO delegates will represent a
membership in the order in this state
of over $4,000.
The session will begin in the morn
ing and in the afternoon arrangements
have been made for taking the Visi-
tors over the city in automobiles and
in the evening entertaining them at a
special adjourned meeting of the Far
go camp when large class of candi-
dates will be taken into the order.
A good program has been arranged
for the evening meeting, as follows:
Roll call of officers.
Song, patriotic.
Welcoming delegates and visiting
Neighbors.
Obligate candidates.
Degree team march In with banner.
Degree team drill.
Presentation of banner by State
Deputy p. J. Murphy.
Acceptance of same. Past Consul
T. ". Carey. T
Address by former Gov. L. B. Hanna
on his personal experiences in Europe.
Short talks by other prominent mem
bers.
Everybody eat.
Twenty-third degree class Of candi-
dates, none to be excepted.
Song. patriotic.
Closing ode.
The local camp will be represented
at the meeting in Chicago by F. l.
Watkins, T.. ". Carey, and c. H. Chap
man.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
LIVESTOCK IS
DYING IN THE
ROCKY REGION
Severe Weather Conditions
Causing Havoc According
to Forest Service Report.

washington, April %. - Severe
weather conditions are causing heavy
losses of cattle and sheep In the norm
to reports received by the forest serv--
ice. Because of unusually deep snow
continued storms, and the late spring,
the supply of feed in most Of the re-
Tion has been practically exhausted.
Hay is now selling at $40 TO $40 q ton
and is almost impossible to get even
at these prices.
tana, Idaho, Utah and Nevada will, II
is feared, be unusually heavy. Wen
posted stockmen estimate that IL may
reach 20 per cent. 1t 10 stated that the
sheep are generally in poor condition
and many of the bands which came
through the winter without losses are
now beginning to suffer. A light lamb
and wool crop is anticipated Tor the
CattIemen Hard HIT.
All indications are that the cattle
men have been equally hard hit. In
parts of Idaho, Montana ana WYOMING
No reliable figures are obtatnable from
northern Nevada and northern Utah.
but ali reports agree that the number
OF livestock will be greatly reduced I'M
The fact that supplies Of grain and
hay have been almost exhausted ana
the spring ranges are generally cover
ed by snow leads experienced stockmen
to fear that many more animals VIII
die before the situation Is relieved by
warm weather. In some regions the
snow is so deep that hay can not be
hauled to the starving stock except on
hand-drawn sleds.
Better on Coast.
In the Pacific coast states and the
southwest, conditions have been more
favorable and the stock is reported to
have gone through the winter with
only normal losses. The landings.
which are practically over. have been
good and the wool crop up to the aver
age, while cattle are all doing well.
Here also the spring Is from three to
six weeks late.
In this emergency the supervisors OF
all national forests have been author
ICED to open them to livestock which
Is short OF feed in advance OF the usual
date whenever IL can be done without
material injury to the early grasses
and 80 far as possible the forest serv~
ice will make every effort to aid the
stockmen in saving their animals from
death by starvation.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
What You Kicking
About? They Outpaid
You Fifty Years Ago

ut may be some consolation for
people to know that they are pay
ing less for produce than was paid
just fifty years ago." said John D.
Vowles, 1915 Sixth street south,
this morning, as he handed a rep
resentative of The Forum a clip
ping from The Winona Repub-
lican- Herald.
with the exception Of potatoes,
the consumer has the best of the
Winona resident in April, 1857. We
are apt to forget these things"
Here are Winona prices in 1857:
Flour, $500 a barrel.
Wheat. No. 1. $2.25 bushel.
Wheat. choice. No. milling,
81 so a bushel.
Corn, $3.50 a bushel.
Oats, $500 a bushel.
I Potatoes, $3.50 a bushel.
=" Hay, $4,000 to $4,000 a ton.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28

New York, April 2s.-She might have
reflected that In these days, with the
car shovelling snow, the lower classes
might act in any astonishing way to-
ward titled persons, but apparently
the Princess De Aragon had not re-
Elected; so she was very naughty and
highly indignant when her cook hailed
her before Justice Of the Peace Jones
of Hampstead, L. ]. The cook charged
the princess with choking her and
tearing her clothes.
Although wealthy, the princess's pa
and ma are plain Mr.. and Mrs. George
Jason Waters Of Philadelphia. She
was just Miss Ruth Morgan Waters
until she was married about two years
ago, in the Church Of ST. Ignatius
Loyala in this city, to Prince Ludovico
Pignatelli De Aragon. much to the
outspoken disapproval Of her father.
But when Justice Jones. in reading
the complaint to her in court, addressed
her as Mrs. she frowned at him.
IT am not Mrs. De Aragon," said she,
haughtily. 81 am a princess"
His honor frowned back-quite as
severely.
Madam" said he, "there is no dis
tinction in this court. Kings, queens,
princesses and cooks are all on one
footing and receive the same justice.
How do you plead?"
mot guilty" she snapped
She was paroled on her own recog-
nizance to appear in four days and an
swer the cooks charges.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
ENROLLS GLEE CLUB
FOR CHURCH SERVICE
Fargo College Organization Will APP
pear at First Baptist Church
Sunday Evening.

A musical program by the Fargo
College Mems Glee club will fea-
ture the services at the First Baptist
church Sunday evening, the program
announced today following:
Still, Still With Thee. Gerrish
Glee Club.
Tears OF Christ. .,..s.....s.....V annah
Mr.. Sucher.
Violin Obligato by Andrew Love.
Evening Hymn ...............W Wagner
Glee Club.
How Beautiful Upon the Noun
tain .sss.ssssssssSss 11dShS1
Mr.. Sucher.
Crossing the Bar ..................
Glee Club.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28

German strategy always takes into
consideration the railways of the
country in which the armies are oper-
ating. Thus after the great German
retreat very early this spring, mill
tary critics in Berlin pointed out that
the "Hindenburg line" was much bet
ter from railway point of view than
the line which the Germans had pre-
was the first of a series of shuttle
lines Of railway running from north
east to southeast, and enabling rapid
transference of troops and concentra-
ton of guns.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
NEW TRACTION HEAD
Bert Greenway Of Regina to Manage
Grand Forks Streetcar Line.

Grand Forks, N. D., April 28.-Bert
Greenway, for the past four years head
OF the Regina, Saslx., electric lines. arr
rived in Grand Forks yesterday to be-
gin his new duties as superintendent
Of the Grand Forks Street Railway
company. Mr.. Greenway is thoroughly
familiar with every department OF the
nected with street railway companies
in Chicago, Milwaukee and Newark,
N. J.
He win I'LL a vacancy here. created
by the resignation OF w. j. Brekke.
No other changes will be made In the
service at present. according to Gem
eral Manager Thomas Roycraft.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
KILLED AT JAMESTOWN.

Jamestown, M. d., April 2e.-IaDuis
Mitseef, a Bulgarian laborer, was ac-
cidentaliy killed this morning while Ill
here. Mitseef was struck on the head
by q line bar that slipped from the
hands OF fellow employees, Crushing
his head. He died shortly after being
rushed 70 Parkview hospital.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
GREAT NORTHERN WANTS
ten ACRES AT A. c.
Condemnation Suit Served on State
REQUIRED to Complete Fargo
Terminal Plan.

The Great Northern still is continu- =
ing its work OF obtaining additional
acreage along its lines in this city
for the purpose Of establishing the big
terminals that are definitely assured
for Fargo.
The latest step Is the serving upon
the attorney general of papers in a
condemnation proceedings, ten acres
Of state lands adjoining the agricul-
tural college site being required by the
company in handling its terminal
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28

AS modern artillery has shown its
superiority over every system field
fertilization, 1t would seem that Ger
man strategy would now be based
mainly upon mobility. Taking this
view Of the situation leads to the as
sumption that the German lines will
be set up In accordance with the rail-
way system behind 1t. This line, with
center at Lille, would In its first
phase run to st. Quentin; then it
would swing to Laon, and under fur
Their pressure would swing back via
Guise and Rethel and via Herson and
Mezieres, always based upon q pos
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
n. D. TRACTOR STATE
Ranks Fifth in Ownership OF Farm
Tractors Says Report.

Bismarck, NJ. D., April 2S.--North
Dakota, according to the monthly crop
report Of the United States depart
ment OF agriculture. ranks fifth in
ownership OF farm tractors, In CONF
mission and OF clearly established
ownership. OF these iron horses 2,137
are in active service in North Dakota.
Illinois leads with 1902; Iowa has p
223; Kansas, 2s2s7, and Texas, 1885.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
NEW DISPLAY ROOM
Hunt EIcar Company Gets Quarters
On Broadway.

The Hunt EIcar Motor Co. is ar
ranging display room at 510-512
Broadway. It will be used in connec-
ton with the service garage in the
same building. The new office and
display room will be occupied Tues
day.
Edgar Hunt leaves early next week
for the factory where he will look aft
err business matters in connection with
local agency.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28

sible railway behind It, and with
transverse lines running back to Ger
many.
Each line would be retreated upon
after devastating an area in front Of
1t, delaying actions being fought when
necessary. This strategy IL forced
upon the Germans by the central fact
that the allies can concentrate a
dominating artillery fire upon any
given point And as Britain and France
can build railways to advance their
guns against the new lines, they must
inevitably force the Germans either to
retreat or to take the offensive.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
SERVICES AT MISSION
o. E. McCracken Announces Program
of Sunday Meetings.

o. e. McCracken. superintend-
ent of Glad Tidings mission, 116 Front
street, announces the following serv-
ices at the mission tomorrow: Sunday
school at 10 o'clock, preaching at II
o'clock, chiIdren's meeting at o'clock,
open air service at o'clock in the
evening with an old fashioned gospel
service at o'clock.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28
ALLEGED POSTOFFICE
RAIDER HELD FOR JURY
A. n. Waldorf Bound Over at Hear.
ing Before CupIer-cannok Furnish
81 1000 Bond.

A. Fl. Waldorf. arrested az Hillsborc
several days ago. charged with
burglarizing the postofFice at MayviIle.
April 10. was bound over to the federal
grand jury at hearing held before
u. s. Comr. Al. w. CupIer yesterday.
He has not furnished 81 900 bonds
fixed by the commissioner.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28

CO to the new bargain basement Of
the s. g. G. Clothing Co. for mems and
boys clothing at smaller cost to you.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-28

Visit our bargain basement for men
and boys. s. q G. Clothing Co, $50
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-16
The Work That Men Do.

The nation is confronted with moro
work than ever before-ships TO bujd.
plete, new foreign business Z he at
tracted and help to he extended TO t0e
Unf0rtUnate- ON the other side. There
are atout3000o0omen ut work.i f1oF
WORK ten hours day that is 3ao0a1
O90 hnrrs q day or ST. $500 0oo00 hours
Il year Il they w0rk oi-ht hours i f.
-. ...-..- IL. q. 40 ..---..-..