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The Oakes times., 1917-08-02

like flock of chickens and are about
as thick as hair on a dog. l could
not figure out how they all sleep and
eat. From there on we took car for
Flushing another suburb of New York.
On this car we passed over the famous
Brooklyn Bridge and into Flushing
where we took taxi for Fort Totten.
1t was just a. m. when we hit 0ur
spring bed, tired bunch but we'll sat.
isfied with our trip. We were up again
6:45 for reveille.
b., New York sure is some city which
l have never before dreamed. of seeing.
All this last week have been on guard
and when we are on guard that
means business. We have to sleep a,
the guard house and we don't dare to
take any writing paper with us. This
fort is awfully strict on spies now, and
it takes quite a number of guards to
watch everything. Nine companies of
engineers left for France the other
day, and that leaves much more work
for the rest. We also get guard duty
oftener. There are six posts on this
fort and the guards are numbered
from 1 to 6. have No. 1, which is by
the gate that leads into the fort l
have to watch all the people and autos
that come and go. They dare not even
take a camera with them, so they can
not take pictures as. they might be
spies. Three German spies were caught
only the other day.
sThe Y. M. c. A. surely is great
movement. We have one right here
at the Fort and did not know and
realize how nice it was until l saw it
and used it. 1t serves as a home for
the men and every night there are
hundreds assembled in the different
rooms to see the movies to read or
write or play pool and listen to the
music of pianos and victrolas.
"Well, there are two companies of
Coast Artillery leaving for France to-
day and have to go and see them off
as friend of mine who enlisted with
me in Aberdeen is going with them.
l don't know how soon I will have to
go. Maybe next fall, prehaps not at
all, which 1 surely hope don't.
"Best wishes to ALL"
The Oakes times., 1917-08-02
DARING HOLDUP IN
HEART OF CITY
ENTERED HOME AFTER NOON
AND DEMANDED MONEY
Got Eight Dollars and Took Departure
After Leaving Line Of
Threats

A holdup in broad daylight took
place in Oakes yesterday one block
from the city hall, and the intruder got
away with more than $500 in cash.
Mrs. l.. Spurrier, occupying suite
of rooms in the Marsh fiat, was ac-
costed by a man who wore a black
mask shortly after the noon hour.
The man entered the kitchen door
without an alarm of any kind and was
approaching the lady of the house
through the second room before she
noticed him. While sitting in the front
room with her baby on the bed the
man approached her with a gun ard
demanded her pocketbook. He ad
vised her not to make any alarm on
penalty of getting filled with lead. Mrs.
Spurrier at once reached under tho
mattress of the bed, and she isn't quit.
sure whether she handed him the
pocketbook Or he came and helped
himself ati,,1 finding the hiding place.
Anyway he took the money out "A five
dollar bill, three silver dollars and
some small change-placed the pocket
hook on tie stand. W itn siic ie:ianl
t. at she watch the clock and nc. make
a motion for half an hour-or he
would fill her SO full of holes she
would not hold water"--and took his
departure. Mrs. Spurrier was SO
scared that she did not move for the
half hour. She finally called to her
little daughter out of the window to go
and get grandpa-meaning her father
Mr.. Davis, who was at the home of his
son. When Mr.. Davis arrived he found
his daughter badly scared, but he
hastened to give the alarm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spurrier and six chill
dren arrived Saturday night from
Superior. Wis, and Mr.. spurrier had
gone to work for Ed. Olson in tho
country. Mrs. Spurrier is sister Of
j. A. Davis. She thinks it little
queer she should come from such q
holdup city as Superior and suffer Il
robbery here the first thing.
The officers made search of the
jungles and about the city and could
not find anyone of the description
given. George Potter saw the man
make his exit, which was on the south
side of the building and said he was a
large man with gray hair. The man
on entering had interrogated Stanley,
the five year old son, if his father was
at home and Stanley had told him that
his father was in the country.
The Oakes times., 1917-08-02
Interesting Letters From 7wo of
Dickey County's Soldier Boys

was captured by the enemy, which left
us without anything to do. The army
behind us left the road and went off
into valley where they found the
enemy and had battle. We had moth
ing to do but watch the battle from a
distance which would have been soft
if they had been shooting real bullets.
We shoot paper shells which burst as
soon as they leave the muzzle of the
gun. They are very nice battles as no
one is killed. The only accident comes
when some fellow having one paper
she'll left in his gun accidentally dis.
charges it after the battle is over. The
result is these fellows have to work as
janitors around the barracks for few
days as punishment.
Eve have only three weeks left here
and then we don't know where we will
go. l don't suppose they can find jobs
for such mob, SO that many will not
be called. What is worrying me now
is when am going to get my commits
sion or if am ever going to get it. i
wish it would come and relieve the
suspense.
"If don't get job to go in the army
| can start out feeding dynamite to the
l. w. WIS, who seem to be raising the.
deuce all over the country right now.
Down in Arizona where worked last
year everything is tied up by strike.
1t seems to follow me around as last
summer there was strike in the iron
ranges in Minnesota. am lucky to
miss them by one year. Another mean
trick is the selling of couct plaster
containing germs of lockjaw to the
people of Kansas by German peddlers.
When they couldn't sell them they
gave them away, which made the
police suspicious and they warned the
people. To attempt to poison the
people is the limit of frightfulness-or
| whatever the Germans call it. There
was no poison in the candy you sent
me. 1t was fine and the Kansas heat
had not melted it,
II can't think of another thing now
and it is also time for lights out.
The Oakes times., 1917-08-02

-n- ~,
Walter Thoms, writing to The Times
and his folks, from Fort Benton, New
York:
Editor Oakes Times: After leaving
Oakes l went to Jefferson Barracks,
Mo-, and the 14th of May found my.
self in the State of New York with a
lot of other boys. am now stationed
at Fort Totten, fort on Long Island,
five miles from New York City. l
was assigned to the Coast Artillery.
This fort is for protection of New York
City. There are four three inch guns
six five inchs eight twelve inch, ten
ten inch, and also twelve mortar guns.
"The army is nothing con- pared to
what it used to be. The solIiers are
different class. They come from the
best of families. A large number are
boys just out of college from all over
the United States. The officers are
kind and fair to those who try to do
right. We get good board and have
good sleeping quarters with most all
accommodations. am sure glad l
Joined before the draft law, as we have
better officers and get better instruc-
tions and have better chance to climb
higher in rank.
Our Company has charge of the
mines here. There are four sections
of mines. with ten large mines in each.
We have control of the twelve-inch
guns. Will have target practice in
about week and expect to see some
real good work done by our company.
This will be done at Fort Terey about
80 miles north of New York on the
coast. So far we have practiced with
dummy projectors only, but when we
get to Fort Terey, there will be some
real shooting with the twelve-inch
guns. The first time we watched the
12-inch guns go off. we were ordered
to stand on our toes with mouth open
and hands over ears and hats pulled
down, else we would find ourselves
deaf and hat flying down the line some.
where. We also have rifle practice
there. This is some real sport.
1--WE have six hours drilling each day
three hours infantry drilling in the
forenoon and three hours artillery
drilling in the afternoon. We get
back to the barracks about three o.
clock. From then on we have the day
to ourselves. Sometimes we take a
trip to New York. We are allowed
to go there as often as we please, if
we ask for pass. l and one of my
friends took trip to Coney Island
where you can see everything from a
hay rack to an aeroplane. 1t is an
amusement park. There were about
100000 people there and this was con-
sidered small crowd. We went
through some of the slides and revolv-
ing tanks and tables and were lucky
to get out without a mishap.
Last Sunday and my friend
jWoodey took trip in New York City.
We left the Fort on the subway at Q
o'clock. There were ten coaches and
""ery one was full of soldiers going tc
the city. We got of at the municipal
building and after climbing several
flights Of stairs got to the, surface took
car which took US to. the mart Of, the
city where the poorer people live. 1t
is wonder to me how they all live In
such small place. In. fact they are
The Oakes times., 1917-08-02

he had been cut by the barbed wire
quite badly. Mrs. Hunter and daugh-
ter and Miss Frozen were lifted clear
over the fence and their clothes almost
torn from them, and Miss Kalbus in
some way took refuge behind barrel
that moved not. In visiting the
place next day Sol. said he did not
understand how Miss Kalbus got out of
it without a scratch as there were
broken and shredded timbers all over
the place. All that was left of the
automobile was the engine. All
wheels were twisted to piecea-all Sol.
recovered from the wheels was one
rim. The family went through an
experience they do not want to en-
counter again, and the wonder is that
all came out alive. Mr.. Hunter said
after he raised his head when he had
come to that he expected to see the
lifeless bodies of the others near by,
but all were in better shape than him
SELF All were badly pelted by hail
stones and had many marks to back
their statements.
1t was the worst storm that ever hit
Ransom county. Crops in the path of
the storm were ruined. Small grains
looked as if harvested and the bundles
taken off the field. Corn was stripped
to stubs and the leaves taken with
the wind.
In Brown County
This storm extended from Bowdle
to the east line of South Dakota and
was from three to eight miles wide.
North of Aberdeen about three miles
was the worst. The wind took its toll
of barns and lighter built houses,
while the hail stripped a large territory
of crops. Much live stock was killed.
1t was the most destructive storm ever
coming over that section.
The Oakes times., 1917-08-02
Public Sale Of shoshone Indian Land,
Shoshone Agency, Fort Washakie,
Wyo., Aug. 20, 1917

10000 acres of land, a large portion
of which is irrigable, will be offered
at public auction at 900 a. M, Aug.
20, 1917, at the Shoshone Agency.
Liberal terms for payment.
These lands are situated in Fre-
mont County, Wyo., from one to fifty
miles from Riverton, Hudson, Arapa-
hoe, and Lander reached by the direct
line of the Chicago & North Western
Ry.
Excellent crops of grain, grasses
and vegetables are grown by irrigation
and the native grasses are unexcelled
for live stock. Good roads and fine
climate.
For detailed Information. regarding
the areas of the various tracts, terms
of sale, etc., address E. A. Hutchinson.
Superintendent Shoshone Agency, Fort
Washakie, Wyo.
For rates, train schedules and partic-
ulars apply to any Ticket Agent of the
Chicago & North Western Ry., or c. A.
Cairns, G. P! & T. A., Chicago. 292
4
The Oakes times., 1917-08-02

Boys and Girls Club
Monthly meeting of Boys and Girls
Club will be held next Tuesday even
ing. Let every member be present.
Important business.
Aaron Wolfe, Leader.
The Oakes times., 1917-08-02

/. Mrs. Frank Hanson and two chill
.dren. who had been guests Of the Root
family, left Monday on return to their
home at Fargo.
The Holly chieftain., 1917-11-16


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The Holly chieftain., 1917-11-16
81 Believe This Stock a Good Buy''

N THESE WORDS JOHN W SPRINGER, PRE-
SIDENT or THE CONTINENTAL TRUST COM
PANY, PRESENT TREASURER AND PAST
PRESIDENT, FOR An 1IGHT-YEAR TERN,
OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL LIVE STOCK
ASSN, SPOKE HIS EST1MATE OF THE
STOCK OF THE 4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
rs YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

July 16, 1892.
Charles p. Adams went to Ottawa this
week.
Central Africa seems to be the only
place where Stanley is cordially received
He recently failed in his candidacy for
parliament.
California women are going to build a
palace of jelly and preserves at the Chi
cago Worlds Fair. Doubtless there will
always be jam in it.
Only $500 has been raised as a campaign
fund by the Prohibition party. This means
only five speeches from st. John instead of
thirty.
Tom McNeal is going to take the field
against Jerry Simpson. When Tom was
mayor of Medicine Lodge he supported
Jerry for marshal, and now look what's
come of it.
Dog Catcher Engle shot about fifty dogs
this afternoon
A Topeka woman took kitten to the
pound party" given at the Waits home
recently.
Cars will begin to run the Huntoon
and College avenue lines of the Rapid Tran
sit tomorrow. The West Tenth street line
will be complete in about ten days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
BIG STORE'TO JAIL
Dibble Grocery Employees Ar
rested for Sunday Work.
Mayor Had Told Them II
Would Be o. X. To Move.

| Ivan and D. NJ. Dibble, owners of
| the Dibble grocery, being moved from
III East Sixth street to 1918 East
Sixth street, their wives and Mrs
Bruce Mcfarland and fifty-four en-
/ ployes were arrested at O'Clock
Sunday afternoon and charged with
violating the Sunday labor law. The
names of all were placed on the blot
ter at the police station.
The company's new quarters were
ready last week and the Dibbles de-
cided to observe the time honored
custom by moving on Sunday SO as
not to interrupt business. D. NJ. Dbl
BILE, after remembering the Sunday
labor laws called on Mayor House and
asked if there would be any harm in
utilizing the Sabbath to transfer the
stock of goods to the new store. The
mayor didn't see any reason why it
couldn't be done.
Work was well under way Sunday
afternoon when Paul ]. Mcbride,
state labor commissioner, and Chief
Wilson, of the police force and win
dow trimming censor, appeared on
the scene and "pinched' the whole
aggregation. The employees and the
Dibbles were not taken to the police
station. Policemen, under direction
of Wilson, took the names of all those
present, and later transferred them to
the police docket. Mrs. Ivan Dibble,
Mrs. D. NJ. Dibble and Mrs. Bruce
MdCF dTldnu, WHO were present anu
doing their Bit in the way of help
ing here and there with advice and in
other ways were not spared.
The cops took their names, too.
Following the arrest" Ivan Dibble
grew speculative. He shut his eyes
and saw 1,001 Topekans calling up
early this morning and ordering ham
and eggs for breakfast. Then he said:
Report at midnight
The employees did. While the city
was getting it's usual Monday morning
nap the employees were moving the
stock. At o'clock the entire stock
was in its new quarters. The 1,0O1
Topekans who placed early morning
orders had them filed. At 7:45
o'clock this morning Ivan Dibble an
nounced:
Were going fine"
Those arrested Sunday will have
their hearing tomorrow. The penalty
provides a fine of from 50 to S25.
Nothing is said about the offenders
being placed with the chain gang on
the rock pile.
Those whose names appear on the
blotter include: L. E. Ditlor, L. c.
Petro, o. E. Fields, J. P. Stoneking,
H. L. Tillinghast, F. Bachelor. L. NJ.
Ritter, NJ. G. Montgomery, G: H. Hall,
H. B. Oehms, j. B. Hoag, NJ. Holman,
S. H. Dale, Bill Cowder, w. E. Bryant,
F. Switzerland, Cord Miller, Fred
Prosser, ]. P. Terrell, S. F. Buechner.
Paul Halterman, Walter Parks. D.
Smith, Bob Carson, H. c. Smith, Glen
Morehead, w. E. Schlichter, I. S.
Robertson, w. H. Lambeth, G. H. lib
bets, Charles Duff, Hugh Mueller Roy
Boast. w. H. Bohnsach, Ed King, N.
B. Shannon, I. NJ. Jeffrey, H. G..
Schlichter, Ralph Kittrell, Bert Hoag,
B. F. Logan, w. A. Montgomery, w.
A. Lawson, o. NJ. Fields, l.. E. Kidney
Vic Larson, J. E. Smelser, John Ceder-
berg, Adolph Johnson, ]. P. Rise, r.
M. Jones, s. Wagner, Vera Carter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
LIKE CRIPPLE CREEK
x. q. Professor Predicts Big Boom
for Baxter Springs, Kan.

Lawrence, Kan, July 16.-Like
Cripple Creek and probably destined
in the next few years to be the great
est zinc field in the world. That is
the way A. c. Terrill describes Baxter
Springs, Kan, and the new mining dis
trict that radiates out from Baxter
SPRINGS and runs over into Miami,
Okla, and joins with the older Jop-
lin district at Galena, Kan. Mr.. Ter
rilI is professor of mining engineer
ing iii the University of Kansas. lie
was born in the Cripple Creek district,
saw its birth and growth and has spent
twenty-five years in mining countries.
besides the years he gave to technical
training.
Except that liquor, gambling and
vice are not rampant, Baxter Springs
and the nearby parts of Cherokee
county Kansas, resembles Cripple
Creek in it's boom days. There's the
same excitement, the same turmoil,
the same lack of buildings to house
the rush of incomers and the same
musroom growth of mining OUTFITS
and shacks. 1 believe in a few years
'sas and northeast Oklahoma will be
as big thing for Kansas as the Won
derful oil development of the state
Last year Kansas mines produced
20 million dollars in wealth This
wear the output will be between so and
co million dollars and it will keep on
growing When the war is over and
prices drop to the old levels the new
field will keep on working for the
stuff they take out there reduces down
to about Is per cent zinc concen-
trates. while the famous Webb City
mines get only about per cent in
their milling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
LOSE Y. M. SUPPLIES
American Ship ''Kansan'' Carried
Consignment to U. S. Troops.

Part of the cargo of the American
ship Kansan, torpedoed July 8, con-
sisted of one of the earliest consign-
ments of supplies for the new Y. NJ.
G. A. buildings and tents that have
been erected in France for the use of
American troops. Sufficient hold
space to provide for these supplies
had been given to the association by
the French and Canada Steamship
company, which chartered the vessel.
In order to catch the sailing, five tons
of milk chocolate had been transport
ed by special truck from the factory
at Dorchester. Mass, and 10000 let
terheads with 100000 envelopes by
truck from Springfield, Mass. Other
Y. NJ. c. A. supplies which went down
with the Kansan were: 10000 pounds
of sugar, 500 dozen packages of bis
cults, 20 barrels of flour that cost SIG
a barrel, 10000 packages of chewing
gum, motor truck, a number of large
tents, 500 folding chairs, 10 folding
organs and 35 cases of athletic equip
ment valued at $500. The total con-
signment involved loss to the ma
tional war council of the Y. NJ c. A.
of supplies worth $4,000, which will
have to be duplicated at the earliest
possible hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
TO USE CALENDAR YEAR
Kansas p. q. c. Demands Reports to
December 81 Instead of June 30,

Kansas public utilities will be COM
PEELED to make reports to the state
commission for the calendar year in
stead of the fiscal year Under a
change in the old law, the commission
was authorized to direct the filing of
reports for calendar instead of fiscal
years.
Practically all public utilities keep
records based on the fiscal vear-from
June 80 to June 80. The commission
however, will require reports and
statements for the calendar year end
ing December 81. Under the new or
der reports Tor the current year will
not be made until some time next win
ter while the new reports will cover
only business during the calendar
months of 1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
HIS PLAN is GROWING
Rev. Goodwin Rapidly Becoming Billy
Sunday of the Middle West.

Receiving requests from all over the
state and the western sections of the
country, as well as being lecturer"
to some of the largest audiences of
Topeka "non-church goers," is the
popularity now being enjoyed by w.
A. Goodwin, unordained preacher of
North Topeka, who has been conduct
ing services in the old North Topeka
Congregational church for the last
two months. His stand, mo creed, no
members and no doctrines has
spread all over the western states and
now other sections of the country are
trying to get him to open a laboring
mans church in their districts.
During Godwin's stay in Topeka he
has seen his followers leap from only
a handful to more than 400 at each
service, exercises being held each
night, except Saturday. The former
mon churchgoers'' have become fol-
lowers of Christ, in the truest sense,
ing man has become really interested
in religious work that has been freed
from the shackles of creed and de-
nomination, he believes.
According to the mon churchgoers"
Godwin's popularity has grown from
his unfearing Billy Sunday methods of
attack on everything ..un-Christ-like'
whether it be found in the gutter or
in the so called church of God, where
"pampered sons of rich and poor are
held from true learning by artificial
beliefs and creeds set I'D by a few
sanctim onious ministers of the Cos
pei" His popularity is only second to
Billy Sunday and he is now the lead
ing figure in the North Topeka work.
ing. people.
His favorite theme is that of the
modern" church, where everything is
of "semi-religious and semi-sociaP
nature.
ANY denomination of Christianity"
Goodwin states, headed by a creed,
which not half the members know
and which the other half do not be-
lieve, is not the Church of Christ, nor
is it any church for Christian