The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-09-27
Drafted Men Of Barnes County
Are Given a Send-0f PARTY

Inc City OF Valley City through the
Commercial club desired to give the
second installment of the drafted men
from Barnes county who left for Camp
Dodge September 10, over the 500
line, a social time before they left
to let them know that the: people Of
this city were interested in their wei
fare and to bid them Gods peed. Ac-
cordingly through Secretary 1. j. Moe
arran gements were made with the Con-
gregational Guild to serve banquet
to them and q few guests at noon on
Wednesday. There are A to 60 from
this county at this time and 80 of them
were at the banquet, 43 of them leav-
ing in the evening and the other one
joining the contingent in Iowa.
After prayer. by Rev. w. c. Lyon
the banquet was served at about 1915;
besides the drafted men those present
were Mayor I. j. Moe, who presided
and acted as POSTMASTER, Major John
D. Black and Gen. Henry Beal, two
soldiers of the Civil war, Gen. A. P.
Peake. former acknowledgement of the
state, Capt. D. S. Richie, commander
Of Company G, Capt T. S. Henry, COM
mander Of the Headquarters company
and the First Regiment band, DR.. E. A.
Pray, Sheriff Kelly and Auditor C. w.
Nelson, exemption board for Barnes
county, Rev. w. c.. Lyon and Hon.
Burl Carr, representative from the
Fifteenth district.
The occasion was perhaps, in many
respects, more impressive than social,
although the idea was to giveiH.'our
boys" a good time, yet the air was
surcharged with sadness because these
young men who had been called on to
enlist for service in the great national
army were leaving their homes and
loved ones for how long and where
none knew-they only knew that they
were going somewhere in this country
or in foreign lands to do their bit for
the greatest country on earth. Let us
hope that they will not 60 beyond the
confines of the United States and that
they will return to their homes very
soon. If it should be their lot to have
to 20 into action for the honor of the
worlds democracy we know that each
and every one will do their best.
Mayor Moe called upon Major John
D. Black as the first speaker on the
after dinner menu of speeches. The
major is one of the vast army of pa
triots who went into the army in the
great civil war and knew something of
what patriotism and service meant,
and gave the boys fine talk along
these lines.
Capt. D. S. Richie was next on the
list and in his usual snappy manner,
gave the boys some sound and valu-
able advice, his subject being keep
clean" Mr.. Richie wants not only
the men of his own company to keep
clean but he urged the boys who are
joining the national army to do the
! same-clean manhood is what counts
in the army as we'll as in every day
life
DR.. Pray, examining physician for
the draft board, had the ladies exclud-
| ed from the meeting at this time, and
after the doors were closed delivered
an able and professional talk on n.y.
geine and matters of interest to the
men along the lines of keeping them
selves clean physically and morally:
1t was fine talk and the men listened
to him with much attention and we be-
lieve will profit by his advice and
kindly interest taken by the doctor In
their welfare.
Rev. w. C. Lyon followed by read
ing letter from father to soldier
! son and Mrs. Lyon concluded the pro-
gram with recital on the new pipe
organ. The gathering then disbanded
and those present exchanged greetings
aid good wishes.
Boys Enjoy Social Concert
| At three in the afternoon the young
drafted men were again treated to a
social hour in Company G armory at
which function many business men of
the town were present. The First Reg
/ iment band gave very pleasing con-
cert under the able leadership of Band
Master w. Walter Mcdonald. The
First Regiment band is coming to the
front very rapidly under Mr.. McDon-
AIDS leadership and the entire pro-
gram was much enjoyed. Sandwiched
in between the band numbers were a
number of songs by the famous quar-
tet of Company G. We are not exag-
gerating when we say that we would
sooner hear this quartet than any of
the outside quartets that have visited
the city for some time. Maybe be-
cause they are home boys our ]udg-
ment may be Overdrawn, nevertheless
they are exceptionally good and re-
ceived repeated encOres. Their voices
and the generous manner in which
they use them are going to while away
many hours for Company G.. 1t was
very pleasing hour and those present
to greet the embroyo soldiers en- oyed
it to the limit. When the band played
"Auld Lang Syne," the audience rose
and enthusiastically sang the song to
the music of the band.
| At $50 Company G headed by the
First Regiment band escorted the
drafted men to the street car and as
the car left for the 500 for the boys
to entrain they received a rousing
send-off.
Au revoir, and may you soon return
home, boys.
Harry T. H. Davidson and Arthur
cfoti tho