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The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15
Fifty Million Dollars Said to
be Value Of Field Crops
and Garden Truck Lost
COLORADO NERVOUS

Minneapolis, MINI, Sept. 10.-Mil-
lions of dollars damage was done to
the corn crop and to late garden truck
in Minnesota, North Dakota, northern
Iowa and northern Wisconsin by a
frost last night, according to reports
received today by the United States
weather bureau. This is the earliest
killing frost known in the official his
tory of weather in the Northwest, COW
ering period of forty-five years, and
it lacks two days of being a month
earlier than the average arrival cover
ing that number of years, which is
October 8.
Professor Wilson, chief of the exten-
sion division Of the state agricultural
college from reports received, estimates
frost damage to the Minnesota corn
crop at $50,000,OO0. This is loss of
one-half, as the crop has been value /
at $1OO,0O0,OOO.
Professor Wilson bases his estimate
on reports received by telephone from
farmers in Redwood and Olmsted, coun-
ties, which are in the second tier from
the southern boundary of the state and
form the best basis for estimates of
frost damage in the Minnesota corn
belt. If frost kills in these counties
it is very good indication, that the
entire corn section has suffered. His
H.
that the temperature was down TO So
Loss 70 Gardens oonpasts
II talked with great msny farm
ers during the fair from all sections Of
the state" Mr.. Wilson said, "and
their state ments showed that corn
needed two to three weeks before it
would be cut of frost danger"
Damage 20 garden truck is confined
to melons, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash
and pumpkins, but to these it is fear
the less will be practically complete
About nalf the tomato and melon
crops have teen harvested and about
one-third of the cucumber crop.
Loss If :lis latter crop will fall
heavily on the big picking companies
Of th" country which look to Mime.
sofa and Wisconsin for the cream of
their law product. 1t will mean a biz
shortage in cucumber pickles uf all
kinds and high prices. The tomato
pack will also be cut down, so far as
the northwest is concerned, but this
crop for canning purposes is grown in
the east.
1t is the home gardner who will
feel the tomato loss the heaviest.
The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15
An Auto Driven By Editor Frost Turns
Turtle Three Times. Henry Mertens
and Mrs. Frost are Injured
BRAKES PROVED INADEQUATE

the car paused on shelf below the
road long enough SO that Mr.. Hasley
and Mr.. Frost fought their way out
from under it. AS they tried to get
Mrs. Frost out, the car started rolling
again and turned over twice more as it
crashed down the hill, finally landing
on the railroad tracks fifty feet below
the road. When Mr.. Frost and Mr..
Hasley picked up Mrs. Frost and Mr..
Mertens from the wreckage they were
both conscious but suffering excruciat-
ing pain. Mr.. Hasley ran two miles to
Redstone to a telephone and called DIR.
Tubbs at Carbondale who set out for
the scene of the accident in his motor
car at once, arriving there at clock.
He gave first aid treatment and then
there was another wait until the Mar
BILE train came from Carbondale to take
on board the injured. The Grande
train was held nearly an hour and
half at Carbondale so that the accident
victims could be brought ON to Glen
wood.
r The ear, which was s-New Oakland
"Six,' not having been run but 1,5OO
miles, was badly wrecked.
An auto party from the Hotel Colo
RADIO consisting of Henry Russell Wray,
, w. B. Rogers and General Francis
King Carey, were the first to arrive at
the scene and they placed their big
, touring car at the disposal of the in
jured, but DR.. Tubbs insisted on train
conveyance, especially for Mr.. Mertens.
AS the Post goes to press Mr.. Mer-
tens condition is grave. He is not
strong physically and the shock to him
was very severe. Mrs. Frost, who is
an exceptionally rugged and heal thy
young woman, rallied splendidly from
the shock and the setting of her brok-
en- ribs, and is making quick recov-
cry
| LATER-Mr. Mertens passed away
at l:3o yesterday CFriday) afternoon.
Mrs. Frost is resting nicely with a
good chance for her recovery.
The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15
Potatoes and Beans Affected

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 1O-Heavy
frost in northern Wisconsin has dam
aged potato, corn and bean crops to a
great extent. Although frost has done
some damage in the extreme northern
wisconsin previous to Sunday night,
the potato and corn country had not
been touched until the cold blast of
this recent wave struck near Plainfeld,
Wausau, Lacrosse and EauClaire.
From Plainfield comes the repo It
that the first heavy frost of the season
had killed corn, potatoes, buckwheat
and garden truck. At Wausau the
freeze was heavy enough to crust water
with half an inch of ice, Practically
no corn had matured and great dam.
age was done to late potatoes and Gu.
cumber fields and beans and other
garden truck.
4 The corn Of this locality will be good
only for silage. At Eaustace the mer.
curry dropped one degree below freez.
ing and took heavy toll, all imms.
ture crops being hit, including corn
late potatoes and melons.
Second Freeze Prsddcted
Some growers estimate half the corr
gone as result Of Sundays freeze
and If more comes, Is predicted,
1t will be q serious blow to farmer,
The tobacco crop around Beloit va,
the heaviest sufferer in Rock county
whore large fields were prematurely
turned brown. A drop Of IS degree
was reported in the vicinity Of Spring
Green, IN the western part Il the stats
J. W. Hicks, president Of the wiscon
sin Potato Growers association, wAs
has just returned from = eonferenet
The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15
Local Board Has Orders to
Supply Nineteen Men for
CanpFunston Next Week
FIRST SELECTION MADE

The local army board has received
word that forty per cent of Garfield
county's quota of soldier conseripts
must appear at the county clerks Of
flee next Tuesday evening and be i'll
readiness to leave for Fort Funston OH
Wednesdays 3 Rio Grande No. l6.
The number necessary to fill the
quota is nineteen men and government
orders for transportation, meal tickets
and all necessary expense while IN
route have already been provided.
Vincent Ward and Sander Lundgren
both of Glenwood, have already gone
forward, they being in the first five
per cent call. The other nineteen mer
called for next Tuesday are:
Judge Coakley, Silt
John Herbert Brosius, Rifle.
Fred Miller, Silt.
John Garrett Hooker, Rifle.
Richard McGuirk, Jr., Glenwood.
Leslie Harvey Patch, New Castle.
George Albert Mullen, Rifle.
Oscar Conrad Murphy, Rio Blanco.
Donald N. Bowman, Carbondale.
Orvill w. Chambers, Carbondale.
Claude N. Dorrell, Rifle.
Stephen Gall, Carboudsle.
Henry g. Nyser, DeBeque.
Jay F. Farmer, Atehee.
Geo. W. Jones, Highmere.
Richard Herd, Kansas City.
Leon L. Wright, Meeker.
Charles Rich, New Castle.
Walter Korn, Glenwood.
Alts9nstDo
Mark King, dlsnwood.
E. B. Everett, Jr., 0lenwood.
VIM. O. Hsmmerieh, Glenwood
Jos. O. Blossom, Rifle. :
Noah Often, Raven.
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The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15

Cd papsn fse sa,s q. sA,s sa.es.
The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15
AT rn Ho7n pnsvu

r. T. DeFoor Of Eagle; Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Borstner, Aspen; Mr.. and Nrs.
ohas. @. King, Desver; J. F. Riddl1,
Of the Rock Island railway, Denver;
J. T. slattsry, superintendent Of the D.
4 r. g., saiida, A. ". Gordsn, Of the
Onion Pseifis railroad, CAieaeo; Henry
Aertsns, the, Aasawars nsr Of Marble;
Glen Silver, Tie Laval espsratse nAA
from eaHda, Guy WsatAsriy, s0s.
The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15

with Food Administrator Hoover, says
that the heavy frost predicted will
mean loss of 25 per cent in the po.
tato crop of Wisconsin, or total Of
100000 bushels out of the 4O, 600, 900
expected this year.
The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15

smiths, and harness makers Recruit
ing cards and letters explaining the
conditions of enlistment will be fur
nished by the district forester at Den
yer, Colorado, or by the forester at
Washington. Applicants desiring fur
ther information are urged to consult
any nearby forest officer.
The Glenwood post., 1917-09-15

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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09

that the output of this company alone would
give LOAF day to 100000 people or to
more than the inhabitants of New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland
and Detroit combined 1t handles every day
IN the neighborhood of 175,OO0 bushels of
wheat, or, at twenty-five bushels per acre,
as much as you could raise on a 7OOO-acre
wheat field In addition to its flour output,
this mill produces about 5000 barrels OF
rye and corn-meal
The mills are exceedingly clean Before
starting on my trip put on buster and
mller's cap, but the dust was not thick, and
what there was seemed to be carried away
by dust-catching machines scattered here
and there throughout the mill. We first
went to the top of the building The wheat
from the elevators is brought here on end
less belt conveyors, and it goes through the
different processes and departments by gray
ity.i Each individual lot of wheat is exam
ined by experts and it is tested again and
again on its way through the mill.
The first processes are those of cleaning
the wheat The grain is passed through,
machines which take out every bit of straw
and remove the oats and other seeds. This,
is done as the wheat is carried along by fam
ming and vacuum processes. The grains are
secured and cleaned again and again, The
kernels are then broken four or five times
and the flour removed, The wheat is put
into great boilers which are shaking cylin-
ders standing upright. Each OF these is
about eight feet high, and four times as big
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09

top run three strands of barbed wire, SO
sharp that it would be impossible to climb
over them. At all the entrances soldiers
march up and down with guns on their
shoulders, and they have instructions to
shoot any one who attempts to get in with
out pass. The passes have the photo
graphs of the men to whom they have been
issued, and. this is so OF the officials as we'll
as the common laborers Even the presi-
dents OF the various companies cannot get
into their own mills unless they show their
passes. The danger of having strangers in
the mills or those not thoroughly vouch-
safed for is that fire might be started or
an explosion occur which would wreck the
great plants. The machinery might be
ruined by international action, or poison put
into the food supply. The millers as we'll as
the government are thoroughly alive to the
necessity of care and every precaution is
taken.
The largest mill i'll Minneapolis means the
largest mill in the world, and the one | Wis
tied today belongs to a company which
grings out over $4,000 barrels OF flour every
twenty-four hours. 1t takes about half a
pound of flour to make loaf of bread. so
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09

AS tar as we can tell, any mixture or
OF bread means just that much loss of food
value. The Germans thought they could re-
duce the wheat contents of their loaves.
They put in more of the bran, but it brought
disease to the old and to the children, and
the result was loss of health and eff
cheney. England also has tried it, using IS
per cent wheat flour. 1t was a failure. They
experimental in Belgium in making the
flour OF the whole wheat berry. The result
was ricketts, and stomach trouble and good
deal Of tuberculosis The vitality of the
people got SO low under the whole wheat
ration that it had to be changed and an ad-
dltional, specially balanced ration had to be
issued for the children and the aged at cost
OF more than million dollars month.
This was the experience of the Belgian re-
lief committee"
What are the mllers doing to meet the
great need for flour and to relieve the food
shortage | asked. Mr.. Edgar replied:
AS soon as war was declared the milling
interests came together and organized to
meet these questions and to aid the gov
crnment in any way possible. They divid.
ed the country up into eight natural divis-
ions and selected one man to represent, or
ganize and act for his division. The work
OF the organization was to be in touch with
the food commission at Washington. There
was great meeting Of all the millers, and
they agreed that during the war they would
take only normal profits and that they
would try to prevent speculation of any
kind. The basis for the price of flour is the
actual cost of the wheat, plus the small
profit justified for turning the wheat into
flour. The millers further agreed to leave
their books open to the food administra-
tor at all times
In the eight divisions to which Mr.. Edgar
referred there are $40 flour mills, with a
daily capacity of 73O,657 barrels of flour.
That would make over 226,OOO,OOO loaves Of
bread, or enough to give every day, two
loaves to every man, woman and child in
the United States.
| asked one Of the mlers here as to the
price of flour, and how high it would 60
He said:
That would be hard to say In other
wars it has gone as high as $4.25, which was
the average Liverpool price during the war
OF 1872. Just after the civil war it reached
S2.l6, and in the second year of the Cr-
mean war it rose to S234 bushel OF
course if the food administration is sue
cessful in regulating the price we shall be
saved from excessive boarding and specu-
lation on the part OF the growers. The
real food dictator of America is the farmer
On him depends the supply and the price.
and just now, when all industries and man
ufacturers are asked to take only nomi-
nal profit, he will have to fall into line.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09
THE O. REATEST
OF UNCLE SANS
TASKS IN WIN
MING THE w AR
Our National Flour Barrel and How Is Fed-The Food
Supplies Of the Allies-Bread for Million Troops-Our
Largest Milling City-Experiments With War Bread-Fx
ing the Prices-The Real Food Dictator

around as hogshead The broken grains
come into these boilers and pass over SER
les OF sleves, through which the flour falls.
Eight different kinds of meal are separated
in each bolter. The first sitting is through
a mesh of eighteen holes to the square inch
This yields bran and coarse middlings.
The next sieve over which the meal passes
has perhaps thirty holes to the square inch.
and the meal from this is not SO coarse. The
meal then passes through sleeves of forty.
seventy and eighty-six holes, and is finally
put through one with lo4 holes to the inch
My guide through the mill had in his hip
pocket little steel trowel much like that
with which the grazier presses down his
putty. He rubbed this over the flour to
smooth 1T and to show me its texture The
best flour was not white, but Of a rich ivory
color, and the grains were so close together
that it looked like a cream enamel paint.
There are three grades of flour made here.
and they all have different hues The second
grade is a lighter yellow and the third red
dish brown. Pure white flour is made BY
bleaching process which is said to impair
its healthfulness.
All of the work is done by electricity.
The machinery of milling is simple and no.
difficult to understand A great mill con,
sists OF many small units Of the same kind,
and the larger the mill the more units Their.
are. They have all kinds of labor-savinc
machines, and the whole process is largely
automatic
1f1rir ~.
the laboratory and special bakery This
company has eight mills, and every two
hours samples from each of them are
brought here to be analysed as to their food
contents and nutrient values. The flour
passes through the chemical laboratory and
the physical laboratory and is finally made
into half-pound loaves. The baking il
done Just as in any of the bakeries of the
United States, and the loaves are cut and
examined as to texture, taste and color.
The Minneapolis millers are all making
experiments and tests as to flour and meal
for the Army. They make mixtures of corn
flour and wheat flour and test the bread
made therefrom as to food Galleries and
keeping qualities. Not long ago some bread
was sent from here to San Francisco and
1t arrived as moist as when it came out of
the oven. A recent test was made with bar
ley flour, III which 200 barrels were baked
into experimental loaves.
| have had talk here with Mr.. William
Z. Edgar, the editor of the Northwestern
Miller Mr.. Edgar is one of the chief au-
thorlties on the wheat situation. He took
a mlllion-dollar cargo of wheat donated by
the millers of Minneapolis, to Belgium in
the first year of the war, and he is thorough
ly abreast with the demands of the times.
asked him as to the possibility of finding
substitute for wheat bread Said he:
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09

100000 bushels for export. This would
clean up every bushel of wheat produced
this year and empty the bins in every ele.
vator in the country. And yet Mr.. Hoover
says we must have no less than 225,0OO,OOO
bushels for export to France.
Come with me through the great mills
which are handling our wheat crop. Mime
apolis is the largest flour city in the world.
1t is one OF the leading grain markets in the
country, and it stands at the top of the list
as the greatest primary wheat market OH
the globe. Since 1897 the annual output OF
It's mills has exceeded 100000 barrels and
Its flour is known all over the world The
president of one of the largest mills here told
me OF an incident that took place during the
Russo japanese war A number of Japanese
officers were celebrating the victory of the
battle of Mukden and an American army
officer who was present at the banquet re-
marked upon the excellence of the bread.
Using the one or two words of Japanese
that he knew he said that it was "chi ban" or.
number one. 1t ought to be, replied the
Japanese general, with a bow. at is made
captured it from the Russians"
l took walk today through the milling
district OF Minneapolis. All of the flour mills
are huddled together about the falls of St.
Anthony, only six blocks from the business
part OF the city. Here the Mississippi river
makes drop of fortyeight feet, as it rolls
on down toward the gulf. The water is
conducted into great turbines, and altogether
1t DEVELOPS about 10000 horsepower. This
is almost all used for the mills and the falls
themselves are nearly dry, They have been
covered with planks to prevent the rocks
from wearing away, and the water pours
over the boards rather than stone. The
milling business has grown SO rapidly that
there is not enough water to furnish the
power, and an even greater power is being
developed by steam
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09

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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09

This milling district consists of enormous
buildings OF limestone rising to height of
100 to 200 feet Railroad tracks on trestles
run here and there, high above the ground
and the trains bring the wheat to the yerv
doors OF the mills. In one large establish
ment the tracks go right intoSthe buildings.
and the flour is loaded on the trains before
1t leaves the mill. There are a number of
elevators connected with the mills and the
great terminal elevators rise high above the
city IN every direction, Minneapolis has
about fifty OF these great grain bins with a
combined capacity of 100000 bushels.
They are chockful OF wheat A single one
contains 100000 bushels A steady stream
OF gram flows out of it on endless belt con-
veyors at the rate of 10000 bushels per hour
or 10000 per day. The conveyors carry
the wheat through tunnels to the mills. and
1t does not stop until it comes out as flour
and is loaded on the cars to be sent TO the.
consumer.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09

As walked about through the mills
found men on guard everywhere All of
the buildings are as carefully protected as #
they were munitions plants. AS soon as we
entered the war the government erected
fence of wire, eight or ten feet high. about
the milling district, and it has kept soldiers
there day and night. The fence is Of smooth
woven wire OF network so fine that a
mouse could not squeeze through it, and it
reaches high above your head Along the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09
FEEDING THE WORLD
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI.

o AM at the nozzle OF the
N great grain funnel of the
Vi northwest. Minneapolis IS
III the wheat and flour center
" of the world, and in our task
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09

But let us take a look into our national
flour barrel and see where these enormous
supplies are to be found. Even with the
bumper crop of 1915, which left surplus
of 164,OOO,OO0 bushels to be added to the
1916 crop, we had on hand last March less
than enough to supply our own yearly need
Of 5OOOO0OOO bushels. The great shipments
abroad and the amount saved for seed left
us only 464,OO0,0O0 bushels. and before the
crop of 1917 became available Uncle Sam
had to scrape the last bits of flour dust from
the bottom of his barrel The official es.
innate for the crop of 1917 is placed at o53-
100000 bushels, or only l53.OO0OOO bushels
more than we usually consume here at home
Taking out the lOO,OOO,OO0 bushels neces-
sary for seed, we should have left only 49,
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-06-15
Special Announcement.

On Friday evening, June 18th, 1 will
open the Cozy Theatre with Jack s
Shanty" as the opening play. This is one
OF the most fascinating photoplays bear
Ing on western life that has been
released this season.
Next weeks program will consist of
q number of special treats for theatre
goers, such as ''The Bohemian Girl, !"
"Airship Fugitives," my Ladies
Slipper, and other equally interesting
pictures.
l will make a speciality of showing
first'class pictures, and have made ar
rangements with five leading picture
exchange to furnish me with their lat
est and best productions.
Watch this space in next weeks is
sue of this paper for the latest motion
picture news. Popular prices S and 10
cents unless otherwise announced.
Matinee at 2:3O Saturday afternoon
Evening programs at 7:45 and 9:15.
Ladies and children free on opening
night.
J, C.. MALEK.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-06-15
Some Fisherman.

N. B. Wheeler, although unable to
do any fishing with rod and reel, has
since his arrival from California done
some good fishing with pen and sue.
ceeded in securing fine shipment of
brook trout and will in few days se-
cure car of fish which will be distribu;
ted in the Turkey river. Although not
expecting many bites (excepting under
his hst) from these fish, hopes all the
good fishermen will, later on, make q
good catch. Observe the law by re-S
turning all under size to the water
again. BY this means we will keep
our streams well stocked. An eagle
eye will be kept on all who are using
seines. Keep them out and we will all
have fine sport with rod and reel. Shall
work for a good supply every season
while on earth.
N. B. w,
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-06-15
Howard County Oversubscribes Liberty
Bond Apportionment.

AS we go to press before all the sub.
scriptions for Liberty Bonds in the
County are reported, it is impossible to
give the exact amount subscribed, but
S. A. Converse, president Of the coun-
ty bankers committee, says that if all
the banks of the county send in the
subscriptions they report to him, they
will total over $500, ,OOO The appor.
tionment Tor Howard County was $780,
900, this or both population and bank
resource basis.
Cresco, through its banks and citi-
zens, will take care Of $220, 900 Of the
total amount, a per capita subscription
of about $65.