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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
THE UNFORTUNATE SMALL TOWN

Typhoid fever is our most accurate
indicator of unsanitary conditions. Its
(, prevalence shows, more clearly than
I, any other single thing, that something
lis wrong in the public health control
of the community.
It is sort of tradition that country
districts are especially healthful. They
i; are not. No community which de-
ponds upon natural means" of water
supply and sewage disposal can be
, safe. This is frequently shown in re-
sorts and summer camps even in most
isolated places.
The government mortuary figures
show that the country has more ty
phoid deaths than cities.
These same figures also show that
small towns are less healthful and
more insanitary than actual rural
communities. -
These towns of from several hun
dred to few thousand have the con
gestion of people without any of the
safeguards thrown about such con.
gestion of people without any of the
safeguards thrown about such con.
gestion in cities. There is no pro.
tected water supply; no sewer system :
no public health supervision. Privy
vaults and private wells cannot exist
In the same general community with
out danger of trouble.
With all of the elements which may
bring about sanitary explosions
privy vaults, shallow wells, fly breed
ing manure piles, nonresident garbage
disposal-these small towns require
more competent public health super.
vision than any other communities.
Generally, however. the health off,
Ger isSa mere name. The general tend.
ency is to trust to luck-and the luck
is often miserable.
1t is unfortunate that calamity does
not always follow violation of rules of
health. There is chance that one
may do a fool thing and avoid the
penalty and the gambling instinct is
strong among us.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
WEATHER REPORT
Summary for JuIv7

Total precipitation for July 1917,
81 of an inch.
Total precipitation for July 1916,
4.28 Of an inch. s
Total precipitation for July 1916.
118 of an inch.
Total precipitation for July 1914,
397 of an inch.
The total precipitation Of the four
months, April, May, June and July, Of
the last four years has been as fol-.
lows:
1914-13O6 inches.
! 1915-1348 inches.
1916-12.92 inches.
1917-5.03 inches.
The normal precipitation for the
four months is 1875 inches.
The thermometer registered 80 de-
grees, II days during July, 1917, and
SO degrees for five days. The high
est temperature for the month was
112 on the .29th. The highest temper
ature for July, 1915, was 81, for 1915
49, and for 1914, 81.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
If YOU HAVE A BABY

| Battle the baby in cool water at least
once day in hot weather. II it has
been perspiring, dry carefully before
bathing. If it has prickly heat, put q
teaspoonful of bicarbonate Of soda in
the bath. Babies with prickly heat
may have been dressed or covered too
warmly.
1t the baby is sick, stop feeding it al
together Give it water. instead, and
see the doctor at once. II the doctor
orders barley-water or rice-water to
be added to the milk, or given alone, it
should be carefully prepared. For bar.
ley-water, buy barley-four. It is
cheaper and easier to use Take tea
spoonful to cup of water. Stir the
barley -four into paste with a little
cold water and stir this paste into
Dolllng water. It should cook in
double boiler at least Is minutes after
the water in the under pot has come to
boil. Strain through clean, thinn
cheese-cloth, land cool in pitcher or
other vessel,
Rlce-water is prepared by using a
tablespoonful of rice to a cup of water.
wash the rice in cold water until
clean. 1t should cook three hours in
double boiler. Strain off the water
and use. The rice which is left is
good food for the older children.
fTesn air is most important for the
DaDy IN summer. Keep it out in cool,
snaoy places as much as possible.
Keep the bedroom windows wide open
at night. s->-
Do not take the baby on long ex-
curslons for the day, bringing 1t home
!ate at night. Remember, regular
ieedlng, sleep, fresh air care of all
foods, plenty of cool boiled water to
drink, clean, dry clothes to wear, cool
oaths, and the doctor when the baby is
SICK, will save the baby during tho
summer months.
Remember, upon the health and
strength of the babies the glory and
greatness of our nation depand.
Mothers! do you realize that the
health, strength and goodness OF your
boys and girls are almost entirely in
your hands? If your babies are
brought up properly, and from baby
hood are taught the principles Of
health, and truth, and honor. twill
make us nation of healthy, clean men
and women, with clean homes and hon.
est hearts.
Free Pamphlet on Care Of the aahv
A booklet upon the care of the baby
may be obtained free upon application
TO the Public Health Laboratoriea.
University, North Dakota.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Manitoba Free Press: We Canad
ians have had during the last centur!
our little differences with our kins
men south Of the line. We have hat
to settle boundaries and fsherie!
questions, and have had a few small
passages on the question of trade. W.
have had to repudiate certain plat
form effuhions and partisan blither
ings of "annaxationists.'
But for more than 100 years Amer
leans and Canadians have lived side
by side on the best of terms. For q
century we have been establishing
by degrees a national proof of the
maxim that "blood is thicker thar
water" Our popular ideals, our es
sential motives, the fundamental prin
ciples of our national philosophers
have been notably similar.
When, after three years of waiting,
the American people joined us in the
struggle for the liberty of the world
there went a thrill to the hearts OF
Canadians everywhere at the thought
that peoples of one blood, of one
tongue, OF one ancestral tradition, and
OF one vision for the: future, had at
last come shoulder to shoulder in the
line of resistance to autocratic domin.
ance and barbarous militarism. But
Canadians would prove themselves I'M
worthy of their noble lineage if in the
hour that has just struck they receiy.
ed larger inspiration than mere
thrill of satisfaction of seeing "Old
Glory and the Union Jack" waving
together in the smoke of battle.
s Ultimately the Anglo-Saxon peoples
of the world will be one again in the
matters that really count in things of
the spirit. Time alone will reveal the
terms and the exact nature of this
spiritual union. But no accident of ma
t1onal boundaries, no misfortunes of
diplomacy, no commercial misunder.
standing will stop the drift of the
years. And for us Canadians. who
are the national and, in many WAYS.
psyc pathological link between America
and Great Britain, the days immedi-
ately to come are heavy with obliga-
ton. 1t will be for us to capitalize
the stand taken by President Wilson
and his people, to the end that bonds
may be drawn more tightly about us
all as race.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
Welded At PlNcREE

A wedding of interest to many in
valley City occurred at Pingree last
Monday, when Miss Emma Riebe be
came the bride of Kriss Reitler, both
parties OF Pingree. The bride is sis
ter OF Miss Evelyn Riebe, of the ar,
department of the Normal and has also
attended the school here. She has af
ten visited here and has many friends
to wish her happiness. They will
make their home in Pingree,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
PLAY THE GAME

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Play the game! Play the game!
For the games a tug.o-war:
And to win-that's the aim,
we all are fighting for.
Hold EN- firm! Hold 'em fast!
II We yield, ours the shame!
Till we triumph at last.
Play the game! Play the game!
That was Washington's way;
That was Marion's boast,
And Decatur's that day
OF the Barbarry coast!
Sound the tattoo of drums!
Let the shrill fife acclaim!
Until victory comes,
Play the game! Play the game!
Girdle up! Buckle to!
Never quail, never quit!
Show 'em what we can do
With our stanch Yankee grit!
With don't care a-slam
] For reward or for fame,
Just for old Uncle Sam.
Play the game! Play the game!
Clinton Scotland in the Vigilantes
-H-n-
OUT THERE!
Somewhere, Out There, he is lust a
boy, that's all
daughter sparkled in his eye-he was
always singing!)
Just boy who answered when he
heard his country call;
Somewhere Out There he is-how nv
thoughts go winging!)
Ready to do or dare,
Qike sunlight was his hair!)
Just boy, smiling boy,
Somewhere Out There.
Idle my wheel, today, hushed is nv
spinning
(Ah, but his eyes were blue-blue as
the sea!)
Somewhere Out There he is-Losing
or winning?
(Boy with the carefree heart. come
back to me!)
Blood-red the lannon's flare,
(God, can you hear my prayer?)
Keep him, my boy, from harm
Somewhere, Out There!
Margaret E. Langster, Jr.. in
Christian Herald.
-A-a--
Many heart is hungry, starving,
For a little word OF love;
Speak it then, and as the sunshine
Gilds the lofty peaks above.
So the joy of those who hear it
Sends its radiance down 1ife's NAV
And the world is brighter, better,
For the loving words we say.
Loving words will cost us little,
AS along through life we go;
Let us, then, make others happy,
II you love them, tell them so.
-Eben E. Rexford.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
SLACKERS Alloy!

Duluth Herald: II would fight to
protect this country, but would not
fight in Europe"
When you hear man talking that
way, you are safe in setting him down
as Stacker, hypocrite and a liar.
If the Germans were invading the
United States, and a general call to
arms for offense were made, the man
that talks that way would be taking to
the tall timbers so fast you could
play checkers on his coat-tails.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Matter of the Estate of OLE
Fremberg, Deceased:
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, Nels Olson, executor of the las1
will of Ole Fremberg, late of the town
snip OF Grand Prairie, in the county O,
Barnes and state of North Dakota de-
ceased, to the creditors of, and all ner
sons having claims against said de-
ceased, to exhibit them with the niece
sary vouchers, within six months ar,
er the first publication of this notice
to said executor at the office of A p
Paulson, his attorney, in the city OF
valley City, in said Barnes county
Dated July 18th A. D. 1917.
NELS OLSON,
A. P. PAULsoN, u'o''
Attorney at Law
Valley City, N. D.
First publication on the 18th dav of
July A. D. 1917. ~ -
tf1rst Pub. July 10, last pub. Aug 81
Times-Record want ads bring resulte
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

Manchester Union: When it comes
to question of soaking the producer
and the consumer and letting the spec-
ulator get away with his graft, we are
conscientious objector and we don't
care who knows it.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

Bess NJ Wilson in the Redwood
Falls, Mimi, Gazette: The editor OF
the Gazette is as anxious as any wom-
an in the state that the women OF Min
nesota should be given the right of
equal suffrage. However, wo do not
believe that the present is propitious
time for urging that right upon an al
ready overworked president and con-
gress. Let us, rather, cease all pres
ent effort toward this end, turning in
stead our whole massed energy and
time toward aiding in the winning OF
this war, which so engrosses the ma.
tons time and resources. Prove our
selves to be the equal of men in this
great event before which all else pales,
and when the noise of battle has clear
ed away, the vote will come to Amer
lean women as it will come to Eng
land. Men are looking with strong
disfavor upon any movement or re-
form which abstracts attention from
the tremendous problem given the ma
ton to solve, and picketing, parades
and resolutions advertising the equal
suffrage campaign only serve to antag,
onize those whom they should interest.
"Votes for women" is trivial in the
present crisis, compared to work OF
wonderland the work of the present
is the best possible argument for the
vote of the future.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
WHAT CAM THIS MEAN?

Park Rapids, Mimi, Journal: News.
paper reports indicate that members
of the l. w. w. in North Dakota have
threatened to burn the wheat fields if
their wage demand is not agreed to.
There are too many telephone poles in
North Dakota to have this threat car.
ried very far,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
HoWDYEMEA.N "HoPES?"

Devils Lake Journal: Major Han
ley has resigned his commission in the
new Second regiment and will con-
tinue to hold his job as judge of the
district court in the Morton county dis
trict. A great many people were in
hopes that the judge would go to war.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
TO TEST GASOLINE

A gasoline expert says the following
simple test is excellent for determin.
ing the quality of gasoline: Place a
few drops of the fluid on white paper.
II 1t leaves no trace on the paper
when it evaporates it is good but if a
greasy spot remains it is inferior,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

Golfers Weekly: German journal.
ism, here and abroad, is the odor TRAN.
ing from the motor-truck of Prussian
autocracy.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

Valley City and Barnes county have
been exceptionally free from labor
troubles, and the policy of the city
and county officials has been to help
and encourage every transient who
shows a disposition to work Agita-
tors and buns have been made to
move on, their jungle camps destroyed
and the disposition to live off the pro-
duction of others discouraged Re-
CARELESS of what is happening in other
parts of the state or country, the same
policy will be pursued and will have
the backing of every citizen of the
county having the right regard for the
welfare of their community.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

Emporia Gazette: A Kansas CIV.
clone should be given a chance to
crumple the kaiser.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
-n--n .

The leaders of the New U1m peace
meeting have been cited to appear be,
fore the Minnesota Safety commission.
Evidently the agitators are to be in
formed that the people of the United
States are to help win the war instead
of hinder. oil.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

!, Notwithstanding the. record hot
wave, the l. w: w. menace, short crops
In various sections, Senator Gronna
and other minor affections, this state
is going to pull through 1917 with a
pretty good average
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09
THE TRUMPET CAT

THE TRUMPET CALL
Mrs. Ulrikka F. Bruun, Norwegian
w. G. T. U. Lecturer.)
America, hear the cry
For help across the. sea!
The nations doomed to die
Are calling now for thee!-
Now We freemen make haste
See the countries laid waste!
See the desolate homes,
And the shattered domes!
Colum bla. the notions are calling fol
thee!
On, come to the rescue, the world tc
set free!!
To Arms for Truth and Honor,
And for Humanity
Come, hoist our glorious Banner
For Life and Liberty!!
We must conquer this Band.
VINO is threatening each Land,
Hear the heart rending~ groans
And the pitiful means!
The mothers are weaping and plead.
ing in vain,
The maidens dishonored the babies
are slain.
The race is bleeding, dying;
10 arms, We noble knights!
This cruel foe defying,
Who laughs at human rights,
For the dangers that be
Now on land and on sea,
For the hope of the world
Let our flag be unfurled.
See the tearstained faces now fixed
on our shore,
10 Arms for the Nations Freedom
once more.
To Arms against "Mohamet''
Like crusaders of old!
Put on the golden helmet.
Jerusalem our goal!
For the Christian lands,
That are crushed by his hands,
For the Jews in exile
Meet this tyrant so vile (
For Freedom and Justice we now take
our stand
For God and for home and for every
land
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

From 112 iii the shade to a touch of
frost is one of the biggest jumps the
weather man ever made in this local
ity, the time being only five days.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

The country was so sound asleep
from its dose of unpreparedness that
after all the jolts in the last three
years it is only half awake.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

The suffragist pickets at the White
House are turning away friends of
their cause faster than the folks back
home can muster new ones.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

It costs the government only about
six cents per 1000 to make postage
stamps, so the more stamps you lick
the stronger the government will be
financially.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

Iron crosses will soon be hitting the
melting pot to come forth as shrapnel.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

The most pertinent query to those
who are kicking about this country is:
'1f you don't like it why are you
here?"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

There are still few in Canada who
should have enlisted and Canada is
going to get them even if it takes
conscription, to do it.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

Times-Record want ads bring results
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-09

{ Bismarck Tribune: After poisoning
wells in France, slaughtering the help,
less in Belgium and distributing pois.
oned court plaster in America, do they
still object to being called Huns? II
they do we shall try to call them by
their real name as soon as the postal
rules allow it.
Grand Forks Herald: LaFollette
and Gronna are doing their best to
play into the hands of the kaiser. A
resolution of appreciation from the
German war cabinet, with an iron
cross or some trinket of that sort,
would be an appropriate recognition
of their Industrious efforts.
Devils Lake World: If the labor
question of this state is to be run by
the I. w. w. then we may not expect
or hope that the honest laboring man,
who comes here each year from Min
nesota, Iowa, Illinois and other states
to work in the harvest field, will be
with us any more.
Devils Lave World: The best way
to beat the food speculator is for ev-
cry family able to do it to lay in a sup
ply of nonperishable garden products,
and to do as much home canning as
possible. The food speculator cannot
speculate with the stuff you have in
your cellar or on the pantry shelves.
. Litchville Bulletin: You must be
either for America or against her.
And in times Of war, if you are against
our government you are also against |
our country. Every carping critic who
Is continually airing his dissatisfac-
ton with all things American is a |
friend of the kaiser, whether he knows
It or not.
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stations through which nearly fifty
thousand soldiers pass every day. Here
the work of the canteens can be done
by women, and the staff viii be built
around American women. Fifty have
recently been recruited in the United
States.
Ready for All Arrivals
For the needs of the American sol
diers now in France, the Red Cross has
already made provision. Troops are re-
ceived al large reception camps on the
French coast, and after several weeks
of preliminary training are sent to per
manent training camps just back of the
firing line.
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and the railroad stations in and about
Paris. Often there are no facilities for
getting food at places where the SOL
diers may have to wait three or four
hours, or even over night The Red
Cross, by large-scale purchasing and
volunteer service, can sell hot meals and
miscellaneous foodstufs at a price so
low that the soldiers can afford them,
and yet, enough above cost to provide
for maintenance and extension.
There are eleven of these railroad
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-21

for any poilu who needs them-when
Major Murphy. head of the Red Cross
Commission to France. asked that
America might aid in the work.
To carry the work on a scale so thu
every army corps at the front could b
supplied with such a canteen, the Wat
Council has appropriated 100000.
Hot Drinks by the Gallon
When u own men get into the
trenches they will find the service in full
operation and will share in its benefits.
The typical canteen of this sort is a
field kitchen in or near the second line
of trenches. Generally it is from two to
FIVE miles behind the firing line. Here
about Us gallons of hot drinks-cofee,
tea, chocolate or bouillon-can be kept
at the proper heat in large thermos ton
tainers mounted on trucks.
A Red Cross "convoyerT and three
French soldiers are in charge, while a
feet OF small motor trucks distribute
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-21

laundries, and mending and disinfecting
rooms at these camps. The original
equipment will probably be supplied by
the French authorities, as IS the case
with the field ~canteens, but the Red
Cross will keep the stations going and
furnish the attendants.
Various appetizing foods which the
soldiers can buy to supplement camp
fare, tobacco and small articles will be
on sale. At all these canteens returning
poilus can make themselves at home"
in true American fashion.
Committing to the Trenches
Another special need arises at the
junction points on the French railroads,
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n establishing canteens for every
= French and American army corps
at the front in France, the American
Red Cross is seeking to bring cheer
and comfort to the soldiers in the
trenches themselves.
1t is in the trenches that the real
hardships OF war are found. Behind the
lines, in camp. in the hospital and relief
stations, always there are many willing
hands extended to make the soldiers lot
easier. There are packages from the
relatives back home" recreation and
entertainment facilities provided by the
Red Crossg the Y. NJ. c A., and other
agencies. y addition to the greater de-
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A Red Cross Kitchen on Wheels

gree of comfort the army itself affords.
But in the trenches it means food that
frequently must be eaten cold. 1t means
water sometimes carried for hours in
the canvas canteen bottle. II means
sleeping when one can, and catching
a smoke only when the CLEAN of a
match cannot be seen across the parapet
of the trenches
To give these men the cup of cold
water or hot soup, which frequently may
mean the difference between spirited
fighting and sagging morale. is going to
be the business of the Red Cross. Al
ready the French Red Cross had begun
this service-which means. in practice.
the establishment of stations close be-
hind the front-line trenches where cold
drinks and hot can both be kept ready
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Along the route of the troops the Red
Cross has established inhrmaries and
rest stations, each in charge Of an
American trained nurse with an assist
ant. An inirmary contains ten beds, a
stock of drugs. and necessary supplies.
Arrangement is made for the care OF
the seriously i'll at French hospitals in
the neighborhood- Daily calls are made
upon these patients by the nurse and
her attendant, who carry reading mat
ter. tobacco. oonfections and the Ike
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back to reserve posts or are sent home on
leave, generally they are mud-stained,
germ-laden, covered with trench vermin.
In cooperation with the Young Mems
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Christian Associations of both France
and America-cooperation which does
not permit any duplication of effort