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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
TO TRAIN ARTILLERYMEN.
Schools of Instruction to Supplement
tie Work at Fort Sill.

WASHINGTON, March 20.-The impor-
tance of accurate barrage in trench war
fare has so impressed army heads that the
war department is considering the estab-
hshment of schools of instruction for ar
tillerymen to supplement the work of the
service school at Fort Sill, Oklohama. The
Fort Sill school has been crowded since
the country entered the war, but the out
put has failed even the demand foi
trained officers
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
Masonic Temple

Wednesday, March 90, 80 p. M
Regular conclave Of Beauseant Command
cry, No. Z. X. r..
special cohyocation of Fort Dunn
mer chapter, No. II, X. a. NJ, will be
held Thursday evening at 80, Work:
Past and Most Excellent Master de-
rrees
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
Laurence G.. Sherman Writes
His Mother from
Naples
WAS ON WAY TO
AVIATION CAMP
Cadet Sergeant Tells Of Interesting
Sights and Says He Could Write Sew
eral Books on What He Has Seen
Text Of His Letter.

NaueI sergeant Laurence ". sherman.
son of Manager and Mrs. George f.
Sherman of the Brooks House, is now in
Italy in the aviation service and has
written a letter to his mother from
Naples, which she has Just received. So
far as known this is the first letter from
Brattleboro man in the service in Italy
and It is of special interest. He writes:
February Is, 1918.
Dear Mother:-
Today m in place I never expected
to be in, and believe me it 5 some place.
A week ago today we left camp and
ever since we have been travelling
through the most wonderful country
ever saw. The southern part of France
is great. 1t has some hills that are
real and it sure did seem good to see
them.
The first place at which we stopped
was where Jean Jacques Rousseau lived.
We went all through his house and il
was interesting as the deuce. We STAYED
at regular hotel that night and for the
! first time since l left home in October
/ slept between regular sheets. 1t did
4 not seem right. We were about the first
] -AicIlCdHS III INaI lONH anu We SuftiN
were curiosities.
! The next day we crossed the Italian
border after having climbed up the
mountains all -dax----1ge- -eressed--the
I border, going through the longest tun-
mel in the world $50 they tell us).
France may be a great place. but
Italy so far has it all over France. There
is no more comparison between these
two countries than there Is between New
York and Walpole. That is no exaggera-
tion either. In Italy the people look
and act just like regular Americans.
They are beautifully dressed and all
clean looking. These, of course, are all
northern Italians. I don't know what
those in the south are like.
That night we got to the place where
Of old Columbus lived. That is quite n
place. but everything closes at 1890.
A Red Cross captain took US to dinner
at the Olympia. They say it s the best
restaurant in Italy, and l can believe
them. 1t was as good as any of the
places in New York or other cities.
The only thing that was lacking was
the girls. However, the few who were
there were wonders. Even the cham
pagne had it all over that of France.
We left there at $50 in the morning
and Travelled all day till about 1l.30.
! That day we passed the leaning tower
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
Red Mems Hall

Thursday, March 2l,-Special meeting OF
Pocahontas council, No. T. Entertain
ment Hoover lunch will I've served.
Dances will be held in Red Mems
hall every Saturday until further no
ticp
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
Unitarian and Universalist Churches

Wednesday. March 20. at 7.30 p. M
Regular meeting Of Boy Scouts Troop 4.
Thursday, March 81. at p. m.-Rcgular
meeting Of Mission Circle with Mrs. Free
man Scott. Oak street. Paper BY Mrs.
Flagg
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20

There are three friendships which are
advantageous, and three which are injuri-
Gus. Friendship with the upright; friend
ship with the sincere, and friendship
with the man of observation these are
advantageous. Friendship with the insin-
uatingly soft, and friendship with the
gib-tongued; these are iniurious.-Con,
fucius
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
DROPS RUBBER BALLS.
Airplane Bombards Americans with
Iiquified Mustard Gas.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Tuesday, b. The Associated
Press. A German airplane both last
night and this morning flew over the
American sector northwest of Toul and
dropped rubber balls Is inches in diam
cter filed with liquifcd mustard gas.
This is the first time so far as is known
that ,an aeroplanc has been thus en-.
ployed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
STERLING WAS SUNK.
Ship Carrying Grain Consigned tt
Switzerland Was in Collision.

BERNE, Switzerland, March 20.-It is
learned through official sources that the
steamer Sterling with a large cargo Of
grain for Switzerland has been sunk as
the result Of a collision.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
MARTIAL LAW.
Ukrainian Declaration Said to Extend
to Throe Provinces.

LONDON, March 2O-The Ukrainan
national council has declared martial law
IN three provinces, according to a Reuter-
despatch from Petroqrad
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
THE WEATHER.
Cloudy Tonight and Thursday-LittIe
Change in Temperature.

WASHINGTON, March 2O.-The
weather forecast: Partly cloudy tonight
and Thursday. Little change in tenn
perature. Moderate shifting winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20

United States contains $3.50 cheese fac
tories
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
SCORE OF OLD
TIME PALACES
DE JOY DOOMED
Some Famous Saloons Go Out of
Business When Detroit
Goes Dry

Detroit, Mich, April 22.-Nearly a
score of noted Detroit bars are among
the thousands of drinking places
which will close their doors when the
state goes "bone dry" on the first day
of May. Some of these places were
prosperous in Civil war days, when
their variety shows" were considered
keen attraction for visitors. Other
saloons have been noted as haunts for
politicians, journalists and artists;
still others have been stained by
countless crimes and here and there,
in what now is the business district,
are rather quiet places which, in gen.
erations past echoed to the laughter OF
royalty and the clink of wagered gold:
The bar room in the present Hotel
Pontchartrain is built upon the site OF
the old Russell House, Detroit's most
famous hostelry. In 1860, the Prince
of Wales, reviewed parade from this
building and, according to newspaper
accounts, he publicly was entertained
in the cafe after the procession had
passed. Grand Duke Alexis, of Rus
STA, had his wants attended to in the
same place some years later.
Gies' place was for years the Mecca
for theatrical devotees and perform
ers. The bar in the Berghotf hotel,
on this site, now is singing its swan
song. ,.,,
For many years, Nick Miller's
place.. across from the police station
was constantly in the public eye. 1t
was in the heart Of the crime belt
and. there newspaper men-many OF
whom are now numbered among De-
troit's prominent business men-ob-
tanned countless tips" on many
sensational ''story."
r. The Park theater, on Michigan ave-
nue.. Charley Welch's Varieties, on
jefferson and Baller's Garden were
snow PAGES during the Civil war.
Considine's on Mon oe avenue, was TOR
many years the meeting place for
sporting men and several million dol
lars in wagers have been laid there.
With a few notable exceptions, it
is claimed, the leading hotels and sa-
looms of past generations had then
mighty games Of chance and in some
places the sky was the limit. But OF
late years there have been no out
ward indications of such activities. In
the last decade, raids on gambling
rooms usually resulted in the arres.;
Of only youths and few older pro-
tessionals. Il
MANY veteran Detroit saloonkeepers
have been disposing of their stocks
with the avowe dintention Of closing
their doors on April 30, but some have
decided to sell temperance goods: A
movement is being prosecuted, to
amend the state law, SO as to allow
saloons to sell Fight wines and beers"
but it's fate in the legislature can
hardly be forecast. %
At any rate, the last cargoes OF
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
|RauS Nit Der PrO-German,
Sentiment at COllinSvil1e
Coal Miners in Southern Illinois
Live in Daily Dread of Hun
nish Bomb That Might Send
Scores or Hundreds to Their
Graves.
BY II. E. BECHTOL
Staff Reporter Sent to lnvesti-
gate Conditions in HOt-Bed of
Anti-German RiOting

CoIlinsviIIe, IT,, April 18.-Somebody
Knocked Or was it a knock?
Miner John Rivals wife listened.
| Three more raps-no imagination
Ills time. Her heart stopped bea.
mo, then pounded away ike (; .,p-
hammer. She went to the door tremb-
ling.
A muddy boy who works at No. E
mine stood there excited and out Of
breath.
cts the mine-"he gasped out,
"kumber sx-somebody threw stick
Of dynamite in the shaft-some Ger
man spy, they said"
The woman had quit listening and
the boy ran off the edae Of the brown
porch to the next little house.
Mrs. Rival held on to the coor and
saw it all 8.
Three hundred feet under the ground
her husband was penned in without
a chance-trapped with 500 other min
ers Locked in a dead-end tunnel
alive Shaft blown in-no other way
out. They'd live while probably.
and die in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
All the spy rumors flashed through
her mind-aII the stories Of suspects.
Which one did it,
She took her shawl from the back
of cane.bottomed chair and ran out.
Other women we're coming out. No.
body spoke. They just looked at each
other and started for the mine--to
wait-and wait-and wait-for hours.
maybe days, until the rescue workers
could clear the shaft and bring out
their men-bIaek-faced corpses, most
Of them.
That mine disaster hasn't happen
ed yet But every miners wife in the
rich southern Illinois coal distric. has
lived through it. Not once-every day.
The whole district is in state Of
terror. Nerves" you might call it,
! came down here TO find out WHY
this section is the hotbed of anti-Gor-
man agitation in the United States.
Well. that why.
That's why the mobs have tarr2d
and testhered suspected pro-Germans.
That's why mobs 90 about almost
nightly making suspects kiss the flag
and sign loyalty cards.
That's why suspects have baen beat.
en-whv woman was carried up
and down the main street of Benton
astride a rail.
And that's why Robert Pra"ar. Gov
man spy suspect, was lynched last
week-the first lynching 0; the wal
bringing a threat of martial law by
Governor Lowden and special dis
cussion by President Wilson and his
ca binet of the urgent need for the
new legislation for dealing with pre-.
Germans.
Pro-Germanism, to these miners,
means death-slow terrible death.
1t means the only thing on earth
they fear: being trapped in one of
the tunnels leading out from the bot.
tom of the black shafts. The miners
hate that word TRAPPED, AMI fear
it. So do the miners wives and the
miners children.
Mrs. Rival told me that when
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
NORTH DAKOTA
BANKERS URGED
TO HELP CAUSE
Plan Suggested by Which Peo'
pie of States Idle Acres
Can Be Furthered

North Dakota bankers can work
out plan which will start healthy
and increasing immigration to the
state, according to letters sent out
to the members of the North Dakota
Bankers association by the commit
tee on immigration of the associa-
ton, consisting Of W. |. Forbes OF
Gilby, C. F. Kellogg of New Salem,
and w F. Eckes of Wahpeton.
"Since our appointment as tn
committee on immigration, we have
given the subject Of what can be
done by the association to bring
settlers into the state very serious
and thorough consideration says
done to the immigration movement
to our state by methods which
have created a very large body OF
dissatisfied and discouraged land
buyers, who have not been treated
fairly and who are anxious to- sell
out and go back to the eastern states
they came from, at the first oppor-
tunity. and many find it impossible
to do so without great personal
loss on account of the exorbitant
prices at which they have purchased
lands, and inducements to purchase
which they find cannot be madt
good"
The committee is working to over
come the damage already done, &C
cording to Secretary McFadden, OF
the state bankers association, who
explained that the plan of the com.
mittee is chiefly to spend some
money in advertising for land buy
ers in a way that will attract cor
respopdence with prospective buy
ers, the correspondence to be con
Quoted to q point that will develop
Just how much in earnest the pros
pect" is and what his resources are
This will be done in a series OF stock
letters suitable to be sent in reply
tOsiuquiries received as the result
OF the advertising campaign. Wher
it Is apparent that the prospective
settler is seriously considering com
inG to the state to make his home
the correspondence will then be turn
"a over to . banker member Of tn
4 state association In the territory tina
fha rarity Is interested in, who shoul'
j fSt /; takS.s personal interest in see
ls@ GfliPi'}s| ; rftl1t = g, I
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
.SCHEDULEPUTS
MORE WHEATIN
HIGHER GRADE
Grower Expected II Benefit
From ClaSSification> Re-
Gently Announced

Washington, d. c. April S2,-~kevls'
ed standards which affect the grad
ing Of wheat and shelled corn which
moves in interstate aud foreign COM
merce on and after July 70, 1919, were
fixed and established by order OF the
secretary Of agriculture on Saturday,
April Is, under the provisions or the
United States grain standards act. The
new standards supersede those now
used and which will continue in effect
until July Is, 1918.
The New WWheat Grades.
The department announces that tho
new wheat grades will result III a
greater proportion of the crop falling
into the higher grades. The more I'M
portant of the changes are:
Dockage will be expressed in terms
Of whole per cent, rather than half per
cent, disregarding fractions, and the
definition Of dockage specifically re-
quires recleaning and rescreening, so
that as large proportion as possible
Of cracked wheat will be recovered.
The more definite term foreign ma
terial other than dockage" has been
substituted for ''inseparable foreign
material"
The allowance for wild peas, corn
cookie and similar impurities is more
liberal.
The percentages of hard kernels re-
quired in the premium suJ-classes OF
hard red spring, hard winter and com
mon white have been changed and
made more liberal.
The minimum test weight per bush
ell requirements generally are reduced,
except for grades TWO. three, and four
in hard red spring wheat and grades
one 10 four in common white and
white club.
The maximu mpsrcentages OF moist
ure allowed have been Increased for
all grades. except Tor grade No : IN
hard red spring and du-um.
The total wheat OF other classes per
rasssdlle is increased IN every grade,
No ] now permitting ! per cent and
other grades 10 PEI cent Special I'M
itarauns tnr certain whsats OF other
t;sassss now apply only 10 the first
rwp grades,
The tpLRl damaged Wheat permit
fsa mas iissn doubled for grade NO. !.
Small HmnunLs Of hsaT-tEmassd kern
Els are I'd De permitted II grades No.
] and il creased amount IN grades
M y
The quantities Of smu1 allowed b.
fnrP designating wheat Us "smu1Iys
have neen doubled.
Tns sup-ciasses red spring, Hump
aack and soft ret nave peen allminat-
ed iron the standards. and grades Tor
gariicky wheat added 1O- all classes.
Corn Standards.
The corn standards IL the main III
voive tine addition OF Wright per bush
el requirements 1Or all numerical
grades and the allowance Of small
quantities of nsat-Ganaged Kernels ID
grades sos and 8. Separate sam
pie grades have been esta blished for
while, yellow and mixed corn.
The revised wheat and corn stand
ards are issued in the form OF service
and regulatory announcements NO. -
ufIhe Bureau of Markets. These print
ed copies are being mailed by this de-
partment to al parties who have been
receiving copies of the gralnSt
ards publications. The department
urges all members Of the grain trade,
esnecialiy grain farmers and sountry
shippers al points where licensed in
speclors are not located, TO thorough
~ fauiliarize themselves with the
ypy grades
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
WHAT LOYALIST
MOBS HAVE DONE

In the last two months
mobs in the southern Illinois
coal fields have:
FORCED 1874 persons to
kiss the American flag and
pledge their loyalty
TARRED and feathered
six persons, including a min
ister, and beaten several
CHASED three pro-Ger-
man suspects way and
caused many others to leave
by warnings
SHOT three persons, one
man lying from his
wounds
CARRIED a woman thru
streets of one town on a
rail-
LYNCHED one suspected
German agent.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22

knocked at her door she expected to
see the muddy mine boy with the new $
of disaster.
knocked twice and she told me af-
| forwards:
"In a few moments between taose
raps | lived through the whole terri
bic thing we all are afraid off,
The women don't knock when thew
run across to each others homes
! Nothing said about it-they just don t.
| It was the same everyWhere-tt
Edwardsville, Benton, Staunton, Mary
sville, all through the district.
Every time the warning whistle
blows, it strikes terror into our hearts,
said Mrs. Lily Fornero Marysville mi
ner's wife.
When the men with dinner buckets
on their arms, start for the yawning
mouth of the mine to go down the
black shaft in the little cable car, the
women watch them out of sight-won-
dering and hoping.
We're willing to take our chances
on top" Will Dorvac, miner, put it,
but down there underground you
haven't got a chance. Some German
plotter could kill as high as 600 men
at time by just blowing in one shaft
and it would be simple to do it.
Dynamite has been found in the
| homes of some susp ects Brezla An
tcnecci, StaintOn miner was turned
over to the federal authorities on LID
erty Day after his wife, loyal An
erican, had told of threats he made
and of dynamite stored in their home
But there is a feeling widespread
among the miners that the authorl
ties CAN'T BE Looked TO FOR
PROTECTION. Most pro-German sus
poets are NOT arrested. SO crowds
20 out to teach suspects that nc
funny business goes" and that they c
be better off somewhere else.
Some suspects-the miners VIII tel
von-are probably loyal, But ii a mar
| NIGHT be German agent, That
enough.
Maybe you're all right. and may
be you're not. but we don't trust you
so beat it," is the ultimatum that ma:
been sent many suspects to otheI
quarters
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
FORMER DICKINSON
CITIZEN INTERNED
Editor of Dakota Freie Presse in
Trouble Again

Dickinson, n. D., April 22.-J. +.
Paul Gross, editor of the Dakota Freie
Presse at Aberdeen, S. D., has been
informed in federal detention camp
as an alien enemy for the duration
IT the war, having failed to prove his
allegation that he is ia citizen OF the
United States. He was taken from
South Dakota upon orders from Wash.
ingtOn.
Gross was formerly OF Dickinson,
moving from here to Lennon, where
he was editor OF the Herald for q
number Of years. He WAS arrested
Z fA0 aoEsviolifaoa Of the espionage
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
M'LEAN COUNTY
EXCEEDS QUOTA
BY l2O PERCENT

Wasllburn, N, D., April 22.-karl
Klein, Third Liberty Loan chairman
for Mclean county, reported this
morning that Mclean county sub.
scriptions already are l2O ner cent
in excess Of the cOuntys allotment,
and that the teams are still working.
with an allotment OF $50, 900, Mclean
has subscribed $4,000, and still there
hasn't been q call ~ q single blue
card n tn county. III d I'M
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
DICKINSON MOST 4.
HEALTHFUL SPOT
Bismarck Man Says It's Too sa.
lubrious for Business !.

Dickinson, N. D., April 22.-"As far
IS general health is concerned Dick.
nson is the most favored spot in the
ountry," said Louis LaRue, a Bis.
,arck young man registered at the
Hard hotel in this city Saturday.
Unless the town increases its mortal.
y statistics my visits will grow less
requent." ~.'%-.-. r, =. ..,::;. u, & '',
Mr.. LaRue is a tombstone salesman
Who has been making" Dickinson for
ONE time. He visits all parts of: the
tissouri Slope counties regularly
md is in a position to know more
bout the general health Of the com
munities than does the average man
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22

the consideration that will give him
correct knowledge of the country.
"Your committee realizes that it
will take a considerable period Of
time to overcome the damage done,
but believes, that the bankers of the
state can, by working together in.
telligently and conscientiously, work
out a plan which will start healthy
and increasing immigration to the
state of North Dakota and this com
mittee will gladly take the lead in
this work but must have the hearty
assistance and cooperation of very
large percentage of the members OF
the association to accomplish salts
factory results" concludes the let
ter
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22

liquor are moving across historic bars
and more than few names of ancient
heritage are soon to be erased from
Detroit's business list.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22
HETTINGER BOOSTER
CLUB PROGRAMMES
Commercial Association Pre-.
pares for Activity

Hettinger. N. D.. April 22-The
Hettinger Booster club met last even
ing and elected officers for the COM
ing year, in addition to taking up
matters of business. There was a
fairly good attendance and good in
terest was shown in the organization.
The following officers we're elected:
Henry Moen, president; u. H. Argarn
pice president; Jas. D0dds, secretary;
L. M. Anderson, treasurer; with an
executive committee to consist of the
president, vice president and secre
|fary. "A commlktee VS. anthorized q
solect the 1915 memh1 lpiAds and
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the executive committee was author
lied to see what could be done ABOUT
arranging for quarters for the cluD
for the coming year, as the present
lease on quarters has expired. A def
mite date for the regular meeting was
also set These meetings will be held
on the first Wednesday Of each month.
With this definitely fixed it is thought
that Everyone will know when the
meetings are held and that no one In
terested in the club will have any
yalide excuse for not being in attend
ance. The club needs members and
funds and it is hoped that the cltl'
zens will respond to the call as the
cub is necessity to the welfare OF
he town.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-22

According to Mr., LaRue. fewer deaths
have occurred in Dickinson in the last:
five years than in any other town it's
size in the western part Of the Da.
kotas. and he believes the showing,
is due to the citys excellent climate,
its advantageous geographical leca-:,
ion and the sanitary regulations gem:
orally observed. His little compli::
ment to the city. emphasizes a point
most important to the person seeking
4 permanent :. location for business,
aome and health happiness. ..,.
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