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THE FOURTH At HINCKLEY

A fair sized crowd attended
the Fourth Of July picnic ar
ranged by the Pine County Farm
Bureau Association at Hinckley.
Nearly all the people came in au-
tomobiles, there being approx
mately 100 machines. However
it was not a large crowd consid-
ering it was a county picnic. The
rain early in the morning un-
doubtedly kept many at home.
The speeches by Hon. c. c. Nc
Carthy and r, f. Balmer were
well received and appreciated by
the few who heard them. They
were speaking in competition
with a merry-go-round which
was going full speed nearby and
consequently only those who
were near the speakers stand re-
ceived any benefit.
The base ball game was a
fizzle right out. In the first
place the site where the players
were asked to perform. common
Iy called diamond. but in this
instance COW pasture, was not
fit to play on and was enough
~ discourage any good player.
The two teams that played were
ealled Hinckley and Sandstone,
but were a poor excuse Of form
er base ball teams of those two
villages, although Hinckley had
a few good players on their
team Thursday. The umpire
had a hard time making it un-
derstood that his decisions were
final and after working hard for
about two or three innings. Mr..
Patrick, one Of the good towns
men of Hinckley. went out to
the umpire and gave him a good
refreshing drink (soft drink
OF course all the players had to
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EXAMINATIONS FOR con-
MON SCHOOL cERTI-
FICATES
To he held at High school Build.
ing, Pine City. On Jul,
29. 30 and 81.

A. M. 500 to 8:45 enrolment:
8:45 to 9:15 spelling; 9:l5 to 1000
pcnmanship; 1000 to 1900 arith-
metic.
r. Mills to 300 geography;
800 to 400 composition: 400 to
500 reading.
Tuesday, July 30.
A. M 500 to Gas United
States history: 9:45 to l1:3O Eng
lish grammar; 1880 to 1900 mu-
sic.
p. M.--1:15 to 2::45 physiology
hygiene: 2:45 to 400 civics: 400
to AS drawing.
Wednesday, July 81.
A. M.-8:0O to $50 enrolment;
$50 to 1915 geometry; 10:15 to
1900 physics.
p. M.-1:15 to 2:45 algebra:
2:45to 4:15physical geography or
general history: Ais to 5:15 agri-
culture.
If Geography. Physiology -Hy-
giene. or Algebra do not require
the full time, the remaining time
may be used for. the subjects that
follow.
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TO CLOSE BUSINESS AND GO
TO WAR

Bucks Garage will close its
doors Monday and will perhaps
not be re-opened until after the
war unless some other parties can
be found who will either rent
or buy the place and again open
it for business. The owner, Ak
el R. Buck, and his partner. John
Sorensen, expect to enter mill
tary service before long and for
this reason are closing now to
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STORES TO BE OPEN LATER

From now on and continuing
thru the summer months the To-
cal stores and post Office in
Askov will be open an hour later
in the evening, till Z o'clock in
stead of till 6 o'clock as hereto
fore. On Saturdays they will be
open later as usual.
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arrange their affairs. This gar
age has enjoyed good business
since opening a little over a year
ago and has a good future before
it. Another case of the war be-
ing brought closer to us.
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news AMONG
SCAND|NAvIANS
Interesting Items From Far
and Near About People
From the North.

The most notable feature of
the Danish section of the Fourth
of July parade of foreign born
Americans in New York city was
the appearance of Jens Eriksen,
who is one hundred years old and
a Civil War veteran. He was es-
corted by veterans of the Dano-
Prussian wars who carried ban
ner with the inscription: We
fought the same enemy you are
fighting now.'
Mrs. Maren B. Liabo, wife of
the Norwegian-American writer
and lecturer, John Liabo, died
aboard the steamer Bergensfjord
on it's last trip to this country,
Mrs. Liabo had been spending a
few months in Norway and was
on her return trip to Chicago
when she was taken suddenly i'll
on shipboard.
For the first time in more than
two years it is reported that the
Swedish Atlantic liner, Stock
holm, is making a voyage across
the ocean. The boat has been
anchored at the port of Gothen-
burg for many months, but left
her home port last week, carry
ing no mail, and only small
quantity Of freight. Nothing is
reported to indicate that passen-
gers are aboard.
The Danish-American sculptor
Gutzon Borglum, who lives at
Stamford, Conn, is being consid-
cred as the National party's can.
didate for governor of Connecti.
cut, according to Samuel A. Stod.
er Of New York, who is the ma.
tional organizer of. the new par.
ty.
Olav A. Hougen, a son of the
widely known Norwegian clergy
man, Rev. l. @. Hougen, has beer
appointed chief inspector of one
of the greatest government fac
tories in the country. He is
considered an expert on dust ex
plosions and gas analysis, and his
main work will consist in pass
ing upon the poisonous gases pro
duced by the factory.
Hilmer Lundbeck, general pas
senger agent for the Swedish
North America Line. and Emf
F. Johnson, official chemist fol
the British and scandinavian
Woodpulp and Paper Association
both living in New York where
they are prominent among Amer
leans and Swedes alike. have
been decorated with the Vasa or
der of the first class.
The conditions in Denmark dur
ing the war have recently beer
described in the New York Even
ing Post by N. V. Boeg, CONNER
cial adviser to the Danish lega
ton in Washington, and by G
S. Strandvold, city editor of tht
Grand Forks Herald, Crane
Forks, N. D. The two articles
appearing as they do in the mos
distinguished daily paper in th'
United States, have presented
much material based upon actua
facts instead ot-aS an man.
other instances upon imagina
tion.
Oscar Myrlund. young mar
from Stavanger. Norway. has ar
rived in Girard, Kansas, wher'
he has some relatives. He de
clares that he went to Amerlc'
IN order to get the privilege o
first class military training s.
that he could get an opportunlt.
to fight the Germans Norwe
cian neutrality is intolerable +
me-" Mr.. Myrlund said the othe
day, according to a Girard paper
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Three dollars month is all it
will cost you to buy a New Rex
Visible Typewriter; an improved
typewriter at a low price. Write
R. L. Cochrane, Little Falls.
Mimi, or see the Askov Ameri-
can.
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The first principle Of money
making is money saving. Buy
War Saving Stamps.
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lilNcSllSdliOIl TcNcdlcu JIlc ldCt
that he had fallen victim to
his scientific research work; he
had been experimenting for the
purpose of finding a method by
which certain poisonous ingredi-
ents might be eliminated from
wood alcohol, and it now seems
clear that he died of wood alco-
hol poisoning.
Clemens Petersen, the Danish
author and editorial writer who
years ago was one of the leaders
of the Chicago magazine, Scandi-
navia, and later affiliated with
the Nordlyset in New York, has
died in Denmark. "a years old.
At one time he was the literary
critic of the Copenhagen Fadre-
landet and was much feared and
admired because of his pliable
and sarcastic pen. Magister Pc
tersen, as he was popularity
known. left New York for Den
mark in 1904 and had since lived
with relatives.
Rolf Hammer, the famous Nor
wegian opera singer, and Nine.
Borgny Hammer, who recently
gave a series of Ibsen performan-
ces in Minneapolis, have been
engaged to appear at concert
at Great Falls, Mont, July 10.
1t is the intention of the two
artists to go to the Pacific coast
and probably settle there for
some time before they return to
the stage.
To Mr.. and Mrs. James Nelson,
Swedes living at Crosby, Mimi,
has come a letter from C.. r. Vain,
a captain in the United States
navy, notifying them that the
council of the Italian city, Boil.
sena, has decided to rename the
street, known as Via del Cornig.
/
lio, in honor Of Clarence Arthur
Nelson, son of the Crosby people
The young Nelson died the death
of a hero while fighting Austrian
| aeroplanes from his own ma.
chine.
| Copenhagen reports. dated
June 10, say that a severt
drought which has lasted for sew
eral weeks, is continuing ir
Denmark. and the farmers are
almost desperate. 1t is already
certain that the losses in the
next harvest will be very consid
.erable. Vegetables have suf
1fered from the drought ever
more than the field crops, ane
the vegetable export has there
fore been temporarily forbidden
More than in previous years Den
mark is dependent upon her owr
harvest, and if change of wea
ther does not come very soon, ia
mine seems to be inevitable.
A correspondence from Den
mark of June 13 says that Danish
industries are suffering from ,
lack of raw materials. Building
trades are having a bad time ol
it, but conditions in the labor
market were not SO bad. O1
10000 skilled mechanics in
cluded in a recent special in
quiry, only from 4 to 6 per cent
had been out of work. Margar
ine and textile industries have
suffered very heavily during tht
first months of the year.
! The Norwegian government
reported last week that twent,
i Norwegian ships, totalling 1858;
tons, were sunk during June
and 81 men were lost. The june
sinkings bring Norway's tota
losses up to S42 vessels. Lives
of 1,747 men were lost with thu
ships. The total tonnage of los
Norwegian shipping now am
cunts to 1,154.143 tons.
i The Gula river near Dronthe
linn, Norway, has inundated thou
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we tried to keep up his jokes and say
the same things and so forth. But they
did not go very well after ne was
dead. He got his in the same charge
In which the chaplain was 'wOundeo.
He was one of the bunch that charged
before the order was given, when the
chaplain got it, and was running pretty
near me until we got to the Boone
wire. I had to stop to get through
though must of it was cut up by art1l-
lery fire. but he must have jumped 1t,
for when I looked up he was twenty
or thirty PAGES ahead Of me. We got
to the Germans about that time ana
was pretty busy for while. But
soon saw him again. He was pulling
his bayonet out Of a Boche when an
other made q jab at him and stuck him
in the arm. Then the BOche made
swing at him with his rife, but the
Swiss dropped on one knee and lodged
it. He kept defending himself with
his rifle, but there was another Ger
man on him by this time and he could
not get I'D. The corporal of our squad
came up just about that time, but ne
was too late, because one or the
Boches got to the Swiss with his bay
onet. He did not have time to With
draw it before our corporal stuck him.
The other German made a pass at the
corporal, but he was too late. The
corporal beat him to it and felled him
with q terrific blow from his rifle butt.
The Huns were pretty thick around
there just as another fellow and my
self came up. A Boche swung his rifle
at the corporal and when he lodged 1t
the Boche almost got me. The swing
took him off his feet and then the cor
poral did as pretty bit of work as
I ever saw He jumped for the Boche'
who had fallen, landed on his face
with both feet and gave it to the next
one with his bayonet all at the same
time. He was the quickest man ever
saw.
There were a couple of well-known
savate men in the next company and
I saw one Of them get under Fritz's
guard with his foot and, believe me,
there was some force in that kick.
He must have driven the Germans
chin clear through the back OF his
neck.
We thought it was pretty tough luck
to lose both the chaplain and the VII
lage wit in the same charge, along
with half Of our officers, and then have
to give up the trench. Every man In
the bunch was sore as O boil when we
got back.
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CHAPTER VIZ.
Stopping the Huns at Dixnude.

Stopping the Huns At Otxn0oe'
was standing In q communication
trench that connected one of our front
line trenches with o crater caused by
the explosion OF q mine. All around
me men Of the third line were coming
up, climbing around, digging, hammer
ing, shifting plankS, moving sandbags
up and down, bringing UP new timbers,
reels of barbed wire, ladders, cases OF
ammunition, machine guns, trench
mortars-all the things that make an
army look like a general store. on legs.
The noise of the gums was just deaf
ening. Our own shells passed not far
above our heads, SO close were the
enemy trenches and the explosions
were so near ard SO violent that when
you rested your rifle butt on something
solid, like a rock, you could feel it
shake and hum every time shell
landed.
Our first line was just on the out
skirts of the town, In trenches that
had been Won and lost by both sides
many times Our second line was in
| the streets and the third line was
almost at the south end Of the town.
The Huns were hare at it, Smelling
the battered remain, Of Dixmude, and
to the right stretcher bearers were
! working in lines so close that they
looked like two parades passing each
other. But the bearers from the COM
pany near me had not returned from
the emergency dressing station and
the wounded were piling up, waiting
for them.
A company Of the 2me Legion Etran-
gere had just come up to take their
stations in the crater, under the para
pet of sandbags. A shell landed among
them just before they entered the era
ter and sent almost a whole squad
vest, besides wOunding several others
Almost before they occupied the
crater the wires were laid and reached
back to us, and the order came for us
to remain where we were until further
orders.
Then we got the complete orders
We were to make no noise but were al
to be ready in ten minutes. We put
ON goggles and respiratOrs. In ter
minutes the bOmbers were to leave the
trenches. Three mines were to ex
plode and then we were to take anG
hold certain portion of the enemy
trenches not far off. We were al
ready to start up the ladders wher
they moved Nig's section over to ours
and he sneaked up to me and whis
pered behind his hand, ''Be a sport
Doc; make it f1fty-fifty and gimme 3
chance"
did not have any idea what he
meant and he had to get back to his
squad. Then the bombers came I'D tt
the ladders, masked and with loaded
sacks on their left arms. "One min
ute now" said the officers, getting OF
their own ladders and drawing theil
revOlvers-though most Of the officer,
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used to think all the Germans were
big and fat and strong, and, Of course
some of the grenadier regiments are
but lots Of the BOches / saw were
little and weak like this fellow SCOT
in my first charge.
It was q good piece Of work to take
the prisoners and novelty for me to
look them in the face-the fellows
had been fighting. Because, when you
look a Hun in the face, you can see
the yellow streak. Even IL you are
Huns are yellow.
Maybe you have heard pigs being
butchered. 1t sounded like that when
we got to them. When they attacked
us they yelled to beat the band. l
guess they thought they could scare
us. But you cannot scare machine
guns nor the foreign legion either. SO
when they could not scare us they
were up against it and had to fight.
I will admit, though, that the first
time Fritz came over and began yell
ing 1 thought the whole German army
was after me, at that, and Kaiser Bill
playing the drum. And how they hate
bayonet! They would much rather
sit in a ditch and pot you.
I admit I am not crazy about bayO-
net fighting myself, as a general prop
osition, but will say that there have
been times when / was serving a gun
behind the front lines when wished
for rifle and a bayonet in my hands
and a chance at Fritz man to man.
1t was in this charge that our chap
l4in was put out Of commission. AS
we were lined up, waiting to climb on
to the fire step and then over the par
| apet, this chaplain came down the
line speaking to each man as he went
He would not say much, but just q
few words, and then make the sign OF
the cross. He was In black cassock
| He was just one man from me as
we got the word and stood up on the
| fire step. He was not armed with as
much as a pin, but he jumped up on
the step and stuck his head over the
parapet and got it square, landing
right beside me. / thought he was
killed, but when we got back we found
! he was only wounded. The men who
saw 1t were over the parapet before
| the order was given and then the
whole bunch after them, because they
too, thought he was killed and figured
he never would know how they came
out about their vows. All the men in
the company were glad when they
found he was only wounded.
While half Of us were on the firing
step throughout the day or night the
other half would be in the dugOuts OF
sitting around in the bottom of the
trench, playing little games, or mend
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well and feel fine in the morning srS
able to do my work. I gladly reco nrru
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's VegetsbI.
Compound to make weak Nerves
strong. - Mrs. ALBERT Suite. S0S
Olmstead St., Winona, MINI.
How often do we hear the expresaio,
among women, 81 am so nervous, cav"
not Sleep" or 90 it seems as though
should fly" Such women should profit
by Mrs. Sultze's experience and 9ivs
this famous root and herb rems sT'
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com,
pound, trial.
For forty years it has been overcom.
Ing such serious conditions as dispIaca.
ments, inflammation, liberation, irrev.
ularities, periodic pains, backache, de-.
illness, and nervous prostration Of
women, and is now considered the stan
dArd remedy for such ailments.
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The Rombers Were, Fishing in Their
Bag and Throwing.

for all they were worth. One Of them
had his mask and face blown off; yet
he was trying to talk, with the tears
rolling down over the raw flesh. He
died five minutes later.
One night, while was lying back I'm
the trench trying not to think of any
thing and go to sleep the bombs began
to get pretty thick around there, and
when T could not stand it any longer
I rushed out into the bay of the fire
trench and right up against the para
pet, where 1t was safer
Hundreds Of star shells were being
sent up by both sides AMI the field
and the trenches were as bright &S
day. All up and down the trenches
our men were lodging about, keeping
out of the way of the borbs that
were being thrown in our faces It
did not seem as if there was any place
where it WAS possible to get cover.
Most of the time was picking dirt out
Of my eyes that explosions had driven
into them.
If you went into dugeut the men
already in there would shout, Don't
stick in a bunch-spread out - While
you were in dugout you kept expect.
ing to be buried alive and when you
went outside you thought the BOches
were aiming at you dfrect-and there
was no place at all where you felt
safe.
But the fire bay looked: better than
the other places to me. had not been
there more than q few minutes when
big one dropped I'm and that bay was
just one mess. Out Of the "A men In
the bay only eight escaped.
When the Stretcher bearers got there
they did not have much to do in the
way of rescue-it was more pallbear-
er'S work.
A Stretcher bearer was picking up
one of the boys, when a grenade land.
ed alongside Of him and you could not
find 81 fragment of either of them
That made two that landed within
twelve feet of me; yet was not even
| scratched.
When got so that I could move ]
went over to where the captain was
standing, looking through a periscopa
over the parapet. / was very nervous
and excited and was afraid to speak
to him, but somehow thought
ought to ask for orders. But ]
could not say a word. Finally 6
she'll whizzed over our headS-just
missed us, it seemed like, and I broke
out: "What did you see? What's all
Of the news?" and so on. I guess ]
chartered like monkey.
Then he yelled: you're the gunner
officer. You're just in time-Tve 10,
Gated their mortar batteries"
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Of the Legion charged With rife and
bayonet like their men.
Then-Boom! Slant Bang land
the mines went off.
"AIlez!" and then the parapet was
filed with bayonets- and men scram-
bling and crawling and falling and get
ting up again. The smoke drifted DacK
on US, and then our own machine guns
began ahead Of us.
I'm toward the front the bombers
we're fishing in their bags and throw
ing. lust like boys after rat along
the docks. The black smoke from the
"Jack Johnsons'' rolled over us ana
probably there was gas, too, but you
could not tell.
The front lines had taken their
trenches and gone on and you could
see them, when you stood on a para
net. running about like hounds through
the enemy communication trenches,
bombing out dugouts, disarming pris-
oners-very scary-lOoking In their
masks and goggles. The wounded
were coming back slowly. Then we
got busy with our work in the dugouts
and communication trenches and fire
bays, with. bayonets and bombs, dig
ging the Boches out and sending them
"west." And every once In a while a
Fritz on one side would step out and
veil "Kamcrad," while, like as not, on
the other side, his pal would pot you
with q revolver when you started 70
pick him up, thinking he was wounded,
Then we stood aside at the entrance
to a dugout and some BOches came
out in single file, shouting "Kamerad
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ing clothes or sleeping or cooking or
doing thousand and one things. The
men were always in good humor at
such times and it seemed to me even
more so when the enemy fire was
heavy.
Il man was slightly wounded down
would come the rifles to order arms,
and some poilu was sure to shout,
fright this way. One franc" It was
standing joke and they always did it.
The poilu who did it most was q Swiss
and he was always playing joke on
somebody or initiating some one OF
us or making faces.
We were all sorry when this Swiss
"went west, as the Limeys say, and
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s'COld In the Head"

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Frank Confession.

"What are you reading there?"
"a magazine article written by a
man who tells how he started with a
dollar earned by selling newspapers
ard made millions"
"Oh, that's an old story"
''But this fellow is aStOnishingy
frank. He admits that his legal ad.
visers pulled linn out Of some pretty
tight places. Birmingham Age-IIer-
aid.
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80 pad J. could not
r e 8 t a It night
would lie awake and
get 80 nervous 7
would have to pet
up and walk around Ind
and in the morninS
would be all tire5
out: | read about
Lydia E. PinkhamrS'ss
Vegetable Com.
pound and thought
/ would try it. Nv
nervousness soon
left me- I -.
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Lies Greatest Handicap.

1t is sad thing TO begin life with
low conceptions of it. There is no mis-
fortune comparable to Il youth without
sense OF nobility. Better be horn
blind than not to see the glory Of life
Theodore Il. Munger.
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Don't Worry About PimpIes.

On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash
off the Ointment in five minutes with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. For
free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept.
x, Boston" At druggists and by mall.
Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.-Adv.