Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-02
Northwestern NelUs

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the person who will not eat war
bread in place Of white bread which |
were all accustomed to eat but al
short time since. Thousands Of men
and women are gladly giving up their
lives in the socializing processes now.
at work, and it is believed to be q
very reasonable thing to ask the
sacrifice there may be in the use Of
Ignite or bituminous coal in the place
OF anthracite.
Summer months are comparative
ly idle months for Ignite producers,
and they are in position to fill orders
promptly. If they had had SUFFICIENT
orders during 1917. one-third Of the
kota would have been available to
the eastern cities which were subject
ed to, the 'heatless Monday order. No
domestic consumer in the state will
have anyone but himself to blame in
the event OF inability to keep warm
during the next winter. 1t is hoped.
that North Dakotans will avail them
selves of the opportunity to obtain
Ignite now"
Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 2.-That
Bismarck drop the first syllable of. its
name and Anglicize the second to
stand as a monument to the immort-
al Mark Twain is the newest contri-
button Of the east to the literature
Changes Ghlee has in the te name a1 With Of N safses pa1
kota's capital city. Writing from $50
broadway. New York, Samuel w.
Balch, mechanical engineer and So
licitor Of patents, says in a letter to
The Tribune: your city is seeking
la distinctively American designation.
Just exchange places with the syl-
10 I@n 80 ~ ~~~~ ~-1 a.
honor to yourselves and to the fore
most among American humorists,
master player on the universal chords
of human interest, son of your great
northwest, philosopher Of the world,
Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Samuel Clemens was not truly a
son >of, the northwest, having been
born in the middle ground of Hanni-
bal, Mo-, where he spent his boyhood
in the exploits which later were inn
m~ortalized in "Huckleberry Finn"
and Tom Sawyer" In his river-boat-
ing days Mark Twain made one or
two trips up the Missouri, n the
late Capt. Grant. Marsh knew him as
a pilot. Capt. John Belk began rum
ming on the Missouri river about the
time Mark Twain gave up his, steam
had the pleasure Of meeting the great
humorist upon OF two occasions
in st. Louis. In the transcontinental
stage journey which Mark Twain des-
cribes in "Roughing It," be travelled
westward along the Platte, but he
later, in those pioneer days, visited
the gold fields at Virginia City, Mont,
claim upon him. 1t is altogether
probable that were Mark Twain alive
now he would find opportunity for
some of his delicious humor and a
carcasm in Bismarck's ~predicament,
and it is too bad that he cannot come
back from that spiritland with whose
denizens he sometimes held converse.
to do justice to this situation.
Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 2.-The Bur-
leigh county Red Cross chapter has
launched an intensive campaign. for
Red Cross acres. This movement or
iginated several months ago and has
resulted in the pledging Of approxim-
ately 200 acres, which with an av-
reage yield Of six bushels Of wheat
to the acre will net, the Red Gross
$1,000. In townships which have
been. diligently c~anvassed, practically
every landowner has responded. In
HAY Creek and Riverview 33 acres
have been. pledged; Ghylin has prom
Used "a; Grass Lake, "a; Steiber, %;
Florence Lake, 20, and Fort Rice, 16.
The townships which have done not
so we'll, have not been reached by
the committee. and it is believed they
stand equally ready to do their bit
when the matter is brought to their
attention. The Red Cross acre COM
mittee of the Burleigh county chapter
consists of William E. Breen,' j. w.
Burch, William Morris and Irwin
Small, all prosperous farmers, and
Ernest c. Wright, deputy county
auditor. This committee has SEM
forth an appeal to every farmer in
Burleigh county who has not yet
come forward to sign a pledge card.
The pie sector has been hard hit or
both TANKS by the restaurant man.