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The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
PLAN TO RAISE SHIPS.
(Chicago Tribune.)

Germany is planning a merchant
marine for herself and plans to
raise her crop after the war.
The American Government has in
formation that Germany has under
taken construction of salvage sub
marines, to go out when peace comes
and raise the ships of all nations
which the destroying submarines
have sent to the bottom.
Germany plans to repair these
ships and add them and their salvag-
ed cargoes to her list of prizes OF
peace"
Every submarine commander keeps
a careful record of the ships he sinks
and marks on map the exact spot
where the wreck lies.
| With these records in hand the
Germans plan to beat all the rest Of
the world to the sunken treasures.
The salvage submarine is said tt
be fitted with specially designed
graphing apparatus for attaching
cables to the ships that lie on tn,
bottom of the ocean. 1t is capable O
operating at great depths. other YES
sells, equipped with hoisting appa
ratus, will assist the submarine il
bringing the damaged ships to tn
surface.
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
THE POWER THAT PULLS MEN
DOWN.
(By Frederick Burr Opper.)

Too much power has been the ru-
ination of almost every man who has
had it. 1t brought Caesar to the
assassins' knives. 1t brought Wolsey,
who had been the greatest man in
all Europe, to the abbey of Leicester,
impoverished and disgraced, to beg a
cot to die on. 1t brought .Bonaparte,
who had more power than any man
who ever lived, before or since, to
end his career, cooped on a lonely
island, digging in little garden to
keep his fat down.
That is what too much power can
4 do for big brains. What it can dc
for little brains we see in the Ger
man Kaiser, watching to-day the
wrecking of all his foolish, brutal
plans of world conquest.
1t does not need a great stretch OF
imagination to picture an interna-
tional military court-martial sitting
in Berlin, not great while from
now. 1t is presided over by Marshal
Foch and with him are the greatest
generals of America, England
France, Italy and Belgium. At the
prisoners bar stands William Hohen-
ZOllSTu, Tue UetuTOucU CmpCIOI vi
Germany, and his son, the ex-Crown
Prince. These two, the greatest
criminals in all history, are awaiting
sentence
That sentence will be just, pitt.
less and terrible. And after them
will come to the bar, one after the
other, all the KaiseRs ruthless
slaughtering commanders, and his
wretched, culpable dupe, the ex-Em
peror of Austria, to meet retributioI
for their countless murders and bar
| barities.
| And all this is being made posi-
BILE by the help of Americas supert
soldiers and sailors and the grea'
nation behind them, readyHwith it:
money and it's encouragement. An(
that money and that encouragement
must never fail them. The HUI
must be beaten.
Every Liberty Loan must be sus
tanned so that we may all look aheat
with confidence to that proud day
that day of victory, >"when the boy
come home"
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
STRAIGHT 6MERICANIsM
Detroit Free Press.)

Fourteen States have abolished the
studv of the German language in
their schools. Sixteen States are in
process of doing the same thing.
Anti-German study movements are
Gathering in every State. These state
sments are made on the authority OF
fhe American Defense Society. No
statistics are yet available to show
the mortality of German language
indications in the United States,
but it is certainly great.
Coincidently the movement to
teach the American language to all
aliens in the United States of what
ever race not speaking the English
tongue is gathering irresistible mo-
meptum. These two movements will
not halt, will not progress backward
when the war is won. They may be
depended on to go forward for al
time. For the men behind and the
men and women in these United
States are in the majority determined
that this shall hereafter be a coun
try 100 per cent. American. Dilu'
ton will no longer be tolerantly
overlooked.
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
"a "a - -
BOURBON FARMING CONDITIONS

While ideal weather has prevailed
for the past two or three weeks for
the ripening of corn, the seeding of
wheat and the curing of tobacco. rain
is badly needed for grass and moist
ure for sprouting wheat and rye.
Bourbon county farmers are now
seeding the largest acreage OF wheat
ever planted in the county, and 1t is
estimated by well-posted farmers that
it will exceed the 1917 crop by a lit
tie over one-third. There will be a
light acreage seeded with rye as the
farmers are giving all the ground
they can spare to the growing of
wheat for bread for home and for the
soldiers abroad and in the army can
tonments.
Corn cutting is on in full sway.
Practically all the tobacco crop has
been safely housed in the barns,
awaiting a suitable season for strR-
ping. Many of the tobacco men have
automatically become corn men, and
have been helping to get the corn
safely in the shock and then In the
silo. By the time the corn is cut and
the wheat seeded the tobacco crop
will be sufficiently cured to begin
stripping the weed.
The rains that came in the latter
part of September started the plants
in the field to. taking on new life and
began making a rapid growth and
then followed the cool weather and
light frost that started the work OF
cutting again, although the tobacco
in many places was altogether toe
green. But the growers began put,
ting it in the barns as rapidly as pos
sible, to escape the killing frosts
which were inevitable according tt
the weather conditions. On this ac
count it has been stated that the late
tobacco will make rather indiffer
ent crop, but in spite Of this yer!
much higher price than that OF las
season is expected.
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18

Sometimes man loses his job be-
cause he doesn't know enough and
sometimes because he knows too
much.
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
Cascarets Work,
While You Sleep
No headache, biliousness; up
set stomach or constipa-
ton tomorrow

Spend 10 cents-feel grand! To-
night take Cascarets to liven your
liver and clean your bowels. Stop
headaches, bilious spells, sourness
gases, coated tongue, bad breath, sal
lowness and constipation. Take Cas-
carets and enjoy the incest, gentlest
inside cleansing" you ever expert
enced. Wake up feeling fine. Cas-
carets is best cathartic for children.
Taste like candy. No disappoint-
ment! Thirty million boxes of this
harmless, famous cathartic are sold
each year now. (adv)
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
PRESS COMMENDS PRESIDENTS
REPLY TO HUN PEACE NOTE

Press comment on President Will
sons reply to Germany's second
peace note follows:
NEW YORK SUN-We believe
the country has understood him (the
President) to mean that the Hohen-
zollern dynasty shall go. The
Presidents reply should hearten our
soldier in the field. 1t should and
army of bond buyers in the last week
of effort for the full success of the
Fourth Liberty Loan.
BOSTON POST-President Will
son makes notable and singnifi-
cantly prompt and effective reply.
There is no escaping the iron logic of
the words.
NEW YORK TIMES-An Ameri-
can pen has forever stilled the rat
tling of that German saber. = +
This swash-bucking Emperor : *
has brought down upon himself the
wrath of certain other instruments of
the Lord who s have amply pre-
pared themselves to make his remain
ing way short and its end exemplary.
4 The President mas spoken a
word of command, not counsel.
PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEGD-
ER-Nothing could be clearer, moth
ing could meet the exigencies of the
case more completely than the reply
of the President. It will strike
responsive chord the world over.
Stripped of all pretenses, left naked
to the scorn of men, the death SEN
tence to the "Intolerable Thing" has
been spoken.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER -
Splendidly has the President risen to
the occasion. He laid a trap for the
Huns. They have unsuspectingly en-
tered it. The jaws have been sprung,
and the Kaiser and his mad military
pals are caught firmly in the teeth.
Kaiserism must be annihilated, else
| there>will be no peace. That is the
meaning of the answer.
ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC-The big
man in the White House has correct
| ly gauged public opinion. The
American public wants peace as the
world wants peace, but we will hight
| till hell freezes over to rip the claws
and the teath from the beast that
ravaged Europe for four years
President Wilson has spoken
for the American people and the civ
ilized world.
WESTLICHE POST (ST. LOUIs)
Every word of the Presidents reply
will be approved by every true Amer
lican patriot The supremacy of the
Allied armies must be maintained and
German autocracy must fall. Wide
open is the door to peace, but only
to a peace by which autocracy will
be substituted by democracy.
CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL-TRI
lBUNE-With a directness that Is al
lonce curt but comprehensive, Presi
dent Wilson has said to Germany
that she can have peace on the same
terms and by the same process thai
peace is ever accorded to a conquer
led acknowledging defeat ant
accession to the dictates of the vic
ltor. r-
| CINCINNATI FREIE PRESS Ger
man language paper)--The Presl
dent has spoken; the nation ha'
heard him and will follow him full o
confidence.
| CINCINNATI ENQUIRER-Presi
dent Wilson's reply is plain, unmis
taxable, final. He speaks the com
mon vioce of America and reflect
the undying determination of Bel
gium, France, Great Britain ant
Italy to carry on"
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
GAS.CLOUD ATTACKS
(Charles Baskerville, in the Amer1-
can Review of Reviews.)

can Review of Reviews
The element of surprise constitutes
an important factor in such use of
gas clouds, in fact, in all phases OF
gas warfare. Against chlorine
simple protection was quickly devised
with goggles, which might readily be
slipped over the head and be tucked
under the shirt around the neck. Be-
fore issuing, the hood was treated
with a solution of soda and "hypo,"
which neutralized the chlorine. 1t
was another wonderful service of wo-
men in war-the making of 900
of those hoods by the women of Great
Britain and the getting them to
France in a week. This means or
protection long since became obsolete.
The matter of defense is referred to
more fully below.
A number of gas-cloud attacks
were launched on the Western front,
but the casualties were probably
much greater at each assault on the
Russian front, except the first time
chlorine was used at Ypres, when s.
600 were KILLED and as many priso-
ners taken. The Russians in many
instances were never supplied with
protective means of any kind, al
though Russian chemists later made
some very valuable suggestions in
selective defensive agents and devised
some good masks. Up to August,
1916, the Germans claimed to have
killed $4,000 by gas. No data as to
total casualties are available. In
this connection it may be said that
chlorine alone was not the sole agent
used. Toward the end of 1915 about
2O per cent. of phosgene (carbonyl
chloride) was mixed with the chlo-
rine. 1t is a more dangerous gas, be-
cause a comparatively slight gassine
may show it's fatal action only after
several hours, when the soldier Is out
of the active zone.
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
HOW DOCTORS TREAT COLDS AND
GRIPPE.

Ask any physician or druggist and
he will tell you that the best and
only effective remedy for, a bad cold,
sore throat, influenza or la grippe is
what he calls "a brisk calomel
purge" which means big dose of
caIomel at bed time. But as the old
style calomel has some very unpleas-
ant and dangerous qualities physlcl-
ans and druggists are now recon-
mending the improved nausealess cal
omel, called "Calotabs" which is pur-
ifed and refined from the sickening
and dangerous effects and whose
medical virtues are vastly improved.
One Caltotab on the tongue at bed
time with a swallow of water-that 6
all. No salts, no nausea nor the
slightest interference with your diet,
pleasures or work. Next morning
your cold has vanished and your en-
tire system is purified and refreshed,
Calotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-hve
cents. Your druggist guarantees Cal
otabs by refunding the price IL you
are not delighted. (adv)
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
- "a "a "A --
ICELAND'S RECORD OF CULTURE
(The Dial

(The Dial.)
There are few nations that can
point to brighter record of culture
that this little nation of 100, 900 peo-
pie -(Iceland), practically isolated on
their Arctic island for nearly 1000
years. Why did they not revert to
barbarism, as has been the fate of
many white groups out cf touch with
outside civilization? There is but one
answer: The Promathean flame
which kindled the genius of the old,
now nameless, monks-the sage au-
thors-has never died in Iceland. 1t
could not die so long as the sages
lived, firing the spiritual life OF the
nation. r.
| Each period of national prosperity
since the saga age has been a revival
of literary activity. Now Iceland is
more prosperous in material way
than ever in it's history, and behind
there is a pen scratching in every
cottage; there is poet apostrophiz-
ing every waterfall, dedicating the
summer crop of poppies and daffo-
dis, and charming or at least try
ing to charm the innumerable host
of fays and light elves, trolls and wa
ter spirits and 'landvaettir" which
have endowed the bleak hills and
mountains of Iceland with an Inn
mortal soul.
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The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18
II -

Ambassador Page resigned on ac-
count of failing health, and South
ern Democrat raises to ask how he
expects to improve by resigning a
$17, 500 job. sHn
The Bourbon news., 1918-10-18

United States in the first six
months of 1918 produced Z6,oVo
tons of chromite ore.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04

Out OF the west in 1901 came
Young Corbett, youthful, strong, con-
fdent. 1t was difficult for McGovern
to get matches those days. He had
beaten Aurelio Herrera n Oscar
Gardiner in a few rounds. Light
weights and featherweights were side
stepping him. Corbett looked Xix a
Hartford. New York fans by the
thousands focked to the ringside.
McGovern had not fought in the east
for more than a yea and Gotham
backed it's idol at odds ranging from
4 to / to 5 to l..
McGovern was beaten by a laugh
and an overland punch.
Just before the gong sounded for
the first round Corbctt sat in his cor
ner and laughed at McGovern.
"Come on out and take your lick
ing, Terry" he sneered across the
ring. They were not sneering at
McGovern those days and Terry was
wild. AS the gong sounded he dish
his own corner. The two rounds that
followed embraced more fighting than
a dozen Of the 1O-round affairs of to-
day.
An overland right was Terry's
downfall-that and Corbett's sneering
laugh, which caused McGovern to
throw discretion to the winds.
+, Near the enc of the first round that
right crashed against McGovern's
head and he wen to-. the floor. He
was up in a flash as the bell ended
the round.
The second round started even
more %furiously than the first.
The round had progressed perhaps
a minute when there happened one
of the most astonishing occurrences
the ring has ever known. Corbett
slowly extended his left hand and
chucked McGotern under the chin
He was grinning broadly.
McGovern, astonished. s%carcel!
moved as Corbett slowly tilted back
lis head. Then with lightning speed
Corbett crashed owe his~deadly over
hand right. Terry sank to the floor
then before the count of ten slowl,
pulled himself to his feet, using thu
ropes. Dazed, he weave against thu
ropes. while Corbett. smiling derisive
ly. stepped back and watched him.
Wild with rage Terry charged
straight at the smiling Corbett. rush
ing him into a corner and batterin;
him with rights and lefts. The smil'
left Corbett's face. Then suddenly, a!
McGovern started a left hook, tn
crushing right shot inside the hook
landing fairly or the chin. McGover1
fell at full length. knocked out TO
the first time in his life.
The following day the two fighter
met accidentally in a New York cafe
"You didn't win my title" Meow
ern hlazed. you didn't make tn
weight"
keep your title for all I care
Corbett gripned. But when 1 6
down the street evervone will say
There goes the mar who knocked GU
McGovern.,"
This was McGovern's last reall,
great fight. Fast living soon began t
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04
(By Paul Purmnn.)

When the great referee counted out
Terry McGovern, one of the most
rheteoric and brilliant careers in the
ring was brought to a close.
Terrible Terry he vas called, and
Terrible Terry he a not only to
featherweights in his own class, but
v to the greatest lightweights of
his time.
McGovern, greatest of feather
boxers of today, Sturdy, with the
shoulders of a welterweight and
muscles Of a leopard, 1.-the, graceful,
and with a fighting heart which would
not down, McGovern was indeed a
king in his division.
McGovern flashed Gro the sky
in 1898 when he was 10 years old. He
had been boxing for two years as a
bantamweight and his rapid series OF
knockouts had brought him to a place
where he was given a chance against
Peddled Palmer, bantamweight
champion of England and n of the
greatest little fighters of 20-years ago
This fight made McGovern. III
knocked out Palmer in the frs
round. One punch brought him the
bantamweight championship Of the
world and $4,000.
1t was then hat some sporting
writer save McGovern the name p9
which he was afterward known, Ter
rible Terry"
And Terry earned the4title. He wa
a typical knocker-out, a rushing, tear
ing battler.
McGovern soon became too big fol
the bantam division and went into thu
featherweight class. Featherweights
the best of that day, and feather
weights of that day were not tn
dancing masters of 1918. fell betor
his terrible attacks. n after another
until he reached George Dixon, VIII
for 10 years had held the title.
In 1900 McGovern and DiXo'
fought, the little negro falling befor
Terry in six rounds.
Not satisfied, McGovern vent fte
lightweights, whipping the grea
Frank Erne in three rounds. HI
Broad in six, and Joe Cans, then !
his prime in two rounds.
.McGovern's fall was as sudden an
specta cular as his rise.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04
Rv PETER p. CARNEY.
editor National Sports Syndicate

editor National Sports Syndicate)
Baseball players are not judged by
their performances in II one season
its the average over a term OF
years that counts.
Year after year Ty Cobb tops the
batsmen in the American league
the very hest evidence in the world
hat Tyrus is the best hitter in the
Junior circuit, if not its greatest play
err.
It's just the same in trapshooting.
Shooters have their real good years
Just the same as ball players-but it
is the fellow who is close to the top
year in and year out who is rated as
the best performer with the shotgun.
Lester German is the Ty Cobb of
trapshooters.
German is a professional %trapshot.
Breaking clay targets is a business
with him. He knows his business.
Yearly for 20 years German has been
pulverizing many thousands of clay
birds" Not until 10 ago., how
ever, did the Interstate Trapshooting
association begin to keep records.
trapshooters did previous t. 1908.
German with w. r. Crosby and
Fred Gilbert, are the only three trap
shooters who figure in the interstate
averages for 10 consecutive years, and
in this time German has a combined
average of 1862 on more than so, O00
targets. Only twice in the 10 years did
times a he bettered a .97 average; in
fact. his last three years have been
/ his best.
Crosby's average for 10 years is
1852. and Gilbert for the same period
has averaged .94S9. Crosby once I'VE
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04
THERE IS One GERMAN IN THE
UNITED STATES WHO SHOULD
Be TURNED ON The HUNS"
He isl Trapshooter Who Has Average Better Than 81 Per
Cent for the Past Three Years and 1852 Over
a Span of Ten Years.

aged better than 81 and seven times
bettered 90.
Charley Spencer really has a slightly
better average than German, but he Is
listed only for nine years. He didn't
figure in the 1908 averages. In the
.9677. Spencer was over SO every one
Of the nine years, n twice he passed
the 81 per cent mark.
John r. Taylor has bettered a 90
average for seven yedrs; Homer Clark
for six years. and Fl. D. Gibbs for five
who ever touched a .9S average for
one year.. George Maxwell, the one
armed shot, has averaged better than
95 per cent for the past six years.
Hcndcrson's Remarkable Record.
Charley Newcomb. of Philadelphia.
has the best average for five years
among the amateur trapshots with
the amateurs is the one compiled by
Voolfolk Henderson. of Lexington,
Ky. For the three years preceding
1914 Henderson was a professional.
Reioiningx the amateurs in 1914, he
topped the simon pures and was again
high man in 1915, and a been sec
n the past two years. Three years
in succession he. has averaged better
than 81 per cent, and has an average
of .9714 for four years, which is far
and away ahead of any amateur, and
a whole lot better than the majority
of professionals.
1t is necessary to shoot at 1000 tar
gets in registered tournaments to
break into the interstate averages. and
of the hundreds of thousands of trap
shooters, few keep in the averages
every year. The best averages of pro-
fessional and amateur trapshooters
over a. term of years are herewith ap-
pended. Here are the figures:
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04
FARGO LOSES
TO G. F. TEAM
Locals Run up Good Score
Against Fargo High
School Players.

In a we'll played basketball game
played in the Y. M. G. A. gymnasium
last evening. the Grand Forks high
school players defeated the Fargo
high school team by a score Of is to
8.
The game was interesting and not.
one dead moment" was experienced
by the fans who crowded the bleach
ers. Both teams did some excellent
work. and although Fargo started the
game with the first score, that team
vas unable to keep up the stride and
Grand Forks walked over it, doubling
! it's score shortly before the game was
ended.
Finch and Froats were the players
on the Grand Forks team whose work
stood out above the others. On the
Fargo team, Bartlle and Goffery
starred.
The lineups for the teams was as
follows:
Grand Forks. Fargo.
Phelps, 6. .......... &, Anderson
Mayer, g. e., Ball
TGo * 9 Co. Sp pdesy
Omstad. ............ T., Baftlle
Substitutes-Froats for Finch, Pat
ten for Omstad, Clifford for Patten.
Baskets were made as follows:
Grand Forks-Field Goals: Cook
2, Finch 2. Patten 2, Froats 2. Free
throws, Finch 1, Froats 1.
Fargo--Field Goals: Goffery 5
Ball /. Free throws, Bartlle 1.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04
TOURNAMENT
FOR MANDAN
Southwestern Section of the
State will Hold it's Basket
ball Meet This Week.

Mandan, N. D., March 4.-Much in
tcrest is manifested in the ensuing
basketball tournament which is to be
held in Mandan next Friday and Sat
urday. The southwestern basketball
tournament of the state will be held
here at that time when Dickinson.
Bismarck and Mandan will compete
for the high school basketball hon
ors. The winning team will go to the
state tournament as champions of the
southwestern district and will enter
the contest for the state champion
ship. Mandan defeated Fargo here
several days G and stands an excel
lent show of capturing the southern
championship. Entertainment will
be provided the basket ball players
and fans following the games.