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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17
MANDAN NEWS.
NORTHERN PACIFIC
BOOSTS CAMPAIGN
More Than Two Million Sub.
scribed by 22,S26 Employees

The Northern Pacific Railway com
pany has taken an important part in
the campaign for the sale Of Liberty
bonds and up to last evening $2,01l.
$50 worth of bonds had been subscrib.
ed by 22,S26 of the company's en-
ployes The percentage averaged 70,
but it is believed that the percentage
will be raised within the next few
days. The Montana division, the divi:
. sion vast of the Yellowstone, attained
the highest percentage, they having
averaged 81 per cent. There are 1851
employees on the Montana division and
they subscribed $45O,0OO.r The Yellow
stone division, the east terminal of
which is this city,, ranked second on
the entire system with q percentage
of IS per cent. 1t has 2,061 employees
who subscribed $188,0OO.
In Mandan the car department sub.
scribed 100 per cent, Chat is every
one Of the employees in that depart.
ment subscribed for q Liberty bond)
The shops subscribed 80 per cent, all
but one temploye subscribing in the
ond drive.
The. lowest percentage obtained on
the system, according to official fig
ures posted at the division headquar-
tiers yesterday, is on the Tacoma d.
vision, which shows that only 81 per
cent has been attained. There are l.:
O95 enployes, and only $50, 900 has
BEEN Inscribed, 81,
Tt master John Wynn says that
therast nm fnsnsosQr-s,aali q gl,,tiins-e0Ht
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RAKE WITH
SUBSTITUTES
FOR WHEAT
Agricultural Department Bulle'
tin Tells How Women Help
~ ~ to Win the War

Washington, D. c., April 17.-Wheat
can be conserved, in the home with
out hardship. With abundant crops
of other cereals many Of which may
enter into bread as a partial substi
tute for wheat. flour, there is no dan
ger of hunger of lack of bread. lev
cry! housewife is urged by the United
States department of agriculture in
Farmers Bulletin 955 to- use = some
substitute f0rswheat + flour in whatever
bread, biscuits, pastry, etc, y she pre-.
pares, thereby joining the ranks OF
those who are helping to win the
wal. - 3D.. .....,.q =.
Ly the use of such substitutes the
texture of the bread will not always
be so pleasing, the specialists say, and
the loaf will usually be smaller. In
yeast bread as much as 25 per cent
of flour or meal from other grains or
SO per cent in quick" or hot breads
produce articles excellent in flavor
and attractive in appearance Many OF
these breads will have not only equal
but even greater nutritive value than
if made from wheat flour alone. In
uSluS WucnC SuUSLltuIcS lOCdl4y 6lO"A
products should be used as far as pos
sible. .@'ss-
1t is not necessary to use these sub
stitutes always in the form of flour
or meal. The use of boiled or baked
potatoes, corn-meal mush, cooked rice,
etc, all produce breads which com
pare, we'll with those made from the
corresponding flours or meals. This
fact provides the housewife with a
good use for leftover food and en-
ables her to prevent waste. Milk,
either whole or skinned, or the whey
remaining when cottage cheese is
made improves the quality of bread
and should be used whenever it is
available. Strip may be used in place
OF sugar and often improves the flaw.
or of bread. 81. .... ~
The bulletin referred to gives com.
plete directions for making bread,
biscuits, mullins, cookies and various
kinds of pastry in which wheat-flour
Substitutes are used.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17

The United States office of public
information advises the North Dakota
Council of Defense that it hopes to
have William Allen White, editor Of
the Emporia (kans.) Gazette and au-
thor Of Whats the Matter with Kan
sas," IN Our Town." and more re-
cent works Of fiction whose sales have
run into hundreds Of thousands, IN
Bismarck for the North Dakota editor
ial war conference to be held April 26
and q. White is the vests most fam.
Gus editor He has been a constant
contributor for years to The Saturday
Evening Post and other high class
publications, and is almost equally
we'll known as an orator and lecturer.
His coming will do much to insure the
success of the state editorial meet
! ing called by Secretary Thomas Allan
Box of the North Dakota Council or
Defense, who already has received ac-
ceptances from large percentage OF
the publishers Of the state.
This meeting will be general get
! together conference of all North Da-
llota newspaper men, regardless OF po-
litical alignment, with view OF
drafting constructive program OF
publicity work for the war. NO party
| lines will be considered at the con-
/ ference, and there will be plenty OF
social diversions to bring the pen
wielders together and to induce them
momentarily, at least, to bury the
hammer and to get together on the
all-important question of winning the
wa.
North Dakota newspapers have Civ
Ell more literally Of their space to war
measures than has the press OF any
other state in the unoi Their 10y
atty to the cause has been more re
sponsible than any other single fac
tor for the success which has attend
the several Liberty loan, Red Cross
Y. M. G.. A. and other patriotic drives
Secretary Thomas Allan EOX's idea is
not to make further demands on the
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| never expected to write on your
white pages again, little book. In
deed, until today | could not look up
on your red covers and I am sure |
would not have opened you now il
had not had shock and surprise.
The morning after it was decided
that Mother Trent should come and
stay with Dick and me, Dick did not
get up to breakfast and when | went
into his room to call him | found
him unconscious.
| aroused the servants, Immediately
sent for DR.. VirOt but it was to no
avail Dick only regained conscious
ness for short time and took my
hand and smiled as he said. 1T is all
right, Margie dear, it is all right. Re:
member through all my foolishness
have always loved you, and you have
made me always happy. ! would not
have had you changed in one particu:
lar" "
He was silent a moment for it was
hard for him to talk, and then he said,
II hoped to live long enough to see
our child Margie, but l know it will
comfort you, Margje.'
Don't leave me, Dick" l said a
little wildly. 1--WE are just beginning
to be happy
81 know it, dear--I know it, he
answered sadly, land this last year
has been all my life to me-
"Oh, | can't let you 60, / can't let
you CO."
Then you do love me, Margie?"
"Why, Dick, darling have always
loved you.
Even when you knew was untrue
even when you thought l was cow
ard?' asked Dick with a feeble smile.
sometimes, my love, I thought |
did not, but know that have always
loved you utterly
Dearest Margie.' he whispered, his
voice growing fainter, Lift me up.
lifeted him up and he gave little
sigh of content as his head was pillow
ed on my breast. He tried to raise
his arm to put it around my neck but
he could not.
"Are you in pain, dear hearth" l
asked.
"No," he answered, 81 am perfectly
content" and then he stiffened little
and drew convulsive breath and was
dead.
have just one thing to be thank
full for in that awful time-I was alone
with my husband when he died. Aft
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| PEOPLES FORUM
CHRISTIANITY AND WAR,
Dickinson, Nd. April 16, 1918.


Bismarck Tribune,
Bismarck, N. D. +, - 81
Dear Sir: 'rf# 49, !
A stranger to you, but one THAI
watches very closely the trend OF
newspaper editOrs-was for 10 years
one myself must offer you my SIN
cerest congratulation in regard to: the
Bismarck Tribune. yqf{"
There are many Specific instances
that might be rec orded, and to which
have drawn particular attention froli
time to time then that latest Of
yours regarding the high hopes of the
christian men of the church in the
present world conflict, and which ap.
peared in the issue of last Thursday
, Or Friday. in which YOU first quote the
sentence of one of the Ohio christian
! men at a public gathering, is climax
that any state or individual should I'M
itate. \
Today and tCmOrroW the Missouri
Congregational conference will hold
| it's sessions at Hebron, and inasmuch
as the writer has to speak on the
worlds situation, he will have the priv
:!ege of reading this editorial in full,
and you may be sure that he will give
credit to the writer at that gather
ing.
Those of us who have given sons
or friends to the worlds redemption
know how much the spirit of hope is
engendered by such splendid article
as outlined, and which because of it's
splendid ethical standard and ideals.
i is worth it's weight in gold to those
| who have to remain at home.
You doubtless know that the writer
has three sons in the service, two in
France and the doctor boy who has
been in the N. Y. State Guards has
| also asked for a transfer to foreign
fields.
Card Party Planned.
A card party will be given by St
Mary's sodality at the X. c. hall Fri
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CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
A WIDOW AND A MOTHER.

onward | lad to share him with his
mother and endure her noisy grief
But for those last supreme moments
Dick was completely mine. | can feel
still the weight OF his dear body as !
lifted him up, | can still see the look
Of love in his eyes. Everything, little
cook, was blotted out except that
aad once more my splendid lover back
The lover who had wooed me so i'm
petuously and who was now dying as
he would have wished to die, if he
must-in my arms.
Eat did not have this comfort long:
little book, for whatever sorrow comes
o one, the world steps in and says
You must do thus and so under these
circumstances" Mercifully was
spared all the details of the final ar
'angements and the details of the fun
eral. For that night Dicks boy was
)orn, and l was delirious for two
weeks.
They tell me that no one expected
lie to live, and if it were not for my
lessel baby with his fathers gray
eyes | would have been glad to go.
Already can see the glimmer OF
hat little crooked smile about the
)aby mouth, although everybody ex
ept dear cid Jim insists that baby
t six months does not smile.
When came to myself after that
agony of body and grief Of soul,
.ound myself in a pretty room with
lowers all about me. For a minute or
two l did not understand what had oc
Cured and moved a little restlessly
trying to think
The nurse came quickly to the bed
and as she came she stepped to the
bassinet and picked up fragrant
bundle of flannel and fine linen and
brought it over.
When she saw that was sane again
she placed my baby in my arms. For
moment the contact of that tiny
helpless yielding body against my
heart blotted out everything except
the mother love-the great unexplain
able, ineXplicable. amending, unreason
ing love that baby brings to the one
who bears it.
| was too weak to even put my arms
about it but felt its little soft moist
mouth against my breast and tears
filled my eyes and rolled unbidden
down my cheeks.
ASK Dick to come to me-" said
weakly-"has he seen my baby?'-
and then | remembered.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17
W0RLD-FAMED
ORATOR HERE
FOR LECTURES
DR.. Charles Wesley Burns Will
Speak at McCabe Church
r. Next Week
INVITATION TO THE PUBLIC
''Hazlett Lectures" to Be Made
Occasion for Gathering of
M. E. Ministry

On Monday and Tuesday, April % and
%, the "Hazlett Lectures will be CIV
en- in the McCabe Methodist Episcopal
church At the same time the minis
tiers of the Bismarck district will as
sembleain an inspirational gathering.
DR.. Charles Wesley Burns, pastor of
the Hennepin Avenue church in Min
neapOlis, is the HaZelett lecturer for
1913 The program, in part, is as fol-
lows:
=
April 22.-S p. m, Hazlett lecture.
Things That Are Not Shaken" Dr. c.
Wesley Burns.
Tuesday, April 23-
$3.50 a. m.-Devotional
8 a. m.-The Jubilee program.
DR.. A. L.. Howarth.
10 am Questionaire on Wesley
College led by DR.. E. P.
Robertson.
2 D. m.-Meeting Of the Bis
marck District Ministers.
$3.50 .m.-Hazlett Lecture, "A
Shadowless God" DR.
Burns. .f
8 p. m.-Address, Dr. A. L..
Howarth of New York.
$3.50 p. m-,Lecture, personality
and Democracy" DR..
Burns. 49,,
Everyone is invited to attend the
sessions. An especial invitation to all
to attend the "Hazlett Lectures" is
cordially extended. Note the dates
and hours and plan to come.
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local chapter. She expects to be there
about q week. ,.,
Mrs. ], w. Hintge.: IS in tn, win CT
ties for few days visiliIo VIVA
friends.
Miss Hattie Harmon of Bismarck
was a guest Of Mandan friends yes.
terday afternoon.
Rev. Father Clement was numbered
among the Mandan people who visited
in the capital city yesterday.
Attorney Kelch returned home Mon
day from Linton, where he had been
over Sunday guest of his parents,
Mr.. kensch expects to soon leave for
the service Of the army.
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ing in day by day and by the time the
drive is over he is confident that the
percentage on each division will be
raised considerably. He predicts the
Yellowstone division percentage will
reach 81 at the least.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE LIKELY =.
FEATURE FOR EDITORIAL MEET

space OF these already over-burdened
newspapers, but to arrange some
plan through which patriotic publicity
may be systematized, and the news
papers generally not be fed more than
they can agreeably assfmilate and
their readers digest.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17

day c5ening Refreshments will be
served and good time is assured.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17

Barnes was formerly sheriff of Bur
leigh county.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17

Miss Ruth Parkin is in the twin CT
ties for few days attending to Red
Cross matters in the interest of the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17
FLAsHERI1E IN TROUBLE.

FCNSTIEHTTcT IN VHVVoCG'
James McFall was arrested at Flash
er yesterday afternoon by Deputy
Sheriff Gabe Eckroth and brought to
Mandan to answer the charge OF petit
larceny. McFall will have his hearing
this afternoon at the office of States
ATTORNEY L. H. Connolly, before Judge
H. L. Henke.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17

Has Garden In.
/. MOleur of II Rosser had just got
ten in his garden to get full advantage
of the rain.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17
NAHUM FUNERAL.

The remains of A. A. Nahum were
laid to rest this afternoon in the
Union cemetery. The funeral was held
from the Elk's hall with Rev. c. J. Fly.
ling officiating.
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button fastening. Such coat adds
the desired touch Of distinction to the
separate esport skirt OF satin and
blouse of crepe. At the right is a
coat suit in flowered crepe, with an
embroidered parasol to match.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17
BEFORE SUPREME COURT.

Hon. 81 L. Nichols, senior men,
Der of the local law firm Of 'Nuchols
& Kelsch, appeared before the SUI
preme court in Bismarck on Tuesday
morning to argue the case of Chaffee
versus the Farmers Elevator COM
pany of Hazen. Judge Nuchols repre-
sented H. s. Chaffee. and States At
torney H. L. Berry of Stanton repre-.
sented the Farmers Elevotor com.
pany. The action is brought by Bank.
er Chaffee to recover damage on a
grain deal. Z
Misses Florence and Cecilia C0nnOl-
ly visited in Bismarck Tuesday with
friends.
Mrs. George Moore and granddaugh
ter, Elaine Wilkinson, returned home.
from lsmay, Mont, yesterday morning
k&#ns y aSfss1 - int =: "a 90 ~ = lSStJ
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17

Pythians Meet Tonight.
A regular meeting Of st. Elmo Lodge
No. will be held this evening at .
o'clock in the castle hall. There Will
be initiation in the rank of knight, and
refreshments will be served All mem
bers are especially urged to attend.
Visitors cordially invited.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-17

SKATING.
Roller skating at Armory Thursday
night ..
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local chapter. She expects to be there
n C,f unpl,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-02
WHEN FIRST OF
HEROES BACK IN
THEIR HOMELAND

New York Dec 2-On the pin
nacle of the tallest building in the
world 1 stood today and watched the
first of our victorious heroes come
sailing home.
1t was an inspiring and historic
moment when the mammoth Maure-
tania, in her checkerboard coat of
camouflage, turned her PROV from
the harbor into the Hudson river.
1t was cold and a little misty when
"thc stately ship went on to her
haven" at the Fourteenth street pier.
but all points of vantage were occu-
pied by Americans who wanted to say,
.Welcome home, boys"
The fleet of tugs said it in pipin g
treble and the big steamers said it in
deepest bass and they all kept saying
1t SO loudly for half an hour that it
rather got on ones nerves as one tried
to absorb the history that fluttered
from every masthead and f1oated from:
ever pier.
A lone flyer from somewhere on
Long Island swooped low above the
heads of his returning comrades who
were crowded on the decks of the big
transport and his roaring motors hum
med a welcome.
Somewhere a band was playing the
Star Spangled Banner and all the
landscape seemed dotted with stiff
figures in olive drab, standing at at
tention. The office boys in the sky
scrapers were throwing paper out of
the windows. trying to work up an
| other peace holiday. Down at the
! pier were thousands of welcomers
waiting. yelling themselves hoarse, as
at last the ocean giant turned her nose
slowly toward the shore
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-02
TO EXAMINE men
Army Doctor Will Help Dis
charge Washburn Men.
Capt. Clay +. COburn Expected
Here Tonight.
Or. JEFFREY HIGHLY PRAISED
Student Soldiers Give Dinner in
His Honor.
Rehabilitation Is To Start on
49, December 4.

The discharge examinations of the
enlisted men of the Washburn college
unit of the Students Army Training
corps will be conducted under the SUI
pervision of Captain Clay L. Coburn,
or the army medical corps, according
To a statement made by Captain Frank
E. Shaw, commander of the unit to-
day. Captain Coburn has already
been ordered to report to Washburn
college for this duty and it is ex-
pected that he will arrive in Topeka
this evening. Generalization will start
December 4.
In making the announcement To-Day
Captain Shaw said that Dr.. "A. b. JEFF
frey has volunteered his services to
the unit in the work of making the
discharge examinations. Captain Shaw
said that it is expected the men in the
unit will come thru the examinations
with flying colors-and he laid the
credit Tor the fine condition of the
men at the door of Doctor Jeffrey
who was contract surgeon for the
unit during practically the whole of
the two months it has been organized
Kept Down Influenza.
According to Captain Shaw, the Of
ficers of the post, the enlisted men
themselves ana their parents, it was
the work of DIR. Jeffrey which kept the
from all other diseases. But one man
was lost out of the unit from sickness
or any otner cause, and one man was
brought back from the very brink of
the grave thru the efforts of the doc
tor anu the sIeepless care of Mrs. Jas.
Bib.'. the nurse in charge of the unit
infirmary.
As an expression of their esteem
and an emblem of their thanks for his
work and friendship, the men of the
Washburn ). a. 4. c. unit held
party for Doctor Jeffrey last week. 1t
was a sort of farewell affair, as Doc
tor Jeffrey had resigned as contract
surgeon of the post, and Doctor War
ner had been appointed in the vacant
place. t.
y Dinner for Surgeon.
At this dinner Doctor Jeffrey was
presented with a pair of fine automo-
bile gauntlets, a lap robe and a COM
pleteiy outfitted cabinet of hardwood.
Doctor Jeffrey's car was also outfit
ted with a new spotlight. The band
was present at the dinner and gave an
iTnpromptu concert. The officers of
the post were honored guests of the
men on this occasion and were each
of them called upon for an after din
ner speech
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-02

OF its grave responsibilities. 1 am the
servant of the nation. l can have no pri-
waite thought or purpose of my own in
performing such errand. l do SO to
give the best that is in me to the common
settlement which l must now assist in ar
irving at in conference with the other
working heads Of the associated govern
mentS.
Counts on EncOuraE cement.
shall count upon your friendly counte-
nance and encouragement 1 shall not be
inaccessible. The cables and the wireless
Will render me available for any counsel
shall be happy in the thought that 1 am
constantly in touch with the weighty mat
tiers Of domestic policy with which we
shall have to deal. l shall make my alb
sence as brief as possible, and shall hope to
return with the happy assurance that it
has been possible to translate into action
the great ideals for which America has
striven.
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Russia, and came to Topeka seven
years ago. He was successfully en-
gagged in the dairy business with his
brothers. One Of the brothers, Sam
uel. is in the service in Texas, and
the other, NJ. j. Hurwitz. is managing
the farm. Corporal Hurwitz is a mem
Der of Company D. 353rd infantry.
seth division. He is a member Of the
I. o. o. F.. lodge No. 40.
A former Topeka man, Lee J. Perry.
is reported to have died OF disease in
France. The Perry family formerly
lived at ia Tyler street, Topeka, but
has moved away, and official notifica-
ton of the death has not been re-
ceived here, except in the casualty
list.
Hubert v. Halloran, Of North To-
peka, is reported as wounded in ac-
ton. Halloran made his home with
his sister. Mrs. Agnes Gish. of Hoyt.
Some time ago she received word
from a comrade of her brother that
he had been slightly wounded. That
is the last word she has had Of him.
1t has been some time since she re-
ceived a letter from him. $50,