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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
HIGH SCHOOL
IS DEFEATED
Devils Lake Men Win from
Locals by Only Thee
Points.

In a hard-fought basketball game,
which was featured by clean, scrappy
playing on both sides, the basketball
team of the Devils Lake high school
defeated the Grand Forks high school
team by Il score of 90 to 20. The
game was close throughout. At the
end of the first half the Devils Lake
ming of the second half the Grand
Forks boys came back determined to
win and the play at the beginning of
the half looked as though they might,
for they quickly tied the score. In
the last few minutes Of play the Dew
lis Lake team tossed two baskets,
cinching the game.
The play of the Grand Forks team
showed splendid teamwork. but in
ability to throw baskets. The Devils
Lake team showed splendid co-opera-
ton throughout the entire game, and
the guarding of the team was excel
lent. This game, which has nothing
to do with the ranking of the teams
in the state tournament. classes the
Devils Lake team as one of the best
in the state.
The Grand Forks team will meet
the Fargo high school in Grand Forks
next Friday and a hard-fought game
is expected. The game last night was
the first game to be lost and breaks a
string of twelve victories.
The star for Devils Lake was Sher-
yer. who negotiated field bas-
kets. while Froats starred for Grand
Forks with five goals from the field.
The lineup:
Devils Lake. Grand Forks.
Burgess, r. f. ...I...... r. f., Finch
Sherver. l.. f. .......... ]. f.. Froats
Mann. c. c., Cook
Chisholm. r. e. ........ r. g., Manel
Stevens. l. e. .......... ]. g., Phelps
Substitutes: Patton for Finch,
Ar,nsted for Burgess. .,
Field Goals: Sherver {. Burgess 1,
Mann 8, Finch l, I'roats 5. Cook 1.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
LOOMS TIES
: RECORD FOR
Low HURDLES
Boston Man Takes Honors
in Cross Country Run for
Infantrymen.

Aver, Mass, Feb. 23.-Frank
Loonis of the Chicago Athletic asso-
citation tied the worlds record for the
so yard indoor low hurdles last night
while competing in the military
handicap track meet at Northwestern
university gymnasium. Loomis, who
was the individual star of the meet,
cleared the barriers in 62-5 seconds,
tieing the mark made by his brother,
J. O. Loomis, some time ago.
The Chicago Athletic association
won the meet with 43 points, the IL
linois Athletic association was sec
ond with 40 and the University of
Chicago third with IA. The proceeds
of the meet will go to the Athletic
fund at the Great Lakes ava train
ing station.
John J. Moore of Boston, a mem
her of the Machine Gun company OF
the 301st infantry, won Il two and
three-quarter mile cross country run
at Camp Devens yesterday in which
more than 1000 members of the
151st. Infantry brigade We're con-
testants. His time vas Is minutes
80 seconds. Stanilause Cocker of
New Bedford finished second and
Bernard Houghton of Taunton third.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
COMB RINK WINS
MERRIAM TROPHY
Dunbar Rink Wins Medal
Lost by Minneapolis at
Duluth in 1917.

st. Paul, Mimi. Feb. 23.-The +.
Comb rink of Minneapolis won the
Merriam trophy. which carried with
it the state championship. by defeat
ing the r. IL. Dunbar rink of this
city fifteen to twelve in the last draw
of the curling which was finished
early this morning. The final match
did not begin until we'll after the II
p. M, and neither rink took any
chances on hurried shots.
Dunbar's rink won the medal,
which was lost to the Minneapolis
rink in Duluth in 1917.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

Chicago, Feb. 23.-Butter steady;
receipts 6,155 tubs; creamery extras
4S 1-2; extra irsts 4S 1-2; firsts 400
48; seconds 44@45 1-2.
Cheese steady; daisies 81 Ia % 1-2;
Americas q 1-2m3-4: long horns q
Ia 90 1-2; Twins 25 1-2@26.
Eggs lower; receipts 1894 cases;
firsts 46; ordinary firsts A4@45; at
mark cases included 44@45.
Potatoes lower; receipts As cars;
Wisconsin. Michigan and Minnesota
bulk 1.65@1.75; do sacks 1.70@1.75.
Poultry alive unchanged. ,
Recent mild weather vas reflected
today in a six cent drop in the whole
sale price of eggs, as compared with
prices on the last previous session of
egg board last Thursday. Eggs at
mark. cases included, fell from Sic
to 45c. -
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
DONNYBROOK HIGHS
DEFEAT MINOT MEN

Minot, N. D.. Feb. 23.-The Donny-
brook high school basketball players
took the local team into camp last
evening in a basketball game played
here. The score was 80 to 18 and the
Donnybrook men showed the effects
of excellent training throughout the
game.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
NEW YORK

New York. Feb. 23.-Mercantile pa
Del S 1905 ga. Sterling 6O-day
bills 472 1-2; commercial so days bills
on banks 472: commercial so day bills
All 1-2: demand ATS Ia; cables
476 7-16. Francs demand 572 1-2;
cables $40 1-2. Guilders demand "A
IA: cables "a Sd. Lire demand ST.;
cables SIS. Rubles demand 13; cables
- Ia nominal. Mexican dollars 68.
Government bonds heavy; railroad
bonds steady,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVE STOCK.

SOUTH ST. PAUL 1--WE SIOCh'
South st. Paul, Mimi, Feb. "a
Hog receipts $500; steady, zoe higher
for week; range s16.90@$17.1O; bulk
$17@$17.1O. ~ -
Cattle receipts, $50; killers steady
lower for week; steers $3.50
@$13; cows and heifers, $7@$9.5O;
veal calves steady, s6@$12.5O; stock
ers and feeders steady, Is to 25c low
err for week, $6.50@$10.5o.
Sheep receipts so, lambs steady; Csc
lower for week; sheep steady; lambs
$8@$16; wethers $7@$13; ewes $50
81 5Q
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
SHARP BREAK
IN CORN TODAY
Action of Board in Estab-
fishing Maximum Price
Limits has Effect. =,

Chicago, Feb. ga general rush
to sell and sharp breaks in values re-
suited today from action of board of
trade directors establishing maximum
price limits on all business in further
deliveries. a especially showed
from the extreme lower point touched
at the outset were mainly due to profit
taking by shorts. After opening l 7-8
to 3 1-2c down, with May 81 1-2. to
80, the market gradually reached
comparative steadiness around 88 Ia
May.
Corn reflected only to a moderate
extent the depression of oats. Urgent
export n industrial demand tended
to act as an offset for the new re-
strictions which in any case could not
directly apply to corn with any great
er s%tringency than has long been the
from 1904 to 5-8@3-4c lower.
with March 1:27 1-2 and May 1926 Ia
to 1.27, were followed by slight chang
es within the initial limits.
Provisions dropped at once as far
as the rules would permit for one day.
There was general commission house
liquidation.
No important change developed in~
the later trading. Prices closed
steady, IA to 3-sG1-2c net lower,
with March $1.27 1-2 and May $1.26
3-4.
Corn Open. High. Low. Close.
May May'n '....1:5s%% i.27 1861 i a:ss%
Oats
March +. . .s9A .soN .ssM .ssM
May $500. .s7k .s@ .S7h .87%
May ......49.55s 1855 1855 4s.55
NAY ."...ss.47 $3.50 2s.47 ss.47
May ..~....25.70 25.75 $50 25.70
July ......26.05 26.12 26.05 26.05
Corn, No. 2, 8 and 4 yellow, nominal
Oats, NO. 3 white 81 1-4@92 1-2;
standard 92@93.
Rye. No. 2. $2.47. ~n.
Barley, $1.65@2.0O. ..ar
Timothy, 5000 S.25. Fl,
Clover $1,000 @ $500. .
Pork, nominal.
Lard, s26.62. w.
Ribs, STATS @25.25. %
MILWAUKEE GRAIN.
Milwaukee. Wis, Feb. 23-Corn No.
3 yellow $50 40 1855; No. 3 white 200
@2.O5; No. 3 1.7O@1.75; May 1926
3-4.
Oats standard 81 1-2@92 1-2; No.
3 white SO 1904 1-2; No. 4 white.
80 1-2@9O; May 81 3-8.
Rye No. ], 2.46.
Barley mailing and Wisconsin 100
@2.02; feed and rejected LIS 1.S5.
Hay unchanged.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
BAGLEY DEFEATED
BY BEMIDJI MEN

Bemidji. Mimi. Feb. 23.-In a fast
game of basketball played in this city
last evening. the Benlidji high school
defeated the Bagley high school men
by a score of 81 to ~.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
Dillon And Walker
Go IL Rounds To Draw

Joplin, Mo-, Feb. 23.-Jack Dillon
of Indianapolis and Hugh Walker of
Kansas City boxed twelve rounds to
a draw here last night.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN.

Minneapolis, Feb. 23.-wheat' re-
ceipts 233 ears compared with ass a
year ago.
Corn, No. 3 yellow 1.S0@1.S5.
Oats-No. 3 white 80 $1,000 1-2.
Flat, 3.79@3.81.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23
B Sport NeWs in General J
CROOKSTON BOWLERS
DEFEATED LAST NIGHT

Last night at the Grand bowling
alleys Fred She'll and G. Wolf de-
feated a two-man team from Crook
ston. composed Of Bert Wade and
Olson.
The match was a five-game series,
total pins counting. Wolf and She'll
winning by 223 pins. They won the
first four games but lost the last one
The match was played for a $40 purse.
She'll did good bowling, lacking one
pin of averaging 1877. Wolf was next
with an average of 166, and two pins,
while Wade had an even 166 average,
Olson was low with on average of 14O.
Wolf and She'll " ! play a return
match at Crookston "A week from next
Sunday. The match will be for a
purse Of $40.
E~nllowinp a re the cc0reS.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23

Trotzky says mo war and no
peace" a $3.50 which it is not easy
to adjust.
German Independent socialists are
SAID to he planning a strike for March
:. These German socialist strikes are
too 1,u,cly academic and intellectual
to he impressive.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-23

MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR.
Minneapolis, Feb. 23.-Flour un-
changed; shipments 6S,631 barrels.
Barley 100000.
Rye 2.42@2.43.
Bran $3.50.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05
WHY THEY GO.

A thoughtful Keokuk mother remarked that
she had reared her son with loving care and
now the government comes and takes him. She
grieves to see him go; and yet she would grieve
still more to see him a Stacker who stayed at
home
This is the spirit in which all American
mothers should see their sons respond to their
countrys call 1t is true that the government
takes them, goes to the family home and sum
mons the boy to leave his loved ones, his studies,
his pleasures, his plans for life. But 1T takes
him for no unworthy, light or selfish purpose
He is not called upon to fight for INSCRIPTIONS
rulers, for ambitious commanders 1t is not TO
defend his government that gun is put into
his hands. He goes to the front to fight for that
mother whose eyes were wet at parting, to pro-
tect her from dishonor and death He fights to
defend his own right to live in peace to found
a home, to rear a family. He fights that his own
brothers and millions of other American boys
may grow up as he has in land OF plenty and
peace, where life is safe, where laws afford pro-
lection, where comfort rewards thrift. lie
fights for all that makes life worth living; for
a brutal power has arisen IN the world that
menaces all these things, which despolls and
murders peaceful citizens on land and sea;
ruthless power which tortures starves or butch
ers agonized women, helpless children and in
nocent babes; barbarous power which steals
whatever it covets and can lay its hands on,
and in wantonness of depravity destroys the
rest
The parents and children of America are
America. The men who are called to arms are
fighting for their loved ones, for themselves,
for everything they prize They fight for free
dom, the one word that sums up all that is of
value in human life; and mothers well might
smile bravely through their tears as they bid
their sons goodby. For lit would be a bitterer
thing to have them stay at home as slacl1ers
than to go and never come back.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05
SOME CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTORS.

1t is evident that many slackers are using
the plea of conscientious objections to military
service as means of keeping them out OF the
war Such persons, when their real purpose is
known, are deserving of no consideration from
the government. There are, however, in this
country several sects, including the Mennonites
,anG Dunkards, that have resisted compulsory
military service for many generations.
The Mennontes decended from the old
Anabaptists whose history runs back centuries
before the reformation. In Germany and other
countries of middle Europe in its earlier years
this sect contributed many martyrs to the cause
of non-resistance. But several nations now toll
ierate their religious eccentricities, because of
their high standing as law-abiding, peace-lov-
ling citizens.
The DunkarcIs are another branch of the an
Client Baptist faith, which has for centuries adj
ihered to the doctrine of non-resstance and in
the early colonial days sought a refuge in
lAmerica where they could live unmolested be-
lcause of their peculiar religious views.
These people, the Mennonites and Dunkards,
lowing to their quiet, unassuming lives, have
made little stir in the world But they are not
slackers. They are thrifty, peace-loving citi-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05
SUGAR AND MoLAssEs.

Sugar is now to cost the consumer at least
cent more pound, and in order to stabilize
the price and prevent the two prices which pre-
vailed last year the government at an early day
will buy at the old price every pound OF the COM
modify held by producers and rehnerles IN this
country, and sell it back at the new price, thus
making such profit as the advanced rate brings.
The country will still remain on sugar ratfons
Of one and half or two pounds a month per
capita This takes care Of the matutinal coffee
but leaves the apple pie and other once tooth
some viands less deectable than most OF us like
Doubtless we shall get used to them in time,
and if we have as people been using more
sweets than makes for health the forced alb
stention may do US good.
In any event. our forbears were very hardy
generation in the days when molasses was about
the only sweetening the family had. Molasses
seems no longer to be commodity in general
use; and this generation knows by hearsay only
the proverbial slowness of that fluid on a winter
day. Our children would tilt their noses at
molasses on mush; yet it was once esteemed a
dainty by girls who grew into radiant woman
hood and was considered very appetlzing, sat
isfying comestible by stalwart youth who clear
ed the forests in times which called for virile
men. Unpalatable as it seems compared with
modern sweets, it is fact that it was the chief
rejection of a very superior generation Of
women and men,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05
WASTE IN GOVERNMENT WORK.

Thomas F. Logan, in Leslie's Week
ly: There are few government bur-
eaus which do not send each week
to the newspaper and magazine Of
fees ten times more publicity mater
ial than there is any hope of getting
into print Almost every bureau has
it's press agent, who enters into act
i've competition with the bureau of
public information. The copy" sub
mitted to Washington newspaper Of
fees each day fills several waste
paper baskets. Far better results
would be obtained by cutting down
reports of their essentials and elimi-
Mating the issue of unimportant so.
called news" The saving of paper,
ink and clerical labor would be ire
mendous in the course of a year. Yet
this is but trifling detail in the sys-
tematic waste of time and material
that is notorious in government de
partments. Why not conduct a cam
paign of thrift IN the government de
partments?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05
Experiences Of a Y. M. C. A.
Worker ".S0me5Uhere in EUROPE
sy. G. e Durae General Secretary Washington
London, S. w.

timed peaches. that would have got
the worst of the blow?
l covered quarter of mile up
hill from the sea in record time and
found that luck had been with us;
for the shell had fallen in such a way
that only seats and boxes had been
shattered. There was an interested
crowd standing round picking up
souvenirs and there are certain
things into which wise Y. M. c. A.
secretary does not enquire. dared
not enter into my accounts the loss
to the Y. NJ. c. A. of timed fruits
that day Evidence of the risk the
men had run was upon the clothes of
more than one of them who had been
spotted with peach juice when the
shell burst. Only three men were
in the tent at the time. one of whom
was wounded man on a stretcher
and he was again wounded by the
shell while the other two escaped un,
hurt. Fortunately for the first man
neither of his wounds were serious
and he was out of the hospital again
a few days later. After this occur
renee our concerts and affairs did
not go with quite the same swing,
for while men were willing TO run
risks under fire and do their tasks.
it was a different thi.'g to come in
at night to smoke the pipe OF peace
under shell fire. In the middle OF
our best turns ! have seen the tent
empty in four seconds at the sound
of a familiar approach and an audi
ence bend like a field Of corn being
cut by the reaping machine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05
SUFFERED WITH
RHEUMATISM. CATARRH
AND STOMACH TROUBLE

81 think Number 40 For The Blood
as a blood purifier has no equal.
When I began to take Number 40
/ was in very poor health as / had
rheumatism, Catarrh, Stomach Trou-
BILE, Lead Poisoning, and an Itch that
/ had tried almost every known rem
edy to relieve. | have taken six bot
ties of Number 40 and am on fast
road to recovery. / owe my life to
it as 1 used to weigh 127 pounds and
now weigh 14S, my usual weight. /
could write more but this should be
enough to convince the most skepti-
cal, and you are at liberty to use
this letter anyway you desire" Geo.
Klinker, Lima, Ohio.
The ingredients in Number 40 For
The Blood" are set down in the u. S.
Dispensatory and other reliable med
icaI books as follows: Employed in
diseases of the glandular system, in
blood poison, constipation, stomach
and liver troubles, chronic rheuma-
tism catarrh, sores, ulcers, skin
eruptions, mecurial and lead poison
ing. Under its use nodes, tumors,
scrofulous swellings that have with
stood all other treatment disappear
as if by magic"
Prepared by J. G. Mendenhall,
Evansville, Ind, 40 years druggist.
Sold by McGrath Bros. Drug Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05
ToDAYs BIT OF VERSE
IN A ROSE GARDEN.


A hundred years from now, dear heart,
We will not care at all;
1t will not matter then a whit,
The honey or the gall;
The Summer days that we have known
Win all forgotten be and flown;
The garden will be overgrown
Where now the roses fall
A hundred years from now, dear heart
We will not mind the pain;
The throbbing, crimson tide Of life
VIII not have left a stain;
The song we sing together, dear,
The dream we dream together here,
Will mean no more than means tear
Amid Summer rain.
A hundred years from now, dear heart,
The grief will all be Ger,
The sea of care will surge in vain
Upon careless shore;
These glasses we turn down today,
Here at the parting of the way.
We shall be wineless than as they,
And will not mind it more.
A hundred years from now. dear heart,
Wen neither know nor care
What came of all lfe's bitterness,
Or followed loves despair;
Then fill the glasses up again
And kiss me through the rose-leaf rain;
Well build one castle more in Spain
And dream one more dream there.
John Bennett.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05

eral weeks visit at Lincoln and Kan
sas City, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Harnagel and
children of Pennington, visited re.a-
tives here Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Barnes and
daughter Winona, Elmer Cook and
sister Rose, autoed to Columbus
Junction Thursday to attend the fair.
Mrs. F. c. Taber was a Farming
ton visitor Friday.
Miss Dora Schock is home from a
several months stay in Peoria, Ill.
Mrs. G.. w. Holdefer and son Rob.
ert, of Pulaski, visited home folks
several days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs E. II. Wiegner and
son Edward, of Pennington, visited
home folks Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. Bert Kemp and son of West
Point, visited relatives here Sunday.
Mr., and Mrs. Oliver Gilbert and
children of Keokuk, were recent visi-
tors here with relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Seyb have
moved to Ft Madison.
Richard Armknecht has gone to Co
lumbia, Mo. to attend military school.
Mrs. Dallas Watson visited in Can
tril several days last week.
Mrs. Whit Booth and son of
Pulaski. visited with Mrs. Robert
Lowenberg the forepart of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Barnes. Winona
and Miss Ruth Schock Sundayed near
LaCrew.
James Lowenberg returned to his
work at Davenport Tuesday evening.
after having attended the funeral of
his mother
Mrs. H. Meinhardt has gone to st.
Louis on business trip.
John Schlicher and Jacob Schlicher,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-05
WHAT THE CROWS DID.

Cedar Rapids Republican: Those
who have been in doubt as to the
usefulness of crows in the war that
man has to wage on bugs and worms,
should have been at the Country club
grounds during any one OF many re-
cent mornings. One view OF the
situation would have convinced the
most skeptical.
Through the mysterious process OF
nature certain parts of those grounds,
where the fine golf turf is maintain
ed, have become infested with grub
worms of an extraordinary large size,
They were preceded by beetles, 80
they tell us, which, presumably laid
the eggs which have been Matching in
these fine August days. The turf is
literally Sc thick with them that the
ground becomes soft and spongy IN
derfoot Presumably also they would
kill the grass for they devour many
of the roots.
But someone, in the same mysteri-
Gus processes of nature whispered the
fact that these grubs were on those
grounds to the crows. the wisest of
all the birds of our Iowa air. And
so the crows began to assemble, from
far and wide, until the on-lookers
were astonished at their numbers.
Who had ever dreamed of SO many
crows being in the land? And like
an army In violent offensive, those
crows attacked the worm infested
turf. They ripped it open and tore
off pieces a foot or more across, lay
ing the sod back as if man We're
doing it with a rough spade. And
the ground thus opened swarmed with
the grubs, and what feast it was
for them. And how they fought for
the CHOICE morselss not only among
themselves, but with other birds
which came to feed on the grounds
that they had opened up, robins,
timidly and yellow-hammers, more
boldly. And SO they worked away,
the crows and the robins and the
woodpeckers, cleaning out the
grounds of all the pests.
The amount of work that those
crows did in short time is incom-
prehensible. They literally tore up
almost acres of sod and left it look
ing like field in which hogs had
been hunting for grubs-for that is
what hogs dig into the ground for.
But the sod can be replaced after the
crows have worked in it and at best
the RTOuuu CdH ne IcoScuCu. III lhU
meantime they have gotten rid OF the
grubs which easily might do more
damage than the crows can possibly
do.
We habitually underestimate the
work that the birds do in the econ
omy of nature. No one has any idea
of how much value they are to fields
and pastures. In a few hours in the
morning those crows on the Country
club destroyed thousands and thous-
ands of grubs. And they do that all
over the country and all the time.
If there were no birds to do such
work the pests of the ground and
the air, of the trees and the plants
would literally drive human beings
almost to starvation.
And then why is it that man has
always been in some sort of enmity
with the birds, going about to destroy
them?