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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-19
COMPANY 4 NOTES

Camp Cody Reveille: Caroon is
detailed for thirty days to the quart
ermaster department as tailor.
An extract from APs letter home
Thanks for the candy, the piece
had was fine
Herman Corts is the oldest man in
the company and AL Hauch is the
youngest.
Oh Harp, that was some poem you
had the 'Kato paper. Where did you
copy it, anyway?
Ladwig: How many kinds of cat
fish have you caught?" Kutzma:
Channel cat and river rat"
Brudelie says he voluntarily en-
listed to escape the draft and now
he has to- sleep in it all night
Daddy Tallard: want news item
for the Reveille?" Matteson: Sure.
D. T. Its a girl" Oh papa!
The skipper gave us a good DEM
onstration of the effects of the "coot-
lie" Sunday night at N. c. o. school
John Lane, the most intelligent
animal in Humps tent is of the opin-
ion that the fire was on Cooks Peak
Sunday night.
Shinglenails Sceindle is a trifle be-
hind the times as he has started a
Charlie Chaplin when the rest of us
have our for rent sign out.
Mech. Heitner rolls his own Gig
arettes now because of the amount OF
time that may be so expended before
returning to more arduouS toll.
After the two day hike they turned
the orderly tent into an infirmary as
Al Hauch. Joe Bixby and bingham
Young were on the outs with them
selves.
| Private r. j. Simons claims that
his old woman. Corporal Elmer Smith
puts out good washing while he
himself is on the woodpile. We know
that Elmer is there at wiping dishes
Were having an argument about
spinal trouble and when one fellow
asked what the spine was he got
| this: "Your head sets on one END
of it and--you set on the other
end"
Sergeant Larson was called to the
personnel ONCE last Tuesday and in
formed that he has wife and two
small children in Kansas. You know
that the soldiers insurance bill pro-
vides for allowances to your Deepen
dents, SO why try beat them out OF
Lit Lars?
/ The habit of H company, now is tc
get your head shaved. Among others
was Corporal Skeleton who couldn't
keep from letting his nut get burned
by the sun and getting it skinned by
his gas mask.
iyou get home: did you meet any
stage robbers when you where in
that wild place in New Mexico?'
Answer: eyes, l took a couple oil
Teal chorus girls out to supper once
| Tommy Lee says: The chaplain is
not fair. He blesses all the listed
men and officers but don't say moth
ing about the drafted fellows When
asked if he had his gun cleaned he
said ''alf but the pipe
Cook Arvid Carlson was reduced to
private and Frank Schmidt promoted
to cook. Cooper Schmidt and Fallen
Istein are the cooks with Private
Rausch as student cook and Her
man Korts and Skee Larsen as kit
chen police.
Monday H company was at the
/ rifle range digging the allied trench
es while E company dug the Deutch
trenches and on Tuesday seventy
men of company were out there tc
rehearse for the part took in the bat
tie scene of Wednesday. Sergeant
Larson had charge of the rifle Sec
ttion, Sergeant Anderson; automatic
rifle and Sergeant PREM, bombers.
/ Report Is Favorable.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-19
BATTLE IN FLANDERS
CONTINUED From Page one.)

t~O~-~~~~~~~-
cas-. or Tpres was carved out de-
liberately without, interference by the
enemy" The British line south of
Arras was completely restored.
~, New Successes of Germany. Is
London, April 17.-New suceesse,
on the battle field of Flanders have
been won by Germany's mighty effort
According to the latest reports the i'm
portant strategic towns of Bailleul
Wulyerghem and cWytschaete are IL
German hands and more important
siH. the Teutons have carried large
part OF Messines ridge by storm.
Most Bitter Struggle.
Probably there has been on more
bitter struggle during the war than
that waged along the battle line
through the town of Bailleul, Neuve
Eglise, Wulyershem and Wytschaete.
Neuve Eglise was taken first, but
Bailleul held out until fresh masses
OF German troops were hurled into the
fray and charged. repeatedly on the
tired defenders. The same story
might be told OF Wulverghem and
Wytschaete, while the battle for Mes,
sines ridge must have been frightful
In. It's intensity.
No New Attacks
The Germans have not attempted
to advance their wedge further into
the British lines, for no new attacks
on Meryille and further west have
been reported. They have devoted
their sole attention to the work of
widening out the salient and striking
at Messines ridge, and the railroad
running about six miles north of Bail.
leul. Messines ridge is the key to
the ,,Ypres sector and its possession
win give the Germans q commanding
position in starting a new drive.
- May Cost Allies Ypres.
The successes OF the Germans in
the last day have an important bear.
ing on the campaign on the northern
battle. front. II they are continued,
there must be 4 British retirement
from Ypres aud possibly for some
distance further north, while the cut.
ting of the railroad passing through
Haxebrouck would be still more ser.
ious for the British.
So important are the points won
by the Germans that the British
must be. expected to counter-attack
at once in an effort to, sweep the in-
vaders back into the lowlands once
more, All accounts of the battle along
this line speak of the small British
forces which attempted to withstand
the attacks by heavy legions of Teu-
tons, which were brought up fresh
for the assault. ..fa -
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-19
Report Is Favorable.

Washington, April 1.-THE house
military affairs committee today made
a favorable report ON the measure
providing for the draft of all young
men who have reached twenty one
years of age since June last.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-19
NORTH KATO NOTES

North Mankato has exceeded its
allotment of $4,000 in the Third Lib
erty loan sale by subscribing $4,000
exceeding the allotment by $4,000 VI
to an early hour this morning. Rail-
road men living in the village have
made their subscriptions through the
railroad companies and with these
North Mankato can safely be accord
ed subscription of $4,000.
The banners in connection with the
Third Liberty loan have been receiv-
ed by J. B. Nielsen, chairman of the
local committee All subscribers are
entitled to one and may secure it al
his office.
Ben Fish of Webster, S. D., is visit
ing his old acquaintance, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Williams, 23S Nicollei
avenue.
Mrs. Leo Robel of Nicollet avenue
has received letter from her brother.
Henry Strand, who went to Camp
Dodge, Ia. with the last consignment
of selected men from Nicollet county
anu WHO was ldt0E q W
Camp Custer, Mich. 81 have just been
visited by Mr.. Measles" wrote Pri-
vate Strand "and, although l have
been quite sick in the hospital for
some time, am now making good
recovery, and expect to be able to
leave the hospital in few more days.
Have had the best of care and nurses,
and good things to eat / expect to
have a short furlough next month, and
will visit my relatives. This is quite a
sandy place, the town having been
built on sand bar. There are lots of
nice vineyards here, and plenty of
fruit. The farms are about as large as
good sized corn field down home. .
Robert Jones, who is i'll with
pneumonia at Emmanuel hospital, is in
very serious condition, so it was re-
ported today, but hopes for his re-
covery were entertained.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Schippel and
daughter Mamie have arrived home
from their western trip.
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BAKER CALLS FOR

CONTINUED from page one)
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-19

Henry M. Gallagher,
Attorney for petitioner.
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Ben Fish of Webster, S. D., is visit
ing his old acquaintances, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Williams, 23S Nicollei
avenue.
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THREE TOWNSIN COUNTY
CONTINUED From Page One.)

Front street are being watched with
great interest by everyone.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-19

cas-. or Tpres was carved out de-
liberately without, interference by the
enemy" The British line south of
Arras was completely restored.
SIS, New Successes of Germany. rs
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-19

Robert Jones, who is i'll with
pneumonia at Emmanuel hospital, is in
a very serious condition, so it was re-
ported today, but hopes for his re-
covery were entertained.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-19
METHODISTS ARE GETTING
READY FOR THE CELEBRATION
Centennial Of Their Missionary Society; Call Is
Made For Fund Of Eighty Millions
OF Dollars
Especial to Free Press

New York. April 17Roued by in the country will head tn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
THE FAIRS.

October, the month of county and state
fairs, is here, and the arrangements, through
the newspapers and iaring posters, are invit-
ing the presence of the people.
Because of war conditions the agricultural
shows are of more rather than less import
ance this year, and the attendance, if the
weather be propitious, will be larger than
in normal times.
In two principal ways the fair is of great
importance this year. 1t affords to urban
and rural thousands wholesome opportuni-
ty for recreation and amusement, and it
emphatically supports the national cause of
maximum food production and conservation
From time to time it has been found nee
essary to curtail amusements. That has not
been because the authorities at Washington
wished to do it, but because the growing
exigencies of war required it. The Wash
ington attitude has been intelligently friend
ly to entertainment, and has through the
lips of President Wilson himself specifically
approved the taking advantage of such le-
climate recreations as are available. The
sheer fun that is provided is such large gath
erings as the fair is worth while.
Internationally the fair touches on about
everything of really vital Importance. One
Of our problems is the necessity of raising
larger crops; and to that problem the fair
addresses itself. Another problem is that of
live stock development; and live stock is a
principal feature of the fair. This section
all of Georgia-faces and will face a labor
shortage, and the fair advertises the best and
most efficient means of overcoming that
shortage, and the fair advertises the best and
the other major tasks of the year.
The whole country profits by these annual
occasions
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
Spend 81 Per Acre for Clover
Seed, Get $26.25 in Nitrogen
From the Progressive Farmer.

IT, in planning to put in winter cover
crops this fall, the price of seed seems high
it should be remembered that comparatively
the prices of all plant foods are also high,
and the necessity for saving them is more
acute than ever before. Not only this, but
there is equally as great need for buying
what plant foods we have to buy at as low
price per pound as possible.
Nitrogen is the most expensive of all plant
food elements, costing now from 35 to As
cents pound, when bought in sacks, and
it is the very element that is leached and
washed out of our soils to the greatest ex-
tent. Cover crops, more than any other one
thing, will prevent this great waste of nj
trogen, and legumlnOus cover crops will not
only prevent nitrogen losses, but will add
greatly to the store of nitrogen already in
the soil,
The amount of crimson clover seed re-
quired to sow an acre will, at present prices
cost from $4 to Sc, or say an average of IS.
Add 81 to this for the probable cost of seed
ing and incubation, and we have total of
81 an acre. What do we get in return? An
acre of fairly good crimson clover will gath
er from the air probably not less than rs
pounds of nitrogen, worth, at 35 cents per
pound $26.24, and this, when the clover is
plowed under, is available for the crop that
follows. In other words, we are getting from
one acre of crimson clover as much nitro
gen as there is in 1880 pounds of per
cent. cotton seed meal or nearly 500 pounds
Of nitrate of soda, In addition to this we
nave kept the plant foods already in our
soils from teaching and washing away and
have added fine lot of Misunderstanding
nearly all our lands sorely need. Of course,
a non-legume crop like rye or oats adds no
nitrogen to the soil, but it does save a great
deal of nitrogen from being leached and
washed away and adds much valuable hu-
mus.
With these facts in mind we must con-
clude that relatively cover crop seed are not
hlgh-prlced; on the other hand we cannot
afford not to buy them and cover every pos
sible acre this fall
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
THE LIBERTY LOAN.

Saturday witnessed the opening of the
fourth liberty loan campaign. A huge sum
of money, far greater than the entire debt
left by the civil war, must be obtained for
the vital needs of the battlefront. This
conflict is as much a battle of dollars, of
financial and industrial resources, as it is
one of bullets and shells. If the American
flag is to be taken in victory across the
Rhine and in triumph into the heart of Ger
many we who are left at home must pay
taxes and buy bonds Those who cannot
fight must put their dollars into the trenches
to fight for them.
1t is either billions for defense or more
billions for indemnity. 1t has been the Ger
man boast that in the end rich and prosper
Gus America would be made to pay the
enormous German war bill. We were to be
bled white to pay for our audacity in oppos-
ing the plumber lust of the pan-Germans.
We must make it forever impossible for
Germany to again threaten our security by
deluging the world in war. Every dollar
that goes into the fourth liberty loan is an
investment in the right kind of peace.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
WHY CALLED HUNS"

Early in the great war the deadliest in
suit that could be heaped upon the Germans,
from the standpoint Of those who did not
know that the kaiser had long held up Attila
as the great pattern for the emulation Of
German soldiers, was to call them Huns"
The world had for twenty centuries look
ed upon the Huns as the most savage plum
derers, the most cruel prosecutors and the
most relentless looters in history. When
Germany first laid aside the thin veneer of
nominal respect for civilized law and be-
gan to initiate the practices of the Huns Of
old it was only natural that the world should
designate them by the epithet which embod-
led all of its adherence and condemnation
of crimes that harked back to the days when
war meant only pillage and murder, rapine
and plumber; back to the days when Rome
was sacked and men, women and children
were butchered in the streets; back to the
days when Attila was called "the scourge
of Cod" and was beaten back at the same
Marine where the Huns of today are being
held by the hosts Of civilization.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
PRESERVING THE COLLEGES.

One of the fine features Of the govern
ment's plan for the training of the younger
men of draft age in the colleges of the coun-
try is that it will keep the colleges afioat I'M
til normal times return. The colleges, with
their equipment and organizations, will rem
der the nation an important service Of a mil
itary nature. The country will reciprocate
by enabling the colleges to keep going dur
ing a military period, and preserve them
selves for the purely educational and cult
ural work. The financial arrangements
made between the war department and the
colleges will prevent the collapse of teach
ing organizations which otherwise could not
be avoided in hundreds of institutions. In
stead of being stripped of men students
and crippled financially, so that after the
war they would have to start anew from the
beginning, the colleges will be given full
quota Of men students, and will be enabled
to maintain their financial strength The
price of this is, of course, heroic reorgani-
cation Of teaching systems for the period of
the We" but it is price which the colleges
are periodically and cheerfully preparing
. to pay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
RATS.

The state college of agriculture in CO.
operation with the United States department
of agriculture, is conducting statewide
campaign for the determination Of the rat.
The rat is not only serious menace to
health, but is the most destructive animal in
the world probably causing an annual loss
to the state of Georgia of at least $6,000,000.
The governor has promised to set aside
the week of October 21-26 as 'rat-killing
week, when all citizens are urged to destroy
as many Of these pests as possible. 1t is like
ly that prizes will be given in each county
and in the larger towns for those killing the
most rats
Get ready to kill rats, and win prize.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
Don't Shoot the Birds.

Where are you going with that gun? 1t
was Grandpa Fairfield who asked the ques
ton when he saw little Eddie coming out
of the back door and start for the back
fence.
"GoinS to shoot crows. They are in the
corn field" said Eddie.
"Well come over here a minute before
you go off to shoot any birds.'
Eddie walked over to where grandpa sat
and wondered what he wanted to talk to
him about.
"Don't you know, Eddie boy that the
crows do more good for the corn than they
can possibly do it harm? They eat thousands
of grubs and worms and keep those
pests from destroying the young shoots of
corn and the roots that grow below the
earth's surface. There was a time when
farmers thought that crows ate much of their
corn and other grain when it was planted,
but it has been proved that this is not true.
They do eat little of it, but their diet con-
sists mostly of insects and worms that would
eat the corn and do it far more damage than
any flock of crows would do it.
'Let the birds live. Don't shoot them. 1t
is not right to kill birds unless you need
them for food. We don't eat crows, and we
don't need any of the birds of the air for
food. Our chickens and ducks will supply
US with all the poultry needed. Go put that
gun away, and remember what | have told
you. When you are older you can carry the
gun as a soldier-but no true, brave sol
der would deliberately kill an innocent lit
tie bird which never did any more harm
than eat bugs and insects which destroy the
farmers crops"
Eddie put the gun away and vowed he
would never kill birds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
RETURNS ALONE.

Five years ago, when the whole world
was at peace, young and ardent explorer,
Vilhjalmar Stefanssons, a lineal descendant
of the Nosemen, fitted out an Arctic expe-
dition and sailed from Canadian port with
twenty-five companions, for the frozen
north. A few days ago Stefanssons returned
alone; his companions were scattered. Some
died from hardship and exposure; others
left him to get back to civilization as best
they could. Stefanssons made some minor
discoveries-located a few new islands,
mapped and explored these, found coal and
copper on some, charted ocean currents,
and studied the Eskimo. He did not discov-
er that which he went in quest of, a north
east passage from the Arctic to the Atlantic
ocean.
But in spite of this failure Stefanssons is
still undaunted He has the true spirit of
the explorer, and prefers to suffer the hard
ships and exposures and loneliness of the
far north than to live in the haunts of men.
So, he expects to remain in Canada lectur-
ing for the benefit of the Red Gross until
the close of the war. Then ne will endeavor
to organize another expedition, and, if he
is successful, will sail away again in search
of fresh adventures. He still believes that
a northeast passage to the Atlantic exists,
and that it is only question of time when
it will be discovered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
GREAT is THE PEANUT.
occasions.

A change from cotton to peanuts
would doubtless prove as profitable to
the farmers Of Gambler as it has to those
of several other counties of the state
that have made money easily from the
latter crop for the past two years.
Meter Advertiser.
Editor Camp has the correct idea about
it. The farmers of Terrell, one of the great
est (if not the greatest) cotton counties in
the state, did not wait for the boil weevil,
but two or three years before its arrival
turned their attention to peanuts, hogs and
cattle, and are now far more prosperous and
independent than at any time in the history
of the county, The peanut crop of Terrell
county brought the growers more than a
million dollars in cash last year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
OLD MAIDS IN SIAM.
pennsylvania Grit.

From the Pennsylvania Grit.
When Siamese girl attains the age Of
35 without marrying she is labeled and
placed in privilepnd class under the special
care of the king who binds himself to find
a husband for her
His method ie ev+~emelv simple. A pris-
oner in any ono &c he ciamese tails NAV
gain his pardc0 - release by MARRYING
one of the ma+r~o -roidens. Whether he IS
already mari ~ot does not matter
very much. fo- = ci"rr man is not re
stricted to
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01

We may be little late but our felicita-
tons to Editor Pat Griffin, of the Bainbridge
Searchlight, upon his reelection to the leg
islature are none the less sincere. Hon.
John W. Callahan, another strong and splen-
did Georgian, will be his colleague. Decatur
county will be ably represented.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01

The News regrets to see an announce
ment that Editor W. A. Shackelford, for
nearly four decades an ornament to Georgia
journalism, will retire from the Oglethorpe
Echo. He has been faithful for almost a
life time, and his work has been of great
benefit to his section and state. We, in COM
mon with his contemporaries, will greatly
miss him
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01

Colonel House went to Europe as the
presidents representative, said little or
nothing and sawed much wood. James Ham
ilton Lewis went to Europe as the president s
representative, said great deal, and sawed
not so much as a single stick But James
Hamilton is not the presidents representa-
tive, you say? He says he is.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01

Editor Jack Patterson, of the Covington
News, has opinions as to public men and
measures, and is expressing them in vigor-
Gus style. And that is much better than
having no opinion to express. Our Coving-
ton contemporary has one of the most in
teresting editorial pages that comes under
our observation
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01

An English nobleman's daughter is to
wed the son of rich fish monger. Another
instance of Goldfish aristocracy
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
SOLDIER WILLED HIS LIFE.
From the Literary Digest.

From the Literary Digest.
Private Edward J. Farrell, of New York
city, who was killed in action July 10, in
his will which was made public by friend
recently, included this paragraph
ITO the little old United States give my
life willingly, because she is the grandest,
greatest and freest country in the world.
And hope to God that the day will come
when she will be indeed America for Amer
leans for undivided allegiance"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01

All debate about prohibition now is futile.
1t is no use arguing whether or not con-
gress is right in enacting a national "bone
dry measure, and little use discussing the
precise time when such measure should go
into effect
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01

A chance is at hand for you to increase
your war sacrifices in the measure which
will be worthy of what the fighter is doing.
Let the share you take in the fourth liberty
loan tell the story of the growing interest
of your loyalty and readiness to serve.