The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-06-21
COMPANY OF GIANTS
WILLIAM DUNN, six-FooTER, 4
MEMBER OF MACHINE
GUN UNIT.

MEMBER or MACHINE
GUN UNIT.
A machine gun company of which
William Dunn. q Lead boy, 10 . mem
Der, II expected to make an unusual
record when 1t gets to France and par.
ticipates in the fighting with the Ger
mans. AL the men In the company
are giants in size. Dunn himself is
. ~si1.footer. He writes In part to rela-
tives: Il am now in the machine gun
company OF the Three Hundred and
Fifty-ffth infantry. There are ITO
men in our company-all big men.
Twelve are taller than |, 90 you know
what they are. We don't have to carry
q gun on our shoulder or stand guard,
when in action. The idea Is fine
nov the gun, reset as quickly rs pos
sible, for four minutes after q mechine
gun fires, the enemy artillery shells
are dropping there, 30 we must make
It snappy. BY the time you get this
I will probably be on my way to sunny
France. God knows ! am not crazy to
leave dear old America. but duty calls
me, so l am ready to 60. know God
will take care Of me no matter where
20 and will 80 all in Lead again
some day
Charles Peck, q Perkins county boy,
who Is serving as . corporal with
the American army in France, writes
OF an unexpected meeting he had re-
Gently in that far OF country. Young
Pecks father is OF the leading
cattle men and horse raisers Of Per.
kins county. His meeting was with
IN army horse, bearing his fathers
we'll known brand, the animal having
been raised on his fathers ranch and
sold some months ago to the United
States government. The Peck brand
Is mo" and when young Peck spied
the animal and saw the brand he rec
ognized the horse. Il was SO glad to
see something from home" writes the
young soldier, that l would have
gone right up and Rugged it, had 1t
not been for the fact that . brigadier
general vas riding it."
Complete election returns TO the Sec
rotary of state show the following to-
tails on contested Republican nomina-
tions: Byrne, 1905; Sterling, 21.519,
for senator. Congress, First district,
Christopherson $3.50, Dillon 5,266;
Second district, Johnson 1895, Nc
Lean 3,8S99. Attorney general, Payne,
1881; Fuller. $3.50; Bushneld, 6,s14;
Jorgenson, 1854; Sherrin. 4,648. Sec.
rotary Of state. Burkhart, 1879;
Hurch, e,6s4: Norby, 1855. Auditor,
Reeves, 1880; LANCE. 10,602; Carter,
1O,O46. Superintendent Of schools. Ak.
ford ,10.s70; Coulson. 9,449; Shaw, 49,.
3S7. Judge OF Sixth circuit, nonpar.
tisan. Hughes, 1,428; McCord. 997;
O'Brien, 743.
The new executive committee Of the
Black and Yellow Trail association
met at Pierre for organization and out
lining Of ! policy for the coming year.
The questions of advertising, publicity
and finance for the coming year were
chiefly discussed. The policy was
adopted to direct most Of the efforts
Of the association in this war year
to caring for the tourists who come
through the state over the trail, and
assisting county commissioners to get
state and federal aid in keeping the
roads in shape, rather than to make
any extensive financial campaign at
this time when money II nor needed
elsewhere.
A number Of claimants for govern
mont lands IN thu. western part Of tho
state have been given the privilege
OF making filings for which they have
waited for several months. On June
10 there was opened for Aling 149, 900
acres o. delegated lands in the Pierre
and Timber Lake land districts. On
these tracts practically all the good
land had provisional filings covering
them, and those who have such filings
will have S0-day preference right to
complete their claims.
julius Kersting. . farmer. living near
Mt. Vernon, - the result Of his pre-
1iminary hearing before United states
Commissioner Conway 1t Sioux Falls,
was bound over to the next term OF
the federal court under . bond Of 81
600, which val furnished by his father
and another man. The defendant IL
accused Of having violated the espion-
age act BY making disloyal remarks
concerning the =
Nick KAros and Grace Craig. OF
Mitchell, were arrested In Sioux Falls
and taken back to Mitchell on the
charge that they obtained q marriage
license BY making false oafhs as to
their ases. They we're married short
" after procuring the marriage IL
cense. The arrest Of the two resulted
when information was received by the
n..thrrStlaa fhat fhn Girl Waa 0n1v n