The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-03
LINES FAILED TO
HOLD when FARGO
SAID GOODBYE TO
Her SELECT BOYS
Crowd Smashes Through
Five Minutes Before
Special Leaves City

The lines failed 10 hold when
Fargo and cass county said good
bye Tuesday night 70 their seIectivs
service men.
Time after time the chain formed
by members OF the Town Criers' club
was broken.
The lines held firmly until about
| five minutes before the special over
the Northern Pacific was to leave,
| The calling off Of the names OF the
soldiers as each man passed through
| the narrow aisle from the hollow"
to the Pullman seemed a. command
for the crowd TO advance and break
the lines.
A Drama Enacted.
The Mother, the Father, the Girl
and the Soldier might be a fitting
title for the little drama enacted
at the Northern Pacific last evening
when SO select service men OF Cass
county and seven soldiers from. out
of-county points, transferred here,
entrained tor Camp Dodge to enter
the national army.
The movement Of Benson, Eddy,
Sheridan, Stutsman, LaMoure, Ran
som and Cass county men last night
marked the last under the present
call for about 1000 men from the
state, who will arrive in Camp
Dode late this afternoon. interviewer
In the little drama was q bit Of fun
which will keep the boys in cheer
until they arrive in camps and then
the letters will do the rest.
FRANKLIN ButsOn, Well-knoWn Far
go young man, was one OF the SOL
diers TO entrain. His name was the
last Of the hundred men called by
the local board. Cheers went up
from the crowd as Butson made his
way through the gRng-Way. Near
the Pullman somebody was waiting.
Goodbye, Frank" she shouted.
The Fargo soldier reached over and
kissed her. and then stepped into
the coach.
You Bet He'll Write.
Another Cass county soldier fought
his way through the narrow aisle
and when about a distance OF five
feet from the coach, a girls voice
reached him. He stopped abruptly
and as she handed him a box, pre-
sumably some homemade candy,
she said:
Now, don't forget to write"
If human instinct is any criterion
that young lady is going to receive
O letter from her sweetheart before
he arrives at Camp Dodge, and as
for the box of candy, well, it will
have opera creams backed off the
boards in that soldiers estimation.
Chances are that he's looking for
some Y. M. G. A. stationery right
now.
Leaves Bride of Few Weeks.
Howard ]. VALENTINE. 413 Ninth
street south, was one Of the we'll
known Fargo soldiers 20 entrain
and left a bride of several weeks,
formerly Miss Mildred Davenport.
Mr.. VALENTINE was in charge Of the
Cass county select service men.
William Brown, one OF the men
who left, Is a son of Walter Il.
Brown, deputy register OF deeds OF
Cass county. A delegation was in
the city from Page to be with Mr..
Brown during the few hours he had
TO himself before reporting for roll
call. Tied" Childers, WELL known
Fargo athlete; Charley Fields of
Washington, ID. c., former Fargo
auto man; Frederick Thomaier, |
George Washburn, Floyd Washburn, |
Elef A. Anderson, Clinton Lane, |
William H. KahIer, Albert Brattens-
borg and the McInnes boys were
given rousing send-offs as they made |
their way into the Pullman cars.
Fargo lived up to its name Tues
day Members Of the select service |
contingent were royalty feted In the |
homes and were admitted to several
of the theaters without charge OF |
the little red. white and |
blue badge which was pinned on the /
LABEL OF their coat by Sheriff Al. nj. |
Ross last Thursday being ticket Of
Delay In Checking In.
Some delay was occasioned in the
checking in of the soldiers. The i
clerk Of the local board had been ad-
vised that the Pullman cars would i
be placed for the soldiers at 81
o'clock and. acting accordingly, or
dered the soldiers to report at the /
station at that hour. The cars were
taken to jamestown and the special /
did not arrive in Fargo until short
~ after o'clock tt required fully
As minutes 10 check the soldiers into
the cars. The special pulled out of
Fargo sharply at 10 o'clock with a
arge number OF young men riding
The tops Of the coaches to Moorhead,
and cheering as the train pulled
away.