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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-06
Spring Island

The Spring Island Red Cross Jun
ior auxiliary, assisted by friends.
held social at the school house Sat
urday night. Mrs. Carl Flo, accom-
panied by Mr.. Flo, sang two patri-
otto songs very sweetly. A handsome
silk quilt which represented many
hours of stitching, was auctioned off
by Arthur Mitchell and bid in by
William Waddell for $40. To this
was added $11 by the Juniors friends.
The Red, White and Blue quilt, upon
which the history of Spring Island
settlement was printed. brought
SAC. 40. An album in which all visit
ors wrote their names brought $3.50.
nuts swelled the amount to $50 so
net. This sum was given to the Red
Cross. Hats off to the Juniors and
their teacher, Mrs. Alice Councilman.
The Spring Island Red Cross unit
held a knitting social at the Dorm
berg home. Twenty five ladies were
present who spent the afternoon bus
lily knitting or visiting. The guests
of honor were the dear departing
Mrs. Alice Councilman and Miss Ber-
tina Wagner. Mrs. Councilman, who
goes to Seattle where she will spend
the winter, was showered with
sweet peas and given box of cho"o-
lates as a slight testimonial of the
worth Of her services in the Junior
auxiliary and unit work. She has
practically devoted her entire sum-
mer to the work Miss Wagner, who
has also been of great assistance to
the sewing unit, was given box OF
chocolates. The ladies brought and
served delicious picnic lunch.
The Rapidan chapter sent in $50
pairs of socks last Friday. They ex-
pect to send fifty pairs more which
will make 500 pairs in three months
going over the top with an excess OF
275 pairs.
Sergeant Will Kellar, son of Got
lieb Kellar of Rapidan is in a hos
pital in Tours, France, where he was
taken July 20, suffering from severe
wounds in his back and hips; and
a slight wound in his neck. He is
getting well fast.
Edwin and Edward Kroeger, aged
nineteen, twin sons of Mr.. Fred KrOe-
ger who enlisted and left Rapidan il
May, 1917, and later crossed with
Pershing, writes home often. They
repeat the old pitiful story that the
German army is made of boys OF
sixteen and eighteen, whose CRY
"kamerad" is heart breaking. Ed
win Kroeger has been made corpora
of division of the one pound gun
ners.
Walter Dornberg and daughter an(
Ben Dornberg and Harry Hawkes. O
Minneapolis, all former Mankatt
iboys, were Sunday guests at relative:
here
Mrs. Kawell is visiting her daugh
ter, Mrs. William Waddell
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Spencer, will
son and daughter, who have beef
spending few days fishing at LAX,
Francis, gave the o. F. Wagner fam
lily happy surprise Friday by a stol
over on their way home to Alden. Ia
II sure was happy surprise for thes
old friends for they were neighbour
for twenty two years. Mrs. Spence
is a sister of DR.. AlonZo Taylor VIII,
is member of the war trade boar,
and also of the house mission t.
Europe. The doctor is now on hi
fourth trip to Europe where he will
lecture on wheat substitutes in Spain
/ Eranoo and Cypitzor1ond
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-06
WALKER ARRIVES IN FRANCE
Word Received BY Mrs. Walker From,
Her Husband -

Mrs. 0. w. Walker received wo~a
last night that her husband, O. w
y, walker OF THIS city, has arrived safely
"a france. Mr. Walker is in service
WIN the T. M. G. A. and will begin
work at once under the Red TRIANGLE.
cheering the men and making things
peasant for them when they return
from, the hardships at the front. * Z
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-06
GAIN FOR GREAT WESTERN
Gross Earnings Show an Increase For
Six Months in 1912

Six Months in 1918.
More than $4,000 gain in the Min
nesota gross earnings of the Chicago
Great Western railroad during the
first half of 1918, compared with the
corresponding 1917 period, are shown
IN the company's return, filed yester-
DAY with the state tax commission.
The totals for the respective periods
are $l,453,SS2 against $1,S7S,059. The
reports are filed semi annually under
the state law lowing a five per cent
tax on gross earnings in lieu of 9TH
or taxes against railroads.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-06
Persia May Fioht Turks.

limited Press rispatch.l
Rome, August 30.-fPersia is report
ed to be on the verge of opening hos
tilities with the Turks.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-06
PAY OF BOARD RAISED
Members of Exemption Tribunals
-. .s,tWiIl. Receive More Money.

Associated Press Dispatch
st. Paul, August 29.-Official in
formation from Washington an
ilounces an increase in the pay of
draft board members. The new
limits are from $3.50 per month for
small boards to $500 for those with
1000 or more registrants. Three
members on each board are included
in the compensation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13
THAT TRIP ABROAD

President Wilson is naturally being
criticized good deal for his decision
to go abroad, and some of these criti-
cisms come from his friends. I won
der if the people who make the criti-
eisms have any realization of the most
important. reason for the trip. For a
long time the President has believed,
as the Prime Minister of England also
believes, that the only salvation for
the world lies in the successful launch
ing of the League of Nations. We
may have this idea, or that, or the
other about Poland, or Jugo Slavia or
the boundary between France and
Germany, but while these detailed
questions are interesting, any one OF
them is capable of doing either good
or harm. What will really decide
whether the future is to be full of
hostility and danger, or full Of conf
.dence and prosperity, has compare
lively little to do with boundaries, in
spite of the fact that we have been
talking ourselves nearly to deatE
about rationaIities. There are tive
foundation on which can be built 2
future that is safer and more profit
able than the past. One of these is
the avoidance of all possible griev'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13
ATLANTA VOTES FOR
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP

The city of Atlanta, Georgia, voted
strongly in favor of municipal own
ership at the recent election and the
mayor-elect has begun at once the
preliminary work necessary for the
successful inauguration of public own
ership of public utilities. Arrange
ments have been made with the Presi-
dent of the Public Ownership League
of America, Hon. A. M. Todd, to meet
him in Washington for consultation.
The mayor will also make a study of
the very successful Hydro Electric
Plants of Ontario, Canada, which are
operated under the direction of Sir
Adam Beck, Chairman of the Commits
sion who is also member Of the
League.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13
That Grand Jury

The editor of the Poplar Standard
in announcing in it's news columns the
probability of the calling OF a Grand
Jury by Judge Hurley, speaks dispar-
agingly of the call, and makes it seem
that only the members of the Nonpar-
tisan League wants Grand Jury
called.
IF Editor Jerome believes this he is
deceivinG Himself, for the Producers
News is sure that it can safely say
that over half Of the business men OF
the county scat are just as anxious to
have the disreDutable conditions exist
ing in this county Investigated and
abolished ard those guilty of crime
brought to justice as are the farmers
and if it were diillrc--.cs2t, it would sure
" be deplorab,c testimonial to the
business comnu-1isy Of Sheridan coun-
tv. The Producers News is not yet
prepared to believes this of the bust
ness men. For the condition existing
in Sheridan county today, if allowed
to continue will be the undoing of the
country and business men as we'll as
farmers will be ruined.
The busiess of any community is
dependent upon something funda-
mental. In this part of Montana, the
r,d,noon+a1 ;rdrc+rx1 ;c farming h
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13
The "Bou Wou,s

At last the soldiers votes have been
counted, and alas, according to the
reasoning of some of our friends, the
opposition there must be lot OF dis
loyalty in the United States Army.
Almost so per cent of our brave boys
voted for the league candidates.
How can this be explained? The
profteers have been telling us Just
wait till the boys come home and then
the League will take to it's traitorous
hole"
Yet two soldiers from Sheridan
county voted for Miss Rankin; two
for Landstrum; one voted for Walsh.
v Whoever would have thought that
this fair land would come to this?
We call Dana Easton's attention to
this deplorable condition, and also the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

editors of the so-called county papers
that printed with such undiluted JOY,
the letter, political letter, written for
political purposes, before election and
shortly afterwards.
The Producers News ventures the
prophecy that Dana Easton will re-
greet his political letter many times
before another ten years passes away,
and that regret will be caused by the
scldiers who fought by his side, and
urther, that the people who made use
of this outrageous attack, will be ex-
planning when the returned soldiers
are helping to put the League over In
Montana-for like the soldiers, the
League is fighting for democracy
trying to keep the home fires of de-
mocracy burning, as an inspiration
for them when they return.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

Aitkin, Aitkin county, Minnesota, and
life was not all JOY either. We resid-
ed at Aitlzin until 1900 when we took
up our residence at Hamline where
we attended school at the Methodist
University of the same name, after
which we worked on a newspaper at
Astoria, Oregon. We have lived at
Portland, Oregon, at Riverside, Calf
fornia, then back to ST. Paul, then we
took up a homestead at Big< Falls,
Minnesota, then we went to Buffalo,
Wyoming, where we resided for five
years. then we went back to Aitkin,
Mimi, and resided near there, at Nc
Gregor, for the past three years or
until last spring, when our brother
who was farming with us was called
to the colors, when we left the farm,
offered our services to the Nonparti-
san League and was sent to Plenty
wood, Sheridan county to edit the
Producers News. A letter addressed
to this editor at any of these points
would find us at Plentywooi, Mon
tana.
! The preacher by the name of Tay-
/ lor, who has incurred the enmity of
that angelic gentleman, Mr.. Sam
Clark, who publishes scandal rag by
the name of "Jim Jam Jems" which
publication does not enjoy Uncle
| Sans mailing privileges, is no rela-
tive of our that we know of. We
heard him deliver one of the things
/ he calls sermons once, and he was
quite peeved because we would mo-
submit to having our soul saved a
his hands. We remember distinctly
i that he delivered himself of his opin
| ions of the socialist in much the same
manner as does the 1paytriotic Pie
Near and we figured at that time
4 that he had conscience that troubled
1 him, just as we infer of the 1Pie-ncar'
man.
! We trust that the "Pie-near" man i
i sufficiently satisfied from the abov'
| and we can now discuss the letting oi
i printing contract by the Three Blins
Men for a fabulous sum, without TIKI
| formalities Of evening asking for bid
1 on the same, which we are persuaded
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

The f'pungent Pio-near," our anus
ing contemporary, dares the editor OF
this paper to publish his former ad-
dress. For the sake of gratifying It's
curiosity, we will write little history
g uurself. The editor Of this paper
was born IN 1884 at Oak Center, Wis
cons;n. no. far from Waupon, the
state penitcaGla1y. where number OF
men have resided who have at one
tine or another been connected With
CRAFTS in which the public had been
swin,iicd out Of money in connection
with contracts and couple of them,
printing coma acts. He was born on
4 farm in very humble circumstances.
which fact and condition he has never
been able to over ONE. being absolute
w blameless for the unfortunate incl
dent, but determining to make the
best of it, and having a love for de-
cency and square deal both in pri-
vate and public life, he has tried to
live that ideal as near as possible;
However. how successful he has been,
is for others to judge, yet we will con-
fess that we have never been both
cred with "teething pain" Incidental to
sprouting wings and are afraid that
at the great judgment seat there will
be recorded in the great book many
things which we will wish were not
there. Yet there will be no record OF
having participated in printing dea
in which the taxpayers were defraud-
ed of thousands of dollars while the
sons of these same taxpayers were
dying on battle field in order thai
the people of the world might taste
the sweets of democracy, and at thu
same time proclaim our own patriot
ism and loyalty while challenging ant
disparaging the loyalty and patriot
ism of people who are making thu
greatest sacrifices, in order to diver
attention away from our own short
comings.
While still very young, we accom-
panied our father to Minneapolis, an'
in this we were not consulted in eth
err. strange as it may seem. At abou'
six years Of age we again moved into
the woods of northern Minnesota, nea
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

The Pope, the other day, interced-
ed with the Allies, to, in the name OF
humanity, abolish the blockade of
Germany in order that the little child
ZEN of Germany might have. food and
starvation cease. Now that the Pope
has opened the question, we wonder II
the Producers News can second the
motion, without risking the chances
of being charged with pro-Germanisr
or of having our loyalty or patriotism
questioned.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

!. ,ssos and that IS merely a prellnln-
arv necessary to the success OF tne
second which is a working-together Oh
the various nations instead OF 2 work
ing-aeainst one another. The Presl-
lent has the kind of a ncird Wnicn
does not do its best thinking in decld-
mo on small points. What gives his
mind ifs value is the ability to look
ahead 70 select fundamental truths
and to follow them through. Now by
going. abroad the President increases
the probability that the League Oh
Nations will be born as a strong be-
inp with good chance for life. ms
GREAT consideration outweighs any
thing that may be alleged about the
undesirable effect of his absence or
domestic detail. We must take
larger view. This is no time IN the
| worlds history for us to be parocnai
When we went into this war, we went
in 10 take our share of the worlds re-
sponsibilities, and it is a poor flgure
we shall cut if we become frightened
and run rapidly away from doing our
big part in building and supporting
the kind of world we have been sup
posed to be fighting for.-Norna1
Hapgood in Leslie's Weekly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

A vote for a farmer-labor candidate
is never thrown away. If it doesn't
elect the candidate, it scares the fell
low that is elected into being more de-
cent. A vote for special interest
candidate, on the other hand, is al
ways lost. It scares nobody and it
fools the general public about the
seriousness of the toilers. When hon
est men divide themselves over the
Punch and Judy contests staged by
the special interests the thieves take
the bacon.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13
4 RUSSIAN PUZZLE

Norman Hapgood says in Leslle's
Weekly of December 18th:
The Entente has been fighting the
-Bolsheviks, because the Bolshevlks
would not continue to fight the Ger
mans. Is it going to fight them now
If so, what grounds will it substitute
for "the westward moving Czecho-Slo-
yaks"? Our whole treatment of the
Bolsheviks, while we were making
their government impossible, lends
Importance to No. 20 of the War In
formation Series. This publication
| does a service in that it furnishes fac
/ SMILES of the famous anti-Bolshevik
documents. It also appends judg-
naent by Messrs. J. Franklin jameson.
and Samuel N. Harper. An investi-
eating magazine editor, in ordinary
circumstances, would require perhaps
from to 6 months to decide such a
question. These two scholars took 8
days to the task. Mr.. Harper, more
over, had already given his impress
sions publicly several weeks before he
was asked to examine the documents.
All that was done in Washington, and
consisted of looking at the documents,
and talking to Mr.. Sisson, and "sevef-
al officials of the government" Even
so we get some results thus:
II The document showing bribery
of the Bolsheviks is not accepted
(2) The documents, much herald
ed, showing preparation for war made
by the Germans several weeks before
war was declared is not accepted.
(3) No positive affirmation is
made about the rest beyond the asser-
ton that the Investigators "see no
reason to doubt" their authenticity
The task Of the committee of two was
to deal with anything in the text it.
self that might indicate forgery OF
commences. They do not touch the
most essential objections, such as
those urged with particular force BY
the Manchester Guardian. Of this ma
, ture are the following:
!, ~ The existence for years il
Russia of doeument-factories, some il
the service of the Tsar, some of the
! revolutionary groups.
(2) The enormity and melodra
matte completeness of the crimes in
!. dicated, and their contrast to Bolshe
/, vik theories. It may be noted in this
connection that the Germans earl
this month threw out the BolsheviI
= ambassador at Berlin for fomentin:
;. the German revolution.
! (3) The evidence is unbelievable
! complete; as the Guardian puts il
: with the elaborate ingenuity of
jig-saw puzzle"
az No plausible motive appears.
The Entente began throwing mon
key wrenches into the Bolshevik ma
chinery at the beginning, just as i
:. had thrown them into Kerensky's gov
eminent. The United States joine
; in the sport later. The only possibl
expiration is for us to send industria
help and supplies to Russia, whereve
= we can fit it in, and send men VIII,
!. have no feelings as between the diff
ferent factions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

And while kings are abdicating,
why not have the king of England and
Belgium and Italy hand in their gold
en- bonnets. Now is good time for
these gentlemen to quit, when they
can do it as a patriotic sacrifice for
the good of the people and their sew
eral countries.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

Neither disorder or revolution in
government ever emanated from a
square deal to the masses, but always
from an abuse of power which laid
burdens too heavy upon those least
able to bear them. In these outrages
now being perpetrated upon the Ioo-
pie, likely the money grasping monop-
olies think they are outstanding their
resources. but in that they are Woe
fully mistaken, for they have the
goods and sooner or later will be hunt
ed down and made to suffer for the
crime of embezzlement. They ara
sowing the wind which will reap the
whirlwind. -Gunnison (Col.) Empire.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

Because of a crop failure A. c.
Townley was suddenly called upon to
pay all his debts. Not half of the
small-town and big-town merchants.
including those who retail the Jerry
Bacon line of talk about Townley's
bankruptcy, could pay so cents on the
dollar if they were asked, as he was,
to pay up tomorrow. Yes, that's
true of our town, too, and it holds for
the bankers. They are all depending
on missing the early frost.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

that industry is made Improbable by
high rates of interest and high taxes,
in time, instead of community OF
prosperous and happy farmers, there
will be a waste of deserted farms,
owned by the banks with no one to
farm them-and farm without ten
ant is not very profitable invest
ment for a banker and it will not pro-
duce very much tax revenue.
This western country cannot pay 10
per cert of the valuation in taxes on
top Of ten per cent interest and thrive.
The editors of the Producers News did
not make this law of economies.
If the business fabric of this coun-
try have an eye to their own interest,
and the future development of this
country, they must help make this a
country that will hold out some in
ducements to new corners.
It is surely regrettable condition
of affairs if the Nonpartisan Leaguer1
are the only ones in Sheridan county
that believe in honesty and economy in
the administration of public affairs.
The time has arrived in this county
when lance must be applied to some
of the sores on the body polite. DR..
Grand Jury is the proper physician te
do it. Honest men are not afraid OF
/ the old doctor.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

Mr.. Lundberg reminds US of the old
lady who was bound to have the last
word. It's too bad that a perfectly
nice gentleman like Mr.. Lundberg
says he is, is compelled to live in such
an undesirable neighborhood. Mr.
Lundberg's applause of himself re-
minds US of the old Irish lady who
vent to see the regiment of which her
son was member parade. When the
soldiers marched by she remarked to
Mrs. O'Flanigan with a great show oil
pride, "and begorra, me Pat is the
only soldier in STEP"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

The parties who examine the rating
books such as .Bradstreet's to deter
mine whether a certain man is eligible
as son-in-law or as the father of a
sons wife, can't see, of course, how a
League farmer is entitled to an opin :
ion much less voice in the govern
ment.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

North Dakota Needs Doyle" was
the slogan appearing on all the anti
farmer campaign literature in that
state, but it took Frazier again by a.
handsome majority. Evidently the
farmers didn't need Doyle but knead-
ed him. The difference in these two
words is more than the spelling.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

the people Of Sheridan county are
more interested in than they are in
either the former addresses of the
editor of the Producers News or in the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13

~ life and Adventures" Of little Joe
Dolin. oon-
Let's not forget the printing con-
tract.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-13
GO AHEAD With YOUR PLANS

That is the advice of the War Industry
Board. Maybe you have hoped that
another year would see those plans Of
a new home realized.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-03-10
RED CROSS SALE AND
DINNER ON SATURDAY

Next Saturday is to be real Red
Cross day for this county. The
Red Cross shop will open in the
building on Sixth street formerly oc-
cupied by the Clemens drug store. A
rummage sale will be held all day
and evening beginning at o'clock
in the morning. The auxiliaries from
Murphy, Merlin. Provolt and Will
liams will each have space and sell
the good things donated from their
communities.
At noon a dinner will be served In
the Chamber OF Commerce rooms.
Everything from chicken to nuts is
being donated by the ranchers west
OF town, and the patriotic group Of
women headed by Mrs. Thompson
will serve the dinner.
The committee have received sew
eral orders and have promises Of ar
ticles wanted. but still have untitled
calls for loganberry plants, gun,
child's rocking chair and go pounds
OF clean cotton rags, as many dark
blue ones as possible. An unusually
good price is offered for them. Any-
thing that is sent in that is suitable
: for Junior Red Cross committee will
be turned over for that purDose.
/ The room will be open all day
Thursday and It is hoped that just
as far as possible everyone VIII
bring in their articles on that day
so that the committee will have