The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-11-16
BISMARCK WILL
BUY FLAG POLE
FOR OUR YANKS
Subscription List Already In
der Way to Establish Per- :,
panent Monument.
WANNER. SEEKING CANNON.

\ few days ago suggestion was
made in the Bismarck Tribune in re-
gard to, the erection Of steel flag pole
and the purchase of a suitable flag to
be placed in the Northern Pacific. PARK
north Of the depot. The suggestion at
once met, with such popular favor that
the promoters have decided to 80 ahead
with it.
I If each man in Bismarck will give
81 to this enterprise, n suitable flag
pole can be procured and proper base
obtained, asa suitable memorial for
the boys who have given their lives for
us in the great worlds struggle just
completed. We held our jubilee last
Monday. Let us, now commemorate the
end of the war by something substan-
tial, something of which our citizens
can be proud and which viii be to us
to lasting reminder that patriotism and
national spirit must, at all times, be
maintained if we wish TO preserve for
our country the niche she now ocru-
pies among the nations Of the world,
and what is more fit and proper that
we should keep green in our memory
the names Of THE splendid boys who
have died for Jls, by inScrbing their
names under the emblem Of our co,ln-
try for which they so gallantly fought
and so gallantly died.
Bismarck, in the great struggle, has
nobly done its part. We have gladly
sent our boys to the front and have
taken care that they have been proper
lyt equipped. and properly fed while
there. Our ladies have looked out for
their comfort and recreation, and we
have done, to man or woman. what
has been possible to make the Ameri-
can army what it so rapidly became.
Let each man III Bismarck, therefore.
own Il share in this memorial by leav-
ing at Harris & Co. q 81 contribution to
this fund.
In this great struggle. no class has
done more, given more or deserves more
than our women and we are delegatinS
to the women Of Bismarck the honor Of
the flag for the pole to be
erected.
Frank CRAMPS has offered to pur-
chase the pole without profit to
him and the telephone company has Of
fered to erect the same without re-
: With a view to obtaining captured
German, cannon to guard the Bismarck
flag staff Capt. r. G. Wanner has writ
ten Rep. George NJ. Young and Senator
P. J. McCumber as follows:
"The city Of Bismarck, in commem-
Grafton of the signing Of the armistice,
have raised a fund for the erection Of
a fine steel flag pole in the park just
north Of the Northern Pacific depot. It
is the intention Of the committee In
charge to prepare for this flag pole an
ornate base to- which will be attached
bronze tablets as a memorial to our
boys who have given their lives for
their country. In order to make this
effort on the part of the ictizehs of
Bismarck as complete success as pos
sible. it seems fit and proper that we
should procure, as an accessory to our
flag, captured German cannon. We
would like. Of course, as good a gun as
1t is possible to get. This is the capital
of the state in your district and is Ger
tainly entitled to at least some recog
milton in the distribution Of the cap.
tured guns Of Germany.
''We wish to lay this matter before
you as early as possible 50 that our
request may be considered among the
early ones"