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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21
PAPER CASkETS USED
TN BURIAL OF GERMANS

Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 14.-As
indicating Germany's thoroness, she
will no longer permit corpses to be
buried with clothes.
They must be placed in pasteboard
caskets. They must be clothed in
paper shrouds or wrapped in paper
Sheets. No linen, cotton or wooden ma
terial shall be wasted in the graves,
while copper, zinc or other metal cas-
kets generally are forbidden.
An American woman just leaving
Germany declared that all ordinary
articles are so scarce that the sale
of her wornout kitchen utensils
brought unheard-of prices.
A German woman packing in her
home sought an opportunity to buy
things a family usually throws away
when moving. They fetched fancy
sums.
The woman says the coal shortage
is for more acute than outsiders
imagine. The railroads rolling stock
is in frightful disrepair.
Silver and nickel has been demoni-
tized. All gold, including jewelry,
formerly requested Gin the name of
patriotism" is now demanded by the
government to keep up gold coins and
prevent too rapid decline in the value
of paper money.
The people no longer expect victory,
the woman declared. The best they
hope for is the exhaustion of the al
lies before Germany is compelled to
sue for peace. The masses have been
told so often that an offensive would
bring immediated peace that they are
beginning to feel duped and angry.
understand that President Will
sons speech had deep impression
in Germany and it will probably bear
fruit.
On the most reliable authority I
learn that the kaiser himself openly
declared the presidents terms were
reasonable enough to form basis for
negotiations.
WILHELM HOWEVER, IS WITH
OUT INFLUENCE.
/ am told that while he is openly
opposed to the extremes to which the
war party are leading, he does not
murmur as Hindenburg and Luden-
dorf are his absolute masters.
An American girl recently arrived
from Germany says many children
and even grown-ups are now going
barefooted. They are unable to buy
shoes. ~
A crime wave is sweeping the
country from one end to the other.
Thugs often rob pedestrians Of their
shoes. Some children were robbed Of
their shoes while on their way from
school. The weather was bitterly
cold.
The girl said the newspapers are
most active in sneering America. Ev-
cry effort is made to diminish before
the masses the United States partici-
patton. They are constantly saying
America is all bluff and noise, worthy
of the country which produced Bar
mum.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21
CAMPS SHOW BETTER
SANITARY CONDITIONS

Washington, Feb. 14.-Continued
improvement in health conditions at
all army camps and environments is
noted in the war department summary
for the week ending February 8, made
public tonight. The hospital admis-
sion rate decreased from the preced-
ing week, while the death rate, al
though slightly higher than the pre-
ceding week, was we'll below the aver
age for the last two months.
Measles and pneumonia continued
to decrease while scarlet fever and
meningitis showed slight increases.
The total number Of deaths in the
camps was GO, and the regulars had
Is deaths.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

The annual reunion of North Da-
kotans at Los Angeles, CAL, was held
there last Saturday. celebrating with
the annual picnic. Mrs. D. W. Clark
who is spending the winter in Long
Beach. Cal, visiting her daughter
Mrs. J. B. Worley, writes that she re-
Gently met large number Of Valley
City people at Long Beach, including
Mrs. Froysaa, Mrs. C. E. Moore, Mr..
and Mrs. Sim Mason, and the Sid Ell
lis family, who are all enjoying the
winter months in southern California.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

The Junior Red Cross are busy
working and the first shipment Of
garments from High school girls has
come in from the Darcy school. Many
more garments will be in soon Sew
eral of the schools in the county are
making afghans for the hospitals.
These are made Of old yarn, donated
by the communities. Other articles
made are: hospital towels, turkish
towels, personal bags, hot water bot
tie covers, scrap books, wash cloths,
and various knitted articles.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Marion Sentinel: Mrs. X. A. Bake
was a passenger to Valley City last
Saturday to visit her daughter, Miss
Agnes, who is attending the Valley
City Normal. Fred Sarbaum went
to Valley City on Wednesday to take
his physical examination, as required
by the draft act.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21
Soldier Boys Getting
Homesick for Letters

General Pershing says "the worst
disease that is preying on the SOL
diers abroad, is inconsistencies" So
important does he consider the matter
that Coler Campbell, director of Mill
tary relief has been assigned to the
particular task Of curing the malady.
He is asking help of every member of
the Red Cross in the states of his d.
vision. He says: "Letter-writing
will do more to Danish inconsistencies,
than all the supplies Of medicine and
garments that the Red Cross can
rush across the Atlantic"
Time and again letters have come
to the attention of division head
quarters workers, all telling the same
story Army officers have described
the long lines of waiting men that
form on the day the mail comes.
Fine men, big men, rough and in
different men, standing in line, some
times for more than an hour, break
down and weep without self-control
when they see the last letter passed
and not word for them.
They speak about it afterward
around the camp fire. Not soul at
home they say, with enough thought
of them to so much as send an old
newspaper. Naturally they think,
"What's the use of risking life and
liberty for a bunch at home as
thoughtless as that"
With the letters might be sent re-
membranes too, a package of
cigarettes, the latest magazine, the
colored supplement from the Sunday
papers, anything and everything that
will make the men in France know
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that back home on the farm or in
the little country Village or the big
city where they came from, the home
folks are thinking of them and ap-
preciating the sacrifice that they are
making by fighting the battle for the
whole nation.
"The country is full of people," de-
clared Mr.. Campbell, "who would
give everything they possess to be
able to get away to the front. They
don't seem to realize that few lines
a week to soldier would do more
good than their presence on the firing
line. We want every soldier from
this division to know that there is
someone, maybe lot of people, who
are thinking of him and approaching
what he is doing for the common
cause. We want every Red Cross
worker to get behind this move
ment."
Have you written to your soldier
this week, as you promised?
He hasn't answered your letters?
He hasn't thanked you for what you
sent him? you say.
Well, what of it?
He is fighting for you and me, isn't
he?
He is enduring hardship, misery and
discomfort for you and me, isn't he?
He is offering his life to purchase
safety for you and me-isn't that pay
enough, in the name of all that is
fair?
One hundred and fifty-eight people
in Valley City have promised to write
to the the 1853 boys in G Company.
Write to then1-its all that you can
do.
Write to them-it is as little as you
can do. Don't let your boy Break
down and weep, when they see the
last letter passed, and nota word for
Them
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Ltchville Bulletin: Mrs. George
B. Sarsten received telephone mes
sage from her parental home, near
Valley City, Saturday evening, stating
that her father, Mr.. Hans Stenshoel
had suffered stroke Of paralysis and
was in a precarious condition. Mrs.
Sarsten Immediately made arrange
ments to go, and Matt Hage took her
across in his Ford, also accompanied
by Mr.. Sarsten and John Sortland.
Miss Helen Spencer has charge of the
primary department in the local
schools, during Mrs. Sarsten's alb
sence. . . Mrs. J. H. Lubbehusen re-
turned on Friday, from Valley City,
where the latter has made arrange
ments to open an Office to follow his
profession as veterinary surgeon. Dr..
Lubbehusen expects to be ready iicr
business about March /, and we be-
speak for the young man success in
his chosen line of work.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Miss Esperance Boyd Of Hllsboro
arrived in the city Friday evening for
few days visit at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. NJ, J. Boyd. Miss Boyd is
the daughter of Major B. C. Boyd who
now is somewhere in France with
the North Dakota troops
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

The friends of Mrs. Marietta But
terfield gave a birthday party in her
honor. The ladies brought their
and enjoyed a fine afternoon
visiting with the honor guest who is
70 years young. Many dainty gifts
were presented in honor of the event
Delicious Refreshments were served
and the friends extended congratula-
lions, for many happy returns.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Raymond L. Myers and Ruby c.
Ryerson, both Of Noltimier township
were married Friday afternoon, Feb.
Is, at the Methodist Episcopal par
sonage by Rev. j. S. Wilds. They
were unattended.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Miss Carrie Oppegaard, Of the OPP
pegaard Insurance Agency, who has
been i'll at her home for the past two
weeks with an attack of grippe, has
recovered from her illness, and has
returned to her Office duties again.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. N. Brown, of Fingal, was buried on
Sunday, and services were held from
the Valley City Furniture Company's
undertaking parlors. Interment was
made at the Hillside Cemetery.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Stenshoel of
Van Hook, in the northern part of the
state are in the city, called here ow-
ing to the illness and death of Mr..
Stenshoel's father, Hans Stenshoel.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

New Rockford State Center: Hon.
O. H. Olson and Herman Olson re-
turned yesterday afternoon from VAL
ley City, where they attended the an
nual meeting of the American Society
of Equity. They report large at
tendance and very interesting con-
vention.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Miss Inez Hobart returned to her
duties at the Fargo Agricultural col
lege, Monday morning, after spend
ing Sunday at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Beal.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Mrs. A. H. Anderson and son
George, were visitors in the city Sat-
urday from Ashtabula.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Miss Carrie Iverson of Eastedge
is in the city having some dental work
done.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21
Richie School Wins
Games In Basketball

Tuesday evening, Feb. IL, at, Ar
mory, Lincoln VS.. Richie school play
ed The lineups:
Richie Lincoln
Melvin Ford. H.. James Marlen
Lyle Mccormick. t.. Elmer Dahl
Garner Koontz ;. C Erington Rathje
John Hanson. ...g.. ..Myle Mulheir
John Hanson. &C.. Francis Holm
Lawrence Taber. g. -. Myle Mulheir
Substitutes: Melvin Koontz, Geo.
Morrisey, Arthur Beleal
The score was to 9 in favor of the
Richie.
Goals: Ford 1, Mccormick 2,
Koontz l, Rathye l, Dahl 2, Mulheir
Fouls: Mccormick 2, Hanson /,
Taber l., Rathje 1, Dahl 2, Holm 2,
Also Wednesday evening, Feb. Is
the Junior high Draining schooD VS..
Richie schools played. The lineup
was as follows:
Richie Juniors
Ford. observation-disclosures. Anderson
Mccormick ..... #. ..... Baaken
koontz. ....... C. ..... Coddlng
hanson. &C. ........ Flnney
IaDer. ..g...... .........
Substitutes: George Morrisey, Mel
vim Koontz; Coombs, Maresh.
The score was "a to 22 in favor Of
the Richie.
Goals: Koontz l, Mccormick l.,
Ford s, Hanson 2, Anderson 8, Coombs
I, Codding g..
Fouls: Ford /, Mccormick /, Ia
Der 1, Hanson I, Koontz 1, Codding 5.
Both scores for Feb. IL and Is show
exceptional work by the Richie boys.
Fans predict that these men will make
la fine addition to the future High
school team.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Mrs. C. c. Chaffee has been confin-
ed tn her bed the greater part Of the
week.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21
Montreal Suffers Bad Calamity
In Nursery Fire Thursday Night
Montreal, Feb. 15.-Three more
children's bodies were recovered early
this morning.

Montreal, Feb. 15.-Three more
children's bodies were recovered early
this morning.
Montreal, Feb. 14.-The charred
bodies of 80 children had been recov-
cred late tonight from the ruins of
the Grey Nunnery, which was Destroy
ed by fire. 1t is feared that maEy
more persisted and searchers believ-
ed the toll of death might reach 100.
All the inmates of the great build
ing except the children are believed
to have escaped. They included nuns,
nurses, wounded or sick soldiers from
overseas, aged, sick or crippled men
and women to the number Of almost
a thousand.
Alarm Quickly Given
When the flames were discovered
in the west wing, the alarm was
quickly given and all those able to
help themselves fled to places Of safe
ty. The heroic nuns and nursing sis
tiers strove valiantly to save the sick
and wounded, as we'll as the infants
under their charge.
The children were housed in the Sec
ton of the building where the fire
started and the flames spread so rap
idly that it was impossible to save
them all.
Montreal, Feb. 15.-Fifty-fve ba-
bies, foundlings, are now known to
have lost their lives in the fire which
swept the nunnery of the Grey Nuns
last night. At noon firemen had tax
en- 43 little bodies from the ruins. A
dozen more have been sighted. 1t is
feared the death list will reach 70.
Some of the little forms were al
most consumed by the blast which
swept quickly through a portion of
the nunnery, used for wounded SOL
diers and for homeless children.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Times-Record want ads bring results
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21

Also Wednesday evening, Feb. Is
the Junior high Draining school) VS..
Richie schools played. The lineup
was as follows.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-01
Hunting for Brains.
By CHARLES II. SCHWAB,
Dircctor-Gcncrnl of Emergency Fleet Cor
porntion.

sGS that srs2 shsH @ say
diasFence what held Of inaustry ~" You non, consGef
In The present crisis 81" ea ad%s of various bust
to ,s Winning 81 the ana yet
in n the &C, eopntrys service they happen 70 be
1t is brains--speciaiized brains
shps proves ,his daily The VINO drive
f e na h ow ice, mot be-
knows how to utilize his brains and how TO
tai, There Y1sd 60 be good deal Of
,hey fae e ssns Genius ThG
hard hard work: using normal hrans 10 think be
Of the readiest alibis for the man who docs not
want to work little harder than he is com
Amsris ca is facing today situation that de-
ensry man and woman The drain ON the man
y week ol the T ysn is nd Day by
leaving their Industrial pursuits, 10 take IN
The navy s,ralnins "ycry effort to eumin and
plants are humn,ns day and night the ship
Yards f from coast TO coast aaickeninE by
send our lighters and the necessary supplies 10
exodus several mio5 able Sodied "GT e liz
Industry. Bn, v, We mus, haye GEhtfrs ana Var
our This is n h san nS Of
branch Of American industry. The man who has
must be allowed to return to us merely rs
n hero worthy of our sympathy. His physical
handicap: whatever IL may be. will not, except in
instances render him useless an in
dustrial factor: on the contrary, it vii arord
a greater opportunity than before to
utilize his brains; upon which he was so
dependent when he went away.
lea Not an academic problem: but practical
For some time il has been gaining IN
i'nportance as part Of the very fabric, Of in;
With agination. many Of them have a nhssy
foreseen the necessity of saivaginS their man-
power of holding ined and loyal employers
not discardiing tn I'm on account Of DISABILITY
many instances where he process OF rctrainnc
has returned able incn to their jobs. and has not
only saved the man for himself aud his family
bat increased the effectiveness Of the plant in
which he worked Copyright, 1913.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-01
SEEN ON THE SIDE
ny HENRY EDWARD WARNER

Friends.
Oh. E. W.-Thcsc lines to your dog Admiral
from Reader OF S. .. 81
There are friends with money and honey
With things OF value and gifts
All covered with price marks, fixing
The market OF personal lifts
There are friends who linger for favors
Or gamble on smiles. and they
Are the Kind that plenty. but dwindle
When luck isn't going your way.
There are friends who drink. and in quafing
The bowl keep eye the knife;
There arc friends who stick till it's over
Who stay with glimmer OF life
There arc friends who meet you and greet YOU
And pass. and are gone for the day
But count on my fingers the fellows
Who are there when You need them, to stay,
And there's one who's friend-hes sitting
Beside me here. late in the night:
He's only a dog. but doggone him,
Hes a regular fellow all right,
And think as he looks at me fondly
That when Admiral's playfellow goes
The last thing he'll feel in his coffin
Is Admiral, licking his nose.
DAFFY DIMPLE.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-01
Bcrcft Of Allies

= ERMANY may not yet be willing to con-
VI fess before the world that it is beaten;
it may not be ready to admit to itself that
its might cannot at least keep it's enemies
from the frontiers, but it cannot deny 10 it
self or to the world that it is now without
q friend among the nations Of the earth
1t has not comrade upon whom it may
lean ally to which to turn for support.
Bulgaria has deserted, Austria Is appealing
to the allies for separate peace and Tur-
key has surrendered.
One wonders what the German people must
mink of themselves, Of their military sys-
TEN, of. their philosophy OF force and their
policy of ruthlessness when they contemplate
their plight at this time. They cannot hold
their government alone guilty of the crimes
against civilization, which have arrayed more
than twenty nations against them and dis
solved every alliance which they had made
They must know, if they capable of re-
fection, that they themselves have stood by
that government, gloried in its brutality as
long as brutality meant success and counto-
nanced terrorism in all its forms as long as
victory by such processes seemed possible
They now have failed. They have been
defeated by the same force which they in
roked; they have been mastered by the same
militarism which they relied upon to domi-
nate the world. Their enemies are about to
reduce them to helplessness, after already
having reduced them to hopclessness, and
while the battle goes on one after another
OF their allies repudiates the covenants which
bound them together. Not only are these
alliances repudated, but they are repudiated
in hate. Bulgarians, Austrians and Turks
have turned against Germany. They have
shaken themselves free Of an oppressor
They have refused to fight longer the war
that was Germanys from the outset,
and in the years to come their maledictons
will be upon the nation that sought to sacri-
flee them to its own advantage
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-01
Baldcrdash and Billingsgatc

| hEODORE ROOSENELT, avowed Cand-
date for the presidency. has Embossed his
accumulated hate upon the President. Cha
grined because the history OF this great
period in the life of the nation is being made
and written by another than himself; de-
leated IN his preposterous effort to lead an
army corps across the Atlantic and probably
to its death, and baff1ed in his fixed purpose
to create an overwhelming opposition party
in this time of war, he has descended to
bald abuse Of the administration and to i'm
potent spluttering about its ineficiency, its
feebleness and the incapacity of the party re-
sponsible for It,
ms is the sum and substance of the much
advertised New York speech-the speech
which was heralded in advance as the sledge
hammer which would smash tho whole Demo
cratic regime batter it to pieces and/ throw
the country into spasm of impatiAlco to
bind and gag it through Republican ma
Jorty IN both the House and Senate. 1t
would have been better for the Republican
party if that speech had not been made.
That party may have had chance to cap
turc one or the other of the houses OF Con-
gress before, but it is impossible to under
stand how the American people now can be
,misled If the Roosevelt speech is the best
which can be made against the party
in power.
For three hours the Colonel thundered.
lie fused and Illuminated He accused the
President OF conserving to a negotiated peace,
when all the world knows differently. He
charged that the war program had been bun
gleG. when the nations of the earth have been
astounded at the achievements of the gov
eminent in making war. He asserted that
the Republican party is the only instrument
i..lity in this country fitted to carry on
war enterprise, when every full-grown Amer
lean knows that the Republican party's war
against Spain was succession Of scandal
and horror. He riddled the fourteen terms
of peace which have been laid down by the
President, notwithstanding the fact that
every allied nation in this war has subscribed
TO them, acknowledged the President as their
spokesman and recognized in him the fore
most statesman and humanitarian of the age.
There one assault which Theodore
Roosevelt dared not make. He did not charge
the President with prostituting his Office
10 give him Congress which would sup
port, not harass him; hold up his hands,
not hamatrng him Roosevelt knew that he
himself made exactly the same appeal in
behalf Of William Mckinley in 1898. He
knew that he made the same appeal when
he himself President and again when
the country was voting to elect William II.
Taft President.
The Republican party may elect majority
OF the next House. This is not an impos-
sibe thing. If it does, it will elect it in
spite Of and not because of the support given
its candidates by Colonel Roosevelt.