The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-11-14
My Country 'Zls of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty,
OF Thee I Sing!
That is Tie Feeling That Filled Our
Hearts Yesterday When Peace
Was Declared.

in the parade. The Red Cross carried
huge American flag. The parade
was full of interesting features, but
our time and space will not permit lis
to give an account Of all of them. A
'arge contingent OF drafted men were
> % in the parade.
o fter the parade the crowd march
ec< TX to the city hall and Mayor
Mc'e reduced George A. Mcfarland
who . one of the best talks we
have /. crd in Valley City. Mr.. Nc
Earland was repeatedly cheered as he
told OF the great achievements accom-
plished by the great nations of the
earth in which the United States had
taken so great a part and attributed
the success of the war to the God of
war who had guided the conflict to
success in the interests of humanity.
Following the speaker the band played
the national anthem after which Mrs.
Craswell led the singing of America
and the crowd dispersed.
Tom Costello and the railroad
bunch made good in the way of ex-
ploding torpedoes and letting folks
know celebration was on. The boys
placed the torpedoes on the track and
when Conductor Vic Landquist mo-
toned to Tom to back up bang they
went and it sounded like regular sal
vo Of machine guns.
All the business houses closed up,
and big and little, old and young, went
into the celebration with that feeling
shat only comes to them after the ten
sion of months of worry and thought
Of loved ones in foreign lands-it was
the end of perfect day all right.
The weather was perfect, peace was
the most perfect thing We could get
in the way of happiness and the
fountains of joy and peace overflow
ed in the heart Of every loyal Amerl-
can citizen.
There are many in the land who feel
! the ravages of war more than most OF
us-those who have lost loved ones
in the great battles, and while their
hearts are torn asunder through their
tears comes a smile, and a JOY to
know that these heroes who have
fallen on the field of battle have con-
tributed the greatest thing in all the
world that others might live to enjoy
! the fruits of greater freedom and
democracy.
The kaiser was hung in effigy to a
Telephone pole after the parade and
last night at dark engineered by Mrs.
Heidel and Mrs. Craswell a great bon
fire was built on the right-o OF
the Northern Pacific and the kaiser
was consigned to the flames. 1t was
a rather easy end to his notorious l'fe
! we think, the only thing being that it
was not real.
And last of all as the sun went
down in the west bringing to the END
a day of great rejoicing and thanks
giving everyone in the land could let
this prayer ascend on high from the
bottom Of their hearts:
"God save our noble men:
Send them safe home again
God save our men.
To thee all praise belongs,
For righting all our wrongs;
To. thee we lift our song
God save our men.
| Some of the boys with shot guns
took great delight in shooting down
the figure Of the kaiser which had been
hanging in ef4igy from a telephone
pole. While the kaiser's figure was
only stuffed one on this occasion it
onlv goes to show the feeling OF the
people toward him and we can see
what his real finish will be some OF
these days-he will get what the
czar of Russia got.