Weekly journal-miner., 1918-07-03
(From Saturdays DailSl


 evening during the final wind-up of the big campaign which has beeen 7 waged throughout the United States It will be safe to say, however, that , Prescott purchased several thousand , dollars worth of the baby bonds and savings stamps, and besides the sat isfaction which comes from a reali- . zation of the fact that the city and
 county had done a mighty fine thing 1, in the way of aiding Uncle Sam, there was also the qualification which comes from seeing the popu- : lation get together in a good old
 fashioned patriotic rally such as was
 held on the plaza during the even ing hours.
 Yesterday had been designed as
 the last day in which the patriotic ] citizens could take hand in the big
 drive which was being staged to get
 rid Of as many of the little green
 stamps as possible, and elaborate
 preparations had beeen made by the
 local committees to gather in the kopeks while the gathering was good. During the morning and early | afternoon, committees of women and
 Boy Scouts made house-to-house calls selling the stamps, and the boys
 opened stands on every corner and huge quantities of the little securities were disposed of. Paddle wheels were also operated at several places in the downtown section.
 | The big event of the program came at 7:30, when several hundred persons gathered on the plaza to hear fine band concert by the Pres colt band and to listen to a short and interesting address by Sergeant Rayner of the Seaforth Scots, who had some mighty thrilling and en- tertaining information regarding the days when he was under fire of the Hun guns for nearly three years. The program on the plaza lasted for , about two hours, and then those who liked dancing went to the I. O. O.. r. hall, where the band played for one of the most enjoyable and novel dan ces ever given here The biggest feature of the ball was the presence of some of the most noted women of history, living or dead. At least their counterparts were there. all gayly and appropriately costumed. As means of selling more stamps, the male portion of the audience was given the opportunity of bidding for the privilege of dancing the first number with these famous lady characters. The celebrities were all masked of course, and did not re- veal their identity until after some patriotic plunger had signed articles 10 purchase several hundred dollars . worth of stamps. Some of the maid . ems looked so good to the men in the crowd that bids ran as high as $500. .
 A baby burro, pet rabbit and an angora goat were auctioned on the
 laza and combined, the beasts raised more than 5000 for stamp money. \. B. Peach agreed to purchase 10 the value of 5000 for the priv ilege of carrying off the youthful burro, while Attorney LeRoy Ander- son and Miss Grace Sparks double teamed and purchased the goat for $500 worth of stamps. The rabbit was knocked off to F. s. Viele, presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce for the trifling sum of SlS0, which is no small price for an everyday cotton tail
 Sergeant Rayner in his Plaza speech spoke in part as follows:
 When you go over the top, there's a fog of smoke before you and you cannot see it. You have rifle on a sling and bayonet in its sling. In one hand you have a trench knife, about eight inches long, and you have in the other hand an iron-studded club about two feet long. So you go into the fog, looking for man to kill You'd call it murder here When l you sec him, you up with the knife, straighten up, catch him by the throat-if you can-and there's one dead German. Later, when you get to the trench and if there are any Germans coming out you crack their skulls with the club. There arc a lot of skulls there needing crack ing: lots of them.
 It was my regiment that entered !. ! recaptured village and came upon l. a house in which there were twenty Germans in one room; and a girl raving mad was strapped to a bed ' The Germans must have been drunk ! 10 stay there. However, they did not live long. We tried to save the ,. fife of the girl; ii was too late.
 "r tell you all the tales you hear of ,, Inc atrocities of the Germans are .rue. There is nothing they can de- C .ise they will not do. |
 You have heard of their surprise ricks. The airplanes fly over and lrop fountain pens upon the grass. Along come our troops Maybe the pens have the names of some of