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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-27
With Violating
The White Slave Act

Lakota, N. d.. Aug. 27.-Ben Has
kel Of International Falls was arrested
here by federal agents and taken to
Fargo, where he is now held for trial
before the federal court,
Haskell Is charged with having
from Minnesota to North Dakota,
violating the Mann &C.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21
CUSTOM AN OLD ONE
Pages of History Filled With Rec
ord of Days Set Aside for
Giving Thanks.

T%iIE idea is prevalent throughout
the United States that our
Thanksgiving day is peculiarly
an American custom of New England
origin. This is true in part only. The
general observance through many
years of set day on which to give
thanks to Almighty God for his bless
ings has made the custom distinctively
American; but it's origin long ante
dates. the settlement of this western
continent and we must look elsewhere
for it.
In old Egypt, when the harvest had
been gathered, it was the custom to
observe a day of feasting and to lay
offerings upon the affairs of Isis, the
goddess of agriculture. The Jewish
festival was the "Ingathering," or the
'Feast of the Tabernacle" mentioned
in Exodus and other parts of the Old
Testament. This was more particular
ly thanksgiving for the fruit harvest,
but as it came at the close of the en-
tire harvest it probably was intended
11OO CO q 6CICl al 1Oi LIA0
bounty of nature"
The goddess of the Roman harvest
was Ceres. Her festival was celebrated
annually and was called Ceralia. 1t
was day of worship and rustic sports.
Men and women formed professions
and went to the fields with music.
In one way or another Thanksgiv-
ing day had been observed in Chris
tan Europe for centuries before it's
celebration in New England. The early
Christians kept such days as the bish-
ops named them within their jurisdic-
ton. On the continent, and for time
in England, it occurred at Martinmas,
which was day of feasting and drink
ing. Occasionally, too, civic authorities
recommended the observance of some
fixed day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21
Over Seas for Freedom.
~ 1920 81

r EFT us be glad together that the
passionate love of freedom that
49, made the Pilgrim Fathers set
sail in fragile ships to brave the IN
known terrors of the inhospitabIe New
England coast is driving us back over
the seas in dreadnsughts to face the
known horrors of modern warfare.
When that spirit dies there can be
no more thanksgiving in America. As
long as this spirit lives it is always
Thanksgiving day, whatever happens,
or whatever we may have or may not
have for dinner.
Let us give thanks that years of
prosperity and fairness, years of peace
and security, have not served to make
us entirely forgot that unless we love
freedom more than life, we are al
ready as one dead; unless we know
the difference between real peace and
selfish security, we are already con-
quered people.
Let us give thanks for our strength,
our wealth and our opportunities gar
nered under the protection of even a
daWning democracy, and for the
chance to pour them out without stint
for the spread of democracy to every
corner of our world.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21
DAYS new MEANING
This Year National Rejoicing Is
A|Ioyed With Thought of
Glad Sacrifice.
ITO a very great number Of us,
especially the fathers and

especially the fathers ana
- mothers and wives of the Unit
ed States, Thursday will be one of the
most realistic Thanksgivings we have
ever spent. At last, after many years
in which this national holiday was
nothing more than that-merely, IN
fact, an occasion for feasting and gath
ering and pleasures eeking-this dis
tinctly American day is to mean some
thing very real and intimate to us all.
Just what message and benefit it
brings to us will depend largely, if not
wholly, upon ourselves. And the char
acter Of our appreciation of the bless
ings that have come to us will measure
the depth of our patriotism and love
of country.
We are not Of those who believe the
whole sacrifice belongs to the man who
has gone away to fight. AS much-in
some cases even mOre-bravery and
courage and devotion to duty and to
country have been necessary on the
part Of those who remained behind.
And we are certain that those who
stop at home will, on this coming
Thanksgiving, realize more completely
than they have heretofore that the call
Fate has made upon American man.
hood and womanhood is indeed an OPP
portunity for service, not merely a
disagreeable duty to be shirked if pos
sible. For only if the men in the
ranks, and equally the men and wom-
en- at home who support and encour-
age them, enter this war in such a
spirit of glad, eager sacrifice will it
ever bring us more than disappoint-
ment and regret and terrible loss.
SO let Thursday be day of glad
ness, not Of sorrow. Let your tears,
if tears there be as you sit beside the
empty chairs, be evidences that your
heart rejoices in the realization that
your son or husband or brother or
friend was brave enough and willing
enough, yes, eager enough, to risk all
that selfish men hold dear and desir-
able that his country might win honor
and security through his blood.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21

I'm thankful for lot of things,
I'm thankful I'm alive,
I'm thankful that I'm six years old,
Instead of only FIVE.
I'm thankful for my tops and toys
And for my Kitty Gray.
I'm thankful for the big outdoors
Where I can run and play.
I'm thankful for the things that grow,
The apples-aren't they good?
The corn where we played hide-and-
seek
AS in a little wood.
I'm thankful for the pumpkins round,
Just like golden ball,
And Jack-o'-lanterns, big and queer
They don't scare me at ALL
I'm thankful for Thanksgiving day,
For pies all in row;
I'm thankful Grandma made them
sweet,
She knows I like them so.
I'm thankful for the turkey, too
How brown it is, and nice!
And I'd be very thankful, please,
For only one more slice.
Elizabeth Fl. Thomas, in Youths
Companion.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21

Friday.
Mineral Point Wednesday.
Eight carloads OF stock were shipped
from here Wednesday. Jack Harker
and Matt. Jackson accompanied them.
Jacob Luxem transacted business at
Dodgeville Tuesday.
Edward Girardin and daughter Mile
autoed to Cross Plains Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs John Burns and daugh
ter Lillian and son John spent Thurs
day evening at the T. F. Burns home
near Blanchardville.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21
49, Your Grocer Has It!

turned to her home Tuesday, after Wis
iting at tIe James Jackson home.
Edward Ley and Jack Burns were
Mineral Point callers Monday.
Mrs Robert Weier visited at Dodge
vile over Sunday.
Mrs James Jackson and daughter
Catherine Ann were Dodgeville callers
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs Volney Whitford re-
ceived letter from their son Lawrence
in France Monday. His many friends
will be glad to hear he is fine.
T. F. Burns was Dodgeville caller
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21
Monday and Tuesday.

Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Agnes Weier spent Tuesday at
Dodgeville.
Mr. and Mrs j E. Harris and daugh
ter Lucille and Madge and Monica
Burns spent Monday at Mineral Point.
Mrs H. r. Carter and daughter Mrs
Jesse James visited relatives near Min
eral Point last week
Misses Bessie Burns, Cecilia Lev and
Gwendoline Jackson of Dodgeville Wis
tied over Sunday at their homes here
Mrs F. II. Hughes of Cambria re-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21
JONESDALE

BY LUCILLE HARRIS.
d. &. Jones transacted business at
Dodgeville Monday.
Jack Burns spent Sunday at Dodge
vile.
William and Seth Reeves and Frank
VanMatre were Mineral Point callers
Monday.
Mrs Raymond Richards spent from
Saturday until Monday at Dodgeville.
John Nicholas was at Mineral Point
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21
Real Day of Thanksgiving.

There is a difference between being
thankful and having good time. One
can enjoy an elaborate dinner and the
meeting of friends without any uplift
OF the heart to the Giver of all good.
Make Thanksgiving more than a jolly
day, day Of festivity and good cheer
and friendly companionship. Put
aside a portion of it for real Thanks,
giving to him to whom your thanks
are due.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

Dick Neavill and Wanda Meeker won
a contest for the fourth Liberty Loan
drive last week.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05
BAD ROADS.
[ BY WALT. MASON.

81 W ALI MASON.
travel much in autos by woods and
fields and grottos take my stately way,
and see the highway builders blow in
our hard-earned guilders on roads that
do not pay. They're always fixing, fix
ing, the dirt and rubb,o mixing, all sum
mer they have toiled; and then there
comes a torrent-the fact is most abhor-
rent-and all their work is spoiled.
Their road is washed to thunder and
they repeat their blunder, they build it
up again they cut their bootless capers
with graders aud with scrapers, mis-
guided sons of men. The roads are
dragged and graded, and manicured and
spaded, and when it rains they're done
the money that's been squandered on
roads DER which I've wandered, in gold
would weigh a ton. Our roads are
dreary fizzles, although with planes and
chisels we smooth them, year by year
for money always calling, they re good
till rain is falling, ard then they disap-
pear When this grim war is ended
methinks it will be splendid if we get
down to tacks and build some modern
highways, forsaking muddy byways and
rutty cattle tracks travel much in
motors and oft | see the voters sunk
shoulder deep in mud respect for NOR.
ais losing, the language they are using
would freeze purisps blood -Copyrg
by George Matthew Adams.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

Mr. Webster has donated twenty addi-
tional books which were very much
appreciated by the school
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05
From John 1. Valentine.

A. +. f. France, Aug. Is, 1918.
EDITOR CUSTER CHRONICLE:
DEAR EDITOR II will now endeayor
to write you few lines to let you know
what have been doing since | left Gus
ter over year ago ! enlisted in the
Third Wyoming Infantry June LIST, 1917,
and went to Fort u. A. Russell for train
ing, stayed there until the 9th of Sept.
and from there was transferred to Camp
Green, Charlotte, North Carolina, and
trained there until the 2nd of Novem-
Der and from there was transferred to
Camp Mills, Long Island, New York, in
to the 10th Ammunition Train and sail
ed from there on the 18th of December
for France. We had a pleasant trip
across the mighty Atlantic, the water
being very calm and we enjoyed our
selves quite we'll | met Elmer Keating
on the boat and was certainly glad to
see some one that knew from Custer.
On the 2nd day of January we landed
and was glad 10 wax on land once more
although it was a strange and foreign
country 1t was quite cold here then,
showing and raining most every day,
but it is nice here now, very mild and
good climate and a very pretty country
There are 50 many old things of inter-
est, so many could not name them ALL
| was in an old Chateau over eight hun
dred years old, where King Richard Of
England was prisoner for about seven
years in a dungeon. Paris is beauti-
ful city People that have not seen it
| would not believe the things that are
there. There are many other beautiful
city's also | saw Sergeant Floyd Carr a
few weeks ago and was quite surprised
| TO see him.
There is beautiful summer resort up
in the Alps where they send soldiers for
furlough. They give us a fnrlough
every four months | have never taken
one yet but think will get one and go
up there. Boys who have been there
say it is the most picturesque place in
the world.
Well / hope ] will soon be able to get
| back to Custer and see old time friends.
/ receive the CHRONICLE quite often and
I certainly enjoy reading it, Giving my
best regards to all the people of Custer ]
am as ever your friend,
| Pvt. J. l. VALENTINE
Co. E., ll6 Ammunition Train, A p,
%. 727, A. L. France,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

A paper saving club has been organ
lied in the fifth and sixth grades. Each
evening some one goes through the bas-
ket looking for paper which may be
used. The person throwing away the
paper must pay a penny. This fund is
turned over to the Red Cross.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

Elizabeth Tubbs has been absent from
school on account of tonsiitis.
Harriet Willis has been absent since
Tuesday.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05
SCHOOL NOTES.

Debates have been started in High
School. Last week the Freshmen de-
bated the question, Resolved, that boys
Of sixteen and seventeen should enter
the army rather than stay in school. "
The decision was in favor of the allirma-
tive. The following day the Sophomores
debated the question and the decision
vas given to the negative side.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

Last Wednesday night dance was
given in honor of Elmer Hayes, Merle
Willis and Eric Heidepriem, who have
departed for Vermillion.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

A second consignment OF High School
books has been sent to Pringle for use IN
the ninth and tenth grades.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Lieutenant Harold +. Hanley, who is
home on furlough, will speak at the
Congregational Church next Sunday
evening on his experience and obser-
yaiions of the Aeroplane Service from
the Successive stages Of student to an
official Instructor. 1t will be great
evening.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05
NEWS FROM THE BOYS
Major w S. Bentley and John l. vallen-
thine Write Briefly From Some
where in France.


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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

The county's quota is Sl2j,OOO and
this leaves a total Of $50 800 needed to
complete the minimum of the county.
The Executive Committee is urging
those who have not yet subscribed to
come in for the amount they have been
allotted, Everybody in the county should
get busy at once
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05
ATwATER Is GOING SOME.

Harry p. Atwater, of Stngis, S. D.,
the Republican candidate for Congress
from the third district, was an over
night visitor in Martin on Thursday.
Mr.. Atwater came from the Black Hills
country and expects to spend couple of
weeks in this partof the district before
touring the northern part He stated
that ne was we'll pleased with conditions
In this part Of the district. Martin Mes.
senger.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05
BOND SALES $88,5OO
This Amount Was Reported Friday Noon
BY Chairman Stewart of the
Executive Committee.

When the total reports from the vari.
Gus districts in the county were check ed
up at noon Friday, it was found that
the subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty
Loan throughout the comfy in round
numbers amounted to SSS, 500, credited
as fnl!autS.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

The students of the Custer schools
showed a great amount Of patriotism by
collecting one hundred pounds of fruit
pits which will be used in the manufac
ture Of carbon for gas masks.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-05

Last Friday the Geometry class had
their first outdoor laboratory work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-02
When Do We Die?
Investigation of the Question
has interested Scientists

Practically speaking, many people,
actually begin to die years before
they cease to live. Many times you.
see a comparatively young person
with shrunken features and pallor
that you might expect to find in a
hospital ward. That unfortunate per-
son is suffering from impoverished
blood and every vital organ of the
body begins to die the moment the
blood becomes impoverished.
ID R. c II A S E'S LOOD
AND NERVE TABLETS have been
prepared to feed the blood the ele-
ments it lacks and feed it quickly.
The blood needs Iron. DIR. Chase's
Blood and Nerve Tablets contain Iron
in a most active and condensed form.
so compounded with Nux Vomica, Gem
tian and other blood and nerve build
ers, that it can be assimilated or alb
sorbed directly. When in perfect
health the blood gradually draws
these elements from the food you eat.
but when the blood becomes impover-
ished, it must have more direct nour-
ishment.
BLOOD I j AND NERVE TABkETs + : ana
note your weight increase each
month. Price sixty cents; Special
Strength (stronger and more activeI
ninety cents.-Advertise
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-02
FLUSH KIDNEYS
WITH SALTS IF
BACK IS ACHING
Noted authority says we eat too
much meat, which clogs
Kidneys.
Take glass of Salts when
Kidneys hurt or Bladder
bothers you.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make a mistake by
flushing the kidneys occasionally,
says a well-known authority. Meat
forms uric acid which excites the
kidneys, they become overworked
from the strain, get sluggish and
fail to filter the waste and poisons
from the blood, then we get sick.
Nearly all rheumatism, headaches,
liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness,
sleeplessness and urinary disorders
come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache
in the kidneys or your back hurts or
IL the urine is cloudy, offensive, full
of sediment. irregular of passage or
attended by a sensation of scalding,
stop eating meat and get about four
ounces of Jad Salts from any phar-
macy; take tablespoonful in glass
of water before breakfast and in a
few days your kidneys will act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, COM
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush and stimu-
late the kidneys, also to neutralize
the acids in urine so it no longer
causes irritation, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts Is inexpensive and can
not injure; makes a delightful effer-
vescent lithia-water drink which
everyone should take now and then
to keep the kidneys clean and active
and the blood. pure, thereby avoiding
serious kidney complications.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-02
Ostend Channel Opens on
Sea Like Neck of Bottle

The Ostend Channel, which the
British attempted to block with con-
crete-laden cruisers, apens like a
neck of bottle directly upon the
North Sea. This channel, which
leads from three large basins and
several smaller ones, is about $500
feet long and ESQ feet wide at its
narrowest point, expanding to a
mouth 400 feet wide.
The waterway is kept free from
the shifting sands of the shore by
two protecting moles f1anking it east
and west, while the town to the west
is protected by a sea wall at the foot
of which are the bathing establish
ments. If the cruisers sunk were
like those submerged at Zeebrugge
that is, more than 800 feet in
leEgth-and were driven near
enough, even without entering, the
neck of the bottle, they would make
a formidable barrier around which
the sand would quickly. pile at this
season of the year, both from the
coast east and west and from the
natural discharge of the channel
carrying waste from a dozen towns
on its way from Bruges, thirteen
miles to the southeast.
as far as Mariakerke, three miles
west of the town, and forms for
tification from which fire could be
concentrated on the mouth of the
channel. 1t is sixteen and a half to
thirty-five yarGs wide and twenty
five feet in height.
Beyond the beaches on the South
the channel connects with the Leo
, pold basin for merchantmen, and
the naval and repair basin on the
east, the new harbor on the south,
and the fishing and commercial en-
| closed docks on the west. From
the basin containing the commercial
docks runs the canal to Bruges.
AT Zeebrugge, a mole more than
mile and a half long, running in
curve to the northeast, protects an
open harbor whose mouth is about
seven -eighths of a mile wide. About
half a mile east of the junction of
the mole with the shore is the chan
mel which leads to the inner docks.
and thence to the canal to Bruges,
ten miles long. Half a mile east of
this channel is the mouth to the Lys
canal. Both canals have tide gates,
and one report says that those "in-
side the mole''-that is, the Bruges
canal gates-were destroyed. If the
submarine which was detonated
alongside the mole effected a break,
the first of the nor'westers common
on that coast would drive sand into
the harbor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-02
Try This If You
Have Dandruff

There is one sure way that never
fails to remove dandruff completely
and that is to dissolve 1t. This de-
stroys it entirely. To do this, just get
about four ounces of plain, ordinary
liquid arvon; apply it at night when
retiring; use enough to moisten the
scalp and rub it in gently with the
finger tips.
BY morning, most If not all, of
your dandruff will be gone, and three
or four more applications will COM
pletely dissolve and entirely destroy
every single sign and trace of 1t. no
matter how much dandruff you may
have.
You will find, too, that all itching
and digging of the scalp will stop
instantly, and your hair will be
fluffy, lustrous, glossy, silky and soft,
and look and feel a hundred times
better.
You can get liquid arvon at any
drug store. 1t is inexpensive, and four
ounces is all YOU will need. This sim
pie remedy has never been known
to fail.-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-02
ACIDS IN STOMACH
CAUSE INDIGESTION
Create Gas, Sourness and Pain
How To Treat

Medical authorities state that near
~ nine tenths of the cases of stomach
trouble Indigestion, sourness, burn
ing, gas. bloating, nausea, etc, are
due to an excess of hydrochloric acid
i'm the stomach and not as some be-
lieve to a lack of digestive juices.
The delicate stomach lining is irri-
tated, digestion is delayed and food
sours, causing the disagreeable symp-
toms which every stomach sufferer
knows so well.
Artificial digestents are not needed
in such cases and may do real harm.
Try laying aside all digestive aids
and instead get from G. a. Gorgas or
any druggist a few ounces of Bisu-
rated Magnesia and take a teaspoon
full in a quarter glass of water right
after eating. This sweetens the stom-
ach, prevents the formation of excess
acid and there is no sourness. gas or
pain Bisurated Magnesia Gin powder
or tablet form-never liquid or milk
is harmless to the stomach, ineXpen-
sive to take and is the most eff
cient form of magnesia for stomach
purposes. 1t is used by thousands of
people who enjoy their meals with no
more fear of Indigestion.