Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-10-16
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WORLD WAR NOTES.


Utilization of German prisoners on
North Dakota farms is being consid-
cred. Representative Young of that
state has taken the matter up with
Herbert G. Hoover. The plan is to
offer the prisoners a chance to vol
unteer on the farms at a salary of
81 a day and board. Next years crop
is a serious problem in the northwest.
Labor is high-priced and scarce.
}. c. Nickel, young man of East
man, Crawford county, was arrested
as deserter and taken by the sheriff
to Great Lakes Naval station Mick
ell enlisted last fall, made ten trips
| overseas. When apprehended his on
| ly excuse was that he was tired of
the service and came home. 81 thought
II the government wanted me they
could come after me-" he said. Mick
Ell will doubtless find that much to
his great sorrow and humiliation.
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About 100000 feet of black wal
nut timber has been located and it's
existence reported to the Forest Ser
vice by the Boy Scouts since they were
called upon by the President to as
sist the government in locating this
timber for gunstock and propeller
material. The Boy Scouts send the
reports to the Forest Service, where
the information is compiled and then
| forwarded to the War Department
The government itself is not buying
the walnut but sends out the infor-
nation to manufacturers working on
| government CantractS
! The Herald has been shown a copy
of a letter sent to the parents of a
young soldier who recently arrived at
camp. 1t is an appeal to relatives and
friends to keep in frequent communi-
cation with their soldier boys. The
letter and notification is signed by
the battalion commander as follows:
has safely arrived eat
this camp He will remain here for
some time, getting used to army life,
and learning the first simple things
that our soldiers must know The
army supplies him with such neces-
saries as clothing, shoes, plenty of
good food, comfortable quarters and
medical attendance But in another
way YOUR help is needed He needs
CAAC 0uppO4l I'll yOul anu
cheer Write to him often. Getting
mail is a big event in a soldiers day,
and getting none is a real disappoint-
ment. If pleasant things happen at
home, write him about them. If you
are proud of him, tell him so; let him
know that you are back of him. You
too, are a part of this army-you are
the Army of Encouragement and En-
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these things to your soldier, and you
will help us to help him.
American boys of German ancestry
| fighting in France under the Grand
Old Flag battle with deadly fury ac-
cOrding to dispatches received It is
vexatious to the German soldiers to
have their jeers and catcalls from
their trenches answered roundly in
their own tongue from the American
| side. A writer says: These Yankees
of German descent have faced Ger
man shot and shell with a grim deter
mination to overcome the deadliest
odds. With bayonet and hand gren-
AIDES, they have slain or taken prison
ers those of the same Germanic blood,
but not as Germans or as those of
German descent have they fought.
They stood the supreme test of the
firing line, as Americans following
the American flag in a combat that
has driven the huns back steadily and
surely. There are others too who
have smaller percentage of German
in their veins, who have earned the
distinction of being among the ierc-
est fighters the huns ever met. Their
Teutonic blood has meant nothing to
their young American lives. They
have gone into the thick of the fray
as Americans fighting for the world
freedom and only imbued by the
thought that they were on the side of
right as they faced cruel and re-
! lentless foe with the cold American
steel that the foe did not relish at all.