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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-21

who are not wounded will have the
chance to take such training, and
equip themselves to earn more than
when they went into the army. They
should be given every encouragement
to do so by the people at home.
Aamodt Tells of Work: $1,000.
A. A. Aamodt, county agent, gave
a brief report of the work being done
by the South Beltrami County Farm
bureau, which included the sending
of over 1000 letters, thousand Oh
which were personally dictated, 800
visits to farms in this section OF the
county and the answering OF over
500 telephone calls.
Mr.. Aamodt plans on an extensive
membership campaign and expects to
put on Il contest between the various
farmers clubs. The first one to be
listed is the 400 per cent member
ship campaign" between, the Bemidji
Township Farmers club and the
Frohn Farmers club. This will no
doubt prove an interesting contest
as both clubs are active and have
large memberships.
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REYNOLDS ORDERED TO
LEAVE FOR OVERSEAS:
ENTRAINS ON SATURDAY

Harry E. Reynolds has received
his orders to report at New YORK,
preparatory to embarking for over
seas to enter active duties Zor the
Y. M. C. A. He will leave Saturday
noon to answer the call.
Mr.. Reynolds is secretary Of the
Commercial club, having succeeded
f. B. Lamson when the latter re-
signed last summer to accept a
similar position at Marshfield, Wis,
and it was the second time Mir. Key
nolds held the position.
With the going of Mr.. Reynolds,
Bemidji loses one Of its most promin-
ent citizens and one Of its best
boosters. He practically gave up his
real estate business as member OF
REYNOLDS Il Winter and devoted his
time to government war work, he be-
ing named as food administrator OF
Beltrami county. He has taken a
prominent part in every government
campaign and was one of the hrst
members of the home guard, now
holding captains commission on the
brigade staff of Major Rhinow, com
manding the state military forces,
and assigned to the fourteenth,
twenty-first and twenty-second bat
talions.
1t is expected his absence will
cover a period Of two years, and when
he returns says he expects to see
many improvements in Bemidii, in
cluding the new water system and
the new normal school in full blast.
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ONLY One CHANGE in
!: RED CROSS DIRECTORATE

i AT the annual meeting of the Red
Gross yesterday afternoon, the fol-
lowing executive board was elected;
Rev. l. p Warford; Charles War
field; Mrs. E. r. Netzer; Mrs. G. M.
Torrance; Mrs. A. Lord; Miss Donna
Lycan; Mrs. F.. s. Arnold; Mrs.
Quincy Brooks and Mrs A. A: War
field y |rr
The only change made in the
board was the resignation of w. e.
Dean whose business affairs would
not permit him to give the needed
attention to his office, and Mr.. War
field was elected in his stead.
The board will meet within the
next few days, and elect officers for
the coming year. The president will
be elected from among the members
of the board, but the other members
will not necessarily have to be mem
bers of the executive board.
A very interesting talk was given
by e. l.. Heermance Of the northern
division Red Cross headquarters on
"CiviIian Relief mr. a.
Mrs. 1. G. Haycraft of Solway and
Mrs. Benjamin Carter Of Tenstrike
were present at the meeting and gave
reports of their Red Cross branches.
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The duties of the finance commit.
tee Of the South Beltrami County Red
Cross chapter, in its great war work,
is to "get the money" This is the
prime factor Of every chapter
throughout the nation to aid the gov
ernment in its immense war activ-
tiles, and the past fiscal year OF the
local Red Cross chapter, according to
reports, clearly indicates that the
chapters affairs were in most capable
hands. The financial end of the work
developed upon the finance. To this
committee the money must come for
expense of materials for making es-
sentials for the soldiers and myriad
of other phases of the noble work of
this organization, and it is up to the
committee to devise ways and means.
For the pest Gscal year the report
shows that the sum of SS,033.5 50 mas
been turned over TO the secretary by
the finance committee, of which Mrs.
Cora w. Torrance is chairman. This
includes the pledge card receipts but
the cards were only in service ten
months.
From the chain parties. which
were a popular diversion, S202.9O
were received. Dances netted $34S.15,
refreshment stands took in S112.60,
sale of potatoes S120.13, theatres
s19S.7S, dinners $769.67, sale of SAL
wage S46002, donations 5000.
There were other donations but they
re~rn included toward and included
in pledge subscriptions. The Red
Cross pledges for the ten months
commencing last February amounted
to S5,790.55.
According 10 the report OF Mrs.
Torrance, those who signed pledge
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SPLENDID REPORT, RED Cross,
FOR FISCAL YEAR JUST ENDING

cards have been very conscientious,
and what few occasions of omission
the reason has been removal from
the city. r..-
Sources of Income.
The sources from which receipts
and money came to SUPPORT the
chapter in its activiti les the fiscal
year Just closed are rs fol ows:
Paid tossecrctary net receipts
from TIL anks giving dance. $142.1 .15
Receipts from sale Of fr' ppe
at M. & /. Employees 4; nee 1880
Funds from Ded Gross cl ain
parties oo.Eo
Funds from Red Cross chain
parties ..... 1910
Net Receipts from Elko and
Rex theatres Red Cross
theatre day ........... 111.S7
Receipts from Red Cross
dance -. :. ............ $500
February Red Cross pledge
subscriptions, including ad-
vance payments ........ 70S.35
Red Cross series of dances,
managed by Mrs. Smart
and committee ..... 1000
Funds from Red Cross chain
parties .............. 41.80
Receipts from frappe served
at military ball ...... 1880
Receipts from sale of potatoes
donated by Mrs. Garlock,
Mr.. White and Mr. Norbo. 1873
March Red Cross pledge sub
scriptions, including num-
ber of advance payments. 61O.S5
April Red Cross pledge sub
scriptions .......... 599.40
IHnntTnuad ON mage FOUR
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SUFFRAGE CAMP PAICN soon TO
Be NAUCUR ATED IN BEMlDJl

A. P. White, and the city will be can
vassed for signatures indorsing the
suffrage movement. This campaign
was prompted by Mrs. Rene Stevens
of Omaha, Neb., who is now working
in this vicinity in the interests OF
woman suffrage. AS soon as inStruc-
tions and literature arrives the cam
paign will commence.
Block captains have been named
for canyassing the wards Of the city
and are as follows:
Finance, resolutions and petitions
Mrs. r. FL Schumacher, Miss Ar
villa Kentield. -,
First ward---Mrs. Il. A. Barker.
e" "Second---Mrs.' g. M. Palmer ~
>.yThird-----Mrs. J.~C. Parker tn ~ s3>s
sFourth=-Mrs. McCready.
z Fifth----Miss Glare Nangle. .'-,.
The intention Is to circulate petit
tions for signatures. Mrs. Stevens
was present at a meeting of about
thirty Bemidji women and outlined
the movement.
For at least six weeks Mrs. Stevens
will be in Minnesota and will visit
Walker. Bagley, Red Lake, and sew
eral other cities and towns In the
northwestern part of the Minnesota
state.
1t was in great part that the efforts
of Mrs. Stevens resulted in carrying
suffrage in South Dakota. The first
time The movement failed in the
election, but in the recent election
carried heavily.
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COMMUNITY TO
RAISE VOICE IN
THANKS TO THE
SUP PRE|ME king
Bemidji Will Gather Thanks
= :: giving Day in Elko
ze. In the Forenoon T.:
STANTON ORATOR
OF SPECIAL PROGRAM
Unity of Spirit to Give Utter
ance to Praise of Almighty
sa5f-'T 80 g i
in Bringing Victory -

In the spirit of community, with
hearts filled with Thanksgiving for
the cessation ofs the world conflict,
in which the United States played a
stellar role, Bemidji will lay aside
all else on the morning of Thanks
giving day and her peoples will meet
as one in the Elko theater and offer
up their thanks to Almighty God for
the victory. II: 55,.... .TT--- :sl,r5
The greatest patriotic gathering
ever held in Bemidji, the out pour
ing of community soul to the King
of kings for the great blessing be-
slowed upon the mankind of the
world will be observed with all due
Difference to the Great Commander
of the Universe and reverence to. the
Supreme Diety will dominate.
Stanton Will Speak. ~
. The adress OF the occasion will be
by Judge C. w: Stanton, and Rev.
l.. p. Warford of the Presbyterian
church will read the presidents
Thanksgiving proclamation. The in
vocation will be by Rev. Blaine Lam
bert, pastor of the Methodist church,
and the benediction will be given by
Father Philippe, pastor ofeSt.
Philips church The twenty-first
battalion band .Will furnish the mus lmusi- /
cal numbers and the i national
anthem, Thes.Stars Spangled Banner
and America will be sung by the en-
tire audience. A male quartet will
also appear onathea program. +s
Meeting In Forenoon.
The meeting will be at 10:3O O.
clock in the forenoon of Thanksgiy-
ing day. The. program was arranged
by Mayor Vandersluis, Rev. Warford
and H. T. Mitchell, appointed by
President Robinson of the CONNER
cial club. r. Z a.. 80 49,.
e. Judge Stanton is an orator of ex-
ceptional ability and he will lay par
ticular stress upon the fact the VIC
tory was won by right and not might,
that it was won by. factions whose
minds are free from prO-Germanism.
Bolshevikism anarchism and social
ism, whose ideals are to be checked
from being spread in America.
- Farmers Are Invited. 4
r. A special and urgent invitation is
issued to all farmers and their fami-
lies in this vicinity to be present.
All Bemidji people are earnestly res
quested to assemble and all offer up
the spirit of devotion to the cause of
Righteousness 49, -
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PRIVATE SPENCER SAFE:
WAS REPORTED MISSING

In the last casualty list sent to the
war department by General Perish
ing, is the name Of Private William
L. Spencer, residing few miles from
Bemidji, missing in action
The parents Of the young soldier
are Mr.. and Mrs. c. G.. Spencer and
they received word tnal their son
was missing" September s. Subse-
quently, however, letter was re-
tceived from the young man, four all
together the last one October 30,
disproving the first report which was
recorded and forwarded.
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YANKEES ON SOIL
OF five COUNTRIES
Ry Webb Miller.

With the Americans Advancing
Toward the Rhine, Nov. 21.-The
American army of occupation is now
standing on soil of four countries,
France, Belgium, Luxumberg and
German-Lorraine. Today's advance
resulted In the occupation Of scores
of villages and towns.
The Americans are now only a
short distance from Luxumberg city
aud Metz
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GERMAN NAVAL FLEET
SURRENDERS TO BRITISH
(By United Press. }

London, Nov. 21.--The German
fleet has surrendered to the British
grand feet, the admiralty announced
today. The American battle squad
ron and French cruisers and de-
stroyers participated in the cere-,
monies. i -, 5- IS, ~. : - e. ~ s&3 6
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CONGRESS ADJoURNs TODAY

Washington, Nov. z1.-Congress
adjourned today until December 2,
giving the members brief vacation:
The next session will be the third
and last Of the present congress.
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INFLUENZA REPORT

- st. Paul, Nov. 21.--More than
rs, 900 people in Minnesota have suf-
fered influenza during the present
epidemic, according to an official
bulletin just issued.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-31

them would. have been hunt had they
been down in the trench. like thes-
houId have bsen.
That was mot the FIRST ti-le had
aeafd shells whistle over az head and
been near vhera burst buF = was the
Frst casualty ! had Witnessed One,
las a natural t'GAdency at. drsE To- ducks
when ne hears a shell sci9eam bat eoont
learns that it - the shem he doesn't y
bear the whistle of that gets you Org
.loso 10 YOU. ana take It from me
-ou will know il when she goes Off
,r sou won't know lanythkaG.
This artillery tre krut up without
.ycu hesitation TIL next day about
sinc or ten o'clocS. We moved back
t7e next morning prd 10y now VIC arev
ovid of reach.
As We passed a1oIts dc road in NOV
ing. noticed one ,shell burst osr TO
one side Of the roRd IN field nef3r
where farmer vas working with
his team. but he didtit oven look up.
How would you like as.farm under such
su~roundjngs2
got a good nightis sleep the ncNt,
nieht and we put our office i'm q barn.
and Went to work. What d. YOU thin ri
af a FIRST class offjEe OF eighteen
clerks using two add tng machines and
.hree typewriters IN p cobwebbv barn
with dirt floor? II takes three g.
SON trucks to move our office olFtGtl
and men but we havea become eXpserts
now and can pack ub and be uadr
TO high bail in about ono hours time
-f necessary.
on Wednesday III glet 1 thought
was going to get another good uiCht's
sleep but just as 1 Eot nicely se.tled
on my little pile Of stuaw I heard the
bombs bursting in a nearby city from
an air raid and few minutes later
could hear the whir oTphe Huns. motor
4s he crew nee our- town. Next J
saw him drsA a fare and know what
TO szpect. I went over the garden
wall which hap-, I'D TO he a stone
fence about eight feet high and OUT
into a wheat field just as he commence
I'd to drop his bombs. When one OF
these aerial torpedoes bursts. YOU
think a munitioR plant has blown upf
they have them all beat that have,s
ever heard. Now. don't think I war
the only one who took to the wheat
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hlm. II started about 1880 at nigh
Sunday. July 18th. with an awful ar-
tiiery action and as the Allies Ind
mediately returned the favor. * sound
ed as iC IT. had been turned loost
for miles IN both directions. + mad
heard lots Of barrages put over She
fore but this one was an eye-opencr
TO me-just one continuous defeanine
roar with the heavens on fire. Tier
was d Frenchman in the same trench
With me that night who served thirty
months in the trenches and he said it
was the worst he had ever heard. We
were located in some barracks A. the
end OF of which were some small pro-
lection trenches about two feet Wild
and about the depth OF ones hei@ht
in which you squat down 20 escap
lying she'll fragments i3 case thers
are any bursting near ana there Were
that night. che Hun was using hiss
explosives. eight or npe inch shell
for Ills Ions range work. and balieV
me they have a punch to thcln whei
they land. They burst all around a.
and whistlcd over our heads all n3elt
went into a trench about eleVel
O'Clock and stayed there till daylight
7 hadn't been in the trench more thar
three or four minutes when shel
hit less than nifty yards away almos
a the end of another trench and IN
stantIv killed TWO American officer
and wounded three others. one o
whom l think died afterwards. / hat
been standing Just few minutes be-
fore on the spot where she hit am
came near going into this trench anG
would have If there hadn't been SO
many in it, Nv captain and ser
seant out OF our office We're in th'
FAR end but not hurt. one Of the Of
acers killed had both legs blown of
from the knees down and was mutlat-
ed otherwise. saw pieces Of his fee
and loggings scattered around in tho
vicinity next morning Neither %
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July Gath, 1913.
Forwarded to Mrs. a. Kingman. Of
Hammond, a cousin OF Sergeant Shelf
nncld)
Dear Brother:
How are you 30? have made
several attempts to write you but
have not been able to make the hin
Yet and maybe I went this time but
: VIII try.
How Is everything at Alvin2 or
course I hear from Mother quite reg
Ularly and get most everything that
l. news. 7 would like to write to all
o. you but 7 simply do not have the
time to do IT. We have lots of work
10 do and are moved around so much
from place to place that opportunities
for extensive correspondence are not
just the tbest. I received the carton
Or Cameis several months ago and
thank YOU very much for them. We
can get cigarettes now most Of the
time and Bull Durham any time. 50
We are all right for smokes.
This leaves me we'll as can be and
getting along fine and hope that il
finds you and the family IN like con
d ion. I haven't seen q pair OF scales
for six months on which TO weigh. but
think it safe to say that 7 am putting
on few pounds once in a while.
Well. / suppose the only thing that
holds your interest in the States now
is the war and at this particular time
the great backward drive OF the Hun.
] can Well imagine Americas interest,"
in each days news from the fact that
so many of our boys are taking part
IN the battle Take IL from me they
are giving them h and they are
going 10 set more OF it right along
from now on. II Fritz thought the
Americans wouldn't fight he has found
himself badly mistaken lately.
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From Henry Kraay.

Lear SISTER.
got your letter and bought I vo.sl5
answer right back as I don't know hqyv
much longer 7 viii be here We are
getting our overseas things now and e=
pect TO move from here before long i
bunch have left from our regiment Lately
and will go overseas right away and We
will 60 before long. ! am feeling fuc
and dandy, How is everybody out there.
I am in the band now. tho director Of
Tire camp bands requested me to join the
band and our captain asked me TO bugle
or TIE side as We are short Of buglcrs
So You saw Mr.. Hutchins? I hope nc
viii write soon as 1 would like 20 get
a letter from him. [ wish he was here
TO lead our band. Well. you viii hato
to excuse me for writing short letter
but I viii have 70 close as I have lots
10 do, and you already have a letter on
the way from me 50 give my regards
70 all
Your brother.
PNTE HENRY KRAAy
Hd.ts. Co 26th Reg r. II
Camp Mcclellan Al4
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-31

Back Up our gallant fighters with
your money. You have lent to thc
government, now give to the sol
diers.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-31

Mrs Hazel Warner Wih I. s fla Ua5 service flag
10 lie do all
is of
National
She spoke the Lesy loan photo
uniform husband Tbert
land ThGour the brothers
V n firing line
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PNTE. HENRY KRAAy
ILdets. CO. goth Res. IT, #
Camp Mcclellan. Ala
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From Sergeant Sheffield.
Somewhere in France.

July cath 1918
Forwarded to Mrs. A Kingman. o.
Hammond. a cousin Of Sergeant Shelf
nicld)
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Rockefellers Visit
Troops at Camp Vail
John D. and Son Mess With
Officers; Then Address
Men at Y. M. G.. A. sY'

LONG BRANCH. N. j., April So
John D. Rockefeller and his son, John
D., jr.; the formers daughter, Mrs,
Evans, and Miss Grimm, soloist at Mr.
Rockefeller's church, visited Camp AL
fred Vail, signal corps. at o'clock to-
day They were whisked away to the
Rockefeller country estate at lake
wood tonight after they had messed
with the officers and both had spoken
to the soldiers at the Y. M. c. A. before
the largest crowd ever gathered in that
building
Mr.. Rockefeller met his son at Little
Silver Station. They afterward in
spected the camp, even to the kitchen,
and shook hands with every soldier
they met. The "Y" was packed to the
door when Mr.. Rockefeller, ST., was in
troduced to the soldiers. He said:
II like the way you shake hands. |
have talked and shaken hands with men
for sixty years and know real men by
their handshake."
He told the Soldiers that he was back
of them with all his might.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
N. Y. Men Qualify
Tor Commissions at
Camp Devens, Mass

WASHINGTON, April 30-The fol-
lowing are among those who have quail
fled at Camp Devens, Massachusetts
for appointment as second lieutenants: /:
ABEEL, Alan c., $50 West 18th Street,
New York City, infantry.
AMBROSE, Frederic C.. overcliff Street.
Park Hill, Yonkers, infantry.
ANDREWS, Thomas s.. SIS Burke Street.
Richmond Hill. Long Island. field artillery.
BABBITT. Theodore, II East seventy
eighth Street, New York City, field artillery.
DIMOCK. George f, 9o7 North Broad
Street. Elizabeth. n J.. field artillery.
Avenue, Jersey City, infantry.
GRAVES, Robert, jr.. 7 West Fifty-frst
Street, New York City. infantry.
HEMSTREET, Harold E.. SO Central Ave
nue., East Orange, infantry.
HOGARTY. Daniel c., 18 Burnet Street
New Brunswick. N. j., infantry,
HOPKINS, Irving G.. 81 Greenway South
Forest Hills. N. Y. infantry.
HULSE, George r.. 225 Grafton Avenue
Newark, infantry
LOHRKE, Eugene w. 1o1 Prospect Street,
East Orange, n. j., field artillery.
- NJ Mc0NAUSHY, Ds Nathsniel y. So Rich
McGIIoucH slS aSert t. r.. r. 'lss7'|s 45s7 Fulton
Street. Richmond Hill, N. Y infantry.
MEYER, Reuben. 270 Kosciusko Street
Brooklyn infantry.
MYGATT, Gerald. 12O West seventieth
Street. New York City. field artillery.
OPPER. Clarence ", STA West End Ave.
nue., New York City. infantry
REBOUL. Jean b.. ST. James, Long ISL
and. n. Y, infantry.
SAWYER, Edmund E.. 336 First Street
STEVENS, John P, jr.. 9s5 Hillside Ave
nue.; Tp pIainfieId Gx ID, N. j. field artillery.
ZOLLE-. Josiah A.. 273S Kingsbridg.
Terrace, New York, infantry
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Saloon Called
Chief Drink Evil

While favoring the abolishment of
the saloon because it is not needed
Julius Reich opposes prohibition and
favors local option for reasons he
sets forth as follows:
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: l am intensely interested in the
prohibition question, yet do not under
stand why it should puzzle the minds
of our representative men. Cannot a
middle course be instituted between abb
solute prohibition and unlimited free
dom in the sale of intoxicants?
Personally l consume about one pint
OF brandy in about six months, and l
see no reason why should be deprived
OF it or be made to pay 81 or So for q
prescription in order 10 obtain the
privilege of buying it.
The woful results of liquor drinking
seldom come from home consumption; ;
they are created in the saloon, where
one drink usually sells another and a
few more.
| am in favor of abolishing the
saloon; We do rot need it. But as for
drinking at home, this is another mat
ter. Nations who have survived and
who count keen minds among their
members have drunk in moderation for
centuries--as, for instance, the Jews.
When the saloons are closed up there
VIII be such decrease in poverty,
crime and disease that the prohibition
question will never be discussed.
JULIUS REICH.