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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
do YOUR BIT"

This will hit the spot with our own
boys of G Company: .,.
If you will listen to our plea, .
We know it isn't wrong; F
Just read these lines, and take hint,
And send some smokes along.
When we came across the ocean,
The smokes were good and free;
But time has emptied all our pipes,
Gun smoke is all we see.
Deprived OF. every pleasure, -
Of home and old Broadway;
Doing all we can,
To help the old U. S. A.
Now my advice to folks at home,
Who want to see us win; II H.
Is send US lots of smoking,
Twill help to take Berlin.
Remember what General Sherman
said, .
About the war he spoke; f-@@
His theory would be wrong, ...
If we had lots to smoke.
Ask, and you shall receive,
The Bible quotes, tits true; a
I've done this very thing, you see,
The rest is up to you.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
Married Sixty-four Years

Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Ames, having
attained to the sixty-fourth anniver-
sary of their marriage last week,
were given a genuine surprise on Sat-
urday evening, when large number
of their friends went in a body to
their home on Front street. where the
venerable couple reside with their
daughter, Mrs. Harvey E. Taylor, and
extended their congratulations and
! good wishes for the future. When the
company entered the door, the flush
of surprise upon their cheek remind
ed one of blooming youth and indeed
Mr.. and Mrs. Ames have retained a
great deal of their youthful vigor and
spirit, so that it may be appropriate
ly said that they are respectively 81
and 70 years young. During the
pleasant evening that was spent the
company became reminiscent, and re-
lated many very interesting facts
about their early lives, special fea-
ture being the recital of the first
pieces which they spoke in public.
John Alderman, who was a close
neighbor, a close friend, and fellow
worker in the Methodist church with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ames, and who, together
with them, was among the early pio-
neers Of North Dakota, in a felicitous
speech recounted their early exper-
iences-their struggles, their hard
ships, and not least of all by any
means, their happy days in social
neighborship, and churchly fellow
ship. During all these years" said
Mr.. Alderman, "these people have
stood firmly for God, their church,
and the best things in social and po-
litical life" At the conclusion of his
entertaining, reminiscent remarks,
Mr.. Alderman, on behalf of the
Brotherhood and the Woman's Bible
classes of the Methodist Episcopal
church, presented gifts to each, as
tokens of the esteem in which they are
held by their many friends. During
the evening, the certificate of mar
riage was read which revealed that
they were married in Cattaraugus
county, New York, in 1854, by JUS
tice of peace. After refreshments
had been served by the ladies', the
company departed, leaving behind
them their best wishes for the con-
tinued health and happiness of these
fine people.
Mr.. Ames, in his advanced years,
has still vigorous mind and good
health. Mrs. Ames, alert, active, an
other Dorcas, "full of good words, and
almsdeeds," has made surprising
record in Red Cross knitting for the
soldier boys, and with all her abund-
ant labors, she still wears the smile
Of hope and good cheer upon her face.
The choicest blessing of their long
married life is a family of fine chill
dren who have always reciprocated
the affection of their excellent par
ents. Our congratulations to them,
and to theirs.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
OBITUARY.

Thursday afternoon Reverend Sol
helm Of the Lutheran Free church
and Reverend Lyon of the Congrega
tional church conducted the funeral
services for Mrs. L. NJ. Sanders. Mes
danes Arnsdorf and Mickleson sang
duet and Mr.. Anderson sang a solo
The services were very impressive
and the flowers sent in by the many,
many, loving friends, were wonderful.
Messrs Gilbertson, Skonnard, Pagel
Irgens, Beleal and SimOnsOn were the
pall-bearers.
Lolita NJ. johnson was born in >Ruse.
bakken, Frendufoss, Sweden, Novem.
Der 2, 1855. She was married April
LIST 1882 in Laurvig, Norway, to AISLE
Sanders. and they came direct to
Lake Mills, Iowa-movine to Valley
City the next year. Mr.. Sanders was
fine photographer and had his stu
dio on Fifth avenue on the site of
Gray's store. Mr.. Sanders died Feb,
II, 1891, leaving his wife with five
little ones to care for. Those who
know Mrs. Sanders best, know what
q brave mother she was. and how
cheerfully she took up her burden Of
raising and educating her fatherless
children. - -
In later years Mrs. Sanders has
made a home for very MANY of the
young men of the city, and her in
terest and loving council in the or
dering Of their lives is not to be des-
cribed by mere words. As one of her
former "boys" said-'why she mother
ed every one of u.s. Mother Sanders
demanded that they live up to the
high ideals of manhood that she con-
tinually held before them. She is
gone, but the influence of her un-
selfish, devoted life who can meas
ure?
Mrs. Sanders is survived by three
daughters and one son-Mrs. Alfred
Bonhus. Mrs. A. j. Linn of Sanborn
Clara Sanders and Prof. Sander
Sanders OF Enderlin, and eleven
grandchildren. She was a member Of
the W; c. I. U. and of the Lutheran
Free church. A 90
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
To The Public:

To The Public:
It has been called to the attention
of the Federal Fuel Administrator
for North Dakota that in some locali-
ties practically all the places Of
amusement such as dance halls, pool
rooms, motion picture theaters, ETC.,
are open for, entertainment from
eight or nine o'clock in the evening
until three or four o'clock in the
morning; that electric light plants in
many of the smaller towns are giving
all night service for the benefit Of
a few consumers whose service might
be discontinued without serious incon-
venience; and that stores are kept
open until nine or ten o'clock each
evening; farmers and townspeople be-
ing in the habit Of doing their trading
after their evening meal. Conditions
in North Dakota are such that the Sc
we're restrictions which obtain throu-
out the territory of the United States
east of the Mississippi river are not
required. Nevertheless, it is hardly
indicative of fairness in attitude on
the part Of our deterioration peo-
pie that their time and money be
spent in self-indulgence while others
nearby suffer for want of fuel and
other necessities.
I therefore, take this opportunity
to request that stores, except drug
stores, bakery and confectionery
shops, restaurants and newsstands,
close at six o'clock p. m. each day, ex-
cept Saturday; that electric light
plants and other public utilities dis
continue all-night service to the full
est extent compatible with regard for
public necessity, and that dance halls,
pool rooms and motion picture thea
tiers close not later than eleven o'clock
p. m. each day, until March /, next,
throughout North Dakota.
Dated at Bismarck, North Dakota,
this 9TH day of February. 1918.
Isaac p. Baker,
Federal Fuel Administrator for
North Dakota.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
A PRAYER

Help me, O God, to keep before nv
eyes
The larger visions Of this war; to
be -,
Inspire each day by noble thoughts
that rise
Of duty, honor, Country, and of
Thee.
Help me to think of war as one vast
whole
Of human effort struggling toward
the right,
Ever advancing nearer to the goal
OF freedom, from the iron rule of
might,
Lest forget, and in my sorrow see
Only the face of him who goes from
me.
Anonymous Soldiers Wife.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
JOIN THE COMMERCIAL CLUB
The Valley City Commercial club

me valley ClCy commercial cluG
wants more members.
It ought to have them If you are
not now member, you ought to
make one their number. 1t ought, to
you, to be both a duty and privilege.
1t is duty because you are citi-
zen of Valley City, because you bene-
fit from whatever is done to advance
the community, and because only
through membership in the CONNER
cial club can you make thoroughly
effective your will to help in such
work. 80 .<
It is a privilege because the man
who has the right spirit considers the
opportunity to join hands with his
fellow-citizens privilege.
We assume that you have the right
spirit, and therefore that you will
join the Commercial club and partake
of its facilities and participate in it's
work because it is, to you, both a
duty and a privilege to do so.
The Commercial club today is in
better shape to do the work of the
community, has better spirit, has
public confidence in a higher degree,
and offers more possibilities of use
fulness to you and the community,
than at any time in it's history.
Perhaps you are not member be-
cause certain things in the club did
not 60 to suit you. Had it occurred
to you that the fair thing to do was
to get into the clubs work and help
see that these things went the way
they should? If you get in now, you
will find things going far more, to
your liking, and getting in will give
you chance to keep them going that
way. IS
The Commercial club is the official
vehicle for every effort for civic prog
ress. There are other organizations,
special in their nature, that are doing
useful work and doing it well; but aft
er all, the one organization that repre-
sents the whole community and every
interest in it is the Commercial club.
Now the Commercial club is and
will be what the citizenship of the
community makes it. If it lacks your
membership and support, it is just
that much weaker than it should be;
you personally are responsible for its
lacking that much of reaching its pos
sibilities of strength and service.
You don't want to be Stacker in the
community do you?
If you are in a position to benefit
personally by the growth and prog
ress of the community for which the
Commercial club is working; if you
are able to pay the clubs modest dues
and to contribute to the work of the
club some Of your time and energy,
however little; if you realize that
nowadays communities advance by
their own efforts, that a community's,
efforts can only be as great as the
number and energy of those behind
them, and that as you look to the
community's prosperity to promote
your own-well- being the community
has right to look to you for help in
all its progressive enterprises; if
these things are true of you, then your
duty is to get into the Commercial
club and join your hand to the hands
now working on the job.
You need the club. The club needs
you. Get together with it!
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
BROTHER FARMER.

Have made change in the service
at my barn and want you to know it..
We are ready to give you up-to-date
service. Also have a horse doctor at
hand and farrier. There is no
better, he is Johnny on-the-spot, and
is case you bring a load of feed to
be crushed, the miller is always ready
to serve you. Hoping to have you all
back, we will be glad to serve you
well. Yours tr,1lv.
29-3d-3wp John Maresh.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
SHIPS!

The United States shipping board
has called for a quarter million VOL
unteers from among the skilled me-
chanics of the country to help build
ships.
The call is as vital as the call for
men to fill the army. Right now it is
even more vital, and the service these
volunteers are called for is as import
ant as any associated with the war.
The winning Of the war is ques-
ton of ships. Ships is question Of
ship construction. Ship construction
is a question of skilled labor.
If we had ships enough, we could
win the war this year; ships enough
to carry troops and supplies and mu-
nitions so that Americas might could
be felt by the kaiser's hordes.
We can't build ships without labor,
and the labor supply is short.
If you can help build ships, enlist
in the public service reserve.
The man who enlists in the ship
building service and who works faith
fully for eight hours six days week
will be doing as vital service to his
country as any man can do.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
NICKY TO WILLIE

Warroad, (Minn.) Pioneer. The
cars last telegram to the kaiser
is said to have read like this: "Dear
Willie-It is tough on man to be
one day seated on his throne and the
next day thrown on his seat. Your
friend Nicky." ..
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
CHEERFUL BUNCH OF SNAKES

Nebraska State Journal: The New
York World tells of the starting of
merry party of so German spies and
enemy agents who left Ellis island to
be informed at Fort Oglethorpe, in
Georgia. When the Germans passed
the Statute Of Liberty, they sang
deutschland Uber Allies" and
"Wacht Am Rhein" with gusto,
thereby relieving their feeling and
doing no harm to the robust figure
which typifies the freedom under
which such things are possible"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
A SIPHONATED AMERICAN

Brooklyn Eagle: A man from Den
yer was arrested recently for carry
ing a piece of limburger cheese in his
overcoat pocket. He said he was half
Scotch-and the other half soda. He
is believed to be the original siphon-
ated American.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

The first ocean disaster to Ameri-
can troops will cause the people of
this country to make quick decision
to grimly accept the gage Of battle
and prosecute the war to complete
victory.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

An automobile snow pillow is being
used to clear roads in Minnesota. They
may be all right where they have lots
of snow, but out here they are not
needed.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
IN TWO WINTER SEASONS

New York Evening Post: Chicago
Last year, a humorist of the Board
Of Trade remarks, we had coal and no
fuel administrator. This year we have
the fuel administrator and no COAL
This describes the situation.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

If Madison, Wis, decides to change
the name of LaFollette avenue, why
not have the new name Reform ave-
nue.?
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
PRESS COMMENT

Milwaukee Journal-The one basic
fact underlying every possibility of
peace is the elimination of the house
of Hohenzollern from it's strangle-
hold on middle Europe. Certainly it
is necessary that the people of the
United States keep his single aim in
view.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
FIFTY ACRES OF WHEAT FOR RED CROSS

patrouc mas
again this time by the farmers Black
this village initiative
and pledged fifty of wheat from the 1918 the eo
page
far this the township the state to sho r
striking Black bought Slloo "o
the Second Liberty Bond issue.
BLACK LOAN LOYALTY LEAGUE
and All the Time
Black township LaMoure county
believing that and child in the United states
should their the and help the
with speedy and hereby pledge ives
soldiers and allies during the duration Of the
We further
Of wheat to be marked by Red Crosses and the total
fall
1918. Signed: H..
w. p Olsted John Sju L. X Wangud Henry
Hsrsager Edwin Haarsager H. su Martin sather
Freadho DAHL Bjone Conrad Ellison
Christ Ellison Albert Anderson A. NJ Ellison ! E. Scn59ea
Edwin Waterson John Waeon Wilson, Peter Ellison Frank COL
ette,
Tucke Brake Julian John
O. Hanson, CLAUS Christ
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
ONE ESSENTIAL

Brain food some dealers advertise,
But of this fact take heed,
No food for brains will make US wise
Unless we've brains to feed.
Boston Transcript.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Lieut.. Clinton Spur writes from
france; am on shore duty just now
but still call the ship shome.'"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
HORSES WANTED

l want to buy horses 6 10 3 years
old, any color except white. Must be-
sound. Weight from 100 up. H. f.
McCready. Valley City. dvtf
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

club has expelled Senator LaFollette
because of "unpatrotic conduct and
giving aid and comfort to the enemy"
Senatorial courtesy" seems to be
lacking among gentlemen in the SEN
ator's home town. a
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Chicago Herald John F. Stevens
appeals to America to "stand by the
Russians" They won't stand still
long enough for anybody to stand by
them.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Seattle Times.-The kaiser's idea
of a just peace is one that will keep
Germany safe for the Hohenzollerns.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Toledo Blade-Congress has never
learned the secret of how to be happy
without investigating something.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Southern Lumberman.-So far as
the war is concerned, we are not con-
cerned so much about our aims as our
hits. De-.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Old newspapers for sale at Times.
Record Office.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Mutiles themselves are helping to-
make artificial limbs for other wound
ed soldiers at Red Cross factory in
France.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Columbia Record.-Billy Sunday
says that hell is really worse than it
has been painted. Quite likely. The
picture was painted some years ago
by painters who had no opportunity
to study the style and methods Of
Bill Kaiser.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Eye wipes and shoulder wraps are
no longer needed for shipment abroad,
according to letter received from
Washington by the women's bureau Of
the Northern Division. Workers are
urged by Mrs. F. L. Fridley, division
director, to bend their energies toward
making other articles that will be
available for shipment abroad. Sur
gical dressings, sweaters, socks and
helmets are needed in immense guam
titles.
Home service committees in the
various Red Cross organizations
throughout the division are urged. in
a message from Frank j. Bruno, d.
vision director, to get in touch with
drafted men eligible to service on the
second draft call.
1t is part of the duty of the COM
mittee members, Mr.. Bruno declares,
to see that every man takes advan-
tage Of the insurance laws recently
enacted for the benefit of soldiers and
sailors. Although each man has 100
days from the time of his enlistment
in which to take advantage of the
law, the earlier that detail is attend
ed to the better.
A second service which members:
OF the home service committees can
render to the drafted men, according
to Mr.. Bruno, is the assistance they
can give to those men in closing their
business affairs, arranging for. pro-
lection of their property while they
are away, giving legal advice and
assisting in the execution Of wills
and such other legal documents as the.
men may wish to make.
A third, and the most important
service of all, Mr.. Bruno says, is to.
impress on the minds Of all Of the
men that the Red Cross will be
friend to their friends and relatives
at home while they are away; will see:
that there is nothing needed by those
left behind that can be supplied from
Red Cross financial assistance or COM
fort.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

New York Sun.-That prize hen
which refused to lay is much misun-
derstood. She is observing eggless
DAYS,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Providence Journal.-The Madison
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14
RedCross Information

= President Wilson has announced the
appointment of Harvey D. Gibson,
general manager Of the American
Red Cross, as a member of the war
council of that organization to sue
coed Major Grayson, NJ. p. Murphy,
who resigned from the war council
recently to become member Of
General Pershing's staff. Mr.. Gibson
will retain his position as general
manager of the American Red Cross.
In letter home George Krava, a
soldier enlisted from Sank Centre,
Mimi, now serving somewhere in
France" expressed his gratitude for
set Of knitted articles received from
the Red Cross.
"F'rom what l hear" the letter con-
tinues, "The women of the United
States are getting real busy. With all
you are doing though you have 1T very
easy. compared with: the women here
in France. Only old men, women
and children are left to produce for
France and it is pretty hard for them.
"For the benefit of the housewives
back home l will give you little
dope on conditions here: Butter is
90 cents a pound, eggs rs cents a
dozen, sugar hard to get at all and
meat so hight that it does not pay to
eat it. Even with the high prices the
French try hard to do little things
for the American soldiers. They give
US pies and other little things like
that, things they can hardly afford to
eat themselves"
In the future all knitted articles
turned in to the Northern Division
will be shipped to soldiers in France,
according to the announcement made
by Color Campbell, director Of mill
tary relief. Red Cross authorities at
Washington and field directors at the
various camps and environments in
this country heve been supplied with
knitted articles but that there is a
scarcity Of such garments in France.
The fact that our troops here have
been supplied does not mean that
there should be any let-up in produc-
ton, Mr.. Campbell warns, but on the
contrary the demand from abroad is
so imperative that production should
be increased.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

picture Was painted some years ago
by painters who had no opportunity
to study the style and methods Of
Bill Kaiser.
National Tribune.-1t is said that
the German crown prince is one of
the most inveterate of cigarette
smokers. It has always been evident
that there was something fatally
wrong in his makeup.
New York World-Hereafter Amer
lean soldiers sentenced to death will
have their cases reviewed by the war
department before execution. Post
mortems are found unsatisfactory.
St. Louis Star.-Bolshevik didn't
ask much: They merely requested the
kaiser to make the world safe for
democracy. Like asking Old Nick to
deliver cake of ice.
New York Times.-There is a nice
question whether German intelligence
or Russian ignorance is more destruc-
tive of the accomplishments of civil
cation.
Butte Miner.-Evidently the kaiser
is getting to the point where he cares
not who wins the war just so he be
permitted to write the peace terms.
Washington Post.-Under the mild
rule Of imperial censorship it is OBJ
served that the Berlin Vorwaerts is
progressing swiftly backwards.
New York Sun.-That prize hen
which refused to lay is much misun-
derstood. She is observing eggless
days.
Southern Lumberman.-So far as
the war is concerned, we are not con-
cerned so much about our aims as our
hits. ~
Toledo Blade.-Congress has never
learned the secret of how to be happy
without Investigating something.
Seattle Times.-The kaiser's idea
of just peace is one that will keep
Germany safe for the Hohenzollerns.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Washington Post.-Under the mild
rule Of imperial censorship it is OBJ
served that the Berlin Vorwaerts is
progressing swiftly backwards.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-14

Butte Enthusiastically the kaiser
is getting to the point where he cares
not who wins the war just so he be
permitted to write the peace terms.