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ran up the bank of the canal quite a distance and then swan to the op. posite side, as l reasoned they would not be looking for me there. I found sheltered clump of bushes that were in a swamp near the canal and in the driest part that could find I crawled in and made myself as comfortable as possible. The sun come up soon and kept me warm, and I planned to camp right there, food or no food, until the Hun got tired of searching for me. I think I heard them once or twice that day, and my heart nearly stopped on each occasion, but eyi- dently they decided to look in some other direction and I was not further molested.
 At the same time I figured that it was absolutely necessary for me to change my course, even at the ex- pense of going somewhat out of my way. decided to go due west and kept in that direction for four days.
 AS I was in very weak condition, did not cover more than five miles a night. 1 kept away from the roads and did all my journeying through fields, beet patches, woods, swamps- anywhere provided I was not likely to be seen and captured. Food was an important consideration to me, but It was secondary to conceaIment.
 Al lo cf hror,orIk NFo..-o river at place between Namur and Huy, and it was here that I came near est of all to giving Up the struggle
 The Mouse at this point is about half mile wide-as wide as the Hud- son River at West Point. Had been in normal condition I wouldn't have hesitated a moment to swim across. San Diego bay, California, is a mile and half wide, and I had often swan across and back, and the San Jaoquin, which is also a mile and a half wide, had never proven an obstacle to me.
 In the wretched shape in which I then was, however, the Mouse looked Ike the Atlantic ocean to me. looked for boat, but could find none. uied to get a piece of wood upon which hoped to ferry across, but I was equally unsuccessful.
 Get across I must, and I decided there was nothing to do but to swim.
 1t was then about 8 o'clock in the morning. I waded in and was soon in beyond my depth and had to swim. After about an hour of it I was very much exhausted, and I doubted whether l could make the opposite Dank, although it was not more than thirty or forty feet away. I choked
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DRIVEN TO DESPERATION BY HUNGER. o,BRIEN coES BOLDLY TO A BELGIAN HOUSE AND ASKS FOR FooD

synopsIs-Fat OBrien, resident Momence I'll oftor s
 service n the 4erlean Flying borda joins the rlsh Royal Flying Canada and after brf period IS sent to France somehow
 service on the on lie engages in fights with German nyers o S ne eeges victorious Finally fight with four German hyers fen IS shot down. He ond as death by miracle aWakes to find prisoner in - hospital With bullet hole in his After few dove m s hospital ne IS sent to prison Courtrai After cor+ & there he IS Iaced upon train bound prison eamn fin - He decides to take desperate
 the open window or the car while the travelling 35 miles an hour s wounds reopened by alrnos+ craWls through Germany Luxembourg travalno + sleeping by day. living garbage raw Vegetables t e anu gardens. ~ 'o'en from
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Diagram showing How O'Brien Lost
 Precious Hours by Swimming Riv-
 CT and Later Finding That He Was
 on the Wrong Side and Had to Swim
 Back.
 Sooner or later, I realized I would probably approach a Belgian and find a German instead, but in such a con- tingency I was determined to meas ure my strength against the Huns if necessary to effect my escape.
 As it was, however, most of the Bel gians to whom applied for food gave it to me readily enough, and if some of them refused me it was only be- cause they feared I might be a spy or that the Germans would shoot them if their action were subsequently, found out.
 About the fifth day after I had en- tered Belgium I was spending the day as usual in clump of bushes when I discerned in the distance what ap- peared to be something hanging on a line. All day long I strained my eyes trying to decide what it could be and arguing with myself that it might be something that I could add to my in- adequate wordrobe, but the distance was so great that I could not identify it. I had great fear that before night came it would probably be re moved.
 As soon as darkness fell, however, crawled out of my hiding place and worked up to the line and got a pair of overalls for my industry. The pair of overalls was the first bit of civil ian clothes I had thus far picked up with the exception of a civilian cap which I had found at the prison and concealed on my person and which 1 still had. The overalls were rather small and very short, but when I put them on found that they hung down far enough to cover my brooches.
 It was perhaps three days later that 1 planned to search another house for further clothes. Entering Belgian houses at night is anything but a safe proposition, because their families are large and sometimes as many as seven or eight sleep in a single room. The barn is usually connected with the house proper, and there was always the danger of disturbing some dumb animal even if the inmates of the house were not aroused.
 Frequently I took a chance of searching back yard at night in the hope of. finding food scraps, but my success in that direction was so slight that I soon decided that it wasn't worth the risk and I continued to live on raw vegetables that I could pick with safety in the fields and the occasional meal that was able to get from the Belgian peasants in the day. time
 Nevertheless l was determined to get more in. the way of clothing and when night came picked out house that looked as though it might furnish me with what wanted. It was a moonlight night and if 1 could get in the barn would have fair chance of finding my way around by the moon light which would enter the windows.
 The barn adjoined the main part of the house, but I groped around very carefully and soon I touched some thing hanging on peg. didn't know what it was, but confscated it and carried it out into the fields There in the moonlight I examined my booty and found that it was an old coat. It was too short for an over coat and too long for an ordinary coat, but nevertheless made use of
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small ditches. They intercepted me at every half mile or so, sometimes more frequently. The canals and the big rivers I could swim. Of course, { got soaked to the skin every time \ did 1t, but I was becoming hardened to that.
 These little ditches, however, were too narrow to swim and too wide 10 jump. They had perhaps two feet oR water in them and three feet of mad, and it was almost invariably a case Of wading through. Some of them, no doubt, l could have jumped if I had been in decent shape, but with bad ankle and in the weakened condition in which was, it was almost cut Of the question.
 One night came to q ditch about eight or nine feet wide. I thought YVES strong enough to jump it and if was worth trying as the discomfort suffered after wading these ditchea was considerable. Taking a long runs 1 jumped as hard as I could, but 1 missed it by four or five inches ana landed in about two feet of water and three of mud Getting out of that mess was quite job. The water was too dirty and too scanty to enable ms to wash off the mud with which I was covered and it was too wet to scrapa off. I just had to wait until it dried and scrape 1t off then.
 In many sections of Belgium through l which l had to pass | encountered large areas of swamp and marshv ground and rather than waste the time involved in looking for better erfooting-which I might not have found anyway-I used to pole right 1 through the mud. Apart from tho discomfort of this method of travel ing and the slow time I made, there was an added danger to me in the fact that the squash, squash" noise which l made might easily be overheard by Belgians and Germans and give ny position away Nobody would cross a swamp or marsh in that part of the country unless he was trying to get away from somebody, and 1 realized my danger but could not get around it.
 It was common sight in Belgium to see small donkey and common ordinary milch cow hitched together. pulling a wagon. When I first ob- served the unusual combination, I thought it was a donkey and OK or bull, but closer inspection revealed to me that cows were being used for tha purpose.
 From that was able to observe there must be very few horses left sEA Belgium except those owned by thaa Germans. Cows and donkeys are now horses and mules. Altogether I spent nearly eight weeks wandering through Belgium, and in all that time I don't believe I saw more than half dozezs horses in the possession of the native population.
 l One of the scarcest things in Gea many, apparently, is rubber for noticed that their motor trucks, or lor- ries, unlike our own, had no rubber tires. Instead heavy iron bands were | employed. I could hear them come rumbling along the stone roads for miles before they reached the spot where l happened to be in hiding. When I saw these military roads in Belgium for the first time, with their heavy cobblestones that looked as if they would last for centuries, I real ized at once why it was that the Ger mans had been able to make such 8 rapid advance into Belgium at th0 start of the war.
 noticed that the Belgians used dogs to considerable extent to pull their carts, and thought many times
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that if I could have stolen one ess those dogs it would have been very good companion for me and might, K the occasion arose, help me out In Q fight. But had no way of feeding ie and the animal would probably have starved to death. I could live on vegp- etables. which could always depenG upon finding in the fields. but deg couldn't, and so I gave up the idea.
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ana gasped. and my arms and legs ,,.., Mele completely Jagged out. sank a n'ue and tried to touch bottom with ny Feet, but the water was still be- send my depth.
 1nere are times when everyone will r. s' and l was no exception. l ayeo Tor strength to make those N x" wicked yards. and then, with all " " VIII power I could summon. struck ~. ~ TOT dear life. It seemed a life
 ps before l finally felt the welcome
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CHAPTER X.

Experiences In Belgium.
 1 think that one of the worst things I had to contend with in my Journey through Belsium was the number of
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In Belgium, after weeks e hardships and narrow escapes from recapture, o'Brien finally finds man whom he believes to be his friend. cheered by the prospect of final escape, he gains courage to continue hIs heartbreaking tramp through Belgium. Don't mlss the next instailment.
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4 new oil-burn;ng apparatus hea1z11 and lights the room at the same tina
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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE PORE
CLOSURE SALE

Default having been made n tn.. terms
or the mortgage described below by the
instaliments secured thereby pv Whe Serd dne
and such defaults still existing, and
the mo. tgagee electing to all sums Sc
cured 10y said mortgage are now declar-
having been compelled to pay overdue in
teres. on 2 prior mortgage upnn said
premises and overdue lakes On said
the mortgage described below such sums
are included herein.
Notice is hereby given that that GER
t tam = mortgage executed and delivered
mortgagor t. e. j. Lander e Co., a COR
poration as mortgage, dated T'ecember
d 18th, 1s ~ and fllea for record in the Of
Ward County, North Dakota on De-
ember 3Cth. 1912, and there recorded in
Bo1K 119 Of mortgages at page 212.
PREMISES ee ~ s,ch by sale Of the
after described at the front door Of the
court house in the City Of Minot, County
Of tya 17t and d, STATE Gf North
hour Of two o'clock in the afternoon Of
that day to satisfy. the amount due on
such mo, mortgage on the day Of sale The
which will be sold to satisfy the same
are located in Ward County, North Da-
kota and described as follows. to-Wit:
in oas # section nop
Of range eighty-seven west of the nth
principal meridian. 80
There will be due on such MORTGAGE
on the day Of sale the sum Of 5000
besides the costs and disbursemente Of
this foreclosure -
day Of April. 1918. go"
MurIhy q Tonsr,
Attofneys for Mortgage,
0rand Forks, N. D. E.atR
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NOTICE FOR BIDS.

The School Board of Mountrail
School District No. II, will receive
sealed bids for the erection of con-
solidated school building Until the
hour of 2 p. m. on the 21st day of
June, 1918.
Bids to be opened at office of L. G.
Pierce, Plaza, Sec. 19-151-88.
Plans and specifications may be
seen at the office of Ira l.. Rush, Ar
chitect, Minot, N. D., l.. G. Pierce,
president, Plaza, N. D., and at clerk S
office.
A certified check for per cent of
amount Of bid, payable to the School
District, must accompany all bids.
The party to whom the costract is
awarded will be required to give a
satisfactory bond, in the sum equal
to the amount Of bid, for the faithful
performance of the contract.
The Board reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
Dated Makoti, N. D., May 22nd,
1918.
E. w. FITZGERALD,
Clerk, Mountrail School
District No. II.
5-30-4t
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War Work And Advertising

The place advertising occupies in
war work has been brought home
with special force recently by the ac-
ton Of the Government in co-operat-
ing with the Associated Advertising
the San Francisco convention July Z
to II, of the Associated Advertising
Clubs.
President w. f. Jones of the Minot
Town Criers Club has just been noti-
fled that important representative of
the United States Government and
high representatives of the Allied Ma
tons are to be on the program of the
1913 convention at San Francisco in
July.
The United States Division of Adj
vertising, with which the Minot Town
Crers club has been called on from
time to time to cooperate in backing
up war advertising campaigns, is to
have a section of the convention. The
committee on Public Information
plan to send to San Francisco from
Boston by special train $4,000 war
exposition to be opened under the aus
pices of the Associated Advertising
convention. -
President Jones Of the local club an
nounces that Franklin K. Lane,
Charles M. Schwab, Carl Vrooman,
George Creel, Cert Fort and others
will speak for the United States, while
in "Voice of Victory" meeting, Earl
Reading or Major General Bridges
will be heard for Britain, and Steph-
anne Lausanne will appear for France.
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the terms and conditions Of said mort
gage. the mortgagors having failed and
refused to pay the principal indebted
ness and the interest and taxes thereon
The premises described in such mort
gage and which will be sold to satisfy
the same are described as follows. to-
wit:
Lot Five (5) and the East Twenty
FIVE (25) feet Of Lot Four (D In
Of Minot, Ward County, North Da-
kota. according to the certified plat
office Of the Register Of Deeds in
and for the County Of Ward and
State Of North Dakota on the 4th
day Of August, 1904 at o'clock p
NJ and recorded in Book "A" of
plats at page six.
There will be due on such mortgage at
the date Of the sale the sum Of Sixteen
Hundred and Sixty and No-10O Dollars
($1600.00).
LOUIS ANDERSEN,
Assignee Of Mortgage,
Minneapolis, MINI.
MCGEE & Goss,
Attorneys for Assignee,
Minot, North Dakota. 5-l6-t6
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SUMMONS

SUMMONS
State of North Dakota, County Of
Ward, SO.
In District Court. Eighth judicial Dis
trict
ELIZA JANE MILLER, Plaintiff,
vs..
ANTHONY MILLER, Defendant.
SUMMONS
The State of North Dakota to the
above named defendant:
You are hereby summoned and requir-
ed to appear and answer the complaint
Of the plaintiff in the above entitled &C.
ton which complaint Is now on file in
the office Of the Clerk of the District
North Dakota, and to serve a copy Of
your answer on the subscriber at his
office in the City Of Minot, North Da-
kota, within thirty days after the SER
vice Of this summons upon you, exclus-
i've Of the day Of service, and in case
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SUMM0NS
State of North Dakota. County Of
In District Court Eighth Judicial Dis
trict.
Albert GuAderson and Margit Buhli,
Plaintiffs.
Gilbert Gunderson, Ole Gunderson, Frank
Etcher and all persons unknown who
have any estate. right, title or inter-
est in and to the property described
The State of North Dakota sends Greet
ing to the above named Defendants:
SUMMONS
the complaint of the above named plain
tiffs, true copy Of which is on file in
the office Of the CLERK Of the. District
Court It. Ward County. North Dakota, and
the subscriber at his office, suite 9, New
Jacobsen Block, Minot, North Dakota,
within thirty days after the service
OF this summons upon you, exslusive
Of your failure to so appear or answer
as above required the plaintiffs will take
Judgment against you, by default, for
the relief demanded in the plaintiffs
Dated at Minot, North Dakota, May
CHAs. D. KELsO,
NOTICE OF No PER- Personal On ." cTAiM
To the above named Defendants:
You will please take notice that the
above entitled action is one for the re-
Of Steiner Gunderson and Esther GUM
derson, deceased, and q warranty deed
and for the partition Of the hereinafter
described real estate and that no person
as.nst any q eee .ss D9 :soys , asd
foregoing defendants. Said real NM
= described . follows and 10 the sub.
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ject Of this action; starting at a point
in the north line of Harrison Avenue,
where. tn east alley line Of Block one
Civ Of Minot .' Ward County. '1 North Das
kota, produced, will intersect said north
line Of Harrison Avenue (now named
sixth avenue); thence running north on
the said east alley line produced, dis
lance of $50 feet; thence west 244 feet
at right angles; thence south at right
angles a distance of $50 feet to the north
along the said north line Of Harrison
Avenue 244 feet to the point of Begin
ning,. all part Of the West one half Of
the Southwest quarter owe Of SW3) of
Section thirteen (13) Township One
Hundred and Fffty-five (155) North of
Range Eighty-three (S3) West of the
9Th p. M, Ward County, North Dakota.
Dated at Minot, North Dakota, May
7, 1913.
CHAS D. KELSO,
Attorney for Plaintiffs.
f. 1915
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NOTICE OF 1Go1TaAaH PoRE-
CLOSURE AALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
that certain mortgage. made. executed
and delivered by Francis J. White and
Libbens White. her husband Of Minne-
apolis, Mimi. .mortgagors, to the East
corporation. dated February 20, 1915 and
filed for record in the office Of the
Register of Deeds in and for the Coun-
ty of Ward, State Of North Dakota, on
the 18th day Of April, 1915, and duly re-
corded in Book 234 Of Mortgages on
page 3S1, and thereafter assigned by said
mortgage to Louis Andersen, of Mime
apolis, Minn.,. which assignment was fl
ed for record in the office Of the said
register of deeds, on February Is, 1916
cages on page 124, will be foreclosed by
q sale Of the premises in such mortgage
described. at the front door Of the Court
House in the City of Minot, County OF
Ward. and State Of North Dakota, al
the hour Of two o'clock P. NJ, on the
22nd day Of June 1918, to satisfy thu
amount due upon such mortgage on the
day of sale. Default has occurred in
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

State Of North Dakota, County Of
Ward, S.
County Court.
In the Matter Of the Estate of
Adolph G. Jacobson, deceased
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given by H. B.
G: Jacobson, deceased to the creditors
of, and all persons having claims against
said deceased, to present them with the
necessary vouchers, to the said H. B.
Finch, executor, at his office in Grand
Forks, N. D., or at the office of the
County Judge at Minot, N. D., within six
months after the first publication Of this
notice
Dated this 18th day of May, 1913
H. B. FINCH
Executor Of the Estate Of
Adolph G.. jacobson.
Deceased.
First publication May 23.1918. At
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Murphy Examining
NOnpartisan Records

NOnpartisan Records
Attorney Francis j. Mruhpy, who
has charge Of the Townley bankrupt
cy proceedings, is spending the week
in St. Paul on this business. He has Sc
cured an order from Judge Amidon
of the Federal court of North Dakota
on Judge Booth Of the Federal court
of Minnesota to examine the books
of the Nonpartisan League.
Jerry O'Leary, Ray Anderson and
C. E. Colcord, members Of the town.
ship board of supervisors of Prescott
township, Renville county, chaperon-
ed by John Busse, township constable
and Dali Thorn, assessor, drove down
to the city Monday after attending a
board meeting, to witness the demon
stration Of the Fordson tractor, held
North of the city.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Ward, S.
County Court.
In the Matter of the Estate Of James
L. Coffey, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by Charles e.
Coffey, Executor Of the Estate Of James
l.. Coffey, Deceased, to the creditors
Of and all persons having claims against
said deceased. to present them, with the
necessary vouchers, to the said Charles
f. Coffey. by leaving them at the office
of James johnson, one forty six, S. Main
Street, Minot, within six months after
the first publication Of this notice.
Dated this LIST day of June, 1918.
CHARLES e. COFFEY.
First publication June 6, 1918. At
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Notice of P0undmaster's Sale.

The following described animal was
impounded with me May %, 1918:
One yearling steer, solid red, with
horns. l will offer the same for sale
to the highest bidder for cash, at my
home, Sec. 33-154-84, on Saturday,
June 20, 1918, at two o'clock in the
afternoon, unless claimed by owner
prior to that time. s..
OLE HoLUM, W :
Poundmaster Burt Township,
5-3O-t4 brady, N. D.
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Of your failure to appear or answer as
above required, plaintiff will take judy
ment against you by default for the re-
lief demanded in the complaint.
Dated this 3rd day of May, 1918.
L. M. ELLITHORPE,
Attorney for the Plaintiff
Office and Postoffice Address,
Minot North Dakota.
5-23-t6
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NOTICE

TO threshers and owners of tract
ors. Repairing on engines and boilers
is our business. WE KNOW HOW.
Hanson & Johnson, P. O. Box GIG. Mi
not 6-13-lI.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-11-07

Coin Of the United States, with interest
thereon at per cent from date Of said
judgment, costs and accruing costs.
am commanded to sell the herein
a, r'r described real property situated in
the city of Grangeville, Idaho County.
ldaho, fo-wit:
Commencing at the Southwest corner
OF Coon, otherwise known as STATED
Street and Second Street in George
Sehmadeka's Second Addition to the
town of Grangeville, Idaho, and run
nng thence South on the West of Coon,
(State) Street 100 feet; thence at right
angles Westerly 200 feet; thence at
right angles, Northerly 100 feet to the
South line of said Second Street; thence
Easterly along the South line of said
Second Street 200 feet to the place of
beginning; the same being also describ-
ed as the North half of Block GA" of
George Schmadeka s Third Addition to
the City of Grangeville, Idaho. To
gether with all the improvements, pri-
vileges and appurtenances thereunto be-
longing or in anywise appertaining.