The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-06-20

The following left on Tuesday
morning for Minot, where they
attended the state tractor show:
Adolph and Ben Noun, Ever
Holt, Anton Wall, Ole Dravland,
Selmer Sivertson and Jacob S.
Dalen. Adolph Noun and Jacob
S. Dalen drove their cars.
Lieuteant H. C. Hill of Este
van, Sask., who has recently re-
turned from the front line in
France and who is now on a lee
ture tour in behalf of the Amer
lean Red Cross, addressed a
large and appreciative audience
in the Turtle Mountain church
last Sunday morning. Mr.. Hill
could relate the life of a soldier
at the front from the actual
knowledge he has obtained thru
his experiences, and a talk such
as he made could not help but
inspire patriotism into every
true American who had an op-
portunity to hear him. They
we're a number of Red Cross
boosters who came over from
Bottineau to hear Lieutenant
Hills lecture. They were A.
Berthiaume, E. c. Bowen, J. r.
Cooper, H. E. Layne and family,
r. B. Stewart, Lewis Lien, P. B.
Ferguson and James Kyle.
Ben C. Noun and Arthur Cor
der left Saturday morning for
Fargo, where they have entered
the Fargo Agricultural College
in special training in automobile
repair work. They expect to be
there for two or three months
and perhaps longer.
A farewell party was held last
Friday evening in the assembly
room of our school for the boys
who were called into service.
The young men present were
Ben C.. Wall, Arthur Gorder and
Oscar Berge. Rev. Redal was
present and in his usual manner
encouraged the boys who were
to leave, and at the same time
cave a word of comfort to those
who remain at home, impressing
upon them the duties we had to
perform in order to back up our
boys now going to the front.
A number of appropriate re-
marks were made by several 9th
ers who we're present.
A number of the good friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Myhr pleas
antly surprised them last Sun
day afternoon, on their old farm
homestead north of town, which
is now occupied by their son,
John O. Myhr. It was told Mr..
and Mrs. Ole O. Myhr that they
were to have a little family re-
union and it turned out to be a
large host of friends who took
possession of the farm home.
A bounteous dinner was served
in the beautiful grove near the
house after which several talks
were made. Mr.. and Mrs. Myhr
have been very active in taking
part and doing their share in
building up this community
from a barren prairie country
to a substantial community that
we all have every reason to be
proud of. AS a token of their
esteem for this worthy aged
couple they presented them with
a beautiful three-piece parlor
set.
From now on loafers will lead
a hard life. Since the United
States has placed certain occu-
pations with the class of loaf
ers, it is hard to determine who
is or who is not a loafer. The
following are some of the class
es of labor which have been
placed in this class: Gamblers,
fortune tellers, passenger ele-
vator operators, sales clerks and
other mercantile agents, persons
employed in domestic service,
etc. These and many others are
included in the War Depart
ment's list of non-useful occupa-
tions-and whatever distinction
the classification may confer
upon the loafer, it is thought
to be pretty hard upon those who
are performing many hours of
work each day. It is admitted
that the attempt to define exact
ly the word ~'1oafer" will meet
with some difficulty, inasmuch
as the dictionary is not quite ex-
t1icit whom thn otvmn1Ouv IF tho