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k M. E. Caldwell, 82o West E-second avenue went to Bear esterday to attend the funeral of
 |Her, Mrs. Viola Harold.
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CYCLING
BY T. T. WENTWORTH, JR.
BACK TO BIKE FOR REST.

! A writer who signs himself w. A. s
has won the first prize in an essay
What rests me most" contest for the
| American Magazine. The method useC
| by the writer was to reclaim his ole
bicycle from the garnet, got a coaster
brake fitted to the old timer and HE
himself to the trout streams. His story
| follows:
For years on a Saturday afternoon
and Sunday, two brother lawyers and
took our fly rods and bikes" and
went far into the country to some one
OF the numerous trout streams that
found their source in the SHOWS OF
Mount Tacoma. or the Olympics. We
were ardent disciples OF Izaak Wal
ton; Pedaling a wheel for hours and
whipping a stream for a day and q
half gave us the relaxation needed to
keep us in robust health.
Then came golf and the country
club, changing our habits entirely. We
We're still inseparable. We claimed
Saturday afternoon and Sunday for our
very own. We were evenly matched,
and experience in adjusting hanolcaps
made our uniform bet of a ball a hole
fair and uncertain sporting PROPOSE
ton, maintaining interest until the last
strike. AS soon as dinner was over,
however. we would play dominoes at
five cents point, with drinks or CT
gars on every game, keeping at it until
late at the instance of whoever was be-
hind. We got very heavy and bore
no resemblance to the slim-waisted,
athletic fellows who thought nothing
OF riding 60 or 10 miles to get back
from a fishing trip in ample time for
Monday mornings business! The
weeks work was now commenced with
tagged brain and tired eyes, and the
coming Saturday was looked forward TO
simply to give the loser a chance to
get even for the mistakes and losses
of the previous Saturday
Then one day. after had just closed
i've hours argument in an important
case that had taxed my powers to the
utmost, and was "all in" ] came 10
determination. / was Just under forty
five and, being of sturdy build, should
have been at the maximum of physical
strength instead of a nervous wreck
My thoughts reverted to the old hike"
DAYS, when every muscle was like a
steel spring, my digestion perfect, eyes
rested, my heart pumping good blood
&c the acknowledgements different
from the shape I was now in
! got my bicycle down from the gar
ret where it had hung so many years,
had coaster brake put on and got
out my old fly-hook and rod. With
a roll of blankets strapped behind the
seat and days supply of food in the
creel. / left the house Saturday noon
telephouing the boys / would not be
with them. IT was hard work and
bled from every pore, but kept pedal
ing away and finally reached one of
our favorite camping spots, high up on
the foot hills Of Mount Tacoma
BY daybreak was whipping the stream.
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SHOWER BATHS
FREE TO TROOPS

Raleigh. N. c., Aug 3.-Soldiers on
troop trains when passing through
Raleigh refresh themselves from a hot
and tiresome journey with shower
baths free of charge. A building con-
tanning one hundred shower patls, a
few yards from the railway tracks. has
been built with funds raised by popular
subscription, at cost Of approximate
ly $1,000.
Governor Beckett several weeks ago
observed that many soldiers who stop
ped here for exercise and refreshment
displayeyd evidence of suffering from
lie intense heat and he appealed tho
citizens OF Raleigh to subscribe to a
fund for a bath house. Within less
tina n q week enough money was con-
tributed. Besides making cash dona-
tions. business houses gave literally
in material and labor.
In addition TO the baths the building
csontains a large dining room which
is capable Of seatigg two hundred men.
Local Red Cross workers say they can,
within one hour, supply food to a train
of five hundred soldiers.
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MOOERh!zE MOTH
AND THE FLAME

London, Aug. 3.-"The moth and the
flame" is little game of hide and
seek which is played over London at
night now and then the moth being an
aviator of the citys' defense forces and
the flame a searchlight designed to
dazzle the German Gothas when they
come in droves to lombard the metro
polls.
These ''rehearsals' take place at In
tervals, the director of searchlights be-
ing notified in advance that an allied
machine is to- ascend, but neither the
time nor the. locality are given. Then
the game of the flame is to find the
moth, and keep the rays of the search
light fastened upon the flying machine
To Londoners. the airplane appears
like great moth, or a white speck in
the sky, and the searchlight's ray re-
minds one OF great white ribbon ex-
tending from the earth to the airplane
and beyond.
And the moth dives and ndarts and
fiutters about and some times manages
tie dodge the flame, but not for long.
Down below Londoners are craning
ro"fs and enjoying the game
to the fullest extent.
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took Professor" moistened the gui
in my mouth, and, being careful to
keep the fly dry, I fastened it on in
place of the bedraggled one, carefully
placing the fly on the dancing ripples.
From where | stood in the middle OF the
stream to the pool was fully 200 feet.
AS the fly went dancing along, and
Just as it was necessary to stop pay
ing out to avoid the roots OF sub
merged tree, there was rush ana a
swirl, and a mighty trout flashed in
to the sunlight, curving his rainbow
tinted length in great arc as, with
fly well hooked, he struck the water.
The fight was on And such a fight /!
He broke water frequently in his eff
forts to free himself, and if my reel
had not been a large automatic. the
scrap would have soon ended. AS it
was, my nerves were thrilled for one
whole glorious hour. The main effort
OF the fish was to get under the pro-
tecting roots; had he succeeded would
surely have lost him, but the line and
pole held. He raced up and down, new
er quite managing to get control. final
ly his efforts exhausted him. AS reel
ed him towards the shadows realized
yet stood chance to loose him, for
he was too long for my landing net
and would flop out, and with a slack
line escape, so l kept a taut line until
he was beached in shallow water, when
casting aside the pole, I threy myself
on top of him and soon had my fingers
in his gills. / had no means of weigh
ing him, but he was 241a inches long!
All the enthusiasm of the old DAYS
returned. Musing by the camp fire in
the still evening, | thought Of Bill and
Fred absorbing high balls and strain
1n0 fhaip Ms
inoes, and / grimly determined there
would be no more relaxation for me
that did not really give it.
At first il came hard to pump mat
wheel and leave a perfectly good run
about in the garage; but in short time
my muscles hardened and it was easier.
Little by little my surplus adipese It's
sue disappeared and now L am again
strong and fit.
Bill has broken down, and has gone
on six months trip to Egypt Fred is
still hanging on, but says that he has
not the will power to go back to the
strenuous days that have put me on
my feet He is fine fellow, and am
still hoping to pursuade him, but fear
he is about all in.
BOYS TAKE LONG BICYCLE TRIP.
Harrisburg Pa.-Harry Stoner and
Dale Leathery, two local youngsters,
recently made bicycle trip to Newark,
N. j., in which they covered $50 miles,
going in % hours and 80 minutes, and
returning made 208 miles in 81 hours
actual time, with five hours stop for
sleep in between.
The boys are students at the local
high school and are keen for bicycle
riding and racing. They visited the
Volodrome at Newark and watched the
big stars in action at one meet.
They had one puncture apiece, both
going and returning, while Stoner had
a spill trying to go around large
hole in the road near CoastesviIle. Pa,
on the return trip.
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VOL. XXI.-NO. PIG.
American Tank Battalion
Ready on the Western Front

With the American Army In England,
Aug. 3.-Another consignment OF Amer
lean man power that might be labelled
Made In England" Ia ready for ship
ment TO the Western front. It Is the
personnel Of the first American tank
bataIlion.
Trained by veterans OF the British
tank service, and equipped with the
most modern OF land warships. the new
force Is expected to give an excellent
account Of itself. The British coaches
Of the American crews have expressed
their approval OF the manner in which
their pupils have adapted themselves
10 the operation OF the machines and,
unless they are Mistaken, the men
whose training in England IS Just being
completed will be given enviable roles.
Their machines have the best points OF
both the British and French tanks and
the training Of the men has been in
the light of experiences already gained
by the fighters OF France and England.
sR To every man in the American out
mt there have been impaired the stories
or mis- stakes made IN the early history
Of tank warfare. Enlisted men and Of
fcsrs have been told what to do and
what not to do; all their admonitions
have been based not on theory, but on
actual experiences. gained in the face
slightest intimation that the tanks are
numbering TO the front.
But as a reminder, perhaps. that the
enemys IRE Is seldom effective Is the
insignia adopted for the American tank
e1rps-two saIamanders, crawling crea-
lures that worm their way unframed
Through the flame and smoke.
ntItsis expected that because OF the ex-
cellence of the weapon with which It
wN4fIF n
gone, the American contingent Will
prove itself exceptionally efficient: for.
even SO the American engineers have
heen careful to combine in the Ameri-
can tank the best features of those now
used by the British and the French. so
have the instructors OF the personnel
been scrupulously careful to inculcate
the most advantageous methods of Of
fence and defence.
Further cause for believing the Amer
icAn tank corps Will live up TO the es-
innate OF the British instructors Is the
character Of its personnel, both men
and officers. They are carefully select
ed men, picked from the thousands
who volunteered when the call for tank
men was made. Two base requisites
were insisted upon; first, every man |
must be physically ut, and, second, tenn
peramentally adaptable. The training |
every man has received has meant |
.r'1tHer Z hSt ne h delivered to the cona-j
ananders at the front as a wonderfully |
efficient unit, or is mercilessly thrown |
out of the service. He Is turned over
to the lighting force as an expert me-
chanic, a man drilled in the operation |
of both machine guns and heavier ord
nance, a tactician and strategist, and, !
finally, as man with no evidence OF
nerves"
town where the Americans have been
coached have been careful to explain
10 the men. as they weeded out the un-l
mt and those not tempermentally suit
able, that only the best can be used.
There is perhaps, no branch of the
army service that makes a greater de-
mand on the physical endurance of
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the men than the tank service. and
certainly more calculated to test the
nerves more, for within the very small
fighting space there is combined the
roar OF the heavy ordnance, the rattle
of the machine guns, the acrid smell
OF burning powder, and the suffocating
fumes of burning OIL and gasoline. Into
this little space, not more than eight
feet long, and four or five wide, and
with ceiling so low that a man cam
not stand upright, there Is crowded the
crew.
The actual experiences OF the British
instructors, many of whom were in the
first tanks used in the war, have been
reproduced in the most minute detail
for the instruction of the Americans.
Little has been left to the Imagination;
the practical has been substituted for
the theoretical. Huge shell holes not
dug out with pick and shovel, but
blasted by mines, as though by the
German shells, have torn up the train
ing field: trenches identical with those
that mark the battleflelds of France
and other distractions that tanks en-
counter have been built, and IL is over
these that the Americans have been
drilled and drilled. until, in the opinion
Of their instructors, they are prepared
to take their places on the line.
Practlcal problems OF getting out OF
tight places have been provided, and in
anticipation OF some Of the predica-
ments that may be encountered, care
full instruction in recognizanee work
has been given. Strenuous work in
target practice has been a daily sched- ]
ule. Indeed, almost the only experience
not yet undergone by ythe Americans
is the pounding of the German fire.
Another bit of training the tank man
has had is in the use of the compass
and just as lesson demonstrating the
reason for this they have been given the
experiences of handling the tanks at
night, when the analogy between
these land warships and those of the
sea Is seen.
Although the Americans have Deenl
trained in British tanks 1T is not ex-I
pected, they will find any trouble what
ever in operating the newer and heay-
Ter machines from the United States.
The differences between the two tanks
are technical and have to do with the
mechanism, but they are not radical.
The fighting and operating principles
are the same and It has been explained
to the Americans that the man who |
can handle one can handle the other, |
much as the pilot OF one make of auto |
mobile can easily learn to drive an
other type.
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FINE PRODUCTS OF
.ESCAMD|A' SOIL.
ARE ON DISPLAY.

Mr.. w. T. Miller. a splendid farm
er OF Goulding. Escambia county. has
demonstrated that diversified farming
can be carried on as successfully in
this section as in any part of the
South. He has six acres of as fine
corn as can be found In the state. The
corn is well matured and from the
sample brought to the Journal offices
can be ground into fine meal ut once.
Mr.. Miller believes in planting more
than one crop for his sugar cane will
make 100 gallons of syrup to the
acre. He has two acres In beans as
fine as can be grown anywhere. He
left one velvet bean staik-top at the
Journal which has 165 pods. This va
riety OF crops shows conclusivsiy that
Escambia soil will produce when prop
erly cultivated. More farmers should
follow Mr.. Miiler's example and help
put the Kaiser's crowd down in the
manner Of producing everything that
can be grown. Many boys pass the
window and ask question about the
beans and cane as though these plants
were unknown to this section. Among
this collection OF farm products ID a
grown by S. w. Scott of the Journal
force. 1t Is about three feet long and
a little larger than an olxra pod in
diameter. 1t is said to be very pala-
table when cooked properly.
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Man Who Ate the Queen
Pancake Is American Sold or

instance they enabled a father to md
his son.
The visitor notices also in the
lounge a counter filled with Ameri-
can magazines, reading and writing
tables. and big English billiard
table. Just off the lounge. Is q quiet
room" for reading and writing.
Continuing the inspection he sur
veys the concert hall with it's fully
equipped stage. moving picture ma
chine, two planes and. in the aicoyes.
four American pool tables. Usually n.
the afternoon, always in the tvenins.
there is something doing here, anu
on Saturday night comes the big
party" After the formal entertainment
has been concluded, the chairs are re-
moved and the floor cleared for
frolic.
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F. ,. Avery, quartermaster. second
class, does the drawing, and Tad" as
he is known among his comrades, rank
ing the same as Mr.. Avery, does the
in series of very attract
i've features to be printed in The Jour-
nal each Sunday These two young
artists In their respective lines are
both stationed at the Pensacola Naval
Station. At the former station where
they were together, their work attract
ed widespread attention, and was
looked forward to with no little in
terest by the sailor boys, for whose
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especial benefit the work was created.
The first Of the series is reproduced
below, and it details how the sailor
Hits the Deck on Dugle calls. although
comparatively new in Uncle Sans nav
al branch of the service, their pictured
poetic effusions give one an idea that
they have long been in such life.
1t is the hope OF The Journal to have
one OF these features each Sunday
morning, or oftener If possible. but as
long as this team remains here one OF
their combined efforts will be Sun
day feature Of The Pensacola Journal.
The first is as follows:
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RAZOR IS FOUND ON
BLACK PRISONER

Will Jones, colored, had a razor on
him when he reached the police sta
ton in charge of an officer early yes
terday and pleading to charge OF
drunk and disorderly and carrying con-
cealed weapons, all of which allega-
lions were contained in a single affi-
davit, he was fined SIS ana costs by
the recorder.
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LET YOUR LIVER LIVE

LET YOUR LIVER LIVE
A sluggish, slow acting Liver is the cause
of many ills; for you to be active and in
good health the liver must carry off po;sons
of the body. PLANK'S LIVER PILLS contain Cal
omelskillfully combinedwitho other necessa-
~ cleansing drugs which quickly and gently
liven up your liver but do not sicken orRripe.
Csc At DRUG and GENERAL STORES
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-27
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Central North Dakota is in the rain
belt this year.
in France, where he with other patri-
otto Sawyer boys will do their share
in downing the beast of Berlin.
For branding one calf, F. c. Turner
of the IA ranch in Sioux county,
faces trial m district court at Bis
marck.
While bathing in the Goose river
near Hillsboro, Adolph Warm, was
taken with cramps and drowned in
four feet Of water.
For stealing a drive belt from a
threshing rig, Otto Wallner, of Walsh
county, will serve one year in the
state pen.
The editor of the Sherwood Tribune
kicks on people handing in advertis-
ing under the guise of being news
items. We have the same kick,
brother.
A well has been struck II miles
north of Sherwood with a flow so
strong that it has got beyond con-
troll and is flooding the entire COM
munity. The farm has been trans
ferred into lake feet deep.
A building owned by a La Moure
resident, held by citizens as being
but lukewarm to support the govern
ment in the war, was decorated with
German flag, an iron cross and much
yellow paint.
Some thieving sonofagun is stealing
hogs from the good people of Dickin-
son. "Keep a pig" has long been
slogan among the citizens Of the
Slope city-but some of 'em don't
seem to be having any luck at it.
After several months delay in in
stalling a water works system at
Marmarth, the water was turned on
for the first time last week. The
water works plant was installed early
last fall. Leaky valves in the mains
has caused most of the trouble.
Thinking they can secure all the
-four they want regardless of food
regulations has caused some residents
of tile Krem vicinity to consider open
ing the flour mill at Krem. The
Zap Enterprise states that Krem has
a most undesirable reputation as
disloyalist hotbed.
A resident of Mandan who insisted
on playing ode Yacht am Rhine"
on his fonygraft was waited upon by
a committee of patriotic citizens, who
demanded that the record be given up.
It was-and it is no more. "Thus
perish all traitors" - as What-you-
may-callim said, away back yonder.
The Mitchell IS. d. Republican
claims the American army in France
is short of regimental bands. 1t is
reported that during the recent Hun
advance the North Dakota band boys
dropped their instruments, grabbed
guns and began to pick off the baby
killers.
Chas. Norton of Hettinger, was
found guilty TO the charge Of bigamy
at the regular term of court at Het-
finger last week. He will be sentenced
to from one to five years in the peni-
Tertiary this week. He was arrest
ed several months ago out west and
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They had taken a canoe

evening. They had taken a canoe
and gone up the river for picnic.
Mr.. Hagen was working his way thru
college and spent. his vacation last
summer in Wimbledon. He roomed
at the A. F. Steffen home and work.
ed at the painters trade. He was
Fl years old and had registered in
the draft on June 5. His parents are
dead but he has a sister in Chicago.
A clipping from the front reads:
~ am a mothers son. I am the
pride of the family and part of a
home. I love my life as you love
yours. I am youth in years and
experience in life yet I am a gam
bier, betting the highest stake that
a man can wage-my life. If
win you win. If l lose I have lost
all. The loss is mine, not yours, and
there is grieved mother, sadden-
ed family and broken home to which
! can never return. I ask only for
the godspeed and support of my nation
in return for laying upon the altar of
my country my all. For bravery and
blood will your wealth where / risk
my life? Will you pawn your shekels
if pawn myself Will you hazard
your wealth where risk my life? I
am the flower Of a nations man
hood. the glory Of a noble race. I
am the American soldier. am the
boy in the trenches"
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was returned to Hettinger by the

was returned to Hettinger by the
sheriff Of Adams county.
A Red Cross auction sale held in
the Green Vale Mercer County,
school district netted more than $1,1OO
and Schleppegrel of the Hazen Star
AYERS that "it is probable that no like
community anywhere in the state can
equal the patriotism and the spirit
shown in that school district" Hard
to beat, all right, Schlep.
The farmers of the Coleharbor
neighborhood have taken over the
Farmers State Bank at that place,
and at meeting held the last Of the
week Attorney R. L. Fraser, Messrs.
Okerson and Carlson of Coleharbor
were named as directors. The cap
ital of the institution will be increas-
ed to $4,000. F. A. Vogel was re-
tanned as cashier.
While S. D. Wilmer, a farmer liv-
ing north of Beach, was driving home
from Glendive. with his wife and six
children, he was overcome by faint
ing spell and his car went over an
eight-foot embankment. The accident
resulted in the death of his youngest
child boy 10 months old, while the
oldest boy suffered broken leg. The
rest of the party escaped with slight
bruises.
County Commissioner Olaf Lokens-
gard received card from his son,
Melvin, now in Uncle Sans fighting
forces, stating he had crossed the big
pond safely and ended another lap on
his journey to the big battle fields,
A report has been circulated at Car
rington that dying soldier in France
confessed to the crime of killing the
four Jeske children in the cook car
near Cathay about year ago. The
rumor has it that the dying man i'm
plicated another fellow, also in the
army, in the crime and that the men
will be brot back from France to an
swer. The report could not be con-
firmed.
Christ Peterson, a farmer living
near Bowbells, had a serious auto
accident on the road home after at
tending the loyalty meeting Monday
afternoon. After crossing the bridge
over the Des Laos Lake east Of Bow
bells, his auto got beyond control and
toppled over the high embankment
towards the lake on the west hill.
He had three ribs broken and was very
low but the last reports were that
he was improving. Some members
of his family who were with him in
the auto also received minor injuries.
A fipe believed to have been of in
cendiary origin completely destroy
ed the coal shed and all the tools and
machinery belonging to the railroad
at Max, little after midnight Satur,
day night. There was also about go
tons of coal burned. Had the wind
been blowing in the opposite direc-
ton, the entire town would probably
have been wiped out.
n Arthur Hagen and Miss Verna Web
ster, students at Jamestown college,
| were drowned in the James river
4 Tuesday morning. The bodies were
recovered from the water Wednesday