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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
SOCIETY @;
Y. NJ c. 4. HOSTESS HOUSE FILLING BIG
PLACE IN SOLDIERS LIFE At CAMP DODGE

Nebr., is in charge of the cafeteria.
She has formerly been doing govern
mental demonstration work and is
well qualified for her position.
Meals are moderately served in the
cafeteria. In fact, it is really cheaper
than in town and one gets such good
food. Special banQuets may be ar
ranged through Miss Blandin.
The soldiers have found out what
good home made pies they can get
here and Miss Seyle told me that they
just couldn't get enough pies baked
to supply the demand. The boys drop
in here, after Y. M. C. A. meetings,
for pie and coffee. It's not that they
do not get enough to eat at the mess
they do. But just to. dampen that
hungly feeling one has before going to
bed, pie goes fine.
Miss Seyle said at first the men
seemed to think they would not be
welcomed unless accompanied by-their
women folks. This is mistaken idea.
the soldiers are always welcomed and
encouraged to drop in occasionally. I
know the selected men coming hc~a
later on will certainly appreciate the
Hostess House. It's the homesick
soldier that needs, that little honey
touch most, so when you boys feel
that way just drop in and note the ef-
feet.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
PERSONAL NOTES

E. S. Neal of Garrison, is spending
several days in the city transacting
business and calling on friends.
Miss Gaia Peters of the capitol
force, spent the week end at her home
in Mandan.
The Misses Charlotte Vallelly and
Jewell Weber of First street, spent
Sunday as the guests of friends in
Mandan.
Mrs. F. M. Halstead Of the Annex, is
expected to return this week from
Faribault, Mimi, where she was called
by the death of her mother.
Mrs. 10y, who is spending some
time in the capital city getting in
touch with the Red Cross work, will
return to her home in Stanton this
week.
Mr.. Price OF Glendive, Mont, is
spending some time in the city on
business Mr.. Price is cousin Of
Miss Ethel Fleming of the library
commission.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES MARKED THE
DEDICATION OF SOLDIERS FLAG

meaning not in the lexicon but as they
come into contact with our system Of
government, as they find happiness or
discomfort among our people, as they
find the selfish or the serviceable' ele-
ment predominant in our complex ma.
tional life. These things being self
evident it is fitting to turn from the
glorious emblem Of thousand bat
tlefields to this humber service flag
and say that this is the flag back of
the flag, the flag that we wear on
the heart that makes the other so
luminous and imperishably fair. Hence
we cannot dedicate this service flag
to our absent heroes. We are the re.
ceivers they are the donors. They
have made possible this flag. We can
hardly dedicate ourselves to the work
as they have done and do what it is to
advance the common cause of de-
mocracy and humanity. Yet we make
this a very real dedicatorial service
and it is fitting that we do so do in
this the house Of prayer. We can ded,
icate ourselves in prayer in behalf of
our honor roll patriots. Let US then
dedicate our boys, our cause and our.
selves to the Loving Father in
prayer" ..... ~.
Rev. Mr.. Postlethwaite was follow.
ed by Hon. c. l. Young who gave
mastery lecture on the life of Abra-
ham Lincoln. The lecture showed the
result of a close and critical study of
the great emancipation and the vast
audience that packed with chairs ev-
cry available space and listened in
tently until the last word.
The young peoples chair under the
direction of Miss CasDary sang Great
God of Nations and Senator King and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11

September, is the first one in that
work out of IS men to be called for
overseas service.
Rev. Mr. Jackson arrived in the city
Saturday night and will remain here
until Friday with his family. Sun.
day he spoke to large audiences both
morning and evening telling of his
work in the great cantonment at Des
Moines and giving a message to the
boy scouts. Rev. Mr.. Jackson was the
first man commissioned for boy scout
work in this city.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11

Impressive services marked the ded.
icati0n Sunday evening Of the Presby.
terian soldiers service flag. The
church auditorium was filled with the
fathers and mothers and other friends
OF the boys to do them honor. The
large service flag was hidden behind
q screen fashioned Of flags until the
singing of America when it was rails
ed bringing into view the thirty-three
stars, which represented the number
Of boys Of the church now in govern
ment service. The entire chancel was
banked with flags while large flag
drapel against the organ reached
from ither side to the floor.
Mrs. J. l. Wilson, as chairman Of
the patriotic committee and one who
helped to make the flag, read the hon.
OF roll after which Rev. H. C. Postleth-
waite the pastor, spoke briefly on the
service flax. ile said in part:
"ln a very true sense we cannot ded-
icate this flag; that it was placed be-
You'd our power by those whose deeds
were filtingly synbolized in the vari.
GUS stars. Every American treasures
Old Glory 20 the veTy rest banner in
all the world. not because of her SYM
metry, delicacy of coloring, or easily
1iscernihle meanings stamped on the
bars and stars, but because he be-
loves her to be another Schekinak
blessed of heaven, that shall lead us
and our children after us to the prom
ised land Of prosperity and blessing.
Every citizen is giving definition to
the flag. The real flag is ever chang.
ing. We are weaving it into the
dreams and visions and homes Of our
average american citizenship. Those
coming to- our shores will find its
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
BOY SCOUTS OF
CITY HONORED

The boy scouts of the city were hon.
ored last evening when special ser.
vice in honor Of the eighth annivers-
airy of the movement was observed at
the McCabe Methodist Episcopal
church. between 70 and Is Of the
scouts of the city including the senior
and junior groups with their scout
masters, Dennis Cook and II. S. o.
back and their assistants, w. C. Rev
and Charles Mandigo, marched in a
body to the front OF the church audi.
forum where seats were reserved for
them.
Dr. W. J. Hutcheson gave chalk
talk on "A Scout" Beginning with
the first letter "S", DR.. Hutches son
explained what each one stood for and
what the scouts could make each let
ter in their name stand for, Sre". al
music was given by Miss IiaZel NCad,
soprano and F. M. Halstcad, violiNist
The church choir also gave specia'
number.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11

Miss Caspary gave solos, the former
singing Van Dykes Home Coming"
and the latter a patriotic number. The
meeting closed with the singing of the
National anthem while the home
guards stood at salute.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
Club Notes for Week

The P. E. O. Sisterhood met this
afternoon with Mrs. c. l.. Young of
Avenue B, instead of with Mrs. p. j..
Meyer, as scheduled in the year book
The program was featured bysa paper
on military Preparedness for Wom-
en- by Mrs s. F. Hollingsworth. The
roll call was responded to by names
of women poets.
The Fortnightly club will meet We'd
nesday Afternoon with Mrs. G. A. Raw
lings of Avenue A. Sectional writer's
and the value of novel reading will be
discussed
The Thursday Musical club will OBJ
serve Patriotic day Thursday after
noon at the regular meeting with Mrs.
p. B. Byrne Of Avenue A. Papers on
the life of Francis Scott ey andK Julia
Ward Howe will be read and patriotic
songs sung.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
Entertaining Fargo Guest.

Entertaining Fargo Guest. .
Mrs. and Mrs. John P. Clinton of
Washington Avenue, are entertaining
as their guest, Miss Edna Coleman Of
largo. H.. $685. ..,. '.t, .....
Enters Service. .. 49,
Roy Kuntz of this city will leave
this evening for Jefferson Barracks,
where he will enter the services of
the government. He will enter the
railroad department. ...
To Sew for Red Cross.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres
byterian church will go to the Red
Cross rooms Tuesday afternoon to
sew The members are asked to
bring their thimbles and scissors with
them. 81.
= Whist Party.
The Royal Neigh5ors has announced
whist party for Tuesday in the
knights of Pythias hall. An invitation
is extended to all Royal Neighbors
and their friends to attend. The game
will begin at o'clock
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
MASQUERADE Rall,

Tn" annual masquerade ball given
Ivy the Modern Brotherhood of Amer
lea will be big event of this evening
in Patterson hall. The entertainment
committee has arranged splendid
program of dance numbers and O'Con-
nor's orchestra will furnish the music
!Iany novel costumes will be worn by
the guests.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
MASONIC NOTICE.

H A special communication Of Bis
marck Lodge No. 5 will be held in Ma
sonic temple on Tuesday at 1880 p.
m. All master masons are urged to
be there lat that time.
s's. p, II. FIELDS, w. M,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11

The new Y. w. C. A. Hostess House
which has been in operation only re-
Gently, is a special building at the can
torment where the men can meet and
entertain their lady friends and rela.
tives sr .... -.
At present there are thirty.six of
these hostess houses in operation un.
der the NATIONAL board. The Y. w.
c.. A. is now planning on the construc-
ton of similar buildings for the bene.
fit of the colorel women. They will,
of course, have their own colored
hostess and secretaries.
Mrs. j. D. Dunshee, of Harlan, Ia,
is the official hostess here She is the
wife of an American doctor serving
with the British army. Mrs Dunshee
is charming motherly woman With a
sunny smile and that talent of mT'c!l~
one feel very much at home When
you, the mothers, sisters and wives.
come from North Dakota to see your
boys, make the Hostess House your
headquarters while in camp. That's
what it is for. The secretaries at the
information desk will help you 10 10.
cate your boys and they can meet and
visit you in the large "sociability
hail. Here you can make yourself
at home and enjoy the fire It's com.
fortable-you will find it very coy
and honey. ~
A lOunging room is prOv.ded where
women may rest. This will be espe
cially appreciated by just arriving, az
ter long and tiresome journey, the
more so if there are children to care
for. Which reminds me of the little
nursery that is being fitted out with
baby cribs. There will be trained
nurse in charge and mothers may
leave their children here in perfect
safety, while visiting the hus Bands or
sons.
There is also an emergency sleeping
rOOm--the suggestion of General
Plummer. This is to be used only in
such cases Of extreme emergency
such as a stormy night, an elderly
lady, or in cases where illness at the
base hospital is serious enough to call
for the presence of relatives. In the
last case, one must bring note from
the captain of the company of which
their boy is member, telling Of his
illness. n.'
Miss Adele Seyle, of Savannah, Ca,
is in charge of the house as general
secretary. For the past three years
she was the industrial secretary of
the Y. w. G.. A. in Des Moines. Miss
Ethel Towne, of Des Moines, Ia, is in
charge of information desk.
Miss Blandin, of the University of
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
Entertaining Young People,

The young people of the Presbyter
ian church will be entertained this
evening at the manse by Rev. and
Mrs. r. c.. Postlethwaite. An inter-
esting program has been prepared
and will be featured by play. All
the young people of the church are
asked to gather at the manse at 1880.
Red Cross knitting will also be done.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
To Sew for Red Cross.
Whist Party.
Missionary MEETING.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society Of the McCabe church will
hold an important meeting Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. A. S. Hoffman in
Tenth street. Mrs. J. G. Moore, the
leader, has arranged a splendid pro.
gram. -.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
Special Lenten Services.

Rev. George Buzzelle of St. Georges
Episcopal church will conduct special
lcnten services beginning with Ash
Wednesday. The Wednesday services
will be conducted at 10 a. m. Services
will be held each Friday evening at
.:3y until holy week when services
Will he conducted each day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
Local Minister First to Be
Called From Camp Dodge

Rev. Bruce p. Jackson Of the First
BAPTIST church, who has been III
charge of the religious work at the
Y. M. C. A. at Camp Dodge since last
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
At THE ORPHEUM WEDNESDAY
ONLY, FEB. 18th.
ROYAL ARCH MASONS.

A regular convocation of Bismarck
Chaper No. 10, r. A. NJ, will be heid
at Masonic Temple on Tuesday, FED.
ruary y, at 200 p. m. Important 'pus-.
mess. All members are urged to De
Dresont
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-11
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE-Second hand Ford in
good running order. Cheap 1or
cash. Phone 32S or 557.
~ '- 2 II st
FOR RENT-Small four room house
furnished Phone 773. 2 II st
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-02
PLANES IDENTIFIED BY TUNE
Discovery Made by American Proves
Extremely Valuable to British
Aviation Service.

Air raids on London are no longer
the sure-fire stuff for heartening the
German people that they once were.
Lately the raiders usually find that
they can raid up to the English coast
and then have to raid right back home
again. A young American Is given
credit for the success of the British In
surrounding their capital with shrap-
mel barrage whenever the German fly
ers approach.
A Brooklyn youth who had enlisted
in the British aviation service was as
signed to test out an airplane detector
which was expected to discover the ap-
proach of airplanes before they could
be heard, so to speak, with the naked
eye. No one expected that the device
would make it possible to ten whether
the approaching plane were German
or British.
His musical studies had trained the
Americans hearing to high degree
however. He listened through the in.
strument for several days while only
British planes flew within It's range
Then he heard different note. A Ger
man raiding squadron was approach
ing.
The American had discovered that
British planes hum in G-minor. He
found that the German raiders are
tuned in B-fiat. Now the British avia
ton service keeps men about the CAPT
tai with their ears close to detectors
and whenever airplanes are heard
vibrating in B-fiat barrage is imme
diately ordered.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-02
Ancient Soap Making.

A soap boilers shop was among the
things discovered in the excavation at
Pompeii several years ago. The city
was buried beneath volcanic ashes A.
D. 20. 1t is said that the soap found
in the shop had not lost all efficacy,
although it had lain under the ashes
more than eighteen hundred years.
Soap making was quite business in
a number Of the Italian cities at the
time that Pompeii was destroyed.
Pliny the elder speaks Of soap, and
says that because it's price was so
high many substitutes were used,
among them kind Of glutinous earth
and fine sand mixed in the juice of
certain plants that made lather. His
tory tells us that the Gauls made soap
two thousand years ago by combining
beech tree ashes and goats fat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-02

If you saw 1.-THE Bird Of Paradise"
and then listened to some folk talk
you may be under the impression
Hawaii is land where Americans go
and just naturally forget how to work,
lie down beneath shady, spready tree
and listen to the thrum of the Hawaiian
guitars until they're lulled into sleep
from which they seldom are aroused.
'That stuff" said s. s. Paxson of Hon.
olulu, sis all right, but it's for story
books and comic operas. I went to
Honolulu Is years ago from Philadel-
phia, became president of the Rotary
club, a member Of the legislature and
head of the largest automobile con-
Germ In Honolulu. When / came back
to the United States I don't find any
of my old companions are staying up
any later at night than / do or travel
faster than / do. Don't let any one
put that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
up idea into your head. Hawaii is
not lazy mans country. by any
MEANS"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-02
Took the Biscuit.

The Mudcumbe Prevaricating and
Debating society was In session, and
all was proceeding peacefully and har-
moniously. till the rat-story man
spoke.
"Some people," he said, consider
the rat hasn't got much sense; but
they're wrong. For instance, once l
saw a mother place her year-old babe
in front of the cottage to sun himself.
and, to keep his spirits up, she gave
the little chap big feeding bottle of
milk. AS watched saw a rat creep
up to the child, and my heart was In
my mouth. feared for the baby. But,
bless you, the rat was only after the
milk! He just slipped the teat out
of the child's mouth and into his own,
and then thoughtfully put the end of
his tail into the child's mouth by way
of comforter r.
With great sigh the president
handed him the biscuit.-London Tit
Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-02
CARED LITTLE FOR POLITICS
President Cleveland, However, Had
Real Liking for the Law, and
Loved TO Fish.

president Cleveland loved the law
better than he did politics." remarked
r. o. Brown, a former resident of Buff
falo, to reporter of the Washington
Post. Had he considered his own de
sires he would never have left his prac-
tice for political Office. / doubt If even
the prospect of becoming president
would have induced him to enter poll
tics.
sit was my privilege to know Mr.
profession before he entered politics
He was not what might be termed q
glittering success as lawyer. He had
no business instinct SO far as the Law
was concerned, but he delighted in
intricate legal problems, and much pre-
ferred to take a case that involved ap
parently hopeless questions. 1t could
not be said he was good pleader, and
while the average person was not at
tracted by his addresses In court
judges on the bench had the greatest
respect for them, because they were
profound and logical.
'When he was not engaged in law
Cleveland delighted In utter abandon
ment of all things that required
thought; above everything else hs
loved to fish. l recall that when some
of his Democratic friends wanted hin
to become a candidate for mayor h,
said: 4 don't want any more of poll
tics. want to stay right here in Fri,
county, where / can go fishing occa
sionally. I do not care If never ge
outside the borders of Erie.'"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-02
BARNS PART III SOCIAL LIFE
Small Boy Whose Father Possessed
One Used to Be Good Deal
of an Autocrat-

In simpler times, and in parts of the
United States where simple customs
prevailed, the popular small boy of
the neighborhood was not necessarily
the son of the richest or most promi-
nent family, but. more likely, the boy
In whose yard there was good rain
barrel. smooth cellar door, or barn.
The bog who would now and then,
from pure favor, or in return for mar
bles, or some other valuable consid-
Grafton. permit other boys to "holler''
down his rain barrel, or slide down
his cellar door, or, greatest privilege
Of all, play in bis fathers barn, was
the boy whose friendship was best
worth cgitiyating.
Some boy, in the small community
Of generation ago, was sure to have
father who possessed barn, and,
generally speaking, he intuitively felt
his power, and exercised it over the
other boys on his street or In his part
barn stood back of him and gave him
support and influence. He could say
and do things to the other boys that
they would not dare say or do to one
another, simply because the boy he
said or did things to could see the
barn door behind him, open or closed.
as the case might be.
To be one of those entitled to adj
mission to the barn was to be in the
right set; to be denied the privilege of
playing in the barn was to suffer So
cial ostracism.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-02
GIVEN HONOR NOT DESERVED
Error Of Learned Men Responsible for
America Being Named After
Amerigo vespucci.

The story Of how the new world re-
ceived the name of America is a strik-
ing example of what publicity will ac-
complish. Amerigo Vespucci, highly
educated Florentine, was head of a
business house in Seville, Spain, prob
ably as agent for the great trading
firm of the Medicis, and helped to fit
out one of the expeditions with which
Columbus sailed. When the latter's
monopoly was revoked, Vespucci I'M
dertook several voyages of exploration
on his own account, during which he
claimed In many letters to have been
the first to reach the mainland of the
new continent, giving the date as June,
16, 1897.
On April Is, 1907, the learned heads
Of the University of st. Die, in Lor-
raine, decided, incorrectly, that he was
entitled to the honor of discovery, Co
lumbus having only reached the
islands Of the West Indies, and that
the western hemisphere should bear
his name. The name America was,
therefore. first used in the book Sos
mographiae Introductio," by Martin
Waldseemuller, professor of cosmog-
raphy at the university.
1t has since been shown that Yes
pucci was preceded by both Columbus
and John Cabot, but 1t was too late
the new world had been christened
America and the fact advertised In
print. The house where the meeting
was held at which the classical error
was made was still standing at st. Die
at the outbreak of the war, and was
annually visited by many tourists from
both North and South America.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-02
BOY HAD SPIRIT OF HIS RACE
How the Captains Boy, MackInnon
of the cameronia Helped to
AIlay Panic.

In the report of the torpedoing of
the Anchor liner Cameronia with
troops in the Mediterranean last sum-
mer, mention was made of the splen-
did conduct of the captains boy, Mack
innon. This youngster was on the
bridge with the captain when the ship
was struck, and he did much to allay
the excitement by shouting through
the megaphone to the troops, keep
your heads, men. Dinna get excited.
It's a RIGHT. Nae hurry" and so on.
The sight of the small boy with a
megaphone as big as himself advising
the soldiers to keep cool made many
laugh and quieted many nerves. The
boy did many other things, and at the
end the captain found he had dis
obeyed orders and was still on the
bridge when everyone else had left the
ship. When the captain told him to
"clear out" he said, I'm no go till you
go, SIR" The captain then caught him
by the coat and slung him overheard
into the destroyer before jumping him
self. An eyewitness on the destroyer
described seeing the captain and the
boy on the bridge of the sinking ship.
hear now that Mackinnon went
down in the Tuscania. Probably he
behaved there as he did on the Cam
eronia, and the death he just missed
in the Mediterranean came to him Off
the Scottish coast. In the list of heroes
Of our mercantile marine there ought
to be place for this gallant wee
Glasgow lad-London Correspondence
Of the Manchester Guardian.