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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17

The local Eastern Star Chapter con-
Quoted it's beautiful burial service at
the home Tuesday afternoon, and a
short public service was held at the
Presbyterian church afterwards, con-
Quoted by Rev. Geo. B. Denison. The
remains were laid to rest in the Odd
Fellows cemetery, beside those of her
late beloved husband.
Hers was beautiful Christian life
OF faith, love and unselfish service, and
in that fullness of faith she went home
to her Heavenly Fathers abiding
place."
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17

Ryder News: Lars Kleven, who
resided in Ryder for three years
prior to moving to Grand Forks a year
or SO ago, died at Grand Forks We'd
nesday, April 9. He leaves wife,
five sons and six daughters to mourn
their loss. The funeral was held on
Monday at Holmes, N. D. Peter Kle-
ven and Mrs. NJ. Ronning of Ryder at
tended the funeral.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17

Russia a Veritable Lunatic Asylum
Julius Fauchald, prominent Minot
merchant, received letter from a
brother Of Aksel Bratsberg this week
in which the writer stated that con-
ditions in Russia were grave indeed.
He wrote that free love, dissipation
and general free license were making
veritable lunatic asylum of Rurria.
The writer resides in the northern
portion of Norway and the distance
from Varda to Finland is about the
same as from Minot to Grand Forks.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17

s.
Glenburn Soldier Answered Summons.
VIM. Roles, son of Mr.. and MIS-.
Nick Roles of Glenburn, passed away
Sunday morning, April s, at St. JOS
eph's hospital in Minot after three
weeks illness with Inflammation Of
the brain.
The funeral was held from the
Catholic church at Glenburn, High
Mass being said by Rev. Father
Schmidt. The body was escorted to
its last resting place by 10 Glenburn
soldiers, and members Of the A. O. q.
w., of which the deceased was MEM
Der. William was ~ years of age
and had been in training at Camps
Grant and Macarthur for some time,
being mustered out in January.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17
Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobson
UndergOes OperatiOn

Mr.. and Mrs. D. K. JacObsOn's
daughter, Henrietta, was taken vio-
lently ill Sunday evening and remov-
ed to a local hospital where an opera
ton for appendicitis was performed.
The operation was pronounced sue
cess and the patient is well on the
road to a rapid and complete recov-
orv
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17
Criers Prepare for Parade.

The Minot Town Criers met in reg
ular session Tuesday evening at the
Association of Commerce rooms and
discussed the plans for the forth
coming Victory Liberty Loan. There
was large attendance and the boys
are making elaborate preparations for
the parade next Monday.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17
viii Proceed With New Rockford
Lewiston Line

The Great Northern announces that
it will proceed at an early date with
the completion Of the New Rock ford
Lewiston line and will bridge the Mis-
souri, river during the coming sum
mer.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17
Forty Flu Cases. at Denbigh

There are forty cases of flu at
Denbigh, a station east Of Minot on
the G. N. The disease is somewhat
milder than it was in the winter.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17

We have rescued Belgium and
Northern France from the Germans;
we have achieved peace. The Fifth
Liberty Loan is-to complete our work.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17
Velva Man Learns Where Soldier Son
Lies Buried in France

= J. w. Coffin, OF Velva, who was in
the city this week, stated to a repre-
sentative of the Independent, that the
War Department has officially notified
him where his son, killed in action
October 10, lies buried in France. The
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom McVeety of Don
nybrook, We're Minot visitors Tuesday.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-17

Your Liberty Bond subscription is
the measure of your patriotism.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
Hearing Them
MAY ESCAPE ANOTHER TRIAL
Anna Feleh Dexter Was Acquitted Of
Numbering husband.

Montpelier, Feb. l4s-When the Su-
preme court convenes here on the
25th OF February. following a special
term at Brattleboro, i is announced
that arguments will be made in an
effort TO save Anna Felch Dexter
from another trit for murder. A
writ of habeas corpus has been is
sued by the court and February 26
has been designated as the date of
the hearing in the proceedings
Anna Felch was freed of the
charge OF having murdered her hus-
band in Waits River Easter morning,
1916, but the case was carried to
Supreme court by the state, this
court reversing the decision OF the
lower court and remplning the cause
for a new trail Since that time the
woman has been in Orlnge county
Jail. While at llbesss she was mar
ried again. BY agreement of counsel
she will not be brought into court
the 26th
II is the contention OF her attor-
neys that ii the court upholds the
proceedings the woman viii be set
free Some weeks ago an effort was
made to carry the case to the United
States Supreme court but this is very
expensive and has been dropped for
the time being at least
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
NeWrANE INDIGNANT
Jury Case in County Court Held in
Brattleboro.


Brattleboro, Feb. 1S.--lnhabitants
of the town OF Newlane, which is the
shire town of Windham county are
much provoked because Il jury case
in County court was held In Brattle
,boro last week instead of in Newlane
and today County Auditor Frank A.
Dewitt Of Newfane stated that if any
bill for the expense of trying the
case in the government building here
was presented he would not allow It.
There is q feeling in Newfane that
Brattleboro wants to be made the
county seat and while il cannot be
stated how the general public feels
on that question there is no doubt
that nearly all lawyers in the county
prefer to have cases heard here
rather than In Newfane.
Not only was jury case on trial
all last week but today Judge Fred
NJ Butler of Rutland returned here
to try some court cases which require
the examination Of witnesses. SO far
as the question of expense goes no eX
ira expense has been involved thus
far except electric lights and it is
doubtful If any bill for that is Sresent
ed
Auditor Dewitt says that when tn,
federal building was being built here
the late United States Senator James
l.. Martin OF Brattleboro was inquired
OF by a Newfane citizen concerning
the possibility of holding County
court here and that Judge Marfll
replied that the County court coul,
not be allowed TO use the fedora
building court room.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
MANY NAVY MEN
ARE ARRESTED ON
CRAFT CHARGES
Investigation Unearths Bribery
and Other Illegalities
INVOLVES HIGH OFFICER
Affidavits Show That $500 Was Paic
by Young Men or Their Fathers
for Easy Berths

New York, Feb. 49, - Seven naval
officers and forty yeomen, including
Ensign Paul Beck, of the Paymasters'
Corps, and an officer of high rank in
the Third Naval District, are under
arrest, II was learned yesterday, in
connection with accusations of brlh.
cry, graft and illegality in the Third
Naval District with headquarters at
2g0 Droauway Inc charges are made
in conjunction with the Investigation
being conducted. it is understood, by
Major John r. Muir. of the Naval In
tciligenco Service, at the request OF
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels.
Among other allegations il is
charged that men who were about ~
be drafted into the army were en-
rolled in the navy: that men who got
into the navy in this way were as
signed to shore duty far from pos
sibllity of dangerous service; that
men were permitted to attend to their
private business from day to day, al
though supposedly in the naval sery-
ice; that a system existed whereby
men unfit physically We're enlisted in
the navy; that men were shifted from
one assignment to another in order to
free them from sea duty, and that
after the signing of the armistice men
with sufficient influence were dis.
charged from all duties and mustered
out of The service.
h; one OF the matters that is receiv-
ing close attention by Major Muir and
lhis stan of Investigators is the report
that the high naval officer in the
Third District said TO be known as
"the man higher up, has deposited in
various banks in and around New
York since the United States entered
the war sum approximating $780,
coo. aad ihat the entire sum paid BY
young men and their relatives for
illegal induction into the navy and for
other lavors amounts TO at least
| S5OO,000
/ Major Muir has in his possession
afiidavits made by young men or their
fathers who paid $500 or more for in.
duction into the navy or for easy
berths after enrolling or for other
! reasons mentioned above
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
MUST DEMOLISH
HELIG0LAND FORTS
Wreokage Of Fortress on Which Ger.
mans Have Spen, Millions for
Defense-To Omen Kicl Canal

London, Feb. lS--The final arInis.
tice conditions which the Supreme
Council Is considering will be made
public before the end of the month,
according TO various newspapers, and
they will include among the naval
conditions the demolition of the forts
on Heligoland and the Kiel Canal,
The surrender for purposes Of destruc-
iion of the German warships now in.
termed, and the opening Of the Kiel
Canal for commercial use II is stat.
ed that Germany will be left with Il
fleet large enough for defensive pur-
poses
The naval correspondent Of The
Daily Mail writing OF the Immensely
strong Notifications on the island of
HelIgoland says
The summit of the island is one
immense bombprool, and the batter.
les are so placed as to be invisible
from the sea The heavy guns there
-11.inch and l2.inch weapons-prob-
ably were reinforced during the war
by l5.inch guns. The guns are mount
ed in steel turrets of great thickness
All the batteries and observation
posts are connected by subterranean
passages and the roads leading up to
the murn along galleries which are
shellproof
The guns are mounted after the
usual German fashion, so as TO give
them an immense range, probably
from ten to twelve and half seg
miles. To enable the island to stand
the concuseion of their discharge anC
resist FIRE directed against IL 10000,
600 is said to have been spent before
1910, and, subsequently, other large
sums were allotted
The immense seaplane sheds arr
said TO have been of the disappearing
type. which could be lowered as
protection against long range fire
There are store shops and repai
works with all the usual equipmon
of naval base, The fortihcation
presumably will be blown up but thei
destruction will be no easy business
They are Of nrmorod concrete an
steel aud a very large quantity of %
posives will be required.
THE Notifications at either el
trance TO the Kiel Canal are OF In
mense strength and are lavishly SUI
piled with the heaviest guns in ste,
turrets.'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
GERMAN ANGER
\ AROUSED OVER
TRUCE TERMS
Only Reason for Signing Was
Fear of Hostilities
ITS ARMY TO BE REDUCED
Renewal Of Allied Invasion Would
Lead to Complete Collapse of
German Industries
ITS ARMY TO BE REDUCED

London, Feb. 1S.-(By The Associ
ated Press) .--Advices received from
Berlin by way of Basle today are to
the effect that the Pan-German mill
tary party, headed by Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg. bitterly resents the
new clauses in the armistice, espe
cially those limiting the German
army to the size of u simple police
force, the supervision of control OF
ammunition factories, and the de-
mand that Germany pay the expenses
of the allies on the hine.
These conditions, II is complained
will throw out of work thousands OF
German officers. from generals down
ward, while the army of 10000 vol
unters reported by the German press
to have been organized must be dis
banded
The adyices add that Indignation
against Matthias Erzberger on the
part of the military authorities is in
creasing.
Berlin, Feb. i7.--The German gov
ernments reasons for accepting the
stringent terms for the renewal OF
the arnlistice, as outlined in Il Wei
mar dispatch to the Norddeutsche All
gemeine Zeitung, are that renewal
of military operations following re-
fusal to sign will lead to the com
plete moral collapse of the German
people The absolute conviction pre-
vailed that refusal to sign, or dilia
tory treatment OF the proposals
would meet with an immediate ad
vance of the allied armies beyond the
Rhine, involving the occupation OF the
most important and indispensable in
dustrial districts of West Germany
The representatives OF the parties
who participated In the cabinet de
liberations agreed unanimously that
the people as q wllolc world neither
4lli-ieFsstasIg iIpg aFp-GS . ssx oee
come, and that therefore there was
no alternative except to sign under
protest, . st1sk 500 od'
A dispatch of yesterdays date from
Weimar says: aali- 9A
The German cabinet voted early
Sunday morning to reject the allied
terms folcthe renewal of the arrnistlct
and take the chances OF an allied mil
itary advance being ordered After
consultation with the party leaders
however. the decision was changed
and on Sunday night orders. were is
sued that the armistce be signed,
THE Germans, as their sentiment
is reflected here, consider this th,
most humiliatlng surrender they have
made to the Entente. Two points il
particular were objected to by tht
government"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
RADIO CONTROLLED CRAFT
invention Of Hammond May q,
Purchased by Government.

Washington. Feb. 15.-Army and
navy experts have reported the de-
vice of John Hays Hammond, Jr.,
for radio control of surface craft to
be sent laden with explosives against
enemy ships. success, and predict
similar results with submerged craft
showing above water only wireless
antennae. fl-sl III.
Results of tests were made public
at Washington yesterday in connec-
ton with the new fortihcations ap.
propriation bill, which carries $417,
coo for construction Of an expert
mental submerged boat. t.......
Secretary Baker wrote the House
appropriation committee, which Is
cons idering the bill. that the joint
army and navy board was convinced
of the practicability OF the control
Of the surface craft and added that
there also had been demonstrations
Of the possibility Of the control to a
craft. completely submerged, except
for an air intake pipe.
Before finally deciding on the pur
chase OF the patents for S750,000
the board desires further experiment
with the submerged craft and Z
change in law for the experiments Ii
necessary to permit building so as tC
make success certain before pur
chase.
Construction OF the submerged
craft, which will be about so fee
long, by seven feet in diameter, vii
take two years, according to Mr.
Hammond, who told The committed
he has spent 10 years and 100000 OF
his invention.
There is no question Whatever a
to the ability to control with grea
accuracy the torpedo or carrier, wha
ever kind 1t is" said a letter 0
Maj-Gen. +. w. Coe. a member of th'
board, so long as IL is a surfac,
vessel or has any antemas above th'
water, by direct radio waves, eithe'
from shore or from aeroplanc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
BREST NOT FIT FOR
CATTLE TO LIVE IN
U. s. Senator Owen, Who Has Been
Abroad, Says Many Soldiers
Have Meancholia.

New York, Feb l7.-Uniied States
Senator Robert L. Owen Of Oklaho.
ma. who for the past two months has
been studying the reconstruction
program of the American army in
France, upon his arrival here today
on the steamship Rotterdam. said:
'Brest Is not 1T for cattle TO live In
Many Of the soldiers there are suf.
fering from malancholia, he said, add
ing that he would recommend to the
Senate military affairs committee
that they be brought home as soon
as possible and that every care be
given them when they return
There are "too many men and too
few ships" at the deharkatlon camp.
according to Senator Owen. who said
that "despondency and homesick-
nes are evident wherever one goes
Officers are doing their best. he arl
ded. ito cope with the many difficult
ties One major committed suicide
while was there. The government
must organize enjoyment bureaus
and yet these soldiers back into civil
| life as quickly as possible
Senator Owen, whp Is chairman OF
the Senate committee on banking
and currency, and bis wife. who ac.
companied him. attributed much OF
The trouble to bad Climatic condi-
tions" IN Drest IhtS said they saw
American soldiers standing in rs'r'
and mud for hours waiting 10 get
their food. Personally they cou.,
not themselves find even a place tc
sleep
Senator owen said the first thing
he intended doing was to inform See
rotary Baker of the conditions and
the attitude OF the soldiers on com
ing home from what he called "a hor
rible hole He declared that ANY
/ one who advocates a correction oi
conditions is doing, a charitable an(
| Christian work. They told us over
there Brest is better than II was
Ii that is so, God help those who
were there when it was worse" Mrs
Owen confirmed all her husband:
/ statements
The senator and Mrs owen. whC
had visited London, Paris and Mad
rid. and who contemplated remain
ing longer abroad. cut their visi
short, they said. in order that the!
might report to Washington the de
plorable conditions existing a
Bresi
THE trouble over there, said Mrs
owen, is that they order men from
place to place when some of then
are unfit to travel Thousands -
these men have been pied into Brcs
before tho ships are ready to TAX,
them abroad. II is rainy and mist.
there almost every day, the men ar
crazy to get home. and the weathe
conditions aggravate their home
sickness
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19

observing Decoration or Memorial
day
10. 10 see II the town will vote
to appoint a committee to investigate
and report at the next annual meet
INK. or sooner If called upon, tho
necessity and probable costs of a
town hall with town officers therein
aud to report Herewith, recommends
tions rs to the site and size of such
q building and the purposes for which
Il should be built,
90 To see If the Town School
District will vote to pay higher rate
of tuition than $50 per school year
per pupil for the High School in.
struction which 1t furnishes its ad-
yanced pupils as required by law,
and II 1t so votes to fix said rate.
FL To transact any other bust
ness found necessary when met
Dated at Bennington VI, this lSth
day of February, 1919.
J. o. Burt,
W. Il. White,
Selectmen OF the Town Of Benning
tor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
ELECTION OFFICIALS
Appointments for Coming Election
Made by Board Of Civil Authority

The board of civil authority has
made the following appointments OF
officials to serve at the coming March
election.
Ballot clerks. ]. NJ Ayers, J, l..
Griswold, X. o. Estes, c. Roy Donley,
Edward Shanahan. John A. Connolly
r. J. Murphy. Raymond Qunlan
Assisting clerks, Edward Whitney
Thomas Meredith, Joseph Mulligan
NJ. j. Roche, II. f. lockwood. Richard
Hurley. Henry Camp, Louis Bergeron
The board of civil authority will
hold its next meeting to correct the
check list on March and D. m.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY upRoAR
Enthusiastic Support Of Erzebereer in
His Reply

Weimar, Tuesday 49, Matthias Erze.
berger, German armistice commits
sionor, in reply to an attack in the
national assembly, told many things
about the armistice, either unknown
or only suspected by his hearers. One
Of these was the unqualified state
ment that Prince Macmillan ap-
preached the Entente because of the
iron oompulsion military command
for peace.
II was Won Hindenberg who de-
manded the signing of the first terms
He declared the House was in an up
roar lor an hour, first protesting
against the attack and then In en-
thusiaslic support of Erzberger
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
GRANITE PLANTS
MAY BE TIED UP
Barre Granite Manufacturers Associ.
alton Vote to Close Their Quarries
Unless Strikers Return to Work


Barre, Feb. 1S.--If the Granite Cut.
ters' International association, fails
to order back to work its men now on
strike at Quincy and other points OF
lesser consequence on or before
Thursday, Feb 90 the manufactur.
ers of the Barre district, and all other
granite manufacturing points. win
suspend operations on March l until
such time as a way may be found to
make agreements binding on. both
union and manufacturers.
This proposed action Is brought
about by the alleged breaking of a
five-year wage agreement by the cut
ters at Quincy and the unsuccessful
attempt on the part Of employers
there to induce them to return to
WORT.
Failure Of the men to return to
work at Quincy by Feb. 20 will not
only close all the granite manufactur-
ing plants in Barre. Montpelier,
Northfield, Waterbury and other
places in the Barre granite belt, but
will automatically c'ose the quarries
through lack of orders for stock
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
LEGISLATURE
REv|VES BILLS
ONCE KILLED
But Little Change in Dog
Legislation
MULE BILL ADVANCED
Bill to Make Earlier Assessment and
Collection Of Poll Taxes Is
Passed by House

Montpelier, Feb. 19.--The appoint
ment of Stoddard Bates for state
highway commissioner was approved
by the senate this morning.
The senate proposal OF amendment
of the board Of control bin was not
concurred in.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
TO KNIT FOR ResueEEs
Garments Needed for Those Made
pestltuts by War,

!.
The Bennington county chapter OF
the American Red Cross Is in receipt
OF instructions for the resumption sof
knitting which was to a large axtent
discontinued With the ending OF hos
tllities The garments 20 be- made in
the future are not for the 5oldiers
and sailors but arc for tho refugees
in Belgium and France.
Children's stoclsings, chiidrcn'o
mulllers and sweators and wqmen's
shawls are badly needed In, the war
stricken districts and Il is expected
that the considerable number OF
these garments viii be made BY the
Red Cross Workers in the United
States The local branch has "a cuff
fcidnt quantity of yarn, furnished by
the government, TO meet all dbinahds.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
VERDICT OF $4,000
Arthur |. Miller Won Suit Against
Central Vermont Railroad,

BrattleboNo, Feb, 17.-After being
out three hours, jury returned n
verdict at G O'Clock Saturday night
for the plaintiff to recover $4,000 in
the suit of Arthur l.. Miller Of Ver-
non against the Central Vermont
Railway company The suit, which
had been on trial before Judge Fred
NJ. Butler and jury in the Wlndham
county court since Tuesday, was
brought to recover $4,000 for dam
ages and injuries sustained whor
Mr.. Miller and his farm tractor were
run into by a Central Vermont trair
ut the Vernon crossing in April, 1917
The defendant appealed to the su
preme court.