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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-30
the'infectedi organs to the Veterinarian,

the'infectedi organs to the veterinarian
laboratory for diagnosis.
Fortunately no cholera has. appear
ed in the county this year but an OUT
break Of blackleg occurred in one
community. Rlackleg aggressioh,sthe
serum used for vaccination. was Sc
cured and 450 head of cattle were
vaccinated under the direction OF the
agent, It il. believed there will be no
further immediate. spread Of the dis
ease as practically all stock within
a radius of three miles Of the infected
farms were v~accinated.
Grasshoppers. !
A slight amount OF damage was
done in the county by srasshoppers.
the purchase Of 200 pQunds1of arsenic
and the necessary accompanying In
gradients to make up the poisoned
bait. IThjsawas mixed by the county
agent and distributed to Ahe farmers
in widely separated parts Of the
county IS ~, Il
Onicc Work. y
The following Information indicate
in a measure the interest that has
the work of the farm bureau: Il
Number of news articles given: out
for publication, 1873. ~ ns,t
Number Of letters written pertain.
ing to farming in Grand Forks coun-
ty, S,152. s
Number of circular letters pertain.
ing to farm operations mailed to
farmers. of the county. 2O,677.Jf
Number of men calling at farm bu-
eau office for farm information, l.
42s.
Number Of farmers visited on their
farms is in answer to a definite call
397. (Signed)
- Rex f. Willard.
Cou:,ty Agent.
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Success and Importance Of
Farm Bureau IS Demon
strated in Report Of Cqun-
u Agent Rex Willard to
tie Board of Directors in
Annual Session a Few
Days Ago.

sTha lroaad range Of work done by
tkeaGrnud Forks county farm bureau
was shown in the annual report of
County Agent Rex f.. Willard. given
ut the annual meeting, of the board OF
directors Of the bureau at the court
ho.ss a few days ago. 81
The work has all been lone under
the ~. ettton, of Rex 10: Willard,
county agent. who rendered his .reslg-
nation a. the last meeting OF the d.
rtetors to take effect december l.
The .eomplete report is published be-
ln9 ii, response to " resolution Of the
st~is<-scfs requesting its complete pub
llcatfbn.
Ine report covering the work done
By the farm bureau from cen Der
l, 1915, to October 81. 1919. follows:
& The, work, Of the farm bureau has
been conducted under ten"projects of
greater or less magnitude during the
wear. These may be mentioned. az
follows:
list. Marketing. including the pur-
chase of improved seeds.
End. Farm labor.
3rd. Farmers meetings.
:4th. Farm accounts.
5th. Weed eradication.
9Th. Farm bureau news.
eth. Fairs and shows.
9th. Livestock importations.
lN9th. Animal diseases.
10th. Boys and girls club work."
"A large number OF minor matters
have received attention Of the farm
bureau but are not Of sufficient mag
nitude to be considered as separate
projects.
Marketing.
Marketing has received considera-
hle attention both through organiza-
lions and individually. The Niagara
Shawnee Livestock Shippers associa-
A stock shippers association was or
ganized at Emerado and potato ware
houses and shipping associations were
organized at Gilby and East Grand
Forks. A farmers club for co-opera-
tive buying and selling was organized
ats Niagara (Grand Valley. Two
other farmers organizations are un-
der process of formation. 49,
Markets were found for severa,
hundred carloads of potatoes in the
southern states and the information
was furnished the various associa'
tiOns.
"A large amount Of local exchange
business was transacted both individ
nally and through the farm burea,
news. Orders were placed directl!
through the farm bureau for abou
six Ions of sweet. clover iced and57h
tons Of bromus seed. Also, ne farm
bureau handled about 800 bushels o
seed corn, Beside these Items a yer.
largo number of miscellaneous arti
Giles were handled. including timothy
various grains and other seeds.
One transaction involving two car
loads of Kubanka durum wheat wa
OF measurable and direct value; thi
SEED was planted on about 1.4oo acre
which produced an average Of s.
bushels Der acre. This indicates a ne
E4in of slightly over bushels pc
acre In favor of Kubanka wheat an
animal diseases. A number Of call
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:, '..NE'tH " :|,.s' \. .>i.tI L. t9F n. ~" -
Although the song has been pub
a short time. thousands Of
i>copies have been sold. : There is a
slight. advance over the popular mu-
sic. This1canS be had for photograph
and player piano. T.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-16

seryation post. From there one could
see e1l there was to see IN that sec
tor. | didn't see anything wonderful
about it. A few days later Lieuten'
ant Brown (my reconnaissance Off,
cer) saw Hun aeroplane fall, after
a fight with Americans, and he went
out where the Hun observer fell and
cut several buttons off his coat for
souvenirs.
The afternoon of the day that the
armistice took effect we were allowed
to leave our position with only guard
over the guns and go back to little
village to rest. Believe me | rested.
A few days later we were ordered to
Pont-a-mousson, which is about half
way between Metz and Nancy, and
here we are now.
We are billeted in private houses
(no one living in them, and are very
comfortable. The only thing is now
when do we go homer
/ think that you are entirely cor
rect in saying that the boys will run
things when they return to the States.
II is no more than right that they
should, and / think that they will be
better qualified to take things in hand
than they would have been had they
not had this experience. AS for my
self, know it has been a great expe'
rience. / was one of the first to en-,
list, and had the pleasure of sending
several thousand shells over into Ger
many, so do not feel at all ashamed.
Sincerely,
CLIFFORD.
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Drives Big Bay Team

Percy G.. LOOMS writes entertaining
" to his mother of life at Camp Shelby
Dear mother:
have been to a free movie tonight
at the Y and now have stopped at the
X. c.. hall / just came from the can
teen. was transferred Tuesday to the
Recruit Supply company. L am driving
a big bay team and like my job. L
hauled two loads of bread this fore
noon and Ice this afternoon. All L DO
is drive and the other fellows load and
unload so l have a snap, sit on the
seat from the time we leave the correl
until we get back.
have done some washing but can
send it to a laundry. if l want to.
had a piece of peach pie and a piece
of reisin pie yesterday. We get supper
about five o'clock and then | am at
liberty no chores. There are about
5000 horses in camp and heaps OF
mules and lots of negros. | was at the
the Y the last two nights, at lecture
Thursday and an impersOnator last
evening. The last was great. The fell
low could mimic anything from Abe
Lincoln to a child or an old maid.
These entertainments are always free.
I see quite lot of the camp on my job
now
l received five letters in the last
two days, two Thursday and three on
Friday We had pears for supper. We
get enough to eat. l guess [ will not
get any drilling. / would like about
two or three weeks at it. Tell every
one hello. How is grandma? Write the
news. It is sad about Cecil. 1 got my
pay in cash, $3.50 Thursday. We can
buy candy apples, pie, cake and almost
anything we want at the canteen.
There is a boy in my tent by the
name of Hansen from Wisconsin.
Answer soon.
PERCY G. LOOMS
Company, Recruit Depot,
Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss,
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the chance to write this letter, will be-,
go back to my outfit most any day
now. / am feeling fine and dandy.
All | got from my wound is little
scar on my chin. We have nice
weather here now, only awful cold
nights, but we have plenty of blankets
and so we sleep nice and warm. ! was
in hopes of eating Christmas dinner
at home but l don't think that l will
but it will not be only a few months
longer as the division l am in is one OF
those that goes to Germany. l don't
think they will stay there long. How
is every body around there. bet you
folks had high old time when the
war was over. We did over here. Do
you folks hear from Lucille? have not
had any mail for two months since l
went to the front the last time. Then
went to the hospital. did not ex-
pect to stay there only few days or
/ would have had sent it sent to me.
would not have been there so long if
the war was not over When I get
back to my company will certainly
get bunch of it. How is mother and
Bert? Tell mother the first meal l
want is a good big dish of potatoe
dumplings. Tell her to be ready for
that. Some OF the boys are standing
around the fire. We are going to
have a band here this afternoon,
When l was at the front l thought a
few times that l was not going to get
back, 1 sure had some close shaves. l
see by paper that we can write more
and tell here we are. l wrote the
name Of this place at the start and if
you can pronounce it you can do better
than l can. But writing can tell
things better than l can write them.
] had lots of post cards, views that /
bought of places l have been in but I
left them with the rest of my stuff at
the company and / don't know If l viii
get all of my stuff again or not.
hope SO as l had some souviners. Tell
mother that will write to her again
as soon as | can. When I get with my
outfit then l can get all the paper and
envelopes and time to write that
want and l hope that will get there
before very long. Well, dad, can't
think of any thing more to write SO |
must close for this time, so good bye.
hoping to see you soon, l am ais ever
your most loving son.
PVT. r. J. CANFIELD
co. 119 Machine Gun Bn. A. e. F.
A. p. o. 734.
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From a Wounded Soldier

George Garfield, Thorp, Wis, mas
received a letter from his son, Royal
7. Garfield, who was wounded at the
front in France He is a member or
Co. A., II Machine Gun Bn. He was
wounded October IS, being in the
trenches for II days. He will have
scar on his chin but his relatives are
thankful it is no worse. The letter
follows:
November "a, 1913
a Cheminonleville, France,
Dear Father and All:
Each man is to send Christmas
letter to their father and write it On
the "a. It is lucky that am where
/ am. I have not been able to write
for a couple of weeks. could get no
envelopes while / was at the hospital
and the last week /. have been in
company and moving most every day,
marching and riding on railroads. But
we have been at this place few days
and I borrowed some envelopes from
one of the boys. don't want to lose
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Saw the President

The enclosed letter was written to
Mrs. Herbert Westenhaver Of Logan
vile by her brother Private Frank
H. King. Co. D LOG Engineers A EFF
Brest, France,
December Is, 1918.
Dear Libbie:
Haven't had any word from you
this week but will adhere to my
habit and write.
| am fine and hope this finds you
all as well. Still hate this hole and
it's foulness, and the weather ,"nuf
sed." Haven't seen old Sol since last
Sunday and then only for few
minutes.
| had the pleasure of seeing our
big mani President WILSON, Friday.
We are working within a quarter or
a mfle from where he landed.
The first boat of the escort came
into the harbor about / p. m.-the
pride of the united States; some gun.
boats. ! counted ten. / don't know If
they were all U. S. or not. as they
were too far out. There sure was
some noise as the coast defense guns
doomed out their tribute. / imagined
1t was something like the front.
The French had the pier all dec
Grated and had some personages to
meet the president. I surely breathed
the air with the mighty for few
minutes. Our Red Cross was repre-
scented too.
President Wilson rode in an open
car unattended by guards, but our
boys were lined along the roads for
miles. Some sight! AS he drove by
how he was cheered. I've never heard
it's like. The walls, etc, were crowded
every housetop filled, every place
where a person could cling was
occupied. Every ship in the harbor,
too, was decorated l count it a red
letter day in my life.
l hope you are getting my letters
and are writing too.
FRANK H. KING
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O o o Q o o o o o X
TUESDAY o
( o o o o o o o. 0 o }

First Class Private David Fellows OF
the Walter Reed hospital at Washing
ton, d. c., has returned to Lodi after
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
H. H. Gottschall.
A carload of Fordsons have arrived
at the Ford Garage and R. Wheeler
left today for Fond du Lac to arrange
for another shipment.
E. B. Trimpey, the photographer,
has received word from Pennsylvania
that his sister had died as a result of
an attack of the influenza Other mem
bers of the family are also i'll.
Mrs. JOS. F. Hennegan, former or
ganist at the AL. Ringing theatre, will
leave for Chicago in few days. She
will then visit, Cincinnati, her home
town, to settle some small business az
fairs. Mrs. Hennegan intends to re-
turn to Baraboo and remain with her
son Edward until the return of her
husband, who is doing X. C. war work.
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Towle have gone
to Madison to attend the convention
Of the state horticultural society. Mrs.
Toole will read paper at the conven-
ton. Others going to attend the con-
vention are A. X. Bassett, l.. b. Irish
and Carl Baer, who have an exhibit OF
apples. Carl Hoffman, Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. III. Palmer and William Toole, Sr..
will also attend.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-16
Baraboo Soldier Visits Brother S
Grave

A letter received from Louis P. &c.
rou, formerly an engineer on the
Northwestern road, who enlisted from
Baraboo in the tank corps. states that
his battalion reached the front in the
drive on Metz two days before the
armistice was signed. BY that time
the Yanks were driving the Germans
SO hard that the tanks were not of
great assistance, as they could not
keep up with the fleeing Huns.
Mr.. Gerou found the grave of his
younger brother, who was among the
first American soldiers to reach
France, and who fell at Chateau
Thierry, where he was buried
tice and obituary later.
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now at Joppecourt, where the Ger
mans have been for four years and
have just left. We are just south of
Luxembourg and expect to move into
Luxembourg very soon. There is a sign
in the center of the town, put up by
the inhabitants, that reads: Amour,
Honneur ct Glorie A nos Liberateurs, -
which means, Love, Honor and Glory
to our Liberateurs" The people sure
think the Yanks are there, and take
it from me, they are. We surely have
paid our debt to France; the only
home. That is all the American SOL
der is thinking about now.
He feels that he has done his bit
and wants to get back to Gods coun-
try. While the argument was still un-
settled, every man was thinking of
doing all he could to get it over so
he could go home. There is no way
Of telling when we will return, but I
hope soon. am sending you several
Of our Christmas cards. It is the en-
blem of the 166th aero squadron and
represents daylight bombing. Our
squadron also has a newspaper. l
am sending you one in this letter.
expect you will get this about Christ
mas. You will have to accept it as a
Christmas letter.
This is the first time we have been
allowed to write anything as to where
we are located, and it seems good.
Wishing you merry Christmas
and happy New Year.
Your son,
1ST CLASS SGT. CLAUDE l.. AMES.
166th Aero Squadron, Am E. F.
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Sees Air Raid

r. F. TrusseM has received the fol-
lowing letter from his brother Orson,
who is in France:
Renigny, France.
December 5, 1918.
Dear Brother and Sister:
Your letter came several days ago.
Am always glad to hear from you. Re-
She is just fine. Hope you folks are
all we'll and have not had the "fu"
yet. 1 am supposed to be sick-have
been a patient for nearly week now.
But feel fine. Just had little trou-
BILE with my kidneys and they thought
I was sick. l am able to eat a pound
of candy they issued us last night. 1t
has been trying to rain the last, few
days, but has not made much head
way. 1t is not cold here. How is
the weather at home? Have you
heard from Howard since he landed
here? I wrote him, but have not had
an answer yet. How are all the
folks? Tell them all hello for me.
l left the states August 81 from
Hoboken, N j., sailed on the U. S. S.
Levithan, the largest ship in the
world. 1t used tn be the Vaterland
before the war. We were only seven
days on the way across. The boat
carried over a thousand men. We
dropped anchor September Z, just
about shutdown, and unloaded the
morning of the 8th. It was a nice
trip and I am anxious to make it back
again. We landed at Brest, France;
were there about ten days, then went
to LIE Mans; stayed there three days
and went to Baglls-sur-Meuse, just a
little village. / was there two or
three weeks and then came to Rem
igny. We are only few hours ride
from Verdun now. We always trav-
eled in box cars, and they are only
about one-third as large as the ones
in the states. We were standing still
most of the time. This town has
been all blown to pieces. The Ger
mans captured it in 1914, but only
held it six days. I saw one air raid
on a town about Is miles from here.
It took place early one evening about
two weeks before the war stopped. /
have been doing hospital work ever
since I landed in France. At Baglls
we just helped out in a base hospital.
I saw quite few boys that were
wounded. Our company ran the hos
pital here at Renigny for about a
month. We had most all sick cases
here. Some were gassed. Now the
hospital is about empty.
Well, Dick, it won't be long now
until I can write you from the states.
Il think we will be home some time
this winter. Write soon.
Love from your brother,
PVT. G. o. TRUSSELL.
Evac Hospital No. Is.
American E. F..
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-16

The following letter was received
from William Smith, better known in
Baraboo as William Wallucks. Mr..
Smith enlisted in the Canadian High
landers because he could not get into
the American army:
Belgium, November 16, 1918.
Dear Mr.. Kingsford:
| thought l would write you and the
school a few lines to let you know
how 1 am getting along. l am well so
far. / am in Belgium now; have been
since the first of November. l had
my last scrap last Sunday-the day
before the armistice was signed.
came through all right after being on
fighting patrol all day and night.
put about SO hours in at time. A
few of our fellows got "blighties" and
a few "Nappo." That was too bad
for them, it being the last day. The
place was a village outside of Mons,
where we got held up all day until
night. That night the Huns beat it.
We crossed lot of marsh and wire.
The next morning, Monday We went
into and through Mons. There was
no firing after Monday. / guess Fritz
got Just what he was looking for, all
right. The places here are fine, as
they aren't blown to pieces like the
French places, as it has been all open
all open warfare. Fritz did not have
time to get his artillery up-what was
not captured. l have be>9n in France
with my battalion the second time.
I am rather glad that did come back.
Next month, December 4, will be
eighteen years old by civil age and Fl
by the age I enlisted under. l think
by the looks of things now I'll have
my discharge and be home before
next June. I've done some tall hiking
this time. 1t was marching every day.
chasing Heines all the time. Have
worn my boots out in four weeks. Am
going on boot parade to the quarter
masters store tomorrow to get an
other before doing any more hiking.
We have been billeted in houses most
Of the way. 1t is fine billet that l
am in today. Have fine bed to sleep
in. The eats are fine so far-lots
better than those received in England
at the Reserve. l have had lot Of
fine experiences while in France, and
I guess everybody is glad the war is
stopped, as / am. Was getting tired
of being shot at all the time Old
Fritz didn't have my number in this
war. Guess he thought 1t was too
large. It's just year ago today that
| left Toronto for Halifax and then
for England. l can wear two blue
chevrons and one gold wound stripe.
The weather here Is fine-couldnt
be better as long as it stays. Well,
I think this is all the news for the
present.
One of your old pupils,
WILLIAM SMITH.
Co. C, No. 3O3OOS2.
goth Bait, Canadian.
p. S. This lis the goth. Forgot to
mail while in Mons. / am ON the
march to the Rhine and Germany.
am on picket all the way. Am on
duty tonight.
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In the Alps
Mobile Hospital No. 3.

Claude L. Ames writes to his moth
err, Mrs. B. F. Ames, La Valle, from
Joppecourt, France, of his trip in the
Alps mountains, as follows:
Dear Folks:
Have just returned from leave and
I surely had a good time. l was right
in the middle Of the Alps mountains
and it sure was grand there. When
/ got back | found that our squadron
had moved up to the front and was
in the army of occupation, or third
army. Only the best that the United
States had over here are in the third
army, and that is why we are here.
Our record shows 100 % efficiency, so
guess that is about as good as you
can get. The 166th squadron does
not take Off hats to anyone, because
we delivered the goods. Every time
our machines went over they hit their
objective.
We were stationed at Cattenck,
Yorkshire, England, and came from
there to France. We crossed the
channel the night of August IL and
landed at LIE Havre, France. We
! then went to ST. Maxient and were
there for four days. From there we
went to Romorautin. We were there
two days and went to Delouze, from
there to Colombeyles Bellies. and
from there to Amanty, whre we were
attached to the first day lombard
ment group. We then moved up near
er to the front, near Ligny- en-Bar-
rois. There is where. we made our
good record. Now we are in the
third army and are moving up right
behind the retreating Boche. We are