Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 24, 1918, Page 7

[ i e l e 00 BIC WORK IN " OSTEND DISTRICT (Engineers Speedily Reconstruct ; Roads and Bridges Wrecked by Shell. ISOLDIERS WORK IN THE RAIN Correspondent Describes Trip to Os \ tend—Finds Roads Once Badly Torn by Shells Almost as Good as New. American Press Headquarters, Brit- ¥sh Front.—We had an impressive fl- RED CROSS SENDS HELP TO CZECHO-SLOVAK TROOPS (By United Press.) . Viadivostok, Nov. 19. (By Mail.)— Czecho-Slovak ~soldiers in Siberia have learned of the arrival here of articles of warm clothing by the tens of thousands—the gift of the Amer- ican Red Cross. An American transport unloaded 75,000 sweaters, 260,000 pairs of socks, the cloth for 50,000 overcoats and other garments. And—within a week—two Amer. ican Red Cross sanitary trains were steaming out of Vladivostok to far away Omsk, bearing part of the sup- plies. Aftér delivering the clothing, the trains will be used to.transport wounded soldiers from the fighting line to hospitals to be opened at Omsk, Cheliabinsk, and Irkutsk. Bach train had twenty-three cars, {ncluding one fitted up as an operat- ing room and another as a dentists” office. 'On each train were six phy- siclans a dentist, six American Red Cross nurses, seventy-six orderlies Justration today of the accomplish-|.,4 siretcher bearers, besides phar- ments of the engineers in this war|mgcists, operating when we drove into Ostend. The chief of the American mission|- lat Belgian headquarters had warned ps dramatically against an attempt to make the trip. At least three days would be required, he sald. The roads|¢pe Russians room. assistants and cobblers. The American Red Cross has made good in Vladivostok, and is starting along the same lines elsewhere in Siberia. The efficiency of the Red Cross workers wins the respect of and Czechs, while were torn up by shells and mines.and | pearts are won by Sister Patterson, eongested with troops. Yesterday a |Sister.Chrapovitsky and other nurses, light car had taken twelve hours to|Miss Patterson’s brother is flag lieu- make twenty miles. But ‘we started | tenant on the Brooklyn, so all call out and had as smooth a road as any | her sister. bouleyard in the middle West for the kentire” distance. There were several places where we had to make detours through villages, and as the dozens of bridges across the canal near Ostend were all blown up we had to driveion ebout five miles to a temporary bridge. We averaged about thirty mlles‘.;;'_n labor hour. % I 8oldiers Work In Rain. Most of the road was kept up by British labor battalions, excepting the pection near Christel, through the aw- ROADS.TO PROSPERITY ARE 'MUTILATED SOLDIERS: HAS STARTED SCHOOLS| | (By United Press.) New York, Dec. 24.—How France, with the aid of benevolent Ameri- cans, is making it possible for men mutilated in the war to earn good livihoods and be ' independent of charity, was told here today by Ber- Inard J. Shoninger, former president of the American Chamber of Com- merce in Paris. He is in America for a brief stay. 5 Shoninger, as president of the Union of Foreign Colonies of France had much to do with starting the sohools for mutilated soldiers. He says about 1,700,000 Frenchmen were severely ¢rippled in the war. “Schools were started throughout France for these cripples while the first of the men were waiting for their artificial limbs to be fitted,” said Shoninger. < #We tried as far as possible to have the man returned to his former sphere of activities if "his physical condition would permit. Often he felt that he could mot return to his former occupation. One example of this is a tailor whose right arm was amputated. We talked him into try- ing to learn to sew with his left hand. After four weeks he could make a pair of trousers, in two months he made a suit of clothes and in three months he returned to Al- BEING PLANNED IN ILLINOIS|giers, to reopen the tailor shop that (By United Press.) Springfleld, IlL, Dec. 24.—Tllinois is going to “kill two birds with one stone” by taking care of its surplus resulting from the war's end and. at the same time bnilding a $60,000,000 system of hard roads, State leaders forsaw that the end of the war would create a labor sur- plus. At the same time there was an agitation on foot for a statewide sys- Rul Flanders swamps, where Belgian|tem of hard roads. poldiers worked incessantly in a driv- The two propositions were com- Ing rain. We heard they had worked | bined in a hard road bill and passed mll night without rest, and matic had their operations with pick and shovel become that they did not stop to look up when our speeding car threw slimy mire all over them. For 80 auto- | by the last general assembly. The legislative act immediately was re- ceived with favor because it not only was planned to solve Illinois’ after- the-war labor problem but at the same time satisfy the demand of n camp they used the long lines of | thousands of autoists, farmers and German pill-box forts. we saw about twenty of these squat At one place | manufaéturers. The proposition was planned be- ehambers, with walls three feet thick |fore the voters at the November elec- and made of concrete, re-enforced |tions and was adopted with but little with steel pipes. Direct shell hits ap- parently bounced harmlessly off these forts. The twenty pill boxes in sight were in a straight row, and behind them were a half-dozen larger ones to protect the rear. When we had passed the desolate waste of water, mud and swamp reeds and got into other lowlands that had been drained and tiled we saw more pill boxes in a reserve line, A Bel- gian peasant was - using one as & chicken house, and the low apertures for machine guns Jent themselves readily as entrances and exits for the fowls. Descendants of these chickens ghould be in the old family home for a thousand years hence, or, say, a mil- lion years. Pill boxes are something that will stand almost everlasting age. The scores of drainage slulces across the roads had all been covered with temporary bridges by the Belglan en- gineers following up the German de- stroyers, These bridges and culverts are not as neat and workmanlike as the ones the British and Amerleans build, but they hold the traflie, and that is the important thing just now. ‘Through the suburbs of Ostend we passed’ cheering Belgians dressed for church, The people were so prayer- fully grateful to the British that they did not seem to mind the mud we spat- gered all over them. Many of them ran off the road behind trees, and from their mud screen shouted greet- ings to the English. As the extraor- dinary squirt up to first floors of houses many of the people, learning from . experi- !tion, and the fees charged for bio- Flanders mud would even | War opposition. It is planned to construct approxi- mately 4,600 miles of hard roads touching every county in the state. The division of highways now is lay- ing plans for the opening of work probably next spring or as soon thereafter as labor and material con- ditions warrant. MORE WAR HISTORIES. Dallas, Tex., Dec. 24.—Perpetua- tion of the record of herolc service rendered by American women in win- ning of the world war, and founda- tion of a hugh industrial home for orphaned-children -of men who made the supreme sacrifice, is the dual ob- jective of ‘a plan launched here by Texas clubwomen. The plan, fostered by Mrs. W. P. Hobby, wife of the governor, Mrs, Lipscomb Nervell, Beaumont, Tex., state agent of the D. A, R., and Mrs, Charles R. Shapard, Port Arthur, Tex., originator of the project, con- templates publication of a volume of war history in each state in which will be depicted the part played by the women of each respective state in the war. From the proceeds of the publica- graphical sketches, it is estimated a fund of $1,000,000 will be realized. This sum will be devoted to the build- ing of a war orphans’ home for train- ing and education of children of Americans who gave their lives in the war. Publication of the first volume-— covering Texas women'’s part in the —ig to be rushed, and prelimin- ary work already has been begun on "Volumes detailing war work of th; ence, had taken to second storles, from | women of Oklahoma, Arkansas an which they clapped thelr hands and |Louisiana will follow in the order waved flags, The only damage we saw | mentioned. in Ostend was the wreckage of the marine and railway stations.and the shattered glass In bufldings 'on the sen front, due to the air concussions from The P o e ciiney at the Newton house, 710 America av- enue, last night was the cause of British monitors pounding the retreat- | ., nding the fire siren. No damage. ing enemy. Ruined by Shell and Bomb. The plers leading out Into the sea |AS U-boat and destroyer base. The from the harbor basin showed effects | Vindictive made it impossible for siz- of British shells and bombs, and near | able ships to get into Ostend, and the the end of the pier was the gallant old | Germans, just before the retreat, tried Vindictive, after {ts magnificent part|to complete the work by sinking a in the Zeebrugge bottling-up exploit, | mail ship alongside the Vindictive, avhere she served as a boarding ship However, there is still room at high and carried the greatsuperstructure to| tide for small relief ships and barges. permit British marines to climb on the Zeebrugge mole, had been filled with concrete and sent [n to block Ostend| the Rarbor, e In fact, we saw a converted trawler of the American Red Cross already in as well as many similar British ships. DOINGS OF THE VAN LOONS T KNITTING WooL. WHERE |S “THAT ' ‘oF THE oFFICE { To Go AND BUY THAT L) JUST HAD 3 l backifit fails. The genuine baxhas a Red tog THEN WHEN he had closed when the war started. “We graduated from our schools alone, over five thousand for all of whom were found situations. obtained a . generous: ‘amount -of We' money from America in. the very beginning. Most of it through the influence of Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, chairman of Ameérican Committee,; and it was due to her efforts ‘that several millions of francs were. sent to.France. It was Mrs, Baylies who interested Mr. Edward T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia, who founded one of our schools and has turned” the money over annually to it since 1915, amounting to about $75,000 a year for the running of that school alone. “These are not small schools, but regular institutions comprising sev- eral buildings, for example, we teach all trades that would be used in any small country town or village, such as those of cobbler, carpenter, cabi- net- maker, the work of the handy man about town, and repairer of locks. For those who are unable to learn these trades we have schools| for teaching typewriting and steno- graphy, English and French. Our teachers are persons who have been mutilated in the war. % “Then we have a wonderful far: school fifteen miles outside of Paris, a model American farm of over one hundred acres where we teach farm- ing of every kind, from planting and harvesting to catching rabbits and|.omfortable again, ‘preparing the skins.” STARVATION STALKS - AUSTRIAN PEOPLE (By United Press.) 4 Vienna, Dec. 24.—Many Austrians are dying of starvation and at least 200,000 more will starve during the winter unless food is sent immedi- ately, according to Col. Sumner Hays, chief of the British Red Cross mis- sion, in a report issued today. Paper Conservation Not New. The Chinese have an ancient custom, old when Europe was young, and based upon thelx respect for learning, ob- serves Robert L. McElroy of the Na: tional Security league. They never allow paper which contains written symbols' to litter the streets or fields. Chinese mothers train thefr children to deposit all such scraps of paper in hd plcturesque little bufldings which dot'the temple gardens. “The wrath of heaven falls upon those who disre- gard this duty” is a lesson carried ip each tiny Chinese heart. Look out for Span- ish Influenza. At the first sign of a cold take Q“-(:‘t CASCARA £ QUININE L) Pom® in 24 hours—relieves grip with Mr. Hill's picture. At All Drug Stores. 1 WENT | TEN MINVUTE S BEFORE THE STORES CLOoSEED SO |\ STARTED To RUN “THROUGH THS WHEN cALLING 1 RUN oM QROWDED STRESTS SUDDENL HEARD PEOPLE. B HIND “STOP THIER! ANYWAY WhHEN SOMEONE- —dd _ THE BEMIBJI DAILY PIONEER 8 Dog Flesh Is Valu s at $125 Per Pound £ Seattle, Wash.—Dog flesh val- & ued at $125 a pound is the sub- Ject of a suit In the superior court here. % ¢ “Champion Impy,” a Maltese ¢ with a gross weight of eight pounds, is. val at $1,000, ac- cording to al n in a com- & plaint on file, He is declared & : ‘thgionly English champion of his breed in Amer- fca. 5 The complainants declare they i & left the dog with the defendants ¥ for treatment in June, 1918, and i3 & now, although the animal: is % cured, the champion is withheld g from his rigthful owners. Laying Out Residence Districts. Employment of taste in the laying] out of new residence districts need not _be expensive. It Is, In the highest sense, economical. It is possible to get far more attractive and beautiful homes at the prices we now pay for monotony and ugliness and frequently ‘for’ unsgnitary” dwellings. What 18 needed is to plan for these things as carefully as the manufacturer plans his factory or the rallroad manager his system of tracks, 5 : Valuable Books Found. Sharon, Pa.—In moving Thiel col- tege library at Greenville to another building many rare and almost price- less books of Latin and Greek text were found. One book was printed by . Zell at Cologne in 1478, a Virgils ‘Aeneld was printed in-1501 and one in! 1508. A history of Reme, priuted by Andrew Welcher in 1586 at Frankfort and a German religious work, printed in 1594, are in a good state of preser- vation. Among the other. volumes it on frou-bound Bible. ; A e AL e ' Keep Baby Comfortable | There is an old grandmother’s say- ing that “A well baby never cries.” This cannot be accepted literally, of course. ‘Most of the crying of babies can be attributed, however, to discomfort of some sort. A baby’s skin is extremely tender. 1t is quickly irritated by conditions which would have no effect upon the tougher skin of an adult. ¢ Next time baby cries or frets, ex- amine it catefully for redness and chafing, and werever they are found sprinkle gently with 20 Mule Team Powdered Roric. The frritation will subside very quickly and baby will be 20 Mule Team Borie Is better for such purposes than the many talcum or baby powders, and less expensive. Your druggist sells 20 Mule Team Powdered Boric. —— MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE. ‘Whereas, default has been made in}] the conditions of that certain mortgage, dated February 20th, 1917, dul executed and delivered by Ituth M. and Arthur _N. Gould, her hu&band, mort- gagors, to Security State Bank of Be- midji, ‘a corporation, mortgagee, and with a power of sale therein contained, the Reg- county, State of Minnesota, February, 10th, 1917, at 4 o’clock p. m, in Book| 32 of Mortgages, on page 283, whichi said default consists in this, that sald mortgagors failed to pay installments of ‘principal as it became due, amounting to thirteen hundred fifty ($13850.00) Fould ister of dollars. Pursuant to the power of sale con- tained in sald mortgage, the mortgagee hereby elects and does hereby declare the whole principal sum an interest amounting - to the . sum . of ~twenty- three hundred ninety-four and 57-10 338894457) dollars, due; and which is ue and payable at the date hereof. therefore, notice is hereby giv- en, that by virtue of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, and pur- suant to the statute in such case made and. provided, the sald mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises duetrlbed mI and conveyed by said mortgage: ¥ z: Lots thirteen (13) and fourteen (14), in_.block, five (5), Second addition " to ‘according to the plat thereo: d of record in the office of the Now, ments and°appurtenances; h Will be made. by. tha sherift of said Bel. trami county at the east front door o the court house, in the City of Bemidjl, in said county and state, on the first day of February, 1919, at 2 o'clock p. m., public vendue, to the of that day, at ighest bidder for cash, to said debt ht' :efint -three hundred ninety-four and ($2894.67) dollars, an interest, and the taxe: ofnouiny, on’ said premises, dollars, attorney's fees, s stipulated in and by said mort- e in case of foreclosure, and the &‘a’%urlamanu allowed by law; subject to redemption at any time within one ;u.rx‘rrom the day of sale, as provided y_law. Dated November 35th, A. D. 1918, te OBECF!]%ITY T Mortgagee. JOH{{ F. GtIBB]O‘lg;B. A‘&:fin, filnn. 6Fri 1220-124 BoUT ¢o THE STATION WHEN A LADY CAME RUNNING K UP, ALL OUT OF BREATH, flinfluenza and after that—PNEUMONIA! STATE BANK| ° VOTES ARE CANVASSED. The votes cast in the recent water @} works election were canvassed last night at the council meeting; and the y figures given in The Pioneer's elec~ . tion report compared absolutely with the report of the official canvass. a word per issue, when paid cash {n®advance. No ad will be run for les~ than 10c per lssue. Ads charged on our books cost one cent a word:]per fssue. No ads run for less than Z5c. ; s FOR SALS OPEN NOSTRILS! END . A COLD-OR CATARRH & How To Get Relief When Head $ ~"and Nose are Stuffed Up. - $ Count fifty! Your cold in head or catarrh disappears. Your clogged - nostrils will open, the air passages of your head will clear and you can breathe freely. No more snuffling, hawking, mucaus discharge, dryness or headache; - no struggling for breath at night. 2 Get 'a ‘sinall bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist and apply a little of this fragrant antiseptic cream in your nostrils. It penetrates through every air passage of the head, soothing and healing the swol- len or inflamed mucous. membrane, giving you instant relief. Head colds and catarrh yield like magic. Don’t stay stuffed-up and miserable. Re- lief is sure. FOR SALE — Mahogany piano in good condition for cash or Liberty bonds. - Phone 29 or 290. 3d1227 e e FOR SALE OR'TRADE—Fine grade Guernsey heifer, 2 years old, fresh June 14; 'fine Holstein heifer, 2 years, eligible to registration; will sell or trade towards cow. E. J. Willits.”? 9% 341226 B =SS AR B R FOR SALE--48 acres; lot 1, section 35, township 147, range 34; price $1,000. . M., Moes, 1128 Chestnut Ave., Mlm}gflpolis, Minn. 1041-4 HAVE CASH S¢ustomer for 4 or & room house—act quick. Also have cash man for improved 80 to 160 acre farm:; B: J. Willits, 407 Bel- trami Ave 1041231 SO FALLDnE, wou nallt wiore| P QR the world's deliveranes ladder. Call at Pioneer otllige. from the menace of militar- 23tf|istic autocracy; for the bless- > - lings of freedom in store for the ‘? ’ millions who are now for the ; first time to enjoy thepg; for 1_:he WANTED—éeézndhand wood heat- dawn of a n?w day mn Wh.wh er. Phone 698, Yo% 2a1224 |democracy will be:the ruling > = principle of all nations and in WANTED-—Position as stenographer | which men will wi together - and bookkeeper. Have had ex-|. RS 74 perience {n caurt work. Write 514 |11 the spirit of service and not selfishness— e Mississippi Ave. 241224 WANTEDCleaning girl, by house-| JR'OR the valor of “our troops kecper b :‘:" Hotel Mari ot/X which has made possible — = |this splendid victory for the WAN’ILEDEGMEMQ finefia}dhgfie; Right; for the supreme sacri- srovic;: Mys. B B Kenied, fice. which has been made by Doud avenue. Phone 730. I139tf 4y 00 who will not return; for the noble fortitude of those at home who mourn them— FOR ANY kind of .a real estate deal, see or write B. J. Willits, 407 Bel- trami Ave., new location. 1213tf OR the wise guidance of our President and the support of his counselors, here and abroad; for the magnificent part played, often inconspicu- ously and without reward, by our business men and the huge - army of civilians without whose aid victory would have been impossible; and for the pa- triotic spirit of those who have labored with hand and brain . in the mines, the fields, -and our: vast industries, with re- doubled energy, to furnish the ginews ‘of war to those at the front— Let us give Thanks ' Smith-Robinson Lumber Co, One Board ,’or‘ a Carload ““Minnesota FOR RENT A A AT NI NI NI NI NININI TN FOR RENT-—Six room house; 615 Irvine Ave. A. Klein. 3d1227 FOR RENT:—Modern office rooms. O’Leary-Bowser Bldg. 1041228 FOR RENT—One office room in the Security Bank. 129¢f 'iuNnERTALING H. N. M’KEE, Funeral Director PHONE 178-W or R . Bemidji 'First Aid in Influenza Prevention At the fi:‘rst sign of a cold-see that the bowels are open. Colds cannot g2in a start if the system is free from food-waste. When the bowels are inactive and food-waste lies in the system it ferments, creating dangerous poisons which are ab- sorbed into-the blood. Then the kidneys, lungs and skin pores are not equal to the task of getting this poison out of the system and disease gets a quick start. ; ~ Colds Precede Influenza The colds that follow blood sluggishness, due to the pois- ons created by constipation, leaves the body an easy prey of Ask any doctor what precaution you should take against colds, influenza and pneumonia and he will tell you to take a thoro laxative: But pills, tablets and vegetable compounds are only partly: effective, Your Mggist has a product called SALINOS that is a thoro laxative which will completely empty the entire digestive tract, including the lower bowels, where most. poisons are formed. : SALINOS is really pleasant to take, pleasant in taste and pleasant in action. : You can get a bottle of SALINOS for a.Quarter (larger sizes, Fifty cents and a Dollar). Be Safé! ".Get It Today! Use It Tomorrow Morning. | BuT HE 1S_SPINN IN THE MOST BEAUTIFV YARN YOU EVER. ¢ CAN IMAGINE, Defective