The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1918, Page 6

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS HE GOT IMMEDIATE RE- P| LEASE! MY YES! 4 "By Blosser KETOU Ir / FRECKLES! ee as | DEMAND THAT HI) You ARREST HIM HES A_NUISANCE To THIS [_NEISHBOR HOOD! F. { TELL ouR Cook! JUST You WAIT CAL A Gone A SQUIRREL FOOD THE “ROBIN” WAS AN EARLY FISH AFTER THE WORM By Ahern CHESTNUT CHARLIE By Blosser YesTIvAY- tH’ TRAP WILL PRovE IT! AS WE ALL KNOW A ROBINK MAKES HiS HOME ON TH’ FIRST TREE \T LANDS ON ~ 50 IT WILL RETURN 10 THAT YOUNG HALL “Tree ! GEORGE, \T GRIEVES ME “To THINKS You DOLUBTED MY WORD ~ NESTIDAY ON SEEIN A ROBINK — 50 Come AN’ SEE HOW IN EARNEST 1 AM To Prove \T ! SPECIES KNOWN AS" FLYING eG oer Youu. WAIT TILL jue TH’ Fine. FATHEAD! (LL GET EVEN WITH AFL AINT. THE GOOF WHO. SPENT ALL WINTER BUILDING A MOTOR BOAT IN THE . BASEMENT OF HIS. HOUSE THEN: HAD To RAISE THE HOUSE IN ORDER TO ASK 1 Sore GENTLEMAN QUBSTION AND - = ILL GW ME ANY THE CORRECT ANGWE \N A MOMENTS NOTICE! WAAT IS (7 THAT NEVER USES ITS YEETH FoR EATING DURDOSES 7 es & Nou WHERE'S VER ANSWER - THE MOMENT'S UP? A COMB: es BOSTON AMERICANS IN HOT SPRING Ss Hot ‘Springs, Ar March 12.— Twenty-five members of the Boston American league club arrived here to day, and -started. spring training at (Majestic Park. An advance guard of the Brooklyn Nationals alsou arrived during the day and began practice at 4 Whittington Park, RELEASE PEIRCY, PITCHER New York, N. Y,, March 12.—Wil- liam Piercy, a pitcher who came to the New York Americans from the Pa- cifie coast league two years ago was released today to the St, Paul club of Fs the American association, Piercy 4 played with the Toledo clu) of the American association last season. MIKE O'DOWD, ENGINEER i St, Paul Middleweight Scrapper; Among First to Enlist Hg Camp Dodge, Ia., Maren 12.—Mike O'Dowd of St. Paul, claimant of the middleweight championship of the world is now learning the whys and wherefors of army life here as a pri- vate in the. 313th Engineers, under Col, R.-P. Howell q O'Dowd was.among the 15,000 na- | tional army. men who arrived here in the final increment of the first dratt from ‘Minnesota.and lowa. He did not elaim exemption. ¥ Like other recent arrivals, O'Lowd is prohibited from leaving the comp- any area for-a period: of two weeks or until the effects of the vaccination have become permanent, KILBANE OUT A CAR ; Cleveland, March 12. — Police are searching for a sévén-passenger auto- | mobile, belonging to Johnny KilDane, | the featherweight champion, which was stolen while the boxer, with his | wife, and, some friends, was dining at a local hotel. Kilbane, boxing, instruc- tor at Camp Sherman, was here as-, sisting in the presentation of a motion picture film for the benelit of the eamp mess fund... “fl TINKER TO BARNSTORM | id . , Columbus, O.; (March 12.—Joe Tink- | er, manager of the Columbus club of} the American association, is planning | a series of exhibition games with the| Toled6 club at. ‘Camp Sherman, the, cantoninent at Chillicothe, O. Neither | Columbus nor Toledo will train away} from. hame.this season. . Tinker. be-; lieves the games will. prove a goad at- traction for the ‘soldiers. BANDIT CAPTORS ‘OF ST.PAUL MAN “ARE SURROUNDED! Peking, Marc) 13.—The -where-} bouts: of the “Ainérican © engineers, | Pursell_ang.Nyl, has begn.learned and | thie bandits who kidnapped them last | week near Yeh Sien, inthe province 6£; Hunan, have, been Surrounded by Chinese, soldiers, 4A Pekin: dispatch dated March 8 re-| inspect a pro- I, formerly: of St: Paul. N: fieved to- be Go A» .Kyle, formerly Of Portland, Ore. | vaseball. j z ted thé. capture of thit engineers >; +} disposing of a vital wartime problem. pocceeee: pecnennsaccocenweneceseceqeac enn ne ee eeen enna ee nnn enema nanannn mene ee eee eee ee eee eee eee eee | THOUSA Baseball and Golf Are Not For Hoppe CHAMPION CAN'T ENDANGER HIS $100,000 HANDS weccecowoo eco eon ooo e ono nee oo eno oee: Hoppe cartt enjay these S sport Solin champion billiardist of the world, was almost a champion golfer, A few years ago Hoppe was .a good ball! player. He wasn't a big leaguer by any means, but he was a first rate am- ateur . But. Hoppe plays no more golf. or} The insurance company which in- sured Hoppe’s hands for $100,000 de- THE WAR DEPARTMENT HAS FALLEN Co cathe seball were dan- BE s. They wanted no brok ea fingers or strained tendons. Broken fingers and uined iendons would be mighty expensive. So the comnany notified Hoppe that he must cut ‘base- ‘bal} and golf from his curriculum. Hoppe trains constantly to keep in condition. He a miniature gymnasium in his trunks and his ex- ercises are as regular as his meals. Deprived of hase .all, golf and hand ,ed by the presence of the uniform, (unghie BACK ON LADIES FOR PROTECTION Washington, March 13.-—-The War Department has established a woman police force. H With more than million and a half men_already in khaki, and «millions ore, awaiting the call to the colors, 1 the Department has turned to the so-| called weaker sex for assistance in Thousands of young women have gone to the vicinity of the military| camps. To see-that these girls are protected from dangers, the Depart- ment’s Commission on Training Camp: Activities has appointed _ fifty-five’ women deputy sheriffs to do try th : the supervision of especially establish- ed Girls’ Protective Bureaus, ke Banga are plesk Hae aways are restored totheir and amusement places are scrutinized carefully. The work offers an oppor: tunity for the officer to exercis cretion, sympathy, and a knowledg ‘of human nature that particularly are her own. These women are, trained sociologi- cal workers: and peculiarly cquip- ped for efficient service. eir duti are intensely personal in charac and are concerned chiefly, with indi-! parents, with the military authorities and lo- cal police, they wear no uniform, badge or distinguishing mark of any kind. “Often,” says Miss ‘Maude,, Miner, chairman of the’ Committee on Pro- tective Work for Girls, “the women of (he camps who are ‘attract- is- who is disposed to r ; obeyed." viduals. Although co-operating closely | NAVY DEPARTMENT VINDICATED Protective; officers find girls in. the vicially oe cece cece en cece eee enn nee een e enn nee nn nnn nnn n nnn mw en nnn enon ocoooons But he is allowed to: do these — the slightest. injury to either hand, especially the wonderful left with ite amusement he makes. his~ bridges might confine — hin which : Indian clubs, dumb bells and other mean that his days as champion of gymnasium apparatus. |the world were over. Hoppe’s hands may ‘be considered | ery day Hoppe’s hands undergo the most valuable in the sporting a careful course of treatment. They world. They earn him betw $20,000 are oathed three times in a specially and $50,000 a year and have made him| prepared lotion and are massaged. a rich man. Hoppe has a special set of finger exer- It is no wonder that [oppe cheer-| cises to keep his “educated hands” in fully pays his insurance premiums for | top form all the time, Some of these are girls who have: i aniwornl_Advertigomants and who, ar-| a MANDAN NEWS. Te 7 camp cides with insuf nt ‘ I ‘ funds; others are runaways from their MORTON MAY HAVE. homes in nearby cities and country , towns. A girl resident of the. town, TO SEND ONLY * 2 esist discipline, is _ aken {o her home by the woman of- ficer and her mother warned of her danger, The officers also visit nearby amusement places to discover young girls who seem to need protection and to see that local ordinances are Question as to Number of Cred- its Received on Draft Under the. present state of condi tions it would appear that Morton county will only, have to send 25 men !in the call of the state's quota of 2, 600, the remainder of the quota of men not already sent to caip have enlisted since the last contingent was gent to camp. , Lee, Nichols, county Vauditor, said yesterday. afterncon-a Conduct of War Approved wy Investi- gating Committee. Washington, March 12,—The navy. department's conduct, of the war was, i vindicated in a report ‘made public to: day by the, house committee that, hat been investiguitngrabeimubsoet i f the, basic, qyota..was required Ao! "tunnels be Ptan| ter, being adyiaed of the now call that ton county will be obliged to send “Parley vous Francais?” | “Oui, oui, ‘Monsieur; je can parley a | little bit.” | Such conversation is nowadays fre- ; quently overheard in the cantonments, of the middle west since.so many f soldier ‘boys are learn- French in the army Y. es. It isn't always the sian or academic . rench, but iit is a very acceptadle brand of American French and one that will certainly work when the boy go “ov- er there” and line up in the trenches next the “poilus.” There are at present more than 10,- 000 soldiers studying French. in the | central military department under Y.) M CG. A. auspices, according to figures | announced by the National War | ork council. Approximately 500 French classes are in session at stat- ed periods each week in the ‘six big cantonments of the millde west alone. Camp Grant recently had the larg- est enrollment, with 3.000 officers and men in, 51 classes. Camp Custer and ; Camp Sherman each have had enroll- ments throughout the winter totalling more than 2,500, At one time Camp Custer had 89 classes in operation and | Camp ‘Sherman had 100. Roth Camp Dodge and Camp Taylor Y, iM. C,-A.s.are promoting an active iwork in French, with enrollments in excess of 1,000 eac hand more than “09 classes, For many of the French classes, it is. stated, teachers have been found among the soldiers in the jranks. The Camp Custer classes in the past winter have had 50 such teachers. Aa Camp Grant, of.a total of, 36 volunteer teachers, only four were civilians: The work at Camp Funston is going’ steadily forward af- ter a period of quarantine and hun- dreds of officers and. men are enrolled in the classes. Teaching talent from Kansas City, Omaha and other. cities has been secured for the Funston work, A vt Camp Custer the ¥, M,C. A, has conducted 26 French classes for of- ficers of the division. Teachers for these classes have come from she Uni- U March 29 y just what as regards the ensuing and it is impossi) will be expected. BEN SHIMANSKY TO LEAD. ELKS’ HERD Popular Mandan Man Elected Exalted Ruler of Hello Bills ‘At the annual elestioa-of officers of the [Elks lodge held a‘ the |lks 1 Monday evening Ren Shimansky was elected exalted ruver. ‘The officers elected for the ensuing term are as follows: ‘H, L. Henke. esteemed lead- ing knight; 1. C, Iverson, os ed loyal knight; G. I, Soinm, sec 'Y; M. J.. Knight, es:esned— lecturing ‘| knight; J. H. Noakes, treasurer; E. B. McGuiness, tiler; H.R wit: sentative to the Grand Lodge; L. H. Connolly, alternate; Ed Morck and Wm. McDonald, trustees. Attorney J. F. Sullivan went to |Stanton yesterday on legal business. ea Attorney C. F. Kelsch went to Stan- ton. yesterday afternoon to attend court. i ‘Mrs. Harry Weicks and Mrs. R, visiting with friends. W. G. Shortridge ‘of Flasher, : ‘Mandan yesterday looking at- ter” professional ' biisiness’ affairs. ie fat pera i NDS OF SOLDIER BOYS. | | LEARN FRENCH IN WAR ¥ HUTS zing, repre: | Fotter of Timmer were in Manden} _ The Royal Nelgbhors.xi will ve. ¢ 4 b ty be ty of ‘Michigan, ,varidus, colleges of.the state. and from, the public schools or. private colleges of Battle Creek, Lansing and other cities, At Camp Grant, two Y. M. C. A. secretar- jies are giving 25.hours a week to the French classes. for the Officers’ Train- ing School.’ At Camp, Dodge, some of the officers allow nothing but French to be, spoken at mess, Ohio State and Ohio Wesleyan,.Uni- versities have contributed members of their teaching staffs for French class- es in the camps, one of these, Prof. -C. A. Bruce, having been given ja five nionths” leave of a sence to:.promote French work. Prof. O. K, Boring. of Ohio Wesleyan also has spent, some time in Camp Sherman during the winter. : The compilation shows a. growing work in French.classes at Camp Tay- lor where French officers and teachers have heen placed on the Y. M,C. A, educational program and are deliver- ing lectures to the men on the causes of the war, the geography of France and on curren events, The lectures usually precede the motion picture shows in.the Y..IM. C. 4. service huts. At mp ‘Dodge 36: French classes are conducted for 700 enlisted men and 18 are in operation for 450 offic- ers. The Y. M. C. A, here promotes a in French for 63 colored of- fice Normal classes, gre also pr | vided for the instruction of soldier- teachers, a Ih a number of instances, the state- ment shows, the Y: M. C. A, secre- tarles or the college professors whom they have secured to. direct their French work have written their, own text-books which have also been. ad- ‘opted for use in the classes conduct- | ed iby the military, At Camp Dodge the concert. method of teaching is said to be meeting with big results. In- struction is provided by means of stereoptican slides, first.. read in French tothe soldier audience , and then repeated in unison, The men en- | joy this form of -study,. it is. pointed out, more than they do recitation: in the classes. ADDR Shop Saturday afternoon for\the ben- j efit of the Red Cross, The sale will ‘ commence-at one o'clock and continue all afternoon. || Orrin McGrath, well known Glen. ; Ulin resident, was in Mandan on ousi- ness yesterday, 1 last evening. — The remains of Dr. Raridall Thom)- son, deceased physician of Killdae:, were taken to Fargo yesterday mera- ing tgr burial. He, refurned home home .io Hebron yesterday afternoon jafter having spent the day in Mandan on legal business matters, | | Attorney S. P., Hadpern reéturned i Lob Clemens, mail _ clerk, ‘scar | Fields, express messenger, C. A, Rolke, former Mandanites, have gone o Fort Logan, Colo., where they ..ave so sent to ‘report for military serv- ice, Word has heen received. {hat Ger- trude Kerinelly who on Friday last un- dlerwent a successful operation at El- gin, Ill, is getting along nicely but it. will be several days before she will he able to leave the hospital. CAPSULE i, MIDY } }