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4 be ——— « | + wae \ ie © Ve « i J ‘ uw ' 1 \ tea i cr. i is Verely wounded, :: willi arrive: heind ou Peter Reid, .ifrom’ Minneapolis nr atight: cadvising: that he would: leave nthe | First: * those which. took plaice while he WEDNESDAY, FEB, 12, 1919. JOINT ‘SESSION _ FORHONEST ABE a Joins With House in Pro- gram in Latter’ Chamber Commemorating Lincoln. Both houses convened at 2 o'clock this afternoon and then adjourned to the house chamber, where a, patriotic Program in commemoration of Abra- ham Lincoln was given. The floor of the house, the rotunda and the gal- leries were filled wits spectators. The principal address was given by Rey. John Flint of Bismarck, and H A. Ball of Grafton, doorkeeper of the house, and a veteran of the Civil war, gave some personal reminis- ences of Lincoln. The governor and other. state ofti- ‘elals occupied the speaker’s desk. Speaker L. L. Stair presided. At the rear was stationed Paul Fjelde'’s heau- tiful bust of Lincoln, which he pre- sented to North Dakota two ) “0 and which was dedicated with a Lin- coln day program’ Februs 12, 1917. The speaker’s desk was wreathed with flags and bunting, and cat flowers and potted plants added to the attrac- tive effect. The musical numbers were exceptionally good. M Steel's _ren- dition of Tosti’s “Good ” called for an encore, and the mixed quartet com- posed of Miss Steele, Mrs. Loomis and Messrs. Halvorson and Humphreys was roundly applauded upon each of its numbers, Little tots from the second grade of the Bismarck public schools made a real hit with their piping little voices in several songs which were given with unusual spirt, and O’Connor’s orches- tra was at its best in a series of con- cert numbers which included songs of Ciyil war times and plaintive old negro melodies especially fitting for the o sion, Program Tonight The following Teague. program will be Bh ven iat. Patterson’s. hall tonight: gen) solo—Senator FE. .D. Ki Address—Attorney, General, William Lange ‘Address——Governor Lynn J. Frazier, Song—Senator 0. Ettestad. Miss Aldyth Ward. npartisan quartet, Dr. FE. F. Lodd. . Fred Hanson. . Tow nley. Hl r Thomas Mills. NEIL REID, BRAVE BISMARCK LAD, TO BE HOME TUESDAY Neil Reid, a veteran of Co, A, a-hero of the battlefield’ of ‘Cantigny, after more; than: a year’s: actual: service. in the trenches, where he was twivé |se- Now, Bhutrsday noon: Private Reid: wired his ‘ast! ifor, dome. this evening on No. 3.0 MH has, ‘with ‘him «Private Thompson,: Hazelton. bay. who‘also: went out with Co. A of thé old Fighting First; and who ..will: spend several’ days: jin Bis- umarck:with Private'Reid. > $ boy Teft “with the air Ago Mast fall Tr 8to"he vent ‘nied? (ne: Tatton he was transferréd) to division, with whi ‘served at the battle of Cantigny! fo; many ‘North’ Dakota’ ‘boys 4 guished “themelves, nd in ev portant succeeding engagement. e New a their in the hospital bei uate was among those present who d bit. STORY OF “SHOULDER ARMS" PROVES DIFFI- CULT TO PRODUCE The comedy situations and humorous incidents in “Shoulder Arms,” the sec- ond million dolar Chaplin production, to be shown at the Auditorium theater for the last time tonight were the most difficult to develop and produce of any that the famous screen comedian, has ever attempted, in, any of his pictures. ‘ According to his own explanation, he felt that he was Mterally. “treading on ‘thin ‘ice all the time.” Ina statement to the first national exhibitors’ circuit, distributors of his productions, he said: “Military life abounds with possibil- ities for humor. But. to picturize.any of them without. actually _ ridiculing traditions, method and purpose proved more than a task. I did not want to get effects which would reflect in the slightest degree upon the service, and still it was necessary to create. action “that would involye the ordinary daily events of a doughboy’s life, and make them appear really laughable. “To do this I decided that one cen- tral character—a typical ‘boob’ recruit —could provide the situations by his own stupidity and difficulty in mas- tering the principles of soldiering, and properly draw into the mix-ups repre- sentatives of every rank and branch of the service. This idea, carried out in ‘Shoulder Arms,’ brought the proper result, providing a score of novel situ- ations without detracting in the léast from the dignity of soldiery.” “TWIN BEDS” “Twin Reds,” Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo’s merry comedy which has made the whole world laugh, will be the attraction at the Auditorium on Thursday night. “Twin Beds” is said to be the funniest play ever written and _to be as tangled up as a ball of yard with which the festive kitten has played, but it isn’t one of those be- wildering things that make your head ache in unwinding it. It will bring tears to your eyes with the cleanest and most wholesome kind of humor and will make you gasp:with ecstacy over the fun. “Twin Beds” is a ra idly moving exposition of the difficul- ties that are encountered by dwellers in large fashionable, apartment houses who find the enforced neighborliness of these places not all to.their liking, and in‘their futile efforts to escape it, in- volve themselves ‘in endless difficul- ties. The great cast ‘and. production seer fri all thé larger cities of the mid- |. de-west and Pacific’ coast will be seen hel BISMARCK: DAILY- TRIRUNE WIPING OUT ALL? “TRACES OF WAR Thrifty French Already Cleaning Up Battle Ground to Plant Grain. TASK MOST DIFFICULT ONE Removieg of Barbed. Wire Entangle- ents Is No Easy Matter—Nar- row Gauge Railways Being Torn Up and Trenches Filled In, Paris.—Eradication of all traces of the 52 months’ war has already begun everywhere along the old stationary front which marked the line of the op- posing armies. since the inception of a war of, position. Barbed wire entanglements are he- ing torn:up; trenches are being filled in, ‘camouflage .is being taken down, narrow-gauge railways removed, and shell dumps and, other depots for .ma- terial being: transported away. This is the first time that any field fortifications have -been permitted to. he touched .by. the civilian population. Even after the Germans ‘had ‘ been driven: from the Chateau Thierry “re- yn south of the Marne. fo north of the, Vesle, the military authorittes -re- fused-to® perngié.: burbed wire to be). taken: vp or In‘ niost Cases this work is being done-by civillans, Kut everywhere with: ‘he welpase of; the- older. claxses of: “renclysoldters and the numerous -ré: ‘or nes—wounded discharged, from the’ here’ate enough men familly with Held works to auberise the re- mofai of théeni., Difficult Work. t 4s, noveasy matter for the novice jarbed Mire, and in places, rit of the Alsne, where the Thirty- second division fought) with perb ‘Tenth army und won elves ihe sobriquet of “The s of aeres; the belts being hun- dreds of yards in depth, This wire ack from September, 1914, and sty and dangerous to handle, nving to the presence of tetanus mi- crobes,. The newer “giant German the strands of which yarter oF an inch thick and which mistle with barbs, is equally hard’'to semove. The old wide trenches which were in vogue earlier in the war before the levelopment of the minenwerfe sacurate: plece of ‘ordnance, aré fillciny asitheir parapets hive} washed ‘away by rains and blasted bits of shelltire. ‘They are like. gi .litches, furrowing the earth In every “ree Whe | newer, narrower pnches, shored. with-timber and pro- led. avith duckboard floors are easier cofphin, “'Bhe thrifty French first pull mt the shoring. and ‘lét the rain act yin. e trenches’ for a couple of iweeks i time they invariably fart in, shovel ‘over. the top, smooth, No attempts are made to fill in the dugorts,; the -entrances: merely being bourded. .up -snd. covered over, In many ofthese. German dugotts there are infernal machines and man traps Hkely to explode when the first | per- von enters, Loose boards on the stairs or bitsyof string strete across the entrance set off explosiv In many other dugouts, there are corpses ot friends or foes, killed underground by bombs hurled down the exits. All roads in the zone Where the op- posing armies have swayed back and forth are lined with fox holes, as the American doughboys call the tiny shelter caves they are taught to dig with bayonets andzmess kits and which provide such.jvonderful shelter ugainst shrapnel. Everywhere ‘in. the belt of terrain marking’ the extreme limits of the passage ‘of the fighting troops there are endless rows of these fox, holes dug into the ‘ditches beside the ro: They tell theisflent tales uf bodies of troops on the/march spied out by enemy airplanes or captive bal: loons and caught under < concentrated fire by many batteries. Then the men are ordered to take cover, and since there is none to take they must im- provise their own shelter, Dig in Quickly. It is a remarkable sight to see how fast a soldier can dig a cave that will shelter his body with no implements but a bayonet and mess kit. They loosen the earth with the bayonet and scoop it out with the big, long-handled tin cup, sometimes working with the skillet in the other hand, Only light, Decauville railways are being taken up, all standard gauge lines which have been laid since the war remaining in position until such time as the administration determines what shall: be done with them. Few pieces of artillery remain in their emplacements, nearly all of those which were overlooked in capture dur- ‘ng attacks having been dragged out of their pits and placed in\the public square of the nearest French town o1 village. But there are still hundreds of thousands of live shells, hand grenades and millions of rounds of small arms dmmunition lying about everywhere. The earth is pitted with holes made by “duds” which may ex- plode the first time the farmer's plow strikes against them. Despite that, however, the thrifty French are cleaning up their country, preparing for the sowing of crops next spring. Pythians Tonight St. Elmo Lodge’ No. 4, Knights of here, embracing such prominent art-|Pythias, will hold an interesting mete- ie cadeer a ey S. Paul Veron. Ten William | ing at Castle hall this evening, when! Josephine|there will be work in the rank of} ck Clay, | esquire. Rerfreshments will -be Margaret sa cena May and |sefved, and a full atendance of, others. : knights is-urged. “Suvigny. region |x General | s the entanglements cover hun-{ are a} {from Stutsman’ v she WE HAVE A LARGE AND COMPLETE VALENT = RIGHT ON ONE MAN TAX BOARD. IS ANTICIPATED An interesting, fight on the one- man tax commission bill is anticipated ‘when this measure comes out on the floor of the house. The senate com- mittee on taxes and tax laws split six to five on this bill when it was re- ported out Tuesday, the five who signed the minority report standing for amending the bill to retain the three members of the present tax com- mission bill, while the’ majority stood for the one-man idea as presented by Roylance. Cahill, Et |, Hemmingsen, Pend- raser constituted the the minority were Oksendahl, Storstad while. Jacobsen, ind Blemany 2) majority, Mees, [ - CITY NEWS| “ | | 2 St. iMary’s Sewing Circle St. Mary's sewing circle will meet | at: the parish house, Rey. M. J. Hilt- | ner’s residence, at 2 o'clock Thursday ! afternoon instead of at the Knights of Columbus hall, the usual mecting pla age, Two Funerals Today Last rites ‘were. Held at St. ing for tHe late Mi: Mary on, yall chureh, were held for the late Rorkhart, of near Arnold. Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid ' A regular monthly meeting of the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid society will be held in the chapel at 2:30 Thurs- day afternoon, when all members are requested to be present to assist in the transaction of important business. fun Albert | Mrs. Pendray Here Mrs. Thomas Pendray of Jamestown slipped into the capitol unexpectedty yeste nd her solon husband first becam are of her presence here when the discovered ‘her in the back of, the; house, with a critical upon, him. Aft ndeman arefal [how he! retell Y “Mrs! Roe t to Speak Mrs, William E.-Roe.of Jametown | will speak at the ladi meeting on Thursday afternoon at: 4 o'clock ‘at! the Presbyterian church; Her subject | willbe ‘Womans’: Responsibility in} the New Era Movement.” The young} people; of the church will give a page- ant, Thurs vening at: 7:30: in the rch; parlors, when Mrs, Rose’ will also, speak,..Jt, is/hoped many.:will at tend, this, attractive.service: > While in the city Mrs. Roe will be the guest of Mrs. H. C. Postlethwaite. Barge Whistle Calls Birds. A striking example of wildbird In- telligence has been observed on the Panama canal In connection with the underwater blusting that is carried on there. A barge has been especially equipped for drilling blast holes below the water and depositing charges in them. When a blast is ready the craft moves off to a safe distance, and be- fore setting off the dynamite the barge whistle Is blown several times to warn all vessels in the vicinity. Instantly numbers of wild birds may be seen coming from all directions, says Popu- lar Mechanics Magazine, the reason beingthey,have learned that many dead and‘stunned fish rise to the sur- face of: the ‘water following each ex- plosion. To them this particular whistle is‘like a dinner gong. More femarkable still, they readily distin- guish between this whistle and others. Canal workmen and natives also share {n the harvest. 1, Don’t Get Tircd So Easy. In American Magazine an author says: “The thing that makes the ‘tired, business man’ tired is his belief that he is tired. Believe the contrary. There have been times when you work- ed all day and all night on a stretch. It did not kill you, “Work itself, as the modern busi- ness world is organized, eannot pos- sibly ‘tire out’ the man of average nor- mal health. If it could, Edison would have been dead at the age of thirty- five, Bell would never have produced the telephone. Henry Ford would not | be now a king of the automobile busi- ness, Herbert C. Hoover would not be controlling and directing the nation’s food supply today, Woodrow Wilson would be in a sanitarium, and Gen- eral Pershing would be taking a ‘rest cure’ instead of commanding Ameri- can soldiers in! France.” Effect of French Language. A writer in Scribner’s Magazine speculates at some length on the ef- fect the French language will have on our own ‘when the soldiers come back. He ‘says: “One of the-most prolific sources of new wo! in a language is an attempt to name new ideas. Amer- ican soldiers in France will absorb many new ideas from their contact with the French and British; there will be many new shades of meanings for ideas denoted by old words. To express these the men will inevitably adopt French words or use English words with a new shade of meaning. | I have not yet collected any examples. ; of this; but it must take place, and one who watches the literature that FEDERATED CREAMERIES OF NORTH DAKOTA CLOSE SUCCESSFUL MEET Dakota’s datry product state and through which plete co-opera may from the creu This morning Tep. Bri atshurg of the Hettinger ?Ad: mt lent of the The North Dakota Federated Cream- erles association closed a suce ‘ul meeting here this afternoon, after two days of well attended ons, featu with demonstrations of cream and bu ter, grading and testing and instructive | Si shop talks. In the butter:.scoring contest C. T. Madsen, buttermaker of the Maddock |* Co-operative creamery at Maddock, won the highest;number of ponts. NOTICE TO. RED The discussion was devoted princi- CROSS CANTEEN GIRLS pally to the need for improvement in After this date, all licensed workers the quality of butter manufactured in} who have made their applications this state and the working out of {been accepted for work, distributi within the 2» more. com- he procured Hing his experiences, First in quality These Shoes. Ne 1osgtod Dunn jaa Harr Spring lines. y “Gray: tunity this selling presents. Black leather, white trimmed, Louis heel, high top, long vamp, lace, $ 6. 5 0 formerly $10.00, at —Utz & Dunn A Black Patent Foxing, Pearl Grey top, Louis heel, long vamp, button, rmerly $10.00 $6.50 formerly $10.00, at Black Kid Foxing, White top, Louis heel, lace, —Harry Gray long vamp, formerly $10.00, at......, $6.50 An all Leather’ Grey Shoe, Louis heel, long vamp, button, formerly $9.00, at —Utz & Dunn Champagne Buck, Louis heel, high top, long vamp, lace, for- _merly $12.00, $7.98 i aan —Utz & Dunn “Brown top, Black Foxing, Louis heel; long vamp, lace, formerly : Senay $7.89 wna ‘Gray Our Mail: Order [ Our Mail-Order Dept. is ia | is in charge of an experienced clerk; satisfaction*assured. follows the war will see many exam- J ples, if they are not observed before.” | COWAN’S DRUG STORE —— iy SMV UU UTTALAVONANANAOAAAAUAUUUUUUY! ARS SHOE CLEARANCE Highest quality Shoes. at the Lowest price. design and workmans are taken from our regu ar: stock, consisting. of the pop pular Utz and. “Shoes, to make room for | Some very attractive prices throughout our entire store this week—especially in oe Dress Goods Department. ere] Webb Brothers|- ASSORTM NT OF. : INES to show passengers who are licensed members ot canteen service, ing through Bismarck, will wear the headgear of the Red Cross in order sui aera Miss Nielson has just sent from Chicago a large assortment of Spring Millinery of the famous Fisk make, which go on Sale today. NIELSEN'S MILLINERY Ip. t yaniv shot The price we have placed on them are moving them fast. Seeing them one can better realize what an unusual oppor- Grey top, Black Kid Foxing, Louis heel, long vamp, formerly $ 4 2 5 $9.00, at Two tables of Suede Leather and Black Kid Shoes. formerly selling at 98 oS prices up to $6.00, at Cc : Anall Buck, Louis heel, high top, long vamp, button, formerly $12.00, at —Utz & Dunn Light Brown, Louis heel, high top, long vamp, : lace, formerly $7 98 a $12.50, at —Utz & Dunn White top, Black Kid Foxing, Louis heel, long . button, former] vamp, button, fo: ly $7.98 $12.00, at —Harry Gray Light Buck top, Black Kid vamp, Louis heel, high top, lace, formeny: _ $12.00, at An all leather, high top, Grey, Louis heel, long vamp, button shoe, formerly $8.00 $15.00, at —Utz & Dunn : A mediurh Grey, cloth top, Louis heel, long vamp, lace shoe, formerly $12.50, at $8.1 2 —Harry Gray