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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
1
New draft rules require all registered men not yet certified for service to answer a lengthy sixteen page questionnaire. Questionnaires go to five percent of registrants daily from December 15 and must be returned within seven days. A Legal Advisory Board will assist free of charge, and the local board will classify registrants into five classes based on the answers.
Washington reports estimate the United States can deploy 400000 fighting troops in France by March 1 including regulars and national guards. The movement will continue, limited only by transport capacity, with fronts planned at 10 to 20 miles of active or quiet sector. Russian events may shift tonnage but training remains essential before frontline deployment.
A summary of four German assurances to the United States from 1915 to 1916. The declarations promise non injurious treatment of American ships in legitimate trade, submarine warning before sinking, and adherence to international law in naval warfare.
An Otter Tail County farmer paid $16 for a Nonpartisan League membership with a refund promise if dissatisfied. After his letters requesting repayment went unanswered, he wrote to the Fergus Falls Journal and his money was returned by the next mail. The note suggests press influence and advertising value. The piece also notes a Women’s Foreign Missionary Society meeting with Mrs. Pagel on Tuesday afternoon December 1 at 2 30, inviting all interested women.
In World's Work Poultney Bigelow criticizes Prussian boasts and propaganda. He argues the war has united Boer and Briton, moved Canada and Australia to bloodshed, and exposed German pretensions while stressing cost and the need to restore American dignity and manhood.
In Emmens county 290 of 2 201 families signed food pledge cards and in Linton 43 signed. The Federal Food Administration warns of mandatory measures if voluntary cooperation fails and reminds that cards can be mailed postage free or picked up at the Record office.
The Central Division Recruiting Inspector based in Kansas City says 800 of 20 000 Apprentice Seamen to be recruited nationwide by February 22 are expected from North Dakota and Minnesota. Pay starts at 32.60 a month during training with immediate raise after completion. After December 15 enlistments from those registered for the Army Draft require Local Board certificates showing low need for current quotas.
Mrs. Pagel coordinates clothing and shoe donations for the My America League. Donors send worn but usable items which will be shipped to France to aid women there, with the league organizing reuse and waste conservation. Subscribe for the Record.
A countywide list honors men who raised and donated funds for the Y M C A drive. The Emmons county totals show numerous township and range contributors, with a final total of 3004.55 dollars remitted to headquarters.
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