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Newspaper
Grand Forks Herald
Location
Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1917
Page
6
Local items include a Wingness of Union township assessment returns to County Auditor Hans Anderson, the sale of a Diamond Point cottage, a shoe shop acquisition by Nick Kamplin, and various business visits. Band plans Red Cross benefit. Masons to gather. tax board meetings announced. exemp tion claims and notices to taxpayers.
Paris June 18 two hundred seventy volunteers left American field service headquarters for the front. Total with the French armies and training camps rise to about 1,500 men serving in the American ambulance corps within the army zone.
Mass meeting called for Friday at the Commercial club rooms to discuss enlistment for the regular army and National Guard. Ten local men already joined. total quota 28 by July 4, with draft starting after July 10. Open discussion planned. Patriotic speeches expected. local recruits to be enlisted under guidance of Sergeant M. E. Coomler.
Bert M. Coomler of the Twenty-Eighth Infantry, stationed at Grand Forks, was ordered to report to Minneapolis for orders and left last evening. He said his regiment is in New York City and may be called to France soon. Private Balcher, nearby in charge, loses plans for Northwestern Minnesota tour as withdrawals begin. Draft plans for a new selective army may start after July 10.
East Grand Forks Commercial club Mallory Farm club and Key West Farmers club executives meet in the Commercial club Tooms to set a picnic date for next month. July 4 is expected as the big celebration with speeches and sports planned. farm clubs in nearby areas have yet to report.
Crookston district court opens the June term before Judge William Watte with 65 grand jury indictments and 111 civil cases on the docket. Many cases expected to be continued to December due to farm work. Jurors listed include Leo Braden East Grand Forks P J Dahlberg Sanderville Jerry Driscoll Sullivan C O Engum Knute S EB Erickson Esther Ole A Flom King Ole Hoff East Grand Forks Thom G Hogenson Garden Oscar Holseth Crookston Carl Johnson Keystone L W Johnson Bertram Ed Lanctot Crookston William Leatos.
East Grand Forks may form a local baseball team as enthusiasts plan backing from business men. Prospective players are being lined up and a ball park on the outskirts will be repaired for home games. A meeting of enthusiasts may be held next week to organize. Miss Theresa Thoreson, secretary of the Civil Service Examining Board, leaves Thursday for Langton to conduct an examination.
Recruiting at the East Grand Forks station for the United States army remained brisk this morning when two additional men were enlisted and sent to Duluth en route to Jefferson Barracks Missouri for training. The men were Joseph H. Licktelg of East Grand Forks and Harry Meyers of Argyle Minnesota. A number of applicants at the station declared their intention of leaving later in the week. I Kingman of this city left for St Paul to attend to business matters.
A local event outline names principal speakers William Gunness and Miss Edith Geddes with a committee in charge. It lists entertainment, Sparta activities, water supply, ticketing by Edward Clint and G Chalmers, a cream stand run by Ted Will and others, and notes an auction postponed due to bad roads.
Plans complete for Friday church picnic at Gabriel Chalmers grove. Dr W C Wilson will play bagpipes with speeches and sports featured. Rev Fr Drysdale expected to attend.
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