INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, APRIL 3, i919 PAW BIGHT YANKEE FIGHTS ii. Godson, cavalry, the military at* from Beaver township claimed the RAY AN DBEAVER taclie at the United States legation: CLUBS REORGANIZE right to the same, as they were :n "Before you leave Berne with the repatriated reality the original club. The club American prisoners I desire PROPAGANDA IN Interesting and Helpful Get-to-gether in town claimed the right to the io furnish you with this statement to A "Close-Up" a name as they were the one and only make record of your services while Meeting and Fine Social Tims prisoner of war in Germany. club in Ray. Mr. Abbott suggested Enjoyed PRISON CAMP "Captured on November 3, 1917, under Swift & Company's Profit of 2.04 that as the original club had moved circumstances which were absolately from Ray to Beaver township, they BY CORRESPONDENT beyond your control, your whole call themselves the Beaver Farmers' FROM ERICSBURG cents on each dollar of sales conduct from that time until your release Club, and as the club in town was in Decembep,_1.918, reflects crodit rather a community service club, We unexpectedly had the opportun upon yourself unci the regular army to Plucky Sergeant Defies Notorious they call themselves the Ray Community ity to attend a meeting of. the Ray which you belong. Von Tauscher. Club, but the Ray people "In Tuchel your conduct saved your Farmers' Club last Saturday night. comrades from the worst that that objected to that, on the ground that We stopped off at Ray on our way filthy hole inflicted. You orTr.nizsd" they were farmers and wanted to ae TELLS OF LIFE AT RASTATT thru to Kinmount and while waiting them and controlled them under great known as a Farmers' Club. Then to for the "Speed" to come thru, thot difficulties, nntl you even succeeded in make everything right and square we would go up and see how the wmmmmss forcing recognition from the German and "Jake on the corner" with every dance was progressing. When wc authorities. I shall report all I have body and make the meeting a complete Halyburton Finds Pro-Germans in 12.96% got up there we found the Farmers' learned in this case to the commander 85% success, someone made a motion Charge of Everything Within the Expenses Club in session, so we said "Here's in chief, and shall recommend you To Stock Raiser that the club at Beaver township be for a commission in the United States Prison Confines—Prisoners Organize our chance and in we went. There at army. I should be glad to have you called the Beaver Farmers' Club and and Force German Commander to were about forty persons present as an officer in any organization the one in town the Ray Farmers' Place Sergeant Halyburton in Charge when we first went in and before the might command." O Club, and the motion was carried. So. of Camp—Beat Them at Own Game. meeting was over there were about the meeting adjourned with everybody sixty-five there. Whether they were JOKES SCAHE3 PASSENGERS satisfied. We wish to congratulate "The" true facts on the life American all members or not we can't say, prisoners were forced to lead in Germany both clubs on their sensiable but the "turn out" to the meeting are told by Sergt. Edgar M. Ca!!s "Police," anc! Bottles- Arc Tossec settlement of the questions before showed that there was a decided interest Halyburton, Company P. Sixteenth infantry, Into River. the meeting that night, and predict in the club anyway. We didn't who arrived at Vichy, France, A practical jo1.:or yelled in the car a bright future for both clubs recently. Sergeant Halyburton was a just get the idea of the meeting at door of an Illinois Central train as if the present "pep" and backing remains prisoner of war in Germany for 13 first, but after listening to the discussions it was crossing the Wabash river near with them— Ericsburg. months. He was the "commander" of '-he state line of Illinois and Iowa for a while, we gathered the American prisoners at Rastatt and \Boys, there's an oiiicei' on the train.' that there had been a rift in the old COME AND GET YUOR DOG is qualified to describe conditions /is Nearly every window went vp with club and that two different clubs had Lahar, JRiresghf tbey actually existed. a tang, and all manner of parcels been organized, and we had accidentally "I passed seven months at Tuchel," Etc. Mizpah, v/ent flying into the river. When the stumbeled onto a joint meeting said Sergeant Halyburton. "It was a March 10,1919 victims discovered they had been despoiled of the two clubs. As the discussion strafe camp and a hell-hole in every of their high-priced liquor they Mr. Watson: /V. sense of the word. We were hitched went on the whole history of the Ray got hjjld of him in the smoker and he I am sending you word about a to a wagon like horses and forced to was given some of what the marines Farmers' Club was practically given bull-dog hat was left in my care lo Stock Rmsm draw wood 14 kilometers all day long. call "treat 'em rough." in detail. It seems that when the and some one told me he belongs to Dirty German guards were constantly State and federal officers are-waU-hlug club was first organized, it not only a party up there. He has a collar insulting us at the point of bayonets. tli.6 border for a hundred mile* and included the local community and marked with brass buttons and We wore wooden shoes and for socks automobile loads of liquor are seize? farmers in close proximity to the we used a winding of fabric and papfer. pointed brass spikes, would like to alvuos't daily. Despite this the hoot village, but the entire country side, Scantily clothed and half-starved, we ledgers persist, induced by the m!\ find the right owner. I live one half and all the farmers tributary to the pulled our wagon through snow last oro»its, as much as Sft.O end '^VV. mile frm camp 58, Pine Top Minn. winter that was above our knees. village. As the country settled up, i'ong poss.-'fie from a ihvvfe: ]»«.•• I. Mrs. Berget. the farmers came in to the country Saved by Red Cross. "r 5 A .1 and settled further and further v~ "There were 18 Americans in Tuchel. I 1 away from the village, and the mejority I had written postcards to the Red VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN Cross from each town we had been in An Absolutely Mew Indoor Sport Start of them became members of CLINCHERS. UNDER THE previously, but they could never have ed in Omaha. the club. Of course all farmers MAGNIFYING GLASS After a successful operation, you been sent, for no answer was received Hundreds of intensely interested must come to town occasionally to do can't refuse to pay the doctor. until four months after we reached spectators crowded the horse sale pavilion their trading, so these farmers usually Don't be a three-quarters horse. The diagram at the top shows the distribution Tuchel. It was then (March 12, 1918) of the Union stock yards at They don't "pay off" anywhere made it a point, to come in town of the average Swift dollar received from sales that the first Red Cross parcels arrived. Omaha, Neb., to witness a rat-killing except at the finish. of beef, pork and mutton, and their by-products, for their trading on club meeting These parcels savett our lives. contest, an absolutely new indoor America's fighters didn't quit during 1918. The magnifying glass brings date, and stay over for the meeting If we had been forced to continue two sport in that city. the full subscription of the Victory out the distribution of the 2.04 xents profit in the evening. This went on year months longer on the prison food and In the first event 20 big husky rats, Liberty Loan will mean that per dollar of sales: under the harsh treatment, I am certain after year until the club had been in the kind thnt infest the stock yards, the "stay-at-homes" have the same most of us would have died of existance for five yeaft, when the spirit. were turned into a pit. An English .94 of one per cent goes to pay interest starvation." By our unstinted spending of coach dog, belonging to Cal Henderson, farmers from way out decided that, on borrowed money, taxes, etc. Sergeant Halyburton and his comrades money we shortened the war and one of the employees of the yards, .50 of one per cent goes to pay dividends as there were so many of them members, were transferred to Rastatt on saved hundreds of thousands of-* was turned into the pit with the rodents, to shareholders. they would vote at the next August 14, 1918. There were approximately lives. Shall we hesitate to pay and in the short time of 9 minutes .60 of one per cent remains in the annual meeting to change the meeting 550 American prisoners in the the bills? No. We will thank Qod and 15 seconds succeeded in dispatching business to help in improving and place to the Beaver town hall camp at that date. At the close of hostilities and buy TO OUR UTMOST. them all. financing the business. there were 2,400. such time as the majority voted it Congress has appropriated $1,000,000,000 Total 2.04 percent to pay our farmers the back to the Ray town hall. As they "Rastatt was a propaganda^ camjfo" CENTURY OLD HOMES difference between the market and said Sergeant Halyburton. "Prp-Ge£ were all very much interested they the guaranteed price of wheat. mans were in charge of everything wanted to attend all the meetings, Houses That Were Put Up in 1803 1919 Year Book of interesting and The Northwest's share of this dlfference within the prison confines whfen we arrived. instructive facts sent on request. Are Still in Use. and as it was so far into Ray they will be a Quarter of a Blllion The noncoms, clerks, and billet Address Swift & Company One of the oldest residences in Arkansas couldn't possibly attend all the meetings, Dollars—more than we will chiefs were all working hand in hafrd Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois is located at Mount-Olivet on so by changing the meeting be asked to subscribe to the Victory with the propagandist leaders, the principal the Landreth brothers' farm on White Liberty Loan. Who can refuse place to Beaver town hall, those farmers of whom was none other than river. It was built In 1803 by Jehoda Swift & Company, U. S. A. to loan the Government money Captain von Tauscher, the GermanAmerican in Beaver township could Jeffery, great-great-grandfather of that will be put right back into circulation that was implicated in the work together to a whole lot bettter Richard Jeffery, who now lives here. among us this fall? We plot to blow up a bridge in Detroit, advantage. So at the annual meeting The house was constructed of heart will get the money back and still Mich. they voted to change it and "th-3 pine logs, which are apparently as have fine, safe, interest-paying securities. (Captain von Tauscher was caught Ayes had it," and the Ray Farmers' THIS WON'T TAKE sound today as when they were laid. with a suitcase of dynamite. He was MUCH PATRIOTISM. It still is used as a dwelling. Another Club went to Beaver town, books, tried, but the jury failed to find •fintent," house constructed in this year is located "There is no limit to the duty of records and all except the treasury. cfi and released him. He was later at Norfolk, in Baxter county. a man where his country needs Well, then the members in the vicinity ordered out of the United States.) him." It was built by Major Jacob Wolf and of Ray began to sit up and take Pro-German Papers in Camp. Can you look the boy from "over Is owned by his descendants. notice. They hadn't thot of that there" in the eye if you fail to do "Captain von Tauscher made several phase of the project, and here they your share in paying the bills that attempts to introduce the Continental saved his life? had let tireir Farmers' Club run right Times and the American in Europe By saving and subscribing to the into Rastatt, but we told him pointblank out from under their nose and go Victory Liberty Loan only can you we would stand for no German clear out to Beaver. If they wanted do your duty to your Government propagandist paper in the place." a Farmers' Club, they either had to go and prove that your patriotism When Sergeant Halyburton and his clear out to Beaver to attend the is the kind that works even when comrades first reached Rastatt they organized meetings, which would necessitate a your son or brother or yourself is and demanded that the sergeant not in danger. Tialf days trip for no other purpose, be given command over all the or organize another club. So they American prisoners. They were so persistent —Buy for Victory and Peace— did. Did what? Go clear to Beaver that the Prussian general gave MONEY OR LIVES. town to attend the meetings? No his consent. Sergeant Halyburton immediately they organized another club. You'd ousted the pro-Germans and Better to Pay in Dollars Than in Lives replaced them with true American soldiers. do the same, wouldn't you? Sure! of Our Yoijths. Then they had two clubs going at Which would you prefer the United "We perfected a crude but efficient organization," once. The od club and the old name, States to spend—billions in money or said Sergeant Halyburton. the lives of 100,000 good young Americans? the Ray Farmers' Club and all the "When the armistice was signed we books and records. The new club had a hand-picked intelligence staff of War and navy officials knew what had the treasury of the old original 150 men working in the camp, all your answer would be and they acted club, all the lap boards used for Yankees we knew to be absolutely free accordingly. They poured out money serving lap suppers and—the same from Prussianism. We beat the Hun by the billions to end the war as propagandists at their own game. It name, the Ray Farmers' Club! Everything soon as it was possible to do so. was the duty of these men to preach was confusion. So they called The result was the signing of the into the ears of every prisoner the true armistice months before experts believed a joint meeting of the two clubs to facts on prison life in Germany and to Germany could have been beaten decide what to do. So they all got teach every young Hun soldier that he to her knees. It cost money to together, Mr. Abbott the county agricultural met, that it would be essentially bettei pile up shells and artillery and gas agent acted as chairman for him to surrender to the Americans and ships and clothing but our determined of the meeting and Mr. Freed as secretary. efforts showed Germany we when he got into action. The and they proceeded to discuss meant business. Yanks impressed them with vivid stories Army experts say that had the war of kind treatment and wonderful and decide the pros and cons of gone into the terrible spring offensive food for every prisoner taken by our the affair. The different points of that the world dreaded, at least 100,000 forces. We met many young Germans discussion were aptly put before the more Americans would have been and I firmly believe our propaganda meeting by members of both clubs, slaughtered. Perhaps your boy or bore fruit among them." and the good natured arguments for your husband or your brother would The Call of the Road" Fought With Propagandists. and against, showed deep interest of have been on that awful roll death. "We worked, night and day to defeat in the-welfare of the clubs, by the Think of this when your country asks When you take the highway this spring you want a car that the propagandists at Rastatt," said the you to support the Victory Liberty members speaking. sergeant, "and nullify their work. to on Loan and subscribe the limit permits you to enjoy your outing/ It must take the roads After a lengthy but interesting the army officials conduct an inqtoiiy, I April 21st. discussion as tov what constituted a efficiently and with comfort, operate at low cost and inspire am positive they will obtain a great —Buy for Victory and Peace— member in good standing with a deal of surprising information on Rastatt pride in its appearance. Model 90 is just such a car. Hie appreciation right to vote, what should be done and the careers of some of the FOR PAY SHIPS sojourned there." of 600,000 Overland owners has built up manufacturing with the moneys in the treasury »f khakl-clad men that the original club at the time of the Early In the war the United States Sergeant Halyburton interfered so methods that make possible ±he unusual value of change, the disposition of the lap realized that if the German U-Boats much with the propaganda work at Model 90 at its economical cost.. Get your Model 90 now. continued their campaign of frlghtfulness Rastatt that he was "•sent to Heuberg boards, and which club should be in a there would, soon be no ships to (Baden) and confined "strkfe*1 known as the Ray Farmers' Club, they send men or supplies to France. N camp. Private Charles A. Geoghegan, CENTRAL AUTO CO. finally voted that a member in good we entered the war there When Company B, Eleventh engineers, who standing with aright to vote was one were only 61 shipyards in America. acted as his "adjutant," was sent^ith dues were paid up for *the whose "Ships and more ships" soon became International Falls, Minn. him. They were forced to do'hard year that they split all moneys in the cry. America attacked the problem manual labor, insulted continuously in characteristic American styles the treasury of the original club at and given insufficient food to subsist So rapidly did the ships begin slipping Overland Model 90 live Caaaeoger Touring Car #985) i.«. b. Toled* the time of the change ,50-50 between On. Come to our store down the way that Germany saw Is Recommended for Promotion/ the two clubs that the two clubs go her U-Boat campaign had been defeated. 50-50 with the lap boards. The name Sergeant Halyburton, when in Berne, When the war ended we had ttanm Switzerland, received the following was-- rather a stickler -The club 198, shipyards that were huiliHwfl "v- letter frtm Col. W. I» Commendatory