Judge Steuteville closed the program with a forcible talk on the duty of Americans, and especially American housekeepers, in conserving the food which must be had to win the war. The judge was deeply absorbed in his duties as chairman of the county food administration and was using every bit of energy he possessed to encourage people in obeying the food regulations.
The next Wednesday night another meeting was held for the purpose of showing honor to the group of men who were to leave on the train for Camp Logan at 2 :00 a. m., the same night.
Many more names were added to the muster roll at a meeting held early in March.
War Work Moving Along
The steady progress of the tenor of war work was marked by so many steps that it is impossible to chronicle all of them in this short review. Just to pause for a moment and glance at a single week in April, 1918, one year after the entrance of our country into this conflict, we find numerous significant marks of the steady progress of this work. At that time, Morrill county was examining men to send another contingent of twelve to Camp Funston at the end of the month. The Food Administration was announcing further stringent rules. The Red Cross knitting department was moving to the back rooms of the First National Bank. The Third Liberty Loan was going strong and Morrill county was headed, in the first five days for that usual mark, "surpassing its quota." A rousing series of patriotic meetings were held on April 7th and 8th at Broadwater and Bayard and Bridgeport with serious patriotic addresses by Hon. W. L. Dowling, of Madison, Nebraska. The United States Boys' Working Reserve was prepared to register every boy between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for non-military, agricultural and other industrial service outside of school terms.