Lieutenant William Ritchie, Jr., came home

in July on a short leave of absence from Camp Dodge, Iowa. Lieutenant H. R. Van Home then assigned to a command in Headquarters Company of trench mortars, 136th Infantry, at Camp Cody, arrived for a short visit. He reported that Charles Gadd was then first sergeant of Company F, 109th Engineers, and soon expected to enter an officers' training school. Donald Merritt, of Broadwater, was serving as a battalion sergeant major.

Rev. McDougall sent in his application for chaplain in the army. W. E. Kirby made application for Y. M. C. A. work. A farewell banquet was tendered on July 13th to Attorney F. E. Williams, the occasion being the approaching time he was to depart for Y. M. C. A. work in France.

Four-Minute Men Under the leadership of Dr. F. S. Copeland, the four minute men of Morrill county performed that unique service that this organization brought to the general public. The four minute speech was something new in the way of public speaking, by which a good ten or fifteen minute talk had eight to eleven minutes taken off and its four minute climax delivered, proved to be a wonderful patriotism aroused. Those men who stood so loyally by Chairman Copeland in Bridgeport were : fudge G. J. Hunt, Judge J. H. Steuteville, R. E. Barrett, K. W. McDonald, Rev. McDougall, F. E. Williams, County Agent H. A. McComb, and L. G. Hurd.

Morrill County Bar

It is doubtful if any county in the United States that possessed at the beginning of the great world war a bar composed of more than two or three active practicing attorneys, can show a record that excels that of the Morrill County bar. At the opening of the war, there were eleven members of this bar. including County Judge Steuteville, who was not very actively engaged in the practice, and excluding two or three attorneys who came into the county near the conclusion of this war or thereabouts.