A telegram from the War Department received at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday tells the story of the ending of the life of Melvin Magarrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Magarrell of Adair. He had been on the western front in France for some months past and had taken part in many battles. Once he was severely wounded and spent a few weeks in the hospital, returning to front line trench duty June 28. July 19 a Hun bullet found him, and his patriotic service in behalf of the Stars and Stripes, and humanity, came to an end.

In the late draft call the government asked for the services of one of the best and most patriotic young farmers of the Big-4 section, Roscoe R. Turner, and he is now in camp drilling to prepare for active work in shooting the liver out of a number of deluded worshippers of the Beast of Berlin. Mr. Turner has a good farm and had to leave his crops just as they were in the fields. So last Tuesday, his neighbors came in and threshed about 1,900 bushels of wheat and oats. In the bunch of threshers were H. I. Warner, Orie Arnburg, Paul Woodman, Leslie Tickner, Ed Burtt, Dudley Holmes, Byrl Ruch, Ralph Schwab, P. J. Winklemann, R. Howland, Cleve Kempster, Robert Edwards, George Winkleman, Fred James, Jimmie Pederson, Waldo Conrad, Edd Sachau, Kenneth Lyle, Jacob Ernst, Mike Noland, Fred Arnburg, Roy Walker, Thomas Dolan, Frank Howland, Charles Petri, Mike Hollinrake, Edwin Oaks, Carl Knox and Jake Walker.