The Colfax County Press publishes a weekly column entitled Peeking into the Past, which is comprised of articles taken from earlier Colfax County Press files, written by Helen C. Evans. A special thank you to the Colfax County Press for allowing me to reprint those articles! The following are selections from that column:
August 24, 1922 - reprinted January 25, 1995The third open-air concert the season will be given by the Clarkson band on Tuesday evening, August 29. The boys have prepared an excellent program which is entirely different from the previous concerts. You will greatly enjoy the treat so tell your friends about it and take them along. The bigger the crowd will be so much more will the band boys appreciate your presence. No admission charge.
The local Post of the American Legion has made arrangements to show one of the greatest war pictures ever produced. This wonderful and costly spectacle will be shown at the Clarkson opera house on the evening of Friday, September 1st.
This film has been secured from the Photographic Section of the United States Army. The pictures are our army in action over-seas. All scenes of American dead and other scenes of horror on the front, have been entirely eliminated from this film, this making a picture that from an educational point of view is unsurpassed. This picture is made up of five reels of film and the showing time is one hour and thirty minutes.
One hundred thousand American soldiers are thus shown in action and making American History in France. A brief review of some of the scenes shown, is as follows:
"Embarking for the great Adventure."
"Periscope on Port Bow."
"Depth boms to annihilate the hidden terror of the sease."
39th and 58th Inf. advancing under machine gun and artillery fire. SEpt. 28th, 1918.
We can't describe it - the whole picture is made up entirely of these battle scenes which is worth traveling many miles to see.
Find out of [sic] your own soldier boy, friend or relative who went overseas, the exact unit and Division in which he served, because you may see "him" in his war paint-and mud.
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