The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-31
XVII DIRK OF WOMEN'S
W CLUBS THROUGH.
D D OUT THE STATE D

The jamestown Woman's club met
Saturday afternoon and entertained as
special guests the ladies Of the Musi.
cal club, the Wednesday club and the
members OF the jamestown college
faculty. The meeting was held at the
city hall and the lesson was on do
nestle scici:ce. Miss Ella Sorenson
gave a talk and demonstration on
Salads" and Superintendent A. G.
Crane conducted the round table on
Domestic Science in the Public
Schools"
The Fornlan Woman's Literary club
will hold its February meeting Fri
day evening. February 2 and h even
ings papers will be on Poets and
Writers of North Dakota" and North
Dakota Minerals - Kinds. Deposits,
Ignite Coal and Fire Clay Brick"
ing hostess and also leader of all dis
cussions. Quotations and current
events will be responded to at roll
call and the ladies taking part in tho
program will be Mesdames Argersing-
or. DEste and Sweetman.
The Minot Reading Circle has decid-
eel to outline a regular course in read
ing which the members will follow
closely as its club work in the flu
turc. Social gatherings will he held as
in the past. but, believing that the club
was not doing The work originally
intended. the members tool this vote
at the last meeting which was held at
the home of Mrs. j. j. kann. The first
reading program will he given Wcdnes-
day. February Z, at the home of Mrs.
Nandenoever.
The Minot Woman's club has voted
to take up as its work next year the
T'ay View study course which includes
India, China and the orient and to sup
pl"ment this with Il miscellaneous pro-
gram to cover subjects of current in
terest in the magazines. legislation and
up to date events. Much satisfaction
WAS expressed on all sides at the scope
of tho proposed study and it will he
entered into with enthusiasm. The
meeting at which this action was TAX
on was held Saturday afternoon at
tho Commercial club rooms with an
those taking part in the program were
Mrs. Andrew Carr. Mrs. Lowe and
Mrs. Hardaway. all of whom read en-
collent papers.
The Lesson of the Prairies" was
the subject of Mrs. Carr's paper and
she conducted a very interesting dis
cussion at the close. Mrs. Lwoe gave
tI s'A'tII'II C1dTfrItT ShcNcH vi l1CIcIl
Gould who Is So much admired for
her philanthropy. h also spoke of
her many good works. mentioning the
club house for sailors at Brooklyn.
the home for crippled children at
W~oodycrest and several others, and
said she is a woman who Dresses sim
ply and cares little for society, is
Very sweet and gracious to her callers
and says she shall never cease to
preach the gospel that women of
means should do more than rush
through life for nothing but their own
pleasure. 1t is their duty to help
others. especially other women and
make life for then worth living.
Mrs. Hardaway continued the pro-
gram with an original paper on The
Geology of North Dakota rs Shown
i'm Rivers. Lakes and Mountains" she
said in part: North Dakota is dis
tinctly a prairie state. All of North
Dakota east of the Missouri river is
embraced in the area covered by the
glacial ice. Biologists agree that the
ice was the agent that transported tho
boulders and rounded pebbles to this
region and the peculiar hills and roll
ing prairies have heen formed by
dumping these materials from the
great ice sheet. The Coteaus of the
Missouri resemble a small mountain
range n extend across the state dag
onally and they serve to hold back the
ice sheet in its course toward the
south.
The most interesting formations in
the state are found in the rugged
hill lands west of the Missouri river.
The f1attened hill tops with sides of
sand stone differ much from those east
of the river with their grass covered
round tops. Along the valley Of the
Little Missouri the land is broken
buttes and valley and called the Bad
Lands" This name came from the
early fur traders who thus named it
because it was a bad land to travel
through. The name is misleading for
they are rich in coal and clays. Til
valley and plateau land is valuable
for farming while the buttes and cou-
lees are excellent for grazing. Travel
ing over the bad lands one sees many
points of historic interest. 1t was at
Medora that the French nobleman es-
tablished his once famous stock yards
and slaughtering houses intending to
make this a shipping point for dressed
beef. A few miles south of Medora
IS the trail by which the ill fated Gus
ter led his army across the Bad Lands
in the famous campaign against Sitting
Bull in 1876. The buttes on which the
picket guards were stationed while
encamped here are pointed II and
the marks of the trail made by the
wagon wheels are still visible. During
the summer of 1872 the first survey
for the Union Pacific was made
through the Bad Lands and the party
met with unusual hardships. The
Turtle mountains in the north CEN
trail part of the state is another point
of geologic interest and in the ho!-
lows of the mountains are not less
than 300 lakes, among the most beau
tiful Of which is Fish lake. Devils
lake is interesting not only because
it is the largest lake but because it
is the great salt lake of North Dakota.
Since Fort Totten was built thirty
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