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Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-05-22
annual p. E. @. ConUenion
Held at Jerome Last Week

The fourth annual colVcl lion of
idaho Grand CHAPTER OF tine = + q
S.sterAood was teld in Jerome. Ida
no. May l4.l5-l6. Tho gracious
hospitality oi Cfapte- + Of Jerome
as d Jstess. W.s fcr from Tie time
the d,log tos and visitors were
greeted 40 the station al Snosnoua.
u.ti the retarn b, auton.obii IS from
jerome. q dist.lce b. about twe.t,
nll4cs .,ro5, . most Wo.d.-fu.
ley. viewing greet fields OF g~.4iu a.i
Mfalf.. and he thrin OF the f1rme.s
lA. in evidence o,-v where
Arriving al the popular North
SIDE Ian th. u..nagel greeted each
and every visitor most cordially
Nothing Vas lett undone for tie
pleasure and convenience OF ever,
guest and the meals were delicious
11d oc4uDlaiy served ana all aii con-. ol@
-ldered the Inn AN ideal rls,a In
Which to be- entertained and Am an felt Ell
loatn 10 depart from the very hos
-iaDl. members of Chapt.r E and
Inc city OF Jerome.
All meetings of the convention
were held m Amusement hAn. which
..s most art.sti,all, decorated i'm
lrUoW and white. Suspended from
the ceiling we're myriads OF yellow
and white stream,rs caught 6v 1he
uareurrite The American, flag also
mad its propcr place and iust before
our convention Mas called to order
our famous h. lis Appeared al tne
n.. srDkius admission. briueiue the
most gorgeou. bouat,ts off rnses and
d,po.un4g Them about the nam. ana
thru. shout the entire convention
they saw to itshat th, ladies did MOI
lack ,ho,oioates m abundance. they
tooh charge of the trlusport. ZION ol
thr. luggage. and n every WAY possi-
bic attended To ever, .,D. vi fn.
B. D. a. and We left feeling they
A .ro the best b. LIS ever
AT $50 p m the convention was
Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-05-22
LOOK WHO'S HERE


Arrivals at the North side Inn for
the week.
II A. Conant, Portland. w II.
Chellgard. Denver: +. b ShcrWin.
Spokane. l.. 5. packman. j. /. Glass.
Il $ Pease. Blaine Watson. Phil J.
Fccly Mrs W. A.. Schoolcr salt
Lake city; MIR. and Mrs. r. NJ car
hart. w. r. Harris. Harry X Fritch-
man. Miss Mary Boyle. Paul pi2eN.
Mr. and Mrs F. Gilman. Mr. and
Mrs. G. G.. Rudner. Boise: + 5 Hut
Gibson. Ogden; c. w. Burgess. Den
yer. Geo j. Roth. Portland Il. VI.
Werlo. Philadelphia. A. ID. Ludress
and wife. 81. Paul: J Stanley Liv-
ingston. Boston: Oscar G. Lamp. Chi
cago; T.. NJ Doyle. milwaukee,; &.
NJ Blair. Chicago.
Advertise in our columns. Ii paVs.
Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-05-22
MISS YOUNG DOING NICELY

Mrs. c. ". Young w"s over nj
Twin Falls Monday visiting her
daughter. Lucille. who is convalescing
from an operation for appendicitis
i'm the hospital there. Lucille was
able OF sit up :nd is doing we'll.
Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-05-22
MANPOLE DANCE

Tickets $1.O0 at the Maypole dane"
tonight May 22nd. and If you do
not dance pay ten cents to sit g. "a
balcony and watch the little tots in
he Maypole dance.
Fly traps Sips and $1.5O at
Wheeler Bros. Produce store.-adv
Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-05-22

Advertise in our columns, 1t pays
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there can be no doubt that II was there
at the time. and who can disproye the
story that the early Indian students
danced their war dances and smoked
their pipe of peace around it? 1t GER
tainly began to figure in the life of
the college as far back as the '40s, and
a few years later we find it recorded
that graduating classes gathered
around the venerable tree to listen to
an Grafton and a poem. From then
until the great tree fell in 1895 sue
cessive classes smoked their class day
clay pipes around the tree and at a
signal dashed them against the trunk.
II was a prophetic move on the part
OF President Bartlett, who reigned
from 1877 TO 1898, to start the building
Of a tower near the old pine, for the
tower was finished the year the tree
blew down. The tower was built by
successive classes from 1885 to 1895,
and to the lower levels the students
contributed good part of the actual
work.
Great preparations are being made
for the celebration of the anniversary
Things start Friday evening, October
II, when Dartmouth night-the an
nual welcome to the freshman class.
this year the biggest in the history
of the college-will be celebrated. Pre-
ceding 1t will be torchlight procession
and following 1t the campus will be lit
up-but not in this half of 1919 the
students or the alumni.
DartmOuth's Outing Club.
Saturday is an out Of doors day. One
of the glories of Dartmouth is its
outing club with cabins ready for
campers and trails easy and hard,
marked out for mixers on foot in sum-
mer or on snowshoes In winter. This
year the two cabins and the new
swimming pool at Moose Mountain.
some six miles across country to the
northeast. will be open TO the alumni.
who will be guests at dinner of the
Rev. John r. Johnson. '66, the father
OF the outing club, who half dozen
years ago gave TO II his 100 acre place
and house. far to the north, as a last
outpost for Dartmouth's mixers. There
are hints in the programme of a roast
pig dinner TO meet the appetites OF
those who have tried the cross-country
walk. 4 new addition to the country
club links will be open to golfine
alumni. Dartmouth will meet Penn
State at football in the afternoon, and
in the evening the undergraduates will
properly do their bit by reviving theil
cperetta 1.-THE Founders"
Sunday is devoted to a memorial
service in the white church frequently
described as "the finest example o.
colonial architecture in northern New
England"
! The big ceremonies win DO on Mon
The sun., 1919-09-28
TIE SECOND NZ2eT (:
OSRTMOSTA FOR L
WHOM TIE COLLEGE,
WAS NAMED

clothing and boarding at Dartmouth
Indians who may wish to teach or
preach. Alas, there has been but one
Indian at Dartmouth in a hundred
years or so.
In fact. the outstanding reminder of
the Indian at Dartmouth now is the
great seal of the college wherein is
portrayed a row OF little Indians
emerging from the primeval forest and
heading straight for the college build
ing in search of an education. The
little Indians are in an appalling state
of nakedness, but each little Indian
grasps tightly In his appraised hand a
book
Meanwhile Wheelock al home, chat
ing a little at the restrictions of the
trusteeship, had found also that all
was not going well with his scheme of
teaching Indians who in turn should
go out 70 teach other Indians. The
Indian is not the best mentor for the
Indian. Wheelock wanted TO leave
Connecticut to go north or = west,
where he could be nearer the native
tribes, and at the same time he wanted
more white pupils in the hope. which
for the most part proved vain, that
they In turn should go Into the will
derness 10 teach the Indian"
Every sort of proposal was made for
the location OF the college which was
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provided "for the education & instruc-
ton of Youth of the Indian Tribes
In this Land in reading, writing Il
all parts of Learning which shall ap-
pear necessary and expedient for
civilizing & outstanding Children OF
Pagans as we'll as in all liberal Arts
and Sciences; and also of English
Youth and any others
Alas! the Indian has disappeared,
but there have been days. and nights.
at Dartmouth when the faculty must
have felt that the Children of Pa
gans" still survived and were un-
civilized.
The charter was notable, too, for
its liberal provisions es regards relig-
ion. In spite of the fact that one of
the "whereases" which led King
George Ill to grant the charter was
that the college might "be a means to
supply a great number OF Churches
& Congregations which are likely soon
to he formed in that New Country
with a learned & orthodox ministry"
this provision was made: And not
excluding any Person of any religious
denomination whatsoever from free &
equal liberty & advantage of Educa-
ton or from any Of the liberties and
privileges or immunities of the said
College on account of his or their
speculative sentiments in Religion &
of his or their being OF a religious
profession different from the said
Trustees of the said Dartmouth
College,"
Political Lines strictly Drawn.
In politics the line was more strict
ly drawn. for all officers and faculty
had to subscribe to the act for the
Protestant Succession land extin-
gushing the hopes" OF the Stuart pre-
tenders.
Armed with this charter Wheelock
began his exodus. heading himself a
small advance party. which reached
the present site of the college in Au-
gust, 1910. This was level plain
covered with giant pines, some OF
them 900 feet high, with the river
below on the west, mountains TO the
east and almost unbroken forests to
the north and south. There Vince
lock, then nearing 60. built his own
home, a log building. IS feet square,
with mica and oiled paper windows.
and there he awaited the coming of
Madame Wheelock, who made the
long journey up the valley OF the
Connecticut in great horse drawn
English coach given to her by Gov.
Wentworth and attended by OK teams
bearing the barrel of rum and some
other necessities. Thirty students,
only two of whom were Indians and
four negro slaves, Exeter, Brister,
Chloe and Peggy. formed part of the
cavalcade.
Then In the fall OF the following
year was held the first OF 14s success
sive commandments. with four gradu-
ates who had stopped midway in their
course at Yale to follow the fortunes
Of Wheelock. OF those four, two we're
for time missionaries to the Indians
The sun., 1919-09-28

TIE BARTLETT TOWER
QUILT 81 The CLASSES
from 1896 TO 1895

Virginia; at Lansingburg. N. Y:
Pittsburg. and Stockbridge. Mass.
Princeton, then the College of New
Jersey, even proposed that Wheelock
become sort of tail to its institution
"a likely proposal to the New Eng
lander, who felt that he and the AL
mighty were in partnership in the
task, and who later wrote: THE site
for Dartmouth College was not deter
mined by any private interest or party
on earth, but the Redeemer's."
New Hampshire had long seemed to
Wheelock a lively place. and when in
March. 1868. John Wentworth. the
Governor, offered a township six miles
square on the Connecticut River for
the endowment OF the school the die
was cast. Wheelock. after weeks OF
travel. selected Hanover on the east
side OF the river as the site which
best suited him, but before he could
move there was te 7ious and trouble
some negotiation with the English
trustees and over the terms of the
charter. 1t was then that the col
lege was really born and christened,
or rather it was christened before II
was born. Wheelock. a bit of a
diplomat himself, wrote to the Gov
ernor and suggested that the new
institution be called Wentworth.
Wentworth lodged and came back
with the proposal that the name be
Dartmouth. hoping thus to placate the
English donors. Wheelock agreed and
added to his letter OF agreement these
words: Sir, If proper to use the word
college instead Of academy In the
charter l shall be pleased with It,"
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TIE Kew DARTMOUTH
HALL TIE SIXTH EARL Of
DARTMOUTH LAID TIE
CORkERS STONE

treasurer, William H. Woodward, dug
the great seal out of the grain bin
where she had hidden 1t and business
was resumed at only one stand.
Fifty years later. with the civil war
to which Dartmouth had sent 652 Of
her sons, not long over, the centennial
OF the college was celebrated. A fea.
ture of that year was the erection of q
tent 205 feet by SIS on one side of the
campus and a board barracks 300 feet
by 40 on the other. The tent, Dor
rowed from Yale, was for meetings,
the barracks for a dining hail. while
army tents big and little served as
sleeping quarters of the alumni.
Chief Justice Salmon p. Chase OF
the United States Supreme Court was
presiding and some one was reading
poem when there broke a thunder.
storm that went through the tent as
II it had been a sieve. Justice Chase
and the dignitariets crawled under the
platform and the audience fled
II the weather of 1869 should repeat,
It is hard to think what would hap
pen to that luncheon on the green on
OCTOBER ~, lSl9.
Two other celebrations OF the last
quarter century have brought back
throngs of Dartmouth men. The first
was in 1901, when Dartmouth decided
to celebrate the Tooth anniversary OF
the graduation of Daniel Webster. The
cornerstone of Webster Hall was laid
| and across its front is now inscribed
the phrase suggested by Judge Joseph
Hopkinson, Webster's associate in the
great Case; Founded by Eleazar
Wheelock; Refounded BY Daniel Web
ster."
That and the speech making were
incidental to the torchlight parade
with the faculty in academic costume
students by classes in cap and gown
of white, blue, scarlet and yellow, and
alumni in tall Websterian hats, stocks
dickeys. blue dress coats and bur
waistcoats. To this the younger alumni
added from time to time such doses Of
the 800 gallons" as they might have
| brought with him. Mr.. Quint gently
describes them as mild alcoholic ac-
| cessories."
The second celebration was the lay
ing OF the cornerstone Of the new
Dartmouth Hall. built on the same
lines and on the same site as the old
Dartmouth, which stood from 1871 TO
1904. The building was destroyed on
February Is, 1904, and in October OF
the same year the cornerstone OF the
new Dartmouth was laid by the pres
ent Earl of Dartmouth, and his
torical pageant OF great events in the
history of the college was given on inc
athletic field. Charles A. Eastman, y"
a Sioux Indian, and the last OF ms
race to be graduated from WheelocKs
college, played the part OF Samson
Cocoon.
The sun., 1919-09-28

day, october 20, with exercises in Web
ster Hall, mt which n feature will be
made of the presence of representa-
tives of all the other colleges dating
back to colonial times; a luncheon on
the college green at which the pro-
gramme guardedly hints: THE pres
ence OF Elea2ar Wheelock, Daniel
Webster and other notables of a for
mer day is expected; all ending at
night with formal dinner in College
Hall.
No college gathering of any sort is
complete without a little hint that
money is a helpful thing. The hint
this year comes to the alumni In the
reminder from the committee of ar
rangements that after all this Is a
birthday party, and what is a birthday
party without presents and a cake?
Here is what the programme holds
forth:
This is birthday party, and there
will be birthday cake. The alumni
Council is getting the cake ready. 1t
will be a big one-perhaps six feet
across-and will have candles on it.
There will not be a candle Tor each
year, however, but a candle for each
class that has given to the alumni
| fund this year. The size of the candle
will be adjusted to the proportionate
giving of the ,class--all gifts received
since July 1, 1918, Will count in the
size of the candle, fifteen monthly con-
tributions instead of the usual twelve.
Since this is a birthday party too
1t has been suggested that some indi-
vidual gifts may be brought. They
will be represented by long green
candles. whereas the class candles will
be white. If any of you alumni have
long green candles up in the attic or
IN sock under the fireplace, or IL
The sun., 1919-09-28

Into each corner OF the two by four
frame drive a staple and to each staple
fasten a piece OF rope the length o.
which will depend upon the height
Of the ceiling. Suspend the frame
from the ceiling by the four corner
ropes at a height suited 10 the per
son who Is to use the bag. When you
have fastened the bag TO the sWiN"
everything is done.
The weight OF the frame IS -ln''
cient 10 keep 1t from rocking II me
ceiling is very high fasten the s.''
pending ropes further apart q" t'
ceiling than they are on the bottom
The divergence OF the ropes viii, h'"
ever, impart vibration from the ".
TO the building. but nothing like 'H4'
obtaining in other CirOAmstanOsA
The sun., 1919-09-28
pochs in the Annals of Dartmouth College, $50 Years Old

you have friends who are POSSESSION,
of 4. long green candles, the alumni
council has asked that assurance \.
given OF their appropriateness ana
charm at this time. The secretary Of
the council at Hanover will gladly toll
all he knows about how to offer long
green candles"
This will be the third time that
Dartmouth has marked the anniver.
sary of her founding. The first In
1919, when the college was but fifty
years old. came at a dramatic time in
her history, for the Dartmouth Col.
lege case" had just been decided
Daniel Wcbster's plea: TT is, sir, as
have said, a small college, and vet
there are those that love IT," had been
successful. and "the godlke Daniel"
most distinguished OF Dartmouth's
alumni, was the hero of the occasion.
The case was the result of the ac-
ton of the trustees in ousting John
Wheelock, who, having inherited the
presidency. had run the college as he
pleased. This was in 1915, and Vince.
lock, who was perhaps a better poll
tician than college president, promptly
got the Legislature to change the
name OF the institution TO Dartmouth
University. alter the makeup Of the
board of trustees and establish board
of ovcrseers. The boards made
Wheelock president and the fight was
on. For two years the rival institu-
tons wrangled on Hanover Plain un-
til the Supreme Court of the United
| States had decided that the college
charter was contract and that the
act of the Legislature was unconsti-
tutional. Then the widow of the
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Plans for Anniversary Celebration Recall Notable Crcum
stances Incident to Founding the Institution, Which
Sprung From an Indian School, Remarkable Charte
Granted by King George ILL.,, and
Memorable Events of Later Days

Eieaxar wheeioch was a very pions man:
Ho went into the wilderness to teach the
Indian
with a Gradus sd Parnassum,
Bible and a drum
And i've hundred gallons OF old New England
rum.
That is the late Richard Hovey's
version of the founding OF Dartmouth
College at Hanover, N. H., and that is
the way the students will sing 1t when
the 150th anniversary of the event is
celebrated on October II. IS, 10 and 20
OF this year.
In the main the Dartmouth poets
version is truthful. The college was
the outgrowth Of Moor's Indian
Charity School in Lebanon. Conn,
which wheeloclx, an early graduate Of
Yale and its first graduate scholar,
had founded. AS for the rum, we have
the evidence Of Wheelocks nephew
and teamster Jabez Bingham. who
wrote of the preparations for bring
The sun., 1919-09-28

peace with both 1.-THE Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts and THE Society in Scotland
for Propagating Christian knowledge"
each of which Christian societies
heartily hated the other, the fund grew
and by April. 1868, when the collectors
sailed back for Boston they had gath
cred some f11.000 from $500 sub
scribers. The funds were put into the
hands of a board Of trust, with Lord
Dartmouth at its head. The Scotch
society retained its collections also in
trust and TO this day has fund for
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ing Nine. wheelock and her four
slaves from Lebanon to Hanover:
"Sir Cluet has got a barrel of rum
and a barrel Of molasses, a Gag of
wine and half a barrel of Shuggar,"
Moreover at the first commencement
in 1771 there came up by horseback
from Portsmouth, then the capital OF
the Province of New Hampshire, King
George the Thirds "Trusty and we'll
beloved John Wentworth, ESQ.," who
brought with him some sixty other
gentlemen and as a gift to the col
lege a silver punch bowl which is still
one of the glories of the institution.
Dartmouth might with some propri-
ETY. set up claim to 1854 as the date
OF her foundation. for II was then that
the Indian Charity School got under
way, but 1t was fifteen years later
that the move north was undertaken
and the royal cnarter was issued.
Wheelock longed for a wider field, and
longed too for more money. 1t was
George Whitef1eld, the impassioned
preacher of the Methodist revolt in
England, who made the suggestion OF
the most effective way of raising it,
He thought that the presence in Eng
land of an Indian who could speak
from pulpit or platform would arouse
interest. Wheelock saw the point and
selected Samson Occom, "the glory OF
the Indian Nation. apd ablest OF
Wheelock's pupils to go to England.
With him went Nathaniel Whitaker,
q Princeton Presbyterian. Whitaker
had much Of the art of the modern
col
colored. With long, straight black hair
and clad in clerical dress, soon became
so popular a figure in London that he
was burlesqued on the stage-which
ranks as a proof of popularity with
having cigar named after one.
Oeeom Approves Lord Dartmouth.
Their chief objective was the man
for whom the college was to be
named, the second Earl OF Dartmouth,
then First Lord of Trade and Plant
atoms end later Secretary OF State for
the Colonies. They met him and so
approved of him that Cocoon wrote:
"He appeared like a Worthy Lord,
indeed. Mr.. WHITEHEAD says he is a
Christian Lord and an uncommon
one"
Nearly 40 years later this descrip-
ton was read at the laying of the cor
nerstone of the new Dartmouth Hall
and Wilder ID. Quint in his STORY of
Dartmouth" says: "The Sixth Earl of
Dartmouth, who was seated on the
platform. was the first to see the
joke.
Lord Dartmouth headed the SUBJ
scription list with $50 and the ball was
set rolling. Whitaker, who was more
worldly minded than his Indian as
sociate. thus announced one great
triumph: 1.-THE h. has promised f400,
when this is done and comes to be
known: then the carnal Presbyterians
will be obliged to follow. as we'll as the
Church folks
The AZ" George III. cut his gift
In two and the Church folks" were
openly hostile, so much so that Whita :
ker complained that the Bishop of
Gloucester wouldn't ask them 10 sit
down In spite of this opposition and
IN spite OF the difficulty in keeping
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Hanging the Punching Bag

A NOlSELESS punching bag plat
~ form is less expensive than the
%, ordinary kind and works Just
as weik You can make 1t in half an
hour ana the rest OF the family viii
not complain that you are furnishing
a good imitation OF an earthquake.
The first step is to construct a four
foot square frame of two by four ma
terial. Cover it with tongued and
grooved hardwood flooring laid as
closely as possible and toenaied. In
the centre OF the flooring and on the
side opposite the frame drive a good
sized staple or fasten a regular
punching bag swivel; the latter will
cost half a dollar and prevent the rope
from any twisting and kinkinE.
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as the college charter had planned. one
was a lawyer and Commissary- General
in the Revolutionary Army-one won
ders If there was a Revolutionary
equivalent Of swivel chair officers--and
the fourth was John Wheelock. the
presidents son and the heir to his
office.
1t is doubtful II ''the Old Pine" fg-
ursd at that frst commencement but
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And that was the real beginning of
Dartmouth College.
The charter is weighty and unpunc-
tuated document OF some 5000 words
and very slight reading of It inspires
the utmost respect for the learned law
yers who fought over 1t from court to
court In the Dartmouth College case.
The project of teaching the Indian
was still uppermost and the charter
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yet to be-in fact, at that time no
mention OF the word college had been
made. Wheelock's was lffl an In
dian school. lie might have gone TO
great tract of land along the Susque-
hanna River; he might have gone, and
did seriously think of going. 70 the
Mohawk country. in this State Sites
with large amounts of land, for lard
was easy to give then, we're offered in