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Shady Grove, Aug. 28.-Rev C. T.
Stewart filled his regular appointment
at the Baptist Church Saturday and
Sunday.
Miss Ethel Fuighum, our interme~
date teacher, spent the weekend with
US instead of going to her home IN
Cypress as usual.
Mrs. r. II. Sims and little Miss Ma
RE, returned home yesterday from a
two weeks visit to relatives IN Jack
sonviIle.
J. T. Branch was transacting bust
ness in Calhoun County one day last
week
Mrs. Henry Oliver and daughter, FL
mira, visited the old home of Mrs.
Oliver last week. and report an en-
joyabie stay.
Misses Ethel F'uighum, Mary and
Pearl Singletary. Roxie Stewart. and
Messrs. Malcolm and Frank Stewart,
and John Afford, attended the pro-
tracted meeting at Harmony Church
Sunday night
Misses Lucy and Grace Merritt, who
formerly lived here, but are now resid-
ing in Sarboro, ~. c.. were being well
coined by their many friends here
last week. They left today by boat
for Bristol, Fla, where they will visit
their sister, Mrs. Alice Owens, before
returning home.
L. L. Warren, of West Virginia. has
been busy in Shady Grove this week,
securing oil leases. His company
plans TO secure a block of several
thousand acres and drill for oil Us soon
as their plans are perfected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Golden Parker and
children were recent visitors at the
home OF p. j. King.
A cOngenial party of people from
near cambridge passed through Shady
Grove, enroute to the Dead Lakes,
Friday. They left Mrs. Reed. one of
the party for a visit with her cousin,
Mrs. w. Afford.
Master Paul Afford had a painful
accident Saturday. A cross-cut saw.
which he was helping to handle. drop
ped on his foot. making an ugly
wound. DIR. Bowling dressed it,
and Paul is getting along nicely.
Jack Jockey recently of Akron.
Ohio. has been visiting relatives and
friends at Dellwood. Inwood and
Shady Grove recently. His many
friend sare always glad to see him.
Mrs. Hattie Williams and little son,
Roland, visited her father Rev. w. d.
Simpson near Sneads Sunday He is
an aged minister Of the Baptist church
and his numerous friends regret to
know he is ILL.,
and Mrs. Tom Dozier, were trans
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acting business in Sneads Saturday.
Messrs. J. Fl. King, John Stewart,
Robt Howell. r. II. Sims, and Jesse
Taylor went to Dellwood last week
after lumber to enlarge our school
house. We have a .two-room school
house, three teachers and children
enough for four teachers. Rather a
perplexing task to handle well such
a situation, but it is being managed.
We hope by another school term to be
sure to have three rooms at least
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. A. Yon. of Tai
lahassee, mad little daughter Isabel,
spent Tuesday night with the family
of /. H. King here. They were en-
route to Blountstown and Port St
Joe.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Branch and Mr..
Ellis Gordy went to Marysviile Tues
day.
r. H Sims and Robert Sims, Jr.,
were transacting business in Mariana
Wednesday.
DR.. 7. H. Hudgens, Of Sneads, has
been in the community several times
this week seeing patients.
Rev. l. E. Atkinson. of Sneads, will
fill the regular Fifth Sunday at the
NJ E. Church; Rev. z. e. Stafford, the
regular pastor being unable TO be. here
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CENTURY.
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Mrs. j. l.. Mayo and children OF
Pensacola are visiting relatives in
Century.
Miss Annie Brooks Morris of Brew
ton has been the guest of her brother
S. @. Harris.
Mrs. F. A. Wheeler and SON have
reutnred from Pel1 City, Ind, where
they have been spending the summer
A dance was given at the club Fri
day night complimentary to the girls
and boys returning to college.
Mrs. E. f. Clay has as a visitor
her sister from Laurelle, Miss.
Miss Eleanor McKinnon of Musco-
rec is the guest of Miss Mary Bess
Barwick.
Miss Clara Smith has returned af-
ter pleasant visit to Miss Margaret
Edwards at Pollard.
j, r. Bradley, who has been sick
The past week. is still confined to his
bed
Miss Koch of Hattisburg, Miss, Is
visiting Mrs. "A. 2. Edwards.
Ivy Williamson of Mobile is spend
ing his vacation with his mother, Mrs.
Kate Williamson.
Miss Florence Breitling of Mont
gomery is visiting Miss Georgia May
ers.
Misses Evelyn and Kathryn Cater
are visiting relatives in Repton,
Will Green. former Century boy
is visiting old friends for a few days.
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westville, Aug. 2s.-Miss Jean
Neel came home from Live Oak,
Thursday morning to spend the week
end with her father.
Mrs. Maggie Miller and children
Marie, Iris and Brown of DeFuniak
Springs, are visiting Mrs Miller's
sister, Mrs. j. M. Brigmon for a few
days.
Mrs. w. o. Dyson, and children
visited her mother, Mrs Dora Doug
lass. a few days last week
Fred Stripping spent Sunday with
his mother. Fred is in the navy.
stationed at Pensacola.
Misses Maggie Adams, Alma Moore
and Ollie Curry. came in from their
school, south of Chipley. to spend the
week md with home folks.
Mrs. James Harwell and little
daughter. Mildred, left for their home
in Hattiesburg, Miss, Friday night
after visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Portee, for fortnight.
Miss Eloise Brigham returned to hel
school near Argyle Sunday, having
spent the weekend in town with hons
folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Matthews an,
children and Shelby Matthews, O
Moline, spent last week in town Will
their parents.
Postel Brigham and son Columbus
of Millville was in town for a sltor
visit Saturday.
Mrs. Geo. ViIlar and children re
turned to their home in Pensacol;
Monday after visiting Mrs. Villar'
mother for two weeks.
George and Andrew Dinkins spent
few hours in town Friday evening.
Mrs. Polite Warren and little grand
son. of Georgiana, are visiting he
nephew, Mr.. Marcus Sutton.
Mrs. w. c. Mason, of Ponce d
Leon spent Wednesday in town witt
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FORT WORTH HAS
PASSED 100000
Becomes Sixty Fifth City in United
States and Eleventh in South.

Washington, Aug. 2s.-Advance OF
of Fort Worth, Tex, into the list Of
cities OF the 1000 class with total
of 106.4S2. ranks that city as 65th
largest municipality in the United
States. The Texas city jumped from
18th rank which it held ten years ago,
passing Kansas City, Kan, Yonkers,
Lynn, Duluth, Tacoma Elizabeth,
Lawrence, Mass, and Utica
Fort Worth's rank among Southern
cities however, falls from tenth to
eleventh, Norfolk having moved into
tenth place with a population over
5000 larger than that of Fort
Worth's. -
Texas now has four cities in the
100000 class-San Antonio, Dallas,
Houston and Fort Worth
Other reports are:
Hot springs, Ark, 1895, decrease
2,739 or 1910 per cent
Corpus Christi, Tex, 1882, increase
$500 or $50 per cent.
Green Bay, Wis, 31,017 increase
5,7s1 or 22.9 per cent.
State of Georgia (revised) 2,Ss3,955
increase 2s4.S34 or 1919 percent.
Eastpoint, Ca. 5,241, increase 1853
or 42.3 per cent.
Houma, La. $3.50, increase 1876 or At
per cent.
Oklahoma, Miss, $3.50, increase 1858
or 49.1 per cent.
Wayne county, Mich, containing
Detroit LIT, 706. increase 646.115 or
121.5 per cent
Los Angeles county, Calf, contain
ing Los Angeles, 9Se,43S increase
432.307 or 85.S per cent.
Buffalo, N. Y, (revised) 506,775,
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previously announced at 505,S75-
Georgia places: Covington, 2,Ss6;
Porterdale 1850; Rockmart 1,40O;
Dawson 3.504
Louisiana places. De Quincy 1923;
Sulphur 1,714; Vinton. 1,441; sTallulah
1916; Franklinton 964
Mississippi places: Pass Christian
1857; Long Beach $50.
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her brother, J. c. Brown.
Miss Florence Cooey, nurse at the
state hospital at Chattahoochee, is
spending her vacation in town with
relatives.
Misses Meta Brigham, Clara Harris,
and Mamie Brown left Friday night
for Pensacola for a visit of two weeks
to Mrs. z. II. Gavin.
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FRANKLIN SHERIFF
KILLS ONE IN RAID

Carrablele, Aug. 28.-Deputy Sher-
IN S. y. Lawhorn raided place on
East Point near here. last night, and
killed one negro and jailed four here,
charged with Illicit distiIiing.
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ZELICA GROTTO TO
RECEIVE PETITIONS

zelica Grotto, No. 60, will hold a
regular meeting at O'Clock Wednes-
day night for the purpose of receiv-
ing and balloting on applications. A
big ceremonial will be held early in
September and it is expected that a
record breaking class win travel over
the tumultous journey which leads TO
the enchanted realm.
There are 100000 Germans IN Al
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There are 100000 Germans IN Al
sace-Lorraine
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Protecting the Indians

E. d. Mossman, superintendent
of the Fort Peck Indian reservation,
in a letter addressed to "the towns
and business men of the reservation
announces that he is ready to make
a per capita payment of $50 to the
Indians in his charge. The total
amount to be disbursed is 6 900.
This payment, however," the let
ter says, will be held up until the
towns on this reservation can assure
US that no more gambling or booze
will be allowed in these towns during
the time and subsequent to this pay
ment. At the present time when
money is so hard to get it is criminal
for any person to gamble or spend
his money drinking booze and we de-
sire to throw every safeguard around
these Indians in the towns by clean
ing up this gambling which is going
on in at least one or two towns and
there appears to be booze in every
town with possibly the exception of
The payment will not be
made in towns which refuse to clean
up"
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ONE SHOT LEFT, YOUTH STOOD OFF FOUR
MOUNTED SIOUX; KILLED ONE AND ESCAPED

w. III. Dickinson, who was one of
Missouia's first postmasters and who
was also the first photographer in the
Bitter Root valley, was the hero of
an incident at the old trading post at
Fort Peck that made him a reputa-
tion as an Indian fighter. The story
used to be well known up and down
the Missouri river to the old time
trappers, traders and river men, but
there are few alive today who recol-
lect the event. Colonel G.. r. (Bill)
Norris of Lewistown happened to be
at Fort Peck at the time, and at the
last meeting of the Society of Mon
tana Pioneers he related it, although
he had forgotten the name of the
hero of the tale. Curiously enough,
one of the men who heard Colonel
Norris' story happened to find an
account of the incident in an old his
torical work on Montana, and thus
discovered that the man who figur-
ed in it was Dickinson.
Old Fort Peck was n of the most
interesting trading posts OF the river.
1t was located on the north bank of
the Missouri, opposite the mouth of
the Big Dry, On the southern bound
airy line of Valley county, and should
not be confused with the Indian
agency called Fort Peck, which was
later built at the mouth of Poplar
river on the Missouri. Old Fort Peck
was a stockaded, fortified trading
post that stood, not in the center of
an open space on the river bottom, as
did most of the old trading posts, but
directly under an extremely steep
bank that had been cut by the river.
1t was constantly besieged by the
Sioux, who tried to pick off men
around the post from the top of the
bank, bat the Indians who did this
took desperate risks, as it was i'm
possible for a marksman to shoot
down into the fort without exposing
himself, and the sharpshooters in the
post were constantly on the watch for
a head on the bank to shoot at.
Stranded at Fort Peck
Dickinson, who made his first trip
to Montana in 1865, went down the
river in the fall of 1868 and started
back up again from Sioux City, Ia.
on the steamboat Sully, on May 81,
1859. The river was low that sea-
son, and when they reached Fort
Peck the boat could go no further.
Some of the passengers proceeded on
foot up the river to Fort Benton,
while others remained at the fort I'M
til teams could be procured from
there to transport them. Fort Ben
ton was SOC miles further up by
river. Among those who stayed at
the fort was Dickinson.
Several weeks passed and time
hung heavy on his hands, and despite
repeated warnings of the danger of
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-16

Last week at her home in Missoula
Mrs. w. II. Dickinson, who was Mis-
seula's first school teacher, celebrat-
ed her elghty-second birthday. In
the evening she was the guest OF
honor at a reception given by the
Missoula Woman's club and the Par
ent-Teachers' organizations of the
city. Greetings from the people of
the Garden City were extended to
Mrs. Dickinson by Major H. T. Wilk-
inson, and one of the interesting
features of the evening was the read
ing by Mrs. Tylar B. Thompson of an
article, prepared by Mrs. Dickinson,
describing her journey to Montana
81 years ago and pioneer life in the
Bitter Root valley, when she was the
first school teacher there in 1869-70.
Mrs. Dickinson. who is remarkably
well and active for her years, is the
mother of three children. Two of
these, a SON, w. o. Dickinson; and a
daughter, Mrs. Robert Hardness, live
in Missoula. Another daughter, Mrs.
Philo Haynes. lives in Great Falls.
Mrs. Dickinson has also IA grand
children and n great-grandchild.
Mrs. Dickinson's maiden name was
Emma G. Slack. Her father and mo-
Their came from New Jersey, but went
to Baltimore to live shortly after
their marriage, and she was born
there. Her father, who operated a
small stage line between Baltimore
and Carlisle, died five months after
her birth, when her mother moved to
Carroll county, Md. There Mrs.
Dickinson spent her girlhood and at
tended school. Later she taught
school till she came to Montana.
Mrs. Dickinson was always of an
adventurous disposition, and had
some exciting experiences during the
Civil war. One Of these was during
and after the Battle of Gettysburg,
when with 3 number of other Balti-
more girls she went out to nurse the
wounded.
In 1851, at the age of II, her
brother, John A. Slack, had left home
and made the long journey around
Cape Horn to California. For eleven
years he drffted between the gold
camps of the west, and his family
back in Maryland did not hear from
him until 1852, when he came from
the Idaho camps to Montana and
took up a ranch just below Fort
Owen, in the Bitter Root valley. The
letters he wrote home inspired in his
sister a desire to see the western
wilderness, and in 1869 she wrote to
him that she had made up her mind
to take the trip.
1.-The first letter we got from my
brother vas like hearing from the
dead" said Mrs. Dickinson. "It was
mailed from Salt Lake City, where he
sent it with a friend. After that we
wrote to him at his nearest postof-
flee, which was Bannack, Montana's
first gold camp, 200 miles away. He
had married and had three children
when / left for Montana in 1869.
Chicago I'm 1869
Johns wife was a Miss Chaffin,
he had married in 1864. In
the fall of 1868, his brother-in-law,
Amos Chaffin, made a trip east from
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MISS0UlA'S FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER CELEBRATES HER 82RD
BIRTHDAY; MURSED WOUNDED ON FIELD AFTER GETTYSBURG

lilies in Missoula at the time, and the
settlement was just getting a start,
THE next day we went to my bro
theirs ranch nea Fort Owen, where
I met my sister-in-law and her three
little ones. Within a few days the
white people living in that neighbor-
hood decided that they wanted a
school, and offered me $50 a month
to teach it. I went to Missoula to
get a certificate from the school
board, which had just organized, and
when they found that / had taught
school, they offered me 500 a month
to teach the school there. / thought
1t over and accepted.
There was nothing with which TO
fit out or equip a school, and the
school house consisted of a frame
building big enough to accommodate
40 children, but when school opened
for the summer term there we're only
10 scholars, one or two as young as
four years. A large table, a few
benches, and a chair for the teacher
made up the furniture. A black
board was shortly forthcoming and
the table was used by the boys and
girls for writing on. Nearly every
pupil had a different sort of school
book.
This first school in Missoula
stood where the Missoula Mercantile
Company's big store stands today.
The stores the little settlement had
then were on West Front street, and
South Missoula was a prairie from
the river TO the canyon-not a tree
nor a shrub. Often people would get
lost in crossing the plain during
billiards., and I remember some that
lasted three days and nights. In
1870 the school was moved into the
log cabin that Captain Higgins re-
from when he moved into his
new home, which was built where the
Higgins block now stands. That log
school house stood where the Dono-
hue store now stands. Frank and
John Higgins were among my first
Mrs. James Reinhart, still
in Missoula, also attended.
I'm the summer of 1871 the
school was again moved to a build
ing on West Main street, and that
year l had "a pupils. With the end
of that term my school teaching
ceased, and in that fall l was mar
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a chance at them. Neither did they
want to let him escape and leave
their comrade unavenged.
Dickinson, with not a shot left,
stood cody for a few minutes with
his rifle owe his arm, as though
ready for another attack and per-
fectly confident. For a minute he
couldn't understand why the dead
Indians pony did not run off, and
then in a flash he saw the reason.
The Indians, in warfare, used to
wrap the end of the rawhide rope
that served as a bride around tie
girdle at their belts. The other end
was half-hitched around the pony's
jaw. When an Indian was shot off
his horse, or, if the animal stumbled
and threw him, he was not left afoot,
provided he was not too badly hurt
to crawl back onto his steed. The
Indian he had killed had followed
the usual custom, so his dead body
now acted as a hitching weight to
the horse.
Rides Back in Triumph
This gave the boy a chance for
his life, so ne ran to the horse and
unfastened the rope from the body
of the Sioux, climbed a~wkwardly into
the high-cantled Indian saddle and
started the pony toward the fort at
a gallop. The three Sioux started to
try to head him off, but when he
threw up his gun as though to shoot,
they veered off and finally rode out
of sight. Dickinson rode triumphant
ly into fha n0cf h;c f1aa and ChIrf
red with blood from the flesh wound
in his cheek, which was soon healed,
however.
The next morning Dickinson rode
out with a party to the scene OF the
fight and found the body of the
Sioux. He scalped his slain enemy
and took his gun and clothing. He
kept the scalp and gun as mementoes,
and his widow still has them at her
home in Missoula. Dickinson also
kept the pony and took it to the Bit
ter Root with him.
Dickinson opened the first photo
graph gallery in western Montana at
Missoula in 1870, and in 1872 was
postmaster, his salary be-
ing $40 a year. He held the office
for IA years, after which he went into
the real estate business and was also
interested in mining operations.
The marriage of Dickinson TO
Miss Emma c. Slack, Missoula's
school teacher, in 1871, was
performed by Bishop Tiff, OF the
Episcopal church, who was
then a missionary preacher and built
the first Methodist church in Mon
tana at Aissoula. This wedding was
The first performed in the Bitter
Dickinson died In 1910 at the age
20.
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four Sioux warriors charging down
on him on their ponies. They were
then almost upon him and each had
his rifle ready to shoot. Before he
could throw his gun to his shoulder
the four rifles cracked and Dickin-
son felt the sting of a bullet in his
cheek. Being a Civil war veteran
and a crack shot, when he pulled
the trigger in a SNAP shot at one of
the Sioux braves, he had the satisfac-
ton of seeing the Indian fall from
his pony and roll dead on the ground
with a bullet hole through his heart
that a man could stick his fist
through.
The other three Indians checked
their horses a few hundred yards
away and held a consultation. They
had seen an example of Dickinson's
shooting and didn't care to give him
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Montana and came to Maryland to
Visit us. He brought money from
my brother and urged me and my
half-brother, Lamar Kelly, to go west
to make a visit in Montana. We fl
nally decided to do SO, despite the
misgivings of our friends, who saw
us off at the station with many tears.
This was in April, 1869, and our
first stopping place was Chicago,
where we arrived on a Saturday even
ing. We went to the Palmer House,
which then vas considered the finest
hotel in America. We went to church
Sunday morning and spent that after
noon and Monday morning looking
over the city, a mighty lively place,
l thought. We then took train for
Sioux City, reaching there the same
evening. My h~alf-brother went at
once to interview the agents for the
various river steamers going to Mon
tana, several of which were tied up
along the river bank. All excepting
one, the Molly Ebert, which was the
biggest boat among them, charged
500 for a passage from Sioux City
to Fort Benton. The captain had his
wife aboard for the trip, and he was
taking only a few passengers, all of
whom were men, so he made us a
special offer of $50 apiece, his wife
being glad to have a girl along as a
companion. |
1.-THE captain said that if We were
lucky we would make the trip to
Fort Benton in three weeks, but it
would all depend upon having plenty
of water in the river. Our first stop
was at Yankton, and while the boat
was being loaded with woodwork
ed, they called 1.-THE captain and
his wife took a stroll with my brother
and me along the bank. There | saw
Indians for the first time-a squaw
and some bucks. / was quite excited
about it and tried to talk with them,
but with no success.
Troubles on the River
"At first we really did enjoy the I
trip. The boat was not at all crowd
ed and / found the captains wife
pleasant and companionable. The
novelty of the journey was still with
me and what we could see of the
country interested me. But after a
while we struck a sandbar and the
boat grounded. The crew had to go
to work to get it off. Even this ex-
perience had its interest the first
time it happened, but when we ran on
to more sandbars and then more, and
we had to spend days on them, it be-
came extremely monotonous.
"Our next excitement was seeing
the first buffalo encountered on the
trip. We had been watching eagerly
to catch a glimpse of one, and time
time a false alarm would be
given and we would all rush to the
deck, only to be disappointed. FL
nally, however, we did see a herd
the river ahead of us near
a wood yard, where we had stopped
to take on fuel. Another boat, head
ed down the river, was at the yard
also, and as some of the men aboard
her had killed one, they gave us
meat. We were glad to get the |
fresh meat, but I soon had enough of