The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-09-02
MOTHER BURDETTE
TOURING MONTANA
WIDOW OF FAMOUS BURLINGTON
HAWKEYE HUMORIST ASTON
ISHED BY CROPS.
In Luxurious Limousine She Is Roll
ing Along Prairie and Valley Roads
Between Yellowstone and Glacier
Parks; Is ON Republican National
Committee.

The presence in Montana of Mrs
Robert j. Burdette of California ,or
a tour through the state last week re-
called to many old timers the days OF
her famous husband, Bob" Bur
dette and his newspaper, the Burling-
ton Hawkeye, which was noted in its
day--some rs years ago-as M OF
the best-edited and most humorous
publications in America. AS a re-
suit of the Hawkeye being quoted all
over the country, it became known to
many hundreds of thousands of peo-
pie. Burdette became widely known
as a humorist and lecturer, also. He
died a few years ago in California.
Mrs. Burdete is we'll known in
Iowa and California as Mother"
Burdette, and wherever she is known
she Is loved. She is travelling in her
Observation-Disclosures Limousine,
and has been on a continuous auto
mobile tour since the close of the Re-
publican convention at Chicago,
where she was a member of the ma
tional committee on policies and
platform.
A LeisureIy Tour
LCdfIuS OhlOd6O, Oh uhO - y
Burdette motored to Des Moines, Ia,
and St. Louis, in the interest of
Woman's clubs organization work,
on the completion of which she de-
cided to spend the summer in the
open to restore her energy. Leisure
ly she proceeded on a tour of In
diana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania and New York state. After a
few days in New York City, her trip
was continued, with rest periods in
the Catskills and Adirondacks, at
Lake Mohawk and Lake Placid.
Coming west by easy stages, with
stops at picturesque spots in Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
"Mother" Burdette arrived in Mon
tana last Sunday to visit with Man
ager Tom Campbell of the Montana
Farming corporation, the largest
farming company in the world, with
headquarters neal Hardin.
Enjoying the Vacation
with nothing to interest me but
the passing show and without a
demand of any kind on my faculties,
l am enjoying a summer in the open
with the view of restoring my ener-
gies which have been taxed to the
utmost during the activities in charge
of food conservation in my home
state,A and consequent Iabors in the
interest of the nomination of Herbert
Hoover" declared Mrs. Burdette.
at cannot be said that I am going
in particular, as / have no
prepared itinerary. When l reached
Montana and had the opportunity of
over the wonderful grain
farms presided over by Mr.. Tom
l did not know whether |
would proceed west, north or south.
"Such an accomplishment in the
of production of f%oodstuffs
Is not to be equalled anywhere in the
On last Sunday I witnessed
a fleet of huge combination har-
vester-threshers at work. -Four thou
sand bushels of wheat constituted-the
work of these monster machines for
the one day, and later / say a train
Of five trucks drawn by a caterpillar
transporting 1000 bushels of
the golden grain to the shipping sta
cat Big Timber I saw the most
fields of alfalfa grown any
where in the world. We or Calfor-
MA boast of our alfalfa, but l confess
hat ours is a dwarf variety COM
pared with Montana's product of the
Sweet Grass section.
Real Scenery
"To me, the outstretched fields of
grain and forage compose the worth
While scenery of the commonwealth
which has rightly earned the title of
Treasure state. Recreation in yell
owstone park of course is alluring
it's appeal to the sentimental in
and for your B~roadwater
lotel I predict ultimate success as a
health resort, not SO much as a re-
iu1t of any curative properties of the
lot springs but as a permanent rest
,ure for the ills which af-
1ict SC many busy Americans"
ACCIDENT OR DISEASE? !