davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-08

formation gained from those now
living, who once occupied them,
give us a fair idea of how Indians
lived.
Some Indian tribes, like the
Mandans, lived in villages, and
raised corn and vegetables. These
had more substantial dwellings
than tepees, which were the homes
of the nomadic tribes that depend
ed upon hunting for a livelihood,
as did most of our northern In
dams.
Lodges differed greatly in size.
their covering ranging all the way
from eight to thirty buffalo hides,
the larger to accommodate poly
gamous families, where there were
sometimes eight or more wives.
Polygamy among the Indians
should not be judged from the
standpoint Of a civilized people, but
as a custom forced upon them by
their mode Of life. Because of the
hazards of the chase and war, the
number of men and women was
disproportionate; the latter being
in the majority. Without poly
gamy, the single women would
have been uncared for and objects
of charity.
None but the rich Indians could
afford to have many wives, and
these sometimes found it difficult
to provide food for them all, this
being gained by hunting, not by
purchase.
The women made the lodge COW
erings of tanned COW buffalo hides,
cut to fit together, and sewed with
thread of sinew. Often these COW
erings were decorated with en-
broidered or painted designs. The
Crows being especially skilful in
such work. A lodge Of 28 hides
required thirty psles thirty-six
feet long-a horse could draw but
two of these, thus requiring Is
ponies for the transportation alone.
Before the northern Indians had
horses, moving day for them could
have been no holiday.
The larger lodge coverings were
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-08

general conception of the position
of the Indian woman needs to be
considerably modified. While there
is no question that the woman S
work was severe, yet there is album
dant evidence that they performed
their tasks willingly, and took
great pride in doing their work
we'll"
The men bathed daily, and the
women frequently took sweat
baths. $50 state Schultz. McClin-
took says women never took
sweat bath y. They were quite as
clearly, | know from observation,
as the average man who lives long
in the wilderness, cut off from civ
ilization. When | was living at
Fort Benton, Indians frequently
camped near my house. ] often
watched with amazement the eff
forts of the squaws to keep their
tepees clean, using brooms of will
low twigs, to sweep the din floor.
They also took great pride in hav-
ing their children look well. / of
ten thought that under such dis
couraging circumstances, | never
could have taken such pains.
Children were named by me-
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-08
A NEW OIL LAMP FREE

E1uEA VFI0 TIT
II. p. Johnson 600 w. Lake ST., Chi
cag0, Ill.,, the inventor Of a wonderful new
oil lamp that burns 94cd air and beats
gas or electricity, is offering to give one
free to the first user in each locality who
will help introduce II. Write him for par
ticulars Agents wanted.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-08

Indians were superstitious. They
recognized their kinship to the
lower animals, and believed they
could help or injure them. They
worshipped the sun. 1t was some
thing they could see, feel, and that
they thought they understood. All
good came from it, and to it they
made offerings. Faith alone was
not for thern-they must have
something tangible to worship.
The Piegans believed the Giant
Spring, near Great Falls, received
their offerings, and carried them
to the sun-god. 1t was a sacred
spot,
"And whatever is cast in here
When the boiling waters rise,
Passes yonder to the sun-god
Far away within the skies"
They prayed to the sun, and
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-08

of the nation, and from these will be
selected the Queen Petrolia. This
trip of Montana's Queen to the Tul-
sa show is made possible by the
management of the Billings Daily
Gazette, who have arranged to de-
fray all of the expenses of Queen
Montana and her chaperon escort
In the voting at the state fair,
Miss Harriet Thompson of Billings,
Yellowstone county was second and
Miss Alya Larson Of Choteau was
third.
Queen Wana is most charming
Montana girl, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles E. Edwards Of
Forsyth, and a graduate nurse from
the Presbyterian hospital at Chi
oago. She is tall and stately In her
bearing, quietly reserved but with a
gracious personality.
Queen Wana's court comprises a
corps of Montana's fairest maidens,
a representative from almost every
county in the state. These county
princesses who were present at her
court were as follows:
Miss Nora Larson, Seobey, Daniels county.
Miss Marion Hatfield, Hamilton, Rayalli
county.
Georgia b Hannah, Circle McCoue county.
Irene Hendershott, Lavina, Golden Valley
county.
Elizabeth Nelson, Dagmar, Sheridan
county.
Ethyle Bensch, Deer Lodge. Powell county.
Adeline Brady, Winnett, Fergus county.
Catherine Grenier, Poison, Lake county.
Mildred Hale. Townsend, Broadwater
Ina Elser, Laurin Madison county.
Alvah Larson, Choteau, Teton county.
Verna Heckathorn, Ekalaka, Carter county.
Frances Myrlck, Harlowtown, Wheatlend
Marguerite st. Dennis, Waller. Pondera
county.
Nora Osborn, Jordan Garfield county.
lone Gardner, Alberton, Mineral county
Harriet Thompson, Billings, Yellowstone
county.
Emma Smith, Malta, Phillips county.
Verona Stockwell Musseshell county
Aileen Stronaeh, Chester Liberty county
Rusella Castillo, Paradise, Sanders county
Elizabeth Butte Kinsy, Custer county.
Adeline collum, White sulphur Springs
atherine Ruzard. Bozeman. Gallatin
Katherine Kalfelf. Zero. Prairie county
Helen Il. Rue, Biddle, Powder River
Dorothy Scanlon. Hardin, Big Horn
Alice Buckley, Harlem. Blaine county.
Lillian Knapp, Big Timber, Sweet Gras
county.
Florence Coughlin, Fort Benton, choteal
county.
Gladys White Stanford, idith Basin
Faye Mortified, Rapelle. saltwater county
Rosemary Cavanaugh Butte, Silver Bow
Dorcey Bonnell, Livingston. Park county
Frona Wigmore. Havre, Hill county.
Lucille Kelley, Shelby, Toole county.
Sylvia Morris, Baker, Fallon county.
Dorothy James Culbertson Roosevelt
Mary Tattan, Glasgow, Valley county.
GLADYS Mnsselman. Cut Bank, Glacier
Beatrice Bilyup. Wihaux county.
Freda Alum, Great Falls Cascade county
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-08
FIRST RAILROAD COMES
TO OREGON TOWN AFTER
WAIT OF FIFTY YEARS

The town Of Burns, Oregon,
has a railroad, the first in its his
tory. Realizing dream of its
citizens, dating back nearly fifty
years, the first passenger train
pulled into town on September "a,
while hundreds of people from ev-
cry section OF the countryside
gathered to cheer tn achievement.
Among the crowds that welcomed
the 13-coach Union Pacific train
were many children who had
never before seen one. The road
Is an extension from Crane, Ore,
and will he used mainly for the
transportation of lumber.
Back In 1877 survey was made
through Burns for railroad but
the plans fell through.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-08
: CutIcura Comforts saby's skin

When red, rough and itching with hot
baths Of Cuticura Soap and touches Of
Cuticura Ointment. Also make use
now and then of that exquisitely scent
ed busting powder, Cuticura Talcum.
one Of the indispensable Cuticura
Toilet Trio.--Adv.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-08

ers have turn
ished us with
descriptions of
early lodges,
W h n buffalo
70 a m e d the
p | in s, and
something more
substantial than
cotton cloth or
canvas was us
ed as a cover
ing. These de-
scriptions, elk
ed out with in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-12-26

Best of Everything in Meats
MAY CHRISTMAS BRING YOU
JOYS THAT LAST LONG AFTER
IT'S BRIGHT DAY is PAST.
CLEAN CLOTHES SHOP
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-12-26

Hear the JOY bells ring
And the angels sing
Peace on earth, good will to men.
Each heart must raise
Its song Of praise,
For Christmas time is come again!
NGWALSON COMPANY INC.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
Vote Down Appropriation
for FennimOre Hen Show

The count board at its Wednesday
evening session sat rudely on meas
ure to give the Fennimore poultry
show 500 to be used as prize money,
there being few asserting votes. Those
not in favor argued that there was no
more good reason for giving 500 of
the county's money for poultry
show at Fennimore than there was for
other shows and other classes of live
stock in the county. And it was con-
sidered good time to stop as last
year $50 was asked for and granted.
The 500 extra granted the Children's
Home Society over last year was re-
covered in the next proposition con-
sidered when the Fennimore grab
was turned down.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
GOOD ROADS PLANNED

In addition to the 3-year hard ROAD
program before the county highway
commission is preparing to solicit the
state for federal aid on the Patch
Grove-Mt. Ida gap of clay on S. t. l..
10, a distance of IL miles. 1t is
thought federal aid can be secured to
hard surface this important piece of
road in 1926. It's completion would
mean hard surface from the lake to
the river, Milwaukee to Pra. du CHEN.
An effort will also be made to have
the state conservation commission
hard surface the road from S. t. l..
10 to Nelson Dewey state park. Two
routes are proposed-one from the
head of Bridgeport hollow and the
other from the south side of the Wis
consin river bridge to the park. The
last route is probably the shortest and
the most feasible.
The conservation commission is al
lowed a portion of the auto license
money to build tourist roads from
state trunk lines only to state parks.
This fund will amount to $4,000 for
use in 1926. An effort will be made to
get every nickel of the 1926 approprl-
alton for the Nelson Dewey park out
let.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
81, 500 ALLOWED
FOR WORLD WAR
DEAD MEMORIAL
Measure Passed Co. Board
Unanimously; Committees
Named to Act.

A measure to provide a memorial
for world war dead of the county as
proposed by w. J. Brennan before the
county board, passed by unanimous
vote at the Wednesday night session.
The resolution carries an appropria-
ton of $1,000 from the county funds
to be amplified by donations from pri-
vate citizens. While it is too early to
say how much money can be raised
for this purpose memorial of some
kind costing $4,000 or better is not
too low an estimate.
Chairman Eastman appointed the
following committee to act in the mat
ter: Board members J. G. Kraemer,
Montfort; w. G. Hymer, Potosi; Harry
Williams, Hazel Green; Emil Fritz,
Woodman; Val Gunderman, James
town. Citizens-W J. Brennan, RMS.
r. B. Showalter, Lancaster; Geo. R.
Barden, Platteville; John T. Ruka,
Boscobel; Mrs. Victor Hefflund, Fen
nimore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
DANCE HALL
ORDIN A nee
GOES THROUGH
Slightly Modified Measure in
Effect SOOn.-JOker In
Regard to Towns.

The county board at its Thursday
evening session passed the ordnance
designed to regulate dance halls, to
nrevent drinking, immoral conduct,
yulgarity and rowdyism at the palaces
of pleasure in Grant county, striking
out a few features of last years or
dinance which failed to pass, ana max"
inc it slightly less drastic.
A section requiring dance hall prop
rietors to have floor managers was
taken out. Salary for dance lnspec-
tors was raised from So to $4 night
with mileage A subsection as foI-
lows was taken out: ITO issue pass
checks or other checks permitting a.
nerson or persons to leave and re-
enter the dance hall building, except
during q definite intermiSs1on PERIOD
of Is minutes" This was deemed al
together too drastic and the new or
dinance does not contain the feature
The extreme penalty for failure to
comply with the ordinance was re-
duced from a $1,000 fine to a 500 fine
and a term of year in prison was
cut to six months in Jail. Substantial
lv otherwise the ordinance goes.
The new ordinance is ambiguous
and contradictory in referring 10
dances in cities and villages. 1t says:
"AIl dance halls within the corporate
limits of cities and villages are
deemed to be regulated by sufflclent
and satisfactory regulations provided
by ordinances of such cities and VII
lagos, and for that reason are eX-
empted from the provisions OF TINS
ordinance, subject, however, to this
ordinance" In other words the CITY
and village terpsichoreans are exempt
ed but held A good many will feel 1T
can't be done"
In general the ordinance, effective
upon passage and publication, pro-
vides that:
All public dance halls must be Ii
censed.
All dances held without license are
unlawful,
Annual license fees shall be SIS.
The county chairman and clerk
pass on and issue licenses.
Persons whose principal business is
giving dances shall pay fee of 500.
A committee of three county board
members shall act as dance hall in
spection committee.
Each dance shall have an inspec-
tor with powers of deputy sheriff.
Farmers may give one barn dance
a year without paying license fee.
Dances shall not run later than one
a. m.
Bootleggers, rowdies, drunkards and
libertines will not be allowed on dance
hall premises.
List of Objectionable persons will be
filed with county clerk.
Cost Of enforcement will be paid
out of inspection fees. (Maybe.)
Children under 16 not allowed in
dance halls.
The ordinance applies only to pub
lie dances run for profit at which an
admission fee is charged. Church,
school and club dances are exempted.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
County Board Votes
$500 for Child Charity

Following a strong appeal by Rev.
Zechial of Madison, field man for the
Children's Home Society of WiscOn-
sin, the county board at it's Wednes-
day session voted $500 for the society.
Rev. Zechiel cited the cases of seven
children of the county for whom good
homes had been located in the past
year. Had the county been forced to
send these children to a state infirm-
airy the little charges would have cost
the taxpayers 81 a week board each
or $2S week and around $1,400 a
year Rev. Zechiel asked for $500,
saying the society would stand the
other $1,100. He was given what he
asked for without demur.
In the case of the Pafford family
of Beetown, the parents had four
bright and winsome little boys but
were unable to give them a proper
home and raising. County authorities
stepped in and sent the father and
mother to the county home. The boys
were turned over to the Children's
Home Society and good homes have
been found for them. Rev. Zechiel said
the oldest, a boy of z, had probably
never had $25 worth of clothing in
his life Since reaching his new home
the little chap has received 500 worth
of clothes from his new father and
mother. He goes to school resplen-
dent in new suit, new overcoat, ne~s
rubber boots. etc. He makes not less
than IS standing in his lessons and
is so willing to do chores for his fos-
ter parents that he undertakes tasks
much too large for him.
Rev. Zechiel also takes occasion to
call on citizens who are of philan-
thropic turn and wish to help the
work he is engaged in. He meets with
a generous response wherever he
goes. Last year the society took care
of nearly 800 cases of homeless waits.
Good homes are found and the society
retains supervision until the child be-
comes of age. If it is found that the
new parents are looking for cheap la
Dor the child is taken from them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
ROAD SIDELIGHTS

Jubilation reigned in the county
highway office Thursday following the
passage of the committees sweeping
program for better roads in Grant
county.
Henry Mink, commissioner, drew
the plan with the committees full APP
proval. Mr.. Mink's knowledge of the
intricate road system of the county
and his years of experience make him
an invaluable man for the work.
NJ. w. Metcalf, who might be termed
the father of good roads in Grant
county," was particularly happy. Mr..
Metcalf was badly cut up and disap-
pointed year ago when his meritori-
Gus plan was voted down. But the
board redeemed itself in Mats eyes
Thursday and the grand old man of
the good roads movement was as hap
py as a clam at high tide.
Thursday night the board reelected
the present highway committee and
commissioner. The committee present
ed plan for next years road work
following out the first year of the
three-year program. The total sum to
be spent is $4,000. Next years coun-
ty expenditures will go in as follows:
S. T. L. No. 35, from ITackett to
Bloomington, $4,000. This will give
Bloomington hard road to Lancas-
ter and thence north to Fennimore
over the federal improvement, and out
of the county on hard roads.
S. T. L. 81, Platteville to Ellenboro,
$4,000. This will take care of about
six miles of road between Platteville
and Lancaster, leaving several miles
between Lancaster and Ellenboro I'M
surfaced. This will have to go in later.
Fennimore to Boscobel, $4,000. This
will completely hard surface the road
between the two cities.
Co. Trunk G., Muscoda end, $4,000.
Co. Trunk o., Cassville end, $4,000.
Liberty school house to Sitter,
$6,192.55.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE IN PAR
Triton

State of Wisconsin. In Circuit Court for
Grant County.
Carrie C. Wilka and W. L. wilka her
husband, Norma o. Weichert and George
Weichert, her husband, and Roxa E.
Gasner Plaintiffs, VS..
John A. Gasner and Ice Gasner, his
wife, Defendants.
BY virtue of judgment of partition and
sale entered and made in the above
titled action on the 30th day of October,
county, Wisconsin, will sell at the front
door of the Court House, in the City of
Lancaster, in said county, on the I'd day
of January, 1926 at one o'clock in the af-
ternoon of that day, the real estate directed
by said judgment to be sold and therein
described as follows, to-wit-
The Northeast quarter and the North
east quarter of the Southeast quarter of
Section Six (6); the West one-half of the
Northwest quarter of Section Five (5); the
East one-half of the Southeast quarter of
the Southwest quarter of Section Seven %
and the Northeast quarter of the Southeast
quarter of Section Eighteen QS), all in
Township Five CD North of Range Six 90
West of the Fourth Principal Meridian.
Also. the South one-half of the Southwest
quarter of Section Thirty-one (31), less two
(2) acres in the Northwest corner thereof.
Also the South one-half of the Southeast
quarter of said Section Thirty-one (31).
Also, two (2) acres in the Southeast cor
ner of the Northwest quarter of the South
west quarter of said Section Thirty-one (31),
and the Southwest quarter of the South
west quarter of Section Thirty-two (32) all
in Town Six go North of Range Six CD
West of the Fourth Principal Meridian all
in Grant County, State of Wisconsin,
Terms of sale cash.
J. H. EDGE,
40c6 Sheriff Of said C,oun+v
Brennan Carthew, Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
Oversee Plane Travel
Predicted by FOkke1

New YOrk-From London to New
York in "a hours will be a routine and
ordinary trip within 10 years, accord
ing to H. G. Fokker, head of the FOX
ker airplane works at Amsterdam
within 10 years, small airplanes
will be running regularly across the
Atlantic in "a hours, carrying passen-
gers at only slight increase in cost
over steamships" he declared Friday
after his arrival on the Mauretania
"The Fokker works is now turning
out 500 airplantes a year." he said.
about 80 per cent are for military
purposes, being bought mainly by Ar
gentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Portugal
and the Scandinavian countries"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
VIOLATORS OF
LIQUOR LAW GO
TO MILWAUKEE
Board Votes to Send Offend
ers to House of Correction.
Rock Pile Considered.

After considering whether to send
future liquor law violators to coun-
ty rock pile or the Milwaukee House
of Correction, the board at its
Wednesday night session chose the
latter place for various reasons.
Chairman Eastman was instructed to
select committee of three to confer
with the Milwaukee county authorities
and arrange for boarding Grant coun-
ty prisoners, the same to cost Grant
county not to exceed $3.50 week.
Transportation both ways to be paid
by Grant county.
The farcical effect of the Huber
"hard labor" law as applied at pres
ent caused the county board to make
it's stern decision. Under the present
method the prisoner receives a rig
orous sentence from the judge, gem
orally thousand dollar fine or six
months in Jail. Not having the one
grand the bootIegger choose Jail. Then
the high comedy begins.
Under the Huber law the sheriff is
required to find work for the prisoner
and pay his earnings to his depen-
dents. There being no one but the rel
ative to bid on his services the man
goes home as rule and remains there
until his sentence expires, undergo
ing no punishment whatsoever.
Under the new plan the prisoner
will again be given his choice of a
fine or Imprisonment. There being no
joke features about a stay at the Mil
waukee hostelry he will probably pay
his fine and the county will be saved
quite an item of expense. The con-
victed man will actually pay penal
ty for his misdeeds. If he errs a sec
ond time he will probably find that
his sentence carries no fine option
and the mattress or shoe departments
of the Milwaukee institution will stare
him in the face. This would have a
SOLDERING effect on his propensity to
sell booze for profit, county board
members say.
Under the. county rock pile plan,
discussed and abandoned, the county
would be required to pay the prisoner
dollar a day and board him as long
as he put in his hours. 1t would al
so require an overseer although there
might be but one prisoner. The Mil
waukee plan seemed better and cheap
err,