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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
N. D. Progressive Farmers
Have Good Social Meeting

Bowbells, N. D.-The Western
Progressive Farmers council of Wo-
burn met at the e. J. Marks home
Sunday afternoon, Sept. 2. Due to
the press of the busy season and with
everyone tired from the weeks hard
work it was decided to dispense with
the educational program. However,
three of the councils staunch mem
bers brought their usual contributions.
After listening to their essays the
time was spent in visiting.
At six o'clock delicious lunch was
served, consisting of water melon,
sandwiches, fruit salad, cake and cof-
fee. The next meeting of the organ
ization will be held at the Francis
Ingerson home on October 7th. Mr..
and Mrs. Ingerson will have charge
of the educational program at this
meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
FRANK SMITH VISITED
BY TWO BROTHERS

Frank Smith, we'll known and pop
ular barber at the Hilyard barber
shop in this city, was surprised Mon
day by a visit from two Of his bro
theirs, William of Detroit, Mich, and
Jap" from Fargo. The two brothers
were just returning from trip to the
west coast and stopped off on their
way home to visit with Frank ard
family. They left Wednesday after a
very pleasant time spent in this city.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
WELL KNOWN FROID
LADY PASSES AWAY

Mrs. w. A. Wheeler, we'll known
pioneer lady of Froid, died at her
home in that community Monday eve
ming at 8 o'clock following a stroke Of
apoplexy. She was &c years of age.
The funeral was held Wednesday
at 2 o'clock and interment was made
in the Froid cemetery.
The Wheeler family has the sin
cere sympathy of large number of
friends in Plentywood and at Froid
in their hour of bereavement.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
Little Henderson Boy Breaks
Arm While Playing at School

Leo Henderson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hans Henderson of Archer, had
the misfortune to break his arm on
Thursday of last week. This is the
little fellows first week of school and
the accident happened while he was
playing in the school yard with his
playmates. He was brought to Plen-
tywood where the x-ray disclosed the
fact that both bones of the left fore
arm were fractured. The fracture
was reduced and at this time Leo is
doing nicely.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
HUNTING SEASON OPENS
NEXT SUNDAY, SEPT. 16

Next Sunday, 80 minutes before
sunrise, the roar Of the hunters guns
will be heard in every lake and marsh
OF Sheridan county. The ducks are
plentiful this year and the quota will
be filled by the sharpshooters, while
all will get at least a meal.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

coating of gravel in the bad ro,.,-
The huge amount of traffic on V u.
Plentywood streets this fall mado ~. si'
work very necessary and the citv a ''l''
are endeavoring to take care ~ 81 us aus
situation. "ie VI The
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
J. j. Gunther Receiving
Medical Treatment From
Mayos at Rochester, MINI.

Attorney J. J. Gunther, candidate
FOR judge of the twentieth judicial dis
trict on the democratic ticket, left
last week for Rochester, Mimi, where
ne will consult the Mayo brothers in
regard to his health. Mr.. Gunther's
i'll health came as a surprise to his
friends in this city and it is hoped
that the noted surgeons will find mo-
thing of a serious nature.
Grass Range-Growers ship five
cars of prize cattle to st. Paul mar
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
MARIE HARELAND
CONTINUED from page onel

Continued from page Onel
ell and Mrs. Henry Barner, are assist
ing me in counting the ballots and
assure all the young ladies that they
will receive every vote coming to
them.
"The votes were counted Thursday
evening, Sept. 13 and the results were
found to be as follows:
Marie Hareland ......-................-.1O1, 500
Carol HOeck .-...................---..... $4,000
Glow Krebsbach 900
S1gne Bentesen .--..-~~.................. $500
Margaret COsper ......-..--..-.a..-.... 200
Helen Reuter- ....................A....... 400
"This race is nobody's race yet and
the one that is lowest on the list has
as good a chance as the one having
the highest number. The Princess
contest last year, of which / was man
ager, proved that the last few days
of the race were the deciding ones
and the race was very close between
the final contestants. This year the
enthusiasm seems to be much greater
than last.
81 also wish to call particular at
tention to the voting ballots appear
ing in the Producers News each week.
The last one appears in this weeks
issue. Remember these ballots which
are good for 100 votes each must be
in the ballot box by 900 o'clock sharp
Thursday, September 20.
whichever young lady wins this
contest l feel will make a Sheridan
Princess of which we may all be very
proud.
"Again / wish to impress upon the
contestants that the race is never won
until the last minute when the ballot
box is closed. My congratulations to
the winner"
Carl, BULL. Manager
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
improvements Being Made
In Streets of Plentywood

The streets Of this city are being
improved this week with a liberal
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
LOCAL MARKETS

Thursday, September 10, 1928
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

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Evening star., 1928-03-25

Rouen. where the style loses itself In a
wilderness of ornament, and prepares
for the recation that will bring the COM
parative simplicity Of architecture in
the Renaissance.
Better than this Is the Civic Gothic"
OF many noble public buildings In
France: In the Hotel dc Vile, or City
Hall, OF Arras or of Paris: In such great
chateaux as Blois and Pierrefonds, and
In such homes as that of jacques Coeur.
at Bourges. Picture In these buildings
the lavish decoration of the minor arts:
The rich tapestries. such as that which
Mathiide of Bayeux wove to tell the
story OF Williams conquest of England;
the lace and silk sewn with such les-
urcly care: the woodwork and ivory
work: the enamels that made Limoges
famous. and the furniture whose mas
culine strength or feminine beauty
shame the crude frai,ties that litter the
modern home When we think Of be-
littlinR the middle ages let us first re-
member to equal its art.
The rest must be a catalogue. which
only travel can make real The So
ourner In England will feast upon the
Gothic cathedralS at Ely. and Canter-
bury. and Lincoln. and Salisbury, and
York and Exeter: and he will marvel
at the ornate compleXity of Henry Wis
chapel in Westminster Abbey. Perhaps
some day we shall have leisure enough
to return to the bicycle and wheel at
whim through peaceful Flanders. not
stopping SO much for the cathedrals at
Antwerp and Malines, but studying tho
signs of splendid merchant power and
sturdy bourgeois taste In the Bclfry of
nf -
Louvain and Ghent. and that famous
Cloth Hall Of YpreS c'the greatest
monument OF the civic architecture OF
the Middle Agcs'). which the French
armies partly destroyed in 1902. and
the German armies completely de-
stroyed In 1914 Then at Cologne we
may stop TO see that great cathedral
which 1t took 500 years to build 1890
l880l and which Is marred by its in
ferior modern glass. and by the crowd
Ell buildings that hem it in: then We
shall. steam down the Rhine. comparing
natures architecture with that of the
castles on the hills, until we come to
StrasSburg. whose cathedral seemed SC
| fair to Goethe in his youth and so
barbarous" TO him when Rome had
made him classical.
Or shall We sail south through warm
er seas to Spain. and seee in Salaman-
cas- odd cathedral the Romanesque be-
coming Gothic in splendid union and
at Barcelona the Gothic mingled
strangely with the Moorish and Byzan-
tine styles; and at Burgos the ele-
ments of stupendous size. of mysteriou:
gloom. of grotesque and yet realistic
energy which are the dominant char
acteristics alike of Spanish architecture
and OF medieval romance" CHaveiock
ElliSl; and at Seville. rising from
Evening star., 1928-03-25

top, and that line passes forward to
meet the lines of the apse and the
transepts,
And now let the windows speak 10
us, for they are the greatest glory of
this church. Certainly the architects
thought SO. for they subordinated every
consideration to the problem of ad-
mittinc abundant light, Softening 1t
with color, and playing with Its
shadows like some giant Rembrandt
painting with the sun. The northern
architect longed for light as the south
ern MANNED for shade even under the
gloomy sky of northern France these
lordlv spaces of stained glass would
transform the clouds into sunshine as
The light poured through blue and gold
and clothed the nave with Jeweled
radiance. All the bright tenderness OF
the VIRGIN and her Son would flood
the church. and yet so softly that even
the vivid colorS would walk In harmony
with the mystic moods OF the faith.
One worshipS best when the tllumina-
ton is subdued; when the sun shines
every soul is pagan.
Back of us is one OF the famous roSee
windows OF France Every color Is
here broken into thousand frag-
meuts. and vet woven into music OF
tone that satisfies sense and mind and
heart. You know the care that went
TO make that window. and YOU en-
perience the Stified silence that comes
when We stand i'm the presence OF
genius Genius and patience are near
allied: everywhere the lessen meets us.
Nature will be hard put to It to equal
this rose.
But the rose is only the beginning:
on every side there are windows; the
very walls seem to surrender to them,
and We wonder how this frame OF
glass can bear up this colossal roof OF
stone. Yes. there are flying buttreSSeS;
but even SO these walls are too thin
and weak: We miss here the Solidity
and security Of the Parthenon: time
unaided with war. would have its way
with this beauty sooner than with
that strength.
Nevertheless these windows are
beautiful. Those at Sainte- -Chapelle,
in Paris, take the breath away with
their tall and slim delight. their
iridescent 2racefulness, but the VIM
dovs of Charles Cathedral stand at
the top OF their lost art, never be
fore had the glass makers worked so
we'll. and never since.
Do not bother too much about the
stories the windows tell they hardly
interest us today What We need here
is delight in color for color's sake, as
Turner delighted in 1t. or Corregeto.
Leonardo, If he came here in his
wanderines over France, must have
loved these windows. and Michelangelo
could not for the gloomy sculptor
rated line drawing far above the art
of light and shade. and these pictures,
as drawings. are ridiculous: II Is as If
the medieval artists cared nothing for
Evening star., 1928-03-25

decay; mortality is written upon every
life, every religion and every state. BIT
still for our age they stand. apparently
imperturbable amid our fallen creeds
and our dissolving moral code. And
perhaps when the fiber Of o1r flesh,
our character and Our race has been
weakened by wealth and suicidal strife.
and those nations which strut the earth
today shall be as poor and loWly as
Egypt and Spain. and the eternal coun-
tryside shall have won again its ever
lasting war with the city, those poems
In stone which the Middle Ages wrote
as homes and symbols Of their simple
hope will still stand to call men back
to the worship Of beauty and of peace.
tcopsright 1923 by viii DurantJ
Evening star., 1928-03-25

kindly to the earth again The SYM
bolism of spire and arch lost It's signifi-
canoe for an age that had won its spiri-
tual independence of the church,
whether by the revival Of letters or by
the Reformation. and the need for vast
places Of worship disappeared when
faith was weakened with knowledge and
piety was forgotten in the wealth and
luxury Of the Renaissance. Science
and industry came and when the Rem
naiSsance was over civilization made a
clean sweep of art
The cathedrals began to decay and
the ravages Of time and war had A di-
minishing resistance from the fidelity
of men
The time will come when chang
ing faiths will let these glories utterly
Evening star., 1928-03-25

mosque. whose rrlinaret still graces II.
the vast cathedral whose interior tthe
largest In the world except St Peter's)
reminds us that once not merely the
women but all the city anne together TO
worship the same God In the same way
Italy had less need of Gothic than
the north. Deprecating light. 1t cared
little for windows. and stunning heat,
1t loved thick walls; hence 1t was not
driven by circumstance to flying but
tresses pointed arches or ribbed vaults;
1t was not Gothic by nature. There
are Gothic churches at Siena. Pisa.
Bologna, Naples and Rome, but they
are secondary. The great duomo, or ca
| thedral, at Florence Is partly Gothic,
but mostly Renaissance, but Palazzo
Vecchio built there In 1893 by the
greatest of Florertine architects Ar
nolfo. has somber simplicity of It's
own while at Venice the Doges' Palace
rises from the Grand Canal in all the
grace of Gothic and with delicacy of
proportions and a nobility OF design
| which compare with the best of civic
Gothic in France. And at Milan stands
a powerful cathedral, gigantic and or
nate, in which all the potential faults
Of Gothic leap To the wearied eye
Let us stand for moment before this
{
and see why the great style at last came
to an end. This. you feel. is romanticism,
an excess of feeling and ornament, the
predominance OF imagination over in
telligence, Wanton exuberance which
stands at the other end of the world
| from the Apollonian measure and calm
of the Parthenon. The Parthenon Is a
naked athlete, but this cathedral Is a
lace-fiaunting courteSan. 1t is. like the
language of Shakespeare. barbarously
unrestrained-it is Gothic In the racial
sense of the word. 1t has 40 supreme
unity to which every part has been sub
/ Iected In conception and construction.
The independence of the individual
worker has here brought the same chaos
which comes in soul when some in
stinct or passion dominates the perso-
nality and part overrides the whole.
/ Other defects lay more inherent In
I Gothic. hut one has hardly the heart
to name them The flying buttress was
a vital imperfection. an external aid in
dicating internal weakness--crutches
the merciless Michclet called them-as
absurd as scaffolding unremoved A
structure should stand by the strength
of its own essential form. But If we
take our place where the flying but
tresS cannot be seen, or If we return
from Milan to Chartres and Rheims. the
lure of Gothic is on us again.
Why did the great style decay Was
1t because taste changed. or because
belief began to die? Doubtless the re-
turn of the Renaissance to Greek mod
els in literature and art. the replace
ment Of color by line. or decoration by
design. undermined the hold of Gothic
upon the European soul. But beneath
that change was a deeper one; men re-
lincuishcd interest in heaven and tool
Evening star., 1928-03-25

line. and only wished to bathe the soul
In varied light to capture the sense
with color and yet soothe 1t with shade
to make a chiaroscuro of rainbows FOL
the Virgins faireSt shrine.
And they succeeded for even We
doubling Thomases. standing In that
cool lovellncSS, arc overcome with
strange acqulescenCe In all that sur
rounds us. II does not seem absurd for
that sad-faccd woman or that broken
old man to kneel at the affairs. light
candle. whisper PRAYER and drop 2
hard-carned coin into the basket thal
turns up everywhere. Only some cold
inhibitlng nationality keeps us from
falling upon our knees, surrendering &c
this hope and murmuring that tender
prayer; Hail Mary full of grace
blessed art thou amongst women. ano
blessed Is the fruit of thy womb.
Here Catholicism Is not system ol
mythology: II is a miracle OF friendli-
ness and beauty. How can one be any
thing but a Catholic at Chartres?
The Gothic Age.
It has been better, perhaps to spend
so much Of our time on one cathedral
and feel something of It's personality
and appeal, rather than list the various
masterpieces of Gothic architecture In
England, Flanders, Germany. italy arc
Spain. All the world knows our Rheims
Cathedral. Prof. Cram thinks 1t the
finest church In Europe, without q
fault" Even the French we're inclined
to agree with him until the war. when
they used IL as gun station. ard sc
invited the destruction of one OF Its
towers, most of its statuary and I'll oi
its pricelsS glass by German "aanon
Many years ago Heinrich Heine wrote
"Christianity--and this Is Its highest
merit--haS in some degree softened. bu'
II could not destroy the brutal German
jov OF battle. When once the tanning
talisman, the cross. breaks in two. the
savagery of the old fighters, the sense
less BerSerker fury OF which the north
ern poets sing and say so much. will
gush up anew. That talisman Is de-
cayed. and the day will coma When Il
will piteously collapse Then tn" Ole
stone gods will rise from the silent ruins
and rub the dust OF thousand wears
from their eyes. Thor with his giants
hammer, will at last spring up and
shatter To bits the Gothic cathedrals
II is dire and dour prediction, and
We may still hope that time will have
better taste than TO fulfill 1t.
And then there is Amiens, whose cathe-
dral Violelt-l duo calls 1.-The Parthenon
of Gothic architecture" with its perfect
proportions. It's enormous vault poised
lightly aloft. like a sail upheld by a
continuous wind from below tHour-
ticol, and the most famous OF all Gothic
statues. the Beau Christ" that adorn'
the main portal. and gives us In SUI
preme form that grace and tenderness
which distinguish Gothic sculpture and
mark 1t of from the stern strength or
voluptuous lovcliness of the Greek. And
there Is the "Flamboyant Gothic" OF
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-20
MALLEN Wins
COUNTY TITLE
Loving Cup Awarded
To Champs at Meet
Of Cage Teams

PHARR. Feb. 20.-The Hidalgo
county basket ball tournament held
in McAllen on Friday and Saturday
Of last week. resulting In McAllen
team winning the county champion
ship BY topping over the Pharr-San
Juan quintet by a score of 80 to %.
The game was a thrilling one from
the first and both teams played a
good clean brand of basket ball.
The Pharr-San Juan school won sec
ond place in the tournament.
The business men Of McAllen gave
a loving cup to the winnin- team
and individual silver basket balls "a
the members Of the championship
team.
A large crowd witnessed the game
in the semi-finals and finals. Coaci
Foster of Edinburg was the refeTe
for the games and p. l.. Moody o.
Mercedes acted as umpire and o. G
Emery. athletic director for tn;
county. was head score keeper.
The interscholastic league meet foi
Hidalgo county has been set fol
March q and "a by the director gen
eral. Supt. J.. D. Bramlette Of Nc
Allen. Work Is in progress at th'
present time getting the l~iterar!
and athletic contestants ready fol
this meet.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-20
McCraw Reaches
Giants Camp and
Defends Trades

NEW YORK. Feb. 2o.-tR-John
McGraw has arrived nc the Giants
camp at Hot Springs, Ark, and
promptly defended the trades which
sem Rogers Hornsby to the Braves
and Burleigh Grimes 70 the Pirates.
He said the youngsters received IN
the deal for Hornsby. Catcher Frank
Hogan and Outfielder Jim Welsh.
we're promising. But the Giants
manager was very reticent In regards
to why the Rajah vas let 60.
As to the swap which brought VIC
Aldridge from Pittsburgh In ex-
change for Grimes, McGraw said that
he wanted a hurler 70 win games II
April and May. Grimes did not get
started until late last season.
Travis Jackson in expected at the
training quarters shortly. McGraw
said Jackson could have the cap
taincy IL he so desired. filling the
position created by the transfer OF
Hornsby.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-20
NORWAY N. WIS
WINTER MEET
United States Second
And Sweden Third
In Olympics

ST. NORTH, Switzerland, Feb. 20.
.5(P)-The rugged athletes of Nor
way have successfully defended their
Olympic winter sports championship.
The United States finished second
and Sweden third.
On the final day Of competition
the American contingent won the
bobsleigh finals yesterday, William
Fiske landing first place and John
Heeton. second. The sleds hummed
over the ice at 8 sixty-mile an hour
clip.
Heaton registered the fastest des-
cert in a glide down the shute with
a time of one minute, 80 40 seconds
which is only ten seconds behind the
worlds record for the track held by
Marteneau of England. The others
in the bobsleigh even. finished as
follows: Third. Paul kilian Of Ger
many; fourth, Grsmajo of Argen-
tine; fifth, Hope, Argentine; sixth,
Ernest Lambert, Belgium.
In the figure skating championship
for couples. the American team q
Beatrix Loughran end Sherwin
Badger placed fourth. The event was
won BY Mile. Andree Jolly and Pierre
Brunei of France.
While the point scoring for teams
Of the various countries as practiced
in the championships AZ Chamonix IN
1924 was not adopted this year, on
such a basis Norway would have re-
ceived credit for 20 IL points
United States so 10; Sweden 40;
Finland 50 IL; Austria p; and
Canada IS IL. The winter sports
consisted of skating, skiing, bob,
sleigh events and hockey. The United
States was not entered in hockey.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-20
Cotton Field
OF $500 Acres

HARLINGEN. Feb. 20.-What =
believed to be the largest cotton
field in south Texas is located on
the Hardin ranch eleven miles north
east OF Harrington and contains ap-
proximately $500 acres.
The cotton rows are two miles IN
length and the field is a little over
two miles in width. comprising about
four square miles. The Hardin
ranch comprises 10000 acres IN the
extreme northeastern section o.
Cameron county. and is owned by II.
II. Hardin, head Of the Hardin Lum-
Der company.
The land was bought by Mr.. Har-
din four years ago, and about 5000
acres have been cleared. this acreage
being planted this year to cottor
and feed crops.