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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-08-31
The Oregon Trail

Two hundred wagons. rolling out to
Oregon n
Breaking through the gopher holes.
lurching wide and free,
Crawling UP the mountain pass, JOLT
ing, grumbling, rumbling on.
: Two hundred wagons. rolling to the
sea.
From East and South and North they
flock, to muster. row on row.
A feet d ten-score prairie ships be-
side Missouris flow.
The bullwhips crack. the oxen strain.
the canvaS-hooded- files.
Are off upon the long. long trail Of
sixteen hundred miles.
The women hold the guidins Lines;
beside the rocking steers
, With gOad and ready rifle walk the
bearded pioneers
Through clouds of dust beneath the
sun. through floods of sweeping
rain
Across the Kansas prairie land.
across Nebraska's plain.
Two hundred wagons. rolling out to
Curved around the camp fire fame
at halt when day is done.
Rest awhile beneath the stars. yoke
again and lumber on,
Two hundred wagons. rolling with
Among the barren buttes they wind
beneath the Jealous view
OF Blackfoot. Pawnee, Omaha. Ara
No savage Dat may check their
course. no river deep and wide;
: They swim the Platte. they ford
the Snake, they cross the
They march as once from India's
wales through Asia's mountain
with shield and spear on Europe,s
plain their fathers marched
They march where leap the an
telope and storm the buffalo
Still Westward as their fathers
marched ten thousand years
ago.
Two hundred wagons. rolling out to
Creeping down the dark defle be-
low the mountain crest.
Surging through the brawling stream.
lunging. plunging. forging on.
Two hundred wagons. rolling toward
the West.
Now tolls the dusty caravan with
swinging wagon poles
Where Walla Walla pours along.
where broad Columbia rolls.
The long haired trapper's face
grows dark and scowls the
Where now the beaver builds his
dam the wheat and rye shall
wave.
+ The British trader shakes his head
and weighs his nations loss,
For where those hardy settlers come
the stars and Stripes will toss.
Then block the wheels. unyoke the
steers: the prize is his who
dares;
The cabins rise, the fields are sown.
and Oregon is theirs!
They will take. they will hold.
BY the spade in the mold.
: BY the seed in the soil,
BY the sweat and the toll,
Bv the pillow in the loan.
By the School and the Homei
Two hundred wagons. rolling out to
Two hundred wagons. ranging free
Two hundred wagons. rumbling.
grumbling, rolling on.
Two hundred wagons, following
Arthur Guiterman in 81 Sing the
Pioneer"
(E. P. Dutton and Company
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-08-31

soft soap: hams, bacon and lard; 40
gallons of sorghum molasses; head
of fox hounds, all soft mouthed ex-
cept one.
At the same time i will sell my six
negro slaves-2 men. 35 and so years
old; boys, ~ and IS years old; 2
mulatto wenches. 40 and 80 years old.
viii sell all together to same party. as
will not separate them.
Terms of sale, cash in hand, or note
to draw per cent interest with Bob
Mcconnell as surety.
My home is 2 miles south of YER
sailles. Kentucky, on the MeCouns
ferry pike. Sale begins at o'clock
A. NJ Plenty to drink and eat.
]. L. MOSS.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-08-31
A Sale Bill of 1s4s

When the California gold fever
spread over the country many persons
sold their property and hurried West
to get rich. Here is sale bill of
those days:
SALE
Having sold my farm and l am leav-
Ing for Oregon Territory by OK team,
will offer. March l, 1S49, all of my per-
sonal property. to-wit:
All OK teams except two teams. Buck
and Ben and Tom and Jerry; 2 milk
cows; gray mare and colt; pair of
oxen and yoke; I baby yoke; 2 OK
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-08-31

grandmothers any more, or such Gran.
berries.
Christians now means bills to
meet" continues the disillusioned
writer. Independence day has been
made Sane Fourth. We no longer
get any fun out of April Fools day.
Those unofficial childish holidays were
a kind of possession peculiar to the
past. They are not the same now. We
are grown up and serious, and times
have changed"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-08-31

1926 he retraced his path in an auto
mobile and in 1924 he went over the
trail in an airplane, continuing his
flight to Washington where he was
received by President Coolidge, aft
err. having SPAWNED the continent in
seventy-two hours.
The Oregon Trail in reality had two
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-08-31
For Yonr Scrap Book

There are two, kinds Of writing.
both great and rare; one that of ge.
MUS, or the inspired. the other that
of intellect and taste, In the intervals
Of inspiration.-Thoreau.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-08-31
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

DINING as it did near the
Eightieth anniversary of
the discovery of gold in
California, the announce
ment of a project, spon-
sored by a Californian,
Charles E. Davis of
Sacramento, to take an
immigrant train of 300
prairie schooners from
independence, Mo-, along
the overland trail of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-24

dow and some of us were even
quartered in the recreation hall. We
were carefree lot, looking forward
to a year of wonderful experiences
before we we're graduated as Sec
ond lieutenantS and given our wings,
Nearly all of us we're confident
that we would be there to graduate
year later. We had already passed
the rigid physical and mental en-
trance. examinations in which SO
many of the other applicants had
failed.
We had no doubt of our ability
to fly, although most of us had
never flown before and we had yet
to get our first taste of the life of a
flying cadet.
BY the time we had been in the
barracks few hours stories began
circulating around which originated
from conversations with the last
class of cadets who were waiting to
be transferred to the advanced fly
ing school at Kelly.
Rumors of "Benzine Boards" and
"wash-outs," academic work" and
"eight-hour examinations" lone
eighty's," and "check pilots" walls
With ears" and cadet etiquette
these and hundred other strange
terms were condescendingly passed
down to us by the old cadets Of six
months experience. Someone re-
marked that less than 40 per cent
of us could expect to finish the pri-
mary training at Brooks and that
probably half of those would be
washed out at Kelly.
BY bed check that night we had
already begun to feel the apprehen-
sion which is part of flying cadets
life from his first day at Brooks
until he has received his pilots
wings at Kelly.
Our actual flying training was to
begin on the first of April Two
weeks we're required to become Or
ganized and learn the preliminary
duties of a cadet.
During these two weeks we were
inoculated against typhoid and
smallpox at the hospital, taught
the rudimentS of cadet etiquette.
given fatigue duty, required to po-
lice the grounds surrounding our
barracks, inspected daily, and in
stucted and given examinations III
five subjects.
In our spare time we were allowed
tc look around the post or take the
bus to San Antonio, provided, how
ever, that we were back in bed not
later than 10 o'clock ON Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday nights.
At all other times we could stay
out as late as we desired.
When we did have a few spare
moments in the afternoon. they
were usually spent in trying to
"chizzle' a hope from one of the
instructors on the line.
Early one morning we were al
lowed TO take the training ships
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-24

out and push them to the line for
the old cadets to fly.
But when one of the planes nosed
over after eight husky rockies
heaved upon the hunder and fifty
pound tail, it was decided to put us
to work moving hydrogen cylinders
for balloon ascension.
AS the first of April approached
we were looking forward to the
start of actual flying with great an
ticipation.
Coupled with this was the anxiety
of waiting for the returns from our
examination papers, the failure Of
any two of which would be Suffici-
ent cause for their owner to be
washed out from the courses.
The flying instruction was carried
on from two stages or different sec
tons tot the field. I was assigned to
B stage, which was about a half
mile out in the field from the cadet
barracks.
Each instructor had about six
cadets assigned to him, and early
in the morning on the first day Of
April our instruction commenced.
1 was assigned to Sergeant Win
ston, together with five other cadets.
We pushed his instruction plane
out from the hangar to the line.
Sergeant Winston picked out one
Of us, told him to get into the rear
cockpit and was off. The rest Of us
m CT fNl1fY10
for tarantulas along the road on the
way.
In 1924, the Curtiss Jenny was
still used by the army for train
ing plane, although the 90-horse-
power Curtiss OX-5 engines had
been replaced by 150-horsepower
HiSpano- SulzaS.
The more modern types of planes
for training were still in the ex-
perimental stage. The Jennies had
been designed during the war and
they we're becoming obsolete, but
it is doubtful whether a. better
training ship will ever be built, al
though undoubtedly the newest type
is much safer.
Jennies were underpowered; they
we're somewhat tricky and they
splintered badly when they crashed
hard; but when a cadet learned to
fly one of them-well, he was just
about capable of flying anything on
wings with a reasonable degree of
safety.
I had been particularly fortunate
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

can stand to the whirring blade
while the motor is still running.
Then there is usually contest to
see who can be first to move it up
and down after it stops turning
over.
A cadet is usually given about
ten hours of dual instruction be-
fore he is allowed to solo.
The instructor first takes him up,
and after flying around for few
minutes, allows the student to take
hold of the controls 10 get an ap-
proximate idea of the amount and
direction of movement necessary
for gentle banks and turns.
Then the instructor throws his
hands up in the air in full view Of
the student-the signal that he has
turned over entire control Of the
ship.
The cadet is given the opportunity
suddenly to realize that flying is
not simple operation of pulling
the stick back to go up and push
ing it farword to come down, but
than an instructive and synchro-
nized movement of all controls is
necessary even to keep the machine
in level flight.
TO Be Continued Tomorrow
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THE STORY SO FAR

THE STORY so FAR
Lindbersh completed his education at
the University of Wisconsin, where he
became interested in aviation. He en-
tered a flying school and later Joined a
transforming outfit mad learned para
chute jumping and wing walking.
He bought a Government airglanee
AZ A@ S % Ga. Indy md decided to Efiy
to Texas. by direct air line against the
advice of more experienced pilots. He
Government field, but the next night
made a hazardous landing in a soft
field near Meridian. Miss.
A crowd gathered. and Lndbergh Of
heavy man accepted, and the weighted
plane missed fence by three feet in
taking. off under the load; Lindbergh
a st S T ed Su miles S SSs
Meridian. A hidden ditch in the field
spelled disaster, and the propeller was
broken: L:indbergh was unhurt. After
business in passenger carrying.
After carrying few passengers at s.
got lost and crashed in hidden ditch
paired the plane and had a brisk bust
ness in passenger carrying.
Indy took up an. old southern Negro
as passenger and "stunted" for the
admiration of the crowd and to the ter
ror of the Negro. Rain and mud forced
him from this field and he took off for
Texas.
Lindbersh crashed and broke another
propeller near Shakopee, Mimi, while
flying from Lincoln. Soft ground caused
his first flight at Marshall and later
Mrs. Iindbergh became an enthusiast
after her first flight at GAINESVILLE,
Indy applied for enlistment as a
I.k 1t II A-uZr
report for examination at Chanute Field,
Rantoul, H., in January, 1924. While
waiting, he went transforming over Wis
G9nsin and then headed for Lambert
Field to see the air races. Bud Quincy.
4 friend, jumped from Lindy's plane in
the parachute landing contest and broke
his arm.
After the races, Lindbergh sold his
Italian " pursuit plane anu After GT"SH taking
exams at Cahnute. he met an automobile
salesman. Leon KIink, who owned new
stormins and pleasure flying through the
South and after several jumps stopped
near Hattesburg, Miss.
While. at the naval air station near
port at Brooks Field San Antonio,
Texas. March =. to enter 2 class of
flying cadets: While flying with WON
crashed 100 feet from the air field when
his motor failed. After repairing the
plane. he tested IL wearing an Irving
new type parachute for the first time.
Klink and Hndbergh left the. field for
Brooks field stopping frequently. Leav-
ing Brooks field they headed west and
once got lost. Indy WIS forced to land
in the town square of Barksdale, Texas.
In leaving the town, Lindbergh took
off down the widest street, struck rut,
hit telephone pole. and crashed head
on into a hardware store. The store
was wrecked. but the plane was dam
aged only slightly. They left town later
and landed in Spanish cactus and sage
brush in two jumps. In taking off there
the lower wing was punctured by a
Spanish dagger. forcing a landing Time
was short, and Lindbergh few back to
San Antonio to enter school, while
Klink few west.
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col. CF1AS LNDBERGHS own LIFE STORY

in my assignment of an instructor,
Sergeant Winston, who held the
record for flying time in the army
with about thirty-three hundred
hours.
He was an excellent pilot, and
knew how to instruct if he wanted
to. When my turn came he asked
me how much flying time I had
had, and after I told him about 325
hours he turned the controls over
to me. with orders to take the ship
around and land it.
I had some difficulty in flying
with my right hand. The wartime
ships which I was accustomed to
we're built to be flown with the
left. but after the Armistice it was
decided to change the throttle over
to the other side, on the theory that
the right hand was the natural one
to fly with.
After three landings, however,
Sergeant Winston got out of the
cockpit and told me to fly around
for thirty minutes and try to get
used to right-handed plotting.
When We we're not flying We
were gathered around the stage
house watching the progress Of our
classmates and learning how to
turn the propellers over in start
ing the engine without placing our
selves in a position to be struck in
case it kicked backwards.
To a pilot, the propeller is the
most dangerous part of his plane,
and is a constant source Of worry
to him when his ship is on the
ground among people who vie with
each other in seeing now close they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-24
DECLARES AGE DECEIT
NO BAR TO DAMAGES
Bartholomew Circuit Judge Rules In
Injured Girls Case.

By tmcS SptCluC
COLUMBUS, Ind, Feb. 24.-An
employer sued for damages by all
injured employee cannot escape by
showing that the employee know
ingly gave an incorrect age at the
time of beginning work.
This was the ruling Of Judge
Julian Sharpnack of Bartholomew
Circuit Court in the case of Miss
Kinda Johnson, II, seeking $4,000
from the indianapolis Pump and
Tube Company. through her father,
Samuel Johnson, as next friend. The
girl lost two fingers of her right
hand due to an injury in the COM
pany'S employ.
Company attorneys allege the girl
added few years to her age to get
a job.
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CHAPTER XI
ARRIVED at Brooks Field on

T ARRIVED at Brooks Field on
Il March IS, 1924, but was not
enlisted as a flying cadet until
March 10.
Ordinarily a cadet enlists at the
nearest station to his home and is
given free transportation to his post
Of service and back to the enlist
ment point after his discharge.
BY enlisting at Brooks I was en-
titled to no transportation allow
ance, except, possibly, bus fare back
from Kelly, where I graduated a
year later.
There were 104 of us in all, rep
resenting nearly every State in the
Union. We filled the cadet barracks
TO overlooking.
There were two cots to each VIM
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
Dinner Party Tonight
Tor Chief Justice of
Irish Free State

The Minister OF the Irish Free
State, Timothy Smiddy, will en-
terrain at dinner tonight in his
apartment at the MayfloWer for
the Chief Justice of the Iris:1 free
State and Mrs. Hugh Kennedy.
While not an official dinner,
there will be several officials in
the group Of guests, among them
the Secretary OF State. Frank B
kellogg. Mrs. kellogg will NOT be
present, having slipped away a
few days ago I'd. Hot Springs. Va,
to rest for a week or 10 DAYS and
take the cure. Fresh from
happy visit in Ireland, Secretary
Kellogg win doubtless lind many
points OF contact with the Irish
Chief Justice.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Kennedy
expect to bring their visit to
Washington to a close tomorrow.
Chief Justice. Kennedy was a
luncheon guest today OF Col. Will
liam J.. Donovan, Assistant to- the
Attorney General. Since his arrival
in Washington, he has called upon
President Cool i'd g e, Secretary
Kellogg and such OF the Justices
of the u. s. Supreme Court as are
in town.
X X
The Italian Ambassador, Nobil'
Giacomo de MARITIME, will be IN
Washington this week for a few
days after which he will return
to Gloucester, Mass, to remain
until the end of the month. The
Ambassador and Nine. de MARITIME
will reopen the embassy here
about October 1.
The Secretary Of Agriculture
and Mrs. Jardine, are spending
this week in New York, nut will
return to town within a few days.
4 y
The Assistant Secretary Of Conn.
merce and Mrs. Walter r. Brown,
who arc now visiting their former
nome in Toledo, Ohio. will return
TO their apartment at the May
IIower about the first Of October.
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Nine. UOn Lewinski
Home After Trip to
Germany and France

Nine. Won I4ewinski, wife Of
the German Consul General in
New York, who makes Washing.
ton her home, Is "of return" to
town and busy setting her house
in order for the season. She re-
turned to this country early in.
September. after short trip to-
Europe on which she was accom-
panied by her son and daughter.
They were in Berlin for a time,
then the boy visited relatives in
Germany while Nine. Won Lew
inski and her daughter made "a
trip to Paris, the little family
coming together at Cherbourg
for the voyage home.
DIR. Won Lewinsk and his wife,
an American woman, have had a
fifty-fifty share in the naming OF
their two children. The boy bears
the good American name Of Roy,
while the girl was christened Inge,
a name dear to her fathers PEG.
pie. Just 16, Miss Inge Won, Lew
ipskf is growing into tall, fair
slip Of a girl and in the next two
or three years her mother will
have a charming debutante on
her hands.
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
News AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY FOLK
CAPITAL GIRL
MARRIED TN
PARIS
Miss GWendoline Ffoulke
Smith Now Mrs. Albert
Dewey, Jr.

Miss Gwendoline Ffoulke Smith,
daughter Of Nine. Marcel Levie,
and Albert b. Dewey, jr., of
Chicago, were married yesterday
in Paris. The dispatches bring
ing news of this interesting event
were meagre In detail. but stated
that the ceremony was in the
American Cathedral Church of the
Holy Trinity. and was followed by
q breakfast at the Hotel d 'aelena.
The bride was given in mar.
riage by her stepfatehr. Captain
Marcel Levie. and had her sister,
Miss Gladys Chapman Smith as
maid Of honor. The best man was
r. WorthingtoYi Hine, OF New
York and Paris and the two ushers
were Colonel Owen keenan, and
Sidney Friede. Canon George @.
Gibbs officiated.
Mrs. Lyman B. Kendall, of
Washington, now In Paris. was
among the guests at the wedding,
as were Mr.. and Mrs. Laurence
Benet. Mrs. BateslB atchellor and
Mr.. Dewey's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert B. Dewey, of Chicago.
Immediately after the wedding
the couple left for q honeymoon
trim to Italy. Presumably they
viii make their future home in
Chicago. where Mr.. Dewey has
been q most sought after bachelor.
He is q Yale graduate, an archi-
tect and a member Of the Racquet,
chicago. OnWentsia, University
and Saddle and Cycle clubs OF
Chicago. Charles 8. Dewey, some.
time Undersecretary Of the Treas
1lry. ID his brother.
Al granddaughter Of the late Mr..
ana Mrs. Charles M. FfOulke, OF
washington, both Miss Ffoulke
and her sister were presented to
society here under their grand.
mothers wing. The .Ffoulke
girls"-Cl Helen and Gwen.
doline--had been famous bellies p
generation before and the Smith
girls" followed in their footsteps.
Miss Gwendoline FfOulke Smith
and Miss Gladys Chapman Smith
spent last winter with relatives on
4 ranch in Arizona and sailed in
the early summer to visit Captain
and Nine. Levie, who have made
1 their home in Corsica since their
marriage. An aunt of the bride
is Nine. Emmanuel Havenitf, wife
OF former minister Of Belgium
to the United States.
49,
The minister of Persia. Mira
Davoud Khan Meftah. is in New
York where he will remain until
tomorrow or Saturday.
4
Nine. Radewa, wife of the Bull
Z garian minister, has returned to
Washington after passing some
time In Gloucester, Mass, where
she was the guest of the Italian
Ambassador and Nobil Donna
Antonietta de MARITIME.
Count and Countess de San
MARITIME, came to Washington.
yesterday from New York. They
are on their way to Japan to
represent the King Of Italy At
the coronation this autumn.
Wedding
Miss Emile Darneille Steele.
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
g. Steele. was married last night
to John Dudley Keith, son OF
Mr.. ana Mrs. Thomas Keith, Of
Maysville, KY, at the Hotel
Brighton, where Mr.. and Mrs.
Steele have an apartment, the
Rev. George Fiske Dudley, rector
OF st. Stephens Church, offic-
iating. A reception with dancing
followed. Miss Rachel Steele was
maid of honor for her sister.
Thomas Keith. jr.. was best man
for his brother.
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For Bride

Mr.. and Mrs. James G. SHIRLEY
will give a dinner tonight at the
Congressional Country Club for
their daughter, Miss Louise Shib.
ley, and Lieut.. Horace Gilbert
Trainer, u. s. NJ, who are to.
be married Saturday evening.
The final festivity for a bride who
has been much entertained will be
a supper party tomorrow evening
on the Willard Roof, with Miss
Virginia Belt as hostess. Last
evening Miss Marion Carmichael
gave a bridge party and shower
in her honor.
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
To Sail for Post

Carlton Bailey Hurst, United
States Consul General to Berlin.
and Mrs. Hurst, who spent
part OF the summer Mt their
country home, Lamontehurst. IN
the Catskills. have. arrived in
Washington for a short visit be.
fore sailing from New York on
September 20 for Europe. They
are guests at the Mayflower.
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LityNezgS Told Briefly

subject of an address by j. Oswald
Houle, Canadian, and alumnus OF
the University Of Montreal, at a
meeting of the Alliance Franchise at
the Y. M. G. A. Tuesday night. Mime.
Yvonne Chamilovitch Of Tudor Hall
will conduct translation exercises
and the use of idomatic expressions.
Alexander @. CaVins will preside.