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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-12
The New Pace Of Business Change

Business evolution used to move
slowly-it measured off its gradual
changes almost invisibly, like the hour
hand on the clock. But today it's tempo
is that of the second hand. The move
ment Of evolution that is quickening
business with rapid changes is alarm.
ingly visible and makes 1t difficult to
keep up with them.-R. s. Hecht. :.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-12
White Bluffs Schools Have
Largest Enrolment in History

The White Bluffs Schools opened
September 2 with the largest enroll
ment in the history of the schools,
one hundred and eighty. Registration
at the High School was completed at
nine thirty and regular class work
carried on for the rest Of the day.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-12
Zoology Students Busy

Perhaps you've wondered why so
many of the high school students have
been carrying little boxes around with
them. They have been out stalking
grasshoppers for Zoology class and
are afraid that the G. HIS will crawl
out of their pockets. The other day
in class one of the girls was afraid
that her grasshopper would chop" be-
fore she could get his head to examine );
so she took a pin and pinned him to
the table and quickly ended his career
by cutting off his head. "Off with
their heads" cry the zoology class,
like Alice in Wonderland.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-12
Eleven Ride in Up.River Bus

Eleven Ride in Up.River Bus
William Shelledy 10 driving the Cold
Creek bus and the following are rid
ing with him to school each day: Kris
tene Sigurdson, Catherine Fry, Evelyn
Richmond, Max Richmond, Mar
guerite Jaeger, Elton Meeker, Car
roll Meeker, William Shelledy, Iris
Dooley, Muriel Dooley, Enrnit Cam
eron.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-12
Many Attend State Fair

Many Attend State Fair
The Fair at Yakima is creating
quite an interest and the following
children were excused to attend with
their parents on Wednesday. Ray
mond Broughton, Elaine Coleman,
Irene Larsen, Thurston Foltz, John
James Keal, Tom Wade, and Ray
Wade. These children will make up
their school work and bring a written
report to their respective classes upon
what they saw and did at the Fair.
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Furnishings, 55c

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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
LIBBY z0M@l0TE DEPOSIT
SPELLS ROMANCE; ONE OF
MOST IMPORTANT 0M u. S.

wall to expand in ~insinuatingly worm
like fashion. He filled his pocket.
with the stuff and hurried home. an
xlouS TO examine his find. Greatly to
the annoyance of his wife, who was
preparing supper, Mr.. Alley persisted
in placing bits of the mineral on the
cooking stove. The heat caused it 70
swell enormously, meanwhile writhing
and squirming like some live thing.
The flakey mineral was much like mica
but 1t behaved more strangely than
any mica he had ever seen. He had in
fact discovered a mineral new to COM
merce, though scientists had already
CLASSIFIED 1t, observing that heat caused
1t to expand wOrmlike. Now to scien-
lists, worms aren't worms, but vermes.
SO to give the mineral a scientifically
authentic name it vas christened Yer
miculite.'
Vermiculite contains a great deal OF
water, which causes it to expand when
heated until it gains many times its
original thickness and becomes so light
that 1T will readily float on water.
Furthermore, the heating causes it to
assume a beautiful golden or silvery
luster. The thought that this product
must be of some commercial value
spurred Mr.. Alley on to further ex-
periments. Through them he found
the roasted vermiculite to be, among
other things, an excellent insulator.
The kitchen stove gave place to a crude
oven-llke furnace, which in turn was
replaced by a better one, and so on,
step by step until the present large cal
ching plant of the Zonolite company at
Libby was evolved.
With the advent of the 'talkie'' came
the need for sound deadened walls. Al
most at the same time it was found
that the roasted vermiculite, which Al
ley had christened "~zonolite," not only
was decorative as a plaster, but had an
Unsuitable appetite for swallowing
sounds. Rooms covered with it were
echoless. Now zonolite goes to Holly
wood by the carload. A great deal Of
it is used by eastern manufacturers.
There are small deposits of vermicu-
lite in Colorado, North Carolina, and
Pennsylvania, but little use has been
made OF them. Fortunately. the de-
post at Rainy creek is ample to sup
ply Montana's newest industry for years
to come. 1t is, in fact, vastly larger
than any other known.
Such is the scientific worm!
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
FAIR MEN SEEK
AID FROM STATE
MANAGERS AT MEETING URGE
STATE FUNDS FOR
EXHIBITS
Twenty Fairs in Four States
Represented at Meeting; Unanimous
Vote to Support Legislative Measures
Proposing Support for Fairs.

Havre was selected as the place for
the next meeting, officers were elected
and choice Of dates for fairs for 1880
was made by the Rocky Mountain
Association of Fairs in a twO-day
convention at Miss0ula.
Officers elected are j. M. BreSnahan
of Billings, manager of the Midland
Empire fair, president; A. D. Thomas
of Helena, secretary of the Montana
State fair, vice president; Earl Wat
son OF Havre, secretary of the Hill
County fair. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Fair dates recommended and rejected
Tuesday were adopted Wednesday. The
schedule calls for the state fair at Hell
to be held during the week of Au-
gust Is.
Dates Fixed.
Dates fixed for expositions during
1880 follow:
Week of Aug. II, Gillette, Wyo., fair;
week Of Aug. IS, Sheridan, Wyo., fair
week of Aug. Is, Lewis and Clark coun-
ty and Montana State fair, Helena;
Central Montana fair, Lewistown, and
Buffalo, Wyo., fair; week of Sept. /
Midland Empire fair at Billings, and
Terry, Baker, Hardin and Fort Benton
fairs; week Of Sept. 8, Intermountair
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
IS MADE
OF MONTANA LAND

A report from the geological survey
on classification of public lands covers
$780, 900 900 acres known to %geographers
as the northern great plains, or Mis-
souri, plateau, and to agriculturists as
the spring wheat belt.
This area embraces plains of eastern
Montana, western North and South Da-
kota, northeastern Wyoming and GER
tain adjoining regions, mainly in the
Rocky mountains along the western
boundary of the plains.
The report consists of a text anC
eight land classification maps. The
maps show location of lands on which
crops are produced by irrigation, dry
farming and grazing lands. Dry farm
ing lands are subdivided, according tc
their capacity for crop production, into
three grades, called farming, farming
grazing and grazing forage lands
grazing lands are divided into tillablt
and nontillable lands. The text of the
report contains definitions of these
types and an extensive discussion OF
natural conditions that control use Of
land for grazing and production OF
crops.
A Montana summary Of the areas, III
acres, OF land types shown on the eight
classification maps follows:
Irrigated, 1881 900 acres; farming
4,3O2 600; farming-grazing, 7,740,000i
grazing forage, 1929, 900; grazing, 49,
10000; national forest, $4,000; total
70,258, OO0.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02

decided to stake his claim there. This
took place in the days when the North
ern Pacific railroad could claim an
empire of 80 miles of land on either
side of its land grants through the
west provided the land had been CLASH
fled as non-mineral by the anything
but scientific commission which had
made the survey. Under this commits
sion's survey the land had been CLASH
fled as non-ore bearing, but Thomas
knew better and wished a strictly dis
interested classification made, that
there might be no doubt as to his own
ership.
He appealed to the government at
Washington which sent out one of it's
most reliable biologists who saw at a
glance that the claim certainly con-
tanned ore. Further, he noticed the
rocks were of an unusual kind. Being
naturally scientifically interested in
their composition, the %geologist took
samples back to Washington, d. c., for
analysis. There the government chem
lists found, as was published in a scien-
tihc journal, that some of them con-
tanned vanadium, a little known miner
al in the west, valuable in the process
Of steel hardening. Through this lat
ter classification, Mr.. Thomas gained
unquestioned title to his claim, but he
died before he could develop the land
and E. N. Alley Of Libby, a friend, be-
came owner OF his papers and mineral
rights.
With the outbreak of the World war,
steel hardning minerals came at a
premium. Mr.. Alley recollected the
mention, in a copy of a scientific jour-
nal, of vanadium near Rainy creek, so
he picked up his candle and proceeded
to explore old mining tunnels for ores
of that metal. Persistence and the
gamblers instinct kept Alley at his
search several days without luck. He
failed to find ore of any value in any
of the tunnels he entered until the
last day of his search. 1t was growing
dark and Alley had determined to re-
turn home, calling himself a fool for
was more tunnel, however, neal the
going on a wild goose chase. There
top Of the mountain, which he de-
cided to explore to make the job COM
plete. 1t is an eerie enough job to
enter any sort Of a tunnel, but to enter
n at dusk, jab ones candle into the
soft wall and then see it apparently
alive with crawling things which seem
to emanate from the direction of the
candle leaves al Understandable feeling
of horror.
Mr.. Alley, rooted to the spot. gradu-
ally perceived that the worms weren't
worms, but that the heat Of his candle
caused flakes Of some mineral In the
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
MILES CITY NAMED AIRPORT
BASE FOR EASTERN MONTANA

Naming Miles City airport as the
eastern Montana base for all aero
nautical inspection, billiard Hamilton,
supervising government aircraft in
spector with headquarters at Oakland,
Calf, completed his inspection of the
Miles City port on Wednesday and
left that night for Billings in continu-
ance of his tour of that portion OF the
country. Mr.. Hamilton conferred this
honor upon the Miles City port because
of the marked activity that is apparent.
In his examination of the Miles City
port, Mr.. Hamilton declared that he
found but one fault, and that not a
serious one "Yoi need more room,
another hangar" he told Tom Mat
thews and Frank Wiley, managers.
Aside from that, this airport is one
OF the finest In this section OF the
west. 1t is we'll equipped, unusually
active and is ~splendidly located geo.
graphically"
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
(By MARY j. PARDEE.)

To link the production of "talkies
with worms seems to compare with
bridging the Colorado canyon. Yet
for inhabitants of Libby, Montana,
the fact is an accomplished
place. OF course, there are
and worms, and Libby residents have
had the scientific worm thrust On
them so gradually they are hardly
aware of any popularity.
Years agO when northwest Mon
tana was being actively prOspected,
John Rennie prOspected his way
through the country to the vicinity of
what is now Libby, Montana.
Rennie forms the first link in the
chain Of the inanimate worms fascin-
ating history, though he would have
been surprised to know it. So would
the rest of the puppets in the stage
play, until quite by accident the profit
able discovery was made clear near the
spot Of John Rennie's prospecting
site.
Centering his search on placer gold,
Rennie explored a branch of the Koo-
tenal river and prospected its banks,
In time the stream became known as
"Rennie" creek. And in still more time
the name "Rennie" came to be pro-
nounced Rainy" a way words have in
usage of changing their identity-Rainy
creek contained 40 gold and John
Rennie, only having found some quartz
veins containing copper and lead on
which he had located for a while, de-
cieded to pull up stakes.
Now back east" city strain and the
life of a travelling salesman wrought
its havoc IN B. M. Thomas of Chicago,
whose physician prescribed for him an
outdoor life, if nothing more. and it
happened that Mr. Thomas whose life
on the move would naturally seem to
point to prospecting. chose Montana to
Tecuperate in. BY chance he met Rem
ME and they became fast friends. AS
the acquaintance progressed, Rennie
told his new-found friend of the claim
he had left nea Libby. To Thomas,
one vein was as good as another, SO he
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
OVER
LAND REPLANTED

One of the largest forest planting
projects in the district is being COM
pleted by the forest service along Deep
creek In the Occur d'Alene forest, re-
placing timber burned off by the fires
in 1910, 1919 and other years.
From the point where the planting
project begins, adjacent to the Montana
state line, it is easy to trace the prog
resS of the work. Trees several feet
high are f1ourishing where the first
paintings were made in 1922 and the
size Of the young plants diminishes as
n follows the path taken by the
crews.
About 10000 acres are being planted
in Deep creek with white pine and yell
low pine, the most valuable commercial
species. The soil and weather condi-
tons are very favorable in that area
and the trees are growing as rapidly as
anticipated.
Only the northwest corner OF the
large planting project remains to be
completed.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
BUTTE WOMAN RECALLS HER
FIRST MONTANA CHRISTMAS;
HOSPITALITY FEATURED 0T

nHERE are several persons still resid-
in Butte and it's environs who re-
member Christmas there in 1880
40 years ago, but none perhaps recall
events of that long past day more clear
ly than does Mrs. Mary Curtis, who
now resides at the spacious Bessette
home near Lake Avoca.
Mrs. Curtis arrived in Walkerville
on Sept. l, 1880, coming from Scranton
Pa, with her mother and sisters to
join her brothers.
Eyes, I remember that particular
Christmas quite wildly" Mrs. Curtis
said. 1T was my first in the West
and conditions we're very different from
these we left in the East. / remember
that my brothers had not finished the
house and it was hard to keep it warm
enough for comfort.
Held Serenades
"On that night before Christmas
there were about 25 men. all good
singers, who got together and went
around singing carols and old fash
Toned songs, and the folks they sere-
naded would invite them in and treat
them to cake and coffee and other
things they happened to have On hand.
On Christmas morning my brothers
and / walked from Walkerville to
church at st. Patrick's, which stood
where the present fine church is now.
1t took us an hour to make it down
there and more than an hour to get
back. Mother stayed home and got
dinner. We had no turkeys then, but
we had beef, veal and mutton, which
mother prepared in fine shape. In ad.
dition to seven in the family, we had
three guests for dinner. John d. Hale,
foreman of the Alice mine, Frank
Golden and Joseph Blackburn.
That evening after the dinner was
cleared away, the neighbors came in
and we danced. Brother was good on
the violin and he played; the others
played, too, to spell him off, you know.
About IL o'clock, the women put out
lunch and after that, the dancing
started up again and they kept it up
until morning.
Forty Families
There were about 40 families living
in VAUDEVILLE then, and lots of men,
mostly working in the Alice, Lexington
and Moulton, which were being worked
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
(By GLADYS ROBINSON COSTELLO)

(By GLADYS RCBlNSON COOAG'
CHE lives in one of the oldest houses
y, in Malta, a little shack OF Sa9gile
~ cottonwood logs, the roof uneven aiio
the door aslant from the setting VI
the bottom logs.
Inside whitewashed walls are Gov
cred with crayon portraits of the many
members of her family and the furni-
ture of home make shows the years
of service. The little shack with It's
single room shines with cleanliness ano
hospitality. Indeed, on holiday occa-
sions it is the center of reunions OF
the relatives and friends Of all mel
friends.
Mrs. John Pruden has always beer
a familiar figure to the people of Malta
with her gray shawl and her black
And, she has seen the evolution OF this
country from the big bend buf1alo
hunting grounds to a farming country
She has seen the buffalo replaced by
the dairy herd and the open prairie
fenced with hog wire. She has seer
Malta grow from a trading post 10 a
thriving town.
Mrs. Pruden was born, n is not
sure how many years ago., some Where
near the Canadian line either IN
North Dakota or western Minnesota
Her mother was half Cree and hall
Irish and her father was a full blood
Chippewa. The mother died when Mrs,
Pruden was about seven wears old and
the father, unable to care for the sew
eral small children, sent them to an
Episcopal school in Winnipeg, Mani
toba. There, when she was fourteen,
Mrs. Pruden was confirmed, and there
two years later she met John Pruden.
Pruden's %parentage was as interest
ing as her own for he was the son of
a Scotch-Cree and a French Chippewa.
ROamed Canadian Plains
For two years after their marriage
the Prudens roamed the plains of west
ern Canada hunting with the Indians
and trading with the whites.
Shortly before the Battleford en-
counter between the Canadian Indians
and the British forces in the Reale
rebellion, the Prudens, on a hunting
trip with the Crees, camped on the
outskirts of a large settlement.
The Indians were on the var path.
The Crees and several allied tribes,
inflamed by Louis Reale and Gabriel
Dumont, were determined to drive the
white mar from their hunting grounds.
The Prudens being of mixed blood were
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02

for silver. The folks were all neigh
borly and it was just like one big
family. There were the Gleasons, they
had a big house and it was always
open to every one that came. Then
there were Mrs. Peters and her three
sons, Mrs. Margaret Colligan, now post
mistress at VAUDEVILLE, and her sister,
Miss May Fitzgerald, also still in Walk
erville; Mr.. and Mrs. Denis Driscoll,
whose daughters are Mrs. John Corette
and Mrs. John K. ClaXton, both living
in Butte; Miles Cavanaugh of Butte;
Mr.. and Mrs. John Burns, whose
daughter is Mrs. Elizabeth McNulty Of
VAUDEVILLE; Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kill
gallon, Mrs. Kilgallon is now in Cali
fornia; Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis ODon-
nell of Butcher Town of Centerville;
the McAuliffes, the son, Charles, is now
coach at the State School of Mines;
Mrs. Joe Dillon, his sister, whose
daughter is Miss frankie Dillon, talent
ed musician, and many others / could
mention.
Eyes, I remember 1t all very we'll
and as the days have passed by since
then, l have often thought that what
most impressed me at that time, was
the free, open-hearted and neighbOrly
feeling that wa always shown to friend
and stranger alike, and which has now
become known the length and breadth
of the land as the spirit OF the West"
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02

fair at Bozeman, and Sidney, Forsyth
Jordan, Ekalaka and Havre fairs;
week of Sept. is, Western Montana fair
at Missoula, Eastern Montana fair al
Miles City, and Chinook and Dodson
fairs; week of Sept. %, Ravalli county
fair at Hamilton. and Glasgow and
Culbertson fairs; week of Sept. 20,
PlentyWood fair.
Twenty-Five fairs in four states were
represented at the Missoula meeting
TWenty-One of the shows representa-
were in Montana. The others were in
Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.
Initiative Bill Proposed
Voting almost unanimously to sup
port some legislative measure which
will make state funds available for
county and district fairs, the associa-
ton adopted the report of its legisla-
tive committee and its tentative bill.
The proposed measure, drawn up and
presented to the association by j. M.
Bresnahan, manager of the Midland
Empire fair at Billings, will benefit only
agricultural fairs. Any county may be-
come eligible provided it owns a plant
Of 20 acres and buildings on the tract
suitable for housing exhibits of agri-
culture and livestock.
The amount of money that may be
received from the state will be gov
erned under the proposed Measure by
the combined total of premium money
paid by the fair on exhibits of agri-
culture, horses, sheep, swine and poul-
try. The state would be obligated to
pay SO per cent of the first 1000 in
premiums. &c Der rent Of the second
$4,000, 10 per cent of the third 1000,
and 80 per cent of the fourth S $4,000, or
any portion of those sums.
$4,000 Is Maximum
No fair would be allowed more than
$4,000 in any calendar year. None of
the money received from the state
would be available for entertainment
or amusement purposes. Authority
would be given the state commissioner
of agriculture to make the allotments.