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The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
HEALTH ENGINEER URGES
BIG HORN CANYON DAM
H. b. Foote, Chief State Division
Water and Sewage Would
Control Silt.

Damming of the Big Horn river
along its upper reaches would
have a profound effect" for good
in making for purer water sup
plies in communities along the
lower Yellowstone.
This opinion was voiced Tues
day by H. B. Foote, chief of the
division of water and sewage for
the state board of health, on his
arrival here to prepare for the
annual water works school and
convention, says the Billings Ga
Zette.
Control of the Big Horn would
tend to smooth out the violent
fluctuations in the lower Yellow
stone and greatly simplify filtra-
ton problems for cities like Miles
City, Terry and Glendive," the
state official declared.
The Big Horn, particularly dur
ing rise dumps enormous
amounts of silt into the Yellow
stone and increases the cost of
producing water for human con-
sumption, Mr.. Foote explained.
Although he has heard little of
the $16,000,000 project, the idea of
damming the Big Horn struck the
engineer as of great benefit to
towns along the Yellowstone.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
BROTHER OF LODGE GRASS
MAN IS VICTIM OF CANCER
John Weigand, Aged So, Died at
His Billings Home Early
Saturday Morning.

John Weigand, SO, died at his
home in Billings, early Saturday
morning, after an illness of four
months of cancer of the stomach.
He is survived by his widow and
five children, all grown, namely:
Mrs. Lizzie Schleining, Mrs. Amelia
Schleining, Mary, George an d
John Weigand, all of Billings, one
brother, Pete Weigand of Lodge
Grass, and two married sisters in
Russia.
Mr.. Weigand was a native of
Russia and came to the United
States in August, 1907, locating
first at Lincoln, Nebr., and in
May, 1912, came to Billings, Mont,
where he since has resided.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at the German Congregation
al church at Billings, of which he
was member, the pastor, Rev.
Schuler, officiating.
The brother, Pete Weigand and
wife of Lodge Grass attended the
last rites. Interment was in
Mountain View cemetery, Billings.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
In Scholarship Contest Here, Last
Saturday-1O5 Students
Participate.

The annual district scholarship
contest for the Hardin district,
embracing the high schools of
Hysham, Custer, Lodge Grass and
Hardin, was held at the Hardin
high school last Saturday. Hy-
sham entered 80 students; Hardin,
20; Lodge Grass, %, and Custer
81.
Hysham captured 8 firsts; S
seconds, and 9 thirds. Hardin cap
tured S firsts; 7 seconds, and 6
thirds. Lodge Grass captured S
firsts; 7 seconds, and 3 thirds.
Custer captured l first and l
third.
Following is a list of the sub
jects written and the winners of
first, second and third places:
Typewriting Laura B k e r,
Hysham, first; Allan Roush, Har-
Hardin, second; Frances McCor-
mick, Hysham, third.
Typewriting II-Helen Busma,
Hysham, first; Johanna Kray,
Hardin, second; Frances McCorm-
ick, Hysham, third.
Shorthand-Johanna Kray, Har-
din, first; Kenneth Ingram, Har.
din, second1 Emma Beck, Hardin,
third.
Bookkeeping I-Armour Taylen,
Hysham, first; Paul Creek, Hy-
sham, second; Charles Buzzetti,
Hardin, third.
Home Economics I-Geraldine
Rennick, Hardin, first; Dorine
Waterman, Hardin, second; Ruth
Powers, Hardin, third.
Home Economics II-Zenda Nc
Kittrick, Hardin, first; Flora Lam
don, Hardin, second; Betty Ko-
priva, Hardin, third.
World History-Neu Sharp, Hy-
sham, first; Everett Stinnett, Hy-
sham, second; Frank Randall,
Hardin, third.
American History-Gerald Evans,
Lodge Grass, first; Allan Roush,
Hardin, second; John Busma, Hy-
sham, third.
Latin dorothy Lee Stevenson,
Lodge Grass, first; Marian Knut-
son, Lodge Grass, second; James
Hendricks. Hysham, third.
Latin II-Evelyn Schaube e l,
Lodge Grass, first; Blanche Rip
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
Approximately $4,000 Spent Since
Last August, Grading and
Gravel cling.

According to an article in Sat-
urday's Billings Gazette, quoting
w. J. Keays, district road super
visor of l6 Indian reservations in
Montana, North and South Da-
kota and Wyoming, approximately
$5O,00O was spent on roads on the
Grow Indian reservation from Au-
gust l, 1888 to April l, 1884.
The original allotment last Au-
gust was $4,000, leaving $4,000
for construction of roads this
spring and summer, he said.
The road south from Crow
Agency to St. Xavier mission has
been completely graveled and is
ready for use, he said. A COM
plete drainage system has also
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
ROAD PROJECTS
on CROW RESERVATION

been constructed on the 1O-mile
stretch.
At the present time, the Indian
workers are engaged in grading
the road from a point 10 miles
south of the mission to the Big
Horn canyon, approximately seven
miles, Mr.. Keays said.
1t is planned, he said, to grade
and resurface the road from the
Custer highway to Pryor during
the summer. The road was
originally a railroad bed.
Mr. Keays also said that the war
department is considering the oil
ing of the road from the main
highway to the Custer battlefield
this summer. distance of ap-
proximately one mile.
Indians have been employed on
the projects with the exception of
the supervising positions, he said
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
NOW THE Time TO FIGHT
GRASSHOPPER MENACE
All Stubble Fields Should Be
PlOWed Between Now and
May Tenth.

The first question before the
farmers of Big Horn county should
now be that of the grasshopper
menace, according to Geo. w.
Gustafson, county agent. There
are some definite things that the
farmer can do between now and
May 10th, when the grasshoppers
are due to hatch out. The first
thing he should do is to plow all
the stubble fields on his own place.
In the second place, he should
urge his neighbors to do likewise.
In this way millions of grasshop-
per eggs will be buried too deep to
come out. The mouldboard plow is
the best. as it does a better job
of covering than other plows.
Don't wait to ploW after grass
hoppers hatch; it is too late, then.
Do it now.
The board of county commits
sioners have signed an agreement
with the state to cooperate in Sc
curing the supply of poison bait
curing the supply of poison bait.
consisting of bran, saWdust, and
arsenic, will be shipped into the
: county soon by the federal agents
! in charge of the control campaign.
! At the best. the poisoning is go
ing to cost money. The plowing
campaign will help tremendously
to keep the cost down. Every
farmer should cooperate in every
way possible on community
basis, not merely be concerned
about his own fields.
A series of meetings to explain
the methods and plans of the
hopper poisoning campaign will be
held by County Agent Gustafson
in the various sections of the
county, beginning next week, at
St. Xavier, on Wednesday, Apri
25. The schedule of meetings is as
follows, and every farmer is urged
to attend these meetings:
st. Xavier-Wednesday. Apri
25, 7:30 p. m.
Decker-Thursday. April 26, 1:3(
p. m.
Lodge Grass-Thursday, Apri
26, 7:30 p. m.
Friday, April 27, 1:3(
p. m.
Spring Creek. Friday, April 27
7:3O p. m.
Pryor-Saturday, April %, 2Ol
p. m.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
Clarence ]. Stueve, Well-Known
Parkman Rancher, Meets
Tragic End,

Clarence J. Stueve, IS, we'll
known Parkman, Wyo., rancher,
was found last Sunday afternoon
lying dead in field on his ranch,
by his aged father, Fred w. Stueve.
The body, which was twist
ed, was lying near a tractor
which apparently had run over
him, causing fatal injuries.
Stueve had been staying alone
at the ranch as Mrs. Stueve was
residing in Dayton during the
school months in order that the
oldest of their seven children
could attend school. Mrs. Stueve
is grand-niece of Mrs. John w.
Rowland of Hardin, whom she has
visited here occasionally.
An investigation by the author
tiles disclosed that the accident
happened probably Friday after
noon, judging from the amount OF
seeding that had been done and
the condition of a team which
had been tied to a wagon a
quarter of mile from where the
body was found. It is known he
was alive Thursday afternoon, as
he was seen by neighbors drilling
! in the field.
The details of the accident will
always remain more or less a
mystery. There seems no doubt
that the left hind wheel of the
tractor ran over the full length
of his body, but how he came to
be thrown in front of the wheel
or how he managed to shut of
the ignition and shift the tractor
gear lever into neutral will never
be explained. AS the tractor was
coming down Steen hillside
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
FORMER HARDIN PASTOR
HANDY WITH HIS PISTOL
Rev. b. v. Edworthy Member Hell
ena Team Awarded National
Championship.

Rev. B. v. Edworthy, the first
pastor of the Hardin M. E. church,
at present engaged in YIN. c. A.
work at Helena, is a member of
the pistol team of the Helena
Rifle and Revolver club, which
has just been awarded the nation
al championship in the novice di-
ision of the second annual league
matches of the United States Re-
vover association. The team scored
, 1892 out of possible 12,500
points in 10 matches Wednesday
mornings Billings Gazette pub
lished the story OF the contest,
: along with a three-column As
sociated Press photo of the ten
members of the team, Rev. Ed
worthy OCCUPYING the middle of the
bottom row.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
HARDIN'S LIQUOR STORE
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS

The Montana liquor store at
Hardin was opened for business,
Thursday noon, by Manager Ralph
B. Peck. He was assisted in the
opening of the business by T. A.
Tobin, manager of the Billings
liquor store. Mr.. Tobin stated
yesterday afternoon that he had
assisted in the opening of several
state liquor stores in eastern Mon
tana cities and that the one at
Hardin did the best opening busi-
ness of any of them. The store is
located in the room west of the
M. E. Brown tonsorial parlor, in
the Gay block, on Third street.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
ANNUAL SUPPER MEETING
HARDIN WOMANS CLUB
Dues Reduced to $3.50 Per Year.
Fine Program Following
Feed by M. E. Aid.

Last Tuesday evening the Har-
din Woman's Club held their an
nual in the form of a supper,
served by the Methodist Aid, fol-
lowed by very fine program. A
few necessary matters OF club
business were voted upon and re-
ports of the treasurer and secre-
tary given by Mrs o. Y. Weir
and Miss Annabelle Ross. The
constitution was changed to make
the annual dues $3.50 instead of
50. and SIS was given to the fund
to send girls from the Hardin high
school to the Voca tional Confer
ence at Bozeman.
The program included two
groups of songs by a male trio
Cecil Ross, Harry Patterson and
, Gordon Brekke; clarinet solo by
Max Thompson; a piano solo by
Johanna Kray; a clever imper-
sonation by Robert Kopriva; two
vocal solos by Mr. Merle Evenson;
the years club history by Mrs.
N. E. Hannant; Greetings" by
the new president, Mrs. Grace
Garrison, and a very clever "Trav-
elogue on California" charmingly
given by Mrs. Anna Petzoldt of
Lodge Grass.
F'ifty-four were present and a
very encouraging list Of members
for the coming year was secured,
which gives promise of an active
and successful club next year.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
DRHTHERIA CLAIMS LITTLE
SON OF CERELa aCODNYs

James Bruce Codenys, three
years and 10 months old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ceriel Codenys, re-
siding about three miles northeast
of Hardin, died at the family
home at S O'Clock Thursday
morning, following an illness Of a
couple of days from diphtheria.
The little fellow was born at Har-
din, June 10, 1880. q wing to the
nature of the illness from which
he died the funeral viii be pri-
vate, this Friday afternoon. Inter-
ment will be in the Hardin ceme-
terry. The parents have the SYM
pathy of the community in their
afhiction.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
BEET GROWERS WIRE
ROOSEVELT FOR HELP
$50 Farmers in Protest Meeting
Against Senates Delay on
Sugar Bill.

IhoSe farmers OF Big Horn
county whose major crop is sugar
beets are becoming much con-
cerned over the delay in the pas
sage of the Costigan-Jones sugar
bill by the U. S. Senate. The bill
passed the house two weeks since
and a date for its passage by the
senate has been set several times,
only to be postponed. Until this
bill has been enacted into law the
growers nor the sugar manufac-
turers know where they are.
The contract offered by the sug-
ar factories cannot be accepted in
its present form and consequently
no farmer can afford to sign a
beet growing contract containing
the Objectionable clause No. IL,
which gives the sugar company
the option of cancelling the con-
tract on or before August IS.
At meeting at the Hardin
grade school building, Monday
night attended by about $50 beet
growers, a general discussion of
the situation was had, after which
it was decided unanimously to
send to President Roosevelt the
following message:
"The delay in passage of Costi-
gan-Jones bill is matter of grave
concern to all sugar beet sections.
Sugar beet contracts have been
offered by the sugar companies
which provide that under certain
conditions the companies can can
eel contracts as late as Aug. is.
1T is impossible to secure fl
nancing, and foolish to attempt
to grow a perishable crop under
such contract. Our seeding season
is passing, our moisture leaving
and our senate adjourning to at
tend a ball game.
I'VE, as Americans, demand i'm
mediate action in legislation which
will insure us, as citizens, the
right to produce a crop which can
be domestically marketed under
conditions which will insure a
reasonable profit such as other
industries enjoy.
Further delay in clearing the
situation will result in loss of op-
portunity to earn a livelihood to
this whole community.
GAS a final effort we appeal to
you for immediate relief"
At meeting of the Hardin
Lions club, the same evening, a
similar telegram was framed bv a
committee composed of o. E. An
derson, H. w. Bunston and R. A.
Vickers and forwarded to the
president.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
GEN. GEORGIA. Custer
RELICS HELD IN TRUST

the statement was received by the
Billings Commercial club Monday.
The memorandum was written
by o. F. Wheaton, trust officer for
the estate Of the late Mrs. Eliza
beth Custer, widow of the general
who perished with his command on
the banks OF teh Little Big Horn.
It was forwarded to the senator
following his statement that he
Is preparing bill which would
appropriate funds for a museum
on the battlefield.
Efforts to have the appropriation
made at the present session Of
congress were recently redoubled
when it became known that a
movement is under way to bring
the relics to the Custer State
park in the Black Hills.
There is scant likelihood that
this can be accomplished, accord
ing to the memorandum, which
states that the relics cannot be
disposed of during the lifetime of
two relatives of the widow. With
their passing, the mementoes may
be donated to any memorial or
association, with the battlefield
receiving preference. At the dis
erection of the trust officer, they
may be assigned to the public
library in Monroe, Mich, the home
Of the famous officer, the memo
randum stated.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
CRUSHED TO DEATH
TRACTOR on HIS RANCH

there is a possibility that the
tractor got out Of gear and ran
away with the accident victim.
From the imprint in the loose
soil Stueve must have been
thrown clear over the wheel,
which ran the full length of his
body. There were no tractor lug
marks where his body had been
mashed down into the dirt. His
nose, eyes and mouth were filled.
with dirt. After being run over he
apparently got up and travelled in
a circle, coming back to the
tractor, where it had dug down
into the loose earth, and turned
off the ignition.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20

Next Wednesday, April IS, Miss
es Johanna Kray, Zenda Alice
McKttrick, Alberta Ewing and
Geraldine Rennick, and Allan
Roush, students of the Hardin
high school, accompanied by a
member of the high school faculty,
will leave by automobile for
Bozeman, where the young folks
will compete with some 700 other
pupils from over the state, during
High School Week.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20

paper, "This Machine Slaves
or Masters" read by Joe Scanlon,
and the program was concluded
with music by Carl Moore and
Sterling Torske. An unusually
large crowd was in attendance and
it is planned to have programs of
a similar character during the
summer months.
J. A. Koebbe, member Of the
planning committee for this dis
trict, explained to those present
the set-up Of this body and steps
necessary to obtain relief through
the committee,
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
Unlikely To Go Anywhere Other
Than Museum To Be Built on
Custer Battlefield.

Because of stipulations governing
their ALLEGATION, there Is no pos
silbility that the relics Of Gen.
George A. Custer will be assigned
to a museum, memorial associa-
ton or individual in the near
future, says Tuesdays Billings
Gazette.
This was evident from memor-
andum sent to Senator J. E. Erick-
son by H. T. Cheney, Secretary Of
the Sheridan, Wyo., chamber Of
commerce, last week. A copy of
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
BOY OPERATED ON FOR CLUB
FOOT WITH WHICH WAS. BORN

Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Weigand Of
Lodge Grass on Saturday took
their youngest child, Reu b e n.
aged five, to st. Vincent Ortho-
pedic hospital in Billings where.
Tuesday morning, he was operated
on by DR.. L. w. Allard, bone
specialist, to correct a club-foot,
with which affliction he was
born. The operation was success
full and the little fellow is report
ed to be doing nicely.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
SUDDEN HEART ATTACK
TAKES JAMES OLEARY
Pioneer Settler of the Maschetah
Section Stricken As He
Repairs Tire.

James O'Leary, a pioneer dry
land farmer of the Maschetah
neighborhood, about % mile S
northeast of Hardin, died sudden
ly at his farm home, Friday morn
ing of last week, of valvular heart
disease, from which he had been
a sufferer several years. About
eight O'clock Friday morning he
was changing a tire on his car,
and without warning suffered a
heart attack from which he sue
cumbed.
James OLeary was born at
Madison, Wisconsin, July 81, 1876,
and had he lived until next July
would have been So years of age.
He was one of the early settlers
in the Sarpy section, and made a
comfortable home there for him.
self and family. Besides the wild
ow, Mrs. Margaret OLeary, he is
survived by two daughters and two
sons, the eldest daughter being a
student in the Billings high school.
Funeral services were held at
st. Joseph's Catholic church in
Hardin at 9 o'clock Monday
morning, Rev. Father Meagher Of
fciating. The pallbearers were
John Grossfield, Andrew Miller,
Jeff Dinsdale, Sam Cunningham,
John Hermsen and John Turner,
all neighbors and friends of many
years standing. Interment was in
the Hardin Catholic cemetery.
James OIeary was a good citi-
zen, q kind and indulgent husband
and father and an accommodate
ing neighbor and his death Is
deeply deplored by a wide circle
of friends.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
REGULAR MoNTHLYME
CoUN1YFARME RS UNION

people of the North Bench COM
munity. The program was given
under the direction of Miss Han
nah Batty and included a novel
number-a whistling duet with
guitar accompaniment by Carl
Moore and Sterling Torske; a
recitation by Kenneth Morrison;
song by Lois and Adena Moore,
with Miss lola Moore accompan-
ing; the Farmers Union yell, rem
dered by the entire group; a
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20
Entertaining Program Under the
Direction Miss H. L. Batty,
Tuesday Evening.

AT the regular monthly meeting
of the Big Horn County Farmers
union held at the grade school
building Tuesday evening and
which was presided over by J. A.
Perry, president, an interesting
program In line with farmers union
activities was staged by the young
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20

E. L. Gebo, an experienced
tonsorialist who has been employ
ed in the Lodge Grass shop Of
Mayor John T. Ryan, has accepted
a position in the Matt e. Brown
shop in the Gay block on Third
street.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20

w. A. Wolcott will leave Sunday
for Billings to enter the Deaconess
hospital for an abdominal trouble.
The Hardin tribune-herald., 1934-04-20

Judge Robert c. Stong was
down from Billings yesterday and
heard a few matters in district
court chambers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28

Consider further the question,
asked in the preceding article
of this series, why criminal syndi-
I calism laws are used today. To
answer this question at least
two facts must be understood:
~ That these laws are part
of the state apparatus which, to-
gether with machine guns, tear
gas, bayOnets, clubs, are used by
employers as instruments of sup
preston against workers;
81 That employers. who con-
troll the state apparatus, use
these laws against workers when
ever they fear their dominant po-
sition in society endangered.
Therefore criminal syndicalism
laws, being one of the instru-
ments of suppression, are used
today because employers, in the
fifth year of an unprecedented
crisis that is rocking the very
foundation of the existing social
order, fear their dominant posi-
tion in society endangered. This
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
Our" Public" Libraries

Two of the most vicious cuts that are being
made by the Seattle City Council are those OF
the Health Department and the Library. The
first will condemn hudreds OF workers TO SLOW
and sudden death through cutting down tacIll-
ties Tor tubercular patients at flrianos SAM
tarum. Inc second Will cut OIL hundreds OF
workers from reading material which is almost
as vlIal their turure welfare as the present
work OF the health department..
Inc library Is TO suIIer cut OF So3,OOU, loss
of nearly ~ per cent OF its present DudgeU-a cut
oil some on per cent under It's 1881 budget. 1hls
means InaJ the purchase or books and other
reauIng matter TO be cut TO the bone-about
One-IenLn WHAT they were in 1851. Some 80 tull
time workers VIII be dlscnarged-to swell the
DreauiilIes. Inree OF the ten branch libraries
aIe 10 ne aDonsned enrrely ana tine other
seven he from I'VE DAYS week 10
tno-tIius cfIppiIng Inc education OIL unous-
aiAus o. auuIL noIkeis. All departments aG the
LIaIiL IlUlaiy are " De cut, anu the Duliullg is
W .iUseu Oh ounuays anu mondays Inc news
paper loom, upon wnIcn UnOusanus Oh workers
uelenu OIL Lnelr reauIIIg material, is TO
be aUoIlsIleu ana a poor SUBSTITUTE put in It's
place.
throughout the nation the most vicious and
unjustlfabIe cuts have been made in all library
budgets.
In New York City this summer ten branch
libraries were closed and their employees fore
ed into unemployment and relief lines. In the
southern states, where the workers haven't
even had the mere pittance OF library service
that is given to northern workers, library ex-
penditures have been carved down as much as
elsewhere. In Chicago, the city library hasn't
been able to buy single book since May. 1881.
All the books it gets gifts Because of this
eondition-and the continual wearing out and
discarding OF boOks-the librarys book stock
has decreased more than 10000 volumes in the
last three years, decline equal to nearly one
quarter as many books as the Seattle city lib
raries now own.
The American ruling class never has permit
ted the masses of its people to have decent
library service although in comparison with
most other countries the L. 5. is known as
the land of the public library" Today some
SO per cent of our rural population has no lib
rary service; more than One-thrd of the coun-
ties in the L. s. have no Libraries inside their
boundaries.
In the USSR, where libraries were almost
unknown when the Soviets came to power,
there are now more libraries than can be found
in any other country in the world. 1t is now the
only country that is expanding its libraries and
other cultural agencies instead of rapidly kill
ing them.