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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
California Unsafe
For Florida Frogs

LOS ANGELES, May 12. UP)-
California is an unsafe place for
Florida frogs, Oral r. Griffin de-
plored today in reporting TO police
that two more of his prize breed
ing and jumping bullfrogs had
been stolen. He said he has lost
20 Florida frogs in the last six
months and is ready to abandon
his attempt to breed a strain OF
Super-leapers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
PRFDTCTS LANDSLIDE VOTE For ROOSEVEIT T -

License Plate FOund-Terry Nc
Daniel of 1881 Main street left a
California 1886 automobile license
plate IVl429 at FL Centro police
headquarters Monday night. He
said he found the plate outside the
city limits west of Imperial avenue
and near Ross avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
Gift ExplOdes' Takes
Off Tips of Fingers

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May
IL. W.P)-The pretty red candle"
a departing boarder left as a gift
for Mrs. Louise Reimel, his land
lady exploded and blew off the
tips of four of Miss ReimePs fin.
gers when she lit it, The candle"
was q huge firecracker
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
INLAND
Mrs. c. A. Sperry

r. l.. Jones has sold his ranch
TO John Taylor who will take
possession next month. Taylor
has been foreman of the Wilkin-
son pea sheds for several years
and is expected to put the ranch
into peas next year. Jones raised
tomatoes this year and as soon as
the season is over, he and Mrs
Jones will take a trip to Ten
neSSee to visit Mrs. Jones' mother.
The tomato market took a sud-
den rise last week and all grow
ers were busy getting a fresh sup
ply on the market. While the
market was low they had been
shipping to Buena Park to the
cannery.
Msr. B. w. Mitchell spent sew
eral days last week visiting in
Riverside with her daughter, Mrs
Clarence Hinderks.
| 90
Guests of Mrs. M. N. Robinson
Sunday were Miss Katherine Nee
han and Margaret Wightman.
| 90
John Clark and Fred Sones were
in Los Angeles on business last
week.
Mrs. Ben Palladine and Mrs
Harley Griffee were shopping il
Calipatria Wednesday.
90
Frank Stark is driving the schoo
bus in place of John Smith who
has gone to work at the FREQ
Thompson service station.
Clayton Williams is going tC
Detroit soon where he will buy
new Ford auto and drive 1t back
| home.
Mr.. and Mrs. George P. Taylor
who We're married recently at the
brides home in Vermont are visit
ing places of interest on their
way to California They were last
heard from in New Orleans. They
will make their home with the
Jason Dibolls until they can find
a suitable location. Taylor and
Mrs. Diboll are brother and sister.
Mrs. Grace Mcdonald was in
Brawley on business Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. J. Farmer have
been i'll this week with infleunza
90
Miss Catherine Detweiler, who
has been teaching the extra room
at Bonita school during the busy
crop season, has finished her work
and returned to Los Angeles.
In the absence of Mrs. Catherine
GroSVenor, Miss Roberta Rhyme
is teaching the kindergarten class
at Fremont.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Brandt and
children, Janet Lee and Harold, jr.,
OF Brawley had dinner with Mrs.
Grace Mcdonald Wednesday.
The boys of Calipatria, North
end and inland elementary schools
are having their tryouts this week
to select a group from the north
end of the county for the Junior
pentathlon. The finals will be
held in Brawley Saturday, May l6.
90
William Gum has finished paint
ing and repairing the airdome
anu gave the first out-doo picture
Friday night.
The Interpost Council of the
American Legion and Auxiliary
met in Calipatria Monday night.
Mrs. Fannie Kuns of Ell Centro,
president of the Auxiliary unit,
conducted the meeting and Max
Brentz of CaleXico presided at the
mems meeting officers of the 22nd
district who were present Were
Commander and Mrs. Higgins
and Adjutant and Mrs. Parks of
San Diego, and Charles S. Mason,
Fifth Area Commander, who de-
livered the main address of the
evening. Refreshments were serv-
ed and a social hour enjoyed by
the two units.
Bob Writ is i'll and was unable
to attend school Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
. BIG JIM PAINTS
ROSY OUTLOOK
-Cf-

DEVILS LAKE, N. D.. May Il. (UP)-Postmaster
General James A Farley addressing the north Demo,
cratic convention today said President Roosevelt would
receive the greatest endorsement in the November cleo
ton ever received by chief executive since the birth Of
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
MELOLAND
Mrs. Alex Meyer

Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald England
and son Edwin drove to San Diego
for the week end. While on the
coast they stopped at Lakeside to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Woodland,
former Imperial Valley residents.
Due to illness in the Kenneth
Sharp family, the next meeting of
the Meloland Wednesday club will
be at the home of Mrs. H. A. Wells
instead of with Mrs Sharp as
previously announced.
Mrs. Charles Forsberg was a del
egate to the Southern California
Baptist convention held at the
First Baptist church in San Diego
90
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Scott and their
two children spent the weekend on
the coast. Saturday night they
were joined by Mr.. and Mrs. Ward
McGreW and daughter Evelyn and
the two families enjoyed a house
party at Mission Beach, returning
home Sunday night.
San Diego visitors include: Mr.
and Mrs. Wesley Roberts, Rubylee
Roberts of Meloland; Mr. and Mrs.
Dewey Lorah of FL Centro who
spent Mothers day with Mrs j. c.
Roberts, mother of Mrs. Lorah and
Wesley Roberts.
Friends will be glad to know that
Mrs. Frederika Groebli, who under
went a major operation recently, is
improving satisfactorily in the Ell
Centro hospital. Little Johnny
Groebli is visiting his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Setz, during his
mothers illness and attending
Meloland school,
Roderick Scott and Harry Scott
of Los Angeles were visitors at the
Dan Scott home Wednesday.
The Meloland club is sponsoring
a cake walk at the school Saturday
night, May 16 Proceeds will be used
for the school milk fund and other
welfare work carried on by the club.
Allan Scott who has charge of
the experimental station, was Los
Angeles visitor the past Weekend
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
Drive on Gamblers
Nets Penny-Pitchers

HOLLYWOOD, May u. UP)-
olice Chief James E. Davis re-
lentless crusade against gambling
netted a pair of penny-pitchers
on Hollywood Boulevard today.
One of the gamblers was a T.
year-old boy. Arresting officers
said they were impeding sidewalk
traffic.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

About as members of the Town
send club gathered for a potluck
dinner at the Methodist Social hall.
w. Willingham spoke on better
government. Miss Carol RodWell
was the soloist. The dinner was
given in honor Of Vic Johnson for
receiving the most new members.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

A Rare Treat Awaits those that
hear The Cunninghams at japanese
Christian church on Commercial,
Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Admission
free. (M12P-Ml3A)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
CALEXICO
Mrs. G. Parkinson

Mrs. Ethel Martin, deputy grand
matron, paid her official visit to
Calexico's Imperial Crown Chapter
Monday night. All phrases Of the
ritualistic work was exemplified
for the deputy's inspection. Mrs
Martin was presented with a pair
Of silver pheasants.
Mrs. J. c. Pace, wife of DR.. Pace,
underwent a major operation at
the Griffin hospital.
90
While slicing meat on an electric
machine, Earl CaVanah was seri-
ously injured. He was treated by
DR. Barmore.
90
Mrs. Tom Allen, who has been
seriously i'll for several weeks, was
reported resting easily.
The Arts and Craft section will
meet Wednesday at lockwood hall
The morning session starts at lC
o'clock. Members are to take ur
crackle craft project.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Must Serve Sentence - Antonio
grado 80, Monday began service of
a 10 day Jail sentence imposed in
BraWley justice court. He was
brought to the county Jail after
his conviction on a vagrancy charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Dotted Swisses and Batistes, cool
and sheer for hot weather street
wear. Style Shop, 727 Main.
(M12P- -M14A)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Desk Sergeant Hl-Desk Sergeant
Jack Stark of the Ell Centro police
department is confined to his home
on account of illness. He is said to
be troubled with a throat ailment.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Jailed For Vagrancy-John Mac
Brown, 36year- old Negro, was SEN
fenced to 30 days in the county jail
Calipatria justice court Monday
The Negro was arrested by Calipa.
tria officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Bedding FOund-Tom Asder of
474 Brighton avenue told FL Centro
police Monday night that he placed
some bedding in a parked automo-
bile he thought to be his. Later
the car was moved and he realized
he put the bedding in the wrong
machine. Later in the evening, Bill
Botkins reported to headquarters
that he had found the bedding in
his car.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

lIte. M lZP-M l0A)
Charges Dismissed-Ramon Pc
reda was freed of charges of sell
ing narcotics, the dismissal taking
place in Judge John E. Simpsons
justice court Monday afternoon.
Evidence was insufficient to estab-
lish guilt, the judge ruled. Failure
of states witness to put in an
appearance was said to have re-
duced the evidence
Have You Seen the General Blow
out-Proof Tire. 5th & State?
(Ml0-Ml7A)
Marriage License Issued-Robert
Mitchell "a, and Trudie Davis, 10,
both of BraWley, obtained q mar.
riage license at the county clerks
office Monday
90
l. MayfieId, "a years Notary Pub
lie. everything in the line of Notary
work, l34 South 9th St, Ell Centro
(t-t-S-tf)
Arrested i'm IndiO-Tomas Serbia,
81 was arrested in Indio Monday
and brought to the county Jail by
immigration officials, according to
records at the jail.
90
Have You Seen the General Blow
out-Proof Tire. 5th & State?
(M10- -M17A)
Held for InvestigatiOn-G. Brad
ford, 43-year-old Negro, is held in
the county Jail pending investiga-
tionS. He was arrested in Brawley
at an early hour Tuesday morning
and officers seek reason for his
prowling the streets of the north
end city.
Dine i'm Cool Comfort in air con-
ditioned store. Valley Drug Co.
(M12P-tf
Marriage License Issued Jose
Diaz Santana. 30, and Victoria
Fernandez, IS, were issued a mar
riage license at the county clerk'S
office Sunday. The couple came
from Tijuana.
Be Cool in New Congo and crease
resisting linen sport suits and dress
es. Style Shop, 727 Main.
CM12P- -M14A)
Desk Sergeant Ill-Desk Sergeant
Jack Stark of the Ell Centro police
department is confined to his home
on account of illness. He is said to
be troubled with a throat ailment.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Supervisors Meet-Imperial coun-
ty supervisors met at the court
house Monday afternoon to canvass
the ballots cast at the election pri-
maries May 5. They will meet next
at 2 o'clock, May l8, in regular ses-
sion.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
(0UN'TYlBRlEFS l<BR

Shop For Your Drug Needs in cool
comfort. Valley Drug Co. Cooled
by refrigeration. tM12P-t)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Lunch In Comfort in room cooled
by refrigeration. Valley Drug Co.
(M12P- -tf)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Reidy's Famous Lemonade.
(M7P-J1A)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12


Seek Car Owner-El Centro po-
lice are seeking the name of the
owner of a coach found abandoned
Monday night in the 100 block on
North Fifth street. The car was
unlocked, contained no ownership
certificate but did have between
$40 and $50 worth of gum as cargo.
Sentenced To Jail-Loranzo Reyes
pleaded guilty to battery charge
filed against him by Ida Mae Sterl
ing Monday night. In Ell Centre
police court Tuesday morning, he
was sentenced to spend 10 days in
Jail. The battery complaint was
signed after a fight at a Broadway
cafe, officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Bob Writ is i'll and was unable
to attend school Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

BE Cool in New Congo and crease
resisting linen sport suits and dress
es. Style Shop, 727 Main.
(Ml2P- -M14A)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Mrs. Charles Forsberg was del
egate to the Southern California
Baptist convention held at the
First Baptist church in San Diego
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Marriage License Issued Jose
Diaz Santana, 30, and Victoria
Fernandez, Is, were issued a mar
riage license at the county clerks
office Sunday. The couple came
from Tijuana.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Have You Seen the General Blow
out-Proof Tire. 5th & State?
(M10 -M17A)
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-07-17
Elk Forms
Friend ship for
Saddle Animal

Leon Evans, newly-appointed dis
trict ranger at the Old Faithful dis
trict, is having a hard time convinc-
ing his fellow-rangers that a bull elk
will team up with a saddle horse at.
the manager.
Stationed at the Gallatin ranger
station the past winter, Evans was
awakened Just before midnight on Feb.
% by an odd noise in the barn. Waking
a CCC assistant, the ranger led the.
way to the stall of his saddle horse.
As he flashed the light into the barn,
he wondered if he were dream walk
ing. Before him stood his mare, mead
bent into the manager, peacefully
munching her hay. Immediately along
side, and just as peacefully grinding
Wisps OF hay in the manager was a mag
nlficent young bull elk, head and ant
lers buried in the manger.
Their flashlights frightened the elk
and he bounded for the door, but his
antlers caught and held him. The
mare, as If sensing the elk's difficulty,
edged toward her companion, and with
her shoulder bumped the elk's hind
quarters toward the door opening. With
this the elk made a rearward exit.
Every night after this until April l.
the two strange companions hob
nobbed" together in the barn and at
the crib. Then about April 10, one
morning Evans found one of the huge
elk-antlers which the bull had shed
in his barn haven. From that time ON
n elk was never seen again.
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health was better than it ever had been
and I have kept pretty close to those
habits all my life."
CUSTER" replies the veteran when
questioned these days, Custer? We
didn't see much of him. He was always
in headquarters before we started and
then on the march, he rode with the
advance guard. We were looking after
the supply train. But I'll say this for
him-he may have been hard on men
and horses, as they say, but he would
never ask anyone to do anything he
wouldn't do himself and if there was
danger, he Was in the thick of it. He
was a brave man, he and Benteen. !
never knew anyone drawer than those
two, Custer and Benteen."
The old man still comments wryly
on Clusters propensity for s%tationing
the band or some high poin to play
stirring tunes while the men pitched
camp or did some unusually hard work.
HE knew we worked faster when there
was music-and I have to admit that
We could always march better when
the band played" He recalls one oc-
casion when a bridge was being built
over the Little Missouri. General Terry
stood above on the bank, watching the
work, but Custer was down in the
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Pioneer CaUalryman Saued from Fate of Clusters
Soldiers i'm June, 1876, BY Horse He Didn't Haue

stream with the men, showing them
what to do. HE always knew, too"
The boots were still a burden, how
ever, and long before they reached In
dian country, the young trooper was
ready to give up the ghost.
Sergeant" he said, when that dig
nitary passed beside him, you've got
a horse. You go on; leave me here. I've
got my gun and some ammunition. III
can't walk another STEP"
THE red Indians'n scalp you alive!"
II don't care" Horner replied, "it
can't be much worse than these boots"
He was left to himself, and did fl
and found things easier after that.
an ordeal, too, for he had to watch the
horses. Orders were to challenge and,
If there was no immediate reply, to
shoot. Every bush looked like an enemy
and the coyotes, new to him then, sang
a weird night song that rose and fell
with terrible effect. He challenged
a deserter,. who readily admitted that
he wanted a horse; followed him
around the band, but all to no purpose.
Three men went over the hill" that
night, less afraid of stray Indians on
their lonely homeward way than of
those they might find ahead. The Rec
scouts were sent after them but they
got away, turning up finally, wornout
and starving, to give themselves up
at Fort Lincoln.
When the supply camp was estab-
llshed at the mouth of the Powder
river, Horner was among those left
to guard it. His friends went ahead
and most of them never returned. His
contingent did not know of the battle
till several days later when ""E' troop
was sent to guide them to the rendeZ-
vous on the Rosebud. The fleeing In
dams had passed on the other side OF
the river without being recognized.
IF we had stayed where We WERE
Horner says, I'VE might all have been
killed, too, for after we had gone, the
Indians crossed the river, took what
stores they wanted, and burned the
rest"
The recruits went back down the Mis-
souri, on a steamboat and spent the fall
and winter at Fort Lincoln. After the
Nez Perces campaign of 1877, Horner
was stationed at Fort Rice where he
met little Katie Stewart, then only IA
Their romance is like a novel. Later,
at Fort Totten, despite a new rule
against the marriage of soldiers and
non-commiSsioned officers, he married
her on her 18th birthday, slipping
away from stable duty and up the
stairs over his captains quarters, to
meet the bride and the priest, Father
Claude. It was for her sake that he
left the army; she had grown up in
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lett, bade his friends an atfectlOnate
farewell, and they reciprocated by
the barracks to the railway station,
holding out great schooners of beer
and, at the station itself, an armload of
bologna. St. Louis was a gay place in
those days and the young soldier had
reason to remember its lavish hospital
ity later as he truged over the plains.
The bologna came in HANDY, for It was
at Bismarck, Dakota, and many stores
enroute closed when they saw the SOL
dierS Surging off the train. Horner had
a huge supply of tobacco, too, in lieu
of a bill he could not collect, and as
he did not use 1t at that time, this also
proved useful as a medium of exchange.
Arriving at Fort Abraham Lincoln,
on the Missouri across from Bismarck,
he found everything. in a mad hullaba-
loo. It was the middle of April, 1876,
and Custer had just come in belaredly
from Washington to complete prepar-
ations for the western campaign. The
recruits were left in Bismarck to un-
load the train while their mounted
comrades dashed off to the fort in
search Of food and rest: It was night
before the youngsters reached the post;
they were tired, supper was over, and
they got only coffee and biscuits. It
wasn't a particularly happy introduce
ton for a young man used to the six
daily meals of st. Louis-but he found
that it was only the beginning.
Fort Lincoln was a new post, built
airy. 1t lay down the Missouri valley
several miles below the settlement, on
a flat to the south of Fort Mexican,
an earlier infantry post on q high bluff
above the mouth Of the Heart river.
Buildings were of good frame construc-
ton, not elaborate, but as comfortable
as anything on the frontier at that
river and a wagon road led up the draw
toward the post on the hill.
May II, 1876 -. and at last the long
bound. Soldiers from Fort Rice, en-
camped down the valley; infantry from
Fort Mexican; Indian scouts, the hand
somely mounted troops of the 7th, each
their yellow cords and gay red ker-
chiefs. There was a long wagon train,
augmented by many civilian contract
ors and their outfits; pack-mules; Gus
ter's 16 stag-hounds, in and around
everything; the regimental band on
their grey horses; the recruits to which
Jacob Homer belonged, 'cavalrymen,
along with the infantry. They were
not quite sc enthusiastic now that
the day had come and their horses had
not. At first the order had been to
stay behind but Custer had, quite char
acterisitcally, Homer says, reversed it
at the last moment so that every avail
able man should go along.
One last dashing parade, the roilick-
ing strains of Garry Owen" the reg
mental marching tune, bugles, shouts,
Indian cries, then only the slow creak
of saddle leather, and the expedition
had passed up the gully and Owe the
hills toward the Little Big Horn. Be-
hind them, a few officers wives rocked
sadly on their porches, or ran inside
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for a good cry. Down on Laudress Row.
other women gave way more Irankiy
to their grief; children paraded with
handkerchiefs on sticks; Indian women
Echoing strains of The Girl I Left Be.
hind Me-" a slowly sitting cloud of
dust . and that was all.
Jacob Horner says he learned abou
cavalry boots that first day. Never de-
signed for walking, they grew heavier
and hotter as the hours wore on. Sol
diers in 1876 were well, If not Away
comfortably, clad. They were wearing
out the black campaign hats left over
trousers and blouses, the same weight
underwear the year round. b red
kerchiefs of the 7th about their throats,
gloves on their hands. I'VE didn't
want to get sunburned in those days"
Horner said. Some officers n men,
including Custer, had buckskin suits,
with which they often wore blue shlrts.
ward, met snow in the Badlands early
in June, then heat and dust on the
Montana plains. There wasn't much to
eat, at least in the judgment OF the
young Frenchman, used to heavy meals,
with mid-morning and mid-afternoon
lunches thrown in, and his 1maglna-
ton, like that of many another soldier,
long. Given his rations for the march,
sometimes only a handful OF crackers,
he ate them all at once. He had not
learned to chew tobacco at that time
but took the advice of a superior, "You
won't drink so much of this bad water,
my lad, if you chew" But he remembers
selling his last small piece for a dollar
to a trooper who had been out for
days. II bought cheese and crackers
and ginger-snaps at the suffers store,
so it was a fair exchange"
Hard as this routine was, Jacob Hor-
ner gives credit to his army life for
his present excellent health. IF I had
stayed in st. Louis" he insists, with
all that eating and drinking. I wouldn't
have lasted at all. We all eat too much
and although it was a hard lesson to
learn on that western march, I found
that by the time I was used to it, my