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Educational Education Associa-
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Town Crier.'
Boake Carter.
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director.
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Authoress Beers Flynn has =
her I'VE Are Four show t. :.
pork and bean manufacturer
will be heard over a TiutG.
network starting March LIST.
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Ruth Lyon, who speaks Ere
Spanish, and Italian quite flu l.
is now trying to master Ger
("Words and Music" l:3o p. m. :.
NBC).
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12
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WYOLA NEWS

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Art Shaw was a Wyola caller on
Tuesday.
Sam Reese made a business trip
to Hardin Tuesday.
Mrs. Wallace made a business
trip to Lodge Grass Saturday.
Fred Wattenberg and Francis
Eggart were Hardin visitors Tues
Mrs. w. v. Chapman made a
business trip to Sheridan Satur-
Fred Wattenberg attended the
basketball games in Billings, last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A C. Montgomery
motored to Hardin, Saturday, on
business. ..
Mrs. clayton Wiley left Tuesday
morning for Beach, N. D., where
she will spend several weeks.
A large crowd attended the
dance, Saturday evening at the
Wyola hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert J. Sheets
and E. Robertson motored to Sheri-
The B. Y.P. U. will have a box
supper in the Baptist church
basement Saturday evening.
MIR. and Mrs E. L. Wiley and
MI. and Mrs. R. w. Smith motored
to Hardin and Billings Tuesday
william Reid left Wednesday
for Hardin to spend a few days al
the home of MI. and Mrs. Henry
Ulrich.
MI. and Mrs W. M. Chapman
and two children, Helen and Grace
made a trip to Sheridan, Monday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kolstad and
two children, Betty Jane and Jack
spent Sunday in Billings visiting
| relatives.
Clayton Wiley returned Friday
He attended the funeral services
for Mrs Clarence Wiley at Spirit
Lake, Ia.
Guy H. Conver made a trip tc
Hardin, Saturday, to visit his
mother, Mrs. Perry M. Conver
He expects to return Monday.
MI. and Mrs E. w. Fredericks
and three children and Mr.. and
Mrs. R. B. Wickam and two child
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Foss
and little daughter of Youngs
creek are spending a few weeks
at the home of Mrs Foss' grand
mother, Mrs. VIM. Vest.
Word vas received here Tues
day of the death of the little
nine-months-old son of MI. and
Mrs. Emmett Munson, now Of
Campbell, Calf. Mr.. and Mrs.
Munson left here a few months
ago to take the baby to the Cali.
fornia climate in the hope it
would agree with it. 1t has been
in the clinic there, ever since.
There seemed to be nothing that
could be done for the infant, and
it passed away Friday. 1t was
also learned that Mrs Munson
is in the hospital there. Their
many friends in the community
here extend their deepest SYM
pathy to the bereaved parents.
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n motored to Sheridan, satur-

rem motored to Sheridan, satur-
day ~ 9!
Ray Powers made a trip to
Sheridan; Friday, to bring his
children home for over the week.
end. They are attending school
in Sheridan.
MIR. and Mrs. Wickham Of Kelly
Lake, Mimi, is spending a few
weeks with Mrs. Wickham,s broth
er, E. w. F~redericks. Before her
marriage she was Freida Fred
erickS
Ray Powers and william Schau-
bel returned Wednesday, after
spendin~ two weeks in the north
ern part of the state and Canada.
They report a great deal Of snow
at Browning
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY

10 a. m. Sunday school.
II al m. Morning worship SER
vice. The Lenten series Of SER
mons on the Lords Prayer by the
pastor will be on "Our Daily
Bread" The senior choir will sing
an anthem, Gods Eternal Love-"
and the Junior choir will sing,
"Oh, That Men Would Praise the
Lord" A cordial invitation is
extended to strangers and any
one who has no other church
home to join in this service OF
worship.
s p m. Senior c. E. Leaders
are Bill Kleinhesselink and Bob
Dyckman.
7:30 p. m. Adult Bible Study
and Discussion Group. The study
of Apostle John and his writings
will be continued.
4 p. m Monday. Junior c. E.
The leader will be Earl Cammock,
Jr., and the lesson, planning and
Keeping Our Quiet Time.
Plans r being completed for
a union service durin1 Holy Week
with the M. E. and Congregational
churches participating. A more
detailed announcement will be
made next week.
REV. N. E. HANNANT,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12

A salmons life Is NOT u happy one! Not generally speaking. rW: IN. ue
eoune Of a typical salmOnlfe, he travels from riverIbed to ocean Oacs
again to the home river, battling his way upstream only to die!
But a happier fate awaits those thousands thousands OF almo ean
year Who in tn prime + their ocean existence. in the icy waters. or Aaska
re caught and canned for American table deNcacies. They aree endowed WIN
4 pleasant immortaNty-and are destined to be featured In thu eanne rofe
Of many a memorable salmon dish. 800. "r
Canned salmou has long been q great American fav"rte-a food packed
with high protein value, rich in vitanfn u iodine calcium. an other MIN
erals Economical n nutritious 1t deserves al even greater useo n dahy
menus
In fancy dress, for party salad service. canned salmon s q happy SusgeS
ton. Nothing 70 festive a yer more economical q easier to prepare tnnn
q salmon mold. Made in a fish mold. the finished salad Is humorous Menke'
cGorfula and delcately favored as the most particular hostess could desire
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DECKER NEWS

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Dominic Carboni was a business
caller in Sheridan, the last OF
the week.
Mrs. Edw. Tetchner was taken
to Sheridan, Saturday, for medi-
cal treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Armstrong
spent the weekend in Sheridan,
visiting friends and relatives.
The Decker community is GER
tainly eninvino the lovely spring
weather after the deep snow and
cold spell.
w. T. Raglan was busy this
week, taking up tax assessments
and is having quite a time with
the muddy roads and by-ways.
The snowplow from Hardin was
in our community this week,
clearing the roads and making 1t
much easier for traffic to go
through.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12

FOR SALE-Poland China boar
and 3 red sows, bred. Inquire
Hardin Tribune Herald. In
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Have No Thsrmostat

Have No Thsrmostat
Animals that hibernate In winter
are those with poor heat-regulatinS
devices.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12

WESLEY CHAPEL
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
W. Roy Bennett, Minister.
Sunday church school, GAS.
Morning worship, HOO o'clock
Epworth League. $50.
Junior League, Monday, 4:1o t
The snow is practically all gone
and the frost is rapidly going out
of the ground.
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II ain objectin' to a man dat tells
all he knows" said Uncle Eben. DE
one dat worries me Is de man dat tries
to make up talk bout thIngs he amt
vet found out"
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

ing invitation to prepare break
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

NJ OF only the sun, but the moon
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28
HOW DEATH VALLEY WAS NAMED

HOW DEATH VALLEY WAS NAMED
(From Tales of the Old Frontier.O
Across the white plain the heat waves
shimmered and danced. Mirages of cool
lakes appeared, mocking their thirst,
and vanished. In the background stood
a range of black-walled mountains
through which the emigrants could see
no opening. And this was Christmas day,
1849!
Early in the spring they had left the
Middle West, 100 wagons strong. for
the gold field of California. Then the
fatal decision of a part of the train
to try a short cut across the mountains
had brought them into this valley whose
floor was more than 200 feet below the
level of the sea. In it they wandered for
weeks of torment.
Again the party split. One group. So
persons in all. young bachelors from
Illinois who called themselves The JAY
hawkers," pressed on toward the noun
tains. Some of them died of starvation.
some of thirst and others went mad and
wandered away into the desert. In all
Is persisted before they fought through
to safety.
The other party, men with families,
found tiny spring and camped there
to rest. Then food supplies ran low.
Their oxen began to die and their
wagons to fall apart in the blistering
sun. So Asahel Bennett, their leader,
sent two young fellows, VIII Manley
and John Rogers, forth to find a way
out of the trap AS they departed Mrs.
Bennett gave Manley a double handful
of rice-half of all she had and silently
pointed to the hunger-pinched faces of
her children.
The emigrants now sat down to wait
for the return of the two scouts. A
week passed-two-three- still they
did not return. At the end of the fourth
week all except Asahel Benefits wife
abandoned hope. They will come back
she declared steadfastly. But they did
not, and the emigrants resolved upon
one final desperate attempt They began
stripping the canvas covers from the
prairie schooners and making pack sad
dies to cinch upon their emaciated oxen.
And then Manley and Rogers returnedI
They spoke but briefly of the days of
horror spent in struggling from one
waterhole to the next across the $50
miles of the Mojave desert, of the dead
of the Jayhawker party whom they
found along the trail. But they had
brought food and, most vital of all.
they had found a way out.
They guided the party on the long
climb to the summit of the Panamint
range. AS the emigrants reached the
crest and looked back into the inferno
from which they had escaped, Asahel
Benefits wife raised her arms in a
gesture of farewell. "Good-by, Death
Valleyl" she cried.
And thus it was named.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

become lost in the desert. He
called the buzzards, which wheel
in great circles over the valley,
his "spies."
'When the buzzards fly low
and hover over one spot, I know
some animal is in distress" he
was accustomed to explain, "But
when they hover high I know
some human being is weaken
ing under the blistering sun and
needs my help out there in the
desert" So to the lore of Death
Valley is added the ironical fact
that these birds more than once
robbed themselves of their meal
because their method of flying
revealed to dad" Fairbanks
keen eyes the fact that human
being was in distress.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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the "Good Samaritan" went to
bed i'll and never rose again. The
work which he inaugurated was
carried on by the United States
geological survey which erected
the numerous sign posts that
saved the earliest tourists from
suffering the fate of so many
of the pioneers in the valley.
Another interesting character
in Death Valley history wa
dad" Fairbanks who won fame
as the "oficial rescuer" of the
region. During his career in that
role dad" saved the lives of
more than so persons who had
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

hel Benefits wife christened it
with that dread name of Death
Valley!
There was time when most
Americans believed the say
ing "See Death Valley and diel"
But that has been changed since
Uncle Sam has been saying to
his children: after you have
visited the Great Smoky noun
tains in North Carolina, Yellow
stone park in Wyoming, Acadia
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28
Area Drained by Amazon

The area drained by the Amazon
and its tributaries is more than
2,970,000 square miles, largely I'M
tanned tropical forests. The volume
of water discharged into the sea an
nually is probably five times that of
the Mississippi. Vessels of small
draft can ascend the Amazon proper
for more than $500 miles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28
On the
Funny
Side
Ash Right!

The ice wasn't slippery any
more because Joe had sprinkled
ashes on it, and the kind old lady
was appreciative.
''My, N.Y." she my my'd.
t'That's what I call real benevol-
ence!"
ooh, no faint, lady," corrected
Joe, wonderingly. cts JUS plain
everyday ashes"
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fire it. If it were borax the chem
icals would burn with a green
flame.
cit Burns Green.!"
Winters had made many visits
into Death Valley, and after talk
ing to the prospector was con-
WINGED that there was borax
there. So he set out Immediately,
accompanied by his wife, and
soon afterwards encamped on
Furnace creek. In the marsh
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28
Shooting Stars

The wide-eyed little boy visiting
the observatory watched an as
tronomer level a huge telescope
and peer through it. His eye S
rounded as the astronomer
sneezed loudly, and then alnos::
popped from his head as a falling
meteorite suddenly biazed across
the heavens.
Mister" he finally said, fer
vently. you're the best darned
shot I ever Sawl"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

reduce the appalling
mortality toll which
had marked the pre-
ceding year.
So what?
Well, here's what.
The end of 1886
showed an all : time
top for deaths on the
public highways
roughly 37,450, or
approximately $50
more than in 1885.
So now We'll pious-
ly resolve. all over
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

(Which appears on Furnace
creek in the spring. he gathered
the most likely-looking deposit.
That night he made the test
as the prospector had told him.
There was a breathless moment
of suspense and then Aaron Win
tiers cried Rosie, she burns
green! We're rich!" The borax
industry of Death Valley h a d
come into existence.
The next problem was how to
get the rich borax deposits out of
the valley. Out of necessity came
the famous 20-mule team wagons
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

park in Maine and Mesa Verde
in Colorado, come to Death
Valley. Here is a winter play
ground for you. Come, enjoy it."
For Death Valley is now a
national monument, administered
by the national park service
of the department of the inte-
rior. And so every year, from
October to May, thousands of
Americans respond to their I'm
Gle SamuePs invitation. For the
fear of danger or even of dis
comfort in this lost world of
lonely desert wastes, of harsh,
barren mountains, of brooding
silences, is no longer present
there. Over the roads and trails
once marked by the bones of
pioneers, thousands of automo-
bile tourists now drive in safety,
finding there tourist camps, ga
RACES and gasoline stations and
the ever present roadside stands.
It's Life Valley" Now.
The silence of the desert is no
longer broken only by the winds
which sweep down from the
mountain tops and stir the ever
changing sands. The music of
resort hotel orchestras blare out
and echo from the slopes of the
Funeral range or the Panamints.
Moreover, Death Valley, once in
habited mainly by snakes and
lizards, now has a permanent
human population of nearly 200
the last census figures show that.
Some of them have built lux
urious homes there and they,
with the thousands of tourists
who come every year by auto
mobile, by railroad, by bus line
yes, even by airplane-, have
transformed Death Valley into
Life Valley.
Dramatic as is the incident
which gave Death Valley it's
name, scarcely less dramatic is
the story of how the borax in
dustry, which spread the fame
of Death Valley, got its start
in this region.
In 1880 Aaron Winters lived
with his wife, Rosie, in frontier
home in Ash Meadows, a tiny
oasis east of Death Valley. To
their home one day came a
wandering prospector who told
the Winters of the boraX deposits
in the state of Nevada and how
great fortune awaited anyone
who could find more such de-
posts. Winters asked many ques-
tons, including the question of
how a person could know borax
if he discovered it. He was told
that the best test was to pour
certain chemicals over the sup
posed borax deposit and then to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

N THIS valley t h e
heat waves still shirn-
mer and dance across
the sandy waste; the
mirages still appear
and then vanish; and
the sun still blazes
down to make it the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

hottest place found in all the
world in midsummer, with re-
corded temperatures of 1877 in
the shade and $50 in the sun.
But how different is its reputa-
ton nearly a century after Asa
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

which are inseparably associated
with the name of Death Valley.
But borax is not the only
wealth which this valley con-
tains. Gold was discovered there
many years ago and it has been
the favorite haunt for the old
time prospector. Perhaps the
most famous of these prospec-
torS-certainly the most publ
cized-was the man who became
known as death Valley Scotty."
He was Walter Scott, an ex-
cowboy and once champion
rough rider with Buffalo Bills
Wild West show.
Every so often "Scotty" came
out of Death Valley with pock-
ct full of gold. He was believed
to have a secret mine and GER
tainly it's wealth seemed to be
inexhaustible. He hired special
trains to take him to Chicago
or New York. When he came
to town he threw money out of
hotel windows and traffic jams
caused by scrambling people re-
suited. He built a desert palace
which was said to have cost
more than 100000. He found
other and new ways of blowing"
his money-an of which landed
him on the front pages of news
papers all over the country and
he became a perpetual adver-
tisement, an official ''press
agent" for this region which re-
manned a land of mystery for
so long.
The Good Samaritan.
Another picturesque figure in
the history of this region was the
man who became known as the
"Good Samaritan of Death Val
ley" Lou Westcott Beck was
his name and he was one of the
great number of men who sought
wealth in this valley of death.
But instead of finding his fortune
he nearly lost his life in its bar
rem wastes. When he finally es-
capped he resolved to devote his
life to saving others from the
fate which had almost been his.
Each summer Beck made a
trip into the valley of purple
mist and great thirst, piling up
rocks and placing signs on them
to guide prospectors to water
holes, searching for lost trav-
elers and guiding them to safety.
For Is years he did this work
and during that time he and his
companion, a Newfoundland dog