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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-04-22
women Marines
IRE VERY RARE

Women have frequently sought
service in the L. :. Navy or Marine
Corps, but there are few s on
record where they have been sue
cessful. The World War was a. note
worthy exception, and during the
last few months Of that struggle sew
eral hundred of the gentler sex were
voluntarily enlisted in the seagoing
branches of the service.
These female b~luejacKets and
marines were assigned clerical
work, thus releasing men for active
service ashore or a1oat. On military
forms their names and ranks were
always followed by the parenthet-
ical (f) to denote their sex and TO
prevent their assignment TO strict
masculine tasks. Many of them
proved to be highly efficient and
rose to the higher grades of enlisted
service.
This was the only occasion that
our government has freely admitted
women into the naval service, so far
as the records show, but there are
circumstances where women have
actually served as either soldiers.
sailors or marines.
During the in%tercolonial war per-
iod or 1745. a M Struggled her
self aboard the Y. S. Schooner Cas-
tor n Pollux. apparently with a
view to Joining the crew. When she
was Identified, all she received for
her patriotism was a ducking at the
end of a long rope stretched from
the yard-arm, followed by a coat of
Back in Revolutionary War days
the U. S. Schooner Revenge was
captured by the British privateer
Belle Poole, and its crew taken 10
Portsmouth, England, where one Of
the gentleman sailors was discov-
cred 10 be h woman. Gentleman sail
ors was one Of the terms given to
marines of those days. -
SIrangest OF all is the case of
Lucy Brewer, who succeeded in dis
guising her sex while she served for
three years as a L. s. Marine aboard
'Old Ironsides,' during the War Of
1912. Later she wrote a book about
her life on the u. S. f. Constitution
and that vessels defeat of the Brit
ish frigates Guerrero and Java.
Once she barely escaped detection
after she had fallen overheard and
was rescued before she recovered
consciousness.
Lucy Brewer. alias George Brown,
married and became Mrs.
West. Her story is well-authenticat-
ed and a woodcut of her is among
treasures of the American Anti
luarian Society of Massachusetts,.
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Huge Hunks of Ice
Carved Spectacular
Glacier Park Sights

It's a fancy job of carving the
cutting, scraping and grinding done
thousands of years ago by rivers oil
Ice from 1000 to 5000 feet thick in
the region now known as Glacier
National Park. --T@H--
A famous world explorers I'M
pressions of the spectacular sights
created by these huge hunks of ice
wiz be described in the Continental
Oil Company broadcast, "Exploring
America with Conoco and Carveth
Wells" which may be heard at
B!45 est Tuesday night over radio
station KFYR, Bismarck. -
Glacier National PARK is a place
where you can see the last rem
nants of the great sheet of ice that
once covered the northern part OF
the world says Wells. referring to
the parks ninety glaciers, There
Is nothing in The Alps or Europe or
the Andes of South America that
surpasses or, in the opinion of some
world travellers, even equals the
scenery of tbs remarkable region"
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CHURCH
Grew. J. Lindley)

SUNDAY school at TO am.
No preaching services because of
the pastors absence.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend III heartfelt
thanks to the many neighbors and
friends who. during our recent be-
reavement, assisted and helped us
by their many kind and sympathet-
&c acts. For the beautiful floral
offerings we are SINCERELY grateful.
Mrs. Edward Arneson
Amt, Melvin, Gilbert and
Peder Arneson
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Arneson
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Olson
Mr.. and Mrs. Christ
Rienlasoder
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Stevens
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LUTHERAN CHURCH
Orval A. Schmidt. Pastor

services sunday, April 25:
Reserve. 9 a.. nj.
Plentywood, IL a. m.
Raymond, 1870 p. m. Bring in
the Masters Penny Boxes at this
service.
Mr.. Edison Hartje will show mo-
ton pictures Of Alaska and describe
the Alaska Mission field at the
brentwood Lutheran Church next
week. The date is not exact as yet.
He will be here either Monday or
Tuesday. Definite announcement
will be made at the services next
sunday.
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ginning with the very earliest kinds
and extending throughout the entire
growing season.
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CONGREG ATIONAL CHURCH
K. A. Clifford, Pastor

sunday school 9:45 am.
Church service IL am.
Young peoples meeting 7:15 pm.
Rev. Charles H. Burdick, Super
lntendent Of the Montana Congre-
g%ational Conference. will preach
next Sunday morning. April rs.
He will speak to tbf young people
in the evening. -
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CARD OF THANKS

TO Kind friends we wish to Tex
press thanks for sympathy extended
us during our bereavement. To
Rev. Earle A. Clifford and the
choir and to those who gave floral
offerings we also extend thanks.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Medders
and Lyle,
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Isaac also advises selecting a list
OF varieties so that there VIII be a
succession of crops maturing, be-
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CHURCH

MO. SynOd.J
(E. E. Kaelberer)
Outlook-Sunday school at 1915.
divine service at IL a. m.
Dooley-English service April 25,
at 9 a. m.
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CHURCH
Westby
= Al,nusa No.

Services Sunday, April rs.
Services at Westby, IL a.. m.
Services at Pleasant Valley, 200
J. m.
Services at Lone Tree, $3.50 D. m.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16

Tinsel and blue bells load the
Christmas tree on the Junior
High side. This tree is an annual
treat to us and every one always
appreciates it.
Cowboys, crooners, pianists,
violinists, Christmas carolers, and
sundry other musical treats were
presented in the Amateur contest
for the seventh and eighth grade.
David Feigal was a true Gene
Autry singing songs to the accom-
paniment of his guitar. Laverne
Ahrens did some splendid animal
limitations (and even though these
were not musical numbers they
were highly appreciated). Solos,
duets, and trios on harmonicas
added zest to the entertainment.
In fact some of the numbers were
so well done that a number of
harmonica, and jews-harp players
with David Feigal performed as
a floor show number at the school
dance. Iona Annis won first prize
in her division with piano sell
ection. James Finn and Billy
Baldwin carried their instrument,
a heavy monograph to school to
demonstrate electrical phono-
graphy. When the fragile me-
chanism broke JONES wanted to
offer it as prize but Iona
thought it a bit too heavy to car
ry home. Bill Inglis played an
exceptional fife solo for his class
and Agnes Coleman did a nice
job of baton twirling. It was a
versatile program revealing much
talent.
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| See By The Gazette

Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Lohrenz
will leave today by train to spend
the winter in California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Seickert
of st. Paul were weekend guests
of MIR. and Mrs. Arthur Weier.
Miss Hertha Hagen of Marshall
spent the weekend at the home
of her mother, Mrs. Minnie Hag-
en-.
Contract was played at two
tables when Mrs. E. B. Orion en-
tertained her bridge club Satur-
day. -
DR.. and Mrs. G. A. Alexander,
Mrs. w. G. Bluhm and Miss HUI
da Drusch spent Saturday in
Minneapolis.
Mrs. S. Wetmore is steadily re-
covering from her illness at the
home of her daughter Mrs. Bert
Barnum.
Mrs. o. C. Austbo will enter
tain her circle of the Methodist
Ladies Aid Thursday afternoon
when the time when the time will
NC oPSiit III ~ iilS q Soiillol ISl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Anderson
entertained group of their
friends at two tables of five hun
dred Saturday evening. Monday
evening Mrs. Anderson was host
ess at a similar function when
cards were played at three tables.
Mrs. L. j. Aarthun, Miss Ber-
nice and Jergen Aarthun motored
to Walnut Grove Saturday eve
ming to spend Sunday with Mrs.
Myrtle Cantine. While there they
also visited with Mrs. Aarthun's
sister, Mrs. Paul Childers and
MIR. Childers who recently arriv-
ed from North Dakota.
CARD OF THANKS: I wish to
thank the neighbors and friends
for their kind deeds and thoughts
during my illness and wish all a
Merry Christmas.-Mrs. Carrie
Smithers.
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mean time, we are memorizing a
few lines from the play.
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Revere Community
Club Re-organizes
By Dolores OkinS

Revere-The Revere Commun-
ity club held its first meeting of
the season in the Revere Hall
Friday night. Present officers
were reelected for another year.
The next meeting will be held
January 7.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Okins and
family of Morton were Friday
evening visitors at the Charles
Okins home.
Mrs. William Duncan and son
Winton of Belview were visitors
at the George Williams home Sat-
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Albertson
entertained for Sunday dinner
Charles Albertson and family and
MIR and Mrs. Russell Albertson
of Lamberton, Mr.. and Mrs. H. c.
Flick and Mrs. Vena Christensen
of Revere and MIR and Mrs. Ken
meth Virgins and Leon Virgins
and son Robert Lee of Walnut
Grove.
Norman Anderson was visitor
in Minneapolis Saturday.
Dolores and Lois Okins spent
Sunday afternoon with Miss Hazel
Prokasky near Walnut Grove.
H. c. Bryson of Sheldon, Iowa
was a business caller here Thurs
day.
Stanley Bendixen spent Satur-
day afternoon in Lamberton on
business.
Earl Bolle is confined to his
home with rheumatism.
Marcy Eckert of Lamberton
spent Sunday with her grand
mother Mrs. Pearl Rasmussen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Flick enter
tanned at dinner Sunday when the
following were guests, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Virgins and Mr.. and
Mrs. August Leidenberg and son
Ellsworth of Walnut Grove and
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Flick, MIR. and
Mrs. Glenn Virgins, Ed. Flick and
daughters, Mrs. Alverna Christ
Jansen and Emma, Joe and Char
les Steinle of Revere.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. 0. Christopher
and son Roger were weekend
visitors in Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. v. Pearson
were visitors at Redwood Falls
Sunday.
Mrs. George Williams was a
business caller at Tracy Saturday.
Oliver Olson of Walnut Grove
was a visitor here and at Lam
berton Wednesday afternoon.
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H. N. Nupson spent Sunday in

H. N. Nupson spent Sunday in
St. Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Bluhm and
family visited relatives at Nor
gan Sunday.
Mrs. o. C. Austbo will be host
ess to the members of her bridge
club Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Canine of
WabaSSo were here on business
Monday and visited at the L. j.
Aarthun home.
Miss Mildred Barnum who is
employed at Marshall arrived
Tuesday to spend a few days at
her home here.
Mrs. H. B. Cole entertained the
Birthday club at one o'clock
luncheon Saturday after which
cards were played.
Mrs. Florence Nafsinger re-
turned last week from Montana
where she had been called by the
death Of her father.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Steele
and grandchildren Jean and Wal
lace Hale were Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bolton.
j. L. Parsons will motor to
Minneapolis Saturday to get his
children Evelyn and James who
will spend the holidays here.
Mrs. M. o. Byram of Los An
geles, California is here to visit
her sons, R. H. Byram and R. F.
Byram for a week or 10 days.
Mrs. M. P. Feigal entertained a
number of children Monday af-
ternoon in honor of the ninth
birthday of her daughter Sally.
The Whist club began its SER
les of meetings with a turkey
dinner Friday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Boil
lum.
A Christmas party will mark
the meeting of the bridge club at
the home of Mrs. j. B. Philbrick
this afternoon when gifts will be
exchanged.
James Smithers of St. Paul
spent a few hours Wednesday
with his mother, Mrs. Carrie
Smithers who has been ill for
four weeks.
Mrs. Alan Fleischbein returned
to her home at White Bear Tues
day after weekend visit at the
home of her sister, Mrs. j. A.
StenSvad.
Mrs. Al Drogosch, Ronaldo and
Jean DrOgoSch motored to Mime
apolis Sunday to visit Al Dro-
gosch who has been a patient at
Eitel hospital since last Wednes-
day.
w. w. Clark of Pine City and
his son and daughter-in-law, DR..
and Mrs. Robert Clark and
daughter Lois Of Northfeld were
Sunday guests of DR.. and Mrs. G..
A. Alexander.
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SCHOOL NOTES
First Grade-Miss Jolly

First Grade-Miss Jolly
This week we have been very
busy making Christmas presents.
They are surprises for our moth
ers and fathers.
We have also learned some
Christmas poems and many
Christmas songs. Soon we are
going to make some up ourselves.
We made Christmas scene for
our table from clay. There is
Santa Claus and his RENDERS,
and mary Christmas trees.
Last week our narcissus BIOS
somed. There are five blossoms
now. Soon there will be many
more We will give our plant to
someone who is sick when school
closes.
Grade II-Miss Taeuber
Irene Tradewell has been alb
sent for the past week. She had
her tonsils removed.
We got our arithmetic books
last week, and now we use them
every day.
Our room is showing lot of
improvement in the weekly arith-
metic and spelling tests. Last FRI
day there were sixteen perfect
scores in the spelling test and
nine in the arithmetic test.
We learned to sing the first
stanza of "Silent Night" in Ger
man as it was originally written.
We had story about how the
song was written.
Grade III-Miss Ide
We are enjoying our Reading
Club which meets every Friday
afternoon We are reading Christ
mas stories now. Each one finds
a story in a library book. We
study them so that we can read
them well. Then at club meeting
each one reads his story trying to
live up to all our reading stand
ards Then the class votes whether
we can paste a seal after our
names on the chart. We now have
sixteen members in our club. We
hope everyone in the room viii
be able to join.
In our arithmetic we have
learned, carrying in addition and
borrowing in subtraction.
In our Social Studies we are
learning about Christmas around
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he rated" but Just the same we
tried to write it. We have been
having plenty of money in class
lately, but - here's the fault we
find = it is only for us to study
about. Besides having money, we
have been studying prices and
credit.
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JUNIOR HIGH NEWS
Home Economics

Each day the seventh graders
do little more on their aprons.
Maxine Stebbins was the second
girl in the class to complete her
project. Rick rack braid was the
trimming for her gay lowered
apron.
The baking of cookies, spice cup
cakes and the like have kept the
eighth graders busy this past
week. It's not hard to keep the
girls busy now for they are in
terested in cooking lessons which
satisfy the ''sweet TOOTH.
Monday the eighth graders wit
messed an interesting movie on
"Air Conditioned Bread" and then
on Thursday a trip to Gallea's
Bakery, made us more aware of
the equipment, management and
precision necessary to run bak-
cry.
For very special gift for a
very special friend who enter
tains great deal, make up lux
ury gift basket containing tiny
jars OF your canned delicacies-
pickles, relishes, chile sauce, jams
and oh yes, cookies. The Home
Economics III girls made some
fine and lovely butterscotch ice
box cookies that would just fit
that basket!
To encourage home sewing, the
distributors of Talon slide fasten-
ers in cooperation with the Nc
Call Pattern Company are spon-
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Hawton
left Friday by car for California.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
Gerald Hawton who will join her
husband at Los Angeles where he
is employed.
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SOrlng a QreSSmaklng contest IN
our high school in cooperation
with sewing teachers.
The rules of the contest are very
simple. Any girl in the Junior or
Senior High School is eligible All
she has to do is to enroll with her
sewing teacher and make a dress
with a Mccall Pattern having one
or more Talon Slide Fasteners.
Three girls have entered.
The girls making the three best
dresses in each school will be
given a charm as an award of
merit in gold, silver or bronze
finish. The dress which is judged
best will be sent to New York to
enter the National Contest. We
certainly hope that one of our
girls will win one of the many
handsome prizes, among which
are an airplane trip to Hollywood,
fur coat, a diamond wrist
watch or a sewing machine.
The first year Latin class is
playing vocabulary game using
map of Minnesota as the object.
Each Latin lesson has vocabul-
airy which has to be learned. The
vocabulary is a group of Latin
words with the English meanings.
The room is divided into five
rows. When marks from the VOC
abulary tests are averaged up
! each row is moved along a road,
which has been marked on the
map from Redwood Falls to Min
| neapolis.
HALL OF FAME
This week we honor: James
Finn for the highest average in
eighth grade history; Dean Muet-
Eel for the highest average in
seventh grade Geography. Jean
Schenck for the highest mark in
seventh grade general science six
weeks test. We honor the follow
ing people for making very good
soap carvings in Art: Billy Hillig,
Dwayne Christensen, Beryl Radt-
Ike, Russell Treu, Dean Muetzel,
Alan Neuschwander, Helen Neale,
Eleanor Sparks, Phillip Tenney.
We honor the following people for
getting the highest marks in their
eighth grade general science test:
John Lauterbach, June Waller,
Douglas Week, James Finn, Billy
Inglis. We honor the following for
writing good poems in English
class: James Finn, Billy Hillig,
Billy Baldwin, Phillip Tenney,
Henry Nupson, Jure Waller. We
honor the following girls for get
! ting above ninety in Home Econ
omics on their report cards: Jane
Barnes, Lucille Gluth, Jean Sch
enck, Jean Stephany.
Ambition is one thing which
Messages of Merit tells us is i'm
portant. This week it shows a
cartoon of two men talking. One
has a car pointed in the direction
OF accomplishment and is just sit
ting wishing he could do some
thing. Under him are the words:
IF you want to get ahead, turn
your ambition loose on doing
things rather than simply wishing
for them" One thing we need
now in school is enthusiasm and
so the Messages of Merit in the
lower hall gives us a point on it..
1t asks, did you ever try touch
ing match of enthusiasm to the
fuse of energy to see what hap
pens?" It shows lazy man with
the fuse under him and boy
lighting the fuse.
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WIldI SlllIOlSil III otilCl SoS1iti iSo
do at Christmas time. We have
many new Christmas words that
we are learning to spell.
GRADE III-Miss Morrison
These pupils were neither alb
sent nor tardy during the second
six-weeks period: Augusta De-
Groat, Elaine Diekmeier, Florence
Kayser, Arthur Kenney, Doris
Ann Naming, Margaret Muetzel,
Craig Nuremberg, Clyde Slocum,
Dorothy Slocum, Shirley Starr,
Marion lima, and John Zitzmann.
We shall all miss Shirley Mae
Starr who has moved to Spring
Valley, MINI.
New officers have been elected
to serve for the next six weeks.
They are: President, Alice Marie
Swalwell, Vice President, Iva
Kayser; Secretary, William Doom
er.
In social studies we are study
ing about children around the
world. We are especially interest
ed in the different customs and
ways of celebrating Christmas
During art periods we have color
ed and cut out pictures of chill
dren of other countries.
Last Friday the first row had
charge of the reading program
Leona Neale was chairman. The
program consisted of choral
verse reading, several stories, and
riddle. Row three is working on
program for next Friday.
Grade IV-Miss Thomson
We were happy that we had
many AS in Spelling last Friday
Therefore Santa brought all these
folks packages on the Spelling
chart. Those receiving AS were;
William Ahrens, Mary Baldwin
Richard Bruer, Willard DeGroat
Jacqueline Falk, Helen Hendrick-
son, Carol Lynn, June Merry
Maxine Muetzel, Wayne Nogaj
Charlotte Otto, Dorothy Pelz
Allyn Seickert, Oliver Slocum
Robert Sonnickson, Donald Step
hany, Roger Stoutland, Dorothy
Thelen.
We enjoyed our trip through
the Nile Region in our Geography
class. We found that the lower
Nile Region is very similar to the
Tigris-Euphrates Region while
the upper Nile is land of much
rain. We learned how those peo-
pie fit their ways of living to the
type of country in which they
live.
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Every Wednesday when we
have current events in Social
Science, Mr.. Salzwedel appoints
two students to take charge. He
says it is just for practice. These
people are allowed the privilege
of giving a test if they wish, but
so far those who have taken
charge don't like them well
enough themselves to give the rest
one. OF course Glenn Wohlford
had to be different and give a test
last Friday when he was leading
discussion (not on current events
either) while Mr.. Salzwedel was
in the cities. We wondered how
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SENIOR NEWS

Mrs. Falk has been teaching
English in Miss Sturdevant's
place all week. She doesn't quite
know whether she likes it, but
says it is a change. Even though
she doesn't like it we do. She has
made our study of Shakespeare's
tragedy, Macbeth, very interest
ing. We completed the play this
week. Most of the pupils enjoyed
the play, although Shakespeare's
work isn't just the easiest thing to
read. The class thinks it would be
interesting to see Macbeth" acted
now even though some would
shut their eyes when it was time
for a murder to be committed.
This reminds us that one day af-
ter Mrs. Falk had finished telling
how horrible it would be to see
Duncan stabbed shakespeare
had it done off-stage) and asked
how many would really want to
see it, three boys raised their
bands. All Mrs. Falk said was,
why, you bloody minded boys"
We will take our test on this after
Miss Sturdevant gets back; in the
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the world and are finding out
what children in other countries
do at Christmas time. We have
many new Christmas words that
we are learning to spell.