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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-28
THREE VIOLENT
 DEATHS IN CONN.
tBy United Prsss)


 Violent deaths claimed the iives of three men in Connecticut Wed- tiesday.
 Two were killed by autos and . third was drowned.
 John Wasyi, Ol, was injured fa. tally at Newington by c car operated lived at Wethersfeid.
 George Eiiithorpe, 74.year.oid West Stafford farmer, died of iiis jufies suffered when ho was struck by an automobile opefatAa by Joe seph ]. Harrington, 27, Watertowii, Mass.
 sViillam Barry, 60, Hartford, waS drowned ili the Connecticut river Ills body was found by an engineer At work on the river bank.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-28
Need Of More Rooms Shown By Attitudes
 Taken This Morning
Daily Transfer to Crosby High Objectionable During Storm - Superintendent Sympattizes With Pro.
 testing Students Under UnfavOrable Conditions

The urgent need for additional classrooms in proportion to the rapid increase in student enrolment at Leavenworth High school became apparent this morning when five classes refused to leave the build ing on South Elm street, facing the heavy rainstorrn, following their usual procedure in transferring to the Crosby building to resume classes which have not been estan-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-28
OLD gELECTMAN DIES

East Hartland, Conn, Oct. 20-. (UP)-Funeral services will be held Friday for Wyliig Wright, 04, Harts land seiectman for 2D years, who died Tuesday after on illness.
 For many years, Wright super- Vlsed maintenance of East Hartiand and dranby roads,
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12

them with the necessary vouchers
within four (4) months after the
first publication of this notice. to
the said Ollie Glen at Dagmar,
Montana or at the Law Office or
Vernon Hoven, Plentywood. Mon
tana, in the County of Sheridan.
OLLIE GLEN, Administrat-
rix of the Estate of j. A..
Glenn. deceased.
Dated July 80. 1897. SCAT.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12

Atop a grass-covered hill in west
ern Divide county, about IL miles
east of the Montana border and the
same distance from the Canadian
border at the north, about six miles
south of Alkabo and 13 miles north
of Stady. stands a large granite
rock. known throughout a wide area
as writing Rock"
This rock. the only known his
torically interesting point in Divide
county, is estimated to be about
ave feet high by four feet through
and weighs about 10 tons. 1t Is sit
uated In a slight hollow at the sum
NIT of a high hill, which has an APP
proach of about IL miles from the
base to the summit. This hill is the
highest of a series of hills extending
ave miles in length by " miles in
width.
From the rock Is visible a broad
expanse Of prairie land dotted by a
number of small lakes and several
towns including Alkabo. Stady and
Westby, Mont.
Upon this rock appear numerous
markings. ground into the stone by
Indians hundreds of years ago. the
~signifcance known only to the long
gone carvers. Inscriptions OF picture
writings on this rock, as well as its
Annontn af Grand L,orlrc 80
thought to bear some Indian mes
sage, or 1t may be an Indian sacred
stone on account of the many graves
found nearby. 1t is thought to be
the work of Indians and evidently
p0rtrays some event or message of
those who formerly occupied this
territory, the Sioux and Assini-
BONES. Such work is known by the
psychologists as "pictoglyphs" and
Is found In a number of places in
our western country. Sometimes it
Is considered the work Of medicine
men" to illustrate some of their
symbols of religious beliefs and at
other times used in their works of
mystery and ceremonials.
A number of theories have been
found and some rather fantastic.
However, it does appear to have
been some sort of Indian ceremonial
place. 1t has been told that In pio-
neer days our early settlers OBJ
served the Indians making annual
p~ilgrimages from the Fort Peck res
ervation and other distant points
to the vicinity OF this rock, so that
bears out the deduction that 1t has
had some India, significance.
Among TIER, scriptions on the
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12
NOTICE OF SHERIFFrS SALE

|,
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DIST
RIOT OF THE STATE OF MON
TANA. IN AND FOR THE COUN-
TY OF SHERIDAN.
The Federal Land Bank of Spo-
kane, a corporation, Plaintiff. VS..
Elmer e. Rasmussen and Olive
Rasmussen, husband and wife; and
Dagmar National Farm Loan Asso-
citation, a corporation, Defendants.
TO BE SOLD AT SHERIFF'S
SALE, at the front door of the
courthouse In Plentywood, Sheridan
County, Montana, on the 2Sth day
of August, 1887, at the hour of two
O'Clock P. NJ. of said day, the follow
ing described land, to-wit:
The Northeast Quarter of Sec
tion Twelve, Township Thirty
one. North of Range Fifty-eight,
East of the Montana Principal
Meridian; and
All water and water rights
used upon or appurtenant to said
property and however evidenced;
Together with all and singular
the tenements, Entertainments anC
appurtenances thereunto belongin,
or in anywise appertaining.
Dated at Plentywood, Montana
this 30th day of July, 1887.
HANS P. MADSEN,
Sheriff of Sheridan
50-4t. County. Montana.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12
NOTICE OF INTENTION
TO PASS

Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the Board of County
Commissions on the 4th day of Aug
ust, 1887. a resolution was passed
to tht effect that on tht 9Th day OF
Sept. 1897 the said Board of County
Commissioners will pass a resolution
that there be issued warrants to be
designated as relief warrants to the
amount of n half (2) per cent
taxable value of the property upon
which taxes are levied and collected
in order to furnish equipment. mat
erials and supervision on Federal
projects sponsored by Sheridan
County, at which hearing any and
all persons desiring to oppose the
passing of said resolution may ap-
pear and present their objections.
A. j. OLSON, Chairman,
Board of County Commissioners.
ATTEST:
CHRIS CHRISTENSEN,
Clerk. 50-2t.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12

rock is that of a circle with five dots
suggesting the sign of the five vii
lagos where the eros Ventre tribe
held captive the bird woman" Sac
acawea, who later became the noted
guide for Lewis and Clark. 1t is told
that from Canada an old Indian
chief, 80 years Of age, investigated
the inscriptions on the rock. AS an
this rock frequently. He pointed out
that there are three lines indicating
as many graves around this rock,
one being that of a white child.
Another figure is that of a bird fly
ing near the top of the rock, the
significance of which is not known.
other figures are spear points.
The markings on the rock appear
to have been ground into the stone
with an abrasive, perhaps harder
than rock. The bottoms of the chan
neled grooves, some of which were
from onefourth to one-half inch
deep though now somewhat disfg-
ured from erosion, still are of a pol
ished smoothness.
In the vicinity of Writing Rock"
still may be seen a number of cir
cles of stone, laid out In the sur
rounding lowlands, said to be evil
dence of the days when Indians laid
out camps in the vicinity, weighing
down with stones the edges of their
Undiscovered wigwams.
Indian graves excavated around
the boulder have revealed many ar
rowheads, a few elk teeth and sea-
shells. hammers and stone imple-
ments. AS much as So feet of beads
have been found in n grave. These
beads were all colors, shapes and
sizes.
Until the fall of 1928 the smaller
rock. which weighs one ton, was
located just above a spring below
the hills about a mile south. This
rock, which has inscriptions also, Ii
now at the University Of North Da'
kota at Grand Forks, where Prof
0. C. Libby is making a study Of it
A legend is told by two very ole
Sioux Indians of the Qu'Appellt
Agency at Muscow, Saskatchewan
Canada. These two, Old Tawiyaks
and Joe Loseweiss, with others o
their band used to roam this countr,
and tell the following:
When young men about twent,
years Of age these two men visited
this stone and learned from the OLE
Indians that years past a party O
eight Indians Of their tribe wer'
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of VIM. S. Bergie, de-
ceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, by
the undersigned, Martin Larson, Adj
ministrator of the Estate of VIM. S.
Bergie deceased, to the creditors OF
and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to ex-
hibit them with the necessary YOU
cheers within four (4) months after
the first publication of this notice,
to the said Martin Larson at Medi-
cine Lake, Montana, or at the Law
Office of Vernon Hoven at Plenty
wood, Montana, in the County OF
Sheridan.
MARTIN LARSON.
Administrator OF the Estate
Of VIM. S. Bergie, deceased.
Dated July %, 1897 49-4t.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12
Indians Related Legends
of Historic Wr1timg Rock


out scouting on the war path. They
camped one evening at dusk and
just as they were falling asleep they
heard a voice in the distance. One
of them was sent out TO investigate
maybe other Indians or their en-
emies were nearby. However, he re-
turned with the news that 1t looked
very mysterious, but he could find
nothing.
The next morning they heard
another voice crying out and this
mans voice. They went in the direc-
ton from which 1t came but found
no one Only a stone was there.
Their attention was attracted to the
flat surface of it facing the south
and on examining it they saw it was
engraved as a picture. 1t was a pic
lure of eight Indians-themselves,
with their packs lying around on
the ground. This was somewhat mys-
terious and they could not account
for 1t.
However, they continued on their
way. encountered a band of their
enemies, and in the fight lost two
of their number. Returning past the
stone they looked at it again and
found that the picture had changed.
This time it seemed to represent
what was in the future for them.
1t surely must be spirit writing"
On returning to their home band
and reporting these strange happen
ings, the whole camp moved over to
where this stone was located and
made their camp nearby. The fol-
lowing morning all the Indians be-
came curious to see this strange
stone gathered around it and again
the picture had changed. Now it rep
resented their encampment with a
picture Of the tepees. From this time
on this stone was regarded as sacred
and held in great awe, and was fire.
quently used to look in the future.
But a little later some white men
are said to have moved 1t a little
and since then 1t has not changed.
Thereby this spirit" stone has lost
its charm"
Students Of historical lore have
discounted the theory that the writ
l fnOc bod nnUthJnn RI dn vrtfh thc
early Morse explorers of America
believed by some historians to have
visited this area about 1852. Such
photographs are not runic inscrip-
lions, they have said. 1t is true thai
in Norway and Sweden are many
such photographs, but these were in.
scribed thousands of years before
Lief Ericsson discovered America
when the people of the Scandinav
ian countries were living in the
Stone Age on the same plane of cul
ture as our American Indians re
Gently.
Sponsored by the Writing Rocl
historical society, Of which Edgar I
Syverud Of Dagmar, Is secretary anC
treasurer, an effort is being made t.
have erected over the rock a stone
shelter Of native stone and built il
the form of a tepee. Syverud. who
believes the boulder one of the mos
significant reminders of northwes
North Dakota's early history, ha.
said that the historical society
would like to see the site of the rocl
made into a park, "a place to spend
a quiet hour up in the hills; tC
think, to dream and to rest; and ii
imagination to live over again the
days that used to be-"
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12

posed Special improvement Sewer
Extension District shall not be ere
ated.
by order Of the City Council of
the city of Plentywood. Montana.
A. C. ERICKSON,
51-2t. City Clerk.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12

51-2t.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12
MARTIN LARSON,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate Of J. A. Glen, deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
by the undersigned. Ollie Glen. Ad-
ministratrix of the Estate of j. A.
Glenn deceased, to the creditors Of
and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12
CALL FOR BIDS

Call for bids for 100 tons or
more of Ignite coal, delivered to
school bins at Antelope as needed.
Each bid to be accompanied by a
$3.50 bond. Board reserves the right
to pass on the quality of each and
every load of coal. Board reserves
the right to reject any and all bids.
Bids must be in before August is,
1897.
w. l.. GRAYSON,
49-2t. School Dist. 10, Antelope.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12

Ing of the trustees. August 81, 1887.
The board reserves the right TO
reject any or all bids.
AIlICE SCHUMACHER, Clerk.
SLIT District 80. Dooley.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-12
CALL FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that school
district No. SO, Dooley, will receive
sealed bids for hauling 100 tons Of
coal from the Coalridge mine.
The bids will be opened at a meet
Evening star., 1937-07-18
MAIL ORDER SALES REACH
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Year Is Likely to Set All-Time Hig Oh.
Strong Revival in Fall to Offset
Summer Period.

! Sales Of the big mail order COM
panies normally fall of during July
and Aubust, but there Is usually q
sharp pickup in September while
volume in October is the largest for
any month Of the year excepting De-
cember. A year ago distribution OF
bonus funds IN June, July and August
stimulated sales to some extent.
Gen. Robert E. Wood, president Of
Sears. disclosed sales gains were gen.
eral from a geographic standpoint with
one exception-the agricultural drought
area.
Sears sales since the beginning Of
the current fiscal year, January 80, tc
| June l8 have totaled more than s2l3,-
100000, an increase OF 20l per cent
compared with year ago. The last
four-week period for which figures are
available showed . 2oe per cent in
crease. compared With last year. Gross
sales for the full year 1896 totaled
1925, ,292,l36. and with figures for the
| first 5 OF 13 periods showing a totaI
of more than s2l3,000 900 and the big
sales months yet on the calendar a
new record is expected.
Wards sales for the five months
ending June 30 totaled $l73,387, ,062
an increase Of 1886 per cent, COM
pared with year ago. June volume wa.
22.l9 per cent better than a year ago
while the increase In June, 1896, over
June. 1888, was 2732 per cent. The
percentage increase for June. 1897
over the corresponding month the
previous year was smaller than shown
in any previous period since the start
Of the current fiscal year.
Evening star., 1937-07-18
PRICES Of WHEAT
OFF SLIGHTLY; BUT
NEWS IS BU0YANT
Spring Belt Hard Hit by
Rust-U. S. Experts See
Demands in Europe.
BY FRANKLIN MULLIN,
Associated Press Market Writer.

CHICAGO. July l7.-Crop report.
ers' advice from the Spring wheat
belt telling of rapid development Of
rust in Manitoba, Of heat damage
ranging up to so per cent in sections
Of North Dakota and rust infestation
on non-resitant grain helped bring
enough buying into the wheat mar
ket today to keep prices fractionally
above the previous close most Of the
time
The market closed shade lower,
however. when the modest buying
power diminished and sales to insure
commercial transactions or bring
profits predominated.
Wheat closed Is up to = lower.
compared with yesterdays finish, July,
1923; September, l.2794-28. and corn
was A-las off: September. l.l2a.- u !;
December. 80-801s. Oats lost 3s-l7e.
Europe Short Of Grain.
Government grain experts predicted
European nations will require larger
imports of wheat from overseas this
season than last
The Bureau Of Agricultural Eco
nomics said wheat and rye crop pros
poets in Europe at the start OF this
month indicated even less porduction
than last years short yields, or the
average for recent years.
Carryover supplies of bread grains
in Europe we're reported smallest in
many years, the bureau said. while
many countries are attempting to
build up supplies.
Last season record breaking grain
crops in the Danube Basin supplied
much Of the. European requirements.
The bureau said crops there this
season indicated a smaller harvest,
although still above average.
Russia, Canada and the United
States are possible supply sources until
Winter, when Argentina and Australia
enter world grain trade with new crop
supplies.
Official Canadian sources reported
drought continued unrelieved over a
(see WHEAT, Page G-2)'
Evening star., 1937-07-18
REORGANIZATION PLAN
OFFERED BY TRUSTEES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July l7.-Trustees for
two Of Utilities Power Il Light Corp s
IS subsidiaries submitted reorganiza-
ton plan today to Federal Judge Will
liam H. Holly.
Reorganization Of the holding COM
pany. formerly headed by Harley
Clarke. was begun In January under
section 77-B OF the amended bank
ruptcy act.
A hearing was set for Monday. The
plan called for issuance Of $25,953,95O
In new S per cent, 25-year debentures,
129. 769 shares OF 500 par value per
cent cumulative convertible preferred
stock, and 1859, 400 shares Of common
stock.
The plan was submitted by trustees
for Public Utilities Securities Corp.
and Webster Securities Corp.
Evening star., 1937-07-18
COTTON TRADING
DRIFTS follower
PRICES AT CLOSE
Favorable Weather Reports
and Monetary Reports.
Add to Selling Urge.
ey the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July lin quiet
trading cotton fluctuated narrowly to-
day. December, after rallyinz from
1894 to 1902. eased to close at ll.95,
with hnal prices net unchanged to 2
points lower.
The opening was steady unchanged
to points lower, with steadier Liver
pool cables Offset by renewed specula-
tive liquidation and hedge selling.
Continued favorable weather in the
South and nervousness over the
French monetary and Chinese situa-
tions seemed to bring in some selling
and there was little disposition to
make fresh commitments.
Declines Of to points attracted
suffcient trade buying. and local and
New Orleans covering to impart q
fairly steady undertone, but prices
failed to move far from the l2-cent
level
The forecast for next week pointed
to fair to partly cloudy conditions,
with scattered showers, over the belt
Cotton goods sales for the week
were reported considerably under the
current rate OF production.
Cotton on shipboard awaiting clear
ance at the close Of the week was
estimated at $4,000 bales. against 49,
900 last year and $4,000 two years
ago.
Tho ropoa fo11oue.
Evening star., 1937-07-18
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, July 1.-THE big Chi
cago mail order houses, reporting sales
breaking all records, looked forward
today to prospects Of business volume
reaching new high level this year,
barring unusual and unexpected
developments.
The mail order business is in the
normal Summer recession which some
sources close to the major mail and
retail sales distribution organizations
Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery
Ward-indicated may be little more
pronounced than last year, but a
strong revival early in the Fall is
expected.
While farm trade accounts for only
part Of the business. harvest OF
agriculture's largest money crops in
eight years as we'll as the clearing
industrial situation in some districts
brightens the outlook.
To what extent gains in sales have
been offset by increased costs OF opera
tions, including taxes and wages, can
not be determined. In the case CT
Ward, for example, Sewell L. Avery,
president said last March that oper
ating costs probably will continue 10
increase and the extent to which
costs can be recovered through higher
prices was problematical. He indi-
Gated at that time lower net profit
margin for the first half of 1897
seemed unavoidable However, the
company's flrst-quarter earnings were
% per cent above the corresponding
period last year. while sales gained
80 per cent.
Evening star., 1937-07-18
|NSTALLMENT SALE
WARNING IS ISSUED
Treasury Hits Opinion OF
Commerce Department,
Advising Caution.
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

While the Department Of Commerce
is announcing as result OF its cur
rent annual study of retail credit con-
ditions that the installment sale
habit seems to be getting more and
more deeply implanted in the Amer
ican character" the Federal Reserve
Board is issuing warning against
overselling on this deferred payment
plan.
In spite Of marked increases in
credit sales, particularly on the in
stallment basis, Dr. Alexander v. Dye.
director Of the Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, tells us that
accounts receivable last year did not
increase faster than the rates OF in
crease in sales. nor did the percentage
OF bad debt losses to credit sales in
crease. This, however, does not deter
the Treasury from replying to the
boast that the possibilities of con-
sumner credit in this country have
scarcely been touched" with a warn
ing that it is not a good sign when
the only wrapping of prosperity is
the buying of goods which must be
paid for out Of the future income OF
the purchasers
According to Department Of Com
merce statistics, in 1929 credit sales
in the United States accounted for
some "a per cent Of all sales. Today
the ratio is nearly that Of that same
boom year 1929 and it is still rising
In 1896, We are told, the volume OF
sales In the United States to be
financed out Of future income approx
mated $4,000 100000. While this Is
still considerably under the 1929 VOL
ume, it represents an increase of Is
per cent in one year.
Therein we should find a warming
even danger signal. In a recent ad-
dress before the National Retail Credit
Association Nathaniel H. Engle of the
Bureau OF Foreign: and Domestic Com
merce warned his hearers that 1t Is
not the total sum that is rs yet 80
dangerous, but the fact that the VOL
ume Of installment selling seems to
be expanding too rapidly for business
safety. Some prophets of business,
said Mr.. Engle. forecast a peak year
by 1899 or 1910, to be followed in the
natural course of events by another
serious break. If consumers are loaded
with an installment debt and start
losing their jobs on a wholesale basis,
"a repetition of the 1880 crash will be
inevitable A continuation of the Is
per cent annual increase in INSTALL
ment sales. to which we have Just re-
ferred. might well precipitate such
crisis" In the very near future.
A number of high Government OH.
cials are looking for signs that a credit
boom is about to break out. Recently
Mariner S. Eccles, chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board, warned the
business world that most periods of
prosperity in the past had been char
acterized by different kinds of booms.
including, particularly. a boom in in
stallment credit sales. Referring to
the fact, becoming more and more
evident. that retailers are actually re-
ducing the size Of the required down
payment" lowering or removing carry
ing charges and opening more and
more classes Of merchandise to sale
on An installment basis, Mr.. Eccles
said. - critical eye is being directed
At these practices"
Evening star., 1937-07-18
REFRACTORIES REPORT,

NEW YORK, July II (P.-General
Refractories Co., brick makers with
mines. quarries and plants in the East,
Midwest and South, for the June
quarter reported indicated net profit
Of $366,394 after charges, equal to 70
cents = common share. This COM
pares with net profit Of $700,s9s or
$1.I common share In the preced-
ing quarter and $3l2,785 or SO cents
in the like 1885 quarter. For the
first half OF 1887. net profit was
$l,067,293 or $2.27 4 common share.
against s543,36s or $l.2o In the like
iooo hAh.