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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-02
BY LULA COBB JONES

In order that the people of
Montana may have a greater
appreciation of the bronze sta
tue that stands on the RIM
rocks north of Billings I am
giving some OF the interesting
details that went INTO the max
ing of that masterpiece Of
sculptor york. I quote the fol-
lowing from a recent letter from
William S. Hart: &C. C. Crista-
dodo did the statue. When he
worked on it he lived at his
old home, Point Iona. for a
year and a half, except for
three months that he lived here
on the Horseshoe ranch, model
ing dear old Fritz. I journeyed
down there on an average of
once every ten days during the
entire time, and usually posed
from three to six hours each
trip. I first got the idea of a
bronze group that would rep
resent the Range Rider. when
I wrote a ritual for boys. for
the Boy Scouts. and I put Girls
tadodo to work on it.
In 1925 when I was a guest
of honor at the fiftieth ami
versary of the Custer fight, I
knew where the statue then
not yet completed, belonged.
And as I recall it. I wrote
Charlie Bair about it, and the
Commercial club and city Of
ficials took kindly to the idea,
and the Range Rider of the
Yellowstone had found a home"
It is not surprising that the
city officials took kindly to the
idea. What city or town in the
United States wouldn't feel
highly h gsif{9 honored to receive such
The Gorham Bronze comp
any of Providence, R. l., Zone of
the greatest in the world) wrote
Mr.. Hart that they considered
the group to be the finest that
they had ever turned out of
their plant. Mr.. Hart paid
around S25, 900 for the group, be-
sides the long, tiresome hour
after hour that he stood posing
for the sculptor-a price that
can not be estimated in dollars
and cents, and few of US real
ize Just how much of himself
he put into that wonderful
piece of art. However. he writes:
IT never think of that SYM
bolic group as representing me
or nv horse in anv Wav-We
mere!v acted as models for the
sculptor. The group represents
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-02
just what its title says-'Range

just what it's title says-Range
rider Uf the Yellowstone i. e.
the Yellowstone valley. 1t is
positively not William S. Hart
ard his horse and was never
intended to be so-it is a SYM
bolic group of the old frontier
of the old west-the west of
Charlie Russell.
i am proud that I posed for
it, and III bet old Fritz in his
green pastures up there in an
imal heaven is proud. too. But
neither one of us by any stretch
of our Imagination ever dared
to think that anything we ever
did in this life would merit
such a distinction. Nor do I
think that any one Range Rid
err of the Yellowstone would
think so either. I can hear one
saving, Who, me? He'll, no!
That's all the boys an all the
COW hOss's what rode this range,
me an my pony just posed for
it. I do not know if there is a
group in America that is con-
sidered first. but from out of
the dust of that long trail that
old Fritz is travelling now, I
think I can hear him grumbling
What we we posed for, Boss,
wasn't no second"
No one with any appreciation
of art and beauty can look at
that group without being
thrilled from head to toes. It
fairly breathes with the life
that went into it when Bill and
his pony stood posing while
the master hand of the artist
moulded the clay that was cast
in brOnZe-a Range Rider of the
Yellowstone-a symbol of life
of the old west-BiIl'S grand gift
to the city of Billings.
In this touching little poem,
William S. Hart paid his last re-
spects to his movie pony, Fritz,
or Paint, as some called him,
as he was buried in a little
canyon near the old ranch
house at the foot of the hill,
near the highway:
We've iumned through windows,
Drowned in water-filled caves,
We've rolled down mountains,
An stomped on knaveS.
Tumbled from narrow bridges,
Caught fast-moving trains,
Did falls and pick-ups
On desert and plains.
An noT-it's the end. Fritz,
III ne'er see you again.
It's more than strong love,
"nardner."
! It's a deep heart pain.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-02
Discusses Fatal
Turkey Diseases

A few years ago the entire
turkey-groWing industry Of the
United States was threatened
by blackhead. Since the cause
has become better understood,
the disease is largely prevent
able through the application of
sanitary measures, says Miss H.
E. Cushman, extension poultry
specialist at Montana State col
lege.
Blackhead is a parasitic dis
ease that affects, principally,
young turkeys in the early
summer and late fall. Poults
about six weeks old seem the
most susceptible but blackhea6
NAV also cause losses among
chickens and older turkeys. The
term "b'ackhead" has heen ap-
piled because of the discolora-
ton Of the head of the affected
bird. However, this discoloration
is not a verv common SYMPTOM
The most common symptoms
are sulphur = colored, foamv
droDrings. droopiness. loss of
appetite. and an invariable loss
of weight.
Many turkev breeders now
rear their poults artificially lii
order to prevent losses from
blackhead. They keep the poults
first in coops and runs that
can be easily cleaned, and lat
err on pasture that is known not
to have been ranged by turkeys.
ANY turkeys which show symp-
toms of disease are promptly
removed and isolated. and those
which have died are buried
promptly.
Chickens rarely contract the
disease. saws Miss Cushman,
but when thew do they usually
recover and remain as carriers
of the organisms which are dis
CHARGED in their droppings.
These orgenisms may infect
other birds if picked up in con-
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LODGE GRASS
BY Dorothy L. Stevenson
Continued from Page -

MIR. and Mrs. H. T. Mefford
of Decker were callers in town
over the week end and also
Miss Jane Mefford returned TO
Decker with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. R. Elder OF
Decker, stopped here enroute to
Portland, Oregon, to see their
daughter, Miss Belva Elder, who
will accompany them to Oregon.
Dan Ball of Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, is here for several days
visiting with old friends.
Mrs. Jay Sharp and daughter,
Elaine, and Mrs. Ellen Hunter
and daughter, Alta, motored to
Sheridan, Monday evening to
attend the theatre.
Miss Jessie Lining made a
trip to Billings over the week
erd to visit with friends and
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Davidson,
and children, jerry and Joan,
were business callers in Sherl-
dan Monday.
F. A. McVay and children,
Dallas and Marilvn. LETT Tuesday
morning for various points in
Montana where they will visit
relatives.
Dalton Hamilton left Friday
for Rochester. Minnesota, where
he will receive medical treat
ment for a tumor.
Mr.. and Mrs. John HelTick
of Ow! creek attended to bus
mess in town on Tuesday.
What a funny little bird the
frog are,
When him runs-him hop
And when him hop
Him lands on him little tail
What him amt oOt-almost any.
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while the plant was operating. 1t had to be done after closing time. The
result was that Jack had to work overtime, and spend most of the evening
att
On this particular day, the plant had been working overtime itself. The
slipped his hands into a pair of thick warm gloves, and crawled about
80 feet along the belt conveyor into that freezing tunnel He worked as
fast as he could, but he had been in there only about a quarter of an
hour when his clothes we're frozen 81 stiff that he could hardly move about
and his gloves were so hard and brittle that he could scarcely Use his
hands.
suddenly he heard the door of the tunnel open, saw the lights go
out, and then heard the door slam shut again.
Locked in the Tunnel to Die.
It was cold enough in that tunnel but Jack suddenly went colder. He
was just inside it. The Waterman, not realizing that anybody was in
there. had turned out the lights and locked the tunnel door Even with
the door open, Jack couldn't have CROPPED his way out of the tunnel along
the perplexing maze Of conveyor belts. He had been abandoned in that
freezing hole-to die.
yelling in a vacuum. The walls of the tunnel were insulated and sound
proof. He began to crawl along the tunnel, his clothes freezing to the
cold was penetrating to the very marrow of his bones. Pretty 500 he
would begin to get sleepy-and then
Nearly Crazed With Horror.
It wasn't a pleasant subject. but Jack couldn't help thinking about
it. Would they find him dead in the morning? Another idea struck him
- grisuy, CHASTITY thought. When morning came, they would start the
conveyor, and his stiff. dead body would be ground to pieces by the cogs
of the great steel belt Out of that machine built to deliver the fxings for
parties and the makings for kids ice-cream cones, would come a sicken-
ing mass of frozen and lacerated fesh-hesh that had once been Jack
Sandman.
A prey to thoughts like that. Jack almost went crazy. Its
hard to explain the horror of freezing to death in a pitch dark
tunnel" he says. "n my frenzy I imagined 1 had been in there for
hours. 1 knew I'd be as stiff a s my own gloves long before norm
ing. But suddenly it occurred to me that 1 might try knocking
on the wall"
Jack didn't have much hope that that would work. The walls were
too thick. But at one point-a place where a cold storage compartment
he started hannering with all his strength. Would anyone 60 into that
compartment? Would anyone hear his frantic signal?
his failing arms were the only parts of him that had any feeling left in
Them, when suddenly, the lights went n Someone yelled to him, and
Jack doesn't remember whether he answered or not But presently he
felt himself being lifted out of the tunnel and carried out into the warm
June air.
thrilling OF s nearly fatal as that I haven't heard of it.
Copyrght-WNU service.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-02
Upper Rotten Grass

Ms. Frank Gregory motored
to Lodge Grass Thursday on
business. She also attended the
Coed Luck school picnic.
MI. and Mrs. Denver Sher-
man, Dan Smith. Joyce Hitch
cock. Joyce Sherman and Jean
Chatham were in Lodge Grass
Wednesday.
joys Hitchcock visited at the
Sherman ranch last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dell Standish
were in Ledge Grass Tuesday Oh
business.
Junior Smith and MIR. Cook
called at the John Chatham
ranch Friday morning.
The Mar ranch will start
the spring roundup Saturday,
May %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Denver sher-
man motored to Sheridan Fri
da;.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Wiley
were Sheridan business visitors
Friday. While there they also
called or friends and relatives.
Jack Wiley was in Lodge
Grass Thursday.
Mrs. c. Anderson, Mrs. W.
Bergquist and Lorraine and Joy
were in Hardin Friday.
Harold Anderson. Henry An
derSOn and Mrs. w. Berguuist
and Lorraine and Joy were in
Sheridan SATURDAY..
The Bozeman Trail picnic was
held May 49, although it rained
little. DR.. w. A. Russell gave
many interesting facts about the
history of early times in Mon
tana. Those dressed as old tim
ers were Mrs. Denver Sherman,
joyce Sherman, Joyce Hitch
cock and Jean Lois Chatham.
Those Who attended the picnic
we're Dr.. and Mrs. w. A. Rus
sell of Hardin. Mr.. and Mrs.
Logan Kingston and Betty of
Hardin. Lavonne Taylor of Har-
din. Mrs. H. G. Barnett of Har-
din, Rita Loback of Hobson.
Fave and Mildred Barrett of
Hardin. Helen and Esther
Greenwald of Hardin. Pearl and
Juanita Ellis of Hardin. Lorene
Barrett of Hardin Mrs. Lorah
B. Chaffin of Story, Wyoming.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Powers Of
Story, wyoming, Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Wiley, Mrs. Jack Wiley
and children. George Dale and
Edna Ruth. Raymond v. john
son, MIR. and Mrs. Denver Sher-
man and Joyce. Dan Smith, Mrs.
w. Bergquist, Harold Anderson,
Henry Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Gregory, Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther Chatham. Dick, Janet
and Barbara Gail Chatham,
Lorraine and JOY Bergquist. Mr.
and Mrs. John Chatham, Jean,
Jack and Carole Helen Cha
than. all of Rotten Grass, Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Stevens and son,
Don, Mr.. and Mrs. John Stew
ems and children Jack, Mary
and Mickey of Lodge Grass
creek, Joyce Hitchcock of Grow
Agency.
Dell Standish took Joe Gill
cite to the Sheridan hospital
Saturday night. MI Gillette was
suffering from a broken leg.
Denver Sherman accompanied
them.
Mary Ruth Wolf is staying
with her aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. Emery Pease for two
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Mcdaniel
received their turkeys last week.
Shorty Mcdaniel is visiting at
his home for a few davs.
Mr.. and Mrs. -~"erv Pease re-
ceived ann turkeys last week.
Ben Lawrence and Cal Cor
den of Lodge Grass were fish
ing on Rotten Grass creek last
Thursday.
Luther Chatham called at the
Phil Spear ranch Thursday.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-02
ODD INVENTIONS

Among inventions patented
recently were two unusual ones.
They we're:
A fish lure that makes it pos
sible to use the same bait over
and over again. The hollow lure
is made of a transparent ma
terial, like celluloid through
which the fish can see the bait,
either live Or dead, through ar
opening which is sealed by a
plug.
A floating bathtub which
would permit one to take a bath
in the sea, lake or river. The
bathtub is made of rubber and
has a tubular rim which is
blown up. In its sides and bot
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-02
REBUILD GAME FARM

Damage to the state game
farm at Hot Springs by the re-
cent heavy SHOWS, while heavy,
are not as extensive as it was
first feared, James A. Weaver,
state game warden reports. The
storm hit the pheasants in the
midst of their laying season
and about 500 birds were killed.
The hens have resumed laying.
however. and a big crop of
Young chinks will be produced
for release in Montana hunting
converts.
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taminated feed or water and,
as young turkeys are especially
susceptible, they should never
be allowed to run with chick
ems. It is a dangerous practice
even to fertilize with chicken
manure the ground or which
turkeys are allowed to range,
as they may pick up the Or
ganisms in sufficient numbers
to cause serious losses.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-02

Miss Helen Stansbury, gifted
travel expert and speaker for
United Air Lines. has flown
more than 100000 miles to tell
potential air travellers of the
attractions to be found at the
1889 Golden Gate International
EXPOSITION.
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tom are perforations which per-
NIT water to flow inside the tub
when the bather sits in it.
Evening star., 1938-07-24

Friends of Early Days Are Bed His Supreme Despite
Tmkeine neOd Associates
Was Hired o Discipline i'm hof Mechanic

to his heart when he was a little boy.
Henry did the same things We
did" said DR.. Ruddiman. He got
stood up in the corner for misbehaving
and he even got spanked with the
same ruler was spanked with. And
he was subjected to the crowning
punishment of all. He was made to
60 over on the girls side of the school,
room and sit with girl. So. you
see. Henry was like the rest Of US.
Usually. We had to sit with a girl
as punishment for whispering in
school or passing notes.
He had to walk mile and a half
to the school. but Henry liked to walk
So did all OF us back then, I guess
One night. after the farm chores were
done, Henry walked clear over to our
farm. 1t was a good two miles He said
he wanted me to 60 fishing with him.
We had to walk another good two miles
to the fishing hole in the Rouge River
Henry had a net We fished a couple
Of hours and all We caught was one
small bullhead. Henry was rather dis
gusted He said that wasn't enough
return for all the time and labor we
put in. We never went fishing again
"Of course. its true he did a lot Of
tinkering with things. Especially
watches. He could take them all apart
and put them together again. The rest
of us kids could take them apart all
right But not one of US could ever
get them reassembled."
nR. RUDDIMAN recalls a touching
incident in his relations with
Henry Ford. When the Ruddimans
were leaving their farm home Henry
went over to say good-by As the
household goods were being packed
and made ready to move. Henry went
to q cupboard and took from It Edsel
Ruddiman's copy of the Sixth Nc
Guffey Reader. It probably was the
first item in the extensive Ford Nc
GufIey collection. But Henry said
Evening star., 1938-07-24

the beginning Of his life might in a
large measure explain his deep-laid
yearning for peace and country COM
fort and simple design for life.
A RTIsT BACON has also made
faithful reproduction Of other
scenes in the early life of Henry Ford.
These pictures are a faithful and a
startling panorama Of the time anc
place. but more than that they dra-
Matte the beginning of an epic and
they depict the early lyric dream tina,
was some day to become the astound-
ing practical reality.
High points OF the Bacon panorams
include Henry Ford's first water wheel
a primitive adventure that was to take
form in his mature years in expert
ments with hydro-elecric power:
Henry Ford repairing the neighbor S
watches at a crude work bench set up
in his bedroom in the old farm nome,
lantern at his feet to keep them
warm, an oil lamp on the bench to
guide his supple hands and at the
same time to keep them warm; Henry
Ford and his playmates In the crude
bunkhouse made from the abandoned
planks of the old country roads.
where they are operating a blower for
a forge fire motivated by wheel of
an old corn-sheller: Henry Ford stok-
ing a boiler the steam from which
turned . turbine.
These are all revealing glimpses
into the nature Of the boy who was to
be the worlds foremost figure in the
automotive age to come, and II that
age had any prophet. surely it was
Henry Ford. the youth, whose
searching mind was the despair Of his
father and the amazement Of his
friends.
There is another painting in the
Bacon panorama. 1t portrays Henry
Ford working at his first combustible
gasoline engine. In 1894 at the World
Fair In Chicago. his eager eyes had
observed an engine Of this sort. So
Evening star., 1938-07-24

here he Is shown, In the kitchen Of
the first city home on Bagley avenue.
Mrs. Ford is his assistant. Her im-
maculate kitchen has been trans
formed into tool shop. The proper
ties seem to be piece OF steel tubing,
which he had acquired at the Edison
Co., where he was working at the
time. spark plug and coil, Mrs.
Ford Is holding a funnel through
which gasoline is dripped from crude
oil cup into a carburetor 1t is said
that the combined efforts Of Henry
and his wife impelled that engine 20
60 for all of IS seconds. But the
principle had been established and the
youth had triumphed.
WELL, then, what sort of boy was
Henry Ford? His old school
mates smiled at the question and they
say: oh. don't know guess
Henry was like most of us kids. He
was just normal"
Today these old schoolmates evince
amazement that he should have turned
out to be what he is. Nobody knew
back then that Henry would get to
the top the way he has" they say. a
puzzled expression on their faces.
"Of course. he was sort Of different.
Always tinkering with things. fixing
things and making things. He was
different that way. But on the whole
he was Just like the rest of U.S."
Dr. Edsel A. Ruddiman was Henry
Ford's first schoolmate. The two
boys sat together at one Of the old
wooden desks In the Scotch Settlement
School on Warren avenue, one-half
mile east of Southfield road Today
Henry's first school is installed in
Greenfield Village and Henry's first
chum, Edsel Ruddiman. for whom his
only child is named, is the research
chemist In charge of an experimental
laboratory in the village Therein
you observe how diligent Henry Ford
is at the task Of bringing close to
him the things and the people closest
Evening star., 1938-07-24

then he wanted Edsel Ruddiman's
book as a remembrance
1t was 80 years later that DR.. Ruddi-
man returned to the Dearborn scene.
Henry Ford was among the first to
greet him, And Henry Ford returned
to Edsel Ruddiman his copy of the
Sixth McGuffey Reader.
And now it is important to know
because DR.. Ruddiman remembered it
50 clearly, that the first watch to be
submitted to Henry's expert treat
ment was q silver hunting case time
piece, the property Of Frank Hutch
ings. The watch had stopped for some
obscure reason and Frank had taken
1t to Sunday school at the Scotch set
tlement to see if Henry could find out
what was the matter with it. Henry,
being l3 years old at the time, said
he could.
IT SHOULD be told that this was not
Henry's first experience with
watches. On the farm he had often
ga7ed with curious eyes on the ancient
watch Of Adolph Culling, who worked
for Henry's father. and Adolph, who
had brought the watch all the way
from Germany. was always happy to
show the watch to Henry and to ex-
plain patiently how it ran, Henry be-
ing then years old.
Today it is part of the record that
after Sunday school was over that
eventful Sabbath at the Scotch SET
tlement young Henry Ford hurried to
his uncle's carpenter shop to treat
Frank Hutchings' ailing watch. His
tools were crude but effective. He
converted . shingle nail into a screw
driver by nattening 1t on . grinding
stone. He fashioned pair Of tweesers
out Of = corset stay. And with these
he operated.
When he had taken Franks watch
apart and put it together again the
watch was miraculously alive and 60
ing. Very possibly 1t was at that mo-
Evening star., 1938-07-24
Washington Gave His
Earnest Attention
to Possibilities.
By Charles and
Martha Bradley.
Potomac River played an
important role in developing
the frontier of MARYLAND and

"HE Potomac River played an
important role in developing
the frontier of Maryland and
L Virginia. In land of great
distances and no roads, the rivers
were the natural and easiest means
Of transportation and communication.
Hunters and trappers were the first
to take advantage of it, using it to
bring their furs down to market, but
as early as the middle of the 18th
century the Colonies began to realize
the value of the Potomac River to tap
the rich resources of the Western
country. Many influential men in
terested themselves in the possibilities
of developing it as a waterway to the
West, and chief among these was
George Washington. Washington's life
is well known to most of us, but it
is little realized that this use OF the
Potomac River was one OF his favorite
dreams.
THE real story of the rivers de-
velopment begins when, in l740
Thomas Cresap built stockade house
at Wills Greek NOV Cumberland,
Md and moved his family to their
new home in the wilderness. He was
a man of great vision and he had
dreams Of establishing trAde with the
country beyond the mountains. He
had not been long at Wills Greek
when, with an Indian friend and
guide, Nemacolin. he began making
trips and surveys westward as far as
the headwaters Of the Ohio.
With his mind full Of the possibilities
of this new frontier, he determined
to 60 to Williamsburg and secure
backing for his project of expanding
trade. After what must have been
a difficult journey down the Potomac
(the only portage he made was at
Great Falls), he finally arrived at
Williamsburg. His plans were re-
ceived with great enthusiasm and
the Ohio Co. was formed forthwith.
This company, which received its
charter and grant of 100000 acres
from the King in l749, was the first
incorporated effort to promote trade
with the Indians and encourage set
tlement of the new country. Thomas
Lee was president of the company,
George Mason was treasurer. John
Mercer, the most distinguished law
yer in the Colony, was secretary and
legal adviser. and Cresap was ap-
pointed manager in the field.
FOR several years the company -four
ished-storehouses were built ut
Wills Greek, trail was blazed by Gre
sap and Nemacolin through the noun
tains to the Monongahela River, and
. settlement was made at Fort Red
Stone. But It's success was short-lived.
The French and Indian War brouRht