The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-07-29
Up and
DOUn
the Street

Seldom-Seen floWer) goes to Mike
GrubbS and the Eagles for a
good job in getting the elector-
ate out for the city bond cleo
ton. There wasn't any excuse
for anyone who said they for
got the election. The Eagles saw
to that with their mobile loud
speaker unit.
Personally we think Mike mis-
Sed his calling. He should have
been an announcer. And we
don't mean a tobacco auction
eer, Mike.)
Hardin gets some unusual and
interesting visitors once in a
while, especially in the summer
months. We have a suspicion
that some of them come and
go without any of us hearing
about it.
This week, our genial and 10
quaciouS county extension agent
happened to meet up with Sen
or FREDERICK Vidal, former adj
m~iniStrator of tribal affairs for
the Spanish government in Nor
Deco.
Senior Vidal is now studying
for his doctors degree at Har-
ward university and has been
doing quite a lot of travelling
this summer observing activities
and tribal customs on Indian
reservations in this country. In
Big Horn county he visited both
the Crows and the Cheyennes.
When County Agent Jacobsen
m ct him, the conversation
turned toward agriculture, and
from there in natural sequence
to Thomas d. Campbell, who
has some interesting ideas on
the agricultural possibilities in
North Africa. Vidal said he had
read with great interest some
of Mr.. Campbel1'S views, as ex-
pressed in the New York Times,
and was anxious to meet him.
An interview was accordingly
arranged and Senior Vidal spent
Monday at the Campbell FARM
ing CORPORATION.
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Then Wednesday a young
gentlemen came in to buy some
old newspapers. He said
he wanted them to use in the
process of drying and preServ-
ing botanical specimens. Of
course our curiosity was arouS-
ed, so we learned that he is a
student at Michigan tech and
has been studying the flora of
Canada and the western por-
ton of the United States this
summer. He informed us that
there is a much wider variety
of plant life in this area than
the casual observer might think.
With him was an electrical
engineer who makes a hobby OF
ornithology (the study of birdS).
While the botanist was digging
up plants, the ornithologiSt was
taking color pictures of birds.
We figure the pair of them
have been having an interest
ing summer:
--~NI %
Our office girl is having a
heck of a time. Seeing as how
her sister-in-law is one of the
prime movers of the competi-
ton in the advertising racket,
people seem to think she has
some business connection there,
too. and she finds herself ans
wering the wrong question at
the right time, or vice versa.
We regretted deeply the pas
sing of General PerShing from
the American scene. Though
World War II brought into pro-
minence many able military
men, PerShing was always our
ideal as everything a general
should be.
incidentally it was he who in
Spired our earliest interest in
politics. It must have been in
the 1920 campaign for presi-
dent that PerShing'S name was
mentioned as a possibility for
the Republican nomination. We
can distinctly remember the
primary election in Nebraska
that spring. Our house was
fairly near the polls, and we
buttonholed every passer by
who looked like a voter and
asked for a vote for Pershing.
We've never lost interest in
politics since, but we sincerely
hope that no one will hold this
matter against PerShing'S men,
DRY. After all, it wasn't his