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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-05-27
FIRST CROW INDIAN
BAPTIST CHURCH
Clara L. OldS
|Speciol Trophies for
.Out-of-Town Entries
In Go Western Parade

Six, trophies will be awarded
outstanding participants in the
Billings Go Western Parade
June 5, according to- an an
nouncement made this week by
the Go Western Parade and
Rodeo committee. !
Two of the awards will be,
limited to participants from
outside Billings.
Trophy awards will be given
for the following parade class
ifications: the best out of town
group entry, the best band unit
entered by a school or youth
organization, the hest saddle
club or riding organization, the
best kid entry, the float judged
most outstanding for its his
torical significance, and the
best fancy horse drawn vehicle.
The award for the best out
of town group entry will be
presented to the winner by Miss
Alice Greenough, world cham
pion cowgirl of Red Lodge,
Montana, who is the donor Of
the trophy. It is a large gold
trophy with walnut base bear
ing a bucking brancho rider at
the top, thanked on either side
with metal replicas of western
saddle horses.
A gold Victory trophy with
a western horse and a musical
Tyre on each side which serve
as the background for drum
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major and majorette figures will
be presented by the Pierce
Packing company of Billings to
the school band from towns
outside Billings which Is judg-
ed snappiest in dress and mu-
steal ability.
Other awards for entries open
to all participants include a
large gold cup featuring west
ern saddle horses, an appropri-
ate trophy for the saddle club
division. This rophy is being
given by the Northern Hotel
of Billings, with Les Carter,
manager scheduled to make the
presentation r.,
Bill Linderman, world cham
pion cowboy and one of the
producers of the Go Western
Rodeo, is presenting a sterling
silver and gold trophy buckle
to the youngSter in the parade
who is judged the most out
standing. The buckle is in rep
lica in every de.tAfl of the large
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SCHOOL NOTES

6 aLs~
Report cards were handed
out and the schools in District
No. q closed for this school
year, Friday, May 81.
On Thursday evening, May 20,
Commencement Exercises were
held in the High School Audi
torium for the Class Of 1948.
| Class Valedictorian was Doris
Harris and Class Salutatorian-
Don Arndt. Other graduates in
cluded Roberta Foltz, Betty
Green, Jimmy Fellows, Porter
Chandler, Connie McGoVer, Pol
ly Peck, Richard Keller, Eva
gene Reese, Ferola Deernose,
Leslie Schroeder, Jr. and Gla-
dys Calvetti. Most Of these
Seniors have been together
through their High School
years; four, who have gone thru
twelve years together are Rich
ard Keller, Porter Chandler,
Betty Green and Doris Harris.
Miss Christine Erickson was
Senior Class sponsor. The Glass
Motto was Tonight we launch;
Where shall we anchor The
class flower was the white rose
and the class colors-lavender
and white.
twenty-five pupils were in
the Eighth Grade Graduating
Glass, Wednesday evening, May
10. The Glass included Jack
Ball, Harlem Barnes, Colleen
Barnes, Lila Buckingham, Tom
my Backbone, Robert Clark,
Janet Curry, Delmer Eastman,
Albert Felde, Charles Fellows,
Kim Forman, Shirley Green,
Walter Green, Jr; Billy Gross,
Wells. Mayer, Eleanor Medicine
Grow, Betty Moore, Newton Old
Crow, Janet Schenderline, EN-
ma Jean Sorger, Helen Standish,
Mary Stevens, Billy Shaw, Clo-
anna Wagenaar, Larry White
man. Helen Standish was Glass
Valedictorian and Emma Jean
Sorger-C Class Salutatorian. The
Class Motto was mo Honor, No
Glory; the Class Flower White
Rose; Class Colors-green and
white. Leland Peterson was the
Eighth Grade teacher. The
speaker of the evening at
Eighth Grade Commencement
was Paul M. Collier of the Har-
din Schools. Class Diplomas
were presented by County
Supt. of Schools, Mrs. Lura p.
Strand following the Presenta-
ton of the Class by Supt. E. j.
Albrecht. The Rev. Howard Par
ry gave the Invocation and
Benediction. Leland Peterson
played the Professional and
Recessional. Musical numbers
included a vocal solo Prayer
Perfect" by Helen Standish;
Songs" Neapolitan Nights and
Lullaby, by the Eighth Grade
Girls under the direction of
Mrs. Sam Stevenson.
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trophy buckles the professional
rodeo riders strive to win at
shows throughout the country.
10 encourage the early wes-
tern theme in float entries and
to give recognition to the most
original and historically signi-
ficant float in the Go western
parade, the Sawyer Stores Of
B1llngs are presenting q tall
trophy in two-toned walnut
with a victory emblem and
western figures forming the
The most outstanding horse
drawn vehicle which depicts the
elegance Of early western high
society Will be awarded q golden
gated horse trophy mounted
shop
Judges will make their selec-
tons Tor the awards from the
guy U. S. Savings Bonds |
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Lodge Cross
Church Notes
CATHOLIC CHURCH

CATHOLIC CHURCH
Mass is conducted at 1890 a
m. the first three Sundays of
each month and at 800 am
On the fourth Sunday.
LITTLE BROWN CHURCH
WY0LA COMMUNITY
BAPTIST CHURCH
Howard Parry, Minister
Lodge Grass:
Sunday school, 1000 am.
Morning worship, 11:00 am.
B.Y.F. for Young People, Tues.
100000 pm.
Crusaders for children (7-12
yrs.) Wednesday, 400 pm.
Bible Fellowship Prayer
Meeting, Wednesday, 1880 pm.
Wyola:
Sunday school, 200 pm.
Worship service, 800 pm.
FIRST CROW INDIAN
BAPTIST CHURCH
Clara e. Olds
Missionary In Charge
Morning Worship, 1880 am.
Wyola Indian Mission, 2:30
pm.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday.
Baptist Youth Fellowship.
Thursday, 7:00 pm.
Daily Vacation Bible School
will begin Monday, May 31st at
the Crow Indian Baptist Mis-
sion and will last two weeks.
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Mrs. Clark Stanton of Crow
Agency visited last week with
their grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ted Baker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sid Terrell, who
recently returned from a trip
to California and Arizonia, Wis
tied last week at the Francis
Owen home in Lodge Grass. r
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-05-27

Bill Zimmerman, Mrs. Marjorie
Clanin, Mrs. o. L. Matthews,
Mrs. Earl Mann, Mrs. Frank
Ball, Mrs. Francis Curry, Mrs.
Ira Chapman Mrs. Charles Carr,
Mrs. Erwin HultS, Mrs. r. j..
Miller, Mrs. Curly Wells, Mrs.
Frank Mason and Mrs. Jack
Mattox, now Of Sheridan.
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ATTEND JASMINE CHAPTER
MI. and Mrs. Carol Graham
and Mrs. John Gibson of Lodge
Grass were initiated into Jas
mine Chapter, Order of Eastern
Star in Hardin, Thursday eve
ming, May 20. Other Stars at
tending from Lodge Grass in
luded Mrs. Fay T. Abel, Mrs
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23
Sentiment To Outlaw Fast Time
Reported Spreading Through State

Growing sentiment in Indiana
farm areas favorable to a proposal
for state legislation to outlaw fast
time is reported spreading to Ohio
this winter.
Various farm organizations re-
portedly are discussing proposals for
formal action promoting a movement
in Ohio for legislative action. With
spring months not too far away, the
movement is expected to become far
more active in the coming weeks,
according to proponents of the legis-
lative ban on fast time.
In Indiana where the demand for
legislation gained considerable head
way last fall, candidates for the
Legislature were queried on their at
titude. Both candidates for COVER
nor agreed at that time they they
would not veto such a measure if
it should be passed by the legisla-
ture.
Indiana groups proposing legisla-
tive action banning fast time point
out that although they realize fac
tory and business men in cities en-
joy an extra hour of sunshine in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23
Radio Antenna, New Smokestack Mark
Progress At Central Ohio Utility Plant

Linking the local generating plant
of the Central Ohio Light and Pow
er Co. with other locations in the
utility network, 100-foot-high
radio tower erected here this fall
has virtually completed the COM
pany's inter-communication system.
Other towers have been installed
at Findlay and St. Marys, and a
fourth is going up at Wapakoneta
Through the new communication
system, direct and instant contact
is made possible between all points
in the wide area served by the
utility, and also with all servie,
truck equipment in the field.
According to company officials
this represents a progressive stel
which will provide vastly increased
efficiencies in operations never be
fore possible, and will be especial,
valuable when. sever storm troubl
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the evening under fast time, they
believe the same result can be
achieved and with less confusion,
simply by starting to work one hour
earlier in the morning during the
sumer season.
1t was pointed out that during
the war everyone was willing to
move his clock ahead one hour when
requested by the government, even
though the merits of the move were
doubtful.
Proponents also point to the hard
ships forced on the farmer by ask
ing him to abide by fast time. In
states where legislative action has
been taken placing a ban on fast
time are said to report that the plan
is working well.
Feeling that nothing is to be
gained and much lost through clock
tinkering, it is said that enough
sentiment has developed in Indiana
to bring about legislative action
when the legislature convenes in
that state, and the similar move
ment in Ohio may come to a head
in early spring.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23
True Tales About Ohio Touches On
Early Bluffton History This Week

A long-forgotten phase of early
Bluffton history revolving around
the villages pioneer brick manufac-
turer and building contractor is re-
vealed in this weeks article in the
popular newspaper feature, TRUE
TALES ABOUT OHIO" which has
been appearing in this publication
regularly.
Uncle Billy Made The Brick,
- the latest release by Harry L. Hale,
of Cincinnati, deals with William
Uncle Billy Lewis, who established
a brick yard here and built the first
brick buildings in the village.
Among the structures erected
from brick made by Lewis are the
old Lewis property on Spring street,
the Lutheran church and many 9TH
ers of the first brick buildings in
town.
After a discouraging start as a
poor orphaned boy, Lewis came to
Bluffton soon after the little town
was plated, and he died here on
August 20, 1899, in the large brick
residence he built on Spring street.
In a spacious orchard around the
house he had for many years raised
apples, cherries, peaches and berries,
and across the street where John A.
Thompson now lives was large
garden where he had an additional
berry patch.
When he first came here, Lewis
lived on the County Line road, one
half mile north of the Dixie high
way. Hale's complete story of the
part he played in the early growth
of the town is below.
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SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS

The average Ohio farm is 80 acres.
The average farm in Great Britain
and Wales is 81 acres. However,
Great Britain and Wales have more
large and more small farm units,
whereas Ohio has more of the
family-sized units between 100 and
300 acres.
About 3 million persons were do
ing hired farm work on September
l, the largest number for that date
since 1943, according to the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics. Larger
than usual hired employment was
due principally to the early start at
picking the big cotton crop.
Reports on European crop condi-
tions made just ahead of harvest in
dicate production of cereals will be
nearly back to prewar levels, with
over 4O0,000,000 bushels added to the
1947 totals. A good crop of early
potatoes relieved the food situation
partially, and the late potato crop
probably will yield 100,000,00O
bushels more than were harvested
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23
DOusing Your Christmas Tree At
Kitchen Sink Is Good Fire Precaution

coats are recommended and can be
applied either by dipping or spray
ing.
But even with this coating, the
forest service recommends that you
still sink the bottom of the tree in
tub of water-just to be sure.
The Patent Bureau of the Depart
ment of Commerce has OK'd num-
ber of products for coating trees
and for "fire-proof" tinsels and
other decorations.
Many of these have been tested
in the laboratories at the National
Bureau of Standards.
The bureau, by the way, has some
suggestions of its own for a safe,
as well as a merry Christmas.
The Standards people recognize
two hazards around Christmas time.
The trees, of course, and electrical
toys.
One of the dangers in the toy
department are those playthings
which require a transformer. This
latter gadget should be entirely
enclosed in an iron or insulating
case, and should have a circuit
breaker which will prevent an ex-
cessive current in the toys or trans
former.
And when it comes to trimming
the tree, the Bureau of Standards
warns against celluloid, cotton, pap
er or other such materials that
burn easily. Flake asbestos and
powdered mica make a substance
that looks like snow and won't burn
like cotton, which can cause a ser
ious flash fire.
Also, have a look at the wiring
on the lights. The insulation should
be thick enough so that the current
won't come breaking through to set
fire to something.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23
Vdccinate Dogs
By February I

Allen county dog owners were
warned again this week that they
must have their dogs vaccinated or
revaccinated against rabies before
February l, under regulations of
the county general health district.
Dog vaccination regulations were
adopted by the county health board
in November, 1916, as a means of
rabies control and for the protection
of persons and livestock.
For violation or failure to comply
with the order, fines up to 800 and
80 days Imprisonment, or both, are
provided. A first offense, however,
cannot entail Imprisonment, it was
pointed out.
Only exemptions are for dogs un-
der six months of age and those in
the health district only temporarily
for shows, performances and exhibi-
tions. Dogs showing in field trials
must be vaccinated, according to DR..
G. E. Miller, county health commits
sioner.
Whoever vaccinates a dog is re
quired to keep records for a report
to the health officer, including a
description of the dog, and address
of the keeper or owner, and date
and type of vaccination. A tag pro-
vided by the health commissioner is
to be fastened to the dogs collar.
Reports of violations may be made
to the county health office on the
ground floor of the Allen county
court house in Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23
No, Everyone Doesn't Wear Wooden
Shoes In Holland, Dutch Youth Saws

spirit for enterprise and our sense of
humor. Those factors made it neces-
sary for the German Government to
maintain, in one of the smallest
countries of Europe, the biggest
occupation army.
Those three factors made it pos
sible to begin to try to rebuild our
country. 1t was very difficult to
start in poor country, without
electricity, without communication,
with poorly fed people, with labor
who, during five years, learned to
work as slowly as possible because
they wanted to do as little as pos
sible for the Germans.
Now, after three years, things are
going much better. We can say and
write what we want to say and write.
We have enough food, We can buy
pair of shoes, we can sometimes
buy clothes and we can buy a
bike, because the bikes became ration
free. This is very important for the
Dutchman. When you are in Amster-
dam you see more bikes than cars ir
the street. To have a car is luxury
but everybody has a bike. IF Blufftor
College had been located in Holland
you would not see cars on the campus
but only about 300 bikes.
Many students have asked ms
something about our colonies.
only want to tell you now that We
have there the same mess as we have
over the whole world. The prospect:
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Editors note-The following
description of Holland comes
from Jack Rote, Dutch student
in Bluffton college who is spend
ing his first Christmas in this
country.
Dear Editor:
I am not a journalist and I never
had the intention to become one; but
questions such as: "Does everybody
wear wooden shoes in Holland ?" and
many others, from students who
would like to know something about
Holland, made me feel obliged to try
to tell you something about my small
country.
AS every good American is proud
of the State where he has been born
the town in which he lives, and the
baseball team from his town, so am
| proud that | have been born in
Holland, that | am Dutch, but that
| now prefer to live in the u. S.A.l
Before the last World War Holland
was one of the richest countries in
Europe. The social situations were
very good and as not everybody hao
a car; we were happy and content
The results of the war were thai
great parts of Holland were covered
with salt water, villages were de.
stroyed and the rest of Holland was
"empty". We had no more trains
cars, bikes or radios. There were
only three things we did not lose il
this last war: our trust in God, oul
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for the future are only a little bit
better.
In closing I'll tell you that not
everybody walks on wooden shoes
The farmers wear them during the
week, some of them have a special
pair for going to church, but mostly
they wear leather shoes because
otherwise there would be a terrible
mess of wooden shoes before the
entrance of the church! AS soon as
the farmer is at home he uses his
wooden shoes again.
The typical Dutch costumes are
still worn in some old villages as
Volendam, Marken and Friesland;
but the girls in those places have
lately preferred to wear a normal
dress instead of going in long dress,
es. I do not know what the actua,
situation is. Now the "old-look" ha:
become the "new-look", or is it the
contrary?
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23

If you want to keep Christmas
tree fires from breaking out during
the holiday season, be sure to
douse your balsam with plenty of
water from the kitchen sink.
That's the official recommendation
for Christmas tree treatment, direct
from the United States Forest serv-
ice.
After a lot of research, the farm
products laboratory has concluded
that plain water does more to keep
a Christmas tree from drying out,
and therefore susceptible to flames,
than anything else.
Here's what to do. First, be sure
the tree you buy has been chopped
down only recently. Then cut off
the end of the trunk diagonally at
least another inch above the original
cut end. Stand the tree in water at
once, and keep the water level
above the cut part as long as the
tree is in the house.
Another recommended method is
to plant" the tree in a bucket of
sand, and pour water over the sand.
Not only will the chances of a fire
starting be lessened by this pro-
cedure, but the tree will stay fresh
and green a lot longer and the
needles won't fall and mess up the
place.
Other persons like to pretty up
tree with fre-retardent coatings.
This costs a lot of money, and is a
lot of trouble, but the service has
a home formula. One method pro-
duces a transparent, colorless coat
ing. The second, with about the
same ingredients, gives the tree a
cream-colored look which can be
tinted with suitable dyes.
For this you use sodium silicate,
some China clay and water. Two
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23

Consumption of oleo went up 35
per cent in the first half of 194S, as
compared with the same period of
1947; and butter consumption drop
ped Is per cent in the same six
months. Less than 20 per cent of
the vegetable oils produced in the
u. S. went into oleo made in 1947
The remaining so per cent of u. S,
vegetable oil production was used
for purposes other than making oleo
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23

occurs. The system operates on a
high frequency range of 1871 meg
acycles and is practically static free.
The new stack, the front one in
the picture, is another new addition
to the plant just. recently put in
operation. This stack is 153 feet
above the ground. 1t measures 16
feet 10A inches across the bottom
and IL feet inches across the top.
Six carloads of brick tile were re-
quired to build this stack.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23
Uncle Billy Made
The Brick

But for the neon signs, colored
fashers and the Christmas glow
which is beaming from the show
windows in the tall and even piles
of brick which line the streets, one
who walks late in Bluffton, Ohio,
might meet ghost-the wrath of
Bluffton's "Uncle Billy" who made
the brick.
Of course, the lights, too much
company on the streets and the fact
that there are no such things as
spooks anyway might make the
meeting improbable. But they do
say that on dark nights the smiling
shade of Uncle Billy Lewis might
be seen before some of the older
brick buildings still beaming salts
faction over the admirable texture
of the terra Gotta.
1t was William Lewis who in the
1S40's turned the ramshackle frame
and log hamlet of "Croghan's Post
Office" into the brick village of
"Shannon"-and a generation later,
officially into the town of Bluffton.
Much past 10 he still walked
around in the flesh in the 1880's and
reminisced of the town when first
he saw it.
Poor Boy
William Lewis started out in life
poor-distressingiy poor. He never
had a hat until he was 16 and had
but two pairs of shoes in all the
years before he was able to make a
pair himself.
Born on Christmas Day, 1916, in
Harrison County, Ohio, the son of
Henry and Leah (HilD Lewis, Billy
was given away to another family
to raise and care for. His father
was laborer and a laborer earned
little at that time.
The family with whom Billy Lewis
lived were not so kind to him. AS
soon as he was big enough to swing
an axe he was made to chop wood
all day. Tradition has it that the
little wood chopper was furnished
barely any clothing at all-hence
the hat at 16.
LEAVES FOSTER PARENTS
Soon after he got the hat and
made his shoes Billy left his foster
parents and started out chopping
and clearing timber on his own ac-
count. That was a bit more profit
able and he grew to ITO pounds
strong and active.
Uncle Billy Lewis got his first
real stake when he won a footrace-
from an Ottawa Indian champion
when yet in his teens. 1t was or
the 4th of July and Billy's winnings
were $3.50, the odds being heavy
with the Indian the favorite. Or
another occasion he became cham
pion wrestler of both the white:
and Indians in the Allen County
woods when he pinned the Ottawt
tribes champion to the ground.
Over at Van Vert, where he latel
got his wife, Henry Myers daugh
ter Sarah, Billy Lewis in 1910 tool
off his shoes and climbed the new
liberty pole, rs feet to the top, t.
take off the ropes with which it hae
been raised.
Lewis name did not appear among
those of the early land owners-il
the -40's-on sections l, 2, 10
II, II or SO, surrounding BIufftol
within two miles and instead o
breaking ground for himself, it i
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-23

Ohio had the second largest num-
Der, nationally, of farmer applica-
tions for 1949 wheat loans with
1889, and second, nationally, average
number sold per county with 33s.
Kansas had the greatest number of
loan applications with 4134, Illinois
had the highest average per county,
414.
, 1948-12-20
Publication

All interested persons are
advised that lists of delin-
quent Real Property Taxes &
Night Soil Removal Service
Fees for the calendar year
1947 have been posted in the
lobbies Of the Department Of
Finance, both at Christiansted
and Frederiksted.
Unless the amounts shown
are paid by May |, 1949, the
respective properties will be
attached by the Sheriff in the
manner provided by law.
Office of the Administrator
for St. Croix, Christiansted,
ST. Croix, October Is, 1913.
HARRY E. TAYLOR
Administrator for St. Croix