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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-08-24
WEEKS WEATHER

Recorded by Holly Sugar cor
poration, Hardin, for week. end
ing 5 pm, Wednesday, Aug. %.
Maximum temperature: 80 de-
grees, August ~.
Minimum temperature: IS de-
grees, August 70.
Precipitation for the week:
.04 inches.
Precipitation for the year to
date: 8.58 inches.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-08-24
Work on Gus System
Ahedd Of Schedule

A crew of men will arrive in
Hardin within the next two
weeks to start reconditioning
the distribution system of the
Montana-Dakota Utility COM
pany's gas line here, according
to Robert Naylor, division man
ager.
The new gas pipe line will
be finished ahead of schedule.
There is no basis for the ru-
NOR that the system will not
be completed this year, he said.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-08-24
RppAng
of the Rivers

We can't help wondering if
there's a connection. Both Dan
Cupid and the editor are ap-
parently on vacation this week.
At any rate no marriage licen-
SeS were issued at Bob Ross
office this week, and shat is an
unusual state of affairs.
Could it be possible that ali
prospective brides and grooms
are waiting until Ray gets back
to assure themselves of the best
possible publicity on their we'd
dingS?
If the paper is late this week,
it will be the fault of the sub
Stitute editor. We didn't realize
we had so many friends until
they started spotting us sitting
at the Typewriter on their way
to the post office and stopped
in to say hello and ask how
it seems to be back down here
again.
It's fun temporarily, but we've
slipped in the last couple of
years. The typesetterS are hav-
ing a struggle with our tipping
and on re-reading our stories,
we keep coming across things
that don't sound as if we were
any too bright. Maybe they used
to sound that way, too, and
we just didn't notice it. It
would be nice to think we have
become more discriminating.
Jack Buzzetti stopped in the
HTH office Wednesday, enroute
to France. We always enjoy
seeing Jack, and found his
plans for the next year most
interesting.
He has ben working as a re-
porter on the Salt Lake City
Tribune the last Is months and
resigned recently so that he
can spend a year or so at Gre
noble university, which is in
southeastern France.
Jack sails Sept. IA on the Lii
berte. He tells us that this is
the old Europa. reconditioned
and operating again as a lux
ury liner, and that he will ira
vel on her second eaStbound
sailing since she was put in
commission again.
His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tony Buzzetti will accompany
Jack when he leaves Hardin
Sunday for New York City.
They will do the town" and
visit 1t. Helen Jean Buzzetti,
who is stationed at Fort Mon
mouth, N. j., before returning
to Hardin.
There are about 300 American
students at Grenoble, which is
close to the Swiss border and
in a mountainous region. Jack
will of course study French
language and customs and is
also planning to take courses
in political science. He will
look around to see what kind
of journalistic positions are
available in Europe before
coming back to the states.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-08-24
TOWNS AIR-MARKED

Signs on building roofs to tell
pilots the latitude, longitude
and directions to the nearest
airport have been painted at 48
towns since June "a, according
to State Aeronautics Director
Frank Wiley. Last year the Aer-
onauticS commission had ST
other towns air-marked.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-08-24
DINNER POSTPONED

The regular pot luck dinner
of the Fort Custer golf club,
scheduled for Wednesday Aug.
%, has been postponed to We'd
nesday, Sept. 6.
The stag party will be held
next Wednesday, Aug. 80.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-08-24
KIWANIS TO TREAT

, The Hardin Kiwanis club
. has a treat for all boys who
; were players, managers, or
|: co-managers in the junior
! softball program sponsored
| by the club.
! All these boys are invited
! to meet at the city park
| Saturday, Aug. 26, at 200
pm. PicturS will be taken,
! SO all Of the ballplayers are
/ asked to wear their uni
! forms.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

people, no BETTER New York had
kept her awake till all hours with
a pandemonium of nocturnal SER
enadeS and paradeS of grateful
firemen, to whose welfare funds
she had lavishly contributed, but
Boston disclosed a new wrinkle in
hospitality. There. a fireworks dis
play in her honor was staged in
front of her windows, with the
compliment of her fellow guests at
the Revere House.
Among many notables who call
ed to pay their respects to Jenny,
during her Boston stay. were the
governor of Massachusetts and his
executive staff, the Honorable Ed
ward Everett, the poet Longfel
low, and Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginSon, the author. 1t was here
also that Mr.. Webster, waving his
great age and dignities, took the
trouble to make himself known to
her. Jenny was duly impressed,
but the Boston visitor with whom
she elected to spend several hours
in rapturous conversation was a
Swedish servant girl. working for
family in Roxbury. And when
her secretary reported that he had
heard a working girl. as she laid
down three dollars for a ticket at
the fremont Temple, remark:
There goes half a months wages,
but l am determined to hear Jen-
ny Lind" Jenny could not rest till
the secretary had found the girl
and presented to her a $40 gold
piece.
Great lady and great trouper
that she was. Jenny seems to have
baked at only two of the many
ill-adapted concert halls in which
she was called upon to perform in
many cities of the New World.
These were: a theater violated a
short time before b. circus CT
am not a horsen" she notified Mr.
Barnum and a hall in Pittsburgh
so inadequately soundproofed that
the bowling of drunken mob in
the streets made the concert a
fiasco. Jenny finished this per-
Torrance grimly; but cancelled the
second.
In view of such incidents, how
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
Soviet Attache
Is Reprimanded

Soviet Naval Attache Laritchev
in Stockholm, appearing before
the Naval Chief of Staff, was Sc
verely reprimanded for disregard
ing defense regulations by pass
ing with companions from the Sow
let Embassy in a sailing craft
through a prohibited area in the
Stockholm skarries while taking
pictures and making other obser-
vations. Denying the charges sup
ported by eyewitnesses, Laritchev
refuses to surrender the negatives.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
America Observes Nightingale Centennial
Raving Artists

Many of the worlds leading
critics, musicians and authors
pointed out Jenny Lind as the
greatest singer of all times, and
this, as well as the high box
office returns at her perform
ances, must have impressed p.
L. Barn,Im to such extent that
he gambIed his own fortune and
some money belonging to his
friends, 100000 in all, antici-
pating returns well i'm excess of
this figure i'm the United States.
Chopin wrote: She does not
show herself in the ordinary
light, but in the magic rays of
the aurora bOrealis. Her sing
ing is infallably pure and true
and has Understandable charm"
MendelssOhn, who wrote Eli
jah" for her, said about Jenny
Lind: "She is as great an artist
as ever lived, and the greatest
l have known, and Hans Chris
tian Andersen, who repeatedly
fell in live with the singer,
wrote: Through Jenny Lind l
first became sensible of the
holiness of Art. Through her l
learned that one must forget
ones self in the service of the
Supreme. No books, no men,
have had more enobIing in
fluence upon me as II poet than
Jenny Lind, and therefore l
have spoken of her SO fully and
so warmly"
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
Ravins Critics

The press of New York re-
ceived Jenny Lind with highest
praise after her first concert.
While the great concert critic
of today has a large vocabulary
of musical terms at his disposal,
the critics of 1850 had to ex-
press themselves in this fash
ion: (Herald) Jenny Lind spins
her songs out of her throat
like the attentuated fiber from
the silitWorm, dying away so
sweetiy and so gradually, it
seems melting into the song of
the seraphim and il lost i'm
eternity; The Spirit of The
Times said: As a bird Just
alighted upon "A spray begins to
sing, he knows not why, and
pours forth the increasing vol
ume of his voice from an in
stinct implanted within h m
ny tidt pNtE Ultu Ill Il u Y
him vOcal-as flowers unfold
their pc : To the air. as
Zephyrs breathe. as rivulcts
leave their founts, as thoughts
flow, as affections rise, as feel
ings develop-so this wondrous
creature sang. II was a mani
festation of nature" The pa
pers agreed that "the appear
ance of Jenny Lind was as sig
nificant an event as the appear
ance of Dante, Raphael, Shake
speare, Goethe, Thorvaidsen and
Michael Angelo and that 1.-The
wand of civilization had fallen
from the hands of the south
ern nations and passed to the
hardy northern races"
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

chronicler's) showers of bouquets
upon the stage"
An unexpected incident which
did not, however, mar the harmony
of the concert occurred near the
close of the duet with Giovonni
Belletti, baritone, when a gang of
ruffians attempted to take h e
Garden by storm from the river
side. (The success of New Yorks
Finest in repelling this dastardly
attack was in marked contrast
with the utter breakdown of the
Boston bluecoatS some weeks later
at the near-riot in and around the
Fitchburg Depot Hall, when
mixed melee of ticket holders and
standees, unable to move in or out,
smashed windows and threatened
to tar and feather Maestro Barn
UNI.
On the whole, probably Jenny's
greatest triumph at Castle Gar
den was the Herdsmans or So
called Echo song, a Swedish ditty
in which she initiated a herdsman
calling his cattle amid echoing
hills, and for which she herself
played the accompaniment, quite
charmingly, on the pianoforte.
This song, incidentally, proved to
be a favorite of the Honorable
Daniel Webster when he attended
one of the later series of New
York concerts in Tnpler Hall. OBJ
servers on this occasion noted that
the great statesman, who had ap-
peared to be somewhat FESTIVE
during the Italian airs, con-
descended to beat time with his
foot during this catchy number.
At the sixth and final concert
at the Garden series the ticket
sellers were unable to reach their
stations, and one of them finally
had to be hoisted up and passed
from hand to hand above the
heads of the immovable mass of
humanity before the jam could be
broken.
When the mayor of Boston in
cluded in his conventional welcome
to the city an overzealous refer
ence to Mademoiselle Lind's ''un-
blemished moral character hon
est Jenny rebuked that dignitary
by stoutly remarking: What can
you know of my moral character?
Sir l am no better than other
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

ever, and the further circum-
stances that after her marriage in
1852 to an obscure singer named
Otto Goldschmidt, Jenny elected to
settle down for the rest of her
earthly existence in England it
seems reasonable to suppose that
unqualified emotion. But of Am
ericas love for Jenny, there could
never be room for the slightest
doubt.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
Jenny Lind Came, Sang
And Conquered The U. S. A.
BY B. r. Crisler

The eleventh of September this
year marked a sentimental CEN
tennial in American music. On
that evening, 100 years ago, the
first American concert appearance
of my Lind, 1.-THE Swedish
Nightingale" took place in New
York's large and dampish Castle
Garden, which was later to serve,
more fittingly, as a municipal
aquarium. The thrilling impact of
that riotous and romantic occa-
sion continued to be felt for years
after Jennys departure from our
shores; there are Americans still
eXtant who, as children, were
reared in the simple dogma that
the throat of Jenny Lind was a
unique natural phenomenon, I'M
paralleled before or since in the
history of the human anatomy.
If this hyperbolical legend was
in part a tribute to the genius
of P. T. Barnum, who sponsored
Jenny's two-year American en-
gagement, it was by no means ex-
clusively so. Vocally, Jenny Lind
seems to have been at home on
three soprano ranges (by present
day classifications), dramatic, lyric
and coloratura, phenomenon suf-
ficiently marvellous in itself.
: The fact seems to be that Jenny
earned her laurels as Americas
First Sweetheart, not only with
superb vocal equipment and ar
tistry, but also by dint of an in
ner hardihood and a frequently
heroic exercise of self control In
addition to the sometimes alarm
ing intrusions of unprecedented
crowds of an uncouth, foreign
folk, she had to endure long jour
neys on the primitive railway
trains of those days and give per-
formances in makeshift concert
halls" which included an acousti-
cally impossible Boston depot and
a structure in Madison, Ohio, iden-
titled as a pork she'd"
Yet her tones throughout this
lengthy and grotesque ordeal seem
to have remained as sweet and
true as ever, as did also her singu-
larly joyous, honest, and unassum-
ing heart. In the end it was per-
haps Barnum himself who paid her
the most fitting of all the eloquent
compliments she had received from
the leading spirits of the New
World: Il think" said the master
Snowman. that her natural i'm
pulses were more simple, child
like, and pure. than those of any
other >per-on have ever met"
Not long after walking down the
gangplank of the great paddle
wheel steamer, Atlantic, into New
York's first great civic reception.
Jenny wrote back home to Swe-
den: 1T is amazing what heaps
of money they seem to have here"
Her own earnings amounted at
times to more than $4,000 a con-
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

cert. Not even her lavish dona-
tons of the proceeds of entire
concerts to selected public chart
ties, in addition to her number
less private benefactions, could
seriously reduce the flood of her
taX-free income.
She explained her first aston
ishing munificence, a gift of some
10000 of the beautiful, uninflated
dollars of that era, in the follow
ing matter-of terms to her
family: Il devoted the first two
concerts in New York to chart
ties because they had raised such
enormous prices cat auction) that
l considered this to be a plain
duty"
Bar.Lm was by no means I'M
duly avaricious. On the contrary,
he proved exceptionally OPEN
handed with Jenny, voluntarily
canceling her first contract and
replacing it with another guaran-
teeing her $1,000 per concert and
half of the net proceeds. His de-
cision to auction the choicer seats
for Jenny's first concerts in the
larger cities therefore appears to
have been as much a measure of
self-defense a 6 ains st ruthless
hordes of ticket buyers, each bent
on obtaining special preference, as
it was dictated by motives of COM
mercial canniness.
Bidding ran high at the first
auction of preferred seats for the
opening Garden concert. Yet the
highest price of 1925 paid for the
first ticket by a halter m e d
Genin was niggarly in comparison
with results of subsequent NC
tions, after Jenny's vocal virtu-
osity had become national by
word. In Boston, for example,
cultural hub of the hemisphere and
second stop on Jennys itinerary,
Ossian F. Dodge, a singer an d
voice teacher, bought the first
ticket offered for $625. "a Provi-
dence buyer, Col. William Ross,
was the highest bidder for single
ticket during Jenny's tour; it cost
him $685.
Due to the pressure of public
curiosity, representatives of the
New York Press were admitted to
Jenny's earliest rehearsals, and it
was during the second of these ex-
elusive green-room affairs that
dramatic incident occurred. Just
as Mademoiselle was embarking
upon an operetic area, one of the
guns of. the battery on Governors
Island doomed out, causing her to
pause in momentary alarm. When
family smiling, she was bout
to resume, the gun roared for a
second time. AS one boom followed
another, inquiry disclosed that the
battery was firing a salute of 100
guns in order to celebrate the ad-
mission of California into the
Union.
In her initial appearance before
the literary, artistic, and social
elite of New York. Jenny seemed
extremely pale and agitated nor
Ito quote a chronicler of the pc
riod) did the enthusiasm which
burst forth at her appearance tend
at all to restore her tranquility
Yet as she sang the "Casta Diva"
from Bellini's opera, Norma"
confidence and full assurance of
tone returned, and she finished in
such a burst of brilliance that
the audience arose as one man
few women being present, owing
to the menace of the crowds) and
hurled 1.-THE alarming verb is our
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-06-30
Varied Types In
Oak Strip Floors

Oak floors is the popular strip
style, noted for the atmosphere of
warmth and coziness they contri
butte to a home, can be obtained
in distinctive types which lend in
dividuality to a room, builders
point out.
The wood is available in all
white oak, all red or mixture of
both. The two tpyes are quite
similar in appearance, both being
comparatively light colorcd. Red
oak, however, usually is more con-
sistcnt in its color tones,
For a homcmaker who prefers
color uniformity, clear grade oak
probably is the best bet. In that
grade the amount of sapwood is
limited. SapwooG is the younger
wood of the tree sdst beneath tn,
bark. 1t generally is lighter in
color than the rest of the wood.
Many homemakers favor the
variations in color and the natural
Irregularities found in the other
grades. The very lack of uniform
ity. in, such grades adds interes
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-06-30

fered. Tongued and grooved pieces
are produced in widths from lie
inches to 81 inches. Standard
thicknesses are * inch. Ss inch
and 25/32 inch. Builders say most
home owners prefer tongued and
grooved flooring. Tongue and groo-
wing enables the pieces to join
snugly to form a floor of great
strength and solidity. Square-edge
pieces can be obtained in widths
of liz inches and 2 inches and in
a thickness of SIS inch.
A further choice is offered be-
tween unfinished and pre-finished
stock. The unfinished type receives
its finishing treatment after it
has been laid. The pre-finished
variety, expertly treated at the
mill by specially designed mach
inery, is ready for use immedi-
ately after installation.
A handy booklet or selection,
installation and care Of cak floors
has been published by the National
Oak Flooring Manufacturers AS
sociation for the convenience of
prospective home builders and
buyers. A copy can he obtained
free of charge by writing the Oak
Flooring Information Service, 221
n. LaSalle St, Chacago l, III.
Just ask for TIE booklet, "Oak
Floors for Your Home.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-06-30
SOUTH SOLON NEWS

of Mr.. and Mr.. Paul Hyer and
family.
spending this week in the home
The Sunday school class of Mrs.
Howard Murry enjoyed picnic on
Friday at Snyder Park, Spring
field. The group made the trip on
the train where they were met
by Mrs. Paul Hyer and Mrs.
Frank Fisher to take them by
machines to the park. The group
included, David Rehm, Larry
Dudley, Janet Butcher, Carol Sue
Clemans, Rosalie Lowery, Carolyn
Butcher, Stephen Clemans, Mel
vim Lowery, Marlene Roddy, Phil
lip Hyer, Douglas Fisher, Phillip
Fisher, Donnie Murry, Mrs. Muir
ry, Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Hyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Henry
and Mrs. Esa Nelson of Sedalia
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Gordin and Barbara.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ancil Brown of
Washington c. H., Mrs. Donald
Carter and children of Mt. Ster-
ling and Mrs. George Pickens of
London called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Harve Pickens and family on
Sunday.
Branda Lou Tinker of West
Jefferson spent several days with
Mrs. Harlan Riegel and children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Achor ruth
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-06-30

DiffendaD of Fairborn announce
the birth of a son Joseph Arthur
June %.
Miss Ann Williamson and Har-
old Stroupe of Springfield spent
Saturday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Harve Pickens and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Grear and
family attended the Farm Bureau
picnic at Bryan Park, Saturday.
Mrs. Emma Duff entertained
the Blue Star Mothers group in
her home Tuesday evening assist
ed by Mrs. Rufus Jenkins. Those
present were: Mrs. w. p. BANTER,
Mrs Mae Shanteau, Mrs. Corwin
Beatty, Mrs. r. c. Tefft, Mrs. Lou
Powell, Mrs. Lewis Spicer, Mrs.
Clyone Fout, Mrs. Roy Critics,
Mrs. Blanche Gordin and Mrs.
Florence Crispin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Simmer
mon were business visitors for
several days in Detroit, Michigan.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Lawrence Ogden
of Mt. Sterling were guests on
Sunday of Miss Mary Self.
Mr.. and Mrs Dexter Dudley and
Larry were Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Roberts and
family near Plain City.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-06-30

The Vacation Bible School be-
gan on Monday morning at the
Congregational Christian Church.
The, average attendance for the
week was 40. Teachers and assist
ants are: Beginners, Mrs. Hugh
Robinson, Mrs. Roger Bennett
and Mrs. Clifford C-le m ms;
Primary, Miss bessie Wolfe and
Ramona Simmermon. Juniors,
Mrs. G. c. Rowand and Mrs. j.
B. Smith. Mrs. Everett Grear and
Mrs. John Z. Diffendal are help
ing with the music. Rev. Hugh
Robinson is the director. The pro-
ject for this years school is the
making of health kits for Europ-
can children. The school will close
June 80 with a family night when
displays of the work will be pre-
sented and a program. given.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Kinnison
and family recently visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Kinneson at
Champaign Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Allison an
nounce the birth of a daughter
Cheryl Donette June 18th at
White Cross Hospital Columbus,
On Mr.. Allison's birthday.
! Mrs. Lee Bennett suffered a
broken toe in a fall at her home
last week.
Mrs. Lester Allen of Dayton is
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-06-30
to their natural beauty. In these
the amount of sapwood varies.

to their natural beauty. In these
the amount of sapwood varies.
Another point of choice is in
the grain pattern. One can have
either plain-saWed or quarter-saw-
ed oak. The former, characterized
by large, attractive V-shaped fig
ures, is used more extensively
since it is easier and more econom-
1cal to cut and therefore is avail
able at lower cost. Quarter-saw-
ed oak is cut at angles which
bring out the attractive flaky fig
ures known as wood rays. Oak is
the only commonly used flooring
hardwood possessing such promi-
nent rays. Consequently, it is the
only species available in quarter
sawed style.
Generally, strip cak flooring is
laid in uniform widths. Interesting
variations from this pattern can
be achieved, however, by utilizing
pieces of idndom or mixed widths.
This arrangement produces an
effect similar to the, more expen-
slve random plank flooring. Mix
cd widths are appropriate in al
most any type of home, but are
particularly suited to ranch type
houses or others where an air
OF informality is desired.
A wide selection of sizes is Of
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-06-30
TRADERSWLLE NEWS

MIR. and Mrs. Harold Sagraves
Of Portsmouth and family spent
the week end here with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Sagraves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Reynolds
and family of London spent Sun
day with their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Proctor Gibson a.d family
Miss Joyce Henri CT Urba1a
visited Mrs. Harley King and
family.
Mrs. Ardle spark ed family of
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-06-30
STRICTLY FRESH,


A N English minister has advised
= boys and girls to study four
sweethearts before deciding on
final choice for marriage. This
might be called picking altar
natives.
During an Oklahoma City brawl
between strikers and non-union
workers who had broken through
picket lines, one man was kayoed
with horseshoe. He should have
rabbit-footed it home early.
A North Carolina salesman COL
lected S400 on a hole-in-one policy
purchased from Lloyds CT London