davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1951-01-28

Some weeks ago it was Sug-
gested that the home gardener
might we'll procure his fertilizer
needs in the near future, while
ample supplies were available, and
that early season buying would
help to relieve the transportation
load during the spring rush. A
number of garden clubs are en-
couraging members to follow this
plan and have issued spring fer
tilizer order blanks. No doubt
their members have the advice
and counsel of committees as a
guide to the kinds and quantities
needed for normal care of lawn.
shrubbery, flower and vegetable
areas.
This all presumes that we make
use of the commercial (chemicaD
fertilizers in supplying plants with
the elements they need. However,
there are those who are under the
impression that plants should OBJ
tain their plant food only as ma
ture provides it. They would ig-
more all of the scientific studies
made by experiment stations, as
sumo that the thousands of farm
ers and vegetable growers who
make their living by growing crops
are in error No, that theory (and
it has many followers) overlook
two or three salient factors. In
the first place we all should know
that the soil demands hunlus (de-
cayed vegetable matter) in some
form to enable it to carry on GER
tain functions. including the sup
porting of the minute plant and
animal life, but more especially
humus provides certain soil acids
which plants must have.
The second point is that the
soils have been cropped so long
that certain mineral elements
have become exhausted and, with
out them, plants cannot develop
normally. Cropping is responsible
for part of this loss, but teaching
has also been a material factor,
Thus the experienced gardener
knows that he must add humus to
his soil as well as replace the
minerals needed by the growing
plants.
Many gardeners are familiar
with well-known ad which shows
a row of pots containing plants
which receive only certain chemi- |
Gals, the absence of one or more
minerals is shown to greatly re-
duce the vigor and growth of the
plant. That ad deals with the
trace elements in addition to the
primary plant foods. Local soils
are for the most part we'll supplied
with the trace elements except
perhaps boron, but are definitely
lacking in the major plant foods
nitrogen. phosphate and potash
Nitrogen is most generally lacking
and this deficiency is indicated by
small leaves and pale color. Phos-
phate is deficient in some areas
according to the tests made by
the University of Maryland Soils
Laborat tory. This shortage is
often shown by lack of proper root
development and by lack of thrift.
Potash is not often a limiting
factor, but when it is, the leaves
Of the plants frequently show
at the edge: oftentimes
the veins stand out prominently
and sometimes the leaves have a
purplish tinge.
So much for the reasons why we
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Life in the Country
Death Ends the Daily Routine
OF the Faithful Farm Setter

Dandy, our old roam setter, died
last week. and we will miss his
CHEEKY greeting as we arrive home
each evening.
Dandy went out of this world
as he probably would have pre-
terred-doing the job he had
picked for himself on The 40
Acres.
Soon after we moved to our 40
acres, Dandy made himself the
custodian of the premises. 1t was
his self-imposed duty to make
the rounds each day to see that
all was well and that no in
truders had found their way in.
Nothing could approach our
place without his knowing it. and
we had no trouble with hawks or
ether predators as long as he was
about. 1t was true that he occa-
sionally would nip one of our
friends, but we always made al
loWances for his likes and dislikes.
He was a personality in his own
right.
We had noticed that in the last
few months Dandy had slowed
down. Several times he missed
coming out to welcome the auto
mobile as it came up the drive,
and we noticed that his hearing
was not so acute.
He disappeared one morning
and I found him down below the
house where he had fallen as he
trotted along. Death had frozen
the action of his pace.
We carried him up the hill and
buried him under the big dog
wood tree. where each spring the
white petals will fall like snow
on his grave.
X x X x
Julian Patrick is not one to let
you down. After sending verse
about the hard winters that come
when Christmas falls on a Mon
day. Julian now sends along the
evidence, taken from weather re-
ports, to substantiate the proph-
esy.
The winter of 1928-9, Julian
said, was colder and wetter than
normal, with snowfall about II
inches above normal. This VIM
ter was followed by a cool sum-
mer with frequent thunderstorms
high tides in the Chesapeake Bay
and two ,Windstorms in North
Central Maryland which caused
six deaths.
Then again in the winter of
1884 severe cold prevailed
from January 90 to March 2. That
year ice in the bay was the great
est since the famous winter of
1917-18, and snowfall was 125 per
cent above normal. The follow
ing summer brought heavy rain
and hail storms and high winds.
And then there was the winter
of 1939-40. when Christmas fell
on Monday and the weather acted
up accordingly. This was the
coolest winter since 1917-18, and
the second coldest winter since
1891. There were heavy winds
during January and February
and above normal snowfall.
Continuing, Julian reported
that the winter of 1944-5, when
Christmas came on Monday. was
one to remember. and that so far
it looks like this winter will be
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Class for Gardeners

The Graduate School, United
States Agriculture Department,
will offer a Is weeks class in gar
dening for the amateur, begin
ming February 7. The class which
will be held on Wednesday even
ings at 6:15 pm, is to be con-
Quoted by w. H. Youngman, The
Stars Garden Editor. Reserva-
tions may be made until Febru-
arv z
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Poultry Meetinq

The annual Winchester area
poultry improvement council
meeting has been scheduled for
March 81 and %. Committee
chairmen for the meeting include
Walter Grant, turkey producer of
Hamilton, Loudoun County.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Spring Dates Set
For Shows, Sales

Plans for the spring series of
Virginia All livestock shows and
sales have been announced by
Dave E. Brewer, State All live
stock specialist.
Events in the Northern Vir-
ginia area will be held as follows:
Fredericksburg, April IL; Front
Royal, April 26, and Charlottes-
vile, April %. A Northern Vir-
ginia baby beef and swine show
will be held April 18 at Richmond.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1951-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl NordquiSt
are owners and operators OF
Hardin Electric, located on
North Center avenue.
MI. NordquiSt was born ~
Minnesota and after elementary
Schooling first studied to be an
automobile mechanic, but later
studied electrical construction at
DunWoody Institute at Minneap-
oils.
He started as an electrical
apprentice in Minneapolis IN
1928, and became a journeyman
electrician in 1881.
Carl first came to Montana in
1884. and lived at Glasgow
during construction years at
Fort Peck dam, where he worked
as an electrician. He later
worked at Sidney when REA
first came to that area.
In 1888 he came to Hardin
and established Hardin Electric
in the Ray Zelka building. In
1910 he married Miss Edith
BAILEY and the same year the
couple enlarged their business
and moved to the Trask and
Westwood building on Third
street.
At the beginning of World
War II, Mr.. and Mrs. Nordquist
went to Seattle where they
worked in defense plans for Is
months. They returned to Har-
din in 1913 and purchased the
building where the Hardin
Electric is now located. They
live on the. second floor of the
store building.
In addition to handling all
General Electric appliances, the
company also contracts electric
al construction work and does
repair of appliances. Employed
by Mr.. and Mrs. NordquiSt are
Alvin Nordquist, Cecil Watson
and Harlan NordquiSt.
Carl is assistant fire chief of
the Hardin Volunteer fire de-
partment, and is a member of
the Masonic lodge and Eastern
Star, the Scottish rite and
Shrine in Billings. His hobby is
hunting and fishing. -.
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- n"S ~ E& O. sN ~fEE
Girls on the committee are Vir-
ginia Kukes, Alice Arroyo, Vir-
ginia Robinson, and Virginia
Williams.
The senior chapter of Future
HomemakerS of America held
elections Wednesday noon, Sept.
26. The following officers were
elected:
Virginia Kukes, president; De-
loreS Becker, vice-preSident;
Florine Hessler, secretary; Mir
lam Kern, treasurer; Ruth Zier,
parliamentarian; Jean Weigand,
reporter and Virginia Robinson,
student council representative.
There was a meeting Monday,
Oct. l, to make plans for the
year.
A bowling session was held
today, Thursday, Oct. 4 at the
Community Center for the SEN
ior group.
Lawrence Bakken, High school
manual training instructor, re-
ports that his department is
just about moved into their
quarters in the new vocational
arts building.
Paul Golfers second year art
students, carrying on in their
half-finiShed room at the junior
high, are beginning oil painting.
First year students are learning
the use of color by making pic
lures with confetti and paste.
The sixth period biology class,
mostly sophomores, have been
holding discussions on the ques-
ton, Should primitive areas be
opened to the public?" The top
ic was chosen by the following
committee: Marian Gray, chair
man and moderator; Calvin NC
Laughlin and Verla Prime, sup
porting the affirmative; Betty
Jean Kenny and Robert
Schneider, against the opening.
Another topic will soon be pro-
posed by a new committee.
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HARDIN
SCHOOL NEWS

Friday. Oct. 5 will be a great
day for the sophomoreS. Notice
was served on them last week,
through a placard on the bull
letin board, to get ready for
their Initiation on that day,
followed by the annual mixer
in the evening.
The SophomoreS have been in
structed to appear in caveman
garb, somewhat modified by
such little accessories as tooth
brushes, candy bars and hard
boiled eggs. Both girls and boys
are to wear bone hair orna-
ments and onion necklaces.
Boys must wear shoes which are
not mates. Girls must wear one
high-heeled shoe with a bobby
sock and one loafer with a ny
Ion stocking.
The seniors laid down some
humane rules for themselves:
no paddles over 10 feet long; no
more than three raw eggs to be
forced down sophomore outlets;
liver on string to he admins
tered not more than three times
without a drink of vinegar.
The vocational agriculture
students of the high school met
Thursday, Sept. q, to reestab-
1ish the Big Horn chapter of
Future Farmers of America. The
chanter has heen inactive for a
number of years due to the lack
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of a vocational agriculture de
partment.
Officers elected at the meet
ing were. Ronnie BounouS. pres
ident; Eugene Schaak, vice.
president; Joe Wedel, treasurer;
Leroy KirSchenmann, Secre-
tary; Walter Smith, reporter;
and Jim Wagner, sentinel.
Dean Davidson, vocational ag-
riculture instructor will serve as
advisor. Chapter meetings will
be held the second and last
Thursday evenings of each
month. Each meeting will fea-
ture educational and recreation
al activities.
Future Farmers of America,
commonly known as FLA, is
the national organization. of, by,
and for boys studying vocational
agriculture in public secondary
schools under the provisions of
the National Vocational Educa-
ton act. Its primary aim is the
development of agricultural
leadership, cooperation ana Gu
izenShip. ~
The first meeting of the girls
athletic association was held in
Miss Ann Arnold'S room at the
junior high school Wednesday,
Sept. 26.
Temporary officers were elect
ed by both senior and Junior
high school associations. Gloria
Wolcott is president and Donna
Ellis, secretary for the seniors;
Betty Secrest is president for
the juniors.
The senior group appointed a
committee to write to various
schools to get pointers on the
formation of the association.
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New Book Hos
Locdl Setting

The country Of the Little Big
Horn. the Rosebud, Tongue, and
Powder rivers, in the days when
the Sioux fought the Shoshonls
and the Crows, is the setting
for John q. NeihardtS mover
when the Tree FloWered" pub
lished recently by the Macml-
Ian Co. of New York. The story
tells of the education, adven-
lures, young manhood. and mar
rage of an Oglala Sioux war
rior.
Mr.. Neihardt, born of pioneers
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Evenson 466, Ward 397, dummy
318, dummy 800, totals 1874, 794,
841-2469.
Graham-Staunton - Cook
1872, Link 361, Butorac 1863,
Grubbs 1853, Matovich SIT; totals
669, 854, 772-2495.
Big Horn Dairy - Koebbe Asa,
Dyckman All, Preszler 316,
Fletcher 467, dummy 1888; totals
873, 800, 840-2533.
High individual game - Mat
ovich 223.
High individual series - Mat
ovich SIT.
High team game - Bylund'S
JeWelry 958.
High team series - Bylund's
Jewelrv 5000.
Standings:
Won Lost
Lobby Lounge ...........10 2
Roy Chambers Co. ...... 8 4
Bylund'S JeWelry ...... 6 6
Big Horn Dairy ...... 4 8
administration ...... 4 8
Yergey Apis ........
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DOWNTOWN LEAGUE

Thursday, Sept. 27.
Lobby Lounge-GroSsman 500,
Bigley 343, Kraft 1856, Nayemat-
su 469, M. Davis 458; totals $50,
BIT, 870-2567.
Bylund's Jewelry - Kalberg
1874, Bylund 427, SWindle 467, G..
Davis 421, Tryner $40; totals
$40, 958, 100000.
Roy Chambers Co. - Kuchera
40, Petelin 416, Richmond 419,
Saunders 345, RAIDER 443; totals
866, 842, 802-2510.
Yergey Apis - Weisser AS,
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in 1881, has had many years
acquaintance with Plains In
dams, first living among the
OmahaS as assistant to Indian
traders, then becoming intimate
with the Sioux.
AS a youth he wrote poetry,
later did reporting and short
story writing, and returned to
verse for his epic "a Cycle of
the West" He has been director
Of information (1944-1946) and
field representative (1946- 1948)
for the Office of Indian Affairs
in Chicago.
Chopin gave his first con-
5|L%# Z. EH
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BOWLING NOTES

YEARLING LEAGUE
Standard Seed - Grosskop
1877, Mcfarland 304, Holum 296,
Butler 377, Wilson 253, totals
GIT, 686, 654-2017.
Lobby Lounge - Michael ATS,
Hammer 1854, Koebbe $50, Pack
ard Alt, Dysart SOB; totals IT'S,
780, 827-2385.
Hollyette'S - Staudenmeyer
40, Cochran $50, Kalberg 1856,
Terpening 324, Edwards 1896;
totals 728, 734, 756-2218.
Martins Western Wear - Ar
mold 467, Jones 800, Erickson
24O, Farrar 1926, johnson 420;
totals TAI, 706, 773-2220.
Hardin Market = Zeiler 1888,
Kuchera 361, Taylor 1896, Kat
oaka 1862, Wagner 1874; totals
755, 658, 759-2172. /
AmvetS - Lambert 1888, Kit
telson 260, Goetz 312, Kray $50,
Jacobs $40; totals 784, 666, TIT
-2162. - :@-*@ *"-".
High game - Kay Michaels
1886.
High series - jerry DySart
SOB.
High team game : Lobby
Lounge 827. W.
High team series - Lobby
Lounge 1885.
UPTOWN LEAGUE 4
Monday, Sept. "a
Hardin Club Dornberger
41O, 'Koebbe 1913, Powers Al, B.
Kerrick 564, &C.. Kerrick APT; tot
! ais 754, 1873, 853-2390. .
Standard Seed - Nayematsu
573, Grosskop At, Shirasago
Ais, dummy 465, S. Shirasago
389; totals 1873, 941, 920-2734.
o. x. Barber Shop = Henry
Hardt 440, Woods 345, Drake
| 284, Herman Hardt 378, Evenson
406; totals 800, BIT, 832-2449.
Hardin Lions Club - Moss
461, PitSch 800, w. Alfred 354,
Kuchera 494, collar 400; totals
1888, 1896, 922-2606. =.
Leavitt Cleaners - Easton
494, Carlson 389, Phillips, 1893,
Farrar 462, Michael ATT; totals
| 1863, 856, 816-2535. !
Grow Mercantile = Old Coy
ote t428, Claymore 303, Alfred
| $685. Pilgream 1853 Heres $40;
totals 805, $40, 784-2459.
High individual game Naye-
matSu 226. szz-
High individual series Naye-
matSu 573.
High team game - Standard
Seed Co. GAL.
High team series = Standard
Seed Co. 2734.
Team standings:
Won Lost
Hardin Lions Club ......8 4
Leavitt Cleaners ....8 4
o. K. Barber Shop ...7 5
Hardin Club .........6 8
Standard Seed Co. .....4 8
Crow Mercantile .........3
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
Tuesday, Sept. rs.
Sawyer Stores - COlStad 496,
dummy 387, Morse SIG, Farrar
375. Tryner $50; totals 903, 837,
910E2650.
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era 489, Kline 5S2; totals 1888,
912, 823-2568.
BoWler's Radio - Richmond
464, Painter 383, dummy 438,
Holland $50, Hammer 497; totals
1862, 805, 861-2572.
Holly Sugar Corp. - Card 434,
Cook 413, Edwards, ATS, Samuel
son 1892, RosenoW. 1893; totals 881,
1854, 827-2572.
Aldrich g. Co. - Baker 443,
Flamm 253, Louk 294, MUM 280,
Collar 419; totals 735, 785, 826-
2346.
Coast-to-Coast - Dyche 479,
Morrison 376, Kits 410, Grosskop
IA, Evenson Alt; totals 1874, $50,
816-2510.
High individual game - Kline
High individual series - Kline
$50.
High team game - Kuchera's
Inc. 912.
High team series - Sawyers
Store 1850.
Team standings:
Won Lost
SaWyerS Store ...........13 3
Kuchera'S Inc. .........12 4
Holly Sugar Corp. ........ 8
Bowler's Radio ......
Coast-t Coast ....7 9
Aldrich & Co. commune. IA
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COMMERCIAL LEAGUE

Tuesday, Sept. Is.
Sawyer Stores - ColStad 1876,
dummy 387, Morse 526, Farrar
375, Tryner $50; totals 903, 1877,
910-2650.
Kuchera'S Inc. - SorenSOn
425, Moss 453, Solazzi 373, Kuch-
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Chopin gave his first con-
crt at the age of nine.
Evening star., 1951-03-23
Something Heortening Is in the Air, Too

used the word fear no less than seven
times. Margaret Ward.
cannot conceive of a real American
saying he is afraid. We Americans have
never before been afraid of anything but
doing wrong. N. Taylor.
Facts. prophecy and imagination can
be used with as much justification to
support an optimistic view. Wars are
not won by square miles, nor by mere
millions of population. We can produce
three times more steel than Russia and
all her satellites. and our production of
ships, planes and other equipment is
about in the same ratio. If Russia
should conquer all Europe she could not
hold it against disloyalty and rebellion.
against seething underworld of hatred,
resentment and plotting. waiting only a
signal to blow the lid off. The present
tension is only temporary. Within
few years at most, Russia will have other
rulers and other policies.
George Frederick Miller.
Mr.. Goldberg states: Russia will at
tack swiftly in successive waves. >.
Their successive attacks. therefore. will
get through. just as the fanatic waves
of cheap Chinese lives sweep uncon-
cernedly over the bodies of thousands
Of falling comrades in Korea. They
viii get through because they have
Evening star., 1951-03-23
By Charles E. TroceweU

Some of them have a black color
phase. This is called melanistic.
The black squirrel is just our old
friend, the gray, in special coat.
When you see black squirrel, you
are not seeing things" except in very
good sense for this is beautiful form
of our common old friend of lawns and
parks.
At the other extreme is the albino, or
all-white squirrels.
The latter are much rarer. but usually
there are two or three in and around
Washington. For many years an albino
lived in Georgetown.
Up until the last few months there was
a nearly gray squirrel in the small park
at Vermont avenue and street. We
have not seen it lately.
There are perhaps 500 to 1000 all
black squirrels in and around Wash
ington. with colonies at Mckinley street
and Connecticut avenue. near Arlington
National Cemetery and in Takoma Park.
The black squirrels are regarded with
some suspicion by the regulars, and
usually are chased away, and thus tend
to live by themselves. Whether they
finally revert to the all-gray coloring we
doubt Certainly their children may be
gray, or black, or mixed. ..s
Gray squirrels, including the blacks.
are not inimical to bird life. It is the
red squirrel smaller and more active.
which destroys so many birds and eggs
that many regard it as the No. enemy
of bird life. Without intending to be
cynical, one might suggest that man
deserves that somewhat dubious title as
No. l killer of all life, birds included.
Evening star., 1951-03-23
This and That

where I saw it. had to be little
cautious about this, for when ones
friends and business associates find out
that a person is watching for black
squirrels or squirrels of any color, there
is apt to be some shaking of heads.
Nevertheless. my patience was re-
warded, for in the course of time !
espied two black squirrels near the
same place the first one was seen, and
after all the ribbing I had received
about the first one, l looked at them
very carefully. To all intents and pur-
poses they were genuine squirrels, OF
the same type and size one sees in the
gray form in all of the parks of Wash
ington, and they were scampering
about, sitting up to eat things, and
suddenly and without warning rushing
off and up trees, just like the gray
squirrels do. Only they were quite
black.
Nov a neighbor comes who con-
firms all this, and says, Yes, they are
black - there are two Of them, and we
frequently feed them out on the back
lawn For my own information, and
also for that OF some of my friends
who are worried when man begins
to see black squirrels, what sort of
squirrels are they?"
x*
Black squirrels are the melanistic
form of gray squirrels.
In other words, gray squirrels.
Eastern gray squirrels live from New
York south along the Atlantic seaboard
and as far west as the Great Plains.
There are five sub-species, based on
color characteristics.
Evening star., 1951-03-23
Harp Reverie

Tuned echoes drift to us from Taru's hall
IN dulcet music that the classics knoiD;
Vibrations lue that DGuid stirred for
Saul,
In errant tones that luu and lessen
Doe.
Since Jubal made crude primordial
harp,
The soul OF sound has come and tar
ried long;
We pluck from, uibrant strings, bell-clear
and sharp,
The haunting speetness OF earth's
coSn,ic song.
Before Sanscrit had graced Oellun
page,
Before the Babylonidn gardens ore1o.
In some remote and long forgotten age
Dimnaed by da,0n-nlist in shado,Dy
n,ilieu,
The harp became the choice OF ancient
kings =.
About its melody, aDorld history clings.
Mary Peey Whittoker
Evening star., 1951-03-23
Are black squirrels real?

Are black squirrels real?
Sure, sure!
Writing from Silver Spring, Md, T. N.
puts it this way:
"I have enjoyed your observations in
The Star for long time, and write to
ask if you can enlighten me on puzzling
matter.
For many years the squirrels here
abouts have been the usual gray ones
seen running about on lawns and IN the
parks in this part of the country. and
though the neighborhood has changed
from open farmland to solidly built up
suburban area, such squirrels are very
numerous.
Recently was driving in the vicinity
and noted a black squirrel across the
street in front of me. It was not dark
gray, nor brown It was black, just like
a black cat is black I had never seen
such a squirrel before, and remarked
about it to the family They were some
what amused, remarking that had per-
haps seen a black cat, or possibly q
skunk I began to think after awhile
that perhaps it was not squirrel, and
to wonder what had actually seen.
X
"The matter troubled me little, for
several business acquaintances to whom
/ spoke of it were inclined to be pa
tronizingly sympathetic, suggesting that
when one begins to see strange black
animals running in front of one and
running up trees, some changes in ones
way of living are indicated.
IT began to watch for the little black
animal, as I frequently pass the place