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culin Testing to Begin Here Oneen City Mail VOLUME SPEARFISH, LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938 NUMBER 18 Passenger service on the new Cheyenne to Huron air route was inaugurated from the Black Hills airport yesterday when Jack Krambeck, Lead postmaster, Jack Davis and Harry Imwalle, also of Lead, rode to Rapid City, Jack Davis purchased the first ticket at the Black Hills airport to open the added service. Regular passenger service will continue on the new line to supplement the airmail service which was launched on April 17. Spearfish vs. Trojan Here Sunday With a strong array of talent for the opening game against Trojan, the Spearfish Boosters, Independent baseball team, under the ment of C. W.

"Chet" Worth, have prospecta of an aggregation that will make teams in the Northern Black Hills league keep their fences fixed up to stay in the running. On the pitching staff Manager Worth has lanky Bob "Smoky" Menzel and "Dangerous Danny" Glest, ace twirler for Belle Fourche last season and who went to the Association of South Dakota Baseball leagues' tournament at Aberdeen with Newell. In the receiving columm is Eugene Brooks, named field captain after a practice held last Sunday. The supporting cast will be made up of Glen Gray, Harold "Peanuts" Orr, Paul Coffey, Basil Mink, Walter Dorset, Lloyd McKay, John Dittis, Joe Turgeon, Harold Dodds, Keith Kemper and T. R.

Wilcox. Manager Worth stated after Sunday's practice that he was undecided as to the probable starting lineup against Trojan. The game will be played on the local diamond and will start at 2:30 p. m. Paul Littleton has been selected as umpire for the club.

S. J. Downey in secretary-treasurer. Baseball will be ushered into the Northern Black Hills circuit Sunday when all eight teams in the league start action. Each team will play 14 games during the season.

Spearfish rings up the curtain against Trojan on the local diamond, Newell meets the Orman CCC camp. Deadwood clashes with Whitewood and Belle Fourche opens against Tilford. (Continued on Page Four) Find Picnic Site at Iron Creek Lake Three Passengers on First Flight Otto Uhlig and Alfred Sleep of Spearfish, with forest officers of the Black Hills National forest have made an examination of an area near the lower end of Iron Creek lake for the purpose of constructing a plenic ground which is badly needed in this area. The area proposed by the local men was found satisfactory for a picnic ground by the forest service and present plans are to develop it to a capacity of about 200 picnickers. It is Intended to put in plente tables, fire grates, garbage pita and sanitary facilities.

It is also proposed to drill a well on the camp ground area, which will give a good supply of drinking water. The development of the Iron Creek take is one of the major objectives of the local Chamber of Commerce and the installation of the picnic area will take care of those who desire to KO out for a day's outing. Omaha Boosters Coming Monday Plans are being completed this week to bring the Omaha Boosters and their colorful Negro band to Spearfish Monday morning, followIng their appearance in Belle Fourche the same day. The boosters will come by special train to Belle Fourche where they will entertain residents for about an hour. After that the plans are to bring them to Spearfish in mobiles.

After a parade and other entertainment here they will be driven to Deadwood to rejoin their train. The Chamber of Commerce, which is sponsoring the boosters' trip to Spearfish, is seeking automobiles to transport the Omaha aggregation from Belle Fourche and persons who can provide cars are asked to call or see Joe Fassbender or Walter Dickey, committee In charge of ments. New Cachet Features Local Airmail Week Observance Complies With New Ordinance Gurney, Berry Race in Racing through the field in decisive fashion to poll sufficient votes to keep all nominations out of the convention, winners for state and national offices cleared the primary hurdles Tuesday in a flurry of votes that surprised even veteran political observers. Chan Gurney, vote gathering republican candidate, had little trouble In turning back Governor Leslie Jensen for United States senator and was bothered little by his other opponents--Paul Bellamy and George J. Dantorth--who "also ran." On the democratic side formerGovernor Tom Berry, who said be gave his best horse to Herbert Hitchcock to ride for two years and now wanted him back, submerged Hitchcock and Fred Hildebrandt under a wave of ballots.

Loriks Wins tonal candidate from the first distriet and well -known farm leader, paced a field of six thur Bennett, Mark Scheate, W. L. Chaussee, Mra. Eva Sherbourne and Nathaniel In the west river district the congressional race was settled when Theo. B.

Werner, former holder of the office, led Arthur Watwood, and John P. Everett to oppose Francis Case, republican incumbent who had no opposition, this fall. Karl E. Mundt, republican in the first congressional district, was also unopposed and will face Loriks in the general election. Harlan J.

Bushfield, republican state chairman and gubernatioral nominee, handily disposed of Blaine Simons, and is pitted against Oscar Foshiem for the fall tussle. Pomhelm eclipsed Mancell W. Peterson who failed to provide lively com- First 4-H Rally Day Here May 14 Plans for the first Lawrence county girls 4-H club rally day, to be held at the high school gymnasium here May 14, were announced this week by Evelyn Aalseth, Lawrence- Penning county home extension agent. The program, which will be under the direction of Miss Aniseth. will consist of 4-H club songs by the group, games of the organization and talks by Frieda R.

Schroder, county home agent, and County Agent Carl Entorf. The event marks the beginning of the most active period of 4-H club work for the year and precadey 4-H batp and juGging days. Broad Athletic Program at Local School Coach H. A. "Art" Sullivan, high school athietie mentor, has a full program of activities for high school and grade boys this spring with football, track and diamondball taking up the spare time of nearly 75 youths after school.

Sullivan 1s assisted by Joe Rygg who handles the diamondball workouts. Approximately 40 boys have been reporting four times a week for spring football, but Coach Sullivan said he was unable to determine: yet the possibilities of developing an agwill be left by graduation this spring. gregation to fill the huge gaps that Track is worked in with football and some boys report for both sports. Track, a minus sport at the local high school for several years, has been revived and Sullivan plane" to send six boys, which comprise the squad at present, to Belle Fourche to the Northern Black Hills tional meet on May 6. The boys competed in it meet at Rapid City Saturday.

Cellar Wall Forms Nearly Completed Construction work 00 the municipal building. a WPA project bore, is moving along in good shape, ports from Andrew I. Payne, foreman, Indicate. Concrete work in the foundation has been finisned and the forms for the cellar walls will be completed by the end of the week, Payne said. The building.

which will be a twostory structure built of native stone, will house the fire fighting equipment, city jail, police headquarters, Justice court, water department office, offices for the city attorney, auditor and treasurer, council meetInK room and a large community ball. The pilasters will be faced with chipped stone and the wall will be constructed of quarry run rubble. Thirty -six men are employed on this shift, Payne stated. Delegates Report on Meeting Reports on the state meeting of the AAUW at Rapid City were given last night by Gretta Cocking and Margaret Bridge, Spearfish Normal instructors, delegates to the convention, at a meeting held at he YWCA room at the Normal last night. Mrs.

Grace Balloch, upon request, repeatthe talk she gave at the Black Hills Federtion of Women's clubs at Belle Fourche last week. Hostesses were Helen MIldred Kamman and Mrs. Balloch. Refreshments were served at the close of the meeting. May 5 Blizzard Took Huge Livestock Toll in 1905 It was just 33 years ago today that the memorable May blizzard wrote a tale of death and devastation across the pages of ranch life in the west river country.

Striking at a time when cattle and horses had just shed their winter conta, the blizzard took the greatest toll of any storm in the range history of the state. 10b Jones, pioneer South Dakota cowboy, rancher, government scout and guide, now living at Whitewood. was ranching south of Dupree at the time and recalla some of the edies of the "The storm began with a rain. which lasted two days," Jones said. This turned to snow on the third day and finished with a regular old South Dakota blizzard." Heavy Snow About 18 Inches of snow fell and the creeks were filled with water.

Stock. seeing nothing but snow. drifted with the storm and floundered Into the creeks where they died in bunches in a watery grave, Many that didn't perish in the creeks froze to death when the thermometer bogganed to zero. "Some of my cattle tried to come home, hit my fence and drifted along Into Bear creek near my ranch. 1 found 30 head of good white face cattle in one waterhole and also lost 30 head of saddle and work horses.

The horses drifted into a corner of the fence and froze to death." There were lots of fences on the Cheyenne River reservation then. inasmuch as the cattlemen had leased the reserve and had divided it Into four pastures 24 miles square. Rolando, Stewart, Cooper Win From the heap of 11 candidates seeking the office of Lawrence coupy sheriff, Greg "Scotty" Stewart, Deadwood, and Bam Rolando, Lead, emerged as the succersful republican and democrat choices, respectively, for the general election this fall in a primary Tuesday that drew unusual interest in all parts of the area. Clarence P. Cooper, Lead, piled up comfortable piurality for states attorney on the republican tickes against Francis J.

Parker, Deadwood and W. Ward Wyman, Deadwood. Helen Maleta Sarich, Lead, and Laura Pascoo Bentz, Deadwood, were the two high runners for county superintendent and their paines will appear on the non- political ballot this fall. They shaded George Green, Spearfish, and Lucille Mossing Kirtland, Spearfish, in the race. Fred M.

Reausaw, Roubaix, recelved the republicao nomination tor assessor, defeating Alfred Jatko and Carl Heutzenroeder, both of Roubaix. Republican Returns In Edwin Chase, Lead, won the re publican nomination for constable over Robert M. Shipp, Lead. C. 8.

Hardin, Deadwood, was named by the republicans as county justice of the peace by polling a wide margin over Dick Costello, Deadwood. Dr. A. S. Jackson, Lead, won the republican nomination for coroner over Dr.

H. E. Davidson, Lead. Generally speaking the total vote In Spearfish ran true to the county and state returns with candidates who won out getting a plurality in the local precincts. County returns on the republican side were complete yesterday, but the democratic vote was given on a basis (Continued on page six.) Council Names Officers Albert Clark, third ward man, was elected president of the city council and Elmore Wolzmuth was named vice- president at a meet106 of the board Monday night.

M. F. Driskill was reappointed city audItor by the councilmen and George D. Blake was renamed treasurer. Other officers named by Mayor E.

Russell and approved by the council were William Langhoff, water intendent; T. R. Wilcox, city attorney; A. H. Jefferson, city marshal; and Alex Waugh, William Langhoff and R.

L. Todd, special police. Committees for the coming years are a8 follows: Finance, Wolzmuth, Tasto, Me nard; fire and police, Tasto, Clark, Heimrick; improvements, Menard, Tasto, Clark; streets and walks, Thompson, Clark, Menard; park; Clark, Tasto, Helmrick. Ordinance, Menard, Wolzmuth, Thompson; lights and water, Heimrick, Clark, Wolzmuth; board of health, Thompson, Tasto, Menard; building permits, Tasto, Sleep, Wolzmuth. Routine business and the monthly digest of bills took up the remainder of the meeting Monday night.

Cap, Gown Benefit Party May 14 A dance, floor show and game tournament will be given in the Spearfish normal gymnasium and the YWCA rooms by the sophomore class and upper classmen under the direction of Millie Heidepriem, instructor in English at the normal, on Saturday, May 14, beginning at 8 D. 111. The dance and tournament will be given for the purpose of raising money to purchase caps and gowns for the graduating class. Bridge, chess, cribbage and an assortment of other games will afford amusement for ones who do not attend the dance. The dance will be held in the gymnasium and the games will be played in the YWCA rooms.

Miss Heidepriem stated that 35 cents would be charged for persons attending the dance singly and 50 cents for couples. The charge for participating in the games will be 25 cents. Dr. R. M.

Buck, Belle Fourche veterinarian, tomorrow will make tuberculin tests of all dairy herds from which milk is dispensed in Spearfish, It was announced today at the office of Carl Entorf, Lawrence county agent. The test is in compliance with City Ordinance No. 79 making It "unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to dispose of or use milk or cream for human consumption within the city of Spearfish until the cattle from which such milk or cream is obtained have satInfactorily passed a physical examination including a tuberculin test known as the Intradermal test recognized by the United States bureau of animal industry and the South Dakota division: of animal industry and a copy of such health and tuberculin test chart has been filed with the city auditor in the city of Spearfish." "It la Dr. Buck's opinion that all in the dairy herd, including heifer calves six weeks old or over, sires. should be tested." Entorf said, but added his office would not decide the point.

Instead it will be up to the Individual producer to indicate the cattle In his herd to be tested. The first test will be made row starting at 8 a. and will finish sometime in the afternoon. Dairymen are urged to have their herds in barns on their respective places. Dr.

Buck will return Tuesday, May 10, to make a retest and will follow the same schedule then as tomorrow. The order of visits by the veterinarian is as follows. H. W. Perkins, Harve Sachau, I.

H. Cundy, Harold E. Miller, William Stroschein, J. H. Lammars, H.

H. Floyd, W. G. Walton, Harry Baker, Haas Krinklaw, E. S.

Sampson, Emmet Alleman, E. H. Sherman, Joe E. Running. Chris Braastad, William H.

Ferguson, 81 Downey, Sam Barlean, A. H. Jefferson, Fred Langhoff. Pearle Hanson Dies After Long Illness Pearle Hanson, 23-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Hanson of Spearfish, died at her home at 7:20 o'clock Sunday evening after an illness of about two years. Although she had been chronically 111 for a long period, she took a sudden turn for the worse only two days before her death. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church here at 3 p. m. today.

The Rev. R. H. Miller will have charge of the rites and burial will be in Spearfish cometery. Miss Hanson was born at Coal Springs, 8.

Aug. 29, 1914, and moved with her parents to Bison a short time later. In 1925 the family moved to Spearfish where they have lived since that time. Mias Hanson attended the Spearfish schools and was graduated from high school in 1932. Surviving relatives Include her parents; three sisters, Mrs.

William Soper of Belle Fourche, Mardie Hanson of Minneapolis and Carol Jane at home: three brothers, Lester of Boring. Clarence of Kennewic, and Milford of Spearfish. Hugo Sparks Weds Homestake Employe Hugo Sparks of Spearfish and Kenneth Anderson of Lead were married Thursday morning of last week at Lead at the home of Judge Harold Shea. The bride, who has made her home in Spearfish for the past five years with Mr. and Mrs.

James Williams, is graduate of Spearfish high school. She attended business school at Rapid City this winter and recently returned to Spearfish. The bridegroom is an employe of the Homestake mining company. He 18 a son of Mrs. Carrie Anderson of Lead.

He and his bride have rented an apartment in Lead where they plan to make their home. They visited in Spearfish Saturday at the Williams home. Noted Pianist to Appear Tomorrow The concert by Jerold Frederic, noted young pianist. which had to be postponed from April 7 because of his being snowbound at Vermillion, will be given at Spearfish Normal school Friday, May 6, at 8:15 p. m.

This is the last number of the artiste' course for the year. H. P. MacPherson, editor of the Sundance Times, and son, Jed, visited in Spearfish last Saturday. He reported Mormon cricket hordes are getting ready for a fresh campaign of devastation.

There are "a hundred times as many 88 last year," MacPherson sald. They are yet small and are kept out of the town by a tin fence on the north and west sides. TIONAL AIR MAIL WEEK MAY 0- 0 4 8 00 SH, S. Spearfish's Airmail Week Cachet Highway 85 Road Job Awarded The long awaited dustless road between Spearfish and Deadwood became a virtual reality last week when the state highway commission 4 awarded the contact for reconstructing 5.788 miles of road on U. 8.

Highway 85 between Deadwood and State Highway 24 southeast of Spearfish. The contract was awarded to A. Guthrie and Company, Paul for $82.821.13 or at the approximate cost of $16,000 a mile, one of the most expensive stretches of road undertaken by the highway department in several years. The road will be regraded, widened, curves flattened out and the entire work done according to the specifications of the bureau of public roads. Plan for Oiling Later a gravel base course will be added in preparation for final oiling.

The state highway department, under the direction of P. H. Norris of Belle Fourche, resident engineer, cently completed surveys for similar work on U. S. Highway 14 west of Spearfish to the Wyoming line.

Work on the -Spearfish road will begin in about 30 days. H. H. McCrary, Rapid City, a member of the state highway commission, announced. The contractor for the work is allowed 20 days in which to file a bond covering the contract after which work may start at any time.

With the slogan, Airmail Letter Every Day for Every Citizen," organIzations and individuals served by the Black Hills airport will join the state and nation in observing National Airmail week, May 15 to 21. Among the features arranged for the week in the local community is the unique Spearfish cachet which will be stamped on every airmail letter leaving this office during the period. The cachet, which was designed by Mrs. Mildred Menard, L. E.

Hagstrom, E. C. Coleman and James P. 0'- Neill as a special committee by the Commercial club, the Black Hille, an airplane skies overhead, while at the the Hills la a fish impaled by to represent Spearfish. Inasas there is only one Spearfish United States and perhaps in world, distinction is added to the shows in the foot of spear much in the the design.

che each ture cities. either for at Rapid Plans Clyde potr fly to special up week. airmail Lawrence for master postmaster Airmail postoffice 20th flight. first New made flew 80 cruising Boeing air ged to during friends cachet mail and will for letters Pickup Service Planned Deadwood, Lead and Belle Fouralso will have special cachets, of which will represent a feacharacteristic of the respective Mrs. Menard won a free trip to Minneapolis or Cheyenne designing the cachet to be used City.

have been made to have Ice, radio operator at the airand veteran South Dakota pilot, adjoining towns not having messenger service and pick airmail on one day of airmail Chairmen of county committees for week are John Krambeck for county and D. D. Adams Butte county. Krambeck is postat Lead and Adams assistant at Belle Fourche. week, sponsored by the department, marks the anniverasry of the first airmail It was on May 15, 1918, the trip was made-218 miles from York to Washington.

It WAs in two relays. Planes then miles an hour and now the speed of the 10-passenger liners used by the Wyoming service is 180 miles an hour. Residents of the local area are ursend all possible mail by air airmail week and to ask their to send them letters. The which will be used during airweek will never be used again afford the only opportunity patrons of the airport to send bearing the special stamp. Achievement nent Day Here on June 11 Home Extension Clubs Will Display Work Completed During Past Year The annual home extension achlevement day will be held at Matthews opera house in Spearfish on June 11, Evelyn Aalseth, Rapid City, Pennington -Lawrence county home agent, announced this week.

Achievement day is held each for the purpose of displaying to the public work accomplished by home extension clubs in various communIties. There are 29 individual clubs in Lawrence county with approximately 400 members. Each club will prepare a booth to represent some topic relating to home extension work. There will be a knitting exhibit, clothing exhibit, display of secretary's books, general exhibit and other attractions. In the clothing booth anyone may exhibit a dress or other garment, especially ones that have some distinct feature.

Will Hold Style Revue A style revue will be held in connection with the event and will con- sist of home constructed dresses, modeled by extension club women. Entertainment will consist mainly of a pageant depicting the life and loves of an old bachelor. The bachefor part, which will be played by Walter Campbell of Deadwood, will show the various types of "girl friends" the bachelor has had in his life. Each extension club will have charge of one character in the eant and each will be dressed to represent the type of girl she la intended to portray. Appropriate music will bear out the theme of the pageant.

The sponsoring clubs and each girl character portrayed are as follows: Barefoot girl, Whitewood town club; car riding girl, Queen City club; swimming girl, Lookout club; skating girl, Upper Valley club; tennis girl, Pine Crest club; bicycle girl, Roubaix club; office girl, Nemo school teacher, Lower valley club; (Continued on Page Four) The late Gene Holcomb, one of the big cowmen in the early days near Rapid City, was moving some 2000 three and four-year-old steers and several hundred horses to a summer range near Dupree. The wagon was camped on Bear creek about three miles south of Dupree (which was not founded then) with Severt Holly in charge. The riders held the herd through the two days of rain but when the blizzard started they had to turn them loose. Break Through Fences "Those big steers." Jones said, "started south, crossed Little Bear creek, went right through all the fences they came to and drifted into the Cheyenne river brakes. They left a trail that could be seen for 10 years.

In spite of this only a few got into waterholes and drowned and the loss was not great." "The horses did not fare so well. 1 saw 118 of them in one pile just north of Bear creek across from the McGarraugh ranch ch about a mile from Dupree and I belleve that at least 200 of them died within 10 miles of the present town." Hundreds of blinded critters drifted over the Bad Lands wall, south of the present town of Wall, where they plunged to the bottom and perished by the hundreds. When the snow melted the grim fury of the blizzard was unfolded. Many of the cattle and horses that floundered over the cliff remained alive for two or three days, but could not be tracted when found. The storm.

Jones said, was the worst he ever saw. It reached from the North Dakota line to the ka line. I O. R. Gilbert Recalls Fire at Roundhouse in 1900 (By O.

R. Gilbert) Some time ago somebody wrote an article setting forth the idea that he had a good memory because he rated a circumstance in his own experience some fifty years ago and gave dates and even the hour when this certain thing happened. It was published in a local Black Hills paper and I'm sure recalled things and Incidents and names that might otherwise be forgotten. It recalled to my mind that 38 years ago on the 20 of April, 1900, the fire bell In the old tower at Spearfish rang out at 9:30 p. m.

and that clarion call to immediate action is still vivid in my memory for it sounded the dismai and definite finale to my antieipated railroad career. Last of Old The Spearfish round house was hopelessly on fire and "Old the pride of Bill Hamilton, Jim Holden, Sam Tillet. Leonard Metz and myself, WAS inside "wheezing" peacefully after it's final run down that wonderful Spearfish canyon. Being the lone custodian and erstwhile "wiper" of that massive 80-ton mountain clumber, I had "worked the injector" AS long as sufficient steam pressure would function and then filled the boiler and tank plumb full of cold water from the hydrant, blew out the torch, locked the front door and went home. At 9:30 the fire alarm sounded and the 10 p.

m. sharp the roof fell in and some roof timber in some manner landed on the whistle valve and in that burning cauldranie inferno old "256" was making steam faster than Leonard Metz ever made steam shoveling coal into the fire box climbing the mountain to Crown H111. Whistle Blows If anyone in Spearfish didn't hear the fire bell that night they heard the whistle and came down to the roundhouse to join the crowd. All the pent -up energy contained in all (Continued on page five).