More Early Newspaper Notes 1922-23

Nov. 10
Peter Guardipee burned to death in his tent at Old Agency. Cold weather.
Willow Creek cemetary surveyed and all graves plotted.
The “Roosevelt Highway,” which will go through Marias Pass, seems to be working out.

Eleanor Houk graduated from Salem High School in Oregon iin 1920. She is the first Indian to attend the University of Oregon. She also attended Carlisle until it was abolished. She sings, dances, debates, and is active in athletics. She won several oratorical contests in High School She is “the picture of life and health, full of enthusiasm and energy.”
Editorializing by the Salem, Oregon, Exchange : “It is not the usual thing for the Indians to have a desire for college education when they have the lifelong support and protection of the government and the reservation. While Indians use a great deal of war paint during their festivals and games, Miss Houk states that she has noticed a number of white girls who use warpaint most of the time, festival or no festival.”

Nov. 17
Story about the Heye Museum of the American Indian. Includes a complete Indian tree burial -- the tree WITH the body! (died 1886) plus 1,800,000 relics. Heye said he was driven by the need to discover whether Indians came over the Bering Straits or whether they evolved from some sub-human species on this continent. [This is the collection that became the National Museum of the American Indian on the mall in Washington, D.C., just recently opened.]

Nov. 24
School report by Gladys Anderson. 3rd grade perfect attendance: Charles Powell, James Welch, Millie Arnoux, Wilma Burd. Best students: Edith Willets and Jack Moller.
Vol. 2 #2 of Etumoe published on mimeo.

Dec. 1
Charles Marceau found frozen to death between Birch Creek and Heart Butte.
O.A. Tellifero, formerly with the Sherburne Merc at Glacier Park, is now with Pierce and Crowder grocery.

Dec. 8
Notice of sale: Inherited and Noncompetent Indian land on Jan 31, 1923

Dec. 22
Little WR Hosed Jr. aged 4 yrs died of spasmodic croup

Dec. 29
Willits is running the New England Hotel.
OA Tellifero has gone to Eureka to work for a big merc. store.
“Mrs. Malcolm Clarke, accompanied by her three youngest children, departed Wednesday for Lapwai, ID, where she has secured a position at the government sanitarium. Her eldest daughter, Cecille, will remain here and finish the present term of school, having secured accomodations at the dormitory.
Mildred May White died of scarlet fever on Dec. and was buried privately because of contagion.

1923

Jan 12, 1923
Dead: Virginia Big Top 9 mo. (Father is Wallace Big Top)
Isabel Virginia Monroe 10 days, [probably daugher of]
Mary Wolverine Monroe 25 years (Louie Monroe’s wife)

Feb. 2
Browning Merc “making an attractive improvement in the front part of the store.” [T.E. Scriver had just received a modest estate from his father who had died in Clarenceville, Quebec.]
Cecil Rush (James is his father) died at home of pneumonia.

Feb. 9
Dead: Great, Great grandmother Mary Hamilton, Edith Willits, George Whitegrass.

March 9
Dead: Frederick Last Star (18 days) son of Theodore Last Star
Mary Many Hides (9 mo) (Father is Robert)

March 16
Old Kipp building being moved to 3rd and D by OG Van Senden.
Mting at Gobert’s Hall about highways. [Gobert’s hall was built by a group of investors as a gymnasium for the newly popular basketball games. Gobert gradually bought out the others. It eventually burned.]
Speakers: Richard Sanderville, Sam Bird, George Starr, Jim Whitecalf, Charlie Reevis, Black Weasel, Two-Guns Whitecalf, Owen HeavyBreast, Split Ears, and others.
Mt. Chief Oil Co. Levi J. Burd, president. Commencing to drill.
John Prescott Sharp sent to New Shriner’s Hospital in Minneapolis as the first patient. Motorcade, band, and newsreel. Age 12. “My granddaddy lives at Browning, MT., and he is 96 years old and he says he is going to live to see me walk and he is, too.” Father, Wm. Sharp, is the farmer at Boarding School.

March 23
“The Babb School has enrolled Aleen Henkel and Teddie Burns, which brings the enrollment up to 27. At this rate next year we might easily see a 2 room school here.”
Big story on Gutzon Borglum’s Confederate memorial carved into the mountain. It was never finished.
Recipe for Snow Pudding: 1 T gran. gelatin, 1/4 C. cold water, C boiling water, 3/4 C sugar, 1/4 C lemon juice, 3 egg whites.
Drilling reports on individual wells.

March 30
Mtn. Chief -- Milk River Dome formation indicates oil.
Wades in the Water is an elder of the Presbyterian Church

April 13
Local commercial club addressing the proposed redirection of the road: TE Scriver, ER Gobert, WE Hagerty, HC Willits, JL Sherburne. [This matter is still suggested. It last flared up in the Sixties and was stopped by the presence of an Indian burial ground where the new highway was proposed.]
Moses Yellow Owl died -- a first grader. Mrs. Joseph Magee’s brother.

April 20
2 years into Superintendent Campbell’s 5 year plan. 30 chapters, 12 families each

April 27
Chapter news -- competitions: how many eggs, earliest calf
Town of Ringling “making rain.”
List of the1st Mason, 1st Rancher, 1st nurse, etc. All passings noted.
Big Stockman’s Trading Co. ad. (No BMC or Sherb M)

May 4
Bullcalf Chapter on Cut Bank
Women’s auxiliary: Mrs. Rosa Sharp, Pres.; Mrs. George Goss, VP; Mrs. Jack Heavyrunner, Sec.
Interest in gardens and chickens.
59 miles of road paved -- $550,000 -- between Birch Creek and Browning (31 miles) betw. Charlo & Glacier Park 28 mi. All that’s left unpaved is 25 miles between Bynum and Birch Creek.

May 11
Chapter news: plowing, chicks
Annual graduation: Helen Gorden, Gussie Hunsberger, Margaret Carberry, and Dan Hagerty.

June 8
Joseph Culbertson, son of Alexander, died.
Dawson -- Merkle Gusher oil well.

June 15
Mt. Chief Well gets first oil.
Story on Alexander Culbertson and how the winter of 1858 was the most severe ever.
Willets is proprietor of New England Hotel.

July 20
Skeleton of moose & man with jammed gun found -- old Sharps indicates age.
Land claims

June 27
Surveying for the Whitney Gallery in Cody

Aug 10
Harding dies.
Stockman’s is bought out.

Aug 24,
A shootout in an “up-town store.” No details.

Aug 31
Carr Bros now have the New England Cafe

Sept. 7
Mr. Carberry hurt while starting the RR pump engine. Margaret came from college to care for him.

Sept 14
Mr. Housington and Doug Gold propose a band.

Sept. 21
George Bird Grinnell in town.
Acct. of Baker Massacre prompted by lockjaw death of Herbert Gillem. His grandmother was Mrs. Jack Miller, who survived as a baby in a snowdrift.