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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Warren Spend 50* Christmas in Butte - ■ ••• I I I jr - ■V ; SBj ■ ; ii , m ft I ' -, f •■CX ». im * MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH WARREN Mr and Mrs Joseph Warren, have been celebrating Christmas in Butte more than 50 years Mr. Warren came to Butte in 1886, while his wife came u, im -Christmas was a sacred day then." said Mr Warren "It wasn't commer clalized like it is now, and as for a «ood~ time I think we had more real enlovment than the younger genera tion'does today." i Mr. Warren, who is a native of Cornwall England, said that singing ' of Christmas carols played a promt rent part in celebrating the yule sea-; son when he was a young Butte miner, "A group of us would get together about 10 days before Christmas and practice up on our carol singing," he said. "Then on Christmas eve, we] would go from house to house in the community and serenade those inside, We were alwavs invited in for a few minutes of Christmas festivity and rc freshments. Intoxicants were out of the question and no one ever thought of such a thing as getting drunk." Christmas day saw reunions of fam Hies and a gathering of the various clans. Tc v-n«. Mr Warren left Cornwall in 1884 nncl came to America. He stopped only briefly in New York and pushed on ] tn R-ikersfieid Calif where he hoped to geta jobas Î ranchhand Instead he took a job as a helper in a board-j ing house where he remained for a year leaving for Helena where he had | a brother He arrived in Helena a j few days prior to the opening of the | Grand Central hotel, said to have been the finest hotel west of Denver at that time. He got a job working m , the hotel and witnessed the grand ; opening. A little later he went to work ; at the Gloucester mine (pronounced) Glouster) and in 1888 went to Butte. He got a job as ropeman at the Moun tain View mine and has been there pvpr ejnee hping employed now as a sf Ä e was75yearsofage Sept. 28 asc. Just Out! A Source Book •In— Geology By K. P. Mather, Professor of Geol ogy, Harvard University, and 8. 1* Mason, Geologist. 702 Pages—Illustrated $ 5.00 This book gives a comprehensive view of the development of geol teal science daring the past four centuries, in the language of the men who have molded geological thought, and with the original «täte ments of many Important prin ciples and theories. This is the only book In English giv ing convenient access to these care fully selected writing* in their orig inal form. Montana Oil & Mining Journal Supply Department Great Palls, Moatana t Natural Gas Service 3 EFFICIENT! I ECONOMICAL! DEPENDABLE! I Our company is furnishing this splendid fuel to 50 communities in four northwestern states through more than 1,000 miles of high-pressure pipeline. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. B GREAT FALLS, MONTANA Mrs. Warren came to Butte with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ham. ui 1883. She was born at Calumet, Mich. Her parents moved first to Vir ginia City, Nev., and to Butte shortly after. -The Butte hill was dotted with boarding houses in those days," said Mrs. Warren. "There were hundreds of miners to be fed. Very few were mar ried. My mother had no intention of starting a boarding house but got into the business by request. It came about this way: When my family arrived in Butte they found several old friends who had boarded with us in Calumet and they all liked my mother's cook ing. So they prevailed on her to take them in as boarders." Meets Future Wife i Speaking of the matter of Christmas| caroling, Mr. Warren said that is how : he met his future wife. "1 met her one night when we were singing out -1 .cjj e a house where she was visiting." | h c explained. "The group was invited; -aside and we had a jolly evening. We were married a year later." Mr. Warren said the Mountain View m j ne w as Boston & Montana company property when he went to work there ' as a cableman. He later was placed in charge of that department. Mr. and Mrs. Warren are the par ents of three children, one of whom. Joseph Warren Jr., is cashier at the Consolidated railway ticket office in the Owsley block. The other two are Mrs, Ernest Hodge, who lives with her husband in Centerville, not far from the home of her parents, while the third, Mrs. Austin Mahan, is living with her husband and two children n California. Joseph Warren Jr., is married and lives with his wife and two children at 17 Harrison avenue, Meaderville. -- î> - nr i/iAnn 11TIÏF1 4 HP DFlYll? Il U/UL \ I IlLAAliiJL? Il llxJiV 1 _ _ _ _ "CROP FORESEEN LilVl 1 1 ! Ml planting ot winter wheat, ett j readme 1.460.000 acres indicates a record Montana harvest in 1941 ac cording to the federal agricultural marketing service. Seedings of winter rye will be small ' er than average. J - G. Diamond senior statistician, : continued in his report.-, , Increased winter wheat acreages in recent years have been accompanied ; by a downward trend in spring seed ings. During the 10-year period, 1928 i to 1937. winter wheat seeded acreage represented but 26.3 percent of the spring wheat acreage, In 1940 It rep 1 resented 44.3 percent and m 1941 will likely exceed 50 percent. ! Reasons for the shift include the, ] better average yields per acre for win- i ! ter wheat as compared with spring , wheat and changes in tillage practices j j and machinery which have resulted1 In 1 an extension of winter wheat territory. | Winter w liest acreage tnls fail snoT\s : an exceptionally good stand of grain ; with the crop condition at 91 percent) ° f TWs rm fSure has been exceeded only three times since 1915. Severe drouth conditions In the I spring for unusual winter damage | j could upset the present favorable pros- ! pects, Diamond said. -<s>- ! . a true friend's love Is to be estimated not so much by what he gives but | i rather by what he gives up for an -1 1 other. I FALL PLANTING INDICATES LARGE ACREAGE SEEDED IN STATE 1940 CHRISTMAS MERRY ONE FOR DILLON RANCHER EYESIGHT IS RESTORED AFTER 18 YEARS IN THE DARK Christmas day was a merry one for C. E. Barnes, 66-year-old billon rancher. He was able to see for the first time in 18 years the glowing, rhrtÄ? f tr^ d J?fh rZ, ^5 °™ e f hristmas tree with red, green, yel ow and blue lights Instead of feeling the prickly, sticky Xmas of evergreen, cool with ornament* and hot with globes which his fin gers might accidentally touch. And he will see those neighbors whose voices he knows so welL More than seeing Christmas; more than looking again at his faithful wife who has guided him through those dark 18 years; more than seeing his new home for the first time, or reading newspapers, magazines and books, he wants to see to write his. name. That "C. E. Barnes" in flowing, ink Is the outstanding thing in the world to him, now. Thursday, Nov. 7, was as important a date as Christmas to Barnes. That oper eft eye was the day Dr. L. G. Dunlap ated on the cataract over his 1« at an Anaconda hospital. A few days ■aU'r, when the bandage was removed, Barnes, almost unbelievingly, saw the doctor the firrt person he had seen with his eye since 1922. Next he saw his wife happy-faced, her blue eyes glowing like stars under her white hair, "You got older since I saw you last," Barnes said. , . But it was not as simple as just an operation for cataract removal. His right eyes vision faded 45 years ago after a ranch accident. He lived then j with one eye and had the reputation | among ranchers of the Big Hole basm of seeing more with his one eye than j they did with both theirs. Then h_ slowly lost the sight in his lef. eyei from the growth bel.eyed to have started after he received a bump oni his eye. . Barnes learned to see with ms fingers, feeling familiar objects at the ranch, following his dogs to the barn ( to milk the cows as best he could. One ; of his dogs was killed by a car That, wax as ba#>a; losing his eyesight. His wife ctü. his meat and helped ] him eat. took him by the arm on visits : to cities, searching for someone to ' he!p him. Side by side, they went to Portland. Kansas City, Milwaukee and other places. . . - On one of their many trips of hope through the years, Barnes and his wife came to Dr Dunlap. But the doctor told him there was rm imme diate remedy. Somehow Barnes had suffered an injury to his left eye which caused a tubercular condition to develop But Dr Fr^ank TerrUl at the state tuberculosis hospital at Galen agreed to treat the eye in the hope pf saving it So. aga:in s:ide by side Ba mes and his wife made the 186-mile round trip from Dillon to Galen regularly for 13 months. He received treatment. His eye strengthened so that Dr. Dunlap was ready now to operate, I am learning to Iook a^aln, ä where he was waiting for glasses tc help him see to write his name. guess leg. When you lose your sight so long, you have to leam to see again just like the man with a broken leg has to leam to walk when he gets well," gf™"„ c " id at in s "La" "" ™' S ean f( , cd Mrs. Barnes stated proud i y "He sure is different, He act ** ^appy" she j 0 ked with ^ ow he cjidn't know his neighbors the other day until he heard their voices; how he i oved to look at the stars at night; how he went all over their ra nch home where they moved a few, yea rs ago and which he now saw for the first time. -The house was better looking than j thought," Barnes interrupted. His wife told how he looked at the Metlen hotel in Dillon and said that was the pnly building that looked the same, that all the others had changed, she said he liked the color in the new ca rs. "They were all black before," Barnes ga i d A few days ag0 , when someone asked a Dillon resident if he knew C. E. hg was asked "Do vou mean the old b]ind manr ' tol( j of this, Barnes laughed, »aying, "I can see all right now." her husband about --- - ■ » —m——■—***—*'"——■ If it's TEXACO THEN YOU KNOW IT'S A RELIABLE PRODUCT OF HIGH GRADE UNIFORM QUALITY TEXACO PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Pule Oita Black Oils Red Oils Floor Oils Waxes Asphalts Road Oils Asphalt Cens sot Pipe Coaring Roofing Roofing Paper Roofing Cement Insulated Texaco Motor Oita Insulated Havoline Motor Oita Engine Oils Signal Oils Dynamo Oils Machine Oita Cylinder Oils Cylinder Stocks Car Oils Greases Cup Greases Gear Greases Gear Lubricants Axle Grease Wire Rope Lubricants THE TEXAS COMPANY SUHURST, SOIT»»» Producers of Gasoline from Montana Crude Exclusively Office» in All Principal Otic• A LEADER IN EVERY FIELD Fire-Chief Gasoline Sky-Chief Gasoline Kerosene Fuel Oita Bunker Oils Diesel Oils Miners' Oils Gas Oils Distillates Spindle Oils f fcfj» DEER LODGE PAIR WED SIXTY YEARS PIONEER MONTANA COUPLE HOLD MANY ENVIABLE RECORDS IN TREASURE STATE Married in Deer Lodge Dec. 23, 1380, at St. James' Episcopal Church; Were Second Couple Married in That Church; Have Resided in Same Home All But 8 Months of Life. Sixty years of being happily married will be the remarkable , reached by Mr. and Mrs. M arvin W. Trask, well known and beloved pioneer residents of Mon tena an £ Deer Lodge, Monday, Dec . 23 Mr. and Mrs. Trask were married in Deer Lodge at St. James' Episcopal church Dec. 23, 1880 The y were the second coifpie to ^ married in the church. Rev. H c Hutching officiated. Attendants were Miss Annie Lawson and W illiam Hawley, both of whom have since passed away, Mrs Trask came to Montana in 1870 J i ) : r . :■ ■ || » ■ & II Ü Mm'? » ' I Ik ■>. \ m m ■ «v MS » m 1 k. ■ ■4 . > as he put on his hat and left the doctor's office, Barnes went down the hall his wife beside him. She offered her'arm as was her habit lor nearly 20 years. games courteously lifted her hand from his elbow. He could see the way. now. There were the stairs a little to the left. Outside he saw a blue car g 0 by. "They sure make them pretty now, he murmured. T hen he got in the front seat of their truck in which they made so many trips. His wife took the drivers seat. . , . "Well. goodby." he said, waving his hand. "It's going to be a nice Chrlst mas now/» MR. AND MRS. MARVIN W. TRASK and Mr. Trask arrived here the previ ous year. In addition to the distinction of re maining married for over half a cen tury, Mr. and Mrs. Trask have resided in their present home all but the first eight months of their marriage. At first the comfortable Trask home was little more than a cabin and frame addition, but as they worked together in the early years of their marriage they built the present house. Mrs. Trask has many of her wedding pres ents, Including lovely old vases of rare design and coloring unattainable in shops these days and silver and glass ware which would be a delight to a of lovely things. Mrs. Trask the articles throughout the collector has used years and their condition speaks well of her excellent housekeeping. Another distinction which th enjoys Trask ing the owner and operator of the same hardware business. He is recog nized as the oldest hardware dealer m the United States in point of active service. The store is still one of Deer Lodge's largest business houses and is operated by Mr. Trask and his two sons. Warren and Prank, both of whom have been with their father for the past 30 years and more. Mr. and Mrs. Trask have taken an have called the trail over which the race was run the "Course des Femmes." An interesting legend that Judge Irvine was fond of telling related to Medicine Tree Hill, the first large hill above the old McCarty bridge on Hell Gate river, and a well known land mark of the old days.. e couple is the fact that last year Mr. celebrated the 70th year of be Medicine Tree Hill According to this legend, many years ago a young Indian, while slowly as cending the hill, saw that he was be ing pursued by enemies. Being tired, he approached the tree and hung his medicine talisman on the limb of the tree. He at once fell into a soothing slee p, from which he was suddenly kened by the yells of his enemies, who had discovered him and began shooting at him. To the young war rior's surprise not an arrow touched his body, all seeming to veer off and fly into space before reaching him. , As he was entirely surrounded by, enemies, this surprised him greatly, | but believing he was being protected; by the power of his "medicine," he] quickly replied to the arrows of his enemies with those from his own bow, and he was delighted to see that every! arrow he shot found its mark and I killed an enemy. His quiver soon was entirely empty, but, as though by ; magic, more arrows came to his hand, : enabling him to continue the battle against great odds in numbers. Young Warrior Killed One Indian, seeing that the "medi cine" of the young man was too strong and that he could not be killed while possessing It, grew desperate. He rode at top speed toward the tree, and as he passed It, snatched the young man's medicine bundle and carried it off, throwing it away. The very next arrow aimed at the single-handed warrior reached a vital spot, and he sank to the earth to rise no more. This legend until comparatively re cent times was current among the In dians of the western slope, who sel dom passed the tree without hanging some article upon one of its limbs as a token of religious awe from their superstitious natures and to keep green the memory of the medicine-wrought tragedy enacted beneath Its shade. awa WH1TEF1 SH—W. G. Locker, retired Great Northern locomotive engineer who was enroute here from Seattle to spend Christmas with his son and daughter-in-law, was taken ill and was removed from the train at Spo- kane, where he died. 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Crest Falls K TEAMED FOR ^ GREATER HORSE ROWER 5 MOBILGAS E m A CRC DE FOR MONTANA MCICRSSTS REFINED FROM VOS White fish Ski Course Is Given Publicity The current number of "The Goat," official paper of the Great Northern railway, carries a page devoted to Hell Roaring mountain and the ski course built there in 1837 by the Whltefish Lake 8kl club. "Hell Roaring mountain is named after the torrent of water that comes tearing down the side of the moun tain in a series of waterfalls and emp ties into Whltefish lake through three mouths, says the article. "It is the skier's paradise. It is seven miles north of Whltefish and has everything t goes to make for idea! skiing dltions. Northern Rocky Mountain Ski association championships in downhill and slalom wifi be held on Hell Roaring mountain Feb. 15 and 16." that NASHUA—Nashua Roykl Neighbors elected Dora Dykstra as oracle; vice oracle, Mary Demko; chancellor, Lena Scholl; recorder, Lola C. 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