The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1927, Page 11

*RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1927 © Cinderella’s Dream Comes True-- Girl Held in Institution for 18 | Years Now Prepares to Go Home Cinderella—Before and After = | Josephine Noble Gard looked in the garb of an al ward. Josephine as she looks now, in her gay new clothes and with her hair, marcelled. | r the institution- raked off. The field was plowed nine inches deep August 1 to turn up the soil that had not been reached | by the cultivator, and then the field| was worked in a similar manner) through the balance of the season! until the end of October. Corn was planted this spring and no quack- grass can be found in the field. On uw similar field the quackgrass was permitted to blossom a year ago and then cut for hay and plowed. Then the field was worked with the spring tooth for the balance of the season in a similar manner to the ing home. first one, and with equally good re- r Is Found sults. Triumph potatoes were The mother of whom she dreamed! Theodore Herzog, her new father, Planted on this field this spring, and - for so long is coming to claim her.' sng Winifred Herzog, the mother, they will give a yield estimated at Rich gowns, fur coats and silk stock- who is hurrying east to claim her. | 200 bushels per acre. ings are going to replace the plain; Another field was plowed shallow, frocks of the state home. All that Si ¥ ~~ |not over four inches deep, late in she has missed ‘s going to be hers,! jovelier mother if you had had one July, worked eight times with the for the rest of her life. made to order, I love her and I know, spring tooth, and then nothing furth- On a transcontinental train speed-| we will all be happy and be wonder-|ef was done until September, when ing east from -Los anus is the) ful pals it was worked twice with the spring mother—Mrs. Winifred Herzog, who; new, tooth and seeded to rye Sept. 15. At has just. learned that the daughter clothes gayer than any she had ever, Present only about 20 to ae oe cent she mourned as dead for 18 known before, is waiting—waiting to/ of the quackgrass is left. The plan Lincoln, lL, Sept. 9—(NEA)— For all of the 18 years of her life Josephine Noble Gardner, fully nor- mal in mind and body, has lived in the state. home for backward children here. Surrounded by pitiful youngsters with stunted brains and twisted bodies, knowing that she was not as they were and yearning hopelessly for a home and a mother, Josephine grew up to young womanhood like a modern Cincerella, condemned to a drab, chimney-corner existence. But now—after 18 years—she is go- And Josephine, dresséd in | might also add as one of | the crop failures in Kansas at time’ PEOPLE'S FORUM Editor Tribune: - paralyzed, was left in a helpless con- Will you kindly give this letter} dition by the departing boomers, who, space in your valuable journal,| like so many vampires flgw away which for more than 50 years has| after they had drained the last drop contributed so much toward the de-|of blood from the infant child. velopment of North Dakota? But this was not all that Bismarck Since my arrival in Bismarck in} had to endure after the fatal boom 1877 I have carefully watched its! of 1883, for the very elemen growth and development, and not-jto add to its fight for existence. withstanding its many wersities| Long weary years of drouth with and disappointments since then have] successive failure: crop, cessation confidence in its ultimate| of immigration and settlers because destiny one of the great commer-|the railroads conspired together and cial centers of the Northwest, and I/ transported all the new comers to e_most|the much advertised fruit and wheat} important manufacturing, educiation-| lands of Oregon, Washington, Idaho al and medical centers of this great} and Montana. Even the early set- ie country, which extends from) tlers of North Dakota sold or aban- mesota and the Great Lakes to/doned their homesteads und went je Rocky Mountains, westward. During the discouraging To many of the oid settlers, who] years of the eighties, nineties and year after yeur have experienced so) even later it almost seemed as if; ny res in crops through ad- eity had hidden his face,; rse seasons, this hope may seem affently cut off the water visionary. The agricultural exper- When we remember those iences and failures of the Dakotas] long, dreary, hopeless yeurs of stag- since its early settlement present] mation, it seems almost miraculous nothing new in the growth and de-|that Bismarck stands toda n its velopment of -practically every other] peerless beauty y section of tl reat plains country! the northwest prairie country with a west of the Mississippi from the Rio} population of 10,000 people. From Grande to the Cana border and is my opinion that noth- further north. The same crop fail-| ing can impede her progress and that ures from lack of water, hail stor before another generation passes the tornadoes and hot winds prevented! population of Bismarck will i the successful. raising of crops for|ten in six figures. ‘To att. many years in Texas, Oklahonta,} proud position among the gr Kansas and Nebraska, just the same/ ters her citizens must as in the Dakotas. The most feftile} be acti i both und valuable portions of the state of Kansas were abandoned for these rea- sons and the grasshopper pests in the early seventies in sections of the state now considered th- bread bas- after all is said and done, the gr jest asset any place possesses centers around its bright and progressive men and women. While the town is | Million and a Half Doiiars Re- s the queen city of]: S| mittee ket of the world. So <-rious were reasonably cheap, park spaces throughout the ci cost at present is comparati al to the cost of such proper that the government was compelled to send agents and food supplies there to keep the settlers me starving. At this time -all that por-|15 years hence. tion of the state west of Topeka was| ful or healthful éveupied — by ‘attlemen, and on} open spaces, places of beauty, rec account of its aridity was never con-| tion and play grounds for its little dered fit for ugriculture. What/ ones. Here and there lands should has been said of Kansas equally ap-/ be secured in plots of from four to plies to Texas, Within my recollec-} <j s for this purpose and plant- tion all that section of. the state ees and ornamental = shrub- west of Sen Antonio was known os y. Give this job to the women of the arid. belt and fit only for cattle} your town and watch results. Then ranches. This was also true in the} again the completion of streets und eighties of nearly all of the country! avenues which east and south of San Antonio to the! in « solid block should be attended Gulf and Rio Grande. Lands which) to before property costs become pro- at that time in Texas cou'd have been|hibitive. You have a grand boule- readily bought for a dollar an acre; vard some day destined to become or less and only considered fit for; , famous driveway, bordered by the grazing have since then developed homes of the wealthy, which should to the best agricultural sections of | be carried through the Harmon Ad- the state. dition on the west and ng the Few of the farming population of] north line of the Lounsberry addi- the Dakotas realize that their ex-|/tion on the east. Ave A, which perience in developing virgin soil] terminates in block 41 npery and has been common to ail others who| Wetherby addition on ‘th settled in the western plains coun-| should also be cut through to along the southern border of Lounsberry addition, trivi- 10 the 'a-td present terminate | s try, in the early frontier days. Not- withstanding ate ate et and hardships, ave an abundan The present ‘nomenclature of the faith that an the years pass agric's sitvees amOUld; “also considered. tural conditions will gradually im-| Nothing can improve the nomencla- prove. Many changes in farming ture of the streets north and south which should be numbered First street east as far gs it becomes years is alive and well, waiting to rejoin the. mother she ‘has never|is to plow this field as soon as the jain her. ‘geen; waiting to claim her heritage) rye is threshed this fall and work of home and love and happiness. it with the spring tooth until freeze- Quackgrass Killing Piicat- Awe eouulagay otrthe aust: ‘Trials Successful Complete eradication of quackgrass A a jatried—a youth- jin a single year through use of the vised romance that spring tooth cultivator is possible spring. It was plowed shallow the met wtih mueh opposition from her according to experiences of Rex. D. first week in June and spring toothed: father. And “so, when Winifred Kildow, superintendent of the school| twelve times between then and July Noble gave bith to a little + her farm at the Fort Totten reservation 7» when it was planted to Siberian father vowed .that the child would in Benson County, who is conduct-. Millet. This field is now ready to never be ‘raised in his home. ‘ing trials pf a number of different! cut for hay and most of the quack- At. first, when.the young .mother methods of getting rid of quackgrass.' grass has disappeared. As soon as, to be allowed to see her baby,! Two fields that were almost a the hay is off, Mr. Kiidow will plow she was told: by her nurse to “ask solid mat of quackgrass a year ago the field and work it with the ving your father.” jen, when she was this spring were carefully examined tooth this. fall, then plant a cultivat : le to get ‘up, she was told that the a few days ago and not a_ single crop next year. iby had died. spear of quackgrass found in the he Pitcher quac! machine Ss Couldn't Trace Her fields which comprised 32 acres.' was tried out successfully on another. Winifred’s father had had the These fields had been plowed very| field. This machine plows a strip of child taken away and ie in the care deep some time in the past and the the quackgrass sod, elevates it and of a family livin, in Williamson quackgrass roots were down as far, by beating and shaking, separates the county. Shortly after this was done as nine inches in the soil. quackgrass roots from the soil, de- he—' ifred's father—died, and the| Stubble was burned on one of the positing the roots on the surface of mother’s only chance at tracing her fields in April, 1983, and then the: the ground where they may be baby was lost. |fiela was cultivated lengthwise and; burned or raked off, ~ Little Josephine spent her early crosswise with the spring tooth cul-| “My experiences convince me that chilhood as a ward of the William- tivator, a total of four times. After| quackgrass can be completely con- son county family. Then she was'that cultivations were made in the trolled if 1 small acreage is properly sent here to become a ward of the same way at intervals of one week.! worked,” is Mr, Kildow’s comment. Lincoln State School and Colony. The roots which gathered on the sur-|“Some method that involves digging Although this is a home for children face of the ground were burned or/up the roots seems to be the most mentally or physically deficient, effective way to handle it.” some horrible mistake placed Jose- The trials were conducted in co- phine, a fully normal child, in it— operation with County Agent Irving and here she stayed. J. Courtice, She grew up probably better than _ eee eas Saal hicdisdl Mutual Insurance Bodies Must Buy $45,000 in Bonds taught household science and given S| e possible in an Approximately $45,000 must be in: ‘hat’ is the outline of one of the + most amasing stoties eve~ unearthed in, the, history of Zlinois’ charitable a epues, ' ra teen years ago rs. Herzog was Winifred “Noble, a young «girl living in poccoered nh There: she fal, possibly Tass. A fourth field shows the possibility of producing something from the land the same year that the quack- grass is being fought. This field of 20 acres was solid quackgrass this Disjeweled! such advantages a: inetitatige. inv Started A social worker at the school, Mrs. Sara Crosby, interested in her. Bhe_ noticed her name—Josephine methods will have to be initiated. The farmer will fird in sthe fu- ture that, aan not en fart pe necessary and Firat street west even oats, but must learn to diversify his, 1, 3 lh Rap pe tet ete h wd crop and reduce his acreage. © The| he made in the nomenclature of the perpenss ot on alae a Hebd streets running east and west, name- turned thelr attention to the pro-| iter Atuld’ ke Changed’ toe the ae ian, Cla ae and cheese:/names of those of historical state or Spare ait rene Pet pended in| local. celebrities who have done our refrigerating car system. ith ene Apia ies Bergan by the ape Aaiey, ae Relies diver, | letter A. . or Care sseaningless and \ , hay, commonplace. Change these to those sified farming generally, the farmer) which not only have a significance historically or locally but a ring which sounds: euphonious. 1 would will attain success on the farm and build up a substantial and increas: ing bank account. pject} Met disturb Main or Broadway, the object! names of avenues common to all large cities, Start at Thayer with a name here can be no greater lesson for the farmers of North Da- that begins with “A”, and Rosser, with a name that begins with “B” and’ kota than that shown at the govern- ment experimental statién on the thus continue names beginning with Cc”, “D", ete. The boulevard should hills opposite Mandan. Such splen- did samples of grain of every kind,| uc . tubers, vegetables, fruits, | Cow remain ‘unchangal’ but continued duced there every year through in- pore een enves Fy ey an telligent cultivation... Sixty years ago H xing ns people General, Hazen reported officially to] Steud bonds fora peri ae eueay sl 5 q thamaseen erate att Dakota was one) should be sold to cover the cost of fit for anything but the wild animals] Parks and street extenalons and Bis, and roving bands which Whiten in| BFiNg a premium alniost anywhere as food faith not to open itto settlement,| 6 Per cent and the money could re evenually be refunded through a Generale Hazen. was, stationed orrord,| “inking fund which would cost the and, like so many of the old timers practically nothing for these id necessary improvement at that time ae cut development of{ Let these names be suggested by e men, women, and children of _ Bi: the Dakotas, ceils Boise sxautually marek and finally selected by a board eee these who wa of men and women appointed for the ar 5 When I began this letter Thad inj pine oy ast Bismarck is located on a beautiful mind a short arorls op Pept its] rolling prairie gently rising to the reid seem a long period from a few north, east and west. In grading the log shacks and a handful of people to Heer d oe s iubore hy. odes a flourishing city of 10,000 popula-| ive) thene avenues adds nothing to tion in a land wher so much 8] the beauty or ulilit : fi , y of such streets, predicted and promised a ggneration| but sade much to the cont to city and vested in state or government bond: this year by the 42 county mutual srance companies operating in ate of North Dakota, according t6 figures compiled by the state in- surance commissioner's offic Noble Gardner. Mrs. Corsby had lived in the Noble home town, Mc- n, and remembered vaguely that the Noble girl ughter had been ant away. She began an investiga- ion. Bhe enlisted the aid of Mrs. Jean Comerford, Hlinoie institution vis- itor. The two trips to McLean, B i id other cities. u ie suened ee story. N sal themselves that Josephing was Wini- fred Noble's iter. task of finding the Then came mother, After losingther little girl, Wini- fred had gone to the Pacific coast. Her first marriage dissolved, a few years ago she married Theodore Her- fog, manager of .a. resplendent—and rofitable — Los Angeles ball room, Rais ball room, aptly enough, wan named the Cinderella. For Da Winifred Heraee, was bawry $3. cept that she still longed for the daughter she had never seen. So was abe for this dreamed-of mr ane. took ig othering Som ren in Ange jes. Christmas ‘she and hér husband f hi ie bo cere Foo! wenile court wards in the city. But still the ache—th« bes s ne ache- io henelinener— per And then, a short time* ago, th Hilsats investigators found Ss: and told her that her daughter was living in Lincola—li ina state inatitu-| tion, suffering for lack of the ‘homd| ‘ that Mrs. was yearning to money in might subsequently The law requires that at the end of this year such companies 1 have 15 per cent of their invested. The percentage from year to year until at the end of four years the maximum of 60 per cent is reached. A check of the balances of the vai ous mutual companies shows that some will not re to comnly, h the law since they have insu: ick on hand to warrant purchase of $50 bond under the terms of the law. One company, how i be required to make an inve: of more than $8,000. Their cash on July 1 totaled $303,875.01. Shan; Thieves Like Radiator Caps Shanghai, Sept. 9.—()—The ornate and statuesque radiator cap, in vogue as an automobile sccessory, has brought a new crime problem to the Shanghai ‘So now. ersog: in coming Mthough. police in the ng” : altho ice in Line f rit) the leat tae cane and international settlements of her. H. Snowden, ing New ety matron, and some of worth of jewels stolen fashionable South- ago. property owners. Could any one When Bismarck was born the/ imagine the people of beautiful San Northern Pacific had not reached the] Francisco cutting down their streets, Missouri river and when it did a few] some of which ascend to 45 degrees years later there was nothing but} ofa» angle? In that wonderful unoccupied rolling prairies for hun-[ city of the Pacific many of the dreds of miles north, east, south and] palaces ‘and mansions in the finest It took a few years before the/ residential sections are located one we: | coming metropolis of the northwest] above ‘the other like so many steps. caught its breath, and a decade more] These steep streets annoy no one out before it was enjoying full and} there in-San Francisco but greatly healthy respirations. Like other! add to the pleturesqueness of the children. the infant Bismarck wu! city. So please as far as possible let inflicted with the various complaints! Bismarck have her ascending streets of early childhood but suffered 8] where nature has ordained. serious disease in 1883, which not on-} Finally and in conclusion let me y almost proved fatal but left the! suggest t! the people of Bismarck child infticted with infantile par-| get together in their activities and alysis which lasted for many, many] purposes. In unity only is there ary years. The name of this dis-| strength. Every one should put hi ease was the “Boom of 1883.” For] shoulder to the wheel, should co: many years thereafter Bismarck was| tribute to the Chamber of Commere: QUICKER THAN TOAST! " get yaa oad The business association of the city should stand beh the Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis, and, should run out of the city all of the knockers and critics who are noth-! ing more or less than hindrances to; the city. —COL, L. M. MAUS. 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