The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1935, Page 2

| i 2 — AWE SRES oe aved 2 neect N.D. SHOULD THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1985 N.D. ARMY OFFICERS (Mandan Earth Lodge Sites 10 GET PROMOTIONS Yield Valuable Discoveries Act of Congress Authorizing incentive to make and accumulate Advancements in Rank Af- were probably acquired by other tribes who had contact with white people. Copper afrowpoin' beads, and a copper fish hook also were discovered, which apparently were of native manufacture and prob- ably came from Taiee Teo copper mines in the Great “This collection is, without doubt, the finest display of archaeological artifacts from any village site in North Dakota. Some of the pleces are and shape of the fragments found indicate the Mandans used large clay pots of their own manufacture which were 18 or more inches in diameter and over two feet high. The rims of many of the pots or jars were finely decorated with braided cord marks and incised decorations. Some of the fragments have been pieced together to form nearly complete pots. Although the village is over 200 years old it does show some signs of | DOUBLE ~ TISPARK PACILITIES Pippin Believes Every Family Should Have Playground Artifacts Found, Most Complete Ever Recovered in North Dakota property which other tribes could not hope to keep, Reid said. As the Mandans frequently went on extended hunting trips, their supply i i of food and other articles of value| white influence, Reid stated. Two] of. outstanding significance,” Within 25 Miles fects Many in State 7 were placed in bottle-shaped holes} steel arrowpoints were found which| said. ‘treater Reconstruction of the 200-year-old|so they would be safe from prowling Halliday, N. D., Aug. 26.—(7)—North A number of former North Da-|Mandan Indian village south of Man-jenemies until their return. These kotans, as well as army officers at-|dan through federal emergency con- tached to national guard and R. ©.|servation work has unearthed the T. C, units in the state will benefit |finest display of archaeological arti- by the recent act of congress in au- [otal iad any village site in “North thorizing promotions, Major Thomas 'e ‘ S. Smith, attached to the North Da-| A large and complete collection of kota national guard as instructor, de-|tools and artifacts from the old Fort clares. Abraham Lincoln Indian village site Major Smith is a member of the|has bees turned over to the North board of examiners appointed by order |Dakota Historical society. bottle-shaped holes or caches were usually constructed inside the lodge and were well concealed. Much of the material found came from aban- }doned caches which became filled with earth and debris. Find Vegetable Remains Surprising were specimens of a vegetable nature found during the excavation work. Charred corncobs, Dakota should double its existing park and recreation ground facilities with the help of works progress and other federal agencies, believes H. M. Pippin, Halliday, chairman of the re- creation committee of the state plan- ning board. “We hope for an expanded program that will bring recreation facilities GREETINGS! within 25 miles or less of every fam- ily with children,” he said, stating that it is estimated there are 250 parks in the entire state at the present time, and that some of the popula- ion resides more than 40 miles from any type of playgrounds where organ- ized and supervised recreation !s avail- | able. Pointing out to local planning boards that development of park sites will provide local improvements, prop- erty enhancement, sociological advan- cement, and feautification, Pippin emphasized that construction of parks will provide “a satisfactory labor out- let” for many unemployed persons this fall and winter. An ideal park Plan for various sized cities is being! furnished local planning boards by his | committee, Pippin said. “The WPA has removed the $25,000 | JUDGE JAMES MORRIS of the adjutant general's office at Washington to examine officers re-) ceiving promotions to determine their physical fitness. Other members of the board in North Dakota are Lt. Col. Joseph 8. Leonard, Major John F. Duckworth, Major John L, Dunn and First Lt. Cecil 8. Mollohan. Four Become Majors Capt. H. A. Tribolet, regular army officer at Minot, attached there for national guard instruction, will be- come a major; similar promotions come to Captains Robert B. Ennis, at Fargo, R. O. T. C. instructor at the state agricultural college; Thomas C. Poland, of the Fourth Infantry at Fort Lincoln, and Lamar Weaver, R. O. T. C, instructor at the University of North Dakota. Capt. Charles N. Karlstad, now on Russell Reid, curator and superin- tendent of the historical society, sai the collection is especially valt as it was all obtained from a site which is definitely known to be of Mandan origin. The entire collection was obtained by the veterans CCC park camp while doing excavation and reconstruction work at Fort Lincoln state park. ‘ In Ruins in 1804 “Unfortunately we have no accur- ate knowledge as to just when the vil- lage was occupied,” Reid said. “We do know, however, that it was in ruins ‘at the time the Lewis and Clark ex- pedition journeyed up the Missouri river in 1804. to well au- thenticated Indian tradition the vil- lege is, at the present time, approxi- mately 200 years old. “Excavations on the village site by id juable braided corn husks, squash, pumpkin, chenopodium seeds and coarse slough grass, which had been used to line caches, were found. Excavation work on old earth-lodge rings for the con- struction of new earth lodges reveal- ed the posts of former earth-lodges, some of them of large size, in which the grain and annual rings were still plainly visible. A red cedar log was found in which the wood was per- fectly sound. The Mandans were, apparently, a people skilled in the making of bone implements, Reid said. A wealth of such material was found, bone fish hooks, awls, chippers, and flackers for working flint, polishers, arrowpoints and other implements. Some of the large bone tools included buffalo shoulder blade hoes, toothed fleshers and rib bone knife handles. The KIWANIANS and KIWEENS IT IS OUR EARNEST the ECW camp under the national park service indicates that the en- at Grand Forks, also becomes @ ma-|tire village was burned to the ground. jor; Capt. Joseph B. Conmy, former |whether the inhabitants were driven instructor at the agricultural college, |out anc the village fired or whether now on his way to Hawaii, will be a/it was fired after the inhabitants had major under the advancement, Major |abandoned it voluntarily is a matter Smith said. of conjecture. There were approxi- Others, who will be examined by|mately 68 earth lodges in this village. the board here ,are Capts. Stanley G.| “The state historical society of Backman, stationed at the University | North Dakota has owned the site for of South Dakota; John E. Reilerson,|many years and knew that the work stationed at Mitchell, 8. D., and Lee jon the village site would reveal many W. Hanly, stationed at Brookings, 8.|interesting archaeological specimens D. The three receive promotions to major. Eastman Promoted Major John D. Eastman, at the agricultural college at Fargo, will go to Fort Snelling for his examination by @ board composed of officers of higher rank, Major Smith said. Major Eastman is advanced to lieu- tenant-colonel, Major Smith recalled a number of former members of the North Dakota national guard, now stationed at vari- maximum which formerly governed its Tegulations regarding park projects,” he stated. “We have seen several model park projects, however, which involve between $4,000 and $5,000 of which only $400 to $500 is material. As much as 10 per cent material is frequently furnished by the federal government on WPA projects.” Urging an expanded recreation pro- gram throughout the state, Pippin ad-| = 5 vocates for each live community of/ JAMES W. GUTHRIE 500 or more a ball diamond, wading intlieea Guia ennai itiea pool or swimming pool, skating rink, Picnic facilities, and rough shelters] bers of the Bismarck Kiwanis club who have a place in the lime- for organized play headquarters. 5 ° light at the Minnesota-Dakotas Publishers Pick Dy er district convention opening here As District President} ™>%y- Judge Morris is being mention- Devils Lake, Aug. 26—(7}—Twenty| °1 ®§ ® candidate for district publishers met on the shores of Lake Metigoshe, Sunday in the annual summer meeting of the second dis- trict of the North Dakota Press as- knife handles when used held a flint blade. Most of the flint arrowpoints were small but show especially fine workmanship. They were made of various kinds of stone, gray chert, variously colored flints, quarts, and Petrified wood. Flint hidescrapers, knives and drills were found in abundance. A large collection of game pieces was found. These were of scoria, bone, pottery, clay, stone and shell. The game pieces were marked with incised pat- terns and were uséd in a game similar to dice. Of Fine Workmanship The heavy stone work from the village site included stone hammers, mauls, warclub heads, grooved stone axes, stone celts, scoria and sandstone polishers, and grooved sandstone sinkers. Some of these implements are of especially fine workmanship. Perhaps the most important collec- tion from the village site, however, Reid pointed out, is the large collec- his way to Washington, and formerly ver to SOR bi BE MADE MOST IN- TERESTING AND EN- JOYABLE, t GEORGE F. SHAFER president, this being North Da- kota’s year to have that honor. Judge Burke will be toastmas- ter at the convention banquet ‘Tuesday evening. Guthrie, presi- dent of the host club, is active in seeing that things go off smooth- ly as is Shafer, chairman of the local club's convention committee. Emigration Absorbing N. .D. Montgomery Ward 300 Fourth Street Bismarck, N. D. pares ’ “No single ollection of archaeolo~ gical specimens in the historical so- ciety can remotely compare with the material obtained from this site,” Reid stated. * The artifacts obtained, in a large measure show the life and material culture of the Mandans who lived in this village—unlike the Nomad tribes they were agriculturists and their sociation. W. D. Dyer, Bottineau, was elected district president to suc- ceed L, J. Mott, Rolla; O. C. Wold, Drake, succeeds A. C. Olson, New Rockford, as vice president; and Fred Shipman, Leeds, was elected secretary-traesurer to succeed L. H. Braaten of Rugby. Fred Roble, Granville, Fred Zuber, Fessenden, and Wold were named on the reso- lutions committee. After a noon banquet, the publish- ers convened to hear talks by M. H. Graham, state president of Devils Normal Population Growth More Agricultural Industries Needed to Halt Exodus, Lavine Declares Pointing out that emigration from North Dakota to other statees has absorbed almost two thirds of the Lake, and Mark Forkner of Langdon, |natural increase in population during state secretary, and to discuss mu-|the last 10 years, Dr. Irvine Lavine, tual problems. should become fast friends, EAT “WE BUILD” Kiwanians, your motto always has been Bismarck’s motto, though this rapidly growing city probably never thought of the idea in just those words. As “birds of a feather,” Bismarck and you visiting Kiwanians and Kiweens Lenhart’s Drug Store Kiwanian A. P. “Mayor” Lenhart NEW SWEET SHOP —Rendezvous— Main Ave. Opposite N. P. Depot Where the atmosphere is cool and the state planning board director, Mon- food the best day pointed to the need for more industries and other economic changes if this state is to accommo- date the people who are being born here. Different methods of computing the emigration are outlined by Lavine but all show comparable result. The table showing that 64,883 North Da- kota born persons left the state in the decade from 1920 to 1930 dis- closes that most. of the emigrants have been young persons and ‘that the population above 65 years of age is larger than could be expected on the basis of vital statistics data for the United States as a whole. Mechanization Factor Mechanization of agriculture and its transition fi f livin, isi tne mrp a, eeu es pio Aho ere Ki and the lack of industries is given 98] '¢; instructor in, Texes Prove Worthwhile Kiwanians and Kiweens state. As young persons come to maturity they find opportunity lack- ing and go elsewhere, Lavine said, the bulk of the emigrants being less than 25 years old. “Unless far-reaching changes in the economics of the state are de- veloped, North Dakota can expect to lose all of her natural increase,” La- vine found. “The execution of a far- seeing, coordinated plan to develop the resources of the state can do much to prevent the wasteful emigra- tion which undermines the economic status of the state of North Dakota,” he asserted, Although no such plan was sub- mitted in connection with the report, it was indicated that the basis of such @ change in present economy should be agricultural processing rather than so-called heavy indus- tries. Births Exceed Deaths The cause of the condition is the excess of births over deaths in the state, Since ‘there are 265 births for every 100 deaths, the normal fecund- ity would cause a population increase of 13 to 14 per cent in population every 10 years. Between 1920 and 1930, however, the increase was only 5.2 per cent, F Birth rates have been dropping E are happy ‘aster than death rates, Lavine found and if the trend continues for an- to have the other 10 years at the same rate as has developed in the last five years, the state's population would not be re- Producing itself on a permanent basis. That such a condition will de- velop is unlikely, however, Lavine found, because of the large percent- age of the population which is listed as being in the reproductive ages and the “high vital rate” of the farm population. Watford City Forms Olson Governor Club Watford City, N. D., Aug. 26.—(P)— A club has been formed in McKenzie county to advance the name of Ole Olson, former acting governor, as candidate for governor in the 1936 campaign. Dr. P. O. C. Johnson of Watford City is president, Frank W. Erickson, first vice president; M. C. Scheuffle, Peter been devoted to its problems.” ous spots in the world who receive promotions, Capt. Wallace W. Millard, formerly of Co. I at Wahpeton, and also in- structor at the agricultural college from 1923 to 1928, is advanced to major. He is now at Fort Francis Warren. Capt. Carl M. Ulsaker, former mem- ber of Co. I, who recently returned from three years’ duty in the Philip- pines, and now at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, also becomes a major. Ross Advanced Capt. Fay Ross, formerly a member of Co. G at Valley City, now with the army department of experiment, at the infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia, is promoted to major. Similar promotion comes to Capt. Alex Gorder, former member of Co. M. at Brand Forks, and one-time resi- dent of Bottineau, once attached at the University of North Dakota. A former resident of Grand Forks, Capt. Ingomar M. Oseth is made a major. He recently returned from China, The world’s most unusual theater is said to be in Ruebeland, a little village in the Hartz mountains. The theater is located in @ cave, 600 feet underground. To Bismarck and North Dakota Permanent dwellings gave them an 712 Thayer The BANK of NORTH DAKOTA Convert’s Funeral Service Kiwanian Otto A. Convert privilege of wel- coming to our city and state members of an organization which makes its motto, “We Build,” a great deal more than mere words. tion of pottery fragmens. The size Allow us to join in ex- tending you a_ hearty welcome for your visit with us this week. It is with great pleasure that we greet you for the an- nual eonvention: Phone 304 OF NORTH DAKOTA’S NEW $2,000,000 STATE HOUSE ‘We hope you'll like Bismarck as well as we know we will like you. Our wish is that you will make yourself at home with us. ————— Quanrud, Brink & Reibold Welcome KIWANIANS and KIWEENS of the Minnesota and Dakotas District May your annual convention in Bismarck be a notable success, - MONTANA-DAKOTA UTILITIES COMPANY Bismarck - - Mandan - - Hebron ~ ~ Dickinson Kiwanian W. 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