Good Old Days 07-11-14

100 YEARS AGO

July 11, 1914 - Condensed news

The next convention of the Advertising Clubs of the World will be held in Chicago.

The French senate adopted a bill allowing brothers-in-law and sister-in-law to marry.

Many were killed or injured in a violent earthquake which caused wide spread damage in Southern Sumatra.

In view of the existing conditions in Mexico Sir Lionel Carden, the British minister, advised all British subjects temporarily to leave the country. General Garland N. Whistler, U.S.A., retired, aged sixty-six, is dead at his summer home at Pensacola, Fla. Whistler invented smokeless powder.

Tyrus Cobb, the widely known base ball player, pleaded guilty in justice court at Detroit to a charge of disturbing the peace and paid $50 fine.

Charles Billis, marshal at Panama III, shot and killed one man and arrested another, whom he surprised at tempting to enter the Mitchell general store.

An agreement that has been made between the United States and Great Britain to protect mining property of Mexico, similar to that made protect oil interests.

The Federal Grand Jury at Honolulu indicted Jeff McCarn, United States Attorney for the territory of Honolulu who is charged with assaulting Claudius McBride, an attorney, with a deadly weapon.

The teaching of sex hygiene in Sun day schools was approved in the report to the convention of international Sunday School Association by E. K. Mohr, superintendent of the purity department.

Japan is again demanding in emphatic and uncompromising terms relief for it's subjects from what are called "invidiously discriminatory" effects of the California alien land ownership law.

Captain Henry C. Merriam, United States army, who was denied a divorce from Mrs. Bessie Merriam in the Superior Court San Francisco, last fall will make a new attempt to get a legal separation.

Sarah Bernhardt, the French Actress was suffering from a severely twisted knee when she arrived at Lorient France, and was carried on a chair from the train to the automobile which conveyed her to her hotel.

Miss Belva A. Lockwood, the only woman who ever ran for the presidency of the United States, fell in her office at Washington and suffered a broken arm and shoulder. Miss Lockwood is eighty four years old.

Excavation was started in historic Independence square at Philadelphia in an effort to locate the foundations of an observatory tower from which it is said the Declaration of Independence was publicly promulgated.

San Francisco was chosen as the meeting place for June, 1915, and D.J. Reynolds of Minneapolis was named president of the American Federation of Patriotic Voters at the close of their first annual meeting at Chicago.

Governor Stewart asked that federal troops to be transferred from Fort Vancouver to Fort Missoula, in order to be in readiness in case of further trouble at Butte. President Wilson took the request under advisement.

Nearly half of Salem, Mass., was devastated by a fire that caused an estimated loss of $10,000,000, destroyed more than 1,000 buildings and made 10,000 of the 45,000 residents homeless. The loss of life was restricted to three persons.

That to many operations without justifiable cause are performed and that abdominal and intestinal surgery should not be attempted unless by experienced surgeons were statements made before the American Medical association.

President Wilson told a deputation of more than 500 women suffragists at the White House that woman suffrage was a state issue not a National one, and for that reason he would not use his influence for the passage of a constitutional amendment in congress.

At the foot of a hundred foot bluff on the ocean beach, near San Pedro, Cal., the bodies of three women and a man, victims of an automobile accident, were found. The automobile, driven by Harry Baker, the wireless operator of San Pedro, had plunged over the cliff.

In a cable message made public at New York, Algot Lange, an explorer, after announcing that he had completed the Amazon exploration, for which he went into the Brazilian jungles in 1912, added that he found the discovery of a river by Colonel Roosevelt to be authentic.

75 YEARS AGO

July 1939 - 'New Grocery Store Planning Formal Opening This Week'

The formal opening of Preble's Grocery at 925 Illinois Street is announced in this issue of The Telegraph. Mr. Preble moved to his new location last Saturday and Sunday but has delayed his formal opening until Saturday so that the interior of his store will be fully completed and attractively arranged.

The new store is the latest in design, display and lighting. Featuring the interior design is a new type vegetable spray which Mr. Preble reports the very peak in modernity and efficiency.

The store is lighted throughout with the new type fluorescent lighting, the closest illumination to daylight now known to science. The lightening affect has won wide public attention and is being favorably commented on by visitors to the store, Mr. Preble reports. The formal opening will be held this Saturday, although the store has been open for business all week. Free fruit drinks will be served Saturday afternoon and evening, During the same time candy will be given to the youngsters.

Cooperating with Mr. Preble in a full page advertisement announcing his opening are the following firms and individuals: H. M. Brown Electric Company Frahm Sign Company, Carl Christ, Wilford Straight, William J. Siders, Winder's Hardware, Sidney Glass and Paint Company, Thomas Lumber, Company, Paxton and Gallagher of Omaha, Nash-Finch Company of Scottsbluff; H.A. Marr Company of Sterling; Merchants Biscuit Company of Denver; Pacific Fruit and Produce Company of Cheyenne; and Wilson and Company of Omaha. Mr. Preble lists a number of grocery values in his large advertisement in this issue.

50 YEARS AGO

July 1964

'Lightning Kills Cattle During Heavy Storm'

A 'gully washer' which concentrated on the Lodgepole Creek valley soaked a broad are for more than an hour Wednesday night, starting at about 8:30 in this area, the heaviest fall was noted in Potter, which registered .61 of an inch: at Sidney, where the North Side underpass filled and streets ran curb-deep for a time in 1.57 inch downpour; at Lodgepole where 1.25 inches were recorded; and at Chappell where the town received 1.25.

Farther north, the rain dwindled down to nothing. Dalton reported only enough rainfall Wednesday night to dampen the sidewalks. Gurley measured a half inch while south of that community there was a little better than a inch.

Lighter rains on Thursday night served to keep the humidity high and stall harvesting operations. Hail was reported on Saturday night when am area west of Peetz was battered by a dry hail that preceded rain. Bob Hawkins at the Farmers Elevator in Peetz said the damage ranged from 30 to 85 percent. Rain there on Wednesday night was measured at 1.25 inches and about three quarters of an inch on Thursday night, Hail also struck south of Lodgepole.

Mrs. George Coutler Jr. reported this morning that the government gauge on their farm near Potter showed .61 of rain Wednesday and .16 of an inch last night.

Chester Phelps at the Farmers Elevator in Lorenzo reported an inch and a half of rain Wednesday night with .10 of an inch measured from last night's rater haphazard rainfall.

In Sidney, the rapid hard rain overtaxed the pumps in the underpass, filling it with about six feet of water and putting it out of use for several hours. The 10th Avenue Union Pacific crossing was opened for traffic. In the downtown area water was curb deep in some places, torrents of water washed mud and debris and the pounding rain did some damage to trees. However, just as few hail stones fell and yards and gardens benefited tremendously.

Sharp thunder and lighting accompanied the downpour and, in parts of the city, street lights were knocked out for a time. The electrical storm was going strong throughout the rainfall area. The Bill Behrends farm in Lodgepole-Sunol area, four cows and two calves were killed by a powerful bolt of lightening. Mrs. Behrends said the cattle must have been crowded against a fence when it happened. She added that the lightening literally "Snapped" during the storm. They received about one and a half inches of rain during the downpour.

Hail damage, apparently caused by the freakish dry hail before the Wednesday night rain, damaged considerable wheat-land south of Lodgepole. On the Lloyd Bondegard farm, an estimated 200 acres of ripe wheat were wiped out.

25 YEARS AGO

July 10, 1989 - 'Fires Raged Out Of Control In More Than Eight States'

Crawford (AP) – Fires raged out of control in eight states and more than 600 people fled a Nebraska park where a lightening-sparked blaze today burned to within a half-mile of the historic fort where Sioux Chief Crazy Horse was killed.

A blaze also threatened the ancient Indian Cliff dwelling of Mesa Verde in Colorado, and an arson fire swept toward the Ventana wilderness in the mountains rising from Big Sur, 120 Miles south of San Francisco. Major fires also were burning in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon and Wyoming. Cooler temperatures and rain helped nearly extinguish wilderness fires in Montana and Alaska. In Northwestern Nebraska about 150 firefighters battled the biggest fire in the West, a 50,000 acre blaze that leapfrogged along a 20 mile front at Fort Robinson State park. About 30 National Guardsmen entered the fray after Gov. Kay Orr declared a disaster area.

The flames leaped through rugged canyons, leaving splotches of charred ground and mixed with stretches of grass and strands of timber. "There's a limit to what humans can do to fight a fire when it's in those canyons," said state Sen. Sandy Scofield, who lives nearby. "Those pine trees are like Kerosene drenched torches."

Four patients were evacuated from a hospital and 25 from a nursing home in Crawford, a nearby town of 1,300 people. One Firefighter was treated for smoke inhalation, but his condition was not serious, said deputy state Fire Marshal Jerry Larson.

Early today the fire had consumed nearly half the 22,000 acre park and was half a mile away from Fort Robinson, the former cavalry post where Crazy Horse was killed by Guards in 1877. The fort now serves as a lodge. The fire made a mushroom shaped cloud of smoke that could be seen from Scottsbluff, and about 90 miles away. "It's not a pretty sight, but these people have things well under control," said Orr, after flying around the edges of the blaze..

"We could only see whole lines of trees exploding," said Marc Anthony, a state game and parks commissioner who also flew over the area. More than 600 people were evacuated from the park because of the dense smoke, said Fort Robinson Superintendent Vince Rotherham. Most were campers. Near Big Sur, in California, 600 firefighters using bulldozers, helicopters and air tankers struggled with heavy brush on the steep, roadless hillsides.

They expected to have the blaze controlled by tonight, said Lonnie Smith, a forestry spokesman in King City.

The fire was set with an incendiary device, Smith said Sunday. A wind-fanned wildfire charred 3,500 acres of remote brush and destroyed seven buildings in Larsen County, about 300 Miles north of San Francisco, and another consumed 2,000 acres of timber in the nearby Plumas National Forest.

A brush fire scorched more than 2,000 acres Sunday in Laguna Mountains, 40 miles east of San Diego. In Arizona, rain helped firefighters contain a 9,200 acre fire in and around the Saguaro National Monument east of Tucson, and four other fires were nearly under control late Sunday. But about 40,000 acres of forest and range land, from the Grand Canyon to Mexico, burned on. A 1,000 acre blaze briefly threatened President Theodor Roosevelt's hunting cabin in Grand Canyon.

10 YEARS AGO

July 11, 2004 - 'Cool Kids Are Musical Kids'

Imagine eager, enthusiastic children anxiously awaiting their turn to practice piano. It could happen. It actually did happen at cool kids club this summer! All students from kindergarten through sixth grade had the opportunity to learn simple melodies and chords on electronic piano keyboards.

Because the summer session lasted only a few short weeks, note reading was not stressed. Instead students learned primarily by listening, singing, dancing, movement, and learning the language (do, re, mi.) related to the appropriate finger. Only then did the students go to pianos, locate C or D position and begin to play the songs relying on their ears, auditory memory and language/finger patterns.

Many research studies have documented the correlation between early music instruction and increased abilities in areas other than musical literacy. Other benefits include optimized brain development, social/emotional growth, attention to task, development of inner speech, more highly developed motor skills and impulse control, improved academics and increased creativity. In particular, early piano keyboard training has been shown to increase a child's linear and spatial thinking (skills needed for higher level math and science). Children's minds are wired in such a way that the greatest "window of opportunity" for music, as well as verbal language, extends only through about age nine, a mandate to provide good, solid early music instruction.

A few years down the road those students who continue in music education for number of years will score an average of 100 points higher on the SAT college Entrance Exam, according to College Bound Seniors National Report: Profile of SAT Program Test Takers, Princeton, NJ, 2001. They've also had better grades, better attendance, fewer behavioral issues and drug/alcohol problems than their non-participating peers. Studies have indicated that as adults, those still involved in musical endeavors have less stress, improved health, and an enriched quality of life.

Nighty-eight percent of the students enrolled in Cool Kids Club had never had any type of piano instruction. "The students were anxious and engaged in the piano learning process," said Teresa Twite, Cool Kids Club music teacher. "It was thrilling to see so many bright-eyed, enthusiastic students. They didn't realize they were learning so much. They were just having fun."