Show THE GARLAND TIME& GARLAND UTAH PATTERNS Wanna Buy a Horse? few months ego this question if addressed to an automobile owner would bring a laugh Today the horse has the laugh Out in the West and the Middle West horses ere still plentiful but in the East they are icarce And yet there is a firm of horse auctioneers operating in Greater New York— Potters and Greenberg— where private sales on horses era held every day of the week and special auctions on Friday s Photos ihow you what goes on SEWING CIRCLE A (RtltaMd Neva HPr by Volo) Last of the 'Boomers HEN recent press dispatches chronicled the death of Maj Gordon W Lillie at hia home in Oklahoma the words “Pawnee Bill’ and ‘Wild West Showman” and ‘partner of Buffalo Bill” were featured prominently in the headlines But the passing of this frontiersman had more significance than those words imply For Gordon W Lillie was the last of the “Boomers” that race of stubborn courageous men who in the late eighties were determined to establish homes for themselves and their people on the “last frontier”— the Indian lands in Indian territory — and when they won their fight the frontier era in American history was definitely over Lillie was born near Bloomington 111 on February 14 1860 His ther was a miller who had no great desire to move West but when his mill was burned in the early seventies he decided to seek his fortune in a new country Starting west in a covered wagon he eventually arrived at Wellington and Kan there young Gordon Lillie grew up Meanwhile he had managed to secure a high school education and this resulted in his being asked in 1882 to conduct a school at the Pawnee agency in Oklahoma He learned the language of those Indians gained the friendship of influential chiefs and eventually was made an honorary member of the tribe AX ' In 1883 ‘‘Buffalo Bill” Cody 2 Some of Our Native Birds Few people outside of confirmed dwellers are unfamiliar with plaintive cry of the coo-mourning dove— that a coo-coo--o coo-- o which is so character istic of country flelda and deep still woodlands is a rather It large bird— larger even than a robin It builds g a highly nest of crossed’ sticks in the crotch of a tree and in this indifferent shelter rears yearly a brood of two The value of the mournyounglings ing dove to farmers and orchardists is usually not properly evaluated on The bird lives almost whoUy vegetable matter its principal and almost constant diet being weed seeds such seeds constituting 64 per cent of its entire feed In one stomach were found 7500 seeds of yellow wood sorrel in another 6400 seeds of foxtail in another 2600 seeds of slender paspalum 4820 of orange hawkweed 950 of hoary vervain 120 of Carolina cranesbill 50 of 620 of panic wood sorrel yellow grass and 40 of various other weeds Since practically all of these weeds are troublesome it is apparent that the mourning dove should be protected in every possible way THE SCREECH OWL This owl is our smallest species being but eight inches in length but its value is out of all proportion to its size The screech owl inhabits orchards groves and thickets it hunts its prey also along fences and hedgerows and in the open It is a provident citizen hunting assiduously in warm weather and storing up quantities of food for use during days of less clemency In such storage places ornithologists have often found enough mice or other small prey to serve the bird for intervals of a week or more The screech owl feeds upon small mammals reptiles batrachians fish spiders crawfish scorpions and earthworms Among the insects its favorite foods are grasshoppers crickets ground beetles and caterpillars and it is known to destroy field mice The wise farmer will and sparrows encourage this little owl to make its home quite near to his barns and granaries where it will be highly efficient in keeping both house mice and wood mice in check city the it This might pass for a picture of the Axis high command one of some of the steeds waiting to be auctioned off is who had just started his Wild West show engaged a band of Pawnees to accompany it and he wanted a man to take charge of them Lillie took the job and remained with the show for two years During this time he but actually THE IT IS no trick at all to make this attractive frock for home wear Simply Join the skirt (when darted through the top to give that slim torso effect) to the full cut bodice attach the flattering collar set in the sleeves add pockets side sashes and buttons and — your frock is ready You’ll wear it with pleasure always for it Is designed to fit comfortably The long skirt line will add inches to your height and the smoothness at the waistline is definitely slenderizing Pattern No 8068 la designed lor sires back too! 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Yes its breast and when as it vibrates there is a new look about it— it offering liberal prizes in a big met May Manning a Philadelphia forth a rich has that its strong wings it pours long torso top which jingle contest to be run in thise girl and they were married in 1886 clear mellow song you will know grown-uOne hundred and frocks make so much of paper With her husband as her tutor Mrs that you are looking upon the rose- dart fitted to reveal the slimness prizes will be awarded each Lillie became one of the best riders the matter For breasted grosbeak of the waistline — and it’s tied in week — Adv in the show business and of that you may hear it singing at A disagreement with Cody resultnight for it is one of our very limed in Lillie’s withdrawing from his ited number of night singers FarmWild a company and organizing ers and gardeners sometimes beWest show of his own It prospered ATTENTION! Farmers & Livestock Raisers rate this lovely bird because of damfor a time and even made a age done to green peas which it CO tour of Europe Then came and sometimes to fruits as loves COLORADO ANIMAL lean days in the show business and “A Utah Corporation well assure but the Lillie returned to the Southwest Piih plsntt conveniently located at OGDEN — SALT LAKE CITY mischief is much more us this that of — GARLAND HEBER There he found a large group CITY— LOGAN— SPANISH FORK than balanced by the bird’s service AFFIUAT1 COMFAWH AND settlers who had been demanding in the destruction of insect pests Twin Foils took HID I A TALLOW CO IDAHO that congress open up the Indian The bird is so fond of the destrucCO Malta Falls Malta PALIS ANIMAL PRODUCTS IDAHO for homesteading Territory tive Colorado beetle that it is often PRODUCTS CO ANIMAL IDAHO Nampa Idaha The leader of the "Boomers” had bird” It also called “the potato-butor Prleoa You Ottor Wgkatl been Capt D L Payne the “Scout attacks cucumber beetles with great of the Cimarron” but he had failed SHEEP PELTS BIDES WOOL and RAW FUBS vigor as well as many scale insects to win his objective After his death It is an active enemy of the Rocky Write 463 SOUTH THIRD WEST SALT LAKE CITY a were for looking “Boomers” the Mountain locust and feeds also — by was asked Lillie and new leader and extensively — upon cankerworms the Wichita Board of Trade to take orchard and forest tent caterpillars charge of the thousands of prospecDOLLARS tussock gipsy and brown - tail tive settlers who had gathered nearto moths plum curculio army worm BY BUYING U S DEFENSE BONDS there and who were a menace and chinch bug It may truly be “Pawthe peace of the community said that for beauty and song and Frequently a piece of harness goes on the block instead of a horse economic value nee Bill” accepted the task organfew birds surized the settlers into an orderly body ' Here you see a halter going to a bidder for three dollars Auctioneer pass the grosbeak and by the time of the famouswon“runna- Greenberg is knocking it down THE NIGHTHAWK had 1889 he 22 on April The nighthawk is hardly well tional recognition named since it is not a nocturnal Curiously enough “Pawnee Bill" bird and is not moreover really a failed to take any land himself nor hawk but belongs to the birds of the did he profit by another but smallGoatsucker family However if one er “Boomer” movement which redoes not like to call it a nighthawk sulted in the opening of the Cherokee has as long a list of aliases from it in 1893 Strip in northern Oklahoma as has any which one may choose Since the advent of the automobile soap and water With Oklahoma well settled Lillie number one gangster among which no longer will cut the floating film that emanates turned again to the show business are mosquito hawk nightso quickly on winfrom car exhausta and gather Within a short time he was the only several and others Bill jar piramidig Cody For washing winserious rival of “Buffalo dow and every other surface fits it well The name “nightjar” 1907 of two tablespoonfuls in this type of enterprise and in araolution a dows composed since it makes a curious whirring will do the a merger of the two shows was towater of in of kerosene eight quarts booming sound which is as someone The two men worked ranged trick If the glass turns greasy reduce the amount has said “like a strong blowing into retired gether until 1910 when Cody sash and framea too for is of an Thi kerosene of the good hogsin empty a fortune Lillie made Although head” This bird has been greatly of Of course ammonia and alcohol solutions are just the show business he lost most of slandered by being accused of as effective but you will find the kerosene solution it as the popularity of that kind and similar crimes AcHe the waned least expensive recouped entertainment it is of the greatest possible tually and business oil the in much of it use to all agriculturists and should In a magazine column recently on “How to to retire to a by 1919 he was able to it be bed in 6ave protected everywhere bought near Keep Your Home” the author said that a big ranch which he had from imminent extinction Its diet a private home should be made in ore minute and Pawnee Okla He built a is almost exclusively insects the maid on Blue HawK Newhouse the At house aeconds ranch stone red kftf interesting information concerning have town and deof Mir common form tad orchard birds Bead tea penda a great deal longer than that We peak overlooking the When bidding lags on a horse the coats to Superintendent of Documents voted himself to raising buffalo until found that too much care cannot be taken in makThis man has taken on the diffiC D asking tor Farmorf Bulletin token minutes more few A he had one of the largest private cult job of selling a horse to the animal is made to strut his stuff as Ho iU bed the ing just right 0 herds in the world shown here in making the bed is time well spent when wa auctioneer llie and his wife celebrat-jethe several honrs that are spent there consider PRESERVING VEGETABLES wedding anniversary been demonstrated by carew It has each night of M with a renewal ful experiments that many vegetaage vow's and a public bles besides cucumbers can be pret which they were pre-For instance served by brining autorno-:iDorn on the cob burr gherkins friends Two weeks green tomatoes and string beans do “gold-twell in a 10 per cent brine and wils returning in this ranch their Oklahoma keep for several months Cauhflow-i- r were involved in a and green peppers require a 60 both were seriously per cent brine and onions 80 per their Dent jon after reaching Since the salt constantly Lillie died and after her Iraws moisture the brine must be nee Bill” seemed to lose tept at its proper strength by the did death But life in gradual addition of salt PUT YOUR in him until this year I IN UNIFORM k |