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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Rex Is Expert Hitch-Hike- Honor Indian Chief Who Saw Death of Tecumseh r Chief Noonday, Grand River Indian of the late seventies, is honored in the of Mud lake by Barry county officials. It is to be called Noonday lake in memory of the old Ottawa chief who fought in the War of 1812 and, it is said, saw the death of Tecumseh. This scene he described to the President of the United States when summoned for the purpose to go to the White House. Noonday is associated in Barry history with the famous tavern of Yankee Bill Lewis at Yankee Springs where he lived as one of the Slater Mission Indians. A former chief of an Indian village at Grand Rapids, he in the founding of the mission and later followed the Reverend Slater to Yankee Springs. Records of those days describe him as six feet tall, of erect and dignified mien at the age of 100 years, wearing the paint and circlet of eagle feathers and the blanket befitting his rank. A young brave during Pontiacs conspiracies he came to regard the encroachments of the whites with resignation. He died in 1840 and is buried at Richof on his master, Jimmy Donnelly, and land. the back By climbing op digging his hind paws in Jimmys pants pocket, Bex gets free transportaSMITH TOO BUSY tion around Miami, Fla., via his masters bicycle. HASTINGS, MICH. Who Discovered America? Old ' Scientists Question Intrigues - ONE MORE RIVER Bridges are few in Ethiopia, where the traveler must often swim or stay behind I Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C. WNU Service. GOOD roads still are few in ' Smaller must be forded. Often this is good fun. Some of the porters usually fall in the water, and this makes hilarious talk for the whole outfit for many days. Since there is little for Ethiopians to talk about, the smallest incident becomes a matter of seemingly great importance and furnishes an opportunity for loud discussions. At large streams, where mules must swim, travel is difficult. To cross the Blue Nile, it is usually wise to go when the moon is so full that you can have its light when you break camp and start the descent early in the morning. The early start is necessary because there are no camping places or water from one rim to the other, there- This Ethiopian boy learns mostly by listening to his elders. Strangers often underestimate the intelligence of these youngsters. is hardly scratched by the plowing. Plows are straight Sticks of wood, drawn by two bulls. Children often plow and seem to enjoy it. They shout, threaten, end crack their whips. It is amusing to see how little attention the bulls pay to their efforts. However, with much laughter and little exertion a field is eventually plowed, ready for seed grain, which is broadcast over it. Village life is placid. The people are content with few possessions. Men spend much of the day in the fields and yet have plenty of time for gossip. Women are modest; they work steadily, yet not too hard. Flour they make from teff, baking thin loaves of bread called indgeria; they weave cloth of good quality into the distinctive native robe called a chamma. The most typical sight at any village is the procession of women and girls, carrying water in large earthen jars on their backs. No newspapers are known, but all news is broadcast at the markets, each village having its weekly market day. Certain markets are known for special goods; to Ankober many people come to buy the black woolen cape, or burnoose, and to Dem-be- a they go for pepper. On market fore the distance must be made in one day. $When the local chief is convinced a party wishes to cross the rivthat not Amerin he had North arrived Both . Leif and Columbus, blows his horn and assemhe er, ica before the last glaciation, the bles professional swimmers, beIt Seems, Were Late Wisconsin. cause few of the caravan men can All possible routes through westBy Centuries. swim. First you take off the mules ern Canada were probably blocked These, with the men who packs. of the time from period CHICAGO. Heres one for the during cannot swim, are then ferried to to How65.000 20,000 ago. years Scribner quiz: the other bank in hide boats, called America was discovered in . . . ever, there was one exception a jendies, pushed by the swimmers, in which break the ice occurred (1) 1492 A. D.; (2) in 1000 A. D.; about 40,000 who return to their job of getting the years ago. (3) sometime before 8000 B. C. stubborn mules to the other side. From Route Alaska. Open Most people offhand, will say 1492, At that time it would have been By getting one mule to lead, the and chalk up a score for. Christoto for man travel from hope is that others will follow; too pher, an Italian boy batting for possible often this expectation is blasted. straits, Alaska, Bering through Spain. Others, on their guard, will down the Mackenzie One stubborn mule can upset the and river, 1000 A. three D., and give routsay whole well-lai- d plan. It is dangeralong the eastern part of the Rocky ing cheers for the Scandinavians. ous business for the swimmers, beor mountains the along plateau Both sides will be wrong. caught in a welter of thrashing, The careful sciences of anthro- tween the .Rockies and the Coast n animals. concluno is there although range, vote Because Henry Hofer, a blackpology and geology cast their evidence sive this that occurred. Many swimmers are killed at the smith at- - Sharpsburg, Pa., has so for the third answer. If you picked ' For the last 20,000 years, how- much work to do that he starts at fords every year. Once across the answer No. 1 or No. 2, give yourself ever, there has been an open route 5 a. m. every morning and works zero and do better next time. For both Cristoforo Colombo and from Alaska southward. Careful in- sometimes 17 hours a day, neighLeif, son of Eric, when they arrived vestigations conducted by the staff bors disturbed by the pounding on found human inhabitants, and plen- of Gila Pueblo, Globe, Ariz. (Mac-Curd- his anvil complained to the police. 1937) show there were But when who has been a ty of evidence that America had not people living on the that beaches of now blacksmith Henry, con44 years, learned no to a but for been discovered only which were formed dur- one could siderable extent settled by men and dry lakes, legally stop him, he conthe ing rainy periods that were tinued to start women long before any Europeans work at 5 a. m. with glaciations. It is synchronous to around it. got difficult to How long is a question discussed ments founddate the stone imple100,000 Miles on Beat the shores of SAN JOSE, CALIF. Careful caljudicially in a. brochure issued by these vanished along artibut these the Field Museum of Natural His- facts must belakes, more than 10,000 culations by Police Sergt. Lloyd Bufhave demonstrated that durtory. years old, as the lakes were prob- fington No Dogmatic Answer Given. in existence from 30,000 to ing 26 years as a policeman he has ably No dogmatic answer is given, but 10.000 patroled the citys streets for more years ago. scholars are sure of one thing: huThe next trace of man in the than 100,000 miles. mans discovered America so long Southwest dates from about the beago that there were camels here in ginning of the Christian era. Skipthose days. over the long period of at least Woman Makes Hobby We must accept what informa- ping 10.000 years, which still remains a tion the most competent geologists mystery, we come to that in Of Pencil Collecting can give us concerning the length of Southwestern history aboutperiod a which BIG RAPIDS, MICH. Mrs. time man has inhabited the New great deal is known. The basket Seth Zetterstedt, of this city, has World, writes Paul S. Martin, chief maker Pueblo culture dating from a hobby of collecting pencils all curator of the department of an- about A. D. 500 to about A. D. 1700. sorts, colors and kinds. She has thropology at Field. This is in his more than 400. introduction to the brochure, which Hit 100 m. p. h. Targets Italian road builders in Ethiopia had to contend with shifting desert Some of the pencils are shaped is entitled Archeological Work in Three-inc- h ft LONDON. sands, among other things. Here is a light motor lorry ploughing its way like inAckmen-Lowrcanes, y umbrellas, walking the Area, and of hitting a tarover the road from Mogadiscio to Harrar before Italy started its new road guns capable golf clubs. One resembles a gun dicates the importance of excavatowed at 100 m. p. h. by an air. program. get building which a in is there hutrigger, stock, tions and analysis of prehistoric plane are included in the royal arand barreL spring man remains in that area. swift water, the climb up the steep, day at Dessye thousands of people latest equipment. All evidence seems to shqw that tillerys narrow trails on the other side must engage in trading and gossiping. be made with tired men and aniBargains are usually long drawn mals. In some places the trail is out affairs and the people pride Star Repeats Eclipse little more than a series of steps, themselves on being good traders. where progress is slow and difficult. Year Twice Every Cycle On such struggles you have no time Lake Tana9s Story AUSTIN, TEXAS. The first mato enjoy the beauty of the rugged Lake Tana is situated in the midst jor discovery from the William Mcvolcanic formations of recent geof scenery! Donald observatory that the bright ologic age. After considerable specstar Mu Sagittarii undergoes eclipse Mail Goes Through ulation about its origin by the first every 180 days has been announced of Otto Dr. on the upland trails, European explorers, it is now genStruve, by Safely back believed to occupy the the observatory. life is simple. Association with a erally of an andient Blue an of The discovery eclipse people who never worry is a novel Nile river. valley old river valley The no no which repeats itself every 180 days telephone calls, experience; was a one; a flow of probably deep in a bright star is an impbrtant newspapers h,ere. Once in a while lava entered 'it, a natural causing news. matter in itself, Doctor Struve runner a mail brings now at dam is the what, southern wrote the University of Texas. Delivery of letters by runners is end of the lake. The fractures in enhanced The custom. is The importance by a lava, its scoriated appearance, the fact that ,the phenomenon is runners are usually hardy men, this vast surface extent, mark a and in know the the who do not run; they quite similar to that' observed terrific natural upheaval cf long ago. and how double foot of the and cuts star, Short trails, large eclipsing There is a combination of low to pass through the territory of lo- shore area Epsilon Aurigas, much discussed by near the lake, with long, is time Doctor of their much a astronomers cal chiefs; year ago, of volcanic mountains gray ranges Struve added. spent in villages and churches along encircling it; these rise abruptly for officials welcome are He informed university the way where they from the plains Some of the inthat the discovery was made upon the stories they tell of happenifigs in trusions and volc&tcr plugs, espe. W. of this,, they the basis of a prediction by Dr. the capital. Because 6n the eastem'watershed, are cially The W. Morgan, an astronomer. bring the mail safely. extraordinary, rising several thouobin the recorded was discovery You are told that no runner has sand feet sheer from their bases, servatory by Dr. C. T. Elvey. been robbed of his mad in the history unscalable, grim and bare. Although McDonald observatory of the count! Hemayi fall upbn More green than blue, the water has been in use for some time, it is evil days in Some village, but the of this lake is beautifully clear. At not yet fully equipped. Struve pointletters, which he carries in a cleft sunrise the crimson glow is reflected ed out that instruments in use there stick, are not touched. by the water; when the moon is full, now qre suplemental to a major lens Highland Ethiopians are essential- ripples on the lake catch the light being ground in a Cleveland laboraly an agricultural people. Their ex- and make it a pleasing picture. It tory. istence is based on the experience acts as a mirror when flocks of The observatory, in the Davis snowy-whit- e of their ancestors. Cultivating a egrets cross mountains of southwest Texas, is enjoys the main coarse at the annual watermelon feast held by Secre- piece of ground which will yield it to their nesting places in the operated jointly by the University tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, in the garden of his home. Members enough for the family and the tax papyrus swamps. of Texas and the University of of the cabinet, congressmen, senators and forejgn diplomats attended collector, they then let it lie fallow During the dry season, its behavthe feast. Chicago. for four or five years. The ground ior can be predicted with certainty. panic-stricke- y, , anti-aircra- Sir Ronald Likes Watermelon 1 'co-direct- or lava-obstruct- well-establish- ed low-flyin- g, ed |