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V1 8 Rapid City, S. 0 Daily Journal Sunday, June 1, 1951 77 Graduated I At Wall ef boys and girls during their long residence in western South Dakota, all of whom are now grown up and most of them married. They are Gertrude. Clarence, Kathleen, Grace. Cleo and Johnny B.

iRalph is employed In the Indian service at Pine iRidqo, but the others are pretty well scattered about over the various states. The family has been members of the Episcopalian church for many years, und they have always been active in church work. This early Christian training has made of all their children fine, upstanding YOU'LL FEEL COOLER! and look your summer time best in clothes that we have freshly cleaned and pressed for you. Phone 69 for prompt pick-up! Hop Questions and Answers I What is the difference between brewer's and baker's yeast? A Both baker's and brewer's I yeast are strains of the same yeast culture. Bakers yeast has been trained to crow in the nresence of I oxygen to produce large numbers i of yeast cells and little alcohol.

Brewer's yeast has be.en trained to grow in the absence of oxygen and to Dioduce large amounts of alco hol and fewer yeast cells. Is It possible for man to see i ultraviolet I A People who have had cata racts removed from their eyes can see ultraviolet light which cannot be seen by those with ordinary vision. Why are so many people married in June? A In the time of ancient Rome, Juno, the wife of Jupiter, was the patroness of happy marriages. May was considered unpropitious, while March was yarned for Mars, the Cod of War and would therefore be a poor time to marry, since family disputes might follow. How does saccharin compare with sugar in sweetness? A It is 375 times as sweet as sugar.

24 Hour Service At No Extra Cost 25 YEARS QUALITY DRY CLEANING EXPERIENCE cX AND QUALITY CLEANERS DYERS 724 Main Rapid City ta 9 I I -J 1 L-l's-i'U I 2L 1 aw'kUwiRn Lis Auw5fcc Bairn At yA THIS WEEK'S young men and women, or wnom any father and mother well be proud. John's chief hubbies while in the service were extension work and community activities, including community recreation. Many are the young Indian farmers and ranchers, as well as those in thier middle age, who are better fitted for their work and for life because of the untiring efforts and patience of this kind, tall man who was al ways so ready and eager to help them in every way in spite of the endless tasks of his daily routine of work Mrs. Powless' hobbies closely followed those of her husband, with the addition of homemak-ing. needlecraft, weaving, cooking, and other of the arts so pleasing to the feminine taste.

And, as in John's case, many are the women and girls today who are better homemakers, cooks, and seamstresses, because of the faithful teachings of this charming lady. They are a distinguished looking, outstanding couple, and draw a second glance in any crowd. Courteous, polite, and polished in manner, they are at home in any so cicty. Both are witty, love to joke, laugh the loudest when a joke is on themselves, and are always game for anything in the line of recreation and fun. Both belong to the type which never grow old.

Retired now, they still live with their pleasant memories of a lifetime of unselfish service and devotion to several generations of In dian youth, as well as to the adults in the two communities they served so faithfully and long. At Pine Ridge their home is always open to alL To them there" are no strangers in this government agency town, for all know and honor and respect them. There may be finer couples on the Pine Ridge reservation than Mr. and Mrs. John C.

Powless, but we have never met them yet. And, furthermore, we've given up looking! Civil Service OF A PRIVATE STUDIO SECRETARIAL STUDIO 603'a MAIN STREET Schoonhoven, secretary-treasurer; Glenn Alishouse, vice president; Esther Bielmaier, president; Alfred Paulsen. Third row: Ida Eisenbraun, Supt. Julius H. Werle, Patricia Clark.

Eleven seniors were graduated last week In ceremonies at Wall high school. Pictured, top row, left to right, are: Ponna Ivins, Thomas Foley, Thomas Bourne, Lydia Huffman. Second row: Wilhelm Eisenbraun; Jean Van transferred to Brave Heart day Special Beautiful patterns and solid colors of green, gray, white, maroon, tan, and yellow seersucker. Short Sleeve Sport Shirts Veteran Indian Service Employes Recall Arduous Trips For Wages school, about five miles to the northwest fo Porcupine. Here they remained for many, many years, until they finally retired from the Indian service on Aug.

31, 1946 with a total of 39 years of honest, faithful service to their credit. John and his charming wife have raised a fine large family Phone 69 zs ZJ mmmsm $o)95 Siits S-M-L MEN'S WEAR 518 Seventh Rapid City zs Bookkeeping Typt'in9 IN THE ATMOSPHERE jL air! $horti NEAITA E. DAVIS Mr, and Mrs. John C. very heavily in our pockets back in those days either.

"It seems to us that we were plenty isolated, but some of the other day schools were much worse off when it came to making the long drives to Pine Ridge for their pay. Take Wanblee, for instance. From, there it was about 85 miles to the agency, and from Potato Creek it was 65 miles, "Back in those days the Indian families over the big reservation had to drive to the agency twice a month for their rations in wagons and buggies. This kept some of them on the road most of the time. Later, however, they could get them at their farm stations and even at their day schools.

"Mrs. Powless and I hive gone through about four pe M. i --I PHONE 1051 PAIR TO CHOOSE FROM! Spring Summer I "ti A tPi rjl fi! Br WILL SPINDLER PINE RIDGE. At the Pine Ridge Indian agency lives a grand couple we have admired lor over 25 years. They are Mr.

and Mrs. John C. Powless, long-time employes in the Indian service, now retired and enjoying a well-earned rest They were located as teacher and housekeeper at Brave Heart day ichool in the vicinity of Porcupine when we first met them back in 1925. I was then rural ichool teacher myitlf. leaching during iht school terms and working on lhe big DeWolf ranch in western Nebraska during the summers.

But how' much more glamorous and romantic to leach Indian pupils in iht federal Indian service! Ia the service ourselves now since 1929, it still holds a delightful fascination for us, and the glamor and romance have not faded for us here on our picturesque reservation. Both Mr. and Mrs. Powless re Oneida Indians from Wisconsin. John was born on Aug.

8, 1878, at Oneida, while Mrs. Powless, the former Miss Inez R. Hill, was also born at the same place, John, as ha is known to his lioit of friends on the big Pin Ridge reservation and elsewhere, entered the Indian service on July 1. 1907. at Oneida.

Before entering the service, as well as during his school days, he worked at farm and dairy work in this noted lairy state. Mr. and Mrs. 'Powless were married on Nov. 10, 1910, at Milwaukee, Wis.

Shortly after their marriage he was transferred to the Pine Rirlge reservation, where they have resided ever since, with occasional vacation trips back to the state of their birth. Their first assignment On the big reservation was to No. 12 day ichool, situated on the vast, lonely prairies between Manderson and Rockyford. Here John was appointed to the position of teacher end Mrs. Powless to that of housekeeper.

Like all of the smaller Indian day schools. No. 12 employed cinly one teacher and one housekeeper. "Day school employes were really isolated back in those herse-and-buggy days on the big reservation." John recalls vividly. "At No.

12 we were ever 33 miles to the northeast of the agency, and we bad to drive our team to the agency to get our pay at first only once every three months, as we were then paid quarterly, but later, once a month. The money we received tor salray didn't weigt i2 il ort I I I S. IW 'sir He says he'll trade the island for 2i and King Koil Mattress Powless and family. riods or ages since we first arrived here on the reservation so many years ago. They were the horse-and-buggy age.

the Model Ford or "Tin Lissie" age, the better car or "highway burner" car and airplane age. and the present atomic and jet-propulsion age. My, how long ago it seems back to that horse-and-buggy age. and even to that "Tin Lixsie" age! "Both of us have enjoyed good health down through the years of our long stay here, and long ago the good old Pine Ridge became I 'home' to us. We have made many I good friends here, and we would not trade them for anything." After a number of years at No.

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