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v.n a l.i-v 1U irfiills f.i(h, body that they would nol be "I played th rcllo, I recall, mm- him lo hve lo mount the horse older brother. Pev. B. Van from lha wrong side. Heuvelen.

lives at Huron. He has no hobbies, exceut horses. "People in this day and age are -i i. tlirie hi': blufltd inio leaving because el body pumped the parlor of nun, and at, p.is n( pidiiicH c.f horses Indient. tlute wen- two violini, guitar and I Iti'uvrlfti wa bum in Hot-, Hut at it tm nr.

out, wlu-n them banjo. gave converts at the. Rapid City. S. 0 Daily Journal 1 2.

Sunday, November 7. Ii4 when I was 72 years old. I stayed on all right but since then I've silecUd horses a bit more gentle," (unless one could call reud.ng ajliving too fast. We had better times hobby. Hegularly for many there wasn't much cf a 4 Ii.nd, Mich.

Hi pnnnts emtio from ln.li.oi ware wriucil to Im niiviiifcvi tom nnuns. in is was always ani Tin- Nrtliril.mil.s iind liimii slfHiIrd to a jeality the tlurp old b)wloi f-xcumj for lunch for the rinwd. We Tniitoiv whi'ie Jubn'wcie tin to leave town. Tlie would Kive forth with "Over the he read two books a week and slill hurry in tne days wnen reaa-is an avid reader and keeps well-ling around the lamplit table was informed on current happenings, lour main amusement," said Van 1 itt un sn I li 1 1 1 1 rrt d-I tm 1 lott V'ttri 0 trevv if -M M'iue vviisfi't wnoim it wat caused, Wavw Waltz," Hie "Irion Washer-i by Sitting Hull' tribe having a'oman" and other popular tune Every year Van Heuvelen nasi taken an active part in the Uay.s th), llK.ul Saddle Club. wht datu e' It was at eirective in oi ine nay.

iff i Van Heuvelen recalla II wti of 76 parade and lias had no baili if accidents with horse in all those "A dy i drive away from ut a imall town of Eureka. It had a railroad and SCO people livtd ihtre. It wai buty place becaute there wi no railroad between Eureka and Bismarck. N. aid Van Heu-velen, who ii a llutnt and en He still springs up and years i mounts a horse like a young sprout uiual to ride IS mllei to a dance, and layt the horse would be io crowded end packed inio the barn that they nev er kicked or (ought because vvavd.

though, hi ii It had jliveu seiiuus. "Some fidk aot panicky. They thitu' tlieir floui and kupphei down into the well. When they left they nil their tlois aliing, fearful the Indians iniKht cat them if they of 65 only Van Heuvelen (mount on the wrong id( of the il.orsc! Thi is from necessity and One lime at his hillside home in Deadwood, Van Heuvelen needed some big limber to build a garage. Instead of ordering them from a lumber yard, the grand old pionear went up on the hillside, cut the timbers and brought "them down.

You can see the timber In hi hillside garag. In 1943 Mrs, Van Heuvelen died He has a problem now, though, as he has just finished helping to paint his home and has run out of anything to do! He attends church regularly and when weather permits he rides horseback ground Deadwood. Van Heuvelen, a happy, contented person, almost purrs when ha speaks of Deadwood and the Black Hills and can't understand "why anyone would want to Jive anywhere except right here in there wasn't room lor that I tertaining ialkvr. Van Heuvelen speak with doubt the old horseman has ex- "Kinrka had saloon's and they were left behind. "In leaving their horrm talgic longing of those good old plained it confidentially to his day on the farm when farmers 'mount.

did what they pleased, planted! It was In January of 19j3 when what they desired, and had no re-! Van Heuvelen was walking down ued a whole carload of beei every day in the hufy season. There wa always plenty going on there. I alwavs rode horseback Van Heuvelen and daughter, tuition on anything. the hill from h. home.

He was there was one family of ten In wagon. One child either jumped or bounced out. When somebody yelled lo the father lo stop, he responded. 'Better one lost than the whole family', as whipped up his horses!" in iq'o th. vun ,.,,4 fr th hnr nrnhah.

Jean, live together in their delight lo Mitchell, Their four children' ly walking In his usual brisk that looks down on two a lot and owned my fust horse when 1 was 17 years old. "When I was 16 years old 1: woiked out for a man who often) trusted me to make trips to Hr him. Qnce I was tiding along' 1 ft spots that are dear to the oldster (attended Dakota Wesleyan and his head held high as usual, hurry- levervone of the four vnonolor ins" to his horses. the rodeo grounds and the Saddle Club Barn. "It is doubtful if there is a trail Young Van Heuvelen married got a college degree.

At Mitchell Van Heuvelen had a dairy manned and tny horse stepped into a hole, the former Jennie Tinholt, who was anywhere in the vicinity of Dead- We both went down In with good Guernsey cows. He must have forgotten the treacherous ice undar the snow, and the many winters that had gone over the Van Heuvelen frame. Suddenly and without any warning he slipped and flop to- also from Michigan, but he met her in Dakota Territory. The young gether wood that Dad doesnt know inch by inch," said Mrs. Shostrom.

"We've traveled them all horseback. Many a time we've packed "I did all my own work, oven lo delivering the milk which I sold in town at nine cent a quart for awhile I got 10 cent. I had 11 milk cow, so with milking and delivering It fell flat on the ice. "I knew right away that couple took over the management of the farm of Van Heuvelen's parents and carried on with the pioneering, "We lived on that farm until our children were old enough to little 'grub' and hit the trail to 1 "But that horA no doubt saved my life. I must have passed out completely and I came lo when the horse snorted in my face.

It was frightfully cold and I would have lroin if his snorting had not aroused me. gether on a camping trip. ANNUAL BAZAAR Mother Butler Center West Boulevard North TUESDAY NOV. 9 7 to 11 P. M.

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i i "There was very little red tape; very cold, but I knew my daugh- go to school. Then we sold out and; bought a farm jiift outside the city, to the dairy business in those days. Jean, who teaches in the Dead- "1 was in great pain but managed limits of the town of Herreid. to ci awl onto my horse then Th Van Heuvelans had four ehildrn: Mr. A.

H. "Lex" Shostrom of Deadwood; Dr. G. J. Van Heuvelen, superintendent of State Board of Htalth, of Pierre; Dr.

V. B. Van HeuveUn of Deadwood. and Jean, home-making teacher in Deadwood High School. There are five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Van Heuvelen' We had to have all our cowt T.B. jwood school would soon be along, tested and the inspector came to It was a good half hour before she each daiiy at regular intervals. found me. "We lived at Mitchell 20 years "My hip W'as broken in that fall, and the Corn Talace that is there land I spent four and a half months now was built while we lived in the Deadwood hospital. Some there.

Mitchell had about 10,000 complications set in and 'lor I blanked out again. There is one' Ihiiig especially ime about horse he can be relied on in such cases He was on the job, and took me, home faithfully. My collar bone as II was a aiuacra prairie farm. I had horses in fact I always had horses, too many of them I guass. The wildest, toughest of th lot was always my lavorit mount in those years.

population then, but it has grown 'awhile I had both my ankles in a broken in that fall. "On my father's homestead, "We did all our farm work with a great deal since then. traction splint. Time was tripping along and some of th Van Heuvelen's "I was 79 years old and this was the first lima I had ever bean in any hospital as a pa- where- I grew up, we had crop Wheat and corn were our failures just as most pioneer folks i main crops mid I raised cattle, had We had lean years, hut we horses and Poland China pigs, stuck to the land and also hadlSome years wheat brought only 40 IN THE SADDLE again after suffering a broken hip is 10-ytir-old John Van Heuvelen oi Dtadwood. lient.

so I can't good yea's. children marriad and left the home nest while th family lived at Mitchell, On daughter, who is Mrs. A. H. "Lex" Shostrom.

wife of a leading Deadwood businessman, was living in Deadwood. Th parent made regular trip to th Black Hill to visit lh It was at this time the many friends and those who loved him best whispered behind his back that the 79-year-old rider would never ride again, "It's pitiful," they said as they sadly shook their heads. "Here is a picture of an old sod ghurch that I helped re-roof once. did the work by putting a thick layer of sod on top rl th boards. In summer you could st dandtllons and cents a bushel.

"We were lucky if we got five cents a pound for hogs, but on the iother hand we could go into a cafe land buy a good meal for 25 cents. jWe'd get a steak almost as big as the dinner plate," Van Heuvelen said with a smile as he compared Aged Wins Horseman Applause He missed riding 'n the parade grais jjrowing on the roof. Hobarf AMBULANCE Oxygen 2-Way Radio DIAL FI 3-0077 '1 recall thnt the Sioux Line, as prices. it "We had to haul our produco was called, came into hureka "Every time came to the of that year for the first time since Black Hills we had the tirne of ourhe began. In late 1953 he began lives," Van Heuvelen said.

"We fell riding a little now and then, as he in love ith Deadwood, and when isn't a person who gives up easily. But th thrill of hi life into town. By hone and wapn travel it took two days, and we spent th night in town, School teachers got only $25 a month (alary but they got ana the town or nerreid wa settled. This town is about HK) miles west of Aberdeen. "It came up like a mushroom-one day their was nothing there For His Courage we spoke of retiring we talked about Deadwood.

"In 1941 we to Deadwood. I seemed to fit right into the local cheap board. "We' had good times in those, saddle club as if Id always been cam this year when wa abl io rid In th parade a usual. People cheered a his tall, straight figure attired in Western clothes rod along in th parade. He fooled th skeptical en as his hip healed perfectly.

It is not quit as elastic as of old, which causes years. Once we organized a neigh- here. I was custodian of the saddle borhood orchestra although not club for years." Van Heuvelen said BY LOIS MILLER years old. In five minutes' talk and next day the town was being "Van Heuvelen r.drs again." w.th him you discover that horses born. I recall one Indian scare Many friends cheered on the side- 'TP hobby and always have that same year, lines at the 1954 Davs of '76 parade' "IS Illl'R serapbook fur- "All fall lhert was talk of an in Deadwood as the tall straight 'nishes a history of the many Indian scar.

Thrta old bache-figure of John Van Heuvelen on hoi ses he has ridden, rven the lors in th neighborhood had horseback caire into view. He is horse which he owned when! rifles, and bragged io every- "It seems to I've had lots of fun since I came here. I rod my last wild bucking horse one of us knew one note from another! We played by ear and got along without any discord. nding now to keep in trim atid it is his favoi lie sport Fi icnds feel like cheering whenever they see him because last year it looked as if he would never ride again. "I plan to ride in next year's parade." Van Heuvelen said.

Ke probably will, yet he is 80 yean old. He is on of Dead-wood most beloved old-timers. Van Heuvelen came lo Dakota Ttir. to-y it with his parents. Ti.cy settled ai Thule, which was 30 ir.iirs from the small railroad town of Euieka.

Wws jM a postoffice and gene: a 1 store." Van Heuvelen re-caVis "When the town of Hevveid wa founded six miles to the south the Thule postoffice was and Thule conked out a- a town. "There were no roads at that time, only trails little better than those I rid over horseback around Deadwood, No fences, no bridges, and to cross I creek or river we had to fcrd. "When I a 'n my early teens rr.v father and my older brotliei vrf. In hi i In In 5JjOWlN FULL SWING! -yA "t-' MEN'S traveled to Orjiige City. Iowa, to attend the Academy there.

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