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T he C olumbia P ress June 1, 2018 WHS co-league champs 7 Senior Moments with Emma Edwards June is popular with brides and here’s why the bouquets Courtesy Debbie Morrow The Warrenton High School Varsity Baseball Team comes away as co-league champions after their final league game against Clatskanie. This Week in Aboriginal History by Carl A. Ellis Indians seek inclusion in big tobacco settlement June 1, 1934: The U.S. gov- ernment crafts a legal defini- tion for “Indian.” June 2, 1999: American Indians file a class action suit against major tobacco com- panies contending they were excluded from a $206 billion settlement reached with 46 states the previous year. June 3, 1833: Secretary of War Lewis Cass orders the U.S. Marshal’s Office to re- move white settlers and tres- passers from Creek Indian lands in Alabama. June 4, 1871: Gen. George Crook takes command of what was then called the De- partment of Arizona. He be- lieves the Indians should be treated fairly, but kept under control. June 5, 1866: A formal treaty conference begins at Fort Laramie in Wyoming. Leaders from many tribes and bands attend. The U.S. government seeks agreement for trails, roads and railroad lines to cross Indian lands. The meeting will be post- poned for almost a week at the request of Red Cloud, who wants additional Indi- ans to attend. June 6, 1868: Capt. D. Mo- nahan and troops from 3rd Cavalry leave Fort Sumner in western New Mexico to chase a group of Navajo Indians ac- cused of killing four settlers about 12 miles from the fort. After following their trail for 100 miles, the army surpris- es the Navajos, who are in a ravine. The Army reports killing three Indians and wounding 11; the rest escape. No soldiers are killed. June 7, 1494: The Cath- olic church divides the “new world” between Spain and Portugal. Ellis is an author and his- torian working on a book about American Indians. Learn more about American Indian history at facebook. com/snippetsintime. Senior lunch menu Monday, June 4 & Thursday, June 7: Menus for next week were not available. The Warrenton senior lunch program is at noon (doors open at 10:30 a.m.) Mondays and Thursdays at Warrenton Community Center, 170 SW Third St. Suggested donation is $5 for ages 55 and older; $7 for those younger. For more information, call 503-861-3502. Summer doesn’t begin until June 21. So don’t complain if we have a little fog or rain. Statistics reveal that June is the most popular month for weddings, followed by Au- gust and September. We often hear “For they say when you marry in June, you’re a bride all your life.” In doing a bit of research on why June is so popular for marry- ing, I found some practical as well as humorous reasons. Let me share a few with you. • June derives its name from Juno, the Roman god- dess of marriage. • During medieval times, a person’s annual bath (you read right, annual) usually fell in May or June so brides smelled fresh. Those who married at other times of the year carried a bouquet of flowers to hide their body odor. (That’s when the cus- tom of carrying a bouquet while walking down the aisle was born). • On the practical side, some chose June to time con- ception so births would not interfere with harvest work. There are other fun days in June, such as Flag Day and Father’s Day and it is Nation- al Rose Month and National Dairy Month. Reminds me of a couple we knew in Minnesota who ran a very large dairy farm. His favorite saying was “I owe all my success to utters!” Always brought a laugh. One more thing is that the birthstone for June is pearl and the flower rose. Real Simple Magazine has an interesting article this month about sayings we grew up with. The author was popular columnist Erin Zammett Ruddy. I recognized a few, such as “You get only one body in this life -- treat it right.” She points out the value of repeat, repeat and repeat again (she didn’t say it exactly that way but that is what she meant). I remember hearing “Clean- liness is next to godliness” in my growing up years. All these years, I thought mother was quoting from the Bible. I found out other- wise. It’s from a sermon, “On Dress,” by John Wesley. Anyway, another I just knew was from the Bible, but was not, is “God helps those who help themselves.” Seems Benjamin Franklin had something to do with that one. Sayings and mottos change or are added to from year to year. Ruddy headlined her article with a good one: “Be kind, have fun, work hard and learn a lot.” I had not heard that one, but she is from another gen- eration. I like it. Repetition is the secret to the success of such mottos or sayings. “Money is the root of all evil” has survived many generations and thought to be from the Bible but many of us in my generation have learned that it’s “the love of money” that is “a root of all sorts of evil.” Yes, the “love” one is in the Bible. I would like to hear some of the sayings other seniors grew up with and talk more about this subject, such as “If in doubt, don’t do it” or “If in doubt, throw it out.”
