T he C olumbia P ress
June 1, 2018
WHS co-league champs
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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.”