Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1919 — ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL.

New York, Sept. 25.—William Boyce Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial association, announced today that a two-reel moving picture, entitled “Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt’s Friends,” has been produced by that organization and is ready to be shown in theatres throughout the country. This film has been made under the direction of Hermann Hagedorn, a member of the executive* committeg. It is the belief of the officers of the Roosevelt Memorial association that this moving picture feature will be a valuable adjunct of the campaign which is to be conducted by that organization in~the week of October 20-27 for the purpdse of obtaining members. . . „ For a considerable time following Colonel Roosevelt’s death, Mr. Hagedorn was in North Dakota going over the country where the former president lived as a ranchman. Mr. Hagedorn also visited the colonel’s favorite hunting ground in Montana and Wyoming. ' Using letters of introduction which Colonel Roosevelt gave him a year before his death, Mr. Hagedorn had the opportunity of meeting all of Mr. Roosevelt’s, associates who still suryi ve> These friends and neighbors of Theodore Roosevelt in his ranching days appear in the picture. Joe Ferris, who took Roosevelt on his first hunt for buffalo, appears. So does his brother, Sylvane Ferns, who became Roosevelt’s ranch partner and companion of many hunts. Mrs. Margaret Roberts, whom Roosevelt called “the most wonderful woman in the bad lands,” is in the picture, as well as the Eaton brothers, who kept a “dude ranch’ near one of Roosevelt’s properties, and Jack Reuter, known as ’’Dutch Wan-

nigan,” who was the indirect cause of a French Marquis challenging Roosevelt to a duel. The duel was never fought; incidentally, because Roosevelt, having weapons, called for Winchester at twelve paces. The Marquis hastened to explain that he had never meant to challenge Roosevelt at all. As a background to these picturesque figures, the film shows the “bad lands” along the Little Missouri river, where Mr. Roosevelt s ranches were situated, the Chimney Butte” and the “Elkhorn,” and the seenec of the round-up, the trail and the hunt. There are views of Medora, “the toughest little town between the Canadian border and the Gulf of Mexico,” where Roosevelt made his quarters, as well as of the Kootenai mountains along ihe north fork of the Flathead river in northwestern Montana and the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming. The picture reveals, as no printed word could, the life which Theodore Roosevelt led in the years he spent in the west. “Whatever happens to me,” he said, when he returned to Medora as a candidate for the vicepresidency, “I thank God that I lave toiled and lived with men! This film shows how he lived and how he toiled. -