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5C*erir-U'13c.10Ig:arl*i0FIND INDIAN RELICSIN BELOIT STREETSCollege Museum Curator Picksd!Rare Implements from Gutters,Isim Beloit. Wi*. Dec. 7,-lndIan relicsc So loose jn Bcloll streets, only awalt-lt' ilf C, *us tC pJck theni up- Al ^ast3 lt;hL* fa claimed by Prof Ira M. Buell.curator of the Logan museum of Beloit college.- The other daT my attention was at-0 jmeted by a rounded stone In the gut-{ ier, said Prof Buell. ''Taking it ^ . home and examining |t closely. I found* unmistakable mark* of its having been r;UBcd1 by the Indians as a quarzite ^ meal*nS stone, for grinding grain.* On Thursday Prof. Buell picked up another stone on a Beloit street, whichN 0 believes to be a granite peatlle[ once used by (be red men. In all, last week he added to the Logan collections seventy Indian Implements, most of which were found In the city or vicinity. During -the last six months he has added 206 similarly found Bpect-mcriB. mostly hammer BtoneB. So freguently have I picked up Indian relics in the streets that J have formed the habit of aflen walking in the middle of the street and looking for such stones. said Prof. Buell.Indians made southern Wisconsin one of their chief roaming grounds many Indian mounds on the college grounds add a touch of picturesque uniqueness to the campus here. Unde: the direction of Prof. Buell LogaD museum has become a rare treasure house of Indian relics, especially of the quaint implements and weapons of Wisconsin red men Some collections In the college museum here have been pronounced the mast valuable and rare In the countrv.VFaYi/ Cirlal fi J J
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Daily Leader
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Dec 07, 1914
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