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ut Belt Valley Times * ■■ ■ - . 1 * . ! ~ i '" '' 1 1 VOLUME 28. NUMBER 29 BELT, MONTANA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 5, 1922 $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE! Tighe Appointed County Prosecutor Considerable comment was indulged in by our small town politicians when the news was received of the resig nation of County Attorney Howard G. Bennet, but so far no better reason than that stated by Mr. Bennet him self for the move has been advanced Mr. Bennet handed in his resignation to he board of county commissioners late Friday afternoon, and he board at once appointed Chief Deputy W. J. Tighe to the position. Mr. Tighe in turn appointed Fred A. Ewald as chief deputy and Julius J. Wuerth ner as deputy county attorney to serve under the new regime. "I am retiring to attend to my pri vate pracice," said Mr. Bennet. "and for no other reason. I believe condi tiens in Great Falls are on the eve of the greatest showing the city has ever known, and I desire to devote my time to the building up of my own business. I have had experience with both Mr, Tighe and Mr. JüwaM in. of fice, both having been deputies under me during my time as county attor ney, and I can commend them as fear less, as well as tireless and efficient officials, and with Mr. Wuerthner added I am sure that the work of the office will go ahead to the best inter esta of the people of Cascade county, Mr. Tighe is one of the best officials it has ever been my pleasure to meet and his appointment as county attorney by the board of county com missioners was a deserved Compli Mr. Tighe, the new county attor ney, is well known in Belt, and his ap- ; proval here,.and there is no question but he will make good in the office, He has served as chjef deputy county attorney under County Attorney Ben net for three years and he has taken an active part in the preparation and trial of all the leading cases tried during Mr. Bennet's tenure of office. I Ho has been fearless in the prosecu tion of violators of the law and is a strong advocate of the prohibition ! ment to a deserving official. pointment meets with general ap law. ®*n> ca(k:i icutv in uemniK wun vioib tions of that law. that constant, per sistent. real efforts to enforce the law, are less expensive and bring about better results than sporadic at tempts, yith long delays intervening ; such attempts; He believes that by the cooperative and systematic work ; of the sheriff's office and county at- ! torney's office the prohibition law can be enforced. On Tuesday Mr Ewald declined to accept the chief deputyship under Mr. Tighe and expressed himself as not ? in «coord with the past ami present incumbents of the county attorney's . office, and intimates that Mr. Ben net's eulogy in. regard to his own (Ewalds) work in the office is "pure r, b "? k ", T . „ k , County Attorney Tighe states that m the interest of economy that for ; N the present at least he will not ap point any deputy to succeed Mr. ( Ewald, but will attempt to carry on Tj the work of the office with the assist- Rj ance of Mr. Wuerthner. When County Attorney Bennet ' made his appointment of deputies there were no ex-service men to ap point, the^service men having not yet returned; when the service men re-! turned Mr, Tighe offered to resign and give a place to a service man, but Mr. Bennet felt that the duties of the office were such that he needed Mr, Tighe who had then become fa milirar with the duties of the office. 1 Mr. Tighe states that he intends to strictly enforce the prohibition law as well as other laws. He says from his experience in dealing with viola r _, , ,, , , , W dliam t luhr, an all-around athlete has accepted the task of making a winning team of the Belt Valley High basket shooters. Mr. Fluhr believes he has the material here to nut the Fluhr to Coach B V. H. School Basketball Team team on tW basketball map and- in-1 tends to do so if hard and conscien tious practice count for anything.' As yet he has not completed the line up for the season, but has discovered a lot of promising material which is being tried out every evening at the gym. Mr. Fluhr knows the game 1 himself and has the faculty of putting pep into his associates and real re suits are anticipated under his coach The team- will play the Chou mg. teau boys at Fort Benton tomorrow evenmg. DISTRICT COURT CALENDAR TRIMMED OF 224 CASES - * Civil actions numbering 224 were dismissed from the district court docket Friday for want of prosecution, j All these cases have been pending In in district court for the past three years, with no action taken in any of them since the date of filing. District Judges J B. lioslie and H H. Ewing ordered a spec ia l ra t li n g of the cat--K, endar to dispose of these actions. The dismissal of these serions does not accomplish much in the way of relieving the present congestion of the file*. according to Clerk of the Court, Alex Remneas There «re approxi- j mutely 1,600 live cases on record now j in hia office. Not all of the actions are at issue, Mr. Remneas said, be raiist- of failure to serve the summons on the defendants. Many of the cares ■ will be tried during the February term [ of court. Renames Cate as "Black Diamond ff The new proprietor of Belt's old-} ; est eating house took charge of the j business Sunday morning, and the j impression was conveyed to the pat rons in short order, that Mr. O. . H. Johnson knows his business. Not that the former proprietors were lacking in knowledge of how a restaurant should' be run,for there was no fault to be found on that score, but the smooth ness and dispatch which marked the service of the new force in shtrange surroundings clearly indicated a famil iarity that only comes with long ex perience. Mr. Johnson states that he has come to Belt to stay. He likes the place and he likes the people he has so far met. He also likes the business out look and while he don't propose to tear up the earth, all at once, he is already planning to make "several im provements in his place of business to conform more in accordance with his! ideas of what a real, u p - to - da te cafe should be. To be more in keeping with local traditions and geseral ap propriateness, Mr. Johnson has de- 1 cided to rechristen the cafe and henceforth it will be known as the "Black Diamond Cafe.'' Quite a few changes are contemplated in the interior arrangements. First, the dining room will be redecorated and the floor laid with battleship linol euni. the present booths will be re placed by a larger dining hall with tables and separated from the lunch counter by a partition with curtained passageways. It is probable also that a door will be cut through the wall between the cafe and Wilson's ice cream establishment, in order that diners mty be served with ice cream without the necessity of going outside. Mr. Johnson says he intends to serve the people of Belt with the very best the market affords at all times, 'cooked in the proper maner and with the cleanliness that the highest san itary authorities demand. He will keep the cafe open for the present until 12 o'clock at night and if the business warrants intends to make it an all-night cafe, - « , — ... u aSC u^ e i SS nuf * aS am ® n f l !j e . a,X schools. The general fund d.a fributed amounts to $191,947.91 leav,n * 4 * *" the ^easnry. and ; $ 18 - 63 2 Per capita on the children of the county. ; „ l. he 5 1X schoo.Is at Great ! £ al1 . 8 ' Ca8cade - Belt > Stockett-Sand Simms and Ion Shaw, re ce,v ® » 9 7.682.96 in the apportion "**?£. The a PPortionment by districts g , 1 " 8 s« 11 ' 011 ar ® a8 follows; ? J, _ j r „„ u -a Stockett-Sand Coule. 2 .n8.„l . . , R , ,7 ^Belt 31o.74 £ ^ ' 'SSS'SS r, o .. ÜO , ß SÄ Ä , ; N jh 244079 ßj wm w 219 48 ( p , uw > Tj m Butte g W Rj ^ vi , le 7453 Willow Creek 24222 Rrijlrr^an oobTi Belf Park 354 01 Roosevelt 521 70 Tk e„n ? —• j to Th |i f!° ^ T apportioned to i the different high schools of the jcounty: I Great Falls ! Cascade Stockett-Sand Coulee Belt Simms ^ or * Shaw ! 1 „ . c r Coun ' y Superintendent of Schools Jan ®, Keen ®y >> a8 J ust imisnea ap-j PorDonment of th e general school f uud of the county among the schools Tax Apportionment Gives School Gash $65,843.65 6,263.48 9,175.58 11,484.67 2,397.34 2.508.23 Odd Fallows Install Of ficers and K. P.'s Elect 1 E . . „ tbe Goal v alley Lodge No 54, I. O. O. F„ was held last week resulting in selecting the following: J A. Light, N. G.r Lester Brodic, V. G.; The semi-annual election of officers Herbert Barber, secretary; Lawrence Farmer, financial secretary; Albert Castner, treasurer; D. W. Burnett, trustee. The installation of the offi jeers took place last night at the lodge rooms. The appointive officers will be named at the next regular session of the lodge.-* j Monday evening the regular session of Cascade Lodge, Nof 39. K. of P., th# following were elected as officers to serve the ensuing term; J. A. Kier stead, C. C.; Ernest Siegling. V. C.; Mik* Kaasler, prelate; A- L. Wmaton of B and S.; Tho s, N »bU, M. of F.; M. at A.; Arthur Samuelson, I. G.; Archie Sommerville, 0, G,; G«io. Hub ber, M. of W ; !>■ praybeai. physi clan. ' The installa^ton will be held j next Monday. j — EPISCOPAL CHURCH SERVICES — -. Rev. J. N. Cbeanut. D D., will con duct service* at at Episcopal church next Runday morning All an- cor Chas. F. Rice, M. at B. ; Otto Venohr, Idially invited to attend. ID |d R 'member -, »»vis — stf VWOHÉbUOW v* 1 09 iM limit mmt m •*trp=v^Y— ■•w" TH6 WP that USED TD 5TAy IM HkjMTi AMP StUPy-VMEU. 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I III Uüli U mUIIIUu I I Üull villuU w w 1 w J 1 w v 1 ' w * 1 * ww r Iffondunfifl CvnooHc nf I Vour unrf Dr.-wrram Dili lad Ailuiludnuu LAwCQUo ImuI Ui LflOl ItJfl! dilU il U11 ulll i U 110U -v -_ . .. . |j(| WîT nD 11Î 8 H fCu nfflR.'s \Hll() U " nm,UUI ° mlUil> ÜIU °° KH-HI t ■ ~ ~ The Belt Volunteer Fire Depart ment has discovered the secret of in „ th people of Belt and vicinity * , H f . * what the y want in the wa y °* enter tainment, if the results of their sec-! ond annual carnival is to be taken as a guide. Belt has entertained large gatherings on festive occasions dur ing summer holidays, but no indoor function has ever met with the success as an entertainment and in a financial way as the revivil of old time amuse-j ments put on as an annual event by the Belt fire fighters. The carnival held last Friday and Saturday even-1 ings brought out even a larger crowd than that of last year, although the total receipts were a trifle less. Even I at that the boys are more than sotis fied as under present conditions, and the fact that the carnival followed a unusual a <- ti v ity in the «min ge ment line, they did not expect the ex traordinary success of their first ven ture. The total receipts approximated mi me iigiuug euunmiciu tbus placing the taxpayers' as sharers ___ _ _ _ _, f oT tbe two nights and there will j be a handsome profit which will be expended f or fj re fjgrting equipment A noticeable feature was the smooth ness with which every detail 0 f. the program was carried out, the pro meters and their assistants evidently pro fiti n g by former experience. Not a comp laint was entered at any time and everybody apparently got a run for their money ^ ig mea * t a can ,. fu i supervision over all the depart ments and lotg of haH work by thoae who contributed their time and efforts k th a „, ir . The idea of the carnival was simple enoUfrh Briefly it was an atte mpt h°n?h' Ct ^ ^ °! ^ to " fF hall the various recreations that tre Pion-r. of .u p p„. f ,l have indulged in The licensed gam , blm ^ hoU8 f: the da "ce hall and the sa- ; ]oOI l 7**5 ^Tto* W to 8Up P ly CUr .' ' rent funds and the Chinese Restaurant to ? t6r Vilf to"^ Were tl ?® thin ^ J» 4 ■"P | P h *J ^ . *«»uemc a t and b £ U -* ht ? t b ® ^ b made the affair a financial success. B •» estimated that 500 peopk WeFe ln . attendance each night of the carnival and it was real work for tbo#t> ^ve their Service« to op?r-;Ml8s ating the various devices for separ atjng the crowd from their money Inese were mostly members of the department and volunteers, being fully repaid by the unqualified success of the whole affair. AH entered Into Hie spirit,of the occasion and probably en joyed it as much as those who had nothing to do but amuse themselves, Nevertheless the department desire to extend their appreciation to at! those non-members for their coopéra ion and realize that they owe much for The carnival opened at 8 o'clock Friday evening the crowd arriving at the appoined hour. The Sagebrush hank was the first place visked where current funds for the evening could secured. The bank was presided over by A. L. Winston and Chas F. ok and was a busy institution every min ute of the time during the.entire car nival. The funds furnished upon ex ceadinglv liberal terms were current at all place* in the hall and the rou lette wheel in charge of ffm. Miller and Phil Leveille. faro bank presided over by L. J. Clergy, J. W Leland their interest and assistance. OVER THREE-FOURTHS CITY TAX IN -According to City Treasurer Provin's report to be filed tonight rf r .. -, , n -- -, with the city council, 77 ,l-3 per - cn of the t*». list of the City of Belt haa been collected The total amount to be collected was $13,841.98 and to date $10,702.80 ha* been paid into the treasurer's office, leaving $3,139.89 to be collected. According to Mr. Provin this compares favorably with the collections made last year, i on sidering the conditions at present oh taining. By far the larger part of the de Irnouencies are traceable to the ex ! and R. H. Bemis and the black-jack giv-'ffame operated by Lee Turner and ' John Jaap wert> "° on doin K " good * I business, which continued through '1 out the carnival. The arrival af a five piece orchestra under the leadership of Mrs. R. G. Parker, pianiste, as sisted by Miss Alice Beaudry, ' inlin-j ist«-; M. T. Messelt, violin and sax-! aphone; Phil Dunstan, trombone, and Raymond Millard, traps and xylfn : phone, called the dancers to the floor and while the crowd was too I dense for much more than a "mill-! ring around" they seemed to enjoy! themselves hugely. The only inter 1 mission in the dancing was to give : managers of the floor, Ben Thor | sen. Will Millard, A, Want«; Ernest ; Troutman and Cal Sharrard, time to ! collect the tolls, while there was a a (constant stream going to the res ilai-raaL ami bar^ lhe former being ' hanilivd in an expert mander by' ! Chars. F. Rice, Earl Rector and dar j enoe Summen ille, The bar was i —— "—»—»» -i - —— n-1 Thos. Davis presiding, relieved uc casionally by Judge Olson, collected numerous fines while order was main ; tainetl by.^heriff N H Browning a n4, j Deputies Dare-Gray and E. W. Bur-[ nett. One fellow who called hlms.df | 3 A. Kierstead, opened up th^-iiofor ; loa« "soap game' but was promptly pinched though he had disposed of ( most of his wares. Old timers claim to have recognized him as the original "Soapy Smith." The prize waltz was a feature of 'h. fim ...nin,, (u% fifty eoupfc. competing. The judges gave the award of $5.00 to Mrs Ben Thorsen and William Johnson. Much interest was displayed in the ladies popular «•», c.r«.t With ,-ch pwrt.«. current funds a ticket was iMued. ; the voter writing the name of h.s j ' ch ° IC !, a , nd d «P 0S " tln « ln the ba,Iot bo * provided. The votes were counted ; day - and te . n °' c,ock the ond evening the winner announced. ! The committee chosen to roun.the : votes found over 50 names, the high est ^ing Miss Nelie Klimas with IL876 vote.; Mn Ben Thorsen 10 - 400, and Miss Ebba Lundell, 9,750. TClimas~was declared Thé 'Winner'^ - . - ably managed by Mike Kessler and 1 Ed Peterson and did a rushing b "*-1 mess. The kangaroo court, Judge amid great applause and was pre- : sented with a beautiful pearl necklace. (». W. Merkle making the presentation speech in his usual graceful and easy manner. Mr. Merkle took desperate chances by appearing in full dress, i claw-hammer coat, opera hat and all. u but fortunately the gathering was ! tolerant and he got away with it. I Miss Klimas was prettily .emharrased and not being equal to the speech called tor by the crowd, responded 1 with a song and received an encore. ; We almost forgot to mention that she was also crowned queen of the carnival, cosmopolitan gathering, cowboys and cowgirls, negroes and Chinamen, the elite and the commoner met and mixed. The be-diamoned and-light-. fingered gambler hobnobbed with the. sheep herder and nabob and «very- ! body stayed to the finish with two holidays ahead to make up for lost sleep, and it required it if the testi-l° mony of thos«- who stuck faithfully to the job for the two nights is to be relied upon. a brilliant and It was altogether A ; cessive cost of the 1919 sidewalk "matmetion which in the case of many vaeant loU on side streets. nmotmt „ prmbtia ^fy to eonfiaeation. 7^ f, na) ootPom<; Q f the problem these lets present to the city is pretty hard to guess, hut it will he one that will engage the attention of the city council for some lime to come, Aside from the delinquencies in these lots referred to, the list is remark ably small and In most cases for ineig nificant amounts. Property upon which taxes are delinquent will be sold at public auction January 20, 1922. ID School Board Dis I cuss Retrenchment board were present at the regular routine business of allowing the cur All members of the Belt school rent mon Gily hills and accepting the resignation of Miss Alice McFadden, teacher of the 6th grade, was quickly disposed of, and then the perennial; Z, discussion of the question of school j boys infesting the pool halls was en- ' tered into with the result that all pro prietors of poc# halls be requested to ^ follow the example of Mr. Harris, '' who has forbidden all boys attending «■ school to frequent his place of bus iness. Miss Treo Knutson of Portland, N. Dak., arrive«! yesterday morning to take the position of teacher inthe 0(h grade, made vacant by the resignation Misa Alice McFadden. The statement of Clerk John S. Pearson of the total of tax collections the district, amountig to $15,667.64, called the attention of the board to tb e ^ uot tbat * be y'' ar *y expenses of operating the schools of this district exceeds by a large margin the rev tnues. A few hundred dollars are ex l ,ecte( * t0 ^ *dded through the trans !W '^ 00 * money of outside dis j tricta from which pupils are attending the Belt schools, but this will not by " ny means m *l ce U P the deficit, in r ^ ac t will be but a very small item, .Tentative discussion of ways and means did not present anything tan Kib l e in the way of « solution, and the statement of one member of the board that "the difficulties of financ ing schools was a very common com plaint among most of the districU of the state" did not convey a great^^bis amount of comfort to the members of the local board. While many sugges 1 tions toward economy in the way of combining different departments were put forward, to most of them in surmountable difficulties presented themselves at once, the result being J nothing definite was arrived at. The matter will undoubtedly serve as a topic for discussion for some time. --— --— «zy« n n i ■■ I PYJHV' NPfQ rll" | QAull IvIlIU LU r to lâ i  »lL I nnA ,im Oflfl a Wfllll! I PriUlIH Anil flUl III l»UU£UU ¥ÜÜ i-— —.. —___whose by' , ,, „ *" e w e*teni play given by the Kp j worth League last week was conceded n-1 rru__., __ „Kn. fKviiu , .il. »imtv î „ nf i I bvl.mni , P TjV^n y ...nnlith. n4, . JJ T f>hj , 1 n i mann .. r u (>rn O,., 1 r t . Henderson olaved a j • 8 e»ee."d.n^Kr wel^ H of ,, „ .. ixirne^efV.nkev a* if- Br °l"'." R h an t d h ifTi «nLndWlv white Ted Johnsori t^ing tin tvtrt of ; r ' , hr (1 . notice^ Ts to b» JüîrAÂ"' * * Eleanor Peters as Floise nlaved thr „™Zf awest.r^, ^ro.ne in toll m !f aahio n t her work boinfr pra ^ d u v _n Fhh« I nnH«ll «nrt Hnfh thf foj? "Ï" U»' «" wi f t . and the latter as the major's j d hU; aIgo djd we „ and thp othpr * minor characters in the play filled in ; nicety The League expects to produce two ! more nurrberj , ^ spri nr hoping : th<fPeby t o pay in full for their new j 7 hj ' ar The play ' was" a financial success, - „„ about , 80 was clearpd in the two r M.rf f .rinBn<p« " 1 by all present to be one of the finest "*-1 entertainments put on this season, ■ art ,k ri ii. i : jq ew Year's day in Belt was a sam ple of thf . b<Mjt e f forta of the weather ; n hamlintr ouf nerfeet winter W( . a ther. A warm sun and balmy air «lu.rt of the »now the i riay winding up with a gentle rain in u be eV ening ! _1 it. I 1 ; Valley Post No. 101, American Le gion, will be held in the K. of P. hall neX t Thursday evening, .. ... :n ,rr~ .. 1, . f„o.ihilitv nf or ! 3 f1 1 i * , . ' ,, . . , ( . f ne - 10 wh,ch 8,1 Ud,ea el,,f,ble for Legion to Discuss Or ganization of Auxiliary The next regular meeting of Belt In order to the auxiliary are cordially invited. A short program of entertainment has been arranged and the subject of the ; auxiliary will be discussed. The mem bers of the post desire it to be under is not—as some have intimated a branch of the Legion designed for the purpose of providing "feeds" and en U rtainment for the male « of the or - jigmal organization. The Women's Auxiliary is com-j posed of the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of all veterans of the world war who served in any branch of the U. S. army and navy between April 6. 1917, and Nov. II, 1918 The meeting next week is held for the purpose of determining the amount of interest in the matter by the ladies themselves snd if sufficient interest is manifested the work of or. iganization wllf begin at once —■- Leland Picks Up Party Joy Riders ! carT , iva rï**yed too strong for four V" a8 a result Deputy Sheriff J. W. Le ; Tre attractions of the Firemen's ; land, upon telephone advice from I Falls, am-sted Gus Kost, . Q j ' Ki k v nit ^ j William Heed in the K. ' while they were enjoying the delights of the carnival about midnight Sat unlay evening. The boys, none of whom were over 17, had stolen a «■ Ford car from Charles A. Martin of Great Falls, while the owner, who was attending a New Year's eve church program. He reported the car stolen about ten o'clock Saturday night. It was recovered before mid night and returned to the owner Sun iday morning before dawn. The car 1 was not damaged beyond being liber ally coated with mud, the officers said. of P. hall Sheriff Bob Gordon notified Dep uty Sheriff Leland by telephone and then with Deputy Sheriff Guy Pr.lagi, started for Belt where he found tho arrest had been made Sheriff Gor don incidentally visited the carnival, gave the roulette wheel and faro hank the "once over", sited up the cur rency in evidence with a look preme disgust on his countenance, left the halL The sheriff, however, had better luck when he visited Jimmy Danno's place, the Burlington soft drink establishment, wrere a poker game was in progress with sute enough money in sight It resulted in Jimmy taking a free ride to Great Falls to keep the sheriff company, is not exactly a uniqu * exper ience for Jimmy, neither is the in side of a jail anything new in his life. He was recently released from a term in jail for bootlegging, and promised to be good. Jimmy's in tentions may be all right, but his performance lacks technique. He was mixed up in a shooting scrape here several months «go. for which Tony Moretlo is now serving « term in the pen. His establishment has been un der surveillance by the authorities * or 8ome time now The quartette of youngsters to gether with the confiscated car was tak< * n in char « e b y De P u *y Sheriff Pala » fit ' and taken to Great Falls With pea ranee in public after the arrival j n s r4 , taken to her home j n Great Fall*, the officers with holding her name in deference to her parents, The boys fold the sheriff that they did not intend to steal the car, but j uat want<1<1 a nde D»nno was released Tuesday under .»300 bonds, while the boys are being held while the case nf John Ballos, who is charged with furnishing liquor 10 theTn ia ot- Ballos denies selling them liquor, but was identified by Koat Ballos is an employe of th< ' P° o1 hal1 in Great Fa,,s ' of su £he laiys was a young girl condition did not permit her ap b» * d STEVE ELY REMAINS HEAD OF FEDERATION Charles Gilden df Bear Creek, elec ted president of the Montana Feder i ntion of Labor irt October by a vote of 1,888 to 1,698 is not to take office be cause of ineligibility, it was an nounced Thursday in Helena by John T. Taylor, secretary of the state feder ation. Stephen Ely, incumbent, who made the race against Gildea. will continue in office, Mr. Taylor said. Gildea's membership in the coal miners' union at Bear Creek was de clared forfeited for non-payment of dues, Mr. Taylor announced. Florek Sells Meat Mar ket to Great Falls Party Mr. and Mrs. Colgren and children of Great Falls have taken up their residence in Belt, Mr. Colgren having ! concluded a deal by whu h he become^ i the proprietor of the Central Cash Meat Market, operated for the past j 10 years by F. S. Florek. Mr. Col ; gren will take possession of the mar j ket next Monday, Mr. Florek is as yet undecided as i to his future movements, but will probably remain in Belt for the pres ent at least, to look after other inter ests. He still retains ownership of his ranch located in Armington Coulee, upon which he slaughter house used in connection with the market is located. John Florek, who has been associ ated with his father in the market, expects to leave soon for the coast and may locate there if he finds a suitable opening. County j^uditor r. U. Kooaevelt la8 t Saturday afternoon announced tha t he had decided to reduce his of fftrr force m the mtcrests of eomomy, and to that end had accepted the res ignation of Mins Mary Hanson, who has been one of the very efficient dep utie» in (hat office for the past three vear* Miss Hansen ha* had charge largely of the outside work of the o.f fice, and worked in conjunction with the Res! Pros* in taking eare of the need* of the outside por. Mias Han sen will be given a vacation of a month beginning Sunday, January 1, her resignation to take effect Feb. I. COUNTY AUDITOR ROOSEVELT ECONOMIZES IN OFFICE