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VOLUME 28. NUMBER 51.
BELT, MONTANA, JUNE 8, 1922
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
Tax Leaguers Talk
-I to Local Audience
Several of the active members of
the Cascade County Taxpayers' asso
ciation visited Belt last Saturday night
and addressed an audience of probably
50 people at the auditorium. For the
most part those attending were mem
bers of the Tiger Butte Taxpayers'
association, though there were a num
ber from the city present Dopinic
Spogen acted as chairman of thefeeet
ing and introduced the vvious
speakers. Ï
, . n , e f K ^ the fl'mr wasW
retary Bright of the county asfoci
ation, who explained its aims and
made .a report if its accomplishments !
during the past year, taking all the
credit for the associations for what
economies that have been effected in
the various county offices since the
organization of the association. Mr. I
Wright stated that Cascade county
had the third highest assessed valu
ation of all the counties of Montana, 1
and therefore was paying the largest
proportion of tay money into the
state treasury. He suggested that
the association and its various
branches should send delegations to
the state equalization board in an en
deavor to have the valuation reduced
to a par with other counties.
Harry B. Mitchell, a former candi
date for congress and aligned with the
Nonpartisan league two years ago,
was the next speaker. Mr. Mitchell
in his talk showed that he was a
thorough student of the tax question
and was talking from a thorough
knowledge of his subject rather than
on any personal grievance he might
have with things political. He pointed
out how much of the blame for high
taxes did not lay with officials, but
with the people themselves, using as
an illustration how Chancellor Elliott
of the state University, upon the rec
With Aldermen S. A. Remington
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and Will Brodie absent a.hortmwt-.gan^
mg of the city council was held last
Thrusday evening. About the first ;
matter of importance to comc Tf |
the consideration of a petition from
Council Considers
New Ordinances
dog owners and taxpayers asking
the figure given. Mayor Millard!
stated that he had named Harvev Nul
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him to rigidly enforce the ordinance
as it now sunds. Mr. Nulliner re
places Albert Castner as policeman,
Mr. Castner being appointed but for
one month while he council conducted
an investigation to ascertain if a full
time officer could Ik- financed, learn
ing that it was impossible. Mr. Nul
liner continues his work with the city
team and dr.-ws additional compens"
sation in the amount of $26 a month
for his services as uolice officer
Th« report of the city waieroverJ
seer showed that there were a number
, j I - ere a nuinoer
of delinquent users, some for shorter
and theater oversee^ was instr"*
' id to turn the water off at these
places unless all arrearage was paid
bv the first of July. City Attorney j
Lto C Gravbill was aho instructed
to draft an amendment to the present
.„„.„it CO the coon ii « its next
the ordinance relating to dogs be
amended by reducing the license fee
from $4.00 on male dogs and $10 on
females to $2 and $5. Ordinance No.
84 was amended in answer to the pe
tition the new license being fixed at
liner as policeman and had instructed
mg.
The report of the police magistrate, |
the first one submitted in many a !
month for the simple reason that he
had nothing to report, showed fines
of $23.75 assessed and collected dur- !
ing thc month of May. Most of this
amount came from cow owners who '
insisted upon letting their animals,
run at large, and from water users
who used water out of hours for irri
I
Rental of the city billboards was
city ÄdÄ &S?S?time
past there had been no revenue from
gation.
them, though they had been in use
more or lesa. A rate of $1.00 per,
board for the first week and 10 cents
a day thereafter was agreed upon as
The old and much discussed license
question was again up, it being stated
that there were certain businesses in
town from which a license could be
collected, and that several hundred
dollars a year could be derived from
snch a source. The city attorney
was instructed to draft such an ordi
nance to be submitted to the council
at its next meeting.
After allowing the bills as audited,
the council adjourned at 9:30 o'clock,
DRAWS FROM THE RACE:
Loren W. Loy of Windham, asso
• dated with a bank there, and a mem-|h<ad
ber of the last legislature, who acme
time ago announced that be mwrid
a candidate for the republican nom
ination for congres*, announced while
attending the banker*' meeting in
Great Falls that he will not be a can
dkfele
the rental in future.
WTNDHAM BANKER WITH
ommendation of the state board of
i through the curtailment of the ex
j tension service of the agricultural
college. The chancellor showed him
letters protesting against the curtail
ment of every department where he
had proposed io effect a saving. Mr.
Mitehe» 8Uted ihat thia was one of
the grave causes for high taxes—the
people must I am to give up such gov
crament service, or else pay for it.
He stated that in his opinion a re
distribution of the tax burden,
which would take some of it from the
agricultural industry was necessary.
Roads and schools he said, were the
greatest burden, and his remedy for
the former was that every car owner
pay for the former. Minnesota, he
eductaion, had made an effort to cur
tail the expense of the university,
and thus cut down taxes. Mr. Mitch
ell himself visited the chancellor to
urge that economy be not effected
quoted, raised between seven and
eight millions annually for roads
through the taxing of automobiles,
the tax on cars running from 117 on
Fords to $180 on the large expensive
cars, according to the price and
weight.
The proposed tax measures were
touched upon, Mr. Mitchell believing
that the income tax measure would;
relieve the rural districts of the tax
burden and partially place it on sal
aried people. He also spoke of the
proposed constitutional amendment
measure providing for joint city and
county government. He pointed out
that in many counties. Cascade includ
ed, many of the offices were duplicat-1
ed; that county government really had,
no head, and explained how western
Canada had low taxes because there
was no county government to support.
He mentioned another proposed con-1
stitutional amendment, providing for
a new board of equalization, which
would be a real one and would have
real pawers. He stated that the small
property owner today was paying the
large part of the taxes because of the
tax exempt securities, etc. He sug
gested that when ths county fixes
budget for the coming year, the asso.
ciation and its various branches go
over it and suggest where economies
can be brought about
bn»|« c aboat.fo iio
Qn propo8ed tax measure
spoIulored by the SUte Teachers' as
sochition the ineoirtt and inberitsmee
measures. These, he said, were de
signed to more evenly distribute the
tax burden, and to relieve farmers of
the present tax burden. He showed
how many Salaried nersons now were
paying no taxes whatever, while many
b " 1 " p "" *
™. g «iw
took the floor and voluteered a talk
«n bond issues, and was followed by
a Mr. Lord, a Richland county dry
lander who could talk fluently and
had alleRed fact8 and fi ure8 at his
tongue's end. The association had
tried to head him off we were told, by
not placing him on the program, it
seemingly beinj? a desire to eliminate
anything of a radical nature. But
) Mr Lord was not to be denied, and in
his talk drew a comparison of the I
taxes paid bv the various classes of
i industr^ declaring that thc farming 11
j industry now paid between 80 and 70
1 r«-r eent of them
* All of the speakers had touched
upon the durability of a large mem
upon tne aisiraoiiiiy oi a large mem
bcnh.p for the association and mv.t
! ôYthT m^W^Ï^numÏÏrofnam«
1 well added to the liS Mr Culver
also had the petitions for the initia
j tion of the tax measures and these,
too were miite lilK-rnllv sie-ned
' we re qulte llbcral| y 8lgne d '
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Setting at rest rumors which had |
gained a little circulation in this end
c f tbe county to the effect that he
would not again be a candidate, Sher-!SI
iff Bob Gordon last Thursday after- j
I iff Bob Gordon last Thursday after
1 noon filed with the county auditor his
d?Clar ;^ n te t ° £ "T tH * P b r r arieS 88
a candldate ^ or tb e republican nop»
nation to succeed himself. While his
friends maintained that there was no
question but what he would seek a
: second term, his delay in declaring
! himself gave rise to the humor here
that he would not be a candidate,
i Sheriff Gordon in making his filing
; pledges '.'strict enforcement of all
j laws," and with his recard for this
during his first term, the slogan can
be taken as meaning just what it
says. He has been commended for
his law enforcement activities
j Governor Dixon, Attorney General
D. Rankin and prohibition enforce
ment officials, he having secured 130
j convictions on liquor eases alone. His
[wild cba.se of a bootlegging automo
j bile into Belt one Sunday morning a
couple of years ago. taking a hurdle
in the shape of a concrete sidewalk
1 extending a foot above the street to
mem-|h<ad the bootlegger off, is still an
occasional topic of conversation here,
beim» s h ow i n g the spirit which be gives
: to his dotv of law enforcement,
The seckction of his deputies, too.
is • matter which has brought Sheriff
! Gordon much favorable comment from
w
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most parts of the county
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J°* ,n O. Hagen, a brother-m-la* of
Mrs. J. A. Kierstaed of this city, who
! died at his home in Aberdeen, S. D.,
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l . eve ln lcstinal disorders. Taeftfc
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Kierstead and children and A, J. V»
p 0n >. wife and son, of White Suipktit
S P r i?K s - they being sister and brotlM»
I M "- Hagen. Besides the widoli,
? r - Hagen leaves three sons and two
daughters, two of whom will be ra
"?embeiv<i by the younger people at
^ AveriU aged l?, wnd Wffllmjt
îls'ÎF« 1 î6 - tlle y having visited at t»
Kieratead home here during the pa*
tw ° summers.
. F ,°. r «"veral years past Mr. Hager
had h*®" d «PUty head counsel for the
Modern woodmen of America. He
was s,8 ° an active member of the Odd
Fellows, R. N. A. and Rebekahs, rep
siüUtiver of these order* trow varan)
ious .P«*» h .. . to **
nu mber of 600 attending his funeral
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Files for Surveyor
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Bealeof Simms last Thursday t led
with the clerk and recorder his declar -1
»Hon of intention to be a candidate
for thc nomination for county sur
. on . e re Rrî ,can
Beal V 8 ^uit ■ well known m this sec
tJ on through havmg*,een m charge of
8tate highway commission crews that
have run several surveys in this sec.,
11 '««n of th« county. Hi. expenenç»
Wad bu.ldmg, h.s friends say, will
wake him a valuable man for the of
H«)- should he succeed in gaining
the nomination and be elected. He
b is slogan "Justice, Effic
Economy"
Mr - B ° u,< ' Is a n£ "'vc of Maine and
f" W graduate of the university of
t ^ la ! a ^ ate '. He nc to Great l'ail«
"J 19 °« » nd . w » 8 für fonr 7 ^ with
the reclamation service as an engineer.
With the Milwaukee railroad five
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Great E'alls concrete bridges, and (
while with the Milwaukee built the
sixth street subway. He had made !
his home at Simms since coming to
Great Falls, homesteading there and '
having a ranch there, much of it ir
ri gated, and upon which he pays taxes j
of more than »200 per year. '
MMER TILLAGE IN
CREASED IN PAST
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c i ub ^ Hobson springs into the first
place at the head of the, list of state
dubs, as a r««h of an intensive drive
just completed, is the announcement.
just made by a bulletin issued from
the office of the Montana Develop
ment association, summarizing
effort» of the club* under its super.
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May 13th, when the last bulMm
was jssoed Sweet Grass was at the
head Of the list, with 8,725 acres Hob-!
son by its drive more than doubled it«
former acreage, securing 6.736 a re*
of new land to be summer titled md.
advancing from third place on the list
Fort Benton advanced from ninthU*te
place to third place in the list, and
added 4JW0 acre* to its total, vhileabout
Sweet Gras«, the prermus leader ad- ,
?*** and
back to second place.
Six new Hubs got into wha^ is
known as the 3,000-acn-s class Mai
**• «aiyl if. W indham. Carter. Mas
g»w and Oaweao . j
The total acreage now liste-d in
Montana rammer tillage clubs no# »
««. >n C£u. «< ***
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enrolled is 2.965. an increase of 680.
vision.
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Miss Louise Bickford, who taught
[ a<> taird ** Tad< * in the Belt schools
1 u P ? St , ye * r ' , an f" f harles A. Dana,
spent the past two weeks
here, were married at the Presbyter-:
isn church in Great rails Tuesday af
urnoon at 3 o clock, the Rev. L. L.
Totten officiating They were attend
ed by Mrs. Maude Appleyard and
Herbert Siegl mg of this city, »hey
expected to leave Great rails yester
<*•? ™ r * t°ur of Yellowstone park,
going from there to Spokane for a
visit with Mrs. Danas parents, and
S' 0 ,? 1 ^ T: ^* na 8 home a*
Pullman, Wash. Mr. Dana was man
ual training instructor in the Mslta
schools the past year, and it is under
stood that he will return there next
-fall. Rev Totten, who performed the
^ceremony, was a fellow student of
Mr. Dana at the State college at Pull
man.
Last Friday evenmg a shower was
given the bride by Mrs Appleyard at
the Morrow residence, about 10 of her
lady friends being present. Mrs.
Dana was the recipient of many ar
tkles that will prove useful in her
a tried life. Ihiring her stay here
8 ' ,< ' , m " de n,Äny fri * mto who wwh h#r
much happiness.
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, George W. Merkle of this city the
latter part of last week filed as a
djd t f th ^.mocratic nom
caml.üate r< r me «mi a k
, mation for stote senator, and in mak
1 in)? the filing adopted as h.s slogan.
business, not politics.' Mr. Merkle s
candidacy, here in his home town, is
receiving good support, not only
among members of hia own party, but
among republicans as well, it being
|the belief that should he receive the
nomination and be elected he will do
his utmost to put the policy he has
subscribed to, "business, not politics,"
ln to effect in the upper house to the
benefit of the state in general His
candidacy also iÜ receiving good
8upp<) rt m Great Falls, and also in the
west end of the county, pledges of sup
port having been receiver! by him.
from several influential business men
0 f Cascade.
That the rural sections of the coun
ll ÄSÄ
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have been active in urging and pro
moting Mr. Merkle's candidacy that
through his election to the state sen
ate the country districts will not only
(jet that representation, but a rep-,
rrsentative who is familiar with the
poeds of the rural sections of the
state..
RADIO CORPORATION IS
LAUNCHED IN HELENA
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pUnaTinstal". broÄtog
plant and then take up very actively
the work of selling and installing
radio sets in the cities of Montana
paying particular attention to the,
ranches of the state, was recently,
launched at Helena. The company is
the'already assured of the endorsement
„f the „täte department of •«"«!
;i are '. a " d a p.P 1,CBtk >n Ha. been made
for designation as a federal broad
casting station.
ft \ n hoped to have the station well
established by the middle of July. It
will rank as one
set* in the northwest according to
the present plans and will cover the
of Montons thoroughly by day
This would make its range at night
2.000 mik*. It tan be seen that
, h i* will be- of great se-rv.ee to fann
of e th ^ V aU '' Wd ! "f TTfav*
of Helena a great deal of fav
orabk publicity.
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Parties attempting to d rive to
King J B Hitt Sunday found rt blocked
by snow at a point about a mil» be-j
low the divide However, the snow
i, «id t« b, m-Uirnt «pidly Wd tt
***,imU*mm.m*,*M ta-»}«* tt
{hill to work upon the road this week,
Belt Men Rediscover
Big Mountain Cave
considerable, though rather exag
ge rated and inaccurate publicity in
th * ( ' rt ' at Ualls daily press.
party of Belt men. all experienced
miners and accustomed to under
,.
ground work, were those to re- is
cover the cave, and it was them, with
Adolph Weholt, assistant government
road supervisor, and Frank Poster,
explored the great cave.
Will, Ed, Lester and Art Brodie,
Ernest Siegling and Clarence Soni
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imerville returned home Monday af
ternoon from Logging creek, where
they had been working with the for.
estry service in opening tjie Lick
creek ro.d «K. bro w h. Witt them tt,
story of the iliacovery and explora
tion of a mammoth cave in the Little
Belt mountains, which has been given
This
Upon going to Logging creek they
were told of the existence of the cave
by Andy Miller, mayor of Logging
creek, who said it was first discovered
by Chas. Gustafson, a former resi
<knt t * lat section, who told of its
existence to but few besides Mr. Mil
1er. Miller had also told Forest Rang-.
or Giddings of it. The camp where
the Belt men were stationed was but
a short way from where Miller said he
i understood the cave was located, so
lb ey began a search for it. The first
t , ven j n(î| though within 20 feet of
wbere they later found the opening,
they failed to find it, but the next
evening it was located and they be-!
Kan an exploration of It. However,
they soon found that rope would be
nec essary to go far toward exploring
t j, e e «ve, so they gave it up until the
following evening, when they return
equipped with carbonite lights and
; n»pe, and went in for some distance,
but it ^ „ thjrd trip into the cave
|to h . an , a ( jo a l about it.
Th<1 entr ance to the cave, which is
! ^ by Weholt. who has visited
: the famous Mammoth cave in Ken-j
tucky to exceed it in wonders and
bt . BXily< j* about two and a half feet
in diameter and after going a short
way the party found a , hwr drop of
about 10 feet Th( , p.sg,^ has about:
36 p >r cent dr op for its entire dis
and extend P back int0 the
mountJ ,i na f or a distance estimated
by experienced underground
l1H . n t0 ^ 3i000 f e et. In places this
passageway ie so low that it is neces
, ary to craw] up<(n the stomach, and
in others high enough so that one can
walk erect. At places it was neces
snry to cr " wI * ionp le<i r* L 0 î 1 ? < ' k
ab.we holes Uto bottoms of which they
ÄtWÄ
smts
would be one pasageway under an -1
other and it would be very easy, they
3ay , f or „ne not accustomed to under
ground workings to become lost.
The party found many large rooms,
1 80rw . a8 large a8 a good 8l2ed „tore
roo|||i thp ]arKe8t of which WR8 esti
: ma ted to cover about three acres of
ground. These rooms were many of
th<>m ftUed with water crystal and fos
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OPPOSE ROOSEVELT
W,LL NOMINATION
H>R THE NOMINATION
pZVZZ „f ( real Fall.
Charles W. Peterson of (.real halls
has filed as a republican candidate for
the nomination for county auditor,
He formerly lived in Sand Coulee
where he was connected with the Cot-1
tonwood Coal company. If nominated
.nd elected Mr Peteraon^says he will
r f Mr Peterson is
"ff.ce. At pr. sent Mr P^ 'n .
« n engineer at the Great halls Til
(ration plant.
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, .. . • direc tion« from
rann .g
B<'lt report that never has tW hay
criip of this section been heavier than
the coming crop, alfalfa already stand
.
mg from 16 to 18 inches nigh and as
h*.«w as nossible on the ground. Tim
othy. too. is an exceptionally heavy
crop. And the prospects of such a
are very gratifying to the ranch-
„ ^ any
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number of cattle, for while most °f
them went into the winter last year
wilh wb at under normal conditions
■ have me ant a surplus this
; ^ h fecdmK rap
P -rocks and very
idly diminished the »tacks and very
few have any extra « <>c s o y
the present time.
and espenat v u jf
mg of alfalfa
is quite certain Uwt the »"«
dairymen will be able to store up
surplus th» » J > «houlil^it
M foT next Winter even "JuuM it
rrrottmg^f Sefira. crop ^alfalfa!
n ' ex t three
week* farmers say '
T8 p' /ratTof Washington it is said,
h J h ( J * ha year . , vhich
na* a poor crop n »y j
would give on ana a " . stock- !
market. j r ü r . :
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the paat few yean.
«11 other parts, was perfect, and it
is tbl ' ,H *lief of the party that from
this room there had once been an out
j et f rom the cave, now blocked by a
cave-in, the air finding its way in
through _
They estimated that this room is fully
1,000 feet below the surface of the
sils, and in one small one was great
clusters of crystals the exact shape
of rosebuds and roses in full bloom
^ exact that on€ wou , d them
t . arve d out of marble by an expert.
At the end of the passage is he large
room, which could be reached only
j- rea t .stalactites hanging like icicles
from the ceiling, which was fully 100
feet above the bottom, and crystal
formations and other forms the color
of coral, making a scene of rare
beauty as their lights were flashed
about. The air in this room, as in
crevices in the mountain.
mountain, and that the air current
a t the entrance would register about
10,000 cubic feet per minute,
To explore the cave and see all its
beauties would require fully eights
hours, and one wants to be warmly
dressed. At present considerable
t -are would be necessary, but very lit
tie expense would be necessary to
make a visit perfectly safe to anyone.
They believe the cave is certain to
take its place as one of the show
places of Montana. It it about a mile
and a half off the Lick creek road, and
a marker will soon be placed to show
its location to thos wishring to visit it.
Will Brodie has offered the name,
"The Famous Giant Cave of Lick
Creek." The Lick creek road is now
in perfect condition, the party says,
and nine turn-outs have been cut to
allow the passing
cunrves along he grade.
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While it had been thought that the
i° n tf winter and the late cold, damp
spring would have a tendency to
destroy this season s crop of graas
hopper», the warm days of the past
tw « bas resulted in the hatch
out of^thousands of young bo p P®r»
a »'d farmers coming to town M7 that
of cars on the
Grasshopper Pest
Again Threatening
, the number of young JÎT*
now infesting the fields isreally
nv
| many ofthem main
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numbers « if them, ™
«une iri many parts or tue couniy,
«cording
P tn this* section Sunday
hod. ôf
last in reference to the methods of
combatting the pest, and Monday vis
'ted this section to make an mvestiga
"W»t now is the time to ex
^ «f Tad
.u* kT f . y „ firLîa
h ® y W ni fc T raliS Stoif theâd^
crops Will be■
I», IfïrflïïSL checked -
»aid Mr. MacSpadden.
"During the hatching season the
grasshoppers are confined to certain
territories and poisoned bran well
placed will do a great deal toward
preventing a recurrence of the swarms
that «wept the country la«t year, he
\ fund of *1 fKM) to Ik- used in our
^onTnVmÏ
chasing supplies for poisoning grass
hoppers was appropriated Monday by
tÂ'spaS ZT^Zrâ
as practicable. Mr. MacSpadden will
make monthly reports to thc board of
lhe pn, gress being made.
The commissioners received a let
er Mondaw from A. L. Strand, state
ntomoIo 'D 8t ' atl
tion against the. hoppers. The injur
ioas hoppers, the letter read, are
hacthed during the last week in May
and the first three weeks of June.
Use of poison during the hatching per
,
j„ necessary, it was said, because
measures are not effective
Vontrol
j after the K
a '
cr ';bf, i u , th wasacopy
« A £' "SSn Ä ïw enacted during
., , t ,___j w hieh
in 26 countielIwt
; P* wag 9et f^ )rtb that the aver
y ** a ' _ f grasshopper
J termin ation was lea sthan 86 oento
which was more than returned m the
value of crops saved from the hop
^ js boped tbat jyf r . MacSpadden
will have the cooperation of every
'Jtion te the fight
a(ram8t the pest, for little can be ac
complished otherwise.
p # --
fDRAI ghOWJNG CONDI
TFONS OVER MONTANA
Ideal growing condition, pravaikd
in Montana for the week ending May
27, according to reports by cotinty
agents from 19 counties received by
the stoto department of UBIÉ».
of the- 19 count»«» f«««rted
précipitation. Seeding of wheat and
0 «t« is Mwctically completed. Farmer*
•«* *«• *
gj iiiu a i ttn <w* d; -