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State Hietorîcel library ?7 HISTORICAL SOCIETY' OF MONTANA, ; HELENA. . -T . 1 ■ i* « i#î tJÈ I * % — ——— - #" 0j ; ___ : V J Am v '. ^ • I Û I «•. P- ft< «a j 'n y ■ V * 1. _ ■ p .....I ,.., —_ —-I—I ■■ ■ V ' -=^—--— 1 " ■ — LU . - 1 - a ' rtr. ' —cr: ' rt -rt-à®®- Oe*w* ■ ü — = ■=? 92.00 PER TEAR W ADVANCE. Volume 32. Ni iber 18. i „ "> . —~ = RESULTS OF THE SOTS MM UHLS CUM WORK FMR Mette of six table beats—1st, Ted Pmvfai; trd. Tom Dolin. One quhrt dry beans—1st, Joseph Kfcffner; tod, Ted Wynegar. Plate six carrots—1st, James Prov 4n; 2nd, Ted Wynegar; Srd. Albert Kleffner » Plato three rutabagas—1st, Tad Wynegar. Plate six red onions—Ted Wynegar. Plate of six tomatoes—1st, Ton Dolin; 2nd, Tod Wynegar. Plate of six turnips-^ 1st, Ted Wyn «gar; 2nd, Tom Quito. Pear Tomatoes—1st, Tod Wynegai, 2nd, Tom Dolin. ® Three head of cabbage—1st, Ted Wynegar. One squash (Htobbard)—1st, Clar ence McCaffsrty; 2nd, Ted Wynsgai; •3rd, Tom Dolin. Pumpkin, We—1st, Clarence Mc Cafferty; 2nd, Tom Dolin. Three cucumbers (ripe) 1st, Ted Wynegar. R . p p ,. pi . D . Best Pen Poultry—Plymouth Rock, 1 st, Ted Wynegar; White Leghorn 2 nd, Dorothy Randall, White Leghorn 3rd, Ted Wynegar. Best Pen Rhode Island Reds—1st, Evelyn McCafferty. Best Pullet—Plymouth Rock, Ist . Ted Wynegar. 2 nd, Brown I«dhorns, Kathryn Hammer Ted Wynegar. Corn Dent— 1 st, Geoçge Wood, 2 nd, Wallace James; 3rd. Raymond Gray. Com Flint—1st, A«hie Feeler. Pop Cora—1st, Archie Feeler; 2nd, Elmer Gray; 3rd, Archie Peeler. Potatoes, sample of 12—1 st, James Provin; 2nd Ted Wyneirar- 3 rd Joe eph Kleffner ' e t r . . Sweet Corn- 1 st. Evan Gray, 2nd MWw,. Whout, p«k_l„, Harold John no; 2 nd, Jomph Kleffner. .... , , a a . Potatoes, best bushel—1st. Tom Do t tin. Beat Pen Orphingtons—Tom Dolin. Best Pen White Leghorn*—Doro thy Randall. .. . - w • ■— - kmm.— METHODIST CHURCH NOTES Harry T. Stong, pastor. Morning worship at 11 o'clock. Ser mon by the pastor. Subject, "The Race Problem." Evening at 7:80. Subject, "The Saving Name." Prayer service at 7:30 Thursda Choir rehearsal Saturday evening 7:80. ■ 11 Sunday school at 10 o'clock. Epworth League devotional meet ing at 6:80 P. M. Our big church party will be held to the high school auditorium on Fri day evening. October 23. This will be one of the memorable events of the year when all departments of the church will participate to music and refreshments, feature of the evening will be taro reels of "Ou* Gang Comedies." The Ladies Aid Society, under the leadership of Mrs. Margaret Millard is working faithfully and persistent games. Another ly in preparation for the annual ba sa rr and supper. The next regular meeting will be Wednesday afternoon October 21. "Rally, Christians, for the right, Move resistless in God's might. Soon the day-dawn you shall see, Day of glorios victory." 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 + LOCAL NEWS 4 4 44444444444444444 home In Belt for the tost six months returned to Geyser Wednesday. Mr. and Mr*. Byron Gillette ana Mr. and Mrs. SAm Wilson draw u» •Groat Falls Sunday. Ben Kennedy was inca pari ted a ? few days last week because of near algla Andrew Maki waa to Belt Tuesday on a business «rand. Mrs. Venier who has made hei Mr*. Joseph Morris and AiMtw visited Mrs. Kd Lee gt Armington Myrtle and Gunhilde Skadsen visit ; od Mr. and Mrs. Joe Morris over tin ! t Saturday wee k -end MONA Rc It Mrs. Arthur McCafferty spent Mm with her mother Mrs. past week A F. Geisey. Victor Wilkins came down from the Silver Dyke for a visit with his father while on his way to Gnat Falls to have dental attentions. Dan and Beasie Payne came In from the ranch Friday. Robert Craig was a passenger to Greet Fella Wednesday returning Friday. He and Mrs. Craig are spend ing some time with their daughter Mrs. Gilbert Stroop. Mrs. Prank Price and daughter down from Hugfaesville Thurs day and left for Sand Coulee where she will spend the winter. Rubber Cow Wins Two Milk Records Herman Lens, of toe Jersey dairy. ! „us u * u the owner °* "*® cow w *dch took second place, with 1,920 pounds of mi j k containing 80,6 poundT of but ter fat. Third placets taken by jr-h,-sTtiF H Ä z high Ua. man« m bate butterte. and milk production among sows _..._, , ^_, registered in Caseade Cow Trottog asaeciation. The cow produced 2,400 pounds of milk containing 91.2 pound* of butter tot. *rith 1.590 pounds of milk containing j76.3 pounds of butter fat. A Lyman ;4 Haight cow was fourth, anth I.56(» gounds of milk and 69.1 pounds of |butter fat. pTOd " First™!«*« H«hh«r nf R«.t „iti. ^ Hubber of B€lt - wlt ® *<*** P PoducinK li an avera ^ of ^ 182 ol Second P F -' Hbckersmith of Sun River, with seven cot« producing a> aver *« e of 992 P° Qnds Third—Lyman A Haight of Stock ett, with 81 cows produc, ng an aver . 040 rnnnds ®F e of 84 2 pounds. Fourth—Walter Pork of 0re . t F.IU, with 31 0 .«, ptoduoln, an erage of 750 pound, „. .. _ , t Fifth—Herman Lens of the Jersey Am va. aa eraSl of 74 >i nounds^ * Thl herd Kvüw in h„««r fat for the month was* First—Jude Hubber of Belt, with an average of 89.6 pounds. Second— P. F. Hockersmith, with an average of 86.8 pounds. Third—Walter Peck, with an aver age of 29.3. Fourth—Lyman A Haight and J. E. Vent* tied, an average of 27.7 pounds. Fifth—Frank Hocevar of Great Falls, with an average of 27.1 pounds. Six hundred and twenty-three cow* were tested by the association dur ing the month. 4 ♦ - 4 * 44444444444444444 MONARCH L. P. Thoraquist was a visitor tc Great Falls Monday. H. C. Brown visited several days here lost week returning to his home at Great Palls Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Hubber took in the Livestock and Corn show at Great Falls last week returning Mon day. Mr. Rubber took down some of the stock from the Strain ranch and received several prix«. * Chas. Fitzpatrick came home fron. Frost Falls last Tuesday where be spent several weeks. R. A. Mack was in Monarch Mon jday from Riceville and hoped they a |,j e ^ start to survey work on the Monarch-Neihart road. Money being set aside for graveling the stretch. I Louie Bosch was in town Thursday. Hugh Evans is reported on the sick \ list thls^week Roy Thorson left Monday for Hel- j ena where hf will attend basin es*. ! Word has been received by the Thorson family of the death of Mr*. Bertha, a sister and aunt of the fara- ; ily. Fairfield Tuesday, connected with the Veteran's bureau . 1 Funeral services to he held os' ' Fred Danielson and sons have bought L. P. Thoraquist'* trucks and haubng equipment and will continu«. to haul from Barter. It as sderatoou the Thoraquist* are planning on go tog to Florida to reside wfafcfa/wiU be regretted by all Special Pol lort For Montana From October Kartest 72 per cent of a forecast p ro du ction thia yew *0 A* 159,000 bushels of potatoes. with 1924 crop of 8486,090 and five year average Wop of Uir 000 bushels. 4 . *1.. In view of the sfaeeter nattes»*! crop this year, potato« ia promise to return to gr o wers a bettor proflt than in any recant year sines 1919. Digging was to foil swing to to» western half of the state at the bo ginning of the month when aa «to* ported snow storm caught with much acreage still un r» dug. Weather the latter part of September was also unfavorable ft» digging in some of the higher eleva tion doe to snow and heavy soils. Ift the eastern half of the stats hsrret has proceeded under so m ew h at awffa favorable conditions C. -1 enable certified seed stock is pgsAwsA is generally reported good to exwll £L'^ai^cronT^^ STE A f crop " ' xpected » Helena Valley although harvest here BH u« TTiT BHltoS Srirt an d Y P f j?jzs.r2rz r» . .__ .land. The crop along the Milk rtvar territoo' where couald } -■ - ' ^^=- — ' -==tujjaa«.-®-u-j— ITTHDIirV Am PR 11 |i||| I UlflTlTlITr ft | f|K Wf < H Hf f H »I ff ! ! I i N \ I I I 11 I P - ■•ib — OIIIT TA fU T ft II An T Atom/ I #% 1 Ibl SUIT TO CLEAR IELT CREEK AGAIN -i _...... . .. , P *° P * °* ** ^ taV * " ing rnipataently for several weeks for news of the +. fairs of the Belt Crêok Valley toctive Association. The officers of th ^ a8 "° <:iatlo i n , have * la " impatient of the delay which the> . ™ulJ not u„dor.Uud. Th. I ,.l now. In rakard to the movement to clear Balt creak cam. this week to IV R. Strain, president , we<? " w . "* "l" ' . of the association and is to the ef feet that L. A. Foote, attorney-gen- j eral of the state of Montana will si low the suit to be entered in his name ! m behalf ° f th * 8tate - . As yet there has been no conference with the officials of either of the mining companies against which the campaign ia being waged. The reason for this, it is reported, ia that the Silver Dyke ha* not yet completed its plans for dating the evil, which plans are well under way but not quite complet«. In connection with the above anoth- er bit of j new* is of interest. The Great Northern maintains at Arming- ton a pumping station and a precipi- tation plant for preparing water for its engines on both the Billings and Northern and Neihart branches. This is an important watering place be- cause of the heavy grade* encount- ered east and sooth of Armington. It is reported by residents of Arm- ington that the Groat Northern well situated some fifty feet from Belt creek is going dry and that the nom ber of hours pumping on each shift, has been cot to two. à i V \ Football BELT Versus SIMMS . Saturday, Oct. 17 mmmm good crops acoordiag to reports I eastern Montana many localities 0 port dry weather damage hi July I <1 August, the production in this. I however being mostly that of gardens, except In the irrigated along the lower Yellowstone which have a better prospect In south wee tern Montana, principally Madison county although some Montersd at harvest due to weather. Important counties in potato produc Mon are: Flathead, Fergus. Ravalli. K ison. Lake, Lewis « dork, Vei ten«, Missonis, Powell, Carbon, m and Valley. Movement of Montana potatoaa to Wfcrket has already started with a to the crop is also good delay has been en toi ef 94 cars reported to September ■Mb compared with 19 oars moved to ob« 27th % year ago and last *# total shipment of 426 mure. U. 8. Shipment* to the Improved prices of the current ImuR are attracting a heavier early * Ornement. Idaho growers «s report df 10 cars by the U, S. Market News SZ*" Ï °* ****?'*? *wre receiving $1.20 per hundred on, eèrload F. O. B track while wagon iZ.i i T ' ^ gro wers were quotedV fcï^Tl ZT IT " ; (C ° n - 1,Ut P *** ] wan St.TfO sen this year to cars a year ago and 183,877 total of lato season » Tt k , . . . U ^ ** *** * Ut * d that a report of tbit condition wa. rf-Ko*the bead office In St. Paul the engine« was dispatched bo Arm ihgton where he made a survey of the _ ■. 81 ^ tfon - H,a findin *r« ^ The failure of the railroad well in ._ . v . AmMto u .til m~n . V —W «M« _ to th a r aUap wl Ttm haaraat water available la from Otter Creek at a distance of two ~ _... ,_,. _ mil«. From this place the water must be piped to the present sit* it the building and sidetrack* are to be utilised. There seems to be no other to andasirable became it lee* es toe Nel alternative except to move toe ptom on Otter creek which 1* hart branch unprovided for. People have not lost faith tost the matt« may be amicably settled and that by next spring the tellings may be confined to Carpenter creek. After the high water which will carry away a considerable amount of the slum, it will be n e ce ssa r y to Mast up the present bed of Belt crock in many places In order tost the erster cour*« below may be filled again. , Byron Gillette and Chas. Berg have gone to Waltham to see about re suming threshing operations. Mr. and Mr*. Ed. Wood, Florence Wood, Myrtle Skadsen and Charlie Berg attended the dance on Little Belt Saturday night. I Mrs. W. R Staton returned to her home in Anaconda Saturday afte. having spent a week with her brother ;L. J. Clergy. WALTHAM W. H. Jones went to Lewiatown to Charles Voaa waa a recent business visitor fat Great Falls. Mr. Jim Vkksrs and Mrs. H. ringten were guests of Mrs. Chartes Voas Sunday Mike Fordo went to High wood Fri day for supplies V. L. Fischer was in Greot Pails Saturday.. Mrs. Minnie Holland shipped a car load of cattle last week. to / A great many ef the tanners from "Poverty. Flat" have heoa busy ft» the past wpek unloading and hauling their winter supply of eoal. Reports of County Fair at Great Foils Ted WVnsgar, Belt, garden display, first; rutabagas, first; ripe cucnm fabr, first; squash, first; cabbage, first tarn, P« »*»nd * Clarence McCafferty, Belt, pie Wunpkin, first and second, Tommy Dolin, Belt garden display ****' ***** * p, " h ' third ,, . i, mH , . James Provin, Belt, cqrroto, second. Lsdops Kerr. Cascade, peppers, ^ ^ ^ carrots third; general display, third. | Walter Bookings, Simms, potatoes, *"** Gr * at No^th4,rt, Dr y bnM r* - * ** 99cond i tom " to « Ä ~ - A " M H °° Ver ' Gr ** t Fa,U - gmrd * "â'ïU m **. * b * r " > Becond - Jsnni* Obstorcgyu, Cascade, p*> ^tatoes, first; peppers, sroond; gr««i sentjoniona. third. ^ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+**#+*+ ♦ ♦ N I I I A IT * ♦ ♦ + ♦ + + + + * + + * + + + •:* Mr. and Mrs. M. Mikeson of near Dover arrived Wednesday for a visit st the home of their daughter. Mrs. Elmer Sieger . Their two youngust daughters. Jennie and Fannie, are «too here living with Mrs. Sieger and attending school this winter. Amos Petesch and family are now well established in the home former ly owned and occupied by Fred Walk er . Mr. Petesch has already mad# a number of friends st the butcher shop. Mr. and Mrs. Skero and two sons formerly residents of Nrihart are spending the winter at Clancy and are frequent visitors to Alhambra. Mr. W. Heath and son returned Wednesday from a short visit to Butts. •• Mrs. Roy Janes and baby of Belt Park wen here visiting friends last week. . A school trustees meeting was held Thursday evening at the home of Burr Lunsford. Mr. Shill it spending a roupie of. weeks at Montague 0. C. Warmbrod was in town Fri day from his Belt Park ranch, home. Victor Wilkins spent Thursday In ' J Mrs. Hans Roch! ie in Billings via iting her daughter and getting ac qoainted with her new grandchild. tos PMB Mrs. George. Bennett spent Friday Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dickenson and daughter of the Ranger station were ' Neihnrt visitors Saturday. in Groat Fails on basin«*. Dr. and Mrs. Jackman and two children and JÏiss Louise Adam*, have removed from the home of Mrs. Schoberg to the hospital where the> will remain until their departure for Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. T. F, Hogg and child ren returned home Saturday night from a business trip to the county - 1 seat. j T* 1 * Rev- Mr. F. R Brown, Die trict Superintendent of the Montana j children's Home Society, spent Mon day in our community in tile interest of his work. Hi* talk* before the school children were interesting and helpful, and elicited the sympathy of all the pupils for his work. Mrs. A. C. Taylor was a passen trer to the Falls on Monday morn log's stage. '*■ ) Mr. Krutcber and family on Setur Arjr moved Into Äe Stark home on Math Street, 'if , . Columbus day »as given a place in the dpy's pTOg*am in our schools, After school ho«»» toe schoofariOfalMa, FARMERS PLAY m PART IN TOWN CAME dittoes Rare What has so for "been said to series of articles on the importunas et buying of homo-town merchants apt pi to* with equal force to the »«siding fat toe vicinity eg Bah as'It does to those who «side wtthln Mb corporate boondrtos. Bringing his patnonsg* to the .-tont* of Belt mes» money to fafe* pocket . It is not the question of ab ligation but a question of profit. Probably by tor the greatest prog ram that has been m a d* to industry in the past 100 yuan has ham achiev ed a* a nmh of toe division of try. Tims was when the farmer sd sheep, eut their wool, raised fad der to feed his flock over winter, dyad the clips, span them into wool with family or hired help, wove them iah» cloth, took them to market and bar tered his rolls of goods for someth*** else thst he needed. W|th the introduction of the divi sion of isbor tost was brought shorn a big change. We have no time to trace this movement step by step, « - ' out so that the farmer was freed S« iall tbs operation* eseept raising tbs »heap and clipping the wool Soma âïââ'â , siS£ ried it on the market, a sixth sold M. and so on. to go into minute detail, but in a g«p era! way the new development wnvhtol Priori pie Is game If the farmer angagud to w*M is l| É to else beridrn abesp-vaisfa*. tbs tel mkh wer* different but tbs general priori pal was tot same. Just what these detail* aw ia important, but what is important to that he ia now responaible for onto on* of the *ix or more job*. He can perform his one job bettor, a* a result. and on a larger scale. Where there were six chances ft» him to suffer loss before, there is only one; be sides, he can concentrate his atteinte,» on this one Job, so that he learns to perform it better than ever bef ore with less lost motion and on a large This brings m again to to* farmer» who today are owning and operating farms shout Belt ObligsttoB to Community The farmer's duties and obligations to the community near which he live* are only slightly leu binding open him than are those resting upon ac tual residents of thst a/iniaunity. He shares to all those things which make it a desirable place in which to live. His children attend Ua schools, his family attends church there, and with jthe automobile annihilating distances, he and his wife and children partiel pate in it* social life to a large extent. It* library, its public gatherings, its concerts and entertainments, its dvi-, activities, its newpsper agences enrich the lives of the farm« jand his family no less than those of the townspeople. The telephone links him to the town a* though to a neighbor next door, so that all he has to do to get the latest quotations is to take down the receiver and ask the merchant or the produce dealer, or If there te sadden illness to his family, a call to to* village doctor brings the latter poste haste to tho bedside of the stricke»* on*. Every week there are scores of instances in which the nearby towns adds to his profit, convenience ano well-being, Beet Interrots Served It is no duty we have to urge upon the farmer in return, when hi# own interests are servasf by patron j z j n g Belt merchant». The teviags that throe make possible Bel|'.mi dents, as discussed earlier in this ser u f articles, are effected also for the farmer. Every word of the arga me nt that has preceded holds for him. Therefore—Buy in Belt , w«» . . \>; - '.•■ fa. : , Mrs. Jos. Leveiljte and awn, Mrs. Peter Bergeron and son and Mrt Ralph Parker of Cirent Fails visitol in Belt Friday. — --—>—— pul on a tag aalc îfe tot tobpwst of the orphan .cin^ron in . ..hddfSftlfc ~ .. hHH