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HlSto *1 ntn State Historical Lfbnwy e-i i Of * * ; T * i : ( * Musical Comedy . * Musical Comedy I « » t V) ,4*-> WATCH FOR IT WATCH FOR IT w -h * A* W i •»> ■« «■ * ••• ' JL —-Jr. Ni j iv I ajjuuj .Ji-UBT .. ---u- l= VOLUME 32. NUMBERS?. BELT. MONTANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1926. SX.M PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. 3i Barber Renamed for Excellent Work work in Cascade oountv este completed Friday with the assign •sent of field men to the districts, which are not included in the honor, system recently announced by asses sor Harold Mady. In Great Palls, Deputy Joe Daley, will assess the north side district be-, tween Park Drive and the Seventeenth street, Chris Hendrickson the balance* of the north side east of Seventeenth street, and J. J. Schwerdt the south aide district commencing at First street. Belt assessments have been P rep ar ations for the annual spring, assigned to Herbert Barber, Cascade to Gordon Ferguson and Sand Coulee Stockett and Tracy to to N. Arseneau. AH isolated districts and fanning country will be handled by Mr. Mady through the honor system, which pro vide* for property owners making their own returns by mail. J. C. Thompson, Sam Maid', Frank Bullard and J. C. McConville, who carried on the work in 1926 will not be employed this year because of the resultant re duction in the field force. The esti mated saving by assessor's office is between |2,000 and $8,000 annually. A schedule of livestock values for the current year assessment work ha adso been prepared and conforms close ly to that arrived at by the state as •aasors assoeiafcion. Purebred and range horses will be assessed at the discretion at the asaaMor, and work horses at pot less than 840. Purebred cattle wiH be assessed at a $75 vahie cash, coming yearlings at not less than $ 20 , coming two-year olds at not lees than $30, coming three year olds, steers and stock bulls at not less than $50, stock cows at not less than $30, and dairy cows at not less than $60. Relative to sheep the schedule rates bucks and purebred values at not less than $18. coming yearlings, four and| five year olds, at not les« than $10 coming two and three year olds at | not tees than $ 12 . and six year old« Iom than $12 and six year plds l over at $6 Hogs will be assessed at not less than $11 a hundred weight Many friends of the Thrasher fam Uy gathered, at their home to cele jl il hiefk/t.* njj. , Æ ^ f a* JT?Zr : wS. nnfi i k . hour f U U r itt Logging cLk, Calvert 'and Bmm were in attendance. All report a splendid time. , „ ... „ A ^ J. Hall of Marysville., Montana who to ton vot ing th. ato (toll, the past week retamed home Friday Mr and Mrs Ctao Pipi tt B* of Caxno* Mr. ^ im■ Ueo ^e^OtOWy «ItendWtae party at the Thrash er ranch Friday. There has been several days vaca tion in Ae school at Evans owing to the illness of the teacher, Mrs. Span> School will open again on Wednesday, E. Stephens was doing busineM it. «aohUPrito. Mr, M™. Fred B.Helt .pm, v wrnfto—i-m WM'pi.k , w . . N. Thrasher and T hnu ' ,M!r were .hopping m Stockett Thursday. Mrs. Anthony and Mrs. Geo. N. Daily were shopping in Great Falls Wednesday Mrs. Daily was having some optical work done. Walter Back left here on Sunday for Grant Fall, for medical attention, he is quite ill and is now an inmate of the Cohmnbua hospital and at At last report was no better. Metro Selenick and son Peter were business visitors in Great Falls Frt day, they reported the road, in poor condition for traveling by auto. ♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦ ♦ »♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦ <6 TIGER AND BLACK BUTTS ♦ ♦ ♦♦++++++++++++♦♦♦ ♦ home Sunday. MR. AND MRS. JOHNSON ENTERTAIN A very pleasant time was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil John son Saturday evening. The radio program and "600" were ts. At IS o'clock ; the hoe tew seated her guests at where a dainty luncheon was ; served, T** invited guests were Mrs. Oscar ! Johnson, Carl Johnson, Gordon Jofan *on, Mrs. Carl Berg, Mrs. Han« John ■<». Mr "«1 *»• W«. Vendsel. Ebbe Jokm » on - Mrs. Oscar Samuslson. Ar Harold Johnson, Ae chief am - rr k * 0 ® Coleman, prominent ha ware man °f Glasgow who has beer «»«ending the convention of dealers ir that line in Great Falls, visited Ray. mond Robbins on Sunday. While here Mr. Coleman looked over the town and visited one of the eoe mines. He expressed himself as high Prominent Glasgow ly pleased with Belt and Belt coal. He j has a large business building in Glas gow and is just starting on the first car 0 f Belt coal he ever used and Hires rt much bette,, than the coal hr forme rly secured. He also expressed hia 8Qrpriaa at the condition of Belt crwsk and Mked if tKfrr no Uw in ^ prevent suck a contamina ti on. __ ALL KNOWN LAUGH EYOKER 8 USED IN "BRIGHT LIGHTS" P The combination of Charts. Ray Pauline Starke in 'Bright Light.' picture to play Sunday and Mon day at the Pythian Theatre was a hap j py one, according to Robert Z. Leon ard, the director . Ray was secured by the Metro Goldwyn-Mayer organisation for the role of "Tom Corbin" in this picture and hi8 work *» ««fo-ooraic part w,s the talk of the studio, " In Ae makin * of Ala picture we wx,rked on th * »apposition that any m * n ,ik ** 10 ■** ««other in an em barrassing situation. Carrying out this idea, there are many different ways of getting a laugh, and Mr. Ray and Miss Starks utilised them aiL It happen. Another type is the sur prise laugh; that is, when something totally unexpected occurs. A third •* when the inevitable is interrupted by s totally unexpected event" _ TI •// s./ . Thrtlls Aplenty • / T7 1 /W Carey rtltn _ . Many many J month,, ^ eUpw!<1 " ,nce we enjoyed anything so immense ly - "Silent Sanderaon", Harry Car ey s latest Hunt Stromberg produr ^ have its first showing WeA _ nW „ « ^ - ^ * It>B an impellin|f .tory, having most ^ ^ JMJ 1 y OB ^ ^ f lrwEen „o,^ Afl a great-hearted Westerner who seeks forgetfulness in the gold country when his life is broken by a woman, Carey gives Ae fmMt performance wo've ever seen him give—and we've probably seen everything he's done in |W*-t . for novelty m plot and incident Its thrills are daring and vastly impres »«ve These consist notaMy, of a blinding bliward in Ae Yukon that mpn sboat at ^ an attack by a band of sly, blood-Airsty wolves, wk o tear a man to piece* before €yea . .everal spine-Ungling fiat-fight« wiA the despicable viilian on the re- ! cefving end; and a drought in the cattle country that kills the nine by. Ae thousands, leaving their sprawl big, mewling young to perish at their| sidc- 3 . The scenes in Ae Yukon bar room, we thought perfectly drawrw the vulgar dancing girls in their taw dry finery, the bestial men. Ae bitter brawls are eo entirely convincing Aat j SIXTEEN NORIK CENTRAL TEAMS COMPETE ittlKETBALL TOURNEY This afternoon Belt plays Tabs* County in the second round of games at the District tournament. Winning this they must play in the third round the winner of game played this morning between Gagnas and Havre. This game Is called lor Friday at 2:16 P. M. If they shoal« win this grame they go into the finals on Saturday evening. Losing this gerne the Beltites will play the loser of game 18 (probably Conrad) foe third of sixth place. In order to cut the absent list to w minimum Supt. Culver has arrange«! -|to start school for the last three of the week at 8:16 A. M, to continuous session and dismiss as j 2:30 for the day. This will give teacher8 we n u pupil, „ oppor tunity to see the most of «k» go mes. Simonis has been confined to hta home owing to a marked swelling or er his ears which led many peopte 4 believe that he had been indulgin In forbidden sweets and pastry whi {caused him to become suddenly I but Dr. Graybeal diagosed SkiaA] caa « ** mumps, this squared him wi tha coach. Unle " *»" • rel *pM he will be ln uniform. Inland has been recovering frop « of tonsUitls rghicb may at feet his r es er ve strength. The Ans have been fnqtdrfhg sack day '* i * iher the rest of the team Kave responded to sick call. Coach Lowry will bring hla boys home each nigbt and tuck them in ^ own ** tha at tha ]ighu and ^ .tfeioiating ef f ec j 0 f a cro wd of young folks will i ^ mar their beauty sleep. i A fore and one-third is Ae rate the Great Northern for Ae rauml trip to Gresrt' Falls while every de crépit car 7s being put into shape by ' the boys who hope that the cars will last long enough for them to reach Ae tournament. Other boys hate plan ned to poet Aemselves at vantage pointe where they may hail passing care and save one-dollar and twenty- ! seven cents for «its.- ■ on Carry Brain Smut Messages by Radio WUI1 1 WWIMI IVBVVUU&UU ItUMIW Directions for treating wheat for * mut c * n *** ** curpd trough the County Agents office, as well as in »tractions on manufacturing home mad « mixing machines. ■— Radio flash«, an Innovation in ag ricultural education meAoda, are be Ag used this week to carry the mes "** f to Nor ? west farmer, «cording to a wire« re«v«i from Secretary irf Agncu.tur. W. H. Jardine by the Northwest Grain Smut Prevention Committee. A no,i, cr«.t«l bto» of th. D. partaient of Agriculture, has préparée .. . , . this special radio service consisting oi 66 q u es ti ons and answers pertaining to smut prevention problems now be mg radiocast over eight stations in the Northwest. Stations handling Aese radio flash e« are WAND, Radisson Hotel, Minne - spoils, WCCO, Gold Medal station, ^ lege of Agncuiture, Fargo, KFJM University of North Dakota, Grand'tee Forks, KFDY, SouA Dakota State Ag ; ricultural Collage. Brookings, KWSD.i Unrverrity of SouA Dakota. Venn» lion, and KUOM, University of Mont your_: the audience actually shuddered, gasp | ed and exclaimed aloud as Ae tide of Ae story ebbed and flowed. The love story which runs through this barrowing tale, togeAer wiA the' delicious bit* of new comedy business ' pot over by Carey throw* a pleasant'Hyde glow over Ae bitter reality of the piece, rendering it a well-balanced bit of entertainment wiA an equal appeal for all tastes. 1 C la w s ef ash shove 1er« have hast ened the Annual cleanup and eereral boys can display a lot of blisters on hands unaccustomed to toil as they with satisfaction jingle a few dollars which will not he spent for gum or candy or pool or shows but which have been dedicated ko the sacred cause of joining the yelling squad in the Great Falls gym. THURSDAY 16 s. ». —Game $, winner game I vs. winner game 2 , 11 a. m.—Game 16, loser game 1 vs. kwM»r game 2 2:16 p. pi—Gene 11, w hin e r game $ vs. winner game 4. 1:16 p. m.—Game 12 , loser game 8 va. loser game 4. 4:15 p. m.—Game IS, winner game 5 va. winner game 6 . 8 p. m.—Game IS, winner game Î vs. winner game 8 . • p. m.—Game 16. loser game 7 vs. It va. winner gtsu M (fer fifth and i eighth places.) 4:16 p. ». —Game $4. winner game game 8 . FRIDAY 2:1$ p. m.—Gams 17, winner game 9 vs. winner game 11 . - 8:18 p. m.— Gasse 18, winner gams IS va. winner genie 16. 4:16 p. m.—Game 16, winner game lt va winner game 12 . 7 p. ». —Game 26. winner game 14 "Va winner game I«. • p. m.—Game 22 , kwer. game 18. va loser gai 15. SATURDAY 21 us. winner game 22 (for fourth and seventh places.) 8 ». m.—Game 21 , loesr game 17 vs ' toasr game It (fur third aad sixth placée.) ! qualified to play ia the state 2$, winner game 17 vs. winner gnaw If (fur championship play hi Ate game aatoma are pieaahip at Bosensaa.) ana, Missoula. Secretary Jardina udrsd thi Com mittee that thaw flasbrn aro in Ac hands of the Northwuet stations and will be used all Als, which has been designated by A. governor, of North mid SouA Dakota and Montana, m Grain Smut Prevention Week. This service is designed to include ^ J®"" 'Z 1 f •» expert fa ** *??** L* grain seed for smut prevention. Other radio flash«« to be sent out through tk. baton will Includ. vlrtoll, every phase of agriculture. . The department through a reque.« sent to Secretary Jarditte, has made «00 lantern slides showing Ac most effective meAods of seed treatment. These slides, 100 seta of « each, will be distributed A rough the county agents in the four states for showing at special demonstration meetings oi west Grain Smut Prevention Commit for intensive drive against stink big smut to last until after npring ptenting has been completed. From now until every bushel of seed i« in the ground in Ae Northwest the| campaign will be carried on in each individual community/ Agricultural colleges of Minnesota 'North and SouA Dakota and Montane, !are recommending Aat the farmers in their state* treat grain seed with elAer copper carbonate or formalde as the only certain preventive the parasite disease. Plan* have been made by the extension depart ment* at Aese schools to carry the (Continued on Page Four) DANCE MARCH EIGHTH At the Pythian Mr. Robbina hat booked for Monday Mardi 8 th Room valt's Syncopa tors, an aggregation o. traveling musiciana who play variou« tnatramenta auch aa piano, ' violin drama, saxophone, clarionet, banjo etc They feature the lateet song hits end present aa a special attrae tlun Micky Punny, a talented tenor Afterwards in the Pythian Hall the same musicians will play for a danot which promises much in the way of variety and entertainment. 3rd Annnnl Egg Show at Butte March 11-13 The 3rd Annual Montana Egg Show will be held in Butte, March 11 to 18 This show has been instituted for the purpoM of creating s greater demand for Montana eggs in Montons. For the past two years Cascade county has not been represented by county exhibit, but increased interest created through tha Poultry Demon stration Arms adtl improved housing conditions in the county indicates that a good many of our poultry men will be interested in sending exhibits Air y ** r The county agent urge» tfose wV, can »elect 2 dosen good uniform egg, conforming to the standards required below end who ere willing to sacrifie* the price of these eggs for the pro motion of "quality eggs" for Montana, to get in touch with the County Ag ent's office for entry blanks and in structions on tha show. If a suffi cient number of en trim are indicated plans for a county exhibit to compete with other counties will be made up and sent to Butte. Mrs. H. E. Cushman, State Poultry specialist says, "when Ae cackle at contented is heard in every corner at Montana, and when Ae cackle be comes so great in volume as to dwwn out the noisy chatter of Pacific Coast hens in every consuming center at Ac ^ gw , t Qatu Mmrek u . li? cooperative enterprise between th« Butte Chamber of Commerça and the poultry division of the Montana State Extension Service, _ FaTtH BuTeQU iTI eCtWg Held ________ W L Stockton. State Farm Bureau ****** met wiA Armer, and bu.i d men at a mae ting held in Ae F ._ Ilrv . . .ccomolishmenta of Ae Farm Bur "* **° durtnr ^ year * nd 4 wcooni^o a membership campaign county fcr the cornin ^ ^ V " T** 9 °! nU r " y ^ at , 3 ^ Î'? u ** nu nt " hf)twar " d doiii» rB even Aough s small j" ' . " ^ ^ toi,, to Bom.a onlu In th. toj _ u , ' ' . , . . . * ' _ ^ Ac neoDl^ra^sino- Ae food ^ 1 * ' . . C ° uW ***** ^ ^ Hfe se< ' m * to *" ve ***" «nject ;** into thU moveTn * nt over MonUno * nth the pe#aH that . 5 or 6 have organized active memoership cam P* ,c th * n J ajo ty 01 progressive farmers in each o ese » ubwr,b,n » and »T ptt,n F n • After Ac meeting Mr. Clark Buss gamer, president of the County ham, Bureau Board celled together Ae member* of Ae board present ana Treasure State, there will be no more Montana Egg Show* In Uif Bell Wins First The first round in the basket ball tournament has bean ptayed and ran to form with the exception of Canterville-Chotaau game where the latter's win was unexpected. Belt, playing raggedly, woo from Big Sandy with comparative ease, Gey Mr defM t ed Chinook in a cIom hard The Centerville team is below pai without Motil their star center aad Belt is not up to form. Simonie got out toe soon after the mumps and is laid up again. Leland le sick and is playing on his narvs. Tha piaying of Hartem brought forth many favorable comments at they seem to be the class of the tournament This afternoon Belt plays Choteau and should win on comparative worm the boys are in shape. Havre and Geyser will fight it ota end the winners of these two game» will mMt on Friday to settle which land and Probst sta r ted sinking she*» Drear all replaced ky Johnson wad I Belt put a revamped team * an 6ha floor, but its passing gams was betas' enters the finale. Belt 26—Kg Sandy f Belt opened the afternoon by outclaMing As Big Sandy team and winning easily 28 to 4$. Baud» took an early lead and kept Belt see«» less during the opening period, being 4 to 0. In the eeeead parted ha ead kapt « the standard ef the earlier tilta Rovcrsit played a hrilBaat for Sandy, both defensively and working the ball down Aa floor. .Cote (•> Laland (9)_ Right Forward .Homan (1) Probst (»).. Left Ftorward Turker ( 8 )... Center Nohl Right Guard .'MelBte Jewell Left Guard Substitutions: Belt, Johnen tat In land, McCaffortg lor Prate; 1 Mg —, ««tral dtetrtet feaakstbail «ounmmmte * am «* follows: Morning Harrs, 42; InvernoM, 11. OeyMT, 1«; Chinook, 16. Afternoon Belt. 26; Big Sandy, ». Choteau, 24; Omtervills. 28 . Holm, 64; Valter, 18. Evening Connu), 42; Rndysrd, 7. Fort Ben ^ n ' <** ®" k «* 0tmt £&*£ 22 ^ Game* scheduled for today In Aw — cond round of the tounr * nlcnt >«": MONTANA INDUSTRIAL REVIEW , , . Anaconda—Cost of education here 1« »80 per pupil per year in grad. and $128 in high school. .... Helena—Odd Fellows will rebuild «Ate Odd Fellows home to cost $S5 r 000. - gte P* to county and start plan* for acnvtttea in an organ ted A ~y t a wi u farmers in county into an orernmaa tion whir wi h«'« » ce tag q«|B heard m matters that concern UHjSr be st interests. for CUne Morning Havre vs. Geyser. Chinook V*. Inverness. Afternoon Belt vs. Choteau. Big Sandy vs. Centerville. Harlem vs. Conrad. Evening Valier vs. Rudyard. Cat Bank vs. Augusta. Great Palls vs. Fort Benton. were taken to organize a driw the enrollment in Ain increase