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State Historical Library f > Wl w. I S' 4 ,> TANA, HELENA. B I * == VOLUMES). NUMBERS. IZ.M PER TEAR IN ADVANCE. BELT, MONTANA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1926 — COLLEGE MEN INSPECT LAWNS FOR THE PROSCRIBED BARBERRY Messrs. Cummins end Cottsm from the college st Bozeman are work ing Cascade county under the depart ment of agriculture in the barberry «ratification campaign, in Belt Tuesday after having been in the Waltham country. Barberry is The host for black stem rust in the spring stage. Both Da kotas, Wyoming, and Colorado and surrounding northern states in the wheat growing region arc infested with black stem rust and numerous berberry bushes are being found in these states. Eastern Montana is slightly infec ted with rust this year but due to the dry weather conditions it will not cause a great loss. No rust has been fotmd in Cascade county and very little northwest of Billings. This campaign contains a house to house survey of Cascade county and an inspetion of all planted shrubbery So far only six bushes have been found and these only in the city of Great Falls. In Yellowstone county nnnn w v i. • v , ,_, . 2000 bushes have been found and de strayed _, , , . The barberry bush is ordinarily , . , . . •„ _ „ used as an ornamental shrub in lawns .... . . ... .. . . but its use as such is prohibited by The common barberry can common ly be distinqished from the Japanese barberry which Is harmless by its 1 more erect growth, red berries in , , . ,, . I _ __ ■ clusters of more than two, leaves ; They were state law. with spiny edges, thorns in threes to fives at the base of the leaves. The Japanese barberry does not have a spiny leaf, berries never in clusters of more than two and single thorns. DIRECT PRIMARY NOT TO HOLY TO TOUCH The direct primary is no sacred than this year's radio model, Let that be remembered by its blown in-the bottle nartisans whose hacks more out of the Pennsylvania W. The direct primary is % m^ans to an end, a piece of mechanism inten ded to produce a certain result. If it are now up because of the criticism growing does not work well we will be foolish if we do not hasten to scrap it for something better. It must justify it self. If we keep it we must have a better reason than that persons who worked hard for its introduction thereby acquired for it a special and blind affection. In ..wh attitude we «ee no vicious in sucii attitude we .ee no vicious T£ " Yet some of its friends are now charging that "enemies are taking advantage of the Pennsylvania dis closures to attack the primary »F» Um. TM, tion that the primary is sacrosanct. The Pennsylvania disclosures are in «b o n primary system. They have emphasied what was already known—that under the direct primary system a candidate cannot appeal to a lot of voters with out a lot of money legitimately spent at that- So many voters, so many postage stamps, envelopes, printed circulars, hall hired, and so on. When you figure it out yours»lf it is sur prising to find how much money it takes to appeal legitimately to a million voters. fault which has been This is a ffreafly tncraaaed by the direct Pri mary. so. It seems to us It cannot be a crime to say that the arden, friends of the direct primary would do better to nuit yelling "murder?" and to try to find a way to imnrovc the primary system in this respect. They will find good citizens gener ally ready to Kelp them, for all good citizens want It the best snd most effective method of selecting and eleo ting their representatives K» govern ment. We would have a poor opinion of the radio manufacturers if they in sisted that their device stand or fall as K is this year. The makers of election machinery, too. will be most soocewrful If they a re quick to ac kaowfedre and to trv to cure faults. lwinf*-vement. the soirit of American Invention and industry, is not out of place in American politics. ting candidates, etioa sshrdlu eta00 Rijsl'e Dolin is carrving her left arm in a sling as a result of falling off of a saddle horae when h»r sister, MiDiront who wets riding behind h- r caused the anhnsl to pétefc. | The new picture, playing at the Pythian Thatre, Sunday and Monday August 8th and 9th, has everything that goes to make what every girl wants to see. It has mystery and weird happenings—and Lon Chaney, is positively grewsome in the strange make-up he wears. That one eye of, his almost gives you the creeps. And you have to sympathize with him _ _ a j . . , just the same. He does a wonderful : piece of acting t a.-. ti i . .. I I/)is Moran plays his daughter— „ . . . .. . /, . . , : and she s just too charming for LJ .,| ~ „ . .. . words. Owen Moore plays the hero .„a , . , ' ... and every girl that goes to the movies knows how Owen can do that. There's another thrill in Kamiyama Sojin— who "just oozes hiënacë as the sinister Chinaman in the picture. LON CHANEY, ONE-EYED VILLAIN Girls—imagine s shivery, creepy play—so mysterious and so fall of shocks that it keeps you breathless— and still such a beautiful love story you almost forget the thrills. That's what Lon Chaney's new pic ture, "The Road to Mandalay" is! Its a story that brings a sob into your throat somtimes—and other times it brings your heart there, when a big thrill happens, through it all there's a beautiful story of the love of a pretty girl and a man—and the love of a father for his daughter that is pathetic as it is beautiful.. And j Combines Prove Popular This Year Wheat harvest is in full blast. Few fields of winter wheat are as centage of enough for harvest yet untouched while only a small per spring grain is ripe So far it appear? that almost all: winter wheat is touched with smut, althoU g h few fje ld s carry a sufficient ; amount to call for heavy dockage, F or thia tÉe * season must be at fault because smut can be found in fields where the seed was treated either by the dry or wet methods, There is a shortage of harvest hands and many farmers have ^ | compelled to work shorthanded while 0 thers have purchased combines are iutt j ng down their labor ^gts and putting it jnto mac hinery. aim u received a day at the locai ele r *• " by the end of ^ week and 7000 to 8000 probab |y hç received daily bv August 15th I 'q* h t f .. t tv ! ,A, A L!T, 1 T AS very little being short of protein and. none received so far has fallen be- j low sixty pounds About 2000 bushels of wheat are per bushel in weight and some attained sixty-six 1 pounds per bushel. The acreage this yar is large and the total amount of wheat raised ^ U pnbably exceed that produced in any year in the history of ** atate ' The yield V er acre is gooà varyin * fr0,n ^ to K bushel * to ** «» for 8tub " blc d in wheat 50 bushel8 for 0,6 best of summer fallowed land. On the old Clark and Eaton ranch now operated by J. Frisbee the sum ! ««'-flowed land produced as high as 48 bushels to the acre, and yields on the Gusic and Basant ranches arc proportionate. Most of these men are combining their crops which are considerably earlier than those south and east of Belt. Grain in the Kibby, Spionkop, Geyser and Raynesford sections is as JTood if not better than that close to Belt but because of the altitude is later. Beautiful grain can be seen in the uttU; Willow, Willow Creek, and 'Little Belt sections although no re-' port of yield has yet been received. Parties who have seen this wheat j uy that 40 bushels will not be un usual. | ^ amonut ^ wheflt ^ ^ mar . keU>(J jn ^ Mmeé ex . ^ mooo bu]|he , g thj; year from estimates by people familiar with the conditions. exceptional crop as will the Monarch Geyser will have an country. crop added to the receipts of the stock shipments will assure the Belt Valley of a joyful Thanksgiving, The cash income . from the grain Famous Statesman Dies Dm Moine», Idaho, July Mth— office. On Wednesday nicht, ha had Senator Cummins was suddenly dinner with Prank Kauffmann, Des striken by the attack of heart A ia aa a a Moines Banker and an intimate friend and died a few minutes later. He Senator Cummins was in high spirits had not complained of any symtoma and was looking forward with asst of the attack. Hie health, however, to work on his autobiograhy to which had been the cause of concern for ee- hs contemplated devoting his atten tion during the coming winter. Since the death of Mrs. Cummins, j Ran* tor Cummins' farewell address the senator had made his home bare,!«* the constituency which he reprc with two sisters, Miss Margaret and| «gated for 39 years was delivered ever the radio et the close of his I veral months. Mias Anne Cummins. paigh for re-election last June. Senator Cummins seemed in tho His last public address was in the sen best of health and as late as Wed- ate a few days earlier, during the nesday made his regular visits to his debate on the farm relief question. Hsd Beer, Wei! LATEST UNOFFICIAL RESULTS OF PRIMARY ELECTION. PILCERAM, NAMMENT, JOHNSON WIN 1 of, , . . . ., 8 " lts ° f ZV'Z*** *° ?! Z ** " ,tche "' De " ,0crat an ? ^ T * U , Republican have been nominated tor : . . ..... . congressmen in this district. Lee I Dennis is a winner and will be op . . _ _ ... : posed by Carey, Democrat. Meigs ' , ' , .. and Cowley will make Die race . , . ... , against each other m Novumbei Z~ ...... , . .. ° f J " lf> 1 an uer nar W V * r, ^ n f ,° r * C S 8 * aa a " 1 ? u,r lt - ls as posaib t x Stimpert may isp ce ip wo is 90 votes ahead. The last report received of the re 'Apparently from the face of the returns Brown, Jensen, Kirschwing, O'Day, Pilgeram and Shields will b", legislativ^ ticket while Cooney. Johnon, Straiten. Har-of ris, Jones, and Hamment will uphold the republican banner • th P - Kommers and Bosley of Great the Democratic Falls will fight it out for the eom missioners job. Eickemeyer and Jardine will be candidates on opposite tickets for county attorney. Fousek and Cook will come up for the final round Nov ' 2nd; Norton ' j sheriff wil1 to the ",at with Bob ! G° r d (,n . former sheriff. For county .treasurer Kurth, democrat, will be op P 0SPd Jeffries, republican. Mrs. Appleyard and Miss Brown are the candidates for county super intendent; for county surveyor, l^ock hart and Woodward; for ^Templeton and McBurney; for public administrator, Wagnr and Jacobson coroner, Totals of Ballots Following are the totals given for candidates in Cascade county on tin . d( , mocrati( . ticketr ä XÄSJtt . _Mitehell 1 I Congrressman Mitchell, 1.856. ! ^ #0cl ' t€ Juatice - Comer ' 1 - 27Ti '■ 125 ' District judge—Cowley, 1,380; Stan j ton, 543. pgrt, 870. State senator—Liptak, 960; Stim 787; Represenatrves — Bradford, Brown, 1,160; Campbell, 873; Gray , WU . 782 î Jen9en * Kirschwing. 1.147; O'Day, 1,162; Pilgeram. 1,009; Shie,ds - 1 ' 471 '> Winsby, 897. i County commissioner-Bosley 1,491 County attorney—Eickemeyer 1482 Ryan - 629 ' County auditor—Farmer 532; Fou Sheriff—Muulen 335; Norton 1,461 se ^ c - »>393. Skees, 326 Treasurer— Kurth, 1,599. Superintendent—Appleyard, 1 , 840 . Surveyor—Lockhart, 1,784. Coroner—Templeton, 1,470. Public administrator—Wegner 1637 1 ' K*Pii«»lican T,cket . Co "^ e8# '"® n—F ™" zke ' 894 : vitt, 3,218; Oliver. 499. Associate justice—Carroll, 1,146; Galen, 2,681; Holloway. 2,242; Leiper. 1.049. Lea Railroad commissioner — Djnnu 3,010; McLaughlin, 679; Ross. 810. District jüdg^-Rôtt, TJJ00; McKen ***» 1.018; Meigs, 1,955. State senator — Mayland, 1,083; West, 1,639; Woerthner, 1,856. Representatives — Cooney, Corcoran, 2,486; Hamment, 2,593; Harris. 2A98; Johnson, 3J)21; Jones, I 2.886; McDanagh, 1,818; Straiten, »- 121 - ' f County commisioner—Cunningham, 8,093. 395; Hdbber. 714; Jensen, 999; Korn ; mers. 1 502; Moore, 363; Swearingen, mere, 1,502. »8». r„ U n*y Assessor—Ferguson, 1,76«; Mady, 2,790. - .. „ I ^ y «'^•-Cook. 3,842. County clerk—Moran, 3,976. '. Shemf—Gordon, 2,452; Nicholson ) 1,896; Stuffel, 336. ! . . .... Treasurer—Ashton, 1,811; Jeffries, _ 2,423. 1 . „„„ we ' » County Attorney—Freeman, 1,471;' Superintendent—Brown, 2,910; Pen Surveyor—Woodward, 3,626. Coroner— McBurney, 3,866. Public Administrator— Jacobsen, 2,302; Walcutt, 1,247. - The vote in the primary election wa " ,brht and ^e democrats believe that, f °r aome reason or other, many) their party men went over to the Republican to vote in order to insurej the election of friends. This has noti Kenn verifioH nn.i r.™kuKiw , P 66 " "pP**** probably is an ex-| aggeration. At any rate the repub Beans polled a large share of the _ , . . . . The judges of the primary election .. . . „ „ . ,in the first ward were Fred Sunder meior, Sam Williamson, Phil Leveille,, {Jack Hane and Frank Heron. In the vote. second ward they were M. C. Sene-j . , f /''—.„Kin n „ «* cal. Leo C. Graybill, George Mare.; Mrs. Lillie Thompson and Mrs. Maud Noble. In the third ward they were Mike Lynch, C. F. Gustafson, Mrs. j l^rkin, Leo Spogcn and Dominic Spogen. ! The city vote is as follows: First figure after each candidate's 'jname will be his vote in the first ward, the second figure his vote in the second ward, third figure his vote in the third ward and the fourth .. ». h u» « «» .* Leavitt y Republicans I 2 3 7 3 10 20 43 31 26 99 10 6 7 23 7 12 10 29 27 15 10 62 38 17 19 74 II 7 11 29 * 49 31 32 112 6 3 4 12! 4 4 4 12 HT-ÎF- 15 69 54 17 62 67 82 6« 32 105 61 97 81 Pranzke Oliver Carroll Galen Holloway Letper Denn j 8 ; McLaughlin H olt McKenzie Ross Meigs Nfayland West vVuethner Cooney Corcoran 32 15 17 6 7 4 27 12 13 33 14 20 32 21 29 _20_ n _ i9 41 32 23 18' 10 41 28 28 32 16 33 14 12 80 18 44 26 1 2 0 0 1 14 9 8 29 13 6 33 24 -81_ -UU-1« Hamment j oneg Harris Johnson Jensen Cunningham 16 42 27 75 31 101 6 1 8! 48 34 91 58 30 12 15 57 « 6 6 17 47 31 41 119 19 16 13 48 44 24 26 94 2 3 6 11 11 5 4 20 54 34 40 128 41 19 26 96 14 1! 18 38 53 29 31 113 50 33 33 116 27 16 11 64 19 14 18 51 McDonagh Straiten Rubber Kommers fj"?"* 0 " * ay LaBossiere Q ook Jficbofeon gtaff|l) 36 37 130 57 Moran Gordon Ashton Jeffrie* Brown p*nwel1 Woodward McBurney Jacobson _ . **«ieow v Con, on page 4 I FIREMEN ROYALLY ENTERTAINED GUESTS OF BIG TIMBER CITIZENS his DEATH OF GEORGINA MAJK1B ATCHINSON The infant daughter of George and Inez Snooks-Atchinaon died at the home of its grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Snooks on Saturday after noon, at 6 P. M. She was aged two months and seventeen days. _ The little one contracted whooping cough three or four weeks ago, but was not very sick until a week before her death, when she was seised by convulsions, which soon took her strength. Even though very young, the babe had became an attraction to many, outside of parents and rela tive« and will be missed by many outside of the home circle. The funeral took place Sunday af ternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Snooks, Grandparents of the child. Services were conducted by IÇrs. Harry T. Stong. The fond young mother and rela tives have the sympathy of many friends in the loss of the little one. How brief the stay, as beautiful as fleeting. The time that baby came with us to dwell Just long enough to give a happy greeting. Just long enough to bid us all farewell. f Atvlftn Olrnlnk j ► Q (J I DÇ \ 11011*0 1 " u 6' WU VIIUIWII • **• , aa -.1 W inffQ Sit KP f If IHgO 01 ÜCII * h a i ö a All day long Sunday cars were flashing back and forth between .Great Fall, and Belt carryiag crowds * , T , . .... • . ZT* . . of Eagles and their friends to and , 7v ' i a a .a mi j (mm the picnic at Belt. The day f a . . was not as hot as those preceding had b«H*n and the pic-nickers seemed, to be enjoying themselves. Two good ball games were pulled ! „ , , . , . v . off, the Bootleggers winaing from the . Great Northern team by a score oi io to 1, while Neihart beat Raynes j ford 9 to 2. There was very little to complain of by anyone in the behavior of the crowd, everyone being in a good na tured mood and although the dust husg heavy over the streets late ir. the evening there were no accidents. ! With 3,000 persons on the ground* -—..n — bers of the Fraternal Order of Eagle» ) , Belt to attend the affair and The Tribune says; of Great Falls staged their picnic at Beit Sunday to raise funds to send the drill team and drum corps of tht ! lodge to the national convention at Seattle this month. Hundreds of 1 Great Falls residents motored to every community in the surrounding territory was represented by a large delegation. The events scheduled on the pr° K ram of the P' cnic went off w<tb clocklikc precision and every minut* of É? day waa crammed with somej sort of entertainment. A tug-o'-war between teams representing Great Falls and Belt was won hy the Belt team after a long pull. The Gre^t, Falls aggregation almost had the Belt team over the line at one time, The Great Falls team will be th? host to the Belt aug-o'-war men at a dinner to^be held soon at the Gerald Cl,fe Two Baseball Games Two baseball games, one belwten the Bootlgggc-rs and the Great Nor there shop teams of this city, and the other between Neihart and Ray nesford, furnished several hours en ■ tertainment for the picnickers. The Bootleggers and Neihart came out the winners. Other events on the program included novlty races and games which proved popular with the Intermingling with the picnickers, wre a large number of candidates foi county offices and much campaign inp was done rfn the ffrounds during the day. although no talks were made by any of the office seekers. During the afternoon the dance pavilion wan flifcd and hundreds stayed for dan fr- j n the evening. Every rom-os sionaire conducting a stand at the picnic rpirtod a big disy's business, At five o'clock Mayor H. W. Millard crowd. of Belt delivered a short address of IK D el sgstee Present- Mr. end Men. A. L. Winston Delegatee frees Volunteer Firemen Bah. At this afternoon's business i sion of the State Firemen's com lion, Chief C. V. Steele of Billings was elected president of the as sociation for the ensuing year. Mr. Steele is one of the most active members of the association, and has never held office before. He is chief of the Billings firs department aad was the unanimous choice of the convention. Helens Gets 1927 Meet While a number of towns were out to secure the 1927 Firemen's conven tion, the boys from Helena landed the plum and next year the firemen will gather at the Capitol city tor their 36th annual convention. Approximently 126 delegates, vis iting firemen, ladies and guests are participating in the 35th annual State Firemen's convention in Big Timber this week. The convention opened at the High School auditor ium Monday morning and was called to order by State President G. W. De ware. Rev. Arthur Prior gave the invocation and Mayor J. H. Tower delivered the address of welcome which was responded to by A. J. Baker of Lewistown. President G. W. Deware of Havre delivered the annual president's address.. Discussion of a proposed legisla tive bill for a state wide fire preven j tion program occupied much of the ! time. . . . , 19 P«P°^d to 2 h®*, f *efm'«m n s ral «rffünd wl ^ured from a tax upon fire insur an " companies doing business u. the state and use it in an educative ■ . ftcaUÄint „^„1- ygu * . *. .*!* P , f,re hazard, ' "" d the av «> da « c * . general program would take the , ... 1 place of the campaigns which are , , put on each year in most of the citiM < " . .. , " Various angles of the proposed measure were considered at the con .. ... 0 . . , ... ,, _ vention with State Auditor George 1 atftte pjre Mar()hlll w G . Brooksa nd Charles W. Cook of Butte, representing the fire under writers' association attending the con fercnce. T he bill was drawn up by the of directors of the as BOcjat ion. consisting of R. J. Baker, f ire chief 0 f Harlowtown; Charles Collins, Anaconda, fire chief; and V. H Steele, chief at Billings. Monday evening was devoted to getting acquainted. Chas. Kepplere Grey Cliff band was the evening's chief entertainment feature. ) Tuesday morning was devoted to a business session and addresses by , prominent speakers. Charles W. Cook of the board of underwriters discussed the methods of making rates before the Tuesday morning session of the convsntion. ! He shf)wed w companiea arrive j emphasized the importance of having better fire apparatus and showed the ln fi ueTlc( lt has on lowering rates. w G Bçook», state fire marshal, p j ea( j e d for co-operation between the Btate fj re marshal's office and the fire ch j efB throughout the state. He gtiressed particularly the investiga tion of firefl thought to have been of tnondlarv origin. The re is c onsid erab ] y difficulty in this respect alt ovcr tbe sUtc at this time, he said and the Btatc marshal's office is fil at the different rates in various cities and the influence which fire protec tion means have on the cost. He led with pending investigations. Discuss Fire* To help alleviate the troub'c aris ing from incendiary fires through out the state at this timeeetaoinetaoi the state, it is planned to deputize several fire chiefs to help with the investigations and hit the bottom and find the persons causing incendiary fir es. Appointments. In the 9 ? ,?*?*?_ wjll come out of the office of George p. Porter, state auditor. Tuesday afternoon's trip up the Boulder valley was sp eye opener to many visiters who were touring that portion of Sweet Grass county for the first time. The caravan of a out thirty cars, which been dona for the trip by the local Lions amt others left the hi*h school a*. 12ujJY and was met at the forestry bmmrf ary Ime bv Rnng-r Harry Rmnmiin wh- welcomed the fltenun on of th- forestry dcpartm?nt. Peiiita of interest wen pointed out oy cour (Con. on last page.)