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BELT, MONTANA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1926
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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
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2000 bushes have been found and de
strayed
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The barberry bush is ordinarily
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used as an ornamental shrub in lawns
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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
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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.
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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
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just the same. He does a wonderful :
piece of acting
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I/)is Moran plays his daughter—
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and she s just too charming for
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words. Owen Moore plays the hero
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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
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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
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by the end of ^ week and 7000 to
8000 probab |y hç received daily
bv August 15th I
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,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
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, Republican have been nominated tor
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congressmen in this district. Lee
I Dennis is a winner and will be op
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: posed by Carey, Democrat. Meigs
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and Cowley will make Die race
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against each other m Novumbei
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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
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' 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,
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County commisioner—Cunningham,
8,093.
395; Hdbber. 714; Jensen, 999; Korn
;
mers. 1 502; Moore, 363; Swearingen,
mere, 1,502.
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r„ U n*y Assessor—Ferguson, 1,76«;
Mady, 2,790.
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^ y «'^•-Cook. 3,842.
County clerk—Moran, 3,976.
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Shemf—Gordon, 2,452; Nicholson
) 1,896; Stuffel, 336.
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Treasurer—Ashton, 1,811; Jeffries,
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2,423.
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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.
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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
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The judges of the primary election
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,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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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LaBossiere
Q ook
Jficbofeon
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36 37 130
57
Moran
Gordon
Ashton
Jeffrie*
Brown
p*nwel1
Woodward
McBurney
Jacobson
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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.
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All day long Sunday cars were
flashing back and forth between
.Great Fall, and Belt carryiag crowds
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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
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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.
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With 3,000 persons on the ground*
-—..n —
bers of the Fraternal Order of Eagle»
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,
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.
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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
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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
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Various angles of the proposed
measure were considered at the con
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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.
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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.)