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VOLUME 33. NUMBER 8.
BELT, MONTANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1926
$2.06 PER TEAR IN ADVANCE,
ALOIS SPILLER
BUILDS BRIDGE
ON NEW TRAIL
Louis Spüler and Herbert Barber
are home for a short time from Dry
Wolf Creek in the Judith Basin coun
ty where they are constructing an
arched bridge over the creek just
below the Taylor ranch.
They have been engaged in build
ing this bridge for two months and
both look as though the camping out
had been a vacation. Hie bridge will
contain some 70 perch of stone, has
a sixteen foot driveway with guard
rails of stone. —
The builders have been troubled
■with water; first with high water and
now with no water at all and to finish
the job they will be compelled to
haul this necessity from a distance
up the creek.
This bridge is a unit in the projec
ted forest road from Stanford to
King's Hill. So far as can be learned
the road will proceed up the Dry
Wolf Valley to a point above the Tay
lor ranch where it will turn to go
over the mountain and down to the
middle fork of the Judith River
wjiich it will follow up to its head j
■which is just below King's Hill.
There has been a trail for many
years through this country which has,
been used by forest rangers, cattle
men and deer hunters but it has been
to rough and rocky for automobiles. '
The new road will open up the mid- ;
die Fork to fishermen and will make
«cessible to the
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The projected road will open up a
part of Judith Basin county which
is little visited and will make Yogn
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$rulch much more easily reached by
+« * i*. ; ,
the sight-seers . It may also be the
means of opening u mines the exis
tance of which haw b^known^dr
,
ever-present auto |
one of Nature's last retreats. The 1
Middle Fork is rich in scenery and
in promise of mineral wealth. It has
been a favorite hunting ground for
Belt and Neihart hunters who have
usually gone in from King's Hill.
many years, with the added possi
bility of new deposits of mineral
being discovered.
The bridge at the Taylor ranch is
practically complete except for
pointing up and a few last touches
School Finances
In Good Condition
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 29. BELT.
MONT. FINANCIAL STATE
MENT FOR YEAR END
ING JULY 39, 1926
115,489.58
339.53
9,626.21,
3 804 66
10 390 161
962 50
152.00'
, W7 qn
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97 OH
2790
Receipts
July let, 1925 balance
Oil Production & Royalty
County Apportionment
District Taxes
Inheritance Tax
State Apportionment
High School
Normal-Tr. Reimbursement
Home Economics;
Trades & Industry "
Agriculture
Miscellaneous Cash
Refunds Hanual Tr. Dept.
S. D. No. 8
11,964.32
147.46
Total
65363.20
Expenditures
685.86
25,797.93
687.67
388.87
2301-82
1,322.63
1,71732
496.21
297.54
416.46
Clerk, Election & Office
Salaries of Teachers
Text Books
Stationery A Supplies
Wages of Janitors
Fuel, Water, Lights and
Janitor Supplies
Repairs, Replacements, Ins.
Agriculture
Manual Training
Miscellaneous Expense
New Grounds, Alterations and -
Furniture
New Equipment
Interest on Bonds
Bonds Paid
Telephone
Domestic Science
Transportation
Manual Training Building
Ctefe on Hand July 1. 1*6 1835* 91
510.09
268.91
622 28
2,500.00
80.00
350.03
1,620.50
1393.64
— Total Expense
41307.29
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6536630,
LOSE CLOTHES IN FIRE
Evelyn Calone, Clara Colone and
Eitel Johnson lost a wardrobe trank
and nearly all their clothing when
the Iteaad Hotel in Le w is town
caught fire and was badly damaged.
The girls are attending the summer
normal at Lewistown and were ab
sent at classes when the fire broke
oat. It took five lines of hose to
extinguish the firs. Their loss is a
severe one to the girls who are teach
es« In Cascade County schools.
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RMS GIVES
PATRONS TREAT
The setting is rough but the rough
ness of the Signapore dive gives no
sti11 L° n Chaney as Singapore Joe
was the whole picture and it was aJ
good
"The Road to Mandalay," shown
at the Pythian, Sunday and Monday
nights was a real picture. It is one
of Lon Chaney's beat which is saying
a great deal. After a series of
mushy melodrama a theatre-goer gets
a shock from one of Chaney's rough,
write pictures. After a series of
pictures which show excellence in set
ting and par-excellence in action.
"The Road to Mandalay" wouid give
more than a passing thrill.
to the story. Ably supported as he is !
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Albert Beaudry and 26 other de
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° f ^ Bank
of Belt ha £ ^ a supplemented
petition with Judsre Cowley asking
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that the recefvorship be immediately
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terminated or that the commission
al,owed the receiv «?r be cut to 7 per!
cent on paper and 2 per cent upon
the sale of furniture and fixtures am!t
offense because it is only an incident
one.
Depositors Ask
Commission Cut
(
! named as a suitable man who will
perform the duties of receiver for
this compensation.
' j The depositors stated that they
were not in a position to bid on the
(remaining assets of the bank but,
; that they could procure s bid for
I same.
The matter of terminating the re
,ceivorship, setting the commission;
paid to the receiver, and selling
assets lies wholly within the hands
of the judge.
Graybill and Graybill are the at
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torneys for the petitioners.
JARDINE FIGURES FARMER
INCOME BELOW THAT
• 0F 1919 — 1920
Washington D. C.. August 10. 1926
Secretary Jardine of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, has done a real
service for 4116 f» 81 ' 0 " in the staul l r
of fa ™ incomes for 1925 and 1926 ' I
0ne of the 8€rioua handicaps in pro
^curing adequate remedies for
cond ' t,ona has been the deposition
on the part of the industrialist t*
" y tl " t t* 1 ® farmers were well off.
and on the part of the farmer to
I deny completely any advantage and
1 to picture their condition as even
more depressing. In this particular
rport just issued, however, the Sec
reury sets forth that while farm in
comes have improved, so that the
farm have
124.00 more than the previous' year,
that the earnings are still 30 per
cent lower than in 1919 and 1920.
while factory wage earners for the
last three yean have only been aari*-)®
mtf what they have earned in 1919,
«m« 1 1920, they have been able to buy'
more. In other words, farmers had
* n investment return of only 3.5 per
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wners Units« States Leads.
„''SaS'TP'Z* ïTZ SS
com. Ot i«-r .fill «r ii» rn'ttm U nt\ .Vt
cent, while the industrial workmen .
.have had a return of 4 per cent.
The one thing to do now is to aeej
, that the farmers and industrialists
get together In a common acceptance
and agreement oh figures.
The trend of the people from the
farms to the cities contains now a *
gtate, is virtually eliminated is also
worthy of note.
serious element of danger. The fact
again that virgin land in ths United
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ROAD CREW REBUILDING BRIDGES
TO WITHSTAND HEAVY FLOOD
Archie Weir, road superintendent
for the county commissioners was ill
Belt, Tuesday, returning from on*
of his numerous rpair job« in this
section. Some ten county
disappeared during the recent
and had to be replaced.
On the new Orr Coatee road
bridges went out. Road builders ha$
to rain in this country and so only
seven foot culverts had been put hi
these bridges. They lasted until the
first storm.Now they all have been
replaced with bridges having eight,
een foot spans and it is confidently
expected that these will carry wataf
from melting snow or cloudburst
bridge*
freshet
forgotten that ten years ago it
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BOYS SLAUGHTER RODENT PESTS
CO. AGENT CAMERON REPORTS
Up to the end of July finds the)
boys and girls who have entered tbs
county-wide rodent campaign spon
sored by the Great Falls Sportsman's
Association, with a total kill of am
mal pests, predatory birds, etc., as
follows: 17,010 gophers, 308 Jack
Rabbits, 1.392 ma gp i es. 44 ma gp ie
eggs, 65 crows, 11 coyotes, 66 hawks,
4 prairee dogs, 91 weasels, 1,416
ground hogs.
The five leading contestants in the
county to date are; Mike Janeson,
Stockett 7,005 points; Tony Cercck,
Eden 4,701 points; Ralph Sutton, Ca,
cade 3,643 points; Mike Kohut,
Stockett 3,068p points; Alfred Dear,
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St Peter^^ pomts.
Stockett--M.ke Janeson 7006 points
second Mike Kohut with 3,068 point!
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and l*rcd Rauffniffis third with 2545
points.
Belt—Albert Kleffenr is first with
2,611 points and Matt Nevala second
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OIL ROYALTY FROM STATE LANDS
FATTENS PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND
The state is receiving a royalty of
12 j. 2 ^ ^ on a „ oi! and ga „ pro .
duce<1 under the leases of state Land,-/
£ |. M . Brandjord. régis
tw of gtate landg( and at the p^-nt
time the royalty slightly exceeds an
BVBrnow n f wr dav m.. mon- 1
lh. publk .chool
average of $1,000 per day
cy all goes into r - -
permanent fund, says Mr. Brandjord.
„-Ij Mr
d
«The que8tion ^
Brandjord. "whether this!2 1-2 per
cent royalty is to be calculated and
paid on the basis of what is kiwiwn
ag the <posted field price> . 0T who ther
it is to ^ ^ on the pr|ce actuaJIy
n L tnin( ,. „ v-io-h»™ „i,.
tained known as a premium price'
The attorney 0 general hT^edthat
th TOyaIty j 8 to be paid on the basis
^ price Sig her than the postod
fi ,.
'
u 11,6 R,ce J 0,, company, one of the
''**™*' Producers In the Kevm-Sun-j
bur8t f ' e]d ' ' by y 6 " 0 " , 0 , f 4he
P roduct,on has been able to obtain
* P"™™ ^
Upon being notified of the ruling of
the att y™ ey company
™ n,tted the the state on
e premium ® w ,c r "> a y
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*° ÜÄ? 4 "" 4la,
f"' 719 - 8 ? for ..*"*P^ >d fr # ° fn t A " srU "
* nd tnch wtng Ja ne
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«INO HAU A HAND IN I»
committed a trail of robberies acres,
H» .Ute »m. —k. pMt .nd -ho
stopped In Armington over night,
Here they broke into an oil house and
two garages and appropriated Lwo,
tirea from Joe Randall. Mr. King
found the typewriter which had been'be
dumped into the coulee, found
letter which gave the destination of
te. trio, pirerd tkb tetter ter.te-r
and wired the autlioriHes at Wassau
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pear that the Great Northern detec
Chas King believes that he should
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b f ve of P» cred,4 / OT ^h.n
din,f th * two men and woman who
five got the credit
White Mr. Wctr was in Belt he eras
asked why all the flood water of the
county road was turned into the city
and why it was not taken into the
coatee by culverts. Mr. Weir stated
that the entire charge of the upkeep
of tills road was in the hands of the
State Highway Commission and that
the County Commissioners had noth
ing to do with it
On Arming ton Coulee which drains
the North side of Belt Butte, piling
has been driven to support the brid
gea. This piling has bean driven to
a depth of nine feet and Mr. Weh
says thy will hold until the cows
746.
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Sun River—Walter Brooking first
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with 2,510 points, Archie Danner
second with 1,145 points and Carl
Crowe third with 820 points.
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with 179 points.
„Ulm —Harold Girton is first with
798 points, Edmund Miller is second
with 771 and Elinor Kock third with
Great Falls—Richard Johnson first
with 697 points and Kenneth Holts
second with 253 points
Cascade—Ralph Sutton first with!
3,643 points, Alfred Dear seond with
2,847 points and Gale Fraunhoffer
third with 2,246 points. ,
Eden—Tony Cercek first with 4701 :
points, Gladys Blains second with
811 points and Jerry Hamman third
with 742 points.
Fife—Clarence Berg with 2l59j
points is the only contestant In the
Fife district.
WHY MUSTACHES ? QUERIES
MURRAY
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They Are Even More Useless Than
Wives. States Screen Comedian
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Charles Murray, who is playing a
»"«*» role in Willi.™
Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer production,
"The Boob." appearing at the Pythian
Theatre, Sued.), .nd Mead,,. Auaa.l
16 and 6. claims that the most use-,
l« 88 thing that a man can possess,;
88 > d « > having two wives, Is a
mustache.
Murray Is affecting one of the
most unusual lip adornments that has
«rer been seen on the screen. He is
Paying the role of an incessantly in
cowboy whose mustache is
trained on one side only. IncidenUy
he never grew a mustache and this
is the first picture in which he uses
^
^ K Arthur> Gertrude Olm
Joan Crawford and Murray are
g ^ feflturpd ro | eg Jn a ca8t
that includes Antonio D'Algy and
^ ^ Boob „ an ln
com(J<lv ba8f> on the ptayi
Jr .. by Geor(f( . Scar .
borough and Annette Wcstbay. It
deals vhimsically with the aspira
tions of youth to right all the world's
wrongs at once and forever. George
^ Ar thur has the role of the knight
!ly young crusader, and Gertrude Olm
stead plays the part of the girl of
j,ia dreams.
Louis Mitchell has secured a loca
U» I" »W --d ■*>'
.that city about August 22nd and will
follow the same line of business in
Glasgow. Mr. Mitchellhas lived in
Belt for a mimh*r of years and wil!
missed by the younger crowd wh .
th»,always found him genial and good
company. He was an excellent won
oi«. .nd m.d. . tedtte. 0<
his business here. His only reason
»o branch out
iTJïtl fo ÄL Ä T*
he is able to do is this locau . .
friends will all wish him go.nl luck
MITCHELL GOES TO NEW
FIELD
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GIRLS TO CAMP ROTARY
The Eagle patrol of the Girl scouts
will leave on Saturday for Camp
Rotary where they will spend about
ten days hiking, s w imm ing and har
ing a general good time. The girl
scouts who are going arc Frances
Dannat, Isabelle Ashworth, Lily
Bakko, Genevieve Remington, Helen
Remington. Mildred Colgan, Ruth
Jennings. Ethel Rants, Madeline
Spogen, Joy Browning, and Gladys
Burnett. The chaperones will be
Louise Lochray, Genevieve Schroeder
and Mr*. Dit mar
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COUNTY FATHERS
FIX TAX LEVIES
The Board of County Commission
on have set 14 mills as the aggregate
of the 1926 county tax levies ; general
Fund, 5 mille; Poor Fund, IVi mills;
Bridge Fund, 8-4 mills; Bond Interest
X 8-4 mils; Bond Sinking, 2% mills:
These levies total two mills mors
than last year.
The levies for the school districts
situated in this territory are as fol
lows:
District No. 3, 10 mills; 6, 10 mills;
8, 10 mills; 9, 10 mills; 10, 4V4 mills;
11, mills; 14, 8 mills; 18, 9 millls;
28, 20 mills; 24, 10 mills; 86, 11 mills;
36, 6 mills; 37, no levy; 40, 10 mills;
•13, 13 mills; 40, no levy; 46, 12 mills;
47, 4 mills; 04, 10 mills; GO, 10 mills;
69, 3 mills; 76, 10V4 mills; 80, no
levy, 83, 10 mills.
f«Hb died at Conrad at 6 o'clock)
Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Stanford
was one of the pioneer owners of '
the Conrad Bank in Great Falls and |
has a wide circle of business in 1
Gl. Falls Banker
Dies Suddenly
£S
Col. James T. Stanford of Great
personal friends through out the
west. He was born In Nova Scotia, '
served on the Mounted Police, came '
Fort Benton became
In business with the Conrads and
Bakers.
i In the 90'» he was made Colonel
the Montana National Guard and chr
ried this title throughout his later
( years.
At the time he was a member of
the Northwestern Mounted Police,
! David Grahflr " ot Be,t . wa * 8,80
|member of that organisation Mr.
Stanford Is survived by his widow,
i® ne 8 ® n - Ja ™ M Stanford of Bethle
* em ; Pa^; a daughter. Mr*. Gretchen
Neel of Los Angeles and two brother«
IM'.tarT.Md m, Gtorff* Mm*
ford of Kahspel.
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WIFE OF REVEREND HOOK
ER PASSES AWAY AFTER
EXTENDED ILLNESS
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i mT'JI nil nf L
"* r8 - J<!anU! Hooker, wife of the
Rev - S D - **°° kpr - died ,a8t n, * ht at
the ho ™ We8t Lawrence
8 *reet. Arrangement* for the funeral
-B be announced later.
Mrs. Hooker was born at Mem,
Mas«., 70 year* ago. Rev. Mr.
Hooker is a prominent clergyman 0
the Episcopal church, and up to the
time of his resignation several
months ago he was for many yean,
the archdeacon of the Montana dio
ose.
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METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Harry T. Stong, pastor
mon by pastor.
tant choice—Self or Service."
Evening Service at 8 o'clock. Our
evening services are informal, an
consist of songs, scripture readings
Morning worship at 11 o'clock. Ser-,
Subject, "An impor
, d
prayer, good fellowship and a short
talk by the pastor. You are cordially
There will be an important meet
ing of the official board on Monday
"T"» 8 °
Our quarterly conference will be
held on Saturday evening. August
21st. District Superintendent, Jesse
Bunch will preside,
at Billings, Mont, September 8th
Sun^y School at 0 o'clock
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We are still In debt some for the
ïralîy ^
,.i„ tn
fund ere earnestly requested to give
invited to attend.
The annual conference will be held
TEX GRAFF
TAKES CASE
HIGH COURT
Tex Graff arrived home tram
Chicago Tuesday morning. Re bad
accompanied to market 6 loads 0
long three year old steers belonging
to the Gnat Palls Maat Computer
and the Floweree Land and Livestock
Company.
These steers were all fine beet
stock, averaging 1268 pounds, all da
horned, and brought the top price en
the market that day, 17.60 per cwt.
Tex says that there is no
of a better market later in the
after the run of cattle from the
drouth stricken sections of Dakota
and other middle western states.
Tax also states that he took up the
matter of the Armington stockyards
at headquarters in South St Paul
and got résulta The history of the
case, as told by Tex is as follows:
Early in the season a petition
circulated and signed by some 68 at
the heaviest stockmen of this section
asking that the Armington stock
yards be improved so as to facilitate
the shipment of stock and remove
the present difficulty in getting cat
tle loaded with out vexatious delays
and consequent unreasonable shrink
age. This petition was presented to
Mr. O'Hara, traffic manager of the
Great Northern Railway who set the
following Tuesday as the day on
which he would ome to inspect tba
stockyards. The committee of stock
jmen were in waiting for him, Tax
says, but he did not appear, later
naming Thursday as the day for his
presence. Again he did not appear
*and, so far as known never did come
look the situation over..
On his return from Chicago Tex
stopped off in South St. Paul and
looked up the head officials of the
jGreat Northern who, Tex found had
never heard anything or me petition
After consideration of the matter
they wired J. F. Pewters, Ass't Gen.
Passenger and Ticket Agent, Helena,
Montana to have the alterations re
quested for the stockyards made this
month.
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Visitors From
Arizona Here
Mr m h M.r.n.
^ from Phoenix^
"* "V*
JhJn
summer, being 116 m the shade when
*_■?.* ■?...
and was looking for an overcoat on
-«Kin,. Belt
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j I-oxworth-McCalla Lumber Co. with
( on extensive line of yards in Arison.
Phoenix Is experiencing substantial
^
^ _ at R^llt
j'" irrigated Oy the great Kooseveil
daTB ' wonderful résulta are obtained
'*™™' °«-anges. all kinds of
«s well as .mmense tracts
®f head letttuce and cantaloupe.,
Lon <f «tapie cotton is also grown
^ «uoressfully.
Our lump and nut at the chute u
the chcapest and best coal In thia
|«® ,d at * 4 00 8 ton ' . Ja8 ' Brod,e and
Mr. McCalla, wife and daughter
will spend some time with the George
H. Kirk family, Mrs. McCalla being -
a daughter.
Mr. McCalla is a member of the
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8f >m«thing so that this debt can be
liquidated.
God has given us two ears but
only one mouth. Undoubtedly he
meant that we should speak only half
88 much as we hear,
Everybody out for the prayer meet
jing and Bible study on this Thursday
® v «" ,n F- U®"' 4 ,nrsret that thi * H
oi ** I^pfoN
ten. do yZ o~.d .11 Jnte.
g tory bour f or a u children at 7
YOGO MINES INCORPORATE
Anderw Klvi of Raynesford was in
jtown Tuesday. The incorporation of
the frwp of mining rVms ownod by
Kfvi and others have nlmost been
completed. The heir* of cne of the
orig'nri r wiKT'- in Finland will > w>n
; gn the necessary papers.