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V State Historical Library r ■f - J Auditorium Consists of 30 Pieces 4 ^ArVVAA^WAAAA^MWVW»MMW^V V^ ^W»AAA#WVWV ^ f = == * =r=——==> ÏT VOLUME 8S. NUMBER 26. BELT, MONTANA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1926 92.04 PER TEAR IN ADVANCE. .. —■ BASKETBALL SEASON OPENS SATURDAY WITH CENTERVILLE On Saturday evening the basket ball season of the local high school opens with a game between the Centerville H. S- team and that from the B. V. H. S. The game opens at 8:15 and will be preceded by a preliminary be tween other teams which will be fast and interesting. Coach Spogen has not announced his line up and doubtless will use the occasion to try out his material in a real game. Le land, Jewell and Simonis of last years squad available with Cody, F. Cossack ,A. Cossack, J. Cossack, Remington, M Johnson, Plorek and S. Johnson also on the squad. The games preceding the tourna ment are practice games where dif ferent formations are tried ano eventually the most effective is used in the tournament which decides who shall represent this district at the state tournament. art Tucker, Probst, Nohl and M Cafferty graduated last year and only tene will teQ whether the nee tes» will p os se s s the seme fighting and fast passing qualities as the old team. Centerville has been one of the fastest teams hi the district for several fears and will doubtless give a good account of themselves. The game Saturday night will be fast snd interesting. - JfcVv walTham ♦ ♦ + ♦ + + + *4 + + .|. + + + * + + + ** Conn Forder was in Highwood and ~ Great Falls Saturday attending to business matters. Red Johnson snd A. J. Fischer made a. business trip to Great Falte and Belt Saturday. Geo Dar ko was shopping in Hlgh 41 wood recently. ■ ; Mr. and Mrs. John Lander and family were doing their Christmas shopping in Groat Falls Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wskttis have a new Master Six Bnick. As a result of the Highwood bank «wing out of business most of the termer, have been up to draw out their BMteey. Those who went up Monday were Otto Gulden, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Fischer and Mr. snd A. Fischer. Sr. Mp and Mrs Otto Gulden and chil £ Grav^tSartK^ldar! Miss' Mary Gray,' and Mr. and V. L. Fischer were supper guests of [r. and Mr». A. Fischer, Sr. Sunday. George Ellsworth drove to Great Falte Monday afternoon. Mrs. John McKenzie spent severs. d* VS mortong' '*"'**** 1 W John Loy te making preparation. forTtrip to Florida whliThT will attend the national convention of his _____ . J Übel Laundry of Great Fsdls cam«. , to Belt Saturday where he visited relatives. His sister. Mrs. Phi. Leveilte accompanied him back to Great Falls where she visited and j Marie Forder returned Sunday morning from Chicago. She says the club members were royally treated and entertained. Mrs. Forder an J Connie went to Highwood Sunday afternoon to see her. little Howard Ellsworth has bee.. confined to his bed with a severe cold. Mrs. L. M. Jurgens and children shopping in Groat Palis Satur were day. Steve Burchak is working at th« Self Service Store in Great Falls. fraternity. ÜBEL VISITS US returned Monday Basketball BELT Vs. CENTERVILLE Saturday, 8 P. M ■ ,p TRUSTEES HOLD SESSION The entire board were present si the school board meeting Tuesday night. Routine bills were allowed. A letter was received from the pres ident of the State Organisation of school boards asking that the Belt board make a list of matters upoi. which they desire legislation and file same with the secretary. This mat ter was deferred for consideration. The local board unanimously voted to offer Snpt. Bowman bis position for s period extending to July 1 st, 1928 before which time the matter will be considered for a further extension. MUSICAL TREAT FRIDAY RIGHT Music lovers should not hearing tbs Great Falls Symphony Orchestra on Friday night. This organisation is composed of some 80 of the best musicians in the county seat and white the o rch es t r a as S whole has been heard by few of our citisens yet than are many ib. know of the excellence of individual musicians from .which they infer the. quality of the rest The school piafto will be tuned especially for this occasion in order that there may be no instrument out of harmony. ORGANIZE EGG SALE PLAN Cascade County Egg Producers will meet in Great Falls December 14, to perfect an organization to market their eggs in Great Falls, through s co-operative organisation. D. L. McDonald, Agriculture Intetroctor at the Belt High School, commenting on this plan said, the only. way by which egg producers ran get mon. money will be by producing eggs 01 the best quality and by marketing them through agencies that appre ciate quality and will pay for it This is a real opportunity for the local farmer to réalisa some extra money by grading and marketing their pro duct though a co-operative organisa tion. And can be put across it enough farmers take advantage of the opportunity and attend this Under t conditiong a lar _ e - fK , -♦««.« «n a inr.i -, «Ateri t y . ° > * j H f • ^ J^JTTf aLitv Under BV * _* blivineth<> Lyer nro TT/S"?»»eld J* " b £ , ogSMOn . A . BH ? fprinr _ The m-oducer , "J .üTnnHer fete .vs ïLTtfjüïHl* fe hi wn _ wor th white n *. ' tne pro ducer wn ose egg are jwo. *Jlrfe^^ndTr^fete ^vstem of Zin? feere is i^centiv7 f" fel Mr.-.'^J ert o use proper method, in the production and marketing of hi. I ft places a premium on care JTness and offer, no reward for [improvement of quality. _ j jH(»IE ECS. ENTERTAIN '- - Tonight the Domestic Science department of the high school under the direction of Miss Helen Ryan , tcacher in charge will entertain fee school trustees, 'their wives, the clerk and all the teachers, in the Home Economics department in the auditorium. This is in the nature of j a get acquainted meeting as or dfnarily the trustees hake few op portnnities to meet fee faculty of the local scheel ! 1 ■ Great Falls Symphony Orchestra Prof. R. A. Kcpat, Director Friday , December 10 , 1926 Belt, Montana Start* 8:16 P. M. . . Program . . I Overture "Lustspiel" . Selection from "The Viceroy".Victor Herbert (a) Care Selve .—__,_Handel (b) I Passed by Tdtip Window,.. . .Brahe Mrs. Evelyn F. Lyford. ..Keler Bela Andante Cantabile . Stringed Orchestra ..Tschaikowsky March from "Tannhäuser". Wagner Overture "Poet end Peesent" .. . Suppe Blue Danube Welts.. ..Straus Marche Mi Hi taire . ... ...Schubert (a) Andante (b) 1 Menuetto Haydn (From the Surprise Symphony) Selection by the Sy mpho ny Tri» Piano, Mrs. O. F. Wadsworth Violin, D. E. Cramer « Cello, W. C. Ulery 1 = DEPARTMENT 5 ...IIWi*llllllimilllllllllllllllimillimilllllllimMIIHIIimillimmmilllll»llllllln( UIIIIHNillllllillllltlllltllimilllillllimHHIliniHfllllMIttHIIINNIimillllilllllillllll I High School ■D1TBD BT PUPIUS OP BELT HIGH SCHOOL NEWS GATH ERED PROM EVERT Chat •»«te EDITORIAL _. Th * Dramatic Club has set as it» goal for the year, participation in ** Thc.tr« tournament .t Mi,aoala Th * tournament is to be in connection with the annual track meet. In order to qualify to. a chance to win. it will be necessary for **• club to work hard all year . The production of numerous one .ct ptoyt, emphasizing interpretation and general effectiveness will be the work o£ ^ cJub gtudent wih'«» a chance to perform ao that no talent will be unfound. F nanciafly the trip will be a pro hlem as well, and support of the club in its numerous activities will be ap predated. - LOCAL NEWS MUs Rice motored to Great Falls Saturday. A car hit the rear end 01 ** " r * nd • mMhed ,l »P ^ Monday afternoon the 6 th. 7th and 8 th grades put on a program in th«: eighth grade room. Tuesday morning the Freshmen gave their first program which con suited of musical selections. The pro gram was as follows; Piano solo Marjorie ghamrrd. Duet, Dorothy and Doris Randall, Violin Duet, Eva LeseUe and Ruth Wilson, Piano solo Florence Wood. c ... . . , Siguard Johnson, delegate fromtht B<>it Valley High School to the In temational Live Stock Show ac Chi«mgo returned last Thursday. Urn boys from Montons «boote were, sponsored by M. J. Abbey of Bose-: State Supervisor of Agricu.-1 '««1 education. Siguard «ports 1 ^ an Y »«pactions at the stock show. Exhibit, of stock from all over the work *, »tock judging and horse '«howa. Besides the stock proper enjoyed visits to the Art ; Gallery, Marshall Field Museum, [Lincoln Park. Western University, the wheat p,t at ** , t!or ' how - Prof: R. A- Keyes, Director of the [Great Fall. Symphony Orchestra visited the high school Tuesday tore noon - He «ddressed the students at ^"h^tr.^^nteatronl 11 * e'x^d^ing! {hp repregentin(î ' an orchestra. He alro gave the personnel of th. Symphonj , Oreherir. which will make . - 1 s •PP** ranc * next rn y e e , at the H - 8 - Auditorium. He spoke " f music and its refining influence and its importance as a part of a high school education. His addrea enthusiastically received by the ... u u -f (Cor. on page 1) LIONS' CLUB ARE PREPARING CHARTEROAY AND CARNIVAL BELT LIONS ADOPT BYLAWS The Lion's Chib dinner Tuesday night brought out a maximum atten dance including a few guests. In tho absence of Pres. Van Dike and var ious vice-presidents, Q. H. Kirk acteo as chairman and for the committee on constitution and bylaws presente«, the report of that committee which was adopted. Committees reported progress on preparation for Ladies night and the Frontiers Day celebra tion. Three members of the Hawai ian troupe playing at the Pythian entertained the party with several musical numbers. HEIRS WILL GET $13000 ESTATE A petition for probate of the wih of the 1st» John Robertson, who died at Belt November 27, was Monday filed In district court by 8. K. Peterson. The estate has an ap fmiaed value of approximately $ 11 , 000 . The assets of the astete, recites the petition of Attorney Peterson, are $224 in cash, time certificates of deposit in banka of Gnat Falls and Belt, $8.7<*r lot 16» block $, Beit $1,270; personal property 4160, and claims of $ 2,012 and $ 1,012 against the American Bank A Trust com bank of Belt. patty and tho The heirs are William Robertson and Golf Robertson, sons of the de cedent, both of whom live in Klep stad, Norway, and Tom Holland of Belt, (Gnat Palls Tribune) Realizing that any efforts which tend to inersass the health of the eommnnity as s whole, tend to de crease the number of esses of tu bercqlosis, the Montana Tuberculosis Association maintains in Cascade county a full time nurse who in sd dition to giving personal Instruction 1" tb « ir care to 96 Tubercular per sons in fee " co unt y, teaching them how kee P ■provins the )•**•* to others, enters into all setiv I [ ities of the local Health Department j She played a vital part in rodndnB| the death rate from Tuberculosis ln Cascade County from »0 per 100.000 in 1919 to 10 in 1926, also in roduc-i ing the death rate from Summer com plaint in infants from S3 in 1919 to 10 to 1926; as well as In eliminating 1 Diptheria as a cause of death In Cas cade County. j Each year the funds derived from the sale of Christmas seals becomes larger and less effort is required to sell the seal*. This is partly due to the fact that the public at large re a,iM * the Nati " na ' ntte"manleed"oreIni^ti^rin P fee clent y m ** d * rani * at ' n " . ^ »■' P« r c 1 m y ra sed In o m rent in ex P cnde<1 in th * county *» ^ ich raised, not in props **" da - but in actual health work. As County Health Officer, I sin cerely hope that the people of Belt w j)| gb ow the same active interest jn Tuberculosis Christmas seal all this year that they Me always shown in matters pertaining to the health at the community, and I feel sore * arh wi " ** ° n]y 400 ,flad to do his part when the seal sate opens under the direction of Miss C. Molitor and the Girl Scouts. DR. WALKER TALKS ON SEAL CAMPAIGN t On Wednesday night Decemhea 16th the Lion's Club will hold what is known as Charter night on which occasion the charter will be presen ted to the club by Senator James Griffen of Chinook, who is Deputy District Governor of Lion's clubs. Leo. C. Grsybesl will give the address of welcome to the visitors who will comprise many members of the club from Greet Fella and other places besides the wives and ladies of all members. President John Van Dika will ac cept the charter for the local chtt, Louise Lochrsy will sing, Mts. D. 1* McDonald will give s reading; Mar Joris Sharrard will whistle a solo, Cal Sharrard as Tail Twister will de a stunt with the bell and the crowd will indulge in some of the Linas* songs. Probably before the pro gr es s the crowd will do Justice to a dinner which is expected to be mors elab orate than the usual menu. Later it was learned that shoot talks would be made by Dr. Irwte and H. M. Peet of Groat Falb Among the other attractions wiH ha the Groat Falb Boys Band of 16 pieces. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦ wm N B 1 ■ A B T + 4 Mary Taylor returned to her home Tuesday by oas after spending a week with her relatives in Oram Fall. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦ + + * •> * Dave Ledbetter was a Monday aaa Tuesday visitor in Groat Falls. Charlie Swanson went Into Groat Falls Monday where he expects te have some dental work done. Mrs. Salo and three children «I Dover arrived Monday for a visit at the Chas Maki home. Chas. Gutman was a Tuesday visit or in Great Falls. W. H. Yarnall, special agent tat the Central Life Assurance Society, ipan t Tuesday and Wednesday In our community . »ff atra have taka« placa Utely among them being ths card p.rties gi^n by Mrs. Broderie* Tuesday nltht( and that by Mr* u on Fri day night. Mra Broderick's guests were, Mr«. j R RaWchand, Mrs. B. Sturmaa, ' Amm p^tesch, MrV CKjll fe ". dl-toilbbon, Mrs. R. C Tripp, Mrs. H Bo«hl, Mrs. Bassett •Leytoii, Mrs. K 'j Gruter, Mrs M. N. Lease, Mrs. i n nn | e flaxton, Mrs. W. E Whit*. Mlai L eaa * ( Miss Broderick snd Mrs. Broderick. M „ guests included, Mn.' . Tony FaI1 ^, M rs. r, C . Tripp. Mrs. MrGibbon, Mrs. Hans Roehl, Mrs. W. E. White, Mrs. B. Sturman, M „ L Heath Mn j W eld. Mrs. T. F , H ogg. Mrs. Annie Ha*ton, Mrs. M. N. Lease, Mrs. Frank Savage, Mrs. A. C. Taylor, Mrs. G«o. Broder | c k, Mrs. J. Rabichaud, Mrs. Sid O* Connor Mrs. E. J. Groter. Mrs. L. A. g ' Grant. Mrs. D- C. Crutcher. Mrs K. T. Barkeil. Mis. Lease. MissFlorence B '^ tT ft " d MiM ^T* There were a number of pupils who ü ^ m ° nth mediate room scored 100 per cent for PriÜ^îy— Marjorie Hogg. Tommy H ogg. Conil Shill. Dulin Shill. V,r g ini a Tripp. Will MacGibbon. Gene Savage, Merritt fbnith. _Intorm*^iate— Fntz and Rtf 10 An dersch, HwiiiWf 4M Ally" Luasiaslr-"^ Berness and Fny Sutton. and Gertrude Tripp. Merle and Verte White. Lucille Barkell. R a *h F» Dorothy Gruter Edg* r Roe . an Sava<re - Ma 7 T ? y]cr ' U ° y Joyce Warmbrod. Grammar K. on n er, Smith Opal Stork. Ho wart. Mabel