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JUDITH GAP IS LOCATED IN THE CEN T ER OF THE LARGEST AND MOST PRO LIFIC W I NTER WHEAT RE GION IN THE WOR LD
Judith Qap Journal
VOL. 4. NO
JUDITH GAP. MONTANA. FRIDAY. JUNE 14. 1912.
PRICE, *IVE CENTS
GETTING READY
FOR WINTER WHEAT
(By Prof. Shaw.)
The large amount of moisture in
Korthwesteru soils brings with it a
temptation that may result in harm.
Because the laud can be plowed easily
on account of the more than average
amount of moisture in the soil, the
danger is present that flax sowing
will be too long continued. Unduly
late sowing brings with it two dang
ers. One is that the crop may be
hurt by dry weather that may follow
the sowing, and the other is that the
crop may be hurt by frost before it
matures. It is true at the same time,
that a good yield is possible from a
late sown crop. But since there is
hazard in sowing it, why should sueli
hazard be iucurred? Will it not be a
safer course to follow, to summer fal
low the land to prepare it for sowing
to winter wheat, where the condi
tions favor that crop, and to make it
ready for spring grain where they do
not?
With the supply of moisture that is
now in the ground, it should not be
difficult to hold enough to germinate
fall sown wheat when the time comes
for sowing it. The large amount of
moisture that has fallen since last
August in the Northwestern States is
very liable to throw people oft their
guard. The dry farming methods
should not be neglected in any way.
Next season may be very different
from this one. Last autumn rain was
so abundant that grain could be sown
amid the stubbles with safety. It may
be very different next autumn.
As soon as the land is plowed for
the fallow' it should be packed. The
disc will usually do this work fairly
well. If the land has been plowed out
of sod, the discs should be so set as
not to tear up the sod. It may be
necessary in some instances to weight
the disc. Thé packing of the laud
should be done the day the land is
plowed. If this is not done the soil
will lose all or nearly all its moisture
In a few days, down as far as the
plow went. It 1 b greatly important
that such moisture should not be lost.
The disc or packer is to be followed
by the harrow, so that a tine soil
mulch will be made on the land. This
mulch will prevent the escape of
I
RESOLVED
THAT A HOU.SE SHOULD BE
WELL MADE FROM THE GROUND
UP. A MAN SHOULD BE WELL
DRESSED FROM THE GROUNDUP
SHOES ADD MUCH lb A MAN'S'
APPEARANCE AND COMFORT.
AT YOUR FEET WELL,
THEV STAND THE
STRAIN
oié
"QUALITY .STORE"
WE ARE THE EXCLUSIVE AGENT S IN
OUR TOWN TOR THE FOLLOWING LINE OF
-SHOE.S:
COPELAND AND RYDER,
F. MAYER,
BARTON BROTHERS.
THE REASON WE RECOMMEND THESE
*SHOE«S TO YOU I«S BECAUSE THEY HAVE
«STOOD THE TE.ST OF TIME. WE KNOW THEY
ARE COOD SHOES AND THAT WE CIVE YOU
GOOD JHoE-5 FOR YOUR GOOD MONEY. COME
TO US AND LEU US -5HOE YOUR WHOLE FAM
ILY.
BEER«S AND HAYNEJ,
THE PIONEERS OF JUDITH GAP"
moisture. It should be maintained
until wheat is sown in the fall, and
until the end of the open seasou when
w'heat is not sown.
Tills mulch must be renewed after
each considerable rain as soon as the
land gets dry enough to harrow with
out the earth sticking to the harrow
teeth. The fallow' must be kept free
from weeds. It should also be remem
bered that the earlier the ground is
plowed, the more moisture it will storç
up against the time of need.
The wheat crop of 1913 will largely
depend on what is done by the farm
ers in areas that are know'll as dry,
between now' and the time for Bow
ing winter wheat. If a large crop is
to be reaped in HUS, a large amount
of land should be devoted to fallow.
There is no good reason why this
should not be done, as there is now
a large amount of moisture in the soil.
A STATE OF
OPPORTUNITY
Billings, Mont., .Tune 12. -Montana
I is the state of opportunity for the
dairying business in the opiniou of .1.
C. Hinsdale who has just returned to
his home in Illinois after making an
investigation of conditions with a
view of purchasing land and going in
to the business on an extensive scale.
He does not contemplate the starting
of a dairy from which milk will be re
tailed, but rather the breeding and
selling of high grade milch cows and
the sale of butter fat to creameries
and he savs the industry should prove
immensely profitable for the reason
that good cows are scarce. There is
an abundance of the finest kind of
food and the demand for the product
at high prices is strong. In this con
nection the msuager of the local
creamery says the institution pays
from 5 to t« cents more per pound for
butter fat than does eastern concerns,
also that alfalfa, pound for pound, is
equal to wheat bran as a producer of
butter fat, and that the finest alfalfa
in the country is grown in. this sec
tion. - .
There is nothing to compel a man to
stick by a profitless post when there
is no danger!
You hear of a lot of things in the
interest of the people which don't
help them much.
r
TRUE PATRIOTISM
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, Emporia, Kansas.
The preservation of the home trade to the home town carries with it the preser
vation of many of our American fantitutions.
It seems to me that a let of good things in American life will pass
if tlie country town passed. -Ami it will pass just so surely as ceutral
zation of retail mail order business in cities continues'.
The American country town, the town of from one hundred to one
hundred thousand people, preserves better than the crowded city and
better than the lonely ranch and isolated farm life, the things that make
America great.
Here in these country towns the spirit of neighborliness is the pre
vailing spirit. Men come to know one another and when any two hu
man beings come to know one another, in the one who is intelligent and
wise respect always rises for the other. To know one's fellows always
is to sympathize with them. Neighborliness spells fraternity.
The American country town with its broad circle of friendships,
with its close homely simple relations between men, with its spirit of
co-operation and with its economic status that permits the creation of
no indecently rich and no object!) poor, the American country town, it
seems to me, is the most hopeful of our American institutions.
To destroy that town, furnishing the market for the farmer and giv
ing steady employment to labor, means a reorganization of our com
mercial, social and industrial life that will be revolutionary and more
a matter of doubtful value.
The mail order house therefore becomes a menace to this country, the mail or
der house unrestricted will kill our smaller towns, creating great cities with tlielr
terrible contrasts of life, with their cruel social relations, with their inevitable
caste feeling that cone from the presence of strangers who are rich and poor liv
ing side by side.
Friendship, nei^iborliness, fraternity or whatever you call that spirit of com
radery that comes When men know one another well, ia the cement that holds to
gether this union of the states. It is not created in great cities.
Great cities give much in alms, but little in justice. Only as we
know' eacli other well can we treat each other justly; and the city is a
wilderness of careless strangers whose instincts of humanity are daily
becoming more and more blunted to suffering, because in the nature of
things suffering in cities must be impersonal. It is not the suffering of
friends and neighbors and kith and kin as it is in the smaller town. So
the mail order house crushing out our towns is drying up the milk of
human kindness in our hearts.
And that brings as back to first principles; if we who live In these small
towns in America can not see that our duty to our country lies first of all In our
duty to our neighbors, then we are blind indeed to the basis of real patriotism,
is only neighborly kindness. Patriotism is not in cheering for the flag; it is not
in feeling our eyes filled with emotional tears at hearing "The Star Spangled Ban
ner;" patriotism is just old-fashioned human duty.
To sacrifice our neighbor—the man who helps the town with its taxes, with
Its public business, with Its myriad activities for neighborly righteousness—to
sacrifice that man and his business for the mere sake of saving a dollar on the
purchase of a hundred dollars', worth of goods is just as unpatriotic as it Is to
spit at the flag.
I or the Hag if it means |ny thing means the golden rule; the Hag
means friendly burden bearilt$;.''it means mutual help in trouble; it
means stauding together against common foes. ,
The motto of the mail order house is every man for himself and the devil
take the hlndermost—and you bet the devil will.
That spirit never fails to vork; and the weak man, the unprotected
man, the man aloue—the mar on the farm, at the end of the fact, when
his farm market is gone, when his town is gone, when the spirit of sel
fishness and greed has left this country cold and hard and mean and
neighborless—the farmer wil be the hindermost.
J
NAKED ISSUE OF
RIGHT AND WRONG
New York, June to.—Thetdore
Roosevelt discusses conditions atChi
cago in an article entitled "A Naked
Issue of Right and Wrong," to appear
in the current issue of The Out.ook.
Mr. Roosevelt says in part:
"The contest for the republican
nomination now lias narrowed Town
to a naked issue of right and wrong;
for the issue is simply whether we
shall permit a system of naked fraud,
of naked theft from the people to tri
umph.
"Properly speaking, the national
committee's only function is honestly
to judge what delegates have prima
facie the right to a seat and to sug
gest the name of a temporary chair
man, who shall call the convention to
order. Practically the attempt is be
ing made by the Taft members to use
the present national committee for the
purpose of unseating honestly elected
delegates and of seating enough fraud
ulently elected delegates,! especially
from the states where there is no
real republican party, to secure the
nomination of Mr. Taft."
After reviewing the primary results
iu the various states, Colonel Hoose
velt continues:
"Mr. Taft cannot be uominate l un
less he gets the overwhelming major
ity of tire rotten borough states which
never cast a republican electoral vote
andin which the delegations represent
only the office holders. Even if he
gets practically all the Handpicked del
MERCHANT'S HOTEL
Otto Riemann, Proprietor
Meals and Rooms Always First Class
Dining Room Open Three Hours At Esch Meal Time
egates from these states he cannot be
nominated until by deliberate fraud
in such states as Indiana, Michigan
and Washington, not to mention oth
ers, the republicans are defrauded of
their right to express their preference
as to who is to get their votes.
"He can be nominated only by dis
regarding the expressed will of an
overwhelming majority of two and a
half millions of republicans who from
Massachusetts and renusylvania to
Illinois and California have voted as
to their choice for president.
"Under such circumstances, his
nomination would represent the over
riding of the expressed will of the
people, by Messrs. Barnes, Penrose,
Guggenheim, Clayton, Powell and the
rest.
"But I wish to call attention to the
fact that it is Messrs. Barnes, McKin
ley and their assistants on behalf of
Mr. Taft who are engaged in the ef
fort to prepetrate the gravest wrong
upon the republican party and u| on
the people of the United States and
that in such action they stand, not as
the representatives of the republican
party butas individuals misrepresent
ing that party with no claim to loy
alty from it, and whom it is the bom •
den duty of that party to repudiate.''
Congregational Church Annonncemnet.
Children's Day will be observed
with appropriate exercises Snu'lay,
June 10th, at 10:30 o'clock iu tho
morning. There will he special mu
sic by tlie Sunday school, recitations
by tlie scholars, and a short address
by tlie pastor. An offering for the
work of tlie Sunday school will be
taken during tlie progrun. All par
ents and friends are cordially invit
ed.
— F. Va d u, Pastor.
FRED UEECK GETS
A HEAVY FINE
For taking junk valued at not to
exceed 820, Fred Ueeck, well known
in Judith Gap, was lined 8500 by a
Harlowton justice of the peace.
The stuff was taken from Nye's
shearing plant in the Hopley creek
country. It consisted of an old piece
of belting, a grind stone and a few
tools.
Lastyearthe Ueeck brothers bought
a gasoline plow outfit and moved out
to their claims on the forest reserve
south of the Little. Belts. They have
had enough contracts for breaking to
keep them busy all spring. It is not
known why the stuff was taken from
the shearing plant, but it was un
doubtedly done to make some repairs
on the plow outfit. The brothers had
a good reputation while living here
before going on to their claims, and
it is hard to believe they took the
stuff with the idea of getting away
with the loot.
Anyhow, Fred was arrested and
taken to Harlowton. Assistant
County Attorney W. C. Ilusban l ad
vised Fred to plead guilty and assur
ed him he would receive the minimum
line of 8200 for pel tit larceny. Fred
took the suggestion, pleaded guilty,
and got 85(H). Attorney Husband did
all he could to get the minimum line
placed, but the justice was obdurate.
Fred could not pay the fine, and was
taken to White Sulphur Springs Wed
nesday to serve 250 days.
It is strange how many men wor
ried through boyhood without the aid
of the Boy Scout movement.
We lead, others follow
We buy the best in the market
We give clean quick service
We give the beat meal for 35c
We use coffee that Is best by test
We serve short order« Day and Night
A trial la all we need
GAP
GRILL
H. M. HANSON
Proprietor
STATIONARY GASOLINE
ENGINES
From I to 2 horse power
Just the thing with
which to grind feed,
pump water, and
act as a handy help»
er on the farm.
The prices are right
See those 1-horse
Garden Cultivators
They are just what you need at
this time of year.
Full line of hardware
Full line of groceries
Full line of dry goods
Full line of farm machinery
C.R.STONE
A TOOTHPA STE
MINE THE LATEST
Billings, Mont., June 12 •"-A. ton of
toothpaste is to bedistribu **din small
tubes among visitors in J. 'Mings by
the Chamber of Commerce, 88 °ue of
the many wonderful things w hich ex
ist naturally in Montana, am. 1 entitle -
it the name "Teasure State." ' The
paste was accidently discovered hv a
farmer in this vicinity who w; ' s en -
gaged in digging a well. At a « 'om
paiatively shallow depth the w.
men struck a four foot strata of pa
like substance and when a samp I e '
was analyzed it was pronounced t
be pumice in a highly pulverized form.
Some of it was sent to an eastern con
cern which manufacturers prepara
tions for the teeth, with a result that»
large quantity was immediately pur
chased. The formation exists in
practically unlimited quantities and
it is expected it will be mined and
placed on the market from this city.
THEBLOOMERGIRLS
PLAY BALL HERE
Next Sunday, June Iflth, the Bos
ton bloomer baseball girls will play
the Judith Gap club for a division of
the gate receipts and a side bet large
enough to make the game interesting.
The local boys have been out practic
ing lateiy and the new recruits to the
nine show up well.
The locals feel conHdent they can
beat the traveling aggregation to a
frazzle. It ought to be an interest
ing contest.

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