The Billings gazette. [volume], September 21, 1909, Page 4, Image 4

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Fromberg Local News
DATES ARE ANNOUNCED
FOR LECTURE COURSE
Jubilee Singers First on List and
High Class Entertainment
Said to Be Assured.
Those who have subscribed for the
season tickets for the coming lecture
course will be interested in learning
that the dates for the four numbers
of the course have been assigned. i
The first one is a concert by they
Midland Jubilee Singers Wednesday
evening, Nov. 10. This troupe of sing
ers comes highly recommended and!
everyone may be assured of a high
grade entertainment.
The sale of the season tickets will
begin Oct. 1. The price for the full
course of four entertainments is $2
for adults, but all children over 8
years who are enrolled in school can
secure season tickets for $1. Single
tickets for any entertainment will be
75 cents.
Women and the Home
Moistened cream of tartar is excel
lent for removing iron rust.
Small pieces of toilet soap, too little
to be used separately, may be utilized
by putting them into a small bag of
Turkish toweling or cheesecloth, and
using that as if it were a cake of soap.
A handful of oatmeal may be added.
A good furniture polish may be
made of paraffin, oil and turpentine.
Kerosene is also very good for clean
ing and polishing furniture and crude
oil may be used to advantage to
darken the wood of furniture that has
not been varnished.
Good steel knives are better when
sharpened at intervals by a profes
sional. Often arrangements can be
made with the butcher to take all
knives in the house and include them
with his knives for sharpening. This
is especially convenient in the coun
try, where stores are hard to reach
and where the butcher's cart is a fre
quent visitor.
To keep milk toast from being sog
gy, as it too frequently is, try serving
the boiling hot, buttered milk in a
covered pitcher, passing it with crisp,
hot toast. In this way each person
can have toast as soft or as crisp as
desired.
The housekeeper who wants "the
best" does her own marketing and
does it early before the foodstuffs
are picked over or wilted from the
hot sun.
More Americans should understand
cooking with curry powder. It makes
a delicious change for the cooking of
meats, rice, eggs and fish. An Anglo
Indian will tell you we know nothing
of the use of curries, ,but that is no
reason why we should not learn.
There are fewer reckoning days if
housekeepers pay cash. If they per
sist in running accounts for groceries
and other staples, they should have a
book and see to it that the right price
is put down the minute anything is
bought.
Farmers
Trading Company
Fromberg - Montana - Bridger
Dealers in General Merchandise
Staple and Fancy Groceries
-Fine Line of Dry Goods.
"Ceretana" Flour
It is the Best
Boots, Shoes, Overalls-all
sizes. A general line of
Gents' Furnishing Goods.
We handle the "Mayer"
Brand Shoes.
We are New But We're Hustlers
F, j Buzzetti
Billiard and Pool Parlors
Confectionery and Fruits, Ice Cream, Tobaccos & Ciga .s
A full line of Ciders, Sodas and Soft Drinks
Plain and Egg Milk Shakes a Specialty
Fromberg - - &Iontana
S. G. YMedhurst
GENERAL GROCERIES, CANDY, CIGARS AND TOBACCO
Canned Goods a Specialty
An attractive line of.Fancy Hand-Painted China
Located in Postoffice Building
FROMBERG - - - MONTANA
Personals.
Mr. and Mrs. John Celander went to
Bridger Tuesday and took with them
a load of chickens to dispose of
Albert Blower, who is a victim of
typhoid fever at the Bridger hospital,
is much improved.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Gaman Friday morning, Sept. 17.
Ben Parker returned from High
land, Kan., last week.
Mrs. J. A. Hartman was a Joliet
caller Thursday.
Miss Marie Black and Regina John
son are visiting Billings friends this
week.
Mrs. 0. E. Roberts of Laurel was
the guest of friends here this week.
J. Danford was in from Laurel on
business Friday.
Mrs. W. E. Ross went to Bridger on
a shopping expedition Wednesday.
Sheriff Bachelder was doing busi
ness in Fromberg a couple of days
last week.
Mrs. "Doc" Brimmer and daughter
are visiting Mrs. Brimmer's mother
and father, Mr. and Mrs. Brackett.
Mrs. Brimmer is resorting at the
Pryor mountains this summer.
Miss Grace Beaver is the guest of
Miss Laura Swan and Miss Brackett.
A party of young people participated
in a straw ride Wednesday evening.
A jolly time was reported. Strange to
say, but if asked if they like that
luscious product of the vine, the
I watermelon, they return a negative
Sanswer.
I Mrs. George Killorn went to Red
Lodge Thursday to see her nephew,
Reeve Moses, who is quite ill.
J. N. Perry and William Baker of
the Mutual 'Phone company were up
j from Billings on business Wednes
day.
Ralph Reber is seriously ill, having
contracted typhoid fever. He is under
the care of Dr. Benson.
Mesdames Goff and Chamberlain
came over from Joliet Friday to visit
their sister. Mrs. L. G. Mendelssohn.
1 George Killorn ,went to Livingston
on business a few days ago.
SJ. F. Cook sojourned in Billings
Thursday and Friday.
Must Learn to Wigwag.
The suffragists of London, in addi
tion to all their other work, have to
g learn the wigwag alphabet, by which
a they may communicate with one an
other. It was absolutely necessary
n that they should be able to communi
s cate, so Miss Christabel Pankhurst in
vented a system of wigwagging. The
e women in prison wigwag their hand
d kerchiefs, and she stands on a roof in
a sight of them and wigwags a flag.
e There is no rule that prevents such
apparently innocent action on the part
d of the prisoners.
if Would Teach Gardening.
The teachers in the schools of Pan
g ama recommend that the negro chil
o dren be encouraged to make gardens
in connection with their school )work
If instead of taking physical culture.
As they will become a permanent part
s of the population, anything that they
a can learn that will develop their eco
e nomic value will be favored. There is
s an attendance of little more than 700
in the schools, white and colored.
APPLES OF THE NORTHWESTl
FOR MARKETS OF EUROPE
Demand Is ConstantlI Increasing and
Prices for Good Grades Higher
Than in Previous Years
SPOKANE, Sept. 21. - Contracts a
have been closed by Joseph H. Stein- d
hardt of the firm of Steinhardt & v
Kelly, New York, for more than $600,- r
000 worth of Washington and Oregon 11
apples for eastern and European t
trade, and he expects to reach the
$1,000,000 mark before returning home t
after looking over the orchards in c
central Idaho and western Montana. c
While in Spokane he bought the en- t
tire output of first and second grades!?
grown in the Meadow Lake orchards, 1
estimated at 30,000 boxes, previous to .
which he contracted for 90,000 boxes,
in the Hood River and Mosier dis-.
tricts in Oregon, buying also 35,000 t
boxes from the Dumas orchards at I
Walla Walla, Wash., and 15,000 boxes
from the orchards at Garfield, Wash. 1
Steinhardt said the prices received <
by the growers in the Hood River dis- i
trict were the highest ever paid for I
their fruit. His purchases there ag-,
gregated more than $200,000, and he i
paid as high as $2.50 a box, or 5 cents '
a pound. He also paid $2.50 and in !
several instances $2.75 a box for
Washington apples of the first grade. I
He said:
"My contract with the Dumas or
chards people specifies that one car,
or 630 boxes of Yellow Newtowns i
shall be packed and exhibited at the
second National apple show in Spo
kane, Nov. 15 to 20, for the $1,500 1
prize, as the property of the Dumas
orchards. It will be shipped direct
to New York afterward."
Referring to a report from Portland
that he is attempting to corner the
apple supply of the northwest, Mr.
Steinhardt said that this rumor prob
ably grew out of the fact that he is
contracting for the entire output of
firsts and seconds of the largest or
chards in Washington and Oregon,
adding:
"So far my purchases have been
solely of apples raised in the non
irrigated districts. I find they keep
better than those grown on irrigated
lands, though I admit that the fruit
on lands supplied with water by arti
ficial means is larger and has equally
good color and flavor.
"I bought Oregon apples last fall
and a shipment was sent to Europe in
July of this year, after being in stor
age in New York for nine months, and
they stood the journey well and
brought good prices. The same is
true of Washington apples.
"Much of the superiority of the
western apple over the product of the
New York districts is in the picking
POLAR INFLUENCE
OF THE SEASONS
It is coming to be generally admit
ted that the cause of marked varia
tions of temperature in our seasons
is to be found in the thermal condi
tions of the polar sea. Nowhere else
are phenomena to be observed of such
extent that their variations from year
to year could cause noticeable modi
fications in the normal temperature of
summers and winters in more south
erly latitudes.
Guided by this idea, M. Hildebrands
son, the Scandinavian meteorologist,
has made a series of studies of the
simultaneous relations of the meteoro
logical phenomena of different regions
of the earth, the results of which he
communicates in an interesting paper
to the French Academy of Sciences.
He finds that the summer tempera
ture at the north cape is in inverse
ratio to that of the following spring
time in Iceland. This is easily ac
counted for. A high summer temper
ature on the Arctic ocean dislodges
immense ice-floes, the melting of
which causes the polar current when
it strikes Iceland a few months later,
to be unusually frigid. A variation of
two or three degrees in the tempera
ture of the ocean's surface is suffi
cient to affect that of the air for a
vast distance around. The cold douche
aforesaid, after helping Iceland to live
up to its name, continues on its south
ward course and chills the North sea.
M. Hildebrandsson's observations
seem to prove, in sum, that by keep
ing tab on the polar climate we might
with some degree of certainty predict
the caprices of our own for several
months in advance. The chief diffi
culty for the present would be to es
tablish Arctic signal stations habita
ble for any one except Eskimos and
walruses.
Underhand ('riticism.
Nuwed-I don't wish to find fault
with this soup, my dear, but wouldn't
it be well to put some meat flavor in
next time?
Mrs. Nuwed-I don't think it is very
generous in you, Henry, to make fun
of my bread pudding in that under
hand way!
Serious Circumstances.
"Those tools," said the conductor,
!"re to be used only in case of acci
Sdent.
"Well, there's been an accident,"
replied the man who was working
feverishly at the case.
"Where's the accident?"
"I just busted my corkscrew."
and packing. Your growers fully un
derstand these advantages and that is
where they are wise. Their fruit is
picked ripe and carefully graded and
honestly packed, the result being that
buyers are pleased.
"There is not the least dairger that
the growers in the northwest will
overdo the apple industry. They
could not do that even by doubling or
trebling the present orchard area.
The apple crop of the United States
was about 67,000,000 barrels in 1896
and in no year since then has it
amounted to more than 35,000,000 bar
rels. The present crop will not reach
that figure.
"The significance of this is clear:
When it is considered that the popu
lation of the United States has in
creased probably by 20,000,000 since
1896, while the apple production has
fallen from 67,000,000 to 35,000,000
barrels, it can be readily seen that it
is out of question to think that the
apple growers in Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho, Montana and Colorado
can over-supply the ever-increasing
market."
,Mr. Steinhardt has gone to the
Wenatchee valley in central Wash
ington, where he will look over the
irrigated orchards for first and second
grades. Growers there report a
$1,000,000 apple crop, and, because of
the scarcity of apples in other parts
of the country, they will hold their
fruit for top prices.
GOVERNMENT HAS
LUMBER PRICES
INFORMATION GATHERED
FOR BENEFIT OF PUBLIC
Record Covers Principal Items of All
Commercial Woods Cut in Nearly
Every State - Shows What Manu
facturers Receive for Product at the
Mill.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-A record
of the wholesale prices of lumber
f. o. b. mill for the quarter including
April, May and June, last, based on
reports submitted by more than 2,000
of the largest manufacturers of lum
ber in all parts of the country, has
been issued by. the United States for
est service. Requests for data for the
second quarter, ending Sept. 30, will
be sent out in several weeks, and
will be published in the early part of
October.
The record covers the principal
items of all the commercial woods
cut in early every state. The com
pilation was undertaken for the dou
ble purpose of having a continuous
statistical record of such prices and
to show, in contrast to market prices
-which include the important items
of freight charges and selling costs
just what the manufacturers of lum
ber receive for their product at the
mill.
For more than a year a monthly
record has been compiled showing the
prices of lumber in 18 of the largest
markets of the country. The market
prices published do not show what
the lumber is worth at the mill, as
the freight charges, selling costs and
other items were included, but the
quarterly record eliminates these
items and shows the mill price.
Only a few representative grades in
each of the hardwoods and softwoods
were taken, but from them lumber
men can draw deductions so as to
give the approximate values of grades
on which prices were not requested.
In addition to the numerous items on
which prices were secured, the value
of the mill run-the average of all
grades of lumber produced-was also
obtained for all the commercial woods.
Printers' Marks.
The interrogation mark or "point"
(?) was originally a "q" and an "o,"
the latter placed under the former.
They were simply the first and last
letters of the Latin word "questio."
So, too, with the sign of exclamation
or interjection (!). In its original
purity it was a combination of "I"
and "o," the latter underneath as in
the question mark. The two stood for
"Io," the Latin exclamation of joy.
The paragraph mark is a Greek "p,"
the initial of the word "paragraph."
The early printers employed a dagger
to show that a word or sentence was
objectionable and should be cut out.
Has Been Reinstated.
Mrs. Mary Proctor Wilson, the ed
itor of the Lebanon (Ohio) Patriot.
lost her position as member of the
board of woman visitors of the Sol
diers' Home at Xenia because she was
not content to simply preside at the
tea table when the board met at the
home, but told in her paper the next
day all the things that needed atten
tion at that place. Governor Harmon,
however, has put her back again upon
the board, and it is pretty certain that
there will be no hidden things while
she is a member.
CLEAN- UP
SALE
Of Shoes; Ladies, lientlemen
and Children's odds and ends,
at a great reduction. We are
doing this to make room for our
fall and winter stock. Come
in and select one or more pairs
as you will not always have
such a chance.
Fromberg
Mercantile Co.
Fromberg-- -- -- -- -- Montana
Carbon County
Fruit Lands
Will soon command a
price beyond your
means. Buy now and
realize a handsome
profit.
Sugar beet and alfalfa
farms on easy terms.
Ranches to Trade Reber
for Billings
Real Estate Exchange
Property Frrmberg, -.Monta
"A Country Home With Grass, Trees and Flowers"
T'ravelers Rest
MRS. H. E. SUYDAM, Prop.
A Private Hotel for the Traveling Man.
Rooms $1.00, Meals 50c One Door West of Clarks
Rates by the Week and to Residents Fork Valley Bank
F romberg Livery Barn
Feed and Sale Stable
Rigs Furnished to all parts of the Clarks Fork Valley
at Reasonable Prices Headquarters of the Shire
Stallion "Wichford Harold" 9954.
DRAY LINE IN CONNECTION
T. W. Brewington, Prop. Fromberg, Montana
I Have 36 of
the Best
arms
In the State of
Montana to
Sell at
$20 to $75
Per Acre
Located in the
Clarks Fork
Valley
Write or See Me Before
Investing Elsewhere.
E. F. Hinkle'
Fromberg Montana
ROOMS
FOR RENT
Mn A!ice D. Pierson, Postmistress
Fromberg, Montana
ROOMS
FOR TRANSIENTS
DEWING HOTEL
Mrs. A. M. Dewing . Prop.
Fromberg, Montana
Barber Shop
J. R. KING, Prop.
Agent for Billings Best Steam
Laundry
Fromberg, - Montana