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TrlE (JAuiioiN COUNTY NEWS
CONTINUING THE CARBON COUNTY CHRONICLE
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Published Every Thursday, at Red Lodge, Carbon County, Montana
O. Ff. P. SHELLEY, Editor and Mgr.
"Entered at the Postoffice at Rod Lodge, Montana, as Matter of the
Second-Class, Under the Act of Congress of March 5, 1879.
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TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE
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WILL IT PAY?
On last Thursday eighteen hundred school
children of Southwestern Iowa and Northwestern
Missouri left Shenandoah, Iowa, for Springfield,
Illinois to visit the tomb of Lincoln. Three special
trains were used for the pilgrimage which was
financed by their local Kiwanis clubs.
Quite an undertaking, wasn't it? Quite an
expensive trip, don't you think? But—will it pay?
We revere Washington, the dignified, soldier
ly statesman; we admire Jefferson the scholarly
enemy of oppression and misrule; we love Lincoln,
the homely, hearty, helpful product of the western
woods and prairies, the man with the intellect of
a Caesar, t[ie fearless honesty of a Hampden and
the humanity of a King David.
Our school children are taught too little of
this wonderful American, of his methods, motives
and rules of action! but with childhood's uncon
cious absorption of the feelings of their elders
they value Lincoln highest in their thoughts and
have enshined him holiest in their hearts.
Yes that was quite an expensive trip, quite an
undertaking, but—will it pay?
Everyone of those children will come away
with higher ideals and be inspired to better
things. Lincoln's very name serves as a spur to
eloquence, his words are eloquence itself, his
deeds shine on the pages of the world's history so
that they dim the splendor of high achievements
by others.
But, that expensive pilgrimage, will it pay?
The old, old American question—Will it pay?
As though anything else those patriotic Kiwanis
could do would pay as well! Pay! Yes pay im
measurably, inimitably, unspeakably, and in a
hundred ways material and spiritual alike.
Pay? If every American school boy could
stand hat in hand at the tomb in earnest medita
tion until his eyes dampened in the humility of
his own future responsibilities and while he made
his own earnest obeisance to America—wouldn't
that pay? It would pay—pay him and us and our
children's children's children.
Success to that pilgrimage. It will pay.
When this nation—when this world ceases to
revere Lincoln's memory to honor his name and to
enulate his virtues, chaos has come again and the
end of eplightment and.:popular government is ib
sight.
IT OUTCLASSES MAW JONG
Announcement appears in the press that the
High School girls of the nation are on the verge
of writing and publishing a cook book. Good! We
are becoming civilized at last. We have educated
some of the rawness out of ourselves.
Domestic Science is taught in all first class
High Schools now-a-days and the span of life is
steadily increasing. That is as it should be for
if this nation is anything it is a nation of homes
and nothing or nobody can contribute so much to
domestic felicity as a good cook.
Two of the grounds for divorce in this state are
Wilful Neglect and Extreme Cruelty—but that's
another story.
Beauty is all right in its way but it isn't every
thnig when it comes to domestic happiness. A
girl with a dimple and a thousand freckles is a
cinch if she possesses a sweet disposition and a
knowledge of Domestic Science—the art of cook
ery. As homely as she may be to the unthinking
world she becomes glorified in the eyes of her
entranced husband and far outgiltters the Queen
of Sheba.
When bread is perfectly baked, the coffee
strong and hot, the steak juicy and fragrant, the
has well built and appetizing and the batter cakes
licht HTld cimnkiri tr na LVio VuifLov ic tjV.ar.vV.orl fVwa
ngm ana smoking as the butter is absorbed, the
spmt of Peace descends upon that home like a
dove, ine caverns of the lucky man s soul echo
with "Glory Halkujah" for the divinity he has!
won and the children rise up and call her blessed
three times a day and several times between
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No accomplishment on earth compares
with the culinary art. It beats bridge, it out
classes "Maw Jong" it lays fancy dancing in the
shade and makes the job in the shop look like
thirty cents.
PRIDE OF COUNTRY
Another Thanksgiving day has passed. The
usual perfunctory proclamations were issued by
public officials and read by the people. Thanks
giving should not be limited to one day in this
land of opportunity and progress. '
Are we as proud of Our Country and as grace
ful for the advantages it gives us as we should be?
It is often stated that Californians are greater
boosters for their state and its resources than are
the citizens of any other state in this Union.
Why localize our enthusiasm for Our Coun
try? No state could exist without our United
States. Why should not every citizen of this
contry be an active booster for a nation which
has gone farther than any other in the world in
giving liberty, property rights, business oppor
tunities, home conveniences, educational advan
tages an amusements to its people? Why should
not our schools and colleges emphasize to a
greater extent the advantages of a citizen of this
nation under our constitutional form of govern
ment?
When you feel like kicking, look around you.
Practically every American citizen can own his
own home if he so desires. He can travel to his
work either in an electric car or over a system
of highways such as the Romans never dreamed
of.
In his home, gas and electricity do work equal
to that done by a score of servants to former kings
and queens. The American telephone system
furnishes a communication service in the hum
blest home beyond the wildest dreams of world
famous rulers of the past.
Our property is safeguarded, our workmen
are cared for and or lives are protected by an in
surance system unheard of a hundred years ago
and which is readily eliminating the pàuper and
the poor house.
Aladdin and his lamp have been made a real
ity by the radio which, is conjunction with wire
communication, has annihilated distance and, as
the people of the world become better acquainted
through our modern methods of communication,
will eliminate war- The homesteader in the
mountains can tune in his radio set and listen to
the music, lectures and amusement programs of
the world.
Our farmers are learning the advantages of
applying business methods to agricultural pur
suits^ Our industries are profiting by making
É^^employes and customers stockholders in
tnem properties. Gasoline has made'dndividual
transportation possible so that vast sections of
the country heretofore impossible of settlement
on account of distance, have been opened up and
are today pouring their produce and business in
over improved highways to the greatest railroad
transportation system in the world.
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What a picture to paint! Forests, mines,
transportation, oil, electricity, telephone, gas, ra
dio, modern farm machinery, factory buildings
finer that the castles of history, roads and road
building methods such as the world has never be
fore seen, and an educational system which of
fers the poor man's son advantages which the no
bility did not have a few generations ago!
Think of these things when you hear the
croakers and the knockers. Don't be thankful
just on Thanksgiving day. Learn a lesson from
California, where the children are taught that the
sun is brighter, the sky is bluer and tho advan
tages greater than any wnere else in the world.
Let us build up pride in Our Country, not in a
boastful or arrogant manner, but with a sense
of appreciation and thanksgiving that we are so
fortnate as to live in a land where opportunities
and advantages for the poor and the lowly are
1 greater than the luxuries offered favored and
wealthy persons a short century ago.
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' BROTHERLY LOVE
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a The election is over four weeks now and we
.have begun to recover. It takes effort and logic
and argument and oratory to save the country
every two or four years but regardless of what
candidates or what party is successful in county,
state or nation we seem to survive somehow.
Of course, all the stories and rumors that
were spread about among the electorate as to is
sues, whether good or bad, were not true, so, lets
forget.
newspapers.
Politics is a great game, isn't it? But it is
well that we declare a truce between campaigns,
so in this age of "weeks" why not have a Brotherly
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Love Week, say a month after election is over.
Of course, it should come in the dull season when
one would have little else to do but sit arond and
love his neighbors which is indeed some task. Just
sit around and knit or whittle and love his fellow
man. Quite an idea don t you think? 111 tell the
WOrld it iS
Could there be a more important week estab
hshed than that ? Surely not.
In the golden years of peace and happiness
that such an action will help to bring in, prosper
o'is contented years, wherein purple dawns and
dewy eves shall follow each other in sweet sue
cession, when all the politicians m the world are
hard boiled Republicans, when peace is so deep
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that no sound harsher than a lover s kiss is ever
heard, the fortunate people who then dwell upon
earth will reckon the beginning of the newer,
gladder time, not from the mythical period "When
Homer smote his bloomin' lyre" but from these
glorious days in the high tide of the twentieth
century; Yea, from the moment this pen had been
plucked from the wing of some beautiful bird of
it i i * ,i
Paradise and dipped in the rainbow for the pur
pose of writing this epoch making editorial
Everyone knows that the candidates of the
p'ärty opposite his own were a bunch of porch
climbers and wife beaters and booze fighters and
incompetents, sc what's the difference now? Aside
from those minor fiaults they are a pretty good
set and will make good officers, so let's forgive.
It is said that the most violently insane case
in an Eastern institution is a woman who, being
new in politics, believed everything they told her
regarding the life and character of the candidates
They actually have to keep her in a straight
jacket, whatever that is. Just imagine anyone
keeping a woman politician dressed in a jacket
for any length of time in these days of decollete
styles. The second worst case recorded is said to
be a fellow who believed everything he read in the
READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS
Read the advertisements that appear in this
issue. Red Lodge has as progressive and enter
prising a set of business men as are to be found
anywhere. They have clean, new, up-to-date
stocks of goods, courteous clerks and attractive
show windows as a visit to the various shops and
stores will prove. Their Christmas displays in
dicate careful selection on the part ot,the buyers
'and customers are assured that they can find just
as appropriate gifts here as can be found any
where.
The same may be said of the Bearcreek mer
chants as has been said above ofi the Red Lodge
merchants and Bearcreek subscribers are also
quested to carefully read the advertisements
the merchants in that town.
Of course, Christmas gifts aren't everything.
Many of the merchants do not handle what are
strictly considered as being Christmas goods, but
every one of our advertisers are commended
the buying public whether you want staple
fancy merchandise.
Read the advertisements and trade at home.
"Patronize home industries' in 4 hacknied saying.
It is a hoary platitude but it is mil
sense and logic. It represents sound business
judgment
of good, sound
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8484-foTtderrick JEST ou, the Midwest
Reflnin * company's weil on the Mod
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flowed for « quarter of an- v h,« ut*
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I the He P p discovery n * « producer,
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MODDRELL IS NEW
GUSHER OF T H E
MIDWEST REHNERS
in the caging and when a compWU
s " of the water was elTerted °"
I Wednesday, the oil rose steadily in the
j holf untll J flnally it flowed over the
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derrick. The flow continued for fuiiy
The Moddrell, an offset to the Hepp,
440 feet west of the discovery, was
drilled in 10 days ago when the sand
was reached at a depth of 3,843 feet.
Drilling in the sand and sandy shale
was continued for approximately 66
feet when a small flow of water, prob
ably half a barrel every hour, was
encountered in a stray sand. Drilling
was discontinued and a lead plug was
driven into the hole. In the meantime
oil had risen to a height of 1,700 feet
BREEDING POETRY
WITHOUT TRAPNEST
Speaking over radio broadcaster
K F A E on "A Practical Plan for
Breeding Without the Use ot Trap
nests," Prof. John S. Carver, head of
the poultry department ox the Sla.e
College of Washington said the other
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"Most poultrymen today agree the
only accurate method of breeding for
high egg production is by use of trap
nests and individual pedigree records,
it is impossible, however, for the av
erage poultryman, in commercial pro
duction of eggs, to afford either th<
necessary time or equipment for in
dividual pedigree work. It is esti
mated that it costs about 90 cents a
year to trapnest a bird, and this cost
plus the large amount of record keep
ing makes it prohibitive for any but
those breeding for egg production as
a business.
' But the poultry raiser who ,-s rank
ing Ms own ma.ings and hatching
chicks from hr own eggs must follow
a well worked out plan in breeding for
egg pro» action and keeping a lig'i
average flock egg production. Many
after a number of years of operation,
'' The hlgh producing hens nu,Rl J*
selected in the following manner. The
hrst pullet8 [0 lay m the fan an,
uands, and the number recorded wu n
SSt.tS
,«gs to indicate time ot maturity,
us sl p ian is t0 divid *' ' f nt0 ; J - we f k
JJ, t birds * mature , « mi spiral
those maturing the next 3-weeks and
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,S to divide the flock into groups based
on experimental work which has
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are the persistent layers and late
period . by
3P irai bands, a white on the ie g of
oaeh bird ea ' h time h goes broody -
A bird persistenely broody soon ac
ctimu i atG3 a urge number of these
white bands, and w m be discarded as
^ " r because o£ this wasteful
"Any sick bird is marked with a
b '~ ck band > whlch <i nickly disting -
at lhe end of the puUet year . S uch
feds should not be used as breeders,
i. '. ln the falt when the , bird * are fin -
ishing their first years production
(they are bander with colored spiral
The
bands to indicate the time of moult.
The yellow band will indicate the early
moulter, in August and September;
the red an October moulter, and the
blue one moulting in November or
later. If management conditions have
been correct it will usually be found
that birds banded with blue spirals the
previous September will also have a
blue band in November the following
year, indicating birds of high pro
duction that have laid persistently
for a long period. In other words, two
blue bands nidicate high production;
blue bands indicate high production;
two yellow bands a poor preelection.''
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a quarter of an hour running about
100 barrels in tank.
Wyoming Man Held
For Embezzlement
Casper, Wyo. Nov. 28,—A. G. Ral
ston, charged with the embezzlement
of $1,706 jn funds of the Intermoun
tain building and loan company of
Billings while acting as their sales
man in the Salt Creek district of this
county, has been apprehended in Kal
ispell, Mont., according to advices re
ceived by the sheriff's office here. He
will be returned to Casper for arriagn
ment, it is stated.
CHARLIE CHAPELAIN MARRIES ..
LEADING LADY THANKGSGIVÏVg
Los Angeles—Charlie Chaplain sped
through Hollywood by automobile
early Thanksgiving day bringing to
his Beverly Hills 40-room "castle" a
new bride, who until Tuesday morning
was Lita Grey, his leading lady in the
films. The Chaplins left the special
car in which they came from Em
palme, Mexico, the wedding place, at
Shobert, to avoid the reception here,
"Just tell everybody we are happy,
thankful and glad to be home," the
comedian said.
PATENT OFFICE RECEIPTS
Total receipts of the Patent Of
fice amounted to $3,042,276 for the
past fiscal year, the largest sum ever
received for any single year,,accord
ing to the annual report submitted to
the Secretary of the Interior. This' in
crease was made notwithstanding a