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Considerable soil blowing during [ February and alternate freezing and ( thawing during March indicated to the| reporting service an abandonment °f J 19 percent of the planted area of win-j ter wheat. An accurate estimate of i damage sustained will not be obtainable I ( until the crop begins growing. j 'Moisture above normal during March, over the greater part of the state im proved conditions for plowing and seed- : ing, supplying necessary surface mois ture for starting grass and hay crops and germinating seeding«. The service finds that, while pastures at present j a are furnishing less than the normal ÄÄ Ä FUTURE MOISTURE IS CROP FACTOR PERIOD WILL LARGELY DETER MINE OUTCOME OF WINTER WHEAT HARVEST <By Our Helena Correspondent) HELENA—Moisture conditions dur ing the next 60 days says the state federal crop reporting service, will determine largely the outturn of the jvinter grain crops. Most reporters advise the service that it is still too early to determine the condition of winter grains. At 71 per cent of normal, the April 1 condition | of winter wheat would be nine points j below that of last April and 7.6 points below the 10-year average. Winter rye is estimated at 72 percent of normal i compared with 80 percent a year ago and the 10-year average of 82.9. month with board as compared wrttli $37.85 a year ago. A 25 percent dividend, amounting to nearly $25,000, was paid to creditors of the Jo let State bank of Joilet, in Car bon county recently, George M. Rob ertson. state examiner and superinten dnt of banks said. The bank closed Dec. 1, 1931. A divorce granted Edgar Cooper is sustained by the Montana supreme court in an opinion by Justice A. H. Angstman, on finding that his wife, Helen, who sued for divorce and $50,000 alimony, did not bring the action in good faith. She alleged cruelty but Cooper an swered with a cross complaint, alleg ing that since their marriage she had spent almost all her time in Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Chicago and fi nally had taken her household goods away from their home in Montana. The court also affirmed the trial I court. in a decision for James Nelson, administrator, defendant in an action brought by C. H. Kester, administrator of (.he estates of C. B. Rinio and Hans LEGGAT HOTEL BUTTE, MONTANA KATES $1.50 ÜT FIREPROOF New Fielen Hotel. Butte. Me» tana. Fireproof witl all outside rooms. Rates* $2.00 and up s. o. Huseth Optometrist and Optician GREAT FALLS, MONTANA ¥ SAME PRICE . '.v V; 25 for over 4o OUNCES FOR 25 * years MILLIONS OF POUNDS USED] BY OUR GOVERNMENT Take Off the Blindfold The advantages of good lighting are, In general, appreciated but many are not thoroughly informed as to what constitutes good lighting. A factory manager does not wilfully Invest a large amount of money m costly machines and pay wages to the operators only to have the nî fl nf nCy of ..toe men and the output of the machines reduced because the illumination is inadequate: he frequently does this unwittingly. A WORKER'S EFFICIENCY DEPENDS, TO A LARGE EXTENT UPON HIS ABILITY TO SEE. If the lighting is notAdequateT-ouare' placing a partial blindfold upon the workers. Production and Equality suffer in consequence. ^ ^ In one test conducted over a length of time sufficient to assure average conditions, it was found that an increase in the level of illumination produced an Increase of 12 percent in production. Merely ImprÄ S quality of lighting through the elimination of glare shadows? and ex cessive brightness showed an immediate improvement In production Good lighting also reduces Industrial hazards. Fifteen percent of indu«: trial accidents are directly chargeable to poor lighting Our Lighting Specialists Will Be Glad To Advise You The Montana Power Company SERVING 135 MONTANA CITIES AND TOWNS Nearlv two hundred writers were ask- I ed bfthe editm to submato hhn the' six or seren 0 f their poems which they j cons j dered best. Other writers vol- ; im tanly submitted their verse. The editor checked this author selection with bis own selection. The result is. in a sense a doubly selected collection ( f verse Many of the authors are youn g an d have not yet established their reputations. More of them have published widely in national magazines some general and some poetry maga zincs. A few have published volumes of poetry. All of them have written good verse, or they would not be given a place in this anthology. The authors names are; Hazel Hall, rÄTÄ (: Northwest Verse ! Wi)1 Be Pushed Early in the spring of 1932, The ■ C'axton Printers, Ltd., of Caldwell, ( Idaho, will publish Northwest Verse, • a collection of about three hundred j poems recently written by more than hundred poets of the states of Idaho, and ■ I Oregon, Washington. [ Montana. It will be the first book of jii nd j n this region. It will doubt j | css be the standard collection for j so,,,,, years to come. In it will ap : pea r a selection from the best verse available to the editor. The editor is H. G. Merriam, chair of the department of English at | t j u > state university of Montana for j t t, e j ast t en years. For ten years he has j ed ,ted The Frontier, a magazine which I s ince 1927 has been a definite regional j i magaz ine for national reading, man I j Knowlgs Blair, Jason Bolles, Verne I Bright, Donald Burnle, Mary Brennan Clapp, Grace Stone Coates, Howard Mc Kinley Corning, Violet Crain, D'Arcy Dahlberg, Mary Carolyn Davies, H. L. Davis, Leland Davis, Mary J. Elmen dorf, Eston Everett Ericson, Alice Hen son Ernst. Anthony Euwer, Wright Field, Vardis Fisher, John C. Fröhlich er. Ethel Romig Fuller, Sylvia Gardner, C. Frank Goodpasture, Margaret Graefe, Edith M. Graham, Irene Welch Grissom, Grace E. Hall, Eleanor Ham mond, Eleanor Hansen, Gwendowen Haste, Ada Hastings Hedges, Charles Hilton, Steve Hogan, Frances Holm strom, Mabel McKinlay Hopkins, Bab ette Hughes, Glenn Hughes, Frances B. Huston, Dorothy Marie Johnson, Pam elia Pearl Jones, Walter Evans Kidd, Stoddard King. Ben Hur Lampman, Meddie Mazo Lebold, Borghild Lee, Marion Lemoyne Leeper, Lillian T. Leonard, Elliot C. Lincoln, Frank Bird Linderman, Queene B. Lister, Elsie Me Dowall, Anabel MacKinnon, Sallie Sin clair Maclay, Norman Macleod, Helen Maring, James Marshall, Courtland W. Matthews, Dorothy Mueller, Alicia K. O'Donnell, Charles Oluf Olsen. Homer Parsons, Mary Brinker Post, L. Lau rence Pratt, Joan Dareth Prosper, Idella Purnell. Lucy M. C. Robinson, Lew Sarett, John Scheffer, Serena Scheffer, Esther Shephard, Kathryn Shephard, George Sherman, Eleanor Sickels. Mar garet Skavlan, Bess Foster Smith. Donald Stevens. Irene Stewart. John B. Stone, Lloyd Thompson, Iris Lora Thorpe, Nita Muriel Thurston, Paul F. Tracy, Alice Weister, Albert Richard Tracy, Alice Weister, Albert Richard Wetjen, Irene H. Wilson, C. E. S. Wood, Audrey Wurdeman. Kristofferson, to recover $2,182.44 bal ance due on a sale. f The amount represented the value of | an ice macliine and the court, in an op inion by Justice A. J. Galen, upheld the trial jury in its finding that the parties to the sale, now dead, had mod ified the conditions by oral agreement. The volume is dedicated to the mem ory of that subtle, genuine poet, the late Hazel Hall, Portland, Oregon. This collection should be in public, school, and personal libraries. It is in a sense a handbook of Northwest writ ers of verse. It will be issued in a limited de luxe edition at $8.00 (bound in full library morocco) and in a pop ular cloth bound edition at $3.00. This collection is a milepost in the development of Northwest literature. - Following the withdrawal by the de fendant in an action brought by A. B. DeKay. Helena contractor, to quiet his title to city property formerly owned by the Conrad corporation and later sold by Lewis and Clark county for taxes. Mr. DeKay was given a decree of ership free of all liens and claims cept those of the city of Helena for I taxes and special improvement district ! assessments for the year 1932. Tlie property involved in the action consists of an entire block in the west side residence district and the 22-room manison built about 1875 by the late Samuel Word, pioneer attorney. Later the property was bought by W. G. Con rad for his family residence. It was al lowed to revert to the county for un paid taxes and was sold to Mr. DeKay, the highest bidder. Mr. DeKay plans to raze the old residence and erect a group of cottages. own ex r-ArÄfri legion will be fu y assistant nier, says Gle i • • y regional forester It wffl be necessary to reject applications for feezing of 75.000 sheep and hav? the maximum limit of the range hav ing been reached. indications are excellent for a grass crop. Moisture has started the grass growing. DemaJid for summer range in the forests has been strong from Mon tana Washington, Idaho, and Oregon stockmen ' It is estimated the region ranges this summer will accommodate 750.000 sheep and 170,000 cattle, which is more than nU/ice CSIUCS L JLJ! uyyis l i î. TT . -i.i.l I W 111 DC il OTIOT CCI Dr. Emil Starz of Helena, who has : been granted an honorary degree of doctor of science by the state board of education, is the oldest living pharmacist registered in Montana, When the law was passed requiring that pharmacists be registered, Dr. Starz was the fourth to be issued a certificate. He has gained wide rec ognition in the pharmaceutical pro fession and was formerly chemist for the state livestock commission, from which position he resigned in 1930. The degree will be conferred on him at the State university in June. Dr. Starz will be 67 years old Sept. FOREST GRAZING AREAS TO HAVE THEIR LIMITS j I j last year. I school, from which he was graduated in 1880. Dr. Starz was apprenticed to a mas ter apothecary in Reutlingen. While completing this work, he also attended night classes, where chemistry and physics were taught. He passed the ex amination for an apothecary before the commissioners of pharmacy in 1883. He was then obliged to enlarge his theoiet |cal an d practical knowledge by work tog for the next three years in phar macies and laboratories. He passed the final examination in pharmacy at the Royal Polytechnic in stitute i now the Technical university of Stuttgart! with the highest honors, He then served one year military duty as army apothecary in the military hos pial of the 13th army corps in Stuttgart and in 1889 was given an honorable discharge into the reserve corps. In 1891 he came to Helena, where he opened a pharmacy in connection with the chemical laboratory on Rod ney street. The Starz-Parchen phar macy was founded in 1910. Three years later Dr. Starz' bought a half interest from Henry Pärchen and from then on conducted the pharmacy under his own name and as sole proprietor. He sold the store in 1919 but the name has never changed. He then accepted the position as chemist for the livestock sanitary board. He resigned in 1930, closing a career of 50 years, most of which was devoted to pharmacy. When Dr. Starz joined the state pharmaceutical association in 1891, Montana had no statutes governing the profession. In 1895 a pharmacy law was passed by the legislature and Governor Rickards appointed the first Montana board of pharmacy, composed of Dr. Starz, D. M. Newbro of Butte and Billings druggist. Dr. Starz has taken an active part in civic affairs. He was a member of the house of representatives from Lewis and Clark county in 1904, a member of the park commissioners in 1910 and a member of the school board in 1911. As chemist for the livestock sanitary board he devoted some time to the isolation of an active principle, if pres ent, in the loco plant. The result, how ever, was negative, like those of prev ious investigators, He prepared a crude oil emulsion used to dipping cattle for scab, lice and ticks and this has been used extensive ly in the livestock industry. Dr. Starz is a member of the Masonic lodge, both Scottish and York rites, and Is a Shriner. He is a member of the American Pharmaceutical associa tlon, American Chemical society, Mon tana branch of the American Chemical society and the Montana Pharmaceut ical association. TO NORTHWEST CAPTAIN JOHN L. FISK WAS IN COMMAND OF EXPLORATION GROUP FROM EAST T HE DISCOVERY of gold in the Rockies was published throuhout the Union. The road to the gold fields was long and roundabout. It was the Oregon Trail, along the Platte river and across to the southern bend of the Snake river. Then it led north to the mining camps. Many emigrants were planning to come to these new discov eries, but there was a belief which found its way into congress, that a shorter road could be found across Da kota and through the Sioux country. In 1882, the government set aside $5 000 for an expedition from St. Paul to Fort Benton, then along the Mullan road to the west. The command of this expedl tion was entrusted to Captain James L. Fisk of the United States army. He organized a force of about 50 men. One of his assistants was Nathaniel P Langford, later one of the two histor ians of the Vigilantes, and for many years superintendent of the Minnesota historical library. The protection prom ised by this force attracted many emi grants, and soon more than 100 and some 20 women and children ar ranged to go along. The party planned to make directly for Fort Union there was no trail and the only prev ious expedition was that of General Isaac I. Stevens, nine years before. There was fear, too, of the Sioux, who were known to be hostile. In spite of these dangers, Captain Fisk_ party set out in June, 1862. On the to Fort Union men but and his way , J a young couple fell In love and were married. A child was born somewhere in what Is now Dako ta, but his name has not come down to us. Great herds of buffalo were seen and on one day they estimated the sur ninrirr n /inAAf o ÜIDÇT \IHl Mil > rlllol ulilul/lA) Tirnn n T|/|-fon¥/"L\Tn WERE MISSIONS] 1 — 77 The first immlgT ation to Montana was mostly of men . Many of them ' were bachelors and the married men left their f am dies back east. Only a few white children were in the ter nt and they brought up the ques tion ' of education. The men with no f am |i| e s resented the idea of paying taxes to educate other people's chil dren and for a time this sentiment ! dominated the mining camps. It ap „eared that if the few children in ! j£ e country were to be educated it mus t be by private means. The Catholic missions early started schools to train the Indian children. Father De Smet himself taught the In dian children at St. Mary's. At St. Ig natjus t00 educating the Indian chil dren was a part of the missionary's work . At the suggestion of Fathers De Smet. Giorda, Grass!, and doubtless others, plans were laid for a sisters' school among the Indians at St. Igna tuis. In 1864 four Sisters of Providence from Montreal arrived at the rmsswn and began their work at once. They started with instruction in cleaning, : mending, making of clothes, and van- | ous sorts of handicraft and then later began work in the elementary common school subjects, utner oranenes oi in structron were music ana garaening 10e school naa * begging and „ , iwsrvwidpri Viigimaciy W .. Int an aflowance for ed! ti the Indian children and thus ' assured school o, . better condl- | a" r y p Qr (. Q Wen j n the Bitter Root. Major 1 Owen employed John Robinson i sc hoolmaster in the fall of 1861. He was tQ teach jjje children of the men em p j oyed a t anc j around the fort, most of whom were halfbreeds. In February,;^; 1862 Robinson was dismissed for some m i SCO nduct. The following winter Owen emp i oye d a Mr. Parker as schoolmaster and j le mad e a successful teacher. j n j-j-ie summer of 1863 Mrs. Henry 2oller taught a subscription school for two months at Bannack. In the fall Miss Lucia Darling, niece of Sidney Ed gerton, arrived and she saw an oppor tunity to do something worthwhile by teaching the children of the settlement, She started a school in her own house in October and about 20 pupils en rolled. In the summer of 1864 Mrs. Thomas Watson taught a short term. William Mitchell conducted a school, during the following winter. In the summer of 1863 Miss Kate rounding herds to number one million. There was plenty of meat for all and the party proceeded as if on a picnic, There were 50 wagons in the caravan, an d they had to pick a road across the plains. Fisk's party arrived at Port Union Aug. 11. and remained there several days. This was still the finest post ta the northwest. It was built of logs and was about 300 feet square and 16 feet high. Its trade, however, was in decline, owing partly to the Indian hostility and »more to the fact that many better and cheaper substitutes for the general use of furs had been found. Purs were cheap, too. The price of a fine buffalo robe was three cups of brown sugar. Prom Fort Union the party preceded up the Missouri to the mouth of the Milk river to a point above the pres ent town of Havre, then across to Fort Benton, where they arrived Sept. 5. Port Benton was nearly as large as Fort Union, but was built of sundried adobe bricks instead of logs. It was enjoying a prosperous trade with Indians and gold-seekers and there was much ex citement there. Here the expedition was formally disbanded but the emigrants and their guard continued west along the Mullan road. They heard stories of gold discoveries in the Prickly Pear and most of them stopped there to i orospect. Captain Fisk continued on I across the mountains with part of the | emigrants and on Sept. 27 was at Gold ■ creek, where he entertained Granville Stuart with a "splendid dinner," with plenty of "liquid refreshments." Here they heard of the newly discovered Grasshopper diggings and most of those j remaining with Fisk rushed to the Ban 1 nack mines. Fisk remained only a short ! time in this country, and then went i on west to the coast, where he took a steamer to New York. IN KEEPING WITH THE TIMES I AM ANNOUNCING Drastic Price Reductions In order to stimulate business and to give everyone an opportunity to have their dental work done NOW at a tremendous saving, I have duced my prices, in some cases 100% or more. Here are some examples of my new low prices; FILLINGS AS LOW AS. EXTRACTIONS AS LOW AS. BRIDGE WORK AS LOW AS. SETS OF TEETH AS LOW AS. re $ 1.00 1.00 5.00 15.00 Plates Repaired and Returned Same Day My statewide clientele will appreci ate this effort to offer the pert dental work at such low prices. Plan to take advantage of these prices NOW. same ex Dr. E. E. Edmonson DENTIST La P^f'' B1<J g., Central Ave, at Third GREAT FALLS, MONTANA j Dunlap taught a subscription school Nevada, in Alder gulch. A Mr. Roach and a Mr. Davis each taught a sub 1 scription school the following winter. « Dimsdale taught a private school dur I ing the winter of 1863-64. He had been , a student at Oxford university and was | a nmn 0 f fine training and culture. His rate was $2 a week for each pupil and this was considered a modest rate those days. * _.. n n „ hlip Gov. Sidney Edgerton gave PU b "C school education a prominent part his first message to the territorial leg-, Mature, which met in 1864. It will de .volve upon you to devise some system i of education to meet the immediate wants of the people The government I in the organic act has set aside two, sections of land in each township, the I proceeds from the sale of which are to ' be used for a public school fund. How-, i ever, these lands are not yet available | and it may be years before any consid erable advantage can be realized from, them. There are hundreds of children in the territory, and these should not, grow up in ignorance. jn response to Governor Edgerton 's ur gi n g S the first legislature made some provision for'a public school system for Montana. It promised that the prin : c j pa j 0 f a u mo neys from the sale of | j ands granted by congress for school purp0 ses should be an irreducible fund, the interest from which should be used for the suppor t Q f schools and for no other purpose whatever, ' | bowtog aeys should ..so be used tor It furthermore directed county com missioners to levy a tax of 1 mill on the dollar for school purposes. All moneys for fines, liquor licenses and licenses for keeping billiard halls and !^ , llllllllllll(l(llllllfilll(lllllll(lllllllllilllïlllllil!llfllllllllllimiilimHIIIIIIIIIIIHflBM ss = = j = = — — ; zzz — — s: == — j — j j == i = I== ss | — | = | = j — jss j = — I as | sss — | j== = = __ = — ~ ~ Hü iiiiüii s Ü m V r ' £ 1;# & i X « i;!: i li * & ii&gi xs&StoV*;* m : x I#? ÜS;: «îS , * fi*"* S I n ■X i illi « ? ;• M it ... ; i ■m & m X £ i ■ Î-Ï |$:X : ■'S. ; .:■■■ Si #*• mm. m y « Ä m ^ r « i IS 1 s M Æ Si m Do You Always GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR I When You Shop? When you shop, do you always get products—the ones you ask for? Or do you sometimes yield to the persuasion of insistent clerks and let them sell you, instead, other products which they claim are "just as good?" your favorite packaged If you have ever purchased these "just as good" brands you know how frequently such unfamiliar products dis appoint you. Compared with the brands you know and like and ask for, these others often fail to give you the money's worth which you have every right to expect. Why, then, should any clerk ever urge you to buy them? Usually there is only one reason. But for tection, bear it constantly in mind. your own pro Whenever you find any store continually urging you to buy strange products in place of the dependable brands you ask for, this is generally true: The merchant reaps an extra profit, or his clerk a commission, by switching you to the unknown, often inferior merchandise! Many of the best stores everywhere forbid this practice, en you buy from them you are always sure of getting exactly what you ask for, with full value in the merchan dise you want for every penny you spend. But if you are urged to buy something "just as good" as the thing you ask for, refuse it! Insist on products you know by experience, or by reputation. Such products often advertised in this newspaper. Get the brands _ _ *° r ' an< l you'll avoid many a disappointment! are you ask school purposes. Every county was to have a superintendent of schools who should map out school districts, hold teachers examinations, apportion the ssssss. r it 0 rial ■ superintendent of public in s t ruc tion, to be elected by the legisla | t and to ho]d office for OQe TT* Thomas J. Dimsdale was the ftester , r Y torial superintendent of school and |. served un til his death in 1806 H. j ' succee ded bv Peter Ronan whn | Dy KOnaa ' who ; s °on resigned. ; The first public school in Montana apparently was started at Nevada in the summe r of 1865. The teacher was ! Michael Roach. Mrs. Sarah Raymond | Herndon was principal of the first pub | i ic school at Virginia City. This school began in March, 1806, and closed in J August. By 1868 a number of public schools were in operation. There were rj in Madison county, three In Lewis and Clark county, while Gallatin and | peer Lodge counties reported "several." The superintendent of Meagher county, however, had not been able to organ ize a single school. The early progress I of public schools was slow. There was ^ttle taxable property and many ob lections were voiced against school taxes. It was not untu tne land grants began to bnng m money from sale and leasing that education in Montana be S an t0 grow rapidly, A Lady of Distinction Is recognized by the delicate, fascinai* ing Influence of the perfume she meee. A bath with Cuticnra Soap and hot water to thoroughly cleanse the pores followed by a dusting with Cuticura Talcum powder usually means a clear, sweet, healthy skin.—Advertisement®