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THE CUT BANK PIONEER PRESS
VOL. VI. NO. 19
CUT BANK, TETON COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1 9 1 5
Two Dollars Per Year
Cupid Conducting
Active Campaign
Makes a Number of Con
verts in Cut Bank
This Week
The wane of autumn is marked
by surprising activity on the
part of Dan Cupid, who succeed
ed in bringing to the nuptial al
tar two worthy young couples
prominent in Cut Bank during
the present week.
The marriage of Harry
Schoonmaker and Miss Hilda
Nelson was the event of Tues
day. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Alexander
Pringle. At the home of the
bride's sister, Mrs. P. B. Ander
son, a dinner was served, to
which a few intimate friends
were invited. A dancing party
in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
Schoonmaker was held at
Brown's hall the same evening
and the young couple boarded
No. 2 that evening, amid show
ers of Chinese food, a few old
shoes and hearty well wishes.
They will return to Cut Bank
shortly and Harry will resume
his vocation as clerk at the
Metropolitan hotel.
At St. Margaret's church,
Thursday morning at 9 o'clock,
occurred the marriage of Leo
M. Butler and Miss Katherine
Kemmer, the officiating clergy
man being Rev. Father Greven.
The Catholic choir sang at high
mass, Mrs. Whitford presided
at the organ, during the proces
sional and recessional. Mrs. A.
H. Heiland sang "O, Pomise
Me." The bride was attended
by Misses Honora Butler and
Bernice Narveson, and Ed
Butler and Jacob Kemmer act
ed as groomsmen. A dinner at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Dunn, parents of the groom,
followed the ceremony, and a
few relatives and intimate
friends were present. A recep
tion was held at Brown's hall
last evening, at 8 o'clock, and a
large number of young friends
assembled, to extend best wish
es and enjoy a few hours in so
cial dancing. Mr. and Mrs.
Butler are popular in the young
er set, and have the best wishes
of all in their wedded life.
Wednesday morning at nine
o'clock, at St. Margaret's church,
Rev. Father Greven united in
marriage Dr. Edmund Schwaler
of Sweet Grass and Miss Jessie
Sehe vers of Chicago. Dr. and
Mrs. F. Keseling of Sweet Grass
acted as groomsman and brides
maid. Dr. Schwaler is a young
dentist who recently came to
Sweet Grass to practice his pro
fession. and soon sent. for his
fiance to keep him company in
his far-western home. The bri
dal party returned to Sweet
Grass following the ceremony.
Investors,
Attention:
320 acres deed land—
All fine level plow land,
11-2 miles from Kevin,
Montana. No gumbo
or rock; 16 0 acres
broke and fenced; good
well with plenty of water; house 14x24,back plastered,
upstairs; good cellar; 4-acre yard, fenced hog-tight;
barn 18x28, with 12-ft. posts, granary upstairs; coal
house. Ill-health only reason for selling. $1000 mort
gage due in 1920. I offer equity for one week only,
160 acres, 5 miles north of Cut Bank; 120 broke; fenced,
small buildings. All fine land; $2750; terms.
320 acres 9 miles north of Cut Bank; 100 acres broke;
fenced, and good granary; all fine land. 16000; terms.
320 acres raw land 12 miles north of Cut Bank; all fine
land; $4200.
320 acres 18 miles north of Cut Bank, all tillable; 75 acres
broke; good four-room house; small barn; good well; four
horses; wagon; other farm machinery goes with this, at
$4200. Terms.
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Bear A-PlentyVAnother
Easterners who have been
hunting in Montana have had
successful trips this year, ac
cording to J. L. DeHart. state
game and fish warden. The
men who came a long way to
Montana for hunting trips had
an excellent season, and nearly
all of them got the limit.
There are more black bear in
Montana this year than for
some time, Mr. DeHart said,
and he spoke of a large number
of pelts which had been se
cured.
The government hunters who
will attempt to exterminate
predatory animals in several
parts of the state for the bene
fit of the livestock business, will
not disturb the bears, but will
hunt for wolves, coyotes, moun
tain lions, bobcats and lynx.
With the snowfall it is expect
ed that many more hunters will
take to the game country than
have been out before.
The distribution of the fish
fry in the lakes and streams of
Montana was accomplished this
fall in an unusually satisfactory
manner, Mr. DeHart said, and
added that the increase in game
fish will be normal.
Doyle Leaves Conrad
Lawyer D. W. Doyle and
family will leave this week for
Great Falls, where he will es
tablish a law practice. His Te
ton county business will be con
ducted under the firm name of
Doyle & Sewell, Attorney Har
ry F, Sewell being in charge of
the Conrad office. Mr. Doyle
has made a wide acquaintance
in this section of Montana, hav
ing practiced law here for a
number of years. For two
years he served as county at
torney most successfully. Be
fore her marriage Mrs. Doyle
taught most successfully in the
Conrad public schools. Both
have a large circle of friends
who will wish them well in
their new home.—Conrad Inde
pendent.
Orville Loves Montana
Orville Smith, who has a
homestead in Valley county,
was in Cut Bank on business
several days this week. Orville
at one time published a news
paper at Morton, Minn., and
was for years a neighbor of the
writer and a brother in perf dv.
"I am glad I left Minnesota and
came to Montana," said Orville;
"it is the land of big things, fine
opportunities and liberal-mind
ed people. When I prove up
on my claim I expect to re-en
gage in the business in one of
the promising towns in north
ern Montana."
Move Made to Open
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BtdCkjeet Ke SC TV (it 10 H . Fe titlOH
is Being Circulated and Signea
Another move has been inau
gurated at Browning to open
the eastern end of the Blackfeet
Reservation, after the program
mapped out and presented to
the Montana delegation at the
last session, but because of the
opposition of Senator Lane,
member of the committee on
Indian affairs, and certain per
sons on the reservation, the
plan failed to materialize.
At a conference held late the
past summer between Senators
Myers and Walsh and a number
of representative citizens of the
Reservation, it was decided |to
reintroduce the measure at the
coming session of Congress, and
the entire Montana delegation
pledged their hearty support.
Charley Simons, a member of
the Blackfeet Council, and a
man who has the entire confi
dence of a great majority of the
full-bloods and mixed-bloods
was selected to circulate a peti
tion praying for the opening of
the eastern end, the moneys to
be received from such sales to
be used to purchase cattle for
the western end, which is an
ideal stock section.
In an interview with the Pio
neeer-Press this week, Mr. Si
mons stated his position on the
question and the methods he is
pursuing in securing signatures:
"It will take 255 signatures of
male heads of families who have
rights on the Reservation, to
constitute a majority, and I do
not anticipate any trouble in se-'
curing this number. I am not
coaxing, argu;ng or importuning
anyone, fullblood or mixed
blood. I simply state to them
Drayman Thayer is recover
ing from a very severe attack
of tonsilitls.
Miss Ida Mohondro, saleslady
at Jacobson's store, has been ill
for the past several days.
Mrs. W. F. Colburn and
daughter, Helen, went to Great
Falls on Tuesday.
Mrs. Austin Miller has been
quite ill during the past week.
Delbert Barwell of Pleasant
Valley has been among the sick
this week. Dr. Hulbush has
been attending the young man.
Miss Betty Nansen, the friend
of Henrik Ibsen, will be in Cut
Bank next Sunday evening—at
the Electric Theater.
Charlie Chaplin comedies ev
ery Thursday. See them once
and always.
Henry Keenholtz is home
from Babb, where he spent the
summer in the reclamation ser
vice.
Mrs. Philip Yunck of Kalis
pell is spending the week at the
Wm. Yunck home.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Bomboy
and Ronald Seager went over
to Spokane early in the week,
and will return with a Pearce
Arrow car, which they purchas
ed in the Inland Empire city.
Floyd Strohl, who is employ
ed on the Theo May ranch, had
the bad fortune to fall from a
wagon on Tuesday of this week.
One of the wheels ran over and
crushed his foot quite badly.
A letter writren by H. J.
Halvorson and endorsed by the
local commercial club, inform
ing Great Falls business inter
ests that any opposition to the
move to secure lower rates on
Lethbridge coal would be con
sidered as an "unfriendly act"
was published in the Tribune of
Thursday morning.
the reasons that justify me in
•circulating this petition, and am
leaving it to them to decide
what action they wish to take.
Whatever the outcome is, they
will not be able to say truth
fully that I have influenced
them in any way. The old me
thod of deciding such matters
in council has proved a failure,
as the individual judgment of
the Indians did not come into
play. This, in my opinion, is
the fair and proper method to
pursue." Mr. Simons stated
that a large number who op
posed the plan last year are now
signing the petition and express
ing their sentiments freely in
favor of the plan.
It is understood that the plan
is being opposed by Bob Hamil
ton, who is working among the
fullbloods down in the Heart
Butte section of the Reserva
tion. It is stated authoritative
ly that Miss Helen Clark, the
most brilliant woman on the
Reservation and a power at
Washington, has aligned herself
in favor of the plan. Last year
Miss Clark was not so familiar
with the details of the proposal,
and opposed the measure, and
her opposition was a factor in
blocking its passage. It is
thought that Senator Walsh will
reintroduce the measure early
in the present session of Con
gress, and leading residents of
the Blackfeet feel certain that
\\ will prevail and that the east
ern end, lving contiguous to Cut
Bank and watered by the Two
Medicine project, will be thrown
open for settlement and devel
opment.
Mrs. Hulbush Honored
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church gave a party Monday
evening, in honor of Mrs. W. A.
Hulbush, who has been an ac
tive worker for the past several
years. Several hours were
spent in dancing and informal
sociability, concluding with a
toothsome luncheon. Mrs. Hul
bush was presented with a cut
glass jewel-case, as a token of
her loyal work in behalf of the
society.
At a meeting of the Eastern
Star ladies, the following even
ing, a handsome stickpin was
presented to Mrs. Hulbush, who
for the past year has served as
Worthy Matron, and who has,
since the inception of the soci
ciety here, been an influential
factor in its upbuilding.
Presbyterian Church
"Go-to-Church Sunday."
10:30—Bible School, the en
tire congregation studying the
Bible. Classes organized for
old and young.
7:30—Evening service. Pro
gram: Anthem by Choir. Vo
cal solo, James Stack. Instru
mental solo, "Buona Notte"
(Nevin), by Stephen Whitford.
General discussion of the sub
ject: "Cut Bank A Clean
Town."
"The Community and the
Child," Mrs. J. H. Ransom.
'The Church and the Com
munity," Alexander Pringle.
A cordial invitation is ex
tended the public.
The Catholic Fair
The Catholic fair will be
featured with a number of en
tertainment ideas a little out of
the ordinary, so we are assured.
The promoters are bending all
their energies to make it more
than worth while to all who ac
cord it their patronage.
Browning Items
Our friend, Dr. Gold, has
done a public-spirited thing, in
installing a brilliant street lamp
of great power in front of the
Presbyterian church. It lights
up a large area of the west end.
Halt a dozen street lights like
Dr. Gold's planted at strategic
places, would light the town.
Who will be the next?
Public thanks were voted, at
the close of Rev. Killie's lecture
on "China," to Mr. DesRosier
for the free use of the Orpheum
theater, with the lights and ap
paratus for the slides.
Our old friend, Ike Whister,
is fixing things up "fine and
dandy," at the Browning hotel.
Our hotels are hard to equal in
towns of Browning's size.
Thirty children have been re
fused admittance to the Brown
ing public school for lack of
room, in spite of the doubling
of the seating capacity this
year. Something will have to
be done at once, is the opinion
of our board of trustees.
Rev. Charles A. Killie's lec
ture on his experience in China
during 26 years of residence in
that couatry brought out a tre
mendous crowd at the Orpheum
Tuesday night, and everybody
was delighted. Rev. Killie came
here under the auspices of the
Presbyterian church. Admis
sion was free.
The Bible Beading Circle met
at the home of Mrs. Martin, in
the Deavereaux property, Wed
nesday night, and it will meet
at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Newhaus next Wednes
day night.
Mr. Killie is a Protestant
minister, and yet a majority
of those who crowded to hear
his lecture on his missionary
vvork in China were Catholics,
even the proprietors who dona
ted the fr«e use of the theater.
Finel
Closing Notice.
We, the undersigned, do here
by agree to close our respective
places of business on Thanks
giving day, Thursday, Nov. 25,
all day: Cut Bank Hardware
Co., Teton Commercial Co.. Hal
vorson & Co., M. S. Bush, Mar
tin Jacobson, Nor. Mont. Lbr.
Co., Pioneer Lbr. Co., Peter
Delre, Libby Lbr. Co., Joe Un
gar.
The Market:
The prices today:
Spring Wheat .79
Winter Wheat .77
Durum. 70
Flax .1.81
Oats, No. 1, cwt 1.00
Barley 33
Rye 70
For Rent—Four newly-fur
nished rooms; well heated. Over
harness shop. 19-tf
The Cut Bank Grain Co. ele
vator will be closed on Sunday
hereafter.
A good time, Nov. 26th.
RECEIPT AND RECORD
There is a bumper crop this year and
the season should net you several
hundred dollars. Before paying
your bills deposit your money in the
bank and pay by check. That may
mean a considerable saving to you
and you will have a receipted bill
and record of all payments.
We can also serve you in many
other ways
Farmers State Bank
John S. Tucker,
Pres.
F. H. Worden,
Cashier
W. A. Miller Suc
cumbs Suddenly
Heart Weakness is Cause
of Death of Well
Known Man
W. A. Miller, one of the best
known citizens of this commu
nity, succumbed very suddenly
to an attack of nephritis, at his
home in Cut Bank last Satur
day morning. Mr. Miller had
not been in normal health for
weeks before his demise, but no
alarm was felt over his condi
tion, as he continued actively to
look after his interest, and never
made complaint concerning his
affliction.
Mr. Miller had been a resi
dent of this community, off and
on, for about five years, coming
here with his wife from Taylor
ville, Ills. He was a keen busi
ness man, of great caution and
sound judgment, and besides his
local interests had banking and
real-estate interests in his for
mer field. He was a good citi
zen and likable man, and the
news of his sudden death caus
ed keen and widespread sorrow.
Deceased, who was 61 years
of age, is survived by a widow
and five children: Phoebe Ey
raud of Walla Walla, Wash.,
Thomas Miller, of Clinton, Ills.,
Maggie Miller, of Taylorville,
Ills., and Austin and Ray Miller
of Cut Bank.
Funeral services were con
ducted Sunday by Rev. Alex
ander Pringle, and a large num
ber attended the last rites. In
terment was made in Crown
Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Augusta Shauer, mother
of Charles Sbauer, a well-known
farmer of the Pleasant Valley
section, died on Tuesday, Nov.
16, at the age of 71 years, heart
weakness being given as the
cause of her death. The de
ceased had been in good health
right up to the time of her
death, and had cared for the
three children of her son. Fu
neral services will be conduct
ed Sunday, by Rev. Alexander
Pringle, and burial will be made
on the Shauer homestead.
Flora Marie, the little daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lansing Har
per, succumbed to an illness of
several weeks, on Nov. 11. The
funeral services were conduct
ed by Father Greven on Mon
day of this week, and interment
was made in Crown Hill ceme
tery.
We desire to express our sin*
cere thanks to all who rendered
us such generous aid during our
recent bereavement.
Mrs. W. A. Miller
and Children.