The producers news. [volume], August 10, 1923, Page Page Two, Image 2

About The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937

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Listen! Just a Moment
Ladies and Gentleman
I don't represent Tergus Falls Northern Woolen Mills or
The Red River Woolen Mills Fergus Falls.
But I represent the old reliable Fergus Falls Woolen Mill
Co., organized 1889. Oldest, Largest and Best Equipped
Woolen Mill in the Northwest Seling Direct to the Consum
er. We have built up a wonderful business on 35 years of
honest and square dealings. We don't show one kind of
samples and ship something different in material when we
deliver our goods. We sell Direct to the Wearer Only,
thereby eiminating all middemen's profit. We can easily
compete with Sears & Roebuck and Montgomery Ward & Co.
I also have a full line of dress suits and overcoats, over
250 different fabrics of woolen cloth to select from, many
different styles for young and old, made to order to the in
dividual measure of Customer, guaranteed to fit in every
particular at a price you can not duplicate anywhere—The
cloth is made by The American Woolen Mill Co., Cincinnati,
Ohio, the biggest Woolen Mill in the world and tailored by
Expert Tailors, The True Greaters Outfitters.
Last but not least I have a full line of Shoes of the most
comfortable shoes ever made, regardless of price it is worn
by men in all walks of life from Governors to Section hands
in practically every state in the union.
I have the contract for Sheridan and Roosevelt Countv,
inclusive and shall call on you some time in the future with
a full line of samples.
Do not place your order until hrdlu rdl hrd Irdl rdlrdld
Do Not Place You* Order Until You Have Seen My Line.
Sincerely yours for business.
Salesman.
. PLENTYWOOD, MONT.
BOX 404.
Ready to
Serve Meats
Why spend your time these hot
days over a stove cooking Meats
when you can come here and
choose from these choice, ready
prepared eMats at a saving over
what you pay for those you
must prepare.
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Keeping a supply of these
Meats in your ice box is a splen
_did plan.
PHONE 17
The New Market
FRED FORMAN, Prop.
A Young Man's Plan
A YOUNG MAN came to the bank one day
and tol us he was going away from home to
work. He wanted to know How to send his
money back to us for his savings account.
We talked this matter over with him and he
found it easy to do his banking by mail. When
he gets his salary he promptly sends a good
share of it to be deposited for him.
His b ank account is growing rapidly.
When he comes home he will find more money
to his credit than he sent us because his money
has been earning interest for him.
No matter where you may go you will find it
easy to do your banking with us by mail.
Come in and talk with us about this
service before going away.
THE
First National Bank
PLENTYWOOD, MONT.
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TO ORGANIZE
BANK CLERKS
NEW YORK.—A quiet, persistent,
and already promising campaign is
under way to organize the 20,000 bank
clerks of New York City. The un
ionizing effort is being conducted by
Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Ac
countants' union 12646, with the back
ing of the A. F, of L.
Most of the officials of the larger
local banks deny any knowledge fif
the campaign; a few admit that they
have heard rumors of it; but practical
ly all give evidence of being worried
about it.
The union already has a nucleus of
bank clerks around which to build, the
employes of the Amalgamated bank
and Federation bank, New York's two
labor banks, having joined the union
with the approval of the bank officials.
Abolition of the usual Christmas
bonuses to bank employes, 'and an
nouncement that the city's banks were
about to institute a "readjustment" of
employes' salaries, was made recently,
but not until after the organizing
campaign had gotten under way, ac
cording to Ernest Bohm, secretary of
the local union.
A previous attempt to unionize bank
clerks here failed. The union, which
was organized at that time, was called
the Bank Employes' union. It did not
have the necessary staying power be
cause its membership was confined to
bank workers. Officials of the Book
keepers, Stenographers and Account
ants' union are confident that the
present move will succeed because the
union already is an established, going
organization which can function suc
cessfully without the bank clerks.
Thousands of the bank clerks in
New York, married and with families,
work 50. hours a week or more for $30
to $35. They frequently have to work
several hours overtime for which they
receive only "supper money."
Anthracite Operators Look
ing for Higher Prices
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Refusal
by the operators to recognize the
closed union shop and to institute
checking-off of union dues on the pay
roll is the cause -of the breakup of the
anthracite conference here, called to
draw up a contract in place of the one
expiring Sept. 1. No immediate anx
iety is felt since the motion to adjourn
provded for reconvening the confer
ence by secretary at any opportune
time, which gives all of August to
continue negotiations,
anthracite figure on a reserve equal to
a month and a half's supply by Sept.
Dealers in
1.
SMALL RAISE FOR
CHICAGO L MEN
CHICAGO.—Seventy-five cents an
hour is the new rate for motormen on
Chicago elevated lines fixed by arbi
tration. Next year it is to be 77c.
The old rate was 72c and the new rate
follow custom in keeping their hourly
wage 2c above that .of motormen and
conductors on the surface lines. Ele
vated conductors, who do not have to
collect fares or issue transfers, will
get 70c this year and 72c next, a sim
ilar 3c and 2c increase over the old
rates. Elevated guards get 68c and
.„extra guards 67c an hour.
The decision proves again that em
ployers are using arbitration to keep
wages down. The present rates bare
I ly enable the m,en to preserve the low
prewar standard of living.
EXPLOIT CANADIAN
LUMBERJACKS
By SYDNEY WARREN
Federated Press Staff Correspondent.
The super-pa
triotic British Columbia lumber own
ers are thrilled with the new prospect
of being able to stand by the British
Empire. It is announced that the
British government, alarmed at the
extent of France's aircraft power, is
negotiating for supplies of aeroplane
spruce from the Queen Charlotte Is
lands of this province at fancy prices.
The pi-ospective boom calls attention
again to the slave conditions under
which the lumberjacks do the work
while the employers rake :n the profits
Last year B. C. lumberacks cut one
billion, eight hundred and nine million
board feet of lumber, of which amount
: two hundred and seventy-three mil
lion feet were exported. The logger's
share of the total cut was 275 feet, or
enough to provide him with a bunk in
a "double-decker" bunkhouse.
Insanitary sleeping quarters are
common throughout the logging camps
of the province. In some places the
sleeping quarters ,meat and cook hous
es and toilets are built close together,
with consequent reeking conditions of
filth and disease. In camps where
piecework is the rule, the tools sup
j plied are often antiquated and of little
j use. Camps having shower baths are
frequently without hot water and
sometimes without any kind of water.
The food is of low quality, the meat
j frequently spoiled.
Complaints against camp conditions
brand the offender as a labor agitator.
He is discharged and hi sname placed
on a blacklist for the reference of the
logging bosses of the province. If
workers are known to belong to a un
ion or receive mail from union head
quarters, letters are intercepted in
many camps and the person to whom
they are addressed is minus his job.
This system of "high ball" logging
reached a climax recently in the case
fif the Genoa Bay Logging Co. at Co
witchan Lake. Early in June it prom
ised the workers a free trip to Victoria
and a supper at a leading hotel if the
crew put 4,800 logs in the water be
tween June 1st and the 28th. The
men exerted themselves to do this, the
natural sportsmanship of the lumber
jack to perform such a feat being en
couraged by the prospect of a holiday
trip. Several obstacles were met with
which caused an unavoidable delay
and when June 28th came the crew
VANCOVER, B. C.
was somewhat short the amount of
logs allotted. The camp closed down
and the crew, thinking that their boss
es would be equal in sportsmanship
made ready for the holiday trip. The
company officials, however, forestalled
them, and instead of the trip and din
ner, the Genoa Bay Logging Co. in its
munificience presented each lumber
jack with a 25-cent bottle of beer for
a months' sweating at top speed.
The cost to the company for speed
ing up these workers for 26 working
days was $10, which averaged about
three-fifths of a cent per man for each
working day.
So enticing has been the "square
feed" in speeding up lagging lumber
jacks that another company with a
"vision," the Chekamus Bumber. Co.,
near Squamish, recently gave a "feed"
to its workers in recognition of a two
million board feet output for month
of June. There was the usual palaver
about the necessity of a cooperative
spirit between capital and labor.
A few months hence and the scene
will change—the same bosses who
spoke platitudes about the identity of
interests will be motoring and loung
ing on Cailfornia beaches while their
workers will be found in cheap room
ing houses and eating at 15-cent res
taurants in Vancover—broke, fiancial
ly and physically.
Printers Rap Rocke
feller Foundation
BUFFALO, N. Y.—The convention
of the New York State Council of the
Allied Printing Trades, in session here
has adopted a resolution demanding
the cancellation of the charter of the
Rockefeller foundation, which it char
acterizes as an "effort to control free
education in the public schools of the
state."
Another resolution adopted by the
convention urges wider support of the
labor press. "The public press," it de
clares, "does not give sufficient space
to matters affecting organized labor."
In another resolution, E. H. Gary is
condemned as being instrumental in
perpetuating the 12-hour day in the
United States steel industry.
MONTANA
CROP REPORTS
Factors affecting the condition of
growing crops in Montana for the last
half of July were largely favorable,
but several days of hot weather caused
injury to wheat and other small grains
particularly in the eastern portion of
the state, according to the report of
the Montana Co-operative Crop Re
porting Service.
Moisture conditions have been gen
erally sufficient for crop needs except
in the east and southeastern parts,
and in a few other localities. Several
heavy downpour* caused crop losses,
chiefly in the central and southcentral
sections. Hail has done material in
jury in many scattered localities. Al
though grasshoppers injury seems to
be less concentrated than it has been,
yet mpre or less losses are being suf
fered by nearly all crops from this
cource in most counties.
In the western two-thirds of the
state, grains have been filling well,
while further east much has been
forced by hot weather to mature a
little too early. Winter wheat harvest
is well begun, with prospects of heav
ier yields in many places than had
been expected a month ago. The av
erage yield will not be large, due to
many poor stands. Spring wheat has
made rapid progress toward maturity,
and a few fields are ready to cut. Best
conditions for this crop are found in
the western two-thirds of the state.
Corn also has gone forward in fine
shape, and as a whole is in better con
dition now than are small grains. Hay
crops are mostly in good condition,
and wild hay harvest is under way
and the second alfalfa crop is being
cut in the northwest, and in a few
other places. Flax has been injured
some by hot dry weather, but still
promises a good yield. Some fields
have been cut, while many are yet to
bloom. Sugar beets are promising
very good yields at this time. The
fruit crops of the Bitter Root Valley
suffered damages from hail to the ex
tent of fifty per cept during this per
iod. Livestock have made good gains
on abundant grasses, and some cattel
are reported ready to ship now T .
Summary By Districts
Northwestern District— (Flathead
and Lincoln Counties). Excellent con
ditions generally prevail. Hay and
grain crops are very good. Some
scattered damage has resulted from
hopers and hail.
Westcentral District— All other
counties west of the Divide). Condi
tions generally good. Yields oJ* small
grains promise to be very good in
Sanders, Missoula and Ravalli coun
ties. Hay crops*, including alfalfa,
timothy, and mixed hays are very
good. Hail storms have reduced the
prospective fruit crops of Ravalli by
fifty per cent. Ranges in this district
are very good.
Southwestern District — (Beaver
head and Madison counties). Mois
ture conditions adequate and a very
heavy crop of hay will be harvested,
and grain prospects are good to excell
ent. Hopers have done considerable
damage in scattered localities.
Northcentral District—(From the
Divide east to Phillips County, and in
cluding Teton and Choteau Counties).
Moisture conditions have continued
favorable. Crops not damaged by
hail or hoppers promise good to excell
ent yields. The large area included
in the "Triangle," except in the south
ern corner, will produce but little crop
this year on acount of hopper devas
tation, but recent rains have brought
back range grasses in this section in
fairly good shape. Losses from hail
have been limited. Teton, Glacier and
parts of Pondera report the best pros
pects since 1915.
Central District—(From the Divide
east to Garfield and south to Yellow
stone county and to the southern tier
of counties). Prospects in this district
are mostly favorable, but are spotted
chiefly on acount of heavy injuries
from hail, rain and wind storms in
Musselshell,. Golden Valley and Fer
gus counties particularly. Hoppers
»
c taken fairly heavy toll in scatter
ed sections throughout the
Com is in excellent condition. Winter
wheat which is being harvested at wus
time will vary greatly in yields, my
crops are generally very good, as are
range conditions. ,
Southcentral District—(From Gal
latin to Yellowstone counties inclus
ive). Prospects in this district are
mostly very good. Han, excessive
downpours of rain, and hoppers have
caused heavy injury in various locali
ties. Moisture conditions are for tne
most part sufficient at the present time
Range conditions are very good
Northeastern District — ?P S
county to the east line north of tne
Missouri). Moisture conditions have
been adequate for the most part, but
the yield prospects have been lowered
somewhat by hot weather, and to a
lesser extent by black rust. Hail, hop
pers and local "cloud-bursts have
caused considerable damage in various
localities. Corn prospects are excell
ent, and ranges are good.
Eastcentral District — (p. a ^' son .'
Garfield, McCone, Prairie, Richland
and Wibadx counties). Spring wheat
has been materially injured by dry hot
weather. Flax has also been injured,
while the corn prospects are good to
excellent. Losses from hail and hop
pers have not ben excessive in this
district. The range is rather dry and
short in severa localities.
Sotheastern Distrit—(Big Horn and
Rosebud counties east and south t#
state lines). Conditions are very gooo
in Big Horn county, with injury from
early and recend dry periods showing
more seriously toward the eastern part
of the district, prospects aparently be
ing least favorable in Fallon county.
Hail, hoppers and local "cloud-bursts"
have taken a toll of the crops here al
so. Range conditions arq» generally
good, although grass is dry and short
in many localities toward the eastern
end.
have
GEO A. SCOTT,
Agricultural Statistician.
LAUNDRY BUYS FORDS
Twelve Ford delivery cars were re
cently sold to the Ideal Laundry of
San Antonio, Texas, by the Yantis
Herpel Motor Company. After a dem
onstration and statistical comparison
the special "truck salesmen
company succeeded in replacing the
entire transportation system of the
Ideal Laundry with Ford chassis,
equipped with commercial delivery
bodies. This laundry formerly utilized
horse-drawn wagons for practically all
of this work. This sale was made by
a special salesman, who was handling
only this class of business.
of this
SNIFF AT DOCTORS
ORDERS WILL NEVER
CURE ANY PATIENT
FOLLOWING PRESCRIPTION
The doctor ordered the patient to go
to the mountains and breathe the in
vigorating air for a while.
The patient made a week-end trip,
took a sniff and returned home, say
ing the whole thing was a failure.
Many advertisers selling a line ad
vertised by others regularly, put in
two or three ads and quit in disgust. ?
If a merchant selling just one line
could secure a rush of business with
one or two ads, where would we get
the police to handle the crowds at the
store selling a thousand lines and ad
vertising every day?
The effect of advertising is not mir
aculous; it is a constant, consistent,
sure upbuilding process.
Instiutions in Plentywood who ad
vertise regularly in The Producers
News are building for themselves a
permanent and enduring place in the
esteem of the paper's readers .
DINNER PAIL EPICS
By BILL LLOYD
O, me! O, my! Alack! Alas! The
men who run the Peoples Gas and give
Chicago gas to cook has wrote a new
rule in its book, to give the girls who
work for it a chance to hold their jobs
a bit.
They must not wear a sleeveless
gown, and when they walk out in the
town their head must be topped with
a hat, or they'll be told where they is
at. Rouge must be spread on very
light. The lip stick, in which girls
delight, must now be held to be taboo
or they can hunt a job that's
The powder, from the brow to chin,
must be laid on in coat that's thin.
In short they must go slow on make
up, or there will be an office shakeup.
Between appearance and their jobs the
girls can choose with tears and sobs.
They can't doll up to catch a beau, or
off the payroll they will go. All pim
ples now they must expose and squint
down on a shiny nose.
We have a bunch of grave suspic
ions that men who hold the high po
sitions think girls who make "them
selves up some will put men's morals
on the bum, and they can figure prof
its better if they are free of any fet
ter to the smooth skin of sleeveless
arm and other undenatured charm.
But what becomes of human rights
when office girls look like frights?
Why let the boss play duck and drake
with beauty for its beauty's sake?
The Woman's party should come out
and swing a sleeveless arm in bout to
stay this direful prostitution of wom
en's unwrit constitution, which says
that every modern Eve can wear face
powder and no sleeve, and shan't con
ceal her beauteous charm to save bank
balances from harm.
With my mug, I'm no ladies man,
but for them I'll do what I can. And
though it may not win me love, I'll
cash in when I get above,
you.
new.
I thank
N.E. MONT. LABOR
OFFICE BAINVILLE
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MEN BROUGHT FROM EAST FOR
FIVE COUNTIES- APPLY
COUNTY AGENT.
Federal-state Harvest Labor offices
for the recruitment and distribution of
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ped line of Drugs and
Accessories in Northeast,
ern Montana
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Plenty wood
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the help that will be needed in the
principal grain producing districts ot
the state are to be opened at once at
Bainville and Great Falls by the L. o.
Farm Labor Bureau in cooperation
with the Montana Department of Ag
riculture. In 1922 the Montana De
partment of Agriculture established a
temporary harvest labor office at Bain
ville for the distribution of harvest
labor recruited by the U. S. Farm La
bor Bureau. This season trained men
of the U. S. Farm Labor Bureau will
be in charge of the Bainville office
and also the one at Great Falls,
Serves Five Counties
The Bainville office will serve the
needs of northeastern Montana—Phill
ips, Valley, Roosevelt, Daniels, Sheri
dan and Richland counties; the Great
Falls office will be in a clearing pokit
for Judith Basin, Fergus, Cascade,
Teton, Chouteau, Pondera, Lewis and
Clark, Gallatin and other accessible
counties.
Farmers will list their labor needs
with the county agents, who will not
ify the distributing offices of the num
ber of men needed and the wages of
fered. The distributing office will
send the men direct to the county
agents for clearance to the farmers.
Recruit From East
Labor for northeastern Montana will
be recruited from the east, and it is
likely a special harvest fare will be
put into effect. Because of the long,
round about distances involved it is
not practical to secure labor from the
east for central Montana, so efforts
will be made to recruit men from the
west, as well as from those districts
in Montana where crops are light be
cause of drouth or grasshopper dam
age.
While these two districts are in
greatest need of the greatest amount
of labor, there are other districts that
can also use men from the outside.
The Bitter Root valley, south of Mis
soula, needs a considerable number of
men for haying, harvesting and finit
picking. The region around Dillon, in
southern Montana, needs mtn for hay
ing, according to reports. The dis
tricts around Bozeman and Helena
also need men.
Help Wanted to Harvest
Canada's Biggest Crop
See the West While Earning Money
Western Canada has the biggest crop in its
history. Farm labor is needed to harvest it.
You can visit this wonderful country while
earning money and see the great opportuni
ties it has to offer.
Special Low Fares
Special arrangements have been made t<~
a very low fare to all points in the
They will be in effect during the harvest
Asst. Supt. of Colonization, Canadian Pacific Railway
e harvest help
Prairie Provinces.
season.
For full information call on or write to
R. C. BOSWORTH
202 Exchange National Bank Bldg., Spokane, Wash.
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IS PROFITABLE Oil
COLORADO RANCBB
WASHINGTON.-The
cattle by ranchers in CoIoraÄ ci
about better management am! ^
economical handling, according ft
S.Klemmendsoiupf the atm* u *
department, who has recently
a study of 454 outfits ruS*»*
the national forest, of that'sSf'
Pooling not only makes it nLu.
to handle cattle in the forest SS
more economically." says Mr vi
medson, "but many of these pooK
following the practice of purchft.
high-grade bulls to use on all the 5
m the pool. This is shewing fc J
fects on the size and quality of tu
calf crop.
The cattle in the pools studio l.
Mr. Klemmedson were taken cared
at an average cost of Si.87 a foi
during the last summer; cattle in £
individual outfits costing $2.86 a head
to handle, according to the expert,
figures. About 47 per cent of the tiv
tal cost of handling the 42,254 head
included in the survey went to the
government in grazing fees. The rid
ers and their grub used thf remain™
53 per cent.
Nearly 44 per cent of the stock or
the Colorado forest ranges are cow*,
the survey shows; 19 per cent year
ling steers, 14 per cent two-year-olds,
4 per cent three-year-old steers, and
the rest bulls, yearling heifers aai
mixed stuff. The biggest loss was on.
curred from poisonous plants.
JUST SO
During a discussion with his wift
touching things domestic, Grouchleigs
delivered himself of the following:
"Marie, I have observed that she
who makes a good pudding in silence
is of greater worth than she wbe
makes a tart reply."—Wayside Taiee.