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A. MILES IS DEAD
SUCCUMBED INSTANTLY
WHILE ATTENDING CIRCUS
Famous Indian Fighter Was Closely Identified With the Early
History of State of Montana— Miles City Named for
Him Where Nephew Now Lives.
GENERE ARRIVED IN MONTANA IN 1876
General Nelson A. Miles dropped
dead in Washington while attending
circus performance on May 15. The
general had apparently been in good
health
Mrs. Coolidge and -several other
notables were attending the perform
ance. ,
General Miles was 86 years of age,
but despite his advanced age nad
taken his usual interest in public af
fairs up to the moment of his death.
When he started for the circus per
formance there was no hint of an
impending illness.
The old Indian fighter was sitting
on the third row of the circus stands
when he fainted.
Falls in Doctor's Arms
He fell in the arms of Dr. A. W.
Craig, who was immediately behind
him. Dr. Craig and others removed
him to a position under the seats and
then to a point outside the tents,
where he died. The general was ac
companied by his daughter-in-law,
and several of his grandchildren. The
had
opening pageant of the circus
just begun when he collapsed.
Intimates of General Miles recall
that his brother died with similar sud
denness thirteen years ago. The in
cident was unusually dramatic, Gen
eral Miles, recognizing the body in
Lafayette Park as he was walking
home from his days work in the war
department. The General took the
body in this arms and carried it to an
automobile.
The aged soldier lived 'in an apart
ment house here with a daughter, the
wife of Col. Samuel M. Reber, re
tired.
Well Known in Miles City, Mont.
Gen. Miles was an outstanding fig
ure in the Indian wars of the Dako
tas and Montana in the late seven
ties and early eighties. Miles City
was named after him. He arrived in
that city in command of the Fifth in
fantry on August 1st, 1876, at the
mouth of the Tongue River and es
tablished a temporary stockade that
later was removed to Ft.
about two miles west. He was ac
companied by bis nephew, Gee.rge M.
Miles, who still lives here and is en
gaged in the banking business.
Keogh
one of
Miles City was named after him.
He arrived in that city in command
of the Fifth infantry on August 1st,
1876, at the mouth of the Tongue
river and established a temporary
stockade that later was removed to
Ft. Keogh about two miles west. He
was accompanied by his nephew, Geo.
M. Miles, who still lives here and is
engaged in the banking business.
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles
briliant Indian fighter and
the most picturesque and distinguish
ed eaders in American miitary his
tory, was one of the "boy generals"
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GRADUATED THURSDAY EVENING
Eleven bright young men and women graduated Thursday evening at
the Antelope High School. The Hon. Howard M. Lewis, prominent at
torney of Plentywood, delivered the commencement address. Miss Elsine
Jchanson delivered the salutatory address, "The Value of a High School
Education" and Alice Erickson delivered the valedictory entitled "Oppor
tunities.
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A large audience attended the closing ceremonies and witnessed the
awarding of the diplomas.
MAY 21, 1925
8:00 O'clock P. M.
AT THE CITY HALL
Invocation.
Song - -
The Value of a High School Education
Commencement Address
Song
Opportunities
Presentation of Class
Awarding of Diplomas
Benediction
Rev. Bickell
Miss Kollman
Elsine Johansen
Howard Lewis
S. C. Faaborg
Alice Erickson
F. R. Puckett
R. D. Clark
Reverend Bickell
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ROLL:
Elmo Hansen, Leona Anderson,
Kenneth Van Vorst,
Leslie
Hedges, Thorwald Brekke, Martha Peterson, Elsine Johansen,
Alice Erickson, Ivar Brekke,
Ella Grayson, Phil Waller
MOTTO:
We Will Find a Path or Make One
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Flower :
American Beauty
Colors :
Old Rose and Silver
FACULTY:
Mrs. S. C. Faaborg
F. R. Puckett
Mathew Halverson
At the age of 25
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FOUGHT INDIANS
IN THE WEST
From a clerical position in a Bos
business house, he entered the
army at the age of 22; participated
in more than 30 of the severest en
gao-ements of the Civil War; was four
times at the point of death from
wounds, and emerged from the great
struggle the possessor of many en
vaille citations for bravery and dis
tinguished service. Continuing in the
army, he fought and pursued Indians
the great 'plains for more than 20
years; led the army of occupation in
Porto' Rico during the Spanish- Amer
ican war, and although long retired
when the United States entered the
World War, he was ready and eager
to participate once again in the ser
vice to which ibis life had been de
voted.
It was the saddest disappointment
of a long and adventurous career
when, despite his best efforts, Gener
al Miles was not recalled to active
service in 1917. He had been retired
in 1903 upon reaching the age limit
but when the United States entered
the European war, be asked to be sent
to Siberia with the American troops,
It was decided, however, that no ex
ception could be made in nls case.
FROM FIGHTING
STOCK
General Miles received his first mil
itary training at the hands of a form
er officer of the French army who
eked out a mere existance in Boston
by teaching a number of young men
the tactics employed by the French
army. It was quite natural that his
ambitions should enter on the army
for he sprang from a long line of
fighting colonists on the paternal
side.
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of the Civil War.
he had risen from the rank of first
lieutenant of volunteers to that of
major general and was commanding
an entire arm y division of 2o,0U0
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BORN IN
BAY STATE
When the Civil War broke out,
many civilians organized units with
their own funds, and later took com
mand of their townsmen in the army.
When the Roxbury Guards were re
cruited, the enthusiastic citizens cf
that town promised a Tiounty of $20
for each man who enlisted. The money
was delayed, however, and when the
company was completed and the funds
still failed to materialize, Miles took
the only thousand dollars he had in
the world and borrowing $2,500 more
paid the men their bonus. He was
never reimbursed by the forgetful
town council.
At Chancellorsville he received his
most serious wound, a shot in the ab
i e£f
domen. It kept him out of the battle
of Gettysburg but he recovered in
time to t<jke part in Grant's campaign
against Richmond.
By scone queer coincidence
years after the war, Miles met the
Confederate soldier who fired the bul
let. The man was only 150 yards
from his target, and only the fact
that the bullet struck Miles' belt
buckle saved the officer from death.
I aimed at your heart," the man
said, "but think the motion of your
horse carried the ball a little low.
After what has occurred during these
36 years I am glad I missed that
shot.
JOINS THE
REGULARS
At the age of 26 Miles was muster-,
ed out of the volunteers, when the
war ceased, and was recommissioned
colonel in the regular establishment.
His Indian service began in 1870.
The name of Miles was woven into
the romance of the west.
CAMPAIGNS IN
THE WEST
He met, fought and defeated the
Cheyennes, Comanches and Kiowas,
in the southwest. He chastised and
subjugated the Sioux in the north
west, driving Sitting Bull out of this
country. He made a forced march
of 160 miles in the winter of 1877,
when the temperature at times drop
ped to 40 degrees below zero, and
captured Chief Joseph and his Nez
who had long caused the gov- .
eminent trouble. *
Crazy Horse, Lame Deer, Spotted *
Eagle, Elk Hprn, Broad Road, Nat- *
chez and oher Indian chiefs quailed *
before his advances. Geronimo and *
his bloody Apaches, when chased anil *
cornered by Miles, refused to capitu- *
late unless they could do so to Miles *
personally. He conquered the last +
great Indian uprising in 1890, during
which 'Sitting Bull was shot and the
other rebellious Indians meekly sur
rendered when they heard that it was
the "Big Chief Bear Coat ' who was
on their trail.
Nor is subjugation of the Indian
the only debt the government, and
especially the settlers of the west,
owes to General Miles. With char
acteristic foresight, he saw that in
time the great western plains would
be settled by westwaril-moving colon
i s ts, and years before reclamation by
irrigation was thought of, he had
reported on the feasibility of this
project to the government, and recom
mended spreading the nourishing
waters on the arid land. General
Miles always prided himself on being
"the father of irrigation and recla
mation.
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Helen Geisen-Volk is under ar
rest and N. Y. City authorities are
investigating the deaths of 23
babies in 17 months at her "baby
farm." It is charged babies left
there were starved and brutally
treated.
RUSSIAN PACT
HOLDS DESPITE
FRENCH CHANGES
HERRIOT DID NOT PUSH TRADE,
RYKOFF SAYS
■ MOSCOW.—In an interview with
journalists at Leningrad, where he
came for a short visit, Rykoff, presi
dent of the council of people's com
missaries, declared that, for a num
ber of years yet, private commerc#
was bound to play a considerable
part in the economics of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics.
No Obstacles to Private Capital
While the commercial exchange
had rapidly grown lately, neither the
state nor the co-operative trading
organizations actually could increase
their capital in a measure fully cor
responding to the general growth of
national economy. The relation be
tween state and private trading must
be based entirely on the principle of
sound economic competition, Mr. Ry
koff observed, and no administrative
obstacles should be created to the
private capital.
Franco-Russian Relations Unchanged
In reference to the resignation of
the French premier, the president cf
the council of people commissaries,
remarked that the good intentions of
Mr. Herriot's cabinet in the domain
of mutual relations with the Soviet
Union had been better than what
they practically put into effect, so
that the new French cabinet could
hardly be expected to make those re
lations any the worse.
Herriot Lacked Confidence.
. Indeed, Mr. Rykoff stated, while
the progress of restoration of normal
relations had been extremely slow
since the recognition, the lack of any
progress in the solutions c.f such im
portant questions as the old debts or
the Wrangel fleet partly hung on the
want of confidence of Mr. Herriot's
cabinet in its own forces.
That it was necessary to move the
Franco-Soviet inter-relations
,, . UPW from
their present abnormal "dead point,
was Mr. Rykoff's conclusive remark.
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CAR OWNERS KEEP
PAYING WHILE TAX
NOTICE DISAPPEARS
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Mystery has been injected into
the gasoline tax dodging case.
Corporations which have failed
to report to the state the amount
of tax collected during the delin
quent quarter and which still re
tain this money paid them by car
owners have another tack.
Signs at service stations which
have been posted since the two
cent per gallon tax lay was pass
ed have been altered, and refer
ence to the state tax omitted.
BUT THE PRICE OF
GASOLINE REMAINS
THE SAME,
Whether it be an attempt to
punch holes in the revised law as
passed by the state legislature or
another legal attempt at evasion
of handing over the money be
longing to the state, has Montana
officials puzzled.
On Saturday, May 9, this sign
appeared at many service sta
tions:
* * * * *
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GASOLINE
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27c
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INCLUDES
♦
2c STATE TAX
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The tax was collected with this
sign prominently displayed.
It specifically stated that two
cents of the price per gallon went
to the state.
Yet many distributors who col
lected this money while acting as
agents for the state, are keeping
the cash in their pockets.
On Tuesday, May 12, the signs
were altered and simplifie# to fit
the purpose of the service sta
tion owners, and now read:
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GASOLINE
♦
27 CENTS
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Daring January, February and
March which make up the first *
quarter of 1925, state officers as
sert more gasoline was sold than
in the same quarter of 1924 be
cause of open weather.
During the period in 1924
when weather conditions kept
many automobiles in garages,
the tax paid on gasoline sales to
talled $137,811.60.
Montana dealer;; who have paid
the tax before it became delin
quent in the first . quarter of
1925 report an increase of 10 to
15 pef cent over the business in
the corresponding period of last
year.
Therefore the amount withheld
by distributors and refiners has
increased from the original esti
mate of about $125,000 lo a total
of nearly $200,000.
This money belongs to the
state. It was collected for the
state under announcement to
that effect and in theoretical
obedience to a state law'. Rut it
is being withheld from the treas
ury by larger distributors and
refiners, the Texas Oil company
beïng the only one of three lead
ing distributors to report and re
mit.
WESTBY HIGH
STUDENTS PRESENT
DADDYLONGLEGS
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The Westby High School students
will present the howling comedy,
Daddy Long Legs" at the Orpheum
Theatre at Westby, Saturday even
ing, May 22nd. Â packed house is
anticipated.
The Westby students have made a
reputation for themselves in the field
of historic art, and it is claimed by
those familiar with the work being
done this year, that this play will be
the best they have ever offered to
the public.
The cast and synopsis of
Long Legs" follows:
Cast of Characters
Jervis Pendleton, Daddy Long-Legs
^ Sidney Westby
James McBride of Yale
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Daddy
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- Archibald Jensen
Abner Parsons, another trustee
- - - Lawrence Rohweder
Griggs, Pendleton's secretary -
George Larsen
Walters, The Butler
Melvin Bretzke
Judy, The Orphan - Louise Schloesser
Miss Pritchard, Judy's Friend
Mae Olesen
Mrs. Pendleton, An Aristocrat
Esther Shaber
Julia Pendleton, The Daughter
.Clara Felland
Sallie McBride, Jimmie's Sister
- Irene Neston
Mrs. Semple, Jervis's Old Nnurse -
Helen Mil-ler
Mrs. Lippett, the matron
Marjorie Allen
Carrie, the maid - Dora Enger
Sadie Kate, an orphan
If You Can Answer 33 Questions in
Geography and History
You May Win $1000 in Cash
Othe prizes amounting to a total of
$2000 given in Educational contest,
open to everybody, anywhere. Send
stamp for list of questions, rules and
circular. Address—Sheffield Labora
tories, Dept. 1, Aurora, Illinois. 6-4t
Eleanor Spoklie
Alma Stubbe
Gladiola, another orphan
Loretta, another orphan
Mamie, another orphan
Helen Larsen
Inga Onstad
Fieddie Perkins, another orphan
Fred Zinck
Synopsis of the Scene
Act I. The dining room of the
John Grier home on Trustees' Day.
Act II. Judy's College Study, an
afternoon in May, one year later.
Act HI. The sitting room at Lock
Willow Farm, summer 3 years later.
Act IV. Mr. Pendleton's library,
two months later.
Everybody welcome. Performance
starts at eight o'clock sharp. Price
of admission: Adults, 60c and child
ren 25o.
This flay is presented with per
mission of Samuel French and com
pany cf New York.
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OUTLOOK
Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Olson, Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Ommar drove to Plenty
wood last Sunday to the show.
Charley Westphal was in Plenty
wood last week.
Laura Ommar is helping Mrs. Wm.
Ommar at the Hotel for a few days.
Mrs. Pearl Burnham was in Plen
tywood last w'eek on business.
Wanda Hass, from Minnesota, is
visiting at the Hass Brothers place.
Miss Ottilie Effertz and Herman
Husers were Plentywood visitors on
Thursday of last week.
Matt Kohler made a business trip
to Plentywood Friday of this week.
Wm. Ommar made a business trip
to Plentywood Wednesday of this
w'eek.
Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Nelson and
daughter Margaret left for
Wing, Minnesota, on Wednesday
last week in their car.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Fink and daugh
J. and Rose
Red
ters,
Fink made a business trip to Willis
ton Monday of last week.
Mike Fink left for Vancouver,
Washington, Friday of last week.
Mrs. Harry Peterson of Duluth,
Minnesota, w'ho is visiting at the O,
H. Anderson home with Mrs. George
Meiharry and Mrs. A. H. Anderson,
were in town Saturday giving in
structions in horsemanship.
A large crowd fr^»m Outlook took
in the boxing match at Plentywood
Saturday.
Mrs. Earl Cosper and Mrs. Clint
Cosper were in Scobey Saturday to
take in the play in that city.
The players who put on the "Safe
ty First" play here on May 9th, pro
duced the same play at Scobey Sat
urday of last week to a large and
enthusiastic audience.
J. O. Ddl and Miss Irene Haugen
of Froid visited at the B. A. Haugen
home here Sunday.
Mrs. Ritland of Minneapolis ar
rived here Wednesday to visit her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Tobiason.
J, M. Larson of Whitetail passed
Sunday visiting in Outlook.
J. M. Trower of Whitetail has been
in town for the past week with blood
poison in his thumb. He has been
receiving medical aid at the hospital.
T. J. Larson made a trip to Plenty
w'ood Saturday evening.
T. L. Und of Williston was a busi
ness visitor here Tuesday of this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Keo and Miss Cowan
drove to Scobey Saturday to take in
the play and dance.
Art Ueland, while rounding up his
horses, w r as kicked in the leg by one
of them and his leg was badly brok
en. He was hurried to the hospital
at once.
Rev. Norton of Redstone brought
the Redstone choir to Outlook Sun
day and conducted services in the
Methodist church. The music as well
as the sermon was greatly appreci
ated by a large congregation.
B. L. Grigg of Minot was in town
on business on Monday of this week.
Mrs. T. J. Larson and Miss Craig
attended the Eastern Star lodge
meeting at Redstone Tuesday.
OUTLOOK SCHOOL NOTES
The pupils are engaged in a whirl
of sixth week examinations.
The eighth graders haven't bother
ed anyone this week. They are too
busy getting a final lineup before the
State examinations on Thursday and
Friday.
The High School basket ball hall
has been taken over by Mrs. Burn
ham and Mrs. Omar who are .'-hang
ing the place into a restaurant.
OUTLOOK HOSPITAL NOTES
BORN, to Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Holtan, May 19tih, a son.
Vida Goodlaxon had an operation
for appendicitis Monday and is do
ing nicely.
Art Ueland is a patient in the
hospital with a compound fracture
of the left leg.
Mrs. Tobiason is able to be up and
around.
Electric Lighted
Steam Heated
Grand View
Hotel
'The Travelers Home on the Road"
PHILLIP BOURASSA. Prop.
in
Rooms With Running Water and
Bath
of
Sample Room in Connection
PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA
Bench Warrant Out
For Gordon Campbell
MI NT FACE TRIAL AT WASHINGl ON, D. C., ALONG
WITH SENATOR WHEELER AND EDDIE BOOTH.
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
Mrs. Orrin Pierce of Plentywood is
improving rapidly after her opera
tion
Seaward Nau, the youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Nau, is serious
ly ill in the hospital with pneumonia.
Jim Trower was operated on in Lie
hospital Tuesday.
Miss Linquist, a graduate nurse
from Willisfcon is on duty at the hos
pital
Mrs. Fitzgerald and baby will leave
the hospital next week.
Francis Gavin, who was operated
on last week, has been discharged
from the hospital.
Stella Hines, the 2-year-old child
of Kenneth Hines of Archer, had a
finger amputated at the hospital last
week.
SOUTH REDSTONE
of
Cora Risa, teacher of the Leet
school, resigned last week. Osta
Matson is filling her vacancy.
The E. Berg, E. Whitney and Char
ley Matson families spent Sunday at
the J. C. Peterson ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Stringer mot
ored to Redstone Wednesday in their
new Buick sedan.
Mr. and Mrs, E. Ross and Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Jackson visited at the Carl
Smith home Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Engel were
Plentywood callers Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Keith and Mrs.
H. A. Whitish motored to Scobey
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Griff are the
proud parents of another baby girl,
which was born to them^last Wed
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gray spent
Monday evening at the J. C. Peter
son home.
G. N. Engineer Has Specifications
Drawn So That Stockade, Block
Houses, Etc., May Be Rebuilt.
Poplar, May 13.— D. B. Burr, divi
sion of thé Great Northern railway,
has the blue prints and specifications
for the restoration of Fcrt Union,
just east of Fort Union station,
which was until this spring known as
Mondak.
Plans are being made to restore
the old fort just as it was in the
early days with the stockade, stone
block-houses, etc., in exactly the
same spots they formerly occupied.
These plans were made easier, at
the time of their first discussion, by
the donmation by Frank Weinrich,
one of the commissioners of Roose
velt county, of nine acres of land
where the old fort formerly stood,
which is now on his farm.
It is not known just how soon the
work of restoration will be commenc
ed, but at present, Mr. Burry says,
the intention is to erect the flag staff
in the cJd spot, which he thinks will
not be difficult if the old bastion foun
dations can he located, as the loca
tion of the old flagpole can then be
determined by distance, and "Old
Glory" once more be raised over the
historic sport where it waved so long
ago.
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WE HAVE FOUND
—an easy way to provide
your home or picnic lunch.
Sandwiches of rich, satisfying
bread, cakes and pastries, and
the commoner relishes that
with the lunch.
Let us
go
fill it for
you!
Plentywood Bakery
Martin Toftness, Prop
Washington, D. C.—A bench war
rant has been issued by the District
of Columbia supreme court for Cor
el cm Campbell, recently found guilty
at Great Falls of fraudulent oil pro
motion and using the mails to de
fraud, who is facing conspiracy in
dictments here which also name Sen
ator Wheeler of that state and Edwin
S. Booth, former solicitor of the in
terior department.
The warrant was requested by Dis
trict Attorney Gordon so that Camp
bell, whose attorneys declared they
would appeal the Great Falls convic
tion as soon as it was announced,
might be placed under bond for his
appearance here when the conspiracy
case is called,
CHARGE IN
CAPITAL
The District of Columbia indict
ments against Campbell, Booth and
Senator Wheeler, charge them with
illegal use and possession of govern
ment ^oil land.
Likè the Montana indictments, they
grew out of the investigation of the
procurement of oil land permits by
Campbell from the interior depart
ment, but government officials have
declared the proceedings here to be'
entirely separate from the Great Falls
cases.
SUMMONS DUE IN HELENA
Helena.—It is expected that the
warrant for Campbell's arrest, issued
by the District of Columbia court will
reach here for service soon.
The warrant is based on the third
federal indictment returned against
jthe cjl man within a year. The trial
oh the first of these resulted in Camp
bell's conviction 10 days ago.
The district warrant charges that
Campbell conspired with Senator Bur
ton K. Wheeler and Edwin S. Booth,
fonner solicitor for the interior de
partment, to defraud the government
of oil lands. The Senator and Booth
were named by the same grand jury.
It is thought that the warrant for
Campbell's arrest is on its way to the
Helena office of he. United Statea
marshall and that it will be received
in Great Falls for service on Camp
bell at an early date.
Light,
Light exercises p:-. ss'ire on objects
that receive it. The g.ant stars gain
their size like a blown out football
from the pressure oi light within
them. By the pressai
he possible i-reare ma
e of light it may
er.
Ancient Roman Roads Bumpy,
Automobiles cannot be oriven with
comfort over the bumpy surface bf the
stone slabs which form the famous
thousand-year-old roads of the ancient
Romans.
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if.
The fellow who has plenty
of sand isn't afraid of slipping.
No young man would look
forward to inheriting a farm,
if his father had made a
ure at the busiriess.
But maybe it wasn't altogeth
er the father's fault—suppose,
for instance that he raised
dairy cows and his neighbors
bought margarine instead of
butter.
Let's help our farmers to mar
ket their products by creating
a demand for them—by using
their products.
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Farmers & Merchants
State Bank
Plentywood,
Mont
'There Is No Substitute For Safety