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. 4 The Bozeman Courier In The Famous Gallatin Valley Published Continous Since 1871 tar/** A = Bozeman, Montana, Wednesday August 22, 1923 Volume Lll. Number 37 i C0LIEÖE OPENING ATTRACTING MANY I Record Freshman Enrollment For ! This Early Date. Building Program | Now Completed. Interest Quicken- ^ ing in Football. That a record number of students! will be on hand at the opening of the! college year, September 25 and 26, is 1 shown by the fact that already 150 i freshmen are enrolled on the hill, a larger number than ever in the his tory of the local institution at this ear/ date. Last year the freshman class totaled 309 «tudents, but the rollment at this time, August 22, far below the list of new students ; en was whose names are on the rolls for this j year. With the average number ol : old students back, as is to be expect ed, the college will have the largest total attendance in its history. Despite the fact »hat a dozen or so members of the faculty were dropped' from the institution last spring be cause of reduced finances, the use of the buildings on the all 4 1 TN. row rvmra " was used all last sprin- an,! during the summer 1 months the finishing torches have! beer, added to that structure, which th.. r-nllpo-p «no of the finestUation of which will be ready for occupancy befere the opening date of the col-; lege. will more than make up for a ; lat k of instructors. 4 gives ath'etic departments in the west. * recent weeks the biology depart ment have been moving into their new home Lewis hall. This move is now complete, although the arrangement biological material has not yeti been finished. The old biology build--will Wig is now being completely j/aovat e<l and will be used for the extension; department, a department hitherto, house-1 at the top of the agricultural) building. i he rooms vacated by the: extension department will be used by the experiment station and are badly : ■ cf I be needed. The engineering building will be all ready for students when they begin to arrive in September, and the shops likewise are finished; in fact, the en tire building program at the college , made possible by the bond issue, is now about complete. The old gymnasium, used for so many years and the scene of so many j exciting contests, has been into a stock-judging pavilion and isj rca .y tor the students to start work.: With the incoming of the students ne t month the interest of Bozeman n ! v ... naturally center in Ott Romney's] Bi'l i at football team and its prospects; for the season. Perhaps never be - 1 fore in the history of the Montana St-.ite College have football prospects I looked as good as they do this fall, j Romney lost few men by graduation an./ ire re. cuits he gained from the) freshn'an '.earn and other late season; prospe- us n <>re than made up for anyj possible losses. Romney has ordered the football j non to report for practice in Boze-! man on September 12 . There were! 75 men signed U P for football last; spring, and while some of these willj not be eligible because of scholastic | standing Romney expects to have pick his team. I At this date it is hard to select even! a tentative sauad. to sav nothing of i Scotty" MacDonald, cap tain for the coining season, and star kicker and halfback, is eligible and is getting into condition working on the fawns in the valley. With three years' experience behind him he is practically sure of one of the back-i field jobs. There are a host of other! jfood backfield men to pick from in eluding Floyd Romney, captain of last (Continued on T age 10) < * over 65 season men from whom to V .. a team. Gardens Will Be Judged On Friday A The judging of the yards and gar dens in the "Make Bozeman Beauti ful'' contest, which was scheduled for last Saturday, was unavoidable de layed which prevented Professor Har rington, one of the judges, from be inK in the city on that day. In conse quence the judging will take place on I -, ., . P _ a _ . , . nay, August 24. The judges will be Protesscr Harrington, of the col-| lege; Geoige M. Lewis, of Manhattan; E. A. Stiefel, of Belgrade, and Dick Fabrick, will commence promptly at 9 o'clock on Friday. : Mrs. Kate C. Shedd left Monday .. - -T i , , afternoon for Helena, having been called there by the illness of a re lative. -• of Three Forks. Judging $ * Ir --1 < REGIMENTAL BAND AWARDED BOZEMAN Service Company, Including Band of Thirty-five Pieces, to Be Enrolled Will Absorb Old Municipal Here. Band. At a meeting held in the American Legion hall Friday night, definite plans were laid for the formation of the 163rd infantry regimental band, to be located in Bozeman and to be re cruited largely from the present Boze man band. A new company, known as the service company, will be added to the 163rd. This company will be fifty strong, thirty men to be in the band and the other twenty in the sup ply section. The meeting was called by Sol Pe~ terson an ex-service man, and was well attended. Every one of the (band signified their intention of join ing the new organization, and John Fechter, for years director of the local musical organization, will still direct present 37 members of the Bozeman tion it may be possible to increase the 'size of the new company to 65 men. with 23 in the supply depart. ment. The supply section will have!*"™ charge of the supplies and transpor of the regiment the band and be bandmaster of the new organization. if Hie entire personale of the pres en t band pass the physical examina Tt. was l a rgely through the efforts 0 f Sol Peterson that this new organiz a tion was launched. Col. Erastusj williams, commanding officer of the* iö 3 rd, is of the opinion that the uni-' f orms and new equipment for the band; be ready by October 1. With) the lor-al band a part of the 163rd t^e government will furnish the unl f orrns anc i a u instruments and other equipment necessary. The band will S fin b e available for local purposes, as h as hitherto been the case. Sev eral other cities In the state were after the honor of securing the regi mental band, and it was partly due to the number of ex-service men here and partly to the fact that Colonel Williams lives in Bozeman that the new organization was secured, j n election of officers for the service Sol Peterson was elected captain, with W T . an(1 Ben D a .g ge tt as lieutenants. changed_ R E Es??ar and Henry j acobs> ac . CO mpanied by their families, spent a Sutherland pleasant outing up Middle creek can yon last week. On Friday the party cUmbed . Mt Hyalite. se ^ f° z ' Friday, has been postponed and . will be heard Saturday, August 25, in the local district court. The action for divorce brought by Mrs ' Iva Dara16 * against her husband, Seth 0rrm Danner, is being vigorous *7 bought by Danner, through his at L 0 ,rne y, Jifetin M. Smith. Answers have been filed to all the allegations set f° rt h in the original and amended complaints, and Danner denies the c barges of cruelty, neglect and non su PP°rii. Danner demes that he has totally falle ^ «fnsed and neglected to pro Vlde for bis wife and family, and al leges that at all times he has pro vided the and the children DANNER DIVORCE TRIAL SATURDAY Much Interest in Divorce Proceedings Because of Their Bearing on Later Trial of Danner The Danner divorce case, originally with care, support and maintenance c ommensurate with his ability so to i do; that the plaintiff never made any complaint of the care, support and maintenance, and never had any cause for complaint. He says that he has always worked, when he had work to do, and always maintained a suit able home for his wife and children. He further alleges that he is a fit and proper person to have the control of the said minor children, and that he has been and now is at all times ready to provide for their support and main tenance. He further says his wife is . not a fit and proper person to have care and custody and control of them. Danner alleges that all of the chil dren have been taken from both plain tiff and defendant by the court's or der and are now inmates of the or phans' home at Twin Bridges. Danner further denies that he has T* " d treat to or upon the person of Mrs Danner. He says he haa at all times endeavored to and has acted toward (Continued on Page 10) COMMISSION MAY RESURFACE MAIN City Commissioners Considering Pro- ; ject to Resurface Main Street. Will Cost in Neighborhood of Nine Thousand. At the meeting of the city commis sion held Monday the resurfacing ol | Main street was one of the main top-i ics under discussion.The present con-' ; dition of the chief street in the city' was i v mounced deplorable by mem- ; hers c: the commission, and all mem hers of the commission were in favor of having the street repaired at cnce. City Manager Mendenhall reported that a paving expert had recently gone over the Main street paving and, had stated that the necessary repairs! to it would cost about §8,775 to put the street in proper shape. If these repairs were put in at once the nav ing would be good for several years more, but if delayed for any length, of time the paving would have to be rebuilt. ; street was first surfaced in 1916 over the cement base that had been in use for many years. It was resurfaced in 1921. The lev y city taxes has been re * of a mill, amounting to $700. Thu. money was deducted from the Previously spent for band con <*«*■ j" former years $1,400 was, set as,de for the 14 band concerts,! but for the next year this sum was; cut in half. The city levy this year! is 25% mills, as compared to 26 mills, I • last year. Delay in the col'ection of occupa- j tional licenses is the reason assigned cor no further reduction in the gen eral levy. The city attorney says this matter will be taken care of so that the license receipts may be taken into consideration later. The license receipts are largely used for police regulations, and in lieu of these money had to be taken from the gen -1 eral fund for this purpose. General Rain Throughout Valley Delays Harvesting and Threshing The rains of earlier in the week " Jr eaille ^ m tbe week ' Sunday afternoon and evening and! Monday afternoon and night were _ __, n „ , j delà V w 6 V d th a V erV %i to delay threshing and the cutting of spring gram, even though the precip u-. *% itation wasr light. Quite a bit of sec j „„„ ond crop alfalfa was wet by the r a in, , , which, however, was not heavy enough f/x_L . .. , o to greatly damage the hay. Some «. c h i benefit to the fallow land that will v i , . v,. soon be seeded to winter wheat Is u_ 4 . n iu j . j , ,, about all the good reported from the ra - n K Wdth considerable moisture in thel ground as a result of the rather un-j usual rains in July and early Auscist, storms now are a vexation rather than a benefit. There is ample moisture in most of the fallow land to germinate! the winter wheat, which will be seeded; within the next few weeks. Dry, hot| weather is what is most needed in the valley, for the greater part of the spring grain was put in late, due to a backward spring, and long, hot days ' BAD AUTO ACCIDENT Jack Burney, a Great Falls plaster-« er, and Walter Jones, also of Great; Nk W » >«nw escape from death, Friday night when their car turned turtle on the road west of Manhattan. Bumey was badly injured about the back and bruised all over, while Jones was but slightly injured; escaping with a bruised leg and some scratches about the head. The accident happened about three miles west of Manhattan. The car, a Ford roadster, was running about 30 i NEAR MANHATTAN. miles an hour, according to the story toid by Jones, when the steer ing gear broke and the machine turned over and over three times. Jones was pinned underneath the car and Bumey was thrown many feet to the side of the road. Jones managed to get out from under the roadster with out much difficulty, and though suf fering from minor injuries, hurried to the assitance of Bumey, who had been knocked unconscious. Help ar rived almost immediately and the two men were hurried to Bozeman, where Bumey was taken to the Deaconess hospital and placed under medical The fall vas what injured Bumey,! and while he was confined to his bed for several days, the injuries were notl as serious as first thought. The wrecked car was towed to Manhat care. tan. ROUNDUP TO BE HELD AGAIN NEXT SUMMER Ringling Announces Plans For An nual Wild West Which Include Ex tensive Advertising in All Eastern States. The Bozeman Roundup will be held again next year, according to an an nouncement made this week by R. T. Ringling through his local manager, Harry Healey. The dr. tes of the show W'll be announced as soon as possi ble. The number of shows of this na ture being held in the west each year makes it necessary that there be some sort .of a schedule for them, Bozeman generally following the Cheyenne Frontier Days. It is expected that! the dates for the Roundup will be available within the next few days. Mr. Ringling is putting on a wild west show at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, November! 1 to 17, and it is his desire to exten-j sively advertise the Bozemsn show at this time. This year's exhibition a the; state attendance that Mr. Ringling de- j sires to advertise the show all over! the United States at the earliest pos-j sible date, that summer tourists may ..take their plans to include the Boze man Roundup m the itinerary. ! It is not expected that any local riders w.ll go to New York for the -tall show, though Johnny Mullins.| arena director of the Bozeman show ; for the past two or three years, will have charge of the New York ex-j «■'»'■on, and will also be in charge I I in Bozeman again next year, While it is yet far too early to fore-| cast the program for the next Round-, up in Bozeman, the management is greatly encouraged by the excellent financial showing made this past sea son and expect to put on an even bet ter show next year. There was some talk by the Round up association of putting on a local (Continued on Page 10) are needed t - 0 ri P en [t before there is danger of frost. With weather like " . .. -, . , that existing the fore part of the , , ^ week the spring gram stands still and dan £ er from frost becomes con ntly ter u u . . . - „ Second crop hay harvest is m full •_ r ... swing over most of the valley, with a - f _. , ... , . , few farmers through with haying and __ „ . . j m. many are not yet commenced. There „ _. , , , , was quite a bit of hay down when the _ _ , , . rams commenced, but as these were lu , • dnzznes rather than soaking rams, u i-^i - , the hay was very little damaged. Threshing of winter lyheat has started in most of the dry farming sections of the valley. Many ma chines started up last week and were forced to shut down because of the storm. Still others are waiting clear skies to blow the first whistle. So far the winter wheat is threshing out a little better than expected and should make stronger than an aver age crop through the valley. Some yields are reported as unusually good ; and others only fair. ; On the evening of August 28 a joint dinner will be held under the auspices #f the chamb of mmmem at which JOINT DINNER TO BE HELD AUGUST 28. that the Rotary «Hd Kiwanis clubs will gather to hear an explana tion of the Neosho marketing plan by originator, ; Guerney R. Lowe Members of the county farm bureau will be asked 1 to attend the dinner as guests. ■| The Neosho plan points the way to doaed cooperation between the farm m a " d bus >"«.s menbymeans ofco operat " e aale8 ' a K h . as %« tned ' r - man F towna and clt ! cs a11 0 ' 0r the coo " tr ï- "d everywhere wrth more °' le f 8 " ccess - Not only does the plan teac , h «o-ope™"«. between town ? nd coun ' 7 ' but likcwise co-operation the mercantile es tabllshmen ts. j situated like Bozeman, in the midst of ' a farming community, is bound to be interesting. A committee consisting of Frank 1 Wilton, J. R. Chambers and C. C. Jameson has been appointed to oom plete the arrangements for the dinner, which will be held at Kramer's din ing room in the Elks building. Mr. Lowe is said to be a most force ful speaker as well as an interesting one, and the history of his plan, which has been tried! out in so many towns GAS PRICE DROPS TO LOWER LEVEL: Gasoline Can Now Be Bought Cheap er Than at Any lime Since 1914. Dealers Do Not Know How Long Low Levels Will Hold. ant loss the filling stations have to; stand. Before the drop came gas was sell-! j n Bozeman at 24% cents a gal-l i on> the lowest price since the fall 0 f 1914 . About four years ago gas sold f ov a bfief time at 25 cents. In the f ? n Q f 1914 gasoline sold as low as 17 % cents, and during the war it 1 wen t U p as high as 38% cents. The j q Ueer thing about these gas prices is! On Wednesday morning the price of gasoline in Bozeman, and all over the state, for that matter, dropped two cents a gallon to 22 % cents, setting'great a new low level for gasoline since! 1914. The drop in price came without warning and caught some local inde pendent dealers with rather large! stocks of gas on hand, and the result-' that wholesale gasoline, to independ -1 en t dealers in Bozeman, remains the i sa me price as before the recent drop.! i n other words, independent dealers! are thus forced to sell their gas on , wo cents lower margin than before the recent drop. One local independ. \ ent dealer bought two tank cars of: gasoline this week and was forced to, pay the same money for it that he paid f 0 r gasoline he sold at 24% cents ! The Une u5e(| t#Ja ,, o( bctter ; t , th , used before the ! „ . u i i as refining processes have undergone 1 ,_. . . ; great improvements, so that, the nres-i _. 001 /' , ., ! ent 22 %-cent gasoline reallv gener * | ates more energy to the dollar than 1 1 - 1 / . .. , n , 4 - ■ did the li%-cent gas ot 1914, in the opinion of local gasoline salesmen. Local filling stations were ujiablc to. predict what the price of gasoline would do during the next few days. It may go even lower, or again it may go back to where it has ranged all summer,"-said one salesman. ' v.% know no more about what it is going to do than anyone else. We get a wire telling us the price of 'tank wagon,' the trade name for wholesale) gas, and we must set that price on it. W e must of necessity keep our storage tanks full, and in buying j two tank cars of gas this week I had j to pay the same price on it as I paid. on gas we sold at 24% cents. W r e; had to pay it, for with selling in the neighborhood of 1 000 gallons a dayjal we cannot afford to run short—anc! i then there is no telling what the price ' will do these next few weeks. Slandard Construction Company loi _ ,. _. , n rT / ,0 . Grad,n ^ Work on Bozeman lo Salesville Road Project. j - The grading for the hard-surfaced road between Bozeman and Salesville will start in the near future, accord mg to an announcement by J. N.' Brown & Son, who were found to bej the successful bidders on the project j at the opening of the bids in Helena last Wednesday. The Standard Con- j i f ' GRADING ON ROAD SOON Will START 1 j struction company of Bozeman will do the grading for the Browns while) gravel surface. Not a great amount of grading will be necessary on the Huffine lane pro ject, for more or less work has been ■done on this before and a fairly good grade has been established. More or less scarifying will be necessary, cer tain fills have to be made and the hundreds of ruts and chuck holes filled up, but the established grade of the road will differ but slightly from! what it is now. More grading will be necessary on the Salesville end of the pioject, for on this road little work has ever been FOR BAND CONCERT, - ' ..... Arranged by Boettger Sullivan A. Bortezky _ C. M. VonWeber R. Alexander Francis Scott Key done. SELECTED PROGRAM The program follows: Sir Galahead March"..— K. L, King "Mikado," selection from Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera.. The Lost Chord <( •» . R. B. Bowden Chinese in Baritone solo ' U-ng- Kuyv^-Foy - Y a termezzo _ The First Heart-Throb"..R. Eilenberg Invitation a la Valse'' ... ■ The Southerner," march Star-Spangled Banner" ii COUNTY TAXES WILL BE A LITTLE LOWER •' ; » i * K. Reduction of Almost Two Mills in Levy Announced by Commissioners. Many School Districts Have Ex tremely High Levy i county does not intend to finance an exhibit to the state fair under the P resent exhibiting rules, there will be no ^ mil1 lev Y for Dur purposes, lTbele bas also been a sb £ bt cut in tbe insect P 6st fund - Other levies are ™uch the same, with the exception of tbe hi " h s< ' bno1 fund, which has be6n yaised fl ' om 5 to 6 While the above'applies to the gen era * lev >' ^ ot tbe county, some tax-. The county tax levy for Gallatin for 1923 shows a reduction of nearly 2 mills over that of a year ago, not a reduction, perhaps, but dechied ly a step in the right direction. The * greatest cut comes in the general fund of the county, which has been reduced from 5 to 2% mills. As there will be no county fair this year and as the ». v : f P y® or find tb eir taxes lower on account of the increased levies in many of the scboul districts of the county. In two of the sch(H)1 districts the levy for tins pm-pose is w,thm a fraction «f « ""'I of what the county tax wil. , 100 „ The general county levy for 1923 ,s • ™ ,1!s > as compared to 26.95 f° r Aast year. This includes, bo * b cases, the 5 mill road fund and the county high schorl fund but 'low not include ...her the -'.strict school tuna nor the state levy, T , . , , , . . The state levy also shows a snght , .. v reduction over a year ago. for 1923 ... , , . , . there w.ll be a levy of 4.4 mills as . . , 1ft0 n T , „ . against 4.0 <d for 1022. In the general !' s fund of 3% mills is included 1% mills for the State Univei'sitv. The rest G f the levy is one-fifth of a mill for the veterans' welfare bond and sink j n g fund, and seven-tenths of a mill which goes into the education bond interest and sinking fund, The livestock levy for-state pur poses is divided as follows: One mill f cr the livestock commission fund; one anr j one-half mills for the live stü ck bounty fund, and one mill for the livestock sanitary board fund, ' year od of paying taxes will be in effect, One-half the taxes will be payable in November, and the remainder will be payable in May. This way of paying taxes is on all real estate and person property secured by real estate, Ail personal property teal estate becomes delinquent No . « following levT m the different cities and towns: Bozeman, 25% nulls, a reduction of % null; Belgrade, 16 mills, the same as last year; Manhat 15 mills, the same as last yea», Three Forks. 27 mills, the sa ™ 6 as Aast year; Willow Creek, 2% mih f° r tbe ^re fund, a reduction of % mill from last year, and Salesville. which will probably be a 1 mill levy *<> r the fire fund, although no certifi cation of this has been made to the unsecured by vember 1 . However, all city, town and special grain and irrigation district assess ments are payable with the first half o f the regular taxes—that is. in No vember. e Aiso, unless one-half of the taxes are paid by November 30, the entire amount becomes delinquent and a penalty is attached. Added to the county levy is the county treasurer, An the school districts the follow *ng are fc he levies: 1, 25 mills; 2, 14 md As; 3, 20 mills; 4, 11 mills; 5, 3 mills; 6 , 2 mills; 7, 15 mills; 8 , 16 mills ; 9, 6 mills; 10, 8 mills; 11, 7 (Continued on Page 10) ment with the city primary election, to eb held August 28, as but six names were filed with the city clerk by Sat- urday, and this is the number of names that will be printed' on the reg- ular ballots at the Novehiber election. The following men are candidates for the position of city commissioner: Edmund Burke Evergreen par.,merits; J. W. Holst, 715 South Third avenue; A. L. Love, 308 South Bozeman; W. H. Lovelace, 709 South Willson; E. J, Parkin, 522 South Sixth; L, W. Wat son, 308 North Black. Of these six, three will be chosen at the November election, these being the three men with the highest number of votes at that election. E. J. Parkin is th© only one of the above men who has served as city commissioner, he being one of the present incumbents. Six File Petitions f For City Commissson There will be a dearth of excite-