The Bozeman courier., August 19, 1925, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

About The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954

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Articles Rich in Historical
Associations Shown in
Exhibit
The exhibit of Montana relics
held in connection with the flow
show at the Y. M. C. A. gym
nasium during the annual meet
ing of the Society of Montana
Pioneers and the Sons and Daugh
ters of Montana Pioneers during
the past week brought out many
valuable articles of historic value
that were appreciated by several
hundred local people.
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The first Masonic jewels of Galla
, _i Lodge No. 6, A. F. and A. M.
made from a sheet of copper by Wil
liam J. Beall, one the founders Of
the city, a charter member of the
lodge named were loaned the lodge
for the exhibit. No jewels could be
bought in Montana in 1866 when this
lodge was organized. They are prized
highly and are kept in the lodge
There is now
tin
very
room in a glass case,
no charter member of the lodge liv
ing, and the only two members on the
roll for 50 years are Thomas Lewis
of Berkeley, Cal., and Theo Norman
of Springhill in Gallatin county.
Interesting Exhibit.
Mrs.
In a special
W. J. Beall, the first white woman
Bozeman, are many interesting relics,
including some dishes she brought
the plains in 1864.
clothes belonging to her little girls
•who came with her, exhibited as the
first children's clothes brought to
Gallatin valley, the fine handwork of
27 little tucks in one dress as well as
the fine embroidery, the rolled hems
to ruffles on little shirts and a small
sunbonnet and other garments in this
collection were marvels to the women
in
Some
across
of this day and age.
Pictures of Mrs. Beall's little daugh
ters taken in Watertown, Wisconsin,
in 1864 before leaving for Montana
were especially interesting.
In Mrs. Beall's exhibit also was th?
first deed issued in Bozeman, signed
by John M. Bozeman, March 27, 1865,
for the sale of a half interest in his
town property for $500. The deed
recorded Nov. 14, 1865, with the
was
county clerk of Gallatin county, Mon
tana, W. M. Wright, at Gallatin City,
then the county seat. The recording
fee was $2.25. Another deed of the
same date was for one town lot on
the corner now occupied by the build
ing in which the Myers realty office
is located, was exhibited, the deed
stating the western boundary of the
lot "as the house occupied by Esquire
Fits, going east 50 feet in the direc
tion of the house formerly occupied
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by John M. Bozeman.
The first issue of the first paper
published in Bozeman, Dec. 31, 1869,
the "Montana Pick and Plow,
another relic of interest, and with
Mrs. Beall's collection was a copy
the New York Herald of April 15,
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1865, giving a full account of the
assassination of President Lincoln.
Constitution of Vigilantes,
An exhibit that has seldom been
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Lot me plan you» trip
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except by members of the Vigi
committees themselves was *
^py 0 f constitution of the first
Vigilant« committee of Gallatin
county, with no date, but of the 23
names aignedf the only person
living is W. B. McAdow of California.
A somewhat gruesome picture >n
the Pioneers' historical exhibit, loaned
by Mrs. W. J. Beall is that of the
hangman's tree ini Helena in 1870,
calling attention to the method used
by Vigilantes in those early days. The
bayonet used by John Purcell in cross
ing the plains in 1864 with the Town
send train of which Mrs. Beall -was a
member, is an interesting relic. The
drafting instruments used by Boze
man's pioneer architect, William J.
Beall, in drafting plans for many
buildings in Montana, including the
first Sacred Heart cathedral in 1874,
were interesting to men who have
used such instruments, as well as to
now
other people.
Mrs. S. C. Crockett had on exhibi
tion a stone jar used by her mother,
Mrs. W. L. Davis, as a chum on the
journey across the plains from H- j
lino« to Montana in 1864.
Mrs. E. H. Kleinschmidt loaned for
the exhibit a bridle made from horse
hair by Henry Edmonds, a member
of a gang of road agents and horse
thieves, when he was in the peniten
tiary, the bridle being made Tor T.
H. Kleinschmidt, to whom Edmonds
made a confession about the gang.
Mr. Kleinschmidt was the father of
the late E. H. Kleinschmidt cf this
city.
Mrs. H. A. Mardis, widow of James
W. Mardis, had many interesting ar
ticles in the exhibit, aside from the
copy of the Montana Post, the first
Montana newspajter, published at Vir
ginia City in 1864. There was a tin
type of Mr. Mardis in uniform as a
member of company K, thirty-fifth
infantry, at Muscatine, Iowa, in 1861.
A key is shown used by Mr. Mardis
in driving across the plains in 1864.
Gold scales used in Virginia City in
1864 are unusually interesting. A
set of jewelry made in 1865 by Mr.
Bailey of Helena, a well-known pio
jeweler, and presented to Mrs.
Mardis by her husband, is another
relic. Among the interesting pictures
loaned by Mrs. Mardis is a photo
graph of the Fourth of July célébra
tion in Virginia City in 1865.
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A photograph of John M. Bozeman,
for whom the city of Bozeman is
named was exhibited by Mrs. E.
Razier with the old-time relics.
Robert F. King, a pioneer who came
to Gallatin valley when a boy, had
on exhibit a Dutch oven, an iron tea
kettle and a large kettle that he used
in freighting about 45 years ago.
A piece of a bedspread that was
spun by her mother, Mrs. Catherine
Duke, more than 70 years ago, is ex
hibited as the property of Mrs. Robert
King.
A photograph of P. H, Rea, who
ran the first bus line from Virginia
City to Nevada, and afterward lived
in Helena, was loaned by Mrs. Kate
Rea James. It was at the Golden
wedding of Mr. and Mrs. William Rea,
parents of Mrs. James and grandpar
ents of Mrs. Charles L. Anceney, in
of the Pioneers' society of Gallatin
county was held, the reunions contin
uing on February 22 ever since.
Mrs. H. P. Bisel, widow of Ben F
Bisel, who ran the first threshing ma- .
chine in Gallatin valley, loaned some
interesting relics, including a silver
teapot brought to Montana in 1866 1
by her mother, Mrs. George W. Kratt
cer, and a garment made by her
grandmother, Mrs. Nancy Krattcer,
100 years ago, showing fine needle
work.
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One of the oldest relics among the
exhibits was a pair of gcld-rim r ;ied
spectacles, at least 190 years old.
They had been worn by the mother
been
90 years old now if he had lived. His
moth« died before he come to Hon
tan. in 1864, and he brought the
spectacle, with him h«e. He .aid
she had worn them es far back as
be could remember.
Mrs. H. I. Bord« exhibited a writ
ing cabinet brought to Gallatin val
ley by her moth« in 1864.' Th«e is
tt old horseshoe plowed up on the
old ranch which is now the property
of Gordon Mandeyille. Mrs. Border
ala. exhibit, a of her father's.
-I knew John Guy and! remember
Charles P. Blakeley and Mr. Balaton,
arc remarks heard by pioneers view
ing the groups of sheriff, of Gallatin
county loaned by the local shelffs
office.
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Clifford Lideen, an invalid of Bur
OVERHEAD IS
URGE BURDEN
If Results are Accurately Checked up
Shopping in the Large Cities
Must Carry a Tremendous
Overhead.
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BE HONEST ABOUT IT
Don't Ignore Plain Facts About Costs
You Must Pay in Taking Shop
ping Trips to our Big Cities—
Some Facts and Figures for
Consideration.
How much does 2 and 2 make?
Figuring the advantages of buying
j from Bozeman merchants is as sim
pi e as that. It is a question of ele
nientary arithmetic. When an out-of -
town merchant begins talking "quan
tity buying'' and "quantity selling/'
j he is trying to confuse you with high
sounding terms- so as to make you
fundamental issue.
you have to do in that case is
get ou t pencil and paper to bring
F-jhim down to brass tacks.
Figures are bound to tell the truth*
What do they show us?
Big Town is 100 miles from Boze
man on the main line of the railroad.
Other things being equal, the largest
store in Big Town .can save its cus
tomers more money than the small
est store, and on the grounds urged
by our Big Town merchant "quantity
buying" and "quantity selling." Just
how this comes about is obvious—low
| er freights, cash discounts, bigger as
sortments, lower prices, quick turn
over, smaller overhead in proportion
j to each article, and so on.
The Big Town Idea.
The Bozeman merchant can argue Sg
in the same fashion, and it is just as
true here as it is in the Big Town.
Both are right—the merchant in 11
the Big Town, so far as his customers 1 i
in Big Town are concerned, and the j |
merchant in Bozeman so far as his 1 =EE
customers in Bozeman are concerned. 11
But the merchant m Big Town 1 1
can't ex tend his territory to include j |
Bozeman in this promise of benefits l jgj
that come to customers from buying I gg
at his store. What would you say 11||
if Bozeman merchants inserted adver-11
tisements in the Big Town papers 100 | \
miles away and promised to save 1 1
money to the people there if they 11
passed by their own merchants, took Eg
the train for Bozeman and bought of ||
the merchants here? -You would call |SB
them fools, if you didn't use stronger s
language. f W. M
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th ® other w8y round '.
Let's get dorm to f.gures.
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Lrt <" «"PP 0 » *•* Mr8 ' Snuth
Roe ' to °» of ' he f lg ," ns
Hct fare Y 1 " be £ r0l n . . bY
«>« very chmeat figuring, dep«din«
»P»" ,be «f 8 ; She 8 P*""'
tmm h » ,f d " y or "«e "
transportation time aione and th..
m » y b f ' , ® rth »«»thing. She
» doubthav« to stay over a.
le "*' a "£ h f* . bot f 1 ^1!
vill be $5 P f, r day. o doubt she wil
»«end the theater, probably with e
«n»t, «t a coat of from »1 to »5.
to h« Utt rf gemd ^
Not a single article has
fig
ured iû, and «H this expense incurred.
while at all, sb
winter- i
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need. We tie up money that might
as well be earning us interest in the
Bcseman banks.
"Bargain Counter" Lure.
Furthermore, this kind of -buyer is
also the victim of the "bargain coun
The vt*ry words are a lie.
Such goods are cheap for the very
good reason that the Big Town mer
chant wants to get rid of them at any
cost. They may be shelf worn, or out
of season, or wh&t not, in which sase
they would be high at any price.
After you get back home, if you
are dissatisfied with some of your
purchases, you can't exchange them,
because the cost of another trip
makes that prohibitive.
If you have come from such a trip
recently, price the things you bought
in Big Town at the Bozeman stores
and strike a balance on the profits
and losses of the trip. That will con
vince you beyond argument as to why
you should buy of the home mer
chant.
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Mail Orders Disappoint
If you have just received a bill of
goods from a mail order store, sub
ject it.ibo the same acid test. Figure
your finoney oriier fee, your postage,
your freight and express charges, in- i
surance and the time you wasted.
Then take into account breakage.
shortage and reorder. But, most im
portant of all, the illustration and de
scription in the catalogue, except in
the case of a few staple and stan
dard articles, led you to expect bet
ter goods, and you are disappointed.
You keep ithem under protest, or if
you exchange them you incur further
expenditure.
Why buying in a big city is expen-i
sive will be discussed in next week's
article.
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TRYING TO COLLECT
Helena.—It is expected that Mdn
tana farmers will be able to make
substantial payments of seed loans
advanced by the federal government,
according to L. E. White, adminis
trative officer in charge of collections
for the U. S. department of agricul
ture, who was in Helena recently,
While here Mr. White was the guest
of Jay G. Diamond, statistician of the
fédéral bureau of crop estimates.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
MONTANA SEED LOANS
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After your Generals have run 10,000 miles it will pay;
you to drive to the store and let us look them oven
Big mileage puts nicks and other injuries in tires
and by giving attention to these spots we can often I
add many months of service to the further mileage
that is left in the tires. Even when you trade in
your cat each year the extra mileage in General
Cords is not lost to you, because tires in good con
dition add that much more to the trade-in value of
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Of the loans totaling $1,044,578.00
made in 1921, in Montana $642,814.25,
or 61.6 per cent had been paid in to
June 30, 1926. In 1922 loans of $756,
492.29 were made in the state or
which $514,049.75 or 68.2 per cent had
bèen paid up to June 30, 1925.
The loan indebtedness was materi
ally reduced last year, and there is
reason to believe that further reduc
tions will be made this year, Mr.
White stated.
Say Yankee Travelers
Too Free With Tips
Southampton. — Reports circulated
here that the American Stâte depart
ment has put its foot down on ex
travagant tipping by Its representa
tives have brought out tales of the
largesse of some American million
aires when they leave the vessels that
have carried them across the Atlantic.
It is related among steamship stew
ards that on one Crip recently, an
American millionaire gave $10 to every
member of the crew of the ship on
which he was traveling and $25 tt
each of the officers. His tips, it v^as
estimated by the stewards, cost this
individual $10.000.
Another passenger not long ago sur
prised a steward by presenting him
with $400 after a six-day passage from
New York to Southampton.
GRAIN CONDITION
VARIES IN STATE
Helena.—Reports received by the
publicity coun
ty agents* show for the week ending
August 1 that rain is still needed
throughout the state. As a result of
the dry weather the condition of
spring grain is very spotted. Esti
mates of damage vary with localities.
Some spring wheat fields have been
damaged from 40 tc- 50 per cent. Oth- 1
er fields show less damage. Flax
seems to have suffered heavily.' Oats
shows same spotted condition as
spring wheat. Spring grain is being
harvested and threshing is under way
in a few plaqes. Livestock remains in
good condition generally with some
shipments to market. Men are being
called for in Blaine, Custer, Daniels,
Flathead, Hill, Lewis and Clark, Pon
dcra, Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan, >
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IRONS EVERYTHING
PERFECTLY.
IRONS IN */4 THE
TIME REQUIRED BY
HAND
PERMITS GREATER
IRONING PRESSURE
THUS OWING MORE
BEAUTY-A FINER
FINISH .THAN BY
HAND
IRONS PLEATS.
RUFFLES. BABY
DRESSES .NEGLIGEE,
SHIRTS, TABLE
CLOTHS, SHEETS.
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ITS EASE OF OPER
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WORK MAKES IT
THE GREATEST
HOUSEHOLD CON
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CAN HAVE.'
See it at
D. H. BUDD CO.
PHone 300
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