The Bozeman courier., January 08, 1926, Page PAGE THIRTEEN, Image 13

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Items of Interest From the Files of the Avant- Courier
JANUARY 7, 1893
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Governor Rickards continued Hon.
Charles W. Hoffman cf this city on
his staff as quartermaster general.
William Kermode was in the city
from his sheep ranch, Thursday. He
says his stock is doing exceedingly
well these days.
The city firemen held their annual
meeting Wednesday night and elected
officers for the ensuing year. W G.
Alexander was re-elected chief.
Ira Dodge is said to be recovering
slowly from the effects of his bear
encounter near his home at Cora,
Wyo., some time ago.
The pretty and appropriate custom
< f making New Year's calls was ob
served to some extent in the city this
year.
Lee, the 14-year-old son of E. A.
Rouse, killed three lynx on the Fort
Ellis reservation, Sunday, cutting the
throat of one with his penknife after
it had been wounded and he was short
of ammunition.
Henry Hellinger kept up his record
again this year. He was the first
man to step into the AVANT COUR
IER -office on the first business day
of the new year and pay his subscrip
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tion for another year in advance.
We are informed that the Manhat
tan Malting company harrowed 200
acres of land on its farm, Thursday.
If this fine weather continues it will
pet all the newly broken ground pre
pared for early seeding in the spring.
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MARRIED.
At the Phipps schoolhouse, January
1, 1893, Frank E. Whitcomb of Sales
ville and Miss Laura Myers of Sales
vile, the Rev. B. E. H. Warren offi
ciating.
Governor Rickards has appointed
A. B. Keith as his private secretary.
The appointment is an excellent one,
but what puzzles us is how the gov
ernor, being ai Methodist, came to
take up with the jolly, distinguished
Sunday Sinner.
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in Bndger Canyon, Sunday, Jan. 1,
1893, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyram
Oleson, aged about one year.
At Bozeman, January 3, 1893, Mrs.
Minnie Hull, nee Minnie Chapman,
aged 30 yean.
DIED.
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Eli Crocker, one of the wood saw
yers of the city, has returned from
a brief vacation to California. Eli
expected to stay away most of the
winter, but he returns satisfied with
the sunshine of Montana. He doesn't
want any more clouds and drizzle of
the sea coast in his.
Meteorological Record for December.
The highest temperature recorded
during December was 15, and the low
est 17 below zero. The precipitation
was .77 inch of melted snow. There
were during the month six clear days,
12 fair days and 13 cloudy ones. The
mean temperature was 20 degrees.
The past week has been observed
as a week of prayer by the various
churches of the city. In addition to
the evening meetings in each church
there were union meetings at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon on the first five days
of the week, they being held in suc
cession at the different churches.
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It is reported that negotiations are
pending, looking to the consolidation
of the houses of A. J. Davidson and
Kenyon-Noble Lumber Co
Lumber-Wood-Goal
SPEND THE WINTER EVENINGS
PLANNING THE HOME
YOU WILL BUILD IN THE SPRING
Own Your Own Home
You will enjoy looking over some of our Plan Books—
They are full of the latest Ideas in Building.
OTHERS ARE PLANNING — WHY NOT YOU?
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Kenyon-Noble Lumber Co.
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company and Brandley and Wilkin.
The latter firm has secured the fine
store room recently vacated by the
postoffice, and if the consolidation
takes place the firm will occupy this
corner.
The electric railway commenced
running again Thursday after quite a
knockout by the cold snap of last
month. The company is making prep
arations to put in additional power to
avoid such a contingency, as ct has
just passed through, and will in time
no doubt give service without a break.
The condition of the roads has been
such for some time past as to make
everybody growl who has much work
to do. It has been neither good
sleighing nor fair wagoning. If ev
erything would freeze up and we
would have two feet of snow, those
who have grain, wood, etc., to move
would be happy.
The boys of the city don't believe
they had much outdoor fun the past
vacation. Skating iwas not extra good
and the warm weather entirely
spoiled the coasting. However, some
of them amused themselves a little
by getting into mudholes and break
ing through the ice, to the despair of
their mothers.
Prof. Harmon was in Helena the
past week looking over the public
schools there and using his influence
to have the legislature pass a law for
the uniform examination of teachers,
so that certificates of the same grade
granted teachers by different coun
ties will be of the same value in other
counties.
Phil Dodson left for California Wed
nesday morning to join his folks at
Oakland, where he expects to remain
until next March. At last accounts
Phil's little son was quite ill with
pneumonia but it is believed he has
fully recovered ere this. W. B. Bes
sey will look after Mr. Dodson's in
terests in the store during that gen
tleman's absence.
Mrs. L. S. Willson, who has been
confined to her home by illness fer a
fortnight, is beginning to feel like
herself again. By her unceasing ac
tivity in the church, musical and so
cia i affairs, as well as in all local en
terprises, she had doubtless over
tasked herself. Her many friends
hope that she will husband her
re
sources until she has recovered her
wonted vigor.
Ideal Minstrels
The Ideal Minstrel troupe has re
organized for the season and ex
pects to give an entertainment in
about six weeks. The young gentle
men connected with the troupe are
Messrs. Stevenson, Morris, Cutting,
Romdenne, Pease, Hammond, Flowers,
Wilton, Potter, Ralph Lancaster,
Olds, Culver, Stewart, and John Max
ey, and efforts will be made to secure
Mr. Becker as tenor robuSto. Rom
denne, Cutting, Stevenson and Ham
mond may act as end men, although
this is not yet positively decided up
on. The gentlemen promise an en
tertainment that will be up to date
and full of things worthy cf hearty
appreciation and many a good laugh.
THE NEW MILL
It Is Accepted by the Trustees As
Complete in Every Particular.
On Tuesday of this week the trus
tees of the Bozeman Milling company
accepted their new mill as complete.
The parties who had furnished the
machinery made a test for a week
and said everything was all right. Mr.
E. Broox Martin, general manager of
Ford Is Given an Ancient Mill
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Here is pictured the old mill at Atkinson Depot, N. H., which Mrs. Al
bert W. Harrows has just given to Henry Ford after hlg agents had failed to
buy the property from her. The mill was originally a woolen mill with a.
crystal stream purring a song through the sluice to the great paddle wheel.
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SO DECLARES VISITOR IN BOZEMAN WHO ASSERTS
WORK OF STATE COLLECTS GRAIN LABORATORY
IS OF VAST IMPORTANCE TO FARMER
(Contributed)
Until recent years, wheat had been
graded and bought and sold on looks
alone. Mr. Yates, who won the much
coveted International prize of $1,000
at Chicago, won that fine trophy be
cause the judges liked the appearance
of his wheat.
But not long ago, from the stand
point of performance, some millers
began to question that method of
grading; began to analyze and study
wheat from the standpoint of con
tent, of percentages of protein and
gluten, of milling qualities, etc. Some
of the larger elevators took the cue
from the mills and began to buy on
the basis of protein content.
Naturally, the elevators were care
ful not to hand themselves any the
worst of it, and naturally, • too, dis
agreements with grrwers arose over
prices based on constituents.
Laboratory An Umpire
Our state law provides an umpire
when wheat growers and wheat buy
ers cannot agree, ar.d soon samples
of grain for analysis began to pour
into the grain laboratory at the Mon
tana State college.
The college, with the vision of
leadership which true scientists al
ways show, had been working for
some years on grain analysis, and
had organized an able staff of train
ed men» and women. When these
samples of wheat for analysis began
to come in, the college laboratory was
prepared to handle the work—a work
of basic importance to this whole
state.
Here it may be stated that besides
analyzing grain for protein and glu
ten*, the laboratory mills the wheat
and tests the flour for bread baking
qualities. Not only that, but the
laboratory tests seeds—all kinds of
farm seeds—for germination and pur
ity, and each year, in ever-increasing
volume, samples of all sorts of seeds
from all over the state have come
pouring in for germinating and pur
ity tests.
Results of "Economy
Then comes "this here economy
program,'' and, interpreting with the
narrow enthusiasm of strict con
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the milling company, then took charge,
and after a week's run satisfied him
self that everything was as it should
be, and the trustees, after their ex
amination, decided likewise.
The construction cf the buildings
this company has been a revelation
to the residents of this part of the
country. Boards were hardly nailed
on the extericr of the building until
they received a coat of paint, thus
preventing them from leaving their
places. No shavings or other rubbish
was left about the place to endanger
the structure by the careless dropping
■cf a match, etc,, and in the entire job
there was a bill for extras for one and
a. half days' time only; and even that
would have been avoided but for the
fact that Mr. Martin was called to
Great Falls, and during his absence
one of the machines was kcated a
(little different from what he pre
ferred to have it.
We doubt if as good a record in
the construction of any other build
ings of like cost and-complicated ar
rangements can be claimed in the
state. The entire business of the
company seems to be conducted on
the same intelligent and economical
plan, and the marked success of the
venture may be safely predicted from
the start.
The mill is owned entirely by
prominent farmers in the valley and
business men in this city. It is the
most extensive private enterprise of
the past year, and the people of this
community^ as well as the stock
holders, are gratified at the comple
tion of the plant in so satisfactory
a manner and to see it launched with
the brightest prospects of future pros
perity.
structionists the desire of the people
fer lower taxes, the state legislature
and the state board of examiners so
curtailed the appropriation for Mon
tana State college that the grain
laboratory's funds were cu: from the
$11,000 needed (an inflexible mini
mum) to $8,000.
The results? One result is that a
trained personnel cannot be retained
and is disintegrating, and W. O.
Whitcomb, the fine young scientist
in charge of the grain laboratory, has
to do the best he can with untrained,
or only partly trained, student help.
Another result? At this moment
some 500 samples of wheat, sent in
for study of milling and baking qual
ities, cannot possibly be handled in
time to do the senders any immediate
good. Perhaps they can be tested
later.
Yea, verily—this is "economy" with
a vengeance!
Reproof—Not Criticism
I haive no desire to criticize Gover
nor J. E. Erickson. As I see it, un
seen hands—I wiR not name the
hands — of Invnsible Government
seized him by the scruff of the neck,
and unseen force propelled him into
a job of vast importance—a job
which, some contend, he was not es
pecially prepared to fill. Governor
Erickson has a hard contract and is
undoubtedly doing the best he can.
But nevertheless, doesn't it seem
thousand pities to strangle and choke
near iy death a werk of such vital
importance as that of the State col
lege grain laboratory?
Should Emulate "Teddy
To digress—for some 200 years be
lfere Theodore Roosevelt became pres
ident, men had talked of building the
Panama canal. Surveys had been
made, millions of dollars had been
raised, < and construction work had
been begun at least once. The mil
lions had been spent and human lives
sacrificed in uncounted thousands—
yet the jungle had reclaimed its own
and had overgrown all those futile
efforts.
Then Roosevelt became the chidf
executive of this nation. At a dinner
in Chicago, a few years ago, General
Goethals told a delightful story.
The general had gone to Washing
tor. to consult President Roosevelt.
He was up against a snag. He stated
s case.
The president suggested the proper
course. General Goethals asked:
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But how about the law, Mr. Presi
dent? Is there a law to authorize
that course?
Roosevelt hit his desk with his fist
so hard that an inkstand turned a
somersault.
Dammit!" he shouted, "I want
you to build that canal!!'
I say very respectfully that if Gov
ernor Erickson has vision he will find
the $3,000 necessary for the grain
laboratory at the State college to
function properly. And maybe his
Republican stalking horse, Lee Den.
nis, could help him out on this propo
sition.
MRS. LOV^S LEAVES.
Mrs. A. L. Love, who had been
spending the holidays in Bozeman,
left last Friday for Billings to re
sume her duties in the land office
there. Mrs. Love was formerly con
nected with the Bozeman land office,
and was transferred to the Sugar
city branch when the local office was
j discontinued. Mr. Love continues to
i make his home here so that he may
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er attention.
SQUELCH SMALL BLAZE.
Fire, caused by the burning out of
a chimney, cahed the fire depart
ment to the residence of L. W. Mor
gan, 717 West Lamme street, early
Monday morning. The department
found little to do, and there was no
damage.
LIQUOR CASES SLUMP.
Records of the district court show
that in 1925 addons filed in the
clerk's office totaled 275, as com
pared with a total of 357 in 1924. Of
last year's cases, 233 were civil suits
and 53 were criminal actions, the lat
ter being subdivided into the follow
ing class: Liquor violations 10, ap
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peais from lower coarts 8, insanity'
cases 4, burglaries 4, and miscellan
eous, which includes gambling, as
sault, malicious mischief, and the like,
27. In 1924, liquor violation cages
numbered 19, and there were 59 crim
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court business had to do with minor
litigation.