The Bozeman courier., April 16, 1926, FIRST SECTION, Image 1

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66TH YEAR
FARMS, FORESTS
CLOSELY LINKED;
PREVENT FIRES!
American Forest Week Has
Meaning for Fanner as Well
as for City Folk
The Gallatin valley, the "Gem of
Montana," covers an area of 2,500
square miles, and is one of the best
watered valleys in the state, being
served by 15 large natural streams.
All of these streams have their sources
far back in the wooded mountains
where the green forest cover pre
vents melting of snow and rapid run
off in the spring, and holds water un
til it is needed £cir irrigating farms
during the crop growing season.
Farms and the forests are closely
linked together. The farmers are the
largest users of lumber and other
forest products in the United States,
consuming more than one-thitd of the
total produced. If timber Is not to
be had at reasonable prices, they are
the first bo suffer.
Our beautiful streams and camp
grounds throughout the Gallatin Na
tional forest afford camping and fish
ing opportunities to all. The various
phases of recreation are open and
free for the farmer as for the mer
chant and the banker.
The Gallatin valley is dependent
upon the farmer, upon his wheat and
oats, hay, seed peas, canning peas,
potatoes, vegetables, livestock, poul
try, and dairy products, and the farm
er is dependent upon the forests. His
herds of cattle and sheep graze in the
cool green forests throughout the
summer months, and come out in the
fall in a round and fattened condi
tion, ready fer the market.
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American Forest week, April 18 to
24, means something for us all. It is
a live issue, and a reminder to us to
he careful with fire when in or near
the wooded districts. Never throw
nway a lighted cigarette on the farm,
the words, or any other place.
T lighted cigarette stubs are a na
tional menace and a constant source
<»f fire danger. Never leave a camp
fire burning; it may spread beyond
control, as did the camp-fire last year
on the Madison, just below Bear Trap
creek, that burned over 1,200 acres
of forested land.
COLLEGE TO SPEND
$53,000 ON PAVING
Consentto participate in the forma
tion of a paving district that will
dnde some of the main campus roads
and an extension of Cleveland street
between Eighth and Ninth avenues
has been granted Montana State col
lege by the state board of examiners.
Chancelier M. A. Brannon and
President Alfred Atkinson told the
boar that if the district is formed,
it is proposed to issue 20-year, 6 per
cert bonds for the cost, payable out
of the earnings of self-sustaining ac
tivities of the college.
The estimated cost of the paving is
approximately $53,000, it is said.
Will Include Main Campus Roads
and Extension of Cleve
land Street
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AURORA PUTS ON
BRILLIANT DISPLAY
Not a little excitement and com
ment was caused Wednesday evening
by a brilliant display of aurora bore
alis, which began about 8 o'clock and
continued far into the night.
The most impressive portion of the
display, however, came shortly at 9
p. m. The wavering light rays, mil
lions of miles in length, shot up to
the zenith in a succession of impulses
that resembled ocean waves, and in
conjunction with a few filmy clouds
produced some weird effects.
Later it was learned that the phen
omenon had been observed generally
throughout Montana and that the
earth currents bad interfered to a
marked extent with telegraphic and
radio communication.
In Bozeman a few of the more sup
erstitious took the electrical display
as an omen, ill or good accot*
individual ideas cf what it
portend. Nevertheless and n
standing, Bozeman and Monta
still here, no catastrophe hav
enrred or seeming to impend.
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FIRST SECTION
MONTANA'S AUTO
DEATH TOLL WILL
BE 110 THIS TEAS
That no less than 110 persons
will lose their lires in automobile
accidents in Montana this year is
the forecast of L. L. Benepe, state
register of vital statistics.
Mr. Benepe'a prediction is based
upon deductions drawn from trail
able annual records. Last year 95
persons were killed as the result
of careless driving, he says, an in
crease of 20 over the total for
1924. Of the 1925 number, 12 lost
their lires in railroad crossing
crashes. Only two were due to
collisions with street cars.
MRS. DEAll WILL
UNVEIL MONUMENT
ID JOHN BOZEMAN
Ceremony Set for Evening
June 17 at Livingston—
The Program
Mrs. W. J. Beall, Bozeman's oldest
surviving woman pioneer, will have
the honor of unveiling, at Livingston
on Thursday evening, June 17,
monument to John M. Bozeman, early
day trader, trapper, and trail blazer.
The monument, to be erected in
tary park, is a project of the Society
of Montana Pioneers. The unveiling
ceremony will be preceded by a band
concert and followed by appropriate
addresses.
The evening's program follows:
Concert, Gateway City band.
Unveiling of statue Mrs. W.
Beall.
Eulogy of John M. Bozeman.
Tribute to Montana pioneers.
It is eminently fitting that Mrs
Beall, who for three-score years has
been a respected and beloved resident
■cf Bozeman, should be tendered the
privilege and the honor of unveiling
the memorial to John Bozeman, with
whom the very earliest history of this
city is inseparably linked, and her
hundreds of friends and admirers
here are correspondingly pleased.
DELL ALDERSON'S
HEALTH IMPROVES
Dell Alderson, former Montana sec
retary of state and an rld-time news
paper man, who last fall went to Ari
zona for the benefit of his health,
ï is greatly improved and has accepted
I a position with the Southern Pacific I
j Railway company. This information *
was contained in a letter received by
his sister, Mrs. Ncnia Mallery of Liv
ingston, says the Park County News
cf that city. Mr. Alderson has been
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SEVENTH CASE OF
RABIES DISCOVERED
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Dog Killed Last Thursday at F.
B. Cleghorn Ranch Suffer
ing From Disease
Gallatin county's seventh case of
rabies was discovered last Thurs
lay evening at the F. B. Cleghorn
anch, five miles west of Bozeman
>n Middle Creek, when it was found
necessary to kill a dog that had been
acting in a suspicious mann«**. The
animal was the property of Mr. Cleg
hem.
When the head of the animal was
brought to the State college labora
tory here, examination and test dis
closed a well-developed case of rabies.
All of the seven dogs that have con
tracted the disease since it first ap
peared in Belgrade early in Febru
ary have been killed, most of them
before they hod had opportunity to
bite other dogs or livestock. The
cases so far have been confined to a
piece of territory five miles in width
and r.mning across the valley from
Salesville to Springhill.
In the case of the Cleghorn dog,
first symptoms appeared a week ago
Tuesday and although it was being
closely watched, it succeeded in elud
ing ita guardians and disappeared.
It did not return to the ranch until
Thursday. Where it had been in the
meantime is not known.
Claiming that $2,940.25 i
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FAMOUS PIANIST
ID APPEAR HERE
MONDAY, APRIL 19
Prof. Joseph Adam has succeeded
in engaging Miss Faye Ferguson,
prominent piano-virtuoso, for a con
cert to be given at the Bozeman Pres
byterian church on Monday evening,
April 19th.
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Miss Ferguson was the only sdo
} s t at this year's state music meet at
Kaliapell, having been preceded in
that capacity last year by Florence
McBeth, and two years ago by Pad
erewski.
This distinguished pianiste was also
soloist with the Chicago and the Cin
cinnati! Symphony orchestras. Her
local concert is arousing much inter
est, she being the -cnly piano soloist
appearing in this year's concert sea
son.
LIKES THE COURIER.
Words of commendation for The
Courier were contained in a letter,
received this week from Mattson A.
Morrill of Los Angeles, who said;
"We appreciate The Courier and en
joy reading it as much as does Charlie
Curtis, who will soon be 80 years old
and is in fine health and spirits.
Both Mr. Morrill and Mr. Curtis are
former residents of the Gallatin, but
now make their homes in Cali
fornia.
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Homes Wrecked by Explosion
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HUNTERS, ANGLERS,
HELP PROTECT THE
HABITAT OF GAME!
The effect of forest fires on
hunting and fishing can not be
reckoned by the nests destroyed
or the number of fish, birds, or
wild animals killed outright at the
time or driven from the fire-in
fested region. It is more far
reaching than that, for forest
fires destroy the opportunity for
fish and game to survive and mul
tiply.
The loss is not that of a sea
son, but for all time to come; at
least until there has been adequate
replacement of food and shelter,
and that is a very slow process.
Fish and game can survive no
longer than their natural habitat.
Every forest fire, large or small,
disturbs the natural and vital re
lation between forest and stream,
and makes natural fishing waters
less habitable, less inviting to the
fish. For the sake of your sport
—BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE!
Green forests mean good fish
ing, good hunting, and a lasting
timber supply. Fire destroys all
I —be sure you don't cause one!
Glasgow—Work begins on Nashua
Grain and Gpheim-Oamdian high
At 1:40 p. m. Wednesday the fire
department was called to 426 West
Koch street to subdue a blaze in the
roof. The fire was caused by an over
heated chimney. The damage amount
ed to only a few dollars.
BOZEMAN MASONS
HOSTS TO VALLEY
LODGE MEMBERS
Gallatin Valley night" at Bozeman
lodge No. 18, A. F. and A. M., last
Thursday drew a number of visitors
from Three Forks, Manhattan, Bel
grade, Livingston, Helena and other
points to partake of a sumptuous ban
quet at 6:30 o'clock and afterwards
witness the conferring of degrees up
on several candidates.
The evening's program was in
charge of Bernal H. Alexander, mas
ter of Bozeman ' lodge No. 18, and
with the assistance of his capable
ccTps of officers and the co-operation
of the visitors, he made the evening
one long to be remembered by those
of the craft.
The lodge session proper began in
the afternoon, when the initial
tion of a degree was oenferred upon
ithe candidates by officers of No. 18.
After the banquet, degree teams
made up of officers and past offi
cers of Gallatin valley lodges com
pleted the work. Before the closing,
brief addresses were given by several
visiting Mascns.
The entertainment program included
piano solos by Professor Joseph
Adam, liead of the music department
at Montana State college; an address
l by E. J. Bell, and a reading by Fred
i Lay.
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NUMBER 18
1 BIGGER, BETTER
FAIR THAN EVER
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Board Leads Way by Setting
Aside $18,000 for Exposition
—Building Project
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Encouraged by the success and
operation of last year and enthused
by prospect« for this season, the Gal
latin County Fair board, at a formal
meeting Tuesday, set aside $18,000
to make next fall's local exposition
the best of its kind in the history of
the county. The sum is $3,000 in ex
cess of the 1925 appropriation,
will enable the board to engage ad
ditional features of a highly attrac
tive and meritorious nature.
Besides considering the fair budget,
the board, both at ita meeting and at
a special session later with members
of the board of county commissioners
and representatives of the Bozeman
Chamber of Commerce, seriously dis
cussed tentative plans for the erection
on the fair grounds of a building suit
able for exhibition purposes, indus
trial displays, community gatherings,
conventions, and other events for
which such a structure is so sorely
needed. While no decision was reach
ed, the project was given a great for
ward impetus and prospects for its
materialization are mcr e bright than
at any time in the past.
Lets Go!
Editorial comment ordinarily is
taboo in news columns, but at this
point The Courier cannot fokrbear
saying that Gallatin county'« present
fair board, cne of the most intelligent,
livest, and progressive the county ever
had, has shown both the disposition
and the -ability to lead the in
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these plans for the advancement and
benefit of Bozeman and the Gallatin
valley, and that it deserves the
heartiest co-operation and suppert of
every citizen. Bozeman and the Gal
latin have potentialities for a wonder
ful future, but the goal cannot be at
tained without effort. The most per
fect and powerful automobile will not
climb a hill without gas, irrespective
of the knowledge and ability of the
driver and the mechanics handling it.
We have first-class drivers and
chanics on this job—will the people
of Bozeman and the Gallatin help fur
nish the power?
Increase of the fair budget to $18,
000 was, in the opinion of the board,
justified by the success of last year,
by present conditions and by pros
pects for the future. It means the
biggest and best exhibition of ita
kind that Gallatin county has
had. It means bigger and better at
tractions and entertainment — three
days of racing, music, day and night
shows, fireworks, larger premium
lists and splendid exhibits. To fi
nance the budget, $4,600 in cash is on
hand, to which will be added $4,500
from tax sources in June. The gate,
grandstand, and concessions should
provide at least $6,500 more, leaving
only $2,400 to be realized from other
revenue-producing sources. The es
timated disbursements are $15,800,
of which $3,200 has been tentatively
set aside as a nucleus for the new
building fund.
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C'mon! Say Something!
In connection with the building pro
posal, the board has issued an invi
tation to the citizens of Bozeman and
the Galktin valley to come forward
and express their -opinions, whether
for or against. Only by this means
can board form a definite idea
as to the measure of support it will
receive if it goes ahead with plana
for the project. Any citizen may con
sult any member of the board, and
his opinion will be gratefully re
ceived. The personnel of the board
is: R. E. Bodley, county surent, chair
man; J. A. Siffert, vice chairman; E.
L. Heidel, secretary, and Harvey
Griffin and Charles Overstreet. All
were present at Tuesday's meeting.
In general, plans for the projedk
contemplate the erection of a sub
stantial frame structure 100 by 150
feet in size, with m floor space of 70
by 120 feet, leaving room on the sides
for booths, and at one end for a
stage. The estimated cost is between
$8,000 and $10,000, and already plans
for financing have been outimed and
discussed. In the near future, rough
drafts of construction plans will be
made, and a
of cost
accurate
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