The Bozeman courier., February 11, 1927, Page PAGE SIXTEEN, Image 16

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

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HINTER SPORTS
IN SUMMERLAND
Countries of the Tropics
Have Games and Fetes
Peculiarly Their Own.
By T. A. KEAN
Chicago.—While winter sports in
the North are confined largely to af-1
fairs that are concerned with ice and
the tropics and the West Indies
►«..•itf winter sports some of which are
§**• uliarly their own. Golf, to be
•are, is popular there as a year-round
•port Water sports, however, hold
ft.-ef place, but there are other ath
diversions strenuous enough to
•ppease the appetite for excitement.
,MI the diving champions are not
ftrnowu to the athletic world.* In the
•t;. "bor of Bridgeton, Barbados, are
•«me of the most expert divers to be
fosnd anywhere. On a recent visit of
Ihe Canadian Pacific steamship Mont
royal to that port some of the na
tive boys dived from the top of the
fstip, 75 feet above the water, down
the bottom, got a handful of mud,
Rr.ani under the ship, about thirty-five
feet, and came up on the other side
through about forty or fifty feet of
«r.ter. Quite some feat, If you should
t-k ns. This Is only one of the many
equally thrilling water stunts per
formed by the natives of the Bahamas.
Unique Swimming Pool.
On the Island of Gaspares, Trinidad,
I* the most unique swimming pool in
|h' world In a fairyland cave 200 feet
*n oerground and 45 feet deep, but the
•-.«ter is so clear that It appears to be
ft.'.ir or five feet deep. The cave Is
f*-v ildering fantasy of colors, spot
flrlited with sunshine from a break in
|hc roof far overhead.
In Havana, there Is horse racing In
• inter, and the visitor to this city
•' ■•old not miss a Jal alai (high low)
f •• - le. This Is the Spanish national
•'-il game, handball, but our way of
l 'H'*lng it Is mild In comparison. It
l> played by two-men teams on a
t * '•■* d cement court 210 feet In length
f" iß feet In width. In a sort of
grooved and curved basket, strapped
•n their hands, the players catch and
throw the ball much like a boxer glv
in- a full ami swing blow. The play
er < professionals most of them, are on
lS-?r toes all the time, and If you
link of any existent game to com
g.tre with It, for strenuoslty of action,
•e' me know of It. There are no In
•dr'gs and time Is only called by the
referee who Is in charge after about
thirty minutes of the fastest volleying
fvrr seen. The spectators around the
«•■irrt shout and clamor for their fa
» «a ï tes to win, and the wagers made
• M» "bookmakers" almost rival those
» rede at the race tracks in the United
f-'iates. Society attends in full force.
Variety of Sports.
Tie Bermudas are a cluster of Is
lands lying in the path of the Gulf
•tntim, with an even temperature
*>i'*ly desecending below 60 degrees,
•v.'ter polo and golf are the most pop
tiinr sports.
Coif under smiling southern skies
i* a most pleasant part of a West In
f r< cruise.
Soccer football, as we know it. Is
• n autumn or winter game, too active
summer. Imagine getting off the
gî*>T*mshlp on a Sunday morning In
IM<ruary or March, wearing summer
•i-» rts clothes, with the temperature
; Feen 90 and 100 in the shade, and
•«• ^hode. and finding two teams of
r"''*red men playing soccer football.
^ will greet you at Port au Prince,
I f ; ,! ti. The whole town will seem on
r holiday and will be found on the
lines rooting for their team and
• ' ing as much fun as we do at a
• Id series baseball game.
'"egular British sports, football,
« : ; ket, etc., are engaged In at Ja
•'r ; ra, but at Caracao, Dutch West
Ivd'es, if you inquire what the great
•••i sport on the island is, the natives
w tell you with a smile, selling the
•'forbidden" to visiting Americans.
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Luque's Way
Havana.—Anybody who casts asper
sion on the baseball integrity of Senor
Adolfo Luque of Havana and Clncin
should be beyond his reach. A
to<ficberite yelled that a game was be
ing thrown and the senor climbed
•id* into the grandstand after him.
IBs climb was stopped by the police.
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Huge Sawfish Caught
on Beach at Sydney !!
Sydney.—While Manly beach,
Sydney'» beach resort, was •
crowded with bathers recently, !
alarm was raised from the \
^ Acre that a shark had been •.
♦ (raising Just beyond the break- *
~ era. Voluntary life-savers who •
•j- patrol the beach immediately \
_■ pot out a surf boat, and cap- •
ured a giant sawfish
1 Sawfishes are not common *
-ound the Australian coasts, but
ZjC are occasionally brought down
j* off the coast of New South
4- Wales from the tropical haunts
•** by a warm equatorial current.
Sometimes small ones are
brought up in trawling nets, but
£ the Manly capture was the
largest of his species ever land
ed here. He was 18 feet 2 Inches
from the tip of his five-foot beak
to the end of his tail
beak Itself contained 54 teeth.
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Former Sultan's Cat in Washington
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j jM p Mrs. Martin K. Metcalf, wife of
HH% Commander Metcalf, U. S. N., with
I "Pansy" a thoroughbred Turkish cat
I that formerly did her "meowing" in
I the palace of the sultan of Turkey.
The cat, brought to Washington from
m Turkey by Commander Metcalf, la
I eight years old. She was one of the
I Interesting entrants in the cat show
I at the Wardman Park hotel.
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BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL CONDITIONS
IN THE UNITED STATES
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While many branches of trade are
still under the influence of the year
end recession, and reports indicate
that activity in some lines has not
thus far revived as promptly as was
expected, it is still too early to con
clude that this tendency has any sig
nificance as an indication that the
year's business may be materially less
active than that of 1926; although
this view finds some support in the
unexpectedly sharp downturn experi
enced by a number of lines in the
closing weeks of last year, states the
current issue of the Guaranty Sur
vey, published by the Guaranty Trust
'company of New York.
In the last few weeks general busi
ness activity has been on about the
same level as in January, 1926, the
Survey continues. Commercial check
payments, measured by bank debits
to individual accounts outside of New
York City, were slightly larger dur
ing the first three weeks of this
month than a year ago. Railway
freight car loadings in the first two
weeks of January numbered 1,890,845,
which compares with 1,839,357 in the
first fortnight of 1926. The steel in
! dustry has been operating at a con
siderably higher level than in Decem
ber, although the month's output will
probably be well below the total for
January of last year.
Lumber mills opened this year with
a rate of optput approximately equal
to that of a year ago, but with ship
ments and orders materially smaller.
The bituminous coal trade, on the
other hand, has felt the stimulus of
active buying apparently due, at least
in part, to the fear of labor difficul
ties following the expiration of the
present union wage agreements in
April.
Without question, the outstanding
trend in financial markets during the
last few weeks has been the down
ward movement of money rates.
While some easing is always expected
after the passing of the temporary
demand for year-end accommodation,
the present movement is generally re
garded as distinctly more pronounced
than could have been expected on the
basis of purely seasonal influences.
The decline may be interpreted as a
reflection of lower business activity
activity
and of a general expectation that the
demand for commercial loans in the
near future will be on a reduced
scale, or it may be regarded as a nat
ural result of the net addition of some
$90,000,000 to the country's gold sup
ply during the past year. In either
case, the lower rates will tend to ar
rest any marked decline in trade ac
tivity from the high levels maintained
during the last two years.
The most conspicuous feature of
the financial situation of the country
as a whole is the complete absence
of the credit strain which usually fol
\ lows a long period of high business
activity. There is an abundant sup
ply of bank credit for commercial
needs, while funds for longterm in
vestment are larger than ever before
and are growing constantly. Call
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ITCHING ECZEMA
DRIED RIGHT UP
BY THIS SULPHUR
* Any breaking out of the skin, even
fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly
overcome by applying a little Mentho
Sulphur, says a noted Skin specialist
Because of its germ destroying proper
ties, this sulphur preparation instantly
brings ease from skin irritation, soothes
and heals the eczema right up and
leaves the skin clear and smooth.
It seldom fails to relieve the torment
and disfigurement. Sufferers from skin
trouble should get a little jar of Rowles
Mentho-Sulphur from any good drug
«ist
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money rates declined from 6 per cent
on December 31 to 4 per cent in the
third week of January.
In spite of the high business ac
tivity of the last 12 months, the large
amount of funds employed in security
markets and the growth of commercial
HAVING DECIDED TO LEAVE THE GALLATIN VALLEY WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION AT THE RANCH
4»/ 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALESVILLE ON THE GALLATIN ROAD, THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY
Thursday,
February
Sale starts at
10 a. m. sharp
21 HEAD OF HORSES 21
1400
1—Bay Mare, 9 years old, weight
1—Team, black and bay, 7 and 12
year old, weight .
1—Team, bay and gray, 8 and 10
years old, weight .
*2—Mares with colts
1—Gray saddle horse
1—Black saddle horse
1—Coming 2-year old colt
1—Brood mare, weight ....
1800
1—Grey, 9 years old, wt.
1—Team Grey Geldings, 7 and 8 years old
weight ..
1—Team, Black Mare and Gray Gelding
4 years old, w« ? ght.
1—Team Gray Geldings, 7 and 9 years old
weight . . .
1—Black Mare 7 years old, weight
1—Bay Mare, 9 years old, weight
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3200
3200
2700
3200
3200
1150
1800
1500
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30 Head of Hog's
5 Head of Cattle
Duroc Jerseys
1 GOOD MILK COW
2 CALVES
2 BEEF COWS
22 HEAD OF SHOATS
8 BROOD SOWS
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Farm Machinery, Household Goods, Etc.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
3—Dressers
1—Good Bed and Springs Complete
Also a lot of other furniture
1— Good Overshot Stacker
2— Good Bull Rakes
3— Deering Mowers
1—Deering 6-foot Binder
1—Champion 7-foot Binder
1— Wagon and Grain Tank
2— Other Wagons
1—Monitor Drill (10 foot)
1— Tandem Disc (8-foot)
2— 12 inch Gang Plows
1—4-section Harrow
1—Leveler
1—Fanning Mill
And lots of other articles too num
erous to mention.
3—-Bull Rakes
1—Osborne 8-foot Disc
1—Yellowstone Park Spring Wagon
1—Deering Mower
1—Cook Car
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Terms Cash '
Free hunch at Noon
TOM G1LKËRS0N, Auctioneer
FRANK STONE, Clerk
J. W. McCrorey
Owner
MONTANA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
Phillipsburg — Maxville mine, 12
miles north, uncovers 6-foot vein of
$54 ore.
Baird 2,000-acre ranch near Wis
dom is sold to Salt Lake buyer.
Cascade county spent $235,976 on
roads and bridges in 1926.
Montana federal income taxes $1,
.933,448 in 1925; last year were $2,
237,600.
Cat Creek district has produced
oil worth $16,000,000 within six years.
Last year's yield was $2,230,796.
Kevin — Homestake Exploration
well No. 22 makes 1,500 barrels a day
on reduced valve.
Basin—Basin Montana Tunnel com
pany will run 15,000-foot tunnel
loans and of instalment sales, the to
tal volume of credit required of the
Federal Reserve banks is actually
smaller than a year ago. This means
that the banks are not drawing upon
their ultimate reserves and that these
can be used to meet increasing -de
mands foil commercial funds or to
preserve the soundness of the finan
cial structure in the event of possible
trade reaction.
This underlying strength of the
credit situation is primarily due to the
rapid growth of the banking capacity
of the United States in recent years.
The bank expansion during the last
four years has exceeded even the tre
mendous increase that was necessary
to finance the war.
through Comstock hill.
Montana listed as one of nine best
business states, in December report.
Sidney—Thirteenth State Seed Corn
show opens with display twice as
large as that of 1925.
S i d n e y —Holly Sugar company
pays $35,000 bonus to beet growers,
on new sugar price.
Glasgow—Montana Power company
completes lines and starts power ser
vice here.
Glasgow—Valley county cream ery
made 80,000 pounds of butter during
1926.
Missoula—Six cars of cattle ship
ped to Spokane markets.
Stanford — Farmers' Co-operative
elevator will build 100,000-bushel
warehouse.
Great Falls — Utah-Idaho Sugar
company promises sugar factory here
as soon as beet yield warrants.
Lewistown—Federal building pro
posed here will cost $365,000.
Deer Lodge—Canyon road from
Drummond to Ovando will be im
proved this year.
Troy—Heavy machinery being in
stalled for big operation on Sunrise
mine.
Mussellshell country will have' 20 to
30 per cent more sheep this year than
last.
Great Falls — Gas company will
soon serve Black Eagle, an impor
tant extension.
Great Falls—During 1926, 73 new
homes costing $334,425 were built
here for 133 families.
Two Dot—Local sheepmen refuse
offer of 32 cents a pound for 1927
wool clip.
Teton county with 1,806 school pu
pils, receives $14,448 state funds.
Circle—Northern Pacific railroad
finishes two extension surveys in Me- -
Cone and Dawson counties.
Production of Cat Creek oil field !
in 1926 was 998 230 barrels.
Winnett— Petroleum County Egg
Hatching association organized here.
Montana Power company to expend
$4,000,000 for improvements and ex
pansion in Montana during 1927.
Havre—New $385,000 post office
building to be erected in this city.
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CHEVROLET OPENS
NEW SALES ZONES
(Continued from page nine)
zone sales offices located at Colum
bia, S. C., Salt Lake City, Utah, and
Richmorid, Va., making a total of 37
zone sales offices now operating.
Possibilities of increased sales of
Chevrolet automobiles in the territory
embraced in the new zones are such
that it is vitally necessary to crea'e
new zone headquarters, with
ouately increased staffs, to Vrulle*
the business, according to C. E. r 'a r
son, assistant general sales mr
The new zone offices will supervise
more closely the activities of field *
forces and Chevrolet dealers. Offices
will be supervised by zone sales man
agers, with an assistant and the nec
essary clerical force to maintain prop-,
er records. The opening of the new
offices is in line with the Chevrolet*
company's policy of concentrating
more closely on districts where past
sales indicate a rapidly growing mar
ket.
■er.
P. A. Watson has been named as
sales manager for the new zone with ♦
headquarters at Columbia, S. C.; C. B.
Spraker, at Salt Lake City, and E; E.
Jones, at Richmond, Va.
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