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HISTORICAL SOOIEre
OF MONTANA
HELENA
LAUREL OUTLOOK
Official Paper of Yellowstone County
LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1946
VOLUME 38—NO. 10
FIVE CENTS
CITY DELIVERIES
East, West Ends Served Bj
Rural Carriers, Remainder.
By City Carriers On Oct. 1
In addition to the rural delivery
service of the Laurel postoffice,
which will include the west part
of Laurel and Trace lane, has been
authorized by postal authorities,
Acting Postmaster Wayne Willis
has announced. It will become op
erative Oct. 1, simultaneously with
inauguration of city delivery serv
ice. A proviso, however, is that
at least 50 per cent of the patrons
on both rural and city routes have
installed boxes and house numbers
prior to October. Without these in
stallations the service cannot be set
up.
Most of the city, including South
Laurel, will be served by two city
carriers, while extreme east and
west portions will be on rural
routes. Deliveries will be made
daily.
The rural carrier serving the
west part of town will begin his
deliveries on Fifth avenue, thence
north to the city limits, south on
Sixth avenue to the highway, north
again on Seventh avenue and to the
H. P. Schultz farm, and on Eighth
avenue to Trace lane. After going
west on the lane and returning will
continue south on Eighth to the
highway.
At the present time the east end
of town from Alder to the city
limits is served by a rural route.
After Oct. 1 the area, between Alder
and Fir will be part of the city
service, and all east of Fir will
continue on the rural route.
Willis said regulations require
that all rural boxes bear the name
of the patron. Either No. 1 or No.
optional. Those wishing to rent
lock-boxes at the postoffice may do
so when boxes are available. Gen
eral delivery at the postoffice will
also be continued.
SAYS CONTROL OF WEEDS
SHOULD START SOON
By taking extensive weed control
measures this fall, Montana farm-j
ers can combat the menace of
perennial weeds which are causing
them great losses every year, ac
cording to Donald Luebbe, exten
sion weed specialist at Montana
State college. Speed in aplication
of these measures at the proper
time will save the farmers much
money.
Where cultivation is not prac
tical to do the job, Luebbe recom
mended the application of chem
icals to weed patches in fields and
along ditches and roadsides from
Sept. 1 to as long as the ground
stays bare in the fall.
Sodium chlorate and atlacide, a
commercial chlorate, are effective
against wild morning glory (bind
weed), perennial sow thistle, Cana
da thistle, whitetop weed, leafy
spurge and Russian knapweed. Be
fore farmers apply chemicals, they
should contact their county agents
Wileon Ritps» HpIH
At Nazarene Church
Inursday Attemoon
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conducted !
» about the rate and method of ap
plication to their particular weed
problems.
Funeral services were
at the Church of the Nazarene 1
Thursday afternoon for George ■
Ernest Wilson, 73, who died at the
home of his son, Harold Wilson, j
Rev. James H. Haueter officiated
and Mrs. R. C. Brown and Mrs.
J. H. Albertus sang "Where We
God Will
of the Road." They were accompan
ied by Mrs. F. M. Braswell.
Pallbearers were Dan Armstrong,
G. W. Fenton, James Lockridge,
Ethmer Morrison, Henry H. Reiter
and Frank Taylor.
Mr. Wilson is survived by two
sons, a daughter and three grand-1
children. Burial was in Laurel C em-J
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Mr. and Mrs. Hal Clark of,
Monterey, Calif., parents of Mrs.
Charles J. Shively, have returned to
their home after a visit with Mrs.
Bertha Shively and family.
Will Never Grow Old
Take Care of You" and "The End
etery.
Rapid Science Advancement
Promises , Hay Fever Relief
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Science promises to cut down ragweed area and zones.
Shopmen Win City Softball Title;
DeFrance Is League's Top Hitter
In the final game of the soft
ball season the B. R. C. of A.
nosed out the Tubman Food Mart
in a to 0 battle Monday night.
The only run was scored in the
fifth when D. Ruff singled and
C. Herbert and
Smidt doubled.
Fuerbacher both pitched a good
game with Fuerbacher allowing
only two hits.
This was the fourth game be
tween the two teams for the
championship. The first was a tie
1 to 1; Tubman's won the second,
7 to 3; B. R. C. of A., the third
6 to 2, and the final 1 to 0. The
Tubman team threatened in the
first half of the seventh, with 2
CHORAL GROUP GIVES
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I The Laurel choral group, headed
I by Mrs. P. A. Johnston as his
I torian, presented a program of
Montana songs Tuesday at the
meeting of the Rotary club,
group has appeared at county and
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The
state meetings of societies and re
was on the program of a
organization at Great
cently
women's
Falls,
Mrs. Johnston was introduced by
Mr. Johnston, a program commit
teeman, and she
companions, Mrs. J. H. Albertus.
Mrs. J. H. Moran, Mrs. D. J. Hop
pel, Mrs. F. M. Braswell, Mrs. R.
C. Brown and Miss Peggy Pokar
introduced her
Interesting histories of the songs
and their composers were told by
Mrs. Johnston, who exhibited let
ters she had received from the song
ney.
writers. The unique collection of
manuscrips, letters and clippings
cannot be duplicated, for some of
the composers are now deceased,
Mrs. Johnston and the state his
the song was regarded by critics ^
as difficult to sing it was not adopt-1
ed by tbe legislature. Many peo
pie kre troubled also bÿ the
screeching section in "America," I
though in the case of "Beautiful i
Montana" the difficulty seems to !
have been length of intervals.
Other songs were "We Love Our
Beneath Montana
torical library at Helena have often
cooperated in gathering material.
The group sang "Beautiful Mon
tana" by Boucher, which for sev
eral years was a strong contender
for the title of state song. Mrs.
Johnston read a letter she had re
ceived from the composer while he
was in his last illness.
Because
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Gw n Montana,
Skies," "Have You Ever Seen Mon
tana ?" "In the Bitterroot Valley,
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' "Montana Wonderland" and "God's
' Cathedral.
Poser of
Montana?" is also the father of
"Good Night, Soldier," a pathos
filled song that was heard often
during the war. Johnson in a let
ter to Mrs. Johnston told how the
words and music of the Montana
song came to him.
Special interest was attached to
"Montana Wonderland, for the
author is Mrs. C. P. Rollwitz, a
former resident of this community,
A description was given of the
scenic setting and other conditions
that gave Mrs. Rollwitz the inspir
ation for the song. She sat on
the running board of an automobile)
while she wrote.
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Harry Johnson, author and com
Have You Ever Seen
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people of Laurel, the players and
sponsors of the different teams for I
their splendid cooperation during i
the season. 8 !
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on, when a ball hit to shortstop
was tossed to second where De
France was out on a close play.
Then Earnest was doubled at the
plate, trying to score on the play.
One of the largest crowds of the
season watched the game, altho the
weather was plenty cool.
Immediately after the game, tro
phys were awarded by Palmer of
the V. F. W. post to the champion
B. R. C. of A. team and to Shorty
DeFrance of Tubman's, leading hit
ter of the league with .452 for the
season.
The V. F. W. wishes to thank the
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B. R. C. of A.—,
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FAR AHEAD OF AVERAGE
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The past week was excellent for
harvesting except for light to heavy
scattered showers. Soil moisture j
supplies continue to be deficient 0 r l
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In eastern counties j
corn on dry land needs moisture :
for good development. Irrigated
pastures are good but grass and
pastures in non-irriirated lands are '
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quite well matured or dried up due;
to insufficient moisture.
Combining of small grains is i:i j
ät stages with a few ssattered j
areas still lagging. Binder harvest ;
is practically completed in eastern
Tubman Food Mart
B. R. C. of A.
Batteries : Tubman's—C.
and DeFrance.
Fuerbacher and Pewitt.
HARVEST OF BEANS IS
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just adequate.
central Montana with the west
ern portion about 75 per cent com
'"i
pleted. Threshing has begun in the
central west and northeast.
Yellowstone valley, threshing
about three-fourths done. In Dan
iels county much grain is piled on
the ground due to green weeds and
lack of storage space at elevators.
Harvesting of flax is well along
in Fallon county and is beginning
in other flax-growing areas.
The bean harvest is two or three
weeks earlier than average for past
years in the Yellowstone val
' e V* Field com is in the soft
dough stage and made good growth!
during the week. All field peas |
are threshed and yields were fair
to K°°d- Truck gardeners are har- i
vesting their vegetable crops for,
market. Sugar beets made yery :
g°od growth during the week and
they require irrigating almost daily)
in the Yellowstone area due to hot
weather and large leaf growth. Be- ;
of
cause season many farmers
in Meagher county will not put up
a second cutting of alfalfa.
Grasshoppers continue to damage
alfalfa seed in the southeastern
counties and the blister beetle is
doing heavy damage in Yellowstone
county. Saw fly and Hessian fly
continue damage to wheat in the
north central area.
The marketing of cattle varied
.
from brisk to very slow, probably
due to O. P. A. s stand on meat
prices. Livestock continues in good j
condition.
Mrs. G. M. Geiger was hostess
Thursday at a social afternoon for
members of the Best Ever club, and
served lunch. Mrs. Esther Kircheis
of Billings was a guest of the club.
GiE NO. 13 BAD
fj|) FARMERS UNION
Roundup Miners Are Giant
Killers For Laurel Refinery
men Wednesday Night
Roundup Miners played the roll of
giant killers" Wednesday night in
downing the Farmers Union team
of Laurel, 4 to 0, behind the
steady pitching of Cebuhar, Round- !
up chucker.
ing along
streak, found 13 very unlucky. j
George Rocki and Belinak led
the Roundup hitting attack with
2 hits each.
The largest crowd of the season
watched the contest, played under
the lights in the Billings athletic
park.
Hoffman, Laurel slab artist,
struck out 12 men and allowed
only 5 hits, but Laurel didn't hit
behind him, and also they made
three bad errors in the field.
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The Laurel team, rid- j
on a 12 game winning i
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Batteries; Roundup, Cebuhar and
Getcho. Laurel, Hoffman and
Burns.
M. W. Thatcher of St. Paul, man
ager of Farmers Union Grain Ter
minai Association and president of
National Federation of Gram Coop
eratives. has been reelected to the
board of the Central Bank for Co
operatives in Washington.
The election of Mr. Thatcher
marks his third three-year term as
a director of the quasi-public agency
created in 1933 to carry on bank
e]®* operations for cooperatives. An-j
Roundup
Laurel
THATCHER RE-ELECTED
TO BOARD DECENTRAI
BANK COOPERATIVES
nouncement of the election was made
! from Washington by J. E. Wells, Jr.,
j deputy governor of Farm Credit Ad
I ministration.
There are six members of the,
board, three elected and three
[pointed. In addition to the Central
Bank for Cooperatives in Washing-]
ton there a re 12 d istrict banks, which
handle much of the business within
r espective regions.
Services For Infant
Conducted Monday
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Graveside services were held at
the Mountview cemetery in Billings |
^ onda y afternoon for Evan Allen
Nave, two-day old son of Mr. and
Mrg Cecj | jj ave> wbo d ; ed at a
Billings hospital Saturday. Rev.
Claire L. Harris, pastor of the First
Evangelical church of Billings of
ficiated - Surviving the infant are
his parent, a sister, Sheryl Jeane,
3 . his paterna , gran dparents, Mr. 1
[and Mrs. F. T. Nave of Laurel;
his maternal grandparents, Mr. and j
Mrs. A. J. Burkley of Broadview; j
his paternal great-grandmother, Mrs.
V. S. Nave of Elizabethton, Tenn.,
maternal great-grandmoth-1
er, Mrs. Anna Carney of Broadview.
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Canning Sugar Stock
Must Last, Says OPAiThe
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Spare stamp No. 49, good for five
pounds of table sugar, expires Aug.
31.
Spare stamp No. 9, good for five
Oct. 31.
Spare stamp No. 10, good for
fi'c pounds of canning sugar, ex
pires Oct. 31.
Present allotments of home can
ning sugar will have to serve for
a H canning needs, because no ad
ditional allotment can be expected,
according to Montana OPA offi
cials.
"Treat your sugar as you would
a store of gold dust; it is precious,
and is going to be precious the rest
of this year," they say.
pounds of canning sugar, expires
200
AVERAGE WAGES
-WORKERS EMPLOYED
150
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✓
100
1942 1943
1944
1945 1946
1941
Using the average wage and the average number of persons em
ployed by industry with an index number, representing conditions
in 1941, the chart shows rise in wages and workers since that time.
School Is Opening
Next Tuesday With
Many New Teachers
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alf Of Faculty New To This System—Some
Grade Positions Not Filled—School I>us To
Operate In Territory South Of Laurel
The Laurel public schools
open Tuesday, Sept. 3, for a term
will
Greatest Back
To School Move
Now Beginning
The biggest back-to-school rush
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that authorities have ever seen is
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getting under way. Reports from
colleges and univtrsities in the
United States and Canada are to
the effect that capacities and facil
ities will be taxed, for it appears
that all America will be going to
school this fall.
army and navy hun '
dreds of thousands of young men
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while other hundreds of thousands
Z'll , ST ■ , k * h, 5 h
Professional schools, trade
Z h °±JZi 7\u 7 SmeSS W,I j
vnnn^î 'h - la.'o C T m,
y "ngsters born in 1940 and 41
W1 ' 1 be ready to start kindergarten
an lrs gra e.
There has never been anything
quite like it. Teachers are at a
premium. Millions of new text
books are flowinir from nresse«? a«
fast ,. s th( ... can bp \v-.rK
U. , ' ' c • i
*. ami J Ul , ia Y e some ':
>ne > n a classroom and m many
instances there will be families rep
resented by three or more students
attending college or university.
The bulk of the personnel in theL
i armed forces was drawn lanrelv
f rom eraduatinir Hasses of hin-h
ap-T?"^ fr "f J f T u e
i '. f . f |rs ^
" erp young people who would have,
ma,,(, up coMege freshman classes,
and the latter were those with one
°* mo ™ y ears °, f colle t f. y rk
of tbree to five - vea ^. ,,ian y
Snî^wiï. Tey" S'Zt
Pearl Harbor. Quite a number who
hafl n,)t completed high school will
attempt to finish in that depart
"irnt.
addition to the flood from the
services there is the usual number
^ rom grammar school who will bo
entering high school and the normal
number from high school who will |
J»® going to college. The higher
than-usual birthrate of 1940 and
'« will begin to be felt in the
beginning grades this fall. This J
wave 18 expected to
through each succeeding
elementary, grammar j
school,
addition to the
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continue j
year of !
and high j
! an d now released demand for the
i services of schools, a knotty prob
L7.î'' r Je"i h â. n e ' ie a s taÉ? «7 SS&
war depleted faculties as well
j as other professions and
I l > o ns, and there has not been the
usual replacement.
The apparent policy in the higher
institutions of the States
as in the Canadian provinces is to
give first consideration to residents
before opening their door to
residents.
huts in village-like clusters on or
occupa
as well
non
Some are quite candid in
this while others put up barrier in
the form of high requirements.
The clothing trade has had to
face the problem of supplying
clothes for adults as well as child
ren of all ages who are now school
ward bound. Housing is another
problem, which colleges have par
tially solved by using trailers and
near the campuses.
of nine months, Supt.
Graff has announced,
teaching positions in the junior
and senior high school departments
have been filled, but several pri
mary openings still exist. There
is also the possibility that unusual
grade enrollment will necessitate
the employment of additional teach
ers.
F red W.
He said all
When the roster has been com
about half of the faculty
will be new to this school system.
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In the senior high school there
wi „ be John MacD * nald( pri ncipal :
Mildred Poznanvie, English; Ilene
Avery, English; Winnifred Mc
Dermott, home economics; Glen
Anderson, physical education; Ar
thur Smith, trades and industries,
and James Morrison, manual arts.
The junior high school will have
two replacements, namely Mabel O.
" t h h ° returns af ! er thr -
Richard" MdKulIeT™ 6
the elementary grades, Marian
Stil Helen Zoombs and M rt|p
Tundstrom have joined the faculty.
while Genevieve Thompson will
super vise vocal music,
Superintendent Graff said the
usual rule relative to the required
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ffUhlf 17* ? 4 be >ears
° < L.° re Jan -
This year a bus Wl11 be °P era ted
south of the city. In addition to
transporting high school students,
the elementary pupils of the Spring
creek an( , Webster sch ls will be
h_ nllcr uf i „„„„i
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h The ^® nte î" pIat ® d ™ute 18 a J on A
th ® S ° Uth S ! de ° f the ' cHowstor.e
to tbo Leo Kamp ranch, thence over
the Spring creek hill to the Sam
Clare bridge, thence south past the
Webster school and return to the
Red Lod highway bv way of the
Sam Clare bridge . The last sched
-|uled Stop on the way to Laurel will
be u Sî il th s e ev rraT k trip« 2 hâve been
a b n e up hed ^Jer 8t Z
a , 1 set However, the
3W m j| eS( w jh per haps take an hour
and a half. From this data, pa
trons can roughly determine the
arrival of the bus, but they should
not figure too closely the first
day.
In School Days
Still sits the schoolhouse by the
road,
A ragged beggar sunning;
Around it still the sumacs grow,
A\ d b | ack berry vines are running.
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Within, the master s desk is seen,
Deep scarred by raps official;
1 The warping floor, the battered
seats,
The jackiuiife's carved initial,
The charcoal frescoes on its wall;
Its worn door sill, betraying
The feet that, creeping slow to
school,
Went storming out to playing.
Long years ago a Winter sun
Shone over it at setting.
Lit up its western window panes
And low eaves' icy fretting.
It touched the tangled golden curls,
And brown eyes full of grieving,
Of one who still her steps delayed
When all the school were leaving.
For near her stood the little bpy
Her childish favor singled.
His cap pulled low upon a face
Where pride and shame were
mingled.
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and left, he lingered
As restlessly her tiny hands
The blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hands light caressing,
And heard the tremble of her voice,
As if a fault confessing—
"I'm sorry that I spelt the word;
I hate to go above you,
Because"—the brown eyes lower
fell—
"Because, you see, I love you!"
Still memory to a gray-haired man
That sweet child-face is showing,
Dear girl: The grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing.
He lives to learn in life's hard
school
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss,
Like her—because they love him.