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LAUREL OUTLOOK
Published every Wednesday at
Laurel, Montana, by
Joseph Gehrett & Campbell Calvert
Subscription $2.50 per annum
in advance.
Entered as second-class matter
July 14, 1909, at the postoffice at
Laurel, Mont., under act of March
3. 1879.
Things that are naturally color
ed, particularly green or yellow,
such as cream, butter, eggs, car
rots, squash, sweet potatoes, and
all manner of green vegetables,
contain Vitamin A. COLORED is
the word to remember. Get lots of
color on the table; it's fashionable, |
Vitamin A
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• COOL, SMOOTH-RIDING COMFORT
• COMPLETE, NATION-WIDE COVERAOE
• INTERESTING, SCENIC ROUTES
• COURTEOUS, FRIENDLY ATTENTION
• CONVENIENT, CITY-CENTER TERMINALS
It's time for cool, Autumn vacations—won-
derful week-end trips to big cities—pleasant
visits to see friends—gay jaunts to school
and college sports events—and for money-
saving business trips, too. Yes, colorful Fall
days are ideal for travel with Greyhound.
On# Round
Wqy Trip
$15.87 $28.58
27.77 50.03
6.96 12.54
8.40 15.12
low-cost
thrifty fares
Fargo, N. D.
Chicago
Glendive
Dickinson
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Minneapolis
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Tax Included
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MEETING THE LABOR
SHORTAGE WITH MACHINES
The present beet labor shortage confirms
all the predictions made weeks ago. Every
effort is being made to bring in workers, but
high wages in other crops, chiefly cotton and
tobacco, have proved more attractive to field
workers than our small beet crop in this
chillier climate farther from their homes.
Fully aware of this serious situation, in
creasing numbers of growers have recently
purchased harvesting machines. As the labor
situation becomes more critical, more ma
chines must be purchased until every avail
able harvester is in use—full time. Custom
work and neighborly cooperation will help a
great deal.
Fanners using harvesters for the first time
may well profit by the experience of others.
Take plenty of time to make proper adjust
ments so that the topping meets your condi
tions as perfectly as possible. The machines
are good. They do excellent work, but even
the best machine, improperly adjusted and
poorly operated, will give poor results.
It should hardly become necessary to men
tion the problem of trash and clods. They
increase the fanner's costs, increase his work,
increase his tare; they make "hot" beet piles,
hot tempers, and very serious processing prob
lems—altogether a heavy and needless ex
pense to the industry itself. Let's all work
together to make this the, cleanest harvest
since mechanization was introduced!
7^ GREAT WESTERN
SUGAR COMPANY
Local News Items
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Platz were
hosts at a dinner Sunday for
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Tower, Mr.
Tower's father, E. C. Tower
Wisconsin, and C. H. Barney.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Romee have
returned from Great Falls where
they spent several days with rel
atives. They announce that their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Hodges, are the par
ents of a daughter who was born
t the Columbus hospital in Great
Falls and has been named Kath
erine Ann. Mrs. Hodges is the
former Miss Louise Romee.
Texas Gophers
Cause Damage
Of $5,000,000
DALLAS, TEX.—One of the great- i
est undermining influences in Texas j
is a biscuit-bodied, Roman-nosed ro- )
dent called the pocket gopher.
This burrowing little fellow did j
at least five million dollars worth 1
of crop damage in Texas in a re
cent 12-month period, according to j
Donald A. Spencer, government bi- |
ologist, who has trapped thousands
of gophers.
Besides destroying crops, these
underground mischief-makers dig
holes in levees, undermine hard
surface roads and even cause train
wrecks by tunneling beneath right
of-ways.
Spencer, speaking at a Dallas
forum on rodent poisoning, called
the gopher the most hermit-like and
foul-tempered of all western crea
tures. A gopher stays strictly to
himself all his life except for a few
weeks when he is young and ex
cept during the brief breeding sea
sons.
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Individual Tunnels.
Every adult gopher has his indi
vidual underground system of tun
nels, storehouses (Spencer calls
them pantries) and sleeping dens.
The female gopher is always alone
in her den when the little ones ar
rive. Usually, these tunnel sys
tems are under a row crop, a lawn,
a golf course or any place where
there are succulent roots. The roots
and other foodstuffs are gnawed
into neat little strips and stored in
the pantries for use when little is
growing or there is a drouth. A
gopher never drinks water. He gets
enough moisture from the water
content of the food he eats.
Besides his powerful claws, the
gopher has huge incisor teeth for
digging. The mouth closes behind
these incisors. The pocket gopher
gets his name from cheek pouches
on either side of his mouth. He
uses these cheek pouches to carry
food and to haul dirt out of the bur
rows.
Many Different Types.
Spencer said that Texas Agricul
tural and Mechanical college inves
tigators had found 18 types of pock
et gophers in that state. A Dallas
gopher is about the size of a house
rat, only blunter of head, shorter
of tail and much chunkier.
A gopher fits in his tunnel like
a piston in a cylinder, Spencer de
clared. He can back up as fast as
he can go forward. He's not po
lite, though, and when angry will
attack any foe and fight to the
death. Gophers won't live together
in captivity. A few minutes after
being caged they usually have a
death struggle.
Spencer usually locates them by
the mounds of fresh dirt which they
throw out through a small hole
while digging their tunnels. Then
the biologist sticks a poisoned bait
down the hole. After one gopher is
killed, though, another seems to
take over the tunnel system imme
diately.
About the only real service the
pocket gopher performs is in im
proving sub-soil by dragging organ
ic matter underground.
Heiress Who Spurned Riches
Rests in a Pauper's Grave
LOS ANGELES.—For 15 years,
Harry Tennant, a millionaire lum
berman, searched in vain for his
missing daughter.
Once, three years ago, he almost
found her. But she sank out of
sight afeain and he gave up hope.
A detective who never gave up
his investigation told Tennant he
knew where she was—buried in a
pauper's grave.
Mrs. Janet Tennant McEvers, 36,
heiress to five million dollars, died
two years ago. Police said she had
deserted a life of ease for the com
pany of a Skid Row character
called "One-Eyed Willie.'
He is
Sgt. E. F. Holmes of the missing
persons' bureau relentlessly tracked
down the slim clews which led to
solution of the mystery.
Mrs. McEvers disappeared while
a student at a music conservatory.
She later was married and had a
daughter.
Her husband died in the war. Her
child, now a college student, is sole
heiress to the fortune.
Traffic Signals Utilized
For Large'Scale Cooking
PHILADELPHIA. — Large-scale
cooking now is being controlled by
signalling systems similar to those
being used on highways and rail
roads.
"The new signalling systems," it
was revealed by Lloyd E. Slater,
food industry engineer for Brown
Instrument company, "will control
large-volume cooking time and
temperature, known as cooking cy
cles, in the processing of many dif
ferent types of canned foods and
dairy products. Field tests show
that the system is providing higher
quality foods, more uniform coon
ing, retention of original food
flavor and a decrease in food
losses."
The system includes sound sig
nais or stop-and-go lights which
automatically announce to proc
essors the completion of cooking
periods, or cycles, ranging from a
few minutes to three hours.
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PARASITE IN FLIGHT . . . Most radical of all new jet aircraft is the
air force's McDonnell XF-85 parasite fighter which is carried in bomb
bays of long-range bombers and launched from a trapeze attachment
on the underside of the mother ship. The tiny plane, with a wing span
of 21 feet and length of 15 feet, Is shown as it was carried aloft by «
B-29 during a recent test flight at Muroc air base. Calif.
Calendar
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Wednesday, Oct. 13. |
The fall banquet of the Rotana '
club will be held at 6:30 in the
Odd Fellows hall. It will feature
guest night and also honor na
tional officers of Rotana. A guest
speaker will be C. W. Dell of the
Rocky Mountain college at Bil
lings, and Hugh Sweeney will act
as toastmaster.
Friday, Oct. 15,
All circles of the Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service will J
meet in the afternoon with the
exception of evening circle No. 6, j
which will meet Thursday, Oct. [
14, at the home of Mrs. Gordon j
Allan. Circle 1 meets at 1:30 at:
the home of Mrs. E. R. Brad-1
ford; circles 2, 3, 4 and 5 meet j
at 2 in the afternoon at the |
homes of Mrs. H. M. Larson, Mrs. i
Frank Platz, Mrs. F. O. Hartley j
and Mrs. Vinton Shay.
Wednesday, Oct. 20.
Past presidents of the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary will meet
for a lunch at 1:30 at the home
of Mrs. Jennie Starkey. Bring
material for a scrap book.
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MR. MUSCLES ... Steve Beeves,
22-year-old Californian, flexes bis
muscles and expands his 52-inch
chest. And with good reason—
for be has been awarded the titlo
"Mr. Universe."
HE LAUGHED
when we told him electric service is cheap in Montana.
SO WE ASKED HIM WHY
and he said because he thought it wasn't true.
THAT SURPRISED US
and we asked him it he knew that our average revenue tor residential service was
only three and seven-hundredths cents a kilowatt-hour or slightly under the national
average at three and nine-hundredths cents.
AND WE EXPLAINED
that those three and seven-hundredths cents buy enough electric energy to do more
work than the strongest man can do in ten hours.
THAT SURPRISED HIM
and he said he guessed he hod been misinformed and you could bet he wouldn't
make any such incorrect statement again.
WELL. WE ARE GLAD
he was so frank and we assure him and vou, too that
WHEN WE SAY THAT ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP IN MONTANA WE ARE
STATING A FACT
WHICH CAN'T BE LAUGHED OFF NOR DENIED
The Montana Power Company
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Marriage Vows Are
Recited Sunday By
Couple At Church
Baskets of fall flowers decorat-
ed the altar of the Methodist
church when marriage vows were
recited by Miss Jacqueline Ann
Renner, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. M. P. Renner, and Calvin
Bruce Shoop, son of Mr. and Mrs.
w. T. Shoop of Joliet. Rev. W.
p. Gauer read the service at 2
o'clock in the afternoon. Miss
Laverne
sang "Because
Tell You," with Miss Shirley Col-
lins as accompanist.
Partridge of Billings
and "If I Could
The bride was gowned in white
satin brocade made with ful'
length ti*ain, and her fingertip
length veil was held bv a crown
of orange blosoms. She carried
a bouquet of pink rosebuds.
The br id e > s attendants, Miss
p a j. Busby and Miss Bonnie Barr,
rearing formais of aqua and of
pj^ with matching shoulder
] engtb veils, had corsages
white aste rs tied with ribbons to
match their costumes. Ring bear
ers were Mark Branstetter and
Judy Shay.
The bridegroom was attended
by Bill Renner, brother of the
bride, and Harry Kebschull of
Boyd, and the guests were seated
by Albert Robertas and Bill
Knaub.
After the ceremony, a reception
at the Odd Fellows hall was at
tended by 150 guests. Mrs. F.
E. Jacobson was in charge of re
freshments and the bride's sister,
Miss Jean Renner, the guest book.
Mrs. Shoop was graduated with
the spring class of the Laurel
high school. Mr. Shoop, a Joliet
high school graduate, served in
the navy.
The couple plan to leave the
latter part of the week for Santa
Ana, Calif., where Mr. Shoop will
attend college.
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Location of Apiaries
Bees will fly an average dis
tance of one and one-half to two
miles in search of nectar and pol
len, and much farther if necessary.
It is seldom practical, therefore, to
locate apiaries closer than a mile
apart, unless the nectar production
warrants. The number of colonies
in any particular region will also
influence the number that should
be kept In each apiary.
Wednesday, October 6,
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77 years ago this week
one of the most devas
tating fires in history
destroyed the then young
and bustling city of Chi
cago. For more than
three months a drought
had gripped Chicago, and
an endless succession of
fires had been quelled
successfully until the
evening of October 6.
On that day a gale-like
wind churned another
small fire into the rag
ing giant that chased
Chicago's populace to the
shores of Lake Michigan.
By October 9, all that
was left of the city was
ash and ruble. The loss:
17,000 buildings destroy
ed; • 300
$200,000,000
damage.
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Our historian didn't say any
thing about a cow starting the
Chicago ruckus, but a lot of
people like the quality of beef
we regiilarly sell. Want to
try it?
persons dead:
p r o p er ty
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Sugar As Medicine
Sugar, unknown to the Greeks
and Romans, was introduced into
Europe as a medicine.
Alumlnum Skis
Aluminum has entered the ski
ing field: skis of aluminum are
light-weight.
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like beer or ale, and of those who
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And from where I sit, once you've
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differences of opinion are a pre-
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to vote as he believes, to speak his
mind, to choose his own beverage
of moderation, whether beer or
cider.
Called on my good friend "Gappy"
Miller, who edits the County Bee,
the other day. And hanging up on
the wall of Cappy's office is this
slogan for his paper:
Remember there are two sides
to every question. Get both sides.
Be truthful.
A good slogan .. . not just for a
newspaper—for people, too. Be-
cause there'll always be two sides
to every question : the side of those
who vote one way, and those who
vote another—the side of those
who enjoy a temperate beverage
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