The Ronan Pioneer
Issued every Friday at Ronan, Missoula County,
Montana, by E. H. Rathbone, publisher.
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Ronan. Mont., April 12, 1912.
Notice of Election
Notice is hereby liven that an elec
tion will be held on Saturday April 20th
1912.
At the Lumber Company's office in
the town of Ronan, Missoula County,
Montana.
For the following named officers,
to-wit:
One Mayor.
Two Aldermen for the First Ward.
Two Aldermen for the Second Ward.
Two Aldermen for the Third Ward.
At such election all the electors quali
fied by the general'election laws of the
State, (registered) who have resided
within the limits of the said incorpor
ated town of Ronan for six (6) months
and within the limits of the ward for
thirty (30) days preceeding the elec
tion are qualified electors and may
choose officers for the said town of
Ronan.
The polls of which election will be
open at 8 o'clock in the morning and
continue open until 6 o'clock in the
afternoon of the said day above men
tioned.
Witness my hand and seal of Missoula
County, Montana, this fifteenth day of
March A. D. 1912,
[SEAL] F. W. KUPHAL,
Clerk of Board of County Commis
sioners.
U. S. R. S. 10
Ronan, 9
The Reclamation boys came in
from the various camps last Sun
day and took the Ronan boys in
to camp to the tune of 10 to 9.
There was a pretty good crowd
out to witness the game, even if
only a few did have advance
knowledge that a game was to
be played.
The weather was ideal and the
score shows that it was an ex
citing game, and while several
costly errors were made by both
sides it was occasioned more by
reason of having had no prac
tice this year than from lack of
knowledge of the game.
Earl Wagner was in the box
for Ronan and Jack Stottler for
the Reclamation until the sixth
inning when Stottler retired
owing to having overdone his
arm. Turnquist, a new player in
Ronan, was behind the bat for
the locals and with a little more
practice will fill the bill very
creditably. He is left handed
and pegs to second like a vet
eran.
Out at the Hillside school last
Sunday they had a good game
also. It was between the bach
elors and the school kids, rein
forced by some of the married
men, and victory finally rested
with the bachelors by a score of
9 to 7. It is said to have been
an excellent game and another
is scheduled for next Sunday.
Quite a crowd attended this game
but there will be more next time.
Fair View News
Oscar Lundvahl will finish
seeding his eighty acre farm this
week.
Alfred Bowers has completed
the fence around his forty acre
farm.
Bernard Johnson and Tom Fos
ter are very busy this week
fencing their farms.
Charlie Cap has been calling
in this vicinity and had his two
fine dogs with him.
Charles Syla came home from'
Ronan last week to help put in
the crops.
The Fairview Sunday school
after this will start at 11 a. m.
instead of 2:30 p. m.
The literary meetings will be
discontinued until next fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johns spent
Sunday afternoon at the Syla
home.
H. R. Robedeau bought a fine
buggy last week of A. M. Sterl
ing. ,
The mock trial last Thursday
evening was very interesting and
well attended, Mr. Leverich the
attorney for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Jagers for the defendant
were very able men for that pro
fession, but the judge and, some
of the jurymen were a trifle
cranky so the case was unde
cided.
Mrs. H. R. Robedeau and Miss
Celia Robedeau were visiting
with the former's brother, G.
W. Milleson, in Valley View this
week.
Several of the young ladies in
this neighborhood, after Sunday
school, went picking flowers and
got as far as the river southwest
of the Fairview school house,
and on their way home stopped
and had supper with Earl Spenc
er.
A good many of the farmers
in this vicinity are planting fruit
trees this week.
Patrons of the Fairview school
district have not taken much in
terest in the election of the three
new trustees. As far as the
writer knows there has been
only three votes cast.
Oscar Lundvahl states that he
has leased five hundred acres of
power site land along the Flat
bead river straight west of Re
nan, which he intends to put in
to crop this fall.
Joe Johns finished plowing for
H. R. Robedeau last Tuesday.
D. Syla has leased fifteen acres
from H. R. Robedeau, on shares
and is going to put it into oats.
Parke S. Dunn has been here
for a few days and went back to
Devil's Lake, N. D., last Thurs
day.
Died of Typhoid Fever
Gustave Swanson an employee
of the U. S. R. S. at the steam
shovel camp, whQ has been in Dr.
Fuhrer's hospital a short time,
died on April 8, at 9 p. m., of
typhoid fever. A brother con
nected with another irrigation
project near Glendive arrived
Wednesday and burial took place
at Poison. Deceased was 23
years of age, and well liked by
his associates on the works.
Masonic Smoker
The Ronan Masonic club will
give a smoker in Bonner's hall
on Thursday evening next, April
18, to which all Masons are in
vited. M. L. DePhelps of the
Pablo Hotel will furnish the feed
and a general good time is an
ticipated.
Church Organization
On Sunday, April 14th, there
will be preaching in the Metho
dist church at 11 a. m. * At the
close of the service the Baptist
church of Ronan will be organ
ized. Everyone cordially in
vited.
A. W. Stine of Milton, Oregon,
who has a lease on the Sloan al
lotments west of Mud creek, ar
rived in Ronan yesterday pre
pared to start active operations.
He brought in some good horses
and is a valuable addition to the
farming element. He returns to
Spokane tomorrow to meet his
wife and baby who will be there
)n that date and will return via
Kalispell and the lake.
Schuyler Harris has secured
the agency for a new perpetual
motion pump that Is especially
adapted for irrigation and water
works purposes. It is a pump
that must attract favorable at
tention in a country like this and
those interested in irrigation
where it is necessary to raise
water from a stream should in
vestigate it.
There is a well founded rumor
afloat that all reclamation work
will shut down soon owing to
the appropriation being exhaust
ed. Some camps shut down to
morrow night.
Stanley Scearce has sold his
lumber business to the, Reserva
Land & Lumber Co., and will
not engage in this line of busi
ness again.
Dr. Heidelman was up from
Jocko yesterday on official busi
ness.
Stools and Counter
16 feet long, for sale, by Mrs. C. S.
Ladd, box 212, Ronan.
BALLOONING AS A SPORT.
Flourishing Despitc the Vogue of the
Flying Machine.
Within five or sif year, ballooning
has found increasing favor in his
country as a sport. There ire many
more in Europe, but in the United
States there are now ilfty or sixty
I owners of halloons who own fromt one
to three balloons aplece. The number
of owners is increasing despite the
vastly increased popularity of the
heavier than air flying machine.
Any maln who i a) affo rl an auto
mobile can afford a 'halloon. You can
buy a one loan ailloon trade of linen
and silk, with basket. net and equip
ment of every sort complele, for "'t0.
Such a balloon may weigh 120 pounds
and doilited occupies a space of about
15 by 20 by 20 inches. It (an lse put
in a trunk, though commonly it is
packed for trlnsportation in the bas
kpt. A three passenger balloon (lln be
bought for $5011. Balloons may be hadi
of any dimension up to outtits intend
ed to early fifty persons, but the b1l
loons commonly sold range from the
one man carrier till to those designed
for eight or ten. Prices depend on the
sizes of the balloons and the materiall
of which they are made. A double
walled blUloon of rubberized cloth de
signed to carry eight or ten persons
and with all its equipment complete
costs about $5,000.
You can't wall. into a balloon manu
Snlturer's establishment and find new
balloons of all sizes in stock. ililoons
are made only to order. But there are
now so many men engaged in the bIl
looning sport and so many balloons in
use-there are now ten times as many
private as there are professional hal
loonists-that you may find second
hand balloons. A man starting hal
looning is likely to buy a small one.
and then as his interest and expe
rience increase he buys a bigger one,
and if lie wants to he can turn in the
old once as part payment for the new
one. One can buy second hand bal
loons with all equipment complete at
prices ranging from $275 up to $400
for two passenger outfits and up to
$700 for an eight passenger balloon.
New York Sun.
FRENCH THRIFT.
The People, as a Rule, Save One-fifth
of Their Incomes.
Since the days when the people of
France went down into their stockings
for the five milliards of ransom exacted
by Bismarck, the world has pondered
as over a mystery the beelike durabili
ty of French thrift. Not only has their
car of progress been kept in full com
mission, along with a vast standing
army and an enlarging naval force,
but at the same time they have poured
millions of treasure into the coffers of
allies and friends.
Of French thrift apparently there is
no end. It is founded on racial habits
rooted in industry and intelligence and
on a sense of proportion as universal
to the Gallic race as its feeling for
beauty. After forty years the republic
stands firm in the strength of two gen
erations of sons and daughters born
under the banner of self government.
That fact has exvited as much wonder
among her neighbors as the irrepressi
ble thrift. Probably the one is a coin
plement of the other, political as well
as industrial, France being ruled by in
telligence and moderation.
The formula of French thrift is as
simple as sunlight: Be industrious, be
frugal, give and enjoy in proportion to
your means, and always lay by a fifth
of your income for capital. Result:
A whole nation prosperous, contenteg
and happy.-Century Magazine.
A Watch In a Pearl.
Pearls on watches are commonplaces,
but a watch in a pearl is surely a nov
elty. One has just been made by a
Paris watchmaker after fifteen months
of work by his best mechanics. The
pearl weighed forty-five grains and
was a perfect flattened sphere. Its
diameter was fourteen and a half mil
limeters or slightly more than half an
inch. The watch is eleven and a half
millimeters or forty-five one-hundredths
of an inch in diameter and has a com
pensating balance of five-twelfths of
an inch caliber. It may seem strange,
but the maker says the most difficult
part of the work was boxing the hole
in which the watch was to be inserted
in the pearl. This watch mounted in a
pearl cost $6,000.
When Passengers Were Scarce.
The closing of the invergarry and
Fort Augustus railway for lack of
custom recalls an incident of the early
days of the Callander and Oban line.
At the outset local passenger traffic
was, like Prince Charlie, "long in comn
in'," and once when an Oban bound
train drew up at a wayside station
the only person who landed was the
guard. The station master and porter
were the only people on the platform,
and after an exchange of snuff mulls
the guard inquired, "Ony passengers
for me the day?" The station master,
evidently feeling his position keenly,
replied, "Nane the day, but I hear tell
o' a woman for next week."-Glasgow
Herald.
New York City's Chinese.
The imperial Chinese board of educa
tion in Peking has established in New
York a Chinese school. Most of its
fifty pupils attend the public schools
also and thus learn both languages. A
Chinese high school is promised. About
eighty Chinese students are attending
high schools and universities, forty in
Columbia.
There is one Chinese church, on East
Thirty-first street. Twenty-one church
es have Chinese branches. There are
850 professed Chinese Christians. Con
fucianism taught in Mott street by
Dr. Huang Coon Chen.-Chinese An
nual.
The Little Store *ith the C StocK -
Bell phone 25 Nearly Everything for Everybody Independent phone 25-1 4
Lots for Sale in Smead's Addition on Easy Terms.
We have roof paint at $1.4
per gallon. Better and
r - cheaper than stain.
It Don't Pay to Neglect Painting We have all kinds of paint
Paint is the only thing that lengthens the. life of a building. in stock, from $1 to $3 per
Paint costs very little-much less than lumber. Every dollar gallon.
invested in paint will save many dollars in the value of lum
ber. We sell 4
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We take 'orders for the 4
because we can recommend it as the best-and'the makers Missoula Nursery Home
stand tack of us. It costs less because it takes less and lasts
longer. Don't delay painting-it's expensive! Glad to show and shrubs.
you pleasing colors, estimate quantity, or give any desired
information, whether you buy or not. Get a copy of our 4®®
"Home Beautify ing" booklet-IT'S FREE,
Come in and buy a new 4
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Smoot's Bill
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah
has introduced a bill in the sen
ate providing that homesteaders
on the government reclamation
project shall receive patent in
five years, the government re
taining a lien on the land until
all charges for ditch construction
have been paid. That would be
a partial loaf but is not just
what is wanted. The settlers
are not so concerned about a pat
ent as to obtaining an assignable
title, which is all they would re
ceive after the five years as pro
vided in the senator's bill. If the
department will merely incorpor
ate the words "legal represent
atives and assignees," in the old
register's duplicate certificate
formerly used, 'and add that
"patent will not be issued until
all construction charges are paid
and at least one-half the irrigable
area has been reclaimed," the
entire matter will be satisfactor
ily adjusted so far as the home
steaders here are concerned.
This proviso once incorporated
in a receipt would satisfy both
the homesteader and the man
who may wish to purchase or
loan money on the land, and it
would merely state the facts as
they now exist under the law.
Light and Water Co.
The Pioneer is able to state
with assurance that an electric
light plant will be installed in
Ronan at an early date. Ar
rangements have been consum
ated whereby an electric plant
will be built at ohce and for the
present a gasoline engine of suf
ficient power to develop all the
light needed will be the means
of furnishing the light.
Eventually this plant will be
equipped with water power and
at that time electricity for power
purposes will be furnished in
any quantity desired. This will
be welcomed by many citizens
for the reason that coal oil at the
best is a poor light and an ex
pensive necessity.
Methodist Church Notice
Rev. 0. A. White, district sup
erintendent, will preach in the.
Methodist church Sunday even
ing, April 14th, at 8 o'clock.
The quarterly conference meet
ing will be held Monday morning
at 9 .o'clock. All members of
the quarterly conference are
urged to be present, and all
members and friends are invited
to attend the business session.
Sunday school as usual at 10:30'
a. m.
The Pioneer gives the news.
Montana is Prosperous
The monthly report of State
Treasurer E. E. Esselstyn shows
that Montana disbursed in cash
during March the sum of $619,
420.68, the largest amount dis
bursed by cash in any month In
the history of the state. The
largest previous amount was
$572,000 in December, 1905,
when warrants for the year
were paid in cash.
The receipts during March
were $74,884.87, leaving a bal
ance on hand today of $1, 405,
6$9.60. The cash investment
with the permanent investment
brings the total balance to $3,
560, 577. 87.
Notice for Publication
(Non-coal land)
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Missoula, Montana, April
1, 1912. Notice is hereby given that
John P. Bankerd, of Poison, Montana,
who, on Nov. 9, 1910, made Hd. No.
02091, for Unit.B., SW NE, W3 SE
Section 12, NW NE, Sec. 13, T. 21 N,
R. 21 W. M. M., has filed notice
of intention to make final commutation
proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before C. F. Rath
bone, a U. S. commissioner, at Ronan,
Montana, on the 11th day of May,
1912. Claimant names as witnesses:
Frank Hall, Lyman C. Hall, George
Godfrey and Charles A. DeSaussure,
all of Poison, Montana.
JOSIAH SHULL,
apr 5 may 3 Register.
THIS HOUSE WAS BUILT BY
J. W. DRAKE
Contractor and, Builder
RONAN, MONT.
The Home Bakery
Phone.-Independent 391
All kinds of Bread, Buns
and Pastry
Orders taken for all kinds of
baking at O'Brien's store.
Fresh Every Day.
MRS. 0. RANMAEL
South of Scearce store, aoross the foot bridge.
Notice for Publication.
Non-coal land.
Department of the Interior,JU.S.Land
Office at Missoula, Montana, Api'll 8,
1912.-Notice is hereby given that
George H. Bombard, of Ronan, Mont.,
who, on, Sept. 9, 1910, made Hd. No.
02512 for Unit A, SE SW See. 8, T. 20
N. R. 20 W. M. M., has filed notice of
intention to make final commutation
proof to establish claim to the land
above described, before Coker F. Rath
bone, a U. S. Commissioner, at Ronan,
Montana. on the 20th day of May, 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses: Addison
M. Sterling, John J. Rogers, Dwight
Large, Charles Quigley, all of Ronan,
Montana. J OPIAH SHULL,
apr 12 may 10 Register.
Notice of Contest
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office Missoula. Montana,
March 9, 1912.-To Hiram A. Kendall
of Ronan, Montana, contestee: You
are hereby 'notified that Frank C.
Maloney who gives 605 Ford St., Mis
soula, Montana, as his post office ad
dress, did on February 5, 1912, file in
this office his duly corroborated applica
tion to contest and secure the cancella
tion of your Homestead Entry Serial
No. 02363, made June 1, 1910, for Unit
N SE SW Sec. 32, T. 21 N., R. 20 W.,
M. M., and as grounds for his contest
he alleges that Hiram A. Kendall has
never resided on or made any im
provements on said land.
You are, therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
by this office as having been confessed
by you, and your said entry will be can
celled thereunder without your further
right to be heard therein, either before
this office or an appeal, if you fail to
file in this office within twenty days
after the FOURTH publication of this
notice as shown below, your answer,
under oath, specifically meeting and re
sponding to these allegations of contest,
or if you fail within that time to file in
this office due proof that you have
served a copy of your answer on the
said contestant either in person or by
registered mail. If this service is made
by the delivery of a copy of your ans
wer to the contestant in person, proof
of such service must be either the said
contestant's written acknowledgement
of his receipt of the copy, showing the
date of Its receipt, or the affidavit of
the person by whom the delivery was
made stating when and where the copy
was delivered; if made by registered
mail, proof of such service must consist
of the affidavit of the person by whom
the copy was .mailed stating when and
the post office to which it was mailed,
and this affidavit must be accompanied
by the postmaster's receipt for the let
ter. You should state in your answer
the name of the post office to which
you desire further notices to be sent
to you. JOSIAH SHULL,
Register.
Date of first publication March 15 1912
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Bell phone 23 black.
Notice for Publication
(Non-coal land)
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Missoula, Montana, April
1, 1912. Notice is hereby given that
Ben Jacobs, of Ronan, Montana,
who on January 4, 1911. made Hd.
No. 08085, for Unit C. SW SW Sec. 10,
Twp, 19 N., Range .20 W. M. M., has
filed notice of intention to make final
commutation proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
Coker F. Rathbone, a U. S, Commission
er, at Ronan Montana, *on the
20th day of May, 1912. Claimant
names as witnesses: Robert Smock,
John D. Treadway, Frank A. Cook and
Gottfried Wallman, all of Ronan, Mon
tana. JOSIAH SHULL,
apr 5 may 3 Register.
Notice for Publication.
(Non-coal land)
Department ot the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Missoula, Montana, April
1, 1912: Notice is hereby given that
Murray W. Bond, of Slop, Montana
who, on May 26, 1910, made homestead
No. 02295, for Lot 2, SW NE Sec, 5,
Twp. 19 N., and SW SE, SE $W Sec. 32
Twp. 20 north; range 22 west, Montana
meridian, has filecd 'notice of inten
tion to make final commutation proof,
to establish claim to the land above de
scribed, before Coker F. tathbone, a
U.S. Commissioner, at Ronan, Montana,
on the 22nd day of May, 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses: Thom
as Jefferson Crow, Maniel Figureredo,
Jesse H. Russell and Roy Hargrave, all
of Sloan, Montana.
JOSIAH SHULL,
apr 5 may 3 Register.