The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-01

the present method
grim club, London, in 1904. In private
life he is millionaire, head of the
Mark Cross stores in New York. Lon
don and Paris, the London Thermos
Bottle company and Knickerbocker
Equipment company, and as familiar n
figure on golf links of the continent.
as on those of the United States
Bathing costume censorship revived
again for midsummer proprieties with
kenosha, Wis, in the lead and Chi
cago a close second in the west, has
for n starter these official pronounce
meats for womea: mo skirts above
the knees. no tights. no mems bath
ing suits: stockings without excep-
ton" For men: ..Garmens must
reach shoulders" Bar Harbor, oyster
Bay, Palm Beach and Bullhead Creek
are yet to be heard from. but vaca-
tinnists everywhere are warned that
the rules above set forth are matured
restrictions that are likely to be
adopted The Kenosha case was ag
grayated because there a thick clumD
of willows at the bathing beach had
been used for a dressing room by fem.
inire Fathers, and when the mayor and
committee on harpor and breakwater
were assigned to pass on the clump
OF willows and the other details, IL
caused them, il is said, such an anX-
iety that the censors set a high stand
ard, for they felt compelled while they
were at it to look into the costumes
worn elsewhere. Fashions rule of the
year that bathing suits shall button
down the back was discovered. Now
a censor is on the job. Proprieties have
not reached the boys along the Chi
cago river. who defy the police and dis
port in the same costume that is worn
In the backwoods swimming pools and
secluded caves of all the little lakes IF
the country. but it is felt that divers
improvements have been made.
Thrifty farmers of Sweden with their
families on q tract of $4,000 acres in
Saskatchewan will be n notable addi-
ton this year to the colonies of many
nationalities in western Canada--Rus-
sian Mennonites. German Lutherans.
French Catholics and many others.
The breadth of the immigration move
ment to Canada's west was shown by
a private letter from Colonel A. ID.
Davidson, who is known as the father
of the Yankee INVASION" who wrote to
a Chicago friend. mentioning quite
casually purchases of tracts as big as
a Connecticut county. Il went up to
Saskatchewan via Moose Jaw, accom-
panied by o. o. Winters and +. NJ.
Rutter of Minneapolis, and sold them
+ 10000 acres of land in Fertile valley
! Saskatchewan--this is some 20 miles
i south of Zealandia. Their plans are to
! open up a big farm of 10000 acres, a
bonanza farm. Tasker a. McBain or
] Regina have purchased 10000 acres and
! are colonizing it with people from New
/ York state and ontario. John +. Mar
! tin has purchased $4,000 acres in Fer
! tile valley, Saskatchewan. He has got
! a splendid tract of wheat lands and Is
! coionizing it from southern Minnesota.
Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Martin
is one of the big operators in Canadian
lands. They are in the heart of the
best wheat lands along the Saskatche-
wan river. and are made accessible by
the building of the Saskatoon-Calgary
line of the Canadian Northern rail-
! way. W. H. Vi SNuiei's sAiNh''
has purchased 10000 acres of land in
the Davidson district. Mr.. Kurtz is
settling his land with people from In
diana Brush. McWilliams & Co. Of
Milwaukee and George c. Sherman OF
Appleton. Wis. are colonizing $4,000
acres of Canadian northern lands just
north of Casper. Saskatchewan. Mr..
Sherman has left for Sweden to bring
over 100 families to settle their large
tract The Swedes are a very desirable
class of farmers and these men are
likely to establish the largest Swedish
colony in Canada. Their lands are sit
uated in the Last Mountain valley,
one of the best known agricultural dis
tricts in western Canada. A great land
movement is on again. l have driven
some 700 miles in Saskatchewan and
never saw the crops look better