Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-10-07
FARMERS WIFE IN
COMING ELECTION

Saysa Helena dispatch: The farm
er's wife is going to play an import
ant part III the elections this fall.
She is going to urge the man Of her
family to vote republican ticket be-
cause she knows that while prices on
many staple articles needed in the
home have gone up, the prices re-
ceivcd for the produce on her hus-
bands farm are very much larger
than they were fourteen years ago.
when the country was in the midst Of
the slough Of democratic despond.
She realizes that when her husband
takes 1000 pounds Of wheat to town
in these days Of republican prosper
ity. he can bring home in exchange
for that wheat far more household
necessities than lie could in the days
of low prices and democratic rule.
Few Comparisons.
Some comparisons of what fam
produce sold for in Helena at casl,
wholesale prices can be exchanged for
in staple articles OF dry goods this year
and in 1898 have just been made. The
eo'nl'n risona quoted during March
Of this year and March 1896, because
that month is considered the most
stable price month Of them all.
Sands Bros. Co. of Helena, furnish
ed from their books the dry goods
prices here quoted. The cash grain
prices were furnished by Steel-Hind-
con n Co. The cash prices paid for
other farm produce were furnished
by various merchants and hotel men.
These prices 10 doubt. are about the
same rs the prices paid and charged
in other cities Of the state.
A farmer who sold 1000 pounds OF
wheat in Helena this year would re-
ceive sufficient money to buy l4O
yards Of 27-inch bleached cotton tlan-
mel. With the same amount of grain
in 1896, he could only have obtained
lO5 yards. lie could get 2l0 yards of
AmOskeag gingham today for 1000
pounds Of wheat as against $50 yards
in 1896.
Ii he wanted to exchange 900 lbs.
of oats for sheeting. brown, ~ Pep
perell, lie could get l75 yards as
against l2O Yards in 1906.
Ii the farmers wife brought in 20
pounds Of country creamery butter to-
day, she could exchange it for 81
yards of cotton flannel as against 10
yards in 1906. About the same pro-
portion of increase in the exchange
value of farm products for staple
household necessities holds good on
all other staple articles of dry goods.
Thirty dozen Of fresh laid eggs,
sold in Helena, would bring sufficient
money this year to buy ls7 l-2 yards
Of Amoskeag gingham, as against lob
yards in lS!H. The same eggs can be
exchanged today for 1877 ~ yards of
brown sheeting, while in 1906 the val
ne of the eggs would buy only 96
yards.
The exchange value of steer on
the Helena market today is in many
eases more than double that OF the
same steer in 1896. \ 200 pound
steer can be exchanged in Helena to-
day for 900 yards OF sheeting as
against 4sO yards in ls96.
District No. &.
Registration district No 6 shall
consist of all that portion OF Meagiler
county lying north and east of II line
beginning at Il point where the town.
ship line between townships and
crosses Careless creek, thence west to
the northeast corner Of III, thence
north two miles to the northeast cor
ner Of 25-S.l7, thence west six miles
to the northeast corner OF .5-S-l6.
thence north four miles to the north
east corner Of s-l6, thence due west
on township line where said line
crosses HOpley creek, thence up said
creek to summit If Little Belt noun
tains. This district contains election
precincts OF Judith Gap, No. III, and
Iledgesville, No. II.