Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1911-10-27
Big Chicken Dinner at tie
Gap Hotel Grill SUNDAY.

Zap Hotel Grill SUNDAY.
Glen :. Bills returned Sunday from
his extended visit in Spokane. lie
lett Mrs. Bills and the new boy in
good health. lie says he likes Spo-
kane immensely and may later on
make some investments there.
Nothing like the high school t,r-
ban for style and comfort i'll cold
blizzardy weather. Mrs. Berg will
be pleased to show them.
Daniel &. Strothers made final COM
mutation proof on his homestead in
section 1914 in Judith Gap last Sat
nrday. He had $1,000 worth Of i'm
provements, and ought to have IL fair
lady to look after the domestic end Of
the valuable farm.
j. +. Twitchell Of Billings. and
Chas. Wolfe and John Nolan Of l.au-
rel, who have been hunting in the
Snowy mountains for several days
with little success, left on 43 Wetlnes-
day for Conrad, when they will hunt
mountain goat and elk in the Rocky
mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. d. Shamblin of
Bethany, NO., have been visiting Mr..
and Mrs. II. +. Chapman on the
Chapman ranch near Living Springs.
Mr.. Shamblin and several friends are
about to buy three sections Of rails
road land in the Judith Gap district.
They will put Oh complete outfit to
develop the tract.
Mat Bergen has big I'D in this
weeks journal announcing a public
sale Of his personal property on his
farm three miles west Of town, on
Saturday, November 4th. Mat has
received word from relatives in Mn
nesota that the old home farm back
there needs him to look after it, and
he intends leaving soon for the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Fowlie were
here the latter part of last week. Mr..
FOWlie is the clerk and recorder Of
Meagher county, and the last legisla-
ture passed law compelling those
officers to examine all weights aud
measures in their respective counties,
and George was here in compliance
with that law. Mr.. FOwlie is one of
the most popular officials in Mon
tana.
\ good country road is always to be
desired and is IA source Of comfort and
convenience to every traveller. Good
roads attract population. as well as
good schools and churches. Good
roads improve the value OF the pro-
perry, so that it is said a farm lying
five miles from market. connected by
4 bad road is Of less value than an
equally good farm lying ten miles
away from market connected by a
good road. \ larger load can be
drawn by one horse over Il good road
than by two over Il bad one. Good
roads encourage the greater exchange
of products and commodities between
one section and another.
Is it because teachers fall into me-
chanical, mOnOtOnOus ruts of teach
ing and perform their work in Il man
ner so schOOl-like and so little school
like that it never occurs to the pupil
that what he learns from his books
has any connection with or applica-
ton to things that occur in everyday
life! Here we think is the trouble,
and in this we should reform. Let
each teacher make his work more and
more practical: let him strive to lift
his pupils from their untl,inking, I'M
practical methods of study: let him
give them matter for thought upon
the simple. common things around
them; let him entleavOr to create al,
interest in their minds upon the sub
iects discussed by the older people of
the community, aud soon we shall
have Il race of children in our schools
who will know more ut the age Of IL
Of what is practical and useful than
our children know when they leave
the common schools.
". j.. Mcclelland had Il three
years lease Ut the DIR. Taylor ranch,
east OF the city. While here this