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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
RECORD OATS CROP
SOLD BY MONTANAN

Lewis Penwell, a farmer of Dillon,
Beaver Head county, went to Mime.
apolis to sell his crop of oats. He had
raised 100000 bushels.
There is no record in the United
States, if in the entire world, so far
as grain trade men of long experience
know, of a crop of oats of this size as
unit and taken off one piece of land.
w. V. Harrington of the Gould Grain
company bought the crop Mr.. Pen
we'll will realize about $4,000.
The Penwell oats crop will fill fifty
of the largest capacity Northern Paci-
fic freight cars, into which it is pos
sible to load 1000 bushels each.
On account of the heavy tonnage
moving over the western roads at this
time it is doubtful if the railroad will
plan to move this additional tonnage
of more than 100000 pounds in a
special train. 1t probably will be
added, in lots of five or ten cars as
rapidly as available, to regular North
ern Pacific grain trains eastbound for
Minneapolis.
The Beaver Head ranch of 10000
acres is given over largely to sheep
grazing, but 1900 to 1900 acres have
been put into grain crops the last
seven years, the plan being to alter
nate grain and alfalfa
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
$50 ELEVATORS IN STATE
Total Storage Capacity Almost Fifteen
Million Bushels Of Grain.

Some interesting figures have been
compiled in regard to the grain and
flour milling industries of Montana by
j. T.. Templeton, chief grain inspector
of the state.
Licenses have been issued to 43o
elevators, 81 grain warehouses and Al
flour mills, total of 552. There are
perhaps a dozen more elevators either
in process of construction or for which
applications for licenses are pending.
OF the total number of elevators and
warehouses 222 are operated by cline"
companies, owned by nonresidents OF
the state and with headquarters else
where, and 2S5 by local concerns
About % per cent of the total are un
der the management OF farmers or
ganizations. The aggregate storage
capacity of these buildings is l4,Soo,
600 bushels of grain.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
STATE TO PROTECT FARMERS
Msappropriation of Wheat by Buyers
in Montana Investigated.

Complaints of Montana farmers that
grain buyers have been taking grain
from wagons in order to make good
any shortage that may develop in
shipping the product of Eastern mar
kets have set the grain inspection de-
partment sleuths at work and if vio'
lation of the grain inspection law is
persisted in prosecutions will follow.
J. +. Templeton, chief grain inspec-
tor, says he does not contend that all
grain buyers and agents of elevators
are guilty, but that he has been in
formed that in numerous instances
they have taken ten pounds from the
load in order to make up for shrinkage
in shipping to Eastern terminals.
This misappropriation of grain,
Templeton believes, will mean loss
of thousands of dollars to the farmers
of Montana.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
BRlTONS CALL 1T A BLUFF
London Opinion of Proposed Invasion
of Egypt.

London, Dec. 21.-Britishers gener-
ally regard Germany's proposed Egyp-
tian campaign as mostly, though not
entirely, bluff.
Amsterdam dispatches reporting
that Field Marshal Won der Goltz has
arrived in Syria to lead a Turco-Ger-
man invasion failed to agitate mill
tary circles in London.
Officials believe a more formidable
army would be required for success
full invasion via the Suez canal than
Germany and Turkey can possibly
muster and equip in view of condi-
tions on other fronts.
British military experts also main
tain that the defenses erected in the
SueZ canal region since the attempt
of the Turks against Egypt early in
the war are practically impregnable.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
HEAVY GUNS ROAR
IN WESTERN AREA

London, Dec. 21.-Renewed activity
on the part of the allies and the Ger
man armies is apparent in the west
ern theater of war.
Both the British and French official
statements record aerial and artillery
battles.
The British front has been the scene
of heavy bombardments, both sides
having their big guns at long range.
In addition engagements between
air craft have been feature of the
fighting, forty-four combats in the air
having taken place, two of the Ger
man aeroplanes being shot down and
others driven off in a damaged condi-
ticn, according to the British report,
and one of the British machines being
reported as missing.
On the Greek frontier the entente
allies continue to fortify themselves
in the expectation of an attempted ad-
vance by the Germans, if not the Bull
garians.
An Athens dispatch says that Greek
troops have il1terposed themselves be-
tween the Anglo-French lines and the
Bulgarians by the occupation of Dol
ran.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
FLEET SEARCHES NORTH SEA
Berlin Says Germans Could Find No
Hostile Vessels.

Berlin, Dec. 1.-Ridiculing allied
claims that the German coast is close
ly blockaded the admiralty announced
that a portion of the German fleet
searched the North sea last week
without cncountering any of the allied
naval forces.
On Wednesday and Thursday the
German warships cruised in the Aka
gerack (the arm of the North sea be-
tween Germany and Denmark) to
watch shipping, 1t was said. Fifty
two vessels were examined and one
seized, it was said.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
u
AS0UlTH BALKS PEACE TALK
Tells Questioner Position Of British
Government Is Unchanqed.

London, Dec 21.--Premier Asquith
declined to be drawn into any discus
sion of the subject of peace in the
house of commons, when Sir William
Pollard Byles, member for North Sal
ford, in a question, suggested that re.
cent debates in the reichstag indicat-
ed a disposition to transfer the issues
of the war from the battlefield to the
council chamber.
The premier told his questioner that
the latter was quite as competent as
the government to draw differences
from reichstag debates, but intimated
that the governments position was
unchanged on the matter of peace.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
DICE GIVE CLUE TO CRIME
Montanan Sentenced to twenty-five
Years for Criminal Assault.

A queer pair of dice found near the
scene of the crime resulted in the
capture at Mandan, N. d., recently of
the man who criminally assaulted a
ten-year-old Glendive girl. The dice
proved damaging evidence, for when
exhibited in court at Glendive they
resulted in sending the owner, who
refused to give his name, to the Mon
tana penitentiary for twenty-five
Years. Bartenders and saloon round
ers identified the dice as those carried
by Pete. He confessed the crime.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
UNITED STATES PROTESTS

Washington, Dec. 2l.-The United
States has protested to Great Britain
against interference with parcel post
shipments between this country and
Sweden, Secretary Lansing announced.
Mr.. Lansing said that the Swedish
minister had complained to the state
department that parcel post shipments
had been held up by British warships
on the high seas.
Besides filing a protest the state
department has asked Great Britain
for an explanation, Mr. Lansing said.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
Canada May Enlist Japs.

Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 21.-Major Cen
eral Sir Samuel Hughes. Canadian
minister of militia, received from Brit
ish Columbia proposal to organize a
regiment of Canadian Japanese for
service in Europe. One thousand
Japanese. who have been naturalized
in Canada, will be enlisted at once
under the proposal and sent overseas.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
DEFENSE COMMITTEE NAMED
Former Senator Clark Heads Butte
Security Conferees.

Former United States Senator Will
lam A. Clark was named as the head
of a committee of twenty-five ap-
pointed by Mayor Charles ii. Lane
of Butte to meet similar COM
mittees of the National Security
league and formulate policy of
stronger national defense.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
TURKS UNAWARE
OF EVACUATION

London, Dec. 21.-Operations in 9TH
er sectors of the front on the Gallipoli
peninsula than those from which
troops were announced to have been
withdrawn, are to be continued, it is
intimated in an official statement is
sued
The withdrawal was effected with
out knowledge of the movement on
the part of the Turks, it is declared.
Further details of the evacuation
of the Anzac and Sulva zones have
been received" says the official state
ment "Without the Turks being
aware of the movement a great army
has been withdrawn from one of the
areas occupied on the Gallipoli penin-
tact with the enemy.
"By this contraction of the front
operations at other points of the line
will be more effectively carried out.
"Sir Charles Monro gives great
credit for this skilfully conducted
transfer of forces to the generals COM
manding and the royal navy
The withdrawal of the British
troops from Suvla bay and the Anzac
zone ends more successfully than most
military men thought possible the
most unfortunate chapter of the Brit
ish arms in this war. Thousands of
lives We're sacrificed in gaining these
positions and other thousands in hold
ing them.
Turks Fully Prepared.
The question has been constantly
discussed why the generals command
ing the Dardanelles expedition did not
try to make landing near the center
of the peninsula in the beginning and
cut off the Turkish troops on the low
er end. When the attempt was finally
made to obtain foothold higher up
on the peninsula the Turks were fully
prepared to meet it.
Moreover, the British arrangements
lacked several essential features, par
ticularly supply of drinking water
The story has been revealed by sol
diers and correspondents returning
from LHe MoulleIIdlledI Olll. Siuuudt"
ly and by detail.
One eyewitness declared that after
the first battalion was landed the men
were shot down so thickly that the
Watchers aboard the ships were ask
ing, "Why don't our men advance?'
and thought the troops were lying
down awaiting orders. Z,
The soldiers found barbed wire en-
tanglements stretching clear out un-
der the water when they jumped from
their small boats. To add to their suf
fering the supply of drinking water
was very short.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
MONTANA BROKER A SUICIDE
M. S. Nelson Kills Himself in Denver
Sanatorium.

Myrtle S. Nelson, real estate bro
ker of Billings, was found dead in bed
at a Denver (Colo.) sanatorium with
knife wound in his throat, said to
have been self-inflicted. Nelson went
to the sanatorium for nervous all
ment, it was said. :
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24

Twill pay liberal reward to anyone
sending me information regarding all
cattle branded 3F- or some with double
breeching 1.-TWO bars across both hind
uuarters) and left ear half cut off on all
cattle. H. M. Gehlert, Roman, 81
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
CHINESE PROVINCES REVOLT
Five Declare Their independence Of
the New Monarchy.

San Francisco, Dec 21.-Tong King
Chong, president of the Chinese Re-
public association, received a cable
gram from Shanghai, China, which
stated that five Chinese provinces had
declared their independence against
the rule of Yuan Shi Kai.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
MOTION TO HEAD TUSKECEE

Seletted py Comm1ttee 70 SUCCEED
Booker T. Washington.
New York, Dec. 21.-Major Robert
r. Motion of Hampton Institute,
Hampton, Va, was selected to succeed
Booker T. Washington as president
of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala,
at a meeting of the special commit
tee of the trustees of the institute
here.
The new head of Tuskegee has been
commandant of cadets at Hampton
since 1890. He was born in Virginia
and is of pure negro parentage.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
MONTANA VERSUS SYRACUSE
University Football Team Will Make
Eastern Trip Next November.

The faculty athletic committee of
the University of Montana made an
nouncement at Missoula Of its official
approval of football game between
Montana and Syracuse university, to
be played in Syracuse, N. Y, Nov. 4,
1916.
An offer for the game was tele-
graphed by the Syracuse football
MANAGEMENT
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
Brakeman Loses Lea.

l.. w. Bayne of Glendive, a brake
man on the Northern Pacific, fell from
the top of freight car at Miles City.
His leg was cut off and shoulder dis
located.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
EXPORT BAN is TIGHTENED
British Prohibit Shipment of Pig and
Scrap Iron.

London, Dec. 21.-An order in coun-
Gil indicates further tightening in
the restrictions of exports.
No further exports of pig, scrap
iron, steel scraps or hamatite are per-
mitted and restrictions are laid down
on the expectation of vegetable fbers
and yarns.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24

For Lease-4O acres under ditch with
water, Six miles from town.-C. +.
Rathbone.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24

12O acre REIMBURSEMENT, $3.50. F.
Rathbone.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24
CAR GIVES UP PLANS FOR
BALKAN DRIVE.

London, Dec. 21.-That Rus
sia has abandoned all idea of
entering the Balkan campaign
apparently was confirmed in
reports from Sofia which an
nounced that Slav troops con-
centrated at Reni, on the Rou-
manian frontier, are being
transferred to the Bukowina
frontier, presumably for new
blow at Austria.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-12-24

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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-02-18

have ten 14-inch guns. The projec-
tiles fired from these guns weigh 1,4OO
pounds each, and it costs the Ameri-
can people $777 every time one is
fired, not counting the deterioration
in the gun.
Fletcher has five rear admira1s un-
der him, one to command each divi-
sion of the fleet. There are 25 cap
tains. more than 1000 officers of less
er rank, and about $4,000 enlisted
men.
The total money value of the fleet
is $300,000,0OO.
The New York, with it's sister ship
the Texas the most powerful ship in
the American navy is ordinarily the
flagship of Rear Admiral Fletcher but
his flag has been transferred to the
Wyoming. The New York has been
fitted up with luxurious quarters to
receive President Wilson and his
party at New York after the maneu-
vers. and carry them to the canal. 1t
has been Informally christened The
Boudoir Ship"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-02-18
PADDY MAKES BLUFF GOOD
lrishman, SInglehanded, Captures Six
German Soldiers and Marches
Them Into English Trenches.

Private George, at Brighton, wound
ed, tells this story:
Paddy keenan,, an Irishman serv-
ing with our regiment, was surprised
one day by German scouting party
Of six while he was taking it easy
a little in advance of our lines. He
saw there was no choice between
bluffing it or a little trip to Berlin
or the grave, so he chose the former.
Jumping to his feet he called on the
Germans to throw down their arms.
as they were covered by the rifles of
his friends Paddy ordered them to
march in single file toward our
trenches. He followed behind with
his rifle ready. When the Germans
found that the trenches were so far
away they were waxy, but as they
had previously thrown away their
arms they could do nothing against
Paddy and his rifle, so they made the
best of bad job and were brought
into camp as prisoners
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-02-18
BERLIN HAS MANY MANNED
Soldiers Swathed in Bandages Are
Seen Everywhere in the Ger
man Capital.

Berlin.-No fair picture could be
drawn Of the Berlin Of war time that
did not include mention of the thou
sands Of wounded in the streets. In
motor cars, in wheel chairs and in the
crowds on the streets, they are every
where limping, MANNED and swathed
f. I-ldages. At one dinner table in
the Hotel Adlon were four officers,
every one of whom had his arm in a
sling, and two Of whom had their
heads in bandages. One, a captain,
had lost his right hand, but he had
the iron cross of the first class and he
seemed the happiest Of the party. In
deed, the cheerfulness of the wounded
contrasted strikingly with the sad
eyes of the many women in mourning.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-02-18
SAYS HE IS HIS BROTHER
Also Tells Wife She Is His sister-in.
Law and Treats Her as II
She Were.

Tacoma, Wash.-Discharge Monday
from the Pierce County hospital,
where for months he had been unable
to remember his own name, Edward
G. Cooper went to Seattle with his
wife, who had just discovered his
presence in Tacoma
The next day he disappeared again.
When he next came to official notice
he was at the Tacoma city Jail, repre-
senting himself as the Rev. Ernest A.
Cooper, who had come from Africa to
help find his missing brother, Edward.
Instead of the dingy brown suit he
had worn as the "man Of mystery" he
had donned long frock coat with
silk lapels, black trimmed spectacles,
fancy vest and broad clerical hat
He had the police bring out the pic
ture taken Of the strange wanderer
arrested on Tacoma avenue last
March. He declared this unkempt, be-
whiskered person was his brother Ed
ward. He seemed much disappointed
when Informed the unknown had left
the county hospital, but declared he
would keep up the search.
he uHkHOWn was III d2Ze Wnen
found by the police last March wan
dering aimlessly on Tacoma streets.
He was sent to the county hospital.
It was Cooper's wife in Seattle who re-
vealed his plural identity or insanity.
She said he is now obsessed with the
idea that he is his own brother treats
his wife as sister-in-law and talks
religion to her as if he were actually
a preacher.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-02-18
NOTHING new IN JOKE LINE
Foolish Is the Humorist Who Would
Insist That This HAS Never
-. Been Sprung Before"

A reader Of the Docket in New York
city cut out the item relating to the
dissolution of partnership, in which
one partner makes the statement that
those who owe the firm will settle
with him, and those that the firm owes
will settle with Nose" and sends it
back to us with thia notation: 'This
was an old chestnut when I lived in
-, which was in 1856"
| To this charge we enter a plea Of
confession and avoidance. We con-
tend that the courts will take judicial
notice Of the fact that there is nothing
new under the sun, and in our judg-
tment the jokesmith Is we'll within
his rights IL resurrecting a joke
which was old in 1855.
The incident brings to mind the fol.
lowing story. 1.-THE editor of a Mime
sofa newspaper back in the sos con-
cocted the following: 'Yon Yonson put
four sticks of dynamite in the stove
last Sunday to thaw them out. The
handles we're nickel plated and only
cost $10.'" A professor Of English
literature in an eastern university
"AOSO a VSAy AAICA CotAU6 dAtACAC OAA
this joke, claiming that it represented
a distinctly American brand OF humor.
and that it could not have happened
in any other country or at any other
time
But alas for the professor of Eng.
lish literature-for there is nothing
new under the sun. Reference to II
Chronicles, Chapter 16. Verses II and
13, produces the following:
IL. And Asa in the thirty and
ninth year of his reign was diseased
in his feet, until his disease was ex.
ceedingly great; yet in his disease
he sought not to the Lord. but to the
physicians.
13. And Asa slept with his fathers
Vests Docket.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-02-18
Call
1-7-4
1t Pays You
Goods Delivered Promptly
Clee Vaughan
Notice.. Public Land Sale.

By virtue of power vested in m
by that deed of trust executed to me
on the oath day of January, 1914, b>
Handy Todd and wife, Martha Todd,
and duly recorded in the Office Of
the register of deeds for Halifax
county, in Book 255 at Page 333,
and given to secure the land below
described, shall sell for cash at pub
lie auction in the town of Scotland
Neck, N. c., in front of the Scotland
Neck Bank. on the End day of Feb
ruary, 1915, at IL o'clock noon. to
the highest bidder, the following
described tract Of real estate. lying,
being and situate in the county of
Halifax and State of North Carroll
ma, to-wit: Bounded by the lands
of Ben Partin, the public road lead
ing from Hills Cross Roads to Daw-
sons Cross Roads, the lands os Jim
Lawrence and the lands of Frank
Moore, being the same land former
ly owned by Emmett Bishop, and
which was conveyed to the said
Handy Todd by Ed. Shields and wife
by that deed of record in the office
of the register of deeds for Halifax
county in Book 178 at Page 33, said
land containing III acres, more or
less.
Also the following described per-
sonal property, to-wit: One black
horse named Dan, one red mule
named Hattie, one black mule named
Matte. one top buggy, one double
horse wagon. one dump cart. one
rail ca,t. one cotton planter, and
farming implements
This January g 1915.
AsHBY DUNN. Trustee
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-02-18
MEN BECOME MERE MACHINES
Soldiers in the Trenches Get Abso-
Iuteiy Dehumanized Under Con-
tinuous Fire.

Paris.-A motorcyclist who has
been in front of the army and continu-
ally under fire writes as follows:
when they are in the trenches
with shells bursting all around, men
become mere machines. They get alb
solutely dehumanized under continu-
GUS fire. 1t is the only alternative to
going mad! One has no conscious
ness Of danger, but obeys orders with
out realizing what they mean. One
forgets what death is.
when first I had to carry dis
Tatch under fire ! used to dismount
when l saw a shell burst on the road
ahead and wait to see if more were
coming. Now / don't notice them.
My comrade riding twenty yards be-
hind me was killed by a shell, but
the incident had no effect on my mind
We are no better than brutes on the
firing line"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-02-18
SCOTLAND NECK, n C.. THURSDAY, FEBRvARYe1s, 1915
BLOW TO HORSE BREEDERS
European War Seams to Make Pros
peet Of American Thoroughbred
Gloomy.

1T will take years for the thor
oughbred OF America to get back to
the high state of perfection it occu-
pied ten years ago, now that the only
hope of improving the strain has been
cut Oft by the war In Europe" re-
marked ]. p. Mayberry, a we'll known
horseman Of Sheepshead Bay, at the
Raleigh, the Washington Post states.
"The inimical LAWS enacted in the
various states, particularly in New
York, in the last ten years checked
the improvement Of the breed, and
the American thoroughbred has been
steadily going backward ever since.
Any one who knows anything about
the thoroughbred type knows that the
American thoroughbred Of today does
not compare with the racer Of five
years ago. When the antiracing laws
Of New York drove the sport out of
the Empire state In 1910 many OF
the breeders Of Observation-Disclosures
who had helped largely to build up
the horse IL Amertca-began to dis
pose CT their horses. Many were
shipped abroad. and in four years
more than fifty per cent of the best
Thoroughbred stock has gone back to
Europe.
Reports from the warning nations
are to the effect that the countries
that have been foremost in improving
the thoroughbred, England, France
Germany and Austria-the seat of thu
war-in all probability will command
eer most of the racers of the European
turf. II this be so 1t will remove al
most the last hope the turf has t.
rebuild the rapidly diminishing quail
ity OF the American thoroughbred
The horses that are parading aroun'
the race tracks OF this country ar
mere ghosts Of what We had hv'
years ago. There Is not a real goo
horse on the American turf at thi
time, whereas a dozen years ago ther
were scores"