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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-07

THE WELL KNOWN "HAMMOND'S
GROVE Farm, Manchester Apply to
II. L. Hammond, ia Chamber of Com
merce, Boston. feb4d1w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-07
For Miscellaneous

TWO n. p. MARINE ENGINE IN
good condition with coil muffler, shaft
propeller and all equipments. John NJ.
Cross. Riverside Drive. Augusta, Maine.
Tel. 23S-S feb7dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-07
1--WE POULTRY OF ALL KINDS,
sooN KITTENS ALL coLoRs,

ssc St ne shaggy with ruffs around the
Write me at once what YOU have
NJ L. Wakefield, 3 Grove St. Augusta
dec2,dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-07

Ill BUY SECONDHAND FUR
Ha sTie and pay good price in Augusta,
Newell and Gardiner. +. Daniel. 6i
-Ur,nern Avenue. Augusta. jan2ldimo'
~. S'eAOY, RELIABLE PHYSl-
Wa MAJ, al Branch Mills. Palermo. Maine.
Ss..el man preferred dec1.dtf
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
MIDNIGHT FIRE
DESTROYS HOUSE
Residence on South Front st.
Burned Sunday.
CAUSE OF FIRE UNKNOWN
Tenants Moved From House Satur.
day. Loss Estimated Close to
Twelve Hundred Dollars.

Fire from an unknown origin part
tally destroyed a dwelling On First
Ave. south and Eighth street Sunday
morning at about 200 o'clock. The
house was owned by VIM Boyles, was
a story and half high. The damage
amounted to about $1200.0O, which
was partly covered by insurance.
Saturday the family Of AL Murdick
moved out and the place was unoccu-
pied at the time of the blaze. Sam
Groosman, driver of hose truck mum.
ber one arrived upon the scene Of the
fire almost before the first sound o1
the fire whistle had become srilled
here Fire Chief Dug Hall waited hin
and the water was soon being poured
into the burning building.
Members Of the Glasgow Volunteer
Fire Dept. were quickly distributed
about the building by Chief Hall anc
in short time the fire was under con-
troll. After about an hour of fast
work by the department the building
was saved but the entire interior wa:
badly damaged
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
Three Counties to Hold
Big Summer School Here

State Normal and Industrial School
Of Aberdeen, South Dakota, will give
instruction in writing and art during
the second week, after which Mrs. E,
j.. Kjellman will continue the work
Miss Nora Ebersole, of the Glasgow
schools will give course in indus
trial work, teaching the use of reeds
rafia, and yarn.
In addition to the regular instruct
ors, such educators as Chancellor El-
liot Of the Montana University. H. A.
Davee, State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and others will address
the teachers.
\ It is hoped that the teachers will
take advantage of the summer school
the training received, we believe, will
ldo much toward making the rura
schools, especially, more efficient fact
ors in the different communities.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

the outside measure up the poisa and
force of community. 1t is done
invariably through the status of the
Business Mems Association or CON-
mercial Club. Wherever the city is
found with live club and set Of
livewires at the head of it or in it,
that is the city best and most favor
orably known and increasingly quoted.
Both Havre and Glasgow have been
particularly fortunate in this respect.
No two cities have prossessed the
able, ever on the job, wide awake
secretaries, as Secretary McCroskey
Of the Gas City Chamber of Com
mcrce and Secretary S. C. Moore of
the Glasgow Commercial Club, Both
men are great assets to this country.
Both cities have really been nailed
the topmost of the ship Of pro-
gress in our Great Milk River Coun-
try. Little wonder we are so re-
markably different in every way from
the days of ten years ago, or when
"Diamond Cut Diamond"
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
HINSDALE GIRL
DIES AT FALLS
Popular Young Lady Dies Suddenly
After Short Illness.

Popular Young Lady Dies Suddenly
After Short Illness.
Word was received in Glasgow on
Monday morning of the death at Great
Falls, of Miss Mollie Monrad, aged 20,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Mon
rad of Hinsdale, after short illness.
Death was due to severe attack of
Typhoid-pnuemonia and the young
lady had been confined in the Colum-
bus hospital for about two weeks
Miss Monrad was attending the Great
Falls business College at the time she
was taken i'll.
The news of the death of this
young lady will come as a great
shock to her many friends in Glasgow
where she was very popular amoune
the younger people. She formally
filled position in he'office of County
Clerk and Recorder Shoemaker and
during the time of her residence here
made many friends, who will mourn
her early death.
The funeral services were held al
Great Falls where the interment took
place at Calvary cemetary. Mass was
celebrated by Rev. FIR: Dineen.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

City. "She grows and glows like
the heart of an Ophal." Comparing
the city with Havre, his hometown.
Mr.. Christler said, 81 thought the
Gas City was growing as fast as the
law that safely reckons the red-blood-
ed sturdy growth of a big boy al
lows, but Glasgow since my last visit
here a few months ago seems to have
been running neck and neck with
Havre. The new stores, homes, ex-
tensions are growing like magic in
the night. The Rumble Building is a
monument to the marvellous energy
of the promoter. That three hun
dred barrel -four mill matches up to
our Gas City Mill except you need
here the natural gas to operate it.
I expect, however, with the men Of
the calibre you have here, and that's
the sort of stuff which builds cities
you will have started for and found
the natural gas, by another visit
Speaking Of the 'calibre of mem. 1t is
ratifying to note in travelling ovel
the country as do, the way those or
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
GLASGOW POSTOFFICE
GAINS in BUSINESS
Receipts for Year Ending June 3Oth Shows Substantial
Increase Over 1915.
NEARLY DOUBLE DURING FIVE YEARS
Local Post Office Improved Under Administration of
Postmaster P. L. Herring Carrier Service Meets
Popular Favor Of Patrons.

then Valley County, one at Lismas
and the other at Opheim while at the
present time there are II post Offices
in the county that now receive their
mail from the Glasgow Office. In
spite of the great increase of Offices
in the territory formally cared for
through the local Office, the mail has
constantly increased in volume. The
work of the Office was handled by the
postmaster and assistant with one
while at the present time the force
consists of the postmaster, assistant
postmaster and three clerks, besides
two carriers. With this addition to
the force at the postofice it is al
clerk five years ago, with perfect ease
most impossible to do the work and
keep it up to date and Postmaster
P. l.. Herring and his Assistant EN-
cry Pease often work until late at
night cleaning up the late mails.
Something that many people who
are getting their mail regularly do not
realize IS that the work of the Office
is all brought up and closed each day.
Nothing is left over for the next days
work and this is work that is not
required by the department but is
done as an accommodation to the pat
rons of the Office. One of the most
noticeable features of the local post Of
flee is the big improvement in the
service rendered to the patrons since
Mr.. Herring became postmaster.
The rapid growth of the business
of this office indicates the progress of
Glasgow from a small western viii
lage of five years ago to that of the
most lively and busy city in north
!. eastern Montana.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

Business at the Glasgow post Office
for the fiscal year endir'; June 30th,
1916, amounted to $14,477.78 and
shows very good increase over that
d< ne in the preceding year. The
quarterly statements show lerger re-
ceipts in all but that ending in Sep
tember 1915, and this can be account.
ed for ty the large amount of mai!
matter sent out during the same quar-
ter in 1914 relative to campaign is
sues. A remarkable instance Of the
increasing business of the Glasgow
post c:Iice is the showing made in tho
quarter ending June 30th, 1916. which
shows nearly as large an amount as
was taken in the quarter ending De
ccmber 31st, 1915, which includes thu
heavy Christmas rush. The quar-
ter!y totals for the year just endet
are for that ending September 30th
1915, $3,29O.O9; December 31st, 1915
$4,O76.57; March 31st, 1916, $3,277.39
and June 3Oth, 1916, $3833.73.
The increase over the receipts TO
the year 1915, amount to $989.38 a
the total for that year was $13, ,488. 40
During the past five years the re
ceipts of this office have almost doubl
ed and show in a remarkable name
the wonderful growth of this sectio1
of the state. The following tabl
shows the receipts for the fiscal yea
ince 1911.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

The summer school for Phillips,
Sheridan and Valley counties to be
held in Glasgow, will open at the
high school building next Monday,
July S1st, and will continue until the
August examination for teachers, the
Oath and 25th.
D. S.. Williams, Superintendent of
the Glasgow schools will be princip-
of the summer, school,, and conduct
classes in civics, United States His
tory, physiology, in connection with
which will be given course in Play
ground work, and school management.
The work in arithmetic, algebra and
physical geography will be given by
J. H. Atwood, principal of the Saco
schools. F. H. Livingston, principal
of the Medicine Lake schools, will
give courses in spelling, grammar,
geography, and theory and practice
of teaching. Miss Johanna C. Lind,
as instructor in the Glasgow high
school, will take charge of the work
in reading and literature. Miss Efie
McGregor of Minneapolis will give
primary methods. This course will
include work for the first three grades,
and model classes in these grades will
this way the theories of primary
be conducted, putting into practice in
work. Professor S. Lincoln Smith
of the Department of Art and Design
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
Burned Bridge Delayed
Great Northern Trains

All Great Northern trains on this
division were delayed form eight to IS
hours last Saturday and Sunday as a
result of a bridge two miles west Of
Tampico being partially destroyed by
fire. The cause of the fire could not
be learned but when it was discovered
it had burned out five bents of the
bridge and left the rails hanging in
the air. The local due in Glasgow at
700 o'clock P. NJ. was held at Hins-
dale and the fast mail Number %
was held at Vandalia while the Gla-
cier Park Limited Number 3 was set
into siding at Glasgow while the
bridge was being rebuilt.
Fortunately the work train and
crew that is installing the new con-
crete bridges over the entire road was
at work just west of Glasgow and
within a few minutes after the word
was received here at half past six in
the evening, of the bridge being out
they were rushed to the scene in rapid
time. Within an'hour there were sew
eral hundred men at work and the pile
driver was busy setting new supports
for the timbers, the work being kept
up all night without stop and at a
little before six Sunday morning the
bridge was in repair to the extent of
permitting light trains to pass over
it. A few hours later the fast mail and
through trains were ordered out.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
ELOPr.crz.ss.s~ zs.s~ OF
MILK RIVER VALLEY
Rev. L. j. Christler Reminiscent Upon Changes During
Past Ten Years.
GLASGOW RECOGNIZED AS REAL CITY
City Has Forged the Front During Past Few
Years Wins Substantial Recognition for it Through
out the Entire State.

Reminiscing on the Glasgow and
Milk River Country Of ten. years ago,
Mr.. Christler said: "Why bless your
soul the farmers out here on the
Fort Peck Indian Reservation have
so many big fields of heavy grain
enclosed with barbed wire fences
that you can't drive your own COW
home, and the fields are now 50 laden
with crops of corn, potatoes, and
vegetation of all sorts that the odd
timer loses himself most anywhere
within the confines of his old camp
ing ground or 'lodge-fire.' "
In reply to an inquiry about con-
ditions in general in the Milk River
Valley Country, and it's adjacent ter
ritory, he continued, "Now that the
settler can take a half section in
stead of quarter on the reservation,
the center of interest among the
many new people who come from
North Dakota and even Minnesota by
car seeking location on the Fort
Peck Land. The old way of locating
with the assistance of locator is
now largely thing of the past ir
the most of this country as only the
farmer from other states now seeks
Montana's fertile lands and he is ir
position to own car and by tht
car route he drives over the country
takes his time, picks out his claim ane
quietly makes his filing. It is a mat
ter of record that one half of th'
new farmers who are at this TIM
locating in Northern Montana ant
the Milk River, Country are men o
this sturdy, prosperous type" Speak
ing of the Milk River Irrigation Pro
ject and of the farm lands in tn
Valley: "When l came down tn
Valley ten years ago on my first tril
there were goodly number o
.Doubting Thomases'. Plans were in
complete and the appropriations bill
of Congress were moving slowly, ma
turally there was much i'm
patience. But it took big visioned
optimistic fellows like Dan McKa
and the late H. H. Nelson to dispel
the gloom and stir the lethargy o
the doubling ones. They soon ha
everybody getting ready for the sup
ply of water. recall one occasio
upon which every town on the Mil
River, and Everybody who knew ev
erything from Abraham Lincoln t
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
FREIGHT HOUSE
NOW UNDER WAY
Contractor Here and Will Begin
Construction Monday.
CHANGE PASSENGER DEPOT
Great Northern Will Expend About
$5O,OOO.OO in Next Two Months
in Local Yards and Depot.

Actual construction work upon the
new freight house Of the Great North
ern railway will begin Monday morn
ing when crew of carpenters and
laborers will start in, under the direc-
ton of A. ]. Waller, foreman for A.
Gutherie & Co., Of St. Paul, who have
the contract. Excavation work will
be finished, the foundation will be
started, and the superstructure will
be carried forward as fast as a a very
large crew can erect the structure.
Glasgow has been in need of this
additional freight house for long
time and when the order was issued
this spring to the construction de-.
partment to put it up the business
men here were jubilant. The Glas-
gov Commercial Club put in nearly
two years in an effort to show the
officials of the railroad the necessity
Of the additional facilities needed here
10 handle the unusually large freight
business at this point and the result
is now being realized.
The building will be 50x15O feet with
large platform on the north side
next to the new industrial track ex-
tending so feet east and west of the
building proper. This will make the
loading and unloading of freight pos
sible in the shortest time without any
$50,000.O0 and will require about two
or sent out can be handled with less
expense both to the shipper and the
"a lroad. On the south side viii! be-
large doors for the receiving anL de-
livering of freight to wagons max
ing it possible for eight teams to DC
working At the same time.
The new industrial track to the
freight depot is now finished and will
extend a distance of 800 feet along
the south side of the right of way
adjacent to the west end of South
Front Street and will furnish a con-
siderable space for the erection OF
elevators and other industries. This
will furnish the desired location for
the new elevator which is planned tc
be erected in Glasgow this summer
In addition to the new freight
house and industrial track, the Great
Northern will also remodel the pas
senger depot and when this work is
finished Glasgow will enjoy all the
modern convenience of thoroughly
up to, date station. The plans cal
for an entire change of the arrange
ment of the interior, a new ladie:
waiting room, general waiting room
toilets, and the agents Office will be
so arranged as to make the handling
of passenger business much more con
venient. The floor will be of tile, thu
walls will be renewed and the station
platform will be replaced with brick
All the old unsightly features of tn
present depot will be removed and tn
station will be equal to that of thos'
at Great Fails and other large cities
All III this new work as well as tn
reconstruction of the passenger depe
will mean an expenditure by the Grea
Northern railway company of nearl,
s5O,OOO.OO and will require about tw
months to complete. This increas
in the investment in equipment a
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
~'.,x '~'ve ,U;+~--.

The discovery Of the burned bridge
before any of the big trains were due
at that point was without doubt the
means of saving many lives as the
road at that particular point is part
of the very best of the entire line of
the Great Northern. Had they come
upon it in the night while travelling
at full speed it is doubtful whether
they could be stopped in time to pre-
vent a disastrous wreck, which would
probobly resulted in the loss of many
lives.
Last year the Great Northern began
the work of installing concrete bridges
over the entire line to eliminate the
possibility of wrecks as result of
burned bridges. They have the work
completed to within few miles of the
place where the bridge was burned
on Saturday night, and would have
torn out the wooden one within a
week. AS result of the fire they
were compelled to suffer the addition
al expense of building a new bridge
there which will be torn out before
many days to be replaced with one
of concrete.
When the new bridges are installed
On the entire line the risk of fires will
have been entirely removed and there
will be additional protection to the
travelling public in that these bridges
are practically indestructable.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

Fort Benton were represented at
zig meeting in Havre for the purpose
of passing judgment upon the Recla-
nation Service because its mills did
grind so slowly when Dan Mckay
softened the keen edges of the nails
in the hands of the angry ones who
were there to nail the heads of the
Reclamation Department to the cross,
by making the clearest, most spark
ling running water speech ever heard,
closing with this very clever climax,
'Oh ye impatient souls of the Valley
shame on ye. Will you cruelty
your country's benefactors upon the
cross of impatience? Think mem
yes, think of the many moons and the
many SHOWS it took the sun-crowned
Egyptian to dig the greatest irri-
alton ditch of the world-the river
Nile-and with a crooked stick too.
Go you impatient, maddened fellows,
and learn the lesson of patience from
.lim!' That speech saved the Milk
River Country. Water has been flow
ing since. Look at it ten years later,
that is now. Thousands Of acres are
now under the completed ditch. From
south of the river at Dolson to Alkali
Creek and north of the river from the
Dam to Wagner, 10000 acres. From
F, the Dam to Strater on the south side
and from Strater on the north side
to a distance long past Malta to the
northeast, then to Vandalia Dam, anc
beyond Glasgow on the south sid'
of the river are more than $4,000
acres more. Upon the completion o.
new canals it is not probable tina
the entire area of the grain growing
Valley will be irrigated by the Mill
River project. The aid from thi:
project and the uncommonly favorable
weather conditions this year art
l;rowing crops of grain and corn tha
are indescribable in their verdue ant
figures. Everything is raised from
a, water mellon to alfalfa field from
small fry to monarch steer. Yer,
different from the seemingly sweptet
and garnished plains-country of tel
years ago, or when the claws of tn
iissouri and Milk River Countr,
were different from white mans law.
In speaking of the City of Glas
/ gov, Mr.. Christler declared that i
reminded him of a prophecy some on
had made respecting the Western
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

before and her sweet and charming
voice has won for her many admirers.
Miss Mccormick will be remembered
especially for her kindness in singing
at the farewell reception given the
boys of Company &c" on the night Of
their departure for Fort Harrison.
The opportunity to again hear her in
song Will mean that everyone in
Glasgow will welcome with pleasure.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

Glasgow shows that the city is re-
cognized as the most important in
Northeastern Montana by the Great
Northern, and in a measure it is a
tribute to the hustle and business ac-
tivity Of the men of the city, and a
recognition of the great future de-
velopment to come.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
WILL APPEAR IN THE MOVIES

Jas. Aichele, formally of Glasgow
but now located at Malta has become
associated with the Great Northern
Film Company of THAI city and it is
reported that within a few months
his friends will have an opportunity of
seeing his manly figure and handsome
face upon the screen. James has all
the requirements of successful NOV
lie star and should succeed.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
SONG RECITAL

Miss Marie Mccormick the versi-
tile and artistic vocalist of Minneapo-
lis will appear at the Baptist church
next Thursday evening in a song re-
cital. She has appeared in Glasgow
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28
MASONS AT HINSDALE

A large delegation of Masons from
Glasgow attended a meeting of the
Hinsdale Lodge on last Saturday even
ing. The party consisted of several
automobile loads who left here early
in the evening returning late that
night. The occasion of the visit was
the confering of the Master Mason
degree upon Jas. Stevens, the we'll
known stockman of Buggy Creek.
A lunch was served after the rit-
ualistic work was finished and follow
ed by an hour of sociability.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

Rev. w. w. Van Orsdale will preach
at the South Bench school house at
300 o'clock in the afternoon next
Sunday.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-07-28

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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-04-14
Undesirable Erzerum.

Erzerum, the ancient Armenian city
which the Russians have taken from
the Turks, Is, from the European point
Of view, one Of the most undesirable
places Of residence upon earth. It
stands more than 5000 feet above the
sea, and in winter the temperature
falls to 20 degrees below zero. while
In the passes by which it is approached
RACES the Tipi. a terrible blizzard.
But Erzerum Is at its worst in sum.
mer. owing to the appalling lack OF
sanitation. Mr.. Hepworth, an Afderi.
clergyman. who was there after
the Armenian massacres Of 1895, found
even an open gutter only In one or
two thoroughfares. The people sim.
ply pile their refuse Of all kinds on
the pavement before their houses,
which has long become invisible; and
mortality is so heavy that of 12 chill.
dren, a common family, it is lucky II
six survive.-London Chronicle.