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Evening journal., 1916-05-12

A good, efficient gardner is the per-
son who can be depended upon. Such
gardeners are being hired every day
by wide-awake people who read and
use the Want Columns.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1916-05-12

NEW YORK May i2--ln Jail await
ing trial on a charge of poisoning his
father-in-law. Dr. Arthur Warren
Waite is said to write constantly to
Mrs. Margaret Horton. who shared a
studio with him, telling her he is
"fooling' the district attorney by
felgning insanity.
Mrs. Horton, who has now turned
to the vaudeville stage gave the let
ters 10 the police.
She is said TO have stated she OBJ
iained the poison Dr Waite swallow
ed the day he was arrested.
kiss me" he said to her that morn
ing. according TO the police. "I don't
think ] will ever see you again"
Evening journal., 1916-05-12
TO PRESENT CANTATA.

The cantata. "The Land of Liberty"
Will be presented by the young people
OF Brandywine NJ e. Church, In the
chapel on Thursday night, May 20.
Evening journal., 1916-05-12

This close turban is put up in finest
straw. navy blue, and high about the
crown wreathe shining green ivy
leaves lined with white kid. Three
glossy biackberries appear in and out
among the foliage. and altogether this
is a smart durable hat.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
PUTNEY TALKS
To j. n. NJ. BOYS
ON AUGUST q
Accepts Dr. B0yd.s Invitation
TO Deliver Initial Address
After Opening Day of Sca0o.
Tenn,

| Notwithstanding that De has lef-
'utely positively absolutely ara un-
I q1alncdB. after dus druh,r.Har
calm meditation. deep consideration
and precise specification declined rs-
/ fused and thrust aside fte offer G..
nomination oH The democratic IfLset
as candidate Tor governor Of fHe
/ commonwealth of New Neulu-uHt-
withdrawing 100 thI---Ir m.eni Is. s.ia
IagaIn. boz order Go get d fre p staff-
Robert T. PWney Albuquerque
greatest human dynamo. fa- accepted
with pleasure thank Won. fh" invite
tion uf Br David e Boyd president
~ the University Of New Mexico 10
deliver % message 90 the boys ou 'ha
hin ON August -.
Mr. PuIu.y hos zen invited fn de-
liver tine first talk. nr lecture ~ the
year Ht the varsity and fhu-, who
know him feel confident that H will
be repicte with he pep and punch fur
which Boz s noted Yes. the girls rss
hear tho tafE. TOO Hui twill He naIu-
IS for Jhe boys. Mr pun. nas fWH
boys 81 hI. ouu and having been
one time Cd upE himself know some
thing about BOYS agI their vHy- ANA
what thes can do and m do .f their
energies are property directed
80 definite subject has been assigned
10 Mr. PHtncs It WEl a# character
.stic Putre> faIh---tral1 from the
shoulder and BOZ hard. .HId English
without great choice ~ advert 90 adj
leciNe- Thar Il vIl De- well worth
listening Co goes without saying
Although Mr PutueE ha- not .ndI-
ated what bis tals will ha bout. lt Is
believed that d. alli draw number
of lessons from bis own life. and uII
try 60 bring home to the roEs Jur ,ai-
ne OF unWasted days and work
squareh dome
THE rHHsg talk is planned by IN
Bori 60 be the Hr-t 90 series ut
talks hs citizens 90 NtW Mexico 10 the
boys 81 fha state university THE
taIks are fo boz made not su much DIS
pr0fesia men H- heretofore. Hut .
hy men from sI W#Ik- of life who
hsye beeu agd arr. successful iu 1u.- .
ness. who have achieved gminouce 'U 7
some liur ui work who have over e
come obstacles and difficulties who .
have been tried and tested in the .
erueiUls of Hft
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
ANNOUNCEMENT

hereby announce myself q can.
alat." iag the nomination OF district
attorney for ths Second judicial dis
u... "f me- state OF New Mexico. SUBJ
'r.. q" The action 90 She republican
district convention Tn, support 81
'hr isIsestv, Oh that convention is rr-
f... solicited
TEIIN EACA
"Gcntr, eggs. - cents. S-ld hN
iaffa NaluN and Hawkins
TIN ONLY WAY Pae
livery AMI saddle horses. Tumhle's
Red Barn
HerbOth paints signs, houses
and deCorateS. Phone 1885
Henry haulS baggage and
other things. Phone 939.
THE ONLY WAY %?
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06

Extra large line eating and canning
pears 81 per pound delivered Place
order &c once before an gone. ilt
Sc-th Arro, Phone 102@.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
Any untrimmed shape
in the house Sl.00. Fer
guson's, lO9 S. Fourth.
THE ONLY WAY p?
SPENCER SWEET PEAS.

Beautiful, fragrant, long stock five
'Oiors, zoe per 100. Rio Grande In
iustriAl school Phone 2iO6 IA, or at
Strong's book store.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06

Nendome Annex, first class rooms,
running water IN each room. Mrs.
John Cornetto, Prom
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
Any untrimmed shape
in the house $l.O0. Fer
guson S, l09 S. Fourth.
INCOR SCoITIoK

Contractor aud Carpenter special
attention PAID to alI kinds ur iohbiug
~huI'-2tt Nest silver Phone 2tnOIl
Gail zap m evening"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
Any untrimmed shape
in the house Sl.00. Fer
guson's, l09 S. Fourth.
hoy. CnII.ARS

npG COLL AIRS.
Dog collars ta order Dog tax rE
etei fo collars free OF charge
HATSER'S SAppLEEY.
Ia West copper.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06

DAILY AUTO FOR JENITH AND
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
leaves Pu~tntiicc ) a, m. For mfoF-
nation Phone ESQ or call al "a Nest
silver. 4 Romeru
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06

NJ POS North Walnut what VI
ways something good to cat
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06

CRESCENT HARDWARE CO.
ripr
mi tng lea ~ Work.
2tS CENTRAL
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
BEBBER, OPTICIAN
Citizens Bank Bldg.
Or. c. H. Conner
- VI WILLIAMS

tt~N tltafh
stern bldg Phones tff.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

professor of mathematics in the mill
tary academy.
Bannack in those days was tumult-
Gus and rough, the headquarters of
a band of highwaymen, but it includ-
ed also in its population a number
of sturdy and worthy pioneers. These
people determined that their children
should have such schooling as it was
possible to provide for them and in
a few weeks after her arrival at the
settlement Miss Darling was engaged
as instructor. The problem Of quar-
tiers for the school remained to be
solved. Miss Darling, accompanied
by her uncle, the chief justice, went
to the home of a man who owned some
houses in the town, one Of which, is
was thought, might answer the pur-
pose. Her reception is best told in
her own words. In an article pub
lished by the Historical Society of
Montana, she says:
"With some difficulty, we found
his humble residence and raped loud
ly at the door. For some time no
one responded, but finally a mans
voice called. 'Comc in Pushing
open the door, we saw in the dim
light a man lying in buffalo robes on
the floor. He did not rise to meet
u.s. for he had not fully recovered
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

TO the outskirts Of Hamilton, not the
Hamilton Of the present day, but 4
typical western town that later gave
place to Manhattan. Here was open
ed a school for girls, the Gallatin
Valley Female seminary, Miss Critten-
den becoming the principal. The cur
riculum of study included music, vocal
and instrumental. On Thanksgiving
day of 1878 the school again moved,
this time to q point fixed farther up
the valley. The faculty then included
Miss Ella Aylesworth, who later be-
ca Mrs. Edsall.
The academy broke up in 1873 with
the marriage Of its principal, the
knot being tied by the brides father
under the big tree on the academy
grounds.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

gallows tree up Hangman's gulch
many times bore fruit for the healing
Of the n%ation.''
The next term of school was held in
a cabin built on the banks of the
stream. This cabin later was sold
to the territorial government to be
used as a senate committee room,
while the first legislature was in scs-
sion. The second teacher of the Ban
mack school was Mrs. Thomas Wat
son in the summer of 1861, and the
third, William Mitchell. in the winter
of that year and in 1865.
The first school district in Mon
tana was organized in Virginia City
in 1866. A Mr.. Thrasher was chosen
as school commissioner. Mrs. Sarah
Raymond Herndon took the examin-
alton for school teacher and received
a first grade certificate, for which she
paid six dollars. She was appointed
principal and school was opened or
March 5 in the Union church, built
Of logs two years before. The strnc-
, ture continued to be used on Sun.
days for preaching and Sunday school
There were 81 pupils registered il
this school and the average attend
ance was from so to go. AS there
were different textbooks in every
family, there was quite a variety hero
as at Bannack in the books used
There were no books to be bought eX
cept Webster's little blue-backe,
speller at a cost of II dollar a
copy, and there were not enough I,
supply the demand. There was ap
propriated 5000 to pay the teachers
of which 1925 went to Mrs. Herndol
and $75 to the primary teacher, wh'
for the first month was a Mrs. Farley
When Miss Jennie Bell of Helena sue
ceeded Mrs. Farley the appropriation
was divided equally between the prin
cipal and the primary teacher. Befor
the next term a log school house wa
built, with two rooms, n for eacl
department.
This pioneer school edited a pape
called "The School Dispatch,' whic]
was read every other Friday, wit
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

from the results of imbibing too free
~ from the favorite and %profuse bev-
erage then SO plenty, and his voice was
still too thick to be easily understood.
My uncle stated to him our GRAND.
"'Yes, glad Of it, he said, CID
shame; children running around the
streets; ought to be In school. 1 will
do anything I can to help her; she
IAN have this room.'
ole kept on telling us how much a
school was needed, and how willing
he was to assist in establishing it, till
my uncle interrupted him by asking
what rent he would charge for the
room.
"'Well, [ will do anything 1 can;
| will give it to her cheap. She shall
have it for $50 a month. | won't
ask her a cen more. It is dirt cheap
"And he continued dilating upon
his interest in educational institutions,
with many profane explosives. We
left him still telling of his wish to
be generous; but we decided that a
rude habitation of that quality, plas-
tered inside and outside with mud.
with a mud roof and dirt floor was
not dirt cheap, even with the exorbit-
ant prices at that time prevailing in
Bannack, and that the room was not
suitable for my purpose. 1t was some
time in October, 1868, [ think, that the
school was opened in II own house.
on the banks of Grasshopper creek. .
Some difficulty was encountered in
i%mprovising seats and desks for tho
! pupils and at first only morning SEES
sions were held.
"There was no discussion nor was
there any differences OF opinion as I,
what system Of school books shoul(
be uscd,' writes Mrs. Park. $50,
the scholars were obliged to use sucl
books as they had brought with them
or as could be secured from thei>
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

spelling matches on the intervening
Fridays. The Friday afternoon exer-
cises attracted much interest and
there were always visitors. The log
schoolhouse was replaced in 1867 by
a brick building with four rooms.
AS other sections of the state were
settled, the school master or mis-
tress always was included among the
pioneers. The first public school in
what is now Fergus county was held
in a log cabin as early as 1881. Ed
ward Brassey was the first teacher
\ frame building was erected in 1888
The first school house in Great
Falls was erected in 1885, the first
teacher being Rev. James Largent of
the Christian church.
Some of the earliest Montana
schools We're founded under church
auspices. In 1872, Rev. Lyman B
Crittenden and his daughter, Mary
g., afterwards Mrs. Edward M. David
son, opened in Bozeman an academy
for boys and girls. This was a mis-
s%ionary school with the backing OF
the "Ladies' Home Missionar,
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27
Gibson Predicts $3.50 Wheat.

Great Falls.-Paris Gibson predicts
that before next years crop is har-
vested wheat will be $3.50 a bushel.
He holds that the European war is
likely to continue at least another
year and points out that wheat always
has sold higher after a var than dur
ing the continuance of hostilities. He
bases his prediction W a soaring price
largely on the revelation that much
of the spring wheat crop Of the two
Dakotas and Minnesota weighs only so
to 50 pounds to the bushel, being eight
to 10 pounds below the standard
weight and thus unfit for first class
milling purposes.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

The school lands had their origin
in a grant Of two sections in every
township p, one eighteenth Of all the
land in the state, made when the
state was admitted to the union -
years ago. These lands are sold to
settlers at auctions held from time
to time. The minimum price is $40
an acre, but frequently they bring
more. The lands not sold are leased.
thereby giving additional revenue. All
the larger towns contain high schools
and nearly 20 counties maintain
ty high schools under special provl-
sion made by the legislature for such
institutions.
Special provision also has been
made for institutions of higher learn
ing. For this purpose vast areas We're
set aside by act of congress when the
state was admitted, the grants for the
higher schools a%ggregating 700 square
miles. The income from this source is
supplemented by legislative appropri-
atoms.
As with the early settlers Of New
England, the problem of providing the
children with a common school educa-
ton was one Of the first considera-
tions of those who came in the pio-
necr days to make their home in Mon
tana.
1t seems that with the exception of
a subscription school conducted in
Nevada City in Alder gulch by Miss
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27
POLICEMAN TAKES GANDER
WITH HIM ON HIS ROUNDS

St. Louis. Police Sergeant David
Field tells how Joe, a trained gander,
follows Patrolman Joseph Horn on
his beat from Lee to Carter avenue
and Fair to Newsstand avenue. Horn,
according to the sergeant, won the
gander at a street carnival rattle
about a year ago and has trained it to
accompany him on his rounds.
Field said that when Horn wants
to rout an alley gang he "sicks" the
gander on them. It then flies down
the alley, honking as it goes. 1t is
a terror to negroes, Field says, and
has been known to fight dogs.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

board" Of New York, then organ for
the ''Woman's Home Missionary''
work of the Presbyterian church. The
next year the academy received a
piano from New York, the first seen
by many of the pupils since they
We're brought from their old hsmcs
in the eastern states. The piano later
became the property of the wife of an
officer stationed at Fort Ellis.
In the fall of 1874 the school was
removed 20 miles down the valley
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27
Montana Leads States in Education


Montana to find educational facilities far superior to those he had
left behind in an older state.
The permanent school fund of the state, which is derived from the
sale of land and timber and is invested in interest bearing bonds, is
greater than $3,000,00O, with less than a tenth of the school lands
already sold. Despite the rapid increase of the number of school
children, the income from this fund has mounted yet more rapidly.
From 1911 to 1916 the apportionment increased from So to $525 per
capita. This amounts to more than So for each child in the common
schools when the county high schools, which do not share in this
apportonment, are left out Of the calculation.
This, however, is only a lesser part of the money devoted to school
uses as each county levies a school tax of four mills, which yields an
average of $40 a pupil. Each district may supplement this by a local
tax up to 10 mills.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27
A Neu Menace
(BY ROBERT sTROTHER.)

Noc-Acordns o a news item: American authors have been asked to form
a union md join the Federation of Labor.
The writers have been asked to join the labor federation and if they
do, a danger grave confronts our worried nation. Suppose the plumb
es call a strike, the writer's, sympathizing, lay down their pens; then
all we have to read is advertising. Or should novelsts decide to strike
for higher wages, or lighter plots, or fewer thrills, or short or longer
pages, just think how many characters would suffer for employment;
their clever thoughts, their bright remarks would bring us no en-
joyment. Some heroines we might have loved would never be created,
and "chan limbed' heroes, too, would pine e'r romance had them
mated. Let railroads stop and lights go out and draymen cease their
draying. Let wharfmen quit and taiors strike and orchestras quit
playing, but on the heads of publishers We'll heap a malediction, should
they refuse a few demands and interrupt our fiction,
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

Chinook.--A committee has been
appointed to raise funds and effect
the organization of a commercial club
here. A salaricd secretary will be
employed. The decision to organize
the club was made at a meeting of
business men addressed by A. B.
Breitenstein, secretary Of the Great
Falls Commercial club, and G.. w.
Bulmer, chairman of the membership
committee Of the Great Falls organ
i@zation.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27
Wise Hubby.

"Oh, Hubby exclaimed Mrs:
Younebride. "a nasty tramp sneakcd
into the kitchen just now and stole
the biscuits I baked this afternoon.
Hadn't you better call up the police
station?'
"No," replied Hubby. ~ think
I had better call up the hospital"
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

Kate NJ. Dunlap, the first school for
white children in Montana was the
one opened in Bannack in October,
1863. This school was taught by
Mrs, S. W. Park, then Miss Lucia
Darling, niece of Sidney Ed"crton,
then chief justice of the new terri
tory of Idaho. who became the first
governor of Montana. One of the
pupils was Wright Prescott Edgerton,
the chief Justices son, who died in
1904 at West Point, where he was
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

neighbors, for there was no book store
in the country. It was a somewhat
strange gathering of school books for
they came from Maine and Missouri,
and many other states were repre-
sented.'
The school closed on the approach
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

Montana promises to become a leader among all states in education.
During the past five years more school houses have been built in
this state than in any other.
Only four states exceed Montana in the per capita expenditure for
children Of school age.
Only three states west of the Mississippi have public school prop
ery of as great a value in proportion to the school population.
The average annual salary paid to public school teachers, $645, is
equalled by only six other states. The average for the entire United
States is $485.
A comparative study of the nations public school systems con-
Quoted by the Russell Sage foundation, recently disclosed that many
states with more than double the population of Montana expend less
for the maintenance of schools. In fact many a settler has come to
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-27

Of cold and again for the summer
vacation, with the advent Of warn
weather. 1t was during this period
that the vigilance committee rid the
territory Of the highwaymen, and, as
the pioneer teacher remarks, "the
Arizona republican., 1916-02-07
ENGLAND SEES PR0bLEMAHEAD
 IN SOLDIERS
tRepubIican A. P. Leased wirel

LONDON, Feb. 6-One of the results of the war, according to reliable infor- nation, will be the adoption by the government of a big scheme of land purchase for England, such as has been so successful in Ireland
 Confronted with the two-fold prob lem of providing employment for dis the war, and the desirablity also dem onstrated by experience in the war, of materially increasing home grown food supplies, the home office, the board of trade and the board of agri- culture entered into consultation with the war office and the admiralty, and the outcome was the appointment by the board of agriculture of a special committee presided over by Sir Harry C. W. Nerney, parliamentary secretary to the board of agriculture.
 The report of the committee, which will shortly be published. is said tC recommend extensive acquisitions c1 land by compulsory purchase for the establishment of colonies of small hold CTS and the development of co-opera tive buying and marketing and of agri- culture credit banks, together with provision for a large state grant to put the proposals into operation Natural, the scheme will require parliamentary ! sanction.
Arizona republican., 1916-02-07

business here, the right kind of busi- speaking French and Italian, and men who are willing to stay in the country long enough to learn it's ways. The only Americans who have ever come here previously were those merely bent on pleasure, or during the war to sell munitions or coal or something of that sort. Frequently these men, be- cause of their lack of proper training, have fallen into the hands of interme- diaries of questionable characters, and their ventures have not turned out well.
 Italy will be a virgin field for Amer
 ican business. Before the war her foreign business was largely in the hands of the Germans. because the
 English and French had neglected the markets. The Germans offered long
 credits, say of six months to year. asking only part payment down. , While the Germans have not, as has been stated, any very large invest ments of capital here, they did succeed l in doing a prosperous business One of the reasons for this, with the smaller ! houses, was also because the Germans 1 quoted prices and weights in Italian money and by the mertic system
 italy will perhaps come out of this
 war in better condition than any other
 nation in Europe and therefore be one whose business is worth going after | She will have not been devasted, and will not have lost so many men, and l those sine haS lost will be rapidly l replaced because of the well known fecundity of the Italian family Her 1 business will not be shot to pieces l One has but to look at her stores now
 to see that they are full of cash buyers | The recent postal savings bank reports
 show a continental increase on de- pOsitS. My own bank and other banks
 are growing too. There will be no diff ficultY with her new loan, one-half o1 1 1t being already guaranteed by Italian bankers. There is much loose talk about the war impoverishing nations In Italy much of the money spent or
 the war is spent right in the country and the money merely changes hands l Taxation from now on to pay the in terest on these war loans and to later pay them off will increase. Yet Italian | taxation will not be so severe as not te l be met. There is still a good margin
 of profit for us after We pay our taxes present and future"