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Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

Three marriage licenses were issued
Saturday; Jim Edwards, of Mexico.
and Mrs Lily Nichols, Of MEXICO.
Phillip A. Dent, of vandalia, and Mis-
Elizabeth Morgan, of vandalia. OH,
novins, Of Thompson, and Miss Laura
Belle Chism, Of Auxvasse.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

Last May the Grown Laundry pur-
chased sufficient blueing to last them
two years at $2.65 a pound. Today
that hlueing, if it can be secured, is
being sold for $40 a pound. Another
argument from the war in favor Of
preparedness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
lacked Horns Hold Deer.

international Falls, MINI, Feb. z.
The head Of two buck deer with
their horns locked were received here
from Waukana, where they we're Sc
sured by a hunter during the big
game season. One animal was dead
from a broken neck when the two were
found and the live one wal killed,
The horns cannot be separated and
win be mounted as they wer found.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
PAID 2 Y BILLION FOR MILK.

Washington, Feb. 4-The value Of
the 1915 milk production Of the United
States is estimated at more than ~
billion dollars in a Department Of
Agriculture statement issued recent
~. This is based on an average price
Of twenty cents a gallon paid to pro
drcers for 1880 million gallons.
The production is equivalent to
about lis gallons Of milk per capita
population. In the North Atlantic
states The per capita production is put
at seyenty-one gallons; South Allan
tic, sixty-six; North Central, 1888;
South Central lightweight; far
West, 1888.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

Kewanee, Ill., Feb. farm land
in this vicinity has touched 5000 an
acre-the highest price yet recorded.
George A. White, living in the La.
fayette neighborhoOd, has just dis.
posed Of his farm at that figure and
will nov to Kewanee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
Bowling Alley 70 Move.

About the first of March the Rob-
erts Bros, will move their bowling
alley from the West building to the
old post Office room across the street
from the present location. The new
room will give them much more floor
space.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

Geo. Brock who suffered a faintinp
attack Sunday morning and fell
cracking a rib is feeling much better.
This will be good news to his many
friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

J. G. Wilkins formerly Of this city.
is now in Oklahoma City.
Centralia is discussing a municipal
central heating plant.
". D. Kushlett, of Martinsburr,
was in this cit. Monday on business.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
Rod CARRIERS PAY Is
TWICE RURAL TEACHERS

Je9erson City. Ne January 81
A ho5rzrrieg gets n0ss wagez in Mis-
sozd by working half q his time than
3 teacher IL the rural schools This
zrzssneut Erds c~oufrzzti0n IN the
annual report Of STATE Superintendent
Of Public Schools Howard A. Cas- for
the past rear and which is nov OF
press The average salary paid rural
teachers for q school year Is 1929
City teachers 90 better. The aver
age paid them IS s741 a year.
The superintendent says that stat
istes for the past five years show that
the r1ral school population has been
decreasing at the rate Of 5000 pupils a
year and the attendance at the city
schools has been increasing at the
rate Of 5000 . year. But a little more
than one-haH Of the children attend
ing the country schools complete the
elementary course, as compared with
the cities. The country districts have
expended but s24 per pupil on build
ings, while cities have expended five
times this amount. The levy for the
country child Is So cents per 500 as,
sessed valuation and for the city pupil
K1I7
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

George Marshall, of this city, is /.
candidate for the Westminster Col.
lege Fulton, debating team,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

J. L. Marquette. of Slater, was a
business visitor in this city Thursday.
Mrs. G. P. Malone Is visiting in St.
Louis,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

C. A. Buckner was in st. Louis
Thursday to hear President Wilson
speak.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

"None Of the men who took princi-
pal roles in 1910 has been killed in
the fighting, according to the latest
information l have from home. Most
Of them are in the front ranks, and
most Of the women are working for
the Red Cross or tilling the fields
about the village where their hus-
bands and brothers are no longer to
be seen.
zone great figure of the play is
still at home. He is Anton Lang, who
was the Christ Of the 1910 perfor-
nance. Reports reached this country
some time ago that he had been kill
ed. Those reports are false. Mr..
Lang was excused from military SER
vice early in life for physical causes
and has never borne arms"
Most Of Fraulein Mayors life has
been given up to training for the
Passion Play"
"But that is nothing unusual in
0berammergau," she said. Nearly
all the people there give their lives to
the play"
Began as Little Girl.
II appeared first in 1890 as a little
girl, waving palm branches and fig
uring in tableaux. Ten years later
/ was an angel in the Garden Of
Gethsemane. In 1910 / realized the
ambition which every girl in the vii
lage feels when l wal given the role
Of Mary Magdalene. That role win
never be assigned to me again. ]
must surrender it to a younger per-
son. The parts of Mary and Mary
Magdalene are never played twice by
the same person. With the men it is
custom to continue the same person
in their roles. But ten years make
such a change in a woman's appear
ance that she is never allowed to re-
peat a role"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

J.. o. Miller, Of Columbia, was in
this city on business Wednesday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

]. ". Woodbridge is home from st.
Louis where he heard President VII
son speak.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

Claude Moores, Of Columbia W
in this city Thursday.
7. J. Hoxsey, who has been qui" :
is able to be out. a..
]. +. Moore, of Fulton, was IN w.
city Friday. !,
G. c. Lawrence, of near Conc0f' :
i'll at the hospital.
Postmaster Pike, Of MartlnsO1''
was in this city on buiEaes' fr'o'''
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10

Mrs. Hugo Monnig, of Jefferson
City, will spend the weekend with
Mrs. L. NJ. White.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
WARS RESULTS WILL NOT
HALT THE PASSION PLAY

Chicago, III, Feb. War may
bring havoc to the little German VII
lage Of oberammergau, bat the pas
sion Play" viii live. This Is the word
which Fraulein Marie Mayer brings to
Chicago. Fraulein Mayer was Mary
Magdalene in the 1910 performance of
the play. She came to America to tel
the people who for centuries have
made their deeennial re-enaetment of
the passion play a magnet to draw all
the world TO their village.
@The ancient vow Of oberammergau
viii never be broken because Of war,
Fraulein Mayer said. Il believe that
in 1920 regardless of the desolation
that may visit the village, its people
will enter into preparations for the
Passion Play with greater devotion
than ever before. l should not say
that, either, for / do not know how
they could exhibit more devotion to
the play than they have in centuries
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
Rural Cost is Half.

The superintendent makes compar-
isons between the rural and city
schools az follows;
Forty-six per rent Of the enrolment
attend the country schools to 81 per
cent Of attendance in the cities. The
cost for a rural child attending school
the entire year is 1885. and the ex.
penditures on a city child is s35.13 for
the same purpose. The school levy
for the country pupils is 50 cents on
the 500 and SLIT in the cities. In
brief, the superintendent concludes
that more than FIVE times the amount
Of money is expended on the children
Of the city schools to what is expend-
ed in the rural districts.
The state school money for the 1915
1916 school year mount to s1,943,-
744.02. The enumeration shows 922..
s31 children Of school age. Of thi;
number 855,3s7 are white and 37,44C
negroes. There are in all 1892 dis
triets. For the past year the teach
ers were paid a total of s10,s4O,s62.23
For new buildings, repairs, equip
ments, etc, the expenditures were S..
360,597.63 for the same period.
There are in all 1885 school teach
ers in the public schools. Of this num-
Der 4470 are males and 1906 females
The average levy the state over fol
school purposes is So cents on the 500
valuation.
Male teachers in the city schools re.
ceiye an average annual salary Of
s1021.73 and female teachers in same
schools S678.4s. In the rural schools
the average is S360.16 for the male
teachers and s3l5.99 for the female
teachers.
The first consolidated school dis.
trict was established at Hickman'r
mill, jackson County, in 1902, and i;
known as the Ruskin High Schoo.
district. There are now seventy-one
of these districts, with ninety-ninC
high school teachers and 1855 grade
teachers. The property Of these schools
is worth $4,000, and they are sup
ported by an average levy of 10 cent,
on the 500 assessed valuation. They
have 1926 pupils in the high schoo.
grades and 11,673 in the lower grade,
There now are 600 high schools in the
state.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-02-10
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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
SUMMER SCHOOL OPENS

The tri-county teachers summe,
sEnool and institute convened in
Glasgow Monday with about seventy
i'Ve teachers enrolled at the omen
ing session in the forenoon, and 9TH
ers coming in on trains during the
morning. "o'''''
me counties of Valley. Sheridan
ana Phillips have combined this YEAR
IN a tour-weeks course of normal
school instruction under a corps of
instructors from this and other
northwestern states '''e'
me forenoon of Monday was talk
en- up in the preliminary work or
registering or enrolling the visiting
.eachers and assigning them to their
piaces OF entertainment, where nre-
vlous arrangements had not been
made "o' ".'e''
,, IN the afternoon the regular pro-
gram OF the summer school Session
W. was carried out for the first time to
lanllllarlze the teachers with the
routine work. Wv" '''e
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
SAD TRAGEDY At GLASGOW

ihe lifeless bodies of Teddy, stey,
ana Fel1X Jruek, aged s, 10 and !,
years respectively. found together a
'ne oottom OF reservoir near Glas
gov" pore mute testimony of des
'eha'e struggle in which two OF tn,
poys gave up their lives in a yai,
ehort TO save that Of the third. All
were drowned Sunday and their bod.
les were recovered Monday morning.
ne boys were brothers, sons al
FRANK Jurek, who lives on a home
Slead seven miles southwest Of elias.
gov. They went bathing in a reser-
Vo'r on the Oscar Johnson place near
'lle'f nome. None Of them could
swim but the water near the edges
OF the reservoir was not deep.
NO one. saw what happened hut
'ne position OF the bodies and their
attitudes told the story. One of the
boys got beyond his depth. evidentlv
Tn lhe Youngest: The other boys Wen,
A. once to his assistance, not think
lhg or the danger to themselves but
'h1y or saving the younger child.
= sister OF the boys went later 70
ook for them. She found their
on the bank of the reservoir
Ina u, looked for them in the water
hey were not to be seen. She hur-
''ed nome and told her parents.
coroner Peterson went To the
scene OF the drowning Monday morn
ng, and with the assistance of
le1ghbors. the bodies of the bovs
we're recovered. Funeral services
we're held Tuesday.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
MAKING \ FARM PAY
IN NIL X RIVER VALLEY

That l.. c. Edwards is not only {
successful business man but is year
ly proving himself to he scien.
tlic farmer as we'll, is now an as
sured fact
A trip Tuesday night across the
river to the Edwards farm in COM
pany with P. A. Laramy and the
owner OF the farm convinced a re-
porter for this paper that Mr.. Ed
wards certainly knows how to farm
rlght and not only that but people
, daily come to him for advice in farm
; matters, so we will not be surprised
to hear OF him writing farm articles
Tor the leading newspapers soon. and
be IN the same class with Prof Shaw
and others.
Bit Of History.
Inc Edwards farm consists of 400
acres OF good tillable land as level
as moor and is situated Just across
the river from Malta and runs clear
pack to the foot hills. In the be-
ginning Mr.. Edwards purchased the
OLD Dan KENYON homestead of 100
acres including the former residence
oi WI. Kenyon TO this later he
added the homestead of Louis Du-
Dols and still later desert claim of
MRS. Davidson's. This made the farm
complete to 400 acres. At present
the portion OF the land near the hills
contains fine hay meadow where
Two hundred tons of the finest hav
IN the valley is being put up this
seal' me portion near the county
road is in wheat and the yield from
thls grain has been estimated at
about two thousand bushels, already
ana the wheat at $1OO per bushei |
one can readily figure what the farm |
VIII bring the owner this year
w Wlth nay selling at $1,000 per ton
NY hgure what the farm will bring
the owner this year.
How 1t Was Done.
The above farm has NOT bean al
'o"ed TO run itself by any means. 1t
mas Deen run by the owner and hun-
lreds OF dollars have been spent for
irrigation bitches until today he has
u so under control that one man can
.rrlsate four hundred acres success
-ully alone. The cost of the wafer
ms season was $1.00 per acre foot
INA ne used - acre feet, so it will
'e seen That the cost was not SO great
'fter the irrigation system, was in
t"''eu' nee main lateral bitches
the farm with the aid Of
oInplete network Of smaller litches
IL Will pay onyone to take a look I
t this farm. i
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
TEN DOLLARS AND COSTS

Erick Holmberg. supposed to u.
on his way to Hinsdale, and who wa.
arrested by officer Spooner on trai,
no. one night last week and mi
on the railroad train at Dodson. was
gwen hearing in Judge Wilson's
court yesterday morning. The pris.
oiler was In whole lot calmer mood
than the night when he terrified the
passengers on the train by flourish
'hs gun. etc. and was not renre.
sehted by counsel. but did the talk
ing himself.
ne state was represented nv
county Attorney Wolfe. who made
an able mad convincing address ia
lhe jury. who later found the de-
lehdant guilty as charged, and fined
MN ten days in Jail and the costs ot
,ne case. which will hold him in
walter Days boarding house aboul
all summer. ''''"'
conductor Spooner and the train
crew appeared in court as witnesses
against Holmberg and their story
was not denied by the defendant
IL Will be remembered that y fay
years ago law was passed bv the
Montana state legs!ture giyjne t,o
conductor of railroad train the same
pu"er 10 make arrests as any peace
o1''cer, therefore Conductor Spooupr
was acllng entirely right when he ar.
leseed Holmberg on the train and
tufned him over to the first cnur,,,
officer he met.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
ANOTHER OLD TIMER
CROSSES GREAT DIVIDE,

Death. the grim reaper that is M
respacter OF person. has again in
vaded Phillips county since our las
issue and removed from his lovec
ones the spirit of Thomas Bernard
O'Reilly of Dodson. Funeral services
were conducted from the O'Reill,
home in Dodson Monday and were
under the auspices Of Father Petit
OF the Catholic church, the deceased
having been devout member of
that church all OF his life.
Thomas Bernard O'Reillv was
born i'll Pireboudett, Province of
Quebec. Canada. April 2nd, 1889.
He was married June 18th. 1867. ia
Mary Ann Best at Brockville, Ont.
The family came to Malta in 1895
ana nave ever since resided in and
near this city. Surviving are the
widow. four sons, three daughters,
eleven grandchildren and three Sis
tiers: The children are Joseph, John
OF sasgatoon, Canada; James Henry
OF Exeter; Percy Raymond and Thos.
Bernard OF Dodson; Mrs. James Fin
eran OF Wagner, and Mrs. Daniel
Nicholson and Mrs. Edgar Lee of
Dodson.
Not only will the genial presence
or l. 3. OReilly be greatly missed
by his relatives, but our citizens will
great y miss the smiling face of this
gray haired old gentleman, who al
ways had a kind word for all and
was one Of the best boosters Phil
lips county ever had.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
PROCLAMATION.

Whereas. petitions signed by III.
requisite number OF voters and pray
ing for the initiation of a certai,
measure to be hereinafter more mar
tlcularly described, have been dull,
and regularly filed in the office oI
'he secretary of state within the time
required by the Constitution of the
state OF Montana; and
whereas, the governor of the state
Is required by law to issue his proc
Ia amatlon announcing the filing OF
such petitions;
Now. Therefore, I. S. V. Stewart.
as governor of the state of Montana
40 hereby proclaim the filing Of such
petitions for the submission to the
qualified voters of the state of Mon
tana for their approval or election.
at the regular election to be held ON
me seventh day Of November. A ID.
l?l6. OF bill for an act entitled:
An act establishing a state ath-
ie'1c commission and regulating box
ing and sparring in the state of Mon
tana."
IN witness whereof ] have hereun~
TO set my hand and caused the Great
Seal OF the state to be affixed.
Done at Helena, the capital. this
'he eighteenth day of July, in the
year or our Lord one thousand nine
h"hdred sixteen. and of the indie
pendence Of the United States OF
america the one hundred forty-frst
S. Y. STEW ART.
.! the Governor.
A. M. ANDERSON
Secretary OF State.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
WHY?

| Why has Judge Utter a1w.v
salle' Il large jury list. and then ex
hem?
why has he offered to advauc,
.no''ev 10 persons called to serve a;
| Jurors? {"
| The Reason.
L! calling large jury list he
eo','es IN contact with more peOplc
ahu at the expense of the TAXPAYER.
~ mus enabled to use his court in,
political purposes.
u! eXcuslng great number o,
'"ose summoned to act as Jurors
WIN "A few words expressed for pure-
y pollllcal reasons, he endeayors tn
!npress upon them the iuconyen-
renee which they will experience by
Sue'ns compelled to act as jurymen at
.nat t'me. and that he being public
neheiactor necessarily shares their
.ncohVehlence. and at the expense of
.ne TAX payer excuses them, hoping
,nat ne has made another vote for
n'msel1. and disregarding the fact.
lhat the trial of cases is DELAYED. and
additional expense insured
Judge Utter has never informed
We persons serving as jurors that
they are entitled to go to the clerk
VI VI 'he court and draw their milea ge
.o' one way upon arrival. and their
per d'em every day for each days at
.e'i"ahce' but has informed them
from the bench that he will advance
a small portion thereof as a personal
1avor. thereby endeayoring to place
the members OF the jury under some
opli&atlon to him. the compensation
Delhg their vote when the Judge is
up for reelection
The Result.
Iile expense incurred for each
Juror IN attendance is i'm the neigh
borilood of from fifteen to twenty
uofiars. and as all the court expenses
oi the various counties must he
ooFhe by the tax payers. it is need
less to say that the unnecessary
court expenses is an additional bur
len upon them.
The Remedy.
l-et us use every effort to place Il
udse upon the bench that is compp-
eht. one that will not use his court |
or political purposes, at the expense I
II the poor tax payer, one that will |
lot lrT to jolly the public into think |
n& That he is acting for them and |
hfa alone, when the real reason is
urely selfish and political. one tha,
~ nol be influenced by self greed
ne that will handle the business
,'th an earnest endeaVOr to nete
Ill justice fairly and ntellgently,
Irrespective OF the conseuuences
llher political or otherwise, and
zen and only then will court expeus-
) be reduced and Justice impartially
ispensed, the only effective rem
~ is the ballot, and it is our duty
cast that ballot for John Hurley
lo eliminate high court expenses
'u political campaigning from the
ench.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
hhVrHER VAN IN THE CITY

w. W. VanOrsdel. known to al
''ios' every man. woman and child
all over northwestern Montana as
bro'her Van. was spending a few
''o"rs IN Malta Wednesday and
checklng up church matters with
rev. Cookingham Always hannv
th1s grand old gentleman makes the
world lot better and the people
as Well just by circulating among us
"l'h ms wealth OF good stories and
cheering greetings for all.
brother Van" has host of
trends In Malta who are always glad
to have him call ~ ''"u
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
COUNTY EXHIBIT Ar
MONTANA STATE FAIR

t Helena, Mont. Aug. 2.-A,re.dv
counties have announced that
they Will make exhibits at the state
ialr this llfa--the best fair ever TO
De held in Montana-on apDronria-
tlons made by their county comm;s-
] sloners. under the law allowing such
appropriations up to the sum of
81 900. ~
Now is the time for the other
counties to make state fair appro-
prlatlons. and plan their exhibits
IL mas been demonstrated that $3.50
| VIII PROVIDE a splendid exhibit a
prize winning exhibit. if the money is
spent upon the judicious collection
OF materials. and hustling, we'll
uuailneu man is put in charge.
NO county can afford to overlook
'he state fair as the one great land
ana agricultural and livestock adver~
l'selhg agency in the state The eff
.of's Secr'ary X. S. Skinner is max.
ing 10 excel former state fairs, and
SOME OF tnem have been dandies, will
surely make it the big noise.
me noise will be heard all over
'he hlted States by land buyers and
r1o' wv SCltlclS. lu6N VIII he
coming here in thousands every veal,
now for some years. and counties
that make exhibits at the fair will,
nave something immediately avail
able and tangible to attract their at
tentlon. and conclusvely demon
strate what the farms OF the country
VIII do. 1t will pay
Montana's winnings at the Pan
ma Pacific exposition at San Fran
CISCO. including three grand prizes
and many medals. made the state.
splehdld resources and fertile lands
known, State fair exhibits will ad
Nef1ist counties, localities.
For the best five sheaves of wheat
ana one Eushel Of wheat the largest
and most valuable premium ever off.
"fed ny a state fair will be awarded
4 Big Bull tractor worth S730
Every wheat farmer in the state
ouSh' TO tr. for this Montana heat
Il" world at San Francisco with her
"het 1t will be "some wheat" that
peafs every other exhibit in the stat,
ana takes the bull tractor.
NO county should fail to have an
Ahlbl' and a county can exhibit or
rom 500 to 81, ,O0Oo
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-08-03
TWELVE TONS or FLOUR

There is no longer any question
about Circle Diamond -four not fill.
ing long felt want in Malta as the
past week the Malta Milling com
pany has sold twelve tons OF their
Huor to local consumers. j. F..
duff purchased 7la tons, B.. ID.
Phillips tons and the other half
ton was divided among local mer
chants. The flour is holding up well
and it is certainly well worth the
money. The mill is running daily
to IT'S full capacity and yet they can
not keep up with their orders.