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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29

Take your prescriptions to the
Owl Drug Store. adv.
John Rouillier and Joe Promo
vost both bought new Stude-
baker cars last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Bronson
have gone on a trip to Nebraska
and Missouri to visit relatives.
Winn Davenport and family
left last Friday for Helena where
they expect to reside this winter.
The same thing much cheaper at the Owl.
Frank Olmstead and w. V.
Windus, of the Scarce store,
were Christmas visitors in Mis-
soula.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Cooper and
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Dexter spent
Christmas in Missoula with
friends.
Bee Hive restaurant now open
under new management. Clean,
quick and good service. = Powell
& Hawkins. --adv. 32-5p
One hundred and fifty cars of
wheat have been shipped from
the station at Ravalli since the
1916 crop started to move.
The same thing mnch cheaper at the Owl.
A marriage license was issued
last week Wednesday to R. E.
McCracken and Miss Zaidee
Irish, both of Canada, but now
living north of Roman.
Jesse Winn is home from Ro-
chester, Minn., where he went
for an operation. Jesse is feel
ing fine and believes he will soon
be able to do a mans work
again.
On Saturday, Dec. 80, a big leap
year dance will be given in the
Roman hall. A four piece or
chestra will furnish the music
and the gentlemen will pay for
the tickets, $1.00. adv.
Mrs. D. N. Mason and children
left this week for Spokane on a
visit to Mrs. Mason's parents.
They will remain there until Mr..
Mason's return from Helena,
where he will attend the session
of the legislature.
H. E. Wright, a former home
steader just west of Camp A,
returned last week from South
Dakota, where he has been for
the past three years. Mr.. Wright
still owns his homestead and has
returned to stay. In addition to
farming his land, we understand
it is his intention to go into bust
ness in the new town on the big
fiat.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
Farm Home Burns

The house on the Stanley
Scarce farm four miles north
east of Roman burned last Tues
day night about seven o'clock.
The house was occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. j. B. Martin, who lost
everything in the shape of house.
hold goods, provisions and CLOTH
ing, except what they wore when
the fire was discovered. A de-
fective fue is said to have caused
the fire.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29

There will be a dance and
oyster supper at the Round Butte
school house on Saturday night,
Dec. 80. Price $1.00. All are
cordially invited. lady.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Bonaparte,
bride and groom and both In
dians, spent yesterday in Mis-
soula, going today to their home
near Roman. Thursdays Mis-
soulian.
Mrs H. E. Stansbury and Mrs.
C. F. Rathbone will entertain the
Ladies' Aid at the home of the
former on Thursday afternoon,
January 4. A cordial invitation
extended to all.
The Round Butte Ladies' Aid
will meet at the home of Mrs.
Carstens on Wednesday after
noon, January 3, 1917. All
members are requested by the
president to be present.
1t is conceded that the indie
pendents in the next congress
will hold the balance of power.
Both republicans and democrats
claim to be confident of winning
the speakership when the real
test comes.
During the fire Wednesday
night j. A. McGeorge drove in
from his home nine miles south
west of Roman, after a doctor.
His little daughter, Anna, was
seriously sick with pneumonia.
Word from her yesterday after
noon was to the effect that she
was in a dangerous condition.
DR.. Fuhrer is attending her.
Invitations are out announcing
the marriage on January 3, at
the George Lindsay home eleven
miles southwest of Roman, of
Evelyn Irene Lindsay to Ernest
C. McCollum, and Elsa Edna
Lish to John Andrew Lindsay.
The young people are all we'll
known in the valley and their
host of friends will join the Pho
neer in extending hearty con-
gratulations and best wishes for
future happiness and prosperity.
From the best of information
at hand there is every reason to
believe that the Pioneers type
setting machine is stalled in a
swow bank somewhere back in
North Dakota. Our contract
with the manufacturers provided
that it was to be in operation by
January LIST, but it looks now as
if this part of it will not be full
filled. However, it will be along
as. soon as the Northern Pacific
digs out the freight trains stalled
in the eastern billiards.. Its
non arrival is a Disappointment to
the Pioneer-but this is world
of disappointments and we hope
to be able to announce it's arrival
in the next issue.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
Let's Boost Roman.

All town lots owned by Stanley Scear-
ce and the Flathead Townsite Co., ex-
cept lots in block Scarce addition,
will be sold on reasonable basis tc
bonatide builders.
STANLEY SCARCE.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29

Why not buy lot or two before the
prices are raised? Roman will boom
next year, and that year is not far off.
There are few choice, lots left in
Scarce addition, at modest prices.
STANLEY SCARCE.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
Taken UD

One roam steer 2-years old left ear
marked. Been at my place since last
fall. Owner pay charges and take
him. B. P. Trosper. 33-35p
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
Auto For Sale

Five passenger model SO Overland,
run about 1900 miles. In good con-
dition. | need the money and have no
use for the re. H. Rathbone.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
Take your prescriptions to the
Owl Drug Store. adv.

NCOl &c AllCu ICAC VVOAllOoAeAJ
for Olympia, WASH, where he
will spend the winter.
C. V. Klotsche is improving
from his recent illness and ex-
poets to be out again in a few
days.
Hattie A. Billings this week
filed homestead application for
the northwest quarter of the
northwest quarter of section 6,
1920.
The same thing much cheaper at the Owl.
The Owl Drug Store has on
display a fine lot of Christmas
goods ivory, jewelry, toilet ar
ticles, Community Silver, etc. -
adv.
Edward Dupuis and Clara Nc
Kinney of Roman, and Carl j.
Carlson and Nora Fleming of
Horte, were granted marriage
licenses last Saturday.
The shortest days of winter
are gone but the lengthening
process will be slow and barely
noticeable for a month to come.
At least we have the brighter
side to look forward to.
Wheat was quoted at Ravalli
yesterday as follows: No. l
Northern, $1.48. No. 2 Turkey,
SLAP. No. 2 Western, $1.36.
No. 2 Western white, $1.33. No.
l Durham. $1.A8. Oats, $1.25.
Jim Nash pulled out last Fri
day for Salem, Oregon, to eat
Christmas dinner with his
mother. After a long siege of
patching on the Flathead, Jim's
friends are worried to no little
extent over the effects of his
dining on Christmas under the
parental roof.
Christmas was spent very
quietly in Roman. The usual
Christmas dinners, midnight
mass at the Catholic church and
Christmas tree and program
by the Sunday school children at
the Methodist church, provided
the entertainment for old and
young.
Deputy Sheriff Engle took
Mrs. Rose Adams to Missoula
last Sunday night for examin-
alton by the insanity board. She
was adjudged insane at a hear
ing Tuesday and on Wednesday
was taken to the state hospital
for the insane at Warm Springs.
Mrs. Adams was in the asylum
for some time a couple of years
ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Davenport
have gone to Hamilton where
they will spend the winter with
a son. They expressed their in
tention of returning to Roman in
the spring. Mr.. and Mrs. Day.
export have lived in this vicinity
for the past seven years and
have many friends in and around
Roman. Mrs. Davenport will be
greatly missed among her lady
friends and co-workers in church
matters, having been a leader in
this work during her residence
here.
Take your prescriptions to the
Owl Drug Store. adv.
The Dillon correspondent of
the Butte Miner, speaking of the
recent marriage of Walter Con-
way and Miss Thorna Brown,
says: Walter Conway spent his
boyhood in this city, where he
lived from the time Of his in
fancy until he reached college
He was educated in the public
schools and high school here,
and later left for Missoula. He
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
For Sale

Two spans of light driving or riding
geldings, both young. Marion Sanger,
Roman. 35-36p
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
Now Open

First class shoe repairing of all kinds.
32-5p l.. r. DENT.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
Oats or Feed Barley Wanted

Submit bids on all or any part
of twenty tons. delivered to
point 4 miles north of Roman. =
J. d. Larson. 35tf
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-29
GEORGE FARRELL

Best steers sold on the Port
land market this week at SO; top
hogs at $685., and good packing
hogs at SO. IS to SO,
Tracy Hull has returned home
from Thompson Falls. He is
nursing a broken leg received a
week ago.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
HER MOTHER LOVE SUPREME
Aged Woman's Pathetic Defense of
Worthless Son a Miracle Of
Loyal Affection.

Joe had violently quarreled with a
woman, the proprietor Of the house in
which his disreputable wife lived, be-
cause she withheld from him a part
of his wife's earnings, and in the alter
cation had killed her-a situation, one
would say, which it would be difficult
for even mother to condone. But
not at all; her thin gray face worked
with emotion, her trembling hands
restlessly pulled at her shabby skirt as
the hands Of the dying pluck at the
sheets, but she put all the vitality she
could muster into his defense. She
told us he had legally married the girl
who supported him, although Lily had
been so long in that life that few men
would have done it of course such q
girl must have protector or every
to the day of her death that he was
the kindest man she ever knew, and
treated her the whitest; that she her.
self was to blame for the murder be-.
cause she told on the old miser and
Joe was so hot-headed she might have,
known that he would draw gun for
her." The gasping mother concluded,
"He was always that handsome and
had such q way. One winter when I
was scrubbing in an Office building I'd
never get home much before twelve
o'clock, but Joe would open the door
for me just as pleasant as If he hadn't
been walked out of sound Sleep" She
was so triumphantly unconscious of
the incongruity of sturdy son in bed
while his mother earned his food, that
her auditors said never q word, and in
silence we saw hero evolved before
our eyes; defender of the oppressed,
the best beloved of his mother, who
was losing his high spirits and eating
his heart out behind prison bars. He
could well defy the world even there,
surrounded as he was by that invinci-
BILE affection which assures both the
fortunate and unfortunate alike that
we are loved, not according to our
deserts, but in response to some pro-
founder law.-Jane Adams, in the At.
lantic.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
DAIRY
FACTS
VARIATIONS IN CREAM TESTS
One Of Most Common Causes Is Differ
ence In Amount of Water Used
for Flushing.

There are many causes for the vari-
lions sometimes found In cream tests.
Frequently would be a better word to
this subject, for variations in the tests
MAJ" always be looked for. A few of
the causes are here given.
If the milk Of herd of cows whose
average test is A per cent is separated
so that the cream tests 40 per cent
and the milk suddenly drops to $50
per cent of fat, as will often occur.
the cream will then test only 80 per
cent. The amount of fat lost in the
skim milk is not affected to any ap-
preciable extent by the richness of the
milk separated.
One of the most common causes of
variation in the test of cream from
the farm separator is a variation i'm
the amount of water or skim milk
used for flushing out the cream at the
end Of the run. 1t Is apparent that
especially where small quantity of
cream Is separated marked differ
ence in the richness Of the cream may
be made by change in the amount of
water or skim milk added. 1t Is an
easy matter to vary a pint or more in
the water or skim milk used and this
alone may easily change the per cent
Of fat In the cream from 2 to per
cent. The per cent of fat in the cream
may be readily changed, as is well
known, by adjusting the cream screw
The cream screw, however, is not
changed very frequently and it is moi
the common cause of the variations
In the test which constantly occur and
which causes so much friction between
the buyer and seller of cream.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
HERD SUBORDINATE TO FARM
Farmer Makes Big Mistake II He Does
Not Regard Cows as Assistants
or Side Issue.
(Ry DIR. II. B. FAVILLN

The man who doesn't regard his
herd of dairy cows, be they grade or
purebred breeding cattle. as the hand
maidens of the farm, as the assist
ants, as the side issues of the farm.
and which is only a means of building
the farm up to its highest possibilities,
ought to fail, and he probably will
For, after all, 1t is the farm that
counts, and not the herd that is on It,.
1t is the farm that makes the farmer,
and not the herd. In the long run,
take the country through, there will
be no great breeders except those that
are great farmers, because the herd
is subordinate to the farm and is used
for the purpose of magnifying the
farm.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
TRAINING T0DAY'S
BOYS AND GIRLS
Children Are Neither Angels Nor
the Opposite.
THEIR CONDUCT IS INITIATIVE
At First, Whatever They Do 10 Quite
Without Any Moral Significance
and Often Results From Pure
ly Instructive Impulses.
BY sIDoNIE M. GUTENBERG.

n ONALD and Louise, cousins sew
- eral times removed, were becom-
ing acquainted for the first time while
Donald was visiting the city with his
mother. They were getting along
beautifully, Louise's mother observed.
They were playing railroad with the
chairs and hassocks.
"Don't move that - shouted Donald.
you'll get right in front of the train !"
Louise continued to push the chair
against which she was leaning. Don't
do that !" repeated Donald, with lit
tie more warmth. The chair moved
over about half yard. Bang Louise
rolled over as if struck by an autOmo-
bile. She had been struck by Donald
instead.
Up jumped the mothers. "You
naughty boy" came from both, as
though they had rehearsed for the
chorus. Louise did not make q demon
stration of severe, suffering, so they
were abletto give all of their attention
to the naughty boy. "Who would ever
have thought it of him?" asked the
girls mother, not expecting any one
to answer her. And Donald really did
not look very vicious, with his pale
hair and eyes, and soft voice and
shrinking manner Certainly his moth
er had never thought him capable of
so violent and so ungallant deed.
But there could be no mistake; he
had pushed Louise over very roughly,
very unkindly, almost cruelty. And
Louise, standing by her mothers side,
a picture of injured innocence, was
absorbing the warm sympathy Of The
elders and gloating in the discontinue
of the naughty boy. Her mother al
ready knew how angelic she was, and
now Donald's mother was finding out.
Donald's mother had always sup
posed that her child was an angel too,
and she could not understand what
had happened to change him. A pres
tige of primitive superstition popped
into her head, and she reflected that
having been "too good for so long
he was about to even things up by
giving the devil the upper hand for a
while. Louise's mother did not seem
to wonder at all. She knew that her
child was one of the angelic kind, and
now she saw that Donald was one Of
the other kind.
The fact is that Donald was just as
angelic as Louise, and just as angelic
as he had ever been. Louise explained
that she had only moved the chair /;
yet Donald had not only told her-at
least twice-not to do so, but he had
very good reason on his side. "She
put that pile of wood right in front of
where the train was coming, and it
would have been wrecked and all the
people killed." Any boy who would
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
RICHNESS OF A cows MILK
Mistake to Expect That II Can Be In.
fluenced by Character of Feed
Given to Animal.

1t seems reasonable to expect that
the richness of milk could be in
fluenced by the character of the feed
given to the animals. However, IL has
been thoroughly proved that for all
practical purposes 1t is impossible.
The richness of the cows milk de-
ponds upon inheritance and can no
more be changed permanently by the
If the milk cannot be changed in rich.
ness by the feed Ii Is clearly impos.
sible for cream to be Influenced 10
this way.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
Carduj Wins Suit.

District Court of Chicago, before Judge
Carpenter and federal jury, the jury
found the American Medical Associa
ton guilty of libeling Cardui, the WON
ans tonic, which they had denounced
as "nOstrum."
This is vindication of the medicine
and a proof that it has merit. which
was recognized by jury after trial
of three months, one of the longest
civil cases on record.
Many doctors and chemists testified
on both sides and the evidence totaled
nearly four million words.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27

work and washing for eleven and ] can
truthfully say Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound has been a godsend
to me for I would have been in my grave
today but for it. ! would tell all wo-
men suffering as was to try your valu-
able remedy. Mrs. VIM. GREEN, 1892
S. Addison Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
There is hardly neighborhood in this
country, wherein some woman has not
found health by using this good old
fashioned root and herb remedy.
If there is anything about which you
would like special advice, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn.
Mass.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
Purebred Bull.

worth $3.50 more than that of a bull
that produced no increase, if butterfat
is worth 30 cents pound.
Since the value of the bull can be
determined only by the milk and but
ter yields of his daughters, farmers
are advised not to sell the dairy sire
until his daughters have been tested.
Buyers should not discriminate against
an old bull If he has some high-pro-
ducing daughters, for his value cannot
be determined until he is at least four
years old.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
SCRUB SIRE NOT PROFITABLE
Farmers Advised by Ohio Expert Not
to Sell Head of Herd Until
Daughters Been Tested.

Can bull be worth nearly $4,000
in one year in dairy herd? The ami
NAL may be worth this much or even
more, according to figures given by
Prof. c. G. Hayden of the Ohio expert
ment station.
He shows that in the station dairy
herd one bull produced daughters av-
eraging 1913 pounds more butterfat an
nually than their dams. If ten daugh-
ters produced milk for six years, the
total production of this sire would be
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
When Little Girl Begs Pennies for
the Grnd-organ Man, II Does Not
Mean She Is Natural-Born PhiIan-
thropist.

tual consequences may be or how they
harmonic with our notion Of what
ought to be done.
To say that a child's conduct is I'M
moral does not take from him the pos
sibility of spiritual development. On
the contrary, the assumption that the
child is a moral being would seem to
leave nothing for growth. The sense
of righteousness and the feeling Of
guilt are not born in the child: they
have to be achieved through trial and
suffering.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
THOUSANDS have KIDNEY
TROUBLE AND DON'T KNOW IT

Weak and unhealthy kidneys cause so
much sickness and suffering and when
through neglect or other causes. kidney
trouble is permitted to continue. serious
results may be expected.
Your other ORGANS may need attention.
but your kidneys should have attention
first because their work Is most important.
lf you feel that your kidneys are the
cause OF your sickness or run down con-
ditiop commence taking DR.. Kilmer's
swamp-Root. the areat kidney. liver and
bladder remedy. because If it proves to be
the remedy you need and your kidneys
begin to improve they will help sll the
other organs to health.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
begun his descent to perditivn. no mat

begun MS descent 70 peruitlJn, no NAB
ter what you think Of smoking in gen.
eral or Of your curtains In particular.
On the other hand, when little girl
begs for pennies to give to the blind
beggar or to the grind-organ man you
have no warrant for assuming that she
is a natural-born philanthropist, no
matter what your views on charity.
Much Of the young child's conduct
results from purely instructive i'm
pulses. So every child will lie under
suitable provocation, without thereby
indicating a streak of untruthfulness |;
or Louise may do just what she is told
not to do without yielding altogether
to the demon of unrighteousness.
A woman recently asked: "Do you
believe in the spiritual Interpretation
of child nature, or in the scientific in
terpretation?" This question assumes
that there is a conflict between scien-
tific truth and spiritual truth. 1t is a
mistake to assume that the lack of GER
tain spiritual qualities Is spirit
ual" explanation Of a child's conduct.
The scientists have shown that the
ability to choose ones actions, and the
consciousness of purpose and of conse-
quences, develop very slowly in the
child's mind. Until there is conscious
ness Of right and wrong, and until the
child is quite able to choose what he
does and what he does not do, it is
useless to speak of the moral quality
of his acts, no matter what their ac-
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27

hesitate to use violence in such an
emergency is not quite enough of a
boy for the practical affairs of life.
When all the facts in the case are
considered one is tempted to suspect
that Louise was actuated by the imp
of perversity and that Donald was
moved by a finer spirit. However, his
conduct was unbecoming a gentleman,
and Louise had only moved the chair.
1t is still the usual thing to look
upon children as embodiments of one
or the other Of the two conflicting
spirit of right and wrong. Too many
of us think that a child is either an
angel or a devil, and that our chief
concern In life is to adore these of the
second.
One thing that modern studies In
child nature has taught us Is that
young children are neither virtuous nor
wicked they are not moral, and they
are not "immoralp They do many
things that are quite acceptable to
older people, and even pleasing. And
they do many things that are decided
ly Objectionable But whatever they
do is-at least ut first-without any
moral significance.
Much of the young child's conduct is
initiative. When n boy goes through
the motion of lighting a pipe and
putting clouds of smoke toward the
ceiling you cannot believe that he mas
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
Definite.

Stranger-How many machines pass
here day?
Farmer couldn't tell We, exactly,
sir
Tourist-Oh, about how many?
Farmer-It all depends.
Tourist-Well, on the average?
Farmer-Well, stranger, the average
varies.-Gargoyle.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
wife TOO ILL
TO WORK
IN BED MOST OF TIME
Her Health Restored byLydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Indianapolis, Indiana. - "My health
was 30 poor and my constitution so run

down that / could
not work. ! was
thin, pale and weak,
W Gig h 9 d but 100
pounds and was in
b 9 d most Of the
time. ] began TAX
ing Lydia E. Pink
hams We ge t a bl .
Compound and five
m o n tn 8 la ter I
weighed 1873 pounds.
I do all the house,
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
Another objection.

"Then you didn't take the house?''
"No."
But thought ii just suited you,
had enough closets, bright rooms and
ALL"
at did, but my wife thought It was
too far from a movie theater."-Louis.
vile Courier-Journal.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-10-27
Too Exactino.

Lucy-Don't you just adore Clarence
Joyce? My, think he's the handsom-
est thing!
Mabel-Well his nose is little fiat.
and his hair pretty light, and his eyes
are trifle big and pale, and his eye
brOws-
Lucy-Oh, know! You always ex-
pect man to be a regular Venus!