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Connecticut western news., 1916-09-14
ASHLEY FALLS

The Great Burlington Electri, Light Company have stretched their wires to Conklin's corner and are ready to W Wlre the houses.
 Richard Marschat returned to camp 1 for another week, in Vermont, after which he will go to Dartmouth College.
 Rev. William Willcocks, of Eliza vile, N. Y. was an over Sunday guest of Rev. c. B. La adon.
 Vernon Smith, of Hartford, was home over Sunday.
 George Hall and wife accompanied MT. and Mrs. Allyn Fuller, of Canaan, on an auto trip to Waterville, Conn. Sunday to call on George Ball, Jr.
 MT. and Mrs. W. S. VanDeusen and little son, Edward, spent Sunday at w. E. Brewers in Mill River.
 Alfred Davies, of New York, was a Sunday guest of his sister, Mrs. L. E. Loverin. Miss L. West, of South Ca naan, was also at Mrs. Loverin's over Sunday.
 Miss M. Ostrander, of Hudson, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. M. J. Turner.
 F. P. Smith and others have received post cards from Flagman Flynn, who is enjoying the time of his life on a California visit.
 Ladies of the home circle meet, by special invitation, with Miss Caroline Curling, this (Thursday) afternoon.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Rood have been enjoying a vacation with friends in Manchester.
 Miss Katherine Heaton returned to her school in Brooklyn on Saturday.
 Mrs. Richard Eppes. formerly Miss Mary E. Van Deusen. returLed to her home in City Point, Va, on Friday, after a few weeks visit with friends and relatives here. It is thirteen years since she has seen her old home and friends here, and declares that here after she will come north every year.
 The attention of the selectmen should be called to the ''joint" between the state road and the south bridge, near the red mill, before the breach enlarges and the town has damage bill to pay for the broken leg of someone's horse.
 Miss Minnie Bramley, of Newburgh, N V, is a guest of her cousin, Mrs. George Hall.
 R. Parsons Cande, of Pittsfield, spent part of last week with Mrs. Mary B. Parsons.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-14
HUNTSVILLE

Frank Parmelee has returned to Sharon after sTending several days with his uncle, Frank Silvernail.
 Miss Nita Kellogg has been visiting her sister. Mrs. Claud Scoville.
 Miss Miriam Bushey is visiting friends and relatives in Goshen.
 MT. and Mrs. Lyman Howe and daughter Mary and John Hillyer motored through this place Sunday.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
MILES CITY AND
ITS HORSE MART
HAS GROWN INTO GREATEST
PRIMARY MARKET IN
UNITED STATES,
More Horses Change Owners at Miles
City That at Chicago and st. Louis;
lished Remount Station at Fort
Keogh, Near Miles.

1t is far cry, in time and i'm
portance, from the moment some,
Is years ago when A. B. Clarke con-
ceived the idea of bringing the buy
ers and sellers of Montana horses to-
gether at Miles City.
The first sale. in fact the first sea-
sons sales, were held in the Northern
Pacific stockyards west of town, and
mitch" Ball clerked the sale, sit
ting on the highest point of vantage
in order to escape the onslaught of
the historic "FUF' representatives,
who never missed an opportunity to
climb trees OR telegraph poles.
Those were the days when train
load of horses could he bought for
a song, and the seller usually did
his own singing. It was discourage
ing fight, but Mr.. Clarke persevered
and gradually and surely the horse
raisers of the entire state became
convinced that Montana could raise
the big boned horse as we'll as the
squealing, bucking bronco.
Greatest Primary Market.
The years passed, and the fame of
the sale yards of Miles City under
Mr.. Clarke's management became ma
tion-wide. Miles City became known
as the greatest primary horse market
. in the United States; more horses
changing hands there from the ORR
ginal owners than even at the great
markets at Chicago and St. Louis.
Nine years ago Mr.. Clarke died
and his place was taken by G.. B. Ing
ham, horse man from South Dako-
ia. He had visions of even great
er market than that which Mr..
Clarke had built up, SO that during
the following five years the A. B.
| Clarke Horse Sales company showed
bank clearance each year of more
than a million and a quarter dollars.
At the death of Mr.. Ingham some
three years ago the company was in
corporated as the "Miles City Horse
Sales Co."
New yards have been added to the
old ones, large amphitheater has
been erected and today the company
with it's headquarters at Miles City
has branches in Utah, Oregon and
other western states. The sales
yards at Miles City cover over ten
acres of ground.
The officers of the new company
are: Ed Love, president; Luther Mil
ligan, secretary; Guy Crandall, man
ager.
Government Remount Station.
In addition to this great publ
horse sales market there is just west
of this city the Fort keogh remount
station, which is in charge of Captain
Winterburn, U. S. A.
This remount station is one of
two of it's kind in the United States,
and has for it's purpose the buying
and training of artillery and cavalry
horses for the United States army.
Hundreds of horses are bought by
the government each year and fatted
for service. This is one of the most
important markets in the west for
animals suitable for war horses"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
H0n1esteuders GrO1u
Bumper Grain Crops
Far From Railroad

In the most of the newly set
tied farming districts of the west
the growers of grain crops have
followed in the wake of the
new railroads, but the home
steaders of northern Montana
have reversed the trend of devel-
opment and by making the prai-
ries yield abundantly far from
the nearest elevator have prOvid-
ed a freight business that awaits
only the laying of the rails to
put dividends in the pockets of
the railroad builders. South of
the main line of the Great Nor
thern from Cutbank to Havre
there are more than q 100
ranches over 20 miles from the
nearest railroad. These ranches
have given a combined yield of
half million bushels.
''Bill'' Earl, who has a ranch
between Marias and Goosebill,
25 miles from the nearest rail-
road, this year raised ii 500
bushels of wheat.
Throughout this section talk
that started two or three years
ago of the building of an cleo
trio line to run south from Chess
ter is being revived. Homestead
ers and other farmers say that
they are ready to double and
triple their acreage in wheat as
soon as they are assured of the
building of a new line to elimin-
ate the present 25 or 80 mile
haul in wagons.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
A Political Revolution in North Dakota
Ho1U Farmers of Neghbor;ng State Won at the Polls

been making us play against loaded
dice and marked cards. We're not
only going to have new deal, but
we are going to shuttle, cut and deal
the cards. It's been a good game
for the other fellows.
eve produce by far the biggest
part of the wealth of the state. We
pay by far the biggest part of the
taxes. Our exploiters live in the
brown stone front, while we delve
and dig and pay. We're going to
pass laws-and see to their enforce
ment-that will give the men and
women whose toll and capital pro-
duce the wealth of North Dakota a
just and equitable portion of the
wealth, and with each recurring sea-
son. We want what is ours by ma
tural right, and we're going to take
it,"
Assessed the Farmer Members
There was the wisdom of astute
political genius in the methods by
which the great revolution was
brought about. The leaders of the
farmers knew that the "other fell
lows" were organized, and had plen-
ty of funds. So the old idea of vol
untary association was pushed aside
as futile. Organization plus money
was to be met with organization plus
money. This meant also the printing
press and widespread publicity.
Farmers who signed the non-parti-
san pledge were required to pay a
membership fee-first six dollars per
head, and later nine dollars. Before
the primaries had come more than a
hundred organizers, each being duly
compensated, were in the field in au-
tomobiles. When the first issue OF
the Non-Partisan Leader came off the
press, 10000 farmers had signed up
and put up their fees.
There wasn't anything of the hit or
miss, either, in the plan of organiza-
ton. Each five organizers had a
foreman, and in each county the fore
men reported to a county manager
These in turn reported 70 and were
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
NORTHERN PACIFIC TO
GROW ITS OWN TROUT
SUPERINTENDENT TITUS BUILD
ING HATCHERY AT MISSOULA;
BRED SPECIFIED GOODIES.

It will not be long before Northern
Pacific dining cars will be supplied
with trout from the company's own
hatchery, which is now being built
at Missoula, says Hazen j. Titus, sup
erintendent of the dining car service.
eve plan to have several varieties
of trout in the hatchery" said Mr..
Titus, "including the cut-throat,
mountain and eastern brook trout,
and will eventually have the supply
large enough to furnish from 1900
to 1900 trout day for our diners.
"It will be so arranged that the
fish will be placed on the diners from
20 to 80 minutes after they are taken
from the water. We will have exper-
fenced attendants to look after the
finny tribe and believe that the serv-
ing of trout on the diners will be a
great drawing card to have fasteners
visit the Pacific northwest"
The Northern Pacific has it's own
bakery in Seattle, where much of the
bread and pastry used on it's diners is
made. The company's dairy and
poultry farm is located at Kent,
Wash.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

''We'll Stick; and Well Win"
This was the appealing slogan
adopted by the militant organization
of North Dakota farmers when they
started out last spring to capture the
republican primaries. They won in
the primaries, and so kept the slo-
gan nailed to the masthead for the
general election in November.
The victory in the primaries was a
smashing one. The hitherto unbeat-
able machine crowd were swept into
the discard. The majorities for the
farmers had stuck and they had won.
Some idea of the sweeping nature
of this political revolution may be
gathered from the fact that it won
the governorship and state offices,
the supreme court of three members,
the railroad commission of a like
number, and a majority of the legis-
1ature.
The overturn was complete. 1t has
put the farmers in state where they
make up 80 per cent of the popula-
ton in absolute and undisputable
control of the agencies of state gov
eminent, legislative, judicial and adj
ministrative.
Attracted Countrywide Attention.
So amazing a political change of
course attracted countrywide atten-
ton. Many of the big eastern pub
locations sent out to North Dakota
their special writer's to cliff the lido
and tell what they saw underneath.
And when the lid was lifted there
was revealed great, compacted,
militant organization of tillers of the
soil, knowing perfectly we'll
what they wanted and quite conf
dent of their ability to get it and
keep it.
"These other fellows" they de-
clared, "have been running the game
too long their own way. They have
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
JAMES BURLINGAME.
SENATE PRESIDENTS
ACTINGGOVERNOR

Governor Samuel V. Sewart
has been called east to attend
the meeting of the governors of
all the states.
Lieutenant Governor w. w.
Mcdowell, who would discharge
the functions of the chief execu-
tive in his absence, is also out
side the confines of the state.
Hon. j. NJ. Burlingame, sem
atOr from Cascade, and president
pro tenn, of the upper house, in
the absence of these two Off
Gals, becomes acting governor of
the state, and is i'm Helena, sit
ting in the gubernatorial chair,
with his feet under the guberna-
torial desk, and his overcoat
hanging in the gubernatorial
closet.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
MONTANA PUPILS
RIDE TO SCHOOL
USE OF VEHICLE TENDS TO CEN
TRALIZE AND IMPROVE EDU-
CATIONAL FACILITIES.
Libby and Geraldine Schools Have
Purchased School Wagons and
Other Schools Are Following Ex-
ample; Helps to Do Away With the
"Little Red School House,"

Have you heard of the school wag-
on? It is the newest feature of rural
school life. It is a wagon, built
along the lines of stage coach, only
not so cumbersome. It is being in
troduced to Montana by the General
School Supply company of Great
Falls. The schools at Libby have
purchased a car, and the people in
and around Geraldine are delighted
win their school car. Inquiries are
coming for information about the
school wagon from all over the state,
and the Great Falls concern has just
ordered another car load of these
popular vehicles.
School Consolidation Certain.
With a first-class school in CEN
trail location, thus doing away with
the "little red schoolhouse," the pu-
pills get the benefit any city child
school. School consolidation is
bound to come to Montana, where
people are more progressive in edu-
CdL1O1ldl ludtItIS lndu Ill OLl6I
states, and the school wagon will do
it's share towards this desirable end.
The General is the first school
supply comany to incorporate in Mon
tana-and are the first people to car
load school furniture to Montana.
This will prove great benefit to rur-
al school people as they can get their
material in short time, whereas it
used to take them weeks, and some
times months, to ship material from
the east.
Exhibit at Missoula
AT the teachers convention in Mis-
soula recently the General" had
an exhibit which proved that they
carry Everything for schools" The
exhibit won much favorable comment
| for the Montana concern.
In addition to school wagons the
company carries large stock OF
school desks, teachers chairs and
general school supplies, such as
maps, globes, charts, crayons, kin
dergarten material and "busy work. .
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

railroad, which denominates it simply
Benton"
$500, 900 Worth of Robes
Shipped Annually.
Fort Benton always has been a
busy little place. In the earliest
days more than 100000 worth of
robes and furs was shipped annually
from this point and before the trans
continental railroads diverted the cur
rent of travel several score steamers
arrived and departed each year. Even
after the diversion of traffic its stores
continued to do big business supply
ing the cattle men. Within the last
three years the town has been grow
ing rapidly in both volume OF bust
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

ness and population. In the last year
probably 800 persons have been add
ed to the number of it's inhabitants.
In the seventies Fort Benton was
not only the trading center of Mon
tana, but of the entire northwest, in
Guiding all of Canada west of Winni-
peg. When the Canadian mounted
police under Colonel Mcleod in 1874
and 1875 undertook to drive the
American whiskey trader from the
western part of the dominion, all their
supplies were received from Fort
Benton Now the town supplies the
farmers for 40 miles in some direc-
tions and for 20 to 80 miles in others.
It has three elevators and flour
mill.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

directed by the state organization.
Daily reports in writing were re-
Quired. There wasn't any favoritism
The only reports that event" were re-
ports of success. Slackers and in
competents were brushed aside, re-
lentlessly.
Publicity With the Lid Off.
There was an equal amount of
good sense displayed in the publicity
department of the Leagues cam
paign. The farmers were not news
paper men, but, unlike great many
other folks, they knew it. So they
sent out and gathered a force of
high class editors, and turned them
loose on the enemy without let
or hindrance. There were no
Strings" on the publicity depart
ment. Get the facts, and print
EN-" they were told. And get the
facts they did. The records of the
state house, of the courts and of the
legislatures were ruthlessly ran
sacked, and there was "pitiless pub
licity" of the real sort.
The daily press of North Dakota,
without a single exception, fought
back. They were for the established
order of things, for the "let us alone"
policy behind which Big Business had
SO safely and so profitably esconced.
It was futile. The farmers who
had for years and SO repeatedly "pe-
titioned for redress of grievance"
only to be denied, had taken to "di-
rect action" politically, and were not
to be turned aside. "You have
scorned our petitions and derided
the petitioners, until our patience
has been exhausted. We know our
power, and we are going to use it in
our own interest-just as you have
been misusing the power we have
heretofore given you. The stuff is
off,
A National Movement.
The virus in this North Dakota
revolution seems to be both infec-
tious and contagious. 1t has spread
into the three states touching that
state-Minnesota, South Dakota and
Montana. And the Fargo headquar-
tiers of the league reports that thou
sands of letters are pouring in from
other agricultural states, until the
demonstration promises to be nation
wide.
There have been many protest
movements of American tanners, but
none comparable with this one. Usu-
ally the protests have been of the
poverty stricken tillers of the soil
They organized as other political
parties were organized; but, unlike
other political parties, the protest
ors had no permanent form of cam
paign funds. Without funds for or.
ganization and publicity purposes
these protest movements quickly
'anguished and died.
But this league plan is different
It's philosophy is that benefits can.
not come without they are fairly paid
for in effort and hard cash. Adding
these to a perfectly we'll understood
program will make for permanence
And perhaps the league folks are
right; who knows?
The American farmer has always
been the great, steadying influence
in the nation. AS the gyroscope
steadies the movements of great
ships at sea, so the farmer vote
has been the nations reliance i1
times of great political stress. Sup
pose, in countrywide sense, he
elects to take and to exercise thai
power which is his, by law and by
natural right?
What then?
! SAM W. TEAGARDEN.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
Would Build New Road.

The commissioners of Lewis and
Clark county have been petitioned to
assist in the construction of good
wagon road from Helena to the Smith
river valley. 1t is thought that if
the county will supply half the funds
the federal government will contri-
butte an equal amount under the w
federal law.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

W. W. DeLacy, civil engineer, and
called Benton City. With the rise of
still other new buildings, streets and
squares began to be defined upon the
prairie bottom. The name thus Civ
en-, however, refused to stick. "Fort
Benton" it is called, except by the
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

the Fort Labarge sawmill. Several
son and it was then that the place be-
gan to assume the appearance of a
town. In the spring of the next year
the town was regularly laid out ac-
cording to it's present plan by Captain
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

Fort Lewis, and rebuilt nearer the
Teton river in 1916.
The second building in Benton,
however, was not erected until the
spring of 1864, when Matthew Carroll
and George Steele constructed a store
building of sawed logs, prepared at
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
Pupils Fight Fan Weed.

The Fergus county nigh school has
started a campaign against fan weed,
and teachers in rural communities in
the county are being asked to coop
crate.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-18

Pillars of Society," Isis Friday.
The vampire in Ibsen's pillars of
Society" the perturbation of which
has just been completed by the Fine
Arts studio starring Henry Walthall
on the Triangle program, gives a re-
markable chance to Miss Olga Grey.
Miss Grey is a statuesque brunette of
Hungarian birth, already well known
to Triangle audiences, but she has
never had part that fitted her so
we'll in appearance or that gave her
such an opportunity to show unex-
pected gifts in the depletion of the
adventures type. This accomplished
player has not yet passed her twen-
tieth birthday, but she has few rivals
if this Ibsen characterization is a
criterion. In the phrase of the day,
she is "some siren"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-18
|PALAFOX WHARF IS.
GREATLY IMPROVED.

Palafox wharf is being practically
rebuilt. A large force of workmen
are engaged on the job, and a steam
pile driver is being employed to force
the long piling down to depth vary
ing from six to ten feet, and those
standing in the water to an even
greater depth. This serves to great
ly stregthen the dock site. an object
sought by those who planned the i'm
provements.
New 3x9 deals are being used to
floor over the wharf, and none but
sound deals are selected, which af-
fords a guarantee that the improve
ments are of permanent nature,
These improvements will, it is stated
Re extended over the entire dock site,
and the south end, which was so badly
damaged in the July storm, will soon
present the appearance of bran new
wharf.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-18
ENGLAND To BUILD
BIC TARIFF WALL

London, Oct. 17.-(Correspondence
of The Associated Press)-London
newspapers are giving increasing at
tention to the subject of trade with
America after the war. The Globe
declares that while England does not
seek ''trade war" with any neutral,
American goods which enter into
competition with those produced in
Great Britain must not be allowed to
come in without paying tax or toll.
The article says:
zone of the situations that call for
consideration after the war is that of
trade relationships with neutral coun-
tries, especially neutrals who have
been doing well out of the war, and
are thereby enabled to prepare for IN
creased trade when the war is over.
Such countries have been. subject to
little or no risk, and their CONNER
cial and industrial prosperity has
been, and continues to be, materially
enhanced by the necessities of the
belhgerents. The most important
neutral in this respect is the United
States.
America is profiting remarkably
through supplying ourselves and our
Allies with munitions and food
stuffs, and partly by sending to neu-
trail countries goods which the COM
blatant powers at present are unable
to supply them. Being free from all
serious competition, her manufacture
ers are making enormous profits
which they are employing in laying
down new. plants and erecting new
workshops. America vii thus be II
better position to compete in the
worlds markets at the close of the
war than she has ever been before.
sIn order to be able to deal success
fully with American competition we
must develop to the full extent the
resources of the British Empire. All
the needs of the Empire can be sup
piled from within its own borders
with abundance to spare for the re-
ouirements of other nations. But
this required imperial organization
and closer partnership between the
Mother Country and the Dominions
One of the principal instruments te
accomplish this is imperial prefer
ence, the admission of the products
of the Empire into the Mother Coun'
try on better terms than the products
of foreign countries. The Dominions
already give a preference In then
markets to this country and to one
another. It only remains for us Il
reciprocate that preference, and in
order to cope with American compe-
tition we must also have a greatly
extended tariff.
| American goods which enter init
competitor with our own production: