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LOOmis-Mitchell

Gilmore ]. LOOMS and Mrs Cert
rude Alice Mitchell, both of Skowhe-
gan, were married on the evening of
Oct. End, by Rev George Merriam,
pastor of the Bethany Baptist church.
The groom is the son of Mr.. and Mrs
John Loomis of this town and is by
occupation, a farmer. Mrs. LOOMS is
the daughter Of the late George AL
bert Booker, former resident of
Cornville
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Hooper-Langley

Last Saturday evening at the Beth
any Baptist parsonage Mr.. Horace M.
Hooper and Mrs, Harriet Langley
were married by Rev. George Mer-
RAM The single ring service was
used. The parties were unattended.
Both are residents of Skowhegan. Mr.
Hooper has for forty years been en-
ployed at the Skowhegan Marble
Works. Mrs Hooper has been MAX
ing her home in this town for about
two years They will reside on Wa
ter street
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An ad in Everybody's Column costs
little; does much. See rates Page 4.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
CROP REPORT HAS
OPTIMISTIC TONE
HIGH PRICES WILL HELP TO
OFFSTAND SHRINkAGE OF
GENERAL YIELD.
Banking Corporation Tells of Splen-
did Diyersification of Montana's
Agricultural Products; One Man
Will Sell 115 Tons of Honey; APP
ples Fine.

~'After measuring sources of Off
cial information; after considering
detailed reports of our fieldmen; and
pondents in the centers and corners
of the state, we cannot subscribe to
the governments crop report of July
9Th. The report indicates probable
production in Montana of 36,700,00O
bushels of wheat against 1865 900
last year." says the crop expert of the
Banking Corporation of Montana.
In our judgment the crop is not
likely to reach last years figures.
There is greater acreage, but wea-
ther conditions have been so unfav-
orable the crop will be less in volume
than usual. Irrigated crops are in
excellent condition, and winter wheat
is fairly good, but spring wheat, will
yield but 80 per cent of the usual, as
northern Montana particularly, is in
rather bad position. especially with
grain sown on summer falloWed land.
Income Above Normal.
"Fortunately, difficulties from
grasshoppers are not serious; cut
worms not of consequences; and there
are no rusts, and even though crops
are to be short, strong prices will
prevail and give even those farmers
who suffer from Disappointing
Yields, more than their usual income
in normal times.
''It is not easy to appreciate that in
this month of July the Montana price
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
I.W.W. THREATENS
TO DESTROY CROPS
GEORGE STEWART, AGITATOR,
ENDEAVORS TO STIR UP
TROUBLE ON FARMS.
Would Persuade Farm Employees to
Join 1. w. W.; Is Given go Days in
Jail; Federal Authorities Inyesti-
eating His Record; May Deport
Him to Canada.

George Stewart is serving a 60-day
sentence in the Lewis and Clark
county Jail for attempting to foment
labor troubles among the farm hands
of that section and threatening to
burn the crops of the H. j. Herrin
ranch near Wolf creek. He arrived
from Butte and was given employ
ment on the ranch. Immediately he
began to protest about conditions.
The ranch employs a large number
of men, many Of whom have been on
the place for some time. Stewart had
not been on the payroll "a hours be-
fore he began to agitate for better
food, shorter hours and more pay. He
endeavored to persuade the farm en-
ployes to join the /. w. w. When
the ranch management demonstrated
with him, and he is said to have
threatened to burn the crops.
He was arrested and taken to Hell
ena, where the men he had sought to
organize testified against him. He
was given 60 days in Jail, and put to
work in the county chain gang. In
the meantime the county authorities
are investigating his record with
view to deporting him to Canada
when his Jail sentence expires.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
URGE MONTANA FARMERS
TO PROVIDE STORAGE

That farmers may benefit from
their crops this season, as we'll as aid
the public, they are being urged to
provide their own storage facilities
before the coming crops are ready for
market. j. B. Baird, general traffic
manager OF the Northern Pacific rail-
way, has sent an appeal to farmers
along it's lines to build granaries for
the protection of grains.
with increased demands made on
transportation incident to the war,
Mr.. Baird says, IAN acute car storage
may result at period when the crop
movement is heaviest. By having suf-
ficient storage capacity on their
farms to house grains, under such
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
BUTTE MESSENGER FINDS
MANY QUEER IS PIECES

How would you feel if you found a
pile of SIS gold pieces, enough to
buy an automobile or make fat pay
ment of home, and after you had
picked them all up and had them
slowed safely away in your pocket
ascertain that they were counterfeit?
That is what happened to Arthur
Connors, postoffice messenger, in
Butte the other day He was walk
ing down Main street, ana Just as he
had crossed Park street, came to a
section of the street that was literal
ly paved with coin.
He was down on his knees in a
second gathering in the coins, and
had them all slowed away before
anyone noticed what he was doing
Then he took one of the coins out to
look it over.
1t looked regular money, and at
the same time there was something
queer about it. He resorted to the
old time test--on his teeth. He bit
hard and his teeth met III the soft
metal. 1t was a counterfeit. After
he had bitten about SIS worth of the
coins in two he concluded that he
was not so rich as he had been few
moments earlier.
The coins were made of lead. They
were perfect limitations of the St.
Gaudens design, nicely gilded over,
and looked like ready money.
Connors took his find TO Postmas-
ter Goodwin, who called in govern
ment operatives who are now scour-
ing the city in the hope of finding the
man or men who are making all this
money.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
VIM. B. THOMPSON
GOES TO RUSSIA
MONTANA MAN Is MEMBER OF
RED CROSS MISSION TO
THE NEW REPUBLIC.
Played in the Streets of Virginia City
as IL Boy; Father Was Formerly
Mayor of Butte; Became Interest,"
ed i'm Mining Fifteen Years Ago.

William B. Thompson, who, as a
boy, played about the streets OF yir-
ginia City, and who has since become
one of the copper captains of indus
try, has been sent to Russia as a
member OF the American Red Cross
mission
Thompson is we'll known in Mon
tana. His father was an Alder gulch
pioneer. The elder Thompson re-
moved to Butte about a quarter a
century ago He became prominent
in the Butte business world, and serv-
ed the mining camp for one term as
mayor.
The younger Thompson got into
the mining game during the copper
boom of 1898. One Of his first pro-
motions was the Shannon mine. This
gave him modest start and he open
ed officed in New York.
Through Milton S. Gum, an ore
buyer of the Helena smelter, he be-
came interested in the Ely, Nevada
country. The copper deposits of that
district came to the notice of Gum
before much work had been done in
that district
Made Fortune in Ely.
Associated with Gum, Thompson
organized the Ely Consolidated Cop
per company, the mines of which de-
veloped into property of magnifi-
cent value. Thompson and Gum also
owned the Ely townsite. They made
a handsome fortune out of Ely.
Another venture of Thompson's S
from which he realized handsomely
was in the Cobalt country In Ontario.
He participated in the organization
of the Nippissing Mining company.
which controlled one of the best prop
critics in that rich district. His Nip
pissing interests added materially to
his holdings.
In the meantime this Montana boy
had become member of the firm of
Hayden, Stone & Company, and had
been put in charge of their most i'm
portant office, in New York City
Retired in 1915.
After having been member of
New York stock exchange firms
about ten consecutive years, he with
drew in April, 1915, from such part
nership activities to devote his time
to his private interests. He is largely
interested in banking, mining and
enterprises.
Mr.. Thompson was one of the first
to recognize the possibilities of the
low-grade porphyry copper ores, and
for many years has been director of
Utah Copper company and Neveda
Consolidated Copper company. He is
also president of Inspiration Consol-
dated.
He was chairman of Westchester
county commission of general safety
when appointed on the commission to
Russia and resigned the post. He is
vice president of Rocky Mountain
club of New York and recently joined
his associates in having the club en-
dorse the Hoover fund for relief of
children of Belgium.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

for wheat is at a level of $2.04 per
bushel, as against IS cents, so short
time ago as July, 1916. The price
plane for oats is 80 cents as against
43 cents last year; potatoes are
$3.50 average as against $11.OO per
ton last year.
Apples and Other Fruits.
"a comforting crop condition is
the apple yield. Montana will ppro-
duce half million barrels of apples
of three bushels each, which will be
twice last years production. In 1916,
40 per cent of the total Montana ap-
pie crop was estimated to be of COM
mercial quality (that is, apples ship
ped out of the county where grown) i.
This year, As per cent of the state
crop will be classed as commercial
Most gratifying results have occurred
in the production of cherries, and
much encouragement will be given
the industry for canning apples and
such commercial products as apple
butter and jam.
DiyersificatiOn.
ga substantial evidence of the rap
id diversification of agricultural pro-
ducts that is going on at faster
pace than generally realized, is given
point in the single item of honey pro-
duction. There is, for instance, one
farmer in the Yellowstone valley
who produced last year 115 tons of
honey There is lot of corn growing.
in Montana this year and doing we'll;
it is a dependable crop. 1t means
much to agriculture in eastern Mon
tana. Millet is grown to quite some
extent and is a fairly good annual
hay crop; it yields from a ton to two
tons of cured hay per acre under dry
land conditions, and when irrigated,
will produce four tons Of cured hay
per acre; beans are grown extensive
ly in south central Montana and far
mers are getting 1S cents pound for
them they are a dry land crop under
conditions of usual moisture, and un-
der irrigation in the lower valleys,
where the season is long, they are
quite certain. Sunflowers are get
ting to be an important silage crop,
and as silage, they are practically as
good for milk or beef production as
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
Cascade Needs Rain.

The continued hot weather is hav-
ing it's effect on the growing crops in
this locality. There has been no rain
to speak of for nearly two months,
and while the crops are as yet in
fairly good condition, moisture and
cooler weather is needed. Haying is
in full swing and the first crop of al
falfa is already in the stack.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
conditions, farmers need have no
cauca for worry

cause TOT WOTTy.
"It would seem matter of econ
omy to equip their own farms with
ample capacity so that If the eleva-
tors at local markets are Overcrowd-
ed products can be stored until such
congestion, in case it does occur, is
relieved. Likewise, it will remove
the menace of grain deterioration
and loss of millions of bushels.
Farmers in the northwest grain
growing states can perform a service
both to themselves and to the nation
at large by taking steps to construct
such storage before they become en-
gagged in harvesting and threshing
crOps."
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

corn silage-sunflowers yield from
three to five times as much as corn
so that the amount of food per acre
is high.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

LAND! READ. ND!-If you want to
buy II farm. REIMBURSEMENT or locate on
Il good place in Fergus county, write or
Henry G. Gorham, he can save you
dollars on the acre. 100 Fifth ave. So,
LewiStown, Montana.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

$1,000 CASH takes best improved farm in
rich Sumatra district 800 acres, half
fenced, substantial fiveroom house with
basement. G-horse barn. chicken house;
80 acres broken, two acres in alfalfa.
School on farm. Plenty spring water.
Seven miles from railroad town. Best
we'll for miles around. Only $3.50 an acre
If taken quick. Write Homefinders AS
sociation, 412 Stnpleton block, Billings,
inIn
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
Classified
FARM LANDS-FOR SALE.

A MONEY MAKER. Will soon double in
value. One of best combination farming
and stock ranches in Montana. Only 8
miles from county seat. 1,25O acres, $50
acres rich alluvial soil between bench
and river, ideal for alfalfa, etc. (fenced);
IFS acres on island in sweet clover, tim
othy and wild hay; 791 acres bench land
buffalo grass sod) about 200 acres Of
bench tillable. all well watered. Also 800
acres bench land leased from state. Open
rn o aeres sneen in riee Can
cluding SG head heifers, 16 head steers
aud = pure bred whteface bulls. $50 900.
Cash $4,000. balance per cent Write
Homefinders Association, 412 Stapleton
block. Billings, today.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

FOR SALE-Land on crop payment. Small
cash down payment, per cent interest.
Montana.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
WANTED-FARM LANDS.

LAND WANrED-Will take 1O-year lease
clsh rent ON good stock ranch capable of
ranging 800 head and hay land in proper
ton. Reply quickly describing your
ranch i'm all particulars. Address, Box
1906, LewiStown. Montana.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

ARE YOU SICK? Take time to take 4
Magic Headache powder. At your drug
gist, or j. J. O'Leary, 1917 Talbot Ave-
Rutfe Mont
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
RELlNQUISHNlENTS.

l HAVE SEVERAL 16O, $40 and GAO acre
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, IL to 1S miles from
Chouteau; 40 to 25O tillable on each Sew
eral tracts Of decided land with growing
on that can be bought on easy terms.
Mcdonald Realty Co., q Thisted bldg,
Great Falls, Mont.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS.
CUT YOUR OWN HAIR! Safety Self
Haircutter. Price Of one hair cut pays
for it. Write VIM. Franklin, Box S7,
Helena, Montana.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

BRISCOE $6S5.OO; the car with the half
million dollar motor: fully equipped. Lo
cal dealers wanted in every town. Sales
rooms: Second and Utah, BriscOe Motor
Co., Butte Montana.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
TENTS AND AWNINGS.

FURS repaired. cleaned and remodeled like
new. promptly. Beckman Bros, Great
Falls
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-28
THE sHU5ERT THEATRE.

Ideal hot weather fare is "My Friend
from India" the farce comedy by H. A.
Du Souchet, to be put on at the Shu-
bert the week of July 20. For it re-
quires no mental effort to follow the
plot, or to enjoy the wholesale sup
ply of fun with which the three acts
are packed; in fact, my Friend from
india" is just one, long, irresponsi-
BILE laugh from start to finish. Eras
tus Underholt, a Kansas City million
aire, with his wife, son, and two daugh-
ters, goes to New York to live, full
of social aspirations, and deeply dis
appointed because Gotham society
fails to welcome them. The son of
the house, Charlie Underholt, has a
gift for spending money and getting
into scrapes. A sudden inspiration.
and a glimpse of 1.-THE Light of Asia"
in strangers possession, give Charlie
the idea of passing him off as Hindu
swami, and this he does, first -attiring
the supposed prophet in a yellow bed
spread The funny situations arising
from this and and other farce comedy
situations, come thick and fast, and
in the end there is a pleasant finish
to the double romance running through
the story.
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THE CATHOLIC SISTERS
RED CROSS A MERE aPARvENUE,
IN CONTRAST WITH. NUNS
AND THEIR WORK

A n-Catholic writing from France
to the Boston Transcript says this of
our Catholic nursing sisters:
"The Red Cross Society, while more
venerable than the feminist organiza-
tions, is a mere parvenue by the side
of the religious orders. The humble
Sisters by the admission of the very
intolerant anti-clericals who erstwhile
were bent on harrying them, have rem
dered services in this war that entitle
them to the everlasting gratitude of
the entire nation. They have adapted
their nursing methods of late years
much more completely than is gener-
ally supposed to the exigencies Of mod
ern surgery and medicine, and, even
where their training still leaves some
thing to be desired, they more than
atone for the lack by their incompar-
able fidelity and application. The
white cornette of the Sister is prob
ably the most comforting sight that
ever blesses the eyes of the sick or
wounded soldier. More than any other
livery it inspires even the aggressive
unbeliever with instant confidence.
The soldiers wounded during the earli-
est stages of the war would have Jared
hard, indeed, in many Of the frontier
towns, had it not been for the nursing
Of the Sisters
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1Hnrln nf BnnkH
Brief Reviews and Notices

The German Fury in Belgium. By l..
Mokveld. Published by Holder and
Stoughton, New York.
Since the beginning of the great
war in Europe many books have made
their appearance from both sides of
the struggle. In reading all such
books it may be well to remember
that, as rule, the authors present
their individual viewpoint Keeping
this in mind, one is enabled to make
allowances for a partisan feeling
which, usually speaking, is difficult
to avoid. The author of this work is
a Netherland journalist, war cor
respondent of de Tijd," of Amster-
dam. Mr.. Mokveld spent four months
with the German army in Belgium.
He gives his experiences with the
graphic vividness of the trained
newspaper writer AS the translator
says, cit is written by neutral who
held, at the start, no brief for either
side. 1t is written by an eyewitness
who chronicles not what he heard, but
what he saw" Apart from ones feel
ings in this war, the book furnishes a
chronicle of those lesser incidents
which reveal the character of the
combatants ON both sides.
The Sacraments: BY Right Reverend
Mgr. Joseph Pohle, d. D. English
version by Arthur Preuss. Pub
lished by B. Herder Company, ST.
Louis. Price $1.50.
In this English version of Mgr.
Pohle's work on the sacraments con-
sideration is given to the sacramento
of Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and
Matrimony. The plan of this work
follows that laid down in the other
textbooks of the series. An outline
of the nature of the Sacramento
precedes each section. The dogmatic
proofs for the teaching of the Catholic
Church on each subject are given in
condensed form, and are then
strengthened and illustrated by argu-
ments from tradition and pathology.
An interesting feature is to be found
in the list of suggested readings at
the end of each section. A special
chapter is given to the consideration
of clerical celibacy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-28
Souvenir Of St. Mary's
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
VIM. r. Markoe.)

The announcement of the coming
celebration of the Golden Jubilee of
ST. Mary's Church, corner of Ninth
and Locust streets, st. Paul, brought
some pleasant "reminiscences to the
writer's mind.
Those were the good old days in
st. Paul when the foundations of it's
future greatness we're being securely
laid The large number of French,
German and Irish Catholics made it.,
numerically at least, practically a
Catholic city. Religious professions
in the public streets were not un-
common, and the non-Catholic popula-
ton witnessed them in reverential
silencea On one occasion, at least
perhaps Corpus Christine Blessed
Sacrament was openly carried through
the streets from the Cathedral to st.
Joseph's hospital and back with great
solemnity.
The laying of the cornerstone of
st. ,Mary's Church was gala day for
ST. Paul Catholics. The writer and
his brother Ralston, clad in red cas-
socks and white surplices, marched
with other altar boys, the clergy,
Bishop Grace and all the societies of
the Cathedral and the German Church
of the Assumption through the
streets from the Cathedral to the site
of the new church in Tower town. /"
Here platform had been erected,
and the stone was blessed and laid
with impressive ceremonies, solemn
chants and eloquent addresses. The
writer has a vivid recollection of a
rather remarkable prayer for one SO
young, which he uttered with great
earnestness. It was that a bad con
fession or communion might never be
made within the four walls of the
sacred edifice about to. be erected.
Whether his prayer was granted per
haps can never be known till the Day
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of Judgment. 1t was a day both of
joy and sadness, of joy over the
growth and spread of the true re-
ligion in the pioneer City of st. Paul;
of sadness, because of the first separa-
ton in the congregation of the Old
Cathedral where many prominent and
familiar faces were missing there
after, among them the Princes whose
family pew had been opposite my
fathers for years. For some time the
writer and his brother continued to
serve as acolytes ait st. Mary's, and
their parents and several other mem
bers of the Cathedral parish always
went there to make their confession
to the jealous pastor, the late Mgr.
Caillet. Let us hope that the coming
celebration may be only the forerun-
ner of a greater homecoming and
reunion of the pioneer Catholics of
st. Paul in better world
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DIOCESE OF LEAD

Retreat for Clergy: The retreat
for the clergy of the diocese will be-
gin on Monday, August 20. The ex-
ercises will be conducted by Rt. Rev
erend Bishop Corbett, Of Crockston,
Minnesota.
Camp Crook: Last Sunday Right
Reverend Bishop Lawler and Father
Thees, the newly appointed pastor OF
this place and the surrounding mis-
sions, stopped here on their journey
through Harding County. 1t was the
first time that the people OF the town
had the honor of receiving Bishop.
At a meeting of the little congrega-
ton the people promised enthusiasts
cally that they would build a church
and pay for it before Christmas.
They were delighted with the pros
pect of having Holy Mass on Sundays.
It was twelve years since they had
had Mass on a Sunday, and at that
time it was by mere accident.
Newell: The members of the par
ish have concluded a successful cam
paign to raise funds for the new
church. The canvass of the city net
ted the neat sum of $4,000. Both
Catholics and Protestants contributed
literally, and all expressed their graf
ification at having Catholic church
in the town. 1t is expected that in
al o11t threa weeks the old church will
be abandoned, and Mass will be held
in the new edifce.
The Altar Society of st. Mary s
Church gave supper last Tuesday for
the benefit of the new church. The
| success of the enterprise is due to
Mrs. Fred Kenaston and Mrs. Cora
King, aided by Mrs. Matt Haffner and
friends of the Society. The sum real.
lied was $4,000, which shall be used
towards buying pews for the new
church.