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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-09-14
ROMAN, M1ssOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, SEPTEMBER
SEED BED FOR WHEAT


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Make the seed bed fit for the
seed. DO not intern wheat worth
So or 81 for seed purposes in a con-
dition of soil impossible for germin-
ation."
That precaution is urged by the
United States department Of agricul-
ture on all farmers who contemplate
sowing the high priced seed Of a
high priced food this fall. To plant
seed on poorly prepared land not only
wastes the seed that does not ger
inmate, the specialists point out, bat
it may mean the loss of an entire in
vestment if paying stand is not OBJ
tanned.
A seed bed for wheat must be firm.
moist, and we'll compacted beneath.
with mellow. finely divided upper
3 inches of soil. the specialists ad-
wise. If wheat is grown in rotation
with oats or after wheat. the stubble
should be plowed to depth of at
least Z inches Immediately after har-
vesting the preceding crop of grain
The ground should be narrowed with
in a few hours after blowing, and
cultivation with harrow, disk, drag.
or roller should be given as neces-
sary thereafter until planting time.
These operations are necessary to
kill weeds, to settle and make firm
the subsoil, and to maintain soil
mulch on the surface. The earlier
the preparation of a seed bed for
wheat is started the better the condi
tion of the soil will be at planting
time. Late plowing does not allow
time for thorough preparation.
If a cultivated crop precedes wheat
frequent cultivation given to this
crop will preserve moisture and
maintain soil mulch. If level cul
tivation has been practiced, a good
seed bed can be easily prepared by
disking and narrowing after remov-
ing the crop. However, if weeds are
present it may be advisable to plow
shallow, the disk preceding and fol-
lowing the plow.
Early blowing, followed by thor
ough tillage, aids in catching the
water which falls and in conserving
for use by the wheat plants. The
firm seed bed under the mulch thus
made enables the young plants to
make use of the subsoil waters which
rise when there is a perfect union
between the plowed soil and the sub
SOIL Sufficient moisture is thus as
sured for the termination of the seed
and for the early fall growth of the
seedlings, a very important consider
ation Plant food is also likely to be
more abundant in the soil when such
methods are employed.
IF the Importance of thorough til
lage were more generally recognized
and proper methods of seed bed prep
aration were more widely employed
throughout the socalled humid areas.
there would be less frequent losses
from drouth and better wheat crops
would result, the department spec
ialists declare. In this area the mis-
take is often made of thinking there
will always be moisture enough pres
ent for a maximum crop growth with
the result that short crops often are
obtained where more attention to
moisture conservation would have as
sured good yields.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-09-14
GOVERNOR URGES
COLLEGE COURSES

The fact that so many young men
have dropped out Of school to en-
gage in service in the army, and the
young women taking up other work
before their courses are finished, has
caused the heads of educational in
stitutions to isue appeals to all
young men who are not called to war,
and to all young women who can pos
sibly do so to continue their studies
and take advantage of the. many
state scholarships and reductions in
tuition that are being offered by the
state schools. Trained men and
women will be in greater demand
than ever during and after the great
world strife and those who do not
continue their educational pursuits
along the lines of their natural tai
ents are casting aside opportunities
for their future advancement.
The Pioneer is in receipt of the
following telegram which expresses
in concise terms the opinion OF the
state officnals and faculties on this
subject:
Helena, Mont, Sept IL.
Roman Pioneer,
Roman, Montana,
! With the sanction of the State
Council of Defense, we appeal to yot
to exercise through readers, Presi-
dent Wilson'S Injunction that high
school graduates avail themselves or
fine opportunities offered by colleges
and technical schools to the end that
the country may not lack an adequate
sunplv of trained men and women.
Montana provides a state university,
state college, school of mines and
normal college and facilities Tor
properly training our young people.
Every loyal citizen can render great
service to the state and nation by
promoting education. May we not
have as motto for all Montana,
Every capable capable young man
and woman in the best job or being
trained for it."
(Signed) S. V. STEWART.
Governor.
f. c. ELLIOTT.
Chancellor OF University or
Montana.
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contract [ETFOR WATER
WORKS AND GRADING

contract will be inaugurated at once
as both jobs can be prosecuted con-
currently and this work. as we'll as
the water system, is expected to be
finished before freezing weather. AS
a result of the action of the town in
authorizing these municipal improve
ments, there will be work for a large
number of men in Roman for the en-
suing three or four months. While
considerable of the required material
will have to be shipped in, much of
it can be procured locally, as can
most of the teams necessary for the
work.
The $1G,SO0 water bond issue to be
sold on September 10th elected some
bids, but the council deemed it adj
visable to continue the sale for two
weeks in order to permit interested
buyers to satisfy themselves as to
the regularity of the issue before
submitting bids. 1t is confidently ex-
pected that the issue can be disposed
of at par
Following is a list of the bids re-
ceived for the proposed improvement
work
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duction in many of the countries
abroad which have been supplying this
country with wool, has dropped off to
such an extent that it Is difficult to buy
wool abroad.
BY offering nearly $1,000 in cash
prizes to the breeders of purebred
sheep, the Montana State Fair to be
held September 24-29, is endeavoring
to induce breeders of sheep to bring
their finest animals for private sale to
farmers in Montana. Sheep can be
grown at a big profit in this state, and
every attempt will be made to induce
local farmers to purchase breeding
stock. The department of Agriculture
at Washington, mindful Of the need for
more sheep, approves Of the action Of
the fair.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-09-14

When the first contingent of Am
tsrjcan troops reached France the
saaiIy papers stated they disembarked
at French port. The second bunch
arrived at an eastern port" and
now it will probably be designated
as an eastern hemisphere port"
Mos Delaware and Harry Burland
are preparing to leave the last of
this week for their annual hunting
trip in the Swan river country. They
expect to be gone about six weeks
and no doubt will return with the
limit on all game.
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People of Kalispell and also In tht

People of Kalispell and also In the
vicinity of Eureka have been greatly
excited over reports Of airplanes
flying over the country displaying
colored lights which are believed to
be used as a signal system. Colonel
B. ]. Blackwool. a homesteader on
the North Fork of the Flathead river.
claims to have seen the machine
several times between the hours of
1890 at night and 3 o'clock in the
morning. The matter has been re-
ported to the Flathead county offic-
ials and an investigation is being
made.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-09-14
ANOTHER MONTANA JUDGE

The senate on Tuesday passed Sen
ator Walsh's bill authorizing the ap-
pointment of an additional federal
Judge for Montana.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
PEACE when KAISER IS
WHIPPED, SAYS PREMIER

suspicion with a free government
than with the aggressive, arrogant
Prussian militarism.
Terms of Vassalage.
peace must be guaranteed by
the destruction of the Prussian
military power, so that German
peoples confidence will repose in
their equity, and not in military
right.
THE only terms on which Ger
many has suggested restoring Bel
GUM are terms of vassalage.
France is fighting to recover
the peoples patrimony. Mesopo-
tamia was never rightly Turkish
the Turks have converted the
Garden Of Eden into q terrible
wilderness.
Victory Assured.
"A great international peace
congress will decide the DISPOSE
ton Of the German colonies. Meso-
potamia can never be restored to
the Turks blasting tyranny--and
Armenia also"
Lloyd-George dealt at length
with Russia's shaking loose Of the
bondage Of absolutism. He pre-
Idicted the revolution would
eventually ensure victory ~ =
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
IS Held With
DIVORCED WIFE
OF TACOMAN!

w. Edwards formerly offices tho
building, Thursday
emeAH,cmcn charge, with Mrs Mabel Bates,
divorced wife OF Il. T. Bates, Tacoma clothicr.
Edwards time borrowed n local
hank, charged collateral stock drugs The
goods SavagcScOcd building It's
building
Edwards the travelling salesman for the
order of
a
The heard of Edwards runor To deputy Prosecuting
with
Mrs. Ida Edwards his wife told Constable Mitchell when he
Edwards weeks husband
w She nothing husbands
a received In Tacomam n
asking Edwards had had the
line.
the Louis chief police, who arrested
"a Bates, who
alleged posing his wife, arrested and is being held In the
Louis jail
When arrested $500 She given $1,000
when divorced recently.
o
Louis
intimated The Times that
he q white charges.
is business prNsni
He the city championship match that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
BUILDING
WOODEN
BRIDGE

(United Press Lenseu Wlre.p
SOMEWHERE IN NEW JER-
SEY, June 29.-Rising from the
barren sand lots of New Jersey
today is Uncle Sans first wood
en- shipbuilding plant.
From this place where an army
of labor hammers, digs and builds
carefully, efficiently and speedily,
will emerge the first of America s
fleet of a thousand 3,O00-ton
wooden ships.
Their job will be to carry food
to allied Europe, despite the Ger
man submarines.
From lumber mills in the south
a mountain of dressed and meas
ured timber is rolling northward
on flat cars to this spot.
AS fast as government engi-
neers, construction experts of va
rious kinds and a battalion OF la
borers can do 1t, these Sc fit, gray
faced acres are being transformed
into a miniature city whose popu-
lation's only task will be to turn
out ships.
Two thousand men will be en-
ployed.
A system of flood lights is be-
ing installed. The plant will run
"a hours a day.
The keels of the first two wood
en- ships will be laid early in July
IL all goes we'll.
KEGS for two more vessels will
be laid every two weeks after the
first two, until the unit OF 10 is
in full course of constructionfi
In cubby hole offices not far
away shrewd brains are inventing
new devices to speed up wooden
shipbuilding.
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Air Fleet Can Force
Germans Over Rhine

other supplies must be brought
across the Rhine. The great
German munitions plants as Is
sen, Dortmund, Barmen and most
of the other centers of the iron
country lie beyond the Rhine,
and every gun, every shell they
manufacture must cross the
railroad bridges of the Rhine.
with 10000 battle planes and
bombing machines, organized in
large squadrons, we would be able
easily to destroy every bridge
across the Rhine as we'll as the
railroad terminals on this side,
and cut the German army off from
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

The Hebb power site on the
White river, which Commissioner
Gronen urged the city council this
week to buy for 100000, was
sold in January to the Western
Washington Power Co., subsidi-
airy of the Puget Sound Traction,
Light G. Power Co., according to
announcement made in Seattle
Friday.
The price is reported to be
100000. Although the deal
was made six months ago, an
nounceme was deferred until
this week, when Hebb, after read
ing in newspapers that Gronen
was still trying to buy his site,
gave out news OF the sale.
The Stone Webster interests
had planned last winter to con-
struct a power plant on the site
Immediately, according to the
Seattle announcement. but since
the United States has entered
war this plan has been abandoned
and the site will be held until
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
WE GO "DRY"
ON SATURDAY,
so 1T SEEMS

Tacoma and the state OF WASH
ington go "bone dry at MD
night Saturday, under federal
regulations.
The Reed bill, making it illegal
tn shin or deliver intoxicating
liouors into a state which mas
already prohibited the manuiac-
ture or sale of liquor, takes erect
July 1. ,,,au
Fargo Express Co. received OF
ders from the government FRIDAY
that no shipments of booze couiu
he delivered in Tacoma after MID
night Saturday. Previous inter-
pretations of the law said that
any liquor inside the state lines
on July 1 could be delivered.
1--WE will Immediately snip
back to the liquor companies all
booze on hand after the new law
takes effect" said Stamford.
deliveries of booze packages
will cease at our offices at .
o'clock"
PONCE Onlei Duitth nhu Sohf
missioner Petit declared Friday,
that the police department was
prepared to enforce the new fed
eral bone dry law.
Announcement is due from
Olympia Saturday on the result
of the recheck Of signatures on
the referendum recently filed
against the state bone dry law.
Although the state law still
permits county auditors to issue
booze permits, the postmaster
general has ruled that It will be
unlawful to send such permits
thru the malls, because they relate
Ito liquor.
However. a person travelling to
some wet" state BY automobile
could legally take permit With
him. ana bring the booze back
with him, is properly labelled with
the permit.
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IS CONVICTED

James Mccormick, proprietor of
the notorious Seven Mill road
house was found guilty by jury
in Judge Yesterdays court Friday
morning, of having booze in his
possession with intent to sell.
The jury had been out since
Thursday night. McCormicks at
torney filed a bond for his release
and announced he will ask for a
new trial.
Mccormick has been in trouble
with city, county and federal au-
thorities several times recently
for alleged dry law violations,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 20.
President Wilson is throwing
his influence into the senate fight
to save beer and wine.
Very much exercised at the
consequence of jamming thru at
the present time drastic prohibit
ton measure which would consti-
tute, as he believes, a blow against
liberty in the country, the
president today is endeavoring to
force a compromise of the senate
dry amendment so that distilled
spirits alone. will be stopped.
According to the most depend
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
Ban WHISKY, NOT
BEER and WINE,
SAYS PRESIDENT

able informants today, the senate
will exclude malt and vinous liq-
uors from prohibition under the
food control bill.
Whisky Doomed.
Whisky is doomed. The atti-
tude of foremost senators makes
this outcome inevitable.
Meantime, there has been
marked change of sentiment in
the house, and when the food
bill goes to conference II is be-
lieved the house conferees will
not insist on bone dry section.
IL, however, congress should
vote absolute prohibition. it is be-
Continued on Page Five.)
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BY Basil M. Manly

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 20.
THE Germans will be forced
to retire across the Rhine as soon
as the allies, with the help of the
United States, are able to estab-
lish supremacy in the air and put
on the western front fleet of
10000 battle-planes and bomb
ing machines of the type which
America is capable of producing in
enormous numbers" says Com
mander j. w. Seldom of the Brit
ish Royal Naval Air service.
Practically all the German
army's ammunition. food and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

Omitted Press Leaned wirep
GLASGOW, June 20. -
Peace can only come In the
world when teh allies have
attained their aims and had
tehir detectives guaranteed,
Premier Lloyd-George declar-
ell today.
Peace before victory, he
added, "would be the greatest
disaster i'm the history Of
mankind"
The prime minister's speech was
q reaffirmation, in even more Wig
urous language than that to which
he is accustomed, OF England 8
adherence to her war aims as al
ready announced.
He went further, however, In
asserting the allies demands for
1ndemnities.
'Jndemntties," he declared,
constitute an ESSENTIAL part of the
mechanism of civilization every
where. Without them we have
no guarantee against repetition of
other wars.
: aThe characterization Of Ger
Many would be the best guarantees
br PEACE. We would negotiate In
~ different spirit and with less
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

omising fighter against subjugaon OF the many by any
ogarcy nevertheless recognizes the need of centralized
thory the need Of aocrac power the hands
the authorities order that this republic democratic as it is
may yet insure itself safety in
His speech in the upper house of congress yesterday
history i'll sharp contrast to the words of those who
would fiddle while the integrity of the nation is stake
Little men parading platitudes and pfng philoso-
plies of personal privilege time when humanity itself
rembes in the balance. Senator Johnson given
sense and practical application presents the war per-
spectve of patriotic clear thinking Americans
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

higher and more exalted nature
than anyone could have contem-
plated before-because they are
now free people fighting for
democracy's future"
America" he added, has al
ways been freedoms mainstay.
Now she is sending her valiant
soldiers to the battlefields to fight
around liberty's standard.
That's another reason why vic
tory along higher lines is assur-
ed"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
MRS. NICKEUS DIES
AT HOSPITAL HERE

Mrs. Elizabeth Nickeus. wife of
William ID. Nickeus, city clerk,
died Thursday night at local hos
pital after an illness of several
weeks. Besides her husband, a
daughter and three sisters survive
her.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
STRIVING TO BRING
PEACE, SAYS CHAS.

AMSTERDAM, June 29.-Em-
peror Charles told representatives
of eight Austrian political parties
that he was striving for peace at
the earliest possible date, accord
ing to a repotr received this aft
ernoon. from Vienna.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
BILLY SUNDAY ON
HOOD RIVER RANCH

HOOD RIVER, Or, June 90
Tired from his strenuous New
York campaign, Billy Sunday, ac-
companied by Ma" Sunday,
reached his Hood River ranch to-
day. He goes next to Los An
geles to conduct revival.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

Greetings, now that you
have read Sam Wallis story
will you call IL its official
name or Tacoma?
HEBB'S HILLSIDE
just sold today; coisesl
Sold last January.
For sale to Seattle.
Build airplanes!. Build air
planes! Build airpIanes!
Ladies, get that canning
impulse.
Hats off to the Seattle Star. h
comes right out on page one and
Iabels Doc Matthews, The Med
ilesome Parson." Never wAs 4
.ruer description.
Belinda's pretty head II white 4
But not from fright nor 49,
she's wearing one of those -
hats, X
Pure white. that Are th> ~ =
Don't take our word ~
That's whist Maxnnroo l11eo1
the fashion authority, says.
Every time Miss Rankin ape6z1
a.. = - = -.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
COSSACKE IN FAVOR
OF AN OFFENSIVE

NEW YORK, June 29-The all
Russian Coseack congress has
passed resolution urging an Inn
mediate offensive against Ger
many, according to cables recelv-
ed today by the Jewish Daily For
ward.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
POWERS AUTOCRATIC? CERTAINLY!

I'm time of national crisis there must be lodged in one
central agency the right Immediately and direct every
resource of the nation he declared i'll his speech yesterday
There is lodging hedging the facts with Johnson.
Such powers autocratic. He admits it. The presi-
dent of the United States WILL thru the food control bill and
thru other have greater powers than any other ruler
earth Hiram Johnson realizes that AS democratic and
liberty loving as he is, he still votes for it. Why?
Not because like to because | to-" he says,
bm because be carried to successful conclusion only
BY concentration of ad0crahc bo7cers."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

the safety Of democracy Hiram Johnson fearless g and pader for the nights Of hu
BUT A STOUT STRING TO
opnn
of the
CcnIde o II
of the
individuals the which dnocade safely conduct
Cdem warfare il
human activity War makes conditions all our lives
and in ourve democracy
eheardh of
"thab
nuSle sacrifice o sacrifice of blood
CONSUMPTION OF PROPERTY IND
CONSUMPTION OF OUR YOUTH"
ORGANIZING RIGHT
t,na OF
by
by of of
the battle"
and he
thusan II France"
Can not al age1w with lin then when
spoiber result is WORTH thee effort.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

ice WIFI TIIIII 100, WTIt1I IIO NOITNTUUSo'
WILL VOTE TO GRANT POWERS


wiha
in
and wnft
Of
1nour
Hreso Senator of democracy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
"Sammies" It Is to Be

WARRINGTON D. c.. June 2s.--Gen Pershing's fight
ing in nicknamed the 6ammies-Un-
Gle Sans boys-and the title bids fair to stick
will place alon gsde of Tommes for the Brit
fish, Poius for the French and Boobies for the Germans
This nickname ought to pleass Tscomans Judging from
letters Times recently suggesting that tle
Two the country over Of which this
per Tacoma asked their readers what
the American soldiers ihQuld be called in familiar speech
"ssmmies' the favofite reply
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
TACOMA BUSINESS MAN PUT UNDER ARREST
chARcE lem BE zzLE !
AUT0CRATIc POWER FOR
PRESIDENTS NECESSARY
THAT REPUBLIC SURVIVE

Hiram w Johnson of in
of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29
SOLD LAST JANUARY

latter the war before develop
ment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

harp the paradox of creating
the safety democracy Hiram Johnson fearless srgn and peade
man declares
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

The Sammies in France!
And The Times today
shows its readers the
first picture of them.
See page 5.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

Tacoma: Partly cloudy.
Washington: S a m e,
warmer east portion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

Build airplanes,, Build air
planes! Build airpIanes!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-29

Ladies, get that canning
impulse.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-06

SCHOOL SoLDIERS.-Those in
terested in the success Of military
training in Chicago public schools
might make more Roadway if Jake
Loeb were not at the head Of the
school board. The impression pre-
walls that Big Business wants con-
troll of the public schools in order to
use them as training schools for fac
tory hands. Loeb is considered by
many to be working out the policy
of Big Business. Workers are apt to
suspect and fear that the military
training is but a part Of the big game
which exploits the parents now and
hopes to exploit their children. - It is
possible that Capt. Steever may have
one, thing in mind and the head of
the school board quite another. The
cooperation of parents is necessary
in order to make military training
in the schools successful, and to get
that cooperation parents must be
free from suspicion Of the motives of
the advocates of military training.