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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-10-05

The attention of the city council
is directed to some broken boards In
the sidewa alks.
The Pioneer is in receipt of a card
from Camp Lewis signed "Thc Ro-
nan Bunch" and asking that we send
them the paper. This we are very
pleased to do, but the address given
does not state to whom we hhall
send it. However, we shall endeayor
to see that our boys receive the home
paper.
That good crops can be grown on
the Flathead is evidenced further by
a sample of corn grown by Angus Nc
Donald on Post creek. which meas
ures about twelve feet in heigth.
and also sugar beet measuring five
inches across and weighing at least
six pounds. This latter Specimen
was grown by Peter Scapin on the
A. ]. Brewer ranch.
The few loads of gravel distributed
over the street crossings in the resi-
dence districts makes vast differ
ence. Since the rains of last week
several of the streets have been
treated with the scraper and gener-
ally improved and now present the
appearance of city boulevard, in
comparison to their former ondi-
tion.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-10-05
FRANCHISE DISPUTES SETTLED

w. 3. Mcdonald and Sidney Logan,
representatives of the Northern Idaho
E. Montana Power Co., were in Roman
the first of the week and attended
the meeting of the city council Mon
day night. The points in dispute be-
tween the town and the power COM
pany as to the terms of the proposed
this session. and Mr.. Mcdonald left
assuring the council that the people
of Roman might expect "A conclusion
of the negotiations on the part of
his company forthwith.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-10-05


liberty of publishing it In order that
IAN may. lnsw Of his progress.
st. Johns Hospital.
Long Island City.
New York.
Sept. 10. 1917.
Mr.. ]. A. Lemire.
Roman. Montana.
Dear Sir: I have just gotten thru
with my work and have written to
Mrs. Fuhrer. and then wondered what
you were doing and thought would
write you few lines and let you
know I was still living.
This is great place and we have
lots of work. / am on the surgical
side and have been here for six
months and expect to be house sur
geon October 1st if all works out
as planned.
We have good ambulance SER
vice and patients come in smashed
flat and endways,too, and-so some are
cut and some are shot full of holes
and some live and some don't. The
fractures we get are very numerous
and it would surprise one to know
the number of people who are hurt
and killed by automobiles in this
city. The fractures cripple great
many of them and then there are
the natural causes. as appendicitis
and gall stones and stomach ulcers.
etc. Have had seven puss appendices
in two days. four of them being
ruptured and abdomen full of pus.
will stop writing such gruesome
tales but merely mentioned them to
give you some idea of the walls of
a part of great city.
! have been here long enough now
to know my way around town. The
subway is a great thing as ] can go
from here under the East River to
the Grand Central station in nine
minutes and the express trains run
about forty miles an hour as they
have four tracks and nothing on the
track to look out for.
Broadway is one of the most in
teresting places at night as it is as
light as day. When one is near
42nd street it is all electric signs
which light up the entire street.
The most remarkable thing about
the whole city in my estimation is
the natural harbor with the deep
water right up to Manhatten Island
and all around it. in fact. as the
piers. for the ocean liners come right
up to street on the water front
in fact one walks from warehouse on
to ship and it takes deep water to
float them, too, as ! saw one tie up
at pier that was drawing
27 feet of water. The water facili-
ties have made this city what it is
and I have been told that there are
100000 people in Greater New
York.
While the weather was hot ! went
out to the beach once week and
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-10-05
CYRILLE REEVE.

nit. A trench should be made around
and leading away from the pit to
prevent water from draining into it,.
&C. C. Starring, Assistant Horti-
culturist, Montana Experiment Sta
tion.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred T. Tyler enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Wright at
dinner Monday night.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-10-05
FAREWELL PARTY
FOR JIM WRIGHT

Scearce store, with their families
and few invited guests. gave fare
we'll party Monday night for Jim
Wright, who is one of the boys among
ithe third draft and who loft We'd
nesday for Camp Lewis. The affair
took place in the Scarce hall and
the evening was spent In dancing by
those who cared to dance. while the
others played cards. Mrs. w. S. Mel
sons Victrola furnished pleasing
music for the dancers. A delightful
lunch was served at the close of the
evening and following, Mr.. Scearce,
who acted as spokesman, with a few
we'll chosen and appropriate remarks.
presented Mr.. Wright with a hand
some wrist watch, to be worn by him
while in service as token of the
esteem in which he is held among
his fellow employees. Mr. Wright re-
sponded and thanked the givers for
their good wishes in an able manner,
and expressed desire to serve his
country to the limit of his ability.
Jim Wright. who is a nephew of F..
l.. Mcconnell, has resided in Roman
for about two years and is a young
man of so many good qualities that
his friends are numbered by his ac-
quaintances. and all will miss his
genial presence from the store. but
the cause is great and demands this
sacrifice. so we bid them all good bye,
God speed and safe return. Mrs.
Wright will remain in Roman and
continue her work behind the con-
fectionery cases in the big store.
sSSSsSSSSSSSsSSSSSSSS
enjoyed the surf as a relief from the
heat, but one cannot swim very much
unless out beyond the breakers and
that is rather risky when one Is
not in practice and in good swim
ming condition, which | will admit
] am not as ! weigh over 200.
have seen number of good
shows and enjoyed them very much.
There are two picture shows on
Broadway. admission fifty cents. in
which there is a thirty or forty
piece orchestra. | counted over thir-
ty musicians and the house crowded
at all times on account Of the good
music. think.
1t is long way here from Mon
tana and Texas but the world is
small at that and you will be sur
prised when l tell you that ! have
met three of my old college chums
and two of my boyhood friends-since
have been here and just met them
accidentally. as l did not know any
of them We're here.
begin to see the paper piling up
and although you are postmaster, 1t
won't go gratis so am going to cut
this newspaper right through the
middle and if you wish it and sub
scribe, perhaps the second edition
will follow at later date.
Sincerely yours
Fuhrer.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-10-05
J. f. FUHRER WRITES
FROM NEW YORK

The following letter from Dr. John
e. Fuhrer win be of special interest
to the doctors many friends in this
valley. and therefore we take the
liberty Of publishing 1t In order that
all may. knSw Of his progress.
St. Johns Hospital.
- Long Island City.
New York.
Sept. 10. 1917.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25

thoughtfully. They were dirty again
from the tinkering with the motor, but
the inspection went deeper than the
CRIME.
I'm not afraid of the pick and
shovel, or the wheelbarrow, and on
some accounts ! guess they'd be good
for me. But on the other hand. per-
haps 1t il a pity to spoil a middllng
good office man to make an Indifferent
day-laborer-to say nothing of knock
Ing some honest fellow out Of the only
lob he knows how to do"
Colonel Baldwin swung In behind the
steering wheel Of the roadster and held
a fresh match to the black cigar.
Though he was from Missouri, he had
lived long enough in the high hills to
know better than to Judge any man
altogether by outside appearances.
"Climb In he said, indicating the
vacant seat at his side. I'm the pres
ldent OF the ditch company. Perhaps
Williams may be able to use you; but
your chances for office work would be
ten to one In the town."
II don't care to live In the town.
said the man out of work, mounting to
the profYered seat; and past that the
big roadster leaped away up the road
and the roar of the rejuvenated motor
made further speech impossible.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
KING LEWANIKA'S STATE BOAT
Royal Craft Is 100 Feet Long Carries
Monster Elephant Emblem, Court
Jester and Musicians.

While travelling In Rhodcsin,"
writes contributor In the Wide World
Magazine, Il managed to get a glimpse
of King Lewanlka's state barge. The
chief Of the Burotse is fine fellow.
but | was much amused one afternoon
to see him going out for u row attired
In a top hat and a gaudy dressing
gown.
Soon after the rains commence the
BarotSc valley Is flooded and natives
migrate 10 the sandy belt some miles
away for the season. The king nj.
ways makes the trip in the royal barge.
an enormous craft about 100 feet long.
VI the center are two compartments,
both covered In, one being the living
yOom aud the other the sleeping quar-.
tiers. On the roof Of one Of these com
partmcnts Is erected monster ele-
plant. rs sort OF kingly emblem,
while on the other stands the court
Jester, who, on this occasion, amused
the populace by pretending to hunt
and shoot the elephant. 4 band Of ~
musicians We're accommodated on the
bnrge, In addition To whom there were
20 or 60 paddlers and host Of bailcrs,
for the barge was by no means water.
tight To the accompaniment Of weird
music and harhuric song the huge craft
was propelled along on It's Journey the
return voyage taking place four or five
months later"
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
~ Used to Drive a Car"

busy hour with the colonel going over
the contractors estimates for the
month In prospect. In an interval OF
the business talk, Baldwin remembered
the good-looking young tramp who had
wanted job.
"Oh, yes; l knew there was some
thing else that I wanted to ask you,"
he said. How about the young fellow
that / unloaded on you a couple OF
weeks ago? Did he make goodT
"Who-Smith?"
"Yes; II that's his name"
The engineers left eyelid had a quiz
zical droop when he said dryly: "It's
the name he goes by In camp; John
Smith, haven't asked him his other
name."
The neutrality-suspicious. matched
the dropping eyelid of unbelief with q
sober smile. II thought he looked az
If he might be out here for his health
like good many other fellows who
have no particular use for a doctor.
How Is he making III"
The engineer, a hard-bltted man with
the prognathous lower jaw characteriz
Ing the tribe of those who accomplish
things, thrust his hands into his peck.
cts and walked to the window to look
down into the Brewster street. When
he turned to face Baldwin again, 1t was
to say: THAT young fellow is won.
der colonel. l put him into the quarry
at first, as you suggested. and in three
days he had revolutionized things te
the tune Of 20 per cent saving in pro.
duction costs. Then gave him hack
Mt the concrete-mixers, and he's max.
ing good again in the cost reduction
That seems to be his speciality"
The president nodded and was sui
ficiently interested to follow up what
had been merely casual inquiry.
"What are you calling him now?-a
betterment engineer? You know your
first guess was that he was somebody's
bookkeeper out Of Job"
Williams wagged his head.
"He's three-eornered puzzle to me
yet. He isn't an engineer. but wheI
you drag a bunch Of cost money up the
trail, he goes after 1t like a dog after
a rabbit. I'm not anxious to lose him,
but really believe you could make
better use Of him here In the town Of.
fee than / can on the job"
Baldwin was shaking his head dubi.
ously.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
Big CONTRACTOR
ENDORSES TANLAC
Robert Schultze Was Tortured
With rheumatism for Two
Long Years He Says.
COULDN'T WORK AN HOUR
" Have As Much Vim and Eneroy A.
Ever Had and Can Work
All Day-Gained
Ten Pounds.

Robert Schultze Of SIS West Poplar
street, San Antonio. Texas, who has
been a resident Of that city for fifty
years and contractor and builder for
twenty-five years. made remarkable
statement regarding his experience
with Tanlac recently.
about two years ago." said Mr..
Schultze. rheumatism got hold OF me
and all the energy had seemed to
leave me. | suffered torture, espe-
cially In my shoulders and knee jolnts
and ! couldn't work an hour without
my shoulders giving out completely. |
had become irritable and unstrung as
man can be and nothing seemed to
do me any good.
FINALLY after seeing the fine results
Of Tanlac In the case of some OF my
relatives, began using II and | am
entirely free from all pain and symp-
toms OF the rheumatism and I'm glad
to say that my grouchy irritable feel
ings are gone too. | have gained ten
pounds and this strikes me as being
mighty fine for one Of my age. ! have
as much vim and energy now as ever
had and can work all day long. Alto.
gether I'm simply feeling fine"
There Is Tanlac dealer In your
town.-Ady.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
Activity Of Russian Women.

As Russia was the first country
where women were given control over
their inherited property, and MS Petro-
grad has had for some years the lurg
est medical college for women In Eu-
rope, II Is not strange that women
have taken such an Motive part In the
military campaigns In all the rcyolu.
tionary movements the women stu
dents have been mndc dangerous per-
haps, to the government, than the
men. II is believed that the majority
Of the women nnazons are evolution.
lists and that their military experience
was sought for the opportunity 1t gave
them to spread their doctrine.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
FAVOR WAGE INCREASE
COMMISSION RECOMMENDS RAISE
IN CANON DISTRICT.
Board Found All Other Grievances
Presented by Miners Were Trivial
and Unimportant.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Delyer-The Industrial Commits.
sion made its findings and recon-
mendations following the investiga-
ton into the grievances presented to
It by the United Mine Workers EN-.
ployed by the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company. The commission recon-
mended that the scale OF hand mining
in the mines OF the c. +. & |. In the
Canon district be increased 6 cents
per ton so that the scale in this dis
trict Will equalze with the scale at
Walsenburg and Trinidad.
The commission found that all OF
the other grievances as presented by
the miners were trivial, unimportant
and not entitled to be classed as griey-
ances. and which could have been
promptly, easily and fairly adjusted
between the employees and the EN-.
ployers through the channels provided
BY the eompany's Industrial plan"
The commission finds that the
question OF recognition OF the union
is one with which the Industrial Com
mission has nothing 10 say, that the
scope OF the commissions authority
is limited to the question of wages,
hours and working conditions"
II charged the miners with bad
faith. from patriotic standpoint. in
demanding at such time the recog
milton OF the union as the only alter
native to declaring strike. and con
cluded that prior to May /, 1917, when
the controversy began, the average
daily wage OF miners in the Fremont
district was equal to or slightly in
excess Of the average daily wage paid
men in the employ OF the company in
the Trinidad and Walsenburg districts.
With the exception OF the grant OF
the increase in wages in the Canon
district, the report finds for the oper.
ators all the way through.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
Fine Trout Fry at Trappers' Lake.

To hatch three-quarters OF million
trout whore none were Matched before
and to supply three OF the great water
sheds OF Colorado with fine trout fry
Is the plan put into successful opera
ton by w. b. Fraser, state game and
fish commissioner, who has made
Trappers' lake one of the finest trout
hatcheries In the state. The three
water sheds to be supplied from this
hatchery are Bear river. Williams
Fork and the White river.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25

where night switching crew was max
Ing up train.
Keeping to the shadows. he walked
back along the line Of cars on the
makeup tack, alertly seeking his OPP
portunlty. Halfway down the length
Of the train he found what he was
looking for: box car with its sidedoor
hasped bur not locked. With a bit Of
stick to lengthen his reach, he unfas-
tened the hasp and at the switching
crews addition Of another car to the
makeup" he took advantage Of the
noise made by the jangIlng crash and
slid the door. Then he ascertained by
cropping into the dark interior that the
car was empty. With foot on the
truss-rod he climbed In, and Mt the
next coupling crash closed the door.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
CHAPTER ll-.ontirued.

Good judges on the working floor Of
the Lawrenceville Athletic club had
said Of the well.museled young bank
cashier that he did not know his own
strength. 1t was the sight Of the pistol
that maddened him a'.d put the driving
force behind the smashing blow that
landed upon the big mans chest. The
lifted pistol dropped from Mr.. watrous
Dunham's grasp and he wllted, settling
back into his chair. and then slipping
to the floor.
In a fash Smith knew what he had
done. Once, one evening when he had
been induced to put on the gloves with
the Athletic clubs trainer. he had con
trived to plant body blow which had
sent the wlry little Irishman to the
mat. gnsrlng and fighting for the
breath Of life. IF ever yezll be givIn'
man that heart-punch wild tn bare
isht, His,her Montague, It's you fr tn
fasht train wldout shtoppin' to buy
amy tcket-itrl be murther In the
first degree" the trainer had said,
when he had breath to compass the
saying.
With the unheeded warning resur-
gent and clamoring In his ears, Smith
knelt horror-stricken beside the fallen
man. On the presidents heavy face
and in the staring eyes there was
foolish smile. as of one mildly aston
ished. Smith loosened the collar around
the thick neck and laid his ear upon
the spot where the blow had fallen.
The big mans heart had stepped like
smashed clock.
Smith got upon his feet, turned of
the electric light. and, from mere force
Of habit. closed and snap-locked the
presidents desk. The Waterman had
not yet returned. Smith saw the empty
chair beside the vault door as he
passed II on his way TO the street. The
cashiers only thought was to go at
once to police headquarters and give
himself up. Then he remembered how
carefully the trap had been set. and
how impossible 1t would be for him to
make any reasonable defense.
With one glance over his shoulder at
the darkened front windows of the
bank, Smith began to run, not toward
the police station, but In the opposite
dlrection-toward the railroad station.
For ]. Montague Smith, slipping from
shadow to shadow down the scantlly
lighted cross street and listening mo-
mentarily for the footballs Of pursuit,
new hour had struck. II was all
prodigiously incredible. The crowding
sensations were terrifying, but they
were also precious, In their way. Long
forgotten bits Of brutality and tyranny
on Watrous Dunham's part came up to
be remembered and, In this retrlbutiye
aftermath. to be triumphantly crossed
OF as items In an account finally set
ted. On the Smith side the bank cash
ier's f0rebears had been plodding farm
ers, but old John Montague had been
the village blacksmith and n soldier
q shrewd smlter IN both trades. Blood
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25

VII tell. Parental implantings may
have much to say to the fruit Of the
womb, but atavisn has more. Smiths
Jaw came up with snap. He was no
longer an indlstlngulshable unit In the
ranks of the respectable and the we'll
behaved; he was man fleeing for his
life. What was done was done, and
the next thing to do was to avert the
consequences.
At the railroad station a few early
Corners for the west-bound passenger
train due at ten o'clock were already
gathering, and at the bidding of Ger.
tain new and militant craftiness Smith
avoided the lighted waiting rooms as
II they held the pestilence. A string OF
box cars had been pushed up from the
freight-unloading platforms recently,
and In the shadow of the cars he
vueksd his WV westward to the yard
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25

Farmers who build pit storages can
hold their produce for the best mar.
ket prices and are not at the mercy
OF the weather and transportation
companies. advises the committee on
markets OF the Colorado Council Of
Defense. Specifications for the pits
can be had at the office of markets,
Custom House building. Denver
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
Help Needed to Save Large Crop.

That the governor should declare a
two weeks holiday from all labor not
absolutely necessary to the life Of the
state and send the men. boys and able
bodied women into the fields and or.
ehards to help the farmers harvest
the mammoth crop how endangered
by the sudden cold is the opinion OF
Senator John r Tobin and of l.. A.
Tanquary, both OF the district exemp.
ton board.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
U. S. Dollar Fund Incorporated

Incorporation papers for "the Unit.
ed States Dollar fund, backed by Eng
lish citizens Of the United States, were
filed in the office OF James II. holland,
secretary of state The purpose OF the
corporation is TO donate and use
money" for the relief of the perua
nently disabled soldiers OF the British
empire
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
OH Survey Urged by Inspector.

Confident that oil in abundance un.
derlies a vast portion of Colorado. and
that the state viii rival its neighbors
in the West as a producer OF crude
oil, James Duce. state oil inspector.
Is vigorously urging upon the gov.
ernor and the members of the State
Council for Defense an immediate sur.
vey Of the state with view to de-
termining those regions underlaid with
oil. The state has fund OF 100000
cash which Mr. Duce says is immedi.
ately available for this work.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
holland Orders 10000 Auto Tags.

Secretary Of State holland an.
nounced that 10000 automobile license
tags have been ordered for next year.
He Is confident that there win be at
least 10000 more motor cars in Colo
RADIO this time next year than there
are now There are approximately
co Goa now
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
Ask Bids on Bean Supplies.

Several quartermasters' depots OF
the army have asked for bids on bean
supplies, and w. II, Kerr. chairman
OF the committee on markets of the
State Council Of Defense, is putting
them In touch with Colorado produc.
ers.
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
Want Men Who Know Machinery.

Any man who knows machinery is
wanted in the Twenty.sixth engineers.
now being recruited at Camp Dix,
Washington, according to a letter re-
ceived by Mayor Speer from Durbin
Van Law, first lieutenant OF the corps
OF engineers
The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-25
cHAPTER w.
Wanted-A Flnancler.

1t was full fortnight or more after
this mountaineering incident on the
hill road to the dam. when Williams,
chief engineer of the ditch project, met
President Baldwin In the Brewster Of
fees Of the Glitch company and spent a