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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-03-29

THE limit Of fanaticism is not
reached with the prohibition OF liq~
uors. Tobacco will come next In
fact it is here now in one of the uses
of the weed - and then there is an
almost illimitable list Of ''reforms" to
work out. After the physical person
shall have been hemmed in and
guarded, will come the souls welfare,
and the statute Will direct our wor
ship, with pains and penalties for neg
lect or refusal to sit under the drip
pings Of the sanctuary. In my poor
opinion the return Of the Puritanic
days of witchcraft and hanging and
tongue-boripg is not Of impossible
eventuation. The Louisville Courier
Journal, however, is more optimistic:
1--WE r not progressing, but turning
backward, when congress undertakes
to cay whether a nan shall read a
newspaper in which an advertisement
u lt4uOA 10 PAcAioAC0S obu w coy Ih"'
q man must go to the penitentiary II
he fails to live up to the prescribed
code of morality. A long time ago in
England there were laws under which
many petty offenses were punishable
by death. Shall we have in the future
q law under which a man may be
hanged, drawn and CHARTERED fol-
smoking a cigarette? And in a period
in which few persons actually are pun
ished, and fewer adequately punished
for murder? A difference in the form
Of government, not to be overlooked
IL that in this country and in this age
the people govern. The people may
be, occasionally, fanatical, but there
is hope for the same in the fact tina,
fanaticism is not a permanent con.
ditiou,D
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-03-29

-
ARE the Puritanic days about to
come back7 Hear United States Sena-
tor Porter McCumber, Of North Da-
kota, as he voices his sentiments in
the august presence of the Upper
House:
1.-THE best thing that could ever
happen the American people would
be the closing OF every theater and
place Of amusement in the United
States for ten years. There should be
O closed season that would allow the
people TO regain some OF their old
stability, some OF their old COM
posure, that would allow them
time to accustom their minds to the
consideration OF the real things i'll
life rather than the artificial things"
Now, that's what I call getting down
to brass tacks-to going the whole
utilitarian hog. The Senator, holding
to the super-orthodox view that this
world is but q vale of trial and tears,
consistently would eliminate all
things that might relieve its harshness
or detract from its practically; that
would spring q JOY to the heart or
lessen the tension on the tired brain
seeking respite from the stern duties
demanded by "the real thingsin life.'
TO put it tersely, perpetual work with
meter a bit Of play; leaden drudgery
leading to q welcome shu filing of OF
this mortal coil. A great mind has
Senator Porter McCumber, and "dry''
North Dakota is his home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-03-29

NOTICE one pre-sminent result Of
The toll OF the Legislature OF Missouri
this year: the devising OF eight or ten
new methods Of extracting taxes from
her citizens.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-03-29


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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-03-29

NEW NOVELTIES
In Silks and Dress Goods
Generous stock of Woolens
in the staple shades. Beau
tiful patterns in Printed Or
CANDIES and V0iIes, at l5c,
zoe, 25c, 35c and Soc a yard.
Newest things in Sport Stripes in Beach
Cloths and Mercerized Poplins at 25c and
35c a yard Splendid line of Tub Silks in
Beautiful Colorings at SOC, S5c, 81, $3.50 yd.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14

coats. Ladies' fur trimmings for
sale and made to order.
FRANK LENiN1ER, Taxidermist
Medal Awarded at Worlds Panama-
Pacific Exposition. 1918.
1901 Central Avenue. r. O. Box 0S0
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14
MONTANA INVADED
BY HUMBLE PENNY
NEW WAR TAX IS MAKING COP
PER CENT A NECESSITY AND
BANKS IMPORT THEM.
Fifty-three Million New Pennies
Minted in Thirty Days to Meet
Huge Demand for Small Coins;
Years Supply of Dimes and Quar-
ters is Also Doubled.

The war bids fair to accomplish
one thing in Montana that time and
the moving of eastern customs west
ward have failed to do so far. That
is bringing into general use in the
state the copper cent.
Montana has rejected the copper
cent with the same dislike and con-
tempt that she has the dollar bill
But the new revenue tax has added
one cent to so many costs covering
necessities of life and commerce that
it is now frequently necessary to take
change for nickle, and many people
are carrying supply of copper cents
to pay one out when it is necessary
Shipping in Gents.
The new revenue tax has resulted
in a tremendous demand for copper
cents all over the country, and Mon
tana bankers are shipping in consid-
cradle quantities of these coins.
Without the foresight of the mint
directors at Washington serious
penny shortage would exist. Full
speed ahead has been the program at
all minis for nearly two months past
Since November l there have been
minted and distributed 100000
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14
pennies, or ten times the usual output
for like period.

LOT IKE pcIlOu.
Shortage in copper coins in some
other countries has not been due to
the same causes as in the United
States. In Paris the lack of small
change at one time led to the use of
postage stamps as small currency.
The French shortage was attributed
to abnormally big demands for cop
per coins in Switzerland and other
neutrals adjoining Germany. In the
United States the lacking on of small
advances in price to cover direct
taxes imposed by war revenue bills
brought the humble penny into prom
inence. This has been noticeable in
the purchase of cigars, magazines,
railroad tickets and other items, al
though in Montana the advance
charged is frequently a nickle in
stead of cent.
Coinage of small silver pieces has
also gone forward, as demand for
such coins has shown steady in
crease. Small silver coins minted in
1916 aggregated 100000. BY the
close of the present year of the 1917
output will reach $30,00O,000.
This accounts for great number
o, brand new silver dimes and quar-
ters that are seen these days.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14

| age was, however, the big factor in
inducing free liquidation. 1t is esti-
mated that $40 to $25 hay in most
sections of the northwestern cattle
country and cottonseed meal quoted
at $40 in Montana, with cattlemen
usually unable to get it at that when
they go to buy it, have been the
causes of 20 per cent more cattle
| having been marketed from that
country that would have shown up
at market centers had the cost of
| wintering the cattle on the range
been less expensive. Cattlemen have
| not only had this, but every other in
ducement to ship.
"a powerful factor in drawing sup
piles to the shambles has been the
extraordinary high prices paid for
everything bovine. The market has
been the redeeming features of an
otherwise bad year for the range cat
tlemen, and it has gone far indeed in
offsetting disastrous climatic condi
tions. Never before has a market
of such enormous absorbing capacity,
especially for medium and low grade
cattle, existed as that of the past
summer and fall. Demand has at
times appeared limitless. and al
though the country has kept the hop
pers of every important market CEN
ter of the nation full to Overlooking
with bovine trash, including drought
refugees from the southwest by the
hundreds of thousands and other
hundreds of thousands of rejects and
misfits from the dairy regions, prices
that at numerous times during the
last decade would have been accept
able for good average grade of beef
cattle have been paid for old hat
rack Gamer cows.
Huge Demand of War.
1.-THE seasons run of range cattle
from the northwest has carried a
showing, though a relatively small
one, of choice heavy bullocks, a lot
of dry cows and young stuff and a
heavy proportion of Mexican bred
cattle, the presence of which has in
dicated the extremeties to which our
western ranchmen have been driven
the last year or so in restocking their
grass. Much of the younger stuff
marketed would have been held an
other winter on the range had not
owners experiences last winter con-
WINGED them that the wintering of the
money was preferable to the winter
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14
MANY HUNTERS0N
WATCH FOR ELK
SCORES ENCAMPED ALONG LINE
OF PRESERVE TO GET FIRST
CRACK AT GAME.
State Game Warden DeHart Takes
Precautions to See That No Viola.
ton of Law is Practiced; Many
Said to be Shooting Duck Out of
Season.

Elks are coming down into the
lower reaches of the game country
and the hunters are waiting for them,
according to State Game Warden j,
l.. DeHart, who has returned from a
trip through the Gallatin preserve
near the Yellowstone park. Hunters
are encamped all along the river and
there are probably 100 of them wait
Ing to get the elk apiece which the
law allows them. Warden DeHart
established line riders to patrol the
boundary of the preserve and to see
that overly anxious sportsmen do not
invade the preserve.
Two Moose Killed.
Already there have been at least
two infractions of the law, hunters
having killed two moose. One of the
men was caught and convicted and
the deputy wardens are after the
other one.
Chain of Lakes.
While the deputies were securing
the mountains recently they discov-
cred a chain of four lakes high up
the largest of which is about two
wa w IA S"AeSAAe' ~ Cy al COuIcClcu
by small stream and all are fed by
mountain brooks. The lakes are ex-
, tremely deep and are literally filled
with trout.
The elk are coming down from the
high places and the state game war.
den and Deputy Game Warden r. H
Hill saw at least 500 of the animals
along the boundary line of the park
"The season does not close until De-
cember 49," said Warden DeHart
"and it now looks as if the hunters
will be able to get the elk apiece that
the law allows them"
Duck Season Closed.
Complaint was made to the state
game warden's office that hunters
are still shooting ducks along the
Missouri river. 1.-THE law closed on
the last day of November" said War
den DeHart. "The migratory bird
law does not close until January /,
but wherever there is a conflict the
state law applies. Our deputies are
keeping a close lookout and violat-
ors of the duck law will be vigor-
ously prosecuted"
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14

@Highest on record. "*Lowest years top record.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14
Shortage of Seed.

A. e. Barkemeyer, the well-known
Montana seed man, says there threat
ems to be a shortage of flax seed in
Montana next year unless every bit
of flax seed is saved by people who
have it on hand and by the elevator
companies.
There is a decided shortage of seed
oats, and a supply will have to be
imported from the east and from
Canada.
There is plenty of good Marquis
wheat if too much of it is not shipped
out of the state.
The alfalfa crop was short, but
there will probably be enough to take
care of the necessities.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14

the horrible slaughter of human be-
ings is ended.
"The car situation has been bad
and rangemen have had trouble get
ting their cattle to market, this fea-
ture having prolonged the seasons
momement. The November supply
of range cattle has been heavy and
the movement will not come to an
end until we'll along in December.
The big outfits will have marketed
very closely, however, before taps are
sounded for the years trade"
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14

quarreled with his cashier. In or
der to dismiss the cashier he locked
up the bank and the report reached
Helena that the bank had closed it's
doors. Bank Examiner McGraw
rushed to Cascade to find the bank
in state of siege with the cashier on
the outside and the president in pos
session. He also found the institu-
ton to be sound financially. The
trouble was settled and the bank is
doing business as usual.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14

ing of the cattle under prevailing
conditions.
"That demand of such abnormal
breadth as has been and still is be-
ing shown is due to the great world
war is too generally known to war
rant extended comment The war
has put a premium on meats, fats,
hides and all by-products of the meat
packing industry the world over and
so decimated European herds and
flocks as to insure continuance of
high prices for live stock long after
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14
$40, 100000 From Our Beef Crop
1917 Cattle Shipments are Double Those of 1916


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genera grain p today s market
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14

ALEXANDRIA HOT SPRINGS HOTEL.
Open the year around comfortable,
lomelike resort. Cuisine unexcelled. Baths
,negmaed for rheumatism. etc. Rates
$3.50 per day.
Reduced hallway Rates.-Ask agent for
a lays round trip coupon ticket. Write
'nr descriptive pamphlet.
Sullivan. Proprietor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
A Disciple of Prevention,

On the interurban car this morning
the three seats directly ahead of me
were occupied by pathetic little
family--a widow and five frail but
neat and handsome children
| knew something of the history Of
the family and my curiosity was
aroused as to where they could be 60
ing so early in the morning. The
father, laborer, had died about a
month previous after long suffering
from tuberculosis. The baby, bright
little fellow of three, had been dis
missed from the children IS tuberculosis
hospital during the year, after success,
full treatment for spinal tuberculosis.
All had been affected by the disease,
IN some form, at one time or another.
inquired as to how the child
was gettinng along.
"Oh!" the mother said in her brok-
en- English ''He is just fine, they
couldn't have done him better. His
little back is so straight and fine now.
To him, yet, life now is another thing.
You know he was by the children s
hospital on a sun-porch.
must take them all now to the
'uvenal Court that the Judge should
give me one those, now, widows pen
sions. | pulled them all out of bed
at half past FIVE.
After" she continued, pointing to
girl of seven or eight who was even
more frail than the rest, "I will her
her to Muirdale that they should ex-
anime her for the tuberculosis. Tt is
better they should find it out first,
than to let it till il is too late
them
She did not finish the sentence. but
her face told the story.
This brave little woman has learn
ed the tragic lesson, too late, perhaps,
but still III time to protect her brood
from further ravages OF the disease.
What an eloquent lecturer she might
make for the cause of prevention!
What . pointed example she is to us
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
Restore State Conventions.

It should be remembered by our law
makers at Madison In discussing the
restoration of the state convention that
the only question to be considered is
whether it is advisable to legalize it
and provide for eleeting delegates SO
that all parts of the state shall be rep
resented, or allow it to remain yolun-
tary convention.
It must be manifest to everyone that
such convention is certain to be held
The Democrats have never ceased
holding conventions, and the Repubh
cans, when they fully realize the fac
tional and utterly demoralized condi'
ton of the party, felt constrained to re-
vive the state convention as the only
method of unifying the party and call
ing out the voters.
1t will be recalled that the number
of voters exercising the right of suf
frage began to decline with the over
throw of the state convention and that
in the national election of 1912 only
about fifty per cent of our electorate
turned out to vote, a circumstance oi
sufficient gravity to awaken serious
concern.
1t has been demonstrated in Wiscon
sin that the surrender of all authority
over political affairs to the Office seek
ers is absolutely destructive of party
unity and efficiency.
It vests in the hands of a few per
sons interested in promoting their owl
personal ambitions power which be
longs to the people and ought to b'
exercised by them.
Why should the Office seekers be al
lowed to say to the people, stand GU
of the ways Can any good reason b.
assigned for taking away from the PEG
pie the right to draft their own plat
forms and dominate the policy of thu
party to which they belong?
The state convention is an indispens
able factor in a representative popular
government.
It provides the only method for con
sultation and consideration of party
policies and principles.
1t is the only obstacle to factiona
and personal politics.
The people are expecting and the,
have the right to expect that the legis
lature will restore to the people tn,
state convention. The objections are
too trivial. to be seriously considered
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22

production of everything, from eggs
to wheat and cattle, means in terms OF
money and labor expenditure. He
doesn t know, and nobody else knows.
Then let it follow the product to con
sumption. Many people assume high
prices don t start until they reach
some. large organization. From the
economic standpoint they are just as
liable to start at the beginning as any
where else. Prices cannot be perma-
nently below the cost of production
under any circumstances.
The country is in the mood for an
investigation that will be long and
deep and thorough. Tt is tired of these
continued hurries about high prices
that get nothing except possibly 8
politician into congress or some other
job or into the newspapers. 1t has
had its full of half-b baked remedies
that spring from attention to only
one-half of the great problem. Let s
have an investigation that will enable
the country to see it steadily and see
it whole 1t would be cheap at -four
hundred thousand dollars or four mil,
lion dollars.-Chieago Herald.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
STOPS "NUT MARGARINE SALE"
Inspector of Food Holds That It Can
Not be Sold Under the Present
wisconsin Law.

DR.. Nelson of the health department,
put an end to the sale of ''Nut
Margarine" in Kenosha on Monday,
holding that the preparation was not
in keeping with the demands ofSsbc
food laws of the state on account of
the fact that it contained very small
amount of benzonate of soda. IT is
alleged that Chicago representative
of the company had informed the local
dealer in the product that it met every
demand Of the Wisconsin laws and
it had been sold to scores Of grocers
and other dealers in food, products in
the city. No arrests were made in the
case. ~ took up the matter with
Commissioner Wiegle," said DR.. Mel
son this morning, "and he advised me
that if it contained benzonate Of soda
that it could not be sold in Wisconsin.
Then told the grocers to refrain from
selling it and the local agent for the
company will box it up and send it
back to the manufacturers. :"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
Kuolt Suggests
Children's Banks
Kenosha Man at Madison Has Inter
esting Plan to Teach School
Children to Save Their Money.


"a school saving bank, - is one or
the unique proposals offered at this
session of the legislature. 1t was
recommended in the report of State
Banking Commissioner A. E. Kuolt of
Kenosha and a bill to accomplish the
purpose has been offered to the lower
house by Assemblyman Frank B. Met
calfe, Milwaukee. The states of Cali
fornia and New York have institutions
of this character, and their success
seems demonstrated according to the
reports received by the state banking
department. The measure provides
that the commissioner of banking upon
request of the principal or superinten-
dent of any public school shall prepare
and forward to the school official list
lage, which may be used as school saw
ngs banks. IF there are no such
banks in the locality, the institution
nearest shall be recommended. ANY
bank included in the list forwarded by
the commissioner of banking, chosen
by majority vote of the pupils, shall
be the school savings bank of that
school. The banking commissioner
shall be Immediately notified, when the
children of the school have selected a
bank. Every school saving bank shall
arrange for the collection of savings
from the children. Moneys so collect
ed shall be entered on individual de-
pesit slips and the total savings of
such school may be entered in the name
of the principal or trustee. When, how
ever, the amount deposited by any one
pupil and credited on the deposit card.
equals the minimum amount on which
interest is allowed, the savings bank
| shall issue pass book to such pupil,
and thereafter when the amounts ere
dited on the individual deposit cards
equal the minimum amount for which
interest is allowed, the sum shall be
transferred to the pass book. The
banking commissioner is given full
power of supervision. Once a bank
has been chosen as depository for
school savings it shall not be changed
without the written consent of the
school board of the school and the
commissioner of banking.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
Let's Have a Real One!

The Federal Trade Commission is
about to start an investigation OF the
rise IN food prices. 1t will ask the
President to approve an appropriation
Of four hundred thousand dollars fo1
that purpose. Tt proposes to cover
every side of the food situation.
The problem is legal and economic
The question of whether there are com
blnations in restraint of trade must be
decided. That has heretofore attract
ed the main attention. Now it IS time
to go more into the economic part
and go into it thoroughly. Are
the people being compelled to pay too
much for what they buyg Nobody
can answer that until he can say with
reasonable approximation what it costs
to produce those things.
In some fields the trade commission
will find plenty of data. The packers,
for instance, can tell it exactly what
1T costs them to turn out their pre-
duets. Government attention has en-
couraged accurate cost accounting in
their case. But these fields are limit
ed In the biggest fields of all the
work will have to be done from the
ground up. There isn't a farmer in
Illinois who knows what it costs him
to put his product on the market today.
There ISM one manufacturer in ten
who has an accurate idea of what it
costs him to run his business.
Let the trade commission start lit
orally from the ground up Let it
start with the farmer and find what