The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-07-19
FEDERAL AID FOR
NORTHERN FARMERST
FIGURES WILL BE PREPARED IN
sa SUPPORT OF APPLICATION
SAYS GREENFIELD
NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY
Adjutant General Greenan Announces
Dates Draft Men Will Go to
Camp Dodge.-Supreme Court
viii Not Split Hairs.

Helena.-Facts and figures showing
the crop and livestock production from
1912 to 1918, inclusive, in those north
ern Montana counties that were hare
hit by the drouth this year and last
year will be compiled by county agents
and forwarded to federal officials in
support of an application for federal
aid. ef Fs
This is the word Chas. d. Greenfield
commissioner of agriculture and pub
licity, brings back from Havre where
he attended a conference of the presi-
dents of the farm bureaus of Teton,
Phillips, HILL Valley, Chouteau, Toole
and Blaine counties, county agents,
-chairmen of the executive committees
of the farm bureaus, and experts from
the state college called to consider the
problem of assisting the farmers so
they can remain on their tracts.
While the farmers have had two
bad years, with either partial or total
crop failure, they are not discouraged
but are willing to stick 1t out and try
again if some means can be found to
assist them. The conference agreed
that in view of the money furnished
farmers this spring by counties and the
state, amounting in all to about ST.
100000, sufficient aid cannot be Sc
cured from these sources to help out
now. Local banks and merchants have
assisted the farmers to the limit of
their ability.
Commissioner Greenfield said that
under normal conditions northern Mon
tana will raise tremendous quantities
of grain and livestock and that as a
business proposition farmers should be
given the same aid that has beeHsex-
tended other industries that were tenn
porarily embarrassed. He says the
farmers do not ask for charity, but as
"A war measure seek relief that they
may do their part in helping to feed
the world.
Dates Men Will Go to Camp Dodge.
State Adjutant General Phil Greenan
mas announced the schedule of entrain-
ment of 1000 men for Camp Dodge,
Iowa, between July % and 26 by coun-
ties as follows: !
July 22-Fergus, Musselshell, Rose
bud, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, Butte
City, Deer Lodge, Meagher. Ravalli,t
Beaverhead. Lincoln, Flathead.
July 23-Fallon, Carter, Wheatland,
Prairie, Granite, Yellowstone, Carbon,
Big Horn, Lewis and Clark, Broad
water, Gallatin, Madison. Toole, Hill,
Phillips, Blaine.
July 24-Sanders, Park, saltwater,
Custer, Richland, Dawson Wibaux,
Valley, Sheridan.
July 25-Sweet Grass.
July 26-Teton, jefferson, Cascade, |
Choteau.
Supreme Court Won't Split Hairs
The state supreme court made |
1t very plain that it cherishes little |
likelihood for ultra-technical refine
ment in procedure when the court, in |
the case of United States ct al D. e.
Brown VS.. the district court of Fergus
county, decided that fractions of day
shall not be considered in filing papers.
Brown. defendant in a suit brought by
q. /. Slack, filed notice for new trial
n the afternoon of certain day,
where technically, the 10 days allowed
lnder the law for such procedure ex-
bred in the morning of that day The
rial court refused further procedure,
,ut the supreme court holds that frac-
ions of a day must not be considered.
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Secretary Charles d. Greenfield of
he state council of defense has re-
eived notice from the national coun-
IL OF defense of ruling that because
# too severe competition for labor,
fter August /, all concerns employing
more than 100 men must take their
ommon labor only through the federal
Employment service, and the practice
+ advertising for labor must cease. ]
18 Counties Are Slow.
Eighteen Montana counties will not
ave an absent soldier vote recorded
his fall unless the county clerks get /,
usy and send in the names of the =
bsent voters to Secretary of State C.
= otS"oA 1 III dcCOluduCt Will Tie ptU- Z
isions of the law enacted at the spe-
ial session.
The counties that have failed to send !,
/ the names of the electors now serv-
lg in the army or navy are as fol-
,ws; Beaverhead, Blaine Carbon,
ascade, Dawson, Granite, HILL Lewis :
nd Clark, Rosebud Sanders, Sheri- 9
an, Silver Bow, Sweet Grass and
DOLE.
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chiropractic Bill Gets sianers.