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The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
HINSDALE NAN SHOT
In ROW In MISSOURI
Timber Trautman. Formerly of Hins-
dale, Said to Have Been Shot
By Half Brother.

R. Smith, 60, is under arrest at Gal
latin, Mo-, charged with having shot
his half brother, Timber Trautman of
Hinsdale, Mont, at their home near
Weatherby, Mo-, according to news
paper dispatches the first of the week.
Trautman, So years old, a farmer,
in a statement to an assistant prose-
cutting attorney at a hospital in St.
Joseph, said the shooting took place as
the aftermath to trouble over woman
with whom both were infatuated. The
woman is said to be from Kansas City.
Trautman is said to be in a serious
condition from gunshot wounds in his
face and is not expected to live. He
claims to have been shot while asleep.
He told officers that after he awoke
he saw his half brother leave the house
and throw an empty she'll from shot
gun he was carrying. Trautman owns
a ranch 25 miles from Hinsdale. He
went to Missouri from Montana last
October and since that time has been
living at the Smith home.
1t is said by the authorities that
Trautman persuaded the Kansas City
woman to go with him to Montana to
take up homestead there, and that
there had been frequent quarrels be-
tween the half brothers.
Smith denied that he did the shoot
ing, in a statement to l.. B. Gillispie,
prosecuting attorney of Davies coun-
ty. According to his story-a burglar
entered the Smith home and after
stealing several hundred dollars, shot
Trautman. Smith said he was awak-
ened by the shot and rushed to the
room of his brother whom he found
lying in bed with blood streaming from
his face.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
POISONED OLIVES ARE
IN STATE, IS WARNING
kalispell and Dillon Among Cities to
Which Chicago Concern Has
Shipped Deadly Goods.

Chicago, Feb. 23.-A warning that
poisoned stuffed olives had been ship.
ped by Sprague, Warner & Company
Of Chicago to dealers in So towns in
eight states, was issued today by ]. l.
Mclaughlin, state superintendent OF
foods and dairies. The towns include
Dillon and Kalispell, Montana.
The olives are ripe and stuffed, OF
the type known as "pimento olives
and bottled. Fifteen dozen bottles
were placed in Illinois stores alone.
Bottled stuffed olives were not sus.
pected until the recent case Of botu.
linus poisoning at Kalispell, Montana
were investigated by the federal au-
thorities, according to Mclaughlin
He said the investigation disclosed
that three brands of California packed
stuffed olives are involved, Batavia, y
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
HUMPTY.DUMPTY.

To have business, built up by
strenuous weeks and months of indi-
vidual application, exercise of creative
power to the nth degree with all the
attendant sleepless nights and hours
of worry, finally come crashing down
about your ears is indeed sorrow su-
perlative. Then to stand in the midst
of the wreckage, alone with your
thoughts, your broken ambitions, your
shattered life's hope. What pathos!
What heaviness of mind! What intense
misery!
This, then, must be the measure OF
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
RETURNS FROM BUYING TRIP

Mrs. j. L. Slattery of the Empor-
ium Drygoods company, who returned
from an eastern buying trip last Fri
day lin an interview with Courier
representative, says that although
wholesale prices are very high, by
going into the market and selecting
the leaders of many different lines
she was able to procure for her Gus
toners a complete stock for the var
ious departments at prices within the
reach of all. Not since 1916, she de-
clares, have styles and colors been
as beautiful as they are this season.
After the dull colors that were worn
during the war, the wonderful show
ing of bright colors for spring and
summer are indeed an innovation.
The new stock is arriving daily and
Mrs. Slattery extends an invitation to
the women of eastern Montana to Wis
it the Emporium and inspect the lines
and compare prices.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
JACK TEAL LANDS JOB
With HILL INTERESTS
Present Undersheriff and Famous
Character of old Cattle Days Is
Named Superintendent.

Jack Teal, we'll known character
of eastern Montana, and for the past
five years undersheriff under C. w.
Powell, sheriff Of Valley county, has
handed in his resignation to take eff
feet March 1st. He will leave short
ly after for Livingston where he has
accepted a position with Walter Hill
in the Hill Cattle company, formerly
the Hill-McClelland Cattle company
His duties are mainly supervisory and
carry a salary of $4,000 year.
Jack came into the Little Missouri
country of Montana with herd of
cattle from Texas ip 1884 and six
years later moved to Valley county
where he has since made his home.
He is now SO years old and A years
of his life We're spent in the cattle
and horse business when those indus
tries were the only ones worth men,
tioning in the Treasure state and only
red blooded men could survive its dan
SCAS dIiu tclllptd ClOIlos
For the last six years the lure of
politics has kelA Jack away from his
chosen calling although his interest
and his heart have always been with
the dogies and horses on the range.
During the season of 1915 he held the
position of doorkeeper in the Montana
legislature and while on the job he
was a real doorkeeper. In May of the
same year he was appointed undersher-
iff by Sheriff Powell and has held
that position ever since.
Jack Teal is one of the best known
of the old school of "ctatle men" in
Montana, having rode the range in
the "good old days" with all of the IA
nous characters of early Montana his
tory. He has witnessed the develop
ment of this section of the west from
wide eXpanse of prairie or Grange"
to an agricultural community dotted
with farms and small ranches. He
has followed the progress of the coun-
try from the time the closest neigh
Dor was an easy 100 miles away to
the present time when you can stand
in the door of your bunk-shack and
wireless your heighbor with dish
towel or red bandana. He easily re-
calls the old skeptical days when the
homesteaders came flocking into the
west; when the belief of the average
rancher would not allow of CONVEX
sion to the agricultural faith; when
the cowboys believed that the only
way to raise potatoes out here was
on the point of table fork, and the
art of milking the meek muley COW
was only cultivated by the dude ten
derfoots of the effete east.
The good wishes of a host of close
personal friends go with Jack to his
ne whome and his new position.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
ADMIRAL PEARY DEAD.

Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, arc.
tic explorer and discoverer of the
north pole, died at his home in Wash
ington last Friday Of pernicious anae.
mia from which he had suffered fol
several years. Ten days prior to his
death he submitted to blood trans.
fusion at Washington hospital and
was afterward removed to his home
His condition at the time was reported
as improving, but shortly after his
condition rapidly became worse, re-
sulting in his death on Friday. He
had submitted to 35 blood transfu-
sions.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
WHERE DO THE REDS COME
FROM3

unlike the good American citizen
the Red does not criticize the United
States; he lies about it," declares w
D. Whittlesey in the current issue Of
The American Legion Weekly, the of
ficial publication of The American Le
gion.
! "The Red wants not to improve the
existing order, but to overthrow it
His agitation is not based on love fol
our country, but upon supine adher.
ence to false principles which in his
mind are superior to those of which
the fabric of the United States is
made. The Red creed is not to have
the people rule, but to have the Red
gang rule the people. Lacking force
and courage to seize authority by vio-
lence these people must persuade 9th
ers who are susceptible to their sug-
gestions to let them sneak in. Then
they can turn around and run things
with high hand.
The first plank of the universal Red
platform is to poison the minds of up
holders of the law, including the po-
lice and military forces, to such an ex-
tent that they will not maintain order
under the government which has been
duly elected by the majority of the
people. Then, elected officials can be
thrown out, and the bosses Of the
proletariat,' as all the workers to-
gether are called by the soap box ora
tors, can seize power and distribute the
spoils as they see fit.
"This is not American doctrine as
we know it, for nothing therein admits
the truths we hold as essential to lib
erty, law and the sovereignty Of the
people. BY the crimson-colored cat
echism a man will have chance in
life not because such is his right but
because the bosses of the proletariat'
think we'll of him. BE our sort, or
we will give you dirty DEAL is their
motto and their threat.
"The fact is that immigration came
faster than we could handle it and
work it into good citizenship. Almost
anyone could enter this country at will
unless under the cloud of a notorious
criminal record. The politicians were
still talking about our country as a
refuge for the oppressed and did not
or would not see that we were dotting
our continent with little non-American
communities where poverty, ignorance
and wrong were just so much raw dy-
Mantle kicking around under the feet
of any noisy demagogue who could talk
the immigrants dialect. That GRIM
inal carelessness must stop. In i'm
migration, as in every other national
matter, eternal vigilance is the price
that must be paid for liberty, just as
it was in the days of Patrick Henry"
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
WHEN TEXAS WENT OIL MAD.


Experienced oil men say that no
two oil booms are alike. They will
tell you what happened in Pennsylva-
MIA, in Indiana, in Kentucky or in Mex
leo, but when you mention Texas the
big company man is likely to scratch
his head and growl: "Well, those peo-
pie just simply went crazy"
The big company mans idea of nor
NAL development of an oil field is for
everyone within twenty miles of the
new we'll to rush to him with an offer
of the lease on his land and an earn
est appeal for early drilling. That
is exactly what did not happen in Tex
as. Everyone was busy forming a
company of his own and the big COM
panies found themselves engaged in
sort of mad scramble for leases with
the result that all lease prices reached
unprecedented figures and "wild cat"
leases were traded in at prices which
gave the big company men headache
to contemplate. Fifty cents to dol
lar an acre is conservative mans
idea of the proper gamble on wildcat
territory. Millions Of acres of land
classed as wildcat" have been leased
in this country at ten cents to twen-
ty-five cents an acre. In Texas it
brings $3.50 to $40 an acre today
with the nearest production sixty miles
away and the nearest drilling well per-
haps twenty miles away and not down
far enough to indicate anything eth
er good or bad.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
NELS PETERSON TIRES
OF DRIFTING ALONG
ON IJFES CI1RRE

Leaving a note declaring that he
was "tired of drifting along life's
stream" Nels N. Peterson, age 10
committed suicide on a Billings street
last Tuesday night. His body was
discovered behind billboard near the
sidewalk about o'clock the following
morning and was lightly covered with
snow, indicating that he had been dead
several hours. The manner in which
he took his life is not stated in the
dispatch.
In his pocket was note addressed
to his roommate, Van Steers, dis
charged soldier, and one to R. D. Nc
Hugh, proprietor of the Evans hotel
at Culbertson. The letter to Nc
Hugh was not opened by the coroner.
For several years Mr.. Peterson was
clerk in the old st. Paul hotel at Gull
bertson and later clerk at the Evans,
in both cases in the employ of Mr..
McHugh. For the past seven or eight
months he had been selling electric
blankets for the treatment of rheu-
matism. He had been in the Billings
country since about January Goth.
He is said to have brother at Man.
istee, Michigan, who has been notified
Of his death. When found he had a
small sum of money in his pockets.
Peterson was we'll known in Sheri-
dan and Roosevelt counties and was
pleasant and interesting character.
He was born in Denmark and had
spent several years in the Danish ma
Wy before coming to America. Of late
years he had been in poor health and
was occasionally confined to his bed.
1t is thought that the condition of his
health was the main reason for his
suicide.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
ERNEST MESSERSMITH
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA

Ernest Messersmith, AZ, of the north
country, passed away in Glasgow on
February 18th as result of a few
days siege of pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Messersmith had ar
rived in Glasgow a few days before
from their home in the north country
Tor business visit. They were forced
to stay In town on account of the sud
den illness Of Mr.. Messersmith with
the influenza. His condition was inn
proving when his wife became afflicted
with the same disease. While still in
very weakened condition, he endeav-
ored to care for her and as result
suffered relapse which shortly turn
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
WILL OPEN CAMPAIGN
OF STATE MERCHANTS
Montana Development Association In
augurates Plan to Make Better
Merchants and Farmers.

The Montana Development associa-
ton is the only organization in the
history of the state which is engaging
itself in the task of securing basic
facts in regard to farming, merchan-
dising and labor entirely without bias,
for the purpose of offering a possible
solution for the problems of each
group and bringing all to a closer and
more friendly understanding.
In the years field-work program
there will be much of prime impor-
tance and interest to the farmer. While
the association will interest itself in
farm problems which also occupy the
attention of farm organizations, it will
be enabled to present these questions
directly to its membership and the
general public, the majority of whom
are not farmers.
The association takes the stand that
the success and prosperity of citizens
in every line of endeavor is of the ut
most importance to all other citizens
and has very direct bearing on the
development of Montana. The direc-
tors believe that the time has come
when every man should take time from
his own business to study and try to
understand the problems of his neigh
Dor.
The "get-together" meetings which
the association will hold in every COM
munity of the state will provide a COM
mon ground upon which all citizens
can meet and hear an intelligent, edu-
cational and interesting discussion of
questions which are of Importance to
every citizen Of the state.
The best speakers which can be Sc
cured will address these meetings, and
the announcement Of the date for the
meeting here will be made in these
columns in the near future. |
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27

"Ferndeli" and "Richelieu." These
olives are infected with the bacillus
botulines, form of poison which re-
Gently caused a number Of deaths IN
several states. All Of the deaths 50
far reported, however, came from un-
stuffed ripe olives. This is the first
time poisoned stuffed olives have been
reported.
Mclaughlin said poisoned olives will
have a peculiar odor which could be
easily detected. Olives found con-
taminated usually have been soft and
odorous.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
RAW BUSINESS.

There is but one form of reasonin,
for a merchant who seeks to increas
his business through newspaper adver
tising. That is to advertise only il
such papers as have demonstrated tn.
quality of their circulation and othel
ability to return dividends to the ad
vertiser upon his investment. It i.
perfectly plain business proposition
The merchant who submits to black
mail or threats by nonproductive
newspapers, throws his money to the
wind and writes himself down as q
coward and fool. If he desires tc
waste his money in that way, that is
his business, but the customers that
cling to him should remember that
they, too, are helping to pay the bill
through increased charges.
We are led to this observation sole
ly because of an unusual and fragrant
4, attempt to coerce large advertisers
in Butte. Quite recently, the Butte
Daily Bulletin published a series of
scandalous attacks upon the character
and chastity of young women and girls
employed in large department stores
of Butte.
One of the largest union organiza-
tions in Butte is that of the clerks,
with more than 1900 members, and at
a meeting following these attacks,
resolutions in stinging condemnation
Of the Butte Daily Bulletin were adop-
ted. We reproduce these in another
column of this newspaper.
AS to the motive of the shameful
and outrageous campaign of insult to
the women clerks, the resolutions con-
tanned this: Blinded by the greedy
desire to force merchants to patron
ize the advertising columns of that
paper and angered to the point of
criminal insanity, the publishers have
committed the unspeakable outrage Of
proclaiming to the world that the fe-
male employees of two of the largest
department stores in this city are
slaves and harlots. Pretending to
speak for unnamed investigators and
in behalf of a mysterious band of al
legged reformers, the rascally rag has
branded every woman and girl with
suspicion and dishonor."
Of course, there could be no easier
way for newspaper to defeat its
purpose of increasing it's business than
that employed in this instance. By
far the most important asset of a
newspaper is its goodwill from which
the advertisers benefit. That intan-
gible and very valuable thing known
as the goodwill of a newspaper may
sometimes be killed over night. A
newspaper that will employ black
mail to the extent of slandering
large number of women and girls
should be Stunned by the public as
it would shun a poisonous snake
The Missoulian.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
DEMOBILIZING THE GOVERNMENT

Demobilization of government en-
ployees has not followed the armistice.
On the day when the armistice was
signed the number of federal employ
ees at Washington was 117,0OO, having
risen from $4,000, the number when
the United States went into the war.
By July /, 1919, the number had been
reduced to 102,l26, but it has since
insisted upon going up gradually.
Clearly rehabilitation of the country
must cause the government lot of
work nobody had suspected.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27

ed into pneumonia.
Mrs. Messersmith is now on the
road to recovery although she has been
very ill for some weeks past.
The funeral services of Ernest Mes
sersmith were held Sunday morning
from the Peterson chapel, Rev. JEFF
ferry officiating.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
IRRIGATION CONGRESS TO MEET

The Montana Irrigation congress
will meet at the Rainbow hotel, Great
Falls, on Saturday, March 7th, at 10
a. m, for the discussion of the bin
to be introduced in congress within a
short time providing for aid in the
development of the various irrigation
projects in the state.
J. L. Truscott, who is a member of
the congress, will represent Glasgow
and this section of the Milk River
valley at the meeting.
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27
THE JUG.

Four gills one pint; two pints one
quart; four quarts one gallon; one
gallon one quarrel; one quarrel two
fights; two fights four policemen:
four policemen one magistrate; one
magistrate one month.-London Tit
Rite
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27

We ask you in all seriousness Have
You Registered?
The Glasgow courier., 1920-02-27

A fool and his money are soon part
ed. Are you proud of yourself?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-08

in these momentous times statement
of ideals will not be out of place. The
contemporary clamor for rights is SUBJ
merging the emphasis on duties. An un-
precedented zest for gain tends to obscure
the fact that permanent gain comes only
by way of obligation thoroughly fulfilled.
The Hare's Motors management in
tend that their Company shall succeed
most by serving most.
They mean that it shall deserve the
confidence, possess the admiration and
receive the enthusiastic patronage of the
American people by standing for all that
is best in American business enterprise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-08

Vice President, in charge of Engineering
Development-H. D. Church, formerly
Chief Engineer Motor Truck Division,
Packard Motor Car Company.
Vice.PreSidenf, in charge of Production -
Ormond Z. Hunt, formerly Chief Ensi.
neer, Motor Carriage Division, Packard
Motor Car Company.
Vice. ce.Presidenf, in charge of Distribution
& Maintenance Henry Lansdale,
formerly General Carriage Sales
Manager, Packard Motor Car Company.
Hice.Presidenf and Consulting Eneineer--A. L.
Riker, formerly Vice President and
Chief Engineer Locomobile Company
of America
Secretary 8 Treasurer - F. r. Hickman, for
merly Treasurer, Locomobile Company
or America.
Through the medium of Hare S Motors,
Locomobile, Mercer and Simplex are
welded together for purposes of oper-
alton and tremendously strengthened by
each others resources plus the directing
brain power of the Hare's Motors staff
1t is safe to say that the knowledge and
experience of automobile engineering,
production, and distributionin the quality
field which is brought together by the
combination of these executive groups is
not equalled or even approached in any
other organization throughout the length
and breadth of the industry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-08
Standards

Hare's Motors is managed by men who
know but one standard of quality and
that the highest. The manufacturing
practice of its shops will be the soundest
known to American workmanship.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-08
History

In October 1919 Mercer Motors Com
pany acquired the property of the
Mercer Automobile Company.
In December 1919 The Locomobile
Company was organized to take over
the property of The Locomobile Com
pany of America; Mercer Motors
Company receiving substantial inter-
est in The Locomobile Company.
In January 1920 Mercer Motors Com
pany absorbed the Simplex Automobile
Company, manufacturers Of the
Simplex and Crane.Simplex cars.
Today Hare's Motors assumes the
directing power of all these properties.
Its function will be to see that in effect
ing the big increase of output already
under way, and the rapid diversifcation
of product for which these factories are
being equipped, there shall be no waste
of plant space or of effort in any respect.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-08
Organisation

Hare's Motors will be oficered by
these we'll known men:
President- Emlen S. Hare, formerly
'Vice-President, Packard Motor Car
Company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-08
Purpose

To provide complete assortment Of
highest grade passenger and freight
transportation units.
In furtherance of this object, to in
crease materially and Immediately the
output of all plants under its control.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-07-02

A good citizen discussing tax values
a few days sgo stated that he believed
these values on lands should be fixed
in proportion to the income derived
from such land. That would work this
way; One farmer rents his farm to
careless. lazy, Indifferent tenants who
& ather from the soil year after year
. all marketable stuff it produces, and
return nothing to it. even burning all
stalks and waste on it. Another farm.
er tills his soil carefully and intelligent
ly, applies msnures, prevents washing
by deep tillsge and careful terrscing
or drainage, uses intelligent rotations,
builds good barns and good residence
and for oil his labor and care and en-
ergy and intelligence he is to have his
land taxed more heavily. thus placing
Q premium on ignorance and shiftless-
ness. 10 1t fair? Is it best to encour-
age. the number Of the latter kind by
forcing him to pay high taxes on bis