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Graham guardian., 1920-04-30

Whether or not it be fair to
criticize republican Congress
for failing to adopt a reconstruc.
tion legislative program recon-
mended by democratic Presi-
dent, it is at least in order to
criticize it for failing to develop
any alternative program and for
total failure to keep the campaign
pledges to enact such legislation
so vociferously made to the peo-
pie in the fall of 1918.
Graham guardian., 1920-04-30

There is a tendency on the part
of republican leaders in Congress
to criticize the Executive branch
of the Government for things
done. Is there not justification
for the charge that Congress has
done ali too little?
Graham guardian., 1920-04-30
PEACE RESOLUTION A SHAM

The peace resolution which the
republican bosses have directed
their party's majority In Congress
to pass is, as they well know,
unconstitutional and must, under
his oath Of office, be vetoed by the
President. The Constitution re-
Graham guardian., 1920-04-30

A Michigan jury performed its
sworn duty in the Newberry case.
but the republican Senate is still
derelict in its duty.
Graham guardian., 1920-04-30

next day, at 200 o'clock. A
large crowd from all parts of the
valley attended. Appropriate
music was furnished by a mixed
choir from the two Thatcher
Wards.
The speakers paid many high
tributes to the deceased and also
spoke many words of comfort
and cheer to the bereaved family.
After the services, a large crowd
followed the remains to the
Thatcher cemetery, where the
interment was made.
Graham guardian., 1920-04-30

County Recorder G. 0. Larson,
accompanied by Mrs. Larson and
their little daughter, Fawn. left
Wednesday morning for Roches-
ter, Mimi, where Mr.. Larson
will enter the Mayo Clinic for
examination and treatment.
Graham guardian., 1920-04-30

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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01
MONTANANS ARE URGED
TO BUY CHEAPER MEAT

Weeks in which the department of
justice will initiate it's plan to save
money in meat by group buying have
been announced to supplement the
week of March 20, when Iowa and
seven other states will inaugurate
the plan. Retail dealers will carry
unusual stocks of the cheaper cuts of
meat, which customers are urged to
buy.
Week beginning March 20 - In
cludes Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornia.
April ~ - Idaho, Nevada, Mon
tana and Wyoming.
If customers would buy the cheap
er but "highly nutritious and palat-
able" cuts during these weeks, the
departments statement said, the
saving would be tremendous and the
sIackened demand for the cuts now
popular would reduce the price.
1t was said that popular cuts fire.
uuently were SO to so cents a pound
higher than the cheaper meat.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01
TRYING TO RETAIN
CHEAP FEED RATES
HELENA COMMERCIAL CLUB
PROTESTS AGAINST RETURN
TO HIGH FREIGHTS

Matter Will Be Pushed With Inter-
state Commerce Body in an Effort
to Continue Cheaper Rate for An
other so Days After March 4, When
it Expires.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
March Crop Report

crop on farms March 1, 1919. 1t il
estimated that 27 per cent of the
Montana wheat crop has been ship
ped out of the counties where grown
as compared to so per cent of the
1918 crop shipped out on March 1
1919.
Oats-It is estimated that LIZA
900 bushels, % per cent of the 1913
oat crop, remained on Montana farms
March 1, 1920, as compared with g.
10000 bushels, As per cent of the
1918 crop, on farms March 1, 1919;
100000 bushels or % per cent of
the 1917 crop on farms March 1,
1918, and ~10,e32,O00 bushels, or 40
per cent of the 1916 crop on farms
March 1, 1917. The stock of oats on
farms in the United States on March
l., 1920, is estimated to be 422,815,-
900 bushels, as compared with $780,
$4,000 bushels held on farms March
/, 1919. The per cent of the oat crop
shipped out of the counties where
grown in Montana is estimated as fol-
lows: 1919 crop, 6 per cent; 1918
crop, z per cent; 1917 crop, II per
cent; 1916 crop, 25 per cent.
BarIey-There remained on farms
in Montana March 1, 1920, 100000
bushels of barley or 20 per cent of
the 1919 crop, as compared with
10000 bushels or 40 per cent of the
1918 crop on farms March 1, 1919.
On March 1, 1918, 100000 bushels,
or 16 per cent of the 1917 crop, was
held on farms, and $685. 600 bushels
or 25 per cent of the 1916 crop was
held on March 1, 1917. 1t is esti-
mated that 38,010,000 bushels of
barley were held on farms in the
United States on March 1, 1920, as
compared with 81,746,00 bushels on
farms March 1, 1919. The amount of
barley shipped out of counties where
is estimated to be four per
cent of the 1919 crop, as compared
with five per cent of the 1918 crop,
IL per CEN of the 1917 crop and 25
per cent of the 1916 crop.
Corn-It is estimated that the
stock of corn on Montana farms on
March l., 1920, is $4,000 bushels,
s per cent of the 1919 crop, as COM
pared with $4,000 bushels, II per
cent of the 1918 crop, on farms on
March 1, 1919. The total stock of
corn on farms in the United States
on March /, 1920, is estimated at III
1872 ,095,000 bushels as compared
with 855,269,0O0 bushels on farms
March 1, 1919. Less than one per
cent of the 1919 crop in Montana has
been shipped out of counties where
grown as compared with two per cent
| year ago.. 1t is estimated that IS
Der cent of the 1919 corn crop in
Montana was of merchantable quality
Is compared with rs per cent of the
1918 crop.
Land Values-Estimates on Mon
land show the following average
per acre by years: Poor pillow
and, 1918, $21; 1919, $21; good
,1ow land, 1918, $45; 1919, s48; all
low land, 1918, $34; 1919, $685.;
arm lands with improvements, 1918,
;39; 1919, s42; farm lands without
improvements, 1918, $50; 1919, $32.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01
STATES HAIL LOSSES
ARE PAID BY BOWMAN

With warrants in the mail totaling
$500 every claim for hail losses I'M
derwritten by the state has been paid
in full, according to E. K. Bowman,
chairman of the state board of hail
insurance. The warrants which are
now being sent out represent 10 per
cent of the total losses incurred by
farmers who insured their crops with
the state in 1919 and winds up the
business for that year. With indica-
lions for a good crop year in Montana
and more normal conditions, it is ex-
pected that the volume of business in
1920 will greatly exceed any former
year.
Total liability of the board was a
little under $1,000,0 00 in 1919, Mr..
Bowman says.
Of the losses incurred, 80 per cent
were paid by October Z, another 10
per cent was paid on February 10 and
the remainder on March IT.
Because of the unseasonably hot
weather in the crop sections of the
in May and June last year much
business was cancelled and others
did not take any insurance.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

Protests were made against the dis
continuance of the reduced railway
freight rates on stock feed from
points in the south to the feeding
areas of the north, at a joint meeting
of the industrial and business promo
ton committee of the Helena Com
mercial club last week. Secretary w.
J. Hayes of the Montana railroad
commission reported there were
hopes that the reduced rates might
be continued so days beyond March
81, the date set for full rates to go
into effect.
The matter will be referred to the
interstate commerce commission, ac-
cording to the action taken at the
meeting. 1t was stated that if the
full rates went into effect April l.,
it would prove to be a serious handi-
cap to stockmen who have been I'M
der an unusual financial strain this
winter, owing to the drought of 1919.
They say the price with the full rates
would prove prohibitive and that
thousands of cattle would perish as
a result.
Officials of the Northern Pacific
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01
GOOD FENCES ARE
GOOD INVESTMENT
WOVEN WIRE WILL PAY FOR
ITSELF IN THE END; TEN
PORARY FENCES MISTAKE

Although First Expense of Woven
Wire Is Much Greater Than Barb
Wire, Returns Balance the Added
Expense and in the End Make the
Woven Wire Fence the Cheapest.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01
What Pruning Does

Pruning facilitates orchard opera
lions by removing limbs that will
hinder cultivation, spraying and pick
ing.
It gives mechanical strength to the
plant by preventing the formation OF
weak crotches or a willowy growth.
1t corrects poor habits of growth.
1t produces new wood, which will
be proportional in amount to the sew
Gritty of the pruning done at this sea-
son.
1t induces fruitfulness.
1t opens up the tree to sunlight
and air, which are important factors
in the coloring of fruit.
It facilitates the combating of in
sect pests and plant diseases. 1t is
often necessary to prune affected
trees to an open top in order that
diseased portions may be readily re-
moved.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

The March crop report for Montana
of the bureau of crop estimates, is
sued by F. w. Beier, Jr., field agent
for Montana, covering the stock o.
grain on farms March l and the value
of farm lands, shows that the stock
of grain held on farms in Montana is
considerably less than the stock held
on March 1, 1919. The stock of grain
on farms in the United States shows
an increase in the amount of wheat
and corn as compared to March 1,
1919, and a decrease in the amount
of oats and barley as compared with
last year. The shipment of grain
out of the counties where grown is
less than during the past three years
in Montana. The reduction of grain
stocks on farms and the small ship
ment out of counties where grown is
the result of the short crop of 1919
| and the heavy demand for grain for
feeding purposes.
After considering acreage planted
in the spring of 1919 (wheat, 1,641,-
900 acres; oats, $4,000 acres: bar
ley, 10000 acres and corn, 1880
acres) and ~forecasting the possible
acreages for this year, it seems that
the grain supply on the farms is not
sufficient for seed and feed until the
new crop arrives. The stock on the
farms in this estimate, however, does
not include stocks in mills, elevators
or the shipments that have been made
into the state for seed and feed. The
feed and seed requirements of the
state have been well met by the eff
forts of the farmers to organize and
finance grain purchases, the work of
the extension service and the county
agents has been of great value in Sc
curing grain and feed from outside
the state and providing a distribution
of grain from sections that have an
extra supply. The county relief meas
ures are proving very valuable in pro-
viding a means to secure feed and
seed. Valuable assistance has been
given by bankers and business men,
but the matter of securing seed, the
of seeding operations and
the carrying of the crop until harvest
is of considerable consequence at this
time and will reflect in the acreages
sown this spring.
adAu FdluSSJ JILL III MOnIdud anu
the United States, show an increase
over the past year. The increase of
land values in Montana has been no.
ticeable in the irrigated and older
diversified farming sections.
Wheat-The amount of wheat on
farms in Montana March 1, 1920, is
estimated to be 2,897,000 bushels, 27l
per cent of the 1919 crop, a. compar-
I'D with 4,494,000 bushels, Is per
cent of the 1918 crop OF farms March
1, 1919; 2,515,000 bushels, IA per
cent of the 1917 crop on farms March
[, 1918, and 4,871,000 bushels, IL
)er cent of the 1916 crop, on the
arms March L, 1917. The total
mount of wheat on farms in the
States on March / is estimated
be 168,539,000 bushels, 17.5 per
.ent of the 1919 crop, as compared
With 128,7O3,O0O bushels of the 1918
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

Montana is just embarking on {
great campaign of road building. L
is proposed to spend millions o.
dollars on the highways of the state
In charge of this work is Frank Con
ley of Deer Lodge, whose long and
honorable career in the service OF
his state insures 100 cents worth OF
work for every dollar expended.
Roads are of such Importance
that they can be compared with our
lives; they are both good and bad;
they are smooth, even, level, wide
and full; they are billy, narrow and
winding, dangerous, shadowy and
bright; and they show the effects of
environment and care, wen as we.
They are the very means of our
life, for over them passes the food
which must keep the people of the
cities alive.
Without roads, cities could not
survive, and country folk would be
without many of the present neces-
sites, comforts and luxuries of life,
which they are now able to enjoy.
They are the connecting link be-
tween the city business man, the
manufacturer, and the farmer, dairy
man, and producer of food. They
alone make it possible for both coun-
try and city to live up to our present
standard of living, and they will be
largely responsible for any rise to
take place in that standard.
Who then can place a value on
roads, and who is great enough to
say what their true service to man
kind is? Can any man picture a
country or a land without roads?
A good man sets an example,; a
good road is likewise an example,
and as we have too few good men,
so have we too few good roads. We
have just emerged from a great war
and both our allies and our enemies
had good roads, and n hesitates to
think how much longer we would
have had to continue the fight, and
of how many more of our boys would
now be sleeping cover there" had
the roads of France and Belgium not
been good.
We are doing well in acquiring
and building roads at present, and
Jul legislation is to be commended
for starting this creditable work;
but when we find a travelable road
going past every farm, through every
town and city, then 1t will be time
enough to cease talking good roads.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

Farmers are beginning to realize
that permanency in the construction
of fences is the most important fac
tor to consider. Too often the farm
er puts up temporary fences only to
spend time a little later repairing
them which would have been unne-
cessary if the fence had been con-
structed we'll in the first place.
Because of the increased number
of livestock on the farms and the in
creased price of feed many farmers
are adopting the method of grazing
their stock in the cut over stubble
fields. This running the stock in
the field requires good fences to keep
them out of crops and on the own
er's farm.
wire fences is much greater
than barb wire fences the returns
balance the added expense and make
the woven wire fence the cheapest.
Where woven wire is used hogs and
sheep may be run in the field and
the expense of much feed saved. This
will also make the farmers crop safe
from any outside stock.
Often the wire is not stretched well
and drawn well down into the depres-
sions in the ground or the posts are
not set firmly in the ground, thus
permitting the wire to slack. If the
wire on a barb wire fence is allowed
to become loose the fence soon weak
ems and once the stock breaks
through the fence into the field it is
q hard matter to keep them out of
the field.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

and Great Northern railroads say that
thorough investigation was made
prior to the decision to discontinue
the reduced freight rates, and that
according to statistics compiled, there
is ample feed along both lines and
sufficient time to order more in time
to have it loaded and started on the
way before March 81. The order
stated that all freight loaded at any
point for shipment to the feeding
areas will benefit from the half rate
provision.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01
CONCERNING GOOD OF ROADS
AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE
LIFE OF EVERY COMMUNITY

They are fundamentally essential to
the highest advancement of our own
civilization.
This is an individual problem
your problem. There is something
you can do to promote good roads
in your community.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

The best fence for general use is
a four foot woven wire around the
bottom and two barb wires stretched
about a foot apart above the woven
wire. This gives a fence that will
keep hogs from crawling under and
cattle from jumping over.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

Helena-Sid ]. Coffee has been
elected president of the state fair
board.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

Lands
AT $40 TO 500 PER ACRE

AT $40 TO $50 PER ACRE
Terms of 10 per cent down, bal
ance 10 yearly payments, bear
ing g per cent interest. Logged
off lands of the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company.
Dairying is 8 type of farming
best adapted to the t1mbered Sec
lions of western Montana. Most
of the land can be converted into
pasture at very little expense and
dairy cows viii yield a splendid
profit from the land without the
necessity of removing the stumps,
although a sufficient acreage must
be put under the pillow to supply
winter feed. In connection with
dairying, hogs and poultry should
take an important part. All fruits,
berries and garden truck thrive;
field crops of grain, clover, tim
othy, potatoes and stock roots do
well.
You + buying at values fixed
by experienced appraisers, strip
ped of promotion charges, COM
missions, and other trimmings,
which r usually added before 1t
reaches the farmer. We will aid
You I'm selecting a location that Is
adapted to your needs.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-30
@omHn'8 Corner

to be plucking a thread from my skirt
until / could control the muscles around
my mouth. When my austere and august
mother-in-law descends to mimicry,
which only happens on rare occasions,
she is irresistibly ludicrous, but not in
the way she herself imagines. well,
he'll not get a piece of my dress" she
reiterated with emphasis, "and as for
you, if Richard"
Mother and Son.
Present, with bells on! What's the
row."
Dicky stood in the doorway, smiling
audaciously.
Il knocked, but you both were gab-
bing SO loud you couldn't hear me- he
explained, lounging indolently toward
the nearest chair.
please don't be vulgar, Richard" his
mother replied with her haughtiest air
I knew that the word cabling had
jostled her dignity. "And I wish you
would explain what you were doing just
now out on the veranda roof in that
very"
"Sketchy costume?" Dicky interpolat-
ed. Now l can finish that for you.
/ am perfectly aware that the neighbors
will be scandalized, and that will
probably catch my death of cold. But
persistent little devil as Mrs. Durkee
drives, and knew that if l didn't make
mighty quick exit she'd have me tied
to the mast with promises a mile long
to straighten out her row with Rita
Brown
II don't know why that should trouble
you," his mother retorted tartly. 1T is
my experience that you are perfectly
willing to make promises but that the
fulfilling of them"
''Is one of the best things | forget?"
queried Dicky impudently. Sure thing.
But, don't be cross. mother, dear. Here
| came in to pronounce enconiums upon
you, to crown you with laurel wreaths
as dead game sport, and you're rag
ging me as if l beat you up regular
every Saturday night"
A Surprise.
He had risen from his chair and he
crossed over to hers as he spoke and
put his smiling young face down close
to her frowning, withered one / saw
the disappearing lines smooth out as if
by magic, and her hand reach up to
clasp that of her boy I felt my heart
warm of this fresh proof of the won
derful bond existing between a mother
and her son. 1t seemed an augury
somehow. for the happiness which l
little lad when he shall have become a
strong man and ] an old woman.
| knew, however. that because Of this
very love for her son, her jealous dis
paragement of everything she fancied
he disliked, she would be especially tena-
cious in the matter Of Maj Grantlands
flowers. So | resolved to forestall her,
if possible, for l dreaded to have any
unpleasantness mar the preparations for
Lei1a's wedding.
you can't guess, Dicky,' I said care
lessly, when, having kissed his mother,
he had lounged back into his seat again,
"the ridiculous proposal Mrs. Durkee
has just been making us,
purposely made my tone as disparag-
ing as / possibly could. knowing by ex-
perience the surest way Of winning my
husbands approval of something he
really dislikes.
How do you know it's ridiculous -
Dicky retorted. "Her fluffiness usually
has pretty level head in spite of her
Inconsistencies. Spill it and let me be
the Judge"
why, she says that Maj. Grantland
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-30
MISS SHAFER'S PUPILS GIVE
DELIGHTFUL RECITAL.

A large and appreciative audience en-
joyed the delightful musical recital
given Tuesday evening in the Edison
recital hall by the pupils of Miss Vir-
ginia Shsfer. Each number on the
program showed to the best advantage
the ability of the artist and the train
ing she or he had received.
The program included the following
numbers: Duet, "Springtime Music"
(Bohm) Margaret Vogel and Evelyn
Lord; March. (Newlandl Barbara Jane
Blake; (a) 'March to Parnassus" (b)
"Album Leaf (Kirchner) Isabel Gil
christ; Curious Story" (Heller) Eliz-
abeth Strain; (a) ''To the Rising Sun"
(Torguson) % "Gavote' (Godard)
Cecilia Ivarson; Joyous Farmer" (Schu-
NANNY Gertrude Warden; 'Knight Rup-
ertf (Schumann) Elizabeth Bennett;
vocal solo, MAY Morning" (Denza)
Florian Davidson; Waltz, (Reinhold)
Alberta Clark; Swedish Wedding March
(Soderman) Martha Walker; "Scarf
Dance" (Chanimade) Marion Gift;
"Nocturne," (Chopin> Evelyn Lord;
"Gigne Breton" (Bachman) Clark Tur-
ner; "Aabesque in G Minor" (Chamin-
ade) Mrs. Armour; solo and quartette
from "The Persian Garden" Mrs. Hardy
Mrs. Davidson, Mr.. Clark and Mr. Reck-
ards.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-30
ELKS Will SEND
MORAN TO MEET
Captain John e. Moran Leaves
Today for National C0nyerb
ton at Chicago.

Captain John r. Moran. past exal-
ted ruler of the Great Falls lodge Of
Elks, will leave this wednesday, eve
ming for Chicago, where he will repre-
sent the local lodge at the national
The convention will be in session be-
tween those dates and will be attend
ed by delegates from all lodges in the
United States.
Captain Moran expects to be away
for about one month. He will stop
for day or two in Minneapolis, while
enroute to Chicago and after the con-
vention adjourns will visit his mother,
Mrs. Norah Moran, at Brattleborough,
Vermont, returning to Great Falls about
August /. This will be the captains
first visit with his mother in seven
years.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-30
NEW CORPORATIONS,
to The Daily Tribune

Special to The Daily Tribune
Helena, June 29.-Articles of incor-
house as follows:
The Townsend Motors company Of
that place. formed by c. B. and J.
NJ. Power OF Helena and George Ga
bisch with a capitalization of 100000
of which $500 is subscribed.
The Savage Oil company of Saw
age, formed by O. G. Olson, NJ. u.
Mains, A. Kjoiner. Jerome Medearis.
]. A. Garberg, F. H. Kanouse and
James f. Linn with a capitalization
of 100000 of which $500 is sub
scrihed
The Malta Oil company of that place
formed by w. s. johnson. LYMAN
Barnes. c. V. Alderin, H NJ. Kirton
and John A. Tressler, with a capital
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-30

tion. 1t actually vanishes from sight and
the most heated atmosphere will not pro-
duce the least shininess or greasiness OF
the skin.
No matter whether you are troubled
finess around the eyes, freckles, crows
feet or lines around the mouth, ugly
finger nails, or just simple, roughness
of the face. hands or arms caused by
wind or sun, you will find that any or
all of these troubles will quickly dis
appear with the use Of Howard's But.
termilk Cream. Model Pharmacy can
supply you. Manufacturers, Howard
Bros Chemical Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-30
FARM HAND DROPS DEAD.

Special to the Daily Tribune.
Kalispell, June 29.-Charles E. Ford
ham, aged 81 years, dropped, dead yes
terday at the farm home of Thomas E.
Lee near Columbia Falls, where he was
employed. His home was near Mud
Lake. He is survived Dy a wife and
four children,