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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01

TAKES QUEER TURN

Those who have passed through the
lean years in Montana, beginning with
the crop failures of 1917-1S, have
probably, at times, been ready to con-
cede that, in this state, prosperity was
distinctly on the toboggan and that
poverty had US by the short hair, says
the Choteau Acantha.
In the light of what we know and Of
what we have been told of this per-
iod of distressing business and indus
trial activity, figures recently made
public by the secretary of states Of
flee are extremely interesting.
A report from Mr.. Stewards motor
vehicle department says that $4,000
license plates have been ordered for
distribution in this state this year to
operators Of motor driven conveyances.
This figure is greater than that for
last year; last years greater than the
one for the year before; and so on.
showing a steady growth in tie use
of automobiles by Montanans during
a period which we are told has been
the worst in the states history.
Now of the approximately $4,000
motor driven vehicles in operation II
Montana last year, $4,000 of then
were passenger, or pleasure cars-al'
lowance being made, of course, for the
comparatively small proportion o
these in commercial use. Just for the
sake Of easy computation, say there
were $4,000 pleasure or passenger car:
in use. That means, approximately
that there was one for every clever
people of the states population
Granting that the average is five t.
a family, then, approximately half o
the population Of the state had, il
1921, access to automobile transpor
tation. And in 1923, the proportion i
still greater.
Passenger cars, they say, are still
classed as Injuries. Montana's povert,
takes a queer turn. Like the fellow
who saved his trousers though he los
a leg, we are inclined to say, II
might be worse"
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
LOWER

Mr.. and Mrs. c.. T. Glascock and
little daughter were Saco visitors on
Saturday afternoon.
Emil Albus spent Saturday at home,
returning to Saco on Sunday.
0. C. Busche went to Saco Thurs
day and Friday with loads of wheat.
A. M. Strommen hauled a load of
wheat to town on Friday, returning
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. McCord and
Margaret Busche spent Saturday at
the O. c. Busche home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Albus and sons
spent Sunday at the Ray Carter home
near Saco.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Glascock anc
little daughter left on No. 4 Sunday
evening for a ten days visit with
relatives in Watford City and Berwick
N. D.
w. H. Falls and Charley Hyme1
have been working on the Falls dan
this week.
Mrs. A. M. Strommen and childre,
spent Wednesday of last week will
Mrs. John Askewald.
Ole Lowe, was a Saco visitor OF
Tuesday.
B. Kappel transacted business il
Saco on Thursday Of last week.
Andrew Hanson called at the Busch,
home on Friday.
Ray Carter was in Lower White
water Monday.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
MONTANA COWBOYS
THRILL E~ASTERNERS

Western bronks and western riders
gave the fasteners some of the thrills
of their lives a few days ago, when
Madison square garden, New York,
witnessed the ten days championship
cowboy contest. Foremost among the
famous riders present from all the
range country west Of the Mississippi
were two Miles City cowboys, who are
rated among the best in the game.
Paddy Ryan and Bob Askins, two
Of the best local riders, punchers from
the Ismay country, packed off Mon
tana's share Of honors, Bob winning
third prize and Paddy taking fourth.
Dave White, who will be remembered
as having topped a few at the Miles
City roundup in 1918, took first mon
ey and the championship prize, while
Yakima Canutt, well known to all the
top hands in the game, and who has
ridden in practically all the big TO
deos in the west, came second, leaving
all other honors to this little portion
of Montana.
Bob and Paddy have put in a full
year, having been riding the best Of
EN- since July, but arrived here on
Sunday from New York looking as
though they had just stepped out Of
some fashionable haberdasherv or
Broadway, and neither shows any
signs of the fights they have beer
through with untamed horses. "Nev
York." they will tell you, "moves toc
fast, everyone is in too much of :
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01

conditions. One travels faster and
better today than ever before.
"In Brussels the American apart
ment house idea is taking root. Else
where American influence is evident
in the rapidity with which construction
has been carried out. Dinant, Louvain
and Ypres are outstanding instances
Of quick rebuilding in a style better
than before, at the same time preserv-
ing the mellow touch of local color
that makes each street and each house
so quantity distinctive.
"In Italy travel conditions ace good.
None knows better than the average
Italian how much it means to his coun-
try, financially and otherwise, to have
as many foreigners visit Italy as pos
sible. Americans are extremely well
treated in Italy"
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
\. p. RAILWAY ENCOURAGES
MOVEMENT TO THE LAND

Through its land department, the
Northern Pacific railway has an
nounced a new style Of land contract,
hoping to encourage increased settle
ment in the northwest and to give the
purchaser of it's lands the greatest
possible assistance. To insure that
only honest-to-goodness settlers and
farmers may be given the benefit of
the new and easy methods of land
purchase, the contract requires resi-
dence on or near the property and
the expenditure of specified sums in
Improvement upon the premises,
equal to five per cent of the purchase
price yearly until the total amount to
one-fifth of the value of the property.
Heretofore the lands of the company
have been sold under contracts the ex-
IRENE duration of which has been 10
years.
Under the new plan, lands are to be
sold on terms which will provide for
the spreading of payments over a
much longer term. One-tenth of the
contract price is to be paid in cash and
the balance, drawing simple interest
at 6 per cent is to amortized over a
period of 10 years. This scheme OF
payments will be readily grasped wher
it is explained that an annual payment
Of $S1 a thousand of indebtedness will
pay for the land within the term, in.
Guiding 6 per sem interest. This has
been evolved with the intention of en-,
abling the purchaser to employ his
capital in building up his new business
to a greater extent than has hereto,
fore been possible, when the heaviest
annual payments fell due at the be
ginning of a contract, a method which
has resulted in slowing up materially
the development of the agricultural
districts of the west. Under the new
contract, the annual installments vii
be the same throughout the term.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
THE O READER

The car of the publishers proof
room who questions your grammar,
catches your lapses in punctuation and
spelling and is such a rabid purist that
he corrects your dialect and insists on
making your cotton field "~niggers"
speak Harvard English, is a most ir-
ritating sort of person. Even when
one accepts the correction, there is a
certain indignation that longs for ex-
preston. But there is no one to say
it to. There is only a mark in green
or purple or red ink on the border
of the galley proof.
There are times when I could cheer
fully annihilate the person who marks
my pages with needlessly stupid cor
rections, but after my Indignation has
simmered away, remember the num-
berless times when this same auto
crat of the blue pencil has pointed out
soc bad holes. | remember on the gal
legs of my new book, "Rita Coventry
several notes of inaccuracies that
showed mysterious knowledge on the
Ipart of the proof reader, For in
stance, when Rita, the prima donna
comes to dine with Parrish in his
apartment. | had the host get the
most cherished bottle of Krug '9S. q
wine that | remember very pleasantly
in connection with a stay in Paris Il
years ago.
The proof readers note was some.
thing to this effect:
Author: Champagne will not
keep twenty-five years. The
chances are about 20 to / that the
bottle would not be good.
asked a former wine merchan.
about it and found that in a case O
champagne 30 years cid there will b,
perhaps one good bottle, in a case q
years old, perhaps three good bottles
and on on in like ratio. ! changed tn
date of the vintage. But how di'
that proofreader know? Was he
| wine merchant in some earlier rein
carnation?
Again at a critical point in tn
story, Parrish lying wide awake in hi
berth while the train stood in tn
Cleveland station heard the knocking
of a hammer on the car wheels, frs
far off and then nearer, and saw tn
inspectors torch flashing as it passe
his window. The flare of the tore
sympolized the light of understanding
entering his mind as he realized wit
: shame how shabbily he had neglect
ed the Alice of the story.
But symbolism meant nothing to til
+ ruthless proof reader who commented
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
GENEVIEVE

The true community spirit ~pervaded
the feast that was spread at the Gene
We've Hall Thanksgiving day. Families
began to arrive early bringing good
things to eat. Everything that would
suggest a Thanksgiving dinner was
spread on a long table that groaned
under the weight. After the dinner a
splendid opportunity was given for
those who cared to visit and in the ev-
ening dancing was enjoyed by all
and brought to a close a most enjoy
able day.
Mrs. Jack Grady was in Hinsdale
shopping, Saturday.
Mrs. Albert J. Johnson, accompanied
by her daughter Elnor and son Orlin
went to Glasgow to do some shopping
Wednesday before leaving for North
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
OF PURE
WATER IMPORTANT

Water from a driven well as COM
pared with that from a dug we'll is
more apt to be pure because there is
less danger of pollution at the top.
and seepage into the pipe in the first
% feet is not likely to occur. When
a driven we'll is pumped to increase
it's capacity there is considerable dan
ger that pollution will be drawn in.
There are instances on record of
safe water from driven wells becoming
polluted and spreading typhoid when
pumps were hitched to them.
AS a rule, deep wells furnish safe
water if the top and upper reaches of
the we'll are waterproof and properly
protected.
Artesian wells furnish safe water al
most without exception. Flowing
wells are doubly safe because the
water in it's underground bed is safe
and the pressure of the water in the
pipe prevents the inflow of pollution.
Rain water is an excellent source,
provided roofs and cutters are kept
reasonably clean and the storage ia.
c%ilities are properly protected. Some
people do not like the taste of rain
water. Primarily this taste is due to
the absence of minerals and the small
amount of air in this water. Not in
frequently. stored rain water develops
secondary flavors due to roof and gut.
ter pollution and the growth of algae
Perhaps this is as good a place as
any to say that hard waters are not
as harmful as people think. They waste
soap and are hard on some fabrics, bui
there is little proof that they are
harmful to health.
HoustCn's book gives formulaes ant
methods of improving the taste OF
rain water and, for that matter, O.
water from various other sources.
Stored waters tend to purify them
E selves. Any disease producing bacter
ia die off in a short while. On tn
other hand, stored waters are some
times made offensive by birds, rats
l mice, lizards, insects and algae.
There is no fundamental objection
to storing water in underground els
terms. Such cisterns must have seep
g proof walls and be covered agains
birds and rats.
$ There is no health objection to
e cistern in the attic, likewise properl,
protected. A g~lassed window in tn
: top of a c~istern, permitting sunligh
to reach the water, increases its safe
n ty. Rural homes should have a waite
f supply in the house.
d The yard privy, comparatively in
accessible and very unpleasant in ex
a tremelv cold weather, is productive o
> constipation, one of the most wide
spread and one of the most harmfu
" of bad habits.
One reason why the younger gener
v alton leave the farm, is the lack O
d plumbing in the farm home.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
BARR

Hans Kjorsvik and Chris Kreisel
went to Hinsdale Sunday with Albert
Nelson who took in the household eff
fects of Mr.. Kiorsvik to be shipped to
Minnesota. Mr.. Kjorsvik left for
Minot Wednesday night where DR.. Nc
Gamma will perform another opera
ton for a growth in his nose.
Elmer Random arrived home the
first of the week and left within a
few days for the western part of the
state where he expects to work in the
woods for the winter.
Mrs. Hilmer Lund and two little
daughters have moved to the H. 0.
Luraas home down on the river and
expect to remain for the winter. Mr..
Lund is still at his place at Barr and
is hauling his grain to market. Albert
Ness is staying at the Lund place
while the family + away.
Mike DeWaelsche, north of Barr,
went to Glasgow Friday with Alec
Fladland, both taking in wheat to be
exchanged for flour. During the car
shortage this is a very practical thing
to do as the elevators are still unable
to handle the grain as it is brought
to town.
Anders Hoist moved the last of his
household effects from the Hans
Kjorsvik ranch to his homestead Fri
day where he has been building an ad,
dition to his shack and putting VI
other buildings, intending to make i
his home. A brother of Mrs. Hoist.
is assisting them in the moving.
Guy Riggin has certainly bee un
fortunate this fall while freighting. 4
few weeks ago he lost a valuable
horse from eating too much wheat tina
was exposed in open wagons at th'
elevator and Friday, while driving
siX-horse load of grain his horses be
came frightened at the mail car
jack-knifed and started to rum, turn
ing the grain tank completely arorn,
and breaking the tongue and reach o
the wagon. One of the horses wa
badly cut and Mr.. Riggin was thrown
to the ground. The horses were lie
to the Alec Fladland place and Nh
Riggin was taken to his home mort,
of Barr by Albert Nelson.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01

Dakota where they will remain for
the coming year. Mr.. Johnson left
Friday with a shipment of cattle and
will join his family later.
Mrs. Campbell of Genevieve is en-
tertaining her son, Chauncey, who has
been away from home for the last two
years serving in the u. S. Navy. Mr..
Campbell is on a leave of absence and
will remain for an indefinite period.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Parsons en-
tertained at six o'clock dinner Friday
night at their home in G%enevieve.
Mrs. Lowetta Hikok, who left for
Washington last week, slipped and
fell while going from the depot to
her sons home, sustaining a very pain
fully sprained ankle.
The telephone lines to Hinsdale have
been undergoing a careful inspection
by William Arndt. There is still a
chance for improvement, but the line
is in better shape than for SOM time.
Services will be held at the Hatton
school Sunday with Rev. Akre in
charge. Although no hour was stated
it is thought the hour will be 2 p. M,
as on the previous Sunday.
The Cache Greek farm bureau club
and the G. C. C. will postpone their
regular meetings until after Thanks
giving.
Earl Travers has returned from
Kansas City where he has been at
tending on the government schools
taking a course in automobile and trac-
tor repair work.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hikok mad sor
Frances visited Friday at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde O'Neill, neal
A. J. Johnson was called to Hinsdale
Friday as a witness on the Kent,
Hutchins case that came up beforf
the justice of the peace for hearing
H. H. Keefer had a bad runaway
when in Saco the other day with {
load of grain. Fortunately nc serious
damage was done.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01

Author: 1t is no longer custom
airy on the New York Central
lines to knock with a hammer on
car wheels to test them for flaws.
Better make the sound the Slam
ming of journal-box covers. Also
the oil torches formerly used have
been displaced by lamps with re-
Electors.
l verified the statement and recon-
structed the paragraph. And again I
marveled at the proof readers omni.
science and forgave his for question
ing my dialect.-Julian Street in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
NEW IN
TRAVEL

American supremacy in the field of
transportation has been almost axiom-
attic for so long that to have it SER
iously challenged is something Of a
jolt to our national complacency. But
challenged it has been, and in one of
it's phases that comes nearest to our
immediate comfort - long distance
travel.
Leon j. Carey, general manager
of the International Sleeping Car COM
pany, who has returned from Paris, is
authority for the statement that one
berth compartments are now avail
able on European "trains de lux"
"On October 10 of this year." Mr..
Carey said, son the Peninsular Ex-
press, twice weekly between Calais and
Marseilles, a new model of sleeping
car was put into operation. The run
ming gear was built on the American
pattern, and American taste has been
followed in the harmony Of decoration,
with simplicity as the keynote.
"The trucks were cast in one solid
piece of steel. Each car was divided
into twelve compartments, eight of
which were single beds, the other four
being of two beds each and placed in
the middle of the car. A folding
washstand with running hot and cold
water was provided in each single bed
compartment. and the double bedded
ones have a retiring room between each
set of two, accessible from either side
but so enclosed that privacy has beer
assured.
"This new equipment will also be
used on the Calais Mediterranean ok.
press connecting the channel ports anc
Paris with the French Rivera. To my
mind, there is nothing in this country
comparable to this clever blending OF
utmost comfort and privacy with
economy of cost and space"
Sleeping cars are not the only mean:
of European conveyance said to have
progressed far beyond anything il
this country. According to Mr.. Garce,
the development of automobile trans
%portation has assumed remarkabl,
proportions abroad. AS one instanc,
he mentioned connecting service
whereby n may cover in fourteen
days 1000 miles of the most diversi
fled and picturesque country in Flu
rope, from the Mediterranean shor,
into the heart of Belgium, over tn
Alps, the Jura, the Vosges and tn,
Ardennes ranges. A weeks %journe,
may be made in this way through tn
Pyrenees from the Atlantic to tn
Mediterranean, or from Venice to tn
!. lovely Dolomite country.
"Perhaps the most remarkable ser
vice of all is in North Africa" he re
marked, "where one may travel fror
Tunis to the western coast Of Morocco
and to the very edge of the Sahar
; desert in automobiles fitted with seat
: like Gun Pullman parlor cars. Thes
: seats have movable backs, permittin
: n to recline at any angle and motto
for days on end without a hint of dis
: comfort. l have yet to see the equs
of these cars outside of France an
{ North Africa"
! Asked about general travel cond
I, lions in Europe, Mr.. Carey said: "EN
! en- at intervals of a few months or
: cannot fail to notice the rapidity
$ improvement. And by that | mea
more than simply a return to prews
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
WeRurdl
HENS Sent in BY The C0urieTs
Special Corps of NeDs Caterers
NORTH BENCH

Henry Ohlinger, who is working on
the bridge gang, was home Sunday.
Alfred Noun and family visited at
John Knaff's Sunday afternoon.
Miss Gray spent the week end with
Mrs. Chris Haugen.
Arthur Meek and Sig Tande at
tended the surprise dance at Barring
toa hall last Saturday night.
Mrs. D. A. Meek spent last Friday
with Mrs. P. A. West.
]. D. Anderson is having some re-
modelling done on his house. Mr.. Sny-
der is doing the work.
Hans Hidden and family from Glas-
gov visited Sunday evening at the
Chris Haugen home.
Emory Plapp is enjoying a visit
from his mother.
Miss Gray, j. D. Anderson, John
Knaff, P. A. West, Chris Haugen and
G. H. Floss transacted business in
Glasgow Saturday.
Mrs. Haugen and Miss Bessie Gray
visited Mrs. j. d. Anderson Sunday
afternoon.
W. D. Copeland and family enter.
tanned at their home Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Anna Knaff, H. C. Foss, Mike
Starebo, Merle Dishart and one other
H C. Foss called at d. A. Meek's
Sunday evening.
Julia and Olive Knaff and Marie
Meek were gathering berries Sunda.
afternoon.
P. M. Collins and family called a
the Pete West home Sunday.
Mrs. D. A. Meek and daughter Mis-.
Blanche took supper with Miss Ora,
Monday evening.
We r glad to state the D. A
Meek family, who have been sick TO
SO long, have fully recovered and ar
out from quarantine. The childreI
have returned to school.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01

hurry, nobody has time to stop a min
ute to pass the time of day or enjoy
anything. And big, why say, we spent
a month there and didn't get to see
half the places we wanted to, and still
we didn't see many of the same places
twice" Both are glad to be back home
and are visiting in the city for a day
or two before returning to Ismay.-
Miles City Star.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
LOCOMOTIVE BOILER BURSTS

Tarrytown, N. 1.-TWO men are
dead and a third is expected to die as
the result of the explosion OF the To-
connective boiler of a fast New York
Central freight train as it entered the
Aston tunnel near here recently.
Pieces of the engine, blown nearly a
mile, set fire to buildings on the AS
tor estate.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01

Mrs. Charlotte Despard, sister of
Lord French, the famous British SOL
der, has announced her candidacy for
parliament.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
ped"Darron @.sa MIS- Alice House. ~u|

Immediately after the conclusion of the Thanksgiving Day football
game between Georgia Techs Golden Tornado football team, of which
he is the captain and star backfidd man, and Auburn, in Atlanta, Red
Barron is to be married to Miss Alice Evans House, who will watch the
game. They have been chums and sweethearts since childhood in Clarks-
Vile, Ga. where Miss House now teaches school.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-20
CREENEVILLE

About noon. Friday. Squad A. Of the irr department responded 10 a call by 'e e1hone for fire on Prospect street between Eleventh and Twelfth. A beauti- f1i ash tree had been set on fire prob ably by a youurster making a bon fire The tree was quit rotten inside and so haf a good start befre fhe fire was dis severed The frenen used two tanks 'f chcmirs,s and spent about half an hour working over it before it was de- -isrri out. rhe tree will either have .0 come down or be doctored by the tree vardrn.
 Nr and Mrs William sured of Tue'f'h street are receiving congratula- -.nrF over Inc arrival Of William Rer- ssrf. 9r rheir home carly Thursday morning.
 1rH HH l-s cream sale in the. basement sr fhr school Friday afternoon. for the 'rnrff of tho Athletic association.
 John Service of Twelfth street is mak- rr extensive frrarovemeuts on his r0n~e. re Is putting In bath room on Sc second floor and er'arrine one of the rooms dw1 stairs. and will have a pi- tr-a on the Prospect street side
 The usuai large number attended ths ,ar'er supper under the auspices of the Wo~7nu Guild of St Andrews church. in fre Gurd room Friday evening. The mrrrr consisted of heans. salad. rolls cahe pickles and coffee.
 The Rev. F. C. Williams. rector cf st. a7irrwg church Ua.I a visit 70 his son, -arfer. at fhe Sorinrfe'd college before -rfurrinr from fhe d'orcau convention.