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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14

Harry Ermel of Dayton were week
end visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Leas
-. Warren Juday was a Sunday din
ner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Brown. Mrs. Eliza Brown was an
afternoon caller. Mr.. and Mrs. c. A.
Ford were Richmond visitors Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Slifer spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Gil
lillian. John Gauch and family,
Charles Gauch and sons Heber and
Herman, Jacob Gauch, Miss Anna
Shumaker and Mrs. Lurenna Trump
were entertained Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ludy, near
Eaton Miss Elizabeth Ludy will
leave Wednesday for Chicago to nurse
in Bethany hospital Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Paul, nee Shearl limerick.
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank limerick They left
on Monday for Connersville, Ind. -.
James B. Trone was at Eaton and
West Alexandria Sunday. H. j.
Early of Dayton spent Sunday here
with his family
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Guy spent Sunday
with friends at Gordon. Miss BERTHE
w dIQr6n NlSlJ0Q IdSI week Will MT.
and Mrs. Hershel French at New Madi-
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Bruner and
daughter Alta Mae and Mrs. Eva Mil
| Ter and Lillian and aKtherine Miller
! called on Ed Locke and family, Sun
/ day, near Greenville. :. Those from
the Christian church from this place
who attended the county Sunday
school convention Thursday at Cam
den were Mr.. and Mrs E. B. Creager
and daughter Mary, Ed Woolf and
daughters Fern and Flossie, Mrs. John
Gauch, Miss Ola Trump, Anna Gauch
Lillian Miller, Alta Mae Bruner, Mil
dred Coming, r. H. Siler, Dwight Spen
Ger and Garland Parks. Mr.. and Mrs
J Charles Morris and family and Mr.. and
Mrs. Burley Routsan and son spent
Sunday at Verona. Carl Leas arrived
home Wednesday from Delaware
where he is taking a course of studies
at Ohio Wesleyan college. Miss Ire
va Howell visited last week with Mrs
Lottie Hetzler and Orville Howell and
| family Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Parks
entertained Rev. and Mrs H. S. Huey
and son Max and Mr.. and Mrs. c. D
Spencer and family at dinner Sunday
-. Miss Inez Howell was the guest oil
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14
AND THE OVERHEAD

Are you sure you have shown me
all the principal parts Of this car? 2
Eyes, madam. all the main ones" re-
turned the dealer.
We'll, then, where is the dep1ecia-
ton? Tom told me that was one of
the biggest things about a car"
American Legion Weekly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14

Mrs. Treva Howell, Sunday The an
nual business meeting of the Chris
tian church will be held Thursday eve
ming at the church. :. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Troulwine and children spent
Sunday with Joe Ruff and family at
Union City. Mrs. c. C. Beck spent
several days of last week with her
parents near Castine. -. Rev. Huey,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14

The United Kingdom is said to
have more women workers in proper
ton to population than any other
country.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14

accompanied by Mrs. Huey, attended
Gods Bible school last week at Gin
cinnati They report a pleasant as
well as profitable time.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-14

MOST Convenient Bible for frequent USE Round
w corners Large Type Words of Christ in Red
lnk-a companionable Book. Now being distributed
at Nominal Cost Exclusively to Readers by the
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-16
ron THE LIBRARY CAR A THOUSAND BOOKS AKE
WcIKZBUIED ANOMG TIL FAMILIES

TUST as the Nine Mile, with it's electric lights. baths, beds and
other evidences of an advanced civilization, stands as a
. revelation to old lumberjacks familiar only with logging
camps as they were Is or 20 years ago, SO Bonner is full of sur
prises for those whose experience is limited to the average run
of sawmill towns. Bonner is anything but average; it is u-
usual viewed from any standpoint, whether by the sociologist
or the mar interested merely in modern phases of industrial
development.
you can't beat it!' proudly afifrms Kenneth Ross, the man
in charge of the timber land and lumber interests of the Ana
conda Copper Mining company in Montana. Ad among the 500
or 900 people who live and work there "You can't beat t." is a
favorite form of description for everything about the place.
Taking the towns industrial side first, it has a sawmiIl
built not long ago according to plans designed to make it one
of the finest and most complete in the world. To this mill
comes the timber cut from the slopes of the Bitter Roots by the
crews of the Nine Mile camps, and from it energies daily al
most half a million feet of lumber for the Anaconda mines and
smelters in Montana, Idaho and Utah. 1t has a remarkably
high per capita production, and it's labor turnover is so small
that you find among the working crews many men who haver
been there from 25 to 40 years. But these are items to arrest
the attention chiefly of lumbermen, lumbr statisticians and
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BRIDGES To BOOKS
WAS W|LEY'S Jump
INTO WRITING GAME
Creator of "Wilecat" Tales
Tells About the Change
in His Career.

den, the .Wiieeat' Of the a a. E MaT F.
sat in his room in the Waldorf,
Astoria and told how, in 1917. he
ceased to be an engineer-contractor
and became a writer. Mr.. Wiley halls
from the Golden Gate. and he is
making his first visit to New York
IN Two years-partly, he says to keep
his friend Sam Blythe mpan and
partly to pay a return call on Joseph
Hergesheimer. the novelist, who re-
Gently visited him at his home in
Monterey.
II had gore through several million
dollars worth of contracts" he said.
building bridges, railroads and such
things, but / had done it at the ex-
pense of all my nervous force. I had
to beat the game on all sides: the
iaoor unions on one hand. and the
banks. who lent money for payrolls
and materials, on the other. / vas
at so high a tension that I couldn't
sleep any more. At night 1 used to
have to set into my car and have nv
or so, before | could go to bed.
Il said to myself, You're not happy,
You've got everything a king could
have, in the way of wines, Eouors.
cigars and so forth. but you're not
getting the kick you want So T
decided to quit the business and write.
Il sat down and figured out What
sort of writing I ought to do. I
asked myself what they liked best.
and what would sell easiest. and I de-
cided on comedy. So l Thoughts
Where have 0 seen the best
comedy, in its most concentrated
The answer was, of course.
On the Mississippi
A Missing MenagerIe
THE subject of my first story was q
circus that drifted down the
big river on a barge and got stranded
among a bunch of old-time rivermen.
| had lions and tigers and anacondoa9
messing around and having a dickens
Of a time in general. and l sent the
to Scribners'.
They gave me 500 for it. I fig
lred ! could do two or three of thems
1 week-well. let's call it one a week
be conservative. Then 500 each,
would mean $500 a year for me, and
could do we'll enough on that"
1t appears from the foregoing, and
llso from Internal evidence in Mr..
stories, that the man Il a
natural writer-a sort of creature az
are as the natural ball player. or a
latural pianist, or a natural anything
lse. How many of the 2,57S,975. 789
persons in the United States
would like TO go into the writing
~usiness could SIT down casually and
ash off a first story that would sell
or 500?
Mr.. Wiley's Wheat stories, as the
100000 oil so readers Of the Satur-
ay Evening Post know, are published
4 that magazine with great regularity
nd with considerable profit to the
uthor. Alfred A. Knopf has brought
ut two volumes of Lady Luck and
the latter containing seven
tales of San Francisco'a
chinatown. \ third volume, Lily"
herein the adventures of the Wildcat
nd his mascot are concluded. is an
ounced for appearance in the fall.
lie can therefore claim TO have ar
we'd as a writer.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-16

Hart explains ruefullv, "he tells me I
is no part of the company's policy t
make a cent off the food its employees
eat. We are allowed only to pay tn.
expenses of being a convenience. VIVA
is left over goes back to the patrons
From the offices il is but q few
steps to the mill. a gigantic structure
Of concrete. steel and wood. reared OF
the banks of the Blackfoot river. Into
this the huge logs are drawn TO be
transformed into all sort of lumber
products from heavy, rough boards for
mine bnlkheads 10 delicate mouldings
and wall trimmings for expensive
dwellings,. The latter. of course, do
not go into mines. but are prepared for
the commercial market.
j. F. MAR, the plant superintendent.
usually takes the visitor in charge for
a tour of the mill. and he sees to it
that nothing is missed. MAR is one
of the old-timers. Only Clifford La
Forge. the chief engineer, and Fred
Thibodeaux. a Zimmerman, have been
at Bonner longer than he. They have
been in service there for periods rang
ing from 50 TO 40 years. All three
came from the same section of the
country. the Maine woods. OF the tim
Der region of New Brunswick. Mr..
Ross himself is a native of Nova
Scotia.
A Model Bachelors Hall
Past a huge log jam. constantly re
plenished by fresh timber arrivals
from the Nine Mile. the visitor is next
headed for the bachelor quarters of
Bonner. a great. rambling. two-story
structure standing at the upper end
of the yards, beyond the shops and
an assemblage of spare timber camp
equipment. Next to the sawmill itself
and the community garden. this appar-
emily stands highest in the estimation
of Mr.. Ross. Here 200 or 300 I'M
married men live with all the comforts
afforded by n modern hotel.
Every sleeping room is an outside
room. There are verandas on all four
bathrooms equipped with tubs
and showers are on each floor, and
each floor also has its assembly room.
one of which is used occasionally for
dances and other gatherings.
A custodian with a corps Of order
lies has charge of sleeping-room equip
ment. which is said to have cost in the
ncishborhood of 100000. The mill
went on a two-Shift basis June 10, and
the day men have one floor. while thel
night crew has the other. so that they
do not disturb each other as they
and 60.
Next comes what the entire popula-l
ton Of Bonner regards as the finest
possessed by any community,
or small, in the United States
is community garden. Started as a
var activity. it has been continued be-
ause it has engaged even more seri-
nus attention in peace time than it
lid during the period of hostilities. It's
anne has spread throughout the coun-
and Mr.. Ross receives from time
o time many letters from other INDUS
rial centers, asking for information.
1t occupies II acres of ground, lying
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-16

! just across the road from the big dor
mitory, but is exclusively the propert,
of the married folk of the community
At this time of year it is at its best
On the day the Sawmill went on a two.
shift schedule a large party visited il
and had the fortune to fall in with
Mrs. s, J. Daggett, wife of one of tn,
mill sawyers. who volunteered as guide
81 Families Gardening
In a neat little gingham gown and
wearing a broad-brimmed garden hat
and loosely-fitting gloves. Mrs. Daggert
looked just what she was. an enthuSi-
astic gardener, and one of the women
told her so.
How could | be anything else" she
demanded briskly. and she shifted the
nozzle of her garden hose from one
hand to the other. and continued skill
fully TO guide a stream of water along
the rows of ~sprOuting vegetables. My
little garden saved me something like
$500 last year and gave MY family
and me unlimited satisfaction. | can't
begin to tell you of the pleasure and
health we all derived from it. Just
SIMPLY handed to is. you might say.
low can we help being interested in
gardening"
1t was early in the morning. but al
ready several women rs Jealous as Mrs.
Daggett were busily wedding and wat
erlng their garden plots, which were
showing fresh and green IN the sun
light. Ii was an attractive and thrifty
scene.
Tell us about it." one of the group
demanded. How did the community
garden start and who first thought
of it,"
Mrs. Daggett laid her garden hose
aside and shut off the water supply.
Il can't talk and work. too" she ex-
planned briefly. land when ] commence
to talk about these gardens no one can
tell when | will stop. Let's walk along
and look at them, and | will tell you
about them as we go. They were
started during the war as ii measure
of economy, and have been continued
ever since. 1t was Mr.. Hart. manager
of the company's store here. who first
thought of them. We call him the
father of the gardens, and he has
charge of them.
THE company donated the use of the
ground. and installed the water supply: !
you see there is water for every plot. !
year they fertilize. pillow and har-
row the grounds. There are rs plots in |
the gardens. each So feet wide and SO !
feet long. All we have to do is buy
our seed and plant and rare for our
gardens. Mr.. Hart insists that We take
care of them, too. He simply will not
for neglect or weeds, and he is
Captured Prizes at Fair
Then 73 families have gardens?' an
attentive listener asked.
1T would usually mean that" he
,lied Mrs. Daggett, but this year there
ire 81 families engaged in gardening,
nine plots were divided in half
~ those who wanted only small gar
I
There must be keen rivalry among !
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-16
Cooperate and Conserve

Cooperation and conservation are
the UNDERSIGNED words in the Ross
lexicon. A huge man of the big-boned
breed of the north, he was a lumber
lack himself 80 or 40 years ago, and
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-16

! the gardeners" some one observed.
There is agreed Mrs. Daggett
Mr.. Hart offers prizes each year. ana
every n completes for them. That
keeps up the interest. | wish you could
be here a month or six weeks from
now. and see how beautiful this place
will be. My mother. who lives in Iowa,
spent last summer with me. She was
81 years old. and she said in all her
long life she had never seen such ar
dens.
Two years ago many of us sent our
best vegetables to the state fair at
Helena. and we captured several pre-
miums. | won second prize with my
potatoes. They were extremely large.
90 weighing 100 pounds. and as sound
as they could be. We all turned our
prize money over TO the town library.
We just went into it for the honor
and glory; and we were a proud
bunch"
The party strolled leisurely from one
plot to another. Although it was early
in June and the season was very late.
one had a clear vision of the good
things to ome Long rows of sweet
were already growing Justify.
while peas. beans and lettuce all gave
promise of luscious treats TO appear
upon the family tables in the not far
distant future. In fact. almost every
member Of the vegetable kingdom was
and many of the more artistically in
clined gardeners had planted flowers
to brighten and bcautify the scene.
Famous Sweet Corn
You know continued Mrs. Dag
gett, these are by no means the only
gardens in Bonner planted for the \. {.
NJ. employees. The company own a
garden down the street. Until
the wal the site was used for a park;
then it was turned into a vegetable
garden Cor the benefit of the men en-
in the lumber camps. The com
>any hires an expert gardener, and
he is busy from morning until night
throughout the season. He raises some
wonderful things. The garden supplies |
he camps with fresh vegetables all
through the summer and they say the
umberjacks up at the Nine Mile al
'eady are talking about the sweet corn, |
md can scarcely wait for it to grow"
The figure of a tall man in overalls |
appeared in the path. Here is the
.ardener now!" exclaimed Mrs. Dag
.ett. II must ask him how he grew
rs lettuce last year: 1t was remark
bic"
There followed a long and involved
iscussion upon the cultivation of that
hoice salad material, quite TOO COM
Heated for mere amateur gardeners,
nd Mrs. Daggett inquired about the
supply of corn and other
e|ectahle green things destined to de-
ght the lumbermen this season.
1T looks as though there will be
for them" the gardener assured
err. And that means something, too.
Dr. you just ought to see what those
ellows eat. When the corr first rip
Ms I can't seem to send up enough.
etter have . look at my garden before
gu 60" he added. as he hurried along +,
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a days work for a days paw. Thi.
fellow thought the men ought to sIacl
up. lay down on the job. But the
man who had been reading said il
everybody did that there would be
nothing to take away from the capital
lists. much less to divide. whereas il
both sides played fair there would be
J plenty 10 go around. That settled it.
The fellow who had been suggesting
stacking up found the company too cold
and left.
That also made me take notice.
was interested by that time. and when
Miss Werdin. who is the sister of the
governors wife, came along with an
other idea. | gave it immediate atten-
ton. This time she only wanted us
to devise some means to get books TO
the lumberJacks up at the Nine Mile.
SO now we've got that library car. II
is just the bunk ears of the travelling
camps used in the timber regions, but
instead of having hunks. it is lined
with book shelves. and we hook il on
the log trains at intervals so the mon
up in the woods can have the latest
reading matter"
Plenty of Fresh Vegetables
Fronting the hotel there is an area
of an acre or two which was once a
park. but which was transformed DIR
ing the war into a vegetable garden.
1t is not the famous community garden
which is always preserved as the eli
materic exhibit, but the plot from
which is produced the green foodstuffs
for the commissaries supplying the
hundreds of lumberjacks chartered on
the wooded heights of the Bitter Roots.
Opposite this is the structure hons
ing the general offices and the com
rnunity store. If Mr.. Ross could as
seInble n model town conference Mt
Bonner and have among the delegates
Nikolai Lenine, the bolshevik premier
that distinguished philosopher and
friend of the people probably would
poUnce at once on the store as ont
standing evidence of "a deep aid Mo-
to exploit the proletariat. But q few
of conversation with Charles
Hart. the storekeeper. not only would
serve to convince him that he had
to an n conclusion. but
in Bonner. particularly as regards
the company store, cooperation was |
practiced long before the Russian reyo-
luton occurred.
From any one of n dozen women
patrons he would receive. first hand
the information that when sugar went
awaiting in 1917 the Bonner store CON
tiucd. while it's supply lasted. to sell
t at tho prc-war price. From them
10 also would hear that Mr.. Hart was
appointed in charge of the community
an institution whose prolific
materially reduces tbc
revenues. His complete he
would be effected by Mr..
own statement that Mr.. Ross
will not permit the store to make a
No Desire for Profit
When go in and tell him the store
S the only department in the whole
'utfit that doesn't show a profit" Mr..
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the path. When, later on. his invita-
ton was accepted, he had gone to
luncheon. but the women fingered long
among his wonderful vegetable beds.
and almost found it in their hearts to
wish they were members of the log
ging crew at the Nine Mile.
What One Woman Did
|. Mrs. Daggett led the way back to
her own plot, which drew her like a
magnet. He can grow fine lettuce,
but so can L." she said, glancing to-
ward the vanishing figure. "See this
little plot here? l don't think it's more
than 10 feet square. Well, last year
there were five adults in our family,
and though we ate all the lettuce we
could, and / gave loads of it away, We
could not make an impression upon
what we grew here; so at last in des-
peration / found a market for it in
MissOula, and cleared more than $50
from that little patch"
Did you can anything for the vim
teri, a thrifty housewife asked.
well. l should say l did," exclaimed
Mrs. Daggett, her face alight with the
memory of her treasure" l canned 70
quarts of beans. 20 quarts of peas, 40
quarts of cora, % gallons Of pickles,
Y gallons of sauer kraut, besides a lot
or Deets. rhubarb, tomatoes and SO on;
l have more than enough canned stuff
to last until the new crop comes; and
winter vegetables, too, such as pota-
toes. turnips. cabbage, -beets and on
ions. And there were plenty of other
gardens as good as mine, if not better.
You have no idea how much this means
to all of rs. And you know all this
help the company store any.
Before VIC had the gardens we bought
from the store. / call it
a pretty good company that looks out
for its people like that"
The housewife agreed. and at part.
ing. assured her that she would return
the ripening of tie corn.
Come along, | ii give you all you
can eat" Mrs. Daggett promised reck-
and Ill just bet you can't beat
mother at eating it, either, even IL
she is "a years old"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-16
Thousands of Actors
in London Are Out
of Remunerative Jobs

Observation-Disclosures of Ths
Associated Press. )-Thousands Of
actors and actresses in England are
out of work. The hot summer. the
closing down recently OF six London
playhouses. and the exodus of the the
~atergoing public to the seashore have
been the main factors. In their eff
forts to keep the wolf from the door
men and women of the histronic art
have accepted small parts in cinema
productions.
An endeavor is being made to relieve
the situation by the formation of 9
kind of cooperative theatrical COM
pany for the benefit of the voorhees,
actors and actresses. Those taking
part receive SO a week. East Lynne
was the first play given. but after a
four-weeks' season it was found that
the company had lost $3.50. after pay
ing artists ealaries 30 the venture
went IN the shoals.