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Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27
TO BEGIN DRILLING ON
DAWSON-M -MERKLE LEASE

The Mid Northern Oil company will
do its first drilling in the Kevin-Sun-
burst field on the Dawson Merkle
lease, and is now moving a rig to To-
cation. The Mid-Northern has large
block of leases north of the Kelvin
Sunburst district, south of Sweet
Grass, but will complete on the Daw-
son-Merkle well before making the
test.
Mr.. Merkle returned home the lat
ter part of last week from a several
days visit to the property.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27
Promising Art Student, Native Belt
Boy, Dies in Paris as Career Opens

Jack Huotari, native son of Belt,
died at the American hospital in Paris,
France, week ago yesterday morn
ing, according to a cablegram receiv-
cd by his brother, Deputy Sheriff Fred
Huotari, in Great Falls. Young HUI
otari had attained considerable note
as an artist and was considered one of
the most talented of the young art
students of Paris The family resided
in Belt until about IL years ago, the
boys attending school here, the moth
er, who was widow, marrying Matt
Michaelson of Geyser, near where she
now resides.
The young artist is remembered by
many of this city, and especially by
those who attended school with him,
and from his earliest childhood he dis
played remarkable talent, often anus
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27
ChOutGau County Farmers, Peeved
Over Service, Would Join Cascade

While. there has been more or less
whispering going on between the
farmers living in the southwestern
portion of this county about having
the boundary line of Cascade county
extended into that portion of Chouteau
county which includes three townships
due west of Floweree, it appears from
reliable sources that the fever is grad
ually spreading and it is only matter
of time until Chouteau county will be
called upon to sacrifice this virgin
territory Whether it will be this year,
next year or some future date is a
matter that must be reserved for the
determination of the farmers to decide.
But it is coming and it is going to be
difficult to avoid The farmers seem
to feel they know what is good for
them.
Some of the farmers living in this
section have twice the distance to
Fort Benton that they have to Great
Falls, consequently it will be to their
advantage to join onto Cascade coun-
ty But what seems to favor the
farmers the most is the roads to
travel over and the amount of road
work that Cascade county produces
each year The roads west of here
are barely fit for OK team accommo-
dation, to say nothing about grain
tanks and flivvering. Practically all
of the grain in the Promised Land and
south is hauled over the graded roads
of Cascade county INTO Portage,
whereas it should be marketed at
Floweree or Carter But the buffalo
trails will not permit it and the farm
er that has hauling to do the year
around certainly feels the need and
benefit of graded roads.
The accommodation that the farm
ers were afforded when in desperate
need of poison to fight the hoppers
has also helped to nurse the friendly
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

Sl1,g93, no balance; special relief
sinking $36,054, balance s10,054; spec
ial relief interest S2l ,446, balance
Sc, 6,691; land classification $25, ,903, bal
ance s6,856; delinquent and dependent
children s6,513, balance s6,513; sus-
pense $2,715, balance s2,715; road
bond s200,640, balance $200.640; un-
divided personal taxes sf1 ,809, balance
1896; institute $410, no balance.
Total amount in trust and agency
funds during the year with balances
on hand on June 30 were: General
school s215, ,537, balances11, 1888; high
school s1O1,417, balance 1874; dis
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27
Embargo Lifted, Local
Shipments Reach Here

The latter part of last week the
Butte division of the Great Northern
railway placed an embargo on freight
shipments between local points, but
the first of this week the en-
barge as is affects the movement Of
freight between points on the -diFi-
sion was lifted and Tuesday local
merchants received shipments of
goods loaded by Great Falls wholesale
houses Monday, and the local agent,
N. H. Nelson, has received orders to
accept all such shipments for trans
portation to points on the division.
Perishable freight and livestock are
still refused.
Last weeks embargo had the effect
of causing a number of merchants in
this part of the state to transport
merchandise by trucks, and several
passed through the city Sunday and
Monday The Henderson q Smith
company of Neihart went through
with a large truck load and another
bound for Geyser also passed through.
The McConkey Mercantile company
also received shipment Tuesday via
the r s. Florek truck.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27
Treasurer Files Annual Report Small Tax Delinquency

trict school 1928, ,796, balance s77, ,905;
county unit S1G0,260, balance S24. 1888;
s2,596, balance s2,048; special relief
unit sinking $24, $50, balance s14,829.
unit bond interest s171, no balance;
state general s124, ,459, balance $4,379;
state law enforcement s2,387, balance
s135; educational sinking and bond in
terest $12.998, balance $50; war de-
Tense $12,998, balance $50; veterans
welfare commission s2,208, balance s5;
soldiers and sailors home fund 1913,
no balance; hail insurance S5,937, bal
ance $39; state bounty 81, 1,103, balance
So; livestock sanitary board $500, bal
ance 95c; livestock commission $500,
balance 95c; city of Great Falls s302,-
038, balance 81 800; Great Falls
special road 5000, balance $28; city
Of Belt S6,777, no balance; city of
Cascade S5,210, balance s31; Cascade
special improvement 1866, balance
sS5; city Of Neihart s1,051, no bal
ance; district court clerk deposit, s11,-
097, balance s2,210; redemption fund
81 ,297, balance s35; estates s12,232,
balance 1858; inheritance tax S4,518
no balance; protest tax 1T. and A
portion) s9,001, balance $4,438; mi
gratory 1908, balance S308; Fort Shaw
irrigation S1,178, balance $249;
Chestnut Valley irrigation sf6,3zz,
no balance; Chestnut Valley irriEa
ton bond interest s7,f80, deficit $594;
Ulm irrigation 1898, balance s2,186,
state sinking (f91f) s154, no balance;
state bond interest Oath SESSION. s77,
no balance; insane asylum $50, no bal
ance.
County Treasurer Andretta received
during the year $4,000 in interest on
county deposits in banks within the
The total amount Of delinquent
taxes outstanding, inclusive Of all
years since 1904, is s369,390. OF this
sum the county's portion is sl6l ,622,
and the trust and agency portion Is
s2i7,767. /
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27
TTGHE VISITS BELT IN IN
TERESTS OF CANDIDACY

w. J. Tighe. present county attor-
ney, and who intends to run again for
the office this fall, was in Belt Satur-
day of last week in the interests of
his candidacy. Mr. Tighe's record,
since his appointment in January to
fill the unexpired term of County At
torney Bennett. has been one of the
best ever made in the county. During
the jury term of the last court session
at the county seat, the county attor-
ney's office secured total of 81 con-
victions out of 29 cases tried, the cash
returns of the court term in the way
of fines collected more than paying
the costs.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

OF approximately 1884 900 in
taxes assigned to County Treasurer
Fred G. Andretta for collection for the
year 1921 he has collected s1,721, ,744
or within s162,256 of the total, he said
last Thursday, in making public his
annual report for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1922. The report will be
filed this month with the state exam
iner.
"The expenses of my office for the
year 1921 were virtually the same as
for 1920, which were S15,497," said
Mr.. Andretta. at is interesting to
note that the expenses of the county
treasurer's office in Silver Bow coun-
ty for 1920, according to the Montana
Taxpayers association, totalled $25,-
9f9-s49, ,099 more than Cascade coun-
TVS Silver Bow had to collect this
year approximately s1,600,000, which
is less than the amount collected by
Cascade county.
One of the interesting. features of
Treasurer Andretta's report is that
Cascade has no registered warrants,
being one of the few countries in the
state so situated.
County officers who receive fees
turned s17,450 into the county treas
ury during the fiscal year. Licenses
collected by the county treasurer
amounted to S4,770.
At the close of the fiscal year, ac-
.ording to the report, Cascade county
mad balance IN all the funds Of $685.
= n frr n
July /, 1921, WAS $s81, ,245.
The total amount of cash paid TO the
treasurer during the year was ST.
}05, ,944- Money transferred to him
turing the year was s764. .129 Total
receipts for the year were 1851 .319.
The county treasurer paid out during
hat time 2,S83, zoo.
The total amount in the general
'unds of the county during the year
was sf82. .325, and the balance June 30
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

Speaking of the mites, Mr.. 0ertli
said that it has been the history of
localities that where the mites have
become numerous they have warred
against the hoppers until the latter
have become so diminished as to do no
harm. Experience has also shown that
where the hoppers are numerous the
mites increase very rapidly and while
not caring to expires san opinion on the
local situation, he hopes and rather
thinks that the red mites will become
numerous enough this year to kill suf-
ficient hoppers so that there will not
De so many eggs laid and that next
year their numbers will be consider
ably reduced, and in the course of
few years exterminated almost entire
ly. The mites, states Mr.. 0erti, will
do no damage to grain.
A parasite fly, which is also the
deadly enemy of the hoppers, has
made its appearance in southeastern
Montana, according to +. L. Williams,
a former government experiment sta
tion man at Walla Walla, Wash, now
farming near Miles City. The fly is
something like the ordinary house fly,
says Mr.. Williams.
In Washington the experiment
station handled the work of hopper ex-
termination and expenditures for sew
eral years, as is now being done in
Montana" said Mr.. Williams. while
remedies were found, there appeared
to be no absolute cure until the para
site fly was resorted to- Flies were
and held. They were given
an opportunity to multiply under fav-
orable conditions and the result was
a vast army of natural forces set to
work to rid the country of the hopper
menace with gratifying results"
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

was S52,347. The total amount in
other funds and balances on June 30
were: Road fund. s340,8S4, balance
s32, ,246; F. A. P. maintenance s6,S73.
balance 1924; poor fund, s90,115,
balance s7,207; bridge fund, SOL, ,203
balance s24,723; contingent fund,
1885, ,62S, balance SCI .607; bond inter
est fund, s105,459, balance s26,048;
county sinking fund s254,14 balance
$50, ,146; protest tax s4,328, balance
81 ,664; insect pest $3.50, balance
$685. migratory stock s267, balance
s267; ~ public health fund
$4,000, balance $4,784; gopher fund
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

Agriculturist Ralph Oertli informed
the Belt Valley Times the first of
the week that arrangements had been
made whereby the local plant for the
mixing Of the poisoned bait for use
in the battle against grasshopper will
be continued and that he was of the
opinion that the plant has sufficient
materials on hand now to mix all the
mash that will be required in this part
of the county. He was in Great Falls
Friday and procured more banana oil
from County Agent MacSpadden and
has since been directing the prepar-
alton of the mash for all who have
called for it.
Demand for the mash is now light,
he says, farmers taking out only 100
pounds or so to use in their gardens
or about the edges of spring grain
following the cutting of the winter
wheat and the movement of the hop
pers into the former crops. The
season is over and Mr. 0ertli
is of the opinion that another two
weeks viii see the end of the fight in
this locality
He is watching with considerable
the battle of the little red
mites found in fields near the w. II.
Porter ranch a couple of weeks ago
are putting up against the hoppers.
Examinations show that the mites are
taking a toll from the grasshoppers,
many of the latter being caught and
examined in that vicinity and under
found That they are killing the hop
oers is made certain by the fact that
many dead ones are found in fields
where the mites are and where the
mash has not been scattered.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27
LOCAL LODGE OF ODD FELL
LOWS INSTALLS OFFICERS

Coal Valley Lodge, No. 81, |. o. o.
:, installed officers for the coming
year at a special meeting held last
Saturday evening, as follows: Lester
Brodie, N. G.; w. p. Pilgeram, v. G.;
Herbert Barber, secretary; Frank
Heron, chaplain. The appointive Of
ficers will be installed at later meet
ing.
Last evening the local lodge was
host to the Neihart and Sand Coulee
lodges, many members and their wives
being presnt. Following short ses-
sion Of the lodge. the evening was
given over to social matters, there
being a number of addresses by visit
ing and local members and vocal and
instrumental music, the evening clos
ing with big banquet served In the
banquet room.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27
Falls Has 7 Votes
TO | in the Country

According to the report of Registra-
tion Clerk A. E. Caufield of County
Clerk and Recorder Moran's office,
there are more than twice as many
registered voters in the city of Great
Falls as there are in all the rest of
the county. The number of voters
certified to the secretary of state is
1921. This total is not exact, Mr..
Caufield says, as it probably will be
necessary to make few changes.
OF the total registered in the county
9,256 are in Great Falls and 4,035 out
side of the city.
Registration books for the pri-
maries August 29 were closed July
ID, and the number of electors regis
tered in precincts in this section Of
the county are as follows
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

spirit toward Cascade county. Farm
ers in this section experienced no diff
ficulty in obtaining the ingredients at
Great Falls when it could not be OBJ
tanned at Fort Benton. In fact, Cas-
cade county has distribution agencies
in all parts of the county, showing the
farmers the way to mix it with the
best results. On the other hand, on
this side of the county line the farmers
were fortunate to get poison at all,
and most of the arsenic was shipped
in long after the farmers ceased dis
tributing hopper chloroform.-Carter
Herald.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

Johnny Farrell, one Of the success
fui leasers of the Neihart district,
stopped off in Belt for an hour or two
Saturday while on his way 10 Helena.
Mr.. Farrell is at present operating
lease on the Gait mine and is said to
be taking out some very good ore.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

Mrs. L. r. Wagner, who had been
visiting at the home Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Junkermsier. re-
turned TO her home IN Great Falb
yesterday.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

In Iceland, at the ceremony of be-
trothal, the bridegroom passes his
four fingers and thumb through a
large ring receiving the brides hand
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-07-27

Dance at Fife Friday, July 2S. Mu.
sic by Harmony Four.--Adv.
The Arvada enterprise., 1922-12-07

and chuck full of wit and amusing
situations.
]. E. Baum who has been in Kan
sas for several weeks has returned
home having arrived in time to spend
Thanksgiving Day with his family.
Miss Cora Lewis, who has been the
guest of Mrs. Harriet Kilmer, has
returned to her home in Los Angeles.
Miss Lewis made visit with friends
in Michigan stopping over with Mrs.
Kilmer enroute to California.
The many Edgewater friends OF
Otto Witthauer who underwent an
operation in a Salida hispital not
long ago will be plad to learn that
he is rapidly regaining his health.
Mrs. W. G. Francis chaperoned
sixteen members of the Ducallian
club to the Denham theatre on Nov
ember 2sth. After the show the
party enjoyed delightful supper at
Baur's.
The plans for the new city hall fol-
Edgewater are going rapidly for
ward. Preliminary plans for the
building have been drawn and indi-
cations are that the construction will
begin within the next sixty days.
The Arvada enterprise., 1922-12-07


Newt Olsen seems to be keeping
teams busy hauling lumber from the
switch track to his lumber yard in
spite of the great car shortage. The
driveway in the main shed of the
Olson Lumber company is stacked
so full of new building material that
it looks like he has 1t very much
over crowded.
Rev. Cole. Ruth Lansing, Marie
Williams, Gladys Hutchinson and
Lester Witt attended the B. Y. P. U.
executive meeting at the Calvary
Baptist Church in Denver Monday
evening, Dec. 4th.
The Arvada enterprise., 1922-12-07
EDcEwArER COMMUNITY NEWS
By MRS. j. j. BENSON

BY MhS. j. j. BENSON
The most delightful social affair
of the winter season was given in
Community Hall on Saturday even
ing, Dec. End, from 8 to ~ o'clock,
when about one hundred friends
gathered to celebrate the golden
wedding anniversary OF Mr.. and Mrs.
C. E. Spicer.
After the congratulations the
bride and groom of fifty years led in
fancy wedding march and Joined
in the musical program, singing the
cid love songs of by-gone days.
The many beautiful anniversary
presents were arranged on the stage
and promptly at 10 o'clock the Hall
was darkened and the stage curtains
drawn aside to display the gifts, the
only light coming from the softly
tinted globe of a handsome electric
parlor lamp, the gift Of Edgewater
friends.
Rev. R. H. McVicker made the
presentation speech, dwelling upon
the significance Of the gifts as
symbolic of the golden wedding
day.
Among the MANY beautiful. gifts
showered upon the happy guests of
honor, several came from Eastern
cities.
The refreshments were served in a
dainty way and consisted Of cake
and orange ice-cream. Mr.. and Mrs.
Spicer are the parents OF six child
rem, four sons and two daughters,
an OF whom were present to Join IN
the celebration. There are ten
grand children h the Spscer family
snd during the fifty years Of their
married Nfs' there has nsvsr bssn Z
death n their -fxmlly.
Thsir host pf, friends wish 3oz
them many nUte years Of health and
kappfnes, a'nN -.
Thsrs WI b = meeting 81 the JET.
fsrson County Sunday School A.
ISOLATION 1t Commun3ty Church On
Saturday. December 10. T6s 4ffair
WIN b IN e,s nature Of Z -Chfiskihsl
party md some interesting Christ.
mas displays FOR the beginners and
primary dspartment1'wnl Texture IN
The program. Mrs. Sha&, Stats
supt. Of Primary. Work WIN. address
the meeting. An teachers are COR
dia1lv invited to attend.
Victor LaBat was honor guest It
, surprise party last "Wednesday
evening in celebration Of his seven.
teenth birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil H. Frank are
the happy parents Of a fine baby
boy.
Miss Ammo Brown Of Denver spent
Sunday with her sister Mrs. Ralph
Wyatt.
Mrs. and Mrs. W. B. Hill and
children spent Thanksgiving with
Mr.. Hills mother n Denver.
The Cactus Club gave = minstrel
show at Community Hall on Monday
evening that was quite a success in
o monetary way, and all who attend
ed said that it was well worth seeing
The Arvada enterprise., 1922-12-07

The beautiful white collie, McFar-
lanes Lassie of Peaceful Valley,
owned by w. P. McFarlane of Grit
fifth Station, on Friday Of last week
presented her master with litter
of nine handsome puppies, six being
males and three females.
The Sedlmeyers have new Ford
touring car.
The Arvada enterprise., 1922-12-07

R. B. Thompson has returned
home from a business trip to Ala
bama.
Roy Mitchell of Erie spent Sunday
with his family.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-09-26
HARBOR BOARD TO
vAcATE OFFICES
Headquarters Will be Located
Right at River Front
Plant.

Preparations are being made by the
Board OF Harbor Commissioners 10
vecate the!r ofiices in City Hail where
they have been located since the time,
almost, of their inception. The office
force Will be moved to the marine ter
nainai where the department will have
their headquarters right on the prem
hes.
A building at the entrance 10 the
terminal property is to be used as an
Office as soon as II has been fitted up.
II was built originally as a barracks
but has not been used for this pur-
pose. The new road connecting the ter
minal with Chrtstiana avenue has
been completed and Christiana avenue
has been improved from Third Street
bridge 10 the city line so that there
Is now first class highway all the
way 10 the river front project. This
will be big convenience for the off,
cials and employees going to and from
the new Offices.
The department will retain, Il is un-
derstood, one small Office on the third
noor of City Hall.
The Offices now used by the Harbor
Board will. when vacated by them, be
turned over TO the Board of Education.
This latter department has been
cramped for space for a long time and
the rapidly increasing business of tha.
board makes 1t imperative that they
have more space fCr the Office force
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-09-26
TALESMEN DRAWN.
Regular Jury PanA Exhausted In
General Sessions Today.

Isaac Miller. Negro. charged with
larceny Of a watch from Alberta Tay-
lor. Negress, was found guilty by a
jury IN Court Of General Sessions this
morning. with q recommendation for
the mercy OF the court.
The case of Martha Johnson, Neg
ress, on appeal from decision of Mu-
nicipai Court. on a violation of the
drug act, was started before Judge
Richards. Philip l.. Garrett repre-
sented the defendant.
With two juries out and two trials
In progress It became necessary TO
johnson. the regular jury panel being
exhausted.
Fred Waterhouse, charged with
breaking and entering, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to Imprisonment
fer one year. and TO be given 20 lashes
on October 7. He broke into car
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
43 years old. asked that the lashes
not be imposed because of his age
but as the law states specifically that
this detail be carried out for the
! offense of which the prisoner is
guilty. the court could not grant the
request.
Marion Kuligowski, Sixth ant
Church streets. was placed on tria
before Judge Rodney and jury on {
charge OF selling liquor TO Adolpi
Novice. Novice testified that he pur.
chased drinks OF the defendant and OF
one occasion gave him his watch al
security for the payment of tw,
drinks. Kuligowski denied selling liz
uor, and. in explanation Of his posses
sion of Adolph's watch. said that h
had loaned him $3.50 on il. The cas-
was an appeal from the decision Of tn
Municipal Court. where Kuligowsk
was convicted. The jury returned
verdict OF not guilty.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-09-26
W. M. FRANCIS HONORED.
Awarded Full Membership in Amcri.
can Society Of Civil Engineers.

William M. Francis. chief engineer
at Longwood. the country estate Of
p. s. du Pont. has been elected TO
membership in the American Society
Of Civil Engineers. This honor In con-
ferred on engineers who have made an
outstanding showing and only after
at least IL years experience.
Mr.. Francis graduated from Della
waro College in 1908. taking the B. q.
degree in Civil Engineering. In 1911
he received tho degree OF Civil Engi-
nser. number OF Delawareans are
junior and associate members OF the
American Society OF Civil Engineers,
but there are few holding fun mem
bershlp rights in this State.
Mr.. Francis Is a member OF the
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity and wa
chairman OF the committee in charge
of the recent building OF homo for
the members of that fraternity at the
University OF Delaware at a cost OF
s37 900.