The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-23
OLD SUBSCRIBER
TELLS OFALMANACS
JOSEPH MURRAY OF RIVERSIDE
SENDS CLIPPING SHOWING
AGED SUPERSTITIONS

The Bozeman Courier acknowledges q
receipt tSis week of an interesting a
letter front an Old-time BOzeman v
resident, Joseph Murray, now living c
at 1S4 Riverside avenue, Riverside,
California, as follows:
Il am taking the liberty of send I
ing you a clipping from the Redlands l
newspaper, published at Redlands' l
California. l thought it might in
terest some Of the readers of The
Courier, especially those farmers
who still believe the moon has some
influence over the sowing Of their
grain and the killing of their hogs.
"The information ought also to
help some of our friends of the
Democratic faith, who are liable -
meet Sinitor Tay Jay Walsh or Bee
Kay Wheeler and who would like 20
know exactly how to address them.
There are quite a few BOzemaniteS
around Riverside who often see the
old Courier editor, w. J. McCully, or,
as he used to sign himself, Sour !
| Dough Bill 1t does one good to sec
the same old broad and genial smile
that he always has for any of the oil
subscribers of The Courier"
The clipping, which interestingly
describes some of the old almanacs on
the shelves of the Smiley library AZ
Redland, follows:
There are in the A. X. Smiley libr-
airy a number of old almanacs, some
of them a century and a half old, and
S. R. HOtchkiss in looking them over
found some most interesting things.
For instance here is the cover OF a
Bickerstaff almanac printed in BOs-
ton, in School street next to Crom-
wells Head Tavern, "for the year of
cur Redemption 1774, being the second
after leap year, the fourteenth Of the
reign Of George III and from the
Creation of the World according -
the best History 5722 but the 18th
from the horrid. POpish. High church,
Jacobite Plot. to which is added an
account of the inhabitants of Otaheite
and New Zealand, two newly discov-
cred islands in the South Seas with d
, very elegantly engraved copper plate
print, representing one of their war
canoes and the heads of two of their
chiefs curiously tatOOwed."
Here are some extracts from others
Of the almanacs:
1 In Thomas Almanac of 1913
/. The President was called "His
Highness George Washington, Esq.
: The Vice-President: His E~xcellency
John Adams, Esq. Representatives
! were addressed as "The Honorable.
Senators as "The Most Honorable"
Query how should senators be adj
, dressed today?
They Did 1t In 1900
I" Thomas Almanac
( In the course Of this Spring and
" Summer, many attractions will be
made in the form and trimmings OF
the Ladies' head dresses; but I an
J unable to give an opinion at present
whether their appearance will be i'm.
proved by their alterations.
Pear Blight
IF From Farmers Almanac April 800
lie There is one fact respecting pea
~ trees which to me is quite new
s. These trees are apt to be blighted
err and 1 have heard this ascribed +
rs their being struck with lightning o
&c which they are better conductors
to than apple trees. In confirmation OF
~ this l am told of a farmer in Nel
en- Jersey, who has a very excellent pea
in orchard, which never fails, owing t
SIS every tree being secured agains
or lightning by a piece of iron hoo
ur bent around the crotch of each tire,
nd He says that every since he has 70
he lowed this method, his trees hav
20 never been blighted.
Ct Farm Hints
60 If your hay is not very good, fee
We your creatures with a little at
res time, and that will preserve their al
in petites.
an Those who love pork and greer
Of must see that their cabbage stuml
are set out.