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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

selections and teachers and pupils
alike wish to express their thanks fol
this very pleasant surprise.
Byrd-How can you tell dogwood
from any other kind?
Eugene-By the bark, of course.
Englishman Queen Elizabeth
touched my great grandfather on the
shoulder and made him lord.
Yankee-Thats nothing. An In
dian touched my great grandfather
on the head with tomahawk and
made him an angel.
Lillian-Oh, dear, look at that run
in my stocking; must get some
thread and stop it,
Mary-Why try to stop it? May
be it will run away.
A young lady who was inspecting
bicycles said to the What's
the name of this wheel?
That is the 'Belvedere', answered
the salesman.
He was rewarded by stony glance
and the icy question-Can you rec
ommend the Belva?
Telegraph Operator - Can't come
down; wash out on line.
Second Operator-Borrow a shirt
and come anyhow.
Junior-What is the big revolver?
Frosh-W What?
Junior-The Worldl
Experience asked her for her
hand and got it on my ear.
Aida The dentist killed my
nerve.
Burton-He deserves a gold medal.
My fiance insists that obtain her
a large bouquet for the dance to-
night. Is it being done?
Friend-No, you are.
It's everybody's privilege to act
he fool but don't abuse the privi-
eye.
4 an S and an l and an o and a U,
With x at the end, spell Su,
And an e and and an E spell l,
Pray, what is the speller to do?
When if also an S and an / and G
And H E d spell side,
There's nothing left for the speller to
do
BUT go commit siouxeyesighed!
This is indeed food for reflection,
aid the goat as he swallowed the
asst of the looking glass.
Didja ever send your Dad letter
Ike this?
Am broke
No joke.
Troubles plenty.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

Send me twenty.
Dan--I can't find Acceptance in
the dictionary
Hazel-Look on the fly leaf.
"a woman walked into a store and
said to the clerk want small,
narrow comb, about so long, for a
slightly bald man with celluloid
teeth.
Is Johnny's new dog a setter or
pointer? asked Mrs. Jones.
He's neither, replied her neigh
Dor. He's an upsetter and disap-
pointer.
Get up, Bess. Remember it's the
early bird that gets the worm, said
her mother.
Bess (drowsily) - Let him have
EN-, mother, I'm not hungry.
Customer-How do you sell your
iiAhbulS SCI HnSVoSs
Clerk-Derned if l know.
The teacher was giving a lee
ture on gravity.
Now, children, she said-It's the
law of gravity that keeps us on this
earth.
But, please teacher. inquired one
small child, how did we stick on be-
fore the law was passed?
Captain If anything moves.
shoot
Sentry - Yassah, and if anything
shoots, ah move.
When Noah sailed the well-known
blue,
He had his troubles same as you,
For days and days he drove the Ark,
Before he found place to park.
What animal, asked the teacher
Of the class in natural history, makes
he nearest approach to man?
The flea, timidly ventured the lit
lie boy with curly hair
Young man-So Miss Mary is your
oldest sister? Who comes after her?
Small boy - Nobody amt come
ret; but Pa says the first fellow that
zones can have her.
Jones-I hear your wife had an
lecident with the car, anything
damaged?
smith-oh, no, just little paint
cratched off both. $
Spring Is Here
'pring is here, we know it
We can see it with our eyes 1
We hear the humming of the birds I
Wen soon be swatting flies. S
he boys have shed their sweaters
Their woolens are gone
bingham dresses bright and gay
The girls are putting on. u
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

Those receiving 100 per cent in
spelling are: Clifford Evans, Bessie
Beaman, Josephine Ham, Clarencel
Deylin, Betty Smith, Everett Boyle,
Dorothy Yturri, John Abbott, Natalie
Kelley, Margaret Latimore, Irene
Henderson, Garnette Warren, John
Sillonis, Virginia Titus, Fern Cram
er, and May Seiloff.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25
Goats Found CARRYING pruos.

Kansas City, Kan.-Every Billy and
Nanny in this city, is under suspicion.
Three goats were found the other day,
each with ting bags of drugs tied about
its neck. Three "herdersn fled.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

The fourth grade of Miss K. Taut-
tests room are reading a fifth read
er, having completed the fourth
grade books.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25
Local and Personal

:. x X X y X X K X X x X x X !.
Miss Ruth Love returned last Fri
day from Warm Springs, Ore, and
will visit indefinitely with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. William J. Love.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

Verne Dodge of the third grade
had 100 per cent in spelling this
week.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25
Gift to the School

Mrs c. II. Stewart in behalf of
the ladies of the Civic Club, has pre-
scented the school children with ten
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

Those receiving stars in arithmetic
are: Muriel Bennett, Ralph Carlson,
Emrys Evans, and Dan Smith.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

The "a" divisions Of the third and
fourth grades won the stars in arith-
metic this week.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

A few lone sweaters roam at large
Their very days are few
Winter coats are put away
Spring hats come into view.
Yes, Spring is here
And is here to stay
But the wind is sure trying
TO blow it away.
Josephine Colthorp.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25
The High School Sage

! records for their photograph. The
records cover wide range of musical
selections and teachers and pupils
alike wish to express their thanks for
this very pleasant surprise.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

The third and fourth grade room
have put up very pretty Easter
border.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

Byrd-How can you tell dogwooc
from any other kind?
Eugene-By the bark, of course.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-04-25

Send me twenty.
Dan-I can't find 'Aeroplane' in
the dictionary
Hazel-Look on the fly leaf.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
STATE CARPENTERS ELECT
OFFICERS FOR ENSUING YEAR

Bozeman was selected as the place
for holding next years meeting and e.
f. Trump of Havre was reelected
president Of the State Council of Car
penters at the closing session of sits
convention in Butte. Among the last
business transacted was the adoption
of resolutions condemning the farmer
labor political movement. The full
roster of state officers elected in
cludes: President, E. f. Trump,
Havre ~(re-elected) secretary-treasur-
er, J. B. Finley, Butte (re-elected) ;
first vice president, H. K. Pow, Mis-
soula second vice president, J. Frank
O'Connell, Helena; third vice presi-
dent, S.. F. Breeder, Bozeman; fourth
vice president. ]. J. Schwerdt, Great
Falls; fifth vice president, Henry r.
Deatsch, Dillon.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
MOTHER AND BABE SOLE
SURVIVORS TENEMENT FIRE

Rockville Center, N. Y.-Six per
sons, four of them children, were
burned to death and several others
were badly injured, in a fire which
destroyed an old Long Island inn
which lad beer converted into a tene-
ment.
Larry Camarana, a laborer, four of
his five children, all under 10, and
John Santana. a boarder, are the
known dead.
Camarana's fifth child. a baby, and
Mrs. Camarana, were burned about the
heads and faces and suffered severely
from having inhaled smoke.
When the police automobile arrived,
Mrs. Camarana, clasping her baby in
her arms, was standing on the window
sill of her second-floor apartment. The
police backed their car against the
wall of the burning house and shouted
to her to jump to its canva top. She
threw the child first and followed him.
Half a dozen other men and women
leaped from windows on the second
and third floors to the battered top of
the car.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
OIL PROBERS SEARCH FOR
MILLION DOLLAR SLUSH FUND

Washington.-Out of another day of
lightning developments in the oil scan
dial there has emerged a definite de-
termination by the investigating com
mittee to go to the bottom of a rumor
that a 81, 100000 oil slush fund had
been deposited in Washington for dis
tribution among men in high places.
Edward B. Mclean, publisher of the
Washington Post, was summoned for
questioning regarding the slush fund
report and committee members said
Otto H. Kahn of Kahn. Loeb and COM
pany, and Benjamin F. Yoakum, re-
tired president of a western railroad,
will be called later.
The oil committee continues to hold
out against approval of Silas H.
Strawn and Atlee Pomerene as gov
eminent counsel in the oil cases, and
President Coolidge has withdrawn the
name of Mr.. Strawn. He takes the
position, however, that no conclusive
evidence of Mr.. Pomerene's ineligibil-
ity had been proposed.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
BAKERS GOUGE j. s.
FOR MILLIONS DAILY
OUTRAGEOUS FRIGHTENING IN
BREAD is CHARGED BY PEO-
PIES LEGISLATIVE SERVICE
ASK SENATE INVESTIGATION
DefIation of Wheat 10 Times as Great
as Reduction in Bread; Labor
Costs Not Responsible

thai
the senate adopt a resolution directing
the secretary of the treasury to report
the profits of all baking and milling
companies as disclosed by their tax
returns from 1918 to the present time,
is made in a report submitted by Basil
M. Manley, director of the Peoples leg
islative service, to Senator La Toilette,
of Wisconsin, chairman Of the organ
ization.
Charges that, as a result of ''out-
rageous ~profiteering, the American
people are now paying more than a
million dollars a day too much for
their bread" are made.
The report also recommended a
Thorough and searching investiga-
ton by the Appropriate senate commit
tee of the tribute levied by wheat
spectators, grain elevators, railroads,
millers, iobbers, bakers and retailers
from the time the wheat leaves the
farm until it reaches the dinner table
in the form of bread"
Whereas, the price of wheat on the
farm, the report said, had declined to
90 cents a bushel last September, or
So per cent since 1917, the average
retail price of bread of 81 cents a
pound represented a decline of only
sd per cent, the 'deflation of wheat
being 10 times as great as the defla-
tion of bread" Labor cost figures
were cited to show that high wages
were not responsible for the present
level of bread prices.
Asserting that, as a result of pres
ent prices, the average per capita con
sumption of bread in the United States
IS Al loaves a year less than it was
pre-war years, the report de-
,lared this had contributed seriously
o farm bankruptcy" by reducing
wheat consumption.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
NATION WIDE COMMUNICATING
PLOT FOILED BY OPERATIVES

westinghouse nationwide con,
spiracy to make and distribute coun
terfeit treasury notes Of $1,000 de-
nomination has been nlppeG IN the
bud, according to secret service op-
eratives, through the arrest of James
c. Houghton, employee of the bureau
of engraving and printing, and Curt
Jacobson of New York City.
Jacobson and Houghton, both
charged with conspiracy to counter.
felt, were arraigned before United
States Commissioner Mcdonald, and
held for the grand jury.
Houghton furnished bond of $1,000
and was released, but jacobson al
night had failed to obtain his surety,
fixed at $4,000.
A number of arrests in other cities
in connection with the alleged con.
spiracy are predicted.
A Photographic plate of a S1,00G
treasury note and several plates de.
scribed as nearly complete and almost
perfect reproductions of those used in
the bureau of engraving and printing
were seized.
An effort by one of the men ar.
rested to destroy the Photographic
copy, the agents alleged, was frus.
trated.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
Mellon Denies Charge
FOREST SERVICES OPPOSES
FURTHER GRANTS TO N.

Washington. A claim that tire
Northern Pacific Railway company
has received a total of S136,11S,533
from the sale of lands from its gov
eminent grants, or nearly twice the
S70,000.000 cost of constructing the
railroad, is set up by tire forest SER
vice as a chief reason why congress
should deny the railway company the
right to take over an additional 3,000,-
900 acres of public lands which it now
claims under the original grants.
A resolution directing the secretary
of the interior to withhold his APPROX
al of the adjustment of the Northern
Pacific land grants and the issuance OF
any further patents on them until a
congressional inquiry can be made has
been introduced in the house. 1t Is
sponsored by the interior and agricul-
tural departments and will be pressed.
Asserting that the railway company
is seeking acreage in the national for
ests of Montana, Idaho and Washing
ton, worth probably $4,000 600, the
forest service, in a summary of the
controversy which became public Sun
day, argues that the Northern Pacific
land grants have been fully satisfied.
Moreover, it says an accounting from
the railroad, which congress has a
right to demand, may justify the can
collation. of the patents to all granted
lands still retained by the corporation.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21

News ofMontana

Bankers Tried on March 3.-Georgs
w. Casteel, president; A. O. Tweed
cashier, and H. S. Benrson. director Of
the defunct Banking Corporation Of
Montana, will be brought to tria-
charged with violations of the state
banking law on March 8 in the Lewis
and Clark county district court.
Bank Resumes.-The first of the
Fergus county banks, closed during
the past few months, to reopen is the
First State bank at Moore, which re
sumed operation on February 10 with
the sanction of the state banking de-
partment.
Guard Encampment June 14-28.-
The annual encampment of the Mon
tana National Guard will be held at
the Fort Harrison reservation, adjoin-
ing Helena, on June IA to % inclusive.
1t is expected that IA officers and
l,Ol5 enlisted men will take part in
the activities of the encampment.
Child Hurt BY Separator.-Arthur,
the two-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. G.. Weber, of Hathaway, may lose
two fingers as the result of playing
with the cream separator on the Web
ber ranch. The fingers were caught in
the gears and so badly mashed that
amputation may be necessary.
Hardware Men Elect Officers.-The
Montana Hardware and Implement
Mems association, meeting in Billings,
elected G. V. Wilson, of Helena, presi-
dent, w. H. Barnett, of Harrison, vice
president, and reelected A. C. Tai
mage, of Bozeman, secretary-treasurer.
Helena was designated as the meeting
place for 1925.
Baker Banks Merge.-The three
banking institutions Of Baker have
been merged into the Baker State
bank, which combines the entire re-
sources of the three banks.
Destroys Postoffice.-Fire, of un-
known origin, destroyed the postoffice
and the Kinna store, occupying one
building, at Simms recently. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
Horsewoman Tourist in Illinois,
According to reports in a Peoria, IL
linois, newspaper, Mrs. Annetta Phil
lips, who left Billings on December 81,
to ride horseback to her home in In
.dianapolis, has reached that place
safely. She camped out during the
entire trip, despite the fact that the
thermometer was often below zero.
Champion Coyote Eradication
George McLarnon, of Terry, is be-
lieved to be the champion coyote eradi-
Gator of the state. He caught 4S dur
ing the winter with a pack of coyote
hounds that are said to be unacceptable
once upon the trail of their quarry.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
PRIMARY CANDIDATES
REQUIRED TO PAY FEE
Office Seekers Must Pay Fee 20 County
Instead of Circulating Nom-
mating Petition

Fees of varying amount will be re"
CURED Of all candidates for nominal
ton to public office When they file
their notice of becoming candidates
this year with the county clerk and
recorder, instead of the usual petit
lions in accordance with the new pr1-
mary law passed at the last session OF
the legislature.
The new method will eliminate the
necessity of circulating petitions and
securing signatures Of a percentage OF
the legal voters in the county, and it is
believed that the difference in ex-
pense to the candidates will be slight,
as the cost of getting up petitions and
having them circulated was consider
able.
The law provides that, for any Of
flee with a salary attached of less than
$1,000 per annum the fee shall be $40,
except that for candidates for lcgisla-
tive offices in the house or senate the
fee shall be SIS. For any office with a
salary attached of more than $1,000
per annum the fee is l per cent of the
annual salary.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
S } S;5 P Fsa$RS Recess ESESs
Testimony Involving Late Presiden
Harding in Slush Fund Scandal
Rejected by Committee

Washington.-Three oil scandal ru
mors that proved buds have been rele
gated to the discard by the senate com
mittee investigating the Teapot dom
leases. They were that involving tn,
sale of the Marion Star; the alleged
100000 slush fund to debauch mer
IN high office here; and the alleged
gift of S6S,000 to Thomas Johnson
foreman on the ranch OF former Sec
rotary Fall.
The first was brought se~nsationallJ
into the limelight by Frank A. Van
derlip's Ossining speech; the second
was reputed to be a matter of knowI
edge on the part Of Otto Kahn, the
New York banker; and the third wal
the revelation recently of Archie
Roosevelt.
Vanderlip admitted he knew nothins
and had merely given currency to the
Harding rumor so as to bring it to the
surface and force a vindication of the
dead presidents good name; Kahn
oelI worn lie knew nOIHlnS OF q 81,
100000 slush fund and was willing tt
and testify to such statement
under oath; Johnson himself finally
called to the stand after three weeks
wait denied in toto the report of any
gift, presumably from Harry
Sinclair, lessee of the Teapot Dome
naval oil reserve.
The committee took a Today recess
after receiving the information which
1iscredited two of the most sensation.
al rumors which recently have come
it.
The adjournment was announced
an executive session. 1t was ex,
that Senator Walsh, Democrat,
Montana, the dominant figure in the
pressing of the inquiry, found it neces.
'ary to be absent from Washington
or some days.
At this executive session the com,
1ittee approved without a record vote
he nominations of special government
in the oil cases-Atlee Pom
rene, of Canton, Ohio, and Owen J
of Philadelphia.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
RANCHER SHOT FROM
AMBUSH BY OLD FOE
Unknown AssaiIant Believed to be
Enemy Made in Oklahoma
Liquor Arrests

While engaged in repairing the root
of a homestead shack near Brunelda
Mont, an inland point 100 miles north
west of Miles City, Fred Heist, a
rancher IN the Hole In the Rock re-
gion, was shot down in cold blood by
an unknown assailant who made his
escape. Witnesses to the tragedy were
his three small children who accom-
panied their father TO the building of
his mother-in-law which he was in the
process of repairing. The slayer used
a 80 calibre rifle, shooting from a
rocky ambush near the place which
afforded him protection from the sight
of the children playing around the
house. The only cue found by Off
GERS was the tracks Of a saddle horse
beside the new rifle shell where it had
fallen. The Staying is surrounded in
mystery.
Mrs. Hest is said to have told Of
ficers that her husband at one time
was in the secret service in Oklahoma
and that one enemy made in the course
his work had threatened to kill him.
Her husband, she said, told her two
years ago this man was then in Bill
lings. The widow and eight children
Garfield county authorities
Ire bending every effort to apprehend
he slayer.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
MONTANA PIONEERS ON
THE LAST LONG TRAIL
X X kk*tA**** *t*t*** 4

McGILLVRAY-Mrs. James McGil
vray, ST., who was born in 1867 neal
old Blackfoot City, northwest of Avon
and spent her entire life in that vicin
ity, died at her home there.
STORY-Mrs. Nelson Story, Sr.
mother of Lieutenant Governor Story
who with her husband located at Ban
mock in 1868, and in 1869 built one OF
the first frame houses in Bozeman,
died at her home in BoZeman.
SIMO-S - John Simons, pioneer
miner and sheCpman, of whom little is
known except that he arrived in Vir-
ginia City from California during the
days of the Vigilantes, died at the age
of IS years in the hospital at Billings.
KENNEDY-Tack Kennedy, old-time
rancher of Custer county, but who for
some years past has lived near Eka-
laka where he specialized in breeding
Percheron horses, was found dead at
his ranch home by neighbors. Death
was due to natural causes.
LOCKWOOD - Mrs. Gardner G..
Lockwood, who came to Montana with
her father in 1881, following the death
of her mother in Missouri, and who
has made her home in the Corvallis
community since that time, died at
the family home there.
COHEN-Mrs. Samuel Cohen, Ga
years of age, who made the river trip
from st. Louis to Fit. Benton in 1867,
and joined uncles living at that time
in Helena, and later married another
pioneer, Samuel Cohen Of Butte, died
at her home in Butte.
LYNCH-James H. Lynch, an early
day mining man of Silver Bow county,
who, during the Cleveland administra.
ton was postmaster at Butte, died at
his home in Spokane.
ERWIN-S. II. Erwin, who estab-
lished himself in Billings in 1883 and
for a quarter of a century was engaged
in business in that place, later moving
to Forsyth, died at his home in For
syth.
WOODWORTE - George Wood
worth, a Big Horn Basin ranchman
since 1885, when he arrived in Virginia
City via pack and saddle from Salt
City, which place he reached by
and stage from his home in
Neb., died at his winter home
n Long Beach, California.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
Will Draft Bank Guarantee Law

Nebraska's bank guarantee law,
under which depositors in more than
60 failed banks in that state have re-
ceived or will receive payment in full
of their accounts since the1aw was es-
tablished, may be the model for a sim
liar measure in Montana, to be taken
up as an initiative measure in the COM
ing election. James Holland, Havre,
Mont, formerly of Broken Bow, Neb.,
recently visited the staate banking de-
partment Of Nebraska and obtained
copies of the Nebraska law and told
officers there it would be used as a
model in drafting the law for Mon
tana.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
Rotted Ice Is Death Trap

A team and wagon belonging to
Dave Simpson, a farmer north of
Bowdoin, broke through the ice on
Nelson reservoir while Simpson was
driving across to Milk river. One
horse was drowned but Simpson man.
aged to rescue the other animal and
save the wagon. Warm weather has
rotted the ice on Nelson reservoir in
several places and crossing with heavy
conveyances has been dangerous. A
truck belonging to the Mcneil Brothers
fishing crew broke through the ice
but vas saved without damage.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
Wash Day at Prosnick Home Wasn't

When prohibition enforcement Off
GERS walked into the kitchen of Mrs.
Joe Prosnick, in Anaconda, recently.
the room presented the appearance Of
the weekly family wash day. But the
Wash boiler steaming away on the
stove while Mrs. Prosnick camou-
flaged by rubbing briskly at a tub,
wasn't full of boiling clothes. 1t was
a %cleverly constructed homemade still
and was filled with a goodly quantity
of mash.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-02-21
Eastern Banks Will Exhibit Corn

Yellowstone county corn will be ex-
hibited in st. Paul and Chicago when
County Agent are shipped to those
cities, and the yield possible in this
part of Montana well advertised, it is
thought. Thirty exhibits of 10 ears
each will be sent. The Capital Trust
and Savings bank of st. Paul and the
First National bank of the same city
will each receive exhibits of corn from
both irrigated and non-irrigated land.