The Kevin review., 1924-05-22
UNIQUE METHOD
GETTING GOPHER
OFFER PRIZES TO BOYS AND
GIRLS WHO KILL LARGEST
NUMBER OF RODENTS
Arthur Buck Leads Boys With Score
of 741 Gopher Tails While Girl
Champion For Month is Miss
Pauline Deucher.


Gopher tails numbering 12,4SS
was the result of the first months
work in the Flathead gopher exter-
mination contest, according to re-
ports received from % school dis
trict chairmen for April. Arthur
Buck of Echo district, with a score
of 741, won the months prize for
the boys score made by boys, and
Pauline Deucher of Creston dis
trict, with score of $40, wins the
months prize for the best score
made by girls.
The reports from the school dis
tricts indicate that the score for
May will be much larger than April.
Many school districts did not get
started until the latter part of April,
and the month, taken as a whole, was
not a favorable one for killing goph-
ers. Weather conditions will make
for a bigger score in May, and it is
| hoped by the end of this month, that
every school district in the county
will be organized.
The Savage 'Sporter Az rifle,
given given by the Savage Arms COM
pany, through the Kalispell Mercan-
tile company, Kalispell will be
awarded to the boy or girl making
the highest score for May, according
to action taken at a meeting of the
executive committee. The ruling
adopted regarding this rifle is as fol-
lows: THAT the Savage 'Sporter A
rifle will be. given to the boy or girl
making the high score during the
month of May. provided, however,
that should the contestant winning
the 'Sporter A rifle in May, be high
at the end of the contest, that the
Winchester .22 repeating rifle, being
given as a grand season prize for the
entire contest, shall be given to the
contestant having the next highest
number of gopher tails" This pro-
vision was made to prohibit the same
individual winning the two rifles. |
The Eastman Brownie camera, given |
by the Fitch Drug company, Kalis-
pell, as a girls prize, will be given
to the girl making the best score dur
ing the month of May. All other
cash prizes formerly announced, will
remain the same as before.
A big exhibit of gopher tails will |
be made at the end of May in the
window of the hardware department |
of the aKlispell Mercantile company |
in Kalispell. All chairmen will be
asked to either bring in their gopher
tails or send them in through the
mail to the farm bureau office, and |
they will be placed in the window of |
the Kalispell Mercantile company for
display. Indications are that at
least $4,000 gopher tails will be in
cluded in this display.
Twenty High Scores
Arthur Buck, Echo, 741.
Howard Thompson, Batavia, 356.
Louie Levo, Batavia, 355.
Thain White, Hog Heaven, 353.
Thomas Haynes, Jr., Echo, $50.
Johnnie Wallace, Demersville, 319. :
Arthur Viaseck, Demersville, 315.
Pauline, Deucher, Creston, 80.
Damon Reed, Hodgson, 306.
Charles O'Connell, Hodgson, 290.
Arnold Bauska, Boorman, PSI.
Robert Buck, Creston, 225
Henry Siderius, Demersville, 206.
Richard Grieg, Kalispell, 189.
Doris Gonser, Birch Grove, 185.
Russell Munte, Demersville, 1874.
Frank Bauer, Batavia, 1873.
William Deoung, YEgan, 162.
Edwin Cusick, Helena Flats, 162.
Erick Altenberg, Somers. 154.
Lloyd Dern, Prospect Park, 152.
District Scores
Demersville, o. A. Prestrud, 1853.
Echo, E. G. Cooper, 1,103.
Hodgson, Jake Wagner, LOTT.
) B tavia, Rudolph Bergstrom,
l,018.
Egan, Fred Stebbins, $50.
Bigfork, Emil Bjork, 781.
Creston, Rue Carr, 743
Boorman, w. H. Bauska, 558.
Birch Grove, George Lust, 513.
Lake Blaine, Arthur Small, 493.
Helena Flats, Mrs. R. A. Sheets,
L37.
Somers, A. G. Bolz, 396.
Hog Heaven, Walt Radel, 365.
Prospect Park, ]. M. Brocken, 359.
Kalispell, Richard Grieg, 338.
Sparks, Fred Schmauch, 262.
Deer Park, Elizabeth Price, 258.
Bad Rock, Joe Bulla, Earl Hol-
lister, 256.
Lake Side, J. L. Asbridge, 228.
Bald Rick, Joe Claridge, 224.
Montford, Lawrence Gorton; 201.
Borcken, w. S. Mccormick, 1873.
Riverside, E. A. Howser, 122.
Cayuse Prairie, Dewitt Clark, 116.
Rousselle, o. Conrad, 101.
Valentine, Mike Berne, 100.
Battle Butte, Harold Foot, 72.
Radnor, Nellie Weaver, II.