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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-25

M
MARCH
A new and convenient arrangement
in the pOstOffice is a delivering wicket
for ladies.
March came in like a lamb but that
is no reason why we should not be
fooled on the first day Of April.
The price Of fresh pork has advanced
somewhat and farmers sold in the
city this week at 715 cents per pound
Will Fransham and W. J. Alexander
went to Logan Wednesday to bag
ducks and geese.
Uncle Sam needs IS more cavalry
horses and there is 70 reason why
they should not be furnished from
Gallatin county.
J. Fl. Bremen was up from his ranch
at the forks of the Gallatin this week
and reports ducks quite plentiful IN
that locality, as are also wild geese.
Charles F. Baker of Sixteen Mile
was in the city on Monday and re-
ports stock in better condition upon
the range than at any previous
spring since his residence here. =
The new steel bridge across the
West Gallatin above Salesville was
completed this week and is said to
be a fine structure. It will accommo-
date a number of farmers in that por-
ton of the valley.
Through the courtesy of Senator
Sanders Gal Edwards received a sack
of seeds from the agricultural de-
partnent at Washington this week
and distributed them among farmers
whom he met in the city.
Three inches of snow fell In our
city on Monday night about the time
the Democratic primaries adjourned,
after making their nominations for
aldermen. This was only a f~Oretaste
of what they will get on election day.
II. w. Huntington, having sold his
property in Bozeman, left this weeii
with his family, bound for the Flat
mead country to look up a future home
We predict that he will return, as
many others have done, contented &c
remain here.
Chas. Hosfeldt Of jefferson county
passed through the city on Thursday
enroute to Alder Gulch to work hi
placer mines. Mr.. Hosfeldt said h
saw more wild geese in the Missouri
river between Toston and Gallati
than ever before at one time.
Ezra Bowen of Cooke City, VIII
wintered in Livingston, paid his Bcze
ma friends a short visit this week
Like many, "Ez" has been patientl,
waiting for a railroad to Cooke an
naturally feels a little discourage
over the present outlook.
A delegation of sheep-shearers VIII
wintered in Bozeman and vicinity le1
for Oregon this week to begin shear
ing in that country. They will max
the rounds back here by June 1, 9
which time shearing generally begin
in Montana and Wyoming.
John F. Hoskins of Norris was j
the city this week, and seemed to b
IN excellent spirits. He has recent
had a portion Of his land surveye
and plated, has already sold a nun
Der of lots, and is locking forward
quite a little boom in that sectic
during the coming summer.
IT. Ellis Military Reservation.
The commissioner of the generi
land office has certified to the sta
Of Montana lands in the abandon'
Fort Ellis military reservation
follows: Fer public buildings at Il
capital of the state, 4,468 acres; Fl
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Pioneer Omaha
Drug Firm Sold
to Chain Store
Sherman & Mcconnell Will
Become Part of Ligget
Establishments on
Nav /.

Sale of The sherman & Mcconnell
Drug company to the Louis h. Lig
gett Drug company of New York was
announced Friday morning by A. b.
Mcconnell.
The price involved was not dis.
closed by Mr.. Mcconnell but he said
II was "one of the biggest deals of
the year.
Four retail drug stores and a ware
house are included in the transaction.
The stores are at Sixteenth and Har-
ney streets. Sixteenth and Dodge
streets, Nineteenth and Farnam
streets. and Twenty-fourth and Far
nam streets.
The warehouse is located at 509
South Twelfth street.
Thirty Six Years in Business.
When the Liggett company takes
possession on May l 1t will mark the
retirement, of Mr.. Mcconnell after S6
years in the retail drug business in
Omaha.
The sherman & Mcconnell Drug
company started in business on Sep
tember %. 1889, with a capital OF
81 900 The first years business was
S23, ,0NO. Last year the firms business
totaled nearly three.quarters of mil
lion dollars.
Mr.. Mcconnell explained that he Is
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18

house IN the first place replied
Farmer Brown. Better get that biz
box trap ready. son. and set IT.
Farmer Browns boy went out and
looked at the hole under the hen
house and while he stood there look
ing at It Mrs. Skunk polNed her head
out and looked hard and long Al
Farmer Browns boy and he looked
long and hard at her. Then she came
cut. She expected 10 see Farmer
Browns boy move off in hurry.
lie didn't move at all. lie stood
quite still Mrs. Skunk stamped With
her front feet Farmer Browns boy
merely smiled. She stamped again.
SIN Farmer Browns boy didn
move. Mrs. Skunk calmly turned
her back and disappeared in her hole
under the henhouse.
Il believe. old lady. that you are
Mrs. Jimmy. and that We are going
to be friends" said Farmer Browns
boy with a chuckle. Il don't believe
you'll touch those chickens. I'm sure
you won't If ! bring you some table
scraps now and then And this is
what | am going to do. 1t will be
time enough to set the trap when
you get into mischief. ! wonder
where Jimmy Skunk is
But this of course. Mrs. Jimmy
didn't tell him.
The next story: Mrs. Jimmy Calls
on Mrs. Brown"
fCopyright 1a251
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Farmer Brown Discovers fhe
New Home.

Jimmy Skunk kept away from
Farmer Browns henhouse, and Mrs.
Jimmy. whose new home was under
that very henhouse, was wise enough
not to leave it until after dark and
to be back i'm II before daylight. So
the fact that she was living there
was not known in Farmer Brown :
house fer some time. Then one day
Farmer Brown happened, just hap
pened. to go around back of the hen
house and at once he saw the sand in
front OF the entrance to Mrs Skunk S
home.
Hello he exclaimed That looks
to me like a freshly dug hole. and il
looks, too. as IL someone Is using 1t
right along. 1t is too big for a rat
and hardly big enough for a chuck.
Ha! there is a footprint! A skunk S
as surely as / live. And there is
black hair. A skunk is living under
that henhouse and that won't do at
all. No. sir; that won't do at all.
That is living too close to the chick
ems for their good. Wen have to
get rid of that scamp"
SO when he went back to the house
he told what he had discovered. How
do you propose to get rid of that
skunk asked Farmre Browns Boy
I'm going to leave that to you,
SON" replied Farmer Brown. Il sug-
gest that you set n box trap and
carry that Wood Pussy a long way
off before You let il 60. ! suppose
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Youth Pleads
for Permit To
# See Cirl-Nife
Darrel Chiles, Forbidden by
Court Order From Visiting
Bride, Begs Judge 10
Yield.

It's terrible to be separated like this
frosh,.the wife you love with all your
heaSt and soul" declared Darrell Chiles
when. he called on District judge L..
B. .1Jay Friday morning to get per.
mission to see Mrs. Darrell Chiles.
Both are Il and are separated by
order. of the young mans parents, Dr.
and Mrs. Jessie Chiles who have in.
stituted suit for annulment of the
marriage which took place in Glen
wood, Ia. December 4. 1924, and was
kept, secret till a month ago.
.,,, Order Forbds Visit.
A. temporary order was allowed at
the,tiine of the suit which prohibited
the.-outh from visiting his bride.
she was Miss Virginia Barker,
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. stephen
Barker, 5000 North Twentyfourth
street. Both were Tech High school
students before their marriage.
'Ishave only seen Virginia twice
andthen just at distance since they
began interfering with us mourned
yourig Chiles who looked handsome
and dcsnappy" in suit of the popular
liz eht gray with draped trousers.
VIZ Up to Parents"
Cant you give me an order TO let
me Soc herr" he asked the judge.
'That is not within my power said
Judge Day. 1T is up to your parents.
They got the order prohibiting your
seeinx your wife. They are the ones
for lvou to see about this.
"Iitelephone to my wife every day
but that isn't like seeing her and hav-
ing her near me" said the youth as
he left the building with a young man
friend. But l will work and wait. =
The girls parents are wiling to let
the, marriage stand,
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18

first il was known as the Owl drug
store. From 1910 to 1915 sherman
and Mcconnell operated the drug
store department in the Brandeis
stores and from 1917 to 1872
the company operated store at
Forty-ninth and Dodge sweets.
The store at Twenty.fourth and
Farnam streets was acquired in
is0s and the store at Nineteenth and
Farnam streets in 1915.
Mr. Mcconnell will continue to
make Omaha his home. he said.
1t viii always be my home" he
continued. Although | plan To
divide each year into three parts, four
months TO be passed in Omaha, four
in California and four in travel ] in
tend TO always call this my resi-.
dence"
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18

retiring hecanSe the active mn mage.
ment Of the business is too heavy for
one man to direct.
Since tho death TWO years ago OF
my first and only partner. Charles
Il. sherman. l have had 10 handle
the whole business and organization
alone and 1t has grown too large.
said Mr.. Mcconnell.
Name 10 BE Changed.
The Liggett company Is the retail
branch of the United Drug company.
II has So stores IN the United
States. as0 in Great Britain. SIS in
Canada. Last year the sales of this
corporation surpassed $50, 900.
On May ] the names of the Sher-
man and Mcconnell stores will be
changed TO Liggett. Each store will
he directed by a manager under SUI
pervision of Robert Hart, general dis
trict manager. whose headquarters
are in Minneapolis. Liggett stores
are conducted on cash basis.
The first Sherman and Mcconnell
store was at 1913 Dodge street. Mr..
sherman and Mr.. Mcconnell were
employed together for a short time by
Norman A. Kuhn. druggist at
Fifteenth and Douglas streets. a
partnership was effected and Mr..
Sherman traded a lot he owned At
Thirteenth and Cass streets for the
store at 1913 Dodge street. Mr.. Nc
Connell paid $1,000 to Mr.. Sherman
for a half interest in the new firm
and then the firm borrowed $1,000
from Mr.. Sherman's savings ac-
count. That was the financial foun-
dation of the company which last
year did nearly three quarters OF a
million dollars worth OF business.
Still i'm Operation.
In 1894 sherman and Mcconnell
moved from 1913 Dodge street to the
southwest corner of Sixteenth and
Dodge streets. This store is still in
operation. In 1903 the store at Six
teenth and Harvey was opened. At
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Farmer Browns Boy went out and
looked at the hole under the
henhOuse.

my chickens | should feel a whole
lot easier about them il | knew that
that skunk was a mile or two away,
replied Farmer Brown.
Il haven't missed a chicken so far,
excepting these the rats from the
barn got" said Farmer Browns Boy.
There is no way into the henyard
where the chickens are. anyway.
Perhaps not, now, but It viii be
as easy for that skunk TO dig out
from under the henhouse into the
yard as it was TO dig under the hen
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Bonesteel Banker Dies
in Hospital at Omaha

William A. Jelimek 81. banker Of
Bonesteel. S. D.. died Friday morning
al a local hospital. He is survived
by his widow and two daughters.
Nena and Ida. The body will be
sent from the Heafey & Heafey under
taking parlors to Bonesteel for fu'
neral services and burial
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Hastings Civic Bodies
To Establish PlayorOInds

Hastings. April 17.-Maurice Will
liams of Chicago. representing the Ma
tional Playground and Recreation as
ISOLATION, has been assigned to Has
tings to assist several civic organi-
cations, acting jointly TO establish To-
cal, systematized Fairgrounds. A To-
cal committee with George r. Dutton
as chairman is directing the prepara-
lions
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18

II IS useless 10 suggest that you XII
IL.
Farmer Browns Boy smiled.
Quite useless. said he. And h
knew that. despite the things his
father sometimes said. he felt the
s9me way. But why not leave that
skunk alone so long as 1t behaves
and doesn't get In Mischief
All right. Suit yourself. Those
are your chickens out there. and If
YOU want to feed skunks with them
that is your business. If they were
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Continental Directors
si,. Chosen for Two Years

FIVE new directors for two Years
were, elected by the Continental eluh
al Hotel Fontenelle Friday noon. The
new'directors are F. T. r. Martin Fl.
G. 5Nenemann. \. e. Ball, Stanley
Green, and J. +. Nicholson. -Four di-
rectors who have hold.over terms are
J. d. Frazee. l.. NJ. Halliday, II. V.
Knouse and Roy A Ralph.
Next Monday noon the board OF di-
recrors will meet at Hotel Fontenelle
to elect club officers for the ensuing
year!,s
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Nebraska News
Nubbins

Beatrice-Mfs. W. A Tilton. former
Is of this city. died at the home of
her daughter. Mrs. Henry seiiz. at
Osborn. Kan The body will he
brought to Beatrice. and The funeral
will be held Saturday afternoon
Bridgeport-Harry Barrett, a., well.
known rancher of the Morrill, country.
and a resident of this district for l.
years. died in a hospital in Denver.
following an operation for appendicitis.
Beatrice-Charles Langdale of this
city has been appointed manager of
the Farmers Produce store at Wake
field. Kan.
Beatrice-Mrs. Frank Yott. old res
ident of 'Seatrice, died at her home in
this city. aged 70.
resident of Gage county, died at her
home seven miles southwest of the
city. aged Sc. She is survived by her
husband and three children, Agnes
Elizabeth and John Long, all OF
whom reside at home.
iaNilce Niy-A. H. fiuiu OF tHls
city has been appointed street com
missioner by Mayor Colwell 70 fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of Charles Scott, who moved to
Dunning.
Wymore-Extensive repairs are be
ing made TO the Ven Dome. formerly
the Touzalin hotel. an early landmark
in Wymore. The building was erect
ed by the late Col A. +. Touzalin
When he was general manager OF the
Burlington railway.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
A. 20. L. ". Delegate Chosen.

York. April 17.-York lodge. No. 81,
A. o. L. w, chose J. w. Little as
representative at the biennial session
of the grand lodge. to be held al
Grand Islandsin May. J. NJ. Bell, VIC
Is chairman of the grand lodge law
committee, will also attend.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Dirigible to Boston.

Washington. April 1.-THE di-
rigible Los Angeles will be sent to
Boston to participate Monday in the
exercises commemorating the 150th
of the first battles of the
American Revolution.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Sidney Bonds Bring Premium

Sidney April 17.-At special
meeting of the city council Of Sidney
S169. 900 worth of refunding CITY
bonds were sold at premium of
1900 to the Western Securities com
panN of Omaha.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Henry Martin o. at Death.

Beatrice, April 17.--Henry Martin,
onol.time resident Fl Gage county,
died at his home at Summerfield,
Kan,, according to word received
here.l He was 81 years Of age and
leaves number of children, all
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
Burgess Bedtime
Stories
By THORNTON ". BURGESS.

SnsnleIon l. in has,e 10 act
And almost always lacking Inel.
OLD MOTHER NATURE.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18

Surgical eases arc spectacular and
thereby attract our attention; non
surgical cases aren't and We thereby
overlook their importance.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18

The next story: Mrs. Jimmy Calls
on Mrs. Brown"
Copyright. f925)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-24
D.C.GUARDMUST
GUT OUT 4
DRILLS
Will Result From Withholding
Deficiency Appropriation,
Coolidge Is Told

The National Guard Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia will have to elimi.
nate four drills during the month
Of April, May and June, an equiva-
lent money loss in the Federal ap.
preparations of $3.50. if the de-
ficiency appropriation for the Ma
tiOnal Guard of the country il
withheld.
This fact was stated by Major
General Anton Stephan. command
ant Of the District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard. after he had called
upon President Coolidge as a mem
Der of a group of National Guard
officials from various states today.
President Coolidge shortly will re-
ceive a statement from the national
guard showing exactly how the loss
Of $1,30O,000 for the final three
months Of the fiscal year will az
feet the guard.
Major General Stephan said that
the District National Guard re-
ceives $50 yearly for each member
of the organization. The present
strength of the guard il about $50
and for a three months period 1t
would make $13 per man that the
national guard would lose for
quarterly period.
General Stephan estimated that
this would amount to the elimina-
tion Of four drills for the guard dur
ing the period in question.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-24
NEW LAND FOR
STANDARDS
BUREAU
important Expansion for This
Unit Planned With Addi-
ton OF Twelve Acres
SAYS sAMBO:

The most important expansion of
ne Bureau Of Standards in many
years will be completed within the
next few days as soon as the Attor-
ney General completes the abstract
Of title for nearly twelve acres Of
land along Connecticut avenue, pur-
chase Of which was authorized by
Congress during the past session.
The land. which is to cost $173.-
lit, extends along the west side of
Connecticut avenue from Tilden
street to a point several hundred
feet north OF Van Ness street and
extends back to the present boun.
dairy of the bureau grounds.
Director George K. Burgess of the
bureau is planning the construction
Of q road through the new ground
as soon as the purchase is COM
pleted. The road will supplement
the present road coming down
through the corner of the present
grounds on Van Ness street. When
the new thoroughfare is completed
q one-way traffic system will be put
in operation, using the present road
for entrance to the grounds and the
new road for exit. This is expected
to result In elimination of &C . tents
at the dangerous bend at the foot OF
the present road.
The new land, now covered with
underbrush, will be cleared off this
summer in preparation for improve
ment. It is planned as soon as
funds can be secured from Congress
to construct a big administration
building on the slope Of the hill
facing Connecticut avenue in about
the center of the new land.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-24
MOTHER READS
FORBIDDEN
BOOK
TOO Hot" for Daughter, She
Is Warned by Druggist
Librarian

Out in Chevy Chase there's a
drug store with a circulating H.
brary. Some of the mature feminine
patrons have taste for sheik
stories and other literature as hot
as the desert sands.
To meet this demand the druggist
handles a few warm books, but to
keep them out Of the hands of
Chevy Chase Seminary girls and
high school flappers, he locks them
up in the safe, along with the
liquor supply.
If q mature customer desires any
of these books, they are taken
from the safe and put in circuia-
ton. But If the young girls want
them, nothing doing!
The other day one of rhe books
needing an asbestos cover was
accidently left on the shelf, instead
of being put into the safe, when
it was returned. A young flapper
seized it and scampered home.
When the conscientious druggist
noticed on his registration record
that the girl had signed for this
piece of hot literature, he called
up her mother on the phone and
warned her to take the book away
from the girl. The next day the
flapper mildly rebuked the drug
gist.
"That was a mean trick you
played on me-" she chided. NAM
ma took the book away from me
and Is reading it herself"
Oh, yes. the book was Madeleine
"a book that would burn the
DEVILS fingers"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-24
EXPERTS STUDY COUPLER
TO BETTER CAR SAFETY

Experts of the bureau of safety
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion are today completing q study
of a new type of railway car coupler,
invented by Doctor Charles H. Gage,
Washington metallurgical engineer,
which is expected 20 greatly lessen
the number of accidents to railroad
workers.
Extensive tests were made yes
terday afternoon on the steel plant
railroad at Giesboro Point, before
w. p. Borland, chief of the bureau
and o. c. Cash and w. J. Patterson.
railway equipment experts of the
bureau.
Reports show that $4,000 railway
accidents during the past year were
caused by men being caught be-
tween cars while operating couplers.
Gage claims his coupler will elimi-
nate this type of accident.
The experiments were in charge
Of Doctor Gage and Robert T. Glad
stone, of the Otis Train Control
Company. Railroad executives from
all parts Of the country attended.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-24
D. c. SCANS
PHONEC CO.
VALUE
Figure Half Way Between That
of Company and Of citi-
zens Expected

Major William E. R. Covell,
assistant engineer commissioner,
today began preparation of a re-
vised estimate of valuation of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company. He has before
him claims of the phone corpora
ton for a $25, 600, 900 valuation.
1t was predicted today that
Major CoveIl would recommend to
the Public Utilities Commission
figure somewhere between
SIS, 200, 900 and $2O,5OO,0O0.
The lower valuation would prob
ably enable the commission to re-
duce phone rates; the higher
would mean continuance of pres
ent charges.
Will Take q Few Weeks.
1t will probably be three weeks
before Major Covell completes his
draft Of the valuation. In the mean
time Dozier A. De Vane, general
counsel of the phone company, will
file a brief in which he will sum up
the company's arguments for a
$25 zoo, 900 figure. William NICK.
Clayton, representing the Federation
of Citizens Association, will be
given an opportunity to reply to
De Vane's brief.
The hearings were concluded yes
terday when Mr. Clayton presented
an argument for the public. He
contended a valuation of Sic, SOC, 900
was fair. He charged the company
with using its depreciation fund to
increase the capital account.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-24
Ne " CHANGES
POSTOFF|CE
AUCTION
Sale Will Be Conducted at
Department Instead Of by
Private Firms

Hundreds Of articles that will
satisfy either the bargain hunter or
the curio seeker are to be offered
for sale in the "unclaimed' auction
to be held April 2 at the Postoffice
Department Building.
The assortment of clothing ranges
from oVeralls to evening dress and
shoestrings to sweaters.
Cigars and tobacco, toys for the
children, kitchen ware, automobile
parts, sporting goods. and bundles
of other things are on the lists.
Contrary to the former custom Of
giving out lots Of this unclaimed
mail to private auctioneers, Post
master General News has directed
the sale De held in the Postoffice
Building.
1t will begin at 10 a. m. Similar
sales are being held in twelve DIFF
ferent cities.
The Washington dead letter office
is the depositary of articles which
were poorly addressed from Mary
land. Virg mia, North Carolina, West
Virginia and the District
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-24
HUSBANDS BEHIND IN
ALIMONY, WIVES CLAIM

Complaints about husbands fail
ing to pay their alimonies as
ordered by the District Supreme
Court We're made today by Mrs.
Maggie f. Fauver against James
Garland Fauver, who is alleged to
be $40 in arrears on an order of
the court of February 10 last. At
torney James T. Crouch appears
for Mrs. Fauver.
Mrs. Agnes Thompson told the
court that her husband, George w.
Thompson, is $3.50 in arrears and
Mrs. Esther Lane, claims that her
husband John Edward Lane, Is
$24 in arrears in his alimony pay
ments. Attorney Dora Pall1in ap.
peared for Mrs. Thompson and
Mrs. Lane, Plaintiffs in all cases
ask the court to require the de.
linquent husbands to show cause
why they should not be adjudged
in contempt of court.