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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09

The Queen City No. 13, in 4-34-
2w, came in Tuesday morning as
a flowing well at 1,475, and is
estimated as a $50 barrel settled
production. Oil showing was
struck at ,435, but drilling was
continued, till the flow was hit.
The Johnson Corey No. 6 in
nw4 4-34-2w, struck the sand at
l,503 feet and the oil soon was
going over the top. The well is
still flowing strong.
The Tri-State-Stannard in 30
35-lw. came in late Monday at
the depth of l,495 feet in the
Ellis and is estimated at 1900
barrels flush production.
The Ohio-Sunb. -Norum No. 6
in NV sw Sc 33-25-2w was drilled
to 1890 feet and shot with 20
quarts of nitro with results. 1t
was bridged back to the Sun
burst and held as a gasser.
The Buckner-O Olsen Danielson
No. l, in NV a 21-35-1w hit the
Ellis sand at 1896 feet to 900.
1t is estimated at 100 barrels on
the pump.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09
Border Town Gets
Second Oil Refinery

The town of Coutts, twin city
to Sweet Grass on the Canadian
border, is to have its second oil
refinery, it was reported in Great
Falls Monday by Alex Mavity,
Kevin operator who was here
from the field. The new plant
will be built by a Canadian COM
pany backed by the AFRO Refn-
ing company of Lewistown and
the Queen City Oil company of
Regina. It's construction is be-
ing arranged for in the border
city by FL. H. Schwartz.
The refinery will have daily
capacity of 5000 barrels and if
plans now under way materalize
it will be the first plant in the
state to manufacture oil by-pro-
ducts. 1t is the intention to man
lubricants and to ex-
tract all of the by-products con-
tanned in the crude oil handled.
The Queen City owns a group of
wells numbered among the larg-
est producers in the Kevin field.
Spur trackage for the 20-acre
site of the plant has been applied
for at the Lethbridge offices of
the Canadian Pacific railway and
and equipment have
been ordered. Oil will be piped
from the Queen City's wells.
The No. 10 well of the Queen
City alone had a production from
April 6 to June "a of So, ,759 bar
rels, worth more than $4,000.
The we'll now is making 600 bar
rels daily. ct. Falls Tribune.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09

BIG RETURNS-It is easy to promise
an abnormally high rate Of dividends
or large market profits, to prospective
investors. Heavy risks usually accom-
pany such lures. They are too often
the chief talking points of financial
charlatans
PROMINENT NAMES - Promoters
know that the names and endorse
ments of successful men carry weight.
They are often used without authori-
cation. The prudent investor will look
beyond names and will investigate.
THE "GR0UND FLOOR An oppor-
tunity to "get in on the ground floor"
often turns out to be the same sort
of opportunity which the proverbial
spider extended to the fly.
\ INSIDE INFORMATION -"Inside tips"
are usually expensive pieces of 1nisin-
formation. When used as "confiden-
tia1 information" to influence the
small investor they are generally Of
spurious character.
THE FICTITIOUS ADVANCE Profess
sional promoters often arbitrarily adj
vance the prices of the shares they
sell as their campaigns gain headway
to create buying excitement and in
duce new buyers to get in before the
next rise. Such price advances are
artificial, usually employed merely to
speed up" the unloading Of shares.
THE TELEPHONE CANVASS - IRE
sponsible vendors find it easy to work
over the telephone to victimize incau-
tious investors. The cautious investor
will not enter into securities transac-
tions by telephone unless he person
ally knows with whom he is dealing.
THE UNsELFIsH PROMOTER - The
promoter who "gives his services" in
organizing a company or as an officer
of it and advertises that he does so,
will bear watching.
THE IRRESPONSIBLE GUARANTEE
responsible sellers of securities often
guarantee certain profits, or even
that they will buy back shares when
the purchaser wants his money.
Promises of this nature are made to
create confidence and to 1ull suspicion.
They should indicate to the prospec-
tive purchaser a special need to in
vestigate.
REORGANIZATION" AND MERGER =
Unsuccessful companies forced into
Reorganization" often call upon
stockholders for new funds. Response
to such appeals often means merely
throwing good money after bad. A
conspicuously fraudulent device has
been the merger" by which new
company trading upon fresh pros
poets and promises, takes over the
assets of an unsuccessful venture and
issues new stock for old, provided the
shareholder pays 25 per cent or so in
cash.
THE PARTIAL-PAYMENT PLAN-This
helpful method of selling securities
has been much abused. People who
prefer to buy securities out of their
weekly or monthly earnings, are
victimized by vendors Of
stocks which have little or no value.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09

All honest securities dealers unite in
warning the investor to buy on the
partial-payment plan only after MAX
ing sure Of the financial responsibility
and standing Of the firm with which
he does business.
THE APPEAL TO PREJUDIcE-A chief
stock in trade Of the unreliable pro
moter is misinformation which plays
upon the prejudices and emotions OF
prospects. This style of promoter
points out supposed ''evils" and "spe-
cial privileges" existing in the world
of s'high finance" He may urge that
his venture is a poor mans PROPOSE
ton, free from the '1arge underwrit-
ing profits which the big fellows get"
Usually such sellers endeavor to
throw suspicion on others to divert it
from themselves.
FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY Real
estate the safest security on earth,
is the type Of slogan under which at
times unscrupulous operators en-
deavor to unload property on persons
who want to make an investment, but
not poor speculation. Experienced
opinion, supported by impartially-
gathered facts, forms the only basis
upon which to buy real estate, espe-
cially when you cannot see it before
you buy.
MINING FALIACIEs = Many mining
ventures are honest but fail because
the promoters are unable to finance
the proposition through to success
full conclusion. Many other mining
promotions are not good prospects al
though they may be represented as
such. If small investor wishes to
buy mining stocks he can do so by
purchasing securities of established
mining companies with records of
substantial earnings and of dividends
regularly paid to stockholders.
OIL RISKS almost every one
come opportunities to speculate In oil
schemes. Very often such offerings
are misrepresented. Usually they are
sheer speculations, all the risks being
taken with the stockholders money,
while the promoters pay themselves
handsomely through stock sales, COM
salaries or Organization ex-
penses." The investor who desires to
ouy mining or oil securities should get
facts and experienced opinion as to
issues of established, successful oil
companies. Even the legitimate min
ing or oil business is speculative and
depends for profits upon sound COM
bination of properties, organization,
finances and management.
INVENTION DELUsIoNs-Th gener-
al public too often believes that large
profits are to be gained through pat
ented processes or devices. lnven-
tons are a fascinating means for
inexperienced investors
from their savings Even when prac-
lical from marketing and manufac-
5uring standpoint, patents are usually
only moderately valuable. The small
cannot afford to take an In
vention Chance" with his funds
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09
Why Not Stop at
The Plains Hotel?

c. S. Vinson, the genial host Of
the Plains Hotel of this city has
now completed the remodeling
and refurnishing of his popular
hostelry. This hotel now has
twenty-eight comfortable outside
rooms, furnished with new Sim
mons beds, springs and mattress
es. The lobby has been enlarged
and refurnished.
Kevin IS now able to offer the
traveller in our midst all the com
forts Of home.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09
'1DRESSMAKER" FILM
HAS STRONG CAST

Fourteenl internationally fam
GUS beauties and four established
screen fayorites appear in cast
of ''The Dressmaker from Paris
which is said to be one Of the
most lavish productions Of Para
mont's Second Famous Forty.
Leatrice JOY, Allen Forrest,
Ernest Terrence and Mildred
Harris head the cast. The four
teen beauties appear as name
quins, displaying the most strik-
ing fashions and each of the four
teen is a recognized beauty select
ed after a search lasting several
months.
In this Paul Bern prodna5a
Miss JOY, featured with Terrence,
plays "F'ifi, " first midinett Of
Paris and later an arbiter of
of styles, role which fits her
quite as well as the gowns she
designs fit the beauciful name
quins seen in the picture.
Forrest plays opposite Miss Joy
as "Billy Brent" an outstanding
young American first seen doing
his patriotic bit as a soldier in
France and later as an enterpris-
ing young department store man
ager in a small town in the Mid
die West.
Ernest Terrence is expected to
win added admirers by his work
as Angus McGregor, a small
town Scotch merchant-prince
with emphatic ideas as to thrift
and an adherence of up-to-date
Mildred Harris. whose beauty
has graced both the screen and
stage in stellar roles, is seen as
Joan, McGregor's daughter.
Other roles of Importance in
the cast are played by Larry Gray |
Charles Crockett, veteran charac-
ter actor who is cast as the chief |
executive of the small town;
Rosemary Copper and Spec OF
Donnell.
Quite the most alluring Sc
luence that the screen has seen
in years is the style show in
which appear fourteen manne-
luins, all of them world-famous
beauties selected after long
search in Hollywood, the fashion
centers f the east and even
across the seas. The models ap-
pear in gowns especially design
ed for this production by a man
brought from Paris by Para
for the sole purpose of
anticipating the models by one
year.
"The Dressmaker from Paris"
written especially for the screen
oy Adelaide Heilbron and How
ard Hawks, opens on Sunday at
he Kevin Theatre.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09
OILOPERATORS
AIM TO REDUCE
STORED SUPPLY
Withdrawals From Stocks is
Encouraged -Foctor in
Price Bosis

The present policy of t h G
country's leading oil man is SO
framed as to cause the greatest
possible withdrawal of oil from
storage this year, rather than
the announcement to open new
fields, according to a view ex-
pressed by writer IN The Wall
Street Journal.
This policy" says the writer,
so far this year has been sue
cessful. 1t has resulted in salts
factory prices for crude oil and
refined oil products, which are
enabling the oil companies to
make large earnings. A continual
tion of that policy will mean
large earnings throughout the
rest of this year.
This is the fisst chance in sew
eral years that the oil companies
have had to liquidate part of the
surplus stocks Of oil which they
have accumulated during the
last few years of overproduction
and they are disposed to continue
that advantage, 1t is hoped by
them that 50,000,000 barrels of
oil will be taken out Of storage
this year, which at an average
price of So barrel would mean
Sl000,000s000 in finds FIR them.
THE oil men have been more
farsighted in handling the pre-
sent situation than in many
years. They have succeeded to a +
large extent in eliminating boot
logging Of gasoline, which did
much to unsettled conditions last /
year. This has been done by
keeping the spread between the
price and the retail
price of gasoline small so as not
to permit the scalper of gasoline
to thrive. At the same time,
prices have ment a good profit to |
all the companies which have
the interest of the oil industry at
heart. The present refinery price
in the midcontinent is IL cents a
G gallon, which is considered a /,
very fair price and one allowing {
good profits. In view of the fact !
that the average re6ner is now
getting two gallons Of gasoline
where he formerly got one gallon
If gasoline out of the same
amount of crude, the fairness of t
his price is apparent. {
"Basically the situation con- {
,inues strong with production of :
light oil at the lowest level in I
several years. 1t is now down to
|, ,407 900 barrels day, compar- q
ID 1,525,000 barrels day the !
irst of the year and 1883. 900 !
,arrels day in July, 1928, which 4
vas the high point of light oil I
in this country. This :
5 a decrerse Of 10000 barrels :
Tally from the peak. q
Despite all the wildcatting q
which is going on as usual re- e
ults of prospecting work have b
,een disappointing. At the pre- n
ent time new field work is con- a
ined largely to deep drilling in y
but this work does
lot seem to hold out the promise y
hat wildcat drilling along the i
dedla fault zone did last year" q .
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09
IElIIHEN SIGNALS ARE SET AGAINST YOU
Danger Signs Given by Bankers-Peope With Money
to Invest Warned Against Ways to Lose 1.-THE
Lure of easy Money"

you were an engineer a railroad you would not in
tentonay pass safety signals set against To the expert
enced investor there similar signals for safeguarding his IN
signs danger issued by the Public
Service Committee the State Bank Division American
Bankers Association in conjunction with the Better Business
Bureau are briefly indicated here.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1925-07-09

Amel Thoeltzsch, an employee
of the Montana Giant, spent the
Fourth with friends in CT. Falls.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

k..-,ally. if you are one of the
 ,,sousands who have been pour
 New York by train and boat .se weeks that have elapsed sbor Day closed the summer YOU have also been among .lsmoring for entrance to the ..ss that almost nightly are open
 Az doors here and there to the
 .ssrings of the theatrical season.
 ssr fl you have read the daily with anything more than q .i dance. you, too. have tried t0 .3s.ittance to those houses where
 s.;sv p!ayed the works of Mir. L.a Arien and Mir. Noel Coward.
 s,n are SO utterly strange to the s,y spasms of the average New E isily. you may not have heard of r.rard but it would be little short Lss.omenal If you had not heard of |s,nper little MT. Arlen, author of - international novel known as \ Green Hat.
 k yr Coward has only become a ,.rsonalitv out of London within ns month. Prior to that time ' xss much rumor and gossip of ,,rsatile young man of only twen- |v years who had four plays run | fl once in London last season. .lso found time to contribute to |r.glish revues, dash of a few ex- ksy popular songs, play the lead |sis in one of his plays and culti- issuity for piano jazz that riv-
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
VILLAGE OF CHEPACHET
 THREATENED BY FIRE

Putnam motorists who happend to be passing through Chephehet last Friday morning saw fire that threat ened to wipe out that little Rhode Island villags on the Putnam-Provi- denee pike. Departments called from nearby villages helped to save Che paehet and the absence of wind was favorable to the firemen.
 The first started in a building oc- eupied as garage and ice cream par. Tor and quickly spread to two houses and a blacksmith shop. All were destroyed Three families were made homeless. Loss estimated at s20, 900 Origin of the fire unknown.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

ais our own American Gershwin.
 Late In August. Mir. Coward landed thls side of the Customs House with all plays sold. 4 fortnight later with a company of his eountrymen as fel. lew players he opened al the Henry Miller Theatre in New York in what ls considered his most important play. an affair entitled "The Vortex On the day following the opening. which was attended by particularly distip- eaished audience. the reports were told Of now at the end of the perform ance Mir. Coward was eheered to the echo and The Vortex became forth with the outstanding dramatic sensa- tion of the season.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
OVER THE TOP WINS
Clinehes Series With Fl. K. II. In
 Sundays Game

The series between Over the Top and H. K. II. ended last Sunday at North Grosvenordale when the Over the Top team defeated H. K. II. by score of i3 to in a hard hitting game
 Both line ups were strengthened for this game. Anderson of the Bos- ton Nationals pitched for the bakers while McElroy pitched for Putnam, and the latter proved puzzle for the first part of the game, but in the fifth. sixth and seventh innings the Grosvenordale lineup smashed hts spit ball delivery to the far corners of the field. scoring thirteen runs m the three innings. Anderson was hit freely throughout the game.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

k1lshed audience, the reports were told oi now at the end of the perform ance Mir. Coward was eheered to inc echo and The Vortex became forth with the outstanding dramatic sensa- ton of the season.
 Theatrical Banslity
 So far and so good. Now We 20 to The theatre with a genuine love of the theatre. We have both esteem and re- spect for good acting and earnest the. atrical endeavor, whether if be for the expert Astaires, dancing, for Miss heilerman swimming at the Hippo- drome, for Mr. Sothern ranting at the Belasco, or for Able" and his Irish Rose" coming ducats at the Re- public. We fought for admission to MT. Coward's play and We settled back into the comfortable seats in Mir. Miller's Theatre with sheer prospects of delight.
 Two hours and twenty minutes lat CT we left Forty-third Street bewilder- ed and indignant. We had been put upon and deceived by our most reliable critics and judges of the theatre. "The Vortex, to our humble way of think ing, is the most complete piece of theatrical mediocrity We have seen in many day.
 Now it all happens this way. to adopt the style of Mir. Arlen. of whom much more later A young gentleman who IS known to his intimates as Nicky has silly mother who neglects her husband, tries to remain young and bucks up her attempts at holding on to her youth by adopting a series of young lovers. Her apparently dull but decent husband she negleets. Her son goes of to Paris to study music but between sonatas becomes a drug fiend
 Such is the pretty state of affairs when Nicky returns from Paris en- gagged to be married to a young wom- an who has also been in Paris This young woman. personable enough in the play. is supposed also to have un- dergone some deleterious change dur ing a mysterious stay in the French capital and is no longer the sort she was prior to her crossing the choppy Channel. For the obvious purposes of making a play Nicky's fancee finds the lover of Nieky's mother is an old love of her own and there the play begins.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
HI-Y CLUB

The Hi-Y Club held it's weekly meet ing Monday evening in the Congrega- tional chapel with a good attendance. The subject considered was "Eduea- tional Problems" Short talks on "Edueation Out of School" by Minot Horne, and "The Service of Prepara- tion," by James Vaida. were interest ing features of the meeting. Next Monday evening the club plans to have a Halloween supper and social for members and friends.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

This unsolicited testimonial from Charles w. Powers. Spencer, Mass, is only one of thousands which tell, in their own way, of the place which Glenwood Ranges hold in the hearts of their users everywhere.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
ROAD CONSTRUCTION

Among the road conditions and de- tours reported by the state highway department in eastern Windham eoun- tv are Pomfret street bridge under construction, detour posted; Putnam Norwich road in Killingly, concrete heinz iaid, traffic directed by tele- phone; Eastford, shoulder work being done on the Phoenixville woods road, [ .raffic proceed with care; killingly- Danielsou- -Willimantie road, bridge closed, detour posted
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

sBatted for McSherrey in eighth.
 Two base hits. Shay, Gilmore. Three base hits. Nelson, We're. Home run, Anderson. Struck out. by An derson 1, by McElroy '. Umpire, Deyreon. Time of game, 2 hrs. i5 min.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
ATTEND 2zsTH ANNIVERSARY

Principal F. L. Robinson of the Putnam High school and Mrs. Robin sop spent the weekend at their old bonae In Lebanon. Sunday was the 59sth Anniversary of the Lebanon Congregational church and the event wax fittingly observed. At the after noon service Mrs. Robinson sang a snlo. Learn Ye to Suffer-" Handel.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
ARLEN, COWARD & COMPANY

aThe Green Hat and "Ths Vortex" Open New Yort,.
 ue.triea Season.-America Welcomes Two Clever Youns |g from Mayfair.-The Triumph of the Trivial-A, Az md Play and Tiresome Play.-Mr Michael Arle, and |sr Noel Coward Present Special Correspondence to The Putnam pafro,{
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

the sweetmeats of the harcm. But the ittie lad grew up, as apparently most Armenians do. in another country than his own. and that country being England he discarded his Armenia. nomenclature and took to himself the rather romantic sounding title of Michael Arien.
 When Michael was but young man he worked, as the story goes. on this and that London paper where he was known for some time not So much for his ability as for his waisteoats. worn undoubtedly pour le sport But Michael was clever young man and he wrote a book. which, however. was not clever enough to bring home the golden apple So he wrote another and another and along about the third vol- ume the critics began Co pay some at- tention to him, for this third volume was a pleasant and searching little series of stories entitled These Charming People But even this was a book that was really only noticed bv the elect di the reading world, so Mich ael had to try t again and this time he hit the bulls eye. The Green Hat" was the title ef his story. a modern. readable, sometimes brilliant and ut teriy artificial section of life passing through several hundred staccat0 pag- es around the character of one Iris March. a female person of the type whose epithet is frequently Chaueer= Ian and sometimes Biblical.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
The Poor Marches

It would only take space to repeat here the already too familiar story of the play and the novel. but there Is one theme to the play which. in it's re semblanee to Mir Coward's effort makes 1t worthy of discussion. In MT. Cowardis play great deal of blame Is laid on the sojourns of the young in Paris. In the Arlen play there k a similar vein in that everything that happens to Iris March and her inebri- ate brother is due to the fact that he Marches are never spared anything. | The brother drinks himself to death in childish debauch all on account of the previously existing race Of Marches Iris takes lovers here and there about the world, breaks up a home or two, and finally destroys herself and an eX- ltremely expensive motor car all be- cause of the Marches. To these new English playrights, apparently, any lack of personal self-respect, integrity and solidity may be explained out of this modern world by casting the blame for human weakness and immor- ality elsewhere than in the incredible selfshness and moral shoddiness of
 
 be, as Mir Arlen has so frequently and coherently said, merely passage from this to that in the manner of thus and thus, but if Mir. Arlen thinks life is as he has shown it in his book and play, there are many in other places than Dubuque who know life better. ''The Green Hat" is dull play and a bit of not good theatre sav- ed by the genuine ability of the cast that interprets 1t from being the sort of drivel that a soberer age would promptly discard. As charm ing but hot-tongued lady recently re- marked, it is simply another one of those tiresome tales about hussy. '"
 After all. Mir. Arlen and MT. Cow ard are but passing fads. Their pop ularity will last SO long as the trivial predominates in the printed page and behind the footliehts The gain Is theirs and the fault is the public Somewhere and somehow ultimately some dramatist with real wit, insight into life and true dramatic genius will produce a play that will show these well-tailored young men from Mayfair into the darkened wings of their play houses. E. V. E.