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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Colonial Currency

} During the Colonial period the colon
lists used the same currency as the
mother country designated in pounds
shillings and pence Willie the money
Of account VAS for each colony Co
lonia pound, the actual money In cir
cuation was q varied collection of
coins of English, French. Portuguese
and Spanish origin The Spanish dol
lar was the most widely known and
circulated. and II thus became the
term by which the currencies Of the
Colonies we're most readily compared
The Spanish dollar was common to
all the Colonies, and 1t was the term
in which later the common obligations
were expressed by the Continental
congress, and thus became the basis
of our national coinage
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
M. E. CHURCH HERE

John A. Meeke, .. D., Of Billings
executive secretary Of the Montana
State Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. was in Libby the
first of the week comforting with Rev
Wick in regard to matters pertaining
to the contributary reserve pension
plan being carried out by the confer
ence.
Rev. Meeke is a well-known min
lister throughout the state, and in his
capacity as secretary has renewed
many contacts with frienes of the
church and himself. A recerve funo
of $15O,0000O is the goal set by the
conference he represents, to protect
the interest of the claimants. This
fund which is raised through contri-
button is for the old pioneer group Of
ministers and layman who have done
SO much for their church and for the
state of Montana Rev. Meeke spoke al
the Methodist church Sunday
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
CALL FOR LINCOLN COUNTY
REGISTERED WARRANTS

Upon presentation at the office of
the County Treasurer in Libby, Lin
coin County, Montana. | will pay the
following county and district school
warrants
General Fund: All warrants regis
tered.
Bridge Fund: All warrants regis
tered.
Poor Fund: All warrants registered
prior to May Is, 1880.
Lincoln County High School. All war
rants registered prior to April %, 1880.
District School No. L. All warrants
registered prior to May s, 1880 except
Warrants numbered 249, $50 and Isl.
School District Numbers 4, 7, Is, II,
Is, 20, %, 3d. All warrants registered.
Interest ceases after this date, June
II, 1890
JOHN c. FRIEND,
1t County Treasurer.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Crop Prospects
Promising In State

It seems to make little difference
from whence the reports eome-all tell
the same story, bumper crop prospects
for Montana.
As if atoning for mans failure to
provide fair market prices, nature has
overdone herself in presenting-to date
at least-almost ideal weather condi-
tons. Up until the last few days, there
was one "fly in the ointment lack
of moisture in several districts. But
then came heavy and widespread rains,
the so-called million dollar" shower,
which more than made up for the de-
ficiency.
One of the states leading author
tiles A. H. Stafford, commissioner OF
agriculture, pronounced farming con-
ditions in western, northern and east
ern Montana as excellent, He remarked
on how heavy rainfall benefited the
Judith Basin country and added that
south central sections Cat that time)
were somewhat deficient in precipita-
ton
Senator Schnitzler, Montanas fly
ing farmer" and the owner of large
acreages of wheat land in northern
Montana, brought the word that heavy
rainfall had immeasurably helped his
section of the state. The senator made
a number of airplane stops in eastern
Montana to obtain information on crop
conditions. Among other things he
learned that conditions near Froid were
excellent with adequate top soil mois-
ture.
Not only is there some prospect OF
better sugar prices prevailing in the
near future but also there is every
indication of a record sugar beet crop
yield from the 1900 acres of beets III
the Yellowstone county district, &C
cording to W. D. Lippett, vice-presi-
dent and general manager of the Great
Western Sugar company.
~Mr. Lippett remarked on the success
full irrigation done by beet farmers
1t was their liberal. and timely ir-
rigation during drouth that not only
saved the crop but brought it along
faster than If normal precipitation had
occurred.
All over the state there is rather
optimistic feeling regarding crops. II
harvests actually yield anything COM
mensurate with present indications
Montana farmers will be in a posi-
ton to counteract low agricultural
market prices with exceptionally Large
crops.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Sheepherder and Shepherd

It Is necessary to differentiate be-
tween the sheepherder OF fact and the
shepherd OF romance. The latter Is a
gay and poetic figure, the former any
thing but. The shepherd leads his flock
with song. the herder follows his
with profanity. The shepherd reclines
on a messy bank beneath green tree
and carols roundelay. The herder
looks carefully about to make sure he
won't sit on a cactus. eases his wear
led limbs to the unshaded hillside, and
gives his vocal organs well-earned
restroom sheep by Archer b.
Gilfillan.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Hand Dictionary Good
Post Office for Cupid

Rather abruptly and without fore
thought, the head of the HillsvilIe
high school made d startling discov.
cry: namely. that a pleasant glow en-.
quilted his heart at the mere mention
of certain instructress In his school
But what was he to dot
The school board turned thumbs
down. on such romances. Further
more love tangles In the school might
lower the high standard OF morale he
was attempting to maintain among
his charges.
Yet, despite barriers, the glow per-
sisted until at last In desperation he
dashed Off these lines: IL must see
you aloneI Meet me In x Ca city
near tlillsville) Friday night" He
slipped the note In small hand die
tionary on the ady's desk and nerv-
ously waited Developments.
Later he returned and found an an
swer In the affirmative. That winter he
made regular calls on friends Ia
k. And. although Hillsvile prIded
itself upon It's power of detection. II
suspected nothing simply because one
of Its lady teachers spent many of her
evenings In the city.
During March the two were mar
rled. but they decided 1t would be
wiser not to disclose the news until
commencement. How surprised Hills
vile wasl When had they done it7
The professor declared he had not
once spoken word to his wife Of
their romance when In Hilsville. True,
they had held romantic communication
there, often shockingly ardent on the
professors part, according to his wife,
but not one spoken word. Tile little
hand dictionary had remained their
infallible Dan Cupid.-Capper's Week
ly.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Straight Steel Lines

Two Of the longest stretches Of
railroad without curve, are: The
T2-mile stretch on the Rock Island
lines from Gumon, Okla. to Dalhart.
Texas. At Dalhnrt there Is quarter
degree curve and then II goes on for
25 miles farther without curve. The
Seaboard airline In Florida has eight
curves In 200 miles. IT is said TINT
on the Argentine Pacific railway to the
foot OF the Andes. there is q stretch
OF 200 miles without a curve or cut
ting or an embankment deeper than
three feet. On the Australian Trans
Continental railway crossing the Null
arbor plain, there Is straight-away
OF 800 miles.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

Science and Humor

RI Is a curious fact that science,
serious and ponderous subject, some
times conceals behind 1t very keen
sense of humor. else why the birth Of
Alice in Wonderland not from the
brain OF professional humorist, but
out OF the WITNESSES Of one Lewis Car
roll, MS he makes his escape from the
precisions of mathematical calcula-
lions propounded by his scholastic
self? No one learning that fine poem
on trees, by Joyce Kilmer, would ever
suspect that 1t had been said OF him
that whenever he touched the grind
stone Of life, there flew up q shower OF
sparks. -Indanapolis News.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Butte Girl Wins Meat Essay Contest.

CHICAGO, Il.-An essay on the
subject Meat and Its Importance" has
won for Miss Mary K. Olsen, Butte
high-school girl, the championship of
Montana carrying with it cash award
in the seventh national meat story con-
test which just came to a close This
announcement was made today by a
committee of prominent home econom-
les women assembled in Chicago as
judges in this contest for high school
home economics pupils of the United
States. Miss Olsen's essay placed sixth
in the western district comprising IL
states.
Dean Margaret Justin, division OF
home economics, Kansas State Agricul-
tural College, presided as chairman oil
the judging committee. Serving with
her were Mrs. Caroline B. King, wom-
ans editor, The Country Gentleman;
Mrs. Katherine Niles, division of home
economics, University of Minnesota
and Miss Jessie Alice Cline, associate
professor of home economics, Univer-
sity of Missouri
The committee also distributed q
large number of other prizes including
scholarships and cash. Winners of the
four district championships were
Fheffria Cornelius, Ore, western, Mar
ion Dressed of Arlington, N. J., east
ern; Martha Ann Gwinn, Wichita
Kan, central; and jamie Hall, Birrning
ham, Ala, southern
Miss Cornelius, champion of the
western district, was selected as the
national champion.
The meat story contest is an edu-
cational project conducted each yeal
under the supervision of the Nationa
Live Stock and Meat Board with the
support of the U. S. Department Of
Agriculture, colleges, and-school home
economics teachers. The seventh con-
test is said to have attracted more in
terest than any in the past High
schools in every state competed.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Inn Of Dickens Time

The old Inn In Southwark, England,
made famous by Dickens In Little Dor
rIt, Is 6Ar three hundred and fifty
years olE and was In It's day one Of
the most famous coaching houses In
England Its long, low parler, the
wooden balcony's bnlustrading hardly
more than SIX feet above the ground,
and the old-fashloned bedrooms lead
Ing on to II still remain. In many OF
these bedrooms there are still IN use
the great fonr-poster beds Of the Sew
enteenth and Eighteenth centuries.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

Four-year-ol Billy Is regular at
tendant OF Sunday school. One Sun.
day morning mother and Billy were
checking up on the Sunday school les
son, and mother asked.
"Now tell me what todays lesson is
about?"
"Oh, all about Abraham" replied
the child promptly.
"And who else?"
"Oh, yes-about Lot"
"And what about Lot?"
Billy, renectively: II think 1t was
a vacant lot"
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Echoes of Big Fight Hold Punch

GREAT FALLS, June l0.-(U.P. y
Another echo Of that disastrous-for
Shelby at least--fight between Demp-
sey and Gibbons in 1923 reverberated
through the court room here the other
day when a jury awarded the Stanton
Trust and Savings bank a S28,99452
judgment against James A. Johnson
ex-mayor Of Shelby and the man who
was the moving spirit behind the ia
nous fight.
johnson had given his promissory
note in exchange for $4,000 with which
he paid Jack Kearns, Dempseys man
ager, a down payment on gate re-
ceipts. johnson claimed that he. was
only responsible for one half of the
note.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

On August /, 1893. the same year
that John Cabot explored the coast
OF North America, Columbus visited
the mainland OF the American CONT
nent In Central America. He again
visited the mainland In 1902. near
the mouth OF the veragua river In
Central America. These were the only
occasions upon which the great navi-
gator actually saw the mainland OF
either of the great western continents.
Pathfinder Magazine.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Weddinr Rings for Curtain

That the curtain before the taber.
nncle In the chapel Of the Blessed
Sacrament OF Westminster cathedral
In London Is hung on golden rod
with wedding rings has just become
generally known. Forty-nine women Of
various nationalItIes made an offering
OF their wedding rings for the purpose.
Some we're widows. but many were
wives who, for the establishment Of
the cathedral. desired to give that
which they most priced.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of George O. Farr. Deceased
Notice is hereby given by the UNI
designed, the administrator of the
estate of George o. Farr, deceased, to
the creditors of and all persos~ having
claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within four months after the
first publication of this notice to the
said administrator at Rexford, in the
County of Lincoln, State of Montana
the same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
GUY r. FAIR,
Administrator of the Estate of said
Deceased
Dated at Libby, Montana, this 18th
day of June, 1890.
M. D. ROWLAND,
Attorney for Petitioner.
inl2-jl3-4t
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

Worth, the famous designer Of wom-
ems styles, once remarked at Paris
convention.
u have nothing but admiration for
TINT great English playwright, Shake
speare. What blend OF drama and
philosophy And yet he made one great
big mistake when he said that love
wns blind.
II have found out by experience that
love Is blind to everything but fat.
Love sees fat. all right"
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
Ar You VIII

The woman in business will tell you
that she has to work harder than a
man to get as far. Maybe she does
and maybe she doesn't. He yells
louder over the telephone but he
doesn't screw upshls face SO much
Woman's Home Companion.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
COSMOPOLITAN To Return.

ALTOONA, Ia, June 1O.-(U.P)-
Montana's most Cosmopolitan man
socalled because he has the blood of
"a persons flowing in his veins-wants
to return to the Treasure state.
He is James E. Thompson, Billings
salesman, who has been visiting rel
atives here and who, last fall and win
ter submitted to I'd blood transfusions
in Butte before he was finally on the
road to recovery from critical injuries
sustained in an automobile accident on
the Meaderville road.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

For Sale-One Mccormick Big g.:
Mower in good shape; two sickles, for
$35.00.-W. " Cholcraft, Gateway.
52-2
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

Kitchen Range for Systematically
new-E O. Bergstrom, 1109, Utah
street lit
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

For Sale-Small house, lots, on
Louisiana Avenue.-L. D. WEIGH Soft
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12
CT ASSIFIED
FOR SALE.

For Sale-Oak Dining room table
and four chairs, in excellent condition.;
one mahogany library table. Call 84J.
If
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

Get rid of odds and ends that you
do not need by advertising them in
Western News Classified column.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

Pine Lumber for Sale--at my ranch.
]. W. Millegan, Eureka, Mont. 52tf
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

For Sale-Heater, kitchen cabinet,
child's bed and buggy Bernard
Schlumm, Phone 97-J. 46-tf
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-06-12

For Sale-The store buildings and
warehouse in Eureka; 100 foot 'front.'
age easy terms, only $500 160 acres
timber land $4,000; IS acres timber
land $4,000. Address, A. Y. Lindsey,
Lake Worth, Fla.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-01

fast when a clot has formed. Con-
trary to your doctors opinion, I have
seen many cases where the clot was
dissolved or ~dislodged, but I have
never seen a case die. There Is, Of
course, the possibility that the clot
may enter the brain or some other
vital organ, but out of the several
hundred ases I have seen treated.
I have never yet seen a case where
this has occurred, SO evidently 1t is
not a frequent occurrence. I would
advise another orange juice fast and
also use the hot and cold applica-
tons on the affected regions. I would
not advise much exercise until you
show an improvement.
Foods For Nerves
Question: Mrs. v. M. B. asks: rs
1t true that there are certain foods
reputedly beneficial in the treatment
Of nervots diseases? What are they?"
Answer: There is no special food
which has any specific effect upon
the nerves outside of all those foods
which contain organic minerals, such
as the on-starchy vegetables. Nerv-
Gus people are In such a condition be-
cause Of a toxic irritation of their
nerves. from destructive thinking.
Copyright, 1880, by The Bell
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-01
To Think Is to Live
U.os Angeles Times)

NAOS Angeles xImeS)
Dr.. LilNen J. Martin, 8o-year-old emeritus professor of
psychology Of Stanford, says that people can be young
at 30 by keeping mentally active. Also they can be old
at Is by becoming dogmatic, mentally brittle and inhospi-
table to new ideas. She says that 1.-THE secret Of a
happy life for old age Is to keep q keen intellectual inter
est in life" in new things and new inventions. DR..
Martin learned to drive an automobile at the age Of IS.
She Is always seeking new interests"
II one continues in old age under the physical and
emotional tyrannies Of youth" the learned psychologist
remarks, one cannot feel that new sense Of happiness
which tends to prolong life. It was because Of their
liberation from those tyrannies that Charles w. Eliot and
Arthur Twining Hadley were able to attain old age and
at the same time keep In step with their times. Edwin
Markham, at 70. is beginning to write a life of Christ.
He is described by the New York Times as a man with an
intense interest In modern affairs.
johnson, Franklin, Carlyle, Newman and Emerson were
lively old septuagenarians and octogenarians. Their
intellectual interest In the affairs Of their contemporaries
was about as keen after 70 as before. Also. they were fully
as bent upon service. Gladstone, who lived to be SO, was
engrossed In literature and politics for more than sixty
years.
II, as one gathers from the testimony Of DR.. Martin,
an intellectual interest in life is the great desideratum
In age as 1t is In youth and that ones years are prolonged
by 1t. then 1t would seem that to think is to live and one
should never cease ones self culture.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-01
Canadian Tariff Raises

\0uAAoSO vCAAAA 4CWoJ
Canada promptly raises duties on commodities i'm
ported from the United States to correspond with the
new rates imposed by this country on imports from
Canada. The list Of articles thus affected Is somewhat
significant. They are cattle, sheep, horses, meats, rein
deer, eggs, butter, oats, oatmeal, rye, wheat, flour, cut
flowers. potatoes, soups, cast-iron pipe.
It will be noted that all Of these, except one, are agrt-
cultural products or direct manufactures from agricul-
tural products. The Canadians, studying the American
act from Its text. and not from political speeches, appear
to have no doubt that 1t Is an agricultural tariff.
Those Americans who wish o denounce the tariff and
to avoid offending the farmer vote at the same time
will need to keep their arguments well clear of both
the American and Canadian law.
Canada cannot be blamed for taking this measure
Of repr!sal. It should not be regarded as an expression
OF i'll will against the United States any more than the
American law embodies Ill will toward Canada. In Cam
adais case the countervailing duties are q natural bust
ness policy. divorced from any foolish theorizing. The
United States has undertaken to bar certain Canadian
inportations In order to reserve the market for home
producers. Canada, cut off from an export market,
raises duties IN order that an enlarged home market may
make up the loss.
Whether this really is better for either country than
a freer interchange Is open to demonstration and may
call for the early attention of the tariff commission.
1nasmuch as the cost Of agricultural production in Cam
ada Is much the same as in the United States, te terms
OF the f~lexiblity clause may apply to Canadian trade
more favorably than to that of most countries. The SUBJ
ject, however, can be studied on the basis of experience
much more helpfully than under the impulses Of sena-
torial politics.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-01
Geneva DOdges Talk
Of Pan-E Europe Plan

Geneva.-(P)-While officials of the
League of Nations secretariat have
exercised the utmost discretion in re-
framing from comment upon Aristide
Brands proposed federation of Eu-
ropean states, Sir Eric Drummond, the
secretary general, has found in league
records something which he regards
as pertinent to discussion of the
scheme.
In receiving a delegation of the
Federation of National Committees
for European Federation, which in
terested itself in M. Brands idea, Sir
Eric said 1t was not possible for him
TO express any opinion upon the
French statesman's proposal. He re-
called, however, that the league as
sembly in 1921 adopted a report
which contained this passage:
agreements between members of
the league, tending to define or COM
plete the engagements contained in
Inc Covenant for the maintenance of
peace, or the promotion of interna-
oonal cooperation, may be regarded
as OF a nature likely to contribute to
the progress of the league in the path
OF practical realization"
The secretary general in comment
Ing, automatically on this passage
said discretely that he regarded it as
worth. very close attention"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-01
Editorial Comment
Empty Glasses
(R I nnnlan in 81 pa,,l ni.,o+

O. J. Dunlap in st Paul Dispatch)
= A change has taken place in the domestic arrange.
ments of the white house Wine glasses that graced the
presidents table during other, some would say better
days have been placed in storage. Standing lonely ant
unused on the government pantry shelves, they have beer
included till now In the annual inventory. Henceforth
along with the cognac, cordial and other glasses, these
graceful goblets will gather dust in the dismal murk Of
an official storehouse.
No spectacle pulls more powerfully at the heart string.
than the sight of a permanently empty wine glass. II
%confronts the eye in mute reproach. It is q study In
desolation. Once a symbol OF good cheer, of companion
ableness. Of lingual activity, what is better calculated tc
arouse reflection on the weary weight Of the unintel.
lgible world than the trimming cup that brims no more?
All things flow, said the ancient philosopher, and he was
only describing their natural state.
President Hoover therefore is not to be blamed fol-
ordering the wine glasses away. In the doleful atmos-
phere Of their emptiness his spirits were bound to droop
The chief executive has had his troubles. It may be
that the melancholy cast Of feature which recent photo
graphs Of him have shown Is not owing solely to the
cares Of state. A row Of destitute tumblers depress even
the buoyant heart