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Plentywood herald., 1930-09-04
MIDNIGHT sun
LAND VISITED
HELENA MAN SAYS FARMERS IN
NORTHERN SWEDEN CAN
WORK ALL NIGHT
It Was Daylight "a Hours Round at
Time of His Journey and Many of
the Inhabitants Were Lab0ring In
Fields at and O'Clock In Morning.

To arise at midnight, drive IS miles
to beautiful mountain, near Hap
rando, in northern Sweden, and to
see men and women working in the
fields at 2:30 in the morning, to hear
the birds singing, and men and
women going about the days tasks,
was the unusual experience of Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest w. Anderson of Hell
ena, who recently spent three days
in the land of the midnight sun, dur
ing three months tour of Europe.
1--WE look back upon this experience
as one of the outstanding features of
our trip" said Mr.. Anderson. "The
sun never set At 11.45 a. m. it was
the lowest, and like fierv wheel it was
visible for about 20 minutes, along the
sky line, then resumed it's travels.
Many folks we're laboring, many pre-
ferring to work IL hours during the
night than during the dav The bril-
liancy of an early Montana twilight
prevailed
Principal cities visited during their
trip through Denmark, Norway and
Sweden, the British Isles, France and
Germany and other foreign countries,
Stockholm, TOrnes, Finland; Hamburg
Berlin, Dresden and Cologne, and many
other large cities.
1--WE were treated nicely in London
but did not find such hospitality there
as In other countries. On our trip
through Sweden we passed through As
towns and cities. At each place were
beautiful little hotels at scenic points.
I'm many of the Swedish hotels were
placed what they call bread and butter
tables. There the tourist found six or
more different varieties of bread, many
varieties of meats, fish, cheese and
other eatables. This was all free.
Should a tourist help himself to a bot
tie of wine or beer, or other liquor,
there was a nominal charge. From
the bread and butter table, tourists
entered the dining room proper, where
orders we're taken and food served.
Nobody went hungry, and the food was
delicious.
1--WE enjoyed our visit to Paris, but
the cooking we did not like. Parisians
can not make coffee. We could not
drink their kind, but obtained Ameri-
can coffee at a high price. The peo-
pie were friendly and we enjoyed our
selves there l visited one Of the large
non-sectarian cemetaries, where kings
poets and paupers are buried.
"In England we visited Windsor cas-
tie, Buckingham palace and other his
toric places. l could not get used to
taking my shoes off and putting on felt
slippers every time we entered build
ing. This was necessary SO tourists
would not scratch the polished floors.
Eve enjoyed our stay in Germany
The people were kind, and we were not
held up for food or necessities. The
scenery was grand and the beer"
Anderson got up to wait on GUS
toner.
Art galleries, cathedrals and many
places Of historic interest were visited
Mr.. and Mrs Anderson spent some
time in Washington, d. c., visiting Ar
hngton cemetery and Mount Vernon.
Six days were spent in New York be-
fore embarking on the S. S. Majestic,
on which they made the round trip.
Plentywood herald., 1930-09-04
BUTTE KIDDIES
PLAYING GOLF
MINIATURE COURSES SPRING UP
ON VACANT LOTS ALL OVER
MINING CITY
Game AS Played BY Youngsters Calls
for Neither Balls Nor Putters But
They Seem to Enjoy 1t Nightly Just
the Same.

Neither Dinty, Clancy nor Jiggs
have anything on Butte youngsters
when 1t comes to constructing minia-
ture golf courses. Within the past
few weeks courses of all types and de-
scriptions have sprung up in dozens
Of places in the city, most Of them
the handiwOrk Of children of the
neighb0rhOOds. In many cases the
Butte children have gone the comic
strip one better-they play the game
without golf balls or golf clubs.
True enough, some of them need an
Italian guide to explain what the game
is supposed to be, but the kiddieS en-
joy it, even if they do suffer spank
ing now and then for using mother S
bridge scoring pad for marking down
the shots.
The other day the children in the
neighborhood of Copper and jackson
streets built an admirable course in a
vacant lot on North Jackson street
They had bottomless buckets, horse
shoes, sewer pipe, carriage tops, boxes
cans, water troughs, flower sifts, ce-
ment forms, bricks, etc, on the course
for the various obstacles. They painted
cards, numbered them and placed them
at each hole. They made golf sticks
from laths, mailing a small piece at
the end to produce the curve effect
and used large corks for balls.
The course had all been marked out
and everything was going well until 1t
came to deciding what par should be
for the several holes Suggestions led
to demands, fists and tears, and the
whole game was broken up when Tom
took his sewer pipe. Jim his cart wheels
Jerry his buckets. Harry his horse
shoes, and the vacant lot was again
vacant.
Plentywood herald., 1930-09-04
SCIENTISTS ARE
DRAWN TO STATE
RED LODGE GEOLOGICAL FOR
NATIONS AND FOSSIL RE-
MAINS OF INTEREST
DR.. w. II. Thorn, Jr, of Princeton Uni
versity Is Head of One of Several
Parties In Region This Summer and
Will Return Next Year.

DIR. w. T. Thorn, Jr., of the depart
ment of geology of Princeton uni
versity, was a visitor in Butte re-
Gently from Red Lodge where he and
a party of scientists are making a
study Of region which has won the
general interest of the geological ex-
perts through the discoveries of DIR.
j. G. F.. Siegfriedt in the coal de-
pOsits Of the Eagle Coal Mining COM
pany. DIR. Thorn said that his party
was most Hospitality received by the
Red Lodge people, who have appoint
ed committee on research to CO.
operate with the PrincetOnians next
year.
"We also enjoyed the climate and
the scenery" DR.. Thorn said "Red
Lodge is not a virgin territory in a
geological sense but it is district that
is rich in deposits Of absorbing interest
to the student of ancient conditions on
this planet.
THE history of the Rocky noun
tainS, Of Yellowstone park of the min
eral and Oil deposits of the state will
never be thoroughly understood until
the geology Of the Red Lodge area
which extends as far southwark as
Thermopolis, Wyo.-has been mas
tered"
The Red Lodge area has become a
lodestone that has drawn geologists
in recent years from all parts of the
nation and from Europe. DR.. Thorn
stated that during the present sum-
mer Prof. N. M. Fenneman of the
University of Cincinnati has been max
ing a study of the bench series, the
development of which illustrates the
progress of the uplifts of the Rocky
mountain region, that Prof. E. L. Perry
of Williams college has been making
study of the thrust t-faulting that re-
suited in the mountain mass being
pushed eastward into the coal measures
of the Red Lodge field, while Prof.
Erling Dorf, of Princeton, has been
collecting the fossil plants of the re-
gion which shows the sorts of climates
that region experienced in prehistoric
times.
Prof. Edward Sampson and a group
OF graduate students have been study
ing the origin of the chromate de-
posits found in the Beartooth noun
tains. The Vanderbilt summer school
led by Prof. w. B. Jewell spent some
days in the district visiting the vari-
GUS camps of biologists. Prof. Cook
and other scientists connected with the
University OF Michigan were also Wis
itors. The Carnegie Institute spent
the summer in the district, collecting
mammal remains, DR.. Thorn said.
The part OF which DR.. Thorn is the
head is working in cooperation with
the Montana State School of Mines
and with the U. S. Geological survey
and likewise the war department. DR..
Thom's part is making airplane photo
graphs of the district and likewise
topography maps for the United States
government. He expects to visit the
district a-ain next year and to renew
his working agreement with DR.. Thom-
son, president of the School Of Mines
Plentywood herald., 1930-09-04
MANS COOKING
RRITATES WIFE
HUSBAND, IN ANSWER AND CROSS
COMPLAINT TO DIVORCE SUIT,
ALLEGES CRUELTY
Says After II Years of Married Life
He Prepares Breakfast Only to Have
Spouse Criticise His Culinary Efforts,
Which She Would Not Undertake.

When husband is good enough to
cook his wife's breakfast after IL
years of married life and the wife
berates him because the oatmeal is
not cooked to her liking or not
served in the proper dish, it's high
time to call a halt to the matrimonial
venture. That Is the belief Of En0ch
H. Gibers0n Of Butte, who AYERS that
ing constitutes cruelty and so declares
in his answer and cross complaint
filed In district court of Silver Bow
county to Dena Peters Gibers0n's
complaint for divorce.
The breakfast cooking is but one
item Of several plants which Giberson
cites as his basis for d divorce and as
an answer to Mrs. Giberson's original
complaint.
Such cooking as has been done
around the GiberSon dOmicile lately
has been done by him, the husband
admits, and even vigorously affrmS,
but not for Enoch." When she COM
planned about his breakfasts and he
would invite her to cook the meal her
self, she would inform him with con-
siderable dignity that she was a pro-
feSSional woman and was not sup
posed to cook" he declares.
Mrs. GibersOn said her husband was
a "cave man, a cave-keeper, and be-
reft Of the finer sensibilities that go to
make up decent citizen" in her
original complaint for divorce.
But, declares Giberson, in his answer
and cross complaint, he has the same
finer senses" now that he had II years
ago when he married her and which
she said at the time were good enough
for her. He denies vehemently that
he ever acted as cave man or cave
keeper, except that ION one occasion,
he, as a cave-keeper might neglected
to close the screen door in the kitchen
of their home and was taken to task
by his wife because the flies would
get into the house."
Then and there he made the first
and only answer that caveman might
have made, Giberson declares, telling
his spouse that there was no danger
as a fly would starve to death on the
amount of cooking she did"
Further, Giberson affirms, his wife
is continually throwing her finer edu-
cation in his face" a fact which is
boring him and constitutes nagging
and cruelty OF an extreme order, he de-
clares.
He asks that his wife's plea for an
equal division Of their property, moneys
and stocks, be denied. He states that
she Is earning far more than he Is, that
she has q 1900 bank account OF her
own and continues to use money from
his and her Joint account.
Plentywood herald., 1930-09-04

torical association, of which have the
honor to be president, was recently in
corporated and is now functioning in
this historic valley and I have been
designated by my sisters, Honora Nc
Cormick Kobes and Mary Mccormick
FitzGerald, who have joined with me
in the conveyance, as co-heirs of this
notable spot, to present this deed to
the. association of the site and remains
OF old Fort Owen, that it may be pre-
served and improved as a historical
monument open to the use and enjoy
ment of the public and as 4 reminder
of the beginnings of civil government
within this state"
Plentywood herald., 1930-09-04

CHILDREN hate to take medicine
Oas rule, but every child loves the
taste of Castoria. This pure vegetable
preparation is just as good as it tastes;
Just as bland and just as harmless as the
recipe reads.
When Babys cry warns Of collie. a
few drops of Castoria have him soothed,
asleep again in jiffy. Nothing is more
valuable in diarrhea. When coated
tongue or bad breath tell OF constipation.
invoke its gentle aid to cleanse and
regulate a child's bowels. In colds or
children's diseases, you should use it
to keep the system from clogging.
Castoria is sold in every drugstore:
the genuine always bears Chas. H.
Fletcher's signature.
Plentywood herald., 1930-09-04
PIONEERS TELL
OF SCHOOL DAYS
DAVID HILGER AND JOHN ii. MIL
LER AMONG PUPILS IN
HELENA IN 1867

Meeting at Pioneers Convention In
Billings Recently They Tell Many
Stories of Teachers and Other Stu
dents of Those Early Times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
WEAKNESS IN CROP
VALUES CONTINUES
UpturnS in Some Lines Are
Noted Soon After Middle
of Month.

The long decline in farm products
has continued through most Of july.
says the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics. United States Department of
Agriculture, market news service. up,
turns soon after the middle of the
month in such lines as grain, feeds,
cotton and butter have resulted mainly
from the drought and its probable et-
feet on supplies. The tendency Of prices
has been upward in the hog market for
some time. but continues unsettled or
downward on cattle and lambs. Chick
ems sell a little lower and fowls hiyher.
Farm prices and other prices as group
have not stopped falling. but recent de-
clines have been light for the most part.
Demand for butter was well main
tanned in mid-July and was of sufficient
volume to keep arrivals well cleared
and to bring price gains amounting to
as much as l cent pound on some
lines. In addition to more confident
buying on the part of those with con-
sunptive outlets there was an improve
ment in the general demand. Reports
from various manufacturers orsaniza-
tons agree that the production Of but
ter is below that of year ago and still
decreasing from week to week Ths
milk output is falling of sharply in
most sections because of heat and dry
pastures.
Cheese markets at distributing GEN.
ters have remained about steady since.
mid-July with the undertone unsettled.
Receipts Of Western broilers of the
smaller size were especially liberal on
the mid-July market at New York.
Dealers reported some difficulty in
making prompt clearance of supplies.
Holdings of broilers weighing pounds
and over and chickens of larger size
which hitherto have been offered in
moderate quantity are now gradually
increasing and prices slowly falling.
Low prices paid for foavl recently have
apparently discouraged marketing at
interior points. Fowl are now selling
about cents lower than q year ago,
4 cents under 1929 and cents under
1927 Quantity of poultry in storage
is still large In comparison with last
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
CREDIT MEN NOTE
EARLY TRADE RISE
Association Foresees Move in Two,
Three or Six Months.
Care Urged.

A revival of business by early Fall is
foreseen by the research department of
the National Association of Credit Men,
which sent a special bulletin to the
Washington association. uring them to
maintain the strict credit discipline de-
veloped in recent months, even after
business resumes its interrupted up
ward course
Admitting that there have been many
mercantile failures in the early months
OF 1880, the bulletin asserts that there
wind of insolvency." 1t urges credit
executives to plan now for the time
when business gets back to normal. so
that they may take advantage of the
elimination of weak accounts.
During the last eight months there
has been lot of water squeezed out of
the stock market, but also-and prob
ably important for business-there has
been a lot OF air squeezed out of the
credit structure" the bulletin says.
THE volume-mad plungers of yes
teryear have been forced to realize the
fundamental Importance of credit.
Risks have been analysed more care
fully during recent months and credit
passed under more iudicious scrutiny
than at any time during the last several
years.
Many good merchant has gone
down in the storm, but the great ma
jority of those who have been elimi-
mated from business this year would
have failed anyhow within a short
time. A great many shaky accounts,
the weak sisters of the merchandising
game, who have been hanging on to
losing enterprises by virtue of the credit
backing of their wholesale SupplierS,
have faded out of the picture
when the tide turns, in two months,
or three months, or six months, credit
managers will do well to see that these
weak accounts are not replaced by
others of their kind. They might well
resolve now that the slack which has
been taken up during the recent dark
days shall not be lost, that the dis
cipline developed in the observance of
terms shall be maintained and that
credit standards shall be kept high,
when business resumes its interrupted
upward course"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
MACHINERY MARKETS.

NEW YORK, July ~ Especially A
pronounced lack Of activity still claims
trading in principal machinery and
machine tool markets throughout the
country, American Machinist reports.
Current business Is negligible, but no
further receSsions are looked for.
With July almost over, the bottom OF
the prolonged period of depression in
the industry is seen to be over and even
experienced observers look for better
times In the Fall. Inquiries are little
stronger, but sales are hard 10 close
Used tools fare better at the moment
than do more modern types Of equip
nent.
After scraping along bottom for some
time, the New York market has expert
enced an upward swing in sentiment
with the receipt of two lists. Chicago
reports July sales volume to date be-
behind June, but slight increase in in
quiries and two small lists serve TO re-
vive optimism.
Slight improvement Is noted for the
Detroit area. Optimism about Septem-
Der business there Is based on predicted
changes in models. Cincinnati finds
business no better than last week, AL
though inquiries received will sustain
the market New England reports less
uncertainty. with inquiries slightly bet
ter and replacement orders the strong
feature of current activity
Indianapolis is selling tools sporadi-
cally, with special equipment for utili-
ties making up the bulk Of bookings
Southern district orders are reported
still far from satisfactory, and the
Houston area has joined the quiet sec
tor, but stability in the industrials pres
ages future business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
CURB ISSUES GAIN
IN QUIET MARKET
Irregular Opening Is Followed
by Firmer Tendency
in List.
BY JOHN A. CRoNE.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
NEW YORK, July 22--Mixed price
trend ruled at the opening Of the New
York Curb Exchange today, but It was
replaced around midday by an advance
OF the list. Trading, however, remained
dull.
Public utilities. the first group TO re-
act Monday, we're the first to advance
today. Electric Bond e. Share was up
about points, American Superpower
up about one-half point and American
Gas & Electric up almost points.
Cities Service recovered virtually all
its Monday decline, but Standard Oil Of
Indiana worked lower. Vacuum was a
trifie higher.
Pennroad was feature of the rails,
as It's earning report and its holdings
revealed some surprises. Pittsburgh 81
Lake Erie went through one OF us
characteristic wide fluctuations,
United Founders Corporation proved
the weakest spot In the holding corpo-
ration group, as It sank to new low
level at the opening and moved nearly
Q point lower before meeting support.
Ford Motors of Canada A was the
outstanding motor SUCK III Tie dltSI
noon, running up Ia points on fair
volume Ford Motors Limited in the
same period was lower, and so was Cord
Manufacturing, while Durant Motors
remained unchanged.
Natural Gas Shares, despite the sta
tistical showing of the industry, moved
slightly lower as their sponsors stepped
aside and permitted them to find their
level. United Gas new, Memphis Natu-
raj Gas. Lone Star Gas, Arkansas Natu-
raj Gas A, Dixie Gas & Utilities and
Duquesne Gas shared In this fractional
decline in the first three hours.
The most prominent radio stocks were
Pilot Radio a. Tube, De Forrest Radio
and Canadian Marconi. Strauss-Roth
IA was one Of the most active indus
trials. zonite Products continued UNI
der pressure.
Bell Telephone of Canada, which re-
Gently announced large expansion pro-
gram opened down / "a and later partly
recovered. Southern California Edison
preferred rose 21s points on its fist
few sales.
Indiana Pipe Line opened up 1h at
b.. Derby Oil preferred on q sale of
souri-Kansas Pipe Line shares and
as shares scored gain Of 2k4. Mis-
rights were inclined to heavineSs. Mir
roring the gain in business, Todd Ship
yards rose n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
GROCERIES FIRST
| IN CREDIT BUSINESS
Department of Commerce
i Survey Shows Nearly Half
of Trade on Paper. ,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Retail credit losses average proper
tionately higher on installment buying
than on open credit sales.
This has been determined by the
Department of Commerce in a survey
Of 1892 retail establishments of all
kinds, which divulged that bad debts
represented IL per cent of installment
sales, while the average credit loss on
open credit sales was 0.6 per cent. Be-
cause Of the much larger volume of
open credit than installment sales,
however, bad debts on open credit sales
represented a higher percentage of total
sales, O.3 per cent, than those on in
stallment credit sales, OF per cent,
Electrical appliance stores reporting
had the highest open credit loss ratio,
1.5 per cent Of open credit sales, fol-
lowed by radio sets and supply stores
and drug stores, whose open credit loss
was Ia per cent. The lowest open credit
loss was reported by department. stores
and coal and wood dealers, O.4 per cent.
The highest installment credit loss
was reported by general clothing stores,
7.9 per cent of installment sales, fol-
lowed by 1ewelry stores, "A per cent.
and women's, childrens and infants
porting installment credit sales. coal,
wood, lumber and building material
dealers had the lowest losses o. per
cent.
Taking up specifically the study of
credit extension in grocery stores
throughout the country, the department
finds that retail grocers show a some
what larger percentage of credit trade
than the grand average for all stores.
An e
total sales in the 2164 independent re-
tail grocery stores covered, as against
an average of Ala per cent for all
stores. Excluding &pres doing an ex-
clusively cash business, the PERCENTAGES
OF credit sales for all types of outlets
was 56.7 per cent, and for grocery
stores 60.3 per cent.
The department points out that
among the facts brought out by this
survey is the extent to which the chain
grocery stores have entered the credit
field. While missionaries undoubtedly
were returned by higher percentage
of chains which extend credit than by
other chains, it is significant that 22.6
per cent of all sales reported by 7.143
chain units were on q credit basis. For
the 1,736 chain units which extended
credit to their customers. the ratio of
credit sales to total sales was slightly
over SIS per cent.
Credit loss of grocery stores giving
open credit only were or per cent, as
against an average of 06 per cent on
open credit sales for all stores reporting.
The highest proportion of credit busi-
ness in grocery stores was found
throughout the Southern States from
North Carolina to Texas and in the
Pacific Northwest, and the lowest pro-
portion In New England and the Gen.
trail Atlantic States. New England
States made the best showing with re-
on credit sales. The collection percen-
tages were highest in. the Gulf South
west section, 1915 per cent, and lowest
in the Southeast and Central Northwest
States, $50 and Ssh per cent, respec-
lively
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, July % Especially -
Though cotton prices eased about 81 a
bale at one time today on predictions
of showers in Western and Central sec
lions of the belt, the fact that no def
mite relief has occurred thus far
steadied the market in later trading.
Professional covering the last hour
carried the list above Mondays close
and left final prices few points higher
than In that session. Spots we're I'M
changed at 1915.
Cotton range: