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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-20
Former Martinsburg
N. f. Pastor Is Dead

MARTINSBURG, W. Va, Jan.
20.-Word was received by former
parishioners here yesterday of the
death of the Rev. DR.. J. H. Balthis
in White Sulphur Springs, w. Va,
where he was pastor of the M.
E. Church, South. He was about
So. He had been in i'll health
since leaving his work here 10
years ago.
During his second year of resi-
dence here his wife, formerly Miss
Verda Cooke, of Laytonsville, Nd,
died,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-20
EXTENDS
POWER LINES

FREDERICKSBURG. Va. Jan.
20.-Expenditure of $4,000 for
extension of rural electric lines
in this section was announced to-
day by the Virginia Electric and
Power Company.
Communities to be reached by
the extensions are Port Royal,
Sparta, Guinea, Woodford, Sun
light and Charlottesville while
other lines will extend to sec
lions in which there are no parti-
cular communities.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-20
Health ak

DR.. Carl L. Wilzbach, executive
secretary of the Social Hygiene
Society, Cincinnati Ohio. will be
guest speaker at an open meeting
of the Council of Social Agencies
Recreation Committee in the Y.
w. C. A. at noon Thursday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-20
Strube Concert Leader

DR.. Gustave Strube. formerly
conductor of the Boston Sym
phony Pop Concerts" will be
guest conductor on the symphonic
program to be presented by the
United States Navy Band Sym
phony Orchestra at the Navy
Yard Sail Loft, at o'clock to-
morrow night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-20
Zoo Visitors

A total of 5,O43, 636 persons Wis
tied the New York Geological
Park, in the Bronx, and the
Aquarium, at the Battery, last
| year.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30

Old Quaker straight whiskey
now 500 older! And still you
don't have to be rich to enjoy it.
Not one penny increase in price.
For it's an Old Quaker custom
aIs0ays to deliver a barrel of
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
LIQUOR PROFIT
PASSES MILLION

Montanans spent s4,127, 1851 for
liquor in the first nine months this
year and the state profited to the ex-
tent Of 81, 000, 721 80, Martin Hoffman,
chief accountant for the state liquor
control board, announces.
Sale of purchase permits brought
$65, 565.5 SIS into state Golfers during the
nine-month period. The cost of the
merchandise sold aggregated s2,7O8,-
1851,
Total operating expenses in that Pc
Rod, including a S26 ,559.28 item for
law enforcement, amounted to $522,-
678.83.
Largest item in the operating ex-
penses was for salaries and wages, $780,
269.41.
Other large items in operating ex-
penses included freight and drayage
out, $72, 145.76 rents, $28, SO; travel
expense, S1O,246.55; insurance, So
952.19 general supplies, $14,248.13; and
light, water and fuel, IS ,096.7 {.
There waS a net profit on opera
tions in the nine months of $3.50, 786 .O8,
which added to an earned discount of
$39, 1886. %, brought the total net profit
from Jan. l to Sept. 80, 1886, to ST.
600, 721 80.
Officials of the board have estimated
that the net profit for the year will
approximate 1000, 900. The board al
ready has turned over to the state
treasury this year a total Of 81, DOC, 900,
for distribution among relief, water
conservation and the general funds.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
Arnnell

away by hostile Indians and Armell
later married again.
A daughter by the second marriage,
Mrs. Cecilia Hunsberger, lived for a
long time on the Blackfeet reserva-
ton, and a granddaughter, Mrs. La
vina Chatter, also a resident of the
reservation, was possessed of a mar
rage license made out to Armell, or
Hamel, and his second Indian wife,
which was also a baptismal certificate
for seven of their children. This GER
tificate was given by the Rev. Father
Nichols Piont, the first Jesuit mission
airy to come among the Indians Of
northwestern Montana. It was dated
at the town of Lewis" or Fort Lewis,
which was located upon the present
site of Fort Benton.
Mrs. Deschamps often said that she
recalled living in an Arikara Indian
village at James Kipp's fort at the
mouth Of Knife river in Dakota, after
ward at Fort Union and still later at
Fort Piegan, built by Kipp at the
mouth Of the Marias river in Mon
tana in 1881.
Armell Is known to have built a
trading post of his own at Buffalo
island, in the Missouri river five miles
above Fort Benton. He also spent one
winter at the mouth Of Armells creek,
so named because Of that fact. An
island in the Missouri river also bore
his name as does the postoffice Of Ar
mells in Fergus county.
Mrs. Hunsberger said her father took
his family down the Missouri river and
that they spent several years neal
Council Bluffs, Ia. Armell afterwards
went into the Yankton country in Da-
kota and engaged in farming. He died
there at the age Of SO.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
emergency Rates ON
FEED EXPIRE DEC. 81

Emergency rates on the railroads for
the benefit Of the farmers and stock
men of Montana will expire by limita-
ton on Dec. 81, is the reminder issued
by, J. g. Bruce, traffic expert Of the
railroad and public service commission.
He calls attention to the fact that
it takes IL or is days to bring cotton-
seed and other concentrated feeds from
the southern states where they are pro-
duced to Montana, and warned stock
men and farmers that they must get
their shipments to their destination In
the state before the date given, or lose
the benefits of the cut rates.
In all the counties declared entitled
to the lower rates advisory committees
appointed by Governor Holt are ex-
pected to bring the matter to the at
tention of the intended beneficiaries.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
j. H. Carmichael, Escort of Rumanian
Queen on Her Tour Thru State, Raises
!. Pedigreed Stock on His Augusta Ranch

The large sign above the gates
Breeder of the Rambouillet," is the
introduction to n OF Montana'S larg-
est sheep ranches, the J. H. Carmichael
place, located about 10 miles from Au-
gusta. The home ranch is south OF
town, but westward towards the noun
tains extend vast areas belonging to
the ranch.
Fol more thar so years Mr.. Car
michael has made his home in Mon
tana, coming here as a young man from
Missouri, where his people had settled
before the Civil war.
He races his ancestors back to
Scotland, and like that rugged race
Mr.. Carmichael is tall, hale and hearty
in spite of his more thai three score
and 10 years. He likes to recall! his
great-grandfather who was a black
smith during the war of 1872 n made
the bullets that Andrew jackson used
in the battle of New Orleans men ne
defeated the British.
Mr.. Carmichael loves horses. He
owns a great many of them. At one
time he kept horses which o races
at the state fair and the strain OF those
racers is still noticeable in his saddle
horses today. Gilbert Elston, one OF the
outstanding Jockeys of 1892, was en-
couraged by Mr.. Carmichael to ride
some OF them when he made his home
on the Carmichael ranch. The oppor-
tunity probably led young Elston to
follow racing until his death this sum-
mer.
Not only purebred horses but pedi-
greed sheep and cattle have been his
aims, and his ranch has prospered by
them. Valuable rams, whose prices ran
into four figures, have been imported
from the best breeders of the world,
and managers of his sheep have had
experience in Australia and New Zea-
land.
But raising of purebred stock has
not taken up all of his time. Although
his school years were limited in Mis-
souri,, Mr.. Carmichael has kept up his
studies. He is we'll informed on eco
nomic and political problems: New
practices in agriculture and stock rails
ing are always studied by him and ap-
piled if advantageous. For a number
of years he was president Of the Mon
tana woolgrowers.
Not so many years ago the governor
of Montana chose Mr.. and Mrs. Car
michael to escort Queen Mary of Ru-
mania and her family through Mon
tana and point out to the royal guests
the resources that have helped to de-
velop the state.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
STATE LOSES PIONEER IN
DEATH OF J. H. MONTEATh

After a residence within the state of
more than SO years, James II. Mon
teath, SO, n time agent for the Black
feet tribe at Browning, died at a Butte
hospital recently.
H. Coming west more than a half cen
fury ago from Brooklyn, N. Y, he
travelled by boat up the Missouri past
the scene of the present Fort Peck dam
to Fort Benton, thence by stage to
Deer Lodge. Soon thereafter he asso-
ciated with the late Senator Lee Man.
tie in the establishment of the In
~termountain at Butte, predecessor Of
the Butte Daily Post.
He served as Indian agent from 1900
to 1905. He also was a member of the
first legislative assembly. In the Span
ish-American war he served with Grigs-
by's rough riders. Monteath also par
ticipated in the first and exciting de-
velopment of mining at Tonopah, New.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30

Scott, 1850 oxen, $500 mules and
5000 horses. Their outfits were con-
stantly on the long trail. They would
leave ~Leavenworth in the spring and
take all summer getting to the various
Union Pacific built west in 1869 they
still continued in business, but on q
curtailed scale. They then turned their
attention to freighting from Corinne,
Utah, to Virginia City, Butte and other
spots in the west. Virginia City had
5000 population"
There was one other route over which
the camps obtained their freight, Pro-
fessor Scott added. It was by wagon
train from Fort Benton, the goods
coming up the Missouri river to that
point. It was in those days, also, that
the Mullan pass road was laid out, run
ming from Fort Benton to Helena,
thence over Priest pass and into the
Couer d'A1ene section of Idaho.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
WAGON TRAILS
WERE FAR FLUNG
CAMPS SUPPLIES REGULARLY
HAULED FROM KANSAS AND
MISSOURI POINTS

The extent Of the far-flung wag-
on transportation in the early days
Of the west was recently reviewed
by Prof. Walter T. Scott Of Montana
School of Mines. The first trails
were those of the Selfish Indians,
trips to buffalo hunting grounds.
They picked out the easiest passes
owe the mountains, with the result
that road engineers of q later day
held, in general, to these locations
in laying out permanent highways.
Gold strikes at Silver Bow, German
gulch and the Highlands attracted
proSpectors in 1864.
These people had to be fed" said
Professor Scott, "and this resulted in
Butte'S first store. It was operated by
Elton & Carter and was located some
where between the Finlen hotel and
the public library, or in the descrip-
ton of those days, between Baboon
gulch and Buffalo gulch. BY 1867, many
other stores had opened.
Many have the mistaken idea," eX-
plains Professor Scott, that all the
e~arly-comers to the state were buns
with a pack on their back. The fallacy
OF this is quickly seen when n con-
siders that a man without money
particularly if he had a family-could
not get here. It took capital to outfit
a covered wagon and buy supplies for
the long trip, in addition to having a
working capital after getting there. !
would say that the majority of those
who first settled this country were peo-
pie who at least had money enough to
make the trip in security"
Passing on to the subject Of trans
portation, Professor Scott said the great
bulk of goods came overland from st.
Joe, Atchison, Leavenworth and other
frontier points-particularly Leaven-
worth. At this point was the wagon
firm of Russell, Major & Waddell.
"They had 5000 wagons" states Mr..
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
Last Payment on Beet
Crop Gives the Billings
Growers $7.85 a Ton

AS the fourth and final payment on
the 1885 crop, at the rate of 90 cents
a ton, the Great Western Sugar Co. at
Billings has just disbursed $219, All SO
to beet growers of the Billings and
Lowell. Wyo.. factory districts.
With his disbursement a total of $6.72
a ton has been paid by the company for
last years crop to Billings-Lovell grow
ers. Adding to this the government
payments amounting to $1.13 a ton, the
total price received in the area is
81 S5 a ton
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
NURSES EXAMINATIONS

When the state nurses examining board
meets in Helena Oct. 81 and % about 100
nurses from II Montana hospitals will take
the examinations. Edith L. Brown. secretary
of the board. announces. The test will be
held in the house of representatives chamber
at the capitol building. Board members are
Mary Cherry Of Butte. Sister Wilhelmina Of
Great Falls, Sister Gerard of Lewistown,
Mrs. Ethel Dietrich of Helena and Anna
Pearl Sherrick of Great Falls.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
NOISY BUCK AWAKENS
HUNTER But SPEEDS n

L. j. Anders of Townsend went deer
hunting and might have shot a buck
had he warded off sleep but a little
while longer, the story goes.
Frank Murray, started off in different
directions and Anders lay down to rest
A crashing noise awakened him just
in time to see a big buck race by. The
animal was out of range before Anders
could grab his rifle and fire.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30
WOMAN PIONEER RETURNS
TO MONTANA FOR VISIT

Mrs. Harriet Moves, Port Orchard,
Ore, the first white woman to reside
in the Big Hole, is visiting in the val
ley for the first time in II years. Mrs.
Noyes arrived in the Basin in 1882
as q bride, and spent many years there.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30

Shown above is the Montana State college livestock judging team which
captured first place at. the recent Pacific Information Livestock exposition
held It Portland, Ore, in competition with similar teams from other western
colleges.
The team member, are Top % left to right-Wiiam Often, LewStown;
Lowell Davis Bozeman;G George WoSted, Libby and Ralph Mccall, assistant
professor offs animal husbandry and team coach. Front row, left to right
Herbert Thompson, Bozeman; Donald Luebbe, Sun River, and Dana Law,
Boeman.
The team nOt only ranked first in the contest but also placed the highest
in cattle nd swine Judging, and second in sheep judging. Davis W "a third
highest individual in the contest and high point nal OF the team.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-30

Every time a man fails to hit the
target he blames the gun.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07

can change the rate for horses and men.
The workers in Sheridan county should
have go cents per hour, and the horses
Is cents per hour each, or so cents per
hour per team. and the monthly wage al
lowance should be equal to $40 per month
for single men and married men with no
family, and graduated up to at least $40
per month where the family is large. Two
people in one family and dozen in another
cannot live equally well on $40 per month,
even a brain truster should know that.
And in cases of horses, the horses should
bring enough hire to pay for the hay and
feed needed to sustain them during work
and provide enough to keep them over the
winter in a shape that they can go to
work next spring.
Take the matter up with the board of
county commissioners.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
KANSAS COOLIDGE

Now that ALI Landon has been informed
that he is the choice of the Liberty League,
the Republican party and the u. S. Cham
Der Of Commerce, for President of these
United States, the public may as well pre-
pare itself for three months of the old
hokum that comes with every presidential
election. Millions will be spent via the
newspapers, the radio, and public rOstum
to convince the yOkels, that the nation is
headed for the boW-woWs, that the grass
will grow high in village streets, that riv-
ers will dry up and that the bloOdshed on
Bunker Hill was all in vain unless the new
savior of the common people from Kansas
is elected.
There will be reams of editorial slush
about Landon's boyhoOd being very much
like the boyhOod of Lincoln. There will be
columns of sOb-sister sentiment about how
ALI loves dogs, old people, the good book
and the constitution. There will be pages
of drivel about Landon's home life, his love
of his neighbors, his humble reverence for
motherhood and his beautiful, yet simple,
faith in God.
But there won't be anything said about
how Landon happened to become the
choice of William Randolph Hearst, the
L1OGCIy LSdSQS1 C110 O11c14DS1 VI OO1uuSECS
and finally the standard-bearer of the Rep
ublican party. There won't be line of ex-
PLANTATION of how it happened that the
state of Kansas refused to feed it's hungry
and allowed the federal government to come
into the state and do the work that proper
ly belonged to the state of Kansas. There
won't be anything said about Mr.. Landon'S
connections with the power trust, the oil
monopoly, the utility combine, the interna-
tional bankers and their spawn of profit
takers.
And while all the forces of reaction are
trying to sell ALI Landon to the public, let
it be remembered that no one knew who
LandOn was two years ago -. that Mr..
Landon had no opposition at the Republican
convention and consequently he must have
been taken over by the same interests
which have always owned and controlled
the Republican party and that he is a crea-
ture of highly-paid prOpagandists and pub
licity agents.
From now on-look for a repetition of
the same stuff that put Harding in the
White House in 1920; Coolidge in 1924:
and Hoover in 1928. God forbid that any
such calamity occur again in 1886.
The Minnesota Union Advocate.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
THOSE DIRTY CONSERVATIVES

When we read of the Conservatives of
today who counsel against rocking the
boat" and who denounce all "untrfed ex-
perements" as immoral, unsound, unethical.
and un-American, we are reminded of the
bathtub.
The first bathtub was used IN Anoor;oo
in 1912. Two years later a law nroh;h;+;nc !.
the taking of bath between Novenoho5S.
and March was defeated in Philadelnhia bT
only two votes. Virginia put tav of eS9
on each bathtub owned. In Boston > law
was passed to forbid bathing in fllh with; ~"
out medical order; but it was Ilaver en- on
forced, and was repealed in 1852 TODD,
automobile. - every
AND !, now, look at 'em! Even Tories arc
using them.-American Guardian = . :
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
Sinclair Not Satisfied
By Landon's Labor Stand

PASADENA, Calf, July 81
Upton Sinclair, the former social
list veteran of many a jOust over
the rights and treatment Of la6o!,
sent telegram today to Replbl-
can presidential Nominee Alfred NJ
Landon questioning the sufficleng
of the latter's stand on labOFs
right to organize.
Sinclair referred to a letter on
the subject Governor Landon WToe
yesterday to Norman TrOmas' S0s.
ialist candidate for president. u
the letter, Gov. Landon attlrnsu
that labor has the right to organ
ize "unorganized industry, wnlsl
includes the right to send in an or
ganizer."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
CHARLES E. TAYLOR
Editor and Manager
WPA WAGES

WPA WAGES
The scale of wages for the workers on
the WPA projects in each county is set by
the state WPA administrator upon the rec
OmmendatiOn of the county commissioners
for the said county
That is why the WPA wages are 80 cent
an hour in some counties, and IS, or 40, or
so, or 60 cents per hour in other counties
Where the workers are organized and exert
their political power in letting the commits
SiOners know what they want and expect,
they get 60 cents per hour, where they are
not organized and therefore cannot exert
any political pressure, as for instance, down
in Arkansas, they get Is cents per hour and
work 80 or "a days for $40.
In Sheridan county, the workers. men
and women, get $40 per month for ten days
work of eight hours per day at so
cents per hour. Over in Cascade and
Silver Bow counties, the workers get SO
cents per hour, and are allowed more than
$40 per month to support their families
with.
In Sheridan county, the chairman of
the board of county commissioners, acting
on his own initiative, at one time had the
wages set at 35 cents per hour but this was
protested by other officials who forced the
hour wage to so cents for men and 40 cents
for women. The wOmen'S wages were later
raised to so cents also.
In many of the rural counties the COM
mlSSiOnerS are anxious to keep the wage
scale down on the county road work, de-
string to work the men for just as little
as they can so as to make the taxpayers
money go as far as possible, and, we are
sorry to say in many cases, leave more for
diversion into their own pockets in one
way or another. To do this the board keeps
the WPA scale down. Also as the county
must meet about 20 per cent of the WPA
project costs, the lower the wage scale
the less the project will cost the county
Also, In many cases, or in most cases,
the commissioners are wel-tO-do-farmers
who employ workers themselves and are
very interested In keeping the wage scale
down for their own benefit. They know
that if a WPA worker gets go cents per
hour, they will have to pay the same both
on county work and on private work, so
they place their own interest ahead of the
public welfare, and set just as low a wage
as they can get away with. We write this
so the workers and farmers working on the
road may know just who are responsible
for the amount of their wages.
The county commissioners also recon-
mend the wage scale for horses. In Sheri-
dan county, the wage scale is Is cents per
hour per horse or 80 cents per hour per
team. A team is customarily paid as much
per hour as man, many times a little
more Many farmers with horses on the
WPA jobs complain of the low wages paid
for horses. They complain justly, that
with the price of hay and feed as they
are, there is nothing left when the weeks
work is done, to buy hay and feed to keep
the team over the winter.
Now the proper authorities for the
farmers and horse owners to see. are the
county commissioners. These gentlemen