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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
State Health
Men Pay Visit
H. B. FoOte and C.. w. Brinck OF
Helena Discuss Water Problem
With City Dads,

H. B. Foote and c. w. Brinck OF
Helena, members of the Montana
state board of health, were in
Hardin Tuesday evening and met
with the Hardin city council.
There were also present DR.. w.
A. Russell, city health officer;
DR.. L. e. Haverfield, school ply
sician; DR.. L. H. Labbitt, DR.. ID.
M. Strang and DR.. G. A. Baker.
MI. Foote has control of all the
domestic water supplies of the
state while Mr.. Brinck is the
chemist for the state board of
health. Mr.. Foote, who makes an
nual visits to every municipal
water plant in Montana, gave an
interesting and instructive talk
on municipal waterplants, and
explained the chemical treatment
of the water, particularly as it
applies to the Hardin plant. In
the general discussion following
Mr.. Foote'S talk, MIR. Brinck
answered several questions per-
tanning to the operation of the
Hardin plant.S .
Mr.. Foote suggested that the
installation of a settling basin At
the river, and certain changes In
the chemical treatment would in
crease and improve the water
supply. The cost of construction
of the settling basin would be in
expensive, as the city could do
all of the work with its own
tractor and employees.
The city is now engaged IN
making a survey for this addi-
tional settling basin. The settling
basins now in use we're worked to
capacity last year, over one-half
million gallons having been pump
ed in one day, and if more water
is used this year, as would ap-
pear probable, this additional set
Ting basin will have to be con-
Structed.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
ST. XAVIER VILLAGE
SMlTHY PASSES AWAY

sister resided, and there learned
the blacksmith trade. In 1917 he
came to st. Xavier, Montana,
first as foreman at st. Xavier
Mission and later engaged in the
blacksmithing and auto repair
business for himself at which he
was eminently successful, by
hard work and honest dealings,
building up a lucrative business
from which he had attained a
competency. He was twice mar
ried. His first wife, who was
Katherine Kaufman of st. Xav-
Ter, died in 1927, leaving him with
three children, one boy and two
girls. In 1923 he married Ann
Kupper of Mandan, N. D., who
with the three children, Joseph,
Jr.. IA: Katherine, II, and Lu-
ellie, 9, are left to mourn the
loss of a loving and indulgent
husband and father. He is sur
vived also by his mother, Mrs.
Theresa Deichl, who came here
from her Chicago home to be
with him in his last illness; two
sisters, Mrs. Margaret Christen-
sen and Mrs. Marie Buchoner of
Chicago; six brothers, Mike and
Frank Of Billings, and Tony, Hen
~, John and Aloysius still in
Germany; a half sister, Mrs. Lou
Use Dandl, and a niece, Mrs.
Deuschner of Dubuque, Ia.
Funeral services were held at
st. Francis Catholic church in
st. Xavier, Wednesday morning at
9 o'clock, Rev. Father C. L. Owens
officiating. The church was filled
with sorrowing relatives an d
friends. The floral offerings were
many and beautiful. Interment
was in the st. Xavier cemetery, the
pallbearers being Manuel Kautz-
man, o. H. Robertson, Charles
mccarthy, Jesse Schwend, Chas.
Blum and David Muhlbeier, all
close neighbors and friends of the
departed.
Besides his immediate family,
relatives at the funeral were his
mother and two sisters from Chi
cago; his niece from Iowa, his
brother Frank of Billings, and
Mrs. Deichl's mother, Mrs. Martin
kupper of Mandan, N. D.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
Crow Mid -
Fair
Annual Event Sponsored by Farm
Chapters on Crow Reserve
February 24-25.

The annual Crow Mid Winter
fair will be held at Crow Agency
on Wednesday and Thursday,
February "a and Is, under the
supervision of c. S. Runyan, agri-
cultural extension agent at Crow
Agency. This annual event is
sponsored by Farm Chapters on
the Crow Indian reservation. The
chapters have worked out a very
educational and entertaining pro-
gram this year. Some of the
specialists that will appear on the
program arc as follows:
DR.. Isaac on horticulture and
Gardening" Miss Cushman OH
Poultry" Mr.. Anderson on Live
stock" and Mr.. Cameron will
discuss All Club work. These
specialists are all from the Mon
tana State Agricultural College at
Bozeman.
John R. Krall of the Indian
service will discuss various agri-
cultural problems and serve as
Judge of the fair. Professor H. w.
Norville of Lodge Grass will dis
cuss a topic on "Education." Geo.
W. Gustafson, Big Horn county
extension agent will discuss Crops
and Weed Control in Big Horn
County" Fred Defines and Fred
Benzel will give their experiences
on Farming and S%tockraising on
Irrigated Land" and Ray Powers
will discuss various range prob
lens. Also several of the Indian
leaders will discuss their expert
ences with livestock and farming.
Miss Pearl Elliott, the home ex-
tension agent, has worked out a
well balanced program for the
women interested in home eco
nomics. The various All clubs
on the Crow Indian reservation,
the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts,
the schools and various other
groups will furnish excellent en-
tertainment each afternoon and
evening.
1t will be well worth the while
of all interested in agriculture to
attend these meetings.
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Should Sign .
Work Sheet
Every Farmer Who Failed To Sign
For 1896 A. C. Program Should
Fill Out One Now,

Every farmer in Big Horn coun-
ty who did not sign a work sheet
in the 1886 Agricultural Conserva-
ton program should fill out one
this year, SO that the county COM
mittee can assign him a base
acreage and determine the pro-
ductivity index for his farm ir
case he wants to sign up in the
1887 program, according to Geo
w. Gustafson, county agent
Signing a work sheet does not
obligate the farmer in any way
but it will prevent delay in case
the farmer decides to go into the
program. Several farmers were
eligible for payments under the
1885 program, but failed to file a
work sheet.
Farmers who filled out work
sheets last year will not need to
fill them out again this year, un-
less the acreages they are operat-
ing this year are different from
last; if the 1887 acreage is diff
ferent, a new work sheet should
be filed.
Establishment Of q base acreage
and the productivity index for a
farm Is necessary in order to de-
termine the acreage upon which a
farmer may earn diversion pay
ments, and how much he may
earn for soil building practices.
Farmers are being asked to fill
out work sheets now, so that when
they e their community COM
mitteeman to file their farm plans
for 1887, the committeeman will
already have received the nee
essary information from the coun-
ty committee. The filing of work
sheets should be completed not
later than March 18th in order
to make this information avail
able before spring seeding.
Farmers should get in touch
with their community committee
man, or with the county agent for
further information on work sheets.
The balloting at the community
organization meetings of the Big
Horn County Agricultural Con-
s~ervation Association held last
week resulted in the election Of
the following committeeman for
the respective communities:
North Hardin-H. A. Williams,
Joe Olenik, Geo. S. Mcdowell, Sam
Ragland.
South HardinJ. A. K o e b b e,
VIM: Steele, Frank Phelps, VIM.
Colstad.
Crow District-Geo. Miller, J. A,
Perry, George Kent, Andrew Miller.
Lodge Grass-John E. Rice,
Dell standish, Francis Eggart, J.
B. Taught.
Decker-W. r. Raglan, Frank M.
Powers, Henry H. Kistemann, j..
A. Powers.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
Board Offers
Wedding Plan
To Rid Vests Farm, Range Lands
OF Crop Destroying Weeds
And Poisonous Plants

The national plant boards weed
committee, of which Clifford l..
Corkins, Wyoming state entomol-
ogist is chairman, at Washington
DC, last Tuesday, adopted a
six-point program to rid the
VESTS farm and range lands OF
crop destroying weeds.
The program which was sent 10
the agricultural department and
to congressional leaders with In.
expressed hope that it will re-
ceive the earliest possible con-
sheraton" follows:
l. An increase of $4,000 to
100000 in the plant industry bu-
reau budget.
2. Early authorization by con-
gress of a federally supported
national program Of weed control
and eradication.
3. Regulation of the importa-
tion and interstate commerce of
seed supplies in relation to noxious
weed seed.
4. Soil conservation benefit
payments to co-operators with the
weed eradication program on ag-
r%icultural and range lands:
S. A definite policy and pro-
gram of weed control on the pub
lie domain.
6. Control of weeds and poison
GUS plants on range lands.
G. L. Corkins, Wyoming state
entomolog1st and chairman of the
national weed committee, said un-
less the spread Of imported nox-
ious weeds was checked within
the next decade, the most i'm
portant farm areas Of the nation
would be ruined.
A noxious weed control drive al
ready under way in congress, Rep
re%sentative D. Worth Clark of Po-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
County Back
- -. ~ =.
Tdxles Paid
Montana County Treasures Are
$1O7, 800 the Richer by Farm
Debt Adjustments.

Back taxes totaling SLOT, 800
have been paid into the county
treasures of the different coun-
ties of Montana as a result of the
work of voluntary farm debt adj
justment committees, Mr.. Wood
of Terry, Montana, farm debt adj
justment supervisor, told the Big
Horn county committee here,
Thursday of last week.
The back taxes, Mr.. Wood said,
were a by product Of the program
which has solved the mutual
credit problems of 548 Montana
farmers and their creditors by
reducing the debts of the farmers
from $2,228,98 to $1,427 ,812. The
latter amount, he explained, was
released to creditors to liquidate
accounts which had heretofore
appeared hopelessly frozen.
The farm debt adjustment pro-
gram was originally organized I'M
der the guidance of the Farm
Credit Administration, working in
cooperation with the governors
of the various states. Sponsorship
of the program was assumed in
1885 by the Resettlement Admins
tration, which also works with the
governors in bringing about the
settlement of the debt problems Of
farmers and their creditors.
While much of the debt adjust
ment accomplished in Montana
invovled a scale-down of farmers
debts, Mr.. Wood said, foreclosure
has been averted in many other
cases through working out equita-
BILE extension agreements be-
tween farmers and their creditors,
or by several other methods.
The aim of the program, he
went on, is to help deserving
farmers get their credit condi-
lions in such shape that they can,
with reasonable care and economy,
meet all their obligations and
preserve their credit. The out
standing success Of the program,
he said, Is a tribute to the in
tegrity OF the Montana farmers
and to far-sightedness and I'M
Outstanding on the part Of their
creditors.
Members of the Big Horn coun-
ty committee, with whom MI. Wood
meets each month, are: J. A.
Koebbe, chairman; E. c. Larkin.
secretary; Stanley A. Yergey, Ed
Torske and VIM. E. Corkins, Coun-
ty RR Supervisor. Hardin, Mont.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
CONGREGATIONAL MEN
WILL MEET NEXT MONDAY

The men of the Congregational
group will hold a "get-to-gether
for good fellowship" next Monday
evening with an oyster supper at
$50, followed by a program of
music and an address by c. w.
Dell, a prominent layman and
business man of Billings. A large
group of men is being invited
to attend this first of a series of
such gatherings. The serving
committee is Messrs. Carl Rankin,
O. E. Andeson, John L. Swindle,
W. E. Mcdowell, r. P. Ross and
N. E. Hannant.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
Drilling Gas Well For Hospital

Ed A. hammers g. Son, Hardin's
well drillers, are drilling a gas
well at the Hardin General hos
pital. The hole is now down 400
feet and it is expected the well
will be a producer at about 700
feet.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
Still Foot of Snow at Sarpy

J. A. Perry, who with his son.
d. L., farms a large tract of land
on the Crow Indian reservation,
just over the line into the Sarpy
section, was in town Wednesday.
He reports that while the snow
is going rapidly, there is still
about a foot of snow on the level
on his wheat fields.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19

W. H. White, who has been laid
up at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Mary E. Watts at Crow Agen-
cy since December %, the result
of a fall, is now able to get around
again and was in Hardin Thurs
day.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19

A benefit card party is being
arranged by the members of A.
pha Rebekah Lodge No. 96 after
the regular business meeting at
Pine Lodge Wednesday evening
Feb, "a.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19

catello, Idaho, introduced a meas
ure a week ago asking 50,000,0 900
for use in grants to cooperating
states.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19

Mrs. j. A. Koebbe was a passenger
on Friday evenings train for
Billings for a few days stay.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19

Charles and Dell Morrison mo-
tored in from Sarpy Wednesday
on a shopping expedition.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19

Today is last day to register.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
CROSSERBACKED
FOR D. c. BENCH
Veteran Member of House Is
Urged for Vacancy Left
by Justice Martin.
By the Associated Press.


Friends of Representative Crosser
of Ohio said today they we're urging
his appointment as member of the
United States Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia.
The vacancy was created earlier in
the week by the retirement of Chief
Justice George Ewing Martin, 80, who
advised President Roosevelt he desired
to take advantage of law permitting
retirement with pay at 10 years of age.
Crosser, a member of Congress for
nearly 25 years, previously had been
considered prospective appointee to
fill another vacancy on the same
bench created by the death of Josiah
A. Van Orsdel. The latter's place was
taken by Justin Miller, former at
torney with the Board of Tax Appeals.
Crosser, visiting in Ohio during the
congressional recess, has interested
himself chiefly with labor legislation
during his service in the House. He
was author of the railroad retirement
act and a revision of that law passed
by the recent Congress.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
OlUner of Cafe
EUOIUes Tactic
To Foil Pickets

It's going to be difficult for members
of Local 781, Walters. Mattresses and
Cooks Union, to find seats in Burt's
Grill, 1418 New York avenue, if they
decide to play return engagement
of yesterdays picketing maneuvers.
Burt Lopatin, owner of the estab-
lishment, who didn't exactly like the
idea of having all his booths oc-
cupied by picketers during the noon
rush yesterday, decided if they re-
turned today he would designate all
his booths reserved
The pickets failed to appear. how
ever.
The restaurant owner started to
charge the picketers 81 each for the
cups of coffee they consumed while
monopolizing the booths-one to a
booth-but later thought better of it
and made the customary scent assess
ment.
Lopatin said the union has been
picketing his shops at 1412 and 1418
New York avenue since May because
he has refused to sign a contract
covering wages and hours for his
approximately 40 employees.
He said he has refused because the
union has asked him to sign first a
closed shop contract, after which wage
and hour scales would be discussed.
His employees, he said, have voted
against joining the union.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
PROFESSIONAL UNIT
TO HOLD CONVENTION
Federation of Architects, Engi-
neers, Chemists and Tech
nicians to Meet.

Establishment of minimum wage
provisions, new classification stand
ards and an employees court of ap-
peals for technical employees of the
Federal Government will be features of
legislative program to be presented
by local delegates to the Third Annual
Convention of the Federation of Archi-
tects, Engineers, Chemists and Techni-
clans, in Detroit October 7-1o.
The local delegation will be headed
by John Vasta, president of the
Washington chapter of the federation.
and will include Pell Kangas and
Robert Durand.
The local legislative program, pre-
pared by the Legislative Committee
of the Washington chapter, also is
to contain provisions for betterment
OF conditions for technical employees
at the Washington Navy Yard. the
Procurement Division, Public Works
Administration and others of the
heavy industries" of the Federal
Government.
The convention is expected to re-
suit in a drive to bridge the gap
between production and professional
workers in American industry and to
promote technical mems unions, it was
explained. In this drive the federation
expects to have the active cooperation
of the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization, to which the federation
now belongs. The convention is to
be the first held by C. L. o. union
of professionals, it was said.
Senators La Toilette and Wagner
and John L. Lewis are among those
invited to address the convention.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
Washington's S
Own
"Book Of Hours
5 o'clock ON.

throats of birds. All music is Natures
She plays upon the instrument near
est at hand, but it is the same music,
whether it comes from a Schubert OF
from a robin.
The morning glory has opened its
bell-like blooms over back fences
Vacant lots about the District are
blue with chickory blossoms which
started to unfold with the earliest
break in the dark.
That pest of the fields, the wild
sweet potato, is in full blossom.
All these will be folded up by noon
They are furbelows on the gingham
dress of morning.
The suburban farmer finishes his
milking and from his kitchen comes
the odor of frying bacon.
Morning is Maryland farmers
daughter coming to the city. Her
dress is made of gingham and muslin
of sunrise, home cut and sewn. Her
breath is sweet with the odor of hay
fields and fresh, warm milk.
Silent, 1.-THE figures are stealing
across lawn sand through flower beds.
Dogs bark at their approach
They are the paper boys delivering
the news of the night at front doors.
Before Breakfast folks can know what
has happened on the fore and aft
decks of the ship earth while theu
have been in their hunks below-what
celestial shoals and meteors and
comets it has passed through during
the night, what jutting rocks of war
and pestilence it has grazed in the
sea of time
Evening star., 1937-09-08
"BereaUed Son.
Gets Funeral
Donation, Fine

Sure, policemen have hearts, and
Pvt. w. E. McCarten of the ninth pre-
cinct was touched when a caller at
his home. colored man, asked a
donation toward his mothers funeral
expenses.
The Roman Catholic church to
which his mother belonged already
had contributed $3.50, the visitor
explained. but he needed more.
The officer gave the bereaved caller
some change. But after he left, Nc
Carten got to thinking. He remem-
bered that Catholic churches always
provide free burial for members in
extreme poverty.
The officer investigated He found
the recipient of his charity did not
live at the address he had given.
Nor was his mother in need of a
funeral.
In Police Court today Judge Ed
ward M. Curran found Charles Swami.
colored, of no fixed address, guilty
of panhandling" and fined him s25,
with the alternative of 80 days in
jail.
McCarten identified Swami as the
"bereaved SON." The officer said he
learned that several families in his
neighborhood had contributed to the
supposed funeral.
Evening star., 1937-09-08

sible, Federal regulation of sewage
disposal from trailers Most camps
are just outside municipal limits and
their ordinances are ineffective. Dugan
thinks that trailers should be built
to link directly with city sewers. The
United States Government has already
begun its control of the trailer popu-
lation, he said, by construction of five
trailer camps in Maine and others
in various national parks.
With prophetic gleam behind his
spectacles, Dugan ventured another
prediction. 'Trailers will end an
American historical phenomenon-the
ghost" city. In the past, boom towns
have been built in mining districts
and construction camps, only to stand
Evening star., 1937-09-08
D. C SCHOOL TUITION
RATES ANNOUNCED
Board Approves Scale for Families
Not Living or Working
in District.

The Board of Education yesterday
gave its approval to the following tut
ton rates for nonresident pupils who
wish to attend the Districts public
schools. but whose parents are not en-
ployed in the Capital:
For the teachers colleges, $3.50. SO
per year; for senior high schools
s1l384; junior high schools, s85; ele-
mentary schools, S6144: vocational
schools, s113.10; vacation schools
S4.25, and night schools, s666.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools, told the board these figures
were based on the actual cost of in
struction-textbooks, supplies, etc
ano did not include the capital outlay.
Plans for transferring crippled chill
dren from the old Weightman and
Magruder Schools to modern, fire.
proof buildings were outlined to the
board by DR.. Ballou
Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, president
OF the board emphasized, however.
that the new arrangements for Grip
pied children are only temporary and
stressed the Importance of securing
proper school facilities for the handi-
capped youngsters.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
.S,137 AVAILABLE
|. FOR GAS RATE CUT
TO 14O,ODO HERE
almost Negligible" Sum Is
Available for Purpose,
Hearing Is Told.
S1,432,191 EARNINGS
REPORTED BY CONCERN
Revenues for Test Year" Placed
at S6,696,40s, With Expenses
Put at 5,264,191.

Reduction of rates of the Washing
ton Gas Light Co. may be ordered bv
the Public Utilities Commission. effec-
tive as of September /. but if this Is
done, the saving for the average con-
sumer would be so small as almost tn
be negligible.
Such appeared to be the case TODAY
when the commission opened hearings
on the annual adjustment of rates bv
operation of the sliding scale plan.
The amount available for rate redrc-
tion was shown to be only s3137
III this is divided among the COM
panys 100000 customers, each ons
would stand to receive a cut of less
'han cents on his bill during the
next year.
Earned s1,432,191.
d. M. Bachman, chief accountant
tor the commission. reported that dur
ing the test" year which ended ,June
81, tne company earned s1,432, ,19l. or
o.o2S6 per cent on its valuation Of
sz2,ooO,OO0. He said this was Sc .27s in
excess OF the basic return of 6.5 Der
cent allowed under the sliding scale
One-half of this sum, or s3.I73. would
De the amount available" for rate
reduction.
bacnman's figures showed that dur
ing the year ended June 30 the op-
Grating revenues of the COMPANY
amounted to s6,696,408 and that
operating expenses totaled s5.264Is1.
William NICK. Clayton. speaking for
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
lions, raised questions about an item
Oh s426,783 for new business ex-
penses. Bachman explained this sum
included $202,804 and sI24.827 for
canvassing and soliciting and much
OF the item was for institutional ad-
vertising.
Would Pay Builders.
When Clayton asked what was
meant by an item of sI80,l9O for
builders allowances" Bachman said
that If the gas company could per-
suade the builders to equip new houses
with gas appliances and so advertise
tnem when they were put on the
market the concern would pay the
builder sl25 for each such house A
payment for advertising. This was
the practice for number of years I'D
until April l, when it was discontinued
on my recommendation" Bachman
said.
E. Barrett Prettyman, former COR
poration counsel, appeared as counsel
for the gas company.