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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-22
Drug Clerk Who Wanted to Be Stockman
Quits Newspaper to Become Postmaster
By E. NJ. WHITE

When Pete Snelson resigned re-
Gently as night editor of the Great
Falls Tribune to become postmast-
er at Great Falls, there was ended
the newspaper career of nearly 40
years of an Iowa drug clerk who
came to Montana in 1899 to 60
into the livestock business. Pete's
ambition to become a stockman,
sidetracked from time to time by
unforeseen circumstances, was never
realized. The nearest he came to
it was to homestead in the Salt
creek country of the lower Judith
river, where he and John H. Reilly,
present office manager of the Little
Ben Mining Co. at Landusky, and the
late Harold G. Nicholas, a San Fran
cisco newspaper, man, between 1910
ing claims which became collectively
known as the Balky Horse ranch.
Mr.. Snelson was indicted into the
newspaper game as reporter on the
old Anaconda Standard through the
efforts Of John G; Derks, present sports
who was at the time sitting in at the
desk of City Editor Ashmun N. Brown,
later to become private secretary of
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
and who is now and has been for
many years past. the Washington COR
respondent of the Providence R. II
Journal.
Derks induced J. H. Durston, then
editor of the Standard, to hire Snelson
as a reporter at 500 a week. (He had
been getting SIS a month as a drug
clerk; In the meantime Brown re-
turned to his post the first week that
Snelson worked, Mr.. .Durston, making
out the payroll, asked Brown how
much he was paying his new reporter.
Brown didn't knew and Mr.. Durston
said that he had made an arrange
ment with the young man, but had
forgotten what it was, but thought
it was SIS week."
Pete worked for less afterward, but
that was what he started at. Aside
from a year on the road for Armour
g. Co., four years on the homestead
and year and half as secretary of
the old Montana State fair, he con-
tinued in the newspaper business until
office on Sept. IL 1t led him over a
trail from coast to coast. He has
worked as far east as Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh and as far west as Spo-
kane. Five different times he worked
on the old Butte Intermountain when
eral manager and Charles T. Shearer,
now of Los Angeles, its managing edi-
tor. For three years he was editor of
the Montana Record Herald at Hell
ena, four years he was editor of the
Billings Gazette. He was managing edi-
tor of the Great Falls Tribune for II
years and its night editor for the last
five.
Among members of the staff of the
Standard at the time Snelson made
his debut as a newSpaperman was
Dean A. L. Stone of the University
of Montana school of journalism. There
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-22
TlUO Appointments
In Extension Service

Two appointments in the home DEM
o 4atE staff Of the Montana e x,
Director ]. c. Taylor.
Miss ClariS Brown, 1885 graduate of
Montana State college, has been named
home demonstration agent at large.
Miss Brown, a native of Valley county,
began her new duties Sept. l. She has
stiles of Washington and Montana.
She taught school at Hinsdale and
Fort Benton.
Miss Gladys e. Tofte became home
demonstration agent for Beaverhead
county beginning Sept. 1. She succeeds
signed to become home demonstration
agent for Lewis and Clark county.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-22

A 40-car train carrying some
of the choicest dairy cattle in the
United States will stop at Billings
for 8 hours on Oct. q giving Mon
tana dairymen an opportunity to
see what virtually amounts to the
cream of the stock that will be
shown at the national dairy show
to be held this year in connection
with the Golden Gate International
exposition at San Francisco, saws
]. o. Tretsven, extension dairy
specialist.
Coming from the major fairs of the
middle west and east, from the East
eTn states exposition, at Springfield,
gress at Waterloo, Ia. the train is en-
route to Portland, Ore, where the
cattle will be entered in the Pacific
International livestock exposition.
From Portland the animals viii be
taken taken to San Francisco for the ma
The stop which the train will make
at Billings will be the only one be-
tween Waterloo, Ia, and Portland,
Tretsven said, and the program being
arranged for that day offers dairymen
flight animals of the six breeds in
cluded in the herds on the train.
Billings is holding open house for
the occasion and it is expected that
not only dairymen but others from
all parts of Montana who are inter-
ested in fine cattle will see the stock
when it is shown at the Midland En-
pire fairgrounds, Tretsven said.
The special train will arrive at Bill
lings about 9 O'Clock. the morning of
Oct. 4 and the cattle will be taken
Immediately to the fairgrounds where
they will be placed on display. In the
afternoon they will be brought before
the grandstand and an educational
program will be held. Taking part will
be herd owners, prominent herd man
ayers and breed representatives who
are travelling with. the special train.
This exhibit of top ranking dairy
cattle stock will not only give dairy
men fine chance to study the fine
points of their respective breeds, but
It will also give the farmer who is
thinking of dairying an Opportunity
to study the various breeds, talk with
breed representatives and make up his
mind on his selection, Tretsven added
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-22
How Women
i'm Their 40's
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for :. woman during hel
change usually from IS to So, who fears
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss Of pep. dizzy spells.
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, 5 hrs. sleep and if you
need good general system tonic take Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. made
,s2sr ally for rOm,H. II helps Nature build
W physical resistance. thus helps give more
"IvarIty to enjoy life and assist calming
iitte-y nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change OF life. WELL
WORTH TRYING!
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-22
Gary Really Like MIR. Deeds,
Ayers Film Stars Mother

woman; lin fact, often danced with
him."
She was the widow of William Boyce
Thompson, former Butte man, who
later moved on to fame and fortune
in New York Mrs. Thompson was for
merly Miss Gertrude Hickman, daugh-
ter of Richard O. Hickman, Montanas
first territorial treasurer when the
seat of government was at Virginia
City. A daughter of the Thompsons
married Anthony DreXel Biddle jr.. the
present United States ambassador to
Poland
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-22
DAIRY CATTLE
WILL BE SHOWN
FORTY-CAR SPECIAL TO STAY AT
BILLINGS EIGHT HOURS
ON OCT. 4

Animals Enroute to National Dairy
Show at San Francisco Will Be Ex-
hibited in Montana; All Are Prize
Winners
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-22

The Zionists claim that Palestine as
Jewish land will have the effect of
mitigating anti-Semitism the world
over.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-22
STATE RED CROSS MEETING

SIHIL 1IED V1lOsSS NIEE I1NO
Plans for the Montana meeting of
the American Red Gross at Butte on
Oct. II were discussed recently by the
executive committee of the Butte
chapter. The SIS county chapters of the
will be invited to send delegates. Jesse
D. Newman is chairman of the Butte
chapter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
EIGHT SURPLUS COMMODITIES
NAMED UNDER THE NEW
FOOD STAMP PLAN

Eight foods have been designed
by the Secretary pf Agriculture on
the list of surplus commodities OBJ
tainable with surplus food order
stamps under the stamp plan an
nounced recently. They are butter,
shell eggs, dry edible beans, dried
prunes, oranges, fresh grapefruit,
wheat flower and whole (graham)
flour, and corn meal.
Rochester, N. Y, has been select
ed as the first experimental city in
which the food stamp plan will be
placed lin operation. Subsequently
the plan will be extended to other
experimental cities in widely scat
tered areas of the United States.
Under this plan, WPA workers and
people receiving, or certified IS
eligible to receive, public aid may
obtain free the blue surplus food
stamps under provisions designed to
assure that food bought with them
will be in addition to the normal
food purchases of the family. These
blue stamps will be good in any CO.
operating grocery store for items on
the surplus food list.
The Federal Surplus Commodities
Corporation is authorized to deter
mine the specific areas and the peri
DDS of time during which these COM
modities will be considered surplus.
The Corporation also may remove
any food from the surplus list If o.
change In marketing conditions war
rants it.
'If fresh fruits and vegetables
come into surplus later in the sea-
son, it is expected that they will
be added to the list from time to
time" according to Milo r. Perkins,
president of the FSCC. "Under the
food stamp plan," he states "it will
be possible to assist farmers by
treating SURPRISES of such crops on
an area rather than on a. national
basis" For example, he said, some
of these products may be declared
surplus for a six weeks period in
given trade area. Because of this
flexibility it will be possible to as
sist truck growers and fruit growers
in moving their seasonal surpluses
into an area where they can get a
greater return because of small
transportation costs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16

egg prices in October, November and
December.
"This procedure of letting young pull
lets rustic their own feed a bite at a
time" McAdams says, reminds me of
the story of the Irishman who wanted
to trim his dogs tail to terrier size. In
stead of facing the size of his task and
carrying through on the operation in
a business-like manner, the Irishman
cut off the tail little piece at a time.
amy way you look at it," says Nc
Adams, young pullets will not grow
and develop quickly and thoroughly,
inside and out, if allowed to rustic for
themselves. This is the summer danger
spot. What they need is a balanced
growing mash that will build bodies
and egg making organs for profitable
production in October, November and
December-the months of high egg
prices"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16

st. Louis, Moan amazing and de-
plorable lapse of Judgment leading to
costly consequence occurs every year
among poultry raisers, according to j..
II. McAdams, Purina Poultry Specialist.
II REFER" says McAdams, ito the UNI
profitable practice of letting young pull
lets exc out their own existence on
range, after they've been carefully pur-
chased as chicks and given good start
by proper feeding and handling. It's
difficult to understand why poultry
raiser will observe so faithfully all the
accepted rules Of the chick raising game
during the starting period, then do jlst
the opposite during the growing period
by turning his pullets out to shift for
themselves until egg prices start going
up in the fall, then put them on a good
laying mash and suddenly expect eggs.
But thousands do it every year, which
Is the fundamental cause of the high
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
Rich Oil Field Likely
To Have 60 Year Life

SACRAMENTO, CALF. - The
country's largest oil field produced
zoo, 1000, 900 barrels of oil during the
past 10 years and, according to the
U. S. geological survey, has 80 more
years Of productiveness.
The rich petroleum source Is the
Kettleman Hills oil field near Goa
linga in central Oklahoma.
The government, which has al
ready received $16,000,000 in reve-
nues from this field, co-operates with
operators in developing the field.
It has SO wells which have pro-
duced more than 1000, 900 barrels Of
oil each, with one well producing
more than 100000 barrels.
Revenues from the field are d.
vided, with 371z per cent going to
the state for roads and public
schools, 521s per cent to the federal
reclamation fund for western irriga-
ton, and 10 per cent to general
treasury funds.
Federal revenue in the past 10
years has totaled 81, 587, OFT for oil,
1908, 944 for gas, and 1895, 1897 for
gasoline. November, 1887, was the
peak month for royalty Of $295, 1896.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
Animals Always Fighting
But Some Die of Fright

There are some wild creatures
which feel that they must fight an
other Of their own species if they
meet; wolves and wild cats will
often do this. Certain domestic dogs
have this trait.
We have one diminutive wild ami
NAL in this country, writes Oliver
G. Pike, f. z. S., in London Tit-Bits
Magazine, which is born fighter
that pugnacious little warrior, the
common shrew. In country places
we often see what many think is a
dead mouse, but if we examine the
body we see that it has very
pointed snout, and is smaller than
our common house mouse. At some
seasons there are dozens Of these
dead shrews to be seen. The cause
of death has been put down to sew
eral causes; one is the fact that il
two shrews meet they fight, but so
many are found dead that all cam
not be the victims Of these battles.
The food of the shrew consists
almost entirely of insects. At GER
tain times these are hard to find,
and If the shrew goes without food
for about "a hours it dies. It
searches for food on the ground, and
if this is frozen the little creature
soon starves.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
Wyandotte Cave Largest

Next to Mammoth cave, in Ken
lucky, Wyandotte cave is the lArg-
est cavern in the United States. Its
enormous underground halls and
vaulted domes, It's gigantic fiuted
columns and vast piles of fallen rock
have been greatly admired. It is
situated under the rugged hills along
the Ohio river. In 1912, during the
war with England, the demand for
gunpowder became so great that
much Of the nitrous earth in this
cavern was utilized in the manufac-
ture of potassium nitrate or salt
peter, an ingredient of gunpowder.
This cave is more than four miles
long, and contains one room which
has height of IS feet, a width of
so feet, and length Of 210 feet. In
one room is a stalactite called "The
Pillar Of the Constitution" Re-
mains of the works and instruments
Of primitive man are visible in the
cave.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
!
Origin Of Knitting Can
Be Traced to Year 1927

Little is known of the invention Of
knitting. In ''The Story of Hosiery"
published by the May Hosiery Mills,
Inc, it Is said the art of hand
knitting, which developed slowly,
must have been perfected about the
time of Columbus, somewhere In
western Europe, relates a writer
in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Men
and women in England and Scotland
were seriously engaged in 1t and in
France a stocking -knitters' guild
was formed in August, 1877. The
patron saint of the guild was st.
Fiacre, Scotchman of thousand
years earlier. The choice of this
patron lends weight to the tradition
that knitting was invented in Scot
land. Henry VIII (1491-1547) is said
to have been the first English SOW
ereign to wear knitted silk stockings
in preference to cloth stockings.
The first knitting machine was in
vented in 1859 by William Lee, of
England, a Protestant clergyman.
Queen Elizabeth refused him pat
ent, saying it would deprive thou
sands of hand knitters of their live
lihood. Lee invented machine in
1898 which would knit silk, and
would not affect the hand knitting
industry, which generally made use
of coarse thread. A patent still re-
fused him, he went to France where
King Henry w agreed to aid him.
On May IA, 1910, the day the pat
ent was to be granted, the king was
murdered and Lee was left without
support in court. Disappointed, he
died soon afterward and the ma
chine was taken back to England by
his brother James. Without the pro-
lection of a patent, machine knit
ting won approval on its merits and
by 1857 the London Framework
Knitters' company was chartered by
Cromwell.
Despite laws prohibiting their ex-
portation, machines were struggled
to other countries.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
SOCIAL SECURITY ACr

@. used to be parachute Jump
er, but due to am accident, will
never be able to do that kind of
work again, and have taken job as
Waterman at an airport hangar. Do
! need to get a different social sec
urity account number, OF report this
change in employment to the Soc
ial Security Board?
A. No. All that you need to do is
report to each new employer your
social security account number, so
that he may be sure that the wages
he pays you will be credited to
your own social security account
each time he makes his information
and tax return to the Government.
@. l lost my job, and received ell
the unemployment compensation
checks that were coming to me, and
still haven't found a job. Is there
anything more the Social Security
Board can do for me? am As years
old.
A. AS far as money payments
through the State Unemployment
Compensation Commission are con-
cerned, you will not be able to draw
any more at this time. Payments
of old-age insurance are made to
workers who are IS years old and
who have been employed In jobs
that come under the old-age insur-
ance provisions of the Social Secur-
ity Act. You should keep in close
contact with your local Employment
Service Office and they will continue
trying to find job for you.
@. l have been working for the
same firm for two years, and now
am IS years old. MY employer.
tells me am eligible for lump
sum payment of old-age insurance,
and he says should file claim for.
the benefits due me. I don't want to
do this because / would rather keep
on working and having additional
benefits accumulate to- my social
security account. Do / have to file
claim?
A. No. You do not have to file your
claim. However, from the time you
reached age 65 there will be no
further deductions from your wages
for old-age insurance, and your ac-
count will accrue no additional
wage credits. The amount due you
now will not increase in the future.
no matter how long you wait to
file claim, and you do not have to
retire from your position in order
to draw you old-age insurance. You
may file your claim, receive your
payment, and keep right on work
ing on your regular job. Monthly
payments of old-age insurance,
which require the claimant to re-
tire from regular employment, will
become payable to eligible persons
in 1912.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
Origin Of Porterhouse steak

The origin Of the porterhouse
steak has been disputed, but some
authorities claim that this particu-
lar cut of beef was made popular
by the proprietor of New York
porterhouse. Another story is that
It derived its name from a small
hotel in Sanduslky, Ohio, called the
Porter house. Charles Dickens is
said to have visited this hotel and
was so pleased with the steak served
there that he spread its fame
throughout the United States. After
ward leading hotels and restaurants
began to call THAR choice steaks
porterhouse.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
No National Holidays

There are no national holidays in
the sense Of holidays designated by
the national government, not even
the Fourth of July. The federal gov
eminent has no constitutional power
to prescribe holidays in the various
states. It can, however, make legal
holidays in the District of Columbia
and in the territories. But for COM
mercial purposes the federal gov
eminent in various acts Of congress
has recognized Labor Day, Christ
mas, New Years Day, Washington's
birthday, Memorial Day and the
Fourth Of July as public holidays.
That is as far as the federal govern
ment can 60. There Is no general
statute on the subject. Each state
designates its own holidays.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
Romance, History Hooked
Up With Tale About Tea

The story of tea, itself, is an in
teresting study. Romance and his
tory have been a part of it since it
was first introduced to the Western
world With its introduction late in
the Seventeenth century, a great
change was brought about in our So
cial customs which has continued to
this day. At first tea was consid-
cred as simple, exotic drug, but
even after it was accepted as a bev-
erage, the price prohibited other
than the wealthy families from in
dulging in its use. But, as the inn
ports from the East increased, the
price decreased. Eventually it be-
came plentiful and low in price, and
was a staple commodity used by
rich and poor alike. In America,
in a famous port, and at critical
time in our history, recalls Alice
r. Rollins in the Los Angeles Times,
large quantities of it were thrown
into the harbor. However, this had
nothing to do with its cheapness, but
a small matter of principle was in
volved.
With the more common use of the
teapot in the early Eighteenth CEN
fury we find the accompanying sill
yer tea caddy and sugar holder.
The earliest known silver tea cad
dies date from about ITO, being
pear-shaped and similar to the tea
pots of the time. The most COM
mon type was that with the rectan-
gular body, somewhat bottle-shaped.
These were fitted with round, mar
row neck and cap. Some of the
early patterns had sliding bottoms
but this inconvenient method of fill
ing was later replaced by lids large
enough to admit tea at the top.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
NO MARKETING QUOTA FOR
WHEAT THIS YEAR

There will be no marketing quota
for wheat proclaimed this year it is
announced by Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Henry A. Wallace. This an
nouncement was based on a determ-
nation that the total wheat supply
estimated for July /, 1889 will not
exceed the quota level established
under the Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1898. 1t means that no refer
endum among wheat growers on the
question of wheat marketing quota
will be held this year.
Secretary Wallace announced also
that the wheat acreage allotment
for 1910 would be 62,000,OOO acres,
an increase of 100000 acres over
the 55,000,000 acres allowed this
year. State allotments will be divid-
ed among the counties and then to
individual farmers.
On the basis Of available informa-
ton the Secretary estimated the
total supply on July l, at 974,000.-
600 bushels. The 1899 marketing
quota level established under the
Act is 1921 million bushels, which
is 135 percent of normal years
domestic consumption and exports
of 756,00O,000 bushels.
The domestic consumption and ex-
port estimate Of 756,00O,000 bu-
shells equal the average yearly do
nestle consumption and exports dur
ing the 10-year period ending June
80, 1898.
The estimate of the total supply
on July /, 1899, includes estimates
for the current crop and the carry
over. The current crop Is estimated
at 704, 100000 bushels and the
July carryover at 270,000,000 bu-'
shells. For proposes Of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act, the CARRY
over estimate does not include the
crop insurance reserve on July /.
"Our present and prospective
wheat supplies Indicate that the
wheat farmers of the United States
have used the machinery Of their
AAA program to provide plenty
without adding to wasteful sur
pluses," r. M. Evans, Administra-
tor of the AAA, commented.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
Battleship Figurehead
Ornaments Gate of Park

BATON ROUGE, LATHE mas
sive solid brass figurehead Of the
u. S. S. Louisiana, pride of the navy
more than quarter-century ago, at
last has found a permanent resting
place.
The figurehead, design Of the
great seal Of the United States, cost
the government $1,000 when the
Louisiana was launched at Newport
News in 1892.
In 1908 the government ordered
all battleships painted gray and all
ornaments removed. The figurehead
was removed, boxed and shipped to
Baton Rouge, where it was placed
at the old state capitol and all but
forgotten.
Through the efforts Of the Louisi-
ana Spanish war veterans organize
ton, it has been removed from the
old capitol and placed at the gate
Of City park.
The fgurehead weighs several
tons and measures about eight feet
by five feet.
The Louisiana was declared OBJ
solete in 1922 and dismantled.